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8,365,707 | 1. A plasma apparatus using a cylinder head, which installed in an internal combustion engine of which combustion chamber formed by a cylinder block that is penetrated by a cylinder, a piston fits into the cylinder so as to reciprocate freely, and the cylinder head assembled to the anti-crankcase side of the cylinder block, the plasma apparatus comprising: a discharge device with an electrode exposed to the combustion chamber and installed in the cylinder head; an antenna installed to protrude from the cylinder head into the combustion chamber; a bulging portion bulging from the cylinder head to the combustion chamber so as to cover the antenna, made from insulator or dielectric; an electromagnetic wave transmission line installed in the cylinder head and with one end connected to the antenna and the other end, covered with insulator or dielectric, penetrating the cylinder head to extend to an outer wall of the cylinder head; and an electromagnetic wave generator for feeding electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave transmission line; wherein the plasma apparatus is configured such that discharge is generated with the electrode of the discharge device and the electromagnetic waves fed from the electromagnetic wave generator through the electromagnetic wave transmission line are radiated from antenna at compression stroke. | 35,295 |
8,662,642 | 1. A liquid ejection head, comprising: a substrate including a plurality of energy-generating elements for generating energy to be used for ejecting a liquid, and a supply port that is a through-hole for supplying the liquid to at least one of the energy-generating elements; and an orifice plate including ejection orifices for ejecting the liquid, wherein the plurality of the energy-generating elements are arranged in a first direction, wherein the supply port is formed between the plurality of the energy-generating elements in the first direction, and the supply port is formed so as to be adjacent to the energy-generating elements in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein each of the energy-generating elements has a rectangular shape, and one supply port surrounds at least three sides of the energy-generating element continuously. | 21,176 |
9,505,599 | 1. An evacuated bottle system, comprising: a bottle defining a hollow interior, the bottle having a neck with a rim defining an opening; a cap assembly supported on the bottle, the cap assembly including a funnel having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being insertable within the interior of the bottle and the second portion engaging a portion of the bottle to support the funnel above the rim, the funnel defining a bore that fluidly communicates with the hollow interior of the bottle; a self-sealing membrane that covers the bore formed by the funnel to selectively seal the hollow interior of the bottle; a cap attachable to the bottle, the cap including a cover portion that extends at least partially over the self-sealing membrane, the cover portion being axially spaced from the self-sealing membrane to define a gap that permits axial movement of the self-sealing membrane to selectively open the bottle to fluid communication outside of the bottle; the second portion of the funnel includes a floor that extends radially outward relative to the first portion of the funnel and a second wall extending axially outward from the floor; the bore includes a first bore and a second bore, each having a respective lateral dimension; the first portion defines the first bore and the second portion defines the second bore, wherein the second bore has a greater lateral dimension than the first bore; the self-sealing membrane is provided on a serum stopper, wherein the serum stopper includes a first portion extending axially inward to the interior of the bottle and being insertably received in the first bore of the funnel; and the serum stopper includes a second portion extending radially outward relative to the first portion and residing in the second bore of the funnel. | 5,739 |
9,160,659 | 1. A method, comprising: associating, by a hypervisor executing on a host computer system, an Infiniband (IB) interface of the host computer system with a paravirtualized Internet Protocol over Infiniband (IPoIB) interface of a virtual machine executing on the host computer system; receiving, by the paravirtualized IPoIB interface, a paravirtualized IPoIB packet originated by the virtual machine, the paravirtualized IPoIB packet comprising an IP packet and a first header including an IPoIB hardware address; translating, by a processor of the host computer system, the paravirtualized IPoIB packet into an IPoIB frame comprising the IP packet and a second header including the IPoIB hardware address; and forwarding the IPoIB frame by the IB interface to one of: an IB switch, or an external IB node. | 39,645 |
9,827,136 | 1. A catamenial device configured for the collection of menses discharge of a human female, comprising: a flexible resilient menstrual cup (MC), comprising: a rib structure extending from a distal open end of said device toward a proximal end of said device; and a reservoir bag connected to said rib structure for collecting the menses discharge, said reservoir bag having an open distal end and a proximal end, wherein said reservoir bag proximal end and said rib structure proximal end overlap; wherein said device has a cylindrical body tapering proximally; wherein said device is radially symmetric about a central axis, from said device proximal end to said device distal end; wherein said MC has a port about the central axis at said device distal end, said rib structure configured to seal said device distal end at said port to a vaginal cavity of the human female, at a location along the vaginal cavity which is remote from the cervix. | 40,451 |
8,598,881 | 1. A cooling vessel for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet system, the cooling vessel comprising: a first portion containing a helium cryogen in contact with a plurality of magnet coils of an MRI system; a second portion separate from and fluidly decoupled from the first portion, the second portion containing a material different than the helium cryogen and having a volume greater than the first portion; and a plurality of cooling tubes in fluid connection with the first portion and in thermal contact with the second portion such that boiled off helium cryogen from the first portion circulates within the plurality of cooling tubes and is cooled by the material within the second portion. | 31,266 |
9,407,834 | 1. A method for processing an image on a portable terminal equipped with a dual camera, the method comprising: selecting an image synthesis mode; performing a simultaneous or a sequential photographing of a front camera and a rear camera; obtaining a first image and a second image through the front camera and the rear camera; detecting an object image from one of the first image and the second image; determining whether at least one of the obtained first image or second image is identical to a stored information and extracting a first effect which is previously mapped to the stored information when the at least one of the obtained first image or second image is identical to the stored information as a result of the determination; generating a synthesized image by synthesizing the object image to the other of the first image and the second image in which the object image was not detected and applying the first effect to the synthesized image; and displaying the synthesized image to which the first effect is applied, wherein the generating of the synthesized image comprises detecting at least one of a photographing based position information or a photographing based time information, extracting a second effect previously mapped to the at least one of information of the detected photographing based position or the photographing based time, and displaying the second effect to the synthesized image, and wherein the second effect comprises information related to at least one of a schedule or a location which is mapped to the at least one of the detected photographing based position information or the photographing based time information. | 21,024 |
9,492,783 | 1. A carbon dioxide gas recovery device comprising: an absorption tower configured to bring a carbon dioxide-containing gas containing carbon dioxide gas into contact with a lean absorbent, and cause the lean absorbent to absorb carbon dioxide gas in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to generate a rich absorbent; a regeneration tower configured to regenerate the lean absorbent by heating the rich absorbent supplied from the absorption tower to separate carbon dioxide gas from the rich absorbent, a rich supply channel configured to lead the rich absorbent from a bottom portion of the absorption tower and supply the rich absorbent to a top portion of the regeneration tower; a lean supply channel configured to lead the lean absorbent from a bottom portion of the regeneration tower and supply the lean absorbent to a top portion of the absorption tower; and a heat pump configured to use the heat, which is transmitted through a heat carrier medium generated in an exothermic reaction in which the lean absorbent absorbs carbon dioxide gas in the absorption tower, as a heat source of an endothermic reaction in which carbon dioxide gas is separated from the rich absorbent in the regeneration tower, wherein the absorption tower includes: first and second fillers disposed in the absorption tower and configured to promote the absorption of carbon dioxide gas into the lean absorbent, the second filler being positioned at the lower side of the first filler in the absorption tower; an introduction channel connected to the bottom portion of the absorption tower and configured to introduce the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the absorption tower; a first nozzle connected to the lean supply channel in the top portion of the absorption tower and configured to supply the lean absorbent to the first filler inside the absorption tower; and an intercooler system configured to lead the lean absorbent from a tower intermediate part of the absorption tower between the top portion and the bottom portion of the absorption tower, cool the led lean absorbent and reintroduce the cooled lean absorbent into the tower intermediate part, wherein the intercooler system includes: a liquid-receiving tray disposed between the first and second fillers at the tower intermediate part of the absorption tower and configured to store the lean absorbent; a fifth nozzle disposed below the liquid-receiving tray at the tower intermediate part of the absorption tower; a pipe connecting the liquid-receiving tray and the fifth nozzle; and a pump configured to transfer the lean absorbent from the liquid-receiving tray to the fifth nozzle through the pipe and supply the lean absorbent from the fifth nozzle to the second filler inside the absorption tower, wherein the heat pump includes: a second heat exchanger disposed in the regeneration tower and configured to exchange heat between the heat carrier medium and the rich absorbent in the regeneration tower; a heat carrier expansion valve configured to expand the heat carrier medium of which heat has been exchanged with the rich absorbent in the second heat exchanger thereby lowering the temperature of the heat carrier medium; | 40,084 |
8,558,881 | 1. A telescopic probe monitoring system for riverbed elevation monitoring at bridge piers comprising: a measurement module arranged at a bridge pier under the water for measuring elevation of a riverbed under water; the measurement module having a housing, a multi-layer tube mounted in the housing, a driving member that is attached with a plurality of scales, mounted in the housing and used for pushing the multi-layer tube to extend and contact the riverbed; a photographic unit mounted in the housing for taking pictures of the driving member and producing images; and a sensing unit disposed on bottom of the multi-layer tube; a control module coupled to the driving member and the photographic unit; the measurement module and the control module separated with each other; wherein the control module controls the driving member to push the multi-layer tube for extension of the multi-layer tube; while the sensing unit on bottom of the multi-layer tube contacts the riverbed under the water, the sensing unit sends a sensing signal to the control module for control of the driving member to stop pushing the multi-layer tube; the photographic unit shoots the driving member to generate the image; the control module gets the elevation of the riverbed according to the image and sends the elevation to a remote monitor unit. | 12,170 |
8,852,794 | 1. A vehicle battery case comprising: a housing at least partially enclosing a cavity to receive one or more vehicle batteries substantially along an axial direction of said cavity, an internal surface of said housing including one or more slides comprising elongate ridges that extend inward of said cavity and substantially in parallel to said axial direction of said cavity, wherein said elongate ridges comprise raised portions of said internal surface of said housing, wherein said raised portions have a shape that is at least partially convex with respect to said cavity, and said one or more slides to at least partially support weight of said one or more vehicle batteries. | 23,881 |
8,592,673 | 1. A solar concentrator comprising: a housing including a receiving wall, a reflecting wall, a lower wall and at least two end walls, wherein said receiving wall, reflecting wall, lower wall, and end wall define a three-dimensional volume having an inlet, and said housing has an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by said inlet; a plurality of receivers mounted on said receiving wall of said housing, wherein each receiver of said plurality of receivers defines an axis and comprises at least one photovoltaic cell, a lens focused on said at least one photovoltaic cell, and a heat sink connected to said at least one photovoltaic cell, wherein said at least one photovoltaic cell and said lens are disposed within said three-dimensional volume, said heat sink is external of said three-dimensional volume, and wherein said axis of each receiver of said plurality of receivers is disposed at a non-zero angle relative to said axis of said housing; a plurality of optical elements within said three-dimensional volume, wherein each optical element of said plurality of optical elements comprises a front tab and a rear tab; a plurality of front clips disposed on said lower wall of said housing, wherein each front clip of said plurality of front clips engages an associated one of said front tabs; a plurality of rear clips disposed on said reflecting wall of said housing, wherein each rear clip of said plurality of rear clips engages an associated one of said rear tabs; and a window connected to said inlet of said housing to form an enclosed three-dimensional volume. | 16,034 |
