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9,677,907 | 1. A receptacle device comprising: a processing unit; and memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform acts comprising: individually monitoring a consumption of a utility service of one or more loads through a supply outlet that is associated with the receptacle device for a period of time the utility service being received at the supply outlet via a utility metering device; communicating utility consumption information of the one or more loads to the utility metering device; receiving a synchronization signal or message including utility consumption data measured at the one or more loads that was measured by the utility metering device during the period of time, the synchronization signal or message having been generated by the utility metering device and the utility consumption data measured by the utility metering device having a different value than a value of the utility consumption information communicated by the receptacle device; and calibrating the receptacle device based on the synchronization signal or message to reflect the utility consumption data measured by the utility metering device during the period of time. | 730 |
8,710,420 | 1. Pixels on a pixel array, comprising: a plurality of junction gate photodiodes; a plurality of junction gate field-effect transistors each coupled to a respective one of the junction gate photodiodes; a junction gate field-effect transistor source-follower having a gate connected to the plurality of junction gate field-effect transistors, wherein the gate forms a floating diffusion node for the pixel; and a reset diode configured to reset the floating diffusion node in the pixel. | 15,653 |
9,391,714 | 1. A method of configuring a unit of a networked safety system, the unit being connected to the network, and having a memory and an optical data receiver; and the method comprising the steps of: activating the optical data receiver on the unit; transmitting an optical data signal to the unit; recording data included in the optical data signal onto the unit's memory; de-activating the optical data receiver on said unit after a predetermined period of time; and after de-activating the optical data receiver, a common control unit in communication with the unit interrogating the unit to determine whether or not any changes have been made in the memory of the unit. | 7,752 |
8,916,857 | 1. A light-emitting element comprising: a first electrode; an insulating layer over and in contact with the first electrode; a layer comprising a first organic compound and a second organic compound over the first electrode, wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound are mixed in the layer; a light-emitting layer over the layer; a second electrode over the light-emitting layer, wherein the first organic compound has a hole-transporting property, wherein an ionization potential of the second organic compound is larger than an ionization potential of the first organic compound, and wherein a weight percent of the second organic compound in the layer is greater than or equal to 1 weight percent and less than or equal to 10 weight percent. | 40,026 |
8,909,564 | 1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: obtaining training data comprising a plurality of examples wherein each example comprises one or more features and an answer; training a plurality of different types of predictive models using the training data, wherein each of the predictive models implements a different machine learning technique; obtaining weights wherein each weight is associated with a respective answer category in the plurality of examples, each of the weights indicating an amount the respective answer category will count toward a weighted accuracy for each of the predictive models; calculating the weighted accuracy for each of the predictive models using the respective weights; and selecting one of the predictive models as the most accurate model based at least partly on the calculated weighted accuracies. | 33,986 |
8,797,044 | 1. A connection apparatus for connecting a MXM interface to a testing apparatus; comprising: a circuit board; a golden finger connector, the golden finger connector comprising a group of signal connection contacts; a group of signal test contacts configured to connect the testing apparatus, the group of signal test contacts connected to the signal connection contacts of the golden finger connector; and a plurality of capacitors mounted between the signal connection contacts of the golden finger connector and the test contacts to decrease noises generated between the signal connection contacts and the test contacts; wherein when the circuit board is inserted into the MXM interface, the signal connection contacts are connected to the MXM interface, and the test contacts connect to the MXM interface via the signal connection contacts. | 33,403 |
9,751,792 | 1. A method comprising: disposing at least a portion of a submerged combustion burner into a pressure vessel, wherein the portion of the submerged combustion burner has a first microstructure defined by a first number of voids; filling the pressure vessel containing the portion of the submerged combustion burner with an inert gas; pressurizing the pressure vessel containing the portion of the submerged combustion burner; heating the pressure vessel containing the portion of the submerged combustion burner, wherein the pressurizing and heating operations are performed for a time and at a temperature and a pressure sufficient to produce a second microstructure in the burner, wherein the second microstructure is defined by a second number of voids less than the first number of voids; and weld-repairing a defect in the portion of the submerged burner before disposing the portion of the submerged combustion burner in the pressure vessel. | 32,662 |
9,834,452 | 1. An automated water treatment trailer for processing multiple fluids simultaneously, each fluid with a fluid characteristic and a specific gravity, the automated water treatment trailer comprising: a. a frame with at least one axle, and a tongue for connecting the frame to a tow vehicle; b. a base creating a floor, mounted to the frame; c. a plurality of connected walls mounted to the base; d. a weather-proof top engaging each of the plurality of connected walls opposite the base forming an enclosure; e. a pair of locking doors, each door mounted into a respective one of the plurality of connected walls; f. a plurality of discharge ports mounted in one of the connected walls; g. a plurality of suction ports equal to the quantity of the plurality discharge ports mounted in one of the plurality of connected walls, each suction port connected to a chemical tote mounted on at least one adjacent structure for pulling chemicals from the chemical tote; h. a manifold mounted to a water pipe and in fluid connection with the discharge ports configured to control flow fluid from the discharge ports into the water pipe; i. at least one charging port mounted in one of the plurality of connecting walls for charging a client device from inside or outside the enclosure, wherein the charging port connects to a power supply; j. a plurality of pumps mounted in the enclosure and connected in parallel, each a pump of the plurality of pumps configured to pull chemical from a respective one of the chemical totes and flow the chemical to a respective one of the plurality of discharge ports simultaneously; k. a controller in communication with each pump of the plurality of pumps and a network to communicate with at least one client device for remote monitoring and control; l. a plurality of pressure gauges, each pressure gauge measuring discharge fluid flowing from a pump of the plurality of pumps, each pressure gauge in communication with the controller; m. a power supply electrically connected to the plurality of first pumps, the controller and the charging port; n. a plurality of valves; each valve fluidly engaging one of the plurality of suction ports; and o. a plurality of back pressure valves, each back pressure valve mounted to one of the first valves, wherein the automated water treatment trailer is operable for automatically providing different fluid flows at remotely controllable pressures related to fluid characteristics and specific gravity and pressure in the water pipe. | 40,370 |
8,626,319 | 1. A system for managing delivery and consumption of energy, comprising: a memory; and a processor that facilitates execution of computer-executable components stored within the memory, the computer-executable components comprising: | 3,251 |
8,866,800 | 1. A display, comprising: a first substrate comprising a first head portion and a first trailing portion; and a second substrate comprising a second head portion and a second trailing portion; wherein the first and second substrates are bent and interleaved such that the second head portion is sandwiched between the first head portion and the first trailing portion, and the first trailing portion is sandwiched between the second head portion and the second trailing portion; wherein overlapped portions of the first and second substrates form a plurality of superposed regions; and wherein the superposed regions are configured to be alternated between at least a first substantially reflective color state and a second substantially transparent state. | 48,113 |
9,205,573 | 1. A method for recycling broad goods material into a flaked feed material, the broad goods material including reinforcement fibers and thermoplastic material, the method comprising: applying heat and pressure to the broad goods material to impregnate the reinforcement fibers at a filament level with the thermoplastic material to form an impregnated fiber material; cooling the impregnated fiber material; cutting the cooled impregnated fiber material into flakes to produce the flaked feed material; and mixing the flaked feed material with a thermoset resin to create a bulk molding compound. | 30,378 |
8,978,411 | 1. A cold storage heat exchanger comprising: a plurality of refrigerant tubes having therein refrigerant passages, and arranged to provide a clearance therebetween; a plurality of cold storage containers, each of the plurality of cold storage containers being interposed between adjacent refrigerant tubes, bonded to the adjacent refrigerant tubes and defining a sealed compartment within which a cold storage material is sealed; a plurality of cooling air passages in which air flows to cool a space to be cooled in a cold storage time of the cold storage material and in a cold release time of the cold storage material, each of the plurality of cooling air passages being provided to directly contact a surface of the refrigerant tube on a side opposite to the cold storage container bonded to the refrigerant tube; and a corrugated fin disposed in each of the cooling air passages bonded to adjacent refrigerant tubes which define the cooling air passage therebetween, wherein an outer surface of the cold storage container, onto which the refrigerant tube is bonded, is provided with a plurality of protrusion portions or a plurality of recess portions, the refrigerant tubes and the cold storage container are configured to form therebetween a cold-storage side air passage by the protrusion portions or the recess portions, such that air flows in the cold-storage side air passage separated from the cooling air passage, the cold-storage side air passage is provided with a space that causes condensed water generated in the cold storage time of the cold storage material to be drained along the cold-storage side air passage; each of the adjacent refrigerant tubes has a first contact portion directly bonded to the protrusion portion of the cold storage container, and a second contact portion opposite to the first contact portion, and the second contact portion is directly bonded to the corrugated fin; none of the corrugated fins directly contact a surface of the cold storage containers; the cold storage heat exchanger further comprising an inner fin disposed in the sealed compartment of the cold storage container, wherein the inner fin is corrugated to have a predetermined pitch and includes ridges contacting a surface of the cold storage container between the protrusion portions or within the recess portions; and a half of the pitch of the inner fin is smaller than a length of the surface of the cold storage container between the protrusion portions or within the recess portions. | 27,681 |
