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9,317,965 | 1. A computer implemented method for creating a point cloud indexed file comprising: (a) mapping, in a computer, a grid over one or more points in a point cloud dataset, wherein: (b) computing an occupancy value for each of the one or more subcells, wherein the occupancy value comprises a bit that indicates a subcell is occupied if the subcell contains at least one of the one or more points; (c) computing a surface area contribution factor for each of the one or more cells, wherein the surface area contribution factor comprises an occupied count of subcells in each cell that are occupied divided by a total subcell number of the one or more subcells in that cell; and (d) writing the surface area contribution factor for each of the one or more cells and one or more of the one or more points to the point cloud indexed file in a random order. | 48,356 |
9,550,342 | 1. A manufacturing method of a TiAl joined body comprising: arranging a plurality of members which contains a TiAl intermetallic compound and insert materials which contain Ti as a major element, Cu and Ni such that each of the insert materials is inserted between two adjacent members of the plurality of members; heating the plurality of members and the insert materials in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature above melting points of the insert materials and below melting points of the plurality of members to form a joining layer; and cooling the joining layer, wherein the joining layer contains a first diffusion layer and a second diffusion layer, and wherein each of the first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer contains Cu of no more than approximately 3 wt % and contains Ni of no more than approximately 3 wt %. | 7,781 |
9,185,647 | 1. A Home Node B gateway device (HNB-GW) including a function to obtain a usage rate of the HNB-GW, relaying signals between a switching center and a Home Node B (HNB), and transitioning to a sleep mode when the usage rate of the HNB-GW reaches or falls below a predetermined value, the HNB-GW comprising: a unit configured to change, upon transition to the sleep mode, an HNB-GW list in the HNB performing HNB registration on the HNB-GW using RPC:SetParameterValues from a Home Node B Management System (HMS); and an inter-HNB-GW interface, wherein the unit is further configured to select a different HNB-GW operating in a normal mode, and instruct, using the RPC:SetParameterValues, the HNB to set a priority of the different HNB-GW to be the highest in the HNB-GW list, wherein the inter-HNB-GW interface is configured to transmit a mode check message, receive a mode check response message, receive a sleep mode release request message, and transmit a sleep mode release request response message to and from the different HNB-GW, and wherein the HNB gateway device is configured to notify and manage an operation mode and the usage rate mutually with the different HNB-GW via the inter-HNB GW interface. | 31,381 |
9,188,316 | 1. A socket housing for light emitting diode (LED) packages having an LED printed circuit board (PCB) defined by a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, the first and second edges meeting at a first corner, the third and fourth edges meeting at a second corner, the first, second, third and fourth edges bounding a surface of the LED PCB that extends length-wise and width-wise, the socket housing comprising separately manufactured first and second housing segments having mounting sides configured to be mounted to and engage a support structure, the mounting sides extend along a length axis and a width axis, the length axis and the width axis being parallel to the mounting sides and to the support structure, the first housing segment having surfaces receiving the first corner and extending along the first and second edges of the LED PCB, the second housing segment having surfaces receiving the second corner and extending along the third and fourth edges of the LED PCB, the first and second housing segments define a recess therebetween for receiving an LED package therein, the first and second housing segments being configured to engage the edges and corners of the LED PCB of the LED package to secure the LED package within the recess, wherein a relative position between the first and second housing segments is selectively adjustable such that at least one of a length or a width of the recess is selectively adjustable along the length axis and the width axis, respectively, for receiving differently sized LED packages therein. | 16,572 |
8,467,491 | 1. A nuclear power plant, comprising: a nuclear steam supply system including a nuclear reactor generating heat to produce steam; a power generating turbine configured to be driven with the steam supplied by the nuclear steam supply system; a condenser configured to condense the steam after driving the power generating turbine; at least three feedwater pumps configured to supply water condensed and generated by the condenser to the nuclear steam supply system, each of the feedwater pumps is driven by a corresponding electric motor, and a flow rate provided by each of the feedwater pumps can be controlled by controlling a rotation speed of the corresponding electric motor, wherein during a normal operation of the reactor, one of the feedwater pumps is a backup feedwater pump standing by without operation and the other feedwater pumps are operating feedwater pumps; a water level controller configured to calculate a feedwater flow rate to the nuclear steam supply system and to output a feedwater flow rate command signal based on a detected value indicating a condition of the nuclear power plant and a setpoint of a water level of the nuclear steam supply system; at least three flow rate controllers equipped in correspondence with each electric motor, wherein each flow rate controller is configured to generate a rotation speed command signal of the corresponding electric motor based on the feedwater flow rate command signal, wherein each controller is configured to vary a speed of the corresponding electric motor such that a flow rate provided by each of the operating feedwater pumps can be varied; at least three electric power converters configured to convert electricity from a power supply of fixed voltage and fixed frequency to supply electricity of variable voltage and variable frequency to the electric motors of the operating feedwater pumps; and a trip compensation device configured to increase a rotation speed of the electric motor driving at least one of the operating feedwater pumps that has not tripped if one of the operating feedwater pumps trips; wherein the trip compensation device has a backup start up circuit configured to start up the electric motor that drives the backup feedwater pump by directly connecting the electric motor to a power supply of fixed voltage and fixed frequency by bypassing the electric power converter of the backup feedwater pump if one of the operating feedwater pumps trips. | 12,786 |
9,783,739 | 1. A Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, the process including feeding gaseous reactants including at least CO, H controlling the reactor at an operating temperature in the range from about 260° C. to about 300° C.; and withdrawing a liquid product and a gaseous product including hydrocarbons, CO, H wherein the approach to water gas shift equilibrium in the gaseous product withdrawn from the reactor, according to Equation 5, is less than 0.9 where T is the operating temperature of the reactor in kelvin and P is the partial pressure of the gases CO, CO | 47,092 |
8,451,761 | 1. A power management method in a wireless local area network, the method performed by an access point (AP) that functions as a personal basic service set control point (PCP) and comprising: receiving, from a second station, an information request frame for requesting a wakeup schedule of a first station, the information request frame including a target address indicating a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the first station; transmitting, to the second station, an information response frame including a wakeup schedule element in response to the information request frame; and transmitting, to the second station, an unsolicited information response frame every time the first station changes its wakeup schedule with the AP, the unsolicited information response frame including a wakeup schedule element including information about an updated wakeup schedule of the first station, wherein: if the first station has an established wakeup schedule with the AP by exchanging a power save configuration request frame and a power save configuration response frame, the wakeup schedule element includes information about the established wakeup schedule; and if the first station does not have an established wakeup schedule with the AP, a length of the wakeup schedule element is set to zero. | 23,281 |
8,964,357 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising an electrochemical device in the inside of a housing container and capable of achieving charge and discharge via external terminals, wherein the electrochemical device includes a pair of electrodes, a separator disposed between the pair of electrodes, and an electrolytic solution with which the pair of electrodes and the separator are impregnated; when a volume between the pair of electrodes is designated as Ve, and a volume of a void in an inter-electrode part of the separator disposed between the pair of electrodes is designated as Se, an inter-electrode part void ratio Re is defined as Re=Se/Ve×100(%); and when a thickness of the inter-electrode part is designated as L2 (μm), and a separator evaluation index Ie is defined as Ie=L2/Re (μm/%), a relation of Ie≦1.0 (μm/%) is satisfied, and wherein a compression ratio of L2/L1 of the inter-electrode part, which is defined as a ratio of the thickness L2 after compression to a thickness L1 before compression, is in the range of greater than or equal to 0.15 and less than 0.6. | 35,224 |
8,733,533 | 1. A roof loading device comprising: a platform; a conveyor coupled to said platform, said conveyor having a first end pivotally coupled to said platform, said conveyor having a second end positionable in spaced relationship from said platform wherein said second end is configured for being positioned over a surface of a roof; a motivator operationally coupled to said conveyor wherein said conveyor is configured for moving an object on said conveyor from said first end of said conveyor towards said second end of said conveyor; a stand assembly coupled to said conveyor proximate said second end of said conveyor, said stand assembly having a pair of elongated skids, each said skid having a first end a second end coupled to said conveyor, said skids being positioned beneath said conveyor wherein said skids support said conveyor on the roof, each of said first ends and said second ends of said skids being extendably coupled to said conveyor wherein each of said skids is adjustable to a desired angle relative to said conveyor wherein said skids are configured to be positioned at an angle complementary to an angle of the roof. | 18,981 |
9,301,452 | 1. In a method to sustain the combined yield of crops, together with biomass on farmland which uses a combination of sequential drainage and irrigation, the improvement comprising the following: providing a retention storage to serve said farmland of a specific acreage, into which excess water from said farmland is collected and drained into said retention storage with the dual objective of: (a) the prevention of flooding of the crops growing on said farmland, and (b) the prevention of directing said excess water as a polluting run-off into waterways; recovering water from said retention storage and irrigating said farmland to satisfy the moisture needs of said crops during dry weather; increasing the yield of said crops by means of controlled sequential drainage into said retention storage and irrigation from said retention storage to cause the production of the same amount of crops produced prior to said sequential drainage into said retention storage and irrigation from said retention storage on less acreage than said specific acreage to result in vacating some acreage of said farmland; dedicating the vacated acreage for the planting and growth of biomass as a feedstock for the production of energy in the form of biofuels and biopower without penalizing the yield of crops from said farmland; producing environmental benefits from said sequential drainage into said retention storage and irrigation from said retention storage by preventing harmful effects being imparted to said waterways; harvesting said biomass and compacting it to increase its bulk density for efficient delivery of said biomass in the form of a compacted feedstock; collecting said compacted feedstock and delivering it to a central processing facility for conversion into a useful bio-product by means of a processor; providing a pyrolyzer in said processor which is closed to the atmosphere that operates at pressure to increase efficiency; force feeding said feedstock into said pyrolyzer; heating said feedstock within said pyrolyzer to cause the devolatilization of said feedstock to co-produce a biomass-derived synthetic gas hereinafter referred to as a (bio-sygnas) and a biomass-derived char hereinafter referred to as a (bio-char); converting said bio-syngas into a useful bio-product; and converting said bio-char into a different bio-product than that produced from said bio-syngas. | 43,005 |
