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9,501,134 | 1. A remotely controllable electrical socket, comprising: an electrical conductor that receives a plug of an electrical device and that provides power to the electrical device, the plug associated with a tag that provides identifying information that corresponds to the electrical device, wherein the identifying information includes a type of appliance associated with the electrical device; a tag reader: that obtains the identifying information from the tag associated with the plug of the electrical device, the tag reader including one or more electrical contacts that electrically connect the tag to the tag reader when the electrical conductor receives the plug of the electrical device, and that detects that the plug is inserted in the socket via a sensor, wherein the sensor further identifies a power state of the electrical device when the sensor detects that the plug of the electrical device is inserted in the socket, the power state identifying whether the electrical device is currently in a powered ON state or is currently in a powered OFF state; and a switch coupling the electrical conductor to a power supply, the switch being selectively controllable from the computing device based on the information received at the computing device, wherein the computing device generates a periodic alarm based on the information received from the communications interface and user preferences, the user preferences indicating a maximum time duration that the electrical device is specified to remain in the powered ON state, wherein the periodic alarm begins to be generated when the electrical device is identified to have been in the powered ON state past the maximum time duration specified by the user preferences. | 4,409 |
9,411,790 | 1. A method for converting digital source content into a structured document, the method comprising: using an element ranking method comprising: receiving digital source content, the digital source content comprising source data elements; tagging each of the source data elements with the identifier based upon the attribute, wherein the identifier defines a function for a particular source data element with a structured document; determining, for data elements of the digital source content, a semantic naming convention, a structure, a granularity, an order, and a styling by comparing the data elements of the digital source content to classified data elements of previously generated structured documents; | 9,376 |
8,371,213 | 1. A diagnostic system for a compactor/baler apparatus comprising: (a) a controller having a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs; (b) a plurality of switches each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of inputs of the controller, (c) a communication port operatively coupled to a first output of the plurality of outputs of the controller; and (d) a display operatively coupled to a second output of the plurality of outputs of the controller, the controller being configured to: | 41,448 |
8,424,294 | 1. A method of regenerating an exhaust gas after treatment system, especially a particle filter, of a combustion engine arranged in a motor vehicle, the method comprising: controlling a particle filter regeneration cycle with a control unit, wherein the control unit is provided with data comprising of information data relating to a route, and wherein the route information data contains at least a plurality of driver specific data, wherein the driver specific data comprises each of: driving habits, driving cycles, and characteristic driving routes assigned to a particular driver. | 25,654 |
9,030,344 | 1. A method, comprising: responsive to a capacitance ratio, adjusting a successive approximation register (SAR) reference voltage of a SAR analog-to-digital converter to attempt to match a scale voltage of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter; processing a most-significant bit of an input signal with the pipeline analog-to-digital converter; and processing a least-significant bit of an input signal with the SAR analog-to-digital converter. | 21,837 |
8,813,175 | 1. A multimodal device, comprising: base hardware comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor; a hypervisor configured to operate on the base hardware, the hypervisor adapted to allocate resources of the base hardware between multiple operating systems; a work virtual machine comprising a work operating system configured to operate on the hypervisor, the work operating system adapted to run work applications installed on the work virtual machine and shared applications; a home virtual machine comprising a home operating system configured to operate on the hypervisor, the home operating system adapted to run home applications installed on the home virtual machine and the shared applications that are utilized by the home operating system and the work operating system; an arbitrator operating system configured to operate on the hypervisor; and a smart arbitrator server configured to operate on the arbitrator operating system, the smart arbitrator server adapted to provide a gateway between the work virtual machine and the home virtual machine, manage access to the work applications according to a policy, wherein the policy allows a non-user entity to restrict a user entity from installing and removing the work applications on the work virtual machine, manage access to the home applications according to the policy, wherein the policy disallows the non-user entity to restrict the user entity from installing and removing the home applications on the home virtual machine, manage access to the shared applications according to the policy, wherein the policy allows the non-user entity to either restrict or allow the user entity from installing and removing the shared applications, receive an indication that an installed application from the work applications or the home applications is paused; store a state of the installed application and data associated with the installed application when the installed application was paused in a file; and transmit the file to an installed application synchronization server computer, the installed application synchronization server computer adapted to provide the file to another device to resume the installed application at the state. | 10,065 |
9,281,289 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a wiring substrate having a chip-mounting surface, a plurality of terminals formed on the chip-mounting surface, and a mounting surface opposite to the chip-mounting surface; a first semiconductor chip having a first main surface, a plurality of first electrodes formed over the first main surface and a first rear surface opposite to the first main surface, and mounted over the chip-mounting surface such that the first rear surface faces the chip-mounting surface of the wiring substrate; and a plurality of wires each having a ball part and a stitch part, and coupled to the plurality of terminals respectively, wherein: | 42,243 |
8,883,545 | 1. An installation for producing a solar panel containing a plurality of solar cells, comprising: at least one flat carrier suitable for displacement and comprising a vacuum system for securely holding a layer or a stack of layers on the carrier; a series comprising several treatment stations between which the carrier with a growing stack of layers can be displaced successively from a first to a last treatment station, said treatment being suitable for carrying out the steps of: return means for returning the carrier from the last to the first treatment station; first transfer means for transferring the carrier from the return means to the first treatment station; and second transfer means for transferring the carrier from the last treatment station to the return means. | 46,273 |
9,348,357 | 1. A stitchable clock mesh for a 3D chip stack having two or more strata, comprising: at least one clock mesh, on each of the two or more strata, having a plurality of sectors for providing a global clock signal to various chip locations; mesh data sensors, on each of the two or more strata, for collecting mesh data for the at least one mesh, the mesh data including measured functional data and measured performance data for a current system configuration; and mesh segmentation and joining circuitry for selectively performing a segmentation operation or a joining operation on the least one mesh or one or more portions thereof responsive to the mesh data and the current system configuration selectable from a plurality of system target configurations. | 34,651 |
9,666,357 | 1. An apparatus for wirelessly receiving power, the apparatus comprising a first conductive structure configured to wirelessly receive power via a magnetic field generated by a transmitter conductive structure having a length greater than a width, the first conductive structure having a length greater than a width, the first conductive structure comprising a first loop and a second loop enclosing a first area and a second area, respectively, the first loop having a first lower surface and the second loop having a second lower surface that are substantially coplanar, the first conductive structure having a first edge and a second edge each intersecting a first geometric line running along the length of the first conductive structure; and a second conductive structure configured to wirelessly receive power via the magnetic field, the second conductive structure enclosing a third area and having a length greater than a width, the first geometric line running along the length of the second conductive structure, the first geometric line being substantially perpendicular to a second geometric line running along the length of the transmitter conductive structure. | 47,374 |
9,432,542 | 1. A method of controlling power-saving modes of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising: providing power to the image forming apparatus; determining if a print operation of the image forming apparatus is implemented and if an error occurs; beginning a first power-saving mode after standing by in a normal mode for a first length of time that is determined by a user setting of the image forming apparatus, if no print operation is determined as being implemented regardless of the determination of an error occurrence; beginning the first power-saving mode after standing by in the normal mode for a second length of time, if an error is determined as occurring during the implementation of the print operation; beginning a second power-saving mode, if the error determined as occurring during the implementation of the print operation is not resolved before a third length of time has passed; and beginning a third power saving mode, if a wake-up situation is not determined to occur before a fourth length of time has passed and if the error determined as occurring during implementation of the print operation is not resolved before the fourth length of time has passed, wherein the second length of time is preset to be shorter than the first length of time that is determined by the user setting, the second power-saving mode includes an error checking mode, and the fourth length of time is determined by the user setting. | 20,306 |
8,533,582 | 1. A method for implementing a content trail associated with data pages comprising: retrieving, from storage, references to data pages collected from the Internet; generating a plurality of content trails for the data pages with a trail generator implemented using one or more computing devices, the content trail being generated using the references to the data pages, each content trail comprising a defined set of the references, the references being organized into a user-defined, ordered sequence in the content trail and being interconnected by user-assigned relationships to define at least one path in the content trail that is navigable; navigating a first content trail of the generated plurality of content trails; while navigating the first content trail, identifying to the user a second content trail of the plurality of content trails different from the first content trail, the second content trail having common data pages with the first content trail but no user-assigned relationship with the first content trail; and prompting a user to navigate away from the first content trail and to the second content trail in response to a user selection of the second content trail responsive to the prompt. | 48,492 |
8,550,195 | 1. A vehicle system connectable to a vehicle comprising; a motor side assembly interconnected with a power side assembly to provide motive power for the vehicle; a rheostat interconnecting the motor side assembly and the power side assembly; a direct current motor and a rear alternator being positioned within the power side assembly; the motor side assembly including a transmission connected to an electric drive motor; the direct current motor having a first counterweight mounted thereon; the rear alternator having a second counterweight mounted thereon; the first counterweight mounted and the second counterweight mounted delaying a slowing down the electric powered vehicle; a pulley ratio supporting the vehicle system; the direct current motor having a pulley ratio of two to one relative to the direct current motor; the transmission being connected to the electric drive motor; a first set of electric cables connecting the rheostat to the electric drive motor; a second set of electric cables connecting the power side assembly to the rheostat; the direct current motor having a motor pulley twice the diameter of a rear alternator pulley on the rear alternator in order to provide power to the electric vehicle system; a fan belt cooperating to connect and operate the rear alternator pulley, a sub-zero compressor, an alternator, and a passenger cabinet compressor; a sub-zero air conditioner having the sub-zero compressor and a sub-zero condenser; a first copper tube connecting the sub-zero compressor to the sub-zero condenser; and a second copper tube and a third copper tube connecting the sub-zero condenser to the power side assembly in order to cool that part of the vehicle. | 27,170 |
