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8,712,004 | 1. A nuclear fuel assembly bottom nozzle comprising: a perforated plate to allow water to pass through the perforated plate; lateral faces; and at least one anti-debris element positioned on one of the lateral faces to block out debris likely to infiltrate between the bottom nozzle and another adjacent bottom nozzle, wherein in a free state, the at least one anti-debris element permanently projects from the lateral face on which the anti-debris element is positioned, the at least one anti-debris element being elastically deformable so as to retract towards the lateral face when a force is exerted on the at least one anti-debris element towards the lateral face. | 7,979 |
8,714,474 | 1. An aircraft comprising: at least one aerodynamic structural element arranged in an air flow, the air flow around said element generating, at least on one downstream end of said element, a turbulence area that produces a generated noise; and at least one flexible net arranged on said downstream end of said aerodynamic structural element, for reducing at least partially said generated noise, said flexible net being selectively extendable and retractable relative to said aerodynamic structural element such that said flexible net moves to at least the following positions: | 22,373 |
9,759,147 | 1. An off highway vehicle, comprising: a chassis; an engine carried by said chassis; and a controller in communication with said engine, said controller being configured to execute an engine idle control method that includes the steps of: | 22,187 |
9,401,247 | 1. A negative electrode for a power storage device comprising: a current collector; a negative electrode active material structure over the current collector, the negative electrode active material structure comprising at least a first protrusion, a second protrusion, a third protrusion, and a fourth protrusion; a first bar over the first protrusion and the second protrusion; and a second bar over the third protrusion and the fourth protrusion, wherein the current collector comprises one selected from the group consisting of titanium, aluminum, and copper, wherein each of the first protrusion, the second protrusion, the third protrusion, and the fourth protrusion comprises an active material, wherein each of the first bar and the second bar comprises a conductive material, and wherein the conductive material comprises one selected from the group consisting of titanium, aluminum, and copper. | 37,511 |
8,590,325 | 1. A system comprising: a compressor operable in a refrigeration circuit and including a motor; a sensor producing a signal indicative of one of current and power drawn by said motor; an ambient temperature sensor producing a signal indicative of an ambient temperature; a liquid-line temperature sensor providing a signal indicative of a temperature of liquid circulating within said refrigeration circuit; and processing circuitry processing said current or power signal to determine a condenser temperature of said refrigeration circuit and a subcooling value of said refrigeration circuit from said condenser temperature and said liquid-line temperature signal, said processing circuitry processing said current or power signal and said ambient temperature signal to determine a difference between said condenser temperature and said ambient temperature, said processing circuitry determining a system operating condition based on said subcooling value and said difference between said condenser temperature and said ambient temperature. | 24,773 |
9,180,779 | 1. A power feeding device for a vehicle, comprising: a high frequency power driver configured to convert electric power received from a power source into high frequency power that can achieve a magnetic field for transmission to the vehicle, a primary LC resonator configured to be magnetically coupled with a secondary LC resonator mounted on the vehicle by the magnetic field, and to transmit the high frequency power received from the high frequency power driver, the primary LC resonator including a transmission coil, a control device configured to adjust a frequency of the high frequency power by controlling the high frequency power driver such that the frequency of the high frequency power approaches a frequency of the primary LC resonator and a frequency of the secondary LC resonator, and a reflector formed at a rear side of the transmission coil with respect to a power transferring direction from the transmission coil, for allowing reflection of a magnetic flux output from the transmission coil in the power transferring direction, wherein the transmission coil and the reflector are arranged spaced apart from each other. | 6,962 |
8,392,495 | 1. A reflectionless electronic filter comprising: a symmetric two-port circuit, wherein the symmetry is established by an even-mode equivalent circuit and an odd-mode equivalent circuit when the ports are driven in phase and 180° out of phase, respectively; wherein the symmetric circuit contains at least one lossless element and at least one lossy element that are arranged such that: a normalized input impedance of the even-mode equivalent circuit is essentially equal to a normalized input admittance of the odd-mode equivalent circuit, and a normalized input impedance of the odd-mode equivalent circuit is essentially equal to a normalized input admittance of the even-mode equivalent circuit. | 19,013 |
9,167,643 | 1. A light-emitting diode (LED) driver, comprising: a) a reference voltage control circuit configured to provide a reference voltage signal in response to an enable signal; b) a current control circuit configured to generate a control signal to control an output current of said LED driver in response to said reference voltage signal and an output voltage feedback signal from an LED load; c) a power switch controllable by said enable signal and said control signal that are received at inputs of a logic gate, wherein an output of said logic gate is only coupled to a gate of said power switch; and d) said LED driver being configured to drive said LED load when said enable signal is active. | 45,558 |
9,493,701 | 1. A method for producing a red phosphor comprising: mixing a carbonate of an element A, europium nitride, silicon nitride and melamine to form a mixture so that the element A, europium (Eu), silicon (Si) and carbon (C) have the ratios of the numbers of atoms according to the compositional formula (1): where the element A is at least one of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr) and barium (Ba), and where m, x, y and n in the compositional formula (1) satisfy the relationships of 3<m<5, 0<x<1, 0<y<9 and 0<n<10; sintering the mixture to a sintered product; and pulverizing the sintered product, wherein the ratio of the intensity of a peak existing at a position of the diffraction angle of 36.0° to 36.6° to that at a position of the diffraction angle of 35.0° to 36.0° in an X-ray diffraction pattern is 0.58 or higher. | 32,143 |
9,166,252 | 1. A surface-controlled, lithium ion-exchanging battery device comprising: (a) a positive electrode consisting of a first functional material having a first lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface to store lithium ions or atoms thereon, wherein said first functional material is selected from the group consisting of: (A) a disordered carbon material selected from a soft carbon, hard carbon, polymeric carbon or carbonized resin, meso-phase carbon, coke, carbonized pitch, carbon black, activated carbon, or partially graphitized carbon; (B) a nano graphene platelet selected from a single-layer graphene sheet or multi-layer graphene platelet; (C) a metal oxide nano-wire or fiber, conductive polymer nano-fiber, or a combination thereof; (D) a carbonyl-containing organic or polymeric molecule selected from the group consisting of Poly(2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone-3,6-methylene), Li (b) a negative electrode consisting of a lithium source prior to a first discharge cycle of the battery device and a second functional material having a second lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface to store lithium ions or atoms thereon, wherein said second functional material is selected from the group consisting of: (A) a disordered carbon material selected from a soft carbon, hard carbon, polymeric carbon or carbonized resin, meso-phase carbon, coke, carbonized pitch, carbon black, activated carbon, or partially graphitized carbon; (B) a nano graphene platelet selected from a single-layer graphene sheet or multi-layer graphene platelet; (C) a metal oxide nano-wire or fiber, conductive polymer nano-fiber, or a combination thereof; (D) a carbonyl-containing organic or polymeric molecule selected from the group consisting of Poly(2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone-3,6-methylene), Li (c) a porous separator disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, and (d) a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein an operation of said surface-controlled, lithium ion-exchanging battery device does not require solid state diffusion of lithium in both said negative electrode and said positive electrode. | 25,513 |
8,902,083 | 1. A display device for presenting information by an autostereoscopic 3D display in a passenger cabin of an aircraft or spacecraft, the display device comprising: the autostereoscopic 3D display, a housing of which is integrated in a cover panel of a supply channel of the passenger cabin arranged in an overhead area of the passenger cabin, the autostereoscopic 3D display configured to provide a first item of information such that the first item of information can be detected from a first seat in the passenger cabin and the autostereoscopic 3D display configured to simultaneously provide a second item of information, which is different from the first item of information, such that the second item of information can be detected from a second seat in the passenger cabin; wherein the first seat and the second seat are arranged in different rows; and wherein the display device has a lens or strip matrix which is connected upstream of the display or is an integral part of the display, and individual pixels of the display are deflected in different directions, particularly in a transverse direction and in a vertical direction of the passenger cabin by the lens or strip matrix. | 10,422 |
8,565,488 | 1. A motion analysis apparatus that extracts unsteady motion using a moving image, the motion analysis apparatus comprising: a motion data input section that receives learning data as input; a motion feature extraction section that extracts a motion feature amount from the learning data input in the motion data input section; a principal component analysis section that performs principal component analysis on part of the learning data using a motion feature amount extracted by the motion feature extraction section, and learns a subspace; a learning data distance calculation section that calculates a distance between a motion feature amount of learning data extracted by the motion feature extraction section and a subspace learned by the principal component analysis section; and a contribution degree determination section that determines suitability of a contribution degree used in the principal component analysis by the principal component analysis section, from a distance calculated from learning data that is used in learning of the subspace by the principal component analysis section, and a distance calculated from learning data that is not used in learning of the subspace by the principal component analysis section, among distances calculated by the learning data distance calculation section. | 31,769 |