9,488,553 | 1. A tissue piece treating apparatus, comprising: a treatment tank to contain a tissue piece; a plurality of liquid chemical tanks that is connected communicatably to said treatment tank and stores liquid chemicals; a pump that depressurizes an inside of said treatment tank when a liquid chemical is transferred from said liquid chemical tank communicating with said treatment tank to said treatment tank, and pressurizes the inside of said treatment tank when a liquid chemical is transferred from said treatment tank to said liquid chemical tank communicating with the treatment tank; a detection sensor to detect that a predetermined amount of liquid chemical has been transferred to said treatment tank; and a control unit that is connected to said pump and said detection sensor via respective wirings and carries out a plurality of processes, said plurality of processes including the processes of (a) transferring a dehydrating agent from said liquid chemical tank storing said dehydrating agent to said treatment tank until said dehydrating agent reaches a predetermined amount by use of said detection sensor, (b) transferring an intermediate agent from said liquid chemical tank storing said intermediate agent to said treatment tank until said intermediate agent reaches a predetermined amount by use of said detection sensor, and (c) transferring an admixture obtained by mixing said dehydrating agent by said process (a) and said intermediate agent by said process (b) from said treatment tank to said liquid chemical tank in which said admixture is stored. | 11,126 |
9,255,720 | 1. A Demand Control Ventilation (DCV) and/or Economizer system that is configured to be attached to a roof top HVAC unit of a building, comprising: a DCV and/or economizer unit having a damper and a controller integrated with and located at the DCV and/or economizer unit, wherein the controller includes a memory, and wherein the damper is configured to selectively control air flow from outside of the building and into the building; the controller is configured to control a position of the damper such that a desired air flow of outside air is drawn into the building; the memory of the controller storing one or more calibration parameters generated during a commissioning of the DCV and/or economizer unit, wherein the one or more calibration parameters includes a minimum damper position based on a desired non-zero ventilation rate of the building; an interface for retrieving one or more of the stored calibration parameters from the memory of the controller of the DCV and/or economizer unit for display to a user, and for receiving a command from a user to initiate and perform one or more user initiated tests of the DCV and/or economizer unit; and wherein the controller is configured to initiate and perform one or more tests of the DCV and/or economizer unit upon receiving the command from the user via the interface, the one or more tests comprising proving that the damper can successfully be moved from a first position to a second position and providing confirmation to the user. | 35,966 |
9,351,548 | 1. An umbrella, comprising: a frame that is movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein the frame comprises a plurality of elongated supports; a canopy that is attached to the frame and that is formed of a plurality of panels, wherein each panel extends all the way between two of the plurality of elongated supports, wherein the canopy is movable with the frame between the closed position and the open position, wherein the canopy forms a protective surface when in the open position, and wherein at least one panel of the canopy is formed of a one-way material that is configured such that an individual inside the canopy can see outward through the one-way material, and such that an individual outside the canopy cannot effectively see inward through the one-way material, wherein the one-way material includes a plurality of substantially transparent portions that are located within an otherwise opaque material; and a support structure attached to the frame and configured to support the frame and the canopy above an individual. | 48,216 |
9,282,056 | 1. A computer program product for providing metrics for a distributed network switch comprised of a plurality of logical switch partitions including a first logical switch partition, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising: | 43,999 |
8,906,574 | 1. A fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly comprising: an electrolyte membrane; a fuel electrode provided at one surface side of the electrolyte membrane; and an oxidant electrode provided at another surface side of the electrolyte membrane, wherein at least one of the fuel electrode and the oxidant electrode has a non-supported-catalyst containing catalyst layer that contains: wherein the metal catalyst nanoparticle is highly dispersed and restrained from aggregating, and wherein the non-supported-catalyst containing catalyst layer further contains a carbon particle that is a water-repellent particle and that has surface area of 5 to 50 m | 26,999 |
8,573,246 | 1. An automatic filling termination device for a cryogenic vessel for storing cryogenic medium having a low working temperature, the cryogenic vessel having an inlet pipe the automatic filling termination device being provided within the cryogenic vessel and comprising a body with a chamber, defined in the cryogenic vessel and provided with a flow termination member for blocking the outlet opening of the body, defined in the chamber of the body and has a predetermined weight so as not to be floated in the cryogenic medium; a floater, located outside the body and being capable of moving up and down when the liquid level of the cryogenic medium as filled into the cryogenic vessel is changed; a connection, penetrated through the outlet opening of the body to connect the flow termination member with the floater, wherein an internal diameter of the outlet opening is greater than an outer diameter of the connection by a predetermined dimension, and a flow disturbing plate, which is separate from said body and disposed between the outlet opening of the body and the floater so that the cryogenic medium spurting out from the outlet opening is spurt onto a lower surface of the flow disturbing plate and then splashes down directly into the vessel inside, wherein the connection penetrates through the flow disturbing plate via a through hole disposed on said flow disturbing plate, wherein the internal diameter of the through hole is approximately equal to the outer diameter of the connection; wherein the automatic filling termination device is located at a position close to a top portion of the cryogenic vessel, so that at least part of the cryogenic medium vapor gathering in the upper portion of the cryogenic vessel is cooled and/or re-liquified by the cryogenic medium splashing down from the flow disturbing plate so as to reduce the pressure in the cryogenic vessel without exhausting any cryogenic medium vapor from the cryogenic vessel. | 49,764 |
8,662,232 | 1. An electric two-wheeled motor vehicle including: an electric motor ( 23 ) for generating power to drive a rear wheel (WR); a battery ( 36 ) for supplying electric power to the electric motor ( 23 ); a rider seat ( 39 ) on which a rider seats; a housing box ( 38 ) disposed below the rider seat ( 39 ); and a side cover ( 48 ) covering the housing box ( 38 ) below the rider seat ( 39 ), the electric two-wheeled motor vehicle configured to allow charging of the battery ( 36 ), characterized in that an insertion-connection direction ( | 13,802 |
9,686,628 | 1. An audio channel control circuit for receiving a first audio signal and a second audio signal, wherein the first audio signal loads a first carrier signal, the second audio signal loads a second carrier signal, and the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal have different phases, the audio channel control circuit comprising: a filter circuit configured to filter the first audio signal and the second audio signal to separate the first carrier signal from the first audio signal and the second carrier signal from the second audio signal; and a determining circuit configured to determine whether the first audio signal belonging to a left audio channel and whether the second audio signal belonging to a right audio channel; generate a first enable signal and a second enable signal; and output the first audio signal and the second audio signal to speakers corresponding to the right audio channel and the left audio channel respectively, according to whether the first audio signal belonging to the left audio channel and whether the second audio signal belonging to the right audio channel, wherein when a high level voltage is an effective enable signal and the first enable signal is the high level voltage and the second enable signal is a low level voltage, the determining circuit is configured to output the first audio signal to a left channel speaker and output the second audio signal to a right channel speaker; and when the high level voltage is the effective enable signal and the first enable signal is the low level voltage and the second enable signal is the high level voltage, the determining circuit is configured to output the first audio signal to the right channel speaker and output the second audio signal to the left channel speaker. | 18,011 |
9,737,868 | 1. A reforming device comprising: a raw material gas supply line configured to supply a raw material gas containing hydrocarbon and sulfur; a first compression unit configured to compress the raw material gas supplied through the raw material gas supply line; a desulfurization unit configured to remove sulfur content contained in the compressed raw material gas; a raw material gas branching line configured to extract a part of the compressed raw material gas from a downstream side of the desulfurization unit, and through which the part of the compressed raw material gas which has been desulfurized in the desulfurization unit is supplied; a reforming unit including a burner, the reformer configured to reform the hydrocarbon in the raw material gas desulfurized in the desulfurization unit to either one or both of H a flue gas discharging line configured to discharge a flue gas, which is generated by combustion in the reforming unit, from the reforming unit; a first heat exchanger that is provided on a junction of the raw material gas supply line and the flue gas discharging line at a downstream side of the first compression unit, configured to heat-exchange the compressed raw material gas with the flue gas supplied through the flue gas discharging line as a heating medium; a fourth heat exchanger that is provided on a junction of the raw material gas supply line and the raw material gas branching line between the first compression unit and the first heat exchanger, configured to heat-exchange the compressed raw material gas with the part of the raw material gas supplied through the raw material gas branching line; a second heat exchanger that is provided on the flue gas discharging line at a downstream side of the first heat exchanger, configured to heat-exchange combustion air used for heating in the reforming unit with the flue gas which has been heat-exchanged in the first heat exchange unit; a third heat exchanger that is provided on the flue gas discharging line between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, configured to heat-exchange feed water to be supplied to a steam generation unit with the flue gas; wherein the raw material gas branching line is connected to the reforming unit to supply the part of the compressed raw material which has been desulfurized to the reforming unit as a combustion fuel for heating therein. | 25,960 |
9,416,801 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a drainage tube having a first end that connects to a structure on an aircraft and a second end opposite the first end; a housing that connects to the structure, wherein the drainage tube is located within the housing; wherein the housing comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge opposite the leading edge, and a side edge facing downward and extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge; a number of inlet holes in the housing though which air flows into the housing during movement of the aircraft; and a number of outlet holes in the side edge of the housing through which the air flows out of the housing during the movement of the aircraft, wherein the air flowing into the housing through the number of inlet holes and out of the housing through the number of outlet holes directs fluid out of the drainage tube and away from the structure during the movement of the aircraft. | 49,972 |
8,454,564 | 1. A device for applying a lock solution in a catheter or access system comprising: a syringe having an expulsion arrangement for expelling the lock solution from the device, said expulsion arrangement including a plunger arranged in a housing of a portion of the syringe; a sterile connector for connecting the syringe to the catheter, the sterile connector being configured to engage a tip end of the syringe when the tip end of the syringe is inserted in the connector, wherein a tip of the expulsion arrangement is configured to be advanced into the connector, wherein the connector is arranged to prevent the tip of the expulsion arrangement from entering the catheter, wherein the tip of the expulsion arrangement is frangible and configured to break off from the expulsion arrangement, and the tip end of the syringe is configured to break off from the syringe, when the syringe is removed from the connector; and a lid coupled to the connector and configured to cover an end of the connector disconnected from the syringe. | 31,048 |
