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9,242,037 | 1. A medical liquid delivery system comprising: a housing adapted to receive an IV line having a series connected flow sensing element so that the flow sensing element fits in a housing portion; capacitive sensor electrodes positioned in the housing portion adjacent to the flow sensor when the flow sensor is received in the housing portion; control electronics communicating with the capacitive sensor electrodes to sense flow of a medical liquid through the flow sensor element according to capacitive changes sensed by the capacitive sensor electrodes; and an IV line assembly including a first and second IV line portion having a series connected flow sensing element, the flow sensor element having a sterile electrically insulating shell surrounding an inner chamber, the shell providing attachment points to respective ends of the first and second IV line portions, respectively, at upper and lower ends of the sterile shell, the attachment points providing liquid-tight conduits between the ends of the first and second IV line portions and the inner chamber wherein the shell includes a turbine wheel rotating about an axis with flow of medical liquid between the attachment points of the shell wherein the turbine wheel is positioned between the capacitive sense electrodes when the flow sensing element is in place within the housing portion and wherein the turbine wheel provides a variable capacitance between the capacitive sensing electrodes with rotation of the turbine wheel. | 29,009 |
9,531,274 | 1. A power supply comprising: a resonant converter which comprises a square wave generator configured to alternately turn on and off first and second switches according to a frequency to generate a square wave, a resonant wave generator configured to generate a resonant wave corresponding to the square wave and a rectifier configured to output a voltage corresponding to the resonant wave; and a controller configured to control a frequency modulation of the resonant converter, wherein the controller comprises a variable switching circuit configured to increase the frequency of the resonant converter in response to the resonant converter entering a capacitive mode, wherein the variable switching circuit comprises a logic AND gate configured to receive an input current of the first switch and a gate voltage of the second switch, and a counter logic circuit configured to count a number of high outputs from the logic AND gate and, in response to the counted number reaching a preset number, output a high signal corresponding to the capacitive mode, and wherein the controller is further configured to increase the frequency of the resonant converter in response to the counter logic circuit outputting the high signal. | 38,562 |
9,227,283 | 1. A tool for clamping using end surfaces of workpieces, comprising a soleplate and an upper template, upright posts being supported between the soleplate and the upper template, the upper template being provided with die holes, the inner edge of each die hole being provided with at least two inward bulges, and step-shaped through holes having big top and small bottom being arranged on each inward bulge; a tightening cylinder being arranged at a position of the soleplate correspondingly below the die holes, the piston rod of the tightening cylinder being connected with a top plate, and the top plate and the piston rods being in swinging connection; and three protrusions being arranged on the upper surface of the top plate and distributed in a triangle shape; a rotating shaft being arranged beside a position of the upper template corresponding to each die hole, the rotating shaft penetrating the upper template from the top down, the upper end of the rotating shaft being provided with a hand wheel capable of driving the rotating shaft to rotate, the rotating shaft being sleeved with a compression spring on the portion between the hand wheel and the upper surface of the upper template, and the lower end of the rotating shaft being fixed with one end of a transverse support rod which is linked with the rotating shaft. | 35,354 |
9,374,153 | 1. A method of establishing a connection by a user device having a wireless network interface and one or more alternative network interfaces, the method comprising: at the user device: selecting an alternative network interface from the one or more alternative network interfaces; transmitting service profile data to one or more remote devices via the selected alternative network interface, wherein the service profile data is associated with a service supported by the user device via the wireless network interface; and establishing a connection for the service between the user device and at least one of the one or more remote devices via the wireless network interface using the transmitted service profile data, wherein the selected alternative network interface comprises a local area network (LAN) interface, a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface, a wireless metro area network (WMAN) interface, or a wireless cellular network interface; and wherein the transmitted service profile data obviates a service discovery session between the user device and the one or more remote devices via the wireless network interface. | 27,093 |
9,593,447 | 1. A system for removing water and water-soluble salts from an organic-carbon-containing feedstock, comprising: a transmission device configured to convey into a reaction chamber unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock comprising free water, intercellular water, intracellular water, intracellular water-soluble salts, and at least some plant cells comprising cell walls that include lignin, hemicellulose, and microfibrils within fibrils; at least one reaction chamber comprising at least one entrance passageway, at least one exit passageway for fluid, at least one exit passageway for processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock, and at least three sections, the sections comprising, a collection device in communication with the reaction chamber and configured to gather the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock having a water content of less than 20% by weight and a water-soluble salt content that is decreased by at least 60% on a dry basis from that of the unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock. | 34,276 |
9,593,080 | 1. A clickable triazabutadiene according to (a) Formula B wherein X 1 comprises a terminal alkyne handle; or (b) Formula C wherein either X 1 comprises a terminal alkyne, X 2 comprises a terminal alkyne handle, or both X 1 and X 2 comprise a terminal alkyne handle; wherein A=S, O, or N; D=H, —CH═CH—CH=E-, halides, cyano, sulfonates, alkyl chain, or trifluoromethyl; E=H, —CH═CH—CH=D-, halides, cyano, sulfonates, alkyl chain, or trifluoromethyl; and wherein Y 1 comprises a tri-substituted aryl group; wherein the alkyne handles are adapted to cross-link to an azide handle of a linking component via click chemistry | 31,487 |
9,281,743 | 1. A charge pump power supply circuit suitable for supplying a regulated output voltage VOUT based on an input voltage VIN, comprising: a charge pump circuit, coupled to receive VIN and coupled to a ground potential GND, and including QP regulation loop circuitry configured to regulate VOUT by controlling the QP switching network, including | 38,751 |
9,847,877 | 1. A method for generating, at a user computer connectable to a server via a network, a secret cryptographic key of the user computer, the method comprising: providing at the user computer a secret user value; providing at the server a secret server value and a check value which encodes the secret user value and a user password; at the user computer, in response to input of an input password, encoding the secret user value and the input password to produce a first value corresponding to said check value, and communicating the first value to the server via the network; at the server, in response to communication of the first value, comparing the first value and the check value to check whether the input password equals the user password and, if so, encoding the first value and said secret server value to produce a second value and communicating the second value to the user computer via the network; and at the user computer, in response to communication of the second value, generating the secret cryptographic key by encoding the second value, the input password and the secret user value. | 21,425 |
9,511,122 | 1. A dry composition comprising: a therapeutically effective amount of a recombinant human growth hormone (“rhGH”) polymer prodrug and one or more lyoprotectants, wherein the rhGH is transiently linked via a reversible linker moiety to a polymer carrier; wherein the composition is stable for at least 6 months when stored at temperatures ranging from 2 to 25° C., and wherein during such storage less than 5% of the rhGH is released from the rhGH polymer prodrug as free rhGH. | 24,105 |
9,526,803 | 1. A diagnostic chewing gum for identifying the presence of pathogens in nasal, oropharyngeal, oesophageal, laryngeal, ocular and/or pulmonal tissue or body liquids of a subject that are detectable via the mouth of said subject, said chewing gum comprising: a base material or particles ( an element ( wherein said pathogen is selected from the group consisting of virus, bacterium, fungus and combinations thereof; wherein the element ( wherein said marker ( | 5,528 |
8,652,282 | 1. A method of making a sealed, insulated glass glazing unit, comprising the steps of: creating a self-supporting light diffusing translucent insert, by: inserting the self-supporting light diffusing translucent insert between two glass lites; and sealing the edges of the glass lites to form the sealed, insulated glass glazing unit. | 11,649 |
8,851,258 | 1. A clutch assembly comprising: a drive member; a first rotary clutch portion; a second rotary clutch portion; a wrap spring; and an actuator; the first and second rotary clutch portions being rotatably disposed about a rotary axis of the clutch assembly; the drive member being disposed about the rotary axis and having an interior clutch surface; the wrap spring that is formed of wire, the wrap spring having a first end, a second end and a plurality of helical coils that extend axially between the first and second ends, the first end being connected to the first rotary clutch portion, the second end contacting the second rotary clutch portion, the helical coils being received against the interior clutch surface, the actuator being coupled to the first rotary clutch portion to control the expansion of the helical coils against the interior clutch surface and thereby control transfer of rotary power between the drive member and the second rotary clutch portion; wherein power that is output from the wrap spring to the second rotary clutch portion is transmitted axially through the wire that forms the second end of the wrap spring, the power output from the wrap spring being transmitted through an axial end face of the second end of the wrap spring and into a surface of the second rotary clutch portion against which the axial end face of the second end is abutted such that a compressive load is applied to the axial end face. | 39,892 |
