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9,696,010 | 1. A phosphor component, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate; a phosphor plate adhesively formed by a phosphor powder and an adhesive agent, wherein the phosphor plate is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and has a first side facing the first substrate and a second side facing the second substrate; and a plurality of particles, which are fixedly connected to the first side of the phosphor plate and disposed between the first side of the phosphor plate and the first substrate, wherein the particles maintain an air gap between the first side of the phosphor plate and the first substrate. | 33,712 |
9,083,050 | 1. A method of making a membrane electrode assembly, the method comprising: a) placing a cathode layer over a first side of an ion conducting membrane such that the cathode layer contacts a portion of the ion conducting membrane, the cathode layer including a stabilization agent that is diffusible into the ion conducting membrane and the ion conducting membrane includes platinum or a platinum-containing compound or alloy; the stabilization agent comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of Ce(III) containing compounds, Mn(II) containing compounds, and combinations thereof; and b) placing an anode layer over a second side of the ion conducting membrane wherein the ion conducting membrane comprises a first ion conducting membrane proximate to the anode and a second ion conducting membrane proximate to the cathode, a concentration of platinum in the second ion conducting membrane being higher than a concentration of platinum in the first ion conducting membrane. | 44,111 |
8,564,149 | 1. A method for operating a wave power plant, the method comprising: generating an oscillating air current by a wave movement inside a wave chamber communicating with a flow channel leading to the exterior; driving at least indirectly an electrical generator using an air turbine rotating in a single direction for an incident airflow coming from opposite directions, wherein said air turbine is arranged in the flow channel; supplying, using the electrical generator, electrical power to a power grid, which is averaged over a plurality of flow oscillation periods using a generator side converter, a direct current link and a network side converter, wherein an electrical energy storage is connected to the direct current link using a DC converter; and maintaining the voltage value of the direct current link between a lower limiting voltage and an upper limiting voltage by at least one of a closed-loop and an open-loop control of a power input and a power output; wherein the air turbine is speed guided, depending on a variable, which characterises the flow in at least one of the flow channel and the pressure in the wave chamber, wherein the rotational speed is guided continuously during a flow oscillation period. | 31,849 |
8,955,148 | 1. A matrix security management system for managing security rights over a computer system or network, the system comprising: at least one computer; at least one computer resource or resource container; at least one principal or principal group that requires access to said at least one computer resource or resource container; a graphical user interface for displaying, and managing, said at least one principal or principal group and said at least one computer resource or resource container, and their respective access rights and settings; said graphical user interface further comprising: a module configured to read and modify the access rights or settings of said at least one computer resource or resource container installed on said computer system or network for said at least one principal or principal group; a collapsible navigation tool; an authentication module; and at least two security matrices for the display and management of resources and principals; said at least two security matrices further comprising: a main security matrix comprising at least two axes; a first axis of the main security matrix representing one or more resource containers on said computer system or network; a second axis of the main security matrix representing one or more principals or principal groups of said computer system or network; at least one secondary security matrix comprising at least two axes; a first axis of the at least one secondary security matrix representing one or more resources within a resource container on said computer system or network; a second axis of the at least one secondary security matrix representing one or more principals or principal groups of said computer system or network; said main security matrix and said at least one secondary security matrix each further comprising a visual, aural, sensory, or software indicator that signifies the presence of one or more individual principals who have been granted explicit access rights or settings to one or more of the resource or resource containers displayed in said main security matrix or said at least one secondary security matrix. | 11,080 |
8,698,272 | 1. An optoelectronic device, comprising: a semiconductor material; a first doped region in the semiconductor material; a second doped region in the semiconductor material forming a junction with the first doped region; and a laser processed region associated with the junction and configured to interact with electromagnetic radiation, wherein at least a portion of a region of laser damage from the laser processed region has been removed such that the optoelectronic device has an open circuit voltage of from about 500 mV to about 800 mV. | 15,341 |
9,412,995 | 1. An electrode comprising: a current collector; an endothermic material layer consisting of an endothermic material provided directly on the current collector; and an active material layer provided on the endothermic material layer such that the endothermic material layer is positioned between the active material layer and the current collector, wherein: | 41,301 |
9,182,795 | 1. A power distribution system, comprising: two or more power components configured to distribute power to one or more electrical components; two or more power transmission lines configured to transmit power from at least one of the power components to at least one other of the power components; wherein each of at least two of the two or more power components comprise one or more signal devices configured to send and receive signals over at least one of the power transmission lines to one or more upstream power components in the power distribution system or one or more downstream power components in the power distribution system, wherein the one or more signal device are configured to include in the signals information about at least one of the power components in the power distribution system; and one or more computing devices configured to perform a power distribution system assessment, wherein to perform the power distribution system assessment, the one or more computing devices are configured to: | 42,757 |
9,770,993 | 1. A vehicle charging station comprising: a track configured to extend across a plurality of vehicle parking spaces; a movable charging apparatus supported by the track and translatable along the track between the plurality of vehicle parking spaces, the movable charging apparatus including: a power delivery circuit configured to receive an electrical charge from a power source and to controllably provide the electrical charge to the electric vehicle. | 40,657 |
8,793,051 | 1. A control system for an air conditioning apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of control units for controlling devices provided in the air conditioning apparatus; and a signal control unit that controls the plurality of control units, wherein the plurality of control units are divided into groups each having a common ON/OFF combination for individual operating modes of the vehicle, and the control units belonging to the same group are connected by a common signal line; and the signal control unit sends ON and OFF signals depending on the operating mode of the vehicle to the individual signal lines, the groups includes a first group having the plurality of control units connected by a first signal line, and a second group having the plurality of control units connected by a second signal line. | 15,639 |
8,840,121 | 1. A system for converting a conventional transporting device having a fixed platform into a transporting device having an adjustable platform, the system comprising: a shelving unit comprising (a) means for releaseably securing the shelving unit to a transporting device frame, and (b) a platform for supporting removable items thereon; a backing plate, attached to the frame and further comprising: at least one front roller, offset from at least one rear roller configured to minimize movement of the shelving unit in a first direction; at least one guide rollers arranged perpendicular to the at least one front roller and the at least one rear roller; wherein the plurality of rollers are configured to minimize movement of the shelving unit in a second direction; and a control unit for controllably adjusting an elevation of the shelving unit on the frame of the transporting device, the control unit comprising a drive unit for driving the shelving unit either to raise or lower the shelving unit relative to the transporting device frame; wherein the system is configured to be applied to the conventional transporting device in a releasable manner so as to return the conventional transporting device to an initial unconverted state if so desired by a user. | 17,453 |
8,513,128 | 1. A poly opening polish process, comprising: providing a semi-finished semiconductor component comprising: applying a first polishing process onto the dielectric layer, comprising: | 32,180 |
8,598,860 | 1. A circuit for detecting a rapid transient comprising: a first comparator with a second comparator with a state machine connected to outputs of the first comparator and the second comparator for detecting a rapid transient, the state machine receiving a periodic clock signal and maintaining an incremental timing count responsive to the clock signal, the state machine determining a rate of output voltage transient as exceeding a predetermined threshold rate if the output voltage crosses the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage within a predetermined time period according to the incremental timing count. | 27,829 |
9,691,633 | 1. A leadframe, comprising: a first lead and a second lead; a first conductive pillar formed on a first portion of the top surface of the first lead by disposing a first via on the first lead, wherein at least one first conductive material is filled inside the first via to form the first conductive pillar; and a second conductive pillar formed on a first portion of the top surface of the second lead by disposing a second via on the second lead, wherein at least one second conductive material is filled inside the second via to form the second conductive pillar; wherein a second portion of the top surface of the first lead, a second portion of the top surface of the second lead, the first conductive pillar, and the second conductive pillar form a 3D space for accommodating at least one device, wherein at least one portion of the at least one device is disposed above the second portion of the top surface of the first lead and below the top surface of the first conductive pillar, wherein a first terminal of the at least one device is electrically connected to the first lead through the first conductive pillar and a second terminal of the at least one device is electrically connected to the second lead through the second conductive pillar. | 20,371 |
