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8,359,248 | 1. A method for configuring one or more independent, pre-existing emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) distributed amongst one or more locations within a site to provide an emergency power management system (EPMS), the EPMS comprising one or more EPSS's, EPMS hardware and data acquisition equipment required for configuring the EPMS, an EPMS management computer system for managing operational characteristics of the EPMS, and at least one interface module operatively connected to the EPSS's for normalizing and transmitting information between the EPSS's and the EPMS management computer system, comprising the steps of: receiving EPSS inventory information at the EPMS management computer system, the EPSS inventory information including information corresponding to properties of one or more items of EPSS equipment that are physically present in the one or more locations within the site; storing the EPSS inventory information for the one or more items of EPSS equipment in one or more databases; determining via the EPMS management computer system each specific item of EPSS equipment at the site based on the properties of the one or more items of EPSS equipment identified from the EPSS inventory information; for each specific item of EPSS equipment, retrieving a predefined equipment profile corresponding to the specific item of EPSS equipment, wherein the predefined equipment profile indicates EPMS hardware and data acquisition equipment required for incorporating the specific item of EPSS equipment into the EPMS and enabling collection of EPSS operational data from the one or more items of EPSS equipment; based on each retrieved predefined equipment profile corresponding to each specific item of EPSS equipment: based on each retrieved predefined equipment profile corresponding to each specific item of EPSS equipment, the one or more order documents, and the management software configuration file, configuring one or more interface modules for operatively connecting each specific item of EPSS equipment to the EPMS management computer system, wherein the one or more interface modules are configured to receive EPSS operational data from the one or more items of EPSS equipment, normalize the EPSS operational data into a predetermined format, and communicate the normalized EPSS operational data to the EPMS management computer system, whereby the EPMS hardware and data acquisition equipment, the one or more order documents, and the one or more configured interface modules enable configuration of the EPMS. | 13,222 |
8,550,777 | 1. A wind turbine blade and blade element combination comprising: a wind turbine blade ( 10 ) having a longitudinal direction (L) and a chord extending transversely to the longitudinal direction between a leading edge ( 18 ) and a trailing edge ( 20 ), the blade ( 10 ) comprising an airfoil profile with a thickness between a suction side and a pressure side along at least a part of the longitudinal direction and with a position of maximum thickness between the leading edge and the trailing edge, and a blade element ( 42 ; 44 ; 46 ; 48 ; 150 ; 250 ; 350 ) mounted at the trailing edge ( 20 ) of the blade ( 10 ) in a first longitudinal part of the wind turbine blade ( 10 ), characterised in that the blade element ( 10 ) has a shape so that, when mounted in a first longitudinal part of the wind turbine blade ( 10 ), it changes the profile of the first longitudinal part from a first airfoil profile ( 100 ; 200 ; 300 ) with an essentially pointed trailing edge ( 100 ; 200 ; 300 ) and a first chord length (c 11 ; c 21 ; c 31 ) to a changed airfoil profile with a blunt trailing edge ( 153 ; 253 ; 353 ), the changed airfoil profile being a truncated profile of a continuous second airfoil profile ( 160 ; 260 ; 360 ) with an essentially pointed trailing edge and a second chord length (c 12 ; c 22 ; c 32 ) being larger than the first chord length (c 11 ; c 21 ; c 31 ) wherein the second airfoil profile is coincident with the first airfoil profile in the region of the blade not covered by the blade element, wherein the longitudinal extent of the blade element and the first longitudinal part of the blade is at least 1 meter and wherein the blade element ( 42 ; 44 ; 46 ; 48 ; 150 ; 250 ; 350 ), when mounted on the wind turbine blade, extends along at least 5% of the chord. | 22,405 |
9,524,480 | 1. A hygiene behaviour support system for enhancing a person's hand hygiene after a toilet visit, comprising: a lavatory comprising: a door through which a person can enter or leave the lavatory, the door having a closing mechanism, wherein the disinfectant dispenser is connected with the closing mechanism of the door so that after a disinfectant has been dispensed from the disinfectant dispenser, the door will open, wherein each sensor is connected with a control unit, wherein the control unit, on the basis of the observations made by each sensor, controls indicators, and wherein the control unit starts an indicator arranged at the soap dispenser when the first sensor has been activated, the control unit starts an indicator at the water tap when the second sensor has been activated, the control unit starts an indicator at the paper dispenser when the third sensor has been activated, and the control unit starts an indicator at the disinfectant dispenser when the fourth sensor has been activated. | 39,088 |
9,453,166 | 1. A method for producing one or more fluid hydrocarbon products from a solid hydrocarbonaceous material comprising: feeding the solid hydrocarbonaceous material to a reactor, wherein the solid hydrocarbonaceous material comprises lignocellulosic biomass; pyrolyzing within the reactor at least a portion of the solid hydrocarbonaceous material under reaction conditions sufficient to produce one or more pyrolysis products; reacting within the reactor in the presence of a catalyst at least a portion of the one or more pyrolysis products under reaction conditions sufficient to produce the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products, wherein the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products comprises olefins and aromatics, the catalyst comprises pores having a pore size of up to about 100 Angstroms; flowing the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products out of the reactor; separating at least a portion of the olefins from the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products to produce a recycle stream comprising the separated olefins; recycling at least a portion of the recycle stream to the reactor to increase the amount of aromatic compounds in the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products; wherein the ratio of the mass of carbon within the solid hydrocarbonaceous material fed to the reactor to the mass of carbon in the olefins in the recycle stream is at least about 2:1, the aromatics in the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products comprise benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene or a mixture of two or more thereof, the amount of benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene or a mixture of two or more thereof in the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products is at least about 10% by weight based on the weight of the solid hydrocarbonaceous material fed to the reactor; and separating the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products from the catalyst by passing the catalyst and the one or more fluid hydrocarbon products through a solids separator. | 22,667 |
9,419,179 | 1. A diode comprising: a light emitting or absorbing region; at least one first terminal coupled to the light emitting or absorbing region on a first side; and a second terminal coupled to the light emitting or absorbing region on the first side, a contact of the second terminal being spaced apart from a contact of the at least one first terminal by about 1 to 7 microns in height; wherein the diode is less than about 50 microns in any dimension. | 20,980 |
8,902,230 | 1. A method of concurrently performing graphics computations, comprising: determining, by a controller, using status information stored in a memory, a subset of rays from a set of rays; submitting, from the controller, the rays of the subset concurrently to a plurality of computation units, each computation unit comprising one or more processor cores, and configured to process the rays according to determined common program instructions; performing the common program instructions on the submitted rays, by the plurality of computation units, to produce results for the of rays, wherein the results comprise that some of the rays can be processed concurrently using further common program instructions, but remaining rays do not require such processing; and coalescing data for the rays that can be processed concurrently using the further common program instructions and updating the status information using the coalesced data for the rays, wherein the acts of determining and submitting are performed asynchronously from the performance of program instructions by the plurality of computation units. | 30,611 |
8,955,017 | 1. A method for indicating availability of a new service, the method comprising: generating a display of a program title on a program guide display; receiving an indication that a new service is available; determining using control circuitry that the new service was previously unavailable to a user and is now available to the user for the first time; generating a simultaneous display of an indicator and the program title to indicate availability of the new service, wherein the indicator is displayed only in response to determining that the new service is available to the user for the first time; receiving a user selection of the indicator; and generating a display of a list of only services that are available to the user for the first time in response to receiving the user selection of the indicator. | 9,210 |
8,986,419 | 1. An aqueous solution of a mixture for treating a urea-based fertiliser or a fertiliser containing ammonium or a combination thereof, wherein the solution comprises 1,2,4-triazole and 3-methylpyrazole in a weight ratio of 2/1 and at least one polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone and a tenside, wherein the polyvinylpyrrolidone has a molar mass in the range of 2,000 to 40,000 g/mol. | 16,894 |
8,490,918 | 1. A hydraulic apparatus for aircraft actuators to supply pressure oil to a hydraulically-operated actuator for driving a control surface of an aircraft, the apparatus comprising: a pump unit installed inside a wing of the aircraft; an inlet port provided as a hole formed through a wing structure portion forming a surface structure of the wing and to supply air outside the wing into the wing; an exhaust port provided as a hole formed through the wing structure portion and to discharge air inside the wing to the outside of the wing; an inlet port opening/closing portion provided in the wing structure portion, the inlet port opening/closing portion being switchable between a position to open the inside of the wing to the outside and a position to close the inside of the wing from the outside, and being adapted to open and close the inlet port; and an exhaust port opening/closing portion provided in the wing structure portion, the exhaust port opening/closing portion being switchable between a position to open the inside of the wing to the outside and a position to close the inside of the wing from the outside, and being adapted to open and close the exhaust port, wherein the pump unit includes a backup hydraulic pump to supply pressure oil to the actuator when a loss or reduction occurs in a function of an aircraft central hydraulic power source and an electric motor to drive the backup hydraulic pump, and the inlet port and the exhaust port are configured to open or close at a same time so as to affect temperature inside the wing of the aircraft and thus the backup hydraulic pump disposed inside the wing. | 7,872 |
