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9,185,645 | 1. A mobile communication system comprising: a plurality of radio base station apparatuses that communicate with each of a plurality of mobile terminals; a location information management apparatus that acquires location information of the mobile terminals; and a processing apparatus that is connected to the plurality of radio base station apparatuses and to the location information management apparatus and that changes an operation state of each of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses, wherein each of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses autonomously executes a periodic paging to check presence or absence of the mobile terminal in a certain area, and sends the location information to the location information management apparatus via the processing apparatus when acquiring the location information of the mobile terminal, wherein the processing apparatus acquires location information of each of the mobile terminals from the location information management apparatus, wherein when no mobile terminal is present within a service area of one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses, the processing apparatus changes the operation state of the one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses so that the one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses does not emit radio waves during a period other than a period of executing the periodic paging, and wherein when the location information of the mobile terminal is changed and the operation state of the one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses is changed, the information of the one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses held in other radio base station apparatuses which are located near the one of the plurality of radio base station apparatuses is updated, and the other radio base station apparatuses change the operation state based on the updated information. | 45,124 |
8,728,210 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment apparatus for treating tail gas containing dust and ammonia gas from a semiconductor equipment, comprising: an ammonia absorption system, comprising: an ammonia conversion system, comprising: | 33,900 |
9,255,946 | 1. An electronic component, which is a current sensor, comprising: a) a resistance element comprising a resistance material; b) a first connection part comprising a conductor material for leading an electrical current into the resistance element; c) a second connection part comprising a conductor material for leading the electrical current out of the resistance element, wherein the conductor material of the first and second connection parts has a smaller specific electric resistance than the resistance material of the resistor element; d) a measurement value recording system, which is arranged to measure the electrical current flowing through the electronic component, wherein the measurement value recording system is constructionally integrated into the electronic component, and wherein the measurement value recording system is arranged to measure the electrical current flowing through the electronic component according to a number of different physical measuring principles, including: e) a temperature measuring device arranged for measurement of the temperature difference between the resistance element on the one hand and at least one of the first and second connection parts on the other hand, wherein: | 28,392 |
9,533,382 | 1. A method of maintaining a synthesis gas (syngas) cooler for use within a gasifier system, said method comprising: breaking at least a portion of at least one of a circumferential non-bonded joint and a circumferential seam weld on a quench ring assembly that couples a wear sub-assembly to a main structural member at a circumferential coupling site; removing at least a portion of the wear sub-assembly and a flow control sub-assembly coupled thereto from the main structural member; separating the wear sub-assembly from the flow control sub-assembly; removing at least one separation device coupled to and extending between the flow control sub-assembly and the wear sub-assembly; providing at least one replacement portion of the wear sub-assembly; positioning the at least one replacement portion of the wear sub-assembly to extend over at least a portion of the flow control sub-assembly and to abut the main structural member proximate the circumferential coupling site; and coupling the at least one replacement portion of the wear sub-assembly to the main structural member. | 31,467 |
8,400,268 | 1. A system, comprising: a plurality of reference tags affixed to reference locations in a coverage area and configured to form a wireless mesh network; a call tag configured to communicate with the plurality of reference tags and to collect data regarding the communication with the plurality of reference tags, the call tag being configured to send a first signal in response to an event, wherein the call tag operates in a sleep mode and includes a motion sensor, wherein the motion sensor is active in the sleep mode, wherein the call tag is woken out of the sleep mode on a first periodic basis to communicate with the reference tags and to collect the data, wherein the call tag is woken out of the sleep mode at a second periodic basis in response to a motion signal from the motion sensor, the second periodic basis being more frequent than the first periodic basis; a positioning system coupled to the wireless mesh network and configured to receive the first signal and the data collected by the call tag, the positioning system being configured to process the data collected by the call tag to determine the call tag location with respect to the plurality of reference tags wherein the data is related to signal strengths of signals from the reference tags to the call tag; and a portable electronic device configured to communicate with the wireless mesh network and configured to receive the call tag location from the positioning system. | 22,896 |
8,379,792 | 1. An X-ray CT apparatus comprising: an X-ray generation section configured to irradiate a subject with a cone-beam X-ray emitted by an X-ray source; a two-dimensional detector formed as a two-dimensional plane to detect the X-ray beam having passed through the subject; a data acquisition section configured to collect data from the two-dimensional detector to acquire volume data on the subject; a respiration prompter configured to sequentially vocalize a plurality of breathing instructions to the subject to prompt the subject to breathe with different respiration depths before and during irradiation; a respiration monitor configured to capture subject motion associated with respirations of different depths prompted by the breathing instructions sequentially vocalized by the respiration prompter; a scan control section configured to control timing for irradiation of the subject with the X-ray beam according to the subject's motion associated with different respiration depths and captured by the respiration monitor; a display section displaying the subject's motion associated with respiration and captured by the respiration monitor, as a respiratory waveform; and a scan condition setting section setting the start and end of the irradiation according to the subject's respiratory phase or level based on the subject's respiratory waveform displayed on the display section, wherein a period of irradiation of the subject includes at least part of an inspiration and part of an exhalation of a same respiratory cycle, the scan control section controls a timing for each of start and end of the irradiation of the X-ray beam according to the subject's respiratory phase or level captured by the respiration monitor, the scan control section starts the irradiation of the X-ray beam at least a predetermined time after a time corresponding to a maximal inspiration, based on the subject's respiratory phase captured by the respiration monitor, and the scan control section controls the timing for each of the start and end of the irradiation according to the subject's respiratory phase or level set by the scan condition control section. | 13,091 |
8,999,513 | 1. An airtight and puncture-resistant multilayer elastomer laminate that can be used in particular in an inflatable article, comprising at least the following three layers (phr signifying parts by weight per hundred parts of rubber (elastomer) in each composition considered): as an airtight first layer, a first elastomer composition comprising at least 50 phr of a diene elastomer; as a puncture-resistant second layer, a self-sealing second elastomer composition comprising at least 50 phr of a saturated thermoplastic styrene (abbreviated to TPS) elastomer and more than 200 phr of an extender oil; and as an adhesive interphase or third layer, positioned between the above two layers, a third composition comprising at least 30 phr of an unsaturated TPS elastomer. | 10,828 |
9,012,639 | 1. A copper(I) complex of the formula A wherein: X=independently selected from Cl, Br of and I; N*∩E or E ∩N*=a bidentate ligand connected to a first Cu atom via a N atom and connected to a second Cu atom via an E group, or a monodentate ligand connected to a Cu atom via an E group wherein: | 15,623 |
8,757,348 | 1. A paper money input and output device, comprising: a front surface, a rear portion, and an upper surface extending between the front surface and the rear portion; a money input unit having an inpayment aperture exposed to an exterior of the device and thereby configured to directly receive paper money paid in from a source external of the device, said money input unit being positioned relatively near said front surface; a money output unit having an outpayment aperture exposed to an exterior of the device and thereby configured to directly eject to an area external of the device paper money received from an interior portion of the device; a plurality of recirculation cases which receive paper money from said money input unit, said plurality of recirculation cases supplying the received paper money to said money output unit, said plurality of recirculation cases being positioned relatively near said rear portion; a collection case which receives paper money from said money input unit, said plurality of recirculation cases supplying paper money to said collection case, said collection case receiving the paper money from said plurality of recirculation cases; and a rejected-for-payout case which stores money, among the paper money which has been paid out from said recirculation cases, which has been rejected for outpayment, said money input unit, said money output unit, said collection case, said rejected-for-payout case, and said plurality of recirculation cases being aligned with each other along a stacked direction that extends from said front surface toward the rear portion which is the same direction as the thickness direction of the paper money which they receive, and said money input unit, said money output unit, said collection case, said rejected-for-payout case, and said plurality of recirculation cases being provided in a stacked state in said stacked direction; a conveyance unit which is configured to connect said money input unit, said money output unit, said collection case, said rejected-for-payout case, and said plurality of recirculation cases, said conveyance unit being disposed, in a plan view, on a same lateral side of each of the money input unit, the money output unit, the collection case, the rejected-for-payout case, and the plurality of recirculation cases, said conveyance unit having a main conveyance path configured to convey said paper money between the money input unit, the money output unit, the collection case, the rejected-for-payout case, and the plurality of recirculation cases, said main conveyance path extending substantially horizontally along the thickness direction of the paper money from a position relatively near the front surface toward the rear portion; an inpayment identification unit which identifies paper money, said money input unit, said money output unit, and said collection case together constituting a first structural group and said rejected-for-payout case and said plurality of recirculation cases constituting a second structural group, said inpayment identification unit being provided on the side of said first structural group in an intermediate conveyance path of said conveyance unit between said first structural group and said second structural group; a control unit which controls said conveyance unit; and an outpayment identification unit which identifies paper money for outpayment and is provided on a side of said second structural group in said intermediate conveyance path, said outpayment identification unit being arranged so that said outpayment identification unit is spatially positioned between said money output unit and said rejected-for-payment case with respect to said stacked direction and said rejected-for-payment case is spatially positioned between said outpayment identification unit and said recirculation cases with respect to the stacked direction, said conveyance path of said conveyance unit connecting between said money output unit and said rejected-for-payment case, before paper money which is being conveyed by said conveyance unit via said main conveyance path from said recirculation case is diverted to said money output unit or said rejected-for-payment case, based upon the timing at which said paper money is detected by said outpayment identification unit, said control unit controlling the conveyance of said paper money by said conveyance unit so as to temporarily stop said paper money in said main conveyance path, and said control unit restarting conveyance of said paper money identified by said outpayment identification unit as being paper money which can be paid out and diverts said paper money to said money output unit, and said control unit restarting conveyance of said paper money identified by said outpayment identification unit as being paper money which cannot be paid out by reversing said conveyance unit, and stores said paper money to said rejected-for-payout case. | 34,637 |