8,737,419 | 1. A method of controlling a link status of a plurality of ports of a network concentrator, the plurality of ports being configured to be connected to a network device on a network, the plurality of ports at least one port in a first group and at least one port in a second group, and the second group corresponding to the first group, the method comprising: detecting whether each of the ports in the first group is in link-up or link-down and whether each of the ports in the second group is link-up or link-down; as a result of the detection step, if at least one port in of the first group and the second group is in link-up and all the ports in the second group are in link-down, setting a PHY circuit corresponding to the at least one port in the first group to disablement; and releasing the disablement of the PHY circuit if at least one port in the second group is changed from link-down to link-up. | 19,994 |
9,218,044 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an indication that an end of an interval has been reached; responsive to receiving the indication of the end of the interval, determining a cycle delta, wherein the cycle delta indicates a difference between an expected performance of a circuit and an actual performance of the circuit; determining whether the cycle delta is less than a minimum cycle delta; and responsive to determining that the cycle delta is less than the minimum cycle delta, indicating that the cycle delta is a new minimum cycle delta, and indicating that a performance state is associated with the new minimum cycle delta. | 45,785 |
8,575,785 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: first means for powering an electronic device, wherein the first means for powering is associated with a high-power mode of operation of the apparatus; means for monitoring when the electronic device requires power; second means for powering the means for monitoring, wherein the second means for powering is associated with a low-power mode of operation of the apparatus; and means for turning off the first means for powering when the electronic device does not require the power. | 9,055 |
8,578,696 | 1. A system, comprising: a turbine engine that burns fuel and generates heat exhaust; a thermoelectric module, located within a heat exhaust end of the turbine engine, that converts the heat exhaust generated from the turbine engine into electrical energy, the thermoelectric module comprising a turbulated arrangement of a plurality of thermoelectric elements electrically connected in series and thermally connected in parallel, each of the plurality of thermoelectric elements comprising a first thermoelectric material and a second thermoelectric material coupled to each other at a hot junction and a cold junction, the cold junction coated with a thermal barrier that increases conductive resistance at the cold junction thereby lowering temperature at the cold junction, the hot junction and the cold junction being thermally connected in parallel, wherein a temperature gradient develops between the hot junction and the cold junction, wherein the generated electric energy is a function of the temperature gradient developed between the hot junction and the cold junction, wherein each of the plurality of thermoelectric elements in the turbulated arrangement protrudes from the heat exhaust end into a gas flow associated with the heat exhaust passing through the heat exhaust end, the plurality of thermoelectric elements protruding from the heat exhaust end into the gas flow passing through the heat exhaust end creating a turbulated flow of the gas flow, the turbulated gas flow producing a higher heat transfer coefficient at each hot junction of the plurality of thermoelectric elements and a lower heat transfer coefficient at each cold junction of the thermoelectric elements, enhancing the temperature gradient between each of the hot junctions and cold junctions of the plurality of thermoelectric elements. | 35,262 |
8,646,435 | 1. A method for substantially operating a diesel engine at stoichiometry, wherein the diesel engine includes a plurality of cylinders capable of operating in a succession of combustion cycles, the method comprising: receiving instruction for a first desired engine output, wherein the first desired engine output is generated using adaptive predictive programming; substantially unthrottling the air intake into a first subset of the plurality of cylinders during each of their respective working cycles while the diesel engine is in a first operational state corresponding to the first desired engine output, wherein the unthrottling substantially maintains the efficiency of the diesel engine by avoiding pumping loss; substantially regulating fuel delivery into to the first subset of the plurality of cylinders at substantially stoichiometric fuel levels during each of their respective working cycles while the diesel engine is in a first operational state corresponding to the first desired engine output, wherein the regulating fuel at substantially stoichiometric levels enables the control of NOx emissions via a three way catalytic converter; and substantially disabling fuel injection into to a second subset of the plurality of cylinders during each of their respective working cycles while the diesel engine is in the first operational state corresponding to the first desired engine output, wherein the ratio of cylinders in the first subset of cylinders and the second subset of cylinders corresponds to the first desired engine output. | 29,311 |
9,753,405 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a housing; a toner container configured to be removably mounted in the housing and contain a toner, the toner container having a stirring member for stirring the toner; an electric motor configured to drive the stirring member; a storage device configured to store a required load value set for the toner container; a load detecting section including an electric current sensor that measures a drive electric current of the electric motor, the load detecting section being configured to detect an actual load value of the electric motor in driving of the stirring member based on the drive electric current measured; a determination section configured to compare the actual load value detected by the load detecting section with the required load value stored in the storage device and determine whether or not the actual load value coincides with the required load value to determine whether or not the toner container mounted in the housing is a genuine product; and an operation input section having a touch panel or hard keys that receive input of the required load value, wherein the storage device stores the required load value input in the operation input section. | 20,949 |
8,936,753 | 1. A blood coagulation analyzer comprising: a sample preparation section for preparing a measurement sample from a blood sample and a prothrombin time measurement reagent, a partial thromboplastin time measurement reagent, or an activated partial thromboplastin time measurement reagent; a control section that controls operations of each mechanism of the sample preparation section; and a detector including: a computer coupled to the sample preparation section and analyzing information of the measurement sample obtained by the sample preparation section, the computer comprising; | 17,770 |
8,900,347 | 1. A temperature swing adsorption method for separating a fluid mixture comprising at least first and second fluid components, the method comprising: admitting said fluid mixture into an adsorptive separation system comprising at least one parallel passage adsorbent contactor, said parallel passage adsorbent contactor comprising admitting said fluid mixture into said inlet end of said parallel passage adsorbent contactor to flow towards said outlet end in said first axial direction; adsorbing at least a portion of said first fluid component on said at least one adsorbent material; transferring heat from a heat of adsorption of said first fluid component on said at least one adsorbent material along at least a portion of said thermally conductive filaments in a second axial direction towards said inlet end and opposite to said first axial direction during said adsorbing step; recovering a first product fluid depleted in said first fluid component relative to said fluid mixture from said outlet end; desorbing at least a portion of said first fluid component adsorbed on at least one said adsorbent material by heating at least one said adsorbent material; transferring heat along at least a portion of said thermally conductive filaments in either of said first or second axial directions to provide at least a portion of the heat of desorption of said first fluid component during said desorbing step; and recovering a desorbed second product fluid enriched in said first fluid component from at least one of said inlet and said outlet ends. | 34,090 |
9,419,296 | 1. A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) apparatus comprising a burner, said burner having an igniter having a natural gas and air inlet; a reformer, said reformer adjacent and surrounding an outer surface of said burner; an air preheater, said air preheater adjacent and surrounding an outer surface of said reformer and connected to receive un-reacted residual hydrogen-rich gas, provide heat to preheat air, and return the un-reacted residual hydrogen-rich gas to the burner; and a hot air outlet unit, said hot air outlet unit adjacent and surrounding an outer surface of said air preheater. | 47,703 |
9,770,709 | 1. A catalyst composition for oxidation of carbon monoxide, comprising: a graphene or graphene oxide molecule comprising at least one functional group having the structure: wherein: R G is a carbon atom of the graphene or graphene oxide. | 5,443 |
9,664,610 | 1. A sampling system, comprising: an elongated chamber structure to hold a fluid to be sampled, the elongated chamber structure having at least one wall that at least partially separates an interior of the chamber structure from an exterior thereof, the chamber structure having a first end and a second end, the second end opposite from the first end along a length of the chamber structure that extends along a principal axis of the chamber structure, at least a first portion of the elongated chamber structure reflective at least laterally across the interior of the chamber structure along at least a first portion of the length of the chamber structure; a set of emitters positioned to emit electromagnetic energy into the interior of the chamber structure proximate the first end laterally across the interior of the chamber structure, and at an angle extending toward the second end from the first end; at least one primary lateral sampling detector proximate the second end of the chamber structure and positioned laterally with respect to the principal axis of the chamber structure to detect electromagnetic energy from the interior of the chamber structure proximate the second end of the chamber structure; at least one calibration detector proximate the first end of the chamber structure with respect to the at least one primary lateral sampling detector and spaced relatively toward the second end with respect to the set of emitters, the at least one calibration detector positioned laterally with respect to the principal axis of the chamber structure to detect electromagnetic energy from the interior of the chamber proximate the first end of the chamber structure; and at least one primary axial sampling detector proximate the second end of the chamber structure and positioned axially along the principal axis of the chamber structure to detect electromagnetic energy from the interior of the chamber structure proximate the second end of the chamber structure. | 39,255 |
8,770,126 | 1. A method of moving a floating wind turbine relative to a body of water, the floating wind turbine having a buoyant body forming a support structure with a nacelle at the upper end thereof, the method comprising: floating the floating wind turbine in the body of water; and towing the floating wind turbine whilst holding the buoyant body in an inclined position, whereby the nacelle is held clear of the water; wherein the floating wind turbine is held in an inclined position by a floating member; wherein a wind turbine generator is provided at the nacelle and the floating member is attached by a line to the support structure. | 24,530 |
8,737,305 | 1. A method for transmitting an abnormal power down report by a Machine to Machine (M2M) device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting the abnormal power down report to a base station, wherein the abnormal power down report includes offset information for an identifier of the M2M device that transmits the abnormal power down report, and wherein when the identifier is shared with a plurality of M2M devices, the identifier of the M2M device is valid within a time interval indicated by the offset information and the offset information is unique for each of the plurality of M2M devices. | 30,651 |