8,493,471 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an image generation unit operable to generate image data of a subject; a recording unit operable to record a first type of image file or a second type of image file to a recording medium based on the image data generated by the image generation unit, the second type of image file being recorded in the recording medium along with a management file in conformity with a predetermined standard; and a controller operable to control the recording unit, wherein the controller controls the recording unit to record the first type of image file at a lower level of a first directory in the recording medium and record the second type of image file at a lower level of a second directory in the recording medium, and record, in the management file, information used to analyze a recording order of the first type of image file and the second type of image file in the recording medium, while relating the information to the second type of image file. | 32,177 |
9,320,921 | 1. A method for treating or preventing a fungal infection of nail or skin, comprising: applying one or more compositions to a surface of the infection or nearby tissue; wherein said compositions comprise a specific antifungal agent and a metal chlorite salt, and wherein the resultant composition contains less than 1 ppm chlorine dioxide and is not applied to an oral cavity. | 2,293 |
9,663,096 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: in response to diagnosing, with an engine controller, a leak in a fuel injector, | 30,529 |
9,518,562 | 1. A wind turbine generator, comprising: an outer housing adapted to be positioned within the nacelle; a drive shaft rotatably mounted within the outer housing; a stator assembly positioned within the outer housing; a rotor assembly positioned within the outer housing, wherein the stator assembly is coupled to the outer housing so as to be stationary and the rotor assembly is operatively coupled to the drive shaft so as to be rotated with rotation of the drive shaft; a heat exchanger for removing heat from the generator; a blower positioned within the outer housing, the blower generating a first fluid flow circuit within the generator configured to transport heat from at least one of the stator and rotor assemblies to the heat exchanger, the blower including a first rotating plate; and a first eddy current brake positioned within the outer housing, the first eddy current brake including a first rotating member, wherein the first rotating member of the first eddy current brake is positioned in the first fluid flow circuit established by the blower such that fluid moving in the first fluid flow circuit passes over the first rotating member so as to cool the first rotating member. | 17,835 |
8,981,847 | 1. A mobile device comprising: a power amplifier configured to receive a power amplifier supply voltage and to amplify a radio frequency (RF) input signal to generate an RF output signal; a buck converter configured to convert a battery voltage into a buck voltage, the buck converter configured to control a magnitude of the buck voltage based on an error current; and an error amplifier configured to generate an output current based on an envelope of the RF input signal and to generate the power amplifier supply voltage by adjusting the magnitude of the buck voltage using the output current, the error amplifier configured to control the buck converter by changing a magnitude of the error current in relation to a magnitude of the output current. | 28,452 |
9,508,369 | 1. A method comprising: determining a maximum write duration for first and second heat-assisted write transducers of a data storage device before thermal degradation of the first and second write transducers occur; receiving a request to write data to a heat-assisted recording medium; in response to a time to fulfill the request exceeding the maximum write duration, dividing the data into portions such that a respective writing of each of the portions does not exceed the maximum write duration; alternating between the first and second write transducers when writing successive ones of the portions to the heat-assisted recording medium. | 41,637 |
8,518,485 | 1. A process for producing a metallic component, comprising: providing a metallic substrate; providing a metallic coating including a corrosion-resistant layer of the MCrAlX type on the metallic substrate; preheating a treatment fluid to at most 80° C.; depleting at least one element that forms a metal oxide in a region of an outer surface of the metallic coating by bringing the outer surface into contact with the treatment fluid; limiting the duration of contact of the treatment fluid with the outer surface to at most 1 hour; forming an oxide layer of metal oxides on the outer surface due to the depletion of the at least one element; and applying an outer ceramic layer to the oxide layer. | 38,003 |
9,115,698 | 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a nacelle extending between a hub end and an aft end, the nacelle defining a nacelle shaft opening and a nacelle access port at the hub end; a rotor hub extending between a first end and a second end, the second end being disposed adjacent to the hub end of the nacelle, the rotor hub defining a hub shaft opening at the second end and a hub access port generally adjacent to the hub shaft opening, the second end of the rotor hub being spaced apart from the hub end of the nacelle such that an external gap is defined between the rotor hub and the nacelle at the hub access port, the external gap being external to both the rotor hub and the nacelle; and an access bridge configured to span the external gap defined between the nacelle and the rotor hub so as to provide access between the nacelle access port and the hub access port, the access bridge including a hollow structure defining an enclosed passageway extending between a hub opening positioned adjacent to the second end of the rotor hub and a nacelle opening positioned adjacent to the hub end of the nacelle, the enclosed passageway being separate from the external gap. | 45,428 |
8,969,391 | 1. A method for treatment of atherosclerosis in a subject in need thereof, said method comprising administering to said subject a quaternary pyridinium salt of formula I: in an amount effective to increase the release of endogenous prostacyclin (PGI 2 ) from the vascular endothelium of said subject and thereby treating said atherosclerosis in said subject, wherein R is NH 2 , CH 3 or N(H)CH 2 OH, and X is a pharmaceutically acceptable counterion. | 20,422 |
8,591,912 | 1. A method of extracting oil from algae and microalgae consisting of the steps of: drying algae paste to moisture content of between 45 and 55%; contacting the algae paste with a polar solvent for a sufficient time to form an algae-solvent solution containing extract oil; separating the algae from the algae-solvent solution to form a solvent-oil solution; and recovering the oil from the solvent-oil solution. | 17,317 |
9,272,707 | 1. A control apparatus of a hybrid electric vehicle, comprising: a clutch provided between an engine and a motor generating power; a transmission serially connected to the motor; a driving information detector detecting driving information including an output speed of the motor, an output speed of the transmission, and a rotation speed of a driving shaft serially connected to the transmission; and a controller limiting torque of the motor or speed of the motor to a predetermined level or less when a difference between the output speed of the motor and the output speed of the transmission detected by the driving information detector is higher than a predetermined value. | 33,399 |
8,932,045 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a mould turnover system for turning a rotatable mould over a fixed mould, the system comprising a turnover device and a quick releasing mechanism, the quick releasing mechanism comprises a hook associated with the turnover device and an engaging member associated with the rotatable mould, wherein the hook and the engaging member are rotatably moveable with respect to each other for selectively engaging onto or disengaging the hook from the engaging member. | 36,325 |
9,761,846 | 1. A battery case comprising: a first casing member having a container shape with a recessed portion in a center thereof; a second casing member having a container shape with a recessed portion in a center thereof, the first and second casing members being arranged such that the respective recessed portions face one another to form a first, parallelepiped closed space to house a battery, wherein the first closed space is formed only by the first casing member and the second casing member; a reinforcing member provided in the first closed space and attached to the second casing member, the reinforcing member having a plate portion that is spaced from an inner wall surface of the second casing member to form a second closed space between the reinforcing member and the second casing member; and a foam material provided in the second closed space, between the reinforcing member and the inner wall surface of the second casing member, wherein the reinforcing member holds the foam material between the reinforcing member and the inner wall surface. | 7,342 |
9,293,619 | 1. A back contact solar cell, comprising: an active semiconductor absorber for use in a back contact solar cell having a light capturing front side and a backside opposite said light capturing front side; a first interdigitated metallization positioned over said backside of said active semiconductor absorber, said first interdigitated metallization forming base and emitter contact metallization of said back contact solar cell; a backplane positioned over said backside of said active semiconductor absorber and said first interdigitated metallization; a second interdigitated metallization positioned over said backplane, said second interdigitated metallization connected to said first interdigitated metallization for extracting photovoltaic power from said active semiconductor absorber, said second interdigitated metallization having base and emitter busbars over said backplane for electrical connection; and an electronic component electrically connected to at least a base busbar and at least an emitter busbar of said second interdigitated metallization, said electronic component having a bypass switch. | 35,382 |
