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8,652,589 | 1. Method for manufacturing a hydrogen permeation barrier, comprising: a) depositing directly or indirectly on a substrate a layer system comprising at least one layer; characterized in that said depositing the at least one layer on the substrate comprises b) depositing at least one hydrogen barrier layer by vapor deposition of an at least ternary oxide, wherein said at least ternary oxide is substantially composed of Al, Cr and O. | 15,935 |
9,465,984 | 1. A display control system comprising: a plurality of display units; an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; an action history information acquirer configured to acquire action history information of the subject; a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject based on the action history information acquired by the action history information acquirer; a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject to a first goal according to a prediction result from the predictor; and a display controller configured to, based on the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject, in which the action history information acquirer is configured to recognize a reaction of the subject to the guide image displayed by the selected display unit based on a captured image from the imaging unit, and to acquire a recognized reaction as the action history information, in which the reaction of the subject is one of walking, stopping, a hand gesture, or a path selection and the action history information of the subject includes at least one of the walking, the stopping, the hand gesture, or the path selection, and in which the predictor is configured to provide an updated prediction result of the subject based on the recognized reaction acquired as the action history information and the guide image generator is configured to generate an updated guide image according to the updated prediction result to guide the subject to an updated goal which is different from the first goal so as to provide an interactive guide arrangement which enables a goal to be updated based on the recognized reaction. | 22,140 |
8,628,648 | 1. An apparatus for manipulation of a micro component, comprising: a gripper subsystem for lifting, holding, and releasing a micro component, comprising: | 12,652 |
9,544,645 | 1. An operating method of a video display device, the method comprising: obtaining user's bio information; displaying a predetermined time, wherein the predetermined time indicates a remaining time which the video display device performs an operation personalized to a user in response to a receipt of a user input for a function key input; upon the receipt of a user input for a function key input of the video display device within a predetermined time, performing an operation personalized to the user on the basis of the obtained user's bio information and the function key input; and upon the receipt of the user input for the function key input after the predetermined time elapses, performing an operation corresponding to the function key, wherein the bio information comprises at least one of a user's fingerprint, iris, vein, face and voice. | 27,826 |
9,523,817 | 1. A method for altering spectral characteristics of an optical signal being transmitted through a waveguide, comprising: providing an actuator mechanism comprising at least one positioning element operable to deflect the waveguide; disposing the waveguide between two contact portions of the at least one positioning element which are fixedly coupled to a single elongate piezoelectric actuator; and imposing one or more static deflections on the waveguide using the at least one positioning element by causing a free end of the single elongate piezoelectric actuator to bend in a first direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the single elongate piezoelectric actuator when a first electric field is applied thereto and bend in a second direction opposed to the first direction when a second electric field is applied thereto. | 10,550 |
8,818,492 | 1. An apparatus for measuring ganglion cells, the apparatus comprising: a light generation unit configured to irradiate a first light signal and a second light signal to adjacent regions of a subject with an offset, the first light signal being polarized in a first direction and the second light signal being polarized in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a reflected light processing unit configured to generate an amplification signal corresponding to an image of the subject using a phase difference of a first reflection signal and a second reflection signal, wherein the first signal corresponds to the first light signal being reflected from the subject and the second reflection signal corresponds to the second light signal being reflected from the subject; and an image processing unit configured to measure ganglion cells in the subject using the amplification signal. | 43,531 |
8,795,847 | 1. An organic electronic device comprising at least one silyl-substituted compound represented by formula (1) wherein with the proviso that at least one radical R | 48,680 |
9,850,166 | 1. A liquid coloring suspension for cementitious compositions comprising: a) liquid; b) polycarboxylate dispersant; c) pigment; and, d) at least one microbially derived polysaccharide thixotropic additive selected from diutan gum, welan gum or combinations thereof; wherein the viscosity of the liquid coloring suspension is stable over time. | 25,639 |
9,258,735 | 1. A wireless end-user device, comprising: a wireless wide area network (WWAN) modem to communicate data for Internet service activities between the device and at least one WWAN, when configured for and connected to the WWAN; a non-transitory memory to store a configurable differential traffic control policy; a service processor to implement | 40,661 |
9,014,899 | 1. A method of controlling a downshift for a hybrid vehicle, comprising: determining whether a running mode of the hybrid vehicle is an electric vehicle (EV) mode; determining whether a kick-down occurs when the hybrid vehicle is in the EV mode, wherein the kick-down requires a downshift; operating an engine and performing a shift-start (SS) when a downshift condition according to the kick-down is satisfied; determining whether a speed of the engine and a speed of a motor are synchronized before performing an actual shift-begin (SB); engaging an engine clutch when the speed of the engine and the speed of the motor are synchronized; performing the actual SB when the engine clutch is engaged; and compensating a release hydraulic pressure for shifting between the SS and the actual SB based on an engagement hydraulic pressure of the engine clutch, the motor speed, and a slope of the motor speed. | 49,886 |
9,262,411 | 1. A method implemented in a computer system for translating content, wherein the content has an author who is part of a social network, the method comprising: receiving the content by the computer system; retrieving from the social network, by the computer system, contextual information associated with the content; retrieving from the social network, by the computer system, author information associated with the author; creating, by the computer system, a content-specific dictionary based upon the retrieved contextual information and the retrieved author information; creating, by the computer system, a translation profile based upon the retrieved contextual information, the retrieved author information and the created content-specific dictionary; determining, by the computer system, one of a plurality of generic dictionaries to use for the translating, wherein the determination of the one of the plurality of generic dictionaries to use is based upon the translation profile; and translating the received content by the computer system, using the content-specific dictionary and the determined one of the plurality of generic dictionaries to use. | 28,012 |
9,571,582 | 1. A wireless communication device for use in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication device comprising: a wireless transceiver; a sensor integrated with the wireless transceiver; a processor integrated with the wireless transceiver and sensor; and memory comprising logical instructions that, when executed by the processor, are configured to cause the wireless communication device to: | 33,112 |
8,860,420 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an interface for receiving a battery comprising a battery module for supplying power to the electronic device; and a power management module coupled to the battery and configured to: | 46,470 |
9,624,829 | 1. A gas turbine engine, comprising: a gas generator; a reheat combustor downstream of the gas generator; a power turbine downstream of the reheat combustor and having a plurality of variable area nozzle guide vanes; and a controller configured to operate the gas turbine engine such that: the reheat combustor is configured to increase a fuel flow so as to increase a temperature of the reheat combustor and match a required exhaust temperature; the plurality of variable area nozzle guide vanes are configured to increase a real capacity at a power turbine inlet in proportion with the required exhaust temperature, wherein the real capacity is a capacity of the power turbine based on flow parameters at the power turbine inlet; and a constant apparent capacity at a gas generator exit upstream of the reheat combustor remains constant in response to proportionately increasing the temperature and the real capacity, wherein the apparent capacity is a capacity of the power turbine based on flow parameters at a gas generator exit. | 48,387 |
8,876,323 | 1. Fluorescent lamp holder assembly ( 10 ) comprising: [a] a lamp holder ( [b] a socket ( [c] releasable, resiliently biased locking means ( [d] said locking means ( [e] the holder ( | 18,819 |
8,994,318 | 1. An electrical on-board network of a vehicle, comprising: at least two power circuits; an electrical machine allocated to a drive of the vehicle, the electrical machine including at least two phase systems that are each connected to a respective inverter; and a switching device that is external to the inverters and is configured to selectively electrically connect, via respective independent connections, each of the power circuits to each of the inverters, and thereby to, the respective phase systems. | 45,430 |
8,709,254 | 1. A microporous organic-inorganic hybrid membrane based on silica having an average pore diameter between 0.1 and 0.6 nm, and comprising bridging organosilane moieties of the formula in which R═H or CH 3 . | 2,031 |
8,689,692 | 1. A method for operating a guided munition carrying an imaging sensor, an explosive charge and a switchable fuze arrangement against a target, the method comprising the steps of: (a) launching the guided munition towards the target; (b) during flight of the guided munition, providing images from the imaging sensor to a remote operator; (c) receiving from the remote operator a switching input; and (d) responsive to said switching input, switching the fuze arrangement to a selected one of a set of available states, said set of available states including at least two states selected from the group consisting of: | 7,076 |
