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8,767,963 | 1. A method for encrypting a short message of mobile communication, comprising steps of: inputting short-message content to a first communication electronic device; inputting a short-message password to said first communication electronic device; said first communication electronic device configuring a set of unused parameters of a short-message packet as a set of encryption parameters according to a short-message protocol, and assigning said short-message password to said set of encryption parameters; and writing said short-message content to said short-message packet according to said short-message protocol for transmitting said short-message packet to a second communication electronic device. | 45,505 |
9,320,368 | 1. A shelf display unit comprising: a. a top wall and two opposing side walls; b. at least one magnetic connector connected to the top wall; c. one or more channels with each channel having a channel gap; wherein the one or more channels and channels gaps have a length and width; and wherein the one or more channels are formed from at least one of a sidewall or middle rail, each of which extends downwardly from the inner surface of the top wall. | 30,970 |
8,964,588 | 1. A method of performing Quality of Service (QoS) measurement in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), comprising: a user equipment providing a plurality of data links and setting a plurality of measurement targets among the plurality of data links; the user equipment selecting a specific period; the user equipment determining a first transmission parameter according to a QoS information element or a radio priority information element defined in a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification; the user equipment acquiring a first value associated with the first transmission parameter of a first data link among the plurality of data links; the user equipment acquiring a second value associated with the first transmission parameter of a second data link among the plurality of data links; the user equipment including the first data link in a first measurement target among the plurality of measurement targets and including the second data link in a second measurement target among the plurality of measurement targets when a difference between the first value and the second value is larger than a predetermined value or including both the first data link and the second data link in the first measurement target when the difference between the first value and the second value is not larger than the predetermined value; and the user equipment acquiring an uplink scheduled Internet Protocol (IP) throughput and a downlink scheduled IP throughput of each measurement target by summing up data throughput of each measurement target during the specific period. | 29,629 |
8,568,477 | 1. A cardiovascular prosthetic valve comprising: a stentless support structure, the stentless support structure comprising an inflatable cuff comprising at least one inflatable channel that forms, at least in part, a distal inflatable toroidal structure and a proximal inflatable toroidal structure, the inflatable cuff also comprising a waist that extends between the distal inflatable toroidal structure and the proximal inflatable toroidal structure, wherein the inflatable cuff is transformable from a reduced cross sectional configuration for transluminal deployment to a functional enlarged configuration to form a flow path through the support structure; a valve coupled to the inflatable cuff and positioned in the flow path, the valve configured to permit flow in a first axial direction and to inhibit flow in a second axial direction opposite to the first axial direction; a hardenable media positioned within the inflatable cuff holding the inflatable cuff in the functional enlarged configuration; and wherein the inflatable cuff in the functional enlarged configuration exhibits sufficient crush resistance that it will deform radially no more than about 0.3 inches under a load of about 4 pounds when the hardenable media in the inflatable cuff is hardened. | 2,751 |
9,159,856 | 1. A laminated, cylindrical solar battery, comprising: a plurality of cylindrical solar cell modules laminated concentrically in layers from an innermost module to an outermost module, said innermost module having a center wavelength of a sensitivity wavelength band that is longer than a center wavelength of a sensitivity wavelength band of said outermost module; a first transparent cylindrical layer covering said outermost module; a second transparent cylindrical layer concentrically inward of said innermost module that covers an inner surface of the innermost module; and a central passage along an axial center of the cylindrical solar battery; each one module of the plurality of cylindrical solar cell modules comprising a plurality of solar cells, arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, within a common cylindrical transparent synthetic resin material which is formed integrally in axial and circumferential directions, wherein each row extends axially and each column extends circumferentially; each one module of cylindrical solar cell modules further comprising multiple pairs of lead wires protruding from an end of said each one module out of the common transparent synthetic resin material, each one pair of said multiple pairs of lead wires corresponding to a row of solar cells of said one module and connecting said solar cells of said row of solar cells in parallel within said common cylindrical transparent synthetic resin material; and wherein each one lead wire of said each one pair of said multiple pairs of lead wires continuously extends an entire length of said corresponding row of solar cells with a first end of said each one lead wire of said each one pair protruding from one end of said each one module and a second end of said each one lead wire of said each one pair protruding from an opposite end, relative to said one end, of said each one module, wherein a first lead wire of said one pair is connected to one terminal of each solar cell in said corresponding row and another lead wire of said one pair is connected to a different terminal of each solar cell in said corresponding row, so as to form said parallel connecting of each solar cell in said corresponding row. | 15,052 |
9,823,230 | 1. A gas sensor comprising: a sensor element; a cylindrical body in which the sensor element is disposed, the cylindrical body having an open end; a lead wire having electrical continuity to the sensor element and extending outward from an inside of the cylindrical body through the open end; a tube that covers an outer peripheral surface of an end portion of the cylindrical body including the open end and a portion of the lead wire extending outward from the open end; and a grip member that grips a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical body covered with the tube such that the tube extends beyond the grip member in an axial direction toward a side opposite from the open end, a maximum value of an outer diameter of a portion of the tube closer to the open end than the portion gripped by the grip member being greater than or equal to an inner diameter of the grip member, a portion of the cylindrical body covered with the tube passing through the grip member such that the portion of the cylindrical body covered with the tube extends beyond the open end and the side opposite the open end of the grip member, and the tube being a flexible insulating cylindrical member. | 15,060 |
9,287,775 | 1. A power supply device, comprising: a first resistor which is connected in parallel between output terminals; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a load is connected between the output terminals; a second resistor which is connected to the first resistor in series; a voltage conversion unit configured to convert an input side voltage into a required voltage and output the voltage to the output terminals; a driving unit configured to drive the voltage conversion unit, wherein the driving unit stops the driving of the voltage conversion unit when the determination unit determines that the load is not connected; an output voltage control unit which divides the input side voltage by the first resistor and the second resistor that powers the driving unit such that a voltage between the output terminals, when the load is not connected, is controlled to be lower than, a voltage between the output terminals in the case that the load is connected between the output terminals, when the driving unit stops the driving of the voltage conversion unit. | 8,912 |
8,963,374 | 1. A system for integrating a wind power generation with a wave power generation, comprising: a wind power generation device generating a first voltage; a wave power generation device generating a second voltage; and a power integration device including a bus, integrating the first voltage with the second voltage, and boosting each of the first and the second voltages up to a third voltage on the bus; and a voltage stabilizing system including a rotor having a rotating direction, a stator coupled to the rotor, and a DC motor generating a torque to be applied to the rotor, wherein: the torque is generated to stabilize the third voltage, and has a torque direction; when the third voltage is increased, the voltage stabilizing system causes the torque direction to be opposite to the rotating direction in response to the third voltage; and when the third voltage is decreased, the voltage stabilizing system causes the torque direction to be the same as the rotating direction in response to the third voltage. | 46,411 |
9,772,424 | 1. A resistivity logging tool for being disposed downhole, the resistivity logging tool comprising: at least one transmitter device connected to at least one excitation electrode and operable to inject an excitation current into the formation via the at least one excitation electrode; a plurality of receiver devices respectively connected to a plurality of monitoring electrodes, wherein each receiver device comprises a respective processing device in communication with a respective memory device in which instructions executable by the respective processing device are stored, wherein the instructions comprise instructions for determining a respective voltage level induced by the excitation current based on voltage data sampled from a respective monitoring electrode; and a controller in communication with the at least one transmitter device and the plurality of receiver devices, the controller in communication with a memory device in which instructions executable by the controller are stored, wherein the instructions comprise: | 37,723 |
8,376,686 | 1. A turbine system for extracting energy from water traveling relative to the turbine system in an incoming current flow direction, the turbine system having an inlet end adapted to be directed into the incoming current flow direction and an outlet end opposite the inlet end, the water having a non-uniform flow velocity distribution across the inlet end of the turbine system, the turbine system comprising: a rotor assembly that is axially symmetric about an axis of rotation, the rotor assembly having an upstream rotor face oriented toward the inlet end; a turbine shroud having a turbine shroud inner volume within which at least a portion of the rotor assembly is disposed, the turbine shroud comprising a turbine shroud inlet disposed nearer the inlet end than the upstream rotor face and a turbine shroud terminus disposed nearer the outlet end than the rotor assembly, the turbine shroud terminus comprising a plurality of turbine shroud mixer elements, the turbine shroud inlet adapted to direct a first volume of water moving in the incoming current flow direction to the rotor assembly such that the first volume of water causes the rotor assembly to spin and to extract energy from the first volume of water before the first volume of water at a lower energy is discharged from the turbine shroud via the turbine shroud terminus; and an ejector shroud disposed adjacent to the turbine shroud, the ejector shroud comprising an ejector shroud inlet and an ejector shroud terminus, the ejector shroud inlet having an asymmetrical cross-section along a plane passing through and perpendicular to the axis of rotation such that the ejector shroud inlet has a greater cross-sectional area on a lower velocity portion of the plane passing through the axis of rotation than on a higher velocity portion of the plane passing through the axis of rotation, the ejector shroud terminus extending in the incoming current flow direction beyond the turbine shroud mixer elements. | 5,570 |
9,786,912 | 1. A method for producing lithium titanate Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 comprising heating materials consisting essentially of the following three materials: (1) a titanium raw material for producing lithium titanate Li (2) a lithium hydroxide or a lithium carbonate; and (3) a lithium titanate compound Li | 28,807 |
