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8,971,869 | 1. A mobile device, comprising: a light sensor configured to detect an ambient light level and generate light data; and a processing circuit configured to: | 30,078 |
8,590,956 | 1. A semiconductor substrate transport apparatus comprising: a movable transport arm; and an end effector movably connected to the transport arm, the end effector having a rotatable passive grip chuck including fixed substrate edge grip supports adapted for passively holding a semiconductor substrate when rotated by the rotatable passive grip chuck, and a motor for moving the substrate held by the chuck, wherein the motor is disposed relative to the chuck so that, when the substrate is held by the chuck, a center of the substrate is substantially co-incident with an axis of movement of the motor. | 28,339 |
8,548,913 | 1. A method for secure electronic commerce transaction executed by a computer, the method comprises: receiving, via computer interface of the computer, account information regarding an electronic commerce transaction; generating, by a processing module of the computer, a transaction authorization request message based on the account information, transaction information, and merchant information; encoding, by a processing module of the computer, the transaction authorization request message in accordance with an error coding dispersed storage function to produce a plurality of encoded data slices; outputting, via the computer interface, the plurality of encoded data slices to a plurality of dispersed storage units in accordance with an authorization protocol; receiving, via the computer interface, at least a threshold number of encoded data response slices from the plurality of dispersed storage units in accordance with the authorization protocol; and decoding, via the processing module, the plurality of encoded data response slices in accordance with the error coding dispersed storage function to produce a response message. | 46,573 |
8,543,554 | 1. Database performance enhancement apparatus, for use in a network having a set of at least one client system each running an application which makes SQL database queries via a network to a particular IP address and port combination, and a plurality of SQL database servers each having access to at least a portion of a database and running software which accepts SQL database queries received at a respective server IP address and port combination, the apparatus comprising a cache memory, and the apparatus being arranged to: receive, through a network port, a first SQL database query made by the set of client systems and directed to the particular IP address and port combination; determine whether the first SQL database query is an SQL write query or a read query, and if the first SQL database query is a read query then also determine whether the first SQL database query is one for which valid response data is already stored in the cache memory, and: | 35,424 |
9,136,530 | 1. A method for manufacturing an energy storage device comprising: dispersing a metal element over a current collector; and performing low pressure chemical vapor deposition to form a silicon layer, using a deposition gas containing silicon as a source gas so that silicon in the silicon layer is diffused and a mixed layer comprising the metal element and silicon is formed between the current collector and the silicon layer, wherein the silicon layer includes a plurality of whiskers and is continuous over the current collector, wherein long-side directions of the plurality of whiskers are random, and wherein the metal element is an element which is capable of forming silicide. | 22,362 |
9,559,220 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter region which is positioned at a front surface of the substrate and has a second conductive type different from the first conductive type; a front passivation region including a plurality of layers which are sequentially positioned on the emitter region; a back passivation region which is positioned on a back surface opposite the front surface of the substrate and includes three layers; a front electrode part which passes through the front passivation region and is connected to the emitter region; and a back electrode part which continuously covers an entire back surface of the back passivation region, passes through the back passivation region and is connected to the substrate, wherein the plurality of layers of the front passivation region include: a silicon oxide layer which is positioned on the emitter region and is formed of silicon oxide; an aluminum oxide layer which is positioned on the silicon oxide layer and is formed of aluminum oxide; and a silicon nitride layer which is positioned on the aluminum oxide layer and is formed of silicon nitride, wherein the aluminum oxide layer is positioned between the silicon oxide layer and the silicon nitride layer, wherein the three layers of the back passivation region include: a first back passivation layer which is positioned on the back surface of the substrate and is formed of silicon oxide; a second back passivation layer which is positioned on the first back passivation layer and is formed of silicon nitride; and a third back passivation layer which is positioned on the second back passivation layer and is formed of aluminum oxide, wherein the second back passivation layer is positioned between the first back passivation layer and the third back passivation layer, wherein the back electrode part includes a back electrode having a plurality of contact portions which locally abut the back surface of the substrate, wherein the solar cell further comprises a plurality of back surface field regions respectively positioned at the back surface of the substrate abutting the plurality of contact portions, wherein the first back passivation layer is directly on the plurality of back surface field regions, the second back passivation layer is directly on the first back passivation layer, and the third back passivation layer is directly on the second back passivation layer, wherein the third back passivation layer is formed as an outermost layer of the three layers of the back passivation region, and wherein the plurality of layers of the front passivation region including the silicon oxide layer, the aluminum oxide layer, and the silicon nitride layer sequentially positioned on the front surface of the substrate, and the three layers of the back passivation region including the first back passivation layer, the second back passivation layer, and third back passivation layer sequentially positioned on the back surface of the substrate, are asymmetrical to each other. | 29,838 |
9,654,539 | 1. A method comprising: generating a manifest for primary multimedia content and alternate multimedia content related to and different from the primary multimedia content, the primary multimedia content comprising segments of multimedia content data and the alternate multimedia content comprising different segments of multimedia content data, the manifest including a list of identifiers for the segments and a list of identifiers for the different segments, the generating comprising modifying an initial manifest generated for the primary multimedia content by splicing the list of identifiers for the different segments into the initial manifest to produce a modified manifest for multi-streaming the primary multimedia content on a primary client device and the alternate multimedia content on an auxiliary client device affiliated with the primary client device; and providing the manifest to the primary client device, and the auxiliary client device, the manifest comprising a marker for triggering the auxiliary client device to obtain and play the at least one alternate multimedia content in synchronization with the primary multimedia content. | 48,852 |
8,684,032 | 1. A method for producing a container, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing a container without a discharge line but with a container wall having a first wall section and a second wall section defining a spacing therebetween; b) providing a discharge line with a variable length; c) fixing the discharge line on the first wall section of the container wall; d) adapting the variable length of the discharge line to the spacing between the first and second wall sections of the container wall; e) fixing the discharge line on the second wall section; and fixing the length of the discharge line after step e) to stiffen the container between the first wall section and the second wall section using the discharge line. | 37,180 |
8,368,058 | 1. A photoelectric conversion element comprising: a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes divided for each pixel; an organic layer including a photoelectric conversion layer; and an upper electrode including a transparent electrode material, wherein the organic layer includes an organic compound having a molecular weight of from 400 to 1,300, each of the pixel electrode includes titanium nitride and has a thickness of 100 nm or less, a compositional ratio of the titanium nitride in the pixel electrode is from 1 to 3.9 mol of N atom per 3 mol of Ti atom, and a tilt angle in an edge part of the pixel electrode is from 10 to 70° with respect to a surface of the substrate. | 44,963 |
9,011,072 | 1. A utility stowage apparatus for transferring one or more objects between an upper storage position and a lower accessible position of a vehicle comprising: a stationary mounting frame comprising two L-shaped or U-shaped tracks, wherein the tracks comprise respectively first and second portions connected through a corner portion, each of the first portions and second portions lying in parallel, wherein the first portions of the tracks are mounted to the top surface of the vehicle and wherein the second portions of the tracks and corner portions are attached through a flange and bolts, are not mounted to the vehicle, and are detachable from the first portions of the tracks through the flange and at least one hole, each of the first and second portions of the at least two tracks comprises at least a channel and at least a rail, at least one carriage movably mounted on the rails and comprising: wherein operation of the power drive rotates at least one of the first or second means for driving the carriage along the tracks between the lower accessible position and the upper storage position. | 14,676 |
9,570,633 | 1. A semiconductor package, comprising: a substrate having at least one light sensor or at least one thermal sensor, a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a sidewall that is adjacent to the first and second surfaces, wherein the at least one light sensor or the at least one thermal sensor is disposed on the first surface, wherein the first surface of the substrate has at least one electrical connecting pad that protrudes from the sidewall, wherein the second surface of the substrate has an opening to expose the at least one light sensor or the at least one thermal sensor, and wherein the sidewall faces away from the opening; at least one support disposed on the first surface of the substrate; a cover disposed on the at least one support, such that the cover is above the at least one light sensor or the at least one thermal sensor to form a first space between the cover and the at least one light sensor or between the cover and the at least one thermal sensor; a plate placed on the second surface of the substrate to cover the opening, such that a second space is formed between the plate and the at least one light sensor or between the plate and the at least one thermal sensor; and an isolation layer between the second surface of the substrate and the plate, and covering the sidewall of the substrate and the at least one electrical connecting pad that protrudes from the sidewall, wherein the isolation layer does not extend beyond a top most surface of the plate adjacent the second surface of the substrate. | 49,284 |
8,924,063 | 1. A vehicle that is driven by an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, a shaft of the internal combustion engine and a shaft of the electric motor for transmitting power being connected by a clutch that transmits power or cuts the transmission of power, and that regenerates electric power by the electric motor when reducing its speed, the vehicle includes a device comprising: a determination unit that determines, after the clutch is disengaged, whether a depression amount of an accelerator pedal is equal to or lower than a first threshold value set beforehand, to regenerate electric power; and a first control unit that controls the engagement or the disengagement of the clutch in such a manner as: keeping the disengagement of the clutch when the depression amount of the accelerator pedal is determined to be equal to or lower than the first threshold value, and engaging the clutch when the depression amount of the accelerator pedal is determined to exceed the first threshold value. | 33,590 |
