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8,510,583 | 1. A method comprising: traversing, via a host controller operatively coupled to at least one device, an asynchronous data transfer list to identify at least one data transfer to the at least one device to execute; entering a first sleep mode for the host controller in response to identifying no data transfers to execute and receiving an indication that a processor, operatively coupled to the host controller, is in a sleep state; exiting the first sleep mode for the host controller in response to receiving an indication that the processor is in a non-sleep state; entering a second sleep mode for the host controller in response to identifying no data transfers to execute and receiving an indication that the processor is in a non-sleep state; and exiting the second sleep mode in response to a lapse of a pre-determined time period. | 8,194 |
8,724,026 | 1. A method of displaying dual programs on a same display, the method comprising: displaying on the display during a first time interval, a frame of a first program using light polarized in a first polarization direction; displaying on the display during a second time interval, a frame of a second program, different from the first program, using light polarized in a second polarization direction, such that the displaying the frame of the first program and the displaying the frame of the second program appears to an unaided human eye to occur simultaneously and independently on the same display; transmitting a first electrical signal representing audio associated with the first program; and transmitting a second electrical signal representing audio associated with the second program. | 13,172 |
8,424,544 | 1. An oral hygiene device, comprising: a toothpick body having a closed end, an opening end, and a floss cavity formed between said closed end and said opening end, wherein said closed end of said toothpick body has a tapering end; a floss, having a first end and an opposed second end, received in said floss cavity of said toothpick body in a hidden manner, wherein said floss is adapted for being pulled out of said floss cavity; and a handle cap detachably coupled at said opening end of said toothpick body to enclose said floss cavity, wherein said first end of said floss is fixed to a detachable end of said handle cap such that when said detachable end of said handle cap is detached from said toothpick body, said floss is pulled out of said floss cavity, wherein said toothpick body further has a retention hole formed between said opening end and said closed end, wherein when said handle cap is detached from said toothpick body, a free end of said handle cap is slidably inserted into said retention hole to form a y-shaped configuration with said toothpick body that said floss runs between said detachable end of said handle cap and said opening end of said toothpick body. | 2,662 |
9,273,581 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a pumping mechanism; an injector in fluid communication with the pumping mechanism, the injector including a valve portion movable between an open position and a closed position; and an injector driver constructed and arranged to cyclically control the valve portion during a single purge event 1) to cause the valve portion to move to the closed position while the pumping mechanism generates a vacuum, and 2) to cause the valve portion to move to the open position while the injector is under vacuum so that fluid is directed away from the injector. | 42,761 |
8,977,746 | 1. A system comprising: a network security computing device comprising a processor and computer-readable storage medium, the network security device communicatively coupled to an internal network and an external network, wherein the network security device is configured to manage a plurality of connections between entities in the internal network and entities in the external network; a monitoring module embodied on the computer-readable storage medium and executable by the processor to acquire connection metadata comprising connection entries describing respective connections; a refinement module embodied on the computer-readable storage medium and executable by the processor configured to generate refined connection metadata in response to the acquired connection metadata, wherein generating the refined connection metadata comprises a communication module embodied on the computer-readable storage medium and executable by the processor configured to provide the refined metadata comprising the ranked connection groups to a terminal. | 28,098 |
9,346,349 | 1. A shutter abnormality notification apparatus that issues a notification of an abnormality in a shutter of a variable duct having a duct that leads outside air introduced through a vehicle front end into a vehicle interior, the shutter which is provided in the duct to move between an open position in which the duct is in an open condition and a closed position in which the duct is in a closed condition, and a controller that controls opening and closing of the shutter, the shutter abnormality notification apparatus comprising: a closed condition detector that outputs a signal indicating that the shutter is in a correct closed position; a notifier that issues a warning on the basis of an instruction from the controller when the closed condition detector does not output the signal indicating that the shutter is in the correct closed position even though the controller has not issued an opening operation instruction. | 31,517 |
8,831,177 | 1. An apparatus for managing radiation doses, comprising: an information extraction unit configured to extract information about a patient to be examined, information about an image acquired by examining a bodily region of the patient using a radiographic apparatus, and information about the examination performed by the radiographic apparatus; a radiation dose calculation unit configured to calculate, using the image information, an effective dose generated by the radiographic apparatus when acquiring the image; and a dose data storage unit configured to store effective dose data in a database, the effective dose data including the calculated effective dose, the patient information, and the examination information. | 27,976 |
8,884,453 | 1. A generator system for reusing exhaust air provided from a preselected source of exhaust air providing air flow, the system comprising: a turbine, the turbine comprising a hub having an axis and rotating about the axis and further comprising vanes extending in a radial direction from the hub; a casing surrounding the vanes in a radial degree of freedom; a support having a portion extending in a vertical degree of freedom to suspend the turbine in the air flow free of engagement with an outlet of the preselected source and above the outlet; the support having a portion extending in a radial degree of freedom supporting the turbine in the air flow; the casing having an air inlet and an air outlet axially displaced from each other, the casing inlet being displaced from the outlet of the preselected source by a distance corresponding to an optimization of maximum air capture by the casing versus back pressure to the preselected source of exhaust air; and a dimension in the vertical degree of freedom of the support extending above a point in vertical registration with the outlet of the preselected source of exhaust air comprising a distance from the portion of the support extending in the radial degree of freedom to the air inlet of the casing plus said displaced distance from the outlet of the preselected source of exhaust air to the inlet of the casing. | 22,210 |
9,568,659 | 1. A luminous glazing unit comprising: at least two glazing elements; optionally at least one lamination interlayer between the two glazing elements; at least one waveguide element, said waveguide element having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the adjacent elements; at least one light source provide light for illuminating the waveguide element; and at least one light extraction means, formed by at least one fibrous structure, said fibrous structure being placed in the core of the waveguide element so that at least part of said fibrous structure is arranged in a central zone of a thickness of the waveguide element. | 2,515 |
8,665,938 | 1. A wireless transmission apparatus, comprising a service processing unit, a duplexer, a radio frequency receiving unit, a frequency synthesizer, and a controller, wherein: the controller starts a self-checking function, reduces a frequency interval for receiving and transmitting signals into a preset range, and controls, according to the reduced frequency interval for receiving and transmitting signals, the frequency synthesizer to adjust a frequency of a local oscillation signal which is output by the frequency synthesizer to the radio frequency receiving unit; the service processing unit continues to send a service signal as a self-checking signal, and after the self-checking signal is modulated into a radio frequency signal, a part of the self-checking signal leaks into the radio frequency receiving unit through the duplexer; after the radio frequency receiving unit mixes a received signal with the local oscillation signal, a frequency of the self-checking signal comprised in an output signal falls within a pass-band range of an intermediate frequency receiving unit; and the service processing unit determines whether a service signal received by the service processing unit comprises the self-checking signal, and if the service processing unit determines that the service signal received by the service processing unit does not comprise the self-checking signal, then the service processing unit determines that a transmission channel in the wireless transmission apparatus is blocked; if the service processing unit determines that the service signal received by the service processing unit comprises the self-checking signal, then the service processing unit determines that the transmission channel in the wireless transmission apparatus is unblocked. | 36,858 |
9,657,712 | 1. A wind power station with wind concentrating structure comprising: a wind concentrating structure, which includes a multiple of floors and a hollow cylindrical central tower ( each floor of the central tower ( a concentrated drive shaft assembly ( an impeller is installed on the concentrated drive shaft assembly ( a structure of speed-increasing type windage is elected from following first and second structures: the first structure includes a multiple of sub-buildings being radially provided from an original point which is a center O of the central tower ( the second structure includes a multiple of structural towers being radially stretched and provided from an original point which is a center O of the central tower ( each floor of the central tower ( the ceiling cover supporting truss ( | 5,596 |
9,312,077 | 1. An energy storage device comprising: an activated carbon having a volumetric surface area of from about 400 m an electrolyte; wherein the energy storage device comprises a volumetric capacitance of at least 60 F/cc. | 15,188 |
8,871,225 | 1. A method of immunizing a subject susceptible to Leishmania infantum infection comprising a prime-boost administration regimen, wherein said regimen comprises a primo-administration of a composition comprising an expression vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding a Leishmania KMP 11 polypeptide having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ.ID.NO:4, followed by a boost administration of a vaccine comprising an expression vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding a Leishmania KMP 11polypeptide having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ.ID.NO:4, where in the composition induces an immune response. | 14,327 |