9,392,614 | 1. An eNodeB comprising: a first transceiver to transmit and receive in an unlicensed channel using a first wireless protocol; a second transceiver to transmit and receive in a licensed channel in accordance with a cellular wireless protocol; a controller to: determine, via the first transceiver, that an average energy of the unlicensed channel over a predetermined period of time is below a predetermined threshold, and in response: send a wireless reservation message on the unlicensed channel via the first transceiver to reserve the unlicensed channel for a transmission of a Supplemental Downlink (SDL) Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), wherein the wireless reservation message comprises a duration field that is set to a time that is at least as large as a sum of a time until a cellular sub-frame boundary and a time to transmit a cellular subframe; schedule at least one User Equipment (UE) serviced by the eNodeB to receive data on the SDL PDSCH in the unlicensed channel via a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) on the licensed channel transmitted by the second transceiver; and transmit the SDL PDSCH over the unlicensed channel at the cellular sub-frame boundary via the first transceiver. | 29,316 |
8,595,528 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: core circuitry to perform processing synchronously with a clock signal; a mapping structure that maps different power limit values to corresponding frequency values of the clock signal, wherein the mapping structure includes a lookup table having entries mapping corresponding ones of the different power limit values to corresponding frequency values; and power management logic to: | 47,626 |
8,473,255 | 1. A method for aiding in geometric modeling of a first object on the basis of a generic model of the first object and of at least one specific model of at least one second object including at least part of the first object, the method comprising: acquiring the generic model of the first object; acquiring the at least one specific model of the at least one second object; extracting at least one datum for a curve portion from the at least one specific model of the at least one second object according to at least one parameter of the generic model of the first object; determining extrema of the curve portion extracted from the at least one specific model; and adapting the curve portion of the generic model corresponding to the curve portion extracted from the at least one specific model such that the extrema of the curve portion of the generic model are similar to the extrema of the curve portion extracted from the at least one specific model constructing an instantiated model, which is dynamic and modifiable, of the first object on the basis of an adaptation generic model of the first object and of the curve portion extracted from the at least one specific model of the at least one second object. | 46,161 |
8,606,985 | 1. A controlled device comprising: an external terminal; a memory for storing data; a processor for receiving a control signal via the external terminal and controlling the memory based on the received control signal; a plurality of buses forming a first transmission path connecting the external terminal and the memory via the processor, and a second transmission path connecting the external terminal and the memory directly by bypassing the processor; and a switching unit for switching a transmission state to either a first transmission state in which one or more of the buses forming the first transmission path are caused to transmit the control signal from the external terminal to the processor according to a first protocol and also to transmit data between the processor and the memory according to a second protocol capable of transmitting data at a higher rate than the first protocol, or a second transmission state in which one or more of the buses forming the second transmission path are caused to transmit data directly between the external terminal and the memory according to the second protocol; wherein the plurality of buses include: the end of the second bus not connected to the common bus is configured to be connectable to the end of the third bus not connected to the memory, and the switching unit comprises: | 43,220 |
9,638,887 | 1. Support device for a curved mirror, the support device comprising at least one bent carrier profile-member of metal, the bent carrier profile-member having in a longitudinal direction at least partially an at least similar curvature to the curved mirror and being substantially mirror-symmetrical in the longitudinal direction, wherein the at least one bent carrier profile-member is constructed as an open U-shaped carrier profile-member comprising support-elements for the curved mirror and wherein said support-elements for the curved mirror are formed by flanges of the U-shaped carrier profile-member, and wherein the at least one bent carrier profile-member is formed by means of two or more bent metal carrier profile-member portions which are connected to each other in the longitudinal direction. | 5,190 |
8,823,281 | 1. A digitally controlled power and control system for providing power and control data on a single conductor output line, said digitally controlled power and control system comprising: a current source for driving a nominally constant direct current on said single conductor output line; a data interface circuit, said data interface circuit for receiving control data; a data frame buffer for storing at least one data frame, said data frame containing a subset of said control data received on said data interface circuit and an address to select a subset of addressed circuits coupled to said single conductor output line; a command parser and handler circuit, said command parser and handler circuit for extracting said subset of control data from said control data and placing said subset of control data into said data frame buffer; and a modulator circuit, said modulator circuit modulating said data frame containing said subset of said control data onto said nominally constant direct current on said single conductor output line by creating detectable current deviations from said nominally constant direct current. | 10,967 |
9,428,065 | 1. An automatic folding electronic car that is driven with power supplied from a battery and folded automatically comprising: a body portion to which a front frame and a rear frame are connected rotatably through a connection shaft and on which a support shaft is formed on an upper part of the rear frame so as to support the front frame from a rear side; a front wheel portion that is arranged on a front of the body portion and is provided with a pair of front wheels connected through a front wheel shaft and a braking means; a rear wheel portion that is arranged on a rear of the body portion and is provided with a pair of rear wheels connected through a rear wheel shaft and a driving means; a handle portion including a handle frame connected upright to the front wheel shaft, an operation panel arranged on an upper part of the handle frame and provided with a folding switch and a handle formed on an upper part and provided with an acceleration lever and a hand brake; a seat portion a front of which is connected rotatably to the front frame and a rear of which is connected to the rear frame in an up down adjustable way of height and on which a sensing sensor is arranged; and a controller for controlling a driving and folding of the electronic car. | 15,133 |
8,778,781 | 1. A method of growing a thin film, the method comprising: growing a thin film by conformally forming at least one layer over a substrate having structures extending from a surface of the substrate, whereby the or each conformal layer is formed over the surface of the substrate and over the structures extending from the surface; wherein the thickness of the conformal layer from an inner surface to an outer surface of the conformal layer, or the sum of the thicknesses of the conformal layers, is at least half the average spacing of the structures; and wherein at least one of the length of the structures, the average spacing of the structures and the size of the smallest dimension of the structures is set so as to provide an enhanced growth rate for the or each conformal layer, wherein the enhanced growth rate is a growth rate that is at least twice the growth rate that would be obtained on a planar growth surface, using the same growth method and the same growth conditions. | 4,325 |
9,820,648 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a region extraction unit configured to extract a blood vessel portion of a first fundus image acquired by performing autofluorescence imaging on a fundus of an eye to be inspected and the blood vessel portion of a second fundus image acquired by performing autofluorescence imaging on the fundus of the eye to be inspected at a time different from that of the first fundus image; an image gradation processing unit configured to perform, using brightness of the blood vessel portion of the first fundus image and brightness of the blood vessel portion of the second fundus image, gradation changing on at least one of the first and second fundus images such that a brightness difference, between the blood vessel portion of the first fundus image and the blood vessel portion of the second fundus image, is reduced; an alignment processing unit configured to align the first fundus image with the second fundus image by positioning the blood vessel portion of the first fundus image and the blood vessel portion of the second fundus image; an image generation unit configured to generate a subtraction image subtracted between different regions of the first and second fundus images after the gradation processing and the alignment processing, the different regions being different from the blood vessel portion of the first fundus image and the blood vessel portion of the second fundus image; and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the first or second fundus image which superimposes the subtraction image on at least one of the different regions. | 48,945 |
8,697,842 | 1. A cellulose synthase product derived from the method of processing of plant tissues expressing an isolated polynucleotide encoding a functional cellulose synthase, the method comprising: a) transforming a plant cell with a recombinant expression cassette comprising a polynucleotide having at least 90% sequence identity to the full length sequence of a polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 21, operably linked to a promoter; and b) culturing the transformed plant cell under plant cell growing conditions; wherein the level of cellulose synthase in said transformed plant cell is modulated; c) growing the plant cell under plant-forming conditions to express the polynucleotide in the plant tissue; and d) processing the plant tissue to obtain a cellulose synthase product. | 27,286 |
8,524,048 | 1. A process for purifying a silane-containing stream, the stream comprising silane and one or more compounds having a boiling point greater than silane and being substantially free of trichlorosilane, tetrachlorosilane and tetraflourosilane, the process comprising: introducing the silane-containing stream to a heavy-ends distillation column to produce a silane-enriched overhead fraction and a silane-depleted bottoms fraction relative to the silane-containing stream, the silane-depleted bottoms fraction comprising silane and being enriched in one or more compounds having a boiling point greater than silane relative to the silane-containing stream; and introducing the silane-depleted bottoms fraction to a silane-recovery separation unit to produce a silane-enriched fraction and a silane-depleted fraction relative to the silane-depleted bottoms fraction produced from the heavy-ends distillation column. | 28,781 |
8,975,118 | 1. A method for manufacturing a component having a layer construction, starting from a semiconductor substrate, the method comprising: providing at least one conductor track on the semiconductor substrate, the conductor track extending laterally on a surface of the substrate and being in direct contact with at least one connection area in the substrate; producing at least one functional element in a functional layer provided on the conductor track, wherein the conductor track is electrically connected to the at least one functional element; producing, after completion of the layer construction, a trench-like insulating frame surrounding the at least one connection area of the substrate and vertically extending over the entire substrate thickness in the substrate using a back-side trenching process; fully filling up the trench-like insulating frame with an electrically insulating polymer; and applying, on the back side of the component, a patterned metallization that is connected to the connection area; and forming at least one terminal pad; wherein the connection area is electrically insulated from adjacent surrounding areas of the substrate by the trench-like insulating frame. | 18,017 |
8,547,099 | 1. A method of accurately adjusting the magic angle in a solid state NMR probe and using a solid-state NMR probe to perform NMR detection of a sample, said method comprising the steps of: applying an external static magnetic field B placing a sample tube holding the sample therein such that the sample tube is tilted at an angle of θ with respect to the Z-axis and rotates about its axis of rotation which, when it is projected onto a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis, forms a Y-axis; placing a uniform magnetic field coil assembly for producing a uniform magnetic field along the Y-axis; producing a uniform static magnetic field H by controlling electric direct currents flowing through the uniform magnetic field coil assembly; finding an adjusted external static filed B performing NMR detection of said sample using a new external static magnetic field B | 15,105 |