8,810,230 | 1. A power supply device converting an alternate current voltage to a direct current voltage, comprising: an output terminal and a ground terminal; a diode bridge to which the alternate current voltage is input; an inductor coupled to an output of the diode bridge; a diode whose anode is electrically coupled to the inductor and whose cathode is electrically coupled to the output terminal; a capacitor electrically coupled between the output terminal and the ground terminal; a switch electrically coupled between the anode of the diode and the ground terminal; a voltage dividing circuit dividing a voltage between the output terminal and the ground terminal; and a PFC controller that includes an error amplifier amplifying a difference between an output voltage of the voltage dividing circuit and a reference voltage, an oscillation frequency control circuit converting an output of the error amplifier to a current, a triangular wave generating circuit outputting a triangular wave from an output current of the oscillation frequency control circuit, and a PWM control circuit opening and closing the switch, based on the triangular wave output by the triangular wave generating, wherein the triangular wave generating circuit comprises another capacitor and outputs the triangular wave by charging and discharging the another capacitor, the triangular wave generating circuit further comprises a first current mirror circuit having two outputs, and a second current mirror circuit having one output, and a current output of the second current mirror circuit is a replica of one current output of the first current mirror circuit. | 29,875 |
8,704,501 | 1. A current regulating circuit, comprising: a transistor for receiving a load current and generating a feedback voltage corresponding to the load current; and an operational amplifier comprising a first amplifier input for receiving a reference voltage, a second amplifier input for receiving the feedback voltage, and an amplifier output for controlling the transistor, the operational amplifier further comprising: an input stage comprising a first input and a second input separately for alternating between receiving the reference voltage and the feedback voltage so that the input stage generates operating voltages corresponding to the reference voltage and the feedback voltage; and an output stage for alternating between receiving the operating voltages to directly control the transistor; a first switch unit for alternating one of the operating voltages to be inputted into the output stage; a second switch unit for alternating the other of the operating voltages to be inputted into the output stage; a third switch unit for alternating the reference voltage between the first input and the second input; and a fourth switch unit coupled between the second amplifier input and the input stage for alternating the feedback voltage between the first input and the second input, in relation to the reference voltage alternated between the first input and the second input. | 48,683 |
9,500,527 | 1. A system of colorimetry of a sensor comprising: a color reference defining a mixture of a plurality of colorants, said mixture providing a spectral distribution of light rendered in a substantially uniform field upon a display; a sensor for measuring color of said reference in one or more channels, in which each of said one or more channels has a spectral response function; and one or more programs executable by a computer system for convolving the spectral response function of each of said one or more channels of said sensor with said spectral distribution defined by said reference to provide one or more values, determining when said one or more values corresponds to the measurement of color of said reference by said sensor to provide one or more color coordinates of said reference in a Standard Observer coordinate system, calculating ratios, as a function of wavelength, of values of one or more color matching functions of the Standard Observer to values of the spectral response function of one or more channels of said sensor, and storing said ratios in memory of the computer system. | 41,179 |
9,315,732 | 1. An ash filter and reboiler (ash filter/reboiler), comprising: an inlet tube heat exchanger including an outer column (column) and an inner vapor inlet tube (vapor inlet tube) having a tube length extending inside said column from an inlet of said column to a bottom opening at a bottom portion of said column, wherein said vapor inlet tube is coupled to receive fuel vapors including entrained ash particles and to direct said fuel vapors including said entrained ash particles out from said bottom opening to said bottom portion of said column; a cooler jacket over said bottom portion of said column for condensing said fuel vapors including said entrained ash particles to liquid fuel; a pump coupled to an outlet in a bottom of said column for pumping out an ash particle laden portion of said liquid fuel; a heater above said cooler jacket for vaporizing said liquid fuel into reboiled vapors, and a vapor outlet at a top of said column for releasing said reboiled vapors out from said column. | 26,459 |
9,527,978 | 1. Process for recycling and de-vulcanizing vulcanized rubber, comprising: grinding said rubber in a mill to shred it into particles having a size substantially comprised between 5 and 15 mm; introducing said particles in an initial section of a two-screw co-rotating extruder having a length more than 64 times the external diameter of the screws without adding to the particles of vulcanised rubber either thermoplastic materials or process additives; mixing said particles within the extruder, which is kept at a temperature comprised between 35 and 350° C. due to the screw rotation at a speed comprised between 15 and 300 rpm, and at a constant overpressure higher than a pressure outside the extruder; introducing water into said extruder in at least one section located at a distance of at least 48 times the external diameter of the screws downstream of said initial section, and wherein no water is added into said extruder in any section located at a distance lower than 48 times the external diameter of the screws from the initial section of the extruder; obtaining an extruded product formed by de-vulcanized rubber having a Mooney viscosity differing at most +/−5% with respect to that of virgin rubber prior to the vulcanization; mixing said extruded product formed by de-vulcanized rubber with virgin rubber; and vulcanizing the mixture of extruded product and virgin rubber. | 34,601 |
9,106,430 | 1. A method of arranging content for broadcast in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving a request for content associated with content characteristics from a plurality of wireless devices each associated with a user profile; generating a plurality of content for each of the plurality of wireless devices according to the associated user profile; determining a similarity criteria for the plurality of content based on the content characteristics for each of the plurality of content; arranging the plurality of content according to the content characteristics for broadcasting to the plurality of wireless devices in a multicast transmission, wherein arranging the content comprises ordering the plurality of content from most similar to least similar according to the determined similarity criteria; scheduling a first content and a second content in a first time slot for broadcasting to at least two of the plurality of wireless devices in a multicast transmission when the similarity criteria for the first content and the second content meets a similarity threshold, wherein the multicast scheduling is performed prior to transmitting the first content and the second content; scheduling a third content in the first time slot for unicasting to one of the plurality of wireless devices in a unicast transmission when the similarity criteria for the third content fails to meet a similarity threshold, wherein the unicast scheduling is performed prior to transmitting the third content; transmitting the scheduled multicast transmission and the scheduled unicast transmission over the first time slot; and predicting future content having similarity criteria based on the arranged plurality of content, the user profiles, and a location for at least one wireless device that received one of the multicast or unicast transmission. | 6,000 |
8,424,578 | 1. A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass having at least one carcass ply which is locked by a pair of bead parts, a tread part located at an outer circumferential side of the carcass in a radial direction of the tire, a side wall part located at a side part of the carcass, a rim strip provided in the bead parts and contacting with a rim and the carcass, and a wing in which one edge thereof is contacted with the carcass and the other edge is exposed to the surface of a ground contact edge region of the tread part so as to contact with a road surface; wherein the at least one carcass ply comprises a fabric made of an organic fiber cord and a covering rubber, the covering rubber being a topping rubber attached by topping processing to the surface of the fabric, and at least the covering rubber at the contact face side of the rim strip and the wing, at least the rim strip in either one side part, and at least the wing in either one side part are formed into a continuous conductive path by a conductive rubber material, only the conductive path is used as a conducting path of the tire, a tread rubber constituting a crown part corresponding to a main ground contact part of the tread part and a side wall rubber of the side wall part comprise a nonconductive rubber material, and members other than the conducting path, the tread rubber and the side wall rubber are selected and used from a conductive rubber material or a nonconductive rubber material, and wherein the rim strip and the wing in one side part are made of a conductive rubber material, and the rim strip and the wing in the other side part are made of a nonconductive rubber material. | 19,857 |
9,222,396 | 1. A method for estimation of a soot load in a particle filter in an exhaust cleaning system, comprising: measuring a pressure drop across said particle filter to determine said soot load in said filter, wherein said estimation is based on said measuring of said pressure drop at a specific time when an exhaust volume flow of said exhaust cleaning system exceeds a flow threshold value; determining whether said particle filter has for a sufficient period of time maintained a temperature above a second temperature threshold value which is high enough and for a sufficient period of time to remove water from said particle filter, so that said filter is substantially free from water; and determining whether a temperature of said particle filter exceeds a first threshold value which is higher than a temperature at which water in exhaust gases in said exhaust cleaning system can condense. | 30,290 |
8,555,868 | 1. A pneumatic paintball gun, comprising: a pneumatic piston slidably mounted in a cylinder, the cylinder including a compressed gas storage area, the cylinder configured to receive compressed gas and to supply the compressed gas to the pneumatic piston to control movement of the pneumatic piston; a bolt connected to and moveable with the pneumatic piston, said bolt comprising a port configured to communicate compressed gas from a chamber to a forward end of the bolt for launching a paintball; a sealing member arranged in communication with the bolt, wherein the sealing member is configured to prevent compressed gas from the compressed gas storage area from entering the bolt port when the bolt is in a first position and to permit compressed gas to be released into the bolt port when the bolt is in a second position; a supply port for supplying compressed gas to the compressed gas storage area; a solenoid valve configured to supply compressed gas to a forward surface area of the bolt to hold the bolt in an open position; wherein the solenoid valve is configured to vent compressed gas from the forward surface area of the bolt to allow the bolt to move to a closed position and to allow the release of compressed gas from the compressed gas storage chamber through the bolt port to fire the paintball gun. | 14,207 |
8,628,490 | 1. A method of unilaterally perfusing blood in a retrograde direction to a patient's brain, the method comprising: preparing to perform unilateral perfusion of a patient comprising the steps of: performing a perfusion period comprising the steps of: performing a non-perfusion period comprising the steps of: said oxygen rich blood perfusing from said catheter between said target location and said brain so as to move in a retrograde direction towards a single hemisphere of said brain. | 32,516 |
9,316,535 | 1. A method comprising: detecting detectable light with a remote control, wherein the detectable light comprises: processing the detected detectable light using the first signature modulation characteristic and the target pattern to distinguish the at least a portion of the predetermined light from the at least a portion of the stray light. | 664 |