8,930,306 | 1. A computer-implemented method for performing data deduplication for data used by a plurality of computing systems, the method comprising: receiving, over a computer network and at a shared deduplicated storage repository, data from a first computing system of a plurality of computing systems, each of the plurality of computing systems physically separate from the shared deduplicated storage repository and including application software executing thereon, the application software of the first computing system generating the received data; with a processing system which comprises computer hardware, is physically separate from the plurality of computing systems, and is located at the shared deduplicated storage repository, performing a data deduplication operation on the received data, the deduplication operation comprising: subsequent to said performing the data deduplication operation, analyzing data traffic received from the plurality of computing systems; based on said analyzing the data traffic, determining at least a second computing system of the plurality of computing systems to which to transmit an updated partial instantiation of the central reference table, the partial instantiation including the signature for the defined data segment; transmitting the updated partial instantiation of the central reference table from the shared deduplicated storage repository to the determined second computing system of the plurality of computing systems, such that the partial instantiation of the central reference table local to the second computing system includes the at least one signature and a partial instantiation of the central reference table local to a third computing system of the plurality of computing systems does not include the at least one signature; and with the second computing system, subsequent to said transmitting the partial instantiation of the central reference table: | 31,016 |
9,321,522 | 1. A plain journal bearing coupling a first component to a second component, the bearing comprising: a pin which passes through the first component and the second component; a clamping bush which surrounds the pin and has a cylindrical inner surface, a cylindrical outer surface, and an end face; and a clamping member which is mounted on the pin and provides a clamping force between the end face of the clamping bush and the first component, wherein the bearing has a primary slip path between the outer surface of the clamping bush and the second component, the primary slip path having an initial coefficient of friction sufficiently low that, when the first and second component rotate relative to each other, the second component and the clamping bush rotate relative to each other about the primary slip path and the clamping bush remains in clamping engagement with the first component; and wherein the pin has a cylindrical outer surface which provides a subsidiary slip path which is arranged to operate when the coefficient of friction of the primary slip path has been sufficiently increased due to use that a friction force between the clamping bush and the second component overcomes the clamping force, whereby when the first and second component rotate relative to each other, the pin and the clamping bush rotate relative to each other about the subsidiary slip path. | 3,678 |
9,009,142 | 1. A method comprising: at a server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors so as to perform the method: storing a plurality of index entries in an index, a respective index entry corresponding to a respective term and having a plurality of index components, a respective index component of the respective index entry identifying a message that is associated with the respective term; receiving a first message; associating the first message with a conversation having at least one other message; and storing, in the index, a plurality of first-message index components that each include an identifier of the first message, including: wherein a respective first-message index component indicative of a conversation term in the conversation includes a value identifying the respective index component as being associated with a conversation term not in the first message. | 14,761 |
8,861,922 | 1. A method of watermarking a video signal to include additional information therein, said method being performed by an apparatus for watermarking a video signal, the method comprising the step of automatically impressing at least a portion of said additional information upon a chrominance portion of said video signal by placing it in at least one selected bit position of a value derived from an average of said chrominance portion over a block of said video signal. | 18,838 |
9,123,477 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a phase change metal alloy material; receiving ultracapacitor components comprising a separator, a support structure and a current collector; forming the separator from a phase change metal alloy mesh adjacent to a dielectric membrane; and arranging at least some of the phase change metal alloy material adjacent to the ultracapacitor components to form one or more ultracapacitor devices. | 20,124 |
8,596,041 | 1. A control device for a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, said internal combustion engine including a cylinder, an intake path for introducing air into said cylinder, a throttle valve for regulating a flow rate of the air introduced through said intake path into said cylinder, a fuel supply device for supplying a fuel to said internal combustion engine, an exhaust path for circulating exhaust gas discharged from said cylinder and a catalyst provided in a middle of said exhaust path and purifying said exhaust gas, said control device comprising: an acquisition unit acquiring a temperature of said catalyst by performing one of detection and estimation of the temperature of said catalyst; an engine speed detection unit detecting an engine speed of said internal combustion engine; a determination unit determining whether a predetermined condition for starting fuel-cut control to stop supply of said fuel by said fuel supply device is satisfied or not; a fuel-cut control unit executing said fuel-cut control when said predetermined condition is satisfied; an opening degree control unit controlling an opening degree of said throttle valve during execution of said fuel-cut control by said fuel-cut control unit such that the flow rate of the air supplied from said intake path to said cylinder is equal to a first flow rate calculated based on the temperature of said catalyst acquired by said acquisition unit; and a calculation unit calculating an opening degree of said throttle valve based on the temperature of said catalyst acquired by said acquisition unit and the engine speed of said internal combustion engine, wherein said calculation unit calculates a first opening degree of said throttle valve corresponding to the temperature of said catalyst such that the opening degree of said throttle valve calculated when the temperature of said catalyst acquired by said acquisition unit is a first temperature is greater than the opening degree of said throttle valve calculated when the temperature of said catalyst is a second temperature higher than said first temperature, and calculates a second opening degree of said throttle valve by adding, to said first opening degree, a correction amount corresponding to the engine speed of said internal combustion engine calculated such that the correction amount in a case where the engine speed of said internal combustion engine is a first engine speed is greater than the correction amount in a case where the engine speed of said internal combustion engine is equal to a second engine speed greater than the first engine speed, and said opening degree control unit controlling the opening degree of said throttle valve so as to be equal to the second opening degree calculated by said calculation unit during execution of said fuel-cut control by said fuel-cut control unit. | 41,204 |
9,446,843 | 1. An enhanced performance rotorcraft rotor blade system for a rotorcraft, the system comprising: a rotor blade comprising a blade tip and an inboard blade portion; a swash plate configured to control a pitch of the entire rotor blade; and at least one controllable surface coupled to the inboard blade portion in a region of low tangential velocity away from the blade tip, wherein the at least one controllable surface is movable to change the position of the at least one controllable surface to improve a lift of the inboard blade portion, wherein the at least one controllable surface is configured to move independent of motion of the entire rotor blade controlled by the swash plate; wherein the enhanced performance rotorcraft rotor blade system is configured to: | 2,287 |
8,343,337 | 1. A process for extracting bitumen from an oil sands ore which comprises (a) providing an aqueous slurry of an oil sands ore and (b) contacting the slurry with a polysilicate microgel to extract bitumen from the ore to produce i) a froth comprising bitumen and ii) an un-flocculated aqueous tailings stream comprising sand and clay fines. | 3,618 |
8,682,604 | 1. A method comprising: adjusting one or more operational characteristics of an electrical device; receiving information about changes in at least one electrical parameter of one or more phases of a poly-phase electrical system that provides electrical energy to the electrical device; correlating the changes in the at least one electrical parameter of the one or more phases of the poly-phase electrical system that provides electrical energy to the electrical device with the adjustment of the one or more operational characteristics of the electrical device; and identifying the one or more phases of the poly-phase electrical system that provide electrical energy to the electrical device based upon the correlation of the changes in the at least one electrical parameter of the one or more phases of the poly-phase electrical system that provides electrical energy to the electrical device with the adjustment of the one or more operational characteristics of the electrical device. | 27,971 |
9,399,108 | 1. A mobile sedation system comprising: a portable and mobile first gas container including anesthetic gas; a second gas container including oxygen; a portable and mobile self-contained, scavenging third gas container configured to include a negative pressure, to couple to a mask; and a portable and mobile fourth container that fixedly secures the first, second, and third gas containers to one another; wherein the mobile system is configured to (i) deliver the oxygen and the anesthetic gas to a patient; and (ii) scavenge waste gas from the patient by recovering, via the negative pressure, the waste gas into the third gas container. | 13,019 |
8,718,629 | 1. An information communication processing device, comprising: at least one information processing device having a plurality of function environments each of which includes functions, operating system and middle ware; a switching control unit for switching said function environment; a communication unit which corresponds to each content of communication with the outside to independently receive each said communication content, and to correlate each said communication content received and each said function environment; a communication interpretation unit for interpreting said communication content received by said communication unit to notify said switching control unit of the content; and a resource separation unit which refers to the information of the function environment being currently executed from said switching control unit, and prevents said function environment being currently executed from accessing resources allocated for other function environments on a shared memory such that different function environments may not access a same memory region in the shared resource; where said switching control unit determines a function environment to be switched based on contents of communication with the outside, and sets context of said function environment to be switched at context of a function environment being executed to execute switching to said function environment to be switched, wherein said switching control unit comprising: wherein said switching control unit is configured to execute switching of said function environment so that a telephone call may be accepted at a time of switching of said function environment. | 10,588 |
9,448,942 | 1. A method comprising: identifying during non-built-in-self-test (non-BIST) operation of an integrated circuit a first portion of a cache memory for servicing access requests from a random access generator, and identifying a second portion of the cache memory that cannot service access requests from the random access generator, wherein the random access generator is implemented with built-in self-test hardware that includes a random number generator to test memory locations of an integrated circuit during a BIST operation using random numbers, and wherein the non-BIST operation is not related to testing of the cache memory; determining during the non-BIST operation, that a security sensitive operation is to be executed at a processor core that includes the cache memory; and in response to determining that the security sensitive operation is to be executed, using the first portion of the cache memory during non-BIST operation to service access requests generated by the random access generator during execution of the security sensitive operation. | 28,795 |
9,406,349 | 1. An array of nonvolatile nanotube block switches, comprising: a first plurality of conductive traces arranged substantially parallel to each other in a first plane; a second plurality of conductive traces arranged substantially parallel to each other in a second plane, said second plane substantially parallel to said first plane; a plurality of nonvolatile nanotube blocks arranged in a third plane, said third plane substantially parallel to and situated between said first plane and said second plane; wherein said nonvolatile nanotube blocks comprise a patterned nanotube fabric having a top surface and a bottom surface; wherein each nonvolatile nanotube block within said plurality of nonvolatile nanotube blocks is situated at a cross point of a conductive trace within said first plurality of conductive traces and a conductive trace within said second plurality of conductive traces; and wherein said top surface of each nonvolatile nanotube block within said plurality of nonvolatile nanotube blocks is in electrical communication with a conductive trace within said first plurality of conductive traces and said bottom surface of each nonvolatile nanotube block within said plurality of nonvolatile nanotube blocks is in electrical communication with a conductive trace within said second plurality of conductive traces. | 24,496 |
9,489,502 | 1. An electronic card comprising: a graphical display disposed on a side of the electronic card; memory that stores biometric information and commercial information; a sensor disposed on the electronic card and separate from the display wherein the sensor senses biometric information and senses touch input; authentication circuitry that authenticates sensed biometric information from the sensor at least in part via a comparison to stored biometric information; display circuitry that renders at least one graphic to the display based at least in part on a portion of the commercial information responsive to authentication of sensed biometric information; handwriting recognition circuitry that recognizes handwriting from the sensor based at least in part on touch input received via the sensor; and navigation circuitry that scrolls information rendered to the graphical display based at least in part on touch input received via the sensor. | 32,014 |
