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8,845,887 | 1. A water purifier comprising: a purified water supply part generating purified water and supplying the purified water to an outside of said water purifier a timer part; a purified water quantity measuring part measuring a quantity of the purified water supplied by the purified water supply part; and a control and calculation part, wherein the purified water supply part repeats starting and stopping supply of the purified water N times (where N is a natural number), the timer part measures a first period from when the supply of the purified water is stopped for an (N−1)th time up to when the supply of the purified water is started for an Nth time, when a quantity of the purified water, measured by the purified water quantity measuring part, for a period of time from when the supply of the purified water for the (N−1)th time is started up to when the supply of the purified water for the (N−1)th time is stopped is smaller than a first quantity which is an amount of water to be discarded during the supply of the purified water for the (N−1)th time, the control and calculation part sets a second quantity which is an amount of water to be discarded during the supply of the purified water for the Nth time based on the first period and a difference between the first quantity and the quantity of the purified water, measured by the purified water quantity measuring part, for the period of time from when the supply of the purified water for the (N−1)th time is started up to when the supply of the purified water for the (N−1)th time is stopped. | 7,549 |
8,642,557 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition suitable for administration to a human patient comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a variant CTLA4 polypeptide or a polypeptide-drug conjugate comprising said variant CTLA4 polypeptide and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein said variant CTLA4 polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to amino acids 21 to 112 of SEQ ID NO:1 and comprises the amino acid substitution A29H as compared to a polypeptide of sequence SEQ ID NO:1. | 29,551 |
8,570,703 | 1. An apparatus for net neutralizing a surface comprising: (a) a grounded element positionable at least in close proximity to a first side surface; and (b) an ion source and a second grounded element positionable in close proximity to a second side surface, the second grounded element positioned between the ion source and the second side surface; wherein the second grounded element is a foraminous element, wherein the foraminous element comprises an opening and wherein the foraminous element has at least one of the following: (i) a ratio of open area to total area of at least 0.3; (ii) wherein the smallest dimension of the opening is no greater than 0.6 mm; and (iii) wherein the distance between the second side surface and the second grounded element is greater than the smallest dimension of the opening of the foraminous element. | 36,162 |
9,011,713 | 1. A composite, comprising: a lithium titanium oxide; and a bismuth titanium oxide, the bismuth titanium oxide being expressed by Bi | 3,093 |
9,822,989 | 1. A method for controlling an environmental maintenance system having a plurality of environmental maintenance units and at least one Temperature Set Point Reset (TSPR) system, the method comprising: receiving, at a first TSPR system from a first environmental maintenance unit of the plurality of environmental maintenance units, a first measure of an operational parameter of the first environmental maintenance unit, wherein the first environmental maintenance unit is configured to: comparing, at the first TSPR system, the first measure of the operational parameter to a first operational setpoint of the first environmental maintenance unit to obtain a first operational difference; determining, with a processor of the first TSPR system, a first adjustment of the first temperature setpoint of the first environmental maintenance unit based on the first operational difference; and sending the first adjustment to the first environmental maintenance unit, thereby controlling the first environmental maintenance unit based on the first adjustment. | 14,507 |
9,312,523 | 1. A non-stop battery exchanging system comprising: a battery including a locking protrusion which is movable toward inside or outside the battery, a trigger, and a gear mated with the trigger and the locking protrusion between the trigger and the locking protrusion such that the trigger and the locking protrusion move in different directions; a main body having a receiving groove and a locking groove formed in the receiving groove, wherein the locking protrusion is protruded from the battery and inserted into the locking groove to lock the battery when the battery is accommodated in the receiving groove, wherein the main body is configured to move along a predetermined path when exchanging the battery with a charged battery; a battery separating unit disposed at a first position in the predetermined path to separate the battery attached to the main body from the main body, the battery separating unit including an insertion protrusion mounted at the first position to push the trigger while the main body passes through the first position such that the locking protrusion inserted into the locking groove moves into the battery by the pushed trigger connected with the locking protrusion thereby separating the attached battery from the main body; a battery mounting unit disposed at a second position in the predetermined path and configured to mount the charged battery on the main body while the main body passes through the second position after passing through the first position, the battery mounting unit including a first stopper mounted at the second position behind the charged battery placed on the predetermined path to be inserted into the receiving groove while the main body approaches the second position, wherein the first stopper pushes a trigger of the charged battery to move a locking protrusion of the charged battery into the locking groove while the main body approaches the second position, wherein the trigger of the charged battery returns to an initial position and the locking protrusion of the charged battery is inserted into the locking groove when the main body passes the second position such that the charged battery is attached to the main body in the receiving groove; and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the main body while the main body moves between the first position and the second position to exchange the battery with the charged battery, the power supply unit including a positive power source rail connected to a positive electrode of the main body between the battery separating unit and the battery mounting unit and a negative power source rail connected to a negative electrode of the battery and a negative electrode of the charged battery. | 18,116 |
9,418,501 | 1. A method for authenticating an electronic transaction between a consumer and a merchant without using a passcode or personal identification number (PIN), wherein the method occurs at the merchant and comprises: receiving account information associated with a debit card account at a merchant computer system from the consumer over the Internet, wherein the consumer accesses the Internet using a consumer's computer, and the account information does not include a passcode or a personal identification number (PIN) for the debit card account; confirming, at the merchant computer system, enrollment of the debit card account for digital signature authentication from a financial institution; receiving, at the merchant computer system, consumer specific authentication parameters from the financial institution, wherein the consumer specific authentication parameters comprises an authentication scheme comprising a hosted or a local digital signature service; sending transaction information from the merchant computer system over the Internet to the consumer's computer for a digital signature; sending the authentication scheme over the Internet from the merchant computer system to the consumer's computer; receiving, at the merchant computer system, a digital signature from the consumer's computer over the Internet, wherein the digital signature does not include a passcode or personal identification number (PIN) for the debit card account, and the digital signature comprises encrypted portions of the transaction information; sending, from the merchant computer system, the transaction information and the digital signature comprising encrypted portions of the transaction information to the financial institution; receiving, at the merchant computer system, payment authorization from the financial institution; and sending, from the merchant computer system, a receipt URL to the financial institution, the receipt URL later sent to the consumer by the financial institution. | 45,292 |
8,627,715 | 1. A method for imaging formations surrounding a wellbore, comprising: emitting acoustic energy at least one of laterally around the circumference of the wellbore and longitudinally into the wellbore; detecting reflected acoustic energy from the acoustic emitted energy along selected longitudinal lengths with respect to the wellbore at angularly spaced apart locations, an angular spacing between adjacent longitudinal lengths selected to enable detecting the reflected acoustic energy related to a plurality of acoustic velocities of the formations, the detecting performed by beam steering the detected acoustic energy to have highest sensitivity within a selected angle and side lobe response from the selected angle being reduced by at least a predetermined amount; and generating an image from the detected acoustic energy. | 28,014 |
9,431,408 | 1. A method for fabricating an integrated circuit comprising: forming a first silicon material layer over a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate including a high-voltage MOSFET region, a logic device region, and a memory array region, the memory array region having formed on the semiconductor substrate a memory gate stack; forming a first capping layer over the first silicon material layer and over the memory gate stack; removing the first capping layer from over the memory array region but not from over the high-voltage MOSFET region and the logic device region of the integrated circuit; forming a second silicon material layer over the first capping layer and over the first silicon material layer; removing the second silicon material layer in an amount such that the second silicon material layer is completely removed from over the high-voltage MOSFET region and the logic device region; removing the first capping layer from over the first silicon material layer in the high-voltage MOSFET region and the logic device region; forming a second capping layer over the first silicon material layer in the high-voltage MOSFET region and the logic device region; removing the first silicon material layer and the second capping layer from the high-voltage MOSFET region except in an area overlying a channel region of the high-voltage MOSFET region; forming a photoresist material layer over the memory array region and the logic device region; and exposing the semiconductor substrate to a dopant ion implantation process. | 40,210 |
8,558,198 | 1. A beam line system of an ion implanter, the beam line system comprising: a hollow tube having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the hollow tube is a collimator tube, an ion beam emitted by the ion implanter is introduced into the hollow tube through the inlet and exited from the hollow tube through the outlet; and a plurality of protruding structures formed on an inner wall of the hollow tube, wherein each of the protruding structures has a reflective surface for reflecting a portion of the ion beam. | 4,763 |