9,126,627 | 1. A control device for controlling a position sensor configured to detect a position of a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, the control device configured to generate a control signal for acquisition periods of the position sensor when the motor vehicle is stationary, wherein a frequency of the control signal increases when a change in the position of the steering wheel is detected, wherein the control device generates the control signal for acquisition periods of the position sensor having a standby frequency suitable for detecting a half-turn of a rotor, and wherein the control device generates the control signal for acquisition periods of the position sensor having a frequency, called an active frequency, changing proportionally with a change of the rotation speed of the steering wheel. | 39,110 |
8,575,124 | 1. A method for treating a cancer in a subject, the method comprising: sequencing a nucleic acid found in a normal cell of a subject, thereby obtaining a wild-type sequence; sequencing a nucleic acid found in a cancerous or pre-cancerous cell of the subject, thereby obtaining a mutated sequence; comparing the wild-type sequence and the mutated sequence, thereby determining a difference between the wild-type sequence and the mutated sequence; administering to the subject a first nucleic acid probe coupled to a prodrug of a chemotherapeutic agent and a second nucleic acid probe coupled to an activating agent; wherein the probes hybridize to a first portion and a second portion that are identical in both the wild-type sequence and the mutated sequence; wherein the first and second portions in the wild-type sequence are not within sufficient proximity of each other for the activating agent to convert the prodrug to an active form of the chemotherapeutic agent; and wherein the first and second portions in the mutated sequence are within sufficient proximity of each other for the activating agent to convert the prodrug to an active form of the chemotherapeutic agent, thereby providing targeted delivery of the chemotherapeutic agent to the cancerous or pre-cancerous cell in the subject. | 26,853 |
9,427,577 | 1. An automated method of periodically monitoring for a potential short circuit in an implantable defibrillation system comprising: causing the implantable defibrillation system to perform the steps of: periodically forming a defibrillation pathway among at least two of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator generator housing (CAN) electrode a superior vena cava (SVC) electrode and a right ventricle (RV) electrode; measuring an impedance of the defibrillation pathway using a high voltage, short duration pulse; determining if the impedance is within a low impedance range indicative of a short circuit; wherein periodically forming the defibrillation pathway is scheduled on an approximately monthly schedule; wherein measuring the impedance of the defibrillation pathway uses a high current, short duration, test pulse at successively increasing voltages; and in response to determining that the impedance is in the low impedance range, altering a configuration for delivery of a defibrillation shock into the defibrillation pathway to restrict use of a conductor associated with the defibrillation pathway that has low impedance range. | 2,119 |
8,632,189 | 1. A projection system switchable between a two-dimensional presentation mode and a three-dimensional presentation mode, comprising: a first light source capable of projecting light for a first eye through a first channel having a first projection path; a second light source capable of projecting light for a second eye through a second channel having a second projection path; two-dimensional presentation quality boosting elements configured for being automatically moved out of at least one of the first projection path or the second projection path when the projection system is switched from the two-dimensional presentation mode to the three-dimensional presentation mode; and an encoder device configured for encoding image information from an image source and for being automatically moved out of at least one of the first projection path or the second projection path when the projection system is switched from the three-dimensional presentation mode to the two-dimensional presentation mode. | 15,706 |
9,731,614 | 1. A mobile electric charging station comprising: a roadworthy chassis; a power source connected to the roadworthy chassis; a power control system connected to the roadworthy chassis and the power source; and a wireless power transmitter deployment structure that deploys from the roadworthy chassis and is connected to the power control system, the wireless power transmitter deployment structure comprising a mounting frame connected to a side of the roadworthy chassis, a scissoring extension structure that extends horizontally from the roadworthy chassis and connected to the mounting frame a transmitter frame connected to the scissoring extension structure, and a wireless power transmitter having upward and downward mobility and connected to the transmitter frame. | 25,015 |
9,614,512 | 1. A gate driver, comprising: a switching device; a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse signal; and a pulse transformer configured to generate a gate voltage based on the pulse signal and apply the gate voltage to the switching device, wherein the pulse generator is further configured to control the switching device by gradually increasing a frequency of the pulse signal so as to transition the switching device into an idle state. | 20,811 |
9,714,169 | 1. A thermoneutral reforming process for the production of a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas from liquid hydrocarbon fuels, which comprises: a. providing a mixture of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, an O b. pre-heating the mixture to a temperature of about 350° C. to about 450° C.; and c. bringing the mixture into contact with the catalyst bed at a gas hour space velocity of about 30,000 h | 8,345 |
8,547,867 | 1. A method for identifying Bluetooth interference in user equipment (UE) comprising first and second radio components on a single platform, comprising: detecting signal interference at the first radio component; measuring received signal power at the first radio component at predetermined time intervals to generate a plurality of measurement values corresponding to a Bluetooth Synchronous Connection Oriented (SCO) transmission or Extended Synchronous Connection Oriented (eSCO) transmission; and sending an in-device coexistence indicator message from the first radio component if the plurality of measurement values exceed a threshold power value to indicate SCO or eSCO interference from the second radio component. | 18,021 |
9,806,943 | 1. A method for enabling a planned upgrade or a planned downgrade of a first network device, the method comprising: establishing, at the first network device, a TCP session with a client device; receiving, at the first network device, a request for a virtual service over a network by the client device; creating a redirect network session for the TCP session at a second network device based on information associated with the TCP session, the second network device being a standby device for the first network device, wherein the information associated with the TCP session is sent by the first network device to the second network device upon establishing the TCP session with the client device; delivering, by the first network device, the request for the virtual service over a network to a server; receiving a change from a network administrator designating the second network device as an active device for the virtual service; receiving a server response at the second network device; recognizing, at the second network device, that the server response is associated with the redirect network session; redirecting, by the second network device, the server response to the first network device in accordance with the redirect network session; and sending, by the first network device, the server response to the client device, wherein the first network device delivers further requests associated with the TCP session from the client device directly to the server until the virtual service is completed, and wherein the second network device redirects further server responses associated with the redirect network session to the first network device until the virtual service is completed. | 17,329 |
9,349,075 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image segmenting unit to segment an input image into a plurality of segments; a likelihood determining unit to determine a likelihood that a transparent object is present between adjacent segments among the plurality of segments; and an object detecting unit to detect the transparent object from the input image based on the likelihood. | 26,494 |
8,819,067 | 1. A computer-executed method for non-deterministic audit log protection, the method comprising: auditing, by a computer system, an operation, wherein the computer system maintains a record associated with the operation in an audit log; determining, by the computer system, a type of query command associated with the operation; and in response to the determining a type of query command associated with the operation, protecting the audit log by signing the audit log at an increased frequency or signing pending audit records at an earlier than scheduled time, thereby reducing a vulnerable time-period during which the audit log can be compromised. | 6,489 |
9,167,578 | 1. A node of a radio communication network, the node implemented, at least in part, in hardware and configured to: allocate a set of radio resources for use by an open access base station in the radio communication network, the open access base station in radio communication with one or more user equipments, the set of radio resources allocated for use by the open access base station comprising a sub-set of radio resources allocated for signaling between the open access base station and the one or more user equipments; and allocate a respective set of radio resources for use by each restricted access base station of one or more restricted access base stations in the radio communication network, each restricted access base station of one or more restricted access base stations in radio communication with its respective predetermined set of user equipments, each respective set of radio resources including at least one radio resource allocated for use by the open access base station, but not including radio resources of the subset of radio resources allocated for signaling between the open access base station and the one or more user equipments, wherein: the respective sets of radio resources allocated for each restricted access base station of one or more restricted access base stations comprises respective radio resources allocated for use by each respective restricted access base station for signaling between the respective restricted access base station and its respective predetermined set of user equipments; at least some radio resources are allocated to more than one of the respective sets of radio resources allocated for use by respective restricted access base stations of one or more restricted access base stations; none of the radio resources allocated to more than one of the respective sets of radio resources allocated for use by respective restricted access base stations are radio resources allocated for use by restricted access base stations for signaling; and the sets of radio resources comprise at least one of: | 1,305 |
8,859,143 | 1. A partially or fully surface-enabled, metal ion-exchanging battery device comprising (a) a positive electrode (cathode), (b) a negative electrode (anode), (c) a porous separator disposed between said cathode and said anode, and (d) an electrolyte in physical contact with said cathode and said anode, wherein said electrolyte contains an alkaline metal ion that is exchanged between said cathode and said anode during an operation of said battery device and said alkaline metal is selected from beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), radium (Ra), or a combination thereof; wherein at least one of said cathode and said anode contains therein a source of said alkaline metal ion prior to a first charge or a first discharge cycle of the battery device and at least the cathode comprises a functional material having a surface-borne metal ion-capturing functional group and a nano-structured material having a metal ion-storing surface in direct contact with said electrolyte to reversibly capture or store said alkaline metal ion during charge-discharge operations of said battery, wherein the functional material is nano graphene selected from a single-layer graphene sheet or a multi-layer graphene platelet and wherein said operations of said battery device does not involve the introduction of oxygen from outside said device and does not involve the formation of a metal oxide, metal sulfide, metal selenide, metal telluride, metal hydroxide, or metal-halogen compound. | 45,161 |
