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9,129,507 | 1. A portable electrical apparatus comprising: a sensor for sensing a movement of the portable electrical apparatus to generate a sensing signal; a micro-controller for receiving the sensing signal and comparing a threshold value with a sensing value corresponding to the sensing signal; and a wireless positioning module coupled to the micro-controller, for performing localization of the portable electrical apparatus to generate a plurality of position data corresponding to a location of the portable electrical apparatus; wherein when the sensing value is greater than the threshold value, the micro-controller loads the position data generated within a predetermined period starting from right after the sensing value is greater than the threshold value, the micro-controller compares the loaded position data with each other, and an alarm signal is sent out according to a comparison result, wherein when the micro-controller determines that all the loaded position data are the same, the wireless positioning module sends out the alarm signal. | 33,122 |
8,431,591 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Y R each of R | 25,144 |
8,832,341 | 1. A method of dynamically determining a primary or slave assignment based on an order of cable connection between two devices, the method comprising: detecting, by a first device, insertion of one end of a cable into a port of the first device; determining, by the first device, whether a power signal is received from the cable at the port of the first device; if the power signal is received, performing, by the first device, a data transfer operation over the cable as a slave device to a second device that is coupled to the other end of the cable; and if the power signal is not received, performing, by the first device, a data transfer operation over the cable as a primary device to the second device that is coupled to the other end of the cable. | 49,534 |
9,386,523 | 1. A power-saving data scheduling system for long term evolution (LTE), comprising: a period decision module configured for selecting a cycle having a shortest delay time as a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle for each of users from quality of service (QoS) requirements related to network services, acquiring a current channel transmission rate according to current channel conditions, and obtaining an on period of the DRX cycle of each of the users through the current channel transmission rate; and a start offset decision module configured for calculating the number of the users in each of periods of the DRX cycle and determining a start offset of the DRX cycle that is used by a minimum number of the users for a new user. | 27,667 |
9,774,245 | 1. A PFC switching power conversion circuit providing low total harmonic distortion, including: a bridge rectifier for providing an input voltage by performing a rectifying operation on an AC voltage; an electromagnetic interference filtering circuit for providing a line voltage by performing a filtering operation on the input voltage; a switching power converter for converting the line voltage to an output voltage or an output current for a load under a control of a driving voltage, wherein the driving voltage causes a switching current to flow through a main inductor of the switching power converter in a waveform of triangular pulses; and a controller for receiving at least one feedback signal from the switching power converter to generate the driving voltage, the controller operating in a constant on-time mode to determine an on-time period of the driving voltage by processing the at least one feedback signal, and the on-time period determines a rising period for each of the triangular pulses of the switching current; wherein the controller includes an off-time detector and a timer, the off-time detector being used to detect decreasing periods of the switching current by processing the at least one feedback signal to determine off-time periods respectively, and the timer being used to set a minimum limit on the off-time periods. | 19,800 |
9,215,412 | 1. A method for facilitating dynamic communications amongst multiple users, the method comprising: receiving video communications, the received video communications being sent by a transmitting device and directed to a receiving device; determining the receiving device's available bandwidth; deriving, from the received video communications, contextual communications based at least on the determined available bandwidth such that the derived contextual communications comprises an amount of information from the received video communications that is suitable for the determined available bandwidth; and transmitting the contextual communications to the receiving device. | 2,661 |
8,605,761 | 1. A multi-beam laser control system comprising: a laser transmitter configured to emit light in a plurality of beamlets toward a remote target, wherein each beamlet is coherent with all other beamlets and adjustable in phase and steering independent of all other beamlets; a plurality of first sensors, each first sensor optically coupled to one of the plurality of beamlets and configured to measure a direction of light backscattered off the target relative to the coupled beamlet; a second sensor configured to receive light from the beamlets backscattered off the target through a plurality of sensor apertures and to measure an intensity of received light in each sensor aperture; a processor communicably coupled to the first sensors and to the second sensor and configured to compute a phase correction and a steering correction for each beamlet; and a controller communicably coupled to the processor and to the laser transmitter and configured to adjust a phase and steering of each beamlet. | 6,370 |
9,742,289 | 1. An integrated circuit to be used in a switching power-supply device having an inductor and a switching element serially connected to the inductor, the integrated circuit comprising: a control circuit, which controls on and off of the switching element and performs an output voltage control in any one of a plurality of modes comprising a continuous mode and a discontinuous mode, and a continuous mode detection circuit, which detects that the output voltage control is performed in the continuous mode when a current flowing through the switching element is equal to or greater than a threshold, wherein the control circuit changes a switching frequency of the switching element, between a case where it is detected that the output voltage control is performed in the continuous mode and a case where it is not detected that the output voltage control is performed in the continuous mode, wherein the control circuit is configured to switch the switching frequency of the switching element to a plurality of values comprising a first value and a second value smaller than the first value, wherein when it is detected that the output voltage control is performed in the continuous mode, the control circuit controls the switching frequency of the switching element to be the second value, wherein when it is not detected that the output voltage control is performed in the continuous mode, the control circuit controls the switching frequency of the switching element to be the first value, wherein the continuous mode detection circuit detects the current flowing through the switching element at a predetermined timing, and wherein the predetermined timing is a timing where the switching element is switched from an off state to an on state and flowing of a surge current has completed. | 5,279 |
8,351,848 | 1. A device including: a wireless communication unit to relay communications between a wireless communication device and a base station, wherein the wireless communication unit is to manage a power-saving mechanism of the wireless communication device by scheduling one or more power-save periods for the wireless communication device, and transmitting to the wireless communication device a power-save message indicating the one or more power-save periods, wherein the wireless communication unit is to receive a power-save request from the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication unit is to process the power-save request and to determine whether to accept the power save request and schedule the power-save periods according to the power save request, and wherein, in response to the power-save request, the wireless communication unit is to transmit a power-save response to the wireless communication device, the power-save response indicating the one or more power save periods scheduled by said wireless communication unit. | 14,235 |
8,606,319 | 1. A method for consolidating session initiation protocol (SIP) messages comprising: reading, by a mobile equipment (ME), an elementary file to inform the ME of Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications installed on a universal integrated circuit card (UICC), wherein the elementary file includes IMS application reference identifiers (IARIs) for the IMS applications; registering the IMS applications and supported communication services via a single IMS registration; when any associated IARI is added or removed at a later time, receiving notification that the elementary file is updated; and, upon receipt of the notification, updating registration with an IMS network to add or remove an associated IARI. | 49,030 |
9,324,216 | 1. A computer implemented method for providing a pattern matching mechanic on a slot machine, comprising: determining that a spin of the slot machine has ended; displaying a pattern matching sequence to a player of the slot machine, the pattern matching sequence corresponding to a random sequence of cells in a symbol matrix displayed on a display device of the slot machine; receiving a player generated input sequence, the player generated input sequence corresponding to a sequence of cells in the symbol matrix selected by the player; determining whether the player generated input sequence matches the pattern matching sequence; and providing the player with a reward if the player generated input sequence matches the pattern matching sequence; wherein the pattern matching sequence further comprises a cadence for the pattern matching sequence; and wherein displaying the pattern matching sequence further comprises displaying the pattern matching sequence according to the cadence for the pattern matching sequence; wherein receiving a player generated input sequence further comprises measuring the cadence of the received player generated input sequence; and wherein determining whether the player generated input sequence matches the displayed pattern matching sequence further comprises determining whether the cadence of the player generated input sequence matches the cadence of the pattern matching sequence. | 4,312 |
9,749,314 | 1. A recovery method for a split-server passcode verification system comprising at least one token and a plurality of authentication servers, said recovery method comprising: determining, using at least one processing device, that a first one of said plurality of authentication servers is unavailable; generating an authenticated message by applying, using said at least one processing device, an authentication mechanism to a message requesting said token to change to a new split-state mode, wherein said new split-state mode modifies one or more computations used to compute a next passcode and wherein said authentication mechanism comprises signing said message using said next passcode of said new split-state mode; and sending, using said at least one processing device, said authenticated message to said token. | 7,121 |
9,767,592 | 1. A system, comprising: a receiver to receive a move command associated with moving a plurality of grid cells relative to a display area of a screen, wherein the plurality of grid cells comprises pieces of content; and a processor coupled with the receiver to, in response to the move command, move each of at least a subset of the plurality of grid cells sequentially relative to the display area based at least in part on preset frame parameter information, wherein the preset frame parameter information comprises a frame animation quantity parameter and a frame delay parameter. | 4,314 |
9,730,579 | 1. A method for psychophysical measurement of dark adaptation in a subject, said method comprising the steps of: a. providing said subject; b. bleaching a test eye of said subject; c. presenting a target stimulus to said test eye of said subject; d. obtaining a response of said subject to said target stimulus and obtaining at least one threshold measurement; and e. extracting a rod intercept value from said at least one threshold measurement. | 43,724 |
