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8,979,630 | 1. Roulette apparatus, comprising: a roulette wheel and a roulette table having a layout for placing of bets utilizing betting chips; one or more sensors arranged to produce a plurality of signals in response to events during a roulette game indicating a plurality of different phases of the game delineated by said events; a chipper machine that counts physical betting chips utilized at the roulette table and outputs betting chip count data; a memory for storing data representing said identified game phases and their associated timing information; and at least one processor for executing instructions to cause the processor to: | 44,975 |
8,343,090 | 1. A surgical instrument for providing a pressurized surgical gas to a surgical site, comprising: a receptacle for receiving at least one cylinder of the pressurized surgical gas; a frame having a proximal end and a distal end, the frame defining a port near the distal end for emitting a surgical gas; a passageway extending between the receptacle and the port defined in the frame; and a puncture assembly for rupturing a seal defined by the at least one cylinder to release the pressurized surgical gas into the passageway, the puncture assembly comprising: a rack and pinion gear assembly including a rack and pinion gear, wherein the at least one puncture pin is operatively coupled to the at least one bank via the rack and pinion gear assembly such that a release of the mechanical energy from the at least one bank induces motion in the rack and pinion gear assembly. | 47,447 |
8,366,972 | 1. A material for protective layers on chromium oxide forming substrates resistant to high temperatures, the material comprising a spinel phase having the composition(Cu x Ni 1−x ) y (Mn 1−z Fe z ) 2 O 4 , where 0.0<x<1.0, 0.8≦y≦1.2 and 0.0<z<1, and an oxidic secondary phase having the composition (MnO x ) 1−y +(CuO/NiO) y , where 1<x<1.5 and 0<y<0.5. | 12,059 |
8,699,871 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first laser array comprising a first plurality of N laser units, wherein each laser unit of the first plurality of N laser units is configured to output a respective first optical seed signal; a second laser array comprising a second plurality of N laser units, wherein each laser unit of the second plurality of N laser units is redundant to a corresponding laser unit in the first plurality of N lasers and is configured to output a respective second optical seed signal; a first plurality of power monitor units, wherein each of the first plurality of power monitor units is coupled to a corresponding laser unit in the first plurality of N laser units and configured to monitor output power of the corresponding laser unit in the first laser array and to provide an indication of when the output power of the corresponding laser unit in the first laser array falls below a threshold power; a control unit coupled to the power monitor units and configured to receive the indication from one or more of the first plurality of power monitor units when the output power of the corresponding one or more laser units of the first laser array falls below a threshold power and to enable corresponding second plurality of laser units to output corresponding second optical seed signals at sufficient current levels that result in transmission of the second optical seed signals; a first coupler unit that is coupled to output terminals of the first plurality of power monitor units to multiplex individual first optical seed signals produced by laser units in the first plurality of N laser units; a second coupler unit that is coupled to output terminals of laser units in the second plurality of N laser units to multiplex individual second optical seed signals produced by the laser units in the second plurality of N laser units; and a plurality of multiplexing units, each of which is coupled to one output terminal of the first coupler unit and one output terminal of the second coupler unit such that each of the plurality of multiplexing units multiplexes a first optical seed signal from the output terminal of the first coupler unit with a second optical seed signal from the output terminal of the second coupler unit. | 45,596 |
8,904,210 | 1. A method comprising: identifying an amount of time associated with a user based activity with respect to a battery powered device; determining a battery drain rate of the battery powered device; using the battery drain rate to determine whether the user based activity can be completed in the amount of time associated with the user based activity; generating a visual indicator of whether the user based activity can be completed in the amount of time; conducting a profile analysis based on an operating system type associated with the battery powered device, wherein the profile analysis is not bound to a time of day; using the profile analysis to generate a battery life extension prompt, wherein the prompt corresponds to one or more of a network interface option, a quality option, and a display resolution option; receiving an option selection; modifying the visual indicator based on the option selection and the profile analysis; and using the option selection to reduce the battery drain rate. | 8,930 |
8,732,921 | 1. A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, the method comprising: a first step of forming a vibration plate, wherein the vibration plate is formed of an insulating material; a second step of forming a plurality of individual electrodes, first terminals and first wirings on a first plane defined by a surface of the vibration plate, the first terminals each being associated with one of the individual electrodes, the first wirings each electrically connecting one of the individual electrodes and one of the first terminals; a third step of forming a piezoelectric layer on surfaces of the individual electrodes, wherein a first surface of the piezoelectric layer defines a second plane different from and positioned above the first plane, wherein the first surface of the piezoelectric layer is opposite to a second surface of the piezoelectric layer contacting the individual electrodes; and a fourth step of forming a common electrode on the second plane defined by the piezoelectric layer and above the first plane on which the individual electrodes are formed, wherein the fourth step includes forming a second terminal and a second wiring together with the common electrode, wherein the second terminal is formed on the first plane defined by the surface of the vibration plate, the second terminal being associated with the common electrode, the second wiring being formed partially contacting the first plane and partially contacting the second plane to electrically connect the common electrode and the second terminal. | 24,590 |
8,932,063 | 1. A benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) laser surgery simulator comprising: a frame; a mock hypotube supported by the frame and having a longitudinal axis, wherein the mock hypotube is configured to pivot and move along the longitudinal axis relative to the frame; a hypotube tracker configured to output hypotube position information indicative of a position of the hypotube relative to the frame; a mock laser fiber received within the hypotube configured to move along the longitudinal axis and rotate about a laser fiber central axis relative to the hypotube; a laser fiber position tracker configured to output laser fiber position information indicative of a position of the mock laser fiber relative to the hypotube; a mock camera assembly attached to the hypotube configured to rotate about a camera central axis relative to the hypotube; and a camera position tracker configured to output camera position information indicative of a position of the mock camera assembly relative to the hypotube. | 39,427 |
8,449,145 | 1. A bulb bracket apparatus for mechanically attaching a light emitting diode module to a light bulb, comprising: a module clip comprising first and second module clip arms; a concave module clip cavity defined between the first and second module clip arms, the module clip cavity shaped to receive the light emitting diode module; a bulb clip extending away from the module clip, the bulb clip comprising first and second bulb clip arms; and a concave bulb clip cavity defined between the first and second bulb clip arms, the bulb clip cavity shaped for receiving the light bulb. | 22,142 |
9,321,845 | 1. A method of treatment comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody selected from the group consisting of: (a) an antibody which binds to PRL-1 comprising a heavy chain variable region sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 2 and a light chain variable region sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 4 (b) an antigen binding fragment of (a); or a pharmaceutical composition comprising such an antibody to an individual suffering from a PRL-1-expressing cancer. | 36,442 |
9,526,548 | 1. A system for guiding placement of a guide pin at a distance from a previously placed implant, which was previously implanted in a bone, the system comprising: a drill guide, comprising: a parallel spacer device, comprising: | 16,565 |
9,254,410 | 1. A multi-grip exercise bar, comprising: an elongate cylindrical shaft having opposing ends, the shaft having a pair of intermediate, symmetrically disposed, offset, coplanar grip portions formed by trapezoidal bends in the shaft, defining a main longitudinal axis and a parallel offset longitudinal axis, the shaft having: a pair of sleeves adapted for securing weight plates thereto disposed at the opposing ends of the shaft, respectively; and a pair of handles extending from the central section of the shaft parallel to each other and coplanar with the grip sections formed by the trapezoidal bends in the shaft, each of the handles having a grip disposed thereon; wherein each said handle comprises a short stub bar having a free end and a grip stop disposed at the free end. | 22,976 |
9,145,699 | 1. A cleaning robot comprising: a drive motor; a housing that encloses the drive motor; a brushing element; and a transmission coupled between the brushing element and the drive motor; a first compass arranged to generate first directional information; a second compass arranged to generate second directional information; wherein the first and second compasses are spaced apart from each other; and a processor; arranged to receive directional information from the first and second compasses and to determine at least one of a location parameter and a directional parameter of the cleaning robot based upon at least the first and second directional information. | 49,304 |
8,614,842 | 1. A hologram replicator comprising: an optically transparent plate having top and bottom surfaces substantially parallel to one another; a recording film enabled to advance with respect to the top surface of the optically transparent plate; and a light absorber actuatable to move substantially transversely to the recording film such as to press the recording film against the optically transparent plate to lock said film between and in contact with the absorber and the optically transparent plate. | 17,362 |
9,506,661 | 1. A duct type air conditioner comprising at least: a casing having discharge openings and a suction opening therein; said casing being composed of a front plate formed with a discharge duct mounting frame outwardly thereof so as to surround the discharge openings; a fan mechanism mounted inwardly of said front plate; said casing being further composed of a back plate formed with a suction duct mounting frame outwardly thereof so as to surround said suction opening; and a heat exchanger mounted inwardly of said back plate, wherein said fan mechanism includes a plurality of fan units each having a fan panel, a motor mounted on the fan panel, a pair of press portions integrally formed with the fan panel on top of the fan panel with bent top two corners of each fan panel orthogonally towards a side on which the motor is mounted, and a discharge port formed on the fan panel, a pair of L-shaped vertical rails is mounted on the front plate on a side the fan mechanism is mounted and at both sides of each of the discharge openings, two panel retainers are attached on the front plate and located on bottom of each of the discharge openings and in between the pair of L-shaped vertical rails, said two panel retainers are separated from each other, each of the panel retainers comprises: a surface portion inclined relative to the front plate to guide the fan panel; and a stopper portion integrally formed with the surface portion and forming a bottom of each panel retainer to fit the fan panel, and each of the plurality of fan units is mounted on the front plate of the casing by inserting a pair of side edges of the fan panel into the pair of L-shaped vertical rails of the front plate respectively and by pressing the pair of press portions of the fan panel downwardly until the fan panel abuts the stopper portion of the panel retainers and until each press portion is completely pressed into a space surrounded by the L-shaped vertical rail and the front plate, so that the fan panel is pressed against the front plate and each discharge port faces each of the discharge openings. | 33,807 |