9,556,845 | 1. A method for compensating for cetane number of a fuel and improving ignition delay in an internal combustion engine, comprising: detecting, with an engine control unit (ECU), operating conditions within the internal combustion engine that affect ignition delay; calculating, with the ECU, an effect of variations in the detected operating conditions or ignition delay inside a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; based on the detected operating conditions, calculating, with the ECU, a current ignition delay and determining, with the ECU, a desired ignition delay for the internal combustion engine; estimating, with the ECU, a cetane number of the fuel within the combustion chamber based on at least one of the detected operating conditions and determining, with the ECU, a preferred fuel temperature that, when taken in combination with the estimated cetane number and the calculated effect of the variations in operating conditions, produce the desired ignition delay; measuring the temperature of the fuel in the combustion chamber; and comparing, with the ECU, the measured temperature of fuel with the preferred fuel temperature and changing the temperature of the fuel provided to the combustion chamber such that it approaches the preferred fuel temperature. | 28,754 |
9,430,151 | 1. A method, comprising: designating a first amount of a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) for use as memory for a computing system; designating a second amount of the NVRAM for use as storage for the computing system; generating a memory remap table based on the first amount of the NVRAM designated for use as memory; generating a storage remap table based on the second amount of NVRAM designated for use as storage; and updating the memory and storage remap tables responsive to a first re-designation of a portion of the first amount of the NVRAM for use as storage or a second re-designation of a portion of the second amount of the NVRAM for use as memory. | 15,028 |
8,785,264 | 1. A manufacture method of an organic thin film transistor array substrate comprising: sequentially forming a first transparent conductive film and a source-drain metal film on a base substrate and then performing a first patterning process to form a first pixel electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a data line; sequentially forming an organic semiconductor film and a gate insulating film and then performing a second patterning process to form an organic semiconductor island and a gate insulating island, wherein both the organic semiconductor island and the gate insulating island are provided above the source electrode and the drain electrode; forming a passivation layer and then performing a third patterning process to form a data pad region; and sequentially forming a second transparent conductive film and a gate metal film and then performing a fourth patterning process to form a second pixel electrode, a gate electrode and a gate line. | 22,401 |
8,868,858 | 1. A method, comprising: mirroring an application and an operating system executing on an application server in a virtual machine created on a backup server coupled to the application server through a network; continuously capturing a change of data processed in the application server at a time of occurrence thereof and automatically backing up the change of the data in a storage device coupled to the backup server; communicating, to the application server, appropriate backed up data in accordance with a command communicated to the backup server based on accessing the virtual machine in which the application and the operating system executing on the application server are mirrored, wherein the backed up data are automatically purged by setting an algorithm with a threshold value, and wherein sensory data are generated to warn of any possible breach of legal requirement before the data are purged. | 49,002 |
8,503,418 | 1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving information flows between users into a basestation of a cellular network; applying a usage accountability framework responsive to predetermined user fairness metrics, bandwidth resources on said network and a history of channel bandwidth variations by said users; and executing bandwidth allocation for said flows between said users responsive to said applying an accountability framework for improving user experience on said network by said users, wherein said usage accountability framework comprises a slot allocation of said bandwidth resources S with N j being the number of users in each of k deviant groups j; 1≦j≦k, S being the total number of resource slots at said base station for a unit interval, and beta being a weight parameter enabling said network to prioritize or de-prioritize different types of information said flows between said users across said network. | 35,940 |
9,275,756 | 1. A method of generating an address scramble used to test a semiconductor memory device, the method comprising: receiving address information for each of a plurality of memory cells included in the semiconductor memory device, the address information including a logical address and a physical address that correspond to each of the memory cells; generating an address scramble logical expression, the address scramble logical expression relating logical addresses to physical addresses based on the address information, the generating the address scramble logical expression including, reducing the address scramble logical expression using a given algorithm; receiving block structure information including size information corresponding to each of a plurality of memory blocks, into which the memory cells are grouped, and sequence information of the memory blocks with respect to the size information; and the address scramble logical expression is generated based on the address information and the block structure information. | 43,406 |
8,972,538 | 1. A method of integrating computing systems, said method comprising: coupling a first physical computing system of a first system hardware architecture with a second physical computing system of a second and different system hardware architecture via a management network to provide a hybrid system; determining that a selection has been made to have a component of the second physical computing system managed from a single point of control residing at least partially within the first physical computing system and the second physical computing system; installing a component of the single point of control on the component of the second physical computing system to have the component of the second physical computing system managed by the single point of control; and controlling the first physical computing system and the second physical computing system from the single point of control, the single point of control comprising a unified resource manager which is a part of the management network, and the second physical computing system comprising a hypervisor managed by the unified resource manager by way of a component of the unified resource manager which is part of the hypervisor of the second physical computing system, wherein the unified resource manager adheres to a management model of the first system hardware architecture in controlling the first physical computing system and the second physical computing system, and wherein the controlling comprises the unified resource manager managing the first physical computing system and the hypervisor of the second physical computing system to, at least in part, present the first physical computing system and the second physical computing system as having a consistent resource configuration and system behavior. | 43,110 |
9,148,488 | 1. A computer program product, tangibly and non-transitorily embodied in a computer-readable storage device, the computer program product being operable to cause one or more data processing computing devices to perform operations comprising: receiving data characterizing one or more web services that are offered by a provider system and that are designated for activation for use in a group of systems, the group of systems comprising the provider system and a consumer system that calls at least one of the one or more web services via one or more consumer proxies in communication with the provider system and the consumer system, the provider system and the consumer system being configured prior to run time according to a technical configuration, the technical configuration preparing the group of systems for configuration of any web services and comprising one or more policies that are independent of any specific web service available for configuration in the group of systems; and causing a run-time business configuration to be generated for each of the one or more web services and each of the one or more consumer proxies, the run-time business configurations including one or more settings derived from the one or more policies of the technical configuration, the generation of the business configuration comprising replacing properties of a service description of each web service of the provider system with corresponding properties of the consumer system, the service description comprising a set of documents that describe an interface to and semantics of each web service and the properties of the consumer system comprising a destination of a destination template that is stored as part of the run-time business configuration; wherein the run-time configurations comprise a first run-time configuration for a consumer proxy to a call a first web service having a second run time configuration, the first run-time configuration for the consumer proxy being based on content of a service description of the first web service, settings of the destination template for the provider system, and a profile referenced by the destination template; the second run-time configuration of the first web service being based on design-time attributes of the first web service and the profile of a domain to which the provider system of the web service belongs, the design-time attributes being defined during development of the first web service prior to the technical configuration of the provider system and the consumer system; and wherein the provider system and the consumer system are technically configured prior to generation of the business configurations for each of the one or more web services and each of the one or more consumer proxies. | 29,299 |
8,516,599 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a register holding a value input thereto; a first communication path through which an addition command is input; a second communication path through which a subtraction command is input; addition means adding a predetermined value to a register value held in the register according to the addition command input through the first communication path and causing the register to hold a value resulting from the addition; and subtraction means subtracting a predetermined value from a register value held in the register according to the subtraction command input through the second communication path and causing the register to hold a value resulting from the subtraction, wherein the addition means and the subtraction means operate exclusively of each other, and the addition means operates only when the register value is 0. | 38,164 |
8,838,197 | 1. A micro probe, comprising: a probe portion made of a rigid material and serving as a portion inserted into a brain; a flexible portion connected with a distal end of the probe portion and made of a flexible material; a soluble portion coated on at least one surface of the flexible portion and made of a material which is dissolved by a solution in a cranium; and a body portion connected with an end of the flexible portion other than an end connected with the probe portion, wherein, after the probe portion is inserted into the brain through an opening formed in a part of the cranium, the soluble portion is dissolved in the cranium to expose the flexible portion, wherein the body portion is disposed and used outside the cranium, and wherein the flexible portion is formed with a lattice pattern. | 22,483 |
8,545,841 | 1. A method of increasing an individual's responsiveness to a cancer therapy comprising inhibiting Atg4 function in a cell currently undergoing the cancer therapy, said method comprising the administration of a composition comprising: a) N-2-pyridinyl-2-pyridinecarbothioamide, or b) N-2-pyridinyl-2-pyridinecarbothioamide and cambendazole; to an individual having solid tumor, said composition being administered alone or in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent. | 19,824 |