8,747,678 | 1. A continuous process for precipitating nickel ions from aqueous solutions, the process comprising: a) providing a pregnant aqueous solution comprising dissolved nickel ions at a concentration of less than 1 g/L and dissolved oxygen; b) removing oxygen from said pregnant aqueous solution to provide a de-aerated feed water; c) contacting the de-aerated feed water with a dissolved sulphide source in a contactor to form solid nickel sulphide, the contacting being performed under contactor conditions that comprise a contacting temperature of between 0° C. and 50° C., a contacting pressure of between 0.5 atmosphere and 1.5 C. atmosphere, and a contacting pH of between 6 and 9; d) separating the solid nickel sulphide from the pregnant solution to provide a nickel sulphide sludge and a barren water solution, wherein the nickel sulphide sludge has a mean nickel particle size of at least 5 microns and the barren water solution has a dissolved nickel concentration of less than 10 parts per million; and, e) recycling at least a portion of the nickel sulphide sludge to the contactor under conditions such that said recycled portion seeds nickel sulphide particle growth to provide the mean nickel particle size of at least 5 microns. | 33,762 |
9,536,243 | 1. A system for facilitating in-store or near-store ordering and payment of goods and/or services through a single tap of a near field communication (NFC) enabled mobile device, the system comprising: a smart poster locatable in an area that is accessible to a potential consumer of goods or services; a mechanism in or on the smart poster that includes a content code and a location identifier associated with a portion of a merchant ordering and payment system specific to the good or service advertised by the smart poster; and an NFC enabled mobile device including a processor, a memory, and a wallet application residing in the memory of the NFC enabled mobile device, wherein the NFC enabled mobile device is configured to receive the content code and the location identifier associated with the merchant ordering and payment system from the mechanism upon interfacing with the smart poster via a single NFC tap, wherein the wallet application, when executed by the processor, is configured to: wherein the NFC enabled mobile device is separate from both the smart poster and the mechanism. | 48,804 |
9,494,331 | 1. A ventilation system for air ventilation comprising: a continuous duct having openings at both ends, an air flow generator arranged inside the duct to be rotatable around an axis of rotation so that, positioned in different rotational positions, the air flow generator is capable of producing a substantially axial air flow in each of two directions through the duct, respectively, one or more registers arranged to be moveable between different positions, in at least one of which positions the one or more registers leave the duct open for air passage, whereas in another of the positions the one or more registers substantially block the air passage through the duct, wherein the one or more registers are connected to the air flow generator so that they perform a rotational motion when the air flow generator is rotated and a motor for simultaneously rotating the air flow generator and positioning the one or more registers. | 42,451 |
8,922,192 | 1. A method for multiphase electrical power phase identification, comprising: (a) receiving a request for a power phase identification for a given power component phase connection from a power component by a monitoring component; (b) in response to the request, sending signal characteristics for the power phase identification to the power component by the monitoring component; (c) monitoring power signals on a plurality of distribution panel phase connections by the monitoring component; (d) determining by the monitoring component that the signal characteristics are found on a given distribution panel phase connection; and (e) in response to finding the signal characteristics on the given distribution panel phase connection, sending an identifier of the given distribution panel phase connection to the power component by the monitoring component. | 327 |
9,042,224 | 1. A network node for a packet-based communication network, the network node comprising: at least one output port coupled to the communication network and configured to transmit packets over the communication network; a plurality of data queues configured to queue packets to be transmitted by the network node over the communication network; and at least one scheduler configured to: | 44,772 |
8,578,465 | 1. A method, comprising: sending, from a client device, two or more sub-session requests that are sent to two or more corresponding session controllers through a computer network to respectively obtain two or more corresponding sub-session tokens that indicate in which sub-sessions of the online collaborative computing session the client device is permitted to participate, wherein the client device is associated with an organization, and wherein the session controllers are managed by the organization and permitted sub-sessions being based on whether the client device is associated with the organization or is a guest of the online collaborative computing session; receiving particular sub-session tokens of the two or more corresponding sub-session tokens at the client device; sending the received sub-session tokens from the client device to a collaboration server; and, in response, establishing two or more permitted sub-sessions of the online collaborative computing session with the client device as indicated by the received sub-session tokens. | 7,851 |
9,803,073 | 1. A heat resistant curable ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer-polyamide blend composition comprising: (A) from about 99 wt % to about 95 wt % of an EVA component selected from the group consisting of (B) from about 1 wt % to about 5 wt % of one or more polyamides; wherein the weight percent of the polyamides and the EVA component are based on the total combined amount of EVA component and polyamides in the blend composition, the blend composition has a Mooney viscosity determined according to ASTM D1646, ML 1+4 at 100° C. less than 200, and the blend composition comprises polyamide particles dispersed in a continuous EVA copolymer matrix; and (C) a peroxide curative; wherein said curable composition, upon curing, forms a thermoset material. | 10,805 |
9,843,502 | 1. A method for use in routing Point-to-Multi-Point (P2MP) services in a multi-domain network with a Hierarchical Path Computation Element (H-PCE) architecture, the method comprising a Child Path Computation Element (C-PCE) of one of the domains: determining summarized domain topology information about the domain, the summarized domain topology information comprising sending the summarized domain topology information to a Parent Path Computation Element (P-PCE). | 1,516 |
9,341,204 | 1. A fastening clip ( 10 ) for mounting a component part ( 28 ), especially an airbag or an airbag module, on a support ( 30 ), comprising: a head portion ( a clip body ( retaining elements ( wherein the clip body ( and wherein the clip body ( | 24,870 |
9,402,899 | 1. A method of treating a tumor in a human patient in need thereof comprising administering to the human an effective amount of an anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits an interaction between PD-1 and PD-L1, wherein the anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody treats the tumor in the patient. | 21,273 |
9,219,182 | 1. An optoelectronic device comprising a protective film, said protective film comprising: (a) a fluoropolymer content comprising at least one fluoropolymer, wherein less than 10 weight percent of the fluoropolymer content is derived from vinylidene fluoride; (b) a protection component in admixture with the fluoropolymer content that helps to protect the device from ultraviolet light degradation, wherein the film comprises from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of the protection component per 100 parts by weight of the fluoropolymer content, and wherein the protection components comprises: | 22,449 |
9,005,948 | 1. An enzymatic composition comprising: an endoglucanase VII EGVII polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of in SEQ ID NO:2, a beta-glucosidase (BG), and a cellobiohydrolase (CBH), wherein the EGVII polypeptide is from a different species than the BG and/or the CBH. | 39,167 |
8,734,576 | 1. A composite hydrogen storage material comprising: active material particles capable of occluding and desorbing hydrogen, a thermoplastic binder elastically immobilizing the active material particles sufficient to maintain relative spatial relationships between the active material particles within the composite before, during and after occluding and desorbing of hydrogen; wherein the composite hydrogen storage material is formed into an unsupported shape. | 10,910 |
8,548,227 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a dividing unit that divides an area including viewpoints of images into a plurality of sub-areas; a selecting unit that selects one image as a first image from a plurality of images in each sub-area, respectively, and configured to define other images of the plurality of images as second images in each sub-area, respectively; a depth generating unit that generates a depth map of the first image and a depth map of the second image, the depth maps indicating a depth value of a pixel of a corresponding image; a projective transformation unit that generates a projected depth map of the second image of the second images from the depth map of the first image; a subtracting unit that creates a difference map of the second image, the difference map being a difference between the depth map of the second image and the projected depth map of the second image; and a storage unit that stores the depth map of the first image and the difference map of the second image, wherein each of the depth generating unit, projective transformation unit, subtracting unit, and storage unit operates independently on the first and second images of each of the sub-areas in the plurality of sub-areas. | 31,728 |
8,805,170 | 1. A method for storing data on a computer readable medium, comprising: providing a first data representation comprising luminance data in a first memory plane of the computer readable medium; providing an additional portion of the first data representation in a second memory plane of the computer readable medium; providing a second data representation comprising chrominance data in the second memory plane with the additional portion of the first data representation; and fetching the first data representation from the first memory plane, and fetching both the additional portion of the first data representation and the second data representation from the second memory plane. | 13,430 |
9,345,987 | 1. Apparatus for use with a flow of a liquid mixture that is separable by vaporization into a flow of vapor and a depleted flow of liquid, the apparatus comprising a structure which, in use: defines a first volume wherein said liquid mixture is received and separated into said flow of vapor and said depleted flow of liquid; defines a first liquid passage by which said depleted flow leaves the first volume; defines a vapor passage by which said flow of vapor leaves the first volume; defines a second volume to which the vapor passage leads; includes heat and mass transfer apparatus disposed at least in part in the second volume, the heat and mass transfer apparatus: (i) receiving a flow of brine adapted to exothermically absorb one or more components from the vapor; (ii) introducing the flow of brine to the vapor; and (iii) withdrawing heat from the second volume, to produce at least a flow of heat and a flow of brine which is enriched in the one or more components; defines a second liquid passage by which the flow of brine which is enriched in the one or more components leaves the second volume; and includes heat movement apparatus for transferring the flow of heat to the first volume to provide for said separation, wherein: the transfer of heat into the first volume is associated with the phase change of a working fluid from a gaseous state into a liquid state; the withdrawal of the heat from the second volume involves the phase change of the working fluid from the liquid state to the gaseous state; in the liquid state, the working fluid flows only by one or more of gravity, convection and wicking; and in the gaseous state, the working fluid flows only by one or more of diffusion and convection. | 19,240 |
9,796,634 | 1. A holding material for a gas treatment device, which is arranged, in the gas treatment device comprising a treatment structure and a casing for housing the treatment structure, between the treatment structure and the casing, the holding material comprising silica fibers at a content of 85 mass % or more with respect to the total mass of the holding material and an alumina sol in an amount of 3 parts by mass or more in terms of a solid content with respect to 100 parts by mass of the silica fibers, wherein a content of alumina in the silica fibers is from 0 to 3 mass % with respect to the total mass of the silica fiber. | 34,581 |
