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8,440,906 | 1. A method of forming a bulk layer substantially free of organic material, comprising: a. depositing a first solution of nanocrystals onto a substrate to form a nanocrystal film; and b. heating the nanocrystal film at a temperature of about 200-400 C in an oxygen containing atmosphere to substantially remove any organic material, such that the nanocrystal film recrystallizes and undergoes a crystal grain growth, thereby forming the bulk layer substantially free of organic material, wherein the formed bulk layer has a thickness of about 100-200 nm. | 6,877 |
8,972,511 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a risk analysis module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device, the risk analysis module configured to receive, from a source communication device, a message addressed to a destination communication device and having an untracked attachment, the risk analysis module configured to analyze content of the untracked attachment to determine a risk level associated with the content of the untracked attachment; and a file tracking module, remote from the destination communication device, configured to define, based on the untracked attachment, a tracked attachment in response to the risk level satisfying a criterion, the file tracking module configured to send a message having the tracked attachment to the destination communication device such that the tracked attachment sends periodic requests for updates from the destination communication device to the file tracking module, the file tracking module configured to receive, from the destination communication device, a confirmation in response to the tracked attachment being opened at the destination communication device. | 19,311 |
9,007,896 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a network device, a plurality of calls from user devices; identifying, by the network device, destinations associated with the plurality of calls, wherein a first portion of the plurality of calls are to be forwarded toward a first destination; forwarding, by the network device, the plurality of calls toward the identified destinations; receiving, by the network device, failure responses associated with at least some of the first portion of the plurality of calls, wherein the failure responses indicate that the at least some of the first portion of the plurality of calls were unable to be completed; determining whether the failure responses associated with calls forwarded toward the first destination indicate a problem associated with forwarding calls toward the first destination, wherein the determining whether the failure responses indicate a problem comprises: receiving, by the network device, a second plurality of calls, wherein a second portion of the second plurality of calls are associated with the first destination; and blocking, by the network device, when the failure responses associated with calls forwarded toward the first destination indicate a problem, at least some of the second portion of calls from being forwarded toward the first destination, and wherein the automatically determining whether the failure responses match at least one of a plurality of predefined patterns comprises: | 8,987 |
8,935,911 | 1. A fuel spray apparatus for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a pilot part configured to spray fuel to be used for a diffusion combustion; a main part provided so as to surround the pilot part and configured to inject a pre-mixed gas only upon a high power operation; a shield body constituting a purge air passage which is configured to take therein an air flowed on an upstream side relative to a fuel injection port of the main part as a purge air, and to blow off a fuel dripping from the fuel injection port toward a main air passage of the main part; a guide tube provided downstream of the fuel injection port of the main part and connected with a radially outward end of the fuel injection port, such that the purge air passes through the outside of the guide tube and the fuel dripping can be blown off from the guide tube by the purge air; and wherein the purge air passage is provided in a position opposite to a main fuel passage communicated with the fuel injection port across the shield body, wherein a heat insulating space is provided between the main fuel passage and the shield body, wherein an internal diameter of the guide tube is larger than a diameter of the fuel injection port, a shroud covering the main fuel passage and the shield body, wherein the shroud is provided with an intake port and a discharge port for the purge air, wherein the purge air passage is provided between an inner face of an outer circumferential wall of the shroud and the shield body, and wherein the shroud comprises a wall having an upstream end and a downstream end, the intake port and the discharge port being located between the upstream end and the downstream end of the wall. | 36,903 |
8,606,430 | 1. Method to display a graphic upon a transparent screen of a vehicle to be communicated outside of the vehicle, the graphic describing a desired communication, comprising: at an enhanced vision system (EVS) system manager: at a graphics projection system, displaying the graphic upon a transparent screen comprises one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the screen permitting luminescent display while permitting transmission therethrough. | 35,161 |
9,120,712 | 1. A method of forming liquid hydrocarbons, the method comprising mixing a levulinic acid salt-containing feedstock with a formic acid salt; exposing the mixture to a high temperature condition between 200° C. and 600° C., inclusive, to form hydrocarbon vapor; and condensing said hydrocarbon vapor to form liquid hydrocarbons; wherein both said formic acid salt and said levulinic acid salt-containing feedstock decompose at said high temperature condition and wherein one or more of the mixing, exposing, and condensing steps is carried out at a pressure between about vacuum and about 10 bar. | 39,120 |
9,076,080 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a diagnostic image analyzer comprising an image classifier coupled to a controller; wherein the controller is configured to implement an image processing engine for performing at least a portion of a classification operation on at least a portion of an image, the image processing engine comprising an interconnection of at least one image planner element, a plurality of image scrutinizer elements and at least one image aggregator element; wherein the image planner element is configured to organize the plurality of image scrutinizer elements into two or more logical groups of image scrutinizer elements based at least in part on one or more criteria to be used in performing the classification operation; wherein a given one of the logical groups comprises two or more image scrutinizer elements corresponding to different ones of two or more processing layers for one or more specified comparison criteria; and wherein at least a portion of the classification operation is processed by the given logical group by propagating at least a portion of the image from a higher one of the processing layers to a lower one of the processing layers in the logical group responsive to matching one or more specified comparison thresholds for said one or more specified comparison criteria at the higher layer. | 7,018 |
8,366,929 | 1. A spacing member keeping spacing between filtration membranes of membrane elements arranged with the filtration membranes opposed to each other, the membrane element having the filtration membranes on a flat part of the membrane element, the spacing member comprising at least one spacer section keeping the spacing between the filtration membranes between the membrane elements across the membrane element in a direction of a membrane surface cleaning stream flowing along a filtration membrane surface of the membrane element, wherein the at least one spacer section is a member different from the membrane element, the at least one spacer section is disposed between the membrane elements over a height of the membrane element, and the spacing member divides an area wherein the membrane surface cleaning stream flows into at least two sections in a width direction of the membrane element. | 12,192 |
9,622,381 | 1. An adsorption heat pump comprising: an evaporator configured to generate vapor of a coolant; a first adsorber and a second adsorber each containing an adsorbent to adsorb the vapor of the coolant generated in the evaporator; a condenser configured to condense the vapor of the coolant generated in any of the first adsorber and the second adsorber; and a control unit configured to feed the condenser with cooling water for condensation of the vapor of the coolant, and to feed the condenser with warm water for evaporation of the coolant at predetermined timing, wherein the condenser is connected to a cooling water supply source and a warm water supply source, and when the control unit feeds the condenser with the cooling water, the control unit supplies the cooling water from the cooling water supply source to the condenser, and returns the cooling water, which is passed through the condenser, to the cooling water supply source, and when the control unit feeds the condenser with the warm water, the control unit supplies the warm water from the warm water supply source to the condenser, and returns the warm water, which is passed through the condenser, to the warm water supply source. | 39,874 |
9,225,890 | 1. An image processing system comprising a portable information device and an image processing device, the portable information device including a shooting portion to shoot an image of a subject, a shooting control portion to control the shooting portion while the shooting control portion is in a shooting state, and a remote operation portion to remotely operate the image processing device, the image processing device including an image processing portion to process image data and a remote control portion to control the image processing portion in accordance with a remote operation command received from the portable information device, the remote operation portion including a cooperation notice portion to give a notice to the image processing device to indicate a cooperation state of cooperating with the shooting control portion, the shooting control portion including a transmission portion to transmit image data output by the shooting portion shooting an image of a subject to the image processing device while the shooting control portion is in the shooting state and while the remote operation portion is remotely controlling the image processing device, the remote control portion including an input mode switch portion to switch an input mode to an external input mode in which the portable information device is set as an input source of data to be input to the image processing portion, after the notice indicating the cooperation state is given. | 1,221 |
8,800,530 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: a combustion chamber at least partially defined within a cylinder bore by a reciprocating piston having a piston crown with a concave bowl, said concave bowl being offset with respect to a centerline of the reciprocating piston; an intake plenum; a first intake port; a second intake port disposed adjacent one diametrical end of a cross section of the combustion chamber; a fuel injector disposed in the second intake port and operable to deliver a preselected amount of fuel therein to mix with air from the intake plenum and form a rich air/fuel mixture; a first intake valve configured to selectively fluidly connect the intake plenum with the combustion chamber through the first intake port to provide one of air and a lean air/fuel mixture to the combustion chamber; a second intake valve configured to selectively fluidly connect the intake plenum with the combustion chamber through the second intake port to provide a stream of the rich air/fuel mixture to the combustion chamber, the second intake valve configured to actuate at a timing independent of the first intake valve; and an ignition device positioned in the combustion chamber, wherein the concave bowl is disposed adjacent to the one diametrical end of the combustion chamber, aligned with the second intake port, and disposed to directly receive therein the stream of the rich air/fuel mixture from the second intake port such that the concave bowl directs the rich air/fuel mixture towards the ignition device to create a stratified air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber prior to combustion. | 17,100 |
8,567,180 | 1. A diesel engine having an inlet side and an outlet side provided with at least one inlet valve and one outlet valve per cylinder, comprising a reformer catalyst unit comprising a catalyst located downstream of the outlet valve(s) and located such that a proportion of hot exhaust passes through the catalyst whilst the remainder of the hot exhaust passes to a turbocharger, exhaust gas aftertreatment, or both, wherein the catalyst unit is provided with diesel fuel supply means such that diesel fuel may be injected to provide heat to the reformer catalyst to raise it to an effective reforming temperature, wherein the catalyst unit is located within an exhaust manifold or a cylinder head. | 13,503 |
