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8,361,006 | 1. A blood treatment device comprising a blood purification element which is divided into two chambers by a semipermeable membrane, with a first chamber being part of a dialysis fluid circuit and a second chamber being part of an extracorporeal blood circuit, a dialysis fluid inlet line which leads from a dialysis fluid processing unit to supply fresh dialysis fluid to at least one of the first chamber and directly into the blood circuit, a dialysis fluid outlet line for removing spent dialysis fluid from the first chamber, a blood inlet line for supplying blood to the second chamber, a blood return line for returning blood from the second chamber, a control unit for controlling the blood treatment device, an analyzer unit which is connected to the control unit, and at least one sensor which is connected to the analyzer unit on at least one of the blood circuit and the dialysis fluid circuit for detecting the concentration of a substance which is capable of penetrating through the semipermeable membrane, the analyzer unit being configured (i) to determine on the basis of detected values of the at least one sensor the concentration Cbi of the substance in the blood in the blood inlet line, the instantaneous transfer rate ΔM/Δt of the substance through the membrane, and the total quantity M of the substance withdrawn through the membrane during the treatment, (ii) to store a first admissible value range for the blood concentration Cbi of the substance, a second admissible value range for the transfer rate ΔM/Δt, and a third admissible value range for the total quantity M of the substance to be withdrawn, and (iii) to instruct the control unit such that the blood treatment device performs the blood treatment while maintaining all three of the admissible value ranges, the dialysis fluid processing unit being configured to add potassium to the fresh dialysis fluid, and the substance whose concentration is detected by the at least one sensor being potassium. | 796 |
9,034,351 | 1. A chemical matrix comprising from about 2% to about 30% of an alcohol by volume, a corticosteroid and at least one excipient, wherein the chemical matrix is a semi-solid cream or ointment suitable for topical non-systemic administration, the alcohol is primarily dispersed into the chemical matrix in the form of droplets, and the alcohol is selected from ethanol, isopropanol, or n-propanol. | 16,083 |
9,130,226 | 1. A stabilized electrode comprising a metal oxide or lithium-metal-oxide electrode material, wherein the electrode is formed by contacting a surface of the electrode material, prior to cell assembly, with an aqueous or a non-aqueous acid solution having a pH greater than 4 but less than 7 and containing a stabilizing salt to etch the surface of the electrode material and introduce stabilizing anions and cations from the salt into said surface while the structure of the bulk of the electrode material remains unchanged; wherein the stabilizing salt comprises fluoride and at least one cationic material selected from the group consisting of ammonium, phosphorus, titanium, silicon, zirconium, aluminum, and boron. | 17,833 |
8,868,233 | 1. A control apparatus for a substrate treating system, the substrate treating system comprising: a substrate treating apparatus having one physical load port for receiving pods for storing substrates, and a carrier transport system for transporting the pods to and from the one physical load port, the control apparatus comprising: a virtual load port control device for allotting a plurality of virtual load ports to the one physical load port, and instructing the carrier transport system to perform a transporting operation to and from the plurality of virtual load ports on an assumption that the plurality of virtual load ports really exist. | 8,822 |
9,288,765 | 1. A transmitting device comprising: at least two output ports, each output port being associated with an antenna; at least one data processor configured with instructions stored on a computer-readable memory to provide a power signal set having at least two power signal components, each power signal component being associated with one of the at least two output ports and being indicative of a power portion to be provided to its associated antenna for generating a wireless transmission to a receiving device; and a power adjustment unit for scaling the power signal components of the power signal set, thereby providing a scaled power signal set; wherein each of the power signal components corresponds to a communication channel between the transmitting device and the receiving device, and the power adjustment unit is configured to scale the power signal set depending on a channel state of the communication channels corresponding to the power signal components of the power signal set. | 37,304 |
8,506,977 | 1. A method for preparing a bait composition to be used to control sweet-eating insect populations, said sweet-eating insects comprising cockroaches and some species of ants, comprising the steps of: preparing an attractant of sugar for said sweet-eating insects in liquid form, and coating particles of a compound of boric acid, lethal to said sweet-eating insects when ingested by them, with said liquid attractant and glycerol, the bait prepared by caramelization of the sugar by heating sugar to cause its partial chemical decomposition and liquefaction, followed by adding liquid glycerin to prevent solidification as the caramelized sugar is cooled, and then mixing with powdered boric acid, coating the boric acid with the liquid mixture, producing a solid bait. | 8,728 |
9,355,889 | 1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor-on-insulator device, the method comprising: providing a pre-patterned donor wafer, comprising: providing a handling wafer; bonding the pre-patterned donor wafer to the handling wafer by contacting the first oxide layer to the handling wafer; removing at least part of the first semiconductor material from a backside of the bonded pre-patterned donor wafer; and sufficiently thinning the STI regions and the fins from the backside of the bonded donor wafer to expose the Group III-V or Group IV semiconductor material, thereby forming channel regions comprising the Group III-V or Group IV semiconductor material. | 22,789 |
9,435,371 | 1. A suction cup having: a) a substantially disc-shaped body defined by a relatively convex outer surface and a relatively concave inner surface joined at the lateral periphery of the body to define a non-circular peripheral edge wherein the thickness of said body at said non-circular edge is substantially constant along the entire periphery of said body; and (b) a mounting device substantially centrally located and extending from said convex outer surface; wherein said cup body defines a nominal center having a first thickness which is greater than the thickness of said body at said non-circular edge and the distance from said outer surface to said inner surface decreases at a relatively uniform rate along the radial distance from said nominal center to said non-circular edge. | 14,066 |
9,851,712 | 1. A configuration system, for a process control system configured to perform process control, the configuration system comprising: one or more processors; at least one controller; an editor implemented by the one or more processors, the editor comprising: a generation manager configured to convert the definition module and the application module to control data, wherein the at least one controller executes the converted control data to perform the process control of the process control system. | 22,859 |
9,051,461 | 1. A fluoropolymer composition, comprising: at least one low molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene (LPTFE) having a number average molecular weight (M at least two melt processible fluoropolymers in addition to said LPTFE, comprising: said at least one LPTFE present in an amount of between 40 wt. % and 60 wt. %, said perflouroalkoxy present in an amount of between 24 wt. % and 48 wt. %, and said FEP present in an amount of between 12 wt. % and 16 wt. %, based on the total solids weight of said at least one LPTFE, said perflouroalkoxy, and said FEP; and wherein said composition lacks fillers. | 25,049 |
9,615,572 | 1. An article of manufacture comprising: a generally liquid tight container, the container bounding an interior area, a manually actuatable atomizing sprayer, including a liquid solution in the interior area dispensable through the atomizing sprayer, wherein the atomizing sprayer is configured to selectively deliver solution therefrom to a surface. | 47,837 |
9,838,476 | 1. A cloud agent device, comprising: a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components comprising: | 42,084 |
8,383,298 | 1. A substrate processing method comprising: exposing a mask substrate in which a first film having a first hydrophilicity is formed on one main surface and a resist is applied to another main surface as a mask substrate used for forming an EUV mask, from a side of the resist; performing a hydrophilic treatment on a surface of the first film to make the surface of the first film have a second hydrophilicity larger than the first hydrophilicity; and performing a development treatment of the resist with respect to the mask substrate in which the hydrophilic treatment is performed on the surface of the first film to have the second hydrophilicity. | 38,807 |
9,428,973 | 1. A coiled tubing injector unit insert assembly comprising: a carrier block having a carrier block pocket; a shaft extending through the carrier block pocket, the shaft having a first diameter portion and a second larger diameter portion, and a junction between the two shaft diameters that is located within the carrier block pocket; and a gripping insert having a tongue, the tongue comprising at least a first cutout configured to engage the shaft extending through the carrier block pocket and couple the gripping insert to the carrier block, and a peripheral cutout having a width less than the diameter of the first cutout. | 5,487 |
8,606,053 | 1. An optical modulator comprising at least two optical modulation sections which are arranged in parallel on a same substrate having an electro-optic effect, in the respective optical modulation sections, a Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide is formed on the substrate, and a signal electrode and an earth electrode are provided along a pair of branching waveguides that are disposed between an optical branching section and an optical multiplexing section of the Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide, that perform modulation of light that propagates on the Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide by applying an electric signal corresponding to modulation data to the signal electrode that is a travelling wave electrode, wherein: the substrate, in the respective optical modulation sections, has in an interaction portion in which light propagating on the pair of branching waveguides and an electrical signal propagating on the signal electrode interact with each other, and a polarization inversion region in which a polarization direction in one region is inverted with respect to a polarization direction in the other region; in the respective optical modulation sections, respective branch lights for where light input to one input port that is common to both is branched into a plurality, are guided to an input end of the Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide via curved optical waveguides corresponding to each of the optical modulation sections; the signal electrodes of the respective optical modulation sections are respectively arranged, within a polarization inversion region of the interaction portion, on one branching waveguide out of the pair of branching waveguides, and within a non-polarization inversion region in which there is no polarization inversion in the interaction portion, on an other branching waveguide; and for each of the pair of branching waveguides of the respective optical modulation sections, for a spacing to a pair of branching waveguides of the other optical modulation section that is adjacent on the substrate, a spacing in the vicinity of a border on an input side between the polarization inversion region and the non-polarization inversion region is wider than a spacing in the vicinity of a start point of the interaction portion. | 32,508 |
