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1. A power supply for light emitting diode arrangements ( 11 ) having a current source ( 3 ), comprising: the power supply ( 1 ) being dimensioned for a power class and comprises an adjustable current source ( 3 ) and an adjustable power limitation ( 4 ), the power limitation ( 4 ) is adjustable within limits of the po...
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1. A hammer bit, comprising: a bit body coupled to a hammer drill; a housing bit connected to the bit body; at least one wing bit coupled to the housing bit to move up and down along a plane slanted relative to a longitudinal axis of the hammer bit; at least one guide groove formed in the bit body at a lower portion th...
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1. A method, in a network node, for assisting a wireless terminal to select an access node for a communication in a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprises a cellular network access node and a wireless local network access node, the method comprising: establishing, by the ne...
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1. A luminaire comprising: a reflector comprising an inner surface defining at least one reflector cavity; a plurality of light emitting diodes positioned within the luminaire to direct light into the at least one reflector cavity; and an optical element at least partially positioned within the reflector cavity to rece...
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1. A thermodynamic system, comprising: a working fluid; a fluid pump for pumping the working fluid through a cycle; a thermal input for supplying heat to the working fluid; an expansion device downstream of the thermal input for converting motion of the working fluid to useful work; and a heat pump, said heat pump pump...
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1. A method for making an electrode material of lithium-ion battery, comprising: providing a lithium source solution and a plurality of titanium source particles; mixing the lithium source solution and the plurality of titanium source particles, wherein a molar ratio of lithium element to titanium element is in a range...
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1. A method of fabricating medium-high temperature CO 2 sorbents made of alkali metal promoted calcium aluminate carbonates, comprising steps of: (a) mixing a source of Ca ions and Al(NO (b) mixing NaOH and a carbonate to obtain an alkali solution, (c) mixing said acid solution and said alkali solution to obtain a mixe...
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1. A display device, comprising: a display panel including a display area having a plurality of pixel areas, and a non-display area surrounding the display area, the display area including a plurality of groups of first power lines for providing a first power to the plurality of pixel areas; and a driver electrically c...
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1. A system comprising: a memory controller; and a memory channel coupled to said memory controller, said memory channel comprising:
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1. A power supply circuit comprising: a rectifier to rectify a voltage output from a power source; a power factor compensation circuit including a plurality of reactors to store and output currents output from the rectifier, a plurality of switches switched such that the currents are stored in the reactors or are outpu...
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1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising: forming ineffective chips in a circumference of a first main surface of a semiconductor wafer; forming effective chips in a region surrounded by the ineffective chips; forming a front electrode on the effective chips and the ineffective chips; providing an...
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1. A cartridge for a chemical release system, the cartridge comprising: a cartridge body coupled with a cartridge head at a first end and coupled with an end plug at a second end, the cartridge head comprising a through hole configured to engage with an annular flange in a main head, the cartridge body forming a substa...
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1. An electrochemical carbon monoxide sensor comprising: a housing comprising: a micro electrode assembly comprising:
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1. A method comprising: removeably coupling an interchangeable flap to a handbag body to cover an opening of the handbag body in a first position and removeablely coupling the interchangeable flap to a portion of itself in a second position to form a separate handbag using an attachment mechanism, the attachment mechan...
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1. A self-propelled construction machine, comprising: a machine frame; a working unit arranged on the machine frame and configured to carry out work for a building operation; a drive unit arranged on the machine frame and configured to drive the working unit, the drive unit including at least one internal combustion en...
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8,675,523
1. A method, comprising: providing a parameter of a bridged packet-switched network; correlating the parameter to an algorithm if the parameter is selected; and constructing an optimized spanning tree if the parameter is correlated to the algorithm, the optimized spanning tree to improve a performance of the network wi...
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1. A reticle, comprising: an exposure region that is to be exposed to light during an exposure process; a non-exposure region surrounding the exposure region and not to be exposed to the light during the exposure process; and exposure monitoring keys disposed across a boundary between the exposure region and the non-ex...