9,826,131 | 1. A compact camera module comprising: a stack of one or more optical elements; an optically transmissive substrate, wherein the stack of one or more optical elements is attached to a first side of the transmissive substrate; an image sensor mounted on a support, wherein the optically transmissive substrate is separated from the image sensor by a first spacer attached to a second side of the transmissive substrate; a second spacer attached to the transmissive substrate at or near a periphery of the transmissive substrate, wherein the second spacer extends from the transmissive substrate toward, but does not reach, the support on which the image sensor is mounted; and wires electrically coupling the image sensor to bond pads on the support on which the image sensor is mounted, wherein the wires are located in a space between the first and second spacers. | 30,268 |
8,640,670 | 1. A fuel-pressure waveform detector which is applied to a fuel injection system including a fuel injector injecting a fuel into an internal combustion engine through a fuel injection hole, and a fuel-pressure sensor detecting a variation in the fuel pressure in a fuel-supply passage due to a fuel injection by the fuel injector, the fuel-pressure waveform detector comprising: a detect-waveform obtaining means for obtaining a multi-stage injection pressure waveform by means of the fuel-pressure sensor while performing a multi-stage fuel injection during one combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine; a model waveform store means for storing a reference model pressure waveform of when a previous fuel injection is performed before a subject fuel injection is performed; a waveform extracting means for extracting a pressure waveform due to the subject fuel injection by subtracting the reference model pressure waveform from the multi-stage injection pressure waveform; and a correction means for correcting the reference model pressure waveform in such a manner that its attenuation degree becomes larger as a fuel injection period of the subject fuel injection is longer. | 42,353 |
9,297,645 | 1. A method of measuring the depth of a region having a high aspect ratio that protrudes into a surface of a semiconductor wafer, comprising steps of: providing the semiconductor wafer comprising a first major surface, a second major surface opposing the first major surface and a region protruding into the first major surface, the region having a width and a depth and a high aspect ratio, illuminating at least one of the first major surface and the second major surface with light comprising multiple wavelengths; measuring light of multiple wavelengths that is reflected by the semiconductor wafer as a function of wavelength, the light reflected by the semiconductor wafer forming an interference pattern, wherein the light is emitted from a swept source or the intensity of the light of the multiple wavelengths is determined by a spectrometer, the spectrometer having a detector with a plurality of pixels, each of which is assigned to collect light of a certain predetermined wavelength; analysing the measured light by applying a Fourier transform, according to a Fourier domain optical coherence tomography, to the interference pattern and generating a graphical representation having peaks associated with different interfaces of the semiconductor wafer, wherein performed, and determining the depth of the region from at least one of the peaks. | 10,988 |
9,280,958 | 1. An adaptor for coupling to a drum having a drum head, a shell, and a rim, the rim having an outer diameter and configured to interface with a ring coupled to the drum head to hold the drum head in place on the shell, the adaptor comprising: a monolithic body having a clip portion and an interface, the clip portion configured to extend around an outer section of the rim between a top surface of the drum head and a bottom portion of the rim, the clip portion having a clip end and the ring having an outer diameter, wherein the clip end is configured to extend to a position that is inward of the outer diameter of the ring when the clip portion is coupled to the drum; and | 26,776 |
9,365,116 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a connector configured to receive a charging plug; an ejection mechanism positioned with respect to the connecter and configured to eject the plug under predetermined conditions; and a surface received within a groove of the connector and configured to apply a load to the plug when the ejection mechanism is actuated. | 49,799 |
8,819,196 | 1. A method for selecting and configuring suitable servers to run various software modules in a software development environment comprising: receiving a request to run a software module developed in the development environment; determining whether there is a server currently configured to run the software module; in response to a determination that there is no server currently configured to run the software module, determining whether a priority table includes, in a list of identified servers ordered in a preferred hierarchy in the software development environment, an identifier of a suitable server being suitable for running the software module, the preferred hierarchy including, in a topmost positioned, a user-identified server; in response to determining that there is no identifier of the suitable server in the priority table, identifying a type of suitable server that is configurable to run the software module from a backup table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a type of software module and an corresponding identifier of a type of server capable of supporting the type of software module; and configuring the suitable server based on the identified type to run the software module. | 3,468 |
9,204,852 | 1. A multi-energy X-ray imaging system, comprising: an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays from a focal spot toward an object to be imaged; an X-ray detector configured to produce an electrical signal corresponding to the intensity of the X-rays that reach the X-ray detector after being attenuated by the object; a filtering device comprising an X-ray translucent support structure having a plurality of septa disposed therein at a plurality of fixed positions with respect to the support structure; a controller programmed to acquire a first set of projection data at a first energy spectrum by controlling the X-ray source to emit the X-rays at the first energy spectrum and controlling the position of the filtering device to focally align the plurality of septa with the X-rays emitted from the focal spot, and to acquire a second set of projection data at a second energy spectrum with a mean energy greater than the mean energy of the first energy spectrum by controlling the X-ray source to emit the X-rays at the second energy spectrum and controlling the position of the filtering device to focally misalign the plurality of septa with the X-rays emitted from the focal spot. | 42,718 |
9,810,172 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising: an intake passage injection valve provided in each of cylinders of the internal combustion engine for injecting fuel into an intake passage; a cylinder injection valve provided in each of the cylinders for injecting fuel into an inside of the cylinder; a fuel supply system configured to pump and pressure-feed fuel to each of the cylinders, and the fuel supply system configured to sequentially inject the fuel into two cylinders during a pressure-feed-interval period, the pressure-feed-interval period being a period from a time one fuel pressure-feed operation is performed to a time a next fuel pressure-feed operation is performed; an alcohol concentration detector that detects an alcohol concentration in the fuel; a controller configured to execute a first injection control during the pressure-feed-interval period for injecting fuel from only the cylinder injection valve into a first cylinder and a second cylinder, which are two cylinders for which fuel injection is sequentially performed during the pressure-feed-interval period, when the alcohol concentration in the fuel is equal to or lower than a predetermined determination value; and the controller configured to execute a second injection control during the pressure-feed-interval period for injecting fuel from the cylinder injection valve into the first cylinder and for injecting fuel from both the intake passage injection valve and the cylinder injection valve into the second cylinder when the alcohol concentration in the fuel is higher than the determination value. | 1,659 |
9,320,719 | 1. A method for treating cancer comprising administering to a patient having cancer cells one or more nanoparticles comprising: (a) a metallic core consisting essentially of gold and having a length along each axis of from 1 to 100 nanometers; (b) a coating comprising polydopamine disposed on at least part of the surface of the metallic core; and (c) one or more cetuximab anti-cancer cell surface receptor antibodies; whereby the one or more nanoparticles target the cancer cells and the cancer is effectively treated, and wherein the cancer is selected from the group consisting of metastatic colorectal cancer, head and neck cancer, and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing breast cancer. | 4,750 |
9,426,737 | 1. An electronic device, comprising circuitry configured to: apply separate DRX configurations for a plurality of cells with different attributes while applying a common DRX configuration for a group of cells with a common attribute; monitor physical downlink control channels of the plurality of cells based on the corresponding DRX configurations; receive a contention resolution success message on at least one of a primary cell and a secondary cell in the group of cells; start a common Contention Resolution Timer for a contention based random access procedure for the group of cells; and stop the common Contention Resolution Timer when the contention resolution success message is received on any of the at least one of the primary cell and the secondary cell. | 42,483 |
8,656,703 | 1. An exhaust purification device for an engine, comprising: an ammonia supply system including an ammonia supply injector for supplying ammonia or a substance producing ammonia to a combustion chamber, and a control unit for controlling the ammonia supply injector; and an NOx purification system for purifying NOx included in an exhaust gas, the NOx purification system including a selective catalytic reduction catalyst fulfilling a function for purifying NOx under the presence of ammonia, and an exhaust-system ammonia supply system supplying ammonia or a substance producing ammonia to an exhaust passage upstream of an exhaust passage section in which the selective catalytic reduction catalyst is arranged, wherein the ammonia supply system supplies the ammonia or the substance producing the ammonia to the combustion chamber in such a manner that a ratio between an NO component and an NO | 30,690 |
9,223,230 | 1. A loading method of loading an object via a carrier system in an exposure apparatus that exposes the object with an exposure beam via a projection optical system and a liquid, the method comprising: by detecting a part of a stage that mounts the object in a depressed section placed at a part of an upper surface of the stage, obtaining position information of the depressed section; carrying the object, by the carrier system, to above the stage placed at an exchange position of the object, the exchange position being distanced from the projection optical system; and loading the object on the stage based on the position information of the depressed section so that the carried object is mounted in the depressed section, wherein a positional relation between the carried object and the stage is set by controlling at least one of the carrier system and the stage based on the position information of the depressed section. | 25,155 |
9,091,962 | 1. A cartridge comprising: a developer accommodating chamber, provided with an opening, for accommodating a developer; a sealing member, provided with an electroconductive portion, for sealing the opening; and a storing element, provided with an electrical contact at a surface thereof, for storing information on said cartridge, wherein the electroconductive portion covers the electrical contact. | 37,608 |
9,493,245 | 1. A method of providing motive power to a rotary-winged aircraft, said method comprising: coupling a hybrid propulsion system to a thrust producing device, said hybrid propulsion system comprising: operating one of said gas turbine engine and said electric storage device such that power produced therefrom causes said electric motor to operate said thrust producing device. | 30,971 |
