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8,582,472 | 1. An arrangement in a network device for facilitating multiple connection speeds with a network, comprising: a set of network ports, said set of network ports including a set of input network ports for receiving data traffic and a set of output network ports for outputting said data traffic from said network device; a logic component configured for managing said data traffic and for aggregating said data traffic into aggregated data traffic; a monitoring port, said monitoring port being configured to receive said aggregated data traffic from said logic component; a plurality of physical layer interfaces (PHY's), each physical layer interface (PHY) of said plurality of PHY's being configured to support said multiple connection speeds, wherein a first PHY of said plurality of PHY's is configured to include a first logic for performing link setup, said link setup including determining the best speed for optimal performance, wherein said first logic of said first PHY includes performing auto-negotiation to perform said link setup based on the speed of an end-device connected to one of said set of network ports; and a media access controller (MAC), said MAC being configured to support at least a single connection speed of said multiple connection speeds, whereas said data traffic is configured to traverse said network device between said set of input network ports and said set of output network ports irrespective whether power is provided to circuitry of said network device. | 3,930 |
9,651,604 | 1. A grounding grid breakpoint diagnostic method, based on a transient electromagnetic detection apparatus including a transmitting system and a receiving system, said transmitting system including a battery pack, a transmitter and a transmitting coil, said receiving system including a receiver and a receiving coil, wherein said transmitting coil has its two ends respectively connected to current output ends of said transmitter, said battery pack has its anode connected to a positive power supply terminal of said transmitter and its cathode connected to a negative power supply terminal of said transmitter, and said receiving coil has its two ends respectively connected to signal acquisition lines of said receiver, characterized in that the method comprises: disposing a test line at a position above a grounding grid to be diagnosed on the ground, and determining coordinates of a detection point; obtaining information about coordinates of the detection point, and coinciding the center of the transient electromagnetic detection apparatus with the coordinates of the detection point; performing, by the transient electromagnetic detection apparatus, measurement along the test line point by point, so as to obtain measurement data; processing, by using diagram forming software, the measurement data to form a longitudinal resistivity cross-section diagram of the detection point according to a preset formula; and determining whether a breakpoint occurs at the detection point according to the longitudinal resistivity cross-section diagram. | 25,729 |
8,671,804 | 1. A fastener installation tool for installing a threaded nut onto the threaded shank of a fastener bold, said fastener installation tool comprising: a tool component having a power drive tool; and a gear head component having a first end and a second end opposite said first end, said gear head component further comprising: a hold bit mounted in said through passage of said boss; means for preventing rotatable motion of said hold bit while installing said threaded nut onto said threaded shank of said bolt fastener by use of said socket hear driven by said power drive tool; means for providing lineal motion of said hold bit during installation of said threaded nut onto said threaded shank of said bolt fastener by use of said at least one socket gear that is attached to said power drive tool, said providing means further comprising second biasing means; and means for attaching said tool component to said gear head component. | 43,657 |
9,774,953 | 1. A system for directionally selective sound reception comprising an array of pressure sensors each arranged to output a pressure signal indicative of pressure, and a processor arranged to receive the pressure signals, to derive from the pressure signals a series of sample values of directional pressure gradient, to identify a plurality of frequency components of the pressure signals, to identify at least one source direction, and to identify at least one of the components as coming from the source direction, the sensor array comprising a support supporting the four sensors and having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, a first one and a second one of the sensors being mounted on the first side of the support and at least a third one of the sensors being supported on the second side of the support wherein when the sound arrives at the array from a direction parallel to the support, the sound pressure difference caused, measured between the first sensor and the second sensor, will be dependent on the distance between the first and second sensors and the nature of material in the space between the first and second sensors, when sound arrives at the array travelling perpendicular to the support the sound pressure difference caused, measured between the first and third sensors, will be dependent on the distance between the first and third sensors and the nature of material in the space between the first and third sensors, and the spacings and the materials are selected such that, for sounds at one of 1000 Hz and 256 Hz, one of the sound pressure differences is no more than 50% higher than the other. | 9,815 |
9,784,206 | 1. A method for feeding an internal combustion engine by a direct injection of a mixture of fuel and combustion air into each cylinder of the engine, the supply of fuel being performed at high pressure by a pump providing an output flow situated in a higher interval of its operating range, the method comprising: in a preliminary fuel injection phase which precedes starting of the engine at low temperature, regulating an injection mass of fuel delivered per cycle of operation of the engine such that, when the pressure of the fuel that is injected into a cylinder decreases during the preliminary injection phase, the pressure remains above a predetermined threshold value. | 13,641 |
9,683,184 | 1. A gasification system, comprising: a gasifier configured to gasify a feedstock and an oxidant to generate a producer gas enriched with carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H a heat recovery steam generator configured to be fluidly coupled to the gasifier and configured to supply steam to the gasifier; a combustion system configured to be fluidly coupled to the heat recovery steam generator, wherein the combustion system is configured to supply an exhaust gas to the steam generator to produce the steam; an exhaust gas injection system located upstream of the gasifier and fluidly coupled to the gasifier, wherein the exhaust gas injection system is configured to supply a portion of the exhaust gas from the combustion system to the gasifier; and a controller comprising a non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions configured to supply the exhaust gas injection system with a first portion of the exhaust gas from the combustion system and to supply the steam from the heat recovery steam generator to the gasifier to enrich the producer gas with CO and H approximately 30% more H | 23,410 |
9,672,477 | 1. A computerized method of scheduling a patient for a medical exam, the method comprising: by computing system comprising one or more computing devices: | 17,340 |
8,444,998 | 1. A method of treating a bacterial infection in an animal or human, the method including the step of exposing an infected area of the animal or human to a substance or composition including a therapeutically effective amount of a substantially pure culture of Enterococcus mundtii strain ST4SA deposited with the ATCC under the assigned number PTA-7278, said culture capable of producing peptide ST4SA in a recoverable quantity upon fermentation in a nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of carbon, nitrogen, and inorganic substances. | 2,288 |
9,582,983 | 1. An apparatus to locate a mobile device, comprising: a monitor module including a circuit, to monitor an input audio signal from an onboard microphone of the mobile device while a host processor of the mobile device is in a standby mode; a language module including a circuit, to identify a predetermined audio pattern in the input audio signal; a verification module including a circuit, to verify a source of the predetermined audio pattern while the host processor is in standby mode; a trigger module including a circuit, to trigger a device location session with respect to the mobile device based on the predetermined audio pattern while the host processor is in standby mode, wherein the trigger module is to use software running on the host processor to generate an output audio signal during the device location session; and an audio route manager to determine that a wireless audio accessory is connected to the mobile device and route the output audio signal to an onboard speaker of the mobile device if an activation of the host processor to run the software is based on the predetermined audio pattern and a user is not detected to be proximal to the mobile device. | 2,371 |
9,032,983 | 1. A connector device for retaining a pair of pivotally connected poles, the connector device comprising: a male component comprising: a first end configured to fixedly retain a first pole; and a projection extending from said first end opposite the first pole, a top portion of said projection having a transversely extending upper groove and a side groove extending downwardly from each end of the upper groove, a retaining hole extending downward from the upper groove, a first aperture extending axially through the opposing side grooves; a biasing member having an upper end and a lower end, the biasing member positioned within the retaining hole such that said lower end is supported by a bottom surface of the retaining hole and said upper end is extended above the upper groove; a locking member having a top member and a side member extending downwardly from each end of the top member to form a substantial U-shape, each side member having a second aperture, each second aperture being elongated and substantially aligned axially, the locking member positioned on the male component projection such that the top member is engaged with the biasing member upper end, and each side member is slidably engaged with corresponding side grooves; and a female component comprising: a first end configured to fixedly retain a second pole; and a housing extending from said first end opposite the second pole, the housing having an inner end and an outer end, a pair of opposing substantially vertical side walls extending from said inner end to said outer end, each side wall being spaced apart and in substantial parallel arrangement with respect to the other, the side walls being connected by a front wall extending transversely at said outer end, lower portions of each side wall having a third aperture extending axially and substantially aligned with each other, a top portion of the housing including an engaging member extending between the side walls, the engaging member having an engaging portion substantially aligned with the biasing member; wherein the projection and locking member are positioned within the housing, the projection, locking member and housing pivotally coupled together along an axis formed by the first, second and third apertures. | 37,085 |
9,009,297 | 1. A method for configuring a network interface, comprising: receiving a signal that was sent from an operating system indicating that the network interface can be idled, wherein the signal is sent from the operating system as soon as the operating system determines that a final route structure that depended on the network interface has expired and been deleted; and determining if an application has established, after the signal was sent from the operating system, a route that uses the network interface, wherein determining if an application has established a route includes one of querying the operating system or an application to determine if another application has established a route or searching any route structures in the operating system to find a matching route, if an application has not established, after the signal was sent from the operating system, a route that uses the network interface, causing the network interface to be idled; otherwise, if an application has established, after the signal was sent from the operating system, a route that uses the network interface, leaving the network interface in a current operating state. | 14,765 |