9,790,830 | 1. An exhaust after-treatment system comprising: an exhaust passage; a lean-NOx trap (LNT) provided in the exhaust passage; an exhaust treatment component provided in the exhaust passage; a tank carrying an aqueous reagent; an electrochemical cell in communication with the tank and configured to receive the aqueous reagent therefrom, the electrochemical cell configured to convert the aqueous reagent into a hydrogen exhaust treatment fluid for purging the LNT and another exhaust treatment fluid for treating an exhaust in the exhaust treatment component; and a controller in communication with the electrochemical cell, the controller being configured to vary an amount of the hydrogen exhaust treatment fluid produced by the electrochemical cell. | 25,233 |
8,480,476 | 1. A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal-side game information storage device which stores common game information used in a common game commonly run in the plurality of gaming terminals and individual game information used in an individual game individually run in each gaming terminal, an input device which allows an input from the exterior, and a terminal controller; a collective control device connected to and in communication with the gaming terminals, which has a game information management device for managing the common game information, and a center controller, wherein the terminal controller is programmed to execute the steps of: (a1) transmitting a common game information requesting command to the collective control device, when booting a gaming terminal; (a2) storing the common game information received from the collective control device in the terminal-side game information storage device; (a3) running the individual game in response to an input of start operation through the input device, based on the individual game information stored in the terminal-side game information storage device; (a4) running the common game in response to a common game starting command from the collective control device, based on the common game information stored in the terminal-side game information storage device; and wherein the center controller is programmed to execute the steps of: (b1) transmitting, in response to the common game information requesting command from any of the gaming terminals, the common game information managed by the game information management device to that gaming terminal; and (b2) when a common game start condition is met, transmitting the common game starting command to the plurality of gaming terminals; and, wherein the collective control device determines the gaming terminal transmitting the common game information requesting command and sends the common game information to the determined gaming terminal. | 46,351 |
8,730,964 | 1. A system for data communications, configured to transmit data of a terminal that takes an identifier (ID) as source and destination addresses, wherein the system comprises at least one access router (AR) and at least one area border router (ABR): the AR configured to: set local locators (LLs), establish communications links to devices within an area by using the set LLs, and transmit received data through transmission routes, the transmission routes being obtained by querying mapping between the ID and the LLs in a local mapping information base according to a destination ID of the received data; wherein the AR comprises: a configuration module, configured to set an local locator (LL) as an intra-area communications address of the AR; a link establishment module, configured to establish the communications links to the devices within the area by using the set LL; a receiving module, configured to receive the data; a query module, configured to query the LL that maps the destination ID of the data from the local mapping information base by using the destination ID of the data received by the receiving module; a route identifying module, configured to identify a route for transmitting the received data based on results of querying the local mapping information base by the query module; wherein the route identifying module comprises: a first route identifying module, configured to determine to transmit the data to the AR that maps the LL obtained through query if the query module obtains the LL that maps the destination ID of the data in the local mapping information base; and a second route identifying module, configured to determine to transmit the data to the ABR that is bound to the AR in a same area if the query module does not identify an LL that maps the destination ID of the data in the local mapping information base; a transmission module, configured to transmit the received data through the transmission route identified by the route identifying module and the link established by the link establishment module; and the ABR configured to: set global locators (GLs) and the LLs, establish communications links to devices outside the area by using the set GLs, establish the communications links to the devices within the area by using the set LLs, and transmit the received data through the transmission routes, the transmission routes being obtained by querying the mapping between the ID and the GLs in a global mapping information base according to the destination ID of the received data. | 23,233 |
9,101,981 | 1. A composite material, comprising: a plurality of particles having a core-shell structure comprising: | 46,946 |
9,177,615 | 1. A power disconnect unit, comprising: a disconnect unit master side manager, configured to receive requests from an initiator; a request datapath coupled to the disconnect unit master side manager; a disconnect unit slave side manager, coupled to the request datapath, wherein the request datapath includes an asynchronous clock domain adapter sender, in series with an asynchronous clock domain adapter receiver, wherein the disconnect unit master side manager is configured to wherein the request datapath is configured to connect a request data from the disconnect unit master side manager to the disconnect unit slave side manager through the asynchronous clock domain adapter sender and through the asynchronous clock domain adapter receiver, wherein the disconnect unit master side manager and the asynchronous clock domain adapter sender are in the first power domain, and wherein the disconnect unit slave side manager and the asynchronous clock domain adapter receiver are in a second power domain. | 20,500 |
9,376,805 | 1. A vacuum insulating panel comprising: a first sheet of a flexible material, a second sheet of a flexible material, a bridging element of a flexible material extending in a generally rectilinear waveform between the first and the second sheet, the bridging element and the sheets defining therebetween a plurality of separate generally rectilinear evacuated compartments containing a self-supporting insulating element, the bridging element comprising first flat regions extending along the inside face of the first sheet, second flat regions extending along the inside face of the second sheet, and connecting regions extending between the first and second flat regions, and for each compartment, seals between the flat regions of the bridging element and the inside face of the respective first or second sheet, wherein for each compartment there are at least two spaced apart seals between the bridging element and the respective first or second sheet. | 22,654 |
9,593,143 | 1. A method for purification of complexes formed between stress proteins of different stress protein families and an antigenic polypeptide or fragment thereof from a source mixture, wherein the polypeptide or fragment thereof is a tumor or pathogen polypeptide antigen, consisting of the steps of: (i) providing the source mixture comprising target stress protein complexes which are to be purified from the source mixture wherein the target stress protein complexes are formed by proteins of different stress protein families complexed to the polypeptide or a fragment thereof, (ii) determining the isoelectric point (pI) of the target stress protein complexes; (iii) preparing a cell lysate from the source mixture comprising the target stress protein complexes; (iv) clarifying the cell lysate by subjecting the cell lysate to centrifugation and/or filtration to provide a clarified cell lysate; (v) transferring the clarified cell lysate of step (iv) to an ion exchange column wherein the transferred clarified cell lysate comprises all the stress protein complexes found within the cell lysate of step (iii); and (vi) subjecting the clarified cell lysate of step (v) to purification using an ion exchange solid phase, wherein during ion exchange the clarified cell lysate is buffered using a buffer to a pH within 2 units of the pI of the target stress protein complexes, and wherein a salt gradient provided by an elution buffer having a pH of from pH 4 to pH 9 is used to elute the target stress protein complexes comprising the stress proteins of the different stress protein families complexed to the polypeptide or a fragment thereof from the ion exchange solid phase, wherein the eluted target stress protein complexes comprise stress proteins from different stress protein families. | 7,113 |
9,493,079 | 1. A method for charging an energy store of a vehicle by a charging device, the method comprising: measuring a charging voltage (U) provided by the charging device across a connection; and regulating a charging current (I) provided by the charging device and which charges the energy store as a function of the charging voltage (U) of the charging device in order to limit the power loss during charging, wherein the charging voltage (U) of the charging device across the connection is measured as an open-circuit voltage in the no-load state, wherein the charging current (I) is regulated as a function of a difference (dU) between the open-circuit voltage and the charger voltage (U) of the charging device which is currently measured across the connection, and wherein the charging current (I) is regulated to keep a ratio of the difference (dU) and the open-circuit voltage at a predetermined value. | 29,178 |
8,578,741 | 1. A washing machine comprising: a cabinet; a tub located in the cabinet and defining an interior and having a sump; a wash basket located within the interior of the tub and defining a laundry treating space; a pressure sensor located in the cabinet; and a conduit fluidly coupling the sump to the pressure sensor and comprising: | 20,675 |
9,343,081 | 1. A magnetic business communication assembly, comprising: a) a substrate adapted to be magnetically attached to a magnetizable surface, said substrate containing a series of segments adjacent to each other and permanently alternately magnetized with N and S polarity, said substrate having first and second faces, first and second transversely extending edges and first and second longitudinally extending sides, and said magnetic surface having a dark coloring; b) a coating layer comprising particulate pigmented material in a curable medium, said coating layer being applied coextensively with said substrate to at least one of said first and second faces to conceal said dark coloring, said coating layer having a first portion and a second portion, said first portion configured for display of a sharp image, said second portion configured for display of a faded image; c) a transparent polyethylene film covering said coating layer; and d) a high resolution printed image printed by printing ink dots in a reverse format onto said polyethylene film between said pigmented material and said film; e) whereby said ink dots are flattened upon lamination of said film to said coating layer; f) wherein a density of the particulate pigmented material on said first portion is greater than a density of the particulate pigmented material on said second portion. | 15,003 |
9,586,577 | 1. A control system for a vehicle comprising: a drive system that includes a motor generator and an engine, the drive system outputs a driving force for a vehicle; an accelerator operation sensor that detects an operation amount of an accelerator; and an electronic control unit that is configured to: control the driving force output by the drive system, in accordance with the detected operation amount of the accelerator; and start at least one of the motor generator and the engine of the drive system when a change in the operation amount of the accelerator is detected by the accelerator operation sensor in a state that the drive system stops while the vehicle is traveling. | 49,393 |
9,741,100 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing a design of a plenoptic imaging system; improving the design of the plenoptic imaging system by iteratively: | 12,349 |