8,694,566 | 1. A method for decomposing an anharmonic periodic signal, the method implemented in a processing unit executing a computer program composed of lines of code stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the general form of which signal is expressed by x(t)=x 0 +x 1 cos(Φ(t)), wherein Φ(t) is the phase of the signal and t is the time, the processing unit being programmed to execute the steps comprising: determining an expression of the phase equation determining an expression of the phase Φ(t) as a function of parameters measuring the anharmonicity of the signal and its morphology, from p cos | 40,099 |
8,343,254 | 1. A method of preparing nickel composite particles each comprising a nickel nano particle and a silica coat on the nickel nano particle, the method comprising steps of: stirring and heating a mixture of a nickel salt solution and a precursor material of silica coat at a temperature ranging from 25° C. to 80° C. for 0.5 hours to 2 hours; filtering, cleaning and drying a resultant product to obtain an organic nickel composite; and thermally treating the organic nickel composite at a temperature ranging from 200° C. to 500° C. for 0.5 hours to 4 hours, wherein the precursor material of the silica coat comprises a silane coupling agent containing a donor material for affording electrons to nickel ions and a silane group capable of forming silica by condensation. | 39,958 |
9,344,019 | 1. A control device for an AC rotating machine including a plurality of sets of windings, the control device comprising: a plurality of inverters each including, in respective phases, switching elements configured to control voltages to be applied to respective phases of the plurality of sets of windings; a current control portion configured to issue voltage commands corresponding to the voltages, to the respective plurality of inverters, to control currents flowing through the plurality of sets of windings; and a failure detection portion configured to detect at least one of a short-circuit failure and an open-circuit failure in a faulty phase of at least one of the switching elements of a faulty-side inverter, of the plurality of inverters, wherein the current control portion is configured to set the same potential side of the respective phases of the faulty-side inverter, as that of the faulty phase, to an ON state or an OFF state, in response to detecting the short-circuit failure or the open-circuit failure, respectively, and to continue issuing the voltage commands to a normal-side inverter of the plurality of inverters, in which the short-circuit failure or the open-circuit failure was not detected, to continue a control of the normal-side inverter. | 47,520 |
9,113,821 | 1. A radiation imaging apparatus comprising: a radiation generation unit configured to radiate radiation to an object; a radiation detection unit configured to detect the radiation having passed through the object; an irradiation size detection unit configured to detect a size of an irradiation range of the radiation radiated by the radiation generation unit; a movement detection unit configured to detect a relative movement of the radiation generation unit and the radiation detection unit with respect to the object; and a control unit configured to control irradiation of the radiation to the object performed by the radiation generation unit, wherein the control unit resumes, after a stop of the irradiation of the radiation, the irradiation of the radiation to the object performed by the radiation generation unit according to the relative movement detected by the movement detection unit and the size of the irradiation range detected by the irradiation size detection unit. | 36,543 |
9,494,338 | 1. A solar light collecting mirror, comprising a reflective section which is elastically deformable, and a frame which is elastically deformable and configured to support the reflective section, wherein a central portion of the reflective section is positionally fixed in an X direction and a Y direction of the reflective section, a relative position in a Z direction between the central portion of the reflective section and a peripheral portion of the reflective section is changeable, the peripheral portion of the reflective section is not positionally fixed in the X direction and the Y direction, the frame includes warp members which radially extend from a position corresponding to the central portion of the reflective section, and the reflective section is configured to deform elastically together with the frame so as to change the relative position in the Z direction between the central portion and the peripheral portion, whereby a concave mirror structure is obtained. | 26,268 |
9,079,471 | 1. A dynamic vehicle suspension system comprising: a suspension tube filled with a fluid; a piston rod at least partially enclosed within the suspension tube; a first impedance plate coupled to a portion of the piston rod enclosed within the suspension tube, the first impedance plate comprising one or more bypass apertures; a second impedance plate comprising one or more bypass apertures and arranged relative to the first impedance plate within the suspension tube to form one or more overlap regions at each point where at least a portion of a bypass aperture of the first impedance plate overlaps at least a portion of a bypass aperture of the second impedance plate; and wherein at least one of the first or second impedance plates is movable to change at least one of a size or number of the one or more overlap regions, thereby adjusting a fluid flow rate through the one or more overlap regions to control a speed and/or acceleration of the piston rod as the piston rod moves through the fluid in the suspension tube. | 23,162 |
9,347,479 | 1. Method for producing a drilling tip, in particular the drilling tip of a screw, having the following method steps: a wire nail ( the pinching jaws ( when the pinching jaws ( when the pinching jaws ( the bulge ( the bulge ( after the drilling tip is removed, the bulge ( | 21,829 |
9,427,594 | 1. A distributed implantable system, comprising: a leadless implantable medical device (LIMD) configured to be implanted entirely within the heart and to deliver a pacing therapy, the LIMD comprising: a subcutaneous implantable medical device (SIMD) to be located proximate to the heart and configured to deliver an arrhythmia therapy, the SIMD comprising: | 21,868 |
8,870,061 | 1. A reusable envelope, comprising in combination: a front planar panel and a rear planar panel; said panels adjacent each other with an open space therebetween; said open space sized to removably receive contents therein; said front panel of said envelope including at least one surface region which is formed of a material which releasably holds postage thereon in a manner allowing the postage to be removed and new postage applied; wherein said front panel of said envelope includes at least three separate surface regions which are formed of a material which releasably holds separate adhesively backed structures thereon, the adhesively backed structures taken from the group of structures including postage, address labels and return labels, said at least three separate surface regions located on said front panel in standard mail processing locations specified for postage placement, address placement and return address placement; and said envelope having an opening into said open space, said opening including a resealable closure. | 27,638 |
9,515,556 | 1. A method of regulating voltage with a switching regulator, the method comprising: sensing an output voltage provided by the switching regulator; if the output voltage drops below a low voltage threshold, providing a burst of one or more current pulses to raise the output voltage, wherein providing each current pulse in the burst includes: if the output voltage raises above a high voltage threshold during the burst, discontinuing the burst of current pulses; counting a number of the one or more current pulses in the burst; comparing the number of the one or more current pulses with at least one pulse threshold; and adjusting the upper current threshold based on the number of the one or more current pulses. | 46,919 |
9,065,697 | 1. A method of sharing a data content between a transmitter and a receiver, said method comprising the steps of: the transmitter: a server: receiving functional presentation parameters of said receiver; combining said retrieved data content and said at least one comment into a message; and generating, for said receiver, an output message from the message, wherein, said output message is generated based on said received functional presentation parameters of said receiver. | 13,700 |
8,938,237 | 1. A method for transmitting beacon services to a User Equipment (UE) roaming in an area covered by several Radio Access Technologies (RAT's), said area comprising a plurality of geographical zones, each geographical zone comprising at least one network base station using several frequencies and at least one RAT among said plurality of RAT's, said UE having various RAT capabilities and preferences and supporting several frequencies, said method characterized by periodically transmitting to the UE at least a beacon message M comprising information about the RAT's and the frequencies deployed in each zone of said area, and data indicating at least a validity period of said RAT's and said frequencies information, said method further comprising: defining in said area n specific sub-zones Zi (i=1 to n), n being an integer; and defining the beacon message M as a set of successive sub-messages Mi (i=1 to n), each sub-message Mi carrying information about at least one of a specific RAT deployed in a specific sub-zone Zi of said area, a specific frequency deployed in a specific sub-zone Zi of said area, the validity period Vi of said specific information, and an identifier IDi of said sub-message Mi. | 7,662 |
9,201,663 | 1. A computer system comprising: a computer device comprising a network communication unit and an ID table; and a remote device communicating with the computer device through a network, wherein the computer device reads an ID code of the network communication unit, searches the ID table according to the ID code to obtain a particular packet format type corresponding to the ID code, and sends an agreement packet to notify the remote device before the computer device enters into a power-saving state from a normal operation state, the agreement packet comprises a message of the particular packet format type, the computer device receives a response packet from the remote device to set a packet receiving procedure in the computer device and enters into the power-saving state, a connection between the computer device in the power-saving state and the remote device is maintained according to a specific way, and the computer device returns to the normal operation state when the computer device receives a wake-up packet complying with the packet receiving procedure from the remote device. | 8,785 |
8,798,029 | 1. A method operational on an access terminal for assisted initial network acquisition of a first wireless network, comprising: broadcasting a request for a first wireless network information over a second wireless network; receiving the first wireless network information from an assisting access terminal over the second wireless network, wherein the assisting access terminal is already part of a first wireless network associated with the first wireless network information and the first wireless network being of a different type than the second wireless network; receiving clock timing information regarding the first wireless network from the assisting access terminal via the second wireless network; adjusting the received first wireless network information based on the received clock timing information; detecting the first wireless network over the first wireless network based on the received first wireless network information received from the assisting access terminal over the second wireless network; and acquiring communication service over the first wireless network through the access terminal different from the assisting access terminal. | 34,870 |
