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9,163,163 | 1. A multilayer film, comprising: a barrier layer; and an adhesive layer underlying the barrier layer, the adhesive layer comprising block copolymers that form two or more different domains in a horizontal direction, wherein the block copolymers include a soft block repeat unit including a first block repeat unit and a second block repeat unit, and a hydrophilic third block repeat unit, and the second block repeat unit improves affinity of the first block repeat unit with the third block repeat unit and is positioned between domains of the first and third block repeat units, and the soft block repeat unit is interposed between the third block repeat units in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction in a cross sectional view. | 5,258 |
9,459,363 | 1. A method comprising: performing a geophysical survey by | 29,326 |
9,780,383 | 1. A process of producing a porous electrode substrate, the process comprising: dispersing first short carbon fibers, and producing a first precursor sheet not having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the first short carbon fibers; treating the first precursor sheet such that the first short carbon fibers in the first precursor sheet are entangled and that a second precursor sheet having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the first short carbon fibers is obtained; dispersing second short carbon fibers on the second precursor sheet such that a porous electrode precursor sheet including the second precursor sheet and a third precursor sheet not having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the second short carbon fibers and stacked on the second precursor sheet is obtained; and carbonization treating the porous electrode substrate precursor sheet at a temperature of at least 1000° C. to obtain the porous electrode substrate. | 46,030 |
9,010,693 | 1. A collapsible wing for an unmanned aircraft system, comprising at least two strutless monocoque composite wing span sections, each comprising a first inner wing span section and an outer wing span section, wherein the first inner wing span section nests within the outer wing span section in a collapsed configuration. | 8,457 |
9,497,783 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program code thereon for transmitting information, the program code comprising instructions for configuring a base station to: convert a protocol layer data packet received from a user equipment (UE) into a Frame Protocol (FP) frame with a UE identity (ID) of the UE; send the FP frame with the UE ID of the UE to a radio network control device through an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resource, wherein the E-DCH resource comprises a resource for transmission between the base station and the radio network control device; and the program code further comprising instructions for configuring the base station to: receive a request for configuring or reconfiguring an E-DCH related resource, from the radio network control device, wherein the E-DCH related resource comprises the E-DCH resource and an E-DCH resource for transmission between the UE and the base station, and the E-DCH related resource corresponds to an E-DCH as a common transmission channel; and configure or reconfigure, depending on the request received, the E-DCH related resources in accordance with a parameter in the received request; wherein the parameter in the received request comprises at least one of: a signature list used when the UE performs a random access procedure through the E-DCH related resource, and other parameter required when the UE performs the random access procedure through the E-DCH related resource, wherein the other parameter comprises at least one of a relevant physical-layer parameter, a transmission channel parameter and a transmission bearer parameter. | 28,711 |
9,397,328 | 1. A traction battery assembly of a vehicle comprising: first and second battery cells having an adjacent pair of terminals; a busbar bonded to and electrically connecting the terminals; and a busbar holder including a pair of arms each disposed over one of the terminals, defining a cavity for the busbar, and configured to orient and align the busbar relative to the terminals, wherein the arms are spaced apart from each other and movably connected via a living hinge such that non-coplanarity between the terminals results in a flexing of the living hinge and corresponding non-coplanarity between the arms. | 8,035 |
9,094,879 | 1. A handover method of a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system including a wireless terminal and a plurality of wireless base stations, the handover method comprising: by one wireless base station of the plurality of the wireless base stations communicating with the wireless terminal, the communication speed of the wireless terminal is controlled to be lowered upon time-out of the timer value, and the one wireless base station | 37,461 |
8,944,025 | 1. An internal combustion engine ( 1 ), the internal combustion engine ( 1 ) comprising: an engine housing ( a first piston ( a second piston ( a first crankshaft ( wherein said first and second pistons ( wherein said first and second pistons ( wherein said second pivot arm ( wherein said first crankshaft ( | 11,896 |
9,029,846 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a display module comprising a flexible substrate, a display panel, and an encapsulation film; a lower module disposed below the display module; an upper module disposed on the display module; and an elasticity-adjusting layer disposed on or below the display module to adjust a position of a neutral plane in bending of the display apparatus, wherein an elastic modulus of the elasticity-adjusting layer is less than that of at least one of the display module, the lower module, and the upper module, so as to position the neutral plane within or proximate to the display module. | 17,895 |
9,457,678 | 1. A vehicle electric power feeding system comprising: an electric power feeding device configured to be provided at a location at which a vehicle can stop; a detecting means configured to detect the stopped state of the vehicle according to a status signal indicating an operation state of an equipment operable for putting the vehicle in the stopped state; upon receiving the status signal, the detecting means being configured to determine that the vehicle is in the stopped state, at a timing delayed by a predetermined time; a control means configured to instruct the electric power feeding device to feed electric power to the vehicle in the stopped state on the basis of a detection result of the detecting means; and a communicator configured to perform communication with the vehicle; wherein the vehicle has the capability to communicate with the communicator; the control means is configured to perform one or both of information exchange relating to one or both of the stopped state of the vehicle or to power feeding by the power feeding device, by performing communication with the vehicle via the communicator. | 11,369 |
9,374,191 | 1. A method performed by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: the BS communicating with a user equipment (UE); during the BS communicating with the UE, the BS modifying a received first SINR by a first SINR offset, wherein the first SINR offset is adjusted according to a first adjustment amount based on a first historical error rate, wherein the first historical error rate is calculated by the BS during the BS communicating with the UE; the BS losing communication with the UE after said communicating; the BS resuming communication with the UE after said losing communication; after the BS resuming communication with the UE, the BS modifying a received second SINR by a second SINR offset, wherein the second SINR offset is adjusted by a second adjustment amount, wherein the second adjustment amount is larger than the first adjustment amount; wherein the second adjustment amount is used based on a second historical error rate calculated after the BS resumes communications with the UE, wherein the second adjustment amount is used based on: 1) the second historical error rate being less than an error rate calculated while the BS has lost communication with the UE, and 2) the second historical error rate being substantially higher than the first historical error rate. | 25,804 |
8,629,495 | 1. A field-effect transistor comprising: a source terminal; an electrically conductive substrate being electrically connected to the source terminal; a semiconductor body being provided on the conductive substrate and comprising a transistor structure; a gate line, and a drain line, | 793 |
8,657,659 | 1. A wagering game for a gaming machine and playable by a player, the gaming machine comprising a non-transitory memory device, a display and a processor connected by a network to a host computer, the game comprising: a primary game including a set of possible outcomes determined by the host computer and displayed on the display by the processor under control of instructions stored in the non-transitory memory device and a plurality of three or more feature games determined by the host computer and displayed on the display by the processor under control of instructions stored in the non-transitory memory device, wherein two or more of the plurality of feature games are randomly selected for play by the host computer upon the occurrence of a single triggering event, wherein display of each of the selected two or more feature games is distinct and independent from display of the first game in an order based at least in part on a potential award value of each of the two or more selected feature games. | 29,775 |
9,597,961 | 1. A method comprising: determining a current wading depth (D) from ground level of a vehicle using a wading sensor; and displaying on a driver display in the vehicle a representation of an elevation view of the vehicle on which is superimposed the current wading depth (D). | 3,181 |
8,863,384 | 1. A seal packing assembly apparatus which assembles a seal packing into a core plate used as a component of a heat exchanger, the apparatus comprising: rollers that push a seal packing into a groove of a core plate while moving by rolling along the groove; guide members that abut against the core plate; and pushers that push two ends of the seal packing in a long direction into two ends of the groove in the long direction, the rollers being supported so as to displace along a shape of the core plate by a reaction force which the guide members receive from the core plate, and the rollers move by rolling in the groove from a center side in the long direction to the two ends of the groove in the long direction. | 30,367 |
8,820,011 | 1. A stage floor assembly configured to be easily assembled, aligned and adjusted even on an uneven surface, the stage floor assembly comprising; a plurality of pedestals with each pedestal further comprising a pedestal base mechanically coupled to a plurality of rods; a plurality of stringers each having at least one hole therein placed upon and receiving at least one of the plurality of rods; a grid network further comprising: at least two of the stringers having at least one distal point at each pedestal; and at least one of the stringers having at least two holes receiving at least two of the rods on at least one of the pedestals and extending across the at least one pedestal; wherein the grid network self-aligns even on the uneven surface; and a plurality of deck plates attached to the plurality of stringers creating a surface to absorb and distribute loads across the plurality of pedestals preventing noticeable deflection across the stage floor assembly. | 19,212 |