8,939,211 | 1. A method for increasing recovery of crude oil from a reservoir comprising at least one oil-bearing porous subterranean formation having a permeability of greater than 10 millidarcies, the at least one oil-bearing porous subterranean formation comprising formation rock, and the formation rock comprising pores, wherein (a) crude oil and connate water are present within the pores of the formation rock, and the connate water has a multivalent cation content, and (b) the crude oil that is present in the formation has an American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity of less than 30°, a viscosity under reservoir conditions of greater than 1 centipoise, and an amount of undissolved solids suspended therein, the method comprising: (A) injecting an injection water into the formation wherein the injection water has an amount of undissolved solids suspended therein, a total dissolved solids content (TDS) of 30,000 ppm or less and a multivalent cation content such that a ratio of the multivalent cation content of the injection water to the multivalent cation content of the connate water is less than 0.9; and (B) producing within the oil-bearing porous subterranean formation an emulsion comprising a discontinuous aqueous phase and a continuous oil phase wherein the amount of undissolved solids suspended in the injection water and the amount of undissolved solids suspended in the crude oil is sufficient for the emulsion to have an undissolved suspended solids content of at least 0.05% by weight (0.5 kg/m | 2,779 |
8,782,672 | 1. A control apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to act as: wherein functional structures of the first executing section and the second executing section are changed by stop and release executed by the stopping section and the awaking section. | 28,913 |
9,447,383 | 1. A MDCK-derived cell line which is MDCK Sky1023 (DSM ACC3112), MDCK Sky10234 (DSM ACC3114) or MDCK Sky3851 (DSM ACC3113). | 34,765 |
8,913,110 | 1. An endoscope apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit that acquires an image of a subject; a display that displays the image; a base point setting section that sets a first base point and a second base point on the image based on an instruction input via an input device; a base line setting section that sets a base line on the image based on the first base point and the second base point, such that the base line completely surrounds the first base point and does not include the first base point; a point setting section that sets at least three points on the image based on the base line, wherein the at least three points are on the base line and do not include the first base point; a corresponding point setting section that sets, after positions of the first base point and the second base point are fixed on the image, a corresponding point in space that corresponds to the first base point set on the image; a base plane setting section that sets, after the positions of the first base point and the second base point are fixed on the image, a base plane in space based on the at least three points set on the image; and a distance calculation section that (i) identifies an intersection point where a line intersects the base plane set in space, said line being normal to the base plane set in space and passing through the corresponding point in space, and (ii) calculates a spatial distance between the intersection point on the base plane set in space and the corresponding point set in space that corresponds to the first base point. | 18,033 |
8,511,620 | 1. An aircraft wing load alleviation system comprising: a wing; a spoiler assembly comprising: a control system configured to detect or predict an increase in the lift of the wing and rotate the spoiler panel to its raised position in response to a detected or predicted increase in the lift of the wing in order to alleviate load on the wing. | 4,700 |
8,859,832 | 1. A process for the manufacture of diesel range hydrocarbons comprising the following steps: introducing a feed comprising at least one organic or inorganic sulphur compound hydrogen, and a feedstock comprising bio oil and/or fat from renewable sources to a hydrotreatment step in which hydrocarbons are formed, isomerizing the formed hydrocarbons in an isomerization step, wherein gas phase impurities formed in the hydrotreatment step are removed from the stream comprising hydrocarbons prior to contacting the hydrocarbons with the isomerization catalyst. | 9,499 |
8,700,324 | 1. A navigation system, comprising: a navigation unit configured to measure a position of a machine at a first time and at a second time; at least a first sensor configured to generate at least a first signal indicative of a speed and a heading of the machine during a time period from the first time to the second time; and a controller in communication with the navigation unit and the at least a first sensor, the controller being configured to: wherein implementing the evasive machine control includes changing a heading of the machine. | 9,445 |
8,846,250 | 1. A cathode active material, which comprises: 20 to 60 parts by weight of a lithium-free metal oxide, and 40 to 80 parts by weight of a lithium-containing material with high irreversible capacity, based on 100 parts by weight of the cathode active material, wherein the lithium-free metal oxide is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of MoO | 27,727 |
8,867,579 | 1. A laser device comprising: a laser including at least one Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) section, at least one phase section, and at least one gain section; a laser control means configured to feed respective tuning currents to the at least one DBR section, to the at least one phase section, and to the at least one gain section in order to tune the laser; a feedback control means; a frequency noise discriminator in communication with the feedback control means, configured to detect a frequency fluctuation in a light beam output from the laser and to communicate a signal representing the frequency fluctuation to the feedback control means, the feedback control means being configured to feed a respective variable electric feedback signal to at least one of the at least one DBR section and the at least one phase section of the laser, so that an output laser frequency is altered in response to a variation in the feedback signal or the combination of respective feedback signals, the feedback signal or the combination of respective feedback signals being varied as a function of the detected frequency fluctuation so as to counteract the detected frequency fluctuation, the feedback control means being configured to receive a signal representing a presently-used Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) channel and/or lasing frequency of the laser, and configured to vary the feedback signal or the combination of feedback signals so that each respective feedback signal amplitude and/or phase depends on the presently-used WDM channel and/or lasing frequency. | 45,714 |
9,323,236 | 1. A controller for controlling objects towed by a vessel, comprising: a winch controller to control extension or retraction of a tow cable based on a control signal; a fuzzy logic controller coupled to the winch controller to control a speed at which the tow cable is extended or retracted, the fuzzy logic controller including: | 34,327 |
9,388,773 | 1. An exhaust gas recirculation valve comprising: a housing including a passage for exhaust recirculation gas; a valve seat provided in the passage, the valve seat having a valve hole including an inner circumferential surface, the inner circumferential surface including an upstream-side inner circumferential edge and a downstream-side inner circumferential edge; a valve element seated on the valve seat, the valve element being configured to form a measuring section for the exhaust recirculation gas between the valve element and the valve seat, the valve element having an approximately umbrella shape, the valve element including a minimum-diameter portion and a maximum-diameter portion; and a valve stem having an end portion at which the valve element is provided, wherein the valve element is placed inside the valve hole and is movable together with the valve stem between: (i) a fully closed position, where a portion of the valve element near the maximum-diameter portion is in contact with the upstream-side inner circumferential edge of the valve hole, and (ii) a fully open position, where the maximum-diameter portion is disposed farthest from the upstream-side inner circumferential edge in an axial direction of the valve seat; the exhaust gas recirculation valve is configured to move the valve element together with the valve stem with respect to the valve seat in order to change an open area of the measuring section and in order to change an opening degree of the valve element to adjust a flow rate of the exhaust recirculation gas in the passage, and the valve has flow-rate characteristics of high resolution in a low opening region of the valve element and flow-rate characteristics of large flow rate in a high opening region; the valve element and the valve seat have predetermined shapes to cause the flow-rate characteristics in the low opening region to change in a curve without a step; when a line segment joining a first point on the inner circumferential surface of the valve hole and a second point on a surface of the valve element in the low opening region is a minimum distance, and a first circle is tangent to a first point located on a perpendicular bisector drawn to the line segment and the inner circumferential surface of the valve hole, and a second circle is tangent to a second point located on the perpendicular bisector and the surface of the valve element, and the shapes of the valve element and the valve seat are configured such that the first circle has a diameter equal to or larger than the second circle to cause the exhaust recirculation gas, after passing the measuring section, to flow along the valve element and the valve stem. | 23,712 |
9,445,550 | 1. A garden module for a vertical garden system, the module comprising: a body having a back portion providing a mounting arrangement in the form of one or more vertically extending recessed portions, wherein when installed, a forward upper lip of a front portion of the body is located below an upper lip of the back portion of the body to provide an opening angle of between 15 and 30 degrees below horizontal. | 15,214 |
9,761,415 | 1. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprising: a housing configured to house a substrate; a first temperature regulator configured to regulate a temperature of a fluid; first, second and third flow channels configured to divide the fluid supplied from the first temperature regulator; a second temperature regulator configured to regulate a temperature of the fluid in the second channel; a third temperature regulator configured to regulate a temperature of the fluid in the third flow channel; a fluid supply channel configured to join the fluid in the first flow channel and the fluid in the second flow channel and to supply the joined fluids to the housing; and a flow rate regulator configured to regulate a flow rate of the fluid in the first flow channel and a flow rate of the fluid in the second flow channel; wherein the fluid in the first flow channel, the fluid in the second flow channel, and the fluid in the third flow channel flow into the fluid supply channel. | 17,786 |
