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9,068,525 | 1. An engine control method for controlling an engine with an accessory, comprising the steps of: establishing a learning condition after a predetermined period from a previous learning has elapsed during a cargo handling operating through using the accessory driven by the engine while a car that travels by the engine is stopped; storing in advance, in an electronic control unit including program logic, a relationship between a torque of the accessory and a controlled variable corresponding to each rotational speed of the engine; after the learning condition is established, calculating, by the electronic control unit, an estimated value of the controlled variable based on a calculated value of the torque of the accessory and the engine rotational speed by reference to the relationship; calculating, by the electronic control unit, a command value of the controlled variable based on at least one of the engine rotational speeds, a degree of throttle opening, degree of accelerator opening and an air supply pressure; calculating, by the electronic control unit, a difference by comparing the estimated value of the controlled variable and the command value of the controlled variable; calculating, by the electronic control unit, a final value of the controlled variable based on the difference between the estimated value and the command value; and controlling the engine using the final value of the controlled variable, in an operational range other than an idling state. | 15,299 |
9,406,983 | 1. A battery module for the purely electric driving of a motor vehicle, comprising: a trough-shaped battery box that runs around a circumferential direction; an inlet for feeding a coolant into a cooling space that is partially bounded by the battery box; an outlet for conducting the coolant away from the cooling space; a plurality of battery cells for storing electrical energy, the battery cells being inserted into the battery box and arranged in the cooling space; a retaining plate mounted on the battery box to at least partially close the cooling space, the retaining plate having a plurality of through holes through which the plurality of battery cells project; a sealing mat mounted on the retaining plate for sealing clearances formed between the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of through holes in the retaining plate; and an insulating layer formed on the sealing mat from a cured sealing compound for fluid-tight sealing of the cooling space, wherein at least one electrical pole of the battery cell projects out of the cooling space through the insulating layer. | 42,311 |
8,905,983 | 1. A reduced pressure treatment system for applying reduced pressure to a tissue site, the reduced pressure treatment system comprising: a reduced pressure source for providing reduced pressure; a distribution manifold fluidly coupled to the reduced pressure source for receiving reduced pressure and adapted to be positioned at the tissue site to distribute the reduced pressure to the tissue site; and an energy production device contained in a reduced pressure dressing, the energy production device comprising: | 33,922 |
9,553,816 | 1. A method of optimizing traffic on a mobile device, comprising: determining a time a first application on a mobile device was last accessed; determining whether the first application is inactive based on the time the first application was last accessed; wherein, when the first application is determined to be inactive: | 6,474 |
8,760,171 | 1. Method for determining partial discharges in an electrical insulation system of an electrical component, comprising the steps: detecting an electrical signal that comprises partial discharge pulses due to dielectric breakdowns in the electrical insulation system of the electrical component, generating n filtered partial discharge signals by filtering the electrical signal by means of n filters having n differing filter characteristics, respectively one of the filtered partial discharge signals being assigned, respectively, to one of the n filters, n being greater than or equal to 2, and determining the partial discharges by linking the n filtered partial discharge signals, wherein an n-tuple is formed per partial discharge pulse, values of the n-tuple corresponding to the n filtered partial discharge signals of the partial discharge pulse, and the linking comprises a cluster analysis of the n-tuples, and wherein the electrical signal further comprises disturbance signals that are generated by a disturbance source inside or outside the electrical component and that are provided, as filtered partial discharge signals, by the n filters, the disturbance source is identified on the basis of at least one cluster of the cluster analysis, and only filtered partial discharge signals that were not generated by the disturbance source are used to determine the partial discharges of the electrical component. | 18,733 |
8,497,594 | 1. A hydrokinetic water turbine system configured to be placed in a flowing stream of water, said water turbine system comprising, in combination: a frame structure; a shaft supported by the frame structure to rotate about a horizontally-disposed central axis of the shaft; a rotor secured to the shaft and having longitudinally spaced-apart support discs along the shaft, a first plurality of spaced-apart blades extending between the support discs and circumferentially spaced apart about the shaft, and a second plurality of spaced-apart blades extending between the support discs and circumferentially spaced apart about the shaft so that the flowing stream of water revolves the rotor about the central axis of the shaft; wherein the first and second plurality of blades are each rigidly secured to the discs to prevent relative movement between each of the blades and the discs; wherein the first and second plural of blades are each straight in the longitudinal direction and have a hydrofoil shape in cross section configured to generate lift and rotate the rotor about the horizontally disposed central axis as the flowing stream of water passes around the hydrofoil shape; wherein the second plurality of blades is spaced apart from the first plurality of blades in the longitudinal direction and offset from the first plurality of blades so that the second plurality of blades is circumferentially located between the first plurality of blades for smooth rotation of the rotor; wherein the first and second plurality of blades are each hollow extrusions with internal ribs between hollow cavities and the hollow cavities are filled with a material having a weight less than a weight of a material forming the extrusions; and an underwater electric generator directly driven by the rotor. | 38,732 |
8,505,561 | 1. Apparatus for cleaning bulk material, comprising a container for receiving the bulk material, a filling opening which is arranged in an upper region of the container, at least one stirring device which is arranged in the interior of the container and such that it can rotate with respect to the container, and at least one discharge device via which the bulk material can be removed from the container, wherein the discharge device is arranged below the filling opening, and further comprising at least one feed, via which a cleaning liquid can be introduced into the container, wherein the feed is arranged above the discharge device and wherein no stirring blades are provided in an upper region of the container, wherein the apparatus comprises a filter device inside the container which is arranged to substantially retain the bulk material, wherein an outlet opening is arranged to separate the cleaning liquid from the bulk material, wherein the container has a polygonal cross section when viewed along the axis of rotation of the at least one stirring device, and wherein the container has one or more edge regions extending from a cylindrical central part to form the polygonal cross section, the cylindrical central part being accessible by stirring blades of the at least one stirring device, and the edge regions being inaccessible by the stirring blades of the at least one stirring device. | 36,552 |
9,650,449 | 1. A method for preparing a telechelic polymer of formula I: wherein: R R m is an integer from 1 to 20; wherein: comprising: (a) generating a quasiliving carbocationic polyolefin, wherein the quasiliving carbocationic polyolefin is prepared by adding a first Lewis acid and a monomer to an initiator in the presence of an electron donor, common ion salt, or common ion salt precursor; and the initiator is 2-chloro-2,4,4-trimethylpentane, 5-tert-butyl-1,3-bis(1-chloro-1-methylethyl)benzene, 1,3,5-tri(2-chloro-2-propyl)benzene, or 1,3,5-tri(2-methoxy-2-propyl)benzene; and (b) reacting the quasiliving carbocationic polyolefin from step (a) with one or more compounds of formula II in the presence of a second Lewis acid or mixture of Lewis acids under quasiliving carbocationic polymerization conditions: | 42,410 |
9,510,680 | 1. A shelf, comprising: a shelf body bounded by a substantially flat upper surface, a lower surface, a front edge, and a rear edge; a fixed-width opening defined in the rear edge of the shelf body, the opening being contiguous with a fixed-width slot within the shelf body that extends through a thickness of the shelf body and has a width that is wider than the opening, such that a pair of opposed projections are defined between the opening and the slot and the shelf body and its upper surface extend rearward of the slot, the slot being configured such that wherein the configuration of the opening is such that the shelf is adapted to rest in a defined position on a support that tapers at a taper angle that approximates or equals the first angle and that extends at an angle to the vertical that approximates or equals the second angle. | 9,008 |
9,248,612 | 1. A blade containment case in a gas turbine engine of an aircraft housing therein a fan assembly, including a fan blade, the blade containment case comprising: a primary impact region; a composite core having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the composite core extends over the primary impact region; at least one puncture resistant layer integrated with the composite core at least in the primary impact region, wherein the at least one puncture resistant layer includes a resin to bond the at least one puncture resistant layer to the inner surface of the composite core, the at least one puncture resistant layer comprising a fiber and resin material having a through-thickness shear strength and an interlaminar toughness configured to provide resistance to through-thickness shear and resistance to delamination at an interior surface of the blade containment case upon an impact with at least one of a released fan blade or a released fan blade part of the fan assembly and wherein the puncture resistant layer is configured to contain the released fan blade or the released fan blade part of the fan assembly within the blade containment case; and at least one energy capture layer integrated with the composite core at least in the primary impact region, the at least one energy capture layer comprising a fiber and resin material having an in-plane tensile strength and an interlaminar toughness less than the interlaminar toughness of the at least one puncture resistant layer and wherein the resin has a porosity level of greater than 5% of the total composite volume, thus configured to resist tension while providing delamination and debonding between the fiber and the resin at an exterior surface of the blade containment case upon said impact of the at least one puncture resistant layer with at least one of the released fan blade or the released fan blade part of the fan assembly. | 20,316 |
