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9,144,916 | 1. A method of using a tire bead removing system comprising: a support frame; an elongate roller, operatively coupled with the support frame such that a length of the roller extends outwardly from the support frame; a punch arm assembly, operatively coupled with the support frame such that the punch arm assembly is positioned adjacent the elongate roller; the punch arm assembly including a punch blade operatively coupled with a punch power cylinder that, when actuated, advances and retracts the punch blade in a linear direction; and a controller, operatively coupled with the punch power cylinder, that selectively actuates the punch power cylinder and causes the punch blade to move between advanced and retracted positions; the method comprising: positioning a tire on the tire bead removing system, such that the elongate roller and punch arm assembly at least partially penetrate a central opening in the tire, the tire is at least partially supported on the elongate roller, and the punch blade is positioned adjacent a sidewall of the tire; advancing the punch blade so that it penetrates the sidewall of the tire to form a first sidewall cut; retracting the punch blade so that it fully withdraws from within the sidewall; rotating the elongate roller and the tire; advancing the punch blade so that it penetrates the sidewall of the tire to form a second sidewall cut; retracting the punch blade so that it fully withdraws from within the sidewall; repeating the steps of advancing and retracting the punch blade and rotating the elongate roller and tire until a succession of sidewall cuts free a portion of the sidewall containing a tire bead from the tire. | 869 |
8,440,376 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising: acquiring, as a mask pattern map, a deviation amount distribution of a two-dimensional shape parameter between a mask pattern formed on a mask and a desired mask pattern; determining, such that a deviation amount of the two-dimensional shape parameter between a pattern on substrate formed when the mask is subjected to exposure shot to form a pattern on a substrate and a desired pattern on substrate fits within a predetermined range, an exposure for each position in the exposure shot in forming the pattern on substrate based on the mask pattern map; and exposing the mask based on the determined exposure to form a pattern on the substrate. | 17,745 |
8,676,701 | 1. A credit card usage management system, comprising: extraction means for extracting, before a timing on which a billing subject of a periodic settlement is extracted, pieces of statement data that have not been settled and are stored in storage means for storing a statement data history including a used amount of a credit card and an available credit for the credit card in association with identification information on the credit card; identification means for identifying pieces of statement data selected by a user from among the pieces of statement data extracted by the extraction means, based on data received from a user terminal; settlement request transmitting means for transmitting a settlement request to settle a total amount of the used amounts respectively included in the pieces of statement data identified by the identification means by using a settlement method designated by the user, to a settlement processing server corresponding to the settlement method; available credit updating means for adding the total amount to the available credit stored in the storage means when a completion notification of a settlement based on the settlement request is received from the settlement processing server; and periodic settlement request transmitting means for transmitting, after the timing on which the billing subject of the periodic settlement is extracted, a settlement request to settle at least a part of a total amount of the used amounts respectively included in the pieces of statement data that have not been settled and are stored in the storage means by using a predetermined settlement method associated with identification information of the credit card, to a predetermined settlement processing server corresponding to the predetermined settlement method. | 49,309 |
9,484,708 | 1. A laser module comprising: a light source device having a first amplifier that outputs first output light, and a second amplifier that outputs second output light; a first drive circuit that supplies the first amplifier with a first drive current on which a dither signal is superimposed; a first monitoring circuit that detects the current supplied to the first amplifier; a second drive circuit that supplies the second amplifier with a second drive current; a second monitoring circuit that detects the second drive current; a light receiving element that receives part of the first output light and the second output light; an optical output monitoring circuit that detects the intensity of the light received by the light receiving element; and a processing circuit that controls the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit, wherein the processing circuit obtains a correlation between the first drive current and the intensity of the first output light from the output from the first monitoring circuit and the output from the optical output monitoring circuit, computes from the correlation the first drive current by which the average of the first output light is made equal to a predetermined value, causes the computed first drive current to be supplied to the first drive circuit, and causes the second drive current to be supplied to the second drive circuit so that the average of the output from the optical output monitoring circuit is constant. | 25,291 |
8,357,441 | 1. An ignition resistant carbonate polymer composition comprising: (i) an aromatic polycarbonate or an aromatic polyester carbonate, (ii) a graft polymer, (iii) optionally one or more thermoplastic vinyl (co)polymer, (iv) optionally one or more thermoplastic polyester polymer, (v) an aromatic phosphorous compound represented by the formula I: wherein, R X denotes a mono- or polynuclear aromatic radical having 6 to 30 C atoms, n independently of one another is 0 or 1, N represents values from 0 to 30, (vi) a mixture of a fibril forming polytetrafluoroethylene polymer and a fluorothermoplast, and (vii) optionally an hypophosphorous acid metal salt. | 32,165 |
8,925,143 | 1. A fluid system for a cleaning machine having a floor-treating brush or disk rotatably driven by a motor and a surrounding ring-shaped rim, comprising: a conduit for supplying washing liquid; a vacuum suction duct for collecting washing liquid; a disk-shaped bottom part having substantially radially extending vacuum ducts located above the brush or disk; a bottom cover releasably connected to the bottom part for reaching the substantially radially extending vacuum ducts; and nozzles connected to the vacuum suction duct along a periphery of the bottom part and bottom cover, wherein the nozzles are configured for collecting washing liquid. | 49,657 |
9,441,936 | 1. A method for automated part probing of a fixture plate with a machining system, the method comprising: automatically selecting a first and second virtual part model from a plurality of virtual part models based on optimization of a set of manufacturing parameters, wherein the first and second virtual part model are associated with a first and second user account, respectively; automatically selecting a first and second standard virtual fixture from a plurality of standard virtual fixtures based on the first and second virtual part models, respectively; automatically generating a virtual fixture assembly comprising a first and second virtual part precursor, corresponding to the first and second virtual part models, respectively, fixed to a standard virtual fixture plate by the first and second standard virtual fixtures, respectively; generating fixturing instructions to fix a first and second physical part precursor to a standard physical fixture plate using a first and second standard physical fixture to form a physical fixture assembly corresponding to the virtual fixture assembly, wherein the first and second physical part precursors correspond to the first and second virtual part precursors, respectively, the first and second standard physical fixtures correspond to the first and second standard virtual fixtures, respectively, and the physical standard fixture plate corresponds to the standard virtual fixture plate; generating probing instructions for the physical fixture assembly based on the virtual fixture assembly and a predetermined work coordinate system; generating expected probe outputs based on the virtual fixture assembly; controlling the machining system to execute the probing instructions on the physical fixture assembly; receiving actual probe outputs from the machining system for the physical fixture assembly; and validating the physical fixture assembly based on the actual probe outputs and the expected probe outputs. | 33,539 |
9,284,767 | 1. A side spoiler arrangement for a driven tailgate of a motor vehicle having a rear window with a window frame, the side spoiler arrangement comprising: an integrally formed spoiler element configured to be arranged along a lateral edge of the rear window, and the spoiler element is non-detachably fixed to the window frame, the spoiler element having a first section portion and a second section portion, with an outer contour defined between the first section portion and the second section portion, the second section portion spaced apart from a side wall of a body of the motor vehicle and forming a recess below the outer contour of the spoiler element; and at least one obstruction sensor device configured to be coupled to a drive of the tailgate and fastened to the spoiler element within the recess. | 33,369 |
9,399,455 | 1. a device for controlling a distribution of drive force in a hybrid four-wheel drive vehicle, the device for the hybrid vehicle including an engine and an electric motor as motive power sources and having as travel modes an electric motor operating mode in which the electric motor generates drive force and either only a drive force of the electric motor is directed to drive wheels or the drive force of the electric motor and drive force generated by the engine are both directed to the drive wheels, and an electric motor non-operating mode in which the electric motor does not generate drive force and only a drive force generated by the engine is directed to the drive wheels, a drive force amount, which is part of the drive force sent from the motive power sources to drive wheels, and which is equivalent to a drive force distribution command value established according to an estimated value of the drive force sent to the drive wheels, is directed to driven wheels by a four-wheel drive engaging device of which an engaging capacity is controlled so that the drive force amount equivalent to the drive force distribution command value can be transmitted, and in the electric motor non- operating mode, the drive force amount equivalent to the drive force distribution command value is increased by a safety margin to compensate for four-wheel drive performance, the device for controlling the distribution of drive force comprising: a driven wheel drive force distribution reference command value calculator configured to determine a driven-wheel-oriented drive force distribution reference command value from the estimated value of the drive force sent to the drive wheels and a drive force reference distribution ratio; and a driven wheel drive force distribution command value calculator configured to determine a driven-wheel-oriented drive force distribution command value by correcting the driven wheel drive force distribution reference command value by a correction amount that differs between the electric motor operating mode and the electric motor non-operating mode, and to make the correction amount for the electric motor operating mode greater than the correction amount for the electric motor non-operating mode. | 35,538 |
9,137,898 | 1. A method of assembling a printed circuit board (PCB) having first and second electrical pads on first and second opposed surfaces, respectively, the PCB having at least one via running from the first surface through the PCB to the second surface, the method comprising: providing a component comprising: electrically coupling the first and second terminals of the component to the first and second electrical pads, respectively. | 1,329 |
8,377,841 | 1. A catalyst material prepared according to the steps of: providing a substrate component having a surface; producing on said surface of said substrate component a second component having metallic crystalline particles and a structure lacking crystallinity; and removing selectively from said surface of said substrate component at least some of said metallic crystalline particles, leaving associated with said substrate component at least a portion of said structure lacking crystallinity; whereby said remaining structure lacking crystallinity associated with said substrate component exhibits catalytic activity. | 45,309 |
9,303,876 | 1. An air and fuel injection system for the back end wall of a turbomachine's annular combustion chamber, comprising: at least two coaxial fuel injecting devices, said two coaxial fuel injecting devices including a central injector and a peripheral annular injector, the central injector emerging in a first channel designed for admission of a first air stream and having an aft outlet opened in a downstream direction for ejecting said first air stream so that said first air stream will mix in said injection system with fuel from said central injector, the peripheral annular injector including at least one fuel ejection aperture made in a first annular wall and emerging in a peripheral annular channel separated from said first channel by said first annular wall, said first annular wall externally delimiting said aft outlet of the first channel, and said peripheral annular channel having an annular space of admission of a second air stream intended to be blended in said peripheral annular channel with fuel delivered by said peripheral injector; and multiple air ejection apertures traversing said first annular wall so as to open in said first channel and in said peripheral annular channel downstream from said at least one fuel ejection aperture in reference to the flow of the second air stream for an additional injection of air from said first channel into said peripheral annular channel, wherein said first channel includes an external annular channel and an internal channel, where said external annular channel is installed around a second a annular wall separating the external annular channel from said internal channel, and wherein said central injector emerges into said internal channel, and wherein said second annular wall has on its internal face a convergent-divergent profile intended for aspiration by a venturi effect of a film of fuel from said central injector, and the second annular wall has at its downstream end an annular lip intended for spraying said fuel film under the effect of a flow of a part of the first air stream admitted into the external annular channel. | 47,621 |