9,097,127 | 1. A layer system with ceramic layers, comprising: a lowermost zirconia layer, an outer pyrochlore layer, and a central zirconia layer between the lowermost zirconia layer and the outer pyrochlore layer, wherein the lowermost zirconia layer has the lowest porosity of the layers, wherein the central zirconia layer has the highest porosity of the layers, and wherein the outer pyrochlore layer has an intermediate porosity between that of the lowermost zirconia layer and the central zirconia layer. | 18,761 |
9,642,128 | 1. A method for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a first user equipment (UE), broadcast information from a base station (BS), wherein the broadcast information includes at least one hash parameter and a second identifier (ID) of a second UE; generating, by the first UE, a first discovery ID by applying the at least one hash parameter to a first ID of the first UE, wherein a bit length of the first discovery ID is shorter than a bit length of the first ID of the first UE; configuring, by the first UE, a first part of the first discovery ID to indicate at least one first resource region and configuring a second part of the first discovery ID for inclusion in a first beacon signal; and transmitting, by the first UE, the first beacon signal via the at least one first resource region to perform the D2D communication with the second UE. | 47,209 |
9,735,317 | 1. A method for forming a semiconducting portion by epitaxial growth on a strained germination portion, comprising the steps of: i) providing a stack, formed of a germination layer covering a sacrificial layer disposed on a support layer, said germination layer exhibiting a nonzero initial value of tensile strain; ii) structuring the germination layer in such a way as to form a structured part and a peripheral part, the structured part comprising a central portion linked to the peripheral part by at least two lateral portions opposite one another in relation to the central portion, the lateral portions exhibiting a greater average width than an average width of the central portion; iii) producing a cavity under the structured part while rendering free a surface of the support layer situated facing the structured part, the central portion, termed the strained germination portion, then being strained under tension to a final value greater than the initial value; iv) forming the semiconducting portion by epitaxial growth on the strained germination portion; in which, during step iii), the structured part is furthermore placed in contact with said free surface in such a way as to bind the structured part of said free surface. | 12,468 |
8,833,503 | 1. A work vehicle comprising: a steering wheel disposed forwardly of a driver's seat and rotatably operable; a forward/reverse switchover lever disposed forwardly of the driver's seat and pivotably operable between a forward traveling position capable of switching a traveling direction to the forward direction and a reverse traveling position on more rear side of the vehicle body than said forward traveling position and capable of switching the traveling direction to the reverse direction, across a neutral position therebetween; and a pivotal support shaft pivotally supporting said forward/reverse switchover lever at a position lower than said steering wheel such that a pivotal end of said forward/reverse switchover lever projects laterally outward beyond an outer periphery of said steering wheel as seen along the direction of a rotational axis of said steering wheel; wherein said pivotal center is set more forwardly of the vehicle body than said rotational axis as seen along the direction of the rotational axis such that, as seen along the direction of the rotational axis, the projection amount of the pivotal end from the outer periphery of the steering wheel when the forward/reverse switchover lever is pivotally operated to the reverse traveling position is smaller than the projection amount thereof when the forward/reverse switchover lever is pivotally operated to the forward traveling position; wherein the pivotal center of the forward/reverse switchover lever is set at a position that is inwardly of the outer periphery of said steering wheel and that is laterally outer side of the vehicle body of the rotational axis of said steering wheel as seen along the direction of the rotational axis; and wherein an entirety of a gripping portion of the forward/reverse switchover lever adjacent to the pivotal end of the forward/reverse switchover lever projects from the outer periphery of the steering wheel as seen along the direction of the rotational axis when the forward/reverse switchover lever is pivotally operated to the neutral position about the pivotal center of the forward/reverse switchover lever. | 27,668 |
9,158,035 | 1. A system for correlating operational parameters and events of a physical infrastructure to a regional weather phenomenon, and displaying the acquired information, comprising: one or more electronic data feed sources for providing data and video-graphic information concerning regional weather phenomenon; a plurality of monitoring devices and operational status reporting sources for monitoring and reporting operational parameter and event information of a predetermined physical infrastructure; one or more data storage devices serving as a data repository for storing reported weather phenomenon information and reported operational parameter and event information; a geographic information system (GIS) for providing geographically referenced data relating to the predetermined physical infrastructure; one or more operatively connected computer processors configured to implement a root cause analysis engine (RCA) operatively associated with a weather data correlation engine for sorting and analyzing operational parameter and event information and geographically referenced data and identifying probable correlations to localized weather phenomenon, the identifying comprising: a user interface having a display and input controls for displaying and controlling video graphic data output from said processors, said user interface enabling user-controlled displaying of weather phenomenon and overlayed infrastructural and operational parameter and event information, wherein the user has at least control over a time-lapse or timeline evolution of displayed video-graphic information. | 22,024 |
9,092,334 | 1. A method for shortening enumeration of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Device coupled to a USB Host, comprising: sending a request for a Device descriptor to the USB Device; receiving a plurality of descriptors in a single transfer from the USB Device; determining that an error condition occurs; sending a second request for the Device descriptor to the USB Device based on the error condition; receiving the Device descriptor from the USB Device in response to the second request; setting a bus address for the USB Device; sending a third request for the Device descriptor to the USB Device; receiving the Device descriptor from the USB Device in response to the third request; sending at least one other request for at least one additional descriptor to the USB Device, the at least one additional descriptor different from the Device descriptor; receiving the at least one additional descriptor from the USB Device in response to the at least one other request, wherein the sending of the at least one other request for the at least one additional descriptor and the receiving of the at least one additional descriptor are repeated according to a number of additional descriptors the USB Device has to present to the USB Host; and setting a configuration of the USB Device based on all descriptors received from the USB Device. | 27,708 |
8,811,546 | 1. A method of using a set of reference symbols, comprises: receiving a first symbol; comparing the first symbol to the set of reference symbols; selecting a selected reference symbol from the set of reference symbols, wherein the selected reference symbol is selected in response to the selected reference symbol matching the first symbol; and adjusting a respective error factor for the selected reference symbol in accordance with a difference between the first symbol and the selected reference symbol, wherein the set of reference symbols are adjusted by a set of respective error factors corresponding to the set of reference symbols, wherein the selected reference symbol is stored and the adjusting uses the selected reference symbol and a phase rotator, the phase rotator applying a respective error factor of the respective error factors to the selected reference symbol. | 45,016 |
8,822,460 | 1. A compound of Formula (I): wherein: A is O, or S; R wherein said C n is 1, 2, or 3; R wherein said cyclohexyl or tetrahydropyranyl may be optionally substituted with one substituent selected from the group consisting of: OCH alternatively, R R wherein the phenyl is optionally substituted with C(O)NH R R wherein said phenyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyrazyl, pyrazolyl, imidazolyl, oxazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, furyl, or thiophenyl is optionally substituted with one substituent selected from the group consisting of NH R alternatively, R R R alternatively, R R R R R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 28,505 |
8,581,590 | 1. A quadrature coil for use with a magnetic resonance (MR) system for obtaining images or spectra of a region of interest, said quadrature coil comprising: (a) an outer loop for detecting MR signals oriented orthogonal to a plane of said quadrature coil, said outer loop having a plurality of capacitors therein including (i) a first drive capacitor and a second drive capacitor of approximately equal value serially deployed within said outer loop and at a junction node thereof forming a virtual ground for electrically balancing and impedance matching said outer loop and (ii) a first tuning capacitor and a second tuning capacitor serially deployed within said outer loop with a common node thereof being situated diametrically opposite said junction node and having approximately equal values selected to resonate said outer loop at an operating frequency of said MR system; and (b) a center conductor extending between said common node and said junction node, said center conductor having equal capacitive and inductive reactance at the operating frequency and thus being tuned with said outer loop to form a butterfly-type coil therewith for detecting MR signals oriented parallel to the plane of said quadrature coil; whereby as a single structure said quadrature coil is enabled to detect both vertical and horizontal components of the MR signals emanating from the region of interest. | 36,870 |
8,343,161 | 1. A device for positioning a femoral tunnel during ACL reconstruction, the device comprising: an elongated shaft defining a longitudinal axis and at least two lumens extending longitudinally through the shaft along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis, each lumen configured to receive a guide wire therethrough; and a distal offset projection extending distally from a distal end of the elongated shaft, wherein at least a portion of the distal offset projection is laterally spaced from and extends parallel to the longitudinal axis. | 33,989 |