8,882,466 | 1. A rotor blade assembly comprising: a rotor blade with an integrated lightning down conductor, the rotor blade being attachable or attached to a rotor hub of a wind turbine, the rotor blade comprising a free ending; a rotor blade tip member made of an electrically insulating material; and a connecting device for detachably attaching the rotor blade tip member to the free ending of the rotor blade, wherein the connecting device is a wire or a rod made of an electrically conductive material for establishing a mechanical and electrical connection of the rotor blade tip member with the lightning down conductor of the rotor blade, and wherein the rotor blade tip member has a cap-like shape and is provided with a connecting portion adapted to at least partially overlap the free ending of the rotor blade to abut the rotor blade in a form closure so as to build a closed surface of the rotor blade assembly. | 40,318 |
9,697,262 | 1. A method comprising: under control of one or more computing devices: receiving a real-time or near real-time query for a stream of incoming data events; annotating each individual data event of the incoming data events with a first timestamp and a second timestamp, wherein: the first timestamp identifies when the individual data event is received; and the second timestamp identifies additional information associated with the individual data event; organizing the stream of the incoming data events into a sequence of data batches based at least in part on the first timestamp of each individual data event of the incoming data events, wherein individual data batches, of the sequence of data batches, include multiple data events; and processing the individual data batches of the sequence of data batches in a non-decreasing time order, wherein each individual data batch stores: a key array that includes an array of grouping key values, the grouping key values representing a logic group of a data event, and control parameters that include: based on at least one of the key array, the synctime array, and the othertime array, presenting a result comprising one or more values from the stream of incoming data events in response to the received real-time or near real-time query. | 41,986 |
8,636,009 | 1. A method for endotracheal intubation, the method comprising the steps of: inserting at least a distal end of an airway assembly in an air passage selected from one of the trachea, right bronchus or left bronchus of a patient, wherein the airway assembly comprises: retracting at least a portion of the sleeve substantially surrounding the stent; and delivering fluids through the proximal end of the first elongated tubular conduit into the air passage. | 17,001 |
9,662,004 | 1. An apparatus for non-invasive glucose monitoring, comprising: at least one first light source, emitting at least one ray of first light; a first beam splitter with a focusing function, directing the first light emitted from the first light source into an eyeball and focusing the first light on the eyeball through the first beam splitter; a polarizer; a set of light sensing elements, the light sensing elements simultaneously measuring at least two properties of the first light reflected from the eyeball transmitted onto the set of light sensing elements, wherein the at least two properties measured comprises an absorption energy information of the reflected light transmitted by the first beam splitter, and another of the at least two properties measured comprises an optical angular information of the polarized light transmitted through the polarizer; wherein the first light emitted from the first light source and transmitted to the light sensing elements through the first beam splitter and the eyeball forms an optical path; a processing unit, the processing unit obtains a glucose information by receiving and analyzing the optical angular information and the absorption energy information by at least two polynomial equations, wherein the at least two polynomial equations comprises a first polynomial equation and a second polynomial equation, the first polynomial equation represents relationship between a biological molecule information and the optical angular difference, and the second polynomial equation represents relationship between the biological molecule information and the absorption energy difference, the biological molecule information comprises the glucose information; and an eye positioning device, comprising: a second beam splitter disposed on the optical path between the first beam splitter and the eyeball; and a camera, receiving an image information transmitted from the second beam splitter, wherein the image information comprises a position on the eyeball irradiated by the first light, and the apparatus determines the reflected light falling within an accurate measuring position of the eyeball according the image information. | 32,941 |
9,812,909 | 1. An electromechanical machine having rotor poles and stator poles that cooperate to generate electricity from rotation or convert electricity to rotation, comprising inner and outer structures, at least one of said structures rotating relative to the other of said structures with the rotor poles disposed on the rotating structure and the stator poles disposed on the other structure, at least one of said structures including a plurality of sections, wherein: the poles of said structure including the plurality of sections are arranged in sets of wound poles formed on teeth having a depth; a set of said poles is disposed in each one of said plurality of sections and each set has two end poles, one at each section end; the end poles are spaced from the section ends by an end space at each section end, the end space having a width of approximately the distance from the end pole winding to the section end, and a depth of approximately the depth of the wound pole teeth to define an end space area; and an unwound tooth is disposed in each said end space, the unwound teeth occupying not more than 90% of said end space area. | 5,027 |
9,647,741 | 1. A method for wireless communications, comprising: transmitting a downlink control channel, comprising at least one control channel element (CCE), from a base station to a user equipment (UE) comprising a first antenna and a second antenna for transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK), wherein a first orthogonal resource for transmitting the ACK on a first uplink control channel transmission via the first antenna of the UE is determined based at least in part on a first CCE of the at least one CCE, the first CCE used for transmission of a corresponding downlink control information (DCI) assignment; and signaling a higher layer configuration, from the base station to the UE, that indicates a second orthogonal resource to use for transmitting the ACK on a second uplink control channel transmission via the second antenna of the UE, wherein the first orthogonal resource is different from the second orthogonal resource. | 47,124 |
8,793,757 | 1. In an environment including at least one service provider each associated with a respective privacy policy, a system comprising: at least one hardware processor programmed to provide an identity manager programmed to manage a plurality of user identities of an individual user, the plurality of user identities pertaining to the individual user and describing different sets of personal information of the individual user, and to select one or more of the user identities of the user that satisfy a set of identity requirements of a security policy obtained from the environment; a plurality of privacy preferences relative to at least one user identity of the plurality of user identities of the user; a privacy engine operatively associated with the plurality of privacy preferences, the privacy engine programmed to evaluate one or more privacy preferences of the one or more selected user identities of the user against a privacy policy obtained from the environment to determine which of the selected user identities satisfy the at least one privacy preference, the privacy engine further programmed to present the evaluation of the selected user identities to the user; and a policy editor programmed to process a privacy policy from the environment, generate a reduced version thereof, and supply the reduced privacy policy as the privacy policy used by the privacy engine in performing the evaluation. | 1,738 |
9,717,265 | 1. A method of increasing the level of a carotenoid in the milk of a ruminant animal by protecting the carotenoid against degradation in the rumen of the ruminant animal, comprising the steps of: (a) heating a solid oil above its melting point; (b) admixing a carotenoid ester-containing oleoresin into the melted oil; (c) cooling the mixture until it solidifies; (d) mechanically processing the solid mixture into an animal feed composition; and (e) feeding the animal feed composition to a ruminant animal wherein the level of the carotenoid in the milk of the ruminant animal is increased. | 35,848 |
9,178,554 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first inverter coupled between a first input terminal and a first output terminal, wherein the first inverter comprises: a second inverter coupled between a second input terminal and a second output terminal; a first feedback capacitor coupled between the input of the first inverter and the second output terminal; and a second feedback capacitor coupled between an input of the second inverter and the first output terminal. | 16,859 |
9,008,944 | 1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode, the method comprising: determining an integrated thermal state parameter comprising an aggregation of engine environment factors; controlling operation of the internal combustion engine in the homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode to achieve a preferred combustion phasing responsive to an operator torque request and the integrated thermal state parameter, comprising executing a feed-forward engine control scheme to determine states for engine control parameters associated with the preferred combustion phasing responsive to the operator torque request and the integrated thermal state parameter. | 6,155 |
9,332,623 | 1. A high-voltage discharge lamp illumination device configured to supply an AC current to a high-voltage discharge lamp which has a pair of electrodes arranged in an opposite manner in a discharge vessel with a predetermined gas sealed, the high-voltage discharge lamp illumination device comprising: a pulse generation part which generates pulse waves; and a power supply part which receives a DC voltage and converts the DC voltage into the AC current in correspondence to a frequency of the pulse waves so as to supply the AC current to the high-voltage discharge lamp, wherein the pulse generation part repeats a cycle of outputting a first pulse wave over a first period, and thereafter outputting a second pulse wave having a lower frequency than the first pulse wave over a second period shorter than the first period, and the pulse generation part returns to the cycle after outputting a third pulse wave having a frequency which is further lower than the second pulse wave in place of the second pulse wave, at a predetermined timing, and the third pulse wave is changed its frequency in response to the predetermined timing. | 28,770 |
8,796,311 | 1. A compound of formula including any stereochemically isomeric form thereof, wherein R R R X is O or NH; n is an integer of value 1 or 2; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 19,813 |
9,303,011 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising a compound having a 1,3-dithietane-1,1,3,3-tetraoxide skeleton. | 42,124 |