8,390,142 | 1. A vertical axis wind turbine comprising: a vertical axis wind mill having a vertical shaft and blades; a generator disposed on the vertical shaft and having the vertical shaft as its generator rotor shaft; a generator upper bearing; a generator lower bearing; and pairs of supporting arms, each pair for connecting one blade to the vertical shaft and having an upper supporting arm and a lower supporting arm, the corresponding pair of the upper supporting arm and the lower supporting arm are substantially parallel to each other; wherein said upper bearing is of an angular contact ball bearing, a roller bearing, or a cylindrical roller bearing; said lower bearing is an angular contact ball bearing; said vertical shaft is hollow inside; said upper supporting arms and lower supporting arms hold said blades at ¼ H at both ends, H being length of each blade of the wind mill; and a ratio between a length of said vertical shaft L in length, and a distance between said upper supporting arms and corresponding lower supporting arms h, L/H, is 1/1 to 3/2. | 30,543 |
9,726,341 | 1. A lighting apparatus comprising: a first light source that emits a first light; a first lens that allows the first light to pass through and exit from a first exit face of the first lens; a second light source that emits a second light; and a second lens that is smaller than the first lens and allows the second light to pass through and exit from a second exit face of the second lens, wherein, when viewed from a first exit face side: (i) the first exit face has a recess that is recessed inward from a periphery of the first exit face; (ii) the second exit face is at least partially disposed in the recess; and (iii) a portion of the periphery of the first exit face which forms the recess coincides with a portion of a periphery of the second exit face. | 27,998 |
8,474,851 | 1. A suspended rider bicycle comprising a frame, a pair of wheels supporting the frame, a suspension boom, formed integrally with the frame, which extends from the frame above the rider's torso, wherein the suspension boom has forward and rearward ends, the rearward end being connected to the frame at a rear end thereof, and the forward end being connected to the frame at a front end thereof, a suspension device for suspending the rider's torso from said suspension boom, and a reaction plate supported by the frame, to support the lower back during hard pedaling. | 32,791 |
9,404,414 | 1. A turbocharger for use with an internal combustion engine, the turbocharger comprising: a differential device having; a compressor having a plurality of magnets in driving engagement with the first side gear of the differential device; and a turbine in driving engagement with the second side gear of the differential device; wherein the compressor is in magnetic driving engagement with the first side gear and the turbine is in magnetic driving engagement with the second side gear. | 8,408 |
9,019,166 | 1. An active electronically scanned array (AESA) card comprising: a printed wiring board (PWB) comprising: wherein the PWB comprises at least one transmit/receive (T/R) channel used in an AESA. | 3,388 |
9,375,891 | 1. An apparatus for manufacturing a compressed scrap, comprising: a housing defining a space for compressing a scrap supplied therein; a support door coupled to an end of a cylinder rod of a hydraulic cylinder that can be inserted into the space through an outlet of the housing and can be fixedly held at a certain position and can be removed from the space through the outlet such that the outlet is opened; a compressing plate that can be inserted into the space through an inlet of the housing and can press against the support door such that the scrap is compressed by the support door and the compressing plate; a core that can be inserted into the space before the scrap is compressed to form a through-hole in the scrap; and wherein the core is disposed under the housing such that the core vertically reciprocates through an opening formed through a lower surface of the housing, wherein a pair of cross-cores is disposed outside of opposite housing walls such that the cross-cores can approach each other to come into contact with opposite side surfaces of the core having been inserted into the space. | 3,896 |
9,249,675 | 1. An airfoil comprising: an internal cooling passage configured to direct a cooling flow in a radially outward direction; a plurality of cooling flow exit holes in communication with the internal cooling passage, such that the cooling flow can exit the internal cooling passage; and a plurality of pin-fins positioned within discrete rows in the internal cooling passage, the plurality of pin-fins configured to guide the cooling flow to the plurality of cooling flow exit holes, wherein each of the plurality of pin-fins is positioned entirely within one of the discrete rows, and wherein: | 4,786 |
9,175,864 | 1. An energy-saving central heating and hot water supply system, the system comprising: a main heat exchanger configured to receive one of heat sources among hot water, medium temperature water, and steam from a heat production facility and produce heating water through a main heat exchange; a circulation pump configured to circulate the heating water produced in the main heat exchanger so that the heating water is supplied to and collected from each household or floor; a hot water supply heat exchanger located at each household or floor so as to produce hot water through a hot water supply heat exchange by utilizing the heating water supplied from the main heat exchanger, wherein the produced hot water is circulated in a floor coil through a hot water distributor located at the same household or floor or is directly circulated in the floor coil; an integrated hot water supply main pipe extended from the main heat exchanger so as to supply the produced hot water; an integrated hot water return main pipe extended from the main heat exchanger so as to return the used heating water to the main heat exchanger; a heating water supply pipe configured to connect the integrated hot water supply main pipe to a supply side of the hot water distributor; a heating water return pipe configured to connect the integrated hot water return main pipe to a collection side of the hot water distributor; a heating water supply pipe for hot water supply branched from the heating water supply pipe and connected to the hot water supply heat exchanger; a first valve installed in the heating water supply pipe so as to control a flow path of the heating water supply pipe; a second valve installed in the heating water supply pipe for hot water supply so as to control a flow path of the heating water supply pipe for hot water supply; a controller configured to control the first and second valves to supply the heating water supplied through the heating water supply pipe to the hot water distributor or the hot water supply heat exchanger depending on the present use of the hot water; a bypass pipe configured to return a portion of the heating water supplied from the hot water supply heat exchanger to the hot water distributor to the heating water return pipe by connecting the heating water supply pipe to the heating water return pipe; and a pipeline control unit configured to distribute the heating water discharged from the hot water supply heat exchanger to the hot water distributor and the bypass pipe at a predetermined ratio. | 16,358 |
9,416,321 | 1. A process for producing biofuel from renewable feedstocks, the process comprising: deoxygenating the renewable feedstocks in a deoxygenation reaction zone, separating the deoxygenation reaction zone effluent in a first vapor-liquid separator into a vapor stream and a liquid stream wherein the first vapor-liquid separator is operated at a temperature from about 40 C to about 350 C; dividing the liquid stream into a recycle portion and a product portion; stripping the product portion of the liquid stream in a stripping column with a stripping gas into an overhead vapor stream and a bottoms stream wherein a level of contaminants in the bottoms stream of the stripping column after the first vapor-liquid separator is less than 1/100 of a level of contaminants in a bottoms stream of a stripping column without a vapor-liquid separator, and wherein the stripping column is operated at a temperature of from about 50 C to about 350 C; isomerizing the bottoms stream of the stripping column in an isomerization reaction zone; recycling the recycle portion of the liquid stream to the deoxygenation reaction zone; fractionating at least a portion of an effluent of the isomerization reaction zone to form at least one biofuel product stream. | 18,749 |
8,483,896 | 1. A motor system comprising: a motor that is driven on power supplied thereto and generates a drive force to be used to drive a drive target body; and a control device that controls drive of the motor by controlling and supplying the power, which is supplied from a power source of the motor and is controlled by the control device, to the motor, wherein: the control device intermittently interrupts the power supplied to the motor; the control device converts DC power to AC power by engaging a plurality of switching semiconductor elements in switching operation, and comprises a switching circuit constituted with a plurality of serial circuits each formed by electrically connecting in series an upper-arm switching semiconductor element and a lower-arm switching semiconductor element, which are electrically connected in parallel to the power source; the motor includes a plurality of input terminals through which the AC power is input; the plurality of serial circuits are disposed corresponding to the plurality of input terminals, respectively; a middle point between the upper-arm switching semiconductor element and the lower-arm switching semiconductor element in each of the plurality of serial circuits is electrically connected to a corresponding input terminal among the plurality of input terminals; the power for driving the motor is cut off by setting all upper-arm switching semiconductor elements or all lower-arm switching semiconductor elements in the plurality of serial circuits in an electrically continuous state at once and thus setting the plurality of input terminals in an electrically shorted state; the power for driving the motor is cut off by forming a first operation mode, in which the plurality of input terminals of the motor are in an electrically shorted state by setting all upper-arm switching semiconductor elements or all lower-arm switching semiconductor elements in the plurality of serial circuits in an electrically continuous state at once with predetermined electrical angle timing relative to a single cycle of an AC current output from the control device; and a second control mode, in which controls are done for operation of the power conversion circuit, is formed, wherein, among upper- and lower-arm switching semiconductor elements in one of the plurality of serial circuits, a switching semiconductor element of an arm which is different from a switching semiconductor element of other serial circuits and of being in an electrically continuous state is set in an electrically continuous state according to an predetermined order of serial circuits, and wherein an amplitude of AC current output from the control device is modified in correspondence to a length of time of the electrically continuous state, and the first control mode and the second control mode are alternately assumed. | 49,089 |
8,527,703 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: dividing a cache memory system into a plurality of cache memory portions; receiving data to be written to a specific address within an electromechanical storage system; assigning the data to one of the plurality of cache memory portions, thus defining an assigned cache memory portion; generating association information for the data, wherein the association information defines the specific address within the electromechanical storage system to which the data is to be written and wherein the association information includes a timestamp and a sequence stamp; and writing the data and the association information to the assigned cache memory portion; wherein the cache memory system is a non-volatile, solid-state cache memory system. | 9,500 |
9,218,707 | 1. A device-enabled gaming system for enabling tournament gaming, comprising: a physical network that connects and enables communication between components in the gaming device-enabled gaming system; a tournament server connected to the physical network; a plurality of gaming machines connected to the physical network, the plurality of gaming devices each comprising: (i) at least one display device; (ii) a plurality of input devices including: (iii) an output device comprising a currency dispenser, a ticket dispenser, a physical prize dispenser, or combinations thereof that dispense currency, a paper ticket, or a physical prize, respectively; (iv) at least one gaming device processor; and (v) at least one gaming device memory device storing a plurality of gaming device instructions; wherein at least a first gaming machine enables, via one or more processors, play of a first base game, wherein at least a second gaming machine enables play of a second base game, wherein the first base game has a first set of parameters and the second base game has a second set of parameters, and wherein the first base game with the first set of parameters is a different game theme from the second base game with the second set of parameters; and one or more tournament controller devices in communication with the gaming machines and the tournament server via the physical network, each of the one or more tournament controller devices having one or more processors; wherein base game play data from each gaming machine is converted into a normalized tournament score, via at least one of the one or more tournament controller devices, that is designed to substantially equalize differences resulting from the base games that have differing sets of parameters, wherein calculation of the normalized tournament score uses monitored data spanning multiple base game plays; wherein the monitored data includes a theoretical payout percentage wherein calculation of the tournament score, via at least one of the one or more tournament controller devices, is determined with the theoretical payout percentage from the first and second base game, respectively, to establish player ranking. | 939 |