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1. A method of delivering a beverage comprising the steps of: at least partially filling an extraction chamber with roasted ground coffee; passing an aqueous medium through the extraction chamber to form the beverage; and discharging the beverage from the extraction chamber; wherein the roasted ground coffee has a dry ...
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1. A software defined radio (SDR)-enabled wireless device comprising: programmable circuitry; software encoded on at least one computer-readable storage to program the programmable circuitry to implement an SDR; system parameters indicating capabilities of the programmable circuitry and/or the software of the SDR-enabl...
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1. An outdoor lighting network management system, comprising: at least a first and a second outdoor lighting network each including a plurality of outdoor lighting network devices, wherein each of said first and said second outdoor lighting networks use a respective a first or second protocol to communicate with their ...
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8,433,448
1. An irrigation control device comprising: a first processor of a first irrigation control unit; and a computer readable medium coupled to the first processor and storing a first set of machine code adapted to be executed by the first processor, the first set of machine code based on a portion of source code on which ...
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1. A method for estimating video quality on a bit-stream level, the video quality being an estimated quality of a decoded video after error concealment and the method being performed by a computer on the bit-stream level before said error concealment, the method comprising: at least one of extracting and calculating a ...
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1. A method comprising: receiving, from a user system at a host system having a processor system including at least one processor and a memory system, user input for conducting a search, the user input including one or more input terms; automatically searching, by the processor system, a storage area in the memory syst...
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1. A device for a transmission assembly of a motor vehicle, comprising: an electrical machine ( a clutch ( an anti-dust flange ( a radial part of the anti-dust flange ( the anti-dust flange (
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1. An ethanol producing yeast strain, comprising at least one heterologous polynucleotide encoding a yeast arabinose transporter that comprises an amino acid sequence at least 95% identical to SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the yeast strain is capable of growth and ethanol production utilizing arabinose as a carbo...
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1. A multiple liquid phase composition, useful for preparing an oxirane product, comprising a reaction mixture of: (a) at least one olefin; wherein the olefin is selected from one of (i) an aliphatic olefin or substituted aliphatic olefin, with the proviso that the aliphatic olefin is not propylene, (ii) a cycloaliphat...
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1. A method for automatically determining if a location is a standalone location that can be identified by a name for the location, comprising: determining a name score for the location by determining an approximate number of pages that contain the name; generating a signature that includes the name for the location an...
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1. A method of handover control by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message from a source cell; determining whether a full configuration option is configured in the received RRC connection reconfiguration mess...
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1. An air intake structure for an internal combustion engine, the air intake structure comprising: a compressor impeller of a turbo supercharger provided in an air intake passage of the internal combustion engine; a blow-by gas passage being coupled to the air intake passage on a downstream side with respect to all air...
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1. A power supply module of a tractor for providing electrical energy to a drive module of an implement having a capacitive load, the power supply module comprising: a three-phase inverter with first, second, and third load outputs, the three-phase inverter having a plurality of switching devices; and a control device ...
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1. A self-adjusting liner assembly for a welding torch comprising: an elongated tubular body having a forward end, a rearward end, and a central bore extending from said forward end to said rearward end, said elongated tubular body being defined at least in part by a power pin; an elongated fixed tube mounted in said c...
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1. A method for controlling vehicle creep, comprising: (a) if desired creep speed exceeds vehicle speed while an accelerator pedal is released, controlling motor speed to produce the desired creep speed; (b) if desired motor torque exceeds actual motor torque, controlling motor torque to produce the desired motor torqu...
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1. A chemical solution vaporizing tank for producing a processing gas by supplying a vaporization gas to a chemical solution stored in the chemical solution vaporizing tank, and supplying the processing gas to a work for performing processing, comprising: a tank body having an internal space airtightly sealed by a part...