9,583,819 | 1. An antenna device, comprising: an input/output portion for a high frequency signal to be input or output; a distributing portion for distributing the high frequency signal input to the input/output portion into a plurality of high frequency signals; a phase shifting portion for imparting the plurality of high frequency signals with a predetermined amount of phase shift; and a feeding portion for feeding a plurality of antenna elements with the plurality of high frequency signals imparted with the predetermined amount of phase shift to cause the plurality of antenna elements to radiate the plurality of high frequency signals, wherein the feeding portion is configured as a triplate line with a center conductor placed between one pair of parallel plate shaped outer conductors, wherein the phase shifting portion is configured as a dielectric phase shifter comprising a triplate line with a center conductor placed between one pair of parallel plate shaped outer conductors, and first and second dielectrics provided partially on and under the center conductor therebetween and movably in a longitudinal direction of the center conductor, the first and second dielectrics comprising a varying width in the longitudinal direction. | 17,891 |
8,415,074 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising: a negative electrode having a material that releases lithium ions as a negative electrode active material; an ion-conducting medium that is in contact with the negative electrode and conducts lithium ions; and a positive electrode having a positive electrode material that generates a battery reaction and has a solubility in the ion-conducting medium that is higher than that of oxygen, the positive electrode being in contact with the ion-conducting medium, and containing a fullerene derivative as a redox catalyst, wherein the fullerene derivative is represented by the following formula: wherein n is an integer of 1 to 8, Fu represents at least one of fullerenes C R X | 31,765 |
8,735,962 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a vertical channel layer protruding upward from a semiconductor substrate; a tunnel insulating layer covering a sidewall of the vertical channel layer; a floating gate surrounding the vertical channel layer with the tunnel insulating layer interposed therebetween; and a control gate including first conductive layers disposed over and under the floating gate while interposing the floating gate, and a second conductive layer covering a sidewall of the floating gate between the first conductive layers, wherein the first and second conductive layers are formed of different materials having an etch selectivity therebetween. | 25,500 |
9,353,272 | 1. An organic dispersion, comprising: an organic solvent; and an inorganic nano sheet material modified by a fluoro-containing modifier and dispersed in the organic solvent, wherein the modified inorganic nano sheet material is at least one selected from the group consisting of smectite clay, vermiculite, halloysite, mica, layered double hydroxide (LDH) and synthetic smectite in a size from 20 to 80 nm, and the organic dispersion has a solid content from 1 to 20 wt %, and a weight ratio of the fluoro-containing modifier in the modified inorganic nano sheet material to the modified inorganic nano sheet material is in a range from 0.06 to 1.5, wherein the fluoro-containing modifier has a structure of (R1) | 29,608 |
8,984,315 | 1. A method of managing the operation of a data processing device comprising at least two processing units, each processing unit operating alternately in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode, comprising: initiating a first transient phase during which one or more common resources of the two processing units are activated; switching the first processing unit to its second operating mode at the end of the first transient phase after the one or more common resources have been activated; and switching the second processing unit to its second operating mode at the end of a second transient phase according to a temporal flexibility, wherein the instant of switching the second processing unit to its second operating mode is adjusted such that the two processing units are in their second operating modes after the one or more common resources have been activated once in the course of the two respective transient phases. | 23,130 |
9,490,501 | 1. A fluoride ion battery comprising: a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode active material; and an electrolyte layer that contains an electrolyte solution, the electrolyte solution comprising: a fluoride salt; and an alcohol material that has molar ratio more than 1 with respect to fluoride ions of the fluoride salt and has only one OH group, the alcohol material selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol (isopropyl alcohol), 1-butanol, 2-butanol, tert-butyl alcohol, pentanol, hexanol, heptanol, octanol, phenol, and phenol derivatives. | 30,521 |
8,963,910 | 1. A pixel information management apparatus that stores information on a defective pixel of imaging pixels and information on an evaluation pixel, among pixels included in an image sensor, the apparatus storing, for each defective pixel of the imaging pixels and each evaluation pixel, pixel information that has, as respectively different regions: an ID region that contains information indicating whether the pixel is a defective pixel of the imaging pixels or an evaluation pixel; an operand region that contains information that depends on whether the pixel is a defective pixel of the imaging pixels or an evaluation pixel; and a position information region that contains information for specifying a position of the pixel, wherein the position information region stores a relative distance from another defective pixel of the imaging pixels or another evaluation pixel, as the information for specifying the pixel position. | 21,137 |
8,938,116 | 1. A method for generating thumbnail images, comprising the operations of: extracting a plurality of pixel-level features from each of a plurality of source images, wherein each of the source images is associated with a thumbnail created by an editor; generating a plurality of unique bounding boxes for each source image; calculating a plurality of region-level features for each bounding box, wherein each region-level feature results from the aggregation of pixel values for one of the pixel-level features; learning a regression model, using at least the calculated region-level features and the thumbnail associated with the source image; and choosing a thumbnail from a plurality of unique bounding boxes in a new image, based at least in part on application of the regression model, wherein application of the regression model occurs if the source image is not approximately square, and wherein each of the operations is executed by one or more processors. | 46,487 |
9,473,923 | 1. A portable device comprising: a communication unit configured to receive a signal from at least one Access Point (AP); a camera configured to capture an image of a surrounding environment; a display configured to output the captured surrounding environment image; and a controller configured to: | 39,611 |
9,193,806 | 1. A method for producing an epoxidized natural rubber, comprising: Step 1 of coagulating natural rubber latex into granules to prepare a granular solid rubber; and Step 2 of treating the granular solid rubber with an epoxidizing liquid to epoxidize the granular solid rubber. | 18,796 |
9,573,308 | 1. A meltblown method for producing a nonwoven fabric with hygroscopic metastatic features comprising the following steps: a. preparing a raw material comprising a macromolecule polymer of bio-polyamide 6,10; b. fusing the macromolecule polymer of bio-polyamide 6,10 of step a. into a melt at a temperature of 250-280° C.; c. melt blowing the melt of step b. by blowing the melt from spinnerets to form bio-polyamide 6,10 filaments; d. blowing the bio-polyamide 6,10 filaments of step c. onto a conveyer to form a substrate fibrous web with a thickness of 0.3-2.5 mm; e. preparing a raw material comprising pulp with a cellulose content of over 65% and a degree of polymerization (DP) of 500-1500; f. dissolving the pulp of step e. with N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) by blending the pulp with NMMO at a temperature of 60° C.-90° C., then dehydrating the dissolved pulp by heating to 80° C.-120° C. to form a homogenized mucilaginous dope; g. melt blowing the dope of step f. by blowing the dope from spinnerets and laying up over the substrate fibrous web of step d. to form a fibrous composite web of the bio-polyamide 6,10 and cellulose in overlaid lamination; h. regenerating the fibrous composite web of step f. by misting the web with aerosolized water, then washing out the NMMO by rinsing with water; i. treating the regenerated fibrous composite web of step h. by needle punching, drying, and winding-up to obtain the nonwoven fabric with hygroscopic metastatic features. | 48,319 |
8,972,800 | 1. A data processing system, the data processing system comprising: a multi-pass defect detector circuit including: a defect quality characterization circuit operable to determine a defect amplitude based upon two or more accesses of a data set from a location on a medium identified as potentially defective; and a threshold comparison circuit operable to compare the defect amplitude with a threshold value to yield a defect indication. | 40,898 |
9,564,622 | 1. A method of making a polymeric separator having an open porous structure that, when placed between and in facial contact with a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an electrochemical cell filled with an electrolyte solution, permits the flow of ions in the cell from one electrode through the separator to the other electrode, each electrode having a shape and an electrical contact, the polymeric separator having a terminal end for placement near the electrical contact of each electrode in the cell and an opposite end for placement away from the electrical contact of each electrode in the cell, the porous structure including pores sized and arranged so that one or both of a porosity or an average pore size is higher at the opposite end of the separator than at the terminal end of the separator, the method comprising: a) forming a polymer-containing film having a thickness across its width that gradually increases from a first end to a second end; b) producing a uniform distribution of pore sites throughout the polymer-containing film; c) reforming the polymer-containing film to a uniform thickness, thereby introducing the open porous structure to the film; and d) obtaining the polymeric separator from the film in a shape complementary to the shapes of the positive and negative electrodes, wherein the separator is obtained from the film so that the terminal end and the opposite end of the separator are spaced apart in the widthwise direction of the film from which the separator is obtained, the terminal end of the separator corresponding to the first end of the polymer-containing film formed in step a) and the opposite end of the separator corresponding to the second end of the polymer-containing film formed in step a). | 16,985 |
8,611,919 | 1. A mobile communication device operable by a user, comprising: a housing configured to be handheld; a central processing unit in said housing and including a processor and memory; said memory storing a plurality of applications including: a display coupled to said central processing unit; a communication module disposed in said housing and configurable by the user to provide a contemporaneous voice and data communication link configured to permit the user to simultaneously engage in a mobile telephone voice communication via a mobile telephone network with a first person using a first device and to receive content for presentation on said display from a second device; wherein said communication module is configured to receive content in data packets and to select an application for processing the content based on information in at least some of the data packets containing the content; and wherein said communication module is configured to provide the received content to the selected application. | 5,517 |
9,657,242 | 1. A gasifier for creating a flow of a syngas, comprising: a reaction chamber; and a quench chamber; the quench chamber comprising a plurality of integrated scrubber trays therein, wherein the plurality of scrubber trays comprises a plurality of perforations therein, wherein the plurality of scrubber trays comprises a plurality of protrusions extending downward from a bottom of the plurality of scrubber trays and positioned about the plurality of perforations. | 2,110 |