8,945,491 | 1. A method for extracting vanadium from shale, the method comprising the following steps: a) grinding the shale into fine powders, mixing the fine powders with an additive in a mass ratio of 1:0.04-0.12 to yield a mixture, heating the mixture to a temperature of between 850 and 950° C. at a heating rate of 5-9° C./min, and baking the mixture for between 30 and 90 min; b) immersing a product resulting from the baking in step a) in water to yield a first solution and a sediment, immersing the sediment in an acid to yield a second solution and a tailing, combining the first and the second solutions to yield a combined solution, and performing ion exchange adsorption on the combined solution using a styrene-divinylbenzene based macroporous anion-exchange resin; and c) desorbing the styrene-divinylbenzene based macroporous anion-exchange resin to yield a desorption solution, purifying the desorption solution to yield a purified solution, precipitating the purified solution to yield poly ammonium vanadate, and calcining the poly ammonium vanadate at a temperature of between 450 and 530° C. for between 20 and 50 min to yield vanadium oxide (V | 36,476 |
9,054,304 | 1. A resistive memory device, comprising: a lower electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate; a first variable resistor disposed on the lower electrode; a spacer surrounding an outer circumference of the variable resistor; an upper electrode disposed on the variable resistor; and an air-gap area adjacent to the first variable resistor and configured to insulate the first variable resistor, wherein the upper electrode does not cover a top portion of the air gap. | 29,927 |
9,472,702 | 1. A photovoltaic cell comprising: an n-type semiconductor layer that is composed of an n-type semiconductor material; a p-type semiconductor layer that is composed of a p-type semiconductor material; and a buried mask layer substantially situated between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, wherein: a plurality of nano-windows are defined in the buried mask layer, each said nano-window extending entirely through the buried mask layer; one of said n-type or p-type semiconductor layer underlies the buried mask layer such that a substantially planar upper surface of said underlying n-type or p-type semiconductor layer is adjacent to the buried mask layer; the other of said n-type or p-type semiconductor layer is a single, continuous semiconductor body that lies substantially over the buried mask layer, fills the plurality of nano-windows, and forms a respective interface with the substantially planar upper surface of the underlying semiconductor layer at each said nano-window; and a plurality of heterojunctions is formed between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, each said heterojunction being formed at a respective one of said interfaces, wherein the p-type semiconductor layer has a pseudomorphic crystal structure. | 12,597 |
8,822,745 | 1. A method to convert biomass derived pyrolysis oil into fuel range hydrocarbons comprising: a) providing a bio-oil feedstream comprising pyrolyzed biomass, b) mixing the bio-oil feedstream with an aqueous feedstream, c) separating an aqueous extract comprising oxygenates from the bio-oil feedstream and aqueous feedstream mixture, d) reacting the aqueous extract with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to generate a stabilized aqueous extract, and e) reacting the aqueous extract with a hydrogen donor feedstream in the presence of a zeolite catalyst to generate a renewable fuel comprising hydrocarbons. | 27,609 |
9,708,961 | 1. An electronic controller comprising: a NO a NO a NO | 1,320 |
9,021,498 | 1. A method for adjusting a Pause-loop exiting window value, the method comprising: one or more processors executing an exit instruction for a first virtual central processing unit (vCPU) in a virtualized computer environment based on the first vCPU exceeding a first Pause-loop exiting (PLE) window value; the one or more processors initiating a first directed yield from the first vCPU to a second vCPU in the virtualized computer environment; and the one or more processors determining whether the first directed yield was successfully completed, and in response, performing one of: | 16,325 |
8,872,732 | 1. A multi-display system comprising a plurality of liquid crystal display devices each of which includes a plurality of light intensity control areas, in each of which light intensity control areas a backlight intensity can be adjusted, wherein: liquid crystal display devices, which are adjacent to each other, are connected to each other communicatably via a communication section, each of the plurality of liquid crystal display devices comprises a light intensity output section and a light intensity correcting section, the light intensity output section is configured to set a backlight intensity of each of light intensity control areas belonging to a liquid crystal display device comprising the light intensity output section, the light intensity output section setting the backlight intensity on the basis of image data of an image to be displayed on the each of light intensity control areas, the light intensity correcting section is configured to perform a light intensity correction in which the backlight intensity of each of light intensity control areas belonging to a liquid crystal display device comprising the light intensity correcting section is corrected in accordance with backlight intensities of adjacent areas which are adjacent to the light intensity control area, in a case where another liquid crystal display device which is adjacent to the liquid crystal display device comprising the light intensity correcting section includes one of the adjacent areas, the light intensity correcting section accesses the another liquid crystal display device including the one of the adjacent areas via the communication section so as to obtain the backlight intensity of the one of the adjacent areas, in order to perform the light intensity correction in accordance with the obtained backlight intensity of the one of the adjacent areas, and the light intensity correcting section (i) treats, as a target area, all the light intensity control areas belonging to the liquid crystal display device comprising the light intensity correcting section one after another, (ii) determines whether or not the backlight intensity of the target area is smaller than a value obtained by multiplying a largest adjacent light intensity by 1/n, where n>1, the largest adjacent light intensity referring to a largest light intensity of the backlight intensities of the adjacent areas located adjacent to the target area, and (iii) does not correct the backlight intensity of the target area in a case where the backlight intensity of the target area is not smaller than the value obtained by multiplying the largest adjacent light intensity by 1/n, but corrects the backlight intensity of the target area to the value obtained by multiplying the largest adjacent light intensity by 1/n in a case where the backlight intensity of the target area is smaller than the value obtained by multiplying the largest adjacent light intensity by 1/n, such that, of backlight intensities of two light intensity control areas which are adjacent to each other, the smaller backlight intensity is not less than a value obtained by multiplying the larger backlight intensity by 1/n, causing reduction of a maximum value of differences in the backlight intensities between the two light intensity control areas which are adjacent to each other. | 45,189 |
9,605,277 | 1. A method for treating HIV infection in a human subject, comprising: (a) harvesting a hematopoietic cell from the subject; (b) gene-editing the hematopoietic cell by transfecting the hematopoietic cell with an in vitro transcribed synthetic RNA molecule encoding a gene-editing protein, wherein (c) administering the gene-edited hematopoietic cell to the subject to result in the treatment of HIV infection in the subject. | 42,217 |
8,820,449 | 1. An electric vehicle in which an output of a motor is transmitted to an axle through a reduction mechanism in order to rotate a wheel, wherein: the axle, which is slidably fitted to the wheel, passes through the wheel, and is substantially coaxially connected to the wheel for common rotation therewith, is a hollow cylindrical shaft; a brake for braking rotation of the wheel; the motor has a motor shaft inserted into and through the hollow cylindrical shaft substantially coaxially with the cylindrical shaft so as to extend from first and second ends of the hollow cylindrical shaft; wherein, on a first side of the wheel, the motor is connected to a base end of the motor shaft extending from the first end of the hollow cylindrical shaft; on a second side of the wheel, the reduction mechanism is connected to a leading end of the motor shaft that projects from the second end of the hollow cylindrical shaft; and the reduction mechanism rotates the hollow cylindrical shaft and the wheel in accordance with rotation of the motor shaft caused by driving of the motor; wherein the brake is disposed on the second side of the wheel, surrounds the axle and the motor shaft, and is disposed relatively between the wheel and the reduction mechanism. | 20,132 |
9,592,461 | 1. A filter element of a motor vehicle fuel filter, comprising: a filter body arranged within an interior of a filter housing, said filter body having a raw unfiltered side and a clean filtered side, said filter body including; wherein said filter element is configured for use in said filter housing. | 26,944 |
8,675,898 | 1. A ribbon microphone operable with a phantom power supply, comprising: an acoustic-electric converter including a pair of permanent magnets that forms a parallel magnetic field, and a diaphragm of metallic ribbon foil that is placed in the parallel magnetic field and vibrates in response to incoming sound waves; a step-up transformer coupled with the diaphragm on a primary winding side and having, on a secondary winding side, an output connector to which a phantom power supply is removably connected, the step-up transformer increasing a voltage generated by the diaphragm to a predetermined voltage, the voltage then being output to a phantom power supply side through the output connector, a switch connected across secondary windings, the switch being closed when a power is not supplied from the phantom power supply so that two ends of the diaphragm on the primary winding side are substantially short-circuited by an impedance ratio of the step-up transformer to form a closed circuit including the diaphragm to thereby generate a brake electromotive force to the diaphragm upon movement of the diaphragm, and two emitter follower circuits connected to the secondary windings, the emitter follower circuits being adapted to be connected to the output connector. | 43,250 |
8,720,832 | 1. A fastening element for fastening elongated materials in a motor vehicle, said fastening element comprising: an anchoring part engagable with a wall to which said fastening element is attached, said anchoring part including a base plate having an under surface and spreading arms extending out to free ends, each of said free ends including an anchoring element a seal defining an outer ring edge having a height and extending around said anchoring part, said seal being molded to said base plate as a 2-K component, whereby all of said anchoring elements of said free ends are positioned closer than said outer ring edge to said under surface such that said seal positively abuts the wall before said all of said anchoring elements engage the wall ensuring said seal seals the wall when said said anchoring elements engage the wall; at least one bar extending along the elongated material, said at least one bar including a contact surface for a cable tie, wherein said at least one bar defines a radius on its front face, which radius corresponds to a radius of the elongated material to be installed; and at least one support for a second elongated material. | 2,974 |
9,664,446 | 1. A method for producing aggregate materials and calcium carbonate from concrete aggregate, said method comprising the following steps: providing a rotary kiln comprising a kiln chamber formed as a reaction chamber, the rotary kiln being arranged at an incline relative to the horizontal; at least partially filling said reaction chamber with water to provide a water bath; introducing bulk material comprising concrete aggregate into said reaction chamber; feeding a gas comprising carbon dioxide into the reaction chamber; comminuting the bulk material in the reaction chamber; allowing the concrete aggregate and the gas comprising carbon dioxide to react with one another to form reaction products in the reaction chamber; rotating said rotary kiln such that the bulk material is guided continuously into said water bath and out therefrom during the comminution and the reaction; and removing the reaction products from the reaction chamber. | 35,095 |
