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9,759,140 | 1. An engine control system of a vehicle, comprising: an estimation module that estimates a crankshaft angle where 50 percent of a mass of fuel is burned during a combustion event based on: an actuator module that controls an engine actuator based on the crankshaft angle where 50 percent of the mass of fuel is burned during the combustion event. | 31,124 |
8,725,801 | 1. A method for sharing diagnostic quality images between a master workstation and one or more peer workstations in a healthcare environment, the method including: generating lookup tables for a master workstation, the lookup tables mapping a color depth that contains information to produce the exact same appearance of an image on other monitor(s) with different display characteristics and a resolution of a display area of the master workstation, and the display area of the master workstation comprises a plurality of monitors; translating a physical monitor configuration of the plurality of monitors of the master workstation to a single coordinate system for the master workstation; communicating a context from the master workstation to a peer workstation, the context including the single coordinate system for the master workstation and the lookup tables for the master workstation; and communicating a plurality of pixel values corresponding to medical imaging data from the master workstation to the peer workstation; painting a display area of the peer workstation with the plurality of pixel values based on the single coordinate system for the master workstation and the lookup tables for the master workstation and wherein the physical monitor configuration of the plurality of monitors of the master workstation comprises a first monitor with a first resolution and a second monitor with a second resolution different than the first resolution. | 22,290 |
9,291,150 | 1. A system to generate electricity using a flow of air, the system comprising: a turbine assembly, comprising: an exterior housing assembly surrounding the turbine assembly, comprising a vertical shaft having a first end and a second end, the first end positioned at or near the turbine assembly and the second end positioned within an alternator/generator, wherein rotation of the cylindrical blade drum causes the alternator/generator to operate to generate electricity. | 32,116 |
8,826,044 | 1. A switch device of a data card with a battery power supply module comprising: a connection detecting module and a battery connection enable switch-off module inside the battery power supply module; wherein the connection detecting module is configured to detect whether the data card is connected to a computer via a computer interface of the data card, and control the battery connection enable switch-off module to switch on a battery circuit of the data card when determining that the data card is connected to the computer, and control the battery connection enable switch-off module to switch off the battery circuit of the data card when determining that the data card is disconnected from the computer; and the battery connection enable switch-off module is configured to switch on or off the battery circuit of the data card under control of the connection detecting module. | 41,352 |
9,545,913 | 1. A method for controlling a powertrain system including an internal combustion engine fixedly coupled to an input member of a multi-mode transmission including first and second torque machines, wherein the multi-mode transmission operates in one of a plurality of fixed-gear and variable modes to transfer torque to an output member through selective activation of first and second clutches, the method comprising: in response to a command to operate the multi-mode transmission: activating only the first clutch, commanding the internal combustion engine to an OFF state, determining engine reactive torque with the engine in the OFF state based upon an engine oil temperature; controlling the first torque machine to generate a first torque output responsive to a drag torque, wherein the first torque output is offset by the engine reactive torque with the engine in the OFF state, and operating the multi-mode transmission by controlling the second torque machine to generate a second torque output responsive to an operator torque request and the first torque output of the first torque machine. | 35,673 |
9,321,052 | 1. A flask for obtaining, from a source, a liquid sample having dissolved hydrocarbon gas, the flask comprising: a pouch composed of a flexible material and being evacuated, the pouch having top and bottom ends and having an opening at the top end; a spout sealably affixed to the opening of the pouch at the top end and defining a first fluid passage communicating with the pouch, the first fluid passage having a first inside dimension and defining a dead volume from a distal end of the spout to a proximal end of the spout toward the pouch; a removable valve removably disposed in the first fluid passage of the spout at least to the proximal end, the removable valve defining a second fluid passage with a second inside dimension less than the first inside dimension, the removable valve with the second fluid passage reducing the dead volume between the spout and the pouch and being operable to communicate the liquid sample with the dissolved hydrocarbon gas into the pouch through the second fluid passage; and a removable cap removably disposed on the spout and retaining at least a portion of the removable valve in the spout. | 38,400 |
8,968,667 | 1. An electrocatalytic system comprising: a first catalyst (A) configured to reduce NO a second catalyst (B) configured to oxidize hydrocarbons (HC) polluting entities and CO present in the gas; and a compound (E), which conducts electrons and ions by oxide ions, wherein catalysts (A) and (B) are in contact with the compound (E), wherein the compound (E) comprises an oxide which conducts ions and electrons, the compound E having formula (I): wherein: Ce is cerium; M is Gd, Y, Sc, Sm, La, Pr, Nd, Er, or Tb; y is from 0.01 to 0.4; N is Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, or Cu; z is less than 0.4; and x is greater than 0.05. | 19,792 |
9,714,175 | 1. A system for extracting lithium carbonate from saline lake water, the system comprising: a reduced-pressure evaporation crystallizer; a vacuum-pumping apparatus; a brine preheating apparatus; and a brine cooling apparatus, wherein the reduced-pressure evaporation crystallizer comprises an outer wall, an inner container and an upper cover, a heater equipped between the outer wall and the inner container, wherein the upper cover comprises a top and a bottom, wherein the top of the upper cover is equipped with a steam outlet and a brine inlet and the bottom of the upper cover is equipped with several detachable fins, wherein the steam outlet is connected with the vacuum-pumping apparatus via pipes, wherein the vacuum-pumping apparatus is connected with the brine preheating apparatus via pipes, and wherein the brine preheating apparatus is connected with the brine cooling apparatus via pipes. | 20,117 |
9,029,715 | 1. A universal conduit body assembly, comprising: a body comprising a first end wall, a second end wall opposite the first end, a first port extending through the first end wall, a second port extending through said second end wall, four sides extending between the first end and the second end, each of said sides having an opening that extends more than halfway between the first end and the second end, said body having a cavity with a first panel anchor at a first corner of said first end wall and spaced inwardly from an inner edge of said opening in each of said four sides, and a second panel anchor at a second corner of said second end wall opposite said first panel anchor and spaced inwardly from the inner edge of said opening; each said opening in said sides having a panel removably coupled to the body to cover the respective opening, said panel having a first panel connector at a first corner of said panel extending through said opening and coupled to said first panel anchor and a second panel connector at a second corner of said panel extending through said opening and coupled to said second panel anchor, each said panel anchors extending between opposite sides of said body and surrounding said first port and second ports. | 5,452 |
9,485,258 | 1. A method for facilitating payment from a user device for a restricted access item hosted by a host system, the method comprising: intercepting, at a mediation system in an access network, a response message that is sent from the host system and designated for the user device, the access network providing a communications interface for the user device to access the Internet, the response message being initiated in response to a request message sent from the user device to the host system, the response message including an authorizer that is encrypted and a pointer related to the restricted access item that leads the user device to a paywall of the host system, the pointer identifying a first URL of the restricted access item, the first URL corresponding to a paywall of the host system, the request message being related to the restricted access item hosted by the host system, the mediation system comprising a processor and memory; determining, at the mediation system in the access network, whether the host system participates in a mediated marketplace service by decrypting the authorizer and checking the authorizer for validity, wherein a valid authorizer indicates that the host system participates in the mediated marketplace service; generating, at the mediation system in the access network, a URL redirect message designated for the user device in response to the determination that the host system participates in the mediated marketplace service, the URL redirect message including a redirect address that bypasses the paywall of the host system and a payment assurance token, the redirect address being related to the restricted access item hosted by the host system but different from the pointer of the response message, the redirect address identifying a second URL of the restricted access item, the second URL being different from the first URL, the second URL corresponding to the mediated marketplace service, and the payment assurance token indicating whether the host system will get paid for the restricted access item; and sending the redirect message from the access network to the user device; wherein the payment assurance token in the redirect message enables the user device to receive the restricted access item from the host system if the payment assurance token indicates that the host system will receive a financial compensation for the restricted access item. | 41,083 |
9,553,713 | 1. An apparatus for communicating with a plurality of audio/video (A/V) end nodes in an Audio Video Bridging (AVB) network, the apparatus comprising: a first A/V end node configured to: | 35,200 |
9,705,992 | 1. A method of remotely changing use of a cellular protocol at a vehicle, comprising the steps of: (a) storing, in a network access device (NAD) at the vehicle, identities of one or more cellular bands that provide cellular service according to an up-to-date cellular protocol and a less sophisticated cellular protocol; (b) wirelessly receiving at the vehicle a computer-readable instruction that deactivates the up-to-date cellular protocol; and (c) in response to the computer-readable instruction, the vehicle: (d) wirelessly communicating via the NAD using the less sophisticated cellular protocol. | 32,742 |