9,050,956 | 1. A brake device for a vehicle, said brake device comprising a master cylinder that generates a brake fluid pressure by operation of a brake pedal, a stroke simulator that imparts a reaction force to the operation of the brake pedal, a plurality of wheel cylinders each of which brakes a wheel, a master cut valve that is capable of blocking a fluid path providing a connection between the master cylinder and the wheel cylinders, a slave cylinder that is disposed between the master cut valve and the wheel cylinder and generates a brake fluid pressure that is commensurate with the operation of the brake pedal, and a control unit that, when the brake pedal is operated, closes the master cut valve and actuates the slave cylinder in a state in which the stroke simulator is capable of being actuated, in which the slave cylinder includes: a cylinder main body; first and second pistons that are slidably fitted into the cylinder main body and urged by springs in respective return directions; a first fluid pressure chamber that is adjacent to a front surface of the first piston and communicates with some of the plurality of wheel cylinders forming a first line; a second fluid pressure chamber that is adjacent to a front surface of the second piston and communicated with some of the plurality of wheel cylinders forming a second line; and a motor that drives the first and second pistons forward when operated to rotate, and the motor is operated to rotate in accordance with a depressing operation of the brake pedal so as to change a stroke of the slave cylinder, wherein the brake device further comprises an idling detection unit that detects idling of the motor of the slave cylinder, wherein when the stroke of the slave cylinder in a braking process is equal to or above a predetermined stroke in which even if one of the first and second fluid pressure chambers can not generate a brake fluid pressure, the other can generate it, the idling detection unit detects idling of the motor, and when idling of the motor is detected, the control unit opens the master cut valve and actuates the entire plurality of wheel cylinders by means of brake fluid pressure generated by the master cylinder. | 47,491 |
8,892,079 | 1. A computer-implemented method for ad hoc endpoint device association for multimedia conferencing, the method comprising: preparing, using one or more computing devices, to provide a first set of video streams corresponding to a multimedia conference to a first participant device, a second set of video streams corresponding to the multimedia conference to a second participant device, a third set of video streams corresponding to the multimedia conference to a third participant device, and a fourth set of video streams corresponding to the multimedia conference to a fourth participant device, wherein the fourth set of video streams comprises a first video stream associated with the first participant device, a second video stream associated with the second participant device, and a third video stream associated with the third participant device, the third set of video streams comprises the first video stream associated with the first participant device, the second video stream associated with the second participant device, and a fourth video stream associated with the fourth participant device, the second set of video streams comprises the first video stream associated with the first participant device, the third video stream associated with the third participant device, and the fourth video stream associated with the fourth participant device, and the first set of video streams comprises the second video stream associated with the second participant device, the third video stream associated with the third participant device, and the fourth video stream associated with the fourth participant device; determining, using the one or more computing devices, that the first participant device and the second participant device are in a same physical area; generating, using the one or more computing devices and in response to the determining, a location association between the first participant device and the second participant device for the multimedia conference; and excluding, using the one or more computing devices, the first video stream associated with the first participant device from the fourth set of video streams, the second video stream associated with the second participant device from the third set of video streams, the first video stream associated with the first participant device and the third video stream associated with the third participant device from the second set of video streams, and the second video stream associated with the second participant device and the fourth video stream associated with the fourth participant device from the first set of video streams, based at least in part on the location association between the first participant device and the second participant device. | 9,835 |
8,816,089 | 1. A compound represented by the following formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof; wherein R R R R Q represents —C(S)—; and W represents a group represented by the following formula (II): | 48,284 |
9,148,954 | 1. A ceramic electronic component comprising: a ceramic body including first and second principal surfaces extending in a length direction and a width direction, first and second lateral surfaces extending in the length direction and a thickness direction, and first and second end surfaces extending in the width direction and the thickness direction; and an outer electrode provided on the first principal surface; wherein the outer electrode includes: | 31,141 |
8,778,199 | 1. A method for manufacturing a solar cell using a process for selectively freeing an epitaxial layer from a single crystal substrate upon which it was grown, comprising: providing a first substrate of gallium arsenide; depositing a separation layer on said first substrate; depositing on the separation layer a sequence of epitaxial layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell including: forming over the separation layer an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and including a semiconductor contact layer; forming over said first solar subcell a middle second solar subcell having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; forming a graded interlayer over said second solar subcell; and forming over said graded interlayer a lower third solar subcell having a fourth band gap smaller than said second band gap such that said third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to said second subcell; mounting the first substrate and the sequence of epitaxial layers of semiconductor material on a flexible film; mechanically holding said first substrate against a bottom support of an etching apparatus; attaching a connecting link element that connects at least two opposed points on the periphery of the flexible film to an upper portion of the etching apparatus; introducing said solar cell having said flexible film bonded thereon into an etchant environment in said etching apparatus; etching said separation layer while applying mechanical tension to said connecting link element so as to remove said flexible film with said epitaxial layers from said first substrate; attaching the flexible film directly to a surrogate substrate by an electrostatic technique; depositing a contact metal layer over the semiconductor contact layer; lithographically processing the contact metal layer to form grid lines; attaching a cover glass over the grid lines; and removing the surrogate substrate. | 31,322 |
9,675,678 | 1. A method of treating homocystinuria in a subject, said method comprising administering to a subject a composition comprising an isolated human truncated cystathionine β synthase (htCBS) mutant polypeptide having a C15S mutation, and the truncation comprising at least a portion of the C-terminal regulatory region, wherein said isolated htCBS mutant polypeptide has been PEGylated with a 20 kDa NHS ester-activated PEG molecule, and wherein the isolated htCBS mutant polypeptide is administered at least once a week. | 26,698 |
8,705,448 | 1. A method, comprising: at a mobile wireless device: receiving a voice connection request; initiating a first voice connection with a remote device in response to receiving the voice connection request; detecting a failure of the first voice connection; establishing a data connection with a wireless network; receiving a voice connection redial request, wherein the voice connection redial request is received after detecting the failure of the first voice connection; closing the data connection with the wireless network; tuning a transceiver of the mobile wireless device to a voice connection channel radio frequency that is different from a data connection channel radio frequency associated with the data connection; and initiating a second voice connection, associated with the voice connection redial request, with the remote device, wherein the second voice connection uses the voice connection channel radio frequency. | 15,285 |
8,393,864 | 1. A wind turbine comprising: a plurality of sensor devices configured to detect values of a plurality of operating parameters of the wind turbine, at least one of the plurality of sensors is a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature outside the wind turbine; and a processing device configured to compare the detected values of the plurality of operating parameters to stored values of the plurality of operating parameters, wherein at least one comparison includes a comparison of the detected temperature to a stored threshold temperature, the processing device further configured to take a modifying action based on the comparisons, wherein the modifying action is one of (a) updating the stored values of the plurality of operating parameters with the detected values of the plurality of operating parameters when the temperature outside the turbine is greater than the threshold temperature, and (b) stopping the wind turbine when the temperature outside the turbine is less than or equal to the threshold temperature. | 1,365 |
9,061,975 | 1. A process for producing phenol, the process comprising: (a) oxidizing cyclohexylbenzene to form a first reaction product comprising cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide; and (b) cleaving at least a portion of the cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide from (a) to form a second reaction product comprising phenol and cyclohexanone, wherein at least one of the first reaction product and the second reaction product comprises cyclohexenone and the process further comprises: (c) hydrogenating at least a portion of the cyclohexenone to cyclohexanone. | 47,358 |
9,719,488 | 1. An arrangement to reduce noise of a wind turbine rotor blade, wherein the arrangement comprises the wind turbine rotor blade and a noise reduction device, the wind turbine rotor blade comprises a root end, a tip end, a leading edge section comprising a leading edge, and a trailing edge section comprising a trailing edge, the noise reduction device comprises a serrated extension for at least reducing noise which is generated from the wind turbine rotor blade, and the noise reduction device is attached to the trailing edge section, wherein the serrated extension comprises a number of first teeth and a number of second teeth, wherein the first teeth and the second teeth each comprises a respective base, and the bases of the first teeth and of the second teeth are arranged end to end to form a single row comprising the first teeth and the second teeth along the trailing edge in a spanwise direction, and wherein a design of the first teeth and the design of the second teeth are different compared to each other such that suction side noise, which is generated at a suction side of the wind turbine rotor blade, and pressure side noise, which is generated at a pressure side of the wind turbine rotor blade, are both reduced by the first teeth and the second teeth of the serrated extension. | 21,254 |
9,475,235 | 1. A transparent conductive film, comprising: a transparent film substrate; and a transparent conductive laminate that is provided on at least one surface of the transparent film substrate and comprises a first transparent conductive layer having a first thickness of 1 to 17 nm and a second transparent conductive layer having a second thickness of 9 to 34 nm, wherein the first transparent conductive layer is a first crystalline layer comprising indium oxide or an indium-based complex oxide having a tetravalent metal element oxide, a first content of the tetravalent metal element oxide of the first transparent conductive layer is more than 0% by weight and not more than 6% by weight, the second transparent conductive layer is a second crystalline layer comprising an indium-based complex oxide having a tetravalent metal element oxide, and located between the transparent film substrate and the first transparent conductive layer, and a second content of the tetravalent metal element oxide of the second transparent conductive layer is higher than the first content, wherein each of the first and the second contents of the tetravalent metal element oxide content is expressed by the formula: {the amount of the tetravalent metal element oxide/(the amount of the tetravalent metal element oxide+the amount of indium oxide)}×100(%), the second transparent conductive layer directly contacts the substrate and the first transparent conductive layer directly contacts the opposite surface of the second transparent conductive layer. | 43,572 |
