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9,673,772 | 1. A filter comprising: a multilayer body including a plurality of insulator layers stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction; an input electrode and an output electrode each provided on a surface of the multilayer body; a first resonator that is connected to the input electrode and includes a first coil; a second resonator that is connected to the output electrode and includes a second coil; a third resonator that includes a third coil that is magnetically coupled with at least one of the first coil and the second coil; a first capacitor and a second capacitor that are connected in series with each other between the input electrode and the output electrode; a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor that are connected in series with each other between the input electrode and the output electrode; a first coupling conductor layer provided on a first one of the plurality of insulator layers; a second coupling conductor layer provided on a second one of the plurality of insulator layers; and a first capacitor conductor layer and a second capacitor conductor layer provided on a third one of the plurality of insulator layers; wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor, which are connected in series with each other, are connected in parallel with the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor, which are connected in series with each other, the first coil and the second coil are respectively defined by a first via hole conductor and a second via hole conductor that penetrate through at least one insulator layer of the plurality of insulator layers in the stacking direction; the third coil includes a third coil conductor layer that is provided on an insulator layer of the plurality of insulator layers; the first capacitor is defined by a capacitor portion of the first capacitor conductor layer that is capacitively coupled to a first portion of the first coupling conductor layer; the second capacitor is defined by a capacitor portion of the second capacitor conductor layer that is capacitively coupled to a second portion of the first coupling conductor layer; the third capacitor is defined by the capacitor portion of the first capacitor conductor layer that is capacitively coupled to a first portion of the second coupling conductor layer; the fourth capacitor is defined by the capacitor portion of the second capacitor conductor layer that is capacitively coupled to a second portion of the second coupling conductor layer; and each of the first coupling conductor layer and the second coupling conductor layer includes only a single electrode. | 47,525 |
9,321,005 | 1. A method of purifying a gas mixture comprising contacting said gas mixture with a mixture of a phosphonium or an imidizolium ionic liquid and a physical absorption solvent selected from the group consisting of a mixture of dimethyl ethers of propylene glycol (CH 3 O(C 2 H 4 O) n CH 3 (where n is between 2 and 9)) and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone in an absorbent zone wherein said ionic liquid and physical absorption solvent mixture absorbs at least one component from said gas mixture, and the said ionic liquid and physical absorption solvent mixture is regenerated to remove said absorbed component or components. | 21,807 |
8,819,149 | 1. A method comprising: storing identification of each of a plurality of computing devices associated with a user; storing information specifying a functionality of each of the plurality of computing devices; receiving data associated with at least one of the plurality of computing devices, the data comprising at least one of an activity and presence of the user at the at least one computing device; receiving a communication addressed to the user; and in response to receiving the communication: | 44,180 |
9,393,319 | 1. A composition comprising tumor-cell specific monoclonal immunoglobulin or functional fragment thereof conjugated to a variant of ribonuclease one (human RNase I) of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said variant ribonuclease comprises an arginine at position 38, as well as: a) two or more changes in region 86-91; b) a change at position 39; c) a change to a cysteine at a position 1-6; and d) a change to a cysteine at a position 116-121. | 28,936 |
8,462,483 | 1. A multilayer film anode for an electrolytic capacitor, the multilayer film anode comprising: a current-carrying foil substrate of spray-coated metal, the current-carrying foil substrate having a porous surface; a conforming layer of a valve metal with a porosity of adjustable volume, the conforming layer connected to the current-carrying foil substrate by means of a heterojunction formed by a plurality of nanoparticles of the spray-coated metal and the valve metal, the plurality of nanoparticles geometrically interlocking with each other to create a hermetic sealing with barrier properties, thereby preventing interdiffusion between the conforming layer and the current-carrying foil substrate; and an oxide coating connected to the conforming layer. | 46,827 |
9,819,079 | 1. A portable device comprising: one or more processors; a near field communication (NFC) module operatively coupled to the one or more processors; and a modular antenna connected to the NFC module comprising: a layer continuous loop that includes at least one coil antenna loop; a layer of ferrite material that isolates the coil antenna; and a shield to encapsulate the top layer coil antenna and the layer ferrite material along three sides, which are defined by a bottom portion, an outer wall, and an inner wall of the shield, wherein the shield includes an outer rim and an inner rim to maintain the same coil antenna characteristics in the modular antenna, wherein the shield exposes the encapsulated coil antenna and the ferrite material outside of an electromagnetic interference (EMI) coating that shields electrical components within a portable device, and wherein the shield includes one or more transverse slots cut to limit circulating Eddy currents. | 6,472 |
9,683,359 | 1. An apparatus for a waterless urinal comprising a urinal outlet defining a urinal outlet passageway having a passageway surface, the apparatus being supportable from the urinal outlet, the apparatus comprising: a housing defining a chamber for receiving a consumable de-odoriser, the chamber including a de-odoriser cover disposed above the consumable de-odoriser, the de-odoriser cover including a continuous outer surface for preventing fluid access to the de-odoriser from above the de-odoriser cover, the housing including an access device to permit repeated access to the chamber for allowing replacement of the consumable de-odoriser, the housing configured to permit a new consumable de-odoriser to be inserted on top of or besides an existing but not fully depleted consumable de-odoriser, and the housing defining at least one access aperture for urine to enter the apparatus laterally from a wall of the urinal; a de-odoriser support disposed beneath the consumable de-odoriser for supporting the consumable de-odoriser, the de-odoriser support having apertures therein and the de-odoriser being accessible to urine through said apertures, the at least one access aperture defined by the housing allowing urine to enter the apparatus beneath the de-odoriser support; a urinal outlet insert for insertion into the urinal outlet passageway so as to support the apparatus from the urinal outlet, the urinal outlet insert defining an insert passageway for allowing flow of urine from beneath the de-odoriser support into the urinal outlet passageway, the urinal outlet insert comprising: a urinal outlet engaging portion for supporting the urinal outlet insert within the urinal outlet passageway by engaging the passageway surface, and a plurality of support members extending between the housing and the urinal outlet insert, wherein the support members are spaced apart for allowing urine entering the apparatus via the at least one access aperture to flow between the spaced apart support members, into the insert passageway, and subsequently into the urinal outlet passageway; and further wherein the apparatus defines a vent tube in addition to the at least one access aperture, the vent tube extending from the de-odoriser cover to generally below the consumable de-odoriser and above the de-odoriser support such that the vent tube provides a flow path for air to pass through the apparatus past the chamber without contacting the consumable de-odoriser; and wherein the apparatus is adapted for use with a waterless urinal, whereby the chamber is arranged such that the de-odoriser is activatable by urine accessing the de-odoriser in the chamber via the apertures in the de-odoriser support without requiring any flushing water. | 48,347 |
9,664,128 | 1. A method, comprising: in response to increasing engine load while operating an engine with lower EGR, | 37,387 |
9,186,756 | 1. A method for repairing a honeycomb sandwich structural body where a skin is disposed on both front and rear surfaces of a honeycomb core, comprising the steps of: (A) forming a repair cavity by removing the honeycomb core including a damaged portion with the skin; (B) inserting, into the repair cavity, a repair honeycomb core whose end surface on a side to which a repair patch is bonded is subjected to flattening treatment; (C) disposing the repair patch on the flattened end surface of the repair honeycomb core via an adhesive; and (D) bonding the repair honeycomb core to an existing portion of the honeycomb sandwich structural body and to the repair patch, and curing the repair patch under a reduced-pressure atmosphere associated with heating. | 24,641 |
8,410,480 | 1. A CMOS-MEMS cantilever structure, comprising: a substrate having a circuit area and a sensor unit area defined thereon; a circuit structure formed in said circuit area on said substrate; and a cantilever beam disposed in said sensor unit area, the cantilever beam having one end floating above said substrate and an opposite end connecting to said circuit structure, wherein said cantilever beam has a supporting material layer and a piezoresistive material layer, and said supporting material layer is a metal layer or an oxide layer. | 13,057 |
9,067,262 | 1. A composition of matter, comprising copper-alloy particles, wherein the particles have a D 10 that is between 0.6-1.5 μm, a D 50 that is between 1.8-3.0 μm, a D 90 that is between 3.0-5.5 μm, and an apparent density of 1.5-2.5 g/cm 3 . | 35,822 |
9,610,377 | 1. A method of filling a nasal cavity in a human body or animal body comprising inserting into said nasal cavity a biodegradable absorbent foam comprising a phase separated polymer including an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment, said polymer having the formula: wherein the amorphous segment comprises R, R is selected from one or more aliphatic polyetheresters or polyanhydrides, R′ and R″ are independently selected from C 2 -C 8 alkylene, optionally substituted with C 1 -C 10 alkyl or C 1 -C 10 alkyl groups substituted with protected S, N, P or O moieties and/or S, N, P or O in the alkylene chain, Z 1 -Z 4 are independently amide, urea or urethane, Q 1 and Q 2 are independently urea, urethane, amide, carbonate, ester or anhydride, n is an integer from 5-500, and p and q are both 1, and wherein at least one R comprises a hydrophilic segment comprising polyethyleneglycol in a content of 1-80 wt % and wherein the polyethyleneglycol has a number average molecular weight of 150 to 4000 g/mol. | 18,942 |
8,606,141 | 1. An image forming apparatus having a main body to which a cartridge is attachable and detachable thereto, the image forming apparatus performing image formation with the cartridge mounted at an attached position, the image forming apparatus comprising: an opening and closing member configured to move with respect to the main body between a closed position where the main body is closed and an opened position where the main body is open to allow attachment/detachment of the cartridge; and a cartridge abutment member supported by the opening and closing member configured to move with respect to the opening and closing member in conjunction with the movement of the opening and closing member and capable of abutting the cartridge to move the cartridge toward the attached position when the opening and closing member moves from the opened position toward the closed position, wherein the cartridge abutment member includes: | 14,223 |
9,412,949 | 1. A polymer is according to formula (I): wherein each -A- is independently selected from —AR—, wherein each -AR— is flourenyl; wherein each R wherein each R wherein each R or wherein each R wherein each R is independently selected from —H, —(CH and wherein each R and wherein each R wherein m is from 0 to 100; wherein n is from 2 to 300 and wherein p is from 0 to 20. | 3,642 |