9,496,802 | 1. An inverter device comprising: a three-phase inverter, wherein each phase includes a switching element on a high potential side and a switching element on a low potential side; and a controller programmed to perform two-phase modulation control on switching of the switching elements between an ON state and an OFF state, wherein the controller is programmed to compute a power factor of a load, the controller is programmed to determine whether the computed power factor is less than a preset threshold value, if the controller determines that the computed power factor is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the controller performs a phase shift to shift a central time point of an ON period or an OFF period for two phases other than a stop phase in the two-phase modulation control by 180 degrees, and if the controller determines that the computed power factor is less than the threshold value, the controller supplies the switching elements with ON and OFF control commands to perform the two-phase modulation control without performing the phase shift. | 6,996 |
9,712,163 | 1. A manually operated switching device for a vehicle, comprising: a switch lever; and a touch-sensitive sensor device formed on the switch lever, wherein the touch-sensitive sensor device is for detecting an effect on a sensor surface of the sensor device that leaves the switch lever positionally unchanged and that triggers a switching signal, further comprising an activation device, with which a detecting state of the sensor device is activated as defined by a user, wherein the switching device is a steering column switch, formed from an elongated, curved and hollow body. | 33,118 |
9,356,725 | 1. A method for wireless communication by an evolved Node B (eNB) that transmits on a frequency band, comprising: measuring interference over a plurality of subframes including at least one protected subframes and at least one unprotected subframes, wherein the at least one protected subframes are assigned to the eNB for use by the eNB and restricted from use by a neighboring eNB that transmits on the frequency band used by the eNB; identifying at least one unprotected and usable subframe from said at least one unprotected subframes, said at least one unprotected and usable subframe being at least one subframe assigned to the eNB and the neighboring eNB for transmitting data, wherein the measuring includes: averaging interference measurements for the at least one protected subframes of the plurality of subframes; and averaging interference measurements for all unprotected and usable subframes of the plurality of subframes on which the eNB can one or more of: receive data and transmit data, wherein the measured interference associated with the identified unprotected and usable subframe comprises said average of the interference measurements for all unprotected and usable subframes of the plurality of subframes; and communicating an interference message pertaining to the frequency band when the measured interference associated with the identified at least one unprotected and usable subframe exceeds a threshold value. | 42,071 |
8,688,342 | 1. A vibration restraining control apparatus for a vehicle, the vibration restraining control apparatus comprising: a driving/braking torque producing device to produce a driving/braking torque in a wheel; a first correction torque calculating device to calculate a first correction torque to suppress a sprung vibration of the vehicle in accordance with a wheel speed; a second correction torque calculating device to calculate a second correction torque to suppress the sprung vibration of the vehicle in accordance with a driving/braking torque; an input signal processing device to calculate a correction torque command by assigning weights in accordance with a traveling state and to output the correction torque command to the driving/braking torque producing device; and a wheel speed sensing device to sense the wheel speed; the vibration restraining control apparatus is arranged to vary the weight to the first correction torque to make smaller the weight of the first correction torque when the traveling state is in a condition in which a deviation between a sensed wheel speed and an actual wheel speed becomes greater, than the weight of the first correction torque when the traveling state is not in the condition. | 27,857 |
8,799,714 | 1. A computer-implemented system, the system comprising at least one processor and operatively associated memory, wherein the at least one processor is programmed to: execute an application host; execute a browser, wherein messages originating from the application host and messages directed to the application host are routed through the browser, and wherein the browser is programmed to capture a plurality of application-layer messages, the plurality of application-layer messages comprising a plurality of requests originating from the application host and a plurality of responses directed to the application host; and generate a test scenario based on the plurality of application-layer messages. | 15,457 |
8,685,580 | 1. A fuel cell comprising an electrolyte layer, a gas diffusion layer, and a microporous layer between said electrolyte layer and said gas diffusion layer, wherein said microporous layer comprises an electrolyte material having contained therein electrically conductive particles, an electrolyte stabilizing agent, and a hydrophobic agent, wherein said electrolyte stabilizing agent is present from 0.1 wt. % to 10 wt. % and said hydrophobic agent is present from 5 wt. % to 50 wt. %, based on the total weight of the microporous layer, and wherein said electrolyte stabilizing agent has an affinity for the electrolyte layer so that a metal ion of the electrolyte stabilizing agent migrates from said microporous layer to said electrolyte layer, wherein the electrolyte stabilizing agent comprises zinc phthalocyanine, copper phthalocyanine, iron phthalocyanine, or cobalt phthalocyanine, or an organometallic complex of Cu 2+ , Cu 1+ , Ce 3+ , Ce 4+ , Mn 2+ , Mn 3+ or Zn 2± . | 49,702 |
8,904,771 | 1. An exhaust heat recovery apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a case having an inlet through which an exhaust gas is introduced, and an outlet through which the exhaust gas is selectively exhausted; a heat exchange part mounted in the case, the heat exchange part in which heat exchange of a coolant and a lubricant with respect to the exhaust gas is conducted; a bypass tube connecting the inlet and the outlet of the case in the case, having an inflow opening for inflow of the exhaust gas to the heat exchange part, and allowing the exhaust gas to bypass the heat exchange part; and a variable valve installed in the bypass tube to selectively block flow of the exhaust gas through the bypass tube and induce the exhaust gas to the heat exchange part, wherein the heat exchange part includes a coolant distribution member having a plurality of coolant paths connected to and spaced apart from each other between the bypass tube and the case, and a lubricant distribution member installed in one of the coolant paths and in which the lubricant flows. | 14,448 |
8,391,374 | 1. A method of selectively disregarding co-channel signals in a communications network, the method comprising the steps of: initiating a search sequence for a signal with a packet thereon; receiving the signal; processing the received signal; detecting an in-band signal from the processed signal; and activating a signal reception sequence for the detected in-band signal, the signal reception sequence including a selective packet abort sequence, wherein the selective packet abort sequence includes: | 40,481 |
9,643,500 | 1. A vehicular control device that provides a current control value for (i) a q axis current generating a torque and (ii) a d axis current generating a magnetic field, to a motor mounted in a vehicle to control the motor, the vehicular control device comprising: a rotation angle sensor that senses a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor; and a control unit that controls the motor based on the rotation angle sensed by the rotation angle sensor, the control unit being configured so that when the control unit receives a signal indicating an occurrence of a collision of the vehicle, the control unit | 21,346 |
9,593,362 | 1. A compound of formula (I) which is a substrate of glycosidase: wherein: R R R | 33,832 |
8,917,484 | 1. An apparatus comprising a magnetoresistive (MR) element contacting a magnetic shield comprising (Ni 78 Fe 22 ) 99.8 O 0.2 with a grain size of 12nm or less. | 41,823 |
8,695,516 | 1. Pollution abatement apparatus for removing pollutants from hot flue gas, comprising: a recirculation reactor including inlet structure operable to receive said flue gas, a flue gas outlet, and a solids outlet; a bin operable to hold a sorbent for said pollutants; a sorbent delivery device for transferring sorbent from said bin to said reactor, said reactor operable to react said sorbent and said pollutants, and to generate at said flue gas outlet a flue gas stream having a reduced pollutant content, and at said solids outlet solids including reacted sorbent and pollutants, and unreacted sorbent; a particulate collector including a flue gas inlet operable to receive said flue gas stream from said reactor, and a collected solids outlet; and recirculation apparatus operably coupled between said reactor solids outlet, said particulate collector, and said reactor, said recirculation apparatus including structure comprising valve assembly presenting a pair of outlets operable to divide the solids from said reactor solids outlet into first and second streams, to direct one of said first and second streams to said reactor, and to direct the other of said first and second streams to said particulate collector, said one stream directed to said reactor including said reacted sorbent, pollutants, and unreacted sorbent, said recirculation apparatus further including structure comprising a weighing device operable to continuously monitor the weight per unit time of one of said streams. | 1,281 |
9,376,728 | 1. A composition comprising an isolated or recombinant polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 90% identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO:5, wherein said isolated or recombinant polypeptide comprises a catalytic domain, a fibronectin domain 3 (FN-3) and an Ig-like domain, and has a halophilic thermostable or thermophilic cellobiohydrolase (CBH) activity and 2-5 M of NaCl, 20-30% of an ionic liquid (IL), or a pH of 7.5 to 12.5. | 7,956 |
9,306,084 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter layer of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type on an incident surface of the substrate; a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to the emitter layer in a first direction; a first electrode current collector electrically connected to the plurality of first electrodes in a second direction crossing the first direction; a passivation layer on a rear surface of the substrate opposite the incident surface and having a plurality of contact holes; a second electrode conductive layer of a first conductive material locally formed on the passivation layer and including a plurality of second electrodes, the plurality of second electrodes being directly connected to the plurality of contact holes; second electrode current collectors of a second conductive material directly formed on portions of the passivation layer in the second direction, the second electrode current collectors being connected to the second electrode conductive layer on the passivation layer and not being physically connected to the substrate; and a plurality of back surface field (BSF) layers locally disposed only between the plurality of second electrodes and the substrate through the plurality of contact holes, the plurality of back surface field (BSF) layers having the first conductive type as the substrate, wherein the second electrode conductive layer at least partially overlaps with the second electrode current collectors, wherein an overlapped width of the second electrode conductive layer and the second electrode current collectors is approximately 0.1 mm to 1 mm, and wherein the plurality of second electrodes have a mixture having mixed components of the first conductive material of the second electrode conductive layer, a material of the passivation layer and a material of the substrate. | 5,370 |