9,730,297 | 1. A luminaire controller mountable within a luminaire housing, the luminaire controller comprising: at least one light sensor for providing a signal relating to ambient light levels; and at least one light guide having a light inlet through which ambient light can be received and a light outlet through which ambient light is directed to the at least one light sensor; wherein the luminaire controller further comprises a communications unit for communicating with a communications network, the communications unit being operable for checking network communication, and, in the event of an interrupted network communication, the luminaire controller is operable for generating an appropriate signal for a lamp associated therewith depending on the signal relating to the ambient light level. | 25,302 |
9,316,694 | 1. A battery, comprising: a battery monitoring system integrated within the battery, wherein the battery monitoring system comprises: wherein the at least one parameter of the battery comprises a time, a voltage, a temperature, or a current; and wherein the time corresponds to a time after manufacture of the battery, and the diagnostic system is configured to activate the diagnostic system after the time passes a threshold value. | 30,166 |
8,856,335 | 1. A system for evaluating a plurality of proposed states for a storage system that provides service to a plurality of workloads, the system comprising: computer hardware configured for: producing a state tree comprising a plurality of nodes arranged in a plurality of hierarchical levels comprising at least first and second levels, the first level comprising a start node representing a current state of the storage system, the second level comprising a plurality of proposed nodes, each proposed node representing a proposed state of the storage system produced by implementing a set of actions associated with the proposed state that changes the current state of the storage system to the proposed state, wherein the state tree is produced based on original planner information; receiving new planner information; adding at least one proposed node in the state tree based on the new planner information; removing at least one proposed node in the state tree based on the new planner information; and producing a set of proposed nodes remaining in the state tree for selecting a proposed state to implement, wherein: the plurality of proposed nodes are divided into first and second groups of proposed nodes, the first group of proposed nodes representing proposed states capable of being implemented within a first time frame and the second group of proposed nodes representing proposed states capable of being implemented within a second time frame, the first time frame being shorter than the second time frame; the new planner information comprises a time constraint that specifies the first or second time frame; and removing at least one proposed node in the state tree comprises: upon determining that the time constraint specifies the first time frame, removing the second group of proposed nodes from the state tree; and upon determining that the time constraint specifies the second time frame, removing the first group of proposed nodes from the state tree. | 1,314 |
8,668,856 | 1. A method for manufacturing an article, comprising: preparing a non-fluid mixture comprising an aggregate material and a water-soluble binder material, the binder material comprising from 3% to 10% wt. polyvinylpyrrolidone and from 3% to 30 wt. % sodium silicate, by weight of the non-fluid mixture; fluidizing the mixture by entraining the mixture in a carrier gas; directing the fluidized mixture into a mold form to form a green mandrel, by propelling the carrier gas and mixture into the mold, wherein the carrier gas is able to escape from the mold and the non-fluid mixture remains in the mold; hardening the green mandrel to form a mandrel; laying up a composite material on an outer surface of the mandrel; curing the composite material to produce the article as a hollow, seamless article; and removing the mandrel from the hollow, seamless article by solubilizing the water-soluble binder material by application of water to the mandrel. | 45,875 |
9,249,705 | 1. A metering unit for a reducing agent, the metering unit comprising: an injector for supplying the reducing agent to an exhaust gas treatment device, said injector including an electric coil having conductive tracks, a material being used for said conductive tracks having a temperature-dependency of the electrical resistance of at least 0.2% per Kelvin, said electric coil configured to perform at least the following functions: electromagnetic opening of said injector; and ascertaining a temperature by determining an electrical resistance of said coil; and a controller configured for: controlling the electromagnetic opening of said injector via said coil; and deriving a temperature value by determining the electrical resistance of said electric coil. | 46,484 |
9,290,808 | 1. A method for determining a number of occurrences of a target molecule from a single cell, the method comprising: a) generating an indexed library by performing a labeling step, the labeling step comprising: b) amplifying the target-label-tag molecules from the indexed library; and c) sequencing at least a portion of the amplified product of step (b) to determine a number of different label-tag sequences associated with the portion of the complementary sequence of a target molecule from the single cell, wherein the number of different label-tag sequences indicates the number of occurrences of the target molecule from the single cell. | 47,910 |
9,792,510 | 1. A vehicle, comprising: an object recognition device installed in the vehicle including a computer having a CPU, ROM, and RAM, the computer including a coordinate specifying unit, a distribution map creation unit, a grouping unit, a point-to-point distance measurement unit, and a reliability setting unit, and when running predetermined software in the computer, the computer configured to: detect an object present in a surrounding area of the vehicle with an object detection unit, the object detection unit having a sensor including a transmission unit that transmits laser rays to the surrounding area and a reception unit that receives reflected rays of the laser rays transmitted from the transmission unit; specify detection points of the object detected by the object detection unit with the coordinate specifying unit; set object presence reliability indicating the reliability of whether or not the object is present in the surrounding area based on the coordinates of the detection points specified by the coordinate specifying unit; create a distribution map of the object presence reliability in the surrounding area based on the object presence reliability which is set by the reliability setting unit with the distribution map creation unit; group the detection points based on the set object presence reliability with the grouping unit and the distribution map; and measure a point-to-point distance, based on the distribution map, between two detection points which are adjacent to each other based on the object presence reliability in the area between the two detection points with the point-to-point distance measurement unit, wherein the detection points are the reflection points of the laser rays, wherein the object presence reliability is set to three levels of “object present” in which a possibility of the presence of the object is high, “no object present” in which a possibility of the presence of the object is low, and “unknown” in which a possibility of the presence of the object is moderate, wherein the point-to-point distance measurement unit measures the point-to-point distance between two detection points as the distance of a path following a region where the object presence reliability is “unknown”, in the case where a region having the object presence reliability of “no object present” is set between the two detection points, and wherein the grouping unit groups the detection points in which the point-to-point distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance into a single group. | 8,591 |
9,440,736 | 1. A Personal Electric Helicopter (PEH) vehicle device comprised of: (a) an electric battery powered system including at least one rechargeable electric battery, the powered system further comprising at least one motor-generator wherein the at least one motor-generator provides rotational power to a propeller for uplift and propulsion and the powered system made of lightweight and durable materials; (b) a frame structure made of a lightweight, durable and hollowed tube material, the structure configured to carry an operator and payload and the frame structure including at least three inclined tubes converging toward the powered system at a one converging end and including an operator seat secured to at least one of the three inclined tubes at the opposite end of the one converging end; (c) a means for securely connecting the frame structure at the one converging end to the electric battery powered system; (d) the means for securely connecting the frame structure to at the one converging end to the electric battery powered system further comprising a hinge mechanism wherein, when the device is at rest and not flying, the hinge mechanism of the frame permits the electric battery powered system and the propeller to be rotated to an essentially vertical position to accept a wind force for the propeller to reverse the direction of rotational turning and to propel the motor-generator in order to recharge the at least one battery; (e) a means for controlling the electric battery powered system for uplift and propulsion; (f) a means for controlling the direction of propulsion of the Personal Electric Helicopter (PEH) vehicle device; (g) the at least one propeller; and (h) a mechanical drive connection from the rechargeable electric battery powered system and the at least one propeller wherein the (PEH) vehicle can be used to elevate and propel the operator/payload at low altitudes across various terrains. | 2,642 |
9,744,832 | 1. An anti-glare apparatus for reducing a glare of light emitted outside of a moving vehicle, the anti-glare apparatus comprising: a light source detector configured to detect a light source that exists outside the moving vehicle; a light reactive member having a planar shape, the light reactive member being located in front of a driver that is operating the moving vehicle, and being configured to change color in response to light having a specific frequency; a control device configured to calculate a position of the light source on a surface of the light reactive member, based on output of the light source detector; and a light emitter configured to emit light having the specific frequency inside the moving vehicle from the light emitter to the light reactive member, based on the light source position calculated by the control device, wherein | 12,204 |
8,740,188 | 1. A device for lifting and supporting a cabinet during installation thereof, said lifting and supporting device comprising: a plurality of elongated supports having lower end portions and respective upper end portions disposed substantially vertically thereabove; a base section having a plurality of rectilinear support arms, wherein said plurality of rectilinear support arms is arranged in parallel transverse to a longitudinal length of said base section, said plurality of rectilinear support arms having opposed ends spaced outwardly from said base section, said base section being secured to said lower end portions of said elongated supports such that said elongated supports are elevated above a ground surface, wherein said base section maintains said supports in a substantially stable position during operating conditions; a plurality of side panels secured to said upper end portions of said plurality of elongated supports and for defining a cavity therebetween; a moveable section having a vertically oriented longitudinal axis and being disposed substantially medially of said plurality of side panels; pulley means for selectively lifting said movable section in a substantially vertical direction between raised and lowered positions, said pulley means being partially disposed within said cavity and being anchored to said moveable section and said plurality of side panels; a pressure plate secured to a rear side portion of said moveable section such that said movable section is maintained in a static position during non-operating conditions; and a plurality of fasteners adjustably abutting said pressure plate against said moveable section. | 43,394 |
9,798,899 | 1. A system, comprising: a security device configured to receive a plurality of incoming packets from a plurality of data sources, each packet comprising a tag that identifies the respective data source, the security device comprising a plurality of programmable cryptographic modules, each of the cryptographic modules comprising: an interchangeable input/output (I/O) panel; and an interchangeable I/O electronics card associated with the I/O panel, the interchangeable I/O electronics card configured to couple to the security device. | 8,749 |
8,838,851 | 1. A method for performing path selection comprising: determining, using configuration information, a first of a plurality of aggregated device members of an aggregated device to which a data operation is directed, said configuration information including first information about the aggregated device, said first information including information identifying the plurality of aggregated device members included in the aggregated device and information identifying which logical address ranges of the aggregated device correspond to which aggregated device members; performing, in accordance with a load balancing technique for the first aggregated device member, path selection to select a first of a plurality of paths, wherein the aggregated device is accessible over each of the plurality of paths; and sending the data operation to the aggregated device over the first path, wherein said determining, said performing, and said sending are performed by a host having the configuration information and wherein the host selects the first path from the plurality of paths between the host and a data storage system. | 27,987 |