9,230,425 | 1. A vehicle controller that is installed in a vehicle and that controls one or more operations of the vehicle, the vehicle controller comprising: a communicator that communicates with an information processor that is located outside the vehicle by transmitting and receiving information; a controller that controls the vehicle controller based on control information transmitted from the information processor; and a position-information-obtaining-part that obtains position information of the vehicle, wherein the position-information-obtaining-part (i) obtains position information at a time of parking start before the controller moves into a sleep mode after the parking start of the vehicle, (ii) obtains position information at a time of reception of the control information when the controller receives the control information that triggers waking the controller up from the sleep mode, from the information processor while the controller is in the sleep mode, and (iii) derives accuracy information of the position information obtained at (i) and (ii) by determining a distance error in a positioning measurement of the position information, and when the position-information-obtaining-part obtains the position information at the time of reception of the control information, the communicator transmits a more accurate one of (a) the position information at the time of parking start and (b) the position information at the time of reception of the control information based on the derived accuracy information. | 14,552 |
8,547,378 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: initiating a rendering of a first frame of a digital video using a graphics processing unit (GPU), wherein the first frame comprises a first set of one or more images; measuring a time elapsed in rendering the first frame; automatically determining that the time elapsed in rendering the first frame exceeds a pre-determined threshold, wherein the pre-determined threshold comprises a duration of time; determining a downsampling factor in response to determining that the time elapsed in rendering the first frame exceeds the pre-determined threshold; and rendering a second frame of the digital video based on the downsampling factor using the GPU, wherein the second frame comprises a second set of one or more images, wherein each of the second set of one or more images has a respective original resolution, wherein rendering the second frame of the digital video based on the downsampling factor using the GPU comprises sending each of the second set of one or more images to the GPU at a reduced resolution comprising the respective original resolution divided by the downsampling factor. | 17,019 |
9,422,363 | 1. A method of decreasing the concentration of plasma glucose in a subject with diabetes or insulin resistance, comprising: administering a synthetic apolipoprotein E-mimicking peptide to the subject with diabetes or insulin resistance, wherein the peptide consists of a receptor binding domain of apolipoprotein E and a lipid-associating peptide, wherein said receptor binding domain is covalently linked to said lipid-associating peptide, wherein the receptor binding domain contains an acetyl group on the N-terminus and the lipid-associating peptide contains an amide group on the C-terminus, whereby the concentration of plasma glucose in the subject with diabetes or insulin resistance decreases. | 31,274 |
8,579,269 | 1. An engine mount structure comprising: an engine bracket mounted to an engine; and an anti-vibration device having an outer tube fixed to a vehicle body, an inner tube provided with an engine bracket insertion hole into which a front end portion of the engine bracket is inserted and fitted, and a rubber elastic body interposed between the outer tube and the inner tube, wherein the inner tube includes at least an upper plate, a side plate and a lower plate, the engine bracket insertion hole is formed of a space interposed between an under surface of the upper plate and a top surface of the lower plate, the top surface extending parallel to the under surface, an edge of the lower plate opposite to the engine bracket is disposed further from the engine bracket than corresponding edges of the upper and side plates, the engine bracket insertion hole is offset from the center of a mounting portion of the inner tube mounted to the rubber elastic body, in a direction closer to the engine, a center position of the upper plate in a center axis direction of the engine bracket insertion hole is offset from a center position of the lower plate in the center axis direction, in the direction closer to the engine, and wherein the upper plate has a length which is shorter than and at least one-half of a length of the lower plate. | 17,594 |
8,516,142 | 1. A method implemented on a server for providing software upgrades, the method comprising: transmitting a software upgrade notification on a data channel, the software upgrade notification including one or more server tokens associated with m most recent software upgrades available on the server, where m is an integer; performing a push protocol to provide the m most recent software upgrades indicated in the software upgrade notification; and providing a software upgrade not indicated in the software upgrade notification responsive to a pull protocol from a client device. | 42,012 |
9,574,173 | 1. An isolated human neural stem cell produced from an isolated human trophoblastic stem cell, wherein the isolated human neural stem cell expresses Cdx2, Nanog, Ngn3, RARβ, RXRα, RXRβ, RALDH-2, and RALDH-3 proteins, and wherein the isolated human neural stem cell has low levels of expression or an absence of expression of CD33 or CD133 cell surface proteins as compared to the isolated human trophoblastic stem cell. | 27,725 |
8,665,641 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a memory cell; a first line coupled to the memory cell; a first terminal electrically coupled to the first line; a second terminal; and a sense amplifier circuit including first and second transistors, gates of the first and second transistors being coupled in common to the first terminal, one of a source and a drain of the first transistor and one of a source and a drain of the second transistor being coupled in common to the second terminal, the first terminal being configured to be supplied with a precharge potential, a level of the precharge potential being determined based on both first and second levels, the first level being related to a first threshold voltage of the first transistor, and the second level being related to a second threshold voltage of the second transistor. | 41,311 |
9,148,020 | 1. A method of controlling a battery storing electric power generated by a power generator generating electric power using renewable energy, comprising: detecting an amount of electric power generated by the power generator at a first time and a second time that is prior to the first time; computing a rate of increase or decrease of the amount of electric power between the first time and the second time; computing a target output value for the electric power to be supplied to an electric power transmission system based on the rate, and supplying to the electric power transmission system electric power corresponding to the target output value from at least one of the power generator and the battery. | 21,921 |
8,495,210 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing a list of individual subscribers to an Internet digital content feed service, the listed subscribers together defining a subscriber audience, and each subscriber on the list having an associated subscriber profile; selecting an article to publish to the subscriber audience based on the subscriber profiles; publishing the selected article to the subscriber audience via the Internet digital content feed service; analyzing the selected article to generate corresponding article information; storing the article information in a data store in association with an identifier of a corresponding author of the article; tracking individual subscriber actions associated with the selected article to form attention data, wherein tracking includes determining whether a status identifier associated with the selected article indicates that the article is unread; analyzing the attention data to form an indication of each of the one or more individual subscribers' response to the selected article; storing the indicia of each of the one or more individual subscribers' responses to the selected article; and using the stored article information together with the corresponding indicia of attention data, to predict a response of the one or more of the individual subscribers of the subscriber audience to a new, unpublished article. | 42,048 |
8,778,485 | 1. An elastic article, comprising an elastic multi-layer film and a thermoplastic elastomer gel, the thermoplastic elastomer gel comprising a vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene block copolymer and a processing oil, the elastic multi-layer film including: an oil-resistant layer, comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane; and a tie layer, comprising a grafted polymer, wherein the elastic multi-layer film is formed by co-extruding melted resins of the oil-resistant layer and the tie layer. | 47,606 |
9,343,799 | 1. A device for mounting an antenna to a rail, comprising: a first clamp component having a first sidewall and a second sidewall coupled by a first middle portion, the first and second sidewalls extending from two opposing ends of the first middle portion such that the first sidewall is opposed to the second sidewall, the first and second sidewalls comprising a first cutout area having a stepped pattern and a second cutout area having a stepped pattern and configured to fit to a first portion of the rail; and a second clamp component having a third sidewall and a fourth sidewall coupled by a second middle portion, the third and fourth sidewalls extending from two opposing ends of the second middle portion such that the third sidewall is opposed to the fourth sidewall, the third and fourth sidewalls comprising a third cutout area having a stepped pattern and a fourth cutout area having a stepped pattern and being configured to fit to a second portion of the rail, the first clamp component and the second clamp component being arranged to be opposite to each other such that the rail is held in the cutout areas of the first and second components, wherein the first middle portion and the second middle portion each have a first through-hole in a center, a second through-hole and a third through-hole on each side of the first through-hole, the through-holes spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of each of the first middle portion and the second middle portion, the second and third through holes are elongated along a transverse direction to the longitudinal axis; a second fastener and a third fastener arranged to attach the first clamp component to the second clamp component when the rail is situated between the first and second clamp components; wherein the second and third through holes are configured to accept the second third fasteners; and in a first configuration a portion of the first sidewall overlaps with a portion of the third sidewall such that the first sidewall is against the third sidewall when the rail is held between the first and second clamp components; and in a second configuration the first sidewall and the third sidewall do not overlap and the first sidewall and the third sidewall are aligned in an orientation substantially parallel to the sidewalls and in the same plane when the rail is held between the first and second clamp components. | 11,456 |
8,856,087 | 1. A data processing system implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a processor of the data processing system, a plurality of events from one or more clients; assessing, by the processor and based on a set of policy rules associated with the data processing system, each of the plurality of events to identify a primary event; identifying, by the processor, a type of event associated with the primary event; selecting, by the processor and based on the type of event associated with the primary event, a template, generating, by the processor and based on the template, a work document associated with performing a work item associated with the resolution of the issue, analyzing, by the processor and based on the template, a plurality of avatars to identify one or more users for performing the work item, providing, by the processor, the work document to the one or more users; receiving, by the processor, a second plurality of events from the one or more clients; rendezvousing, by the processor, the one of the plurality of items with an event of the second plurality of events, storing, by the processor, information relating to the one of the plurality of items and the event of the second plurality of events in association with the work document. | 5,209 |