8,859,881 | 1. A solar battery module comprising: a solar battery panel that includes a transparent substrate and is constituted by laying out solar battery cells; a reinforcement frame placed on a back surface of the solar battery panel; and a buffer material arranged between the solar battery panel and the reinforcement frame, wherein the buffer material is constituted such that one main surface thereof, which opposes the reinforcement frame, is a flat surface, and the other main surface thereof, which opposes the solar battery panel, has a notch at least at a central part of each of both ends of the buffer material in a longitudinal direction of the reinforcement frame, to provide the buffer material with a thickness in the area of each notch that is less than the thickness of the remaining area of the buffer material. | 6,441 |
9,548,335 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a controller; and an array of resistive memory cells coupled to the controller; | 39,775 |
8,729,359 | 1. A seed of hybrid corn variety CH661125, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV032767 with a second plant of variety CV805067, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV032767 and CV805067 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-11785 and PTA-10422, respectively. | 28,897 |
9,512,007 | 1. A process for producing graphite films comprising the steps of: graphitizing raw material films made of polymer films and/or carbonized polymer films to obtain graphitized raw material films without pressure bonding the graphitized raw material films, the graphitization step including thermal treatment at a temperature of 2,400° C. or higher, wherein the raw material films are retained in and in contact with a container that can be directly electrified by application of voltage and graphitized while electrifying the container by application of voltage in the graphitization step; conducting a planar pressurization step, after the step of graphitizing, so that a planar pressure is uniformly and simultaneously applied to the graphitized raw material films in a state where the graphitized raw material films are stacked, and the graphitized raw material films that are stacked are simultaneously pressurized, thereby reducing wrinkles on the graphitized raw material films that are stacked without pressure bonding the graphitized raw material films; and conducting an independent recovery step of separating individual graphitized raw material films independently from the graphitized raw material films that are stacked after the planar pressurization step, so as to produce the graphite films each having a thickness of 20 μm or more. | 21,578 |
8,397,347 | 1. A turning device comprising: a turning shaft member having a shaft section; a friction member; an urging member to urge the shaft section from an outer periphery thereof, the urging member comprising a compressed thin-plate member; a bearing member including an accommodation section to accommodate the friction member and the urging member, and to retain the shaft section in a turnable manner; and a lid member coupled to the bearing member to compress the urging member between the shaft section and the lid member into a substantially flat configuration and to cover the urging member accommodated in the accommodation section, the urging member being compressed by the lid member so as to remain in the substantially flat configuration throughout operation of the turning device, wherein the urging member urges the friction member which is brought into contact with the shaft section when the urging member is compressed between the shaft section and the lid; and wherein the shaft section is configured so as to turn while generating sliding friction against the friction member and the bearing member. | 15,500 |
8,714,342 | 1. A method for gapping substrates conveyed through a vacuum chamber, the method comprising: positioning an upstream substrate outside the vacuum chamber as a downstream substrate is conveyed within the vacuum chamber; detecting a position of the downstream substrate within the vacuum chamber; conveying the upstream substrate into the vacuum chamber at a conveyance rate greater than a conveyance rate of the downstream substrate to set a gap between the downstream substrate and the upstream substrate, wherein detecting a position of the downstream substrate within the vacuum chamber comprises detecting when the downstream substrate transitions from a first conveyor to a second conveyor of the vacuum chamber, and wherein detecting when the downstream substrate transitions from a first conveyor to a second conveyor of the vacuum chamber comprises detecting when the downstream substrate moves past a top-dead-center position of the first conveyor. | 4,120 |
8,555,491 | 1. A method of attaching a die to a substrate, the method comprising: disposing a nano-silver paste on a substrate, the nano-silver paste including silver particles comprising a capping agent; disposing a die on the disposed nano-silver paste; drying the disposed nano-silver paste and the disposed die; and sintering the dried disposed die and the dried nano-silver paste at a temperature of between about 200° C. and about 300° C. to attach the die to the substrate. | 39,529 |
8,979,299 | 1. A linear light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp, comprising: a housing having two ends and a platform between the two ends; a light-emitting diode printed circuit board (LED PCB) fixed on top of the platform, the LED PCB having a plurality of LEDs and a first connection module fixed thereon; an LED driver for powering the plurality of LEDs on the LED PCB, the LED driver having two inputs, an LED driver PCB, and a second connection module fixed on the LED driver PCB; and a first and a second lamp bases for respectively fixing to the two ends of the housing, each lamp base having an end cover comprising a bi-pin with two pins protruding outwards through a side of the end cover, and a core assembly, wherein the bi-pin of each lamp base is electrically connected to one of the two inputs of the LED driver through the core assembly, wherein the core assembly of the first lamp base further comprises a mechanical securing means for securing the LED driver in place; wherein: | 44,006 |
9,238,987 | 1. A method for testing a function capacity of an NO oxidation catalyst in an exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine operated with air surplus, comprising: forming, in the NO oxidation catalyst, nitrogen dioxide from nitrogen monoxide emitted by the internal combustion engine; changing a concentration of a reducing agent in the exhaust gas flow upstream of the NO oxidation catalyst; and determining and evaluating a resulting change in NO | 38,905 |
8,880,169 | 1. A system, comprising: a sensor configured to sense a ventricular function of the heart; a processing circuit configured to determine whether a conduction abnormality exists using information about the ventricular function of the heart obtained via the sensor; an electrostimulation circuit configured to generate ventricular electrostimulation in response to a determination by the processor circuit that a conduction abnormality is present, the ventricular electrostimulation for delivery at or near a bundle of His via at least two electrodes and including at least partially concurrent opposite polarity electrostimulation pulses; wherein the processing circuit is configured to determine whether the conduction abnormality exists by using at least an electrogram fractionation. | 17,132 |
9,041,346 | 1. A charging apparatus comprising: a power transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits power used to charge a battery to an external apparatus; and a controller that determines whether or not the charging apparatus is inclined, and determines whether or not to stop charging the battery based on a determination of whether or not the charging apparatus is inclined. | 6,537 |
9,193,440 | 1. A variable camber system for an aircraft, comprising: a variable camber trim unit (VCTU) positioned between an inboard device and an outboard device mounted to at least one of a leading edge and a trailing edge of a wing, and including: a central motor coupled to the inboard device; and the speed sum gearbox is configured such that when the outboard device is stationary and the central motor drives the inboard device, the VCTU electric motor is back-driven. | 23,865 |
8,738,479 | 1. A computer system for rating a plurality of tax liens of real properties from a plurality of county government computing systems, each of said plurality of county government computing systems having at least one county database containing county tax lien information relating to each of said plurality of tax liens of each real property in a county, each county government computing system being accessible over a network, comprising: at least one computer connected to the network and adapted to communicate with the plurality of county government computing systems to receive the county tax lien information including each of said plurality of tax liens, the computer determining one or more ratings of each of said plurality of tax liens; and at least one database connected with the at least one computer, the at least one database configured to store each of said one or more ratings associated with each of said plurality of tax liens; wherein the one or more ratings of each of said plurality of tax liens is accessible from the at least one database over the network to one or more third party computers. | 12,415 |
9,435,879 | 1. An alert display device which displays a display image for highlighting an object to be alerted in an actual scene in front of a driver of a vehicle or around the vehicle in a superimposing manner, the device comprising: a detection unit configured to detect the object to be alerted in front of the vehicle or around the vehicle and to detect a position of the object to be alerted; a control unit configured to perform display control for positioning the display image conforming to the position of the object to be alerted detected by the detection unit; and a display unit configured to display the display image for highlighting the object to be alerted detected by the detection unit in the actual scene in front of the driver of the vehicle or around the vehicle in the superimposing manner based on the display control of the control unit, wherein the control unit adjusts a size of the display image based on an error range of the detection unit according to the position of the object to be alerted detected by the detection unit and/or a range in which the eyes of the driver are likely to be present. | 26,680 |
