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9,300,199 | 1. A control circuit of a programmable power supply, comprising: a current-sense circuit generating a current-sense signal in response to an output current of said programmable power supply; a voltage-sense circuit generating a voltage-sense signal in response to an output voltage of said programmable power supply; an output voltage regulation circuit coupled to regulate said output voltage of said programmable power supply according to a voltage reference signal and said voltage-sense signal; and an output current regulation circuit, coupled to regulate said output current of said programmable power supply according to a current reference signal and said current-sense signal, wherein said current reference signal is changed in response to a level of said output voltage of the programmable power supply, and said output current of said power supply is decreased in response to a decrement of said current reference signal, and wherein said output voltage of said programmable power supply is programmable. | 21,057 |
9,723,205 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a user interface comprising a processor being configured for controlling the user interface; wherein the processor is configured to cause wherein the processor is further configured to cause changing a number of active image sensors in the group of image sensors in response to a captured disturbed image. | 35,466 |
8,679,367 | 1. A green-emitting oxynitride phosphor having the formula Eu 2+ :M 2+ Si 4 AlO x N 7−2x/3 , wherein: x ranges from greater than or equal to 0.1 to less than or equal to 1.0; and M wherein the green-emitting oxynitride phosphor is configured to emit light having a peak emission wavelength ranging from about 500 nm to about 550 nm under excitation of blue light ranging from about 420 nm to about 470 nm. | 43,398 |
8,873,915 | 1. A low-loss optical fiber over wide wavelength range comprising a transmission loss of less than or equal to 40 dB/km in a whole wavelength range of 400-1400 nm, and being manufactured by drawing an optical fiber preform comprising a core composed of a silica glass having a hydroxyl-group concentration of less than or equal to 1 ppm and a cladding composed of a silica glass having a fluorine concentration of more than or equal to 3.2 wt %. | 48,815 |
8,368,238 | 1. A wind turbine generator system comprising: a generator connected to a power system; and a control unit having a normal operation mode and a low-voltage control mode, the control unit wherein the control unit the standard terminal voltage is set depending on the detected power factor. | 27,019 |
9,644,611 | 1. A device comprising: a vertical axis wind turbine comprising: | 11,184 |
8,974,793 | 1. An immunologic induction system comprising a tolerogen, the tolerogen comprising at least one non-self blood group antigen coupled to a stent, wherein the tolerogen induces immunologic tolerance. | 16,955 |
9,759,195 | 1. A wind power generator, comprising: a rotation shaft attached to a blade; an electric generator configured to generate electricity from a rotation of the rotation shaft; and a flywheel, including: | 7,472 |
9,145,509 | 1. A surfactant mixture comprising at least three ionic surfactants of the general formula (I) each of which are different with regard to the alkyl moiety (R 1 )(R 2 )—CH—CH 2 —, wherein the at least 3 ionic surfactants individually include an alkyl radical with 32 carbon atoms, 34 carbon atoms and 36 carbon atoms, where R R A is ethyleneoxy, B is propyleneoxy, D is butyleneoxy, l is from 0 to 99, m is from 0 to 99, n is from 2 to 15, X is an alkyl or alkylene group having 0 to 10 carbon atoms, M Y b is 1, 2 or 3, and a is 1 or 2, | 20,568 |
8,886,434 | 1. A method of stabilizing a vehicle travelling at a forward speed and a lateral speed, the vehicle comprising a lateral acceleration sensor, a yaw sensor adapted to detect an actual yaw rate of the vehicle around a central axis, a steering mechanism adapted to steer the vehicle by a steered yaw rate, and an electronic stability control system, the method comprising: determining the forward speed of the vehicle with the electronic stability control system; determining a yaw error rate based upon a difference between the actual yaw rate of the vehicle and the steered yaw rate; determining the vehicle is in an unstable condition when the yaw error rate is greater than a first predetermined yaw rate; computing a calculated lateral speed based on acceleration data from the lateral acceleration sensor, the forward speed, and the actual yaw rate in response to determining the vehicle is in the unstable condition, wherein the calculated lateral speed corresponds to a lateral velocity component of the vehicle that is oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle; calculating a correction factor based on the calculated lateral speed of the vehicle and the forward speed of the vehicle, wherein the correction factor is a ratio of the calculated lateral speed to the forward speed; and adjusting operation of a braking system of the vehicle with the electronic stability control system using the correction factor, until an updated yaw error rate is less than a second predetermined yaw rate. | 22,723 |
8,613,141 | 1. A manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head provided with a flow passage communicating with an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid, said manufacturing method comprising: preparing a substrate on which a flow passage wall forming member for forming a part of a wall of the flow passage and a solid layer having a shape of a part of the flow passage contact each other, wherein the substrate has an energy generating element and the solid layer includes a region covering the energy generating element and a region covering the flow passage wall forming member; abrading the solid layer in a direction toward the substrate to form a flattened surface of the solid layer; providing, on the flattened surface of the solid layer, a layer forming a pattern having a shape of another part of the flow passage; providing a coating layer, for forming another part of the wall of the flow passage, so as to coat the layer forming the pattern; providing the ejection outlet in the coating layer; and forming the part of the flow passage by removing the solid layer, and forming the another part of the flow passage by removing the layer of the pattern in its entirety. | 23,010 |
9,815,497 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a side support extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a drive unit spaced apart from the side support in a vehicle lateral direction, wherein the drive unit comprises a crankshaft extending in the vehicle lateral direction; and a spacer member positioned between the side support and the drive unit in the vehicle lateral direction, wherein the spacer member is coupled to one of the drive unit and the side support, and the spacer member is detached and spaced apart from the other of the drive unit and the side support, and wherein the spacer member is positioned rearward of the crankshaft in the vehicle longitudinal direction. | 2,301 |
9,464,982 | 1. An optical sensor system comprising: an optical sensor that comprises a liquid source configured to supply the flow of fluid communicating through the inlet port; a gas source configured to supply the flow of fluid communicating through the inlet port; and a controller configured to control the gas source to place the gas source in fluid communication with the flow chamber so as to evacuate the flow chamber of liquid, and control the liquid source so as to place the liquid source in fluid communication with the flow chamber so as to direct liquid through the fluid nozzle, through a space of the flow chamber evacuated of liquid, and against the optical window. | 23,866 |
8,686,027 | 1. A method for relieving a symptom of pulmonary disease in a patient suffering therefrom, wherein the pulmonary disease is selected from the group consisting of emphysema, cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and dyspnea, comprising delivering directly to the patient's lungs a systemically effective amount of a non-salt formulation of furosemide and ethacrynic acid in dry powder form, wherein said systematically effective amount of a non-salt formulation is delivered as a fine powder having a particle size of 0.5-10 microns. | 7,654 |
9,560,322 | 1. A device having a built-in digital data device powered by an AC or DC or Both unlimited power source that supplies unlimited power to the device, said device including a light device, wherein: said digital data device includes at least one camera having means for capturing images, data, or sound at a desired shooting angle, resolution, color, brightness, and sharpness, and at least one of a means for storing the images, data, or sound into a memory or storage unit and which incorporate with other or own device's means for transmitting shown or display or replay the images, data, or sound to at least one of a communication device, computer device, phone, receiver device, and display device, or the device itself; said digital data device further includes desire components selected from lenses, optical components, electrical components, mechanical components, circuitry, an integrated circuit (I C), data delivery means, data storage means, a USB port, a cable, a microphone, record means, display means, sensor means, PIR means, IR means, night vision means, flash means, a switch means, motion detect means, sound detect means, a photo sensor, a motor, and tracking means, said light device includes a housing and means for emitting light beams, said light device supplied with power from said power source by circuitry including at least one of a controller, switch, sensor, conductors, integrated circuit, remote controller, and wireless communication means, said light device further is selected from a night light, desk lamp, floor lamp, down light, ceiling light, track light, security light, projection light, outdoor light, indoor light, LED light fixture, LED light bar, LED picture light, LED closet light, LED door light, LED garage light, LED motion sensor light, LED power failure light, LED light with auto tracking, LED patio light, and LED light device, and said light device is connected with the power source by one of prongs, conductive wire, a conductive wire with a plug extending from the light device, a USB adaptor, a transformer device, and an inductor device, rather than by a female-male connector. | 6,709 |
8,905,103 | 1. A tool, comprising: a housing assembly defining a ring-shaped cylinder and supporting a ring-shaped piston in said cylinder for sliding movement therein, wherein a first chamber in said cylinder is defined on one side of said piston and a second chamber in said cylinder is defined on another side of said piston and wherein said second chamber is filled with a mixture of water and air, said housing assembly further having a sealable port in fluid communication with said first chamber and adapted to be in fluid communication with an ambient environment, said housing assembly having one end thereof defining a volume open to the ambient environment; a ring-shaped cartridge assembly coupled to said one end of said housing assembly wherein said volume remains open to the ambient environment, said cartridge assembly defining (i) a ring-shaped chamber filled with a material in a solid state thereof, and (ii) a ring-shaped channel in fluid communication with said ring-shaped chamber and adapted to be in fluid communication with the ambient environment; a melting device mounted in said cartridge assembly and in thermal communication with said second chamber in said housing assembly and said material in said solid state, said melting device simultaneously heating said mixture in said second chamber and transforming said material in said solid state to a liquid state wherein said material in said liquid state is flowable through said ring-shaped channel; and an element releasably coupled to said one end of said housing assembly and spanning a region within said cartridge assembly that lies within said ring-shaped channel, said element incorporating a check valve in fluid communication with said volume defined by said housing assembly and adapted to be in fluid communication with the ambient environment. | 17,455 |
