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9,661,234 | 1. An image processing system, comprising: a pixel array segmented into a plurality of non-overlapping regions, wherein during an enable phase for determining a background illumination level, each non-overlapping region generates respective background determination signals; a plurality of automatic gain control (AGC) units, each AGC unit generating a respective gain control signal for a corresponding one of the non-overlapping regions according to the respective background determination signals of the corresponding non-overlapping region; and a processor for generating a same shutter signal having a same pulse width in a shutter phase to control exposure durations of both or all the non-overlapping regions according to the gain control signal of one AGC unit, or for generating respective shutter signals having respective pulse widths in the shutter phase to control exposure durations of the non-overlapping regions respectively according to the gain control signals of the AGC units; wherein each non-overlapping region includes a capacitor which is pulled to a voltage level before the enable phase and discharges until a predetermined level drop during the enable phase, and wherein the background determination signals include voltage signals generated by the capacitor which indicate the voltage level and the timing reaching the predetermined level drop. | 46,591 |
9,660,451 | 1. A method for controlling a system having local loads, different from a utility grid, and local power sources connected to the utility grid through a point of common connection, the method comprising: detecting an islanding condition wherein the local power sources are islanded from the utility grid; evaluating, responsive to detecting the islanding condition, a power available from each of the local power sources; adaptively controlling, while the islanding condition is occurring, a power supplied to each of the local loads based on the power available from the local power sources wherein adaptively controlling the power supplied comprises implementing an algorithm in response to operator determined inputs and externally determined inputs, wherein implementing the algorithm comprises: and operating the local loads and one or more local power sources as an islanded system while the utility grid is disconnected from the point of common connection. | 36,457 |
9,037,431 | 1. An apparatus for computing a coupling noise voltage occurring in a plurality of cells arranged on a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines in a flash memory device, the apparatus comprising: a coupling ratio computing unit that computes K coupling ratios between a cell located at a coordinate [i, j] and K neighboring cells to the cell at [i, j], wherein K is an integer of 1 or more, and the K coupling ratios indicate an extent of a coupling noise voltage occurring in the cell located at a coordinate [i j] due to programming operations of the neighboring cells of the cell at [i, j]; and a coupling noise voltage computing unit that computes a coupling noise voltage value occurring in the cell at [i, j] using the K coupling ratios, wherein the computed coupling noise voltage value is eliminated from a voltage value detected while reading data from the cell at [i, j], wherein the coupling ratio computing unit computes the K coupling ratios such that each of the K coupling ratios has a value such that a difference value between a first coupling noise voltage value and a second coupling noise voltage value is minimized, wherein the coupling ratio computing unit further computes the first coupling noise voltage using a voltage value of a test cell at a coordinate [i, j] among a plurality of test cells in a test flash memory device, wherein the plurality of test cells in the test flash memory device and the plurality of cells in the flash memory device are of a same structure, and computes the second coupling noise voltage value using K first voltage variation values of K neighboring test cells to the test cell at [i, j] and the K coupling ratios before renewing values of the K coupling ratios, and wherein the coupling ratio computing unit and the coupling noise voltage computing unit are embodied on a hardware processor. | 40,268 |
8,623,561 | 1. A fuel cell assembly comprising: a cell stack assembly including a flow field configured to provide a gaseous flow stream having an acid; a condenser heat exchanger arranged downstream from and fluidly connected to the flow field by a fluid flow passage, the condenser heat exchanger including a cooling tube exposed to the gaseous flow stream from the flow field through the fluid flow passage and configured to cool the gaseous flow stream and create a condensed acid on the cooling tube; a water supply system including a water source and in fluid communication with the condenser heat exchanger at a water inlet, the condenser heat exchanger including a collection area near the cooling tube configured to receive the condensed acid and maintain storage of a predetermined amount of fluid, which includes water; wherein the condenser heat exchanger includes a first tube section and a second tube section, the collection area arranged beneath the first tube section, and another area arranged beneath the second tube section downstream from the collection area, the other area receiving an overflow of the fluid from the collection area; and wherein the water supply system is configured to provide water to a first tube section, the fluid, including the condensed acid and water, overflowing the collection area to a region beneath the second tube section. | 42,300 |
9,846,928 | 1. An inspection method comprising: a step of reflecting linearly-polarized light having a predetermined wavelength emitted from a light source using a non-polarizing beam splitter after transmitting the linearly-polarized light through a half-wave plate, irradiating a sample that is an inspection target with the linearly-polarized light having a polarization plane of a predetermined angle, causing the light reflected by the sample to be incident to an image capturing sensor through a lens, the non-polarizing beam splitter, and an analyzer, in this order, and acquiring an optical image of a pattern formed on the sample; a step of acquiring a plurality of optical images by changing an angle of the analyzer or the half-wave plate, and obtaining an angle of the analyzer or the half-wave plate such that a value of (σ/√A), which is obtained from a standard deviation σ of a gray level and an average gray level A in the optical images, becomes a minimum; and a step of inspecting whether a defect of the pattern exists with respect to the optical image that is acquired at the angle of the analyzer or the half-wave plate at which the value of (σ/√A) becomes the minimum, wherein the pattern is a repetitive pattern having a period at a resolution limit or less, the resolution limit being defined by a wavelength of the light source and a numerical aperture of the lens. | 29,429 |
9,828,882 | 1. A thermal power generation system which uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid, the thermal power generation system comprising: a combustor which burns oxygen and fuel with the supercritical carbon dioxide; a supercritical CO a supercritical CO a low pressure CO a supercritical CO a high pressure supercritical CO a high pressure supercritical CO a supercritical CO a power fluctuation sensor which detects fluctuation of electric power with varying electric power supply; and a supercritical CO wherein the high pressure supercritical CO wherein the supercritical CO wherein the high pressure supercritical CO | 620 |
9,184,422 | 1. A rechargeable battery, comprising: an electrode assembly comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween; a case to house the electrode assembly; a cap assembly coupled to an opening of the case, electrically connected to the electrode assembly; and an insulating member having a body that contacts the outer surface of the electrode assembly, and an elastically deformable rib that extends from the body and contacts and is deformed by the case, wherein the elastically deformable rib extends further from the central vertical axis of the rechargeable battery in a latitudinal orientation than the body. | 9,553 |
9,653,481 | 1. A flexible display comprising a substrate, a thin film transistors layer formed on the substrate, and a light emitting or light passage controlling elements layer formed on the thin film transistors layer, wherein the substrate comprises: a first support layer formed below the film transistors layer; a second support layer as a single layer and disposed below the first support layer; a heat-energy blocking/reflecting layer formed as a single layer interposed between the first support layer and the second support layer; a first insulating layer formed as a single layer and interposed directly between the first support layer and the heat-energy blocking/reflecting layer; and a second insulating layer formed as a single layer and interposed directly between the heat-energy blocking/reflecting layer and the second support layer, wherein the first support layer and the second support layer are each made of a respective polyimide. | 30,535 |
8,464,643 | 1. A method for reinforcing a railcar bodyshell, comprising the steps of: providing a bodyshell, the bodyshell having a metal frame and a metal plate joined to the metal frame, the metal plate being formed such that a cross section thereof that is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of a railcar has a wave shape; disposing a fiber sheet on at least a part of the metal plate; and forming a fiber reinforced resin member by bonding the fiber sheet to the at least part of the metal plate by an impregnated adhesive resin, wherein | 4,822 |
8,968,032 | 1. A structure comprising: a plurality of contacts each having a contact portion and a spring portion supporting the contact portion so that the contact portion is displaceable along an up-down direction, each of the contact portions having two reinforced portions; a holder member holding the plurality of contacts so that the plurality of contacts are arranged in a pitch direction perpendicular to the up-down direction and that side surfaces of the reinforced portions of neighboring ones of the contact portions face each other in the pitch direction; a reinforcement member having a reinforcement portion, the reinforcement portion is positioned between the neighboring contact portions when the reinforcement member is positioned at an initial position, so as to reinforce, at least in part, the reinforced portions facing each other; and urging means for urging the reinforcement member to move towards the initial position. | 23,108 |
8,912,431 | 1. A solar cell element, comprising: a semiconductor substrate that comprises a semiconductor region of one conductivity type and a layer of an opposite conductivity type to the one conductivity type with a first surface serving as a light-receiving surface, a second surface located on a back side of the first surface, and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, in which over a surface on the first surface side, a surface on the side surface side, and a surface of an outer peripheral portion on the second surface side of the semiconductor region of the one conductivity type, the layer of the opposite conductivity type to the one conductivity type is formed such that a first pn junction region is provided along the respective surfaces of the first surface, the side surface, and the outer peripheral portion of the second surface and in which a high-concentration doped layer having higher concentration of impurities of the one conductivity type than the semiconductor region is further formed on a surface that is not the outer peripheral portion on the second surface side of the semiconductor region; a first electrode of the one conductivity type located on the high-concentration doped layer of the second surface so as to be adjacent to the first pn junction region, at least one of a first bump and a second bump, the first bump located at an intersection of an inner peripheral surface of the first trench portion and a portion of the second surface on an outer side with respect to the first trench portion, the second bump located at an intersection of the inner peripheral surface of the first trench portion and a portion of the second surface on an inner side with respect to the first trench portion, wherein the first bump and the second bump project in a normal direction of the second surface on the second surface. | 26,532 |