9,036,526 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption during a voice communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving a plurality of frames associated with the voice communication; determining, based at least on the received plurality of frames, whether a frame pattern corresponds to a first frame pattern indicating a transition from a speech burst period to a non-speech period and a second frame pattern indicating continuation of the non-speech period, wherein the first frame pattern includes a first silence insertion descriptor (SID) frame followed by one or more null frames and the second frame pattern includes a second SID frame followed by seven null frames; and disabling a portion of a receiver subsystem at the UE for at least a portion of a null frame of the second frame pattern. | 38,412 |
9,481,669 | 1. A compound selected from a compound of formula 1: a compound of formula 2: a compound of formula 3: a compound of formula 4: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. | 17,505 |
9,556,133 | 1. A crystalline form of sodium salt of 1-{4′-[3-methyl-4-((R)-1-phenyl-ethoxycarbonylamino)-isoxazol-5-yl]-biphe-nyl-4-yl}-cyclopropanecarboxylic acid, wherein said crystalline form is a hydrate for use in a therapeutically effective amount in a pharmaceutical formulation wherein the crystalline form: (a) has an X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) pattern derived using Cu Kα radiation with characteristic peaks at 13.2° 2-Theta, 17.2° 2-Theta, 19.3° 2-Theta, 22.4° 2-Theta, and 25.6° 2-Theta; (b) has an X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) pattern substantially the same as shown in (c) has a DSC or a thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) substantially similar to the ones set forth in (d) has an infrared spectrum substantially similar to the one set forth in (e) was obtained from methyl ethyl ketone, acetonitrile, 1,4-dioxane/tert-butyl methyl ether, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)/tert-butyl methyl, or ethanol/heptane; (f) unit cell parameters substantially equal to the following at 25°: or (g) combinations thereof. | 42,714 |
9,035,965 | 1. A method for trim pass color grading video content, the method performed by a processor and comprising: assigning, by the processor, an importance metric to each of a plurality of components of the video content; selecting, by the processor, a subset of the plurality of components for grading during a trim pass color grading based at least in part on the importance metric assigned to each of the plurality of components; and facilitating, by the processor, application of trim pass color grading operations by a colorist only on the selected subset of the plurality of components. | 33,407 |
9,036,285 | 1. A position detection encoder comprising: a scale provided with a plurality of tracks, a detection head moved relative to the scale, and position detection circuits capable of outputting respective pieces of position information on the plurality of tracks, the position detection encoder further comprising: speed detection means provided on the detection head, the speed detection means detecting a relative speed relative to the scale; delay means for providing a time difference between a plurality of output request signals, the time difference being provided on the basis of a fine adjustment time based on the relative speed and the respective pieces of position information on the plurality of tracks, the output request signals urging the position detection circuits to output the position information on the plurality of tracks; computing means for determining time differential values of the respective pieces of position information on the plurality of tracks outputted in response to the plurality of output request signals, computing a difference value between the time differential values, and dividing the difference value by a time differential value of the relative speed so as to determine a division value, the fine adjustment time being specified so that the division value converges to zero. | 3,539 |
9,291,813 | 1. A display comprising: a substrate; an array of apertures formed on the substrate; and an array of MEMS light modulators spaced away from the array of apertures, the array of MEMS light modulators comprising: oriented by one of about 45 degrees, about 60 degrees, or about 90 degrees relative to the first axis, the second group comprising a plurality of second linear arrangements of MEMS light modulators interdigitated with the first linear arrangements. | 46,912 |
9,538,981 | 1. A system, comprising: in combination, an echogenic balloon apparatus and an echogenic delivery apparatus, wherein the balloon apparatus comprises an elongate shaft having a fluid delivery lumen, and an expandable balloon carried on a distal end portion of the elongate shaft, the balloon comprising a balloon body defining an interior region in communication with the fluid delivery lumen of the elongate shaft, the balloon body comprising a wall having one or more embedded fluid pockets therein; and the delivery apparatus comprises an elongate tubular delivery member having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a lumen extending between the proximal and distal portions and sized to accommodate insertion of the balloon apparatus therethrough, and a wall defining at least a portion of the distal portion of the tubular delivery member, the tubular delivery member wall having one or more embedded fluid pockets; each of the respective fluid pockets in the balloon body wall and tubular delivery member wall containing an echogenic fluid such that a substantial cross section of the balloon body wall can be imaged using an ultrasound imaging device when the balloon is in an expanded or deflated configuration. | 6,033 |
8,560,256 | 1. An electrical power system sensor device comprising: sensor circuitry configured to monitor a characteristic of electrical energy which is conducted using an electrical conductor of an electrical power system; an attachment assembly configured to physically couple the sensor device with the electrical conductor and to position the sensor circuitry with respect to the electrical conductor wherein the sensor circuitry monitors the characteristic of the electrical energy which is conducted within the electrical conductor of the electrical power system; and wherein the sensor circuitry is electrically isolated from the electrical conductor of the electrical power system. | 13,849 |
9,185,994 | 1. An infant jumper comprising: a seat assembly comprising a seat platform with a seat mounted thereto, the seat platform defining at least one frame opening; a support frame comprising at least one upright support post extending through the frame opening of the seat platform; and at least one resilient member extending between the support post and the seat platform to suspend the seat assembly from the support frame and allow movement of the seat relative to the support frame. | 5,333 |
8,409,116 | 1. A device for treating a human having a movement disorder comprising: a sensor for sensing an akinetic episode of said human and a receiver, said gait sensor transmitting a signal to said receiver only upon detection of the akinetic episode of said human, whereby in response to said received signal, said receiver automatically generates a cueing signal to trigger resumption of movement of said human. | 49,932 |
9,645,919 | 1. A memory system comprising: a controller configured to receive memory commands from a processor-based system; a memory device of a first type coupled to the controller over a first interface; a memory device of a second type coupled to the controller over a second interface, wherein the memory device of a second type has a lower latency than the memory device of the first type; and a data structure stored in the memory device of the first type and/or in the memory device of the second type, wherein the data structure includes associations between logical addresses received from the processor-based system, physical addresses of the memory device of the first type associated with the logical addresses, shadow addresses of the memory device of the second type when data is stored in both memory devices of the first and second types, and a first flag indicating whether data associated with the physical address of the memory device of the first type is shadowed to the memory device of the second type, wherein the controller is configured to operate during a training period to generate the data structure of starting addresses and lengths of data associated with memory commands from the processor-based system, and access an initial portion of data corresponding to at least one of the starting addresses stored on the memory device of the first type at least in part during a time that a remaining portion of data associated the at least one of the starting addresses is accessed on the memory device of the second type. | 7,515 |
8,643,322 | 1. A home automation actuator comprising a motor for maneuvering a mobile element in a building, a command receiver, a control unit, a single output converter, at least one switching member intended for the power supply to the motor, wherein the switching member and the input of a regulator are directly connected to the output of the converter whereas the control unit and the command receiver are connected to the output of the regulator, wherein the home automation actuator is configured such that the operating voltage of the control unit is lower than the minimum power supply voltage of the command receiver during a sleep step, and wherein said home automation actuator comprises a control means for controlling a first reduced level of the output voltage of the converter, which can be activated by the control unit, this first reduced level being lower than a minimum voltage for activating the switching member. | 10,441 |
9,215,828 | 1. A server case assembly, comprising: a case body, having a side plate with a case installation hole, the side plate further having an outer sidewall and an inner sidewall; a handle, mounted at the outer sidewall, further having a handle installation hole corresponding in position to the case installation hole; and a fixed component assembly, to fix the handle to the case body, further comprising: a first connection component, having a first communicative space, further including: a first withstanding portion, withstanding the inner sidewall; and a first convex portion, connecting the first withstanding portion, passing through the case installation hole and the handle installation hole; a second connection component, having a second communicative space, further including: a second withstanding portion, withstanding the handle; and a second convex portion, connecting the second withstanding portion, passing through the first communicative space so as to communicate in space the second communicative space and the first communicative space; and a penetration component, passing through the first communicative space and the second communicative space so as to mount the handle onto the case body by fixing the first connection component and the second connection component; wherein, while the handle is forced to displace the case body along a moving path, a load applied to the first connection component is distributed to the side plate of the case body through the first withstanding portion and the first convex portion. | 48,330 |