9,515,946 | 1. A dual linked list system comprising: a pipelined memory adapted to store queue elements, wherein the pipelined memory has a plurality of pipeline stages, and wherein the pipelined memory has a read access latency time for reading a value stored in a queue element out of the pipelined memory; a link manager comprising a first head pointer queue element, a second head pointer queue element, a first tail pointer queue element, and a second tail pointer queue element, wherein the dual linked list system can maintain a dual linked list involving a first linked list of queue elements and a second linked list of queue elements, wherein the first linked list of queue elements includes the first head pointer queue element, the first tail pointer queue element, and one or more first queue elements stored in the pipelined memory if the first linked list of queue elements includes three or more queue elements, and wherein a second linked list of queue element includes the second head pointer queue element, the second tail pointer queue elements, and one or more second queue elements stored in the pipelined memory if the second linked list of queue elements includes three or more queue elements; an enqueue engine that can cause a sequence of values to be enqueued into the dual linked list such that odd values of the sequence are enqueued by pushing the odd values into the first linked list of queue elements, and such that even values of the sequence are enqueued by pushing the even values into the second linked list of queue elements, wherein values are enqueued into the first and second linked lists in alternating fashion under control of the link manager; and a dequeue engine that can cause the sequence of values to be dequeued from the dual linked list such that the odd values of the sequence are dequeued by popping the odd values from the first linked list of queue elements, and such that the even values of the sequence are dequeued by popping the even values from the second linked list of queue elements, wherein values are dequeued out of the first and second linked lists in alternating fashion under control of the link manager, wherein the dual linked list can be popped to output the sequence of values at a sustained rate of more than one value per the read access latency time, wherein during operation at the sustained rate the pipelined memory is performing multiple read operations of multiple queue elements at a given time with the read operations following each other in sequence through the stages of the pipelined memory. | 22,653 |
9,791,716 | 1. A contact lens designed with improved stabilization, the contact lens being stabilized by a method comprising: a) providing a lens design with an initial set of stabilization zone parameters, b) applying a merit function to the lens design based on balancing moments of momentum, the merit function including at least one of lens rotation and centration performance, lens stability around a resting position, or lens rotation and centration performance and stability around a resting position, c) creating a contact lens design with improved stabilization based on the application of the merit function to the lens design with an initial set of stabilization zone parameters, and d) conducting steps b and c iteratively over multiple blinking cycles, wherein a virtual model that simulates the effects of eye mechanics is used to determine the contact lens design and blinking is one of the eye mechanics and the simulated effects of blinking is used to adjust the stabilization. | 33,170 |
9,821,563 | 1. A liquid consuming apparatus configured to consume liquid, comprising: a tank including a liquid storing chamber configured to store the liquid therein, and an erected wall which is provided upstandingly, which defines an end of the liquid storing chamber in a first direction crossing a vertical direction and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank, the tank including an inlet which is formed to penetrate through the erected wall; a liquid consuming section configured to consume the liquid stored in the liquid storing chamber; and a cover configured to rotate between a cover position at which the cover covers the erected wall in the first direction and an exposure position at which the cover allows the erected wall to be exposed; wherein the cover further comprises a particular surface facing the vertical direction in the exposure position, a transmitting section disposed on the particular surface, the transmitting section being configured to transmit information optically to a user of the liquid consuming apparatus, and a checking section disposed on the particular surface, the checking section being configured to prevent the liquid moving on the particular surface of the cover from arriving at the transmitting section; and wherein the checking section is arranged between the erected wall and the transmitting section in the first direction and extends in a second direction which intersects the vertical direction and the first direction. | 18,375 |
9,084,959 | 1. An operation control method of a CO 2 recovering apparatus comprising: a CO a regenerator that eliminates CO the operation control method comprising: recycling, by the CO measuring, by an absorbing solution level meter, a liquid level of the CO performing, by a level controller, one of automatic control and manual control for one or both of a supply amount of makeup water to be supplied to the CO wherein the level controller is switched to the automatic control while a change in the gas supply amount of the exhaust gas to be supplied to the CO | 29,907 |
9,279,470 | 1. A front fork comprising: cylindrical two tubes arranged so as to be coaxial to each other and relatively moving with respect to each other in an axial direction; an axle holder covering an opening in a lower side of an inner tube as the tube protruding downward in the two tubes; a tubular inner cylinder attached to the axle holder so as to be arranged inside the inner tube; a forming member arranged in an upper part of the inner cylinder and forming a working oil chamber in which working oil is filled in an inner space of the inner tube; a penetrating member a part of which penetrates the forming member to enter the working oil chamber, relatively moving with respect to the inner tube with an outer tube as the tube protruding upward in the two tubes; a sectioning member attached to a lower end portion of the penetrating member and sectioning the working oil chamber in the inner cylinder into an upper oil chamber positioned in an upper part and a lower oil chamber positioned in a lower part; a communicating portion communicating the upper oil chamber to an outer oil chamber as an oil chamber formed between an inner peripheral surface of the inner tube and an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder; and a damping force generating portion forming an external flow path for circulating working oil to the lower oil chamber and the outer oil chamber at an outside of the inner tube, wherein the damping force generating portion includes; wherein working oil flowing through the compression side flow path and working oil through the first bypass flow path join at the intermediate oil chamber and a part of the joined oil flows into the oil reservoir chamber and another part of the joined oil flows into the upper oil chamber. | 7,751 |
9,454,402 | 1. A method of displaying different types of performance-related data on an information display having a range of units for one type of measured data, comprising: presenting, by at least one software component executed by a processor, a rate of resource consumption in a visual indicator; using the visual indicator as a pointer on the information display to point to a current unit of the measured data; allowing a user to control a rate of change of the measured data by: | 18,051 |
9,806,670 | 1. A shading textile comprising: a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic lamellas which, aligned next to one another or spaced apart from one another in their longitudinal direction, form a continuous product by means of a yarn system, wherein the yarn system is designed to be elastic in at least one direction, so that by tensioning the shading textile, a spacing between adjacent photovoltaic lamellas can be varied perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, characterized in that the shading textile, in a tensioned state, comprises openings between the adjacent photovoltaic lamellas which form only when the shading textile is tensioned, or which are covered up by the photovoltaic lamellas; wherein the photovoltaic lamellas each comprise a support lamella to which the at least one photovoltaic film is attached; and wherein the photovoltaic film spans the support lamella from a top side of the support lamella around facing longitudinal edges of the support lamella to an underside of the support lamella. | 21,766 |
9,164,346 | 1. An apparatus for fabricating an electrochromic device, comprising: (a) an integrated deposition system comprising: (b) a controller containing program instructions provided on a non-transitory, tangible medium for passing the substrate through the first and second deposition stations in a manner that sequentially deposits a stack on the substrate, the stack comprising the layer of electrochromic material in direct contact with the layer of counter electrode material, without an ion conductor layer between the layer of electrochromic material and the layer of counter electrode material. | 45,576 |
9,340,824 | 1. A composition comprising at least one recognition unit and at least one detection unit wherein: a) each unit independently comprises at least one nucleic acid analog segment, wherein each nucleic acid analog segment comprises a peptide-nucleic acid backbone; b) at least one nucleic acid analog segment of the recognition unit specifically hybridizes to at least one nucleic acid analog segment of the detection unit through base-pairing that comprises one or more 6-thioguanine:2-oxopyrimidine base pairs; c) the recognition unit further comprises at least one probe which recognizes at least one target in a sample; and d) the detection unit further comprises at least one detectable label; | 47,622 |
8,849,254 | 1. A location information management system (LIMS), comprising: a controller computer; and one or more databases operatively coupled to the controller computer and configured to store network event historical data and metadata; wherein the LIMS is configured to utilize the network event historical data and the metadata to produce location-aware intelligence including geo-profiles for mobile devices, wherein said geo-profiles include location and time information for said mobile devices; and wherein the LIMS is further configured to: analyze past and real time data to produce intelligence in the form of metadata, and to store the metadata; and iteratively use previously generated metadata to automatically contribute to new analysis that uses both real data and metadata, wherein said new analysis produces information including identification of potential behaviors of interest, identification of specific mobile users associated with said behaviors of interest, associations between mobile device users, and mobile device user identification. | 21,833 |
9,261,589 | 1. A signal processing device configured to perform object detection processing for obtaining a peak signal indicative of a frequency difference between a transmitting signal of which a frequency is cyclically varying and a receiving signal obtained by receiving a reflection wave from an object which reflects a transmission wave based on the transmission signal, for each of a first period in which the frequency of the transmission signal is increasing and a second period in which the frequency is decreasing, and for pairing the peak signal obtained in the first period and the peak signal obtained in the second period, thereby detecting a sensing point indicative of a reflection point on the object associated with the peak signals, the signal processing device comprising: a storage section configured to store data indicative of a past sensing point which is the sensing point detected in the object detection processing performed in the past, and a counter value indicative of existence possibility of the past sensing point; a determination section configured to determine whether the past sensing point has continuity to a recent sensing point which is the sensing point detected in the object detection processing performed after detecting the past sensing point; a decrement section configured to decrease the counter value associated with the past sensing point determined by the determination section as having no continuity to the recent sensing point; a deletion section configured to delete, from the storage section, the data indicative of the past sensing point previously stored and associated with the counter value when the counter value become less than a first threshold value; an identification section configured to identify a sensing point of a moving object as a wrong paring candidate sensing point possibly detected by pairing the peak signals in a wrong manner if a number of peak signals of the sensing point of the moving object exceeds a threshold value of one of areas in which the moving object is classified, wherein the moving object is classified in the one of the areas on a map, wherein the map includes the areas divided by a predetermined distance in a vertical direction with respect to an own vehicle and predetermined distance in a horizontal direction with respect to the own vehicle and the threshold value of the number of the peak signals is set for each of the areas; and a changing section configured to set a decreasing value of the past sensing point identified as a wrong paring candidate sensing point so as to greater than a decreasing value of the other past sensing points. | 27,311 |
