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9,556,865 | 1. A method for controlling the starting of a refilling motor of a hydraulic traction drive; the hydraulic traction drive comprising said refilling motor, at least one pressure accumulator, and a hydraulic pump; a said hydraulic pump being in fluid communication with the pressure accumulator, and said refilling motor being operatively connected to the hydraulic pump to drive the hydraulic pump in order to refill the at least one pressure accumulator; the at least one pressure accumulator delivering the hydraulic pressure to a hydraulic power machine of a hybrid vehicle, the at least one pressure accumulator varying between a minimum operating pressure (P 1 ) and a maximum pressure (P 2 ); the method comprising: monitoring the rate of discharge of pressure from the pressure accumulator (dP/dt); determining a start-up pressure (P starting the refilling motor when the pressure in the accumulator drops to the start-up pressure (P | 45,453 |
9,559,967 | 1. A method of operation a policy controller in a communication system having Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and Internet Protocol (IP) networks, comprising: receiving context information from a mobile terminal which is operating in a first one of the networks; using the context information to determine a policy which relates to the terminal in the first network; implementing the policy in the first network in relation to the terminal; determining that the terminal is transferring operation from the first network to the second network; and maintaining the policy by the policy controller in the second network in relation to the terminal, once the terminal has transferred to the second network; wherein the first and second networks are respectively the LMR and IP networks, the context is an emergency, and the policy gives priority to an emergency call by the terminal. | 16,839 |
9,314,814 | 1. A dispensing container, the dispensing container comprising: an elongate frame with a first end and a second end; and an elongate reservoir extending between the first end and the second end of the frame, wherein the elongate reservoir comprises: wherein wherein the movement-transmitting connecting construction comprises: | 28,855 |
9,243,687 | 1. A power transmitting apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a variable connecting device including a first clutch and a second clutch and selectively outputting torque of a power source through the first clutch and the second clutch; an input device including a first input shaft selectively connected to the power source through the second clutch and provide with first, second, and sixth input gears fixedly disposed on an exterior circumference thereof, and a second input shaft selectively connected to the power source through the first clutch and provided with third, fourth, and fifth input gears fixedly disposed on an exterior circumference thereof; a speed output device including a first output shaft disposed in parallel with the first and second input shafts, a first speed output unit disposed on the first output shaft and provided with first and second synchronizer modules, a second output shaft disposed in parallel with the first and second input shafts, and a second speed output unit disposed on the second output shaft and provided with third and fourth synchronizer modules; a reverse speed device including a reverse speed shaft and an idle gear and a reverse input gear fixedly disposed on the reverse speed shaft, wherein the idle gear is engaged with any one input gear on the first and second input shafts and the reverse input gear is engaged with any one synchronizer module disposed on the first output shaft; and first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh speed gears and a reverse speed gear included in the first, second, third, and fourth synchronizer modules; wherein the second speed gear and the fourth speed gear are simultaneously engaged with the second input gear disposed on the first input shaft, and the third speed gear and the seventh speed gear are simultaneously engaged with the third input gear disposed on the second input shaft. | 16,700 |
9,377,803 | 1. A voltage control apparatus which controls a plurality of power regulating apparatuses, each of the plurality of power regulating apparatuses outputting, to a distribution system, positive reactive power or negative reactive power for regulating voltage of the distribution system, the voltage control apparatus comprising: an obtainer that obtains voltage values at one or more voltage measuring points provided in the distribution system; a detector that detects a system impedance value of the distribution system between a substation and each of the plurality of power regulating apparatuses; a control quantity calculator that, when the one or more voltage measuring points include a voltage measuring point which has a voltage value deviating from a predetermined voltage range, calculates a value as a control quantity to prevent at least the voltage value deviating from the predetermined voltage range at the voltage measuring point from deviating from a target voltage value set within the predetermined voltage range, the value calculated as the control quantity corresponding to a value of the reactive power to be output by each of the plurality of power regulating apparatuses; and a notifier that notifies each of the plurality of power regulating apparatuses of the control quantity calculated by the control quantity calculator, wherein the control quantity calculator performs computation by using the voltage values at the one or more voltage measuring points and the system impedance value to calculate the control quantity which (i) causes a voltage value at a specific voltage measuring point to be substantially equal to the target voltage value, and (ii) when the control quantity calculator determines that voltage values at all voltage measuring points having voltage values deviating from the target voltage value deviate from the target voltage value in a same direction, causes each of the plurality of power regulating apparatuses to output only the positive reactive power or only the negative reactive power, the specific voltage measuring point being included in the voltage measuring points having the voltage values deviating from the target voltage value. | 465 |
8,710,781 | 1. A power conversion device comprising: a pulse width modulating unit configured to convert three-phase voltage commands to a PWM pulse by comparing the voltage commands with a triangular wave carrier signal; a power converter configured to convert between a DC voltage and a three-phase AC voltage by driving a switching element according to the PWM pulse; a current detecting unit configured to detect a pulsed current flowing through a DC bus conductor of a main circuit in the power converter; and a voltage command correcting unit configured to: | 16,780 |
8,792,532 | 1. A method for controlling transmission of a periodic Data Optimized (DO) beacon for DO wireless transmission by a base station of a wireless communication system to achieve a targeted discovery time ‘T’, the method comprising: determining a number ‘N’ being a non-zero positive integer representing a number of sleep cycles for access terminals served by the base station; determining a non-zero periodicity ‘P’ such that N and P have a least common multiple that is less than T expressed in number of control channel cycles; and periodically transmitting a DO beacon spaced at regular intervals in bursts of signals synchronized to a system control channel cycle, with the signals on each of one or more radio frequencies in each of the bursts determined by a pattern having the periodicity P and covering each possible control channel offset for the access terminals. | 11,054 |
8,450,505 | 1. A cyclic carbonyl compound selected from the group consisting of MTC-NiP, MTC-NMe 2 , MTC-BnAmine, MTC-OCH 2 CH 2 CH 2 Br, MTC-dinitroPHS, MTC-TFE. | 16,850 |
9,356,666 | 1. A method comprising: generating, by a first node, a signal to be used for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission, the signal based at least in part on: transmitting, via one or more antennas of a plurality of antennas of the first node, the signal as at least part of the OFDM transmission. | 6,288 |
9,270,843 | 1. An information processing apparatus for performing a communication via a network with a print control apparatus which activates a second interface unit in response to reception of a first activation instruction through a first interface unit, said information processing apparatus comprising: a first instruction control unit configured to transmit, via the network, upon input of a print instruction via a printer driver by a user, the first activation instruction to the print control apparatus for shifting the print control apparatus from a first power status in which no print job can be received to a second power status in which a print job can be received but cannot be processed; a reception unit configured to receive, from the print control apparatus via the network, information indicating that the print control apparatus has activated a communication function of the second interface in response to the first activation instruction transmitted by said first instruction control unit; and an output control unit configured to output, via the network without an instruction by the user, a print job to the print control apparatus for shifting the print control apparatus from the second power status to a third power status in which the print job can be processed and for controlling the print control apparatus to process the print job, after the reception unit receives the information from the print control apparatus, wherein power consumed in the second power status is larger than power in the first power status and power consumed in the third power status is larger than power in the second power status. | 6,047 |
9,560,875 | 1. A method of treating an beef, pork, veal, buffalo, or lamb carcass to reduce a microbial population in resulting cut meat, the method comprising: diluting a concentrated antimicrobial composition containing about 20% to about 50% acetic acid and about 2% to about 15% peracetic acid with water or an aqueous diluent; and spraying said beef, pork, veal, buffalo or lamb carcass with the diluted antimicrobial composition for at least about 10 seconds, the diluted antimicrobial composition comprising: thereby reducing the microbial population by at least one log | 32,297 |
8,589,402 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, an input describing an event of interest, wherein the event of interest comprises at least one quality parameter associated with a specified range of values for the quality parameter and at least one of a specified person or a specified object; responsive to receiving the input describing the event of interest, analyzing, by the processor, a plurality of images depicting a motion with respect to the specified person or the specified object to determine which of the plurality of images include the event of interest, wherein analyzing the plurality of images comprises: based on analyzing the plurality of images, generating, by the processor, a respective tag for each image of the subset of images including the event of interest. | 35,279 |
8,758,936 | 1. A laminar structure which comprises, in the indicated order, a) a first planar layer forming a current collector, b) a second planar layer positioned on top of the first layer, said second layer forming an anode of an electrochemical cell, c) a third layer which forms a porous substrate, and d) a fourth layer positioned on top of the porous substrate, said fourth layer comprising a printed thin conductive layer containing an oxidizing enzyme mixed with an electron transfer mediator, said thin conductive layer being protected against wetting to allow for its storage in dry conditions and further being sufficiently porous to allow for immediate activation of the oxidizing enzyme when contacted with an aqueous solution. | 11,365 |