8,906,584 | 1. A photomask for a semiconductor device, comprising: a cell mask pattern disposed in a cell region of a mask substrate; and a vernier mask pattern disposed in a vernier region of the mask substrate, wherein the vernier mask pattern comprises a variable mask pattern portion to transfer a different shape of pattern depending on the magnitude of exposure energy. | 8,210 |
9,160,940 | 1. A signal processing device comprising: a control unit that suspends supplying of a signal to an A/D conversion unit which performs A/D conversion, during an A/D conversion period in which the A/D conversion is performed on the signal that depends on an electric charge read from a pixel; and a maintenance unit that maintains a signal value of the signal in a state where the signal is supplied by the control unit to the A/D conversion unit and that supplies the maintained signal value to the A/D conversion unit in a state where the supplying of the signal to the A/D conversion unit is suspended by the control unit, wherein the control unit includes: a switch that controls a connection between a signal line over which to transfer the signal, and an input to the A/D conversion unit, and a control signal supply unit that supplies a control signal controlling the switch, and wherein the control signal supply unit supplies the control signal, disconnecting the signal line and the input to the A/D conversion unit, to the switch during the A/D conversion period. | 43,072 |
9,045,316 | 1. A control method for controlling the composite motion of a boom of concrete distributing device comprising the following steps: calculating the flow of a boom pump when an instruction is sent from an operating handle; and calculating theoretical demanded flows for each actuating mechanism of the boom and theoretical control signals for each electrical proportional control valve corresponding to the actuating mechanisms, according to the instruction sent from the operating handle; comparing the sum of the theoretical demanded flows for the actuating mechanisms with the flow of the boom pump; and providing the theoretical control signals to the electrical proportional control valves when the flow of the boom pump is greater than or equal to the sum of the theoretical demanded flows of the actuating mechanisms; otherwise providing actual control signals smaller than the theoretical control signals to the electrical proportional control valves, thereby reducing the movement speeds of the actuating mechanism proportionally, wherein the theoretical control signals for the electrical proportional control valves are i | 49,246 |
9,680,410 | 1. A corrugated roof sheet comprising: a bottom; a first-side roof sheet edge portion having a height H a second-side roof sheet edge portion; a first-side fitting portion and second-side fitting portion both disposed between the first-side roof sheet edge portion and the second-side roof sheet edge portion, the first-side fitting portion having a first standing portion extending from the bottom and a first lateral engaging portion extending from the first standing portion toward the second-side roof sheet edge portion, the first lateral engaging portion having a height h a protruding portion disposed between the first-side fitting portion and the second-side fitting portion and having a height h wherein the height h | 4,694 |
9,030,091 | 1. A substrate for an organic electronic device, comprising: a base layer; and a high refractive layer, of which a refractive index is 1.8 or more, which comprises a first particle, of which a refractive index is 1.8 or more and an average diameter is 50 nm or less, and a second particle, of which a refractive index is from 2.0 to 3.5 and an average diameter is 100 nm or more, and in which a ratio (A/B) of a weight (A) of the first particle and a weight (B) of the second particle is from 0.9 to 8. | 47,576 |
8,443,561 | 1. A connecting element for connecting a first panel to a second panel, comprising: at least one plate which can be fixed to a first panel; a connecting body connected to the at least one plate and which can be inserted into a second panel; said connecting body having a substantially “V”-shaped cross-section and presenting a top edge completely insertable into the second panel; means for fixing the connecting body to the second panel; wherein the connecting body presents at least one through-hole for housing said means for fixing the connecting body to the second panel; wherein the connecting body comprises two further plates, at least one of which is connected to the at least one plate, said two further plates being converging towards the top edge, wherein the further plates have respective first ends associated with one another to form the top edge and respective second ends, opposite the first ends, at least one of which is connected to the at least one plate, wherein the at least one plate comprises two plates which can be connected to the first panel, each connected to the connecting body; each of the two plates being connected to a respective second end of one of the further plates; wherein the two plates lie in such a way that they extend towards one another from the respective second ends of the further plates; and wherein each further plate has a respective “V”-shaped notch made at the top edge to allow access to the two plates. | 10,601 |
9,738,829 | 1. A phosphor, comprising a CaAlSiN 3 family crystal phase, wherein: the CaAlSiN the CaAlSiN | 6,711 |
9,356,125 | 1. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a high-k dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming a barrier layer on the high-k dielectric layer; performing an oxygen annealing treatment after the step of forming the barrier layer; performing a soak annealing process after the oxygen annealing treatment; and forming a capping layer on the barrier layer after the soak annealing process. | 23,335 |
9,014,885 | 1. A method for radiation detection comprising: fabricating an underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) with integral structural scintillating detectors; generating a radiation measurement using the integral structural scintillators; transmitting the radiation measurement data to a remote monitoring station for real-time radiation field mapping, analyses and forensics; maneuvering to enhance measurement of any radiation detected or patrol for any radiation source. | 5,701 |
8,414,806 | 1. A method of fabricating a membrane made of a nanostructured material, wherein the method comprises: (a) preparing a suspension comprising at least one nanostructured material and at least one surfactant, wherein said nanostructured material is TiO (b) filtering said suspension through a porous substrate to form a membrane; (c) compressing said membrane using a hydraulic press at a temperature greater than 100° C.; and (d) calcining said compressed membrane wherein said nanostructured material is comprised in said suspension in a concentration of about 1 to 20 g/l. | 31,052 |
8,733,439 | 1. A process for in situ fracturing of shale formations of all types including extraction of oil and gas from oil sand, extraction of oil and gas from biomass and extraction of gas from hydrates, comprising: (a) injecting CO (b) recovering produced hydrocarbon liquids and gases through production wells; (c) heating the CO (d) providing the production wells with safety devices; (e) providing a main production well with a retractable orifice plate to avoid excess pressure upstream of a blowout preventer (BOP), thereby avoiding possible unsafe situations; (f) providing a small parallel well connected with the main production well and providing a second safety device in the small parallel well, wherein the second safety device is a rupture disc which provides a second form of safety devices upstream of the BOP; and (g) treating the produced oil and gas to remove impurities, wherein the purified gas and liquid is sent to storage. | 5,583 |
8,710,176 | 1. A method for producing a sulfonated polyarylether block copolymer, said copolymer comprising a hydrophobic segment having a structural unit represented by formula (5) and a hydrophilic segment having a structural unit with sulfonic acid groups or derivative thereof incorporated into a structure represented by formula (6), wherein, D Ar wherein, D Ar the method comprising block copolymerizing a hydrophilic segment prepolymer represented by formula (18) and a hydrophobic segment prepolymer, the block copolymerization being conducted through ether exchange reaction, wherein D Ar a is an integer of from 20 to 1,000; p and q are independently an integer of 0, 1 or 2; and p+q≧1, wherein the hydrophilic segment prepolymer is prepared from a 3,3′-disulfo-4,4′-dichlorodiphenylsulfonate, and wherein the sulfonated polyarylether block copolymer has an ion-exchange capacity of 0.5 mmol/g to 3.0 mmol/g. | 23,835 |
8,884,967 | 1. A mobile communication device in which an upper portion and a lower portion open and close to allow a state to change to an opened state and to a closed state, comprising: an image storage portion to store a plurality of images; a selecting portion to select a target background image from said plurality of images stored; a closed state detection portion to detect the closed state; and a display control portion to control display of an image to display an image of an idle screen including said target background image selected by said selecting portion, wherein said display control portion displays, in response to a change from a state in which the closed state is detected by said closed state detection portion to a state in which the closed state is not detected while the image of said idle screen is being displayed, a new idle screen that includes a new target background image selected next in an order of selection by said selecting portion. | 27,843 |
9,293,780 | 1. A polymer electrolyte membrane comprising sulfonated poly(phenylene sulfide sulfone nitriles) with their ends cross-linked to each other, wherein the sulfonated poly(phenylene sulfide sulfone nitrile) represented by one of the following Formulae 1 to 5: wherein n represents the number of a sulfone-containing monomer in the sulfonated poly(phenylene sulfide sulfone nitrile). | 26,371 |
8,342,771 | 1. A reinforced connector assembly for a tubular grab railing comprising: a tubing support for engaging and supporting a tubular grab railing that extends parallel to a wall or a floor surface and said tubing support includes an upper portion and a lower portion with a longitudinally extending recess therebetween, an elongated reinforcing plate extending through the recess from substantially one end of the tubing support to the other between the upper and lower portions of the tubing support as a part of a sandwich structure formed by upper and lower portions and the enclosed reinforcing plate therebetween; the tubing support including a pair of bosses, each comprising one end of the sandwich structure, one such boss being located at a first end of the tubing support and the other boss being located at a second end of the tubing support; each such boss being constructed and arranged to have a sliding fit within a respective separate tubing section of a tubular grab railing such that the tubing section is adapted to longitudinally receive and enclose each such boss to thereby surround the sandwich structure formed by the upper and lower portions of the tubing support and the reinforcing plate therein; a central part of the tubing support between said plurality of bosses is exposed to view when a tubing section of the tubular grab railing is fitted in place over each boss; a hollow cylindrical cover extending downwardly from the central part of the lower portion of the tubing support; a base comprising a tubular reinforcing member with upper and lower ends, said base having a horizontally disposed top wall at the upper end and a laterally extending flange at the lower end thereof to attach the reinforced connector assembly to a support surface; a fastener inserted through the upper and lower portions of the tubing support through the reinforcing plate and into the top wall of the base to secure the base to the tubing support and to enable the tubing support to be pivoted on the base during installation; and the hollow cylindrical cover that extends from the tubing support enclosing and protecting the base by being mounted concentrically thereon. | 11,915 |