8,807,398 | 1. A dispenser for a replaceable liquid container comprising a foam pump arranged to be activated in a first direction, the dispenser comprising: a housing for containing the liquid container; and an actuator which is displaced directly by a user or displaced via a motor, wherein the actuator is adapted to displace a nozzle cap in the first direction so as to transfer a movement of the actuator to the foam pump, and wherein the nozzle cap is integral with the replaceable liquid container, is arranged to at least partly surround a compressible chamber portion of the foam pump in a decompressed position, and is arranged in sliding abutment with and externally to a connecting portion of the replaceable liquid container. | 10,409 |
8,472,735 | 1. A method for estimating an attitude of an object based on a digital starfield image that represents a view of a starfield as seen from the object, the method comprising: compressively sampling the starfield image with a first linear compression algorithm to create a first compressed sample, the compressive sampling of the starfield image with the first linear compression algorithm comprising summing a number of light pixels in at least a first portion of the starfield image; compressively sampling the starfield image with a second linear compression algorithm to create a second compressed sample, the second linear compression algorithm being different from the first linear compression algorithm; and estimating an attitude of the object based at least in part on the first compressed sample and the second compressed sample. | 32,056 |
9,826,339 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: connecting to one another a plurality of tracked devices, each tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices configured to track a status of a respective asset of a plurality of assets, and each tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices comprising respective known device data describing at least one or more previous connections of the tracked device; switching, by a first tracked device, periodically between a first connection mode and a second connection mode, wherein the switching is configured to increase a count of connections made by the first tracked device; connecting the first tracked device of a plurality of tracked devices to a second tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices, wherein each tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices is configured to track a status of a respective asset of a plurality of assets, and wherein each tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices comprises respective known device data describing at least one or more previous connections of the tracked device; wherein the first tracked device is configured to track a status of a first asset of the plurality of assets, and wherein the first tracked device comprises first known device data describing at least one or more previous connections of the first tracked device; wherein the second tracked device is configured to track a status of a second asset of the plurality of assets, and wherein the second tracked device comprises second known device data describing at least one or more previous connections of the second tracked device, and wherein the second known device data comprises third known device data received by the second tracked device from a third tracked device of the plurality of tracked devices and describing at least one or more previous connections of the third tracked device; transferring, from the first tracked device to the second tracked device, the first known device data; receiving, at the first tracked device from the second tracked device, the second known device data; and transferring, from the first tracked device to a server, the second known device data received from the second tracked device and describing at least the one or more previous connections of the second tracked device and the one or more previous connections of the third tracked device; wherein the server is outside a transmission range of at least a portion of the plurality of tracked devices, wherein the server is outside the transmission range of the second tracked device, and wherein the server is configured to receive the respective known device data of the at least a portion of the plurality of tracked devices of which the server is outside the transmission range; and wherein the server is configured to perform analysis on the first known device data and additional known device data, and wherein the server is further configured to correct location data in the first known device data based on the analysis. | 41,734 |
9,300,604 | 1. An access node (AN) coupled to a plurality of service providers (SPs) and a plurality of hosts, comprising: a processor operably coupled to a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor perform the following: forward a plurality of services between the SPs and the hosts using a plurality of first connections between the AN and the hosts and a plurality of second connections between the AN and the SPs, wherein the services are forwarded via a residential gateway (RG) positioned between the hosts and the AN, and wherein the AN is coupled to the RG via an access line that comprises the first connections; translate a plurality of first identifiers for the first connections to a plurality of second identifiers for the second connections to route the services between the hosts and the SPs over the first connections and the corresponding second connections, wherein each of the first identifiers comprises a Media Access Control (MAC) address for the RG, a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier (ID) that corresponds to one of the hosts, and a host prefix that identifies the host corresponding to the VLAN ID, wherein the first identifiers are maintained in a first list at the AN, wherein each of the second identifiers comprises the MAC address for the RG, a Customer VLAN (C-VLAN) ID that corresponds to one of the hosts, and a Service VLAN (S-VLAN) ID that corresponds to one of the SPs, and wherein the second identifiers are maintained in a second list at the AN. | 10,936 |
9,109,506 | 1. Method of operating a compression engine on ether containing fuel obtained by conversion of a primary fuel based on alcohol comprising the steps of: (a) providing a common rail fuel system with a fuel accumulation chamber; (b) continuously withdrawing the primary fuel based on alcohol from a fuel tank and pressurizing the primary fuel based on alcohol in its liquid form to a final engine injection pressure; (c) continuously introducing the pressurized primary fuel based on alcohol into the fuel accumulation chamber; (d) continuously distributing the pressurized primary fuel based on alcohol into pipes connecting the fuel accumulation chamber with fuel injectors of the engine; (e) prior to the fuel injectors continuously converting at least partially the pressurized primary fuel based on alcohol to an ether containing fuel by contact with an alcohol dehydration catalyst being arranged in each of the pipes upstream the fuel injectors between the fuel accumulation chamber and the fuel injectors; (f) continuously injecting the ether containing fuel at injection pressure into the engine; (g) continuously withdrawing a part of the introduced primary fuel based on alcohol from the fuel accumulation chamber; and (h) depressurizing and recycling the withdrawn primary fuel based on alcohol to the fuel tank. | 26,819 |
9,849,665 | 1. A platen comprising: a shirtboard configured to receive a garment; a springboard coupled to the shirtboard with a fixed spacing therebetween; a backing coupled to the shirtboard via the springboard, wherein the springboard is positioned between the shirtboard and the backing; wherein the backing and the shirtboard are compressible to selectively compress the shirtboard against the backing during a printing operation. | 45,749 |
9,522,398 | 1. System for performing biological analysis, said system comprising: a cartridge having a deformable chamber for containing a liquid to be analyzed, wherein the deformable chamber has a non-expanded state and an expanded state; a heater having a heating face pushed in contact with the deformable chamber by an elastic element and arranged to heat the liquid contained in the deformable chamber, the heating face moveable from a first position to at least a second position, different from the first position, wherein the deformable chamber in the expanded state moves the heating face from the first position to the second position, thereby compensating for an increase of pressure in the deformable chamber during heating of said liquid by said heater; and an instrument for controlling the cartridge, said instrument having an interface plate, wherein the instrument applies a vacuum force to the cartridge to maintain the cartridge on the interface plate during the biological analysis. | 276 |
9,266,073 | 1. A diffuser, comprises: a casing; a bubble generator disposed in the casing, the bubble generator comprising: a stirrer disposed at an egress of the casing. | 1,340 |
9,803,965 | 1. A measuring wheel for determining a shape of a landmark while operated by a user, the measuring wheel comprising: a wheel having a radius; a ground-traverse element rotatably associated with the wheel, said ground-traverse element configured for determining the ground-traverse distance by measuring rotation of the wheel; a processing element; a memory element; a communications element configured to communicate information indicative of the ground-traverse distance to a computing device associated with a location element configured to generate a set of location information, wherein the ground-traverse distance is compared to the set of location information to determine a shape; and a handle secured to a housing of the ground-traverse element configured to be grasped by the user during operation to move the wheel. | 43,132 |
8,344,618 | 1. A light emitting device comprising: a cathode; an anode; a light emitting layer provided between the cathode and the anode; and an intermediate layer provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer in contact with both the cathode and the light emitting layer, the intermediate layer being configured to transport electrons from the cathode to the light emitting layer; wherein the intermediate layer comprises: a base in the form of a layer, the base being constituted of at least one metal oxide based semiconductor material as a main component thereof and having a first surface which is in contact with the light emitting layer and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a dye carried on at least the first surface of the base so as to be in contact with the light emitting layer, and wherein the base is formed into a porous structure having many pores defined by inner surfaces, the dye is carried on the first surface of the base as well as the inner surfaces of the pores, and the pores exist in the base in an unevenly distributed manner to the side of the first surface of base in a thickness direction thereof. | 32,875 |
8,738,198 | 1. A robot system comprising: a robot including: a flying module connected to the tether configured to be received in the dock and including: an operator control unit which wirelessly controls the robot drive subsystem to maneuver the robot chassis and controls the payout device and flying module to deploy and dock the flying module via wireless transmissions to the robot radio subsystem and via wireless transmissions to the flying module antenna. | 33,355 |