9,071,246 | 1. A system comprising: a configurable memory controller including a plurality of configuration bits configured to indicate at least one of memory type, address, data width, and operating frequency; wherein the configurable memory controller comprise a configuration registers to store the plurality of the configuration bits and a mode register bits; a dedicated interface coupled to the configuration registers by a mode register data bus, wherein the dedicated interface is used by the user for setting the values in the configuration registers; a memory interface; and a configurable high speed communications fabric comprising a plurality of interconnect stations arranged in an array wherein each of the plurality of interconnect stations includes a first set of connectors and a second set of connectors wherein the first set of connectors is configured to couple to an adjacent interconnect station via a plurality of pipelined buses, wherein the configurable memory controller is operably coupled to the configurable high speed communications fabric using a first interconnect station of the plurality of interconnect stations, wherein the memory interface is operably coupled to the configurable high speed communications fabric using a second interconnect station of the plurality of interconnect stations, wherein the second set of connectors is configured to connect to a programmable logic block (“PLB”). | 32,577 |
9,595,515 | 1. A semiconductor chip, comprising: a region including at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures oriented to extend lengthwise in a first direction, the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures positioned such that a distance as measured in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction between any two lengthwise-oriented centerlines of the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures is substantially equal to an integer multiple of a gate electrode pitch, the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures including a first linear-shaped conductive structure that forms a gate electrode of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a gate electrode of a first transistor of a second transistor type, the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures including a second linear-shaped conductive structure that forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type and a gate electrode of a second transistor of the second transistor type, the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures including a third linear-shaped conductive structure that forms a gate electrode of a third transistor of the first transistor type and a gate electrode of a third transistor of the second transistor type, the at least nine linear-shaped conductive structures including a fourth linear-shaped conductive structure that forms a gate electrode of a fourth transistor of the first transistor type and a gate electrode of a fourth transistor of the second transistor type, the first and second linear-shaped conductive structures positioned such that their lengthwise-oriented centerlines are separated by a distance as measured in the second direction substantially equal to the gate electrode pitch, the third and fourth linear-shaped conductive structures positioned such that their lengthwise-oriented centerlines are separated by a distance as measured in the second direction substantially equal to the gate electrode pitch, the first and third linear-shaped conductive structures positioned such that their lengthwise-oriented centerlines are substantially co-aligned in the first direction, the first and third linear-shaped conductive structures separated from each other by a first end-to-end spacing as measured in the second direction, the second and fourth linear-shaped conductive structures positioned such that their lengthwise-oriented centerlines are substantially co-aligned in the first direction, the second and fourth linear-shaped conductive structures separated from each other by a second end-to-end spacing as measured in the second direction, the first end-to-end spacing substantially equal to the second end-to-end spacing. | 36,546 |
9,485,853 | 1. A wiring substrate comprising a laminate of one or more insulation layers and one or more conductive layers, characterized by further comprising: a plurality of connection terminals formed directly on one of the one or more insulation layers of the laminate and spaced apart from one another, each having an indentation formed at an outer periphery of a first main surface opposite a contact surface in contact with the laminate; and a filling member provided in a filling manner between the connection terminals, wherein the filling member is a solder resist layer, wherein the connection terminals project at least partially from a surface of the filling member, wherein the laminate is covered with a solder resist layer having an opening from which the plurality of connection terminals are exposed, and covering a wiring pattern connected to the connection terminals, and wherein the plurality of connection terminals are disposed within the same opening. | 37,350 |
8,995,190 | 1. A sector for an electrically programmable non-volatile memory, comprising: word lines; bit lines; at least one source line; an array of memory cells connected to the word lines and bit lines, each memory cell including at least one transistor having a gate connected to a word line, a drain connected to a bit line and a source connected to the at least one source line; and at least two distinct wells insulated from one another, each well coupled to several memory cells, and being configured to be set to different potentials, the at least two distinct wells dividing each bit line into a first partial sector and a second partial sector, memory cells in the first and second partial sectors being brought to the different potentials during a programming operation; wherein at least one bit line is electrically coupled to the drain of at least two memory cells coupled to the at least two distinct wells. | 7,840 |
8,732,372 | 1. An integrated circuit package configured to operate in a multimedia sink device, the package comprising: a data interface configured to interconnect with a data link and configured to receive a multimedia signal from a multimedia source device coupled to the data interface through the data link, wherein the data interface receives the multimedia signal at a data rate comprising one of a finite number of known bit rates; a receiver module configured to support the received multimedia signal formatted in accordance with a default configuration having a specified set of known characteristics; local reference clock circuitry having a stable local reference clock frequency; clock generation circuitry configured to use signal edges of the received multimedia signal together with an analysis of the finite number of known bit rates to extract a signal-based clock frequency from the multimedia signal, wherein the signal-based clock is associated with one of the finite number of known bit rates; and frequency-locking circuitry configured to frequency-lock the signal-based clock frequency with the local reference clock frequency in the absence of link training information. | 7,319 |
8,939,147 | 1. A method of setting up therapy parameters for use with a breathable pressurized gas delivery system that is configured to interface with at least one airway of a patient, breathable pressurized gas delivery system that includes a pressurized breathable gas generator and a CPAP peripheral component that has a storage device disposed thereon or therein, the method comprising: receiving data that is stored in the storage device of the CPAP peripheral component of the breathable pressurized gas delivery system; developing treatment parameters based on the retrieved data; and writing treatment instructions to the storage device based on the developed treatment parameters, wherein the treatment instructions are configured to set at least one therapy related parameter of the pressurized breathable gas system, wherein the CPAP peripheral component is a component in an airflow path from the breathable pressurized gas delivery system to the at least one airway of the patient. | 14,481 |
8,688,345 | 1. An electric motor for mounting in a wheel for a road vehicle, the electric motor comprising: a stator comprising a radial wall and a plurality of coils; a rotor comprising: the radial wall of the stator comprising a central region for mounting to a vehicle on one side and for connection to a bearing block; and the radial wall of the rotor comprising a central region for mounting a wheel on the outside and to the bearing block on the inside for connection to the vehicle by the bearing block. | 20,329 |
9,329,669 | 1. A power gating circuit configured to perform power gating of an element, the power gating circuit comprising: a first chain buffer that generates a first sleep signal by buffering an input sleep signal received from a power management unit; a first switch block including a plurality of first switch cells controlled by the first sleep signal; a second chain buffer that generates a second sleep signal by buffering the first sleep signal; and a second switch block including a plurality of second switch cells controlled by the second sleep signal, wherein the second sleep signal is returned to the power management unit as an acknowledge signal indicating completion of the power gating of the element; wherein a number of the plurality of first switch cells is set according to a maximum transition time violation (MTTV) condition for the second sleep signal. | 45,891 |
8,368,505 | 1. An electrical switch comprising: (a) a substrate; (b) a plurality of electrical poles supported by the substrate; and (c) a layer of a variable resistance material that is directly deposited as an ink over and directly adhered to and supported by the plurality of electrical poles, an electrical resistance of the layer of the variable resistance material to electrical current flow between the plurality of electrical poles varying as a function of a force applied against the layer of the variable resistance material in a direction generally transverse to the layer. | 27,467 |
9,619,874 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first fundus oculi image, a second fundus oculi image and a third fundus oculi image, the first fundus oculi image being an aberration- corrected image of an eye being examined, the second fundus oculi image being an image having a larger view angle and a lower resolution than the first fundus oculi image, the third fundus oculi image being an image having a smaller view angle and a higher resolution than the second fundus oculi image and having a larger view angle and a lower resolution than the first fundus oculi image; an alignment unit configured to align the first fundus oculi image and the second fundus oculi image by using the third fundus oculi image. | 35,003 |
8,624,879 | 1. A rotation sensing device comprising: a capacitor module comprising an upper substrate and a lower substrate; wherein the upper substrate comprises a plurality top plates mounted thereon, and the lower substrate comprises a plurality bottom plates mounted thereon, each bottom plate corresponding to one of the top plates; a pointing module comprising a pointer rotatably set between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; wherein the pointer is magnetic and comprises a first portion, the first portion has an initial position between the bottom a plate and a corresponding top plate; and a detection circuit electronically connected to the top plates and the bottom plates, and configured for detecting pulses caused by a change in the capacitance resulting from movement of the capacitor module and determining a position change of the first portion relative to the initial position according the detected pulses, and determining a rotation orientation of the capacitor module according to the determined position change. | 35,404 |