9,387,974 | 1. A single-dose package characterized in that a spherical activated carbon having a surface electric charge property of 0.225 μC/g or more and 0.409 μC/g or less, which is the electrostatic charge amount of the spherical activated carbon when the spherical activated carbon contained in a fluorocarbon resin container is rotated at 120 rpm for 5 minutes, is tight-packed using a packaging material having a mean specific surface resistivity of 5.2×10 9 Ω or more to 5.1×10 15 Ω or less at its internal surface, under warming and/or reduced pressure. | 10,890 |
9,379,834 | 1. An interferometer, comprising: an input terminal in communication with a radio frequency (RF) source; an output terminal in communication with a receiver; a receive element; a transmit element configured to transmit a signal from said RF source to said receive element via a signal path; a sequencer for transmitting a switch signal; and a switch in communication with said sequencer and configured to receive said switch signal and to switch between at least two configurations in response to said switch signal, wherein a first one of said at least two configurations is used to connect said receive element to said output terminal, and a second one of said at least two configurations is used, at least in part, to connect said input terminal to said output terminal via a reference path, said reference path being separate and distinct from said signal path; wherein alternating said switch between at least said first configuration and said second configuration results in an encoded measurement signal being transmitted to said receiver via said output terminal, wherein said encoded measurement signal can be used to determine a complex ratio of said signal from said RF source as transmitted via said signal path to said signal from said RF source as transmitted via said reference path. | 25,461 |
9,633,289 | 1. A method comprising: receiving page description language (PDL) data corresponding to a printing task; identifying commands corresponding to the received PDL data; computing a total predicted rendering time corresponding to the identified commands; computing a print deferral time according to the total predicted rendering time, wherein the print deferral time corresponds to an amount of time by which printing drum initialization can be deferred without delaying completion of the printing task; and configuring a printing drum to begin operation according to the print deferral time. | 23,962 |
9,680,144 | 1. An electrode assembly comprising: a positive electrode assembly including a plurality of positive electrodes each having a positive electrode non-coating portion, and a positive electrode tab coupling all of the positive electrode non-coating portions; a negative electrode assembly including a plurality of negative electrodes each having a negative electrode non-coating portion, and a negative electrode tab coupling all of the negative electrode non-coating portions; and a separator disposed between each positive electrode and each negative electrode insulating a region between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the positive electrodes of the positive electrode assembly and the negative electrodes of the negative electrode assembly being stacked alternately, and the separator being inserted in a zigzag manner by being bent 180 degrees to form a bend in a lateral direction of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and surrounding both ends of the positive electrode and the negative electrode or both side surfaces of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, said side surfaces being parallel to a longitudinal center line of the positive and negative electrodes, wherein the positive electrodes each include a positive electrode coating portion coated with a positive electrode active material in a region except for another region where the positive electrode non-coating portion is located, the another region where the positive electrode non-coating portion is located between two adjacent regions where the positive electrode active material is located; and the negative electrodes each include a negative electrode coating portion coated with a negative electrode active material in a region except for another region where the negative electrode non-coating portion is located, the another region where the negative electrode non-coating portion is located between two adjacent regions where the negative electrode active material is located; and the separator covering at least the positive electrode coating portion or the negative electrode coating portion, at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode being bent 180 degrees to form a bend at the other region where the corresponding electrode non-coating portion is located, the bends of the at least one of the electrodes and the separator all running parallel to each other, the positive electrode tab being positioned on an exterior surface of the positive electrode assembly in direct physical contact with solely a single positive electrode non-coating portion of a single positive electrode of the plurality of positive electrodes, the negative electrode tab being positioned on an exterior surface of the negative electrode assembly in direct physical contact with solely a single negative electrode non-coating portion of a single negative electrode of the plurality of negative electrodes, and the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab being positioned on opposite sides of the electrode assembly. | 48,395 |
8,978,386 | 1. A gas turbine system having a compressor for compressing intake air and discharging the air, a combustor for mixing and combusting the air discharged from the compressor and fuel, and a gas turbine driven by combustion gas from the combustor, the gas turbine system comprising: a high pressure hot water atomizing system using solar heat, wherein the atomizing system generates high pressure hot water by a solar collector using solar heat energy and atomizes the high pressure hot water from an atomizing nozzle into the air taken in by the compressor; and a normal temperature water atomizing system that atomizes normal temperature water from an atomizing nozzle into the air taken in by the compressor. | 40,602 |
9,533,684 | 1. A speed control system for a vehicle, comprising an electronic controller, wherein the electronic controller is configured to: automatically cause the a vehicle to operate in accordance with a target speed value, receive information relating to movement of at least a portion of a vehicle body, said information comprising: a measured value of vehicle body pitch angular acceleration, a measured value of vehicle body roll angular acceleration, and a measured value of vehicle body heave acceleration, apply a gain to each of said measured value of vehicle body pitch angular acceleration, measured value of vehicle body roll angular acceleration, and measured value of vehicle body heave acceleration, and determining a signal indicative of comfort level therefrom; and output a signal to automatically adjust the value of the target speed value in dependence on said signal indicative of comfort level. | 10,608 |
8,451,936 | 1. A method for enabling a device function at a local device based on distance information, comprising: establishing a communication link with a remote device over a UWB medium using a multiple access protocol; determining a distance between the local device and the remote device; and controlling a device function for the remote device based on the determined distance, wherein the operation of controlling the device function enables the device function when the determined distance is below a set distance threshold, and wherein the operation of controlling the device function disables the device function when the determined distance is above the set distance threshold. | 12,174 |
8,627,601 | 1. A rotating entrance assembly for a radiation treatment comprising: a rotating base that rotates about a vertical axis; first and second shielding components arranged on the rotating base, the first and second shielding components have spaced apart opposing planar surfaces that define a linear through passageway extending between the first and second shielding components and through the vertical axis, each of the opposing planar surfaces extending along the entire length of the linear through passageway; and a motor in driving connection with the rotating base. | 6,166 |
9,094,366 | 1. An agency device which is connected with one or more image forming devices in a local network having a firewall provided therein, comprising: a management command receiving unit, inside a firewall, configured to start a connection with a management device, outside the firewall, which carries out remote management of the one or more image forming devices in the local network through the Internet, and receive a management command from the management device via the firewall in response to the connection, wherein the received management command includes a request, at least, for changing an interval amount of the periodic interval or setting a heater temperature of one of the image forming devices; a management command analysis unit configured to analyze the management command received from the management device, and determine whether the received management command is a management command sent to the agency device or a management command sent to the one or more image forming devices; and a communication unit configured to receive device-state information from a corresponding one of the one or more image forming devices as a response to a device message sent to the corresponding image-forming device based on the management command received by the management command receiving unit. | 42,339 |
9,281,931 | 1. A method of receiving a control channel by a user equipment in a multi-component carrier system, the method comprising: transmitting a random access preamble to a base station on a secondary serving cell; monitoring, at a control channel element (CCE) aggregation level, a random access-radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI)-scrambled physical downlink control channel in a search space, which includes CCEs and is provisionally configured in the secondary serving cell during a response window period; receiving a random access response using the RA-RNTI-scrambled physical downlink control channel; and adjusting an uplink time of the secondary serving cell based on a time advance command (TAC) included in the random access response, wherein the size of the search space is equal to a value obtained by multiplying the number of candidates for the physical downlink control channel by the size of the CCE aggregation level. | 26,301 |
8,358,272 | 1. A computer keyboard, comprising: an operation unit, a processing unit, an output unit, a query unit, and a display unit; wherein the operation unit comprises an editing key, a function key, and a sending key; the editing key is configured to respond to a user input to generate an editing information, the function key is configured to respond to the user input to control the computer keyboard entering an editing mode or a translating mode, the sending key is configured to respond to the user input to generate a sending instruction when the computer keyboard is in the translating mode; the processing unit is configured to transmit the editing information to an editing software via the output unit, when the computer keyboard is in the editing mode; the query unit is configured to translate the editing information via a dictionary application to generate a translation result, and display the editing information and the translation result on the display unit; and the processing unit is further configured to acquire and transmit the editing information or the translation result to the editing software according to the sending instruction. | 9,311 |
