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8,569,815 | 1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising: a semiconductor substrate including a first element area that is defined by an element separating area; a flash memory cell formed in the first element area on the semiconductor substrate and including a tunnel insulating film formed in the first element area on the semiconductor substrate, a floating gate formed above the tunnel insulating film, a first insulating film formed above the floating gate, a control gate formed above the first insulating film, and a source area and a drain area formed in the semiconductor substrate in the first element area; a first laminated wiring pattern formed in the element separating area, the first laminated wiring pattern including a first interlayer insulating film formed above the flash memory cell and the first laminated wiring pattern on the semiconductor substrate; a first wiring pattern formed above the first interlayer insulating film and connected to a first power source; and a second wiring pattern formed above the first interlayer insulating film and connected to a second power source, wherein the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern are capacitively-coupled to form a first capacitor, the second wiring pattern is formed above the first laminated wiring pattern, and the second wiring pattern and the second electrode pattern are capacitively-coupled to form a second capacitor, and the second electrode pattern is electrically coupled to the first wiring pattern. | 19,767 |
9,080,493 | 1. An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a first catalyst that is provided in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine; an adsorption member that is provided in the exhaust system at a position downstream of the first catalyst, and that has a function of adsorbing hydrocarbon in exhaust gas; a secondary air supply device that supplies secondary air to the exhaust system at a portion upstream of the first catalyst; and an electronic control unit (ECU) programmed to execute control of the exhaust system, the ECU configured to prohibit supply of the secondary air when the internal combustion engine is started, and configured to control a time when supply of the secondary air is started after the internal combustion engine is started based on an amount of hydrocarbon discharged from the internal combustion engine or a value correlated with the amount of hydrocarbon discharged from the internal combustion engine, wherein a hydrocarbon discharge characteristic during start-up of the internal combustion engine reaches a peak shortly after the internal combustion engine is started, and wherein the ECU is further configured to start supply of the secondary air at a time when the exhaust gas, which is discharged from the internal combustion engine at a time when the hydrocarbon having the peak hydrocarbon discharge characteristic is discharged from the internal combustion engine, finishes passing through the adsorption member. | 18,947 |
8,511,333 | 1. A double pipe apparatus which includes an outer pipe and an inner pipe inserted into the outer pipe, and which regulates a flow of a fluid flowing through the double pipe apparatus, the double pipe apparatus comprising: a flow regulating valve which regulates a flow of the fluid flowing through the outer pipe or the inner pipe; a valve stem which supports the flow regulating valve, penetrates the outer pipe and the inner pipe, and vertically moves along a longitudinal direction thereof; and fluid leakage preventing parts including a bellows or another expansion joint, wherein the fluid leakage preventing parts are located in a space between an inner wall of the outer pipe and an outer wall of the inner pipe, a first end of the fluid leakage preventing parts is attached to the inner wall of the outer pipe, and a second end of the fluid leakage preventing parts is completely positioned at the space between the inner wall of the outer pipe and the outer wall of the inner pipe, the fluid flowing through the double pipe apparatus does not come into direct contact with the fluid leakage preventing parts in any position of the valve, and the fluid leakage preventing parts prevent the fluid from leaking outside of the outer pipe. | 29,901 |
8,678,872 | 1. A reusable, programmable, interactive, and talking pinata for being hit by a stick by a size-insensitive user to dispense bounty and for depicting interchangeable and disposable characters, comprising: a) a character; b) a first compartment; c) operating electronics; and d) a second compartment; wherein said character is for depicting the interchangeable and disposable characters, and as such, is interchangeable and disposable; wherein said character has a body; wherein said body of said character has a top part; wherein said body of said character has a bottom part; wherein said bottom part of said body of said character is pivotally attached to said top part of said body of said character so as to pivot relative thereto; wherein said operating electronics has preselected criteria; wherein said second compartment has a bottom lid; wherein said second compartment is for holding the bounty; wherein said bottom lid of said second compartment is affixed to said bottom part of said body of said character so as to pivot therewith; and wherein when said reusable, programmable, interactive, and talking pinata is activated, said bottom part of said body of said character pivots away from said top part of said body of said character taking said bottom lid of said second compartment with it, and in doing so, opens said second compartment and dispenses the bounty. | 7,814 |
8,794,310 | 1. A sealing system for use in a subterranean wellbore, the system comprising: a tubular; and a sealing member assembly comprising: at least two rings disposed about the tubular, wherein the rings are longitudinally spaced apart from one another, and wherein a sealing member is disposed between the rings, the sealing member comprising: a support tube member disposed about the tubular, the support tube member comprising nonrecessed portions with a plurality of holes therethrough, wherein a nonrecessed portion of the support tube member is substantially directly adjacent the tubular and wherein first and second nonrecessed portions of the support tube member are located at an opposite end of the support tube member, wherein the support tube member comprises a recessed portion disposed between the nonrecessed portions; an inner swellable element disposed interior of the support tube member; an outer swellable element disposed about the exterior of the support tube member, wherein the inner and outer swellable elements are unitized with one another through at least a portion of the plurality of holes; and a retainer disposed at each end of the support tube member, wherein the retainers provide a seal between the ends of the support tube member and the tubular. | 9,433 |
8,687,787 | 1. A method of providing a ring-back presentation to a calling terminal after receiving a call setup request from the calling terminal (A) for a first communication session with a called terminal (B), comprising the following steps: executing a call-setup for the first communication session, establishing a packet-based second communication session with the calling terminal, independent of the call-setup for the first session, by the called terminal sending a session initiating message directed to the calling terminal, and providing pre-defined media content representing said ring-back presentation to the calling terminal, by means of said second session; and Wherein said pre-defined media content has been stored in the called terminal and is sent therefrom to the cal ins terminal during the second session. | 30,471 |
8,795,783 | 1. A method for layer-by-layer assembly of a material comprising: (a) applying a first composition comprising a first ionic liquid having a melting point at or below room temperature and a first layering material to a surface to form a first layer; and (b) applying a second composition comprising a second ionic liquid having a melting point at or below room temperature and a second layering material to the first layer to form a second layer, wherein the first composition and the second composition are compositionally distinct from one another. | 1,641 |
9,837,828 | 1. A wireless power supply system, comprising: a wireless power transmitting device configured to include a power transmitting resonant circuit having a predetermined resonant frequency characteristic, and to transmit electric power wirelessly via the power transmitting resonant circuit, the power transmitting resonant circuit including a power transmitting coil; a plurality of wireless power receiving devices configured to include respective power receiving resonant circuits having a same resonant frequency characteristic as the power transmitting resonant circuit, and to wirelessly receive electric power from the wireless power transmitting device by a magnetic field resonance mode arising as a result of the power receiving resonant circuit tuning to a resonant frequency of the power transmitting resonant circuit, the power receiving resonant circuits each including a power receiving coil; and a power receiving control unit included in each of the wireless power receiving devices and configured to make the power receiving resonant circuit into a closed circuit by closing a switch connected to the power receiving coil in response to a charge request being sent to the wireless power transmitting device, wherein the wireless power transmitting device generates the magnetic field resonance mode between the wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device that has received the charge request from among the plurality of the wireless power receiving devices. | 41,538 |
9,348,407 | 1. A processor comprising: a plurality of voltage regulators; a plurality of clock generators; and a plurality of cores, wherein each core is coupled to one of the plurality of voltage regulators and one of the plurality of clock generators, and wherein at least one core is to perform an atomic ratio change of the corresponding clock generator responsive to a request to change a frequency of the at least one core. | 9,737 |
9,742,013 | 1. A system for inspecting quality of a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) of a fuel cell, the system comprising: a bonding device bonding the MEA and a gas diffusion layer (GDL) to manufacture a bonded unit of the MEA and the GDL; a transfer device adsorbing one surface of the bonded unit to transfer the bonded unit; an inspection device disposed on one side of the bonded unit which is transferred by the transfer device, the inspection device inspecting an outer appearance of the bonded unit; a reversing device placing the bonded unit on the reversing device by the transfer device and vertically reversing the bonded unit; and a loading and lifting device loading the bonded unit thereon after being transferred by the transfer device, and adjusting a loading height. | 18,041 |
8,659,180 | 1. A marine power generation apparatus for generating power from an ocean current, said apparatus comprising: a turbine operable to generate power when within an ocean current, the turbine comprising a pair of turbine blade assemblies each comprising wherein the pair of turbine blade assemblies are mounted for same-direction rotation when placed in an ocean current and each being coupled with a turbine shaft assembly, said turbine shaft assembly for each turbine being positioned in a side-by-side relationship and coupled along a shared axis with a rotor of an electrical generator and wherein the marine power generation apparatus further comprises anchoring means for anchoring the power generation means relative to a floor of the ocean and in alignment with the ocean current. | 26,596 |
8,968,895 | 1. A battery, comprising an electrolyte and an electrode-separator arrangement at least partly encased with a potting compound, wherein the electrode-separator arrangement, which is situated within a casing formed by the potting compound, is coupled electromagnetically, or electromagnetically and mechanically with an electrical connection, to at least one further functional element selected from the group consisting of a heat sink, control electronics, and an RFID element. | 26,398 |