9,136,025 | 1. A dual-cooled fuel rod's spacer grid comprising: a spacer grid for a dual-cooled fuel rod with upper and lower cross-wavy-shape dimples, the spacer grid configured so that a blocking area of a flow passage through which a coolant flows is reduced and dual-cooled fuel rods are supported, and which reduces a turbulent flow of the coolant as well as vibrations of the dual-cooled fuel rods to thereby lessen fretting damage to the dual-cooled fuel rods, and in which the dimples are in contact with a neighboring fuel rod in a cross-wavy-shape to maintain a narrow interval between the fuel rods as wide as possible, the dual-cooled fuel rod's spacer grid further comprising: a plurality of unit grid straps, each of which includes a body disposed in a vertical direction, the upper dimple protruding from an upper portion of the body, and the lower dimple spaced apart from the upper dimple in a downward direction and protruding from a lower portion of the body, wherein the plurality of unit grid straps forms a grid structure so as to have a plurality of inner grid holes that holds the dual-cooled fuel rods, and the held dual-cooled fuel rods are each supported in four directions by the upper and lower dimples,. wherein the upper and lower dimples are each separately formed in in parallel sinusoidal shapes continuously formed in single waves so that the upper and lower dimples each protrude from the body towards opposite sides of the body, and have a phase difference of π radians relative to each other on the same plane. | 25,314 |
9,386,797 | 1. A composition comprising Rebaudioside M glucosyl derivatives having at least one α-1,4-glucosyl residue, wherein a ratio of Rebaudioside M glucosyl derivatives to total steviol glycosides, comprising α-1,4,-glucosyl derivatives of steviol glycosides and unmodified steviol glycosides, is in the range of 1:100 to 1:1. | 3,880 |
9,632,558 | 1. A power supply control method for a display device, wherein the method comprises: acquiring images of a room where the display device is located; judging whether there is any person in the room according to the acquired image; further recognizing an action state of the person in the room and judging whether the person in the room has a demand of watching contents displayed on the display device or not, when it is judged that there is a person in the room; and cutting off power supply of the display device according to a result of judging that there is no person in the room or a result of judging that the person in the room has no demand of watching; wherein the recognizing the action state of the person in the room comprises: extracting action state features of the person in the room, comparing the extracted action state features with preset action state feature information, and determining the action state of the person in the room when the extracted action state features are matched with the preset action state feature information; and wherein the judging whether the person in the room has a demand of watching the contents displayed on the display device or not comprises: determining that the person in the room has no demand of watching, if the action state of the person in the room is determined as sleeping, reading or chatting, and this action state lasts for five minutes or more. | 6,759 |
8,592,047 | 1. Multilayer structure comprising a layer formed from a tie and at least a support made of PMMA, said tie being in direct contact with the support and comprising a blend of an ethylene/carboxylic acid vinyl ester copolymer (A) and a polyolefin (B) which contains a functional monomer (X) which is maleic anhydride copolymerized in the chain of the polyolefin (B) and/or grafted to the polyolefin (B), the B/(A+B) weight ratio being within the range of 0.05 to 1. | 41,714 |
8,378,343 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a driver circuit comprising a first transistor and a pixel portion comprising a second transistor over a substrate; the first transistor comprising: the second transistor comprising: wherein the oxide insulating layer is in contact with the first channel formation region, and wherein each of the second gate electrode layer, the gate insulating layer, the second oxide semiconductor layer, the channel protective layer, the second source electrode layer, and the second drain electrode layer has a light-transmitting property. | 10,501 |
9,593,001 | 1. A mechanism comprising: a lift table assembly; two carriage assemblies coupled to the lift table assembly, each carriage assembly comprising a carriage configured to translate linearly in a y axis; two slewing rings, one coupled to each carriage assembly, each slewing ring being configured to rotate radially around a z axis; and an interface plate coupled to two longitudinal rails located above the slewing rings and configured to translate linearly along the longitudinal rails in an x axis independent of the two carriage assemblies, the two longitudinal rails located directly above the two carriage assemblies, wherein the interface plate is configured to receive a payload to be positioned, whereby the position of the payload is controlled by the position of the lift table assembly, the relative position of the two carriage assemblies with respect to each other, and the relative position of the interface plate with respect to the longitudinal rails. | 21,865 |
9,014,950 | 1. A control system for an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve disposed in an intake passage of said engine, comprising: rotational speed detecting means for detecting a rotational speed of said engine; target intake air amount calculating means for calculating a target intake air amount of said engine; intake pressure estimating means for estimating an intake pressure of said engine; wide-open intake air amount calculating means for calculating a wide-open intake air amount according to the engine rotational speed, the wide-open intake air amount being an intake air amount corresponding to a state where said throttle valve is fully opened; theoretical intake air amount calculating means for calculating a theoretical intake air amount according to the wide-open intake air amount and the intake pressure, the theoretical intake air amount being an intake air amount corresponding to a state where no exhaust gas of said engine is recirculated to a combustion chamber of said engine; exhaust gas recirculation ratio calculating means for calculating an exhaust gas recirculation ratio using the theoretical intake air amount and the target intake air amount; target output torque calculating means for calculating a target output torque of said engine using the target intake air amount and the exhaust gas recirculation ratio; and control means for controlling said engine using the target output torque. | 20,695 |
9,745,256 | 1. A urea granulation system comprising: a urea granulator configured to generate granulated urea product and a first dust and ammonia-laden gaseous waste stream; a first scrubber dust stage disposed downstream of, and in communication with, said urea granulator along a flow path of the first gaseous waste stream, said scrubber dust stage being configured to remove dust from the first dust and ammonia-laden gaseous waste stream, and convey the first gaseous waste stream downstream for further processing; and a formaldehyde stage disposed downstream of, and in communication with, said scrubber dust stage along a flow path of the first gaseous waste stream, said formaldehyde stage being configured to receive the first gaseous waste stream and react a portion of the ammonia contained in the first gaseous waste stream with formaldehyde, so as to form hexamethylenetetramine. | 43,437 |
9,260,021 | 1. A signal generation circuit, configured to generate a pilot signal for communication between a vehicle equipped with a battery device, and a charging cable, wherein the signal generation circuit comprises: a circuit comprising an operational amplifier configured to output the pilot signal; a first input unit configured to supply a non-inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier with either a first signal or a second signal that is different from the first signal; a second input unit configured to supply an inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier with either a first voltage or a second voltage that is different from the first voltage; and a control unit configured to control each output of the first input unit and the second input unit, wherein each of the first signal and the first voltage is a zero voltage, and the circuit comprising the operational amplifier is configured so that the operational amplifier outputs a zero voltage if the first signal is supplied to the non-inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier and the first voltage is supplied to the inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier. | 22,865 |
9,020,872 | 1. A computer program product comprising computer-usable program code stored on a non-transitory computer-usable storage medium, wherein the computer-usable program code is executable by a data processor to perform the steps of: finding at least one missing case not covered by the rules; identifying tests that occur in the rules; generalizing the at least one missing case into a family of missing cases in terms of the tests that occur in the rules; generalizing the family of missing cases into a missing rule; and generating missing rules with most general conditions, wherein the step of generalizing the at least one missing case into a family of missing cases in terms of the tests that occur in the rules comprises finding a minimal set of tests that cover the family of missing cases but do not cover any of the cases covered by the rules, wherein the step of finding the minimal set of tests that cover the family of missing cases but do not cover any of the cases covered by the rules comprises: ordering the tests according to broadest coverage of an object; and stepping through the ordered tests and verifying if the selected test covers any case covered by the rules. | 3,020 |
8,900,333 | 1. A biodiesel fuel composition comprising a) a biodiesel fuel and b) a polymer or copolymer of the formula (I) obtained by nitroxyl mediated controlled free radical polymerization, wherein In is the initiator fragment starting the polymerization reaction; E is an end group bearing at least one stable free nitroxyl radical, which is bound via an oxygen atom to the polymer or copolymer; or a group which results from a substitution or elimination reaction of the attached stable free nitroxyl radical; Poly is any polymer or copolymer formed from ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s); y is a number 1 or greater than 1 indicating the average number of end groups E attached to Poly. | 36,646 |
8,934,158 | 1. An image reading apparatus comprising: a light source unit which includes a light-emitting device having a characteristic that peak wavelength varies depending on a value of a drive current, and illuminates a document with an illumination light using light from the light-emitting device; a light receiving unit for receiving a reflected light reflected from the document when the illumination light is emitted from the light source unit, and for converting the received reflected light into an image data at a predetermined sensitivity depending on the wavelengths of the received light; a current drive circuit for supplying the drive current to the light-emitting device to turn on the light-emitting device; a storage unit for previously storing a wave pattern that represents the relationship between a current value for the drive current and time during which the drive current is produced relative to a line period corresponding to a scanning period for one line of the document in a main scanning direction, and that has two or more durations each having a different value of the drive current in the line period; and a wavelength distribution control unit for producing two or more durations each having a different value of the drive current by controlling the current drive circuit during the main scanning in each main scanning to the document by using the wave pattern read from the storage unit to produce two or more durations each having a different peak wavelength in each main scanning. | 43,126 |
8,741,476 | 1. A rechargeable battery comprising: an electrode assembly having a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode; a case housing the electrode assembly; an electrode terminal electrically connected to the electrode assembly; a cap plate sealing the case, the cap plate having a terminal hole through which the electrode terminal protrudes and an electrolyte injection opening defined by an inner wall comprising a first inner wall defining a first opening having a first diameter and a second inner wall defining a second opening having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter; and a first guide portion between the first opening and the second opening; and a sealing cap sealing the electrolyte injection opening, the sealing cap comprising: | 7,488 |
9,041,607 | 1. A radio wave receiver comprising: a cylindrical metallic device body; a first metallic closing member for closing an opening at a first end of the device body; a second closing member having a radio wave permeability for closing an opening at a second end of the device body; an antenna arranged in the device body; and first and second screw portions which screw the device body and the first closing member through engagement between the first and second screw portions, wherein the first screw portion is formed in a metal wall surface of the device body, the second screw portion is formed in a metallic annular member which is mounted to the first closing member through a coupling resin member, the metallic annular member being mounted on an upper section of the coupling resin member, and the coupling resin member is coupled to a metal wall surface of an annular recessed portion formed in an inner surface of the first closing member, through a great number of irregularities of a nanometer size formed on the metal wall surface of the annular recessed portion, and coupled to a metal wall surface of the annular member through a great number of irregularities of a nanometer size formed on the metal wall surface of the annular member. | 45,616 |