8,787,605 | 1. A method for processing an audio signal received by a hearing assistance device, the method comprising: filtering the audio signal to generate a high frequency filtered signal, the filtering performed at a splitting frequency; transposing at least a portion of an audio spectrum of the filtered signal to a lower frequency range by a transposition process to produce a transposed audio signal; and summing the transposed audio signal with the audio signal to generate an output signal, wherein the transposition process uses a prototype spectral peak modulated by a sinusoid having a time varying amplitude and frequency to control a center frequency and magnitude of a translated spectral feature. | 15,697 |
8,678,006 | 1. A patient support system for reducing the formation of bedsores on a patient positioned on an operating room table, the system comprising; a plurality of no-air-loss air cells, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of no-air-loss cells are configured to engage the operating room table, and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of no-air-loss air cells form a no-air-loss patient support surface; at least one fluid pump coupled to the plurality of no-air-loss air cells; at least one pressure release valve coupled to the plurality of no-air-loss air cells; at least one pressure sensor coupled to the plurality of no-air-loss air cells; a computer having a processor, wherein the computer is coupled to the at least one fluid pump, the at least one pressure release valve and the at least one pressure sensor, wherein the at least one pressure sensor is configured to send a pressure signal to the computer representing the air pressure within at least a portion of the plurality of no-air-loss air cells, wherein the computer is configured to: activate at least one of the at least one fluid pump and the at least one pressure release valve if e sensed air .ressure differs from a desired air pressure set point: and close the patient support system when the sensed air pressure within at least a portion of the plurality of no-air-loss air cells is within a predetermined tolerance of the desired air pressure set point in a loaded condition, wherein, when the patient support system in closed, no adjustments to the air pressure within the plurality no-air-loss air cells are subsequently made. | 42,859 |
9,843,875 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving an audio input signal at a first hearing assistance device for a wearer; analyzing the audio input signal, identifying characteristics of the audio input signal, and calculating a first set of target parameters for frequency lowered cues from the characteristics; transmitting the first set of calculated target parameters from the first hearing assistance device to a second hearing assistance device; receiving a second set of calculated target parameters at the first hearing assistance device from the second hearing assistance device; deriving from the first set and the second set of calculated target parameters a third set of target parameters using a programmable criteria, including using binaural smoothing over time on the first set and the second set of calculated target parameters to prevent artifacts; and generating frequency lowered auditory cues from the audio signal using the derived third set of target parameters, wherein the derived third set of target parameters is used in both the first hearing assistance device and the second hearing assistance device for binaurally coordinated frequency lowering. | 7,460 |
9,569,165 | 1. A playback apparatus comprising: a display; a first operation unit positioned at a lateral side of the playback apparatus; a second operation unit positioned at the lateral side of the information processing apparatus and separated from the first operation unit; and circuitry configured to output an audio signal selected from a plurality of audio signals, wherein the circuitry is configured to notify a group identification information, to which the audio signal belongs, with a sound, and wherein the first operation unit is configured to perform a first predetermined function based on a rotating operation and a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function based on a pushing-in operation, and wherein the second operation unit is configured to perform a third predetermined function different from the first predetermined function and the second predetermined function, when the second operation unit is pushed. | 31,449 |
9,786,935 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell that generates electric power upon a reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas; a radiator that releases heat of coolant that cools the fuel cell; a coolant pump that circulates the coolant; a temperature detection device that detects a temperature of the coolant; a coolant introduction path that introduces the coolant to the fuel cell; a coolant discharge path that discharges the coolant that has already flowed through the fuel cell; a radiator circulation path that supplies the coolant through the radiator and circulates it from the coolant discharge path to the coolant introduction path; a bypass circulation path that bypasses the radiator and circulates the coolant from the coolant discharge path to the coolant introduction path; a flow path switching valve that is provided at a connection part between the bypass circulation path and the coolant introduction path or between the bypass circulation path and the coolant discharge path, and that is configured to supply the coolant to the bypass circulation path in a case where a temperature of the coolant becomes lower than or equal to a first temperature threshold value while the fuel cell is generating electric power; and a control portion configured to perform rapid cooling control of the fuel cell after the fuel cell has stopped generating electric power, wherein the control portion comprises a flow path switching control device configured to control the flow path switching valve in rapid cooling control of the fuel cell so as to supply the coolant to the radiator circulation path until a temperature of the coolant becomes a second temperature threshold value that is lower than the first temperature threshold value, wherein the flow path switching valve is a thermostat valve comprising a heater configured to heat the thermostat valve and to allow the thermostat valve to open and close regardless of the temperature of the coolant, and wherein the flow path switching control device is configured to supply the coolant to the radiator circulation path until the temperature of the coolant becomes the second temperature threshold value due to control of heat application to the thermostat valve performed by the heater, even when the temperature of the coolant becomes lower than or equal to the first temperature threshold value, after the fuel cell has stopped generating electric power. | 25,688 |
9,653,405 | 1. A chip arrangement, comprising: a metallic carrier; at least one chip arranged on the metallic carrier, wherein the at least one chip comprises a chip contact, wherein the chip contact is electrically coupled to the metallic carrier; encapsulation material at least partially encapsulating the at least one chip; and an electrically conductive shielding structure formed over at least a portion of the encapsulation material to electrically contact the metallic carrier; wherein the electrically conductive shielding structure is formed over a first main surface of the encapsulation material, a first sidewall of the encapsulation material and a sidewall of the metallic carrier, the first sidewall of the encapsulating material and the sidewall of the metallic carrier being in the same plane; wherein a second sidewall of the encapsulation material, which is opposite the first sidewall of the encapsulation material is substantially free of the electrically conductive shielding structure; wherein the electrically conductive shielding structure is configured to shield the at least one chip from electromagnetic radiation. | 40,125 |
9,608,457 | 1. A charging device for commonly charging multiple digital electronic devices, comprising: a housing; a charge control unit mounted inside the housing and having multiple relays; and multiple outlet strips electrically connected to the charge control unit with each outlet strip electrically connected to one of the multiple relays; wherein the charge control unit activates all of the multiple relays, records a current value of each outlet strip, configures a total outlet current threshold, and generates multiple charge schedules included in a charge cycle with a combination selected from the multiple outlet strips performing charging in each charge schedule of the charge cycle; wherein the multiple charge schedules are identical to the multiple outlet strips in number; wherein the combination of each charge schedule includes at least one of the multiple outlet strips to perform charging during the charge schedule, wherein a total current value of the at least one of the multiple outlet strips in the charge schedule does not exceed the total outlet current threshold, with all of the multiple outlet strips to perform charging in the multiple charge schedules, wherein the charge control unit sequentially reads each combination selected from the multiple outlet strips in each charge schedule of the charge cycle to activate the relay corresponding to the at least one of the multiple outlet strips in the combination for the at least one of the multiple outlet strips to perform charging during the charge schedule; wherein the charge control unit sets up an irregular current value and selects one of the multiple outlet strips whose current value has not been acquired yet when deactivating all of the multiple relays and recording a current value of each outlet strip, activates the relay corresponding to the selected outlet strip, acquires current from the selected outlet strip, determines if the current value is higher than the irregular current value, deactivates all of the multiple relays if the current is higher than the irregular current value, and selects another outlet strip whose current value has not been acquired yet until the current values of all of the multiple outlet strips are recorded if the current value is not higher than the irregular current value. | 38,683 |
9,019,599 | 1. A total internal reflection fluorescence imaging apparatus, comprising: a metal nanostructure layer including a metal thin film and a nanostructure formed on the metal thin film; a light source unit configured to provide incident light such that the incident light is totally reflected off the metal nanostructure layer and an evanescent wave localized in a horizontal direction of the light source unit is created between the metal nanostructure layer and a biological specimen arranged on the metal nanostructure layer; and a fluorescence image extracting unit configured to extract and image a fluorescence signal generated by the biological specimen due to the evanescent wave localized in a horizontal direction of the fluorescence image extracting unit, wherein the metal nanostructure layer further comprises a metal grid formed over the metal thin film, and a plurality of nanostructures are formed over the metal grid. | 25,170 |
9,590,601 | 1. A magnetic waveform generator circuit, the circuit comprising: a first switch coupled to a first rectifier element at a first node; a first capacitor coupled, at a second node to the first switch, and to a fourth node; a second capacitor coupled, at a third node to the first rectifier element, and to the fourth node; an inductor coupled between the first and the fourth nodes; a second switch coupled to a second rectifier element at the first node, wherein the first switch is coupled in parallel to the second diode and the second switch is coupled in parallel to the first diode; and a first and a second dipole switch and a third and fourth capacitor, wherein: the first switch is operable to be in an ON state during a first time period and in an off state during a second time period, the first switch and the first rectifier element are configured to enable the inductor to generate, during the first and the second time periods, a magnetic field having a waveform resembling a positive half-cycle of a triangular waveform, the second switch and the second rectifier element are configured to enable the inductor to generate, during a third and a fourth time periods, a magnetic field having a waveform resembling a negative half-cycle of the triangular waveform, the first dipole switch is operable, in a first state, to couple the second node through the third capacitor to the first capacitor, and the second dipole switch is operable, in a first state, to couple the third node through the fourth capacitor to the second capacitor to allow generation of a high amplitude triangular magnetic field waveform. | 4,929 |