8,802,309 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a supply channel for supplying, to the fuel cell, a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source; a single variable gas supply device for adjusting a gas state on an upstream side of the supply channel to supply the gas to a downstream side; a computer system including a control section programmed to perform proportional and integral (PI) control of a gas supply command amount with respect to the variable gas supply device; an abnormality judgment section programmed to judge whether or not the variable gas supply device is abnormal; a current sensor for detecting a current during a power generation by the fuel cell; and a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure of the fuel gas in the supply channel, the pressure sensor provided on the downstream side of the variable gas supply device, wherein the control section is programmed to use, as a part of a correction term of the PI control, a learning term constituted by integrating an integral (I) term only in a case where an operation state of the fuel cell satisfies predetermined learning allowable conditions, the predetermined learning allowable conditions are satisfied when a generated current of the fuel cell detected by the current sensor is larger than a predetermined generated current value and a change of the generated current is stable within a predetermined range, wherein the abnormality judgment section is programmed to judge, based on the learning term, whether or not the variable gas supply device is abnormal, wherein the I term of the PI control is calculated by integrating a feedback value corresponding to a deviation between a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor downstream of the supply device and a target pressure value, and wherein the I term of the PI control is integrated for each of a plurality of learning zones, the plurality of learning zones being constituted by dividing a demanded jet flow rate of the variable gas supply device for each of a plurality of predetermined flow rates. | 30,981 |
9,342,769 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain image data; a first determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel included in the image data belongs to a line; a second determination unit configured to determine whether a density of the pixel included in the image data is less than a predetermined density; and a correction unit configured to perform correction to increase the density of the pixel on a basis of results of the first determination and the second determination, and to perform correction to increase a density of a pixel adjacent to the pixel on the basis of the results of the first determination and the second determination. | 17,972 |
9,715,726 | 1. A method for B 0 drift and respiratory motion compensation in echo-planar based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprising: obtaining at least two phase images of a target region of a patient from each of a first echo-planar imaging (EPI) acquisition and a second EPI acquisition; generating a first susceptibility map based on the at least two phase images of the target region of the patient obtained from the first EPI acquisition and a second susceptibility map based on the at least two phase images of the target region of the patient obtained from the second EPI acquisition; initializing a smooth polynomial function for modeling the B iteratively reconstructing a compensated temperature map showing temperature changes in tissue in the target region of the patient based on the smooth polynomial function to compensate for temperature map inaccuracies due to B | 33,226 |
9,775,315 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X95H675, representative seed produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH25VF with a second plant of variety PH1W4R, wherein representative seed of the varieties PH25VF and PH1W4R have been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-123755 and PTA-121351, respectively. | 46,948 |
8,581,094 | 1. An electronic device module comprising: A. at least one electronic device, and B. an encapsulant film having a thickness in the range of from 0.125 to about 1.25 mm, said encapsulant film comprising a polymeric material in intimate contact with at least one surface of the at least one electronic device, the polymeric material comprising a reaction product of at least (1) a polyolefin copolymer with (a) a density of less than about 0.90 g/cc, (b) a melt point of less than about 95C, (c) a 2% secant modulus of less than about 150 megaPascal (mPa) as measured by ASTM D-882-02, an α-olefin content of at least about 15 and less than about 50 wt % based on the weight of the polymer, (e) a Tg of less than about −35C, and (f) a CDBI of at least about 50%, (2) a vinyl silane in an amount of at least about 0.1 wt % based on the weight of the copolymer; and optionally (3) a co-agent, wherein the co-agent, if present, is present in an amount less than 3% by weight of the polyolefin copolymer; wherein the polyolefin copolymer is crosslinked such that the copolymer contains less than about 70 percent xylene soluble extractables as measured by ASTM 2765-95. | 22,645 |
9,522,739 | 1. An attachment structure for attaching a power plant including unducted propellers to a fuselage of an aircraft, the attachment structure being connected by a first and a second fastener means to a front spar and a rear spar, respectively, said front spar and said rear spar penetrating into the fuselage and fastened to a carrier structure of the aircraft, the attachment structure comprising: a central longitudinal beam having a front end connected to a first front frame arranged in a first plane containing the front spar, the central longitudinal beam having a rear end connected to a second rear frame, said second rear frame being cantilevered out from said rear spar and arranged upstream from the unducted propellers, and the central longitudinal beam having a third intermediate frame arranged in a second plane containing the rear spar, the third intermediate frame being located longitudinally between the first front frame and the second rear frame, and wherein the first front frame and the third intermediate frame are connected together by a first set of force-takeup beams and the third intermediate frame and the second rear frame are connected together by a second set of force-takeup beams, an assembly of the central longitudinal beam and the first front frame, the second rear frame, and the third intermediate frame forming a cradle for receiving the power plant via a standard attachment means. | 7,877 |
8,930,590 | 1. An audio device comprising: an audio interface buffer configured to interface an external output device; a storage unit configured to store audio information; a first memory and a second memory configured to be allocated the audio information; a hardware decoder configured to decode the audio information allocated to the first memory, generate first pulse code modulation (PCM) information, and store the first PCM information in the first memory; a software decoder configured to decode the audio information allocated to the second memory, generate second PCM information, and store the second PCM information in the second memory; a first direct memory access (DMA) block configured to receive the first PCM information from the first memory; a second DMA block configured to receive the second PCM information from the second memory; and a controller configured to control the storage unit, the first memory, the second memory, the hardware decoder, the software decoder, the first DMA block, and the second DMA block, wherein the controller converts the audio device from an ultra low power mode in which the first PCM information is transmitted to the audio interface buffer through the first memory, the hardware decoder, and the first DMA block or a low power mode in which the second PCM information is transmitted to the audio interface buffer through the second memory, the software decoder, and the first DMA block to a normal mode in which the second PCM information is transmitted to the audio interface buffer through the second memory, the software decoder, and the second DMA block. | 46,780 |
8,491,140 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a plurality of electrically activated emitters including at least one first electrically activated emitter having a first peak wavelength, at least one second electrically activated emitter having a second peak wavelength, and at least one third electrically activated emitter having a third peak wavelength, wherein each of said first, second, and third peak wavelength differs from one another; a first lumiphor spatially segregated from and arranged to receive emissions from the at least one first electrically activated emitter; a first emitter support element arranged to support the at least one first electrically activated emitter; and a second emitter support element arranged to support the at least one second electrically activated emitter, wherein the second emitter support element is spatially segregated from, and/or is in insubstantial thermally conductive communication with, the first emitter support element; at least one of (i) a common reflector and (ii) a common diffuser, arranged to receive at least some emissions from each emitter of the plurality of electrically activated emitters. | 10,488 |
9,511,686 | 1. A reinforced section piece for a slide rail system of a vehicle seat, the reinforced section piece comprising: a male section piece for the slide rail system of the vehicle seat, the male section piece extending in a longitudinal direction and having a generally U-shaped cross-section, the male section piece including: a reinforcing spacer piece for the slide rail system of the vehicle seat, the reinforcing spacer piece being fixedly assembled to the base portion of the male section piece between the first and second side wings, the reinforcing spacer piece including: wherein an inside space is defined within the generally U-shaped cross-section between the base portion and the first and second side wings, and wherein the base portion comprises a bearing surface facing towards the inside space of the generally U-shaped cross-section, each of the first and second inner surfaces being connected to the bearing surface by a curved surface, wherein the reinforcing spacer piece additionally comprises elastic protuberances projecting outwards from the body along the transverse direction, facing the curved surfaces, so that the elastic protuberances come in contact with the curved surfaces to prevent noise due to vibrations. | 21,488 |
9,005,357 | 1. An ink for forming a hybrid molybdenum (VI) oxide (MoO 3 ) film on a substrate, the ink comprising: an ammonium molybdate; at least one inorganic salt different from ammonium molybdate; and a solvent or a solvent mixture, wherein the at least one inorganic salt is a metal halide selected from the group consisting of zinc chloride, zinc bromide, zinc iodide, calcium chloride, calcium bromide, calcium iodide, beryllium chloride, beryllium bromide, beryllium iodide, magnesium chloride, magnesium bromide, magnesium iodide, strontium chloride, strontium bromide, strontium iodide, barium chloride, barium bromide, barium iodide, radium chloride, radium bromide, radium iodide, cadmium chloride, cadmium bromide, cadmium iodide, mercury chloride, mercury bromide, mercury iodide, copernicium chloride, copernicium bromide, and copernicium iodide. | 27,712 |