8,960,288 | 1. A method of forming a string of perforating guns comprising: (a) providing a perforating gun having a body, a connector on an upper end and an anchor mounted to the body; (b) inserting the perforating gun into a wellbore that is surrounded by a formation; (c) anchoring the perforating gun to a wall of the wellbore by deploying the anchor radially outward and against an inner surface of the wellbore, and which defines a lowermost perforating gun; (d) inserting upper perforating gun into the wellbore; and (e) landing the upper perforating gun onto the lowermost perforating gun thereby automatically fixedly coupling the upper perforating gun to the lowermost perforating gun thereby forming a string of perforating guns, wherein the step of inserting each perforating gun into the wellbore comprises attaching a wireline to an upper end of each perforating gun and inserting each perforating gun by lowering the wireline into the wellbore. | 15,446 |
9,662,802 | 1. An improved lorry-based concrete mixer drum, the lorry-based concrete mixer drum comprising: a drum body comprising an aperture for permitting access to a drum body interior; a manhole cover hingedly attached to the drum body adjacent to the aperture, the manhole cover being movable from an aperture closed position, in which position the aperture is sealed, to an aperture open position, in which position the aperture is open and the drum body interior is accessible, wherein one or more edge members are provided on an edge of the manhole cover, and one or more locking mechanisms provided on the drum body adjacent the aperture, wherein the one or more locking mechanisms are operable to retain the manhole cover in a retained position and lock the manhole cover in the aperture closed position, wherein upon rotation of the manhole cover each of the one or more edge members engages with a corresponding locking mechanism such that each of the one or more edge members is trapped between a corresponding locking mechanism and the drum body thereby adopting the retained position in which position the aperture is closed, but not sealed; wherein interaction of each of the one or more edge members and each corresponding one or more locking mechanisms is operable to support the manhole cover in the retained position, which is an intermediate status of closure between the aperture closed position and the aperture open position. | 45,620 |
9,496,821 | 1. A photovoltaic assembly, comprising: four photovoltaic modules, each of the photovoltaic modules having a frame with a side groove extending therealong; and a connector, comprising: a series coupling; and a pair of parallel couplings connected to the series coupling, each parallel coupling being coupled to the side grooves of a pair of the photovoltaic modules such that the four photovoltaic modules are connected together, wherein a portion of said series coupling is located between each pair of photovoltaic modules. | 46,439 |
9,409,487 | 1. A kind of electric automobile PWM rectification and converting voltage/current pulse charging system, comprising: a rectifier module and a charging module, the former linking with an AC network and a charge module respectively, wherein said charging system also includes a DC charging management module and the charging module is composed of a DC input module and a DC output module; said rectifier module, DC input module, DC output module and DC charging management module are independent and connected together by a CAN bus; the rectifier module rectifies the alternating current of power input and forms the steady DC output voltage after smoothing which is provided to the DC converter module in the subsequent DC output module, in the DC converter module, bi-directional DC-DC converter is employed to realize the multiple modes of charging for the storage battery of the electric automobile, the charging modes include constant voltage limited current charging, constant current limited voltage charging, three-stage charging, intermittent pulse charging and positive and negative pulse charging; the rectifier module includes air switch, pre-charge resistor, AC contactor, input-side inductor, three-phase full-controlled bridge converter, PWM rectifier, DC bus capacitor, dummy load, power tube drive and digital logic protection circuit, and control unit; the power tube drive chip and drive module and isolated power supply convert PWM pulse signal sent out by the chip in the control unit into the driving IGBT or IPM pulse, and feed back trouble signal to the digital logic protection circuit when the overcurrent occurs on the power devices; the AC-side of the PWM rectifier adopts the filter inductance which realizes the control of AC-side unity power factor and four-quadrant operation of the PWM rectifier and filters the AC-side harmonic current of the PWM rectifier; the DC input module is managed to meter the DC current, control the DC power supply and secure the DC input and output; the DC output communicates with the on-board energy management system, convert the output power, and match up with the voltage and current required by the output battery charging; the DC charging module realizes human-computer interaction for interface display, identification, fees charging, receipt printing, data management, current make-and-break current control, and remote monitoring; the control unit is composed of the controller and PWM rectifier control panel, the latter is a double closed loop control system formed by inner current loop and outer voltage loop, the double closed loop control system is realized by using the digital regulator, adopts the direct current control for the closed loop control of the rectifier input current and realizes the high precision control of instantaneous current waveform through the current. | 16,470 |
9,822,651 | 1. A runner assembly comprising: a runner including a first fastener aperture; a cradle comprising: a substantially planar base including a second fastener aperture, the base comprising a stiffening bead; a first tab extending from the base configured for mounting the runner assembly to an article; and a plurality of fingers extending from the base; and a first fastener extending through the first and second fastener apertures for attaching the runner to the cradle; wherein the plurality of fingers are adjacent to the runner and constrain the runner with respect to the cradle and the first fastener. | 28,007 |
9,578,736 | 1. A method of forming a structure, said method comprising: forming a stressor layer atop a base substrate; providing a handle substrate on the stressor layer, said handle substrate comprises a flexible material that has a radius of curvature of less than 30 cm and at least one metallization region, said at least one metallization region of said handle substrate is in contact with a surface of said stressor layer and is in contact with said flexible material of said handle substrate; and removing an upper portion of said base substrate by spalling to provide a structure comprising, from bottom to top, a spalled material portion of said base substrate, said stressor layer and said handle substrate containing said at least one metallization region in contact with said surface of said stressor layer. | 45,025 |
9,076,060 | 1. A parking management apparatus comprising: a server; a plurality of intelligent cameras which detect a vehicle through image recognition to create information about the position of the vehicle and an object ID of the vehicle, and send the information about the position and the object ID to the server; a vehicle recognition unit configured to obtain a license plate number of the vehicle and an entry time of the vehicle and to send the license plate number of the vehicle and the entry time of the vehicle to the server; and a display device configured to display at least one of the information about the position, the license plate number, the entry time, and an image of the vehicle, wherein when the detected vehicle moves into a hand-over region in which visual fields of at least two intelligent cameras overlap, the server sends the object ID to another intelligent camera which shares with the visual field; and wherein the intelligent cameras are connected to each other via a wired or wireless mesh network. | 3,914 |
9,631,518 | 1. An exhaust diffuser for a torque-generating turbine, the exhaust diffuser comprising: an inner member having an outer surface and an outer member having an inner surface, the inner member and the outer member forming an annular channel, a first supporting strut connecting the inner member and the outer member, the first supporting strut extending essentially radially from the inner surface to the outer surface, a second supporting strut, wherein the first supporting strut and the second supporting strut form a mirror twin-strut with an in flow-direction narrowing channel therein between; the first supporting strut and the second supporting strut comprising a middle section having a first airfoil, an outer section having a second airfoil and an inner section having a third airfoil, the second airfoil having a higher angle of incidence than the first airfoil, and the third airfoil having a lower angle of incidence than the second airfoil. | 49,695 |
9,847,970 | 1. A computer-implemented method for regulating network traffic flowing in a network comprising one or more computing resources, the method comprising: receiving network traffic flowing in the network, the network traffic flowing in the network toward virtual machine instances that are hosted on the one or more computing resources; utilizing at least one traffic regulator to regulate an amount of available bandwidth for the network traffic, the available bandwidth including at least a first bandwidth for attack traffic and a second bandwidth for traffic that is not the attack traffic; detecting an attack on at least one of the virtual machine instances in the network based at least in part on detecting that a portion of the network traffic flowing in the network toward the at least one of the virtual machine instances is the attack traffic; and in response to detecting the attack in the network, wherein during the attack, the first bandwidth for the attack traffic is decreased before decreasing the second bandwidth that is available to another portion of the network. | 22,084 |
9,227,899 | 1. A process for producing propylene glycol methyl ether, comprising (a) dissolving a solid basic catalyst in methanol to form a homogeneous solution, (b) feeding the solution to a catalytic distillation column containing a heterogeneous basic catalyst fixed in place in the column, defining a heterogeneous reaction zone, wherein the heterogeneous basic catalyst is an anion exchange resin in free base form selected from weak anionic resins based on a macroporous, cross-linked, styrene divinyl benzene polymer structure having a tertiary amine functionality (c) feeding propylene oxide to the column, wherein, in the column, methanol reacts with propylene oxide according to a dual homogeneous catalytic reaction and heterogeneous catalytic reaction to form propylene glycol methyl ether, and (d) removing substantially pure propylene glycol methyl ether from the column as a bottoms product. | 39,288 |
9,388,426 | 1. A method of producing a cell or cell line in which a glutamine synthetase (GS) gene is inactivated, the method comprising introducing into the cell or cell line one or more nucleic acids encoding a pair of zinc finger nucleases, each zinc finger nuclease comprising a zinc finger DNA-binding domain and a cleavage domain or cleavage half-domain, wherein the pair of zinc finger nucleases dimerize to cleave the GS gene and further wherein the zinc finger DNA-binding domain comprises four or six zinc finger recognition regions designated F1 to F4 or F1 to F6 comprising recognition helix regions selected from the group consisting of: | 19,875 |
9,514,642 | 1. A method for queue recognition by wireless vehicle to vehicle communication, in which an ego vehicle (A), in which the method for queue recognition is performed, receives speed and position values from surrounding vehicles ( 5 . x ) situated in the reception area of the vehicle to vehicle communication, the method comprising: checking a relevance for surrounding vehicles ( selecting the speed and position values that are associated with relevant surrounding vehicles ( defining at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C) to which mean values of at least one portion of the, or all, selected speed and position values are allocated as speed and position values for the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C); recording a time profile of the speed and position values of the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C); recording, as at least one change value, the time profile of changes in the speed and position values of the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C); comparing the change value with at least one prescribed queue criterion; transmitting, by a communication system of the ego vehicle, a heading of the ego vehicle based on the speed and position values received from the surrounding vehicles; ascertaining an acceleration of the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C) as a change value from two temporally successive associated speed values for the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C), wherein time offset in the acceleration of the at least one first virtual vehicle (B, C) is taken into account as a change value; and providing a warning communication to the driver of the ego vehicle warning the driver that the ego vehicle is entering a hazard region associated with an end of the queue. | 27,009 |