9,145,810 | 1. A device for purifying exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine in which an upstream device for purifying exhaust gas and a downstream device for purifying exhaust gas provided in the engine exhaust passage are connected together through an exhaust pipe having a sectional area smaller than that of said upstream device for purifying exhaust gas and that of said downstream device for purifying exhaust gas, said device for purifying exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine including: injection means provided between said upstream device for purifying exhaust gas and said downstream device for purifying exhaust gas, and for injecting into the exhaust passage an additive that reacts with the specific components in the exhaust gas; and a connection passage portion for connecting the exhaust outlet of a catalyst in said upstream device for purifying exhaust gas to said exhaust pipe; wherein said connection passage portion is so formed that the center axis of said upstream device for purifying exhaust gas in the direction in which the exhaust gas flows is not aligned with the center axis of said exhaust pipe in the direction in which the exhaust gas flows; said injection means is arranged in said connection passage portion so that said additive arrives at the opposing wall surface of said connection passage portion traversing the exhaust gas flow from said upstream device for purifying exhaust gas; and said additive is mixed into said exhaust gas. | 1,375 |
9,106,147 | 1. A universal power supply apparatus, comprising: a power supply unit switching input power into driving power having a preset voltage level and supplying the driving power; a power recognition unit outputting a recognition voltage having a preset voltage level to an output terminal from which the power is output to recognize connection of a device, controlling a power output of the power supply unit according to a detected rated output, and recognizing disconnection of the device after the connection of the device according to a power state of the driving power of the power supply unit; and a detection unit providing a detection voltage having a preset voltage level to the output terminal, wherein the power recognition unit recognizes the disconnection of the device based on the power state of the driving power according o changes in a switching mode of the power supply unit during the disconnection of the device. | 3,572 |
9,747,120 | 1. A device comprising: a processor; a memory that stores a host operating system comprising a proxy and computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising | 1,902 |
9,683,741 | 1. A fired heater, comprising: a fired heater body with an air inlet and an flue gas outlet, and a flue gas waste heat recovery system communicated with said fired heater body, including a first and second heat exchange chambers, wherein a first port of each of said first and second heat exchange chambers is configured to communicate with said flue gas outlet or air inlet, and a second port of each of said first and second heat exchange chambers is configured to communicate with the outside air or with a fume extractor, wherein, when the first port of the first heat exchange chamber is communicated with said flue gas outlet and the second port of the first heat exchange chamber is communicated with said fume extractor, the first port of the second heat exchange chamber is communicated with said air inlet and the second port of the second heat exchange chamber is communicated with the outside air, wherein a gas mixing tank is provided between said flue gas waste heat recovery system and said air inlet, wherein an inlet of said gas mixing tank is configured to communicate with the first port of said first or second heat exchange chamber, and an outlet of said gas mixing tank is configured to communicate with said air inlet, wherein said fired heater further comprises a first four-way valve and a second four-way valve for switchover of said first and second heat exchange chambers, wherein said first four-way valve is configured to communicate with the first ports of said first and second heat exchange chambers, said flue gas outlet and air inlet, and said second four-way valve is configured to communicate with the second ports of said first and second heat exchange chambers, said fume extractor and the outside air, wherein an inlet of the gas mixing tank is communicated with the first four-way valve, and wherein the gas mixing tank is only in communication with the first or second heat exchange chamber in an exothermic stage. | 26,612 |
9,336,680 | 1. A method for detecting a rotating wheel of a vehicle by evaluating the Doppler shift of a measuring beam, which is emitted by a detector unit passed by the vehicle, reflected by the wheel and returned in Doppler-shifted form, wherein, in a relative position to the wheel, the vehicle comprises an onboard unit, which can establish a radio communication with a transceiver having a known location in the detector unit, the method comprising: measuring the direction and distance of the onboard unit from the transceiver on the basis of at least one radio communication between the onboard unit and the transceiver; and controlling the radiation direction or radiation position of the measuring beam in accordance with the measured direction and distance and taking into consideration the relative position and location; wherein the relative position is stored in the onboard unit and is read from the onboard unit by way of a radio communication for the purpose of the consideration. | 28,056 |
9,654,805 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing data representing a sign-data-hiding enabled block of an image, comprising: a bitstream written in the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the bitstream comprising: a set of entropy encoded coefficients representing a set of coefficients of a residual block of the sign-data-hiding enabled block, the set of coefficients including a particular non-zero coefficient that is without a sign designation; and an information item representing a prediction mode of the sign-data-hiding enabled block, wherein remainder data, which is based on an operation representing a division between a sum of non-zero coefficients in the set of coefficients and a specific number, is used to designate a sign for the particular non-zero coefficient, wherein the residual block of the sign-data-hiding enabled block is a difference between an original block and a prediction block generated based on the prediction mode, and wherein a count of non-zero coefficients in the set is greater than a threshold number. | 14,863 |
8,468,757 | 1. A photovoltaic roofing system for use on a roof deck, the photovoltaic roofing system comprising: a first plurality of horizontally-arranged roofing elements disposed on the roof deck, each having a headlap region and a butt region having a bottom end; a bus bar batten system disposed upon and extending across the headlap regions of the first plurality of roofing elements, the bus bar batten system comprising one or more rigid supports and an electrical interconnection system; a plurality of photovoltaic elements, each disposed on one of the first plurality of roofing elements, each operatively engaged with the electrical interconnection system of the bus bar batten system and tenaciously physically engaged with one or more rigid supports of the bus bar batten system, each photovoltaic element physically engaging with the bottom end of the butt region of the roofing element upon which it is disposed; and a second plurality of horizontally-arranged roofing elements disposed on the roof deck and covering the bus bar batten system and the headlap regions of the first plurality of horizontally-arranged roofing elements. | 468 |
9,024,206 | 1. A multilayered ceramic capacitor comprising: a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces opposing each other, first and second side surfaces opposing each other, and first and second end surfaces opposing each other; a first capacitor part including a first internal electrode exposed to the first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed to the second end surface and having a lead-out portion exposed to the first side surface, and a second capacitor part including a third internal electrode exposed to the first end surface and a fourth internal electrode having a lead-out portion exposed to the second side surface, the first capacitor part and the second capacitor part being formed in the ceramic body; an internal connection conductor formed in the ceramic body and exposed to the first and second side surfaces; and first to fourth external electrodes formed on the outer surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first to fourth internal electrodes and the internal connection conductor, wherein the first capacitor part has capacitance larger than that of the second capacitor part. | 22,366 |
9,619,008 | 1. An information handling system comprising: a primary integrated display platform and a secondary integrated display platform attached via a hinge; a passive cooling system; a processor executing instructions for a dynamic thermal management system to determine a thermal profile of the information handling system; an application window locator system for determining a location of a software application display window of a first software application running on the information handling system on the primary integrated display platform or the secondary integrated display platform; the dynamic thermal management system to operationally limit a portion of a display device proximate to the secondary integrated display platform; wherein the determination of which integrated display platform to locate the software application display window is based on a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display platform to the secondary integrated display platform, an operating state rank of the software application, and whether the thermal profile of the information handling system reaches a thermal threshold. | 10,466 |
9,787,462 | 1. A system, comprising: one or more processing circuits configured for use during reception of signals, the one or more processing circuits are operable to: | 21,395 |
9,437,153 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: pixel electrodes arranged in matrix in a display region; gate lines arranged along a first direction in which the pixel electrodes are arranged; source lines arranged along a second direction in which the pixel electrodes are arranged; pixel switches configured to switch a connection between the pixel electrodes and the source lines in accordance with drive signals supplied from the gate lines; a first gate driver configured to connect to one end of the gate lines and output the drive signals to the gate lines; a second gate driver configured to connect to the other end of the gate lines and output the drive signals to the gate lines; image signal transmit lines arranged along the second direction in which the pixel electrodes are arranged, each image signal transmit line supplying an image signal to each source line; a source driver configured to output the image signals to the image signal transmit lines; analog switches arranged along the first direction, and configured to switch a connection between the source line and the image signal transmit line; and control lines comprising first control lines and second control lines, and configured to output source control signals to switch the analog switches, wherein the drive signals output to the gate line from the first and second gate drivers are the same, the first control lines are electrically connected to the analog switches, the second control lines are electrically connected to a control IC configured to output the source control signals, and not directly connected to the analog switches and the pixel switches, the first control lines and the second control lines are electrically connected by third control lines orthogonal to the first control lines and the second control lines at a position in the center of the display region, the source control signals are input to the second control lines, and the source control signals supplied to the second control lines are then applied to the analog switches through the first control lines. | 10,932 |