8,527,072 | 1. A computer system programmed to optimize operation of a plurality of power generating units, the computer system comprising: a multi-unit optimization system including (a) a multi-unit model comprised of a plurality of unit models, each unit model associated with a respective power generating unit, and (b) a multi-unit steady state optimizer, said multi-unit steady state optimizer determining economic trade-offs between improvements in boiler efficiency and reductions of boiler and SCR NOx emissions of the plurality of power generating units, said economic trade-offs determined by determining how much NOx should be removed in the boiler using combustion optimization versus how much NOx should be removed in the SCR using SCR optimization; and a plurality of multi-component optimization systems, each multi-component optimization system associated with a respective power generating unit and including a combustion optimization system and an SCR optimization system. | 28,743 |
9,205,377 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system comprising: a tank for storing an additive, an injector, a pump for conveying the additive from the tank to the injector via an injection line, a primary filter located on the injection line between the tank and the pump, a secondary filter also located on the injection line but between the pump and the injector, a particle trap located between both filters, said particle trap configured to trap particles so as to separate the particles from the additive flowing through the particle trap and to prevent said trapped particles from being pulled back into the flow when said flow is reversed, and a casing that contains the particle trap, wherein the particle trap is a device having, at least in one part, a tortuous path which causes the particles to fall out of the flow while the liquid is still able to flow through said path, and wherein features which delimit the tortuous path are molded into endcaps of the casing. | 32,433 |
8,387,029 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions implementing a parser that has multiple parse states, wherein, when the instructions are executed by a computer, the instructions cause the computer to perform a process comprising: receiving a portion of a software program in an original linguistic form in a high level language, wherein the portion of the software program includes a nonlinear program element having a body; tokenizing the portion of the software program to generate an input stream of tokens representing the portion of the software program; and while retaining the original linguistic form, using a set of one or more production rules to control a parser to directly execute the nonlinear program element by manipulating a parse state and the input stream of tokens, wherein the one or more production rules enable the parser to perform type conversion and the one or more production rules enable the parser to insert an expression into the input stream of tokens to skip tokens in the input stream of tokens during execution of the nonlinear program element, and wherein directly executing comprises executing tokens until the dynamic end of the nonlinear program element is reached, and wherein manipulating the input stream of tokens comprises using the one or more production rules to perform type conversion on at least one token of the input stream of tokens and using the one or more production rules to insert expressions into the input stream of tokens to skip tokens during execution of the nonlinear program element. | 47,951 |
9,794,574 | 1. A method for encoding a video signal comprising video frames into a bitstream, the method comprising: estimating a space requirement for encoding a tile of a video frame of the video frames; writing a first value in a first value space of the bitstream, wherein the first value describes a size of a second value space; defining the second value space in the bitstream, wherein the size of the second value space is based on the space requirement; writing encoded content in a content space of the bitstream, the encoded content associated with the tile of the video frame; determining a size of the content space subsequent to writing the encoded content in the content space; and writing a second value in the second value space of the bitstream, wherein the second value describes the size of the content space. | 43,623 |
9,481,321 | 1. A corner assembly comprising: an elongated main portion including— an elongated cap section operable to be securely positioned over the elongated main portion, wherein lateral sides of the cap section present lateral edges, wherein with the cap section securely positioned over the main portion, the lateral edges of the cap section contact the lateral edges of the main portion to secure the cap section to the main portion such that the an entire exterior-facing surface of the main portion is covered by the cap section, and wherein the cap section does not contact the interior-facing surfaces of the lip sections such that the cap section is removable from the main portion. | 22,545 |
9,153,657 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a fin disposed over a workpiece, the fin comprising: | 3,519 |
9,186,741 | 1. A method comprising: positioning a pair of photovoltaic wafers in a side-by-side arrangement; placing an interconnect on the pair of wafers such that the interconnect overlaps both wafers of the pair, a solder material being provided between the interconnect and the respective wafers; locating a solder head adjacent the interconnect, the solder head comprising: an induction coil shaped to define an eye, and a magnetic field concentrator located at least partially in the eye of the coil, the magnetic field concentrator defining a passage extending axially through the eye of the coil; and energizing the coil to effect inductive heating of the solder material, wherein the magnetic field concentrator comprises an annular cylindrical core component extending through the eye of the coil, having an annular shoulder at an operatively upper end of the core component, the annular shoulder resting on the coil to locate the core component in the eye of the coil. | 45,498 |
8,529,746 | 1. A method for the synthesis of polymer electrodes comprising: a. providing a support comprising one or more conductive metal surfaces selected from the group consisting of aluminum and nickel; b. contacting the support with a solution in a first reaction zone comprising aniline and a sulfonic acid in the presence of at least one electrode wherein the voltage potential of said electrode is altered between two or more voltage states and current is pulsed, thereby initiating polymer growth; and c. sustaining polymer growth on the substrate in a second reaction zone wherein the voltage potential and/or current is maintained substantially constant. | 46,976 |
9,744,106 | 1. A method for repairing split ends in hair, comprising applying to the hair a microcapsule suspension comprising droplets of a dispersed water-immiscible core phase, an aqueous continuous phase, and a wall surrounding each core phase droplet, said wall comprising the salt formed from at least one amphiphilic Lewis acid reactant or amphiphilic Lewis base reactant, and at least one corresponding Lewis base reactant or Lewis acid reactant. | 38,595 |
9,502,050 | 1. An ICC system for a passenger compartment having acoustic zones, comprising: a speaker dedicated module to receive first signals from a first microphone in a first one of the acoustic zones, wherein the first signals correspond to speech from a first user in the first one of the acoustic zones, wherein the first module is configured to maximize the speech from the first user and minimize signals not generated by the speech from the first user, wherein the speaker dedicated module is further configured to compensate for the Lombard effect based upon a target peak level for the speech from the first user corresponding to a level of background noise in the first one of the acoustic zones; and a listener specific module to optimize a first output signal, which comprises the speech from the first user, for a first loudspeaker in a second one of the acoustic zones including adjusting a volume of sound from the first loudspeaker based upon a noise estimate for the second one of the acoustic zones. | 30,764 |
8,377,072 | 1. A medical device installation tool, comprising: a body having an opening extending therethrough and having grooves formed on opposed sides thereof; a drive rod adapted to extend through the opening, the drive rod having a proximal end and a distal end with threads formed on at least a portion of a surface thereof; a pair of opposed levers, each lever extending through one of the grooves in the body and having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of each lever being pivotally coupled to a portion of the body; and a female threaded member extending across the opening in the body, the female threaded member having a bore formed therein with at least a partial female thread formed in at least a portion of the bore, and the female threaded member being selectively movable between (1) a drive rod rotation configuration in which the partial female thread is engaged with the threads on the rod to permit longitudinal translation of the rod only upon rotation of the rod and (2) a translation configuration to permit longitudinal translation of the rod upon translation of the rod without rotation of the rod, wherein the female threaded member is biased to the drive rod rotation configuration such that releasing the female threaded member from the translation configuration automatically moves the female threaded member to the drive rod rotation configuration. | 4,068 |
9,481,035 | 1. A device comprising: a vessel for containing molten metal, the vessel having a length, a width, a top surface, a first chamber and a second chamber; a plurality of immersion heaters positioned in line across the width of the vessel, each of the plurality of immersion heaters comprising an outer cover of material resistant to molten metal and a heating element inside of the outer cover, the heating element connectable to an energy source, the outer cover comprised of a material formulated to be resistant to the molten metal, wherein the outer cover protects the heating element from contacting the molten metal when the immersion heater is positioned in the molten metal; and wherein the plurality of immersion heaters divides the vessel into the first chamber and the second chamber and there is at least one rotary degasser in either the first chamber or the second chamber. | 9,328 |
8,707,844 | 1. A method of annealing a portion of a cartridge casing having an open mouth end and a closed head end, comprising: providing a heat transfer element having a plurality of shape adapting structures; heating the heat transfer element with a heating element contacting the heat transfer element to a predetermined temperature; inserting the mouth end of the cartridge casing into the heat transfer element to a predetermined depth at which the entire portion of the casing to be annealed is inserted into the heat transfer element, wherein the plurality of shape adapting structures are movable to conform to the shape of the portion of the cartridge casing such that the heat transfer element substantially contacts the entire exterior of the portion of the casing to be annealed; maintaining contact between the portion of the casing to be annealed and the heat transfer element for a predetermined duration; and cooling the annealed portion of the cartridge casing by separating the casing from the heat transfer element and exposing the annealed portion to a cooling media. | 17,558 |