9,228,449 | 1. A stator angular sector for a turbine engine compressor, the sector extending around an axis of radial symmetry, and comprising: an outer shroud and an inner shroud arranged coaxially one inside the other; and at least one vane extending radially between the shrouds and connected thereto at its radial ends; wherein the outer shroud includes first and second mounting means for mounting the stator angular sector on a casing of the engine, the first and second mounting means being oriented parallel to the axis in opposite directions and being connected together by an intermediate portion; wherein the outer shroud includes at least one axial end portion extending from the intermediate portion, provided with a free end, and connected to the radially-outer end of the vane; wherein at least one damper-forming insert is configured to come into contact with the end portion; and wherein beyond a given value for amplitude of vibration of the end portion, the damper-forming insert and the end portion are configured to move relative to each other so as to vary the total mass moving with the end portion, thereby modifying vibratory behavior of the end portion. | 31,203 |
8,831,789 | 1. A system that prioritizes energy loads in accordance with a production goal, comprising: processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement components the system, the components comprising: | 10,976 |
9,409,806 | 1. An anaerobic digestion system, comprising: a blend tank operable to control and perform pre treatment of feedstock, the blend tank including a central shaft; an anaerobic digester vessel operable to digest the feedstock provided from the blend tank in a totally enclosed oxygen-free environment within a specific temperature range; an agitator that runs a full length of the anaerobic digester vessel the agitator including agitator paddles; a biomass tank operable to process liquid digestive from the anaerobic digester; one or more baffles mounted to the central shaft of the agitator and located between the agitator paddles the one or more baffles configured to provide for a plug flow through at least a portion of the digester that create baffled zones which are at least partially operable independently of adjacent baffled zones; a paddle frame structure with a plurality of paddles, each of a paddle having an adjustable edge to cope with contamination; a first and a second valve, at least one of the valves being mounted at an outer edge of a flange connection at a discharge end of the digester to provide variable decanting capability at the discharge of the digester; and wherein the bio mass tank is operable to process liquid digestate from the anaerobic digester. | 16,048 |
9,482,716 | 1. A base element for receiving an overvoltage protective module for use in a bus system, having a first bus connection arrangement for contacting a first bus potential, a second bus connection arrangement for contacting a second bus potential, a third bus connection arrangement for contacting a signal bus, wherein the signal bus in a first state indicates the occurrence of a fault and in a second state indicates the non-occurrence of a fault, wherein a fault indicates a missing or incorrectly received or faulty overvoltage protective module, wherein the first and second bus potential are to be used to supply arrangements on the overvoltage protective module, wherein the base element further comprises an electronic monitoring arrangement, wherein the electronic monitoring arrangement identifies whether an overvoltage protective module is received, wherein: if an overvoltage protective module is received in the base element, the second state is signalled via the signal bus, and, if no overvoltage protective module is received in the base element or if the overvoltage protective module is received incorrectly or if the overvoltage protective module is faulty, the state of the signal bus remains unchanged. | 27,316 |
8,786,884 | 1. A printing system including a plurality of sheet holding units, the printing system comprising: a setting unit configured to set a sheet attribute of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit; a storing unit configured to store the sheet attribute set by the setting unit for the sheet holding unit; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet fed from the sheet holding unit; a control unit configured to switch, in a case where a sheet cannot be fed from a sheet holding unit used by image forming by the image forming unit, a feeding source for the image forming by the image forming unit for a sheet holding unit to another sheet holding unit, based on the sheet attribute stored in the storing unit; a determining unit configured to determine, in a case where a sheet attribute is set by the setting unit to a sheet holding unit, whether there is a second sheet holding unit to which the same sheet attribute as the sheet attribute which is set by the setting unit has been set by the setting unit, based on the sheet attribute stored in the storing unit; and a display unit configured to display, in a case where the determining unit determines that there is the second sheet holding unit information indicating that there is the second sheet holding unit to which the same sheet attribute which is set by the setting unit has been set by the setting unit, wherein the control unit is configured to permit, in a case where an instruction for setting the sheet attribute is received from a user after the display is executed by the display unit, setting the sheet attribute to the first sheet holding unit for switching the feeding source from the first sheet holding unit to another sheet holding unit. | 1,178 |
8,923,029 | 1. A field programmable read-only memory (FPROM) device, comprising a memory-cell having a switching element for storing bit information, the switching element providing a switchable electrical connection between a word line and a bit line, wherein the switching element comprises a static body and a movable connecting element and the switchable electrical connection is non-volatile, wherein the switching element is movable between a first end position and a second end position, and is conductive in the first end position and non-conductive in the second end position, and wherein for protection of the bit information, the memory-cell is configured to interlock the movable connecting element in the first end position. | 2,192 |
8,588,118 | 1. A wireless communication device, comprising: a receiver configured to obtain a packet from a first receiving signal, the first receiving signal being input from an antenna; a packet processing unit configured to interpret the packet obtained by the receiver; a packet detection unit configured to receive a second receiving signal from the antenna, and the packet detection unit detecting presence/absence of a reception of a packet from the second receiving signal; a judgment unit configured to judge whether or not a pattern of temporal changes of 1 and 0 indicating the presence/absence of a plurality of packets detected by the packet detection unit corresponds to a predetermined pattern; and a power source control unit configured to control power supply to the packet processing unit based on a result of a judgment by the judgment unit. | 22,571 |
9,420,562 | 1. A method for managing assets in an asset management environment, the method comprising: responsive to determining that a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) indicates that a signal power between a first (Bluetooth Low Energy) BLE device and a second BLE device exceeds a predefined threshold, transmitting, by the first BLE device, an association request to the second BLE device to establish an association connection between the first BLE device operating in central mode and attached to an asset to track, and the second BLE device operating in peripheral mode and associated with a physical location within an asset management environment, wherein the asset to which the first BLE device is attached is an electronic device including one of: a display monitor, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile cellular device, computing peripheral equipment, another specialized computer system or a computer server; exchanging one or more association request frames whereby association information is stored in the second BLE device; establishing an association connection between the second BLE device and a third BLE device operating in central mode and coupled to one or more computer processors, and periodically transmitting the association information stored in the second BLE device to the third BLE device via one or more broadcasting frames; maintaining, by the third BLE device, current association information between the first BLE device and the second BLE device, based on the transmitted association information; receiving, by one or more computer processors from the third BLE device, the current association information between the first BLE device and the second BLE device; identifying location information of the asset to which the first BLE device is attached, by the one or more computer processors, based on the current association information between the first BLE device and the second BLE device, an identity of the asset to which the first BLE device is attached, and the physical location of the second BLE device within the asset management environment, wherein the location information of the asset to which the first BLE device is attached describes one or more locations of the asset in asset management environment throughout a duration of time; responsive to determining that an RSSI does not exceed a predefined threshold, updating, by the second BLE device, the association information to indicate that the first BLE device is not associated with the second BLE device; and responsive to determining that the association request frame was not received before a timer time-out condition, dissociating the first BLE device from the second BLE device, wherein the timer time-out condition for the association request frame is implemented to periodically confirm that association connection is currently established. | 2,203 |
9,563,579 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of intellectual property (IP) blocks of a semiconductor device coupled to a fabric, wherein at least some of the plurality of IP blocks include a deadline logic to generate a deadline value based at least in part on a global clock value from the fabric to indicate a maximum latency before completion of a memory request and to communicate the memory request to the fabric, the memory request including the deadline value. | 48,221 |
9,205,376 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an automotive anti-contamination system, including: | 15,503 |
9,024,086 | 1. A process for producing ethanol, comprising contacting a feedstock comprising hydrogen and acetic acid and/or ethyl acetate in a reactor at an elevated temperature in the presence of a catalyst, under conditions effective to form ethanol; wherein the catalyst comprises a precious metal and at least one active metal on a modified silica support, wherein the catalyst has at least 70% Lewis acid sites based on the total number of acid sites as measured by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of chemisorbed pyridine, and wherein the modified silica support comprises: (i) a support material; and (ii) a support modifier comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, niobium, and tantalum. | 6,495 |