9,449,246 | 1. A method for registering a deformable image to a fixed image, comprising steps: acquiring the deformable image; acquiring the fixed image; generating a multi-resolution multi-level image pyramid for the deformable image; generating a multi-resolution multi-level image pyramid for the fixed image; processing levels of the multi-resolution multi-level image pyramids in a coarse to fine order, and for each deformable image at each level, and for each fixed image at each level: | 44,586 |
9,847,673 | 1. A method of controlling active transfer switches in a datacenter to reduce impact on the provision of services by the datacenter, from electrical power interruptions in the datacenter, the method comprising: obtaining an amount of power being consumed by datacenter hardware from a shared secondary power feed; determining that the shared secondary power feed will be incapable of providing sufficient power to the datacenter hardware if a first primary power feed fails; and generating, in response to the determining, instructions to a first selected set of active transfer switches that switch between a primary power feed and the shared secondary power feed, the instructions instructing the first selected set of active transfer switches to either: | 29,794 |
9,060,474 | 1. A method for growing and harvesting algae comprising: submersing a tufted product in water, wherein the tufted product comprises: allowing algae to grow for a period of time on the tufted product; and removing at least some of the algae from the tufted product. | 20 |
9,060,372 | 1. A method, implemented on a mobile terminal operative in a communications network in which a plurality of accesses are available to the mobile terminal for accessing a network resource, comprising: determining, by the mobile terminal, a set of active rules, each rule specifying respective preferences, at least relatively, for at least some of the plurality of accesses, the rules of the set being potentially in conflict between each other concerning which access is most preferred, and each rule being assigned a rule-based priority value; deriving, by the mobile terminal, from the set of active rules a new rule specifying respective preferences, at least relatively, for at least some of the plurality of accesses by selecting, as the new rule, the active rule having the most preferred rule-based priority value; and selecting an access of the plurality of accesses for use by the mobile terminal based on the new rule. | 3,050 |
9,559,869 | 1. A communication system for facilitating enhanced communications, the system comprising: a first computing device, at a subscriber premises and in communication with a service provider network and a local network, the first computing device participating in an external original voice call for a user of the first computing device over an external session initiation protocol (“SIP”) session, via the service provider network, with an external communication device outside the communication system; and a second computing device, at the subscriber premises and in communication at least with the local network, the second computing device is configured to join the external original voice call between the first computing device and the external communication device via an internal SIP session with the first computing device over the local network; wherein: | 37,901 |
9,761,741 | 1. A film-forming material for forming a light-collecting film on a transparent electrode of a solar cell, the film-forming material comprising: (I) an aromatic group-containing organic polymer compound (A) that is a compound having a fluorene skeleton, having an aromatic cardo structure and a structure of the formula (1), and having a weight average molecular weight of at least 5,000, aromatic cardo structures being linked through a structure containing an ether bond and a thioether bond: bis(4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-butyl-6-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-isobutyl-6-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-t-butyl-6-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-butyl-5-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-isobutyl-5-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-t-butyl-5-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-methyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-ethyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-propyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-isopropyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-butyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-isobutyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-t-butyl-4-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-butyl-6-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-isobutyl-6-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-t-butyl-6-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-butyl-5-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-isobutyl-5-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-t-butyl-5-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-methyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, bis(2-ethyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-propyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-isopropyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-butyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-isobutyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, (2-t-butyl-3-(oxiran)-2-ylmethoxy)phenyl)sulfane, and bis(4-(oxirane-2-ylmethoxy)-2,3-diamyl-phenyl)sulfane; and (II) as a component (C) a compound substituted with a blocked isocyanate group; wherein the film-forming material exhibits an index of refraction of 1.5 to 2.0 at a wavelength of 633 nm and a transmittance of 95% or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 400 nm. | 38,184 |
8,417,882 | 1. A storage device, comprising: one or more flash memory modules; and a storage controller that controls the flash memory modules; wherein, for each of the flash memory modules: the flash memory module includes a flash memory chip, wherein the flash memory chip includes a physical unit memory area for storing data; the flash memory module includes a controller that controls reading and writing of data from and into the flash memory chip; prescribed management information stored in the storage device indicates associations between the physical unit memory area and one or more logical addresses of corresponding logical unit memory areas; and the storage controller controls the flash memory module based on: a use degree, wherein the use degree is a total number of the one or more logical addresses that are associated with the physical unit memory area; and a duplication degree, wherein the duplication degree is a number of the one or more logical addresses associated with the physical unit memory area that are valid. | 16,015 |
9,739,269 | 1. A vacuum generation system, comprising a vacuum pump and an electric motor arranged to drive the pump, wherein the vacuum pump is arranged to be connected also to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle and to be independently driven by either the engine or the motor depending on vacuum conditions in utilising devices and on operating conditions of the internal combustion engine, wherein the system is equipped with a lubricating circuit for the pump including: | 43,143 |
8,390,141 | 1. A hydropower device for generating electric power, comprising: at least a first pipe having an upstream portion and a downstream portion and being arranged to convey water; a first valve member provided at the downstream portion and being adjustable between a closed position hindering the water from exiting the first pipe via the downstream portion and an open position permitting the water to exit the first pipe via the downstream portion; a cylinder member defining a cylindrical inner space and having a first end and a second end, wherein the cylindrical inner space communicates with the first pipe upstream the downstream portion via the first end, and wherein the cylindrical inner space extends away from the first pipe towards the second end along a centre axis (x) and is configured to receive water from the first pipe at least when the first valve member is in the closed position, wherein the device comprises a piston disposed in the cylindrical inner space to be movable back and forth along the centre axis (x) and to be moved towards the second end by means of an overpressure arising at least when the first valve member is in the closed position, and wherein that the piston forms a first part of an electrical linear generator outputting electric power in response to the movement of the piston. | 46,181 |
9,428,896 | 1. A valve, comprising: (a) a valve housing enclosing a flush plate; (b) the valve housing comprising a first opening and a second smaller vent opening; (c) the flush plate comprising a half-moon shape, a first opening, a second smaller vent opening, and an axis of rotation, wherein rotation of the flush plate with respect to the axis of rotation either (i) closes the first and second openings of the housing, (ii) allows the first opening of the housing to be open by aligning the first opening of the housing with the first opening of the flush plate, or (iii) allows the second opening of the housing to be open by aligning the second smaller vent opening of the housing with the second smaller vent opening of the flush plate, such that | 37,360 |
9,708,894 | 1. An apparatus for use in a wellbore, comprising: an occlusion retaining mechanism to retain an occlusion within a chamber of the apparatus; a rupture member associated with the occlusion retaining mechanism; an inertial member configured to puncture the rupture member in response an inertial event to release the occlusion from the occlusion retaining mechanism to deploy the occlusion from the apparatus into the wellbore. | 7,293 |
9,056,486 | 1. An inkjet image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of ink heads that are aligned along a direction perpendicular to a feed direction of print sheet and configured to inject ink droplets with a plurality of density levels; a drive voltage controller configured to adjust density among the plurality of ink heads by controlling each drive voltage of the plurality of ink heads to change amounts of ink droplets injected from nozzles of the plurality of ink heads; a halftone processing controller configured to adjust density by changing the number of ink droplets ejected from each nozzle of the plurality of ink heads by a halftone processing; and a density adjustment controller configured to print a density adjustment pattern by injecting ink droplets from the nozzles of the plurality of ink heads with a single dot pitch to form different printed areas with respect to each of the plurality of density levels and with respect to each of the plurality of inkjet heads, and then scan the density adjustment pattern to calculate an adjustment value for reducing a density difference among the plurality of ink heads with respect to each of the plurality of density levels, wherein the density adjustment controller adjusts density of a lowest density level among the plurality of density levels so that the drive voltage controller controls each drive voltage of the plurality of ink heads based on the adjustment value of the lowest density level, and adjusts density of each density level other than the lowest density level so that the halftone processing controller changes the number of ink droplets injected from each nozzle of the plurality of ink heads by the halftone processing based on the adjustment value of each density level other than the lowest density level and an adjustment result by the drive voltage controller. | 28,728 |
8,633,375 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a textured surface including a plurality of recess portions and a plurality of flat portions distinct from the plurality of recess portions, the plurality of flat portions including first and second flat portions having different widths; an emitter layer in the plurality of recess portions of the semiconductor substrate; a first doping region in the first flat portions of the semiconductor substrate, the first doping region doped with a first conductive type impurity selected from one of p-type and n-type impurities; a second doping region in the second flat portions of the semiconductor substrate, the second doping region doped with a second conductive type impurity selected from one of p-type and n-type impurities that differs from the first conductive type impurity; a first electrode electrically connected to the first doping region on the first flat portions; and a second electrode electrically connected to the second doping region on the second flat portions, wherein the distance between the emitter layer and the first doping region is different from the distance between the emitter layer and the second doping region. | 24,799 |