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1. A method for modifying the effect of an operator controlled input device on an interactive device to encourage the self-regulation of at least one physiological activity by the operator, the operator controlled input device utilizing one or more position reference signal elements to provide motion and/or position-se...
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1. A method for controlling a percentage of exhaust gas recirculation in a turbocharged engine system, comprising: controlling an exhaust gas recirculation valve to:
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1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: a shaft rotatably driven by the engine; a waste heat recovery system, including: a clutch operable in an engaged position to drivingly connect the shaft to the feedpump and a disengaged position to disconnect the shaft from the feedpump; and a controller operable to receive...
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1. A process for recovery of the olefins from a methanol to olefins reactor effluent, the process comprising: feeding an effluent from a methanol-to-olefins reactor system comprising methane, ethylene, and ethane to an absorber demethanizer; contacting at least a portion of the effluent with an absorbent in the absorbe...
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1. A bolt for a mine roof that is positioned in place in the mine roof with an installation tool of a mine roof bolting machine and resin of a resin capsule comprising: a tube to be positioned in the mine roof, at least a portion of which is hollow, having a top and the bottom and at least one dimple formed from the tu...
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1. An electrical circuit device, comprising: a printed circuit board with a cavity extending from a top surface of said printed circuit board to a top surface of an embedded conductor, said printed circuit board contacting an upper surface and a lower surface of said embedded conductor inside the printed circuit board;...
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1. A photovoltaic solar cell with a backside semiconductor-oxide-nitride-oxide nonvolatile charge storage structure, comprising: a surface structure including a semiconductor front-surface layer and associated front-side contact; a semiconductor bulk layer including semiconductor-based light absorbing material that abs...
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8,795,897
1. A cathode active material comprising a lithium mixed transition metal oxide having a composition represented by Formula I: wherein: M=M′ A is a dopant; 0≦k<0.05; and x+y=2 and 0.95≦x≦1.05, wherein the lithium mixed transition metal oxide has a Li wherein the solid-state reaction includes a sintering process at 600° ...
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1. A method for fabricating semiconductor device, comprising: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region defined thereon; forming a plurality of fin-shaped structures on the substrate; forming a gate layer on the fin-shaped structures; forming a material layer on the gate layer; patterning the mate...
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1. A polar modulator comprising: a modulation generator arranged to generate phase modulation data and amplitude modulation data; a phase modulation stage arranged to generate a phase modulated, PM, carrier signal and a PM clock signal, wherein: a re-timing circuit arranged to generate an amplitude modulation, AM, cloc...
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1. A method of converting data item formats, comprising: placing a new data format in a conversion database, the new data format previously not included in the conversion database; adding, by a processor, one or more conversion rules to the conversion database, creating, by the processor, at least one conversion subscr...
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1. A wireless communication system in which a wireless communication terminal which is being employed by a user performs data communication via a wireless communication apparatus which is wirelessly connectable to a public wireless communication network, wherein: said wireless communication apparatus comprises: a first...
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1. A seed, plant, plant part, or cell of inbred maize variety PH18TA, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-121903.
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1. A semiconductor device structure, comprising: a substrate; a word line cell disposed over the substrate; a memory gate disposed over the substrate and adjacent to the word line cell; a spacer on a sidewall of the memory gate, wherein the spacer and the word line cell are at opposite sides of the memory gate; and a c...
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1. A media processing device capable of connecting to an external device via a communication unit, comprising: a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium; an information reading unit that reads information recorded on the recording medium in the recording medium conveyance path; a verification result acquisition...
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1. A finisher comprising: an ejection port from which sheets of paper are ejected; a stacking tray on which the sheets of paper ejected from the ejection port are stacked; a light-emitting element configured to emit light to the top sheet of a paper stack on the stacking tray; a light-receiving element configured to re...
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1. A light-emitting device having a semiconductor structure layer in which there are sequentially stacked a first semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer of the opposite conduction type to the first semiconductor layer, a surface of said first semiconductor layer serving as a light...
