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9,724,999 | 1. An insulated power supply apparatus, which is applied to at least one power converter circuit including a plurality of series connections of an upper arm switching element and a lower arm switching element, wherein the power converter circuit includes a parallel connection of the plurality of series connections, the apparatus comprises: a plurality of upper arm transformers each of which has a primary side coil connectable to a DC power supply and a secondary side coil which supplies drive voltage to the upper arm switching element, and which is provided on a substrate; a lower arm transformer which has a primary side coil connectable to the DC power supply and a secondary side coil which supplies drive voltage to the lower arm switching element, and which is provided on the substrate; at least one power supply control section which has at least one voltage control switching element which is turned on or off to apply voltage of the DC power supply to the primary side coils of the upper arm transformers and the lower arm transformer, and an integrated circuit which turns on or off the voltage control switching element, and which is provided on the substrate; a wiring pattern which is mounted on the substrate and connects the primary side coil configuring the lower arm transformer and the DC power supply; a plurality of upper arm connection sections which connect the upper arm switching elements to the substrate and which are provided on the substrate so as to be arranged in line, when viewing a surface of the substrate from a front thereof; and a plurality of lower arm connection sections which connect the lower arm switching elements to the substrate and which are provided on the substrate so as to be arranged in line and in a direction in which the upper arm connection sections are arranged, when viewing the surface of the substrate from the front thereof, the voltage control switching element is provided so as to form a closed circuit including the DC power supply, the primary side coils configuring the upper arm transformers and the lower arm transformer, the wiring pattern, and the voltage control switching element when being turned on, the upper arm connection sections arranged in line and the lower arm connection sections arranged in line are provided in parallel, when viewing the surface of the substrate from the front thereof, the upper arm transformers and the DC power supply are provided in an area opposed to the lower arm connection sections with respect to the upper arm connection sections, when viewing the surface of the substrate from the front thereof, when viewing the surface of the substrate from the front thereof, the power supply control section is provided in at least one of an area opposed to the upper arm connection sections with respect to the upper arm transformers and, an area which is sandwiched between at least one of the upper and lower connection sections closest to one side of the substrate positioned in a direction in which the upper arm connection sections are arranged, and the one side, the lower arm transformer is provided in an area opposed to the upper arm connection sections with respect to the lower arm connection sections, when viewing the surface of the substrate from the front thereof, the lower arm transformer is common to at least two of the lower arm switching elements, and the upper arm transformers are provided so as to individually correspond to the upper arm switching elements. | 18,784 |
8,377,760 | 1. A thin film transistor, comprising: a gate; a gate insulation layer covering the gate; a source and a drain disposed on the gate insulation layer and electrically insulated from each other; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulation layer, the source, and the drain, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer comprises an oxide channel layer and two ohmic contact layers, and the ohmic contact layers are respectively located beside the oxide channel layer and connected with the oxide channel layer; and a translucent layer located above the oxide channel layer, wherein a pattern of the translucent layer is substantially the same with that of the oxide channel layer. | 31,054 |
9,643,144 | 1. A method of making a nanostructure-reinforced composite comprising: providing matrix particles in a reactor, the matrix particles comprising a metal selected from magnesium, aluminum, titanium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, palladium, chromium, ruthenium, gold, silver, zinc, zirconium, vanadium, silicon, or a combination thereof; fluidizing the matrix particles; introducing a nanostructure material into the reactor; homogeneously dispersing the nanostructure material; uniformly depositing the nanostructure material on the matrix particles to form a composite powder; mechanically alloying the composite powder to generate a nanostructure on the matrix particles from the nanostructure material; and processing the composite powder to form the nanostructure-reinforced composite having a matrix formed from the matrix particles, wherein the nano structures are evenly distributed in the matrix of the nanostructure-reinforced composite. | 6,214 |
9,060,434 | 1. A substrate comprising a metal micropattern having at least one graphic defined by a contrasting area adjacent the graphic wherein the graphic and the contrasting area comprise non-contiguous micropattern features that differ in density, dimension, shape, orientation, or a combination thereof, and wherein the total metal micropattern density of the graphic is no greater than 10%. | 40,706 |
9,710,169 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a device controller, a first latch signal from a peripheral device that indicates start of an access operation at the peripheral device; setting, by the device controller, an internal delay signal to a first state based on the first latch signal; in response to setting the internal delay signal to the first state, setting a system bus data ready signal to the first state to indicate start of a wait state associated with the access operation at the peripheral device, wherein the internal delay signal is distinct from the system bus data ready signal; receiving a second latch signal from the peripheral device that indicates that the access operation is completed; and setting the system bus data ready signal to a second state to indicate completion of the wait state based on the second latch signal. | 16,020 |
8,963,361 | 1. A direct driven wind turbine, comprising: an electrical generator having a rotor and a stator, a hub constructed to receive a rotor blade, and an actuator device, wherein the hub is connected to the rotor of the electrical generator, wherein the hub and the rotor of the electrical generator are rotatably mounted with respect to the stator of the generator, wherein the actuator device includes a motor, and is constructed and arranged to rotate the rotor and the hub in respect to the stator of the electrical generator, and wherein the electrical generator further comprises a brake-disc attached to the rotor for braking the rotation of the rotor, wherein the motor is operable to act on the brake-disc, wherein the brake-disc includes a toothed rim, and the motor includes a geared wheel operably configured to interact with the toothed rim, such that the rotation of the motor is transferred from the motor to the toothed rim. | 46,507 |
9,020,740 | 1. A system comprising: a fluid sump; a torque-limited fluid pump having a calibrated steady-state speed, wherein the torque-limited fluid pump draws fluid from the fluid sump and circulates the fluid under pressure; a component that receives the fluid that is circulated by the torque-limited fluid pump; a temperature sensor positioned with respect to the fluid sump and configured to measure a temperature of the fluid in the fluid sump; and a controller having a processor and a tangible, non-transitory storage medium on which is recorded instructions for controlling the speed of the torque-limited fluid pump; wherein the controller is configured to: | 27,131 |
9,289,908 | 1. A multi-headed razor device comprising: a handle body extending along a longitudinal axis from a second end to a first end; a plurality of handle arms having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of the plurality of handle arms non-pivotably attaches to the handle body at an attachment point so that the plurality of handle arms and the handle body are co-planar, wherein each longitudinal axis of each handle arm forms an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the handle body; and a plurality of razor heads removably attached to the first end of the plurality of handle arms and the first end of the handle body, wherein a distance from the first end of the handle body to the attachment point is less than a distance from each first end of the plurality of handle arms to the attachment point. | 19,443 |
8,720,851 | 1. A valve apparatus comprising: a disc-shaped valve body rotatably accommodated in a fluid passage for adjusting a flow passage area of the fluid passage; a seal ring received in an annular groove formed on an outer periphery of the valve body, the seal ring being annularly brought into contact with an inner wall surface of the fluid passage to seal a clearance gap between the outer periphery of the valve body and the inner wall surface when the valve body is positioned at a full-close position; a control portion controlling an energization of an electric motor which supplies a rotational torque to the valve body so that a position of the valve body is controlled, and an angle sensor detecting an angle position of the valve body and transmitting the detected angle position to the control portion, wherein the seal ring is a C-shaped ring having both ends circumferentially confronting each other to form an arc clearance therebetween, the seal ring is elastically deformed in such a manner that the seal ring is in contact with the inner wall surface with the arc clearance most shrunk when the valve body is positioned at the full-close position, while the valve body is rotated from the full-close position toward the full-open position, the seal ring keeps the sealing of the clearance gap between the valve body and the inner wall surface until the valve body is positioned at a first boundary angle position from which the seal ring unseals the clearance gap, when the valve body is further rotated from the first boundary angle position toward the full-open position, the seal ring reaches a second boundary angle position at which the seal ring has no tension in the annular groove, the control portion controls the energization of the electric motor in such a manner that the valve body is rotated toward a full-close position in a valve-close mode and the valve body is rotated toward a full-open position in a valve-open mode, the control portion defines a threshold angle position by adding a specified angle width to a predetermined angle position of between the first boundary angle position and the second boundary angle position, when the valve body is positioned between the threshold angle position and the full-close position in the valve-close mode, the control portion controls the energization of the electric motor in such a manner that a rotating speed of the valve body is lower than that in the valve-open mode, and the specified angle width is established based on a variation in stop-position of the valve body, a detection error of the angle sensor due to its temperature characteristic and an analog-digital converting error of the control portion. | 7,127 |
8,805,396 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a real time communication signal at a radio receiver; measuring at least one performance value associated with the radio receiver with an installed set of state variables; at a processor forming a part of the radio receiver: iteratively changing at least one of the state variables within a prescribed range in order to identify an improved value of the at least one state variable that provides an improvement to the at least one performance value; storing the improved value of the at least one state variable; applying a statistical weighting to the improved value and storing the statistical weighting; and adjusting the prescribed range of the at least one state variable based upon the statistical weighting to provide a revised prescribed range that is statistically likely to contain at least one state variable that provides improvement in the at least one performance value. | 23,391 |
9,035,989 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image bearing member; a charging device configured to charge a surface of the image bearing member; an exposure device configured to expose to light the image bearing member which has been charged by the charging device to form an electrostatic latent image, the exposure device intermittently irradiating the image bearing member with light for each unit area of the image bearing member; a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image with developer; a signal output portion configured to output an electric signal which instructs the exposure device to perform exposure, the signal output portion outputting a first electric signal when the exposure device is to expose a print area of the image bearing member to light, and outputting a second electric signal, which instructs the exposure device to shorten an exposure time per unit area of the image bearing member more than an exposure time of the first electric signal, when the exposure device is to expose a non-print area of the image bearing member to light; and a count portion, to which the first electric signal and the second electric signal are input from the signal output portion, configured to measure only the first electric signal without measuring the second electric signal, wherein a timing at which the count portion measures differs from a timing at which the second electric signal is input to the count portion. | 38,537 |