9,774,981 | 1. An audio rendering system, comprising: a plurality of loudspeakers arranged to approximate a desired spatial sound field within a predetermined reproduction region, wherein the loudspeakers are configured to approximate the sound field based on a weighted series of orthonormal basis functions for the reproduction region, and wherein the orthonormal basis functions are formed using a Gram Schmidt process with a set of solutions of the Helmholtz equation as input or using a Householder transformation. | 11,928 |
9,853,286 | 1. A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, being represented by a general formula of Li x Ni y M 1-y O 2 (where M includes at least one metal element selected from cobalt (Co) and manganese (Mn), 0.1≦x≦1.2, 0.3<y<1), having a volumetric average particle size (D50) of 7 μm or more and 30 μm or less, and having an average surface roughness of 1.5% or more and 4% or less, wherein M, which includes at least one metal element selected from cobalt (Co) and manganese (Mn), further includes at least one other metal element selected from zirconium (Zr), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), chromium (Cr), vanadium (V), cerium (Ce), titanium (Ti), iron (Fe), potassium (K), gallium (Ga), and indium (In). | 9,640 |
8,469,313 | 1. An air vehicle comprising: a solar energy harvesting airframe comprising an airfoil and having an exterior surface; and a solar panel carried by the airframe and defining at least a portion of the exterior surface thereof, wherein the solar panel comprises a plurality of ridged structures having energy absorbing faces extending in a streamwise direction, wherein the ridged structures are arranged such that a majority of air flow over the exterior surface flows in the streamwise direction, wherein the ridged structures are configured such that a respective light ray sequentially impinges upon a plurality of the energy absorbing faces of the ridged structures so as to permit additional solar energy to be captured, and wherein the ridged structures are configured such that the respective light ray initially impinges upon one energy absorbing face and is then reflected to another energy absorbing face. | 18,025 |
8,538,785 | 1. A system for pricing an insurance premium based on route complexity, the system comprising: a computer memory for storing telematics data received from a sensor within a vehicle during at least one trip, the telematics data comprising at least one of geo-position information of the vehicle and vehicle kinematics data; and a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is configured for: | 5,857 |
8,764,858 | 1. A hydrogen gas generating apparatus comprising: a housing having a fixed interior volume; an expandable reaction chamber within the housing comprising a moveable partition defining an expandable reactant zone and containing a solid reactant component within the reactant zone; a collapsible receptacle within the housing containing a liquid reactant component; a fluid path for transporting the liquid reactant component from the collapsible receptacle to the reactant zone of the reaction chamber; and a liquid reactant transport control system; wherein: the liquid reactant component reacts with the solid reactant component within the reaction chamber to generate hydrogen gas; the fluid path is coupled to the moveable partition or an intermediate component between the collapsible receptacle and the reaction chamber, so that when the partition or the intermediate component moves, the fluid path outlet moves within the reaction zone from a distal portion toward a proximal portion of the reactant zone relative to the moveable partition; and the reaction chamber is in a volume exchanging relationship with the collapsible receptacle such that the reaction chamber is able to expand into a volume previously occupied by the liquid reactant component in the collapsible receptacle. | 41,654 |
8,859,161 | 1. A fuel cell comprising the proton-conductive inorganic thin film comprising an inorganic proton conductor represented by Formula 1 below: wherein M M 0≦a<1, x is a number from 1.5 to 3.5; and y is a number from 5 to 13, characterized in that conductive inorganic thin film is in an amorphous phase wherein a main peak at a Bragg angle of 2θ indicating a crystalline phase of SnP | 18,379 |
9,455,524 | 1. A jacket seal, comprising: a pliable elastomeric body comprising, wherein a structural support is positioned on the outer surface of the elastomeric body; wherein the structural support substantially maintains the shape of the elastomeric body when a cable is slidably inserted; and wherein the elastomeric body is coupled to a cable accessory; wherein the second end is integrally molded to a loadbreak elbow connector; wherein the structural support comprises a plurality of ridges positioned on a longitudinal axis of the outer surface; wherein the plurality of ridges are affixed to the outer surface of the jacket body substantially throughout a longitudinal direction of the outer surface and comprises of a rigid material; wherein the first end is flared facilitating slidably inserting the cable. | 8,914 |
9,290,404 | 1. A process for manufacturing a quartz glass ingot, comprising the steps of: providing a fabricated quartz glass article as a feedstock, feeding the fused quartz glass feedstock into a furnace containing a platen rotating in axial symmetry to the quartz glass feedstock, heating the fused quartz glass feedstock to a temperature sufficient for the quartz feedstock to melt, and varying the temperature, the speed of the rotating platen, or both during the manufacturing process, thus forming the quartz glass ingot on the rotating platen in the absence of a container or mold. | 33,076 |
8,951,666 | 1. A nickel hydrogen rechargeable battery in which an electrode group is sealed in a container together with alkaline electrolyte, and the electrode group is made up of positive and negative electrodes put together with a separator intervening therebetween, wherein the nickel hydrogen rechargeable battery contains LiOH, and a total amount of LiOH in the nickel hydrogen rechargeable battery is in a range of 15 mg/Ah of positive electrode capacity to 50 mg/Ah of positive electrode capacity; the negative electrode includes: a rare earth-Mg—Ni-based hydrogen storage alloy containing a rare-earth element, Mg and Ni. | 46,745 |
8,679,694 | 1. A fluidic control system comprising: at least one pressure regulator; two or more featured layers having features; wherein the features of any of the two or more featured layers interact to collectively form the at least one pressure regulator; the at least one pressure regulator comprises a spring-biased valve having a position, wherein a fluid flow through the at least one pressure regulator based on the position of the valve, wherein the spring-biased valve is formed on one of the two or more featured layers, wherein the spring of the spring-biased valve is formed by said one of the two or more featured layers, and a flexible feature actuatable in response to a sensory fluid pressure, where the sensory fluid pressure includes a pressure downstream of the valve, and a position of the flexible feature proportionally controls the valve position; and wherein the two or more featured layers are stacked and joined together so as to be in fluid communication with one another and to form a gas-tight seal with each other, wherein the spring-biased valve is internal to the gas-tight seal layers. | 1,981 |
9,023,531 | 1. A method of producing a coated positive electrode active material in which a positive electrode active material made of lithium-metal complex oxide has a surface coated with a coating of lithium salt containing lithium carbonate and having an average thickness of 20 to 50 nm, the method comprising: a first firing step of firing a raw material for the positive electrode active material in a reaction system having an oxygen atmosphere; and a second firing step, following the first firing step, of supplying CO the second firing step including firing the raw material for 4 to 8 hours in an oxygen atmosphere at a CO | 43,528 |
9,799,273 | 1. A display device, comprising: a plurality of pixels in a display area; a data driver, outside of the display area, to apply data signals to a plurality of data lines, the data lines connected to the pixels; a plurality of pads connected to the data driver; and a pixel current measuring circuit connected to an end of the data lines, wherein the pixel current measuring circuit is to measure current flowing to the data lines in order to sense degradation of the pixels, wherein the data driver and pixel current measuring circuit are integrally formed in one-body-type connected to the data lines, and wherein the data driver includes: an output circuit, different from the pads, writ to output the data signals, a plurality of underlying metal wires directly connected to the output circuit, and a plurality of overlying metal wires connected to the data lines, and wherein the plurality of underlying metal wires and the plurality of overlying metal wires overlap the output circuit. | 41,610 |
8,711,471 | 1. A mode filter, comprising: an input multimode fiber section operable to receive an optical input beam; a passive mode filtering section operable to attenuate fiber modes in the input optical beam as received from the input multimode fiber section, wherein the passive mode filtering section provides at least about 3 dB of attenuation of an LP an output multimode fiber section situated to receive the mode filtered optical beam and situated so that the mode filtered optical beam substantially excites only a lowest order mode in the output multimode fiber section, wherein the passive mode filtering section comprises a multimode fiber section that includes a tapered portion having an input core cross-sectional area, a minimum taper core cross-sectional area, and an output core cross-sectional area, wherein the input and output core cross-sectional areas define multimode cores and the minimum taper core cross-sectional area defines a few mode core. | 19,594 |
9,718,376 | 1. Electrical supply system with double electrical energy storage devices ( 1 ) for an electric or hybrid motor vehicle which is designed to be connected to a power network of said vehicle ( 5 ), of the type comprising a first electrical energy storage device ( 2 ) with a first specific energy, a first specific power, and a first operating voltage (Ue), and a second electrical energy storage device ( 3 ) with a second specific energy which is lower than the first specific energy, a second specific power which is greater than said first specific power, and a second operating voltage (Up) which is greater than said first operating voltage (Ue), said first and second electrical energy storage devices ( 2 , 3 ) being coupled electrically by a two-way direct-direct converter ( 4 ) which is controlled according to the operating states of said vehicle, wherein said direct-direct converter ( 4 ) comprises a floating capacitor ( 14 ) which is connected in series between said first and second electrical energy storage devices ( 2 , 3 ). | 1,681 |
9,190,510 | 1. A lateral semiconductor device comprising: a device channel; a first contact on a first end of the device channel; a second contact on a second end of the device channel, wherein the second end is opposite the first end, and wherein the first and second contacts are located on a first side of the device channel; and a breakdown preventing layer located on the first side of the device channel in at least a portion of a spacing between the first contact and the second contact, wherein the breakdown preventing layer comprises: | 19,760 |