9,647,765 | 1. An optical communications apparatus, comprising: an optical transmitter configured, or operable to be configured, to transmit at a selectable data rate with data transmitted in bursts, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle, and the transmitter being average power limited. | 38,869 |
9,393,214 | 1. A nanocomposite comprising carbon nanotubes embedded in the nanocomposite and carbon-encapsulated transition metal oxide nanoparticles comprising a transition metal oxide core having a diameter of from 5 nm to 50 nm covered by a graphitic coating having a thickness of from 1 nm to 5 nm. | 9,190 |
8,677,730 | 1. A low-temperature, continuous cold combustion, constant pressure, active chamber motor-compressor unit, comprising: a motor-compressor unit (B) configured to operate with compressed atmospheric air and comprised of i) an engine piston ( ii) a piston travel control device ( iii) an active chamber cylinder ( iv) an expansion chamber ( an air compression device ( a refrigerating system (A) that supplies the atmospheric air at the reduced temperature to an inlet ( an external combustion device (C) comprised of an external combustion chamber ( an inlet duct ( wherein, i) when the engine piston ( | 940 |
8,408,402 | 1. A desk organizer adapted to be located between a computer screen and keyboard on a desktop, to locate various items, the desk organizer comprising an elongate body, having ends, a front face and a rear face, shaped to face a user stationed in a seated position to operate the keyboard; an upper inclined body surface facing the user; device support surfaces at each end of the desk organizer; a lower body surface to face and abut a support surface, the upper and lower surfaces separated by a depth dimension, the depth dimension of the elongate body being shaped having the upper surface including a plurality of recesses to removably locate various items therein, at least one recess being shaped to fit stationary items, at least one recess being tubular for writing implements and at least one recess being a shallow rectangular recess for note pads, and at least one device support surface adapted to support an IT device thereon whereby the dimension from the device support surface to the rear face of the elongate body desk organizer is dimensioned and shaped such that a user can both secure the IT device to the support surface and operate the IT device with at least one hand having a portion of the hand secured to the rear face and another portion of the hand able to operate the keys of the IT device while the hand's forearm rests on the desktop; and feet at each end of the lower body surface forming a tunnel portion in between, wherein the desk organizer has a curved or angled shape to form a wrap-around shape whereby the front face is lower than the rear face or a depth of the front face is less than the depth of rear face, and the device support surface includes an upper portion formed as an upright surface and a lower portion formed as a shelf base surface, together as an inclined L shaped seating surface, with a spaced vertical back surface dimensioned and spaced from the upright surface, to allow one hand with the fingers located behind on the rear surface and a thumb to both secure and operate the IT device. | 6,756 |
9,698,796 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a clock synchronizing circuit that operates in synchronization with a first clock; an enable signal generating circuit that generates an enable signal in an operation period during which the clock synchronizing circuit is operated; and a clock supplying circuit that | 15,787 |
9,458,819 | 1. A wave energy converter using differential pressure acting on opposing faces of a first piston to extract energy from a wave transiting a body of water on a surface of the body of water, the wave passing above the wave energy converter, the wave comprising a crest and a trough, the wave energy converter comprising: a first vessel comprising: the first piston slidably secured within the first vessel between the upstream opening and the downstream opening, the first piston comprising an upstream face flowably connected to the upstream opening and a downstream face flowably connected to the downstream opening, the first piston configured to slide within the first vessel parallel to the longitudinal axis in reaction to differential water pressure acting between the upstream face and the downstream face; and an upstream hydraulic cylinder within the first vessel aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis, the upstream hydraulic cylinder mounted to the upstream end of the first vessel and to the upstream face of the first piston via a first shaft, the upstream hydraulic cylinder configured to supply pressurized fluid to a high-pressure manifold when the upstream face of the first piston moves toward the upstream hydraulic cylinder. | 18,289 |
8,865,112 | 1. Process for multistage thermal treatment of rubber waste to produce carbon black comprising the steps of: transferring a product granulate of the rubber waste from a supply into a reactor; heating the product granulate for a time period of between 2 to 4 hours at a first temperature between 100° to 200° C. in a first heating zone of the reactor until light oils emitting from the product granulate at temperatures between 100° to 200° C. are no longer emitted; transferring the product granulate from the first heating zone to a second heating zone in the reactor; heating the product granulate for a time period of between 2 to 4 hours at a second temperature between 200° to 300° C. in the second heating zone of the reactor until medium heavy oils emitting from the product granulate at temperatures between 200° to 300° C. are no longer emitted; transferring the product granulate from the second heating zone to a third heating zone in the reactor; heating the product granulate for a time period of between 2 to 4 hours at a third temperature between 300° to 600° C. in the third heating zone until heavy oils emitting from the product granulate at temperatures between 300° to 600° C. are no longer emitted; and removing the product granulate from the reactor and separating the desirable solid materials, wherein each of the heating steps is carried out within a low pressure environment of about 20 to 50 mbar in each heating zone. | 9,566 |
9,139,198 | 1. A control device for a vehicle drive device in which a disconnecting engagement device, a rotating electrical machine, and a speed change mechanism are provided in this order from an internal combustion engine toward wheels on a power transmission path connecting the internal combustion engine and the wheels, and in which the speed change mechanism is capable of switching between or among a plurality of shift speeds by controlling an engagement state of each of a plurality of shift engagement devices included in the speed change mechanism, comprising: a start control section that executes internal combustion engine start control of bringing the disconnecting engagement device from a disengaged state to a direct-coupling engaged state and starting the internal combustion engine in a stopped state; a start slip control section that executes start slip control of bringing one of the plurality of shift engagement devices into a slip engaged state at least when the disconnecting engagement device is direct-coupling engaged in the internal combustion engine start control; and an intended engagement device deciding section that decides as an intended engagement device the shift engagement device to be brought into the slip engaged state in the start slip control, wherein the intended engagement device deciding section operates based on a set determination speed so that when a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than the determination speed, the intended engagement device deciding section decides as the intended engagement device a normally disengaged engagement device that is the shift engagement device having been in the direct-coupling engaged state in order to form a reference shift speed at start of the start slip control, and that is disengaged when a transition is made from the reference shift speed to a predetermined specific shift speed, and when the vehicle speed is lower than the determination speed, the intended engagement device deciding section decides as the intended engagement device a special engagement device that is the shift engagement device having been in the direct-coupling engaged state in order to form the reference shift speed, and that is disengaged when a transition is made to a special shift speed on an opposite side of the specific shift speed from the reference shift speed in order of speed ratios of the plurality of shift speeds, a rotational speed of an input-side rotating member of the speed change mechanism which is determined according to the vehicle speed and the shift speed is a synchronous rotational speed, the intended engagement device deciding section sets the determination speed based on a difference between a reference synchronous rotational speed as the synchronous rotational speed at the reference shift speed and a specific synchronous rotational speed as the synchronous rotational speed at the specific shift speed, and a predetermined determination differential rotational speed that is set based on an increase in the rotational speed of the input-side rotating member from the reference synchronous rotational speed that is associated with the internal combustion engine start control, and the intended engagement device deciding section sets as the determination speed a specific vehicle speed at which the difference is equal to the predetermined determination differential rotational speed. | 1,550 |
8,368,243 | 1. A wind generator assembly for driving an electric generator, comprising: an inlet air riser having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end disposed to capture portions of roof level wind currents; an air intake turret rotatably positioned in communication with the upper end of the inlet air riser to direct roof level wind currents to the inlet air riser, the air intake turret comprising: a body portion having an air intake opening; a rail having a circular profile; and at least one tri-roller assembly wherein each roller is substantially equally spaced around the rail profile and connecting the body portion to the rail, the body portion supported at the upper end of the inlet air riser, the air intake opening in communication with the air intake riser; an air box, the lower end of the inlet air riser in communication with the air box; a rotator assembly disposed in the air box, the rotator assembly having a rotor rotational by impingement of passing wind currents; means for operationally connecting the rotor and the electric generator. | 35,142 |
8,415,042 | 1. A metal halogen electrochemical system, comprising: (A) a vessel that contains: (B) a circulation pump that is configured to convey a flow of the electrolyte through the reaction zone of each of the cells of the stack. | 23,870 |
9,119,540 | 1. A method for assessment of coronary artery disease based on medical image data comprising: generating an anatomical model of a coronary artery from medical image data; estimating a velocity of blood in the coronary artery based on a spatio-temporal representation of contrast agent propagation over a length of the coronary artery in the medical image data, wherein estimating a velocity of blood in the coronary artery comprises: simulating blood flow in the anatomical model of the coronary artery using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using the estimated velocity of the blood in the coronary artery as a boundary condition. | 34,965 |
9,175,615 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: during high load conditions, when operating with a first gaseous fuel, in response to an elevated exhaust temperature, enriching the engine via injection of a second, liquid fuel while maintaining spark timing; wherein a larger degree of enrichment with the second liquid fuel is provided based on a widened flammability limit of the second fuel, and the elevated exhaust temperature, and wherein the operating includes combusting a mixture of the first and second fuels via spark ignition in the cylinder. | 38,787 |
9,192,544 | 1. A feeding bottle preventing a nipple from falling out and with an air return function comprising a nipple body and a bottle body, wherein the feeding bottle further comprises an air inlet plate and a capping, and the air inlet plate is fixed between the nipple body and the bottle body by the capping, wherein the air inlet plate is provided with a ventilating hole and a ventilating groove, one end of the ventilating groove being directly attached to and communicated with the ventilating hole and another end of the ventilating groove being extended to an outer edge of the air inlet plate; the feeding bottle further comprising a fitting ring mounted on a bottle-engaging side of the air inlet plate facing the bottle body, the ventilating groove of the air inlet plate and a contacting surface of the nipple body cooperate with each other and form a unidirectional air inlet passage, wherein the air inlet plate and the fitting ring are fitted together so that a deformable bulging annular closing cap is formed on a peripheral portion of the fitting ring to completely close the ventilating hole and form a closed annular air return space, wherein the deformable bulging annular closing cap deforms inwards towards an interior of the bottle body to thereby open the ventilation hole and allow air to return into the bottle body. | 9,172 |