9,772,187 | 1. A ring laser gyroscope comprising: a primary-optical-ring resonator configured to guide optical fields in a first direction and a second direction, the second direction being opposite the first direction, the primary-optical-ring resonator including at least one optical coupling region to couple optical fields into and out of the primary-optical-ring resonator; an optical source to provide a pump field at a pump frequency that is on resonance with the primary-optical-ring resonator; and a secondary-optical-ring resonator including at least two optical coupling regions, one of which couples optical fields into and out of the primary-optical-ring resonator, and one of which couples the pump field into and out of the secondary-optical-ring resonator, wherein the pump field couples into the primary-optical-ring resonator from the secondary-optical-ring resonator, wherein the pump field in the primary-optical-ring resonator stimulates a first optical gain curve at a first stokes wave frequency downshifted by a Brillouin stokes frequency from the pump frequency, wherein the primary-optical-ring resonator has a resonator mode within a bandwidth of the first optical gain curve, wherein the SBS gain gives rise to a frequency-shifted field propagating in the second direction, wherein a first order SBS field stimulates a second optical gain curve at a second stokes wave frequency downshifted by twice the Brillouin Stokes frequency from the pump frequency, wherein the primary-optical-ring resonator has a resonator mode within the bandwidth of the second optical gain curve, wherein the second order SBS gain gives rise to a frequency-shifted field propagating in the first direction, wherein the fraction of the pump field that couples out of the primary-optical-ring resonator, through the secondary-optical-ring resonator, and out of the secondary-optical-ring resonator is larger than: | 18,372 |
8,815,564 | 1. A replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising (i) a flavivirus genome comprising sequences encoding West Nile virus capsid and non-structural proteins and tick-borne encephalitis virus pre-membrane and envelope sequences, and (ii) a capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence of tick-borne encephalitis virus, wherein the sequences encoding the West Nile virus capsid protein comprises one or more deletions or mutations. | 45,173 |
8,937,969 | 1. A method of scheduling a physical resource block (PRB) for serving one of a plurality of user equipments (UEs), the method comprising: measuring interference on the PRB at a serving cell, the serving cell configured to serve the plurality of UEs; receiving measurements of interference on the PRB from neighbor cells of the serving cell; estimating a contribution from each UE of the plurality of UEs to each of the neighbor-cell interference measurements; determining, for each UE of the plurality of UEs, a respective enhanced priority ratio as a function of the interference measurement at the serving cell, the interference measurements received from the neighbor cells and the respective estimated contribution of the UE; and assigning the PRB to one of the plurality of UEs based on the determined enhanced priority ratios. | 23,300 |
8,951,656 | 1. An electrical energy store of a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing having a supporting element with an annular supporting frame that has attachment sections for connecting the electrical energy store to a vehicle bodywork structure of the motor vehicle, at least one supporting plate extending between spaced apart positions on the annular supporting frame, first and second storage module packets attached respectively to opposite first and second sides of the supporting element, first and second lids detachably connected to the annular supporting frame and covering the respective first and second storage module packets, and at least one cavity formed in the supporting plate for accommodating a flow of a temperature controlling medium for controlling the temperature of the storage modules. | 2,530 |
9,617,946 | 1. A method for controlling an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder and at least a first fuel injector and a second fuel injector per cylinder, the first fuel injector having a first valve needle and a first valve having a first valve seat, and the second fuel injector having a second valve needle and a second valve having a second valve seat, the method comprising: performing the following in a standard operating mode of the internal combustion engine: | 44,757 |
9,478,973 | 1. A method for transfer of control between a first device in a substation system and a second device in the substation system, wherein the first and the second devices are from a group of at least two devices connected in a substation communication network, and wherein each device of the group of at least two devices connected in the substation communication network is involved in at least one function in the substation system, the method comprising: pre-configuring, during engineering of the substation system, one or more data models with one or more logical nodes containing one or more data objects in the first device for a transfer of control, by defining a Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) control block in a configuration file of the first device; identifying an event in the substation system involving the transfer of control of the at least one function of the first device to the second device; exchanging, between the first device and the second device, at least one GOOSE message communication over the substation communication network based on the event identified in the substation system, wherein the at least one GOOSE message communication includes at least one data object of the one or more data objects pre-configured during the engineering of the substation system, wherein the at least one data object includes a command associated with at least one of logical isolation, hot-standby and load sharing functionality; and relieving the first device from the at least one function of the first device through the second device based on exchange of the at least one GOOSE message communication between the first device and the second device. | 31,290 |
9,141,400 | 1. A method of creating and capturing a guest disk image comprising: creating, by a computer, a plurality of virtual disks from a single storage array, wherein the virtual disks include at least one virtualization software disk and at least one guest disk, and wherein the at least one guest disk is minimally sized for deployment of an operating system and at least one data files and to minimize unused space; installing, by a computer, virtualization software onto the at least one virtualization software disk, wherein the virtualization software bundles a virtualization software console and a restore environment; partitioning, by a computer running the virtualization software, the guest disk into at least an operating system (OS) partition and a data partition; installing, by a computer running the virtualization software, a guest operating system that bundles virtualization drivers onto the OS partition of the guest disk; booting, by a computer running the virtualization software, the guest operating system through the virtualization software console; configuring, by a computer, settings of the guest operating system depending on applications or services installed on the guest disk; booting, by a computer running the virtualization software, the restore environment from the virtualization software console; capturing, by a computer, a guest disk file system of the OS partition into a first disk image file and a guest disk file system of the data partition into a second image file; and saving, by a computer, the first and second disk image files to the at least one virtualization software disk; updating, by a computer running the virtualization software, virtualization drivers onto the guest operating system so that the guest operating system communicates with computer hardware through the virtualization software. | 36,958 |
8,901,246 | 1. A chromatographically purified branched polyol having the structure Y—R(—OH) p , wherein R is a branched hydrocarbon, Y is an ionizable functional group selected from the group consisting of amine and carboxylic acid, and p is at least 2, and further wherein (i) the branched polyol has a single ionizable functional group, optionally in protected form, (ii) the polyol has a purity of at least about 83%, and (iii) the R group includes a poly(alkylene glycol) chain of 1 to about 25 monomer subunits attached to each terminal hydroxyl group. | 15,436 |
8,912,683 | 1. A smart responsive electrical load operatively connectable to an electricity supply network, said smart responsive electrical load comprising an electrical power-consuming device and a control arrangement for controlling a supply of electrical power from the network to the device, characterized in that said control arrangement is operable to: | 37,578 |
8,962,370 | 1. A radiation detector, comprising: a sensor substrate configured to perform photoelectric conversion; and a scintillator layer including a first area and a second area, the first area including an activator, the second area including the activator with a concentration lower than a concentration of the activator in the first area, the scintillator layer being provided on the sensor substrate such that the first area is arranged between the second area and the sensor substrate in a thickness direction of the scintillator layer. | 43,914 |
8,629,273 | 1. A compound of the formula (I) or a salt or N-oxide thereof, in which X represents substituted aryl or heteroaryl; R R R Q represents a chemical grouping Q in which R n represents 0, 1, 2, or 3; R | 25,312 |
9,463,482 | 1. A metering device, comprising a housing ( an electric drive motor ( control means for controlling the drive motor ( an electric power source or an electric connection configured to supply energy to the electric drive motor ( and wherein the housing ( the housing ( that one elastic squeezing element ( wherein the metering device is configured to receive non-dimensionally stable tubular bags ( characterized in that the elastic squeezing elements ( | 24,837 |
9,005,555 | 1. A method for preparing solid ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate, the method comprising the following steps: 1) drying a ruthenium-containing spent catalyst, calcining the spent catalyst at a temperature of between 300 and 500° C. for between 2 and 4 hours, and cooling to room temperature, whereby yielding a calcined ruthenium-containing solid; 2) grinding the calcined ruthenium-containing solid obtained in step 1) to yield a powder, introducing the powder to a fluidized bed reactor, aerating the fluidized bed reactor with nitrogen or an inert gas for between 0.5 and 2 hours, charging hydrogen, heating the fluidized bed reactor to a temperature of between 100 and 600° C. for a reduction reaction, whereby yielding ruthenium metal; 3) contacting a mixed gas of ozone and air with the ruthenium metal obtained in step 2), allowing the mixed gas and the ruthenium metal to react at a temperature of between 600 and 650° C., whereby yielding gaseous ruthenium tetroxide; 4) introducing the gaseous ruthenium tetroxide obtained in step 3) into a three-stage absorption plant comprising a nitrite acid solution, whereby yielding an acid solution comprising ruthenium nitrate; 5) adding a solid of sodium nitrite to the acid solution comprising ruthenium nitrate obtained in step 4), stirring, and heating a resulting solution in the state of micro-boiling reflux, whereby yielding a solution of ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate; and 6) extracting the solution of ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate obtained in step 5) with anhydrous ether, collecting and evaporating an extraction solution for removal of ether, whereby yielding a solid ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate. | 36,004 |