9,850,861 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an engine including an engine head including a cylinder head and a head cover disposed on the cylinder head; a throttle body that supplies air to the cylinder head; a supercharger; an intake manifold that is supplied with compressed air from the supercharger; a first joint that connects the intake manifold and the throttle body to each other; and a restrictor that connects the engine head and the first joint to restrict relative movement of the first joint with respect to the engine head; wherein the throttle body and the intake manifold are spaced apart from each other with the first joint located therebetween. | 7,307 |
8,744,526 | 1. A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons, the communication terminal comprising: a destination-data registration unit that allows destination data to be registered therein; a one-touch-dial registration unit that allows an address of destination data in the destination-data registration unit to be registered therein, the address being provided according to an operation of the one or more one-touch-dial buttons; and a control unit that accepts registration of destination data in the destination-data registration unit in a case where the one or more one-touch-dial buttons is operated when an address is not registered in the one-touch-dial registration unit, wherein the control unit registers an address of the destination data in the destination-data registration unit, in the one-touch-dial registration unit, the destination data being accepted by the registration of the control unit. | 42,579 |
8,772,389 | 1. A caulk composition having a first color upon application and a second color upon formation of a skin, wherein said skin is suitable for application of a surface treatment and wherein said caulk composition remains flexible after it is fully cured wherein said composition comprises a pH indicator which changes color in response to sufficient curing of said composition whereby the degree of cure permits application of a surface treatment to said composition and wherein the pH of said composition having said first color is from about 8 to about 10. | 31,401 |
8,848,531 | 1. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of communicating data at a prescribed quality of service level (QOS), the method comprising: receiving a request for a first dynamically modifiable quality of service indicator (DMQOSI), which indicates a QOS to be associated with a data packet that is one of a plurality of packets that make up a communications stream; determining a value to be given to the first DMQOSI, the value being associated with a given QOS but different than at least one other value that had previously been utilized to indicate the same QOS; assigning the value to the first DMQOSI; and communicating the first DMQOSI to a communications source such that the first DMQOSI is useable by the communications source to encode the first DMQOSI into the data packet. | 36,576 |
9,296,773 | 1. A mixed-metal-organic framework (M′MOF) comprising a repeat unit of the formula Zn 3 (BDC) 3 [Cu(SalPyCy)] or Zn 3 (CDC) 3 [Cu(SalPyCy)], wherein BDC is 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate, CDC is 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate, and SalPyCy is a ligand of the formula: | 21,275 |
8,853,999 | 1. A method for charging an electric vehicle, comprising: identifying vehicle information corresponding to the electric vehicle based on an electronic image of the electric vehicle, wherein identifying the vehicle information comprises comparing the electronic image of the electric vehicle with a plurality of vehicle model candidates stored in an electronic database; calculating a similarity score for each of the vehicle model candidates stored in the electronic database; selecting a vehicle model candidate having a highest similarity score, wherein the vehicle information is identified using the selected vehicle model candidate; retrieving from the electronic database a location of a charging port on the electric vehicle based on the selected vehicle model candidate; and robotically moving a charging connector according to the retrieved location to engage the charging port of the electric vehicle to charge a battery. | 37,215 |
8,910,903 | 1. A flying saucer generating a lift from its interior, comprising: an equipment main body has a shape of flying saucer, having a plurality of ports over a casing of the equipment main body, and having at least one exit at a lower surface of the casing, a tail or a surrounding area thereof, and having a fluid channel between the ports and the exits; and an engine, located inside the fluid channel and having an air-in vent and an air-out vent, wherein the air-in vent communicates with the port, and the air-out vent communicates with the exit, characterized in that the engine drives the fluid to flow within the fluid channel, the fluid channel is a water channel or an air channel, so that the fluid speed inside the fluid channel and the upper surface of the casing communicating with the fluid channel is larger than that on the lower surface of the casing, resulting in a pressure difference between the upper and lower surfaces of the casing and thus creating a lift, and the fluid channel is an air channel when communicating with the air, while the fluid channel between the ports and the exits is a water channel when communicating with a suction engine in the water; having plurality of engines over the flying saucer, wherein the suction engine communicates with the fluid channel. | 16,968 |
9,854,712 | 1. A method for providing for conditioning of a computer data center, the method comprising: supplying a working fluid from a common fluid plane to a plurality of power/cooling units distributed across a data center facility in proximity to electronic equipment that is distributed across the data center facility, at least one of the power/cooling units comprising an electric generator unit configured to generate electric power from the working fluid and output waste from the working fluid to a cooling unit to generate a cooling fluid from the waste to cool the electronic equipment, and at least one of the power/cooling units further comprise a unitary housing that encloses the electric generator unit and the cooling unit; converting the working fluid into electric power and cooling capacity at each of the plurality of power/cooling units; and supplying the electric power to a common electric power plane serving a plurality of racks of the electronic equipment in the data center facility and being served by a plurality of the power/cooling units in the data center facility. | 47,706 |
9,515,314 | 1. A cathode active material comprising a complex comprising a lithium manganese oxide with a spinel structure represented by Formula 1 below, a first carbonaceous material having a particle diameter of 0.3 μm to 30 μm, and a second carbonaceous material having a particle diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm in a range smaller than the particle diameter of the first carbonaceous material, wherein an intensity ratio of plane-(440)/plane (111) ((440)/(111)) measured by Rietveld refinement was 0.24 or greater, and wherein the complex is formed by milling the spinel lithium manganese oxide with the first carbonaceous material and the second carbonaceous material: wherein the lithium manganese oxide has a structure of secondary particles formed by aggregation of a plurality of primary particles, and wherein the second carbonaceous material is disposed between primary particles of the lithium manganese oxide, and the first carbonaceous material is disposed at the external surface of the secondary particles of the lithium manganese oxide. | 15,954 |
8,632,929 | 1. An oxygen reduction electrode comprising: a current collector; a gas diffusion layer; and a catalyst layer consisting of: wherein, each of R | 45,229 |
8,821,725 | 1. A waste slurry handling and disposal system for use with a mobile ready-mix concrete vehicle, the system comprising: a waste bin which is moveable with a height adapted to receive waste slurry from said mobile ready-mix concrete vehicle, the waste bin having a base, sidewalls and a front end adjacent said mobile ready-mix concrete vehicle and a back end remote from said mobile ready-mix concrete vehicle, the back end having a chevron shape oriented on a longitudinal axis, wherein the chevron shape has an apex which is pointed away from the front end, the waste bin having at least one baffle structure arranged on the longitudinal axis and spaced along the base extending between the sidewalls of the waste bin, the at least one baffle structure having a chevron shape generally conforming to the chevron shape on the back end, each of the at least one baffle structure having at least one fluid passing aperture at a lower edge of the at least one baffle structure adjacent to a side wall of the waste bin; and a liquid discharge port located near the back end of the waste bin. | 7,021 |
8,450,624 | 1. A supporting substrate, comprising: a substrate; a first surface metal layer formed on the substrate, wherein the first surface metal layer has a first opening; a second surface metal layer formed on the substrate and disposed oppositely to the first surface metal layer, wherein the substrate has a through hole, and the through hole is formed along the first opening which exposes the second surface metal layer; a protective layer formed on the first surface metal layer and the second surface metal layer, wherein the protective layer has a second opening which exposes the through hole; and a conductive bump directly formed inside the through hole, the first opening and the second opening, wherein the conductive bump is electrically connected to the second surface metal layer, wherein the conductive bump directly contacts sidewalls of the through hole, the first opening and the second opening. | 1,163 |
9,343,241 | 1. An electrode comprising: a current collector; and an active material layer, wherein the active material layer comprises an active material exclusively of a plurality of graphite particles, wherein each graphite particle of the plurality of graphite particles consists of a plurality of graphite layers overlapping with each other with a gap between each respective graphite layer, wherein the gap is 1 nm to 10 nm, wherein a grain diameter of the particle is 1 μm to 50 μm, and wherein a specific surface area of the particle is 20 m | 30,122 |
9,485,712 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, from a computing device subject to data throttling, a request to begin a data session on a network; responsive to receiving the request, allowing the computing device to access data via the network at a full network speed for a grace time period; upon expiration of the grace time period, allowing the computing device to access data via the network at a reduced network speed for a monitoring time period; during the monitoring time period, monitoring the computing device to determine whether the computing device is accessing data via the network in bursts or streaming data; and based on whether the computing device is accessing data via the network in bursts or streaming data, either (i) allowing the computing device to access data via the network at the full network speed for a throttling waiver time period or (ii) allowing the computing device to access data via the network at the reduced network speed until completion of the data session. | 20,233 |