9,033,745 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a top portion; a bottom portion, wherein said top portion and bottom portion are mated together to form a connector having an inner cavity and configured for insertion into a receiving port; wherein said top portion comprises a top connector insertion portion, said top connector insertion portion-comprising: wherein said bottom portion comprises a bottom connector insertion portion configured to mate with said top connector insertion portion to form said connector, said bottom connector insertion portion comprising: | 15,611 |
8,618,282 | 1. A process for preparing a 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro[1,4]benzothiazepine of formula: which comprises reacting a [2-(acylaminoethyl)thio]arene of formula with an aldehyde of formula R 4 CHO or an oligomer or polymer thereof, and with an acid, wherein: Ar is phenyl; R R R R R R R | 27,157 |
9,772,054 | 1. A flexible hose assembly configured to be coupled to a manifold, the flexible hose assembly including: an inner hose assembly having: an outer hose assembly having: | 31,702 |
8,378,153 | 1. A process for the production of ethanol from ethanoic acid and H 2 , characterised by the following steps: 1) introducing ethanoic acid, together with methanol and/or ethanol into an esterification reactor containing an esterification catalyst to produce methyl ethanoate and/or ethyl ethanoate, 2) introducing methyl ethanoate and/or ethyl ethanoate from step 1, together with H 3) separating the resulting stream, from step 2, into unreacted methyl ethanoate and/or ethyl ethanoate and ethanol and optionally methanol, 4) optionally reintroducing methyl ethanoate and/or ethyl ethanoate, from step 3, into the esterification reactor of step 1, 5) using at least a part of the methanol and/or the ethanol of step 3, as the methanol and/or ethanol feed of the esterification reactor of step 1, and 6) recovering ethanol, from step 3. | 5,636 |
9,022,240 | 1. A process for producing poliovirus, the process comprising: providing a serum-free suspension culture of human fetal retina (HER) cells that have been immortalized by expression of adenovirus E1 sequences, infecting cells in the culture with poliovirus at a cell density of between 5×10 harvesting poliovirus at a time of between 12 and 48 hours after infection when the poliovirus in the culture has a titer of at least about 10 | 42,523 |
8,771,206 | 1. An interactive virtual care system comprising: a user sensory module to acquire multi-modal user data related to user movement of at least one portion of a user's body, wherein the user movement of the at least one portion of the user's body is to be performed at a distance away from the user sensory module, wherein the user sensory module includes a depth camera to acquire the multi-modal user data, and wherein the user sensory module is to provide real-time digitization of the user movement, based on an interpretation of the user movement by the user sensory module, to produce a computer-generated version of the user movement that highlights movement of the at least one portion of the user's body; a responder sensory module to acquire multi-modal responder data related to responder movement performed at a distance away from the responder sensory module; and a data analysis module, executed by a processor, to compare the multi-modal user data to predetermined historical user data and statistical norm data for users, and to compare the multi-modal user data to the multi-modal responder data to identify at least one anomaly in the user movement of the at least one portion of the user's body, wherein for comparison of the multi-modal user data to the predetermined historical user data, a range of the predetermined historical user data is selectable. | 27,431 |
8,626,291 | 1. A method for detecting anodal cardiac capture during bipolar electrical stimulation, the method comprising: delivering a first pacing pulse using a first bipole comprising a first cathode and a first anode both positioned along a heart chamber; delivering a second pacing pulse using the first cathode and a second anode; measuring a first response to the first pacing pulse; measuring a second response to the second pacing pulse; detecting anodal capture of the heart chamber by the first pacing pulse at the first anode in response to a first difference between the first response and the second response; switching the polarity of the first anode to a cathode; delivering a third pacing pulse between the first anode switched to the cathode polarity and the second anode; measuring a third response to the third pacing pulse; and detecting anodal capture in response to the first difference being greater than a second difference between the first response and the third response. | 25,622 |
9,399,513 | 1. A rotorcraft, comprising: a body; a power train coupled to the body and comprising a power source and a drive shaft coupled to the power source; a hub; a rotor blade coupled to the hub; and a constant velocity (CV) joint coupled between the drive shaft and the hub, the CV joint comprising: | 11,849 |
8,582,555 | 1. A method of providing customized routing of messages, the method comprising: receiving a message to a target communication identifier at a system for signaling between endpoints, the system having one or more stored network addresses for each of a plurality of communication identifiers; determining one or more network addresses for the target endpoint from the stored network addresses associated to the communication identifier; applying one or more policies to the one or more network addresses for the target communication identifier, the one or more policies comprising a set of one or more conditions and one or more actions associated with each condition, wherein applying one or more policies to the one or more network addresses for the target communication identifier comprises changing at least one of the determined one or more network addresses for the target endpoint based on at least one satisfied condition of the one or more conditions and the associated action defined in the applied one or more policies and producing a script, the script comprising the determined one or more network addresses and instructions associated with each of the determined one or more network addresses, the instructions of the script comprising at least one condition and at least one action associated with each condition and affecting further routing of the message based on satisfaction of the associated condition; and routing the message to the target communication identifier based on the determined one or more network addresses and associated instructions of the script. | 16,783 |
8,913,852 | 1. A method of selecting a plurality of patches within a region of a page, for use in image alignment, said method comprising: determining one or more candidate image alignment patches distributed across a region of the page, based on content in the page region, each candidate image alignment patch being associated with a feature strength value for use in aligning images of the page region; applying a distribution of grid nodes to the page region, at least one attribute of the distribution of grid nodes being dynamically adjusted according to the distribution of the candidate image alignment patches across the page region; and selecting a corresponding patch from the distribution of candidate image alignment patches for each of a plurality of the grid nodes, wherein each of the selected patches is selected based on proximity of the selected patch to a corresponding grid node. | 19,719 |
8,720,340 | 1. A rocket launcher comprising: a launching tube of an undefined length having a flat base affixed to a bottom distal end; wherein an opening on the launching tube includes a door attached via a hinge, which enables access to the interior of the launching tube so as to insert a rocket or firework therein prior to launch there from; wherein a handle attaches to an exterior surface of the launching tube for use in transport between uses; wherein the launching tube is further defined with a top distal end, which is opposite the bottom distal end, and an inner diameter; wherein a fallout shroud attaches to and encircles around the top distal end of the launching tube; wherein the fallout shroud is a disc-shaped member having an inner hole that is not less than the inner diameter of the launching tube; wherein the fallout shroud has an outer diameter that is not greater than a diagonal of the flat base. | 34,626 |
8,378,425 | 1. A semiconductor storage device comprising a static type memory cell in which six MOS transistors are arrayed on a dielectric film formed on a substrate, wherein: each of the six MOS transistors serves as (a) first and second NMOS access transistors each operable to access to the memory cell, (b) first and second NMOS driver transistors each operable to drive a storage node to hold data in the memory cell, and (c) first and second PMOS load transistors each operable to supply electric charges to hold data in the memory cell, each of the first and second NMOS access transistors comprises a first diffusion layer, which is layered, along with a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a second diffusion layer, vertically on the dielectric film formed on the substrate, the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being disposed between the first and second diffusion layers, and the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being formed with a gate arranged along a sidewall thereof, each of the first and second NMOS driver transistors comprises a third diffusion layer, which is layered, along with a second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a fourth diffusion layer, vertically on the dielectric film formed on the substrate, the second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being disposed between the third and fourth diffusion layers, the second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being formed with a gate arranged along a sidewall thereof, and each of the first and second PMOS load transistors comprises a fifth diffusion layer, which is layered, along with a third pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a sixth diffusion layer, vertically on the dielectric film formed on the substrate, the third pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being disposed between the fifth and sixth diffusion layers, the third pillar-shaped semiconductor layer being formed with a gate arranged along a sidewall thereof, and further wherein: the first NMOS access transistor, the first NMOS driver transistor and the first PMOS load transistor are arrayed adjacent to each other; the second NMOS access transistor, the second NMOS driver transistor and the second PMOS load transistor are arrayed adjacent to each other; the first diffusion layer of the first NMOS access transistor, the third diffusion layer of the first NMOS driver transistor and the fifth diffusion layer of the first PMOS load transistor are arranged on the dielectric film to serve as a first storage node for holding data therein; the first diffusion layer, the third diffusion layer and the fifth diffusion layer are connected to each other through a first silicide layer formed on respective surfaces of the first, third and fifth diffusion layers; the first diffusion layer of the second NMOS access transistor, the third diffusion layer of the second NMOS driver transistor and the fifth diffusion layer of the second PMOS load transistor are arranged on the dielectric film to serve as a second storage node for holding data therein; and the first diffusion layer, the third diffusion layer and the fifth diffusion layer are connected to each other through a second silicide layer formed on respective surfaces of the first, third and fifth diffusion layers serving as the second storage node. | 46,805 |