9,689,293 | 1. A reductant delivery unit for reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from a vehicle, the reductant delivery unit comprising: a solenoid operated fluid injector having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, the fluid inlet being constructed and arranged to receive a reducing agent from a source of reducing agent and the fluid outlet being constructed and arranged to communicate with an exhaust gas flow path of the vehicle so that the fluid injector controls injection of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas flow path, the fluid injector having an inlet tube for directing the reducing agent between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, a coil heater integral with the fluid injector and constructed and arranged, when energized, to inductively heat the inlet tube to thereby heat the reducing agent within the inlet tube, a coil heater housing surrounding at least a portion of the coil heater, an overmold structure overmolding the coil heater housing, the overmold structure contacting and covering an outer surface of the coil heater housing, and an injector housing covering at least a portion of the overmold structure and constructed and arranged to be in sealing relation with the overmold structure, absent an O-ring. | 30,458 |
8,895,290 | 1. A method for digesting a biomass comprising lignin together with at least one of cellulose and hemicellulose, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the biomass with a first solvent for selectively dissolving at least one of the cellulose and the hemicellulose; (b) contacting at least one of the dissolved cellulose and the dissolved hemicellulose with a precipitant for forming a precipitate comprising at least one of the cellulose and the hemicellulose and wherein the precipitate includes a residual lignin, wherein the precipitant is selected from the group consisting of MTB-ether, CPM-ether, diethylether, diisopropylether, ethyl formate, ethyl acetate, propyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, t-butyl acetate, ethyl propionate, ethyl aceto acetate, methyl pentanoate/ethyl acetate 1:3, methylpentanoate/ethyl acetate 2:3, anisole/ethyl acetate 1:3, xylol/MTB-ether 1:3, hexane/MTB-ether 1:3, isooctane/ethyl acetate 1:3, isoamylformate/ethyl acetate 1:1, and mixtures; and (c) contacting the precipitate with a second solvent for removing the residual lignin from the precipitate. | 46,420 |
9,466,832 | 1. A lithium secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode active material is a nickel-containing lithium complex oxide having a layered structure and contains no Nb, the nickel-containing lithium complex oxide is represented by Formula (II): where M | 34,341 |
9,745,958 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing loads on a wind turbine including a rotor having rotatable blades and coupled to an electrical generator through at least one rotor shaft, the method implemented using one or more processors coupled to one or more memory devices, the method comprising: operating the wind turbine at a first power output level; receiving a signal representing a yaw misalignment of the wind turbine, the yaw misalignment defined as an angle between a direction of wind at the wind turbine and a longitudinal axis of the rotor; generating a yaw error signal based on the yaw misalignment; comparing the yaw error signal to a first predetermined yaw error threshold value; operating the wind turbine at a second power outlet level if the yaw error signal is greater than the first predetermined yaw error threshold value by regulating a speed of the rotor to a value determined by an optimal tip speed ratio (TSR) based on a measure of prevailing wind speeds, the TSR defined by dividing a tip speed of the blades by the prevailing wind speed; reducing the yaw misalignment using a yaw control system if the yaw error signal is greater than the first predetermined yaw error threshold value; returning the wind turbine to operation at the first power output level if the yaw error signal is reduced to less than a second predetermined yaw error threshold value within a predetermined period of time, the second predetermined yaw error threshold value being less than the first predetermined yaw error threshold value; and shutting down the wind turbine if the yaw error signal remains greater than the second predetermined yaw error threshold value beyond the predetermined period of time. | 26,752 |
8,791,565 | 1. An electrode foil for use as an anode or a cathode for a flexible electronic device, the electrode foil comprising a metal foil, wherein the electrode foil has at least one outermost surface which is an ultra-smooth surface having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 10.0 nm or less as measured in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001. | 18,760 |
8,553,463 | 1. In an integrated circuit having a reference-voltage ground (e.g., Vss), a method for discharging a positive node (e.g., array_well) having a positive voltage (e.g., Vpp) relative to ground and a negative node (e.g., negative_pump) having a negative voltage (e.g., Vneg) relative to ground, the method comprising: (a) establishing concurrent first and second discharge paths, wherein: (b) dividing discharge current from the first node between the first discharge path and the second discharge path. | 39,106 |
8,343,298 | 1. A method comprising measuring strain in a joint between first and second aircraft structures bonded together with an adhesive, the adhesive including at least one of strain-sensitive magnetostrictive particles, a scrim made of strain-sensitive magnetostrictive material, and a scrim plated with strain-sensitive magnetostrictive material; wherein a magnetic sensor is used to sense a change in magnetization of the adhesive, the change indicating a change in strain in the adhesive, the strain in the adhesive indicating load carrying capability between the adhesive and the structures. | 18,679 |
9,022,009 | 1. A low pressure EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) system control apparatus of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, comprising: an atmosphere temperature detecting portion that detects atmosphere temperature of a driving region of the vehicle; an air conditioner switch that outputs ON/OFF signal of an air conditioner; a wiper switch outputting ON/OFF signal of a wiper; and a control portion that uses the atmosphere temperature to determine a monthly average relative humidity, wherein the control portion includes a data map having monthly average lowest temperature of the driving region, the monthly average relative humidity of the driving region, and monthly average accumulated rainfall of the driving region, and limits the operation of a low pressure EGR system such that condensate is not formed therein, when the monthly average relative humidity and the monthly average accumulated rainfall respectively exceed a predetermined value. | 41,221 |
8,917,046 | 1. An electronic device for charging and/or generating electric power for a traction system of a motor vehicle coupled to a battery, the electronic device comprising: a rectifier stage connectable directly to a single-phase or a three-phase power supply network or to a load to be powered; an inverter stage connectable to the battery; regulation circuitry that regulates average current flowing between the rectifier stage and the inverter stage as a function of a voltage of the battery; and control circuitry that controls a transfer of electric power between the power supply network and the battery, or a transfer of electric power to the load from the battery. | 34,000 |
8,785,723 | 1. A hybrid maize variety X03C209 seed, wherein representative seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH17RD with a second plant of variety PH1K93, and wherein representative seed of said varieties PH17RD and PH1K93 have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13091 and PTA-120813, respectively. | 47,173 |
9,632,168 | 1. A laser-based visual disruption countermeasure system on-board a helicopter, the system comprising: a hostile fire indicator subsystem on-board the helicopter to identify locations of stationary or moving ground-based threats to the helicopter and to generate respective ground-projection zones around the identified locations indicative of possible error in the identified locations, each of the zones around the identified threat locations being in the form of an ellipse; and an eye-safe laser-based visual disruption subsystem on-board the helicopter to generate and output a plurality of laser beams each having a first intensity sufficient to interfere with and temporarily impair a human optical system, each of said laser beams being output so as to follow a rectangular scan pattern completely enveloping a corresponding ellipse defining the zone indicating possible error in a corresponding identified threat location, irrespective of current position of the helicopter, said eye-safe laser-based visual disruption subsystem being operative to maintain at the same time two or more of the rectangular scan patterns, wherein the system is configured and operative to determine whether a first rectangular scan pattern and a second rectangular scan pattern maintained at the same time overlap, each of the first and second rectangular scan patterns being output by a respective one of the laser beams, and said first and second rectangular scan patterns each being modified by increasing applied laser beam energy of the respective one of the laser beams from the first intensity to a second intensity only for any overlapping portion of the first and second rectangular scan patterns, while maintaining or decreasing said applied laser beam energy of the respective one of the laser beams for any non-overlapping portion of the first and second rectangular scan patterns, and wherein said increase in said applied laser beam energy includes increasing at least one selected from scanning frequency and intensity. | 9,906 |
8,583,010 | 1. An image forming apparatus including a main body and an image carrying body disposed in the main body, the image carrying body being configured to support thereon a visible image formed of developer, comprising: a transfer unit detachably received in the main body, the transfer unit being configured to receive the visible image from the image carrying body and to convey the received visible image to a printing medium; and an electrical charge removal unit rotatably supported in the main body, the electrical charge removal unit being configured to remove an electrical charge from the printing medium, wherein the electricity removing unit being interlocked with mounting or detaching of the transferring unit to move rotatably between an electricity removing position removing an electric charge remaining in the printing medium and an avoiding position not being interfered to the mounting or detaching of the transferring unit. | 35,230 |
9,291,365 | 1. A portable solar concentrator comprising: a stand; a shaft assembly supported by the stand, the shaft assembly comprising a centrally disposed target and two shafts extending from opposite ends of the target; and a rigid dish suspended from the shafts of the shaft assembly, the rigid dish comprising a plurality of panels each having a reflective surface, wherein the panels are configured to direct solar energy at the target, wherein the stand comprises first and second curved support members coupled to opposite ends of the shaft assembly, each support member coupled at a first end below the rigid dish to a vertical support of the stand and at a second end to an end of the shaft assembly. | 43,542 |
8,435,834 | 1. A method of making a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a carrier; forming a conductive layer including a plurality of trace lines over the carrier; providing a semiconductor die having a plurality of contact pads; forming a plurality of conductive pillars over the contact pads of the semiconductor die, then; forming a plurality of first bumps in direct contact with the conductive pillars, then; mounting the semiconductor die to the conductive layer with the first bumps directly bonded to an end portion of the trace lines, then; depositing an encapsulant over the semiconductor die and conductive layer, then; removing the carrier; and then; forming an interconnect structure over the encapsulant and semiconductor die. | 25,264 |