8,975,874 | 1. A method to adaptively charge a battery, wherein the battery includes at least two terminals, the method comprising: applying a charge signal to the terminals of the battery, wherein the charge signal includes at least one pulse; measuring a voltage at the terminals of the battery, in response to the at least one pulse of the charge signal, including a first voltage; determining data which is representative of a relaxation time of the battery, wherein the relaxation time is an amount of time corresponding to when the voltage at the terminals of the battery, in response to the at least one pulse, decays to at least the first voltage; and adapting one or more characteristics of the charge signal based on or using the relaxation time of the battery. | 20,629 |
9,189,350 | 1. A disk array control apparatus comprising: a host interface unit which receives write data from a host controller; a rebuild control unit which controls rebuild processing for creating recovery data and writing the created recovery data into a disk medium; and a disk control unit which instructs a disk apparatus which includes the disk medium and a cache to write the write data which is received from the host interface unit into the disk medium included in the disk apparatus, and instructs the disk apparatus to write at least a part of the recovery data which is created based on the control of the rebuild control unit into the write cache included in the disk apparatus. | 19,371 |
9,185,978 | 1. A drawer comprising: two side plates; a front plate including an upper joining part, the joining part having an elevation greater than that of either side plate; a rear plate; a bottom; a handle secured to the joining part; and a protective member releasably mounted on the handle and including a covering element on a front surface for covering a portion of the handle, wherein the handle includes a first fastening portion on a rear surface and a second fastening portion formed on the rear surface, the second fastening portion being under the first fastening portion to form a clamping structure; wherein the first fastening portion includes a first fastening member extending downward from an open end, the second fastening portion includes a second fastening member extending upward from an open end, and an elongate rivet hole formed between the first fastening member and the second fastening member; wherein the handle includes a first stop extending downward from a top rear edge, the first stop urging against a bent top of the joining part, and a second stop formed on a bottom end; and wherein the protective member includes a first clamping portion on a top rear edge and having a first fastening element extending downward, and a second clamping portion on a bottom front edge and having a second fastening element extending upward, and wherein the protective member is mounted on the handle by urging the first clamping portion and the first fastening element against the first stop, and by urging the second clamping portion and the second fastening element against the second stop. | 33,371 |
8,787,854 | 1. A method for providing an oscillating signal within a receiver circuit, the method comprising: generating the oscillating signal at an oscillator of the receiver circuit; determining if a data signal has a power level greater than, equal to, or less than a predefined threshold value; activating a first mixer and a first circuitry if the power level is greater than the predefined threshold value, wherein the first mixer is electrically coupled to the oscillator along a first path having the first circuitry, the first path having a first electrical path length; providing the oscillating signal to the first mixer via the first path and down-converting the data signal using the first mixer if the power level is greater than the predefined threshold value; activating a second mixer and a second circuitry if the power level is equal to or less than the predefined threshold value, wherein the second mixer is electrically coupled to the oscillator along a second path having the second circuitry, the second path having a second electrical path length, wherein the first electrical path length is shorter than the second electrical path length; and providing the oscillating signal to the second mixer via the second path and down-converting the data signal using the second mixer if the power level is equal to or less than the predefined threshold value. | 24,228 |
9,797,087 | 1. A coated article, comprising: a first substrate, the first substrate including a first set of functional groups on a surface of the first substrate; a first coating covering at least a portion of the surface of the first substrate, the first coating comprising a binder containing a first functional polymeric phase change material having a block copolymer with a hydrophilic segment and a hydrophobic segment, a plurality of microcapsules dispersed within the binder and comprising a second functional group, the plurality of microcapsules having sizes in the range of 1 micron to 15 microns, the plurality of microcapsules containing a material having the capability of absorbing or releasing heat and having at least one phase change temperature in the range between −10° C. and 100° C., the binder further having a second functional polymeric phase change material and a glass transition temperature in the range of −110° C. to 40° C., at least a portion of the binder exposed to the first substrate; and wherein | 19,756 |
8,686,187 | 1. An ethoxydiphenylethane derivative, characterized in that the structure thereof is shown as the formula (I): wherein R is hydroxy, amino, phosphate, sulfate, choline phosphate, or amino acid side chain and water soluble ammonium salt thereof. | 150 |
9,188,100 | 1. A control apparatus for a hybrid system that output drive force output by an internal combustion engine and drive force output by an electric motor, and that selectively performs an engine operation mode in which at least the internal combustion engine is operated, and an engine operation stop mode in which operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped, the control apparatus comprising: a vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device that captures vaporized fuel generated inside a fuel tank and releases the captured vaporized fuel: and a controller that performs the following control: in cases where release of vaporized fuel captured in the vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device is required, (i) when the internal combustion engine is being operated with an object other than the release of vaporized fuel, starting release of the vaporized fuel if there is no abnormality in the vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device, and continuing operation of the internal combustion engine to release the vaporized fuel until condition for terminating release of the vaporized fuel is satisfied; in cases where release of the vaporized fuel is required, (ii) when the internal combustion engine is not being operated, starting operation of the internal combustion engine and starting release of the vaporized fuel, if there is no abnormality in the vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device; in cases where release of the vaporized fuel is required, (iii) when the internal combustion engine is being operated with the object other than the release of vaporized fuel, prohibiting the release of the vaporized fuel if there is an abnormality in the vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device; and in cases where the release of the vaporized fuel is required, (iv) when the internal combustion engine is not being operated, prohibiting the start of the operation of the internal combustion engine and prohibiting the release of the vaporized fuel, if there is the abnormality in the vaporized-fuel capturing/releasing device. | 10,392 |
9,392,925 | 1. A motor drive device for a washing machine, the motor drive device comprising: a motor controller that generates a drive signal according to a laundry mode signal to control a motor for the washing machine; a single inverter that generates three-phase alternating-current (AC) power according to the drive signal from the motor controller, wherein the single inverter is configured to output the three-phase AC power to a first three-phase stator coil for rotating a first rotor in the motor, and a second three-phase stator coil for rotating a second rotor therein, and wherein the first rotor is coupled to a pulsator of the washing machine and the second rotor is coupled to a dehydrator thereof; and a first rotor drive controller installed between the single inverter and the second three-phase stator coil, wherein the first rotor controller is configured to block or pass the three-phase AC power being applied to the second three-phase stator coil according to the drive signal from the motor controller to rotate the second rotor in a direction opposite to that of the first rotor or stop rotation of the second rotor. | 36,697 |
9,629,091 | 1. A method comprising: after pairing a device with a personal area network (PAN) coordinator of a wireless PAN, transitioning the device from an active state to a sleep state at a first time, wherein the device cannot send or receive data in the sleep state; after transitioning the device from the sleep state to the active state at a second time, sending a poll from the device to the PAN coordinator in response to determining that the wireless PAN is active, wherein the poll prompts the PAN coordinator to determine whether a command is pending for the device; and in response to determining that a message from the PAN coordinator has not been received within a period of time following the poll, transitioning the device from the active state to the sleep state at a third time. | 23,298 |
9,477,378 | 1. A method for providing a user interface, at a first device, the method comprising: generating specific user interfaces dedicated to a second device, wherein the specific user interfaces comprise a first user interface corresponding to the second device, and a plurality of second user interfaces, each of the second user interfaces corresponding to a different category of content dedicated to the second device; displaying the specific user interfaces associated with the second device; receiving a selection of one user interface corresponding to a selected category of content from among the specific user interfaces; displaying, according to the selection, a sharing list of, from among content sharable between the first device and the second device, content corresponding to the selected category; and displaying, when one of a plurality of functions on the displayed sharing list is selected, a user interface for performing the selected function. | 20,974 |
9,028,606 | 1. A cementitious composite product having stone-like properties, the product comprising an extrudable cementitious composition comprised of a hydraulic cement, aggregate, a rheology-modifying agent, and from about 1.5% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) to about 5.0% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) cellulose fibers and from about 1.5% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) to about 3.5% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) polyvinyl alcohol fibers, wherein the composition comprises from 3.5% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) to 8% (by volume of the extrudable cementitious composition) total fibers, the fibers substantially homogeneously distributed through the extrudable cementitious composition, wherein the cementitious composite product has a hardness value of at least 4 MOH and a bulk density of from about 1.3 g/cm 3 to about 2.3 g/cm 3 . | 18,708 |
9,276,432 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a temperature sensing unit to measure a temperature; a comparator configured to output a signal based at least in part on a determination that the temperature measured by the temperature sensing unit satisfies a specified temperature range; and a charger operatively coupled with the comparator, the charger configured to: pause an operation associated with solar battery-based battery charging, based at least in part on the signal output by the comparator; and present a notification associated with the pausing of the operation. | 26,067 |
9,208,910 | 1. An installation for welding structural elements onto guide tubes of a nuclear fuel assembly skeleton, the installation comprising: at least one structure for receiving and holding guide tubes and structural elements; a carriage movable parallel to the guide tubes; at least one welding tool; and a connector connecting the welding tool to the carriage and including six degrees of freedom formed by a plurality of rotary connections defining six respective rotary movements such that the welding tool presents at least seven degrees of freedom relative to the structure, the welding tool being movable by the connector relative to the carriage, at least one of the rotary connections being a double rotary connection, the double rotary connection being a connection which allows rotation about two distinct axes. | 6,525 |