9,037,333 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine configured to output power for traveling; a first motor configured to run the engine; a second motor configured to output power for traveling; a battery configured to exchange electric power with the first motor and the second motor; and an electronic control unit configured to control the engine, the first motor, and the second motor such that a requested braking force acts on the hybrid vehicle when the second motor is regeneratively driven, the electronic control unit being configured to, when regenerative electric power from the second motor exceeds a maximum charging electric power and priority is given to a motor traveling over a hybrid traveling, control the engine, the first motor, and the second motor such that the second motor is regeneratively driven within a range of the maximum charging electric power while rotation of the engine is limited to a level lower than a level when the regenerative electric power from the second motor does not exceed the maximum charging electric power, wherein the maximum charging electric power is a maximum value of electric power that can be used to charge the battery, operation of the engine is stopped and the hybrid vehicle travels by using power from the second motor in the motor traveling, the hybrid vehicle travels by using power from the engine and the power from the second motor in the hybrid traveling. | 45,618 |
9,376,631 | 1. A method of producing a synthetic crude oil, comprising: providing a heating unit; positioning a first heating enclosure adjacent to a heating surface of the heating unit; providing an oil forming composition within the first heating enclosure; positioning a lid over the oil forming composition within the first heating enclosure; simultaneously applying pressure to the lid and heating the oil forming composition within the first heating enclosure; cooling the oil forming composition to form a pre-volatile oil product; and heating the pre-volatile oil product while exposed to air to form the synthetic crude oil; wherein applying pressure to the lid compresses the oil forming composition within the first heating enclosure. | 4,569 |
9,257,466 | 1. A solid state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of first regions, a plurality of second regions, and a plurality of third regions; and a plurality of groups of pixels arranged two-dimensionally on the semiconductor substrate, each group of pixels including wherein a thickness of the first region, a thickness of the second region, and a thickness of the third region are different from each other in a same group of pixels; the thickness of the first region in the group of pixels arranged at a center part is different from the thickness of the first region in the group of pixels arranged at a surrounding part disposed around the center part; the thickness of the second region in the group of pixels arranged at the center part is different from the thickness of the second region in the group of pixels arranged at the surrounding part; and the thickness of the third region in the group of pixels arranged at the center part is different from the thickness of the third region in the group of pixels arranged at the surrounding part. | 1,785 |
9,062,576 | 1. A method of operating an exhaust particulate filter system for an internal combustion engine comprising the steps of: transmitting electromagnetic energy through an exhaust particulate filter containing trapped soot and ash; attenuating the transmitted electromagnetic energy in response to the trapped soot; determining an ash value indicative of an amount of the trapped ash; determining which of a plurality of available regeneration protocols is appropriate; and outputting a regeneration suitability signal associated with the regeneration protocol determined to be appropriate, wherein the determining which of a plurality of available regeneration suitability signal step is responsive to an attenuation of the transmitted electromagnetic energy and the determined ash value. | 30,628 |
8,891,366 | 1. A method of performing hybrid per station and per flow uplink allocations, the method performed in a station, the method comprising: requesting an uplink resource allocation for at least one flow; receiving an indication that the at least one flow has been added to a group of flows associated with an uplink group resource allocation; receiving an uplink group resource allocation message for the group of flows, wherein the uplink group resource allocation message includes an indication of a plurality of intended flows associated with an uplink group resource allocation; on a condition that the plurality of intended flows includes the at least one flow, transmitting data using the uplink group resource based on the indication of the plurality of intended flows; and on a condition that the plurality of intended flows does not include the at least one flow, transmitting data using an uplink resource that is not the uplink group resource. | 28,846 |
8,433,276 | 1. A sampling circuit, comprising: an electrical charge sampling circuit having a sampling switch that samples an inputted signal and a history capacitor connected to the sampling switch; a group of a plurality of discrete time analog processing circuits arranged in parallel, each having a rotate capacitor unit and a buffer capacitor unit; an adding section that adds outputs from the group of the discrete time analog processing circuits and outputs a result; and a digital control unit that outputs a plurality of control signals to control operation of the group of the discrete time analog processing circuits and operation of the adding section, wherein: the rotate capacitor unit has a first integration switch, a main rotate capacitor and a sub-rotate capacitor connected to the first integration switch in parallel; and the buffer capacitor unit has a second integration switch and a buffer capacitor connected to the second integration switch; at a timing electrical charge accumulated in the history capacitor is inputted to the rotate capacitor unit, the main rotate capacitor and the sub-rotate capacitor are connected to the history capacitor in parallel via the first integration switch; and at a timing electrical charge is outputted from the rotate capacitor unit to the adding section, only the main rotate capacitor is connected to the adding section. | 34,684 |
8,857,188 | 1. A hybrid drive device for a vehicle, comprising: an electric motor; an internal combustion engine output shaft; an automatic transmission including: the automatic transmission outputting rotation of the input portion to the output portion wherein a speed of rotation changes between the input portion and the output portion; a lubricating oil passage; a first lubricating oil passage configured to guide lubricating oil to the automatic transmission to lubricate the automatic transmission; a second lubricating oil passage configured to guide lubricating oil to the electric motor to lubricate the electric motor; a lubricating oil pressure is supplied to the lubricating oil passage; and a switching valve that is switched between: the electric motor and the internal combustion engine output shaft are operable in conjunction with the input portion, and the switching valve is switched from the first state to the second state in the case where the vehicle is in a stationary state or running at a speed of a predetermined value or less including the stationary state of the vehicle. | 8,420 |
9,378,481 | 1. A system for inventory management in a data center, the system comprising: a server rack comprising a plurality of slots within the server rack, wherein each slot includes an optically readable identifying code affixed thereto, wherein the identifying code includes information associated with its respective slot location within the server rack; at least one optical code reader positioned on affixed to a computer processing device and configured to scan the identifying code of the slot into which the computer processing device is placed and communicate the information associated with the slot location of the at least one computer processing device to a second computer processing device communicably coupled to a network and to the at least one code reader. | 2,496 |
8,417,977 | 1. An operating method for a device having a PDA and a wireless communication system integrated into a whole in the device, comprising: transmitting a wake-up signal from the wireless communication system to the PDA when the wireless communication system starts to operate from a standby mode; waking the PDA up from a sleep state when the wake-up signal is received by the PDA; receiving an electromagnetic wave signal by a wireless communication element; converting the electromagnetic wave signal into an audio data; transmitting the audio data from the wireless communication system to an audio element inside the PDA via a serial port connected between the wireless communication system and the PDA; outputting the audio data by the audio element; and when the PDA is turned on, performing the steps: | 7,177 |
8,916,940 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; a gate structure disposed over the substrate, wherein the gate structure includes a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer containing: | 48,174 |
9,783,004 | 1. A tire tread having transverse, radial, and circumferential directions and a contact surface, the tire tread comprising: an unbridged circumferential groove extending along the circumferential direction, positioned adjacent to a shoulder region of the tire, and having a depth D a bridged circumferential groove extending along the circumferential direction, separated from the shoulder region of the tire by the unbridged circumferential groove, and having a depth D a sipe positioned at a radially innermost portion of said bridged circumferential groove; a transverse groove extending along the transverse direction, and having a height along the radial direction that extends from a top depth D a pocket positioned in said bridged circumferential groove at one end of said transverse groove, wherein said pocket has a depth D | 28,988 |
9,776,702 | 1. A system for supplying LNG fuel, the system comprising: a fuel supplying line connected from an LNG storage tank to an engine; a pump provided on the fuel supplying line and configured to pressurize LNG outputted from the LNG storage tank to high pressure; a heat exchanger provided on the fuel supplying line between the engine and the pump, configured to heat-exchange the LNG supplied from the pump with glycol water and supply the exchanged LNG to the engine; a glycol tank configured to store the glycol water; a glycol heater configured to heat the glycol water outputted from the glycol tank and supply the heated glycol water to the heat exchanger; one or more LNG inflow sensors configured to sense LNG leaked from the heat exchanger to the glycol tank along a glycol circulation line and set at the glycol tank; and an LNG removal line connected to the glycol tank and configured to emit LNG flowed to the glycol tank when inflow of the LNG is sensed by the LNG inflow sensor, wherein the heat exchanger stops a heat exchanger operation when the one or more LNG inflow sensors senses leakage of the LNG. | 15,906 |