9,841,685 | 1. A method for establishing a corrected variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) which depends on at least one parameter (x, y), in a parameter range of the at least one parameter comprising: carrying out a measurement, wherein measurement values of the variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) are provided in a plurality of separate and non-overlapping subregions of the parameter range; and carrying out a measurement value correction of the variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) using an approximation in which the measurement values of the variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) are approximated by a smooth function and by subregion functions assigned to the subregions of the parameter range, wherein the variable is an optical variable, wherein the measurement is a radiation measurement carried out with a spatially resolving sensor, and wherein the spatially resolving sensor is arranged at different measurement positions or the spatially resolving sensor comprises a plurality of partial sensors, wherein a course of the variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) is reproducible over the parameter range with the smooth function, and wherein an individual change of the variable (Z2, Z3, Z4) is able to be caused in the subregions of the parameter range with the subregion functions. | 3,196 |
8,839,611 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a marine genset including an internal combustion engine and an electric power generator mechanically driven by the engine; an exhaust manifold for the engine including an exhaust gas conduit; and an exhaust emission aftertreatment device including an exhaust passage in fluid communication with the conduit to receive exhaust therefrom, the exhaust emission aftertreatment device including a catalyst in the exhaust passage to reduce one or more exhaust constituents; an exhaust muffler including a container having a coolant inlet to receive coolant, the container further including an exhaust inlet in fluid communication with the exhaust passage to receive exhaust therefrom, the container further including an exhaust outlet to allow exhaust to flow from the container, wherein exhaust flows into the container below a coolant level; and an exhaust cooler located downstream of the catalyst and upstream of the exhaust muffler, wherein the coolant inlet is in fluid communication with the exhaust cooler to receive coolant therefrom. | 39,966 |
9,646,932 | 1. A semiconductor structure, comprising: a dielectric material layer consisting of a dielectric material disposed over a semiconductor substrate; first metal features embedded in the dielectric material layer, wherein a surface of the first metal features facing away from the semiconductor substrate is substantially co-planar with a surface of the dielectric material layer facing away from the semiconductor substrate; a barrier layer interposed between the dielectric material layer and each of the first metal features, the barrier layer extending along a bottom and sidewalls of each of the first metal features; a stop layer comprising an electrically conductive material formed on top of each of the first metal features and on top of the barrier layer of each of the first metal features, the stop layer not extending substantially over the dielectric material layer; and second metal features overlying and electrically connected to the stop layer, wherein at least one second metal feature physically contacts the dielectric material layer. | 4,523 |
9,111,623 | 1. A sensing method in a sense amplifier circuit, comprising: pre-charging a gate of a first input transistor and a gate of a second input transistor to a first fixed voltage node, the first input transistor coupled between a first latch transistor of a latch circuit and a second fixed voltage node, the second input transistor coupled between a second latch transistor of the latch circuit and the second fixed voltage node; discharging the gate of the first input transistor and the gate of the second input transistor; capturing a data voltage at the gate of the first input transistor; capturing a reference voltage at the gate of the second input transistor; coupling a first output node of the latch circuit to the first fixed voltage node and coupling a second output node of the latch circuit to the second fixed voltage node when the data voltage is greater than the reference voltage; and coupling the first output node of the latch circuit to the second fixed voltage node and coupling the second output node to the first fixed voltage node when the reference voltage is greater than the data voltage. | 20,594 |
8,872,671 | 1. A sound output apparatus for a vehicle, the sound output apparatus comprising: a sound input device that collects sounds outside of the vehicle; a sound signal generation section that generates an output signal based on the sounds outside of the vehicle collected by the sound input device; a sound output device that outputs a sound to a vehicle interior of the vehicle based on the output signal generated by the sound signal generation section; a road-information acquisition section that acquires road information in proximity of the vehicle; and a specified-direction determination section that determines a specified direction previously associated with the road information, wherein: the sound signal generation section generates the output signal causing the sound output device to output a sound in a direction of sound-image localization in accordance with the specified direction determined by the specified-direction determination section. | 2,815 |
9,216,197 | 1. A highly stable formulation for topical application, comprising a tellurium-containing compound in an amount of about 12 to about 35 weight percent of the formulation and having at least one tellurium dioxo moiety and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein: said carrier comprises DMSO and at least one polyethylene glycol solvent; said DMSO is in an amount between about 1% and about 10% by weight of the formulation; the formulation is chemically and physically stable upon storage at room temperature for at least 30 days; and said tellurium-containing compound is soluble, dispersible and/or suspendable in said at least one polyethylene glycol solvent at a concentration of about 10 weight percent and is selected from the group consisting of tellurium dioxide (TeO a compound having general Formula II: a compound having general Formula III: and a compound having general Formula IV: wherein: each oft, u and v is independently 0 or 1; each of m and n is independently an integer from 0 to 3; each of j and k is independently an integer from 0 to 4; Y is a cation; X is a halogen atom; and each of R 1 -R 22 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxy, thiohydroxy, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, thioalkoxy, halogen, haloalkyl, carboxy, carbonyl, alkylcarbonylalkyl, carboxyalkyl, acyl, amido, cyano, N-monoalkyl amidoalkyl, N,N-dialkylamidoalkyl, cyanoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, carbamyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalicyclic, sulfonyl, sulfinyl, sulfate, amine, aryl, heteroaryl, phosphate, phosphonate and sulfoneamido. | 36,392 |
9,418,227 | 1. A method for detecting a malicious software component, the method comprising: monitoring a series of calls made by a potentially malicious software component to determine a respective series of call types to a plurality of software components named in the series of calls while executing the potentially malicious software component in an emulated data processing system executed on a first data processing system that emulates hardware and an operating system environment of the first data processing system, the potentially malicious software component making a series of calls specified by the potentially malicious software component to the emulated data processing system; determining whether the respective series of call types is indicative of a malicious behavior based on a comparison of the respective series of call types to named software components with a set of predetermined call patterns indicative of malicious behavior for the potentially malicious software component, wherein the respective series of call types to named software components include executable files, data files, configuration files, Universal Resource Locators, Universal Resource Names, Universal Resource Identifiers, Active X controls, object linking and embedding (OLE) controls, Java™ programs, applets, or any combination thereof; and preventing the potentially malicious software component from being executed or stored on a second data processing system in response to determining the respective series of call types to the plurality of software components named in the series of calls is indicative of the malicious behavior based on a policy, wherein the policy includes a set of rules and/or a set of patterns that determines whether the respective series of call types to named software components indicates that the potentially malicious software component is malicious. | 38,972 |
9,763,192 | 1. A method for adjusting a sleep schedule of a wireless device in a wireless network, the method comprising: determining that a mobility of the wireless device exceeds a threshold mobility, wherein determining the mobility of the wireless device is based on a number of handover requests over a time period; determining by a source access node that the wireless device is operating in a first sleep mode having a first discontinuous reception schedule with first reception intervals separated by first sleep periods prior to handover; determining application requirements and power conditions of the wireless device; performing a handover of the wireless device from the source access node to a target access node; determining by the source access node a first timer comprising an amount of time that the wireless device was in the first sleep mode prior to the handover, wherein determining the first timer further comprises subtracting an adjustment factor from the first timer based on the determined application requirements and power conditions of the wireless device; providing by the source access node to the target access node information regarding the determined mobility, the determined first timer, and the determined first sleep mode prior to finishing the handover; initiating wireless communication between the target access node and the wireless device during a scheduled first reception interval of the first discontinuous reception schedule; resuming the first sleep mode in communication with the target access node according to a second discontinuous reception schedule based on the information provided by the source access node regarding the determined mobility and the determined first sleep mode of the wireless device; and instructing the target access node to adjust the second discontinuous reception schedule based on the determined application requirements and power conditions. | 7,426 |
9,120,562 | 1. A wing for an aircraft, the wing forming an airfoil and comprising: an inner end, and outer end, an upper surface, a lower surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge; and a winglet having an inner end, an outer end tip, an upper surface, a lower surface, a leading edge and a trailing edge; wherein the inner end, or root, of said winglet is connected to the outer end of said wing, and the upper and lower surfaces of the winglet and the leading and trailing edges of the winglet are continuations of the upper and lower surfaces of the wing and leading and trailing edges of the wing, respectively; the winglet having a transition region and a sail section, the transition region extending from the outer end oft wing the sail section and the sail section extending from the end of the transition region to the winglet end tip; such that the leading and trailing edges of the winglet each have a profile that defines at least two curves along each of their entire length, from their inner end at the root of the winglet, to the outer end of the tip of the winglet; wherein the curves defining the winglet edge profile at any point are generated through a locus of points projected onto a plane substantially normal to the winglet inner end, or root, chord line, and conforms to the following criteria; the lower end of the profile curve is approximately tangent to the wing reference plane at the junction of the winglet to the outer end of the wing; each profile curve is approximately monotonic, with constantly increasing radius of curvature from the curve lower end to the curve upper end; the upper end point of the profile curve, at the winglet end tip, is tangent to a line parallel with a line oriented at the cant angle, phi, at the winglet end tip; the upper end point of the lower profile curve is positioned at a height above the wing reference plane having a value of between 65 percent and 105 percent of the wing outer end chord length; the location of the upper end of the transitions section, or start or lower end of the sail section, is positioned at a specified distance along the length of said alternate curve form measured from the lower end of the curve; and the winglet profile curve from root to tip excludes both a single conic curve and the combination of a lower are segment connected and tangent to an upper linear segment. | 42,441 |