8,342,130 | 1. An apparatus for cultivation of shellfish, the apparatus including: a base with a culture surface, and a support attachment for the base, wherein the support attachment is a pin arising from the base, the pin having a circular cross-section and wherein the pin is configured with a barbed point, the barbed point having a conical shape, wherein the support attachment is configured to permit rotational movement of the base of the apparatus relative to a support in situ, wherein the base of the apparatus is a disc, the disc being substantially concave on a first side of the disc to form a recess, and flat on an opposing side, wherein the disc is secured to the support such that the shellfish can self-orientate, and wherein the barbed point includes a base which is substantially circular in cross-section, the base of the barbed point being configured to at least partially contact the support when the base of the apparatus is secured to the support. | 49,197 |
9,081,557 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a system on an integrated circuit, comprising: | 35,974 |
8,517,368 | 1. A stapler apparatus for use with a printing device, said stapler apparatus comprising: a clamp positioned to receive and stack sheets from said printing device; two staplers positioned on opposite sides of said clamp; a support plate positioned adjacent said clamp, said support plate comprising a proximal end facing toward said printing device and a distal end facing away from said printing device, said support plate comprising a groove, said clamp being moveable relative to said support plate, said groove directing said clamp along one path of multiple paths as said clamp moves from said distal end to said proximal end, said multiple paths alternately directing said clamp relatively closer to one of said staplers and another of said staplers as said clamp moves from said distal end to said proximal end along alternate ones of said multiple paths; a first biasing member connected to said clamp, said first biasing member applying a first force to said clamp toward a closed position; a first extension connected to said distal end of said support plate, said first extension being positioned to contact said clamp when said clamp is located at said distal end of said support plate, said first extension applying a second force to said clamp toward an open position, said open position of said clamp occurring when said clamp has a larger clamp opening relative to said closed position; a second biasing member connected to said support plate and to said clamp, said second biasing member applying a third force to said clamp toward said open position when said clamp is positioned at said proximal end of said support plate; a pin connected to said clamp, said pin being positioned within said groove in said support plate, said pin being moveable along a length of said groove; a gate connected to said support plate, said gate directing said pin into one of said multiple paths of said groove; a biased roller contacting said gate; and a third biasing member applying a fourth force to said biased roller, said biased roller changing a position of said gate, causing said gate to alternately direct said pin into said alternate ones of said multiple paths. | 23,569 |
8,874,824 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a memory storage device, an allocation of read/write memory in the host device for use by the memory storage device; creating, in response to the allocation of the read/write memory in the host device for use by the memory storage device, an extended random access memory including a random access memory of the memory storage device and the allocated read/write memory of the host device , the memory storage device including non-volatile memory; writing data to the extended random access memory; and subsequently reading the data from the extended random access memory. | 35,094 |
9,048,360 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first conductive type impurity diffusion area and a second conductive type impurity diffusion area formed on one surface side of said semiconductor substrate; an electrode for first conductive type disposed on said first conductive type impurity diffusion area; and an electrode for second conductive type disposed on said second conductive type impurity diffusion area, wherein a surface of said electrode for first conductive type is covered with a migration suppressing layer for preventing a metal forming said electrode for first conductive type from precipitating, and a surface of said migration suppressing layer covering said electrode for first conductive type and a surface of said electrode for first conductive type is directly covered with an insulating member. | 33,301 |
9,360,913 | 1. A method of providing a clock frequency to a processor, said method comprising: determining an actual load of said processor; determining a control value, the control value relating to a desired first frequency, from the deviation of said actual load to a preset target processor load providing at least one reference signal; using a second signal as input for a noise shaper, said second signal relating to said control value; generating a first signal having said first frequency by combining the output signal of said noise shaper with one of the at least one reference signals; and using said first frequency as clock frequency for said processor. | 29,444 |
9,730,771 | 1. A dental implant assembly, comprising: a dental implant comprising an abutment portion for connecting to a tooth crown and a hollow base portion defining a cavity therein, said abutment portion being integral with or non-movably secured to said hollow base portion; and a bio-supportive or biodegradable scaffold carried by said hollow base portion of said dental implant, said scaffold impregnated with regenerative stem cells, growth factor, or bone graft material, wherein said scaffold includes a flexible mesh impregnated with and carrying the regenerative stem cells, the growth factor, or the bone graft material, and wherein said flexible mesh of said scaffold is in the form of a hollow, double-walled annular body comprising an annular outer shell, an annular inner shell disposed inside of said outer shell and defining an aperture through said scaffold, and a generally annular bottom wall interconnecting lower ends of said outer and inner shells so as to define an annular cavity within said scaffold such that said hollow base portion of said dental implant is disposed in said annular cavity of said scaffold. | 26,583 |
8,733,692 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first latch portion including a first tooth and a first pin disposed in a first aperture defined by the first tooth; a second latch portion including a second tooth and a second pin disposed in a second aperture defined by the second tooth, the second tooth of the second latch portion to mesh with the first tooth of the first latch portion to substantially orient the first pin and the second pin along an axis; and an actuator adjacent a first end of one of the first latch portion or the second latch portion to move the first pin and the second pin along the axis to lock the first latch portion to the second latch portion. | 34,382 |
9,604,595 | 1. An end fitting tensioner for a seat belt system, comprising a rotatable belt shaft ( a belt shaft housing ( a rope reel ( a pull rope ( wherein the rope reel ( | 41,146 |
8,914,268 | 1. A method for hydrocarbon well decision-making, the method comprising: characterizing reservoir potential of a reservoir over space and time using a reservoir model; characterizing a near-well capacity of a formation adjacent to a well drilled to access the reservoir using a near-well model of a simulated well accessing the reservoir, the near-well model considering effects on the formation over time and space due to at least one of particulate movement, filter-cake presence, and scale build-up, wherein the near-well capacity comprises a capacity of the formation adjacent to the well to flow fluids without one of triggering and initiating a negative production event; characterizing an effective production capacity based at least in part on the characterized reservoir potential as modified by the characterized near-well capacity; determining an optimized well potential over space and time relative to the characterized effective production capacity using a well model; and determining at least one well operating plan component that can be incorporated into a well operating plan to provide the determined optimized well potential in a well accessing the reservoir. | 38,868 |
8,613,894 | 1. A method for recovering a nutrient comprising: (a) heating and aerating anaerobic digester effluent in an aeration reactor for a time period ranging from 12 hours to 36 hours to convert soluble ammonium to gaseous ammonia; (b) providing gaseous ammonia from the aeration reactor to a stripping tower, said stripping tower providing controlled amounts of acid that reacts with gaseous ammonia; and (c) recovering an ammonium salt produced from reacting the acid with gaseous ammonia in the stripping tower. | 35,599 |
9,814,340 | 1. A hanger comprising: a hanger body having a first face and a second face opposite the first face, with an internal slot defined therebetween, the internal slot having an upper opening; a hook assembly including a body having a first face and a second face opposite the first face, and a hook member extending outwardly therefrom and including an upper curved portion; and an attachment assembly including a first coupling component and a second coupling component, the first coupling component positioned on the hook assembly and the second coupling component positioned on the hanger body, the first coupling component further including a central post having a first side extending from the first face of the hook assembly and a second side extending from the second face of the hook assembly, the central post coupled to an outer rim that is axially spaced apart from the central post by way of a suspension member, the suspension member allowing the axial movement of the central post relative to the body of the hook assembly; and the second coupling component further including a central bore defined by a first opening extending through the first face and a second opening extending through the second face concentric with the first opening and corresponding to the central post, with the first side of the central post insertable into the first opening and the second side of the central post insertable into the second opening, wherein through the attachment assembly, the first coupling component and the second coupling component facilitate relative rotation therebetween, so as to facilitate placement of the hook between a first collapsed configuration and a second articulated configuration, wherein the curved portion of the hook member is closer to the hanger body in the first collapsed configuration, and further from the hanger body in the second articulated configuration. | 33,572 |
9,755,395 | 1. An optical system comprising: an output waveguide to propagate an optical output signal; and a plurality of ring laser systems, each of the plurality of ring laser systems comprising: | 43,332 |