8,429,893 | 1. Integrated turbine and high Mach aircraft engines with an air flow modulation system comprising: turbine, at least, partially positioned in a generally cylindrical housing, said turbine having an exposed generally circular intake face; at least one high Mach engine intake positioned circumferentially about the generally cylindrical housing; a generally cylindrical, air flow duct movable between a first and second position; wherein in said first position, said duct directs air flow from an air intake of the aircraft exclusively to the intake face of the turbine; wherein in said second position, said air flow duct directs airflow to both the circular intake face of the turbine and to the at least one high Mach engine intake; wherein said air flow duct has a forward end and an aft end; wherein the forward end is located upstream of the air intake of the aircraft and said second end being in general contact in relation with the outer circumference of the circular intake face of the turbine when said duct is in said first position; and wherein said duct is in non-contact relation with the outer circumference of the intake face of the turbine when said duet is in said second position. | 23,086 |
8,961,749 | 1. Electrical connection device between first and second successive cells of a sequence of cells for the production of aluminum by a Hall-Héroult process, the sequence of cells being aligned along an axis, each cell comprising an electrolytic pot containing a cathode assembly and an anode frame bearing anodes, the electrical connection device comprising an array of electrical conductors connecting in series the cathode assembly of the first cell to the anode frame of the second cell located immediately downstream, the array of electrical conductors comprising at least: a first conductor connected to the cathode assembly of the first cell and to the anode frame of the second cell, said first conductor having a portion located between the first and second cells in which the current flows toward the alignment axis of the sequence of cells; a second conductor connected to the cathode assembly of the second cell and the anode frame of a third cell immediately downstream of the second cell, said second conductor having a portion located between the first and second cells in which current flows away from the alignment axis of the sequence of cells, said portions of the first and second conductors being substantially parallel to each other; and at least two housings to receive a short-circuiting wedge, characterized in that the array of conductors further comprises a third conductor for current balancing which extends substantially parallel to said portions, said third conductor being electrically connected to said portion of the first conductor or second conductor, the two housings for receiving a wedge being arranged between said third conductor and said portion of the second conductor, or first conductor respectively. | 5,999 |
8,967,099 | 1. A two-stroke engine comprising: (i) a cylinder, a combustion chamber, a piston, and a crankcase, and an overflow passage, wherein the combustion chamber is formed in the cylinder, wherein the combustion chamber is bounded by a piston, wherein the piston drives the crankshaft which is mounted rotatably in the crankcase, and wherein the crankcase is connected in the region of the lower dead center of the piston via the overflow passage to the combustion chamber, (ii) a carburetor, an intake passage, a mixture passage, an air passage, a main fuel opening, and an idling fuel opening, wherein a section of the intake passage is formed in the carburetor, wherein the intake passage is divided downstream of the carburetor into the air passage and the mixture passage, wherein the mixture passage opens into the crankcase and the air passage supplies combustion air into the overflow passage, and wherein, in the carburetor, at least one main fuel opening and at least one idling fuel opening open into the intake passage, (iii) a throttle element, a secondary passage, and a shielding element, wherein the throttle element is mounted pivotably in the carburetor, wherein at least one idling fuel opening opens into the secondary passage, wherein the secondary passage is arranged in the mixture passage downstream of the throttle element, wherein at least a portion of the secondary channel extends in the direction of flow of combustion air from the carburetor to the crankcase, wherein at least a portion of the secondary passage is separated from the mixture passage by a shielding element, wherein an upstream opening is formed in the secondary passage in its upstream portion, wherein air flows through the mixture passage from upstream to downstream in relation to the direction of combustion air flow in the mixture channel from the carburetor to the crankcase, wherein, in the idling position, the throttle element is arranged in an approximately flush manner to the upstream entry opening of the secondary passage, wherein the throttle element has an opening which, in the idling position of the throttle element, is arranged in the region of the entry opening of the secondary passage such that combustion air from the region upstream of the throttle valve can enter the secondary passage through the entry opening in the throttle element, and wherein the entry opening in the throttle element connects the secondary passage to the region of the intake passage which is located upstream of the throttle element. | 41,977 |
8,450,848 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first electronic part including a first electrode; a first substrate including a first substrate electrode electrically connected to the first electrode on an upper surface thereof, wherein the first substrate electrode and the first electrode are arranged, facing each other; a first connecting member configured to connect the first electrode with the first substrate electrode; and a sealing material including a first resin portion which contains flux and contacts at least a first connection portion between the first connecting member and the first substrate electrode, and a second resin portion which does not contain the flux or contains a lower concentration of the flux than that of the first resin portion, wherein the number of the first electrodes and the number of the first substrate electrodes are both two or more, the first electronic part has a first region in which the first electrodes are arranged at a first pitch, and a second region in which the first electrodes are arranged at a second pitch broader than the first pitch, the sealing material includes the first resin portion and the second resin portion in a portion thereof corresponding to the first region, and includes the second resin portion in a portion thereof corresponding to the second region, and the sealing material has a double-layer structure having the first resin portion which is in the shape of a layer surrounding the first substrate electrode and the second resin portion which is in the shape of a layer in the region corresponding to the first region, and has a single-layer structure having only the second resin portion which is in the shape of a layer in the region corresponding to the second region. | 15,272 |
9,172,676 | 1. A computer or microchip, comprising: at least one protected portion; at least one network portion; a system BIOS of both at least a part of a first said protected portion and at least a part of a first said network portion of the computer or microchip, the system BIOS being located in the first said protected portion of the computer or microchip; at least one internal hardware firewall located between the first protected portion of said computer or microchip and the first said network portion of said computer or microchip, said first protected portion being protected by at least a first said internal hardware firewall, said first network portion having a connection for a network of computers including the World Wide Web and/or the Internet; at least said first internal hardware firewall denies access to at least said first protected portion of said computer or microchip from said network of computers; hardware network communications components located in said first network portion of said computer or microchip; and one or more or at least two or four or eight or 16 or 32 or 64 or 128 or 256 or 512 or 1024 microprocessors that are not hardware network communications components, wherein said one or more microprocessors are located in said first network portion of said computer or microchip and are separate from said at least one internal hardware firewall. | 34,321 |
8,995,620 | 1. An electrical circuit comprising: a. a direct current control box comprising: b. a first inductor and a second inductor, each inductor having a first end and a second end; c. the first end of the first inductor electrically connected to the positive direct current connection and the first end of the second inductor electrically connected to the negative direct current connection; d. the second end of each inductor electrically connected together at an inductor connection point and electrically connected to a first load connection; e. the common connection of the control box electrically connected to a second load connection; f. a first capacitor electrically connected between the first load connection and the second load connection and between the inductor connection point and the common connection of the control box; and g. the first capacitor electrically connected in series or in parallel with a load. | 40,939 |
9,373,816 | 1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising: a substrate; an organic light emitting diode on the substrate; and a thin film encapsulation layer comprising a first inorganic layer having a first density on the substrate and a second inorganic layer having a second density on the first inorganic layer, the second density being different from the first density, and the organic light emitting diode being encapsulated between the thin film encapsulation layer and the substrate, wherein the thin film encapsulation layer further comprises an intermediate layer between the first inorganic layer and the second inorganic layer, wherein the intermediate layer is a single layer, wherein the intermediate layer has a first surface contacting the first inorganic layer and a second surface contacting the second inorganic layer, and wherein the intermediate layer has a density that gradually changes from the first density at the first surface to the second density at the second surface. | 15,312 |
9,773,491 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at one or more processing devices, a first plurality of values representing a set of current coefficients of an adaptive filter disposed in an active noise cancellation system; computing, by the one or more processing devices, a second plurality of values each of which represents an instantaneous difference between a current coefficient and a corresponding preceding coefficient of the adaptive filter; estimating, based on the second plurality of values, one or more instantaneous magnitudes of a transfer function that represents an effect of a secondary path of the active noise cancellation system; updating the first plurality of values based on estimates of the one or more instantaneous magnitudes to generate a set of updated coefficients for the adaptive filter; and programming the adaptive filter with the set of updated coefficients to affect operation of the adaptive filter. | 11,576 |
9,848,313 | 1. A method comprising: by a computing device, identifying an emergency event; by the computing device, determining that a threshold percentage of users who are associated with the emergency event have posted content related to the emergency event to an online social network; by the computing device, sending, in response to the determination, a safety-check prompt to each of a first set of users; by the computing device, determining a current-prompting probability based on one or more engagement metrics of the safety-check prompt by the first set of users; and by the computing device, sending, in response to determining that the current-prompting probability is above a first threshold probability, the safety-check prompt to each of a second set of users, wherein the second set of users comprises more users than the first set of users. | 20,314 |