8,874,508 | 1. A computer-implemented method for enabling database disaster recovery using replicated volumes, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying at least one primary volume that is replicated to at least one secondary volume by a volume-replication application using block-level replication, wherein: enabling, without replicating writes to the database to the replicated database, the replicated database to be rolled forward to a subsequent state of the database such that the database application may failover to the secondary volume by: | 17,497 |
9,202,500 | 1. A slider comprising: a slider body, the slider body having a trailing edge surface and an opposing leading edge surface; an air bearing surface (ABS) between the trailing edge surface and the leading edge surface; a read/write head located on the trailing edge surface of the slider body; an electrode array located on the trailing edge surface of the slider body, the electrode array comprising at least a first electrode and at least a second electrode; and first and second bias circuits, wherein the first bias circuit is electrically coupled to the at least first electrode and the second bias circuit is electrically coupled to the at least second electrode. | 49,102 |
9,242,642 | 1. An electrically-powered vehicle comprising: an electric motor configured to output a torque to a drive shaft mechanically coupled to a driving wheel; a first power converter for controlling the torque output from said electric motor; and a control device for setting a torque command value of said electric motor such that requested driving force for an entire vehicle is exerted on said drive shaft, said control device including an electric motor control unit for estimating, based on a rotation speed of said electric motor, a magnitude of a drag torque acting as rotational resistance when said electric motor rotates at zero torque, and stopping said first power converter when the estimated magnitude of said drag torque is substantially the same as said torque command value. | 9,037 |
9,175,224 | 1. A gasifying apparatus comprising: a variable gasifier varied such that fuel selected from the group consisting of coal, biomass, RDF, and RPF is fed to perform upflow gasification or downflow gasification; a filtration device configured to filter synthesis gas produced by the variable gasifier; a feed controller programmed to control a feeding direction of the synthesis gas filtered by the filtration device; and a combustion boiler and a gas engine configured to be driven with the synthesis gas selectively fed by the feed controller, wherein the gasifier comprises: an introduction chamber having a fuel feeder formed at a top through which fuel is introduced; a gasification chamber positioned under the introduction chamber and a rotary grate formed on the bottom thereof to accumulate the fuel such that gasification is performed and to discharge ash after combustion is completed through the lower side; an outer chamber enclosing the gasification chamber, separated from the introduction chamber by a partition, and having an ash discharging hole formed on the bottom; a first gasification agent injection hole inserted into the outer chamber to communicate with the gasification chamber and inject the gasification agent during the downflow gasification; a second gasification agent injection hole communicating the lower side of the outer chamber and injecting the gasification agent during the upflow gasification; and a passage opening/closing unit including three directional passages as discharging apertures through which the synthesis gas is discharged from a side of the partition to the introduction chamber, the outer chamber, and the outside, communicating the outer chamber with the synthesis gas discharging hole during the downflow gasification and communicating the introduction chamber with the synthesis gas discharging hole during the upflow gasification for the discharge of the synthesis gas. | 46,977 |
8,737,656 | 1. A hearing device, comprising: a signal-processing apparatus for processing an input signal into an output signal; and a feedback-canceller apparatus for reducing feedback artifacts on a basis of the input signal and the output signal, said feedback-canceller apparatus having an adaptive, first filter, for establishing a set of filter coefficients for a predefined feedback situation, said the feedback-canceller apparatus configured to store the set of filter coefficients, said feedback-canceller apparatus having at least one second filter, being operated directly parallel to said adaptive, first filter on a basis of the stored set of filter coefficients, said adaptive, first filter being continuously adapted to a current feedback situation, and said feedback-canceller apparatus configured such that in the current feedback situation said feedback-canceller apparatus automatically selects either said adaptive, first filter or said second filter, wherein the set of filter coefficients in said feedback-canceller apparatus can automatically be overwritten by a new set of filter coefficients if the new set of filter coefficients was selected more frequently than an old set of filter coefficients. | 29,670 |
9,115,696 | 1. A direct drive wind turbine, comprising a rotor configured to rotate around a rotational axis and a generator, the rotor comprising a hub and a plurality of blades and being rotatably mounted on a frame, and the generator comprising a generator rotor and a generator stator, the rotational axis of the rotor defining an axial direction, wherein the rotor hub includes a plurality of protrusions coupled to the generator rotor through a plurality of couplings, wherein the couplings are configured to transmit torque from the rotor hub to the generator rotor and to yield under loads in the axial direction, and the wind turbine further comprising: one or more dampers, disposed separately from the plurality of couplings, arranged between the rotor and the generator rotor and extending at least partially in the axial direction. | 42,684 |
9,060,269 | 1. A method for adjusting a parameter of a cellular network architecture, comprising: obtaining, by a processor, network traffic data for a plurality of different endpoint device types, wherein the network traffic data is derived from general packet radio services tunneling protocol messages, wherein the network traffic data comprises current network traffic data and a training data set comprising past network traffic data, wherein the network traffic data comprises network traffic data for each of the plurality of different endpoint device types, wherein each of the plurality of different endpoint device types comprises a different physical endpoint device type, wherein the network traffic data comprises is stored in a plurality of records, wherein each record contains a device type identifier that identifies an endpoint device type of the plurality of different endpoint device types; segregating, by the processor, a group of records in the plurality of records based on a device type identifier that identifies one of the plurality of different endpoint device types; predicting, by the processor, a future traffic pattern for the one of the plurality of different endpoint device types based on the group of records in the plurality of records that contain the device type identifier that identifies the one of the plurality of different endpoint device types, wherein the predicting comprises: adjusting, by the processor, the parameter of the cellular network architecture in response to the future traffic pattern predicted for the one of the plurality of different endpoint device types. | 12,659 |
8,346,447 | 1. An engine control system comprising: an inertia phase detection module that determines when an inertia phase of a gear shift is occurring within a transmission; a feed-forward (FF) engine speed module that predicts an engine speed for a future time when the inertia phase ends; a FF APC module that predicts an air-per-cylinder (APC) for the future time based on the engine speed; a FF phaser position module that determines a FF phaser position based on the engine speed and the APC; and a phaser control module that controls a camshaft phaser position based on the FF phaser position during the inertia phase of the gear shift. | 34,727 |
8,749,178 | 1. An electrode system comprising: at least two electrodes formed of an electrode material including | 45,082 |
9,596,762 | 1. A method of fabricating a circuit board, the method comprising: providing a substrate; forming a plurality of channels including linear nanostructures on the substrate; and forming a first electrode and a second electrode on the substrate and allowing the plurality of channels to electrically couple the first electrode to the second electrode, wherein the forming of the plurality of channels including the linear nanostructures on the substrate comprises: forming a nonpolar molecular layer pattern on the substrate; and forming the plurality of channels by self-assembling the linear nanostructures on an exposed region of the substrate that is not covered by the nonpolar molecular layer pattern, wherein forming of the plurality of channels by self-assembling the linear nanostructures on the exposed region of the substrate that is not covered by the nonpolar molecular layer pattern comprises immersing the substrate in a solution including the linear nanostructures. | 26,462 |
8,534,145 | 1. An engine starting apparatus comprising an electric motor that receives supply of current to generate a rotational force, an output shaft that has an outer periphery surface and rotates by the rotational force, a one-way clutch that is helical-spline-fitted to the outer periphery surface of the output shaft, a pinion that receives the rotational force via the one-way clutch, pinion pushing means that pushes, together with the one-way clutch, the pinion toward a ring gear of an engine in a state where the ring gear is revolving due to inertia, the one-way clutch having an idling torque being set to be smaller than a torque of the ring gear that turns the pinion in a state where the ring gear is in contact with the pushed pinion and the ring gear is rotating, wherein the pinion has a radius that is smaller than a radius of the ring gear; current switching means that turns on/off the current supplied to the motor, the current switching means being operative independently from the pinion pushing means; revolution speed detecting means that detects a revolution speed of the ring gear; and control means that enables the pinion pushing means to push the pinion when the control means determines that a relative revolution speed, which is a difference between the revolution speed of the ring gear detected by the revolution speed detecting means and a revolution speed of the pinion acquired from a revolution speed of the motor, arrives at a desired value obtained in a state where the revolution speed of the ring gear is larger than the revolution speed of the pinion. | 40,544 |
9,371,337 | 1. A compound of the formula: wherein, L L R R | 22,665 |
9,333,601 | 1. A storage mechanism comprising: two side plates substantially parallel to each other; at least two support members slidably coupled between the two side plates; at least two driving members mounted to one of the two side plates and coupled to the corresponding support members, the at least two driving members configured to drive the at least two support members to slide out of the storage mechanism at predetermined intervals; at least two feeding trays configured to receive workpieces and each respectively coupled to the corresponding support members, and at least two guiding assemblies, wherein each guiding assembly comprises a first guiding rail, a first guiding member, a bearing member, a second guiding member, and a second guiding rail, the first guiding member is located on the bearing member and is slidably coupled to the first guiding rail, the first guiding member is oriented on a first plane which is parallel to an extending plane of one of the at least two feeding trays, the first guiding member is coupled to one of the at least two support members, the first guiding rails of the at least two guiding assemblies are parallel to each other and respectively coupled to the two side plates, the first guiding rails of the at least two guiding assemblies are respectively coupled to the two side plates, one of the at least two support members is configured to be slidably coupled to the side plates via the at least two guiding assemblies, the bearing member comprises a first support portion and a second support portion substantially perpendicularly extending from the first support portion, the first guiding member is coupled to the first support portion, the second guiding member is located on the bearing member and is coupled to the second support portion, the second guiding member is oriented on a second plane, the second plane is substantially perpendicular to the first plane, and the second guiding rail is mounted on the corresponding support member and slidably coupled to the second guiding member. | 13,237 |