8,680,487 | 1. A simulation device which supposes when a plurality of charged particle beams are irradiated onto an irradiation target, hypothesizes the plurality of charged particle beams as a virtual shape having conical spread, and simulates the dose distribution of the plurality of charged particle beams in the irradiation target using a dose distribution kernel which derives the spread of the plurality of charged particle beams in the irradiation target, the simulation device comprising: an input unit which receives an input of simulation data including material information of the irradiation target and irradiation information of the plurality of charged particle beams; and an arithmetic unit which calculates the dose distribution of the plurality of charged particle beams in the irradiation target on the basis of simulation data received by the input unit and the dose distribution kernel, wherein the arithmetic unit segments a plurality of charged particle beams spread to a predetermined range at an intermediate portion in the traveling direction of the plurality of charged particle beams, hypothesizes a plurality of virtual shapes having conical spread with a segmented position as a start point, and calculates the dose distribution of the plurality of charged particle beams in the irradiation target on the basis of simulation data received by the input unit and a plurality of virtual shapes of the plurality of charged particle beams. | 6,556 |
9,787,539 | 1. An information handling system comprising: a shared network port to listen for network traffic during a discovery process while the shared network port is disabled from providing packets in response to the information handling system being inserted into a managed network, and to receive a specific packet that is associated with the managed network; and a hardware controller including a dedicated network port, the hardware controller to communicate with the shared network port, to determine whether the dedicated network port is enabled in response to receiving the specific packet, if the dedicated network port is enabled: to disable the dedicated network port, to enable a shared network port to provide packets, and to initiate communication over the shared network port; and if the dedicated network port is not enabled: to initiate the communication over the shared network port. | 43,149 |
9,594,735 | 1. A method for entering a formula for a spreadsheet using a limited display device including a touch screen configured to receive touch input, comprising: determining an input to start an entry of a formula within a formula bar, wherein the formula bar displays formulas located elsewhere in selected cells of the spreadsheet; in response to the input, determining a list of formulas from available formulas to display on the limited display device; displaying the list of formulas on the limited display device; receiving a selection of a formula in the displayed list of formulas; in response to receiving the selection of the formula, removing the display of the list of formulas and displaying the selected formula and associated parameters within the formula bar and highlighting a first parameter of the displayed formula within the formula bar; receiving entry of a new value for the highlighted first parameter of the displayed formula within the formula bar such that the highlighted first parameter is changed; and upon receiving entry of the value for the highlighted first parameter of the displayed formula within the formula bar, automatically highlighting a second parameter of the displayed formula within the formula bar such that when highlighted a new value may be entered in place of the second parameter of the displayed formula within the formula bar, wherein each successive parameter of the formula is automatically highlighted and new values may be entered in placed of each successive parameter when highlighted until each parameter of the formula is entered, wherein the highlighting and the successive entry of the values for the first and second parameters of the displayed formula occur in the same formula bar. | 34,263 |
9,163,611 | 1. A method of operating a wind turbine coupled to a power grid for delivering electric power thereto, comprising: a) operating said wind turbine in a noise reduction mode; b) determining whether said power grid is in an unstable grid state corresponding to an increase of power demand; and, c) increasing the electric power delivered by the wind turbine to said power grid during a stabilization time period for supporting stabilization of the unstable grid, wherein said increasing of the electric power for supporting stabilization of the unstable grid is performed such that a resulting noise increase is below a selected upper level. | 2,316 |
8,437,899 | 1. A method for programming parameters of a power driven wheelchair, comprising: displaying a menu image on an interactive display screen, wherein the menu image includes current settings of a plurality of wheelchair parameters for a plurality of drive modes of the wheelchair; selecting a wheelchair parameter for a drive mode from the displayed menu image; in response to the selecting, displaying an adjustment image on the interactive display screen to program the selected wheelchair parameter setting while continuing to display the menu image; and programming the setting of the selected wheelchair parameter to a desired value. | 5,393 |
8,973,958 | 1. A mechanical gripper adapted to automatically perform a stable pinch grasp and an encompassing grasp, the gripper comprising: at least one mechanical finger comprising: a first phalanx that is pivotally connectable at a proximal end; a second phalanx having a contact surface for contacting a load, the second phalanx being pivotally connected at a proximal end to the distal end of the first phalanx; and a differential actuation mechanism being connected to the second phalanx, the actuation mechanism defining at least in part a stable pinch grasp region on the contact surface such as when a load is applied on the stable pinch grasp region, the actuation mechanism is adapted to allow the second phalanx to translate and allow its contact surface to maintain a constant orientation in order to automatically perform a pinch grasp, when a load is applied below the stable pinch grasp region on the second phalanx, the actuation mechanism is adapted to allow the second phalanx to pivot and automatically perform an encompassing grasp, and when a load is applied on the first phalanx, the actuation mechanism is adapted to allow the second phalanx to pivot and automatically perform an encompassing grasp, wherein the differential mechanism comprises one of: a rotatable first link, a second link pivotally mounted to the first link at a proximal end and pivotally mounted to the second phalanx at a pivot point to permit the first and the second link to form essentially a parallelogram with the first and the second phalanges, the dimensions of the first and the second links and the parallelogram being chosen to define at least in part the stable pinch grasp region; and a linear motion link pivotally mounted to the second phalanx at a pivot point to form essentially a parallelogram with the first and the second phalanges, the dimensions of the parallelogram being chosen to define at least in part the stable pinch grasp region. | 27,314 |
8,975,283 | 1. A compound having the structure (A): wherein R or R R R R R R | 42,824 |
9,261,929 | 1. A computing system comprising: a plurality of storage devices; a monitor to: a cooling device controller connected to the monitor to control an output of a cooling device in response to the estimated temperature. | 37,429 |
8,913,004 | 1. A method of controlling a computing device, comprising: obtaining image data using an imaging element of the computing device; determining that a user interacting with the computing device appears in at least one portion of the image data; analyzing the image data, using the computing device, to determine a gaze direction of the user in response to determining that the user appears in the at least one portion of the image data; determining a first region of a display element of the computing device, a second region that is outside a first boundary of the first region and within a second boundary, and a third region that is outside the second boundary, wherein at least one of the first boundary or the second boundary is adjusted over a period of time, the first region corresponding to a first user state in which the user is at least substantially gazing at the display element, the second region corresponding to a second user state in which the user is gazing away from the display element and at least substantially facing the computing device, and the third region corresponding to a third user state in which the user is gazing away from the display element and facing away from the computing device; causing the display element to be in a first power state and activating at least one of a plurality of input elements of the computing device, based at least in part upon the gaze direction being determined to be directed towards the first region; causing the display element to be in a second power state and altering a functionality of at least one of the plurality of input elements, based at least in part upon the gaze direction being determined to be directed towards the second region, the second power state having a lower power consumption rate than the first power state; and causing the display element to be in a third power state and deactivating functionality of at least one of the plurality of input elements, based at least in part upon the gaze direction being determined to be directed towards the third region, the third power state having a lower power consumption rate than the second power state. | 46,641 |
8,824,691 | 1. A method comprising: sensing sound generated by equipment in a processing facility using one or more sensors positioned in proximity to the equipment; capturing the sensed sound as sound data; forwarding the sound data to a process control system; analyzing the sound data at the process control system to determine whether the equipment is functioning abnormally; determining whether to issue a warning based on the analysis of the sound data; issuing the warning in response to determining that the sound data is within a threshold level of similarity of a stored sound; determining whether to forward the sound data to an operator station based on the analysis of the sound data; and forwarding the sound data to the operator station in response to determining that the sound data is not within the threshold level of similarity of the stored sound. | 18,751 |
8,907,525 | 1. A method comprising: detecting a potential islanding condition in a grid; and in response to the detected potential islanding condition, ramping up an amount of reactive power, active power, or a combination of active and reactive power that is generated from a power conversion system until the earlier of the power conversion system shutting down or a threshold condition being reached. | 14,436 |
9,359,991 | 1. An energy conversion system comprising: a stationary structure; a rotatable structure configured to rotate relative to the stationary structure, the rotatable structure defining an axis of rotation; at least one blade member mounted to and extending radially outward from the rotatable structure, the at least one blade member being configured to interact with fluid currents flowing in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation to cause the rotatable structure to rotate about the axis of rotation; and at least one magnetic bearing mechanism disposed to provide a magnetic axial restoring force between the rotatable structure and the stationary structure as the rotatable structure rotates about the stationary structure, the at least one magnetic bearing mechanism comprising a first magnetic bearing mechanism component disposed on the rotatable structure and a second magnetic bearing mechanism component disposed on the stationary structure, wherein axial displacement of the first and second magnetic bearing mechanism components with respect to each other, during rotation of the rotatable structure relative to the stationary structure, generates a magnetic field between the magnetic bearing mechanism components, the magnetic field providing the magnetic axial restoring force to counteract the flow of the fluid currents, wherein the system is configured to convert rotation of the rotatable structure to at least one of electricity and hydrogen production. | 18,190 |