9,666,435 | 1. A gas source assembly, comprising: a first fluid supply vessel containing a first fluid; a second fluid supply vessel containing a second fluid; a fluid flow metering device adapted to dispense one of the first and second fluids; a mixer arranged to mix the first and second fluids to form a diluted fluid mixture; a monitor arranged to sense concentration of any of the first fluid and the second fluid in the diluted fluid mixture; a controller arranged to receive from the monitor a signal indicative of concentration of the first fluid and/or the second fluid in the diluted fluid mixture, and to responsively adjust the fluid flow metering device to achieve a predetermined concentration of first fluid in the diluted fluid mixture; and a pressure controller disposed directly in a fluid flow path upstream of the mixer, arranged to sense and control pressure of the other of the first and second fluids, and configured to maintain at the mixer a predetermined pressure of said other of the first and second fluids. | 392 |
8,920,525 | 1. A high-carbon biogenic reagent comprising, on a dry basis: 55 wt % or more total carbon; 5 wt % or less hydrogen; 1 wt % or less nitrogen; 0.5 wt % or less phosphorus; 0.2 wt % or less sulfur; and an additive selected from a metal, a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide, a metal halide, or a combination thereof. | 34,158 |
8,819,675 | 1. A virtual machine monitor for operating a virtual server on an information-processing system connecting one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more I/O devices by an internal network, the virtual machine monitor comprising: a physical hardware information acquiring portion for acquiring information describing hardware including physical position information of the hardware including the one or more processors, the one or more memories, the one or more I/O devices, and the internal network of the information-processing system; a receiving portion for receiving a forming request for forming the virtual server, the forming request including a number of the one or more processors for the virtual server to be formed, an amount of the one or more memories, and an allocation policy for allocating at least one of the one or more I/O devices and specifying a resource policy; and an allocation processing portion for allocating at least one of the one or more processors and at least one of the one or more memories to the virtual server to satisfy the allocation policy after allocating the at least one I/O device to the virtual server based on the received forming request. | 16,562 |
9,184,322 | 1. A method for fabricating a photovoltaic device, comprising: forming a film including titanium on a conductive layer formed on a substrate; forming an absorber layer including a Cu—Zn—Sn containing chalcogenide compound with a kesterite structure of the formula: Cu annealing the absorber layer to diffuse titanium therein and to recrystallize the CZTS material of the film; forming a buffer layer on the absorber layer; and forming a transparent conductive layer on the buffer layer. | 5,731 |
9,008,719 | 1. A method for acquiring radio measurements in a mobile communication system, and comprising: within a serving cell operated by a radio access node and serving a particular user equipment, sending measurement control information from said radio access node to said particular user equipment whereby said particular user equipment is configured to perform radio measurements, within a further serving cell operated by a further radio access node and subsequently serving said particular user equipment, sending a measurement report from said particular user equipment to said further radio access node comprising measurement data as configured by said serving cell and a cell identifier of said serving cell, and transferring said measurement data from said further radio access node back to said radio access node. | 18,937 |
9,746,744 | 1. A method of forming a waveguide for a self-aligned Mach-Zehnder Interferometer comprising: forming a waveguide having a length on a substrate, the waveguide including a first portion having a first thickness and a first width, and a pair of second portions each having a second thickness and a second width naturally extended beyond the first width towards one of two opposite directions; providing a first mask with a first opening exposing the waveguide entirely across the first width and the pair of second widths; doping a first electrical dopant of a first concentration through the first opening into the waveguide down to the first thickness of the first portion of the waveguide and the second thickness of each of the pair of second portions to form a first semiconducting phase thereof; providing a second mask with a second opening exposing only part of the waveguide including a partial first portion connected to one second portion, the second opening having a same length as the first opening; doping a second electrical dopant of a second concentration through the second opening into the part of the waveguide down to the first thickness of the partial first portion and the second thickness of the one second portion to form a second semiconductor phase thereof sharing a boundary with the first semiconducting phase, the second electrical dopant being opposite in polarity versus the first electrical dopant, the second concentration being greater than the first concentration; having a partial recombination between the first electrical dopant of the first concentration and the second electrical dopant of the second concentration commonly existed throughout the first thickness of the partial first portion and the second thickness of the one second portion, thereby forming a third semiconducting phase thereof sharing the same boundary with the first semiconducting phase. | 10,310 |
8,718,634 | 1. A method of operating a first user terminal for providing location information associated with the first user terminal to a second user terminal, the first user terminal and the second user terminal are comprised within a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system further comprising a plurality of radio base stations of which a first one of the plurality of radio base stations is serving the first user terminal, the method comprising: receiving a signal from one of the plurality of radio base stations, comprising absolute geographical coordinates corresponding to the location of the one of the plurality of radio base stations; performing pilot signal measurements on the received signal; determining absolute geographical coordinates corresponding to the location of the first user terminal, based on the performed pilot signal measurements and the received absolute geographical coordinates of the one of the plurality of radio base stations; and transmitting the determined absolute geographical coordinates to the second user terminal. | 48,268 |
8,448,805 | 1. A container comprising: a base wall; a pair of opposed side walls extending upward from side edges of the base wall; a first end wall and a second end wall extending upward from end edges of the base wall; a lid hingeably connected to each of the side walls; a first protrusion from an upper edge of the first end wall for hooking onto a bag in the container; and a handle protruding outward from the first end wall below the upper edge and below the first protrusion. | 17,857 |
9,434,812 | 1. A polymer comprising repeating units of formula (I) shown below: wherein A is a group of formula IVa, IVc, IVe, IVg, IVh, IVi, IVj, or IVk shown below wherein R D is | 17,430 |
8,520,003 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a first control point and a second control point; determining, at the computing device, a first set of constraints for curvature continuity at the first control point, the first set of constraints including tangent angle and curvature at the first control point; determining, at the computing device, a second set of constraints for curvature continuity at the second control point, the second set of constraints including tangent angle, curvature, first derivative of curvature and second derivative of curvature at the second control point; computing, at the computing device, a curve having a curvature and an arclength at each point along the curve, the curvature at each specific point of the curve being a polynomial function of the arclength corresponding to that specific point, wherein the curve satisfies the first set of constraints at the first control point and wherein the curve satisfies the second set of constraints at the second control point; and outputting, to a display device or printer, the curve. | 44,686 |
9,522,750 | 1. Apparatus for inserting mass-customized items into bags, comprising: a computer system having a database; a puck conveyor configured to carry a plurality of pucks, each of the pucks carrying at least one mass-customized item associated with the puck by item-specific information stored in the database; a bag conveyor configured to receive a plurality of bags, each of the bags having an opening defined between opposed side walls, each of the bags being associated by the computer system with the item-specific identification information identifying at least one of the mass-customized items; a pick and place mechanism operable to move each of the mass-customized items from its associated puck on the puck conveyor to an item conveyor; a bag opening mechanism configured to receive the plurality of bags from the bag conveyor and to open each of the bags; and an insertion mechanism operably associated with the bag-opening mechanism and configured to receive the mass-customized items from the item conveyor and to insert each individual mass-customized item into an open bag associated by the computer system with the individual mass-customized item using the item-specific identification information in the database identifying the individual mass-customized item. | 44,440 |
8,731,564 | 1. A wireless communication device comprising: a location-registration control unit that transmits, when handover from a first communication network for performing voice communication and packet communication to a second communication network for performing packet communication is determined to be executed, a location registration request requesting for location registration to the second communication network and receives a response to the location registration request from the second communication network; a voice-communication-request acquiring unit that puts a voice communication request on hold when acquiring the voice communication request requesting the first communication network for performing voice communication; a voice-communication determining unit that determines whether the voice communication request acquired by the voice-communication-request acquiring unit is being put on hold when the response received by the location-registration control unit is acceptance of the location registration request; and a voice-communication control unit that sends a reply of completion notification notifying of completion of receipt of the acceptance to the second communication network when the voice-communication determining unit has determined that the voice communication request is not being put on hold, or cancels the sending of the reply of completion notification and transfers the voice communication request being put on hold to the first communication network when the voice-communication determining unit has determined that the voice communication request is being put on hold. | 21,687 |
8,629,516 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; an insulator layer over the substrate, the insulator layer including two portions surrounding a cavity, at least one of the portions including a first signaling component; and a bulk silicon layer over the insulator layer, the bulk silicon layer including three portions, wherein two of the three portions of the bulk silicon layer are over the two portions of the insulator layer, wherein one of the two portions of the bulk silicon layer includes a second signaling component to engage with the first signaling component, and wherein the third portion of the bulk silicon layer is separate from the other two portions and is disposed within the cavity; a first dimple on the third portion of the bulk silicon layer and extending into the cavity; a second dimple on the third portion of the bulk silicon layer and extending away from the cavity; and a first layer over the two portions of the bulk silicon layer, but not over the third portion; and a second layer over first layer and extending over, but not in contact with, the third portion of the bulk silicon layer. | 2,323 |