8,529,718 | 1. A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing unit including at least two glass substrates and at least one plastic interlayer arranged over largest dimensions of the substrates, and including at least one hole through the thickness of the glazing, the process comprising: superposing the substrates and the interlayer, the substrates and the interlayer having been cut beforehand so as to have respective apertures of which the superposition corresponds to the hole in the glazing unit; degassing; and wherein before the degassing, affixing a removable seal, around the periphery of the hole, to an edge face of the glazing unit and to general external faces of the glass substrates, the seal including a web and, connected to this web, two opposed flanges extending in parallel in a same direction and spaced so as to house the thickness of the glazing, the flanges having respective mutually facing internal faces, which each include at least one protruding fastening element and respectively pressed against the general external faces of the substrates, wherein the web includes, on its internal face connecting internal faces of the flanges, at least one groove arranged opposite the edge face of the glazing unit. | 2,094 |
9,429,551 | 1. A portable testing apparatus for testing a carbon monoxide sensor by generating carbon monoxide, the apparatus comprising: a housing; a source of activated carbon comprising a layer of non-hazardous activated carbon cloth; a carbon monoxide generator comprising an electrical heater assembly arranged, to heat a portion of the layer of non-hazardous activated carbon cloth to produce carbon monoxide; a collection chamber contained within one part of said housing and arranged to collect carbon monoxide produced from heating the portion of activated carbon cloth layer; and a delivery duct contained in the housing and connected to said collection chamber, said delivery duct arranged to direct the collected carbon monoxide from the collection chamber in said one part of said housing to another part of said housing and towards the carbon monoxide sensor in order to test the carbon monoxide sensor; wherein the apparatus is hand-transportable; and wherein said source of activated carbon is removable and replaceable. | 13,848 |
9,109,708 | 1. A product comprising: an engine breathing system valve ( a valve body ( a stem ( a valve member ( wherein the valve member ( wherein a clearance ( | 14,221 |
8,366,240 | 1. A liquid discharging apparatus, comprising: a discharging section having a discharging head including a plurality of nozzles configured to discharge liquid on a medium at a pass resolution, the discharging section being configured to: determine a maximum divided pass number N required to repeatedly move the discharging head to discharge on a section of the medium at a desired resolution, the desired resolution being greater than the pass resolution; determine which passes of the maximum divided pass number N will be designated to discharge the liquid from each nozzle of the plurality of nozzles; and determine whether or not an idle pass will occur for discharging according to the maximum divided pass number N, wherein when an idle pass is required for each nozzle of the plurality of nozzles, the discharging section is configured to modify the maximum divided pass number N to divided pass number M, M being less than N. | 37,160 |
9,735,676 | 1. A resonant power converter comprising: an input terminal for receipt of an input voltage; a switching network comprising a first semiconductor switch controlled by a control input; the switching network comprising a switch input operatively coupled to the input terminal for receipt of the input voltage and a switch output operatively coupled to an input of a resonant network of the resonant power converter; the resonant network comprising a predetermined resonance frequency (fR) and an output operatively coupled to a converter output terminal; and a self-oscillating, feedback loop coupled from the switch output to a control input of the switching network to set a switching frequency of the power converter, the self-oscillating feedback loop further comprising: a first intrinsic switch capacitance coupled between the switch output and the control input of the switching network; a first bias voltage source configured to generate a first adjustable bias voltage; a first inductor with substantially fixed inductance coupled in-between the first bias voltage source and the control input of the switching network; and a voltage regulation loop configured to control an output voltage of the power converter by controlling the first adjustable bias voltage applied to the first inductor, wherein the substantially fixed inductance of the first inductor is set such that a peak voltage at the control input of the switching network exceeds a threshold voltage of the first semiconductor switch of the switching network. | 39,182 |
8,792,558 | 1. An apparatus of decoding an image, the apparatus comprising: a predictor which determines, when a prediction mode of a current block is inter-prediction, motion vector predictor candidates from among motion vectors neighboring blocks, and determines a motion vector predictor of a current block from among the motion vector predictor candidates; and a motion vector restoring unit which obtains a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector predictor and a differential vector, wherein the neighboring blocks comprise at least one of a first block and a second block, the first block is located on a the left side of a leftmost block among lower blocks adjacent to a lower side of the current block, the first block is located below a lowermost block among left blocks adjacent to a left side of the current block, and the second block is located on an upper side of the first block. | 45,835 |
9,082,924 | 1. A method for preparing a structure of type n + pp + or type p + nn + on a silicon wafer, comprising the following successive steps: a) on a silicon wafer of type p or type n which comprises a front surface and a back surface, PECVD is conducted to form on a back surface a layer of boron-doped silicon oxide (BSG), then depositing a SiOx diffusion barrier layer on the boron-doped silicon oxide (BSG); b) a phosphorus source is diffused so that the phosphorus and boron co-diffuse and so as also to form: c) the BSG, PSG and SiOx layers are removed, the BRL is oxidized and the oxidized BRL layer is removed. | 31,463 |
9,248,607 | 1. A method for connecting two intermediate products that respectively comprise composite fiber material with a layer of matrix material and reinforcing fibers extending therein, wherein the matrix material is respectively in a cured and/or plastic state, wherein the first intermediate product comprises a first connecting area and the second intermediate product comprises a second connecting area that adjoin one another in an overlapping region of the interconnected intermediate products, with the method comprising: applying an adhesive layer that comprises an adhesive film of a material that can be plastically deformed in a first state and cured in a second state, as well as a plurality of elongate connecting particles that are accommodated by the adhesive film, onto the first connecting area of the first intermediate product or the second connecting area of the second intermediate product such that at least a portion of the plurality of connecting particles comes in contact with reinforcing fibers of the first connecting area or the second connecting area, wherein the adhesive film is in the first, plastically deformable state during the application of the adhesive layer, arranging the second intermediate product on the first intermediate product or vice versa such that the connecting area of the second intermediate product at least partially overlaps the connecting area of the first intermediate product, connecting the two intermediate products by exerting pressure upon the adhesive layer and/or by generating heat in the adhesive layer, and wherein the respective matrix material of at least the connecting area of one of the intermediate products is initially in a cured state and reinforcing fibers are sectionally exposed in order to make available a respective connecting area such that at least a portion of the plurality of connecting particles comes in contact with reinforcing fibers of the first connecting area or the second connecting area when the adhesive layer with the adhesive film and the plurality of elongate connecting particles contained in the adhesive film is applied. | 17,852 |
8,959,290 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a broadcast combined snoop response and at least one sideband signal from a bus controller, wherein said broadcast combined snoop response corresponds to an incoming bus transaction BTR1 corresponding to a cache transaction CTR1 for an entry in at least one cache and wherein said combined snoop response is a combination of at least one snoop response from a plurality of cache controllers, wherein said bus controller broadcasts said broadcast combined snoop response to a plurality of cache controllers, wherein said at least one sideband signal indicates one or more of a status and a phase of bus transaction merging performed by said bus controller; receiving broadcast cache line data from a source cache as instructed by said bus controller for said entry during a data phase, wherein said source cache broadcasts said broadcast cache line data to a plurality of peer cache controllers with at least one additional sideband signal; and processing a subsequent cache transaction CTR2 for said entry based on one or more of said broadcast combined snoop response and said broadcast cache line data by using at least one of said sideband signals to align with merged bus transaction phases of said incoming bus transaction BTR1 and said subsequent cache transaction CTR2 to implement said bus transaction merging. | 7,643 |
9,244,862 | 1. A removable memory device comprising: an interface for connecting the removable memory device to a host device; a data storage coupled to the interface; a wide area communication interface configured to receive a security message, the security message comprising a user data header and message data including a security command; a controller coupled to the wide area communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to apply a physically damaging voltage to permanently disable the data storage in response to the security message received via the wide area communication interface; wherein the wide area communication interface is configured to accept security messages only from at least one predetermined source; and wherein the controller is configured to identify the at least one predetermined source based on an identifier carried by the user data header. | 6,069 |
8,980,458 | 1. A battery casing for receiving a battery for driving an electric vehicle comprising: a tray member made from a resin and supporting the battery; a support member provided under a lower face of the tray member and supporting the tray member from a bottom thereof; a standing wall provided so as to stand in the tray member; and a sheet metal tray member made from a sheet metal, including a front plate, a rear plate, a bottom plate, and multiple ribs, and placed on the tray member, wherein the sheet metal tray member comprises a plurality of sheet metal recesses, defined in the section surrounded by the front plate, the rear plate, the bottom plate, and the multiple ribs, that receive the battery and a sheet metal flange protruding outwardly in a horizontal direction from an upper end of the front plate and the rear plate, and placed on an upper face of the standing wall, the bottom plate receiving a bottom of the battery, the standing wall comprises a through hole formed through the standing wall in a standing direction of the standing wall, the support member and the sheet metal flange are fastened to the tray member by means of a sheet metal fastening member provided through the through hole, the bottom plate of the sheet metal tray member is made of the sheet metal, and the sheet metal tray member is made of a single piece member. | 22,189 |
8,634,178 | 1. A media player, comprising: a housing having an anodized aluminum surface; and a button assembly that includes an external feature arranged to receive a user input event, the external feature being connected to an internal switch displaced from the external feature by way of an electrically conductive arm that fits through a slit in a moisture flow inhibiting seal formed of an insulating material, wherein at least a portion of the seal is combined with a conductive dopant such that a conductive path is formed between the electrically conductive arm and a portion of the anodized surface of the housing along which a portion of a surface layer has been removed, the conductive path allowing a quantity of charge deposited at the external feature to flow directly to the portion of the anodized surface of the housing by way of the electrically conductive arm and the conductive portion of the seal, thereby bypassing the internal switch. | 605 |