9,628,333 | 1. A dual chipset network interface controller (‘NIC’) comprising: a high performance media access control chipset including at least one processor and an offload engine for processing of an entire protocol stack; a low performance media access control chipset including at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor of the high performance media access control chipset executes computer program instructions at a faster rate than the at least one processor of the low performance media access control chipset; control logic for determining an amount of network traffic being processed by the NIC; control logic for determining whether the amount of network traffic being processed by the NIC exceeds a predetermined threshold; control logic for, responsive to determining that the amount of network traffic being processed by the NIC exceeds a predetermined threshold, configuring the NIC to utilize the high performance media access control chipset for data communications operations; and control logic for, responsive to determining that the amount of network traffic being processed by the NIC does not exceed the predetermined threshold, configuring the NIC to utilize the low performance media access control chipset for data communications operations. | 40,247 |
9,671,686 | 1. A method of forming an integrated circuit mask, comprising: updating integrated circuit mask data associated with a digital representation of a preliminary integrated circuit mask by performing at least one of proximity effect correction (PEC) of errors in a patterned integrated circuit substrate that are caused by electron-beam proximity effects and mask process correction (MPC) of errors in the patterned integrated circuit substrate that are caused during electron-beam exposure of the integrated circuit substrate using the preliminary integrated circuit mask to define at least one pattern thereon; and writing the integrated circuit mask, which corresponds to the updated integrated circuit mask data, onto a mask substrate by exposing the mask substrate to an electron beam that defines the integrated circuit mask as a physical pattern on a surface of the mask substrate, said writing comprising generating pixel data from the updated integrated circuit mask data and performing an electron beam writing of the physical pattern using the pixel data; wherein said updating is preceded by extracting shape data and density data from the integrated circuit mask data; wherein the extracted shape data is converted into bitmap data using a rasterization operation; and wherein the pixel data is generated by merging the bitmap data with the extracted density data. | 13,992 |
9,566,992 | 1. Integrated banana bunch transportation system comprising: twelve autonomous baskets, wherein each basket is capable of holding a bunch of bananas and each basket has an upper portion comprising a hanger ( a wagon comprising wheels, wherein the baskets are placed on the wagon. | 48,719 |
8,859,145 | 1. A primary electrochemical cell comprising a housing; a positive and a negative terminal; an anode comprising at least one of a lithium metal and lithium alloy; a cathode having porosity between about 18 and 22 percent and comprising iron disulfide (FeS2), binder material, and conductive carbon, said primary electrochemical cell further comprising an electrolyte inserted therein, said electrolyte comprising a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent mixture comprising dioxolane and sulfolane, said primary electrochemical cell having the discharge property that when a pulsed discharge protocol is applied, the resulting ratio Rp is between about 0.08 and 0.15 wherein Rp=[P0.9V−P1.05V]/P0.9V wherein, P0.9V is the number of pulsed cycles obtained by discharging the cell to a cutoff voltage of 0.9V and P1.05V is the number of pulsed cycles obtained by discharging the cell to a cutoff voltage of 1.05V; wherein said pulsed discharge protocol consists of applying a series of pulsed cycles to the cell, wherein each of said pulsed cycles consists of applying to said primary electrochemical cell both a 1.5 Watt pulse for 2 seconds followed immediately by applying a 0.65 Watt pulse for 28 seconds, wherein said pulsed cycle is repeated consecutively 10 times, followed by resting said cell for 55 minutes, followed by repeating said pulsed cycles 10 times, followed by said resting in continuous cyclic manner until said 1.05V and 0.9V cutoff voltage is reached, wherein said pulsed discharge protocol is applied to the cell within about 5 years of manufacture of said primary electrochemical cell. | 26,211 |
9,067,301 | 1. A CMP pad conditioner, comprising: a plurality of particle abrasive segments, each particle abrasive segment including: a pad conditioner substrate; each of the particle abrasive segments being permanently affixed to the pad conditioner substrate in an orientation that enables removal of material from a CMP pad by the abrasive layers as the pad conditioner and the CMP pad are moved relative to one another. | 11,832 |
9,533,247 | 1. A microcyclonic purification method for a flue gas carbon dioxide capture system, comprising: (a) subjecting dust-scrubbed flue gas to gas-liquid microcyclonic separation at ultralow pressure drop to remove aerosol particles, namely water particles, dust particles and liquid-solid composite particles, which are entrained in the flue gas, so as to obtain dust-scrubbed and dewatered flue gas with very low levels of water and dust; (b) subjecting recycled scrubbing water to liquid-solid microcyclonic separation to remove solid particles entrained in the recycled scrubbing water, as well as concentrate and enrich the solid particles in the recycled scrubbing water; (c) capturing carbon dioxide component in the flue gas by absorption, wherein carbon dioxide dissolves in absorption solution and produces tail gas of the flue gas carbon dioxide capture system; (d) subjecting tail gas discharged from the top of a carbon dioxide absorption tower to gas-liquid microcyclonic separation at ultralow pressure drop to remove aerosol particles entrained in the tail gas, so as to obtain purified tail gas; (e) subjecting the removed aerosol particles to liquid-solid microcyclonic separation to remove solid particles entrained in a scrubbing solution, wherein a purified scrubbing solution is recycled to a scrubbing solution system; (f) subjecting a regeneration gas, mainly comprising carbon dioxide, prepared in a regeneration tower to air cooling and water cooling to convert the saturated vapor that contains mixed amine solution and is entrained in the regeneration gas into foggy drops, so as to obtain regeneration gas with areosol particles entrained therein; (g) subjecting the regeneration gas with aerosol particles entrained therein to gas-liquid microcyclonic separation at ultralow pressure drop to capture aerosol particles entrained in the regeneration gas, wherein the regeneration gas from which the aerosol particles have been removed is supplied for use in subsequent working sections; (h) coagulating the captured aerosol particles from the regeneration gas into liquid which is combined with the mixed amine solution from the bottom of the regeneration tower and directly recycled to the mixed amine solution system; (i) cooling the carbon dioxide-lean mixed amine solution from the regeneration tower to alleviate the shear emulsion of oil/water in the mixed amine solution, so as to improve the effect of microcyclonic separation of oil and water; (j) subjecting the cooled mixed amine solution to liquid-solid microcyclonic separation to remove the solid particles entrained therein, followed by further concentration of the solid particles by virtue of single or multiple-stage liquid-solid microcyclonic separation until the solid particle concentration in solid phase reaches over 10%; and (k) subjecting the mixed amine solution to liquid-liquid microcyclonic separation to remove engine oil entrained therein, followed by further concentration of the engine oil by virtue of single or multiple-stage liquid-liquid microcyclonic separation until the engine oil concentration in oil phase reaches over 10%, wherein a purified mixed amine solution enters the absorption tower for capture of carbon dioxide. | 22,963 |
9,439,858 | 1. A liposome comprising: a lipid bilayer, a thermosensitive peptide conjugated to a moiety comprising a hydrophobic group, and a cationic lipid, wherein the moiety comprising a hydrophobic group is positioned within the lipid bilayer, and the moiety comprising a hydrophobic group is a sterol; a sphingolipid; a saturated or unsaturated C4-C30 hydrocarbon; a saturated or unsaturated C4-C30 acyl group; or a saturated or unsaturated C4-C30 alkoxy group, and the moiety comprising a hydrophobic group is conjugated to the thermosensitive peptide by interaction with a functional group of the thermosensitive peptide, wherein the functional group is selected from an amino group, a carbonyl group, a hydroxyl group, a thiol group, and a combination thereof. | 27,428 |
9,715,954 | 1. A cable comprising: a conductive composite core comprising one or more carbonized fibers and one or more fiberglass fibers; and one or more coating layers, wherein each of the one or more coating layers surrounds one of the one or more fiberglass fibers and each of the one or more coating layers comprises a magnetic material; wherein the one or more carbonized fibers and the one or more fiberglass fibers are braided together. | 26,837 |
8,407,631 | 1. A method for enhancing wafer exposure effectiveness and efficiency of a semiconductor lithographic manufacturing equipment, which comprises the steps of: (a) identifying independent variables and dependent variables; (b) collecting data associated with a plurality of wafers and masks, wherein each of the masks is used to pattern a plurality of chips on each wafer, the exposure field and the mask field are defined on the mask; (c) computing parameters of Overall Wafer Effectiveness (OWE) and Mask Field Utilization (MFU) respectively for each wafer, wherein the OWE is defined by the fraction of the area of good chips produced on each wafer to the total area of each wafer, and the MFU is the fraction of the area of the exposure field to the area of the mask field; (d) calculating an index of Mask Field Utilization Weighted Overall Wafer Effectiveness (MOWE) for each OWE and its corresponding MFU as one of the dependent variables, wherein the MOWE is the product of the OWE and the MFU; and (e) constructing a model tree with leaf nodes for the MOWE in terms of the independent variables where each leaf node forms a linear regression of a MOWE model. | 12,298 |
8,483,208 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first data packet in a plurality of data packets; upon identifying the first packet, immediately playing the first data packet without buffering and without delay; and while playing the first data packet, generating fill packets associated with the first data packet; and after playing the first data packet, and before playing a second data packet directly following the first data packet in the plurality of data packets, inserting and playing the fill packets, wherein the number of fill packets inserted is associated with perceptual entropy of the first data packet. | 45,756 |
8,598,691 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: an integrated circuit; and a plurality of copper pillars coupled to a surface of the integrated circuit, the plurality of copper pillars being in a central region and a periphery region of the surface of the integrated circuit, the central region being defined by inner boundaries of the periphery region, wherein all of the plurality of copper pillars comprise an elongated shape in a plane parallel to the surface of the integrated circuit, and wherein at least 50% of the plurality of copper pillars are arranged in a substantially centripetal orientation. | 12,124 |
9,436,417 | 1. A printing system comprising: a client terminal that is connected to the printing system via a network; and a plurality of image forming apparatuses each including an operating unit which receives an operation input of a user, wherein a first image forming apparatus that receives a print file from the client terminal transmits metadata of the print file to a second image forming apparatus, and the second image forming apparatus displays a list of print files which are on standby for printing based on the metadata, obtains the print file from the first image forming apparatus when a print instruction and a selection of a desired print file are received through the operating unit, and performs printing based on the print file, wherein the first image forming apparatus transmits the print file to the second image forming apparatus when a print file having a size less than a threshold is received. | 30,658 |