8,633,604 | 1. An engine comprising: two containers arranged in a vertical alignment having a top container and a bottom container; a generally cylindrical connecting arm in communication with each container and comprising a central hollow bore, the connecting arm and central hollow bore comprising: a volume of a low boiling point liquid disposed in the bottom container; a wire coil wrapped around the connecting arm between the two containers along a length of the connecting arm having the second diameter; a permanent magnet buoyant in said low boiling point liquid disposed in the central hollow bore of the connecting arm along a length of the connecting arm having the second diameter; and an active heat exchanger in communication with the bottom container and capable of transferring heat to and removing heat from the bottom container. | 48,372 |
9,502,478 | 1. An organic material deposition device comprising: a chamber; a deposition source mounted in the chamber and configured to vaporize an organic material; a deposition mask disposed in the chamber facing the deposition source; a substrate disposed on a surface of the deposition mask that faces away from the deposition source; a radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor disposed in the substrate; an antenna disposed in the chamber and configured to receive back propagation from the RFID sensor; and a radio frequency (RF) reader connected to the antenna and configured to measure a deposition amount of organic material by detecting a variation of the back propagation. | 27,608 |
9,601,739 | 1. A method for producing a porous polyimide film, the method comprising: a first unburned composite film-forming step of forming a first unburned composite film of a first varnish on a substrate, the first varnish containing a polyamide acid or polyimide (A1) and fine particles (B1) at a volume ratio (A1):(B1) of 19:81 to 45:65; a second unburned composite film-forming step of forming a second unburned composite film of a second varnish on the first unburned composite film, the second varnish containing a polyamide acid or polyimide (A2) and fine particles (B2) at a volume ratio (A2):(B2) of 20:80 to 50:50 and having a fine particle content ratio lower than that of the first varnish; a burning step of burning an unburned composite film composed of the first unburned composite film and the second unburned composite film to prepare a polyimide-fine particle composite film; and a fine particle-removing step of removing the fine particles from the polyimide-fine particle composite film. | 33,673 |
9,019,956 | 1. A VoIP-capable network comprising: one or more VoIP client devices; two or more VoIP nodes forming an isolated cluster wherein the two or more VoIP nodes in the isolated cluster are in communication with one another; wherein each of the VoIP client devices communicates with at least one VoIP node; wherein each of the VoIP nodes further comprises a local SIP registry built by exchanging SIP information with the remaining VoIP nodes in the isolated cluster; and wherein a first VoIP client device in communication with a first VoIP node establishes a communication with a second VoIP device in communication with a second VoIP node using the local SIP registries of the first VoIP node and the second VoIP node; and wherein said client device communications is maintained regardless of network connectivity status. | 26,593 |
9,289,456 | 1. A method for virotherapy of cancer in which a statin is used to modulate viral replication of an oncolytic virus, the method comprising: administering a statin to cancer cells of a patient in an amount including a concentration of between about 0.01 and about 0.175 μM of the statin; and infecting the cancer cells of the patient with an oncolytic virus at a time between 2 and 24 hours after administering the statin; wherein the statin modulates the oncolytic viral replication, thereby enhancing growth of the oncolytic virus and its associated oncolysis at lower concentrations of the statin. | 23,195 |
8,830,966 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a database configured to store a plurality of entries; and a circuit configured to (i) insert a plurality of indicators into a frame, (ii) generate said entries in said database and (iii) transmit said frame in response to said entries such that power is applied to an antenna corresponding to each of a plurality of data items in said frame and no power is applied to said antenna corresponding to each of said indicators in said frame, wherein (a) each of said entries identifies a respective location in said frame, (b) each of said locations begins a respective string comprising at least one of said indicators, (c) said entries are different than said indicators and (d) each of said indicators is a discontinuous transmission symbol having at most a one-bit width. | 27,970 |
9,319,907 | 1. A method comprising: storing parameters of communication packets successfully transmitted and received by a wireless device prior to turning off the wireless device; comparing a first set of parameters of a current communication signal received after turning on the wireless device to the parameters of the received communication packets stored prior to turning off the wireless device; identifying at least one received communication packet of the received communication packets stored prior to turning off the wireless device based on the comparison of the first set of parameters; comparing a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and carrier to interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) of the current communication signal received after turning on the wireless device to an RSSI and CINR of the identified at least one received communication packet to identify a close received communication packet of the identified at least one received communication packet; and identifying a communication rate for current packets communicated by the wireless device based on the comparison of the RSSI and CINR of the current communication signal to the RSSI and CINR of the identified at least one received communication packet. | 40,071 |
8,786,456 | 1. A method of positionally identifying people and objects within a defined space, the method comprising: associating an identification generated for each person or object with a device to be worn or mounted while the person or object moves within the defined space; controlling a beacon included within each device to emit a signal at an interval specified within a beacon transmission schedule; controlling an instrument to record images representative of at least a portion of the defined space, each image plotting recorded signals within a two-dimensional field defined by a viewing angle of the instrument; calculating image-based positional coordinates for each signal appearing within each of the captured images, the image-based positional coordinates defining spatial positioning of the beacons emitting the signals relative to the two-dimensional field of each image; reducing the image-based positional coordinates to defined space-based positional coordinates, the defined space-based positional coordinates defining spatial positioning of the beacons emitting the signals within at least a two-dimensional coordinate system defined relative to at least a length and width of the defined space; and for each of the images, identifying the person or object at each of the defined space-based positional coordinates based on the identification of the person or object scheduled to emit signals at the time the image was captured. | 3,380 |
8,495,763 | 1. Safety helmet of the type comprising: a shell with a front opening, the shell defining an interior space; a chin guard rotatably pivoted to the shell, the chin guard rotatable between a pulled down position, at the lower end of the front opening of the shell, and at least one raised position over the front opening; at least one reversible locking device for locking and unlocking the chin guard in the at least one raised position, the reversible locking device positioned intermediate the shell and the chin guard at a position proximal to the chin guard being pivoted to the shell, the reversible locking device comprising, at least one follower, integral and thereby rotatable with the chin guard, the follower extending from the chin guard towards the interior space of the shell, and at least one corresponding countering element hinged to the shell, the countering element and the follower being shaped for mutual engagement at least when the chin guard is proximal to the raised position allowing locking of the chin guard in the raised position; and a means for manually regulating the motion of the at least one countering element, the means comprising a rotatable disk to be activated by an end-user, the rotatable disk positioned intermediate the countering element and the chin guard, the rotatable disk hinged to the shell with an integral striker extending towards the interior space of the shell, the striker engaged with the countering element to inhibit the rotation of the countering element when the rotatable disk is activated to lock the chin guard; wherein the countering element is movable between at least one locking position for locking the follower and the chin guard when the chin guard is in proximity of its raised position, and at least one disengagement position for unlocking the follower and the chin guard from the countering element. | 45,744 |
8,747,903 | 1. A composition for nucleic acid delivery comprising positively charged metal nanoparticles(s); and a nucleic acid layer, a cationic polymer layer and an anionic polymer layer formed by coating of nucleic acid, cationic polymer and anionic polymer on the surface of the metal nanoparticle(s) by electrostatic layer by layer self assembly, wherein the composition for nucleic acid delivery comprises 90 to 110 parts by weight of the metal nanoparticles, 3.28 to 3.93 parts by weight of the nucleic acid, 3.24 to 3.89 parts by weight of the cationic polymer, and 50.45 to 61.66 parts by weight of the anionic polymer. | 36,280 |
9,663,670 | 1. A composition comprising: 50-95% by weight alcohol wax; 5-50% by weight tackifier; and 0.5-5% by weight colorant, wherein the solubility of the colorant in the composition is characterized by a spectral strength delta value of 5% or less. | 42,626 |
8,648,542 | 1. A ballast circuit for an LED lamp including a current limit unit that is constructed of a capacitor (C 1 ) and a resistor (R 1 ) connected in parallel with each other to be charged and discharged in 60 Hz of alternating power source (AC 220V) and to control LED used current, and a bridge diode (BD) that rectifies an alternating voltage passed through the current limit unit into a direct voltage, the ballast circuit comprising: a surge absorber circuit that includes a capacitor (C second LED lamp arrays (DA | 21,059 |
9,740,429 | 1. A distributed control system comprising: a plurality of controllers including a first controller having at least one control application, and a second controller; at least one input/output (I/O) device for one of sending and receiving I/O data; a first communication interface module adapted to function as a relay interface module being communicatively connectable with the at least one I/O device and the first controller of the plurality of controllers, the first communication interface module comprising: a second communication interface module connected to the second controller of the plurality of controllers; wherein the first communication interface module is configured to communicate with the second controller on one of a controller communication network and a dedicated communication network, via the second communication interface module; wherein the first controller is an original location on which the control application is executed, wherein the control application is associated with the at least one I/O device through a soft bridge comprised in the first communication interface module, wherein the distributed control system is configured for moving the control application to the second controller, wherein the location data is updated to indicate that the control application is being executed on the second controller, and wherein the first communication interface module is updated to route packets from the at least one I/O device to the second communication interface module based on the updated location data. | 21,792 |