9,418,557 | 1. A fleet operation management system for a vehicle traveling on a predetermined travel route, comprising: a storage unit which stores travel route information including a position, height and surface resistance of the travel route; and a calculation unit which predicts future change in a speed of the vehicle coasting on the travel route based on a current position and current speed of the vehicle and the travel route information and judges which of acceleration, deceleration and coasting of the vehicle should be performed at the current position based on the change in the coasting speed so that a predicted speed of the vehicle after the lapse of a predetermined time will be within a predetermined range; a display device for notifying the vehicle's driver which of depressing of the accelerator pedal, depressing of the brake pedal and releasing of the accelerator and brake pedals should be performed at the current position or at a predetermined position on the travel route based on the result of the judgment by the calculation unit; a vehicle weight measurement unit configured to measure weight of the vehicle continuously, wherein: the calculation unit further predicts the change in the coasting speed by further considering weight of the vehicle measured by the vehicle weight measurement unit, and change in an acceleration of the vehicle based on the change in the coasting speed, and acceleration sections and deceleration sections calculated based on the change in the acceleration are displayed on a map that is displayed on the display device to indicate the travel route. | 27,531 |
9,266,619 | 1. A method of fabricating a tank comprising: forming a plurality of cells, each cell comprising a plurality of layers of material that extend about and define each cell; positioning the plurality of cells with respect to one another; positioning inner and outer face sheets on opposite sides of the plurality of cells, wherein the inner and outer face sheets that are positioned on opposite sides of the plurality of cells are formed of different types of materials; and curing the inner and outer face sheets and the plurality of layers of material that form each of the plurality of cells to thereby form a wall assembly having (i) inner and outer walls that are each formed by a respective face sheet and a portion of the plurality of cells and (ii) a plurality of restraining elements extending between the inner and outer walls with each restraining element formed by a portion of a cell; wherein the wall assembly defines an inlet through the outer wall comprised of the outer face sheet and the plurality of layers of material that comprise a respective cell opening into a volume defined between the inner and outer walls in order to permit a pressurized gas to be introduced within the wall assembly, and wherein the wall assembly further defines an inlet through the inner wall comprised of the inner face sheet and the plurality of layers of material that comprise a respective cell. | 22,297 |
9,599,680 | 1. A portable electronic device sized and shaped to be received within a holster in a plurality of orientations, the portable electronic device comprising: an electronic compass including a magnetometer adapted to measure a magnetic pattern of a magnetic element in the holster along three axes when the portable electronic device is received within the holster; and a processor operably coupled to the electronic compass and configured to: | 25,552 |
8,997,712 | 1. A method of operating a two-stroke, opposed-piston engine with at least one ported cylinder and pair of pistons disposed in opposition in the cylinder, in which injection of fuel into the cylinder is interrupted while charge air entering the cylinder between the opposed pistons is continuously released from the cylinder through an engine braking valve as the pistons move between BDC and TDC positions. | 29,894 |
8,564,290 | 1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for acquiring k-space data from a deformable imaging region of a subject and generating image data of the imaging region at the time of being deformed to a predetermined state, based on the acquired k-space data, said magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a gradient coil configured to apply a gradient magnetic field in a phase encoding direction; and an image data calculation device configured to: | 11,937 |
9,848,282 | 1. A method of communicating data in a wireless communication system including a sever communicating with a plurality of devices, the method comprising: determining, by a first device which operates as a gateway mode and which belongs to a first network, whether the first device is able to discover a second network; if the first device is unable to discover the second network, transmitting, by the first device, a discovery request message to a second device, which belongs the first network and which operates as an entity mode; in response to the discovery request message, receiving, by the first device from the second device, a discovery response message including information on a third device belonging to the second network; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device, a bridge request message to enable the second device operates as a bridge for coupling the first network and the second network, wherein a device operating as the entity mode communicates with the server via a device operating as the gateway mode. | 34,406 |
9,578,273 | 1. A modular electrical system for controlling a backlit liquid crystal display (LCD) contained within a chassis, the system comprising: a system supply power board; an AC power input in electrical communication with the system supply power board; a timing and control board (TCON) in electrical communication with the system supply power board through a signal conduction line and a power conduction line; a board edge connector on the TCON; an access opening in the chassis; and a video module comprising a printed circuit board having an edge sized to connect with the board edge connector on the TCON, where the video module is sized to fit through the access opening to connect with the TCON wherein the board edge connector allows the TCON to pass the power conduction line and the signal conduction line to the video module and accepts the edge of the printed circuit board of the video module into the board edge connector. | 33,411 |
9,728,452 | 1. A method ( 100 ) for forming an electrically conductive via through a substrate ( 210 410 ) by a chemical vapour deposition in a reactor, the substrate comprising a hole ( 226 , 420 ) having aspect ratio greater than 7 in the substrate, the method comprising: adjusting ( depositing ( | 27,372 |
8,681,154 | 1. A method for adaptively rendering objects in a computer graphic image using a non-parallelized graphics pipeline for low fidelity objects at a lower pixel resolution than higher fidelity objects, and maintaining data for the objects, wherein the data for each object includes a fidelity code, wherein the fidelity code indicates object fidelity level, the method comprising: computing pixels touched by each object based on a pixel grid associated with the fidelity code of the object, wherein the pixel grid for a higher fidelity level comprises more pixels per area than the pixel grid for a lower fidelity level; utilizing fluffing logic to expand pixel grid resolution to provide expanded pixel grids for the low fidelity objects to match the number of pixels per area of the pixel grid for the higher fidelity objects; and using the higher fidelity objects and the expanded pixel grids for the low fidelity objects to write pixel data to a depth buffer, wherein the fluffing logic is configured to provide the pixel data to at least one of the depth buffer and the frame buffer in parallel for a plurality of pixels touched by a low fidelity object using a parallel write, the parallel write being accomplished despite the non-parallelized graphics pipeline by taking one pixel out of the graphics pipeline and writing the one pixel into four or more pixels at the same time into the depth buffer or a frame buffer and wherein pixel data is written in sequence for a plurality of pixels touched by a higher fidelity object of the higher fidelity objects. | 47,875 |
9,232,305 | 1. An acoustic transducer comprising: an audio input terminal for receiving an input audio signal; one or more stationary coils for inducing a magnetic flux path; one or more moving coils coupled to a moving diaphragm, wherein the one or more moving coils are disposed at least partially within the magnetic flux path; a control system coupled to the input terminal and adapted to produce a time-varying stationary coil signal in at least one of the stationary coils and to produce a time-varying moving coil signal in each of the one or more moving coils, and wherein all of the stationary coil signals and the moving coil signals are dependent on the input audio signal, wherein the movement of the diaphragm is in response to the stationary coil signals and the moving coil signal, and wherein the control system includes: | 48,477 |
8,356,116 | 1. A relay communication system comprising: a first network and a second network; a first relay server connected to the first network; and a second relay server connected to the second network; wherein each of the first relay server and the second relay server includes: the first relay server includes: the second relay server includes: each of the first relay server and the second relay server includes: the first relay server includes a first client terminal-oriented sharing unit configured to share the relay group information and the relay server information between the first relay server and the first client terminal; the first relay server includes a communication execution unit configured to, based on the relay group information and the relay server information, perform communication in which a virtual network address of the second network is designated as a destination for the communication, the communication being relayed by the first relay server, and the virtual network address being selected based on the relay group information and the relay server information; and the second relay server includes a second client terminal-oriented sharing unit configured to share the relay group information and the relay server information between the second relay server and the second client terminal. | 30,896 |
8,599,469 | 1. An electronic paper display device comprising: a barrier layer made of AlO a pixel electrode over the barrier layer; a partitioning layer for sectionalizing neighboring pixels, the partitioning layer provided over an edge of the pixel electrode; and an electronic ink layer over the partitioning layer and the pixel electrode through an opening portion of the partitioning layer. | 17,286 |
9,366,654 | 1. A method of measuring a crystallographic orientation of an object using an ultrasonic transducer and a detector array comprising a plurality of ultrasonic detectors, the method comprising: determining a minimum distance (d placing the transducer and the detector array in contact with a surface of the object such that the transducer and the detector of the detector array closest to the transducer are separated by at least the minimum distance (d using the transducer to generate an ultrasonic surface wave pulse in the surface of the object, the ultrasonic surface wave pulse having a pulse duration (t measuring a time of flight of a surface wave generated by the transducer between the transducer and each detector of the array to determine the crystallographic orientation of the object; wherein the minimum distance (d | 40,063 |
9,593,355 | 1. A process for the production of liquefied lignocellulosic substrate by enzymatic reaction and saccharification thereof, said process comprising: (i) conducting liquefaction of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate by feeding pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate, water and one or more enzymes at desired flow rates into a reactor to form a reaction medium having a reaction volume, wherein the amount of said one or more enzymes is in the range of 0.1 to 60 mg per gram of cellulose and said pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate is at a concentration of 10% to 40% by weight dry matter, whereby said pretreated lignocellulosic substrate, is brought into contact, with said water and with said one or more enzymes, under agitation, for a time period in the range of 1 to 24 hours, to produce liquefied lignocellulosic substrate by enzymatic reaction, wherein dry matter concentration, expressed as percentage by weight, is the ratio of the mass of a sample of said pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate obtained after drying at 105° C. for 24 hours over the initial mass of said sample, wherein said pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate is introduced into said reactor in fed-batch mode or in continuous mode, wherein an electrical powered motor is used to provide said agitation, and wherein over time, at least the value of one of the rheological characteristics of the reaction medium is measured and in that if a reduction in said value is detected over time, a) is carried out: a) increasing the feeding flow rate of pretreated lignocellulosic substrate, with or without modification of the feeding flow rate of enzymes and/or water; and in that if an increase in said value is detected over time, b) is carried out as follows: b) increasing the feeding flow rate of water and/or said one or more enzymes, with or without modification of the feeding flow rate of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate; and wherein the value that is measured is the electrical power consumed by said motor, and wherein the electrical power consumed by said motor with respect to the mass of the reaction volume remains in the range of 0.05 to 4 kW/ton; and (ii) subjecting liquefied lignocellulosic substrate from (i) to a saccharification step for production of sugar by enzymatic hydrolysis under agitation, wherein agitation is performed at lower power during saccharification than during said liquefaction of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate, and saccharification is performed for longer than said liquefaction. | 3,651 |