9,242,158 | 1. A virtual golf simulation apparatus comprising: a golf box providing a space in which a user can practice their golf swing at the golf box, and a golf mat provided to allow the user to hit a ball placed on the golf mat; a screen provided at a front side of the golf box to display simulation image of the trajectory of the moving ball according to a ball information; at least one camera configured to acquire a plurality of images of a moving ball; a sensing processing unit configured to calculate the plurality of images and extract physical characteristics of the moving ball, wherein the physical characteristics of the moving ball include a first ball-information and a second ball-information different from the first ball-information, wherein the sensing processing unit is configured to analyze the first ball-information and the second ball-information, the calculation of the moving ball being performed independently and continuously; an image processor, executed by a controller, configured to implement an image of a virtual golf course and a simulation image of a trajectory of the moving ball in the virtual golf course and send signals to a display device to display the implemented image of the virtual golf course and the implemented simulation image of the trajectory of the moving ball, wherein the controller is configured to receive the physical characteristics of the moving ball from the sensing processing unit and control the image processor based on the received physical characteristics, and the controller is further configured to control the image processor to start implementing the simulation image of the trajectory of the moving ball based on the first ball-information primarily received from the sensing processing unit and continue to control the image processor to process the simulation image by applying the second ball-information secondarily received from the sensing processing unit to the trajectory of the moving ball, and to display the implemented simulation image of the first ball-information and the second ball-information to the screen. | 38,150 |
9,135,306 | 1. A system comprising: a network interface configured to communicate with a plurality of information sources over one or more networks; and a processor coupled to the one or more network interfaces, the processor configured to: | 16,364 |
8,346,418 | 1. A method of output torque smoothing for a hybrid powertrain having an electric machine and a spark ignition engine with a first cylinder and a second cylinder, comprising: commanding a fuel-cut transition, including consecutively initiating and completing deactivation of the first cylinder and initiating and completing deactivation of the second cylinder, wherein the fuel-cut transition is characterized by an absence of retarding spark to the first cylinder and second cylinder; supplying fuel to the first cylinder until the first cylinder completes deactivation; supplying fuel to the second cylinder until the second cylinder completes deactivation; capturing a first torque from the first cylinder by generating electricity with the electric machine until the first cylinder completes deactivation; and capturing a second torque from the second cylinder by generating electricity with the electric machine until the second cylinder completes deactivation. | 15,527 |
9,701,988 | 1. A recombinant yeast cell comprising a genetic modification that increases activity of at least one of GCR1 and GCR2, in comparison with a yeast cell of the same type that does not comprise the genetic modification that increases activity of at least one of GCR1 and GCR2, wherein the genetic modification comprises at least one of an exogenous polynucleotide encoding glycolytic genes transcriptional activator GCR1 (GCR1) and an exogenous polynucleotide encoding glycolytic genes transcriptional activator GCR2 (GCR2); wherein the recombinant yeast cell further comprises an exogenous polynucleotide encoding an enzyme converting pyruvate to lactate; wherein the yeast cell is a and wherein a gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase is deleted or disrupted in the recombinant yeast cell. | 23,807 |
9,060,334 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption of a wireless communication device, employed in connection with a plurality of base stations (BSs) and the wireless communication device, which selectively operates in an operating status and a sleep status, the method comprising: prompting the wireless communication device to enter the operating status; and performing a base station measurement before the wireless communication device receives a paging message, wherein the base station measurement is performed in a same frame in which the wireless communication device enters the operating status and no paging message is received in the same frame, and wherein an operation to prepare for receiving the paging message is performed only after the base station measurement is complete. | 12,574 |
8,534,069 | 1. A control system that operates, manages and maximizes the conversion of heat to electricity from one or more individual geothermal wells configured in and surrounded by hot rock, comprising: heat sensors for measuring temperature of a fluid flow in relation to one or more geothermal wells, a closed loop generating system in thermal communication with the one or more geothermal wells, a hot fluid reservoir included in the closed loop generating system, a cold fluid reservoir included in the closed loop generating system, and a cooling system coupled to a geothermal electric generation plant, including at top and bottom locations of the one or more geothermal wells; a plurality of pumps and valves placed in the closed loop generating system for controlling a fluid flow rate of the fluid flow being extracted from the one or more geothermal wells; a network for gathering information and delivering instructions to the heat sensors, pumps, valves, and generators included in one or more geothermal electric generation plants; a system of rules and computations to control the closed loop generating system to extract heat from each geothermal well being substantially at or below a heat equilibrium rate that is determined by a point where the heat extracted from the hot rock substantially equals a heat replenishment rate of the hot rock; and the system of rules and computations also to optimize the hot fluid reservoir for power generation by measuring the temperature and fluid flows from all of the one or more geothermal wells couple to the hot fluid reservoir and adjusting a total capacity by blending into the hot fluid reservoir fluid from the cold fluid reservoir via a set of blending pipes included in the closed loop generating system connecting the hot fluid reservoir to the cold fluid reservoir, each well pumping fluid at a rate and a constant temperature that is determined by the heat equilibrium rate of each geothermal well, so that the heat of the hot fluid reservoir is a mixture of the heat from all of the wells and the temperature required for a generator to generate electricity is lower than the temperature in the hot fluid reservoir. | 11,391 |
8,503,017 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a first communication unit configured to communicate with an authentication unit that authenticates a user; a second communication unit configured to communicate with a charging unit that charges a user a fee; a control unit configured to, in a case where the authentication unit authenticates a user, permit or restrict use of functions included in the image forming apparatus based on an authority of the user authenticated by the authentication unit, and in a case where the charging unit charges a user a fee without the authentication unit authenticating the user, permit use of a predetermined function among the functions included in the image forming apparatus; and a processing unit configured to process a job using a function permitted by the control unit, according to an instruction of the user authenticated by the authentication unit or an instruction of the user who has input the fee by the charging unit. | 30,192 |
8,947,607 | 1. An active matrix substrate comprising: a substrate; a gate bus line provided on the substrate; a source bus line provided on the substrate so as to intersect the gate bus line; a TFT provided near an intersection between the gate bus line and the source bus line, the TFT having a gate electrode electrically connected to the gate bus line, a source electrode electrically connected to the source bus line, and a drain electrode; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode of the TFT; a storage capacitor bus line provided in parallel to the gate bus line or the source bus line; and a storage capacitor counter electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode to create a storage capacitance with the storage capacitor bus line, wherein the storage capacitor counter electrode includes: the storage capacitor bus line has a recessed portion at a position where the third portion is formed. | 48,178 |
8,928,505 | 1. An audio processing system comprising: a processor that operates from a system clock and that processes an electrical signal, the system clock having a first frequency; an analog-to-digital converter that operates from a second clock, the analog-to-digital converter configured to receive a first electrical signal that is representative of an audio wave and configured to convert the first electrical signal to a digital signal, the second clock having a second frequency; a frequency control block having an oscillator that generates a base oscillator signal at a third frequency; a multiplier of the frequency control block configured to receive the base oscillator signal and multiply the third frequency by a first relational value to form the system clock at the first frequency; a divider of the frequency control block configured to receive the system clock and divide the system clock by a second relational value to form the second clock at the second frequency; and the frequency control block configured to change the first relational value to change the first frequency to a fourth frequency and configured to change the second relational value to maintain the second frequency substantially constant. | 49,190 |
8,711,579 | 1. A switching power supply apparatus comprising: a switching DC-DC converter for receiving an input voltage; a current detecting unit for detecting a current from the DC-DC converter; an input voltage detecting unit for detecting the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage; an overcurrent limiting circuit for stopping the operation of the DC-DC converter when the current detected by the current detecting unit exceeds a threshold; and a threshold control unit for changing the threshold of the overcurrent limiting circuit such that, if the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage is detected by the input voltage detecting unit, the period between the time when the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage is detected and the time when the operation of the DC-DC converter is stopped is prolonged. | 45,838 |
9,331,143 | 1. A semiconductor structure, comprising: a substrate; a first doping region formed in the substrate, the first doping region having a first type of doping, the first doping region comprising: a second well; and a third well adjacent to and extending under the second well; a first well formed in the substrate, the first well having the first type of doping; a second doping region formed in the substrate and surrounding the first doping region, the second doping region separating the first well from the first doping region, the second doping region having a second type of doping, the second doping region comprising: a fourth well separating the first well from the first doping region; a fifth well separated from the fourth well; and a first buried layer connecting the fourth well and the fifth well; a plurality of first heavily doped regions formed in the second well of the first doping region, the first heavily doped regions having the second type of doping; a plurality of conductors and a plurality of dielectrics formed on the substrate between the first heavily doped regions, wherein the conductors are formed on the dielectrics; a second heavily doped region formed in the first well, the second heavily doped region having the first type of doping; a third heavily doped region formed in the fifth well of the second doping region, the third heavily doped region having the second type of doping; a fourth heavily doped region formed in the fifth well of the second doping region adjacent to the third heavily doped region, the fourth heavily doped region having the first type of doping; and a first gate electrode and a first gate dielectric formed on the substrate between the first heavily doped regions and the fourth heavily doped region, wherein the first gate electrode is formed on the first gate dielectric. | 25,084 |