8,677,755 | 1. A process for management of thermal effluents of an aircraft that comprises an airframe and at least one propulsion system, wherein the at least one propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine that is supplied with fuel via a fuel supply circuit that extends from a reservoir that is arranged at the airframe, and at least one engine cooling circuit that includes a first air/oil engine exchanger for evacuating calories from the gas turbine engine, and wherein the airframe includes at least one source of thermal effluents, the process comprising using the fuel that is flowing to the gas turbine engine to at least partially dissipate at the at least one propulsion system the thermal effluents that are generated by the at least one source of thermal effluents in the airframe, wherein at least a portion of the heat from the at least one source of thermal effluents in the airframe and that is conveyed by the fuel flowing to the gas turbine engine is collected by the coolant of said at least one engine cooling circuit and dissipated by the first air/oil engine exchanger so as to keep the temperature of the fuel flowing to the gas turbine engine below a certain threshold; and the process further comprising isolating the fuel flowing to the gas turbine engine from the at least one airframe cooling circuit when a failure at the level of the at least one engine cooling circuit is detected. | 39,085 |
9,124,188 | 1. A system for a power converter, the system comprising: a first part of an integrator component configured to receive a first signal and a second signal and generate, with a second part of the integrator component, a third signal, the integrator component including the first part and the second part; a comparator configured to process information associated with the third signal and a sensed signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the third signal and the sensed signal, the sensed signal being associated with a current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter; a signal generator configured to receive the comparison signal and generate a modulation signal; and a gate driver configured to receive the modulation signal and output a drive signal to a switch, the switch being configured to affect the current flowing through the primary winding; wherein the drive signal is associated with at least one or more switching periods; wherein: wherein: | 24,153 |
8,782,222 | 1. A system for optimizing resources used for keep-alive message signaling in a mobile network, the system, comprising: a local proxy on a mobile device; a proxy server coupled to a content source, the proxy server being able to communicate over the mobile network with the local proxy on the mobile device; wherein, the proxy server detects a rate of content change at the content source; wherein, the proxy server sets or adjusts timing of keep-alive messages sent to the mobile device based on the rate of content change; wherein the timing of the keep-alive messages is further determined using different polling rates for the content polls of the multiple applications on the mobile device detected by the local proxy. | 29,552 |
8,419,900 | 1. An apparatus for pretreatment for saccharification of lignocellulose biomass comprising a mixing unit which mixes lignocellulose biomass and ammonia, a first heating unit which heats a biomass-ammonia mixture provided by the mixing unit, a separation unit which separates ammonia gas from the biomass-ammonia mixture heated by the first heating unit to obtain a biomass-water mixture, a transfer unit which transfers the biomass-water mixture separated by the separation unit to a later step, an ammonia water supply unit which supplies ammonia water having an ammonia concentration of 5 to 35 wt % to the mixing unit, and an ammonia recovery unit which recovers ammonia gas as ammonia water by dissolving ammonia gas separated by the separation unit in water, a first heat exchanger recovering heat from ammonia gas separated by the separation unit, a second heat exchanger recovering heat from the biomass-water mixture separated by the separation unit, and a heat supply unit supplying heat recovered from the first and second heat exchangers to the first heating unit. | 7,880 |
9,406,961 | 1. A method for preparing an electrolyte for a vanadium redox flow battery by mixing two vanadium electrolytes having different oxidation numbers, the electrolyte having an oxidation number of +3.5 and being usable for both a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the method comprising: conducting a first electrolyte preparing procedure of mixing vanadium oxide and an acidic solution to prepare a vanadium electrolyte having an oxidation number range of +3.5 to +5, as a first electrolyte; conducting a second electrolyte preparing procedure of mixing vanadium oxide and an acidic solution to prepare a vanadium electrolyte having an oxidation number range of +2 to +3.5, as a second electrolyte; conducting a mixed electrolyte preparing procedure of mixing the first electrolyte and the second electrolyte prepared by the first electrolyte preparing procedure and the second electrolyte procedure to prepare a mixed electrolyte; conducting a mixed electrolyte supplying procedure of supplying the prepared mixed electrolyte to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a stack; conducting a positive electrolyte and negative electrolyte separating procedure of separating a positive electrolyte and a negative electrolyte from each other by supplying electric energy to the stack, further comprising after the mixed electrolyte preparing procedure, conducting a mixed electrolyte oxidation number checking procedure of checking the oxidation number of the mixed electrolyte by comparing the mixed electrolyte with a reference electrolyte having a median oxidation number of the first and second electrolytes used as the positive electrolyte and the negative electrolyte of the vanadium redox flow battery; and before the mixed electrolyte supplying procedure, conducting an oxidation number matching procedure of further adding the first electrolyte or the second electrolyte until the oxidation number of the mixed electrolyte, checked in the mixed electrolyte oxidation number checking procedure, is the same as the oxidation number of the reference electrolyte, the mixed electrolyte having the same oxidation number as the reference electrolyte being supplied to the stack in the mixed electrolyte supplying procedure. | 39,100 |
9,652,110 | 1. A relaying device configured to communicate with an image processing device and a specific server via a network, the specific server configured to store M pieces of image data having two or more data types in N folders, wherein the M being an integer more than 1 and the N being an integer more than 1, the specific server configured to store N pieces of folder type information regarding the N folders, each of the N pieces of folder type information being information for indicating which type of image data being to be stored, the relaying device comprising: a processor; a network interface; and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the relaying device to perform: acquiring, from the specific server via the network interface, the N pieces of folder type information; acquiring, from the image processing device via the network interface, folder selection instruction information indicating a selected folder selected from among the N folders; acquiring, from the specific server via the network interface, M pieces of image data identification information for identifying the M pieces of image data stored in the specific server; generating image data selection screen data for causing a display unit of the image processing device to display an image data selection screen, in a case where the N pieces of folder type information and the M pieces of image data identification information are acquired from the specific server and the folder selection instruction information is acquired from the image processing device, outputting the generated image data selection screen data so that the network interface sends the image data selection screen data to the image processing device; and executing a process for causing the image processing device to acquire image data identified by the specific image data identification information acquired from the image processing device that is a destination of the image data selection screen data, in a case where the specific image data identification information is acquired from the image processing device that is the destination of the image data selection screen data after outputting the image data selection screen data to the image processing device, wherein the generating of the image data selection screen data includes: | 35,530 |
8,908,677 | 1. A method of controlling end-to-end communication in a communications network providing at least a first or path or link and a second path or link between a first and a second network element, wherein each of the first path or link and the second path or link includes at least one further network element, the method comprising the following steps being performed by a control node: monitoring traffic in the communications network, determining, based on the traffic in the communications network, the number of paths or links needed between the first and second network element, and in response to determining, based on the traffic load, that not all available paths or links are needed: (a) selecting at least one path or link, (b) rerouting any traffic that uses the selected at least one path or link to at least one alternative path or link, and (c) ordering any network elements not carrying traffic after the rerouting to go into a standby mode in which the power consumption in the elements is reduced, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring incoming packets based on at least one of the following fields: source and destination IP address, source and destination port, layer Ethernet headers, including data regarding virtual network services, Type-of-service byte, input physical and logical interface, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)/Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)/MPLS Transport Profile Label Switched Path (MPLS-TP LSP) end points, and Layer identifying, based on the monitored information, packets belonging to the same flow, and steering such packets to the same path or link. | 27,624 |
8,605,215 | 1. An electronic photo album wallet comprising: a body that includes one or more pockets for storing credit cards, and one or more pockets for storing money; and a portable electronic photo album that includes: | 29,961 |
9,696,045 | 1. An air conditioner comprising: a converter circuit that is on an electronic substrate and converts an alternating current to a direct current; an inverter circuit that is on the electronic substrate and converts the direct current converted by the converter circuit to an alternating current to operate a motor that drives a compressor; an inverter control circuit that is on the electronic substrate and drives the inverter circuit; and a temperature detector that detects an outside air temperature input to the inverter control circuit, wherein the inverter control circuit includes a locked energization control unit, and the locked energization control unit configured to selectively perform one of AC locked energization and DC locked energization on the motor in accordance with the outside air temperature detected by the temperature detector, the locked energization control unit is configured to divide the outside air temperature into three temperature ranges by a first set temperature and a second set temperature that is lower than the first set temperature, the locked energization control unit is configured to control heating to both the compressor and the electronic substrate by the DC locked energization in response to the outside air temperature being equal to or lower than the second set temperature, and the locked energization control unit is configured to control heating to the compressor by the AC locked energization in response to the outside air temperature being higher than the second set temperature and is equal to or lower than the first set temperature. | 9,184 |
9,403,527 | 1. Hybrid automotive vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, an electric machine connected to an energy storage system, each of the internal combustion engine and the electric machine being adapted to deliver torque to a driveline of the vehicle, means to estimate, during a mission of the vehicle, a temperature of the energy storage system at a beginning of a next mission of the vehicle, means to determine if the current mission of the vehicle is about to end, means to charge the energy storage system, subsequent to the determining means determining that the vehicle is approaching the end of the mission, on a basis of the temperature estimation before an end of a current mission of the vehicle, if the estimated temperature is below a threshold value, and means to discharge the energy storage system at a beginning of a next mission of the vehicle before or after a starting phase of the internal combustion engine to meet a low target state of charge lower than a normal operating state of charge used when the temperature estimated is above the threshold value and once the energy storage system reaches the low target state of charge, maintain the state of charge around the low target state of charge until temperature exceeds the threshold value. | 34,258 |