8,676,536 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing an executable program for selecting a set of test conditions with which to test an integrated circuit chip, where the program performs steps of: formulating a statistical optimization problem, wherein the statistical optimization problem seeks to minimize deviation from a target scrap rate for a set of chips including the integrated circuit chip, wherein the target scrap rate defines a target percentage of the set of chips that is scrapped during at speed structural testing of the set of chips; and obtaining a solution to the statistical optimization problem, the solution comprising the set of test conditions. | 17,685 |
9,256,598 | 1. A method for copy on demand optimization for large writes, the method comprising: in a system having a source data storage entity and a destination data storage entity: receiving a write request to write data to a target portion of the source data storage entity, the target portion of the source data storage entity comprising a plurality of data storage blocks; determining whether the source data storage entity and the destination data storage entity are engaged in a restore operation which includes copying data from the destination data storage entity to the source data storage entity sufficient to synchronize the source data storage entity to the destination data storage entity; responsive to a determination that the source data storage entity and the destination data storage entity are engaged in a restore operation, determining whether the target portion of the source data storage entity is not yet synchronized to the destination data storage entity; responsive to a determination that the target portion of the source data storage entity is not yet synchronized to the destination data storage entity, performing a copy-on-demand operation to synchronize the target portion of the source data storage entity to the destination data storage entity, wherein performing the copy-on-demand operation comprises: determining, for each data storage block within the target portion of the source data storage entity, whether the data storage block will be completely overwritten as a result of the write request; synchronizing the target portion of the source data storage entity to the destination data storage entity so that each data storage block within the target portion of the source data storage entity that will be completely overwritten as a result of the write request is not synchronized to the destination data storage entity as part of the restore operation; receiving a read from the source data storage entity during the restore operation and guaranteeing the read to return data as it will exist after the restore operation is completed; and processing the write request to write data to the target portion of the source data storage entity. | 15,205 |
9,026,349 | 1. A method for modifying performance of a mining haul truck, the method comprising: determining a performance target for the mining haul truck; comparing the performance target to an actual operating parameter of the mining haul truck; modifying an actual performance of the mining haul truck to achieve the performance target; obtaining information from at least one prior haul cycle of the mining haul truck based on learning the at least one prior haul cycle of the mining haul truck; determining at least one parameter for at least one current haul cycle based on the information from the at least one prior haul cycle that is obtained; and controlling the mining haul truck during the at least one current haul cycle using the at least one parameter. | 13,236 |
8,381,525 | 1. A gas turbine combustion system comprising: an air compressor; an air separator fluidically coupled to the air compressor and configured to receive a first portion of compressed air from the air compressor and to generate an oxygen enriched gas and a nitrogen enriched gas therefrom; an air mixer fluidically coupled to the air compressor to receive a second portion of the compressed air and fluidically coupled to the air separator to receive the nitrogen enriched gas to generate a vitiated air mixture therefrom; and a multi-stage combustor comprising: a first combustion stage fluidically coupled to the air mixer to receive the vitiated air mixture and fluidically coupled to a fuel source to receive fuel to generate first stage combustion products; and a second combustion stage fluidically coupled to the air separator and configured to burn the first combustion stage products in combination with the oxygen enriched gas generated by and received from the air separator to generate second combustion stage products having a lower level of nitric oxide emissions than that achievable through combustion with vitiated air alone or through combustion staging alone. | 49,781 |
9,853,538 | 1. A power converter comprising: a controller configured to determine input power to the power converter at a maximum power point based on a maximum power point tracking algorithm and to reduce the input power to the power converter from the maximum power point based on a temperature of a power source coupled to the power converter. | 41,072 |
9,280,280 | 1. A method comprising: providing for operation of a device in an unrestricted mode; receiving an indication that an area presented on a display of the device is a designated area, wherein the indication is the creation of a border around an area presented, the designated area defined within the border, wherein the designated area comprises at least one input key configured to receive a user input and cause an action to be taken in response to receiving the user input, wherein another area of the display that is outside of the border and not the designated area is an undesignated area, the designated area comprising designated information, and the undesignated area comprising undesignated information; providing for operation of the device in a restricted mode, wherein the designated information is presented on the display while the device is operating in the restricted mode and the undesignated information is not presented on the display while the device is operating in the restricted mode, wherein the designated information comprises dynamically updated information that is dynamically updated without user interaction, and wherein the at least one input key remains operable when the device is operating in the restricted mode; and updating the dynamically updated information when the device is operating in the restricted mode. | 28,100 |
8,790,778 | 1. Roofing granules comprising: (a) a core having an exterior surface and comprising agglomerate including base particles and an agglomerate binder phase, the base particles having an average ultraviolet transmission of greater than sixty percent and an average near infrared reflectance of greater than sixty percent, and (b) at least one of: | 31,490 |
8,700,111 | 1. A headset, comprising: a base comprising a speaker, an optical emitter, and an optical detector; an earbud housing extending outwardly from the base that is configured to be positioned within an ear of a subject, wherein the earbud housing encloses the speaker, optical emitter, and optical detector, and comprises at least one window that exposes the optical emitter and optical detector to the ear of the subject, and wherein the earbud housing is in acoustical communication with the speaker and comprises at least one aperture through which sound from the speaker can pass; and a cover surrounding the earbud housing, wherein the cover includes at least one aperture through which sound from the speaker can pass, and wherein the cover comprises light transmissive material in optical communication with the optical emitter and detector via the at least one window, wherein the light transmissive material is configured to deliver light from the optical emitter into an ear region of the subject at one or more predetermined locations and to collect light external to the earbud housing and deliver the collected light to the optical detector. | 25,754 |
9,741,877 | 1. A composition for solar cell electrodes, the composition comprising: silver (Ag) powder; a glass frit; an organic binder; and a solvent, the organic binder including a compound containing a repeat unit represented by Formula 2: wherein R | 13,769 |
9,530,176 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a first image processor which includes a first memory, performs a first signal processing on image data representing a visual image, and stores first signal processed image data in the first memory; a second image processor which includes a second memory and performs a second signal processing; and an image outputter, wherein the second image processor is configured to directly access the first memory, receive the stored image data, and perform the second signal processing on the received image data, the image outputter is configured to output the image data on which the second signal processing has been performed, wherein the first memory stores image data of a GUI (Graphic User Interface), the second image processor performs the second signal processing on the image data of the GUI stored in the first memory, when a command to generate a GUI is input, wherein the first image processor performs, based on information on the second signal processing, the first signal processing on the image data before the second image processor performs the second signal processing on the image data, wherein the first signal processing comprises at least one of decoding and scaling on the image data, and what the second signal processing comprises at least one of signal processing on a frame rate of the image data, signal processing on an output timing of the image data, and signal processing on a 3D output of the image data. | 16,825 |
9,374,947 | 1. A living wall containment unit for wall mounting in a substantially vertical orientation, the containment unit comprising: a rear wall having upper and lower ends, first and second sides; a first side wall extending forward from said rear wall along said first side; a second side wall extending forward from said rear wall along said second side, wherein said rear wall and said first and second side walls define a longitudinal axis; and a plurality of ribs spaced forward of said rear wall and extending between said first and second side walls, wherein each rib includes a top edge and a bottom edge, wherein said plurality of ribs are sequentially arranged longitudinally between said first and second side walls, wherein said plurality of ribs are oriented at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis; and wherein said plurality of ribs define a plurality of openings located between said top edge and bottom edge of sequentially arranged ribs; wherein said rear wall, said plurality of ribs and said first and second side walls together define an interior space adapted to receive loose plant growth medium that substantially fills the interior space wherein the interior space defines a continuous volume along the longitudinal axis such that the interior space is filled with loose plant growth medium and plants are planted such that the roots of different plants planted through different openings are permitted to commingle in the loose plant growth medium, and wherein, when filled with loose plant growth medium and with the containment unit positioned in a substantially vertical orientation, the loose plant growth medium will form a plurality of substantially horizontal growing surfaces positioned to allow plant material to grow through the plurality of openings defined between sequential ribs. | 4,911 |
8,872,052 | 1. A jumper for keeping current configuration values or restoring default configuration values in the CMOS memory of computer motherboards, said jumper comprising: a) three independent generally cylindrical sleeves to be slipped over respectively the first, second and third pin of the CMOS-reset block of a computer motherboard; every said sleeve providing a suitable contact area for adequate electrical connection; b) a metallic jumper element that electrically interconnects said sleeves via said contact areas; said jumper element being shaped such that only the first and second of said sleeves, or only the second and third of said sleeves, are interconnected at the same time; said jumper element having as well suitable contact areas for adequate electrical connection with said sleeves, two of said contact areas being located close to each end of said jumper element, and the third of said contact areas being located midway between said first and second contact areas; c) an electrically non-conductive housing that fixedly embeds said sleeves, and at the same time encloses said jumper element such that said element is only allowed to move as to interconnect either the first and second of said sleeves, or the second and third of said sleeves; d) an elastic element mounted between said jumper element and said housing, said elastic element pushes against said jumper element through an area physically contacting and jumper element, and such that said elastic element simultaneously pushes against said housing through an area physically contacting said housing, said elastic element driving said jumper element to fully contact and thus interconnect said first and second sleeves; and, e) a reset button to manually actuate said jumper element against said elastic element, in order to break the electrical connection between the first and second of said sleeves, and make an electrical connection between the second and third of said sleeves; said reset button being mounted in said housing such that: | 15,145 |