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1. An alcohol concentration estimation apparatus which receives a crank pulse supplied from a pickup coil which detects passing of a plurality of reluctors provided on a crank pulse rotor which rotates in synchronism with a crankshaft of an engine, said alcohol concentration estimation apparatus comprising: an ignition...
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1. A container cap comprising: a cap having a closed end and an open end; a handling outer portion enclosing the cap and including a plurality of recesses and a plurality of protrusions; and a plurality of connecting walls connecting an outer wall of the cap and an inner wall of the handling outer portion, wherein the ...
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1. A wireless power converter comprising: at least one receiving high-Q magnetic resonator configured to capture electrical energy received wirelessly through a first oscillating magnetic field characterized by a first plurality of parameters; and at least one transferring high-Q magnetic resonator configured to genera...
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1. Apparatus comprising: a sensor configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a motion signal in response thereto; an output unit; and a control unit configured to: the control unit being configured to adapt a threshold for the alerting of the clinician based on an input selected from the group consisting of: ...
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1. A hybrid powertrain for a vehicle comprising: an input shaft rotating in response to a power received from an engine; an output shaft arranged parallel to the input shaft; a first motor generator configured to transmit and receive a power to and from the output shaft; a second motor generator configured to transmit ...
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1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, an indication of a version of a plurality of versions of an additional maximum power reduction table that is supported by a user equipment, wherein the indication is transmitted from the user equipment.
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1. An organic luminescent display device comprising: an element substrate; an organic film formed above the element substrate; and an organic electro luminescent element formed on the organic film, wherein the organic electro luminescent element includes: an anode formed on the organic film; a light emitting layer form...
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1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of threshold registers to store respective voltage droop thresholds, each voltage droop threshold stored in the threshold registers corresponding to a unique license mode of a processor core or domain; an interface to receive a license grant message indicating a license mode for ...
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1. A solar energy conversion system comprising: a substantially flat waveguide arrangement having a longitudinal core axis and having at least one light input and being configured to provide radiation propagation along the longitudinal core axis by effect of total internal reflection, the waveguide arrangement comprisi...
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1. A method comprising: maintaining, by a computing device, a first portal configured to present a plurality of content items related to a common topic and a plurality of links to the plurality of content items related to the common topic of the first portal, and wherein the plurality of content items includes at least...
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1. A method of generating a variant of an antibody, an antigen-binding domain of the antibody or a T-cell receptor (TCR), wherein the variant binds to an antigen with increased antigen-binding affinity, the method comprising the steps of: (i) providing a polynucleotide comprising: (ii) introducing the polynucleotide in...
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1. A windage and elevation control mechanism comprising: a longitudinal and lateral mobile unit adapted to receive a device to be adjusted, the mobile unit having two aligned protrusions located respectively on longitudinal opposite sides thereof; and a receiving unit defining a cavity adapted to receive the mobile uni...
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1. A system for detecting defects in a turbine rotor blade of a combustion turbine engine while the combustion turbine engine operates, the system comprising: a turbine rotor blade that includes an insulator coating; a first electrode that is electrically connected to the turbine rotor blade; a second electrode that re...
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1. A method of treating cancer, comprising: (a) treating a patient with a therapeutically effective amount of a halo-ester isoborneol compound selected from the group consisting of  or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein said halo-ester isoborneol compound at least partially inhibits the activity of Rep...
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1. A method for preparing an active TNFR (tumor necrosis factor receptor)-Fc fusion protein, comprising: a) loading a sample comprising a mixture of TNFR-Fc fusion proteins produced in mammalian cells to a hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) column pre-equilibrated with an equilibration buffer comprising one o...
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1. A method for supporting wireless communication, the method comprising: providing near field communication (NFC) data via an NFC processor to an NFC transceiver; providing a first signal generated by a first programmable synthesizer to the NFC transceiver; modulating, in the NFC transceiver, the NFC data onto the fir...