9,000,886 | 1. A method for preventing an inadvertent configuration of an electrical device provided with an infrared interface ( 30 ), comprising the steps of: activation of one or more infrared buttons ( indicating an infrared button sequence on a display ( entering the infrared button sequence to activate the one or more infrared buttons before the configuration occurs. | 40,365 |
9,791,063 | 1. A shut-off valve comprising: an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit, a closure orifice disposed between the inlet conduit and the outlet conduit, a closure member movable between an open position and a closed position, in the open position the closure member is positioned away from the closure orifice to permit fluid communication between the inlet and outlet conduits, in the closed position the closure member interfaces with the closure orifice to prevent fluid communication between the inlet and outlet conduits, an electromagnetic actuator assembly comprising an electromagnetic field generator and a movable assembly to which the closure member is attached, the movable assembly being magnetically associated with the electromagnetic field generator and movable between first and second positions that respectively correspond to the closed and open positions of the closure member, and a manual actuator capable of being coupled to and subsequently decoupled from the movable assembly, the manual actuator movable between a first axial position and a second axial position, in the first axial position the manual actuator is coupled with the movable assembly in a manner that causes the movable assembly to move from the first position to the second position when the manual actuator is moved from the first axial position toward the second axial position, wherein when in the second axial position the manual actuator is not coupled to the movable assembly and the movable assembly is configured to be moved between the first and second positions upon the electromagnetic field generator producing an electromagnetic field. | 8,428 |
8,997,490 | 1. A waste heat recovery system comprising in combination: A. a supply of waste heat energy from a prime mover heat generating component of a prime mover; B. at least one prime mover fuel source including an anaerobic digestion system in prime mover fuel transfer sending communication with the prime mover; C. a power receiving component; and D. a power generating system having: wherein the system is configured in closed-loop energy transfer communication such that | 10,255 |
9,743,451 | 1. A communication system comprising: a plurality of nodes operable in a communication network, the plurality of nodes comprising: | 45,405 |
8,621,520 | 1. A method for selectively receiving in a receiver device application content that is transmitted by a broadcast network, comprising: receiving, in a wireless broadcast, an application metadata message in a broadcast client operating in the receiver device, the application metadata message including metadata regarding content scheduled to be broadcast to an application operating in the receiver device; passing the metadata from the broadcast client to the application operating in the receiver device; receiving content selection criteria or a direct filtering decision in the broadcast client from the application; and selectively passing content received in broadcast transmissions to the application based upon the content selection criteria or based on the direct filtering decision. | 36,203 |
8,984,620 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer, authenticated and authorized identity information associated with a user that includes at least a user id and one or more user IP addresses associated with the user id; receiving at least one data packet from a source, wherein the at least one packet comprises source information comprising a source IP address and destination information of a destination to which to transmit the packet; identifying, by the computer, a connection object associated with the connection based at least on the source information and the destination information of the at least one data packet; associating the identified connection object with the at least one packet; attempting to match the source IP address to one of the one or more user IP addresses; responsive to determining that the source IP address matches one of the one or more user IP addresses: | 11,716 |
8,740,955 | 1. A bone plate and bone fastener system comprising: a) a metal bone plate comprising an elongated body including a first end and a second end, the elongated body defining a plurality of apertures extending therethrough; and b) a plurality of fasteners, wherein at least one fastener of the plurality of fasteners comprises a head portion and a shaft portion, the shaft portion comprising an unthreaded neck section, a threaded mid-section, a threaded front section distal to the threaded mid-section, and an expanded core section, wherein the threaded front section is configured to engage a far cortical wall of a bone, wherein the threaded mid-section has a thread profile different from a thread profile of the threaded front section, wherein the threaded mid-section has a core diameter that is less than a core diameter of the threaded front section, and wherein the expanded core section has a core diameter that is greater than the core diameter of the threaded front section and the core diameter of the threaded mid-section. | 43,483 |
9,660,530 | 1. A method of providing a supply voltage to a dynamic internal power supply node of a group of digital circuits, the method comprising: coupling the dynamic internal power supply node to a static power supply that supplies a substantially constant power supply voltage with a first transistor; disabling the first transistor in response to a first phase of a boost clock that has controlled timing with respect to at least one other clock that synchronizes logic state changes within the group of digital circuits; resonating a voltage of the dynamic internal power supply node with an inductor and at least one capacitance coupled to the dynamic internal power supply node, so that when the disabling begins to disable the first transistor, a voltage of the dynamic internal power supply node increases in magnitude to a value substantially greater than a magnitude of the power supply voltage during a boost interval in which the at least one other clock causes the group of digital circuits to evaluate, and wherein the magnitude of the voltage of the dynamic internal power supply node falls to the magnitude of the power supply voltage before the first phase of the boost clock is complete and energy is stored in the inductor to boost the magnitude of the voltage of the dynamic internal power supply node during a next boost interval, wherein a first terminal of the inductor is connected to the dynamic internal power supply node and the at least one capacitance includes a circuit capacitance due to devices connected between the dynamic internal power supply node and a return node; further coupling the dynamic internal power supply node to the static power supply using a boost transistor having a gate coupled to the boost clock, a source terminal connected to the dynamic internal power supply node and a drain terminal connected to the static power supply; coupling the boost clock to a gate of the boost transistor and a gate of the first transistor with a buffer; providing a capacitor between an output of the clock buffer and the dynamic internal power supply node; providing a second transistor coupled in series with the capacitor; and controlling a gate of the second transistor with a control signal having controlled timing with respect to the boost clock. | 17,033 |
8,751,281 | 1. A method comprising: acquiring, into a memory associated with a central session manager, a list of sessions, wherein each session includes a grouped plurality of sub-tasks that are configured to be sequentially performed, by being executed by a processor, in order to accomplish a business management task, wherein the business management task includes one or more of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) tasks, wherein one or more event listeners are bound to each session, and wherein each event listener is configured to receive and process event notification messages produced by execution of sub-tasks of the bound session, and wherein the central session manager is configured to provide a single point of access to a central repository for all running and registered sessions of the listed sessions, register at least one of the listed sessions with session execution context, unregister at least one of the listed sessions, return all active sessions of the listed sessions, return at least part of a session context for at least one of the active sessions, maintain a limited number of the active sessions, remove an expired session of the listed sessions when the expired session has an expiration time, unblock a waiting or stalled session of the listed sessions, and monitor one or more of the listed sessions via new listeners; | 38,035 |
9,454,472 | 1. A method of sparsity-driven matrix representation, the method comprising configuring a processor to perform operations including: determining a sparsity of a matrix that is a result matrix from a planned operation on at least one input matrix, wherein the determining includes estimating the sparsity of the matrix based on an estimated sparsity of the at least one input matrix and a type of the planned operation; comparing the sparsity to a threshold; allocating a computer memory to store the matrix in a first data structure format based on the sparsity being greater than the threshold, wherein the first data structure is one of a row-wise order dense one-dimensional (1D) array, a column-wise order 1D array, and a two-dimensional (2D) array; allocating the computer memory to store the matrix in a second data structure format based on the sparsity being less than or equal to the threshold; storing the matrix in the memory in the first data structure format based on the sparsity being greater than the threshold; and storing the matrix in the second data structure format based on the sparsity not being greater than the threshold. | 10,435 |
9,662,390 | 1. A method of inhibiting abnormal migration and/or proliferation of endothelial cells in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject an amount of methylnaltrexone, or a salt thereof as the sole active agent, effective to inhibit the abnormal migration and/or proliferation of endothelial cells, wherein the subject is taking concurrent opioid therapy. | 44 |
8,515,594 | 1. A towbarless airplane tug configured for receiving a landing gear of an airplane and towing the airplane thereby, said tug comprising: a chassis configured for receiving thereon at least a portion of said landing gear; a propulsion arrangement configured to move the tug in a direction along a trajectory and comprising a variable angle swash plate hydraulic pump coupled to a variable angle swash plate hydraulic motor and to a controllable bypass path valve, configured such that a hydraulic fluid circulates between the pump and the motor so as to activate said propulsion arrangement to increase at least one of a speed and a traction force of the tug when a bypass path is in a closed state, and at least most of the hydraulic fluid circulates across the motor via the bypass path valve so as to reduce at least one of a rotational speed and traction force of the tug when the bypass path is in a opened state; at least one force sensor configured to measure, directly or indirectly, a force exerted by said chassis on said landing gear in at least said direction due to a speed differential between said tug and said airplane; and a controller in communication with said force sensor and being configured to alter one or more parameters of movement of the tug such that the force exerted by said chassis on said landing gear is maintained below a predetermined value by regulating at least the power available to the propulsion arrangement, the pump and motor swash-plates, and the state of the bypass path valve. | 48,565 |
8,551,619 | 1. A building material, comprising: a substrate at least partially surmounted by at least one thin film having a thickness in the range of from about 5 nm to about 5000 nm, the at least one thin film transmitting from about 5% to about 80% of radiation having a wavelength of between about 300 nm and about 700 nm, the at least one thin film reflecting from about 25% to about 60% of radiation having a wavelength of between about 700 nm and about 2500 nm, and the thin film being selected so as to provide a building material having an L* of less than about 55. | 36,750 |
8,882,138 | 1. An airbag assembly comprising: a housing configured to be mounted at or below a seating surface of a seat of a vehicle; an inflator; and an airbag cushion that is configured to: | 21,146 |