8,667,712 | 1. A method for providing aesthetically changeable items of design on footwear, the method comprising the steps of: a) forming a base anchoring element with a first plurality of movement locking and releasable fastening elements; b) forming at least two decorative elements each with a second plurality of movement locking and releasable fastening elements configured to individually releasably matingly engage with the first plurality of fastening elements with a fixed horizontally and vertically non moveable releasable engagement, with the first and second plurality of fastening elements being formed on the respective base anchoring element and each of the decorative elements, in fixed mating registration with each other; c) permanently attaching the base anchoring element to at least a portion of the outer surface of an existing article of footwear; d) selecting a first decorative element for releasable fastening placement on the article of footwear at the site of the base anchoring element; e) releasably matingly attaching the first plurality of fastening elements of the base anchoring element with the second plurality of fastening elements of the selected decorative element with registration between the first and second plurality of fastening elements; f) selecting an other decorative element for releasable fastening placement on the article of footwear at the site of the base anchoring element; g) removing the first decorative element from the base anchoring element and releasably matingly attaching the first plurality of fastening elements of the base anchoring element with the second plurality of fastening elements of the other decorative element with registration between the first and second plurality of fastening elements; h) repeating the steps in paragraphs d through g, as desired; with the base anchoring element and the decorative elements being positioned on the footwear and configured, to resist aesthetic damage to the decorative elements during wearing use of the footwear. | 37,472 |
9,342,361 | 1. A method for controlling physical actuators in pervasive computing environments: comprising: providing an actuation space entity that implements an actuation space configured to manage actuation requests and actuation status information the actuation status information providing information about a status of the actuation requests; sending one or more actuation requests from a resource user entity to said actuation space; storing, at said actuation space, said one or more actuation requests; controlling, via at least one actuator resource entity, at least one physical actuator on a basis of one or more of said actuation requests stored in said actuation space; sending, from said at least one actuator resource entity, actuation status information corresponding to one or more of said actuation requests to said actuation space, wherein said at least one resource user entity and said at least one actuator resource entity share said actuation space of said actuation space entity, wherein a monitoring of said actuation requests and/or actuation status information maintained in said actuation space is performed by subscribing to said actuation requests and/or actuation status information, wherein said subscribing is performed by sending subscription requests to said actuation space, said subscription requests including any of a description of the actuation request and a flag indicating whether actuation status information is to be returned if available, wherein said actuation space comprises wherein said at least one resource directory returns the correct actuation space resource to said resolver, wherein said resolver forwards the original actuation request received by an resource user entity or an actuator resource entity to said actuation space resource, wherein an actuator resource entity implements a native legacy interface for a legacy actuator, wherein said native legacy interface intercepts calls from legacy resource user entities, wherein said calls are forwarded to a legacy actuator resource entity, and wherein a corresponding actuation request is inserted in said actuation space allowing further resource user entities to coordinate on the actuation tasks of said actuation request. | 48,141 |
9,383,120 | 1. An optimal solar concentrator comprising: an elongated tubular absorber disposed along a longitudinal axis at a bottom of a trough shaped reflector; said trough shaped reflector comprising two symmetrical reflecting surfaces disposed on either side of said elongated tubular absorber, wherein said reflecting surfaces are disposed on opposite sides of an optic plane transverse the longitudinal axis, wherein each of said reflecting surfaces are edge-ray involutes of said elongated tubular absorber; an aperture on top of said trough shaped reflector, wherein said elongated tubular absorber receives solar radiation through said aperture from a radiation source; and said elongated tubular absorber comprising a convex or flat shaped geometry, wherein area of said elongated tubular absorber is related to area of said aperture by the formula C=A2/A3, wherein C is the concentration ratio of said optimal solar concentrator, wherein A2 is area of said aperture, and wherein A3 is area of said elongated tubular absorber, wherein C is optimum when F31=1, and wherein F31 is probability of radiation from said elongated tubular absorber reaching said radiation source. | 5,026 |
9,110,800 | 1. A computer hardware-implemented method of preventing a cascading failure in a complex stream computer system, wherein a cascading failure results in an untrustworthy output from the complex stream computer system, and wherein the computer hardware-implemented method comprises: receiving a first set of binary data that identifies multiple subcomponents in a complex stream computer system, wherein the identified multiple subcomponents comprise multiple upstream subcomponents and a downstream subcomponent, and wherein the multiple upstream subcomponents execute upstream computational processes; receiving a second set of binary data that identifies multiple outputs generated by the multiple upstream subcomponents; receiving a third set of binary data that identifies multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent, wherein the identified multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent are the identified multiple outputs generated by the multiple upstream subcomponents, and wherein the identified multiple inputs are inputs to a downstream computational process that is executed by the downstream subcomponent; examining, by computer hardware, each of the upstream computational processes to determine an accuracy of each of the identified multiple outputs based upon: generating, by computer hardware, accuracy values by assigning a determined accuracy value to each of the identified multiple outputs, wherein the determined accuracy value describes a confidence level of an accuracy of each of the identified multiple outputs, and wherein each of the identified multiple outputs are created by a separate upstream computational process in separate upstream subcomponents from the multiple upstream subcomponents; generating, by the computer hardware, weighting values by assigning a weighting value to each of the identified multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent, wherein the weighting value describes a criticality level of each of the identified multiple inputs when executing the downstream computational process in the downstream subcomponent; and utilizing, by the computer hardware, the determined accuracy values and the weighting values to dynamically adjust which of the identified multiple inputs are used by the downstream subcomponent until an output from the downstream subcomponent meets a predefined trustworthiness level, wherein a trustworthiness of the output from the downstream subcomponent is based on the determined accuracy value of each of the identified multiple outputs and the weighting value of each of the identified multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent. | 33,059 |
8,825,442 | 1. A method for determining switching characteristics in an electrical device comprising: applying a series of electrical pulses of different magnitude and measuring a value of an electrical parameter for each applied electrical pulse; identifying a first candidate switching pulse from the measured value of the electrical parameter for each applied electrical pulse; placing the measured value of the electrical parameter for each applied electrical pulse into one of two groups, wherein parameter values for electrical pulses having a magnitude less than the first candidate switching pulse are placed in a first group and parameter values for electrical pulses having a magnitude greater than the first candidate switching pulse are placed in a second group; calculating a first extrapolated parameter value corresponding to the first group for the first candidate switching pulse and a confidence interval for the first extrapolated parameter value; calculating a second extrapolated parameter value corresponding to the second group for the first candidate switching pulse and a confidence interval for second extrapolated parameter value; and comparing the measured parameter value at the candidate switching pulse to the first and second extrapolated parameter values to determine a relative probability that the first candidate switching pulse caused the switching event. | 39,324 |
9,630,515 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a primary coil supplied with electrical energy, the primary coil being arranged in a stationary unit; and a secondary coil to inductively receive electrical energy from the primary coil, the secondary coil being arranged in a motor vehicle, wherein at least one of the primary coil and the secondary coil includes first and second switchable coil taps to adjust a length of an active coil portion, the active coil portion being active for inductive energy transmission, the first and second switchable coil taps are provided respectively at first and second opposing end sections of the at least one of the primary coil and the secondary coil, a first multistage switch connects the first switchable coil tap to one of a first plurality of positions at the first end section to selectively activate a specific portion of the first end section, and a second multistage switch connects the second switchable coil tap to one of a second plurality of positions at the second end section to selectively activate a specific portion of the second end section, wherein none of the first plurality of positions at the first end section overlap with any of the second plurality of positions at the second end section. | 42,013 |