9,255,158 | 1. A process for producing an aminosilane-functionalized polymer comprising the steps of: (a) providing an initiator formed by mixing at least one type of anionically polymerizable monomer with at least one alkenylaminosilane compound having the formula where n is a whole number selected from the group consisting of 0-2, and m is a whole number selected from the group consisting of 1-3, with the proviso that the sum of m and n equals 3; where each R is independently a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group; where each R (b) adding at least one metallating agent to the mixture, thereby metallating the alkenylaminosilane and initiating polymerization of the at least one type of anionically polymerizable monomer thereby producing a living polymer that includes at least one aminosilane group having a formula as follows at the head of the polymer only wherein R, R (c) either terminating the living polymer with a proton from a quenching agent or functionalizing the living polymer with a functional terminator selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, benzophenones, benzaldehydes, imidazolidones, pyrrolidinones, carbodiimides, ureas, isocyanates, Schiff bases, trialkyltin halides, cyclic amino compounds, N-substituted aminoketones, N-substituted thioaminoketones, N-substituted aminoaldehydes, N-substituted thioaminoaldehydes, sulfur-containing or oxygen containing azaheterocycles, boron-containing terminators, cyclic siloxanes, α-halo-ω-amino alkanes, and combinations thereof followed by terminating the living polymer with a proton from a quenching agent. | 38,453 |
9,462,691 | 1. A device package comprising: a substrate having first and second major surfaces and electrical conductors extending across or into the substrate; a two-dimensional array of pads formed on the first major surface of the substrate, first and second subsets of the pads being connected to the electrical conductors, each pad of the second subset of the pads having a plurality of isolated electrically conductive regions that are connected to different conductors; solder balls or solder bumps formed on the first subset of the pads, said solder balls or solder bumps having a first height; and other devices formed on the second subset of the pads that have a height that is no more than that of the first height, wherein each of the other devices is directly mounted on one of the second subset of the pads, wherein each of the other devices comprises multiple terminals, and wherein each of the multiple terminals of one of the other devices is electrically connected to a different one of the plurality of isolated electrically conductive regions of one of the second subset of the pads. | 40,482 |
9,773,410 | 1. A method for processing traffic information via a traffic information server, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, via said traffic information server, information regarding a first set of traffic data collected from one or more traffic information computers, each associated with a vehicle travelling along a section of road, wherein said first set of traffic data comprises an average speed of each vehicle periodically calculated by said traffic information computer associated with said vehicle; processing, via said traffic information server, said first set of traffic data to generate a second set of traffic data comprising an average speed of said vehicles traveling along said section of road; and transmitting, via said traffic information server, said second set of traffic data to at least one or more traffic information computers. | 16,427 |
9,714,059 | 1. A splitter system for a vehicle having a road wheel, a steering wheel, and a vehicle body arranged along a longitudinal body axis and including a first vehicle body end configured to face incident ambient airflow, the splitter system comprising: a splitter body configured to be moveably mounted at the first vehicle body end and generate an aerodynamic downforce on the first vehicle body end when the vehicle is in motion; a mechanism configured to selectively translate the splitter body along the longitudinal body axis away from the first vehicle body end into the incident airflow and toward the first vehicle body end out of the incident airflow to thereby adjust a magnitude of the aerodynamic downforce generated by the splitter body on the first vehicle body end; an electronic controller configured to regulate the mechanism; a first sensor configured to detect a rotating speed of the road wheel and communicate the detected rotating speed of the road wheel to the controller; a second sensor configured to detect a yaw rate of the vehicle body and communicate the detected yaw rate to the controller; a third sensor configured to detect a velocity of ambient airflow relative to the vehicle and communicate the detected velocity of the ambient airflow to the controller; and a fourth sensor configured to detect an angle of the steering wheel and communicate the detected angle of the steering wheel to the controller; wherein the controller is programmed to selectively translate, via the mechanism, the splitter body along the longitudinal body axis relative to the first vehicle body end during vehicle cornering in response to the detected yaw rate, the detected angle of the steering wheel, and at least one of the detected rotating speed of the road wheel and velocity of the ambient airflow, to thereby vary the aerodynamic downforce on the first vehicle body end and control the detected yaw rate. | 49,738 |
9,437,620 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate including a first opening, wherein a thickness of the substrate is 1 μm to 100 μm; a first transistor over the substrate; a first insulating film over the first transistor, the first insulating film including a second opening and a third opening; a first conductive film over the first insulating film and in the first opening and the second opening, the first conductive film electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor through the third opening; and a second insulating film, covering the first transistor, between the first transistor and the first insulating film, wherein the first opening and the second opening overlap with each other, wherein the first conductive film penetrates an upper surface of the substrate through a back surface of the substrate, and wherein the second insulating film faces a side surface of the substrate in the first opening. | 5,927 |
8,525,437 | 1. A device for controlling current of a light emitting diode (LED), the device comprising: a constant current generator; a current mirror; a current amplifier; a selector outputting an L signal or an H signal according to an input control signal; and a current changing unit including at least two switching units connected in parallel, each of the switching units including a transistor and a switch connected to the transistor in series, wherein the switch of each of the switching units in the current changing unit is controlled by the signal output from the selector, and wherein the selector includes at least one amplifier, the at least one amplifier having a non-inverting terminal receiving the control signal and an inverting terminal receiving a voltage divided by a resistor, and the at least one amplifier comparing a voltage of the inverting terminal with that of the non-inverting terminal to output the L signal or the H signal to an output terminal. | 30,670 |
8,507,264 | 1. A photobioreactor system comprising: a plurality of interconnectable photobioreactor sections which, when connected together, form at least one longitudinally-oriented photobioreactor unit of the photobioreactor system, the photobioreactor sections each comprising a liquid flow channel defined within a base and a light-transparent cover that forms a gas headspace between the cover and the liquid flow channel; wherein the cover is constructed and arranged to cover at least a substantial portion of the liquid flow channel and is configured to be separable from the base and capable of providing the gas headspace even when a gas pressure within the photobioreactor unit is less than the atmospheric pressure surrounding the photobioreactor section. | 15,418 |
9,358,843 | 1. A tire in which a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove extending in a tire circumferential direction are formed and a plurality of block-shaped land portions are provided in the tire circumferential direction, outside the first circumferential groove in a tread width direction, wherein a first inclined groove and a second inclined groove are formed, the first inclined groove with a groove depth becoming larger and a groove width in the tire circumferential direction becoming smaller as the first inclined groove extends toward the inner side in the tread width direction, the second inclined groove with a groove depth becoming larger and a groove width in the tire circumferential direction becoming smaller as the second inclined groove extends toward the outer side in the tread width direction, each of the block-shaped land portions includes a first land portion and a second land portion, the first land portion, the second land portion, the first inclined groove, and the second inclined groove are disposed in an area partitioned by a first inter-block microgroove and a first sipe on a first side in the tire circumferential direction, a second inter-block microgroove and a second sipe on a second side in the tire circumferential direction, and by the first circumferential groove and the second circumferential groove in the tread width direction, on the first side of the area in the tire circumferential direction, the first inclined groove and the first land portion continuous with the first inclined groove in the tread width direction are disposed and the first land portion extends toward the second side of the area in the tire circumferential direction, on the second side of the area in the tire circumferential direction, the second land portion extending toward the first side of the area in the tire circumferential direction is disposed, and the second inclined groove continuous with the second land portion is disposed between the first land portion and the second land portion in the tread width direction. | 22,746 |
9,107,214 | 1. A method of handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in a network of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: assigning resources for a plurality of physical hybrid indicator channels (PHICHs) and a plurality of extended physical hybrid indicator channels (ePHICHs); and transmitting a HARQ acknowledgement message to a communication device of the wireless communication system on a channel selected from the plurality of PHICHs and the plurality of ePHICHs, after receiving an uplink transmission from the communication device, wherein the HARQ acknowledgement message is transmitted via the plurality of PHICHs if a group index is smaller than a total group number of the plurality of PHICHs, and the HARQ acknowledgement message is transmitted via the plurality of ePHICHs if the group index is greater than or equal to the total group number of the plurality of PHICHs; wherein the group index is calculated from a total group number of the plurality of PHICHs and the plurality of ePHICHs, and the total group number of the plurality of PHICHs and the plurality of ePHICHs is indicated by the network. | 45,040 |
9,834,415 | 1. An elevator system for a building under construction, the elevator system comprising: a temporary machine compartment disposed in a vertical shaft of the building under construction; a drive device that is disposed in the temporary machine compartment and is coupled via a supporting cable to a car that can be made to move upward and downward in the vertical shaft; and a speed limiter for limiting a speed of the car, wherein the speed limiter cooperates with a speed limiter cable disposed in the vertical shaft, wherein the speed limiter is disposed on the car or on a counterweight connected to the car via the supporting cable, wherein the speed limiter cable has a first cable section and a second cable section, wherein the first cable section is clamped in a positionally-fixed manner between a cable retainer that is connected in a positionally-fixed manner to the temporary machine compartment and a releasable clamping device disposed in a lower shaft region, wherein the second cable section is connected to the first cable section at the releasable clamping device in the lower shaft region and is stored in a storage region. | 27,378 |