9,051,051 | 1. A structure for securing an aircraft structure comprising: a first rail extending longitudinally; a second rail extending longitudinally; a plurality of tie rods to attached the first rail and the second rail to a frame of an aircraft housing the structure; plurality of cross bars, wherein the plurality of cross bars comprises: fastening members connected to the first and second rails; a fitting connected to the fastening members through tie rods or cables, the fitting having a substantially flat surface contacting the super galley; and a plurality of members extending between the first rail and the second rail and approximately planer to the super galley. | 49,674 |
8,942,577 | 1. A printing apparatus for performing printing using a recording material which is stored in at least one of a plurality of storing units configured to store the recording material, the printing apparatus comprising: a movement unit configured to move one storing unit of the plurality of storing units to a replaceable position; a control unit configured to cause the movement unit to move at least one of the plurality of storing units to the replaceable position based on determining that the at least one of the plurality of storing units is lacking the recording material; a detection unit configured to detect closing of a cover that is openable to replace the at least one storing unit moved to the replaceable position; and a counting unit configured to count a number of times closing of the cover is detected by the detection unit in a case where at least one of the plurality of the storing units is determined to be lacking the recording material, wherein the control unit is configured to execute check processing for checking the at least one storing unit after comparing a number of plural storing units determined to be lacking the recording material with the number of times counted by the counting unit. | 25,142 |
9,541,119 | 1. A fitting comprising: a threaded insert having threads to be tightened within a housing bore; and a first lock ring having non-rotation structure on an outer peripheral surface to interfit with mating non-rotation structure on an inner pheripheral surface of the housing bore, and said first lock ring having a first face, with anti-rotation structure included on said first face and a second lock ring having anti-rotation structure on a second face, with said anti-rotation structure on said first and second faces interfitting to resist relative rotation of the two. | 11,724 |
8,787,563 | 1. A data converter, comprising: a receiver which receives message data; and a processor, which executes a data conversion process to generate a hash value, the data conversion process including a plurality of compression-function execution sections and a plurality of respective process sequences in which a plurality of divided data blocks constituting the message data are processed in parallel, wherein each compression-function execution section performs: wherein the compression-function execution sections, respectively performing parallel processing in the process sequences, are configured to commonly use one or both of the message scheduling section and the chaining variable processing section, and to allow a single message scheduling section or a single chaining variable processing section to be utilized, and wherein: | 3,591 |
8,505,518 | 1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a crankcase, wherein the crankcase has a vent leading into an intake section of the internal combustion engine, the method comprising: upon outgassing of fuel out of engine oil present in the crankcase, modifying an operating point of the internal combustion engine to ensure (i) the air-fuel ratio does not fall below a predefined minimum value and (ii) an increase in fuel consumption results; wherein the modification of the operating point includes raising a target idle speed. | 20,970 |
8,875,531 | 1. A fuel cell vehicle comprising: a fuel cell stack as a power supplier; an electric heater operated by power from the fuel cell stack; a blower fan configured for providing air to the electric heater; an air channel configured to pass air heated by the electric heater to an air conditioner evaporator; and a controller configured for controlling the operations of the electric heater and the blower fan, whereby moisture is removed from the air conditioner evaporator by supplying the air heated by the electric heater to the air conditioner evaporator, wherein the electric heater and the blower fan are disposed in connection with an air-conditioning duct connected to the interior of the vehicle for heating the interior of the vehicle, wherein the air channel is a diverging channel that diverges from the air-conditioning duct and extends to the air conditioner evaporator, and the fuel cell vehicle further comprises an opening/closing device disposed to selectively open/close the diverging channel, whereby the opening/closing device is configured to open the diverging channel in response to a control signal from the controller to remove moisture. | 8,819 |
8,442,421 | 1. A conveying path switching structure comprising: a cover unit that is attached to an image forming apparatus main body so as to be movable between a closed state and an open state in which a fixing unit is exposed; and a conveying path switch unit that is rotatably attached to the cover unit and that switches a conveying path of a record medium between a discharge conveying path and a double-side conveying path in the closed state, wherein the discharge conveying path is a path where the record medium is conveyed from a discharge part of the fixing unit to a discharge unit that discharges the record medium to outside of the image forming apparatus main body in the closed state, and the double-side conveying path is a path where the record medium is conveyed again to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus main body from the discharge unit in a state where the record medium is inverted, wherein the cover unit includes a restriction member that restricts rotation of the conveying path switch unit in the open state, the conveying path switch unit is attached to the cover unit through a shaft member, the shaft member is positioned in a positioning part of the image forming apparatus main body in the closed state, the cover unit includes a shaft support part which supports the shaft member, and the positioning part is a positioning concave part into which a tip of the shaft member is fitted when the cover unit is in the closed state for positioning the conveying path switch unit. | 11,727 |
9,763,311 | 1. An interactive lighting effect portable light illuminating device adapted for use with an interactive lighting effect control system with a RF transmitter via wireless data transmissions, the interactive lighting effect portable light illuminating device, comprising: a memory having stored therein at least one zone region indexed by one or more nested hierarchical zone codes; an RF receiver configured to receive an RF data burst and to capture the RF data burst from the RF transmitter of the interactive lighting effect control system upon verifying authenticity of the RF data burst; a controller responsive to the RF data burst, and is coupled to the memory; and at least one light source disposed in the interactive lighting effect portable light illuminating device, the at least one light source being operationally responsive to the controller to change an illuminating state thereof, wherein the RF data burst comprising at least one set of illuminating color and zone assignment data, the controller is configured to cause the at least one light source selectively to be illuminating in accordance with the illuminating color and zone assignment data of the RF data burst and matching the one or more nested hierarchical zone codes stored in the memory of the portable light illuminating device, wherein the one or more nested hierarchical zone codes of the zone regions comprising a first zone code assigned for seating location within one seating zone, a second zone code assigned for a plurality of seating zones, and a third zone code assigned for a segment within one seating zone of the portable light illuminating device, and the one or more nested hierarchical zone codes is a two-dimensional data matrix having a plurality of columns and rows, wherein a data set for the second zone code comprising of a plurality of data fields where each of the data fields occupies more than one row, and a data set for the third zone code comprising of a plurality of data fields where each of the data fields occupies a plurality of subdivided rows, wherein the subdivided rows together form one single row. | 1,345 |
8,961,863 | 1. An aeration system for a bed of ore laid upon a basal layer, the bed comprising an upper face and a leading face, the aeration system comprising: an upstream gas source for supplying gas; a feed pipe configured to extend along the upper face; and a plurality of aeration pipes coupled to the feed pipe for distributing the gas downstream to at least a portion of the bed, wherein: each aeration pipe comprises spaced-apart gas emitters for the distribution of the gas to the at least a portion of the bed; and the aeration pipes are configured to extend through the bed from the upper face towards the basal layer. | 41,500 |
8,786,668 | 1. A method for displaying information in a videoconference, comprising: utilizing a computer to perform: receiving video information, at a second endpoint, from a first endpoint of the videoconference, wherein the video information represents a first scene at the first endpoint including images of a plurality of participants, wherein the plurality of participants include a first participant; determining which of the plurality of participants is the first participant in the video information; determining first participant information for the first participant, wherein the first participant information comprises distinguishing information associated with the first participant; displaying the video information on a display screen at the second endpoint of the videoconference; and displaying the first participant information for the first participant on the display screen at the second endpoint of the videoconference, wherein the first participant information is displayed proximally to an image of the first participant in the video information. | 22,493 |
9,410,827 | 1. A method for making a measurement comprising: (a) capturing a digital image, the captured digital image including a calibration pattern, the calibration pattern being square in shape, the calibration pattern including displayed encoded information arranged in a two dimensional pattern, the displayed encoded information directly providing calibration information about the calibration pattern that can be used directly in a calibration process; (b) reading the displayed encoded information to obtain the calibration information about the calibration pattern, where said displayed encoded information includes (1) a first square non-solid box at a first corner of said calibration pattern with a first solid box located within said first square non-solid box, (2) a second square non-solid box at a second corner of said calibration pattern with a second solid box located within said second square non-solid box, (3) a third square non-solid box at a third corner of said calibration pattern with a third solid box located within said third square non-solid box, where said displayed encoded information arranged in said two dimensional pattern relates to a size calibration information of said calibration target, where said displayed encoded information arranged in said two dimensional pattern also relates to a geometrical calibration information of said calibration pattern based upon said first, second, and third square non-solid boxes; and, (c) utilizing said size calibration information and said geometrical calibration information about the calibration pattern to make a calibrated measurement. | 7,644 |
8,981,345 | 1. A nanoribbon sensor comprising: a substrate; a graphene layer disposed on the substrate, a length of the graphene layer extending in a first direction; an upper dielectric layer disposed on the graphene layer, wherein the graphene layer has a plurality of electrode regions respectively separated in the first direction and a channel region disposed between the plurality of electrode regions, the channel region having a smaller width than a width of each of the plurality of electrode regions, and wherein the channel region of the graphene layer includes exposed outer sidewalls and a continuous center portion, the continuous center portion having a continuous and perfect two-dimensional bonding ring of carbon atoms. | 40,900 |