8,691,740 | 1. A composition comprising: an oil of lubricating viscosity; and about 0.1 to about 10 weight percent of an N-substituted oxalic acid bisamide or amide-ester containing at least two hydrocarbyl groups of about 12 to about 22 carbon atoms, wherein the N-substituted oxalic acid bisamide or amide-ester comprises an amide-ester represented by the formula: wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently hydrocarbyl groups of about 12 to about 22 carbon atoms and R 10 is a hydrocarbyl group of 1 to about 22 carbon atoms. | 19,709 |
9,646,178 | 1. A method to write data on a nonvolatile memory using a physically unclonable function, the method comprising: determining, for a plurality of memory bits on the nonvolatile memory, a program threshold average and a program threshold variation; deriving, based on the program threshold average and the program threshold variation, a first bin threshold and a second bin threshold; grouping the plurality of memory bits into at least a first bit group, a second bit group, and a third bit group, based on at least the first bin threshold and the second bin threshold; determining, based on at least the grouping of the plurality of memory bits, a set of bits to which the data is to be written; and performing a partial program of the data to the set of bits based on the program threshold average and the program threshold variation. | 3,863 |
8,783,871 | 1. A process for assessing an optical system, said process comprising in combination: controlling an electronic visual display to display patterns under at least some lenslets or pinholes in an array of lenslets or pinholes, which array is positioned so that light from the electronic visual display passes through the array and reaches the optical system, controlling the electronic visual display to change the patterns, as seen by the optical system, in accordance with control input, accepting input indicating that the patterns appear, to the optical system, to form a desired image, and determining, based on the input regarding apparent formation of the desired image, at least one refractive parameter of the optical system. | 41,694 |
9,208,400 | 1. A method of object recognition using three-dimensional information, said method comprising the steps of: determining, using a set of three-dimensional information, one of: receiving a second set of data; determining, using said second set of data, one of: registering said set of three-dimensional information and said second set of data to a common coordinate system using said first n-tangents and said second n-tangents; determining a measure of discrepancy between said set of three-dimensional information and said second set of data; and merging said second set of data with said set of three-dimensional information to generate one or more of: when said measure of discrepancy is less than a pre-defined magnitude. | 35,133 |
9,547,893 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating an imaging model corresponding to a first individual, the method comprising: selecting, based on an analysis of a plurality of imaging scans corresponding to one or more second individuals, a plurality of the analyzed imaging scans to associate with an initial imaging phantom as a corresponding plurality of reference localizer images, wherein the selecting is based on a determined similarity of geometry, size, and positioning of the analyzed imaging scans with the initial imaging phantom; selecting the initial imaging phantom for the first individual receiving an imaging scan; receiving one or more scout images of the first individual; determining a transformation between at least one of the plurality of reference localizer images and at least one of the scout images of the first individual; and deforming the initial imaging phantom based on the determined transformation. | 23,024 |
8,475,617 | 1. A device for producing a drip irrigation tube, comprising an extrusion apparatus for extrusion of a tube body made of a thermoplastic synthetic material, a device for inserting metering elements in the extruded tube body, a roller for pressing and connecting the metering elements in the tube body, calibrating devices for adjusting the extruded tube body to the desired outer shape, cooling devices for cooling of the extruded tube body with coolant, and a drilling device for making outlet holes in the vicinity of the metering elements for permitting the passage of water, wherein the roller is disposed in a pre-cooling chamber and is provided with a sensor which upon lifting of the roller during passage of a metering element emits a signal to a control unit which emits a signal to the drilling device, and wherein a further chamber is disposed following the pre-cooling chamber, the drilling device is disposed in the further chamber, a main cooling chamber is disposed after the further chamber, and the calibrating device is inserted between the further chamber and the main cooling chamber. | 12,120 |
8,876,005 | 1. A soft keyboard management arrangement, comprising: an electro-optical, handheld reader including a data capture assembly in the reader for capturing data from a target, a manually actuatable trigger on the reader for initiating the data capture upon one type of manual actuation, a reader microprocessor in the reader for processing the data, and a Bluetooth-standard-compliant module in the reader; and a mobile terminal including a Bluetooth-standard-compliant module for establishing a wireless Bluetooth-standard-compliant paired connection with the Bluetooth-standard-compliant module in the reader via a human interface device (HID) profile, a display on the terminal, and a terminal microprocessor for enabling a soft keyboard to appear on the display, and for causing the soft keyboard to disappear upon manual actuation of the trigger with a different type of manual actuation; wherein the terminal microprocessor is operative for detecting the establishment of the Bluetooth-standard-compliant paired connection, and for automatically enabling the soft keyboard to appear on the display immediately upon the detection of the Bluetooth-standard-compliant paired connection; and wherein the one type of manual actuation is a single pull on the trigger, and wherein the different type of manual actuation is a double pull on the trigger, and wherein the terminal microprocessor is operative for detecting a first occurrence of the double pull to cause the soft keyboard to disappear. | 38,933 |
9,731,674 | 1. An airbag assembly comprising: an airbag defining an inflation chamber; and an inflator in communication with the inflation chamber; the airbag including a top side and including a front side and a rear side each extending from the top side with the inflation chamber defined between the front side and the rear side; the front side and the rear side defining two extensions spaced from each other along the top side and a recess disposed between the extensions along the top side; the airbag including a depressed region extending from the recess, wherein the front side and the rear side are connected to each other along the depressed region. | 26,413 |
9,792,324 | 1. A method for positively identifying an individual comprising: inputting into a computing device the name of an individual to be uniquely identified within a population to the exclusion of all others within said population; a suspect collection identification module in communication with the computing device, the suspect collection identification module generating a collection of preliminary suspects by retrieving data from at least two different and unique sources of data having data in a common format, performing a data scrubbing operation on the data to provide scrubbed data, comparing the scrubbed data from the at least two different and unique sources of data against each other based on said name of said individual, and further including updating said data in said at least two different and unique sources of data; obtaining from the suspect collection identification module at least one potential match from the collection of preliminary suspects; a people identity individualization module comparing the at least one potential match against data from at least one of said different and unique data sources to locate at least a partial unique identifier that may be associated with said individual; a suspect collection reconciliation module comparing said at least one potential match and said at least partial unique identifier with other data records within said at least one individual search data source for locating a full unique identifier that may be associated with said individual; and verifying that the full unique identifier identifies said individual to the exclusion of all others within said population. | 38,821 |
9,105,891 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a solid polymer fuel cell that generates power by using a hydrogen-containing gas as a fuel gas; a reformer that generates the fuel gas by reforming ammonia; a supply amount ratio control unit that is programmed to control a supply amount ratio of oxygen and ammonia to be supplied to the reformer; and a wetness state detection unit that detects a wetness state of the fuel cell, wherein the supply amount ratio control unit is programmed to control the supply amount ratio of oxygen and ammonia to be supplied to the reformer according to the detection result of the wetness state detection unit, wherein the supply amount ratio control unit is programmed to increase the ratio of oxygen and ammonia when dew point temperature detected by the wetness state detection unit is less than a first temperature thereby controlling a content of a water vapor in the fuel gas to be supplied to the fuel cell, and wherein the supply amount ratio control unit is further programmed to decrease the ratio of oxygen and ammonia when dew point temperature detected by the wetness state detection unit is greater than a second temperature thereby further controlling the content of the water vapor in the fuel gas to be supplied to the fuel cell. | 8,526 |
9,196,596 | 1. An interposer, comprising: a substrate having opposing first surface side and second surface side, the substrate having a plurality of first openings on the first surface side and a plurality of second openings on the second surface side, the first openings being in communication with the second openings to form through holes; an etch-stop layer formed on hole walls of the first openings; a first metal layer formed in the first openings, wherein the etch-stop layer is formed between the hole walls of the first openings and the first metal layer; and a second metal layer formed in the second openings and electrically connected to the first metal layer, such that conductive through holes constituted by the first metal layer and the second metal layer are formed in the through holes, wherein the first metal layer and the second metal layer are separated by an interface therebetween. | 27,648 |
9,680,293 | 1. A support surface mounted multiple cable or wire organizer, comprising; a. a cylindrical connector body with a bottom surface, a top surface and side walls a coaxially aligned center void and at least two pairs of holes aligned transversely through the side walls, the holes in each pair of holes being longitudinally aligned and located on opposite sides of the center void and intersect the center void; b. a connector for attaching the bottom surface of the connector body to a support surface; and, c. at least one twist tie with two opposite ends, each twist tie configured to be extended through one pair of longitudinally aligned holes located on opposite sides of the center void, each twist tie being sufficient in length so that the opposite ends extend outward from the side walls and bent over the top surface of the connector body and twisted together to hold a cable or wire extending transversely over the top surface of the connector body. | 1,645 |
9,347,602 | 1. An adjusting apparatus, comprising: a first base, used to fix a first object; a second base, disposed under the first base, and used to assemble a second object; a pivot shaft, wherein the first base and the second base pivot through the pivot shaft, and the pivot shaft is parallel to a first axis; an adjusting unit, comprising: a first cable, having a first section and a second section, wherein the first section and the second section respectively have a first end portion, and the first end portions are fixed to the second base, and the first adjusting base holds the first section and the second section, wherein when the first adjusting rod is rotated, the first adjusting base moves on the second axis relative to the first base, for dragging the first end portion of the first section or the first end portion of the second section, such that the second base is rotated relative to the first base around the first axis. | 15,150 |