9,764,784 | 1. A track assembly for a vehicle having a chassis, an engine and a plurality of driven axles and a plurality of passive axles, comprising: a) a track having an interior surface from which a plurality of drive lugs project and an exterior surface from which a plurality of ground lugs project and including a surface region defining a footprint whereat the track ground lugs engage the terrain; and b) a framework including a drive sprocket and a plurality of idler wheels supported from a plurality of pivoting rocker arm suspensions; a plurality of idler wheels mounted to a longitudinal frame, wherein said track is circumferentially trained around said framework such that the drive lugs engage said sprocket, wherein said rocker arm suspensions are coupled to a plurality of axles that transversely project from the longitudinal frame, wherein said idler wheels are aligned seriatim in longitudinal channel spaces between said drive lugs adjacent left and right lateral, longitudinal peripheral edges of said track at a bottom interior surface of the track, c) contact limiting means mounted between a vehicle frame member and the track framework to prevent the track from contacting the chassis and/or pivot relative to the vehicle frame, whereby said track assembly can rise and fall with changing terrain contours; and d) a frame piece that extends from said longitudinal frame to support at least one pinch wheel in contact with the ground engaging surface of said track and positioned adjacent said sprocket to assure contact between said drive lugs and said sprocket. | 10,216 |
9,793,604 | 1. An antenna using a liquid metal, comprising: an antenna structure comprising an elastic tube containing the liquid metal at an inner space; and at least one actuator positioned in mechanical relation to the antenna structure to change at least one of a position or dimension of a radiator formed by the liquid metal by pressing a partial area of the antenna structure according to a control signal, the pressing deforming the partial area and causing at least some of the liquid metal to move out of the partial area to another location of the antenna structure and thereby cause the change in at least one of a position or dimension of the radiator, wherein if the partial area is not pressed, at least some of the liquid metal is disposed therein and forms at least a part of the radiator, and wherein the at least one actuator comprises a plurality of actuators disposed in a sequence at one or more ends of the antenna structure. | 12,866 |
9,299,966 | 1. A subassembly for use in an electrochemical device comprising: (a) a first sintered electrode having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, (b) a first current collector surrounds a perimeter of the first electrode orthogonal to the first sintered electrode's first surface, where a perimeter area of a portion of the first sintered electrode bonded to the first current collector is less than about 50% of a total area of the first sintered electrode, wherein the current collector is an inactive component, and (c) a separator, wherein the second surface of the first sintered electrode is adjacent to the separator, wherein the first sintered electrode is bonded to the separator or the first current collector or both, and wherein the separator, the first current collector, or both are optionally sintered, and (d) a second electrode, wherein the first and second electrodes are bonded to opposite surfaces of the separator. | 14,508 |
9,103,526 | 1. A phosphor assembly comprising: a phosphor element for converting pump light into converted light, an optical system for transmitting at least a part of at least one of said converted light and said pump light, a liquid immersion material, which can be provided between said phosphor element and said optical system, wherein said assembly and a total volume of said liquid immersion material are adapted for an excess of immersion material to enable an exchange of immersion material during phosphor assembly operation, such that not more than 50% of said total volume are penetrated by said light transmitted by said optical system, wherein said optical system and said phosphor element are moveable with respect to each other, wherein said phosphor element is mounted rotatably for a movement on a circular path around a rotational axis, wherein a passageway for liquid immersion material is provided at said phosphor element radially inside said circular path for enabling a flow of liquid immersion material along said rotational axis, wherein a guide is provided at said passageway for guiding said flow of said liquid immersion material with respect to said phosphor element, wherein the phosphor element is ring-shaped and spaced to the rotational axis by spokes, wherein the structure of the spokes is punched out of an aluminum disc and wherein said guide is formed by blades, which are left at the spokes and are put into a shape for adjusting the flow of immersion oil with respect to the phosphor element. | 14,845 |
9,571,920 | 1. An external sound box for an electronic device comprising: a connecting member with a sound passage, the connecting member selectively attachable to a surface of the electronic device by suction attachment to cover a sounding hole of the electronic device; and a sound box mounted on the connecting member, the sound box defining a resonant chamber communicating with the sound passage and comprising a sound output hole; wherein, sound generated by the electronic device moves from the sounding hole into the sound passage and the sound box; and wherein, the sound passage and the sound box are configured so that the sound from the sounding hole resonates before exiting the sound output hole with increased volume. | 1,889 |
9,239,260 | 1. An optical measuring device, comprising: a housing, in which at least one optical transmitter for emitting at least one transmission beam and at least one optical receiver are arranged; a covering plate closing off the housing and forming a transmission window and a reception window, with the at least one transmission beam emerging from the housing through the transmission window, wherein an outer side of the covering plate is substantially perpendicular to the emission direction, wherein the transmission window has a tilt with a predetermined tilt angle, and wherein the transmission window has a thickening dependent on the predetermined tilt angle. | 33,580 |
9,243,588 | 1. A method for regulating gaseous fuel pressure in an engine, comprising: increasing a regulating pressure in a low pressure chamber of a pressure regulator by opening a first valve arranged in a conduit coupling the low pressure chamber with a reference chamber of the pressure regulator and flowing fuel from the low pressure chamber to the reference chamber while closing a second valve arranged in a conduit coupling the reference chamber with an engine intake manifold, and then closing the first valve after a first duration such that both the first and second valves are closed and the reference chamber is sealed; decreasing the regulating pressure by closing the first valve while opening the second valve, and then closing the second valve after a second duration such that both the first and second valves are closed and the reference chamber is sealed. | 45,637 |
8,981,218 | 1. An enclosure, comprising: a bottom housing, the bottom housing defining a bottom and a plurality of sides rising from the bottom at an angle therewith to define an inner peripheral surface of the bottom housing; a top cover configured to couple with the bottom housing to thereby define an inner housing volume, the top cover defining an outer periphery and configured to fit within the inner peripheral surface of the bottom housing to define a peripheral air gap between the outer periphery of the top cover and the inner peripheral surface of the bottom housing. | 12,937 |
9,685,169 | 1. A method comprising: operating one or more hardware processors for receiving an utterance embodied as digitized speech signal, an original pitch contour of the utterance, and a target pitch contour for the utterance, wherein the utterance comprises a plurality of consecutive frames, and wherein at least one of said frames is a voiced frame; operating at least one of said one or more hardware processors for calculating an original intensity contour of said utterance; operating at least one of said one or more hardware processors for generating a pitch-modified utterance based on the target pitch contour; operating at least one of said one or more hardware processors for calculating an intensity modification factor for each of said frames, based on said original pitch contour and on said target pitch contour, to produce a sequence of intensity modification factors corresponding to said plurality of consecutive frames, wherein: operating at least one of said one or more hardware processors for calculating a final intensity contour for said utterance by applying said intensity modification factors to said original intensity contour; and operating at least one of said one or more hardware processors for generating a coherently-modified speech signal by time-dependent scaling of the intensity of said pitch-modified utterance according to said final intensity contour. | 43,620 |
8,755,457 | 1. A transmitter comprising: a transmission data generating section configured to generate transmission data simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of streams; a precoding section configured to perform precoding so that the transmission data is received by a receiver as data orthogonal to each other; a peak suppressing section configured to apply amplitude clipping to the precoded transmission data in stream units to suppress peaks of entire transmission power; a filtering section configured to filter interference power leaking out of the band caused by the amplitude clipping of the peak suppressing section; and an interference allocation controlling section configured to allocate in-band interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to streams in a poor channel state in a concentrated manner, wherein the transmitter transmits, using MIMO multiplexing, the transmission data in the plurality of streams which are spatially multiplexed, according to the allocation of the in-band interference power by the interference allocation controlling section, and each of the plurality of streams has a frequency bandwidth. | 8,962 |
9,505,296 | 1. A clutch device comprising an actuating device for a drive train of a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine, an electric machine with a stator and a rotor and a transmission device, the clutch device is arrangeable in the drive train between the internal combustion engine, on one side, and the electric machine as well as the transmission device, on another side, the clutch device and the actuating device are integrated in the rotor of the electric machine, and the actuating device comprises an electric eddy-current brake with a brake stator and a brake rotor, the brake stator comprises at least one electromagnet with a coil and a core, with the coil and the core being arranged concentrically in reference to each other, the coil and the core have a common axis, which is arranged parallel in reference to an axis of rotation of the rotor and the common axis is arranged offset from the axis of rotation of the rotor. | 30,700 |