9,285,161 | 1. A refrigerator appliance, comprising: a refrigeration compartment; a condenser; an evaporator in thermal communication with the compartment; a refrigerant; a multi-capacity compressor with a maximum capacity, a minimum capacity, and a nominal capacity; a refrigerant circuit arranged to allow flow of the refrigerant between the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor, the circuit comprising a primary evaporator conduit arranged between the condenser and the evaporator; a primary pressure reducing device arranged within the primary evaporator conduit; a valve system in the evaporator conduit capable of selectively directing or restricting flow of the refrigerant through the evaporator conduit; a controller for controlling the valve system and the compressor to maintain the refrigeration compartment at any of a plurality of selectable temperatures, wherein the controller is further adapted to operate the compressor upon the initiation of a compressor ON-cycle at a priming capacity above the nominal capacity for a priming duration that is predetermined or calculated; and a sensor coupled to the refrigeration compartment that generates a signal indicative of the temperature in the refrigeration compartment, and wherein the priming duration is calculated based at least in part on an evaluation of the temperature in the refrigeration compartment. | 2,757 |
8,967,752 | 1. An inkjet recording device comprising: a tray configured to receive a recording medium; a tray guide movable between: a first sensor configured to output a first signal indicative of the position of the tray guide; a recording portion configured to record an image on the recording medium; a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the recording portion; a first conveyor portion disposed downstream of the recording portion and upstream of the tray guide as viewed from rear to front direction and configured to convey the tray along the conveying path in a first direction from the recording portion to the tray guide and in a second direction that is reverse to the first direction; a first drive source configured to rotate in a forward direction of rotation and a reverse direction of rotation; a power transmitting portion configured to: a control section configured to: | 9,123 |
9,054,381 | 1. A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion battery having the composition formula Si a Sn b Ni c Ti y M m C z , wherein a, b, c, y, m and z represent atomic % values, wherein M is either one or more of Fe, Cr and Co, and wherein a>0, b>0, z>0, y≧0, 0≦m≦1, c>5, z+0.5*b >a and c +y>0.75*b. | 41,117 |
8,389,527 | 1. A compound according to formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R R R R R R R R provided that if R R R then R wherein: said heterocyclo is a fully saturated or unsaturated, aromatic or nonaromatic cyclic group, which is a 4 to 7 membered monocyclic, 7 to 11 membered bicyclic, or 10 to 15 membered tricyclic ring system, which has at least one heteroatom selected from nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur in at least one carbon atom-containing ring; said heterocyclo may be attached at any heteroatom or carbon atom; said heteroaryl is a 4 to 7 membered monocyclic, 7 to 11 membered bicyclic, or 10 to 15 membered tricyclic aromatic ring system, which has at least one heteroatom selected from nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur and at least one carbon atom-containing ring; and said heterocyclo and heteroaryl are substituted with one to four substituents selected from alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, arylalkyl, arylalkyloxy, halo, haloalkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, oxo, alkanoyl, aryloxy, alkanoyloxy, amino, alkylamino, arylamino, arylalkylamino, disubstituted amines in which the 2 amino substituents are selected from alkyl, aryl or arylalkyl; alkanoylamino, aroylamino, aralkanoylamino, substituted alkanoylamino, substituted arylamino, substituted aralkanoylamino, thiol, alkylthio, arylthio, arylalkylthio, alkylthiono, arylthiono, arylalkylthiono, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, arylalkylsulfonyl, sulfonamido, substituted sulfonamido, ureido, nitro, cyano, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, carbamyl, substituted carbamyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryl, substituted aryl, guanidino, and heterocyclyl, and substituted heterocyclyl. | 38,360 |
9,539,912 | 1. A battery control system for a vehicle comprising: a traction battery including a plurality of cells; and at least one controller programmed to generate open-loop and closed-loop model parameter estimates for the traction battery and, in response to detecting that a persistent excitation condition and an estimation convergence condition are satisfied, change from operating the traction battery according to an open-loop estimate derived state of charge to a closed-loop estimate derived state of charge. | 31,950 |
9,331,560 | 1. A heat engine, comprising: a hot cylinder with a hot air piston and a cold cylinder with a cold air piston; a timing crank coupled to the hot air piston and the cold air piston, the timing crank configured to synchronize air flow; and a regenerator having a first port for receiving a heating stream of air, a second port for receiving a cooling stream of air, a third port for exhausting a combined mixture of air streams, wherein the combined mixture includes a hot cylinder air mixture and a cold cylinder air mixture, a fourth port configured for reversibly exchanging the hot cylinder air mixture between the hot cylinder and the regenerator, a fifth port for reversibly exchanging the cold cylinder air mixture between the cold air cylinder and the regenerator, wherein the timing crank, pistons, the heating stream of air, and the cooling stream of air create cyclic flow, compression, and temperature gradients within in the regenerator in response to the heating stream of air and the cooling stream of air. | 40,135 |
9,746,796 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a first image forming unit for forming toner images on a first photosensitive body; a second image forming unit for forming toner images on a second photosensitive body; a first exposure unit for exposing the first photosensitive body; a second exposure unit for exposing the second photosensitive body; a transfer unit for transferring, onto an intermediate transfer belt, toner images for correction formed by the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit; a detection unit for detecting the toner images for correction; and a control unit for controlling an exposure cycle of the first exposure unit, wherein the control unit corrects the exposure cycle of the first exposure unit based on a detected consequence of the detection unit, wherein the detection unit detects a shifting amount of the toner image for correction formed by the first image forming unit with respect to the toner image for correction formed by the second image forming unit, and wherein the control unit corrects the exposure cycle of the first exposure unit where the shifting amount exceeds a preset threshold value, and wherein the control unit corrects the exposure cycle of the first exposure unit by multiplying a value of the shifting amount divided by the threshold value by an initial value of the exposure cycle of the first exposure unit. | 39,282 |
8,808,429 | 1. A method for reclaiming one or more CO 2 absorbing chemical(s) from a lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent leaving a regeneration column in which CO 2 has been released, or desorbed, from the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent, and the released CO 2 is withdrawn from a top of a regeneration column for further treatment, and the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent, or CO 2 depleted absorbent, is collected at a bottom of the regeneration column and withdrawn therefrom, where at least a part of the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent leaving the regeneration column is introduced into a reboiler where the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent is heated to generate steam and vaporized absorbent that is introduced into the regeneration column as stripping gas, where the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent is withdrawn and is returned to an absorption column, and where a part of the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent is withdrawn and introduced into a reclaimer in which the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent is boiled to generate a gas phase that is withdrawn and returned into the regeneration column as reclaimed absorbent, and a liquid phase containing impurities, heat stable salts, and degradation products from absorbing chemical(s) and other chemicals that are withdrawn from the reclaimer for deposition, wherein the lean aqueous CO 2 absorbent withdrawn from the regeneration column is flashed to generate a vapour that is compressed and returned into the regeneration column as stripper gas, and a liquid phase that is returned to the absorption column, where the gaseous phase that is withdrawn from the reclaimer is compressed together with a vapour part from flashing of the lean absorbent, to generate a pressure in the reclaimer that is lower than a pressure in the regeneration column. | 27,870 |
9,397,552 | 1. A system comprising: a converter configured to a snubber circuit connected across the node and a junction of the inductance and the switch, wherein the snubber circuit is configured to, in response to the switch being turned off, wherein a sum of the second current and the first portion of the third current flows through the load, wherein the snubber circuit includes a capacitance connected in parallel to a resistance, wherein a second portion of the third current charges the capacitance in response to the switch being turned off, and wherein the capacitance discharges through the resistance in response to the switch being subsequently turned on. | 7,244 |
9,717,768 | 1. A method for restraining or retarding progress of, or treating, infectious diseases caused by one or more Salmonella bacteria selected from the group consisting of Salmonella choleraesuis, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella derby, Salmonella infantis, Salmonella Newport , and combinations thereof, comprising administering a bacteriophage identified by accession number KCCM11208P to animals in need thereof. | 6,065 |
9,177,227 | 1. A method comprising: identifying scale invariant features in at least one image by matching a specific vector among a dataset consisting of a plurality of vectors, wherein the vectors represent scale invariant features, comprising: i. Selecting a reference point vector, wherein the reference point vector is selected among the data set; ii. Calculating the distances, d, between said reference point vector and each of the vectors of the data set; iii. Re-arranging the plurality of vectors of the data set as a function of ascending distance, d, to the reference point vector; iv. Sorting the vectors of the data set into groups of vectors having the same distance, d v. Subsequently rearranging the vectors of each of the groups of vectors, which comprises more than two vectors, such that the second vector of the group has a minimum distance to the first vector of the group, and each subsequent vector of the group has a minimum distance to the previous vector of the group; vi. Identifying the best match for said specific vector by: a. Calculating the distance, d b. Comparing the calculated distance, d c. Identifying, using successive approximation and based on the distance between the reference point vector and a vector positioned in the middle of the re-arranged plurality of vectors, the group of vectors having vectors with a distance, d, closest to said calculated distance, d d. Identifying the vector or vectors within the identified group or groups having the closest distance, d e. Identifying any additional group with distances, d, from said reference point vector in an interval from the larger of zero and d f. Repeating steps vi.d. and vi.e. until all groups in said interval have been examined. | 36,113 |
8,754,540 | 1. A hydroelectric turbine comprising a stator and a shaftless rotor, the stator defining an opening in which the rotor is housed for rotation; a set of bearings supporting the rotor within the stator, the bearings comprising an array of bearing units on one or the other of the stator and rotor and a corresponding journal on the other of the stator and rotor; wherein the opening is shaped and dimensioned such that the journal only contacts a small arc of the bearing units at any one time to permit the rotor to undergo rotation about a central axis of the rotor and displacement along the circumference of the opening in a direction opposite to that in which the rotor is rotating. | 16,567 |
9,743,942 | 1. An assembly comprising: a control system configured to produce a pulsed magnetic or electrostatic field; an injectable machine, comprising: | 7,182 |
8,865,275 | 1. An optical absorption anisotropic film, wherein content of a liquid crystalline non-colorable low molecular weight compound is 30% by mass or less; and which is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least two types of azo-based dichroic dye having nematic liquid crystallinity; and shows a diffraction peak derived from a periodic structure in a direction parallel to the alignment axis on measurement of X-ray diffraction, wherein the dichroic dye composition comprises at least one type of compound expressed by the formula (Ia), formula (Ib) or formula (II) shown below and at least one type of compound expressed by the formula (III) or formula (IV) shown below; wherein R wherein R wherein m represents an integer of 0 to 2, wherein R wherein R wherein, R in the formula (IIa), * represents a linkage part to L 21 ; X 21 represents a hydroxy group, a substituted or un-substituted alkyl group, a substituted or un-substituted alkoxy group, an un-substituted amino group or a mono or dialkylamino group; Ar 21 s each represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring group optionally having a substituent or aromatic heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent; n represents an integer of 1 to 3, and when n is 2 or more, two Ar 21 s may be mutually the same or different; wherein, R 31 to R 35 each represent independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R 36 and R 37 each represent independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group optionally having a substituent; Q 31 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent or cyclohexane ring group optionally having a substituent; L 31 represents a divalent linking group; A 31 represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; wherein, R 41 and R 42 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and may be mutually linked to form a ring; Ar 4 represents an optionally substituted divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic heterocyclic group; R 43 and R 44 each represent a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, and may be mutually linked to form a hetero ring. | 199 |