9,372,237 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a battery module comprising: a voltage measuring member that measures voltage at an electrode terminal connection part of the battery cells or the unit modules; a voltage measuring circuit that connects the voltage measuring member to a Battery Management System (BMS); a temperature measuring member that measures temperature of the battery cells or the unit modules, wherein the temperature measuring member is mounted between the battery cells or the unit modules; a temperature measuring circuit that connects the temperature measuring member to the BMS, the temperature measuring circuit being separated from the voltage measuring circuit, wherein the temperature measuring circuit is spatially separated from the voltage measuring circuit; and the BMS electrically connected to the voltage measuring member to control operation of the battery module. | 19,155 |
9,381,500 | 1. A process for producing for producing ethanol, comprising contacting a feed stream comprising acetic acid, and/or ethyl acetate, and hydrogen in a reactor at an elevated temperature in the presence of a catalyst under conditions effective to form ethanol, wherein the catalyst comprises a precious metal and one or more active metals on a modified support, wherein the modified support comprises: (i) support material; (ii) a support modifier comprising an oxide of tungsten, molybdenum or vanadium in an amount from 0.1 to 50 wt. %, and (iii) at least one of the one or more active metals. | 35,203 |
8,484,401 | 1. A system for facilitating communications between one or more enterprise-level modules and one or more control-level modules, the system comprising: a first bus that communicates with the one or more enterprise-level modules, wherein the first bus is an enterprise service bus (ESB) using Information Technology based protocols; a second bus that communicates with the one or more control-level modules, wherein the second bus is an industrial control bus (ICB) employing a common industrial protocol (CIP); and a bridge in communication with both of the first and second buses, wherein the bridge facilitates establishment of one or more channels between the one or more enterprise-level modules and the one or more control-level modules. | 49,099 |
9,353,096 | 1. A compound of formula (I): wherein: Y is —O—, —NH—, —SO R1 is hydrogen; R2 is hydrogen or —X-A; X is —CH A is R3 is or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 27,440 |
8,833,362 | 1. A heat recovery installation, comprising: a channel plate, comprising: a first plate, second plate, third plate and fourth plate arranged parallel to one another; wherein the first, second and third plates are at least partially transparent so as to allow (sun)light through from one side of the channel plate to the fourth plate; wherein the fourth plate is provided with a light-absorbing layer for converting the (sun)light into heat and for giving off the heat to fresh-air and used-air in the channel plate; partitions for connecting the first, second, third and fourth plate provided approximately at right angles to the latter, wherein a first supply and discharge channel layer is formed between the first plate and the second plate, comprising alternately arranged fresh-air supply channels and used-air discharge channels separated by the partitions; wherein a heat recovery channel layer is formed between the second plate and the third plate, comprising alternately arranged fresh-air heat recovery channels and used-air heat recovery channels separated by the partitions and adjoining the channels of the first supply and discharge channel layer via perforations in the second plate; wherein a second supply and discharge channel layer is formed between the third plate and the fourth plate, comprising alternately arranged fresh-air discharge channels and used air supply channels separated by the partitions and adjoining the channels of the heat recovery channel layer via perforations in the third plate; a fresh-air supply header which is connected to the fresh-air supply channels via fresh-air supply apertures; a fresh-air discharge header which is connected to the fresh-air discharge channels via fresh-air discharge apertures; a used-air supply header which is connected to the used-air supply channels via used-air supply apertures; a used-air discharge header which is connected to the used-air discharge channels via used-air discharge apertures; wherein a first air pump is arranged for pumping fresh air from the fresh-air supply header to the fresh-air discharge header; and wherein a second air pump is arranged for pumping used air from the used-air supply header to the used-air discharge header, for producing a flow of fresh air in the fresh-air heat recovery channels and an opposite flow of used air in the used-air heat recovery channels of the heat recovery channel layer. | 47,421 |
9,272,995 | 1. A process for producing an ionic liquid of the formula [R 1 Q] + R F − , said process comprising: reacting a compound of the formula Q with a quaternizing agent of the formula R reacting said quaternary salt with an acidic form of an ionic liquid counter anion compound of the formula HR wherein Q is an amine, phosphine, or arsine; R X is a leaving group; R | 40,728 |
9,778,962 | 1. A method for minimizing lock contention among threads in a multithreaded system, comprising the steps of: (a) a processor causing a control thread, if information on a task is acquired by the control thread, to acquire a lock to thereby put the information on a task into a specific task queue which satisfies a certain condition among multiple task queues; and (b) upon release of the lock held by the control thread on the specific task queue, the processor causing a specified set of two or more specified worker threads that correspond solely to the specific task queue to contend for a lock on the specific task queue and then causing one of the specified worker threads to acquire the lock to thereby get a task stored in the specific task queue; wherein at least one of the locks acquired by the control thread and the locks acquired by the worker threads is a spinlock; wherein each of the multiple task queues corresponds to at least two worker threads among the multiple worker threads; and wherein the certain condition includes at least one of: | 47,170 |
8,347,309 | 1. A thread arbitration system for use in a processor, the system comprising: an array comprising a plurality of first entries each corresponding to an element of the array, wherein the array is shared by a plurality of threads, and wherein each entry of the plurality of first entries is configured for use by any thread of the plurality of threads; control circuitry, wherein in response to determining a given thread has not deallocated any entry of the plurality of first entries for a predetermined first amount of time, the circuitry is further configured to store an indication that the given thread has been identified as a thread hog; a thread arbitration table comprising a plurality of second entries, wherein each entry of the second entries is configured to indicate a high threshold value and a low threshold value; and a thread history shift register (HSR) corresponding to the given thread, wherein the thread HSR is used for indexing into the thread arbitration table to select a corresponding second entry, wherein each bit of the thread HSR indicates whether the given thread was identified as a thread hog over a previous predetermined second amount of time. | 13,395 |
9,796,574 | 1. An automated apparatus for screwing caps on laboratory sample tubes or screwing caps off of laboratory sample tubes or both, said apparatus comprising: a deck containing at least one nest for holding a tube storage rack in a set position so that rows of tube receptacles in the tube storage rack set in the nest are parallel to each other and extend in a first direction; a header located above the deck and oriented parallel to the first direction, the header being capable of moving at least vertically up and down with respect to the deck; at least one set of adapter bits; multiple fittings on the header for receiving the set of adapter bits with each bit being mounted to a respective fitting, said bits being configured to engage a head of a cap for a respective laboratory sample tube and turn the cap with respect to the sample tube when the sample tube is set within the tube receptacle in a tube storage rack positioned in the nest; at least one motor for turning the multiple fittings and adapter bits mounted on the fittings and any cap engaged by the respective bit; a bit exchange magazine assembly; and at least one row of bit receptacles on the magazine assembly that are arranged to be parallel with the first direction when the bit exchange magazine assembly is set in the nest. | 6,535 |
9,163,587 | 1. A low-pressure loop EGR system comprising: an EGR passage configured to connect a portion in an exhaust passage on a downstream side of a turbine in a supercharged engine to a portion in an intake passage on an upstream side of a compressor in the supercharged engine so as to communicate between the portions to allow the EGR gas to flow therebetween; an EGR valve provided in the EGR passage and configured to open and close the EGR passage; an EGR cooler provided in the EGR passage and configured to cool the EGR gas flowing into the EGR passage; and a controller configured to control the EGR valve so as to close the EGR passage upon input of a stop warning signal to give notice that the supercharged engine is about to stop, and then to control an actuator to turn a plurality of variable nozzles in a narrowing direction, the variable nozzles being arranged on an inlet side of a turbine impeller at intervals in a circumferential direction, each variable nozzle being turnable around an axis parallel to an axis of the turbine impeller. | 13,284 |
8,606,438 | 1. A rail vehicle, comprising: a drive controller for providing drive power required for movement of the rail vehicle; a man-machine interface connected to said drive controller and configured to demand a drive power from said drive controller; and a limiter module connected to said drive controller for limiting said drive power able to be demanded by said man-machine interface, said limiter module defining a maximum value for said drive power, depending on running data of the rail vehicle, and said running data including data reflecting compliance with a timetable of the rail vehicle. | 1,904 |
8,662,014 | 1. A slidably positionable pet bed assembly comprising: a housing having a top wall and a perimeter wall coupled to and extending downwardly from a perimeter edge of said top wall, a front of said housing being open to access an interior of said housing; a primary door hingedly coupled said open front side of said housing; a drawer positioned within the interior of said housing, said drawer being extendable outwardly from the interior of said housing; a secondary door hingedly coupled to said open front side of said housing; a bed positioned within the interior of said housing, said bed being extendable outwardly from the interior of said housing; and a plurality of wheels coupled to a bottom wall of said bed such that each of said wheels is positioned proximal an associated one of four corners of said bottom wall of said bed, each of said wheels abutting a support surface whereby said bed is configured to be selectively rolled outwardly from the interior of said housing, each of said wheels being positioned exteriorly of said housing when said bed is fully extended from said housing. | 9,146 |