9,694,641 | 1. An electronic power generating apparatus using a suspension device to convert kinetic energy into electric energy, the electronic power generating apparatus comprising: a turbine supplied with fluid from the suspension device to generate the kinetic energy; a damper disposed on a wheel shaft of a vehicle, the damper comprising a cylinder filled with fluid to absorb shock applied to the vehicle while the vehicle is driving and a piston configured to reciprocate along an inside of the cylinder; a valve disposed on a side surface of the cylinder, the valve comprising: a valve controller configured to apply the current to the electromagnet, the valve controller comprising: | 2,385 |
8,609,885 | 1. A method of making a methylene malonate monomer comprising: (a) reacting a malonic acid ester with a source of formaldehyde in the presence of an acidic or basic catalyst and in the absence of a solvent, to form a reaction complex; (b) optionally, inactivating the catalyst; and (c) recovering methylene malonate monomer from the reaction complex. | 34,520 |
8,679,153 | 1. A method for closing an open abdomen wound, comprising the steps of: positioning a first bolster along a first edge of the abdominal wound; securing a first fastener sheet to the first edge of the wound by suturing through the first fastener sheet and through the abdominal wall and through the first bolster to secure the abdominal wall between the first fastener sheet and the first bolster; positioning a second bolster along a second edge of the abdominal wound; securing a second fastener sheet to the second edge of the wound by suturing through the second fastener sheet and through the abdominal wall and through the second bolster to secure the abdominal wall between the second fastener sheet and the second bolster; applying tension to at least one of said first and second fastener sheets to draw the first and second edges of the wound toward one another; attaching said first fastener sheet to said second fastener sheet while under tension so as to apply static tension to opposing sides of the abdominal wound; repeating said steps of applying tension to at least one of said first and second sheets and attaching said first and second sheets to one another as needed to draw the first and second edges of the wound in proximity; and surgically closing the abdominal wound by suturing the first and second edges to one another. | 3,526 |
9,675,155 | 1. A light transmitting device comprising: a flexible elongated substantially flat band of high clarity light transmitting polymeric material having first and second ends, said band having a greater light surface area than a cable or cylinder of similar material; at least one LED mounted immediately adjacent but not embedded in said first end; a mounting structure which mounts said LED in the position immediately adjacent said first end; and electrical wiring extending outwardly from said LED and connectable to a power source. | 14,954 |
9,651,133 | 1. A system comprising: a shaft; at least one cam coupled to the shaft, wherein cross-sections of each cam of the at least one cam comprise respective approximately involute portions; a first linear actuator comprising a first axis; a second linear actuator comprising a second axis, wherein the first linear actuator and the second linear actuator are detachably coupled to the at least one cam, and wherein the first linear actuator and the second linear actuator, when coupled to the at least one cam, exert respective forces on the at least one cam so as to impart respective torques on the shaft, wherein the respective torques are applied in the same direction with respect to a rotational axis of the shaft, wherein at least one of the first linear actuator or the second linear actuator is disengaged from the at least one cam, wherein disengaging from the at least one cam comprises each disengaged linear actuator imparting a lower torque on the shaft compared to each respective linear actuator when engaged, wherein disengaging from the at least one cam comprises reducing at least one of a hydraulic or pneumatic pressure of each disengaged linear actuator; and a controller, wherein the controller comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to carry out instructions stored in the memory, the instructions including adjusting at least one of a hydraulic or pneumatic pressure of each disengaged linear actuator based on at least one of a reference angle of the shaft or a reference position of each disengaged linear actuator along a respective axis. | 35,233 |
8,999,607 | 1. A manufacturing method of a compact of a divided member of a solid oxide fuel cell in which at least a compact of a solid electrolyte is stacked on an upper surface of a compact of a support-member divided-member, which is obtained by dividing a plate-like support member having a gas channel formed therein in a thickness direction, and which has a channel pattern corresponding to the gas channel formed on its lower surface, the method comprising: a molding process in which ceramic slurry containing at least ceramic powder, dispersion media, and a gelling agent is injected to a molding die having a pattern corresponding to the channel pattern formed on a molding surface at its bottom wall, and the slurry is molded and hardened by gel casting to obtain the compact of the support-member divided-member, wherein the ceramic slurry contains powder of NiO and powder of YSZ as the ceramic powder, a median size of an NiO particle constituting the NiO powder is in a range from 0.1 to 5.0 μm, and a median size of a YSZ particle constituting the YSZ powder is in a range from 0.1 to 5.0 μm, and the gelling agent is a precursor of one of phenolic resin, urethane resin and acrylic resin; a stacking process in which at least a compact of a solid electrolyte is formed on the upper surface of the compact of the support-member divided-member in a state in which the upper surface of the compact of the support-member divided-member is exposed, and the compact of the support-member divided-member is accommodated in the molding die or a die that is different from the molding die having the pattern corresponding to the channel pattern formed on its bottom wall, in order to form a stacked compact; and a mold release process in which the molding die or the die different from the molding die is removed from the stacked compact to form the compact of the divided member of the solid oxide fuel cell. | 34,429 |
8,753,413 | 1. A polycrystalline diamond compact, comprising: a substrate; and a polycrystalline diamond table bonded to the substrate, the polycrystalline diamond table including a plurality of bonded diamond grains defining a plurality of interstitial regions, the polycrystalline diamond table including an upper surface from which a region inwardly extends and at least one lateral surface extending about the upper surface, the region further extends laterally from the at least one lateral surface to a distance about equal to a depth to which the region extends from the upper surface, at least a portion of the interstitial regions of the region including a catalyst material disposed therein, at least a portion of the catalyst material being at least saturated with carbon. | 49,249 |
8,757,619 | 1. A batting practice assembly, comprising: (a) an adjustable frame assembly comprising a substantially horizontal ball release arm portion, and a height adjustable, substantially vertical pole assembly, the pole assembly being attached at its upper end portion to the ball release arm portion; (b) a ball release apparatus supported on the ball release arm portion, the ball release apparatus comprising at least two ball drop mechanisms and a slide bar assembly, each ball drop mechanism comprising: at least one ball chute, at least one ball catch arm adjacent the ball chute, and a catch arm mechanism in communication with the at least one ball catch arm, each ball drop mechanism being slideable on a slide bar of the slide bar assembly; (c) an electronic controller-power system in communication with the ball release apparatus, the controller-power system comprising a variable mode controller and a power supply; and (d) a separate foot-activated mechanism in communication with the controller; wherein activation of the foot-activated mechanism activates the catch arm mechanism, which opens a bottom ball chute hole in the at least one ball chute; wherein the ball release apparatus comprises a mechanism for randomly selecting one of a first of the at least two ball drop mechanisms, a second of the at least two ball drop mechanisms, or none at all; the slide bar allowing for independent sliding of the at least two ball drop mechanisms. | 38,052 |
9,472,310 | 1. A method for producing nuclear fuel products, the method comprising: receiving metallic or intermetallic uranium-based fuel particle cores, providing at least one physical vapour deposited coating layer surrounding the fuel particle core, the physical vapour deposited coating layer having a layer thickness between 5 nm and 2 μm, and embedding the coated fuel particles in a matrix material so as to form a powder mixture of coated fuel particles and matrix material. | 22,432 |
9,035,593 | 1. A method of controlling a window shade, based on sunlight, said window shade comprising a roller shutter apron, a photovoltaic generator, a battery storing electrical energy supplied by said photovoltaic generator and supplying electrical energy to said roller shutter apron, and a control module, said method comprising the steps of: electrically isolating said photovoltaic generator from said battery; taking a reading of short circuit current of the isolated photovoltaic generator; determining a numerical value being based on at least one reading of short circuit current and corresponding to the reading of the short circuit current; comparing said numerical value determined with at least one reference threshold value; and controlling said roller shutter apron, when said numerical value determined corresponds to a value range limited by the at least one reference threshold value so as to thereon confer a configuration corresponding to said value range. | 45,970 |
8,709,105 | 1. A method of fabricating an electrode, comprising steps of: providing a complex metal oxide target, wherein the complex metal oxide target is composed of manganese oxide, cobalt oxide and zinc oxide, and based on the overall complex metal oxide film, the amount of manganese element of manganese oxide ranges from 65 at % to 79.2 at %; the amount of cobalt element of cobalt oxide ranges from 10.4 at % to 17.5 at %; the amount of zinc element of zinc oxide ranges from 10.4 at % to 17.5 at %; providing a substrate; and heating the substrate to a heating temperature between 200° C. and 600° C.; applying a bias potential to the heated substrate; forming a complex metal oxide film on a surface of the substrate by radio frequency magnetron sputtering under a sputtering time, a sputtering power, a sputtering pressure and a volume flow rate of oxygen to obtain the electrode, wherein the substrate bias potential is between 0 V and −100 V. | 19,764 |
9,648,448 | 1. A method for performing power management and data transfer among multiple devices connected to wirelessly networked power outlets, the method comprising: receiving a first set of data from a first device connected to a first power outlet; collecting contextual data local to the first power outlet; determining an endpoint address based on the first set of data in combination with the contextual data; transmitting the first set of data to a second power outlet corresponding to the endpoint address; receiving the first set of data at the second power outlet over a wireless connection; computing a set of instructions based on the first set of data received by the second power outlet; managing the power consumption of a second device connected to the second power outlet based on the computed set of instructions; receiving a second set of data from the second device connected to the second power outlet; and transmitting the second set of data to the first power outlet over the wireless connection. | 44,637 |
9,854,448 | 1. A communication control device comprising: processing circuitry configured to wherein the primary component carrier uses a licensed frequency band for the cellular system during both the first period and the second period, wherein the first period has a variable length depending on a length of the second period such that the first period maintains a length that is a predetermined percentage of the length of the second period. | 26,277 |
8,527,122 | 1. A drive control device mounted to a hybrid electric vehicle that has an engine and a motor as a running power source, wherein the hybrid electric vehicle runs under a plurality of running modes that are switched in accordance with accelerator operation, wherein the drive control device performs a drive control of the engine and the motor, the drive control device comprising: means for specifying a present position of the vehicle; means for defining a schedule of a control index, which is a target value of a battery charge amount for a battery that drives the motor, for each of a plurality of sections in a route from an origin to a destination in order to achieve an enhanced fuel efficient running of the vehicle, means for defining a schedule of a recommended accelerator operation for each of the plurality of sections in the route from the origin to the destination based on the schedule of the control index in order to achieve the enhanced fuel efficient running of the vehicle, the recommended accelerator operation being defined as a recommended accelerator pedal position; and means for displaying the recommended accelerator pedal position for a present section of the plurality of sections, in which section the vehicle is presently located, in accordance with the schedule of the accelerator operation and the present position of the vehicle; wherein the plurality of sections includes a battery charge section, in which the target value of the battery charge amount is increased; the defining means defines the schedule of the recommended accelerator operation for the battery charge section such that the accelerator operation is executed in order to allow the battery to be charged in the battery charge section; the displaying means includes an indicator configured to display an area indicating an accelerator pedal position of the vehicle, the area increases with an increase of the accelerator pedal position in order to indicate the accelerator pedal position of the vehicle to an operator; and the recommended accelerator pedal position and the accelerator pedal position displayed by the displaying means guide the operator to depress an accelerator pedal of the vehicle so that the accelerator pedal position of the vehicle is equal to the recommended accelerator pedal position for the present section. | 5,526 |