9,650,361 | 1. A compound of general formula (I) wherein R R R R R R R R R R or an enantiomer, diastereomer, salt, solvate or salt of a solvate thereof. | 47,049 |
9,031,503 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a near-field communication (NFC) protocol tag circuit including an antenna circuit, a first register circuit having configuration data configured and arranged to facilitate remote-field communications via a second protocol that is different than the NFC protocol, and a second register circuit having data indicative of a last accessed byte of the configuration data, the NFC tag circuit being configured and arranged to, using radio frequency energy received from a remote reader circuit, a host circuit connected to the NFC tag circuit and configured and arranged to operate in a sleep mode in which the host circuit does not wirelessly communicate via the second protocol, | 26,213 |
9,597,426 | 1. A suture comprising: an elongated body including an outer surface having a plurality of barbs extending therefrom and an inner surface defining a lumen therethrough, the elongated body including at least one channel extending through the inner surface and the outer surface, the channel defined between an inner surface of one of the plurality of barbs and a cut outer surface of the elongated body; and a wound treatment material disposed within the lumen of the elongated body, the barb configured to move between a first position to close the channel and retain the wound treatment material within the lumen and a second position to open the channel and permit release of the wound treatment material therethrough. | 8,120 |
8,996,193 | 1. A method for cooling a data center having a plurality of racks and an adjustable cooling system that introduces chilled air to the data center, the method comprising the steps of: setting a minimum temperature for each of the racks in the data center and a maximum temperature for each of the racks in the data center; determining, with a given amount of cooling being produced by the cooling system, a temperature of each of the racks in the data center based on i) a rate R(t) at which the chilled air at a temperature Tc is introduced to each of the racks and ii) a rate R at which warm air from each of the racks at a temperature T is returned to the cooling system, wherein the temperature at each of the racks in the data center is determined by a differential equation which is a function of at least a volume V(t) of air at the temperature T, the rate R(t) at which the chilled air at the temperature Tc is introduced to each of the racks, the rate R at which warm air from each of the racks at the temperature T is returned to the cooling system, and a disturbance P(t), wherein t is time, and wherein adjusting the cooling system to add cooling to the data center if the temperature of one or more of the racks in the data center is above the maximum temperature or adjusting the cooling system to reduce cooling to the data center if the temperature of one or more of the racks in the data center is below the minimum temperature; and repeating the determining and adjusting steps at a predetermined time interval to achieve and maintain the temperature of each of the racks in the data center to be greater than or equal to the minimum temperature and less than or equal to the maximum temperature. | 26,807 |
9,062,788 | 1. A mechanical sensor coupled to a latching solenoid, with the solenoid including a nose piece, the solenoid coupled to a control unit and to a pressure valve on a vessel, the sensor comprising: a disk configured for reciprocal, axial movement within a first portion of a first bore defined in the nose piece; an electrical switch disposed in a second bore defined in the nose piece, the electrical switch coupled to the control unit; and a switch push pin disposed in a portion of the second bore, with the switch push pin in physical contact at one end with the electrical switch, and with a second end extending into the first bore, wherein when the pressure valve is coupled to the latching solenoid, the pressure valve contacts the disk and moves the disk back against the switch push pin to change the status of the electrical switch to indicate that the pressure valve is properly coupled to the latching solenoid. | 49,907 |
8,507,402 | 1. A system for forming a metal catalyst comprising: a. means for providing a quantity of nanoparticles, including means for loading a quantity of catalyst material in powder form and a quantity of carrier in powder form into a plasma gun in a desired ratio, wherein at least a portion of the nanoparticles comprises a carrier portion and a catalyst portion, means for vaporizing the catalyst material and carrier in a reaction chamber, thereby forming a vapor cloud, and a highly turbulent quench chamber configured to quench the vapor cloud thereby forming solid nanoparticles, wherein the highly turbulent quench chamber comprises a frusto-conical body having a wide end, a narrow end, and a quench region formed between the wide end and the narrow end, and a reactive mixture inlet configured to receive the vapor cloud and to supply the vapor cloud into the quench region in the direction of the narrow end, wherein the quench chamber further comprises at least one conditioning fluid inlet configured to supply a conditioning fluid into the quench region in the direction of the narrow end; b. means for forming a suspension of the nanoparticles in a liquid; and c. means for bonding the nanoparticles to supports such that the carrier portion bonds to the supports and the catalyst portion is exposed to a reaction environment. | 10,657 |
9,137,891 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing having a rectangular periphery and four corners; a corner bracket in one of the four corners; a rectangular display cover layer; and a rectangular ring-shaped gasket that runs around the rectangular periphery and that is interposed between the display cover layer and the housing, wherein the ring-shaped gasket has a portion that is sandwiched between corner bracket and the display cover layer and wherein the ring-shaped gasket has an L-shaped cross-sectional shape. | 26,493 |
9,250,683 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first processor having a head; a second processor having a head; and a link coupled between the head of the first processor and the head of the second processor for communicating first data therebetween; wherein the apparatus is operable such that the head of the second processor is capable of entering a head reduced power mode corresponding to the second processor, while at least a portion of the head of the first processor is configured in a reduced power mode and while one or more other portions of the head of the first processor is not configured in the reduced power mode. | 7,642 |
8,677,084 | 1. A method of configuring a non-volatile memory (NVM) including a plurality of NVM modules, in a system having a hard disk drive (HDD) and an operating system (O/S), the method comprising: ranking each of the plurality of NVM modules according to speed performance; in response to the user selection, copying boot portions of the O/S to the highest ranked NVM module; and assigning the HDD and the highest ranked NVM module as a logical hybrid drive of the computer system. | 43,061 |
8,918,745 | 1. A method comprising: determining, via at least one processor, a layer of an integrated circuit (IC) design having features to be resolved by first and second masks; determining, via the at least one processor, a difference of density by comparing a first density of a first set of the features with a second density of a second set of the features; determining a region on the layer of a first feature to be resolved by the first mask; and inserting, within the region, a polygon to be resolved by the second mask based on the difference of density. | 15,504 |
9,570,936 | 1. A wired/wireless battery charging apparatus for a portable terminal, the apparatus comprising: a body including a wired charging circuit for wired charging a first battery of the portable terminal, a wireless charging circuit for wireless charging a second battery mounted in the portable terminal, and a battery mounting space for mounting the first battery; a cover removably coupled with the body, the cover including a transmission coil generating a magnetic field for the wireless charging of the second battery; and a cavity exposed by removing the cover, wherein the body and the cover includes a contact unit for electrically connecting the transmission coil to the wireless charging circuit, wherein the transmission coil is electrically connected with the wireless charging circuit through the contact unit when the cover is closed, wherein the wired charging circuit charges the first battery when the first battery is disposed in the cavity, and wherein the wireless charging circuit charges the second battery when the portable terminal is proximate to the cover. | 45,703 |
9,840,137 | 1. An electrically-driven vehicle comprising: a rotating electric machine configured to drive the vehicle; a high-capacity battery unit configured to have a relatively high capacity and a high-output battery unit configured to have a relatively high output, both supplying electric power to the rotating electric machine; and a charging inlet configured to serve as a charging port of an external power supply; wherein the high-capacity battery unit is configured to receive more charge power from the charging inlet than the high-output battery unit receives and configured to be positioned nearer to the charging inlet than the high-output battery unit is to the charging inlet. | 39,905 |
8,726,634 | 1. A nacelle for an aircraft engine, comprising a thrust reverser cowling slideably mounted between a direct jet position and a reversed jet position, an outlet jet pipe nozzle with variable cross-section positioned in a downstream extension of the reverser cowling, and means for respectively actuating the cowling and the nozzle, characterized in that said nozzle is slideably mounted on said thrust reverser cowling, and said means comprises: at least one actuator for actuating said thrust reverser cowling, at least one driving pinion rotatably mounted on a fixed structure of said nacelle, and at least one rack for actuating said nozzle, secured to the nozzle and meshing with said driving pinion when said thrust reverser cowling is in the direct jet position, and escaping from this pinion when said reverser cowling is in the reversed jet position. | 27,994 |
8,865,360 | 1. A vehicle fuel cell system comprising: a vehicle fuel cell; a burner configured to produce a heat flow by combustion of a fuel gas which reacts with an oxidant; a coolant circuit for cooling said vehicle fuel cell; a heating heat exchanger arranged in said coolant circuit, wherein the heating heat exchanger is configured to provide heat to a vehicle passenger compartment, wherein the heating heat exchanger is externally heated at least at times by means of the burner; a further coolant circuit, wherein the coolant circuit and the further coolant circuit are fluidly separate cooling circuits thermally coupled exclusively by the heating heat exchanger, wherein the burner for heating the heating heat exchanger is connected directly to the heating heat exchanger. | 29,243 |