9,755,697 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a waveguide system comprising a non-conducting dielectric coupler and an antenna, wherein the non-conducting dielectric coupler is positioned with respect to a non-conducting dielectric transmission medium, wherein the non-conducting dielectric coupler facilitates a transmission of first electromagnetic waves that propagate along the non-conducting dielectric transmission medium, wherein the antenna facilitates conversion of the first electromagnetic waves to first wireless signals directed to a recipient device, and wherein the first electromagnetic waves are generated from source electromagnetic waves that propagate along the non-conducting dielectric coupler without requiring an electrical return path; and a sensor that facilitates sensing a condition that is adverse to the propagation of the first electromagnetic waves along the non-conducting dielectric transmission medium. | 23,639 |
9,555,903 | 1. A method of diagnosing a bleed air system fault in an aircraft, comprising: receiving a temperature sensor signal from a temperature sensor associated with the bleed air system of an engine of the aircraft, and a fan speed signal indicative of a fan speed of an engine of the aircraft, wherein the temperature sensor signal is indicative of a pre-cooler outlet temperature of the engine; receiving a temperature sensor signal from a temperature sensor associated with the bleed air system, and a fan speed signal indicative of a fan speed of an engine of the aircraft; comparing the temperature sensor signal and fan speed signal to reference values; determining, based on the comparing, an increasing pre-cooler outlet temperature trend versus historic data and a shift in a relationship between pre-cooler outlet temperature and fan speed; in response to determining the increasing pre-cooler outlet temperature trend versus historic data and the shift in the relationship between pre-cooler outlet temperature and fan speed, diagnosing a fault in the bleed air system; and providing an indication of the diagnosed fault. | 19,058 |
8,377,235 | 1. A process for forming a steel component comprising the steps of: providing a blank having substantially the volume of the component to be formed, heating the blank to a semi solid state having about a specific liquid fraction, forming the blank with a forging technique into a component having approximate desired final dimensions, subjecting the formed component to a normalization combined with a hardening, machining the normalized and hardened component to the desired final dimensions. | 8,925 |
8,999,249 | 1. An apparatus for reforming of hydrocarbons including recovery of products, the apparatus comprising: a hot separator configured to receive and separate a reforming-zone effluent that comprises H a product condenser configured to receive and partially condense the H a product separator configured to receive and separate the partially condensed H a re-contacting recovery zone in fluid communication with the hot separator and the product separator to receive the C a plurality of re-contact drums in fluid communication with each other for separating liquid and/or gas phase fractions of the C | 43,872 |
9,660,897 | 1. A method for constructing a path across a plurality of interior gateway protocol (IGP) routing domains, the method comprising: generating, with a network device external to the IGP routing domains, a routing message that conforms to an exterior gateway protocol (EGP) and includes EGP reachability information that encodes interior gateway protocol (IGP) link state information for the plurality of IGP routing domains, wherein the EGP reachability information encodes the path within the IGP link state information as a sequence of IGP path segments associated with the plurality of IGP routing domains; and outputting, from the network device and in accordance with the EGP, the routing message to a plurality of routing devices, each of the routing devices being associated with a one of the IGP routing domains. | 20,356 |
9,852,260 | 1. A method for reducing chemo-epitaxy directed-self assembly (DSA) defects of a layout of a guiding pattern, the method comprising: detecting a vertical spacing between a first portion of the guiding pattern and a second portion of the guiding pattern; inserting an internal dummy between the first portion of the guiding pattern and the second portion of the guiding pattern if the vertical spacing is equal to or greater than a first predetermined distance; inserting a first external dummy along an external edge of the guiding pattern in a vertical direction if the vertical spacing is greater than a second predetermined distance; determining a first distance from the external edge of the guiding pattern to an edge of the first external dummy adjacent to the external edge; and inserting an anti-taper structure on the first external dummy if a second distance from the external edge of the guiding pattern to the edge of the first external dummy is greater than the first distance. | 43,831 |
8,548,789 | 1. A method of modeling an axial and radial fuel rod by fuel rod power distribution of a nuclear fuel assembly by determining a neutronic cross section for each fuel rod within the fuel assembly individually over a number of axial increments, comprising the steps of: a) defining 2×2 radial nodes per assembly for each of the axial increments and calculating a three dimensional node average and surface flux distribution for each 2×2 node; b) calculating a reference kappa-fission, absorption, and neutron flux form factors for each fuel rod based on a number of reference values and local conditions based upon a reference history; c) calculating actual pin neutronic cross-sections (taking into account kappa-fission and absorption) for each of the axial increments by applying a fuel rod fast fluence correction to the results obtained in step b), and adjusting the fuel rod flux form factors using the following equation: wherein f d) generating homogeneous neutron flux values for an adjacent group of fuel rods in the fuel assembly; e) calculating a number of heterogeneous neutron fluxes of each of the adjacent group of fuel rods respectively from the homogeneous neutron flux values obtained in step d) and the neutron flux form factors; f) using a fuel rod axial interaction correction model to adjust the heterogeneous neutron fluxes to take into account an axial interaction of each fuel rod between different axial levels; and g) determining the power for each fuel rod from a constant times the sum of a product of the calculated kappa-fissions and the heterogeneous neutron fluxes over a number of energy groups. | 9,347 |
8,642,072 | 1. A membrane for supporting growth of cells, the membrane being non-biodegradable and porous, wherein pores of said membrane are between approximately 0.2 μm and 0.5 μm diameter, wherein pore density of the membrane is between 1×10 7 and 3×10 8 pores per cm 2 , said membrane comprising a layer of retinal pigment epithelial cells, or retinal pigment epithelial cell precursors, or retinal derivative cells formed from the differentiation of retinal pigment epithelial cells on the membrane. | 20,792 |
9,137,391 | 1. An information processing system comprising: an output device configured to output an image; and a relay server configured to communicate with the output device and one or more web servers which are different from the relay server and which store a plurality of images, wherein the relay server comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires size information which corresponds to sizes of the plurality of images from the one or more web servers, wherein the size information does not include the plurality of images; a receiving unit that receives performance information corresponding to an output performance of the output device from the output device; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the output device, location information indicating a storing location of an image, among the plurality of images, having a size corresponding to the output performance in the one or more web servers, based on the size information and the performance information, wherein the output device acquires the image from the storing location indicated by the location information transmitted from the relay server, by communication with the one or more web servers without communicating with the relay server. | 28,222 |
9,111,680 | 1. A process for producing an electrolytic capacitor comprising: (a) providing an electrode body of an electrode material and a dielectric which covers the surface of this electrode material, (b) covering completely or partially the dielectric surface with a solid electrolyte comprising a conductive polymer, wherein the solid electrolyte is produced by using a solution or a dispersion of a conjugated polymer being present in particles having a mean diameter of 1-10000 nm, (c) applying a crosslinker e) on the solid electrolyte, and (d) applying a solution a) or a dispersion a) of a conjugated polymer to form a polymeric outer layer. | 21,895 |
8,608,624 | 1. An exercising apparatus for allowing mobility recovery and slimming activities during crawling movements of the body, comprising: a) an endless sport mat on top of which said activities are performable, said mat comprising an outer layer made of a soft and elastic material, and an inner layer contiguous with said outer layer and made of a rigid, protective material; b) a plurality of horizontally spaced rollers about which said inner layer of said endless mat is looped, front and rear driving rollers, and at least three supporting rollers for supporting a selected middle body area of a user in direct contact with said endless mat during performance of crawling movements, said at least three supporting rollers being interposed between said front and rear driving rollers in such a way that adjacent supporting rollers are not in abutting relation with each other, the axis of each of said at least three supporting rollers being essentially horizontally disposed and coplanar; c) a rigid frame, for housing, and to which are rotatably mounted, said plurality of rollers; and d) a plurality of stands connected to said frame for stabilizing said apparatus on top of a suitable surface; wherein said apparatus is manually driven, wherein said mat outer and inner layers have a sufficient combined degree of flexibility in the vertical direction so that one or more of said at least three supporting rollers is felt by said selected middle body area of the user during performance of said crawling movements, wherein each of said supporting rollers is sufficiently spaced from an adjacent supporting roller such that said endless mat is depressible under the weight of the user during said crawling movements thereon between said front and rear driving rollers, causing said plurality of supporting rollers to be rotated and said endless mat to be manually driven, whereby said exercising apparatus massages said selected body area of the user by means of said plurality of supporting rollers in response to a magnitude and direction of forces applied to said plurality of supporting rollers during performance of said crawling movements. | 3,986 |
9,400,669 | 1. A computer program product for managing virtual appliances, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being configured to: interconnect a plurality of virtual appliances in a communication chain formed according to a rules table in each of the plurality of virtual appliances; provide, via a hypervisor, a plurality of software services executable within each of the virtual appliances; provide, for each virtual appliance, a first rules module corresponding to the plurality of software services, wherein the first rules module in a first virtual appliance is different than a second rules module in a second virtual appliance; determine for a data packet passed through the communication chain of virtual appliances whether a first virtual appliance receiving the data packet should execute one or more software services according to the first rules module of the first virtual appliance or pass the data packet on to the second virtual appliance, wherein the data packet is returned to the hypervisor in response to execution of the plurality of software service, wherein the first virtual appliance and the second virtual appliance are among the communication chain of virtual appliances; move a selected one of the virtual appliances by creating a new instance of the second virtual appliance, and change the rules table in the first virtual appliance in a new communication chain of virtual appliances; and wherein the move of the selected one of the virtual appliances moves the selected one of the virtual appliances from a first physical server to a second physical server. | 44,701 |
9,494,582 | 1. An oligonucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21. | 1,159 |