8,732,170 | 1. A report manager for developing and testing real-time reports about aggregate and user-level usage of a mobile data network, said report manager being in communication with a data manager device that provides i) a database of non-aggregate, user-specific event data and also provides ii a set of tables specifying combinations of one or more aggregate variables then-presently monitored by said data manager to satisfy a set of defined real-time reports, said report manager comprising: a report generation module for: wherein said report generation module is responsive to i) the determination that at least a portion of the request cannot be fulfilled by the aggregate variables then-presently monitored, and ii) operator instructions, in order to cause the newly generated test report to be added as a new real-time report to the set of defined real-time reports for future use, by providing the specification of said test report and causing said data manager to subsequently monitor combinations of one or more aggregate variables to satisfy said new real-time report by adding additional tables to the set of tables specifying combinations of one or more aggregate variables then-presently monitored. | 17,734 |
8,878,150 | 1. A system for energy extraction from a fluid stream comprising: an emitter that emits a charged particle of a first polarity into the fluid stream; a sensor that monitors an ambient environmental condition; and a controller that adjusts a system parameter to increase energy extraction efficiency in response to a change in the ambient environmental condition. | 33,184 |
8,813,894 | 1. A motorcycle comprising: a head pipe; a body frame including a left main frame that extends obliquely downward and rearward from the head pipe, a right main frame that extends obliquely downward and rearward from the head pipe and is located rightward of the left main frame, a left rear arm connected to the left main frame, a right rear arm connected to the right main frame, and a cross member that extends between the left main frame and the right main frame; an engine disposed below the left main frame and the right main frame; a rear suspension disposed on a vehicle center line so that an axis of the rear suspension extends substantially in a fore-and-aft direction and through which the cross member, the right rear arm, and the left rear arm are connected to each other; and a seat supported by the body frame and at least partially located above the rear suspension; wherein the left main frame includes: the right main frame includes: the rear suspension is at least partially disposed between the left minimum portion and the right minimum portion in a plan view of the motorcycle. | 24,857 |
8,658,042 | 1. A microplate washing device with a microplate carrier for carrying a microplate, the microplate having an array of wells and a footprint according to the SBS standard, as published by the American National Standards Institute, the wells comprising a center, a floor, and walls, the wells further comprising magnetic particles, the magnetic particles being suspended in a liquid with or without samples adhering thereto; wherein the microplate carrier comprises 108 permanent magnets generating magnetic fields to collect and retain the magnetic particles on the floor and/or on the walls of the wells of the microplate; wherein all of the permanent magnets of the microplate carrier have an identically oriented polarity and an upper face and a magnetic axis, which magnetic axis of each permanent magnet is at least essentially perpendicular to the footprint of the microplate; wherein the permanent magnets of the microplate carrier are situated so that for the microplate that is placed on the microplate carrier in a processing position, two of the permanent magnets are situated diametrically opposite in relation to each well of said microplate each well of the microplate being situated above the upper faces of the two permanent magnets of the microplate carrier assigned to said well; and wherein all the permanent magnets of the microplate carrier have an identically-oriented polarity; wherein the permanent magnets are oriented with their magnetic axes along column axes 1 to 12 of a 96 well standard microplate placed on the microplate carrier, so that for each well of said microplate the well center is located in the middle between two adjacent permanent magnets arranged in the respective column axis and assigned to said well and that said two adjacent permanent magnets generate an at least essentially particle-free space in the well assigned thereto, the at least essentially particle-free space extending over essentially the entire diameter of the well transversely to a column axis connecting said two adjacent permanent magnets. | 18,998 |
9,376,024 | 1. A high-voltage relay system in a vehicle comprising: a high-voltage bus; a parallel relay set including two or more relays electrically coupled in parallel and electrically coupled to the high-voltage bus; and a controller programmed to detect a malfunction in at least one relay of the parallel relay set and in response to the malfunction adjusts the power flowing through the parallel relay set by either adjusting the output of a power source or adjusting the power demand that is drawing power across the parallel relay set. | 1,928 |
8,408,841 | 1. A flow control system comprising: a bottom track configured to be positioned at a predetermined depth from a surface of a waterway; and multiple modifier columns having bottom ends and top ends, the bottom ends slidably attached to the bottom track and configured to change spacing between the multiple modifier columns, the top ends of the multiple modifier columns configured to extend towards the surface of the waterway under buoyancy forces applied to the multiple modifier columns when submerged into the waterway, wherein the spacing between the multiple modifier columns is configured to be varied to control flow in the waterway between the multiple modifier columns. | 1,689 |
9,162,687 | 1. A substantially toroidal membrane having an axial section substantially “Ω” shaped like a tire, the membrane comprising two attachment areas and at least one corded layer of at least one fabric thread extending from one of said attachment areas to the other one, said at least one corded layer being wound in adjacent turns radially on the outside of a radially internal elastomer layer and on the inside of a radially external elastomer layer which is deposited on the outside of said at least one corded layer, wherein said at least one fabric thread of said at least one corded layer is individually sheathed by an elastomer sheath which is extruded around said at least one fabric thread and which is compatible with said internal and external layers, and wherein the membrane is able to equip a secondary air suspension of a rail vehicle by being mounted under an auxiliary air tank under a body of the vehicle while communicating with said tank, the membrane being able to withstand operating pressures between 8 and 12 bars in said secondary air suspension, and wherein said attachment areas are respectively reinforced by two rods which consist of said at least one fabric thread circumferentially in extension of said at least one corded layer, these rods consisting of a textile cord forming said at least one fabric thread. | 41,859 |
9,732,044 | 1. A compound of formula (1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof: wherein: | 7,185 |
9,691,526 | 1. A method for making carbon nanotube composite film, comprising: providing an original carbon nanotube film comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined end to end by van der Waals attractive force and substantially extending along a first direction, and the plurality of carbon nanotubes in the original carbon nanotube film define a plurality of micropores; forming a patterned carbon nanotube film by patterning the original carbon nanotube film to define a plurality of through holes arranged into a plurality of rows of through holes in the original carbon nanotube film along the first direction, each row of through holes comprising at least two spaced through holes, a space between two adjacent through holes is greater than a size of one of the plurality of micropores in the original carbon nanotube film; the patterned carbon nanotube film comprises a plurality of connecting parts and a plurality of extending parts both extending along the first direction, the plurality of connecting parts is separated from each other by the plurality of though holes along the first direction, and the plurality of extending parts is separated from each other by the plurality of connecting parts along a second direction crossed with the first direction; the plurality of extending parts comprises a first portion of the plurality of carbon nanotubes; and the plurality of connecting parts comprises a second portion of the plurality of carbon nanotubes; and treating the patterned carbon nanotube film with a polymer solution comprising an organic solvent and a polymer material dissolved in the organic solvent such that the plurality of extending parts is shrunk into a plurality of carbon nanotube linear units; a pulling force is produced in a process shrinking of the plurality of extending parts, and an interfacial tension is produced between the plurality of connecting parts and the organic solvent; and extending directions of the second portion of the plurality of carbon nanotubes are shifted into directions intersecting so as to cross the first direction, by the pulling force and the interfacial tension, to form a plurality of carbon nanotube groups; and the plurality of carbon nanotube groups comprises the second portion of the plurality of carbon nanotubes intercrossed with each other. | 22,480 |
9,151,220 | 1. A rotary internal combustion engine comprising: an engine body, wherein said engine body includes at least one bearing and at least one circular working chamber including a circular inner wall; wherein said at least one bearing includes a first axis of symmetry; wherein said inner wall of said at least one circular working chamber assumes the shape of a first surface of revolution, and includes a second axis of symmetry, wherein the second axis of symmetry of said at least one circular working chamber is parallel to said first axis of symmetry of said at least one bearing, and the second axis of symmetry of the inner wall of said at least one circular working chamber is displaced relative said first axis of symmetry of said at least one bearing by a distance d>0; wherein a plurality of inlet ports for supplying fresh air to said at least one circular working chamber and a plurality of outlet ports for venting exhaust gases from said at least one circular working chamber are placed in said engine body, so that said inlet ports and said outlet ports provide fluidic communication between said at least one circular working chamber and atmosphere; wherein at least one fuel injector is mounted in said engine body in proximity to said at least one circular working chamber; at least one eccentric shaft, wherein said at least one eccentric shaft includes at least one main pin, and at least one eccentric; wherein said at least one main pin of the at least one eccentric shaft includes a third axis of symmetry; wherein said at least one eccentric of the at least one eccentric shaft assumes the shape of a first solid of rotation, and includes a fourth axis of symmetry; wherein said fourth axis of symmetry of said at least one eccentric of said at least one eccentric shaft is parallel to said third axis of symmetry of said at least one main pin of said at least one eccentric shaft, and said fourth axis of symmetry of said at least one eccentric of said at least one eccentric shaft is displaced relative said third axis of symmetry of said at least one main pin of said at least one eccentric shaft by the distance d>0; wherein said at least one main pin of said at least one eccentric shaft is mounted rotatably in said at least one bearing placed in the engine body, so that the first axis of symmetry of said at least one bearing coincides with said third axis of symmetry of said at least one main pin of said at least one eccentric shaft and defines an axis of rotation of said at least one eccentric shaft relative the engine body, so that said engine body and said at least one eccentric shaft form a first rotary kinetic couple, and the at least one circular working chamber circular inner wall encompasses said at least one eccentric of said at least one eccentric shaft, so that combustion gases exert force directly on said at least one eccentric of the at least one eccentric shaft; at least one primary sealing element including a ring-shaped part and at least a first sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element, and a second sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element; wherein said first sealing bar includes a first circular surface and a first flat surface, and said second sealing bar includes a second circular surface and a second flat surface; wherein said at least one primary sealing element is mounted rotatably in said at least one circular working chamber placed in the engine body, such that said first circular surface of said first sealing bar slides over said inner wall of said at least one circular working chamber, and said second circular surface of said second sealing bar slides over said inner wall of said at least one circular working chamber, so that said at least one primary sealing element and the engine body form a second rotary kinetic couple; at least a first secondary sealing element, and a second secondary sealing element, wherein said first secondary sealing element includes a third flat surface and a third circular surface, and said second secondary sealing element includes a fourth flat surface and a fourth circular surface; wherein said first secondary sealing element is mounted inside said at least one circular working chamber, such that said third flat surface of said first secondary sealing element slides over said first flat surface of said first sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element, and said third circular surface of said first secondary sealing element slides over said at least one eccentric of said at least one eccentric shall, and said fourth flat surface of said second secondary sealing element slides over said second flat surface of said second sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element, and said fourth circular surface of said second secondary sealing element slides over said at least one eccentric of said at least one eccentric shaft, so that said at least one eccentric of the at least one eccentric shaft, said first sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element and said first secondary sealing element, and said second sealing bar projecting from said ring-shaped part of said at least one primary sealing element and said second secondary sealing element divide said at least one circular working chamber into two gas-tight combustion chambers; wherein said first secondary sealing element and said second secondary sealing element move in unison, wherein said first secondary sealing element and said second secondary sealing element form with the at least one eccentric shaft a third rotary kinetic couple, and said first secondary sealing element and said second secondary sealing element form with said at least one primary sealing element a sliding kinetic couple; wherein an assembly of the engine body, the at least one eccentric shaft, the at least one primary sealing element, and a pair of the first secondary sealing element and said second secondary element form a four-bar linkage including the three rotary kinetic couples and the sliding kinetic couple. | 25,915 |