9,184,592 | 1. An electrical power system for transmitting electrical power to and from a distribution panel using a branch circuit, the system comprising: at least one premises power source; a commercial electric power source on a grid, an electrically-powered equipment having a least a portion located outdoors, wherein the electrically-powered equipment comprises climate control equipment, the electrically-powered equipment comprising: an apparatus that consumes electrical power, a mains input electrically-coupled to the commercial electric power source via the distribution panel, the mains input configured to receive electrical power from or supply electrical power to the grid via the branch circuit and distribution panel, a grid-tied power source input electrically-coupled to the premises power source and the mains input, the grid-tied power source input configured to receive electrical power from the premises power source, and wherein the electrically-powered equipment is configured to output electrical power from the mains input when electrical power received by the grid-tied power source input exceeds a power requirement of the apparatus. | 42,753 |
8,727,227 | 1. A method for determining a fluid flow distribution in a structure to be cooled by a fluid moving device, said method comprising: outputting an indication to activate the fluid moving device according to a reference temperature setpoint of a plurality of sensors in the structure; receiving, by a processor, conditions detected in multiple areas of the structure with the plurality of sensors; identifying, by the processor, a master sensor among the plurality of sensors based upon the detected conditions; and determining, by a processor, a master reference temperature setpoint for the master sensor that substantially optimizes fluid flow distribution in the structure based upon the conditions detected by the plurality of sensors in response to changes in a characteristic of fluid flow supplied to the plurality of sensors. | 16,746 |
9,302,651 | 1. A method for cleaning a windscreen of a motor vehicle, the method comprising: a phase of remote activation of a cycle of cleaning a windscreen of said vehicle, said cleaning cycle comprising at least one wiping phase with the aid of a wiping device of said vehicle; and a testing phase of testing for the presence of water and/or rain on the windscreen, wherein the testing phase configures the windscreen cleaning cycle, and wherein a positive result of the testing phase activates the windscreen wiping phase and a negative result of the testing phase authorizes a windscreen washing phase followed by a waiting phase before the windscreen wiping phase is activated, and said wiping phase comprises a phase of actuating blades of said wiping device, said washing phase comprises a phase of projecting a washing liquid onto the windscreen of the vehicle, and said waiting phase makes use of a predetermined waiting time. | 46,571 |
8,375,235 | 1. A storage system comprising: a storage apparatus including a plurality of storage devices on which a plurality of logical units is configured and a first controller that controls accesses to the plurality of logical units; and a file server coupled to said storage apparatus and including a second controller and a memory storing management information which indicates relationships between each of the plurality of logical units and each of a plurality of indicators; wherein the first controller, | 48,322 |
8,403,355 | 1. A golf bag cart foldable device comprising: a bottom cart stand having a link segment at a top end thereof, wherein the link segment is set up with an indent at an inner wall thereof, with an inner lateral side of said bottom cart stand provided with a channel, and with said bottom cart stand joining a front wheel at a bottom end thereof; an upper cart stand in pinned connection with the link segment at a bottom end thereof, with the upper cart stand including first and second tubes each having a first long trough extending through the first and second tubes at an inner lateral side adjacent the bottom end of the upper cart stand and a second long trough extending through the first and second tubes at the inner lateral side adjacent a top portion of the upper cart stand; first and second rear wheel frames each in pinned connection with the link segment at one end thereof and to a rear wheel at another end thereof; a slider slideable in the channel of the bottom cart stand; a linkage joined to the slider and to said upper cart stand; two strut bars joined to the slider and to each said first and second rear wheel frames, respectively; and an interlocking mechanism further comprising: a pull handle slideably mounted between the first and second tubes adjacent the top portion of said upper cart stand; a clamping rod extending between the first and second tubes of said upper cart stand and having two ends lodged in the first long troughs of the inner lateral sides of the first and second tubes of the upper cart stand; a connection member hidden in the pull handle and in the first and second tubes of said upper cart stand and having two ends connected to the two ends of the clamping rod respectively; and two springs connected to the clamping rod and to the first and second tubes of said upper cart stand respectively, with the two springs located inside of the first and second tubes of the upper cart stand. | 8,508 |
9,371,993 | 1. An oxidizer for oxidizing fuel, comprising: a reaction chamber having (i) one or more inlets that are configured to direct at least one gas of a fuel, oxidant, or diluent, into the reaction chamber and (ii) one or more outlets that are configured to direct reaction products from the reaction chamber; a heater that is configured to maintain a temperature of the at least one gas, the at least one gas being at or before the one or more inlets, to be above an autoignition temperature of a resulting mixture, comprising the at least one gas, within the reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber is configured to oxidize the resulting mixture; and a controller configured to output instructions to the reaction chamber to maintain a maximum reaction temperature in the reaction chamber below a flameout temperature of the resulting mixture while a calculated adiabatic temperature is above the flameout temperature by controlling at least one of (i) removal of heat from the reaction chamber or (ii) an inlet temperature of the reaction chamber. | 23,048 |
8,877,443 | 1. A method for diagnosing susceptibility to increased body fat after menopause in a female subject, the method comprising: collecting gDNA from the subject; measuring the copy number of the sequence of 108534690-108535300 on chromosome 1 from intron 1 of SLC25A24 gene in the gDNA of the subject, wherein the sequence is measured by a TaqMan PCR method; detecting a copy number of zero for the sequence of 108534690-108535300 on chromosome 1 from intron 1 of SLC25A24 gene in the subject; and diagnosing the subject with a zero copy number of the sequence as more susceptible to increased body fat after menopause compared to female subjects having one or more copy number(s) of the sequence. | 49,581 |
9,248,339 | 1. An elliptical trainer including: a base placed on a supporting face; a post supported on the base; a circular movement unit supported on the base; two elliptical movement units each including a major swing bar and a pedal carrier, wherein the major swing bar is formed with an upper end and a lower end, wherein the pedal carrier includes a front end pivotally connected to the lower end of the major swing bar and a rear end pivotally connected to the circular movement unit; and a stride-adjusting device including: | 26,851 |
9,546,583 | 1. An engine method, comprising: delivering high octane fuel to a high octane fuel tank and delivering low octane fuel to a low octane fuel tank, wherein the high octane fuel has a higher octane rating than the low octane fuel; injecting high octane fuel into an engine using a first routine or low octane fuel using a second routine in response to a first condition and secondary air injection; and injecting low octane fuel into the engine using the first routine or high octane fuel using the second routine in response to a second condition and secondary air injection. | 10,092 |
9,216,394 | 1. A stackable structural reactor comprising: a stationary fan arranged in a reactor tube, the fan having an outer diameter face having fluid duct openings facing the reactor tube, the ducts being effective to radially guide fluid flow in the reactor to contact the reactor tube; and a ring washer in contact with the fan. | 1,914 |
8,478,625 | 1. A method for operating a gas storage power plant with at least one gas reservoir, at least one compressed-air-operated engine and at least two compressors, in which the at least two compressors are activated for charging the gas reservoir and at the same time are driven by at least one electrical drive device, and in which the at least one engine is activated for discharge in the gas reservoir and at the same time drives at least one current generation device, wherein a number of compressors or engines which are jointly active depends on a current price at a particular time; wherein, at a first current price, at least one compressor is driven by at least one electrical drive device, at a second current price, which is lower than the first current price, at least one further compressor is driven by at least one electrical drive device, at a third current price, which is higher than the first current price, at least one engine drives at least one current generation device, and at a fourth current price, which is higher than the third current price, at least one further engine drives at least one current generation device. | 33,443 |
9,372,268 | 1. A method for erasing bright burn, comprising: applying, to a scintillator, visible light having an intensity peak at a wavelength in the range of 405 nm to 500 nm, wherein the scintillator comprises cesium iodide and is provided in a radiographic imaging device having a photoelectric transducer. | 48,497 |
8,902,125 | 1. A reconfigurable handheld device comprising: a housing; a processor disposed within the housing; and a display system coupled to the processor and comprising a display area, the display system configured to selectively provide one of: wherein the display system further comprises: | 48,874 |
9,496,519 | 1. A method of fabricating an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a substrate supporting components of the electronic device; receiving electronic data identifying a desired thickness of a layer to encapsulate the components relative to the substrate; using an ink-jet printing mechanism to deposit a material onto the components and substrate; and employing a process to harden the deposited material to form the layer; wherein the method further comprises converting the electronic data identifying the desired thickness to a halftone pattern, the halftone pattern selected according to a process in which a baseline droplets density in which adjacent droplets combine to provide gapless coverage is scaled to produce the desired thickness of the layer, and wherein using the ink-jet printing mechanism to deposit the material comprises jetting the material onto the components and substrate using the selected halftone pattern. | 19,656 |