9,160,239 | 1. A flyback switching power supply circuit, including: a transformer, including a primary winding, a secondary winding, and an auxiliary winding arranged on one side of the primary winding; an output rectifier, connected to the output end of the flyback switching power supply circuit from the secondary winding of the transformer; a switching transistor, configured to control the voltage on the primary winding, wherein the drain of the switching transistor is connected to one end of the primary winding; a controller, configured to provide a pulse width modulation signal for driving the gate of the switching transistor, wherein the controller includes a GATE end connected with the gate of the switching transistor; and a clamping delay circuit, configured to clamp the potential of the gate of the switching transistor to low potential, so that the switching transistor is turned on at the wave trough of drain potential damped vibration, wherein the clamping delay circuit is connected to the gate of the switching transistor from the auxiliary winding, wherein the clamping delay circuit comprises: | 25,855 |
8,618,543 | 1. A thin film transistor (TFT) comprising: a gate, a channel layer, a source, and a drain, wherein | 15,702 |
9,659,674 | 1. A nuclear reactor comprising: an elongated reactor vessel having a lower portion sealed at a lower end and having an open upper end on which an annular flange is formed and a central axis extending along an elongated dimension; a reactor vessel head having an annular portion on an underside of the head that is machined to form a sealing surface; a removable annular seal ring, sized to seat on the reactor vessel flange between the flange and the sealing surface on the underside of the reactor vessel head, the seal ring being interposed between the sealing surface on the underside of the vessel head and the flange on the reactor vessel lower portion and having a thickness sized to sealably accommodate radial passages through which utility conduits pass from outside of the reactor vessel to an interior thereof to transport one or more utilities comprising hydraulic fluid for hydraulic mechanisms, instrumentation signals or power for electrical mechanisms, the removable annular seal ring including one or more of such radial passages; a reactor internals assembly comprising a lower internals which includes a reactive core and an upper internals situated above the core, the internals assembly being seated within the reactor vessel, wherein the removable annular seal ring is attached to the reactor internals assembly; and a substantially annular passage between an interior wall of the reactor vessel lower portion and the internals assembly for a downward flow of relatively cool reactor coolant to access an underside of the reactive core, wherein at least a portion of the removable annular seal ring extends over the annular passage where it is attached to the reactor internals assembly, wherein the portion of the removable annular seal ring that extends over the annular passage includes axially extending openings for the passage of reactor coolant. | 35,392 |
9,105,728 | 1. A device comprising: a substrate; a thin-film semiconducting layer over the substrate; a drain coupled to the semiconducting layer and capable of receiving an input signal; a source coupled to the semiconducting layer and capable of providing an output signal; a first gate electrode adjacent a first portion of the semiconducting layer between the drain and the source, the first gate electrode capable of receiving a first control signal, the first gate electrode capable of controlling a flow of charge carriers through the first portion responsive to the first control signal; a second gate electrode adjacent a second portion of the semiconducting layer between the drain and the source, the second gate electrode capable of receiving a second control signal, the second gate electrode capable of controlling a flow of charge carriers through the second portion responsive to the second control signal; a third gate electrode adjacent a third portion of the semiconducting layer between the drain and the source, the third gate electrode capable of receiving a third control signal, the third gate electrode capable of controlling a flow of charge carriers through the third portion responsive to the third control signal; the second gate electrode being between the first and the third gate electrodes along the semiconducting layer, there being a partial overlap of the first and the second gate electrodes and a partial overlap of the second and the third gate electrodes; and one or more dielectric layers that insulate the first gate electrode from the semiconducting layer, that insulate the second gate electrode from the semiconducting layer, that insulate the third gate electrode from the semiconducting layer, and that insulate the first, the second, and the third gate electrodes from one another; wherein the first, the second and the third gate electrodes are capable of storing charge carriers within the second portion of the semiconducting layer while the first portion of the semiconducting layer is non-conducting responsive to the first control signal, the second portion of the semiconducting layer is conducting responsive to the second control signal and the third portion of the semiconducting layer is non-conducting responsive to the third control signal. | 15,482 |
8,518,656 | 1. A method of diagnosing fibrosis in a subject, comprising the steps of: a. determining a level of PCPE in a body fluid obtained from said subject; and b. comparing the level of PCPE in said body fluid with a normal control level of PCPE, wherein an increased level of PCPE in said body fluid relative to a normal control level of PCPE is indicative of fibrosis in said subject. | 41,787 |
8,835,667 | 1. An electrolyte formulation comprising at least one compound of formula (I) in which M R a is 1, 2, 3 or 4, x is 1, 2 or 3, y is 0, 1 or 2 and x+y is 3. | 28,304 |
9,522,495 | 1. A method of molding multiple-component articles, comprising: providing a mold assembly including first and second mold halves mounted for movement in reciprocal directions along an axis of reciprocation between an open position and a closed position, and mold cores in a mold core assembly carried by the first mold half, each mold core carrying a collar mounted for movement in reciprocal directions between a retracted position and an extended position, and each mold core mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation; rotating the mold cores to a first position; moving the first and second mold halves along the axis of reciprocation from the open position to the closed position, the mold cores cooperating with the second mold half to define a first molding configuration; injecting a first material into the mold assembly; cooling the first material forming partially-complete articles; moving the first and second mold halves along the axis of reciprocation from the closed position to the open position a first time; rotating the mold cores to a second position; moving the first and second mold halves along the axis of reciprocation from the open position to the closed position, the mold cores cooperating with the second mold half to define a second molding configuration; injecting a second material into the mold assembly; cooling the second material forming complete articles; moving the first and second mold halves along the axis of reciprocation from the closed position to the open position a second time; and releasing the complete articles from the mold assembly; wherein the axes of rotation of the mold cores in the mold core assembly is different from axes of rotation of mold cores in other mold core assemblies, and in the second position of the mold cores and in the open position of the first and second mold halves the collars are free to move in reciprocal direction along the axis of reciprocation of the first and second mold halves. | 37,494 |
8,963,651 | 1. An electronically-implemented method of compensating for a temperature offset in a crystal reference signal, the method comprising: obtaining an indication of a temperature; computing a temperature compensation value based on the indication of temperature and three values of a piecewise linear temperature compensation approximation, the piecewise linear temperature compensation approximation representing an approximation of frequency error of a crystal reference signal originating from a crystal over temperature as at least three linear segments, wherein said computing comprises using an algorithm for computing temperature compensation values on each of the three linear segments based on the same three values; and compensating for a temperature offset in the crystal reference signal by adjusting a division ratio of a fractional divider in a phase-locked loop based on the temperature compensation value, the phase-locked loop configured to lock a phase of a frequency divided version of an output signal of the phase-locked loop to the crystal reference signal. | 30,212 |
8,862,432 | 1. A computer processor implemented method of determining system configuration information of a monitored electrical system without the need for user input, said method comprising the steps of; constructing, by a computer, a data set of at least one standard performance curve for at least one system type to provide a data set with at least one system type and correlated standard performance curves and saving said data set with at least one system type and correlated standard performance curves in at least one data server; defining, by a computer, at least one characteristic feature for each said at least one system type to provide at least one system type and correlated characteristic feature and saving said at least one system type and correlated characteristic feature in said at least one data server; determining, by a computer, the required data to identify said at least one system type according to at least one of said standard performance curve and said characteristic feature; remotely acquiring, by a computer, said required data for at least one monitored electrical system to provide acquired electrical system data and saving said acquired electrical system data in said at least one data server; comparing, by a computer, system acquired electrical system data to said at least one system type and correlated standard performance curves and said system type and correlated characteristic features to provide system configuration information for at least one monitored electrical system to provide the specific type of said at least one monitored electrical system, wherein said system configuration information is selected from the group consisting of location, longitude, system size, system type, installation angle and system coefficients. | 18,850 |
9,097,584 | 1. A method of detecting cadmium using an optical emission spectrometer, said method comprising: preparing at least one calibration sample which comprises a first element, at least one of lead, thallium and zinc, and a preselected amount of cadmium; calibrating said optical emission spectrometer to detect an amount of cadmium using said at least one calibration sample; and using said calibrated optical emission spectrometer to detect an amount of cadmium within a sample, wherein said at least one calibration sample further comprises copper coating layer that separates said first element from said at least one of lead, thallium and zinc, and a preselected amount of cadmium. | 45,877 |
9,358,772 | 1. A method of producing a sheet for use in forming an insulative cup, the method comprising the steps of providing a strip of insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material, providing a film having a first side arranged to face away from the strip and an opposite second side arranged to face toward the strip, printing an ink layer on one of the first and second sides of the film to provide a printed film, laminating the printed film to the strip to form a sheet, cutting the sheet to form a body blank having a printed side and an opposite unprinted side, providing a floor blank having a printed side and an opposite unprinted side, compressing portions of the body blank to cause the body blank to include a first portion having a first density and a second portion having a relatively greater second density, forming a base from the body blank by coupling a portion of the printed side of the body blank to a portion of the unprinted side of the body blank, the base including a first end and an opposite second end, forming a floor from the floor blank, and joining the floor to the second end of the base to establish a body that is formed to include an interior region defined by the floor and the base and to orient the floor relative to the body to cause the unprinted side of the floor blank to face toward the interior region and the printed side of the floor blank to face away from the interior region to establish the insulative cup, wherein the second portion of the body blank is the portion of the printed side of the body blank that is coupled to the portion of the unprinted side of the body blank and wherein the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material is located between the ink layer and the interior region of the insulative cup and the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material comprises a polypropylene base resin having a high melt strength, a polypropylene homopolymer resin, at least one nucleation agent, and at least one blowing agent configured to expand the resins to reduce density. | 47,180 |