9,573,140 | 1. A valve assembly for a centrifugal cleaner arrangement comprising: a first connecting member configured to connect to a cyclone feed conduit and a cyclone accept conduit of a cyclone; a second connecting member configured to connect to a cleaner group feed conduit of a centrifugal cleaner group and an accept conduit of the centrifugal cleaner group; a movable valve including first and second apertures and the movable valve is sandwiched between the first and second connecting members, wherein the movable valve has a first position in which the first aperture is aligned with an opening to the cyclone feed conduit and to an opening to the cleaner group feed conduit and the first aperture provides a passage for fluid flow between the cyclone feed conduit and the cleaner group feed conduit, and the second aperture is aligned with an opening to the cyclone accept conduit and to an opening to the cleaner group accept conduit and the second aperture provides a passage for flow between the cyclone accept conduit and the cleaner group accept conduit, wherein in the first position the opening to the cyclone feed conduit is coaxial with an axis of the cyclone feed conduit and the opening to the cyclone accept conduit is coaxial with an axis of the cyclone accept conduit; the movable valve has a second position in which a solid portion of the movable valve entirely blocks the opening to the cyclone feed conduit and entirely blocks the opening to the cyclone accept conduit, and a control element connected to the moveable valve and configured to move the moveable valve between the first position and the second position. | 11,210 |
8,904,950 | 1. A glide system comprising a glide assembly and a watercraft float, the glide assembly comprising: a top surface, a base with a bottom surface and a cavity, a protrusion extending from the base, a glide member comprising an exterior surface, an axle, and a securing mechanism allowing for the glide assembly to be positioned at different locations on the watercraft float, wherein the cavity receives the glide member and axle, and the watercraft float comprising a watercraft receiving area, the watercraft receiving area comprising a track and a top surface, wherein the track extends the substantial length of the watercraft receiving area and is capable of slideably receiving the protrusion. | 24,174 |
9,822,425 | 1. A solvent extraction process for recovering a metal present at low concentration from an acidic aqueous solution, the process comprising: a) contacting in a mixer the acidic aqueous solution with an organic phase solution comprising 5-nonylsalicylaldoxime, thereby extracting at least part of the metal from the acidic aqueous solution into the organic phase solution; increasing or maintaining the concentration of metal in the organic phase solution by recycling from 50-100% by volume of the organic phase solution containing the metal and contacting the organic phase solution with the acidic aqueous solution containing the metal until the concentration ranges from 0.3 g/L to 25 g/L; b) contacting the organic phase solution containing metal with an aqueous phase strip solution comprising an inorganic compound that back-extracts the metal, thereby stripping at least part of the metal from the organic phase solution to the aqueous phase strip solution; and c) separating the metal from the aqueous phase strip solution, thereby recovering the metal. | 46,825 |
9,378,961 | 1. A method of forming an integrated circuit, the method comprising: forming a first interfacial layer over a first region, a second region, and a third region of a substrate; patterning the first interfacial layer to remove a portion of the first interfacial layer from the first region, wherein the patterning of the first interfacial layer defines a first gate stack having a first gate stack height within the third region, wherein the first gate stack includes: forming, after the patterning of the first interfacial layer, a second interfacial layer over at least a portion of the second region; patterning the second interfacial layer to define a second gate stack within the second region, wherein the second gate stack has the first gate stack height and includes: forming, after the patterning of the second interfacial layer, a third interfacial layer on the substrate over at least a portion of the first region to define a third gate stack within the first region the third gate stack within the first region has the first gate stack height, and wherein the third gate stack includes: wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness and the second thickness is greater than the third thickness. | 12,684 |
9,409,361 | 1. A molding jig comprising: a mold used for molding a surface of a laminate when curing the laminate obtained by laminating prepreg; and a retaining mechanism that brings the mold into tight contact with the laminate which allows the mold to be covered with a bag film in a state in which the mold is in tight contact with the laminate, the mold having a planar plate shape, and elastically deforming from the planar shape into a shape corresponding to a shape of the laminate so as to come into tight contact with the laminate. | 37,031 |
8,815,622 | 1. A method of making a light emitting device, the method comprising: providing a first multi-layer stack, comprising: exposing the sacrificial portion to electromagnetic radiation to at least partially decompose the sacrificial portion, wherein the exposing comprises passing at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation through at least part of the high bandgap buffer region, and the decomposing comprises forming a gas and a liquid; and removing the substrate and at least part of the buffer region from the first multi-layer stack to form a second multi-layer stack, wherein the substrate and the buffer region are transparent to wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation. | 25,363 |
8,497,309 | 1. A method of reacting one or more components in a liquid medium to form an organic product, the method comprising: feeding a carbonaceous gas and a liquid medium to a high shear device comprising at least two generators, each generator comprising a toothed rotor and a complementarily-shaped stator; processing the gas and the liquid medium under shearing conditions in the high shear device, resulting in an emulsion comprising at least some of the carbonaceous gas dispersed in the liquid medium, wherein the dispersed carbonaceous gas comprises gas bubbles with a mean diameter of less than about 1 μm; and reacting the emulsion to produce the organic product. | 29,028 |
9,461,033 | 1. An electro-optical device comprising: an insulating film that is provided above one surface side of a substrate; a pixel switching element that is provided above the insulating film; a light transmitting interlayer insulating film that is provided above the pixel switching element; a pixel electrode that is provided above the light transmitting interlayer insulating film and being electrically connected to a drain of the pixel switching element through the light transmitting interlayer insulating film; a data line that is provided above the one surface side of the substrate and being connected to a source of the pixel switching element; a signal line that is provided above the one surface side of the substrate and being connected to a source of the pixel switching element; a terminal that is provided above the one surface side of the substrate and being connected to the signal line for pixel signals; a potential line that is provided on one surface side of the substrate; an electrostatic protection element that is configured as a diode element which is provided above the insulating film, wherein the electrostatic protection element is electrically connected between the signal line and the potential line; and a heat dissipation layer that overlaps a pn junction area of the diode element in a plan view between the substrate and a portion in which a thickness of the insulating film is equal to or greater than 200 nm and is equal to or less than 1000 nm, wherein the light transmitting insulating film is formed above the signal line, the potential line, the electrostatic protection element, and the heat dissipation layer. | 8,442 |
9,384,725 | 1. A system for generating anti-noise in an exhaust-gas line of a vehicle, comprising: a first electro acoustic transducer configured for generating a first acoustic signal based on an electric control signal, and being in communication with the exhaust-gas line via an acoustic line, with the first acoustic signal entering the exhaust line in form of anti-noise after having passed the acoustic line; a second electro acoustic transducer configured for generating an electric measurement signal representing a second acoustic signal, and being in acoustic communication with the exhaust-gas line at the anti-noise coupling region; a control unit configured for generating the control signal based on the measurement signal; and parameterizing unit adapted for determining a conforming phase parameter and a conforming magnitude parameter for the control function used by the control unit based on the transient response of the control unit, wherein the parameterizing unit is configured for determining at least one of a temporal characteristic of the control signal and the measurement signal and wherein the parameterizing unit is configured to determine a transient time, an overshooting behaviour, and an instability of the operation for generating the control signal performed by the control unit from the temporal characteristics of at least one of the control signal and the measurement signal. | 16,683 |
8,601,298 | 1. A method for conserving power in a portable computing device (PCD) comprising: while the PCD is in an off-line state: placing the PCD into a normal operating state; while the PCD is in the normal operating state: | 1,921 |
9,246,786 | 1. A method comprising: measuring variation in a time interval between probe stream adjacent packets using an inserted known observable parameter as part of a probe stream transmitted via a communications network to determine a network-induced time variation; changing a time interval inserted between subsequent actual data packets transmitted via the communications network based on the network-induced time variation; periodically generating respective probe streams corresponding to respective zones within the communications network; and periodically transmitting the respective probe streams from different ones of the respective zones within the communications network to other ones of the respective zones within the communications network to determine respective zone network-induced time variations. | 15,634 |
9,363,882 | 1. A device for generating neutrons, comprising: a target for emitting neutrons, comprising: a vacuum container for storing the target; and a laser light irradiating section configured to irradiate laser light including two successive first and second pulsed lights toward the second target layer of the target, wherein the first pulsed light has a first intensity and the second pulsed light has a second intensity, and wherein the first intensity is smaller than the second intensity and the first intensity is set to a value on the order of 10 | 9,514 |
9,725,701 | 1. A construct comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: a) the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID NO: 1; and b) a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and, operably linked to a heterologous 5′ DNA plant promoter. | 37,089 |