8,518,789 | 1. A method of making an integrated electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: forming a lower conductive portion by electroplating; forming a first resist pattern having an opening for formation of an upper conductive portion on the lower conductive portion, the opening allowing part of the lower conductive portion to expose; forming a seed layer over a surface of the first resist pattern and a surface of the lower conductive portion exposed in the opening; forming a second resist pattern on the first resist pattern, the second resist pattern being formed with an opening; forming the upper conductor portion by electroplating in the opening of the second resist pattern; removing the second resist pattern; removing the seed layer; and removing the first resist pattern. | 27,136 |
8,405,553 | 1. An antenna system with a diversity order of 2 integrated on an electronic card comprising on a substrate with a ground plane, said substrate comprising an area without the ground plane, the antenna system comprising: a first radiating element of F-inverted type with a first extremity connected to said ground plane, a second extremity free and a conductive power supply part, a second radiating element of F-inverted type with a first extremity connected to said ground plane, a second extremity free and a conductive power supply part, and an element projecting upward from the substrate and extending from said ground plane into said are without the ground plane, said projecting element separating said first and second radiating elements; wherein the free extremities of the first and second radiating elements are oriented to point toward one another in said area without the ground plane. | 49,661 |
8,451,687 | 1. A method comprising: receiving seismic data indicative of pressure measurements and pressure gradient measurements acquired in a seismic survey of at least one subterranean formation; modeling an image of said at least one subterranean formation as a function of the pressure measurements and the pressure gradient measurements; modeling a pressure wave as a function of the image; modeling a pressure gradient wave as a function of the image; based on the modeling, determining the image, the determining comprising: displaying the image. | 2,890 |
8,545,198 | 1. A surgical cassette sized and shaped to be received in a cassette receiving portion of a surgical console, the cassette comprising: a housing; a pressure sensor coupled to the housing; a data device, located on the cassette; and pressure sensor calibration data, stored in the data device, that includes unique information specific to operation of the pressure sensor and determined for the pressure sensor by testing the pressure sensor on the cassette at manufacture; wherein the surgical console has an optical reader or detector configured to read pressure sensor calibration data within the data device when the cassette is in the cassette receiving portion of the surgical console. | 4,052 |
9,681,388 | 1. A method of receiving radio frequency (RF) communications, comprising: receiving an amplitude modulated (AM) signal using a passive RF receiver circuit; converting the AM signal to a digital output signal using a comparator; determining whether the digital output signal is valid or not using a digital signal processing circuit to determine if the digital output signal includes a nonce followed by a known value; and upon detection of a valid digital output signal, enabling an active RF receiver circuit for RF signal processing. | 12,879 |
8,944,417 | 1. A structured packing comprising at least a first packing layer having first corrugations forming a plurality of open channels, said channels including a first corrugation valley, a first corrugation peak and a second corrugation peak, wherein said first corrugation peak and said second corrugation peak bound said first corrugation valley, said first corrugation peak having a first apex, said second corrugation peak having a second apex and said first corrugation valley having a valley bottom; a spacer element extending in the direction of said first apex formed on said first apex of said first corrugation peak and having an edge which has a larger normal spacing from said valley bottom than said first apex from said valley bottom; and a second packing layer disposed in contact with said spacer element and spaced from said first packing ,layer, said second packing layer having second corrugations disposed in cross-wise manner relative to said first corrugations of said first packing layer. | 8,944 |
9,093,599 | 1. A vapor deposition apparatus to form stacked thin films on discrete photovoltaic module substrates conveyed in a continuous non-stop manner through said apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a first sublimation compartment positioned over a first deposition area of said apparatus, wherein said first sublimation compartment is configured to heat a first source material therein to sublimate the first source material into first source material vapors; a second sublimation compartment positioned over a second deposition area of said apparatus, wherein said second sublimation compartment is configured to heat a second source material therein to sublimate the second source material into second source material vapors; an internal divider positioned between the first sublimation compartment and the second sublimation compartment, the internal divider defining a middle seal member; and, an actuator attached to the internal divider and configured to move the internal divider to control intermixing of the first source material vapors and the second source material vapors within the first deposition area and the second deposition area. | 15,561 |
8,489,402 | 1. A client device for providing dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity with a network server, comprising: a connection monitor that monitors network connectivity between the client device and the network server; a simplified speech processor that processes speech data and is initiated based on an assessment from the connection monitor that the network connectivity is impaired; a memory that stores processed speech data from the simplified speech processor; and a transmitter configured to transmit the stored speech data to the network server. | 27,493 |
8,705,509 | 1. A time synchronizer for use in a base station relaying communication between mobile stations under clock synchronization based on a time signal received from any of GPS communication satellites, wherein the time synchronizer comprises: a frame timing detection unit detecting timing information of a communication frame received by the communication; a GPS receiver which outputs a 1PPS signal and a clock synchronized with the time signal, whereas outputs alarm information when the GPS receiver becomes unable to receive the time signal; a CPU circuit unit which, if there is another base station to which handover is possible when the alarm information is output, computes the timing of the 1PPS signal in the other base station based on the timing information from the other base station, and obtains a phase difference based on a comparison result; a 1PPS correction circuit unit computing a phase correction amount based on the phase difference; a control unit which outputs the 1PPS signal from the GPS receiver, whereas when the alarm information is output, compares the computed 1PPS signal timing with the timing of the 1PPS signal from the GPS receiver, and outputs the comparison result to the CPU circuit unit and also outputs a 1PPS signal phase-corrected by the GPS receiver based on the phase correction amount; and a frame generation unit generating a frame for the communication based on the 1PPS signal from the control unit. | 25,937 |
9,806,539 | 1. A power supply device comprising: a power receiving unit including a vehicle-side coil, the power receiving unit being mounted on a vehicle; and a power transmission unit configured to wirelessly supply power to the power receiving unit, wherein the power transmission unit includes the housing includes wherein the power transmission unit is configured to wirelessly supply power to the power receiving unit when the housing is located at a position with respect to which a pair of tires of the vehicle are left-right symmetric, and wherein the first projection includes a run-onto blocking portion configured to prevent a tire of the vehicle from running onto the cover. | 33,954 |
9,373,274 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a plurality of first light-emitting elements mounted in a matrix form on a common wiring board, wherein each of the plurality of first light-emitting elements has a single crystal semiconductor multilayer structure and is a semiconductor element in a form of a chip that emits light in a given band of wavelengths, wherein each multilayer structure includes an active layer and at least one semiconductor layer formed over the active layer such that the active layer is between the at least one semiconductor layer and the common wiring board, wherein each of the plurality of first light-emitting elements has a crystal axis, being a crystal growth axis, oriented at a non-zero angle to a direction normal to a surface of the light-emitting element, and wherein first light-emitting elements adjacent to each other at least in one of row and column directions have crystal axes oriented at different non-zero angles. | 13,246 |
8,652,546 | 1. A method for increasing CD8 + T cell activation in an animal in need thereof, the method comprising the steps of: a. commencing feeding a dry food product to the animal when the animal is between 36 and 48 hours old, and b. continuing to feed the dry food product to the animal for a period of two weeks, wherein the dry food product is mixed with milk replacer and fed to the animal twice daily during the two-week period such that the consumption of the dry food product causes an increase in CD8 | 9,630 |
9,497,143 | 1. A method that uses a processor to provide a messenger on-air service, the method comprising: providing, to an event creator, an interface to generate and manage an event, automatically recommending an account to a user using the messenger according to predetermined user requirements, subsequently adding the account as a chatting partner by the user, generating, through the interface and using the processor, an event chat room for the event that is created by the event creator for a plurality of users, the plurality of users including the user; receiving, by the user, a notice of the event from the account; and transmitting and receiving data for the event creator through the event chat room, wherein the generating the event chat room comprises generating a separate chat room for each of the plurality of users. | 10,462 |
9,658,672 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by a processor, a reference point on a graphical user interface, wherein the reference point is represented by a plurality of coordinates; displaying, on an electronic display, at least two scales on one axis of the graphical user interface, wherein a first scale is less granular than a second scale, both the first and second scales presenting a range of values associated with a business object attribute of a business object; dividing the graphical user interface into tile map entities, the tile map entities spanning the range of values provided on the first and second scales; storing information about the tile map entities in a cache, wherein the stored information in the cache associated with each tile map entity includes an origin, dimensions, an entity identifier attribute, an entity type, and at least one of a start attribute value and an end attribute value, and wherein the origin is represented relative to the reference point, the entity identifier attribute comprising a shorthand identifier having a portion of a position of the tile map entity, and the entity type indicates placement of the tile map entity in a row or a column; retrieving, from the cache, the stored information needed to position a business object visual representation and data related to the business object; and drawing the business object visual representation on the graphical user interface based on the retrieved information needed to position the business object visual representation relative to the two scales; assigning at least one function to at least one user action associated with the business object visual representation, wherein the at least one function is executed in response to the at least one user action; wherein the business object visual representation visually conveys the business object attribute of the business object based on the data related to the business object, the data related to the business object including: an origin and dimensions of the business object visual representation. | 28,606 |
8,645,656 | 1. A method comprising: asserting a control signal to one or more devices; determining an initial wait time after asserting the control signal; issuing a first command based on the initial wait time; determining a first interval time associated with the first command and a second command; and issuing the second command based on the first interval time. | 8,627 |