9,571,695 | 1. An image processing device which generates a halftone image from an input image of a plurality of printing modes with different definition, the image processing device comprising: an image size adjustment unit which adjusts a size of the input image; and a halftone processing unit which performs halftone processing on the input image size-adjusted by the image size adjustment unit to generate a halftone image, wherein: the image size adjustment unit adjusts the input image to a same size in two or more printing modes among the plurality of printing modes, and the input image of the same size is subjected to the halftone processing; the halftone processing unit limits an arrangement of dots constituting the halftone image to dot arrangeable places of a selected printing mode among the plurality of printing modes; the halftone processing unit performs the halftone processing based on a dither matrix according to the selected printing mode based on a dither method; the two or more printing modes include a relatively high resolution printing mode and a relatively low resolution printing mode, and all dot arrangeable places of the low resolution printing mode are included in the dot arrangeable places of the high resolution printing mode; threshold elements corresponding to the dot arrangeable places of the low resolution printing mode among threshold elements constituting the dither matrix according to the high resolution printing mode have a value smaller or greater than threshold elements corresponding to other places, and the dots constituting the halftone image are arranged with priority at the dot arrangeable places of the low resolution printing mode; and the functions performed by the image size adjustment unit and the halftone processing unit are achieved using a computer. | 34,093 |
9,288,813 | 1. User Equipment (UE) comprising: a multi-radio controller for controlling a Wi-Fi transceiver and a LTE transceiver, the multi-radio controller configured to: determine a duration of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) based on an active period interval of the LTE transceiver; configure a triggering frame to indicate that the Wi-Fi transceiver is granting permission to an access point to send data in accordance with a reverse direction (RD) protocol, the triggering frame to indicate at least a duration of the TXOP; and transmit the triggering frame within the TXOP immediately after an active period of the LTE transceiver, wherein the duration of he TXOP is determined prior to configuration and transmission of the triggering frame. | 9,889 |
8,606,297 | 1. A method for facilitating location-based social interaction, the method comprising: receiving, from a portable electronic device of a requesting user of an online service for facilitating location-based social interaction, a request for information concerning other users of the online service wherein the request includes information relating to a location of the requesting user; generating a list of the other users located within a range of the location; filtering, based upon filtering criteria, the list in order to create a filtered list of the other users; and transmitting, to the portable electronic device, profile information relating to the filtered list of the other users. | 27,339 |
9,026,268 | 1. A communications and control system comprising: a first communication module configured to be disposed onboard a first consist of a vehicle system; a first control module configured to be disposed onboard the first consist, the first control module configured to determine a first command; a second communication module configured to be disposed onboard a second consist of a vehicle system, the second communication module communicatively connected to the first communication module and configured to receive the first command from the first consist; a second control module configured to be disposed onboard the second consist, the second control module configured to provide control commands to at least one powered unit of the second consist; and a determination module configured to be disposed onboard the second consist, the determination module configured to determine capability information corresponding to an ability of the at least one powered unit of the second consist to perform the first command, and to determine a second command provided to the second control module using the first command and the capability information, the second command differing from the first command when the at least one powered unit of the second consist is not capable of performing the first command, wherein the second control module is configured to use the second command to control the at least one powered unit of the second consist. | 35,850 |
8,577,172 | 1. A reconfigurable module comprising: an operational block including at least one adder/subtracter, at least one logic block, five inputs and three outputs, the first output of the operational block being capable of delivering the following results: the result of the addition of the first and second inputs of the operational block, or the result of the subtraction of the second input from the first input of the operational block, or the minimum of the first and second inputs of the operational block, or the maximum of the first and second inputs of the operational block, the second output of the operational block being capable of delivering the following results: the result of the addition of the fourth and fifth inputs of the operational block, or the result of the subtraction of the fifth input from the fourth input of the operational block, or the minimum of the fourth and fifth inputs of the operational block, or the maximum of the fourth and fifth inputs of the operational block, or the minimum of the first, second and fourth inputs of the operational block, or the maximum of the first, second and fourth inputs of the operational block, the third output of the operational block being capable of delivering the following results: the result of the addition of the first output and the third input of the operational block, or the result of the subtraction of the third input from the first output of the operational block the result delivered by any of the first, second and third outputs depending on the type of operation performed by said at least one adder/subtracter and on the links established between the inputs and the outputs of said at least one logic block. | 19,025 |
8,535,637 | 1. Thermoelectric conversion materials BiCuOTe having a natural super-lattice structure in which Cu 2 Te 2 layers alternate with Bi 2 O 2 layers along a c-crystalline axis, wherein at least one element selected from the group consisting of Bi, Cu and O is partially deficient, and wherein, when each of x, y and z is a ratio of the deficiency in Bi, Cu and O, respectively, the x, y and z satisfy the following relations: 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦1 and x+y+z>0. | 36,065 |
9,621,058 | 1. A transistor device configured as a synchronous rectifier, the transistor device comprising: a gate terminal; a source terminal; a drain terminal; and a field-plate electrode including an integrated diode, wherein the integrated diode is configured to discharge a parasitic capacitance of the transistor device during each switching operation of the synchronous rectifier. | 14,633 |
9,006,266 | 1. A compound of the formula (I) A is phenyl which may contain up to five substituents, or A is an optionally benzofused, unsubstituted or substituted 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl which may contain up to four substituents, where the substituents on carbon are each independently selected from Z Z Z Z R L R R R Y is sulphur or oxygen, X is carbon or nitrogen, R R p is 0, 1 or 2, G is 5-membered heteroaryl which is substituted by Q and may otherwise be unsubstituted or substituted, where the substituents on carbon are each independently selected from R Q is saturated or partly or fully unsaturated 5-membered heterocyclyl which is substituted by L R L m is 0, 1 or 2, R R R or R Z R R L or L Z Z or Z or Z or Z or Z or Z or Z or Z or Z or Z R R L and/or a salt, metal complex and N-oxide thereof. | 10,586 |
9,067,876 | 1. An improved exothermic hydroformylation process having at least two reaction stages, comprising the following steps: (a) reacting hydroformylation reactants exothermically in a first reaction stage in a fluid reaction mixture to form a reaction product; (b) transferring a process stream of fluid reaction mixture from a reaction stage to one or more later and separate reaction stages(s) for further exothermic, product-forming reaction and then to product recovery unit operation(s); (c) transferring a heat transfer stream of reaction mixture from a reaction stage to an external heat exchanger where it is cooled and dividing the cooled stream into multiple cooled reaction mixture streams; (d) transferring a cooled reaction mixture stream from step (c) back into the same reaction stage from which it was removed to cool the reaction mixture in that reaction stage; (e) transferring at least one cooled reaction mixture stream(s) from step (c) into and through heat exchange means that cool a different reaction stage, and returning it to the same reaction stage from which removed; and (f) separating and recovering a reaction product from the reaction mixture and optionally recycling at least some reaction mixture components to the reaction mixture in a reaction stage. | 17,319 |
8,616,829 | 1. A flowing water turbine, comprising: a blade shroud having an interior surface and an exterior surface; a shaft coaxial with said blade shroud; and a plurality of blades coupled to said shaft, said plurality of blades extending radially from said shaft so as to engage said interior surface, wherein said plurality of blades are configured and dimensioned in combination with said shroud to provide a lift coefficient greater than about 1.5 when said blade shroud and said plurality of blades are disposed in flowing water. | 40,108 |
9,725,369 | 1. A method for processing unhardened concrete that increases the porosity of the unhardened returned concrete, which decreases its strength by greater than 80 percent when compared to the strength of the original returned concrete, after which it can be easily broken up into a loose particulate material for sale or reuse, the method comprising the steps of: estimating a quantity of returned concrete comprising original coarse aggregate, a mixture of fine aggregate, and partially hydrated cement; adding a chemical admixture or a combination of chemical admixtures to the quantity of returned concrete to increase the porosity of the concrete; mixing the added chemical admixture and returned concrete together to create treated concrete; discharging the treated concrete; and allowing the treated concrete to set into a hardened form with much less strength relative to the strength of the original returned concrete; converting the hardened treated concrete into a particulate or aggregate form loose material that substantially comprises the original coarse aggregate and a mixture of fine aggregate, partially hydrated cement, and chemical admixture or chemical admixtures residue; wherein the hardened form treated concrete has a strength that is decreased by greater than 80 percent when compared to the strength of the original returned concrete. | 49,063 |
9,663,330 | 1. A raising device configured to be connected to a tower segment of a wind turbine, the raising device comprising: a connection member, the connection member configured to be engaged by a raising machine for raising the raising device; and a plurality of holding members positioned at predefined distances from each other and orientated to be movable in radial locking directions, the radial locking directions are such that the plurality of holding members, when moved into a locking position at a predefined engagement position of the tower segment, engage with a counter-shape of the tower segment, whereby the plurality of holding members are automatically moveable into the locking position by a movement mechanism; wherein the plurality of holding members are mechanically interconnected via the movement mechanism with the connection member via a number of hinges such that upon pulling the connection member upwards, the plurality of holding members automatically move into the locking position unless blocked. | 7,010 |
