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8,472,689 | 1. A method for providing an enhanced 3-D image for a volume imaging apparatus comprising: a) obtaining a plurality of 3-D volume images of an object, the images having voxels at a first resolution, wherein at least two of the images are obtained at different spatial orientations; b) forming a 3-D matrix of voxels at a second resolution, higher than the first resolution, by iterations of 3-D modeling steps in the following sequence: c) storing the 3-D matrix voxel values at the second resolution as the enhanced 3-D image. | 19,761 |
9,397,565 | 1. A control circuit for a multiphase power converter; wherein the multiphase power converter comprises a first and a second constituent switched-mode power converter; wherein the first and second constituent power converters provide first and second phase currents, respectively; wherein the first and second phase currents contribute to a joint load current of the multiphase power converter; wherein the first and second constituent power converters comprise first and second half bridges with first and second high side switches and first and second low side switches, respectively; wherein the control circuit is configured to operate the first and second constituent power converters in a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode with a constant switching frequency; operate the low side switches in a complementary manner with regards to the respective high side switches; detect a zero crossing of the first phase current at a first time instant, when the first high side switch is in off-state; and operate the first low side switch as an active diode, upon detecting the zero crossing of the first phase current, while continuing to operate the second constituent power converter in the PWM mode with the constant switching frequency. | 36,675 |
9,271,833 | 1. A protection device for protecting a coronary artery from compression during catheter-based mitral annuloplasty, the device comprising: a surgically sterile protective member comprising a proximal free end, a distal free end, and an arch centrally positioned between the proximal and distal free ends, the protective member configured to pass through a transvascular catheter and fit within a coronary sinus of a heart at a location where the coronary sinus passes over a coronary artery of the heart, and the protective member including a passageway extending from the proximal free end to the distal free end of the protective member; a circumferential annuloplasty tension element extending through the passageway of the protective member and configured to extend entirely around the mitral valve and be placed under tension; wherein the arch of the protective member has sufficient rigidity and dimensions to inhibit application of pressure to the coronary artery when the protective member is positioned at said location with the circumferential annuloplasty tension element extending entirely around the mitral valve under tension, causing the arch of the protective member to orient away from the coronary artery, thereby protecting the coronary artery from compression. | 23,726 |
9,573,154 | 1. A device for generating an aerosol cloud, the device comprising: a body defining an inner cavity, an outer surface, and an opening extending between the inner cavity of the body and the outer surface, and the body having a flat bottom portion and a flat side portion; at least one ultrasonic element operable to aerosolize a liquid disposed in the inner cavity; and at least one sensor associated with the at least one ultrasonic element, wherein the body has a first stable equilibrium position in which the device rests on the flat bottom portion and a second equilibrium position in which the device rests on the flat side portion such that the opening is higher when the body is in the first stable equilibrium position than when the body is in the second equilibrium position and such that the at least one ultrasonic element is operable to emit energy substantially vertically when the body is in the second equilibrium position. | 947 |
9,616,515 | 1. A method of operating a welding power supply during a welding process in which an electric arc between a consumable electrode and a work piece is generated while feeding the consumable electrode and moving the arc in relation to the work piece along a welding track, wherein the method comprises: receiving profile information, including at least a weld profile map, the weld profile map including data representing a desired welding depth, a desired balance as a function of the welding location, or a combination thereof, wherein the desired balance comprises a ratio between electrode positive and electrode negative; and based upon the profile information, performing a first transition between a DC positive output power mode of the welding power supply and an AC output power mode of the welding power supply, and performing a second transition between the AC output power mode of the welding power and the DC positive output power mode of the welding power, wherein the first transition and the second transition are made without interruption of the welding process. | 17,433 |
8,780,106 | 1. A method for providing three-dimensional models for use in orthodontics, the method comprising: providing for display on a computer screen data of images of teeth of a patient in suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations that are based on three-dimensional information of the shapes of the teeth of the patient, the suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations being prepared by interaction by an operator and having one or more of the patient's teeth repositioned relative to a first arrangement of the patient's teeth; receiving feedback information on the suggested post-treatment final positions and orientations from a person, other than the operator, who has interactively viewed a display of the provided images, the feedback information including a repositioning of at least one of the patient's teeth in the suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations so as to produce a desired final arrangement of the patient's teeth; and generating a plurality of three-dimensional models representing successive planned intermediate arrangements of the patient's teeth in a planned repositioning of the patient's teeth to the desired final arrangement, wherein at least one of the models is generated based on the feedback information. | 3,962 |
9,257,361 | 1. A method of forming a cooling structure within a multiple die semiconductor structure, comprising forming a conductive region within a first die of the multiple die semiconductor structure; forming a first thermoelectric via within the multiple die semiconductor structure, such that it terminates at the conductive region and wherein the first thermoelectric via traverses a second die of the multiple die semiconductor structure; forming a second thermoelectric via within the multiple die semiconductor structure, such that it terminates at the conductive region and wherein the second thermoelectric via traverses the second die of the multiple die semiconductor structure; forming a first capture pad connected to the first thermoelectric via; forming a second capture pad connected to the second thermoelectric via; depositing a first thermoelectric material in the first thermoelectric via; depositing a second thermoelectric material in the second thermoelectric via; depositing an insulator layer on the second die of the multiple die semiconductor structure prior to forming the first thermoelectric via and the second thermoelectric via; and wherein: depositing the first thermoelectric material in the first thermoelectric via comprises depositing the first thermoelectric material to a level below a top surface of the insulator layer; and wherein: depositing the second thermoelectric material in the second thermoelectric via comprises depositing the first thermoelectric material to a level below a top surface of the insulator layer; exposing a portion of the first thermoelectric via and the second thermoelectric via; and forming a barrier layer on the exposed portion of the first thermoelectric via and the second thermoelectric via. | 8,618 |
8,890,549 | 1. An apparatus for evaluating the effectiveness of sand compaction, comprising: a sensor comprising two or more chambers adapted to receive sand, with each chamber having a different difficulty in resisting sand filling and compaction, wherein each chamber comprises a capacitive sensor adapted to measure the degree of sand fill and compaction; and a microcontroller or microprocessor adapted to acquire an electric voltage signal proportional to the capacitance of each capacitive sensor, wherein the microcontroller or microprocessor acquires electric voltage signals from two or more of the capacitive sensors, and determines the relative compaction in each corresponding chamber. | 10,929 |
9,242,652 | 1. An apparatus for controlling operation of a vehicle, comprising: a data detector configured to detect data including an acceleration of the vehicle, a vehicle speed, and an inter-vehicle distance; and a controller configured to determine a relative speed with respect to a forward vehicle from the vehicle speed and the inter-vehicle distance, extract fuzzy result values for the vehicle speed and the inter-vehicle distance, respectively, by setting a membership function that corresponds to each of the acceleration of the vehicle and the relative speed with respect to the forward vehicle, and determine a short-term driving tendency of the driver using the fuzzy result values, and control an engine or shifting of a transmission based on the short-term driving tendency, wherein the controller does not determine the short-term driving tendency when the data shows that a condition of a road is a predetermined road state or road shape. | 35,639 |
8,382,726 | 1. A method for coloring of the subconjunctival space of an eye comprising the steps of: a. injecting at least one colorant into such subconjunctival space of such eye using only one needle penetration for each said colorant of said at least one colorant; b. suspending said at least one colorant in said conjunctival space; and c. positioning said at least one colorant within such subconjunctival space by applying directed pressure to the conjunctiva. | 39,530 |
9,350,295 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a load; and a transistor electrically connected to the load, the transistor comprising an oxide semiconductor layer, the oxide semiconductor layer comprising a channel formation region, wherein a carrier concentration in the oxide semiconductor layer is less than 1×10 wherein hydrogen concentration of the oxide semiconductor layer is less than or equal to 5×10 wherein an off-state current per channel width of the transistor is less than or equal to 1×10 | 25,316 |
9,268,314 | 1. An apparatus for controlling peak demand of a system of energy consuming devices, the apparatus comprising: a network operations center, operationally coupled to a demand coordination network, configured to provide configuration data to the system of energy consuming devices; and a first control node, coupled to a second control node and said monitor node via said demand coordination network, said first control node comprising: | 1,717 |
9,222,181 | 1. Monopolar electrolysis cell delimited by an external body of elongated or spheroidal shape with an external electrodic pair and an internal electrodic pair arranged in its interior, said external electrodic pair subdivided into a first external electrode and a second external electrode of equal dimensions separated at the edges by means of first insulating elements, said internal electrodic pair subdivided into a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode of equal dimensions separated at the edges by means of second insulating elements, said internal and external electrodic pairs arranged concentrically with the surfaces of said first external electrode and said first internal electrode and the surfaces of said second external electrode and said second internal electrode facing each other so as to delimit a gap, said first external electrode and said second internal electrode being connected to one pole of the cell, said second external electrode and said first internal electrode being connected to the opposite pole of the cell. | 12,069 |
8,560,874 | 1. A method for power saving management, which is used to realize power saving management to a communication device, the method comprising: setting a power consuming state attribute in a device object of a communication network management system, wherein the object represents the device, and configuring the power consuming state attribute, such that the power consuming state attribute is used to represent a power consuming state of the device; performing the power saving management to the device by setting the power consuming state attribute of the object corresponding to the device, wherein the power consuming state comprises at least one of the following: a full power mode, a power saving mode, a sleeping mode and a shutdown mode; setting a power consuming status attribute according to the power consuming state attribute, wherein the power consuming status attribute comprises a power consuming status attribute value which is used to indicate a percentage of a power consuming of operation of the device under a power consuming state corresponding to the power consuming state attribute versus a maximum power consuming; when both the device and a subordinate device of the device support the power consuming state attribute: when neither the device nor a subordinate device of the device supports power saving mode and when the device is set at power saving mode, operating the device and the subordinate device according to full power mode; and when the device and/or a subordinate device of the device does not support sleeping mode and/or shutdown mode and when the device is set at sleeping mode or shutdown mode, returning a setting failure operating message and keeping the device in its original state. | 20,383 |