9,137,102 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: configuring one or more computing systems of a configurable network service to emulate functionality of a virtual peering router device, the virtual peering router device being indicated to inter-connect at least first and second virtual computer networks provided by the configurable network service, wherein the configured one or more computing systems further implement at least a first computing node of the first virtual computer network, and wherein the configurable network service maintains mapping information for the first and second virtual computer networks that associates virtual network addresses of a plurality of computing nodes that are part of the first and second virtual computer networks with locations of the plurality of computing nodes in one or more substrate networks on which the first and second virtual computer networks are overlaid; receiving, by the configured one or more computing systems, information about a communication that is directed to the virtual peering router device from the first computing node; determining, by the configured one or more computing systems, to use routing information for the first virtual computer network that is included in the communication to update configuration information used for providing the second virtual computer network; and updating, by the configured one or more computing systems, the configuration information used for providing the second virtual computer network based at least in part on the routing information included in the communication, wherein the updating of the configuration information includes using at least some of the mapping information. | 27,586 |
8,904,335 | 1. A method comprising: evaluating electrical accessibility within a layer of a circuit to at least one established pin geometry of an established pin geometry layout within a cell boundary of the circuit, the evaluating comprising: | 381 |
9,590,791 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a configuration of a plurality of physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) for transmitting one or more uplink control signals by the UE; generating, by the UE, the plurality of PUCCHs based on the configuration, wherein each of the plurality of PUCCHs is generated for a corresponding one of a plurality of nodes in multiflow communication with the UE; and transmitting, by the UE, each of the plurality of PUCCHs to the corresponding one of the plurality of nodes, wherein one or more component carriers (CCs) over which the UE communicates with a first node of the plurality of nodes are in a different timing adjustment group (TAG) than one or more additional CCs over which the UE communicates with a second node of the plurality of nodes. | 26,537 |
8,703,127 | 1. A method for diagnosing the. presence of prostate cancer in a subject, comprising: (a) contacting a biological sample obtained from the subject with a composition comprising a solid substrate and a plurality of binding agents immobilized on the substrate, wherein each of the binding agents is immobilized at a different, indexable, location on the substrate and the binding agents specifically bind to a plurality of polypeptide biomarkers, the plurality or polypeptide biomarkers comprising i) at least one sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1-4; ii) at least one sequence from SEQ ID NO: 5 and 6; iii) SEQ ID NO: 7; and iv) SEQ ID NO: 8; (b) detecting binding of the plurality of binding agents to the plurality polypeptide biomarkers, thereby determining the levels of expression of the plurality of polypeptide biomarkers in the biological sample; and (c) comparing the levels of expression of the plurality of polypeptide biomarkers in the biological sample with predetermined threshold values, wherein levels of expression of the plurality of polypeptide biomarkers above the predetermined threshold values indicates the presence of prostate cancer in the subject. | 39,339 |
9,641,651 | 1. A method, comprising: by a wireless device: | 37,537 |
8,759,575 | 1. A method for catalytically producing formic acid, wherein a polyoxometallate ion serving as catalyst and of the general formula [PMo x V y O 40 ] 5− is contacted at a temperature below 120° C. with an alpha-hydroxyaldehyde, an alpha hydroxycarboxylic acid, a carbohydrate, or a glycoside in a liquid solution, where 6<x<11 and 1<y<6, and x+y=12, with x and y each being an integer, and wherein the contacting takes place under an oxygen partial pressure of 1 to 500 bar. | 34,784 |
8,710,859 | 1. A method for testing a plurality of multi-chip stacked packages, comprising: providing one or more substrate-less chip cubes each consisting of a plurality of vertically stacked chips, wherein a stacked gap is formed between two adjacent chips and a plurality of testing electrodes are disposed on a top chip surface of each substrate-less chip cube; attaching the substrate-less chip cubes onto an adhesive tape with the testing electrodes away from the adhesive tape, wherein the adhesive tape is attached inside an opening of a tape carrier, wherein the tape carrier is a strip; forming a filling encapsulant on the adhesive tape to fully fill the stacked gaps between the stacked chips; fixing the tape carrier on a wafer testing carrier to allow the substrate-less chip cubes being loaded into a wafer tester without releasing from the adhesive tape; wherein the wafer testing carrier has a disc-shaped major body made of a hard material to provide a placing surface larger than the adhesive tape, and the adhesive tape is completely attached onto the placing surface so that the substrate-less chip cubes are supported on the wafer testing carrier; and probing the testing electrodes of the substrate-less chip cubes by a plurality of testing probes inside a wafer tester to electrically test the substrate-less chip cubes. | 37,531 |
9,303,251 | 1. A recombinant baculovirus, wherein a gene encoding γ-glutamyl carboxylase (GGCX) and a gene encoding DT-diaphorase (NQO1) are incorporated into a genome of the recombinant baculovirus. | 45,492 |
9,171,372 | 1. A method of determining a depth map for a two-dimensional view of a video presentation, comprising: determining, via an image processing module of a computing device for a two-dimensional (2D) view of a video presentation, a plurality of feature points for a frame of a video presentation by determining whether one or more blocks or pixels of the frame are in a center region of the frame; determining global motion for the frame based on the plurality of feature points; determining a global motion compensated frame difference for the frame, the global motion compensated frame difference indicating a difference between the frame and a global motion compensated frame; and generating a depth map for the frame based on the determined global motion and the determined global motion compensated frame difference for the frame, and if the one or more blocks or pixels of the frame are in the center region of the frame, using pixel information from at least one previous frame to generate the depth map for the one or more blocks or pixels in the center region of the frame. | 47,989 |
8,740,590 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a gas compressor system, the gas compressor system having one or more cylinders fluidly connected to suction piping at an input side and discharge piping at an output side, gas flowing through interior passageways defined by the suction and discharge piping; a side branch absorber connected to the suction or discharge piping for reducing gas pulsations associated with the gas compressor system; the side branch absorber comprising a Helmholtz resonator and therefor having a volume housing defining an interior space filled with a fluid which acts as a spring, and having a relatively narrow inlet reducer filled with the fluid which acts as a mass attached to the spring; the inlet reducer extending from the suction or discharge piping to the volume housing; and a hyperbolic horn internal to the volume housing, the horn having a large diameter at a first end and tapering to a smaller diameter near a second end, the horn first end attached to the inlet reducer, the horn increasing a mass reactance of the side branch absorber. | 40,702 |
9,568,231 | 1. An ice maker, comprising: a tray; an oscillation pump comprising a bladder in contact with the tray; a one way check valves associated with the bladder; a cooling media reservoir fluidly connected to the bladder; wherein the tray is configured to oscillate thereby compressing and relieving the bladder in a cyclical manner; and wherein the movement of the tray creates a circular flow of fluid in the bladder and moves fluid from the bladder to and from the cooling media reservoir. | 6,078 |
9,791,552 | 1. A system comprising: a probe antenna configured to transmit or receive a calibration signal; an antenna including a plurality of antenna elements arranged in an antenna configuration, the plurality of antenna elements providing a plurality of antenna excitation signals in response to the calibration signal; a beamforming network including a beamformer port and a plurality of channels, each channel including a signal conditioning module coupled to a corresponding antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements, the signal conditioning module having a plurality of conditioning states specifying at least one phase state, the plurality of antenna excitation signals corresponding to a plurality of complex voltages at the beamformer port; a control system coupled to the beamforming network, the control system being configured to select a conditioning state of the plurality of conditioning states in accordance with a calibration control rule; a memory configured to store a digital antenna model and far-field element voltage gain patterns corresponding to the antenna configuration, the memory storing a calibration table configured to associate each steering angle in a set of steering angles to beamformer port complex voltages; and a processor configured to compute calibration element voltage gain patterns as functions of the digital antenna model and the plurality of complex voltages, determine calibration through path transfer functions from the plurality of complex voltages, and remove the calibration element voltage gain patterns from the calibration through path transfer functions to determine a beamforming network transfer function, the processor being configured to revise the calibration table based on the beamforming network transfer function. | 34,286 |
8,593,124 | 1. A switching power source apparatus comprising: a high-side switch connected to an input voltage; a ramp signal generator configured to generate a ramp signal in synchronization with a switching frequency of the high-side switch; an amplitude signal generator configured to generate an amplitude signal corresponding to an amplitude of the ramp signal; a controller configured to control the ON timing of the high-side switch according to the ramp signal, a feedback signal, and a first reference voltage and control the ON width of the high-side switch according to the amplitude signal, wherein the ramp signal generator controls the inclination of the ramp signal according to the amplitude signal so that the ramp signal maintains a predetermined amplitude, and the controller controls the ON width of the high-side switch so that the ON width does not become narrower than a predetermined limit value; and a second superposing circuit configured to generate a third ramp signal having a negative inclination corresponding to the amplitude and frequency of the ramp signal and provide a second superposed signal by superposing the third ramp signal on the feedback signal, wherein the controller compares the second superposed signal with the first reference voltage, and if the second superposed signal is lower than the first reference voltage, controls the ON timing of the high-side switch so that the high-side switch turns on. | 11,301 |
9,414,704 | 1. A wire stripper in combination with a hold down attachment for use with an auto dismantling excavator, the auto dismantling excavator includes a dismantling grappler for removing a plurality of materials and objects from a wiring harness, comprising: a hold down attachment includes at least one arm, a mounting plate is attached to a distal end of said at least one arm; a base plate; a stripper plate having a V-shaped groove formed in substantially one end thereof, first and second fingers are formed on each side of said V-shaped groove; and at least one vertical support plate extending upward from said base plate, an acute angle is formed on a top of said at least one vertical support plate, said stripper plate is attached to said top of said at least one vertical plate, wherein said stripper plate forms an acute angle with a horizontal plane, said base plate is removably attached to said mounting plate, the hold down attachment is capable of being secured to the auto dismantling excavator, wherein one end of the wiring harness is retained by the dismantling grappler, the wiring harness is placed in said V-shaped groove, the wiring harness is pulled through said stripper plate by said dismantling grappler, until the plurality of materials and objects are removed from the wiring harness. | 45,671 |