9,050,148 | 1. In the combination of a bone attachment structure having a receiver with a rod-receiving channel and a tool having a side-opening channel extending upwardly from a bottom of the tool, and the tool having a receiver-attachment structure at a lower end thereof that is operably mateable with the receiver; the improvement comprising: a) the receiver having a top, a bottom, and a circumferentially extending exterior tool-engagement structure adjacent to the top and including an undercut first surface projecting downwardly toward the bottom; b) the tool receiver-attachment structure having an inner projection with an upwardly extending second surface for mechanical overlapping and interlocking mating with the first surface; and c) the first and second surfaces being sized, shaped and positioned to provide for anti-splay arrangement of the tool with respect to the receiver when the second surface is aligned with the undercut first surface of the receiver and thereafter, the tool is removed from the receiver by disengagement of the tool receiver-attachment structure from the receiver tool-engagement structure. | 9,683 |
8,379,005 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is provided between an active matrix substrate and a color filter substrate that has a common electrode, wherein a common electrode voltage that varies in a rectangular pattern with a particular period is applied to said common electrode; a plurality of transfer electrodes, one of the transfer electrodes being provided in each of corners of a display area and outside of the display area, and the transfer electrodes being electrically connected to each other via a common wire surrounding the display area; a light sensing component positioned on the active matrix substrate side and opposite to the common electrode on the color filter substrate side of the light sensing component, the light sensing component including an illuminating means that is controlled according to the output of said light sensing component, wherein said light sensing component is deployed at the periphery of the display area of said active matrix substrate in one of the corners of the display area and adjacent to a respective transfer electrode, and the voltage that is applied to the common electrode is used for activation of the light sensing component; wherein a gate electrode voltage that is always lower than the common electrode voltage by an amount corresponding to a reverse bias voltage, and that is varied in a rectangular pattern having the same amplitude as the common electrode voltage, is applied to the gate electrode of said thin film transistor, and wherein during a low level common electrode voltage application period, the switch element is switched on, and wherein after the switch is switched on the first terminal of the capacitor is connected to the standard voltage source via the switch element to charge the capacitor, and wherein the external light can be sensed by detecting an output of the capacitor's voltage at a predetermined period of time after said switch element is subsequently switched off. | 38,481 |
8,987,380 | 1. A formulation comprising: a component A which has two dienophilic double bonds, at least one of which bonds is a carbon-sulphur double bond; and a component B which has two diene functionalities, wherein: component A, B, or both, is a polymer, and the formulation is reversibly switchable at room temperature by means of a Diels-Alder reaction or a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. | 44,657 |
9,056,536 | 1. An electrical connector plug configured for use with tractor-trailers comprising: an elongated housing having a hollow interior; a female electrical connector coupled to a first end of the housing; an electrical cable coupled to a second end of the housing; a ridge member formed on a top surface of the housing; a collar movable along a length of the housing; a locking mechanism to secure the collar at different lengths on the housing; and a handle hingly coupled to the collar to disengage the electrical connector plug from an electrical connector. | 17,639 |
9,063,738 | 1. A method implemented by one or more computer processing devices, the method comprising: determining cost differences for electricity to perform a computing job at an individual data center having state information usable to perform the computing job and multiple remotely-located data centers, wherein the multiple remotely-located data centers are at different geographic locations than the individual data center and include at least: a first remotely-located data center that does not have the state information, and a second remotely-located data center that also does not have the state information; determining multiple costs for bandwidth to communicate the state information from the individual data center to the multiple remotely-located data centers, wherein a first cost for bandwidth to communicate the state information to the first remotely-located data center of the multiple data centers is different than a second cost for bandwidth to communicate the state information to the second remotely-located data center; determining further costs for bandwidth to communicate results of the computing job from the individual data center and the multiple remotely-located data centers to an entity that requested the computing job; identifying, from the individual data center and the multiple remotely-located data centers, a selected data center to perform the computing job, wherein the selected data center is identified based on the cost differences for electricity, the multiple costs for bandwidth, and further costs for bandwidth; and placing the computing job at the selected data center, wherein the determining the cost differences comprises calculating: an individual expected electricity cost of performing the computing job using individual computational resources of the individual data center, and multiple other expected electricity costs of performing the computing job using other computational resources of the multiple remotely-located data centers. | 14,747 |
9,502,961 | 1. A control circuit for controlling a switching power factor corrector that includes input terminals configured to receive a rectified input voltage, output terminals configured to provide a regulated output voltage, a switched network including an inductor and a power switch coupled to said input terminals and to said output terminals, and a sensing circuit configured to generate a current sense signal representing a current through the inductor during on-time intervals of the power switch, said control circuit comprising: a charge current generator circuit configured to generate a charge current as a replica of a current sense signal amplified with a gain corresponding to a square of a peak value of a rectified input voltage, a loop capacitor configured to be charged with said charge current during the on-time intervals and to be discharged with a discharge current during off-time intervals of the power switch, a discharge current generator circuit configured to be coupled to said loop capacitor during the off-time intervals and generate said discharge current proportional to a product of a comparison voltage and a difference between the regulated output voltage and the rectified input voltage, and a PWM modulator configured to sense a charge voltage of said loop capacitor, turn on said power switch for an on-time duration in response to detecting that said charge voltage nullifies, and turn off said power switch when said on-time duration has elapsed. | 9,338 |
9,133,809 | 1. An arrangement connectable to an internal combustion engine with a crankshaft, the arrangement comprising: a flywheel connectable to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine; a flywheel housing; a starter generator arranged in said flywheel housing; a friction clutch connected to said flywheel, wherein said friction clutch connects said flywheel to a transmission; an intermediate piece connected between an output side of said flywheel and said friction clutch, a torque transmitting fastening of said intermediate piece to said flywheel is arranged radially outside of a torque transmitting fastening of said intermediate piece to an inner friction clutch housing of said friction clutch, with respect to an axis of rotation of said flywheel; and an abutment surface on said intermediate piece forming an abutment for a friction lining of said friction clutch, wherein a spacing of said torque transmitting fastening of said intermediate piece to said flywheel from said axis of rotation corresponds to 0.3 to 0.7 times a spacing of said torque transmitting fastening of said intermediate pieces to said inner friction clutch housing of said friction clutch. | 32,747 |
8,905,941 | 1. A guidance method for giving guidance through evaluation results for acquired information, comprising: acquiring finger image information using a camera device; outputting an evaluation result of the finger image information, which is acquired, or acquired information that is acquired from the finger image information before application of a first evaluation mode that is set and that evaluates the finger image information or the acquired information with a first stepwise criterion, by applying a second evaluation mode that is set and that evaluates the finger image information or the acquired information with a second criterion that is different from the first criterion; transitioning to the first evaluation mode after the application of the second evaluation mode, and outputting an evaluation result of the finger image information or the acquired information by applying the first evaluation mode; and emitting guiding sound, depending on the evaluation result by applying the first evaluation mode or the second evaluation mode, and prompting correction to acquisition of acquired information by means of the guiding sound. | 23,142 |
8,829,725 | 1. A wireless power feeder that wirelessly feeds power from a power feeding coil to a power receiving coil using a magnetic field resonance phenomenon between the power feeding coil and the power receiving coil, the feeder comprising: the power feeding coil; a power transmission control circuit that feeds AC power to the power feeding coil at a drive frequency so as to make the power feeding coil feed the AC power to the power receiving coil; a phase detection circuit that detects a phase difference between voltage and current phases of the AC power; a signal receiving coil that receives, from the AC power receiving side, an output signal having a duty ratio indicating an output level; and a signal adjustment circuit that DC-converts the output signal in accordance with the duty ratio, the power transmission control circuit adjusting the drive frequency so as to reduce the phase difference, the phase detection circuit performing ex-post adjustment of the detected value of one or both of the voltage and current phases in accordance with a signal level of the DC-converted output signal. | 21,684 |
9,133,602 | 1. An information management system for a hydraulic excavator, comprising: a track structure; a swing structure provided over the track structure; a hydraulic system including a swing hydraulic motor which pivotally drives the swing structure, a directional control valve which controls the direction of hydraulic fluid supplied to the swing hydraulic motor and a flow rate thereof, and a swing lever device which generates swing pilot pressure for giving instructions for a swing operation of the swing structure and outputs the swing pilot pressure to a corresponding pilot pressure input unit of the direction control valve; and a control system which controls the hydraulic system, wherein the control system includes a plurality of sensors which respectively output various status signals of the hydraulic system, a plurality of solenoid valves which respectively output various operation control pressures for controlling the hydraulic system, and a controller which inputs the status signals therein and outputs drive signals for driving the solenoid valves, wherein said information management system further comprises a monitor device which transfers information to and from the controller and displays various items of information thereon, the monitor device having an input device that receives an input, wherein the controller has a failure diagnosis mode selectable by the input device of the monitor device, wherein said plurality of solenoid valves includes a swing pilot pressure reducing solenoid valve which is disposed between the swing lever device and the pilot pressure input unit of the directional control valve and reduces the swing pilot pressure outputted from the swing lever device, and said plurality of sensors includes a first pressure sensor which detects the swing pilot pressure outputted from the swing lever device and outputs the swing pilot pressure as an electric signal, and wherein when the failure diagnosis mode is selected by the input device and instructions for failure diagnosis related to the swing pilot pressure reducing solenoid valve are given, the controller selectively outputs, as a failure diagnosis drive signal, a signal for maintaining the swing pilot pressure without any reduction, and a signal for shutting off the swing pilot pressure, to the swing pilot pressure reducing solenoid valve and displays a guidance for failure diagnosis on the monitor device, and the controller inputs an output value from the first pressure sensor when the swing lever device is operated in accordance with the guidance and displays, based on the output value from the first pressure sensor, information as to whether the swing pilot pressure reducing solenoid valve and the first pressure sensor are normal, on the monitor device. | 15,849 |