8,618,460 | 1. A solid-state imaging device comprising pixels each including a hybrid photoelectric conversion portion and pixel transistors, wherein: the hybrid photoelectric conversion portion includes (a) a semiconductor layer having a p-n junction, (b) a plurality of columnar or cylindrical hollow-shaped organic material layers disposed in the semiconductor layer, and (c) a pair of electrodes between which are disposed the semiconductor layer and the organic material layers; charges generated in the organic material layers through photoelectric conversion move inside the semiconductor layer so as to be guided to a charge accumulation region; and the solid-state imaging device is configured as a back-illuminated type in which light is incident from a surface facing away from the surface on which the pixel transistors are formed. | 44,334 |
9,371,942 | 1. An apparatus for a motor vehicle for a liquid medium that is to be conditioned, the apparatus comprising: a tank for providing the liquid medium that is to be conditioned, and a tubing in fluid communication with the tank for advancing the liquid medium that is to be conditioned, wherein the tubing comprises: wherein the tubing further comprises at least one co-extruded outermost tube, wherein the unit, consisting of the inner tube and the outer tube, is disposed in the outermost tube, wherein the outermost tube runs in the longitudinal direction of the unit, and parallel or substantially parallel to the unit, and wherein at least one outer duct is disposed between the outer tube and the outermost tube, and wherein a redirecting region is provided for redirecting the conditioning medium, and wherein the redirecting region is disposed at a first end of the tubing and wherein an inlet and an outlet for the conditioning medium are disposed at a second end of the tubing, wherein the tank is connected with the second end of the tubing, and wherein the first end of the tubing is connected with an SCR catalytic converter. | 44,372 |
8,402,743 | 1. A turbomachine comprising: at least one thrust reverser; and means for actuating the thrust reverser including at least one hydraulic engine and at least one mechanical cylinder, said at least one hydraulic engine being supplied with pressurized fluid by a fuel circuit of the turbomachine, and said at least one mechanical cylinder having a first end which is connected to the thrust reverser and a second end which is driven in rotation by an output shaft of said at least one hydraulic engine, wherein said at least one hydraulic engine is connected to the fuel circuit by a control unit controlling the difference in pressure between an inlet and an output of fluid of said at least one hydraulic engine, the flow of fuel delivered to said at least one hydraulic engine, and the direction of passage of the fuel in said at least one hydraulic engine. | 25,476 |
9,114,262 | 1. A vagus nerve neurostimulator for modulating autonomic cardiovascular drive, comprising: a pulse generator, wherein the pulse generator generates a pulsed electrical signal comprising: a therapy lead; and an electrode communicatively coupled to the pulse generator via the therapy lead, wherein the electrical signal is applied to a vagus nerve via the electrode to propagate action potentials in both afferent and efferent directions along the vagus nerve at an intensity that avoids acute physiological side effects. | 10,443 |
9,145,828 | 1. A rotary internal combustion engine comprising: a housing having a cylindrical central chamber of a predetermined diameter and cylindrical outer chambers extending parallel to and intersecting said cylindrical central chamber at circumferentially spaced locations, said cylindrical outer chambers being of the same diameter as each other and smaller than said predetermined diameter of said cylindrical central chamber; a central rotor rotatable in said cylindrical central chamber and having an outer periphery with a continuous circumferential groove therein said central rotor having a predetermined diameter at the bottom of said continuous circumferential groove; the inside of said housing at said cylindrical central chamber and the outside of said central rotor at said continuous circumferential groove therein defining a toroidal space between them; vanes coupled to said central rotor to move in unison with said central rotor, said vanes each blocking said continuous circumferential groove at circumferentially spaced locations along the periphery of said the central rotor and extending out from the central rotor to the inside of said cylindrical central chamber to divide said toroidal space into segments extending in succession circumferentially of said central rotor; means for introducing fuel and air into each of said segments of said toroidal space during each rotation of the central rotor, means for igniting the fuel/air mixture in each of said segments of said toroidal space during each rotation of the central rotor, and means for passing the products of combustion from said segments of said toroidal space; a plurality of outer rotors rotatable respectively in said cylindrical outer chambers, each of said plurality of outer rotors having a pair of circumferentially spaced lobes, each said lobe having a clearance fit with the inside of each of the corresponding cylindrical outer chambers, and a pair of peripheral recesses between said lobes, each said plurality of outer rotors having a diameter at said lobes substantially equal to said predetermined diameter of said central rotor at the bottom of said continuous circumferential groove therein, each said outer rotor having a clearance fit of said pair of circumferentially spaced lobes in said continuous circumferential groove in said central rotor when said central rotor rotates in one direction and said plurality of outer rotors rotate in an opposite direction, each of said pair of circumferentially spaced lobes completely blocking said means for introducing air during a respective predetermined part of each rotation of said outer rotor; said vanes on said central rotor passing circumferentially through said pair of peripheral recesses in each said outer rotor when said central rotor rotates in one direction and said plurality of outer rotors rotate in the opposite direction, and means acting between said central rotor and said plurality of outer rotors to cause said plurality of outer rotors to rotate in the opposite direction from the central rotor, with the surface speed of said pairs of circumferentially spaced lobes equal to the surface speed of said central rotor at the bottom of said continuous circumferential groove. | 35,823 |
8,988,165 | 1. A phase shifter with selectable phase shift comprising: a switchable phase shifting element, the switchable phase shifting element further comprising; a control circuit for controlling the switch circuit. | 33,545 |
8,524,475 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a polypeptide having colanic acid degrading activity having at least 98% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 1, or the complement thereof. | 46,360 |
8,732,491 | 1. An energy efficient device, comprising: one or more circuits for use in the energy efficient device, said one or more circuits being configured to: receive, from a power saving device via an electronic communication, information relating to a power saving event in said power saving device; determine, based on said received information, one or more aggregate power saving statistics from a plurality of power saving events occurring in a measurement interval; and adjust, based on said determined one or more aggregate power saving statistics, a control policy that determines when said power saving device should enter or exit a power saving state. | 18,444 |
8,929,488 | 1. A method of processing information in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: receiving a signal encoded with a convolutional code, wherein the encoded signal comprises information and a check value and wherein the received signal is represented by soft bits; decoding the encoded signal using a Viterbi algorithm to derive the information and the check value, wherein the decoding includes computing a Viterbi state metric (Λ); deriving a reliability parameter based on the Viterbi state metric (Λ), wherein the reliability parameter is a Viterbi path metric; deriving a reference value (Γ) based on the signal, wherein the reference value (Γ) is determined by summation of absolute values of the soft bits; deriving a second reliability parameter (R) as a function of the derived reliability parameter and the reference value (Γ), wherein the second reliability parameter (R) is a homogeneous function of degree zero; and selectively processing the information depending on the check value, the second reliability parameter (R), and the reference value (Γ), wherein the information is discarded if the second reliability parameter fails to fulfil a predefined reliability criterion (R | 4,635 |
9,807,279 | 1. An image forming apparatus in which based on pixel data for each pixel included in image data, laser light having a pulse width corresponding to the pixel data is irradiated while scanning to an image carrier, thereby forming on the image carrier an image in which density tone is reproduced, the image forming apparatus comprising: an image processing unit that outputs for each pixel, together with the pixel data, pixel position data which adjusts an irradiation position for each pixel of the laser light on the image carrier in a range of one pixel in a scanning direction; a PWM processing unit that generates, for the each pixel, a pulse width signal at a pixel position corresponding to the pixel position data and having a pulse width corresponding to the pixel data; a light emission drive unit that drives light emission of a laser diode based on the pulse width signal generated by the PWM processing unit, thereby generating the laser light; and a position determination unit that determines, via the adjustment by the pixel position data, whether the pulse width signals of adjacent two pixels contact with each other, wherein by referring to a result of the determination by the position determination unit, the PWM processing unit corrects the pulse widths of the pulse width signals to different values depending on whether the pulse width signals of the adjacent two pixels contact with each other. | 23,777 |
8,358,416 | 1. A processing system for in-situ optical interrogation of plasma emission to quantitatively measure normalized optical emission spectra, said processing system comprising: at least a plasma processing chamber having a confinement ring assembly and a set of quartz windows; a flash lamp; a plurality of collimated optical assemblies, said plurality of collimated optical assemblies are optically coupled to said set of quartz windows; a plurality of fiber optic bundles, said plurality of fiber optic bundles comprise at least an illumination fiber optic bundle, a collection fiber optic bundle, and a reference fiber optic bundle; and a multi-channel spectrometer, said multi-channel spectrometer is configured with at least a signal channel and a reference channel, said signal channel is optically coupled to receive light transmitted from at least said flash lamp, through at least said set of quartz windows, said set of collimated optical assemblies, said illuminated fiber optic bundle, and said collection fiber optic bundle to measure a first signal, wherein said reference channel is optically coupled to at least said flash lamp and said reference fiber optic bundle to measure to second signal. | 5,508 |
8,386,825 | 1. A method for power management, comprising: triggering a first migration based on a first current time matching a first time specified in a migration policy, wherein the migration policy defines when to condense the number of blades operating on a blade chassis; selecting a first blade to power down based on the triggering of the first migration; migrating each virtual machine (VM) executing on the first blade to a second blade based on the triggering of the first migration, wherein migrating comprises: migrating the first VM and the first VNIC to the second blade using the information required to migrate the first VM and the information required to migrate the first VNIC; and powering down the first blade after each VM executing on the first blade is migrated from the first blade. | 17,472 |
9,828,509 | 1. A composition comprising a) an aqueous dispersion of TiO 2 particles encapsulated with an encapsulating acrylic or styrene-acrylic polymer comprising from 0.5 to 5 weight percent structural units of diacetone acrylamide, based on the weight of the encapsulating polymer; and b) from 0.2 to 3 weight percent adipic acid dihydrazide, based on the weight of the encapsulating polymer. | 12,144 |