9,334,853 | 1. A system that uses solar radiation for generating electricity comprising: a transpired solar air heating collector device comprising: a heat absorbing roof; an interior space adjacent the heat absorbing roof; and, a plurality of air inlet openings distributed over the heat absorbing roof and configured to allow ambient air to flow from outside the heat absorbing roof into the interior space, a porosity of the heat absorbing roof due to the plurality of air inlet openings being in a range of about 0.25% open area to about 5% open area; a chimney tower extending from the transpired solar air heating collector device and connected to the interior space such that heated air in the interior space flows from the interior space through the chimney tower; and, one or more turbines positioned within one or more of the interior space and the chimney tower and on a path of airflow from the interior space through the chimney tower. | 34,575 |
8,842,882 | 1. A method of making individualized communications, comprising: a) providing one or more images including each of a plurality of individuals; b) automatically extracting one or more individual appearance attributes for each of the individuals from the one or more images including the individual; b) providing a communication that is generic to the individuals; c) using a processor to make an individualized communication for each of the individuals by modifying the generic communication in accordance with the one or more individual appearance attributes associated with the individual; and d) communicating the individualized communication to a corresponding individual. | 38,771 |
8,347,876 | 1. A soft, flexible, temperature regulating and evaporation reducing solar heater for floating on liquid comprising: an inflatable outer ring defining a chamber for holding gas; said ring including: an inflatable central portion disposed centrally said ring including: anchoring means on the bottom of said solar heater for immersion in the liquid for ingress of the liquid for anchoring said solar heater against lifting by wind; wherein: said anchoring means comprises a plurality of elongate tubular sections, each said tubular section attached to said outer ring and including open ends; said open ends of adjacent tubular sections overlapping such that said open end of one said tubular section is inside the adjacent said tubular section. | 27,736 |
9,324,948 | 1. A compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in the above Chemical Formula 1, at least one of X X L n1 to n4 are independently integers of 0 to 3, ETU HTU m1 and m2 are 0 or 1. | 32,511 |
9,739,253 | 1. A system including a rotating body to be submerged in water and extending horizontally along a center axis between a first point on a first side of the rotating body and a second point on a second side of the rotating body opposite the first side, the system comprising: exactly three curved vanes circumscribing the rotating body wherein the exactly three curved vanes, when acted upon by a water flow perpendicular to the center axis, are operable to cause rotation of the rotating body about the center axis, and wherein a cross-section of each vane includes a concave side and a convex side, the convex side curved differently than the concave side, such that: a flow deflector comprising an edge proximate to the rotating body, the flow deflector guiding the water flow into the curved vanes for allowing operation in various water flow speeds ranging from 1 Mile Per Hour (“MPH”) to over 20 MPH; a first side disc centered at the first side of the rotating body; a second side disc oriented parallel to the first side disc and centered at the second side of the rotating body, wherein the first and second side discs each comprise a radius that is greater than a height of each of the three vanes; and an electrical generator coupled to the first side disc, wherein the electrical generator converts rotational energy produced by the rotation of the rotating body about the center axis into electrical energy. | 9,212 |
9,394,871 | 1. A method for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of a cylinder of an engine of a vehicle, comprising: injecting the fuel in the form of four, five or six jets via an injector, wherein a central axis of the injector and a central axis of the cylinder define a first plane, and the central axis of the injector and a surface normal of the first plane define a second plane, generating the four, five or six jets such that at least one jet pair is formed between any two of the four, five or six jets, wherein an angle (φ) between a projection of a central axis of one jet of the at least one jet pair into the second plane and a projection of a central axis of the other jet of the at least one jet pair into the second plane is smaller than 50°. | 15,581 |
9,698,496 | 1. A crimp terminal, comprising a core-wire crimping part configured to be crimped to a core wire including a plurality of strands, the core-wire crimping part being provided, on a surface thereof for arranging the core wire thereon, with elongated serrations that extend in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the core wire, wherein the core-wire crimping part comprises a first bottom part and a pair of first crimping-piece parts extending from both sides of the first bottom part, a surface of the first bottom part and respective surfaces of the pair of first crimping-piece parts facing each other when the core-wire crimping part is crimped to the core wire, the serrations comprise a central serration part provided on the surface of the first bottom part and a pair of end serration parts provided on the respective surfaces of the pair of first crimping-piece parts, the central serration part being discontinuous with the pair of end serration parts, the central serration part and the pair of end serration parts each extending in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the core wire, the central serration part and the pair of end serration parts are arranged at respective positions deviated from each other in the axial direction of the core wire, each of the central serration part and the pair of end serration parts has a protruding cross-sectional shape, and the protruding cross-sectional shape has an edge that extends in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the core wire, the edge having a tip configured to dig into ones of the plurality of strands of the core wire when the core-wire crimping part is crimped to the core wire so as to increase an agglutination between the core-wire crimping part and the core wire. | 28,430 |
8,551,315 | 1. A method for forming a three-dimensional structure, comprising: (A) forming a plurality of successively formed layers, wherein each successive layer comprises at least two materials and is formed on and adhered to a previously formed layer, one of the at least two materials is a structural material and the other of the at least two materials is a sacrificial material, and wherein each successive layer defines a successive cross-section of the three-dimensional structure, and wherein the forming of each of the plurality of successive layers comprises: (i) depositing a first of the at least two materials; (ii) depositing a second of the at least two materials; (iii) planarizing the first and second materials to set a boundary level for the layer; and (B) after the forming of the plurality of successive layers, separating at least a portion of the sacrificial material from multiple layers of the structural material to reveal the three-dimensional structure, wherein the forming of at least a portion of the plurality of successively formed layers results in the complete encapsulation of at least one deposited core material by at least one deposited structural material different than the core material that is not removed by the separating step as exposed sacrificial material is removed such that the at least one completely encapsulated material becomes a part of the three-dimensional structure, and wherein at least one of the deposited materials is deposited by electrodeposition. | 16,525 |
8,993,468 | 1. A catalyst for conversion of hydrocarbons comprising: a) a medium pore zeolite having germanium incorporated into the zeolite framework, wherein the zeolite is non-acidic; and a metal selected from Group 10 deposited on the medium pore zeolite; and wherein the zeolite is MEL, BEA, MWW, MTW, ZSM-48, or FER. | 26,226 |
8,614,565 | 1. A method of absorbing energy from regenerative braking, comprising: sensing a charge state of a battery; transferring an electric current from the regenerative braking to a thermoelectric module; adjusting a polarity of the electric current to control a heat transfer between the thermoelectric module and the battery when the sensed charge state is less than or equal to a maximum charge state of the battery; and adjusting the polarity of the electric current to cause the thermoelectric module to absorb heat from the battery when the sensed charge state is greater than the maximum charge state of the battery. | 19,111 |
8,826,903 | 1. A heat utilization installation, particularly for buildings, especially apartment buildings, comprising: several heat sources ( a heat transport circuit system ( a single central circulating pump unit ( each of the jet pumps ( suction connection (b) of one of said jet pumps ( wherein each jet pump ( wherein the control member is controllable, by a control unit, whereby each respective heat source ( | 14,406 |
9,652,903 | 1. A controller for determining a wheel end condition comprising: a plurality of wheel speed sensor inputs for receiving wheel speed sensor signals from a plurality of associated wheel speed sensors installed at associated wheel ends; an input for receiving an indication of brake actuation; and a processor with control logic, the control logic operative for: | 29,882 |
9,074,506 | 1. A structure for operating a system for utilizing exhaust heat of a vehicle, comprising: a high-temperature part which includes an exhaust pipe through which high-temperature exhaust gas selectively passes, and a bypass passage which is installed in the exhaust pipe and through which the exhaust gas is selectively bypassed; a thermoelectric element which is attached to an exterior of the exhaust pipe, and generates electricity using a thermoelectric effect; a low-temperature part which is attached to an exterior of the thermoelectric element in a longitudinal direction and in which a coolant flows; a first exhaust gas passage which is installed in the low-temperature part in a longitudinal direction and has both ends connected to the exhaust pipe, and through which the high-temperature exhaust gas selectively passes to heat the coolant; a first valve which is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the exhaust pipe, and formed to selectively open or close one end of the first exhaust gas passage; a second exhaust gas passage which is formed in a space between the inner circumferential surface of the exhaust pipe and an outer circumferential surface of the bypass passage; a second valve which is disposed at a rear end of the bypass passage, coupled to a valve shaft, which is coupled to a side surface of the bypass passage, and installed to be rotatable on the basis of the valve shaft; and an operating unit which has one end connected to the first valve, and the other end connected to a motor and the valve shaft to allow the first valve to be moved in front and rear directions, and to allow the second valve to be rotated on the basis of the valve shaft, by rotation of the motor. | 2,478 |
8,609,910 | 1. A process for producing low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil comprising contacting a carbonaceous biomass feedstock with a microporous crystalline zeolitic catalyst at pyrolysis conditions to produce pyrolysis gases comprising hydrocarbons, the catalyst catalyzing a deoxygenation reaction converting at least a portion of the oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons and removing the oxygen as carbon oxides and water; and condensing a condensable portion of the pyrolysis gases to produce low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil; wherein the catalyst comprises: a. a catalyst comprising a coherently grown composite of TUN and IMF zeotypes having a three-dimensional framework of at least AlO wherein the catalyst is further characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d-spacings and intensities set forth in Table A1: | 2,578 |