8,922,564 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a first request to pause rendering of an animation; responsive to the receiving a first request: receiving a second request to resume the rendering; and resuming the rendering of the animation responsive to the receiving a second request, the resuming comprising at least one of: | 4,389 |
8,878,605 | 1. An amplifier circuit, comprising: a digital amplifier configured to amplify an input signal to output a first output signal; an analog amplifier configured to amplify the input signal to output a second output signal; a check circuit configured to produce a check signal responsive to frequencies of the input signal; and a selector circuit configured to select and output one of the first output signal and the second output signal in response to the check signal. | 7,634 |
8,742,676 | 1. A drive circuit, comprising: a first load connection point and a second load connection point for connecting a load to an output of the drive circuit; an output side filter and bulk energy storage device, wherein the output side filter and bulk energy storage device is connected to the first load connection point, to the second load connection point, and to a sub-circuit based on a SEPIC topology, wherein the sub-circuit includes a capacitor, a free wheeling diode, a first inductor, a second inductor, and a switch; the sub-circuit, wherein the sub-circuit is connected to an input of the drive circuit, to the output side filter and bulk energy storage device, and to the first load connection point; and a control device for controlling the switch to provide power factor correction, wherein the circuit provides both power factor correction and load regulation using the switch, wherein the output side filter and bulk energy storage device comprises a second capacitor and a third inductor and a first terminal of the second capacitor is connected to the first load connection point and a second terminal of the second capacitor is connected to the cathode of the free wheeling diode and a first terminal of the third inductor, and a second terminal of the third inductor is connected to the second load connection point and the first terminal of the third inductor is connected to the cathode of the free wheeling diode and to the second terminal of the second capacitor, and wherein the input of the drive circuit is operable for connection to an output of a bridge rectifier. | 13,207 |
8,624,025 | 1. A method of prophylaxis of a human rhinovirus (HRV) infection in a respiratory tract of a mammal, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a composition comprising a compound of formula II: wherein: R Y is O, S, NH or NMe; Z is CH or N; Alk is C R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. | 11,264 |
8,557,878 | 1. A process for generating a methane-enriched raw product gas stream and a vanadium product stream from a non-gaseous vanadium-containing carbonaceous material, the process comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock from the vanadium-containing carbonaceous material and an alkali metal hydromethanation catalyst, wherein the alkali metal hydromethanation catalyst comprises a recycle catalyst and a makeup catalyst; (b) introducing the catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock into a hydromethanation reactor; (c) reacting the catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock in the hydromethanation reactor in the presence of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and steam to produce a methane-enriched raw gas and a solid by-product char; (d) withdrawing a stream of the methane-enriched raw product gas from the hydromethanation reactor as the methane-enriched raw product gas stream, wherein the methane-enriched raw product gas stream comprises methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, steam and heat energy; (e) withdrawing a stream of the solid by-product char from the hydromethanation reactor, wherein the withdrawn solid by-product char comprises carbon and an inorganic ash containing an alkali metal content and a vanadium content; (f) treating the withdrawn solid by-product char to generate (1) an alkali metal and vanadium-depleted char stream, and (2) an aqueous alkali metal and vanadium-enriched stream comprising one or more water-soluble alkali metal compounds and one or more water-soluble vanadium compounds, wherein the aqueous stream comprises at least a predominant portion of the alkali metal content and at least a predominant portion of the vanadium content of the withdrawn solid by-product char; (g) separating the aqueous stream into a bleed stream and a catalyst recycle stream, wherein the bleed stream comprises a bleed vanadium content; (h) recycling at least a portion of the catalyst recycle stream for use as the recycle catalyst; (i) treating the bleed stream to generate a vanadium-enriched stream and a vanadium-depleted stream, wherein the vanadium-enriched stream comprises at least a predominant portion of the bleed vanadium content; (j) contacting the vanadium-enriched stream with an ammonia stream to generate an ammonium vanadate; and (k) recovering at least a predominant portion of the ammonium vanadate generated in step (j) as the vanadium product stream. | 7,444 |
9,380,438 | 1. A method for setting call forwarding in an electronic device based on a remaining battery capacity, the method comprising: determining that the remaining battery capacity is below a threshold; providing an indication that the remaining battery capacity is below the threshold and that a call forwarding function may be set; receiving an input from a user to select a contact number; sending, to an adjacent base station, a request for call forwarding an incoming call to the selected contact number; periodically determining whether the remaining battery capacity is greater than or equal to the threshold, if the call forwarding is set; and sending, to the adjacent base station, a request to release the call forwarding, if it is determined that the remaining battery capacity is greater than or equal to the threshold. | 832 |
9,427,659 | 1. A wireless video game system for detecting motion, comprising: a remote processing system for placement at a distance from a user; a first hand-held game controller comprised of the following components: | 21,203 |
8,930,098 | 1. A clutch control device of a hybrid vehicle, the clutch control device comprising: a battery which is charged with electricity generated by a generator; a motor which drives a motor shaft that is connected with a driving shaft of the hybrid vehicle by using at least one of the electricity generated by the generator and the electricity charged in the battery; an engine which drives the generator and the hybrid vehicle; a clutch; and a control unit which acquires a possible battery output that can be outputted by the battery and which sets a change vehicle velocity depending on the possible battery output, the control unit which changes a engaged state of the clutch in which the motor shaft and an engine shaft of the engine are engaged with each other to a released state of the clutch in which the motor shaft and the engine shaft are released from each other and changes an engine driving state of the hybrid vehicle in which the hybrid vehicle is driven by the engine to a motor driving state of the hybrid vehicle in which the hybrid vehicle is driven by the motor, when a vehicle velocity of the hybrid vehicle is the change vehicle velocity. | 49,215 |
9,539,732 | 1. A cutting tool comprising: a housing including a holding portion, a gripping portion, and a plurality of positive-locking elements at the holding portion; a rotational lever mounted pivotably to the housing; a blade arranged at the holding portion of the housing, the blade including a cutting edge and a plurality of positive-locking elements; and a locking member coupled with the rotational lever and configured to lock the blade to the housing, the locking member reciprocatingly movable between a first position in which the blade is locked and a second position in which the blade is released, and the locking member having a positive-locking element configured to cooperate with the positive-locking elements of the housing to lock the blade in a given position to the housing, wherein the positive-locking elements of the blade further cooperate with the positive-locking elements of the housing and the locking member in such a way that substantially no moments are introduced into the rotational lever by virtue of cutting reaction force, wherein the cutting edge of the blade faces rearwardly and towards the gripping portion of the housing, and wherein the holding portion includes one side where the positive-locking elements of the holding portion are provided and another side located in opposite relationship to the one side, the another side being where the cutting edge of the blade is located. | 46,482 |
9,081,311 | 1. A lithographic apparatus comprising: a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting a radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, the support comprising a first planar element having a first generally horizontal flow-restricting surface; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of a substrate; a second planar element comprising a second generally horizontal flow-restricting surface facing the first flow-restricting surface; and a support driver to drive movement of the support relative to the second planar element, wherein the first flow-restricting surface, the second flow-restricting surface, or both the first and second flow-restricting surfaces, comprises a projection and/or recess between the first and second flow-restricting surfaces, wherein the support driver is configured to drive the support linearly along a certain generally horizontal direction relative to the second planar element, and wherein the projection and/or recess on the first and/or second flow-restricting surface is arranged to provide a flow resistance, per unit width of the first and/or second flow-restricting surface perpendicular to a direction of flow, that is lower against flow that is parallel to the certain direction than against flow in a generally horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the certain direction. | 43,988 |
9,421,656 | 1. A workpiece manufacturing method comprising: a holding process comprising holding a workpiece via a workpiece holder; a free pallet movement process comprising freely moving a pallet separated movably from a platform such that the pallet is parallel to an upper surface of the platform with the pallet being lifted so as to float above the platform; the free pallet movement process comprising spewing air out of the platform to elevate the pallet, and a lowering process comprising lowering the workpiece held by the workpiece holder so that a positioning pin of the pallet is inserted into a positioning hole made in the workpiece as the pallet is shifted to a position where the workpiece is located, wherein, in the free pallet movement process, the pallet rises from the platform so as to be freely movable parallel to the upper surface of the platform, wherein the workpiece is a battery cell pack, wherein the battery cell pack comprises at least one unit battery accommodated in a film outer pack, wherein the positioning hole is among a plurality of positioning holes in the film outer pack, wherein the upper surface of the platform is a reference plane and comprises a plurality of air outlets in the upper surface, wherein the platform comprises a plurality of independent air feeding channels formed therein, and wherein each of the air feeding channels comprises an air ejecting channel. | 3,987 |