8,378,049 | 1. A process for preparing a non-crosslinked hyperbranched polylysine which comprises reacting (A) a salt of lysine with at least one acid, (B) optionally, at least one amino acid other than lysine, (C) optionally, at least one dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid or copolymerizable derivatives thereof and (D) optionally, at least one diamine or polyamine or copolymerizable derivatives thereof, (E) optionally, in at least one solvent at a temperature from 120 to 200° C. in the presence of at least one catalyst (F) selected from the group consisting of basic alkaline earth metal salts or quaternary ammonium salts. | 43,407 |
9,084,494 | 1. A body support, comprising: a moveable top plate having a first u-shaped body with a first planar surface and a first body receiving space passing through the first u-shaped body; a stationary bottom plate having a second u-shaped body with a second planar surface facing the first planar surface and a second body receiving space passing through the second u-shaped body and corresponding with the first body receiving space; and a plurality of elastic cushions disposed between and engaging the moveable top plate and the stationary bottom plate such that the moveable top plate moves about the plurality of elastic cushions independent of the stationary bottom plate. | 17,439 |
9,377,407 | 1. A method for determining a level of a particular characteristic specific spectrum representing a particular characteristic of a chemical or biochemical reaction, from light which is emanating from at least one reaction vessel of a plurality of reaction vessels in the course of the reaction, the light having a general spectrum comprising a number of different specific spectra including the particular characteristic specific spectrum, at least two of the different specific spectra at least partially overlapping, the method comprising: conducting the reaction in the at least one reaction vessel, which is arranged so that the light having the general spectrum emanates from the reaction vessel and a received portion of the light is received by a detector comprising a plurality of photodetectors of different types distributed throughout a two-dimensional array of photodetectors, each photodetector of a particular type comprising a photosensor and a particular type of filter that passes light of a particular waveband range, wherein at least two different particular waveband ranges at least partially overlap, and wherein a subset is formed by some or all photodetectors of the same type; monitoring output from a plurality of subsets of at least two of the different types of photodetectors; and utilising the outputs from the plurality of subsets to deconvolve the general spectrum of the received portion of the light based on known spectra that could emanate from the at least one reaction vessel during the reaction, so as to differentiate between the different specific spectra and thereby determine a light level of the particular characteristic specific spectrum; wherein the received portion of the light is monitored repeatedly over a period of time. | 27,226 |
8,393,648 | 1. A flange comprising composite material, wherein the flange comprises a curved hollow member having a substantially triangular cross-section; and said cross-section includes a substantially right-angled triangle, wherein | 30,230 |
9,559,235 | 1. A device comprising a first photoelectric conversion unit in direct contact with a second photoelectric conversion unit, each comprising: a first substrate comprising a first photoelectric conversion element; a second substrate comprising a second photoelectric conversion element; a third substrate comprising a third photoelectric conversion element; a first light-dividing device over the third substrate; and a second light-dividing device over the third substrate, wherein the first light-dividing device intersects the second light-dividing device, wherein the first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate are arranged in a substantially U-shaped form, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are in direct contact with the third substrate, wherein the first substrate and the third substrate are secured in a brace form by the first light-dividing device which extends diagonally from the first substrate to the third substrate, wherein the second substrate and the third substrate are secured in a brace form by the second light-dividing device which extends diagonally from the second substrate to the third substrate, wherein the first photoelectric conversion element is opposite to the second photoelectric conversion element, wherein the first light-dividing device is configured to reflect a part of an incident light toward the second photoelectric conversion element, wherein the second light-dividing device is configured to reflect a part of the incident light toward the first photoelectric conversion element, wherein the third photoelectric conversion element is configured to receive light transmitted through the first light-dividing device and the second light-dividing device, and wherein the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit are oriented in different directions from each other. | 42,352 |
8,980,879 | 1. A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R R Y R Y R R R R G R R R G A R R R G R R R R G R R R | 5,156 |
8,576,977 | 1. A method for making a fuel assembly for a light-water nuclear reactor comprising structural components made of zirconium alloy, comprising the following steps: calculating average uniaxial tensile or compressive stresses to which the components will be subjected during the lifetime of the assembly; based on the calculating step, making components to be subjected to an axial or transverse compressive stress a of from −10 to −20 MPa to include an alloy comprising, in percentages by weight, Zr content of at least 95% and Sn content from Sn=(−0.025·σ−0.25) % to Sn=−0.05·σ%; based on the calculating step, making components to be subjected to an axial or transverse compressive stress σ of from 0 to −10 MPa to include an alloy comprising, in percentages by weight, Zr content of at least 95% and Sn content from Sn=traces to Sn=(0.05·σ+1) %; based on the calculating step, making components to be subjected to an axial or transverse tensile stress a of from 0 to +10 MPa to include an alloy comprising, in percentages by weight, Zr content of at least 95% and Sn content from Sn=0.05·σ% to Sn=(0.07·σ+1) %; and based on the calculating step, making components to be subjected to an axial or transverse tensile stress σ of from +10 to +20 MPa to include an alloy comprising, in percentages by weight, Zr content of at least 95% and Sn content from 0.05% to 1.70%. | 47,466 |
8,763,251 | 1. A method of mounting a gear train to a torque frame comprising: a) providing a unitary carrier having a central axis that includes spaced apart walls and circumferentially spaced connecting structure defining mounts for interconnecting the walls, spaced apart apertures provided between the mounts at an outer circumference of the carrier, gear pockets provided between the walls and mounts extending to the apertures, and a central opening in at least one of the walls; b) inserting a plurality of intermediate gears and a sun gear in the carrier; and c) placing a first ring gear half about the outer periphery of said intermediate gears, and attaching a torque frame to said carrier. | 3,492 |
9,819,420 | 1. A system comprising: a polarization state aligner (PSA) comprising: | 24,610 |
8,904,890 | 1. A moving device comprising: a driving unit comprising a rotary shaft that is rotatable in a forward direction and a reverse direction by air pressure; a power delivery unit connected to the rotary shaft and adapted and configured to convert rotary motion of the rotary shaft to linear motion; and a brake unit which connects the driving unit and the power delivery unit and selectively brakes the driving unit according to an electrical signal, wherein the power delivery unit comprises: | 29,264 |
9,256,040 | 1. An optical cable terminal fixture for fixing a terminal of an optical cable having a tensile strength fiber around an optical fiber and having an outer sheath on an outer periphery of the tensile strength fiber comprising: a body formed in a tubular shape having an outer sheath fixing part for fixing the outer sheath, and a cable insertion path into which the optical fiber is inserted; and a lateral part having a wind part on a lateral portion of the body around which the tensile strength fiber is wound, wherein the lateral part can be folded toward the outer sheath fixing part, and wherein the lateral part comprises: | 41,382 |
9,257,721 | 1. A method for manufacturing an all solid-state lithium-ion rechargeable battery, the method comprising: forming a first active material layer on a base; forming a solid electrolyte layer connected to the first active material layer; forming a second active material layer connected to the solid electrolyte layer; and repairing a short-circuit defect produced between the first active material layer and the second active material layer by supplying a repair current between the first active material layer and the second active material layer, wherein in the repairing, only one pulse of the repair current is supplied; wherein the repairing includes supplying current, having a value obtained by multiplying a repair current value of 100 C or greater and 10000 C or less for each short-circuit defect by an estimated short-circuit defect number, to between the first active material layer and the second active material layer. | 27,887 |
9,009,304 | 1. A method of analyzing network activity, wherein two or more devices in the network are mapped to a common address, said method comprising: receiving, by a processor, data indicating activity of the network; identifying, by the processor, two or more devices that map to a common address; modifying, by the processor, the activity data to indicate a unique individual address for each device that is mapped to the common address, wherein said modifying comprises generating a new internet protocol address for each media access control address that is mapped to the common address; determining, by the processor, performance statistics related to each device based on the modified activity data; and outputting, by the processor, the determined performance statistics. | 25,345 |
9,693,424 | 1. A metal-based particle assembly film-layered substrate comprising: a nonconductive substrate; and a film composed of a metal-based particle assembly comprising 30 or more metal-based particles separated from each other and disposed in two dimensions, said metal-based particles being in contact with the nonconductive substrate and having an average particle diameter in a range of from 200 to 1600 nm, an average height in a range of from 55 to 500 nm, and an aspect ratio, as defined by a ratio of said average particle diameter to said average height, in a range of from 1 to 8, wherein the metal-based particle assembly has in an absorption spectrum for a visible light region a maximum wavelength of a peak at a longest side in wavelength, and the maximum wavelength shifts toward a shorter side in wavelength in a range of from 30 to 500 nm as compared with that of a reference metal-based particle assembly in which metal-based particles having a particle diameter equal to said average particle diameter and a height equal to said average height and made of the same material are disposed such that each distance between adjacent metal-based particles may be in a range of from 1 to 2 μm, and the metal-based particles that compose the metal-based particle assembly are non-conductive with adjacent metal-based particles. | 24,941 |
9,452,389 | 1. A method for operating a plant, comprising: feeding a reagent to a direct contact heating device for removing ammonia from fluid fed to the direct contact heating device prior to water being contacted with the fluid to heat the fluid; feeding the water to the direct contact heating device to contact the fluid after the fluid is contacted with the reagent fed to the direct contact heating device; and feeding the water from the direct contact heating device to a water wash tower that is downstream of a carbon dioxide absorber configured to use ammonia to remove carbon dioxide from fluid fed therein, the water wash tower being configured to remove ammonia from fluid fed therein. | 13,273 |
9,765,667 | 1. A method for loading or reloading a decomposition unit of a SCR or Selective Catalytic Reduction system, the decomposition unit being configured to receive an ammonia precursor, the SCR system being mounted on board a vehicle and comprising: a filler pipe in communication with the decomposition unit, wherein at least one capsule containing at least one protein component adapted to decompose the ammonia precursor is introduced through the filler pipe and is then guided through the filler pipe towards the decomposition unit. | 1,734 |