9,196,845 | 1. A compound that is represented by the following Formula 1: wherein R at least one of the following groups: (1) R the remains are each independently -(L2)r-(Y2)s, r is an integer in the range of 0 to 10, and s is an integer in the range of 1 to 10, X is -(A) A is a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted biphenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted naphthylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted anthracenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted alkenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenylene group; or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group that comprises one or more of N, O and S atoms, B is deuterium; halogen group; nitrile group; nitro group; hydroxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group; substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkylthioxy group; substituted or unsubstituted arylthioxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkylsulfoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted arylsulfoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted silyl group; substituted or unsubstituted boron group; substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted terphenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted stilbenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl group; substituted or unsubstituted anthryl group; substituted or unsubstituted phenanthryl group; substituted or unsubstituted perylenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted chrysenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl group; or substituted or unsubstituted hetero ring group having one or more of N, O, and S atoms, L1 and L2 are the same as or different from each other, and are each independently substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted biphenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted naphthylene group; substituted or unsubstituted anthracenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted fluorenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted alkenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted fluorenylene group; substituted or unsubstituted carbazolylene group; or substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group having one or more of N, O, and S atoms, Y1 is substituted or unsubstituted carbazole group, substituted or unsubstituted benzocarbazole group, or a substituent group represented by the following: Y2 is hydrogen; deuterium; halogen group; nitrile group; nitro group; hydroxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group; substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkylthioxy group; substituted or unsubstituted arylthioxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkylsulfoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted arylsulfoxy group; substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted silyl group; substituted or unsubstituted boron group; substituted or unsubstituted alkylamine group; substituted or unsubstituted aralkylamine group; substituted or unsubstituted arylamine group; substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted terphenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted stilbenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl group; substituted or unsubstituted anthryl group; substituted or unsubstituted phenanthryl group; substituted or unsubstituted perylenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted chrysenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl group; substituted or unsubstituted carbazole group; or substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group; or substituted or unsubstituted hetero ring group having one or more of N, O, and S atoms; in the case of when two or more A, B, L1, L2, Y1 or Y2 are provided, they may be the same as or different from each other and wherein “substituted or unsubstituted” means that it is substituted by one or more substituent groups that are selected from the group consisting of deuterium, halogen group, nitrile group, nitro group, hydroxy group, alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkenyl group, alkoxy group, aryloxy group, thioxy group, alkylthioxy group, arylthioxy group, sulfoxy group, alkylsulfoxy group, arylsulfoxy group, silyl group, boron group, arylamine group, aralkylamine group, alkylamine group, phenyl group, biphenyl group, terphenyl group, stilbenyl group, naphthyl group, anthryl group, phenanthryl group, perylenyl group, chrysenyl group, fluorenyl group, carbazole group, arylalkyl group, arylalkenyl group, hetero ring group and acetylene group, or it does not have any substituent group. | 48,633 |
9,114,781 | 1. A moving body comprising: a storage vessel that stores a fuel gas; a pressure detection means for detecting a pressure inside of the storage vessel; a temperature detection means for detecting a temperature of the storage vessel; a transmitting means for externally transmitting a data signal generated based on the pressure and the temperature thus detected; a communication electric power supply means for providing an electric power source that supplies electric power to the transmitting means; and a control means for selectively executing, as a method of filling fuel gas from an external supply device to the storage vessel, communicative filling that transmits the data signal from the transmitting means to the supply device and allows the fuel gas to be filled by way of the supply device into the storage vessel at a flowrate dependent on the pressure and the temperature; and non-communicative filling that allows the fuel gas to be filled by the supply device into the storage vessel at a predetermined flowrate, wherein the control means comprises: a communication continuation determination means for determining, while executing communicative filling, whether continued execution of the communicative filling is possible; and a filling method switching means for interrupting communicative filling during execution, and continuing filling of the fuel gas by switching the filling method to non-communicative filling, in response to the communication continuation determination means having determined that continuation of communicative filling is not possible. | 36,044 |
8,448,636 | 1. An intubation device, comprising: an intubation tube having a cuff coupled thereto; and an intubation aide coupled to the cuff and configured to control a state of the cuff as a function of the cuff's interaction with a lumen of a subject, wherein the intubation aide includes a placement analyzer configured to detect which lumen, trachea or esophagus, the intubation tube has been inserted, and to control a state of the cuff as a function of the lumen detected, and wherein the placement analyzer is further configured to calculate a differential between fore and aft pressures of the cuff, a positive differential indicating the intubation tube is located in the trachea and a negative differential indicating the intubation tube is located in the esophagus. | 48,023 |
8,950,099 | 1. A collapsible stock assembly for a firearm, the assembly comprising: a stock body having a buffer tube passage defined therein extending in an axial direction, a buffer tube insertion opening being defined on a forward end of the stock body to allow insertion of a rear end of a firearm buffer tube therein in the axial direction, the buffer tube passage being dimensioned to slidably accommodate at least a portion of the buffer tube therein, the stock body also defining an adjustment slit extending axially rearwards from the buffer tube insertion opening and communicating with a forward portion of buffer tube passage and extending radially outward therefrom; a first adjustment mechanism carried by the stock body, and including a buffer tube engagement element displaceable into the buffer tube passage and a first operating lever operable to selectively position the buffer tube engagement element; and a second adjustment mechanism carried by the stock body, and including a second operating lever having a stock body engagement portion, the second operating lever operable to selectively engage the stock body with the stock body engagement portion to compress the adjustment slit. | 8,244 |
9,085,862 | 1. A spreader assembly comprising: a hopper comprising: an inner surface defining a receptacle; an outer surface; first and second chambers formed between the inner surface and the outer surface on opposite sides of the receptacle; a first aperture formed on the outer surface that communicates with the receptacle; and, a second aperture formed on the outer surface that communicates with the first and second chambers; wherein the first and second apertures extend to an intake of a chute assembly; a first mechanism that: the hopper supports to a bed of an associated pick-up truck; and, moves an associated solid material from the receptacle to the first aperture; a second mechanism that: is supported to the hopper; and, moves an associated liquid material from the first and second chambers to the second aperture; wherein the hopper is a one piece plastic component formed in a rotational molding operation; and, wherein the hopper is an insert hopper sized and shaped to be received on a bed of an associated pick-up truck. | 23,907 |
9,270,504 | 1. A power encoder, comprising: a pulse width modulator for modulating a signal according to a set of thresholds including at least five voltage thresholds to produce a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal having at least five levels; and a switch mode power amplifier for amplifying the PWM signal by switching states of switching devices according to amplitudes of the PWM signal, wherein at least one or combination of a distribution of values of the voltage thresholds in the set and a distribution of values of a current generated by different switching devices are non-uniform, wherein in the non-uniform distribution of values of the voltage thresholds a distance between values of a first pair of neighboring voltage thresholds does not equal a distance between values of a second pair of neighboring voltage thresholds; wherein the set of threshold includes a first voltage thresholds V wherein the power amplifier includes a first switching device for generating a current with a first value I wherein the power amplifier includes a second switching device for generating a current with a second value I | 23,929 |
9,484,841 | 1. An inverter device that converts an input direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage and outputs the alternating current voltage, the inverter device comprising: a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding that are magnetically coupled with each other; a capacitor that is connected in series with the primary winding; a first switching element that is connected in series with the primary winding; a second switching element that is connected in series with the first switching element and is connected in parallel with the serially connected primary winding and capacitor; a switching circuit that is connected in series with the secondary winding and is conductive in two directions with respect to the secondary winding; and a controller configured and programmed to turn the first switching element, the second switching element and the switching circuit on and off; wherein the controller is configured and programmed to alternately turn the first switching element and the second switching element on, to turn the switching circuit on in an off period of the first switching element or the second switching element, to set an on period of the first switching element or the second switching element to be a fixed period that is equal to or more than half a period of resonance generated by the capacitor and a leakage inductance of the transformer, and to turn the switching circuit on in the on period of the first switching element or the second switching element, which has a fixed on period. | 22,594 |
9,366,600 | 1. A method of inspecting a component located on a rotor rotating about an axis internal to a turbine, comprising: providing an elongated probe defining a probe length and having a one-dimensional pixel array formed by a plurality of pixels extending single file along the probe length; positioning the probe through an access port in a casing of the turbine; rotating the rotor to move the component past the pixel array; receiving at the pixel array energy emitted from an image area defined by a line extending along the component and lying in a plane extending parallel to radial and axial directions in the turbine; conveying an intensity-based signal from each pixel in the pixel array to a processor to convert the intensity-based signals to an intensity-based line image; and converting a succession of the intensity-based line images into a cohesive two-dimensional digital image of the component. | 11,223 |
9,180,347 | 1. A golf ball comprising: a single layer core and a cover layer disposed about the single layer core, the single layer core being formed from a substantially homogenous formulation and comprising a geometric center and an outer surface wherein a hardness of the outer surface is greater than a hardness of the geometric center; the single layer core further comprising an inner core region disposed about the geometric center, an outer core region adjacent the outer surface, and an intermediate core region disposed between the inner and outer core regions and extending radially from about 5 mm to about 15.75mm from the geometric center; wherein the inner core region has a first hardness and the outer core region has a second hardness; and wherein the intermediate core region has a third hardness, a fourth hardness and a plurality of hardnesses extending between the third hardness and the fourth hardness; the first hardness being less than the hardness of the geometric center and the hardness of the outer surface; the second hardness being greater than the hardness of the geometric center and the hardness of the outer surface; the third hardness being substantially the same as the first hardness and less than the second hardness; the fourth hardness being greater than the first hardness and less than the second hardness; and the plurality of hardnesses increasing from the third hardness to the fourth hardness. | 44,507 |