9,573,394 | 1. Printing mechanism comprising: a frame; a thermal printing head arranged on said frame; a printing roller having an operating arrangement wherein it is rotatably coupled in a removable manner with said frame and faces said printing head to achieve in use a printing and advancement step wherein a printing support advances interposed between said roller and printing head; an engaging arrangement rotatably coupled with said frame with the possibility of rotating around a rotation axis adopting at least one active position wherein it engages said printing roller with said frame in said operating arrangement and at least one inactive position wherein it leaves said printing roller free to be removed from said frame; a motor arranged on said frame to rotate said printing roller at least in one rotation direction, said motor having a drive shaft with reversible rotation motion in a first rotation direction and in a second rotation direction opposite the first; a transmission arrangement for transmitting the motion of said drive shaft at least in said first rotation direction to said printing roller to drag the printing support interposed between said roller and printing head; a unidirectional joint arrangement arranged for transmitting the motion of said drive shaft in said second rotation direction to said engaging arrangement to rotate said engaging arrangement from said active position to said inactive position and enable said printing roller to be removed, and in order not to transmit the motion of said drive shaft in said first rotation direction to said engaging arrangement to maintain said printing roller in said operating arrangement. | 29,235 |
9,132,161 | 1. A method of treating at least one climacteric symptom, comprising administering to a human female subject a therapeutically-effective amount of a composition comprising: an extract obtained from plant matter of one or more of a coloring agent, a flavoring agent, and a sweetening agent; wherein the at least one climacteric symptom is selected from the group consisting of hot flashes, insomnia, and decreased libido; the plant matter includes at least one of root, leaves, and rhizomes; and the extract is an aqueous extract or an ethanol extract. | 24,963 |
9,760,148 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a controller including a processor and a memory; a power controller which shifts the information processing apparatus to a power saving state in which power supply to the processor is stopped; and a network interface which receives a packet transmitted from an external device while the information processing apparatus is in the power saving state, the network interface instructing the power controller to supply power to the processor and transmitting the received packet to the controller in a case where the received packet is a specific packet, wherein the controller determines a power state to which the information processing apparatus is to shift on a basis of a port number of the received packet, and, in a case where the power state to which the information processing apparatus is to shift is unable to be determined on the basis of the port number of the received packet, analyzes a content of the received packet to determine the power state to which the information processing apparatus is to shift on the basis of a result of the analysis. | 21,255 |
8,913,229 | 1. A multi-stage system comprising: a stator extending substantially parallel to a first direction; a first stage that is moveable relative to the stator in the first direction; a second stage that is moveable relative to the stator in the first direction; a sensor configured to determine the position of the first and second stage relative to the stator; a controller configured to position the first and second stage relative to the stator in the first direction, wherein the controller is configured to: wherein the controller is configured, prior to activating the electric coils of the first and second subset, to: | 33,065 |
9,431,563 | 1. A solar cell element, comprising: a semiconductor substrate which includes a first conductivity type first semiconductor region positioned on a first main surface, and a second conductivity type second semiconductor region which is different from the first conductivity type in a surface layer portion of a second main surface positioned on an opposite side to the first main surface; and an electrode in line shape which is disposed on the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the second semiconductor region includes a first concentration region which exists at a position separated from the electrode by a predetermined distance in plan view, and a second concentration region which includes a high concentration region where a dopant concentration is higher than that in the first concentration region and exists along a longitudinal direction of the electrode, and wherein the second concentration region includes a part in which a minimum place which has a minimum value of a dopant concentration difference and a maximum place which has a maximum value of the dopant concentration difference alternately and repeatedly exist along the longitudinal direction of the electrode and in which a minimum place interval of adjacent minimum places in the longitudinal direction of the electrode varies; wherein the dopant concentration difference is calculated by subtracting a dopant concentration value of the first concentration region at a first place from a dopant concentration value of the second concentration region at a second place; and wherein the first place is close to the second place. | 6,663 |
9,851,472 | 1. A hydrophilic siloxane copolymer of the formula (1): wherein A and B are different, l is 1, m and n of formula (1) are independently 1-200, and 2<l+p<200; W is a moiety having the general formula (2): wherein E is a divalent moiety chosen from a substituted, un-substituted, aliphatic, aromatic, cyclic, or acyclic hydrocarbon radical having 1-20 carbon atoms, optionally containing sulfur or oxygen; D is a monovalent hydrocarbon radical with 1-10 carbon atoms with a functional group independently selected from a hydroxy, an ether, an ester, an amine, an amide, a carboxylic acid, or a combination of two or more thereof; A is an organosilicone group-containing unit having the general formula (15): wherein R B is a hydrophilic group-containing unit having the general formula (13) wherein P in formula (13) is selected from O or NR C in formula (1) is an organic group-containing unit having the general formula (14): wherein R | 40,525 |
9,700,848 | 1. A composite membrane comprising: a) a porous support; b) a gutter layer, a portion of which is present within the support and a portion of which is outside of the support; and c) a discriminating layer on the gutter layer; wherein: (i) the portion of the gutter layer outside of the support has an average thickness (GL (ii) the portion of the gutter layer present within the support has an average thickness (GL | 5,735 |
8,834,317 | 1. A hybrid electric vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; a continuously variable transmission having an input shaft drivably connected to the internal combustion engine, the transmission including at least one traction motor, the transmission having an output speed and an output torque; a driver operated range selector having first and second forward driving positions; driver operated upshift and downshift selectors; a driver operated accelerator pedal; and a controller in communication with the range selector, the upshift and downshift selectors, the accelerator pedal, the internal combustion engine, and the transmission, the controller operating the vehicle in multiple operating modes including a first mode (Normal), corresponding to the first position (D) of the range selector; a second mode (Sport), corresponding to the second position (S) of the range selector, wherein the controller operates the engine and motor to provide an output torque higher than in the first mode at equal accelerator pedal position and vehicle speed; and a third mode (LID), activated from the first mode by operation of the downshift selector, wherein the controller controls engine speed to be proportional to output speed based on a selected virtual gear number. | 36,973 |
9,612,473 | 1. A display device, comprising: a display panel configured to display an image; and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel, wherein the display panel comprises: | 36,778 |
8,366,027 | 1. A dispenser for delivering granular materials comprising: a container assembly having an outer enclosure and an inner reservoir for containing a granular material, said enclosure having an opening for the outflow of material, said enclosure and reservoir defining a passageway therebetween; said inner reservoir defining a nozzle for the outflow of material; a metering cup disposed at one end of the enclosure and having an open end, the open end opposing said nozzle, the metering cup adapted to receive through the open end of the metering cup a controlled quantity of material directed from the reservoir and through the nozzle, when the container assembly is disposed in a first orientation, and for delivering the material to the passageway, when the container is disposed in a second orientation; and a control plug positioned within the metering cup for setting the quantity of material directed into the metering cup, wherein the control plug comprises a plug having an opening adjacent the nozzle to receive therethrough material from the nozzle. | 18,077 |
9,605,602 | 1. A method of operating an engine comprising a plurality of cylinders, the method comprising: monitoring a characteristic of each of the plurality of cylinders during operation of the engine; detecting a pre-ignition condition associated with one or more cylinders of the plurality of cylinders based on the monitored characteristic; supplying a reduced amount of fuel to the one or more cylinders having the pre-ignition condition; supplying an increased amount of the fuel to remaining cylinders of the plurality of cylinders, to maintain a constant power output of the engine; and adjusting an amount of air supplied to each of the plurality of cylinders based on the increased amount of the fuel supplied to the remaining cylinders, to maintain an air-to-fuel ratio in the remaining cylinders within a predetermined range. | 7,330 |
8,530,985 | 1. A chip package, comprising: a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; a passivation layer and a package layer located overlying the upper surface of the substrate; a spacer layer disposed between the upper surface of the substrate and the package layer; a plurality of conducting pad structures disposed overlying the upper surface of the substrate, wherein at least portions of upper surfaces of the conducting pad structures are exposed; a plurality of openings extending from the upper surface towards the lower surface of the substrate; and a plurality of movable bulks located between the openings and connected with the substrate, respectively, wherein each of the movable bulks is electrically connected to one of the conducting pad structures, and wherein the substrate, the spacer layer, and the package layer together form a cavity, and the openings and the movable bulks are located underlying the cavity. | 5,879 |
8,908,453 | 1. A system comprising: a processor in communication with a memory device wherein the memory device is a secure memory device; the processor configured to communicate a signal that will, when received, initiate a security function; the memory device further comprising an array of memory cells; and a logic device operatively coupled to the processor and the array, wherein the logic device is configured to initiate the security function with respect to the array upon occurrence of any of one or more triggering events communicated to the processor, wherein the security function comprises at least one of the group selected from disabling read access to some or all of the array and erasing all or some portion of data stored within the memory device disabling read access to some or all of the array. | 22,148 |