9,774,147 | 1. A cable assembly, comprising: a cable jacket configured to form an outer coating for the cable assembly; a first connector; a second connector; and a cable, within the cable jacket, having a first conductor from among a plurality of conductors and a second conductor from among the plurality of conductors, wherein the first conductor is configured to couple the first connector and the second connector, and wherein a first, end of the second conductor is coupled to the first connector and a second end of the second conductor, within the cable jacket, is not mechanically connected to the second connector to form an integrated antenna. | 45,918 |
8,487,152 | 1. A process for converting at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon to at least one aromatic hydrocarbon, comprising: a) converting a reactant stream E to a product stream P in the presence of a catalyst under nonoxidative conditions, wherein the reactant stream E comprises the at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon comprising 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the product stream P comprises the at least one aromatic hydrocarbon and a hydrogen a); and b) electrochemically removing at least some of the hydrogen a) formed in the converting a) from the product stream P with a gas-tight membrane-electrode assembly comprising at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane and, on each side of the at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane, at least one electrode catalyst, wherein: at least some of the hydrogen a) is oxidized to protons over an anode catalyst on a retentate side of the at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane; and the protons, after passing through the at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane, on a permeate side over a cathode catalyst, are partly, in b1) reduced to a hydrogen b1) by application of a voltage, and the hydrogen b1) is partly, in b2) reacted with oxygen to give water to generate electrical power, wherein the oxygen originates from an oxygen-comprising stream O, which is contacted with the permeate side of the at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane. | 9,781 |
9,673,985 | 1. A processor comprising: a hardware core comprising: | 38,076 |
9,797,573 | 1. A luminous system, said luminous system comprising: one or more illumination sources that output, when powered, a primary electromagnetic radiation through one or more exit regions; a multilayer structure, said multilayer structure comprising: one or more diffuse reflection layers that redirect at least a portion of ambient electromagnetic radiation to the viewing hemisphere and redirect at least a portion of the incident radiation to the one or more energy conversion layers, said one or more diffuse reflection layers being optically decoupled from said multilayer structure by the presence of a medium having a substantially lower refractive index than the multilayer structure, said one or more diffusion layers being disposed between the one or more energy conversion layers and the one or more diffuse reflection layers, wherein the emission and the reflection of said luminous system produce a first observed visible color when said one or more illumination sources are powered by emitting the secondary electromagnetic radiation through the one or more diffuse reflection layers to the viewing hemisphere, and a second observed visible color is produced when said one or more illumination sources are non-powered, the second visible color produced by attenuating incident ambient energy such that reflected ambient energy overpowers emission from the unpowered multilayer structure to produce the second visible color. | 22,978 |
9,046,219 | 1. A method for checking a homogeneous batch of pressurized-fluid cylinders during at least part of the cycle of use of the cylinders, the cylinders each being equipped with a valve provided with an electronic device comprising at least one sensor for measuring the pressure (P) obtained inside the cylinder, a data storage or acquisition and processing system and an emitter of electromagnetic waves designed to transmit to a distance at least one of the information items from among: the identity of the cylinder and the pressure (P) measured inside said cylinder, the method involving an emission step in which all the cylinders of the batch emit at least one information item of the same nature when they are simultaneously in one and the same phase of the cycle of use, and a step of comparing the information items of the same nature emitted by the cylinders in order to automatically to detect an anomaly in the batch, wherein the cycle of use of the batch of cylinders comprises a conditioning phase during which the cylinders of the batch are subjected to one or more filling operations and to one or more withdrawing operations and to one or more cleaning operations, the comparison step comprising: comparing curves of variation in pressures (P) of the cylinders which have been obtained from the pressure values (P) measured by the sensors and emitted successively by the emitters so as to detect any curve of the pressure variation of a cylinder that is inconsistent with all the other curves and is the result, of a valve that is closed and/or of a valve shutter that is defective. | 46,246 |
8,456,029 | 1. An apparatus for providing power comprising: a rotor coupled to a pump mechanism, the pump mechanism operated when the rotor spins; a rotor magnet mounted on the rotor; and an electromagnetic pulse motor powered by a power source and is controlled to act upon the rotor magnet mounted on the rotor to apply an intermittent torque thereto. | 10,535 |
8,389,292 | 1. A method for determining the amount of 1α,25(OH) 2 D 2 in a biological sample, when taken from a human, by tandem mass spectrometry, comprising: (a) processing a biological sample from a human by one or more methods to generate a processed sample, wherein at least one method used is derivatizing 1α,25(OH) (b) enriching derivatized 1α,25(OH) (c) generating a precursor ion of the derivatized 1α,25(OH) (d) generating one or more fragment ions of said precursor ion; and (e) detecting the amount of one or more of said ions generated in step (c) or (d) or both by mass spectrometry and relating the detected ions to the amount of said 1α,25(OH) | 33,441 |
9,234,732 | 1. An explosives storage system comprising: a substantially cylindrical container having an opening extending from a top end of the container along a center axis of the container, a sidewall formed between an outer perimeter of the container and an inner perimeter of the opening, and a base portion formed at a bottom end of the container to enclose a bottom of the opening, the bottom of the opening having a hemispherical shape; a lid removably disposed on the top end of the container having a through-hole aligned substantially over the opening of the container, the through-hole including a reinforcing structure having openings to allow a detonation blast to escape through the through-hole and covered over with a flexible covering; and one or more latching devices attached to the container and the lid that permit the lid to be secured to the top of the cylindrical container, wherein the container and the lid are made of reinforced cement. | 31,532 |
9,634,248 | 1. An insulator comprising: a material including barium and hafnium oxide, the material having a crystal structure of a space group Pbc2 | 38,775 |
9,168,635 | 1. A portable abrasive blasting system, comprising: an air subsystem being adapted to provide pressurized air; a fluid subsystem being adapted to provide fluid; a mixer being adapted to combine and mix the fluid with the pressurized air, thus changing the relative humidity of the pressurized air; a media subsystem being adapted to provide abrasive media; and a control subsystem, having: wherein the abrasive media mixes with the pressurized air and the fluid; wherein the abrasive media is subsequently blasted on a surface of a structure; and wherein the portable structure is adapted to carry the air subsystem, the fluid subsystem, the mixer, the control subsystem, and the media subsystem to the place of use. | 4,381 |
9,329,594 | 1. A computer-implemented method of verifying the completion of a sequence of one or more assembly instructions used when assembling a manufactured product, the method comprising: displaying assembly instructions for an in-use component being assembled in a user interface in addition to a predetermined image of a previously assembled component with a visual highlight area that overlays a portion of the previously assembled component that received materials through the assembly instructions, wherein the assembly instructions relate the visual highlight area from the previously assembled component with a portion of the in-use component being assembled; positioning an image capture device over the portion of an in-use component that received materials as a result of an assembler completing one or more assembly instructions displayed on the user interface; processing a first voice command from the assembler authorizing acquisition of an image from the image capture device positioned over the portion of the in-use component; processing a second voice command from the assembler confirming accuracy between the visual highlight area from the predetermined image of the previously assembled component with the image acquired and that the in-use component has been properly assembled; and storing the first and second voice commands from the assembler and images of the in-use component being assembled in an assembly record database creating a traceable record of the materials used, the assembly operation performed, and an assembler's verbal participation. | 30,624 |
9,665,262 | 1. An active color interface comprising: a first fader of a plurality of faders, wherein the first fader comprises a first selector and a first range of first selections, wherein the first range of first selections provides a first visual image of the first selections available to the first selector; and a second fader of the plurality of faders, wherein the second fader comprises a second selector and a second range of second selections, wherein the second range of second selections provides a second visual image of the second selections available to the second selector, wherein the first range of first selections and the second range of second selections are altered when the second selector moves among the second range of second selections, wherein the first range of first selections and the second range of second selections are altered when the first selector moves among the first range of first selections, and wherein at least one light source of at least one lighting device emits an overall color that corresponds to a first selection among the first range of first selections by the first selector and a second selection among the second range of second selections by the second selector. | 13,475 |
8,798,832 | 1. An electric storage device, comprising: an electric storage unit including a plurality of electrically connected electric storage elements; a first control unit measuring a state of each of the electric storage elements; a measurement unit measuring a state of the electric storage unit; and a second control unit which captures measurement state information about each of the electric storage elements measured by the first control unit and measurement state information about the electric storage unit measured by the measurement unit, and manages and controls the state of the electric storage unit, wherein the second control unit includes: a unit which captures measurement state information about each of the electric storage elements in a no-load state before or after a loaded state where the electric storage unit is connected to a load, and calculates an amount of change of an average state of charge of the electric storage elements in the no-load state before or after the loaded state, and a difference between an average state of charge of the electric storage elements in a no-load state after the loaded state and a state of charge of a predetermined electric storage element, and which further calculates a charge-state variation coefficient which is the difference per amount of change of the average state of charge of the electric storage elements in the no-load state before or after the loaded state; and a unit which captures the measurement state information about the electric storage unit in the loaded state and calculates an amount of change of the average state of charge of the electric storage elements in the loaded state, and which further predicts a state of charge of a predetermined electric storage element based on the average state of charge of the electric storage elements in the loaded state and the charge-state variation coefficient. | 24,816 |