8,378,570 | 1. A light emitting device comprising: a first electrode; a first composite layer over the first electrode; a second composite layer over the first composite layer; and a second electrode over the second composite layer, wherein the first composite layer comprises a first metal, oxygen, and carbon, and the second composite layer comprises a second metal, oxygen, and carbon, and wherein an average concentration of the first metal in the first composite layer is higher than an average concentration of the second metal in the second composite layer. | 35,650 |
9,113,517 | 1. A dimmable and blink-suppressible light emitting diode driving apparatus, the light emitting diode driving apparatus applied to an alternating current power supply apparatus, a dimmer and at least a light emitting diode, the light emitting diode driving apparatus comprising: a rectification unit electrically connected to the dimmer and the light emitting diode; an integration sampling unit electrically connected to the rectification unit and the light emitting diode; and a voltage-to-current control conversion unit electrically connected to the integration sampling unit and the light emitting diode, wherein the alternating current power supply apparatus sends an alternating current power to the dimmer; the dimmer dims the alternating current power to fetch a dimmed power; the dimmer sends the dimmed power to the rectification unit; the rectification unit rectifies the dimmed power to fetch a rectified power; the rectification unit sends the rectified power to the integration sampling unit and the light emitting diode; the integration sampling unit integrates, samples and converts the rectified power to fetch an integration voltage signal; the integration sampling unit sends the integration voltage signal to the voltage-to-current control conversion unit; the voltage-to-current control conversion unit converts the integration voltage signal to fetch a driving current signal to drive the light emitting diode, wherein the voltage-to-current control conversion unit comprises: a second contact electrically connected to the rectification unit and the light emitting diode; a fifth resistor electrically connected to the second contact; a sixth resistor electrically connected to the fifth resistor and the voltage-to-current control conversion unit; a seventh resistor electrically connected to the sixth resistor and the voltage-to-current control conversion unit; a fourth capacitor electrically connected to the fifth resistor and the sixth resistor; and a fifth capacitor electrically connected to the sixth resistor, the voltage-to-current control conversion unit and the seventh resistor. | 38,036 |
8,387,813 | 1. A collapsible container for transporting fresh fish or similar ice-cooled goods, the collapsible container including side walls and a base, wherein the side walls and/or the base comprise a double-walled structure comprising a closed air cushion, lateral openings arranged to permit passage of liquid are provided in the base, the base being arranged to permit liquid from the base of the collapsible container to be drained to outside such that the liquid will be prevented from draining out from the base into another container arranged below the collapsible container when the collapsible container is stacked upon the another container, and a liftlock closure arranged to lock the side walls in an upright orientation, the liftlock closure being arranged to be released without causing any damage by movement of the liftlock closure or by knocking into at least one of the side walls. | 31,117 |
9,484,734 | 1. A method of protecting a photovoltaic generator comprising photovoltaic modules against a surge voltage relative to ground, the photovoltaic generator having an open circuit voltage higher than an insulation design voltage of its photovoltaic modules and being connected to an AC power grid via an inverter having an input-side intermediate link capacitance and an inverter bridge including semiconductor switches, the surge voltage resulting from a ground fault and exceeding the insulation design voltage, the method comprising: surveying the photovoltaic generator for the occurrence of the ground fault or the resulting surge voltage, and upon occurrence of the ground fault or the resulting surge voltage, at first, separating the photovoltaic generator from the input-side intermediate link capacitance of the inverter and separating the inverter from the AC power grid, and | 14,355 |
8,552,237 | 1. A process for dehydrogenating a dehydrogenatable hydrocarbon, the process comprising contacting a feed comprising a dehydrogenatable hydrocarbon with a catalyst comprising an iron oxide, an alkali metal or compound thereof, and rhenium or a compound thereof, wherein the rhenium or compound thereof is present in an amount of from about 0.015 moles to about 1 mole of rhenium per mole of iron oxide, calculated as Fe 2 O 3 . | 2,497 |
8,969,754 | 1. A method for depositing hardfacing material on portions of a drill bit comprising: providing a vertically oriented plasma transfer arc torch secured to a positioner having controllable movement in a substantially vertical plane; securing a rolling cutter to a chuck mounted on an articulated arm of a robot; positioning a surface of a tooth of the rolling cutter in a substantially perpendicular relationship beneath the torch; providing a target path forminga first waveform about a centerline of a tooth surface to be hardfaced, the target path having tooth traversing portions substantially parallel to a crest portion of the tooth, the target path having a step path interconnecting two traversing portions, the step path being substantially parallel to an edge of the tooth; and oscillating the torch along a substantially horizontal axis; moving the rolling cutter with the articulated arm of the robot in a plane beneath the oscillating torch such that a midpoint of the torch oscillation substantially follows the target path; and depositing a hardfacing material on the tooth of the rolling cutter. | 43,735 |
9,552,045 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of hardware buffers each to store information associated with one or more virtual channels; a configuration logic to determine an identifier corresponding to a maximum number of virtual channels commonly supported by a first device and a second device coupled via a link and to obtain a control value based on the identifier; and a gate logic to provide an operating voltage to corresponding ones of the plurality of hardware buffers based on the control value, wherein the gate logic is to prevent provision of the operating voltage to at least one of the plurality of hardware buffers when the maximum number of virtual channels is less than the plurality of hardware buffers. | 25,597 |
8,843,664 | 1. A method comprising: downloading, by a host device, a firmware update to a peripheral device over a Universal Serial Bus (USB); performing, by the host device, link training with the peripheral device over the USB in response to a simulated condition of the peripheral device indicated by the peripheral device, wherein the link training includes switching a Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) in the host device from an active state (UO) to an RX.Detect state and synchronizing, by the host device, with the peripheral device in the RX.Detect state over the USB; and receiving, by the host device, a configuration of the peripheral device corresponding to the firmware update over the USB after the host device completes the link training with the peripheral device, the configuration including at least one descriptor identifying a USB class supported by the peripheral device, the at least one descriptor being determined based, at least in part, on the firmware update. | 12,412 |
9,802,337 | 1. A method for regenerating an abrasive from a used abrasive-containing slurry, the method comprising: (A) collecting an abrasive-containing slurry discharged from an abrasive device; (B) adding an alkali earth metal salt to the abrasive-containing slurry collected in the step (A) to aggregate the abrasive and separating an aggregated abrasive from a mother liquid; (C) collecting the aggregated abrasive which is separated in the step (B); and (D) filtering the abrasive which is collected in the step (C) to secondarily concentrate the abrasive, wherein the abrasive is at least one selected from a group consisting of diamond, boron nitride, silicon carbide, alumina, alumina-zirconia, zirconium oxide and cerium oxide. | 49,809 |
8,685,920 | 1. A cell-binding agent maytansinoid conjugate having at least one maytansinoid linked to a cell-binding agent via a non-cleavable linker, wherein the maytansinoid-linker portion of the conjugate is represented by the following formulae: wherein X is a linear or branched alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group bearing 2 to 20 carbon atoms, Y is a cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl group bearing 3 to 10 carbon atoms, Z is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group bearing 6 to 10 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group wherein the hetero atom is selected from N, O or S, and l, m and n are each 0 or 1, provided that they are all not 0 at the same time, | 21,599 |
9,264,459 | 1. A computer-executable method for facilitating establishment of a connection between a local endpoint and a plurality of remote endpoints of a device, the method comprising: determining, by the local endpoint, routing information for the device by exchanging a content-prefix-to-custodian mapping, a custodian-to-endpoint mapping, and an endpoint-to-physical address mapping with a neighboring device, wherein the content-prefix is a prefix of content being requested by the local endpoint, the custodian is the device storing the content, the physical address is an endpoint's physical address, and the endpoint is a communication interface of the device; based on the exchanged mappings, sending, from the local endpoint behind a predictable symmetric network address translation (PS NAT) firewall, a single payload-less session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message as a connection-request message to a proxy server, which forks the connection-request message to the plurality of remote endpoints of the device, where the device is behind a port-restricted cone network address translation (PC NAT) firewall or PS NAT firewall; receiving, from each of two or more of the plurality of remote endpoints, a response message that carries a network address and port number; in response to the receiving of the response message from one of the two or more of the plurality of remote endpoints, sending a corresponding acknowledgment with a list of possible connection addresses for the local endpoint to the one of the two or more of the plurality of remote endpoints via the proxy server; and establishing a connection between the local endpoint and the two or more of the plurality of remote endpoints of the device, using the network addresses received in the response messages from the two or more of the plurality of remote endpoints. | 34,303 |
9,820,232 | 1. A method of determining an indoor-outdoor state of a mobile device indicative of whether the mobile device is indoors or outdoors, the method comprising: obtaining a power delay profile of a wireless signal from a modem, the modem comprising a receiver for the wireless signal; extracting, from the power delay profile, a feature to characterize temporal distribution of the wireless signal received at the receiver, the feature being capable of distinguishing multiple propagation delays due to travel along multiple paths in a multipath channel; determining, using a statistical classifier, the indoor-outdoor state of the mobile device, and an associated probability of correctness of the indoor-outdoor state of the mobile device, based at least on the feature extracted to characterize temporal distribution of the wireless signal; and storing in memory a binary value to indicate the indoor-outdoor state of the mobile device and storing in the memory the associated probability of correctness of the indoor-outdoor state of the mobile device. | 23,168 |