9,498,825 | 1. A pipe de-burring assembly configured to remove burrs from an outer surface and an inner surface of a pipe, said assembly comprising: a mount configured to be coupled to a power tool such that said power tool rotates said mount when said power tool is turned on; and a de-burring member movably coupled to said mount, said de-burring member being configured to remove burrs from either of an inside surface or an outside surface of a pipe, wherein said de-burring member comprises a cylinder having a first end, a second end and an outer wall extending therebetween, each of said first end and said second end being open, said outer wall having an outer surface and an inner surface, said cylinder having a dividing wall coupled to said inner surface, said dividing wall being centrally positioned within said cylinder to define a first portion and a second portion of an interior of said cylinder, said dividing wall having a first surface and a second surface, said dividing wall tapering outwardly toward said first end such that said dividing wall has a conical shape; said mount including a pair of lateral arms, a central arm and a shaft, said shaft having a distal end, each of said lateral arms having a distal end; and said outer wall of said cylinder being rotatably coupled between said distal ends of each of said lateral arms, said cylinder being positionable in a cutting position such that an axis extending through said first end and said second end is aligned with the axis extending through said distal end of said shaft and said central arm, said cylinder being configured to rotate about the axis extending through said distal end and said central arm when the power tool is turned on; said cylinder being positioned in a first cutting position having said first end being directed away from said central arm, said first portion of said interior being configured to insertably receive an end of the pipe such that said first surface abuts the inside surface of the pipe, said cylinder being positioned in a second cutting position having said second end being directed away from said central arm, said second portion of said interior being configured to insertably receive the end of the pipe such that said second surface abuts the outside surface of the pipe; a first blade and a second blade, said first blade being coupled to said first surface of said dividing wall, said first blade extending between said inner surface of said outer wall and a center of said dividing wall, said first blade being configured to frictionally engage the inside surface of the pipe such that said first blade abrades the burrs from the pipe when the power tool is turned on, said second blade being coupled to said second surface of said dividing wall, said second blade extending between said inner surface of said outer wall and said center of said dividing wall, said second blade being configured to frictionally engage the outside surface of the pipe such that said second blade abrades the burrs from the pipe when the power tool is turned on; and a lock having a first end and a second end, said lock having a pair of arms extending between said first end and said second end, said arms being spaced from each other, said first end being slidably coupled to one of said lateral arms and said second end being slidably coupled to one of said lateral arms. | 36,928 |
9,273,638 | 1. A system for a gaseous-fueled engine, comprising: a gaseous fuel tank; a first pressure regulator comprising a high pressure chamber coupled to the gaseous fuel tank, a low pressure chamber coupled to an engine fuel rail, and a reference chamber; a second pressure regulator coupled to the reference chamber; a first valve controlling fuel flow from the gaseous fuel tank to the engine fuel rail; a second valve controlling gaseous fuel flow from the second pressure regulator to the reference chamber; a first fuel line coupling the gaseous fuel tank to the high pressure chamber, and a second fuel line coupling the gaseous fuel tank to the reference chamber via the second pressure regulator and second valve; a pressure relief conduit coupled to the second fuel line downstream of the second pressure regulator and second valve, and upstream of the reference chamber; and a controller including memory with instructions therein for adjusting the first and second valves based on a desired fuel rail pressure, where the first pressure regulator is a higher pressure regulator and the second pressure regulator is a lower pressure regulator, and where the controller further includes memory with instructions therein for, when the first and second valves are actuated, de-actuating the second valve in response to a decrease in desired fuel rail pressure while maintaining the flow of gaseous fuel from the gaseous fuel tank to the fuel rail. | 17,282 |
9,559,796 | 1. A security system for locating subscribers within a defined area and providing advice to located subscribers during an emergency situation, said security system, comprising: a security advisory system including a non-volatile memory having data structures and programming and a processor in communication with said memory and configured to execute respective programming; a geographical map server configured to store and update geographical map data of predetermined areas, said geographical map server being in electronic communication with said security advisory system and configured to deliver respective geographical map information thereto when requested; a security advisory application (“app”) running on a subscriber's mobile computing device and in data communication with said security advisory system, said security advisory app configured to periodically deliver real time location data to said security advisory system; wherein said security advisory system is configured via programming to: wherein said security advisory app is configured to receive emergency state response data and to actuate the mobile computing device to display said receive said emergency state response data. | 42,983 |
8,440,596 | 1. A settable composition comprising: ground unexpanded perlite; cement kiln dust; and water. | 45,863 |
8,952,702 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a multiphase voltage conversion device with N-phases (N being an integer equal to or larger than two) that is connected to the fuel cell; a control signal generation portion that generates control signals to control each phase of the multiphase voltage conversion device by superimposing a control waveform for measuring impedance on a voltage indicating an output target voltage of the multiphase voltage conversion device, and sequentially outputs the control signals corresponding to N phases with a predetermined phase difference to the multiphase voltage conversion device; and an impedance calculation portion that measures a current of the fuel cell and a voltage of the fuel cell on cycles corresponding to N predetermined sampling frequencies having a phase difference equal to the predetermined phase difference, and calculates an impedance of the fuel cell based on the measured current and the measured voltage. | 46,606 |
9,010,725 | 1. A valve having a stem seal assembly comprising: a valve body defining a flow passage and a body cavity perpendicular to the flow passage; the valve body further defining a stem opening extending from an exterior of the body into the body cavity; a valve member moveable between an open position and a closed position, the valve member blocking the flow passage in the closed position, and allowing flow through the flow passage in the open position; a valve stem having a valve stem axis coupled to the valve member, the valve stem extending from the body cavity to an exterior of the valve body through the valve stem opening for moving the valve member from the closed position to the open position; a spring energized first seal ring positioned within the valve stem opening to seal the valve stem to the valve body, the first seal ring comprising: a second seal ring positioned within the valve stem opening to seal the valve stem to the valve body; and a load ring assembly stationarily mounted to and defining a portion of the valve body between the first seal ring and the second seal ring that isolates the first seal ring and the second seal ring so that a force applied to the first seal ring in a direction toward the second seal ring transfers to the load ring assembly. | 20,840 |
9,814,051 | 1. A method for signal processing, comprising: receiving at a given location at least first and second signals transmitted respectively from at least first and second antennas of a wireless transmitter, the at least first and second signals encoding identical data using a multi-carrier encoding scheme with a predefined cyclic delay between the transmitted signals; processing the received first and second signals, using the cyclic delay, in order to derive a measure of a phase delay between the first and second signals; and based on the measure of the phase delay, estimating an angle of departure of the first and second signals from the wireless transmitter to the given location, wherein processing the received first and second signals comprises computing a temporal correlation function over the first and second signals, and finding the measure of the phase delay responsively to a time difference between peaks in the temporal correlation function. | 41,919 |
9,804,286 | 1. A method of optimising the output of a sensor for indicating the relative location of a metallic object, the sensor being of the type having a primary electromagnetic coil arranged to generate a time varying magnetic field; and a secondary electromagnetic coil arranged to detect the time varying magnetic field as affected, directly or indirectly, by the object and to output, on the basis of the detected time varying magnetic field, a signal indicative of the relative location of the object, the method including the steps of: supplying the primary coil with an alternating current to result in the generated time varying magnetic field; locating the object in a first position and recording the signal output by the secondary electromagnetic coil for a range of respective frequencies of the supplied alternating current; locating the object in a second position and recording the signal output by the secondary electromagnetic coil for the range of respective frequencies of the supplied alternating current; calculating, for each of the respective frequencies, a value for the span to offset ratio of the measured signals on the basis of the respective signals measured for the object in the first and second positions, the calculating step including, for each respective frequency determining the frequency of the supplied alternating current which provides the maximum span to offset ratio on the basis of the calculations. | 34,758 |
9,694,669 | 1. An active grille shutter arrangement having an modular frame comprising: a primary frame piece defining a width and height of an aperture of the modular frame: at least one secondary frame piece connectable to the primary frame piece, wherein the primary frame piece and the at least one secondary frame piece form the modular frame having at least one aperture capable of allowing air to pass through the modular frame; at least one connection joint between the primary frame piece and the at least one secondary frame, wherein the at least one connection joint each include an interlocking dovetail joint secured with a tab and boss; and a plurality of vanes rotatably positioned between the at least one primary frame piece and the at least one secondary frame. | 31,366 |
9,829,463 | 1. A method for producing an oxygen sensor, the method comprising: spinning a compound precursor consisting of a salt of at least one metal selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho, Yb, Sr, Ba, Mn, Co, Mg and Ga, a solvent, and a macromolecular polymer to produce nanofibers of the compound precursor containing the salt of the metal, wherein an average molecular weight of the macromolecular polymer ranges from 1,000 to 100,000; calcining the nanofibers of the compound precursor containing the salt of the metal at a temperature ranging from 550° C. to 650° C. for 2 to 4 hours, to obtain nanofibers of metal oxide containing the at least one metal, making a solid electrolyte material composed of the nanofibers obtained from the calcining, and producing a part of the oxygen sensor from the solid electrolyte material. | 31,729 |
9,195,290 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, navigational information that defines a route; sensing motion of the computing device along the route; displaying, based on the sensed motion of the computing device along the route, overhead map or satellite images that correspond to respective locations of the computing device along the route; identifying a current traveling speed of the computing device along the route; determining that the current traveling speed of the computing device is less than a threshold traveling speed; and in response to determining that the current traveling speed of the computing device is less than the threshold traveling speed, causing the computing device to change from (a) displaying the overhead map or satellite images that correspond to the respective locations of the computing device along the route to (b) displaying one or more digital photographic images that were captured at street level and that correspond to one or more locations of the computing device along the route. | 46,305 |
9,400,323 | 1. A passive radar device, comprising: a direct-wave reception antenna that receives a direct wave that directly arrives at the direct-wave reception antenna after being transmitted from a radio source; a scattered-wave reception antenna that receives a scattered wave transmitted from the radio source and scattered by a target; a direct-wave receiver that divides a received signal of the direct wave into pulses; a scattered-wave receiver that divides a received signal of the scattered wave into pulses; a pulse-by-pulse range compressor that executes cross-correlation processing between the received signal of the direct wave and the received signal of the scattered wave on each of the divided pulses and that calculates a pulse-by-pulse range profile; a block-by-block Doppler processor that calculates a first Doppler frequency spectrum by executing pulse-direction Fourier transform in units of blocks each of which groups a plurality of pulses; a Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator that compensates a range-direction movement amount with respect to the first Doppler frequency spectrum on a Doppler-frequency-cell-by-Doppler-frequency-cell basis and on a block-by-block basis; and a block-direction Doppler processor that calculates a second Doppler frequency spectrum by executing block-direction Fourier transform on an output from the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator. | 49,812 |