8,586,207 | 1. A fused polycyclic compound represented by the following general formula (I): where R | 14,353 |
9,208,366 | 1. A securable indicia decoding device comprising: an imaging subsystem comprising an image sensor array and an imaging optics assembly operative for focusing an image onto the image sensor array; a memory capable of storing frames of image data comprising data communicated through the read-out portion of at least some of the pixels during the imaging operation; a processor operative for receiving one or more of the frames of image data from the data storage element and performing a decode operation for attempting to decode a decodable feature represented in at least one of the frames of image data; and a housing encapsulating the illumination subsystem and the imaging subsystem, the housing comprising a lock receiving portion for receiving a security lock; wherein the lock receiving portion comprises: | 21,537 |
8,993,471 | 1. A coated article, comprising: a roofing granule having an external surface and a coating on the external surface, wherein the coating is formed from a composition comprising photocatalytic TiO | 1,096 |
8,867,047 | 1. A switching power source comprising: a transformer; a switching unit connected to a primary winding of the transformer, and configured to perform switching of the primary winding of the transformer; and an output unit configured to output a voltage produced on a secondary winding of the transformer; wherein the switching power source is configured to operate in a first output condition in which the output unit outputs a first voltage by the switching unit continuously performing switching of the primary winding of the transformer and in a second output condition in which the output unit outputs a second voltage smaller than the first voltage by the switching unit intermittently performing switching of the primary winding of the transformer, wherein a switching cycle of the switching unit in the second output condition is longer than a switching cycle of the switching unit in the first output condition, and wherein in the second output condition, a number of ON-times of the switching unit for each switching cycle of the switching unit is periodically changed. | 49,334 |
9,249,665 | 1. A cap comprising: a body portion having a shape complementary to an aperture in a turbine component, the body portion including an external surface which substantially covers the aperture; and a cap groove formed in a circumferential surface of the body portion, the cap groove configured to substantially align with a component groove formed in the aperture, wherein the cap groove is further configured to position the external surface substantially flush relative the flow surface of the turbine component. | 39,688 |
9,031,403 | 1. A method for monitoring, in an optical transmission system comprising an optical transmitter and an optical receiver, a polarization-dependent characteristic of an optical transmission line between the optical transmitter and the optical receiver, the method comprising: sweeping an optical frequency of an optical signal by the optical transmitter by controlling an electric-field information signal corresponding to a transmitted signal by digital-signal processing; providing a plurality of different transmission polarization states for individual frequencies of the optical signal by the optical transmitter by controlling a mixture of a first electric-field information signal corresponding to a first transmitted signal and a second electric-field information signal corresponding to a second transmitted signal by digital-signal processing; obtaining, for individual frequencies of the optical signal, a plurality of polarization-dependent characteristics corresponding to the plurality of different frequencies, when the optical transmitter sweeps the frequency of the optical signal, by the optical receiver by calculating a polarization-dependent characteristic of an optical transmission line between the optical transmitter and the optical receiver, based on a plurality of items of received-electric-field information corresponding to the plurality of different transmission polarization states by digital-signal processing; and obtaining statistical information of a polarization state of the optical transmission line, based on the plurality of polarization-dependent characteristics, with the optical receiver by digital-signal processing. | 49,490 |
9,564,771 | 1. A battery charging device comprising: a transformer including a primary winding and an auxiliary winding; a primary-side-regulation (PSR) controller including: an adjustable offset voltage (AOV) circuit comprising a selected resistor, wherein: | 1,102 |
9,151,238 | 1. A fault diagnosing method for diagnosing an engine by tracking down a faulty region in the event of a misfire that occurs in a multicylinder engine having a misfire detecting function, using an external diagnosing machine that communicates with an engine control unit, comprising the steps of: reading a diagnostic fault code representative of a misfiring cylinder from the engine control unit into the external diagnosing machine; detecting misfire patterns classified depending on whether or not successive misfires occur in the misfiring cylinder; and tracking down faulty regions according to the detected misfire patterns, wherein the step of detecting the misfire patterns further comprises the steps of: idling the engine in accordance with an instruction from the external diagnosing machine in an attempt to repeat a misfire in the misfiring cylinder; if a misfire is repeated in the misfiring cylinder, detecting the repeated misfire pattern; and if a misfire is not repeated in the misfiring cylinder, detecting the misfire pattern based on successive data generated upon occurrence of a misfire in the misfiring cylinder, which are stored in the engine control unit at a time that the diagnostic fault code is generated. | 44,475 |
9,778,394 | 1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating user manipulation of subterranean formation data, the method comprising: identifying, with a downhole logging tool, a set of data associated with a subterranean formation having a plurality of layers; in response to identifying the set of data: identifying one or more layer boundaries corresponding to one or more of the plurality of layers of the subterranean formation; in response to identifying the one or more layer boundaries: receiving an indication of a change in position within the first pane of at least one layer boundary of the one or more layer boundaries, the indication corresponding to user interaction with at least one of the plurality of adjustable control elements of the visual interface; and in response to receiving the indication: | 19,980 |
8,661,128 | 1. A server, comprising: a plurality of network interfaces coupled to a client computer through a network, the network interface receiving and sending IP packets, different IP addresses being assigned to the network interfaces; a processor being configured to execute: an operating system, a plurality of first applications running on the operating system when a first port number is assigned, and a plurality of second applications running on the operating system when a second port number is assigned; a memory unit storing: the operating system, the first and second applications, first information for managing correspondence between the IP addresses assigned to the network interfaces and process group identifiers so that one of the process group identifiers is uniquely defined for each of the IP addresses, and second information for managing a plurality of first sockets with respect to the first port number and a plurality of second sockets with respect to the second port number; the first and second sockets being capable of receiving IP packets where their source IP addresses are any of the IP addresses; wherein the processor is configured to: create a plurality of first processes for establishing the first sockets, assign different ones of the process group identifiers to the first processes, create a plurality of second processes for establishing the second sockets, assign different ones of the process group identifiers to the second processes, and register correspondence between the first sockets and the assigned process group identifiers and correspondence between the second sockets and the assigned process group identifiers with the second information; wherein the processor is configured, upon receipt of an IP packet from the client computer requesting service designated by either one of the first port number or the second port number at one of the network interfaces, to: retrieve the process group identifier corresponding to the network interface from the first information, retrieve one of the first and second sockets from the second information by both the designated port number and the process group identifier retrieved from the first information, and send the IP packet to the retrieved socket. | 34,301 |
8,530,977 | 1. A metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) comprising: a semiconductor substrate comprising a first p-type doping concentration; a gate stack disposed above said semiconductor substrate, wherein said gate stack is configured such that said MOSFET is a small scale device having a reduced channel length for a channel region defined under said gate stack; a source region formed to a first side of said gate stack in said semiconductor substrate, said source region comprising a first n-type doping concentration; a first lightly doped region formed in said semiconductor substrate extending from said source region towards said channel region, said first lightly doped region comprising a second n-type doping concentration; a drain region formed to a second side of said gate stack in said semiconductor substrate, said second side opposite said first side, said drain region comprising said first n-type doping concentration; a second lightly doped region formed in said semiconductor substrate extending from said drain region towards said channel region, said second lightly doped region comprising said second n-type doping concentration; and a first protection implant comprising a second p-type doping concentration, said first protection implant formed in said semiconductor substrate under said source region and surrounding said source region and said first lightly doped region, and wherein said first protection implant extends under said gate stack; wherein said first side of said gate stack includes: wherein in cross-section said fourth region is adjacent to each of said first, second and third regions and separates each of said first, second and third regions from said fifth region, and wherein said fourth region is on said first side comprising said source region but not on said second side comprising said drain region. | 46,515 |
9,836,902 | 1. A communication system in which wireless communication between a control device mounted in a vehicle and a plurality of portable devices is enabled, wherein the control device comprises: wherein each of the plurality of portable devices comprises: wherein the first control unit compares, after the request signal was transmitted, a received signal strength in the first reception unit with a threshold value during the common time period, and suspends a reception process for the first reception unit to receive a signal to be transmitted from each of the plurality of portable devices subsequently to the first response signal, if the received signal strength is smaller than the threshold value, and wherein the first control unit repeats the transmission of the request signal by the first transmission unit using one of the antennas different from an antenna which has been used in the previous transmission of the request signal, if the reception process of the first reception unit was suspended due to the received signal strength smaller than the threshold value. | 7,661 |