8,551,373 | 1. A process for producing reclaimed casting sand, which comprises the steps of: disassembling a mold comprising a sand and an organic binder so as to obtain a recovered sand; adding an additive (A) to the recovered sand; and grinding the recovered sand in the presence of the additive (A) comprising a liquid having a surface tension of not higher than 35 mNm at 25° C. and a boiling point of not lower than 150° C. at 1 atmospheric pressure, wherein the amount of the additive (A) during grinding treatment is 0.001 to 0.2 part by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the recovered sand, and the additive (A) is added at the time of the grinding treatment. | 39,810 |
8,975,192 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with flip-chip connection structure using a solder bump or a gold bump having a heat-resistant resin film formed on a semiconductor element and an epoxy resin compound layer laminated thereon, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a semiconductor device with flip-chip connection structure using the solder bump or a gold bump and having the heat-resistant resin film formed on the semiconductor element and the epoxy resin compound layer laminated thereon, wherein the heat-resistant resin film is a film including at least one of the compounds selected from the group consisting of polyimide, polyamide, polyamideimide, polybenzoxazole, polybenzoimidazole, benzocyclobutene, and a copolymer thereof, and wherein the epoxy resin compound layer is an underfill material, a film material, an adhesive, or a sealant; (b) carrying out a first plasma treatment on a surface of the heat-resistant resin film using oxygen or a mixed gas of oxygen and tetrafluoromethane; (c) carrying out a high frequency plasma treatment on a surface of the heat-resistant resin film on which the epoxy resin compound layer is laminated using a nitrogen gas, wherein the high frequency plasma treatment is a treatment for activating a gas at a bias voltage of a plasma treatment apparatus of −200 V or less and at a low substrate temperature of 200° C. or less in order to control the formation of a deteriorated layer; and (d) introducing a functional group of amide or amine to the surface of the heat-resistant film during the high frequency plasma treatment using the nitrogen gas. | 26,323 |
9,664,400 | 1. A method for estimating an air change rate of a room of a building using heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment supplying conditioned air to the room, comprising: monitoring temperature of the room; making one or more changes to air flow rate and/or supply temperature of the conditioned air supplied to the room; and determining an air change rate of the room using a response of the temperature of the room to the one or more changes, wherein determining the air change rate includes performing a model-based mathematical calculation including one or more first-order differential equations for a relationship between a time rate of change of room air temperature and the air change rate, and wherein the model-based mathematical calculation includes a contribution to the time rate of change of room air temperature from a wall temperature of one or more of walls, ceiling and floor of the room. | 16,351 |
9,010,292 | 1. A laser spark plug for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, the laser spark plug having a first integrated optical component and having a connection arrangement in an end region of the laser spark plug facing a combustion chamber, the connection arrangement configured so that the laser spark plug can be connected to a prechamber module having a second integrated optical component. | 2,367 |
9,041,362 | 1. System for eliminating current surges for electronic systems and equipment having intermittent current consumption, comprising a current input through which input current enters, and a current output through which output current (Io) exits as required by the intermittent load through the current output; a first voltage regulator having a current limit, and a second voltage regulator connected between the current input and the current output; a hold capacitor connected between the first voltage regulator and the second voltage regulator, the condenser being sized to hold energy when there is no requirement for output current and to unload current when there is a requirement for output current; a current sensor connected between the second current regulator and the current output, for measuring output current requirements; the first voltage regulator being additionally connected to an input current limit and to an output connected to the condenser through which it supplies a load current to the condenser; and the second current regulator being designed to maintain constant the output voltage (V wherein the sensor measures the output current required and is connected to a current analyser; the current analyser detects a maximum value of the required output current, and establishes a mean value of the required output current which it transmits to the first voltage regulator through the input current limit, the mean value constituting a programmed current limit value; the first voltage regulator establishes the load current of the condenser according to the programmed current limit value, independently of voltage changes in the terminals of the condenser provided to the second voltage regulator device and independently of the required output current; the measurement of the maximum value ( | 26,478 |
8,463,155 | 1. A method of replacing a photoconductive drum of a printer cartridge, the photoconductive drum configured to be attached to a laser printer via a rotational force transmitting assembly, the photoconductive drum comprising a drum gear end and a drum flange positioned at the drum gear end, the rotational force transmitting assembly comprising a drum gear coupling member attached to the drum flange, the rotational force transmitting assembly further comprising a drive shaft attached to the drum gear coupling member, the method comprising: cutting the drum flange; and, removing the drum gear coupling member from the drum flange. | 25,462 |
8,503,361 | 1. A home base station subsystem, comprising: a message generator configured to generate an Internet Protocol multimedia subscription request message comprising a unique user identifier and an information request message, the information request message requesting an Internet Protocol multimedia subscription for the user identified by the unique user identifier; and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated Internet Protocol multimedia subscription request message to a user database; wherein the message generator is configured to generate the Internet Protocol multimedia subscription request message further comprising a unique home base station subsystem identifier. | 30,559 |
8,678,155 | 1. A clutch unit, comprising: a lever-side clutch portion disposed on an input side of the clutch unit, and being configured to control transmission/interruption of rotational torque to an output side of the clutch unit with lever operation; and a brake-side clutch portion disposed on the output side of the clutch unit, and being configured to transmit torque input from the lever-side clutch portion to the output side and to interrupt torque reverse-input from the output side, wherein the lever-side clutch portion comprises an end portion of the retainer has two cutout recessed portions formed therein, each of the two cutout recessed portions having an end surface, the end surfaces of the two cutout recessed portions being adjacent to each other, and hook portions protrude in a circumferential direction from the adjacent end surfaces of the two cutout recessed portions, the hook portions holding the lock portions of the elastic member in contact with the adjacent end surfaces to lock the lock portions of the elastic member. | 42,440 |
9,308,148 | 1. A device for controlling body temperature of a patient, comprising: a plenum having one or more walls that define an internal pressure region, wherein at least one of the one or more walls form an enclosed region that is on a side of the at least one wall that is opposite to a side on which the internal pressure region is disposed, and the enclosed region is adapted to receive a portion of a patient; one or more thermal exchanging units that are disposed between the one or more walls and the portion of the patient; a first device that is adapted to create a pressure above atmospheric pressure within the internal pressure region of the plenum to urge the one or more thermal exchanging units against a surface of the portion of the patient; a vacuum pump that is coupled to the enclosed region of the plenum and is adapted to create a pressure below atmospheric pressure within the enclosed region; and the device for controlling body temperature further comprising a third device that is in fluid communication with an internal region of an inflatable cuff which is positioned over a portion of the extremity, wherein the third device is adapted to adjust the pressure in the internal region of the inflatable cuff. | 27,162 |
9,217,414 | 1. An electric energy generating wind power turbine comprising: a supporting structure; a nacelle; a blade assembly configured to rotate with respect to the nacelle; a first electric machine including: a second electric machine including: a transmission configured to connect the first rotor to the second rotor; a control device; and a detection system connected to the control device and configured to detect a relative movement between the first rotor and the second rotor. | 3,686 |
9,721,585 | 1. A signal processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a storage unit for storing an audio signal using the at least one processor; a pitch calculation unit for calculating an integer multiple of N as the number of samples in a pitch cycle of the audio signal, N being an integer equal to or more than 1 and representing an amount of sample data equal to a storage constraint of the storage unit, using the at least one processor, wherein the pitch cycle of the audio signal is initially calculated as a period in which an average distortion of the audio signal is minimized within a predetermined minimum threshold amount of the audio signal and a predetermined maximum threshold amount of the audio signal and the initially calculated period represents a non-integer number of samples, and is subsequently corrected to be the integer multiple of N samples; a start position determination unit for sequentially determining, as a sample in a subsequent start position of a decompression or compression process in a time axis domain of the audio signal, a (multiple of N)-th sample from a prior start position immediately before the subsequent start position using the at least one processor; and a decompression and compression unit for decompressing or compressing, in a time axis domain, samples in a predetermined number times the pitch cycle from the sample in the prior start position of the audio signal, and setting the number of samples of the audio signal after the decompression or the compression to be the same integer multiple of N using the at least one processor, wherein the storage unit overwrites a stored audio signal from a (predetermined number times the pitch cycle)-th sample from the start position to samples of the audio signal after decompression or compression, with the audio signal after the decompression or the compression in the decompression and compression unit, and transmits the audio signal after overwriting, from a sample in an overwriting start position. | 47,013 |
9,004,218 | 1. A system for controlling a work vehicle, the system comprising: a controller configured to control motion of the work vehicle; an electronic joystick communicatively coupled to the controller, the electronic joystick configured to transmit signals to the controller as the electronic joystick is moved between a neutral position and a full stroke position, the electronic joystick being configured such that a varying joystick force is required to move the electronic joystick between the neutral and full stroke positions, wherein a rate of change of the joystick force is varied as the electronic joystick is moved across a start/stop position defined between the neutral and full stroke positions, and wherein the variation in the rate of change of the joystick force at the start/stop position is provided by first and second springs operably coupled to the electronic joystick. | 7,111 |