8,628,630 | 1. A hot-pressed steel sheet member having a composition comprising, by mass, C: 0.09% to 0.38%, Si: 0.05% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.05% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.01% or less, Sb: 0.002% to 0.03%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and having a tensile strength TS of 980 to 2,130 MPa wherein a ratio of Sb-max/Sb-ave is 5 or less. | 1,497 |
9,671,779 | 1. A method for filtering a lot schedule of a manufacturing facility, the method comprising: identifying, by a processing device, a first schedule, wherein the first schedule is a previously executed schedule; generating, by the processing device, a pool of lots to be scheduled using information from the first schedule, wherein the pool of lots is a subset of a plurality of lots associated with the first schedule; removing invalid lots from the pool of lots, wherein the invalid lots are identified by: generating, by the processing device, a second schedule using the pool of lots. | 28,866 |
9,002,354 | 1. A method in a wireless terminal including; receiving by the wireless terminal from a first base station signaling information, pertaining to a reference signal transmission in at least one specifically designated sub frame, the signaling information including a list, the list including for at least one other base station information including an identity and a reference signal offset for the at least one other base station reference signal; determining by the wireless terminal, from the at least one other base station information including the reference signal offset, a window for detecting the time-frequency resources associated with a reference signal transmission intended for observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurements from the at least one other base station; and measuring time of arrival of a transmission received during the window from the at least one other base station relative to a reference timing. | 21,949 |
9,244,744 | 1. A computer-implemented method of allocating a resource to workloads comprising: assigning workloads corresponding share quantities of the resource, wherein the share quantity of at least one of the workloads is a hard share quantity, and each share quantity other than a hard share quantity is a soft share quantity; allocating the resource to currently active workloads in a current interval based on share quantities of previously active workloads in a preceding predefined interval by determining for each of said previously active workloads a portion of the resource to which the previously active workload is entitled in the current interval based on the share quantity of that previously active workload relative to the share quantities of other previously active workloads in the preceding predefined interval; and in response to the availability of additional resource amounts of the resource in the current interval, allocating the additional resource amounts to at least one of the currently active workloads assigned a soft share quantity in the current interval. | 39,658 |
9,747,560 | 1. A method comprising: extracting, in a computer, first demand data from a first forecast demand data stream, wherein the first demand data stream is of a first type; extracting, in the computer, second demand data from a second forecast demand data stream, wherein the second demand data stream is of a second type different from the first type and wherein both demand data streams apply to a same source of demand; storing the extracted first demand data and the extracted second demand data in a database of a data warehouse; at the computer, computing and storing parameters associated with an error measurement for the first demand data and for the second demand data at a demand combination info cube; determining correspondingly, by the computer, frequencies of data extraction for demand data combination from first demand data and second demand data; combining, in the computer, the first demand data and the second demand data based on at least one criteria associated with the stored parameters, to generate the demand combination info cube, wherein generating the demand combination info cube includes combining the first and second demand data based on: evaluating, by a rule engine, characteristics combinations of the first demand data and the second demand data by traversing conditions defined at nodes of a decision tree, wherein the conditions are associated with comparisons of forecast key figures defined in the first and second demand data for a time interval; calculating a resultant demand data set based on performing a sequence of demand combination activities, wherein the sequence of demand combination activities is determined during traversing the decision tree, and wherein the resultant demand data set is to be stored at the demand combination info cube; determining modified frequencies of data extraction based on the sequence of demand combination activities; and performing a modification, by the computer, of the frequencies of data extraction from the first demand data and the second demand data, based on the calculated resultant demand data set; and releasing the demand combination info cube for supply network planning. | 45,560 |
9,216,158 | 1. A method of treating a gastrointestinal disorder in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of particles, wherein said particles comprise: (i) at least one inner core which comprises a solid matrix of nutrients for microorganism growth; (ii) an inner membrane being fabricated from a water-soluble polymer, said inner membrane surrounding said inner core, said inner core comprising a population of viable dried microorganisms, wherein said population of dried microorganism is useful for the treatment of the gastrointestinal disorder in the subject; and (iii) an outer porous membrane surrounding said inner membrane, said outer porous membrane being insoluble in water, thereby treating the gastrointestinal disorder in the subject. | 26,674 |
9,156,341 | 1. A battery holding structure for an electric work vehicle equipped with a battery-driven electric motor, the battery holding structure comprising: a base frame including a base plate, a plurality of vertical partition plates, and a plurality of mount parts, the vertical partition plates being arranged erectly on the base plate to extend in a longitudinal direction, the vertical partition plates being spaced laterally inward from side portions of the base plate, the mount parts being disposed on a rear end portion of the base frame in positions corresponding to the vertical partition plates such that at least a portion of the base frame extends laterally to the outside beyond each of two laterally outermost mount parts among the plurality of the mount parts; a plurality of battery cases respectively having a bottom wall and front, rear, right and left sidewalls, each of the battery cases respectively accommodating a plurality of batteries aligned in a lateral direction, the plurality of battery cases being arranged on the rear end portion of the base frame and stacked in a vertical direction with the lateral widths of the battery cases being aligned with a lateral width of the base frame; a plurality of pillars to which the rear sidewalls of respective ones of the stacked battery cases are fixed, the plurality of pillars being respectively fixed at bottom end portions thereof to the mount parts of the base frame and extending upwardly. | 3,973 |
9,130,582 | 1. A system, comprising: a converter configured to provide, based on a digital input signal, a first output current; a buffer configured to provide, based on the first output current, a second output current to an output pin; and an offset adjust circuit in communication with the first output current, the offset adjust circuit configured to, based on a comparison between a reference signal and the second current at the output pin, adjust the first output current to compensate for a current offset at the output pin. | 4,060 |
9,269,584 | 1. A method of depositing TaC x onto a substrate, the method comprising: depositing an initiation layer comprising TaAlC onto a substrate; and depositing a layer of TaC | 47,941 |
8,448,707 | 1. A system for heating a subsurface formation, comprising: a heater wellbore extending from a surface of the formation through an overburden of the formation and into a part of the formation below the overburden; a single conducting heater element located in the heater wellbore, wherein the heater element comprises a lead-in portion located in the overburden of the formation and a heating portion located below the lead-in portion, and wherein the heating portion is configured to provide heat to the part of the formation below the overburden; and a heater casing located in a portion of the heater wellbore in the overburden, the heater casing comprising an electrically non-conducting portion and an electrically conducting portion; wherein the non-conductive portion begins at the surface of the formation and extends at most to a depth that is about 30 m from the heating portion of the heater, and wherein the conducting portion is located between the non-conducting portion and the heating portion; further comprising an additional heater wellbore with an additional conducting heater element in the additional wellbore, wherein the non-conducting portion extends to a depth that is greater than twice the distance between the heater wellbore and the additional heater wellbore, and wherein the additional conducting heater element has a polarity opposite the signal conducting element. | 40,811 |
9,691,986 | 1. A derivatized benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b′]dithiophene-thienothiophene based polymer having the formula wherein n is equal to about 1 to about 100. | 41,013 |
9,375,447 | 1. A method for suppressing cancer cell growth, comprising contacting cancer cells with a composition comprising depolymerized hyaluronan, wherein the depolymerized hyaluronan comprises inter-chain covalent crosslinks, wherein at least about 90% of the depolymerized hyaluronan has a molecular weight ranging from about 100-500 kDa, and wherein the depolymerized hyaluronan is prepared by sonication of high molecular weight hyaluronan. | 17,312 |
9,812,876 | 1. A wall socket, comprising: a socket housing; an input terminal, wherein the input terminal of the wall socket is configured to receive an input voltage from a power grid; an output terminal arranged at a side of the socket housing and configured to output a dc output voltage; a power converting circuit arranged in the socket housing and configured to convert the input voltage to the dc output voltage according to a control signal; and a load detecting circuit configured to receive an identification signal outputted by an electronic device when the electronic device is connected to the output terminal, and output the control signal according to the identification signal to adjust a voltage level of the dc output voltage of the output terminal, in order to configure the dc output voltage of the output terminal to be the voltage level corresponding to the identification signal selected from a plurality of different voltage levels; wherein the voltage level of the dc output voltage outputted by the same output pin of the ouput terminal of the wall socket varies according to the identification signal. | 20,017 |
9,205,000 | 1. A manifold member for debriding a tissue site on a patient, the manifold member comprising: a manifold material formed from a porous material that contracts in response to reduced pressure; a support member coupled to the manifold material; and a pincer including a first blade and a second blade, each blade having a proximal end coupled to the support member and a distal end for positioning at the tissue site, the distal ends of the first and second blades being movable for debriding the tissue site in response to the manifold material when contracting; wherein the distal ends of the first blade and the second blade move between an open position and a closed position under the influence of the reduced pressure. | 11,828 |