9,560,002 | 1. A computer program product for informing a user that an important unread email (IUE) will be removed from an online communication inbox, wherein the IUE is a high priority email determined by an algorithm, comprising: one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more non-transitory tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine if the user has the IUE using analytics based on a plurality of social collaborative data, wherein the plurality of social collaborative data is extracted from interactions made between the user and at least one other person via at least one of instant messaging, phone call history, email communications, and social network connectivity; program instructions to determine if an email removal event will occur within a threshold time based on determining that the user has the IUE, wherein determining if the email removal event will occur within the threshold time includes querying the next scheduled email removal event and comparing the next schedule email removal event to the threshold time, and wherein the email removal event comprises at least one of an email deletion event and an email archiving event; program instructions to determine if the email removal event is starting based on determining the email removal event will occur within a threshold time; program instructions to display an event notification to the user based on determining the email removal event is starting, wherein the event notification presents to the user a plurality of choices to indicate how the IUE will be processed, wherein the plurality of choices includes a first choice to delete/archive all emails except the IUE, a second choice to postpone the deletion/archive event, and a third choice to delete/archive all emails including the IUE, and wherein the displayed event notification comprises a clickable link to an IUE list; program instructions to receive a user choice from within the plurality of choices based on the displayed event notification to the user; and program instructions to process the IUE based on the received user choice. | 23,501 |
9,276,296 | 1. An electrochemical energy store, comprising: a housing inside which a medium may be released by an electrochemical reaction device; a diaphragm, with the aid of which a pressure relief opening of the housing is closed, the diaphragm having an electrically conductive layer and being configured to burst in a defined way in the event of a predetermined overpressure of the medium in the housing to discharge the medium through the pressure relief opening, and being deflectable by the medium; and a sensor device to determine a pressure of the inside the housing, the sensor device including a detection unit inductively coupled with the electrically conductive layer, the detection unit configured to inductively detect a distance, which is dependent on the pressure of the medium, between the layer and the detection unit, to determine the pressure of the medium from the distance; wherein the detection unit is situated on or in a section of a support element overlaying the diaphragm, wherein the support element is a circuit structure. | 12,572 |
8,625,392 | 1. A method of estimating a sound speed, the method comprising: transmitting an acoustic signal from a first location through a water column; receiving a first scattered signal at a second location, the first scattered signal comprising a plurality of echoes of the acoustic signal reflected by a scattering layer in the water column; receiving a second scattered signal at a third location, the second scattered signal comprising a plurality of echoes of the acoustic signal reflected by the scattering layer; receiving a third scattered signal at a fourth location, the third scattered signal comprising a plurality of echoes of the acoustic signal reflected by the scattering layer; estimating a travel time based on at least one of the first, second, or third scattered signals; generating a cross-correlation signal comprising a product of echoes of at least two of the first, second, and third scattered signals having an approximate bistatic geometry; estimating a travel time difference based on at least the cross-correlation signal; and estimating a sound speed based on the estimated travel time and the estimated travel time difference. | 4,998 |
8,877,058 | 1. A process for separating solute material from algal cells in a feed stream without substantially rupturing the algal cells and/or without significantly destroying algae cell viability, the process comprising: introducing an algal cell feed stream containing solute material external to the algal cells in the feed stream into a vessel; introducing a solvent feed stream into the vessel to mix with the algal cell feed stream; separating at least a portion of the solute material from the algal feed stream with the help of the solvent; removing from the vessel at least a portion of the separated solute material and solvent, wherein the solvent introduction, solute separation, and solute removal steps are performed under effective conditions without substantially rupturing the algal cells and without significantly destroying algal cell viability, the effective conditions comprising a temperature of about 10° C. to about 40° C. and simultaneously within a range from about 5° C. above to about 5° C. below that of a natural habitat of the algal cells, a separation force of exerted on the algal cells of at least 1,000 G and not greater than 15,000 G, a pH from about 7 to about 9, and a salinity of about 0 PSU to about 35 PSU and simultaneously at least 2 PSU below that of a salinity level of a natural habitat of the algal cells during the mixing and separating; and sending at least algal cells whose viability has not significantly been destroyed to a separate vessel for combination with other viable algal cells, wherein the solvent comprises one or more hydrocarbonaceous liquids, C wherein performing the solvent introduction, solute separation, and solute removal steps without significantly destroying algal cell viability corresponds to a cell viability of at least 80%. | 41,462 |
9,013,742 | 1. A destination-to-save-data specifying system including: a control unit assembled in an information processing apparatus; and a control unit assembled in an image forming apparatus configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus, wherein the control unit of the information processing apparatus includes: an interface section configured to accept an operation command for the image forming apparatus; a communication section configured to transmit the operation command accepted by the interface section to the image forming apparatus; and an accompanying information management section configured to, when the interface section accepts from an operator a destination-to-save-data specifying command to specify, to the image forming apparatus, a folder on the information processing apparatus as a destination to save data output from the image forming apparatus, acquire predetermined accompanying information attached to the folder and allow the transmission section to transmit the acquired accompanying information to the image forming apparatus, and wherein the control unit of the image forming apparatus includes: an accompanying information receiving section configured to receive the accompanying information output from the information processing apparatus; a destination-to-save-data specifying section configured to, using the accompanying information received by the accompanying information receiving section, specify the folder identified by the accompanying information as a destination to save data output from the image forming apparatus; and a password accepting section configured to, if the interface section accepts the destination-to-save-data specifying command for the folder from the operator, accept from an operator's entry of a password for use in determination in the image forming apparatus of whether to permit the access to the folder, wherein the accompanying information management section is configured to allow the communication section to transmit the password accepted by the password accepting section, together with the accompanying information, to the image forming apparatus, the accompanying information receiving section of the image forming apparatus is configured to receive the accompanying information and the password, and the destination-to-save-data specifying section is configured to, using the received accompanying information and password, specify the folder identified by the accompanying information as a destination to save data output from the image forming apparatus. | 20,797 |
9,513,409 | 1. A fine-structure layered product comprising: a substrate; a resin layer that is formed on one main surface of the substrate and that has a fine concavo-convex structure on a surface thereof; and an inorganic layer that is provided on the fine concavo-convex structure of the resin layer, that contains a sol-gel material and that has a fine concavo-convex structure in a shape associated with the fine concavo-convex structure of the resin layer, wherein a fluorine element concentration (Es) in a region on the inorganic layer side of the resin layer is higher than an average fluorine concentration (Eb) in the resin layer. | 36,681 |
9,267,685 | 1. A method for producing carbon dioxide comprising: providing a process gas comprising a hydrocarbon; combusting said hydrocarbon to generate electrical energy and a combustion effluent, wherein said combustion effluent comprises carbon dioxide and water; separating a first quantity of said carbon dioxide from said combustion effluent, wherein said separating said first quantity step comprises physisorption; and separating a second quantity of said carbon dioxide from said combustion effluent, wherein said separating said second quantity step comprises chemisorption, and wherein said separating said second quantity step is performed in series with, and downstream of, said separating said first quantity step. | 8,688 |
8,610,041 | 1. A system for engaging an air or space target, said system comprising: a missile equipped with an antenna capable of receiving global positioning system (GPS) signals; a global positioning system receiver coupled to said antenna, for receiving global positioning system signals directly from global positioning system satellites and global positioning system signals reflected from the target; a processing arrangement for processing said direct and reflected global positioning system signals for determining the state of the target; and vectoring controls coupled to said processing arrangement, and responsive to said state of the target for directing said missile toward the target. | 11,230 |
9,044,141 | 1. A dark-field reflected-illumination apparatus, comprising: a dark-field illuminator including one or more data structures having reference hemozoin response information stored thereon; and circuitry configured to compare information associated with captured scattered electromagnetic energy from a sample interrogated by the dark-field illuminator to the reference hemozoin response information stored on the one or more data structures. | 18,090 |
9,385,515 | 1. A system comprising: a poke-thru interface bracket for mounting a poke-thru device allowing cable to pass through a floor structure; a base adapted to be disposed on an upper surface of the floor structure, the base having an opening for communicating with the poke-thru interface bracket; a cover interfacing with the base to form a longitudinal passage; and a cable raceway interfacing with the base and the cover; wherein the opening in the base allows cable to pass from the poke-thru interface bracket to the longitudinal passage; and wherein the cover is formed to be substantially the same shape as an upper surface of the cable raceway. | 38,068 |
9,243,706 | 1. A method for controlling a manual transmission gearshift, comprising: (a) using a controller to determine a desired clutch torque transmitted through a transmission input clutch for a desired gear after a shift lever is moved to a desired gear position and while a clutch pedal is being released; (b) measuring torque in a vehicle drive assembly; (c) using the measured torque to determine actual torque transmitted through the clutch as the clutch slips; (d) reducing clutch torque error using the controller to adjust a clutch actuator such that a difference between the desired clutch torque and the actual clutch torque is reduced. | 27,299 |
8,497,249 | 1. An antifungal composition consisting of a mixture consisting of: (1) HPLC/MS-isolated, purified CAY-1 (2) HPLC/MS-isolated, purified saponin 1081 lacking the number 4 glucose moiety of CAY-1 and (3) HPLC/MS-isolated, purified saponin 919 lacking both the number 3 and number 4 glucose moieties of CAY-1 recombined into said mixture, and a carrier or vehicle, wherein amounts of said CAY-1, said saponin 1081 and said saponin 919 in said mixture are present in a ratio of 8:1:1, 6:2:2 or 4:3:3 and wherein the concentration of said CAY-1 in said mixture is reduced by an amount of about 36% to 79% of that concentration of pure CAY-1 which when used alone is required for significant loss of fungal viability, and said composition is effective to significantly inhibit the growth of a fungal organism. | 46,247 |
8,654,165 | 1. An optical scanning device comprising: a light source that emits light rays; a cylindrical lens that condenses the light rays in a sub-scanning direction; an aperture member that adjusts a diameter of the light rays, the aperture member including a frame and an aperture through the frame, and the aperture member being arranged between the light source and the cylindrical member; a deflector including a plurality of reflecting surfaces that deflect the light rays; a scanning optical system that guides a light ray, of the light rays incident on the deflector and deflected by the deflector so as to be subjected to scanning onto a to-be-scanned surface; and a synchronization detector that receives a light ray of the light rays and performs synchronization using the light ray received, wherein the light ray that is received by the synchronization detector is a light ray reflected from the deflector to the frame of the aperture member and then reflected from the frame of the aperture member to the synchronization detector, and wherein the aperture member is tilted in a main-scanning direction with respect to an axis perpendicular to an optical axis such that a portion, of the aperture member, corresponding to the synchronization detector is away from the synchronization detector. | 2,129 |