9,365,128 | 1. A method of charging an electric vehicle at a charging station, the electric vehicle including a charging interface positioned on a roof and the charging station including a charging head configured to engage with the charging interface to charge the electric vehicle, comprising: automatically identifying the electric vehicle as the electric vehicle approaches the charging station; determining that the approaching electric vehicle is supposed to be charged at the charging station based upon the identification; automatically controlling a movement of the electric vehicle to position the electric vehicle with the charging interface positioned below the charging head; lowering the charging head to land on the charging interface based on the identification; automatically moving the electric vehicle after lowering the charging head to engage the charging head with the charging interface; automatically stopping the electric vehicle when a pilot signal indicative of the engagement of the charging interface with the charging head is received; automatically shifting a gear of the electric vehicle to neutral, and applying a brake of the electric vehicle after receipt of the pilot signal; electrically connecting the charging interface with the charging head; and activating current flow through the charging head to charge the electric vehicle. | 28,541 |
8,961,767 | 1. A method for depositing an AIPO 4 coating material having a first isoelectric pH onto a Cu 2 Sb substrate having a second isoelectric pH, comprising the steps of: preparing a solution of precursors of the coating material; adjusting the pH of the solution to between the second isoelectric pH and the first isoelectric pH after said step of preparing the solution of precursors of the coating material; immersing the substrate in the solution; whereby a coating having a thickness is generated by self-assembly of the coating material onto the substrate and increasing the thickness of the coating on the substrate by electrophoretic deposition of additional coating material onto the self-assembled coating by applying a positive voltage relative to open circuit potential. | 19,505 |
8,787,989 | 1. A communications method for a wireless mobile device, comprising: performing sleep mode operations in a device; performing wake-up operations with one or more base stations in view of the sleep mode operations in the device; demodulating a communications channel for the device during the sleep mode operations in the device prior to synchronizing with the one or more base stations and based on at least one prior wake-up operation; and demodulating a paging channel signal employing at least one of a sector in a previous wake-up slot and a strongest sector observed via acquisition. | 41,480 |
9,653,638 | 1. A method of fabricating a solar cell, the method comprising: forming a dielectric region on a surface of a solar cell structure, the solar cell structure comprising a substrate; forming a metal foil on the dielectric region; configuring a laser beam with a particular shape; and directing the laser beam with the particular shape on the metal foil, wherein the particular shape allows a contact to be formed between the metal foil and the solar cell structure, wherein the metal foil stays intact over the contact; and subsequent to forming the contact between the metal foil and the solar cell structure with the laser beam, patterning the metal foil using a laser ablation process in a location different from a location of the contact, wherein patterning the metal foil using the laser ablation process comprises patterning the metal foil without patterning the substrate of the solar cell structure. | 164 |
9,359,293 | 1. A compound that modulates Sirt2 activity having the following chemical structure: wherein R R R X Y | 4,473 |
8,832,187 | 1. A method comprising: recognizing a crisis situation exists based on occurrence of one or more events defined by a service provider relating to one or more services provided to one or more customers by the service provider; assigning a bridged communication channel number to the crisis situation; establishing a bridged communication channel based on the bridged communication channel number; identifying individuals for resolving the crisis situation based on tracked parameters stored in a crisis management repository; joining a plurality of the individuals to the bridged communication channel based on the bridged communication channel number as participants of a chat session; sharing data exchanged among the participants through the bridged communication channel based on the bridged communication channel number; and storing the data exchanged among the participants based on the bridged communication channel number during the chat session. | 12,089 |
8,516,818 | 1. A combustion system for performing stable combustion and flame stabilization at high altitudes, comprising: a first source for providing a primary liquid hydrocarbon fuel; a second source for providing a secondary monopropellant fuel; an inlet air port; a catalytic reactor coupled to the inlet port; a main combustor chamber coupled to the catalytic reactor; and an outlet port coupled to the main combustor chamber, the first source being configured to provide the primary fuel directly into the main combustor chamber such that the primary fuel is atomized and vaporized within the main combustor chamber to produce a primary fuel vapor, wherein, when the combustion system operates at an altitude higher than a first predetermined altitude threshold, the combustion system is configured (i) to use the second source to provide the secondary monopropellant fuel into the inlet air port such that the secondary monopropellant fuel mixes with air entering the inlet air port, and (ii) to cause the mixture of the air and the secondary monopropellant fuel to combust in the catalytic reactor to produce a gaseous secondary fuel product that flows into the main combustor chamber, such that the main combustor chamber contains a first proportional amount of the primary fuel vapor and a second proportional amount of the gaseous secondary fuel product. | 1,293 |
8,723,904 | 1. A mobile printer comprising: a printer body having a recessed area that defines an open space for receiving a media roll, the media roll having a void interior portion that is capable of receiving one or more batteries that power the mobile printer; and a printer door having a printer door opening and being operatively coupled to the printer body such that the printer door: | 4,810 |
9,759,150 | 1. An automobile, comprising: an engine that is configured to have a fuel injection valve that injects a fuel into an intake pipe; and a controller that is configured to set a target amount of fuel injection by providing a base amount of fuel injection with increase correction or reduction correction corresponding to a change in amount of the fuel depositing on a wall surface of the intake pipe and to control the engine to cause the fuel of the target amount of fuel injection to be injected by the fuel injection valve, wherein the controller prohibits the reduction correction until satisfaction of a predetermined condition since a start of the engine and gives permission for the reduction correction on satisfaction of the predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition is a condition satisfied when a difference between a first intake pipe pressure and a second intake pipe pressure becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value, wherein the first intake pipe pressure is a current pressure in the intake pipe estimated using a throttle-passing air flow that denotes a flow rate of the air passing through a throttle valve per unit time at a current throttle position, and the second intake pipe pressure is a pressure in the intake pipe when the throttle-passing air flow is equal to an in-cylinder intake air flow that denotes a flow rate of the air flowing into a combustion chamber per unit time. | 35,607 |
8,842,427 | 1. An electrical apparatus system comprising: a tool battery used as a power source for an electrical tool; and an electrical apparatus other than the electrical tool, the electrical apparatus having a battery-connecting portion configured to allow the tool battery to be connected thereto and to be disconnected therefrom electrically and mechanically, wherein; the tool battery is exposed on a lower side of the electrical apparatus and is configured to support the electrical apparatus on an installation surface as a base in a state in which the tool battery is electrically and mechanically connected to the battery-connecting portion of the electrical apparatus; the battery-connecting portion of the electrical apparatus is provided at a lower end position of the electrical apparatus; the battery-connecting portion is configured to be connected to an upper surface side of the tool battery by being slid along the upper surface of the tool battery; a lower surface of the tool battery comes into contact with the installation surface; the battery-connecting portion of the electrical apparatus includes a rail-shaped ridge portion extending in the sliding direction of the tool battery, the rail-shaped ridge portion having a rectangular groove provided therealong; the tool battery includes a slide rail portion that is engaged with the rail-shaped ridge portion, the slide rail portion having a lateral ridge portion projecting widthwise outward from an upper side thereof; the rectangular groove and the lateral ridge portion are configured to fit with each other; a center of gravity of the system is located in the tool battery in a state in which the electrical apparatus and the tool battery are connected; and a weight of the electrical apparatus is less than a weight of the tool battery. | 41,594 |
9,707,954 | 1. A method for operating a hybrid drive train of a hybrid vehicle, the drive train having an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, a transmission with an input shaft and a clutch element, a separating element and an axle of the hybrid vehicle, the internal combustion engine being arranged together with the electric machine on the input shaft of the transmission to drive the axle of the hybrid vehicle when the separating element is closed, and the internal combustion engine being selectively disconnectable from the electric machine, the transmission and the axle via the separating element, the method comprising: selectively turning off the internal combustion engine and opening the separating element to permit: purely electric driving of the axle of the hybrid vehicle, regenerative braking or coasting of the hybrid vehicle; determining a difference in rotational speed occurring at the separating element between the internal combustion engine and the electric machine when the separating element is opened and the internal combustion engine is turned off; keeping the separating element open below and up to a maximum permissible difference in rotational speed at the separating element between the internal combustion engine and the electric machine while: opening the clutch element of the transmission for separating the electric machine from the axle upon reaching the maximum permissible difference in rotational speed and allowing the axle of the vehicle to operate in a coasting mode without exceeding the maximum permissible difference in rotational speed between the electric machine and the internal combustion engine. | 9,124 |
8,376,140 | 1. A powder medicine delivery system, comprising: a first panel and a second panel coupled together around a periphery of said panels to form a sealed void therebetween, each said panel having a width not greater than about 2 ⅛ inches and length not greater than about 3 ⅜ inches; and a powder medicine, disposed in said void, having a quantity at least about equal to an active dose of said powder medicine; wherein a thickness of said panels with said powder medicine disposed therebetween is not greater than about 0.1 inches, and wherein said panels are flexible. | 18,297 |
8,406,022 | 1. An apparatus for controlling the power quality of a power generation system including a DC/AC inverter converting DC voltage into AC voltage and supplying inverter current to a grid, comprising: a grid voltage phase follower generating a grid signal having a phase of the grid voltage; a fundamental extractor extracting a magnitude of a fundamental wave of a load current introduced into a non-linear load connected between the DC/AC inverter and the grid; a first calculator subtracting a preset current compensation value from the magnitude of the fundamental wave from the fundamental extractor; and a second calculator generating an inverter current instruction value for the DC/AC inverter by using the output value of the first calculator and the grid signal and the load current from the grid voltage phase follower. | 32,003 |