8,972,462 | 1. A method, comprising: selecting a filtering window that is to be applied to a representation of an instant in time based upon resolution of a display, the representation stored in computer-readable storage of a computing device, the representation represents the instant in time over several orders of magnitude, wherein first graphical content corresponds to the instant in time at a first time granularity, and second graphical content corresponds to the instant in time at a second granularity; receiving a first query that indicates that the instant in time is to be resolved to the first time granularity; applying the filtering window over a position in the representation of the instant in time that corresponds to the first time granularity responsive to receiving the first query; and responsive to applying the filtering window, identifying that the first graphical content is to be displayed on the display rather than the second graphical content; and responsive to identifying that the first graphical content is to be displayed, displaying the first graphical content on the display while refraining from displaying the second graphical content on the display. | 43,364 |
9,605,562 | 1. A gearbox assembly, comprising: a shear bracket connectable to a flange of a housing structure; and a support pin extending along a longitudinal axis, the support pin supporting the shear bracket relative to a turbomachine, the support pin moveable axially relative to the shear bracket and the flange of the housing structure, wherein the flange is a flange of a starter. | 19,524 |
8,539,793 | 1. A method of molding a synthetic silica glass molded body by accommodating a synthetic silica glass block in a mold provided with a pressing portion, and by pressing the block while heating, the method comprising: washing the synthetic silica glass block so that a concentration of copper which is present on the surface of the synthetic silica glass block is 2 ng/cm heating high purity carbon powders in which a content of copper is 40 wt.ppb or less and a content of aluminum is 100 wt.ppb or less at a temperature condition of 1200° C. to 1900° C.; heating the mold at a temperature condition of 1700° C. to 1900° C.; after the heating the high purity carbon powders and the heating the mold, applying the high purity carbon powders on the inner surface of the mold, before accommodating the synthetic silica glass block in the mold; and molding the synthetic silica glass block in a predetermined form by pressing the block using the pressing portion while heating the block so that a temperature of the block is maintained within a hold temperature range of 1500° C. to 1700° C., after accommodating the washed synthetic silica glass block in the mold. | 11,430 |
8,448,405 | 1. A roof standoff for use in mounting a frame or rack, the standoff comprising: a base bracket having mounting holes for an attachment to a roof surface, at least a portion of said base bracket, configured to rest on a roof surface; said base bracket supporting a first attachment mechanism a flashing having a raised section and a portion extending beyond the raised section, said raised section having a central hole; the central hole aligning with at least a portion the first attachment mechanism and the raised section mounted over the base bracket in use and substantially covering said base bracket; said portion of the flashing extending beyond the raised section configured such that the flashing is resting on a roof surface surrounding the base bracket, said flashing acting to prevent water from getting to the base bracket mounting holes; a cylindrical core having a second attachment mechanism on its base for attaching to the first attachment mechanism; when said second attachment mechanism is attached to the first attachment mechanism, the flashing is mounted between the base bracket and the cylindrical core; said cylindrical core having a recess surrounding the second attachment mechanism and a ridge surrounding the recess; a soft washer fitting into said recess in use, said washer surrounding the first and second attachment mechanisms and being held between the flashing and the cylindrical core when the first attachment mechanism is attached to the second attachment mechanism; said cylindrical core having outer threads to receive a threaded cover; and said cover having a top, threaded mounting hole. | 8,312 |
8,694,861 | 1. A method for repairing a memory device, wherein the memory device includes a plurality of memory cells to store binary data digits, each of the plurality of memory cells belonging to at least a first group and a second group, the method comprising: identifying memory cells in the memory device that fail as failing memory cells; identifying when a selected one of the failing memory cells belongs to both the first group including two failing memory cells and the second group including two failing memory cell; replacing the selected one of the failing memory cells with a repair memory cell when the selected one of the failing memory cells belongs to both the first group and the second group; and correcting binary data digits read from a plurality of the failing memory cells other than the selected one of the failing memory cells according to an error correction code. | 23,008 |
9,182,133 | 1. A masonry construction block, comprising: a first face having a first thickness and a second face opposite the first face and having a second thickness, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness; a plurality of webs extending between the first and second faces and defining at least one void configured to receive reinforcement material; and at least one channel in the first face in combination with a fluid conduit disposed therein. | 35,229 |
9,618,348 | 1. A system for providing spotting locations, determined on-board a loading machine, to a work machine, the system comprising: a work machine; a loading machine in wireless communication with the work machine, the loading machine including a bucket associated with a position sensor, the position sensor configured to generate position and orientation data of the bucket; and a computer disposed on-board the loading machine, the computer including: | 32,414 |
9,253,996 | 1. A method of recovering pectin from citrus peels comprising: removing the zest from the citrus peels; mixing the citrus peel with water to form a citrus peel slurry; adjusting the pH of the citrus peel slurry with an acid in a mixing feed tank; heating the citrus peel slurry in the mixing feed tank; pumping the heated citrus peel slurry to a pressure cook vessel; exposing the citrus peel slurry in the pressure cook vessel to pressurized steam to substantially elevate the temperature of the citrus peel slurry resulting in the formation of a vapor containing a limonene fraction and a water fraction, a solubilized pectin liquor fraction, and a substantially de-oiled citrus peel fraction, wherein the citrus peel slurry residence time within the pressure cook vessel is from about one to about twenty minutes; separating the substantially solubilized pectin fraction from the substantially de-oiled citrus peel fraction prior to any fermentation, hydrolyzation, digestion or drying of the substantially de-oiled citrus peel fraction; and, recovering a substantial amount of pectin from the solubilized pectin liquor. | 1 |
9,271,363 | 1. A lighting device having LED element, comprising an LED group having series-connected plural number of LED elements that emit light with feeding a light-emission current and a driving circuit for feeding the light-emission current that flows through the series-connected plural LED elements of the LED group, wherein the driving circuit includes an alternating current power source terminals for receiving supply of alternating current, a peak current control circuit element that controls the peak current of the light-emission current, a full-wave rectification circuit that full-wave rectifies alternating current inputted into an input terminal thereof and outputs pulsating current from an output terminal thereof, wherein the peak current control circuit element and input terminals of the full-wave rectification circuit are provided between the alternating current power source terminals, the LED group is connected between the output terminals of the full-wave rectification circuit, and the peak value of the light-emission current flowing through the LED group is determined in accordance with the peak current control circuit element, wherein the light-emission current fed to the LED group has feeding periods of a low current period that is determined in accordance with the number of the series-connections of LED elements of the LED group and a lighting light-emission period the peak value in which is determined in accordance with the peak current control circuit element, wherein the light-emission current is a pulsating current that flows repeating feeding periods of the low current period and the lighting light-emission period. | 34,339 |
8,640,243 | 1. A method to determine if a computer program in a memory of a computer is malicious, the computer program including a plurality of different types of computer program instructions, the method comprising the steps of: associating a threshold value with each of the instruction types, each threshold value determined at least based on a likelihood that the associated instruction type will be present in malicious code, an instruction type having a higher likelihood of being present in malicious code having a lower associated threshold value than an instruction type having a lower likelihood of being present in malicious code; prior to execution of the computer program in the computer, the computer counting the computer program instructions of each of the types; at a time during execution of the computer program in the computer, the computer counting the computer program instructions of each of the types; and the computer determining that the count of the computer program instructions of one of the types determined prior to execution of the computer program differs by at least the associated threshold value from the count of the computer program instructions of the one type determined at the time during execution of the computer program, and in response, the computer making a record that the computer program has an indicia of maliciousness. | 45,433 |
9,276,151 | 1. A film capable of use in a photovoltaic solar module, comprising: a polyolefin; a silane; one or more cross-linking agents; and a plasticizer; wherein the average % transmittance of the film is at least 90% over a wavelength range of 400-1100 nm, and wherein the plasticizer comprises a C4-C10 polyolefin homopolymer. | 22,733 |
9,215,359 | 1. An antistatic device comprising: a main body with a first surface having a first annular groove and a second surface with a second annular groove, the second surface opposite the first surface; a first conductive member, with a first end configured to be in contact with a camera assembly of an electronic device and a second end, opposite the first end, positioned in the first annular groove; and a second conductive member, with a first end positioned in the second annular groove and a second end, opposite the first end, being configured to be in contact with the conductive potion of a housing of the electronic device; and wherein, static electricity from the camera assembly is conducted from the camera assembly through the first conductive member to the main body and from the main body through the second conductive member to the conductive portion of the housing. | 43,632 |
9,257,861 | 1. A control apparatus, comprising: a supplying section to which a voltage is supplied from an electric power generation section, wherein the voltage varies in response to a variation in one or more conditions; and a control section configured to change a number of battery units, for which charging is to be carried out, in response to a relationship between the voltage and a reference value, wherein the control section increases the number of battery units when the voltage is higher than the reference value but decreases the number of battery units when a state in which the voltage is equal to or lower than the reference value continues for a predetermined period of time. | 47,992 |