8,539,734 | 1. A method for installing solar panels into a roof, comprising: installing a roof truss, the roof truss comprising: providing end surfaces facing and spaced apart from both sides of the roof truss; wherein when the removable portion is removed, a recessed space is established having dimensions defined by a) the length of the removed portion of the non-structural top chord, b) a height from the first upper surface to the second upper surface, and c) a width spanning between the end surfaces; and wherein the recessed space is suitable for holding a solar panel assembly. | 38,581 |
9,798,155 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image sensor configured to generate an electrical signal in response to light incident on pixel elements; and a polarizing unit configured to transmit the light to the pixel elements, the polarizing unit comprising a first polarization region configured and arranged to transmit light polarized in a first direction onto a first plurality of the pixel elements including more than four pixel elements of 2×2, a second polarization region configured and arranged to transmit light polarized in a second direction, which is different than the first direction, onto a second plurality of the pixel elements including more than four pixel elements of 2×2, and a transmission region configured and arranged to transmit light polarized in all directions onto a third plurality of the pixel elements. | 6,910 |
9,588,065 | 1. A method of determining a concentration of a specific analyte in a sample of biological material, the method comprising: placing the sample of biological material in a sample container, wherein a geometry of the sample container provides at least two irradiation paths with different path lengths through the sample container; sequentially irradiating the sample with electromagnetic radiation emitted by a radiation source arranged at one side of the sample container through said at least two irradiation paths; detecting an amount of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through said sample using a detector arranged at an opposite side of the sample container; determining an absorbance value based on said detected electromagnetic radiation; wherein the step of sequentially irradiating comprises moving the sample container in relation to the radiation source and the detector, whereby the electromagnetic radiation passes through said at least two irradiation paths of different path lengths, determining an absorbance reading at a predetermined wavelength at said different path lengths; generating a regression line using the absorbance values and the different path lengths, obtaining a slope of the regression line; and determining the concentration of the specific analyte by dividing the slope of the regression line by an extinction coefficient of the specific analyte. | 14,283 |
8,398,056 | 1. A motorcycle lift and support apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a base frame, the base frame comprising: a vertically extending, tubular center post, the center post has a plurality of sides forming a continuous outer sidewall; a plurality of tubular base legs extend downward angularly from the center post; a lift platform for engaging an underside of a chassis of a motorcycle, the lift platform comprising an upper surface and a lower surface, the lift platform includes a downwardly depending forward end and a downwardly depending rearward end; a linearly elongated, tubular center member welded centrally to the lower surface of the lift platform so as to extend downward vertically therefrom, the center member includes an open bottom, and wherein the center member is telescopically received by the center post; an elongated flange welded to the lower surface of the lift platform between the downwardly depending forward end and the center member; a platform linear actuator pivotally coupled to the flange for raising the lift platform between a lowered position and a fully raised position; a caster carriage assembly engaging the center post; and a carriage linear actuator for raising the caster carriage assembly between a lowered position and a fully raised position. | 936 |
8,446,007 | 1. An integrated circuit structure comprising: a first work piece selected from the group consisting of a semiconductor chip and a package substrate, wherein the first work piece comprises: | 37,056 |
9,178,422 | 1. A resonance-based DC-DC converter for converting a DC input voltage to a first DC output voltage on a first output conductor, comprising: (a) an inductor having a first terminal directly coupled to a source of a DC input voltage and a second terminal coupled to a resonance conductor; (b) a resonance capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the resonance conductor; (c) a first switch coupled between the resonance conductor and the first output conductor, for conducting inductor current into the first output conductor during a first phase; (d) a second switch coupled between a second terminal of the resonance capacitor and the first output conductor, for conducting inductor current through the resonance capacitor into the first output conductor during a second phase; and (e) a third switch coupled between the second terminal of the resonance capacitor and a first reference voltage for conducting inductor current from a source of the first reference voltage through the resonance capacitor into the source of the input voltage during a third phase. | 41,238 |
8,882,478 | 1. A turbocharger provided with an electric motor in which a turbine impeller is connected to one end of a rotating shaft, wherein a compressor impeller is connected to the other end of the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft is rotatably supported by a bearing housing in which is provided at least one bearing, wherein the rotating shaft is rotationally driven by the electric motor provided in the bearing housing, and the electric motor includes a motor rotor that is fixed to the rotating shaft and a motor stator that surrounds the motor rotor and that rotationally drives the motor rotor, wherein the turbocharger further comprises: (a) a stator assembly that includes the motor stator and a flange portion integrally formed with the motor stator, wherein a position of the stator assembly is adjusted with respect to the bearing housing in a circumferential direction along a circle that has an axial center of the rotating shaft as a center thereof, wherein the flange portion extends outward from a coil arrangement portion of the motor stator in a radial direction, and at least a part of a radial outer face of the flange portion is exposed to the outside of the bearing housing, and the flange portion includes a wiring hole through which a cable connected to coils of the motor stator passes, and the wiring hole is opened at the radial outer face of the flange portion, and wherein the bearing housing includes a cooling space in which coolant for cooling the motor stator flows, and the flange portion of the stator assembly is arranged to come in contact with the coolant, or with a cooling space forming member that forms at least a part of an inner surface of the cooling space, wherein the coolant comprises cooling water or cooling oil. | 24,576 |
9,702,368 | 1. A blade configuration for use in moving a fluid using a waving action, said blade configuration comprising: a flexible panel that is generally impervious to said fluid, said flexible panel having a periphery that includes a front edge and a rear edge, wherein said flexible panel has a first section proximate said front edge and an invertible pocket depression disposed between said first section and said second edge; a framework that supports said periphery of said flexible panel in a common plane, wherein said framework holds said first section of said flexible panel taut in tension in said common plane, and wherein said pocket depression protrudes out of said common plane; wherein said flexible panel has a first average slope from said first section to said pocket depression and a second average slope from said rear edge to said pocket depression, wherein said second average slope is greater than said first average slope. | 23,843 |
8,967,794 | 1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto a medium; a first removal roller that rotates in a direction opposite to a transportation direction of the medium at a first contact position in a state of being contact with a first surface of the medium that is transported at the first contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the medium; and a second removal roller that rotates in the direction opposite to the transportation direction of the medium at a second contact position in a state of being contact with a second surface of the medium that is transported at the second contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the medium, wherein the first contact point is higher than a portion of a transportation path at an upstream side of the transportation path adjacent to the first removal roller and the second contact point is lower than a portion of the transportation path at a downstream side of the transportation path adjacent to the second removal roller. | 45,342 |
9,617,857 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a rotatable turbomachinery blade component having an inner core extending from a base and made from a first material; an outer flow surface made from a second material and captured between the base and a cap that is fastened to the core, the core extending substantially into an interior of the outer flow surface; and a fugitive spacer placed between the inner core and the outer flow surface, the fugitive spacer structured to be removed by heating, wherein the first material is metallic and the second material includes is a ceramic matrix composite. | 7,474 |
9,148,400 | 1. A method to automatically detect an end node behind a phone on a computer network, comprising: determining a media access control (MAC) address of the end node from an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the end node, wherein the end node is communicatively coupled to a port on the phone and the phone is communicatively coupled to a port on a switch in the computer network; subsequent to determining the MAC address of the end node, determining whether the determined MAC address of the end node is recognized on a port of a switch on the computer network, wherein the determining of whether the MAC address of the end node is recognized on a port of the switch includes determining a list of virtual local area networks (VLANs) configured on the switch, and determining, for each VLAN, whether the MAC address is recognized on any port assigned to the VLAN; if the MAC address is recognized on a port of the switch and the port is assigned to at least one of the VLANs, obtaining a list of MAC addresses recognized on the port; and if the list has two MAC addresses, determining the end node is connected to the at least one of the VLANs via the phone and via the port, wherein the IP address of the end node is received from a user or a computer system, and the MAC address of the end node is determined from the IP address received from the user or the computer system. | 41,434 |