9,821,914 | 1. An aircraft air conditioning system, comprising: a process air source, an air conditioning unit being connected to the process air source via a process air line and being adapted to cool and expand process air supplied to the air conditioning unit from the process air source so as to provide conditioned air, a mixing chamber being connected to the air conditioning unit via a conditioned air line and being adapted to mix conditioned air supplied to the mixing chamber from the air conditioning unit with recirculation air recirculated from an aircraft region to be air conditioned to the mixing chamber via a recirculation air line so as to provide mixed air, a mixed air line connecting the mixing chamber to the aircraft region to be air conditioned and supplies mixed air provided by the mixing chamber to the aircraft region to be air conditioned, a supplemental cooling system comprising: at least one heat exchanger that establishes a thermal coupling between the aircraft air conditioning system and the supplemental cooling system to transfer cooling energy provided by the supplemental cooling system to the aircraft air conditioning system, and a control unit that controls the operation of the aircraft air conditioning system and the supplemental cooling system in such a manner that the cooling energy provided by the central refrigerating device of the supplemental cooling system is supplied exclusively to the cooling station of the supplemental cooling system until a change in the cooling performance of the supplemental cooling system over a predetermined period of time falls below a predetermined threshold value, and such that at least a part of the cooling energy provided by the central refrigerating device of the supplemental cooling system is allocated to the aircraft air conditioning system when the change in the cooling performance of the supplemental cooling system over a predetermined period of time has fallen below the predetermined threshold value. | 30,264 |
9,141,162 | 1. An apparatus comprising: power gate logic to couple to control logic, wherein the control logic monitors a first link of a plurality of links, wherein a serial input/output (I/O) interface includes a protocol stack comprising a physical layer and a link layer, wherein resources of the serial I/O interface comprise a first set of resources which, of the plurality of links, is to support communication only via the first link, the power gate logic configured to decouple a link layer resource of the first set of resources from a respective power supply in response to detection by the control logic of a change of a total number of active lanes of the first link, wherein the power gate logic to decouple the link layer resource of the first set of resources from the respective power supply independent of whether another link layer resource of the first set of resources is decoupled from a respective power supply. | 46,779 |
8,413,423 | 1. A catalyst temperature control system comprising: a battery state of charge determination module that determines a state of charge (SOC) of a battery; an electrically heated catalyst (EHC) control module that activates an EHC based on the SOC and based on a determination of whether a vehicle start is anticipated; and a vehicle start anticipation module that determines whether the vehicle start is anticipated by sensing at least one of a plurality of conditions before an ignition switch of a vehicle is turned on, wherein the plurality of conditions include a status of doors of the vehicle, a status of door locks, a status of a trunk of the vehicle, presence of a person in the vehicle, detection of a key fob for the vehicle, and insertion of a key in the ignition switch, wherein the at least one of the plurality of conditions includes the status of the door locks and presence of the person, wherein when one of the doors of the vehicle is unlocked and presence of the person in the vehicle are not detected, the EHC control module selects a first preheating output for the EHC, and wherein when presence of the person in the vehicle is detected, the EHC control module selects a second preheating output for the EHC that is higher than the first preheating output. | 49,492 |
9,273,639 | 1. A system for storing and dispensing a fuel and a ballast fluid comprising: a chamber for storing the fuel; a chamber for storing the ballast fluid; and a heat transfer system including a first heat exchanger, disposed exterior the fuel chamber and exterior the ballast fluid chamber, between the fuel chamber and a fuel outlet and between the ballast fluid chamber and a ballast fluid inlet so that fuel exterior the fuel chamber is used as a refrigerant for ballast fluid exterior the ballast fluid chamber wherein (a) fuel, exterior the fuel chamber, dispensed from the fuel chamber is used exterior the fuel chamber as a refrigerant for ballast fluid, exterior the ballast fluid chamber, received for storage in the ballast fluid chamber and (b) ballast fluid, exterior the ballast fluid chamber and exterior the fuel chamber, dispensed from the ballast fluid chamber is used as a refrigerant exterior the fuel chamber for fuel, exterior the fuel chamber, received for storage in the fuel chamber. | 12,771 |
9,599,041 | 1. A method for determining a type of fuel burned by an engine in a vehicle, the method comprising: obtaining at least two output parameters of an on board diagnostic (OBD) system of the vehicle; generating respective estimates of the fuel type based on the at least two output parameters, using a different fuel type identifying method for each respective estimate; and determining the fuel type based on the respective estimates. | 23,226 |
9,681,170 | 1. An apparatus remote from an external device, comprising: circuitry configured to store pre-registered user identifying information that identifies a user of the external device; store program information pre-registered in advance by the user for transmission to the external apparatus of the user, the program information pre-registered by the user being associated with the user's identifying information and being retrievable in response to receipt from the external device of the user's identifying information; store advertisement information associated with at least some of the stored program information, the stored advertisement information being updated over a time interval; receive a request including at least the user identifying information from the external device via a network; identify the program information associated with and in response to the received user identifying information and identify advertisement information associated with the identified program information; retrieve the identified program information associated with the received user identifying information; retrieve the identified advertisement information associated with the identified program information; transmit the identified program information to the external device in response to the received user identifying information; transmit to the external device the identified advertisement information if that advertisement information is associated with the identified program information, such that the transmitted program information is not used by the external device if advertisement information associated with the program information is not transmitted; and calculate a fee to be charged to a sponsor of the transmitted advertisement information and charging the fee to the sponsor of the advertisement information. | 48,620 |
9,130,447 | 1. A rotor core for use in a superconducting rotating machine, comprising: a substantially hollow cylindrical member made of non-magnetic material, | 39,825 |
9,161,981 | 1. An injectable formulation, comprising: a physiologically effective amount of active ingredient; oil containing the active ingredient; a hydrophilic excipient non-phase separable from the oil; and a lipophilic preservative combined with the hydrophilic excipient, which exhibits higher preservative efficacy, compared to administration of the lipophilic preservative alone, wherein the hydrophilic excipient is at least one selected from the group consisting of propyleneglycol, polyethyleneglycol, polypropyleneglycol, acetic acid, citric acid, dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), N-methylpyrolidone (NMP) and dimethylacetamide (DMA), wherein the lipophilic preservative is at least one selected from the group consisting of: phenol, m-cresol, benzyl alcohol, methyl paraben, propyl paraben, penzalkonium chloride, thiomerosal, chlorobutanol, ethanol and phenoxyethanol, and wherein said formulation is an injectable non-aqueous formulation. | 27,039 |
9,374,501 | 1. A document content registration system comprising: an imaging unit for scanning at least one portion of a form containing content comprising a plurality of fields and corresponding field values which have been filled into said fields, and generating a scanned form; an extraction module for receiving said scanned form from said imaging unit and for extracting only content from said scanned form with field values that have been filled-in, said extraction module dropping out color and background from said scanned form, and generating an extracted image; a template retrieval module for retrieving geometrical features of a master form comprising, at least in part, predetermined anchor fields each corresponding to at least one anchor zone and at least one-anchor segment, said anchor fields and anchor zones having global adjustment parameters comprising scale, rotation and shift and geometrical features which define dimensions of said anchor zones, said master form being a universal form which can be referenced for a plurality of different forms; a comparison module receiving said extracted image from said extraction module and said geometrical features of said master form from said template retrieval module, and comparing geometrical features of said anchor segments of said scanned form with corresponding anchor fields in said master form to create a new geometrical representation of said extracted content of said scanned form; a global registration module for globally adjusting said new geometrical representation of said content based on global adjustment parameters of said anchor fields and anchor zones, said global registration module producing a globally adjusted form; and a local registration module for performing location registration on said globally adjusted form, said registration comprising iteratively adjusting of each of said globally adjusted segments until all segments have been locally adjusted, said adjustment being based on said geometrical features for said content. | 3,545 |
9,199,986 | 1. A method of treating a disease or condition selected from schistosoma infections, infection due to Clonorchis sinensis or Opisthorchis viverrini , cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis , and malaria in a patient in need thereof comprising the step of administering to said patient an effective amount of a compound of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: provided that: the sum of m and n does not exceed 10. | 36,789 |
9,018,725 | 1. An image sensor package, comprising: a crystalline handler having opposing first and second surfaces, the handler including a cavity formed into the first surface and at least one step extending from a sidewall of the cavity, wherein the cavity terminates in an aperture at the second surface; a cover mounted to the second surface and extending over and covering the aperture, wherein the cover is optically transparent to at least one range of light wavelengths; a sensor chip disposed in the cavity, wherein the sensor chip includes: a plurality of electrically conductive traces each formed on and insulated from a surface of the at least one step, a surface of the sidewall of the cavity, and the first surface; and a plurality of electrical connectors disposed between the substrate front surface and the at least one step, wherein each of the electrical connectors is electrically connected between one of the traces and one of the contact pads. | 30,275 |
8,372,490 | 1. A film-formation method for depositing a liquid containing a film material to form a film in a prescribed film formation area enclosed by a partition wall on a substrate, the film-formation method comprising: forming the partition wall using at least in part a wettability-variable material in which wettability with respect to the liquid is variable; depositing the liquid in the film formation area; varying the wettability of the wettability-variable material in the partition wall in a state in which the liquid is disposed within the film formation area so that liquid affinity of the wettability-variable material becomes higher than liquid affinity of the wettability-variable material before the liquid is deposited in the film formation area; and forming the film by solidifying the film material in the liquid. | 8,410 |
8,428,930 | 1. A computer implemented method for emulating execution of Guest processor instructions on a Host processor, the method comprising: responsive to paging a first Guest page comprising Guest instructions into a first Guest memory location of Host processor memory, creating the first Host page in a first Host memory location of Host processor memory, wherein the first Guest page consists of n Guest cell positions, wherein each Guest cell is x bytes, wherein the first Host page consists of n Host cell positions, wherein each Host cell is y bytes, wherein each of said n Guest cell positions is positionally associated with a corresponding one of said n Host cell positions; and loading Host cells with semantic routines for emulating execution of corresponding Guest instructions of first Guest cells, wherein each first Guest cell comprises at least a beginning portion of a Guest instruction. | 5,328 |
9,517,060 | 1. A wound closure device comprising: a first tissue anchor; a first suture filament fixedly coupled to the first tissue anchor at a proximal end and extending along a length to a free distal end; a second tissue anchor; a second suture filament fixedly coupled to the second tissue anchor at a proximal end and extending along a length to a free distal end; wherein the first suture filament forms a slip knot at its proximal end substantially adjacent the first tissue anchor; wherein the second suture filament forms a slip knot at its proximal end substantially adjacent the second tissue anchor; wherein the length of the first suture filament passes through the slip knot of the second suture filament and the length of the second suture filament passes through the slip knot of the first suture filament, and wherein the first and second tissue anchors can be drawn closer together in a direct path to enable point to point fixation of tissue pulling on either the free distal end of the first suture filament, the free distal end of the second suture filament, or both; and wherein the first and second tissue anchors are capable of being drawn together to a point substantially adjacent to one another. | 43,328 |