8,796,535 | 1. A thermal tracking system for a concentrating photovoltaic system comprising: a photovoltaic receiver extending in a longitudinal direction, the photovoltaic receiver comprising: first and second thermal sensors coupled to and in direct contact with the back side of the photovoltaic laminate and disposed between the back side of the photovoltaic laminate and the heat spreader, the first thermal sensor closer to the first edge than the second edge, the second thermal sensor closer to the second edge than the first edge, the first and second thermal sensors adapted to sense a temperature of the photovoltaic laminate; and third and fourth thermal sensors coupled to the back surface of the photovoltaic laminate and adjacent the heat spreader, the third thermal sensor positioned between the first edge and the heat spreader, the fourth thermal sensor positioned between the second edge and the heat spreader. | 33,181 |
8,656,140 | 1. A data processing device comprising: a reconfigurable circuit that includes a plurality of configurations; a reconfiguration unit that reconfigures the plurality of configurations in order so as to configure a pipeline; an internal memory; a connection circuit that connects to an external memory in an external device; a selection unit that selects connection destinations for data input and data output of each of the configurations reconfigured on the reconfigurable circuit from between the internal memory and the external memory via the connection circuit, wherein a selection control unit (i) that calculates a bandwidth of the pipeline based on the data input/output to/from the external memory in each of the data transfer manners and a performance index value of the pipeline based on the ratio of the amount of data output from the pipeline to the amount of data input to the pipeline in each of the data transfer manners, (ii) that selects one of the data transfer manners based on the bandwidth and the performance index value of each of the data transfer manners, and (iii) that controls a selection of the selection unit in accordance with the selected data transfer manner. | 39,082 |
9,149,498 | 1. A method of treating a parasitic disease, comprising: contacting a parasite in a fluid with a whole, leech saliva extract; the extract having a peptide molecular weight distribution with molecular weights of 3496 Daltons or greater; wherein, the extract is produced from a process comprising | 14,999 |
9,578,864 | 1. A compact fishing tackle organizer for placement in a tackle box or attachment to a surface during use, the organizer comprising: a free-standing body having a predetermined length defined between opposing ends, a horizontal upper surface, and a back surface extending substantially perpendicular from the upper surface, wherein the upper surface includes a plurality of storage sites defined therein, each site comprising an opening through the upper surface, and each opening having both (i) a position at a distance from a front edge of the upper surface, and (ii) a diameter, the distance and the diameter corresponding to a desired fish hook size; a securing member attached to the upper surface to be movable between an open position and a closed position and configured to cover the plurality of storage sites when in the closed position; a locking mechanism comprised of first components comprising male components on the securing member which engage complimentary components comprising female components defined on the upper surface of the body at the opposing ends when the securing member is moved to a closed position, and wherein said female components extend above the upper surface of the body; and an attachment member fixed on the back surface of the free-standing body and configured to detachably connect the free-standing body to a surface to provide access to the plurality of storage sites. | 32,540 |
9,526,502 | 1. A surgical string applicator for anastomosis surgery comprising: an elongate shaft having a proximal and distal end; a string applying assembly comprising a first and a second opposing jaw connected to said distal end of said shaft and configured to close around a tubular organ of the anastomosis surgery, at least one of said jaws having a curved shape with a concave inner side and having one or more grooves along an inner surface of said curved jaw, each of said jaws having an opening at a distal end thereof; at least one surgical string housed in the first and second jaws in a form of an open loop with one end of the surgical string at the distal end of the second jaw and an opposing end of the surgical string at the distal end of the first jaw; and a string fastening mechanism adapted to engage and fasten said surgical string around the tubular organ, wherein said string fastening mechanism comprises a tie gripping member disposed within the first jaw configured to grip said one end of the surgical string extended into the opening of the first jaw from the second jaw when said jaws are closed around the tubular organ such that the surgical string encircles the tubular organ, and the string fastening mechanism is configured to tighten the surgical string around the tubular organ wherein said tie gripping member comprises a chuck including a passage therethrough and a barb having one or more barb teeth disposed in said passage; and a handle portion connected to said proximal end of said shaft; said handle portion including one or more triggers configured to open and close at least one of said jaws, and to actuate said string fastening mechanism. | 41,080 |
9,375,673 | 1. A CO 2 separation unit for recovering CO 2 from a CO 2 containing gas, the unit comprising: a capturing material container having a CO a first pipeline for allowing the CO a second pipeline for allowing a gas from which CO a third pipeline for introducing a steam-containing gas to the inside of the capturing material container, wherein the third pipeline is branched into two ways, one of the ways allowing the steam-containing gas to flow therethrough into the heat conduction pipe, the other allowing the space inside the third pipeline and the space inside the capturing material container to connect with each other and allowing the steam-containing gas and the CO a fourth pipeline for allowing a desorbed CO the unit further comprising: a compressor for compressing steam, a fifth pipeline for connecting the capturing material container with a suction port of the compressor, wherein the fifth pipeline is branched into two ways, one of the ways connecting the heat conduction pipe with the suction port of the compressor, the other connecting the capturing material container with the suction port of the container, and a sixth pipeline for connecting a discharge port of the compressor with the third pipeline. | 9,770 |
9,768,258 | 1. A substrate structure, comprising: a support substrate; a buffer structure arranged on the support substrate, the buffer structure comprising an intentionally doped superlattice laminate; an unintentionally doped first Group III nitride layer arranged on the buffer structure; a second Group III nitride layer arranged on the first Group III nitride layer forming a heterojunction therebetween; and a blocking layer arranged between the heterojunction and the buffer structure, the blocking layer being configured to block charges from entering the buffer structure. | 24,034 |
9,056,104 | 1. An inhibitor of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), the inhibitor being a coumermycin A1 analog that has a structure of Scaffold 1, wherein: R X linker including a straight aliphatic, branched aliphatic, cyclic aliphatic, heterocyclic aliphatic, substituted aliphatic, unsubstituted aliphatic, saturated aliphatic, unsaturated aliphatic, aromatic, polyaromatic, substituted aromatic, hetero-aromatic, amine, primary amine, secondary amine, tertiary amine, aliphatic amine, carbonyl, carboxyl, amide, ester, amino acid, peptide, polypeptide, sugars, sugar mimic, or combinations thereof. | 25,003 |
9,573,115 | 1. A method for increasing the resistance of a brominated carbonaceous sorbent to water leaching of bromine species, which method comprises contacting a carbonaceous substrate with at least one organic compound that contains at least one olefinic double bond in an amount sufficient to increase the resistance of the brominated sorbent to water leaching of bromine species, wherein bromination of the carbonaceous substrate is conducted prior to, during, and/or after said treatment with the organic compound. | 9,557 |
9,017,597 | 1. A method for transferring molten metal from a first vessel, the first vessel comprising at least a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber and second chamber being separated by a dividing wall, the method comprising: pumping molten metal from the first chamber past the dividing wall into the second chamber raising the level of molten metal in the second chamber until it flows out of the second chamber and into a launder, wherein the launder has a horizontal angle of between 0° and 10° to permit molten metal to flow backward into the second chamber when the pumping ceases; and wherein the launder slopes backward by ⅛″ for about every 10″ of launder length. | 19,511 |
9,269,987 | 1. A salt of formula (I) wherein M wherein X | 21,575 |
8,534,263 | 1. A method comprising: injecting gasoline into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine from a direct injection gasoline fuel injector during a gasoline fuel mode of the internal combustion engine; combusting the gasoline in the combustion chamber to power the engine during the gasoline fuel mode; injecting a gaseous fuel from a gaseous fuel injection system and gasoline from the direct injection gasoline fuel injector into the combustion chamber during a gaseous fuel mode of the engine; and combusting the gaseous fuel and gasoline in the combustion chamber to power the engine during the gaseous fuel mode, wherein when it is determined that an amount of gasoline required to cool the direct injection gasoline fuel injector is below a minimum injectable amount, gasoline is injected into the combustion chamber during only one combustion cycle out of a predetermined number of combustion cycles in the gaseous fuel mode. | 20,044 |
9,644,077 | 1. A method for manufacturing a quantum dot thin film, the method comprising: elongating a substrate by applying a tensile force to the substrate; coating quantum dot particles on the substrate to form a layer of quantum dots; replacing a first ligand of the quantum dot particles with a second ligand; and removing the tensile force from the substrate. | 31,197 |
8,887,080 | 1. A handheld wireless communications device, comprising: a housing; a processor, memory and a display disposed in the housing; a user input device; an operating system executing in the memory of the device and providing access to functionality of the device, the operating system hosting the operation of a plurality of different computer programs; a graphical user interface (GUI) for the operating system displayed in the display, the GUI comprising a first set of icons, each icon of the first set configured upon activation to launch execution in the operating system of a corresponding one of the computer programs; and, a second set of icons displayed in the GUI of the operating system, the icons of the second set including a personal email icon and an office email icon, each of the icons in the second set further being associated with a numeric indication displayed in the GUI and corresponding to a number of respectively unread email messages. | 34,971 |
9,035,980 | 1. A method of using a pixel to display an image, the pixel comprising a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel being used to display a substantially same color, the method comprising: providing a first brightness of the first sub-pixel and a first brightness of the second sub-pixel in a first display mode; providing a second brightness of the first sub-pixel and a second brightness of the second sub-pixel in a second display mode; inputting an image signal having a chromaticity coordinate; generating a first comparison relationship according to the first brightness of the first sub-pixel and the second brightness of the first sub-pixel; generating a second comparison relationship according to the first brightness of the second sub-pixel and the second brightness of the second sub-pixel; if the chromaticity coordinate of the image signal is within a chromaticity range capable of being displayed by the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel, the first brightness of the first sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the first sub-pixel and the first brightness of the second sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the second sub-pixel, transmitting the image signal; and displaying the processed image signal in the first display mode, wherein the first display mode is performed by using the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel to display an image, and the second display mode is performed by using the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel to display the image. | 35,612 |
8,566,788 | 1. A system for dynamically generating content, comprising: a plurality of content services that are responsive to service requests by returning content; and a server machine that retrieves content from the content services via service requests, and uses the retrieved content to dynamically generate responses to content requests received over a network, said server machine configured to respond to a content request received over a network from a computing device by retrieving predictive information regarding content likely to be used to generate a response to the content request, and by using the predictive information to preemptively request, via one or more service requests to one or more of the content services, at least some of said content that is likely to be used, said predictive information based on past response generation events. | 10,754 |