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1. A hybrid drive system for a combine, comprising: an engine driving an output; an engine control which produces a current engine load signal and an engine speed signal; a battery pack; a motor and a generator operatively connected to the output arranged to be used alternately, the motor usable to drive the output and...
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1. A node in a network, comprising: a meter configured to measure consumption of a resource comprising electricity, gas or water, and configured to generate encrypted data representing consumption of the resource and to record the encrypted data in a memory device located externally to a microcontroller unit; a first c...
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions, the instructions comprising: one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor of a network device, cause the processor to receive a data unit; one or more instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a p...
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1. A computer implemented method for sharing photos and videos related to an event through a central location comprising: creating an event owned by an event owner; sending invitations for said event to zero or more invitees; assigning said event owner and zero or more of said invitees as photographers; sending to said...
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1. A semiconductor memory device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a memory area and a peripheral circuit area, said memory area including, a contact region, a select gate region, and a memory cell region having plural memory strings each including memory cell transistors interconnected in a first direction,...
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1. A power-assisted system being assembled to a derailleur-equipped bicycle for providing an auxiliary force to the bicycle and comprising: a microcomputer; a pedaling-rate sensor that is assembled to the bicycle and electrically connected to the microcomputer for sensing a pedaling rate of the bicycle and converting t...
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1. A filter comprising two or more nanopores, wherein each of the nanopores has a diameter of about 5 nm or less, wherein the filter comprises a layer consisting essentially of silicon dioxide and wherein the nanopores are present in the layer consisting essentially of silicon dioxide and wherein each of the nanopores ...
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1. An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with a blow mould which has at least two blow mould parts which are arranged so as to be movable with respect to each other and which in a closed state of the blow mould form a cavity, in the interior of which the plastics materia...
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1. A mobile terminal comprising: a memory storing an operating system having a scheduler, wherein the scheduler is configured to: a processor configured to perform an operation related to the operating system and process the plurality of the tasks according to at least the first or second processing order, wherein each...
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1. A display layer comprising an electrophoretic medium and having a first surface on a viewing side and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface; the electrophoretic medium sandwiched between a common electrode and a layer of pixel electrodes comprises a first type of particles, a second type of part...
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1. A surgical light, comprising: a suspension or support system; one or multiple light heads carried on the suspension or support system, wherein each of the light heads comprises a housing, one or multiple grips mounted to the housing for hand holding and moving the light head to a predetermined location, multiple lig...
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1. A method for estimating a system state that is applied in a network comprising a plurality of nodes, each node having means for receiving and sending information and means for processing information, and each node being connected to selected other nodes of the network, the method comprising, at each node: (i) mainta...
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1. A method, comprising: transmitting a first flow of exhaust gas from an exhaust manifold to a first turbine; transmitting a second flow of exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold to a second turbine when a level of exhaust pressure in the manifold exceeds a threshold; regulating the second flow of exhaust gas to the se...
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1. An apparatus comprising: a flexible biodegradable substrate configured to conform to at least one of internal or surface biological tissue; one or more non-volatile memory arrays configured as flexible biodegradable memory formed of biodegradable circuit components integrated onto the flexible biodegradable substrat...
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1. A face detection and recognition method, comprising: acquiring an image received from an image stream including one or more face regions; calculating an integral image for at least a portion of the image or a sub-sampled version of at least a portion of the image, or both; applying face detection to at least a porti...
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1. An aircraft lavatory for an aircraft, the aircraft lavatory comprising: an aft partition; and a forward partition, including wherein the aft partition and forward partition define a lavatory space disposed therebetween.
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1. A method implemented on a wireless client comprising: registering, by the wireless client, the wireless client with a push notification service over a first communication interface, the push notification service to push notifications of events to the wireless client in response to detecting the events; detecting, by...