9,776,627 | 1. A hybrid vehicle driving device comprising: a first motor generator; a second motor generator; an input shaft to which an engine is rotatably linked; an output shaft to which a driving wheel and the second motor generator are rotatably linked; a rotating member which is rotatably linked to the output shaft; a connection member to which the first motor generator is connected; a connection mechanism which connects and disconnects the connection member and the rotating member to and from each other; a one-way clutch which connects the input shaft and the connection member to each other in a case where the rotational speed of the input shaft is higher than the rotational speed of the connection member, and disconnects the input shaft and the connection member from each other in a case where the rotational speed of the input shaft is lower than the rotational speed of the connection member; a synchronization control portion which synchronizes the rotational speed of the first motor generator with the rotational speed of the rotating member in the middle of executing an engine connection control that connects the engine to the rotating member by the one-way clutch after connecting the connection member and the rotating member to each other by the connection mechanism; a first engine control portion which maintains the rotational speed of the engine to be a rotational speed lower than the rotational speed of the first motor generator while synchronizing the rotational speed of the first motor generator with the rotational speed of the rotating member by the synchronization control portion in the middle of executing the engine connection control; a connection portion which connects the connection member and the rotating member to each other by the connection mechanism after synchronizing the rotational speed of the first motor generator with the rotational speed of the rotating member by the synchronization control portion in the middle of executing the engine connection control; and a second engine control portion which controls the engine such that the rotational speed of the input shaft is synchronized with the rotational speed of the connection member after connecting the connection member and the rotating member to each other by the connection portion in the middle of executing the engine connection control. | 272 |
9,142,030 | 1. A method for segmenting an image series of at least one image of a region of interest of a subject, comprising: generating a plurality of eigenimages for the image series, the generating including extracting at least one motion region of the region of interest as the plurality of eigenimages; registering at least one reference eigenimage to a training model of the region of interest, the at least one reference eigenimage being based on at least one eigenimage of the plurality of eigenimages and the training model including at least one segmented image of the region of interest; segmenting each image, the segmenting including applying a localized region based level set function; and outputting each segmented image. | 48,645 |
9,768,776 | 1. A data synchronizer that latches an asynchronous input data signal relative to a clock signal, comprising: an input circuit that drives first and second data nodes to opposite logic states in response to the asynchronous input data signal; a first pass gate coupled between said first data node and a first capture node and having at least one control terminal, and a second pass gate coupled between said second data node and a second capture node and having at least one control terminal; first and second inverters that are cross-coupled between said first and second capture nodes; and a gate controller responsive to the clock signal, having inputs coupled to said first and second capture nodes and that is coupled to said control terminals of said first and second pass gates, wherein said gate controller can keep said first and second pass gates at least partially open during a metastable condition of said first and second capture nodes, and can close said first and second pass gates when both of said first and second capture nodes stabilize to opposite logic states. | 35,968 |
9,733,689 | 1. A hardware apparatus comprising: a hardware processor having a core; a plurality of power domains to transition to one of a plurality of power states in response to a power management command for each power domain; a power transaction unit to: a memory transaction unit to perform a commit of a first thread and a second thread after concurrent execution of the first thread on the core and the second thread on a second core of the hardware processor unless the first thread and the second thread are to modify a same memory address. | 29,809 |
9,708,969 | 1. A turbocharger comprising: a turbine housing; a turbine housing inlet defined by the turbine housing; a turbine wheel mounted for rotation within a turbine chamber defined by the turbine housing; the turbine chamber having a turbine inlet defined by the housing; a rotary valve comprising a valve rotor which rotates about a valve axis within a valve chamber defined by the turbine housing at a junction of the turbine housing inlet and the turbine inlet; wherein the valve chamber has at least an inlet port communicating with the turbine housing inlet, a first outlet port communicating with the turbine inlet, and a second outlet port; wherein the valve rotor is rotatable about the valve axis to selectively permit or block exhaust gas flow through the first outlet port; and wherein the valve rotor is rotatable about the valve axis to selectively permit or block exhaust gas flow through the second outlet port. | 40,830 |
8,783,940 | 1. A kneading extruder comprising: a driving motor; a pair of kneading screws for kneading a material, each of the kneading screws having a shaft; a motive power transmitting path including a first speed regulator for varying a rotating speed produced by motive power output from said driving motor and a second speed regulator provided between said driving motor and said first speed regulator, said motive power transmitting path serving to transmit the motive power which produces a rotating speed varied by said first speed regulator, said first speed regulator being configured to divide the motive power output from said driving motor into two parts so as to transmit the two parts of the motive power to respective ones of the shafts of said pair of kneading screws, said second speed regulator having a larger moment of inertia than that of said first speed regulator for input rotary motion; and a resonance suppressor for suppressing torsional resonance of said pair of kneading screws caused by fluctuations in load exerted on the kneading screws, the resonance suppressor serving to reduce a resonance response factor which is the ratio of an output amplitude of the kneading screws amplified by resonance response to an input amplitude of the kneading screws caused by the fluctuations in load to suppress the torsional resonance, said resonance suppressor is provided between said first speed regulator and said second speed regulator in said motive power transmitting path. | 28,918 |
9,430,880 | 1. An apparatus configured to measure a heat or pressure cycle, comprising: a measurement probe configured to: a memory; a distal temperature responsive or pressure responsive element configured to transition between at least a first state and a second state based on a temperature or pressure condition to which the distal element is exposed; a count circuit configured to: a battery configured to provide power to the count circuit and the memory; and a housing comprising a coupling configured to couple with a vessel body, the housing configured to house the measurement probe, the distal element, the count circuit, the memory, and the battery, wherein the count circuit records a single detection of the transition of the switch distal element within a period of time regardless of a number of actual transitions of the distal element during the period of time. | 35,872 |
8,890,423 | 1. A backlight driving circuit, comprising: a power module; and a constant current driver chip, wherein the constant current driver chip comprises an analog dimming pin outputting a switching mode signal to the control end of the switching module; wherein the power module comprises a first controllable switch; an adjustable load is connected between the first controllable switch and a ground terminal of the backlight driving circuit, and the adjustable load comprises a switching module controlling a resistance value of the adjustable load, the switching mode signal of the backlight driving circuit is sent to a control end of the switching module; wherein a first end of the adjustable load that is connected to the first controllable switch is coupled to an over current protection (OCP) port of the constant current driver chip. | 6,660 |
8,608,607 | 1. An infinitely variable gear transmission system comprising: a differential gear unit coupled to a power input from a vehicle; a hydraulic pump, a single stage planetary gear unit drivably intercoupling a sun gear with a first output shall of said differential gear unit, and a planet carrier, a hydraulic motor, with a second output shaft, said planetary gear unit including the sun gear, a ring gear, the planet carrier, and at least one planet gear mounted on said planet carrier to rotate with and relative to said planet carrier and meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, wherein a hydraulic circuit comprising a bypass valve, a flow control valve with a variable orifice, hydraulically intercoupling the hydraulic pump coupled to the first output shaft of said differential gear unit, an automatic gear coupling for the first and second output shafts, a hand brake for the second output shaft for reversing the ring gear, and a microprocessor unit selectively controlling the resistance exerted by the fluid pressure on the said sun gear to control the speed of the ring gear of said planetary gear unit coupled to a drive shaft of the vehicle, to provide the desired speed for the vehicle. | 26,705 |
9,845,479 | 1. A transgenic plant, reproductive or propagation material from a transgenic plant, or a cultured plant cell, which comprises a nucleic acid molecule that produces an interfering ribonucleic acid (RNA), wherein the interfering RNA comprises at least one silencing element, wherein the silencing element is a region of double-stranded RNA comprising annealed complementary strands, one strand of which comprises or consists of a sequence of at least 70 contiguous nucleotides that is at least 91 complementary to a fragment of SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2, or a sequence of at least 27 contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the interfering RNA down regulates the troponin I gene in a Lygus hesperus pest. | 3,724 |
8,956,108 | 1. An assembly for a gas turbine engine, the assembly comprising: a gearbox including: a fan rotor coupled to the first output gear; and a booster rotor coupled to the second output gear on a same side of the gearbox than the coupling between the fan rotor and the first output gear. | 4,295 |
9,280,093 | 1. A developing agent cartridge for supplying developing agent and toner to a developing device, comprising: a cartridge main body, in which there is a first room and a second room and the boundary of the two rooms is closed by a closure member, configured to be filled with the toner and the developing agent into the first room and the second room, respectively; a supply section configured to supply an infill in the second room to the developing device while stirring it; and an opening section configured to open the closure member to enable the toner to be moved to the second room after the developing agent filled into the second room is supplied to the developing device; wherein the cartridge main body is provided with a toner filling port and a developing agent filling port configured to respectively fill the toner and the developing agent into the first and second rooms that are divided by the closure member. | 31,318 |