8,425,805 | 1. A conductive polymer film obtained by polymerizing a monomer for a conductive polymer with a polymerization liquid containing the monomer for a conductive polymer, an oxidant, and an additive at a molar content ratio with respect to monomer between two and five, wherein the additive comprises a salt formed of a dopant and a basic substance represented by the following formula: wherein R1 and R2 are selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group represented by CnH(2n+1), an alkoxy group represented by CnH(2n+1)O, a carboxylate group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a nitro group, an allyl group and an aryl group and wherein each of the benzene ring and pyridine ring may be multi-substituted bodies having a plurality of R1 or R2. | 19,513 |
9,588,127 | 1. A method of determining the likelihood that a pulmonary nodule in a subject is not lung cancer, comprising: (a) contacting a blood sample obtained from the subject with a proteolytic enzyme to produce peptide fragments from a panel of proteins present in the blood sample, wherein the panel comprises ALDOA, FRIL, LG3BP, TSP1, and COIA1; (b) combining the produced peptide fragments from the panel from step (a) with labeled, synthetic peptide fragments which correspond to the produced peptide fragments from the panel; (c) performing selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry to measure the abundance of the peptide fragments from step (b); (d) calculating a probability of lung cancer score based on the peptide fragment measurements of step (c); and (e) ruling out lung cancer for the subject if the score in step (d) is lower than a pre-determined score. | 2,256 |
8,649,185 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an elastomeric substrate; a plurality of transducer modules mounted on the elastomeric substrate; another elastomeric substrate; a plurality of additional transducer modules mounted on the another elastomeric substrate; wherein each transducer module of the plurality of transducer modules and the plurality of additional transducer modules comprising: a transducer array having multiple transducer elements; and electronic circuitry coupled to the transducer array; and wherein the plurality of transducer modules and the plurality of additional transducer modules are mounted relative to each other whereby the plurality of additional transducer modules substantially cover any dead zones of the plurality of transducer modules. | 30,622 |
9,333,246 | 1. A composition comprising: a) non-viable yeast cells b) an antigen from wherein the composition is formulated for administration to a subject, and wherein the composition induces a cell-mediated immune response in a subject. | 23,673 |
9,755,720 | 1. Apparatus, comprising at least one processor, at least one memory, and computer-readable code stored on the at least one memory, wherein the computer-readable code when executed controls the at least one processor to perform a method comprising: storing by the apparatus, at least one three-dimensional matrix C[M][N][K] of calibration data, wherein M is an azimuth angle range 0 to 360 degree, N is an elevation angle range 0 to 90 degree, and K is channels to transmit or receive signal, wherein the calibration data is antenna array calibration data; compressing by the apparatus, the calibration data to produce compressed calibration data, at least a portion of which is wirelessly transmitted to a mobile device using a wireless carrier, the compressed calibration data being capable of being decompressed by the mobile device for use in determining a bearing, the compressing the calibration data comprising the steps of: | 24,186 |
8,871,288 | 1. A method of imparting or intensifying an umami flavor comprising adding to a substance (a) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of compounds of Formulae (I) and (ent-I) the aromatic radical Ar is selected from the group consisting of: and wherein (b) optionally, one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of Formulae (II), (ent-II), (III), (ent-III), (IV), and (ent-IV): | 45,833 |
9,688,280 | 1. A traction control device comprising: a drive power source that outputs drive power to a drive wheel of a vehicle; a vehicle speed sensor that detects the wheel speed of a non-drive wheel of the vehicle; and an electronic control unit for generating a target restricted speed for the vehicle by determining the state of a road surface from target slip ratio of the vehicle, the wheel speed of the non-drive wheel, and a signal indicating the extent of operation of an accelerator by a driver, wherein the target restricted speed generated by the electronic control unit is switched stepwise in a speed region where the speed of the drive wheel is not detected in correspondence with a control mode that is classified according to the slipperiness of a road surface. | 15,506 |
9,490,549 | 1. A plug connector for connecting with a cable, comprising: an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity; an upper terminal module including an upper insulator insert molded with a plurality of upper terminals, the upper terminal comprising a pair of upper power terminals and a pair of upper grounding terminals; a lower terminal module including a lower insulator insert molded with a plurality of lower terminals, the lower terminals comprises a pair of lower power terminals and a pair of lower grounding terminals; a metallic latch comprising a pair of front side arms extending into the receiving cavity and a tail section; the upper and lower terminals comprising front contacting sections arranged on opposite sides of the receiving cavity and tail sections embedded in the corresponding insulators; wherein the tail sections of the upper power and grounding terminals expose to a lower surface of the upper insulator; the tail portions of the lower power and grounding terminals expose to an upper surface of the lower insulator; wherein the tail sections of upper and lower power terminals are confronted with each other one by one, the tail sections of the upper and lower grounding terminals are confronted with each other after the upper and lower terminal module are inserted in the insulative housing to define a supporting platform behind the insulative housing; wherein the supporting platform defines opposite first supporting surface and second supporting surface, wherein the second supporting surface of the solder platform is located with an addendum power soldering leg and a detect soldering leg, which two are connecting with each other via a resister, the upper terminal module is insert molded with a detect terminal, the detecting soldering leg extends from the detect terminal. | 17,293 |
9,809,228 | 1. A wearable device comprising: a main body configured to be worn by a user; a sensing unit configured to sense a biological signal of the user; a controller configured to: collect log information including information relating to the biological signal of the user and information relating to a state of the user; store an index pattern that indicates a correspondence between the information relating to the biological signal of the user with the information relating to the state of the user that are included in the collected log information; determine a reference driving index that indicates values of the stored index pattern that are suitable for the user to drive a vehicle, wherein when the stored index pattern is changed based on the biological signal that is accumulated for a predetermined period of time, the reference driving index is updated; based on detecting a vehicle entry event for the user, determine, relative to the reference driving index, a current driving index corresponding to the biological signal of the user that is sensed during a period of time extending before and after the vehicle entry event for the user; and output feedback for notifying the user of the state of the user corresponding to a result of determining the current driving index, wherein the reference driving index and the current driving index each includes a stress index and a drowsiness index, wherein the reference driving index includes threshold values of the stress index and the drowsiness index for which the stress index and the drowsiness index are suitable for the user to safely drive a vehicle, wherein the stress index and the drowsiness index each includes an index ascending section and an index recovering section, and wherein the controller is further configured to, based on determining that the current driving index is not suitable for the user to drive: | 47,397 |
9,032,930 | 1. A combustion control device for an engine having a piston disposed so as to be able to move up and down in a reciprocating manner within a cylinder and performing premixed charge compression ignition combustion, the device comprising: a fuel injection valve for injecting a fuel into a combustion chamber formed by the cylinder and piston; and injection valve control means for controlling the fuel injection valve so as to inject the fuel a plurality of times in portions; wherein an upper part of the piston is provided with a recessed cavity forming a part of the combustion chamber; wherein an upper end part of an inner wall face of the piston forming the cavity is provided with a lip projecting inwardly of the piston; wherein the injection valve control means has first control means for controlling the fuel injection valve so as to start an initial fuel injection when the piston arrives at a first elevation point before a compression top dead center and second control means for controlling the fuel injection valve so as to terminate a final fuel injection by the time when the piston arrives at a second elevation point located closer to the compression dead center than is the first elevation point; wherein the first elevation point is such a position that the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve reaches the lip but falls short of reaching a bore wall of the cylinder; and wherein the second elevation point is such a position that the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve reaches the lip but falls short of reaching a region under the lip in the cavity. | 11,664 |
8,709,793 | 1. A bioreactor device, comprising: at least one millifluidic bioreactor chamber for containing a sample greater than about 10 μL in volume, in local medium volume of less than approximately 1 mL, the bioreactor chamber configured to deliver a plurality of types of mechanical and electrical stimulation to a sample contained in the bioreactor chamber; plates on opposing sides of the bioreactor chamber for containing the sample there between; the bioreactor chamber including at least one inlet flow channel and at least one outlet flow channel, the inlet and outlet flow channels configured for periodic and/or continuous perfusion of the medium through the bioreactor chamber; an optical port for obtaining measurements of the sample contained in the bioreactor chamber; and a fluid circuit in connection with the bioreactor chamber for controlling perfusion of the medium to the bioreactor chamber, wherein the fluid circuit includes a reservoir having at least one septum that divides the reservoir into multiple compartments and regulates fluid flow and fluid mixing between the multiple compartments. | 37,952 |
9,554,659 | 1. An infant sleep pod comprising: a base including: an insertion space above the foot portion enabling insertion of an infant to the infant receiving area; and a bridge coupled to the base and extending across the head portion and forming a protective structure above the head portion, the bridge including | 12,560 |
8,856,029 | 1. A computer-implemented method for regulating the receipt of data transmitted from a messaging device, comprising: initializing a security application that includes a blocking application; automatically configuring user settings for the blocking application, the automatically configured user settings being based at least in part on a statistical report indicating one or more settings of a plurality of users, wherein the automatically configured user settings include any combination of keyword, time, and location settings, the keyword, time, and location settings being based on settings of a majority of the plurality of users from the statistical report; detecting incoming data transmitted from the messaging device, the incoming data comprising advertisement data, wherein the messaging device is a short-range broadcasting device; and blocking the incoming data from being displayed on the messaging device, the incoming data being blocked based on at least the automatically configured user settings for the blocking application. | 37,058 |