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1. A method for processing sensor data from a continuous glucose sensor, the method comprising: receiving sensor data from a continuous glucose sensor, wherein the sensor data is indicative of a glucose concentration in a host; and calibrating, using an electronic device, the sensor data based on predetermined calibrat...
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1. An apparatus for processing at least two media by comminuting a first medium and mixing with a heated second medium, the apparatus comprising: i) a casing having at least one inlet for a first medium, wherein said first medium is a biomass in the form of pulp, ii) rotating means inside the casing, said rotating mean...
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1. A method of solar cell construction, the method comprising: providing a silicon donor substrate; forming a porous layer on the silicon donor substrate; constructing a first portion of a solar cell on the porous layer of the silicon donor substrate wherein the action of constructing the first portion of the solar cel...
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1. A power factor correction system comprising: a bridge rectifier with output terminals and input terminals for receiving an AC power signal; a first capacitor coupled to the outputs of the bridge rectifier; a second capacitor; a third capacitor with a positive terminal and a negative terminal; a first inductor with i...
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1. A developing cartridge comprising: a frame; a developer carrying member that is rotatably supported on the frame and carries a developer, the developer carrying member having a first rotational axis defining an axial direction; a developer supplying member that is rotatably supported on the frame and contacts the de...
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1. A method for determining back-feed paths to one or more out-of-service load areas in a network after fault isolation, the method comprising: i. defining a chromosome architecture for creating a plurality of unique chromosomes, each said chromosome being a string of characters, each said character representing one of...
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1. A combination headgear and eyewear system comprising: headgear for a user to don; a lens to protect the user's eyes; two spaced temples coupled with the lens, each temple having a distal terminus; first attachment means oriented rearwardly on each terminus of the two temples; and second attachment means oriented for...
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1. An apparatus for cooling a data center having a plurality of racks and an adjustable cooling system that introduces chilled air to the data center, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and at least one processor, coupled to the memory, operative to:  which is a function of at least a volume V(t) of air at the tempera...
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1. A neonatal incubator comprising: a neonatal incubator housing comprising a neonatal incubator enclosure comprising side walls and end walls with an opening in one of said side walls; a neonate patient reclining surface within said enclosure of said neonatal incubator housing, said neonatal incubator enclosure enclos...
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1. An active electrode material comprising: a lithium transition metal oxide prepared by calcining a mixture of a lithium precursor and a transition metal oxalate; wherein:
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1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to facilitate performance of operations comprising: receiving from a unified messaging system a session initiation protocol subscribe message over a primary cal...
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1. An impedance measuring device, comprising: a fuel cell having a plurality of stacked battery cells, a capacitance component, and a resistance component, the capacitance component and the resistance component changing in accordance with a state of the battery cells; a positive output unit configured to be connected t...
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1. A lignin derivative recovered from a pulping process of a lignocellulosic biomass, wherein said lignin derivative has an aliphatic hydroxyl content of from 0.001 mmol/g to 2.35 mmol/g, and an alkoxy content of from 0.1 mmol/g to 2 mmol/g.
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1. A golf club head comprising: a face; a crown; a sole; and a first plurality of slots, wherein the first plurality of slots is disposed in at least one of the crown and the sole, wherein the first plurality of slots comprises at least five discrete slots, wherein at least one of the first plurality of slots extends p...
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1. An imaging system comprising: an imaging device including an imaging condition storage that stores imaging conditions which are set values concerning imaging, an imaging unit that takes a picture of a subject in accordance with the imaging conditions stored in the imaging condition storage and generates an image sig...
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1. A method of removably securing a reusable component to a replaceable component in a system with a bonding agent, the method comprising: preparing a first surface of the reusable component so that a bond strength between said first surface and the bonding agent has a first level; preparing a second surface of the rep...
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1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell that is a direct-current power source, and a voltage boost converter that raises output voltage of the fuel cell and supplies electricity to a load, wherein the voltage boost converter includes: a main voltage boost portion that has a first switch and a first coil, and that...
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