9,391,520 | 1. A DC-DC converter, comprising: an inductor as reactive component, at least a first switch connected to the inductor and controlled by a first control signal, and at least a second switch connected to the inductor and controlled by a second control signal, the first and second switches operating alternately to supply an output voltage of a higher or lower level than the level of an input voltage, the converter also including a switching control unit for the switches for determining a first switching time of the first switch during which an increasing current flows through the inductor, and a second switching time of the second switch during which a decreasing current flows through the inductor, wherein the switching control unit includes a voltage-current conversion circuit for converting into current a comparison voltage, which is the difference between the output voltage and the input voltage, a first current being supplied by the voltage-current conversion circuit for charging a first capacitor to a first voltage threshold to determine the first switching time and a second current being supplied by the voltage-current conversion circuit for charging a second capacitor to a second voltage threshold to determine the second switching time on the basis of the determination of the first switching time. | 28,337 |
9,028,945 | 1. A transparent composite material composed of a glass fiber plate comprising: a transparent resin; and a plurality of glass fiber filaments embedded in the transparent resin in a unidirectionally aligned state, wherein the transparent resin includes Si—O—Si bond and one of methyl, ethyl and phenyl. | 8,947 |
8,842,397 | 1. A safety mechanism for a solar cell group, the safety mechanism comprising: a signal receiver arranged to assert a permissive signal indicative of reception by said signal receiver of a predetermined signal; an electronically controlled switch arranged to provide in a first state an effective short circuit across the output of the solar cell group responsive to the absence of the asserted permissive signal of said signal receiver; and a power harvester in communication with the solar cell group and arranged to provide an electric power to said signal receiver when said electronically controlled switch is in the first state, said power harvester comprising a direct current (DC) to DC amplifier arranged to amplify the voltage drop across said electronically controlled switch when said electronically controlled switch is in the first state so as to thereby provide the electric power to said signal receiver when said electronically controlled switch is in the first state. | 29,007 |
9,628,583 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request at a server, to register an identifier for creating a new account for a multi-site service based, at least in part, on a prompt from a user's equipment, wherein the multi-site service is supported by a plurality of server nodes and wherein the plurality of server nodes includes the server; determining a home site for the identifier based, at least in part, on a hash of the identifier, wherein the home site is a server node included among the plurality of server nodes and wherein the home site is responsible for registering the identifier to create the new account for the user's equipment within the multi-site service; determining whether the server is the home site for the identifier based on the hash; and causing, at least in part, processing of the request based, at least in part, on the determination, wherein the identifier is entered by a user at the prompt. | 25,152 |
8,971,227 | 1. A wireless device, comprising: an interface with a sensor device configured to generate measurement data; and a processor that is configured to awaken the wireless device from a low power state to receive a status request from an inquiring device that interfaces with a with a wireless modem in a mobile terminal affixed to an asset, said wireless device responding to said status request with measurement data generated by said sensor device. | 27,812 |
8,523,603 | 1. A connector assembly comprising: a first connector configured to be mounted on a connection object, the first connector including a first contact and a first holding member, the first holding member holding the first contact; and a second connector configured to be engaged with the first connector along a downward direction in a state where the first connector is positioned below the second connector, the second connector including a second contact, a second holding member, and an operating portion, the second holding member holding the second contact, the second contact being configured to be connected to the first contact under an engaged state where the second connector is engaged with the first connector, the operating portion being held by the second holding member so that a positional relation between the operating portion and the second holding member is kept when a force is applied to the operating portion along an upward direction and when a force is applied to the operating portion along a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the upward direction or a second horizontal direction opposite to the first horizontal direction, the second connector being removable from the first connector when a force is applied to the operating portion either along the upward direction or along the first horizontal direction or the second horizontal under the engaged state; wherein: | 13,574 |
9,710,617 | 1. A system, comprising: a target device, comprising: a processor, first hardware comprising a one time programmable immutable target unit specific key, wherein the target unit specific key cannot be read by software executing on the target device, and second hardware configured to be written with an activation key, wherein the activation key is based on the target unit specific key, and wherein the target device is configured to: receive a first bit stream, obtain a first decryption algorithm associated with the first bit stream in association with a first digital signature based on the first decryption algorithm and the target unit specific key, obtain the target unit specific key and the activation key, and decrypt the first bit stream to yield a first decrypted bit stream, wherein the decryption of the first bit stream is accomplished utilizing the first decryption algorithm associated with the first bit stream, using a temporary decryption key generated from the target unit specific key and the activation key, and wherein the decryption of the first bit stream using the first decryption algorithm cannot occur unless the first digital signature of the first decryption algorithm matches a second digital signature calculated by the target device based on the target unit specific key. | 11,171 |
9,835,130 | 1. A system, comprising: a body having at least two surfaces, the body configured to be located at least partially below a surface of a body of water moving in a first direction; and a mechanical system connected to the body; wherein: wherein the length of the body in the first direction is at least two times greater than the length of the body in the direction traversing the first direction; wherein the body further comprises a control pin, wherein the mechanical system comprises at least one control arm and a tie arm coupled to the at least one control arm, and wherein the control pin of the body is configured to swing from a first control point of the tie arm to a second control point of the tie arm so that the body movement direction changes from the second direction to the third direction. | 47,488 |
9,122,250 | 1. An athletic performance monitoring system, comprising: an input system configured to receive: a first type of input data indicative of an athlete's location on a route as the athlete moves along the route during an athletic performance, a second type of input data indicative of a message trigger location, a third type of input data including a message payload, and a fourth type of input data indicative of the athlete's movement speed or movement distance on the route, wherein the second type of input data and the third type of input data are received through a computing device temporarily connected to the input system for data exchange; and a processing system having a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor are configured to perform at least: compare the first type of input data indicative of the athlete's location on the route and the second type of input data indicative of the message trigger location; evaluate the fourth type of input data generated at a time before the athlete reaches the message trigger location; and deliver the message payload when the first type of input data indicates that the athlete is or has been physically present at the message trigger location only if the fourth input data indicates that the message trigger location was reached by the athlete as a result of an athletic performance, wherein comparison of the first type of input data and delivery of the message payload are accomplished when the computing device is not connected to the input system and while the athlete is at or in close proximity to the message trigger location. | 20,793 |
8,696,790 | 1. A process for converting organic wastes into a reducing agent-coke substitute comprising: blending mixed waste material comprising a metal oxide with a metal-containing smelter byproduct, and processing the blend of mixed waste material and smelter byproduct through a heated mixing device at a temperature between about 200° F. and about 750° F. to convert the blend into a reducing agent-coke substitute; providing the reducing agent-coke substitute as a reducing agent in a smelting process, wherein the reducing agent-coke substitute converts the metal oxide of the mixed waste material into metal; performing the smelting process; and recovering the metal from the smelting process. | 46,987 |
9,487,101 | 1. A vehicle control system configured to position a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a mobile inductive charging point, wherein the vehicle control system comprises: one or more parking sensors configured to determine the position of the vehicle relative to a surface upon which the vehicle is positioned, wherein the one or more parking sensors are further configured to locate a visual indicator indicating the position of a fixed inductive charging point relative to the vehicle; and a parking assistance controller configured to automatically park the vehicle in a parking space on the surface based on data from the one or more parking sensors, wherein the parking assistance controller is further configured to use data from the one or more parking sensors to position the vehicle in an aligned position in which the fixed inductive charging point and the mobile inductive charging point are substantially aligned, wherein the parking sensors are configured to locate a visual indicator that is on the surface upon which the vehicle is positioned, wherein the visual indicator is substantially flat with respect to a plane of the surface upon which the vehicle is positioned, and wherein the parking assistance controller is configured to determine the position of the vehicle relative to the fixed charging point when the vehicle has passed over the fixed inductive charging point and the location of the fixed inductive charging point is out of view of the one or more parking sensors. | 17,754 |
9,667,408 | 1. A sampling device for use in a distributed power measurement system, the sampling device comprising: a delta-sigma modulator for sampling a power system quantity to generate a bitstream of delta-sigma modulated sample data; a link interface to send and receive data using a high-speed isochronous data link; a clock circuit to generate a local clock signal; a data storage element to store a sequence number associated with a time-stamp packet received over the link interface; a counter clocked by the local clock signal to determine an offset time between receipt of the time-stamp packet and transmission of framed output data; and a framing controller to generate the framed output data for transmission over the isochronous data link, wherein the framed output data includes the sequence number, the offset time, and the delta-sigma modulated sample data, wherein the counter is to preload a value when resetting the offset time, and wherein the value includes propagation delay within the sampling device between receiving the time-stamp packet and resetting the offset time. | 39,931 |
9,708,362 | 1. A composition consisting of one or more Formula I compounds or a salt thereof according to the following structures: or one or more Formula II compounds or a salt thereof according to the following structures: | 6,933 |
9,263,625 | 1. A method of fabricating alternating N-type and P-type emitter regions of a solar cell, the method comprising: forming a silicon layer above a substrate; implanting dopant impurity species of a first conductivity type in the silicon layer to form first implanted regions and resulting in non-implanted regions of the silicon layer; implanting ancillary impurity species into the first implanted regions of the silicon layer, the ancillary impurity species different from the dopant impurity species of the first conductivity type; implanting dopant impurity species of a second, opposite, conductivity type in portions of the non-implanted regions of the silicon layer to form second implanted regions and resulting in remaining non-implanted regions of the silicon layer; removing the remaining non-implanted regions of the silicon layer with a selective etch process preserving at least a portion of the first implanted regions and preserving the second implanted regions of the silicon layer; and annealing the first implanted regions and the second implanted regions of the silicon layer to form doped polycrystalline silicon emitter regions. | 32,712 |