9,512,723 | 1. A method for removing or installing a turbine bearing, or one of its constituent parts, of a static turbomachine when a housing of the static turbomachine is closed, the method comprising: a) supporting a rotor and/or holding the rotor in order to free the turbine bearing from the weight of the rotor, b) fastening a support plate to an end face of a turbine bearing housing, attaching to the support plate two mutually parallel rail-like beams so that the beams extend into and out of the turbine bearing housing, and fastening a cross beam to those ends of the beams which are opposite the support plate, c) positioning the turbine bearing on the beams so that the beams act as a cantilevered support under the turbine bearing, and d) moving the turbine bearing on the beams from a first position to a second position. | 3,849 |
9,464,783 | 1. A concentrated photovoltaic panel comprising: at least one rigid sheet; one or more first optical elements disposed adjacent a first side of the at least one rigid sheet, each of the first optical elements comprising at least one lens; one or more second optical elements disposed adjacent a second side of the at least one rigid sheet, each of the second optical elements comprising at least one reflecting surface; and one or more photovoltaic elements, each photovoltaic element disposed between a respective first optical element and a respective second optical element, wherein the at least one lens of the first optical element is configured to focus light impinging thereon at an angle normal to a plane defined by the rigid sheet onto a corresponding reflecting surface of the respective second optical element, the second optical element being configured to reflect light focused by the first optical element to the photovoltaic element, each reflecting surface being configured to reflect light by total internal reflection, wherein diffuse light impinging on the one or more first optical elements is transmitted to the exterior of the concentrated photovoltaic panel through the one or more second optical elements. | 23,711 |
8,755,303 | 1. Apparatus for mapping correspondence between the topology of a power distribution system for a utility and a wireless communications network associated with the utility, comprising: a plurality of electric meters connected to a power distribution network, each electric meter being operative to detect an identifier encoded in electrical power delivered to the meter, which identifies equipment in the power distribution network; a plurality of wireless network communications nodes respectively associated with the electric meters, for communicating via a wireless data communications network, each wireless communications node being responsive to the detection of an encoded identifier by its associated meter to transmit a data message containing (a) the identifier of the equipment, and (b) an identification of that wireless communications node, via the wireless data communications network, to thereby provide an indication of the association of that wireless communications node with the identified equipment; and a server that receives the indications provided by the wireless communications nodes and generates a map associating the wireless communications nodes with corresponding items of equipment. | 22,250 |
8,455,807 | 1. A sunlight collector module, in cooperated with a solar photovoltaic module, comprising: a base; a first reflective element disposed on the base; a second reflective element disposed on a side, which is opposite to the base, of the first reflective element; while a reflection surface of the second reflective element is opposing to a reflection surface of the first reflective element; a light-guide element disposed on a side, which is opposite to the second reflective element, of the first reflective element; and a beam splitting element disposed between the first reflective element and the light-guide element; wherein a sunlight from the sun is sequentially reflected by the reflection surface of the first reflective element and the reflection surface of the second reflective element, then, passed through the beam splitting element and arrived the light-guide element; the beam splitting element reflects portion of the sunlight passed through, having the wavelength in a pre-determined wavelength range, to the solar photovoltaic module; the light-guide element guides the light entered therein to a pre-determined position, for the illumination use. | 29,442 |
9,634,268 | 1. An electronic device comprising an anode, a cathode and at least one compound of the formula (1) containing a metal M coordinated to a ligand L of the formula (2) M is selected from Cu(I), Ag(I), Au(I), Ni(0), or Pd(0); a is 0 and V is N or P, and V is coordinated to M through an electron lone pair, or a is 1 and V is not coordinated to M, and is selected from B, BR − , CR, CO − , SiR, NR + , or P(═O); or V is a cyclic group of one of the formulae (31) to (34) Y is, identically or differently on each occurrence, a divalent group selected from CR 2 , BR, SiR 2 , NR, PR, P(═O)R, O or S; b is 1; L1 is selected from the groups of the formulae (3) to (30): X is on each occurrence, identically or differently, CR or N; D is on each occurrence, identically or differently, O − , S − , NR − , PR − , NR 2 , PR 2 , COO − , SO 3 − , —C(═O)R, —CR(═NR) or —N(═CR 2 ); and the groups are coordinated to the metal M via the position denoted by *; the position denoted by # indicates the position at which the part-ligand is bonded to Y or to V, and the position denoted by (#) indicates the position at which the part-ligand is optionally bonded to Y or to L4, and if a further bond of this type to Y or to L4 is present, the corresponding symbol X(#) is C, and there is no group R bonded to the symbol N(#) in the formulae (7), (8), (9), (21) and (23); L2 and L3 are selected, identically or differently on each occurrence, from the group consisting of —NR 2 , —NR − , —N═C(R 1 ) 2 , —PR 2 , —PR(OR), P(OR) 2 , —S − , —SR and L1; L4 is a carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, alkyl cyanide, aryl cyanide, alkyl isocyanide, aryl isocyanide, amine, halophosphine, trialkylphosphine, triarylphosphine, alkylarylphosphine, phosphite, arsine, stibene, neutral or anionic nitrogen-containing heterocycles, carbene, hydride, deuteride, F − , Cl − , Br − , alkylacetylide, arylacetylide, cyanide, cyanate, isocyanate, thiocyanate, isothiocyanate, aliphatic or aromatic alcoholate, aliphatic or aromatic thioalcoholates, amide, carboxylate, or wherein, in formula (56), X and D are as defined for formulae (3) to (30), * indicates the position of the coordination to M, and the position denoted by (#) indicates the position at which L4 is optionally bonded, optionally via —(Y) n —, one of the part-ligands L1, L2 and L3 and if L4 is bonded to the part-ligand L1, L2 or L3 directly or through Y n , the corresponding symbol X(#) is C; n is on each occurrence, identically or differently, 0, 1 or 2; R is on each occurrence, identically or differently, H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R 1 ) 2 , CN, NO 2 , OH, Si(R 1 ) 3 , B(OR 1 ) 2 , C(═O)R 1 , P(═O)(R 1 ) 2 , S(═O)R′, S(═O) 2 R 1 , OSO 2 R 1 , a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms or an alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 C atoms, each of which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R 1 , where one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups is optionally replaced by R 1 C═CR 1 , C≡C, Si(R 1 ) 2 , Ge(R 1 ) 2 , Sn(R 1 ) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, C═NR 1 , P(═O)(R 1 ), SO, SO 2 , NR 1 , O, S or CONR 1 and where one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R 1 , or an aryloxy, heteroaryloxy, aralkyl or heteroaryalkyl group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R 1 , or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R 1 ; two or more substituents R here may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic, heteroaromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another; R 1 is on each occurrence, identically or differently, H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R 2 ) 2 , CN, NO 2 , OH, Si(R 2 ) 3 , B(OR 2 ) 2 , C(═O)R 2 , P(═O)(R 2 ) 2 , S(═O)R 2 , S(═O) 2 R 2 , OSO 2 R 2 , a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms or an alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 C atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R 2 , where one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups is optionally replaced by R 2 C═CR 2 , C≡C, Si(R 2 ) 2 , Ge(R 2 ) 2 , Sn(R 2 ) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, C═NR 2 , P(═O)(R 2 ), SO, SO 2 , NR 2 , O, S or CONR 2 and where one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R 2 , or an aryloxy, heteroaryloxy, aralkyl or heteroaryalkyl group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R 2 , or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R 2 ; two or more substituents R 1 here may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic, heteroaromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another; R 2 is on each occurrence, identically or differently, H, D, F, or an aliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic radical having 1 to 20 C atoms, in which, in addition, one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by F; two or more substituents R 2 here may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic, heteroaromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another. | 5,604 |
9,751,683 | 1. A shipping container to hold an item, comprising: an exterior box having a floor and a plurality of side walls to define a cavity therein and an opening to the cavity at the top of the box; a cover to close off the top of the box; and a plurality of thermally insulating pads positioned in the cavity, the plurality of thermally insulating pads positioned such that each of the floor, plurality of side walls and cover are adjacent to and covered by a pad from the plurality of thermally insulating pads, the plurality of thermally insulating pads shaped to provide an interior space to receive the item, wherein each pad of the plurality of thermally insulating pads includes wherein at least one of the plurality of thermally insulating pads includes a plurality of rectangular panel sections, wherein the pad is folded at a right angle along a boundary between the panel sections and each panel section is dimensioned to substantially span whichever of the floor, plurality of side walls or cover that the plurality of plates is adjacent, and wherein the film provides both an interior surface of the pad and an exterior surface of the pad where the pad is folded with all of the panel sections enclosed in the same pocket. | 5,838 |
8,683,129 | 1. A method for using speculative cache requests to reduce cache miss delays, the method comprising: receiving a memory reference which is directed to a cache line in a cache, wherein the cache is part of a multi-level memory hierarchy; and while determining whether the cache line is available in the cache, determining whether the memory reference is likely to miss in the cache, and if so, simultaneously sending a speculative request for the cache line to a lower level of the multi-level memory hierarchy, wherein determining whether the memory reference is likely to miss in the cache comprises using a program counter for an instruction for the memory reference to identify a counter in a set of counters that corresponds to the memory reference, wherein the counter counts at least one of hits and misses for the instruction for the memory reference separately from hits and misses for other instructions. | 48,669 |
9,510,549 | 1. A plant of soybean variety 01050689, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-123236. | 37,368 |
8,410,470 | 1. Core-shell quantum dot fluorescent fine particles, each having a core formed of zinc oxide nanocrystals having average diameter of 1 nm to 7 nm, and ultraviolet fluorescence wavelength of 371 nm or shorter a semiconductor shell formed of any of lithium gallium oxide, lithium aluminum oxide, sodium gallium oxide and sodium aluminum oxide, coating the surface of said core; wherein said core and said semiconductor shell form a type I three-dimensional quantum well. | 30,207 |
8,402,290 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor having a plurality of procesor cores; a single power plane to supply power to more than one of the plurality of processor cores; and a power management logic to cause a modification to an operational characteristic of at least one processor core of the plurality of processor cores in response to: | 32,970 |