9,700,832 | 1. A method comprising: contacting a gaseous stream comprising sulfur-containing compounds with an amine composition comprising a mixture of at least two sterically hindered amines obtained from the reaction of a polyethylene glycol with a tertiarybutylamine in the presence of a nickel-based hydrogenation catalyst wherein the at least two sterically hindered amines comprise a first amine with the formula: and a second amine with the formula: wherein x is an integer from 3 to 14; y is an integer from 3 to 14, and the weight ratio of the first amine to the second amine is about 2.5:1 to about 6:1. | 8,882 |
8,771,710 | 1. A diagnostic kit for detecting asymptomatic or sub-clinical visceral leishmaniasis in a biological sample selected from the group consisting of sera, blood, and saliva, comprising: (a) an fusion polypeptide comprising (b) a detection reagent. | 24,997 |
9,808,764 | 1. A method of operating a reverse osmosis system, wherein the reverse osmosis system comprises (i) a membrane chamber having a feed line and generating a permeate stream and a brine stream, and (ii) a booster device having a turbine portion in fluid communication with the brine stream, a pump portion in fluid communication with the feed line, and a first motor coupled to the turbine portion using a common shaft between the turbine portion, pump portion, and first motor, the method comprising: pressurizing the feed line using a feed pump; generating a first flow signal, via a first flow meter, corresponding to a flow of fluid in the permeate stream; operating a variable frequency drive attached to the first motor in response to the first flow signal; controlling the first motor in response to the variable frequency drive; generating a second flow signal, via a second flow meter, corresponding to a flow of fluid in the brine stream; and controlling an opening to the turbine portion by adjusting a variable size nozzle in response to the second flow signal. | 771 |
9,404,648 | 1. A Light Emitting Diode (LED) light fixture equipped with a cooling system, comprising: a light fixture housing; at least one LED lighting module within the light fixture housing, wherein the at least one LED lighting module comprises a heat sink, a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), LEDs affixed to the PCB, and a lens covering the LEDs; wherein the light fixture housing comprises an opening for the lens of the at least one LED lighting module; at least one driver within the light fixture housing and electronically coupled with the at least one LED lighting module; a power input interface electronically coupled with the driver; a cooling system comprising a watertight liquid cooling manifold within the light fixture housing, wherein the liquid cooling manifold comprises: wherein the light fixture housing comprises an opening for the liquid intake fitting, and an opening for the liquid expulsion fitting; and wherein the liquid cooling manifold is arranged so that when the liquid intake and liquid expulsion fittings are positioned at corresponding openings in the light fixture housing, the at least one liquid cooling conduit is in thermal communication with the heat sink of the at least one LED lighting module. | 32,457 |
8,535,429 | 1. Apparatus for the treatment of process gas, comprising: an anaerobic digestion system comprising a manure collection system for gathering manure and transporting it to an anaerobic digester, an anaerobic digester, and a biogas handling system for upgrading biogas from the digester to a process gas that is natural gas pipeline quality; a caustic scrubber comprising a vertical column having a top and a bottom and including a counter current flow system, wherein the process gas stream flows up vertically through the column in counter current flow to a caustic liquid solution that flows downward through the column; wherein the caustic liquid solution comprises an NaOH solution; wherein the caustic liquid solution removes at least one acid from the process gas stream; and wherein treated gas that is substantially free of acids bubbles out through an opening at the top of the vertical column. | 39,912 |
8,456,740 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first optical component configured to transmit at least first and second wavelengths that are different, said first and second wavelengths travelling along respective first and second optical paths, said first optical component having a first dispersion characteristic that introduces a first optical path-length difference between a first optical path length traveled by said first wavelength along said first optical path through said first optical component and a second optical path length traveled by said second wavelength along said second optical path through said first optical component, wherein said second optical path length is shorter than said first optical path length; a path-length adjusting optical component that is reflective to each of said first and second wavelengths and configured to compensate for said first optical path-length difference introduced by said dispersion characteristic of said first optical component, wherein first and second optical paths each include a reflection by said path-length adjusting optical component, wherein a third optical path length traveled by said first wavelength along said first optical path from arrival at to departure from said optical component is shorter than a fourth optical path length traveled by said second wavelength along said second optical path from arrival at to departure from said optical component, wherein a second optical path-length difference between said third optical path length and said fourth optical path length is approximately equal to said first optical path-length difference. | 43,441 |
9,430,018 | 1. An electronic apparatus, comprising: a plurality of operation input units configured to receive an operation input and enable operations by processing based on different functions; an operating unit group configured to perform the processing based on the different functions by one or more operating units operating after the operation input; an energy-saving control unit configured to perform energy-saving control for shifting one or more of the operating units to an energy-saving mode and reactivating one or more of the operating units from the energy-saving mode, and as a partial reactivation mode, reactivate one or more of the operating units necessary for the operation after the operation input when the operation input during the energy-saving mode is common to a plurality of functions; and a reactivation mode switching unit configured to switch to a reactivation mode for reactivation from the energy-saving mode, the reactivation mode being set in the energy-saving control unit, wherein, in addition to the partial reactivation mode, the reactivation mode includes: | 35,145 |
9,476,847 | 1. A system configured for delivering and analyzing crude oil comprising: a spectroscopic analyzer that detects compositional properties of crude oil; a conduit that allows fluid communication with the spectroscopic analyzer, the conduit being configured for receiving the crude oil from a source of crude oil and configured for delivering the crude oil into the spectroscopic analyzer; a heat exchanger in thermal communication with an interior of the conduit that exchanges heat with the crude oil when the crude oil is in the conduit; and a controller configured to actuate the heat exchanger in order to maintain crude oil that is entering the spectroscopic analyzer from the conduit at a set point temperature. | 14,659 |
8,835,324 | 1. A method for forming contact holes, comprising: providing a substrate overlaid with an etching stop layer and an interlayer dielectric layer in that order; performing a first etching process to form at least a first contact opening in the interlayer dielectric layer; forming a first carbon-containing dielectric layer overlying the interlayer dielectric layer and filling into the first contact opening; forming a first anti-reflective layer and a first patterned photo resist layer in that order overlying the first carbon-containing dielectric layer; and performing a second etching process by using the first patterned photo resist layer as an etching mask to form at least a second contact opening in the interlayer dielectric layer; wherein the first contact opening and the second contact opening are provided side by side in the interlayer dielectric layer. | 10,140 |
8,928,172 | 1. A booster control apparatus for controlling a booster provided between a battery and a load in an idling-stop vehicle in which a boosting operation of the booster is initiated in connection with a restart of an engine after an idling-stop, said booster control apparatus comprising: a first target voltage determination part configured to determine a first target voltage, based on a detected value or an estimated value of a voltage of the battery at the beginning of the idling-stop; a second target voltage determination part configured to determine a second target voltage, based on a detected value or an estimated value of a voltage of the battery at the beginning of the boosting operation of the booster; a target voltage setting part configured to set a target voltage for an output voltage of the booster; and a controlling part configured to control the booster based on the target voltage set by the target voltage setting part in such a manner that the output voltage of the booster follows the target voltage, wherein when the boosting operation of the booster is initiated in connection with the restart of the engine after the idling-stop, the target voltage setting part sets the target voltage in such a manner that the target voltage gradually increases from the second target voltage determined by the second target voltage determination part to the first target voltage determined by the first target voltage determination part. | 12,067 |
8,400,019 | 1. A system, comprising: a source high-Q resonator, configured to be coupled to an energy source, the source high-Q resonator having a resonant frequency ω a second source high-Q resonator, configured to be coupled to an energy source, the second source high-Q resonator having a resonant frequency ω a third high-Q resonator, the third high-Q resonator having a resonant frequency ω wherein at least one of the source resonators and the third resonator are configured to be coupled to transfer electromagnetic energy from at least one of the said source resonators to said third resonator via wireless near-field energy transfer. | 11,924 |
9,443,308 | 1. A method for a six degree of freedom position and orientation determination of a three dimensional known shape in a scenery, the method comprising: taking a range image by means of a range imaging camera with a range image module having a sensor array with a first number of pixels, wherein for each of the first pixels a range information from the sensor to a point of the scenery is determined, resulting in a 3D cluster of points; taking a visual picture with a digital camera with an image sensor having a second number of pixels, resulting in a 2D picture, wherein the 2D picture includes intensity and spectral information, wherein a relation of the first and the second pixels fields of view is known, wherein the second number of pixels is higher than the first number of pixels; geometrically fitting of a stored 3D digital representation of the known shape in a virtual space to virtually match with the reproduction of the known shape in the taken 2D picture and the taken 3D cluster of points; a first matching of the 3D digital representation with the visual picture and a second matching of the 3D digital representation with the range image and determining the six degree of freedom position and orientation by combining the results of the first and second matching; and determining the six degree of freedom position and orientation of the known shape in the scenery according to the virtual match. | 8,268 |