8,390,139 | 1. A method for controlling a converter of a wind energy installation, the converter being connected to a rotor of a doubly-fed asynchronous generator for feeding electrical power into an electrical grid and comprising a generator-side inverter, a grid-side inverter, and at least one converter regulator for regulating, controlling, or both, currents emitted from at least one of the inverters to at least one of the generator and the electrical grid, comprising: detecting a change in electrical voltage present in at least one of emitted real currents and emitted reactive currents at one of the inverters; determining whether the detected change corresponds to a predetermined change; and changing nominal values of at least one of real currents to be emitted and reactive currents to be emitted from the other inverter if the detected change corresponds to the predetermined change. | 2,023 |
9,445,060 | 1. A system for transcoding locally cached content, comprising: a local cache configured to store at least a video stream; a controller communicatively coupled to the local cache and configured to determine a video definition format of a requested version of a requested video stream and compare the video definition format of the requested version of the requested video stream with a video definition format of a cached version of the requested video stream; and a transcoder circuit coupled to the controller, the transcoder circuit configured to convert the cached version of the requested video stream to a lower video definition format if the video definition format of the cached version is determined to be of a higher video definition format than the video definition format of the requested version, wherein if the video definition format of the requested version is of a same video definition format as the video definition format of the cached version, the controller is configured to supply the requested video stream using the cached version stored in the local cache without transcoding. | 39,260 |
9,547,529 | 1. A method for automatically gauging a benefit of a tuning action, the method comprising: periodically collecting a plurality of observations of a running state of a plurality of threads in a computer system, as executed by a processor in a computer system, wherein the plurality of observations comprise snapshot information that aggregates a state of the threads and locks for the threads, each observation comprising a snapshot of a call stack for each thread being executed and extracting from said snapshot information a lock graph indicating which locks different threads hold and which locks different threads are queued to hold; identifying a plurality of resources of the computer system and a capacity of each resource of the plurality of resources; mapping an observation of the running state of each thread of the plurality of threads to a resource that the observation of each thread uses, respectively; and applying the tuning action to a first resource of the plurality of resources to determine an impact on a performance of the computer system; wherein the tuning action is chosen based on its priority from a plurality of tuning actions that are prioritized according to a number of threads waiting for a lock. | 20,304 |
8,992,640 | 1. A system, comprising: a flow path; a gasification section disposed along the flow path and configured to convert a feedstock into a syngas; a scrubber disposed directly downstream of the gasification section and configured to filter the syngas; and a first turbo expander disposed along the flow path directly downstream from the scrubber and configured to expand the syngas, wherein the syngas comprises an untreated syngas, and wherein the first turbo expander is configured to generate mechanical energy, electrical power, or a combination thereof, via expansion of the syngas; and wherein an acid gas removal (AGR) section is disposed along the flow path downstream from the first expander, wherein the AGR section is configured to treat the untreated syngas to remove an acid gas and produce a treated syngas. | 6,335 |
8,741,097 | 1. A plasma processing apparatus comprising: a processing chamber including a dielectric window; a coil-shaped RF antenna, provided outside the dielectric window; a substrate supporting unit, provided in the processing chamber, for mounting thereon a target substrate to be processed; a processing gas supply unit for supplying a desired processing gas to the processing chamber to perform a desired plasma process on the target substrate; an RF power supply unit for supplying an RF power to the RF antenna to generate a plasma from the processing gas by an inductive coupling in the processing chamber, the RF power having an appropriate frequency for RF discharge of the processing gas; a correction coil having at least one loop and provided at a position outside the processing chamber, wherein the correction coil is not connected to the RF power supply unit nor to the RF antenna and has two open ends, wherein the correction coil is to be inductively coupled with the RF antenna by electromagnetic induction, the correction coil being configured to use the inductive coupling to locally control a plasma density distribution on the substrate in the processing chamber; a switch provided in the at least one loop of the correction coil and connected to both of the two open ends of the correction coil; and an opening/closing control circuit configured to control an effect of the correction coil on an RF magnetic field generated around the RF antenna by performing switching control of an opening state and a closing state of the switch. | 9,261 |
8,543,907 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, from a server, one or more segments of program code embedded in a webpage having an origin; receiving information on a user's prior code invocation behavior of code on webpages from the origin; selecting a level of performance optimization for the one or more segments of the program code in advance of compilation of the segments of the program code based on, at least, the received information, and wherein the level of performance optimization specifies a type of program code compilation optimization for the one or more segments; and performing, by a processor, the selected level of performance optimization on the one or more segments of the program code. | 18,366 |
8,391,016 | 1. An article comprising: a solder cap disposed upon a solder bump, wherein the solder cap includes a network of carbon nanotubes dispersed therein; and a bonding pad disposed below and in contact with the solder bump. | 37,573 |
9,452,753 | 1. A control system for a hybrid vehicle having a drive system including a starter motor, an engine, and a motor/generator, and a power supply system including a high voltage battery as power supply of the motor/generator, a capacitor as power supply of the starter motor, and a capacitor charge and discharge control unit that controls charging and discharging of the capacitor, the control system comprising: a starter start-up control unit configured to crank the engine for starter start-up using the starter motor powered by the capacitor, an motor/generator (M/G) start-up control unit configured to crank the engine for M/G start-up using the motor/generator powered by the high voltage battery; and an engine start-up region map setting unit in which, during selection of the electric vehicle (EV) mode with the motor/generator serving as driving force, an M/G start-up region is defined by subtracting an engine cranking required torque from an EV region defined by a maximum motor output torque characteristic with respect to a vehicle speed, the capacitor charge and discharge control unit being configured, during selection of EV mode when an operating point in accordance with the vehicle speed and the required driving force is present in the M/G start-up region, to maintain the capacitor voltage at or below a deterioration free voltage at which deterioration does not proceed, while, when the operating point is deviated from the M/G start-up region, the capacitor is recharged to or above a starter start-up permission voltage. | 39,344 |
8,430,977 | 1. A hollow drilling steel rod comprising a stem portion and a thread portion positioned at an end portion in an axial direction with respect to the stem portion, the hollow drilling steel rod being constituted of a steel having a composition consisting of, in terms of percent by mass: 0.20 percent to 0.80 percent of C, 0.10 percent to 0.50 percent of Si, 0.10 percent to 1.00 percent of Mn, 0.015 percent or less of P, 0.050 percent or less of S, 0.50 percent or less of Cu, less than 0.50 percent of Ni, 2.00 percent to 5.00 percent of Cr, 0.20 percent to 0.80 percent of Mo, 0.0002 percent to 0.0050 percent of B, 0.005 percent to 0.050 percent of Ti, 0.005 percent to 0.050 percent of Al, 0.050 percent or less of N, and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the thread portion comprises a thread having been subjected to a high frequency quenching, and wherein the thread portion and the stem portion separate from each other have been joined by a friction welding. | 22,434 |
9,736,259 | 1. A system configured to control access to a plurality of resources located remotely from a plurality of geographically distributed users, the system comprising: a first storage device configured to store user management information associated with the plurality of geographically distributed users, the user management information including role information indicating roles assigned to the plurality of geographically distributed users, subordinate user information indicating subordinate users assigned to the plurality of geographically distributed users, and access authorization information indicating resources to which the plurality of geographically distributed users have access; a proxy including a processor and a memory device, the proxy coupled via at least one communications network to the first storage device and to a server configured to provide directory information, the directory information including a global list of authorized network users; the proxy configured to: | 1,702 |
9,260,600 | 1. A rubber composition for use in tires comprising from 2 to 50 parts by weight of an aromatic modified terpene resin having a softening point of 100° C. or higher, and two types of silica, including a silica X and a silica Y, at a total quantity of 60 to 130 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber containing from 5 to less than 30 weight % of a solution polymerization-produced terminally modified styrene-butadiene rubber (a modified S-SBR) having a vinyl unit content of not lower than 60 weight %, wherein a functional group in the modified S-SBR reacts with a silanol group on a surface of the silica, a proportion of silica relative to a total quantity of a reinforcing filler containing the silica and carbon black is not lower than 85 weight %, a nitrogen specific surface area of the silica X is not lower than 140 m 2 /g, a nitrogen specific surface area of the silica Y is not lower than 100 m 2 /g but lower than 140 m 2 /g, and where blending quantities of the silica X and the silica Y relative to 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber are deemed to be x parts by weight and y parts by weight respectively, the relationship x/7<y≦x is satisfied. | 1,262 |
8,726,493 | 1. Clamping system of special conductors for a stator or rotor bar winding for an electric machine, the clamping system being suitable for clamping said special conductors during a twisting step and/or a step of picking up such conductors from a twisting device, the clamping system comprising: a system axis (T-T); a plurality of grippers aligned or adapted to be aligned along a circumference lying on a plane substantially perpendicular to the system axis (T-T), each gripper including a pair of jaws or holding arms mounted so as to be mobile in a plane transversal to said system axis (T-T); and actuation elements of the grippers adapted to be activated to make each gripper take up: (a) an operative clamping configuration, in which said holding arms are relatively closer together to clamp on two opposite sides a portion of at least one of said special conductors, and (b) an operative release configuration, in which said holding arms are relatively farther apart to release said portion of the special conductor; said clamping system being characterized in that: each of said grippers comprises a gripper body slidably mounted along a sliding direction (R) transversal to the system axis (T-T), the gripper body including a body portion to which said holding arms are hinged and being suitable for taking up a position relatively more advanced towards the system axis (T-T) when the gripper takes up said clamping configuration, and a position relatively more set back with respect to said advanced position when the gripper takes up said release configuration; and each of said grippers comprises closing elements and opening elements of the holding arms of the grippers, said closing elements comprising a forced passage arranged frontally to each pair of holding arms and suitable for engaging such arms during the sliding of the gripper body towards said advanced position to make the gripper take up said clamping configuration, and said opening elements comprising elastic elements connected to said pair of holding arms and suitable for spreading apart such arms while the gripper slides towards said set back position leaving the forced passage so as to allow the gripper to take up said release configuration. | 5,959 |