9,259,714 | 1. A photocatalyst for generating hydrogen from water comprising: nanocrystalline cobalt (II) oxide nanoparticles, wherein the flat-band potential of the photocatalyst is less than that of bulk cobalt oxide micropowders by more than 1 eV, wherein the photocatalyst is activated using visible light irradiation, and wherein the photocatalyst has a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency of about 5%, without co-catalysts or sacrificial chemicals. | 40,861 |
9,249,076 | 1. A process comprising: (a) providing a fermentation medium comprising a fermentable carbon source, a recombinant microorganism comprising an engineered butanol biosynthetic pathway, and butanol; (b) contacting said fermentation medium with an extractant composition comprising an effective amount of antioxidant, whereby at least a portion of the butanol in the fermentation medium partitions into the extractant; (c) recovering at least a portion of the butanol and extractant composition from the fermentation medium; (d) recycling the extractant composition recovered in (c) one or more times to the fermentation medium; and (e) adjusting the effective amount of antioxidant in the extractant composition whereby the rate of oxidation of recycled extractant composition is substantially reduced such that the extractant composition may be recycled as provided in step (d) for at least ten recycles. | 12,642 |
8,791,585 | 1. A power system comprising: a tether having a first end and a second end, the tether connected at said first end to a tensioning arrangement adapted to regulate tension in the tether, and a storage means at said second end; a tension harnessing arrangement comprising at least one first capstan roller arranged in a predetermined configuration, the tether tensioningly abutting at least a portion of the periphery of said at least one first capstan roller such that there is substantial contact between the tether and said at least one first capstan roller, thereby engaging said at least one first capstan roller to generate rotational energy; and at least one converter functionally co-operating with said at least one first capstan roller for converting said rotational energy to at least one of a transmissible form, storage form and dissipative form of energy. | 10,706 |
8,993,888 | 1. A toneable conduit comprising: a polymer material forming an elongated tube; a main channel formed within said elongated tube for accepting at least one communication cable, said main channel extending longitudinally along said elongated tube; a sub-channel formed within said elongated tube; and a toning signal wire resident within said sub-channel, said toning signal wire being electrically conductive from a first end of said toneable conduit to a second end of said toneable conduit, and said toning signal wire undulating along the longitudinal direction of said elongated tube, waving back and forth from said first end of said toneable conduit to said second end of said toneable conduit. | 20,589 |
9,601,797 | 1. A fuel cell stack manifold having an ejector function, which is combined with a stack and supplies and distributes fuel, air, and cooling water for operating the stack, the fuel cell stack manifold comprising: a manifold body including an anode outlet and an anode inlet; and an ejector that connects the anode outlet and the anode inlet, wherein the ejector includes a venturi and a diffuser and is arranged on the manifold body and integrally formed with the manifold body, wherein the venturi includes a nozzle and a downstream side of the venturi is connected to the anode outlet of the manifold body through a duct, wherein the front end of the diffuser is connected to the anode inlet, and wherein the ejector forms an acute angle with the manifold body causing a curved flow direction from the ejector to the fuel cell stack. | 27,789 |
9,376,508 | 1. A terminally functionalized polymer comprising the reaction product of a living polymer and at least one component selected from the group consisting of: (a) an allyl glycidyl ether having the formula (I) wherein X is an epoxy group as follows: wherein R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 are the same or different, and are selected from hydrogen, alkyl groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms or aryl groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; (b) an allylhalosilane having the formula (II) wherein R 1 and R 2 are the same or different, and are selected from alkyl groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms or aryl groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and X is a halide selected from a chloride, a bromide, and an iodide, and (c) a combination of (a) and (b); wherein the living polymer is a homopolymer of a diene monomer. | 17,510 |
9,199,847 | 1. Method of generating oxygen, said method comprising the steps of: intermittently guiding a stream of oxygen comprising gas through at least one adsorption chamber being equipped with an oxygen separation adsorbent, thereby defining an adsorption mode and a desorption mode of the at least one adsorption chamber, and thereby enriching the oxygen comprising gas with respect to oxygen; guiding the enriched oxygen comprising gas to a primary side of a dense membrane; heating the dense membrane to a temperature at which it is permeable for oxygen; and generating an oxygen flow through the dense membrane to its secondary side, thereby separating the oxygen from the enriched oxygen comprising gas and forming a stream of oxygen, wherein the stream of oxygen comprises oxygen in a concentration in a range of ≧95%; and wherein said method further comprises the step of guiding at least a part of the generated stream of oxygen through the at least one adsorption chamber ( | 43,739 |
9,145,571 | 1. A composition for catalyzing a reaction for preparing human metabolites of simvastatin or lovastatin, the composition comprising at least one mutant of CYP102A1 having a reductase domain and a heme domain, wherein the at least one mutant of CYP102A1 is a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:16 with substitutions in the reductase domain between amino acid positions 473-1048 and at least one substitution in the heme domain between amino acid positions 1-472, wherein the at least one substitution in the heme domain is selected from the group consisting of: substituting the arginine at amino acid position 47 with alanine (A), valine (V), leucine (L), isoleucine (I), proline (P), methionine (M), phenylalanine (F) or tryptophan (W); substituting the tyrosine at amino acid position 51 with A, V, L, I, P, M, F or W; substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 64 with glycine (G), serin (S), threonine (T), cysteine (C), tyrosine (Y), asparagine (N) or glutamine (Q); substituting the alanine at amino acid position 74 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the phenylalanine at amino acid position 81 with A, V, L, I, P, M or W; substituting the leucine at amino acid position 86 with A, V, I, P, M, F or W; substituting the phenylalanine at amino acid position 87 with A, V, L, I, P, M or W; substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 143 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the leucine at amino acid position 188 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the alanine at amino acid position 264 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; and substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 267 with A, V, L, I, P, M, F or W; and wherein the at least one mutant of CYP102A1 further comprises: substituting the alanine at amino acid position 474 with V, L, I, P, M, F or W; substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 558 with aspartic acid (D); substituting the threonine at amino acid position 664 with A, V, L, I, P, M, F or W; substituting the proline at amino acid position 675 with A, V, L, I, M, F or W; substituting the alanine at amino acid position 678 with glutamic acid (E) or D; substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 687 with A, V, L, I, P, M, F or W; substituting the alanine at amino acid position 741 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the lysine at amino acid position 813 with E or D; substituting the arginine at amino acid position 825 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the arginine at amino acid position 836 with lysine (K) or histidine (H); substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 870 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the isoleucine at amino acid position 881 with A, V, L, P, M, F or W; substituting the glutamic acid at amino acid position 887 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the proline at amino acid position 894 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the serine at amino acid position 954 with G, T, C, Y, N or Q; substituting the methionine at amino acid position 967 with A, V, L, I, P, F or W; substituting the glutamine at amino acid position 981 with R, K or H; substituting the alanine at amino acid position 1008 with D or E; substituting the histidine at amino acid position 1021 with G, S, T, C, Y, N or Q; and substituting the glutamine at amino acid position 1022 with D or E. | 21,369 |
8,456,218 | 1. A circuit comprising: a first normally-on switch having a source, a drain and a gate, the source of the first normally-on switch electrically connected to a load and the drain of the first normally-on switch electrically connected to a supply voltage; a second normally-on switch having a source, a drain, and a gate, the source of the second normally-on switch electrically connected to a common voltage and the drain of the second normally-on switch electrically connected to the load; a first gate driver electrically connected between the gate and the source of the first normally-on switch; a second gate driver electrically connected between the gate and the source of the second normally-on switch; and an oscillating power supply electrically connected across the voltage source and the common voltage, wherein the oscillating power supply is configured to power the first and second gate drivers such that, for a given voltage applied to the input of the oscillating power supply, the oscillating power supply generates a first output voltage which is supplied to the gate of the first normally-on switch by the first gate driver and a second output voltage which is supplied to the gate of the second normally-on switch by the second gate driver; wherein the first normally-on switch and the second normally-on switch are JFETs wherein the oscillating power supply is a self-oscillating power supply and/or wherein the oscillating power supply is isolated. | 25,497 |
9,389,359 | 1. A backlight module of curved liquid crystal display device, which comprises: a light-guiding plate, having an upper curved surface, a lower curved surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, wherein the upper curved surface and the lower curved surface being connected to the first side surface and the second side surface at both ends respectively; a first light source unit, fixedly disposed near the first side surface; and a back frame, having a back plate comprising a plurality of steps, wherein the step surface of each of the steps is contacted to the lower curved surface to support the lower curved surface, and a selected one of the steps is directly coupled to at least one of the steps neighbored to the selected step, wherein a part of the step surface of each of the steps contacts to the lower curved surface, and another part of the step surface of each of the steps does not contact to the lower curved surface, wherein the part of the step surfaces of two neighbored steps are disconnected with each other, wherein the plurality of the step surfaces is arrange at different heights forming a curvature conforming to the same as or similar to the curvature of the lower curved surface; and wherein the surface of each of the plurality of steps is parallel to each other. | 33,585 |
9,380,531 | 1. A system for providing a wireless asymmetric network, comprising: a first hub having a wireless control device that is configured to control communications and power consumption in the wireless asymmetric network architecture; and a first plurality of nodes each having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the wireless control device of the first hub in the wireless asymmetric network architecture, wherein the wireless control device is configured to determine a first scheduled timing of causing the transmitter to be operable to transmit and causing the receiver to be operable to receive for each wireless device to reduce power consumption of the wireless devices of the first plurality of nodes, wherein the first hub provides anti-collision features by determining a different second scheduled timing of causing the transmitter to be operable to transmit such that nodes that should not transmit at the same time do not overlap transmissions and causing the receiver to be operable to receive for at least two wireless devices of the first plurality of nodes upon initially receiving a communication from at least one new node or upon receiving at least one unintelligible communication during the first scheduled timing from at least one wireless device of the at least two wireless devices. | 35,729 |