9,752,594 | 1. A motor of a ceiling fan, comprising: a stator having a shaft and a core, wherein the shaft extends in an axial direction; a rotor having a first housing rotatably coupling with the shaft, wherein the first housing has a first peripheral portion extending in the axial direction and surrounding the shaft, wherein the first peripheral portion is spaced from the shaft in a radial direction perpendicular to the axial direction; and a base having a second housing firmly connecting with the stator, wherein the second housing has a second peripheral portion extending in the axial direction and surrounding the shaft, wherein the second peripheral portion is spaced from the shaft in the radial direction and is located radially inward of the first peripheral portion of the first housing, wherein the core of the stator is positioned between the first and second housings, wherein an air channel communicates an inside and an outside of the motor, wherein the first peripheral portion of first housing partially overlaps with the second peripheral portion of the second housing in the axial direction and is spaced from the second peripheral portion of the second housing by a gap in the radial direction, wherein the gap communicates the inside and the outside of the motor, wherein the air channel includes the gap, and wherein the first housing is rotatable relative to the second housing for generating an air current inside the motor and guiding the air current out of the motor via the air channel. | 12,473 |
8,479,923 | 1. A process for selective separation and simultaneously for increasing the purity of two fragmented spent organic synthetic materials of different densities, mixed with one another and mixed with various contaminants to be removed, with a density of less than or greater than 1, by means of dense aqueous media, in which each aqueous medium has a chosen density “ds” as the threshold for separation of said organic and contaminant materials into two flows, one supernatant and the other being subject to sedimentation; said process is characterized in that it comprises: a) a step of high-density ds(a) separation of the mixture into two flows, one supernatant (a1) and the other being subject to sedimentation (a2) by means of an aqueous medium of which the density ds(a) is chosen as an intermediate value between the densities of each of the organic synthetic materials to be separated, b) a step of low-density ds(b) separation of the compounds of the supernatant flow (a1) by means of an aqueous medium of which the density ds(b) is chosen so as to be below ds(a) so as to remove a supernatant flow (b1) formed buy contaminants and collect a sedimentation flow (b2) formed by fragments of the first spent organic synthetic material to be recycled, c) a step of high-density ds (c) separation which is greater than ds(a) of the compounds of the sedimentation flow (a2) by means of an aqueous medium of which the density ds(c) is chosen so as to be at least equal to the density of the organic synthetic material present in said flow (a2), of which the supernatant flow (c1) is formed by the mixture of fragments of the organic synthetic material with a density ds(c) and contaminant materials with densities between ds(a) and ds(c), and the sedimentation flow (a2) is formed by contaminant materials with a density below ds(c), which is removed, and d) a step of low-density ds(d) separation of the supernatant (c1) by means of an aqueous medium of which the density ds(d) is chosen so as to be less than ds(c), of which the supernatant flow (d1) is formed by contaminant materials with densities between ds(a) and ds(c), and is removed, and of which the sedimentation flow (d2) formed by fragments of the homogeneous spent organic synthetic material, with a density ds(d), is collected to be upgraded. | 43,183 |
9,554,041 | 1. A portable camera, comprising: a housing having a front surface having a first opening and a rear surface having a second opening; first and second camera decorations covering circumferences of the first and second openings, respectively, each of the first and second camera decorations having a donut shape; a first microphone hole positioned at a gap between the front surface of the housing and an outer edge of the first camera decoration; second and third microphone holes positioned at two gaps between the rear surface of the housing and an outer edge of the second camera decoration; a first microphone positioned inside of the first microphone hole; a second microphone positioned inside of the second microphone hole; a third microphone positioned inside of the third microphone hole; an imaging unit mounted inside the housing, the imaging unit including: a main board controlling the imaging unit inside the housing; a battery positioned on a front surface of the main board; and a flexible board having a first part connected to the main board and positioned at a back surface of the battery and a second part positioned at a front surface of the battery, wherein the first microphone is mounted on the flexible board and the second and third microphones are mounted on the main board, and wherein the first, second and third microphone holes are arranged at three vertices of a right angle triangle. | 23,955 |
9,027,946 | 1. A suspension device comprising: a coil spring configured to allow a vehicle body to elastically receive a vertical movement of a wheel, the coil spring including a lower end disposed to face a side of a tire of the wheel; a movement restriction section provided within an inner space of the coil spring in such a manner as to face the side of the tire and configured to restrict a movement of the lower end of the coil spring toward the tire; and a damper inserted into the inner space of the coil spring to damp the vertical movement of the wheel, wherein the lower end of the coil spring is supported by a spring seat attached to the damper, and the movement restriction section is provided in the spring seat. | 32,839 |
9,716,852 | 1. A transmitter device comprising: first to m-th memory cells (m is an integer of 2 or more); first to m-th word lines; a first bit line; an analog circuit; and a second bit line; wherein the i-th word line (i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to m) is electrically connected to the i-th memory cell, wherein the first to m-th memory cells are electrically connected to the analog circuit through the first bit line, wherein the first to m-th memory cells are capable of retaining a potential corresponding to first data, wherein the first to m-th word lines are supplied with a potential corresponding to second data, wherein the analog circuit is capable of performing a multiply-accumulate operation on the first data and the second data, wherein the first data or the second data includes image data, wherein the i-th memory cell comprises: a capacitor; a first transistor; and a second transistor, wherein a first terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor, wherein a second terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the i-th word line, wherein the second bit line is electrically connected to the gate of the first transistor through the second transistor, wherein one of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first bit line, and wherein the second transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising an oxide semiconductor. | 29,475 |
8,580,995 | 1. A compound of formula XIV or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein n is 3 or 4, wherein X and Y, the same or different is selected from the group consisting of H, a straight alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group of 3 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group of 3 to 6 carbon atoms, F, Cl, Br, I, —CF wherein R wherein R | 40,608 |
9,172,298 | 1. A fully-controlled bridge rectifying device with surge suppression function, disposed in a electric equipment, and connected with a EMI filter network, a anti-surge control signal generator configured to output a corresponding anti-surge control signal according to the work state of the electric equipment, and a filter capacitor in the electric equipment, the fully-controlled bridge rectifying device with surge suppression function comprising: a driving module, a first controllable half-bridge module, an isolation driving module, a second controllable half-bridge module, a half-bridge module and a current limiting resistor; wherein an input terminal of the driving module is connected to a DC power supply, a first control terminal and a fourth control terminal of the driving module, and a second control terminal and a third control terminal of the driving module, are respectively connected to a positive output terminal and a negative output terminal of the EMI filter network, a first control terminal and a second control terminal of the first controllable half-bridge module are respectively connected to a first output terminal and a second output terminal of the driving module, an output terminal of the first controllable half-bridge module and a ground terminal of the driving module are connected to a negative terminal of the filter capacitor, a first input terminal of the first controllable half-bridge module, a first input terminal of the second controllable half-bridge module and a first terminal of the half-bridge module are connected to the positive terminal of the EMI filter network, a second input terminal of the first controllable half-bridge module, a second input terminal of the second controllable half-bridge module and a second terminal of the half-bridge module are connected to the negative terminal of the EMI filter network, an output terminal of the second controllable half-bridge module is connected to the positive terminal of the filter capacitor, a control terminal, a first input terminal and a second input terminal of the isolation driving module are respectively connected to the anti-surge control signal generator, the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal of the EMI filter network, an output terminal of the isolation driving module is connected to a control terminal of the second controllable half-bridge module, the current limiting resistor is connected between an output terminal of the half-bridge module and the output terminal of the second controllable half-bridge module; and at the starting moment of the electric equipment, under the control of the driving module, the first controllable half-bridge module cooperates the half-bridge module to rectify the alternative current output from the EMI filter network and then charge the filter capacitor quickly, meanwhile the current limiting resistor suppresses the surge in the alternative current, and the anti-surge control signal make the isolation driving module control the second controllable half-bridge module to shut down; when the electrical equipment work from starting state transits to a stable work state, a work state of the first controllable half-bridge module remains the same, the isolation driving module drive the second controllable half-bridge module to be on under the control of the anti-surge control signal, the second controllable half-bridge module cooperates the first controllable half-bridge module to rectify the alternative current output from the EMI filter network and then provide direct current to the electric equipment, because the second controllable half-bridge module is on, the half-bridge module and the current limiting resistor stop working. | 45,087 |
9,339,771 | 1. A membrane comprising an aggregate filled poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) coating on a porous support, wherein the average thickness of said coating is at most 25 μm, wherein said membrane is a pervaporation membrane, wherein the ratio of aggregate versus poly(1-trimethylsily-1-propyne ranges between 2:1 and 1:2and there is a ethanol/water pervaporation flux and the ethanol/water pervaporation flux through the membrane is at least 2.0 kg/(m 2 ·h) and the membrane has a separation factor wherein the separation factor is at least 7. | 3,137 |
8,756,395 | 1. A method of operation of an integrated circuit controller device that controls a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device comprising an array of DRAM memory cells, the method comprising: providing a value to the DRAM device, wherein the value represents a time at which the DRAM device is ready to receive a command when exiting from a power down mode, wherein the DRAM device stores the value in a programmable register; and providing the command to the DRAM device at the time, wherein the command specifies an access to the array. | 37,833 |
8,836,862 | 1. A method comprising: setting a control mode of a television device; setting a control value to an initial value in response to the setting of the control mode; and restoring the control value to the initial value if a change of the control value is maintained for greater than or equal to a predetermined time, wherein the initial value is changeable. | 8,993 |
9,274,592 | 1. A processor comprising: a first core including a first level one cache and a second core including a second level one cache, the first core to enter a plurality of low power modes, including but not limited to: snoop logic included in the first core to receive an access directed to the first core from another agent, the access directed to the first core from the another agent regardless of a power state of the first core, wherein the snoop logic is to redirect the access to the level two cache in response to the first core being in the second or third low power mode and to direct the access to the first level one cache in response to the first core not being in the second or third low power mode. | 40,737 |
9,113,065 | 1. A network camera for distributing an image to a plurality of receiving apparatuses via a communication network, comprising: an imager which picks up the image; a sender which distributes the image the plurality of receiving apparatuses; a sending monitor which monitors whether or not the image is distributed to a first receiving apparatus designated among the plurality of receiving apparatuses as being monitored, and does not monitor whether or not the image is distributed to a second receiving apparatus not designated among the plurality of receiving apparatuses as being monitored; and an accumulator which accumulates the image via a communication line other than the communication network when the distribution of the image to the first receiving apparatus is interrupted while being monitored by the sending monitor, and does not accumulate the image when the distribution of the image to the second receiving apparatus is interrupted. | 15,100 |
8,901,489 | 1. A spectrometer comprising: a) a wall, that is capable of conducting electricity, that forms an ionization chamber; and b) an ionization source, disposed in the ionization chamber, wherein the ionization source comprises a wire looped between two electrical contacts, and the electrical contacts are configured to pass a current through the wire, wherein said current heats the wire, and wherein a corona is formed when a voltage is applied between the ionization source and the ionization chamber. | 11,981 |