8,803,354 | 1. An electric power generation system, comprising: a turbine configured at least to rotate in a fluid flow, the fluid flow having a varying flow rate, a rotational speed of the turbine based at least in part on the flow rate of the fluid flow; a rotor frame connectively coupled at least with the turbine such that the rotor frame rotates around an axis of rotation with a rotational speed corresponding to the rotational speed of the turbine; a plurality of rotor modules connectively coupled at least with the rotor frame and arranged in one or more rings of rotor modules distributed axially or radially with respect to the axis of rotation, the plurality of rotor modules collectively configured at least to generate a magnetic field having at least one characteristic based at least in part on the rotational speed of the rotor frame; and a plurality of stator modules magnetically coupled with the plurality of rotor modules and arranged in one or more rings of stator modules corresponding to the one or more rings of rotor modules, each stator module removably coupled with a stator frame and incorporating: | 22,841 |
9,777,816 | 1. A transmission and differential gear train comprising: a housing, an input shaft, two output shafts arranged coaxially to the input shaft, and a transmission section and a differential section configured as a spur gear differential, wherein the transmission section has two planet stages, namely an input stage and a load stage, wherein a first sun wheel of the input stage is operatively connected to the input shaft, wherein the load stage comprises a first internal ring gear affixed in the housing, and a second sun wheel of the load stage is configured to be operatively connected to at least one first planet wheel of the input stage via a first planet arm, wherein at least one second planet wheel of the load stage is operatively connected to an input shaft of the spur gear differential via a second planet arm, and wherein, via a coupling mechanism, a second internal ring gear of the input stage is configured to be operatively and non-rotatably coupled to, or uncoupled from, a first planet carrier of the at least one first planet wheel of the input stage, or coupled to or uncoupled from a second planet carrier of the at least one second planet wheel of the load stage. | 27,410 |
8,741,612 | 1. A non-naturally occurring microbial organism comprising an isoprene biosynthetic pathway for the conversion of dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) to isoprene, wherein the isoprene biosynthetic pathway comprises the conversion of DMAPP to 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol followed by the conversion of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol to isoprene and wherein the isoprene biosynthetic pathway comprises an exogenous nucleic acid encoding at least one 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol synthase capable of converting DMAPP to 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol and an exogenous nucleic acid encoding at least one 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol dehydratase capable of converting 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol to isoprene and wherein the isoprene biosynthetic pathway is expressed at a sufficient level to produce isoprene. | 1,910 |
9,198,418 | 1. A pesticidal mixture comprising the following active ingredients: (a) permethrin: 10.0±5.0%, (b) cypermethrin: 7.8±5.0%, (c) lambda-cyhalothrin: 2.5±1.0%, (d) chlorpyrifos methyl and/or ethyl: 34.4±10.0%, (e) benzisothiazolin-3-one: 2.0±1.0%, (f) piperonyl butoxide: 12.9±5.0%, and (g) imidacloprid: 30.4±10.0%; wherein all percentages for ingredients (a)-(g) are by weight based on the total weight of active ingredients (a)-(g). | 38,746 |
8,922,174 | 1. A power factor correction circuit, comprising: a) an inductor current detection circuit configured to detect inductor current flowing through an inductor to generate a sampling voltage signal, and to generate a sinusoidal half-wave current signal and a sinusoidal half-wave voltage signal based on said sampling voltage signal; b) a mediate signal generator configured to generate a slope voltage signal and a clock signal in response to said sinusoidal half-wave voltage signal, wherein a frequency of each of said slope voltage signal and said clock signal varies with said sinusoidal half-wave voltage signal; c) a current modulation circuit configured to receive said sinusoidal half-wave current signal and a voltage feedback signal representative of an output voltage of a power stage to generate a regulation signal, wherein said regulation signal is configured to be compared against said slope voltage signal to generate a modulation signal; and d) a logic and driving circuit configured to receive said modulation signal and said clock signal, and to generate a controlling signal therefrom, wherein said controlling signal is configured to control a power switch to operate with variable frequency to maintain said inductor current substantially in phase with said sinusoidal half-wave voltage signal and said output voltage of said power stage constant. | 10,217 |
8,452,003 | 1. A method for managing total power consumption in an access network comprising two or more interface modules serving a plurality of subscriber lines, the method comprises performing a study of real power consumption RPC of the subscriber lines in the access network on a line-to-line basis, grouping the subscriber lines according to values of the real power consumption RPC of a line, correlating results of the study with inventory information concerning allocation of the subscriber lines to the interface modules and power consumption ensured by said modules to said lines, and, based on said correlation, assessing optimality of allocation of the subscriber lines to the interface modules. | 27,152 |
8,514,948 | 1. A video transmission system comprising: a transceiver that transmits a video signal to a remote device over a plurality of communication channels wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent video layer stream and at least one dependent video layer streams that require the independent video layer for decoding; and a controller, coupled to the transceiver, that determines at least one channel characteristic of at least one channel of the plurality of communication channels and chooses the at least one separate video layer stream for transmission, based on the at least one channel characteristic of the at least one channel. | 22,498 |
9,784,409 | 1. A device for filling a tank with pressurized hydrogen, comprising a pressurized-gas source and a circuit for transferring gas from the source to the tank, the transfer circuit including a member for expanding and cooling the gas in order to lower a pressure and temperature of the gas from the source to respective values determined with a view towards filling the tank, wherein: the gas expansion and cooling member includes at least one refrigerator that expands the gas by means of a Stirling or Ericsson thermodynamic cycle; the refrigerator is selectively supplied with gas from the source; and at least a portion of the cooled and expanded gas supplied to the tank is extracted from the refrigerator. | 8,619 |
8,485,910 | 1. A process for making a fastener, comprising the steps of: forming a t-nut having a barrel and a flange, said flange includes an opening, said barrel extending from said opening in said flange to a distal end portion; forming interior threads in said barrel, said interior threads in said barrel extending substantially from said opening in said flange to said distal end portion of said barrel; forming an end cap having an annular recess on a first side thereof and having a raised annular ridge on a second side thereof; placing, concentrically, said end cap with respect to said opening of said flange, said end cap extending across said opening of said flange; engaging, completely, said annular ridge of said second side of said end cap with said flange; and, resistance welding, in an annular pattern, and sealing said raised annular ridge of said end cap to said flange of said t-nut, said end cap completely occluding said barrel. | 22,719 |
9,199,615 | 1. A brake control system for a landing gear of an aircraft, comprising: a first control channel configured to provide brake control signals to one or more brakes on the landing gear, wherein the first control channel comprises a first controller that controls an operation of the one or more brakes, wherein the first control channel receives braking commands from a brake pedal; a second control channel configured to provide brake control signals to another one or more brakes on the landing gear, wherein the second control channel comprises a second controller that controls an operation of the another one or more brakes, wherein the second control channel receives braking commands from the brake pedal; wherein at least one of the first control channel and the second control channel is configured to act as an executive in monitoring braking efforts applied by the one or more brakes as compared to braking efforts applied by the another one or more brakes, wherein the control channel configured to act as the executive determines a correction factor and wherein the control channel configured to act as a non-executive causes the braking efforts of at least one of the one or more brakes or the another one or more brakes to be modified in accordance with the correction factor. | 34,083 |
8,922,693 | 1. An imaging apparatus capable of concurrently shooting an image displayed by a display and a determined sub-area designated in the image, the imaging apparatus comprising: a) a lens using including b) a main body including wherein the lens unit is capable of communicating with the main body and being removably attached to the main body, wherein the effective region determination unit generates reference information for determining the effective region based on the characteristic information received from the lens unit, and wherein of the characteristic information, information that is capable of being used to generate the reference information varies depending on the number of recording pixels. | 4,765 |
8,981,169 | 1. A process for converting a gaseous hydrocarbon feed comprising methane to an aromatic hydrocarbon and liquefied natural gas (LNG) and/or pipeline gas, the process comprising: (a) supplying said gaseous hydrocarbon feed to a conversion zone comprising at least one dehydroaromatization catalyst; (b) contacting said gaseous hydrocarbon feed in said conversion zone with said at least one dehydroaromatization catalyst under conversion conditions to produce a gaseous effluent stream comprising at least one aromatic compound, unreacted methane and H (c) separating said gaseous effluent stream into a first product stream comprising said at least one aromatic compound and a second product stream comprising unreacted methane and H (d) separating said second product stream into a methane-rich stream and a hydrogen-rich stream; and (e) passing at least part of the methane-rich stream to LNG and/or pipeline gas production, wherein said gaseous hydrocarbon feed supplied to said conversion zone in (a) has a sulfur level of at least 200 ppm by volume. | 11,720 |
9,030,207 | 1. A method for monitoring an insulation fault in an electric network with at least one electric power system supplying electric power to one or more electric loads, and at least one insulation resistance monitor, wherein the at least one electric power system comprises at least one electrical power source, and wherein the at least one insulation resistance monitor monitors an insulation resistance between terminal leads of the at least one electric power source and at least one reference potential, each terminal lead having a respective breaker for opening and closing the terminal lead, the electric power source and the insulation resistance monitor being disposed on a same side of the breakers for the terminal leads, comprising the steps of (i) disconnecting the at least one electric power source from the one or more loads by opening each terminal lead by opening the respective breakers for the terminal leads; (ii) measuring the insulation resistance (R_isol (iii) measuring the insulation resistance (R_isol (iv) closing one terminal lead by closing the respective breaker for the one terminal lead with the other terminal lead open; and (v) measuring a second insulation resistance (R_isol | 7,500 |