9,682,862 | 1. An array of carbon-based microstructures, comprising: carbon nanotubes on a substrate aligned substantially perpendicular to the substrate, wherein the carbon nanotubes are on the substrate at a density of no less than 1×10 at least one of the carbon nanotubes has a diameter of no more than 20 nm, and at least one of the carbon nanotubes has a length of 52 μm through 170 μm. | 43,314 |
9,534,760 | 1. A lighting arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising: a lighting chamber including a light-permeable section and a ventilation opening with a filtering membrane; a light source for supplying light arranged in the lighting chamber; and a ventilation arrangement assigned to the ventilation opening so as to supply ambient air through the ventilation opening to the lighting chamber, the ventilation arrangement including an air outlet opening assigned to the ventilation opening of the lighting chamber so as to supply the ambient air to the ventilation opening, wherein a distance between the air outlet opening and the filtering membrane is configured so as to be adjustable. | 48,601 |
9,513,067 | 1. A packaging system for shipping a temperature sensitive payload, the packaging system comprising: a housing comprising a bottom panel, a top panel located above and in spaced vertical alignment with the bottom panel, side panels extending vertically between the bottom panel and the top panel, and end panels extending vertically between the bottom panel and the top panel, the housing defining a product compartment, the side panels and end panels defining four vertical corners; one or more bottom cooling layers located between the bottom panel and the payload; one or more top cooling layers located between the payload and the top panel; and four sets of elongated, solid walled, hollow individual vertical posts, each post having a triangular cross-section and comprising an outer facing side adhered to the side panel or end panel and two angled sides extending from opposing vertical edges of the outer facing side and meeting along an elongated vertical inner edge, each angled side forming an acute included angle with the outer facing side, each post having an open top end and an open bottom end and defining a vertical inner space within the post, each set comprising at least five posts arranged in the same orientation on an inner facing surface of a side panel or an end panel in an evenly spaced apart array; wherein adjacent vertical posts define a vertically oriented channel between the vertical posts, the vertically oriented channels being parallel to the direction of gravity; wherein the plurality of vertical posts are spaced from the top panel and bottom panel. | 22,930 |
9,003,066 | 1. A storage controller selecting system comprising: a time information storage unit configured to store internal processing time information for each of a plurality of storage controllers, the internal processing time information for each individual storage controller relating to an internal processing time taken for processing performed within the individual storage controller in response to an access request to a logical volume; a receiver configured to receive a creation request for requesting creation of a new logical volume; and a processor configured to select a certain storage controller from among the plurality of storage controllers according to the internal processing time information, and to cause the certain storage controller to create the new logical volume. | 12,239 |
8,368,335 | 1. A system for controlling a roller shade, the system comprising: a flexible shade material having a lower end; a rotatably supported roller tube windingly receiving the flexible shade material; a reversible motor operably engaging the roller tube to rotate the roller tube to move the lower end of the flexible shade material between a first position and a second position; an optical sensor configured for capturing an image frame of the flexible shade material at a plurality of linear positions along the flexible shade material as the lower end of the flexible shade material moves from the first position to the second position; and a motor controller configured for controlling the reversible motor to move the lower end of the flexible shade material from the first position to the second position in response to position information obtained from the plurality of captured image frames. | 34,998 |
9,190,187 | 1. A paste composition for a solar cell electrode, the paste composition comprising: about 60˜90 wt % of conductive particles; about 1˜15 wt % of a glass frit; a total amount of about 5˜25 wt % of an organic binder; and a solvent, wherein: the conductive particles include at least two groups of conductive particle having different particle diameter distributions, the conductive particles have an average particle diameter (D50′) according to the following Equation 1 of about 1.85 μm or less and a particle diameter (D90′) at 90% of the cumulative particle diameter distribution according to the following Equation 2 of about 3.10 μm or less: where, X1: content of first conductive particle group (wt %); X2: content of second conductive particle group (wt %); Xn: content of an nth conductive particle group (wt %) when a number of the groups of conductive particle having different particle diameter distributions is greater than two, Xn being absent when the number of groups of the conductive particles is two; Y1: D50 of first conductive particle group; Y2: D50 of second conductive particle group; Yn: D50 of the nth conductive particle group when the number of the groups of conductive particle having different particle diameter distributions is greater than two, Yn being absent when the number of groups of the conductive particles is two; Z1: D90 of first conductive particle group; Z2: D90 of second conductive particle group; Zn: D90 of the nth conductive particle group when the number of the groups of conductive particle having different particle diameter distributions is greater than two, Zn being absent when the number of groups of the conductive particles is two; and n: an integer of 3 or more when a number of the groups of conductive particle having different particle diameter distributions is greater than two; and wherein the paste composition has a scattering of efficiency of 0.15 or less in a sintering temperature range from about 900° C. to about 930° C. | 6,619 |
8,890,434 | 1. A digitally controlled power distribution system, said digitally controlled power distribution system comprising: a power supply for supplying an electrical current on a single conductor line; a line driver circuit, said line driver modulating a clocked signal onto said electrical current on said single conductor line; and more than one controlled circuit unit coupled in a series arrangement to said single conductor line, each said controlled circuit unit periodically drawing said electrical current on said single conductor line by unshunting said electrical current, each said circuit unit normally shunting said electrical current when not drawing said electrical current wherein one of said more than one controlled circuit units shunts or unshunts said electrical current during a designated time slot of said clocked signal to communicate back to said line driver circuit. | 17,059 |
9,303,698 | 1. A vehicular electric drive system comprising: an electric motor operatively connected to drive wheels so that the drive wheels are driven by said electric motor; a hydraulically operated clutch configured to place a power transmitting path between said electric motor and said drive wheels in a selected one of a power transmitting state and a power cutoff state; a gear mechanism disposed between said hydraulically operated clutch and said drive wheels, to reduce a speed of a rotary motion of said electric motor; a first chamber accommodating said electric motor and said hydraulically operated clutch; a second chamber accommodating said gear mechanism; a partition wall disposed so as to isolate said first chamber and said second chamber from each other; a connecting hole formed on said partition wall through which said hydraulically operated clutch and said gear mechanism are operatively connected to each other; an oil seal fitted in said connecting hole, to restrict flows of an oil through said connecting hole; an oil pump provided to deliver the oil required within said first chamber; and a splash type lubricating mechanism provided to supply the oil to said second chamber, wherein the hydraulically operated clutch overlaps with the electric motor when viewed from an axial direction of the electric motor and at least one part of the hydraulically operated clutch is disposed radially inwardly of coil ends of the electric motor. | 47,207 |
9,330,610 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a backlight unit comprising a plurality of light sources, wherein one or a group of the light sources correspond to a region, wherein the backlight unit comprises a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions being an individual driving region of the backlight unit; and wherein the plurality regions correspond to respective light guide plate modules; a liquid display panel disposed on the backlight unit; a region luminance extraction unit to extract a first luminance value being a luminance value of each of regions in an input image for display on the liquid display panel; a region luminance optimization unit to increase or decrease the first luminance value of a first region by a given increment or decrement so as to output a resultant second luminance value of the first region, wherein the region luminance optimization unit performs spatial filter application; a backlight drive unit to independently drive the individual light guide plate modules by driving the light source of the backlight unit for individual ones of the regions using the second luminance value; an image signal processing unit coupled to the region luminance optimization unit to receive the second luminance value from the region luminance optimization unit, and configured to compare a luminance value of an image pixel with the second luminance value of a corresponding region of the backlight unit to compensate an image signal for driving the liquid display panel, and a display panel drive unit coupled to the liquid display panel to drive the liquid display panel with the compensated image signal, wherein the spatial filter application is configured to calculate the second luminance value of the first region to be a sum of products of the first luminance value and a respective predetermined coefficient for each of the first region and regions that surround the first region, the predetermined coefficient for adjacent ones of the regions that surround the first region being different from each other, and wherein a sum of the predetermined coefficient of the first region and the predetermined coefficients of each of the regions that surround the first region is 1. | 6,398 |
8,682,635 | 1. A method for controlling an energy system, comprising: providing an integrated parametric hybrid model of an energy system for optimizing the energy system and determining desired trajectories over a temporal control horizon as control objectives, wherein the integrated parametric hybrid model comprises one or more parametric hybrid models of unit operation, one or more parametric hybrid models of constraints, and one or more parametric hybrid models of objective functions, each of the parametric hybrid models comprising one or more empirical models for generating values for one or more empirical model outputs, one or more parameter models for generating values for one or more fundamental model parameters of the energy system, and one or more parametric first principles models for generating values for one or more energy system outputs, wherein the fundamental model parameters correlate with, but are not the same as, inputs and outputs of the respective parametric hybrid model; receiving operating information for the energy system; receiving constraint information for the energy system; receiving prediction information for the energy system; executing the models of the parametric hybrid models of the integrated parametric hybrid model to generate the fundamental model parameters, and thereby automatically modifying the integrated parametric hybrid model and an optimization problem formulation for the energy system by online updating of the generated fundamental model parameters for each parametric hybrid model in accordance with the desired trajectories, the operating information, the constraint information, and the prediction information; determining target values and optimal trajectories for a plurality of manipulated variables for the energy system using the modified integrated parametric hybrid model and the modified optimization problem formulation; and controlling the energy system in accordance with the target values and the optimal trajectories. | 33,013 |
9,486,723 | 1. A method of operating a screen wheel filter for a high-viscosity melt having pressures >10 bar and temperatures >90° C., the screen wheel filter substantially comprising a screen wheel mounted in a housing and carrying a plurality of angularly offset screen inserts, and a melt passage offset from an insert backflushing station and/or insert changing station, the method comprising the steps of: rotationally indexing the screen wheel through at least one complete revolution with respect to one of the screen inserts located in the melt passage before one of the screen inserts is replaced in the insert changing station and/or backflushed in the insert backflushing station, and setting the drive speed and drive cycling for the screen wheel in dependence on the thermal or oxidative decomposition behavior of the particular melt such that, when any of the screen inserts enters the melt passage of the screen wheel filter for at least a second time, the melt remaining therein has experienced thermal decomposition or oxidative decomposition of ≦3% cleaved molecular chains. | 12,461 |