9,540,862 | 1. An inner glass skin structure for double glass skin, the inner glass skin structure being arranged inside a glass curtain wall with a predetermined spacing therefrom using the glass curtain wall as an outer glass, the inner glass skin structure comprising: a plurality of sashless plate glasses arrayed in a sliding door formation to be placed inside the outer glass with the predetermined spacing therefrom facing against the outer glass, each edge of four sides of each said sashless plate glass being covered with an aluminum covering material; a door roller fixed on a bottom of each said plate glass, on at least one of (a) an indoor side, (b) an outdoor side, and (c) both (a) and (b), among the plurality of sashless plate glasses in the sliding door formation intervening the aluminum covering material therebetween, the indoor side being a place opposite of the glass curtain wall with respect to the sliding door formation and the outdoor side is a place on the glass curtain wall side with respect to the sliding door formation; a securing foot member fixed on the bottom of each said plate glass, intervening the aluminum covering material therebetween, to which the door roller is not fixed; a lower rail member arranged on a floor underneath the plurality of sashless plate glasses the lower rail member being supporting movably on the bottom of each said plate glass for the inner glass intervening the door roller or being supporting fixedly on the bottom of each said plate glass for the inner glass intervening the securing foot member therebetween; an upper rail member arranged on a ceiling directly above the plurality of sashless plate glasses configuring a pair of said plate glass with the lower rail member, the upper rail member supporting the plate glass pair at a respective top movably or immovably, wherein the aluminum covering material of each of said plate glasses having an approximate U-shape in cross-section comprises an end face cover part that covers an end face of a respective said edge of each said plate glass, an inner face cover part that covers an indoor-side-facing surface on a periphery of the respective edge of a corresponding said plate glass, and an outer face cover part that covers an outdoor-side-facing surface on the periphery of the respective edge of the corresponding plate glass; the covering material for covering the top and bottom of each said plate glass is fixed on the respective edge of the corresponding plate glass through a bonding of an inside face of the end face cover part to an elastic intervening piece secured on the end face of the corresponding plate glass; the covering material that covers both lateral sides of the corresponding plate glass is provided with a coupling plate retaining section formed inside the end face cover part thereof, the coupling plate retaining section accommodating a plurality of coupling strip plates arranged therein along the inner face thereof in a series formation with a predetermined regular mutual spacing retaining only both lateral sides of each coupling strip plate to permit free movement thereof along a longitudinal direction of the end face cover part; and the plurality of coupling strip plates arranged in the coupling plate retaining section are fixed on the end face of the corresponding plate glass by bonding the plurality of coupling strip plates to the elastic intervening piece secured on the end face of the corresponding plate glass and thereby the coupling strip plates in the coupling plate retaining section are secured on the end face of the corresponding plate glass. | 28,895 |
9,498,690 | 1. A bat, comprising: a cylindrical barrel having an inner surface defining a circumference and a length, and a performance attenuating insert positioned inside the barrel and having a first curved surface that is concentric and makes contact with a first portion of the circumference of the barrel's inner surface and a second curved surface that is spaced apart from a second portion of the circumference of the barrel's inner surface such that a semi-circumferential gap is formed between the second curved surface of the insert and the second portion of the circumference of the barrel's inner surface, wherein the gap is concentric with the barrel's inner surface. | 24,764 |
8,503,693 | 1. A sensor system comprising at least one directional sensor, each directional sensor comprising: at least two compliant membranes for moving in reaction to an excitation acoustic signal; and at least one compliant bridge, each bridge coupled to at least a respective first and second membrane of the at least two membranes for moving in response to movement of the membranes it is coupled to for causing movement of the first membrane to be related to movement of the second membrane when either of the first and second membranes moves in response to excitation by the excitation signal, wherein each directional sensor is provided with a sensor for sensing vibrations of the at least two membranes and circuitry for comparing the sensed vibrations of the at least two membranes for determining directionality information about the location of a sound source of the excitation signal, and thereafter calculate an azimuth angle that describes the location of the sound source relative to a reference. | 24,877 |
8,571,739 | 1. A drive system for a plug-in hybrid motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, a high-voltage source, comprising a high-voltage battery which has a minimum setpoint state of charge, a generator, a clutch, at least one transmission, at least one drive axle and a control unit, with the internal combustion engine being mechanically connected to at least one drive axle, with a first drive mode, “depleting mode”, and a second drive mode, “sustaining mode”, being provided in the control unit, wherein a third drive mode, “increasing mode”, which can be manually activated is provided, said third drive mode providing a load point increase at the internal combustion engine in such a way that the high-voltage source can be charged during driving and therefore the first drive mode can be activated. | 6,119 |
8,674,294 | 1. A system of an Electrospray Ion (ESI) generator including a hollow capillary emission needle, a HV (high-voltage) terminal and a hollow capillary emission needle bracket, said system comprising: a) One edge of a fixed block located in the forepart of said HV terminal cavum and there being a through-hole in the middle of said fixed block, b) A connecting pipe of a liquid chromatography passing through said through-hole in said fixed block and fixed in said HV terminal, and exterior wall of said connecting pipe of said liquid chromatography fitting tightly the interior wall of said through-hole in said fixed block, c) A vacuum lead-in capillary and said HV terminal connecting through said hollow capillary emission needle bracket whose one edge being embedded into said HV terminal cavum and whose other edge being embedded into said vacuum lead-in capillary cavum, thus to form a connection, d) The middle of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket being a through cavum which fits the forepart cavum diameter of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket and a hollow capillary emission needle diameter, while the rear cavum diameter of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket being more than 1.1 times of said hollow capillary emission needle diameter, and said forepart cavum less than said rear cavum, wherein there existing a number of side holes in the side of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket connecting said rear cavum, e) The bottom of said vacuum lead-in capillary cavum being a curved surface, and there being an aperture between the bottom and the edge of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket, wherein there existing gas cavities on the side of said vacuum lead-in capillary passing through the side hole of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket, and f) Said hollow capillary emission needle and said vacuum lead-in capillary being on the same axis, and said hollow capillary emission needle point being above the end plane of said hollow capillary emission needle bracket. | 35,008 |
9,773,609 | 1. A power supply apparatus of a wireless power transmitting apparatus wirelessly transmitting power to a wireless power receiving apparatus, the power supply apparatus comprising: a power supply to supply DC power; an oscillator to generate an AC signal having a predetermined frequency; an AC power generator to generate AC power using the AC signal and the DC power; and a current sensor to measure current flowing through the power supply apparatus, wherein the current flowing through the power supply apparatus is one of current applied to the AC power generator and current output from the AC power generator, and wherein the power supply apparatus controls an operating time of the AC power generator according to variation of the measured current flowing to adjust the power supplied to the wireless power transmitting apparatus when the measured intensity of current is equal to or higher than a threshold value that is a minimum current value sufficient for detecting the wireless power receiving apparatus, wherein the AC power generator comprises: wherein the driver adjusts a time during which the AC signal of a low level is applied to both of the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET, wherein the power supply apparatus increases the time during which the AC signal of the low level is applied to both of the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET when the measured intensity of current is increased, wherein, when the intensity of current is rapidly increased, an interval of the time is adjusted corresponding to the intensity of the current rapidly increasing, wherein, when the intensity of current is slowly increased, the interval of the time is adjusted corresponding to the intensity of the current slowly increasing; wherein the power supply apparatus reduces the time during which the AC signal of the low level is applied to both of the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET when the measured intensity of current is reduced, and wherein, when the intensity of current is rapidly reduced, the interval of the time is adjusted corresponding to the intensity of the current rapidly reducing. | 12,708 |
9,015,547 | 1. An apparatus for low density parity check decoding comprising: a variable node processor operable to generate variable node to check node messages and to calculate perceived values based on check node to variable node messages; a check node processor operable to generate the check node to variable node messages and to calculate checksums based on the variable node to check node messages; and a scheduler operable to determine a layer processing order for the variable node processor and the check node processor based at least in part on a number of unsatisfied parity checks for each of a plurality of H matrix layers, wherein the scheduler is operable to determine a circulant processing order by reading it from a memory, and wherein the memory comprises a circulant processing order for each pair of current and previous layers in the plurality of H matrix layers. | 32,585 |
9,134,294 | 1. An apparatus for detecting or monitoring a disease or clinical condition in a subject comprising: a suspended microchannel resonator, comprising an oscillating substrate, with at least one fixed end and a region of high sensitivity away from the fixed end, and at least one microchannel, which is fabricated with channel dimensions sized to allow unrestricted flow of target cells, wherein a sample containing target cells obtained from the subject are flowed through at least a portion of the microchannel, and; at least one constriction fabricated in the microchannel, in the region of high sensitivity, wherein the constriction dimensions are sized and positioned to impede the flow of target cells in the region of high sensitivity of the microchannel. | 30,299 |
9,462,992 | 1. A radiation imaging system comprising: X-ray sensor apparatuses including a first X-ray sensor apparatus and a second X-ray sensor apparatus; and a control apparatus for controlling the X-ray sensor apparatuses, a power control unit configured to, in a case in which the switch of the second X-ray sensor apparatus receives an operation input in a state where an imaging is able to be performed using the first X-ray sensor apparatus, shift a power state of the first X-ray sensor apparatus to a lower power consumption state, wherein the communication circuit performs a control that establishes a wireless communication between the second X-ray sensor apparatus and an access point, in accordance with an input of a switch operation to the second X-ray sensor apparatus. | 14,850 |