9,591,763 | 1. A substrate with embedded component comprising: an insulating base member; a conductive pad formed on the insulating base member; a component connected to the conductive pad with a solder; and a resin covering the component, wherein a hole is provided in the insulating base member and the conductive pad, and the insulating base member is exposed on a side surface of the hole. | 23,702 |
8,386,544 | 1. A method of operating a product configurator in a computer system comprising a constraint analyzing module and a conversion module, the method comprising: analyzing at a processor during a product configuration session using the constraint analyzing module a constraint on a floating point variable, wherein the computer system supports both floating point operations and integer operations, the constraint having the ability to numerically limit a domain of the floating point variable; determining by the processor if the floating point variable can be handled during the product configuration session as an integer variable; and converting by the processor using the conversion module the floating point variable to a pseudo integer variable if it is determined that the floating point variable can be handled as an integer variable; wherein converting the floating point variable to a pseudo integer variable allows the domain of the floating point variable to be processed as an integer variable when generating a product configuration by the product configurator, wherein the generating comprises solving a constraint satisfaction problem. | 3,317 |
9,544,512 | 1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a row direction and a column direction, and readout circuit configured to read out pixel signals from the plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to select one of a thinning readout mode in which the pixel signals are read out from the plurality of pixels while thinning out the plurality of pixels and a combining readout mode in which the pixel signals of the plurality of pixels are combined and read out, and to control the readout circuit to read out the pixel signals in the selected readout mode, wherein the controller controls the readout circuit to read out the pixel signals in the combining readout mode in a case where a sensitivity is equal to or lower than a predetermined sensitivity, and to read out the pixel signals in the thinning readout mode in a case where the sensitivity is higher than the predetermined sensitivity. | 29,159 |
9,205,834 | 1. A method for reconfiguring the operations of a vehicle comprising: detecting, using a sensor, a fault of a component that is associated with electric propulsion of the vehicle or combustion engine propulsion of the vehicle; providing, using a processor, a plurality of modes of operation for the vehicle, the plurality of modes of operation including an engine only mode, an electric only mode, a hybrid mode, a backup combustion mode, a backup electric mode and a backup hybrid mode; displaying, using a display screen, at least two of the plurality of modes of operation that avoid use of the faulty component; receiving, using the processor, a selection of one of the at least two of the plurality of modes of operation that are displayed on the display screen; and activating, using the processor, at least one electric, mechanical or software isolator to isolate or disengage at least one component associated with electric propulsion of the vehicle that includes the faulty component or at least one component associated with combustion engine propulsion of the vehicle that includes the faulty component. | 36,020 |
8,689,351 | 1. A system, comprising: a storage device that stores video information for playing, including multiple different programs; a playing part that receives commands over a user interface, and plays a specific program from among said different programs in response to a command from a user to play said specific program; said playing part enabling playing said specific program and also enabling pausing said specific program in response to a pause command from the user; and responsive to said pausing, said playing part finding multiple frames, said multiple frames being only certain frames of said specific program prior to said pausing and less than the entire program, and said playing part displaying an animation between said multiple frames during said pausing, said animation between said multiple frames using only said multiple frames of said specific program. | 17,775 |
8,555,286 | 1. A computer-implemented system for establishing a software configurable computing environment comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions for causing the processor to: | 38,914 |
9,729,081 | 1. A semi-active bridge for providing voltage of a correct polarity to a powered device, the semi-active bridge comprising: a first non-active bridge portion comprising a first discrete diode including an anode portion and a cathode portion, the anode portion directly connected to a first input terminal and the cathode portion directly connected to a first output terminal, wherein the first discrete diode is not in parallel with a respective switch; a first active bridge portion comprising a first active transistor device including a source region, a gate, and a drain region, the drain region directly connected to the first input terminal and the source region directly connected to a second output terminal, the second output terminal different from the first output terminal; a first resistive divider connected in parallel with the first active transistor device, the first resistive divider comprising a first resistive component and a second resistive component electrically connected to define a first middle point, the first resistive component directly connected to the anode portion of the first discrete diode, to a first connector pair of a Power over Ethernet modular connector, and to the drain region of the first active transistor device, and the second resistive component directly connected to the source region of the first active transistor device; a first Zener diode connected in parallel with the second resistive component and electrically connected to the first middle point; a second non-active bridge rectifier portion comprising a second discrete diode including an anode portion and a cathode portion, the anode portion directly connected to a second input terminal and the cathode portion directly connected to the first output terminal, wherein the second discrete diode is not in parallel with a respective switch; a second active bridge rectifier portion comprising a second active transistor device including a source region, a gate, and a drain region, the drain region directly connected to the second input terminal and the source region directly connected to the second output terminal; a second resistive divider connected in parallel with the second active transistor device, the second resistive divider comprising a third resistive component and a fourth resistive component electrically connected to define a second middle point, the third resistive component directly connected to the anode portion of the second discrete diode, to a second connector pair of the Power over Ethernet modular connector, and to the drain region of the second active transistor device, and the fourth resistive component directly connected to the source region of the second active transistor device; and a second Zener diode connected in parallel with the fourth resistive component and electrically connected to the second middle point, wherein the gate of the first active transistor is electrically connected to the second middle point, and the gate of the second active transistor is electrically connected to the first middle point, wherein the first non-active bridge portion, the first active bridge portion, the second non-active bridge portion, and the second active bridge portion are arranged in the rectifier configuration. | 49,052 |
8,833,064 | 1. A catalyst article for use in a small engine comprising: a first catalytic layer formed on a carrier, the first catalytic layer comprising i) an oxygen storage component that is about 50-90% by weight of the first catalytic layer and ii) a palladium component in an amount of about 2-5% by weight of the first catalytic layer, wherein the palladium component is substantially the only platinum group metal component in the first catalytic layer, and; a second catalytic layer formed on the first catalytic layer, the second catalytic layer comprising a rhodium component in an amount of about 0.2-1% by weight of the second catalytic layer, wherein the second catalytic layer does not contain palladium and the rhodium component is associated with a thermostable oxygen storage component. | 44,533 |
8,488,858 | 1. A median plane determination apparatus configured to determine a median plane based on volume data of a three-dimensional image of a brain of a subject, the median plane determination apparatus comprising a processor programmed to determine the median plane, located within the yz plane, based on calculated voxel values of a plurality of voxels that intersect a reference plane cutting across the brain within the yz plane, wherein the voxel values of the plurality of voxels which intersect with the reference plane are calculated while changing a position where the reference plane cuts across the brain such that at least one of the rotational angles Φxy and Φzx of the reference plane in the yz plane is changed. | 42,057 |
9,379,082 | 1. A pressure application apparatus that applies pressure to objects to be pressurized including a first object to be pressurized and a second object to be pressurized, comprising: relative movement means for moving the first object to be pressurized and the second object to be pressurized relative to each other in a predetermined direction; measurement means for measuring a positional shift between the first object to be pressurized and the second object to be pressurized in a plane perpendicular to the predetermined direction, in a contact state in which the first object to be pressurized and the second object to be pressurized are in contact with each other by the relative movement operation performed by the relative movement means; alignment means for performing positioning of the objects to be pressurized, by correcting the positional while maintaining the contact state of said first object and said second object to be pressurized; and heating/cooling means for heating/cooling a metal bump provided on the first object to be pressurized, in a contact state in which the metal bump is in contact with an opposing portion of the second object to pressurized that faces the metal bump, wherein the heating/cooling means heats and melts the metal bump in the contact state of the metal bump and the opposing portion; wherein the measurement means measures the positional shift in a first state that is the contact state of the metal bump and the opposing portion as well as a state in which the metal bump is being heated and melted; wherein the alignment means performs positioning of the objects to be pressurized, by correcting the positional shift in the first state; and wherein the heating/cooling means cools and solidifies the metal bump after the positioning has been performed. | 29,191 |
8,350,232 | 1. A microparticle analysis device comprising: a light source configured to irradiate a microparticle with light; an acousto-optic modulator configured to diffract fluorescence generated from the microparticle due to the light irradiation; a slit configured to allow transmission of only diffracted light in a diffraction center wavelength region among diffracted light beams from the acousto-optic modulator; a detector configured to detect the diffracted light in the diffraction center wavelength region transmitted through the slit; a controller configured to apply an acoustic wave to the acousto-optic modulator and discontinuously switch frequency of the acoustic wave; and a detector configured to detect scattered light generated from the microparticle due to the light irradiation, wherein the controller discontinuously switches the frequency of the acoustic wave applied to the acousto-optic modulator based on input of a detection signal from the detector to detect the scattered light. | 2,913 |
8,750,871 | 1. A network connection method for an asynchronous mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a list of operators identified by scanning frequencies in a manual network selection mode, the list being displayed in a priority order of signal strengths, and storing the list of operators; acquiring, when one of the operators is selected by a user from the displayed list in the manual network selection mode, synchronization through a stored frequency of the selected operator without rescanning the frequency of the selected operator, wherein the acquiring of the synchronization comprises storing an identity of the selected operator; and connecting to a network through the frequency for receiving a service, wherein the connecting to the network comprises: | 22,450 |