8,956,598 | 1. An isolated hydrocarbon mixture comprising 14 C isotopes, wherein the isolated hydrocarbon mixture comprises: a) 55 to 80% by weight of linear C11 hydrocarbons and; b) 20 to 45% by weight of linear C13 or linear C15 hydrocarbons, based on the sum of the hydrocarbons present in the mixture. | 10,940 |
8,791,863 | 1. A printed circuit board antenna for a mobile terminal, the printed circuit board antenna comprising: a main printed circuit board including a power feeding line and a first antenna pattern comprising at least one power feeding antenna line, an end of which is electrically connected to the power feeding line; a plurality of through-holes formed at an end of the main printed circuit board and including at least one conduction hole to which an end of the first antenna pattern is electrically connected; an erected printed circuit board fixed on the main printed circuit board orthogonally and including a second antenna pattern formed thereon; and a plurality of protrusions formed at a lateral side of the erected printed circuit board and including at least one conduction protrusion, inserted into the at least one conduction hole, to which an end of the second antenna pattern is electrically connected, wherein the power feeding antenna line comprises a first power feeding antenna line and a second power feeding antenna line, wherein the second power feeding antenna line is disposed only on the main printed circuit board and is electrically and directly connected to a ground line to implement a Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA), wherein the first power feeding antenna line and the second power feeding antenna line are directly connected to the power feeding line, and wherein the first power feeding antenna line and the second antenna pattern together form a low band antenna, and the second power feeding antenna line forms a high band antenna. | 29,058 |
9,385,175 | 1. A display apparatus, comprising: a base layer having a bend allowance section between a first portion and a second portion of the base layer; a plurality of thin-film transistors provided on the base layer, said plurality of thin-film transistors implementing a plurality of pixel circuits and a driving circuit; a plurality of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) elements disposed on the first portion of the base layer, each of the plurality of OLED elements being connected to corresponding ones of the pixel circuits; an encapsulation over the OLED elements; a printed circuit film attached to the second portion of the base layer; and a micro-coating layer disposed over the bend allowance section of the base layer, wherein the plurality of thin-film transistors includes at least one low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) and at least one oxide TFT. | 28,139 |
9,622,326 | 1. A method of compensating for performance variations of an illuminator of a reflective display device, the method comprising: emitting, with an illuminator, a pulse-width modulated (PWM) series of light pulses onto a front surface of a reflective display panel at a PWM frequency to generate a visible light having a first brightness level; generating, using a light sensor, a series of light intensity level samples at a sampling frequency asynchronous from the PWM frequency; determining, by a processor, a highest light intensity value of the series of light intensity level samples, the highest light intensity value corresponding to ambient light and emitted light from the illuminator during an entirety of a first sampling period; determining, by the processor, a lowest light intensity value of the series of light intensity level samples, the lowest light intensity value corresponding to the ambient light in the absence of the emitted light from the illuminator during an entirety of a second sampling period; determining, by the processor, a difference between the highest light intensity level and the lowest light intensity level, the difference corresponding to an emitted light intensity level attributed to individual light pulses from the illuminator; comparing, by the processor, the emitted light intensity level to an expected emitted light intensity level to generate an intensity offset; and adjusting, by the processor, the first brightness level according to the intensity offset. | 28,705 |
8,828,607 | 1. A cathode active material, which is represented by the following composition formula: wherein M1 represents Co, or Co and Mn; M2 represents Mo or W; −0.07≦x≦0.1; 0.6≦a≦0.9; 0.05≦b≦0.38; and 0.02≦c≦0.06, and wherein a/c>12.5. | 24,426 |
9,297,289 | 1. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprising: an NOx storage reduction catalyst that is arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, and serves to store NOx contained in an incoming exhaust gas when an oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas is high, and to reduce the NOx thus stored when the oxygen concentration of the incoming exhaust gas becomes low and when a reducing agent exists; an NOx selective reduction catalyst that is arranged in the exhaust passage at a location downstream of said NOx storage reduction catalyst, and reduces the NOx in a selective manner; a detection unit configured to detect a degree of deterioration of said NOx storage reduction catalyst or said NOx selective reduction catalyst; and a control unit configured to promote the reduction of NOx in said NOx storage reduction catalyst more when the degree of deterioration detected by said detection unit is low than when it is high, and promote the reduction of NOx in said NOx selective reduction catalyst more when the degree of deterioration detected by said detection unit is high than when it is low. | 9,656 |
8,499,756 | 1. A system for controlling angular position of a pivotable platform relative to a radiation source, the system comprising: a frame; a platform pivotably coupled to the frame; a thermal actuation element coupled to the frame and adapted to pivot the platform to substantially track a movement of the radiation source, wherein the pivotable platform is adapted to at least partially block energy from the radiation source from impinging on the thermal actuation element; and means for dampening disturbances to the pivotable platform selected from the group consisting of a wind shield, an airfoil, a wind activated braking mechanism, and combinations thereof. | 28,682 |
8,374,173 | 1. A method of enabling the management of handovers of voice calls from a Packet Switched, PS, access to a Circuit Switched, CS, access where the voice calls are established using an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network, the method comprising: performing a first IMS registration of a user via said PS access including: performing a second or further IMS registration of the same user via said PS access, including: in the event of a requirement to handover an ongoing voice call associated with said second or further IMS registration from said PS to said CS access, using the identifier currently set in the HSS and identified to the mobility function to manage the handover. | 33,074 |
9,425,885 | 1. A data communication method in a communication system comprising N multiple source nodes each having data destined for a destination node, said method comprising: defining a node number M where 2≦M<N; selecting a group of M multiple source nodes among said N multiple source nodes; network coding, at a relay node of said communication system, the data from said group of M multiple source nodes to form network coded data; and transmitting said network coded data from said relay node to said destination node; wherein said defining comprises defining said group number M to be equal to two; wherein said selecting comprises: | 24,146 |
8,453,455 | 1. A paneled combustion liner, comprising: a support structure of the combustion liner, wherein said support structure has having a plurality of structural elements and a plurality of nodes, each node said plurality of nodes being structured to couple together a group of structural elements of said plurality of structural elements; a plurality of hot side panels, wherein each hot side panel of said plurality of hot side panels has a common shape; wherein said plurality of hot side panels is coupled to a hot side of said support structure; and wherein each hot side panel of said plurality of hot side panels is coupled to one of said plurality of nodes; and a plurality of cold side panels, wherein each cold side panel of said plurality of cold side panels has a common shape; wherein said plurality of cold side panels is coupled to a cold side of said support structure; and wherein each cold side panel of said plurality of cold side panels is coupled to one of said plurality of nodes. | 35,453 |
9,627,056 | 1. A resistive memory device comprising: a memory cell having a programmable resistance representing stored data; and a read circuit configured to be connected to the memory cell via a first signal line and read the stored data, wherein the read circuit includes: | 12,780 |
9,063,055 | 1. An X-ray imaging apparatus for imaging a subject, the X-ray imaging apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating configured to form an interference pattern by diffracting X-ray radiation from an X-ray source; a shielding grating configured to block part of the interference pattern; a detector configured to detect the X-ray radiation passing through the shielding grating; and a moving unit configured to change an angle of each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector with respect to an optical axis, wherein the detector is configured to detect the X-ray radiation passing through the shielding grating according to a change in the angle between the optical axis and at least one of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector, and wherein the moving unit is configured to change a distance from each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector to the X-ray source according to a change in the angle of each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector with respect to the optical axis. | 33,141 |
9,580,894 | 1. A urinal clog removal device comprising: a urinal flange connecting member configured to couple to a urinal flange, the urinal flange connecting member comprising: | 13,269 |
9,246,171 | 1. A cathode active material comprising a lithium metal oxide represented by Formula 1: wherein x+y+z=1, 0<x<0.33, 0<z≦0.1, and 0≦d≦0.1, Me is at least one metal selected from Mn, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Al and B, and M′ is [at least one metal selected from] Sc[, and Y]. | 29,887 |
9,134,844 | 1. An optical touchpad comprising: a light source for emitting a specific-light; a specific-light sensing array for sensing reflected light of the specific-light reflected by an instruction object to generate a signal of a specific-light sensing image that indicates that the reflected light of the specific-light reflected by the instruction object is sufficient for the specific-light sensing array to sense the specific-light sensing image; a proximity detector for determining an instruction distance between the instruction object and the optical touchpad according to the signal intensity of the specific-light sensing image, wherein the higher the signal intensity of the specific-light sensing image, the closer the instruction distance is, up to the instruction object contacting the optical touchpad, and the proximity detector generates a control signal according to the signal intensity of the specific-light sensing image; a motion detector independent from the proximity detector for determining a motion path of the instruction object according to motion of the signal of the specific-light sensing image over the specific-light sensing array for outputting an instruction object motion signal; an environmental light sensing array for sensing light near the optical touchpad to output a signal of an environmental light sensing image; and an environmental light detector for adjusting intensity of the specific-light emitted by the light source according to the signal of the environmental light sensing image, wherein the signal of the environmental light sensing image represents intensity of light near the optical touchpad; wherein when the signal intensity of the specific-light sensing image weakens to less than a predetermined value while still being strong enough for the specific-light sensing array to sense the reflected light of the specific-light reflected by the instruction object, the proximity detector determines that the instruction distance is too great, and the proximity detector issues the control signal to the motion detector to turn off the motion detector while keeping the proximity detector and the environmental light detector turned on, and when the motion detector is turned on, the environmental light detector is turned off. | 27,234 |