9,154,199 | 1. A wireless device comprising: baseband processing circuitry; up-conversion circuitry; and a Radio Frequency (RF) front-end, wherein, in an RF beamforming transmit mode: wherein, in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmit mode: | 8,534 |
9,298,146 | 1. A fixing device comprising: a rotatable fixing member formed as an endless belt; a heat source to heat the fixing member; a nip-forming member being not rotatable and arranged inside the fixing member; and a pressure member arranged outside the fixing member so as to face the nip-forming member, the pressure member forming a nip between the pressure member and the fixing member, wherein the fixing device causes a recording medium bearing an unfixed image to pass through the nip to fix the unfixed image to the recording medium, the nip-forming member is formed of a first heat transmission unit and a sheet, the first heat transmission unit includes an abutting part abutting the fixing member with the sheet therebetween, and a bent part or bent parts extending inside the fixing member at upstream or upstream and downstream of the nip in a transport direction of the recording medium, and a retaining part to catch and retain the sheet is provided at a tip of at least the bent part at upstream of the nip in the transport direction of the recording medium. | 17,310 |
9,355,551 | 1. A smart key adapted to pair with a vehicle, the smart key comprising: a transmitter adapted to send a locating beacon signal; a receiver adapted to receive pairing information from the vehicle; and an electronic control unit in communication with the transmitter and the receiver, the electronic control unit programmed to determine when the smart key is paired to the vehicle with the pairing information received by the receiver, the electronic control unit further programmed to execute transmission of the locating beacon signal by the transmitter when the smart key is not paired to the vehicle. | 16,130 |
9,286,787 | 1. A method of routing communication traffic in a wireless sensor system, comprising: measuring a signal strength of wireless signals received by a first wireless repeater unit from one or more wireless sensor units, one or more wireless base units, and one or more other wireless repeater units; wirelessly communicating, from the first wireless repeater unit, a first message indicative of the signal strengths measured by the first wireless repeater unit; updating, at a second wireless repeater unit and based on the first message, a first list comprising wireless sensor units with which the second wireless repeater unit can communicate; measuring a signal strength of wireless signals received by the second wireless repeater unit from one or more wireless sensor units, one or more wireless base units, and one or more other wireless repeater units; wirelessly communicating, from the second wireless repeater unit, a second message indicative of the signal strengths measured by the second wireless repeater unit; updating, at the first wireless repeater unit and based on the second message, a second list comprising wireless sensor units with which the first wireless repeater unit can communicate; relaying, by the first wireless repeater unit, in accordance with the second list, a first sensor measurement made by a first wireless sensor unit of the one or more wireless sensor units, by transmitting a third message that comprises the first sensor measurement in encrypted form, an address portion, an integrity portion comprising a checksum, and an authentication portion for use in verifying authenticity of the third message, wherein relaying the first sensor measurement comprises: ignoring, by the second wireless repeater unit, in accordance with the first list, the first sensor measurement made by the first wireless sensor unit; relaying, by the second wireless repeater unit, in accordance with the first list, a second sensor measurement made by a second wireless sensor unit of the one or more wireless sensor units, by transmitting a fourth message that comprises the second sensor measurement in encrypted form, an address portion, an integrity portion comprising a checksum, and an authentication portion for use in verifying authenticity of the fourth message, wherein relaying the second sensor measurement comprises: ignoring, by the first wireless repeater unit, in accordance with the second list, the second sensor measurement made by the second wireless sensor unit. | 32,484 |
8,633,118 | 1. A method of processing a substrate, comprising: forming an oxide layer containing a metal or a semi-metal on the substrate, where the semi-metal excludes silicon; forming a diffusion layer on the oxide layer; forming an oxygen scavenging layer on the diffusion layer; performing an anneal that reduces the oxide layer to a corresponding metal or semi-metal layer by oxygen diffusion from the oxide layer to the oxygen scavenging layer; and thereafter, removing the diffusion layer and the oxygen scavenging layer from the substrate. | 47,836 |
9,512,022 | 1. A system for treating sanitary wastewater, comprising: a three-output axial-flow type separator includes a first outlet port discharging a lighter-than-water solids stream, a second outlet port discharging a heavier-than-water solids stream, and a third outlet port discharging a partially clarified water stream; a mechanical sludge-dewatering device; and the lighter-than-water solids stream and the heavier-than-water solids stream, in combination, feed the mechanical sludge-dewatering device without any intermediary biological-process systems and without sedimentation devices. | 9,125 |
9,133,828 | 1. A method for determining a mass change at a rotating blade of a wind turbine, the method comprising: measuring a vibration quantity representative of a vibration of the wind turbine; measuring an azimuthal quantity representative of a rotation angle of the blade; determining the mass change at the blade based on the frequency quantity, wherein the determining the mass change comprises comparing the frequency quantity with a predetermined reference frequency, and wherein the determining the frequency quantity comprises multiplying a trigonometric function of a term related to the azimuthal quantity with the vibration quantity. | 4,937 |
9,334,438 | 1. A method of preparing a well treatment fluid, the method comprising: a. mixing a rheological polymer, a partitioning agent and a first aqueous medium comprising water to form a heterogeneous mixture comprising: wherein the heterogeneous mixture is a liquid-liquid mixture, and b. diluting the heterogeneous mixture with a second aqueous medium miscible with the first aqueous medium to mutually dissolve the polymer-rich phase and the partitioning-agent rich phase and form the well treatment fluid comprising a continuous mixed polymer-agent phase. | 17,587 |
9,705,313 | 1. A three-level inverter, comprising: a first series circuit of a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch configured to control conduction/interruption of forward current when an on-signal or an off-signal is applied to a control terminal thereof, and which attain a conduction state for a reverse current, the first and second semiconductor switches of the first series circuit being connected together at a first series connection point, and connected in parallel to a direct current power source; a second series circuit of a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected together at a second series connection point, and connected in parallel to the first series circuit, the second series circuit being connected in parallel to the direct current power source; a bidirectional switch configured to control conduction/interruption of both forward and reverse currents, a first end thereof being connected to the first series connection point, a second end thereof being connected to the second series connection point, the bidirectional switch further including: a third semiconductor switch and a fourth semiconductor switch configured to control conduction/interruption of forward current when an on-signal or an off signal is applied to a control terminal thereof, and which attain one of a conduction state always for a reverse current, an interruption state always for the reverse current, and a non-conduction state having no breakdown voltage; a first diode connected in series with the third semiconductor switch; and a second diode connected in series with the fourth semiconductor switch, the bidirectional switch including a series circuit of the third semiconductor switch and the first diode, and a series circuit of the fourth semiconductor switch and second diode, connected together in parallel in opposite directions, wherein the three-level inverter outputs three voltage levels by operating the first to fourth semiconductor switches, and the peak value of an alternating current output voltage is a value of 80% or more of the voltage of the first capacitor or second capacitor, wherein the third semiconductor switch and the fourth semiconductor switch are IGBTs or MOSFETs made of silicon, and the first diode and the second diode have a reverse recovery time equal to or shorter than a switching time of the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch. | 1,777 |
9,163,528 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a power plant system, the power plant system comprising at least a gasifier, a boiler, an induced draft fan, and a baghouse; the gasifier configured to receive input feed including biomass as fuel to produce exhaust gas; the boiler having a flame for igniting the exhaust gas received from the gasifier and for providing power, and a measurement device associated therewith configured to measure a temperature of the flame of the boiler and to determine loss of flame based on the temperature; the baghouse configured to receive exhaust gas from at least the boiler to remove particulates therefrom; and the induced draft fan configured to control the production rate of energy and to run at a predetermined speed to draw filtered exhaust gas from the baghouse for output via an exhaust system; and a controller in communication with the power plant system configured to implement the method after detecting loss of flame in the boiler using the measurement device, the method comprising: implementing a first stage sequence in response to the detecting the loss of flame in the boiler comprising: automatically bypassing the baghouse; automatically decreasing the speed of the induced draft fan; and determining if the flame of the boiler is reestablished. | 27,703 |