9,500,363 | 1. A method for extracting and recovering water-soluble gas and waste heat from an oven, the method comprising: passing hot stack gas through a first side of a gas-to-gas heat exchanger, thereby transferring heat to an air-ethanol mixture passing on a second side of the gas-to-gas heat exchanger; passing the stack gas emerging from the gas-to-gas heat exchanger through a double-film-wise heat exchanger, thereby forming a film of hot primary condensate and cooled stack gas; treating the hot primary condensate exiting the double-film-wise heat exchanger by filtration and purification in a water treatment unit, resulting in a filtered condensate of water for reuse; and cooling the cooled stack gas further using a condensing heat exchanger, thereby extracting additional heat, ethanol and water. | 26,338 |
8,592,447 | 1. A compound according to the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein R is —R X is halogen, haloalkyl, —OR n is 1-4; Y is —CH R R G is —NR R R | 17,413 |
9,590,528 | 1. A dual mode direct current-to-alternating current (DC-AC) inverter comprising: a DC-AC converter to convert direct current (DC) voltage into alternating current (AC) voltage output; and a controller subsystem comprising a mode selector to select between operating the DC-AC inverter in at least one of: (i) a current control mode upon receipt of an indication that active external AC power is available, or (ii) a power control mode upon receipt of an indication that active external AC power is unavailable. | 26,548 |
9,797,300 | 1. A supercharging system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a charging device including a turbine and a compressor, said compressor having a high speed shaft; a planetary gear set coupled to said high speed shaft and an electric motor or generator, via a low speed drive shaft; a clutch unit; a power transmission for connecting a crank shaft of the combustion engine to the low speed drive shaft via the clutch unit; at least one sensor to measure at least one physical parameter of exhaust gases inside, or after having passed, an exhaust gas catalyzer of said internal combustion engine, the at least one sensor being configured to provide a plurality of output signals, each output signal representing a measured value of said at least one physical parameter; and a system control unit, configured to receive each of said plurality of output signals from the at least one sensor and configured to control, by increasing or decreasing speed or effect of said electric motor or generator, based on each of said plurality of output signals. | 41,879 |
8,943,604 | 1. A method comprising: receiving social data collected from interactions between users of an online services system; determining, for a user of the online services system, a value for a confidence evaluation parameter based on an analysis of a portion of the social data related to the user, the portion of social data including interactions of the user with contributions of other users in the online services system; and providing to an external data consumer the value for the confidence evaluation parameter determined for the user. | 34,652 |
9,164,810 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request at a first information handling system (IHS) to perform an application computation; determining a user's context, the user operating the first IHS, comprising: ascertaining a battery state of the first IHS; determining computational capabilities of the first and the second IHS; and allocating the application computation between the first IHS and a second IHS, wherein a first portion of the application is allocated to the first IHS and a second portion of the application is allocated to the second IHS based at least on the user's context, the battery state of the first IHS, and the computational capabilities of the first and the second IHSs. | 29,878 |
8,590,716 | 1. A drying rack for drying clothes comprising: a support frame comprising at least one support member, said at least one support member having a first end and an opposing second end; an air exhaust defined by an upper shelf, said air exhaust having a cross-sectional area said upper shelf pivotally coupled to said at least one support member adjacent an upper portion of said drying rack, said upper portion substantially adjacent said second end; an air intake defined by a lower shelf, said air intake having a cross-sectional area such that said air intake is larger in cross-sectional area than said air exhaust, said lower shelf pivotally coupled to said at least one support member adjacent a lower portion of said drying rack, said lower portion substantially adjacent said first end, said lower shelf spaced apart from said upper shelf; at least one intermediate shelf pivotally coupled to said at least one support member and positioned between said upper shelf and said lower shelf; and a cover fabricated from a heat absorptive high density polyethylene plastic fabric, said cover having a top edge, an opposing bottom edge, an outwardly facing surface and an opposing inwardly facing surface, said top edge releasably coupled to a perimeter edge of said upper shelf and said bottom edge positioned adjacent to said lower shelf, wherein an internal volumetric space is defined by said inwardly facing surface as said cover wraps-around said drying rack such that said internal volumetric space is heated by said cover resulting in an induced dynamic airflow within said internal volumetric space in order to dry the clothes, said induced dynamic airflow facilitated by said air exhaust having a smaller cross-sectional area than said cross-sectional area of said air intake such that said induced dynamic airflow is accelerated from said air intake towards said air exhaust; wherein the cover protects the clothes from fading and UV damage by shielding the clothes from direct sunlight. | 36,201 |
9,797,358 | 1. A system comprising: a fuel injector cleaning module that generates an instruction to clean a fuel injector of an engine based on engine operating conditions; and a fuel control module that, in response to the injector clean instruction, controls the fuel injector to perform N fuel injections for each combustion event in a cylinder of the engine and, during each of the N fuel injections, deactivates the fuel injector before the fuel injector fully opens, wherein N is an integer greater than one. | 45,781 |
8,871,751 | 1. A method of inhibiting growth of a cancer cell comprising contacting said cell with an effective amount of a compound having formula FX2: wherein X or Y each independently is S, O, or Se; R R R R n is 1 to 6. | 13,003 |
8,785,889 | 1. A gas supply kit for an ion implantation system, comprising (i) a first gas storage and dispensing vessel holding a germanium dopant source gas, and (ii) a second gas storage and dispensing vessel holding a supplemental gas comprising at least one of a diluent gas and a co-species gas, wherein at least one of the dopant gas and, when present, a co-species gas, is isotopically enriched above natural abundance level in at least one germanium isotope. | 6,478 |
9,436,855 | 1. A card reader comprising: a body having a slot configured to receive a card; a protrusion extending from a first bottom portion of the body, wherein the protrusion extends at least a height of an on/off button of a mobile device, abuts against a surface on which the on/off button extends from on the mobile device when the card reader is inserted into the mobile device, and does not overlap the on/off button when the card reader is inserted into the mobile device; and a jack extending from a second bottom portion of the body, the jack being located a lateral distance away from the protrusion. | 37,034 |
9,235,994 | 1. A wristband assembly comprising: a strap adapted to be formed into a loop; a translucent cover member having a fixed portion secured to the strap and a free end unsecured to the strap; and a release member positioned over an inner surface of the cover member between the fixed portion and the free end, wherein a portion of the release member is temporarily secured to the strap at a retention location spaced from the free end. | 47,272 |
8,551,724 | 1. A method of improving the nutritional value of a foodstuff consumed by a monogastric animal by increasing the bioavailability of phosphate from phytate wherein the foodstuff comprises myo-inositol hexakisphosphate, the method comprising the step of feeding to the animal the foodstuff in combination with less than 1200 units of a phytase expressed in yeast per kilogram of the foodstuff, wherein the phytase is wherein the bioavailability of phosphate from phytate is increased by at least 2-fold compared to the bioavailability of phosphate from phytate obtained by feeding the foodstuff in combination with the same units of a phytase expressed in a non-yeast host cell. | 47,258 |
8,855,909 | 1. A method of determining an optimal route from a current position of a vehicle to a destination for a navigation system of the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a user of the navigation system where the navigation system is controlled by a processor; authenticating the user to the navigation system; connecting the navigation system and a remote information system; if the user is authenticated to the navigation system, requesting scheduling information of the user from the remote information system; determining a next appointment based on the current time and date and the scheduling information; requesting address information of the next appointment from the information system, where the next appointment is a previously scheduled appointment; requesting information related to one or more possible routes from the remote information system in response to receipt of the address information; setting the destination in the navigation system based on the address information of the next appointment; and determining an optimal route to the destination from the one or more possible routes, where the optimal route is selected based on received information from the remote information system and the current position. | 47,777 |