8,427,446 | 1. A peripheral circuit of a touch panel, the touch panel comprising a central sensing array area and a peripheral non-array area, the peripheral circuit comprising a plurality of bonding pads, each of the bonding pads comprising: a first conductive layer located on a substrate within the peripheral non-array area, the first conductive layer comprising a circuit part and a terminal part, wherein the circuit part is located near the central sensing array area, and the terminal part is located far away from the central sensing array area; a first protective layer covering the circuit part and exposing the terminal part; a second conductive layer located on the first protective layer and the terminal part, the second conductive layer comprising a bonding part located on the terminal part; and a second protective layer covering the second conductive layer and exposing a portion of the bonding part, wherein an outer edge of the second protective layer exceeds an outer edge of the first protective layer and further extends outwards a distance, thus covering the second conductive layer located above a junction area between the outer edge of the first protective layer and the terminal part. | 3,582 |
8,938,681 | 1. A method of teleportation in a virtual universe, comprising: requesting a teleportation operation to a virtual universe destination said virtual universe destination being one of a plurality of locations in one or more virtual universes; determining characteristics of said virtual universe destination; filtering said characteristics of said virtual universe destination requested in said step of requesting a virtual universe destination against at least one of: preferences, characteristics and restrictions to determine mismatched and unmatched preferences, characteristics and restrictions, corresponding to an avatar; controlling a teleportation operation of said avatar in accordance with results of said filtering including, when said teleportation destination is found to be unsuitable, presentation of an interface indicating that said virtual universe destination was found unsuitable for said avatar by said filtering step based on said preferences, characteristics and restrictions which are unmatched or mismatched while delaying, altering or canceling said teleportation operation, and when said one or more preferences, characteristics and restrictions of said avatar is mismatched or unmatched, searching said virtual universe based on unmatched metadata of said avatar or said destination for alternative teleportation destinations corresponding to at least one of avatar preferences or characteristics, for which a match was found, wherein said interface displays and provides for acceptance of an alternative teleportation destination. | 1,562 |
8,983,733 | 1. A safety arrangement ( 1 ) for a motor vehicle having a battery ( 2 ) and an occupant safety device ( 6 ), the arrangement comprising: a crash sensor ( a battery sensor ( an actuator ( a control unit ( the control unit ( the control unit ( further comprising a second actuator ( the control unit ( wherein the control ( | 18,394 |
8,713,420 | 1. A method of synchronizing web applications to media playing through a web browser, the media playing within a webpage downloaded from a content server to the web browser, the web browser having a player for outputting the media to a user for viewing, the method comprising: generating a plurality of text track cues from text track data carried within a transport stream used to transport the media to the web browser, wherein a first text track cue of the plurality of the text track cues specifies a universal resource locator (URL) for a web application to be implemented upon occurrence of a first triggering event, the first triggering event occurring after the web browser downloads the webpage and begins playing the media; downloading the web application to the web browser from an application server after occurrence of the first triggering event, the web application being downloaded using the URL through signaling separate from the transport stream; a second text track cue of the plurality of text track cues sufficient for specifying subtitles to be displayed within the webpage during media play upon occurrence of a second triggering event, the second triggering event occurring prior to the first triggering event, the browser including a native user agent to display the subtitles and an application user agent to implement the web application; a third text track cue of the plurality of text track cues sufficient for specifying captions to be displayed within the webpage during media play upon occurrence of a third triggering event, the third triggering event occurring prior to the first triggering event, the browser including the native user agent to display the captions, the application user agent being dormant until the native user agent displays the captions; a fourth text track cue of the plurality of text track cues sufficient for specifying descriptions to be displayed within the webpage during media play upon occurrence of a fourth triggering event, the fourth triggering event occurring prior to the first triggering event, the browser including the native user agent to display the descriptions; and a fifth text track cue of the plurality of text track cues sufficient for specifying chapters to be displayed within the webpage during media play upon occurrence of a fifth triggering event, the fifth triggering event occurring prior to the first triggering event, the browser including the native user agent to display the chapters. | 25,947 |
8,793,511 | 1. A power service equipment, comprising: a Power over Ethernet (POE) manager configured to monitor a status of a powered device that receives PoE power from the power service equipment, the PoE manager comprising a PoE power source configured to adjust an amount of PoE power delivered to the powered device based on the determined power requirement. | 9,478 |
8,885,369 | 1. A power regeneration device, comprising: an extraction unit provided on a transmission path, the transmission path being provided for transmitting a high-frequency wave from a high-frequency wave source to a high-frequency load, the extraction unit extracting a reflected high-frequency wave generated by reflecting the high-frequency wave from the high-frequency load via a reflected high-frequency wave transmission path; a high frequency-to-DC converter for converting the reflected high-frequency wave extracted by the extraction unit into DC power; and a branching unit that branches and outputs the reflected high-frequency wave extracted by the extraction unit to the reflected high-frequency wave transmission path, wherein the high frequency-to-DC converter includes an antenna unit provided on the reflected high-frequency wave transmission path for receiving the reflected high-frequency wave and outputting AC power corresponding to the received reflected high-frequency wave; and a rectifying unit for rectifying the AC power outputted from the antenna unit. | 8,945 |
9,057,730 | 1. A method of producing a molecular array comprising: (i) preselecting a plurality of oligonucleotides to be immobilised; (ii) immobilising at least a portion of the plurality of oligonucleotides on a solid support at a density to allow each of said at least a portion of the plurality of oligonucleotides on the solid support to be individually resolved upon labeling, thereby forming two or more separate and discrete elements, at least two elements of said two or more elements being spatially addressable, each of said at least two elements comprising a plurality of immobilized oligonucleotides from said at least a portion of the plurality of oligonucleotides, wherein sequence identities of said at least a portion of the plurality of immobilised oligonucleotides in each of said at least two elements are specified by a location of each of said at least two elements in which the oligonucleotides are contained; (iii) labeling at least a portion of the plurality of immobilised oligonucleotides at each of said at least two elements with one or more labels, thereby producing labeled immobilised oligonucleotides; and (iv) analysing whether at least a portion of the labeled immobilised oligonucleotides of said at least two elements are individually optically resolvable from another portion of the labeled immobilised oligonucleotides, whereby said at least a portion of the labeled immobilized oligonucleotides on each of said at least two elements are individually optically resolvable from the another portion of the labeled immobilised oligonucleotides. | 34,981 |
9,429,291 | 1. An optical unit including: a lens through which light emitted from a light source enters from behind and the light emits frontward as an irradiation beam; and a light source, wherein the lens moves periodically and a front area of the lens is scanned with the irradiation beam so as to form a predetermined irradiated region, wherein the light source is configured such that luminous intensity is varied in a partial phase range of a cycle of a lens movement, and wherein the lens is configured such that the lens rotates about a rotation axis connected to a drive part and such that a direction of light, which has emitted from the light source and is refracted when the light passes through the lens, varies periodically. | 16,609 |
9,356,812 | 1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of antennas; a receiver that performs diversity reception using the plurality of antennas; a transmitter that outputs a signal; a selector circuit that is connected to the plurality of antennas; a divider located in a transmission line which connects the selector circuit to the transmitter, wherein the divider distributes the signal outputted from the transmitter to the plurality of antennas during transmission of the signal; a phase shifter that is located in at least one of a plurality of transmission lines, each of which connects the divider to a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas, wherein the phase shifter generates a phase difference between the signal distributed to one of the plurality of antennas and the signal distributed to another one of the plurality of antennas through shifting of at least one of a phase of the signal distributed to the one of the plurality of antennas and a phase of the signal distributed to the another one of the plurality of antennas by a corresponding phase shift amount; a controller that is mounted on a vehicle and controls the corresponding phase shift amount, which is shifted by the phase shifter; a communication-type determination device that determines which one of vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-road-side communication is performed through the plurality of antennas; and a memory that stores a preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-road-side communication, wherein: when the communication-type determination device determines that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is performed, the controller reads the preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-vehicle communication from the memory and sets the preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-vehicle communication as the corresponding phase shift amount; and when the communication-type determination device determines that the vehicle-to-road-side communication is performed, the controller reads the preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-road-side communication from the memory and sets the preset phase shift amount for the vehicle-to-road-side communication as the corresponding phase shift amount. | 34,113 |
9,115,004 | 1. A negative active material consisting of crystalline lithium titanate oxide having an area ratio of a diffraction peak of a (111) plane that appears at 2θ=18.3°±0.4 to a diffraction peak of a (311) plane that appears at 2θ=35.5°±0.4, in an X-ray diffraction spectrum, of about 2.2:1 to about 5.5:1 and having an intensity ratio of the diffraction peak of a (111) plane that appears at 2θ=18.3°±0.4 to the diffraction peak of a (400) plane that appears at 2θ=43.2°±0.4, in the XRD spectrum, of about 2.5:1 to about 4:1, wherein the lithium titanate oxide is of a rod type, wherein the lithium titanate oxide has a minor axis average length of about 50 nm to about 100 nm and a major axis average length of about 250 nm to about 950 nm. | 24,398 |
9,103,048 | 1. Process for producing crystalline silicon, comprising the steps of: forming a melt of a silicon starting material, performing directed solidification of the silicon melt, wherein at least one of the following steps is performed wherein at least during the entirety of the period of solidification steady-state equilibrium is established above the melt. | 19,314 |