8,479,500 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment system for an internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust gas conduit in fluid communication with, and configured to receive an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine; a selective catalytic reduction device comprising a flow-through substrate packaged in a rigid canister having an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust gas in the exhaust gas conduit; a selective catalytic reduction composition disposed on the flow-through substrate for reduction of oxides of nitrogen (“NO a particulate filter device having a wall-flow substrate configured to filter the exhaust gas of carbon and other particulates disposed in the rigid canister downstream of the selective catalytic reduction device; a dosing system comprising a controller in signal communication with a NO an ammonia-neutral oxidation catalyst compound, that is substantially un-reactive with respect to ammonia in the exhaust gas, is dispersed into the wall-flow substrate of the particulate filter device and configured to pass-through ammonia constituents of the exhaust gas exiting the selective catalytic reduction device such that little or none of the ammonia is converted to NO | 26,216 |
9,284,242 | 1. A method comprising: providing cellulosic biomass solids in a digestion solvent to a hydrothermal digestion unit; heating the cellulosic biomass solids and the digestion solvent in the presence of molecular hydrogen and a slurry catalyst capable of activating molecular hydrogen, thereby forming a phenolics liquid phase comprising lignin, an aqueous phase comprising an alcoholic component derived from the cellulosic biomass solids, and an optional light organics phase, in the hydrothermal digestion unit, wherein the slurry catalyst being at least partially distributed in the cellulosic biomass solids using upwardly directed fluid flow and at least a portion of the slurry catalyst accumulating in the phenolics liquid phase as it forms; forming a combined phase comprising at least a portion of the phenolics liquid phase and at least a portion of the aqueous phase by combining at least the phenolics liquid phase and the aqueous phase with one another; upwardly circulating at least a portion of the combined phase through the cellulosic biomass solids in the hydrothermal digestion unit to provide at least a portion of the upwardly directed fluid flow; and separating at least a portion of the alcoholic component from at least a portion of the combined phase external to the hydrothermal digestion unit. | 17,663 |
9,020,473 | 1. A content sharing system constituted by mutually connecting a plurality of terminal devices capable of mutually performing a voice call and data communication, switching equipment which mediates the voice call between each of the terminal devices, and a content sharing server which mediates the data communication between each of the terminal devices, wherein each of the terminal devices comprises: a voice call module which performs the voice call; a content sharing application which generates an incremental update command in response to a user operation done by one of the terminal devices made on a same content stored inside the both terminals for reflecting a content of the operation upon the same content in the other terminal device, and transmits it to the other terminal device; a first and a second communication control units which perform the data communication with either one of a first and a second communication protocols; and a protocol selection unit which selects either one of the first and second communication protocols according to states of each of the terminal devices, transmits it to the content sharing server as a desired protocol, and employs a determined protocol received from the content sharing server as the communication protocol. | 25,064 |
9,023,214 | 1. A method of applying plasma particles to a liquid comprising the steps of: passing an input stream of liquid into a chamber through a nozzle that atomizes said liquid, wherein the pressure of said liquid before said nozzle is in the range of 1 to 100 atm, wherein the pressure inside said chamber is lower than the vapor pressure of said liquid, wherein said pressure inside said chamber is in the range of 0.1 atm to 0.8 atm; obtaining within said chamber a biphasic mixture having a gas portion formed by adiabatic evaporation of a portion of said liquid and having droplets of said liquid suspended within said gas portion; igniting a plasma state in said gas portion of said biphasic mixture within said chamber by applying an electric field the voltage of which exceeds the threshold of breakdown voltage of the biphasic medium, wherein said electric field is generated by applying an electric current of at least 10,000 Volts to a set of electrodes positioned within said biphasic mixture; sustaining said plasma state in said mixture by applying an electric current having a voltage of between 500 Volts and 4,000 Volts; and condensing said biphasic mixture following said igniting and said sustaining said plasma state to obtain an output stream of liquid, wherein the pressure of liquid in said output stream after said chamber is in the range of 0.5 atm to 4 atm. | 30,242 |
9,307,473 | 1. A method for switching between different network standards, comprising the following steps performed by a terminal: when switch is to be performed, sorting in a history record target cells corresponding to a source cell which the terminal is leaving, to form a search list, choosing the target cell from the search list and accessing the target cell; before the sorting in the history record the target cells corresponding to the source cell which the terminal is leaving, further comprising: comparing a cell identity (ID) of the cell which the terminal is leaving with cell IDs of source cells in the history record, and determining that the cell which the terminal is leaving belongs to the source cells when the cell ID of the cell which the terminal is leaving is identical to the cell ID of one of the source cells in the history record. | 14,172 |
8,738,192 | 1. A method for operating a wind turbine having at least one blade, said method comprising: determining an ambient air operating envelope comprises: controlling a power output of the wind turbine at least partially based on the determined ambient air operating envelope. | 8,979 |
9,604,519 | 1. An assembly for supporting a vehicle chassis on a wheel of the vehicle, the assembly comprising: a wheel attachment component for attaching the assembly to a wheel; a chassis attachment component for attaching the assembly to a chassis of the vehicle; a suspension component; a first adjustment element coupled with the chassis attachment component and coupled with a first portion of the suspension component; a second adjustment element coupled with the chassis attachment component and coupled with the first portion of the suspension component, the first and second adjustment elements configured to shift the first portion of the suspension component between a plurality of operating positions relative to the chassis attachment component; a first strut bar coupled with the wheel attachment component and coupled with a second portion of the suspension component; and a second strut bar coupled with the wheel attachment component and coupled with the second portion of the suspension component, the suspension component configured to regulate motion transfer between the wheel attachment component and the chassis attachment component. | 20,088 |
9,078,215 | 1. A radio frequency (RF) transmitter comprising: a programmable-current transmit continuous-time filter (TX-CTF) including a programmable-current first CTF stage having an input configured to receive a baseband transmission signal, first CTF stage amplifier circuitry, and programmable first CTF stage current circuitry configured to provide a first stage bias current generated in response to first digital programming data to the first CTF stage amplifier circuitry, the programmable-current TX-CTF further including a programmable-current second CTF stage having an input configured to receive an output of the programmable-current first CTF stage, second CTF stage amplifier circuitry, and programmable second CTF stage current circuitry configured to provide a second stage bias current generated in response to second digital programming data to the second CTF stage amplifier circuitry; and control logic configured, in response to the one or more transmitter control signals, to produce the first and second digital programming data. | 37,489 |
9,346,726 | 1. A process for producing a composition comprising D-mannitol crystals, of which more than 97% of the dry matter thereof consists of D-mannitol, said process comprising the steps of: producing an initial stock solution of D-mannitol in a solvent, and in the presence of an auxiliary agent, evaporating said solvent so as to carry out the crystallization of the D-mannitol, through a seeding phase and a crystal growth phase, wherein: during the seeding phase: an evaporation rate by mass of between 0.08 and 0.5 kg of solvent/h/kg of initial stock solution is applied; during the growth phase: an evaporation rate by mass of between 0.005 and 0.1 kg of solvent/h/kg of initial stock solution is applied; the evaporation rate during the seeding phase is different from the evaporation rate during the growth phase; the evaporation step is carried out with stirring and under an absolute vacuum of between 50 mbar and 100 mbar; the solvent is water; and the auxiliary agent is sorbitol. | 43,811 |
8,798,190 | 1. A communications device comprising: an encoder configured to generate digital baseband In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) signals; a processor coupled to said encoder and configured to a power amplifier coupled downstream from said processor and configured to generate an amplified I and Q signal based upon the at least one envelope characteristic. | 34,156 |
9,817,133 | 1. A heat controlling apparatus for a detector of a CT machine, comprising: a heat conducting frame, which is disposed at a side where a chip on a circuit board in said detector is located; a heater, which thermally contacts with said heat conducting frame and is used for heating said heat conducting frame; a heat dissipating member, which is connected with said heat conducting frame and used for dissipating heat produced by said detector; and a heat isolating member, which is wrapped at a periphery of a collimator of said detector, said heat conducting frame and said heater. | 29,595 |
9,079,061 | 1. An exercise vehicle comprising: a. a frame; and, b. wheels with a set of two drive wheels either in the front or back attached to the frame; and, c. a movable seat attached to the frame designed to carry an individual; and, d. moveable handle bars; and, e. a means to powering the vehicle that drives the wheels through the movement of the handlebars; and, f. a cable means attached to the seat to allow the seat to work in conjunction with the handlebars to provide power for the vehicle; and, g. a means for steering the vehicle attached to the frame; and, h. a stand that fits under the set of two drive wheels of the exercise vehicle and allows the wheels to turn without the vehicle moving; and, i. the stand comprises: | 4,976 |
9,413,636 | 1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, identifying all one-hop neighbor nodes and two-hop neighbor nodes of a node; determining an active set of one-hop neighbor nodes for the node, comprising: | 43,429 |
9,266,942 | 1. A non-naturally occurring factor H binding protein (fHbp), comprising a non-naturally occurring amino acid sequence, contiguously from its N-terminus to C-terminus: wherein the V wherein combination of alleles for each of the variable segments is not found in nature, and wherein: the V the I the V the I the V the I the V the I the V | 23,594 |
8,731,083 | 1. A receiver for receiving information transmitted concurrently by using a plurality of sub-carriers, comprising: a channel estimation unit for calculating a channel estimation value with respect to each of the plurality of sub-carriers; and an RSRP estimation unit for estimating a reference signal received power of the information on the basis of channel estimation values calculated by the channel estimation unit; wherein, in the case of a narrow band in which the number of sub-carriers to be used for the concurrent transmission is smaller than a predetermined value, the RSRP estimation unit carries out processes in an order of time-wise in-phase addition, frequency-wise averaging, and conjugate multiplication, with respect to the channel estimation values estimated by the channel estimation unit; and in the case of a wide band in which the number of sub-carriers to be used for the concurrent transmission is greater than the predetermined value, the RSRP estimation unit carries out processes in an order of frequency-wise averaging, conjugate multiplication, and time-wise in-phase addition, with respect to the channel estimation values estimated by the channel estimation unit. | 31,741 |