8,863,256 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting an event for a transaction on an on-board unit (OBU) of a vehicle, the event having a trigger associated with an agent that is authenticated to the OBU, wherein the agent is one of a plurality of authenticated agents provisioned to access the OBU, wherein the agent is associated with a first set of one or more authentication requirements that enable access to the OBU by the agent when the agent is authenticated based on the first set of one or more authentication requirements, and wherein the agent is associated with one or more network credentials provisioned in the OBU to enable a network connection to be established between the OBU and a remote network; determining whether at least one of a transaction application or any transaction type that corresponds to the transaction application is mapped to the agent in a mapping database of the OBU, wherein the transaction application corresponds to the transaction associated with the detected event, and wherein the mapping is based on a level of authorization of the agent; determining the transaction application is authorized based on a determination that at least one of the transaction application or a transaction type that corresponds to the transaction application is mapped to the agent in the mapping database of the OBU; identifying particular network credentials of the one or more network credentials associated with the agent; and providing the particular network credentials to the transaction application, wherein the network connection is established by the transaction application using the particular network credentials, wherein at least one other agent of the plurality of authenticated agents is associated with one or more other network credentials to enable another network connection, initiated by the other agent, to be established between the OBU and the remote network. | 8,143 |
8,442,072 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: receive a frame comprising a destination address; receive a first data structure that associates a virtual local area network identifier (VID) with a first forwarding type; compare the first forwarding type with a second forwarding type that is associated with the VID in a second data structure; and determine a misprovisioned data structure if the first forwarding type identifies a different forwarding behavior than the second forwarding type, wherein the first forwarding type identifies a first forwarding behavior that floods the frame when the destination address is unknown to the apparatus, and wherein the second forwarding type identifies a second forwarding behavior that drops the frame when the destination address is unknown to the apparatus. | 35,618 |
8,754,585 | 1. An LED driver for on/off and dimming of LEDs comprising a. a switching LED driver circuit adapted to directly connect to b. a PWM generator including control means to generate a PWM signal with an adjustable duty cycle wherein the LEDs are dimmed by adjustment to the pulse width in the duty cycle; c. a lead between the LED driver circuit and the PWM generator to provide a low voltage DC output to the PWM generator to supply power to the PWM generator; d. an ON/OFF switch for serially connecting said PWM generator to said LED driver circuit to provide said driver circuit with said PWM signal, e. components “a”, “b”, “c”, and “d” being an integrated unit sized small enough to fit within a standard 110 volt AC outlet box. | 40,469 |
9,599,434 | 1. A system for concealing a weapon, comprising: a compartment formed from a first interior side of a personal item carrier and an innerface of an exterior side of the personal item carrier; a first access port formed within the exterior side of a personal item carrier; and a first insert formed to substantially occupy the compartment, comprising a first tapered orifice having an open end aligned with the first access port and a distal end; wherein the first tapered orifice is sized to grip a first protective cover containing a first weapon as the first weapon is removed from the first protective cover; wherein the first insert comprises a foam member, and wherein the foam member comprises a void in a similar shape to said first weapon. | 30,937 |
8,503,890 | 1. A signal processing device comprising: a filter module for receiving a multi-channel signal comprising: a demodulation module coupled to the filter module, configured for demodulating the selected single channel signal and outputting a demodulated signal, the demodulation module further comprising: a band control module coupled to the first selector and the second selector configured for controlling the coupling of the first selector and the band pass filters and the corresponding coupling of the demodulator and the resonators by the second selector. | 11,795 |
9,560,811 | 1. A power-driven hedge trimmer, comprising: a power and trimming assembly comprising a trimming blade and a power source, wherein the trimming blade is connected to the power source so as to be driven to reciprocate; a gripping assembly comprising a front gripping portion, a connecting portion and a rear gripping portion, wherein the front gripping portion is attached to a first side of the power source via a front attaching portion, the rear gripping portion is attached to a second side of the power source opposite to the first side thereof via a rear attaching portion, and the connecting portion is connected with the rear attaching portion, the front gripping portion and the rear gripping portion simultaneously; and a control unit disposed on the connecting portion for controlling the power source; wherein the front gripping portion includes a suspended front arm, a front handle and a front stop lock, the front attaching portion and the connecting portion are connected to two ends of the suspended front arm respectively, the front stop lock is disposed on the suspended front arm, and an end of the front handle is pivotally connected to a front end of the suspended front arm; wherein the front handle is lockable in at least two locking positions, which are located on two opposite sides of the suspended front arm, with the front stop lock, wherein an end of the front handle is pivotally connected to a front end of the suspended front arm, so the front handle can be rotated with respect to the suspended front arm, and a front stop lock is disposed on the suspended front arm at a location near the pivotal connection of the front handle for locking the front handle, and wherein the rotational axis of the front handle is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the trimming blade, the front handle rotating horizontally around the rotational axis between a first position and a second position at the two sides of the suspended front arm, the first position and the second position forming a 180 degree angle. | 48,029 |
9,660,630 | 1. A signal network for distributing clock-type signals in an integrated circuit, said signal network comprising: a global clock bus; a plurality of clock regions that intersect one another, wherein the global clock bus is coupled to the plurality of clock regions; and a switch box located at an intersection of the plurality of clock regions, wherein the switch box comprises a distributed deskew object that: | 44,656 |
9,128,648 | 1. An image forming apparatus that switches to a second power state which is lower than a first power state, the image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of execution units configured to execute predetermined functional processing; a selection unit configured to select priority on power saving or priority on convenience as a condition for switching to the second power state which is lower than the first power state; a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of recovery triggers for switching to the first power state from the second power state; a storage unit configured to store a number of times of detection of each recovery trigger received by the reception unit; a determination unit configured to determine, if the selection unit selects priority on convenience, whether the number of times of detection of each recovery trigger requiring a large power amount consumed by execution units associated with each recovery trigger, which is stored in the storage unit, falls below a predetermined threshold; a notification unit configured to notify a user of a recovery trigger as the recovery trigger that needs to be disabled, if the determination unit determines that the number of times of detection of the recovery trigger falls below a corresponding predetermined threshold; and a disabling unit configured to, if the user accepts disabling a recovery trigger of which the user has been notified by the notification unit, disable the recovery trigger determined to fall below a corresponding predetermined threshold. | 835 |
8,352,612 | 1. A method of device-service affiliation via Internet video link, comprising: receiving, at an Internet video link (IVL) server, a registration request message from an IVL device for affiliation with a service provider via an IVL communication feature hosted by the IVL server, where the IVL communication feature utilizes an IVL communication module to provide a communication interface with the service provider and the service provider comprises one of a device manufacturer of the IVL device and an audio/video content provider; registering the IVL device with the IVL communication feature; sending a registration response message to the IVL device acknowledging the affiliation with the service provider via the IVL communication feature; receiving an IVL device feature inquiry message associated with an operational feature of the IVL device; determining a solution source of an answer to the IVL device feature inquiry message; in response to determining that the solution source comprises a repository storage location that stores information associated with the operational feature: in response to determining that the solution source comprises a service provider consumer support agent associated with the service provider: | 21,643 |
9,450,500 | 1. A method for power conversion, comprising: operating a resonant converter in a ring mode comprising: holding a plurality of switches of the resonant converter in a first switching state throughout a pre-determined number of resonant periods, wherein the pre-determined number of resonant periods is one or more full resonant periods; and maintaining the plurality of switches in the first switching state for a fraction of a subsequent resonant period until an amount of energy has been transferred through the resonant converter to achieve a pre-determined output power from the resonant converter. | 29,726 |
9,729,668 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a client, a request for data associated with a first service, the first service identified by a service identifier included in the request and defining a first behavior associated with the first service and use of the requested data; identifying, using the service identifier, an extension service associated with the first service, the identifying occurring automatically based on additional registry entries for the extension service without modifying original registry entries for the first service and without modifying a first service implementation associated with the first service; and providing, to the client, data responsive to the received request, the data provided according to a second behavior associated with the extension service, wherein a difference between the first behavior and the second behavior includes use of data not available in the other behavior, including one or more of: | 43,689 |
9,103,365 | 1. A system comprising: a nut having a first face and a second face with a hole passing from the first face through the nut to the second face, | 46,298 |
9,134,788 | 1. A processor comprising: a decoder to decode a first and second set of operations; an execution unit coupled to the decoder to perform at least portions of the first and second set of operations; a dispatcher coupled to the decoder and the execution unit to schedule for execution one or more of the first and second set of operations; and a comparison logic to compare a first indication of power consumed by the processor as a result of performing the first set of operations with a second indication of power consumed by the processor as a result of performing the second set of operations, wherein a size of one or more of the first and second sets is configurable; and an adjust logic to adjust a rate at which operations are performed by the processor if a difference between the first indication of power consumed by the processor and the second indication of power consumed by the processor is greater than a configurable threshold value, wherein the adjusted rate at which operations are performed by the processor is configurable. | 36,588 |
8,958,767 | 1. A radio apparatus comprising: an antenna; an amplifier that amplifies a radio signal, received via the antenna, to generate an amplified signal; a first mixer that frequency converts the amplified signal to generate a first analog signal; a first A/D converter that converts the first analog signal to generate a first digital signal; a second mixer that frequency converts the amplified signal to generate a second analog signal; a second A/D converter that converts the second analog signal to generate a second digital signal; a demodulator that demodulates the first and second digital signals to generate a demodulated signal; a detector that detects a preamble from the first digital signal; and a controller that halts the second mixer and second A/D converter during the wait for the radio signal and activates the second mixer and second A/D converter when the detector detects the preamble; wherein the amplifier comprises a first transconductance circuit having a first transistor and a second transconductance circuit connected in parallel to the first transconductance circuit and having a second transistor and a third transistor, and wherein the controller halts the second transconductance circuit during the wait for the radio signal and activates the second transconductance circuit when the detector detects the preamble. | 6,927 |