8,409,040 | 1. A powertrain comprising: an input member; an output member; a stationary member; a first and a second electric motor/generator; only two planetary gear sets each having a respective first, second, and third member; an interconnecting member connecting one of the members of a first one of the planetary gear sets to one of the members of a second one of the planetary gear sets; the input member, the output member, the first motor/generator and the second motor/generator each being continuously connected for common rotation with a different one of the members of the planetary gear sets that is not connected by the interconnecting member; four brakes each selectively engageable to ground a different respective one of the members of the planetary gear sets that is not connected by the interconnecting member to the stationary member; wherein engagement of a different one or ones of the brakes and operation of one or both of the motor/generators as a motor establishes three electric-only operating modes between the input member and the output member. | 34,082 |
9,440,900 | 1. A method for producing α,α-difluoroacetaldehyde of the formula [3], comprising: reaction of α,α-difluoroacetic acid ester of the general formula [1] with hydrogen gas (H s ) in the presence of a ruthenium complex of the general formula [2] where R where R each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aromatic ring group or a substituted aromatic ring group; Ar each independently represents an aromatic ring group or a substituted aromatic ring group; X each independently represents a ligand with a formal charge of −1 or 0, wherein the sum of the formal charges of three X is −2; and n each independently represents an integer of 1 or 2. | 22,609 |
9,256,223 | 1. A control device comprising: an input portion for inputting process signals transmitted from a plant; a numerical processing part that evaluates, by numerical processing performed on a CPU based on a program, a normal or an abnormal state for each inputted process signal, and outputs a respective Boolean value for each inputted process signal, wherein the respective Boolean value is indicative of the normal or abnormal state of the respective inputted process signal; a logical processing part that processes, on a logic circuit, the respective Boolean values, and then outputs a control signal related to a safety protection operation of the plant, wherein the logic circuit includes logic elements realized by hardware logic gates, wherein the logical processing part comprises: a 1st-OR gate, an AND gate, and a 2nd-OR gate, wherein the 1st-OR gate receives the respective Boolean values for each inputted process signal and a Boolean value originated in a manual starter of the safety protection operation; the AND gate receives a Boolean value originated in a manual stopper of the safety protection operation and the Boolean value outputted from the 2nd-OR gate, and then outputs the control signal related to a safety protection operation of the plant; and the 2nd-OR gate receives a Boolean value outputted from the 1st- OR gate and the control signal outputted from the AND gate, and then outputs a Boolean value to the AND gate. | 39,682 |
9,096,229 | 1. Method for controlling a vehicle cruise control comprising: driving the vehicle with the cruise control active and set to maintain a vehicle set target speed; registering, by a processor, a first vehicle position when driving in an uphill slope of a hill where vehicle retardation has decreased vehicle speed to a first vehicle speed below the vehicle set target speed and where the retardation has decreased to zero or the vehicle has just started to accelerate in order to increase vehicle speed to the vehicle set target speed; selecting, by a processor, a second position downhill of a crest of the hill and registering, by the processor, a desired vehicle speed in the second position; based on the desired vehicle speed calculating a vehicle speed needed at the crest with which the vehicle has to pass the crest in order to be able to reach the desired vehicle speed with a minimized or zero fuel consumption while traveling from the crest to the second position; and controlling vehicle speed during a second, non-zero distance between the first vehicle position and the crest so that the vehicle reaches the needed vehicle speed when passing the crest, and maintaining a vehicle speed below the vehicle set target speed during the second distance. | 17,608 |
9,679,183 | 1. A finger biometric sensor comprising: an array of finger biometric sensing pixels; a finger coupling electrode adjacent the array of finger biometric sensing pixels; and processing circuitry coupled to the array of finger biometric sensing pixels and the finger coupling electrode, and capable of | 33,925 |
9,277,408 | 1. A method for authorizing a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the first UE, an abnormal power down confirmation as a response to an abnormal power down report from a base station which receives the abnormal power down report from a second UE; receiving, by the first UE, an assignment A-MAP Information Element (IE) masked with a station identifier (STID) of the first UE from the base station, wherein the assignment A-MAP IE indicates a resource corresponding to the abnormal power down confirmation; and transmitting, by the first UE, an authorized message to the base station when power of the first UE is not abnormally down. | 581 |
8,750,957 | 1. A neural probe comprising: a polymer handle portion made of a first polymer material; metal contact pads exposed in the polymer handle portion and presenting an external flat surface; a flexible polymer cantilever made from a second polymer material extending from the polymer handle portion; a plurality of metal recording pads exposed in the flexible polymer cantilever and presenting a flat external surface, wherein the recording pads are electrically connected to the contact pads via metal conductive interconnections buried in the polymer of the flexible polymer cantilever; a polymer layer made of a third polymer material and presenting a flat external surface, wherein the polymer layer is between the recording pads and the contact pads and the metal conductive interconnections are behind the polymer layer away from the flat external surface of the polymer layer; wherein the contact pad flat surfaces, the recording pad flat surfaces, and the polymer layer flat external surface are flush with each other; and a plurality of elongated metal recording electrodes extending normally from the exposed flat surfaces of the recording pads and separated by a distance, wherein the recording electrodes have a width of 1 micron or less and a height of six microns or less, and wherein a distance between adjacent recording electrodes is 10 microns or less. | 19,609 |
9,246,990 | 1. A method for predicting a conversion rate of a content publisher-third-party content provider pair, comprising: identifying, from log data, by a processor, a plurality of content publisher-provider pairs, each content publisher-provider pair corresponding to a third-party content provider associated with at least one creative receiving at least one conversion when served on one or more information resources of the content publisher; determining, for each content publisher-provider pair, from the log data, a conversion rate corresponding to a ratio of a number of conversions associated with the at least one creative to a number of impressions received by the at least one creative when served on the one or more information resources of the content publisher; determining, for each content publisher-provider pair, feature data of the content publisher and feature data of the third-party content provider; and transforming the determined feature data of the content publishers and third-party content providers and the conversion rates of the plurality of content publisher-provider pairs into a model useful for predicting a conversion rate of a given content publisher-provider pair different from the identified plurality of content publisher-provider pairs. | 27,230 |
9,507,191 | 1. A window panel, comprising: a plurality of unit patterns arranged along a first direction, each of the plurality of unit patterns including: wherein a lower edge of a first inclined portion of each unit pattern of the plurality of unit patterns adjoins a lower edge of a second inclined portion of a neighboring unit pattern, and wherein the reinforcing member includes a plurality of discrete portions spaced apart from each other and positioned to overlap adjoined lower edges of neighboring unit patterns. | 31,763 |
8,926,139 | 1. An illumination device, comprising: a solid-state lighting device including at least one light-emitting diode (LED), an electronic ballast to regulate electrical power supplied to the LED, and a base plate on which the at least one LED and the electronic ballast are mounted; a lamp base directly, selectively, and physically receivable by a socket disposed in a lighting fixture, the socket configured to accept the electrical coupling of a gas-discharge lamp; and a heat sink having a plurality of fins; | 22,033 |
9,395,777 | 1. A system-on-chip (SoC) connected with a memory device, the SoC comprising: a plurality of intellectual property (IP cores); a power management circuit configured to supply power to the IP cores; and a transaction unit configured to control the supply of power by the power management circuit to at least one of the IP cores in response to a determination of; at least one IP core is in a normal operation state when a data transfer occurs between the at least one IP core and the memory device, the at least one IP core is in a stand-by state during a time period extending from an end of a data transfer between the at least one IP core and the memory device to a power-gating of the at least one IP core, the at least one IP core is in a sleep state during a period extending from a power gating of the at least one IP core to a resumption of a supply of power due to a data transfer occurring between the at least one IP core and the memory device, and the at least one IP core is in a wake-up state during a period extending from a resumption of the power supply to a time when the particular IP core reaches an operating power associated with the normal operation state. | 42,448 |
9,253,602 | 1. A method of providing a location based service in a mobile device, comprising: determining via processor of a mobile device whether the mobile device is able to acquire satellite signals and navigation data from a geospatial system; collecting location information from a plurality of mobile devices in a communication group in response to determining that the mobile device is not able to acquire satellite signals and navigation data from the geospatial system, wherein collecting the location information comprises receiving a latitude coordinate, a longitude coordinate, and an altitude coordinate; computing more precise location information for the mobile device based on the location information collected from the plurality of mobile devices, the more precise location information including three-dimensional location and position information; and using the generated location and position information to provide the location based service. | 9,588 |
9,478,687 | 1. A solar cell in a sheet form, comprising: a first cured resin layer; a substrate stacked on the first cured resin layer and containing a resin; a photoelectric conversion layer stacked on the substrate; and a second cured resin layer stacked on the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein a linear expansion coefficient of a cured resin contained in the first cured resin layer is not less than a linear expansion coefficient of a cured resin contained in the second cured resin layer, the linear expansion coefficient of the cured resin contained in the second cured resin layer is larger than a linear expansion coefficient of the resin contained in the substrate, C a surface on the first cured resin layer side of the solar cell is warped convexly, and a surface on the second cured resin layer side of the solar cell is warped concavely. | 10,068 |