9,209,013 | 1. A construction comprising: a semiconductor die comprising integrated circuitry on a front side surface of the die; a thermally conductive stack on the semiconductor die; the thermally conductive stack comprising two or more titanium nitride regions in alternating relationship with two or more titanium oxide regions; the titanium oxide within the titanium oxide regions consisting of rutile-type titanium oxide, wherein the thermally conductive stack is on the front side surface of the semiconductor die, wherein an electrically conductive component of the integrated circuitry has a lateral surface extending away from the front side surface of the semiconductor die, wherein the thermally conductive stack has an edge comprising surfaces of the titanium nitride regions and the titanium oxide regions, wherein the entirety of the edge of the thermally conductive stack directly contacts the lateral surface of the electrically conductive component; and wherein the thermally conductive stack is capable of conducting heat away from the integrated circuitry. | 12,438 |
8,612,738 | 1. A method of configuring a data network with a controller, the data network including a plurality of hosts each associated with at least one of a plurality of switches, the method comprising: receiving, at the controller, a request to boot an operating system image on one of the plurality of hosts, the operating system image having network connectivity requirements, wherein the receiving the request to boot the operating system image includes determining a first number of virtual networks in the data network to which the operating system image requires access; automatically selecting, with the controller, a host out of the plurality of hosts on which to boot the operating system image, the selecting being based upon the network connectivity requirements of the operating system image; booting, with the controller, the operating system image on the host; configuring, with the controller, a switch out of the plurality of switches associated with the host based upon the network connectivity requirements of the operating system image; and configuring, with an agent executing in the operating system image, networking attributes of a network interface in the host based upon the network connectivity requirements of the operating system image; wherein, if the host includes a fewer number of physical network interfaces than the first number of virtual networks: | 28,707 |
9,045,611 | 1. A method of preparing a thermoformed article comprising polylactic acid, the method comprising the steps of: providing a foam sheet comprising polylactic acid having a D-lactic acid stereo-isomer content that is about 3 mole % or less, from about 0.1 to 5 percent by weight of nucleating agent, and from about 0.5 to about 4 percent by weight of a chain extender agent; exposing the sheet to a temperature of at least about 190° C.; and forming the heated sheet in a mold at a mold temperature that is 50° C. to 79.4° C. and for a length of time of less than 10 seconds to form a thermoformed article having a PLA crystalline content of at least about 10%, and wherein the steps of exposing the sheet and forming the heated sheet in the mold is completed in a total length of time of less than 10 seconds. | 26,673 |
8,489,300 | 1. A vehicle vibration control apparatus, comprising: a driver's operation detecting unit configured to detect operation quantities of an accelerator, a steering wheel and a brake of a vehicle inputted by a driver as a driver's input indicating the operation quantities; a force calculator which calculates a driver-requested driving force and a driver-requested braking force of a vehicle in accordance with the driver's input; a vibration calculator which calculates, from the driver-requested driving force and the driver-requested braking force calculated in the force calculator, an on-spring vibration denoting vibrations of a body of the vehicle caused by the driver's input; and a compensator configured to compensate the driver-requested driving force according to the on-spring vibration calculated by the vibration calculator to produce a compensated driving force such that the on-spring vibration denoting vibration of the body of the vehicle is reduced or suppressed to a compensated on-spring vibration. | 21,857 |
9,550,916 | 1. A silicone material satisfying any of the following conditions in an elemental composition percentage of the silicone material surface according to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ESCA): (i) the elemental composition percentage of carbon atoms is from 50.0 to 70.0 atom %; (ii) a ratio of the elemental composition percentage of carbon atoms to the elemental composition percentage of silicon atoms (C/Si) is from 2.0 to 5.0; or (iii) both of the above conditions (i) and (ii). | 19,836 |
9,108,163 | 1. A system for desalinization comprising: a supply of hot brine; three microporous membrane regions comprising polytetrafluoroethylene, the three membrane regions comprising: a first microporous membrane region wherein the hot brine flashes to steam; a second microporous membrane support region having lower density than the first membrane region, wherein steam from the first membrane region expands; and a third microporous membrane region having higher density than the second membrane support region wherein the expanded steam from the second membrane support region flows through the third membrane region and wherein the resistance to flow within the third membrane region causes backpressure within the second membrane support region that prevents the passage of brine from the first membrane region through the second membrane support region; and a condenser that collects steam from the third membrane region as pure water. | 34,277 |
8,603,401 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) reactor assembly for removing particulate matter from the SCR reactor, comprising: (a) at least one turning vane disposed in a plenum chamber of the reactor, the turning vane being adapted to impart a directional turn to flue gas flowing through the reactor; (b) at least one rectifier layer disposed downstream of the at least one turning vane such that the flue gas passes through the at least one rectifier, the at least one rectifier layer being adapted to ensure even flow distribution and includes a plurality of channels adapted to promote turbulent flow therein and promote collection of aerosol particles, thereby providing protection to an active catalyst from being deactivated by the aerosol particles; and (c) at least one active catalyst layer adapted to remove NOx from the flue gas. | 49,615 |
9,062,842 | 1. A lighting device for a street lamp comprising: a base member that is formed at an upper side of a street lamp body arranged above a ground surface; a plurality of luminous element units, which are comprised of at least one luminous element, and are arranged on the bottom surface of the base member; and a plurality of reflection units, which are arranged to be adjacent to the luminous element units, and are arranged mutually isolated from each other by a predetermined distance on the bottom surface of the base member to diffuse light radiated from the luminous element units in multiple directions, wherein the reflection unit comprises: a first reflection section, which is arranged to be isolated from any one luminous element unit among the luminous element units by a predetermined distance, and formed to surround only one part of the luminous element unit such that at least one part of light radiated from the luminous element unit is reflected by the reflection units that are adjacently positioned in a first direction; and a second reflection section, which is formed to be slanted at a certain angle from the base member to diffuse light in multiple directions by being reflected by the reflection units, which are adjacently positioned in a second direction, opposite the first direction, wherein the first reflection section comprises: a diffusion section, which is formed in an arc shape so that a center part and a side part of the luminous element unit correspond to each other; and an extension section, which extends from one end of the diffusion section by a predetermined length; and the second reflection section is formed into one body with the first reflection section, and is a slanted surface formed to be downwardly slanted at a certain angle toward the second direction. | 12,541 |
9,174,433 | 1. A method for depositing an organic material on a substrate, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the substrate at an inlet chamber; sealing the inlet chamber; providing the inlet chamber with a substantially nitrogen environment; floating the substrate using a gas bearing; directing at least a portion of the substrate to a print-head chamber and, while floating the substrate using a combination of pressure and vacuum, discharging a quantity of the organic material from a discharge nozzle onto the portion of the substrate; directing the substrate to an outlet chamber; partitioning the print-head chamber from the outlet chamber; and unloading the substrate from the outlet chamber. | 17,157 |
9,676,948 | 1. A detectable coating composition comprising: (a) organofunctional silane and/or hydrolyzate and/or partial or complete condensate thereof; (b) colloidal metal oxide; (c) water soluble organic dye having a positive charge and a counterion derived from a carboxylic acid containing from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and having the general formula (IV): wherein: G A is a nitrogen atom or (−) R R R R R R R n is an integer of from 1 to 3; and, wherein said composition does not contain detrimental amounts of precipitates for a period of at least 48 hours when stored at 25° C. | 37,607 |
9,593,284 | 1. A process for generating a main fuel composition comprising methanol and water and not more than 20% by weight dimethyl ether, and a fumigant comprising dimethyl ether, the process comprising: providing a pre-fuel composition comprising methanol and dimethyl ether, adding water to the pre-fuel composition to cause or aid evaporation of at least a portion of the dimethyl ether from the pre-fuel composition, collecting the portion of dimethyl ether evaporated from the pre-fuel composition for use as a fumigant, and using the remainder of the pre-fuel composition comprising methanol and water as a main fuel composition. | 8,683 |
8,450,515 | 1. A method for preparing cyclic trisilaalkane represented by Chemical Formula 2 or a linear trisilaalkane represented by Chemical Formula 3 by reacting bischlorosilylmethane having an Si—H bond represented by Chemical Formula 1 shown below alone under the presence of a quaternary organic phosphonium salt catalyst: wherein R | 44,122 |
8,820,041 | 1. A method of changing the working width of a haymaking device comprising a frame which is provided at a front end with means for hitching the device to a tractor, the frame defining a longitudinal centre line and comprising two side arms extending on both sides of the longitudinal centre line, the side arms each carrying at least one crop processing tool and being at an inner end hingeably and slidably connected to the rest of the frame via hinge and slide connections, respectively, wherein sliding of the slide connection along a forward directional component of the longitudinal centre line reduces the working width of the device to a reduced working width by reducing the distance defined along the longitudinal centre line between the inner ends of the side arms and the hitching means while increasing the angle between the side arms and the forward directional component of the longitudinal centre line, and wherein the reduced working width defines an operative position of the device in which the side arms extend sidewardly. | 40,163 |
9,335,420 | 1. A flux detection apparatus comprising: a radioactive sample having an atomic mass of at least about 19 and a decay rate capable of changing in response to neutrinos; a detector associated with the radioactive sample, the detector responsive to at least one of a particle or radiation formed by decay of the radioactive sample; and a processor associated with the detector, the processor (i) correlating rate of decay of the radioactive sample to a flux of the neutrinos and (ii) identifying a specific change in the flux of neutrinos. | 24,117 |