8,367,641 | 1. A compound of general formula (I′) or of general formula (II′): in which R | 48,809 |
9,276,621 | 1. A differential communication device comprising: central logic; a differential transmitter coupled to the central logic; and a differential receiver coupled to the central logic, the differential receiver including: | 28,578 |
9,411,483 | 1. A data processing apparatus having a processor, comprising: a data file storing section configured to store data files in a memory; a user interface section configured to, using the processor, assign first objects to data units, display the first objects on a display, and accept an operation from a user on the data units in a form of an operation on the first objects using an input device, the data units each being a data file or a group of a plurality of data files stored in the data file storing section; and a grouping section configured to accepts an operation for instructing to group a plurality of the data units, wherein, when the user makes an operation of moving a first object corresponding to a single first data unit not already grouped onto a first object corresponding to a single second data unit not already grouped, the grouping section groups those data units together and the grouping section creates a new first object showing only the first object corresponding to the single first data unit and the first object corresponding to the single second data unit inside of the new first object, wherein the grouping section determines a method of calculating attribute information on the group in accordance with locations of the first objects when coming into contact with each other. | 42,023 |
9,642,214 | 1. An interactive appliance comprising: an appliance housing having an exterior; a door having a handle; a plurality of lighting devices electrically and interactively connected to a plurality of proximity sensors that each acquire sensor data within a separate sensor field that extends a distance away from the exterior of the appliance housing; and wherein each of the plurality of lighting devices perform a programmed function and are responsive to a disruption of one or more of the sensor fields; and wherein a disruption in at least one of the sensor fields activates at least one of the plurality of lighting devices proximate the bottom of the refrigerator and the lighting device proximate the bottom of the refrigerator illuminates a general boundary area proximate the bottom of the refrigerator; wherein the plurality of lighting devices are integrated into a user facing surface of the exterior of the interactive appliance; and wherein at least one of the plurality of lighting devices is positioned on a surface of the handle facing the appliance. | 26,847 |
9,283,400 | 1. An external medical device, comprising: a housing; a user interface in connection with the housing; and a processor within the housing configured to: | 25,565 |
9,158,368 | 1. An energy-saving apparatus for a portable terminal, comprising an electricity meter module, a data acquisition module, a data analysis module and a power consumption optimization execution module, wherein: the electricity meter module is configured to: detect battery power consumption parameters under driving of the data acquisition module; the data acquisition module is configured to: drive the detection of the electricity meter module, and output the collected battery power consumption parameters to the data analysis module; the data analysis module is configured to: estimate power consumptions of all currently running devices in the terminal according to the input battery power consumption parameters, and output a power consumption optimization instruction to the power consumption optimization execution module; and the power consumption optimization execution module is configured to: adopt corresponding power consumption optimization approaches according to the input power consumption optimization instruction; wherein, the electricity meter module is configured as that the battery power consumption parameters detected by the electricity meter module at least comprise a battery current; the data analysis module is configured to: solve an average current of the battery currents collected by the data acquisition module at regular intervals, compare an average current of a current time period with an average current of a last time period to obtain a difference value, and corresponding to distinctions of all the running devices between a former time period and a latter time period or corresponding to differences between pre-measured current consumptions of all the running devices, obtain current consumptions of all the currently running devices to serve as corresponding power consumption estimations, and form power consumption information records of all the running devices. | 11,445 |
8,718,875 | 1. A vehicle motion control apparatus comprising: an operated state detecting unit configured to detect an operated state quantity of a vehicle given by a driver; a motional state detecting unit configured to detect a motional state quantity of the vehicle; a reference attitude-state quantity calculating unit configured to calculate a reference attitude-state quantity of the vehicle corresponding to the operated state quantity of the vehicle and the motional state quantity of the vehicle based on a motional model of the vehicle in a condition in which a predetermined external force is applied to the vehicle; an actual attitude-state determining unit configured to determine an actual attitude-state quantity of the vehicle based on a detection signal from the operated state detecting unit and a detection signal from the motional state detecting unit; an attitude-state-quantity deviation calculating unit configured to calculate a deviation of the actual attitude-state quantity of the vehicle from the reference attitude-state quantity of the vehicle; a virtual external-force calculating unit configured to make a correction of the external force based on the deviation calculated by the attitude-state-quantity deviation calculating unit and feed back the external force with the correction to the reference attitude-state quantity calculating unit; an actuator control unit configured to determine, based on the deviation calculated by the attitude-state-quantity deviation calculating unit, the drive amount of an actuator which generates a motion of the vehicle; and a virtual-external-force-calculation controlling unit configured to control the correction of the external force by the virtual external-force calculating unit based on a detection condition of the operated state detecting unit or the motional state detecting unit, wherein the virtual-external-force-calculation controlling unit controls the virtual external-force calculating unit to either increase or reduce the correction of the external force when the detection condition of the operated state detecting unit or the motional state detecting unit is in a predetermined condition. | 15,378 |
9,417,255 | 1. An analyzer for use with in vitro diagnostics comprising: one or more containers comprising: one or more pick and place devices configured to move the one or more containers between different locations; wherein the movable cannula is configured to move downward responsive to a force from the one or more pick and place devices and cause an opening in the sealing portion. | 25,908 |
9,553,425 | 1. A method of manufacturing a plurality of semiconductor laser elements comprising; preparing a semiconductor wafer; forming grooves that extend along second lines on a first main surface side of the semiconductor wafer, and forming a first texture pattern along second lines on a bottom surface of the grooves, the second lines being parallel to a cavity length direction, the first texture pattern including a plurality of recesses and/or a plurality of protrusions along the cavity length direction; forming a second texture pattern along the second lines by covering at least part of the first texture pattern with a protective film, the second texture pattern having upper surfaces and bottom surfaces that are at a lower position than the upper surfaces, a length of the bottom surfaces of the second texture pattern along the second lines is less than a height from the bottom surfaces of the second texture pattern to the surface on the first main surface side of the semiconductor wafer, a length of the upper surfaces of the second texture pattern along the second lines is less than a height from the upper surfaces of the second texture pattern to the surface on the first main surface side of the semiconductor wafer; and splitting the semiconductor wafer along first lines, the first lines being parallel to a cavity width direction, and splitting the semiconductor wafer along the second lines using a second main surface, which is an opposite side of the first main surface, of the semiconductor wafer as an origin. | 44,787 |
9,794,443 | 1. A document processing system, comprising: an embedded controller including a processor, a memory in data communication with the processor, and a network interface in communication with the processor, the memory operable for storage of data and instructions, and the network interface configured for data communication with a user computing device; the network interface configured to receive user interface data corresponding to generation of a document processing system user interface from the embedded controller; wherein the embedded controller is configured to determine if the user computing device is in proximity to the document processing system and selectively send device location data and the user interface data to the user computing device via the network interface based at least in part on the proximity of the user computing device to the document processing system, wherein the device location data is sent when the user computing device is at a relatively greater distance to the document processing system and the user interface data is sent when the user computing device is at a relatively smaller distance to the document processing system; wherein the embedded controller is configured to wirelessly receive a document processing instruction from the user computing device; wherein the embedded controller is configured to commence a document processing operation in accordance with a received document processing instruction; and wherein one or more of the embedded controller or the user computing device is configured to use a customized user interface without affecting the user interface on a front panel display of the document processing system. | 9,760 |