9,760,992 | 1. A method for reconstructing measured projection data using a motion compensated iterative reconstruction algorithm and generating reconstructed image data, comprising: re-sampling current image data representing a reference motion state into a plurality of groups of image data, each group of image data corresponding to a different motion state of a moving tissue of interest, wherein re-sampling the current image data comprises applying a corresponding motion vector field of a set of motion vector fields to the current image data for each group of the plurality of groups of image data, wherein each motion vector field of the set of motion vector fields corresponds to the different motion state of the moving tissue of interest; forward projecting each of the plurality of groups of image data, generating a plurality of groups of forward projected data; combining the plurality of groups of forward projected data; determining update projection data based on a comparison between the combined plurality of groups of forward projected data and the measured projection data, wherein the measured projection data includes data detected over different motion states; parsing the update projection data into a plurality of groups of update projection data, each group of update projection data corresponding to a different motion state of the moving tissue of interest; back projecting each of the plurality of groups of updated projection data, generating a plurality of groups of update image data; re-sampling each group of the plurality of groups of update image data to the reference motion state of the current image, wherein resampling each group of update image data to the reference motion state of the current image comprises applying a corresponding motion vector field of the set of motion vector fields to a corresponding each group of update image date that modifies the corresponding each group of update image data to the reference motion state of the current image; and generating new current image data by combining the current image data and each group of re-sampled update image data. | 26,136 |
9,371,426 | 1. A crosslinked organic polymer: the crosslinked organic polymer being at a temperature below its glass transition temperature; where the crosslinked organic polymer is a polyacetal, a polyacrylic, a polycarbonate, a polyester, a polyamide, a polyamideimide, a polyarylate, a polyarylsulfone, a polyethersulfone, a polyphenylene sulfide, a polysulfone, a polyimide, a polyetherimide, a polyetherketone, a polyether etherketone, a polyether ketone ketone, a polybenzoxazole, a polyphthalide, a polyanhydride, a polyvinyl ether, a polyvinyl thioether, a polyvinyl alcohol, a polyvinyl ketone, a polyvinyl nitrile, a polyvinyl ester, a polysulfonate, a polysulfide, a polythioester, a polysulfone, a polysulfonamide, a polyurea, a polyphosphazene, a polysilazane, or a combination thereof; where the polyamide is polypyrrolidone, polycaprolactam, polytetramethylene adipamide, polycapryllactam, polyhexamethylene adipamide, polyundecanolactam, polydodecanolactam, polyhexamethylene azelaiamide, polyhexamethylene sebacamide, polyhexamethylene isophthalamide, polyhexamethylene terephthalamide, polyphthalamide, or a combination thereof; wherein a composition comprising the crosslinked organic polymer has a coefficient of friction that is about 10% to about 70% greater than a coefficient of friction for a composition comprising the same organic polymer that is not crosslinked; and wherein a composition comprising the crosslinked organic polymer has a lower K factor than a K factor of a composition comprising the same organic polymer that is not crosslinked; the coefficient of friction and the K factor being measured in a thrust washer apparatus as per ASTM D-3702, where the counter stationary surface in the thrust washer apparatus comprises carbon steel having a Rockwell C hardness of 18 to 22 and a 12 to 16 micro-inch surface finish. | 46,046 |
8,861,938 | 1. A method for replacement of programs on a video recorder having a computer and a computer readable storage media, comprising: comparing, by a processor of the computer, for each recorded program whose quality does not match a global preference or program specific preference, examining, by the processor, a listing of future programs for alternate versions of the program which do match a global preference or program specific preference; | 26,072 |
9,314,782 | 1. A method for producing a bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)ethyl group-bearing compound represented by formula [1], characterized by causing 1,1,3,3-tetrakis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)propane represented by formula [4] and a compound represented by formula [5] to react with each other; wherein in the formula [1], R R “1” represents any integer from 0 to 2, “n” mutually independently represents any integer from 1 to 5, “m” mutually independently represents any integer from 0 to 4, “o” mutually independently represents any integer from 1 to 3, and m+n+o ≦6 is satisfied; wherein in the formula [5], R R “1” represents any integer from 0 to 2, “n” mutually independently represents any integer from 1 to 5, and “m” mutually independently represents any integer from 0 to (6-n); and wherein if there are two or more combinations of R | 18,808 |
8,721,257 | 1. A gas turbine engine having: a row of circumferentially spaced rotor blades, each having a radially outer tip, a plurality of seal segments circumscribing the rotor blade tips and attached to a radially inward side of a casing of the engine, the seal segments being spaced from the casing by a spacing cavity, whereby, in use, a flow of relatively hot cooling air is routed to the spacing cavity to provide cooling for the seal segments, and an external cooling arrangement for impinging relatively cold cooling air on a radially outward side of the casing and thereby controlling a radial clearance between the rotor blade tips and the seal segments; wherein the engine further has a wall containing a plurality of through-holes which is attached to a radially inward side of the casing adjacent the seal segments, the wall being spaced from the casing to define a heating control chamber between the wall and the casing, and the engine further has one or more closable ducts which allow air to be exhausted from the heating control chamber, whereby, when the ducts are open, a portion of the hot cooling air flows through the through-holes to impinge on the casing and then exhausts from the heating control chamber through the ducts. | 26,173 |
8,833,327 | 1. A piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a piston crown having an end surface and a central axis; and a bowl formed in the piston crown; the bowl including | 49,853 |
8,663,851 | 1. A method of operating a fuel cell system, the method comprising the acts of: providing a fuel cell stack including a plurality of solid oxide fuel cells; at least partially reforming an anode feed in an integrated heat exchanger/reformer; supplying the at least partially reformed anode feed to an anode side of the fuel cell stack; removing offgas from the anode side of the fuel cell stack along an offgas flow path; combining a first portion of offgas from the anode side of the fuel cell stack with the anode feed to recycle the offgas back to the fuel cell stack; supplying a second portion of offgas from the anode side of the fuel cell stack to an anode tailgas oxidizer; transferring heat from the oxidized offgas from the anode tailgas oxidizer to the anode feed in the integrated heat exchanger/reformer; and adjusting relative volumes of the anode feed reformed by the integrated heat exchanger/reformer and directly internally at the anode side of the stack by adjusting the heat content of the oxidized offgas. | 21,229 |
9,404,472 | 1. A method to manufacture a turbine blade, comprising: providing a mould which is used to carry a plurality of turbine blade-components; connecting an inner surface of the mould with an electrical ground; applying a mixture of dry polymeric powder and dry powdered paint particles directly to the inner surface of the mould before the plurality of turbine blade-components is arranged onto the inner surface of the mould, wherein the mould thus comprises a dry-powder-coat as a bottom layer; after the applying the mixture, arranging the plurality of turbine blade-components in layers on top of the dry-powder-coat bottom layer in order to build a sandwich-structure of the blade; after the arranging, applying heat to the mould in order to liquefy the mixture; after the applying heat, applying a Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding (VARTM)-process, wherein resin is applied to the mould and the plurality of turbine blade-components in order to connect the sandwich-structure of the turbine blade when the resin cures; and curing the resin using an amount of heat to form the turbine blade with the connected sandwich-structure and a surface finish comprising resolidified polymeric and paint material, wherein the mixture is applied to the inner surface of the mould using an electrostatic-field for an even distribution of the mixture, and due to the electrostatic-field, the mixture is accelerated towards the mould, wherein the mixture is heated such that the mixture is liquefied and covers the inner surface of the mould. | 24,821 |
8,935,927 | 1. A magnetic refrigerating device comprising: a fixed container filled with a refrigerant, the fixed container including a magnetic material container filled with a magnetic material and being capable of moving in the fixed container and an elastic member provided at an end of the magnetic material container; and a permanent magnet provided at outside of the fixed container, the permanent magnet configured to move in a moving direction of the magnetic material container, the permanent magnet configured to apply and remove a magnetic field to and from the magnetic material and to generate a magnetic torque in the moving direction of the magnetic material container, wherein the magnetic material is filled in the magnetic material container so that the refrigerant and the magnetic material relatively move with a movement of the magnetic material container. | 32,705 |
9,284,588 | 1. A method for producing a polypeptide, comprising: (a) cultivating a fungal host cell in a medium conducive for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the fungal host cell comprises a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide operably linked to a promoter selected from the group consisting of (i) a promoter comprising a nucleotide sequence that has at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1; and (ii) a promoter comprising SEQ ID NO: 1; wherein the polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide is foreign to the promoter; and (b) isolating the polypeptide from the cultivation medium. | 650 |
9,181,791 | 1. A system for detecting soil characteristics within a borehole made via horizontal directional drilling, the system comprising: a drilling assembly including a drillstring with a proximal and distal end, a drilling rig and thruster coupled to the proximal end of the drillstring, and a drilling head coupled to the distal end of the drillstring, the drilling head adapted to create a borehole through various soil types, the drillstring configured to move with respect to first (Y a first load cell operatively coupled to the drilling rig and determining the thrust applied to the drillstring at the drilling rig (Ts) and the torque applied to the drillstring at the drilling rig (Qs); a second load cell operatively coupled to the drilling head and determining the thrust applied to the drilling head (Th) and the torque applied to the drilling head (Qh); a first navigational sensor determining the orientation of the proximal end of the drillstring along the (Y an odometer operatively coupled to the drilling rig and determining the length of the drillstring (s); a second navigational sensor determining the orientation of the drilling head along the (Y a microprocessor in communication with the navigational sensors, load cells and odometer via a communications subsystem, the microprocessor determining the characteristics of the soil as function of (Y wherein the microprocessor determines thrust efficiency (T | 3,345 |
8,977,102 | 1. A method comprising: receiving audio from a first application, the first application being an audio playback application; capturing, with a second application, video input; determining whether first audio content is being played by the first application, and upon determining that the first audio content is being played by the first application, adding the first audio content as part of an audio content; and storing, as a single audio-video file, the video input with audio that is based on the audio content. | 20,476 |
8,946,984 | 1. An electroluminescent device, comprising in the light emitting layer a compound of the formula and a phosphorescent metal complex of Ir, Pt, Eu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Re, Os and Au as dopant, wherein R 81 and R 88 are independently of each other H, —OR 201 , —SR 202 and/or —NR 203 R 204 , C 1 -C 24 alkyl; C 1 -C 24 alkyl, which is substituted by E and/or interrupted by D; C 2 -C 18 alkenyl, C 2 -C 18 alkenyl, which is substituted by E, C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl, which is substituted by G, aryl, aryl, which is substituted by G, heteroaryl, or heteroaryl, which is substituted by G, silyl, SiR 62 R 63 R 64 , —CN, cyclic ether, —B(OR 65 ) 2 and/or halogen, wherein R R R R D is —CO—, —COO—, —OCOO—, —S—, —SO—, —SO E is halogen, C G is E, or C R R R R R wherein R a and b are 0, or 1, W and R R W wherein R 72 , R 73 and R 74 are independently of each other hydrogen, C 1 -C 8 alkyl, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, C 1 -C 8 alkoxy, C 1 -C 8 alkylthio, halogen, halo-C 1 -C 8 alkyl, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a ketone group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a carbamoyl group, an amino group, a nitro group, a silyl group or a siloxanyl group, or R 70 and R 71 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded form a five or six membered heterocyclic ring, which can be condensed by one or two optionally substituted phenyl groups; with the proviso that b is 1, if R 70 and R 71 are independently of each other a group of formula | 43,990 |