9,527,064 | 1. A method for producing a silica composite comprising the steps of: preparing a raw material mixture containing silica and zeolite; drying the raw material mixture to obtain a dried product; and calcining the dried product, wherein the method comprises the step of bringing a solution of phosphate into contact with the zeolite and/or the dried product to thereby adjust a phosphorus content in the silica composite to 0.01 to 1.0% by mass based on the total mass of the silica composite, a source of the phosphorus is phosphate, and the zeolite is of MFI type and has a SiO | 48,970 |
8,477,671 | 1. A method for communication in a low power communication network, in which said network comprises a first network node and a second network node, the method comprising: transmitting, by said first network node, a beacon frame periodically indicate the indicating a time for data transmission by said first network node; transmitting, by said first network node, a dummy beacon frame indicating the transmitting time of said beacon frame before transmitting said beacon frame, said second network node including a wake-up state and a sleep state and, when awake, is configured to detect said dummy beacon frame, detect said beacon frame and perform data transmission with said first network node; detecting, by said second node, said dummy beacon frame so as to acquire the transmitting time of said beacon frame and synchronize its data transmission with said first network node by performing the data transmission with said first network node in a wake-up period synchronously after detecting said beacon frame; transmitting, by the first network node, the dummy beacon during a sleep period following the wake-up period until a next beacon frame; scanning the second network node for the dummy beacon frame at time intervals which are different from and not an integral of a period length for transmitting said beacon frame; and detecting, by the second network node, only the beacon frame upon one of detecting the beacon frame and detecting the dummy beacon frame, and upon acquiring the transmitting time of the beacon frame. | 14,751 |
9,190,892 | 1. An electro-magnetic coupling system for transferring torque between a pair of coaxial spools of a gas turbine engine, the system including a first rotor rotatable with one of the spools, a second rotor rotatable with the other of the spools, and a stator, the first and second rotors and the stator being coaxial with each other, and the second rotor operably coupling the first rotor and the stator; wherein: the first rotor carries a plurality of magnetic flux-producing formations which produce a first magnetic field, the stator carries a plurality of electrical winding coils which are energisable to generate a second magnetic field, and the second rotor carries an arrangement of interpoles which modulate the first and second magnetic fields such that the modulated fields interact to transfer torque between the spools. | 42,924 |
9,551,354 | 1. A regenerative fluid machine having guide vanes on a flow channel wall comprising: a circular plate-shaped impeller ( casings ( flow channels ( wherein the plurality of guide vanes ( | 22,137 |
8,651,987 | 1. A system for orientation of a ring configured for rotation, the system comprising: a cable coupled to engage the ring which is configured to rotate about a ring axis, a pulley assembly having a plurality of pulleys where each one pulley out of the plurality of pulleys is configured to rotate about a pulley axis which is parallel to the ring axis, the pulley assembly including an at least one proximal pulley disposed closer to the ring than an at least one distal pulley, where each pulley has a plurality of grooves configured for receiving the cable therein, a motor assembly including a motor coupled to a gearbox which is rotated by the motor to provide a first rotation reduction, a driving means disposed adjacent to the ring in pivotal coupling about a hinge, and configured to support the pulley assembly, the motor assembly, and a stretcher, the cable being engaged with the ring and with the at least one proximal and distal pulleys by being wound from a first groove in the proximal pulley to a first groove in the distal pulley and in repeated succession, to a next groove in the proximal pulley to a next groove in the distal pulley, until a last groove in the distal pulley, from where winding returns to the ring, the stretcher being fixedly coupled to the driving means for pivoting the driving means distally away from the ring to stretch the cable and to bias the ring and the pulley assembly in preload, and the ring being rotated by the motor assembly which is coupled to rotate the at least one distal pulley and provides a first reduction of rotation to the pulley assembly which is configured and sized to provide a second reduction of rotation to the ring relative to motor rotation, whereby the ring is driven via at least a double reduction of rotation relative to rotation of the motor, and the cable engages the ring and the plurality of pulleys by friction. | 7,493 |
8,608,387 | 1. A roller bearing comprising: an outer ring; an inner ring; a plurality of rollers arranged between said outer ring and said inner ring; a plurality of retainer segments having pockets for holding said rollers and arranged so as to be continuously in line with each other in a circumferential direction between said outer ring and said inner ring, the plurality of retainer segments including a first retainer segment and a last retainer segment, an intermediate element arranged between the first retainer segment and the last retainer segment in line continuously with each other in the circumferential direction, wherein the intermediate element is independent and separate from adjacent retainer segments, and further wherein a number of the retainer segments is three or more; and a gap exists between the first retainer segment and the intermediate element, wherein the intermediate element has a center part and end parts and a circumferential dimension of the center part is smaller than a circumferential dimension of the end parts. | 41,467 |
9,647,558 | 1. A method for varying the on-time of a pulse width modulator (PWM) signal driving a buck converter when the buck converter is operating in discontinuous conduction mode, comprising: measuring a switching frequency of the buck converter while it is operating in the discontinuous conduction mode and generating a Fs′ value based on the measurement; receiving a Fs value that is based on the switching frequency of the buck converter when it is operating in continuous conduction mode and the on-time of the PWM signal is constant; generating an output signal that has a value that is substantially equal to the ratio of the Fs′ value and the Fs value; causing the on-time of said PWM signal to vary using the output signal; and causing said output signal to vary said Fs value so as to create a control loop that regulates said output signal. | 8,265 |
9,464,084 | 1. A compound that is: (R*)-(2-Chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)(1-(5-fluoropyrimidin-2-yl)-4-methyl-6,7-dihydro-1H-[1,2,3]triazolo[4,5-c]pyridin-5(4H)-yl)methanone; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. | 28,469 |
8,578,981 | 1. A router table comprising: a table top having an aperture and a plurality of support members, the support members being configured to support the table top, the table top being configured to hold a router and receive a router bit of the router through the aperture; a fence extending across a portion of the table top in a first direction, the fence including a first end portion engaged to a first portion of the table top by a first gear mechanism and a second end portion engaged to a second portion of the table top by a second gear mechanism, the first gear mechanism and the second gear mechanism being coupled to each other by a driveshaft; and an adjustment mechanism configured to drive at least one of the first gear mechanism, the second gear mechanism, and the driveshaft; and at least one subfence configured to move toward or away from the fence. | 19,231 |
9,495,136 | 1. A computer-implemented method for executing a target program in a computer system, comprising: compiling code of said target program for execution on a computer system to produce an executable target program, said executable target program being compiled from a non-executable version of said target program, said executable target program comprising a first set of processor-executable instructions; associating aliasing information with said executable target program, said aliasing information identifying, for each of a plurality of instructions of said first set, a corresponding subset of one or more instructions of said first set which may reference the same memory location as the respective instruction, said aliasing information being derived from said non-executable version of said target program; executing said executable target program with a dynamic binary optimizer, said dynamic binary optimizer accessing said aliasing information to generate a second set of processor-executable instructions of said target program, said second set including at least one instruction not contained in said first set, said second set replacing said first set to perform at least one optimization of said executable target program during execution. | 32,640 |
8,911,117 | 1. An LED lighting apparatus, comprising: an LED chip including at least one LED mounted thereto; a light reflector configured to direct light emitted by said LED at a predetermined direction and dispersion angle; a heat sink including a mounting base and a plurality of cooling fins extending from a first side of said mounting base and with said LED chip secured to an opposite second side of said mounting base; a cooling fan attached to said heat sink adjacent distal ends of said plurality of fins; an electrical regulator electrically connected to said cooling fan to provide regulated power to said cooling fan; an LED driver electrically connected to said LED chip to provide power to said LED chip; and a thermal limit switch mounted to said heat sink and configured to cut off power to said LED chip if a sensed temperature of said heat sink exceeds a temperature set point to thereby provide thermal protection to said LED chip; and a light sensor switch configured to provide power to said LED driver during predetermined ambient lighting conditions, wherein said predetermined ambient lighting conditions comprise dusk to dawn conditions. | 633 |
9,415,972 | 1. An elevator operation control method of: estimating an amount of shake of a long object which moves accompanying lifting and lowering of a passenger cage by way of simulation based on an amount of shake of a building in which an elevator is installed and current position information of the passenger cage of the elevator; and controlling and operating the elevator according to the estimated amount of shake of the long object, the elevator operation control method comprising: changing every second a physical model of the simulation according to the position of the running passenger cage, and simulating in real time the amount of shake of the long object from the current amount of shake of the building and position information of the running passenger cage; and when the amount of shake of the long object calculated by the simulation exceeds a threshold determined in advance, performing a control operation matching this threshold. | 15,576 |