9,701,091 | 1. An unpowered, manually operable apparatus for dispensing cushioning wrap material, the apparatus comprising: a frame; a roll of interleaf material secured to the frame for rotation about a longitudinal interleaf axis; a roll of expandable sheet material extending between opposite ends spaced-apart along longitudinal expandable sheet axis, wherein the roll of expandable material is in an unexpanded form rotatably secured to the frame adjacent the roll of interleaf material for rotation about the longitudinal expandable sheet axis, the longitudinal expandable sheet axis being parallel to the longitudinal interleaf axis; and a tensioning assembly operative to selectively apply a compressive force to the expandable sheet roll ends along an axis parallel to the longitudinal expandable sheet axis to control rotational resistance of the roll of expandable sheet material, wherein the rotational resistance causes the expandable sheet material to expand in length and thickness as the expandable sheet material is pulled with the interleaf material manually by a user. | 43,822 |
9,058,859 | 1. A data output circuit comprising: a control signal generation block configured to generate a first transfer control signal which is produced in a first read operation and a second transfer control signal which is produced in a second read operation, where the first transfer control signal and the second transfer control signal are generated upon entry into a test mode; and an enable signal generation unit configured to generate first and second enable signals for generating first and second internal clocks, in response to the first and second transfer control signals. | 7,030 |
9,647,290 | 1. An electrolyte for a redox flow battery, comprising vanadium ions as an active material, wherein a total concentration of impurity element ions contributing to generation of precipitate during a battery reaction is greater than 0 mass ppm and is 220 mass ppm or less, the impurity element ions include metal element ions and a total concentration of the metal element ions is 195 mass ppm or less, and wherein the impurity element ions contributing to generation of precipitate satisfy at least one of (β) to (γ) below in terms of concentration: | 22,703 |
9,832,998 | 1. A solid antiviral composition comprising a) a polymeric material that is solid at room temperature and molten at elevated temperatures and, embedded therein; b) a compound of formula (V): wherein: Z represents a modified polyol having more than one primary hydroxyl group in the unmodified state, wherein at least two of the primary hydroxyl groups have been replaced by X—(CH X represents n independently represents an integer from 1-100; W represents —(CH Y represents —NR R independently represents H, C R B represents an anion; a represents an integer; and c represents the valence of B, and is equal to 1-3; | 45,796 |
8,865,934 | 1. A method for synthesizing ramalin of formula 1, a salt thereof, a solvate thereof, or a solvate of a salt thereof, the method comprising: allowing 2-hydrazinylphenol to react with L-glutamic acid having a protected carboxyl group at C-1 and a protected amino group at C-2, followed by deprotection: | 14,041 |
9,427,695 | 1. A method comprising: contacting a flue gas stream with an ammoniated solution within a first absorber; wherein the first absorber operates at a temperature of about 25 to about 50 degrees Celsius; the ammoniated solution being operative to remove carbon dioxide from the flue gas stream to form a liquid stream that comprises ammonia and about 2 to about 31 weight percent carbon dioxide, based on the total weight of the liquid stream and a gaseous stream that comprises about 3 to about 8 wt % gaseous ammonia and about 2 to about 5 wt % carbon dioxide; splitting the liquid stream into a first portion stream and a second portion stream; transporting the gaseous stream and the first portion stream to a second absorber; wherein the second absorber operates at a temperature of about 5 to about 35 degrees Celsius; the second absorber being operative to remove substantially all ammonia from the gaseous stream and the first portion stream and form a stream rich in ammonia; recycling at least a portion of the stream rich in ammonia from the second absorber to the first absorber; transporting the second portion stream of the liquid stream to a regenerator to separate carbon dioxide from ammonia; and splitting the stream rich in ammonia that emanates from the second absorber into three separate streams, one of which is recycled to the second absorber and one of which is blended with the second portion stream of the liquid stream. | 16,571 |
8,436,109 | 1. Process for producing steam using heat recovered from a polymerization reaction for producing polyolefin, comprising the steps of: (a) thermally contacting said polymerization reaction with a cooling fluid such that the cooling fluid removes heat from said reaction, (b) thermally contacting at least part of said cooling fluid with at least one absorption cycle utilizing an absorbate and an absorbent solution, thereby transferring heat from the cooling fluid to said absorption cycle, using said cycle to produce steam from a condensate, wherein the absorption cycle comprises | 5,810 |
9,560,596 | 1. A method for adaptively controlling a bias of a power amplifier configured to amplify radio frequency (RF) transmit signals in a communication device, the method comprising: determining whether the communication device is operating in a low activity condition based on an active transmission bandwidth of the communication device, wherein the low activity condition indicates that the active transmission bandwidth of the communication device is below a predetermined threshold; and upon a determination that the communication device is operating in the low activity condition, calculating a desired amount of harmonic distortion attenuation based on a number of active resource blocks utilized by the communication device, and setting the bias of the power amplifier based on the desired amount of harmonic distortion attenuation. | 32,348 |
8,664,199 | 1. A method for reversing gelling of a hydrophobically modified biopolymer and a cellular membrane, comprising: applying a supramolecule to a gel formed by interaction between the hydrophobically modified biopolymer and the membrane, whereby the gel is converted into a flowing liquid and the gelling of the biopolymer and the membrane is reversed. | 25,214 |
8,815,064 | 1. An ozone generator comprising an anode and a cathode provided on each side of a fluororesin type cation exchange membrane, wherein the anode is a conductive diamond electrode having conductive diamond on a surface of the anode, water is supplied to an anode compartment comprising the anode, DC current is supplied between the anode and the cathode so as to electrolyze water and evolve ozone from the anode compartment and hydrogen from a cathode compartment comprising the cathode, the conductive diamond electrode comprises: a substrate having a plurality of convexo-concave formed in a pattern having regular intervals, and the plurality of convexo-concave are arranged in two mutually perpendicular axes; and a conductive diamond film coated on a surface of the substrate, a notch-less fluororesin type cation exchange membrane is closely adhered to a surface of the cathode and fixed to an electrolytic cell, and a close packed layer of ion exchange resin particles is closely adhered to a surface at an anode side of the notch-less fluororesin type cation exchange membrane. | 16,201 |
9,840,233 | 1. A method of exchanging spacers in a wheel assembly including a rigid wheel and a flexible tire mounted on the wheel, a plurality of radially separated portions of the tire being separated radially from the wheel by a space and configured to flex radially inwardly toward the wheel when subject to ground engaging pressure, the radially separated portions of the tire being positioned annularly between portions of the tire engaged by mounting elements extending radially from the wheel, wherein the mounting elements support the tire against inwardly flexing at the portions of the tire engaged by the mounting elements, the method comprising: removing a first spacer from a first position on the wheel assembly, the first position being radially between the wheel and a first one of the radially separated portions of the tire configured to flex inwardly toward the wheel and annularly between a pair of adjacent portions of the tire engaged by the mounting elements of the wheel; and securing a second spacer in the first position on the wheel assembly, the second spacer configured to allow the first radially separated portion of the tire to flex inwardly a different distance than allowed by the first spacer for changing traction of the tire. | 31,474 |
9,398,517 | 1. A method for use in a network element comprising: providing an indication of a type of connectivity provided in a telecommunication cell, the connectivity defining a connection using a Local Packet Gateway via a nodeB serving the telecommunication cell; wherein the indication of the type of connectivity provided indicates one of: local internet protocol access (LIPA) connectivity; selected internet protocol traffic offload (SIPTO) connectivity or remote connectivity; wherein providing the indication of a type of connectivity provided occurs in a non-access stratum (NAS) functional layer; wherein providing the indication of a type of connectivity comprises sending at least one of an ACTIVATE DEFAULT EPS BEARER CONTEXT REQUEST message; or an ACTIVATE PDP CONTEXT ACCEPT message; and wherein providing the indication of a type of connectivity occurs during one of: when responding to a request for an additional packet data protocol (PDP) context; or when responding to a request for a packet data network (PDN) connection. | 40,910 |
9,067,784 | 1. A hydrogen storage material comprising: a substantially homogeneous amorphous liquid mixture of a metal borohydride M | 34,001 |
9,419,536 | 1. A direct current (DC) power transmission system configured to generate a DC electric field component and an alternating current electric field component, said DC power transmission system comprising: an alternating current (AC) stage configured to receive AC electrical power, said AC stage comprising: a transformer comprising primary windings and secondary windings configured to be electromagnetically coupled to each other and electrically isolated from each other; an AC/AC converter having substantially no insulating features against the DC electric field component and being electrically coupled to at least one primary winding of said primary windings; an AC/DC conversion stage positioned downstream of said AC stage, said AC/DC conversion stage comprising an AC/DC rectifier configured to convert AC electrical power to DC electrical power without external control, said AC/DC rectifier coupled to at least one secondary winding of said secondary windings; wherein said AC/AC converter comprises a plurality of parallel AC/AC converters; and wherein said AC/DC rectifier comprises a plurality of series AC/DC rectifiers positioned downstream of said plurality of parallel AC/AC converters. | 9,728 |