9,604,177 | 1. An exhaust gas purification apparatus of an internal combustion engine comprising: an NOx selective reduction catalyst that is arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and reduces NOx by using NH3 as a reducing agent; a filter that is arranged in the exhaust passage at the upstream side of said NOx selective reduction catalyst and traps particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas; an NH3 generation catalyst that is arranged in the exhaust passage at the upstream side of said NOx selective reduction catalyst and generates NH3 when the air fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is equal to or less than a stoichiometric air fuel ratio; a regeneration unit that regenerates said filter by supplying oxygen to said filter while raising the temperature of said filter; and a generation unit that makes the air fuel ratio of the exhaust gas equal to or less than the stoichiometric air fuel ratio, thereby causing NH3 to be generated in said NH3 generation catalyst; wherein said regeneration unit inhibits the regeneration of said filter until the generation of NH3 by said generation unit is completed; and said generation unit does not carry out the generation of NH3 during the regeneration of said filter. | 33,373 |
8,807,055 | 1. A process for controlling combustion system emissions from combustion systems in which a carbonaceous-fuel is combusted, said process comprising the steps of: introducing a carbonaceous fuel and air into a furnace to provide a combustible fuel/air mixture and combusting the fuel/air mixture at a furnace combustion region to provide combustion products in the form of flue gases containing pollutant compounds including SO introducing into the furnace combustion region a calcium-containing reagent to expose the calcium-containing reagent to the furnace combustion region temperature to thereby calcine the calcium-containing reagent within the furnace combustion region into a plurality of calcium oxide particles to provide a scavenging agent in particulate form for scavenging combustion product components, wherein the calcium oxide particles are in the form of a plurality of discrete, substantially non-agglomerated calcium oxide particles having a particle size of less than about 3 microns; contacting the calcium oxide particles with the combustion products to react the calcium oxide particles with pollutants contained in the combustion products to capture SO transporting the flue gases and particles from the combustion region and through the furnace to a furnace exit. | 27,016 |
9,493,645 | 1. A tube for transporting a fluid, comprising a composition comprising (A) a thermoplastic elastomer, (B) 1 to 50 parts by mass of flat-shaped graphite based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic elastomer, and (C) 0.1 to 50 parts by mass of a polyolefin resin based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the flat-shaped graphite has an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 μm, and an aspect ratio thereof is 1≦aspect ratio≦5, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer of the component (A) is a polystyrene base thermoplastic elastomer in which a principal chain of a soft segment comprises a saturated bond, wherein the polystyrene base thermoplastic elastomer of the component (A) is at least one selected from the group consisting of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene block copolymer (SIBS), a styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene block copolymer (SEBS) and a styrene-ethylene/propylene-styrene block copolymer (SEPS), and wherein a sheet of said composition having a thickness of 0.5 mm has an air permeability of 120×10 | 7,547 |
9,350,959 | 1. A display device comprising: a display panel for displaying images, the display panel including red pixels configured to selectively pass red light therethrough, blue pixels configured to selectively pass blue light therethrough, and green pixels configured to pass at least green light therethrough; a lighting device for supplying light to the display panel for displaying images, the lighting device including magenta light sources configured to emit magenta light and green light sources configured to emit green light; a panel controller for controlling the display panel such that one frame display period includes a first display period, a second display period, a third display period, and a fourth display period, wherein in the first display period, at least one of a set of the red pixels, a set of the blue pixels, and a set of the green pixels is selectively driven for displaying an image, in the second display period, the set of the red pixels and the set of the blue pixels are retained for displaying an image in red and blue if the set of the red pixels and the set of the blue pixels are driven in the first display period in which the set of the red pixels and the set of the blue pixels are selectively driven, in the third display period, at least one of the set of the red pixels, the set of the blue pixels, and the set of the green pixels are selectively driven for displaying an image, and in the fourth display period, the set of the green pixels is retained if the set of the green pixels is driven in the third display period; and a lighting controller for controlling the lighting device to: | 44,779 |
9,822,318 | 1. A method for removing tar from a gas, the method comprising: contacting a first gas comprising tar with a second gas comprising oxygen for time period sufficient to effect oxidation of at least a portion of the tar in the first gas, thus producing an oxidized product gas that comprises less tar than the first gas; and controlling reaction rate of the first gas with the oxygen to allow mixing rate of the first gas and the second gas to be equal to or higher than the reaction rate of the first gas with the oxygen. | 21,789 |
9,807,713 | 1. A method for synchronization in a wireless device-to-device (D2D) based communications network, the method being performed by a first wireless device, comprising: identifying an attempt for network connection on a default sub-channel over a D2D communications interface from a second wireless device; and transmitting control information on said default sub-channel to said second wireless device, wherein said control information comprises an indicator of an operational sub-channel that is available for subsequent D2D communication between the first wireless device and the second wireless device. | 2,875 |
8,473,333 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for: identifying a transponder; activating the transponder responsive to a determination that an automatic toll payment service option has been accepted by a customer; collecting toll usage data if the identified transponder has a valid toll rental entity account; retrieving the data responsive to a request for data-transfer permission having been received by a toll authority from a toll rental entity; updating the data; sending the updated data; and sending an invoice with charges related to the updated data. | 19,422 |
8,449,262 | 1. A nickel-based superalloy, comprising, by weight: about 7% to about 12% cobalt; about 3% to about 10% chromium; about 5.5% to about 6.3% aluminum; about 5% to about 10% tantalum; about 3% to about 10% rhenium; about 2% to about 5% of one or more of elements selected from a group consisting of palladium and iridium; about 0.1% to about 1.0% hafnium; about 0.01% to about 0.4% yttrium; about 0.01% to about 0.15% silicon; and a balance of nickel. | 9,027 |
9,062,601 | 1. A free piston engine used for providing power augmentation to an aircraft turbine engine, the engine comprising: a central cylinder with a central piston slidably mounted therein, the central cylinder including fuel intake valves, for receiving fuel therein, and exhaust ports, for hot exhaust gases to the turbine engine; a piston drive shaft extending outwardly from opposite sides of the central piston; the central cylinder having a pair of spark plugs for igniting fuel received inside the central cylinder; a first bored push rod, one end of the first bored push rod attached to the piston drive shaft; a first intake piston slidably mounted inside a first intake cylinder, the first intake piston attached to an opposite end of the first ported push rod; a second bored push rod, one end of the second bored push rod attached to the piston drive shaft; and a second intake piston slidably mounted inside a second intake cylinder, the second intake piston attached to an opposite end of the second bored push rod. | 23,221 |
9,541,030 | 1. An exhaust plume cooling device for cooling an exhaust gas plume to reduce deleterious heat effects on impinged and surrounding surfaces, the device comprising: a vent supportable in a position downstream of an exhaust nozzle of an exhaust gas plume-producing engine and across an exhaust plume zone that is occupied by an exhaust plume when the engine is running; an actuator operably connected to the vent and configured to alternately open and close the vent; and a vent controller configured to command the actuator to alternately open and close at a rate and duty cycle that forms exhaust gas pulses that form vortical structures that entrain currents of ambient air. | 37,636 |
9,000,624 | 1. A power-good signal generator with power sequencing free for generating a power-good signal according to a control signal of a controller, wherein an input power terminal of the controller is coupled to a first voltage source, the power-good signal generator comprising: an impedance element of which an end is coupled to a second voltage source; a controlled transistor having a first input/output end coupled to the other end of the impedance element to generate the power-good signal, a second input/output end coupled a common potential and a controlled end coupled to the controller, wherein an operating state of the controlled transistor is changed in response to the control signal of the controller; and a power sequencing free circuit coupled to the controlled end of the controlled transistor and one of the first input/output end of the controlled transistor and the second voltage source; wherein when the second voltage source is provided before the first voltage source is provided, the power sequencing free circuit turns on the controlled transistor to clamp a voltage level of the power-good signal to be lower than a predetermined voltage level. | 28,690 |
9,142,959 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell, said fuel cell comprising an anode side and a cathode side; a reformer generating reformate gas; a fuel line supplying said reformer with reformer fuel; a reformer air line supplying said reformer with reformer air; a reformate gas line for feeding the reformate gas to said anode side; a reformer heating burner device generating reformer heating burner waste gas; and a reformer feeding device coupled to said reformer and transferring heat of said reformer heating burner waste gas to said reformer, wherein said reformer heating burner waste gas is formed separate from said reformate gas. | 22,121 |
8,883,163 | 1. A method of immunising a human host against disease caused by Haemophilus influenza (Hib) comprising administering to the human host an immunoprotective dose of an immunogenic composition, wherein the immunogenic composition comprises: a Hib saccharide conjugate; a Neisseria meningitidis ( N. meningitidis ) capsular saccharide conjugate derived from a strain selected from the group consisting of serogroup A, serogroup B, serogroup C, serogroup W135 and serogroup Y; and an antigen selected from the group consisting of whole cell pertussis and hepatitis B surface antigen, wherein the saccharide dose of the Hib saccharide conjugate is less than 5 μg and the saccharide dose of the N. meningitidis capsular saccharide conjugate is less than 8 μg, and wherein the Geometric Mean Concentration (GMC) for the antigen achieved with said immunogenic composition is higher than the GMC achieved after immunisation with said immunogenic composition containing a 5 μg saccharide dose of Hib saccharide conjugate and an 8 μg dose of N. meningitidis capsular saccharide conjugate. | 29,975 |
8,955,351 | 1. An energy storable air conditioning device comprising: a main body having an air inlet, an air outlet and a plurality of receiving spaces connected to each other and formed between the air inlet and the air outlet; at least one air blower module comprising a first drawer inserted into one of the receiving spaces and a fan disposed in the first drawer; and at least one energy storage module comprising a second drawer inserted into another one of the receiving spaces and an energy storage unit disposed in the second drawer, wherein the first drawer is connected to the second drawer. | 25,362 |