9,810,039 | 1. A safety valve, comprising: a housing having a piston bore defined therein and configured to receive hydraulic fluid pressure, the piston bore providing an upper bore having a first diameter, a lower bore having a second diameter, and an intermediate bore interposing the upper and lower bores and having a third diameter, wherein the third diameter is greater than the second diameter and the second diameter is greater than the first diameter; and a piston assembly movably arranged within the piston bore and comprising an upper piston operatively coupled to and axially offset from a lower piston, wherein the upper piston is configured to sealingly engage the upper bore and the lower piston is configured to sealingly engage the lower bore, wherein, when the upper piston is arranged in the intermediate bore, the hydraulic fluid pressure acts on the lower piston. | 5,490 |
8,940,656 | 1. A photocatalyst of CoP 2 loaded red phosphorus. | 48,154 |
8,992,041 | 1. A lamp comprising: an outer shell made of metal and having an end wall and a peripheral wall which is thermally connected to the end wall, a part of the peripheral wall forming a heat radiating path configured to discharge air introduced from a first port to a second port, the end wall not forming the heat radiating path, and one side portion of the end wall having a light source support, the light source support including a flat supporting surface which is not along the heat radiating path, the flat supporting surface being perpendicular to an axis of the lamp; a light source mounted on the flat supporting surface of the light source support to transfer heat to the light source support; a base shell; a connecting member made of resin and provided between the outer shell and the base shell, the connecting member being configured to define a receptacle; and a lighting circuit disposed in the receptacle, wherein the connecting member has a through hole located outside the receptacle so that the through hole communicates with the second port of the heat radiating path, and the light source is mounted on the flat supporting surface closer to the first port than to the lighting circuit. | 34,126 |
9,507,451 | 1. A file selection method, applied to a terminal with a touchscreen, comprising: obtaining, by the terminal, a touch track of a user on the terminal; determining, by the terminal, that an area bounded by the track is a selection area when a distance between a starting point of the track and an ending point of the track is less than or equal to a set distance, wherein the starting point is different than the ending point; selecting, by the terminal according to the selection area determined, a file within the selection area, wherein the selecting comprises selecting, by the terminal according to the determined selection area, a file of which center coordinates are located within the selection area; determining, by the terminal, one of: skipping, by the terminal, selecting the target file when the terminal determines that the number of the first intersections or the second intersections is an even number, and selecting, by the terminal, the target file when the terminal determines that the number of the first intersections or the second intersections is an odd number. | 42,326 |
9,459,313 | 1. A testing apparatus comprising: a base for supporting a motherboard; an inserting unit located on the base and is moveable toward the base to engage an expansion card with a slot of the motherboard or is moveable away from the base to disengage the expansion card from the slot of the motherboard; a movable unit located on the base; and a driving device located between the movable unit and the base, wherein the movable unit is driven by the driving device to move the inserting unit; the movable unit comprises an engaging portion; the inserting unit comprises a main body and a mounting portion connected to the main body; the main body is mounted on the base; the mounting portion comprises an engaging block; and the engaging block secures to the engaging portion. | 26,306 |
8,867,889 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a recording controller for controlling recording of management information containing access information corresponding to recording information for an information recording medium, wherein the recording controller records a backup copy of the management information on a non-volatile recording medium prior to the recording of a master copy of the management information on the information recording medium, and records the master copy of the management information after recording the backup copy of the management information and after verifying completion of the recorded backup copy of the management information, and the recording controller records a position information mapping table, in which a recording destination of the master copy of the management information is mapped to a recording destination of the backup copy of the management information, upon the recording of the backup copy of the management information. | 41,142 |
8,595,128 | 1. A method for repositioning market information comprising: receiving, via a user input device of a computing device, a user input to identify a price level of a plurality of axially aligned price levels for a tradable object, the plurality of axially aligned price levels being displayed via an output device of the computing device; and realigning at least a portion of the plurality of axially aligned price levels via the computing device, where the user-identified price level is repositioned to a predetermined location at a user identified repositioning rate. | 8,450 |
8,380,568 | 1. A system of distributing consumer demand upstream in a supply chain, comprising: one or more computer systems comprising one or more processors, the one or more computer systems comprising: | 37,817 |
9,209,597 | 1. A method for producing white light comprising: providing a light conversion module comprising undoped metal oxide powder comprising particles having a size of less than 50 nm; providing a light source configured to generate excitation light having a wavelength in the near infrared (NIR) region; directing the excitation light towards the undoped metal oxide powder and exciting the undoped metal oxide powder with the excitation light, and thereby causing the undoped metal oxide powder to emit white light having a continuous spectral distribution in the range of 440 nm to 900 nm. | 20,895 |
8,582,508 | 1. A system for providing digital content to a mobile device from a wireless communications service cell site, comprising: a content gateway configured to predictively receive and forward the digital content from a content server to the cell site over a wireless channel of a backhaul; a cache unit communicatively coupled to the content gateway and located at the cell site, the cell site configured to interface the mobile device to the backhaul, | 49,839 |
9,296,180 | 1. A metal foil for a base material of a solar cell and an organic electroluminescence, the metal foil comprising: a carbon steel layer whose thickness is 10 to 200 μm; an alloy layer which contains Fe and Al and which is formed on the carbon steel layer; and an Al-containing metal layer arranged on the alloy layer, wherein, a distance between (1) a maximum point of a cutting-plane line of a surface of the Al-containing metal layer appearing on a cross-section of the metal foil that is cut perpendicular to a rolling direction, wherein the cutting-plane line is a contour curve and the maximum point is an extremal point that is convex toward the surface of the Al-containing metal layer, and (2) an approximation straight line of the cutting-plane line, is not more than 10 μm, wherein a thickness of the alloy layer is 0.1 to 8 μm and the alloy layer contains an Al wherein a Vickers hardness of the alloy layer is 500 Hv to 600 Hv. | 37,134 |
9,101,467 | 1. A valve prosthesis comprising: a valve body; and a self-expanding frame, wherein the valve body includes a first leaflet, a second leaflet, and a third leaflet, wherein the second leaflet extends between the first leaflet and the third leaflet such that the first and third leaflets are separated from each other by the second leaflet and wherein the first and second leaflets are sewn together to form a first commissure point and a second commissure point, and the second and third leaflets are sewn together to form a third commissure point and a fourth commissure point, and wherein the four commissure points are sewn to the frame. | 47,599 |
8,770,377 | 1. A buffer means for containers operating according to the first in-first out principle, comprising: at least one infeed conveyor track drivable along an infeed direction; at least one outlet conveyor track drivable along an outlet direction; a buffer module formed by the at least one infeed conveyor track and the at least one outlet conveyor track which are arranged parallel to each other and having a width; a first edge, at the infeed conveyor track of the buffer module for the containers; a second edge, at the outlet conveyor track for the containers; a transfer device with an outer guide, so that the containers are transferrable from the infeed conveyor track to the outlet conveyor track of the buffer module; a sliding device for sliding the transfer device in parallel along the infeed conveyor track or the outlet conveyor track, respectively, in dependence on a required buffer capacity in the buffer means; at least one further drivable transfer conveyor arranged between the infeed conveyor track and the outlet conveyor track of the buffer module in such a way that it is parallel to the buffer module; and, a drive mechanism for the at least one further drivable transfer conveyor for a first transport direction or a second transport direction, wherein each drivable transfer conveyor and the sliding device has its own drive mechanism so that an individually controllable driving of the drivable transfer conveyors and of the sliding device is assured. | 2,857 |
8,933,571 | 1. A variable speed wind energy system comprising: an electrical generator coupled to a wind turbine, said wind turbine having at least one blade; a six-pulse diode rectifier coupled to the electrical generator; a first variable heat energy exchanger coupled to the output of the six-pulse diode rectifier, the variable heat energy exchanger coupled to a DC capacitor, DC-AC inverter, said DC-AC inverter having an output, and DC constant voltage local usages; the output of the DC-AC inverter coupled to at least one of the following: AC local usages of electricity and the electrical grid; a six-pulse transistor rectifier coupled to the electrical generator; a second variable heat energy exchanger coupled to an output of the six-pulse transistor rectifier on one side and another side of the second variable heat energy exchanger coupled to a second DC capacitor and second constant voltage local usages; the second variable heat energy exchanger coupled to a neutral line through switches. | 27,500 |
9,338,850 | 1. A range-activated dimming light fixture providing active glare control, comprising: a first dimmable light source for downwardly illuminating an activity volume terminating at a support surface; a rangefinder, operatively coupled with the first dimmable light source, for determining a distance between the first dimmable light source and a top of an object within the activity volume; and, a controller for determining a height between the top and the support surface, based on the distance, and configured to dim the first dimmable light source when the height exceeds a first threshold distance. | 2,483 |
8,961,362 | 1. A modular power train for a wind turbine having a nose cone and a rotor assembly, the modular power train comprising: an input shaft ( an output shaft ( a central support structure ( a split-compound planetary gearing system ( wherein said high-torque stage (A) incorporates two adjacent arrays of star gears ( wherein said load is mounted to a second axial side of said central support structure opposite from said split-compound planetary gearing system, said load coupled to, and driven by, said output shaft passing through said opening in said central support structure; and wherein said split-compound planetary gearing system is coupled to said central support structure ( | 7,069 |