9,467,756 | 1. A method for connecting an external communication network to a user network of a building, comprising: a) providing at least one user module comprising a plurality of adapters for optical fibre connectors; b) associating a connection cable of the user network with said at least one user module, said cable comprising a plurality of optical fibres associated with respective selected users; c) associating the optical fibres of the connection cable of the user network with the adapters of said at least one user module; d) providing at least one operator module comprising at least one inlet opening of at least one connection cable to the external communication network; e) associating said at least one connection cable with the external communication network to said at least one operator module, said cable comprising a plurality of optical fibres; f) associating a plurality of fibre optic connection elements connected to the external communication network and provided with a connector at a terminal end thereof to said at least one operator module; and g) connecting the connectors of the fibre optic connection elements associated with said at least one operator module to respective selected adapters of said plurality of adapters of the at least one user module. | 32,621 |
9,499,016 | 1. A TPMS assembly comprising: a TPMS wheel unit mechanically coupled to a valve stem; the valve stem comprising a bulb, an inner tubular member, and an outer tubular member; the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member being fixedly attached to the bulb; wherein the inner tubular member penetrates both ends of the outer tubular member through a cavity defined by the outer tubular member and wherein an end of the inner tubular member distal from an attachment interface with the bulb extends beyond an end of the outer tubular member and wherein the end of the outer tubular member is configured to receive a fastening mechanism mechanically coupling the TPMS wheel unit to the valve stem and leaving substantially no gap between the bulb and the TPMS wheel unit immediately prior to and during urging of the valve stem into a valve stem hole of a wheel rim. | 39,152 |
9,210,691 | 1. A method of acquiring service on a multi-subscriber identification module (SIM) wireless device coupled to at least a first SIM and a second SIM, the method comprising: gaining control of a radio resource by the first SIM, wherein the radio resource is shared between the first and second SIMs; identifying available radio frequency (RF) channels that satisfy a signal strength threshold; ranking the identified RF channels; determining whether a highest ranked RF channel belongs to a public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with the second SIM; in response to determining that the highest ranked RF channel belongs to a PLMN associated with the second SIM: performing normal PLMN selection and camping for the first and second SIMs in response to determining that the highest ranked RF channel does not belong to a PLMN associated with the second SIM. | 9,453 |
8,790,902 | 1. A method of producing alcohol from a cellulosic biomass material, comprising: a. adding a genetically modified fungus to a fermentation mixture comprising a cellulosic biomass material or fermentation substrates derived from said cellulosic biomass material, wherein said genetic modification to said fungus comprises introduction of an expression vector comprising the coding sequence of a yeast protein of the Sm-like superfamily, and wherein said genetic modification results in elevated tolerance to at least one inhibitory chemical compound formed during biomass pretreatment as compared to without the genetic modification; b. allowing said microorganism to ferment and produce alcohol; and c. recovering alcohol produced by fermentation with said fungus. | 20,193 |
9,150,773 | 1. A method of cementing comprising: providing a settable composition comprising kiln dust, wollastonite, and water; wherein the wollastonite is present in the settable composition in an amount in a range of from about 1% to about 75% by weight of a total amount of cementitious components present in the settable composition, wherein the kiln dust is present in the settable composition in an amount in a range of from about 5% to about 90% by weight of a total amount of cementitious components present in the settable composition; and allowing the settable composition to set, wherein the settable composition is introduced into a subterranean formation. | 44,513 |
9,847,436 | 1. A method for manufacturing a solar cell, comprising: providing a patterned silicon wafer having a covered area and an uncovered area through a patterning process, wherein the patterned silicon wafer is patterned with a transparent photoresist of at least one of being acid-resistant and alkaline-resistant, and the patterned transparent photoresist remains on the silicon wafer for at least five years after the patterning process; and forming at least one electrode layer in the uncovered area. | 4,819 |
9,037,326 | 1. A method of disconnecting an electrical machine coupled with wheels of a drive axle of a vehicle with dog clutch couplers, the drive axle being without a transmission clutch, comprising the steps of: applying a desired first torque to the electrical machine, the desired first torque being equal to a calibrated threshold of a target torque so to obtain a substantially zero torque difference between the dog clutch couplers; and applying a desired second torque to the electrical machine, the desired second torque following a slope starting from said calibrated threshold value of the target torque and ending with a zero value. | 4,794 |
8,929,857 | 1. A system for managing one or more devices, comprising: a plurality of policy deciders including a plurality of rules specifying desired behaviors associated with a plurality of functions of the one or more devices, the plurality of policy deciders being operable to determine in real-time whether to accept or deny requests to perform one or more of the functions based on the plurality of rules; and a plurality of enforcers associated with the plurality of functions, the plurality of enforcers configured to receive decisions from the plurality of policy deciders and enforce the decisions by taking one or more actions that are consistent with the decisions and that are based on device types associated the one or more devices. | 23,185 |
8,808,118 | 1. A basketball hoop comprising: a stationary panel: a first pivoting seat formed on the stationary panel and having a rim assembly connected pivotally to the stationary panel and having a second pivoting seat formed on the pivoting panel of the rim assembly, connected pivotally to the first pivoting seat to mount the rim assembly pivotally to the stationary panel and having a torsion assembly connected between the first pivoting seat and the second pivoting seat, and having | 11,004 |
9,062,655 | 1. A wind turbine comprising; a rotor element including a pair of primary blades formed as semicircular half cylinders having outer ends near the periphery of said rotor element, wherein each semicircular half cylinder has a wind receiving concave front surface and a wind rejection rear surface, wherein said wind receiving concave front surfaces are oriented to receive wind/air flow into said turbine and reactively move in a predetermined rotational direction around an axis of rotation in response to forces provided by said wind/air flow, wherein said half cylinders are joined by a straight wall extension that offsets said semicircular half cylinders from said axis of rotation by a predetermined distance; a pair of curved deflector vanes mounted in a stationary location with respect to said rotor element and oriented parallel to said axis to concentrate said wind/air flow into a power slot in which said concave front surfaces are exposed and to decrease drag on said rear surfaces approaching said power slot; wherein said turbine is unidirectional with the deflector vanes being oriented on a side of said rotor element into a direction of said wind/air flow. | 10,045 |
9,603,914 | 1. A mutant strain of Neospora canimum , in which Neospora microneme 1 gene (nmic1 gene) and Neospora microneme 3 gene (nmic3 gene) are completely deleted, resulting in suppression of function of Neospora microneme 1 protein (NMIC1 protein) and function of Neospora microneme 3 protein (NMIC3 protein). | 9,579 |
8,529,818 | 1. A method for forming a product including a layer of fiber, the method comprising: rotating a mold having a surface about an axis of rotation, the rotation providing a centrifugal force; rotating an apparatus including a head about the axis of rotation; applying the fiber to the surface of the mold using the head to form the product, wherein the head moves between a first end of the mold and a second end of the mold, the centrifugal force facilitating retaining the fiber against the mold; and, cutting the fiber when the head is at the first end and the second end. | 47,266 |
8,703,042 | 1. A method for the removing solid accretions from a furnace comprising the steps of: (a) connecting or disposing at least one coherent jet lance assembly in the furnace, said coherent jet lance assembly being capable of generating a coherent oxygen-fuel gas stream substantially free of nitrogen gas, the coherent oxygen-fuel gas stream comprising a main oxygen gas stream and a surrounding flame envelope of fuel and oxygen gas; and (b) directing the coherent oxygen-fuel gas stream from said coherent jet lance assembly towards solid accretions at a firing rate of between about 4 million BTU/hour to about 15 million BTU/hour and with the main oxygen gas stream having an axial velocity of between about 75 to about 500 feet per second and wherein the flame length of the coherent oxygen-fuel gas stream is sufficient to melt solid accretions within the furnace yet does not impinge a refractory wall; (c) disconnecting or removing the coherent jet lance assembly from the anode furnace; and (d) rotating the anode furnace to remove any melted accretions from the anode furnace via a port. | 12,237 |