8,759,994 | 1. A method of controlling a wind turbine generator, the wind turbine generator converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, the method comprising: determining an electromagnetic power reference representing the electromagnetic power generated by the wind turbine generator, wherein the electromagnetic power reference is determined based on a desired output of the wind turbine generator, | 8,671 |
9,554,424 | 1. A method for heating a cooking vessel utilizing an induction heating device, the method comprising: supplying a specified amount of energy to the cooking vessel from the induction heating device based on measuring one of a current profile through the induction heating device or a voltage profile across the induction heating device, the induction heating device comprising a resonant circuit and an induction heating coil, wherein the specified amount of energy depends on at least one of a heating power level selected by a user or a cooking vessel type selected by the user; applying a specified heating power to the cooking vessel for a specified settling time after the supplying the specified amount of energy to the cooking vessel, wherein the settling time is chosen to be between one second and 10 seconds, and the specified heating power is chosen to be between 10% and 50% of a rated heating power; after the specified settling time, determining and storing a parameter value of the resonant circuit, wherein the parameter value comprises a period duration of a natural-frequency resonant oscillation of the resonant circuit and wherein the parameter value being dependent on a temperature of a bottom of the cooking vessel; and regulating the parameter value to a setpoint which is dependent on the stored parameter value. | 9,768 |
8,523,517 | 1. An aerodynamically shaped, symmetrical cross-sectional profile for at least one chosen from a strut, a fairing of a strut and a service line positioned in at least one chosen from a bypass duct and a core-flow duct of a turbofan engine, wherein the profile is defined by a course of a local thickness (T) and a position (PMT) of maximum thickness (MT) on both sides over a central chord (C) extending from a leading edge (LE) to a trailing edge (TE) of the at least one chosen from the strut, the fairing of a strut and the service line, wherein, in order to avoid flow separations, the course of the local thickness (T) between the position of maximum thickness (PMT) and a certain trailing-edge position (PTE) has a first turning point (WP the profile including: | 27,206 |
9,459,874 | 1. A processor comprising: a first core to perform instructions; an accelerator to perform at least one operation on data to be received from the first core, wherein the accelerator is a heterogeneous resource with respect to the first core and comprising a sequencer having next instruction pointer logic to determine a next instruction to be executed by the accelerator, the accelerator comprising a graphics processor having a plurality of processing engines, at least some of the plurality of processing engines to be disabled for execution of a graphics function by configuration of a system including a graphics component to perform the graphics function according to a disable indicator programmed by a basic input/output system (BIOS), the at least some of the plurality of processing engines to execute a task unrelated to the graphics function responsive to a command from the first core; and an interface logic coupled to the accelerator to enable inter-sequencer communication between the first core and the accelerator, the interface logic to receive the inter-sequencer communication and translate the inter-sequencer communication to a native instruction sequence of the accelerator, wherein the accelerator is to perform a first operation responsive to the native instruction sequence in parallel with performance of a second operation in the first core, the second operation independent from the first operation. | 4,308 |
8,911,901 | 1. A negative electrode for a non-aqueous secondary battery wherein a negative electrode active material comprises primary particles made of an alloy comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon and tin, and at least one element selected from elements which do not react with lithium, and both an inner core portion and an outer peripheral portion of the primary particles have pores, and a binder contains a material which cures by a heat treatment, and wherein a degree of dispersion of the pores which is a value obtained by dividing a standard deviation of distances between centers of gravity of the pores by an average of distances between centers of gravity of the pores is not more than 1. | 21,574 |
9,547,691 | 1. A computer program product for calculating one or more access paths during bind time, the computer program product comprising: one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to receive a query; program instructions to identify one or more access paths for processing the received query, wherein the one or more access paths include steps associated with retrieving data from a database based on the received query; program instructions to calculate resource costs associated with processing the received query on the one or more identified access paths based on one or more of: resources utilized to perform steps associated with processing the received query, and system statistics associated with the one or more identified access paths, wherein the resource costs include: central processing unit (CPU) cost, input/output (I/O) costs, buffer pool usage, record identifier (RID) usage, and work file usage; program instructions to determine whether the received query exits bind time, wherein the bind time includes preparation to execute the received query, establish a relationship with the database, and validate the received query to detect and correct potential errors; responsive to determining the received query does not exit bind time, program instructions to retrieve system statistics associated with the one or more identified access paths based on one or more of: a time-based interval, short-period statistics, long-period statistics, and real-time statistics; program instructions to identify resource usage changes associated with the one or more identified access paths; program instructions to determine resource usage weight changes associated with the identified resource usage changes; program instructions to recalculate the resource costs associated with the one or more identified access paths based on the retrieved system statistics and the determined resource usage weight changes associated with the identified resource usage changes; and program instructions to store the recalculated resource costs associated with the one or more identified access paths during bind time. | 20,523 |
8,476,562 | 1. An inductive heater humidifier comprising: a ferrite base defining a peripheral sidewall, a central core, and a cavity disposed between the peripheral sidewall and the central core, the ferrite base being formed of a ferrous oxide having a transition metal element; magnetic wire disposed within the cavity and wound around the central core to form an induction coil; a non-metallic cover plate having a bottom surface and a top surface, the bottom surface of the cover plate disposed on top of the ferrite base; and a reservoir for storing fluid, the reservoir having a ferromagnetic bottom plate disposed on the top surface of the cover plate, the ferromagnetic bottom plate being formed of a material having a higher loss property than that of the ferrite base; wherein the induction coil is selectively energized to produce eddy currents in a path constrained by the ferrite base and the ferromagnetic bottom plate and alternating magnetic polarizations that generate heat due to the higher loss property of the ferromagnetic bottom plate, the heat being convectively transferred to the reservoir via the ferromagnetic bottom plate to heat the fluid. | 17,863 |
8,992,370 | 1. An infinitely variable pump/compressor assembly for driving a reciprocating pump, the infinitely variable pump/compressor assembly comprising a spur gear transgear assembly with cam control contained within a housing, the infinitely variable pump/compressor assembly having an input shaft for driving one of a pump and a compressor, the cam control having a drive and a control, the control having a control sleeve surrounding a control shaft having first and second inner cams integral with or attached to the control shaft, first and second reciprocating pistons, each reciprocating piston being driven by an associated piston driver, each reciprocating piston comprising the associated piston driver, a piston arm and a piston, the control shaft comprising the first and second inner earns, and first and second outer cams of varying eccentricity, the control shaft driving the pump or compressor. | 11,204 |
8,954,042 | 1. A method for increasing a likelihood of presenting a first content item on a display of a mobile device, comprising: receiving into a storage module of the mobile device over a first broadcast communication link a content item information and a retrieval schedule, wherein the content item information comprises at least one indicia indicating a first content item and an expiration value of the first content item; determining, based upon the content item information and irrespective of the retrieval schedule, whether the first content item is located in the storage module of the mobile device; determining whether the expiration value of the first content item has lapsed in response to determining that the first content item is located in the storage module of the mobile device; and retrieving an updated version of the first content item from a remote device at a time determinable from the retrieval schedule in response to determining that the expiration value of the first content item has lapsed. | 20,567 |
9,611,530 | 1. A process for manufacturing a coated steel part, comprising: heating a precoated hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel sheet, said sheet being precoated with a zinc-based alloy comprising, the contents being expressed by weight, between 0.7 and 2.5% aluminum and, optionally, one or more elements selected from the group consisting of: the balance consisting of zinc and inevitable impurities; forming, by alloying between said steel and said precoat, an alloyed coating comprising, over more than 90% of its thickness, at least one Fe/Zn-based phase, the iron weight content of which is equal to 65% or higher and the Fe/Zn ratio of which is between 1.9 and 4, and so as to give said steel a partially or completely austenitic structure; hot forming the precoated steel sheet; and cooling the precoated steel sheet under conditions suitable for giving said steel part the intended mechanical properties, wherein during the hot forming the precoated steel is deformed by 5%. | 38,520 |
8,887,536 | 1. A washing/drying machine having a fragrance supply apparatus comprising: a washing/drying machine body to collect clothes to be treated; and a fragrance supply apparatus to supply a fragrance solution contained therein into the clothes due to a pressure difference, the fragrance supply apparatus comprising: | 39,248 |
8,432,859 | 1. A method involving an access network and at least one user equipment that support communication over an air interface using a plurality of component carriers, comprising: transmitting, from the access network, scheduling information comprising at least one downlink grant, at least one uplink grant, a first field of a first component carrier selected from the plurality of component carriers comprising information indicating that the first component carrier is an anchor carrier for said at least one user equipment, and a second field of the first component carrier comprising information indicating that at least one second component carrier selected from the plurality of component carriers is allocated as at least one non-anchor carrier for said at least one user equipment, so that said at least one user equipment can blindly decode the first field of the first component carrier to determine whether the first component carrier is its anchor carrier and subsequently decode the second field of the first component carrier to determine whether said at least one second component carrier is at least one non-anchor carrier. | 30,354 |