9,596,652 | 1. A wireless device, comprising: a cellular module comprising a transmitter and a receiver; and one or more processors coupled to the cellular module, the one or more processors to: | 15,167 |
8,558,381 | 1. A vertical semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a lower electrode including a first layer in contact with a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second layer in contact with a lower surface of the first layer, and a third layer stacked at a position farther from the semiconductor substrate than the second layer, wherein: the first layer is an aluminum layer containing silicon; the second layer is a layer including silicon; and the third layer is a solder joint layer. | 25,418 |
8,898,386 | 1. A volume group power control system comprising: an array controller to organize a plurality of drive systems into a plurality of logical volume groups and to store group data identifying each of the plurality of logical volume groups, each of the logical volume groups comprising a plurality of the drive systems, the array controller comprising a power management component to monitor activity of each of the plurality of drive systems in each of the plurality of logical volume groups to determine an aggregate status for each of the plurality of logical volume groups by aggregating statuses of each of the drive systems in a respective logical volume group and to deactivate the plurality of drive systems associated with a given one of the plurality of logical volume groups to a lower power state in response to the power management component determining based on the aggregate status for the given one of the plurality of logical volume groups that the plurality of drive systems associated with the given one of the plurality of logical volume groups is substantially inactive for a predetermined amount of time. | 3,211 |
9,516,119 | 1. A system to migrate network services from a first network infrastructure to a second network infrastructure, the system comprising: the first network infrastructure comprising a first set of circuits providing voice and data services over a network to customer premises; and a service provider network migration system including at least one inventory and provisioning server to capture data from the plurality of circuits in the first network infrastructure and to configure circuits in the second network infrastructure, wherein the service provider network migration system includes at least one migration sequencing server to access one or more databases storing wherein the migration sequencing server comprises: a simulator determining forecasts for customer migration rate and revenue generation for the target services based on the migration plan, historic customer migration data and attributes of customers subscribed to the voice and data services provided in the first network infrastructure; and a scenario plan scorer generating scores for the migration plan based on metrics determined for the migration plan and the forecasts, wherein the metrics include at least a plurality of: customer migration impact level, complexity for migration to the second network infrastructure, size based on number of circuits in the second network infrastructure, migration costs, salvage recovery, and return on investment; wherein if the migration plan is selected for implementation based on the forecasts, the inventory and provisioning server configures parameters for the circuits in the second network infrastructure via a network according to the migration plan to deploy the target services in the second network infrastructure. | 35,587 |
8,800,528 | 1. An internal combustion engine including at least one cylinder with longitudinally-separated exhaust and intake ports, and a pair of pistons disposed in opposition to one another in a bore of the cylinder, in which a combustion chamber having an elongated ellipsoidal shape is defined between opposing end surfaces of the pistons, and the end surface of at least one of the pistons has a circumferential area defining a periphery of the end surface and a bowl within the periphery, the bowl defining a concave surface with a first portion curving inwardly from a plane containing the circumferential area toward the interior of the piston and a second portion curving outwardly from the interior of the piston through the plane containing the circumferential area. | 28,482 |
8,989,988 | 1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a fuel injection valve that injects fuel into an intake passage or into a cylinder; a valve stop mechanism that is capable of changing an operating state of at least one valve among an intake valve and an exhaust valve between a valve operating state and a closed-valve stopped state; fuel-cut operation execution means that executes a fuel-cut operation in a case where a predetermined execution condition is established during operation of the internal combustion engine; valve stopping execution means that executes valve stopping control that changes an operating state of the at least one valve from the valve operating state to the closed-valve stopped state at a time of execution of the fuel-cut operation; fuel-cut operation return request detection means that detects a request to return from the fuel-cut operation; valve return execution means that, when the request to return from the fuel-cut operation is detected, in synchrony with or in advance of an operation to resume fuel injection, executes a valve return operation that changes the operating state of the at least one valve from the closed-valve stopped state to the valve operating state; and return-time air-fuel ratio setting means that sets an in-cylinder target air-fuel ratio in initial return cycles that corresponds to an initial at least two cycles at a time of return from the fuel-cut operation, wherein the target air-fuel ratio is set so that respective air-fuel ratios of air-fuel mixtures of fuel and air injected into a same cylinder for respective cycles during the initial return cycles each become a value that falls within a combustible range, and is also set so that even if a total amount of fuel that is injected into a same cylinder for the initial return cycles is supplied into the cylinder during an arbitrary single cycle, an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture of the total amount of fuel and air becomes a value that falls within the combustible range. | 2,851 |
9,350,287 | 1. A vehicle having a multiphase electric machine comprising a first onboard power subsystem provided with a first nominal DC voltage level, and a second onboard power subsystem provided with a second nominal DC voltage level, wherein the electric machine comprises a rotor, a first stator system, and a second stator system, the first onboard power subsystem comprises a first inverter having a first intermediate circuit capacitor, the first stator system is dedicated to the first inverter, the second onboard power subsystem comprises a second inverter having a second intermediate circuit capacitor, and the second stator system is dedicated to the second inverter, wherein the first stator system is configured in a star connection, the second stator system is configured in a star connection, and a transfer circuit connects the star point of the first stator system to the star point of the second stator system, wherein the transfer circuit comprises a first diode and a second diode, wherein the first diode and the second diode are series connected in opposite directions. | 23,490 |
8,557,402 | 1. A compound having the formula L 2 MX, wherein: M is iridium; L is an aromatic, monoanionic bidentate ligand, which is bonded to M through an sp X is a monoanionic bidentate ligand; L and X are inequivalent; and the X ligand is not picolinic acid or an amino acid. | 39,617 |
8,638,581 | 1. An inverter, comprising: two input lines configured to connect to a DC voltage source; two half-bridges connected to the two input lines, wherein the two half-bridges are connected together in parallel; and two output lines configured to connect to an alternating current load or an AC power grid; wherein each half-bridge comprises two pulse-operated switches with reverse connected diodes, and wherein a first output line of the two output lines is connected to a center point of a first half-bridge of the two half-bridges via a first inductance, and a second output line of the two output lines is connected to a center point of a second half-bridge of the two half-bridges via a second inductance, and wherein both of the two output lines are connected to a same one of the two input lines via a respective one further pulse-operated switch, and wherein the connection of the further pulse-operated switches to the two output lines is behind the first and second inductances, respectively, with respect to the first and second half-bridges, respectively, wherein the controller is configured to pulse-operate the switches of the half-bridges in a criss-cross manner at a frequency that is a multiple greater than the output frequency of the inverter and keep open the two further pulse-operated switches, in an operation mode of the inverter for outputting reactive power. | 35,715 |
9,313,842 | 1. A method of establishing and maintaining a constant LED output of plurality of series connected LED power supplies, the method comprising: receiving a communication from an external device via a first communication port; adjusting via an adjusting element the current from a first switch mode power supply controller to at least one LED light source comprising at least one diode, wherein the adjusting element fixes the current at a level for producing a predefined brightness from said at least one LED light source; and relaying the communication via a second communication port to a second switch mode power supply controller and outputting an essentially constant light level output across a system of switch mode power supply controllers connected in series. | 6,128 |
8,401,127 | 1. A method of decoding a signal transmitted via a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication channel, the method comprising: receiving a data symbol vector comprising a plurality of data symbols that are received via different spatial streams, wherein the received data symbol vector corresponds to a transmitted data symbol vector comprising a plurality of transmitted data symbols corresponding to the plurality of data symbols; estimating one or more respective values for transmitted data symbols in a first group of one or more transmitted data symbols using a hard-decision technique, wherein the first group of one or more transmitted data symbols is of the plurality of transmitted data symbols; and calculating, using a soft decision technique, likelihood values for bits in a second group of one or more transmitted data symbols based on the estimated one or more respective values of the one or more transmitted data symbols in the first group of one or more transmitted data symbols, wherein the second group of one or more transmitted data symbols is of the plurality of transmitted data symbols, and wherein the first group of one or more transmitted data symbols and the second group of one or more transmitted data symbols do not include common transmitted data symbols. | 21,087 |
8,688,061 | 1. A system for biasing a power amplifier, comprising: a power amplifier having a driver stage and an output stage, the driver stage having a plurality of driver devices; a bias current source configured to deliver a bias current to each of the plurality of driver devices; and a current directing element configured to receive the bias current and selectively bias each of the plurality of driver devices based on a reference voltage and a system voltage. | 1,651 |
9,472,694 | 1. An article comprising an up-converting electrode, wherein the up-converting electrode consists essentially of: a material that is capable of up-converting light having a wavelength greater than about 730 nanometers to light having a wavelength that is less than 730 nanometers; and metallic nanowires having a plasmonic resonance that overlaps at least one of an absorption or emission of the material that is capable of up-converting light, wherein the metallic nanowires and the material that is capable of up-converting light are intermingled with one another forming a substantially uniform, electrically conductive, single layer hybrid film that is capable of functioning as an electrical contact for withdrawing charge from the article. | 2,334 |