9,340,551 | 1. A bacterial type III secretion system (T3SS) inhibitor compound of formula I: wherein each A is independently CH or N; X is Cl; Z is O or S R V is NR R Y is selected from: a divalent straight-chain, branched, or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl radical of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which may be unsubstituted or substituted with up to four substituents selected from halo, cyano, hydroxy, amino, alkylamino, carboxyl, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxamido, acylamino, amidino, sulfonamido, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy, and heteroaryloxy; W is an aryl or heteroaryl radical comprising a five-membered or six-membered ring which may be additionally fused with from 1 to 3 aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, or heterocycloalkyl rings, which W radical may be unsubstituted or substituted with up to four substituents selected from halo, cyano, hydroxy, amino, alkylamino, carboxyl, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxamido, acylamino, amidino, sulfonamido, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy, and heteroaryloxy, wherein W may not be unsubstituted phenyl and wherein any two substituents together may form an aromatic or non-aromatic ring structure fused with said aryl or heteroaryl radical W, which substituents found on W also may be optionally bonded covalently to Y to form heterocyclic or carbocyclic ring systems. | 10,268 |
8,531,403 | 1. A computer system having a computer and a keyboard, the keyboard having a plurality of pairs of keys, each pair of keys comprising a first letter key and a respective second letter key, each pair of keys being associated with a single respective letter such that the first letter key and the second letter key of each respective pair together form a respective, otherwise regular key, on the keyboard; the computer system being arranged such that: (i) upon activation of one of the first letter keys, to register a selection of the corresponding single letter, a user can type a text by consecutively striking the first letter keys corresponding to consecutive letters of the text; and (ii) upon activation of one of the second letter keys, a user is presented with a predefined list of one or more words, the words of each list being associated with the corresponding single letter, the computer system being arranged to register a selection by enabling the user to select one of the presented words; wherein, for each pair of keys, the first letter key neighbors the second letter key such that the first letter key is immediately adjacent the second letter key of the pair, with no intervening keys. | 31,079 |
9,440,368 | 1. A computer based method of ordering a window covering comprising: receiving, in a computing platform for an automated window covering cutting machine, a photograph of a measuring block adjacent an architectural feature to be measured, the measuring block including a design visible in the photograph where the design has a known third dimension; receiving a window covering in a cutting chamber of the automated window covering cutting machine; in the computing platform: | 5,198 |
8,488,688 | 1. An OFDM transmitter configured to communicate with a plurality of terminals at the same time using OFDM signals using a plurality of frequency channels composed of a plurality of subcarriers having mutually different frequencies, wherein the plurality of terminals includes terminals capable of receiving all of the frequency channels and terminals capable of receiving less than all of the frequency channels, the OFDM transmitter comprising: a mapping part configured to allocate transmission power to one or more subcarriers in each of the frequency channels and further configured to allocate zero transmission power to a subcarrier located in a center of all of the frequency channels and to a respective subcarrier located in between each of the frequency channels, wherein the respective subcarrier located in between each of the frequency channels comprises a subcarrier corresponding to a maximum frequency or a minimum frequency of a respective frequency channel; and a transmitting section configured to transmit the OFDM signals using the plurality of frequency channels, wherein data is transmitted via the OFDM signals without using the subcarrier located in the center of all of the frequency channels and without using the respective subcarrier located in between each of the frequency channels. | 11,372 |
9,511,314 | 1. A filter element, comprising: a center tube defining a central reservoir; a first end plate including an opening; a seal circumferentially formed around the opening of the first end plate, the seal being configured to engage a filter base; a second end plate opposite the first end plate; and a pocket having a closed end and defining a port extending from the second end plate into the central reservoir and providing flow communication between the pocket and the central reservoir, the pocket including an inner wall having threads configured to bring the seal into engagement with the filter base upon receiving a mutually threaded drain, wherein the pocket is configured such that upon receipt of a drain including a middle portion having a stop and an end portion configured for insertion into the pocket, the drain has a closed position in which the stop engages the second end plate and the end portion of the drain does not engage the closed end of the pocket. | 48,775 |
8,530,429 | 1. In a method of treating a glioblastoma muttiforme (GBM) tumor in a patient, an improvement comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a peptide of between 12-20 amino acids in length comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 11-16 that preferentially binds to a brain tumor initiating cell (BTIC) subtype of human GBM cells characterized by their stem-cell like properties of being able to self renew, generate spheres without the addition of exogenous mitogens and growth factors, and induce tumor formation in vivo when placed in the brains of immunocompromised mice, wherein said peptide is conjugated to an anti-tumor agent capable of inhibiting the migration and invasion of said cells and/or of destroying said cells to reduce the risk of tumor recurrence in the patient. | 41,367 |
9,455,474 | 1. An electrolytic solution, comprising: a cyclic carbonate (I-1) represented by formula (I-1): (in the formula, R is a fluorine-containing ether group (Ia) having two or more carbon atoms, a fluorine-containing alkoxy group (Ib), or a fluorine-containing alkyl group (Ic) having two or more carbon atoms); a cyclic carbonate (I-2) different from the cyclic carbonate (I-1)); and an electrolyte salt (II), wherein volume percent of the cyclic carbonate (I-1) ranges from 0.2 to 8.0, wherein the fluorine-containing alkyl group (Ic) is —CH wherein the fluorine-containing ether group (Ia) is represented by formula (Ia-1): (in the formula, R wherein the fluorine-containing alkoxy group (Ib) is represented by formula (2): (the three X | 35,096 |
9,524,232 | 1. A chip multiprocessor comprising: at least one prefetch buffer (PB); and a plurality of cores each communicatively coupled to the at least one prefetch buffer and comprising a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), wherein each of the plurality of cores is adapted to: | 2,374 |
8,674,982 | 1. An information processing system, comprising: a server apparatus; at least one first information processing apparatus capable of communicating with said server apparatus; and at least one second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with said server apparatus, said first information processing apparatus including a first transmission portion for obtaining multiple-view image data and transmitting the multiple-view image data to said server apparatus, said server apparatus including said first information processing apparatus including a first display portion for providing multiple-view display of an image by using the multiple-view image data from said server apparatus, and said second information processing apparatus including a second display portion for providing single-view display of an image by using the single-view image data from said server apparatus. | 9,974 |
9,745,879 | 1. A reductant decomposition system for an exhaust aftertreatment system, comprising: a straight decomposition tube comprising an inlet and outlet; a first curved tube comprising an inlet and an outlet, the outlet coupled to the inlet of the straight decomposition tube, the first curved tube configured to redirect a flow of the exhaust gas from a first direction to a second direction different from the first direction towards the straight decomposition tube; a second curved tube comprising an inlet and an outlet, the inlet extending from the outlet of the straight decomposition tube, the second curved tube configured to redirect a flow of the exhaust gas from a third direction to a fourth direction different from the third direction away from the straight decomposition tube; a reductant injector port positioned upstream of the inlet of the straight decomposition tube; and a baffle secured to an inner wall of the second curved tube, the baffle comprising a leading concave surface. | 23,757 |
8,473,258 | 1. A computer implemented method for designing a part, wherein the part is modeled by using: a seed structure of a context-free grammar, a set of rules of the grammar, at least two design features, each design feature being defined by at least one rule of the set, a priority order between the design features determined by the seed structure and the set of rules, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a representation of the part in a graphical user interface according to the priority order, modifying the priority order between said two design features by modifying the set of rules, and displaying a representation of the part according to the modified priority order. | 23,945 |
8,405,244 | 1. A system for power generation from a fluid, the system comprising: a rail tether; a working umbrella movably mounted to the rail tether such that the working umbrella is powered by the fluid in a first direction along the rail tether during a working stroke of the working umbrella; a working tether coupling the working umbrella to a generator during at least the working stroke of the working umbrella; and a motor coupled to the working umbrella during at least a recovery stroke of the working umbrella, the recovery stroke being in an opposite direction to the first direction along the rail tether. | 36,629 |
9,505,145 | 1. A method for forming a hybrid part comprising the steps of: casting or shaping a shell having an attachment feature with a core passage located internally of said attachment feature, said core passage extends from said attachment feature to a tip, wherein said core is exposed at said tip; said casting or shaping step comprising forming said shell from a monolithic ceramic material powder; densifying the shell; drawing a ceramic matrix composite material preform through the core passage; and bonding the ceramic matrix composite material preform to an interior wall of the monolithic ceramic material forming the shell. | 39,360 |
8,393,158 | 1. A supersonic inlet: comprising: a center body having a leading edge that generates a first shock wave when positioned in supersonic air flow, the center body comprising a compression surface positioned downstream from the leading edge of the center body; a cowl lip spatially separated from the center body such that the cowl lip and the compression surface of the center body define an external compression inlet opening that receives supersonic air flow, at least a portion of the compression surface extending upstream of the cowl lip, and the cowl lip being separated from the compression surface by a second distance; and a bypass splitter disposed between the cowl lip and the center body to form a bypass air path that bypasses a bypass flow portion to an engine, wherein the compression surface generates a second shock wave that, during operation of the supersonic inlet at a predetermined cruise speed, extends from the compression surface intersects the first shock wave at a first point that is spatially separated from the compression surface by a first distance, the first distance being less than the second distance such that the inlet captures the first shock wave. | 18,863 |