9,039,808 | 1. An adsorbent for adsorbing a halogenated hydrocarbon, the adsorbent comprising: a first silica having an organophillic pore lattice structure with an average pore opening of between 5 and 10 angstroms, and a second silica having an organophillic pore lattice structure with an average pore opening of between 15 and 30 angstroms, the first silica being separated from the second silica. | 8,646 |
9,361,250 | 1. A memory module comprising: one or more volatile memory devices; one or more non-volatile memory devices; a data exchange controller for controlling data exchange between the one or more volatile memory devices and the one or more non-volatile memory devices within the memory module according to received instructions; a pre-fetch buffer for buffering data read from the one or more non-volatile memory devices, the one or more non-volatile memory devices are coupled to the pre-fetch buffer in parallel; wherein the width of the pre-fetch buffer is larger than that of the one or more non-volatile memory devices; a data interface for communicating data and command between the memory module and a memory controller for controlling data exchange between the memory module and other devices external to the memory module, and a bridge device for transforming data received from the pre-fetch buffer and originating from the one or more non-volatile memory devices to have a format compatible with the data interface and sending the transformed data to the data interface; wherein the one or more volatile memory devices and the one or more non-volatile memory devices within the memory module are coupled at a first side of the data interface, the other devices external to the memory module are coupled at a second side of the data interface opposite to the first side; and wherein the one or more volatile memory devices have a format compatible with the format of the data interface but different from the format of the one or more non-volatile memory devices; a first data path between the one or more volatile memory devices and the data interface, wherein the first data path comprises a buffer; and a second data path between the one or more non-volatile memory devices and the data interface, wherein the second data path comprises the pre-fetch buffer and the bridge device and wherein the first data path and the second data path do not comprise shared circuit elements. | 18,303 |
8,880,251 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; a power generation unit capable of generating electric power by receiving power generated by an operation of said internal combustion engine; a power storage unit configured to be chargeable by receiving the electric power from said power generation unit; a driving force generation unit generating a driving force of a vehicle by receiving the electric power supplied from said power storage unit; and a control device controlling the driving force of the vehicle generated in response to a request from a driver and controlling the electric power charged and discharged in said power storage unit, said control device including a power storage unit state detection unit detecting a state of charge and a temperature of said power storage unit, a charge/discharge allowable power calculation unit calculating charge/discharge power allowable in said power storage unit based on the state of charge and the temperature of said power storage unit detected by said power storage unit state detection unit, a charge/discharge allowable power control unit setting control-specific charge/discharge allowable power by correcting charge/discharge allowable power calculated by said charge/discharge allowable power calculation unit so as to limit the charge/discharge allowable power to be changed at a predetermined first change speed and, a charge/discharge control unit determining a power target value in accordance with the request from the driver within a range of said control-specific charge/discharge allowable power set by said charge/discharge allowable power control unit, and feedback-controlling the electric power charged and discharged in said power storage unit in accordance with the power target value, said charge/discharge control unit is configured to perform control for starting said internal combustion engine in response to a request at start-up of said hybrid vehicle within said range of said control-specific charge/discharge allowable power, when performing said control for said internal combustion engine, said internal combustion engine is started by receiving the electric power supplied from said power storage unit and said driving force generation unit is operated in regenerative mode so as to reduce rattling noise, said charge/discharge allowable power control unit setting said control-specific charge/discharge allowable power such that, at start-up of said vehicle, a maximum value of the charge/discharge power allowable in said power storage unit is set as an initial value and the control-specific charge/discharge allowable power is decreased from the initial value at a predetermined second change speed higher than said first change speed. | 18,328 |
8,883,177 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition for parenteral administration of a pharmaceutical active ingredient, the composition comprising: a) an aqueous solution or mixture; b) a pharmaceutical active ingredient; and c) a solubility enhancer comprising dioleoylglyceroldiethylenetriamine-monomethoxyl polyethylene glycol ether lactobionate: wherein: X B is a central backbone comprising at least one of glycerol or glycerol-like analogues, polyamine, amino acid, triamine, diethylenetriamine, tetramine, diethylenetetramine, triethylenetetramine, aminoalcohol, and aminopropanediol; L is a lipid comprising at least one of diacylglycerol, fatty acids, and bile acids; S is carbohydrate comprising saccharide; and P is polymer comprising PEG. | 40,186 |
8,637,289 | 1. A recombinant yeast host cell comprising: (a) a modification in an endogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having dual-role hexokinase activity in the host cell wherein the activity of the polypeptide of (a) is reduced or substantially eliminated; and (b) a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having hexose kinase activity; and (c) a modification in an endogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having pyruvate decarboxylase activity wherein pyruvate decarboxylase activity is reduced or substantially eliminated. | 49,263 |
8,702,821 | 1. A fuel pellet comprising: petroleum coke, having a sulfur content up to 5.5%; a biomass constituent; an alkali constituent adapted to capture SO2 emissions by reacting with sulfur of the petroleum coke upon burn of the pellet; and an iron oxide catalyst capturing in the range of 90 to 95.3 percent of SO2 emissions; | 24,943 |
8,684,664 | 1. A platform cooling arrangement in turbine rotor blade having a platform at an interface between an airfoil and a root, wherein the rotor blade includes an interior cooling passage formed therein that extends from a connection with a coolant source at the root to at least the approximate radial height of the platform, wherein, in operation, the interior cooling passage comprises a high-pressure coolant region and a low-pressure coolant region, and wherein, along a side that coincides with a pressure side of the airfoil, a pressure side of the platform comprises a topside extending circumferentially from the airfoil to a pressure side slashface, and along a side that coincides with a suction side of the airfoil, a suction side of the platform comprises a topside extending circumferentially from the airfoil to a suction side slashface, the platform cooling arrangement comprising: a platform slot formed through at least one of the pressure side slashface and the suction side slashface; a removably-engaged impingement insert that separates the platform into two radially stacked plenums, a first plenum that resides inboard of a second plenum; a high-pressure connector that connects the first plenum to the high-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage; and a low-pressure connector that connects the second plenum to the low-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage; wherein the impingement insert comprises a plurality of impingement apertures. | 10,863 |
9,809,663 | 1. A catalyst component for olefin polymerization, comprising reaction products of the following components: (1) a solid component; (2) at least one titanium compound; and (3) at least two internal electron donors; wherein the solid component comprises a magnesium compound represented by formula (1) and an epoxide represented by formula (2), wherein, R I is a C 1 -C 12 linear or branched alkyl; R II and R III are identical or different, and are independently hydrogen or unsubstituted or halogen-substituted C 1 -C 5 linear or branched alkyl; X is halogen; m is in a range of from 0.1 to 1.9, n is in a range of from 0.1 to 1.9, and m+n=2; wherein the content of the epoxide represented by the formula (2) is in a range of from 0.01 to 0.8 moles per mole of the magnesium compound represented by the formula (1); and wherein the solid component is obtained by reacting a magnesium halide-alcohol adduct solution with the epoxide represented by the formula (2) in the presence of at least one polymeric dispersion stabilizer. | 3,762 |
9,484,575 | 1. A method for preparing a cathode material for an alkali-sulfur cell, the method comprising: a) mixing (1) at least one polyacrilonitrile-sulfur composite material that includes covalent sulfur-carbon bonds with (2) elemental sulfur; wherein the polyacrilonitrile-sulfur composite material is prepared by a reaction of polyacrilonitrile with sulfur in the presence of a catalyst. | 4,672 |
8,883,117 | 1. A method of forming a material for reversible hydrogen storage within a storage tank, the method comprising: charging a mixture of a metal amide and a metal hydride to the storage tank; and chemically reacting the mixture at a reaction condition within the storage tank to form a thermally conducting composite material situated in the storage tank and for reversibly storing hydrogen, the composite material including a three-dimensional and interconnected framework including a conductive metal. | 31,896 |
9,587,180 | 1. A method for co-producing lube basestock and transportation fuel from a feedstock of biological origin in a single reactor, the method comprising: a) converting a feedstock of biological origin to a ketone in the presence of a first catalyst and a hydrogen partial pressure of at least 250 psig, wherein the first catalyst comprises a basic catalyst comprising CeO b) hydrogenating the ketone to produce a hydrocarbon in the presence of a second catalyst comprising a hydrogenation catalyst and a hydrothermally stable binder, and wherein the hydrocarbon is a lube basestock and a transportation fuel, and wherein the feedstock of biological origin comprises one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid, a fatty acid ester, a fatty alcohol, a fatty olefin, a mono-glyceride, a di-glyceride, a tri-glyceride, a phospholipid and a saccharolipid. | 27,787 |
9,804,860 | 1. A memory system comprising: a memory device that operates using a first voltage received from a host, wherein memory device is suitable for storing a value of operation information, and waking up from a sleep state in response to a request of the host; and a controller that operates using a second voltage received from the host, wherein the controller is suitable for checking the value of operation information stored in a storage region having a volatile characteristic and selectively resetting the memory device according to the value of operation information when the memory device wakes up from the sleep state. | 29,155 |
8,377,415 | 1. The process of producing α-AlH 3 comprising the steps of: providing a supply of LiAlH mechanically milling the LiAlH combining the LiAlH applying a mechanical pressure to the dry mixture; heating the dry mixture while maintaining the mechanical pressure to a temperature of about 75° C. and in the presence of a dry inert gas; washing the heated mixture with diethyl ether and THF; drying the washed mixture with an inert gas, thereby providing an α-AlH | 24,502 |