9,273,884 | 1. A steam/water solar receiver, comprising: at least one tube panel comprising a plurality of vertical tubes for conveying a heat transfer fluid, wherein the tubes are interconnected by at least one upper header and at least one lower header; a steam separation device fluidly connected to the at least one upper header of the at least one tube panel; a downcomer fluidly coupled to the steam separation device and the at least one lower header of the at least one tube panel; and at least one alternate heat source selectively operative on a heat transfer fluid within the solar receiver, wherein the at least one alternate heat source is in at least one of the following positions: contacting an outside portion of the at least one lower header or within the at least one lower header; contacting an outside portion of the downcomer or within the downcomer; contacting an outside portion of at least one of the tubes; or contacting an outside portion of the steam separation device or within the steam separation device. | 29,436 |
8,684,805 | 1. A game apparatus operated by a first game player communicably connected with another game apparatus of same construction operable by an opponent game player, the communicably connected game apparatus comprising: a display device for displaying a game simulating a baseball game; an image display controlling section that controls display of a pitching position designation area, a batting position designation area, and a pitcher character and a batter character simulating, respectively, a pitcher and a batter battling with each other at specified positions of a screen of the display device, that controls display of pitching motion of the pitcher character, a batting motion of the batter character, and that controls progress of the game in accordance with a battle result; a pitch sequence history generating section for generating a pitch sequence history including previous pitching positions having been made in a specified at-bat before a next pitch occurs in the specified at-bat; a pitching mark image size setting section for determining a size of a pitching mark image serving as an indicator of the hitting difficulty based on a positional relationship between a subsequent pitching position and the previous pitching positions of the pitch sequence history, wherein a smaller size of the pitching mark image indicates greater difficulty in hitting a pitch, and wherein the pitching mark image is displayed on the display device for designating a subsequent pitching position by the pitcher character as manipulated by the game player of said communicably connected game apparatus; a batting mark image size setting section for determining a size of a batting mark image as an indicator of the hitting easiness based on a positional relationship between a subsequent batting position and the previous pitching positions of the pitch sequence history, wherein a larger size of the batting mark image indicates reduced hitting difficulty, and wherein the batting mark image is displayed on the display device for designation of the subsequent batting position in the case of the batter character being manipulated by the first game player; a pitching position designating section for allowing the first game player to designate the subsequent pitching position at a desired position in the pitching position designation area while moving the displayed pitching mark image, wherein the displayed pitching mark image size changes in accordance with the positional relationship to the previous pitching position, in the case of the pitcher character being manipulated by the first game player; a batting position designating section for allowing the first game player to designate the subsequent batting position at a desired position in the batting position designation area while moving the displayed batting mark image whose size changes in accordance with the positional relationship to the previous pitching position, in the case of the batter character being manipulated by the first game player; and a battle result determining section for obtaining a result of the battle according to a determined overlapping degree of the pitching mark image designating the subsequent pitching position and the batting mark image designating the subsequent batting position. | 24,680 |
8,902,655 | 1. A nonvolatile memory device comprising: memory blocks, each of the memory blocks having a plurality of memory cells; address buffers configured to output address signals; a pre-decoder including: a row decoder configured to generate a block selecting signal by decoding the converted multiplexing signal, and to select at least one of the memory blocks in response to the block selecting signal. | 1,211 |
9,534,026 | 1. A corn active peptide additive for cell culture medium, wherein in the corn active peptide additive, oligopeptides with molecular weight of lower than 1000 Dalton account for equal to or more than 90 wt % of total proteins, and the oligopeptides at least comprise a mixture, the mixture comprises AP, AY, SAP, IP, SEQ ID No.6, SEQ ID No.8 and SEQ ID No.9. | 3,819 |
8,461,814 | 1. A power supply circuit capable of providing two regulated voltages based on a D.C. input voltage, comprising a boost converter, a buck-boost converter, and an inductive element common to the boost and buck-boost converters, each converter comprising a chopper switch being controlled by a control circuit, the control circuit comprising a logic circuit and a comparison circuit, the comparison circuit comprising: first and second comparators comparing, respectively, a first of the regulated voltages with a first reference voltage and a second of the regulated voltages with a second reference voltage, and providing first and second comparison signals; a slope generator; third and fourth comparators comparing, respectively, the first comparison signal with a signal generated by the slope generator and the second comparison signal with the signal provided by the slope generator, outputs of the third and fourth comparators being connected to inputs of the logic circuit; and fifth and sixth comparators comparing, respectively, the first comparison signal with a first reference inhibition signal and the second comparison signal with a second reference inhibition signal, outputs of the fifth and sixth comparators being connected to inputs of the logic circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to inhibit a first converter of the converters when a load associated with the first converter requires no power and to redistribute excess power to a second converter of the converters, wherein a first output of the logic circuit, adapted to control the first chopper switch, delivers a signal having the logic equation: a second output of the logic circuit, adapted to control the second chopper switch, delivers a signal having the logic equation: Q being a clock signal, | 28,850 |
8,976,348 | 1. A wafer inspection system comprising a wafer inspection device that comprises: an inspection unit that detects a sample center location on a wafer, and inspects the wafer with respect to a compensated center location according to an inspection control signal, and generates defect data based on the compensated center location; and an inspection control unit that generates the inspection control signal, wherein the inspection control signal compensates the sample center location to the compensated center location according to photo map information including dimension information of the wafer measured in a coordinate system and offset information to compensate the sample center location to the compensated center location. | 1,487 |
9,673,714 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an infrared sensing circuit configured to generate an enable signal in response to receipt of an infrared control signal; and a power supply circuit having an input coupled to receive said enable signal, said power supply circuit configured to generate a supply voltage; wherein said infrared sensing circuit comprises: | 42,521 |
8,953,260 | 1. A telephoto lens system comprising: a first lens group having a fixed position and a positive refractive power and comprising a negative lens that is disposed closest to an object side and has a meniscus shape that is convex toward the object; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and consisting of a single negative lens that moves along an optical axis and performs focusing; and a third lens group having a fixed position and a positive refractive power, wherein the first through third lens groups are disposed sequentially from the object side toward the image side, and the telephoto lens system satisfies the condition: wherein f | 26,779 |
9,474,567 | 1. A process for providing an electrosurgical instrument in which a metal surface portion of an electrosurgical blade is coated at least in part with a coating formulation to provide an at least partially non-stick surface, comprising: preparing a coating formulation by combining at least the following: waiting a predetermined time period after said preparing step; and, coating at least a portion of said metal surface portion of the electrosurgical blade with said prepared coating formulation after said waiting step, wherein the coating step is completed so that a portion of the electrosurgical blade has an impedance from the electrosurgical blade to tissue of less than about 5,000 ohms, said portion comprising an edge of said electrosurgical blade exposed through the coating. | 35,469 |
8,907,543 | 1. A surface acoustic wave component comprising: a piezoelectric crystal substrate; and at least two interdigital transducers having natural unidirectionality disposed on the piezoelectric crystal substrate, said transducers forming a transducer pair consisting of a transmission transducer and a reception transducer; wherein said transducers have an interdigital electrode structure having prongs and bus bars and have opposite forward directions, with at least two of the prongs forming a transducer cell that has at least one excitation center for exciting an electrical potential wave and at least one reflection center for reflection of electrical potential waves, wherein each of the transducer cells consist of two prongs having the same width, wherein a distance between centers of the two prongs is equal to half a length of a transducer period, and wherein electrode structures of the two transducers consist of the same material, but have different layer thicknesses from each other and wherein the piezoelectric crystal substrate is a Y cut of LiNbO | 29,827 |
9,751,898 | 1. A compound having a structure which is: wherein R | 15,025 |
9,819,959 | 1. A method for three-dimensional or multi-view video coding, the method comprising: receiving input data associated with a current block of a current picture in a current dependent view, wherein the current block is inter-time coded based on an inter-time reference block located by a motion vector (MV); determining estimated DV (disparity vector) candidates from neighboring DVs(disparity vectors) associated with neighboring blocks of the current block; applying an evaluation function to the estimated DV candidates to obtain evaluation results for the estimated DV candidates; selecting a final estimated DV from the estimated DV candidates based on the evaluation results; determining an inter-view reference region in an inter-view reference picture based on the final estimated DV; determining first pseudo residues, wherein the first pseudo residues correspond to first differences between the inter-view reference region and a pseudo reference region in a pseudo reference picture located by the MV, and wherein the inter-view reference picture and the pseudo reference picture are in a same reference view; and applying encoding or decoding to the input data associated with residues of the current block utilizing the first pseudo residues. | 13,835 |