9,631,800 | 1. An article comprising: a base; an inner support attached to the base, the inner support including at least two legs; a movable ring slidable along the at least two legs; a plurality of connectors, each having a first end attached to the base and a second end attached to the movable ring, the connectors being naturally biased toward a non-compressed configuration where they are substantially straight and being bendable into a compressed configuration; at least one retaining clip on each leg for engaging the movable ring when in the compressed configuration; and a solar lantern accessory cap associated with the movable ring and configured to be fit within an aperture of the movable ring and wherein the accessory cap includes a first opening and a second opening configured to allow passage of the legs and the retaining clips, the accessory cap including a solar panel and a light. | 17,842 |
8,491,847 | 1. An apparatus of a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas for purifying a hydrocarbon (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and a nitrogen oxide (NO x ), by providing two or more honeycomb structure-type catalysts, wherein the surface of a honeycomb-type structure is coated with two or more layers of catalyst compositions, in a flow passage of exhaust gas exhausted from an internal combustion engine, and making exhaust gas pass, characterized in that: the honeycomb structure-type catalyst (X) positioned at the upstream side and the honeycomb structure-type catalyst (Y) positioned at the downstream side contain the catalyst composition composed of a support material of an inorganic oxide which substantially does not contain an Rh component, and loaded at least one of a Pt component or a Pd component, and a cerium-containing oxide and an alkaline earth metal component, in all of the lower layers; on the other hand, the catalyst composition of the upper layer has the following configuration: <The honeycomb structure-type catalyst (X)> The catalyst (X) contains the support material of the zirconium oxide as a main component which load a Rh component on the support material of zirconium oxide and substantially does not contain a cerium component, and a cerium-containing oxide which substantially does not load the Rh component, and the catalyst (X) does not substantially contain Pt component and Pd component <The honeycomb structure-type catalyst (Y)> The catalyst (Y) contains the support material of the cerium-zirconium composite oxide as a main component which load a Rh component on the support material of cerium-zirconium composite oxide and which contains cerium of 1 to 20% by weight, in an oxide equivalent, and zirconium of 99 to 80% by weight, in an oxide equivalent, and the catalyst (Y) does not substantially contain Pt component and Pd component. | 25,246 |
9,272,940 | 1. A method for producing float glass, comprising: compressing air with a compressor; feeding gaseous fuel and an excess of the compressed air to a combustor; combusting the compressed air and fuel at the combustor to produce a stream of air-enriched products of combustion; feeding the stream of air-enriched products of combustion to an ion transport membrane to produce a permeate stream of pure oxygen and a non-permeate stream comprising nitrogen-enriched products of combustion; heating a stream of fuel through heat exchange with the non-permeate stream at a heat exchanger; and combusting the permeate stream and the heated stream of fuel in a glass melting furnace to produce hot flue gas; heating the non-permeate stream through heat exchange with the hot flue gas at a recuperator; and feeding the non-permeate stream above a float glass bath. | 42,271 |
9,578,581 | 1. A method for performing handover in a first-type cell by a user equipment (UE) supporting an inter Radio Access Technology (interRAT) handover (HO) in a radio access system, comprising: obtaining offset information from a second-type base station configured to use a communication scheme different from that of a first-type base station, the offset information being applied only to the interRAT HO from the first-type base station to the second-type base station; and performing HO to the second-type base station when “Srxlev A” is greater than an offset value indicated by the offset information, wherein the offset value is calculated by subtracting a hysteresis value and “Qrxlevmin” from a threshold value predetermined for an event of a handover from the second-type base station to the first-type base station, and wherein the “Srxlev A” is denoted as Equation A: | 34,066 |
9,093,028 | 1. A circuit for a pixel of a display, the circuit comprising: a controllable supply voltage source outputting a supply voltage; an organic light emitting device emitting light having a brightness level as a function of current flow; a drive transistor having one terminal coupled to the controllable supply voltage source and a second terminal coupled to the organic light emitting device, the drive transistor having a gate input controlled by a voltage input to determine the current flow through the organic light emitting device; and wherein the supply voltage output by the controllable supply voltage source, operate said drive transistor in a saturation region during a normal operation mode when said gate input is above a predetermined threshold voltage, and operate said drive transistor in a linear operation region by reducing the gate input voltage when the voltage input of a desired brightness is below a predetermined threshold thereby reducing an effect of a voltage drop across the drive transistor. | 1,726 |
8,512,698 | 1. An isolated polypeptide comprising an antigen recognition domain capable of specifically binding a human scavenger receptor, wherein said antigen recognition domain comprises CDR amino acid sequences as set forth in SEQ ID NO: NO: 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 31. | 13,041 |
9,827,093 | 1. A method for implanting a stent, which comprises: contracting a stent to a reduced implantation size with a delivery system having drive wires, the stent having a selectively adjustable assembly with adjustable elements operatively connected to the drive wires such that, when the adjustable elements are adjusted by the drive wires, a configuration change in at least a portion of the stent occurs; inserting the contracted stent into a native annulus in which the stent is to be implanted; rotating the drive wires with the delivery system to forcibly expand the stent; while rotating the drive wires, determining with the delivery system a torque applied to the drive wires; stopping rotation of the drive wires based upon a value of the determined torque when the stent contacts the native annulus and has a first diameter; and after the stent contacts the native annulus, repeatedly rotating and stopping rotation of the drive wires to incrementally expand the stent from the first diameter to a second, final diameter. | 8,921 |
9,302,575 | 1. A powertrain for a vehicle, the powertrain comprising: an engine including a crankshaft being rotatable about a longitudinal axis; a ring gear attached to a first distal end of the crankshaft such that the ring gear and the crankshaft are rotatable in unison about the longitudinal axis; a starter mechanism selectively operable to rotate the ring gear and the crankshaft to start the engine; and a motor-generator including an adapter selectively cooperating with the starter mechanism to dispose the motor-generator and the starter mechanism in alternative assembly configurations being a first assembly configuration and a second assembly configuration, with the first assembly configuration being when the starter mechanism is coupleable to the adapter to selectively transfer torque from the motor-generator through the adapter and the starter mechanism to the crankshaft to start the engine, and the second assembly configuration being when the starter mechanism is spaced from the adapter to operate independently of the motor-generator such that the starter mechanism selectively transfers torque to the crankshaft to start the engine. | 39,722 |
8,500,283 | 1. An ophthalmic microscope-attachable aberrometer, comprising: an afocal relay defining an optical axis, a front object plane, and a back image plane, wherein said image plane is conjugated to said object plane; a Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor positioned at said image plane and capable of measuring wavefront aberrations of a beam emerging from said object plane and propagating through said afocal relay; a folding reflector disposed between said afocal relay and said object plane; a probe beam projected along said optical axis and propagating toward said object plane; a mounting mechanism to attach said aberrometer onto said ophthalmic microscope such that said aberrometer, in its operation position, is movable with said ophthalmic microscope while said optical axis remains in alignment with an observation axis of said ophthalmic microscope; and a positioning mechanism enabling to position said optical axis to: wherein said positioning system enables back and forth positioning and repositioning said aberrometer at said first and second positions, and wherein said aberrometer remains attached and installed with said ophthalmic microscope. | 14,907 |
9,648,009 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a network interface configured to wirelessly communicate with a second electronic device of a wireless mesh network; a processor; a memory comprising instructions to join the electronic device to the wireless mesh network, the instructions, which when executed by the processor, configure the electronic device to: | 2,632 |
9,490,120 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first vaporizer unit for vaporizing a first powder material; a second vaporizer unit for vaporizing a second powder material; a first vapor housing for capturing material vapor from the first vaporizer unit, wherein the first vaporizer unit is within the first vapor housing, and wherein the first vapor housing further comprises a first vapor housing outlet; a second vapor housing for capturing material vapor from the second vaporizer unit, wherein the second vaporizer unit is within the second vapor housing, and wherein the second vapor housing further comprises a second vapor housing outlet; a vapor distribution unit comprising a first and a second inlet channel for separately collecting vapor from the first and second vaporizer units, a first and a second chamber for collecting the material vapor captured by the first and second vapor housings respectively, and a first and a second chamber outlet for separately outputting the material vapor collected in the first and second chambers between the first and second vapor housings along a base of the vapor distribution unit; a first seal at the junction between an outer wall of the first vapor housing and the vapor distribution unit; and a second seal at the junction between an outer wall of the second vapor housing and the vapor distribution unit, wherein each of the first and second seals further comprises: | 11,494 |
9,734,079 | 1. A system on chip (SoC) comprising: a plurality of functional units; and a multi-level memory controller (MLMC) for a hybrid multi-level memory architecture comprising a first-level dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that is located on-package of the SOC and a second-level DRAM that is located off-package of the SOC, wherein the MLMC is coupled to the plurality of functional units, wherein the MLMC is to: | 48,955 |
9,234,568 | 1. A multi-speed transmission comprising: a housing; an input member and an output member; four planetary gear trains comprising a first planetary gear train, a second planetary gear train, a third planetary gear train and a fourth planetary gear train, wherein each of the planetary gear trains comprises a ring gear, a planetary carrier and a sun gear; an intermediate coupling member continuously connecting the sun gear of the second, third and fourth planetary gear sets; and six control elements, wherein each of the six control elements is operatively connected to at least one of the planetary gear trains and selectively engageable to produce a set of different speeds between the input member and the output member, and wherein the set of different speeds includes eight forward speeds and two reverse speeds wherein the first planetary gear train is connected to the input member and at least two of the six control elements. | 3,214 |