9,066,568 | 1. A portable apparatus for the steam treatment of hair comprising: a liquid tank, means for supplying liquid for a steam generator comprising a vaporization chamber in thermal contact with an electric heating element, the vaporization chamber communicating with one or a plurality of openings for dispensing steam to a lock of hair, and a hair shaping device comprising at least one treatment surface designed to come into contact with said lock of hair, characterized in that the generator is supplied with liquid by an electric pump, and wherein the vaporization chamber comprises a bottom plate equipped with a liquid intake opening and at least one outlet opening for the steam generated and a top plate, wherein the steam is made to circulate between the top plate and bottom plate by at least two paths formed by a plurality of baffles and the steam formed in the at least two paths is rejoined in a buffer zone formed between the baffles and a wall comprising the at least one outlet opening. | 11,387 |
9,840,658 | 1. A process for preparing a flooding fluid for use in petroleum recovery operations, the process comprising the steps of: providing an input fluid; providing a powder composition including a polymer material and an oxygen scavenger; wherein said oxygen scavenger is selected from the group consisting of alkali metal borohydrides, alkali metal dithionites, and combinations thereof and is present in a ratio by weight of oxygen scavenger to oxygen scavenger/polymer material in the range from 1/10 mixing the powder composition and the input fluid. | 18,256 |
8,700,972 | 1. A computer system, comprising: a power management unit (PMU); a memory management unit (MMU); and a central processing unit (CPU) chip comprising a CPU and a memory having a plurality of ways, wherein the CPU is configured to determine a scheduled mode of operation of the computer system, and wherein the MMU is configured to receive a control signal from the PMU, the control signal indicating the scheduled mode of operation of the computer system, to determine, responsive to the scheduled mode of operation a ratio of data ways to error correction code (ECC) ways of the plurality of ways, and to configure the memory according to determined ratio. | 36,935 |
9,047,444 | 1. A method of registering an application on a mobile terminal in a mobile network with an application server, said mobile terminal comprising a subscriber identity module (SIM), said method comprising: a) receiving at the application server a first message for registering the application, said first message comprising a telephone number associated with the SIM; b) subsequently generating at the application server a unique identifier and associating the unique identifier with the telephone number; c) still later, sending a second message from the application server to the mobile terminal, said second message comprising the unique identifier; d) generating and storing in a non-transient memory medium at the mobile terminal an unencrypted data block comprising (i) the unique identifier, (ii) a subscriber identity associated with the SIM and (iii) a terminal identifier associated with the mobile terminal; e) thereafter, before permitting use of the thus-registered application, (1) directly comparing, at the mobile terminal using only data locally stored therein, the unencrypted subscriber identity locally stored in the data block with the unencrypted subscriber identity locally obtained from the SIM to determine whether they match and (2) also directly comparing, at the unencrypted mobile terminal using only data unencrypted locally stored therein, the data block with the unencrypted terminal identifier locally obtained from the mobile terminal to determine whether they match; and f) permitting use of the registered applications only when a match is determined by both of the comparing steps in order to prevent use of the registered application with a different SIM or with tampered identity data. | 40,829 |
9,485,956 | 1. A pet stroller, comprising: a frame assembly including: a handle; a platform member pivotably connected to rear wheel assemblies, with the platform member defining a platform base in a use position; a platform enclosure member connected to the frame assembly that in the use position is generally parallel to the platform member; and rear wheel struts, the handle has a handle portion that is located between two ends that extend away from the handle portion, the handle is connected to the rear wheel struts by rear pivot blocks spaced apart from the two ends, and two front strut members, the two ends are connected by front pivot blocks to tops of the two front strut members; movable lock assemblies are located on the handle adjacent to the ends that are lockable to the front pivot blocks such that the handle is generally aligned with the front strut members in a use position of the stroller with the lock assemblies engaged with respective ones of the front pivot blocks; a front cross bar connected between the front strut members and a front wheel assembly is located below the front cross bar; and the rear wheel assemblies are located at bottom ends of the rear wheel struts; a cloth platform enclosure connected to the platform enclosure member and the handle which defines a base and a sidewall of a pet seating area; upper and lower canopy bars pivotably connected to the frame assembly to extend or retract a canopy over the pet seating area, the upper and the lower canopy bars are pivotally connected to the handle at points spaced apart from the two ends to extend or retract the canopy over the pet seating area; and the canopy comprises a cloth canopy assembly connected to the handle and the upper and lower canopy bars; and a latch assembly that clamps the lower canopy bar to the platform enclosure member to form an enclosed pet seating area. | 24,683 |
8,479,658 | 1. A covering for a bogie of a rail vehicle, the covering comprising: a peripheral wall for engaging around the bogie and an attachment device for rotationally guiding said peripheral wall at an upper edge thereof on a car body of said rail vehicle such that a rotation of said peripheral wall, by means of a termination part connected to an axle of the rail vehicle, corresponds in each case to a rotation of the bogie; and said peripheral wall having a lower edge; and said termination part covering said peripheral wall at said lower edge and having attachment devices for mounting said termination part on the bogie. | 28,876 |
9,391,318 | 1. Active material particles for a lithium secondary battery, comprising a plurality of secondary particles, each secondary particle being composed of an aggregate of a plurality of primary particles of a lithium transition metal oxide and a hollow portion formed inside the each secondary particle, wherein the lithium transition metal oxide is a compound having a layered structure that contains nickel as a constituent element thereof, the each secondary particle constitutes an outer shell of the active material particle, the outer shell has through holes that penetrate the outer shell to the hollow portion from the outside, wherein the through holes connect the outside of each active material particle and the hollow portion thereof along a straight line that passes through the through holes, and wherein the average number of through holes is 1 to 10 per particle of the each secondary particle, and BET specific surface area of the active material particles is from 0.5 to 1.9 m | 32,672 |
9,781,337 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an imaging element configured to capture an image; and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to: | 49,887 |
8,446,753 | 1. A non-volatile memory comprising: a plurality of memory cells; a first reference circuit; a second reference circuit, wherein the first reference circuit and the second reference circuit are coupled to a common word line; circuitry configured to: a column decode circuit; and a row decode circuit; wherein the first reference circuit is configured to be concurrently programmable with a write operation of a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells and the second reference circuit is configured to be programmable independently from the write operation of the memory cell based on at least one column address bit that corresponds to the memory cell and that is provided by the column decode circuit, and wherein the first reference circuit and the second reference circuit are selectable for the write operation based on an output of the row decode circuit and the at least one column address bit that corresponds to the memory cell. | 16,105 |
8,510,196 | 1. A method comprising: (a) receiving from a computing device, at an enhanced claims processing server, a claim number related to an insurance claim associated with damage to an insured item; (b) determining, at an enhanced claims processor, whether or not the claim number is valid; (c) when the claim number is valid, transmitting instructions to the computing device about how to capture image data related to the damage of the insured item; (d) in response to the instructions, receiving a set of image data related to the damage to the insured item; (e) applying a predetermined set of rules to determine, at the enhanced claims processor, whether or not each one of the set of image data is acceptable; (f) when at least one of the set of image data are not acceptable, repeating steps (c)-(e) until all of the set of image data are acceptable; and (g) analyzing, at the enhanced claims processor, the set of image data to determine a damage estimate for the damage to the insured item. | 36,949 |
8,426,724 | 1. A method of fabricating an interdigitated back contact solar cell, the method comprising: diffusing a first dopant into a rear surface of a semiconductor substrate such that first and second spaced-apart diffusion regions of the substrate have a first doping concentration and extends a first depth into the substrate from the rear surface, and are separated by a third diffusion region having a second doping concentration and extending a second depth into the substrate from the rear surface; and forming a plurality of grooves in the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein each of the plurality of grooves is disposed between an associated adjacent pair of said plurality of interdigitated diffusion regions such that the first diffusion region is separated from the third diffusion region by a first groove, such that the second diffusion region is separated from the third diffusion region by a second groove, wherein each of the plurality of grooves includes a corresponding pair of side walls that extend into the substrate from the rear surface, and wherein said third diffusion region extends continuously from a first side wall of said first groove to a second side wall of said second groove and has a third depth into the substrate from the rear surface that is greater than the first and second depths. | 14,843 |
9,067,606 | 1. A railcar including a under frame, paired side bodyshell parts respectively provided on opposite sides of the under frame in a car width direction, a roof bodyshell part provided to bridge between upper end portions of the paired side bodyshell parts, and an end bodyshell part, the railcar having a reinforcement structure, wherein the reinforcement structure includes hanging members having one ends fixed to the roof bodyshell part to extend downward from the roof bodyshell part, an upper horizontal member provided in an upper portion of a car interior and disposed to bridge between the paired side bodyshell parts; a lower horizontal member provided in the upper portion of the car interior and disposed in a position displaced downward from the upper horizontal member to bridge between the paired side bodyshell parts, and a connection member for connecting the upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member, wherein the upper horizontal member has a plurality of upper reinforcement members at least one ends of which are respectively connected to the hanging members, the lower horizontal member has a plurality of lower reinforcement members at least one ends of which are respectively connected to the hanging members, and the plurality of upper reinforcement members and the plurality of lower reinforcement members constitute first reinforcement structure parts disposed diagonally in a vertical direction and a second reinforcement structure part disposed horizontally, one of the first reinforcement structure parts being located between the roof bodyshell part and one of the paired side bodyshell parts, an other first reinforcement structure part being located between the roof bodyshell part and the other side bodyshell part. | 46,765 |
8,619,286 | 1. A printing control device comprising: a banner data detecting unit that detects banner data from print data, the print data comprising the banner data, a banner printing condition that designates a printing condition for printing the banner, text located after the banner data in the print data, and a text printing condition for printing the text, wherein the data detecting unit determines whether (i) an identifier indicating a beginning of the text printing condition added to a top of the text printing condition is detected in a predetermined limited range which is determined by considering the maximum quantity of the banner data to be handled and whether (ii) any data except for data designating the printing condition is detected in front of the identifier and detects the banner data if it is determined that the identifier is detected in the predetermined limited range and the data except for the data designating the printing condition is detected in front of the identifier; a data acquiring unit that, when the banner data is detected by the banner data detecting unit, skips the banner printing condition and acquires the text printing condition for printing the text; and a printing condition setting unit that sets, when the text printing condition for printing the text is acquired by the data acquiring unit, the text printing condition as a printing condition for printing the text. | 9,494 |