9,260,428 | 1. A process for making compounds of Formula I the process comprising: (a) reacting the protected enamine of Formula III, wherein R (b) deprotecting the protected piperidine of Formula IV from step “a” by reacting it with hydrogen in the presence of a palladium catalyst to form the compound of Formula V, (c) alkylating the compound of Formula V by reacting it under Michael addition conditions with an acrylate of the formula 28a, (c) precipitating a sulfonate salt of Formula 27a-sulfonate by reacting the compounds of Formula 27a and 27b formed in Step “c” with a sulfonic acid of the formula R and (d) forming the lactam of Formula I by treating the compound of Formula 27a-sulfonate with acetic acid in the presence of zinc metal; wherein R | 37,595 |
8,523,359 | 1. An illumination device for an observation device having one, two or more observation beam paths, each with at least observation beam bundle, particularly for an operating microscope, the illumination device having at least one light source for producing at least one illumination beam path with at least one illumination beam bundle for illuminating an object to be observed, in particular, an eye to be observed, the illumination device having at least one illumination optics unit, which has a collector, and the at least one illumination beam path or the at least one illumination beam bundle running coaxially to an observation beam path or observation beam bundle, hereby characterized in that the illumination device is adapted to provide a one-stage illumination that omits an imaging of a luminous-field diaphragm and an aperture diaphragm, in that the light source lies in the front focal point of the collector and that the at least one illumination optics unit is designed in such a way that light source is/will be imaged on the fundus of the eye to be observed. | 28,621 |
9,141,730 | 1. A computer-implemented method of creating a recipe for inspecting a specimen, the method comprising: directly deriving, from design data library usable for manufacturing the specimen, data informative of basic elements and hierarchical levels thereof, the derived data representing design data; upon selecting among the basic elements one or more basic element of interest, identifying therebetween at least one basic element that cannot be decomposed in any other basic elements among the selected basic elements, thus giving rise to at least one basic cell characterized by respective hierarchical level; processing the design data to extract location information and periodicity values characterizing one or more areas being, in coordinates of a top hierarchical level, periodical with respect to the at least one basic cell, wherein extracting the periodicity values is provided with no need in obtaining data from an image of the specimen; and processing the location information and the extracted periodicity values to generate real-size parameters for cell-to-cell inspection, thereby enabling automated creation of recipe for inspecting the specimen. | 45,150 |
8,926,912 | 1. An exhaust gas processing device comprising: a honeycomb structure in a pillar shape including a honeycomb unit, the honeycomb unit including cell walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define a plurality of cells which extend from a first end of the honeycomb unit to a second end of the honeycomb unit along the longitudinal direction; a catalytic agent provided on the cell walls; an inorganic mat member wound around an outer peripheral surface of the honeycomb structure; a cylindrical metallic member accommodating the honeycomb structure around which the inorganic mat member is wound; and an insulating layer having a thickness of about 20 μm to about 400 μm and densely formed such that no through pores exist in a thickness direction of the insulating layer, the insulating layer being provided between an inner surface of the cylindrical metallic member and the inorganic mat member, and electrically insulating between the honeycomb structure and the cylindrical metallic member. | 35,631 |
8,504,079 | 1. A method for synchronizing a user equipment clock in a cellular telecommunications user equipment, the method comprising: periodically waking up the user equipment to receive signals transmitted on a cellular telecommunications network; determining a suitability of using one of a first type of signals and a second type of signals, without using another of the first type of signals and the second type of signals, to synchronize the user equipment clock to a network clock, based at least on one or more signals received by the user equipment while the user equipment is awake to receive signals in a first instance; in response to determining the suitability of using the first type of signals, without using the second type of signals, to synchronize the user equipment clock to the network clock, in a second instance that is subsequent to the first instance, waking up the user equipment for a first period of time to receive signals; and in response to determining the suitability of using the second type of signals, without using the first type of signals, to synchronize the user equipment clock to the network clock, in the second instance that is subsequent to the first instance, waking up the user equipment for a second period of time to receive signals, such that the second period of time is different from the first period of time. | 35,972 |
9,402,925 | 1. A method of imaging a bacterial infection in a subject comprising the following steps: administering to the subject a labeled probe selected from the group consisting of: wherein R1 is a radiolabel, wherein the radiolabel is selected from the group consisting of: 18 F, 125 I, 124 I, 131 I, 123 I, 32 Cl, 33 Cl, 34 Cl, 74 Br, 75 Br, 76 Br, 77 Br, and 78 Br; imaging at least a portion of the subject; and detecting the labeled probe, wherein the location of the labeled probe corresponds to bacterial infection. | 13,343 |
9,531,876 | 1. A method, comprising: accessing a communication on an electronic communication medium, between an agent of a contact center, a supervisor of the contact center, and a customer external to the contact center; wherein the communication further comprises a first portion provided by the customer for reception by the agent and the supervisor; wherein the communication further comprises a second portion provided by the agent for reception by the supervisor and the customer; wherein the communication further comprises a third portion provided by the supervisor for reception by the agent; recording the communication, including the first, second, and third portions thereof, and wherein the first portion, second portion, and third portion comprise voice communication; transcribing at least the third portion; and wherein the step of recording, comprises saving the transcription. | 35,034 |
9,777,639 | 1. A turbine engine assembly, comprising: a turbine engine case; a gearbox; a bracket comprising a first aperture and a second aperture; and a plurality of mounts connecting the gearbox to the turbine engine case, each of the plurality of mounts comprising: wherein the linkage of the first of the plurality of mounts comprises a third aperture and a fourth aperture; wherein the fuse joint of the first of the plurality of mounts comprises a first fastener and a second fastener; wherein the first fastener extends into the first and the third apertures, and has a diameter that is substantially equal to diameters of the first and the third apertures; and wherein the second fastener extends into the second and the fourth apertures, and has a diameter that is less than at least one of a diameter of the second aperture and a diameter of the fourth aperture. | 18,396 |
9,266,722 | 1. A method of fabricating a MEMS resonator device, the method comprising the steps of: forming a first microstructure and a second microstructure spaced from the first microstructure by a gap, the second microstructure being configured for mechanical, resonant vibration that varies the gap; forming a shunt coupled to the first microstructure or the second microstructure to protect against damage from an electrostatic charge imbalance during fabrication; and disabling the shunt to enable the resonant vibration of the second microstructure. | 29,370 |
8,647,633 | 1. A composition comprising a purified fusion protein comprising all of F1 antigen of Yersinia pestis , with or without its signal sequence, fused to the amino terminus of all of V antigen of Yersinia pestis by a linker which consists of the following sequence -Glu-Phe-, wherein the purified fusion protein is reactive with antibodies against F1 antigen of Yersinia pestis and antibodies against V antigen of Yersinia pestis and is capable of eliciting a protective immune response against F1 positive and F1 negative Yersinia pestis strains. | 5,365 |
9,435,108 | 1. A pressure compensator for stabilizing a flow of water comprising a pressure compensator body including an upper surface, a lower surface and an outer periphery, a plurality of flow orifices passing through the pressure compensator body from the upper surface to the lower surface thereof, and a plurality of flexible flow control members each capable of at least partially blocking an associated flow orifice to provide the flow orifice with a predetermined flow area, whereby the plurality of flexible flow control members are caused to flex and reduce but not close the predetermined flow area at increased water pressures, wherein each of the plurality of flexible flow control members comprises two flexible flow control flaps that project upwardly from the upper surface of the pressure compensator body. | 20,923 |
9,611,216 | 1. The aromatic compound having branching alkyl chains as shown in Formula (III): wherein Ar | 47,641 |
8,782,972 | 1. A solar roofing shingle assembly comprising: an attachment panel configured for attachment to a roof deck, the attachment panel including a substrate, and an attachment member mounted to a first surface of the attachment panel substrate; and a solar shingle including a shingle substrate, a solar cell mounted to a first surface of the shingle substrate, and a mounting flange bonded to a backside of the shingle substrate opposite the first surface, the mounting flange extending longitudinally outward from a first longitudinal end of the shingle substrate; wherein the mounting flange is received between the attachment member and the first surface of the attachment panel substrate to mount the solar shingle to the attachment panel; wherein the attachment panel substrate includes a first substrate layer and a second substrate layer bonded to a backside of the first substrate layer; wherein the second substrate layer is longer than the first substrate layer, such that one of a first and a second end of the second substrate layer extends outward of a respective first and second end of the first substrate layer; and wherein the one of the first and second ends of the second substrate layer defines a mounting member. | 36,153 |
9,823,653 | 1. A method of managing electric energy consumption and/or production dynamics in an electricity metering device, comprising the steps of: sampling an electric energy flow through a given node of a network of an electric company by an electricity metering device belonging to said network; calculating at said node by a digital metering circuit of said electricity metering device a time-divided energy variation ΔE adding said variation (ΔE determining by said electricity metering device whether said variation and/or said cumulative sum detected at said node exceed a predetermined threshold value (δ transmitting by a communication unit of said electricity metering device a message over said network if said variation and/or cumulative sum detected at said node exceed said predetermined threshold value (δ | 13,559 |
9,194,915 | 1. A control test point (CTP) of an integrated circuit (IC) scan chain, the CTP comprising: a first integrated clock gate (ICG) of the IC scan chain CTP, the first ICG having a clock input, a gated clock output, a functional enable (FE) input, and a first scan enable (SE) input, the first ICG configured to operate, in response to an active state of the first SE input, in a serial scan mode that allows the gated clock output to change in response to data received by the first SE input during a serial scan operation, the first ICG further configured to operate in response to an inactive state of the first SE input, in a scan capture mode in which the gated clock output is, in response to the FE input being held at a low logic level, inhibited from changing during a scan capture operation; and a scan latch having a second clock input coupled to the gated clock output of the first ICG, the scan latch further having a data output, the scan latch configured to hold the data output at a fixed logic level in response to the gated clock output of the first ICG being inhibited from changing during the scan capture operation. | 12,891 |
8,552,157 | 1. An antibody that specifically binds to the extracellular domain (ECD) of human c-Kit consisting of the amino acid sequence as in SEQ ID NO: 20, the antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region (HCVR) and a light chain variable region (LCVR), wherein the HCVR comprises CDRH1, CDRH2, and CDRH3 amino acid sequences, and the LCVR comprises CDRL1, CDRL2, and CDRL3 amino acid sequences, wherein CDRH1 is SYWIG (SEQ ID NO: 1), CDRH2 is IIYPGDSDTRYSPSFQG (SEQ ID NO: 2), CDRH3 is HGRGYNGYEGAFDI (SEQ ID NO: 3), CDRL1 is RASQGISSALA (SEQ ID NO: 4), CDRL2 is DASSLES (SEQ ID NO: 5), and CDRL3 is CQQFNSYPLT (SEQ ID NO: 6). | 45,288 |