9,334,837 | 1. A microcondenser device for an evaporative emission control system, comprising: a housing having an inlet for receiving fuel vapor and a condensation outlet for discharging condensed fuel vapor; a porous element disposed in the housing and fluidly interposed between the inlet and the condensation outlet for absorbing the fuel vapor received through the inlet: and a thermoelectric element in thermal contact with the porous element for removing heat from the fuel vapor absorbed by the porous element to condense the fuel vapor; wherein the housing has a lower wall and at least one side wall extending upward from the lower wall, the lower wall and the at least one side wall together define a chamber in the housing, the porous element supported by the at least one side wall in spaced relation relative to the lower wall, the porous element received in the chamber, and wherein at least one support baffle supports the porous element within the housing, wherein the at least one supported baffle includes a first baffle and separate second baffle, the first and second baffles defining a condensation chamber located between the condensation outlet and the porous element. | 41,924 |
8,398,754 | 1. A proton conducting membrane comprising, as a main component, a ceramic structure in which an oxygen atom is bonded to a metal atom and to at least one atom of boron, sulfur, phosphorous, carbon or nitrogen, the ceramic structure being made by a sol-gel reaction of an oxygen acid of boron, sulfur, phosphorous, carbon or nitrogen and a precursor of an oxide of the metal in order to obtain a sol-gel reaction product, followed by heating of the sol-gel reaction product at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to 600° C. | 23,109 |
9,349,886 | 1. A solar substrate with high fracture strength, comprising: an upper surface having a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of first recess regions formed thereon, each of the plurality of first recess regions being formed on a surrounding of the plurality of first protrusions; a lower surface having a plurality of second protrusions and a plurality of second recess regions formed thereon, each of the plurality of second recess regions being formed on a surrounding of the plurality of second protrusions; wherein the plurality of first and second recess regions have flat surfaces, and wherein the plurality first recess regions on the upper surface are directly opposite the plurality second recess regions on the lower surface. | 6,038 |
9,070,818 | 1. A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure comprising: providing a bonding layer at least substantially comprised of zinc, silicon and oxygen on a surface of at least one of a first element and a second element, each of the first element and the second element comprising crystalline semiconductor material, the bonding layer being electrically conductive and transparent to light; formulating a percentage concentration of silicon in the bonding layer to increase proximate to an exposed surface thereof such that a composition of the bonding layer is at least substantially comprised of silicon oxide within a distance adjacent to the exposed surface thereof, the distance being sufficiently small to at least substantially preserve electrical conductivity of the bonding layer through the silicon oxide; disposing the bonding layer between the first element and the second element; and attaching the first element and the second element to one another at a bonding interface using the bonding layer disposed between the first element and the second element such that the first element and the second element are optically and electrically coupled to one another through the bonding layer. | 14,457 |
9,467,178 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by two or more passive analog circuits, one or more analog input signals; processing, by the two or more passive analog circuits, the one or more analog input signals in a charge domain to generate one or more analog output signals, including performing, by the two or more passive analog circuits, at least one of spatial filtering and spectral filtering of the one or more analog signals, and further including performing, by a capacitor in the two or more passive analog circuits, one or more charge stealing operations to steal charge away from a shared output of two or more capacitors of the two or more passive analog circuits; and outputting, by the two or more passive analog circuits, the one or more analog output signals in the charge domain, wherein the one or more passive analog circuits are included within a charge re-use analog Fourier transform (CRAFT) circuit. | 45,506 |
9,745,238 | 1. A method for forming a blend of ethers from a blend of partially oxygenated compounds, the method comprising: a) reacting a hydrocarbon-containing gas with an oxygen-containing gas to form first product blend in a reactor, the first product blend including a blend of partially oxygenated compounds that includes alcohols and aldehydes wherein the hydrocarbon-containing gas is reacted with the oxygen-containing gas at pressures from about 450 to 1250 psia and temperatures from about 350 to 450° C.; b) providing the blend of partially oxygenated compounds to a reactive distillation station through one or more conduits; and c) converting the blend of partially oxygenated compounds to a second product blend at the reactive distillation station, the second product blend including a mixture of ethers and a component selected from the group consisting of C | 13,346 |
8,829,050 | 1. A method for reducing fat in a body of an individual, the method comprising administering to the skin of a portion of the body, latanoprost, represented by formula VII: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the portion of the body has an excess deposit of body fat. | 13,840 |
9,495,313 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a termination panel; a shared bus on the termination panel; and a plurality of bases removably located on the termination panel along the shared bus, each of the bases to removably receive modules that are to communicate with field devices, and each of the bases comprising: | 46,060 |
9,429,947 | 1. A method of using a self-driving vehicle, the method comprising: detecting, by the vehicle, an audible voice of a person located outside the vehicle; sending, in response to detecting the voice, a first wireless communication to a remote computing device; receiving, by the vehicle, audio data recorded by a microphone of the remote computing device in response to the first wireless communication; emitting outside the vehicle, by a speaker of the vehicle, a sound based on the audio data; recording, by a microphone system of the vehicle, a verbal response to the sound from the person located outside the vehicle; and sending automatically a recording of the verbal response to the remote computing device. | 26,567 |
8,597,146 | 1. A powertrain comprising: an engine having a crankshaft; an input member operatively connectable for rotation with the crankshaft; an output member; a stationary member; a first and a second electric motor/generator; a first and a second planetary gear set each having a respective first, second, and third member; wherein the first motor/generator is continuously connected for common rotation with the first member of the first planetary gear set; wherein the second motor/generator is continuously connected for common rotation with the first member of the second planetary gear set; wherein the input member is continuously connected for common rotation with the second member of the first planetary gear set; wherein the output member is continuously connected for common rotation with the second member of the second planetary gear set; a first brake selectively engageable to ground the third member of the first planetary gear set to the stationary member; a second brake selectively engageable to ground the third member of the second planetary gear to the stationary member; a first clutch selectively engageable to connect the third member of the first planetary gear set for common rotation at the same speed as the second member of the second planetary gear set; a second clutch selectively engageable to connect the second member of the first planetary gear set for common rotation at the same speed as the third member of the second planetary gear set; wherein engagement of only the first brake allows the engine to be started by the first motor/generator without any effect on torque at the output member; and wherein the powertrain is operable to provide an input-split mode of operation, a compound-split mode of operation, and an output-split mode of operation. | 45,460 |
9,499,287 | 1. A method for unstacking a stack of trays, wherein each tray is provided with a relief of pockets with edge portions and loaded with eggs, wherein a matrix of suction heads engages the eggs of an uppermost tray of the stack, wherein at least two oppositely arranged grippers engage sides of the uppermost tray, wherein a gripper head comprising the suction heads is moved between a take-up location and a delivery location, wherein use is made of a configuration comprising a first carrier unit in which a holder frame is movably suspended through at least one spacer, the suspension allowing movement of the suction heads in at least three degrees of freedom, and wherein the gripper head comprises a second carrier unit in which the first carrier unit is moveably suspended through at least one second spacer rod, the suspension allowing movement in at least three degrees of freedom. | 44,367 |
9,164,367 | 1. An illumination system for a projection device, the illumination system comprising: a first light source device having a red light source, a green light source and a blue light source to generate a red light, a green light and a blue light, respectively, wherein the red light to be directly outputted to a first light processing element to form a red light image; the green light to be directly outputted to a second light processing element to form a green light image; and the blue light to be directly outputted to a third light processing element to form a blue light image; a first light guiding device configured to combine said red, green, and blue light images outputted from the first, second and third light processing elements into a visible light image; a second light source device directly generating a substantially pure infrared light and directly outputting said infrared light to a fourth light processing element to form an infrared light image; and a second light guiding device guiding the visible light image outputted from the first light guiding device and the infrared light image outputted from the fourth light processing element to project outward of an image-forming system of said projection device, wherein when the second light guiding device guides the visible light image and the infrared light image, the image-forming system receives a superposition image combined from the visible light image and the infrared light image and produces a simulating night vision image. | 49,659 |
8,927,945 | 1. A drawing apparatus which performs drawing, with a plurality of charged particle beams on a substrate, on which a first shot region and a second shot region are formed next to each other, the apparatus comprising: an aperture array configured to divide an incident charged particle beam into the plurality of charged particle beams including a first sub array in which a plurality of apertures are arrayed on a thin plate, a second sub array in which a plurality of apertures are arrayed on the thin plate, and a third sub array in which a plurality of apertures are arrayed on the thin plate; a blanking deflector array, in which a plurality of deflectors are arrayed, configured to deflect at least one of the plurality of charged particle beams divided by the aperture array; a stopping aperture array, in which a plurality of apertures are arrayed, configured to block the at least one deflected by the blanking deflector array; a deflector array in which a first deflector, which deflects a first plurality of charged particle beams divided by the first sub array, a second deflector, which deflects a second plurality of charged particle beams divided by the second sub array, and a third deflector, which deflects a third plurality of charged particle beams divided by the third sub array, are arrayed; a stage configured to hold the substrate; a driving device configured to drive the stage; and a controller configured to control the deflector array, the driving device, and the blanking deflector array, and perform blanking of the at least one by scanning, on the substrate, the first plurality of charged particle beams, the second plurality of charged particle beams, and the third plurality of charged particle beams, wherein, in order to reduce bending of the thin plate, in the aperture array, a spacer between the first sub array and the second sub array and a spacer between the second sub array and the third sub array are arranged, wherein a space between the second sub array and the third sub array is set narrower than a space between the first sub array and the second sub array, so that a first sub array drawing region, on which drawing with the first plurality of charged particle beams is performed, does not cross over a boundary between the first shot region and the second shot region, a second sub array drawing region, on which drawing with the second plurality of charged particle beams is performed, does not cross over the boundary, and a third sub array drawing region, on which drawing with the third plurality of charged particle beams is performed, crosses over the boundary, and, wherein the controller controls the deflector array, the driving device, and the blanking deflector array, so that, in parallel with the drawing on the first sub array drawing region being performed and the drawing on the second sub array drawing region being performed, drawing on the first shot region side of the boundary is not performed and drawing on the second shot region side of the boundary is performed on the third sub array drawing region. | 2,904 |
8,495,176 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; and a content management system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the content management system | 18,462 |