9,850,854 | 1. A method for controlling an engine for a vehicle to ensure a stable driving state of the engine on an electrical failure of a Purge Control Solenoid Valve (PCSV), comprising: determining, by a controller, whether a situation of the electrical failure in which an opening state of the PCSV is held is detected; increasing, by the controller, a failure detecting counter to a first reference value, when the situation is still detected under the determining; and compensating, by the controller, a rotation number of the engine to increase the rotation number of the engine when an accumulated value of the failure detecting counter exceeds the first reference value under the increasing, wherein the first reference value is set to be smaller than a second reference value which is provided for determining the electrical failure of the PCSV. | 45,378 |
9,252,775 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an input driver comprising a first signal conditioning unit operating on a first power supply level, the first signal conditioning unit comprising a first logic gate and a second logic gate to input an input signal and to generate a first differential signal and a second differential signal based on the input signal, wherein an output of the first logic gate is input to the second logic gate and is used to generate the first differential signal, and wherein an output of the second logic gate is input to the first logic gate and is used to generate the second differential signal; a circuit to receive the first differential signal and the second differential signal and to provide a second signal based at least in part on the first differential signal and the second differential signal, the second signal being level-shifted from the first power supply level to a second power supply level; and an output driver including a second signal conditioning unit, the output driver to receive the second signal and for conditioning the second signal as a third signal, the output driver operating on the second power supply level and for driving out the third signal. | 19,769 |
8,493,074 | 1. An electrical hand-held device that can be placed on a surface, comprising at least a transmission electrode, a reception electrode and a compensation electrode arranged between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode, with which an approach of a hand to the hand-held device is detectable, wherein from the transmission electrode a first alternating electric field and from the compensation electrode a second alternating electric field can be radiated wherein the first alternating electric field with respect to the second alternating electric field is phase-delayed and wherein the alternating electric fields can be coupled into the surface and into the reception electrode, wherein the alternating electric fields coupled to reception electrode generate a current in the reception electrode that is representative of an approach of a hand to the hand-held device, wherein the transmission electrode and the reception electrode on the hand-held device are arranged so that the sum of the impedances between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode that consist of | 5,573 |
8,366,410 | 1. An apparatus for converting kinetic energy, comprising: a) a plurality of cylinders connected to receive a first fluid at a first pressure and to supply the first fluid at a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure; b) a plurality of piston-heads, each of the plurality of piston-heads being operable to traverse within a respective one of the plurality of cylinders to receive, pressurize and supply the first fluid; and c) a piston rod assembly connected to urge a subset of the plurality of piston-heads to traverse in response to the kinetic energy, wherein the aggregate piston-head area of the members of the subset increases as a function of the energy being converted, wherein the plurality of cylinders, the plurality of piston-heads and the piston rod in combination comprise a piston assembly. | 7,240 |
9,811,149 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a first controller that outputs a transition signal that indicates a transition to a power-saving mode in which power consumption is reduced compared to a normal mode; a second controller that outputs instruction information that indicates an instruction provided from the first controller before the transition signal is output on a basis of the transition signal output from the first controller, wherein the instruction information includes an instruction specified by the first controller as having a high order of priority, wherein the instruction having the high order of priority includes an emergency reception command registration command for registering an emergency reception command in a driver for a device, and the emergency reception command is stored in an emergency cue executed in priority to a normal cue that stores a normal command; and a shared memory that is connected to the first controller and the second controller to be shared and that stores the instruction information output from the second controller even after a transition is made to the power-saving mode. | 35,524 |
9,335,873 | 1. A method for detecting a touch input comprising: in response to measuring a touch input on a display, generating a first matrix comprising a plurality of first measurements associated with a plurality of capacitive nodes of a touch sensor, wherein each of the plurality of first measurements is indicative of a capacitance associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of capacitive nodes; estimating an amount of retransmission associated with the touch input by performing operations comprising: generating a revised indication of the touch input based on the first matrix and the second matrix. | 14,560 |
9,081,907 | 1. An electronic device configured to operate using a M-PHY standard, comprising: a communications interface having a plurality of data paths conforming to the M-PHY standard; and a PCI-based connector having a plurality of pins, comprising: | 25,964 |
9,168,932 | 1. A charge control apparatus for a train set including a plurality of locomotives, wherein each locomotive includes a generator, a battery, and a motor supplied with power from the generator and the battery, and in each of the locomotives power generated by at least one of the generator and the motor is utilized to charge the battery, and wherein the plurality of locomotives are connected and the batteries of the locomotives are mutually independent, said charge control apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire charge information indicating a charge condition of the battery from each locomotive; and a charge amount control unit configured to control a charge amount of each battery using the charge information; wherein the charge information includes a state of charge of the battery, and when there is a difference between the states of charge of the batteries, the charge amount control unit control controls the charge amount of each battery to reduce the difference between the states of charge of the batteries; wherein the charge amount control unit operates the motor of one of the locomotives, as power of the train set, having a largest state of charge among the batteries of the plurality of the locomotives, during running of the train set; and wherein the charge amount control unit charges the battery of one of the locomotives having a smallest state of charge among the batteries of the plurality of the locomotives. | 19,358 |
8,902,177 | 1. A method of fabricating a touch screen panel, the method comprising: performing a reinforcing process on whole surfaces of a glass substrate in preparation for forming a plurality of touch screen panels to produce a reinforced glass substrate; cutting the reinforced glass substrate into unit cells; performing a healing process on an unreinforced cutting section of the glass substrate exposed after the cutting, forming the touch screen panels in the unit cells. | 27,582 |
8,915,981 | 1. A method for producing methane from biomass comprising the steps of: a) hydropyrolyzing biomass in a hydropyrolysis reactor vessel containing molecular hydrogen and a deoxygenating catalyst, producing a hydropyrolysis product comprising char and vapors; b) separating said char from said hydropyrolysis product, producing a reduced char hydropyrolysis product; c) hydroconverting said reduced char hydropyrolysis product in a hydroconversion reactor vessel using a hydroconversion catalyst, producing a hydroconversion product; d) separating from said hydroconversion product condensed liquid water and a gaseous mixture comprising CO e) introducing at least a first portion of said gaseous mixture as a feed to a steam reformer, producing reformer CO f) introducing at least a second portion of said gaseous mixture to a methanation reactor, forming additional methane, | 22,386 |
9,383,747 | 1. A production facility for automatically manufacturing parts, comprising: a pallet carousel section for manufacturing reinforced concrete parts on pallets, said pallet carousel facility being configured to form a differently-formed one of the concrete parts on each of at least half of said pallets of said pallet carousel facility; a reinforcement section for manufacturing reinforcement parts having different forms; sensors and control elements; an electronic control computer connected to said sensors and control elements and configured to control a production functional sequence; a first display device for schematically graphically representing said production facility and for schematically graphically representing current status data of said production facility; a mass data storage device for storing status data of said production facility in a time-indexed manner over a period of time extending beyond a production time for any one of the parts, the status data comprising data assigned to said pallets of said pallet carousel facility including CAD data; and an electronic computer unit and a second display device for retrieving and displaying historical status data stored in said mass data storage device, together with a schematic graphical representation of said production facility. | 1,268 |
8,420,413 | 1. A method for manufacturing a pixel structure on a substrate, comprising: forming an active device, a scan line, and a bottom conductive wire on the substrate, wherein the active device is electrically connected to the scan line; forming an upper conductive wire and a shielding electrode, wherein the shielding electrode is disposed over the bottom conductive wire, and the upper conductive wire is electrically connected to the active device; and forming a pixel electrode over part of the shielding electrode and electrically connected to the active device, wherein part of the pixel electrode and part of the shielding electrode formed a storage capacitor. | 8,791 |
9,493,655 | 1. A composition for the filling of at least one of joints and cracks, comprising: at least one bitumen at a quantity in a range of about 30% by weight to about 75% by weight; at least one elastomer selected from a group consisting of styrene butadiene copolymers, styrene butadiene styrene (block) copolymers, styrene isoprene (block) copolymers, styrene isoprene styrene (block) copolymers, and synthetic and/or natural rubbers at a quantity in a range of about 2.5% by weight to about 22% by weight; at least one powdery mineral filler at a quantity in a range of about 12% by weight to about 35% by weight; at least one fibrous suspending agent to adjust firmness, selected from a group consisting of cellulose, glass fibers and plastic fibers at a quantity in a range of about 0.5% by weight to about 5% by weight; and at least one polymer made from an olefin and one α, β-unsaturated carbon acid and/or α, β-unsaturated carbon acid anhydride, at a quantity in a range of about 0.1% by weight to about 8% by weight. | 16,814 |
8,342,839 | 1. An assembly for hanging a candle comprising: a bottle having a walled main bottle cavity, a bottleneck opening, a bottleneck diameter and length, a bottleneck cavity and an open bottom; a hanging assembly including: | 27,064 |
9,483,103 | 1. A method for managing a computing machine comprising: powering a memory to retain a process state of the computing machine if the computing machine is in a sleep state, the sleep state comprising an S3 sleep state according to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specifications; transferring the process state from the memory to a non-volatile storage device; and writing the process state from the non-volatile storage device to the memory if the computing machine is resuming to a power on state; wherein the computing machine remains in the S3 sleep state as the process state is transferred from the memory to the non-volatile storage device, and wherein the computing machine does not load a BIOS of the computing machine when resuming to the power on state. | 9,975 |
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