9,168,841 | 1. A charge control unit included in charging equipment which charges a battery by supplying electric power thereto, the charging equipment comprising: a power output part which outputs DC power used for charging, and which comprises a plurality of power conversion units; a plurality of user operation units capable of being connected with a device mounted with the battery; the charge control unit which controls a power supply from the power output part to the user operation unit; and a switching circuit which changes a connecting combination between the power conversion units and the user operation units, wherein the charge control unit is configured to distribute the electric power outputted from at least one of the power conversion units selected from the plurality of power conversion units via the switching circuit to supply the distributed power to the user operation unit connected with the device mounted with the battery, and wherein the charge control unit is configured to acquire information on a time zone of peak electric power from the outside of the charging equipment, and to select the predetermined number of the charge conversion units in the order of a longer operation time from the plurality of power conversion units, so as to restrict the operation of the selected power conversion units during the time zone of the peak electric power. | 24,355 |
8,522,558 | 1. A gas turbine engine component comprising: a wall of the gas turbine engine component having first and second wall surfaces; a first cooling hole extending through the wall and comprising: a second cooling hole extending through the wall and comprising: wherein one of the lateral ends of the outlet of the first cooling hole and one of the lateral ends of the outlet of the second cooling hole meet upstream of the trailing edge of the first cooling hole and the trailing edge of the second cooling hole. | 6,192 |
8,568,363 | 1. A frozen piercing implement array, comprising: a support structure having a surface; a plurality of frozen piercing implements extending substantially outward from the surface of the support structure, each frozen piercing implement including at least one sterile frozen solvent and at least one therapeutic agent including one or more of a vitamin, mineral, antioxidant, antibiotic, antifungal, preservative, antiviral, or anti-worming agent, frozen in an elongated piercing implement form of a high aspect shape having a ratio of greater than or approximately equal to 1.5; and at least one reinforcement agent including one or more of vinyon, saran, spandex, vinalon, aromatic nylon, vinylidene chloride, modal, polybenzimidazole, lyocell, orlon, zylon, high-performance polyethylene, polypyridobenzimidazole, vectran, acrylonitrile rubber, alluvium, calcite, emery, diamond, novaculite, pumice, rouge, borazon, corundum, zirconia, or alumina wherein each of the plurality of frozen piercing implements is approximately 250 microns or smaller in length; and wherein the plurality of frozen piercing implements is configured for piercing at least one biological tissue. | 24,964 |
8,842,189 | 1. A moving image capture apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture visual information to output an image signal; a recording unit configured to record the image signal output by the imaging unit on a recording medium; a word recognition unit configured to extract word information from the image signal; a parameter value storing unit configured to store with the word information, a parameter value based on a characteristic of appearance of the word information extracted by the word recognition unit; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value by using the parameter value stored by the parameter value storing unit for each of the word information; an image searching unit configured to search images based on the evaluation value, and display the searched images; and a thumbnail generation unit configured to generate a thumbnail based on an image which includes the word information which has the largest evaluation value of the word information from among the images searched by the image searching unit. | 3,364 |
9,748,425 | 1. A photoelectric conversion element, comprising: a PN junction formed from an N-type oxide layer and a P-type oxide layer, wherein the P-type oxide layer has a (100) orientation, and is formed from an oxide having a perovskite structure selected from the group consisting of lead titanate (PbTiO | 36,300 |
8,922,039 | 1. A wind turbine for producing power to a utility grid, the wind turbine comprising: a rotor including one or more blades, wherein said rotor further comprises one or more hydraulic pitch actuators for actively controlling the pitch angle of one or more of said blades, one or more actuator hydraulic pumps adapted for powering said hydraulic pitch actuators and wherein said one or more actuator hydraulic pumps are powered by a normal operation energy source, and wherein said wind turbine further comprises an emergency hydraulic pump also adapted for powering said hydraulic actuators, said emergency hydraulic pump being powered by an electrical energy storage. | 18,141 |
8,535,395 | 1. A method for beam welding a multi-sheet work stack, comprising: positioning a first sheet having a reduced thickness feature adjacent to a second sheet to thereby define a first welding interface; positioning a third sheet of the work stack adjacent to the second sheet to thereby define a second welding interface; and directing an energy beam through the reduced thickness feature of the first sheet to thereby form a first fusion weld at the first welding interface. | 28,201 |
8,912,381 | 1. A method for the oxidative coupling of methane comprising: placing a selected oxidative catalyst within a reactor, the catalyst comprising a substrate consisting essentially of a metal oxide of one or more elements selected from group (A), a promoter from group (C), and (D); wherein: (A) is at least one element selected from the group consisting of the Lanthanoid group, Mg, and Ca; (C) is at least one element selected from the group consisting of the elements Ca, Sr, and Ba, and wherein the substrate supports the promoter; and (D) oxygen; forming an oxidative catalyst containing the selected elements; pretreating the catalyst formed thereby prior to the oxidative coupling, wherein the pretreating step includes heating the reactor containing the catalyst to a pretreatment temperature of between 800° C. and 900° C. and holding the reactor containing the catalyst at the pretreatment temperature for between 1 and 3 hours; cooling the reactor down from the pretreatment temperature to an oxidative coupling reaction temperature ranging from 500° C. to 750° C.; providing a hydrocarbon feedstream comprising methane; feeding the hydrocarbon feedstream and a gas flow comprised of oxygen to the reactor containing the oxidative catalyst; carrying out an oxidative coupling of methane within the reactor at the oxidative coupling reaction temperature to thereby form higher hydrocarbons comprised of ethane, ethylene, and combinations thereof over the oxidative catalyst according to reaction conditions; and recovering a product stream of higher hydrocarbons from the reactor. | 41,862 |
9,531,800 | 1. A computer-controlled method, comprising: a processor creating a first throttling group corresponding to a first backend server that is configured to provide business services to a first plurality of electronic devices over a service bus, the first throttling group including a set of options that define how messages sent to the first backend server are to be controlled; the processor defining at least one throttling group parameter for the first throttling group the at least one throttling group parameter for the first throttling group including a first throttling state, at least one first group concurrency setting, or both the first throttling state and the at least one first group concurrency setting, the first throttling state including a first flag to determine whether messages routed to the first throttling group are to be subjected to the at least one first group concurrency setting, and the at least one first group concurrency setting including a first group maximum concurrency to restrict a certain number of messages being processed simultaneously by the first throttling group; and the processor routing at least one message based at least in part on the first throttling group. | 31,444 |
8,387,382 | 1. An acceleration system for an internal combustion engine in which the engine includes an intake and engine exhaust, said system comprising: an inlet air compressor operable to compress air for the intake; an exhaust turbine operationally connected to the engine exhaust wherein said exhaust turbine is capable of rotation by the engine exhaust; a shaft operationally connected between said exhaust turbine and said intake air compressor with said shaft mounted so that said intake air compressor is capable of being powered by said exhaust turbine; an air flask capable of containing compressed air and fluidly connected to said exhaust turbine with said air flask capable of providing the compressed air to rotate said exhaust turbine; a valve fluidly positioned between said air flask and said exhaust turbine wherein said valve is capable of selectively connecting the compressed air in said air flask to the engine exhaust upstream from said exhaust turbine; and a motor compressor fluidly connected to said air flask with a fluid connection separate from the fluid connection between said air flask and said exhaust turbine wherein said motor compressor is capable of providing the compressed air to said air flask. | 31,365 |
8,702,298 | 1. A rotary emulsifying and dispersing arrangement comprising: a casing situated firmly on a base; a fixed stator with a first stator portion and a second stator portion; a chamber located between said casing and said fixed stator; a freely turnable shaft having a shaft axis; and a first rotor and a second rotor that rotate with said shaft, the first stator portion and the first rotor constituting a first pair; wherein a handled material, which is radially discharged from said second rotor, is redirected into a suction inlet via a flow channel, said flow channel runs from said chamber through said fixed stator to a position located between the shaft axis and the first pair. | 3,563 |
8,363,352 | 1. A motor comprising: a shaft; a sleeve having a cylindrical shape and supporting the shaft such that the shaft is rotatable therein; a rotor case engaged with an upper end of the shaft and having a rotor main wall having a cylindrical shape and protruding from one surface thereof in order to receive part of the sleeve; and a cover engaged with an end portion of the rotor main wall and extending the rotor main wall, wherein at least two sealing portions are formed continuously between an internal circumferential surface, defined by the rotor main wall and the cover, and an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve and prevent leakage of a fluid used to lubricate the sleeve. | 13,512 |
8,804,284 | 1. A magnetic recording head comprising: a disk-facing surface configured to face a recording medium; a main pole configured to produce a recording magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to a recording layer of the recording medium; a trailing shield which is located on the trailing side of the main pole with a write gap therebetween and forms a first magnetic core in cooperation with the main pole; a first junction of a nonmagnetic material which connects the trailing shield and the main pole in a position off the disk-facing surface; a second junction which comprises a nonmagnetic conductive layer comprising a high-frequency oscillator and connects the trailing shield and an end portion of the main pole on side of the disk-facing surface; a first coil wound around the first magnetic core; a leading shield which is located on the leading side of the main pole, comprises a distal end portion opposed to the end portion of the main pole on side of the disk-facing surface with a nonmagnetic material therebetween and a junction connected to the main pole in a position off the disk-facing surface with a third junction of a magnetic material therebetween, and forms a second magnetic core in cooperation with the main pole; a second coil wound around the second magnetic core; and a connecting terminal configured to pass a current in series through the main pole, the nonmagnetic conductive layer, and the trailing shield, wherein a thickness of the third junction in a direction parallel to the disk-facing surface is smaller than that of the first junction in the same direction. | 34,687 |