9,314,521 | 1. A compound represented by the following formula [1]: wherein R 1 and R 2 are each independently a branched or straight group having up to 17 atoms selected from carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, n is 0 to and including 18, Y is sulphur or selenium, X is S or O and R is an organic group comprising one or more peptides, one or more nucleic acids, one or more antibodies or combinations thereof. | 14,153 |
9,844,929 | 1. An automated fastener insert installation system for composite panels, comprising: a panel handling module configured to receive and secure a composite panel with respect to an origin of a first coordinate system, the composite panel having opposed major surfaces and defining an insert-receiving orifice extending through one of the major surfaces, the composite panel being secured such that one of the major surfaces is externally accessible, and the insert-receiving orifice being formed in the composite panel in a previous process prior to receipt of the composite panel by the panel handling module; a fastener insert assembly module configured to engage each of a plurality of fastener inserts with an installation aide; and a fastener insert installation module configured to determine a configuration of the insert-receiving orifice formed in the previous process, the configuration being a through-hole configuration or a blind hole configuration, or a size of the insert-receiving orifice formed in the previous process, the size being a lateral size or a longitudinal size, defined by the composite panel secured by the panel handling module, to select a corresponding one of the fastener inserts engaged with the installation aide from the fastener insert assembly module in response to the determined configuration or size of the insert-receiving orifice, to insert the selected fastener insert into the insert-receiving orifice, and to dispense an adhesive material through the installation aide and into the insert-receiving orifice about selected fastener insert such that the adhesive material secures the selected fastener insert within the insert-receiving orifice. | 28,478 |
8,860,262 | 1. A linear vibration motor comprising: a stator part including a magnet; a vibrator part including a coil disposed to face the magnet; and an elastic member connecting the stator part and the vibrator part to each other, wherein the elastic member includes bending parts formed in connection parts thereof connected to the stator part and the vibration part in a vibration direction of the vibrator part, wherein: | 39,597 |
8,918,799 | 1. A method to utilize one or more hardware computing entities managed by different operating systems in a computer system, comprising: providing a system call utility on a first operating system managing a first hardware computing entity, the system call utility taking an argument comprising a pointer to computer code a second operating system established to run on the first hardware computing entity, the second operating system for managing an application that includes a call to the system call utility, to run on a second hardware computing entity; enabling the first operating system to execute the computer code natively on the first hardware computing entity and to return a result of the computer code executed on the first hardware computing entity to the second operating system, wherein the second operating system managing the application running on the second hardware computing entity is enabled to utilize the first hardware computing entity, wherein the second operating system runs as a process of the first operating system under the first hardware computing entity, the first hardware computing entity and the second hardware computing entity being processing elements of the computer system that comprises at least two processing elements, the first operating system and the second operating system being high performance computing (HPC) operating system kernels, wherein the first operating system managing the first hardware computing entity is allowed to utilize all hardware computing entities in the computer system, and the second operating system managing the second hardware computing entity is allowed to utilize all computing entities in the computer system via the system call. | 15,774 |
8,374,613 | 1. A method of operating a wireless terminal in a cell which includes a base station which transmits at least two carrier signals at different power levels, said at least two carrier signals including a first carrier signal having a first carrier frequency and a second carrier signal having a second carrier frequency, the method comprising: operating said wireless terminal to communicate with said base station using said first carrier signal over a period of time; during said period of time, checking a plurality of said at least two carrier signals to determine channel interference associated with each of said at least two carrier signals; estimating by said wireless terminal, intersector channel interference due to transmissions from another sector of said base station; identifying at least one sector boundary carrier frequency based on said intersector channel interference; determining candidate carrier frequencies by considering traffic loading, power, and noise levels, wherein said candidate carrier frequencies exclude said at least one sector boundary carrier frequency; and initiating an intercarrier handoff based on the intersector channel interference, the intercarrier handoff occurring between carrier signals used by said base station, while said first carrier signal still provides a signal to noise ratio of at least 0 dB and another one of said carrier signals is subject to lower channel interference, wherein said intercarrier handoff involves a carrier signal having one of said candidate carrier frequencies. | 11,268 |
8,689,089 | 1. A coding method, comprising: receiving source data corresponding to plural 66-bit blocks from each of a plurality of physical lanes; combining 2×66-bit blocks from each of the physical lanes to generate a 528-bit block; transcoding the 528-bit block to a 514-bit block using 512B/514B transcoding; and encoding by an encoder a data stream consisting of a plurality of the 514-bit blocks, wherein the encoding comprises: receiving A symbols of the plurality of the 514-bit blocks for a first B cycles, where A and B are non-zero integer values; accessing two or more symbols at a given cycle for each forward error correction (FEC) frame; and providing by the encoder C symbols per cycle, where C is equal to A. | 36,755 |
9,637,114 | 1. A parallel hybrid powertrain comprising: an automatic transmission capable of shifting between predetermined gear ratios; an engine coupled with the transmission; a motor including a rotor coupled with the engine; and a controller programmed to shift the gear ratio of the transmission to cause a speed of the rotor to approach a target rotor speed selected according to a magnitude of a driver torque demand and whether the motor is consuming or producing current. | 34,220 |
9,522,956 | 1. A method for treating pancreatic cancer in an individual, wherein said pancreatic cancer in said individual overexpresses EGFR and does not or not significantly expresses HER2, the method comprising administering to the individual an anti-HER2 antibody and an anti-EGFR antibody, said anti-HER2 antibody and said anti-EGFR antibody being both part of the same bispecific antibody, wherein said anti-HER2 antibody is murine, chimeric or humanized mAb 4D5 (trastuzumab) or pertuzumab and said anti-EGFR antibody is murine, chimeric or humanized mAb 425 (matuzumab); chimeric mAb 225 (cetuximab); or panitumumab. | 43,010 |
8,944,324 | 1. A commodity recognition apparatus, comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity; a commodity recognition unit configured to recognize the commodity in the image; a data code recognition unit configured to recognize a data code attached to the commodity in the image from the image; a switching unit configured to set data code recognition processing executed by the data code recognition unit as a default processing, set commodity recognition processing executed by the commodity recognition unit as a non-default processing, and switch from a first state in which the default processing is valid to an second state in which the non-default processing is valid; a display controller configured to display, on a display unit, an image captured by the image capturing unit in response to determining that the non-default processing is switched to a valid status by the switching unit; and an output unit configured to output first information of the commodity recognized by the commodity recognition unit or second information of the data code recognized by the data code recognition unit. | 19,026 |
9,480,015 | 1. A method for network communication, the method comprising: establishing, from a first network device, a direct wireless communication link with a second network device of a communication network; providing an indication to the second network device that the first network device will enter a power save operating mode; while the first network device is in the power save operating mode, | 37,540 |
9,149,167 | 1. A control method of a robot cleaner comprising: setting a territory about which cleaning will be performed based on position data acquired during traveling about a cleaning area; predetermining, by a processor, a cleaning path to clean the territory about which cleaning will be performed; if the cleaning path includes a zigzag traveling path including a straight part and a turnabout part, performing curved traveling of the robot cleaner in order to change the traveling direction of the robot cleaner without stopping, wherein the performing of the curved traveling of the robot cleaner includes reducing a linear velocity of the robot cleaner to a predetermined linear velocity greater than zero and increasing an angular velocity of the robot cleaner while constantly maintaining the predetermined linear velocity. | 32,983 |
8,799,107 | 1. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising: estimating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a number of copies of a book that have been sold; determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a size of a geographic region in which the copies of the book have been sold; scoring, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a web document that corresponds to the book based on: providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the scored web document in a list of scored web documents. | 4,832 |
9,433,419 | 1. A fastener cartridge assembly for a surgical instrument, the fastener cartridge assembly comprising: a tissue thickness compensator comprising: a support beam positioned in said pocket, wherein said support beam comprises a buckling region disposed intermediate said first compensation layer and said second compensation layer, and wherein said buckling region comprises: a fastener moveable between an initial position and a fired position, wherein said fastener is configured to pass through said pocket and compress at least a portion of said tissue thickness compensator when said fastener is moved to said fired position. | 44,297 |
9,335,235 | 1. An exhaust gas sampling device comprising: a sampling conduit having an inlet and an outlet, and configured to sample exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust pipe via the inlet; a plurality of heaters provided along the sampling conduit from the inlet to the outlet and configured to heat exhaust gas flowing through the sampling conduit; and a controller programmed to define, for each of the heaters, a set temperature for the heater based on a temperature of exhaust gas at a sampling point in the exhaust pipe and a target temperature for exhaust gas exiting the outlet such that the set temperatures are different, and to operate the heaters based on the set temperatures to form a temperature gradient along the sampling conduit. | 34,414 |