8,961,391 | 1. A method of controlling targeted muscles along a bronchial airway of a patient, comprising: positioning a nerve modification device at a treatment site in a bronchial airway of the patient, wherein the nerve modification device comprises a catheter device having a main catheter body and one or more electrode elements facing laterally relative to the main catheter body; apposing the nerve modification device against a wall of the bronchial airway by moving the one or more electrode elements laterally within the bronchial airway such that the one or more electrode elements contact a first portion of a circumference of the airway wall; and altering nerve function in the bronchial airway by delivering energy from the one or more electrode elements to produce an electric field concentrated in a target region in the wall of the bronchial airway in a first lateral direction from the catheter body, wherein the energy is selectively focused in said target region to alter nerve cells therein. | 22,582 |
9,447,230 | 1. A process for producing a copolyester, comprising: (a) producing isoidide 2-(4-carbomethoxyphenyl) ether by: (b) melting the isoidide 2-(4-carbomethoxyphenyl) ether produced in step (a) and a polyester, optionally with a catalyst. | 40,102 |
9,685,540 | 1. A method for forming a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a device isolation film defining an active region; forming a gate trench by etching the active region and the device isolation film; forming a buried gate in a lower portion of the gate trench; forming a source recess and a drain recess by etching a source region and a drain region of the active region; and forming a source plug and a drain plug by depositing a conductive material into the source recess and the drain recess. | 45,415 |
8,421,363 | 1. A circuit for an instant start of a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp, the circuit comprising: a terminal for receiving an input voltage; an ignition circuit that includes a capacitor and a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding configured so that when switched “off”, no voltage pulse is generated, and when switched “on” is connected to the terminal for providing breakdown voltage pulses each having an amplitude of at least 5 kilovolts and less than 25 kilovolts and a frequency of approximately 20 hertz or greater that instant start, hot re-strike ignite the HID lamp to generate light at at least eighty percent (80%) of rated luminous flux of the HID lamp. | 38,792 |
8,537,040 | 1. A current source for a data converter, comprising a thin oxide device coupled to a current source to receive power; a thick oxide device coupled to the current source thin oxide device, wherein the thick oxide device and the current source thin oxide device form a cascoded device for increased current source output impedance; and one or more thick oxide switches coupled to the thick oxide device. | 24,554 |
9,579,438 | 1. A system for retaining at least one blood treatment filter on a blood treatment apparatus comprising: the at least one blood treatment filter comprising at least two tube ports configured for coupling to tube conduits; and a retaining device comprising at least two stops that restrict a rotational movement of the at least one blood treatment filter inside the retaining device; wherein the retaining device further comprises: | 12,188 |
9,476,364 | 1. An engine method, comprising: directing boosted air from a boosting device to first and second cylinders of an engine; combusting in the first cylinder and then immediately thereafter in the second cylinder according to an engine firing order; opening a first exhaust valve coupled to the second cylinder for a first opening duration; and opening a second exhaust valve coupled to the second cylinder for a second opening duration less than the first opening duration, the second exhaust valve positioned closer to the first cylinder than the first exhaust valve, wherein a difference between the first and second opening durations is greater than 2 crank angle degrees and less than or equal to 10 crank angle degrees. | 14,670 |
8,370,792 | 1. A method implemented and residing in a non-transitory machine-readable medium for execution on a machine, the method comprising: acquiring, by the machine, a project definition for a project within a first processing environment associated with a first stage of a lifecycle for the project, the lifecycle including multiple other stages and each other stage associated with different processing environments from one another and from the first processing environment, wherein acquiring further includes dynamically instantiating and configuring, by the machine, selective resources of the project that are associated with the first stage on demand and when the resources are requested using the project definition. | 25,143 |
9,299,989 | 1. A cable-type secondary battery, comprising: an inner electrode; a separation layer surrounding an outer surface of the inner electrode to prevent a short circuit between electrodes; and a sheet-form outer electrode helically wound to surround the separation layer, wherein the sheet-form outer electrode is helically wound so that it does not overlap itself. | 31,599 |
8,825,415 | 1. An estimation unit for estimating a nonlinearity error of a conversion circuit, the conversion circuit being configured to receive a continuous-time input signal and output a digital output signal, wherein the continuous-time input signal is bandlimited to an angular frequency band [ω 1 , ω 2 ], where ω 1 >(L−1)π/T, ω 2 <Lπ/T, L is a positive integer, and T is a sample period of the conversion circuit, the estimation unit comprising: an input port configured to receive a digital input signal having a first sample rate 1/T, wherein the digital input signal is an approximation of the continuous-time input signal to the conversion circuit; an output port configured to output a digital estimated error signal having the first sample rate, wherein the digital estimated error signal is an estimate of the nonlinearity error of the conversion circuit; a computational branch for each integer P_k in a set of integers, each integer corresponding to a desired model for estimating the nonlinearity error, the computational branch including, a first linear filter unit configured to generate a first signal s an interpolation unit configured to interpolate the first signal s a nonlinearity unit configured to generate a third signal s a second linear filter unit configured to generate a component of the estimated error signal based on the third signal s an adder circuit configured to generate the estimated error signal as a sum of the components of the estimated error signal. | 46,340 |
9,646,208 | 1. A method for grouping contacts, comprising: providing at least one image by an image acquisition unit; recognizing contacts in the image by a relation processing unit according to contact information from one or more of a contact list, an instant message (IM) service, and social network services; determining a score of a connecting relation among the contacts recognized by the relation processing unit; updating, by the relation processing unit, interpersonal relation information of the recognized contacts by incrementing the score of the connecting relation among the contacts recognized in the image by the relation processing unit; and in response to determining that the incremented score of the connecting relation between at least two of the recognized contacts exceeds a predetermined value, providing, by a group processing unit, at least one contact group for grouping the at least two recognized contacts according to the interpersonal relation information, wherein a group name of the provided contact group is suggested according to information from the social network services; and in response to the recognized contacts grouped in the provided group, adding the recognized contacts into a list for the provided group. | 10,458 |
9,388,905 | 1. A mechanical seal for a shaft seal unit for high temperature liquids, installed on a shaft seal portion formed between a housing and a rotating shaft of a device, and providing a seal between the housing and the rotating shaft, wherein the mechanical seal is of an “outside type” for sealing a sealed fluid that may leak from an inside periphery of a sliding face towards an outside periphery; a rotating-side sealing element and a stationary-side sealing element are disposed so as to be situated externally with respect to a stuffing box which is formed between an inside periphery of the housing and an outside periphery of the rotating shaft; a stationary-side sealing element, which accommodates a spring, is installed on a seal cover that is secured to the housing; the rotating-side sealing element is installed on a collar that is installed directly on the rotating shaft; the rotating side, which comprises the rotating-side sealing element and the collar, is positioned such that rotation takes place on a machine-exterior side; a balance ratio A 2 /A 1 is 0.7 or less, A 1 being an axial-direction projection area of the sliding face of the stationary-side sealing element and A 2 being an axial-direction projection area that is subjected to a seal fluid pressure acting as a motive force in the axial direction relative to the stationary-side sealing element; and an annular cooling jacket is disposed within the stuffing box which is formed between the inside periphery of the housing and the outside periphery of the rotating shaft, and a gap between the outside periphery of the rotating shaft and an inside periphery of the cooling jacket is reduced to an extremely small size, and a gap between the inside periphery of the stationary-side sealing element and the outside periphery of the rotating shaft is 2.5 mm or greater, wherein the annular cooling jacket includes a coolant-accommodating space for accommodating a coolant fluid that is different from the sealed fluid, and that communicates with coolant feed and discharge openings provided to the stuffing box, is present in a central region of the annular cooling jacket, and a plurality of fins are disposed within the coolant-accommodating space towards the outside periphery of the rotating shaft, and the annular cooling jacket is provided on an outside periphery at each end with O ring grooves for installation of respective O rings, and a thickness of the O rings is greater than a depth of the O ring groove, and the annular cooling jacket is hermetically installed along the inside periphery of the housing with O-rings interposed at the outside periphery on both ends; and a gap a between the outside periphery of the annular cooling jacket and the inside periphery of the housing is made larger than a gap β between the outside periphery of the rotating shaft and the inside periphery of the cooling jacket, wherein due to the rotating-side sealing element and the stationary-side sealing element being installed on the outside of the stuffing box, heat of sliding may be radiated away, and the annular cooling jacket disposed inside the stuffing box can have greater capacity, and due to the rotating side being positioned such that rotation takes place in the atmosphere on a machine-exterior side, forced air cooling with outside air also may be provided. | 19,949 |
8,368,163 | 1. A semiconductor component, especially a solar cell, comprising: a semiconductor substrate of a planar design having a first side and a second side lying opposite thereto; at least one contact structure arranged on at least one side of the semiconductor substrate, the at least one contact structure comprising a diffusion barrier to prevent the diffusion of ions from the contact structure into the semiconductor substrate, said at least one contact structure comprising a metal wire, said diffusion barrier being molten into said semiconductor substrate, at least in some areas, to form an alloy, said contact structure being connected to said semiconductor substrate via said alloy. | 19,125 |