9,707,860 | 1. A vehicle control device, comprising: a drive source controller configured to control a drive source on the basis of a creep drive force set so that a vehicle does not slip down when being stopped on a gradient road; and a braking force calculator configured to calculate a braking force generated on the basis of a braking operation of a driver, wherein the drive source controller reduces a drive force generated by the drive source when the braking force is larger than the creep drive force when the vehicle is stopped, and wherein the creep drive force is a force not smaller than a force balanced with a force acting in a slip-down direction of the vehicle at a minimum gradient at which a hill hold function is activated. | 34,484 |
8,786,844 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a display coupled to the processor and displaying information to a user of the apparatus; at least a first optical sensor making a first measurement, wherein data based on the first measurement is coupled to the processor; at least a second optical sensor making a second measurement, wherein data based on the second measurement is coupled to the processor; at least one source of illumination operating in the IR range of illumination under control of the processor; wherein the source of illumination and the first optical sensor in part determine a minimal distance between the apparatus and an external object such that illumination in the IR range emitted by the source is not received by the first optical sensor when the apparatus is less than the minimal distance from the external object; wherein data based on the first measurement made with the first optical sensor determines a position of the apparatus with respect to an object; wherein the second measurement with the second optical sensor measures light received by the apparatus. | 2,889 |
9,568,225 | 1. An automotive evaporator heat exchanger comprising: an inlet manifold defining an interior chamber extending along a horizontal manifold axis; a plurality of refrigerant tubes, each having an open end extending into the interior chamber from an underside of the inlet manifold, a first stage refrigerant pressure drop device configured to receive and expand a liquid phase refrigerant into a first mixture of two phase refrigerant; a second stage refrigerant pressure drop device disposed in the interior chamber and configured to receive and expand the first mixture of two phase refrigerant into a second mixture of two phase refrigerant and aliquot the second mixture of two phase refrigerant to the open ends of the plurality of refrigerant tubes, wherein the second stage refrigerant pressure drop device is a pressure-drop tube having a plurality of orifices configured to expand the first mixture of two phase refrigerant into the second mixture of two phase refrigerant; and an inlet end connector having a first end outside the inlet manifold, receiving an outlet end of the first stage refrigerant pressure drop device, and having a second end inside the inlet manifold, receiving an inlet end of the second stage refrigerant pressure drop device; wherein the orifices of the second stage refrigerant pressure drop device are oriented opposite to the direction of gravity and away from the refrigerant tubes. | 43,676 |
9,178,206 | 1. A battery module, comprising: a plurality of rechargeable batteries respectively including externally protruding terminals; a bus-bar electrically coupling at least two of the terminals of the rechargeable batteries; and a protection member between the bus-bar and the rechargeable batteries, and including a support plate disposed on a case of the rechargeable batteries, the support plate including holes through which the terminals extend, and a protruding portion disposed along a circumference of the bus-bar, wherein the protruding portion includes: a protection protrusion surrounding the bus-bar and including a gap, and a guiding protrusion extending from ends of the protection protrusion corresponding to the gap toward a center of the support plate in a width direction. | 27,158 |
9,205,144 | 1. A method for identifying at least one peptide block in a plurality of homologous polypeptides as being conserved and as comprising one or more peptides suitable for use in an immunogenic composition and manufacturing any one or more of the peptides from the identified at least one peptide block, the method comprising: (a) identifying at least one peptide block within a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of a plurality of homologous polypeptides, each peptide being the same length as the other peptides within the same peptide block, wherein the peptides within each of the at least one peptide block are 8-11 amino acids in length and, wherein each of the at least one peptide block is a region of homology found within the MSA, and wherein each of the at least one peptide block includes a peptide from each of the polypeptides in the MSA and comprises at least two unique peptides; (b) for each of the at least one peptide block, determining a minimum required number of unique peptides within the peptide block such that the cumulative fraction of polypeptides in the MSA comprising one or more of the unique peptides is at least 95%; (c) identifying at least one peptide block as conserved and as comprising one or more peptides suitable for use in an immunogenic composition if the minimum required number of unique peptides determined in step (b) is between 2 and 7; and (d) manufacturing any one or more of the peptides from the at least one peptide block identified as conserved and as comprising one or more peptides suitable for use in an immunogenic composition in step (c). | 6,239 |
9,539,184 | 1. A colloidal facial mask with a partial carrier comprising a colloidal layer and a carrier layer; wherein the colloidal facial mask is mounted with through holes corresponding to an eye part, a nose part, and a mouth part so that the eye part, the nose part, and the mouth part are exposed; wherein the colloidal layer is made from colloidal film materials with high water absorption for absorbing solutions and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; wherein the first surface is attached to a user's face so that the solutions are in contact with skin of the user's face; and wherein the carrier layer is attached and connected to at least one partial area of the second surface of the colloidal layer; the partial area includes the area around the through holes corresponding to the eye part, the nose part, the mouth part or their combinations; and at least one area of the second surface of the colloidal layer is not covered by the carrier layer. | 35,604 |
8,951,665 | 1. A method for preparing a redox battery electrolyte, comprising: dissolving a raw material that includes at least one source of chromium ions in a first oxidation state in an acidic aqueous liquid to form a solution of chromium ions; reducing the chromium ions in the solution to a second oxidation state that is lower than the first oxidation state by subjecting the solution to a reductant until substantially all of the chromium ions in the first oxidation state are reduced to the second oxidation state, wherein the chromium ions in the first oxidation state comprise chromium(VI) ions and the chromium ions in the second oxidation state comprise chromium (III) ions; and after reducing the chromium ions in the solution, adding a source of iron (II) ions to the solution, the source of iron (II) ions comprising iron powder, to form the redox battery electrolyte. | 16,273 |
9,709,455 | 1. A method for localizing a defect in an electrochemical store, the method comprising: controlling a temperature of a subarea of the electrochemical store to increase an internal pressure of the subarea, wherein the controlling of the temperature of the subarea is performed in a targeted manner, such that at least one further subarea of the electrochemical store is excluded; detecting a measured value representing an escape of a component from the subarea occurring in response to the increased internal pressure of the subarea; and localizing the defect in the subarea when the measured value is in a predetermined relation to a comparison value. | 20,941 |
8,829,759 | 1. A rotating electrical machine comprising: a rotor configured to rotate about an axis and including a rotor lamination stack having a plurality of sheets pressed into a composite assembly in an axial direction and being radially divided into an inner mechanical part and an outer electrical part; a rotor winding disposed in the electrical part of the rotor lamination stack; a stator concentrically surrounding the rotor; a plurality of shear bolts disposed in the mechanical part and configured to reach through the rotor lamination stack; a plurality of further bolts disposed in the electrical part, the plurality of shear bolts and plurality of further bolts being configured to press the plurality of sheets in the axial direction; and an inner pressing plate and an outer pressing plate corresponding to the radial division of the rotor lamination stack, the inner and outer pressing plates being separate and a division between the inner pressing plate and outer pressing plate including a tilting edge. | 8,409 |
8,418,467 | 1. A system comprising: a low pressure (LP) steam turbine; an air-cooled condenser (ACC) in fluid connection with the low pressure steam turbine, the ACC for receiving a portion of steam from an exhaust of the low pressure steam turbine; a feedwater heater in fluid connection with the low pressure steam turbine via a conduit, the feedwater heater for receiving a portion of supply steam from the LP steam turbine, wherein the portion of supply steam is extracted from the LP steam turbine by interstage extraction, wherein the portion of supply steam extracted is approximately 1-40 percent of a total portion of LP steam supplied to the LP steam turbine; a condensate pump in fluid connection with the ACC and the feedwater heater, the condensate pump for receiving condensate fluid from the ACC and drain fluid from the feedwater heater; a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) fluidly connected to the feedwater heater and the low pressure steam turbine, the HRSG for receiving heated feedwater from the feedwater heater; a gland seal condenser in fluid connection with the condensate pump and the feedwater heater, the gland seal condenser for providing a preheated condensate fluid to the feedwater heater; and a bypass conduit and a bypass valve operably connected thereto, the bypass conduit allowing a portion of the preheated condensate fluid to bypass the feedwater heater and be received by the HRSG in the case that the bypass valve is not closed. | 19,312 |
9,135,734 | 1. A method for rendering a page, comprising: obtaining an electronic document (ED) comprising: determining a main bounding box surrounding the first container object on the page but excluding the shadow of the first member; creating a main brush comprising the first container object but excluding the shadow of the first member; calculating, by a hardware processor, a shadow bounding box based on the main bounding box surrounding the first container and at least one of the plurality of first container shadow parameters; creating a first shadow brush by applying a first shadow transformation matrix to the main brush comprising the first container object, wherein the first shadow transformation matrix maps the first container object to the shadow of the first container object; outputting the shadow of the first container object to a framebuffer for the page; and outputting, by processing the first member, the first member and the shadow of the first member to the framebuffer for the page. | 4,636 |