9,475,070 | 1. A water faucet used for a kitchen, comprising: a mounting part which is mounted on a mounting surface; a shower water discharge part, provided above the mounting part, which has multiple water spray holes and supplies multiple streams discharged from the multiple water spray holes as a shower stream obliquely downward to the front side of where a user stands; and a flow velocity changing part which changes the flow velocity of the stream discharged from each of the multiple water spray holes such that the cross-sectional area of the stream changes with time, wherein the multiple water spray holes are disposed at intervals such that, when the cross-sectional area of one stream discharged from one water spray hole exceeds a predetermined size, the one stream is merged with one of the other streams discharged from the multiple other water spray holes adjacent to the one water spray hole, and such that the one of the other streams with which the one stream merges changes with time, the flow velocity changing part has a bubble entraining part which entrains bubbles into the water on the upstream side of the multiple water spray holes to turn the water into bubble entrained water, and the bubble entraining part has: multiple injection ports which increase the flow velocity of the water supplied from the upstream side and inject the water to the downstream side as injection streams; an air suction part which suctions air by means of a negative pressure developing with the passage of the injection stream; an air entraining part which entrains the air introduced from the air suction part into the injection stream; and a throat member disposed between the multiple injection ports and the shower water discharge part, the throat member has: multiple openings disposed at the surface facing the shower water discharge part; and multiple throats which extend from all of the openings to the surface facing the multiple injection ports, and the multiple throats are disposed at a position that axially corresponds to one of the multiple injection ports such that the injection streams pass through; and wherein at least a portion of the air entraining part is positioned between the multiple throats and the shower water discharge part. | 29,443 |
8,548,629 | 1. A medical workstation, comprising: a robot having a plurality of articulation axes and an end flange for supporting an attachment; a carrier operatively coupled to said end flange for movement therewith; an x-ray source and an x-ray receiver supported on said carrier; a three-dimensional model that models the position and spatial extent of said carrier during movement of said robot, and that models the position and spatial extent of at least one of an additional device or a living organism; and a control utilizing said three-dimensional model and actuating said robot to prevent a collision of said carrier, said x-ray source, or said x-ray receiver with the additional device or the living organism during movement of said robot. | 47,039 |
9,154,716 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a candidate pixel group determiner specify that specifies each pixel of an image to be processed as a pixel of interest, extract pixels having a divergence in position in a certain range from the pixel of interest, and determine, from the extracted pixels, pixels having a divergence in pixel value in the certain range from the pixel of interest as a candidate pixel group; an associator that associates the pixels of the candidate pixel group with the pixel of interest; and an image processor perform that performs image processing on the pixels of the candidate pixel group associated with the pixel of interest, selects pixels from the pixels of the candidate pixel group having a divergence in pixel value in the certain range from the pixel of interest as a pixel group to be processed, and smoothes a pixel value of the pixel of interest in accordance with the pixel value of each pixel of the candidate pixel group, wherein the image processor determines a number of times to repeat the image processing according to a predefined threshold, the determining of the candidate pixel group determiner is executed once for each pixel of interest, and the image processor executes the image processing for each pixel of interest the number of times. | 46,859 |
8,546,082 | 1. A method for identifying a sepsis-causing bacterium in a sample, comprising: a) amplifying a nucleic acid from said sample using an oligonucleotide primer pair comprising a forward primer and a reverse primer, said forward primer and reverse primer respectively comprising sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: (forward:reverse) 1448:1461, 430:1321, and 1454:1468; wherein said amplifying step generates an amplification product; and b) determining the molecular mass of said amplification product by mass spectrometry without fragmentation of said amplification product prior to mass spectrometry analysis. | 14,893 |
9,026,675 | 1. An IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network node configured as a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), said IMS network node comprising: at least one processor and at least one memory, wherein the memory contains instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the node to perform the functions of: receiving a request for registration of a contact address of a user from a Serving-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) node serving the user; detecting if the HSS already has backed-up registered contact address information relating to that user; returning an error-indication message to the S-CSCF together with the backed-up registered contact address information; and, receiving a further request from the S-CSCF, the further request including a request for re-registration of said contact address and, in response thereto, to update the backed-up registered contact address information. | 5,663 |
8,877,541 | 1. A method for creating a nanostructure, comprising: depositing material in a template to form an array of nanocables, wherein each nanocable in the array of nanocables comprises an upper portion and a lower portion; removing only a portion of the template to expose the upper portion of each nanocable in the array of nanocables, such that a remaining portion of the template forms an insulating layer between the lower portions of the nanocables in the array of nanocables; and forming at least one conformal layer on the upper portion of each nanocable in the array of nanocables, wherein, for each nanocable in the array, the at least one conformal layer on the upper portion of the nanocable comprises a photovoltaically active p-n junction. | 14,548 |
9,478,540 | 1. An integrated circuit structure comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of semiconductor fins, wherein the plurality of semiconductor fins is parallel to each other, and wherein the plurality of semiconductor fins has a first fin pitch and a second fin pitch different from each other, and a third fin pitch greater than both the first fin pitch and the second fin pitch; and a plurality of metal lines over the plurality of semiconductor fins, with the plurality of metal lines being in a bottom metal layer of the integrated circuit structure, wherein the plurality of metal lines is parallel to each other, and wherein a minimum metal pitch of the plurality of metal lines is greater than a minimum fin pitch of the plurality of semiconductor fins. | 26,024 |
8,961,665 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment system provided on a downstream side of a boiler which combusts fuel to heat water and generate water vapor, comprising: a CO an exhaust gas heat exchanger provided on a gas upstream side of the CO | 36,056 |
8,900,722 | 1. An OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having therebetween a layer containing a neutrally charged mixed cluster compound comprising first and second subunits with the first subunit comprising an alkali metal salt of a nitrogen containing heterocyclic ligand bearing an anionic hydroxy group and the second subunit comprising an organic alkali metal salt different than the first subunit, wherein the alkali metal cations of both subunits are the same. | 31,657 |
9,551,817 | 1. An optical bandpass filter comprising: a composite particle wherein the composite particle comprises a polymeric particle and a high refractive index material, wherein there is a polyelectrolyte between the polymeric particle and the high refractive index material; and further wherein the polyelectrolyte bears a charge which is opposite of the charges of the polymeric particle and the high refractive index material; and wherein the polymeric particle has a diameter ranging from 100 nm to 3.5 microns; and the high refractive index material is disposed over the surface of the polymeric particle; wherein the polymeric particle comprises a core and a shell; and wherein the core, when dry, comprises at least one void. | 31,000 |
9,277,956 | 1. A system for heart ablation unit control, comprising: an input processor for acquiring electrophysiological signal data from a plurality of tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at said plurality of tissue locations; a signal processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to, an ablation controller for automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of said particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site; and a severity processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine a degree of severity of abnormality at each of said particular tissue sites and prioritizing order in which said particular tissue sites are ablated in response to the determined degree of severity, wherein said severity processor processes the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine said degree of severity of abnormality by determining a measure of distortion in a P wave in said electrophysiological signal data in response to at least one of, (a) change in peak amplitude of said P wave, (b) change in dominant frequency of said P wave, (c) change in energy of said P wave and (d) change in time duration between successive peaks of said P wave. | 20,041 |
8,888,428 | 1. An insert nut having a diamond lattice structure, comprising a flange and a nut body, wherein the nut body is formed right and left diagonal grooves formed by a thread rolling process so as to be spaced apart from each other at regular intervals, thereby forming the diamond lattice structure, and the right and left diagonal grooves are formed to be spaced apart at a distance of 1.0 mm to 1.5 mm, and each groove has a thickness of 0.4 mm to 0.5 mm, wherein at least two or more annular protrusions are formed at the lower side of the right and left diagonal grooves by a thread rolling process, and the annular protrusion formed at the lowermost side has a curvature end. | 26,926 |
8,410,984 | 1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a housing that houses an electronic component and has a rectangular plate shape, and that includes a metal member, an antenna housing groove being formed on one end surface of the housing and extending in an extension direction of the one end surface and a boss protruding in the antenna housing groove in a width direction of the antenna housing groove at one end portion of the antenna housing groove, the metal member being provided with a standing boss, the metal member being fixed to an inner wall of the antenna housing groove, and the metal member having a plate shape; an antenna body that includes a plate piece shape having a length to be housed in the antenna housing groove and an antenna for radio communication, and that includes in one end portion of the antenna body a bearing member having an insertion opening which passes through front and rear surfaces of the antenna body to receive insertion of the boss, the bearing member electrically conducting to the antenna; and a metal plate member through which the boss is inserted and which is sandwiched between the metal member of the housing and the antenna body to interact with the bearing member, that electrically grounds the antenna of the antenna body to the metal member of the housing, that is locked in both locked positions of a housed position in which the antenna body is housed in the antenna housing groove and in a protruding position in which the antenna body is rotated from the housed position by a predetermined angle and protrudes from the housing so that the metal plate member holds the positions of the antenna body, and that releases the lock upon reception of a force in a rotational direction of the antenna body, wherein the bearing member has an engaging concave section on a surface coming in contact with the metal plate member, the metal plate member has an elastic convex section that is fitted into the engaging concave section when the antenna body is in the locked positions, and is elastically deformed and detached from the engaging concave section by the rotation of the antenna body, an elastic engaging section which surrounds the boss and has the elastic convex section, and a ground leg piece which extends from the elastic engaging section and elastically press-contacts an inner wall of the antenna housing groove at a position adjacent to a base of the boss, and the metal plate member interferes with the bearing member so as to electrically ground the antenna by a conductive path that runs through the engaging concave section, the elastic convex section, the ground leg piece and the bearing member with the metal member. | 25,861 |