9,199,348 | 1. A crimping tool for compressing a prosthesis to a compressed arrangement, comprising: a funnel segment; a suture locking mechanism; a plurality of sutures coupled to the prosthesis and the suture locking mechanism, the suture locking mechanism being operated to draw the prosthesis into the funnel segment and compress the prosthesis within the funnel segment, wherein the funnel segment is sized to engage support arms of the prosthesis and, upon transition to the compressed arrangement, the funnel segment operates to rotate the support arms with respect to a frame of the prosthesis so as to extend the support arms in a direction away from the frame. | 31,112 |
8,966,148 | 1. A system, comprising: a local processor; a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) switch electrically coupled to the local processor; one or more local interrupt sources configured to create one or more local events indicating exceptions to normal operation; a local network switch electrically coupled to the PCIe switch, the local network switch being configured to: the dedicated processor electrically coupled to the one or more local interrupt sources, the local network switch, and the PCIe switch, the dedicated processor being configured to: wherein the one or more local events are not sent directly to the local processor by the one or more local interrupt sources when the one or more local events are successfully sent to the dedicated processor, and wherein the one or more local events are sent to the local processor when a problem arises in communication of the one or more local events to the dedicated processor. | 30,301 |
8,887,636 | 1. A web-fed rotary printing press, comprising: at least one press cylinder for printing a paper web conveyed at a controllable first tensile stress; a dryer disposed downstream of said press cylinder, said dryer including a plurality of nozzle bars disposed on both sides of the web guiding the web along a meander-like path, the nozzle bars being spaced apart and offset from one another; a pull roll disposed downstream of said dryer for conveying the paper web along said meander-like path under a second tensile stress; a first apparatus disposed downstream of said press cylinder and upstream of said dryer for separating the paper web from said press cylinder during a normal printing operation, said separating of the paper web from said press cylinder being decoupled from the conveying of said paper web along said path; a second apparatus for driving said pull roll at a controllable rotational speed which sets said second tensile stress; and a controller coupled to said at least one press cylinder and to said second apparatus, said controller setting said first tensile stress and said second tensile stress such that said second tensile stress is less than said first tensile stress. | 17,761 |
8,601,895 | 1. A kinetic energy recovery system for a belt driven accessory system comprising: a kinetic energy storage device; a driver having a driver output; a transmission having a gear ratio that is connected to the driver output; a belt driven accessory system that is connected to the transmission through a first clutch; the kinetic energy storage device is connected to the belt driven accessory system through a second clutch; and the kinetic energy storage device and the transmission are connectable through the first clutch and second clutch. | 988 |
9,732,295 | 1. A turbine and diesel fuel prepared by the process, comprising: activating a Group 4 metallocene pre-catalyst with methylaluminoxane in a suitable solvent, wherein said pre-catalyst is converted to an activated catalyst; removing said solvent from said activated catalyst; mixing at least one aromatic solvent, without heteroatoms, with said activated catalyst to form a solution; adding dried 1-butene to said solution; allowing contact of said activated catalyst with 1-butene in a gas tight vessel to form a first mixture of butene oligomers; removing by distillation using a C contacting of said second mixture of butene oligomers with a hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen gas to create a third mixture of butene oligomers; and fractional distilling of said third mixture of butene oligomers to afford a turbine and diesel fuel. | 17,380 |
8,534,997 | 1. A fluid flow machine blade row group arrangement, comprising: a blade row group arranged in a main flow path of a fluid flow machine, the blade row group including a quantity N of adjacent member blade rows firmly arranged relative to each other in both a meridional direction m and a circumferential direction u, with the quantity N of the member blade rows being greater than/equal to 2; a running index having values between 1 and N; wherein a trailing edge HK(i) of at least one blade of a member blade row (i) is spaced from a leading edge VK(i+1) of at least one blade of an adjacent, downstream member blade row (i+1) by a meridional edge distance D in a meridional plane established by an axial direction x and a radial direction r; wherein a value of the meridional edge distance D along a height of the main flow path increases towards a main flow path confinement at least along a part of an area between a center of the main flow path and the main flow path confinement and assumes a maximum value, with the main flow path confinement being formed by at least one chosen from hub and casing contours of the fluid flow machine; wherein the maximum value of the meridional edge distance D is provided away from the main flow path confinement and at least one chosen from the blade leading edges VK(i) and VK(i+1) has a positive sweep at the main flow path confinement, corresponding to an inclination angle φ of less than 90° measured between the respective blade edge and the main flow path confinement in the meridional plane. | 44,698 |
8,880,204 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a local interfacing device, a device configuration that includes a rule for the local interfacing device, wherein the rule includes an action description for performing an action, and includes a condition that indicates criteria for performing the action; storing the rule in a rule repository; determining a remote interfacing device that generates data associated with the rule's condition; and subscribing to the data from the remote interfacing device, wherein subscribing to the data involves: | 34,864 |
9,442,649 | 1. A method for displaying text within a document for readability, comprising: accessing a document comprising text; determining a display size for displaying the text; determining a text property by determining an average character width for the text in the document; determining a desired number of characters per line to display per column; determining a first number of columns used to display the text based on the text property, the display size and the desired number of characters per line to display; displaying the text in the determined first number of columns within a window that approximately averages the desired number of characters per line per column; receiving a selection to change at least one of: a zoom level of the document, a font size of the document, and the display size for displaying the text; based on the at least one of the changed zoom level of the document, the font size of the document and the display size for displaying the text, determining a second number of columns to be displayed such that the desired number of characters per line to display per column is maintained; and displaying the text in the second number of columns. | 1,454 |
9,306,238 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes Li the nonaqueous electrolyte includes a cyclic disulfone compound of a following general formula (1) in an amount of 0.1 to 4.0% by mass based on a total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte: wherein R1 and R2 each represent hydrogen, or an alkyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, optionally including a halogen element. | 18,880 |
8,867,534 | 1. A data device to speech service bridge for enabling a packet enabled device to access a telephony resource, comprising: a port to receive from and transmit data to a browser executing on a packet enabled device, the port receiving at least one command from the packet enabled device to access at least one resource identified by the browser of the packet enabled device that is required to display data on the packet enabled device wherein the at least one command is a low level command or a high level command, the port transmitting a result of the at least one command processed by the at least one resource to the packet enabled device for use by the browser to allow the display of the data; a data device communicator coupled to the port to receive data from and return data to the packet enabled device, the data device communicator to establish a communication link between the port and the packet enabled device, the received data including a command for access to at least one resource necessary to display the data on the packet enabled device, the return data including processed data to allow the packet enabled device to display the data; a command bridge connected to the data device communicator for receiving and mapping the at least one command from the packet enabled device to a standardized protocol when the at least one command is a low level command, and for receiving the result from the at least one resource and mapping the result into a protocol usable by the packet enabled device such that the browser can display the data; a voice service runtime integration connected to the command bridge to process the at least one command from the packet enabled device when the at least one command is a high level command; and a resource termination connected to the command bridge, the resource termination to establish a call between the resource termination and the at least one resource, the resource termination to transmit the at least one command in the standardized protocol to the at least one resource subsequent to the establishment of the call and to receive the result from the at least one resource, wherein the packet enabled device is configured to display the data using the result. | 36,407 |
8,382,891 | 1. A process for the preparation of coating dispersions for use in the paper industry by co-grinding characterized in that said co-grinding, performed at a temperature of at least 50° C. in a vertical ball mill, natural calcium carbonate (GCC) and precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), characterized in that powdery GCC is co-ground with a slurry containing from 5 to 70% by weight of PCC to obtain a particle size distribution of the calcium carbonate with at least 90% by weight of smaller than 5 μm, at least 70% by weight of smaller than 2 μm, and at least 20% by weight of smaller than 1 μm, with a weight average particle size within a range of from 0.7 to 3 μm, characterized in that polymer dispersions containing resins selected from natural rubber, synthetic rubber, artificial resins and plastic materials, especially those based on polyurethane, styrene/butadiene, styrene/acrylic acid or acrylate, styrene/butadiene/acrylic acid or acrylate as well as vinyl acetate/acrylic acid or acrylate, are employed during said co-grinding. | 38,305 |
8,447,256 | 1. A circuit comprising: a balun configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal at a first input port and a second input port and configured to output the RF signal; and an attenuator coupled in parallel with the first and second input ports of the balun, a power level of the RF signal output by the balun based at least partially on an impedance of the attenuator, as experienced by the RF signal, the attenuator comprising: | 48,170 |