9,232,629 | 1. A metal core board for a vehicle-mountable junction box, which is mountable on the vehicle-mountable junction box, comprising: a core plate forming an intermediate layer of the metal core board comprising an island, a plurality of slits that surround an entirety of the island, and separating connection parts present between the slits; wherein the core plate is a first thickness; wherein the separating connection parts are a second thickness; wherein the plurality of slits are a third thickness that is more than twice the first thickness; wherein the second thickness and the third thickness are substantially the same; wherein the plurality of slits have shapes of bent and/or straight thready-lines; and wherein, in the state where the island is held between insulating layers stacked on both of two surfaces of the core plate, the separating connection parts are removed and the island is made electrically independent from a remaining part of the core plate while being held between the insulating layers. | 31,228 |
8,420,430 | 1. A fabrication method of a package structure having at least a Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) element, comprising the steps of: preparing a wafer having a plurality of electrical connection pads and the at least an MEMS element; disposing a plurality of lids on the wafer for covering the at least an MEMS element, respectively, wherein each of the lids has a metal layer formed thereon; electrically connecting the electrical connection pads and the metal layer with a plurality of bonding wires; forming an encapsulant on the wafer for covering the lids, the bonding wires, the electrical connection pads and the metal layer; removing a portion of the encapsulant so as to separate each of the bonding wires into a first sub-bonding wire and a second sub-bonding wire, wherein top ends of the first sub-bonding wire and the second sub-bonding wire are exposed from a top surface of the encapsulant, the first sub-bonding wires electrically connecting to the electrical connection pads, and the second sub-bonding wires electrically connecting to the metal layer; forming a plurality of metallic traces on the encapsulant for electrically connecting to the first sub-bonding wires, respectively; forming a plurality of bumps on the metallic traces, respectively; and performing a singulation process to obtain a plurality of package structures each having the at least an MEMS element. | 18,334 |
8,342,275 | 1. A fuel cell vehicle, comprising: a motor for driving wheels; a fuel cell for generating electricity by way of a reaction of reactant gas, and supplying the electricity to the motor; a power storage device for storing the electricity generated by the fuel cell, and supplying the electricity to the motor; a power storage device drive means, for driving the motor using the electricity from the power storage device so as to serve as a power storage device drive mode, in a case of driving in a state in which initialization of the fuel cell to generate electricity has not been completed; a fuel cell drive means, for driving the motor using the electricity from the fuel cell and the power storage device so as to serve as a fuel cell drive mode, in a case of driving in a state in which the initialization of the fuel cell to generate electricity has been completed; and a target torque control means for controlling a target torque of the motor in the power storage device drive mode and fuel cell drive mode, wherein the target torque control means determines first and second target torque values of the motor for the power storage device drive mode and the fuel cell drive mode, respectively, and imposes a greater restriction on the target torque of the motor for the power storage device mode than the fuel cell drive mode, wherein the target torque control means calculates the first target torque value to be applied to the power storage device drive mode in accordance with a number of rotation of the motor, wherein the target torque control means gradually releases the restriction imposed on the target torque after switching from the power storage device drive mode to the fuel cell drive mode, such that the target torque of the motor gradually approaches the second target torque value applied to the fuel cell drive mode, starting from the first target torque value of the power storage device drive mode at a time of the switching, wherein the motor is powered by the electricity from the power storage device in the power storage device drive mode and by the electricity from the fuel cell in the fuel cell drive mode. | 44,288 |
9,704,760 | 1. A method of forming logic cell contacts, said method comprising: forming gates on fins defining field effect transistors (FETs) on a semiconductor wafer, at least one gate defining a finFET pair including a first type FET and a second type FET; forming a plug of an insulating material between the gates in selected FET pairs, each said plug isolating FET pair gates from each other; forming a contact dielectric layer on said semiconductor wafer; opening contacts through said contact dielectric layer to one side of each said plug, each contact partially exposing ends of an isolated pair of FET gates and exposing a gate sidewall of each said FET gate of each said pair; and filling the open contacts with conductive material, said conductive material forming gate sidewall contacts to respective said pairs, said gate sidewall contacts stitching said respective gate pairs together, wherein said gates are replacement metal gates (RMG), said plugs and said gate sidewalls are nitride, and said contact dielectric layer is oxide. | 2,469 |
8,645,601 | 1. A method of implementing serial data communication between a host device and a connected device, the method comprising: issuing a plurality of commands from the host device to the connected device, wherein each command includes a unique tag corresponding to a unique universal serial bus (USB) stream identifier; receiving, from the connected device, a first ready notification of a USB 3.0 standard, wherein the first ready notification indicates that the connected device is prepared to execute a first command of the plurality of commands, wherein the first ready notification does not indicate the first command or the unique tag associated with the first command; receiving, from the connected device, a second ready notification of a USB 2.0 standard, wherein the second ready notification indicates that the connected device is prepared to execute the first command, wherein the second ready notification indicates the unique tag associated with the first command to identify the first command to the host device; and performing a data transfer associated with the one of the commands in response to the second ready notification. | 15,797 |
9,312,567 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte additive comprising: at least one compound selected from a first compound group consisting of phosphazene compounds represented by the following general formula (1): wherein each of the total number (2×n) of R groups independently represents fluorine or hexafluoroisopropoxy group, one of the Rs represents the hexafluoroisopropoxy group, and n is from 3 to 14; and at least one compound selected from a second compound group consisting of borate represented by the following general formula (2), bis(oxalato)borate, difluoro(oxalato)borate, tris(oxalato)phosphate, difluoro(bisoxalato)phosphate, and tetrafluoro(oxalato)phosphate: wherein A | 24,234 |
8,732,506 | 1. A method comprising: determining if a power load requirement associated with a server arrangement is below a threshold, wherein the server arrangement includes a plurality of power supplies and a capacitor arrangement, the plurality of power supplies including at least a first power supply and a second power supply; providing power to the server arrangement using the first power supply when it is determined that the power load requirement is below the threshold, wherein when it is determined that the power load requirement is below the threshold, the power is not provided to the server arrangement using the second power supply; determining if the second power supply is already providing power to the server arrangement when it is determined that the power load requirement is not below the threshold; powering on the second power supply if it is determined that the second power supply is not already providing power to the server arrangement; and providing the power to the server arrangement using the first power supply and the second power supply when it is determined that the power load requirement is not below the threshold, wherein the capacitor arrangement is configured to provide power to the server arrangement while the second power supply powers on when it is determined that the power load requirement is not below the threshold. | 4,188 |
9,473,540 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a mobile switching network, by a carrier gateway server deployed in a cellular network, an origination request for a session destined for a mobile station associated with an enterprise network; providing, by an enterprise gateway server, a first routing information to the carrier gateway server, the first routing information comprising at least one routing instruction based on at least one policy; wherein the at least one policy comprises enterprise session routing criteria for at least one of a restriction on times the session may be routed and restrictions on destinations where the session may be routed enacting the at least one policy and the session routing criteria responsive to an enterprise user account access operation; transmitting from the carrier gateway server to the mobile switching network; a second routing information, the second routing information comprising at least one of destination information and session path information for routing the session to a destination; and routing, by the mobile switching network, the session to the destination. | 14,401 |
9,073,427 | 1. A control device for a hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine provided in the vehicle; a power generator that is driven by the internal combustion engine to generate electric power; a secondary battery that stores the electric power generated by the power generator; an electric motor that drives drive wheels of the vehicle using electric power supplied from the secondary battery; a clutch that connects/disconnects a transmission path that transmits power from the internal combustion engine to the drive wheels; a mode switching unit for switching between a first travel mode in which the clutch is released, the internal combustion engine drives the power generator to generate electric power, and the electric motor drives the drive wheels to cause the vehicle to travel, and a second travel mode in which the clutch is connected, and power of the internal combustion engine is transmitted to the drive wheels to cause the vehicle to travel; a rotational speed difference detection unit for detecting a difference between a rotational speed of an upstream clutch provided on a side of the internal combustion engine of the transmission path and a rotational speed of a downstream clutch provided on a side of the drive wheels of the transmission path; a rotational speed variable unit for performing rotational speed variable control to change the rotational speed of the upstream clutch provided on the side of the internal combustion engine when the difference between the rotational speeds detected by the rotational speed difference detection unit is held within a first predetermined range for a first predetermined period in the first travel mode; and a sticking determination unit for performing sticking determination of the clutch based on whether the difference between the rotational speeds in the rotational speed variable control is within a second predetermined range greater than the first predetermined range for a second predetermined period after the first predetermined period or not. | 1,887 |