8,954,595 | 1. A method for managing on a client a difference between a rate of consumption of responses received from a server and a rate of production of requests transmitted to the server, the method comprising: intercepting, by an acceleration program on the client, a request by an application to access a server, the acceleration program communicating with the server on behalf of the application via a transport layer connection; receiving, by the acceleration program via the transport layer connection, a plurality of responses from the server; storing, by the acceleration program, the plurality of received responses from the server in a buffer of the client; consuming, by the client from the buffer, the plurality of stored received responses at a protocol layer above a transport layer of the transport layer connection; determining, by the acceleration program, a difference between a rate of consumption of stored received responses from the buffer at the protocol layer and a rate of production of requests transmitted by the client falls below a predetermined threshold; storing, by the acceleration program, and responsive to the determination, the request in a memory element of the client; and determining, by the acceleration program, to transmit the stored request based on a change in one of the rate of consumption or the rate of production by the client. | 24,377 |
9,580,718 | 1. A recombinant attenuated derivative of a pathogenic enteric Salmonella bacterium comprising a nucleic acid encoding an antigen and at least one of the following: a) a regulatable promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a b) a regulatable promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding an c) a regulatable promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a | 34,503 |
8,706,366 | 1. An apparatus for controlling an engine of a vehicle using height information, comprising: a height information management unit configured to store height information; a travelling information management unit configured to store travelling information of the vehicle, the travelling information including a position of the vehicle; a vehicle information detector configured to transmit vehicle state information to the idling controller through sensors; and an idling controller configured to detect an idling state of the vehicle based on the vehicle state information transmitted from the vehicle information detector, and to extract travelling information of the vehicle from the travelling information unit when the vehicle is stopped and a time period elapses after stopping, and to extract one or more items of height information from the height information management unit according to the position of the vehicle included in the travelling information to determine a slope of the vehicle, wherein the idling controller is configured to control an idling of the vehicle according to the determined slope of the vehicle. | 49,766 |
8,557,227 | 1. A sunscreen composition comprising a combination of UV filters consisting of: octocrylene, avobenzone, octisalate, and homosalate, and optionally oxybenzone in the following amounts: 2 to 7 wt. % octocrylene; 1 to 3 wt. % avobenzone; 0 to 1 wt. % oxybenzone; 1 to 5 wt. % octisalate; and 2 to 10 wt. % homosalate; provided that the ratio of each filter relative to avobenzone is as follows: the ratio of octocrylene to avobenzone is 1.6:1.0 to 2.4:1.0, the ratio of oxybenzone to avobenzone 0.0:1.0 to 0.016:1.0, the ratio of octisalate to avobenzone is 1.3:1.0 to 2.0:1.0, and the ratio of homosalate to avobenzone is 2.3:1.0 to 3.6:1. | 17,921 |
9,637,409 | 1. A glass composition consisting of (a) 45-81 wt % B 2 O 3 , (b) 1-7 wt % Na 2 O, (c) 0.1-5 wt % Al 2 O 3 , (d) 0.1-2 wt % Li 2 O, (e) 0.5-6 wt % TiO 2 , (f) 0.1-9 wt % ZnO (g) 4-25 wt % BaO, and no lead, no bismuth and no vanadium. | 2,283 |
9,109,015 | 1. A method of purifying a composition containing a recombinant protein and an impurity, the method comprising: (a) lowering the pH of the composition to a pH range of about 3.0 to about 6.5; (b) adding a divalent cation selected from the group consisting of Co (c) separating the protein from the impurity, wherein the protein comprises an antibody or a fusion protein comprising an Fc region, which is produced by a recombinant eukaryotic host cell, wherein the composition comprises a harvest feed of the recombinant eukaryotic host cell, wherein the addition of the divalent cation increases the recovery of the protein by greater than 3% compared to the amount of protein recovered without the addition of the divalent cation, and wherein the separating of (c) is performed by subjecting the composition to centrifugation, the centrifugation forming a supernatant and a precipitate wherein the protein is substantially in the supernatant, or wherein the separating of (c) is performed by filtering the composition, the filtering forming a permeate stream and a retentate stream wherein the protein is substantially in the permeate stream, and wherein (a) and (b) are carried out sequentially in any order before (c). | 8,617 |
9,817,069 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating test patterns, the method comprising: receiving, at a first spreading network of XOR logic gates, a plurality of scan inputs from a tester; feeding, with outputs of the first spreading network, a linear shift register; updating, using the outputs of the first spreading network, bits in the linear shift register, each bit of the linear shift register being shifted at each shift cycle for a plurality of shift cycles, wherein one of the outputs of the first spreading network is shifted between a plurality of shift registers of the linear shift register; feeding a set of outputs from the linear shift register to a second spreading network of XOR logic gates; and feeding a set of outputs from the second spreading network to a set of scan channels. | 24,895 |
8,497,824 | 1. A pixel comprising: an organic light emitting diode connected between a first power supply and a second power supply; a first transistor connected between the first power supply and the organic light emitting diode, wherein a gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to a first node; a second transistor connected between the first node and a data line, wherein the gate electrode of the second transistor is connected to a scanning line; a third transistor connected between the first power supply and a first electrode of the first transistor, wherein a gate electrode of the third transistor is connected to a light emitting control line; a fourth transistor connected between an access node of the first transistor, and the second power supply, which is turned on during a scanning period in which the second transistor is turned on; and first and second capacitors connected between the first power supply and the first node, wherein an access node of the first and second capacitors is connected to the access node of the first and third transistors, wherein a gate electrode of the fourth transistor is connected to the scanning line. | 5,324 |
8,508,266 | 1. A digital phase locked loop circuit comprising: a time-to-digital converter (TDC) configured to receive an input reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal and produce a first digital feedback signal; an adder configured to add said first digital feedback signal from a first feedback loop and a second digital feedback signal from a second feedback loop and produce a digital adder output; a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) configured to receive said digital adder output and produce a DCO output clock signal, said DCO output clock signal being locked in phase to said input reference clock signal. | 33,976 |
9,617,231 | 1. A hydrochloride salt of the following compound: | 32,209 |
8,343,388 | 1. An electrode having a porous active coating layer, comprising: (a) an electrode having an electrode collector coated with electrode active materials; and (b) a porous active coating layer formed on at least one surface of the electrode and having a mixture of a plurality of inorganic particles and a binder polymer formed thereon; wherein: (i) the binder polymer comprises a mixture of first and second binder polymers, the first binder polymer selected from the group consisting of cyanoethylpullulan, cyanoethylpolyvinylalcohol, cyanoethylcellulose, cyanoethylsucrose and mixtures thereof, and the second binder polymer selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene, polyvinylidene fluoride-co-trichloroethylene, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyvinylacetate, polyethylene-co-vinyl acetate, polyimide, polyethylene oxide, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate propionate and mixtures thereof; (ii) the first binder polymer having higher polarity than that of the second binder polymer; and (iii) the porous active layer shows heterogeneity of composition morphology toward a thickness direction in which a content ratio of the binder polymer/inorganic particles present in a surface region of the porous active layer is higher than that of the binder polymer/inorganic particles present inside the porous active layer. | 22,664 |
8,574,773 | 1. A battery electrolyte solution comprising at least one lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent in which the lithium salt is soluble, wherein from 0.01 to 80% by weight of the battery electrolyte solution is at least one aromatic phosphorus compound represented by the structure: wherein R | 46,348 |
9,819,187 | 1. A power supply device for an HVDC controller, comprising: a first High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter unit connected to an active power grid; a second HVDC converter unit connected to a passive power grid, the second HVDC converter unit being capable of receiving first DC power from the first HVDC converter unit by being connected to the first HVDC converter unit via a Direct Current (DC) transmission line; and an HVDC controller, arranged in the second HVDC converter unit, for receiving the first DC power, applied from the first HVDC converter unit to the second HVDC converter unit, by being connected to the DC transmission line that connects the first HVDC converter unit with the second HVDC converter unit, wherein the HVDC controller includes a voltage distributor and a DC-DC converter, wherein the voltage distributor receives the first DC power and outputs second DC power which is acquired by dividing the first DC power and is lower than the first DC power, and wherein the DC-DC converter is configured to receive the second DC power by being connected to the voltage distributor, to convert the second DC power into actuating power to be used by the HVDC controller, and to output the actuating power. | 15,984 |
9,782,682 | 1. A wet play structure for traversal by a user comprising: a non-harnessed course; and a harnessed course adjacent to the non-harnessed course, the harnessed course including: | 780 |
9,562,416 | 1. A downhole tool useable for isolating sections of a wellbore, the downhole tool comprising: a mandrel made of a composite material, the mandrel further comprising: a bearing plate disposed around the mandrel, the bearing plate comprising an angled inner plate surface configured for engagement with the angled linear transition surface; a composite slip disposed around the mandrel proximate to the proximate end, the composite slip further comprising: a composite slip body having a one-piece configuration, an outer slip surface, an inner slip surface, and a plurality of grooves disposed therein, wherein at least one of the plurality of grooves forms a lateral opening in the composite slip body that is defined by a first portion of slip material at a first slip end, a second portion of slip material at a second slip end, and a depth that extends from the outer slip surface to the inner slip surface; a first cone disposed around the mandrel, and proximate to the composite slip; a metal slip disposed around the mandrel, the metal slip further comprising columns of serrated teeth; a second cone disposed around the mandrel, and proximate to a first side of the metal slip; a sealing element disposed around the mandrel, and between the first cone and the second cone; and a lower sleeve disposed around the mandrel, and proximate to a second side of the metal slip, wherein the lower sleeve is configured with sleeve threads that are coupled with the set of threads, and wherein the second outer diameter is larger than the first outer diameter. | 17,541 |
9,139,820 | 1. An engineered polypeptide having ketoreductase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 161. | 25,196 |
9,199,685 | 1. An inverted pendulum vehicle comprising: a vehicle body frame; a main wheel formed by combining a plurality of rotatable driven rollers such that axial lines of rotation of the driven rollers form a ring; left and right driving disks supported for rotation on the vehicle body frame in such a manner as to be positioned on opposite left and right sides of the vehicle body frame in a substantially coaxial relationship with an axial line of rotation of the main wheel, each of the left and right driving disks including a plurality of rotatable driving rollers disposed for contact in a twisted relationship with the driven rollers; left and right driven pulleys provided coaxially on outer sides of the respective left and right driving disks; left and right driving units attached to the vehicle body frame above the main wheel and having respective output power shafts to which respective left and right driving pulleys are attached; and left and right endless transmission members extending between and around mutually corresponding left and right driving pulleys and driven pulleys, wherein the inverted pendulum vehicle has an adjustable attachment mechanism for attaching the left and right driving units to the vehicle body frame, such that positions of the left and right driving units in an upward and downward direction can be adjustably changed. | 42,948 |