9,344,033 | 1. A variable capacitance circuit comprising: a plurality of variable capacitance elements each having a capacitance value controlled by an inter-terminal voltage applied between terminals of the variable capacitance element, and connected in parallel to each other; and a control section adapted to control the inter-terminal voltage of each of the plurality of variable capacitance elements, wherein: a variable characteristic of a combined capacitance value of the plurality of variable capacitance elements becomes variable taking a predetermined capacitance value as a base, the inter-terminal voltage of at least one of the plurality of variable capacitance elements is set to a first voltage as a variable voltage, the inter-terminal voltage of the rest of the plurality of variable capacitance elements is set to a second voltage as a stationary voltage, the second voltage takes a voltage higher than a minimum voltage value of the variable voltage and lower than a maximum voltage value of the variable voltage, the control section controls the inter-terminal voltage of each of the plurality of variable capacitance elements to be set to one of the first voltage and the second voltage, and the control section includes a switch adapted to exclusively select one of the first voltage and the second voltage. | 22,423 |
8,524,647 | 1. A process for producing a composition consisting of: (a) selecting a hydrogen peroxide solution, wherein the hydrogen peroxide solution consists only of (1) hydrogen peroxide, water, and low solids water having less than 10 ppm dissolved solids; or (2) hydrogen peroxide, water, low solids water having less than 10 ppm dissolved solids, and isopropyl alcohol; (b) preparing a glycolic acid solution by mixing a first solution with a low solids water, wherein (c) mixing only the hydrogen peroxide solution and the glycolic acid solution to form the composition. | 26,039 |
9,853,643 | 1. An integrated circuit implementing a NAND gate system, the integrated circuit comprising: a first input coupled to a cathode of a first p-type Schottky diode; x additional inputs coupled to x respective cathodes of x additional p-type Schottky diodes; a first n-type transistor including a gate node that is coupled to an anode of the first Schottky diode and x respective anodes of the x additional Schottky diodes; and a p-type transistor including a gate node that is coupled to the anode of the first Schottky diode and x respective anodes of the x additional Schottky diodes; a second n-type transistor including a gate node that is coupled to the cathode of the first p-type Schottky diode; and x additional n-type transistors including x respective gate nodes that are coupled to the x respective cathodes of the x additional p-type Schottky diodes; wherein an output is coupled to a non-gate node of the first n-type transistor and a non-gate node of the p-type transistor. | 14,440 |
8,670,374 | 1. A wireless mesh network comprising: a network controller to configure a data frame comprising a sync period followed by at least one data period; and a plurality of network nodes arranged in a mesh and configured to operate in at least one of a network-running mode and a sleep/RF quiet mode, the nodes configured for mesh-network operations by dynamically establishing links directly with other nodes to create paths through the mesh, wherein the network controller is configured to transmit synchronization messages during a first portion of the sync period and receive upstream requests from the network nodes during a second portion of the sync period, the nodes being arranged to propagate the synchronization messages through the mesh by receiving, modifying and retransmitting the synchronization messages during the sync period to set up a pipeline path through the mesh, wherein during the sleep/RF quiet mode, the network nodes are configured to: wake up periodically during a listening interval for detection of a synchronization message from the network controller; and return to the sleep/RF quiet mode and increase a back-off time between listening intervals for increasingly longer periods when no synchronization message is detected. | 16,511 |
9,844,011 | 1. A method, in a first network node, for handling Automatic Gain Control (AGC) scaling and Transmit Power Control (TPC) scaling of a signal received from a second network node, the method comprising: AGC compensating the signal for any AGC scaling changes, wherein the AGC compensating the signal results in an AGC compensated signal comprising a constant AGC scaling; detecting a TPC scaling change of the signal, wherein the detection is based on the signal after the TPC scaling change and based on a predicted channel estimate, wherein the predicted channel estimate is based on the signal before the TPC scaling change; and TPC compensating for the detected TPC scaling change, wherein the TPC compensating results in an AGC and TPC compensated signal comprising the constant AGC scaling and a constant TPC scaling according to the detected TPC scaling change. | 49,578 |
8,385,546 | 1. A method for delivering digital media content to a user, said method for use with a network, said network interfaced with a storage medium containing digital media content and further interfaced with an electronic device, said method comprising the steps of: providing a smart card that includes a license for said digital media content; sending a request for said digital media content over said network from said electronic device; receiving from said storage medium in response to said request said digital media content in encrypted form for storage on said electronic device, wherein said request is not verified; extracting a cipher from said digital media content; combining said cipher with a second cipher produced by said electronic device to obtain a combined cipher; sending the combined cipher to said smart card; obtaining a decryption key for said combined cipher, said decryption key being computed using the combined cipher and transmitted from said smart card to said electronic device; and using said decryption key and an embedded key located on said electronic device to decrypt said digital media content stored on said electronic device. | 24,672 |
8,504,238 | 1. A system to distribute propulsion in a vehicle, the system comprising: a front axle and a rear axle coupled to the vehicle; a front axle motor coupled to the front axle; a rear axle motor coupled to the rear axle; | 43,630 |
8,412,921 | 1. A control device (SG) for a vehicle (FZ) comprising: a first memory (ROM) that has a first area (B a second memory (EEPROM), in which first data for the at least one application program (AW) are provided an interface (IF) that provides second data for an update of at least one part of the first data, and a control circuit (μC) that calls up the bootloader (B) for the update of the at least one part of the first data by the second data, the bootloader (B) extracting from the second area (B | 5,808 |
8,455,787 | 1. A laser processing apparatus in which a workpiece before laser processing is placed on a work support base that supports the workpiece at a plurality of support points and performs, while moving a processing head that irradiates the workpiece with a laser beam in a horizontal direction with respect to the workpiece, laser processing on the workpiece on the work support base by the processing head, the laser processing apparatus comprising: a tilt judging unit that judges, based on a positional relationship between a product chip that is to be separated from the workpiece when the workpiece is subjected to laser processing and support points of the work support base that supports the product chip, whether the product chip after laser processing tilts in a height direction and projects upward from a top surface of the workpiece before laser processing; and a processing head control unit that controls a height of the processing head with respect to the workpiece when moving the processing head to a processing position for a next product chip after completing laser processing on the product chip based on a judgment result of the tilt judging unit. | 49,721 |
9,194,869 | 1. A method for random sampling of commercial immunochromatographic kits to determine their specificity and sensitivity for the fast diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum , which comprises the steps of: a) preparing a blood sample of a patient from an area endemic to verifying the concentrations of said dilution panel by the thick drop method for diagnosing malaria; and reacting the blood sample dilutions prepared in a) with an immunochromatic strip in each of the commercial kits to verify the sensitivity and specificity of each kit in the diagnosis of malaria. | 1,511 |
8,839,279 | 1. In a system having a control device and a processor coupled to the control device, a gesture recognition method comprising: a) computing with the processor a total variance for sample values in an input gesture including a plurality of sample values of sample motion data from one or more sensors associated with the control device wherein the motion data is related to movement of the control device; b) calculating a figure of merit using the sample values in the gesture, the total variance for the sample values in the input gesture, and sample values in one or more catalog gestures, wherein the figure of merit measures how well the samples in the input gesture match samples in the catalog gestures; c) determining whether an input gesture matches one of the one or more catalog gesture based on the figure of merit; and d) changing a state of the system if it is determined that the input gesture matches the one of the one or more catalog gestures. | 33,267 |
9,445,659 | 1. A personal management apparatus, comprising: a wearable band adapted to be worn around at least one of a user's wrist or bicep, the wearable band having a non-adjustable, fixed circumference that defines a first outer diameter; and a clasp coupled to the wearable band, the clasp defining a second outer diameter that is less than the first outer diameter and being adapted to couple a personal item to the wearable band; wherein the wearable band comprises: wherein the outer surface of the cover extends continuously and uninterruptedly along the fixed circumference of the wearable band in its entirety; wherein the clasp comprises: wherein, when the gate of the clasp is in the closed position, the opposing second end of the gate is locked to the another end of the clasp body; wherein, when the gate of the clasp is in the open position, the opposing second end of the gate extends towards the clasp body; wherein the gate of the clasp is spring loaded so that: wherein, when the gate is in the open position and the application of the force against the gate is released, the gate of the clasp self locks by moving from the open position to the closed position in which the opposing second end of the gate is locked to the another end of the clasp body; wherein the opposing second end of the gate and the another end of the clasp body are configured so that an audible click is heard when the gate obtains the closed position in which the opposing second end of the gate is locked to the another end of the clasp body; wherein a first inner region is defined by the cover of the wearable band; wherein the first inner region is generally circular in shape; wherein the clasp extends through the first inner region so that the wearable band extends around a portion of the clasp; wherein a second inner region is at least partially defined by the clasp body of the clasp; wherein the wearable band extends through the second inner region so that the clasp extends around a portion of the wearable band when the gate of the clasp is in the closed position; wherein the extension of the clasp through the first inner region, and the extension of the wearable band through the second inner region, couples the clasp to the wearable band; wherein the extension of the clasp through the first inner region, the extension of the wearable band through the second inner region, and the continuous and uninterrupted extension of the outer surface along the fixed circumference of the wearable band in its entirety, permits movement of the clasp relative to the wearable band and along the fixed circumference of the wearable band in its entirety, while the clasp remains coupled to the wearable band; wherein the cover of the wearable band further comprises a stitching having a circular shape, wherein at least the rigidity of the rigid or non-flexible material from which the inner core of the wearable band is formed, and the stitching of the cover of the wearable band, are configured so that the parallel spacing between the circular seam in its entirety and the inner core is maintained; wherein the maintenance of the parallel spacing between the seam in its entirety and the inner core facilitates movement of the clasp relative to the wearable band and along the fixed circumference of the wearable band in its entirety, while the clasp remains coupled to the wearable band; and wherein at least the rigidity of the rigid or non-flexible material from which the inner core of the wearable band is formed is such that, when the personal item is coupled to the wearable band by the clasp and the personal item applies a gravity-induced load against the wearable band: | 31,662 |