8,775,904 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of processor cores; a cache coupled to a first processor core with the plurality of processor cores; and a memory, wherein the cache is configured to receive memory requests from the processor core and store cache lines of data to be accessed by the processor core, wherein the memory stores a cache line in a plurality of data blocks, wherein each data block in the plurality of data blocks has a set of error correction code bits and a single meta-bit, wherein the meta-bits of the plurality of data blocks combine to indicate a local/global state and a special uncorrectable error bit; wherein the cache is configured to issue a request for the cache line locally; wherein the cache is configured to receive a first block of data, of the plurality of blocks of data, in a first cycle; wherein the cache is configured to identify a meta-bit of the first block of data; and wherein the cache is configured to determine a local/global state of the cache line based on the meta-bit of the first block of data. | 969 |
8,454,354 | 1. A combustion process comprising: injecting a liquid fuel from an atomizing nozzle of a burner into a precombustor passage, the liquid fuel having an effective momentum rate M injecting a gaseous fuel through a gaseous fuel discharge orifice of the burner into the precombustor passage thereby forming a sleeve of gaseous fuel about the liquid fuel proximate the atomizing nozzle, the gaseous fuel having a momentum rate M introducing a first oxidant gas through a primary oxidant discharge orifice of the burner into the precombustor passage thereby forming a sleeve of the first oxidant gas about the gaseous fuel proximate the gaseous fuel discharge orifice; combusting a portion of the gaseous fuel with a portion of the first oxidant gas in the precombustor passage to form a partially combusted mix; and passing the partially combusted mix into a furnace for further combustion thereof; wherein the burner is mounted in a wall of the furnace. | 1,335 |
9,385,595 | 1. A charge pump regulator circuit that powers a variable load, the charge pump regulator circuit comprising: a voltage controlled oscillator comprising a plurality of inverter stages connected in series in a ring, each of the plurality of inverter stages producing an oscillating signal that is provided to a next one of the plurality of inverter stages, each oscillating signal having a peak-to-peak amplitude that is variable dependent on a variable drive voltage that serves as a supply voltage for the plurality of inverter stages; and a plurality of charge pumps, each one of the plurality of charge pumps being connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of inverter stages to receive the oscillating signal produced by that inverter stage, the plurality of charge pumps outputting a current at about a voltage level to the variable load. | 44,914 |
8,457,853 | 1. A circuit configuration for serial communication, comprising: a first half of the circuit configuration operatively configured to receive and emit at least one of sensing and actuating signals; a second half of the circuit configuration operatively configured to receive and emit the at least one of sensing and actuating signals; a two wire connecting line bi-directionally coupling the first half of the circuit configuration and the second half of the circuit configuration; and a wake-up switching device operatively configured to wake-up the first half of the circuit configuration and the second half of the circuit configuration from a standby mode without quiescent current, wherein the first half of the circuit configuration comprises: a first low pass filter device operatively disposed in the data transmission line of the first half of the circuit configuration, wherein the second half of the circuit configuration comprises: wherein | 2,018 |
9,621,986 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an audio device connector comprising: a power supply unit having a switch, a first resistor and a second resistor, and configured to selectively generate one of a first power and a second power to be supplied to the audio device through the microphone terminal; and at least one processor configured to: wherein the first resistor has a resistance value corresponding to a consumption current of the microphone, and wherein the second resistor has a resistance value corresponding to a consumption current of the additional function unit. | 18,986 |
9,463,696 | 1. A system, comprising: a mobile power conditioning platform configured to transfer electrical power over a first period of time between a power grid and a first vehicle at a first location, the mobile power conditioning platform further configured to move to a second location after the first period of time and to transfer electrical power over a second period of time between the power grid and a second vehicle at the second location; an offboard power coupling configured to couple the mobile power conditioning platform to the power grid; an onboard power coupling configured to couple the power conditioning unit to an onboard electrical system of a respective one of the first vehicle or the second vehicle; a first datalink that communicatively couples the mobile power conditioning platform to at least one of the power grid or a utility company associated with the power grid, the first datalink operative to communicate information between the mobile power conditioning platform and the at least one of the power grid or the utility company; and a second datalink that communicatively couples the mobile power conditioning platform to the respective one of the first vehicle or the second vehicle, the second datalink operative to at least receive in the mobile power conditioning platform, a notification from the respective one of the first vehicle or the second vehicle indicating an anticipated load and requesting sufficient operating reserves be brought online to meet an expected change in power demand due to the anticipated load. | 6,049 |
8,467,199 | 1. A two-stage bidirectional DC/DC power converter using a constant duty ratio LLC resonant converter, the two-stage bidirectional DC/DC power converter comprising: an LLC resonant converter operating at a constant duty ratio; a bidirectional converter joined to a front part of the LLC resonant converter, the bidirectional converter configured to perform a boost converter function of converting a first input voltage into a first consistent voltage for input to the LLC resonant converter when the bidirectional converter operates in a forward direction, and to perform a buck converter function of reducing a second input voltage that is output from the LLC resonant converter into a second consistent voltage when the bidirectional converter operates in a reverse direction; and a bidirectional converter control unit configured to control changes in the input voltages received by the bidirectional converter and regulate the voltages output from the LLC resonant converter to thereby maintain the first consistent voltages for input to the LLC resonant converter, such that the LLC resonant converter operates at the constant duty ratio. | 3,736 |
9,671,983 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for an information processing device, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of the information processing device, causing the information processing device to perform: receiving identification information and status information from a server via a communication interface of the information processing device, the identification information being for identifying an image file being stored in the server, the status information indicating a print process status of the image file being stored in the server, the status information indicating any one of a plurality of statuses including a first status and a second status, the first status indicating a status where a print process for an image file is waiting to be performed, the second status indicating a status where a print process for an image file has been performed; displaying on a display unit of the information processing device a first screen indicating the received identification information and the received status information; accepting, while the first screen is displayed, a user input for changing status information of a designated image file which is identified by designated identification information designated from among the received identification information; and sending a change instruction to the server via the communication interface, in response to acceptance of the user input for changing the status information of the designated image file from the second status into the first status, the change instruction requesting a change to the status information of the designated image file from the second status into the first status. | 30,397 |
9,736,777 | 1. A method of reducing power while attempting to transmit a packet over a channel using a device having a radio component, said radio component comprising analog circuitry for receiving and transmitting packets and digital circuitry, comprising: performing a check to determine if said channel is available; transmitting said packet after said check if said channel is available; waiting a delay time before a second check is performed if said channel is not available; powering off the analog circuitry during said delay time; performing said second check after said delay time, wherein said second check is performed while said analog circuitry is powered off; receiving, by software executing on said device, an indication that said second check failed; powering on said analog circuitry after receiving said indication; waiting a minimum delay time before a third check is to be performed to determine if said channel is available; performing said third check after said minimum delay time; and transmitting said packet after said third check if said channel is available. | 30,516 |
8,397,677 | 1. A method for the conductive cooling or heating of dairy animals in a farm operation having a water supply and in which the dairy animals are housed in a housing structure that includes an enclosure confining the animals in a housing area and having a floor, the method comprising: providing a layer of soft bedding materials extending over substantially the entire floor of the housing area to provide a bedding area to cushion the animals; providing a first heat exchanger beneath and in direct contact with the bedding materials, which first heat exchanger extends beneath substantially the entire bedding area; supplying water from the water supply through a supply line to the first heat exchanger; circulating the water in the supply line through the first heat exchanger and then through a return line; monitoring the temperature of the water flowing in the supply line; monitoring the temperature of the water flowing in the return line; and controlling the flow of water through the first heat exchanger in response to the temperature of the water in the supply line and in the return line. | 45,843 |
8,862,058 | 1. A system comprising: a mobile device comprising a transmission module for transmitting data or voice signals over a microwave frequency band; and a wireless headset comprising: a transceiver that enables the wireless headset to wirelessly communicate with the mobile device during a time when the mobile device and wireless headset are linked within a personal area network (PAN), the wireless headset configured to receive instructions from the mobile device to enter a sleep mode, the transceiver being turned off during the sleep mode; and a microphone configured to receive an audio signal from the mobile device, the audio signal being a wake-up signal from the mobile device when the transceiver is turned off. | 33,346 |
9,278,544 | 1. A liquid discharging apparatus configured to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium and configured to record an image, the liquid discharging apparatus comprising: a liquid discharging section configured to discharge the liquid onto the recording medium based on correction image information which is corrected according to coloring information for the recording medium which is obtained from the recording medium which is supplied to the liquid discharging apparatus; a coloring information acquiring section configured to acquire the coloring information; a supply section configured to accommodate the recording medium before the liquid is discharged; a transport section configured to transport the recording medium from the supply section to an image forming section where the liquid discharging section discharges the liquid and forms the image with regard to the recording medium; a holding section configured to hold the recording medium at a region which includes the image forming section; and a tension section configured to generate predetermined tension on the recording medium between the supply section and the holding section on the transport path; the coloring information acquiring section being disposed between the supply section and the image forming section on a transport path where the recording medium is transported by the transport section, between the supply section and the holding section on the transport path, and between the supply section and the tension section on the transport path. | 1,814 |