8,993,162 | 1. A positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery, the positive electrode comprising: a positive electrode current collector; an electrically conductive layer laminated on a surface of the positive electrode current collector, said electrically conductive layer comprising an electrically conductive material and a first binder, and said electrically conductive layer not comprising a positive electrode active material; and a positive electrode active material layer laminated on the electrically conductive layer, said active material layer comprising a positive electrode active material and a second binder, wherein the first binder in the electrically conductive layer consists of at least one type of water-insoluble polymer that is soluble in an organic solvent, the second binder in the active material layer consists of at least one type of water-soluble polymer and/or water-dispersible polymer that dissolves or disperses in water, and wherein a mass ratio (B/A) of mass (B) per unit surface area of the water-soluble and/or water-dispersible binder in the active material layer to mass (A) per unit surface area of the water-insoluble binder in the electrically conductive layer satisfies a relationship of 0.06≦B/A≦0.35. | 29,017 |
9,431,373 | 1. An integrated structure comprising: a pair of integrated circuits (ICs) having upper faces joined together to define an interface therebetween and with each IC including a respective one of a pair of metallic lines at the interface, the pair of metallic lines being laterally spaced apart to permit diffusion therebetween, a first IC of said pair of ICs having a plurality of cavities extending from a surface of said first IC and passing therethrough and opening onto respective electrical contact locations in electrical contact with said pair of metallic lines, one of the plurality of cavities extending through the interface to a second IC of said pair of ICs. | 10,519 |
8,680,209 | 1. A method for producing a stabilized fluoropolymer which comprises producing said stabilized fluoropolymer by subjecting a treatment target substance containing a sulfonic-acid-derived-group-containing fluoropolymer to a fluorination treatment, wherein said sulfonic-acid-derived-group-containing fluoropolymer is a fluoropolymer containing —SO said treatment target substance has a moisture content of not higher than 500 ppm by mass, said method comprising the steps of producing said sulfonic-acid-derived-group-containing fluoropolymer by emulsion polymerization, drying said sulfonic-acid-derived-group-containing fluoropolymer to produce said treatment target substance, and fluorinating said treatment target substance, wherein the sulfonic-acid-derived-group-containing fluoropolymer is a copolymer which is at least binary comprising an acid-derived group-containing perhalovinyl ether represented by the general formula (I): (wherein Y a copolymerizable monomer with said acid-derived group-containing perhalovinyl ether, said copolymerizable monomer is an “other vinyl ether” other than said acid-derived group-containing perhalovinyl ether and an ethylenic monomer, and said copolymer comprises 5 to 40 mole percent of an acid-derived group-containing perhalovinyl ether unit derived from said acid-derived group-containing perhalovinyl ether, 60 to 95 mole percent of an ethylenic monomer unit derived from said ethylenic monomer and 0 to 5 mole percent of an “other vinyl ether unit” derived from said “other vinyl ether”. | 36,890 |
9,048,749 | 1. A power supply of an electronic apparatus, the power supply comprising: a rectifier configured to rectify an alternating current (AC) power input as input power, into a direct current (DC); a power factor correction (PFC) circuit configured to correct a power factor of a DC voltage converted by the rectifier; a switching circuit configured to convert the DC voltage output by the PFC circuit into a predetermined operating voltage and standby voltage and supply the operating voltage and the standby voltage to the electronic apparatus; and an output controller configured to control the PFC circuit and the switching circuit in order to convert the DC voltage into the predetermined operating voltage and standby voltage by the switching circuit and to supply the operating voltage and the standby voltage to the electronic apparatus, wherein the switching circuit comprises a first converter configured to convert the DC voltage output by the PFC circuit into a level of the predetermined standby voltage and supplies the DC voltage to the electronic apparatus, a second converter which converts the DC voltage output by the PFC circuit into a level of the predetermined normal operating voltage and supplies the DC voltage to the electronic apparatus, and a switching module which is connected to an input terminal of the first and second converters and switches a current flow, wherein the first converter comprises a primary coil, and a first secondary coil to which a predetermined voltage is applied by the primary coil, and wherein the second converter comprises the primary coil, and a second secondary coil which is connected to the primary coil in parallel with the first secondary coil in order to share the primary coil. | 43,910 |
9,210,787 | 1. A shield device for a plasma arc torch, the shield device comprising multiple gas chambers that direct auxiliary gas at multiple injection locations around a plasma stream of the plasma arc torch, the multiple gas chambers defined by an outer shield member surrounding an inner shield member, wherein the inner shield member and the outer shield member each include an extension extending beyond a distal-most plane proximate an exit orifice of a distal end of a tip of the plasma arc torch, and wherein each of the extensions further extend radially towards the exit orifice of the tip. | 26,888 |
9,430,253 | 1. A computer-implemented method for Extensible Markup Language (XML) data binding, the method comprising: a computer receiving an element class that is created for a non-atomic class from a program code used for creating objects to be serialized into an XML document, the element class comprising: the computer receiving an attribute class that is created for an atomic class, wherein the non-atomic class refers to the atomic class, and wherein the attribute class comprises a second constructor, a serializer, and a de-serializer; and the computer generating the XML document using the element class, the attribute class, and serializing code in the super element class, wherein the serializing code is executed when the decomposer and the serializer are invoked. | 21,719 |
9,757,614 | 1. An exercise apparatus comprising: a foot support suspended from above by a suspension assembly on a frame, the foot support being movable by the user on the frame between a rearwardmost downward position and a forwardmost upward position through any one of a plurality of complete, reproducible and different arc segments of a master arcuate path that is the same path from the rearwardmost downward position to the forwardmost upward position and back to the rearwardmost downward position, each different arc segment being individually selectable by the user, each said different arc segment being defined by movement of the foot support between a corresponding different forwardmost upward position and different rearwardmost downward position, each of said different arc segments having a different degree of incline corresponding to each different forwardmost upward and rearwardmost downward position of the foot support, a resistance assembly interconnected to the foot support, the resistance assembly being adapted to exert a resistance to movement of the foot support by the user, the foot support being interconnected to a selection device that enables the user to select any one of the plurality of arc segments, the selection device being manually actuatable by the user to exert a selectable amount of manual force on the selection device that operates to selectively position the resistance assembly according to the selectable amount or degree of manual force exerted by the user on the selection device, one or more detectors adapted to take measurements of the user's performance of all or a portion of an exercise cycle during the course of said performance, the one or more detectors sending signals to a processor, the signals indicative of the measurements, the processor receiving the signals from the one or more detectors and processing the signals according to a predetermined algorithm to generate a visually recognizable output format of one or more of the measurements or other result calculable from said signals, the processor being interconnected to and sending the output to the visual display, the visual display being arranged and displaying the output to the user in a location on the apparatus that is readily observable by the user, wherein the processor includes control instructions that instruct the processor to send a review to the visual display once the user has completed a workout routine, the workout routine comprising one or more exercise cycles, and the review comprising a visually recognizably formatted output including one or more of an average, total, or other result calculable from the one or more signals of the course of the workout routine. | 15,283 |
8,951,316 | 1. A process for the production and combustion of synthesis gas by gasification with air or oxygen or oxygen-enriched air with a potential content of water vapour, comprising: supplying a solid or liquid fuel to a reactor where the fuel reacts with air or oxygen or oxygen-enriched air and with water vapour at elevated temperature to form a synthesis gas which mainly comprises hydrogen and carbon monoxide; obtaining mineral slag droplets during the reaction, which droplets are discharged from the reactor together with the synthesis gas produced; and routing the synthesis gas without pre-cooling to a slag separation unit in which slag droplets agglomerate and are withdrawn as liquid slag, and removing vaporous alkalis and hydrogen chloride contained in the synthesis gas from the synthesis gas by bringing them into contact with getter ceramics, wherein after treatment the synthesis gas is passed through an expansion turbine wherein the pressure and heat energy of the synthesis gas are converted to rotational energy; and the synthesis gas is then burnt and expanded in one of the subsequent process steps of a gas turbine and the combustion gases are used for driving a turbine and generating steam. | 42,520 |
8,354,586 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: a front glass substrate and a plurality of thin film layer disposed thereon, the thin film layers comprising, in order moving outwardly from the front glass substrate: a rear glass substrate; wherein the buffer layer comprising CdSnOx has a thickness from about 20 to 50 nm and a resistivity of at least about 10 mohm-cm. | 48,752 |
9,158,633 | 1. A method comprising: making a plurality of time-ordered journal entries for incrementally backing up a dynamic source file as a backup data set; determining that a corruption condition exists; responsive to detection of the corruption condition, constructing a first incremental mirror data set that reflects the backup data set and all journal entries up to, but not including, a first corrupted journal entry which is the earliest in time journal entry, of the plurality of journal entries, that is a corrupted journal entry; responsive to detection of the corruption condition, constructing a second incremental mirror data set that reflects the backup data set and all journal entries up to, and including, the first corrupted journal entry; and checking for corruption in the first and second incremental mirror data sets to determine that the first incremental mirror data set is a most up to data set which: (i) is uncorrupted, and (ii) can be constructed from the backup data set and the plurality of time-ordered journal entries; wherein: at least the checking for corruption performed by machine logic implemented by a machine. | 29,239 |