9,134,329 | 1. A composition comprising: a rifamycin compound having the following formula: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen (H), a methyl group, an ethyl group, an n-propyl group, an isopropyl group, a 2-methylpropyl group, a cyclopropyl group, a cyclopropylmethyl group, a cyclobutylmethyl group, a benzylmethyl group, a 2-methoxyethyl group, a 2-morpholinoethyl group, and a group having the formula: wherein X is oxygen (O) and R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount and formulation sufficient to induce drug-sensitization in or inhibition of a cancer cell; and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, a salt, a buffer, a preservative, or a solubility enhancer. | 22,687 |
8,667,405 | 1. A method for developing and deploying a browser-based application over an application, development, and deployment network comprising a client, a server, a client/server network connection, additional clients, and additional client/server network connections, wherein the client and the server communicate with each other over the client/server network connection, the additional clients and the server communicate with each other over the additional client/server network connections, and the method comprises: running a browser-based development tool on the client; using the browser-based development tool to develop the browser-based application with an interactive user interface on the client; displaying the browser-based application in a browser field on the client; selecting a data source on the server over the client/server network connection connecting the client and the server; using the browser-based development tool to retrieve a limited data set from the data source on the server over the client/server network connection; populating a plurality of individual cells in the interactive user interface on the client with data from the limited data set on the client retrieved from the data source on the server; saving the browser-based application on the server over the client/server network connection; and deploying the browser-based application to additional clients from the server over the additional client/server network connections. | 15,204 |
9,369,149 | 1. A method for processing data in a baseband unit of a communication system, the method comprising: receiving compressed data at a baseband unit, the compressed data received from at least one radio unit, wherein the baseband unit is separated from the at least one radio unit; coupling the compressed data to a switch of the baseband unit; distributing the compressed data to one of a plurality of network server or storage cards of the baseband unit through the switch when the compressed data is to be stored; determining if one or more of a plurality of baseband processing cards of the baseband unit are capable of performing decompression of the compressed data; if one or more of the plurality of baseband processing cards are not capable of performing decompression of the compressed data, running the switch at a first speed to decompress the compressed data at the switch and to distribute the decompressed data to one of the plurality of baseband processing cards of the baseband unit through the switch; if one or more of the plurality of baseband processing cards are capable of performing decompression of the compressed data, running the switch at a second speed to distribute the compressed data to one of the plurality of baseband processing cards of the baseband unit through the switch, wherein the second speed is lower than the first speed, and decompressing the compressed data at the one of the plurality of baseband processing cards of the baseband unit; and processing the decompressed data at one of the plurality of baseband processing cards. | 30,046 |
9,218,614 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: providing, with a processor, a framework to build a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including at least one of a textual component or a graphical component; designating, with the processor, a first element of the at least one of the textual component or the graphical component as a dynamic element; associating, with the processor, the dynamic element with a variant list including a first element variant; in response to a selection of the first element variant from the variant list and based on an undesirability of the first element variant and a second element variant simultaneously appearing in the visual representation together, suppressing the second element variant; and generating, with the processor, a first instantiation of the visual representation including the selected first element variant as the dynamic element. | 14,374 |
8,956,625 | 1. A method of making a vaccine comprising diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid and inactivated poliovirus type 1, comprising the steps of: mixing diphtheria toxoid and tetanus toxoid, followed by the addition of inactivated poliovirus (IPV) type 1 at a dose greater than 10 D-antigen units and less than 20 D-antigen units. | 8,300 |
8,659,990 | 1. An inflight entertainment system, comprising: a plurality of head end line replaceable units physically interconnected in a ring configuration; and a plurality of serially-connected networking line replaceable units physically interconnected in a serial configuration, wherein two of the serially-connected networking line replaceable units at the edge of the serial configuration are physically interconnected with two of the head end line replaceable units, respectively, wherein a loop-free head end data path is maintained between active head end line replaceable units by regulating link participation in the head end data path, and wherein one or more loop-free serially-connected networking data paths are maintained between at least one of the two head end line replaceable units and active networking line replaceable units by regulating link participation in the serially-connected networking data paths, the loop-free serially-connected networking data paths being maintained by removing a selected link from a previous serially-connected networking data path, the selected link being selected using hop count information. | 31,399 |
9,370,469 | 1. A method of augmenting a soft tissue defect, comprising injecting an alloplastic implant composition near the soft tissue defect, wherein the alloplastic implant composition comprises denatured atelocollagen that has less than 10 wt % of the total weight as components of weight average molecular weight (Mw) 100,000 Daltons or lower, and greater than 70 wt % components of weight average molecular weight 100 kDa to 258 kDa, wherein the polydispersity of the denatured atelocollagen expressed as Mw/Mn is 1.0 to 1.6, wherein Mw is weight average molecular weight and Mn is number average molecular weight. | 2,609 |
9,471,050 | 1. A solar tracker assembly comprising: a base having a track, a centrally-positioned base member, a motor operably coupled to the base member, and a plurality of arms extending from the base member towards the track member, wherein the track comprises a plurality of arcuate members that are assembled to form the track; a rotatable frame coupled to the arms, the rotatable frame including one or more towers and an actuator positioned on the one or more towers; a pivoting frame coupled to the one or more towers, the pivoting frame configured to carry a solar panel array; and tracker electronics operably coupled to the motor and the actuator, wherein— | 48,263 |
9,694,040 | 1. A method of hydrogenating cannabis oil, consisting essentially of: obtaining cannabis which contains at least one of 9-tetrahydrocannabinoic acid and 9-cannabidioc acid; extracting an essential oil from the cannabis to form an essential oil extract; and hydrogenating the essential oil extract to form hydrogenated cannabis oil which contains at least one of hydrogenated 9-tetrahydrocannabinoic acid and 9-cannabidioc acid, wherein the hydrogenation is performed with a component selected from the group consisting of silica, alumina, titania, calcium carbonate and barium sulfate. | 31,351 |
8,838,673 | 1. A communication system, comprising: a first server configured to: | 10,833 |
8,852,319 | 1. A membrane process for treating flue gas, comprising: (a) performing a combustion step by combusting a mixture of a fuel and air, oxygen-enriched air, or oxygen, thereby creating an exhaust stream comprising carbon dioxide and nitrogen; (b) splitting the exhaust stream into a first portion and a second portion without adjusting the composition of either portion; (c) providing a membrane having a feed side and a permeate side, and being selectively permeable to carbon dioxide over nitrogen and to carbon dioxide over oxygen; (d) performing a membrane separation step, comprising, (e) passing at least a portion of the permeate stream to step (a) as at least part of the air, oxygen-enriched air, or oxygen used in step (a), thereby forming a gas-flow loop between the combustion step and the membrane separation step; (f) withdrawing a second portion of the exhaust stream from a point in the gas flow loop downstream of the combustion step and upstream of the membrane separation step; and (g) passing the second portion as a feed stream to a photosynthesis operation. | 37,298 |
8,413,120 | 1. A method for monitoring performance of a computer system, the method comprising: inserting one or more probes in one or more hardware-based processing units, wherein said probes are configured to generate probe signals in response to detecting predetermined processing events; configuring a hardware-based device to: configuring a memory controller device to: | 45,981 |
8,864,955 | 1. A process to apply a heater function onto a plastic substrate with a first surface reflectively coated and a second surface, the method comprising the steps of: inserting the plastic substrate as formed from a dielectric material into a sputtering process chamber; cleaning the second surface of the substrate by a dry etching step; preparing a copper target in a sputtering process chamber in a pre step; sputtering copper onto the second surface; removing the layered substrate from the sputtering process chamber; and inscribing tracks onto the second surface of the layered substrate with a laser beam. | 8,099 |
9,211,465 | 1. A sports training apparatus assembly comprising: a suspension and mounting harness having a mounting bag strap; one or more target punching bags suspended from said mounting bag strap; resilient bag retaining means on said suspension and mounting harness and interconnected to said one or more target punching bags; and means for spacing a portion of said one or more target punching bags in relation to a mounting surface for ease of angular access during use, wherein said mounting surface comprises a heavy punching bag. | 38,057 |
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