8,964,416 | 1. A switched mode power supply comprising: a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side; a main output of the switched mode power supply arranged on the secondary side and arranged to output an output voltage; a voltage regulator arranged on the secondary side and operable to regulate the output voltage at the main output of the switched mode power supply; a power supply circuit arranged to provide a power supply on the secondary side, wherein the power supply circuit is operable to receive power from the primary side via the transformer and to output power to the main output and also to the voltage regulator; a control module on the primary side operable to control a pulse width modulator to send a voltage pulse train, comprising a first pulse and a plurality of pulses subsequent to the first pulse, from the primary side to the secondary side via the transformer in order to switch on the voltage regulator; and a coupling device operable to transmit a feedback signal from the secondary side to the primary side, wherein the feedback signal is generated in dependence upon the response of the voltage regulator to the power received from the power supply circuit; wherein the control module is operable to detect the feedback signal to determine if the voltage regulator has switched on and is operating, and to determine if a further pulse in the voltage pulse train is to be transmitted from the primary side to the secondary side in dependence upon the detection of the feedback signal; and the control module is arranged to control the pulse width modulator to transmit the voltage pulse train such that the first of the pulses has a higher power than any of the subsequent pulses in the voltage pulse train. | 46,783 |
8,922,921 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a servo controller configured with instructions that cause the controller to: | 21,029 |
8,992,088 | 1. A tilting pad radial bearing for a single-shaft turbomachine, comprising: a support ring, a tilting pad comprising a tilting pad sliding surface, which is an inward-facing cylindrical surface, and a tilting pad back, which is an outward-facing surface situated on a side facing away from the tilting pad sliding surface, and a tilting pad mount having an aligning device which has an inward-facing convex sliding surface securely attached to an inside surface of the support ring, and an outward-facing concave sliding surface securely attached to the tilting pad back, wherein: the convex sliding surface and the concave sliding surface are cylindrical surfaces arranged to be in contact and are in each case arcuate in their respective longitudinal sections; the aligning device is adapted to adjust an axial position of the tilting pad relative to the support ring such that, depending on an axial position of the concave sliding surface relative to an axial position of the convex sliding surface, an angle of inclination of the tilting pad sliding surface is adjustable relative to an axis of the tilting pad radial bearing; and the aligning device comprises an adjusting device adapted to control the angle of inclination by fixing an axial position of a slider comprising the concave sliding surface. | 17,806 |
9,017,042 | 1. A multi-stage pump system for use in desalination systems, the multi-stage pump system comprising: a. a first stage providing a first fluid at a first pressure; and b. a second stage that is in fluid communication with the first stage and is primed by the first fluid from the first stage, the second stage including a first reciprocating member, an inlet for drawing a second fluid from a second fluid source when the first reciprocating member undergoes a stroke and an outlet for expelling the second fluid at a second pressure when the first reciprocating member proceeds through a complete stroke, the second pressure greater than the first pressure, wherein, the second stage further includes a flexible bladder submerged in the second fluid source and the first reciprocating member is movable in response to a change in buoyancy of the flexible bladder as it is at least partially inflated and deflated using the first fluid. | 41,141 |
8,819,935 | 1. A method for producing a liquid-ejecting head including a passage-forming substrate and a protective substrate bonded thereto, the passage-forming substrate having pressure-generating chambers communicating with nozzle orifices from which a liquid is ejected, piezoelectric devices that change the inner pressures of the pressure-generating chambers, and liquid supply channels through which the liquid is supplied to the pressure-generating chambers, the protective substrate having a piezoelectric-device accommodating portion that protects the piezoelectric devices and a through-hole, through which wirings to lead electrodes extended from the piezoelectric devices pass thorough, the method comprising: forming the piezoelectric-device accommodating portion and a portion of the through-hole in the protective substrate while leaving a lid, a portion of the protective substrate, closing off an opening of the through-hole; bonding the protective substrate to the passage-forming substrate; forming the pressure-generating chambers and the liquid supply channels in the passage-forming substrate; forming a protective film on surfaces of the passage-forming substrate and the protective substrate bonded thereto; and removing the lid to complete the formation of the through-hole. | 9,863 |
9,727,858 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a payment processor computer, via a graphical user interface on a computer operated by a user, a user-configured token format from the user; after receiving the user-configured token format, storing, by the payment processor computer, the user-configured token format received from the user computer in a database; after the user-configured token format is stored, receiving, by the payment processor computer, a payment account number from a customer during a first transaction with the user; generating or receiving, by the payment processor computer, an authorization request message comprising the payment account number for a transaction conducted with a merchant; sending, by the payment processor computer, the authorization request message comprising the payment account number to an issuer computer associated with the payment account number; receiving, by the payment processor computer, an authorization response message comprising the payment account number and an authorization from the issuer computer; determining whether the authorization response message contains the authorization; after receiving the authorization response message from the issuer computer, retrieving, by the payment processor computer, the user-configured token format from the database; generating, by the payment processor computer, a token associated with the payment account number using the retrieved user-configured token format only upon determining that the authorization response message contains the authorization, the token including a set of characters, wherein the token conforms to the user-configured token format, and wherein the token is not generated if the authorization response message does not contain the authorization; and sending, by the payment processor computer, the token associated with the payment account number to the merchant, wherein the token is thereafter stored by the merchant. | 33,324 |
8,796,422 | 1. An isolated chemokine-immunoglobulin fusion polypeptide, comprising: a CCL2 moiety and an immunoglobulin moiety comprising a constant region of a human immunoglobulin wherein when the chemokine-immunoglobulin fusion polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:52, SEQ ID NO:53 and SEQ ID NO:54. | 22,284 |
9,607,196 | 1. A server, comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor and comprising computer readable program code embodied in the memory that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising: | 11,453 |
8,486,987 | 1. A method for treating an Apicomplexan parasite infection in a patient, said method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of Formula IV: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R R R wherein R | 39,598 |
8,930,169 | 1. A noise elimination apparatus for eliminating a noise component from sensed information sensed by a capacitive ultrasonic transducer (c-MUT) used for an endo cavity ultrasonic endoscopic diagnosis system comprising an ultrasonic endoscopic scope equipped with the c-MUT for transmitting and receiving an ultrasound, comprising: a first storage device configured to store first sensed information sensed by making the c-MUT transmit an ultrasound under a condition of the ultrasound not reflecting; a sensor signal analysis circuit configured to obtain a sensor signal from a sensor provided approximately near the capacitive ultrasonic transducer, to analyze the sensor signal, and to determine whether the capacitive ultrasonic transducer is in a state of being inside a cavity of a body and yet not touching an inside wall thereof; a receiver device configured to receive second sensed information when the sensor signal analysis circuit determines that the capacitive ultrasonic transducer is in a state of being inside of the cavity and yet not touching the inside wall thereof, the second sensed information being sensed by the capacitive ultrasonic transducer transmitting and receiving the ultrasound in the determined state; a second storage device configured to store the received second sensed information; and an arithmetic operation processing circuit configured to calculate a correlation or difference between the second sensed information and first sensed information. | 29,477 |
9,175,120 | 1. A process for the polymerisation of monomer in at least first and second reactors operated in series, which process comprises either: (i) contacting a first stream comprising vapour derived from the effluent withdrawn from the second reactor with a feed stream to the second reactor, said feed stream comprising effluent derived from the first reactor and said first stream having been separated from the polymer withdrawn from the second reactor at a pressure of 0.5 MPa (5 bar) or above, or (ii) contacting a first stream comprising vapour derived from the effluent withdrawn from a subsequent reactor with a feed stream to the second reactor, said feed stream comprising effluent derived from the first reactor. | 7,054 |
9,345,235 | 1. A method for enhancing the production of aquatic organisms under cultivation, including the steps of: exposing the aquatic organisms under cultivation to illumination from light emitting diodes from a plurality of individual submerged illumination sources inside water of a rearing unit, the illumination being formed by the plurality of submerged illumination sources that are arranged in an array, the array spread out throughout the rearing unit; and maintaining the illumination in the rearing unit with for a rearing period to cause increased growth of the aquatic organisms for enhanced harvesting. | 17,654 |
9,228,197 | 1. A polynucleotide comprising SEQ ID NO:25, or a complement thereof. | 35,880 |
8,889,511 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising: forming a shield dielectric layer in a trench in a semiconductor substrate; forming a shield electrode on at least a portion of the shield dielectric layer; etching the shield dielectric layer so that a portion of the shield dielectric layer is recessed in the trench; forming a gate dielectric layer on the recessed portion of the shield dielectric layer in the trench; forming a first conductive gate electrode on a first side of the shield electrode and insulated from a first sidewall of the trench by the gate dielectric layer; forming a second conductive gate electrode on a second side of the shield electrode and insulated from a second sidewall of the trench by the gate dielectric layer such that the shield electrode has a first portion disposed lower in the trench than a bottom portion of the second conductive gate electrode and such that the shield electrode has a second portion disposed higher in the trench than a top portion of the second conductive gate electrode; forming a source contact in contact with the second portion of the shield electrode; forming a well region in contact with the first sidewall of the trench; forming a source region in contact with the first sidewall of the trench and inside the well region; and forming an electrical contact between the shield electrode and the well region inside a mesa via a body trench adjacent to the trench. | 12,269 |