9,620,994 | 1. A system for detecting islanding of a microgrid, said system comprising: a number of power sources, each of said number of power sources being structured to output real power, and to output controlled reactive power injection; a number of controllers, each of said number of controllers being structured to control one of said number of power sources; an output from said microgrid powered by said number of power sources; a number of electrical switching apparatus structured to electrically connect said output from said microgrid to a grid and electrically disconnect said output from said microgrid from the grid; a microgrid controller structured to detect islanding of said microgrid with respect to the grid, and, in response to detecting islanding of said microgrid, to send a number of commands to a number of said number of controllers in order to control reactive power injection by a number of said number of power sources, wherein said number of commands are a plurality of commands including a real power command and a reactive power command periodically sent from said microgrid controller to each of said controllers over said communication channel, and wherein a reactive power value of said reactive power command is perturbed by a predetermined percentage of the reactive power value of said reactive power command at a predetermined frequency, which is less than a frequency of an alternating current voltage of said output; a communication channel between said microgrid controller and said number of controllers; a number of microgrid loads powered by said output from said microgrid; and an external protection relay cooperating with said microgrid controller, wherein said external protection relay is structured to measure a rate of change in frequency of an alternating current voltage of said output in response to injection of a unidirectional reactive power dither with respect to the output as commanded by said microgrid controller, and report said rate of change exceeding a predetermined value to said microgrid controller; and wherein said microgrid controller is further structured to, responsive to said rate of change exceeding said predetermined value, (i) determine that said microgrid is islanded and not connected to said grid, (ii) command one or more of said power sources with a positive Q value to cause additional reactive power to flow out of said one or more of said power sources, thereby decreasing the frequency of the alternating current voltage of said output, if the rate of change is positive, and (iii) command one or more of said power sources with a negative Q value to cause additional reactive power to flow into said one or more of said power sources, thereby increasing the frequency of the alternating current voltage of said output if the rate of change is negative. | 40,714 |
8,493,829 | 1. A method for controlling data overwriting on a tape medium, comprising: receiving information on an overwrite starting position and an overwrite request; trying to determine a beginning position of a data unit on the tape medium based on the information on the overwrite starting position, wherein the data unit is a unit of data recorded on the tape medium; overwriting from the determined beginning position determined from the overwrite starting position in response to determining the beginning position; determining whether the data unit that is recorded at the overwrite starting position is a null data unit in response to a failure of the determination of the beginning position; and in response to determining that the data unit is the null data unit, determining a beginning position of a next data unit following the data unit comprising the null data unit as the overwrite starting position. | 18,893 |
9,127,600 | 1. An engine system that combusts gaseous and diesel fuels, the system comprising: a diesel reservoir in communication with an internal combustion engine via a diesel rail; a liquefied gaseous fuel reservoir in communication with the internal combustion engine via a gaseous fuel rail; the gaseous fuel rail and diesel rail both being in communication with a pressure control device, the pressure control device measuring the pressure differential between the gaseous fuel and diesel rails; wherein if the pressure differential exceeds a desired range, the pressure control device vents gaseous fuel from the gaseous fuel rail to an auxiliary engine as fuel; and the auxiliary engine converting the vented gaseous fuel to useful work. | 37,864 |
8,969,615 | 1. A process for preparing an isocyanate via a gas phase phosgenation of a corresponding amine, the process comprising: reacting carbon monoxide with chlorine with a stoichiometric carbon monoxide excess over chlorine in a gas phase, thereby obtaining a phosgene-comprising reaction mixture; dividing the phosgene-comprising reaction mixture into a low-carbon monoxide stream and a carbon monoxide-rich stream by at least one separating process of a thermal separating process and a membrane separating process, wherein the low-carbon monoxide stream comprises not more than 1% by weight of carbon monoxide, based on a total weight of the low-carbon monoxide stream, and the carbon monoxide-rich stream comprises more than 10% by weight of carbon monoxide, based on a total weight of the carbon monoxide-rich stream; and introducing the low-carbon monoxide stream as a phosgene-comprising reactant stream into the gas phase phosgenation of the corresponding amine, thereby obtaining the isocyanate and hydrogen chloride as a coproduct wherein the low-carbon monoxide stream is obtained in liquid form and is vaporized by either heat generated from said reacting, or heat released from a partial condensation of phosgene during said thermal separating process. | 29,183 |
8,973,355 | 1. A modular mount for a dosing module that is operable to dose an exhaust treatment fluid into an exhaust stream, the mount comprising: an inlet sub-mount including a first coolant passageway; a base sub-mount including a second coolant passageway; and at least one intermediate mount disposed between the inlet sub-mount and the base sub-mount, the at least one intermediate sub-mount including a third passageway, wherein each of the first, second, and third coolant passageways are in communication with each other, wherein each sub-mount includes a centrally-disposed aperture defined by a central wall for receipt of the dosing module operable to dose the exhaust treatment fluid into the exhaust stream. | 8,899 |
9,200,236 | 1. A method of isolating an omega-7 fatty acid ester from algal biomass, comprising the steps of: (a) Extracting oil from algal biomass comprising C16:1 fatty acids; (b) Transesterifying the extracted oil to generate a first algal extract mixture; (c) Decanting the first algal extract mixture to separate a second algal extract fraction and a fraction comprising glycerine and water; (d) A first distilling of the second algal extract fraction to separate a third algal extract fraction and a fraction comprising carotenoids, chlorophylls, and unesterified material; (e) A second distilling of the third algal extract fraction to separate a fraction rich in omega-7 esters and a fraction rich in eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) esters; and (f) Isolating the fraction rich in omega-7 esters from the fraction rich in EPA esters. | 21,188 |
9,441,520 | 1. A system, comprising: an aftertreatment system operable to receive an exhaust stream from an internal combustion engine, the aftertreatment system comprising an upstream selective reduction catalyst (SCR) component and a downstream SCR component, wherein the upstream SCR component is positioned in a substantially different thermal environment than the downstream SCR component when the internal combustion engine is producing an exhaust stream; an upstream reductant delivery device positioned upstream of the upstream SCR component and a downstream reductant delivery device positioned between the upstream and downstream SCR components; wherein the upstream SCR component and the downstream SCR component are sized to fully treat the entire exhaust stream at a first highest NOx conversion condition corresponding to at least one of cold start and warm-up operating conditions of the system with reductant delivered only from the upstream reductant delivery device, and wherein the downstream SCR component is sized to fully treat the entire exhaust stream at a second highest NOx conversion condition; a controller, comprising: | 21,819 |
8,905,780 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first housing enclosing an electrical plug; a second housing enclosing an electrical receptacle; a first electrical cord connecting said first housing to said second housing; wherein said second housing is configured to accept said electrical cord being wound around said second housing, wherein said second housing comprises a first pair of parallel annular components having a first outside diameter and connected by a first cylindrical component therebetween having a second outside diameter, said first outside diameter being greater than said second outside diameter, and wherein an annular cylindrical volume between said first pair of parallel annular components and outside said first cylindrical component is large enough to contain essentially the entire length of said first electrical cord when said essentially the entire length of said first electrical cord is wound around said first cylindrical component; a third housing comprising an electrical receptacle; and a second electrical cord connecting said second housing to said third housing, wherein said third housing is configured to accept said second electrical cord being wound around said third housing, wherein said third housing comprises a second pair of parallel annular components having a third outside diameter and connected by a second cylindrical component therebetween having a fourth outside diameter, said third outside diameter being greater than said fourth outside diameter, and wherein an annular cylindrical volume between said second pair of parallel annular components and outside said second cylindrical component is large enough to contain essentially the entire length of said second electrical cord when said essentially the entire length of said second electrical cord is wound around said second cylindrical component. | 42,800 |
8,504,967 | 1. A method comprising: determining, on a computer that includes a description of an integrated circuit including a segment of power switches, a power switch configuration for the segment, wherein the determining comprises selecting power switch cells from a plurality of predesigned power switch cells in a library stored on the computer, wherein the selecting is responsive to the power switch configuration, wherein each power switch cell of the plurality of predesigned power switch cells includes an interconnect between the power switch cells for the area occupied by that power switch cell, wherein a first power switch cell of the plurality of predesigned power switch cells includes one or more first transistors controlled by a first enable signal and one or more second transistors controlled by a second enable signal, and wherein the first transistors have a first size that is less than a second size of the second transistors, and wherein a second power switch cell of the plurality of predesigned power switch cells includes one or more third transistors having the first size but excludes a connection to the first enable signal for the one or more third transistors, and wherein the first enable signal is routed through the second power switch cell on the interconnect of the second power switch cell to connect to the interconnect of a third power switch cell in the segment; and placing, by the computer in the description of the integrated circuit, the selected power switch cells to form the segment, wherein abutting power switch cells automatically connects the cells via the interconnect included in the selected power switch cells, the abutting power switch cells forming an electrical connection via contact between the interconnect included in the abutting power switch cells to form a conductive path between the abutting cells in the interconnect. | 32,764 |
8,535,628 | 1. An exhaust gas purifying method comprising exposing an exhaust gas containing a nitrogen oxide (NO x ) and metallic mercury (Hg) to a catalyst in the presence of ammonia as a reducing agent, to thereby perform reduction of NO x contained in the exhaust gas and oxidation of metallic mercury (Hg) contained in the exhaust gas; wherein the catalyst comprises a composition containing oxides of (i) titanium (Ti), (ii) molybdenum (Mo) and/or tungsten (W), (iii) vanadium (V), and (iv) phosphorus (P); and wherein the catalyst contains Ti, Mo and/or W, and V in atomic proportions of 85 to 97.5:2 to 10:0.5 to 10, and has an atomic ratio of P/(sum of V and Mo and/or W) of 0.5 to 1.5. | 49,692 |