8,753,088 | 1. A propeller system, said system comprising: a hub including a socket, the hub including an upper and a lower end, said socket having a substantially cylindrical internal surface; an adjustable-pitch blade received in said hub, said blade having an airfoil portion extending in an axially outward direction from the socket, and a base portion included in the socket; a substantially cylindrical outer surface of said base portion of said blade, said outer surface of said base portion of said blade being slidably receivable in said substantially cylindrical internal surface of said socket; a locking assembly including a snap ring disposed adjacent the upper end of the hub, the snap ring securing a shim in position against a hub surface and a hub upcrop surface, the hub upcrop surface preventing dislocation of the shim in a direction parallel to the hub surface, wherein the locking assembly, when fully installed, prevents axial translation in the hub which is otherwise axially slidable; a sealing member received in an interface between said substantially cylindrical outer surface of said base portion of said blade and said substantially cylindrical internal surface of said socket, said sealing member forming a fluid barrier between an inside and an outside of said socket while still allowing for axial translation of said blade into said socket during installation and rotation of said blade to change pitch; an angular contact bearing arrangement located further inside said socket, said bearing arrangement including a set of bearing balls included between an inner race on said blade and an outer race on said hub, said inner race having an outer diameter which is small enough to enable passage through said substantially cylindrical internal surface of said socket during installation, said outer race having an inside diameter large enough to not interfere with said substantially cylindrical outer surface of said base portion of said blade during installation; the substantially cylindrical outer portion of the base portion of the blade presenting an outer bearing surface which is axially outward from the angular contact bearing balls, each of the angular contact bearing balls and the outer bearing surface transferring blade loads directly to the hub; an outboard roller bearing having a plurality of outboard rollers embedded into an annular slot in a collar for engagement with an inner surface of an outer bearing race, wherein the outer bearing race of the roller bearing is in direct contact with the hub; and an upper surface of the outer race of the angular contact bearing is in direct contact with a lower surface of the outer race of the roller bearing; and the inner surface of the outer bearing race of the roller bearing is radially flush with an inner surface of the outer race of the angular contact bearing. | 6,246 |
8,795,113 | 1. A hybrid powertrain having a transmission selectively driven by an engine, the hybrid powertrain comprising: an input member; an output member; first, second, and third planetary gear sets each having first, second and third members; a first interconnecting member continuously interconnecting the third member of the first planetary gear set with the second member of the second planetary gear set; a second interconnecting member directly continuously interconnecting the second member of the first planetary gear set and the output member with the third member of the third planetary gear set; a third interconnecting member continuously interconnecting the third member of the second planetary gear set with the second member of the third planetary gear set; six torque transmitting mechanisms each selectively engageable to interconnect at least one of the first, second, and third members with at least another of the first, second, third members and a stationary member; an electric motor selectively interconnected with the first member of the second planetary gear set; a first clutch for selectively interconnecting the engine with the input member; a second clutch for selectively interconnecting the electric motor with the input member; a hydraulic pump continuously interconnected with the electric motor; a one-way clutch interconnected between the electric motor and the engine for allowing torque to transfer from the engine to the electric motor and preventing torque from transferring from the electric motor to the engine, and wherein the torque transmitting mechanisms are selectively engageable to establish a plurality of forward speed ratios and at least one reverse speed ratio between the input member and the output member. | 25,019 |
8,738,300 | 1. A system for identifying a mutation in a nucleic acid, the system comprising: a computing device including a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to a processor configured to execute computer program instructions to cause the processor to: receive a plurality of sequence reads; create a contig based on the reads; align the contig to a reference sequence; align the individual reads back to the contig; and identify a mutation based on the alignments to the contig and the reference sequence. | 38,827 |
9,068,321 | 1. A hybrid-driven hydraulic work machine comprising an engine ( 7 ), a hydraulic pump ( 6 ) of the variable displacement type which is driven and rotated by the engine ( 7 ), an electric assist motor ( 10 ) which is linked to the engine ( 7 ) and the hydraulic pump ( 6 ), a plurality of actuators ( 3 a - 3 f ) which are driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump ( 6 ), and a plurality of operation devices ( 4 a , 4 b ) having operation members and outputting operation signals corresponding to operations on the operation members to cause the actuators to operate, wherein the hybrid-driven hydraulic work machine comprises: revolution speed detection means ( a storage device ( target engine revolution speed calculation means ( engine control means ( engine load calculation means ( at least one selected from the following: | 47,715 |
8,943,245 | 1. A non-volatile memory module pluggable into main memory, the non-volatile memory module comprising: a memory module printed circuit board with a memory module edge connector to plug into a memory module socket within a main memory; a plurality of non-volatile memory integrated circuits coupled to the memory module printed circuit board; and a plurality of buffer integrated circuits coupled between the memory module edge connector and the plurality of non-volatile memory integrated circuits, wherein the plurality of buffer integrated circuits are each coupled to the plurality of non-volatile memory integrated circuits with one or more data busses and to the memory module edge connector with a data bus, wherein each of the plurality of buffer integrated circuits includes | 36,993 |
9,417,243 | 1. An antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 3. | 18,743 |
8,458,324 | 1. A method of dynamically balancing data processing resources in a server farm, the server farm comprising a plurality of servers organized in functional server groups with the servers in each functional server group assigned a same type of data processing task, the servers operatively coupled to data storage through a packet switching fabric, the servers operatively coupled to a system management server, the method comprising: monitoring, by a resource balancing module of the system management server, CPU utilization in at least one of the functional server groups; identifying, by the resource balancing module in dependence upon the monitored CPU utilization, an overburdened functional server group, the overburdened functional server group's CPU utilization exceeding a CPU overburden threshold; and increasing, by the resource balancing module, CPU resources of the overburdened functional server group, including moving a transfer server from a source functional server group into the overburdened functional server group; wherein moving a transfer server further comprises: terminating software operations on the transfer server; assigning to the transfer server network addresses in the overburdened functional server group; assigning to the transfer server a LUN storing the operating system and data processing tasks of the overburdened functional server group; and resuming software operations on the transfer server, the transfer server functioning as a member of the overburdened functional server group upon resumption of software operations. | 42,576 |
8,919,305 | 1. A method for making a cylinder unit for a combustion engine which includes: a cylinder having a cylinder wall defining a cylinder bore; said cylinder defining a cylinder longitudinal direction; said cylinder wall having a channel formed therein and said channel having a side facing away from said cylinder bore; a cover having a peripheral edge and being arranged on said cylinder which at least partially closes said channel on said side thereof; a first stop formed between said cylinder and said cover in said cylinder longitudinal direction; and, a second stop formed between said cylinder and said cover in cylinder peripheral direction to said cylinder bore; said cylinder being a first component and said cover being a second component; a peripheral groove arranged on at least one of said components; said groove having two mutually opposite-lying longitudinal sides; the other one of said components having a peripherally extending ridge projecting into said groove; said groove and said ridge conjointly defining an adhesive contour gap therebetween; said gap extending along said peripheral edge of said cover and said gap having a first gap width (a, b) at a first one of said longitudinal sides; said gap having a second gap width (b, d) at a second one of said longitudinal sides running parallel to said first one of said longitudinal sides; the method comprising the steps of: arranging said cover on said cylinder in a first direction approximately radial to said cylinder bore with said first gap width (a, b) and said second gap width (b, d) having respectively different magnitudes after said cover has been arranged on said cylinder in said first direction; displacing said cover in a second direction until said cover comes to rest on said first stop and said second stop wherein said second direction lies parallel to a plane running approximately tangentially to said cylinder bore and parallel to said cylinder longitudinal direction and extends in the cylinder peripheral direction of said cylinder bore as well as in the direction of the cylinder longitudinal axis; and, wherein said first gap width (a, b) and said second gap width (b, d) so change when displacing said cover in said second direction against said first stop and said second stop that said first gap width (a, b) and said second gap width (b, d) are of approximately the same magnitude after the displacement of said cover; and applying adhesive to adhesively bonding said cover to said cylinder. | 15,441 |
8,691,694 | 1. A method of fabricating a back-contact solar cell module, the method comprising: a) providing two or more discrete back contact solar cells affixed to a front transparent sheet; b) providing a plating seed pattern on and electrically connecting at least two of the two or more solar cells; c) plating one or more metals onto the module, wherein the plating seed pattern defines where plating will occur; wherein the providing the plating seed pattern comprises depositing a plating seed material, and wherein the plating seed material is deposited as a viscous liquid that hardens after deposition. | 31,590 |
9,209,057 | 1. A temperature control apparatus, comprising: a plurality of temperature detection elements, each of the temperature detection elements being positioned at different positions; a failure detection unit configured to detect whether one of the temperature detection elements is broken; a heating unit provided with a plurality of heating elements, each of the heating elements being positioned at different positions, and configured to heat objects to be heated; and a control unit configured to adjust a heating rate of each of the plurality of heating elements in the heating unit, based on temperature detection values detected at the plurality of temperature detection elements, and configured to control temperatures of the objects to be heated, wherein, the control unit is further configured to estimate a temperature for each of the temperature detection elements and configured to control the temperatures of the objects to be heated based on the estimated temperatures, wherein a first Kalman filter is prepared using the temperature detection values, from which a first temperature detection value corresponding to a selected temperature detection element among the temperature detection elements is excluded, when none of the temperature detection elements are broken, and wherein the prepared first Kalman filter and temperature detection values are used by the control unit to estimate the temperature of each of the temperature detection elements when the selected temperature detection element is broken. | 15,064 |
8,907,151 | 1. A process for converting at least one low carbon number aliphatic hydrocarbon in a feedstream to provide at least one aromatic hydrocarbon, the process comprising contacting the feedstream at reaction conditions with a catalyst to generate at least one aromatic hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a coherently grown composite of TUN and IMF zeotypes having a three-dimensional framework of at least AlO 2 and SiO 2 tetrahedral units and an empirical composition in the as synthesized and anhydrous basis expressed by an empirical formula of: where “n” is the mole ratio of Na to (Al+E) and has a value from approximately 0.05 to 0.5, M represents at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, Group 1 (IUPAC 1), Group 2 (IUPAC 2), Group 3 (IUPAC 3), and the lanthanide series of the periodic table, and any combination thereof, “m” is the mole ratio of M to (Al+E) and has a value from 0 to 0.5, “k” is the average charge of the metal or metals M, T is the organic structure directing agent or agents derived from reactants R and Q where R is an A,Ω-dihalogen substituted alkane having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms and Q is at least one neutral monoamine having 6 or fewer carbon atoms, “t” is the mole ratio of N from the organic structure directing agent or agents to (Al+E) and has a value of from about 0.5 to about 1.5, E is an element selected from the group consisting of gallium, iron, boron and combinations thereof, “x” is the mole fraction of E and has a value from 0 to about 1.0, “y” is the mole ratio of Si to (Al+E) and varies from greater than 9 to about 25 and “z” is the mole ratio of O to (Al+E) and has a value determined by the equation: and is characterized by a characteristic selected from the group consisting of (a) it has TUN regions and IMF regions that are coherently aligned so that the [010] | 20,267 |