8,475,552 | 1. A system, comprising: a posimetric pump configured to increase pressure of a feedstock to provide a pressurized feedstock, wherein the posimetric pump comprises: a fixed bed gasifier configured to gasify the pressurized feedstock, wherein the fixed bed gasifier comprises an enclosure, a feedstock inlet configured to receive the pressurized feedstock, at least one agent inlet configured to receive at least one gasification agent, a syngas outlet configured to output a syngas, an ash outlet configured to output ash, and a fixed bed configured to support the pressurized feedstock while allowing flow of the at least one gasification agent through the pressurized feedstock; first and second feedstock conveyors configured to deliver first and second feedstocks as the feedstock to the posimetric pump; at least one transducer disposed in the posimetric pump or the fixed bed gasifier; and a controller programmed to vary a ratio of the first feedstock relative to the second feedstock into the posimetric pump to adjust a moisture content or a heating value of mixed feedstock in the posimetric pump based on feedback received from the at least one transducer, wherein the feedback comprises the heating value of the mixed feedstock, a temperature, a pressure, an indicator of performance of the fixed bed gasifier, or a measurement of the moisture content of the mixed feedstock in the fixed bed gasifier. | 15,117 |
9,665,116 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a first amplifier for generating a first control signal in response to a reference voltage proportional to absolute temperature (VPTAT) and a reference base-to-emitter voltage (VBE); a first transistor for generating a reference current proportional to absolute temperature (IPTAT) in response to the first control signal, wherein the reference VPTAT and the reference VBE are generated in response to the reference IPTAT; a second amplifier for generating a second control signal in response to the first control signal and the reference VBE; and a second transistor for generating a reference zero temperature coefficient (ZTC) signal in response to the second control signal, wherein the second control signal is generated in response to the reference ZTC signal; a first resistor having a first terminal coupled to the drain of the first transistor and a second terminal coupled to the first terminal of a second resistor, the second resistor including a second terminal coupled to the emitter of a first bipolar transistor, wherein the reference VPTAT is generated at the second terminal of the first resistor. | 31,927 |
8,528,192 | 1. A fixture adapted for removing a slip ring assembly for a rotating electrical machine from an outer end of a rotor shaft of the rotating electrical machine; comprising: a plurality of standoffs adapted to mount the fixture to the slip ring assembly; a jacking assembly adapted to apply a disengaging force to an outer end plate of the rotor shaft of the rotating electrical machine; a strongback adapted to provide back support for said jacking assembly and for said standoffs, wherein said plurality of standoffs are adapted to fixedly engage the outer end plate of the slip ring assembly and fixedly engage said strongback to maintain a fixed distance between said strongback and the outer end plate of the slip ring assembly at all times; wherein said plurality of standoffs are symmetrically distributed circumferentially between said strongback and the outer end plate of the slip ring assembly; and wherein said plurality of standoffs include end threads to engage corresponding threaded holes on an outer face of the outer end plate of the slip ring assembly. | 24,007 |
8,865,388 | 1. A process for producing an decolorizable electrophotographic toner, comprising: mixing an electron-donating color-developable agent with a wax having a color-developing action and having an acid value of 60 mgKOH/g or more, and heat-melting the resulting mixture, thereby allowing the electron-donating color-developable agent to develop a color; and mixing a binder resin with the mixture of the electron-donating color-developable agent in a color-developed state and the wax having a color-developing action. | 28,820 |
9,490,792 | 1. A system comprising: a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator to generate a PWM signal, the PWM signal generator comprising: wherein: | 35,784 |
9,226,630 | 1. A vacuum cleaner comprising: a body; a dust separation device to separate air and foreign substances; a dust collection device to collect dust and foreign substances therein; a connection passage to connect the dust collection device to the dust separation device; and a liquid supply device provided on the dust collection device, in communication with an inside of the dust collection device, to supply liquid material into the dust collection device, wherein the dust collection device includes: wherein the liquid supply device includes: | 38,428 |
8,518,467 | 1. A method of generating a fiber-reduced fraction and a fiber enriched fraction from a grain, comprising: a) processing the grain to produce a dry starting material; b) separating by size dry starting material into a first fraction and a second fraction, wherein said first fraction has a larger particle size, and said second fraction has a smaller particle size; c) collecting said second fraction; d) air classifying said first fraction so as to yield a first subfraction of a lighter material enriched in fiber relative to said first fraction and a second subfraction of a heavier material reduced in fiber relative to said first fraction; and e) collecting said second subfraction, wherein said second subfraction is reduced in fiber relative to said dry starting material; thereby generating the fiber-reduced fraction and the fiber-enriched fraction. | 24,457 |
9,118,990 | 1. A headset connector system for interfacing with a headset engaging connector including at least two headset engaging contact regions, the headset connector system comprising: a symmetrical connector housing having a connector surface; a plurality of headset connector contact regions positioned on the connector surface within the symmetrical connector housing, wherein, when the headset connector system interfaces with the headset engaging connector in at least two different interface orientations with approximately 180 degrees of symmetry along the connector surface: switching circuitry electrically coupled to the headset connector contact regions, wherein the switching circuitry is operative to: | 36,503 |
9,506,031 | 1. A mesenchymal stem cell possessing increased developmental potency, said mesenchymal stem cell produced by introducing into said mesenchymal stem cell at least one polynucleotide comprising coding regions for oct4 and sox2, wherein expression of said coding regions causes an increase of nanog in the mesenchymal stem cell, and wherein said expression results in higher developmental potency of said mesenchymal stem cell. | 44,243 |
8,765,142 | 1. An isolated live attenuated Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) of a European type, which is of the strain deposited with European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC) under the Accession number ECACC 11012501 or Accession number ECACC 11012502. | 30,133 |
9,140,500 | 1. A heat storage apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a heat storage body capable of storing latent heat upon receiving heat from a heat source of a vehicle; and an electronic control unit controlling heat storage in the heat storage body and heat release from the heat storage body, wherein the heat storage body includes a plurality of kinds of heat storage materials with different melting points, the heat storage materials being separated from one another so that the heat storage materials are capable of storing and releasing heat independently from one another, and the electronic control unit is programmed to | 14,289 |
9,780,358 | 1. A lithium ion battery comprising: an electrode stack comprising: 3-50 positive electrode elements each comprising a current collector and a positive electrode structure on a surface of the current collector with at least one electrode element having an electrode structure on both sides of the current collector; 3-50 negative electrode elements each comprising a current collector and a positive electrode structure on a surface of the current collector with at least one electrode element having an electrode structure on both sides of the current collector; and a separator material separating an adjacent positive electrode element and negative electrode element; an enclosure that encloses the electrode stack; and electrolyte comprising lithium ions, wherein each positive electrode has an active material comprising a lithium rich metal oxide, an area along one side from about 100 cm | 14,313 |
9,514,857 | 1. A method of depositing a zinc oxide-based thin film on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition, comprising depositing the zinc oxide-based thin film using a zinc oxide precursor and an oxidizer, the zinc oxide precursor comprising: a mixture solvent comprising at least two organic solvents which are mixed; and a zinc oxide precursor source material which is diluted in the mixture solvent, wherein a ratio of the at least two organic solvents is set to be such that a vapor pressure of the mixture solvent is substantially identical to a vapor pressure of the zinc oxide precursor source material. | 37,445 |
9,107,743 | 1. A modular endovascular graft device for treating vasculature, comprising: a first graft component having a first wall; and a second graft component having a second wall, the second graft component including a frame as a radially internal support for the second wall and having a distal edge longitudinally internal to a distal edge of the second wall, the frame including a plurality of radially extending components longitudinally internal to the distal edge of the frame and to the distal edge of the second wall, which upon assembling the first and second components, at least one of the plurality of the radially extending components extends through both the first wall and the second wall. | 32,962 |
9,100,373 | 1. A system for obfuscation during collaborative communications, comprising: a first messaging device and a second messaging device connected to each other via a network, wherein the first and second messaging devices each include: | 37,158 |
9,535,106 | 1. A leakage current detection device comprising: a self-test pulse generating unit, for generating a pulsed triggering signal when the leakage current detection device is initially energized; a self-test unit, for periodically generating simulated leakage current signals, and for generating a simulated leakage current signal based on the pulsed triggering signal; and leakage current detection unit, for detecting the simulated leakage current and actual leakage current faults, wherein the self-test unit includes: a reference voltage generating sub-unit, for generating a reference voltage; a periodic voltage generating sub-unit, for generating a periodically varying voltage, which is below the reference voltage during some parts of each period and above the reference voltage during other parts of each period; a comparator, for comparing the reference voltage and the periodically varying voltage; and a first switching element, for generating a simulated leakage current signal based on a comparison result output by the comparator. | 11,693 |
9,354,719 | 1. An optical navigation device for detecting movement of a pointer in three dimensions, the optical navigation device comprising: an illumination source configured to illuminate the pointer; an image sensor configured to obtain a plurality of images of the pointer comprising first and second images; an image scaling module configured to an image shift module configured to shift a position of the scaled second image with differing motion shifts; a correlation module configured to determine a plurality of difference values between the first image and a plurality of potential scaled and shifted second images, the plurality of potential scaled and shifted second images corresponding to the differing motion shifts and the differing zoom factors; and a control logic module configured to | 3,507 |