9,304,324 | 1. A shock and vibration isolator for a camera, comprising: a first plate; a second plate parallel to the first plate; a level linkage including first and second crossed lateral arms pivotally attached to each other, and pivotally attached to the first plate and to the second plate, for allowing the plates to move towards and away from each other, while keeping the plates parallel to each other; a dampener assembly having a spring and a dampener; a first link having a first end pivotally attached to a first side of a first end of the dampener assembly and a second end pivotally attached to the second plate; a second link having a first end pivotally attached to a second side of the first end of the dampener assembly and a second end pivotally attached to the second plate; with the dampener assembly rotatable relative to the first and second links from an upright position, wherein the first plate is above the second plate and the spring is loaded in compression when first and second plates move towards each other, to an inverted position, wherein the first plate is below the second plate and the spring is loaded in compression when the first and second plates move towards each other. | 35,756 |
8,674,805 | 1. An access gate comprising: a base; a first wall and a second wall attached to the base, each wall having an inside surface, an outside surface, a height, an entrance side and an exit side; a gate space defined by the inside surface of the first wall and the second wall and the base; an entrance side sensor mounted at the entrance side of the first wall and the second wall for sensing entrance of a user into the gate space; a middle sensor mounted on an inside surface of at least one of the first wall and the second wall for sensing a user centered within the gate space; at least one access bar mounted to the exit side of the first wall and the second wall, the at least one access bar being moveable between an open position, allowing exit from the gate space, to a closed position in which exit from the gate space is denied; a UHF radio frequency identification reader having at least two antennas within the gate space, for reading UHF RFID enabled tags within the gate space and determining that a UHF RFID enabled tag is in within the gate space by comparing signal strengths from the at least two antennas; a motion video camera for capturing moving images of the gate space; and a computer coupled to the UHF radio frequency identification reader, the motion video camera, the entrance side sensor, the middle sensor and the at least one access bar; such that when a user enters the gate space and is sensed by the entrance side sensor the motion video camera captures moving images of the user until the middle sensor senses the user centered in the gate space, the computer derives biometrics from the captured moving image, the UHF radio frequency identification reader reads an identification from a UHF RFID enabled tag within the gate space carried by the user, and the computer permits the access bar to be movable to the open position at least if the identification is valid for access. | 16,291 |
9,830,464 | 1. A method for improving efficiency at which computer systems use encrypted data by converting a plaintext from a structured document into a token that preserves a format of the plaintext, the method comprising: by a computing device: generating a plurality of random numbers to comprise a key, a nonce, an initialization vector, and a start character; receiving policies from a receiving client; receiving a transmission including the structured document; determining, based on the policies, the plaintext from the structured document to be tokenized; tokenizing the plaintext, wherein tokenizing the plaintext further comprises: a) breaking the plaintext into a plurality of characters, wherein each character of the plurality of characters is tokenized on a character-by-character basis; b) determining a domain of characters for the plaintext, the domain having a radix of R; c) initializing a cryptographic function A with the key, the initialization vector, and the start character to produce an output, wherein the cryptographic function A is a first block cipher operating in cipher feedback mode; d) initializing a cryptographic function B with the key, wherein the cryptographic function B is a second block cipher operating in electronic codebook mode; e) creating an input block by concatenating the output from cryptographic function A with a counter and the nonce; f) incrementing the counter; g) generating a codebook array having R entries by feeding the input block into the cryptographic function B, wherein the codebook array associates input domain characters with output domain characters for each of the R entries such that each character of the domain is used once for the input domain characters and once for the output domain characters; h) selecting one output domain character from the codebook array, wherein the selected one output domain character is associated with an input domain character matching a given character being tokenized; i) reinitializing the cryptographic function A with the key, the output from the cryptographic function A, and the given character to update the output; j) replacing the given character in the plaintext with the selected one output domain character; k) repeating steps e through j for a next character of the plurality of characters until all characters of the plurality of characters have undergone steps e though j, thereby forming the token that preserves the format of the plaintext; and transmitting the structured document to the receiving client. | 36,747 |
9,290,707 | 1. A method for gasifying biomass, the method comprising the following steps: a) grinding said biomass, and feeding said biomass into a gasifier; b) utilizing a plasma torch heater to heat water vapor and produce superheated water vapor having a temperature of between 1200 and 1600° C., spraying said superheated water vapor into said gasifier at a speed of between 35 and 50 m/s and through a plurality of vapor nozzles, said vapor nozzles being tangentially arranged along a circumferential direction of said gasifier; controlling said gasifier at an operating temperature of 1200-1600° C. through said superheated water vapor, contacting the biomass with the superheated water vapor so as to result in vaporization of volatile matters, and desiccation, pyrolysis, and gasification of said biomass to produce crude synthetic gas and ash; c) transporting said crude synthetic gas into a spray tower, and quenching said crude synthetic gas by spraying water to cool down said crude synthetic gas to a temperature of 650-800° C., thereby a slag and a tar from said crude synthetic gas are condensed, alkali metal oxides and part of acid gas are dissolved and removed to obtain primary synthetic gas; and d) cooling, dust removing, deacidifying, and desiccating said primary synthetic gas successively to transform said primary synthetic gas into clean synthetic gas. | 34,324 |
9,563,600 | 1. A system for monitoring the administration of medication to a patient, the system comprising: a medication monitoring device having a container configured to store medication pills and a gating device that includes two levels of one or more sensors wherein a top level of one or more sensors is positioned substantially closer to an opening of the medication monitoring device and a bottom level of one or more sensors is positioned substantially closer to a bottom surface of the medication monitoring device such that: wherein the medication monitoring device further comprises a user interface attached to an exterior portion of the container, the user interface includes a touch screen device and the user interface receives medication identification information, dosage information, and patient information; wherein the medication monitoring device further comprises an imaging device configured to obtain an image of the at least one medication pill being released and to identify the type of the at least one medication pill based on a marking on the at least one medication pill; wherein the medication monitoring device further comprises a temperature sensor that records a temperature within the medication monitoring device; wherein the medication monitoring device further comprises a processing device that receives the medication identification information, dosage information, patient information, an image of at least medication pill, and the temperature; a medication management server in communication with the medication monitoring device via a communication network; wherein the processing device of the medication monitoring device sends a message to the medication management server based on the medication identification information, dosage information, patient information, an image of at least medication pill, and the temperature. | 43,944 |
9,342,247 | 1. A system implemented in hardware, comprising: a computing system, including a processor, operable to: dynamically allocating a file, by a computing device, between different storage technologies and respective memory technologies in a hybrid infrastructure, the dynamically allocating comprising: mapping the respective memory technologies to the different storage technologies according to performance; and storing an initial portion of the file in the first buffer on the first type of storage or memory technology and automatically storing a remaining portion of the file in the second buffer on the second type of storage or memory technology based on the mapping. | 44,492 |
9,637,478 | 1. A compound or salt thereof, wherein: the compound corresponds in structure to formula (I-L0): R and benzoyl; n is selected from the group consisting of 1, 2, and 3; R m is selected from the group consisting of 0, 1, 2, and 3; R R R R each R each R each R | 28,910 |
9,288,754 | 1. An apparatus for communicating with at least one communication device of a wireless network via a channel, comprising: a transceiver configured to receive latency information from the at least one communication device; and a processor operationally coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to: | 44,300 |
9,357,635 | 1. A method comprising: applying adhesive material to a first surface of a printed circuit board strip; securing a plurality of filters to the first surface of the printed circuit board strip using the adhesive material, the plurality of filters covering a plurality of through holes, respectively, in the printed circuit board; applying adhesive material to a second surface of the printed circuit board strip; and securing a plurality of semiconductor dice to the second surface of the printed circuit board strip, the plurality of semiconductor dice covering the plurality of through holes, respectively, the plurality of semiconductor dice including an inlet path in fluid communication with the plurality of through holes, respectively, and having nozzles for expelling a fluid. | 24,763 |
9,006,227 | 1. A phenoxy-ethyl-amine derivative of Formula 1 a stereoisomer or a mixture of its stereoisomers, or an N-oxide thereof, or a deuterated analog thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R R R R R R′ and R″ independently represent hydrogen or methyl. | 40,194 |
8,536,849 | 1. A circuit comprising: a first switch having a first terminal coupled to a first voltage source, a second terminal coupled to an output load, and a control terminal; a current sensor to sense a current flowing to the output load through an inductor and to provide a current sense signal corresponding to the current, the inductor having a peak current value and a valley current value, and wherein the peak current value is greater than the valley current value; a first comparator configured to receive the current sense signal and detect the peak current value in reference to a first time-independent reference voltage corresponding to the peak current value, and in accordance therewith, provide a first comparator output signal to control the first switch, the first switch opening in response to said first comparator output signal to reduce the current from the peak current value to the valley current value; and a second comparator configured to receive the current sense signal and detect the valley current value in reference to a second time-independent reference voltage corresponding to the valley current value, and in accordance therewith, provide a second comparator output signal to control the first switch, the first switch closing in response to said second comparator output signal to increase the current from the valley current value to the peak current value. | 42,782 |
9,470,049 | 1. A cylinder accumulator system comprising: a cylinder comprising a cylinder rod, a cylinder barrel coaxial to the cylinder rod, a cylinder end cap coupled to the cylinder barrel and the cylinder rod, and a cylinder piston assembly disposed within the cylinder barrel, wherein the cylinder piston assembly comprises a dynamic sealing arrangement comprising one or more dynamic seals; a first annular volume coaxial to the cylinder rod and the cylinder barrel; a second volume disposed within the cylinder piston assembly; an external high-pressure accumulator; a low-pressure accumulator; and one or more tube manifolds coupling the external high-pressure accumulator and low-pressure accumulator to the cylinder; wherein the cylinder piston assembly comprises a communication path by which a gas media is communicated from the first annular volume to the second volume, substantially equalizing the pressure in a hydraulic fluid located in the second volume and the gas media. | 43,251 |