8,747,425 | 1. A surgical tool for obliterating a vein comprising: a stationary body adapted to be held and manipulated by a hand; a first lever arm adapted to be actuated by a finger; a second lever arm adapted to be actuated by a finger; an axle passing through said first and second lever arms forming a pivot for each lever arm and anchoring the lever arms in said body; a first gear sector coupled to said first lever arm; a second gear sector coupled to said second lever arm; a pinion gear meshed with each gear sector to translate motion of the lever arms into a rotational motion of a pinion shaft; a tip assembly coupled to said shaft; said tip assembly having a hook with blunt surfaces adapted to capture a vein; whereby lever arm motion about the pivot rotates the tip assembly obliterating the vein by mechanical trauma, wherein a squeezing lever arm motion from an initial position to an end position rotates the tip assembly in a first direction, and a returning lever arm motion from the end position to the initial position rotates the tip assembly in a second direction opposite the first direction. | 46,263 |
8,561,979 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a paper; a manual paper-feeding unit configured to stack paper, provided on an outer surface of a housing of the apparatus and configured to pivot upon an axis between an open position and a closed position; a paper cassette configured to stack paper that is arranged in the image forming apparatus and that can be drawn out of the housing toward a direction perpendicular to the axis of the manual paper-feeding unit; a restricting unit including a protruding member formed on the manual paper-feeding unit so as to be immovable relative to the manual paper-feeding unit and configured to abut against and come in contact with an outer plane surface of the paper cassette when the paper cassette is set in the housing and when the manual paper-feeding unit is in the open position thereby restricting detachment of the paper cassette from the housing, wherein the outer plane surface faces in the direction in which the paper cassette is drawn; and a paper carrying mechanism configured to carry the paper from any of the paper cassette and the manual paper-feeding unit to the image forming unit. | 29,626 |
8,810,306 | 1. A negative voltage regulation circuit comprising: an operational amplifier configured to receive a feedback voltage and an input voltage; a pull-up element configured to pull-up drive a first node based on output voltage of the operational amplifier; a load element coupled between the first node and a negative voltage terminal; a pull-down element configured to pull-down drive a final negative voltage output terminal using a voltage of the negative voltage terminal based on a voltage level of the first node; and a voltage division unit coupled between the final negative voltage output terminal and a pull-up voltage terminal, and configured to generate the feedback voltage by voltage division. | 21,898 |
8,857,691 | 1. A retractable earplug and headphone holder adapted for attachment to a portable handheld electronics device, comprising: a casing having a support frame sleeve sized to fit substantially about all perimeter edges of the portable handheld electronics device, thereby enabling the casing to be mounted onto a rear side and sides of the portable handheld electronics device, the casing leaving exposed substantially all front surface portions of the portable handheld electronics device; a cord having a male end adapted for electrical connection to a female socket of the portable handheld electronics device, the cord having an opposite end adapted to be attached to a headpiece, the headpiece being selected from at least one earplug or a headphone; a storage compartment for the casing, wherein the storage compartment includes a lid having a hinge edge for allowing the lid to open or close the compartment; and a spring loaded rewinder wheel upon which the cord is wound, located inside the storage compartment, the wheel having a retracted position for storage of the cord and a portion of the headpiece, and an extended position for use with the headpiece, the holder being separately attachable to the portable handheld electronic device. | 4,316 |
9,309,748 | 1. A method, comprising: conveying a wireline configurable toolstring within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation via a tubular string to which the wireline configurable tool string is coupled in a manner permitting relative reciprocation of the wireline configurable toolstring and the tubular string; anchoring the wireline configurable toolstring within the wellbore; reciprocating the tubular string relative to the wireline configurable toolstring within the wellbore while the wireline configurable toolstring is anchored within the wellbore; and powering at least one wireline configurable instrument with electrical energy produced by converting fluid flow resulting from the tubular string reciprocation into the electrical energy, wherein the fluid flow comprises at least one of: the at least one of fluid flow into the internal chamber and fluid flow out of the internal chamber imparts rotary motion to an impeller of the wireline configurable toolstring, and wherein the rotary motion of the impeller at least indirectly imparts rotary motion to an input of an alternator of the wireline configurable toolstring. | 6,667 |
9,850,814 | 1. An assembly for a bearing assembly of gas turbine engine, the assembly comprising: an annular first spring; an annular second spring comprising an oil film damper comprising a first flange, a second flange and a center portion axially between and projecting radially outward from the first flange and the second flange, the center portion axially between the first spring and the second spring, wherein the first spring is supported by the first flange, and the second spring is supported by the second flange. | 22,108 |
9,574,147 | 1. A mixing apparatus for producing a feedstock for a reformer, the mixing apparatus comprising: at least one mixing vessel comprising: a spent catalyst recycle line designed for introduction of spent catalyst from a catalytic synthesis gas conversion process directly into the at least one mixing vessel, or a spent catalyst recycle line designed for introduction of spent catalyst from a catalytic synthesis gas conversion process and fluidly connected to the carbonaceous material inlet, or both. | 9,851 |
9,821,125 | 1. A nebulizer, comprising: a first plate configured to hold a transducer; a second plate having an aperture therein, the first plate being positioned on a first side of the second plate such that the transducer is adjacent the aperture; a third plate configured to hold a mesh plate through which liquid can pass to form droplets, the third plate being positioned on a second side of the second plate opposite the first side such that the mesh plate is adjacent the aperture, with the aperture, transducer and mesh plate forming a cavity for holding liquid to be nebulized; and a reservoir chamber for holding further liquid to be nebulized, the reservoir chamber being linked to the cavity via a feed channel in the second plate that is in fluid communication with the first aperture in the second plate and a hole in the first plate. | 23,706 |
9,443,046 | 1. A method of determining an electromagnetic field of a wiring harness system at a selected location, the method being performed by a computer system having an electronic display, the method including: providing CAD data, the CAD data being computer-aided design data including the cabin space of an automotive vehicle having a wiring harness system; selecting the selected location within the CAD data, the selected location being the location of an antenna; selecting one or more electrical components within the CAD data, wherein the electrical components include at least one of a cable, a wire, a motor or a lamp; providing a lookup table having electrical current data for each of the one or more electrical components; retrieving electrical current data for each of the one or more electrical components from the lookup table; identifying distance data for each of the one or more electrical components, the distance data being determined from the locations of the antenna and the one or more electrical components within the CAD data; calculating a calculated electromagnetic field at the antenna using both the electrical current data and the distance data, wherein the calculated electromagnetic field is the summing contribution of each magnetic field component in three dimensional space; and presenting a visual representation of the calculated electromagnetic field on the electronic display, wherein a relative contribution (Brel(j)) of the selected components responsible for the magnetic field is shown, and wherein the relative contribution (Brel(j)) is determined by the following equation, where j=1, 2. . . N, and N is the number of selected components, Bj is the calculated magnetic field of the selected components, Bi is the calculated magnetic field of the wire harness system at the selected location, and wherein x, y, and z refer to the respective contributions of the magnetic fields in three dimensional space: so as to determine the electromagnetic field at the antenna, and the contribution of each of the selected components to the electromagnetic field at the antenna. | 43,148 |
9,850,216 | 1. A compound having Formula IA: wherein R m is 1 or 2; and at least one R R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 2,750 |
9,091,176 | 1. An airfoil comprising: a suction surface and a pressure surface both extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge region, as well as radially from a root section of the airfoil to a tip section of the airfoil; a first protuberance and a second protuberance both extending axially along the pressure surface at the trailing edge region, the first protuberance and the second protuberance spaced apart by a trough; a primary cooling outlet located in the trough; and a first secondary cooling outlet located on the first protuberance and a second secondary cooling outlet located on the second protuberance, wherein the first secondary cooling outlet and the second secondary cooling outlet are located upstream of the primary cooling outlet. | 16,664 |
9,441,596 | 1. A valve for a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, the valve comprising: a valve housing defining a channel therethrough in fluid communication with an inert gas supply line at a first end of the valve housing, the valve housing further comprising a first flange disposed at a second end thereof, the second end being distal to the first end; a valve body movably disposed within the channel of the valve housing, the valve body configured to selectively allow the channel of the valve housing to communicate with an inner bore of a double-walled connecting element of the fuel supply system; and a second flange disposed adjacent to the first flange, wherein the first flange and the second flange are coupled to the double-walled connecting element, and wherein the second flange comprises a passage therethrough in fluid communication with a detection space of the double-walled connecting element; wherein the first flange and the second flange define a detection gap therebetween, and wherein the passage of the second flange is in fluid communication with the detection gap. | 19,759 |
9,731,473 | 1. An article comprising: a substrate; and a transfer film laminated to the substrate, wherein the transfer film comprises: wherein a portion of the sacrificial template layer proximate the first surface has a greater concentration of a thermally stable molecular species than a portion of the sacrificial template layer proximate the second surface. | 13,050 |