9,400,192 | 1. A universal meter interface unit (MIU) configured for transmitting utility data, said meter interface unit comprising: a MIU housing suitably configured for housing MIU components; a controller associated with a memory and disposed inside said MIU housing wherein said controller is one of (a) electrically associated with a transceiver and (b) configured with an on chip transceiver wherein said transceiver is electrically associated with an antenna that is one of (a) disposed at least partially inside said MIU housing and (b) external to said MIU housing; a register interface configured for being electrically associated with an external data source via at least one of (a) a wired interface and (b) a wireless interface and wherein said register interface is further electrically associated with said controller and wherein said controller is configured to use said register interface to retrieve device-data from said external data source according to a predefined schedule; a power pack that is one of (a) disposed inside said MIU housing and (b) disposed within a power pack housing configured for being removably mechanically associated with said MIU housing wherein said power pack is suitably configured for supplying power to said MIU components including at least two of said controller, said transceiver and said register interface; wherein said controller is configured to execute any one of a plurality of MIU modes without hardwire modifications and according to a MIU mode schedule wherein at least one MIU mode is configured for drive-by interrogations and at least one MIU mode is configured for fixed network interrogations; wherein said MIU mode schedule comprises the MIU mode that is to become active; wherein said controller is configured to generate MIU-data stored in event logs comprising information about the status of the MIU; and wherein said controller is further configured to program said transceiver to transmit a MIU-data-signal comprising at least one of (a) MIU-data and (b) at least part of said device-data. | 9,447 |
9,391,877 | 1. A network switching device, comprising: a memory for storing instructions; a processor capable of reading and executing the instructions; and a first port coupling the network switching device to a first aggregation device; and a second port coupling the network switching device to a second aggregation device that is a peer of the first aggregation device; wherein the processor is configured to: | 44,530 |
8,897,662 | 1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image, the image forming apparatus comprising: an engine configured to perform an operation involving image formation; an engine control unit configured to control the engine; a first storage unit configured to be accessible by the engine control unit and store therein first engine information that represents a configuration of the engine; an apparatus control unit configured to control the whole of the image forming apparatus; a second storage unit configured to be accessible by the apparatus control unit and store therein second engine information that represents a configuration of the engine; a state management unit configured to set the image forming apparatus to a power-saving mode in which the apparatus control unit and the second storage unit are supplied with power while the engine, the engine control unit, and the first storage unit are not supplied with power when a main power supply that supplies the power is turned on, and a receiving unit that receives an instruction for turning off the main power supply, wherein when the image forming apparatus is set to the power-saving mode, the apparatus control unit reads out the second engine information stored in the second storage unit and runs an application involving image formation on the basis of the second engine information to perform a start-up process on the apparatus control unit, and when the receiving unit receives the instruction for turning off the main power supply, the apparatus control unit writes the first engine information stored in the first storage unit to the second storage unit as the second engine information. | 41,830 |
8,587,166 | 1. A spindle motor, the spindle motor comprising: a base plate; a PCB Printed Circuit Board arranged on an upper surface of the base plate; a bearing assembly coupled to the base plate; a stator coupled to a periphery of the bearing assembly; and a rotor rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly, wherein the base plate is formed with a foreign object inflow prevention fence to inhibit inflow of foreign objects into the stator and the base plate. | 41,483 |
9,569,804 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: collecting energy interval data associated with a building at a time interval, the energy interval data indicative of an energy use associated with the building; collecting local historical weather data associated with the building; creating a statistical model for predicting energy use as a function of weather and operational inputs, the statistical model created based on the energy interval data and upon the local historical weather data; analyzing paired energy interval data and local historical weather data according to one or more analytic algorithms, using the statistical model, the analyzing including decomposing the energy use into multiple categories, and analyzing each of the categories, wherein the analyzing includes: providing, for display at a computer associated with a user, one or more options to reduce energy bills of the building based on the analysis, the providing including providing the one or more options to reduce the energy bills by reducing the energy use in different categories, wherein the one or more options includes a target value that is indicative of a value to which energy demand in the forecasted period is to be curtailed and a particular period in the forecasted period when the energy demand is to be curtailed, the target value determined as a function of the peak-to-date energy use value, the first set of predicted demand values and the second set of predicted demand values. | 2,244 |
8,640,402 | 1. A building connector arrangement for securing at least one solar panel to a building, comprising: a cleat including an elongated wall adapted to be secured to the building, two spaced apart L-shaped walls extending outwardly from said elongated wall, said two L-shaped walls opening in opposite facing directions from each other that face each other, each of said L-shaped walls including a first leg that extends in a parallel, spaced and superposed relation from said elongated wall so as to create a space between said first leg and said elongated wall, and said elongated wall including a tail part that extends to one side of one of said L-shaped walls and having an opening therein for insertion of a securing element to secure the tail part to a building structure; and a U-shaped solar panel connector including: a first U-shaped gripping wall engaged with one of said L-shaped walls and with a rear surface of a respective said solar panel, said first U-shaped gripping wall including a second leg in gripping contact with the rear surface of the solar panel, a third leg positioned between said first leg and said elongated wall, and a connecting section which connects together the second and third legs, an opposite second gripping wall engaged with a front surface of the solar panel, and a connecting wall that connects together the first and second gripping walls. | 29,128 |
9,264,418 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying, by a computing system, that an email client of a user device is attempting to send an electronic message from the computing system to a recipient; calculating, by the computing system, a score for the identified electronic message based on a spam detection algorithm and an indication from the user device about the identified electronic message prior to sending the identified electronic message, the score representing a first probability that the identified electronic message contains spam content; calculating, by the computing system, a history score for a plurality of electronic messages that the email client of the user device is attempting to send within a time window associated with the identified electronic message, the plurality of electronic messages associated with the identified electronic message, the history score representing a second probability that the plurality of electronic messages also contain the spam content; determining, by the computing system, whether the email client of the user device has been compromised by a third party based on the score and the history score; and in response to determining that the email client of the user device has been compromised by the third party: | 28,842 |
9,790,700 | 1. An underwater station, comprising: a filter manipulator that is arranged to input a filter into a pool cleaning robot that is located in a filter replacement position and to assist in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of the housing thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path; wherein the filter manipulator comprises a filter storage module that is arranged to store multiple filters and a movement mechanism; wherein the movement mechanism comprises (a) a rotation unit that is arranged to rotate the filter storage module thereby positioning the filter in front of a filter opening formed in the pool cleaning robot, and (b) an insertion and ejection module that is arranged to cause the filter to pass through the filter opening; and the movement mechanism is arranged to input the filter in the pool cleaning robot by moving the filter without moving the storage module. | 15,778 |
9,810,198 | 1. A composite beam for a wind turbine blade comprising: a plurality of stacked preform layers, each of the plurality of stacked preform layers including multiple elongate strength rods arranged longitudinally relative to one another in a single layer, each strength rod being disposed adjacent to and spaced from at least one adjacent strength rod; each of the plurality of stacked preform layers also including a carrier layer to which the multiple elongate strength rods are joined to form the preform layer; wherein the carrier layer spaces adjacent strength rods a fixed distance apart to facilitate the flow of liquid bonding resin between adjacent strength rods of the preform layer to its joined carrier layer, the carrier layer being of a permeable material suitable to facilitate the flow of liquid bonding resin through the carrier layer; and further comprising one or more layers of at least one of a fibrous woven material or a fibrous non-woven material stacked with the plurality of stacked preform layers. | 38,254 |
9,450,144 | 1. A plant cultivation lighting device, comprising: a lighting system including a plurality of quantum dots of different sizes, each of the quantum dots being configured to produce light of a specific wavelength based on the size of the respective quantum dot, wherein the light produced by the quantum dots is absorbable by photomorphogenetic receptors of plants and thereby results in the lighting device producing an aggregate emission spectrum that causes a photomorphogenetic effect in the plants, and wherein the size distribution of said plurality of quantum dots produces the aggregate emission spectrum that is the same as the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) spectrum, except that the emission spectrum omits or provides a very low intensity in the green yellow (500-600) nm band and comprises a high intensity spectral feature in the far red 700-800 nm band. | 24,027 |
9,559,384 | 1. A nonaqueous secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; an electrolyte solution; and an exterior body surrounding the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the electrolyte solution, wherein the exterior body comprises: | 41,191 |
9,117,152 | 1. A mobile device comprising: a SmartMX smartcard controller; an antenna; and performance enhancement circuits coupled between the SmartMX smartcard controller and the antenna, wherein the performance enhancement circuits include an amplifier and a load modulation circuit, and wherein the amplifier is coupled to amplify a signal received from the antenna and to provide an amplified signal to the SmartMX smartcard controller. | 16,080 |
8,611,836 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring a supply voltage presented to an amplifier having a gain level and being adapted to selectively operate in one of either a saturated mode or a linear mode; setting the gain level of the amplifier to a first gain level; setting the gain level of the amplifier to a second gain level, which is less than the first gain level, when the monitored supply voltage is less than a first threshold voltage; and setting the gain level of the amplifier to the first gain level when the monitored supply voltage exceeds a second threshold voltage the second threshold voltage being greater than the first threshold voltage. | 35,564 |
9,449,634 | 1. A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, comprising: forming the lubricant layer, wherein the forming the lubricant layer includes wherein the first lubricant has a molecular mass lower than a molecular mass of the second lubricant so that the first lubricant layer has a molecular mass lower than a molecular mass of the second lubricant layer, and wherein the first lubricant has a chemical polarity higher than a chemical polarity of the second lubricant so that the first lubricant layer has a chemical polarity higher than a chemical polarity of the second lubricant layer. | 4,282 |