9,742,489 | 1. A system for reliable data communication, comprising: an electrical switching network with packet granularity of switching and store-and-forward forwarding services to network traffic; an optical switching network providing circuit granularity of switching and optical bypassing services to network traffic, wherein the electrical and optical switching networks comprise distributed and multi-hop data communication; and a loss-of-light detection module coupled to the optical switching network to detect an optical failure point at each optical switching hop; a network controller coupled to the electrical switching network, the optical switching network, and loss-of-light detection module, the network controller receiving failure data using network control protocol messages and reroutes traffic to avoid the optical failure point; and a finite state machine (FSM) to detect failure, wherein in case of a failure, after power up, the FSM places the optical switching network components in a self-check state and checks all port functionality and if the self-check fails, the optical switching network components send a signal to the network controller, stay in the self-check state and wait for repair or replacement, and if the self-check succeeds, the optical switching network components enter an active state, and an optical port connection map is configured and changed by the network controller in real time according to a traffic matrix or traffic matrix estimation, and if loss-of-light event is detected, the optical switching network components enter fault state, wherein the network controller locates and isolates the failure point in the network, and triggers an alarm for recovering from the failure within a predetermined period. | 25,110 |
9,566,680 | 1. A machine tool having a saddle moving over a bed and a table moving over the saddle and machining a workpiece placed on the table, the machine tool being controlled by a control unit that executes a machining program, the machine tool comprising: a scattering prevention cover that is fixed to the table, receives chips generated and a cutting fluid supplied during machining of a workpiece on the table, surrounds the workpiece, and has a discharging section that discharges the chips and cutting fluid; a first flow path that is fixed to the saddle, receives the chips and cutting fluid discharged from the discharging section of the scattering prevention cover, and has a discharging section that discharges the received chips and cutting fluid; and a second flow path that is fixed to the bed, receives the chips and cutting fluid discharged from the discharging section of the first flow path, and has a discharging section that discharges the received chips and cutting fluid, wherein the control unit is configured to recognize a distance of movement in the machining program when the table or the saddle moves during machining of the workpiece, and to make an adjustment to acceleration according to a criterion of determination of movement distance set in advance in the control unit and then move the table or the saddle. | 47,276 |
9,615,082 | 1. A computer-implemented method of modifying a set of time ordered digital images using a computer having memory, comprising executing on said computer the steps of: associating a first mask with a motion object in a first image at a first mask location; copying said first mask to create a second mask associated with a second image; moving said second mask to a second mask location associated with said motion object in said second image; and, reshaping said second mask to fit said motion object in said second image using said computer to process said set of time ordered digital images comprising at least said first image and said second image based on underlying image data in said memory of said computer that corresponds to said second image. | 34,656 |
9,283,856 | 1. A method for authorizing operation of an electric vehicle within boundaries that are defined with respect to a charging station that the electric vehicle is being charged at, the method comprising: determining, at a computer, whether predefined criteria relating to charging status of the electric vehicle have been satisfied; and communicating a virtual key to the electric vehicle when the predefined criteria are determined to be satisfied, wherein the virtual key authorizes operation of the electric vehicle within the boundaries that are defined with respect to the charging station, and allows the electric vehicle to be operated in a limited operating mode that defines constraints on operating the vehicle. | 10,522 |
9,030,255 | 1. A linearizer circuit comprising: a divider circuit having an input and first and second outputs; a first radio frequency (RF) signal path having an input and an output, the input being coupled to the first output of the divider circuit, the first RF signal path comprising a delay line having a predetermined length; a second RF signal path having an input and an output, the input being coupled to the second output of the divider circuit, the second RF signal path comprising a transistor amplifier consisting of an odd number of gain stages; and a combiner circuit having a first input, a second input, and an output, the first input of the combiner circuit being coupled to the output of the first RF signal path and the second input of the combiner circuit being coupled to the output of the second RF signal path; wherein the linearizer circuit is configured so that the output signals of the first and second RF signal paths undergo a high level of cancellation in the combiner circuit when a small signal is applied to the input of the divider circuit and a lower level of cancellation in the combiner circuit when a larger signal is applied to the input of the divider circuit. | 22,120 |
9,102,366 | 1. A front spoiler apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a spoiler panel a rear end of which is rotatably connected to a bottom surface of a front bumper such that the spoiler panel is rotatable up/downward; a guide cylinder that is arranged to pass through the bottom surface of the front bumper to be fixed to the front bumper; a piston that is arranged within the guide cylinder and moves along the guide cylinder; a guide rod that is arranged to connect a front end of the spoiler panel and the piston; and an elastic member that is arranged within the guide cylinder and provides elastic force to rotate the spoiler panel toward the front bumper. | 41,417 |
8,910,432 | 1. A tower structure, comprising: a base plate adapted to be coupled to a stationary base plate; a flange hingedly coupled to the base plate, the base plate and the flange being movable relative to each other in a first rotational axis; an intermediate structure coupled to the flange; and a mast structure coupled to the intermediate structure at a fulcrum providing movement of the mast structure in a second rotational axis relative to the intermediate structure, wherein: | 4,686 |
8,497,411 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X08A212, produced by crossing a first plant of variety PHR1J with a second plant of variety PH18DS, wherein representative seed of said varieties PHR1J and PH18DS have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-11611 and PTA-13029, respectively. | 42,342 |
9,245,075 | 1. In a circuit synthesis system comprising an electronic design automation (EDA) tool in a computer, a method for concurrently optimizing timing, area, and power leakage in a circuit design, the method comprising: in response to determining that a cell is not timing critical, but a driver cell that drives an input of the cell is timing critical, the EDA software tool in the computer optimizing the cell based on a first cost metric that combines a first timing metric and a first area metric; in response to determining that both the cell and the driver cell are not timing critical, the EDA software tool in the computer optimizing the cell based on a second cost metric that combines a second area metric and a power leakage metric; and in response to determining that the cell is timing critical, the EDA software tool in the computer optimizing the cell based on a second timing metric. | 30,566 |
8,455,847 | 1. A method for determining the condition of a mask used in an ion implanter comprising: directing an ion beam through a plurality of apertures of a mask toward a platen configured to support a target substrate; translating an ion current measurement device between said mask and said platen parallel to a location of said target substrate during implantation; detecting an ion beam current incident on said ion current measurement device during said translating, wherein said ion beam current is associated with each of said apertures; generating a current signal in response to said ion beam current at a plurality of positions behind said mask; creating a current profile for each of said apertures based on said current signal at said plurality of positions; and determining a dimension of each of said apertures based on said current profile. | 10,604 |
9,410,470 | 1. An exhaust manifold for installation onto a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing having plural inlet openings and, an outlet opening, said housing having an inner shell and an outer shell in surrounding relationship to the inner shell to define a gap there between, with the inner shell being floatingly arranged in the outer shell; a guide plate upon which the inner shell rests at a side of the cylinder head, said guide plate configured to form the plural inlet openings and including guide members respectively arranged at least about part of a circumference of the inlet openings, wherein the outer shell has a cylinder-head-proximal marginal region formed with an outwardly bent flange configured to rest upon the guide plate and joined in a gastight manner to the guide plate by a material joint, said flange having an outer side in opposition to the guide plate; and a collar arranged on the outer side of the flange such that the flange is sandwiched directly between the collar and the guide plate. | 43,436 |
9,226,981 | 1. A compound having the structure wherein Z is tetrazole or CO each Q is independently selected from hydrogen or a protecting group; and wherein (A) m is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6; Y is O, S, N(R′), C(O), NR′C(O), C(O)N(R′), OC(O), C(O)O, NR′C(O)NR′, NR′C(S)NR′, NR′S(O) R is wherein X′ is selected from the group consisting of NHNH R n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; or (B) m is 4, Y is NR′, and R is wherein G is O, NR′ or a covalent bond; R | 18,536 |
9,028,977 | 1. A compound that is represented by the following Formula 1: X is S or O, n is an integer in the range of 0 to 4, Ar Ar the C | 32 |
9,062,530 | 1. A method comprising: running a lower completion assembly into a well in a single trip, the lower completion assembly comprising a screen, a first valve and a second valve; after the running of the lower completion assembly into the well, performing a gravel packing operation using the assembly, the performing comprising communicating a gravel packing slurry and running a service assembly into the lower completion assembly to operate the first valve to communicate fluid from the gravel packing slurry into a central passageway of the lower completion assembly; removing the service assembly from the well; and subsequently installing an upper completion assembly in the well, the installing comprising enabling remote control of the second valve to regulate production of fluid from the well. | 14,430 |
9,602,001 | 1. A buck converter with a variable-gain feedback circuit for transient responses optimization, comprising: a power stage circuit with an input side and an output side, the power stage circuit comprising: a control circuit comprising: wherein the variable gain value is a function of the voltage difference signal; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) generation unit configured to receive the proportional voltage signal and a sensing signal to generate a PWM signal to control the switches, wherein the sensing signal is obtained by adding the converting signal and the error signal; wherein when the proportional voltage signal is equal to the sensing signal, the switches are controlled by the PWM signal to start charging or discharging the output capacitor. | 20,141 |