9,455,044 | 1. A semiconductor memory device, comprising: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit suitable for performing a program pulse applying operation and a verify operation on the memory cell array; a pass/fail check circuit suitable for performing a pass/fail check operation on a program operation including the program pulse applying operation and the verify operation; and a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit and the pass/fail check circuit to perform the pass/fail check operation during the program pulse applying operation, wherein the peripheral circuit includes: a plurality of page buffers suitable for controlling potential levels of bit lines of the memory cell array in response to program data during the program pulse applying operation, and temporarily storing sensing data of selected memory cells, among the plurality of memory cells, by sensing the potential levels of the bit lines during the verify operation, wherein each of the page buffers outputs the sensing data to the pass/fail check circuit during the pass/fail check operation, wherein the pass/fail check circuit comprises: a current measuring unit suitable for measuring a current value corresponding to first sensing data to determine a first number of fail bits, and outputting a first pass/fail signal on the basis of the first number of fail bits; a data counting unit suitable for counting first data or second data, among second sensing data, to determine a second number of fail bits, and outputting a second pass/fail signal on the basis of the second number of fail bits; and a pass/fail signal generation unit suitable for outputting the first pass/fail signal or the second pass/fail signal as a program pass/fail signal to the control logic, wherein the sensing data of selected memory cells are stored in main latches of the plurality of pages buffers as the first sensing data and transferred to and stored in cache latches of the plurality of pages buffers as the second sensing data. | 13,706 |
9,297,803 | 1. An isolated antigen composition comprising: a plurality of immunodominant antigens of a pathogenic organism disposed on a solid carrier; and wherein the plurality of antigens are encoded by nucleic acids selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:503 and SEQ ID NO:512, or fragments thereof. | 1,241 |
9,689,277 | 1. In a foil bearing system for transmitting rotor loads from a rotor to a static structure having: a foil bearing surrounding a rotatable shaft; a housing surrounding the foil bearing; and a bearing mount affixed to the static structure and surrounding the housing, a method of self-aligning the foil bearing with the axis of rotation of the shaft comprising: providing a crown extending radially outward having a convex surface circumferentially disposed about a portion of the housing; providing a receiver having a concave surface circumferentially disposed about a portion of the bearing mount; and slideably mating the convex surface of the crown with a concave surface of the bearing mount to thereby permit rotation of the housing about an axis that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the shaft. | 8,494 |
8,477,918 | 1. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system comprising a plurality of terminals and a server, the server being connected to said plurality of terminals, said sever processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and including a database in which are stored content data; said method comprising steps wherein: said server reads said content data from said database at either the timings of: (a) the interval from the time a call is made by a terminal, that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals, to a terminal among said plurality of terminals that is the communication partner of said terminal that performs call origination, until the terminal responds; or (b) after completion of communication between said terminals; at said timing, said server either converts syntax of content data that have been read or converts content data that have been read based on conversion information of at least one of: encoding method, encoding bit rate, frame rate, image size, profile, level, encoding options, encoding frame type composition, video packet size, intraframe spacing, intra-macroblock number, and quantization value that accord with reproduction in said terminals; at said timing, said server transmits said content data that have been converted to said terminals; and at said timing, said terminals reproduce content data that have been transmitted from said server. | 1,755 |
9,233,298 | 1. A card shuffler apparatus, comprising: a horizontal card support surface configured to receive cards; a positioner configured to move a group of cards oriented substantially perpendicular to the card support surface in a first direction and a second opposite direction, the first and second directions substantially parallel to the card support surface, the positioner configured to move to a plurality of positions relative to the card support surface; and a card receiver configured to receive a single card from the card support surface after the positioner moves the group of cards to a position of the plurality of positions relative to the card support surface. | 21,749 |
8,940,556 | 1. A method for manufacturing a photovoltaic module, comprising: heating a photovoltaic module; applying an electrical bias to electrodes of the photovoltaic module while the photovoltaic is at an elevated temperature from said heating, wherein the heating and applying an electrical bias are performed in dedicated association with each other; and exposing the photovoltaic module to light while applying the electrical bias. | 38,359 |
9,598,085 | 1. A vehicle powertrain comprising: an electric machine for providing a regenerative-braking torque on the powertrain; a frictional-braking system for providing a frictional-braking torque on the powertrain; a transmission coupled to the powertrain for providing a regenerative-braking downshift to increase an amount of energy recapture during the regenerative-braking by exchanging engagement of an offgoing clutch and an oncoming clutch over a series of phases; and a controller in communication with the electric machine, frictional-braking system and transmission and programmed to, in response to an increase in driver braking torque demand during the regenerative-braking downshift, satisfy the increase in driver braking torque demand with regenerative-braking torque prior to the offgoing clutch disengaging and with frictional-braking torque after the offgoing clutch begins disengaging. | 3,185 |
9,481,618 | 1. A cyclopolyarylene compound corresponding to Formula (1): wherein k is the same or different, and each corresponds to 0, 1 or 2; m is the same or different, and each corresponds to 1, 2 or 3; and n is 3, 4, 5 or 6. | 30,292 |
9,567,877 | 1. A sealed type lash adjuster comprising: a plunger having a reservoir chamber inside; a plunger spring that is arranged at a rear end portion of the plunger and provides a force, in a direction toward a front end side of the plunger, to the plunger; a body in which the plunger is inserted in a fitting manner, and that accommodates the plunger spring inside of the body, the body having an open end portion, the plunger and the open end portion of the body having a clearance; a first sealing member provided between the plunger and the body; a cap retainer that is attached to an end portion of the body and restricts protrusion of the plunger; a second sealing member capable of preventing or suppressing intrusion of a liquid; and a metal hold member that has an inner wall that has an insert hole through which the plunger is inserted and that has a hold portion that is provided at a top of the metal hold member and holds the second sealing member in contact with an outer surface of the plunger, wherein the second sealing member is separate from the cap retainer and is axially closer to the front end side of the plunger than the cap retainer in the direction, and the second sealing member externally surrounds and slidably seals a portion of the plunger exposed from the body to prevent or suppress intrusion of the liquid between the hold member and the portion of the plunger from an outside of the hold member and to further prevent or suppress intrusion of the liquid into the clearance, and wherein the hold member is formed so as to cover the clearance, and is fixed to a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, the hold member is separate from the body and holds the second sealing member at the outside of the cap retainer, the hold member has a main body having the hold portion, and a flange portion around the main body, and the flange portion has a surface that is fitted to the cylinder head and surrounds the lash adjuster. | 15,509 |
8,515,484 | 1. A system for providing robust communications for a container monitoring system for a plurality of containers comprising: a short range wireless communications device associated with each container, wherein each short range wireless communication device comprises a transmitter element and a complementary receiver element; at least a long range communication device communications device associated with each container; and a control element which dynamically determines a plurality of short range wireless communications channels between the short range wireless communication elements located on the plurality of containers using a peer-to-peer control method. | 2,920 |
9,635,057 | 1. A method for communicating between a managed device and a device manager, the method comprising the steps of: sending the managed device a message over a first communications channel; and initiating communication between the managed device and the device manager over a second communications channel in response to the message, wherein the first communications channel and the second communications channel are of different types; wherein receipt of the message at the managed device additionally causes communications between the managed device and the device manager over a third communications channel to cease and switch to the second communications channel, wherein the third communications channel is different to the second communications channel, and/or wherein the communications are switched to the third communications channel from the second communications automatically; wherein the message is sent to the managed device in response to: an increase in data volume; a request to send the managed device a file over a predetermined threshold; a request for a firmware or software update; an increase in electrical power used by the managed device over a predetermined threshold; and a decrease in data transfer rate below a predetermined threshold. | 43,768 |
9,683,211 | 1. A method of promoting growth of green algae which promotes the growth of the green algae which is in a state of being a green swarm cell by irradiating the green algae that accumulate astaxanthin with an artificial light, wherein the green algae are grown in a liquid medium while maintaining a state in which the color of a culture solution of the green algae is green or brown by intermittently radiating a red illumination light while continuously radiating a blue illumination light, a light amount ratio of the red illumination light and the blue illumination light is within a range of 1:1 to 10:1, and the irradiation period of the red illumination light is 1 hour to 24 hours per each time and the non-irradiation period thereof is 1 hour to 24 hours per each time. | 24,934 |
9,417,158 | 1. An electronic unit for measuring operating parameters of a vehicle wheel, the electronic unit comprising: an inflation valve including a valve body configured to extend through an orifice in a wheel rim, and comprised of a trunk and an abutment head against the rim, and a rigid hollow tube extending in a continuation of the abutment head; an electronic module configured to be mounted in a slidable manner around the rigid tube; and a securing system configured to secure the electronic module and the inflation valve in a locked position of said electronic module, the electronic module extending in a direct continuation of the abutment head of said inflation valve, the securing system comprising a locking system including locking devices for relative locking in translation of the electronic device along the rigid tube, defining at least two positions of relative locking, each of the locking devices being configured to correspond to a preselected thickness of the rim to be equipped with the electronic unit, wherein the electronic device and the abutment head of the inflation valve comprise: | 22,452 |