9,715,711 | 1. A computer-implemented method of evaluating effectiveness of an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology, the method comprising: generating, by one or more computing systems configured to evaluate the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology operating within a virtual test environment configured to simultaneously test at least one additional autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technologies, test results for the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology, wherein the computing systems generate the test results as hardware or software responses of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology to virtual test sensor data that simulates sensor data for operating conditions associated with a plurality of test scenarios within the virtual test environment; receiving, at one or more processors, information regarding the test results; determining, by one or more processors, an indication of reliability of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology based upon the test results, including compatibility of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology with the at least one additional autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technologies tested; determining, by one or more processors, an accident risk factor based upon the received information regarding the test results and the indication of reliability by analyzing an effect on a risk associated with a potential vehicle accident of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology, wherein the accident risk factor is determined based upon an ability of a version of artificial intelligence of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle technology to avoid collisions without human interaction; determining, by one or more processors, one or more vehicle insurance policy premiums for one or more vehicles based at least in part upon the determined accident risk factor; and causing, by one or more processors, information regarding the one or more vehicle insurance policies to be presented to one or more customers for review. | 29,068 |
8,386,446 | 1. A storage system for maintaining a central index for performing search requests received from a plurality of clients, the storage system comprising: a shared storage for storing a management system comprising a plurality of data containers and the central index comprising index data describing each data container in the management system, the central index comprising a content index and a metadata index, the index data comprising content index data stored in the content index and metadata index data stored in the metadata index, the index data used for performing search requests on the data containers; and a storage operating system configured for periodically updating the central index by: | 20,379 |
9,130,957 | 1. A data communication apparatus comprising: a communication unit which transmits a transmission frame and receives a reception frame via a plurality of networks; a first storage unit which stores a first identifier indicating which physical communication unit has received the reception frame or a second identifier indicating which physical communication unit transmits the transmission frame; a first processing unit which performs, using hardware, network protocol processing on the reception frame and writes the first identifier to the first storage unit, and performs, using hardware, network protocol processing on the transmission frame and reads the second identifier from the first storage unit; and a second processing unit which performs, using software, network protocol processing on the transmission frame and writes the second identifier to the first storage unit, and perform, using software, network protocol processing on the reception frame and reads the first identifier from the first storage unit, wherein the communication unit includes a plurality of communication units for performing transmission and reception with the plurality of different networks, the first identifier is an identifier indicating a communication unit which receives a frame, the second identifier is an identifier indicating a communication unit which transmits a frame, the first processing unit stores the first identifier in association with an address of the memory in which the reception frame is stored, the second processing unit reads the first identifier and the reception frame from the first storage unit, generates the transmission frame as a response to the reception frame, stores the first identifier as the second identifier in association with an address of the memory in which the transmission frame is stored; and the plurality of communication units are physical communication units, the first processing unit identifies a communication unit which has received the reception frame, generates an identifier corresponding to the identified communication unit and writes the generated identifier as the first identifier to the first storage unit. | 18,804 |
8,497,422 | 1. A light concentration device, comprising: a plate including two principal faces defining a thickness of the plate and an edge between the two principal faces, a refractive index gradient existing along the thickness of the plate; and a diffraction grating functioning in reflection or semi-reflection that cooperates with one of the principal faces of the plate having a highest refractive index, the principal face having a lowest refractive index forming a front entry face for the light, at least one exit zone for the light being disposed on the edge. | 5,945 |
9,245,952 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first semiconductor region formed as a doped region overlying the semiconductor substrate; a drift region formed as a first doped region of a first conductivity type within the first semiconductor region and overlying the semiconductor substrate, the drift region having a first doping concentration; a first drain region formed as a second doped region of the first conductivity type within the drift region, the first drain region having a second doping concentration that is greater than the first doping concentration; a second drain region of the first conductivity type within the first drain region, the second drain region having a third doping concentration that is greater than the second doping concentration; a body region of a second conductivity type in the first semiconductor region and spaced laterally apart from the drift region; a source region of the first conductivity type in the body region; and a buried region of the second conductivity type underlying the source region, at least a portion of the body region, and at least a portion of the drift region but not underlying the first drain region and the second drain region. | 17,819 |
8,926,730 | 1. A method for extracting gold selectively from its acidic chloride-based aqueous solution or solid-containing slurry by solvent extraction to produce pure gold, comprising using a diester of 2,2,4-trialkyl-1,3-pentanediol as an organic extraction reagent in solvent extraction; a gold-bearing organic solution that is formed is scrubbed with an acidic aqueous solution, after which gold is stripped into water, from where it is reduced to form pure gold. | 24,138 |
8,855,141 | 1. A method for utilizing metadata to detect user datagram protocol (UDP) packet traffic loss, the method comprising: generating, at a UDP traffic generation module, a plurality of UDP packets associated with a UDP stream, wherein origination information corresponding to the UDP traffic generation module is included in a payload in each of the plurality of UDP packets; receiving, at a UDP traffic receiver module, at least one of the plurality of UDP packets associated with the UDP stream that traverses through a device under test (DUT); transmitting, from the UDP traffic receiver module to the UDP traffic generation module, recipient information that identifies the UDP traffic receiver module as the receiver of the UDP stream; and receiving, at the UDP traffic receiver module via a secondary communication pathway that bypasses the DUT, stream verification metrics from the UDP traffic generation module, wherein the secondary communication pathway includes a connection link in which data communicated between the UDP traffic generation module and the UDP traffic receiver module is not lost due to the transmission process associated with the secondary communication pathway. | 37,067 |
9,127,196 | 1. A tin phosphate glass essentially having a chemical formula of Sn 3 (PO 4 ) 4 containing embedded luminescent material particles, wherein the luminescent material particles comprise luminescent material including Mα A β B Σ 3 :Eu 2+ , wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr or Ba, wherein α is selected from the group consisting of Al or (Al, Ga), wherein β is selected from the group consisting of Si or (Si, Ge), wherein Σ is selected from the group consisting of N or (N, O) and wherein A+B=2. | 35,065 |
9,009,213 | 1. A computer-implemented method for distributing pre-rendering processing tasks, the method comprising: mapping visual pre-rendering data processing tasks in a real-time visualization to a visualization processing model, the real-time visualization involving data from a backend system to be rendered by a frontend system; receiving a processing cost model derived from frontend system processing-node information, the cost model computing a cost based at least in part on one or more visual operators determined from a decomposition of a particular visual pre-rendering data processing task during the mapping; determining, using the mapped data processing tasks and the models, an execution plan for the real-time visualization; and for each of the mapped data processing tasks, and according to the determined execution plan, assigning the backend system or the frontend system to perform the task. | 22,048 |
8,552,587 | 1. A power conversion system, comprising: a plurality of direct current (DC) power sources; a plurality of energy packet generators, each energy packet generator being connected to a corresponding DC power source to receive power from the corresponding DC power source and to selectively generate an electrical energy packet, and each energy packet generator comprising a first switching stage in electrical communication with the corresponding DC power source; an energy packet combiner configured to combine electrical energy packets from the plurality of energy packet generators; a second switching stage located electrically between the first switching stage and the energy packet combiner; an intermediate charge storage stage located between the first switching stage and the second switching stage; and a controller in electrical communication with each energy packet generator and the energy packet combiner to control the generation and combination of electrical energy packets. | 28,086 |
8,838,419 | 1. A method for simulating machining of an object by a motion of a tool, wherein the object is represented by a boundary representation (BP) object, wherein the BP object includes a boundary representation of a surface of the object, wherein the motion is represented by a set of swept volumes, wherein the set of swept volumes includes a first set of implicit functions defining, a surface of the set of swept volumes, comprising the steps of: determining a proxy object having a second set of implicit functions defining a surface of the proxy object; simulating the machining of the proxy object, with the set of swept volumes to produce a machined proxy (MP) object having a third set of implicit functions defining a surface of the MP object; rendering an image of a Boolean intersection between the MP object and the BP object, wherein steps of the method are performed by a processor. | 26,066 |
9,595,490 | 1. A 3D system-level packaging method, comprising: providing a packaging substrate having a upper functional surface and a bottom functional surface with wiring arrangement within the packaging substrate and between the upper functional surface and the bottom functional surface; forming at least one flip package layer on the upper functional surface of the packaging substrate, wherein a flip package layer of the at least one flip package layer is formed by subsequently forming a first flip mounting layer with a first functional surface including one or more chips and one or more passive devices, an underfill, a first sealant layer encapsulating the first flip mounting layer, and a first wiring layer, forming at least one wiring and package layer on the flip package layer, wherein a wiring and package layer of the at least one wiring and package layer is formed by subsequently: planting connection balls on the bottom functional surface of the packaging substrate. | 42,795 |