8,664,892 | 1. A light emitting system, comprising: one or more light emitting diodes; a socket adapter for retrofitting a fluorescent lamp, with base prongs configured to be connected to a fluorescent lamp driver for receiving electrical power supplied from the fluorescent lamp driver and for providing the electrical power to the one or more light emitting diodes; and an electric circuit for emulating the presence of a fluorescent lamp to the fluorescent lamp driver by emulating at least one of a fluorescent lamp filament resistance and a fluorescent lamp impedance to the fluorescent lamp driver in a frequency range unused by the fluorescent lamp driver to drive a fluorescent lamp in fluorescent lamp operation procedures. | 47,198 |
9,718,794 | 1. A crystalline polymorph of Compound I, sodium 4-((3-(4-cyclohexylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-oxo-6H-anthra[1,9-cd]isoxazol-5-yl)amino)benzoate, with the following structure: having Form B, Form C, Form D, or Form E, wherein: Form B is characterized as having an x-ray powder diffraction pattern exhibiting three or more peak positions at a degree two-theta selected from the group consisting of about: 9.8±0.3, 10.2±0.3, 14.5±0.3, 17.8±0.3, 18.5±0.3, 19.6±0.3, 21.0±0.3, 21.7±0.3, 23.1±0.3, 25.0±0.3, 25.6±0.3, 28.4±0.3, 29.4±0.3, 30.2±0.3, and 31.6±0.3; Form C is characterized as having an x-ray powder diffraction pattern exhibiting three or more peak positions at a degree two-theta selected from the group consisting of about: 9.0±0.3, 9.8±0.3, 10.2±0.3, 14.3±0.3, 15.9±0.3, 17.4±0.3, 18.2±0.3, 18.9±0.3, 19.2±0.3, 19.6±0.3, 20.2±0.3, 21.3±0.3, 22.1±0.3, 22.7±0.3, 24.7±0.3, 28.3±0.3, 28.9±0.3, 29.1±0.3, and 30.1±0.3; Form D is characterized as having an x-ray powder diffraction pattern peak positions at a degree two-theta of about: 5.6±0.3, 26.0±0.3, and 26.7±0.3; and Form E is characterized as having an x-ray powder diffraction pattern peak positions at a degree two-theta of about: 14.4±0.3, 20.0±0.3 and 23.5±0.3. | 38,079 |
9,759,485 | 1. A vacuum freeze-drying apparatus, comprising: a vacuum tank; a collection tank disposed below the vacuum tank; a main pipe having a first opening and a second opening respectively at one end and the other end, the first opening being exposed inside the collection tank and the second opening being exposed inside the vacuum tank; a valve element which blocks the first opening by adhering to the one end of the main pipe and opens the first opening by separating from the one end of the main pipe, and thereby switches between blocking and opening the first opening; a vacuum evacuation unit which vacuum evacuates the inside of the vacuum tank and the inside of the collection tank; an injector which injects a raw material liquid into the vacuum evacuated vacuum tank so as to produce frozen particles; and a heating/cooling shelf disposed inside the vacuum tank on which the produced frozen particles are piled up on the surface of the heating/cooling shelf, wherein after the first opening is opened and the frozen particles on the heating/cooling shelf are transferred into the collection tank through the inside of the main pipe, the first opening is blocked and the frozen particles are carried out from the inside of the collection tank; the vacuum freeze-drying apparatus, further comprising: an auxiliary pipe inserted into the main pipe, one end thereof being disposed inside the vacuum tank and the other end thereof being positioned inside the main pipe when the first opening is blocked; a moving device that reciprocates the auxiliary pipe along the longitudinal direction of the main pipe; a ring-shaped valve seat which is closely adhered to and fixed onto the one end of the main pipe so as to surround the first opening; and a first and a second bellows having cylindrical shape which can extend in the longitudinal direction, wherein when the first opening is opened, the auxiliary pipe can reciprocate between a position where the other end protrudes to the outside of the main pipe through the first opening and a position where the other end enter the inside of the main pipe through the first opening, wherein the vacuum tank and the collection tank are connected to the vacuum evacuation unit respectively, and are constituted so as to be vacuum evacuated separately, wherein when the first opening is blocked, a surface of the valve element is pressed against the valve seat in such a manner that the valve element is in close contact with the valve seat in a ring shape, wherein when the first opening is opened, the surface of the valve element is turned toward the outside of the first opening, the frozen particles are discharged from the other end of the auxiliary pipe to the collection tank so as to avoid adhering on the surface of the valve element, wherein the collection tank is vacuum evacuated to be a pressure so as to avoid moving the released frozen particle higher than the bottom end of the auxiliary pipe, wherein the frozen particles on the heating/cooling shelf are transferred into the collection tank through the inside of the auxiliary pipe while maintaining vacuum atmospheres of the vacuum tank and the collection tank, wherein the auxiliary pipe is inserted into the first and the second bellows, wherein the one end of the first and the second bellows is connected to the main pipe, and the other end of the first and second bellows is connected to the auxiliary pipe, a sliding space formed between the first bellows and the second bellows is blocked from the inside space of the vacuum tank and the inside space of the collection tank. | 47,344 |
8,746,797 | 1. An automatic rotation system for tilting seats of chairs or armchairs, comprising: a first complementary part and a second complementary part, the two complementary parts associated with rotational movement in relation to one another, each complementary part having a stop for limiting a rotation in a predetermined angular path; a third part, placed between the first and second complementary parts; an annular channel facing the second complementary part and attached on an inside of the second complementary part; a coil spring mounted on the third part on a side facing the first complementary part, the spring being hooked at its ends; a ring and a high-viscosity silicon filler housed in the annular channel, the ring having a groove and freedom of rotation movement inside the annular channel against the viscosity of the filler silicon; wherein: the groove of the ring is linked with the first complementary part by means of a pulling rod emerging from the first complementary part and fitted in the groove of the ring, the groove determining an elongated configuration in a longitudinal direction of the ring, such that during actuation of the rotation of the first complementary part, the first complementary part has an inoperative path on the ring during shifting of the rod through the groove and a path with a pulling action of the ring when the rod pushes on the end of the groove. | 24,750 |
8,597,906 | 1. A method of producing an altered N-glycosylation form of a target protein, the method comprising: providing a introducing into the cell a nucleic acid encoding a target protein, wherein the cell produces the target protein in an altered N-glycosylation form relative to the N-glycosylation form of the target protein produced in a corresponding non-genetically engineered cell. | 26,766 |
9,847,749 | 1. A pool solar power generator comprising: a solar cell module disposed in a recess of an inner wall of a swimming pool, the solar cell module comprising solar cells and configured to convert sunlight from a sun incident on the solar cells to electricity and transmit the electricity for use at a location external to the swimming pool via wiring disposed in the inner wall; a sensor configured to detect when a person is in a vicinity of the swimming pool; and a controller in communication with the sensor, the controller configured to: | 38,149 |
8,694,123 | 1. An implantable medical lead comprising: a lead body having a proximal end for electrical connection to an implantable electrical signal generator and a distal end portion; and first and second helical electrodes located at the distal end portion of the lead body, the first and second helical electrodes extending 180 degrees to 720 degrees around the lead body, wherein the first and second helical electrodes each have a proximal end, wherein the proximal end of the first helical electrode is radially offset from the proximal end of the second helical electrode. | 21,033 |
9,440,411 | 1. A living roof or wall system mat assembly, said assembly consisting of: a) a soil-free, light weight modular dimensional mat unit of thin, flexible mineral wool having a density of from about 3 Kg/c.f. to about 5 Kg/c.f., a thickness in the range of from about 0.9 cm to about 2 cm, and a top and a bottom surface, said mat being water permeable but not hydrophilic and not serving as a growth medium; b) a living layer of bryophytes, lichen, and vascular epiphytes (BLAVEs) forming a complex ecosystem supported on and growing on said top surface of said modular dimensional mineral wool mat unit without being continuously watered; c) a base layer of porous, non-hygroscopic, non-biodegradable, non-woven thermoplastic fabric having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a thickness in a range of from 2-4 mm, said base layer is disposed with its top surface in contact with said bottom surface of said modular dimensional mineral wool mat unit; d) ultraviolet-stabilized plastic netting having a mesh size in a range of from about 1-10 cm disposed over said modular dimensional mineral wool mat unit having said BLAVEs layer supported on the surface thereof, said netting is secured to said base layer and said BLAVEs layer is retained by said netting; and e) thereby forming a unitary mat assembly that is light weight, easy to store, ship and handle and as mounted on roofs or walls forms a living roof or wall surface of a structure exposed to an outdoor environment, which unitary mat assembly does not require irrigation or drainage systems, the mineral wool mat providing an insulating and fire resistant layer for said structure. | 5,859 |
8,504,733 | 1. A method of creating a subtree within a global tree including a plurality of nodes and disseminating a query, wherein the subtree is a subset of the global tree, the method comprising: determining a predicate condition for the subtree; disseminating the predicate condition to each of the plurality of nodes in the global tree, wherein each node in the global tree receives the disseminated predicate condition and evaluates itself to determine whether it satisfies the predicate condition, and the nodes in the global tree that satisfy the predicate condition belong to the subtree; for each of the plurality of nodes in the global tree, storing a subtree local value, wherein the subtree local value of a node in the global tree is an indication of whether the node in the global tree belongs to the subtree based at least on the predicate condition; for each parent node in the global tree, storing a subtree aggregate value, wherein the subtree aggregate value is determined from the subtree local value of the parent node and a subtree local value of each child node of the parent node; receiving a query for the subtree; and disseminating the query to only the nodes belonging to the subtree rather than to all of the nodes in the global tree. | 13,030 |
8,849,576 | 1. A method of diagnosing a health status of a first specimen of mammalian tissue having a first specimen type by locating a clade corresponding to the first specimen on a cladogram for the specimen type, comprising the steps of: providing a table of ancestral value ranges for proteins of the specimen type, wherein the ancestral value ranges are defined as the range of one of the group of gene expression values for each gene in an examined range of genes and intensity values of mass spectrometry (“MS”) for each protein in an examined wavelength range in a group of healthy specimens of the first specimen type; providing a cladogram for the specimen type having separate clades corresponding to at least healthy, transitional and unhealthy specimens of the specimen type; making a polarity assessment by comparing one of the group of gene expression values or mass spectrometry intensity values for the first specimen to the first specimen type ancestral value ranges to determine whether the first specimen values are ancestral values defined as first specimen values within the ancestral value ranges or derived values defined as first specimen values outside the ancestral value ranges; creating a gene expression array for each gene expression value examined in the examined range of genes, wherein each field in the gene expression array is set to a first range of numbers designating an ancestral value if the corresponding gene expression value is within the ancestral value range and is set to a second range of numbers designating a derived value if the corresponding gene expression value is outside the ancestral value range; creating an MS intensity value array for each MS intensity value examined in the examined wavelength range, wherein each field in the MS intensity value array is set to a first range of numbers designating an ancestral value if the corresponding MS intensity value is within the ancestral value range and is set to a second range of numbers designating a derived value if the corresponding MS intensity value is outside the ancestral value range at the same wavelength; using a computer to apply a parsimony phylogenetic algorithm to an array selected from one of the group of the gene expression array and the MS intensity value array to determine a corresponding clade for the first specimen based on only the second range of numbers; diagnosing the health of the first specimen by determining the closest corresponding clade for the first specimen from the group of clades corresponding to at least healthy, transitional and unhealthy specimens of the specimen type. | 47,031 |
8,976,616 | 1. A method for programming a memory element comprised of a poly diode anti-fuse coupled in parallel with a poly fuse, comprising: applying a first current between a first terminal and a second terminal of the memory element, wherein the first current is configured to open the poly fuse to transition the memory element from an initial programming state to a first programming state, and wherein a first impedance of the memory element in the first programming state is higher than an initial impedance of the memory element in the initial programming state. | 36,525 |