9,009,622 | 1. A method comprising: maintaining data representative of a plurality of media content instances; displaying within a graphical user interface a plurality of graphical objects positioned along a first viewing axis, each of the graphical objects representing a metadata value within a metadata category associated with the media content instances; shifting a graphical object included within the plurality of graphical objects into a center focus portion of the first viewing axis in response to a user input command; transforming the graphical object from a book end depiction that is visually similar to a spine of a media content housing associated with a metadata value represented by the graphical object into a cover art depiction that is visually similar to a front cover of the media content housing when the graphical object enters the center focus portion; displaying, concurrently with the plurality of graphical objects positioned along the first viewing axis, a plurality of selectable graphical objects positioned along a second viewing axis within the graphical user interface, each of the selectable graphical objects being associated with the graphical object positioned within the center focus portion and representing a metadata value within a subcategory of the metadata category; and displaying, concurrently with the plurality of graphical objects positioned along the first viewing axis and the plurality of graphical objects positioned along the second axis, another plurality of selectable graphical objects positioned along the second viewing axis, each selectable graphical object included in the another plurality of selectable graphical objects being associated with the graphical object positioned within the center focus portion and representing a plurality of options associated with the graphical object. | 49,476 |
9,537,098 | 1. A substrate for an organic electronic device (OED), comprising: a transparent substrate having a main surface; an adhesive layer formed directly on the main surface of the transparent substrate, the adhesive layer being non-conductive; and a conductive pattern recessed in the adhesive layer, wherein the conductive pattern is exposed to a surface of the adhesive layer opposite to a surface of the adhesive layer directly attached to the transparent substrate, and the surface of the adhesive layer, which includes the exposed conductive pattern, is a planarized surface having a maximum height roughness in a range of 0.001 μm to 0.3 μm, wherein the planarized surface is a transfer surface of a releasable substrate, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a matrix of the adhesive layer having a transmittance of 70% or more in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm and scattering particles having a different refractive index from the matrix of the adhesive layer, wherein an area of the conductive pattern exposed to the planarized surface is 0.1% to 40% of a total area of the planarized surface, and wherein a sheet resistance of the planarized surface on which the conductive pattern is exposed is 5Ω/□ or less. | 37,380 |
9,138,648 | 1. A method for dynamically loading game software, the method comprising: generating a display of a current game environment, wherein the current game environment is associated with a plurality of next game environments; determining a load time for each of the plurality of next game environments, wherein the next game environments are not yet displayed; identifying in the current game environment a plurality of different load boundaries that are each associated with loading one or more of the plurality of next game environments, wherein the location of each load boundary in the current game environment is based on the load time of the associated next game environment; identifying that a character has crossed a load boundary in the current game environment associated with one of the plurality of next game environments; determining a direction in which the character has crossed the crossed load boundary; identifying one of the next game environments for loading based on the crossed load boundary and the determined direction in which the character has crossed the load boundary, wherein the next game environment associated with the load boundary is identified for loading when the character is determined to have crossed the load boundary moving in a forward direction toward one of the next game environments associated with the load boundary, and a different next game environment is identified for loading when the character is determined to have crossed the load boundary in a backward direction away from the one of the next game environments associated with the crossed load boundary; and loading instructions corresponding to the identified next game environment into a memory prior to the character entering the identified next game environment, loading of the instructions commencing when the character crosses the load boundary in the current game environment in the determined direction such that game play is not interrupted by loading instructions for display of the identified next game environment when the character enters the identified next game environment. | 25,980 |
8,403,187 | 1. A system for delivering a fluid into a container, the system comprising: a housing configured to be secured to the container and further including a reservoir to receive and retain a fluid as a liquid, wherein the housing further includes a collar including a central opening extending through the collar between a top end and a bottom end of the collar, and a channel annular or substantially annular in shape defined within an interior of the collar near the bottom end, the bottom end of the collar including an interior surface that extends upward toward the top end of the collar so as to form a lip having an end that terminates between the top and bottom ends, the lip defining a portion of the channel, the channel being in fluid communication with the central opening, the central opening providing fluid communication between the reservoir and an interior within the container so as to facilitate a flow of gas which is formed from vaporization of the liquid within the reservoir into the container interior. | 45,014 |
8,745,762 | 1. An aviation helmet comprising: a helmet having a facial opening; a brim having a length extending above the facial opening; a visor elastically coupled to the helmet and extending across at least a portion of the facial opening in a deployed position; and at least one friction strip mounted along at least a portion of the length of the brim and positioned between the helmet and the visor in the deployed position, the at least one friction strip increasing frictional contact between the visor and the helmet in the deployed position. | 33,456 |
9,764,819 | 1. An aircraft characterized by a flight envelope, comprising: a laterally extending wing; a plurality of pitch-control devices, each pitch-control device being mounted at a separate lateral location along the wing, and each pitch-control device being configured to apply pitch-control torque at its lateral location, wherein the wing is characterized by a torsional flexibility high enough to allow the plurality of pitch control devices to control localized pitch at their lateral wing locations to a degree substantial enough to be significant for flight control throughout the flight envelope; sensors determining the relative localized pitches at the plurality of lateral locations along the wing; and a control system programmed to control the plurality of pitch-control devices based upon the sensed relative localized pitches at the plurality of lateral locations. | 8,000 |
8,621,792 | 1. A height-adjustable clamp for clamping a solar panel to a support structure, comprising: a clamping section comprising: a clamping surface formed with a through-hole; a first end; and a second end opposite said first end along a longest edge of said clamping surface; a mounting base comprising; a bottom surface formed with a through-hole; a longest side perpendicular to said bottom surface and having an edge in common with said bottom surface, wherein said bottom surface and said clamping surface are separated by a distance greater than a thickness dimension of the solar panel; a panel stop extending from said clamping surface toward said mounting base said panel stop having a surface extending from said first end to said second end of said clamping section and said surface on said panel stop coplanar with said longest side of said mounting base; and a flexible arched wall joining said mounting base to said clamping section, said arched wall extending from said first end to said second end of said clamping section with said arched wall disposed outside a gap between said clamping surface and said mounting base, wherein said through-holes in said mounting base and said clamping section are unthreaded and aligned with one another for passage of a bolt through both through-holes. | 27,783 |
8,640,499 | 1. A method of operating a glassmelting furnace, comprising (A) providing a glassmelting furnace having walls defining a chamber that encloses a bath comprising glassmaking materials, a crown over said bath, at least one glassmelting oxy-fuel burner through a wall to provide heat to said bath by combustion in a combustion zone that is located between said bath and said crown, wherein the atmosphere within said glassmelting furnace contains vapor-phase alkali species and the inner surface of said crown is susceptible to corrosion by reaction with said vapor-phase alkali species, and at least one auxiliary oxy-fuel burner through a wall of said furnace that produces a gaseous stream of combustion products comprising water vapor and that is vertically oriented away from the surface of the glassmaking materials to feed said gaseous stream of combustion products to flow along said inner surface of said crown between said combustion zone and said crown, and (B) combusting fuel and oxidant having an oxygen content higher than that of air at said at least one glassmelting burner to provide heat to said bath while combusting fuel and oxidant having an oxygen content higher than that of air at said at least one auxiliary oxy-fuel burner at a stoichiometric ratio of at least 1.0 to produce from said at least one auxiliary burner a gaseous stream of combustion products comprising water vapor and while injecting additional water vapor into the stream of combustion products leaving the auxiliary burner or feeding water vapor through the auxiliary burner so that the stream contains water vapor not produced by combustion at the burner in addition to the water vapor that is produced by the combustion at the burner, and passing the stream comprising said combustion products and said additional water vapor along said inner surface of said crown at a low velocity effective to establish and maintain a layer of said combustion products along said inner surface in which the concentration of water vapor at said inner surface of said crown is higher than the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere at the surface of said bath. | 36,224 |
8,798,732 | 1. A system for measuring heart rate variability (HRV), the system comprising: a data generator to receive heartbeat information of a subject, the heartbeat information recorded by a data collector, said heartbeat information representing a series of heart beat intervals corresponding to said subject, said data generator is further to generate a plurality of data points based on the heartbeat information in the form of a two-dimensional representation having a coordinate system including a first axis and a second axis; a data analyzer to identify two subsets of data points from said plurality of data points, said two subsets including a first subset of data points within a first axis-interval of said first axis, and a second subset of data points within a second axis-interval of said second axis; a processor to calculate a subject-specific heart rate variability (HRV) relative density parameter (RD) value by dividing a first factor, which is based on said first subset of data points by a second factor, which is based on the second subset of data points; and an output device, to output the subject-specific HRV RD value. | 9,038 |
8,864,876 | 1. A method of sequestering gas phase molecules in a plurality of sequestration modules, comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of flat liquid jets in the plurality of sequestration modules each module arranged substantially adjacent to each other, each of said flat liquid jets comprising a portion including a coalesced structure such that each jet includes a width, thickness and height of an aqueous slurry solution, said plurality of flat liquid jets arranged in substantially parallel planes; providing a gas with gas phase molecules in an orientation that allows a portion of the gas to flow between two or more of the substantially parallel planes of the flat liquid jets such that the jets retain their coalesced structure; and mineralizing at least a portion of the gas phase molecules by mass transfer interaction between the gas phase molecules and the aqueous slurry solution, wherein the mineralizing is conducted at a pressure of less than about 100 psig. | 4,646 |