9,460,591 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a security management system, an event from a first security system of a plurality of security systems associated with the security management system, wherein each security system of the plurality of security systems includes one or more sensors or cameras; in response to receiving the event, determining a group of rules for the first security system, wherein the group of rules are specified by an owner of the first security system; applying the determined group of rules to the event, wherein each rule describes a particular notification response for a corresponding event type including one or more contacts, wherein each event type has one or more associated rules that each identify one or more criteria for sending a respective event notification to one or more contacts and identify a corresponding ordering of contact notifications associated with the rule based on the criteria, and wherein applying the group of rules includes determining one or more rules for the event and for each of the one or more determined rules: determining at least a first contact to notify in response to the received event from a collection of contacts, wherein an identity of the first contact is specified by the owner and varies depending on the applicable rules of the group of rules, and wherein at least two rules of the group of rules specify distinct first contacts, and wherein one or more rules of the group of rules specify multiple first contacts; transmitting an event notification to at least the first contact; performing a security action based on feedback from one or more of the determined contacts wherein transmitting an event notification includes transmitting, to at least the first contact, location information of other contacts of the collection of contacts; and wherein performing a security action based on feedback includes receiving an instruction from the first contact transferring the event notification to another contact. | 45,987 |
9,202,647 | 1. A switching controller for a plurality of circuit breakers, to which at least one of electrical quantities of the system voltage and main circuit current, state quantity of the circuit breakers, and at least one of an opening command signal and closing command signal for the circuit breakers, are input, and which, at a desired phase of the system voltage or main circuit current, controls the opening command signal to open one or more of the circuit breakers, or controls the closing command signal to close one or more of the circuit breakers, comprising: a first area which performs arithmetic operations, when the opening/closing command signal of each circuit breaker has been input, to determine an individual synchronous closing delay time for the closing command signal or an individual synchronous opening delay time for the opening command signal at the desired phase of the system voltage or main circuit current; a second area which controls delay of the closing command signal based on the synchronous closing delay time, or controls delay of the opening command signal based on the synchronous opening delay time when the opening/closing command signal has been determined by the first area, and outputs each of these delay-controlled opening/closing command signals to each corresponding circuit breaker; and a third area, which is a communication unit for communicating with a display operation device which displays and stores synchronous switching control related data including main circuit current waveforms and system voltage waveforms before and after the switching operation of the circuit breaker, stroke waveforms of the circuit breaker, switching operation time of the circuit breaker and state quantity of the circuit breaker, wherein: the second area has plural switching command control units which control delay of the opening command signal or closing command signal, and the number of the switching command control units is the same as that of the circuit breakers to be controlled, and the second area has one input/output unit common to the switching command control units, and the input/output unit includes a digital output circuit for failure alarm contact, an LED control circuit for an LED to indicate power ON and an LED to indicate a failure alarm. | 47,340 |
9,036,613 | 1. A wireless network interface circuit, adapted to be coupled to a computing device for conveying data to and from the computing device wirelessly over a common wireless medium shared by a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a wireless personal area network (PAN), the circuit comprising: a processor; a wireless interface; and storage configured to store: logic for communicating, wirelessly over a specified frequency range with an access point of a first wireless network being an IEEE 802.1 lx network; logic for communicating with a node of a second wireless network as a network controller, wherein the second wireless network operates using protocols that are only partially compliant with frame formatting layer protocols of the first wireless network but wherein at least some portion of an overlay protocol is partially compliant with the frame formatting layer protocol used on the WLAN such that a WLAN device can process at least a part of a packet sent using the overlay protocol, and wherein the overlay protocol comprises a protocol having WLAN frame formats, or modifications thereof, such that WLAN devices can, upon receiving an overlay protocol frame, understand at least enough of the overlay protocol frame to defer use of the common wireless networking medium; logic for a convergence layer between an IEEE 802.1 lx stack and different drivers to enable multi-protocol support, expose and coordinate access to specific Media Access Control (MAC) service primitives and coordinate priority handling in Quality-of-Service (QoS) sensitive applications; and logic for: determining end of an inactivity time agreed to by a wireless PAN device sharing the common wireless medium with the computing device, where the wireless network interface circuit is configured to coordinate traffic between the WLAN and the wireless PAN using an overlay PAN protocol that is at least partially compatible with WLAN protocol; enabling a coordination function following the end of the inactivity time; transmitting, using the coordination function, frames detectable by an access point of the WLAN, the frames modified for PAN traffic and configured to signal a request for the WLAN to defer access by one or more WLAN devices to the common wireless medium for a reservation period; and during the reservation period and after the end of the inactivity time, communicating, by way of the wireless interface, with the wireless PAN device over the common wireless medium. | 6,348 |
9,765,759 | 1. A solar thermal power station using a water-free or water-containing salt as a heat transfer fluid (HTF), comprising: a first circuit containing the HTF; a second circuit containing steam to drive generators; and a heat exchanger connecting the first and second circuits, where the first circuit comprises: | 13,719 |
9,133,748 | 1. A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine comprising: a controller that detects an amount of particulates derived from operation of the internal combustion engine, inside of an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine, based on an output of a particulate sensor arranged downstream of a SCR system arranged in the exhaust path, and that controls a temperature of an element portion of the particulate sensor, wherein when a cumulative value of a time for which the particulate sensor is used in a specific operating state in which urea related substances are discharged to a downstream side of the SCR system reaches a reference time after detection of the particulate amount by the particulate sensor has started this time, the controller performs control to increase the temperature of the element portion of the particulate sensor to a first temperature range that is a temperature that is higher than a temperature at which the urea related substances decompose, and lower than a temperature at which the particulates are burned off. | 22,153 |
9,416,337 | 1. A process for preparing esters from fatty alcohols and fatty acids comprising the steps: reaction of fatty alcohols of the formula R removal of the water formed during the reaction after the reaction equilibrium is achieved; and completion of the reaction under reduced pressure at a temperature in the range of 50 to 80° C. wherein the lipase is used in an immobilized form. | 42,480 |
9,266,074 | 1. A mixing device, comprising: a chamber including a main body, an inlet, and a flow axis, the main body configured for containing a fluid circulating generally along the flow axis, the inlet configured to receive at least one fluid stream, and the inlet being oriented in a flow plane generally perpendicular to the flow axis; at least three mixing channels that each receive portions of the at least one fluid stream from the inlet, the at least three mixing channels each oriented along the flow plane and each having an unequal distinct length configured to release the portions of the at least one fluid stream into the chamber at discrete time intervals, a plurality of exits wherein one exit corresponds to each of the at least three mixing channels, each exit being located at a different distance from the inlet. | 40,787 |
9,087,496 | 1. A hybrid musical instrument comprising: an instrument shell; a multilayer instrument head comprising: a rim sized to engage the instrument shell and secure the multilayer instrument head to the instrument shell; a plurality of tension rods for adjustably securing the rim to the instrument shell; and an electronics module secured to the instrument shell and operably connected to the force sensing resistor through the contact tail. | 43,909 |
8,900,762 | 1. A fuel cell, comprising: an electricity generator configured to generate electricity based on an electrochemical reaction; a fuel container configured to store a raw fuel; a recovering unit configured to mix i) the raw fuel, ii) an unreacted fuel which has not participated in the electrochemical reaction, and iii) water produced from the electrochemical reaction so as to produce mixed fuel, and supply the mixed fuel to the electricity generator; and an oxygen provider configured to supply oxygen to the electricity generator, wherein the recovering unit comprises: | 31,628 |
9,812,565 | 1. An n-channel double diffusion MOS transistor, comprising: a p-type layer; an n-type buried layer provided in the p-type layer; a p-type body layer provided in a surface portion of the p-type layer; an n-type source layer provided in the p-type body layer and defining a double diffusion structure together with the p-type body layer; an n-type drift layer provided in a surface portion of the p-type layer in spaced relation from the p-type body layer to define a channel region between the n-type source layer and the n-type drift layer; an n-type drain layer provided in a surface portion of the p-type layer in spaced relation from the channel region and in contact with the n-type drift layer; a p-type buried layer buried in the p-type layer between the n-type drift layer and the n-type buried layer and provided in a region including regions directly under the n-type drift layer and the n-type drain layer, the p-type buried layer being absent from a region present under the p-type body layer, the p-type buried layer having a lower impurity concentration than the n-type buried layer, the p-type buried layer being in contact with an upper surface of the n-type buried layer; a gate insulation film provided in a surface of the p-type layer on the channel region; and a gate electrode provided in opposed relation to the channel region with intervention of the gate insulation film, wherein an upper surface of the p-type buried layer is spaced from the n-type drift layer, and the p-type layer is partly present between the p-type buried layer and the n-type drift layer such that the p-type layer separates the n-type drift layer and the p-type buried layer, whereby the n-type drift layer is not in contact with the p-type buried layer. | 12,976 |
8,869,889 | 1. A method for recovering a fuel material deposit from a formation, the method comprising: providing a combustion fuel and an oxidant into a combustor positioned above ground; combusting the combustion fuel to provide a CO expanding the CO injecting at least a portion of the CO | 38,804 |
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