9,731,980 | 1. A treatment method for a barren solution containing hydrogen sulfide, wherein in an aeration tank provided with a vertical-type cylindrical reaction vessel, stirring blades arranged in the reaction vessel, and an annular aeration tube having 10 to 20 air outlets and being arranged to a bottom part of the reaction vessel, hydrogen sulfide is removed from the barren solution in a hydrogen sulfide removal step arranged as a preceding step of a detoxification step by partly adding a slurry after leaching obtained in a leaching step into a barren solution containing the hydrogen sulfide obtained as a process liquid after a sulfurization process in a hydrometallurgy plant for a nickel oxide ore and introducing gas for aeration into the reaction vessel from 10 to 20 air outlets of the aeration tube to perform aeration while stirring a barren solution containing hydrogen sulfide by rotation of the stirring blades. | 21,373 |
8,948,114 | 1. An integrated circuit for communicating with a reception apparatus using a plurality of divided frequency bands in a communication band, the communication band being divided into the plurality of divided frequency bands and each divided frequency band including a plurality of subcarriers, the integrated circuit comprising: a generation section configured to control generation of information per divided frequency band according to a format including information on a spatial multiplexing number and information on a spatial multiplexing weight for use in a spatial multiplexing transmission with the reception apparatus; and a transmission section configured to control transmission of the generated information to the reception apparatus. | 42,898 |
9,014,949 | 1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine equipped with a first intake valve and a second intake valve provided in each combustion chamber, a fuel injector provided in an intake port to inject fuel toward each of the first intake valve and the second intake valve, and a variable valve mechanism for changing a valve timing of the first intake valve and a valve timing of the second intake valve to valve timings different from each other, the control apparatus comprising: a first control section for controlling the variable valve mechanism to set an opening timing of the first intake valve before a top dead center and an opening timing of the second intake valve after the top dead center, and set both a closing timing of the first intake valve and a closing timing of the second intake valve after a bottom dead center; and a second control section for setting a fuel injection start timing of the fuel injector toward the first intake valve to a timing delayed from the top dead center as an amount of gas blown back to the intake port side through the first intake valve increases in the valve timing settings made by the first control section. | 35,527 |
9,127,073 | 1. An isolated nucleic acid, comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a constitutively active variant of the cytokinin receptor Arabidopsis histidine kinase 2 (AHK2) comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. | 33,871 |
8,376,736 | 1. A method of producing one or more products by microbial fermentation of an industrial process waste gas stream(s), the method comprising: i. passing an intermittent waste gas stream(s) comprising CO from an industrial process to a storage tank; ii. passing a substantially continuous waste gas stream(s) from the storage tank to a bioreactor comprising a culture of one or more microorganisms; and iii. fermenting the culture in the bioreactor to produce one or more fermentation products and an exhaust stream, said fermentation products comprising alcohols and/or acids. | 9,382 |
8,726,636 | 1. A method of configuring a controller within a vehicle, the vehicle including an exhaust system having a reductant storage vessel and a selective catalytic reduction emission control device, the method comprising: receiving vehicle exhaust system configuration information into the controller within the vehicle from a source external to the vehicle, the information including a code corresponding to a relocation of the reductant storage vessel; adjusting exhaust system operating parameters based on the received exhaust system configuration information, wherein the adjusting exhaust system operating parameters includes adjusting a delivery of the reductant. | 7,227 |
9,491,389 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a two-dimensional array of photodetectors; and a two-dimensional array of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) operably coupled to the two-dimensional array of photodetectors, wherein at least one ADC in the two-dimensional array of ADCs comprises: wherein the apparatus has a virtual well depth based on a product of M and a least significant bit of the at least one ADC. | 19,752 |
8,840,452 | 1. An air conditioner for a vehicle comprising: an air-conditioning case having a defrost vent, a face vent, and a floor vent for discharging air blown from a blower; an evaporator and a heater core mounted on air passageways inside the air-conditioning case; and a mode door having a gear shaft mounted inside the air-conditioning case and a plate member slidably engaging with the gear shaft for opening and closing the vents, wherein the plate member comprises: a first door portion for closing at least two vents out of the vents; a second door portion spaced apart from the first door portion at a predetermined interval in a sliding direction and adapted to close at least one vent out of the vents; and bridge portions adapted to connect the first door portion and the second door portion with each other, wherein the plate member further comprises open portions formed between the first door portion and the second door portion to open at least one vent out of the vents according to the sliding position of the plate member, wherein the face vent is divided into a center vent formed at the center thereof and side vents formed at both sides of the center vents by a plurality of partition walls, which are formed inside the face vent, and wherein the bridge portions are respectively formed at positions corresponding to the plural partition walls, wherein the gear shaft comprises gear portions formed at both end portions thereof and the first door portion has a plurality of gear slots that are formed at both end portions of the first door portion and are spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval in the sliding direction of the plate member in such a way as to engage with the gear portions of the gear shaft, and wherein an interval between the gear slots is larger than a width of one gear slot to thereby prevent the plate member from being cut, wherein a width of the second door portion is smaller than a width of the first door portion in an axial direction of the gear shaft, and the end portions of the first door portion and of the second door portion in an axial direction of the gear shaft do not connect, wherein the first door portion comprises extension portions formed on one end portion thereof, which faces the second door portion, the extension portions extending to a predetermined length toward the second door portion and respectively having a plurality of gear slots perforated thereon to extend an area engaging with the gear portions of the gear shaft. | 39,318 |
9,568,395 | 1. A NOx sensor control device that controls a first NOx sensor that is disposed upstream of a urea SCR catalyst and a second NOx sensor that is disposed downstream of the urea SCR catalyst in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, wherein the first NOx sensor and the second NOx sensor each comprise a solid electrolyte and a pair of electrodes that are disposed so as to sandwich the solid electrolyte, and emits a sensor output that depends on a NOx concentration of a gas that is a detection object; the NOx sensor control device comprising: means for inducing, for a predetermined NOx adsorption period prior to detection of the sensor output, a state in which a voltage is not applied between the pair of electrodes or a state in which a potential difference between the pair of electrodes is less than a reference value; means for applying a voltage for sensor output detection between the pair of electrodes for a predetermined NOx detection period after the predetermined period elapses; and means for detecting a NOx concentration in accordance with the sensor output in the predetermined NOx detection period; wherein a length of the predetermined NOx adsorption period with respect to the first NOx sensor is shorter than a length of the predetermined NOx adsorption period with respect to the second NOx sensor. | 15,672 |
9,014,993 | 1. A flow rate measuring device comprising: a computer processor; a flow rate measurement device to measure the flow rate of fluid flowing through a flow passage at constant time intervals; a calculation unit executable by the computer processor to calculate difference values of the flow rate measured by the flow rate measurement device at the constant time intervals; a flow rate classification table in which classifications of a plurality of difference values, depending on magnitudes of the difference values, are associated with codes representing the classifications; a difference value conversion unit executable by the computer processor to convert the difference values calculated by the calculation unit into codes on the basis of the flow rate classification table; an appliance feature extraction unit executable by the computer processor to generate an appliance feature code string indicating the feature of an appliance from the codes obtained at constant time intervals by the difference value conversion unit; and an appliance identification unit executable by the computer processor to perform appliance identification by comparison of the appliance feature code string with a predetermined appliance inherent feature code string indicating the feature code string inherent in each appliance, wherein in response to a last code of the codes obtained by execution of the difference value conversion unit being larger than a second to last code and the last code being larger than a current code, or in the case that the last code is smaller than the second to last code and the last code is smaller than the current code, the appliance feature extraction unit executable by the computer processor to store the current code in the appliance feature code string; and in all other cases, the extraction unit executable by the computer processor to overwrite the current code onto the last code stored in the appliance feature code string. | 39,799 |
9,537,164 | 1. A system for monitoring fuel cells in a fuel cell group, said system comprising: at least one sensor circuit for monitoring a condition of the fuel cells in the fuel cell group; a tone generator for applying a frequency signal to the cell group if the sensor detects the condition, wherein the at least one sensor circuit and the tone generator are embedded in a fuel cell stack; a tone decoder for detecting the frequency signal from the cell group generated by the tone generator; a voltage sensor for measuring the voltage across the fuel cell group and generating a sensor signal including a cell group voltage and the frequency signal; and a filter for filtering out the cell group voltage from the sensor signal and providing the frequency signal to the tone decoder. | 49,426 |
9,291,367 | 1. A solar energy system, comprising: at least one concentrating solar collector; an underground steam storage reservoir containing steam; and a steam distribution network, the steam distribution network including: an industrial facility coupled to the wellhead to extract energy from the steam received at the wellhead. | 13,248 |
8,599,579 | 1. A method of controlling a power factor correction stage for a switched mode power supply, the power factor correction stage having a switch which is periodically closed for an on-time Ton, and operating in boundary conduction mode with valley skipping the method including the steps of, determining a change in the number of valleys skipped in a switching cycle, and controlling the duration of the on-time of a subsequent switching cycle in dependence on the change in the number of valleys skipped; and wherein the power factor correction stage operates with a switching cycle having a duration Tper and a secondary stroke, which secondary stroke commences at the end of the on-time Ton and ends when an output current first reaches zero thereafter and has a duration Tsec, and wherein a duration of the on-time of the subsequent switching cycle, Ton′, is calculated from the duration of the on time (Ton) through: | 38,269 |