9,531,962 | 1. A method for aligning and combining images, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of feature points in an image in a plurality of images generated of a scene by a camera; identifying locations of the identified feature points in remaining images in the plurality of images; selecting a group of the identified feature points indicative of relative motion of the camera between image captures; and aligning a set of the plurality of images using the selected group of feature points; selecting a reference image from the set of aligned images; weighting other images the set by, for each other image in the set: combining the reference image with the weighted images. | 40,569 |
9,509,998 | 1. A method for encoding a video stream including a plurality of frames, the method comprising: generating a residual block based on a current block from a current frame from the plurality of frames; generating a reconstructed residual block based on the residual block; generating a differential residual block based on the residual block and the reconstructed residual block; entropy encoding the differential residual block by: transmitting or storing an output including the encoded differential residual block wherein entropy encoding the differential residual block includes: associating the first group with a first plurality of code words such that each symbol associated with the first group is represented by a respective code word in the first plurality of code words; associating the second group with a second plurality of code words such that each symbol associated with the second group is represented by a respective code word in the second plurality of code words, wherein at least one code word from the first plurality of code words matches a code word from the second plurality of code words. | 31,095 |
9,190,678 | 1. An alkaline fuel cell, comprising: a membrane electrode assembly including an anion conductive electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode stacked on a first surface of said anion conductive electrolyte membrane, and a cathode electrode stacked on a second surface opposite to said first surface of said anion conductive electrolyte membrane; a first separator stacked on said anode electrode, at least including a fuel receiving portion for receiving a fuel; a second separator stacked on said cathode electrode, at least including an oxidant receiving portion for receiving an oxidant; and an alkaline aqueous solution supply portion for bringing an alkaline aqueous solution into contact with only said anion conductive electrolyte membrane of said membrane electrode assembly. | 30,282 |
9,039,381 | 1. A wind turbine blade, comprising: at least two outer shells defining partial portions of the wind turbine blade, wherein at least one of the outer shells includes an outer surface defined substantially in its entirety by a layer of structural material; and a plurality of vortex generators integrally formed in the at least one of the outer shells along the outer surface, each vortex generator including an outer first component defined by a portion of the layer of structural material and an inner second component defining the shape of the vortex generator and at least partially surrounded by the outer first component. | 14,228 |
8,692,628 | 1. A high-frequency module comprising: a substrate; and a non-reciprocal circuit element mounted on the substrate, the non-reciprocal circuit element including: | 46,281 |
9,173,169 | 1. A method for power saving in a wireless local area network, the method comprising: acquiring, by a wireless device, a transmission opportunity (TXOP) from a transmitting device; receiving, by the wireless device, a signal field from the transmitting device, the signal field including a group identifier, a number indicator, and a power saving indicator, the group identifier indicating a group of recipients, the number indicator indicating a number of spatial streams for a corresponding recipient, the power saving indicator indicating that the wireless device is allowed to enter a doze state during the TXOP; determining, by the wireless device, whether a first condition is satisfied; determining, by the wireless device whether a second condition is satisfied; and entering, by the wireless device, the doze state until the end of the TXOP if either the first condition or the second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is satisfied if the power saving indicator indicates an allowance of entering the doze state, the wireless device is a recipient indicated by the group identifier, and the number of spatial streams to be received by the wireless device is equal to zero, and wherein the second condition is satisfied if the power saving indicator indicates an allowance of entering the doze state, and the wireless device is not a recipient indicated by the group identifier. | 42,512 |
9,002,687 | 1. A method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material, including: generating a three-dimensional model of the rubber material formed by adding a filler to a rubber; applying a configuration condition specifying a relationship between a stress and a strain on the basis of thickness information and temperature information obtained on the basis of a molecular dynamics approach to a rubber layer portion constituting the three-dimensional model; and, analyzing the deformation behavior of the rubber material, wherein the deformation behavior of the rubber material is analyzed by applying a finite element method to the three-dimensional model to which the configuration condition is applied, wherein the thickness information comprises information including a relationship between a distance from a filler surface and a diffusion coefficient of the rubber material, and wherein the temperature information comprises information including a relationship between a temperature and a diffusion coefficient of the rubber material. | 12,267 |
9,005,954 | 1. A method to identify or isolate from a sample a bacterium producing a pharmaceutical compound, the method comprising: a) providing a sample comprising uncharacterized and uncultivated bacteria; b) subjecting the sample to a repeated sequential irradiation treatment that is sufficient to reduce by at least 2 log the bacterial titer in a culture of c) identifying or isolating a living or growing bacterium having the ability to either reassemble its genome or to resist DNA damage, from said treated sample; and d) selecting a bacterium of step e) which produces the pharmaceutical compound. | 17,566 |
9,847,533 | 1. A method of making a solid polymer electrolyte membrane for use interposed between a separate anode and cathode comprising the steps of (a) preparing an ink solution comprising a precious metal catalyst on a supporting particle and an ion exchange material, wherein preparing said ink solution comprises passing said ink solution through a high shear mixer; (b) providing a polymeric support having a first surface, a second surface opposite said first surface, and a microstructure of micropores; (c) applying a solution comprising an ion exchange resin to said first surface, thereby impregnating said microstructure with said ion exchange resin to form a substantially air occlusive, electronically insulating first composite layer, and (d) applying said ink solution to at least one of said first and second surfaces, thereby impregnating said microstructure with said ink solution to form a substantially air occlusive, electronically insulating second composite layer, thereby forming said solid polymer electrolyte membrane. | 41,324 |
9,263,755 | 1. A method for producing iron and/or steel, the method comprising: introducing a fuel stream comprising a reformable fuel into an anode of a molten carbonate fuel cell, an internal reforming element associated with the anode, or a combination thereof; introducing a cathode inlet stream comprising CO generating electricity within the molten carbonate fuel cell; withdrawing, from an anode exhaust, a first gas stream comprising CO, the anode exhaust having a pressure of about 500 kPag or less; and introducing the first gas stream withdrawn from the anode exhaust into a process for production of iron and/or steel. | 48,025 |
8,956,678 | 1. A sweetener composition comprising at least one preservative, rebaudioside A and erythritol, wherein: the rebaudioside A has a purity greater than about 97% by weight on a dry basis; the weight ratio of rebaudioside A to erythritol is about 1:75 to about 1:150; and the at least one preservative is selected from the group consisting of a sulfite, a propionate, a benzoate, a sorbate, a nitrate, a nitrite, a bacteriocin, a salt, sugar, acetic acid, dimethyl dicarbonate, ethanol, ozone, butylated hydroxytoluene, butylated hydroxyanisole, tert-butyl hydroquinone, propyl gallate, ascorbic acid, tocopherol, citric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid or combinations thereof. | 23,258 |
9,622,333 | 1. An X-ray system for providing alternating X-ray pulses of first and second energies with controlled dose per pulse comprising: a linear accelerator having resonance with a bandwidth, a mechanically-adjustable magnetron responsive to a first control signal for supplying as an output RF energy to the linear accelerator at alternating first and second power levels with corresponding first and second frequencies, an electron gun driver, operating independently of the magnetron by being responsive to a second control signal different from the first control signal, for supplying to the linear accelerator alternating pulses of first and second beam currents at times substantially corresponding to the alternating first and second RF power levels, and wherein the bandwidth of the linear accelerator resonance is sufficiently broad to allow coupling of the magnetron output to the linear accelerator at the first and second RF power levels such that the first and second energies of the X-ray pulses are at least 1 MeV apart and less than 5 MeV apart with controlled dose per pulse for pulses of both first and second energies. | 4,151 |
8,575,967 | 1. An edge detector comprising: a first device configured to receive a first clock as a first data input and a second clock as a first clock input, and provide a first device output; a delay element configured to receive the second clock as an input and provide a third clock delayed from the second clock; a second device configured to receive the first clock as a second data input and the third clock as a second clock input, and provide a second device output; an edge detector output configured to generate an edge detector output signal based on a logic level of the first device output and of the second device output, wherein the edge detector output signal is used to select the second clock if the second device output is at a first logic level and to select an inverse of the second clock if the second device output is at a second logic level. | 30,002 |
9,480,170 | 1. A multilayer printed wiring board, comprising: a substrate having a first side and a second side opposing the first side; a first laminated structure formed on the first side of the substrate and including alternately laminated interlayer resin insulating layers and conductor layers; a solder-resist layer formed on the first laminated structure and having a plurality of apertures exposing a plurality of portions of an outermost conductor layer of the first laminated structure, respectively, such that the plurality of apertures includes at least one first aperture having a first size and at least one second aperture having a second size which is larger than the first size; and a plurality of solder bumps formed in the plurality of apertures respectively and having substantially equal volumes and substantially equal heights such that a difference in height of no greater than 10 μm is formed between a solder bump in a first aperture and a solder bump in a second aperture. | 48,272 |