9,394,779 | 1. A method for re-fracturing a location of a formation of a multizone horizontal wellbore, the method comprising: hydraulically isolating a first location from a portion of the multizone horizontal wellbore uphole from the first location, the first location having been previously hydraulically fractured at least once; hydraulically re-fracturing the first location; providing a first plug within the wellbore proximate to the first location after the first location has been hydraulically re-fractured; pumping fluid down the wellbore to bridge off the first plug within the wellbore to hydraulically isolate the re-fractured first location from the multizone horizontal wellbore uphole of the first location, wherein the first plug comprises proppant combined with crystalline silica hydraulically isolating a second location from a portion of the multizone horizontal wellbore uphole of the second location; hydraulically fracturing the second location; providing a second plug within the wellbore proximate to the second location after the second location has been fractured; and pumping fluid down the wellbore to bridge off the second plug within the wellbore to hydraulically isolate the second location from a portion of the multizone horizontal wellbore uphole of the second location, wherein the second plug comprises proppant combined with crystalline silica. | 44,206 |
8,745,251 | 1. A method executed on hardware for a power reduction in a digital data interface communication data link, the method comprising: sending a link shut down packet from a host device to a client device; disabling a data driver to a high impedance state by the host device to place the digital data interface communication data link in hibernation; providing a logic one to a data line to drive the data line to a logic one state; toggling a strobe for a first predetermined period of time; driving the data line to a zero state and toggling the strobe for a second predetermined period of time to wake up the digital data interface communication data link; and transmitting a sub-frame header packet. | 24,110 |
8,758,619 | 1. A process for treating water comprising the steps of introducing hydrogen into the inner volume of a gas permeable membrane immersed in water and introducing a carbon source to the water to grow a biofilm on an outer surface of the membrane, the biofilm having autotrophic organisms near the membrane and heterotrophic organisms near the water. | 2,379 |
8,631,102 | 1. An end-user device, comprising: one or more modems for memory configured to store a plurality of service policy settings, the plurality of service policy settings including a first service policy setting for authorizing the end-user device to provide a forwarding service to the one or more other devices, the forwarding service for forwarding traffic between the one or more other devices and the network system; a user interface; and one or more processors configured to execute one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: | 7,187 |
9,761,866 | 1. A battery electrode comprising: metal (Me) particles selected from a group consisting of metals and metal alloys; a pyrolyzed coating formed over the Me particles, formed from materials selected from the group consisting of carbon (C), sulfur (S), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), and combinations of the above-listed materials, expressed as C | 5,708 |
9,388,464 | 1. A method of controlling the incorporation of a nucleotide having a ribose or deoxyribose sugar moiety, and said nucleotide is complementary to a second nucleotide in a target single-stranded polynucleotide in a synthesis or sequencing reaction, comprising incorporating into the growing complementary polynucleotide said nucleotide, the incorporation of said nucleotide preventing or blocking introduction of subsequent nucleoside or nucleotide molecules into said growing complementary polynucleotide; wherein a protecting group is attached to the 3′ or the 2′ oxygen atom of the ribose or deoxyribose sugar moiety of said nucleotide; and said nucleotide comprises a detectable label linked by a linker; and reacting the nucleotide with a water-soluble phosphine to cleave the linker; wherein said detectable label is a fluorophore; and wherein said water-soluble phosphine also cleaves said protecting group. | 817 |
8,874,176 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a single housing; a main function unit, within the single housing, including a CPU and a storage medium, and which realizes main functions of the information processing device and is operated by being switched between a normal operation mode and a power-saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode; a position acquisition unit, within the single housing, which acquires positional information indicating a current position of the information processing device; and a logging controller, within the single housing, which causes a logging storage unit, which includes an independent storage area from the main function unit, to record movement trace information obtained by making the positional information acquired by the position acquisition unit correspond to the time when the positional information is acquired in the state where the main function unit is switched to the power-saving mode, and wherein in the normal operation mode no power is supplied to the logging storage unit so the logging storage unit is not used in the normal operation mode, and in the normal operation the positional information is input to the storage medium of the main function unit through the logging controller without being stored in the logging storage unit. | 12,353 |
9,822,235 | 1. A thermoplastic acrylic resin composition, comprising: a thermoplastic acrylic resin (A); and a glass (B), wherein the thermoplastic acrylic resin (A) containing 10 to 100% by mass of a methyl methacrylate unit, the mass-average molecular weight of thermoplastic acrylic resin (A) measured using GPC is 50,000 to 200,000, 0.1 to 50 parts by mass of the glass (B) are contained in 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic acrylic resin (A), an absolute value of a difference of refractive indices of the thermoplastic acrylic resin (A) and the glass (B) is 0.08 or lower, an average particle size of the glass (B) is 100 to 2,000 μm, the glass (B) is a flake-type glass with an aspect ratio of 15 or greater, and a softening temperature of the thermoplastic acrylic resin composition measured by ASTM D648 is 80° C. or higher. | 10,508 |
8,657,102 | 1. A conveyor apparatus for conveying objects along a path, the path including a curved portion and an upstream portion, upstream of the curved portion, the upstream portion defining a direction of entry into the curved portion, the curved portion defining a radially outward direction transverse to the direction of entry into the curved portion; the conveyor apparatus comprising: a suspension member adapted to travel along the path and to carry an object to be conveyed suspended at the suspension member; and a deflection member arranged to deflect an object suspended at the suspension member in the radially outward direction when the suspension member travels along the upstream portion towards the curved portion, wherein the deflection member comprises an elongated guide member, and the elongated guide member comprises a portion parallel to the path and separated from the path. | 37,859 |
8,731,601 | 1. A method for facilitating energy management in a mobile communication network, comprising: initiating, by a network manager entity (NM), an operation of enabling energy saving (ES) or an operation of disabling ES for a base station or a cell in the mobile communication network via a network element manager entity (NEM), the NM being responsible for operation, maintenance, and administration of the mobile communication network, the NEM being responsible for operation, maintenance, and administration of a plurality of network elements of the mobile communication network, the operation of enabling ES being designated for allowing the base station or the cell to perform an ES operation, and the operation of disabling ES being designated for prohibiting the base station or the cell to perform an ES operation; and receiving, by the NM, a notification sent by the NEM, the notification relating to an ES state of the base station or the cell. | 8,480 |
8,534,086 | 1. A frozen product device of an ice cream and yogurt machine for making frozen product, including ice cream and yogurt, from raw material, comprising: an outer guiding duct and an inner guiding duct coaxially enclosed within said outer guiding duct; wherein a feeding channel is formed at a space within said inner guiding duct, wherein said feeding channel has a feeding end and a dispensing end for said raw material feeding through said feeding channel; wherein a heat exchange channel is formed at a space between said outer and inner guiding ducts in an air-sealed manner and is thermally communicating with said feeding channel through said inner guiding duct, wherein said heat exchange channel has a pre-cooling portion defining from said feeding end of said feeding channel and a freezing portion to said dispensing end to thermally communicate with said feeding channel in a two-stage evaporation manner; wherein said heat exchange channel is guided for refrigerant passing therethrough in order to heat exchange with said raw material within said feeding channel, wherein at said pre-cooling portion, said heat exchange channel is arranged for guiding said refrigerant to helically flow around an outer surface of said inner guiding duct so as to prolong a traveling time of said refrigerant at said pre-cooling portion, wherein at said freezing portion, said heat exchange channel is arranged for guiding said refrigerant to parallely flow along said outer surface of said inner guiding duct so as to maximize an expansion area of said refrigerant between said feeding channel and said heat exchange channel; wherein when said refrigerant flows at said pre-cooling portion of said heat exchange channel, said raw material fed from said feeding end of said feeding channel is initially pre-cooled at a pre-cooling temperature, and when said refrigerant flows at said freezing portion of said heat exchange channel, said raw material is then substantially frozen to form said frozen product before said frozen product is dispensed at said dispensing end of said feeding channel while being energy efficient. | 13,391 |
9,586,516 | 1. An automatic vehicle exterior light control system, comprising: an optical sensor; a processor in communication with the optical sensor and a speed sensor, the processor being configured to generate a plurality of control signals configured to control a lighting level of at least one light source as a function of a speed signal received from the speed sensor, wherein the processor is operable to: wherein the light control subroutine comprises changing the light level from the first level to a second light level of the light source and maintaining the second light level until the processor detects the vehicle speed exceeding a third speed, wherein light is emitted from the at least one source in each of the first level and the second level. | 37,025 |