9,723,677 | 1. An aircraft landing light unit, comprising: a plurality of LEDs, an optical system associated with the plurality of LEDs for shaping a light output of the aircraft landing light unit for illuminating an aircraft environment, a control unit for controlling the plurality of LEDs, and a photo detector arranged for detecting light, emitted by the plurality of LEDs, output via the optical system and reflected by atmospheric haze, such as clouds, fog, rain and snow, wherein the control unit is coupled to the photo detector and is configured to control the plurality of LEDs on the basis of the light detected by the photo detector, thereby adjusting the light output of the aircraft landing light unit to the atmospheric haze. | 8,528 |
9,271,229 | 1. A method for selecting numbers of symbols to be transmitted on a plurality of channels, comprising: receiving, from each of a plurality of storage nodes, information about one or more symbols stored in the storage node, wherein each of the one or more symbols represents a portion of a data block and wherein each of the plurality of storage nodes is connected via a channel of the plurality of channels; for each of the plurality of channels, calculating using a hardware processor at least an increase in transmission power of that channel if it transmits a first symbol that represents a first portion of the data block from a corresponding storage node of the plurality of storage nodes; selecting, using the hardware processor, a first channel of the plurality of channels to transmit the first symbol and a second channel of the plurality of channels to transmit a second symbol that represents a second portion of the data block based at least in part on the calculation indicating that the first channel will have the smallest increase in transmission power from transmitting the first symbol and based at least in part on the received information about one or more symbols stored in a first storage node, wherein the first storage node of the plurality of storage nodes is connected via the first channel and a second storage node of the plurality of storage nodes is connected via the second channel; and indicating that the first symbol is to be transmitted by the first channel and that the second symbol is to be transmitted by the second channel using the hardware processor. | 32,658 |
8,701,824 | 1. A muffler for an internal combustion engine, said muffler comprising: a muffler main body, said muffler main body comprising an outer plate configured in a shape of a cylinder, wherein an inside of the muffler main body comprises a plurality of expansion chambers in communication with each other, said expansion chambers being separated by partition walls attached to an inner peripheral surface of the outer plate; a catalyst disposed in an upstream-side expansion chamber, said upstream-side expansion chamber being configured to be connected to a downstream side of an exhaust pipe; an exhaust gas discharging port disposed at a downstream end of a downstream-side expansion chamber; and a cylinder-shaped reinforcement member attached to the inner peripheral surface of the outer plate, said cylinder-shaped reinforcement member being independent of the partition walls, and disposed inside of the upstream-side expansion chamber. | 9,270 |
9,394,101 | 1. Portion capsule ( 1 ) for preparing a beverage, comprising a capsule body ( 2 ) with a capsule bottom ( 3 ) and a lid ( 6 ), wherein between the capsule bottom ( 3 ) and the lid ( 6 ), a cavity ( 100 ) for receiving a powdered or liquid beverage substrate ( 101 ) is formed in the cavity, and wherein a filter element ( 7 ) is situated and the filter element is made of non-woven fibre material, the fibre material is plastically formed, deep-drawn, the filter element is elastic. | 46,900 |
9,207,814 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a touch sensor disposed on one or more substrates, the touch sensor comprising: wherein: | 33,180 |
8,765,949 | 1. A compound of formula (I), wherein: R R wherein the ring R or wherein the ring R optionally being substituted by one or more groups selected from —OH, —NH R R n is 2; G and E are independently selected from C—H or N, wherein at least one of E or G is N; Z is C, and R and R wherein Q is selected from —C(O)—, and —SO R wherein R R R wherein R R or Z is C, and R wherein L R R and R and; R an acid addition salt with a pharmacologically acceptable acid. | 17,624 |
8,492,285 | 1. A dry etching method of texturing a surface of a substrate, the method comprises: a) performing a first dry etching onto the surface of the substrate thereby forming a surface texture with spikes and valleys, the first dry etching comprising etching the surface of the substrate in a first plasma comprising fluorine (F) radicals and oxygen (O) radicals, wherein the ratio between oxygen radicals and fluorine radicals in the first plasma is greater than 1; and b) performing a second dry etching onto the surface texture thereby smoothening the surface texture, the second dry etching comprising chemical isotropic etching the surface texture obtained according to process a) in a second plasma comprising F radicals, wherein the spikes are etched substantially faster than the valleys. | 26,172 |
9,779,635 | 1. A system for simulating welding activity; said system comprising: a welding tool for a simulated welding operation; a spatial tracker which tracks a movement and orientation of said welding tool using at least one optical sensor; a welding coupon; a helmet comprising a first display device to display a simulated welding operation to a user; a simulated welding console having a user input system and a second display device to display said simulated welding operation; and a processor based subsystem located within said simulated welding console which is operatively coupled to said spatial tracker and receives information from said spatial tracker related to said movement and orientation of said welding tool, where said processor based subsystem generates a plurality of simulated welding parameters based on said movement and orientation of said welding tool; wherein during said simulated welding operation, said processor based subsystem models a simulated welding surface for said welding coupon and displays said simulated welding surface on each of said first and second display devices; wherein during said simulated welding operation, said processor based subsystem creates a simulated welding arc between an emitting end of said welding tool and said simulated welding surface and simulates a creation of a weld puddle have real-time molten metal fluidity, real-time heat dissipation and real-time heat absorption characteristics during said simulated welding operation; wherein said processor based subsystem models said simulated weld puddle such that regions of a surface of said simulated weld puddle have both a displacement value and a heat value, where each of said displacement values and heat values are changed dynamically during said simulated welding operation to display on each of said first and second display devices a simulated deposition of material into said simulated weld puddle, and said dynamic changes to each of said displacement and heat values are based on said movement and orientation of said welding tool and on said plurality of simulated welding parameters, where said first and second display devices display a color for each of said regions which is based on said heat values; wherein said processor based subsystem displays a simulated completed weld bead on said first and second display devices which is based on said movement and orientation of said welding tool, based on said simulated welding parameters and based on a cooling threshold value for a transition of said regions from a molten state to a solid state, and wherein said displacement values are such that a solidified surface of said simulated completed weld bead is displayed above said welding surface of said welding coupon. | 43,387 |
8,552,415 | 1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a substrate with a plurality of pixels; a plurality of charge accumulation regions in the substrate respectively corresponding to the pixels; for each pixel, a pixel electrode on the substrate and over the respective charge accumulation region, the pixel electrode electrically coupled to the respective charge accumulation region; for each pixel, a first electrode carried on the substrate and electrically connected to the respective pixel electrode, the first electrodes positioned in a common layer; a second electrode disposed opposed to the first electrodes; a photoelectric conversion layer common to all of the pixels, which is disposed between the first electrodes and the second electrode and in which narrow gap semiconductor quantum dots are dispersed in a conductive layer, the photoelectric conversion layer effective to convert incident light into electrical charges suitable for generating an image signal; and for each pixel, a color filter over the respective charge accumulation region, wherein, | 18,966 |
9,499,945 | 1. A method for construction of a concrete pavement, said method comprising: a) laying the concrete on the surface being paved in continuous manner; b) making a plurality of cuts in predetermined locations in the laid concrete once a predetermined degree of setting is achieved to lay out the pavement with a group of adjacent slabs separated by joints; c) making along each joint and parallel with a vertical plane of each said joint: d) filling with concrete said plurality of surface recesses and said plurality of holes to form a plurality of load transfer teeth between adjacent slabs, the load transfer teeth enable transfer of loads to columns securing the load transfer teeth. | 33,251 |
8,574,724 | 1. An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a light-emitting layer formed between a pair of electrodes by a wet process; and an electron transport layer, | 40,975 |
9,850,793 | 1. An automatic regeneration controller for a particulate filter wherein an oxidation catalyst and the particulate filter are sequentially arranged in an exhaust pipe of an industrial engine for driving a work unit using engine power to conduct various works, fuel being added to an exhaust gas upstream of the oxidation catalyst with a load being forcedly applied to said work unit to intently increase an engine load and increase an exhaust temperature by said increased load, said added fuel undergoing oxidation reaction on the oxidation catalyst and resultant reaction heat burning captured particulates in the particulate filter just behind to thereby conduct regeneration of said particulate filter, comprising an engine controller for outputting a fuel injection signal to said industrial engine when an estimated accumulation amount of said particulates is determined to exceed a set value, a unit controller for outputting a unit control signal to said hydraulic unit for collaborative control thereof, collaborative control signals being mutually inputted and outputted between said work unit and engine controllers and a load application cancellation switch for outputting a cancellation signal to said unit controller depending upon a situation of said work unit to stop the forced load application to said work unit, the automatic regeneration controller being configured such that, with the regeneration of the particulate filter being started by determination of captured particulate accumulation, with an idling or light-load operation being conducted, and with load request to said work unit being outputted from said engine controller to said unit controller, when the load application is not possible or the load application cancellation switch is on and, in addition, maintaining of an exhaust temperature with no load application is not possible, then a regeneration stop signal is outputted from said unit controller to said engine controller to conduct a regeneration stop signal reception process in said engine controller to thereby stop, with no forced load application to the work unit, the fuel addition to stop the automatic regeneration control. | 31,315 |
9,287,552 | 1. A method for making a recycled electrode material for an energy-storage device, the method comprising: harvesting a lithium-deficient electrode material from a recycling or waste stream, the lithium-deficient electrode material comprising lithium iron phosphate; and replenishing at least some lithium in the lithium-deficient electrode material by | 4,398 |
9,258,629 | 1. A cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprising: a first plurality of antennas; a first plurality of radio remote units (RRUs) coupled to the first plurality of antennas; a first plurality of broadband base units (BBUs); a first photonic switch optically coupled between the first plurality of RRUs and the first plurality of BBUs, wherein the first photonic switch is configured to link RRUs of the first plurality of RRUs to BBUs of the first plurality of BBUs, and wherein the first photonic switch is at a first location; and a plurality of photonic switches optically coupled between the first photonic switch and the first plurality of RRUs, wherein the plurality of photonic switches comprises a second photonic switch, wherein the second photonic switch is at a second location, wherein the first location is different than the second location, and wherein the first photonic switch and the plurality of photonic switches form a mesh network, a tree-and-branch network, or a duplicated tree-and-branch network. | 33,128 |