8,651,427 | 1. An aerodynamic lift structure comprising a wing and first and second wing tip devices at an outboard portion of the wing in an up-down topology, a surface of at least one of the wing tip devices having a convex region and a concave region in a chordwise direction, the concave region forming a recess that reduces flow interference effects at a junction of the wing and the wing tip device. | 48,716 |
9,200,288 | 1. A recombinant prokaryotic microorganism metabolically engineered from a parental prokaryotic microorganism to produce 1,4-butanediol, said recombinant prokaryotic microorganism comprising genes encoding the following: a. a xylonate dehydrogenase that catalyzes the conversion of xylose to xylonic acid, wherein said xylonate dehydrogenase comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4; b. a xylonate dehydratase that catalyzes the conversion of xylonic acid to 3-deoxy-D-glycero-pentulosonic acid, wherein said xylonate dehydratase comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 or to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8; c. a decarboxylase that catalyzes conversion of 3-deoxy-D-glycero-pentulosonic acid to 3,4-dihydroxy-D-butanal, wherein said decarboxylase comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 9; d. a first alcohol dehydrogenase that catalyzes conversion of 3,4-dihydroxy-D-butanal to 1,2,4-butanetriol, wherein said first alcohol dehydrogenase comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:10; e. a diol dehydratase that catalyzes conversion of 1,2,4-butanetriol to 4-hydroxybutanal, wherein said diol dehydratase is selected from the group consisting of GIdABC from f. a second alcohol dehydrogenase that catalyzes conversion of 4-hydroxybutanal to 1,4-butanediol, wherein said second alcohol dehydrogenase comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10; wherein at least one of the genes encoding said xylonate dehydrogenase, said xylonate dehydratase, said decarboxylase, said first alcohol dehydrogenase, said diol dehydratase, and said second alcohol dehydrogenase is heterologous to said recombinant prokaryotic microorganism and is associated with a heterologous expression control sequence resulting in the overexpression thereof. | 45,683 |
8,519,862 | 1. A handheld computer comprising: a processor; a memory in communication with said processor; a display device in communication with said processor; and at least one light-emitting device, separate from said display device, that emits visible light as a visual indicator of an occurrence of a designated event; wherein said processor is programmed to selectively activate said visual indicator in response to an occurrence of a designated event to provide said visual indicator to a user of said handheld computer; wherein said processor is programmed to monitor for occurrence of two or more different types of designated events wherein at least one of said types of designated events is taken from the following group: an appointment recorded in a scheduling application of said handheld computer, receipt of an email, a battery powering said handheld computer has been depleted to a threshold level, an event in a game played using said handheld computer, and an input error on said handheld computer; wherein said processor varies said visual indicator based on the type of the event for which occurrence is being signaled by that visual indicator, such that a different visual indicator is associated with each type of event for which said processor is programmed to monitor. | 11,107 |
9,822,382 | 1. A process for making ethanol by fermentation, with yeast recovery and recycling, comprising the steps: a) fermenting a mash comprising a fermentable sugar with a yeast to form a fermented mash comprising ethanol, b) separating a yeast concentrate from the fermentation mash obtained in step a), c) adding a mineral acid to the yeast concentrate obtained in step b) to provide an acidified yeast concentrate having a pH between 1.8 and 3.0, d) adding a peroxycarboxylic acid to the acidified yeast concentrate in an amount of from 5 to 80 ppm by weight to provide a treated yeast concentrate, and e) fermenting a mash comprising a fermentable sugar with addition of the treated yeast concentrate obtained in step d) to form a fermented mash comprising ethanol. | 37,049 |
8,643,881 | 1. An image forming system, comprising: a drawing data processor to encode image data to be printed to generate code data and code information regarding encoding processing or the code data, for each one of a plurality of print jobs; a memory to store, for each one of the plurality of print jobs, the code information to which job identification is assigned; a print controller to: a print engine to process the plurality of jobs in the order specified by the print job sequence table to form an image of the decoded data with the print speed level specified by the print job sequence table, wherein: the print job sequence table stores, for each one of the plurality of print jobs, the job identification information and the print speed level in the order determined by the print speed level; the print controller requests the drawing data processor to send the code data in the order determined by the print speed level using the job identification information stored in the print job sequence table; the memory stores correspondence information indicating the correspondence between a range of predicted decode time and a print speed level that is recommended for printing decode data; the print controller is further configured to determine the print speed level using the correspondence information, and to generate a table in the memory to store the determined print speed level in association with the job identification for each one of the plurality of print jobs; the print controller stores a predetermined number of print jobs in the table as a first set of print jobs, sorts the first set of print jobs, and enters the sorted first set of print jobs into the print job sequence table; when the print controller determines that controlling processing of the sorted first set of print jobs stored in the print job sequence table is completed, the print controller sorts a second set of print jobs having the predetermined numbers stored in the table, and updates the print job sequence table with the sorted second set of print jobs; the print controller sorts the first set of print jobs in the table in a selected one of preceding order and descending order of the print speed level; and the print controller sorts the second set of print jobs in the unselected one of preceding order and descending order of the print speed level. | 26,684 |
9,415,422 | 1. A method for sorting mail pieces, comprising: loading a batch of mail pieces to be sorted into individual holders; sorting the holders using an automated sorting system that reorders the holders so that the holders are ordered according to a sort scheme for the mail pieces contained in holders; storing the sorted holders in a storage area during sorting; and then unloading the mail pieces from the holders in order according to the sort scheme. | 34,868 |
8,414,836 | 1. An exhaust system, comprising; an exhaust line through which exhaust gas that is formed in an engine is exhausted; a nitrogen oxide purification catalyst that is disposed on the exhaust line to reduce nitrogen oxide that is included in the exhaust gas; an injector to additionally inject fuel into the exhaust line or a cylinder; and a fuel cracking catalyst that is disposed between the injector and the nitrogen oxide purification catalyst to crack the fuel that is injected through the injector, to transform the injected fuel into a high efficiency reducing agent, and to simultaneously decrease oxygen concentration by an oxidation reaction, and increases a temperature of the exhaust gas. | 42,485 |
9,475,484 | 1. An engine rotation control system comprising: a shift lever; a brake; an engine; a generator driven by the engine; one or more electric motors driven by electric power fed from the generator; an accelerator pedal; and a controller for controlling the rotational speed of the engine and the torque of the electric motor on the basis of the depressed amount of the accelerator pedal, wherein the controller includes: | 27,355 |
9,009,437 | 1. A method for performing data storage management comprising: storing a first data portion at a first logical address of a first logical address space of a first device, wherein said first logical address is mapped to a first physical storage location at which the first data portion is stored, wherein said first device is a thin device having a first storage capacity and wherein storage is unallocated for at least a first portion of said first storage capacity at a point in time, said first portion corresponding to a range of addresses of said first logical address space not mapped to physical storage; and storing a second data portion at a second logical address of a second logical address space of a second device, wherein said second logical address is mapped to a second physical storage location at which the second data portion is stored, and wherein said first data portion is a duplicate of data contents of said second data portion and said first physical storage location is a same physical storage location as said second physical storage location, wherein said second device is a thin device different from the first device having a second storage capacity and wherein storage is unallocated for at least a second portion of said second storage capacity at a point in time, said second portion corresponding to a range of addresses of said second logical address space not mapped to physical storage, and wherein said first device is a source thin device and said second device is a target thin device that is a snapshot of the source thin device created at a first point in time in response to a command to create the snapshot, and wherein said second logical address of the second device is mapped to said first logical address of the first device by a first pointer and wherein said first logical address is mapped to a third logical address of a third logical device by a second pointer whereby said third logical address is mapped to said same physical storage location storing the data contents of the first data portion and the second data portion. | 39,535 |
9,200,465 | 1. An apparatus for solar heating of a pool comprising: a floating member; a water heater chamber (WHC) attached to the floating member, wherein the floating member is operable to make the WHC floatable; one or more first tubes penetrating the floatable WHC, the one or more first tubes configured to allow water from the pool enter the floatable WHC; and one or more exit ports operable to allow heated water from the floatable WHC to enter the pool, wherein: the floatable WHC is configured to utilize incident solar energy to heat up water, at least some of the one or more exit ports include a valve, and the valve is configured to be operable to allow the heated water from the floatable WHC to exit from the floatable WHC upon reaching one of a predetermined temperature or a predetermined pressure; further comprising at least one of a solar panel, a water fountain nuzzle, a lighting source, and a pump, wherein the solar panel is attached to the floatable WHC and is configured to provide power to the pump and the lighting source, wherein the pump is coupled to one or more first tubes and is operable to facilitate transport of water from the pool to the floatable WHC, wherein the solar panel is attached to a top portion of the floatable WHC, and wherein the lighting source includes audio speakers. | 24,044 |