9,350,259 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a power converter circuit including a primary circuit side and a secondary circuit side, wherein the primary circuit side includes a plurality of primary switches, wherein the secondary circuit side includes a plurality of synchronous rectifiers and an inductor; and a control circuit configured to: operate the synchronous rectifiers in a diode mode when an input voltage to the primary side is less than a specified input voltage value, wherein the specified input voltage value is dynamic reference value selected according to the output voltage, and wherein the control circuit disables the synchronous rectifiers during the diode mode. | 11,258 |
8,421,259 | 1. A wave energy absorber system for converting energy from waves on a water surface in different offshore conditions, comprising a buoyant structure ( 3 ) adapted to be moored to a seabed with taut mooring lines ( 8 ) and placed at a submerged, wave active depth, a linear generator ( 13 ) placed within the buoyant structure ( 3 ) and activated via a taut mooring line ( 8 ), a power control unit ( 18 ) and a power take off system ( 14 ) connected to the linear generator ( 13 ) and leading via the seabed to shore, wherein the buoyant structure ( 3 ) is provided with fixed buoyancy and with a mechanism to vary the surface of the buoyant structure ( 3 ) that is exposed to the dynamic pressure of the wave, to optimize the surface for an efficient power take-off for more than one wave frequency and to control the tension in the taut mooring lines ( 8 ), wherein the mechanism to vary the surface of the buoyant structure ( 3 ) comprises an expandable element ( 2 ) with a variable geometry, and wherein the mechanism to vary the surface of the buoyant structure ( 3 ) is activated by the power control unit ( 18 ). | 32,667 |
8,399,206 | 1. A method of diagnosing, prognosing, determining progression, predicting a response to a treatment or choosing a treatment in an individual having acute myeloid leukemia (AML), said method comprising: analyzing single cells from a sample from the individual, comprising one or more AML cells, by a method comprising: | 40,629 |
9,843,199 | 1. An inductive power transfer system for supplying electrical power from a transmitter-side subsystem connectable to a mains to a receiver-side subsystem connectable to a load, the system comprising: a transmitter coil and a receiver coil; a transmitter-side power converter including a mains rectifier stage to power a transmitter-side dc-bus and arranged to control a transmitter-side dc-bus voltage U a transmitter-side inverter stage with a controllable turn-off time of switches of the transmitter-side inverter stage to supply the transmitter coil with an alternating current; a receiver-side power converter having a receiver-side rectifier stage to rectify a voltage induced in the receiver coil and to power a receiver-side dc-bus and a receiver-side charging converter arranged to control a receiver-side dc-bus voltage U one or more power controllers arranged to determine a value that is indicative of a power transfer efficiency of the power transfer and to calculate, from this value indicative of the power transfer efficiency, the reference values U an inverter stage switching controller arranged to control the turn-off time of the switches of the transmitter-side inverter stage to at least minimize switching losses in the transmitter-side inverter stage; and a communication channel for transmitting the reference value U | 29,880 |
9,191,197 | 1. An Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption circuit comprising: a first AddRoundKey Transformation module for performing a first AddRoundKey Transformation operation; a second AddRoundKey Transformation module for performing a second AddRoundKey Transformation operation; a ShiftRows Transformation module for performing a ShiftRows Transformation operation; a SubBytes Transformation module for performing a SubBytes Transformation operation; a MixColumns Transformation module for performing a MixColumns Transformation operation; and a data holding unit, | 16,125 |
8,887,651 | 1. A method for fumigating soil, comprising: introducing a fumigant into or onto soil; and covering the soil with a multilayer polymeric film to at least partially contain the fumigant; wherein the film comprises a PVDC barrier layer, a first protecting layer on a first side of the PVDC barrier layer and a second protecting layer on a second side of the PVDC barrier layer; wherein the PVDC barrier layer comprises at least one alkyl acrylate vinylidene chloride interpolymer; and wherein the barrier layer comprises less than about 10% of the thickness of the multilayer polymeric film. | 36,500 |
9,108,529 | 1. A fuel cell vehicle including traction wheel, a motor that provides torque to said traction wheel, a fuel cell system that generates power and feeds the power to said motor, and a battery that stores power generated by said fuel cell system to feed the stored power to said motor, characterized by comprising: a hydrogen leak sensor configured to detect whether or not there is hydrogen leaked from said fuel cell system; a first control section configured to control said fuel cell system and said battery, and to determine whether or not there is leakage of said hydrogen according to said hydrogen leak sensor; a storage unit configured to store power to be fed to said hydrogen leak sensor and said first control section; and a second control section configured to maintain supply of power from said storage unit to said hydrogen leak sensor and said first control section for a predetermined period of time on turning off an ignition switch unless leakage of said hydrogen is detected by said hydrogen leak sensor and thereafter stop the supply of power. | 29,736 |
9,753,089 | 1. A battery cell monitoring system, comprising: a plurality of battery cell monitoring circuits for monitoring battery cells connected in series; and a microcomputer that outputs an address signal containing address information designating one or more of the battery cell monitoring circuits for generating a data signal and a clock signal; wherein each battery cell monitoring circuit of the plurality comprises: | 6,058 |
9,693,420 | 1. A system for operating one or more light emitting devices, comprising: at least one light emitting device; and an amplifier, the amplifier having a gain which has a maximum slope at an equilibrium temperature of the one or more light emitting devices. | 16,137 |
9,145,780 | 1. An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, comprising: an airfoil body; and a cooling circuit defined within said airfoil body, wherein said cooling circuit includes at least a first cavity in fluid communication with a second cavity, wherein a first portion of said first cavity extends between an outer diameter and an inner diameter of said airfoil body and a second portion of said first cavity extends from a leading edge inner wall to a trailing edge inner wall of said airfoil body, said second portion including an oxbow shaped portion that transitions said first cavity into said second cavity. | 35,583 |
9,605,359 | 1. Boron-doped diamond comprising: a layer of diamond comprising a doped region extending into the layer from a surface, the doped region comprising substitutional boron dopant atoms, wherein the concentration of substitutional boron dopant atoms at the surface is at least 1×10 the depth profile of the substitutional boron dopant atoms corresponds to a complimentary-error-function, and the doped region comprises silicon dopant atoms at a depth of less than 5 nm from the surface. | 38,676 |
8,992,639 | 1. A system for pre-processing coal and biomass prior to gasification, the system comprising: a source of coal and biomass; a coal sizing tool and a biomass sizing tool; a kiln comprising an outer shell and an inner core and a proximal and distal end, said kiln further comprising means for controlling said kiln temperature; a hopper fixedly attached to said proximal kiln end for receiving coal and biomass; a water cleanup station comprising means for drawing off water vapor from said coal and biomass in said kiln; a wet scrubber comprising means for drawing off contaminants and hydrocarbons emanating from said pre-processing of coal and biomass; a steam generator comprising means for converting said water vapor from said water cleanup station to high pressure steam; a gasifier to gasify said pre-processed coal and biomass from said kiln in conjunction with said steam from said steam generator and hydrocarbons from said scrubber. | 41,626 |
8,651,800 | 1. An air induction system and turbocharger, comprising: a turbocharger, comprising: an air induction system connected to said turbocharger, said air induction system comprising wherein air flow passing through said main flow tube in response to rotation of said turbine wheel acquires the predetermined direction of rotation during passage through said helical vane. | 255 |
9,243,246 | 1. A single-stranded RNA molecule that mediates RNA interference against a target RNA, wherein said single-stranded RNA molecule comprises: (i) a nucleic acid portion comprising a first nucleotide portion (N1) and a second nucleotide portion (N2) that are not self complementary, wherein said nucleic acid portion comprises at least 8 nucleotides that can base pair with a target site of the target RNA, and wherein the total number of nucleotides within the nucleic acid portion is from 8 to 26 nucleotides; and, (ii) an internal spacer portion, wherein said spacer portion comprises at least a first non-nucleotide spacer portion (S1) that covalently links the first and second nucleotide portions, wherein said single-stranded RNA molecule comprises the following structure: wherein: (a) N1 contains either one nucleotide or a contiguous stretch of nucleotides; (b) S1 contains one or more non-nucleotide spacers covalently linking N1 and N2; and, (c) N2 contains either one nucleotide or a contiguous stretch of nucleotides; (d) S1 is at the 3′ end of N1 and at the 5′ end of N2; and (e) wherein said single-stranded RNA molecule has one 3′ end. | 40,914 |
8,991,054 | 1. A process for the production of an acoustic treatment panel that can be connected at a surface of an aircraft, or at a leading edge such as an air intake of an aircraft nacelle, whereby said panel comprises an acoustically resistive layer, at least one alveolar structure, and a reflective layer, as well as channels placed between said alveolar structure and the acoustically resistive structure, with the channels each being bordered by a wall, said process comprising: deforming a layer so as to produce furrows at one, surface of the layer; flattening and making integral said deformed layer with the acoustically resistive layer in such a way as to border the channels; and removing material in such a way as to eliminate at least a portion of a thickness of the layer in which the furrows are formed between the channels, prior to the assembly of the alveolar structure, wherein the removing material step is carried out after flattening and making integral said deformed layer with the acoustically resistive layer. | 30,550 |