9,115,504 | 1. A system for building construction comprising a plurality of interconnectable pre-fabricated modular building units, each unit comprising a frame shaped as a rectangular parallelopiped and comprised of framing members and a plurality of nodes, each node situated at a corner of said frame for selective interconnection with other units, the nodes and the exterior dimensions of the frame meeting the ISO International Standards for intermodal transport, said framing members comprising a plurality of rails, at least four of said rails intersecting to form a first rectangular profile situated in a first plane and at least four of said rails intersecting to form a second rectangular profile situated in a second plane substantially parallel to said first plane, said framing members further comprising at least four posts disposed substantially orthogonally to said rails, each said post extending between at least one rail in said first plane and at least one rail in said second plane, at least one of said orthogonal posts in one modular building unit being adapted for interconnection with a respective one of said interconnectable orthogonal posts in at least one other modular building unit to form at least one flexurally stiffened composite column, each said interconnectable orthogonal post having at least one non-nodal attachment point, said at least one flexurally stiffened composite column being formed by securing said at least one interconnectable orthogonal post in said one modular building unit to a respective one of said interconnectable orthogonal posts in said at least one other modular building unit through at least one of said non-nodal attachment points in each respective interconnectable post. | 5,053 |
9,325,007 | 1. An assembly for thin-film processing of a substrate, the assembly comprising: a magnetic handling carrier comprising a plurality of defined magnetic regions, wherein at least a first magnetic region has a different magnetic field strength than a second magnetic region; and a shadow mask disposed over, and magnetically coupled to, the magnetic handling carrier to cover a top of a workpiece that is to be disposed between the shadow mask and the magnetic handling carrier when exposed to a processing condition. | 27,062 |
8,356,228 | 1. A receive apparatus for optimizing power consumption in a mobile communication system, the apparatus comprising: a time slicing processor for, upon a determination that a frame border that indicates a last section of a Multi Protocol Encapsulation-Forward Error Correction (MPE-FEC) frame indicating a burst reception end time of the MPE-FEC frame is not detected during a burst reception operation corresponding to the MPE-FEC frame, receiving data that includes a burst including information sufficient to restore the entire MPE-FEC frame to a former state of a Transport Stream (TS) packet or includes an early burst reception end request indicating an inability to restore the entire MPE-FEC frame to the former state, and terminating the burst reception process upon receiving the early burst reception end request. | 17,339 |
9,051,811 | 1. A completion system comprising: a barrier valve operatively arranged in a tubing string to selectively impede fluid flow through a lower completion; and at least one control line extending between the tubing string and a stroker tool including a hydraulic actuator and a shifting sleeve, the stroker tool mechanically shifting the barrier valve in response to the control line pressure, the at least one control line operatively arranged with the tubing string for enabling tubing pressure in the tubing string to determine the control line pressure the system further including a plug interactive with a nipple to deliver tubing pressure to the at least one control line. | 8,490 |
9,534,814 | 1. A magneto-caloric effect type heat pump apparatus comprising: a first magneto-caloric element which generates heat when a first external magnetic field is applied and which absorbs heat when the first external magnetic field is removed; a first magnetic field switcher which switches the first external magnetic field between the applying and the removal; a second magneto-caloric element which generates heat when a second external magnetic field is applied and which absorbs heat when the second external magnetic field is removed; a second magnetic field switcher which switches the second external magnetic field between the applying and the removal; a pump pumping heat transport medium from a middle high-temperature end of the first magneto-caloric element toward a high-temperature end of the first magneto-caloric element when the first external magnetic field is applied to the first magneto-caloric element, and pumping the heat transport medium from the high-temperature end toward the middle high-temperature end when the first external magnetic field is removed from the first magneto-caloric element; the pump pumping the heat transport medium from a low-temperature end of the second magneto-caloric element toward a middle low-temperature end of the second magneto-caloric element when the second external magnetic field is applied to the second magneto-caloric element, and pumping the heat transport medium from the middle low-temperature end toward the low-temperature end when the second external magnetic field is removed from the second magneto-caloric element, an auxiliary heat source device which supplies heat of a heating element to the first magneto-caloric element; wherein cold energy which is transported from the high-temperature end toward the middle high-temperature end of the first magneto-caloric element is further transmitted to the middle low-temperature end of the second magneto-caloric element; the heat of the auxiliary heat source device is transported to the high-temperature end of the first magneto-caloric element; the auxiliary heat source device includes a heat exchanger that transmits the heat of the heating element to the heat transport medium; the heat exchanger is disposed outside of a housing that houses the first magneto-caloric element; the heat exchanger has a ring shape entirely surrounding a circumference of the housing; and the heat exchanger has an inlet and an exit for the heat transport medium at positions opposing to each other through the housing that houses the first magneto-caloric element. | 47,253 |
9,341,087 | 1. An arrangement for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy, the arrangement comprising: a line circuit; a pump configured for circulating a zeotropic refrigerant mixture in the line circuit; the zeotropic refrigerant mixture comprises a first refrigerant and a second refrigerant, wherein the first refrigerant has a higher vaporisation temperature than the second refrigerant at a similar pressure; an evaporator to which the refrigerant mixture is circulated and where the mixture is vaporised and a heat source for the evaporator and operative for vaporizing the refrigerant mixture; a turbine in the line circuit and located and configured to be driven by the vaporised refrigerant mixture; a condenser in which the refrigerant mixture is cooled so that the vaporised refrigerant mixture condenses; an electronic control unit configured for assessing whether the refrigerant mixture does not become fully vaporised at the evaporator and, when the control unit assesses that the refrigerant mixture is not fully vaporised, the control unit is configured to put the arrangement into a low-effect state, the low-effect state comprising the arrangement leading the incompletely vaporised refrigerant mixture through a first conduit leaving the evaporator; a gas/liquid separating device connected with the first conduit from the evaporator configured for separating a first portion of the refrigerant mixture, which is in liquid form, from a second portion of the refrigerant mixture, which is in gaseous form, wherein the separated liquid refrigerant mixture is prevented from leaving the separating device when the arrangement is in the low-effect state; and a second conduit for transmitting the gaseous portion of the refrigerant mixture from the separating device toward the turbine in the line circuit and when a temperature of the heat source rises back to a higher temperature, the control unit being configured to put the arrangement into a high-effect state, the high-effect state comprising the arrangement leading the separated liquid refrigerant mixture back to the line circuit, wherein the control unit is configured and operable to lead the refrigerant mixture from the evaporator towards the turbine through an ordinary line section of the line circuit bypassing the separating device when the control unit assesses that the arrangement is in the high-effect state, and through an extra line section of the line circuit which contains the separating device when the control unit assesses that the arrangement is in the low-effect state. | 3,056 |
9,273,582 | 1. A honeycomb structure comprising: a tubular honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls to define and form a plurality of cells as through channels of a fluid which extend from a first end surface as one end surface to a second end surface as the other end surface, and an outer peripheral wall positioned on the outermost periphery; and a pair of electrode sections disposed on a side surface of the tubular honeycomb structure body, wherein an electrical resistivity of the tubular honeycomb structure body is from 1 to 200 Ωcm, each of the pair of electrode sections is formed into a band shape extending in an extending direction of the plurality of cells of the tubular honeycomb structure body, in a cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the plurality of cells, one electrode section in the pair of electrode sections is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode section in the pair of electrode sections via the center of the tubular honeycomb structure body, each of the electrode sections contains silicon and an aggregate, and a ratio of a volume of the silicon to be contained in the electrode section to a volume of the aggregate to be contained in the electrode section is from 60/40 to 80/20. | 7,572 |
9,543,078 | 1. A structural composite electrical energy storage device comprising: a first electrode structure; a second electrode structure; and a separator structure, said structures being encapsulated in a binder matrix to form a composite, wherein the separator structure separates the first and second electrode structures respectively, wherein said device comprises at least one void between said first and second electrode structures, said void being fillable with an electrolyte, wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes comprises at least one fluidic port, the fluidic port being integral with at least one ply of a fabric within the composite energy storage device. | 41,933 |
8,892,097 | 1. A method for selecting a serving cell in a communication network for reducing power consumption in a User equipment (UE), the method comprising the steps of: measuring signal strengths of a serving cell and neighboring cells; obtaining cell rank information for the UE based on the measured signal strengths; applying a double moving average principle to the cell rank information of the UE, the double moving average principle being based on a long average corresponding to when the UE is in a limited mobility state and a short average corresponding to when the UE is in a high mobility state; and optimizing Radio Frequency (RF) scans based on the cell rank information. | 42,868 |
8,959,791 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a canister comprising a rear wall, a bottom and a curved front panel, said curved front panel having a shape operable for mitigating pooling of moisture and having a generally horizontal slit extending across a width of said front panel, said canister being operable for being supported from a first generally vertical surface; a spring-loaded axle comprising a length larger than a width of said front panel, said spring-loaded axle being operable for being rotated in a first direction from a first position to a second position to generate a tension sufficient to rotate said spring-loaded axle in a second direction from said second position to said first position; two end caps joined to the engaged with said canister for enclosing said spring-loaded axle within said canister, one of said two end caps having an opening for enabling an end of said spring-loaded axle to protrude outside of said canister; a netting for supporting wet garments to substantially lay flat for drying, said netting comprising a netting width, a length, a first end, a second end, said first end being engaged with said spring-loaded axle and said netting being rolled about said spring-loaded axle with said second end protruding from said horizontal slit, wherein said netting width being less than said width of said front panel; a hem bar engaged with said second end of said netting, said hem bar comprising dimensions sufficient to mitigate a full retraction of the netting into said canister, the hem bar further comprising two apertures extending through said hem bar with each aperture being proximate a lateral end of said hem bar; means for removably securing said hem bar to a second generally vertical surface opposing said first vertical surface where said netting is operable for supporting wet garments to substantially lay flat for drying; and a tension knob engaged with said end of the spring-loaded axle protruding outside of said canister, said tension knob comprising an ergonomic grip system comprising bumps and valleys for user gripping, said tension knob being operable for adjusting a level of a tension with said wet garments substantially laying flat on said netting. | 16,038 |
8,690,138 | 1. A coaxial concentric double-jaw vice, comprising: a base frame defining a longitudinal sliding groove; a first movable jaw and a second movable jaw mounted on said base frame and movable along said sliding groove; a control rod set inserted through said first movable jaw and said second movable jaw and received in said sliding groove; a fixed screw rod mounted on said control rod set and screw-connected with said first movable jaw; a movable screw rod sleeved onto said control rod set and screw-connected with said second movable jaw and rotatable with said control rod set and movable axially along said control rod set by an external force; a clutch mounted in said control rod set; a driving mechanism mounted in said control rod set and connectable to said control rod set by said clutch for rotating said control rod set; and a pressure intensifier mounted on said control rod set and controllable by an external force to expand along the axis of said control rod set and to further move said movable screw rod toward said fixed screw rod; under a set torque, said driving mechanism is disconnectable from said control rod set by means of the clutch for driving said pressure intensifier; wherein said movable screw rod is a tubular member sleeved onto said control rod set; said control rod set comprises an elongated slot, a pin inserted through said movable screw rod and said elongated slot to secure said movable screw rod to said control rod set for enabling said movable screw rod to be synchronously rotatable with said control rod set and axially slidable relative to said control rod set within a predetermined distance corresponding to the length of said elongated slot; said pressure intensifier is accommodated in said control rod set and stoppable against said pin to move said movable screw rod toward said fixed screw rod; wherein said control rod set has a spring member mounted therein and adapted for returning said movable screw rod after said movable screw rod having been moved; wherein said control rod set comprises a first rod member, a second rod member and a third rod member that are screw-connected with one another in a line; said pressure intensifier is accommodated in said first rod member; said movable screw rod is sleeved onto said second rod member; said elongated slot is formed in said second rod member; said spring member of said control rod set is accommodated in said second rod member; said fixed screw rod is installed in said third rod member; wherein the control rod set includes an inside rod accommodated in an axial hole of the second rod member and having a radial through hole, the pin inserted through the radial through hole of the movable screw rod and the radial through hole of the inside rod, the spring member accommodated in the axial hole of the second rod member and stopped between the third rod member and the inside rod for providing an elastic return force to the inside rod in moving the moveable screw rod in a direction away from the fixed screw rod, and a locknut threaded onto a threaded shank of the third rod member to lock the second rod member and the third rod member; and wherein upon actuation of the pressure intensifier, the inside rod is moved, causing the pin to move the movable screw rod in carrying the second movable jaw, so that the clamping force is intensified and the spring member is compressed to preserve an elastic return force. | 21,319 |