9,560,191 | 1. A method in a network node for determining a charging of a battery of a user device, the method comprising: monitoring network traffic of the user device, wherein the network traffic comprises network traffic of an application and/or a service of the user device; identifying a network traffic pattern of the monitored network traffic; detecting a battery-charging event based on the identified network traffic pattern; and determining the charging of the battery of the user device, based on the detected battery-charging event; wherein identifying the network traffic pattern comprises using deep packet inspection, DPI, to identify messages triggered by the battery-charging event. | 19,220 |
9,662,443 | 1. An alert device being attachable to a dripping pipe of an intravenous drip, the dripping pipe being able to contain an injection solution, said alert device comprising: at least two induction ends capable of penetrating an outer surface of the dripping pipe and contactable with the injection solution; an elastic clip having two clipping tips; and a control unit coupled with the induction ends, said control unit further comprising: wherein each of the two induction ends is furnished on an end of one of the two clipping tips of the elastic clip; wherein each of the two induction ends is in the form of a sharp-pointed probe capable of penetrating the outer surface of the dripping pipe in such a manner that, each said induction end has a detecting end penetrating into the dripping pipe for contacting the injection solution, while each said induction end further has a conductive end located outside the dripping pipe for coupling to the control unit; wherein the elastic clip can clip on the dripping pipe, providing a clamping force on the two clipping tips and having its two clipping tips clamping on the outer surface of the dripping pipe in such a manner that, the detecting ends of the two induction ends will penetrate through the outer surface of the dripping pipe so as to make contact with the injection solution contained within the dripping pipe; wherein, the two induction ends become a close-loop when the two induction ends are in contact with the injection solution contained within the dripping pipe and when the power module supplies electricity to the induction ends; in addition, the two induction ends become an open-loop when the two induction ends are not in contact with the injection solution, and then the circuit module will detect such open-loop status and make the alarm module to generate an alarm signal. | 23,834 |
9,757,911 | 1. A method of forming a multi-piece insert for an ophthalmic lens, the method comprising: forming at least a first insert back curve piece; forming at least a first insert front curve piece; wherein one of the first insert front curve piece and the first insert back curve piece is larger than the other and has a peripheral edge that extends beyond the peripheral edge of the other, and wherein the larger of the first insert front curve piece and the first insert back curve piece has a groove formed in its surface and the other has a corresponding sealing feature formed in its peripheral edge to register with the groove; depositing a conductive material onto one or both of the first insert front curve piece and the first insert back curve piece; attaching an electronic component to one or both of the first insert front curve piece and the first insert back curve pieces, wherein the attachment is made to the conductive material; placing a first material within the groove and/or upon the sealing feature to form a first seal upon registry of the sealing feature within the groove; combining the first insert back curve piece with the first insert front curve piece to form a first ophthalmic insert piece, wherein the combining causes the first material to engage the sealing feature to seal a first cavity interior to the combination of the first back curve piece and the first front curve piece and creates a gap between the peripheral edge of the first insert front curve piece and the peripheral edge of the first insert back curve piece; and placing an adhesive material into the gap to lock the sealing feature into engagement with the first material in the groove, wherein the adhesive material is different than the first material. | 48,317 |
9,131,087 | 1. A system for providing print services over a network, said system comprising: a plurality of terminal apparatuses, wherein each client terminal apparatus amongst the plurality of terminal apparatuses has a print manager service client agent operating thereon, and the print manager service client agent maintains printer icon information on the client terminal apparatus; and a print manager service providing apparatus that is configured to communicate through the network with the print manager service client agent operating on the client terminal apparatus and upon communication with the print manager service client agent operating on the client terminal apparatus, provides automatically without any action by a user, a list of candidate printers to the print manager service client agent, wherein the print manager service client agent on the client terminal apparatus operates in an automated manner to compare, without any action by the user, the list of candidate printers to the printer icon information maintained on the client terminal apparatus, and in a case that one or more referenced printers in the list of candidate printers is not encompassed in the printer icon information, the print manager service client agent operating in the automated manner, without any action by the user, downloads from the print manager service providing apparatus, with respect to each specific printer amongst the referenced printers not encompassed in the printer icon information, printer information, including default printer settings, for the specific printer and installs the specific printer in the printer icon information maintained on the client terminal apparatus, without administrative login on the terminal apparatus. | 25,337 |
8,537,591 | 1. A method of operating a semiconductor device, the method comprising: writing first data by applying at least one reset pulse voltage to switch a variable resistance device from a first resistance to a second resistance, the second resistance greater than the first resistance; and writing second data by applying at least one set pulse voltage to switch the variable resistance device from the second resistance to the first resistance, a magnitude of the at least one set pulse voltage less than a magnitude of the at least one reset pulse voltage, wherein the writing of the first data further includes applying at least one second reset pulse voltage after the applying of the at least one reset pulse voltage to switch the variable resistance device from the second resistance to a third resistance, and the third resistance is greater than the second resistance. | 7,944 |
8,465,097 | 1. A medical support system, comprising: a mounting support; a head rest having a mounting plate, said mounting plate being rigidly attached to the mounting support; a support arm adjacent said head rest and attached to said mounting support, said support arm including support surfaces; wherein said mounting support comprises a housing; wherein said support arm comprises an elongated rod and a ball, wherein the rod is rigidly attached to the ball, wherein said rod and ball form a ball-joint mechanism, and wherein the support surface is attached to the rod; wherein the ball is retained inside the housing; wherein said support arm is selectively pivotal and rotatable; and wherein said support arm can selectively be locked in position. | 24,757 |
8,570,347 | 1. A method for image editing of an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a display screen, the method comprising: constructing a virtual wallpaper interface on the display screen, the virtual wallpaper interface comprising an image display area and a preview window; importing an image from the image display area to the preview window, and proportionally resizing the image for displaying in the preview window while preserving an original display ratio of the image; detecting whether the display ratio of the resized image is greater than an aspect ratio of the preview window; cropping portions of the resized image beyond sides of a display area of the preview window to generate an edited image that fits the aspect ratio of the preview window, upon a condition that the display ratio of the resized image is greater than the aspect ratio of the preview window; or merging at least one image selected from the image display area with the resized image and cropping portions of the merged image beyond the sides of the display area of the preview window to generate an edited image that fits the aspect ratio of the preview window, upon a condition that the display ratio of the resized image is not greater than the aspect ratio of the preview window; and proportionally enlarging the edited image to cover the entire display screen while preserving an original display ratio of the edited image to generate a desired image. | 6,585 |
9,377,808 | 1. A modular computer enclosure, comprising: a housing configured to house components within the housing; a door rotatably coupled to the housing; a modular bracket system affixed to the housing, the modular bracket system comprising an inner bracket configured to receive a plate; and the plate comprising one or more securement appendages to receive one or more computing components. | 4,180 |
9,788,186 | 1. An enhanced node B (eNB) comprising hardware processing circuitry configured to: transmit signaling to indicate a device-to-device (D2D) discovery zone configuration to proximity service (ProSe) enabled user equipment (UE), the signaling to indicate time and frequency resources and a periodicity of a discovery zone and to indicate operational parameters for the discovery zone, wherein the resources of the D2D discovery zone are allocated for D2D discovery signal transmission by the ProSe-enabled UEs; receive discovery zone loading metrics, the discovery zone loading metrics based on monitoring of discovery signals within the discovery zone by one or more ProSe-enabled UEs; and make changes to a resource allocation configuration for D2D activities based on the discovery zone loading metrics, wherein the signaling for the D2D discovery zone configuration indicates one or more occurrences of the discovery zone, wherein the signaling is sent by the eNB either using dedicated radio-resource control (RRC) signaling or sent using common radio-resource control (RRC) signaling via system information blocks (SIBs), wherein the eNB is configured to receive D2D discovery zone configuration information of one or more neighbor eNBs, and wherein the eNB is configured to signal the D2D discovery zone configuration information of the one or more neighbor eNBs to the ProSe enabled UEs via SIB signaling. | 28,953 |
8,783,019 | 1. An engine exhaust treatment system fluidly coupled to an internal combustion engine, comprising: an oxidation catalyst disposed in an engine exhaust stream; a reductant source for injecting a reductant into the exhaust stream downstream of the oxidation catalyst; an SCR catalyst disposed in the exhaust stream downstream of the reductant source; and a gas sensor, disposed in the exhaust stream downstream of the oxidation catalyst and upstream of the reductant source, comprising a plurality of sensing or pumping cells, wherein a first cell is capable of producing a first output that is indicative of a concentration of NO | 2,790 |
8,671,260 | 1. A memory system comprising: a memory that includes a plurality of parallel operation elements, each of which stores write data from a host device and on each of which read/write is individually performed; a control unit that performs the read/write to the parallel operation elements simultaneously; and a required-performance measuring unit that measures a required performance from the host device by measuring the amount of write data received from the host device or the amount of read data transmitted to the host device for a predetermined period of time continuously, wherein the control unit: changes number of simultaneous executions of the read/write of the parallel operation elements based on the required performance measured by the required-performance measuring unit with receiving neither a control signal nor a command for changing the number; maintains the number after changing until the required-performance measuring unit measures the required performance again; controls the memory in a first mode when the amount of the write data exceeds a predetermined threshold, the first mode being a mode in which the number is set to a maximum value; and controls the memory in a second mode when the amount of the write data does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the second mode being a mode in which the number is set to less than the maximum value. | 10,636 |
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