8,579,479 | 1. A warning light for an aircraft comprising: a housing comprising a base and a cover, the base comprising a flange member adapted for mounting to an external surface of the aircraft, the cover defining a contoured exterior surface of the housing which is exposed to the surrounding air when the housing is mounted to the external surface of the aircraft, the cover further comprising a front cover portion formed of a light permeable material and a separate rear cover portion also formed of a light permeable material, the front cover portion being disposed forward of the rear cover portion when the housing is attached to the external surface of the aircraft; a lamp comprising at least one LED disposed within the cover; and a cooling body disposed between the front cover portion and the rear cover portion, the cooling body having a cooling surface forming at least part of the contoured exterior surface of the housing, wherein the cooling body completely separates the front cover portion from the rear cover portion. | 30,797 |
9,060,132 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an objective optical system; an optical finder through which a subject imaged on an imaging plane by the objective optical system is observable, a display device control unit that controls removal of the display device; and an objective optical system control unit that controls positions of optical members constituting the objective optical system, wherein in an electronic finder mode for observing an image displayed on the display device from the eyepiece window, the objective optical system control unit performs position control to change a position of the optical member of the objective optical system, which is closest to the imaging plane, to a corresponding position in an optical finder mode for observing the subject imaged on the imaging plane from the eyepiece window, and to make a distance between the imaging plane and the optical member, which is close to the subject in a direction perpendicular to the imaging plane and constitutes the objective optical system, larger than a corresponding distance in the optical finder mode, and wherein in the electronic finder mode, the display device control unit performs control to insert the display device to the position in the imaging plane in a state where the distance is increased through the position control of the objective optical system control unit. | 14,698 |
8,652,907 | 1. A method of fabricating an integrated circuit, the method comprising: depositing a first poly-silicon layer over a first region and a second region, wherein the first region and the second region each have different poly silicon gate structures; depositing, within the second region, an oxide layer over the first poly-silicon layer; depositing a second poly-silicon layer over the first poly-silicon layer and the oxide layer; stripping away a portion of the second poly-silicon layer that lies over the oxide layer such that another portion of the second poly-silicon layer remains after the portion is stripped away; after the stripping, etching the first and the second poly-silicon layer within the first region to provide at least one first poly-silicon gate region; after the stripping, etching the first poly-silicon layer within the second region to provide at least one second poly-silicon gate region; fabricating at least one first poly-silicon figer from the first poly-silicon layer; and fabricating at least one second poly-silicon finger from the second poly-silicon layer, wherein the at least one first and the at least one second poly-silicon fingers are oriented in a substantially orthogonal manner. | 35,093 |
8,459,060 | 1. A gravity bending mould for bending glass sheets, the gravity bending mould comprising a final mould and an intermediate mould, the final mould comprising a first support, a final fixed portion, having at least one fixed shaping rail, mounted on the first support, and at least one final articulated end portion mounted at a respective end of the fixed portion, the or each end portion having a respective final movable shaping rail, the intermediate mould comprising a second support, an intermediate fixed portion, having at least one fixed shaping rail, mounted on the second support, and at least one intermediate articulated end portion mounted at a respective end of the fixed portion, the or each end portion having a respective intermediate movable shaping rail, a releasable lowering mechanism, interconnecting the first and second supports, adapted selectively and temporarily to dispose the intermediate mould in an initial raised position with respect to the final mould, and when released to cause relative vertical movement between the intermediate and final moulds so that the intermediate mould is in a final lowered position with respect to the final mould, and wherein at least a portion of the final movable shaping rail of the at least one final articulated end portion is alignable with at least a portion of the intermediate movable shaping rail of the at least one intermediate articulated end portion to form part of an intermediate peripheral rim of the intermediate mould when the intermediate mould is in the raised position. | 9,932 |
9,169,783 | 1. A propeller governor for controlling blade pitch of a variable pitch propeller, the propeller governor comprising: a hydraulic control circuit coupled to the propeller to change blade pitch in response to hydraulic pressure, the hydraulic control circuit having: wherein the electrohydraulic servo valve is configured to: | 49,557 |
9,346,014 | 1. An exhaust gas after-treatment apparatus having improved durability, comprising: an exhaust gas oxidation catalyst part which oxidizes exhaust gas; an exhaust gas filtering part which is connected to the exhaust gas oxidation catalyst part, and filters the exhaust gas; a selective catalyst reducing part which is connected to the exhaust gas filtering part; and an ammonia oxidation catalyst part which is connected to the selective catalyst reducing part, wherein a first gas detection sensor for detecting a generated amount of nitrogen compound in the exhaust gas flowing from the exhaust gas filtering part, and a selective catalyst reducing bypass valve for selectively blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the selective catalyst reducing part are installed at a front side of the selective catalyst reducing part, and the exhaust gas after-treatment apparatus includes a control part which is electrically connected so as to control whether to operate the selective catalyst reducing bypass valve and the selective catalyst reducing part on the basis of a gas amount detection signal; and wherein a second gas detection sensor for detecting nitrogen compound gas, and an ammonia oxidation catalyst bypass valve for selectively blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the ammonia oxidation catalyst part are further electrically connected and installed to the control part at a front side of the ammonia oxidation catalyst part. | 5,345 |
8,861,118 | 1. A method of operating a disk drive having tracks on a rotating disk that includes a plurality of angularly spaced servo identifier (SID) fields delineating sectors with each SID field including a servo address mark (SAM) field and at least one Integrated Servo sequence, the disk drive having a slider with a write head and a read head that is positionable over a track on the rotating disk, the method comprising: writing a first set of data bits in a first sector preceding a selected SID N on a selected track with the first set of data bits being positioned with a write-to-read gap between first set of bits of data and SID N, and then asserting a servo gate for a first selected time interval to enable the read head to detect the SAM field in SID N for time syncing; and writing a second set of data bits in a second sector positioned between the SID N and an SID N+1 with the second set of data bits being positioned without a write-to-read gap between the second set of data bits and SID N+1, where the second set of data bits contains a higher number of bits than the first set of data bits, then asserting the servo gate, for a second selected time interval that is shorter than the first selected time interval, after at least a portion of the SAM field in SID N+1 has passed under the read head, and then using at least one Integrated Servo sequence in SID N+1 for time syncing. | 25,922 |
9,353,360 | 1. A nucleic acid construct or recombinant expression vector comprising an isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having xylanase activity, wherein the polynucleotide is operably linked to one or more heterologous control sequences that direct the production of the polypeptide in an expression host, wherein the polypeptide having xylanase activity is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the sequence of amino acids 20 to 369 of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide that hybridizes under high stringency conditions with (i) nucleotides 58 to 1107 of SEQ ID NO: 1 or (ii) a full-length complementary strand of (i), wherein high stringency conditions are defined as prehybridization and hybridization at 42° C. in 5×SSPE, 0.3% SDS, 200 μg/ml sheared and denatured salmon sperm DNA, and 50% formamide, followed by three washing steps each for 15 minutes using 2×SSC, 0.2% SDS at 65° C.; and (c) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide having at least 90% sequence identity to the sequence of nucleotides 58 to 1107 of SEQ ID NO: 1. | 20,937 |
8,433,543 | 1. A digital oscilloscope with glitch detection, comprising: a synchronous random access memory (RAM); a digital signal processing unit, coupled to the synchronous RAM, including: a master control unit, coupled to the digital signal processing unit, including: | 15,978 |
9,831,677 | 1. A method comprising: grouping, by a site gateway, first and second discrete physical components of an energy storage system into a logical device; providing, by the site gateway to a remote server, an interface for controlling the logical device; receiving, by the site gateway from the remote server, one or more standardized operating parameters for the logical device via the interface; translating, by the site gateway, the one or more standardized operating parameters into a first set of parameters that are compatible with the first physical component and a second set of parameters that are compatible with the second physical component; and transmitting, by the site gateway, the first set of parameters to the first physical component and the second set of parameters to the second physical component, wherein the first physical component is a battery inverter/charger, wherein the second physical component is a battery device, and wherein the logical device is a logical storage appliance. | 10,546 |
8,742,922 | 1. A luggage tracking device comprising: a housing configured to be attached to a piece of luggage; a location unit provided in the housing to determine a current location of the device; a transmitter provided in the housing and configured to transmit current location information at programmed intervals predetermined by a user; and a controller provided in the housing to control operations of the location unit and transmitter. | 22,625 |
9,740,081 | 1. A method of tunable harmonic generation of laser beams in a nonlinear optical material comprising: directing a laser beam over a range of phase-matching angles to and from a nonlinear optical material through optically coupled lenses at opposite faces of the nonlinear optical material, the optically coupled lenses having portions on outer surfaces which cause incoming and exiting beams to be at or near perpendicular to the portions on the outer surfaces of the lenses over a range of phase matching angles. | 24,915 |