8,963,423 | 1. A display apparatus, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to and spaced apart from the first substrate; and a light-emitting device disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate comprises a barrier film composite, wherein the barrier film composite comprises: a film with an undulating surface and an opposite surface disposed opposite to the undulating surface; and at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer disposed on the undulating surface of the film, wherein the film comprises a stretchable material. | 42,476 |
9,150,676 | 1. A catalyst compound represented by the formula: wherein each solid line represents a covalent bond and each dashed line represents a bond having varying degrees of covalency and a varying degree of coordination; wherein M is a Group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition metal; wherein n is 1 or 2; wherein each X is, independently, a univalent C wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of divalent C wherein each of R | 45,157 |
9,404,217 | 1. A method for selective removal of detrimental metals and their anion species from a cellulosic biomass solids, said method comprising a plurality of vessels: a. providing each of said vessels with one of detrimental species-containing cellulosic biomass solids; b. introducing a quantity of an acidic solution having a pH of at most 4 from an inlet into a first vessel of said plurality of vessels containing said detrimental species-containing cellulosic biomass solids at a temperature in the range of about 0° C. to about 60° C.; c. repeating step (b) for a second vessel of said plurality of vessels; d. introducing a quantity of aqueous solution having a pH of at least 5 from an inlet into said first vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (b) thereby discharging the acidic water effluent; e. repeating step (d) for the second vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (c); f. introducing a quantity of gas or organic solvent from an inlet into the first vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (d) and discharging the aqueous solution; g. repeating step (f) for the second vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (e); h. recycling at least a portion of the discharged aqueous solution as a portion of the acidic solution; i. transferring at least a portion of the biomass treated according to steps (f) and (g) to a digestion and/or reaction vessel; j. wherein at least 2 of the vessels are undergoing at least one of the steps (b) through (i) at the same time; and k. wherein the amount of the total acidic water effluent from the plurality of vessels is in the range of from about 3 parts to about 0.5 parts relative to about 1 part of detrimental species—containing cellulosic biomass solids (dry basis). | 43,737 |
9,007,651 | 1. A threshold matrix generation method of generating a threshold matrix for Nx speed writing to be compared with a multi-tone original image when said original image is screened into halftone dots for Nx speed writing by an image recording apparatus capable of recording an image at 1× speed or at Nx speed, where N is an integer of 2 or more, the method comprising: a) preparing a matrix space that is a set of matrix elements arranged in row and column directions, said row direction being perpendicular to said column direction, and said column direction corresponding to a recording direction of said image recording apparatus; b) setting every Nth matrix element aligned in said column direction and every Nth matrix element aligned in said row direction as writing elements and setting the other matrix elements as non-writing elements, said writing elements being matrix elements that correspond to writing positions on a recording object at the time of Nx speed writing; c) setting a first area and a second area, said first area being a cluster of a plurality of first partial areas that are substantially evenly distributed in said matrix space and each include a plurality of writing elements, and said second area being the area of said matrix space excluding said first area; d) changing at least two writing elements in each of said first partial areas into determined elements by first allocating an initial occurrence number to one writing element in said first area to determine said one writing element as a determined element and then, in consideration of repetitive application of said threshold matrix when performing screening of said original image, repeating processing for specifying a writing element that is distant from every determined element in said first area on the basis of a distance from said every determined element and for allocating the next occurrence number to the specified writing element to change the specified writing element into a determined element; e) after said operation d), changing at least one writing element in said second area into a determined element and then changing another writing element into a determined element by repeatedly specifying a writing element that is distant from every determined element on the basis of a distance from said every determined element and allocating an occurrence number to the specified writing element, in consideration of repetitive application of said threshold matrix when performing screening of said original image; and f) determining a threshold value of each writing element in accordance with said occurrence number to obtain a threshold matrix for Nx speed writing. | 42,127 |
8,895,203 | 1. A powder constituted by a set of grains obtained by a process comprising a step of synthesizing a solid body followed by a step of milling the solid body, wherein a 10 percentile, denoted D 10 , of a cumulative granulometric distribution of grain sizes, the grain sizes being classified by increasing size, is 4 μm or more, at least 40% by number of said grains having a form factor (R) of more than 1.5, the form factor (R) of a grain being a ratio between a length and a width of said grain, said powder being constituted, for more than 90% as a percentage by weight, by a substance selected from a manganese perovskite, a lanthanum perovskite, a mixture of manganese perovskite and lanthanum perovskite, a lanthanum-cobalt perovskite (LaCoO 3 ), a lanthanum-iron perovskite (LaFeO 3 ), a lanthanum-manganese perovskite (LaMnO 3 ), a praseodymium-manganese perovskite, a strontium-doped samarium cobaltite, a lanthanide nickelate, a mixture of ruthenium bismuth and erbium bismuth, a mixture of lanthanum-cubic zirconia perovskite, a chromite, a lanthanum titanate, a [niobium-doped strontium] titanate, a [yttrium-doped strontium] titanate, a [strontium-doped lanthanum ] chromo-manganite, a monoclinic zirconia (ZrO 2 ), a partially stabilized zirconia (ZrO 2 ), a cubic zirconia (ZrO 2 ), cerium oxide (CeO 2 ), cerium oxide (CeO 2 ) doped with samarium oxide (Sm 2 O 3 ) and/or gadolinium oxide (Gd 2 O 3 ), a cermet comprising cerium oxide (CeO 2 ), a cermet comprising [strontium-doped lanthanum] chromite, a cermet comprising partially stabilized zirconia (ZrO 2 ), a cermet comprising cubic zirconia (ZrO 2 ), or by a mixture of said substances. | 4,559 |
8,831,173 | 1. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprising: an X-ray tube including a cathode to emit electrons and an anode to generate X-rays upon receiving electrons emitted from the cathode; a first detector configured to detect X-rays generated by the X-ray tube and having a first pixel size; a second detector configured to detect X-rays generated by the X-ray tube and having a second pixel size smaller than the first pixel size; an arm configured to pivotally support the X-ray tube, the first detector, and the second detector; a sliding mechanism mounted on the arm and configured to slide the first detector and the second detector so as to irradiate only one of the first detector and the second detector with X-rays generated by the X-ray tube; a tilting mechanism mounted on the arm and configured to tiltably support the X-ray tube so as to change a size of an effective X-ray focal spot on the anode; and a control unit configured to perform interlocking control of sliding of the first detector and the second detector by the sliding mechanism and tilting of the X-ray tube by the tilting mechanism. | 24,207 |
9,639,129 | 1. A hydroelectric power plan adjusting device for adjusting a plan of the hydroelectric power, communicatively connected to each of a supply-demand planning device, and a plurality of hydroelectric power planning devices, the supply-demand planning device calculating an optimal value of output per unit time by hydroelectric power generation and an optimal value of electric power demand per unit time of an electrical equipment as well as calculating a first power price which is an optimal value of power price per the unit time, and each of the hydroelectric power planning devices planning an output by the hydroelectric power generation in accordance with a given power price, the device comprising: an optimal supply-demand plan acquiring unit configured to acquire from the supply-demand planning device an optimal value of the output and the first power price per the unit time; an optimal output acquiring unit configured to control each of the plurality of hydroelectric power planning devices to calculate a planned value of the output according to the first power price and acquire the planned value of the output from each of the hydroelectric power planning devices; a price adjusting unit configured to generate a second power price updated by reducing the first power price for the unit time based on a determination that the total amount of the planned values of the outputs exceeds the optimal value of the output for the unit time and controls at least one of the plurality of hydroelectric power planning devices so that a planned value of an output is recalculated according to the generated second power price; and a unit configured to adjust the amount of the water intake to at least one reservoir in at least one hydroelectric power station in accordance with the recalculated planned value of the output. | 30,333 |
8,851,992 | 1. A game apparatus, comprising: a display apparatus with a computing device; user input devices; an audio output port; and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a game program stored therein, the game program causing the computing device of the game apparatus to implement a method comprising: displaying a listing of game modules of the game program on the display apparatus, wherein the game modules include a music player module; receiving a selection of the music player module from a user via the user input devices; with the music player module, playing music by outputting to the audio output port an audio signal based on digital music files stored in a memory and accessed by the music player module; receiving a sleep mode initiation signal; in response, placing the game modules except for the music player module in sleep states, whereby the playing music step continues after performance of the placing step by the music player module with the music player module having uninterrupted access to the digital music files in the memory; after the placing step, receiving user input via the user input devices providing music player control commands; and in response to the receiving of the user input, operating the music player module, which was operating prior to the receiving of the user input and without activating an additional program to control the music player module, to process the user input to modify the playing of the music based on the music player control commands. | 34,477 |
9,145,315 | 1. A process for degrading sludge produced by treatment of wastewater comprising: (a) providing an aerobic treatment system receiving a supply of said wastewater; (b) treating a supply of said sludge by rupturing microbial cells present therein to produce treated sludge having an increased liquid:solid ratio and an increased degradation potential in comparison to untreated sludge; (c) conveying a supply of said treated sludge to said aerobic treatment system; and (d) substantially degrading particulate solids present in said supply of said treated sludge in said aerobic treatment system by co-digestion with said wastewater, wherein said volume of said sludge subjected to said treating is selected to achieve an approximate balance between the net mass of solids produced by treatment of said wastewater in said aerobic treatment system and the net mass of solids removed by said process, thereby substantially avoiding the requirement for dewatering or disposal of said sludge produced by said aerobic treatment system. | 9,715 |
8,965,611 | 1. A method of improving fuel economy through electrical vehicle (EV) control of a hybrid vehicle having a starting mode in which a brake is released while a clutch is fixed, wherein the method is executed by a control unit including a hybrid control unit (HCU), the method comprising: releasing the clutch by a Transmission Control Unit (TCU) when an input split mode command is applied from the HCU; generating a target revolutions per minute (RPM) of an engine by the HCU after releasing the clutch; comparing the target RPM of the engine, with an actual RPM of the engine with a target RPM of a first motor; determining by the HCU whether a speed of the engine is higher than a fuel injection speed; injecting a fuel by the HCU, when the speed of the engine is determined to be higher than the fuel injection speed; restricting an engine torque rise rate by the HCU during a predetermined period of time by considering a temperature of a cooling water; applying an injection signal to the engine when the RPM of the engine is increased; applying an engine torque by the HCU to the engine according to an engine torque restriction amount of the HCU to complete a vehicle starting condition; and recognizing completion of vehicle starting by the HCU when engine torque restriction requirement does not exist. | 46,447 |