8,572,971 | 1. A boiler apparatus that is installed in a power-generating plant and generates combustion gas from fuel and combustion air, the power-generating plant including absorption equipment allowing absorbing liquid to absorb carbon dioxide in exhaust gas, regeneration equipment separating carbon dioxide from the absorbing liquid having absorbed carbon dioxide in the absorption equipment, and a steam turbine system, the boiler apparatus comprising: an economizer allowing water and combustion gas to undergo heat exchange to preheat the water serving as working fluid of the steam turbine system; an air preheater installed downstream of the economizer and allowing combustion air and combustion gas to undergo heat exchange to heat the combustion air; a first steam generator, installed downstream of the economizer, for allowing water, utilized in the steam turbine system as working fluid, and combustion gas to undergo heat exchange to generate saturated water vapor; a second steam generator for allowing the saturated water vapor from the first steam generator and absorbing liquid from the regeneration equipment to undergo heat exchange to evaporate the absorbing liquid; a steam pipe allowing the first steam generating generator and the second steam generating generator to connect with each other; a steam bypass pipe connected to the steam pipe and allowing steam in the steam pipe to flow into a condenser in the steam turbine system; a valve installed in the steam bypass pipe for opening and blocking flow of the saturated water vapor in the steam bypass pipe; an exhaust gas pipe allowing the air preheater and the absorption equipment to connect with each other; an exhaust gas bypass pipe connected to the exhaust gas pipe; and a valve installed in the exhaust gas bypass pipe for opening and blocking flow of the exhaust gas in the exhaust gas bypass pipe. | 45,262 |
8,727,938 | 1. An engine stop control system for a hybrid electric vehicle including a powertrain having an engine, an electric motor/generator, and driving wheels, the control system comprising: a first clutch coupling the engine to the motor/generator; a second clutch coupling the motor/generator to the driving wheels; a controller configured to: | 41,295 |
9,127,607 | 1. A method for controlling an engine, comprising: via a controller communicating with engine actuators and receiving signals from sensors, increasing engine airflow without increasing engine torque by opening an intake throttle via a throttle actuator, to increase flow through a charge air cooler and flow condensate from the charge air cooler into engine cylinders, including fueling some cylinders with fuel injection forming a lean air-fuel mixture while fueling other cylinders with fuel injection forming a rich air-fuel mixture and while maintaining an exhaust air-to-fuel ratio of the engine oscillating around stoichiometry. | 26,443 |
9,610,525 | 1. A centrifugal air separator comprising: a separation section including a coiled duct, wherein the separation section has an entrance port, an exit port, and a waste port; and a drive section including a blower, wherein the drive section is configured to direct an input air stream from an atmosphere of an enclosure into the entrance port, wherein the blower is configured to direct the input air stream through the separation section, wherein the separation section is configured to separate the input air stream into a clean air stream emitted from the exit port and a waste stream emitted from the waste port; wherein the coiled duct has a duct entrance port fluidically connected to the entrance port, a duct exit port fluidically connected to the exit port, and one or more duct waste ports fluidically connected to the waste port; wherein the coiled duct defines a channel between the duct entrance port and the duct exit port, wherein all duct waste ports are proximate the duct exit port and fluidically connected to the channel; wherein the separation section is configured to transmit through the duct entrance port a duct input air stream that is at least a portion of the input air stream and to at least partially separate the duct input air stream according to a molecular weight of components of the duct input air stream into a duct clean air stream that is at least a portion of the clean air stream and a duct waste stream that is at least a portion of the waste stream. | 46,640 |
9,068,559 | 1. A rotor blade for a wind turbine, the rotor blade comprising a shell and a spar, the shell forming a windward and a leeward side and the spar forming a longitudinally extending structure within the shell, the spar comprising: two caps; a leading web; a trailing web; and one or more additional webs; wherein each web extends between the windward and leeward sides of the shell; wherein the leading web and trailing webs are interconnected by the caps to form a hollow structure; wherein each additional web has a hub end and a tip end and defines an intermediate portion between the hub end and the tip end where at least one of the tip and the hub ends is directly connected to the caps or the leading or the trailing web; and wherein in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the spar when at a cross section of the spar along the intermediate portion, the intermediate portion of each additional web is spaced apart from the leading and trailing webs. | 46,315 |
8,925,563 | 1. A robotic cane comprising: a grip handle; a cane body extending from the grip handle at a first end of the cane body; a motorized wheel assembly comprising at least one wheel coupled to a second end of the cane body; a proximity detector, wherein the proximity detector provides a proximity signal corresponding to a position of a user with respect to the robotic cane; and a controller module, wherein the controller module is programmed to: | 28,377 |
8,715,508 | 1. A printing and dyeing wastewater treatment and reuse apparatus comprising: a coarse filter; a regulation pool; a hydraulic sieve; a desulfurization pool; a nanocatalytic electrolyzer; a flocculation pool; a flocculation tank; a settling pool; a flotation device; a biochemical pool; a secondary settling pool; a secondary nanocatalytic electrolyzer; a fine filter; a compressor; a nanomembrane assembly; and a recycling pool; wherein the coarse filter has an inlet and an outlet connected to an inlet of the regulation pool, an inlet of the desulfurization pool is connected to an outlet of the hydraulic sieve, a precipitate outlet of the desulfurization pool is connected to the compressor, an inlet of the nanocatalytic electrolyzer is connected to a wastewater outlet of the desulfurization pool, an outlet of the nanocatalytic electrolyzer is connected to an inlet of the flocculation pool, an outlet of the flocculation pool is connected to an inlet of the settling pool, a wastewater outlet of the settling pool is connected to an inlet of the flotation device, a precipitate outlet of the settling pool is connected to the compressor, a precipitate outlet of the flotation device is connected to the compressor, a wastewater outlet of the flotation device is connected to an inlet of the biochemical pool, an outlet of the biochemical pool is connected to an inlet of the secondary settling pool, a wastewater outlet of the secondary settling pool is connected to an inlet of the secondary nanocatalytic electrolyzer, a wastewater outlet of the secondary nanocatalytic electrolyzer is connected to an inlet of the fine filter, an outlet of the fine filter is connected to an inlet of the nanomembrane assembly, an outlet of the nanomembrane assembly is connected to the recycling pool for producing water for reuse, a condensate outlet of the nanomembrane assembly is for discharge, and impurities in the compressor are for discharge. | 19,480 |
8,670,119 | 1. An apparatus for performing spectroscopy comprising: a perimeter wall extending between a first end and a second end of the perimeter wall along a first axis, wherein an interior surface of the perimeter wall forms a hollow core extending along the first axis, wherein the perimeter wall has openings at both the first end and the second end, and wherein light is to pass to through the perimeter wall; and a plurality of surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SES) modules positioned around an inner circumference of the perimeter wall in a spaced arrangement with respect to each other to allow light to enter into the hollow core in gaps between the plurality of SES modules, and wherein each of the plurality of SES modules is positioned substantially across from a gap. | 11,491 |
8,492,687 | 1. A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating for controlling an inverter circuit for rectifying voltage of an AC power supply, modulating an on time of high frequency switching of a switching transistor, and converting into high frequency power, said power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating comprising: an input current detection section for detecting an input current from the AC power supply to the inverter circuit and outputting input current waveform information; a conversion section for converting the input current waveform information into a drive signal of the switching transistor of the inverter circuit so that instantaneous fluctuation of the input current waveform information is suppressed; and a mix circuit being connected between said input current detection section and said conversion section for inverting the input current waveform information, which is directly input to the mix circuit, and mixing the input current waveform information, as inverted by the mix circuit, and power control information for controlling so that current or voltage at an arbitrary point of the inverter circuit becomes a predetermined value and generating an on voltage signal, wherein said conversion section converts the on voltage signal into the drive signal so that the on time is shortened in the portion where the input current is large and that the on time is prolonged in the portion where the input current is small. | 18,317 |
8,750,284 | 1. A path computation method, comprising: receiving concatenation capabilities of each interface of nodes in a network; receiving a path computation request (PCReq) message in a path computation element protocol (PCEP), the PCReq message carrying identifiers of a source node and a destination node that access a client-side service and carrying encoding type, switching type, signal type, concatenation number, and concatenation type, wherein the concatenation number is greater than 1; determining the encoding type is optical channel data unit k (ODUk), the switching type is time division multiplexing (TDM) and the signal type is optical channel data unit 2 (ODU2), when a value of the encoding type is 12, a value of the switching type is 100 and a value of the signal type is 2; determining the encoding type is synchronous digital hierarchy/Synchronous optical network (SDH/SONET), the switching type is TDM and the signal type is VC4, when the value of the encoding type is 5, the value of the switching type is 100 and the value of the signal type is 6; computing a path according to the identifiers of the source node and the destination node that access a client-side service, the encoding type, the switching type, the signal type, the concatenation number, the concatenation type, and the concatenation capabilities; and sending a PCReq response message in the PCEP carrying path information corresponding to the computed path. | 33,766 |
9,091,462 | 1. A solar canopy system, comprising: first and second support towers; an upper canopy suspended at least from the first and second support towers, the upper canopy comprising a catenary shape; a lower canopy suspended from at least one of the first and second support towers the lower canopy comprising an inverted catenary shape; and tension cables that connect the lower canopy and the upper canopy such that the upper canopy is rigid. | 33,714 |