9,465,187 | 1. An optics assembly comprising: a lens with a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and comprising a first interface; an optical device, substantially aligned with the lens along an optical axis of the optics assembly, with a second CTE and comprising a second interface; and at least one spacer arranged between the lens and the optical device and comprising a third interface that mates with and slides on adapted to mate with and slide relative to the first interface of the lens and a fourth interface that mates with and slides on adapted to mate with and slide relative to the second interface of the optical device, such that the at least one spacer is configured to slide relative to the lens and the optical device to provide, at least in part, a compensation despace to reduce one or more optical defects caused by changes in a temperature of the optics assembly. | 11,353 |
9,767,785 | 1. A treadmill, comprising: a running deck comprising a motor arranged to drive movement of a tread belt; a speaker incorporated into the running deck; instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the processor to: | 2,587 |
8,695,344 | 1. A system for power generation comprising: a thermodynamic cycle including three interacting internal subcycles, where each cycle comprising a plurality of streams of different compositions of a multi-component fluid, a heat generator subsystem, where the subsystem fully vaporizes and superheats a richer working solution stream and a leaner working solution stream, a heat conversion subsystem including a lower pressure turbine and a higher pressure turbine, where the higher pressure turbine converts a portion of heat from the fully vaporized and superheated leaner working solution stream and the lower pressure turbine converts a portion of heat from the fully vaporized and superheated richer working solution stream, a heat exchange subsystem including at least five heat exchange units, where the heat transfer units transfer heat from a spent richer working solution stream and condensing solution substreams to a basic rich solution stream and a lean solution substream, a condenser for fully condense a basic rich solution stream using an external coolant stream, a separator subsystem, where the separator subsystem separates partially condensed streams into a rich vapor stream and a lean liquid stream, four pumps for increasing a pressure of four streams, and mixing and splitting valves for splitting and combining stream, where all streams are derived from a multi-component fluid and where the first internal cycle comprises circulating of a spent leaner working solution substream through a heat exchange unit HE where the second internal cycle comprises circulating a upcoming leaner working solution stream through a heat exchange unit HE where the first and second internal cycles utilize the leaner working solution which combine to generate a first quantity of useable energy, where the third and main internal cycle comprises a basic rich solution stream, which passes through the three heat exchange units HE where the first and second internal cycles reject their heat in such a way that it is fully recuperated by the third and main internal cycle, whereas heat rejected by the main internal cycle is reject into the ambient in the condenser heat exchange unit in counterflow with an external coolant stream. | 18,983 |
9,796,784 | 1. A method of generating a conformation-specific antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to a Xaa-Pro motif of the naturally occurring form of a polypeptide, where Xaa is any amino acid residue, said method comprising: (i) administering a proline-analog-containing antigenic peptide to a non-human host animal, said antigenic peptide comprising a Xaa-Pro motif comprising said proline analog; (ii) isolating antisera containing said antibody or fragment thereof produced in said animal; and (iii) purifying said conformation-specific antibody or fragment thereof from said antisera; wherein said conformation-specific antibody or fragment thereof specifically binds to the Xaa-Pro motif of the naturally occurring form of said polypeptide; wherein said proline analog is selected from the group consisting of homoproline, azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (Aze), tert-butyl-L-proline (TBP), trans-4-fluoro-L-proline (t-4F-Pro), and cis-4-fluoro-L-proline (c-4F-Pro), and wherein the peptidyl-prolyl bond of said Xaa-Pro motif of said antigenic peptide is in a cis conformation, or is in a trans conformation. | 5,454 |
9,654,841 | 1. A media content system, comprising: a content stream processing system operable to receive media content streams from a plurality of content providers, wherein each media content stream comprises a series of media content events; an asset manager, wherein the asset manager is operable to: a transport channel system communicatively coupled to the content stream processing system and the asset manager, wherein the transport channel system is operable to broadcast information corresponding to the media content streams to the plurality of media devices and to broadcast the at least one asset zip file to the plurality of media devices. | 44,878 |
9,810,466 | 1. A heat pump system comprising: a heat source unit having a variable-capacity compressor, a pressure sensor disposed in an outlet of the compressor, and a heat-source-side heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator for a refrigerant; a plurality of usage units connected to the heat source unit, each of the usage units having a usage-side heat exchanger that functions as a radiator for the refrigerant, the plurality of units being a plurality of first usage units capable of heating an aqueous medium through radiation by the refrigerant in the individual usage-side heat exchangers, and a temperature sensor being provided at an outlet of each of the usage-side heat exchangers; and a controller including a computer configured to control the heat pump system, the heat source unit and the plurality of the first usage units constituting a heat source refrigerant circuit in which the refrigerant circulates, the plurality of first usage units constituting an aqueous medium circuit in which the aqueous medium circulates, and the controller being further configured to the controller being further configured to control a refrigerant flow rate control valve disposed in the first usage for which the target value is greater than the first equivalent target value by using a correction value based on a differential of the target value and the equivalent target value. | 2,350 |
8,718,378 | 1. A method for processing an image, the method comprising: generating, by a processor, a first vector of a first number dimension for the image from a first number of points of the image based on a topological information of the first number of points, wherein the first vector for the image is invariant to rotation and scaling in creating the image, and wherein the first vector is a graph spectrum of a pair-wise distance matrix generated from the first number of points of the image. | 13,347 |
8,892,269 | 1. A method for power saving comprising: placing a thermal sensor into a low power state; detecting a trigger to wake the thermal sensor from the low power state; accessing a value indicating a measured state of the thermal sensor saved prior to the thermal sensor entering the low power state; adjusting the value by steps of n counting in a direction toward a target value, n being greater than 1, until an inflection point is reached, the inflection point indicating the value has passed the target value; and in response to reaching the inflection point, adjusting the value in an opposite direction toward the target value, wherein in response to waking, the thermal sensor performs accessing a value indicating a last measured state of the thermal sensor prior to the thermal sensor entering the low power state, adjusting the value with a fast count by adjustments of n counting in a direction toward a target value, n being greater than 1, until detection of an inflection point, the inflection point indicating the value has passed the target value, and in response to the inflection point detection, adjusting the value with a normal count by adjustments of 1 counting in an opposite direction toward the target value. | 38,419 |
9,346,460 | 1. A method for controlling vehicle powertrain operation, comprising: (a) activating AWD/4×4-operation provided one of an environmental condition, vehicle use condition and vehicle electrical condition exceeds a corresponding reference; (b) deactivating a fuel saving operation provided the AWD/4×4-operation is activated; (c) activating fuel saving operation provided none of said conditions indicates need for the AWD/4×4-operation; (d) deactivating the AWD/4×4-operation provided fuel saving operation is activated. | 19,342 |
9,823,156 | 1. An apparatus for determining a water leak within an irrigation system that includes an electrical water pump that operates using electrical energy and which is connected to an energy meter that periodically provides for a previous period of time energy usage data for the previous period of time, the apparatus comprising: a database that receives and stores the energy usage data associated with the irrigation system for the previous period of time; and a data processing computer system coupled to the database that operates upon the energy usage data that includes the electrical energy used to operate the electrical water pump within the irrigation system, wherein the data processing computer system: | 45,716 |
8,406,016 | 1. A power supply circuit comprising: a rectifying unit for rectifying a filtered alternating-current power supply to output a rectified input voltage; an insulated transformer having a primary coil into which the rectified input voltage output from the rectifying unit is selectively input and a secondary coil from which an induced voltage based on the rectified input voltage input to the primary coil is output; a first smoothing unit for smoothing the induced voltage to output a first output voltage; a second smoothing unit for smoothing the rectified input voltage output from the primary coil and outputting a second output voltage corresponding to the rectified input voltage, the second smoothing unit comprising a diode coupled in series with a capacitor; a detecting unit for outputting an error signal corresponding to a difference between the first output voltage and a reference voltage; an insulating unit having an input terminal into which the error signal is input and an output terminal from which a signal corresponding to the input error signal is output, the output terminal being insulated from the input terminal; a controlling unit for outputting a control signal for selectively inputting the rectified input voltage into the primary coil, based on the signal output from the output terminal; and a switching unit connected to the primary coil for selectively inputting the rectified input voltage into the primary coil, based on the control signal. | 18,731 |
9,090,294 | 1. A gap fairing comprising: one or more panels interconnected utilizing connectors to form an aerodynamic extension from a front portion of a trailer, wherein the one or more panels form a partial conical shape; and supports connected between the one or more panels through a support structure of the trailer; wherein the partial conical shape comprises a partial conical frustum. | 36,924 |
9,526,370 | 1. A single dose container containing a dosed quantity of ground coffee from which a beverage is extractable, said container being configured for use in a coffee machine, said beverage being extractable by said coffee machine, said container comprising a top end wall, a bottom end wall, and a side wall defining a cavity containing said ground coffee, said side wall being made of a stiff material that is impermeable to humidity and oxygen to define a stiff portion of said container, said top end wall and said bottom end wall being made of an edible film that is water-soluble at a temperature of between 50-60° C. | 44,240 |