8,581,933 | 1. A method for controlling display of an image, comprising: (a) dividing a source image into a plurality of M×N blocks of pixels; (b) selecting a first one of the blocks; (c) transferring the pixels in the first block from a source memory to a display memory, the pixels in the first block transferred based on orientation change information; and (d) repeating (b) and (c) to transfer pixels in remaining ones of the blocks to the display memory, wherein 2≦M<total number of lines in the source image and wherein 2≦N<total number of pixels in any image line in the source image, wherein: the pixels in the first block are transferred to the display memory before all pixels in a preceding line of the source image are transferred to the source memory, all pixels in a horizontal line of the first block are transferred to the display memory before pixels in a subsequent horizontal line of the first block are transferred to the display memory, and when all the pixels in the source image are not fully covered by the blocks in spite of dividing the source image according to (a), a remaining area of the source image is transferred pixel-by-pixel to the display memory after the divided blocks of pixels are transferred. | 5,317 |
8,948,862 | 1. A stimulatory effect estimation device comprising: a stimulus generation unit which applies a stimulus to a subject; a brain wave measurement unit which measures the brain waves of the subject; and a stimulatory effect estimation unit which specifies brain wave indexes of stimulatory effects which surface in response to the stimuli both when the subject is awake and when the subject is asleep from the brain waves measured by the brainy wave measurement unit when a stimulus is plied from the stimulus generation unit while the subject is awake and the brain waves, measured by the brain wave measurement unit when a stimulus is applied from the stimulus generation unit while the subject is asleep; wherein the stimulatory effect estimation unit estimates stimulatory effects when the subject is asleep from stimulatory effects when the subject is awake using a conversion model that converts the stimulatory effect when the subject is awake to the stimulatory effects when the subject is asleep on the basis of the brain wave indexes which surface when the same stimulus is applied when the subject is awake and when the subject is asleep, and selects a stimulus which is applied to the subject on the basis of a relationship between the stimulatory effects and changes in sleep depth when the subject is asleep. | 10,029 |
8,437,027 | 1. A method, comprising: tracking and measuring a rendering job activity that bypasses at least one print governance policy with respect to a rendering device based on a plurality of policy violation approaches utilizing a tracking algorithm in order to generate tracked data; and visually generating a bypass report with respect to said rendering job activity based on said tracked data in order to analyze said plurality of policy violation approaches and a frequency of occurrence thereby providing an effective tool for improving an overall effectiveness and compliance with respect to said at least one predefined rendering policy. | 1,517 |
8,835,286 | 1. A manufacturing method of a graphene substrate comprising: (a) heating a metal layer and a carbide layer with the metal layer placed in contact with the carbide layer to dissolve carbon in the carbide layer into the metal layer; and (b) cooling the metal layer and the carbide layer to deposit the carbon in the metal layer as graphene on the surface of the carbide layer. | 28,036 |
8,414,744 | 1. A continuous process for preparing racemic or optically active menthol of the formula (I) in pure or enriched form by distillatively separating racemic or optically active menthol from substance mixtures comprising racemic or optically active menthol and diastereomers of menthol, wherein the distillative separation is performed in a dividing wall column with 50 to 300 theoretical plates and one or more side draw points at an absolute operating pressure of 5 to 500 mbar, wherein all product-conducting lines, vessels and apparatuses connected to the dividing wall column, and all apparatuses and lines of the vacuum system, are thermally insulated and equipped with a temperature-controllable trace heating system. | 42,327 |
9,653,524 | 1. An organic light emitting display apparatus comprising: a reflective first pixel electrode and a reflective second pixel electrode through which light is not emitted, the reflective first and second pixel electrodes disposed on a substrate, spaced apart from each other and each comprising a reflective layer therein; a pixel definition layer extending between and overlapping adjacent edges of the reflective first pixel electrode and the reflective second pixel electrode; a reflective opposite electrode on the reflective first pixel electrode, on the reflective second pixel electrode and on the pixel definition layer; and a first intermediate layer and a second intermediate layer respectively between the reflective opposite electrode and the reflective first pixel electrode and between the reflective opposite electrode and the reflective second pixel electrode. | 14,849 |
9,707,136 | 1. An equine bandage wrapping device, comprising: a base plate; a frame mounting plate pivotally coupled to the base plate and including a first side pinned to the base plate and an opposing free side, wherein the free side is pivotable between a first position and a second position; a spring disposed between the base plate and the frame mounting plate, wherein the spring is compressed when the frame mounting plate pivots from the first position to the second position; an electric motor disposed on the frame mounting plate, wherein a long axis of the motor is parallel to the first side of the frame mounting plate; a switch electrically coupled to the motor and mechanically coupled to the frame mounting plate such that the switch is closed to complete an electrical circuit and turn on the electric motor when the frame mounting plate pivots from the first position to the second position and such that the switch is activated to open an electric circuit which turns off the electric motor when the spring is uncompressed due to pivoting of the frame mounting plate from the second position to the first position; and a forked spindle assembly coupled to the electric motor that is configured to wind up an equine bandage as the motor turns. | 12,337 |
9,313,905 | 1. A retractable storage system for a handheld electronic device, comprising: a protective housing member; at least one accessory station; at least one cable with a plug head and an end piece; and a plug head actuation system comprising a mechanical switch component operably connected to the plug head to disconnect an electrical signal between the plug head of said at least one cable and a port of the handheld electronic device; and wherein the mechanical switch component translates a force applied thereto by a user simultaneously and directly into a force applied on the plug head, thereby enabling the user to control the force applied to plug head to disconnect the plug head from the port of the handheld electronic device. | 34,631 |
9,715,916 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of signal lines including a pair of complementary bit line signal lines, a first word line signal line and a second word line signal line; a supply line; and a bitcell configured to store a bit state, said bitcell including a common node and first and second complementary resistance state storage cells, each resistance state storage cell having an input coupled to the common node and an output coupled to a complementary bit line signal line, each complementary resistance state storage cell having a storage cell switch transistor having an input coupled to the first word line signal line, and a resistance state ferromagnetic device coupled in series with the storage cell switch transistor of the complementary resistance state storage cell and having a resistance state complementary to a resistance state of the resistance state ferromagnetic device of the complementary resistance state storage cell, and a supply switch transistor having an input coupled to the second word line signal line and configured to couple the common node to the supply line when activated. | 1,636 |
8,902,734 | 1. A system for providing communication connection resilience between a mobile subscriber device and a network, the system comprising: a first node residing in a first chassis, the first node in communication with the mobile subscriber device, and configured to provide an active communication link between the mobile subscriber device and the network; and a second node residing in a second chassis, the second node in communication with the mobile subscriber device and with the first node, and configured to provide a non-active communication link to the network; the first node including a first transceiver, a first processor, and a first database, the first database configured to store control information relating to the mobile subscriber device, and the first processor configured to update the control information; the second node including a second transceiver, a second processor, and a second database, the second database configured to store the control information relating to the mobile subscriber device; wherein, when the control information relating to the mobile subscriber device is updated by the first processor, the first transceiver transmits the updated control information to the second transceiver; and wherein when the active communication link between the mobile subscriber device and the network via the first node is disrupted, the first processor reroutes the active communication link between the mobile subscriber device and the network to include both of the first node and the second node, wherein when the active communication link is disrupted between the mobile subscriber device and the first node, the first processor reroutes the active communication link such that first traffic is transmitted from the mobile subscriber device to the second transceiver, then from the second transceiver to the first transceiver, then from the first transceiver to the network, and such that second traffic is transmitted from the network to the first transceiver, then from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, then from the second transceiver to the mobile subscriber device. | 17,878 |
8,589,116 | 1. In a driver assistance system, a method for determining an object angle for a driver assistance system in a motor vehicle, comprising: determining, by a computer processor, directional angles of the object with respect to two sensors; determining, by the processor, the object angle based on the directional angles; determining, by the processor, a cross-misalignment angle as a difference of the directional angles determined; determining, by the processor, a validity signal indicating validity of the object angle, based on the cross-misalignment angle and a histogram filter having a plurality of bins that are filled over time; and compensating, by the processor, for an influence of a misalignment of the sensors on the determined object angle based on the cross-misalignment angle. | 26,116 |
9,678,468 | 1. A cleaning apparatus comprising: a cleaning frame provided with a storage chamber, the storage chamber is configured to store the developer; a cleaning member configured to collect developer on an image bearing member located in the cleaning frame; and a guide rib provided on an inner surface of the storage chamber and configured to guide movement of the developer collected by the cleaning member, wherein the guide rib includes a guide surface configured to guide the developer in a direction that recedes from the cleaning member, and wherein the guide surface inclines toward the lengthwise center portion of the cleaning member from the lengthwise end portion of the cleaning member. | 14,290 |
8,473,066 | 1. An external charger for use with an implantable medical device, comprising: a primary coil for producing a magnetic field for providing power to an implantable medical device; a plurality of sensing coils for sensing reflections of the magnetic field from the implantable medical device; and an alignment sensing circuit for determining an alignment of the primary coil relative to the implantable medical device, wherein the determination is based on electrical measurements taken from the plurality of sensing coils in response to the sensed reflections. | 21,348 |
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