8,807,404 | 1. A quick release device for preventing unwanted withdrawal of a hand gun from a holster, said holster having an opening through which the hand gun is inserted into and removed from the holster, said device comprising: a generally U-shaped hood having mutually spaced legs spanned by a bridge, said legs being arranged to straddle said holster, with said hood being translatably fixed with respect to and rotatable about a fixed first axis between a rearward position at which said bridge overlies said opening to prevent withdrawal of the hand gun from said holster, and a forward position at which said bridge is removed from said opening to permit withdrawal of the hand gun from said holster; at least one side plate fixed with respect to said holster at a location adjacent to one of said legs, said side plate being contoured to define a path bordered by and extending forwardly from a locking notch; a trigger plate connected to the said one leg for rotation about a second axis parallel to said first axis, said trigger plate having a boss projection into said path; spring means for exerting a yieldable force on said trigger plate urging said boss into said locking notch when said hood is in said rearward position, the interengagement of said boss with said locking notch serving to lock said hood in said rearward position, said trigger plate being rotatable about said second axis to overcome said force and to disengage said boss from said locking notch, thereby freeing said boss for movement along said path as said hood is rotated about said first axis from said rearward position to said forward position. | 7,288 |
9,576,041 | 1. A method of generating a database query, the method comprising: receiving a user selection of one of a number of predetermined generic database queries from a user; automatically generating user specific data from a user profile corresponding to the user, the user profile data comprising a user data statement table comprising a number of user data statements, wherein each user data statement comprises a relationship identifier and two or more data items, the user specific data being generated by: i) generating a user data items list comprising all of the data items comprised in the user data statement table; ii) for each of a set of predetermined applicable query statements, each of the applicable query statements comprising an applicable relationship identifier, an applicable data item and a variable, inserting each of the data items held in the user data statement table into the applicable query statement and storing the applicable query statement in an applicability criteria data set if it matches one of the user data statements held in the user data statement table; iii) for each of a set of predetermined effects query statements, each of the effects query statements comprising an effects relationship identifier and a variable, inserting each of the elements of the applicability criteria data set into the effects query statement and storing it in the user specific data if it matches one of the user data statements held in the user data statement table; and automatically applying the user specific data to a number of user specific generator query statements in order to generate one or more user specific queries. | 25,377 |
9,598,943 | 1. An electric submersible pumping system for use in recovering fluids from a wellbore, the electric submersible pumping system comprising: a base assembly, wherein the base assembly is connected to production tubing, and wherein the base assembly comprises: a remote assembly spaced apart from the base assembly and connected to the base assembly with an umbilical, wherein the remote assembly comprises: | 36,934 |
9,166,226 | 1. A positive electrode for a lithium rechargeable battery, the positive electrode comprising: a positive electrode active material; a binder; and a positive electrode additive represented by the following Formula 1: wherein R includes a C wherein the positive electrode additive is included in the positive electrode in an amount of about 0.1 to about 5.0 wt %, based on a total weight of materials of the positive electrode. | 39,653 |
9,560,788 | 1. A heat dissipation device, comprising: a driving module; a heat dissipation sheet, having a connection portion and a swing portion, and connected to the driving module through the connection portion, wherein when the driving module receives an input voltage to drive the connection portion, the connection portion drives the swing portion to swing back and forth to generate a heat dissipation airflow; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is electrically connected to the driving module and controls a frequency and amplitude of the input voltage, wherein the heat dissipation device is adapted to an electronic device, the electronic device has a heat source, and the control unit is adapted to control the frequency and the amplitude of the input voltage according to a temperature of the heat source, and wherein when the temperature of the heat source is lower than a first temperature, the control unit turns off the input voltage, when the temperature of the heat source is higher than the first temperature and is lower than a second temperature, the control unit controls the input voltage to have a first frequency and a first amplitude, and when the temperature of the heat source is higher than the second temperature, the control unit controls the input voltage to have a second frequency and a second amplitude, wherein the first frequency is equal to a natural frequency of the swing portion, the second frequency is greater than the natural frequency of the swing portion, and the second amplitude is greater than the first amplitude. | 40,185 |
9,610,853 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a processor programmed to, | 24,572 |
8,568,645 | 1. A method of making a composite member, said method consisting of the steps of: selecting a fly ash sewer sludge material obtained from a fluidized bed incinerator wherein said selected fly ash sewer sludge material is only a non-cellulosic Type 2 Class B fly ash sewer sludge obtained from a fluidized bed incinerator; mixing said selected dry non-cellulosic Type 2 Class B fly ash sewer sludge obtained from a fluidized bed incinerator with a recycled plastic to form a uniformly distributed composite mixture; heating one of said selected dry non-cellulosic Type 2 Class B fly ash sewer sludge and said recycled plastic during said mixing step to melt said recycled plastic mixture into a fluidized state; and forming said uniformly distributed composite mixture into a structural member. | 27,596 |
8,767,225 | 1. An image forming apparatus having an operating panel and connected to an information processing apparatus over a network, the image forming apparatus comprising: an obtaining portion configured to obtain, when the image forming apparatus is accessed from the information processing apparatus, user information on a user of the information processing apparatus and device information on a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus from data received through communication involved in the access; a storage portion configured to store the user information and the device information in such a manner that the user information and the device information are associated with each other; an identifying portion configured to identify an operator who uses the operating panel to operate the image forming apparatus; a decision portion configured to determine whether or not the operator corresponds to the user by referring to the user information; and a setting portion configured to set, when the decision portion determines that the operator corresponds to the user, a function of the image forming apparatus to be provided to the operator in such a manner that the function is made similar to a function of the information processing apparatus indicated in the device information by selecting, based on the device information, a piece of software to be launched from among a plurality of pieces of similar software which is included in the image forming apparatus to provide a function. | 42,104 |
9,035,526 | 1. A method for forming a motor winding comprising: a) compressing a bundle of Litz wire to form a bundle of compacted Litz wire; b) forming a winding comprising the bundle of compacted Litz wire after compressing the Litz wire; and c) bending the bundle of Litz wire into a serpentine configuration prior to compressing the bundle of Litz wire; and d) wherein bending the bundle of Litz wire into a serpentine configuration comprises forming the serpentine configuration with central portions and end turns, and wherein compressing comprises separately compressing each of the central portions prior to forming the winding. | 45,950 |
9,066,422 | 1. An electronic component, comprising: a multilayer wiring board including a conductive member and insulating layers; a semiconductor chip disposed on a main surface of or inside the multilayer wiring board; and a passive component disposed inside the insulating layers of the multilayer wiring board and having a first terminal and a second terminal connected to an input end and an output end of the semiconductor chip respectively, wherein the conductive member is disposed adjacent to the passive component but isolated from the passive component and at a position where a distance between the conductive member and at least one of the first terminal or the second terminal is smaller than a distance between the first terminal and the second terminal. | 6,778 |
9,677,507 | 1. A method to separate oil from a target gas including the oil as an impurity, comprising: providing a first filter member made with a cylindrical filter material in a cylindrical shape having an air permeability, and arranged such that the target gas flows in from a hollow part inside said first filter member and a central axis is in an up-down direction; and providing a second filter member made with a filter material having an air permeability and having a mesh size larger than that of the first filter member, and wrapped around the first filter member along an outer surface thereof with a predetermined spacing from the outer surface of the first filter member, capturing, by said second filter member mist formed by ruptured foams of oil captured by said first filter member, said foams being formed by said target gas flowing through said first filter member making a film outside said first filter member to bulge, said film being formed by oil captured by said first filter member. | 11,197 |
8,889,319 | 1. At least one compound selected from compounds represented by the following Formula 1: wherein 0<x≦1; 0<y≦2; and Me is a metal or transition metal cation having an oxidation number of +2 to +4, and wherein the compound has a crystal structure in which five RuO | 25,352 |
8,864,984 | 1. A method for producing a fluid hydrocarbon product from a solid hydrocarbonaceous material, comprising: providing a solid catalyst in a fluidized bed reactor; feeding the solid hydrocarbonaceous material to the fluidized bed reactor; pyrolyzing within the fluidized bed reactor at least a portion of the hydrocarbonaceous material under reaction conditions sufficient to produce a pyrolysis product; and catalytically reacting at least a portion of the pyrolysis product using the solid catalyst under reaction conditions sufficient to produce the fluid hydrocarbon product; the catalyst being a zeolite catalyst comprising silica and alumina, and further comprising a metal and/or metal oxide comprising nickel, platinum, vanadium, palladium, manganese, cobalt, zinc, copper, chromium, gallium, iron, or a mixture of two or more thereof; wherein the fluid hydrocarbon product comprises at least about 7.2 wt % of one or more aromatic compounds, the weight percent of aromatic compounds being calculated as the weight of the aromatic compounds present in the fluid hydrocarbon product divided by the weight of the hydrocarbonaceous material used to produce the pyrolysis product, the aromatic compounds comprising benzene, toluene and/or xylene. | 32,746 |
9,242,519 | 1. A hitch coupler, comprising: a frame member including a plurality of vertically spaced apart plates extending outwardly from the frame member; a pin member slidably received within apertures disposed on the vertically spaced apart plates, the pin member moveable between an extended position and a retracted position, wherein the pin member includes a pin housing having a hollow interior; a guide slot vertically disposed on the pin housing having upper and lower ends and an offset portion disposed therebetween; a guide member extending from the frame member, wherein the guide member is slideably received in the guide slot of the pin housing to guide the pin member between the extended position and the retracted position; and a biasing mechanism disposed within the hollow interior of the pin housing, the biasing mechanism operably coupled to a portion of the frame member at a first end and operably coupled to a lower portion of the pin housing at a second end, wherein the biasing mechanism is adapted to bias the pin member towards the extended position, and wherein the biasing mechanism is configured to impart torsional force on the pin housing. | 39,534 |