9,056,555 | 1. Apparatus for connecting an electrical charging connector to an electrical charging socket of a vehicle comprising: an arm pivotally mounted to a robot arm segment so as to pivot with respect to the robot arm segment about a horizontal axis; a slide component having the electrical charging connector attached thereto; a motor mounted on said arm and coupled through a drive mechanism to drive said slide component and electrical charging connector linearly toward and away from said vehicle; a latch arm having a back end pivotally mounted to said slide component, the latch arm having a tip projecting vertically from a top surface of a front end thereof, said latch arm being spring biased downwardly; a first ramp located on an underside of said elongated latch arm and angled downwardly from said tip; an indented hook formed on the underside of said latch arm and positioned adjacent a lower end of said first ramp, the indented hook being configured to come into an interlocking relationship with a catch positioned on the vehicle charging socket, the apparatus being further configured such that, after said indented hook interlocks with said catch, said motor and drive mechanism is operable to drive the slide component away from the vehicle, thereby applying a force which draws the electrical charging connector towards the electrical charging socket and into electrical connection therewith; a stop positioned on a top edge of said charging socket; a second ramp located on the underside of the front end of said elongated latch arm; the stop on the top edge of the charging socket and the second ramp being configured such when the slide component is moved a selected distance away from the vehicle by the motor and drive mechanism, the second ramp runs onto the stop causing the latch arm to pivot upwardly, thereby allowing the indented hook to disengage from the catch on the electrical charging socket to thereby enable the electrical charging connector to be pulled away from the vehicle. | 19,899 |
9,484,148 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a pattern of inductive power transfer lines physically associated with a ground in a work area; and a ground-based machine configured to move in the work area and comprising an inductive power transfer system on the ground-based machine and configured to obtain energy for the ground-based machine from the pattern of the inductive power transfer lines, wherein the inductive power transfer system comprises an inductive power transfer unit that is moveable on the ground-based machine with respect to the ground-based machine. | 9,730 |
9,793,557 | 1. A thermal management system for a fuel cell vehicle, comprising: a radiator configured to dissipate heat generated from a fuel cell stack through cooling water; a de-mineralizer disposed in a branch line branched from a cooling water circulating line connecting between the fuel cell stack and the radiator allowing the cooling water to pass therethrough; and a 3-way valve configured to selectively introduce the cooling water passing through the radiator or the cooling water passing through a bypass line formed in front of an inlet of the radiator within the cooling water circulating line from the fuel cell stack and includes a first port, a second port, and a third port, wherein the first port is connected to a radiator line along which the cooling water passing through the radiator flows, the second port is connected to the bypass line along which the cooling water passing from the fuel cell stack and the de-mineralizer flows, and the third port is configured to be connected to a fuel cell stack side of the cooling water circulating line, and the de-mineralizer line along which the cooling water passing through the de-mineralizer flows is branched from a line between a pump and the fuel cell stack and connected to the bypass line in front of the second port such that a flow rate of the de-mineralizer line is cut off when the second port is closed. | 4,753 |
9,843,490 | 1. A method implemented and programmed within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and processed by a device configured to perform the method, comprising: intercepting, by the device, web pages requested by a principal; selectively, via the device, inserting analytic logic as an executable script into links associated with the web pages for capturing metrics related to access and use of the web pages by the principal, wherein inserting further includes inserting data with the executable script into the links where information obtained for executable script processing is acquired by the executable script from the data in the links, and wherein inserting further includes inserting the analytic logic without modification to any of the web pages and the web pages remain unchanged, and wherein inserting further includes inserting identity data as the data for the principal and group data for groups to which the principal belongs; and controlling, via the device, the metrics sent to an analytic server by the analytic logic when the web pages are accessed by the principal and identifying the metrics with the identity data and the group data, wherein controlling further includes selectively disabling the metrics sent to the analytic server based on specific users, security role data and the identity data. | 20,799 |
8,578,892 | 1. A method for operating a combustion system burning solid fuel comprising: providing a burner system comprising at least one burner elements that are configured to combust solid fuel; providing more than one oxygen providing devices configured to introduce an oxygen rich stream, into the near burner zone of burner flames; providing a sensor arranged and disposed remote from the burner flames in order to measure a flame parameter in the near burner zone of the burner flame associated with the burner elements; measuring the flame parameter with the sensor; determining an oxygen rich stream flow in response to the measured flame parameter; and introducing the oxygen rich stream flow to one or more locations in the combustion system with the oxygen providing devices. | 9,496 |
8,523,681 | 1. A content server comprising: a receiver configured to receive, from a first device, metadata identifying an execution state of a content item executed in the first device connected through a network and identification information for identifying the first device through the network; a memory configured to store a supplemental content item associated with the content item of the metadata identifying the execution state of the content item executed in the first device; a content extractor configured to extract the supplemental content item based on the metadata identifying the execution state of the content item executed in the first device received by the receiver from the memory; and a transmitter configured to transmits the supplemental content item extracted from the memory by the content extractor to a second device associated with the first device by the identification information through the network. | 22,208 |
8,433,827 | 1. A method for configuring fieldbus stations in a subnetwork, the method comprising: forming a first system setup from fieldbus stations of a first subnetwork; providing a first fieldbus station of the first subnetwork with an executable user program; establishing rules in the first system setup comprising: starting the first fieldbus station and executing the user executable program; and executing a sequence in the user executable program comprising: | 39,562 |
9,466,984 | 1. A method for regulating collective power output of a plurality of variable energy sources, the method comprising: monitoring collective power output of the plurality of variable energy sources; predicting future collective available power levels of the plurality of variable energy sources based at least in part on a first desired collective power ramp rate over a first time duration and a second desired collective power ramp rate over a second time duration, wherein the predicting of the future collective available power levels comprises: based on the comparison, modifying, using at least one modifying function, the predicted collective available power levels based at least in part on limiting the rate of change of the predicted collective available power levels depending upon a direction of power change, wherein the at least one modifying function provides for faster slew rates when reducing power, to rapidly correct a transient condition, and slower slew rates when increasing power, wherein the at least one modifying function includes a low pass filter and a slew rate limiter; determining a power regulation setpoint based on the modified predicted collective available power levels; selecting a minimum of the collective available power levels and the power regulation setpoint; based at least in part on the selection, generating a net power command signal based at least in part on the modified predicted collective available power levels; generating a plurality of power control signals based at least in part on the net power command signal; and controlling collective power output of the plurality of variable energy sources with the plurality of power control signals to allow different collective rates of change of power output depending upon the direction of power change or upon previous power changes, wherein the collective rate of change of power output of the variable energy sources does not exceed a first desired collective power ramp rate over the first time duration. | 26,625 |
9,303,663 | 1. A panel support array arranged to support and hold at least one external panel, said panel support array comprising: a) a lower support structure; b) a plurality of upper panel rails attached to said at least one external panel and, arranged on said lower support structure, each said upper panel rail comprising an upper surface configured to support said at least one external panel, and at least one side plate arranged beneath said upper surface, wherein each said side plate comprises at least one V-shaped opening aligned with at least one V-shaped opening in at least one said side plate of an adjacent upper panel rail; and, c) at least one alignment rail comprising two arms configured to fit into said V-shaped openings of adjacent ones of said upper panel rails, wherein said at least one alignment rail and each of said V-shaped openings of said side plates of said adjacent upper panel rails comprise an interface structure configured to lock said alignment rail to each said adjacent upper panel rail to secure the adjacent upper panel rails in a parallel space relationship by engaging said at least one alignment rail at each of said corresponding V-shaped openings of said adjacent upper panel rails, said interface structure comprising locking notches in one or both arms of said at least one alignment rail and said locking notches are spaced and aligned to seat and hold an edge portion of the corresponding side plate of each of said adjacent upper panel rails when said rails are in parallel spaced relationship. | 12,112 |
8,424,335 | 1. A cascading series of thermally insulated containers, comprising: (a) a first container having a first payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable first nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, and (b) a second container having a second payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable second nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, (c) wherein the phase change materials surrounding the first and second containers are the same material, and the second container is nestable within the first container. | 42,895 |
9,681,375 | 1. A method in a communication system, the communication system including a base station and a plurality of client stations sharing a channel bandwidth, the method comprising: receiving, at a client station, a subframe having a control region and a data region, wherein during reception of the subframe at the client station, operating the client station in a fully powered state during the control region of the subframe to process the control region that is distributed over the channel bandwidth; and during reception of the subframe at the client station and after receiving the control region of the subframe, switching operation of the client station from the fully powered state to a partially powered state for reception and processing of at least the data region of the subframe, wherein in the partially powered state, power is supplied to circuitry needed to receive and process only the frequency sub-band that contains data for the client station. | 42,596 |