8,641,364 | 1. A paddle wheel rotatable about an axis and exposed to radial inward and crosswise water flow, the paddle wheel having: a central hub on the axis and about which the wheel is rotated in a rotation direction about the axis; and a plurality of angularly spaced blades spaced radially outward from the central hub, forming spaces through which water can flow, and each formed by a plurality of radially spaced arcuate elements each in turn having a radially outer end and a radially inner end, the spaced arcuate elements of each blade being concave between the respective ends toward the incoming water flow, the radial outer ends of the spaced arcuate elements of each blade being more widely spaced than the radial inner ends such that each element forms an acute angle with the adjacent element or elements and the spaces between the blades narrow in a direction of flow of water through them, the acute angle each element forms with a centerline through the respective blade increasing toward the hub, each element of each blade being shorter than the adjacent element spaced radially outward therefrom and a spacing between each element and the adjacent element spaced radially outward therefrom decreasing toward the central hub. | 3,555 |
8,469,362 | 1. A method for determining which hand of a wagering card game is the winning hand comprising dealing alternately one card from a full deck containing substantially fewer than 52 cards to hand X and hand Y until one of the two hands is dealt a predesignated card that by itself decides winning and losing using a processor and a number generator and a display screen as machine components of an operating system that enables the game to be played electronically, wherein dealing a predesignated card that by itself decide winning and losing to hand X or hand Y stops play as soon as it is dealt; wherein the deck consists of neutral cards that have no value and do not determine winning and losing, and at least one predesignated card that by itself decides winning and losing. | 19,679 |
9,407,123 | 1. A generator, comprising: a rotor comprising at least two disc-like shaped rotor end plates supporting the rotor, wherein two of the at least two rotor end plates are axially adjacently disposed and each are at least partially extending tilted relative to a centre axis of the generator, whereby the rotor end plates are disposed at one axial face side of the rotor, wherein each rotor end plate comprises a radially outer end; and a stator comprising at least one disc-like shaped stator end plate supporting the stator, wherein each stator end plate comprises a radially outer end, wherein the at least two of the at least two rotor end plates axially adjacently disposed and at least one stator end plate at least partially extends tilted relative to the centre axis of the generator in an outward direction towards a drive end, wherein all of the radially outer ends of the respective rotor end plates converge in a common point at the axial face side of the rotor. | 45,905 |
9,261,999 | 1. A display panel comprising a first panel substrate, a second panel substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first panel substrate and the second panel substrate, the first panel substrate having a plurality of pixels disposed on the first panel substrate and structured to enable the display panel to display an image defined by received image signals, where the second panel substrate comprises: a base substrate; a read-out line disposed on the base substrate and extending in a first direction; a first insulating layer disposed on the read-out line; a scan line extending in a second direction to cross with the read-out line and disposed on the first insulating layer; a switching device comprising a first electrode connected to the scan line, a second electrode connected to the read-out line, and a third electrode spaced apart from the second electrode; and a light sensor connected to the third electrode and structured to sense an incident light of a predetermined band of wavelengths, wherein the display panel further comprising wherein the light sensor is arranged in the display area. | 3,130 |
9,664,396 | 1. A building envelope of a building, the building envelope comprising: at least two shells spaced apart from one another, the at least two shells enclosing an intermediate space between an interior and an exterior of the building, wherein the intermediate space contains weight-bearing and/or building-technology elements and is otherwise empty, or is filled at least in sections with porous, open-celled material; and controllable sealing means for controlled sealing of the intermediate space from both the interior and the exterior, the controllable sealing means being configured to be controlled to variably set a fluid leak rate between the intermediate space and the interior and exterior of the building. | 37,661 |
9,304,418 | 1. A system for pigment milling comprising: a pulsing direct current (DC) source that generates a DC pulse; an electromagnetic field generating subunit comprising an electromagnetic coil coupled to the pulsing DC source to receive the DC pulse and to generate a magnetic field; and a rotating container subunit comprising: | 17,032 |
8,351,232 | 1. A method of controlling power delivered to a load by an AC/DC power converter having a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) that includes a control switch, switchable between an ON and an OFF state and only conducting during said ON state, for controlling a drive current delivered to the load, the AC/DC power converter receiving a mains alternating-current (AC) voltage as an input, the mains AC voltage having a mains voltage cycle of an absolute voltage value varying in a cyclic manner over a cycle period having a first half-cycle period of increasing from a zero to a maximum followed by a second half-cycle period of decreasing from the maximum to a zero, the method comprising: receiving the mains AC voltage; rectifying the mains AC voltage to produce a direct-current (DC) voltage; producing an output voltage from the DC voltage; delivering the output voltage and the drive current to the load, the output voltage and drive current controlled by the control switch in the SMPS; shifting a timing of the drive current relative to the mains voltage cycle by generating a sequence of current control pulses within each cycle period, each current control pulse causing the control switch to have said ON state, and each current control pulse having a respective duration T | 47,470 |
9,388,712 | 1. A method for sequestering carbon dioxide from an oxy-fuel based power cycle, the method comprising the following steps: supplying a turbine apparatus that provides energy in the form of a shaft output from a fluid flow and providing gaseous carbon dioxide and liquid water from said turbine apparatus, wherein said gaseous carbon dioxide and liquid water discharge from the turbine apparatus at a first density and a first temperature; feeding said gaseous carbon dioxide and said liquid water directly from the turbine apparatus to a water separator and separating said liquid water from said gaseous carbon dioxide at approximately the first temperature; compressing the gaseous carbon dioxide using a compressor to increase the first density to a second density to form a compressed gaseous carbon dioxide; converting the compressed gaseous carbon dioxide at the second density to liquid carbon dioxide by cooling the compressed gaseous carbon dioxide; converting all or a portion of the liquid carbon dioxide to supercritical carbon dioxide by compressing the liquid carbon dioxide; removing a portion of the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide from the cycle; introducing oxygen, a combustion fuel and the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide remaining in the cycle to an oxy-fuel combustor; combusting the oxygen and the combustion fuel with the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide at a temperature ranging from 800° F. to 1100° F. in the oxy-fuel combustor to generate an exhaust mixture comprising steam and liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide with additional carbon dioxide content where said additional carbon dioxide content is equal to said portion of the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide removed from the cycle and replaces the portion of the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide removed from the cycle; introducing the exhaust mixture into said turbine apparatus that provides energy from a fluid flow; and expanding the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide so as to convert the liquid and/or supercritical carbon dioxide to said gaseous carbon dioxide and said liquid water at the first density and at the first temperature. | 44,559 |
8,878,178 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having an insulating surface; a gate electrode layer over the substrate; a gate insulating layer over the gate electrode layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the gate insulating layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; an insulating layer over and in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; a light-transmitting conductive layer over the insulating layer, the light-transmitting conductive layer being electrically connected to one of the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer; and a cathode of a light-emitting element over and in contact with the light-transmitting conductive layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer comprises a region with a smaller thickness than a region overlapping with the source electrode layer or the drain electrode layer, and wherein an end portion of the oxide semiconductor layer has a curved surface. | 38,850 |
8,505,839 | 1. An electrostatically atomizing device comprising: a housing; an electrostatically atomizing unit accommodated within said housing; said electrostatically atomizing unit including an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode disposed in an opposed relation to said emitter electrode, a water feed means configured to give water on said emitter electrode, and an atomizing barrel surrounding said emitter electrode, said atomizing barrel provided at its one axial end with an outlet port exposed to an exterior of said housing, a high voltage source being accommodated within said housing and configured to apply a high voltage across said emitter electrode and said opposed electrode to electrostatically atomize the water supplied to said emitter electrode at a discharge end of said emitter electrode for producing charged minute water particles which flows from the end of said emitter electrode and through said opposed electrode to be discharged out of said outlet port at an end of said atomizing barrel as being atomized, wherein an air pressure chamber is provided within said housing to surround said atomizing barrel, a fan is disposed to supply pressurized air to said air pressure chamber, a plural of air inlets are disposed in a peripheral wall of said atomizing barrel and are arranged circumferentially along a circumferential direction of said atomizing barrel to introduce the pressurized air from said air pressure chamber into said atomizing barrel such that mist of said charged minute particles is carried on the pressurized air introduced from the plural of air inlets and is discharged out of said housing from said atomizing barrel, wherein said air inlets are disposed in a diametrically opposed relation with each other about an axis of said atomizing barrel. | 40,543 |
8,367,284 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: detecting an intensity distribution of light projected through a photomask including an internal pattern which is projected to a portion of a semiconductor wafer to be exposed in which a resist pattern is formed by exposure and said internal pattern includes a plurality of unit patterns that are arranged at a predetermined interval and have a same shape; determining specific transfer patterns, which are transfer patterns of predetermined portions of said unit patterns, among transfer patterns that are projected through said photomask for two or more unit patterns on the basis of a detection result in said detecting of said intensity distribution of light; calculating an error between a transfer pattern of said transfer patterns and a specified transfer pattern on the basis of a comparison between a relative position between said specific transfer patterns determined in said determining of said specific transfer patterns and a specified value of said relative position; calculating correction parameters for correcting said transfer patterns on the basis of said error calculated in said calculating of said error; correcting exposure conditions using said correction parameters such that said transfer patterns are corrected; and exposing said semiconductor wafer through said photomask. | 626 |