9,019,441 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel, a backlight device configured to illuminate the liquid crystal panel, a chassis configured to hold the liquid crystal panel and the backlight device, a bezel put over the chassis, and at least one engagement structure configured to fix the bezel to the chassis, wherein the engagement structure includes a recessed portion located in a side surface of the chassis and a pair of arms provided in a side wall of the bezel, each of the pair of arms is cantilevered, the pair of arms is placed such that a fixed end of each arm is positioned outward relative to a free end of each arm, and the free ends of the arms are at least partially fitted in the recessed portion of the chassis in a state in which the pair of arms are elastically deformed toward the chassis and the free ends of the arms are in contact with each other, thus fixing the bezel to the chassis. | 2,013 |
8,598,840 | 1. A battery management system for a plurality of interconnected cells wherein cells are monitorable and balanceable independently by at least two sides of redundant circuitry, the two circuitry sides respectively constituted in distinct fault domains; each side of circuitry being comprised of at least two mutually fault-isolated subsections, each subsection providing for the monitoring and balancing of at least two cells; further, portions of the circuitry of a subsection of a first side, which, when activated, interfere with the ability of the opposite side's circuitry to manage and balance a common cell, require at least two independent enables to activate; still further, each of the at least two subsections of each of the at least two sides comprises test circuitry for subsection fault detection. | 40,040 |
9,667,802 | 1. A method of recording information in a local number portability database, comprising: ceding control over a group of telephone numbers to an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony service provider, where the group of telephone numbers were previously assigned to and controlled by a second telephony service provider, and where the group of telephone numbers remain assigned to the second telephony service provider; assigning a location routing number for exclusive use by the IP telephony service provider that controls the group of telephone numbers; and recording the assigned location routing number in entries of a local number portability database for the telephone numbers controlled by the IP telephony service provider. | 13,845 |
9,309,960 | 1. A gear device comprising: a first gear disposed at a shaft to turn the first gear with respect to the shaft in a circumferential direction, the first gear including an insert that includes a recess extending in an axial direction of the insert to accumulate lubricating oil; a second gear disposed at the shaft to integrally rotate the second gear and the shaft; a protrusion disposed at the first gear, the protrusion facing the second gear; and a stopper rubber disposed at the second gear, the stopper rubber facing the first gear, the stopper rubber being configured to be elastically deformed by pressing the protrusion in the circumferential direction of the second gear during rotation of the first gear, the stopper rubber being configured to be restored to an initial shape by separating the protrusion from the stopper rubber during stop of the first gear, and the recess facing the stopper rubber, wherein the shaft includes an oil passage and the recess accumulates the lubrication oil supplied by the oil passage, and the recess faces the second gear and has an annular shape extending in the circumferential direction of the first gear. | 49,609 |
9,555,349 | 1. A rotary disc filter device comprising: a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, having a plurality of disc-shaped filter members, each disc-shaped filter member having a frame defining two opposing walls, wherein the frame is made of sheet metal elements made of stainless steel which are connected with each other by rivets, wherein the sheet metal elements include first sheet metal elements, each of which is a ring-shaped mounting plate forming an inner circumference of each of the two opposing walls, each of the ring-shaped mounting plates having a central section extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation, wherein the sheet metal elements further include second sheet metal elements forming spikes mounted at each of the ring-shaped mounting plates to extend in an outward direction, wherein the sheet metal elements further include a third sheet metal element forming an outer circumferential frame element connecting outer ends of the spikes, wherein the disc-shaped filter member further includes stiffeners made of cylindrical rods and extending between the ring-shaped mounting plates facing each other, and wherein the ring-shaped mounting plate further includes a connecting section extending around an outer circumference of the central section; the outer circumferential frame element includes circumferential frame members, and connecting plates connecting the circumferential frame members; and the spikes extend outwardly from the connecting section toward the connecting plates. | 11,378 |
9,453,645 | 1. A process for providing an oxygen rich gas and fuel to at least first and second units, both of which are oxygen rich gas consuming units, the process comprising the steps of: i) separating air in an air separation unit (ASU) to produce oxygen rich gas; ii) during a first and a second period of time: iii) during the first period of time: iv) during the second period of time: wherein during the second period of time, one or more of the following steps is conducted: (1) no oxygen rich gas is sent from the air separation to the second unit; and (2) a third oxygen rich gas stream at least 50% less than the second oxygen rich gas stream is sent from ASU to the second unit. | 49,029 |
9,505,923 | 1. A transparent ABS resin composition comprising: (A) an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene graft (g-ABS) copolymer in which a monomer mixture of acrylate based monomer, styrene based monomer, and acrylonitrile based monomer (a2) is copolymerized onto a butadiene based rubber polymer (a1); and (B) a styrene-acrylonitrile based copolymer, wherein the transparent ABS resin composition satisfies the following Equation 1 and Equation 2: wherein the X is refractive index of the acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene graft (g-ABS) copolymer (A), the Y is refractive index of the butadiene based rubber polymer (a1), and the Z is refractive index of the styrene-acrylonitrile based copolymer (B), and wherein the transparent ABS resin composition has a haze value of less than 1.0% and un-notched IZOD impact strength (¼″) of about 30 kgf·cm/cm or more. | 3,193 |
8,423,267 | 1. A cetane number detection device for an internal combustion engine, the device comprising: a plurality of fuel injection devices that inject fuel individually into a plurality of cylinders of the internal combustion engine; a combustion state determination device that determines whether a state of combustion in the combustion chamber of each of the plurality of cylinders is the ignition state or the misfire state; a control device that executes injection of the fuel from the plurality of fuel injection devices at respective different predetermined injection timings during starting of the internal combustion engine, a detection device that, if the combustion state determination device determines that the state of combustion in the combustion chamber of any cylinder of the plurality of cylinders is the ignition state, then detects, during the starting of the internal combustion engine, a cetane number of the fuel based on the injection timing of the fuel injection device that injects the fuel into the combustion chamber of the cylinder whose state of combustion is the ignition state. | 7,125 |
8,661,421 | 1. A method executed by at least one processor comprising: designating a first endian format for a first source code portion and a second endian format for a second source code portion; generating, using a processor coupled to a memory, a first diagnostic report based on determining, using the processor, whether the first code portion will produce a byte order boundary crossing; generating a second diagnostic report based on determining, using the processor, whether the second code portion will produce an implicit byte order conversion when executed in response to the designation of the second code portion; and storing the first and second diagnostic reports in the memory; wherein determining whether the first code portion will produce a byte order boundary crossing is based on determining: (a) a variable, included in the first code portion, is formatted with the first endian format, and (b) the first code portion includes code that will assign a value, previously declared as being formatted with an endian format opposite the first endian format, to the variable. | 3,796 |
9,708,667 | 1. A method of classifying a thyroid lesion sample as malignant or benign, comprising: a. providing RNA extracted from a thyroid lesion sample obtained from a human subject using fine needle aspiration (FNA); b. obtaining by real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed on the RNA an expression profile comprising expression levels of miRNAs comprising hsa-miR-31-5p (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6, or 7), hsa-miR-222-3p (SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2), hsa-miR-146b-5p (SEQ ID NO: 10 or 11), MID-16582 (SEQ ID NO: 25), hsa-miR-342-3p (SEQ ID NO: 17 or 18), hsa-miR-125b-5p (SEQ ID NO: 9), hsa-miR-375 (SEQ ID NO: 8), hsa-miR-486-5p (SEQ ID NO: 22), hsa-miR-551b-3p (SEQ ID NO: 3 or 4), hsa-miR-152-3p (SEQ ID NO: 12 or 13), hsa-miR-138-5p (SEQ ID NO: 19, 20, or 21), hsa-miR-23a-3p (SEQ ID NO: 26), and hsa-miR-574-3p (SEQ ID NO: 36 or 37); wherein the PCR comprises contacting the RNA with forward and reverse primers for each of the miRNAs, wherein each forward primer is specific for one of the miRNAs; and wherein the forward primers comprise SEQ ID NO: 317; c. applying a classifier algorithm to the expression profile; wherein the classifier algorithm compares the expression profile to a reference value; and d. classifying the thyroid lesion as benign or malignant based on the result from the classifier algorithm. | 34,319 |
8,731,754 | 1. A controller for a motorised vehicle of a type having at least two wheels driven by a motor arrangement, the controller comprising: a user-actuated input control module comprising a user actuated control element and an output, the input control module capable of providing control signals at said output; and a control unit having an input operably coupled to the output of the control module for receipt of the control signals, the control unit comprising: wherein said motor arrangement drives at least a left wheel and a right wheel and said control signals comprise a demand speed and a demand spin, wherein said demand speed of said motorised vehicle is given by a mean of a demanded left wheel velocity and a demanded right wheel velocity, wherein said demand spin of said motorised vehicle is given by a mean difference of said demanded left wheel velocity and said demanded right wheel velocity, and wherein said acceleration control unit calculates said centripetal force factor in dependence on a product of said demand speed and said demand spin. | 34,428 |
9,105,905 | 1. A secondary battery comprising an anode, a cathode and a non-aqueous electrolyte, the anode comprising a monolithic porous mass of a sintered particulate material wherein the particulate material comprises a semiconductor material core and a metal-semiconductor alloy layer thereon and has a diameter of about 0.001 micrometers to 100 micrometers, the volume of the metal-semiconductor alloy layer is about 0.1% to 5% of the total particle volume and the metal-semiconductor alloy layer provides adhesion and cohesion of the particles in the porous mass. | 30,383 |
9,571,616 | 1. A housing comprising: a plurality of overlapping layers, each layer having either transparent material or semitransparent material, and each layer having a different refractivity, wherein the plurality of layers includes at least three layers, an index of refraction of the layers increases from one layer located at an outer surface of the housing to another layer located at an internal surface of the housing. | 27,090 |
8,753,128 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first coupling mechanism providing a first form factor for the apparatus, the first coupling mechanism including: a first portable communication device including a first portable communication device connector detachably coupled to the first coupling mechanism connector; and a second portable communication device including a second portable communication device connector detachably coupled to the second coupling mechanism connector, the second portable communication device configured to communicate with the first portable communication device and move relative to the first portable communication device when coupled to the coupling mechanism, wherein the first portable communication device is adapted to be used independent from the second portable communication device, wherein the apparatus further comprises a second coupling mechanism interchangeable with the first coupling mechanism, the second coupling mechanism providing a second form factor for the apparatus different from the first form factor, the second coupling mechanism comprising: | 19,326 |