8,500,933 | 1. A method of making a vacuum insulating glass (VIG) window unit, including an edge seal thereof, the method comprising: providing a unit comprising first and second substantially parallel spaced-apart glass substrates, one or more edge portions of the first and second substrates to be sealed, and a frit provided at least partially between the first and second glass substrates for sealing said one or more edge portions to be sealed; pre-heating the unit in substantially its entirety to at least one intermediate temperature, each intermediate temperature in the pre-heating being below a melting point of the first and second substrates and below a melting point of the frit; after said pre-heating, providing localized near infrared (IR) inclusive heat to the unit proximate to the edge portions to be sealed so as to at least partially melt the frit, the localized near IR heat being provided to the unit such that at least some areas of the unit not proximate to the edge portions to be sealed are kept at a temperature(s) below frit-melting temperature; and cooling the unit and allowing the frit to harden in making the vacuum insulating glass (VIG) window unit. | 22,817 |
8,597,487 | 1. A method of producing an aluminum structure comprising: a step of preparing an aluminum-coated resin molded body in which an aluminum layer is formed, directly or with another layer therebetween, on a surface of a resin molded body composed of urethane; and a step of decomposing the resin molded body by bringing the aluminum-coated resin molded body into contact with concentrated nitric acid with a concentration of 62% or more. | 16,837 |
8,476,897 | 1. A method for localizing a person in surroundings equipped with fixed electrical appliances, said method comprising: measuring an electromagnetic field radiated by one or more of these fixed electrical appliances by means of a magnetometer carried by the person to be localized, identifying a fixed electrical appliance operating in proximity to the magnetometer by comparing the measured magnetic field with pre-recorded magnetic signatures, each pre-recorded magnetic signature being associated with a respective electrical appliance present in the surroundings, and localizing the person at least in part on the basis of pre-recorded items of information about localization, in the surroundings, of the fixed electrical appliance identified by its magnetic signature. | 20,971 |
9,800,050 | 1. A plug-in smart energy storage unit for receiving energy from and supplying energy to an electrical circuit of a local, nano-electric grid servicing a room of a facility, the room having at least one electrical outlet connected to the electrical circuit, the plug-in smart energy storage unit comprising; a housing defined by one or more walls, the housing containing within the one or more walls: | 16,150 |
8,675,378 | 1. An apparatus for supplying operating power to a load device comprising: a frequency oscillator mechanism generating an oscillator frequency; a plurality of magnetically coupled inverter modules for receiving the oscillator frequency, the plurality of inverter modules coupled to a plurality of resonant circuits, wherein the resonant circuit includes an inductor mechanism, a voltage limiting mechanism, and a resistor mechanism, wherein the plurality of inverter modules are each coupled to at least one transformer device, the transformer device having a primary winding and a secondary winding; at least one DC voltage rectifier mechanism; and a load sharing mechanism constructed to substantially equalize the power load on each resonant inverter module, wherein the equal load sharing mechanism comprises a tertiary winding wound bifilarly with the primary winding of the transformer of the resonant inverter module. | 44,764 |
9,408,495 | 1. A method for producing a frothed liquid in a beverage production apparatus, the method comprising: providing a chamber with a transverse bottom wall and a longitudinal upward wall, dosing the chamber with soluble ingredient, feeding a diluent through a diluent inlet to create a jet of diluent in the chamber and mix the diluent with said soluble ingredient to dissolve the soluble ingredient into a liquid, the diluent inlet is oriented in a direction for which a ratio of a distance “d” to the radius “r” of the chamber is between 0.2 and 0.9, wherein the distance “d” is a distance measured orthogonally from the direction of orientation of the diluent inlet to a central axis of the chamber, and the diluent inlet is inclined downwardly in direction toward the transverse bottom wall at an angle (b) relative to a transversal plane of the chamber, controlling flow of the liquid delivered out of the chamber such that the liquid can rise up to a certain level along the side of the longitudinal upward wall when diluent is fed into the chamber and the liquid forms a sheared surface of liquid which is impacted, as a result of the direction and dimension of the diluent inlet in the chamber, by the jet of diluent, and stopping intake of the diluent inside the chamber and draining the frothed liquid from the chamber through at least one outlet. | 36,097 |
9,373,737 | 1. A biaxially stretched electrical insulating film comprising polymeric constituents mainly comprised of polyester, wherein the film further comprises a decarboxylation catalyst mixture as sole hydrolysis stabilizer, said decarboxylation catalyst composing at least one copper salt and one halide, said copper salt present in an amount ranging from 10 to 500 ppm and the alternating current dielectric strength of the film is at least 100 kV/mm at 23° C and 50 Hz, wherein the molar ratio of halide to Cu is from 0.5 to 1.0. | 6,400 |
8,795,610 | 1. A process for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel which comprises: a) decontaminating uranium and plutonium present in a first nitric acid aqueous phase, resulting from a dissolution of the nuclear fuel in nitric acid, from americium, curium and a major portion of fission products that are also present in the first nitric acid aqueous phase, which decontaminating comprises co-extracting the uranium in oxidation state VI and the plutonium in oxidation state IV in a first organic phase non-miscible with water and comprising a first extractant which is more capable of extracting uranium(VI) and plutonium(IV) than actinides(III) and fission products from the first nitric acid aqueous phase; b) co-stripping, in a second nitric acid aqueous phase, the uranium and the plutonium co-extracted at a), the uranium being stripped in oxidation state VI and the plutonium being stripped in oxidation states IV and VI due to a formation, during the co-stripping, of plutonium(VI) by dismutation of plutonium(IV); c) partitioning the uranium and the plutonium present in the second nitric acid aqueous phase from b) into a first aqueous solution comprising either plutonium without uranium or a mixture of uranium and plutonium, and a second aqueous solution comprising uranium without plutonium, which partitioning comprises: d) purifying the plutonium or the mixture of uranium and plutonium present in the second nitric acid aqueous phase from c) to remove any fission products which may still be present in the second nitric acid aqueous phase. | 44,863 |
9,487,651 | 1. A polymethylmethacrylate bead wherein the shape of the polymethylmethacrylate bead is hemispherical and the polymethylmethacrylate bead has oil absorption of 2.4 to 3.0 cc/g. | 22,008 |
9,451,498 | 1. A method for communication in a wireless sensor network of an industrial control system, said network comprising a plurality of device nodes and a gateway, said method comprising aggregating data originating from at least two data packets, said data packets including an encrypted part, characterised by: receiving at a first node at least one first data packet for a first destination address; checking destination addresses of other data packets received at the first node for at least one second data packet intended for the first destination address; aggregating data comprising a first said encrypted part from the at least one first data packet with data including a second encrypted part from the at least one second data packet; forming an aggregated data packet comprising the first said encrypted part and the second encrypted part; adding one or more bytes describing a size of the first said encrypted part to a Network & Security Sub-layer; sending the aggregated data packet to another node or to said gateway; receiving at the first node at least one third data packet for a second destination address; checking destination addresses of other data packets received at the first node to confirm no other data packets are intended for the second destination address; and sending the at least one third data packet to a gateway or another node without aggregating it with another packet. | 42,112 |
9,601,799 | 1. A method for producing a positive electrode of a thin-film battery comprising: a film-formation step of forming a positive-electrode active material film layer on a substrate, the positive-electrode active material film layer including a positive electrode material that includes an amount of amorphous lithium and an amount of Li after the film-formation step, an annealing step of annealing the positive-electrode active material film layer, thereby increasing the amount of Li after the annealing step, a lithium-ion introduction step of introducing lithium ions into the Li | 43,802 |
9,723,581 | 1. A method for receiving timing information over a peer-to-peer network, comprising: receiving first synchronization information comprising first timing information for synchronizing network communications on a first communication channel; and receiving second synchronization information comprising second timing information for synchronizing communications on a second communication channel, the second synchronization information indicating a paging window interval communicated on the second communication channel, the paging window interval comprising a period during which at least one of beacons and data structures is communicated, the paging window interval is based on the first synchronization information, wherein receiving the paging window interval is non-concurrent and synchronized with the receiving of the first synchronization information. | 31,818 |
8,533,256 | 1. A method of reading a data object from a dispersed data storage network that includes a plurality of networked computers and a plurality of slice servers, each of said plurality of slice servers storing at least one of a plurality of data slices, whereby n of said plurality of data slices are associated with said data object, and whereby m of said associated data slices are required to reconstruct said data object, and further whereby m is less than n, said method comprising the steps of: receiving data indicative of the data object to read; based on the data indicative of the data object to read: reading m data slices from m of said slice servers; and assembling said data object from said read data slices. | 45,264 |
9,551,140 | 1. A dryer component for a bidet, comprising: a drying member having an inlet; a blower component configured to move an airflow; and a pipe component including a first part and a second part, the first part having a first fitting surface and the second part having a second fitting surface; wherein the first part is removably coupled to the drying member; and wherein the first part and the second part are demountably connected via first and second fitting surfaces to provide a fluid connection between the blower component and the inlet of the drying member. | 20,250 |
9,180,871 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas purification catalyst in an exhaust passage; an electric motor; an electrical storage device configured to supply the electric motor with electric power for driving the electric motor; a generator configured to generate electric power for charging the electrical storage device using power of the internal combustion engine; a power transmission mechanism configured to couple a drive shaft of a vehicle to the internal combustion engine such that torque is transmitted, the power transmission mechanism configured to couple the drive shaft to the electric motor such that torque is transmitted; and a control device configured to generate torque required to rotate the drive shaft by controlling at least torque generated by the internal combustion engine and torque generated by the electric motor, the control device configured to change the electric power generated by the generator by controlling the power generated by the internal combustion engine, the control device configured to execute catalyst warm-up operation for starting the internal combustion engine and for retarding an ignition timing of the internal combustion engine by a predetermined retardation amount with respect to a reference ignition timing when a catalyst temperature parameter is lower than or equal to a predetermined temperature correlated threshold, the catalyst temperature parameter correlating with a temperature of the catalyst, the control device configured to execute a forced charging operation for charging the electrical storage device by starting the internal combustion engine when a remaining level parameter correlating with a remaining level of the electrical storage device is lower than or equal to a predetermined remaining level correlated threshold, and by causing the generator to generate electric power by operating the internal combustion engine while changing a load required for the internal combustion engine based on the remaining level parameter, and the control device configured to reduce the retardation amount as the load of the internal combustion engine increases when both the forced charging operation and the catalyst warm-up operation are executed at the same time. | 30,983 |