9,041,720 | 1. A circuit comprising: a memory circuit that is operative to move tiled image information representing scan lines of a static image distributed among a plurality of memory channels into reconfigured tiled image information configured to be distributed among a subset of the plurality of memory channels, such that one scan line is communicated on one memory channel of the subset of the plurality of memory channels at a time. | 27,390 |
8,381,636 | 1. A smoking grill pan, comprises: a main body; an electrothermal tube disposed on a lower surface of the main body; wherein a smoking box, formed on said main body corresponding to said high-temperature area, for containing the smoking material. | 10,510 |
9,534,370 | 1. A method of setting up an assembly, the method comprising: placing a plurality of ISO containers to create an inner space surrounded by the ISO containers, the inner space defined by a plurality of walls, wherein each of the plurality of walls is formed at least in part by a different one of the plurality of ISO containers; placing an engine in the inner space such that the engine is housed within the inner space defined between outside walls of the plurality of ISO containers and wherein the engine is not housed within any of the plurality of ISO containers or within a building located within the inner space; and placing a roof covering the inner space defined between the plurality of ISO containers to shield the engine contained within the inner space. | 37,847 |
8,991,110 | 1. A building insulation system for a building having a plurality of rafter columns, a plurality of end wall columns, a plurality of girt clips extending from the plurality of rafter columns and end wall columns comprising: at least one wall girt extending substantially a length of an outside wall of the building, one side of the at least one wall girt is attached to the outside wall, substantially the other end of the at least one wall girt is supported by one end of the plurality of girt clips, the other end of the plurality of girt clips are attached to the plurality of rafter columns; at least one inside corner ceiling support strut is retained adjacent a top of one of the plurality of rafter columns and the plurality of end wall columns; and at least one wall sheet material having one side in contact with the other side of said at least one wall girt, said wall girt is located between an inside surface of the outside wall and said at least one wall sheet material, an upper end of said at least one wall sheet material is in contact with said at least one inside corner ceiling support strut. | 17,689 |
9,324,730 | 1. A vertical memory device, comprising: a substrate including first regions on sides of a second region; a plurality of channels in the first regions, respectively, the plurality of channels extending in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; a charge storage structure on a sidewall of each channel in a second direction substantially parallel to the top surface of the substrate; a plurality of gate electrodes in the first regions, the plurality of gate electrodes arranged on a sidewall of the charge storage structure and spaced apart from each other in the first direction; and a plurality of supporters in the second region, the plurality of supporters spaced apart from each other in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, the plurality of supporters contacting a sidewall of at least one gate electrode in each of the first regions. | 37,945 |
8,648,491 | 1. A method of passive impedance matching, comprising: providing a substantially equivalent impedance between a source and a load for three single-phase power supplies via a geometry of a busbar with three legs, wherein a geometry of at least one of the three legs differs from a remainder of the three legs by one or more of thickness, length, and width; coupling the busbar to the three single-phase power supplies as the source; and coupling the busbar to a plurality of electronic machines as the load. | 1,443 |
8,983,045 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage media with computer-readable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method of managing vendor credits in a communications network, the method comprising: offloading communication traffic of a first carrier to a second carrier; issuing a vendor credit for the first carrier to the second carrier, wherein the vendor credit for the first carrier is based on network bandwidth consumed by the offloaded communication traffic; and managing the vendor credit to allow the second carrier to load balance communication traffic associated with the second carrier by offloading one or more mobile devices of the second carrier to the first carrier, wherein the one or more mobile devices are configured to operate under the frequency bandwidth of the first carrier and the second carrier. | 15,478 |
9,713,228 | 1. A method of operating an illumination system including at least one light source and at least one controller, the method comprising: detecting a level of light in an ambient environment; comparing by the at least one controller the detected level of light in the ambient environment to a first threshold; validating by the at least one controller a result of the comparison of the detected level of light in the ambient environment to the first threshold with respect to at least one expected condition, the at least one expected condition comprising an expected level of light for at least one of a current location, a current date or a current time; and adjusting by the at least one controller an output of the at least one light source when both the detected level of light in the ambient environment at least satisfies the first threshold and the result of the comparison is valid with respect to the at least one expected condition. | 14,557 |
8,941,273 | 1. A vibration generation device, comprising: a housing including an internal space; a shaft passing through the internal space in an axial direction and mounted in the housing; a bearing member vibrated in the axial direction while contacting the shaft; a yoke mounted on the bearing member; a coil mounted on an outer surface of the yoke; a magnet interacting with electromagnetic force exerted on the yoke by the coil and included in the internal space; and at least one elastic member connected between an end of the yoke in the axial direction and a surface of the housing in the axial direction. | 36,800 |
8,784,148 | 1. A propulsion device for use with a fluid, comprising: a crank-slider mechanism including a flexible foil rigidly coupled to the mast at an attachment point, the flexible foil including | 8,273 |
9,054,500 | 1. A plasma power limiter comprising: a signal substrate having a first side and a second side, said signal substrate including a signal-in line formed on the first side of the signal substrate, a signal-in via extending through the signal substrate and being electrically coupled to the signal-in line, a signal transmission line formed on the second side of the signal substrate and being electrically coupled to the signal-in via, a signal-out via extending through the signal substrate and being electrically coupled to the signal transmission line and a signal-out line formed on the first surface of the signal substrate and being electrically coupled to the signal-out via; and a trigger substrate having a first side and a second side, said trigger substrate being bonded to the signal substrate so as to form a hermetically sealed cavity where the second side of the signal substrate faces the second side of the trigger substrate within the cavity, said trigger substrate including at least one trigger probe extending from the second side of the trigger substrate into the cavity towards the signal line, said cavity being filled with an ionizable gas, said at least one trigger probe being covered by a trigger metal, wherein a signal propagating from the signal-in line to the signal-out line through the signal line having a power level greater than a threshold power level will ionize the gas within the cavity and create a short circuit between the signal transmission line and the trigger probe. | 20,847 |
9,146,044 | 1. A solar panel system, comprising: a solar panel having a longitudinal axis configured to be aligned with an east cardinal point and a west cardinal point, and a lateral axis configured to be aligned with a north cardinal point and a south cardinal point; said solar panel having a front face and a back face, said front face configured to receive solar illumination; and a plurality of lift assemblies connected to said back face of said solar panel at each of the cardinal points, wherein each of said lift assemblies further comprises: a ball and socket assembly connected to said back side of said solar panel; a piston connected to said ball and socket assembly, said piston configured to extend and retract to rotate said solar panel about one of the longitudinal axis and the lateral axis; a solar illumination sensor configured to receive solar illumination; and a conduit connecting said solar illumination sensor to said piston to facilitate passive rotation of said solar panel about the longitudinal axis and the lateral axis to maximize solar illumination impinging on said front face of said solar panel, wherein said solar illumination sensor includes a reflector and a canister, said canister is connected to said conduit, and wherein a fluid is provided in said canister and said conduit to activate said piston when said solar illumination heats said canister. | 39,761 |
9,617,095 | 1. A saddle stitcher comprising: a saddle conveyor for transporting signatures; and at least one signature guide located along the saddle conveyor comprising: | 32,940 |
9,804,567 | 1. A constant force escapement mechanism for a timepiece movement, configured to be inserted between, on a first upstream side, a gear train driven by an energy storage device, and on a second downstream side, an oscillator, the escapement mechanism comprising, from upstream to downstream: an input wheel; a detent lever; an escape wheel; a stop member; wherein the stop member is configured to cooperate downstream with the oscillator and upstream with a first toothing comprised in the escape wheel, wherein the escape wheel is a flexible one-piece component comprising a felloe carrying the first toothing and a pinion permanently meshing with the input wheel which is configured to mesh with an input of the gear train, and the felloe and the pinion are connected to each other by flexible arms configured to store energy from the gear train and to restore the energy according to a position of the detent lever, wherein the detent lever includes a first arm configured to cooperate with the first toothing of the escape wheel, and a second arm configured to cooperate with a second toothing comprised in the input wheel to stop or release the input wheel, wherein the detent lever is configured to tilt, about a pivot bearing comprised therein, at each passage of at least one tooth of the first toothing of the escape wheel, and wherein the pivot bearing is sized to allow passage of a determined number of teeth of the second toothing of the input wheel. | 12,927 |
9,661,931 | 1. A bed structure, the bed structure comprising: a bed frame for supporting at least one of a mattress or a mattress foundation; at least one illumination device mounted on the bed frame; and a control system, the control system comprising at least one sensor and being configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to predetermined environmental conditions determined by the at least one sensor, further comprising a motion sensor, wherein the control system is configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to motion detected by the motion sensor, further comprising a light sensor, wherein the control system is configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to light detected by the light sensor and further comprising a timer, wherein the control system is configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to an event from the timer. | 46,466 |