9,404,474 | 1. A windmill comprising: a shaft that rotates around a vertical axis; a plurality of blades, each blade having symmetrical shape along a width and height, each blade having a first end and a second end connected by a top surface and bottom surface, said top surface and said bottom surface terminating at a rounded front edge to enable air to flow across the top surface and the bottom surface at a same speed, and a rear edge, each of said plurality of blades including wind scoop portion formed at a rear end portion of a lower face of the blade, and spanning a predetermined length of said blade, the wind scoop portion of each blade facing inward or outward from the rotating shaft, said plurality of blades vertically positioned at an outer periphery of said rotating shaft; and a plurality of arms, wherein at least one of each of said plurality of arms connects at least one of each of said plurality of blades to said rotating shaft, each one of the blades parallel to a plane of rotation around the vertical axis to eliminate a lift away from a center of rotation. | 33,359 |
8,412,583 | 1. A method of producing a product composed of a set of components, comprising: providing certain raw materials suitable to produce said components by a supplier to a producer; providing a CNC machine operable upon suitable programming to produce said components from said raw materials by said supplier to said producer; providing programming for said machine suitable for forming said components from said raw material by said supplier to said producer; soliciting and consummating the sale of said components to a prospective consumer by said producer intended for assembly by said consumer in producing of said product; producing said components from said raw materials, utilizing said machine suitably programmed upon the sale of said components to said consumers by said producer; and delivering said components by said supplier to said consumer for assembly thereof by said consumer to provide said product composed of said components. | 23,113 |
8,390,541 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a pixel array section and a drive section for driving the pixel array section, the pixel array section including scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, and pixels arranged in a matrix, the drive section including a control scanner adapted to sequentially output control signals to the respective scanning line and carrying out line progressive scanning on the pixels in units of a row, and a signal driver adapted to supply the signal lines with a video signal in accordance with the line progressive scanning, the signal driver adjusting a timing when the video signal has changed from a reference potential to a signal potential for the video signal supplied to the respective signal lines to correct a backward shift due to a transmission delay along the scanning line of a control signal output from the control scanner and to maintain a total period of a writing period and a mobility correction period constant. | 41,376 |
8,936,769 | 1. A system for the production of conversion products from synthesis gas, the system comprising: a mixing apparatus configured for mixing steam with at least one carbonaceous material to produce a reformer feedstock, wherein the mixing apparatus comprises one or more cylindrical vessels having a cortical bottom section, an inlet for superheated steam within the conical bottom section and an inlet for the at least one carbonaceous material at or near the top of the cylindrical vessel; a reformer configured to produce, from the reformer feedstock, a reformer product comprising synthesis gas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and also producing a hot flue gas; a synthesis gas conversion apparatus configured to catalytically convert at least a portion of the synthesis gas in the reformer product into synthesis gas conversion product comprising primarily liquid hydrocarbons, and to separate, from the synthesis gas conversion product, a spent catalyst stream comprising spent catalyst and associated synthesis gas conversion product separated therewith, and a tailgas comprising at least one gas selected from the group consisting of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane; a steam superheater configured to produce superheated steam via heat transfer from the hot flue gas to a steam superheater feed steam, and comprising an outlet for a reduced-temperature flue gas; one or more steam generator configured to produce the steam superheater feed steam via heat transfer from the reformer product gas and the reduced-temperature flue gas; and a recycle line fluidly connecting the synthesis gas conversion apparatus with the mixing apparatus, whereby at least a portion of the spent catalyst stream can be introduced into the mixing apparatus. | 30,104 |
9,559,246 | 1. A method of fabricating an emitter region of a solar cell, the method comprising: forming a region of doped nano-particles above a dielectric layer disposed above a surface of a substrate of the solar cell; forming a layer of semiconductor material on the region of doped nano-particles, wherein forming the layer of semiconductor material comprises forming a layer of un-doped, intrinsic, or lightly doped amorphous semiconductor material in a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) chamber at a temperature approximately in the range of 525-565 degrees Celsius; and mixing at least a portion of the layer of semiconductor material with at least a portion of the region of doped nano-particles to form a doped polycrystalline semiconductor material layer disposed on the dielectric layer. | 19,485 |
8,758,482 | 1. A method of separating carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases, the method comprising the steps of: a) passing the gas mixture through a porous three-dimensional polymeric coordination compound characterized by a plurality of layers comprising two-dimensional arrays of repeating structural units, each repeating structural unit comprising at least one transition or post-transition metal atom or cation coordinated to: (1) at least one binding member of a bidentate binding site on each of two polyfunctional ligands of Formula I wherein L (2) one binding site of a bis-pyridine exodentate bridging ligand of Formula II: wherein L wherein: (i) at least one binding member of a second bidentate binding site on each polyfunctional ligand is further coordinated to at least one transition metal atom or cation in a different repeating structural unit within the same layer containing a two-dimensional array of repeating structural units; (ii) the exodentate bridging ligand extends essentially perpendicularly from a plane defined by said layer containing a two-dimensional array of repeating structural units to further coordinate with a transition metal atom in a repeating structural unit in an adjacent layer; and (iii) the ligands of the three-dimensional polymeric compound define channels and pores of molecular size throughout the structure of the compound; and (b) recovering the resulting mixture, wherein the resulting mixture has a decreased carbon dioxide content. | 10,559 |
8,776,896 | 1. A control system for a downhole tool, comprising: a motor; a control circuitry, configured to receive a signal and to control the motor responsive to the signal; a pressure transducer, coupled to the control circuitry, such that a pressure pulse in a drilling fluid is received as an electrical signal by the control circuitry; a valve, driven by the motor; and an activation mechanism, coupled to the valve and adapted to change the configuration of the downhole tool under control by the circuitry, wherein the motor, the control circuitry, the valve, and the activation mechanism are disposed within a bore of the downhole tool. | 24,725 |
8,820,292 | 1. A spark-ignition internal engine comprising: an engine body including a cylinder, a piston adapted to be reciprocatingly moved within the cylinder, and a cylinder head provided on the cylinder to define a combustion chamber in cooperation with a top surface of piston; two intake valves provided in the cylinder head and each capable of shutting off an inflow of air into the cylinder; two exhaust valves provided in the cylinder head and each capable of shutting off an outflow of exhaust gas from the cylinder; a spark plug provided in the cylinder head to face the combustion chamber; and a fuel injection valve provided in the cylinder head to face the combustion chamber, wherein: a geometric compression ratio of the engine body is set to 14 or more; in at least a low-speed and high-load operating region of the engine body where knocking is likely to occur, the intake valves and the exhaust valves are simultaneously opened during a given overlap period across top dead center, the overlap period being set to 35 degree CA or more in at least a part of the low-speed and high-load operating region; each of a clearance between the top surface of the piston located at a top dead center position and a lower surface of each of the intake valves in a full-closed state wherein the clearance is provided as a distance in a direction perpendicular to the lower surface of each of the intake valves, and a clearance between the top surface of the piston located at the top dead center position and a lower surface of each of the exhaust valves in a full-closed state wherein the clearance is provided as a distance in a direction perpendicular to the lower surface of each of the exhaust valves, is set to 5 mm or more; and a stroke length S of the piston is set to satisfy the following relationship: 81.2<S<0.977×B+18.2, where B (mm) is a bore diameter of the cylinder. | 46,982 |
9,595,571 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a first pixel comprising a first light-emitting element, and a second pixel comprising a second light-emitting element, wherein a first light of a third color is emitted from the first pixel, wherein a second light of a fourth color is emitted from the second pixel, wherein the first light-emitting element comprises: wherein the second light-emitting element comprises: wherein the first light-emitting layer comprises a first light-emitting material having a spectrum peak in a range of higher than or equal to 540 nm and lower than or equal to 580 nm, and wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a second light-emitting material having a spectrum peak in a range of higher than or equal to 420 nm and lower than or equal to 480 nm. | 20,704 |
9,546,799 | 1. A solar energy collection system having a system inlet and a system outlet, the solar energy collection system comprising: one or more hollow radiation absorbers, each having an inlet end configured for being in fluid communication with the system inlet, and an outlet end in fluid communication with the system outlet, each absorber configured for being filled by said fluid, to absorb solar radiation impinging thereon and transform its energy into heat and to thereby allow said fluid to be heated; an enclosure enclosing said one or more radiation absorbers, for blocking said heat from dissipating into surrounding environment; an inlet non-return valve upstream of said one or each absorber, for allowing a flow of said fluid thereto through said inlet end, while preventing backflow therefrom; an outlet valve downstream of said one or each absorber for allowing a flow of said fluid out thereof via said outlet end; a measuring device for determining at least one parameter of said fluid within said one or each radiation absorber, which depends on the amount of heat absorbed thereby; and a controller configured to control the operation of at least said outflow valve at least between an open state thereof in which said fluid can flow freely out of the associated radiation absorber, and a closed state thereof in which the fluid filling said associated radiation absorber is held therein for a period of time depending at least on a desired change of said parameter. | 19,570 |
8,657,382 | 1. A structural part comprising at least one panel element, a first profile element, and a second profile element wherein the first profile element and the second profile element are connected to one another and also to the panel element by means of, in each case, at least one weld, and wherein the panel element has first beads in a first connecting region of the first profile element and has second beads in a second connecting region of the second profile element, and wherein a minimum spacing is provided between the first and second beads; wherein the first and second profile elements are connected to one another in an overlap region, the overlap region is only positioned on a portion of the profile elements that faces away from the panel element, and the overlap region at least partially extends over the minimum spacing between the first and second beads. | 4,601 |
8,414,998 | 1. A heat insulator including a paralellpiped-shaped foamed product, the parallelepiped-shaped foamed product being made from a plurality of straight elongate elements while tightly connecting the surfaces of adjacent straight elongate elements to each other, so that voids that extend in a lengthwise direction of the straight elongate elements are formed between the straight elongate elements; said parallelepiped-shaped foamed product being formed by extruding charged materials from a die and passing the extruded materials between rollers to produce tightly connected surfaces of a plurality of said straight elongate elements, each of said straight elongate elements having, on a surface thereof, a skin layer with no bubbles, the skin layer covering an inside foam layer, wherein the skin layer exhibits an infrared absorption spectral waveform equivalent to that of the foam layer; the heat insulator being formed by bonding a plurality of said parallelepiped-shaped foamed products together so that the lengthwise directions of the straight elongate elements forming the paralellpiped-shaped foamed products are mutually orthogonal; the plurality of straight elongate elements being made from a heated and foamed mixture of 50 to 65% by weight of a paper pellet, 13 to 25% by weight of a recycled resin, and 10 to 30% by weight of an HMS-PP foamable polypropylene resin, the total sum thereof being 100% by weight; the paper pellet being a mixture of 35 to 50% by weight of a fine paper powder having a particle diameter of 30 to 200 μm and 50 to 65% by weight of a hydrophilic macromolecule, the total sum thereof being 100% by weight; and the recycled resin being a mixture of 55 to 65% by weight of a recycled polypropylene resin, 30 to 40% by weight of a recycled polyethylene resin, and 1 to 5% by weight of a recycled polystyrene resin, the total sum thereof being 100% by weight. | 13,792 |
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