9,817,148 | 1. A borehole while-drilling electromagnetic tomography advanced detection apparatus, comprising a site host, a drilling rig, a detecting pipe screwed coupling on one end to a drilling stem of the drilling rig, a drilling bit screwed coupling to the other end of the detecting pipe, wherein the detecting pipe is provided with a probe comprising a transmitting coil, a receiving coil, an electromagnetic transmitting module, an electromagnetic receiving module, a SCM, a 3D electronic compass, a probe network interface and a first memory, in which the memory port of the SCM is connected to the first memory, the communication port of the SCM is connected to the probe network interface, the compass communication port of the SCM is connected to the communication port of the 3D electronic compass, the electromagnetic transmission control signal output of the SCM is connected to the input of the electromagnetic transmitting module, the electromagnetic receiving port of the SCM is connected to the output of the electromagnetic receiving module, the output of the electromagnetic transmitting module is connected to the transmitting coil, the input of the electromagnetic receiving module is connected to the receiving coil, and the probe network interface is data-communicated with the site host; wherein the site host comprises a CPU, a second memory, a human interface device, a host network interface and a system bus, wherein the CPU is connected to the second memory, the human interface device and the host network interface via the system bus, and the host network interface is data-communicated with the probe network interface; wherein the detecting pipe is provided with a transmitting coil base, a receiving coil base and a probe circuit chamber, wherein the transmitting coil is wound on the transmitting coil base, the receiving coil is wound on the receiving coil base, and the electromagnetic transmitting module, the electromagnetic receiving module, the SCM, the 3D electronic compass, the probe network interface and the first memory are mounted into the probe circuit chamber. | 1,301 |
8,928,166 | 1. An electric power generation system (EPGS) comprising: a wild-source generator coupled to receive mechanical power from a low-pressure spool on an aircraft engine and to generate in response a wild-source output for consumption by voltage and frequency-tolerant loads, wherein the wild-source output is voltage unregulated and speed unregulated; and a variable-frequency and/or constant frequency generator with regulated voltage output coupled to receive mechanical power from a high-pressure spool on the aircraft engine and to generate in response a variable and/or constant frequency output for consumption by voltage and frequency-intolerant loads. | 5,552 |
9,291,095 | 1. A rotary internal combustion engine, comprising: an arcuate compression chamber; an arcuate expansion chamber; an output shaft; and a piston coupled to the output shaft for movement through the arcuate compression chamber and the arcuate expansion chamber, the piston having a leading end, a trailing end, an inlet valve that is located at the leading end of the piston for receiving a compressible fluid from the arcuate compression chamber, an outlet valve that is located at the trailing end of the piston for expelling a combustion gas into the arcuate expansion chamber, and a fuel delivery port that provides a fuel directly to an internal chamber of the piston, wherein the compressible fluid is an oxidant that does not include fuel, the compressible fluid is mixed with the fuel in the internal chamber of the piston to define a combustible mixture, the combustible mixture is located within the internal chamber of the piston as the piston enters the arcuate expansion chamber, and the combustible mixture is combusted within the piston as the piston moves through the arcuate expansion chamber to produce the combustion gas. | 13,173 |
9,344,867 | 1. A method, comprising: processing, by a server, a communication from a sender's communications address that identifies a destination communications address; associating, by the server, the destination communications address to a profile; retrieving, by the server, a plurality of communications addresses from the profile that are associated with the destination communications address; sending, from the server, the sender's communications address to each one of the plurality of communications addresses; receiving, by the server, a recipient communications address of the plurality of communications addresses that accepted the communication; and sending, by the server, the recipient communications address to the sender's communications address; wherein the each one of the plurality of communications addresses is notified of the communication. | 48,944 |
9,676,647 | 1. A process of forming glassware that includes the steps of: (a) acquiring a neck ring system with at least one material handler; (b) transferring the neck ring system to a blank mold station; (c) blank molding a glass gob into glassware having a neck finish formed by the neck ring system; (d) transferring the glassware carried by the neck ring system to a blow mold station; (e) blow molding the glassware carried by the neck ring system; (f) transferring the glassware carried by the neck ring system to a ware handler; and (g) opening the neck ring system to release the glassware from the neck ring system without releasing the at least one material handler from the neck ring system, wherein the glassware is carried by the neck ring system through the entire glassware forming process from the blank molding station to the ware handler, (h) releasing the neck ring system from the at least one material handler to a return conveyor; (i) conveying the neck ring system to a location proximate the blank mold station, and (j) repeating steps (a) through (j). | 32,386 |
9,431,110 | 1. An electronic system comprising: supervisory circuitry to generate a memory access; and at least one memory coupled to the supervisory circuitry, the at least one memory comprising: | 17,148 |
9,309,818 | 1. A method of controlling operation of a spark-ignition internal-combustion engine comprising at least one combustion chamber and able to use a single-fuel or a multi-fuel combustion mode with two fuel types comprising at least one fuel type comprising a high octane number and a low energy density and at least another fuel type comprising a low octane number lower than the high octane number of the at least one fuel and a high energy density higher than the low energy density of the at least one fuel, a method wherein the energy required for the engine to operate in single-fuel mode is provided either by the at least one fuel type or by the at least another fuel type and wherein the energy required for the engine to operate in multi-fuel mode is provided by a combination of the two fuels, characterized in that, for engine operation in multi-fuel mode, the method comprises the steps of: determining the set values of the overall energy density and of the overall octane number resulting from the combination of the two fuels, feeding into the combustion chamber the two fuels with a proportion intended to reach the set values, evaluating the real values of the overall energy density and of the overall octane number of the two fuels, in case of a difference between the set values and the real values, in compensating for this difference by varying the proportion of at least one of the two fuels so as to obtain the set energy density and octane number. | 31,070 |
8,838,996 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program executed by a computer, the program comprising: a designation receiving unit that receives a designation of a protection target section which is a protection target for the program; a movement arranging unit that moves and arranges the protection target section of the program to a second arrangement location which is different from a first arrangement location which corresponds to an arrangement location of the protection target section of the program; and a changing unit that changes the protection target section of the program to a substitution code, the substitution code including the protection target section in the second arrangement location, the changing unit converting code of the protection target section into an individual code relationship for a virtual machine, wherein the substitution code causes a native environment to execute: | 19,863 |
9,017,361 | 1. A method of treating a hollow anatomical structure having a lumen, the method comprising: inserting an implant into the lumen, the implant comprising a radially-compressible fibrous mass and a tether extending axially through the fibrous mass to a distal tether end coupled to a distal end of the fibrous mass, wherein the fibrous mass predominantly comprises a plurality of loose bioabsorbable fibers that are in substantial alignment with each other along their lengths, wherein the fibers are radially-bulked, such that when the fibrous mass is in a radially compressed configuration, each of the fibers has a greater length and defines a smaller radial thickness than when the fibrous mass is in a radially uncompressed configuration, wherein inserting the implant comprises inserting the implant into the lumen with the fibrous mass in its compressed configuration, and so that the tether has a proximal end extending outside of the hollow anatomical structure, and wherein the hollow anatomical structure comprises a blood vessel; securing the proximal end of the tether to tissue outside of the hollow anatomical structure; allowing the fibrous mass to expand within the lumen from its radially compressed configuration toward its radially uncompressed configuration as the fibers of the fibrous mass decrease in length and thereby define a greater radial thickness, thereby creating a high void-content scaffold spanning a section of the lumen of the hollow anatomical structure and causing a partial occlusion of the lumen, wherein causing the partial occlusion comprises reducing blood flow through the lumen by 10%-90%; and gradually creating a substantially complete occlusion of the lumen by allowing blood to infiltrate the voids of the scaffold. | 39,002 |
9,024,533 | 1. A switching current regulator comprising: a switch for receiving a regulating signal for switching the switch to an ON/OFF state for turning on/off a load, wherein the load is a light emitting device (LED), the LED being coupled between a power supply and an inductor coupled to the switch; a sense resistor coupled to the switch, wherein the sense resistor is configured to carry a sense current based on a load current flowing through the load; an integrator coupled to the switch, wherein the integrator is configured to perform integrator operations comprising: a control system coupled to the integrator and the switch, wherein the control system is configured to perform control operations comprising: | 6,627 |
8,703,714 | 1. An antibody-drug conjugate having Formula Ia′: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Ab is an antibody A is a Stretcher unit, a is 1, each W is independently an Amino Acid unit, w is an integer ranging from 2 to 12, Y is a Spacer unit, and y is 1 or 2, p ranges from 1 to about 20, D is a drug moiety of Formula D wherein the wavy line of D R R R R or R R R each R R R Z is O, S, NH, or NR R m is an integer ranging from 1-1000; R R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R n is an integer ranging from 0 to 6. | 29,687 |
9,800,148 | 1. A control module for controlling a switching converter, which includes an inductor element and a switch element and is configured to generate an output electric quantity starting from an input electric quantity, said control module comprising: a switch control circuit configured to generate a command signal for controlling switching of the switch element; and an estimator stage configured to generate an estimation signal that estimates said input electric quantity; based at least in part on a length of time during which both the command signal indicates that the switch element is switched to a non-conductive state and a first control signal indicates said inductor element is magnetized; said switch control circuit being configured to generate the command signal based on the estimation signal. | 31,570 |