9,540,298 | 1. A process for producing an aromatic dihydroxy compound, comprising allowing a phenol compound to react with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a titanosilicate, a C4-C5 alcohol containing a tertiary or quaternary carbon, and water and/or methanol, wherein the water and/or methanol is present in an amount of 8 to 90 mass % based on the total mass of the reaction liquid. | 12,182 |
8,519,600 | 1. An ultrasonic transducer comprising: a vibrating element which emits ultrasonic waves; and a backing material which is provided in contact with a back side of said vibrating element and which attenuates ultrasonic waves that are emitted toward the back side of said vibrating element and have an opposite phase to a phase of ultrasonic waves emitted toward a front side of said vibrating element, wherein acoustic tubes are disposed in said backing material such that a longitudinal direction of each of said acoustic tubes is in line with a traveling direction of the ultrasonic waves which are emitted by said vibrating element and travel toward the front side and the back side, said acoustic tubes having mutually different lengths on the basis of a principle of an acoustic wave synthesis, and said acoustic tubes attenuate in whole or in part the ultrasonic waves emitted by said vibrating element toward said backing material. | 20,413 |
8,555,696 | 1. A method of generating calibration data for a fluid analyzer for use in a downhole tool, comprising: lowering a downhole tool including a fluid analyzer to a location in a wellbore; measuring, via the fluid analyzer, a characteristic value of a calibration fluid while the fluid analyzer is at the location; obtaining an expected characteristic value for the calibration fluid at the location; and comparing the measured characteristic value to the expected characteristic value to generate a calibration value for the fluid analyzer. | 24,238 |
9,474,917 | 1. A pneumatic hammer, comprising: an elongate, hollow housing, the housing having at least one handle extending outwardly therefrom; a pneumatic driver disposed inside said housing, the pneumatic driver having an air tank adapted to be filled with pressurized gas; a hammer assembly mounted inside the pneumatic driver, the hammer assembly having a hollow reciprocating hammer with a sharp hammer tip, the pneumatic driver having at least one pipe coupled to the hammer assembly to selectively drive the hammer, the hammer adapted to extend out of the housing to impact against an object and retract into the housing; a reciprocating alignment collar coupled to the hammer assembly at one end of the housing, the alignment collar aligning placement of the pneumatic hammer against the object to be impacted by the hammer; and a control assembly coupled to the housing to selectively drive the hammer; whereby selective release of the gas against the hammer builds back pressure to quickly drive the hammer against the object and break the same. | 8,593 |
9,020,900 | 1. A method of performing a storage operation in a distributed, deduplicated storage system, comprising: creating with a first deduplication node of a plurality of deduplication nodes, a first hash signature of a first data block of a plurality of data blocks associated with a file, a first header that at least identifies a first media agent that stored a copy of the first data block in a first storage device, and a first link to at least a location of the copy of the first data block in the first storage device; creating with a second deduplication node, a second hash signature of at least a second data block associated with the file, a second header that at least identifies a second media agent that stored a copy of the second data block in a second storage device, and a second link to at least a location of the second data block in the second storage device; sending from the second deduplication node to the first deduplication node, a copy of the second hash signature, a copy of the second header, and a copy of the second link; receiving a first request from a client computing device to restore the file comprising the plurality of data blocks; in response to the first request and using computer hardware, determining with the first deduplication node that the copy of the first data block of the plurality of data blocks in the requested file is stored at the first storage device; accessing with the first media agent the first data block in the first storage device; further determining with the first deduplication node that the copy of the second data block is stored on the second storage device based at least in part on accessing the copy of the second hash signature, the copy of the second header, and the copy of the second link stored in association with the first deduplication node; sending a second request from the first media agent to the second media agent via a lightweight network that requests the second data block from the second media agent, wherein the second request comprises at least the copy of the second header, and the copy of second link; and accessing with the second media agent, the second data block from the second storage device based at least in part on the copy of the second header and the copy of the second link in the second request. | 10,270 |
9,482,124 | 1. A method for diagnosing engine and exhaust aftertreatment system health by detecting abnormally frequent diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration, comprising: operating an engine and an exhaust aftertreatment system downstream of the engine, the exhaust aftertreatment system comprising a DPF; measuring a pressure drop across the DPF and using the measured pressure drop to calculate a pressure drop based soot load estimate; calculating soot output from an engine model and using the calculated soot output calculate an emissions based soot load estimate; comparing the pressure drop based soot load estimate with the emissions based soot load estimate when one of the pressure drop based soot load estimate and the emissions based soot load estimate reaches a predetermined soot load limit; triggering active DPF regeneration when one of the pressure drop based soot load estimate and the emissions based soot load estimate reaches the predetermined soot load limit; and identifying abnormally frequent active regeneration of the DPF if a difference between the pressure drop based soot load estimate and the emissions based soot load estimate exceeds a predetermined value, wherein the predetermined value is a predetermined time period, the abnormally frequent regeneration being identified if a difference in time between a time at which one of the pressure drop based soot load estimate and the emissions based soot load estimate reaches the predetermined soot load limit and a time at which the other one of the pressure drop based soot load estimate and the emissions based soot load estimate is expected to reach the predetermined soot load limit exceeds the predetermined time period. | 15,944 |
9,551,674 | 1. An inline dark field holographic method for measuring strain in a semiconductor material or other crystalline materials comprising: providing a transmission electron microscope having an electron gun for passing an electron beam along an axis through at least one specimen, a magnetic tilting coil for deflecting the beam at an angle with respect to the axis, first and second spaced objective lenses along the beam axis, and a biprism for combining a portion of the electron beam transmitted through the specimen with a portion bypassing the specimen; providing a condenser mini-lens between the magnetic tilting coil and the specimen for increasing defection of the beam at an angle with respect to the axis; providing a pair of specimens of the semiconductor material, one specimen having a strained crystal structure to be measured and the other specimen having an unstrained crystal structure; with the magnetic tilting coil, deflecting the electron beam at an angle with respect to the axis; with the condenser mini-lens, deflecting the electron beam from the magnetic tilting coil at an additional, higher angle with respect to the axis prior to passing through the pair of specimens; with the first objective lens forming a virtual image of each of the specimens; with the second objective lens focusing the virtual images of each of the specimens at an intermediate image plane to form intermediate images of each of the specimens; with the biprism, causing the intermediate images of each of the specimens to overlap such that an interference pattern between the specimens is formed at the image plane; and viewing the interference pattern and determining the degree of strain of the strained specimen. | 43,694 |
9,108,464 | 1. A rubber composition based on at least an epoxidized natural rubber (abbreviated to “ENR”), a reinforcing filler and, as plasticizing agent, an alpha-methylstyrene polymer resin having a number-average molecular weight between 400 and 2000 g/mol, a polydispersity index of less than 3, and a T g of greater than 20° C., which is miscible in the rubber composition at the content of resin and ENR present therein, and which is selected from the group consisting of homopolymers of the alpha-methylstyrene monomer and copolymers containing units derived from the alpha-methylstyrene monomer in an amount greater than 50 mol %. | 27,461 |
9,366,093 | 1. A coupling mechanism for engaging two or more annular components comprising: a) A male component having: b) A female component having: | 13,890 |
9,555,142 | 1. A method for heat treatment of waste, comprising the steps of: introducing waste into a bag; placing the bag containing the waste inside an apparatus to treat said waste, said apparatus being comprised of a cylindrical barrel, a removable closure lid-for said cylindrical barrel, and a bottom movable inside said cylindrical barrel, at least in a direction of relative to the lid; raising temperature of the lid and the bottom of the apparatus; applying a hold temperature to the lid and the bottom; moving the lid and the bottom toward each other at least once during the step of raising temperature of the lid and bottom and before the step of applying the hold temperature, wherein a temperature conferred on the lid differs by at most 2° C. from a temperature of the bottom, during the step of applying the hold temperature; and moving said bottom and said lid away from each other and then towards each other once more, before the hold temperature is reached and after moving the bottom and the lid towards each other at least once. | 33,884 |
9,396,828 | 1. An external surface of an aerospace vehicle or an aeronautical vehicle, the external surface comprising: a substrate having a surface that is exposed to temperature fluctuations at least between −180° C. and 150° C.; and a coating disposed upon the substrate, wherein the coating consists of: (i) a plurality of carbon nanotubes disposed on the surface of the substrate and (ii) a binder that is laid into the carbon nanotubes that are disposed on the surface of the substrate, wherein the binder is formed of silicon dioxide or indium tin oxide that is laid into the carbon nanotubes following disposition of the carbon nanotubes on the surface of the substrate, and wherein the carbon nanotubes comprise at least 50% by volume of the coating, wherein the coating is structured to have a tailorable conductivity up to 5e10 Ω/square while exposed to temperature fluctuations at least between −180° C. and 150° C., wherein the coating is also structured to provide an integrated thermal emissivity to the surface, and wherein the coating has a thickness between 0.5 microns and 2 microns to provide atomic oxygen (AO) shielding. | 8,676 |
8,647,050 | 1. A method of reducing load on a bearing assembly of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) having blades disposed about a vertical axis, each of the blades having a top portion and a bottom portion, the method comprising: placing a shaped wall cone around a portion of the vertical axis; and, deflecting wind from the wall cone toward the blades, whereby the deflection substantially reduces an applied wind force differential between the top and bottom portions of the blades. | 36,944 |