8,455,699 | 1. A process for producing glycerol-related products comprising: introducing a feedstock and an alkylation reagent to a substantially oxygen free environment; hydrolyzing at a temperature at or above 200° C. one or more lipid glycerides in the feedstock; methylating one or more fatty acids in the feedstock with methyl groups from the alkylation reagent, wherein the hydrolyzing and methylating occur contemporaneously; separating a lower phase from an upper phase of a resulting condensate, the lower phase comprised of biodiesel; acidifying the upper phase; separating the acidified upper phase into biodiesel dissolved in methanol and methoxylated glycerols dissolved in methanol; removing the methanol from both the biodiesel and the methoxylated glycerols; and separating the biodiesel from the methoxylated glycerols. | 1,746 |
8,463,682 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, with a computer system, an input message comprising base data; accessing an electronic memory having configuration rules stored therein that include configuration rules for configuring one or more financing plans to include multiple features; generating, with the computer system, the one or more financing plans in accordance with the base data and in accordance with the configuration rules, wherein for each financing plan being generated, the configuration rules include configuration rules that, during generation of the financing plan, specify availability of a first set of the features for inclusion into the financing plan being generated based upon at least inclusion of a second set of the features in the financing plan being generated, and generating each of the one or more financing plans comprises: configuring the financing plan being generated with a combination of features as indicated in the base data and specified by the configuration rules, and configuring the financing plan being generated comprises: processing the configuration rules and the base data by the computer system to include one or more of the features in the financing plan being generated and to exclude one or more non-included features in the financing plan being generated based upon one or more of the features included in the financing plan being generated; prioritizing the one or more financing plans that are generated using the configuration rules; sorting the one or more financing plans that are generated based on at least one predetermined criterion; receiving a selection of one of the one or more financing plans that is generated; and generating output data that includes at least the financing plan for which the selection was received, the one or more financing plans that are generated. | 10,856 |
8,813,493 | 1. A supercharger control device for an internal combustion engine having a first supercharger and a second supercharger, comprising: an intake air amount detecting unit which detects an intake air amount; an operating unit which operates the engine with only the first supercharger in a single turbo mode and operates the engine with both the first supercharger and the second supercharger in a twin turbo mode; a target supercharging pressure determining unit which determines a target supercharging pressure based on a driving state of the engine; an actual supercharging pressure detecting unit which detects an actual supercharging pressure; a switching supercharging pressure setting unit which sets a basic switching supercharging pressure used for switching from the single turbo mode to the twin turbo mode based on the intake air amount; a switching supercharging pressure correcting unit which corrects the basic switching supercharging pressure to determine a corrected switching supercharging pressure based on a supercharging pressure difference between the target supercharging pressure and the actual supercharging pressure; and a switching control unit which controls the operating unit to switch an operation mode of the engine from the single turbo mode to the twin turbo mode when the actual supercharging pressure reaches the corrected switching supercharging pressure, wherein | 37,715 |
9,658,453 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a spectrally dispersive diffractive combiner having a front side, a back side, and a combiner optical axis running substantially through the diffractive combiner and normal to the back side; a display unit having a display optical axis, wherein the display unit is positioned to direct display light toward the back side of the diffractive combiner, the display unit positioned so that the display axis is at a first angle relative to the combiner optical axis and the display light having a first range of wavelengths; and an eye-tracking sensor having a sensor optical axis, wherein the eye-tracking sensor is positioned to receive eye-tracking radiation reflected by the diffractive combiner, the eye-tracking sensor positioned next to the display unit so that the sensor optical axis is at a second angle relative to the combiner optical axis, the second angle being different than the first angle and the eye-tracking radiation having a second wavelength outside the first range of wavelengths; wherein the display light is incident on the diffractive combiner substantially at the first angle and wherein the eye-tracking radiation is reflected by the diffractive combiner substantially at the second angle, and wherein the combiner optical axis, the display optical axis, and the sensor optical axis intersect each other at the diffractive combiner. | 36,730 |
8,618,850 | 1. An integrated circuit electronic device, comprising a control circuit for DC-DC converter for voltage conversion configured so that the same integrated circuit is usable in a slave mode and in a master mode and including a phase locked loop, the phase locked loop comprising: a controlled oscillator; a filter having an integration capacitor coupled to a control input of the controlled oscillator; a charge pump; a phase frequency detector; the controlled oscillator, the filter, the charge pump and the phase frequency detector being configured to operate in the slave mode as the phase locked loop wherein the phase locked loop synchronizes a clock in the slave DC-DC converter to a reference clock signal generated by an identical integrated circuit used in a master mode; a first comparator, which is coupled with an input to a control input of the controlled oscillator and with an output to the charge pump; and wherein, in the master mode, the first comparator is configured to control the charge pump in response to a control signal at the control input of the controlled oscillator so as to perform a modulation of the control signal at the control input of the controlled oscillator by charging and discharging the integration capacitor to generate the reference clock signal usable by an identical integrated circuit operating in a slave mode and wherein in master mode, the phase frequency detector is turned off and the reference clock generator is continuously varied in frequency. | 29,685 |
9,749,043 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable memory having recorded thereon instruction code for execution by a computing device for use with an optical power loss measurement (OPLM) system including an optical source and a detector, said instruction code comprising: code for displaying to a user a first set of instructions, the first set of instructions including measuring, using large-area detection, a first power value of all test light outputted from a first reference optical waveguide; code for displaying to the user a second set of instructions, the second set of instructions including measuring, using large-area detection, a second power value of all said test light outputted from a reference waveguide link including the first reference optical waveguide connected in series to a second reference optical waveguide; code for displaying to the user a third set of instructions, the third set of instructions including measuring, using the detector of the OPLM system, a reference power value of the OPLM system resulting from the propagation of light from the optical source to the detector via the reference waveguide link; and code for determining a corrected reference power value based on the reference power value and on the first and second power values. | 31,959 |
8,705,737 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodied in a storage device encoded with instructions which, when executed on a processor, perform a transmission method for transmitting video data representing a color gamut beyond a first color gamut specified by a predetermined requirement, the transmission method comprising: detecting, from the video data, a section corresponding to video of a color gamut beyond the first color gamut; generating supplemental data pertaining to the video data; and embedding the supplemental data pertaining to the video data in the detected section corresponding to the video of the color gamut beyond the first color gamut, with a change to a color beyond the first color gamut, the color having substantially a same hue as that of video to be represented, the color having substantially the same hue being obtained by changing a signal to a color on a line connecting desired color coordinates to color coordinates indicative of white in a chromaticity diagram, wherein: the detected section includes a plurality of pixels of an original color; the supplemental data is embedded in the detected section by modifying the original color of each pixel such that a first dither color and a second dither color are alternately provided for each pixel; the first dither color and the second dither color produce the original color on average; and the first dither color is within the first color gamut and located in proximity to a boundary of the first color gamut. | 10,139 |
9,023,839 | 1. A method for treating a disease or disorder where modulation of a kinase is implicated, wherein the method comprises administering to a system or subject in need of such treatment an effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) or Formula (II), or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: wherein the kinase is selected from c-kit, PDGFRα and PDGFRβ, and wherein the disease is selected from asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic sinusitis and Crohn's disease. | 48,859 |
9,176,566 | 1. A communication device, comprising: an image capturing unit having an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject; an operation unit having a user manipulated input device configured to receive a user input; a communicating unit having a communication interface, wherein the communication interface communicates with another electronic device; and a controller configured to control a supply of power to the communicating unit, wherein the controller: when the other electronic device is connected to the communication device through the communicating unit within the first time period, the controller keeps the supply of power to the communicating unit, when the other electronic device is not connected to the communication device through the communicating unit within the first time period, the controller stops the supply of power to the communicating unit during the second time period after the first time period elapses; and when the supply of power to the communicating unit is stopped, the controller automatically starts the supply of power to the communication unit according to at least one of the following predetermined conditions: | 33,448 |
8,691,619 | 1. A method for manufacturing a CIS based thin-film solar cell, comprising the steps of: making a back electrode on a substrate selected from the group consisting of glass and metal; forming a p-type CIS based light absorbing layer on the back electrode; forming a buffer layer formed of a thin film of a zinc oxide group directly on the p-type CIS based light absorbing layer; and forming an n-type transparent conductive film formed of the thin film of a zinc oxide group on the buffer layer, wherein the buffer layer forming step is performed by an MOCVD method, and a substrate temperature of the buffer layer forming step is 190 to 300° C. which is higher than the substrate temperature at the time of forming the n-type transparent conductive film for keeping a high resistivity of the buffer layer which is 500Ω·cm or higher by avoiding diffusion of dopant from the n-type transparent conductive film to the buffer layer. | 10,978 |
8,424,295 | 1. A method for controlling regeneration of a particulate filter positioned downstream of a vehicle's engine, comprising: during first engine shutdown conditions with particulate filter regeneration, increasing excess oxygen to a particulate filter, and regenerating the particulate filter at least during a portion of engine shutdown; and during second engine shutdown conditions without particulate filter regeneration, decreasing the excess oxygen to the particulate filter at least during a portion of engine shutdown. | 49,191 |
8,889,060 | 1. A device for regulating a temperature of a gas in a hot gas main for feeding hot gas to a blast furnace, said device comprising: a mixing pot with a chamber, an inlet port for receiving hot gas, an inlet port for receiving cold gas an outlet port for evacuating mixed gas; a regulation system for controlling an amount of cold gas fed to the chamber; wherein said mixing pot comprises wherein said first stream of mixed gas has a temperature different from a temperature of said second stream of mixed gas. | 20,800 |
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