8,895,192 | 1. A grid plate for a lead acid storage battery comprising a frame section having a pair of lateral frame strands that extend in a lateral direction and oppose one another in a longitudinal direction, and a pair of longitudinal frame strands that extend in the longitudinal direction and oppose one another in the lateral direction; a plurality of lateral grid strands and a plurality of longitudinal grid strands that are provided so as to extend parallel to the lateral frame strands and the longitudinal frame strands, respectively, so that a grid is formed inside the frame section; and a plate lug section integrally formed in one lateral frame strand of the frame section, wherein at least one of: the longitudinal grid strands or the lateral grid strands, have a plurality of thin strands having a cross-sectional area that can withstand corrosion for a predetermined service life period of the lead acid storage battery, and a plurality of thick strands that have a greater cross-sectional area than that of the thin strands, the thick strands and thin strands being arranged so that the strands adjacent to the thick strands are thin strands; the plurality of thick strands have a thickness that is less than the thickness of the frame section, end portions of the thick strands with respect to the thickness direction are positioned further inward in the thickness direction than end face portions of the frame section, respectively, in the thickness direction of the frame section; and the thick strands are arranged in a state in which the respective end portions of one end side in the thickness direction are positioned in the same plane; the width and thickness of the thin strands are set to be less than the width and thickness of the thick strands; and the plurality of thin strands are provided in a state in which the respective end portions on one end side in the thickness direction, are positioned in positions closer to the plane in which the end portions of one end side of the plurality of thick strands in the thickness direction are arranged, as opposed to an opposing end side of the plurality of thick strands, but so as not to cross over the plane in which the end portions of one end side of the plurality of thick strands in the thickness direction are arranged. | 9,287 |
9,564,275 | 1. A device comprising: an electronic structure; a supercapacitor structure, the supercapacitor structure comprising one or more layers of supercapacitors, wherein the supercapacitor structure comprise a sheet structure configured and sized to overlie at least a portion of the electronic structure to, in part, facilitate electromagnetic shielding of the electronic structure; wherein the electronic structure comprises a battery for supplying power to one or more components of an electronic assembly; and wherein the sheet structure comprises a flexible sheet structure configured and sized to at least partially overlie opposing surfaces of the battery, the main surface of the battery being one surface of the opposing surfaces of the battery. | 44,918 |
9,110,121 | 1. A system comprising: a bias current supply configured to provide a bias current; a spinning current Hall sensor configured to provide, in a residual offset adjustment mode, a sequence of input signals in response to the bias current being applied to a sequence of terminals of Hall sensing elements of the Hall sensor in a spin direction, the terminals of the Hall sensing elements of the Hall sensor configured to be interconnected in a sequence of configurations between the bias current supply and ground, with the bias current supply being connected to and applying the bias current to a different one of the terminals of each configuration, wherein a spin direction comprises a sequence of terminals of the Hall sensing elements to which the bias current is applied; and a chopping circuit configured to receive and demodulate the sequence of input signals and to provide a corresponding sequence of demodulated positive and negative signals; and, wherein a residual offset calibration signal for the spinning current Hall sensor is determined based on the sequence of demodulated positive and negative signals. | 37,943 |
8,558,855 | 1. A driving method for a display device comprising a plurality of pixels wherein said display device has a binary color system comprising two contrasting colors of a first color and a second color, the method comprising: a) applying a waveform to drive each of said pixels from its initial color state to a full first color state for a length of time then directly from the full first color state to a full second color state for the same length of time, and finally directly to an intermediate color state between the full first color state and the full second color state; wherein (i) the length of time applied to drive the pixel from the initial color state to the full first color state is equal to the length of time applied to drive the pixel from the full first color state to the full second color state regardless of the initial color state, (ii) the length of time is sufficient to drive the pixel from the full first color state to the full second color state and from the full second color state to the full first color state, and (iii) the full first color state and the full second color state are the first color and the second color respectively at the highest color intensity possible. | 194 |
9,054,239 | 1. A grid electrode formed on the front-side of a silicon wafer which has a p-type region, an n-type region, a p-n junction and an antireflective coating (ARC) layer on said front-side, wherein said grid electrode is produced according to a process comprising the steps of: (1) printing and drying a metal paste A having fire-through capability on the ARC layer, wherein the metal paste A is printed as thin parallel finger lines forming a bottom set of finger lines, (2) printing and drying a metal paste B over the bottom set of finger lines, wherein the metal paste B is printed in a grid pattern which comprises (i) thin parallel finger lines forming a top set of finger lines superimposing the bottom set of finger lines and (ii) two or more parallel busbars intersecting the finger lines at right angle, and (3) firing the double-printed silicon wafer, wherein the metal paste A comprises an organic vehicle and an inorganic content comprising (a1) at least one electrically conductive metal powder selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and nickel, and (a2) 0.5 to 8 wt.-% of glass frit, wherein the metal paste B comprises an organic vehicle and an inorganic content comprising (b1) at least one electrically conductive metal powder selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and nickel, and (b2) 0.2 to 3 wt.-% of glass frit, and wherein the inorganic content of metal paste B contains less glass frit plus optionally present other inorganic additives than the inorganic content of metal paste A, and said two or more parallel busbars comprising metal paste B do not etch the ARC layer during firing. | 3,735 |
8,369,577 | 1. A vehicle position recognition system comprising: a vehicle position calculation unit that calculates an estimated position of a vehicle based on satellite positioning and dead reckoning navigation; an error range calculation unit that calculates a basic error range, wherein there is a possibility that the vehicle exists in the basic error range; a first estimated error amount calculation unit that calculates at least one first estimated error amount regarding at least one directional error factor, wherein the at least one directional error factor is at least one error factor that tends to cause at least one error in at least one specific direction with respect to a vehicle traveling direction, and the at least one first estimated error amount is at least one estimated amount of the at least one error that is caused by the at least one directional error factor; a first error range adjustment unit that adjusts the basic error range based on at least one direction in which the at least one error tends to be caused by the at least one directional error factor, and the at least one first estimated error amount; and a surrounding information obtaining range determination unit that determines a surrounding information obtaining range based on the adjusted error range, the surrounding information obtaining range being used for obtaining reference data for scene matching regarding a surrounding region around the estimated position, the reference data for scene matching being used when scenic image recognition is performed based on a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a scene viewed from the vehicle; wherein the surrounding information obtaining range determined by the surrounding information obtaining range determination unit is used as an extraction range for extracting the reference data from a database, when a position of the vehicle is determined through matching between the reference data and data for matching, which is generated from an actually-captured image obtained by capturing an image of a scene using a vehicle-mounted camera. | 29,273 |
9,044,651 | 1. A shoulder strap assembly, comprising: a first shoulder strap including: a receptor component engaged with the first shoulder strap at the common area; and a second shoulder strap having a first end movably coupled with the receptor component and having a second end; and wherein the first strap element, the second strap element, and the third strap element are non-releasably engaged with the common area. | 38,921 |
8,655,257 | 1. A moving target training system comprising: a mobile training device wherein the mobile training device receives lethal or non-lethal fire from a firearm or other weapon system and wherein the mobile training device has a target unit and a base unit and wherein the target unit is secured to the base unit; a plurality of wheels located within an interior of the base unit wherein the plurality of wheels allows the mobile training device to move; a radio receiver in communication with a central computer unit wherein both are located within the interior of the base unit wherein the radio receiver receives a radio signal from a control unit located remotely from the mobile training device; a training weapon located within the interior of the base unit wherein the training weapon is electrically connected to the central computer unit and wherein the training weapon fires a non-lethal physical projectile at a first person; wherein a second person through a remotely located control unit and an automated control system comprising active arm control and auto tracking system of the first person control the operation of the mobile training device; and a bullet-proof or bullet-resistant material shield located on and physically secured to at least two sides of the base unit wherein the bullet-proof or bullet-resistant material shield receives lethal gun fire from a firearm and protects components located within the interior of the base unit and wherein the bullet-proof or bullet-resistant material shield moves in unison with the base unit. | 49,664 |
9,120,370 | 1. A drive apparatus for an electric automobile, comprising: a pair of electric motors each having an output shaft; a planetary gear transmission having a first and second driving-side rotating shafts that are respectively rotated and driven by either one of the output shafts of the electric motors, and a driven-side rotating shaft; and a rotation transmission apparatus for transmitting the rotation of the driven-side rotating shaft of the planetary gear transmission to a pair of left and right drive wheels; wherein the planetary gear transmission further comprises first and second planetary gear mechanisms that are separated in the axial direction and are concentric with each other, and a clutch apparatus; the first planetary gear mechanism is a single-pinion planetary gear mechanism that comprises: a first carrier, a first sun gear, first planet gears and a first ring gear; the first planet gears being supported by the first carrier so as to be able to rotate and engaging with both the first sun gear and the first ring gear, in which the first sun gear is provided in the middle section in the axial direction of the first driving-side rotating shaft so as to be rotated and driven by the first driving-side rotating shaft, and the first ring gear is provided so as to be rotated and driven by the second driving-side rotating shaft; the second planetary gear mechanism is a double-pinion planetary gear mechanism that comprises: a second carrier, a second sun gear, second and third planet gears, and a second ring gear; the second and third planet gears being supported by the second carrier so as to be able to rotate and engaging with each other to form a pair; the second planet gears that are placed on the inner diameter side engaging with the second sun gear; and the third planet gears that are placed on the outer diameter side engaging with the second ring gear; in which the second sun gear is provided on the end section of the first driving-side rotating shaft so as to be rotated and driven by the first driving-side rotating shaft, the second carrier is provided so as to rotate in synchronization with the first ring gear, and the driven-side rotating shaft is rotated and driven by the second ring gear; the clutch apparatus changes between a state where the first carrier is prevented from rotating with respect to a portion that is fastened to the vehicle, and a state where the rotation of the first carrier is allowed; and in a low-speed mode state having a large reduction ratio, the clutch apparatus prevents the first carrier from rotating with respect to the portion fastened to the vehicle, and power that is inputted to the first ring gear is transmitted to the first sun gear, and in a high-speed mode state having a small reduction ratio, the clutch apparatus allows the first carrier to rotate with respect to the portion that is fastened to the vehicle, and power that is inputted to the first ring gear is not transmitted to the first sun gear. | 15,477 |
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