9,358,866 | 1. A method of assembling a hybrid system, comprising: assembling a hybrid module, wherein said assembling the hybrid module includes installing a dedicated lubrication, communication, controller, and cooling systems for the hybrid module to minimize impact on other vehicular systems; wherein the controller includes a transmission/hybrid control module (TCM/HCM) that is separate from an engine control module (ECM) for the engine; and wherein said installing includes securing the TCM/HCM at a location that is different from the ECM. | 21,162 |
9,470,108 | 1. A system, comprising: a thrust reverser; and a rack, comprising: | 31,096 |
8,597,744 | 1. A device housing, comprising: a substrate defining a cutout therein, the cutout comprises an opening; and a decorative article formed in the cutout, the decorative article being a glass article; wherein the substrate defines a flange at the opening of the cutout, the decorative article comprises a bottom end directly bonding with the substrate, the bottom end of the decorative article is locked in position by the flange of the substrate at the opening of the cutout. | 16,655 |
8,963,616 | 1. A circuit topology for a phase connection of an inverter, the circuit topology comprising: a circuit bridge having upper and lower bridge halves and upper and lower bridge segments respectively associated with the upper and lower bridge halves, wherein each bridge half has an outer switch and an inner switch connected in series, wherein each bridge segment has a diode and the inner switch of the associated bridge half connected in series; the circuit bridge having an output respectively connected to upper and lower potentials through the outer switches of the upper and lower bridge halves, the output of the circuit bridge further connected to a center potential applied between the upper and lower potentials through each of the upper and lower bridge segments; each of the upper and lower bridge halves further has a parallel switch, wherein the parallel switch of each bridge half is connected in parallel to the series-connected outer and inner switches of the bridge half; wherein the outer and inner switches of each bridge half are configured to produce relatively smaller switching losses than the parallel switch of the bridge half; wherein the parallel switch of each bridge half is configured to produce relatively smaller conduction losses than the outer and inner switches of the bridge half; the output of the circuit bridge being further respectively connected to the upper and lower potentials through the parallel switches of the upper and lower bridge halves; wherein the parallel switch of each bridge half is controlled to open and close while the outer and inner switches of the bridge half are closed; wherein the outer switch of each bridge half is controlled to open after the parallel switch of the bridge half has opened and while the inner switch of the bridge half is closed, and the outer switch of each bridge half is controlled to close prior to the parallel switch of the bridge half closing and while the inner switch of the bridge half is closed. | 1,334 |
9,853,179 | 1. A system for reducing dark current in a photodiode, comprising: a heater configured to heat a photodiode above room temperature; a reverse bias voltage source configured to apply a reverse bias voltage to the heated photodiode to reduce a dark current generated by the photodiode; and a control system configured to trigger the reverse bias voltage source to apply the reverse bias voltage for a duration less than a duration that the heater heats the photodiode. | 48,779 |
9,310,973 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image processor configured to execute image processing; a display unit configured to provide a screen; a reader configured to read user information by reading a medium having the user information in a contactless manner or a contact manner; an operation unit configured to receive the user information by operation of the operation unit; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform: when at least one of the reader and the operation unit receives the user information, determining an input method from a first input method in which the reader is used exclusively, a second input method in which both the reader and the operation unit are used exclusively, and a third input method in which the operation unit is used exclusively; based on the determined input method and a predetermined correspondence relationship, determining a screen providing method from a first screen providing method of providing no input screen for inputting information, a second screen providing method of providing a screen in which a first number of setting items is provided, and a third screen providing method of providing a screen in which a second number of setting items is provided, the second number being larger than the first number, the correspondence relationship being such that the first input method corresponds to the first screen providing method, the second input method corresponds to the second screen providing method, and the third input method corresponds to the third screen providing method; and controlling the display unit to provide or not to provide the input screen based on the determined screen providing method. | 8,180 |
8,822,638 | 1. A peptide or peptide derivative comprising: (i) an amino acid sequence comprising imfwydcye (SEQ ID NO: 431); or (ii) a variant amino acid sequence comprising one, two, three, four, five or six amino acid substitutions in imfwydcye (SEQ ID NO: 431), said variant amino acid sequence comprising X wherein said peptide or peptide derivative has procoagulant activity. | 5,632 |
8,959,813 | 1. A convertible fixture comprising: a support structure including a pair of vertical supports, each vertical support of the pair of vertical supports being substantially hollow and defining an open top end; and a vertical extender adjustably coupled with the support structure, the vertical extender including: wherein: | 30,479 |
9,518,847 | 1. A light guide sensor comprising: a light source; a light guide member elongated in a longitudinal direction, the light guide member comprising a core which guides light radiated from the light source, a cladding formed around the core, and at least one detecting portion; and a light receiving unit which receives the light that has been guided by the light guide member and has passed via the detecting portion, wherein the detecting portion having a first opening formed by removal of at least part of the cladding resulting in the cladding having a first thickness at the first opening in a thickness direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction such that the cladding having the first thickness is sufficient so as to not transmit the light from the core, the detecting portion further having a second opening which is formed in the cladding having the first thickness and within a width of the first opening, the width being in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, the second opening one of exposing the core or resulting in a second thickness of the cladding sufficient so as to transmit the light from the core. | 20,920 |
9,829,202 | 1. A heating panel for heating a concrete structure, the concrete structure having a top surface, the heating panel comprising: a plurality of carbon fiber strips, each carbon fiber strip of the plurality of carbon fiber strips being spaced apart from adjacent carbon fiber strips within the panel and having opposed first and second ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the opposed first and second ends, wherein the longitudinal axis of each respective carbon fiber strip is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of each other carbon fiber strip of the plurality of spaced carbon fiber strips; and a plurality of electrodes, each electrode of the plurality of electrodes being spaced apart from other electrodes within the panel, wherein at least one electrode of the plurality of spaced electrodes is electrically coupled to each respective carbon fiber strip of the plurality of carbon fiber strips, wherein the plurality of spaced carbon fiber strips are connected in parallel to the plurality of spaced electrodes to form a panel structure, wherein the panel structure has a thickness extending along a vertical axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the carbon fiber strips, and wherein the spaces between adjacent carbon fiber strips and the plurality of electrodes form openings that extend through the thickness of the panel structure relative to the vertical axis, wherein the heating panel is configured to be integrally formed within the concrete structure to apply thermal energy to the top surface of the concrete structure, wherein, following formation of the concrete structure, the plurality of spaced carbon fiber strips and the plurality of spaced electrodes are configured for unified movement with the concrete structure, and wherein the plurality of spaced electrodes are configured to restrict movement of the plurality of spaced carbon fiber strips, thereby maintaining electrical coupling between the plurality of spaced electrodes and the plurality of spaced carbon fiber strips. | 30,469 |
8,485,764 | 1. A cutting insert, comprising: an upper surface; a lower surface; a side surface; and a cutting edge which is located in an intersection region of the upper surface and the side surface, and comprises a major cutting edge, a flat cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge located between the major cutting edge and the flat cutting edge, wherein the cutting edge comprises sequentially, in a side view, a peripheral cutting edge angle of the minor cutting edge is larger than a peripheral cutting edge angle of the major cutting edge. | 9,076 |
9,816,252 | 1. A hybrid-driven hydraulic work machine, comprising: an engine; a hydraulic pump rotationally driven by the engine; an electric assist motor coupled to the engine and the hydraulic pump; a plurality of actuators each driven by a hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump; and a plurality of operating devices each including an operating member and configured to output an appropriate operating signal according to a particular operation of the operating member, thereby operating the actuators, wherein the hydraulic work machine comprises: | 25,920 |
9,142,315 | 1. An integrated non-volatile memory (NVM) system, comprising: an array of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells; bias voltage generator circuitry configured to generate bias voltages for the NVM cells; storage circuitry configured to store pulse count performance degradation information, the pulse count performance degradation information being at least one of a program pulse count number for a program operation or an erase pulse count number for an erase operation; and controller circuitry configured to determine pulse count performance information relating to at least one of a number of program pulses required for a program operation or a number of erase pulses required for an erase operation, to compare the pulse count performance information to the stored pulse count performance degradation information to determine performance degradation, and to adjust at least one voltage level for the bias voltages generated by the bias voltage generator circuitry for read or verify operations based upon the performance degradation determination; wherein the controller circuitry is further configured to conduct at least one of a read operation or a verify operation for the NVM system using the at least one adjusted voltage level. | 31,033 |
9,780,311 | 1. A compound of formula (or formula (II) wherein R* is, identically or differently on each occurrence, —CN, or wherein a is 1 or 2, or X, Y are, identically or differently on each occurrence, a single bond, C(R V is a single bond, CO, CS, P(O)R T is, identically or differently on each occurrence, a single bond, C(R Z is, identically or differently on each occurrence, CR R R R m is, identically or differently on each occurrence, 0 or 1, where at least one m in formula (I) or formula (II) is 1; n is, identically or differently on each occurrence, 0 or 1, where at least one n in formula (I) is 1, and wherein the groups X and Y are each bonded in adjacent positions to the six-membered ring of the spirobifluorene derivative. | 38,286 |
8,351,985 | 1. A multi mode mobile device configured to switch between a communication mode and a computing mode, the multi mode mobile device comprising: a communication processor configured to facilitate wireless voice and data communication when the multi mode mobile device is in the communication mode; an application processor configured to execute at least one computing application when the multi mode mobile device is in the computing mode; and a configuration module configured to switch the multi mode mobile device from the computing mode to the communication mode in response to user input of at least part of a telephone number. | 12,220 |