8,476,344 | 1. A method of producing a polymer-modified asphalt composition which method involves the steps of: a) combining together an organosilane, or a mixture of organosilanes, a sulfide, a halogen acceptor, a solvent to form a reaction mixture; b) allowing the organosilane to react with the sulfide in the presence of a halogen acceptor to generate the sulfur containing organosilane; and c) introducing the sulfur containing organosilane to an asphalt binder as an additive and/or as a crosslinking agent. | 5,358 |
9,379,503 | 1. An electrified rail for the electrification of metal shelving units provided with electronic peripherals, the rail comprising a flexible body of electrically insulating plastic material, provided with longitudinal slots distanced to each other, in every one of which a wire or strand of electrically conducting metal is surrounded for more than 180° of a cross section by the internal walls of the respective slot, to be friction-held therein, the remaining section of the same wire or electrically conducting metal being exposed and disposable in electrical communication with an electric contact useful to connect the wire or electrically conducting metal to an electronic device, fixed to said body of the rail, the body of the rail being formed in a monolithic way of a polymer material with high electric insulation and with high heat resistance, said slots containing the electric wires or electrically conducting metal are configured to be flexed open to ease the insertion of the electric wires or electrically conducting metal, the slots being provided with longitudinal middle grooves configured to allow a transversal elastic deformation of the rail, each groove having a width that is inferior to the width of an outward opening mouth of the corresponding slot, said slots being positioned one beside the other, and the wires or electrically conducting metal disposed therein; each slot having a depth perpendicular to said visible side and sufficient to enable the corresponding wire or electrically conducting metal to be disposed in the slot, the wires or electrically conducting metal being held in the slots by the material forming the monolithic body of the rail, wherein the body of the rail is provided with longitudinal grooves in an offset symmetrical position with respect to the slot longitudinal grooves and adapted to allow transversal deformation of the rail. | 8,813 |
8,948,730 | 1. A method for using structured communications in an observation platform, comprising: receiving a signal from a first communication device at a second communication device associated with a computer system wherein a first characteristic of said signal corresponds to an audible source and a second characteristic of said signal corresponds to information indicative of a geographic position of said first communication device; recognizing a first user associated with said first communication device at said computer system; deriving context information for said signal at said computer system; and relaying said signal to a destination derived from said context information. | 25,721 |
9,601,051 | 1. An organic light-emitting display comprising: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels comprising an organic light-emitting diode (OLED); a sensor configured to detect degradation data indicating a degree of degradation of the OLED of each of the pixels and configured to calculate a degradation data difference between two or more adjacent pixels among the pixels; and a controller configured to set a compensation area utilizing the degradation data difference and configured to generate compensated image data by compensating in the compensation area in input image data. | 14,225 |
9,843,059 | 1. A fuel cell system for a vehicle with a fuel cell that generates electricity through a supply of anode gas and cathode gas, the fuel cell system comprising: an idle stop execution unit programmed to stop an idling of the fuel cell system according to a vehicle running state; a compressor control unit programmed to execute a stop control on a cathode compressor during the idle stop; and an external air introduction control unit programmed to restrain an introduction of external air to the fuel cell during the idle stop, wherein the external air introduction control unit is programmed to release restraining the introduction of external air according to a voltage in the fuel cell during the idle stop with the cathode compressor stopped. | 11,642 |
9,045,779 | 1. A method for increasing production of ethanol on a cell-mass basis comprising: (a) providing a prokaryotic microorganism which utilizes a carbon source to produce ethanol wherein said prokaryotic microorganism expresses at least one pyruvate decarboxylase gene and at least one alcohol dehydrogenase gene from a bacterium of the genus (b) genetically modifying said prokaryotic microorganism, wherein said modifying comprises at least one genetic modification which provides for expression of a hemoglobin gene from a bacterium of the genus (c) contacting the modified hemoglobin expressing prokaryotic microorganism of step (b) with at least one carbon source under substantially anaerobic conditions, wherein production of ethanol is greater on a cell-mass basis after said prokaryotic microorganism is genetically modified to provide for expression of said hemoglobin than before said prokaryotic microorganism is genetically modified to provide for expression of said hemoglobin. | 44,541 |
8,827,645 | 1. A core for a composite structure, the core comprising: a first core layer; a second core layer; and a radar-reflecting layer between the first and second core layers; wherein the core has drape-promoting formations that do not interrupt the radar-reflecting layer, the drape-promoting formations including a first plurality of slits that each extend into the first core layer to a depth that is less than the thickness of the first core layer. | 33,121 |
9,673,733 | 1. A control apparatus for a photovoltaic inverter that converts power generated by sunlight into AC power interconnecting with an AC power system, the control apparatus comprising: a system voltage detector configured to detect a system voltage of the AC power system; a DC voltage detector configured to detect a DC voltage applied to the inverter; an output voltage deficiency detector configured to detect an output voltage deficiency of the inverter based on the system voltage detected by the system voltage detector and the DC voltage detected by the DC voltage detector; an output-current detector configured to detect an output current of the inverter; an output-current distortion detector configured to detect distortion of the output current based on a harmonic included in the output current detected by the output-current detector; a maximum power point tracking controller configured to perform maximum power point tracking control on the inverter; and an output-current distortion controller configured to perform control to set the DC voltage applied to the inverter to a voltage at a power point less than a maximum power point of the maximum power point tracking control when the output voltage deficiency is detected by the output voltage deficiency detector and the distortion of the output current is detected by the output-current distortion detector. | 37,549 |
8,398,862 | 1. A method for extracting energy from hydrocarbons located in a geologic reservoir comprising: oxidizing the hydrocarbons; extracting heat generated from oxidizing the hydrocarbons, wherein the step of extracting comprises: relocating oxidized gases away from the oxidizing hydrocarbons; and replenishing oxygen towards the oxidizing hydrocarbons, wherein the step of replenishing comprises: combining hydrogen derived from said generating step with earth surface oxygen, whereby heat and a low-precipitate, pure water is produced. | 16,440 |
8,753,410 | 1. A method of producing fuel briquettes from fine coal, comprising: forming pellets from coal fines wherein said pellets have an average weight of between about 2.0 and about 50.0 grams and an average exterior surface area of between about 0.1 and about 50 cm drying said pellets to a moisture content of between about 1.0 and about 10.0%; and then disintegrating said pellets prior to forming a fuel briquette; and forming fuel briquettes. | 8,331 |
9,033,416 | 1. A back support device to provide support to a user, comprising: a supporting frame structure of rigid or semi-flexible material, the supporting frame structure having at least a top and a bottom, the supporting structure adapted to be portable and removeably attached to a backrest or permanently installed in or on a backrest; a plurality of vertical components layered in two vertical columns arranged in a laterally, spaced apart position and connected to the top and bottom of the supporting frame structure, the two vertical columns of layered vertical components adapted to align with and shaped to conform and support the erector spinae muscles and provide primary support of the back in the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral vertebrae regions of the spine; the plurality of layered vertical components forming a central U-shaped vertical channel positioned between the two vertical columns of layered vertical components, an open side of the central vertical U-shaped channel being adjacent to a user's back, the central vertical U-shaped channel and the vertical components configured to allow spinous processes to intrude and be protected from external pressure, material extending across and secured to the supporting frame structure, the material allowing ventilation to the central U-shaped vertical channel; fasteners connected to the portable back support device for securing the portable back support device to a seat back, wherein the back support device and central U-shaped vertical channel is an open conduit that facilitates physiological functions including unimpeded neurological communication along the spinal pathway, optimally aligning the spine, improving rib head articulation, optimizing intervertebral disk spacing, optimizing foramina openings, improving neurological communication along the spinal pathway, enhancing health, increasing performance, and returning energy to the user. | 18,584 |
9,098,303 | 1. A method comprising: detecting, by a computing device, a connection to a host computing device; receiving, by the computing device, data from the host computing device identifying at least one of a device type of the host computing device or properties of the host computing device; selecting, by the computing device, an operating system from a plurality of available operating systems installed on the computing device in view of the received data; and loading the selected operating system on the computing device to boot up the selected operating system. | 37,909 |
8,607,512 | 1. A parking shelter comprising: a roof covered at least partially by photovoltaic solar panels; four supporting feet, with at least a first supporting foot and a second supporting foot comprising a substantially vertical bottom portion and an inclined top portion directed towards a periphery of the roof, and a third foot and a forth supporting foot each comprising a substantially vertical bottom portion and an inclined top portion directed towards the periphery of the roof; and a first base and a second base, each base providing for the fixing of two of the four feet, at least one of the two bases comprising a first barrier and a second barrier spaced apart by a central space, each of first and second barriers receiving and supporting the substantially vertical portion of one of the feet of the shelter. | 12,381 |
9,538,757 | 1. A solid mixture comprising a) a sulfonylurea herbicide, b) an alkylpolyglycoside, and c) optionally one or more further active compounds, with the proviso that said further active compound (c) is different from aminophosphoric acids. | 19,671 |
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