8,418,774 | 1. A fire extinguishing system for an electronics casing, comprising, a cuboid extinguishing agent container in combination with an overpressure device, a filling level monitoring device, a container closing device, a device for controlling the flow of extinguishing agent, a rotor, and an electric motor, said combination required for storing and monitoring the loss of extinguishing agent, said combination for controlling the flow of extinguishing agent from the container and for connecting a discharge device for the extinguishing agent, the overpressure device, filling level monitoring device, container-closing device, device for controlling the flow of extinguishing agent, rotor, and electric motor being fastened at or being integrated in the extinguishing agent container in such a manner that the extinguishing agent container may be transported, installed, or arranged as a compact structural component. | 33,288 |
9,462,314 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a stored television-broadcasting traffic log, wherein the traffic log includes multiple ordered log entries, the log entries including at least a first log-entry and a second log-entry; making a first determination that the first log-entry corresponds to a show-segment video-component (VC) of a live show, wherein the first log-entry further corresponds to a broadcast time-period; making a second determination that the second log-entry is positioned immediately after the first log-entry; making a third determination that the second log-entry corresponds to a manual start-time type; and responsive to making the first, second, and third determinations, an automation system enabling functionality of a trigger mechanism during the broadcast time-period, wherein the enabled trigger mechanism is configured to cause the automation system to process a next log entry in the traffic log in response to being triggered. | 10,883 |
9,235,713 | 1. A method for encrypting an image performed at a handheld computer having a processor and memory for storing one or more programs to be executed by the processor, comprising: obtaining a size of header data of an image file; encrypting the header data; in the process of encrypting the header data, obtaining encrypted data corresponding to the header data; dividing the encrypted data into a first part and a second part based on a size of the header data and a size of the encrypted data; and obtaining an encrypted image file for the image file based on the encrypted data, comprising: | 15,584 |
8,513,178 | 1. A soil release composition incorporated into a cleaning article for use in removing soils including non-trans fat soils from soiled surfaces, consisting of: a chelating agent and optionally water incorporated into the cleaning article, the chelating agent being in an effective amount to hinder polymerization of non-trans fats wherein the effective amount of the chelating agent is about 0.000083 grams per 1 gram of the cleaning article. | 32,466 |
9,673,572 | 1. Connection module for field devices in the explosion-protected area, having a housing with a plurality of controller-end terminals to connect to at least one input/output module, and having field-end terminals to connect to the field devices, wherein different resistors are present in the housing to provide intrinsically safe pairs of field-end terminals with different characteristic values, said different resistors being hardwired in the housing to different field-end terminals and/or controller-end terminals, characterised in that at least one series connection of resistors is present in the housing, a plurality of pick-ups of the series connection are connected to controller-end terminals or field-end terminals, a plurality of controller-end terminals are present to connect a plurality of current/voltage supplies, and a plurality of field-end terminals are present to form a plurality of intrinsically safe pairs of field-end terminals, a different resistance for the intrinsical effective in safety being effective in dependence of the respectively used terminals. | 32,389 |
9,001,425 | 1. A microlens array, in which the microlens array is moved along with a light source for emitting an exposure light, the exposure light coming from the light source is transmitted through a pattern formed on a mask, and an erect-same-size image of the mask pattern is formed through the microlens array by the light transmitted through the mask, comprising: a glass plate, and a plurality of unitary microlens arrays which are stacked onto an upper surface and a lower surface of the glass plate, and are stacked on one another with a plurality of microlenses in a two-dimensional arrangement, said unitary microlens arrays being constituted by arranging, in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction, a plurality of columns of microlenses constituted by arraying a plurality of microlenses in said first direction; a microlens column group being constituted of a predetermined number of columns of microlenses; a plurality of said columns of microlenses being arranged offset by increments of a fixed distance in said first direction in each of the microlens column groups; and a plurality of the microlens column groups being arranged in said second direction, alignment marks being formed on each of said unitary microlens arrays and said glass plate, and said unitary microlens arrays and said glass plate being stacked onto each other aligned by the marks. | 39,573 |
9,001,486 | 1. A conductive structure, comprising: [A] a plurality of aligned structural plates that are positioned and stacked in a vertical alignment with one another, and wherein each one of the aligned structural plates in the plurality has [B] an upper structural plate of the plurality comprising an upper layer of dielectric and an upper layer of conductive material; [C] a first structural plate of the plurality, comprising a first support layer of dielectric and a first layer of conductive material that includes [D] an center structural plate of the plurality comprising an center layer of dielectric and a center layer of conductive material; [E] a second structural plate of the plurality, comprising a second support layer of dielectric and an second layer of conductive material that includes [F] an lower structural plate of the plurality comprising an lower layer of dielectric and a lower layer of conductive material; (a) the first and second structural plates are parallel with one another, (b) the first and second-shaped electrode layers of the first structural plate are co-planar and electrically isolated from each other, (c) the first and second-shaped electrode layers of the second structural plate are co-planar and electrically isolated from each other, (d) the upper structural plate and the center structural plate sandwich the first structural plate, (e) the center structural plate and the lower structural plate sandwich the second structural plate, (f) the upper structural plate and the lower structural plate sandwich the first structural plate, the central structural plate and the second structural plate therebetween, and (g) within the plurality of aligned structural plates, the orientation of the first and second-shaped electrode layers of the first structural plate is 180 degrees opposite the orientation of the first and second-shaped electrode layers of the second structural plate. | 44,363 |
9,588,867 | 1. An information processing device that is powered by a battery, the information processing device comprising: a processor that | 23,102 |
9,099,891 | 1. A submodule for forming a multilevel converter for electrical power distribution and transmission, the submodule comprising: a capacitor unit; a power semiconductor circuit having power semiconductors which can be turned off; output terminals; said capacitor unit and said power semiconductor circuit being connected to one another for producing at least a voltage dropped across said capacitor unit at said output terminals or a zero voltage at said output terminals, depending on a drive of said power semiconductors; an additional energy storage device; and a chopper unit connected between said additional energy storage device and said capacitor unit for regulating a current flow between said capacitor unit and said additional energy storage device; said chopper unit having an electronic switch and an inductive unit connected in series with said electronic switch, said electronic switch including two power semiconductors which can be turned off, said two power semiconductors being connected in series with one another and having opposite current flow directions. | 16,606 |
8,400,446 | 1. A computer implemented method for placing fasteners in a three dimensional product definition, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving as input by a computer a first user input selecting a fastener to fasten a set of components in a three dimensional product definition to form a selected fastener, wherein the three dimensional product definition uses model-based definition in which parameters describing components are included in the three dimensional product definition; receiving as input by the computer a second user input defining a point on the set of components in the three dimensional product definition to form a defined point, wherein the defined point is a point at which the fastener is to be positioned; determining using the computer whether the selected fastener is acceptable for use in fastening the set of components utilizing a policy; responsive to a determination that the selected fastener is acceptable, identifying using the computer a breakout point on the set of components using the defined point to form a location for the fastener, wherein the breakout point is a particular point along a vector, originating from the defined point, at which the vector exits the set of components; and placing automatically by the computer the selected fastener into the location in the three dimensional product definition without placing a corresponding hole for the selected fastener in the three dimensional product definition while automatically placing the selected fastener into the location in the three dimensional product definition, and wherein no hole modeling information is generated for the defined point in the three dimensional product definition prior to and during placing automatically the selected fastener into the location in the three dimensional product definition. | 38,973 |
9,542,493 | 1. An electronic system with a time-based display interface, the system comprising: one or more processors; one or more displays; one or more data repositories; a programmable management system; wherein received, transmitted, generated data elements from activities, multimedia files, communications to, from, within said system are stored in said one or more data repositories; wherein said programmable management system displays information associated with said data elements on said system's display; wherein each said data element has one or more content metadata associated with said data element, at least one of which is a category metadata indicating category of said data element; wherein said programmable management system assigns one or more specific areas within said display exclusively to display information associated with data elements sharing a specific category metadata in common; wherein said programmable management system displays said information related to said specific category in said exclusive assigned area within said display; wherein for at least one category, said programmable management system assembles a time snapshot associated with data elements with said category metadata for a given user-defined time period; wherein said programmable management system displays a view of said time snapshot by displaying, for said time period, sequentially based on time, a list or graphical representation of information or metadata corresponding to all data elements in said time snapshot, enabling one screen temporal viewing of all information for said category for said time period; wherein said programmable management system displays information associated with said time snapshot in the corresponding exclusive assigned display area; wherein said time snapshot includes a temporal assembly of data elements received, transmitted, or generated within said time period sequentially based on time; and wherein said information includes said data elements, metadata associated with said data elements. | 14,678 |
8,682,151 | 1. An optical unit with a shake correcting function comprising: a fixed body; a movable module which holds an optical element; a spring member which supports the movable module; a movable module drive mechanism for shake correction for swinging the movable module with respect to the fixed body; and a flexible circuit board directly connected with the movable module, the flexible circuit board comprising a movable side connecting part connected with the movable module and an extended part extended from the movable side connecting part; wherein a connecting portion of the movable side connecting part and the extended part is located on a side where a swing center of the movable module is located in an optical axis direction of the optical element with respect to a support center position of the spring member for the movable module; wherein the spring member comprises: wherein a first end of the spring part connects to the holding part at approximately a center of a side of the holding part, and a second end of the spring part connects to the fixing part at approximately a center of a is approximately perpendicular to the side of the holding part where the first end of the spring part is connected. | 29,432 |
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