9,170,340 | 1. A neutron detector with monolithically integrated readout circuitry, comprising: a bonded semiconductor die including an etched substrate bonded to an active semiconductor substrate; an ion chamber formed in the etched substrate, the ion chamber having a pair of parallel, substantially planar surfaces; a first electrode formed on one said surface; a second electrode formed on the other said surface at an interelectrode separation distance from the first electrode; a material, filling the ion chamber, that reacts with neutrons to create ion trails; and readout circuitry formed in a portion of the active semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the first and second electrodes; wherein the interelectrode separation distance is no more than half an attenuation length for thermal neutrons in the ion-trail-creating material filling the ion chamber at a pressure of 100 atm at room temperature. | 39,155 |
8,388,884 | 1. A method of fabricating a composite item, the method comprising the steps of: dispensing a composite material, the composite material comprising a reinforcement and a resin; energizing a graphite element, the graphite element tending to generate a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that is absorbed more efficiently by the reinforcement than by the resin, each graphite element being tunable by receiving controlled power to the graphite element to cause the graphite element to selectively emit a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are preferentially absorbed by the resin to a relatively greater extent than the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are absorbed by the reinforcement; and controlling power to the graphite element to cause the graphite element to emit a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that is absorbed by the resin to a relatively greater extent than the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that is absorbed more efficiently by the reinforcement than by the resin. | 36,908 |
9,131,862 | 1. A method for extracting an arterial input function, comprising steps: Step (a): contacting a target tissue with a contrast agent to obtain a plurality of images; Step (b): using said plurality of images to work out a time intensity curve of said contrast agent in each voxel; Step (c): using said time intensity curve to calculate a purity of said time intensity curve of each voxel; and Step (d): selecting said time intensity curve of a voxel having the highest purity in step (c) as an arterial input function, wherein calculating said purity (ρ) of said time intensity curve of each voxel by wherein ∥•∥ 1 is the 1-norm operator, ∥•∥ 2 is the 2-norm operator, and x(i) is the voxel. | 12,783 |
8,848,641 | 1. A method for measurement reporting, comprising: identifying at least one measurement criterion for at least one of a set of assigned component carriers, the at least one measurement criterion including at least one of: wherein a frequency of the neighboring cell is equal to a carrier frequency corresponding to a measurement object associated with the at least one criterion, and a frequency of the first assigned component carrier is equal to the carrier frequency corresponding to the measurement object associated with the at least one criterion or the first assigned component carrier is one of a list of assigned component carriers associated with the at least one criterion. | 36,213 |
9,060,675 | 1. A receiving apparatus for receiving transmission data, the receiving apparatus comprising: a plurality of receiving antennas capable of receiving the transmission data from a capsule medical device which is wirelessly transmitted frame by frame from the capsule medical device, the transmission data including a preamble at a head and a vertical synchronization signal at a head of main data following the preamble; a switching unit that selectively switches a connection to any one of the plurality of receiving antennas based on a signal strength of each of the plurality of receiving antennas; a preamble detector that detects the preamble of the transmission data output via a receiving antenna which is connected by the switching unit; a vertical synchronization signal detector that detects the vertical synchronization signal of the transmission data output via the receiving antenna which is connected by the switching unit; and a control unit for controlling the switching unit, preamble detector and vertical synchronization detector and that controls whether or not to cause the preamble detector to be in a sleep condition based on a detection result by the preamble detector; wherein when the preamble detector detects the preamble, the control unit causes the vertical synchronization signal detector to detect the vertical synchronization signal of the transmission data, and thereafter causes the preamble detector to shift to the sleep condition to suppress power consumption. | 35,713 |
8,839,922 | 1. A vehicle power transmission device having a hydraulic power transmission device and a power transmission mechanism in a power transmission path between an engine and drive wheels, the hydraulic power transmission device including an input-side rotating member disposed with a plurality of pump blades and an output-side rotating member disposed with a plurality of turbine blades receiving a fluid flow from the pump blades, the power transmission mechanism transmitting power input to an input shaft from the hydraulic power transmission device to a subsequent stage, the output-side rotating member being coupled by relatively non-rotatable fitting to the input shaft on the power transmission mechanism side relative to the pump blades and the turbine blades in an axial center direction of the hydraulic power transmission device, the hydraulic power transmission device being a torque converter having a stator coupled via a one way clutch to a tubular stator shaft concentric with the input shaft and having a diameter larger than the input shaft, a tubular coupling shaft having a diameter larger than the input shaft being disposed to project from an inner circumferential edge portion of an inner race of the one way clutch in the axial center direction, and the stator shaft being coupled by relatively non-rotatable fitting to the tubular coupling shaft of the inner race at a position partially or entirely overlapping with a coupling portion of the output-side rotating member to the input shaft when viewed in the direction orthogonal to the axial center. | 18,525 |
8,462,332 | 1. A sample slide for visually inspecting samples comprising: (a) a base layer of optically clear material; (b) a middle layer containing at least one set of cutouts forming a test site, said cutouts forming at least one inlet chamber for receiving a sample, at least one viewing chamber, and at least one hydrophilic capillary passageway in fluid communication between said inlet chamber and said viewing chamber; (c) a top layer of optically clear material, said top layer containing cutouts forming openings for introducing said sample into said inlet chamber and for venting air from said viewing chamber; wherein said optically clear materials of (a) and (c) have a surface energy relative to the surface energy of said samples such that the particles and sediments are separated and immobilized on the surface of said optically clear materials. | 30,691 |
8,869,503 | 1. A drive train for a motor vehicle, the drive train comprising: a heat flow generating drive motor; a steam engine in a steam circuit, in which a working fluid is evaporated and expanded in the steam engine; a first evaporator arranged in the steam circuit and operated with at least one portion of the heat flow, so as to evaporate the working fluid, wherein the first evaporator comprises an inlet for liquid working fluid and an outlet for evaporated working fluid, and wherein the first evaporator comprises an auxiliary outlet, via which a portion of the heated working fluid is guided through the inlet into the first evaporator and is discharged with the heat flow, before the residual working fluid in the evaporator is further evaporated by means of the heat flow; and a second evaporator arranged in an exhaust gas stream outside an exhaust gas recirculation in a flow direction behind a branch leading to the exhaust gas recirculation, wherein the working fluid discharged via the auxiliary outlet is evaporated in the second evaporator using a second heat flow. | 957 |
9,739,493 | 1. A coaxial ventilator ( 20 ) adapted for inclusion in a building ( 22 ) for exchanging atmosphere between parts of the building ( 22 ) at differing heights thereof, the coaxial ventilator ( 20 ) comprising: a. an outer conduit ( b. an inner conduit ( c. a pan ( d. at least one (1) thermosyphon tube ( e. a bulb tank ( whereby responsive to temperatures of atmosphere both surrounding and within the outer conduit ( | 6,608 |
9,242,204 | 1. A carbon dioxide recovery system, comprising: a high-pressure turbine, an intermediate-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure turbine; a boiler for producing steam to drive the turbines; a carbon dioxide recovery unit including a carbon dioxide absorber for allowing a carbon dioxide absorbent to absorb and reduce carbon dioxide in a combustion flue gas discharged from the boiler and a carbon dioxide regenerator for regenerating the carbon dioxide absorbent having absorbed carbon dioxide as a regenerated carbon dioxide absorbent; a first steam line through which low-pressure steam is fed from the intermediate-pressure turbine to the low-pressure turbine; a second steam line into which the low-pressure steam is branched from the first steam line; a first regulation valve disposed on the first steam line to regulate an opening of an amount of steam of the low-pressure steam from 100% to 0%; a second regulation valve disposed on the second steam line to regulate an opening of an amount of steam of the low-pressure steam from 0% to 100% depending on the amount of control provided to the first regulation valve; a first auxiliary turbine coupled to the second steam line to recover power using the low-pressure steam being fed; a first steam feed line through which exhaust steam discharged from the first auxiliary turbine is employed to be fed as a source of heat to a reboiler which is used to regenerate the carbon dioxide absorbent having absorbed carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide regenerator; a bleed line through which the low-pressure steam having been bled from the first auxiliary turbine is fed to the low-pressure turbine; and a control device configured to control driving of the first auxiliary turbine by controlling an opening from 100% to 0% and from 0% to 100% in carbon dioxide recovery and non-recovery modes in response to a variation in operation load of the boiler or the turbines while a pressure of the exhaust steam supplied to the reboiler is maintained to take on a permissible value for a reboiler optimum pressure (about 0.33 MPa±0.05 MPa) with the first regulation valve and the second regulation valve being operated in response to each other. | 46,870 |
9,650,968 | 1. A method of delivering a fuel to an aircraft engine, comprising: providing a plurality of distinct fuel sources, a first fuel source comprising a first fuel having a first aromatic content and a second fuel source comprising a second fuel having a second aromatic content; determining one or more ambient atmospheric conditions for at least a portion of a flight path of an aircraft, said one or more ambient atmospheric conditions being indicative of a likelihood of contrail formation by the aircraft engine; determining a desirous fuel composition for suppressing contrail formation for combustion by the aircraft engine based upon said one or more ambient atmospheric conditions by applying a predetermined threshold value of a fuel property for the desirous fuel composition, the threshold value comprising an average value of said fuel property over an instance or period of use of the aircraft engine; selecting a ratio of the first and second fuels from said first and second fuel sources according to said desirous fuel composition for suppressing contrail formation; and delivering said selected ratio of the first and second fuels to the aircraft engine. | 22,938 |