8,463,973 | 1. A system comprising: one or more processor cores; a voltage regulator configured to provide an operating voltage to the one or more processor cores in response to receiving a voltage identifier signal that is indicative of the operating voltage; and a power management unit coupled to the voltage regulator and configured to provide a first voltage identifier signal corresponding to a first operating voltage in response to determining that the one or more processor cores is operating in a first operating state in which the one or more processor cores is configured to draw up to a maximum load current; wherein the power management unit is configured to provide a second voltage identifier signal corresponding to a second operating voltage in response to determining that the one or more processor cores is operating in a second operating state in which the one or more processors is configured to maintain a load current below a predetermined amount; wherein the second operating voltage is less than the first operating voltage, and wherein the second operating voltage is less than a nominal operating voltage for the second operating state; wherein in response to detecting a request to change the operating state to a third operating state in which the one or more processor cores is configured to draw more current than a current operating state, the power management unit is configured to provide a voltage identifier signal to increase the operating voltage to the first operating voltage; and wherein the power management unit is configured to delay the request to change the operating state to the third operating state until the voltage regulator has increased the operating voltage to the first operating voltage. | 40,321 |
8,791,469 | 1. A semiconductor light emitting element having a substrate and a semiconductor layer, which includes a light emitting layer that emits light by current flow and is laminated on the substrate, wherein: the substrate includes a substrate top surface on which the semiconductor layer is laminated, a substrate bottom surface provided on an opposite side of the substrate top surface, and a substrate side surface formed to enclose the peripheral edge of the substrate top surface and the substrate bottom surface, and is provided with a plurality of cutouts, which are formed by cutting out a part of the substrate and are arranged at intervals along a border between the substrate top surface and the substrate side surface; the semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor bottom surface provided in contact with the substrate top surface, a semiconductor top surface provided on an opposite side of the semiconductor bottom surface, and a semiconductor side surface provided to enclose the peripheral edge of the semiconductor bottom surface and the semiconductor top surface; and on the semiconductor side surface, projections and depressions are formed by arranging a plurality of depression portions, each of which extends from a semiconductor bottom surface side toward a semiconductor top surface side, and depresses toward an inside of the semiconductor layer, wherein the area of the bottom surface of the semiconductor layer is less than the area of the top surface of the semiconductor layer. | 24,014 |
9,800,149 | 1. A switching regulator outputting a desired output voltage to an output terminal by a switching element from a power supply voltage, comprising: an error comparator which monitors the output voltage to output a set signal; an on-time control circuit which outputs a reset signal controlling an on-time of the switching element; an R-S flip-flop which outputs an on signal determining a period of turning on the switching element, based on the set signal and the reset signal; and an output control circuit which outputs a control signal to the switching element, based on the on signal of the R-S flip-flop, wherein the on-time control circuit comprises a first input terminal inputted with the on signal outputted from the R-S flip-flop, and a second input terminal inputted with the control signal outputted from the output control circuit and performs an intermittent operation, based on the control signal inputted to the second input terminal. | 5,412 |
9,421,359 | 1. A probe for an implantable electro-stimulation device, said probe comprising: a distal end and a proximal end; one or more electrodes on the probe; a shield of conducting material covering a part of the probe, said shield extending from the vicinity of the one or more electrodes towards the proximal end or towards the distal end of the probe; and a layer of insulating material covering part of the shield in the vicinity of the one or more electrodes, wherein an exposed area of the shield not covered by the layer of insulating material is at least one order of magnitude larger than an area of one of the one or more electrodes, and is configured to be a return electrode for electrical stimulation current from the electrodes, and wherein at least a portion of the layer of insulating material covering the part of the shield is between the one or more electrodes and the exposed area of the shield. | 16,447 |
8,949,988 | 1. A method for proactively securing a web application, the method comprising: receiving, from a client device and by a proactive administrative proxy server positioned between the client device and a server device, a request to access a web application provided by the server device; sending the request from the proactive administrative proxy server to the server device; receiving, with the proactive administrative proxy server, a response from the server device, wherein the response includes the requested web application; after receiving the response, injecting, with the proactive administrative proxy server positioned between the client device and the server device, one or more decoys into the web application contained within the response to form a modified response; sending the modified response from the proactive administrative server to the client device; identifying, with the proactive administrative proxy server, an attempt by the client device to exploit one of the one or more injected decoys in the web application; and performing with the proactive administrative proxy server at least one action to secure the web application from the attempted exploitation. | 9,617 |
9,126,493 | 1. A power supply control device controlling the supply of power to a charging station, comprising: a traffic information acquisition device acquiring traffic information for roads in a vicinity of the charging station; and a controller controlling an amount of power which is to be supplied to the charging station based on the traffic information for roads in the vicinity of the charging station acquired by the traffic information acquisition device, wherein the controller estimates a rate of operation of the charging station based on the traffic information and controls the amount of power which is to be supplied to the charging station based on the estimated rate of operation, wherein the controller takes into consideration at least one of accident information and traffic restriction information at a time of estimating the rate of operation, wherein the controller controls the amount of power which is to be supplied to the charging station by changing at least one of a power generation amount of private power generation of the charging station and a charged amount of a storage battery of the charging station, and wherein the traffic information is a counted number of vehicles using external energy in the vicinity of the charging station. | 18,126 |
9,079,455 | 1. A wheel cover for a skateboard wheel, the skateboard wheel having a durometer, the wheel cover comprising: a removable wheel cover having an integral outer surface and an integral inner surface, the removable wheel cover further having an outside edge and an inside edge, and the outer surface being comprised of a material with a first durometer different than the durometer of the wheel; a circumferential lip extending radially inwardly from the outside edge; and a circumferential rim extending radially inwardly from the inside edge, such that when the removable wheel cover is placed over a skateboard wheel, the circumferential lip extends over an outside portion of the wheel and circumferential rim extends over an inside portion of the wheel thereby capturing the skateboard wheel between the circumferential lip and the circumferential rim, and wherein the inner surface is comprised of a material with a second durometer that is harder than the first durometer, and wherein at least the circumferential rim is made of a material that is configured to permit the circumferential rim to flex and bend over the skateboard wheel when placing or removing the removably wheel cover from the skateboard wheel. | 32,277 |
8,780,802 | 1. A communication signal multiplexing method, applicable to a radio communication system, comprising: receiving, by a second radio equipment controller (REC), first multiplexed data, the data sent by a first radio equipment controller (REC) to a first multi-mode radio equipment (RE) and to a second multi-mode RE; demultiplexing the first multiplexed data to obtain data sent by the first REC to the first multi-mode RE and to obtain data sent by the first REC to the second multi-mode RE; multiplexing the data sent by the first REC to the first multi-mode RE and data sent by the second REC to the first multi-mode RE, to obtain second data; multiplexing the data sent by the first REC to the second multi-mode RE and data sent by the second REC to the second multi-mode RE, to obtain third data; sending the second data to the first multi-mode RE; and sending the third data to the second multi-mode RE; wherein: the first multiplexed data is obtained by multiplexing the data sent by the first REC to the first multi-mode RE and the data sent by the first REC to the second multi-mode RE on at least one physical link and by including link multiplexing information indicative of a frame of the first multiplexed data being a multiplexed frame, number of ports connecting RECs and REs, and a length and a start position of control information of the ports or a length and a start position of service information of the ports and the second REC receives the first multiplex data from the first REC through the at least one physical link. | 25,255 |
9,189,047 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: accessing historical data describing one or more database queries executed on a database; predicting, based on the historical data, uses of one or more elements of the database; determining, on the basis of the predicted uses of the respective elements, a storage location for the one or more elements that minimizes the energy consumption required to execute the query; and moving each of the one or more elements of the database to the respective determined storage location. | 39,790 |
8,621,116 | 1. A method of setting an address of a component, comprising: determining a characterization value associated with a consumable; calculating a number of address changes based upon the characterization value; sending a number of address change commands equal to the calculated number of address changes to the component; and setting the address of the component to a last address generated by the component in the course of performing a number of address change operations, wherein the number of address change operations corresponds to the number of address change commands. | 37,404 |
9,180,860 | 1. A method for operating a vehicle, comprising: maintaining vehicle responsiveness to oncoming traffic by: | 17,255 |
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