9,189,061 | 1. A method in a portable device, comprising: displaying a display screen having at least a first region and a second region, the first region being displayed below the second region, wherein a first application is executed in the first region and a second application is executed in the second region; and in response to a request input in the first region, displaying an input panel at an upper portion of the second region, wherein data input through the input panel displayed in the second region is processed by the first application, wherein the displaying the input panel further comprises: analyzing by a controller a mode of portable device by detecting an orientation of the portable device, wherein the first region is displayed directly below the second region when the mode is a portrait mode; and wherein the first region is displayed directly adjacent to the second region when the mode is a landscape mode. | 11,105 |
8,389,781 | 1. A process for hydrogenation of oxygen-containing organic products selected from the group consisting of rape seed oil, sun flower oil, palm oil, nuts oil, olive oil, coliza oil, canola oil, tall oil, hemp seed oil, linseed oil, mustard oil, peanut oil, castor oil, coconut oil, train lard, lard, tallow, jatropha oil, oils from algae, the pyrolysate from plant biomass, animal fats, fatty acids, fish oils, and mixtures thereof, wherein the process comprises bringing the oxygen-containing organic products into contact with a catalyst in the presence of hydrogen gas at a temperature in the range of 200 to 500° C. and at a pressure in the range of 10 to 1000 bar wherein the catalyst comprises at least one metal component selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel, molybdenum, and tungsten; and at least one non-metallic supplement component that is electrically conducting, and wherein the catalyst includes a mixture of particles of the at least one metal component and the at least one non-metallic supplement component. | 7,118 |
8,382,332 | 1. A lighting and ventilating system comprising: a main housing including an inlet through which air is received within the main housing and an outlet through which the air exits the main housing; a fan wheel supported in the main housing and operable to generate a flow of air; a grille coupled to the main housing, the grille comprising a plurality of apertures and a second set of illumination devices; a lamp housing coupled to the grille, the lamp housing including a first set of illumination devices; and a plate coupled to the grille so that the plate is adjacent to the second set of illumination devices. | 20,963 |
9,481,355 | 1. A driving device for a hybrid vehicle having an engine and a motor comprising: a first driving force transmission path that transmits driving force of the engine to drive wheels of the vehicle: a second driving force transmission path that transmits driving force between the motor and the engine; a first torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism that can absorb torque fluctuations on the first driving force transmission path; and a second torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism that can absorb torque fluctuations on the second driving force transmission path, wherein driving force of the motor is transmitted via both the first torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism and the second torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism when transmitting the driving force of the motor to the engine in the second driving force transmission path at a time of starting the engine, wherein the driving force of the engine is transmitted via the first torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism, out of the first torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism and the second torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism, when transmitting the driving force of the engine to the drive wheels in the first driving force transmission path while the vehicle is running, and wherein the motor is the first motor that can generate power by driving force of the engine, the driving device further comprising: a second motor that can supply driving force to the drive wheels and a third driving force transmission path that transmits driving force of the second motor to the drive wheels; and a third torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism that can absorb torque fluctuations on the third driving force transmission path, wherein the driving force of the second motor is transmitted via the third torque fluctuation absorbing mechanism, out of the first to third torque fluctuation absorbing mechanisms, when transmitting the driving force of the second motor to the drive wheels in the third driving force transmission path while the vehicle is running. | 34,614 |
9,755,256 | 1. A method for controlling a fuel cell system, the method comprising steps of: stopping power generation of a fuel cell stack or decelerating an air blower that supplies air to the fuel cell stack; determining a dry state of the fuel cell stack; controlling a connection state of pipes which are connected to a valve by adjusting the valve disposed between an exit side of the air blower and an entrance side of a cathode of the fuel cell stack in accordance with a determination result, wherein the step of controlling the connection state comprises a step of exhausting the air supplied through a bypass pipe among pipes connected to the valve to an exit side of the cathode when the fuel cell stack is in the dry state based on the determination result; and stopping the air blower, after the supplied air is exhausted, in different ways depending on conditions, in which the conditions include a normal or abnormal operation of a battery, a charging state of the battery, and a normal or abnormal operation of a DC/DC converter that connects the battery with the fuel cell stack, wherein the different ways include regenerative-stopping the air blower in a condition in which both of the battery and the DC/DC converter are operated normally and the charging state of the battery is less than a reference charging state. | 10,597 |
9,085,991 | 1. A coated article adapted to be subjected to direct and sustained mechanical contact consisting essentially of: an oxide-based ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate comprising fibers embedded in a matrix; and a wear-resistant solid coating disposed directly on an external contact surface of the substrate and adhering to the substrate during such direct and sustained mechanical contact, the wear-resistant solid coating discrete from the substrate and formed from a precursor consisting essentially of a solid metal-oxide powder having a particle size of about 0.001 μm to about 100 μm and a liquid binder comprising a sodium silicate. | 47,880 |
9,613,724 | 1. A method of preparing a nuclear fuel, which method includes: depositing a mixture of silicon and silicon carbide around a kernel of fissile material by chemical vapour deposition in a fluidised bed deposition chamber of a chemical vapour deposition reactor from a chemical vapour deposition source gas comprising methylchlorosilane which is fed to the deposition chamber, and fluorinating the silicon and silicon carbide with fluorine gas by adding the fluorine gas to the methylchlorosilane which is fed to the deposition chamber. | 39,087 |
8,345,306 | 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more navigation sensors configured to capture a first plurality of navigational measurements, and a second plurality of navigational measurements; a print head configured to be controlled to deposit a printing substance on a first medium; one or more optical imaging sensors configured to capture (i) a first plurality of surface images of the first medium adjacent to the apparatus, and (ii) a second plurality of surface images of a second medium adjacent to the apparatus; and a control block configured to | 4,222 |
9,821,840 | 1. A hydraulic control device comprising: a steering device; a plurality of work machine actuators; a hydraulic pump connected to the steering device and the plurality of work machine actuators so as to supply operating oil to the steering device and the work machine actuators in parallel; a steering control valve configured to cause a spool thereof to move to control a direction of the operating oil flowing to the steering device; a plurality of actuator control valves provided so as to correspond to the respective work machine actuators, each of the actuator control valves being configured to connect the hydraulic pump to a tank when the actuator control valve is located at a neutral position and control the direction of the operating oil flowing through the corresponding work machine actuator when the actuator control valve is located at an offset position; a meter-in pressure compensator including a first pilot port and a second pilot port and provided upstream of a steering control circuit including the steering control valve, to control a flow of the operating oil, supplied to the steering control valve, to maintain differential pressure between pressure of the operating oil at an upstream side of the steering control valve and pressure of the operating oil at a downstream side of the steering control valve at constant pressure regardless of an opening degree of the spool of the steering control valve, the pressure of the operating oil at the downstream side of the steering control valve being input as first pilot pressure to the first pilot port and corresponding to load pressure of the steering device, the pressure of the operating oil at the upstream side of the steering control valve being input as second pilot pressure to the second pilot port against the first pilot pressure; and a bleed-off pressure compensator including a third pilot port and a fourth pilot port and provided upstream of a work machine control circuit including the plurality of actuator control valves, to control the flow of the operating oil supplied to the actuator control valves, the pressure of the operating oil at the downstream side of the steering control valve being input as third pilot pressure to the third pilot port and corresponding to the load pressure of the steering device, ejection pressure of the hydraulic pump being input as fourth pilot pressure to the fourth pilot of port against the third pilot pressure, wherein: the meter-in pressure compensator and the bleed-off pressure compensator are connected to the hydraulic pump in parallel with each other, when the steering device is operated, the load pressure of the steering device during the operation is input to the first pilot port of the meter-in pressure compensator to act against the pressure of the operating oil at the upstream side of the steering control valve, and the meter-in pressure compensator therefore operates to open a passage through which the hydraulic pump and the steering control valve communicate with each other, while adjusting an opening degree of the passage, through which the hydraulic pump and the steering control valve communicate with each other, in accordance with differential pressure between the load pressure input to the first pilot port and the pressure of the operating oil at the upstream side of the steering control valve which pressure is input to the second pilot port, and when the steering device is operated, the load pressure of the steering device during the operation is input to the third pilot port of the bleed-off pressure compensator to act against the ejection pressure of the hydraulic pump, and the bleed-off pressure compensator therefore operates to close a passage through which the hydraulic pump and the actuator control valve communicate with each other, while adjusting an opening degree of the passage, through which the hydraulic pump and the actuator control valve communicate with each other, in accordance with differential pressure between the load pressure input to the third pilot port and the ejection pressure input to the fourth pilot port. | 7,002 |
8,570,801 | 1. A method of programming a semiconductor memory device, the method comprising: grouping memory cells into memory cell groups in accordance with target program voltage levels; performing program operations on the memory cell groups by sequentially applying program voltages corresponding to the target program voltage levels to the memory cell groups; and program-verifying the memory cell groups in sequence after the program operations on all of the memory cell groups are performed. | 13,620 |
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