9,557,651 | 1. A method of manufacturing a substrate with a template, the method comprising: laminating a photosensitive resin layer on a metal surface of a substrate, the layer comprising a composition comprising: (A) an acid generator that produces an acid upon irradiation with an active ray or radiation; (B) a resin whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of acid; (C) a mercapto compound represented by a formula (1); wherein R 1 and R 2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R 3 represents an alkylene group; R 4 represents an aliphatic group with a valency of u optionally containing an atom other than a carbon atom; and u represents an integer of 2 to 4; and (E) an acid diffusion suppressing agent comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of malonic acid, succinic acid, benzoic acid, salicylic acid, phosphonic acid and derivatives of phosphonic acid; irradiating the layer with an active ray or radiation; and developing the layer after the exposure to create a template that defines a plated article wherein a resist pattern serving as the template is a pattern of the photosensitive resin layer after development, is formed so as to suppress footing that the width of the metal surface side of a resist layer becomes narrower than that of the surface side of the resist layer in a nonresist section, wherein the metal surface of the substrate comprises a metal species selected from the group consisting of copper, gold and aluminum. | 8,824 |
8,860,009 | 1. A device comprising a substrate, two or more electrodes facing each other disposed on the substrate and a positive hole injection transport layer disposed between two electrodes among the two or more electrodes, wherein the positive hole injection transport layer contains a reaction product of a molybdenum complex or tungsten complex; wherein the reaction product of the molybdenum complex is an organic-inorganic composite oxide containing molybdenum and is also a reaction product of a molybdeum complex with an organic solvent having a carbonyl group and/or hydroxyl group; and wherein the reaction product of the tungsten complex is an organic-inorganic composite oxide containing tungsten and is also a reaction product of a tungsten complex with an organic solvent having a carbonyl group and/or hydroxyl group. | 15,614 |
8,389,807 | 1. A method for increasing efficiency of germplasm screening for transformability of a maize plant with agrobacterium, comprising: providing target tissue from a plurality of maize plant lines; characterizing each of the plant lines to provide characterization data, the characterization data comprises agrobacterium-mediated DNA or nucleic acid delivery technique response data and tissue culture response data under preferred tissue culture conditions; eliminating one or more of the plurality of maize plant lines based on the characterization data without performing stable transformation of the plurality of maize plant lines, such that a subset of the plurality of maize plant lines remains; and performing agrobacterium transformation experiments on the subset of the plurality of maize plant lines selected based on said characterization data. | 42,010 |
9,080,243 | 1. A reactor for high-temperature electrolysis of water, comprising: a stack of elementary electrolysis cells, each including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte sandwiched between the cathode and the anode; at least one interconnecting plate fitted between two adjacent elementary cells, in electrical contact with an electrode of one of the two elementary cells and an electrode of another of the two elementary cells, wherein the interconnecting plate delimits at least one cathodic compartment and at least one anodic compartment for gas to flow respectively in the cathode and in the anode; wherein one end of the cathodic compartments, as a cathode inlet end, is connected to a feed configured to deliver steam, and one end of the anodic compartments, as an anode inlet end, is also connected to a feed configured to deliver steam; wherein another end of the cathodic compartments, as a cathode outlet end, emerges in a portion of a hydrogen collection duct which is made through the stack of cells and of the interconnecting plates, and another end of the anodic compartments, as an anode outlet end, emerges in an oxygen collection duct portion which is made through the stack of cells and of the interconnecting plates; and wherein each cathode inlet end is positioned close to the oxygen collection and/or hydrogen collection duct portion, and each anode inlet end is positioned close to the hydrogen collection and/or oxygen collection duct portion. | 46,893 |
8,763,118 | 1. A method, comprising: intercepting an execution attempt by software on a computing system; classifying the software as authorized or unauthorized to execute on the computing system based on a set of identifiers that represents a set of software authorized to execute on the computing system; gathering information about the software if the software is classified as unauthorized to execute on the computing system by correlating network packets with the software, wherein the network packets are correlated with the software by a time of the execution attempt or by matching a checksum of at least a portion of the software with a checksum of a pattern in the network packets, and the information gathered through the correlating step enables one or more targets to identify or block instances of the software; and sending the information to one or more actuators for analysis and generation of a directive for the one or more targets. | 17,432 |
9,332,257 | 1. A method of decoding video data, the method comprising: based on a chroma sampling format of a coding unit, obtaining, for a leaf node of the coding unit, a rectangular chroma block; based on the leaf node comprising the rectangular chroma block, not decoding a coded block flag (CBF) indicative of whether the entire rectangular chroma block corresponding to the leaf node includes at least one nonzero transform coefficient; in response to the chroma sampling format being a 4:2:2 sampling format, decoding a first CBF for a first square sub-block, of the rectangular chroma block, wherein the first CBF is indicative of whether the first square sub-block includes at least one nonzero transform coefficient; and in response to the chroma sampling format being the 4:2:2 sampling format, decoding a second CBF for a second square sub-block, of the rectangular chroma block, wherein the second CBF is indicative of whether the second square sub-block includes at least one nonzero transform coefficient. | 18,509 |
8,565,816 | 1. A mobile communication terminal including a first wireless communication unit corresponding to a first wireless communication system and an interface capable of detachably connecting an external apparatus, and for starting up a communication operating system using a battery as a power supply, comprising: a determination unit for determining whether or not the external apparatus connected to the interface includes a second wireless communication unit corresponding to a second wireless communication system; a control unit for controlling the communication operating system to be started up by executing a start-up sequence of the second wireless communication unit without executing a start-up sequence of the first wireless communication unit, in a case where the determination unit determines that the second wireless communication unit is included when the communication operating system is started up again after being disabled due to a decline in voltage of the battery; a storage unit for storing a first threshold of battery voltage at which the communication operating system is disabled after starting up the communication operating system by executing the start-up sequence of the first wireless communication unit and a second threshold of battery voltage that is lower than the first threshold and at which the communication operating system is disabled after starting up the communication operating system by executing the start-up sequence of the second wireless communication unit without executing the start-up sequence of the first wireless communication unit; and a battery voltage detection unit for detecting voltage of the battery, wherein the control unit controls the communication operating system to be disabled when the battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detection unit is equal to or less than the second threshold after starting up the communication operating system by executing the start-up sequence of the second wireless communication unit. | 1,280 |
9,123,528 | 1. A method for producing a plurality of semiconductor chips, the method comprising: providing a composite substrate, the composite substrate having a carrier and a utility layer that is attached to the carrier by means of a dielectric bonding layer, the composite substrate being provided for epitaxial deposition of semiconductor layers, wherein the composite substrate contains a radiation conversion material; depositing semiconductor layer sequence on the composite substrate, the semiconductor layer sequence having an active region configured to generate radiation; reducing a thickness of the carrier after depositing the semiconductor layer sequence and adjusting the color locus of the radiation emitted by the semiconductor chips by electrically contacting the semiconductor chips during at least part of the reducing the thickness; and singulating the composite substrate with the semiconductor layer sequence into a plurality of semiconductor chips. | 31,792 |
9,682,635 | 1. A charging control apparatus mounted on a vehicle comprising a generator and a secondary battery that can store electric power generated by the generator, said charging control apparatus being configured in such a manner that when a power storage ratio, which is a ratio of a power storage amount of the secondary battery to full capacity, becomes less than or equal to a first threshold value, until the power storage ratio becomes a second threshold value, which is greater than the first threshold value, an upper limit of power generation voltage of the generator other than during deceleration of the vehicle is set to be higher than an upper limit of the power generation voltage other than during deceleration of the vehicle when the power storage ratio is greater than the second threshold value, said charging control apparatus comprising: a changing device configured to change the second threshold value so that the second threshold value approaches the first threshold value when a discharge-charge tendency of the secondary battery based on past data associated with the power storage ratio is a charge tendency. | 28,335 |