8,697,264 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a battery cell having an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure mounted in a battery case together with an electrolyte in a sealed state; and a protection circuit module electrically connected to the battery cell, wherein the protection circuit module is provided with a safety device of which a circuit is cut off when temperature or current exceed a respective predetermined value; wherein the battery case is a metal container having a top sealed by a top cap, wherein the battery pack further comprises: wherein the top cap is provided with a pair of electrode terminals, comprising a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal, connected to a cathode and an anode of the electrode assembly, respectively, wherein the insulative mounting member is provided with through-holes corresponding to the electrode terminals, the protection circuit module is provided with through-holes corresponding to the electrode terminals, and wherein the coupling of the insulative mounting member and the protection circuit module to the battery cell is achieved by successively fixedly inserting the electrode terminals through the through-holes of the insulative mounting member and the protection circuit module. | 16,740 |
9,737,044 | 1. An animal enclosure comprising: a plurality of members defining an interior of the enclosure, where the plurality of members include at least one first member; a frame structure of the first member having a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires that define an opening for an animal to pass therethrough and enter or exit the interior of the enclosure, where a first horizontal wire and a second horizontal wire of the horizontal wires of the frame structure each respectively form a first hook and a second hook positioned inside the defined opening; a door assembly of the first member coupled to the frame structure, the door assembly being pivotable about and slideable along a vertical wire of the frame structure to move between an open position and a closed position, where the door assembly includes a first door having a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires and a second door having a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires, the first door and the second door removably coupled to one another; and a latching mechanism pivotably coupled to the first door and securing the first door to the frame structure in the closed position, the latching mechanism comprising at least a first wire, a second wire, and a third wire; wherein: the first wire forms a substantially U-shaped structure and includes a first curled end and a second curled end pivotably coupled to a first horizontal wire of the first door; the second wire forms a first curved end and a second curved end, the first wire and second wire being coupled to one another at one or more locations near the first curved end; and a third wire coupled to the second wire at one or more locations, the third wire forming at least a first bend and a second bend, where the first bend defines an opening for receiving a horizontal wire of the frame structure in the closed position, and the second bend is coupled to the first horizontal wire of the first door. | 39,820 |
9,790,815 | 1. A method for operating a thermodynamic circuit with at least the following components: a first heat exchanger for producing a first heated or partially vaporized working medium flow by heating or partially vaporizing a pressurized liquid working medium flow received directly from a pump by heat transfer from an expanded working medium flow; a second heat exchanger for producing a second at least partially vaporized working medium flow by at least partially vaporizing or further vaporizing the first working medium flow with heat which is transferred from an external heat source; a third heat exchanger for completely condensing the expanded working medium flow; a first separator for separating a liquid phase from a vapor phase of the second working medium flow; an expansion device for expanding the vapor phase, converting its energy to a usable form, and producing an expanded vapor phase; a first combination point for producing the expanded working medium flow by combining the liquid phase and the expanded vapor phase; a working medium flow homogenizing system arranged between the first heat exchanger and the third heat exchanger, the working medium flow homogenizing system comprising: the method comprising: | 43,556 |
8,371,499 | 1. An apparatus to authorize an authentication code on a ticket for viewing digital content of non-free event from theater/auditorium, said apparatus to validate a count of viewers watching the non-free event based on count of tickets purchased, said apparatus to download and stream the digital content of non-free event from a theater/auditorium to an interactive display electronic device in a room/hall, said apparatus comprising: an infrared scanner to detect viewers present in the room using reflected infrared light; a modem to modulate an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulate such a carrier signal to decode transmitted information; a memory to hold a program routine to provide necessary firmware to complete an operation of authorizing the authentication code; a processing unit to utilize the program routine in said memory to communicate with entertainment system of an organization, to send an authentication code via said modem, where organization is theater/auditorium; a ticket reader to read an event rating, number of tickets of adults and children, 6-digit hexadecimal code from the ticket; a video adapter to connect to an interactive display device or external monitor; an I/O device interface to provide communication between said apparatus and external devices over an inexpensive cable using bi-serial transmission; and a system bus is to provide the communication between each component of said apparatus. | 13,859 |
8,906,197 | 1. A plasma processing chamber, comprising: an interior volume; a bottom electrode assembly defined by, a top electrode assembly having a first grounded top electrode disposed above the inner bottom electrode, the first grounded top electrode having a top, a bottom, and a side, the top electrode assembly including a second top electrode disposed within the interior volume, the second top electrode surrounds the side of the first grounded top electrode and is disposed above the outer bottom electrode of the bottom electrode assembly, the second top electrode defined by, | 35,311 |
9,079,953 | 1. A monoclonal antibody or a binding fragment thereof which: (a) specifically binds to human VEGF; (b) comprises a heavy chain amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1 and a light chain amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:2; and (c) has at least one amino acid substitution or combination of amino acid substitutions selected from: | 36,075 |
9,502,143 | 1. A floating nuclear power reactor, comprising: a floating vessel having a bottom positioned beneath the water level of a body of water, sides extending upwardly from said bottom, and an upper end which is positioned above the water level of the body of water; a nuclear power reactor positioned on said vessel which extends upwardly from said bottom of said vessel; said nuclear power reactor including an upstanding containment structure having a lower end, an upstanding side wall, and an upper end; said upstanding containment structure defining a sealed interior compartment; said lower end and a lower portion of said upstanding side wall of said containment structure being positioned below the water level of the body of water; a first water passageway, having inner and outer ends, extending through one of said sides of said vessel and through said containment structure; said inner end of said first water passageway being in fluid communication with said interior compartment of said containment structure; a reactor vessel in said interior compartment of said containment structure; at least a portion of said reactor vessel being positioned below the water level of the body of water; a normally closed first hatch movably mounted on said side wall of said floating vessel at said outer end of said first water passageway; said first hatch being movable between a normally closed position and an open position; said first hatch, when in said closed position, closing said outer end of said first water passageway; said first hatch, when in said open position, permitting water from the body of water to flow inwardly through said first water passageway into said interior compartment of said containment structure outwardly of said reactor vessel to cool said reactor vessel; a first latch associated with said first hatch which is movable from a latched position to an unlatched position; said first latch, when in said latched position, maintaining said first hatch in said closed position; said first latch, when in said unlatched position, permitting said first hatch to move from said closed position to said open position; and a first condition responsive actuator positioned within said interior compartment associated with said first latch to move said first latch from said latched position to said unlatched position upon a condition within said interior compartment of said containment structure reaching a predetermined level. | 13,572 |
9,023,582 | 1. A photosensitive polymer, comprising: a repeating unit represented by Formula 1, the photosensitive polymer having a weight average molecule weight of from about 3,000 to about 50,000: wherein, in Formula 1, Ar Ar a and b are each independently an integer from 1 to 5, provided that: R | 40,913 |
9,815,065 | 1. A disintegrating machine, comprising: knife shafts including a first knife shaft and a second knife shaft; a frame having bearing receptacles, each of said bearing receptacles having a main body and a bridge being pivotable in relation to said main body; bearings; and a driving device for driving said knife shafts, said knife shafts accommodated rotatably in said bearing receptacles, including said main body and said bridge, of said frame by said bearings. | 38,647 |
9,785,759 | 1. A method, comprising: employing a client media player to determine whether media content is protected, wherein the client media player includes an application, and further includes a media engine that is a distinct program from the application; determining at least one type of content protection system supported by the media engine by employing the application to poll the media engine to determine at least one type of content protection system supported by the media engine; employing the application to acquire a key and/or a license for the protected media content in accordance with the determined type of content protection system; employing the application to instruct the media engine to play the media content; and sending the key and/or the license from the application to the media engine. | 4,493 |
9,147,480 | 1. A sense amplifier, comprising: a first switch having a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal receiving a first clamping bias; a second switch having a first terminal electrically connected to the first terminal of the first switch, a second terminal and a control terminal receiving a second clamping bias; a third switch having a first terminal, a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal of the first switch and a control terminal receiving a third clamping bias; a holding path including the second switch; a sensing node having a sensed potential; and a fourth switch controlling a turn-on and a turn-off of the holding path and having a first terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the second switch, a second terminal receiving a bias voltage, and a control terminal receiving the sensed potential. | 32,394 |
8,470,489 | 1. A method for producing bipolar plates, the method comprising: (a) providing an electrically conductive sheet; and (b) cutting through the sheet to create therein at least one opening for a fluid, where the cut sheet includes a plurality of elongate parallel oxidant flow openings and where at least one oxidant inlet manifold opening and at least one oxidant outlet manifold opening are located at the ends of the elongate oxidant flow openings and in communication therewith. | 37,556 |
8,942,189 | 1. A method of enabling a first wireless device to rendezvous with at least a second wireless device through a wireless network, where activation schedules of the first wireless device and the second wireless device are not synchronized, the method comprising: pre-determining by the first wireless device a number of time units in each cycle of a plurality of communication cycles; creating an activation sequence having a plurality of active time units in each cycle during which the first wireless device enters an active mode and a plurality of inactive time units in each cycle during which the first wireless device enters an inactive mode, a sum of the plurality of active time units and the plurality of inactive time units equaling the number of time units in each cycle; and controlling the creating such that a first active time unit of the plurality of active time units in each cycle occupies a same position in the cycle as an active time unit in a previous consecutive cycle, and a second active time unit of the plurality of active time units in each cycle occupies a different position in the cycle than any active time unit in the previous consecutive cycle. | 6,194 |
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