9,023,540 | 1. A battery device, comprising: a negative electrode; an air electrode; an electrolyte layer that is positioned between the negative electrode and the air electrode; a first current collector on a first surface of the air electrode closest to the negative electrode; and a second current collector on a second surface of the air electrode positioned opposite to the negative electrode; wherein the first current collector and the second current collector are each electrically connected to the air electrode. | 9,586 |
8,975,587 | 1. A positron CT apparatus having: a plurality of detectors for detecting radiation released from a positron-emitting drug given to a subject, and outputting electric signals; a coincidence counting circuit for detecting, based on the electric signals, that a simultaneous observation of the radiation is made in two of the detectors; a system matrix calculating device for calculating a system matrix based on outputs of the coincidence counting circuit; and a reconstructing device for generating a distribution image of the positrons as an image based on the system matrix; the positron CT apparatus comprising: a function adjusting device for making adjustment by fitting a point spread function to a profile of count values of radiation with respect to a distance from a point source which emits radiation of the same type as the positron-emitting drug; and a distance range adjusting device for adjusting a distance range of the function for each layer in a depth direction of the detectors indicating an incident direction in which the radiation strikes; wherein the system matrix is calculated based on the function with the distance range adjusted. | 5,876 |
9,605,654 | 1. A method of operating at least one wind turbine, comprising: determining, via one or more sensors, a plurality of stress events of at least one component of the at least one wind turbine; calculating, via a computer-implemented rainflow counting algorithm programmed in a controller, at least one accumulated stress from at least two of the plurality of stress events; determining, via the controller, a ratio of the at least one accumulated stress to a predicted stress of the at least one component; determining, via another computer-implemented rainflow counting algorithm programmed in the controller, at least one residual lifetime based at least partially on the ratio; and adjusting at least one operational setting of the at least one wind turbine based on the at least one residual lifetime, the operational setting comprising at least one of a power level, a pitch angle, a yaw angle, or a generator speed of the wind turbine. | 14,400 |
9,151,698 | 1. A testing system for examining the coating and open cooling-air holes of turbine blades, comprising: a positioning device for an infrared camera with solely a horizontal degree of freedom and a vertical degree of freedom such that the infrared camera is not rotatable or tiltable, a rotating-pivoting device for positioning the turbine blade about an axis of rotation and about a pivot axis that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation, a rotatable air duct arranged on the rotating-pivoting device for introducing into the turbine blade air at a temperature higher or lower in comparison with the turbine blade, and an infrared camera arranged on the positioning device; wherein the rotatable air duct comprises a rotary connector including a hollow spindle, wherein the hollow spindle is in flow communication with multiple openings located adjacent one another side by side in the receptacle such that air flows into the receptacle and into a blade disposed in the receptacle during operation of the testing system. | 39,287 |
9,640,706 | 1. A method of making a photovoltaic device, comprising: depositing a transparent conductor layer; depositing a heterojunction partner layer; depositing a layer of Cadmium Selenide; coating the layer of Cadmium Selenide with a solution comprising a solvent and at least one of chloride selected from the group consisting of chlorides of Group IA elements, chlorides of group IB elements, and chlorides of Group IIIB elements; heating the layer of Cadmium Selenide in an environment having an ambient temperature of between 300 and 500 degrees Celsius for a time between three and thirty minutes while at least partially preventing the evaporation of Selenium from the layer of Cadmium Selenide; and depositing a contact layer. | 41,503 |
9,160,015 | 1. A humidifier for fuel cell comprising: hollow fiber membranes; a housing structure to house the hollow fiber membranes therein, said housing structure including a first end, a second end positioned at an opposite side of the first end, and plural holes provided along the outer circumferential surface of the second end, wherein the hollow fiber membranes have a first end and a second end which respectively potted into the first and second ends of the housing structure, and wherein the hollow fiber membranes are positioned inside the housing structure; and a cap installed at the second end of the housing structure to encase the second end of the housing structure, wherein the cap has an inlet for supplying moisture-containing unreacted gas into the housing structure and is provided with plural projections on its inner surface, wherein the plural projections are positioned to correspond to and align with the respective holes of the housing structure, and wherein heights of the plural projections are substantially identical with each other. | 46,778 |
9,655,247 | 1. A coil component comprising: a main substrate; a first coil pattern disposed on a first surface of the main substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on one surface of the first coil pattern; a third coil pattern disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the first coil pattern; a second coil pattern disposed on a second surface of the main substrate opposing the first surface; a second insulating layer disposed on one surface of the second coil pattern; a fourth coil pattern disposed on one surface of the second insulating layer and electrically connected to the second coil pattern; and a magnetic body in which the first to fourth coil patterns are embedded. | 34,970 |
8,683,376 | 1. A non-transitory server unit in a server-based computing system which includes (a) a drawing data creating section that creates drawing data including an object which comprises at least one of a list box and a text box according to an input event from a client unit and (b) a drawing data transmitting section that transmits the drawing data created by the drawing data creating section to the client unit, the server unit comprising: an object selection determining section which determines whether the input event from the client unit is a selection of a single object included in the drawing data; a display area information request section which, if the object selection determining section has determined that the input event from the client unit is the selection of the single object, requests the client unit to transmit display area information found by the client unit indicating where the client unit presently displays, wherein the display area information corresponds to a part of the drawing data; a display area information acquisition section which acquires the display area information transmitted from the client unit; an object judging section which judges whether a display screen area corresponding to the display area information includes a part area of the single object selected on the drawing data; a display area information changing section which, if the object judging section has determined that the display screen area includes the part area of the single object selected on the drawing data, changes the display area information so that the display screen area includes all areas of the single object selected on the drawing data; and a display area information transmitting section which transmits the display area information changed by the display area information changing section to the client unit. | 17,004 |
8,962,213 | 1. A method of making a reinforced membrane electrode assembly comprising: placing a shim frame on a free standing microporous layer; applying a catalyst coating to the shim frame such that the catalyst coating covers the free standing microporous layer to form a catalyst coated free standing microporous layer; drying the catalyst coated free standing microporous layer; providing a polymer membrane; and bonding the catalyst coated free standing microporous layer on a surface of the polymer membrane. | 14,305 |
9,168,656 | 1. A telepresence robot system local terminal comprising: an electronic display; a processor in communication with the electronic display; a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor configured to cause the processor to: a user input device in communication with the processor, the user input device configured to enable a user to select a movement for the remote telepresence robot via any of at least two options on a single user interface, the at least two options comprising: wherein the selection of the movement comprises selecting a point on the plan view map, and wherein selecting a point on the plan view map results in an alternative perspective of the video feed. | 32,167 |
9,281,883 | 1. A transmission method of a transmission system, the transmission system having a first transmitter and a second transmitter, the transmission method comprising: encoding input data to coded blocks each made up of a plurality of bits by using a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; modulating each of the coded blocks to a first modulated signal s1 and a second modulated signal s2; applying precoding by a fixed matrix F to the first modulated signal s1 and the second modulated signal s2 to obtain a first pre-coded signal z1′ and a second pre-coded signal z2′, wherein the matrix F is expressed as: where α represents a positive real number larger than or equal to 0; inserting one or more pilots to each of the first pre-coded signal z1′ and the second pre-coded signal z2′ to obtain a first pilot-inserted signal z1″ and a second pilot-inserted signal z2″, respectively; phase-changing, while regularly varying a scheme of phase change for each of a plurality of slots, at least one of the first pilot-inserted signal z1″ and the second pilot-inserted signal z2″ to obtain a first transmission signal z1 and a second transmission signal z2, wherein at least one of the encoding, the modulating, the precoding, the inserting, and the phase-changing is performed by both the first transmitter and the second transmitter; and transmitting, by the first transmitter, (i) the first transmission signal z1 from a first antenna at a first period at a first frequency, or (ii) the first transmission signal z1 from the first antenna at the first period at the first frequency and the second transmission signal z2 from a third antenna at the first period at the first frequency; and transmitting, by the second transmitter, (i) the second transmission signal z2 from a second antenna at the first period at the first frequency, or (ii) the first transmission signal z1 from the second antenna at the first period at the first frequency and the second transmission signal z2 from a forth antenna at the first period at the first frequency. | 22,766 |
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