8,639,644 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first query from a first robot, wherein the first query includes identification information associated with an object, and wherein the first robot has a computing ability and is configured to interact with its surroundings via one or more sensors or electromechanical devices associated with the first robot; identifying data in a shared robot knowledge base based at least in part on the first query, wherein the identified data corresponds to the object of the first query and comprises robot executable instructions for interacting with the object that include instructions for controlling the object using commands sent over a communications link between the first robot and the object, wherein the instructions for interacting with the object include instructions for physically controlling the object using at least one of the electromechanical devices associated with the first robot, wherein the shared robot knowledge base comprises data related to an inventory of objects, and wherein the data stored in the shared robot knowledge base is accessible by at least the first robot; sending the identified data to the first robot, wherein the identified data is usable by the first robot to interact with the object; receiving feedback from the first robot based on the first robot's interaction with the object, wherein the feedback is usable to at least one of (i) revise the identified data and (ii) create new data corresponding to the object of the first query; and updating the shared robot knowledge base based at least in part on the feedback received from the first robot. | 29,996 |
8,543,736 | 1. A data processing circuit, comprising: a decoder, for decoding data; and at least three-stage circuits for receiving input data from at least a memory to output the generated output data to the decoder wherein the input data comprise a first set of data, a second set of data, and a third set of data; and the at least three-stage circuits comprise: a first-stage circuit, for sorting the input data according to the values of the input data and outputting the data with the same value to the decoder according to their order wherein the first-stage circuit outputs the first set of data having the first priority to the decoder and then the decoder generates a first data length according to the first set of data; the first-stage circuit outputs the second set of data having the second priority to the decoder according to the first data length and then the decoder generates a second data length according to the second set of data; the first-stage circuit outputs the third set of data having the third priority to the decoder according to the second data length and then the decoder generates a third data length according to the third set of data; and the decoder calculates the sum of the first data length, the second data length, and the third data length to generate a total effective bit length; a second-stage circuit, for replenishing data having a bit length equal to the total effective bit length from a third-stage circuit to the first-stage circuit according to the total effective bit length; and the third-stage circuit, for supplying data to the second-stage circuit to replenish data to reach a bit length equal to the total effective bit length and determining whether the third-stage circuit stores enough data to supply to the second-stage circuit according to the total effective bit length and determining whether the third-stage circuit receives data from the memory. | 41,553 |
9,172,623 | 1. A method for providing information about a plurality of devices in a building, the method comprising: accepting from a user device a first network connection; receiving an identifier from the user device via the first network connection; retrieving first information from a data store using the identifier, wherein the first information comprises historical information about a first device and a second device; transmitting the first information to the user device via the first network connection; accepting from the user device a second network connection; receiving second information from a power monitoring device, wherein the second information comprises real-time information about power consumption of a third device at a first time and about power consumption of a fourth device at the first time; and transmitting the second information to the user device via the second network connection. | 30,826 |
9,395,790 | 1. A power management system, comprising: a power system; a power detect circuit coupled to the power system; and a power system controller coupled to the power system and the power detect circuit, wherein the power system controller is configured to: | 40,222 |
8,779,667 | 1. An illumination apparatus comprising: a light source; a sensor which has an image sensor and detects an illuminance and a presence or absence of a human based on an image captured with the image sensor while setting a range overlapping a range illuminated by the light source as a visual field; an illuminance determining unit which generates a dimming signal to give instructions to vary a light output from the light source based on the illuminance and the presence or absence of a human provided from the sensor; and a dimming control unit which controls the light output from the light source in response to the dimming signal from the illuminance determining unit, wherein the illuminance determining unit obtains an illuminance of an illuminance maintaining area included in the visual field based on the image captured with the image sensor, and when the sensor detects that no human is present, the illuminance determining unit reduces the light output from the light source while maintaining the illuminance of the illuminance maintaining area to be equal to or greater than a threshold that is set in advance as a lower limit illuminance which allows the image sensor to capture an image. | 26,376 |
9,597,416 | 1. A cyanine dye having a chemical structure selected from the group consisting of: wherein Z is a biologically compatible counterion. | 3,441 |
9,738,424 | 1. Packaging for a product, the packaging comprising: a lid comprising an exterior shell and a lid insert; and a pedestal comprising a frame, a base permanently affixed to the frame, and a pedestal insert disposed between the frame and the base and coupled to at least one of the frame or the base; wherein the frame comprises a top wall and a perimeter side wall disposed below the top wall, wherein the lid is configured to receive at least a portion of the perimeter side wall of the frame; and wherein the frame is a single monolithic piece made of molded fiber paper. | 11,585 |
8,620,501 | 1. A starting system of an engine mounted in a vehicle capable of running using torque output from an electric motor, comprising: a detection portion that detects power requested by a driver; a estimation portion that estimates engine speed and output torque of the engine when the engine is driven to realize the power requested by the driver; a comparing portion that compares a time for which the engine continues to be stopped with a first time and a second time that is longer than the first time; a determining portion that determines whether the estimated engine speed is greater than a first speed and less than a second speed that is greater than the first speed, and the estimated output torque is greater than a first value and less than a second value that is greater than the first value, when the time for which the engine continues to be stopped is longer than the first time and shorter than the second time; a first starting portion that starts the engine when the estimated engine speed is greater than the first speed and less than the second speed, and the estimated output torque is greater than the first value and less than the second value; and a second starting portion that starts the engine when the time for which the engine continues to be stopped is longer than the second time. | 2,072 |
9,814,106 | 1. A control circuit for a display device, the control circuit comprising: a phase detection module configured to concurrently receive a frequency-scaled (FS) feedback signal and an input clock signal, and provide a phase adjustment signal; a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) connected to: (i) the phase detection module, and (ii) separate arithmetic operators that are configured to provide the FS feedback signal and an output clock signal based on the phase adjustment signal; a delay module, coupled to a first arithmetic operator of the separate arithmetic operators, wherein: i) the delay module comprises one or more selectable gate delays and ii) the delay module is configured to offset, by a delay value, a pulse edge of the output clock signal from a pulse edge of the input clock signal; and a dimming generator coupled to an output of the delay module, wherein the delay value is based on a clock rate of the dimming generator. | 49,705 |
9,496,637 | 1. A vehicle-side connector to be connected to a charging connector to charge a battery mounted in a vehicle, comprising: a housing provided in the vehicle such that the charging connector is fittable thereinto from front; terminal fittings in the form of round terminals respectively connected to a plurality of wires drawn out from the interior of the vehicle including the battery; a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers provided in the housing and configured such that the respective terminal fittings are accommodated thereinto by being inserted from behind; and a retainer assemblable with a rear surface of the housing to lock and retain each terminal fittings, the retainer being formed with locking grooves into which the terminal fittings are radially insertable, the locking grooves lock and axially retain locked portions provided on the terminal fittings, a movement regulating portion narrower than a diameter of the terminal fitting is formed on a back end side of each locking groove, wherein: a wire holding portion capable of bundling and holding the respective wires arranged on a rear surface side of the retainer by a tying member is formed to project from the retainer; each wire is drawn out in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of the terminal accommodating chamber on the rear surface side of the housing; and the wire holding portion is formed to project in a radial direction substantially perpendicular to the axes of the terminal accommodating chambers from the retainer. | 32,752 |
8,889,909 | 1. A chemical compound having the structural formula: wherein R wherein R wherein R | 44,973 |
8,399,727 | 1. A process for the production of para-xylene, the process comprising: (a) reacting an aromatic feedstock comprising toluene and/or benzene with methanol under alkylation conditions in a reactor in the presence of a fluidized bed of solid catalyst particles comprising ZSM-5 or ZSM-11 zeolites to produce a vapor phase effluent comprising para-xylene, water, unreacted toluene and/or benzene and solid catalyst fines; (b) contacting the vapor phase effluent with a liquid hydrocarbon quench stream under conditions to condense a minor portion of the vapor phase effluent and produce a condensate which contains at least some of the catalyst fines and which is substantially free of an aqueous phase; and (c) separating the condensate containing said catalyst fines from the remainder of the vapor phase effluent. | 2,641 |