8,352,664 | 1. An information processing apparatus, which performs data communication with an external device, and which operates in a standard power mode, in which all parts of the information processing apparatus are in a standard power mode, or in a power saving mode, in which some parts of the information processing apparatus are in a power saving mode, the information processing apparatus comprising: a first data processor, which is configured to process data sent from the external device and which can switch a power consumption mode from a standard power mode, in which the first data processor performs data processing, to a power saving mode, in which the first data processor does not perform data processing, or vice versa; a switcher configured to switch the information processing apparatus between the standard power mode and the power saving mode; and a second data processor configured to process the data sent from the external device when the first data processor is in the power saving mode, and includes: wherein the second data processor further includes: wherein after the first judging device judges that the new data are to be processed by the first data processor, the first judging device determines based on the new data whether a part of the information processing apparatus other than the first data processor is to be returned to the standard power mode. | 18,609 |
9,374,019 | 1. A system for discharging a capacitor, the system comprising: a signal detector configured to receive an input signal and generate a detection signal based on at least information associated with the input signal, the input signal being associated with an alternate current signal received by a capacitor including a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal; and a discharge control component configured to receive at least the detection signal and generate an output signal to discharge the capacitor if the detection signal satisfies one or more conditions; wherein: | 32,730 |
8,753,663 | 1. A medical device having anti-thrombotic and anti-restenotic properties, comprising: a body having one or more surfaces; and a single, homogeneous layer of a coating composition applied to one or more surfaces of the body, the coating composition including a hydrophobic anti-restenotic agent and a hydrophobically-modified anti-thrombotic agent, wherein the coating composition does not include inert polymers, wherein the anti-thrombotic agent regulates a release rate of the anti-restenotic agent, and wherein the hydrophobicities of the anti-thrombotic agent and the anti-restenotic agent are similar such that the coating composition is homogeneous. | 6,074 |
9,783,678 | 1. A method for preparing a block copolymer/protein membrane, comprising: preparing a mixture comprising at least one block copolymer, at least one detergent, and at least one membrane protein, wherein said block copolymer is solubilized in the detergent; removing the detergent at a slow, controlled rate from said mixture until the concentration of detergent is below the mixture's critical micelle concentration; removing additional detergent at a second rate from the mixture; and forming a membrane comprising the block copolymer and the membrane protein at high density representing a polymer to protein molar ratio of 0.2-100, wherein removal of the detergent is through dialysis conducted at said slow, controlled rate by including detergent in a dialysis buffer at the beginning of dialysis and gradually diluting the dialysis buffer, wherein the dialysis conducted at said slow, controlled rate comprises from 5 to 10 stages, wherein each stage includes use of a subsequent dialysis buffer with a lower concentration than the dialysis buffer of the previous stage. | 30,040 |
8,453,012 | 1. A powered device, comprising: a first port that is configured to receive a network cable that is coupled to a power sourcing equipment; a second port that is configured to receive a power cable that delivers power to the powered device from an AC adapter coupled to an AC outlet; a temporary internal power source, said temporary internal power source enabling the powered device to operate in a fallback state having less functionality than an active state after the powered device fails to receive power via said second port and prior to receiving power via said first port; and a controller, said controller being configured to initiate a communication to said power sourcing equipment via said network cable, said communication being initiated while the powered device receives power via said second port for operation in an active state and prior to an initiation of a delivery of power via said first port, said communication including a power recovery time parameter that indicates to said power sourcing equipment an amount of time that said power sourcing equipment has to activate a delivery of power to the powered device, said temporary internal power source also enabling said controller to initiate a transmission of diagnostic information to said power sourcing equipment during said fallback state. | 22,969 |
9,678,910 | 1. A data storage assembly, comprising: at least one assembly connector configured to interface with at least one mating connector of a storage system chassis; a plurality of storage drives each comprising a drive Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface and solid state storage media, with each of the plurality of storage drives configured to store and retrieve data responsive to storage operations received over the associated drive PCIe interface; a PCIe switch circuit coupled to the drive PCIe interfaces of the plurality of storage drives and configured to receive the storage operations issued by one or more host systems over a shared PCIe interface carried by the at least one assembly connector, and transfer the storage operations for delivery to the plurality of storage drives over selected ones of the drive PCIe interfaces; holdup circuitry configured to provide power to at least the plurality of storage drives after input power is lost to the data storage assembly over the at least one assembly connector; based at least on the input power being lost due to removal of the data storage assembly from the at least one mating connector of the storage system chassis, controller circuitry configured to bleed excess power into a load circuit of the data storage assembly responsive to commit of in-flight write operations for the plurality of storage drives; and based at least on the input power being lost without removal of the data storage assembly from the at least one mating connector of the storage system chassis, the controller circuitry configured to direct the excess power over the at least one assembly connector for use by at least one other data storage assembly in the storage system chassis. | 12,928 |
9,776,924 | 1. A composite substrate comprising: a support substrate; and a functional substrate bonded to the support substrate, wherein the support substrate is a mullite sintered body having an impurity element content of 1% by mass or less, the mullite sintered body containing sintered mullite grains having an average grain size of 8 μm or less, wherein pores present in a polished surface thereof have an average largest pore length of 0.4 μm or less, the mullite sintered body has a porosity of less than 0.03%, and the maximum peak height (Rp) of the surface of the mullite sintered body is 30 nm or less, and wherein when the mullite sintered body is formed into a plate having a thickness of 0.1 mm, the plate has a total light transmittance of 20% or more to light having a wavelength of 550 nm. | 23,203 |
8,971,033 | 1. A clamshell device, comprising: a base module; a cover module; a center hinge for hinging the cover module to the base module; and a holding mechanism comprising a click structure having a ratchet-bar with teeth, the holding mechanism coupled between corresponding sides of the base module and the cover module such that the cover module is capable of being steadily held at the open angle using the teeth when the cover module is at an open angle pivotally away from the base module, wherein the rachet-bar is provided at one of the base module and the cover module and wherein the click structure comprises a connecting-rod which is pivotably connected to the other one of the base module and the cover module at its first end and is provided with a slide pin at its second end, the slide pin slidably engaging with the ratchet-bar, wherein a distance between tooth-roots of two adjacent teeth of the ratchet-bar is such that the slide pin is capable of slidably engaging with the two adjacent teeth. | 5,645 |
9,502,928 | 1. A motor being an inner rotor type brushless motor in which a rotor is rotatably positioned inside an internal circumference of a stator, the motor comprising; the rotor having a rotor core connected to a rotational axis, and a permanent magnet on which ten (10) magnetic poles are magnetized as a single and cylindrical ring type magnet, the permanent magnet being held on an outer peripheral side of the rotor core; and the stator including a stator core having a ring-shape yoke and twelve (12) teeth that extrude from an internal circumference of the ring-shape yoke, and a winding wire wound about each of the teeth, the teeth being arranged in a circumferential direction in a manner to face the permanent magnet through a spatial gap, wherein the stator core is configured by the yoke and the twelve (12) teeth which are integrated monolithically with the ring-shape yoke, and wherein an interval of adjacent teeth tips is set to be larger than a diameter of the winding wire and ratio (t wherein the teeth tip width t | 25,164 |
8,827,857 | 1. A planetary gear-set for continuously varying the output ratio between torque and rotational velocity, in which a sun-gear is considered as a reference to all other components, said system comprising: a first set of segments of a ring gear, each such segment includes at least a permanently linked couple of cogwheels of which at least one cogwheel receives power and is capable of changing its distance from said sun gear its axle is not bound to a carrier, and at least another cogwheel that passes on power to a terminal collecting gear the axle of which power-passing cogwheel is bound to a carrier; a second set of couples of cogwheels, each such couple including also at least a link to permanently keep said couple of cogwheels constantly meshed, wherein in each such couple one cogwheel is a sun-gear follower and another is a ring engaging gear and wherein the axle of said ring engaging gear is not bound to a carrier; a mechanism for changing the distance of said ring engaging gear with respect to said sun-gear follower, and wherein power is received from a source at least through a carrier of said sun-gear followers. | 10,184 |
9,835,127 | 1. An ignition device of an internal combustion engine in which a discharge voltage is generated between electrodes of a spark plug connected to a secondary coil by energizing a primary current to a primary coil of an ignition coil and interrupting the primary current, which comprises: an engine control unit configured to: set a first energization time for the primary coil according to an engine speed in a normal region other than a prescribed engine-speed engine-load region having a possibility of causing pre-ignition before ignition timing; and set a second energization time for the primary coil relatively shorter than the first energization time for a same engine speed, in the prescribed engine-speed engine-load region, and wherein the engine control unit is configured to energize the primary coil for the first energization time in the normal region, and wherein the engine control unit is configured to energize the primary coil for the second energization time in the prescribed engine-speed engine-load region, for avoiding a maximum voltage induced in the secondary coil under no-discharge when having interrupted the primary current from exceeding an allowable voltage which an insulator of the spark plug can withstand without being damaged due to an electric discharge through the insulator. | 34,442 |
8,488,016 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image sensor that is exposed to light, images, and outputs at least two images of a long accumulation image with a longer exposure time and a short accumulation image with a shorter exposure time in one field; a first long accumulation evaluation value computation unit that computes an exposure evaluation value from the long accumulation image and outputs the value as a first long accumulation evaluation value; a second long accumulation evaluation value computation unit that computes an exposure evaluation value from the long accumulation image according to a different method from that of the first long accumulation evaluation value computation unit, and outputs the value as a second long accumulation evaluation value; a short accumulation evaluation value computation unit that computes an exposure evaluation value from the short accumulation image and outputs the value as a short accumulation evaluation value; a short accumulation exposure control unit that acquires a short accumulation target exposure time and short accumulation exposure control information from the short accumulation evaluation value and a first target level; a long accumulation evaluation value synthesis unit that acquires a long accumulation evaluation value by synthesizing the first long accumulation evaluation value and the second long accumulation evaluation value in response to the short accumulation target exposure time using a predetermined method; a long accumulation exposure control unit that acquires long accumulation exposure control information from the long accumulation evaluation value and a second target level; and a synthesis unit that generates one image from the long accumulation image and the short accumulation image in response to the long accumulation exposure control information and the short accumulation exposure control information. | 42,793 |
9,773,932 | 1. An epitaxial wafer comprising: a III-V semiconductor substrate; and a multiple quantum well structure disposed on the substrate, and including a plurality of pairs of a first layer and a second layer, wherein sulfur, selenium, and tellurium are contained as impurities, wherein a total concentration of elements contained as impurities in the multiple quantum well structure is less than or equal to 5×10 wherein the multiple quantum well structure contains antimony as a constituent element thereof. | 4,708 |
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