9,171,463 | 1. A congestion estimation device, comprising: a speed detection unit comprising a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a speed of a host vehicle and outputting a speed detection result; an inter-vehicle distance detection unit comprising a radar device for detecting an inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and another vehicle and outputting an inter-vehicle distance detection result; a simple regression line calculation unit comprising processors for calculating a simple regression line based on the speed detection result and the inter-vehicle distance detection result and outputting a calculation result; a standard deviation calculation unit comprising processors for calculating a standard deviation of slope of the simple regression line and outputting a standard deviation calculation result; and a congestion estimation unit comprising processors for: estimating an occurrence of traffic congestion based on the standard deviation calculation result, and determining that there is a high possibility of traffic congestion occurring when a time variation of the standard deviation of the slope of the simple regression line has a tendency of decreasing. | 45,504 |
9,574,478 | 1. An exhaust gas posttreatment device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an exhaust gas tube; an SCR catalytic converter; a metering valve for injecting a gaseous reducing agent into the exhaust gas tube; a heatable storage container containing at least one storage substance for the reducing agent; and a buffer reservoir wherein the buffer reservoir is heatable, the storage substance is embodied such that the reducing agent can be released in gaseous form from the storage substance by the action of temperature in a releasing process which is reversible, and wherein an overpressure valve is provided between the buffer reservoir and the metering valve. | 41,294 |
9,542,338 | 1. A method of controlling an application execution in user equipment, the method comprising: receiving a user request for executing an application; obtaining an execution condition associated with the requested application, wherein the execution condition includes at least one of a standalone execution condition, a connected execution condition, and a device-related execution condition; detecting whether the user equipment is connected to an external device; and controlling an execution of the requested application based on a connection detection result and the obtained execution condition, wherein when the user equipment is connected to the external device in a powered-on state and the requested application is set with the standalone execution condition, the controlling includes automatically performing, without receipt of a user input for allowing an application execution control, one of: | 47,481 |
9,045,355 | 1. process comprising steps of, a) recovering solids and liquid from an anaerobic digester digestate; b) stripping ammonia from the liquid to produce an ammonia stripped liquid; c) concentrating at least some of the ammonia stripped liquid to produce a brine; d) mixing the brine with the solids; and, e) drying the brine and solids mixture. | 15,951 |
9,716,866 | 1. A portable electronic device capable of capturing digital images, the portable electronic device comprising: at least one memory device; one or more image sensors configured to convert light incident on the one or more image sensors into mosaiced color image data, the mosaiced color image data mosaiced according to a pattern and comprising a plurality of picture element values for each of a plurality of spatially interleaved color channels, the spatially interleaved color channels comprising a first green color channel, a second green color channel, a red color channel, and a blue color channel; and one or more hardware processors configured to: | 35,044 |
8,852,174 | 1. A minimally invasive surgical tool comprising: a tubular instrument shaft having a proximal end and a distal end with a bore there between, the shaft having an instrument shaft axis; an end effector comprising an end effector body; an intermediate wrist member pivotally coupled with the distal end of the instrument shaft and pivotally coupled with the end effector body, pivoting of the intermediate member relative to the instrument shaft orienting the intermediate member about a first axis relative to the instrument shaft, and pivoting of the end effector body relative to the intermediate member orienting the end effector about a second axis relative to the intermediate member, the first axis being transverse to the instrument shaft axis, the second axis being transverse to the first axis, the intermediate member having an exterior width along the first axis and an exterior length along the second axis, the length being significantly different than the width so that the intermediate member has an elongate cross section; an actuation system extending distally through the bore of the instrument shaft so as to orient the end effector body and actuate the end effector, a portion of the actuation system laterally separated from the elongate cross section of the intermediate member between the instrument shaft and the end effector body; a first joint pivotally coupling the instrument shaft to the intermediate member; and a second joint pivotally coupling the intermediate member to the end effector body, wherein the first joint comprises a single pivot shaft extending along the first axis within the width of the intermediate member so that the first joint is disposed within a central region between the instrument shaft and the end effector body clear of the laterally separated portion of the actuation system, wherein the second joint comprises first and second coaxial pivot shafts separated along the second axis. | 40,282 |
8,412,427 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a motor configured to input and output power; a change speed transmission mechanism connected with a rotating shaft of the motor and with a drive shaft connected with an axle, and configured to change speed and transmit power between the rotating shaft and the drive shaft with a changeover of a change speed step by changing an engagement state of a plurality of hydraulic-driven clutches; a driving force demand setting module configured to set a driving force demand required for driving the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the change speed transmission mechanism so as to change the change speed step into an instructed change speed step in response to an instruction to change the change speed step of the change speed transmission mechanism, the controller controlling the motor to not apply a vibration suppression torque after a preset timing during the change speed step, wherein the preset timing is at or after completion of an engagement preparation of at least one of the plurality of clutches from a release state to an engagement state during the change speed step. | 1,639 |
9,461,486 | 1. A method for carriage of a communications over a direct-current power circuit comprising of: a. constructing a toroidal coupling coil with a low-permeability core material as a means of coupling the alternating-current high-frequency carrier onto the power circuit; b. constructing the toroidal coupling coil with at least 25 windings thus forming the secondary winding; c. threading a power conductor of the direct-current power circuit through the center of the coupling coil, thus forming the primary winding; d. generating an alternating voltage carrier signal of a certain frequency such that the dimension of the power circuit is smaller than one-quarter wavelength of said frequency, such as to prevent electro-magnetic radiation of the carrier and prevent induced interference at said frequency; e. modulating the alternating voltage carrier signal with a packet of digital information; f. applying the modulated alternating voltage signal to the secondary winding of the coupling coil for transmission, which is then induced as alternating-current onto the primary winding, superimposed on direct-current flowing through the power circuit; and g. inducing the alternating-current onto another similar coupling coil threaded onto another conductor of the same power circuit, as its primary winding, which is induced onto the secondary winding to result in alternating voltage input to a receiver-demodulator. | 49,788 |
8,367,035 | 1. A method for making an array of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes; said method comprising the steps of: providing a guided growth substrate having a receiving surface, wherein said guided growth substrate is a single crystalline Y-cut or rotated Y-cut quartz substrate having a cut angle selected from the range of 0 degrees to 42.75 degrees; wherein said guided growth substrate is characterized by a principle guided growth axis in the plane of said receiving surface; patterning said receiving surface with a carbon nanotube growth catalyst to generate bands of catalyst separated from each other by regions of said receiving surface having substantially no catalyst present, wherein said bands of catalyst are oriented to intersect the principle guided growth axis and have a surface concentration of catalyst selected from the range of 1000 particles μm growing longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes on said receiving surface of said guided growth substrate via guided growth, wherein said nanotubes grow between the bands of catalyst along nanotube growth axes parallel to the principle guided growth axis of said guided growth substrate, thereby making said array of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes. | 25,698 |
8,601,444 | 1. A method for a computing system to display a visualization of thread timelines and disk input/output channel timelines, the method comprising: an act of executing an application program, wherein the execution of the application program results in operation of a plurality of threads and one or more disk input/output channels that are used by the plurality of threads, not all of the plurality of threads necessarily operating during the entire course of the execution; during the act of executing the application program, an act of sampling each operating thread of the plurality of threads to determine whether the operating thread is executing or not; and after the act of executing the application program, formulating a plurality of thread timelines and one or more disk input/output channel timelines using the samples, each of the plurality of thread timelines corresponding to one of the plurality of threads, each of the one or more disk input/output channel timelines corresponding to one of the disk input/output channels, each disk input/output channel timeline visualizing file input/output as it relates to at least one of the plurality of thread timelines, at least one of the plurality of thread timelines visualizing at least one time segment during which the corresponding thread was executing at corresponding times along the corresponding thread timeline and visualizing a plurality of time segments during which the corresponding thread was blocked at corresponding times along the corresponding thread timeline, visualizing the plurality of time segments during which the corresponding thread was blocked including visualizing the corresponding thread during each blocked time segment using a different visual indicator, each different visual indicator corresponding to a different reason why the corresponding thread was blocked during said time segment. | 39,893 |
9,144,784 | 1. A sorbent material comprising: a swellable, aromatically-bridged, organosiloxane sol-gel composition, containing a plurality of alkyl siloxy substituents, the aromatically-bridged, organosiloxane sol-gel composition having a porous matrix and a sorbent property modifier intermixed with at least a portion of the porous matrix, the sorbent property modifier modifying a sorbent property of the sorbent material when compared to the same sorbent property of the corresponding, unmodified sol-gel composition. | 29,241 |
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