9,358,643 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a layer of powder material on a hollow substrate comprising pressure side skin, suction side skin, a rib connecting the pressure side skin to the suction side skin, and protruding rib material protruding from the rib and past the suction and pressure side skins; and traversing an energy beam across the layer of powder material to form a cladding layer around and bonded to the protruding rib material, wherein the cladding layer defines a layer of an airfoil skin. | 26,008 |
8,555,821 | 1. A heat exchanger for a gas-fired condensing boiler, comprising, within a monolithic structure, a plurality of pairs of mutually opposite manifolds each connected respectively by a plurality of perforated pins inserted within a portion of space which is delimited by said structure and is designed to convey the products of combustion, said manifolds being adapted to provide the circulation of the fluid to be heated between an inlet connector and an outlet connector, said products of combustion being conveyed within said portion of space between a head of the heat exchanger, for location of a burner, and an evacuation duct located proximate to a bottom of the heat exchanger; said plurality of pairs of straight manifolds being arranged so as to be adjacent at two mutually opposite faces of the monolithic structure, one of the manifolds of the pairs provided proximate to a head and proximate to a bottom of the exchanger being provided with a connector respectively for the outflow and inflow of the fluid to be heated, each of the remaining manifolds being provided with ports for connection to the adjacent manifold. | 47,701 |
9,416,377 | 1. A method of making ethanol by fermentation of a ground whole grain product, comprising in a water mixture, contacting the ground whole grain product with a starch degrading enzyme and a cellulolytic enzyme preparation from fermenting the enhanced mash to produce ethanol, wherein an achieved yield of ethanol from the enhanced mash expressed as weight ethanol/weight solids content of the enhanced mash after 40 hours of an industrial plant scale fermentation is 2.3-7.4% greater than a comparative yield of ethanol made by fermenting a comparative mash made by an identical process as the enhanced mash and having the same solids content the enhanced mash, but that was not contacted with the cellulolytic enzyme preparation. | 18,747 |
8,491,000 | 1. A folding stroller, comprising: a stroller frame, having a supporting rack providing a first engaging site and a second engaging site; and a foldable and detachable seat, having a seat base and a seat back and capable of connecting to the stroller frame by engaging the first engaging site and the second engaging site, and capable of disengaging from the first engaging site by folding the seat back to the seat base completely, and thereafter disengaging from the second engaging site by pulling a releasing member mounted under the seat base. | 44,369 |
9,379,741 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an encoder to encode a plurality of information bits in accordance with any one of a plurality of memory depths thereby generating a plurality of signals; a processor, coupled to the encoder, to perform memory optimization including selecting a corresponding memory depth employed by the encoder for generating each of the plurality of signals; and a transmitter, coupled to at least one communication channel, to transmit the plurality of signals respectively via a plurality of service flows, wherein the plurality of memory depths is limited by a predetermined total memory depth that allows at least one but less than all of the plurality of signals to be encoded in accordance with a maximum per signal memory depth. | 47,772 |
8,835,142 | 1. A method for increasing the nutrient availability of carbohydrates in a native biomass material, the method comprising: comminuting a native biomass material comprising polysaccharides selected from the group consisting of cellulose, pectin, hemicellulose, lignocellulosic and mixtures thereof, to produce a starting biomass, wherein the starting biomass comprises less than 5% water, and wherein comminuting comprises shearing, cutting, crushing, smashing, or grinding; and treating the starting biomass material by irradiating the starting biomass material with a first electron beam irradiation to produce a first treated biomass material; cooling the first treated biomass material; and irradiating the first treated biomass material with a second electron beam irradiation to produce a second treated biomass material; thereby increasing the nutrient availability of the carbohydrates in the native biomass material; wherein nutrient availability is determined by mixing the second treated biomass with water, removing the liquid portion, and analyzing the removed liquid portion for glucose content, the first and second electron beam radiation is applied at a dose rate of 1 Mrad/s to 10 Mrad/s, and the first and second electron beam radiation power is selected from 1 kW, 5 kW, 10 kW, 20 kW, 50 kW, 100 kW, 250 kW, or 500 kW, and prior to irradiation substantially no chemicals or swelling agents are added to the biomass. | 14,255 |
8,692,002 | 1. A method of stereoselectively making a compound of formula (18): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which method comprises: (a) treating a compound of formula (12): (b) reacting the compound of formula (14) with a compound of formula (16): (c) removing the benzyl from the compound of formula (17) under suitable conditions to form a compound of formula (18), as described above; and (d) optionally converting the compound of formula (18) under suitable conditions to a pharmaceutically acceptable salt. | 4,508 |
9,839,484 | 1. A computer-implemented method for determining a hemodynamic pressure quantity, the method comprising: acquiring angiography data from a patient at a first physiological state of the patient, the first physiological state comprising a state of hyperemia, a state of rest, or a state of exercise, the angiography data comprising x-ray angiography data, magnetic resonance angiography data, and/or computed tomographic angiography data; determining, by a processor, a first flow in a blood vessel of the patient based on the angiography data, wherein the first flow corresponds to the first physiological state of the patient; determining, by the processor, a second flow in a blood vessel based on scaling the first flow by a numerical factor from the first physiological state to a second physiological state, the second physiological state comprising a state of hyperemia, a state of rest, or a state of exercise, wherein the second flow corresponds to the second physiological state of the patient that is different from the first physiological state of the patient; determining, by the processor, the hemodynamic pressure quantity based on the second flow; and reporting the hemodynamic pressure quantity. | 22,774 |
8,903,518 | 1. A control apparatus for a motor, which drives and controls a driven body in accordance with a predefined action pattern by repeating a positions command of a specific pattern, comprising: a position detection unit which detects position of said driven body; a positional error acquiring unit which acquires for each sampling cycle a positional error representing a deviation between said position command given to said motor and said position of said driven body detected by said position detection unit; a dead-zone processing unit which replaces said positional error that is located within the dead-zone range with zero and outputs the zero, when (i) said positional error acquired by said positional error acquiring unit lies within a predetermined dead-zone range and when (ii) a speed command to said motor has remained equal to or less than a prescribed value for a predetermined period of time, or the speed detected on said driven body has remained equal to or less than a prescribed value for a predetermined period of time; and a repetitive control unit which calculates an amount of correction such that said positional error output from said dead-zone processing unit is reduced to zero, and wherein said motor is controlled based on said positional error acquired by said positional error acquiring unit and said amount of correction calculated by said repetitive control unit, and wherein said repetitive control unit includes: a low-pass filtering unit which cuts off high-frequency components, a memory unit which follows said low-pass filtering unit and which holds said amount of correction for at least a period equal to one sampling cycle, and an adder which sums together a value obtained by multiplying an output of the memory unit by a gain smaller than 1 and said positional error output from said dead-zone processing unit, and wherein said sum generated by said adder is fed to the low-pass filtering unit. | 44,991 |
9,584,687 | 1. An image processing apparatus, which is connected to a network and processes an image, comprising: an image processing unit configured to perform an image processing for the image; an input unit configured to input a start-up instruction to start up the image processing unit via the network; a detection unit configured to detect that a first electric power is supplied to the image processing apparatus in a case where a supply cable, which supplies the first electric power to the image processing apparatus, is connected to an electrical outlet in a state that the supply cable is separated from the electrical outlet; a first storage unit, which is non-volatile, configured to store a first valid data indicating whether being in a valid state which is a state capable of accepting the start-up instruction; a second storage unit, which is volatile, configured to store a second valid data indicating whether being in the valid state; a determination unit configured to perform determination whether the first valid data is a data which indicates the valid state and determination whether the first valid data and the second valid data are different from each other upon detecting by the detection unit that the first electric power is supplied; a control unit configured to restrict a second electric power of the first electric power being supplied to the image processing unit, in a case where the first valid data is determined to be a data which indicates the valid state and the first valid data and the second valid data are determined to be different from each other, to perform settings so as to bring into the valid state upon the second electric power being restricted, and to bring the image processing apparatus into the valid state; a display unit configured to display a screen showing a state of the image processing apparatus or a setting related to the image processing; and a processing unit configured to perform processing based on a second program for executing a process of generating an image which is displayed on the screen, wherein the control unit is configured to restrict execution of the second program in a case where the first valid data is determined to be a data which indicates the valid state and the first valid data and the second valid data are determined to be different from each other. | 25,720 |
9,702,009 | 1. A testing device, comprising: a substrate divided into a plurality of locations thereon wherein, i) one of said plurality of locations has an oligonucleotide having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, or SEQ ID NO: 3 that bind to an oligonucleotide of IGFBP5; ii) another one of said locations having an oligonucleotide that binds to an oligonucleotide of LTB4DH; iii) another one of said locations having an oligonucleotide that binds to an oligonucleotide of HOXA13; iv) another one of said locations having an oligonucleotide that binds to an oligonucleotide of MDK; v) another of said locations having an oligonucleotide that binds to an oligonucleotide of CDC2; and vi) another one of said locations having an oligonucleotide that binds to an oligonucleotide of BAG 1 wherein each of the oligonucleotides are immobilized on the substrate. | 32,246 |