8,726,610 | 1. A method of assembling a tower comprising: providing a plurality of metal rings; circumferentially joining the plurality of metal rings with a girth weld, the girth weld creating an adjacent heat affected zone in each of the joined metal rings; removing at least one portion of the girth weld and the adjacent heat affected zones, wherein the at least one portion is at a predetermined location along the girth weld; providing a plurality of inserts, each insert having a plurality of substantially linear edges; attaching the plurality of inserts over the at least one removed portion along the girth weld, the plurality of inserts being positioned perpendicular to a weld direction and the plurality of substantially linear edges intersecting the girth weld normal to the weld direction and extending beyond the adjacent heat affected zones; repeating the steps of circumferentially joining through attaching until the desired section length is achieved; securing attachment members to a first side and a second side of the each of the sections; and joining the sections using the attachment members to form the tower; wherein the plurality of inserts prevent fatigue crack propagation in the joined metal rings of the sections of the tower. | 47,889 |
9,321,287 | 1. A printing position and cutting position adjusting method, comprising: printing a correction value deriving image on a medium, the correction value deriving image being used to calculate a value of correction of an ink-jet head in a sub scanning direction relative to image data of an image, during the image is printed on the medium by the ink-jet head that discharges an ink on the medium for printing; calculating a ratio, in the sub scanning direction, of the image printed on the medium to the image data based on the correction value deriving image; and printing the image on the medium using the ink-jet head and cutting the medium using a cutting head based on the image data, wherein the cutting head, before cutting the medium based on the image data, corrects a cutting position in the sub scanning direction based on the value of correction and then cuts the medium. | 49,675 |
8,788,347 | 1. A computer-implemented method for calendaring a reminder, the method comprising: storing, by a computer system, one or more records identifying one or more products; storing, by the computer system, within the one or more records, a time period for each product of the one or more products, the time period identifying for a corresponding product of the one or more products an expected length of time between purchases of the corresponding product by a customer; conducting, by a point-of-sale system forming part of the computer system, a point-of-sale transaction comprising a sale of one or more goods or services to the customer, the sale occurring on a first date; searching, by the computer system, data documenting the sale to determine whether any product of the one or more products was purchased as part of the sale; determining, by the computer system based on the searching, that a first good or service purchased in the sale is a first product of the one or more products; and scheduling, by the computer system, a reminder for the customer to make another purchase of the first product on a second date, the temporal spacing between the second date and the first date being equal to the time period stored in the one or more records for the first product. | 4,612 |
9,084,371 | 1. A wiring substrate, comprising: a metal plate; a wiring pattern formed by the metal plate; and a base material to which the wiring pattern is fixed, wherein the wiring pattern has a mounting pad on a first surface of the wiring pattern for surface-mounting a component, the mounting pad comprises a recess that is filled with solder to surface-mount the component, the component elongates in a longitudinal direction, the recess has a width direction and a depth direction that are perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and a dimension of the recess is greater than a dimension of the component in the width direction, the component is mounted on the surface of the wiring pattern such that two ends of the component are positioned between two ends of the recess in the width direction, and one end of the component in the longitudinal direction is positioned within the entire periphery of the recess, and the recess is provided at a position spaced from edges of the wiring pattern, a bottom surface of the component mounted on the mounting pad contacts with the solder filled in the recess, and a dimension between the bottom surface of the component and the bottom of the recess is equal to or greater than a dimension of the recess in the depth direction, and the wiring pattern has a second surface, a part of the second surface being fixed to the base material. | 38,017 |
9,256,264 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a main storage unit comprising at least a first operating system and a second operating system, wherein the first operating system comprises a first hibernation utility and first data, and the second operating system comprises a second hibernation utility and second data; and a memory comprising at least a first region and a second region, wherein the first hibernation utility is configured to save the first data to the first region in first hibernation during which the first operating system is stopped while the first data is retained in the memory, wherein the second hibernation utility is configured to determine whether the second data shares a common block with the first data saved to the first region in second hibernation during which the second operating system is stopped while the second data is retained in the memory, wherein the second hibernation utility is configured not to save the common block of the second data to the first region, and wherein the second hibernation utility is configured to record the information of the common block in the second region. | 37,169 |
9,728,282 | 1. A remotely operated manipulator, comprising: a circular base which includes a fixing device to fix the circular base to a wall surface; a beam rotatably installed to the circular base; a trolley movably installed to the beam; a mast which is installed so as to be capable of being raised and lowered with respect to the trolley and is mounted with a tool exchange device at a tip; a tool unit mounted on the tool exchange device; and a beam fixing device which is provided at the beam, extends to fix the beam to the wall surface, and shortens to release the beam from the wall surface. | 7,348 |
8,785,388 | 1. A method of treating an immune-mediated disease in a patient comprising the step of: administering a pharmaceutical composition to said patient in need thereof, said composition including a cell delivery agent that is a cell-penetrating peptide selected from the group consisting of TAT, penetratin, VP22, transportan, synthetic oligoarginines, and combinations thereof that is conjugated to a cell death agent that is the BH3 domain of Bim, in an amount sufficient to provide a clinically observable improvement in the disease symptoms of said patient; wherein said immune-mediated disease is selected from the group consisting of rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis. | 2,139 |
8,691,422 | 1. A releasable power cell interconnect comprising: a substrate comprising a plurality of releasable contact regions, each releasable contact region being positioned to overlay a respective terminal of a power cell; and at least a first conductive interconnect member affixed to the substrate, the first conductive interconnect member comprising at least a first conductive releasable contact disposed within a first releasable contact region of the substrate, the first conductive releasable contact being positioned to form a releasable electrical connection with a terminal of a first power cell when a force is applied to the first releasable contact region in a direction toward the terminal of the first power cell, wherein the substrate is flexible; and a magnetic member configured to generate a magnetic force that is a function of temperature and configured to magnetically couple with the first power cell to contribute to at least a portion of the force applied to the first releasable contact region that forms the releasable electrical connection. | 8,718 |
9,331,214 | 1. A diode cell module for use within photovoltaic systems including a photovoltaic panel, comprising: a electrically conductive lead frame including: a first diode in electrical contact with the diode portion of the first lead and with the diode portion of the second lead and a second diode joined with the diode portion of the third lead and the second diode portion of the second lead. | 49,715 |
9,616,012 | 1. An aqueous conditioning composition for hair comprising cationic starch consisting of hydroxypropyl oxidized starch PG trimonium chloride and at least one monosaccharide derived cationic polymer selected from cationic polymers of guar, wherein the ratio of hydroxypropyl oxidized starch PG trimonium chloride to the at least one monosaccharide derived cationic polymer is in the range of 2:1 to 1:2, wherein the hydroxypropyl oxidized starch PG trimonium chloride is present at a concentration of 0.01 to 5% by weight and the at least one monosaccharide derived cationic polymer is present at a concentration of 0.01 to 5% by weight, all values are calculated to total composition. | 23,693 |
8,598,021 | 1. A method of implanting ions into a workpiece while minimizing the formation of junctions along an edge of said workpiece, comprising: selecting a dopant of a first conductivity to be used in an ion beam to implant into said workpiece; placing a component made of a material having a conductivity opposite said first conductivity near said workpiece; and directing said ion beam toward said workpiece, thereby implanting said dopant into said workpiece, wherein some of said dopant is implanted into said edge of said workpiece, and wherein said ion beam strikes said component, such that said material is back-sputtered into said edge, thereby counteracting an effect of said dopant implanted into said edge. | 34,933 |
9,114,900 | 1. A heat sealed paper cup comprising: a. a cup side wall comprising a peripheral portion that comprises a polyethylene coating that is non-polar and a cup bottom comprising a polyethylene coating that is also non-polar, wherein the cup bottom is heat sealed to the cup side wall with heat and pressure so that molecules of the polyethylene coating of the cup side wall bind to molecules of the polyethylene coating of the cup bottom to form a primary bond between the two polyethylene coatings; and b. polyethylenimine seal promoter between the non-polar polyethylene coated cup side wall and the non-polar polyethylene coated cup bottom that strengthens the primary bond between the molecules of the two polyethylene coatings. | 13,468 |
8,892,639 | 1. A method for processing a file stored in cloud storage comprising: (a) adding an original file to a sharing folder on a cloud storage machine through an owner client device, which is logged in an owner account, wherein the sharing folder belongs to the owner account for sharing to at least one sharing account; (b) synchronizing the original file stored in the sharing folder to at least one sharing client device, which is logged in the at least one sharing account; (c) receiving at least one changed file, which is amended utilizing the original file, from the at least one sharing client device; (d) comparing the at least one changed file with the original file to generate at least one difference between the at least one changed file and the original file to be taken as at least one changed content; (e) generating a summary about the at least one changed content; and (f) displaying the summary on the owner client device. | 16,418 |
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