9,577,434 | 1. A method for allocating an amount of energy per prosumer, the method comprising: determining a maximum amount of energy and a minimum amount of energy for each prosumer; generating a maximum total amount of energy, the generating of the maximum total amount of energy comprising summing the maximum amounts of energy for each prosumer; generating a minimum total amount of energy, the generating of the minimum total amount of energy comprising summing the minimum amounts of energy for each prosumer; generating a first amount of energy, the generating of the first amount of energy comprising forming a difference between the maximum total amount of energy and the minimum total amount of energy; generating a respective second amount of energy per prosumer, the generating of the respective second amount of energy per prosumer comprising forming a difference between a respective maximum amount of energy and a respective minimum amount of energy; generating an energy factor per prosumer, the generating of the energy factor per prosumer comprising multiplying the respective second amount of energy by a reciprocal of the first amount of energy; generating a respective amount of energy, the generating of the respective amount of energy comprising adding the respective minimum amount of energy and a product of an absolute value of the minimum total amount of energy and the respective energy factor, such that: | 701 |
9,213,230 | 1. A method comprising: receiving configuration events of media devices located in a plurality of media environments; generating recommended configurations for a media device in a media environment separate from media environments in the plurality of media environments, wherein the configurations are based on the configuration events of the media devices located in the plurality of media environments, wherein each of the configuration events is associated with one of a plurality of media presentations, and generating the recommended configurations comprises: identifying ones of the configuration events associated with a desired one of the plurality of media presentations; generating a Collaborative Configuration System (CCS) track for the desired one of the plurality of media presentations based on the ones of the configuration events associated with the desired one of the plurality of media presentations, the CCS track comprising configuration changes for a plurality of time slices of the media presentation; and providing the CCS track as the recommended configurations for the media environment to the media device. | 46,889 |
8,552,574 | 1. A cogeneration apparatus which includes: a power generator for producing electric power using an engine as a power source; an exhaust heat exchanger for effecting a heat exchange using exhaust heat of the engine; a housing accommodating therein the engine, the power generator and the exhaust heat exchanger; and an exhaust duct interconnecting the housing and outdoors, the cogeneration apparatus comprising: an airtight chamber provided within the housing, at least the power generator and the engine being accommodated within the airtight chamber; and an intake duct connected to the airtight chamber for introducing air from outside the housing into the airtight chamber, wherein the exhaust duct is connected to the engine for discharging exhaust gas of the engine, the air introduced through the intake duct cools an interior of the airtight chamber and is also sucked in to an air cleaner of the engine, and the exhaust gas of the engine is discharged directly to outside the airtight chamber through the exhaust duct; wherein the exhaust duct comprises an external duct provided outside the housing and an extension duct provided within the housing, wherein the external duct is constructed as a dual structure comprising a first inner peripheral passage disposed centrally therein and a first outer peripheral passage disposed concentrically with and outside the first inner peripheral passage, and the extension duct is constructed as a dual structure comprising a second inner peripheral passage disposed centrally therein and a second outer peripheral passage disposed concentrically with and outside the second inner peripheral passage, and wherein the first inner peripheral passage and the second inner peripheral passage are used as an exhaust passage for discharging exhaust gas of the engine, while the first outer peripheral passage and the second outer peripheral passage are used as an intake passage for supplying air to the engine. | 6,386 |
8,528,515 | 1. A crankcase of an internal combustion engine includes an upper crankcase half and a lower crankcase half, said upper crankcase half and said lower crankcase half respectively having an upper journal support wall and a lower journal support wall for cooperatively supporting a crank journal of a crankshaft, said upper journal support wall and said lower journal support wall being fastened together by a journal bolt mounted from a lower side of said crankcase, comprising: a wall portion for defining a space as a flow passage for a lubricating oil is formed below a journal bolt mounting surface of said lower crankcase half for mounting said journal bolt; and a tool insertion hole for insertion of a tool for tightening said journal bolt is formed through said wall portion, wherein said wall portion is located laterally outside of an oil pan of said internal combustion engine; and said wall portion is formed with an exit oil passage for discharging said lubricating oil from said space toward said oil pan. | 9,981 |
8,802,319 | 1. A penta-block copolymer electrolyte composite membrane, which comprises: a platelet inorganic filler surface-modified with a sulfonic group; and a penta-block copolymer comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a sulfonic group, a carbonic acid group, and a phosphoric acid group, wherein the penta-block copolymer consists of poly((t-butyl-styrene)-b-(ethylene-r-propylene)-b-(styrene-r-styrene sulfonate)-b-(ethylene-r-propylene)-b-(t-butyl-styrene)). | 10,596 |
9,739,793 | 1. An analysis method of an analysis apparatus, the method comprising: transporting a rack holding a plurality of sample vessels on a predetermined transport route, wherein the analysis apparatus includes a first analysis unit having a first nozzle and a second analysis unit having a second nozzle, and the predetermined transport route includes a route to transport the rack holding the plurality of sample vessels from the first analysis unit to the second analysis unit; the analysis method further comprising a controller controlling operations of the first analysis unit, the second analysis unit, and the transporting of the rack holding the plurality of the sample vessels along the predetermined transport route; the controller configured to control: | 20,002 |
9,633,243 | 1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag device, comprising: a first RF interface that operates at a first RF frequency and is configured to communicate with a mobile device; a second RF interface that operates at a second RF frequency and is configured to communicate with a tollway reader; a controller coupled to the first and second RF interfaces that transfers information between the first and second RF interfaces; and an energy collection circuit that collects energy received via the first RF interface in a capacitor, wherein energy collected in the capacitor is used to power the second RF interface and the controller such that the second RF interface operates in an active state with the tollway reader while energy is being collected via the first RF interface, and wherein the energy from the mobile device is received prior to interacting with the tollway reader, further comprising a proximity sensor including a directional discriminator coupled to the first RF interface that determines whether a signal received at the first RF interface is from the mobile device in a direction of the mobile device, and when the signal received at the first RF interface is not from the direction of the mobile device the proximity sensor renders the first RF interface non-responsive while the signal that is not from the direction of the mobile device is being received at the first RF interface. | 22,420 |
9,571,377 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a multicore processor, cause the multicore processor to provide dynamic denial-of-service (DoS) protection, the protection comprising: at a data path processor core: at a dynamic DoS processor core: at a signaling processor core: wherein selecting the target queue includes: | 5,197 |
8,921,815 | 1. A target supply device comprising: a tank including a nozzle; a first electrode provided with a first through-hole and disposed so that a center axis of the nozzle is positioned within the first through-hole; a second electrode, including a main body portion provided with a second through-hole and a collection portion formed in a cylindrical shape extending in a direction from a circumferential edge of the second through-hole toward the nozzle, disposed so that the center axis of the nozzle is positioned within the second through-hole; a third electrode disposed within the tank; and a heating unit configured to heat the second electrode, wherein the second electrode includes an electrical field moderating portion that is formed in a cylindrical shape extending in the same direction as the collection portion from an outer side of the collection portion of the main body portion and is provided so that a leading end of the electrical field moderating portion in the extending direction is positioned closer to the nozzle than a leading end of the collection portion in the extending direction. | 19,683 |
9,010,118 | 1. An output controller for a stirling engine, comprising the stirling engine; and a temperature adjustment portion provided in a cooling system that causes a common cooling medium to flow through both the stirling engine and a motive power source other than the stirling engine, and the temperature adjustment portion adjusting a temperature of the cooling medium supplied to the stirling engine based on total output of output of the motive power source and output of the stirling engine or based on the output of the stirling engine, wherein the cooling system comprises: the temperature adjustment portion comprises a temperature adjusting valve capable of adjusting the temperature of the cooling medium supplied to the stirling engine by switchably setting at least one of the first and second partial cooling paths into a communication state. | 10,244 |
9,287,575 | 1. A fuel cell comprising: a power generating element having a solid oxide electrolyte layer, a first electrode arranged on one principal surface of the solid oxide electrolyte layer, and a second electrode arranged on the other principal surface of the solid oxide electrolyte layer; a separator arranged on the first electrode so as to form a channel facing the first electrode; and an interconnector connected to the first electrode, wherein the first electrode contains Ni, the interconnector comprises a Ag or Ag alloy portion, and the fuel cell further comprises a Ni and Ti oxide containing interlayer arranged within via holes in the separator and between the Ag or Ag alloy portion of the interconnector and the first electrode. | 36,359 |
8,973,617 | 1. A pipe for use in a re-circulating geothermal heat exchange system, the pipe being insertable in a bore having a proximal end disposed relatively closer to a surface of the earth and a distal end disposed relatively further from the surface of the earth, the pipe comprising | 11,843 |
8,365,847 | 1. A surface vehicle system, comprising: a frame; at least three members coupled to said frame; a horizontal propulsion system coupled to said frame and at least one of said members, said horizontal propulsion system adapted to provide motive force between said member and the surface to cause the vehicle to translate along the surface; a hydraulic cylinder coupled to said frame and said members, said hydraulic cylinder adapted to provide a force to said members generally normal to the surface, said force being sufficient to generate a vertical vehicle velocity to cause said members to separate from the surface; and an electronic control unit electronically coupled to said hydraulic cylinder adapted to automatically control operation of said hydraulic cylinder. | 34,139 |
9,398,375 | 1. An electrodynamic electroacoustic transducer comprising: a unit housing that houses a magnetic circuit; a diaphragm attached to an opening edge portion of one end of the unit housing; and a voice coil provided at a bottom surface side of the diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm includes a downward convex portion toward an end portion side, and a peripheral portion curved upward from the downward convex portion and having a peripheral end, the opening edge portion of the unit housing includes a support base portion contacting the downward convex portion of the diaphragm and a concave portion dented radially outwardly away from the support base in an inside surface of the opening edge portion, the peripheral end of the of the diaphragm engaging the concave portion, and in the diaphragm, the downward convex portion is supported by the support base portion of the unit housing in the peripheral portion thereof, so that the peripheral end engages with the concave portion of the unit housing in a state in which the peripheral portion has an upward elastic force. | 33,434 |
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