8,381,002 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: determine whether there is a non-folded resource on an originating resource chip in a set of resource chips, wherein the non-folded resource is associated with a logical partition that has entered a power saving mode in a set of logical partitions; responsive to the existence of the non-folded resource on the originating resource chip, determine whether there is a destination resource chip to either exchange operations of the non-folded resource with a folded resource on the destination chip or migrate operations of the non-folded resource to a non-folded resource on the destination chip; responsive to the existence of the folded resource on the destination resource chip, transparently exchange the operations of the non-folded resource from the originating resource chip to the folded resource on the destination resource chip, wherein the folded resource remains folded on the originating resource chip after the exchange; determine whether there is another non-folded resource on the originating resource chip; responsive to the absence of another non-folded resource on the originating resource chip, place the originating resource chip into a deeper power saving mode, wherein the deeper power saving mode saves additional power as compared to the cumulative power savings of all resources in the plurality of resources on the destination resource being in an individual power saving mode; receive a request to assign one or more additional resources to the logical partition; determine whether the logical partition is in the power saving mode; and responsive to the logical partition being in the power saving mode, record an assignment of the one or more additional resources in order to assign the one or more additional resources upon the logical partition exiting the power saving mode. | 46,377 |
8,640,462 | 1. A geothermal energy system utilizing geothermal heat under a floor of a body of water, the system comprising: at least one production well drilled to a sufficient depth to access supercritical water from a first region of a reservoir under a floor of a body of water; at least one injection well configured to inject water into a second region of the reservoir spaced from the first region; and at least one geothermal energy generator at a depth of at least 2000 meters within the body of water and operatively coupled to the at least one production well and the at least one injection well, the at least one geothermal energy generator configured to receive the supercritical water from the at least one production well, to convert geothermal heat from the supercritical water to another form of energy, and to pump water into the at least one injection well. | 28,805 |
9,038,375 | 1. A hydraulic working machine, comprising: an engine, a variable displacement hydraulic pump drivable by power transmitted from the engine, a hydraulic actuator drivable by pressure oil delivered from the variable displacement hydraulic pump, an actuator control valve for controlling a flow of pressure oil fed from the variable displacement hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuator the actuator control valve being arranged to permit switching between a feed state in which pressure oil delivered from the variable displacement hydraulic pump is to be fed to the hydraulic actuator and a non-feed state in which the pressure oil is returned to a hydraulic oil reservoir without feeding the pressure oil to the hydraulic actuator, an exhaust gas purification system having a filter for trapping particulate matter in exhaust gas produced from the engine, and an exhaust gas temperature raising processing means for performing, when the actuator control valve is in the non-feed state and clogging has occurred on the filter, processing to increase a load acting on the engine such that a temperature of the exhaust gas is raised to a temperature needed to burn the particulate matter, wherein the exhaust gas temperature raising processing means includes: wherein, when the controller determines that the actuator control valve is in the non-feed state and clogging has occurred on the filter, the controller drives the electric assist motor to increase the load acting on the by controlling the inverter to adjust a torque of the electric assist motor so that electric power is generated by the electric assist motor, and wherein the controller lowers a target rpm of the engine to a level needed for the variable displacement hydraulic pump to deliver pressure oil at a lowest delivery rate required for cooling and lubricating a hydraulic circuit included in a drive system of the hydraulic working machine. | 38,446 |
8,894,230 | 1. A display device, comprising: a light source; a display panel that conducts display using light from the light source; a light guide plate laid on a side of the display panel opposite to a display surface side, the light guide plate being disposed such that an end face thereof faces the light source; an exterior member constituted of a pair of holding members that sandwich and hold the display panel and the light guide plate from the display surface side and a side opposite thereto, the pair of holding members housing the light source therebetween, the exterior member constituting an exterior of the display device; a fastening member that is disposed in an outer edge portion of the pair of holding members, thereby fastening the pair of holding members to each other, the outer edge portion surrounding the display panel; and a wiring member connected to the light source, wherein a wiring passage through which the wiring member passes is formed in an inner surface of the outer edge portion of one of the pair of the holding members, the wiring passage corresponding in position to the fastening member in a plan view. | 18,267 |
9,496,438 | 1. A photovoltaic module, comprising: a backsheet for a photovoltaic cell that comprises a resin layer, the resin layer comprising a silicone resin which comprises an aryl group bound to a silicon atom, and of which a molar ratio of the aryl group with respect to the total silicon atoms in the silicone resin is of greater than 0.3; a front substrate; and an encapsulant that encapsulates a photoelectric transformation element between the backsheet and the front substrate, wherein the silicone resin is formed from a hydrosilylation curable composition and wherein the silicone resin is represented by an average composition formula of Formula 1 and wherein the silicone resin comprises a siloxane unit of Formula 5 and a siloxane unit of Formula 6: wherein R's are substituents directly bound to a silicon atom, and independently represent hydrogen, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group, an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group, an isocyanate group, an alkoxy group or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, with the provision that at least one of the R's represents an aryl group and at least one of the R's represents an epoxy group; a is between 0 and 0.6, b is between 0 and 0.97, c is between 0 and 0.8, and d is between 0 and 0.4, with the provision that a+b+c+d is 1, and b and c are not 0 simultaneously, | 7,853 |
8,988,900 | 1. A power conversion circuit comprising: an input switch bridge stage comprising a plurality of unidirectional conducting and bidirectional blocking switching devices and configured to be coupled to a power source; a link stage comprising at least one reactive component of a partially resonant circuit, the partially resonant circuit being configured for AC operation with no DC component; an output switch bridge stage comprising a plurality of unidirectional conducting and bidirectional blocking switching devices and configured to be coupled to a load; a first crossover switching circuit coupling the input switch bridge stage to the link stage, the crossover switching circuit comprising a bridge of unidirectional conducting and bidirectional blocking switching devices, wherein the first crossover switching circuit is configured to facilitate operation of the switching devices of the input switch bridge stage in cooperation with the AC operation of the link stage; and a second crossover switching circuit coupling the link stage to the output switch bridge stage, the crossover switching circuit comprising a bridge of unidirectional conducting and bidirectional blocking switching devices, wherein the second crossover switching circuit is configured to facilitate operation of the switching devices of the output switch bridge stage in cooperation with the AC operation of the link stage. | 41,598 |
9,504,019 | 1. A method performed by a Radio Network Controller (RNC) connected to a base station in a wireless wide area system supporting High Speed Packet Access, comprising: receiving data in a number of logical downlink channels intended for one or more mobile terminals; allocating a first High Speed Radio Network Temporary identity to data of a first one of said logical downlink channels, which identity addresses a group of mobile terminals; sending said data of the first one of said logical downlink channels and the allocated first High Speed Radio Network Temporary identity to the base station for transmission to at least one mobile terminal via a high speed downlink shared channel, the high speed downlink shared channel being a transport channel for said first one of said logical downlink channels. | 29,138 |
9,156,365 | 1. Device for controlled exchange of energy between an electrical power network and a load, comprising: a stationary charging station for establishing an energy connection between the electrical power network and a delivery point, a charging controller for sending and receiving control signals via a signal transmission path, and a SIM station installed on the load side for establishing an energy connection between the load and the aforementioned delivery point, wherein the SIM station comprises a SIM measuring unit for measuring an energy quantity, which is exchanged via the energy connection, passing through the SIM station and a SIM controller for sending and receiving control signals via the signal transmission path, wherein: the SIM controller sends a SIM identifier assigned to the SIM station to the charging controller at set time intervals via the signal transmission path, the charging controller, on receiving a SIM identifier, adds the energy quantity exchanged between the electrical power network and the load via the energy connection on an energy quantity meter assigned to the SIM identifier, and the time intervals are set in such a way that the energy quantity exchanged or to be exchanged between the electrical power network and the load via the energy connection within a time interval lies below a predefined resolution of the energy quantity meter. | 32,499 |
9,607,729 | 1. A binder pitch having: a carbon-to-hydrogen molar ratio in the range of 1.90 or more; a quinoline insoluble content in the range of 17.0% to 30.0% by mass; a free carbon content in the range of 12.0% to 30.0% by mass; a mesophase content in the range of 0.50% by mass or less; a toluene insoluble content in the range of 24.0% by mass or more; and a fixed carbon content in the range of 58.0% by mass or more. | 28,904 |
8,442,458 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a media access control processor to predict channel state information for a communications channel using measured channel state information and to generate beamforming information using said predicted channel state information, said measured channel state information comprising channel responses for previously communicated frames of information; and a transmitter to transmit said beamforming information generated using said predicted channel state information. | 10,354 |
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