8,472,325 | 1. A composite transport group (CTG) component comprising: a port configured to receive a server trail failure notification message; and a processor coupled to the port and configured to: wherein the plurality of server trails transport the client traffic between the composite transport group component and a common destination, wherein the server trail failure notification message is sent by an intermediate node to the common destination before transmission to the composite transport group component, and wherein performing the dynamic path redistribution comprises: | 29,509 |
9,545,992 | 1. A high-lift flap system for a rear portion of an aircraft wing, the high-lift flap system comprising: a trailing edge flap provided with a leading edge, a trailing edge, an upper surface and a lower surface, and a mechanism for actuating said trailing edge flap, allowing said trailing edge flap to assume either a stowed position for which said trailing edge flap is housed at least in part in the rear portion of the aircraft wing, such that the upper surface and lower surface of said trailing edge flap are continuously aerodynamic with respect to the upper surface and lower surface of said rear portion of the aircraft wing and that the trailing edge of said trailing edge flap forms a portion of a trailing edge of said rear portion of the aircraft wing, or at least one extended position for which said trailing edge flap is set back from the trailing edge of said rear portion of the aircraft wing and inclined relative to the rear portion of the aircraft wing, said mechanism for actuating said trailing edge flap including: wherein said rotation devices are formed by a rotating actuator, and the axis of rotation of said trailing edge flap corresponds to a rotation shaft of the rotation actuator. | 12,320 |
8,431,899 | 1. A passive infrared ray sensor which comprises: a plurality of detecting elements for detecting infrared rays of light emanating from an intruder present in different detection areas of a detection region; and a detection processing unit including a plurality of individual signal processing subunit each operable to perform a signal processing subject to a detection signal fed from the respective detection element; wherein when the detection signal from at least one of the detecting elements indicates a detection of a noise other than the intruder, the signal processing of such detecting element in the individual signal processing subunit is halted. | 33,057 |
9,379,379 | 1. A cathode material for a lithium ion secondary battery being a composite grain comprising: an oxide including, as constituent elements, Li, Si and at least one of Fe and Mn; and a carbon material, wherein according to a measurement by an X-ray diffraction method using Cu-Kα as an X-ray source, a diffraction peak exists within a range of 2θ=33±2° and a half width of the diffraction peak is 0.55° or more, a size of the grain is 1 μm or more and 20 μm or less, and a sea-islands structure is inside the grain in which the oxide is scattered as islands in a sea of the carbon material. | 13,063 |
9,357,650 | 1. A method, comprising: depositing by high-vacuum (HV) sputtering a layer of a magnetic material on a first insulating layer, said first insulating layer disposed on a first wiring plane of a multilevel wiring network, said magnetic material having a thickness between about 10 nm and 1000 nm; disposing a second insulating layer over said layer of said magnetic material; repeating in alternate fashion said depositing step and said disposing step up to about 100 times each, resulting in a magnetic member with a laminated configuration; masking and patterning for said magnetic member in such manner that after said patterning a remaining portion of said magnetic member comprises a planar magnetic core; and wherein said method is characterized as fabricating a planar inductor suitable for integrating into said multilevel wiring network that is arranged into wiring planes, wherein said inductor comprises said planar magnetic core. | 23,188 |
8,986,871 | 1. A secondary battery, comprising: an electrode assembly comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; and an outer casing accommodating the electrode assembly, wherein each of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate includes an electrode collector having a coating portion and a non-coating portion, an active material coated on the coating portion of the electrode collector, and an electrode tab on the non-coating portion of the electrode collector, and wherein at least one of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate further includes an insulating member on the non-coating portion of the electrode collector between and not in contact with both the electrode tab and the active material. | 24,430 |
9,732,682 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: at least one cylinder; at least one outlet opening in the at least one cylinder for discharging exhaust gases via an exhaust gas discharge system; at least one inlet opening for supplying charging air via an intake system; a valve train comprising a valve for each opening and a valve actuation device comprising at least one camshaft having a plurality of cams, wherein, | 25,506 |
8,438,829 | 1. A turboprop propulsion unit comprising: a gas-turbine engine, at least one pusher propeller positioned aft of the gas-turbine engine and driven by the gas-turbine engine; wherein a main gas flow through the gas-turbine engine moves from aft forward, with respect to a direction of propulsion, such that a turbine outlet area of the gas-turbine engine is physically positioned forward of a compressor of the gas-turbine engine in the direction of flight; and at least one inlet flow duct for guiding airflow to the compressor, at least a portion of the at least one inlet flow duct positioned forward of the compressor. | 14,499 |
9,188,001 | 1. An assembly for translating substantially linear motion of a linearly moveable member between a top dead centre and a bottom dead centre position to rotary motion of a rotatable shaft, said assembly characterised by: a crank arm associated and rotatable with said rotatable shaft, said crank arm including a rotatable wheel having an outer peripheral edge and an axis of rotation; a yoke structure associated with the linearly moveable member and moveable therewith, said yoke structure including an inner peripheral edge along which said wheel is caused to roll during rotation of the crank arm, the inner peripheral edge including a first linear surface that extends substantially perpendicularly to a direction of travel of the linearly moveable member and which is encountered by said wheel from at least the commencement of each shaft revolution when the linearly moveable member is at top dead centre, wherein during said encounter with the first linear surface a contact point between the yoke first linear surface and the wheel outer edge is along an axis that extends parallel to the direction of travel of the linearly moveable member and through the wheel's axis of rotation, said inner peripheral edge further including a shoulder that deviates outwardly and in a downstroke direction from the first linear surface and which has an inner surface dimensioned to cause said contact point to shift outwardly along the outer peripheral edge of the wheel and thereby outwardly from said axis extending parallel to the direction of travel and through the wheel's axis of rotation, said shoulder being positioned such that the wheel encounters the shoulder during said downstroke, after encountering the first linear surface, at approximately 45 degrees. | 7,183 |
9,760,840 | 1. A computer-implemented system for managing retail units, the system comprising: a computer system comprising at least one processor and operatively associated memory, wherein the computer system is in communication with at least one geospatial database, and wherein the computer system is programmed to: | 15,767 |
9,590,484 | 1. An inverter device, comprising: an inverter circuit, receiving a DC power and converting the DC power into an AC power; a detection unit, detecting a current harmonic component of an AC current of the AC power and generating a current adjustment signal according to the current harmonic component; and a control unit, coupled to the inverter circuit and the detection unit, outputting a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal to control the inverter circuit to convert the DC power into the AC power, controlling the inverter circuit to stop operation near a zero crossing point, and generating an offset current to be superposed to the AC current according to the current adjustment signal, wherein the detection unit further determines whether a current root mean square (RMS) value of the current harmonic component is greater than a predetermined threshold and generates the current adjustment signal according to a ratio of the current RMS value of the current harmonic component to a current RMS value of the AC current if the current RMS value of the current harmonic component is greater than the predetermined threshold. | 49,259 |
8,722,730 | 1. A compound represented by the following formula (I): [wherein R | 33,957 |
9,437,758 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a crystalline silicon substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein an impurity region is included in a first surface side of the crystalline silicon substrate; a first electrode over the impurity region; a light-transmitting conductive film in contact with the second surface of the crystalline silicon substrate; and a second electrode in contact with the light-transmitting conductive film, wherein the light-transmitting conductive film comprises an organic compound and an inorganic compound, wherein the organic compound is 4-phenyl-4′-(9-phenylfluoren-9-yl)triphenylamine (abbreviation: BPAFLP), wherein the inorganic compound is an oxide of a metal belonging to any of Groups 4 to 8 of the periodic table, and wherein the light-transmitting conductive film is a reflection film. | 26,886 |
9,235,690 | 1. A device for the monitored storage and dispensing of medication to a user comprising: a plurality of user-accessible storage compartments, wherein each storage compartment has an interior space for storing at least one medication or at least one medication reminder marker, and wherein the plurality of user-accessible storage compartments are presented and arranged together in order of a medication dosage schedule in which the at least one medication or the at least one medication reminder marker is to be removed from each of the plurality of user-accessible storage compartment by the user; an image capturing device configured to capture at least one image of the interior space of the plurality of user-accessible storage compartments; and a communications module for electronically transmitting the image captured by the image capturing device to a central monitoring station. | 25,814 |
9,409,952 | 1. A method for preparing a peptide compound having a cyclic portion, the method comprising the steps of: 1) translationally synthesizing a noncyclic peptide compound composed of amino acid residues and/or amino acid analog residues, or of amino acid residues and/or amino acid analog residues and an N-terminal carboxylic acid analog from a nucleic acid sequence encoding the peptide compound, 2) forming an amide bond or a carbon-carbon bond between the reactive site of the amino acid residue, amino acid analog residue or the N-terminal carboxylic acid analog on the N-terminal side and reactive site of the amino acid residue or amino acid analog residue at the side chain on the C-terminal side. | 26,904 |
8,663,161 | 1. A heating system for heating neonate nutritional liquid so that a temperature of the nutritional liquid is greater than room temperature for providing warmed nutritional liquid to the neonate during feeding, the heater system comprising: a heater including: | 24,979 |
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