9,441,611 | 1. A turbine assembly comprising: a plurality of sails; a generator assembly configured to generate electrical power upon a rotation of the plurality of sails, the generator assembly including at least two magnet rings configured to rotate with the rotation of the plurality of sails, and a fixed coil mold having a plurality of coil packs between the at least two magnet rings; and a brake assembly including a magnet assembly and spaced-apart conducting plate, wherein a spacing between the magnet assembly and the conducting plate is adjustable and wherein one of the magnet assembly and spaced-apart conducting plate rotates with the plurality of sails, and the other of the magnet assembly and spaced-apart conducting plate remains fixed; and a control module configured to adjust the spacing between the magnet assembly and the conducting plate in order to maintain a rotational speed of the turbine assembly at a predetermined rotational speed by inducing a retarding force to rotation of the plurality of sails. | 25,885 |
9,793,384 | 1. A method of forming a tunneling field effect transistor device comprising a drain region, a source region, a gate region and a gate structure, the method comprising: forming a first semiconductor material above a semiconductor substrate, said first semiconductor material being doped with a first type of dopant material, said first semiconductor material extending a full length of said drain region, said gate region and said source region, wherein said first semiconductor material is part of said drain region; forming a first masking layer that masks said drain region but exposes at least a portion of said gate region and exposes said source region; with said first masking layer in position, forming a second semiconductor material above at least a portion of said gate region and above said source region, wherein said second semiconductor material defines said channel region; with said first masking layer in position, forming a third semiconductor material above said second semiconductor material and above at least a portion of said gate region and above said source region, said third semiconductor material being doped with a second type of dopant material that is opposite to said first type of dopant material, wherein said third semiconductor material is part of said source region; with said first masking layer in position, forming a second masking layer that masks said drain region but exposes at least a portion of said gate region; and forming a gate structure above at least a portion of said exposed gate region. | 16,243 |
9,526,045 | 1. A radio resource controller for controlling radio resources of a serving radio access node, and configured to assign particular radio resources of the serving radio access node to a radio communication session established between the serving radio access node and a particular mobile station, wherein the radio resource controller is further configured to push a radio communication session information of the radio communication session into a common data repository accessible in read and write access to both the radio resource controller and a further radio resource controller controlling radio resources of a further radio access node, wherein the session information comprise a mobile identifier that may be used by the particular mobile station for resumption of the radio communication session, wherein the session information further allow retrieval of contextual communication parameters used by the serving radio access node for radio communication with the particular mobile station during the radio communication session, wherein the radio resource controller is configured to run on a computer platform together with the further radio resource controller, and wherein the computer platform further holds the common data repository and is remotely coupled via a packet data network to the serving radio access node and to the further radio access node. | 41,270 |
9,565,635 | 1. A method of operating an instant message server, comprising: storing a unique identification number of a first mobile terminal in response to login of an instant message client running on the first mobile terminal; modifying status of the instant message client maintained in the instant message server to a saving mode, wherein the first mobile terminal has no IP connection while in the saving mode and no static IP address is associated with the first mobile terminal; receiving an instant message destined for said first mobile terminal while the status of the instant message client running on the first mobile terminal is the saving mode; responsive to receiving the instant message destined for said first mobile terminal while the status of the instant message client running on the first mobile terminal is the saving mode, sending a request for activating the first mobile terminal to a mobile application gateway for a packet domain core network which services a plurality of mobile terminals including said first mobile terminal, the request being sent via a packet switched network external to said packet domain core network, the request including the unique identification number of the mobile terminal, wherein, responsive to receiving the request for activating the first mobile terminal, the application gateway causes the first mobile terminal to request activation of a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context by a Servicing GRPS Supporting Node (SGSN) and the SGSN to activate the PDP context and the first mobile terminal to re-establish an IP connection; receiving a login from the instant message client in the first mobile terminal using re-established IP connection; and sending the instant message to the first mobile terminal using the re-established IP connection. | 31,559 |
8,691,605 | 1. A method of treating a substrate, comprising: identifying a first treatment zone; forming a molten area of the first treatment zone by exposing a surface of the first treatment zone to a first laser pulse and a second laser pulse, wherein the first laser pulse and the second laser pulse have the same duration and intensity; recrystallizing the molten area of the first treatment zone while exposing the first treatment zone to a plurality of laser pulses, wherein each pulse of the plurality of laser pulses melts a portion of a recrystallized area; identifying a second treatment zone adjacent to the first treatment zone; and repeating the forming a molten area and the recrystallizing the molten area with the second treatment zone. | 4,307 |
8,993,711 | 1. An electronic, optical or optoelectronic device comprising a polymeric semiconductor component, wherein the polymeric semiconductor component comprises a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (I): wherein R a is a linear C 1-40 alkyl or haloalkyl group or a branched C 3-40 alkyl or haloalkyl group, provided that at least one of R a is selected from wherein R wherein the polymer has an average molecular weight in the range of about 3,000 to about 300,000. | 38,559 |
9,639,085 | 1. A method for determining a trajectory for a glide vehicle having a specific energy, comprising the steps of: (a) calculating, for the specific energy of the glide vehicle, a first altitude for a first trajectory that results in phugoid oscillations when gliding at a maximum lift to drag ratio angle of attack; (b) starting from a different altitude from the first altitude, for the same starting specific energy, calculating a second trajectory that results in larger phugoid oscillations, having top peak points, when gliding at a maximum lift to drag ratio angle of attack; (c) determining flight conditions for the top peak points of the second trajectory, the flight conditions corresponding to the trajectory where a second time derivative of a flight path angle is zero and goes from negative to positive; (d) generating a trajectory tracking those top peak points starting from the first altitude; and (e) controlling a flight surfaces actuator using calculated control signals corresponding to the generated trajectory. | 14,318 |
9,592,744 | 1. A power supply control assembly, comprising: a power supply adapted to power an aerial vehicle; an input device configured to receive at least two types of input from a user of the aerial vehicle; and a power supply circuit connected to the power supply, wherein the power supply is configured to discharge through the power supply circuit to power the aerial vehicle in response to receipt of a first type of input by the input device, wherein the power supply circuit comprises: | 39,013 |
9,206,677 | 1. A submersible pump comprising: an impeller; a diffuser generally coaxial with the impeller; passages in the impeller and diffuser that define a flow path; an insert between the impeller and diffuser comprising, an annulus in fluid communication with the passages and that is intersected by the flow path, and vanes mounted in the annulus that are adjustably positioned within the annulus, so that when a position of the vanes is adjusted, an area of the flow path in the annulus is varied; and wherein the insert further comprises an annular hub having an inner radius that circumscribes an outer radius of a portion of the impeller and an outer radius that defines an inner radial surface of the annulus. | 32,345 |
9,518,498 | 1. A method of regulating an exhaust after-treatment (AT) system having a diesel particulate filter (DPF) in fluid communication, via an exhaust system, with a diesel engine, the method comprising: detecting, via a controller, operation of the diesel engine during which the diesel engine generates a flow rate of particulate matter directed via the exhaust system into the DPF; detecting, via a particulate matter (PM) sensor, a flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF in response to the flow rate of particulate matter directed into the DPF; communicating, to the controller via the PM sensor, a signal indicative of the detected flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF; tracking, via the controller, the detected flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF alongside a predicted particulate matter flow rate; pausing in time said tracking of the predicted particulate matter flow rate, when the detected flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF has experienced a decline; resuming said tracking the predicted particulate matter flow rate when the detected flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF returns to a value before the decline; and regulating, via the controller, operation of the AT system using the detected flow rate of particulate matter exiting the DPF when the detected flow rate returns to the value before the decline. | 14,566 |
9,589,337 | 1. An image recovery device, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform: receiving an input image; detecting an image damaged by a weather phenomenon from the input image; recovering the damaged image; and outputting the recovered image, wherein the recovering comprises recovering at least one of a contrast and color of the damaged image, and wherein the recovering further comprises blending an original image and the recovered image by adjusting a ratio on a distance from a boundary of a preset region of interest (ROI). | 7,218 |
8,713,156 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: as implemented by one or more computing devices of a content delivery network (CDN) service, the one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions, obtaining a Domain Name System (DNS) query from a client computing device at a first DNS server, wherein the DNS query corresponds to a requested resource and wherein the first DNS server corresponds to the CDN service; determining a class of the client computing device associated with the DNS query; and selecting a cache component of the CDN service for providing the requested resource based on routing information for the determined class, wherein the routing information includes identification of a plurality of cache components, and for individual cache components, information associated with a probability of selection of the individual cache component. | 5,390 |
9,692,809 | 1. A computer system comprising: one or more processors; and at least one computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to implement a method for utilizing multiple network connections to facilitate data transfer between a first computer and a second computer that communicate with each other over the multiple network connections, the method comprising: | 4,766 |
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