8,833,220 | 1. A knife assembly for a trimming or cutting machine comprising: a. a primary blade having a primary beveled side of a length L and a height H, a primary beveled edge of a height BEH, and a primary cutting edge, where the primary blade has a non-beveled side opposite the primary beveled side and contains a slot; and b. a backbone blade positioned in the slot and connected to the primary blade, where the backbone blade is of a width W and has a backbone beveled side, a backbone beveled edge of a width BBW, and a backbone cutting edge that lies in the same plane as the primary cutting edge, wherein a portion of the backbone cutting edge extends below the primary cutting edge and is offset from the primary cutting edge by an obtuse angle α that is at least 135 degrees and wherein the backbone blade is positioned in the slot such that a side of the backbone blade that is opposite of the backbone beveled side is flush with the non-beveled side of the primary blade; and wherein the slot intersects the primary beveled edge such that a portion of the primary cutting edge equal to the width W of the backbone blade is missing, the widths W and BBW of the backbone blade each being measured in the knife assembly in a direction that is parallel to the primary cutting edge. | 47,197 |
8,496,832 | 1. A process for wastewater treatment, comprising aerating and mixing wastewater containing organic and/or inorganic pollutants and bentonite clay in a vessel at a first temperature and for a time sufficient to reduce the concentration of said pollutants, raising the temperature of said mixture to at least 100° C. to evaporate water vapor, passing said water vapor through a fritted membrane and into a condenser; and collecting condensed water. | 20,952 |
8,859,139 | 1. An alkaline storage battery comprising: a battery case that has an external wall portion which has an inside surface and an outside surface, and which includes a penetration hole penetrating between the inside surface and the outside surface; an alkaline electrolyte located in the battery case; a packing that intimately contacts a hole periphery portion of the external wall portion that surrounds the penetration hole, the packing including a flange portion positioned outside the battery case, and a flange worked portion positioned inside the battery case; and an electrode terminal inserted in the penetration hole, disposed astride an inside of the battery case and an outside of the battery case, and fastened to the hole periphery portion via the packing, the electrode terminal made of a metal sheet material that contains iron as a main component, the electrode terminal including: a cylinder-shape internal cylinder portion located inside the penetration hole with the packing disposed therebetween, a ring-shape brim portion, which is larger in diameter than the penetration hole and is located on an end side of the internal cylinder portion, and a disc-shape squeezed portion, which is larger in diameter than the penetration hole which is located on another end side of the internal cylinder portion, and which is compressed along an axial direction of the electrode terminal, wherein the squeezed portion clamps and compresses the flange worked portion of the packing, on the inside surface side of the external wall portion, and the brim portion clamps and compresses the flange portion of the packing, on the outside surface of the external wall portion, wherein the brim portion is a seal portion that, together with the hole periphery portion, clamps and directly compresses the packing to liquid-tightly seal the penetration hole, and wherein the seal portion includes an annular seal surface which directly contacts the flange portion, and a seal periphery surface located around a periphery of the annular seal surface, wherein a surface roughness Ry of the annular seal surface is approximately 15 μm or less and is smaller than a surface roughness Ry of the seal periphery surface, and the seal portion has an arch shape in section which protrudes from the seal periphery surface toward the hole periphery portion, so that the seal portion prevents the alkaline electrolyte from leaking out along the annular seal surfaces of the electrode terminal, wherein Ry is a difference between peaks and troughs of the annular seal surface roughness and the seal periphery surface roughness, respectively, and wherein a nickel plating layer is disposed on the annular seal surfaces. | 45,036 |
8,963,391 | 1. A clutch member for use in a generator clutch comprising: actuation structure including a face with a ramp; the ramp having a ramp angle of between 6.2° and 6.4°; said clutch member is a sliding decoupler shaft having a first end provided with splines to slide along a generator rotor shaft, a second end having said actuation structure, and including teeth to mesh with teeth on an opposed jaw clutch; an enlarged portion on said shaft is inward of said ramp from said second end, said enlarged portion having a diameter which is greater than an outer diameter of said ramp; and said enlarged portion has a truncated portion, with said truncated portion formed at a secant to a remainder of the enlarged portions at locations not having said truncated portion, and a ratio of a radius to said truncated portion to a radius of said enlarged portion at locations not having said truncated portion being between 0.80 and 0.85. | 15,843 |
8,431,707 | 1. A method for producing a thermodynamically more stable one of diastereomers of a 3-hydrocarbon group substituted-3-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-ol comprising, isomerizing a methyne which is an asymmetric carbon with a hydroxyl group, of a diastereomer of the 3-hydrocarbon group substituted-3-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-ol in the presence of a ruthenium complex and a base, and producing an excess amount of a thermodynamically more stable one of diastereomers. | 9,508 |
9,512,502 | 1. A method for producing a nanometer zinc oxide from low-grade zinc oxide ore by ammonia decarburization, comprising: the low-grade zinc oxide ore being processed by leaching, purification for impurity removal, crystallization by ammonia evaporation, drying and calcinations, comprising: taking ammonia water-ammonium bicarbonate solution as a leaching agent in said leaching step, wherein said ammonia water-ammonium bicarbonate solution includes the molar concentration c(NH adjusting zinc oxide of said leached solution to 50-60 g/L, and then performing heating to reduce ammonia from said ammonia water-ammonium bicarbonate solution and decarburize said ammonia water-ammonium bicarbonate solution by natural precipitation, via the following steps: adding 30-60 kg slaked lime to per cubic meter of said leached solution and stirring said leached solution to produce a stirred solution, heating said stirred solution to 90-98° C. until c(CO performing refining treatment after purification for impurity removal by adding ammonium phosphate and surfactant to said new solution after purification to produce a refined solution, wherein the amount of ammonium phosphate is 1-3 kg per cubic meter of said new solution after purification, and the amount of surfactant is 10-50 g per cubic meter of said new solution after purification. | 46,849 |
8,557,308 | 1. An extract of Andrographis paniculata comprising andrographolide lactones: wherein said andrographolide lactones comprise: | 11,858 |
9,807,681 | 1. A security and automation system comprising: a controller, said controller comprising a device memory, a processor, a display and one or more communication interfaces; a module comprising a processing unit, a microcontroller, a WLAN chipset, a power unit and one or more peripherals, said module being configurable as an access point or as a station as per requirement to remain in a wireless intranet network of said controller; and a controller application installed in said device memory of said controller, said controller application comprising instructions that, when executed by said processor, configure said controller to: act as a station and perform a scan to discover said module when said module is configured as an access point; enable a user to enter a password corresponding to said discovered module through a user interface provided by said controller; transmit said password to said discovered module; transmit a user name and a secret key corresponding to said controller to said discovered module; act as an access point after said discovered module becomes an enrolled module of said wireless intranet network of said controller by confirming receipt of said user name and said secret key; listen to one or more events coming from said enrolled module acting as a station on account of a security event or a monitoring event; and process said one or more events through a rules engine set in said controller application to take one or more actions. | 13,725 |
8,609,133 | 1. A porous structure comprising a chitosan, an alginate, and a divalent metal cations, wherein the chitosan is ionically linked to the alginate, wherein the alginate is further crosslinked with divalent metal cations, and wherein the structure has a compressive yield strength of at least 0.35 MPa. | 49,464 |
8,384,243 | 1. An apparatus comprising: input terminals; output terminals; a power converter, wherein said power converter is operative to convert input power at said input terminals to an output power at said output terminals; and a controller adapted for controlling the power conversion of said power converter, and configured to receive a temperature signal from a temperature sensor, and based on said temperature signal, adjust said input power at said input terminals. | 24,363 |
8,407,919 | 1. A method for the recovery of waste heat from heated launderette machines, in particular trough mangles ( 10 ), dryers and/or finishers, comprising the step of at least partially recovering the condensation energy and/or the energy in the condensate of the waste heat, wherein the waste heat is cooled to such an extent that it condenses and the energy which is produced in the process and also the energy from the condensate are at least partially recovered. | 26,498 |
8,745,611 | 1. A system for analyzing an upgrade of a first version of a software program in a modified form to a second version of the software program in the modified form without performing the upgrade, the system comprising: a memory; a processor in communication with the memory, the memory comprising computer code, wherein the computer code is executable to: | 24,925 |
8,542,096 | 1. An apparatus for at least one security zone said apparatus comprising: a plurality of optical input devices; at least one computer, said at least one computer being in communication with said plurality of optical input devices, said at least one computer compiling or said at least one computer being in communication with at least one second computer which compiles an evolving database, said evolving database comprising information representative of patterns of observed data for said at least one security zone; and comparison software in communication with said evolving database, wherein said comparison software compares observed data to the patterns of observed data; wherein said at least one computer or said at least one second computer is constructed and arranged to process information from said evolving database with said comparison software for issuance of at least one investigation signal. | 14,293 |
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