9,782,034 | 1. A dispensing apparatus configured to dispense a granular material, comprising: a hopper configured to store the granular material, the hopper comprising a lower base; an auger configured to deliver the granular material in the hopper from a hopper outlet, the auger disposed in the lower base of the hopper; an auger cover disposed at the lower base of the hopper and disposed between the auger and the cavity defined by the hopper so that the lower base and the auger cover cooperate to enclose an end portion of the auger; a dispensing tube configured to receive the granular material from the hopper outlet and configured to guide the granular material towards a dispensing port; and a valve assembly coupled to the dispensing tube and positioned between the hopper outlet and the dispensing port, the valve assembly configured to receive a resilient portion of the dispensing tube, the valve assembly being actuatable to pinch the resilient portion of the dispensing tube to inhibit passage of the granular material to the dispensing port, and to unpinch said resilient portion of the dispensing tube to enable passage of the granular material through the dispensing port. | 15,334 |
9,319,100 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a time distribution device, a time signal; generating a time reference based on the received time signal; overcompensating the time reference for a hardware delay of the time distribution device and, for a maximum cable length delay, to produce an overcompensated time reference; for a first end device, adding a first delay to the overcompensated time reference based on a difference between the maximum cable length delay and a delay related to a cable length between the time distribution device and the first end device, to create a first end device time reference; for a second end device, adding a second delay to the overcompensated time reference based on a difference between the maximum cable length delay and a delay related to a cable length between the time distribution device and the second end device, to create a second end device time reference; transmitting the first end device time reference to the first end device, and, transmitting the second end device time reference to the second end device. | 12,794 |
8,999,014 | 1. A method of producing an engineered fuel feedstock from a processed MSW waste stream, the method comprising: combining a first waste stream that includes at least one of hard plastic, soft plastic and mixed plastic with a sorbent; increasing the temperature of the combined first waste stream and sorbent to a temperature in a range of about 200° C. to about 400° C.; combining the thermally treated first waste stream and sorbent with a second waste stream, the second waste stream including fiber; and compressing the combined first waste stream, sorbent, and second waste stream to form a densified engineered fuel feedstock. | 31,496 |
9,243,522 | 1. A valve timing controller comprising: a driving-side rotary member rotated in synchronism with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven-side rotary member mounted on a same shaft as the driving-side rotary member and rotated in synchronism with a valve opening/closing cam shaft of the internal combustion engine; a fluid pressure chamber formed by the driving-side rotary member and the driven-side rotary member; an advancing chamber and a retarding chamber formed as the fluid pressure chamber is partitioned by a partitioning portion provided in at least one of the driving-side rotary member and the driven-side rotary member; an intermediate locking mechanism including a locking member accommodated in at least one rotary member of the driving-side rotary member and the driven-side rotary member and projectable/retractable to/from the other rotary member of the driving-side rotary member and the driven-side rotary member, and a recess portion formed in the other rotary member to be engageable with the locking member when this locking member projects, the intermediate locking mechanism being switchable between a locking state wherein a relative rotational phase of the driven-side rotary member relative to the driving-side rotary member is restrained to an intermediate locking phase between a most retarded phase and a most advanced phase and a lock-releasing state wherein the restraint is released as the locking member retracts from the recess portion; and a controlling section for controlling supplying or discharging of the work fluid to or from the advancing chamber and supplying or discharging of the work fluid to or from the retarding chamber; wherein when the controlling section outputs a phase maintenance signal indicating a phase maintaining state which allows control for maintaining the relative rotational phase within a predetermined angle range by the work fluid present in the advancing chamber and the retarding chamber under the locking state, based on the phase maintenance signal and with lapse of a predetermined period, the controlling section confirms that the advancing chamber and the retarding chamber have been filled with the work fluid and effects control to stop the supplying and the discharging of the work fluid to or from the retarding chamber and the advancing chamber with the relative rotational phase being the intermediate locking phase and instructs switchover from the locking state to the lock-releasing state, whereby the intermediate locking mechanism is switched over to the lock-releasing state and the relative rotational phase is maintained to the intermediate locking phase. | 28,552 |
8,838,146 | 1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: entering a schedule creation mode for creating an alarm reminder; displaying, via a display of the mobile terminal, an add option for adding a location based alarm based on the entered schedule creation mode and a list of contacts included in a contact list associated with the mobile terminal; receiving a selection signal indicting a selection of one of the displayed list of contacts; inputting, based on the add option being selected, the selected contact as a participant, a reminder name for the created alarm reminder and a physical location that the location based alarm is to be output when at least one of the participant and the mobile terminal is within a near predetermined distance from the physical location; when the selected contact is not registered to a Location Based Service (LBS), transmitting an invitation message recommending a subscription to the LBS to the participant; when the reminder creation is completed, registering the created reminder in a memory associated with the mobile terminal; and outputting, via the display, the location based alarm when at least one of the participant and the mobile terminal is within the predetermined distance of the physical location. | 20,531 |
9,161,459 | 1. A wave solder machine configured to perform a wave solder operation on an electronic substrate, the wave solder machine comprising: a pre-heating station configured to heat the electronic substrate; a wave soldering station configured to attach electronic components to the electronic substrate with solder; and a conveyor configured to transport substrates through a tunnel passing through the pre-heating station and the wave soldering station, the tunnel having a substantially oxygen-free environment, wherein the pre-heating station includes at least one pre-heater including | 15,666 |
8,576,439 | 1. A method implemented in a computer equipped with Windows color system (WCS) for printing color images, comprising: (a) providing a plurality of custom plug-in modules; (b) providing one or more profiles, including a customized source color device model (CDM) profile, a customized destination CDM profile, a customized gamut map model (GMM) profile, a source color appearance model (CAM) profile, and a destination CAM profile; (c) upon receiving a first user instruction to change a profile, (d) upon receiving a second user instruction to print a document, performing content color translation using WCS functions to translate an array of colors from a source color space to a destination color space using the stored color transform data without calculating the color transform data; and (e) repeating step (d) upon receiving a third user instruction to print another document. | 7,359 |
8,859,126 | 1. A vehicular battery unit comprising: a plurality of battery modules; a battery unit body including a first floor face to support the plurality of battery modules; a hollow frame disposed along the first floor face of the battery unit body to reinforce the battery unit body and having a first drain hole connecting the first floor face of the battery unit body to an interior of the hollow frame; and a drain pipe extending downward from the interior of the hollow frame through a bottom wall of the hollow frame, wherein the hollow frame is provided between a first battery module and a second battery module of the plurality of battery modules, wherein the hollow frame includes a first side surface contacting the first battery module and a second side surface contacting the second battery module, wherein the first drain hole is provided on the first side surface of the hollow frame, and wherein the first drain hole is provided on the hollow frame at a location between the first battery module and the second battery module. | 13,819 |
9,524,442 | 1. An image processing device, comprising: a processor configured to determine a product type of an object included in an input image, and selectively execute a plurality of pieces of processing for the input image; and a memory configured to be accessed by the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store: the processor is further configured to read a target parameter set corresponding to a target scene of the plurality of user scenes, the target scene being specific to the determined product type of the object, modify the master process flow with a target command code corresponding to the target scene, and to execute the modified master process flow to process the input image, and the target command code comprises a first processing rule for causing the target parameter set to reflect the modified master process flow. | 33,862 |
9,238,033 | 1. A method for treating depression, which comprises administering (a) (E)-8-(3,4-dimethoxystyryl)-1,3-diethyl-7-methyl-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione represented by formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and (b) an antidepressant drug selected from the group consisting of fluoxetine and paroxetine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, simultaneously or separately at a time interval. | 49,584 |
8,712,401 | 1. A method for communicating in an advanced long term evolution (LTE-A) network using common reference signal (CRS) resources associated with different interference levels due to resource partitioning, comprising: receiving signals from an eNodeB indicating a subset of CRS resources for at least one of radio link monitoring (RLM), reference signal received power (RSRP) measuring, or a combination thereof, the indicated subset of CRS resources comprising CRS resources having protected subframes during which interfering eNodeBs are prohibited from transmitting data; and performing at least one of RLM, RSRP measuring, or a combination thereof based on the indicated subset of CRS resources. | 39,894 |
8,890,353 | 1. A hydroconveyor system adapted for placement in a flowstream, the hydroconveyor system comprising: a longitudinal frame including a first distal end and a second distal end; a track extending along at least a portion of the length of the frame between the first end and the second end of the frame, the track defining a continuous and closed loop; a plurality of conveyor elements movably disposed and retained in the track, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of conveyor elements include outwardly extending members for engaging the flowstream; and means for magnetically supporting the plurality of conveyor elements with regard to the track. | 16,213 |
9,349,025 | 1. A method of using a broadband gateway, the broadband gateway being configured for communication with a distribution network and comprising devices in a home network, the home network comprising the devices and the broadband gateway, the home network being associated with a location of the devices and the broadband gateway, the method comprising: receiving a request for a service at the broadband gateway for at least one of the devices on the home network, wherein the service comprises providing content; searching by the broadband gateway for a plurality of providers of the content in communication with the distribution network; and receiving the content from a selected provider of the providers of the content, wherein the selected provider is chosen by the broadband gateway in response to user criteria comprising a quality of service preference, wherein the selected provider is chosen at least in part to latency or error rate of the selected provider being acceptable with respect to the quality of service preference. | 4,182 |