9,156,400 | 1. A steering wheel having an airbag apparatus mounted on a core metal via a horn switch mechanism for activating a horn device, the horn switch mechanism comprising: a supporting member that is formed of an electrically conductive material, supported on the core metal, and extends rearward; a slider that is formed of an insulating resin material, is disposed outside the supporting member to be slidable with respect to the supporting member, and urged rearward by an urging member; a cap member that is formed of an insulating resin material and covers at least a rear end of each of the supporting member and the slider; and a movable side contact that is formed of an electrically conductive metal material and disposed between the cap member and the slider; wherein the horn switch mechanism is configured to activate the horn device by transferring a force which is exerted onto the airbag apparatus when the airbag apparatus is pressed down to the movable side contact and the slider via the cap member, sliding the slider forward against the urging member, and moving the movable side contact forward to be contacted with the supporting member, and wherein on at least one of a region of the movable side contact located rearward of a rear end of the slider, and a region of the rear end of the slider located forward of the movable side contact, a spacing portion for spacing the movable side contact and the rear end of the slider from each other is provided. | 49,523 |
9,170,861 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a user event input at a touchscreen of an electronic device during display of a document by the touchscreen; dispatching the user event for processing in a plurality of threads, a first thread of the plurality of threads being configured to process the user event in accordance with a first handling action determined by a user command associated with the user event input, and a second thread of the plurality of threads being configured to process the user event in accordance with a second handling action defined specifically for the user input event by the document, wherein the first thread is further configured to process queued tasks such that processing of the user event input by the first thread may be delayed until processing of other previously queued tasks completes and processing of the user event input by the second thread may begin before processing of the user event input by the first thread; and upon a first one of the first thread and the second thread completing processing of the user event, updating the display of the document according to the processing completed by that first one of the first thread and the second thread, wherein the first handling action is a default handling action configured for an execution environment executing on the electronic device, the execution environment being configured to output the document for display on the touchscreen and wherein the default handing action is not defined by the document. | 39,566 |
9,399,456 | 1. A hybrid electric vehicle comprising: a wheel; a wheel driving device coupled with the wheel for driving rotation of the wheel, the wheel driving device including an electric motor; a battery unit for providing electricity to the electric motor, the battery unit including a first battery and a second battery that are rechargeable; a generator for recharging the first battery and the second battery; a fuel engine coupled with the generator and operable to drive the generator to generate electricity; a first switch for establishing electrical connection between the generator and each of the first battery and the second battery; a second switch for establishing electrical connection between the electric motor and each of the first battery and the second battery; a control unit electrically coupled with the first switch and the second switch and operable to control the first switch and the second switch to make or break electrical connection, a first detector electrically coupled with the control unit and the first battery, and operable to detect a battery level of the first battery and to generate a first detector signal that is based on the battery level of the first battery; and a second detector electrically coupled with the control unit and the second battery, and operable to detect a battery level of the second battery and to generate a second detector signal that is based on the battery level of the second battery, wherein: the first switch has a first terminal electrically coupled with the first battery, a second terminal electrically coupled with the second battery, a third terminal electrically coupled with the generator, and a fourth terminal electrically coupled the control unit for receiving a first control signal, the second switch has a first terminal electrically coupled with the first battery, a second terminal electrically coupled with the second batter, a third terminal electrically coupled with the electric motor, and a fourth terminal electrically coupled with the control unit for receiving a second control signal, the control unit is further coupled electrically to the fuel engine, and controls operations of the fuel engine, the first switch and the second switch based on the first detector signal and the second detector signal, the hybrid electric vehicle operates in a first state which the control unit determines that the battery level of the first battery is greater than a first predetermined battery level, and that the battery level of the second battery is not greater than a second predetermined battery level, and while the hybrid electric vehicle operates in the first state, the control unit is operable to activate the fuel engine, controls the first switch to electrically connect the third terminal of the first switch with the second terminal of the first switch and electrically disconnect the third terminal of the first switch from the first terminal of the first switch such that the second battery is recharged by the generator, and controls the second switch to electrically connect the third terminal of the second switch with the first terminal of the second switch and electrically disconnect the third terminal of the second switch from second terminal of the second switch such that the first battery provides electricity to the electric motor. | 30,912 |
9,538,468 | 1. A computer-implemented method for power saving in a Wi-Fi device of a wireless network utilizing Bluetooth, comprising the steps of: sending a notification of deep sleep mode to an access point currently associated with a Wi-Fi radio; transitioning the Wi-Fi radio to deep sleep mode from active mode while a Bluetooth radio remains active; maintaining an active connection to the access point while in deep sleep mode, comprising transmitting at least one packet concerning the Wi-Fi radio connection to the access point using the Bluetooth radio; receiving an indication, over the Bluetooth radio, of data packets addressed to the Wi-Fi radio; responsive to the indication of data packets, transitioning the Wi-Fi radio from the deep sleep mode to the active mode; and sending a notification of active mode to the access point currently associated with the Wi-Fi radio. | 30,802 |
8,442,331 | 1. A method in a computing system having a processor for processing a distinguished text capture operation, comprising: receiving text captured from a distinguished rendered document in the distinguished text capture operation; receiving supplemental information distinct from the captured text; and with the processor, determining an action to perform in response to the distinguished text capture operation based upon both the captured text and the supplemental information, wherein the distinguished text capture operation is performed by a distinguished user, and wherein the received supplemental information includes a document rendering characteristic observed in a previous text capture operation by the distinguished user and a corresponding document rendering characteristic observed in the distinguished text capture operation, and wherein the determined action is identifying different electronic documents as corresponding to the rendered documents in which the distinguished text capture operation and the previous text capture operation were performed based upon a difference between the document rendering characteristic observed in the previous text capture operation and the corresponding document rendering characteristic observed in the distinguished text capture operation. | 17,278 |
9,295,058 | 1. A method of transmitting data, the method comprising: transmitting a reference signal sequence r(m) to a terminal, wherein a first transmission point determines the reference signal sequence r(m) as follows: wherein m an RB (resource block) corresponding to a frequency bandwidth of a downlink channel, and c( ) denotes a pseudo-random sequence, wherein an initial value, c wherein ns is a slot number in a radio frame, X is a first initial value determining parameter, and Y is a second initial value determining parameter, and wherein ns is determined based on a slot number of a radio frame transmitted from a second transmission point to the terminal. | 33,408 |
9,783,818 | 1. A method of increasing nitrogen use efficiency, leaf area, growth rate of leaf area, leaf number, leaf blade area, rosette diameter, rosette area, photosynthetic capacity, and/or tolerance to nitrogen deficiency of a plant under nitrogen deficiency, comprising: (a) over-expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence as set forth by SEQ ID NO: 196, (b) selecting a plant transformed with said exogenous polynucleotide for an increased leaf area, growth rate of leaf area, leaf number, leaf blade area, rosette diameter, rosette area, nitrogen use efficiency, an increased photosynthetic capacity, and/or an increased tolerance to nitrogen deficiency under nitrogen deficiency as compared to a native plant of the same species, which is grown under the same growth conditions, (c) isolating regenerable portion from plants selected according to step (b), and; (d) regenerating plants from said regenerable portion isolated according to step (c), thereby increasing the nitrogen use efficiency, leaf area, growth rate of leaf area, leaf number, leaf blade area, rosette diameter, rosette area, photosynthetic capacity, and/or tolerance to nitrogen deficiency of the plant under the nitrogen deficiency. | 12,949 |
8,859,953 | 1. A method for detecting an asymmetry of an electric field in an FT-ICR cell in a radial direction relative to an axis of the FT-ICR cell, wherein parameters indicative of a position or a diameter of a center axis of a magnetron motion for an ion with a reduced cyclotron frequency v | 16,619 |
8,496,888 | 1. A reducing agent container having an improved function and including a container body thereof comprising: a heat exchanger configured to permit a heating medium using an engine as a heat source thereof to circulate therein for performing the heat exchange with a liquid reducing agent, the heat exchanger being attached to a top board of the container body; a strainer configured to filtrate foreign substances from the liquid reducing agent, the strainer being also attached to the top board of the container body; and a suction pipe connected to the strainer and configured to suck the liquid reducing agent from an inside of the container body, wherein the strainer has a supply port formed therein for permitting the liquid reducing agent from which foreign substances are filtrated to be supplied therethrough, wherein the strainer and the heat exchanger are connected to each other by a connecting member formed of a metal plate, in the inside of the container body, and wherein the connecting member connects the strainer to only a heating medium inlet side piping of the heat exchanger. | 20,734 |