8,831,300 | 1. A system comprising: an image storage device configured to receive at least one historical image of at least a part of a patient, wherein the at least one historical image of the at least the part of the patient is associated with capture by at least one handheld mirror; an image playback device (i) configurable to present responsive to a medical expert specification related to at least a part of an image and (ii) operably couplable to said image storage device; and an image sequencing engine (i) operably couplable to said image playback device and (ii) configurable to present at least a part of the at least one historical image of the at least the part of the patient associated with capture by at least one handheld mirror in a time-lapse context. | 41,960 |
9,512,352 | 1. A stimulation fluid comprising particles, wherein the particles are included as proppant in the stimulation fluid, wherein the particles have three size ranges disjointed from one another, wherein a first size range includes nano-particles from about 7 nm to about 50 nm, wherein a second size range includes particles from about 0.05 microns to about 0.5 microns, and wherein a third size range includes particles from about 200 microns to about 800 microns, wherein the nano-particles consist of a particulate nano-silica and nano-boron, wherein the nano-particles are non-colloidal and coated, wherein the coating is degradable; wherein the nano-particles prevent fractures in a subterranean formation from fully closing upon the release of pressure therefrom and form conductive channels through which a fluid flows from or to the wellbore; and wherein the stimulation fluid has a density from about 12 pounds per gallon to about 20 pounds per gallon. | 26,701 |
8,582,460 | 1. A method of operating an access network including a plurality of data connections between end user devices and an aggregation transceiver device where the connections are aggregated for onward connection through the access network, the method comprising: storing a plurality of different profiles including one or more fully rate adaptive profiles and one or more rate capped profiles, each of which specifies a set of values for a plurality of parameters associated with each data connection; and, for each data connection, monitoring the performance of the connection; selecting one of said stored profiles to be applied to the connection in dependence on the results of monitoring the connection; and applying the selected profile to the data connection; wherein monitoring the connection includes measuring the variation in Signal to Noise ratio of received signals over a predetermined period of time and selecting a rate capped profile in the event that the variation exceeds a predetermined amount of variation, wherein each applied profile has a rate variable within a predetermined range. | 29,646 |
9,584,691 | 1. An illumination apparatus comprising: a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate; and a light guide, the light guide having: wherein in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the light guide, the first boss is arranged closer to the light entrance surface than both of the second boss and the third boss, and wherein, the second and the third boss are arranged further outward in the longitudinal direction than the plurality of light-emitting elements. | 15,373 |
8,508,113 | 1. A lamp assembly comprising: a lamp base housing a ballast for establishing an electrical connection to an external power source; a printed circuit board in operative connection with the lamp ballast, a first light source having two or more legs housing lead-in wires, the legs positioned for electrical connection to the lamp ballast by a plastic holder; and a second light source positioned adjacent the first light source by a fixing mechanism with lead-in wires of the second light source penetrating through the plastic holder and through the printed circuit board adjacent the plastic holder such that the lead-in wires of the second light source are electrically connected to the printed circuit board and the second light source is held and positioned by the lead wires thereof; wherein the fixing mechanism secures the first and second light sources in a predetermined compact configuration relative to one another, and spaces the second light source from the plastic holder such that heat generated by the second light source does not adversely affect the integrity of the plastic holder. | 2,191 |
8,665,105 | 1. A mobile computing device including: an interface device; a first near field communication (NFC) device; and a processor coupled with the interface device and the first NFC device, the processor being configured to | 38,567 |
8,821,601 | 1. A hydrogen generation device comprising: a hydrogen generating element comprising: wherein the thickness of the silicide layer is greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than 100 nm, and wherein the hydrogen generating element generates hydrogen by being in contact with water. | 28,744 |
8,894,235 | 1. An illumination device comprising: a light source unit having a plurality of light-emitting diodes arranged in a linear shape; a light-emergent face extending to one side from a vicinity of an area straightly under the light source unit; and a first reflective body extending to the same side to which the light-emergent face extends from a vicinity of an area straightly over the light source unit, wherein the first reflective body has a first reflective face configured to be closer to the light-emergent face as the first reflective body extends from the vicinity of the area straightly over the light source unit, and the light source unit is provided such that an optical axis of the light-emitting diode is inclined to the first reflective face with respect to a direction parallel to the light-emergent face, the light source unit configured to allow indirect light reflected from the first reflective body and direct light not reflected from the first reflective body to be concurrently emitted from the light-emergent face. | 27,598 |
9,126,389 | 1. An article comprising a coextruded multilayer film wherein the film comprises a sulfonic acid-containing polyester layer in direct contact with a polyamide layer and with a sealant layer, the film optionally also comprising a barrier layer; wherein the sulfonic acid-containing polyester is a sulfonic acid-containing copolymer consisting of units of sulfobenzenedicarboxylic acid, terephthalic acid, optionally other diacids selected from the group consisting of succinic acid, adipic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, glutaric acid, 1,10-decanedicarboxylic acid, phthalic acid, isophthalic acid and dodecanedioic acid, ethylene glycol and optionally one or more other diols selected from the group consisting of propylene glycol, methoxypolyalkylene glycol, neopentyl glycol, trimethylene glycol, tetramethylene glycol, hexamethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol and cyclohexane dimethanol, or a blend of a polyester and the sulfonic acid-containing copolymer; the polyester in the blend is polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, or combinations of two or more thereof; the sulfobenzenedicarboxylic acid is sulfobenzenedicarboxylic acid, a salt of the acid, an ester of the acid, an ester of the salt of the acid, or combinations of two or more thereof; and the barrier layer is at least one polymer including ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer, polyamide, polyvinylidene chloride, polyalkylene carbonate, or combinations of two or more thereof; wherein the sulfonic acid-containing polyester comprises from 0.01 to 5 mol % of the sulfobenzenedicarboxylic acid, and wherein the film can withstand submersion in water at 100° C. for 12 hours; the sealant layer is an outer layer and is polyester having a Tg below 65° C.; the film has a free shrink at 185° F. of at least 10% in one or both of the machine and transverse directions; and the film can withstand exposure to cooking conditions at 425° F. for 3 hours. | 10,840 |
8,539,275 | 1. A backlight driver, comprising: a first circuit for generating a count value by counting clock pulses, a second circuit for generating a control state for a light source in response to the count value, a third circuit for generating a drive voltage for the light source in response to the control state, and a fourth circuit for resetting the count value to zero in response to a received signal being low for a period that exceeds a predetermined timeout value, the predetermined timeout value being longer than a width of one of the clock pulses. | 42,065 |
9,623,095 | 1. A method for stimulating an immune response in an infant subject comprising, administering an effective amount of a composition comprising a purified mRNA encoding an influenza hemagglutinin (HA) virus antigen to the infant subject thereby stimulating an antigen-specific Th1 immune response in the subject, said infant subject being no more than 2 years of age, wherein the composition is administered via injection. | 47,156 |
9,632,302 | 1. An adjustable collimator for coupling a light guide to a microscope, the adjustable collimator comprising: a housing having a housing bore having a longitudinal axis; a housing flange adapted to mount the housing the microscope; a housing lens secured in the housing bore aligned with the longitudinal axis; a sleeve slidingly received in the housing bore; a sleeve bore aligned with the longitudinal axis; a sleeve lens secured in the sleeve bore aligned with the longitudinal axis; a sleeve fastener for adjustably securing the position of the sleeve within the housing bore such that a first distance between the housing lens and sleeve lens may be adjusted and fixed in order to vary a size of an illumination spot provided from said light guide via the adjustable collimator to the microscope; and a light guide fastener for adjustably securing said light guide within the sleeve bore such that a second distance between an output aperture of said light guide and the sleeve lens may be adjusted and fixed, wherein adjustment of said second distance between the output aperture of said light guide and the sleeve lens is adapted to generate a uniform and focused illumination field in said microscope. | 45,627 |
9,130,229 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising: a metal anode; an electrolyte; and a composite cathode, the composite cathode comprising a mixture of carbon monofluoride (CFx) and carbon-coated carbon monofluoride (C—CFx), the stoichiometric capacity ratio of carbon-treated carbon monofluoride to carbon monofluoride being in a range of from greater than 1:1 to 9:1. | 32,793 |
8,932,016 | 1. A deicing device for propfan-type aircraft propulsion unit blades, wherein the propulsion unit includes a turbomachine that drives in rotation, through a transmission system, at least one rotor including a plurality of blades arranged around an annular crown moving with the blades, which forms with an outer wall of the annular crown part of an outer envelope of the propulsion unit, the outer envelope being subjected to atmospheric conditions outside the propulsion unit, the turbomachine generating a flow of hot gases that exit via a substantially annular vein, which is concentric with the moving annular crown, and defined in part by an inner wall of the moving annular crown, the deicing device comprising: at least one hot air collection point that captures thermal energy from the annular vein, the at least one hot air collection point being on the inner wall of the annular crown; a duct that transfers the thermal energy from the annular vein towards the blades; and means for distributing the thermal energy onto at least a part of a surface of the blades. | 1,304 |
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