9,652,509 | 1. A computer implemented method to prioritize a plurality of tests in a continuous deployment pipeline, the method comprising: ranking the plurality of tests based on a test attribute and a test context to provide a test rank for each of the plurality of tests; setting a test set for the continuous deployment pipeline using the test ranks; executing the test set in the continuous deployment pipeline; collecting a test result from the executed test set, the test result including data corresponding to at least one of the test attribute and the test context; and updating the test attribute and the test context based on the test result from the execution of the test set. | 22,689 |
9,163,920 | 1. Dismountable numerical control machine which comprises a first longitudinal bedplate ( 1 ), a base ( 2 ), a column ( 3 ) attached to the base ( 2 ), a secondary carriage or crosspiece ( 4 ) and an arm ( 5 ), in which the principal carriage or base ( 2 ) moves horizontally along the longitudinal bedplate ( 1 ), while the secondary carriage or crosspiece ( 4 ) can move vertically in relation to the column ( 3 ); and in which, also, the arm ( 5 ) can be moved horizontally in relation to the crosspiece ( 4 ), characterised in that it comprises a transport tool ( 6 ) configured as an auxiliary longitudinal bedplate placed adjacent to the principal bedplate ( 1 ), on which the base ( 2 ), the column ( 3 ) and the crosspiece ( 4 ) rest in the transport position. | 29,528 |
9,436,253 | 1. A system-on chip (SOC) comprising: a central processing unit (CPU) to operate a dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) control unit, the DVFS control unit comprising: a SOC load calculating unit to calculate a SOC load based on at least one element of the SOC; a DVFS table selecting unit for determining a scenario of a CPU operation based on a result of analyzing a pattern of the SOC load or according to an external input, and determining a DVFS table suitable for the scenario; and a DVFS calculating unit for determining a DVFS operation corresponding to the SOC load and a current operating frequency, based on the determined DVFS table among a plurality of DVFS tables, wherein each of the plurality of DVFS tables is configured to comprise up-thresholds and down-thresholds corresponding to operating frequencies of the CPU, and the up-thresholds and the down-thresholds are calculated based on a plurality of OFSL (Operating Frequency to SOC Load) ratio values corresponding to the ratio between each of the plurality of operating frequencies and the SOC load. | 43,348 |
9,093,460 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a capacitor including a lower electrode, a dielectric layer, and an upper electrode that are sequentially stacked; and an electrode-protecting layer on the capacitor, wherein the upper electrode includes a conductive metal oxide; and wherein the electrode-protecting layer includes a sacrificial reaction layer including a metal-hydrogen compound and a concentration of hydrogen atoms in the sacrificial reaction layer is in a range of about 0.1 at. % to about 67 at. %. | 17,360 |
9,159,472 | 1. A twinax cable comprising: a first twinax wire pair; a first shield tape wrapped around the first twinax wire pair, the first shield tape having at least one metallic side; a second shield tape wrapped around the first twinax wire pair and the first shield tape, the second shield tape having at least one metallic side wherein the at least one metallic side of the first shield tape faces and makes contact with the at least one metallic side of the second shield tape; and a drain wire, wherein the first and second shield tapes wrap around the drain wire as well as the first twinax wire pair, and wherein the first shield tape and second shield tape are wrapped in alternate directions. | 45,522 |
9,438,155 | 1. A method for determining an inductance of a permanent magnet (PM) machine during operation of said PM machine, the method comprising: (a) upon determining the PM machine is operating within a predetermined rotational speed window, ramping up a first DC level of a first reference signal until the PM machine produces a first current level, (b) computing a second DC level of a second reference signal, (c) applying a first AC test signal to each of the first and second reference signals, (d) computing a first self-saturation induced inductance value in response to applying the first AC test signal, (e) computing a first cross-saturation induced inductance value in response to applying the first AC test signal, (f) removing the first AC test signal, (g) repeating (a) through (f) until corresponding self-saturation induced inductance values and cross-saturation induced inductance values have been computed for a predetermined number of values of the first current level, and (h) removing the first AC test signal, and ramping down the first DC level to zero, wherein the first and second reference signals comprise stator flux reference signals generated using nominal Ld and Lq inductance values for the PM machine, wherein the PM machine comprises a PM generator controlled by a stator flux controller, and wherein the predetermined rotational speed window is included within one of a 1000-1500 rotations per minute (rpm) window, a 300-500 rpm window, and a 30-50 rpm window. | 6,688 |
9,365,956 | 1. A composite material part comprising: fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix; the reinforcement including a reinforcing fiber structure for the composite material part, the structure being woven as a single piece by multilayer weaving between a plurality of layers of weft yarns and a plurality of layers of warp yarns arranged in adjacent manner between two faces of the fiber structure; wherein the fiber structure includes at least one arcuate portion extending over one of the faces of the fiber structure, the arcuate portion comprising at least some of the warp yarns continuous with at least two adjacent warp yarn layers present on one of the faces of the fiber structure, the warp yarns of the arcuate portion being of a length that is longer than the warp yarns of at least two underlying warp yarn layers of the fiber structure, and the warp yarns of the arcuate portion are not interlinked with other warp yarns of the fiber structure. | 49,082 |
9,589,590 | 1. An optical disc comprising: a first area having main content of the optical disc; and a second area having a multi-spiral structure comprising a first spiral data track partially interleaved with, and partially overlapping, a second spiral data track, the first and the second spiral data tracks having different track pitches, wherein: | 22,951 |
8,897,118 | 1. In a wireless communications receiver, a method for Single Carrier-Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format 1/1a/1b detection, comprising: a receiver accepting a plurality of multicarrier signals transmitted simultaneously from a plurality of transmitters, with overlapping carrier frequencies; for each multicarrier signal comprised in the plurality of multicarrier signals, performing a single tap measurement of time delay using a Direction of Arrival (DoA) technique; in response to the single tap measurement, detecting a PUCCH 1/1a/1b format signal; and, supplying the PUCCH 1/1a/1b format signal for each multicarrier signal. | 17,473 |
9,080,180 | 1. A Lactuca sativa transformed with a recombinant vector comprising a DNA construct, wherein the DNA construct comprises: a 5′-untranslated region of an alcohol dehydrogenase gene derived from a DNA encoding a B-subunit of a Stx2e protein, wherein the DNA encoding the B-subunit of a Stx2e protein is operably-linked to the 5′-untranslated region of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene; a secretory signal peptide derived from an endoplasmic reticulum retention signal peptide which comprises an HDEL sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14 at a carboxy terminus of the B-subunit of a Stx2e protein, wherein the DNA construct does not include an A-subunit of a Stx2e protein. | 47,912 |
9,287,658 | 1. A connector unit comprising: a male part; a female part; and a shuttle piston, wherein the shuttle piston comprises wherein the male part comprises: wherein the female part comprises: | 48,271 |
9,537,528 | 1. A mobile electronic device holder, comprising: a backing configured to support a rear surface of a mobile electronic device; a plurality of corner fasteners attached to the backing and configured to at least partially enclose a plurality of corners of the mobile electronic device, to secure the mobile electronic device to the backing; a mobile electronic device holder spine attached to the backing and configured to couple the backing to one of a plurality of multi-ring binders to prevent the mobile electronic device from sliding out of the one of the plurality of multi-ring binders; and nine grommets spaced and inserted into the mobile electronic device holder spine to selectively couple the backing to the plurality of multi-ring binders, the plurality of multi-ring binders including a 3-ring binder, a 5-ring binder, and a 7-ring binder, to enable a user to select any one of the plurality of multi-ring binders for mating with and carrying the mobile electronic device holder. | 8,233 |
8,830,689 | 1. An interposer-embedded printed circuit board, comprising: a substrate which is a printed circuit board having an insulating resin thereon, the insulating resin including a cavity formed in the top side thereof and having a predetermined height in a thickness direction of the substrate; an interposer disposed in the cavity and including a wiring region and an insulating region; a circuit layer formed in the printed circuit board and including a connection pattern connected with the wiring region of the bottom side of the interposer; and a bump formed on the wiring region of the top side of the interposer to connect a semiconductor chip with the interposer, wherein the top side of the interposer is flush with the top side of the substrate, wherein the wiring region of the interposer is directly attached to the bump, and wherein substrate is corn used of an insulation material and the material of the insulating region in the interposer has higher mechanical strength than the insulation material of the substrate. | 22,030 |
8,671,140 | 1. A process for metasearching on the Internet, wherein the steps of the process are performed by a metasearch engine executing on a hardware device, the process comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one stock related search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to stock related information to be searched; (b) sending the at least one stock related search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol request received from the client device; (c) receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts in response to the at least one stock related search query sent to the plurality of unique hosts, wherein the search results comprise price data related to at least one stock; (d) incorporating the received search results comprising the price data related to the at least one stock and incorporating at least one related news item link into a response; (e) communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device. | 18,022 |
9,566,731 | 1. A method for producing a filter element comprising: providing an injection molding tool having a cavity for molding a plastic casing; providing a sheet of filter material having end sections at opposing ends of the sheet, said opposing end sections each having a terminal edge, said terminal edges have an overall length (L); forming said sheet into a circumferentially closed endless bellows; arranging said terminal edges in said cavity such that said opposing end sections are overlaid; overlaying said end sections of said filter material sheet onto each other; pressing said opposing end sections together by clamping with the injection molding tool, wherein pressing edges of the molding tool securely clamps said opposing end sections together to remain in an overlaid onto and against each other position over said overall length; further securing said clamped end sections together to remain in the overlaid onto and against each other position, by the steps of: wherein said plastic casing is formed directly on said terminal edges and is not a clamp installed onto the end sections, said directly formed plastic casing solidified on said terminal edges securing said terminal edges together without an adhesive or clamp, thereby avoiding fraying of terminal edges and providing a seal-tight connection of the opposing end sections without clamp or adhesive; wherein said end sections are connected fluid-tightly with each other by said plastic casing. | 46,629 |
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