9,501,070 | 1. A method of controlling temperature of a liquid held within a reaction container, said method comprising: a) providing a thermal cycling apparatus comprising a chamber containing the reaction container, a heater, and a temperature sensor; b) determining a sensed chamber temperature T c) calculating an effective air temperature T d) calculating the temperature of the liquid T e) selectively heating or cooling air in the chamber using the heater, in accordance with the temperature of the liquid T f) determining if the chamber is closed; and, g) at least one of: | 37,748 |
8,761,759 | 1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method to control roaming activities of a mobile device, the method comprising: receiving at a computing device that has a processor and a memory and that resides on a first network, a first message that comprises an operational characteristic that is used to determine a rescan timer setting for the mobile device, the mobile device being connected to a second network, the mobile device is in communication with the first network via the second network to receive the rescan timer setting for the mobile device from the first network, wherein the mobile device is subscribed to the first network and is not subscribed to the second network, and wherein the rescan timer setting indicates the frequency at which the mobile device scans for a network signal; determining at the computing device the rescan timer setting for the mobile device based on operational characteristic for the mobile device; composing at the computing device a second message to the mobile device that instructs the mobile device to change a stored rescan timer setting to the new rescan timer setting; and sending the second message to the mobile device via the second network, wherein the mobile device comprises a control slot configured for receiving messages addressed to the control slot that are unbilled network communications and an operational slot configured for receiving messages addressed to the operation slot that are billed networked communications, and wherein the second message is an unbilled network communication addressed to the control slot of the mobile device; wherein the first message is addressed to a control address of the first network, wherein the control address is used to distinguish control messages from billed user activity messages. | 8,808 |
9,353,364 | 1. A recombinant β-glucosidase, comprising a β-glucosidase catalytic domain which comprises: (A) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO. 1, (B) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence in which one to 20 amino acids are deleted, substituted, or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and having β-glucosidase activity, or (C) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having 95% or greater sequence identity with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and having β-glucosidase activity. | 8,939 |
9,631,780 | 1. A thoroughfare lighting device comprising: a housing configured to be attached to a thoroughfare surface; wherein the housing comprises a top surface, a proximal face, a distal face, and first and second opposing sidewalls extending between the proximal and distal faces and extending downwardly from the top surface; wherein the first sidewall tapers in a direction of the distal face; a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to selectively illuminate individual lanes of the thoroughfare surface, the plurality of LEDs comprising: a driver circuit electrically coupled to the plurality of LEDs and configured to operate the second set of LEDs to emit a colored light illuminating a single lane of the thoroughfare surface indicating the condition of the individual lane of the thoroughfare surface; a first optic carried by the first sidewall of the housing and positioned in optical communication with the plurality of LEDs; and a second optic carried by the second sidewall of the housing; wherein the plurality of LEDs is divided such that a portion of each of the first and second sets of LEDs are in optical communication with the first optic and another portion of each of the first and second sets of LEDs are al communication with the second optic. | 15,197 |
9,761,220 | 1. A computer system for language modeling, the computer system comprising: a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions; and memory storing computer-executable instructions configured to: | 21,962 |
9,196,766 | 1. A graphene based microbolometer comprising: a thin film of graphene nanoribbon deposited on a substrate between electrical contacts; first and second conductive terminals in electrical communication with the thin film of graphene nanoribbon; and wherein the thin film of graphene nanoribbon is tuned such that exposure of radiation induces a change in impedance between the first and second conductive terminals which is sensed by CMOS readout circuitry; wherein the thin film of graphene nanoribbon is tuned to increase the sensitivity of the detector by exposing the graphene nanoribbon to an oxidation environment, which thereby increases the thermal coefficient of resistance (TCR) to excess of 4 percent per degree centigrade, thereby resulting in a Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature (NEDT) of less than 10 mK. | 1,864 |
8,499,719 | 1. An automated system for controlled distribution of substances to animal containment devices in an animal housing facility, comprising: at least one dispenser for distribution of liquid and/or solid substances, said at least one dispenser being supported by movement and positioning means which allow positioning thereof to correspond with each of said animal containment devices, and said dispenser comprising distribution and dosing means of the substances to be dispensed to the animal containment devices said movement and positioning means comprising appropriate drive means for movement of said at least one dispenser along at least two axes substantially mutually orthogonal defining a system of Cartesian axes, wherein said at least one dispenser comprises at least one container bottle suitable to contain the solid substance to be dispensed and in that said distribution and dosing means comprise means for tilting said container bottle. | 42,763 |
8,980,400 | 1. A light-scattering fluororesin film for agricultural applications that gives a ratio of scattered light with a scattering angle of 5.5 to 10° being 5% or higher relative to the total transmitted light. | 11,229 |
9,068,102 | 1. A laminated article comprising a substrate (III), a primer layer (II) provided on the substrate (III) and a top coat layer (I) provided directly on the primer layer (II), in which the top coat layer (I) is formed with a cured article of a top coat composition comprising (A) a curable fluorine-containing resin, (B) a curing agent and (C) a coupling agent comprising a functional group-containing silane coupling agent and/or an aluminum chelating agent, and the primer layer (II) is formed with a primer composition comprising (D) a polydiorganosiloxane, (E) a polyorganosiloxane resin and (F) a coupling agent comprising a functional group-containing silane coupling agent and/or an aluminum chelating agent, wherein (B) the curing agent is at least one curing agent selected from the group consisting of an isocyanate curing agent and an amino curing agent, the isocyanate curing agent being at least one selected from the group consisting of 2,4-tolylene diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-4,4′-diisocyanate, xylylene diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate, lysine methyl ester diisocyanate, methylcyclohexyl diisocyanate, trimethylhexamethylene diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, n-pentane-1,4-diisocyanate, trimers thereof, adducts and biurets thereof, polymers thereof having at least two isocyanate groups, and blocked isocyanates; the amino curing agent being at least one selected from the group consisting of a melamine resin, urea resin, guanamine resin, amine adduct, and polyamide; wherein (D) the polydiorganosiloxane comprises repeating siloxane units of the formula R wherein (E) the polyorganosiloxane resin comprises siloxane units of the formula R wherein a molar ratio of the R wherein the substrate (III) is a silicone rubber substrate. | 17,056 |
8,818,279 | 1. A communication device comprising: a storage that stores first identification information for identifying a communication device and second identification information for identifying a network to which the communication device belongs; a connection portion that connects with another communication device by a cable; a first setting portion that sets the communication device as a main device when the communication device is connected to the another communication device and receives an electric power from a first external power supply, and sets the communication device as a client device when the communication device is connected to the another communication device and receives an electric power from the another communication device; an update portion that transmits the first identification information and the second identification information to the another communication device, receives from the another communication device third identification information for identifying the another communication device and fourth identification information for identifying a network to which the another communication device belongs, forms a network to which the communication device and the another communication device belong with the second identification information when the communication device is set as the main device, and updates the second identification information with the received fourth identification information when the communication device is set as the client device; and a wireless communication portion that, when the another communication device is disconnected from the communication device, communicates wirelessly with the another communication device with the first identification information, the third identification information and any one of the second identification information and the fourth identification information. | 22,038 |
8,569,954 | 1. A luminescence driving apparatus which drives a plurality of light-emitting units, the luminescence driving apparatus comprising: a voltage sensor which senses internal voltages of the plurality of light-emitting units; a current sensor which senses internal currents of the plurality of light-emitting units; a sensing signal generator which receives the internal voltages of the plurality of light-emitting units from the voltage sensor and generates an overvoltage sensing signal; a controller which, if it is determined that an overvoltage state has occurred, according to a level of the overvoltage sensing signal, searches for at least one of the plurality of light-emitting units in which the overvoltage state has occurred, according to levels of the internal currents sensed by the current sensor; and a protector which performs an overvoltage protection (OVP) operation with respect to the searched light-emitting unit. | 17,567 |
9,257,800 | 1. A cable connector assembly for mating with a mating connector, comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a first portion made of flexible material, a second portion bent and extended from one side of the first portion, and a third portion bent and extended from another side of the first portion; a mating member soldered to the first portion; an insulative housing receiving the PCB; a cable extended from the insulative housing and soldered with the second portion and the third portion; and wherein a plurality of conductive pads are disposed on the PCB, the conductive pads comprising a plurality of first pads disposed on the first side wall of the first portion and soldered with the mating member, a plurality of second pads disposed on the third side wall of the second portion, a plurality of third pads disposed on the fourth side wall of the second portion, and a plurality of fourth pads disposed on the fifth side wall of the third portion, the second pads, the third pads, and the fourth pads all soldered with the cable; wherein the mating member comprises a mating portion for mating with the mating connector and a mounting portion mounted on the PCB, a width of the mounting portion being larger than the width of the first portion of the PCB; a stopping board mounted on the second side wall of the first portion; wherein the mating portion comprises a mounting post on a portion thereof extending beyond the first portion, and the stopping board comprises a mounting hole at a position corresponding to the mounting post, the mounting post mating with the mounting hole to retain the mating member firmly on the PCB. | 5,949 |
8,810,213 | 1. A power control method for tracking a Maximum Power Point (MPP) in a photovoltaic system including a solar cell and a boost converter, comprising: finding the MPP by applying a continuous ON signal or a continuous OFF signal to the boost converter as a first control signal for controlling a duty ratio of the boost converter to be continuously increased or continuously decreased without self-oscillation; and maintaining an operating point of the photovoltaic system at the MPP, depending on a constant-voltage command. | 43,403 |
8,697,077 | 1. A method for treating or stabilizing an autoimmune disorder selected from the group consisting of type I diabetes, celiac sprue-dermatitis, Crohn's disease, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, Sjogren's syndrome, and ulcerative colitis in a mammal comprising administering to said mammal a composition comprising a tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha receptor agonist that specifically binds or activates TNF-alpha receptor II but not TNF-alpha receptor I. | 13,743 |
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