9,041,143 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type; a second semiconductor layer having a cubic crystalline structure of a second conductive type formed on the first semiconductor layer and having an upper surface thereof tilted from the (100) plane thereof; an electrode formed on the upper surface; and a reactive region formed between the second semiconductor layer and the electrode, including at least one element constituting the second semiconductor layer and at least one element constituting the electrode forming a protuberance extending toward the second semiconductor layer. | 18,930 |
8,464,838 | 1. A system for generating mechanical movement comprising: a resilient member having an original shape extending along a longitudinal axis; a bulwark connected to said resilient member; and a PKE sub-system to selectively apply a torsional force to said resilient member using capillary forces to rotate said resilient member with respect to said bulwark, providing said resilient member with a deformed shape, and terminate said capillary forces, whereby said resilient member returns to said original shape. | 27,686 |
8,460,961 | 1. A method for forming a transducer comprising the steps of: providing a semiconductor-on-insulator wafer including first and second semiconductor layers separated by an electrically insulating layer, wherein said first layer is formed or provided by hydrogen ion delamination of a starting wafer; doping said first layer to form a piezoresistive film; etching said piezoresistive film to form at least one piezoresistor; depositing or growing a metallization layer on said semiconductor-on-insulator wafer, said metallization layer including an electrical connection portion that is located on or is electrically coupled to said at least one piezoresistor; removing at least part of said second semiconductor layer to form a diaphragm, with said at least part of said at least one piezoresistor being located on said diaphragm; and joining said semiconductor-on-insulator wafer to a package by melting a high temperature braze material or a glass frit material. | 5,991 |
9,663,408 | 1. A honeycomb structure comprising: a tubular honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls to define a plurality of cells extending from a first end face to a second end face, wherein in a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells of the honeycomb structure body, the partition walls are disposed so that a shape of the cells is polygonal, and the honeycomb structure body is constituted so that a thickness of the partition walls in a circumferential region positioned on an outer side of a central region is larger than a thickness of the partition walls in the central region including a center of gravity of the cross section, and in the cross section of the honeycomb structure body, when one line segment passing the center of gravity of the cross section and extending in a direction perpendicular to the partition walls each constituting one side of each of the polygonal cells is to be a first line segment, for respective one to five cells each arranged on the first line segment toward each of the central region side and the circumferential region side from a boundary between the central region and the circumferential region among the cells arranged on the first line segment, a cell pitch in an extending direction of the first line segment has a size of 70% or more and 95% or less to a cell pitch in the extending direction of the first line segment of the cells arranged on the first line segment in the central region excluding the respective one to five cells. | 36,432 |
9,006,921 | 1. An energy storage system comprising: a power management system including a plurality of power transfer units; a corresponding plurality of energy banks coupled to said power management system, each of said plurality of energy banks capable of being independently discharged through a respective power transfer unit of said power management system; a temporary charge storage node of said power management system being coupled to a reference node common to said plurality of power transfer units; said power management system configured to select at least one of said plurality of energy banks to transfer energy between said energy storage system and a machine. | 43,977 |
9,295,153 | 1. A method of manufacturing a patterned transparent conductor, comprising: providing a silver ink core component containing silver nanoparticles dispersed in a silver carrier; providing a shell component containing a film forming polymer dispersed in a shell carrier; providing a substrate; coelectrospinning the silver ink core component and the shell component to form a core shell fiber having a core and a shell surrounding the core, wherein the silver nanoparticles are in the core; depositing the core shell fiber on the substrate to provide a deposited core shell fiber; selectively treating a portion of the deposited core shell fiber to provide a patterned transparent conductor, wherein the patterned transparent conductor has a treated region and a non-treated region; wherein the treated region comprises a plurality of electrically interconnected silver miniwires and wherein the treated region is an electrically conductive region; and, wherein the non-treated region is an electrically insulative region. | 18,380 |
8,832,172 | 1. An apparatus for detecting rows or columns of a Hadamard matrix, the apparatus having at least one stage comprising: a shift register for storing inbound data representative of the rows or columns of the Hadamard matrix; and an add/subtract circuit to selectively add or subtract inputs, the add/subtract circuit having a first input provided from an n wherein the add/subtract circuit is controlled to alternate in successive clock cycles, between adding data at the first input to data at the second input, and subtracting data at the second input from data at the first input. | 3,967 |
8,998,771 | 1. A method of adjusting operation of a hybrid vehicle driveline, comprising: providing a manual driver input for a driveline operating mode parameter; and adjusting engaging of a driveline disconnect clutch positioned between an engine and a motor in response to the driveline operating mode parameter and further in response to an accelerator pedal input, where a prompting of a driver occurs in response to the driver selecting a four wheel drive mode of operation. | 12,065 |
8,617,461 | 1. A continuous gas carburizing furnace in which a plurality of steps are serially arranged in a line along a conveying direction of a workpiece, comprising: a gas carburizing processing chamber in which a gas carburizing process is performed on the workpiece; an oil quenching chamber in which oil quenching is performed on the workpiece; and a gas quenching chamber in which gas quenching is performed on the workpiece, wherein: the gas carburizing processing chamber includes a temperature decrease chamber that lowers temperature of the workpiece that is heated by a gas carburizing process, and to which a carburizing gas is supplied; the temperature decrease chamber, the gas quenching chamber and the oil quenching chamber are arranged sequentially in that order of mention from an upstream side to a downstream side in the conveying direction of the workpiece, and are adjacent to each other; a first conveying chamber that covers a side surface portion of the temperature decrease chamber and a side surface portion of the gas quenching chamber which face each other is provided between the temperature decrease chamber and the gas quenching chamber; a second conveying chamber that covers a side surface portion of the gas quenching chamber and a side surface portion of the oil quenching chamber which face each other is provided between the gas quenching chamber and the oil quenching chamber; inside the first conveying chamber, a first open-close door for thermal insulation, in which a hole portion is provided, is provided for the side surface portion of the temperature decrease chamber which faces the gas quenching chamber; inside the first conveying chamber, a second open-close door for pressure resistance is provided for the side surface portion of the gas quenching chamber which faces the temperature decrease chamber; inside the second conveying chamber a third open-close door for pressure resistance is provided for the side surface portion of the gas quenching chamber which faces the oil quenching chamber; inside the second conveying chamber, a fourth open-close door for oil vapor shield, in which a hole portion is provided, is provided for the side surface portion of the oil quenching chamber which faces the gas quenching chamber; a communication pathway that provides communication between the first conveying chamber and the second conveying chamber is provided between the first conveying chamber and the second conveying chamber; the carburizing gas supplied to the temperature decrease chamber flows into the first conveying chamber through the hole portion provided in the first open-close door for the side surface portion of the temperature decrease chamber which faces the gas quenching chamber; the carburizing gas filling the first conveying chamber is guided into the second conveying chamber through the communication pathway; and the carburizing gas guided into the second conveying chamber is supplied into the oil quenching chamber through the hole portion provided in the fourth open-close door for the side surface portion of the oil quenching chamber which faces the gas quenching chamber. | 40,531 |
8,786,211 | 1. A method of controlling current conduction in a single-inductor-multiple-output (SIMO) converter comprising storage circuitry in communication with a plurality of output channels, the method comprising: measuring, with at least one first controller, current drawn through the plurality of output channels over a current sample period, wherein the current sample period extends over multiple switching cycles, and wherein each of the plurality of output channels is configured to draw current during each of the multiple switching cycles; determining, with at least one second controller, whether to change an amount of current being conducted in the SIMO converter for a next sample period based on a comparison between the measured current drawn over the current sample period and a predetermined current draw. | 35,351 |
8,645,323 | 1. A method of replicating data, the method comprising the steps of: a first computer system determining a first set of changed data objects generated by a job modifying the data objects included in the first computer system has a volume greater than a predefined volume of data objects; the first computer system determining the job operates only on data existing in the first computer system at a time when an execution of the job by the first computer system is initiated; the first computer system determining no other jobs are concurrently operating on the data existing in the first computer system; the first computer system determining the job is a candidate for a job replication, the job modifies data objects in the first computer system to generate the first set of changed data objects, wherein the step of determining the job is the candidate for the job replication is based on the job modifying data objects to generate the first set of changed data objects whose volume is greater than the predefined volume, further based on the job operating only on data existing in the first computer system at the time when the execution of the job by the first computer system is initiated, and still further based on no other jobs concurrently operating on the data existing in the first computer system; based on the job being the candidate for the job replication, the first computer system initiating the job replication by retrieving attributes of the job; subsequent to retrieving attributes of the job, the first computer system sending the attributes to a second computer system via a computer network as a part of the job replication, without utilizing a data replication to send the data objects or the first set of changed data objects to the second computer system; and the first computer system initiating an execution of the job by the second computer system based on the sent attributes as another part of the job replication, the execution of the job causing the data objects included in the second computer system to be modified to generate a second set of changed data objects as a replication of the first set of changed data objects. | 21,893 |
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