9,809,123 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, a first charge level of a first battery system, wherein the first battery system is configured to power a homopolar generator; determining that the first charge level is less than a first threshold value; causing the first battery system to be charged by a power input source; determining that a second charge level of the first battery system is greater than the first threshold value; causing the first battery system to power the homopolar generator, wherein the homopolar generator is configured to output charging current to a second battery system, the second battery system comprising a first battery, a second battery, and a solid state relay; causing the solid state relay to form a parallel connection between the first battery, the second battery, and the homopolar generator; directing a first charging current from the homopolar generator to the first battery; directing a second charging current from the homopolar generator to the second battery, such that the second battery charges while the first battery is charging; determining that a third charge level of the first battery satisfies a second threshold; determining that a fourth charge level of the second battery satisfies the second threshold; and powering off the homopolar generator. | 31,113 |
8,911,622 | 1. An oil skimming device for the removal of oil located at the surface of a body of water, comprising: a float which allows the device to rest on the surface of the body of water from which the oil is to be removed; at least one rigid skimming surface, said rigid skimming surface is a substantially cylindrical-shaped drum supported by the float, said rigid skimming surface being rotatable about an axis such that when the device is floating in the water, a portion of the rigid skimming surface is above and a portion of the rigid skimming surface is below the water surface; sorbent material removably attached to and substantially covering the skimming surface, said sorbent material is in the form of a sheet with a length that exceeds the circumference of the drum so that when wrapped around the drum said sorbent material provides an overlapping flap and an overlapped flap, said sorbent material configured to rotate with the skimming surface and to sorb oil as the skimming surface is rotated; at least one scraper positioned to bear against the skimming surface for removing sorbed oil from the sorbent material as the skimming surface is rotated; and a motor operatively connected to said skimming surface, said motor configured to rotate the skimming surface about its axis of rotation. | 2,046 |
9,666,200 | 1. A method for determining a first banded tonality value for a first frequency subband of an audio signal; wherein the first banded tonality value is used for approximating a high frequency component of the audio signal based on a low frequency component of the audio signal; the method comprising: determining a set of transform coefficients in a corresponding set of frequency bins based on a block of samples of the audio signal; determining a set of bin tonality values for the set of frequency bins using the set of transform coefficients, respectively; and combining a first subset of two or more of the set of bin tonality values for two or more corresponding adjacent frequency bins of the set of frequency bins lying within the first frequency subband, thereby yielding the first banded tonality value for the first frequency subband; wherein the method further comprises determining a sequence of sets of transform coefficients based on a corresponding sequence of blocks of the audio signal; for a particular frequency bin, the sequence of sets of transform coefficients comprises a sequence of particular transform coefficients; determining the bin tonality value for the particular frequency bin comprises: the bin tonality value for the particular frequency bin is a function of the phase acceleration. | 13,612 |
8,636,201 | 1. A method of identifying a plurality of items, the method comprising: performing a CT scan of a plurality of items in an unorganized pile, at least some of said items bearing information tags; reconstructing an image based on the CT scan; and identifying a plurality of information tags associated with the items based on the reconstructed image. | 19,279 |
9,564,216 | 1. A memory circuit, comprising: a plurality of blocks of memory cells; a controller including logic to execute program sequences for selected blocks in the plurality of blocks, the program sequences including patterns of program/verify cycles to induce changes in resistance of memory cells to target values representing data; logic to assign different patterns of program/verify cycles to different blocks in the plurality of blocks, wherein program/verify cycles in the patterns of program/verify cycles in program sequences verify whether memory cells have resistances matching a verify level resistance; and logic to apply a stress sequence to a selected block in the selected blocks to induce a change in program current levels required to cause resistance changes in memory cells in the selected block, the stress sequence being different than the program sequences. | 38,793 |
8,521,195 | 1. A method for paging a mobile station, the method comprising: before transmission of a page to a mobile station by an access network, the access network identifying concatenation that is being applied to the page, wherein the page comprises a page record that is transmitted in a general page message (GPM) by a base station in the radio access network, and wherein identifying the concatenation that is being applied to the page comprises determining how many page records can be included in the GPM; based at least in part on the concatenation that is being applied to the page, the access network selecting a page-transmission power for the page; and the access network transmitting the page to the mobile station at the selected page-transmission power. | 32,452 |
8,943,840 | 1. An installation having a gearbox supported by a mounting assembly having a mount ring and a spigot pin having a flange at one end, wherein the gearbox is suspended beneath the mount ring by two or more links, each link comprising a link arm that is connected to the mount ring at one end of the arm and connected to the gearbox at the other end of the arm, the spigot pin extending radially outwardly through a bore in the mount ring to engage with the gearbox and the flange locates against a radially inner surface of the mount ring. | 25,971 |
8,833,098 | 1. A direct exchange heating/cooling system having a heating mode and a cooling mode, the system comprising: a sub-surface geothermal heat exchanger including sub-surface heat exchange tubing; an interior heat exchanger; a primary vapor line extending between the interior heat exchanger and the sub-surface geothermal heat exchange tubing; a compressor fluidly communicating with primary vapor line; a refrigerant disposed in the primary vapor line and pressurized by the compressor, the refrigerant having a heating mode refrigerant flow direction through the primary vapor line from the sub-surface geothermal heat exchanger to the compressor and then to the interior heat exchanger, and a cooling mode refrigerant flow direction through the primary vapor line from the compressor to the sub-surface geothermal heat exchanger and then to the interior heat exchanger, the refrigerant in the cooling mode having a waste heat content; a controller for selectively operating the system in the heating and cooling modes; and a supplemental air-source heat exchanger including: a supply line having a supply line inlet fluidly communicating with an upstream point of the primary vapor line, and a supply line outlet; a discharge line having a discharge line inlet in fluid communication with the supply line outlet, and a discharge line outlet fluidly communicating with a downstream point of the primary vapor line, wherein the upstream point is located nearer the compressor than the downstream point; the supply and discharge line providing supplemental heat transfer tubing configured to solely pre-cool the hot gas refrigerant exiting the compressor such that the hot gas in the air-source unit portion is not materially condensed; a flow director associated with the primary vapor line and the supplemental air-source heat exchanger, the flow director having a cooling mode configuration that diverts refrigerant from the primary vapor line to flow through the supply and discharge lines when the refrigerant travels in the cooling mode refrigerant direction, and a heating mode configuration in which refrigerant is blocked from the supply and discharge lines when the refrigerant travels in the heating mode refrigerant flow direction. | 44,740 |
9,207,719 | 1. A screen control module of a mobile electronic device, comprising: a circuit board having: at least one controller, each one of the at least one controller formed by an integrated circuit having a package on the surface of the circuit board, wherein the package has a length and a width, an aspect ratio between the length and the width of the package is greater than or equal to 2:1, the package has multiple electrical contacts respectively aligning along a direction of the length and a direction of the width, and the electrical contacts respectively align with and electrically connecting with the solder pads, wherein the package of the controller has a packaging substrate, the packaging substrate has multiple dielectric layers and multiple wire layers alternately stacked, at least one of the dielectric layers has only one layer of glass fiber cloth, and at least one of the dielectric layers has multiple layers of glass fiber cloths, wherein the at least one of the dielectric layers having the multiple layers of glass fiber cloths has a greater anti-warp strength. | 27,239 |
8,819,718 | 1. A method of collecting presentation information, comprising: receiving, at a secure device, encrypted program content including audio or video information identifying the program content; operating the secure device to decrypt the encrypted program content to produce decrypted digital program content; operating the secure device to process the decrypted digital program content to recover the information identifying the program content; receiving default viewer information corresponding to a playback device prior to the playback device outputting the program content; and generating viewership statistics from the recovered information identifying the program content, said step of generating viewership information including: | 42,849 |
8,722,742 | 1. A method of treating Dengue virus in a patient infected therewith comprising administering to the patient a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, tautomers, geometric isomers, enantiomers, diasterioisomers, and racemates thereof. | 28,325 |
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