9,820,213 | 1. A terminal device comprising: a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions; a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions so as to: a sensor configured to detect an ambient environment or a status of the terminal device, wherein execution of the second application is conducted based on one of the processor being in the normal state and the sensor detecting the standby or sleep states, and a degree of the progress of the second application in the standby and sleep states is based on the detection of the sensor. | 16,977 |
9,251,072 | 1. A method to manage directory information in a die in a multi-processor architecture, the method comprising: receiving a request, by a directory, for a particular data block, wherein the request is associated with a cache in the die; updating, by the directory in response to the received request, a first entry in a memory, wherein the first entry is associated with the particular data block, and wherein the first entry corresponds to a number of cache misses experienced by the cache; updating, by the directory, the number of cache misses for the particular data block to produce an updated number of cache misses for the cache; and updating, by the directory, a second entry in the memory, wherein the second entry corresponds to the updated number of cache misses for the cache. | 25,200 |
8,789,447 | 1. A tool comprising: a first end capable of being adapted to an instrument having a chuck to impart a rotary motion to the tool, a flexible extension shaft capable of being bent about an axis and capable of receiving the rotary motion from the first end a second end capable of receiving the rotary motion from the flexible extension shaft, and having a rotatable member with a first end having a first implement and a second end having a second implement, wherein the second end has a spring to bias the rotatable member towards the first end of the tool. | 21,352 |
9,243,384 | 1. A hybrid construction machine comprising: a hydraulic actuator; a hydraulic pump which provides hydraulic power to the hydraulic actuator; a generator-motor which performs an electric generator action for generating electric power and an electric motor action for providing assist power to assist the engine; an engine which provides driving power to the hydraulic pump and the generator-motor, the engine connected to the generator-motor to receive the assist power from the generator-motor; an electric actuator which generates regenerative electric power; an electrical storage device which performs a charge-and-discharge action of supplying and receiving electric power to and from the generator-motor and the electric actuator; a charge rate detector which detects a charge rate C a control section which controls an operation of the generator-motor and the charge-and-discharge action of the electrical storage device, wherein when the charge rate C | 47,041 |
8,776,580 | 1. A system for detecting the place of leakage in an umbilical hose comprising: a test site at a predetermined location to receive a leaking umbilical hose; a metal PIG device adapted to be inserted in an opened end of a leaking umbilical hose while an opposite end of the umbilical hose is closed; a source of pressurized fluid at the test site connectable to the opened end of the leaking umbilical hose, wherein the source of pressurized fluid applies hydrostatic pressure to propel the metal PIG device through the hose to a position adjacent the leak in the hose, and an external metal detector at the test site adapted to locate the metal PIG device in the umbilical hose and identify the location of the metal PIG device in the hose when adjacent the leak. | 58 |
9,515,545 | 1. A method comprising: driving an electronic switch in a switched-mode power converter in successive drive cycles, wherein driving the electronic switch in each of the successive drive cycles comprises switching on the electronic switch for an on-period and subsequently switching off the electronic switch for an off-period; measuring an operation parameter of the switched-mode power converter during the on-periods in the successive drive cycles, and storing the operation parameter measured in the on-period if a duration of the on-period met a predefined criteria; and forcing the on-period of at least one of the successive drive cycles to meet the predefined criteria if the operation parameter has not been stored for a predefined number of drive cycles of the successive drive cycles, or for a predefined time duration. | 5,593 |
8,839,887 | 1. A carbide composite material comprising: a continuous ductile phase; and at least one discrete carbide region surrounded by the continuous ductile phase, the at least one discrete carbide region comprising an integrally bridged plurality of carbide particles selected from at least one of cast carbide or sintered carbide, wherein the integrally bridged plurality of carbide particles comprise carbide particles that are integrally fused together to form direct carbide particle to carbide particle bonding, and wherein the at least one discrete region has a nodular particle morphology. | 25,723 |
9,579,863 | 1. A frame for a hydraulic apparatus, the frame comprising: at least two supporting pillars parallel to each other; a supporting assembly, the supporting assembly mounted on the at least two supporting pillars and comprising: a fixed die plate fixed to the at least two supporting pillars; an adjustable die plate slidably fixed to the supporting assembly; and a core plate slidably fixed to the at least two supporting plates and located between the fixed die plate and the adjustable die plate; and a link mechanism mounted on the supporting assembly and coupling the core plate to the adjustable die plate; wherein the fixed die plate comprises a periphery sidewall and a surface perpendicular to the periphery sidewall, the fixed die plate defines a ring-shaped indentation in the surface and extending along a circumferential direction of the fixed die plate, the fixed die plate further defines at least two first through openings interconnected with the ring-shaped indentation and cut through the periphery sidewall. | 39,081 |
9,412,515 | 1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising: electronically analyzing exchange information resultant from residential participant user interface interaction and related residentially situated wireless electric vehicle recharging factors; electronically sending analysis matter for subsequent user interface interaction, the analysis matter based at least in part on the analyzing exchange information; electronically processing status associated with wireless electric vehicle recharging affiliated with one or more dwelling associates of one or more dwelling related areas; electronically monitoring operational aspects affecting influence between the one or more electric vehicles and one or more dwelling associates; electronically ascertaining recharging guidance for wireless electric vehicle recharging affiliated with the one or more dwelling associates based upon the status associated with the wireless electric vehicle recharging and based upon the operational aspects affecting influence; electronically presenting user interface content on one or more electronic user interface outputs related to electric vehicle employee involvement and related to wireless transfer of electrical energy to the one or more electric vehicles; electronically evaluating response information associated with user interface input regarding the user interface content presented on the one or more user interface outputs and related to wireless transfer of electrical energy to the one or more electric vehicles; electronically tracking employment information electric vehicles users and related to wireless electrical charging for electric vehicles propulsion; electronically assimilating inquiry information regarding at least in part the wireless electrical charging for electric vehicle propulsion; electronically supplying management information regarding the wireless electrical charging for electric vehicle propulsion based at least in part upon the employment information and based at least in part upon the inquiry information; electronically assessing electricity provider information associated with providing electrical energy to one or more electric vehicle wireless electrical energy chargers; electronically requesting electric vehicle wireless electrical energy charger planning information regarding one or more indications of electric vehicle user activities involving the one or more electric vehicles; electronically outputting electric vehicle wireless electrical energy charger advisement information to the one or more electric vehicle wireless electrical energy chargers based upon the electricity provider information and based upon the electric vehicle wireless electrical energy charger planning information; electronically accessing energy impartation information including aspects regarding evidence of intended activity of one or more users of one or more electric vehicles; electronically determining operational direction information for wirelessly imparting electrical energy from the one or more wireless electrical energy imparting stations to one or more electric vehicles based at least in part upon the energy impartation information; electronically transmitting advisory information based at least in part upon the operational direction information, the advisory information for use by the electric vehicle in wirelessly receiving electrical energy from the one or more wireless electrical energy imparting stations; electronically receiving electric vehicle prospective use information associated with one or more future travel plans involving prospective use of an electric vehicle; electronically obtaining electrical energy transfer aspect information regarding wireless electrical energy transfer from one or more wireless electrical energy transfer imparting stations to the one or more electric vehicles; and electronically providing electrical energy transfer guidance information to at least in part provide guidance for the wireless electrical energy transfer from the one or more wireless electrical energy transfer imparting stations to the one or more electric vehicles based at least in part on the electric vehicle prospective use information and the electrical energy transfer aspect information. | 17,457 |
9,551,285 | 1. An exhaust-gas control method for a gas engine, which mixes fuel gas and air and supplies mixed gas to a combustion chamber, comprising: executing a basic operation mode in which an ignition-timing of the mixed gas and an air-fuel rate in the combustion chamber are respectively controlled to be a first target ignition timing and a first target air-fuel rate which are respectively set as an ignition timing and an air-fuel rate at which a fuel consumption rate is the best on the basis of an engine speed and an engine load; determining whether there is a NOx reduction demand to restrict an amount of NOx emission temporarily, on the basis of at least one of a geographical condition of a region where the amount of NOx emission is regulated, or an engine operation elapse condition; switching an operation mode from the basic operation mode to a low NOx operation mode in which the ignition-timing and the air-fuel rate are respectively controlled to be a second target ignition timing retarded from the first target ignition timing and a second target air-fuel rate increased from the first target air-fuel rate as target values; continuing the low NOx operation mode until a NOx reduction demand is cancelled; and switching the operation mode from the low NOx operation mode to the basic operation mode when the NOx reduction demand is cancelled. | 29,166 |
9,474,324 | 1. An article of footwear comprising: an outer shell, the outer shell including an upper and a sole structure; an inner liner, the inner liner being configured to be removably inserted within an interior of the outer shell; wherein the inner liner extends from an upper liner portion to a lower liner portion; an adjustable tensioning system disposed on at least one of a lateral side and a medial side of the inner liner; the adjustable tensioning system including a tensioning element disposed through a body structure and a tension control device attached to the tensioning element; wherein the body structure extends longitudinally along the at least one of the lateral side and the medial side of the inner liner from a proximal end portion of the body structure disposed at the upper liner portion to a distal end portion of the body structure disposed at the lower liner portion; wherein the tensioning element extends longitudinally along the body structure and is configured to pull the distal end portion of the body structure longitudinally toward the proximal end portion of the body structure to stiffen the body structure; and wherein the tension control device is configured to adjust tension applied to the tensioning element so as to pull the distal end portion of the body structure at varying tensions to adjust a stiffness of the body structure. | 32,701 |
8,568,758 | 1. An aqueous organic biostimulant composition consisting of water, oilseed extract, Bacillus subtillis , and corn steep liquor; and wherein the concentration of the corn steep liquor in the aqueous composition is between about 0.10% and about 100% by weight; with optional additives in the composition selected from one or more of: (a) a supplement selected from the group consisting of natural glycerol, humate, fulvate, acetic acid, propionic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, or combinations thereof; and (b) from one to five additional microbial strains as an inoculant; and wherein the aqueous organic biostimulant composition when applied to a growth medium is effective in enhancing the growth of indigenous microorganisms present in the growth medium. | 9,746 |
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