9,387,266 | 1. A method of diagnosing tumors using Positron Emission Tomography, the method comprising producing 1-amino-3[ wherein n is 0; R 1 is an ethyl substituent; X is a trifluormethanesulfonate substituent; and R 3 is a t-butoxy carbonyl substituent, wherein the method includes adding radioactive fluoride to the precursor compound, wherein the reaction with radioactive fluoride is carried out in acetonitrile and deprotecting the precursor compound to which radioactive fluoride has been added to produce 1-amino-3-[ wherein the method substantially does not give methanol in the production of 1-amino-3-[ administering the 1-amino-3-[ | 36,242 |
9,644,276 | 1. A semiconductor photoelectrode, comprising: a first conductive layer; a first n-type semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer covering the first n-type semiconductor layer, wherein the first n-type semiconductor layer has a first n-type surface region and a second n-type surface region; the first n-type surface region is in contact with the first conductive layer; the second n-type surface region is in contact with the second conductive layer; a band edge level E a band edge level E a Fermi level E the Fermi level E a Fermi level E the first n-type semiconductor layer is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of a nitride semiconductor and an oxynitride semiconductor; the second conductive layer is light-transmissive; and the second conductive layer is formed of a p-type oxide conductor. | 12,835 |
8,437,727 | 1. A signal processing device, comprising a first integrated circuit generating a power source control signal for controlling an ON and OFF state of a power source, a second integrated circuit, having a control register, turned on and off in power by the power source control signal generated by the first integrated circuit, and an input/output buffer circuit arranged between the first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit for performing input/output, wherein the first integrated circuit controls the state of input or output of the input/output buffer circuit linked with the power source control signal, and wherein the first integrated circuit fetches control content from the second integrated circuit and holds the control content inside the first integrated circuit before turning off the power source of the second integrated circuit by the power source control signal and transfers the held control content to the control register of second integrated circuit when switching the power source of the second integrated circuit on by the power source control signal. | 48,571 |
9,294,680 | 1. A device capable of creating, a sequence of digital images, said device comprising: a camera capable of taking said sequence of digital images; a polarizer attached to said camera; a rotator motor, said rotator motor capable of rotating said polarizer; a microprocessor capable of storing said sequence of digital images taken by said camera through said polarizer; wherein said sequence is comprised of 2*N digital images P(i), i=1 to 2*N, wherein each digital image P(i) represents an array of pixels; said sequence being taken at rotational angles of said polarizer between 0 degrees and 180 degrees in equal increments wherein N is an integer greater than 1, and i is an index of said sequence; and symbol * represents the multiplication function, and wherein said rotational angles are chosen so that sequences of digital images P(i) and P(i+N) are orthogonal polarization of light of the digital images, i=1 to N whereby said device being capable of providing net differences of orthogonal polarization of the digital images to a display. | 14,079 |
8,401,438 | 1. A conveyance member comprising: a rotational shaft; a support portion that extends from the rotational shaft in a direction crossing an axial direction of the rotational shaft; and an arcuate member that includes one end that is supported by the support portion, and another end that extends in a direction different from the rotational direction, wherein a distance between an outer edge of the arcuate member at the other end and the rotational shaft is longer than a distance between an outer edge of the arcuate member at the one end and the rotational shaft. | 46,011 |
8,724,830 | 1. An automatic volume level controller for multiple audio streams, comprising: (a) an event state machine, said event state machine with inputs for fade signals associated with multiple streams of audio signals, and with outputs for fade profile parameters corresponding to said streams; (b) a target calculator coupled to said event state machine with inputs for said fade signals and said fade profile parameters and a gain vector and with outputs for adjusted fade volume parameters, wherein said target calculator dynamically calculates parameters; (c) a gain calculator coupled to said target calculator with output for a gain vector; and (d) a ramp generator coupled to said target calculator and to said event state machine, said ramp generator with inputs for adjusted fade volume parameters and outputs to said event state machine and for volume levels for said streams for controlling gain functions utilizing relationship among the volume levels of the multiple streams of audio signals; (e) whereby mixing products of said volume levels with corresponding ones of said streams provides a crossfaded output of said streams; and (f) wherein the start and end of fade events trigger dynamic re-computations of volume parameters targets and volume ramps according to non-linear functions to prevent saturation. | 32,513 |
8,426,455 | 1. A therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia, comprising: a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R or a salt of said compound; and a pitavastatin, or a salt thereof, or a lactone thereof, or a hydrate thereof or a hydrate of a salt thereof in combination, wherein the compound represented by the formula (1) is (R)-2-[3-[[N-(benzoxazol-2-yl)-N-3-(4-methoxyphenoxy)propyl]aminomethyl]phenoxy]butyric acid or a salt thereof. | 4,551 |
9,048,028 | 1. A hybrid energy storage cell comprising: a first pair of electrode units forming a first electrochemical sub-cell, wherein the first electrochemical sub-cell is a nickel-metal hydride electrochemical sub-cell; a second pair of electrode units forming a second electrochemical sub-cell, wherein the second electrochemical sub-cell utilizes a different chemical reaction than the first electrochemical sub-cell; and a common electrolyte layer provided between each pair of electrode units, wherein an electrolyte is shared between the first electrochemical sub-cell and the second electrochemical sub-cell. | 20,806 |
9,670,781 | 1. A method for producing a turbine rotor blade, comprising the following steps: performing a plastic analysis of a blade platform of a baseline turbine rotor blade with a first side edge and a second side edge; identifying a first area with plasticity greater than a predetermined limit on the first side edge; modifying the baseline turbine rotor blade to result in an intermediate turbine rotor blade by removing the first area from the first side edge such that a first concave portion is formed relative to a circumferential orientation and adding a second area, corresponding in size and shape to the first area, to the second side edge; and finishing the intermediate turbine rotor blade as a final turbine rotor blade. | 38,100 |
8,439,139 | 1. A method of controlling a hybrid construction machine provided with an engine and a generator motor coupled to each other, a swing motor which electric power is supplied to from the generator motor for swinging a part of a body relative to other parts, a capacitor for storing the electric power generated by each of the generator motor and the swing motor and supplying the electric power to the generator motor and the swing motor, and a booster for boosting voltage of the capacitor to output, the method comprising: an assist torque limit value calculating step of calculating an assist torque limit value of the generator motor corresponding to capacitor voltage of the capacitor when the booster performs an output associated with discharge of the capacitor; a generator motor torque command value calculating step of calculating a torque command value of the generator motor according to a target speed of the generator motor; and a generator motor actual torque command value generating step of comparing the assist torque limit value calculated at the assist torque limit value calculating step with the torque command value calculated at the generator motor torque command value calculating step, and generating an actual torque command value of the generator motor by using the smaller of the assist torque limit value and the torque command value. | 49,596 |
9,118,462 | 1. A method comprising: authenticating, by a first peer, a second peer; obtaining, by the first peer, capability information from the second peer; creating, by the first peer, a list of shareable content based on the capability information obtained from the second peer and sending the list of shareable content to the second peer; receiving, by the first peer, a selection of a content item from the list from the second peer; rebinding, by the first peer, a cryptographic key associated with the content item to the second peer; generating, by the first peer, a sharing license for the content item; associating, by the first peer, the sharing license with the content item; and sending, by the first peer, the content item and the sharing license to the second peer. | 24,944 |
9,359,384 | 1. A compound of formula I, wherein R at least one of R R m is an integer from 1 to 20; and n is an integer from 0 to 5. | 13,388 |
8,529,109 | 1. A vehicle lighting unit configured to emit light parallel to an optical axis of the vehicle lighting unit in a front direction, the vehicle lighting unit comprising: a light source configured to emit light obliquely with respect to the optical axis and towards the front direction; and a light guiding body configured to guide the light emitted from the light source so as to emit the light, the light guiding body including: | 27,932 |
9,353,659 | 1. A diesel engine system comprising: a diesel engine which emits soot during its operation; an exhaust system comprising a diesel particulate filter disposed downstream from the diesel engine for trapping soot passing through the exhaust system as the diesel engine operates; a processor-based control system for estimating soot trapped in the diesel particulate filter as the diesel engine operates, wherein the processor-based control system is configured: a) to process data values for a current engine speed and a current engine torque for selecting from a steady-state soot estimation table containing data values of steady-state soot correlated with data values for the engine speed and the engine torque, a current data value for steady-state soot entering the diesel particulate filter, and for selecting from a transient soot estimation table containing data values of transient soot correlated with data values for the engine speed and the engine torque, a current data value for transient soot entering the diesel particulate filter; b) to calculate a current data value for a feed-forward instantaneous soot estimate by weighting the current data value for steady-state soot and the current data value for transient soot as a function of changing engine operation, summing the weighted data values and subtracting a current data value for trapped soot being burned off by natural regeneration; c) to repeatedly update a data value for a total soot estimate of soot trapped in the diesel particulate filter by adding to an existing data value for the total soot estimate the result of integrating a current data value for feed-forward instantaneous soot over a length of time since a prior or update while also correcting the data value for the total soot estimate by calculating a current data value for soot error between a current total soot estimate and a data value for trapped soot based on a current exhaust flow rate and a current differential pressure across the diesel particulate filter and processing the current data value for soot error by a Kalman filter processing gain; wherein the Kalman filter processing gain is controlled by at least one parameter related to engine operation; and d) to initiate regeneration of the diesel particulate filter when the data value for the total soot estimate reaches a predetermined value, thereby increasing a temperature of the diesel particulate filter to burn off soot trapped in the diesel particulate filter to reduce the impedance of the exhaust flow through the diesel particulate filter. | 26,695 |
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