9,385,086 | 1. An integrated circuit (IC) structure comprising: a substrate, a dielectric layer over the substrate, a first hard mask layer with a first density over the dielectric layer, a second hard mask layer with a second density arranged on the first hard mask layer, and having a rounded upper surface, and an opening extending through the first hard mask layer, the second hard mask layer and the dielectric layer, and a conductive material filling in the opening, wherein the second density of the second hard mask layer is less than the first density of the first hard mask layer. | 29,024 |
8,807,382 | 1. A storage system comprising a storage vessel, thermal insulation disposed outside said storage vessel, a flexible vacuum jacket substantially enclosing said storage vessel and said thermal insulation and defining a vacuum space between said jacket and said vessel, and a fitting fitted in an opening in said vacuum jacket, said fitting accommodating a fluid passageway for delivering a fluid to and/or from said storage vessel, a vent passageway for venting overpressure from said storage vessel, and a vacuum passageway in fluid communication with said vacuum space, wherein each of said passageways passes through said fitting. | 24,497 |
9,227,404 | 1. A liquid ejection head having a print element substrate for ejecting liquid, comprising: at least one reference mark provided on the print element substrate and used as a reference in alignment of the print element substrate; and an auxiliary mark provided on the print element substrate corresponding to the reference mark and including information indicating a relative position with respect to the reference mark, wherein the reference mark and the auxiliary mark differ in geometry. | 4,157 |
8,471,724 | 1. An arrangement comprising: a memory; a user interface arrangement configured to receive user input; a communication interface configured to communicate with a corresponding communication interface on a utility meter; a processing circuit, configured by software stored in the memory, to receive a user input at the user interface identifying a disconnect threshold as a measure of current; generate a disconnect threshold value as a function of the user input and a service voltage; provide the disconnect threshold value to the utility meter via the communication interface. | 39,205 |
9,008,498 | 1. A thread fixing mechanism, comprising: a first member having a male thread portion; a rotary control having a female thread portion configured to mesh with the male thread portion; a second member provided between the first member and the rotary control; a protrusion provided on the second member; and a plurality of concave-convex portions disposed along a peripheral direction provided on the rotary control, so that when the rotary control is turned, the second member and the rotary control move closer together as the first member and the rotary control are moved closer together by the male thread portion and the female thread portion, and the concave-convex portions come into direct contact with the protrusion when the second member and the rotary control move closer together up to a specific distance. | 9,208 |
9,296,311 | 1. A fuel-cell vehicle comprising: a storage container that stores fuel gas charged by an external filling device; a fuel cell system that supplies the fuel gas stored in the storage container to a fuel cell and causes the fuel cell to generate electricity, the fuel-cell vehicle travelling using the fuel cell as a power source; a state detection unit that detects a physical state regarding the storage container, the physical state being used for monitoring an amount of the fuel gas charged in the storage container; a transmitter that transmits, to the external filling device, a data signal generated on the basis of a detection value output from the state detection unit; a request detecting unit that generates a communication start request signal in response to a predetermined operation performed; and a control unit that controls the state detection unit, the transmitter, and the request detecting unit, wherein the control unit includes a signal generating unit that determines a transmission value indicating the physical state on the basis of the detection value output from the state detection unit and generates a data signal in accordance with the transmission value and a communication starting unit that upon detecting the communication start request signal, enables the transmitter to transmit the data signal regardless of whether the fuel cell system is running, and wherein the signal generating unit sets the transmission value to a reference value preset on the basis of the detection value output from the state detection unit if the fuel cell system is not running and sets the transmission value to a value obtained by correcting the reference value so that the amount of fuel gas monitored by the external filling device increases if the fuel cell system is running. | 20,458 |
9,285,858 | 1. A method for managing energy consumption of a mobile computing device by means of a Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVFS) module of the device, the method comprising: the DVFS module obtaining generated application-based performance data related to execution of an application by a processor of the device, the application-based performance data generated by: obtaining temporal data from the application including at least one of a time-point at which the application started performing a task and a time-point at which the application completed performing the task, computing a time increment related to the application's performance of the task, based on the temporal data, comparing the computed time increment to a target time increment, and at least one of: generating a flag based on whether the computed time increment exceeds the target time increment and incrementing a running count of occasions when the computed time increment exceeds the target time increment; and the DVFS module determining an operating point of the processor based on the performance data. | 5,052 |
9,069,650 | 1. A method for operation of an entertainment system of a vehicle, the method comprising: determining, by a processor, a distance between the vehicle and a further vehicle; the processor displaying a symbol for the vehicle and a symbol for the further vehicle on a display device of the vehicle based on the determined distance between the vehicle and the further vehicle; receiving an item of type information from the further vehicle, the type information comprising a manufacturer name and a model name for the further vehicle; and displaying the symbol for the vehicle and the symbol for the further vehicle comprising displaying the symbol for the vehicle and the symbol for the further vehicle on the display device of the vehicle based on the distance and the type information, wherein only vehicles of a particular type are displayed; detecting, by a processor, actuation of a user control element after the symbol for the further vehicle has been displayed on the display device; receiving, at the processor, an actuation signal from the further vehicle, the actuation signal from the further vehicle indicating that a user of the further vehicle has actuated a user control element of the further vehicle based on a symbol for the further vehicle and a symbol for the vehicle being displayed on a display device of the further vehicle; and carrying out a predetermined process in the entertainment system in response to detection of the actuation of the user control element before receipt of the actuation signal from the further vehicle, wherein the predetermined process outputs an optical and/or acoustic output to indicate that an occupant in the vehicle was faster at actuating their user control element than an occupant in the further vehicle. | 14,377 |
9,031,259 | 1. A noise reduction apparatus comprising: a speech segment determiner configured to determine whether or not a sound picked up by at least either a first microphone or a second microphone is a speech segment and to output speech segment information when it is determined that the sound picked up by the first or the second microphone is the speech segment; a voice direction detector configured, when receiving the speech segment information, to detect a voice incoming direction indicating from which direction a voice sound travels, based on a first sound pick-up signal obtained based on a sound picked up by the first microphone and a second sound pick-up signal obtained based on a sound picked up by the second microphone and to output voice incoming-direction information when the voice incoming direction is detected; and an adaptive filter configured to perform a noise reduction process using the first and second sound pick-up signals based on the speech segment information and the voice incoming-direction information. | 11,629 |
9,494,339 | 1. A solar collector comprising a heat pipe having a radiation absorber for absorbing solar radiation and an elongate tube for containing a heat transfer medium, the elongate tube having an evaporator section in thermal contact with the radiation absorber and a condenser section remote from the radiation absorber, the radiation absorber and the evaporator section of said elongate tube being enclosed within an evacuated radiation transparent enclosure and the condenser section being located outside the transparent enclosure, and an end fitting fluidly connecting with a corresponding end fitting of an adjacent heat pipe to enable passage of fluid between the end fittings without requiring a separate manifold, the end fitting comprises a thermal pocket to receive the condenser section of the heat pipe, the thermal pocket is closed to the heat transfer medium flowing through the fluid in the end fitting. | 12,218 |
9,426,225 | 1. A cloud system that includes one or more servers for communicating with vehicles and processing information received from vehicles and processing information sent to vehicles, comprising, establishing a communication link between a computing device associated with a vehicle and a server of the cloud system, the communication link being over a wireless network, the communication link being established in association with a user account that is managed by the cloud system, the communication link configured to be established for one or more sessions; receiving, at the server, a plurality of actions associated with inputs made at the vehicle for the vehicle when associated with the user account, the plurality of actions being received during the one or more sessions; updating, by the server, data associated with the user account to identify certain ones of the plurality of actions at the vehicle; generating, by the server, an instruction to apply a setting at the vehicle, wherein one or more of the plurality of actions for the vehicle made during the one or more sessions are analyzed to identify a pattern that is indicative of a preference for the setting by a user of the vehicle that used the vehicle via the user account when the actions were made; and sending, by the server, to the user account the instruction to apply the setting for the vehicle, the computing device associated with the vehicle enables acceptance and application of the setting. | 4,491 |
8,632,252 | 1. A bearing assembly comprising: an outer race; an inner race; a plurality of bearing elements disposed between the inner and outer races for allowing relative rotational movement between the inner and outer race; an annular support body rigidly supporting the outer race and extending therefrom in an axial direction; an annular grease baffle disposed axially proximal to the outer race and inner race for preventing migration of grease away from the plurality of bearing elements, wherein the annular grease baffle has a radially outer portion disposed against a retaining surface and a radially inner portion that extends radially inwardly from the radially outer portion and axially toward the inner race; and an annular resilient sealing member interposed between the baffle and an abutment surface, wherein the sealing member axially biases an outer periphery of the baffle against the retaining surface for preventing movement of the baffle with respect to the support body. | 16,160 |
9,136,032 | 1. A cathode material for a lithium ion secondary battery, comprising FeF 3 and LiV 3 O 8 as a cathode active material. | 6,620 |
8,963,943 | 1. A three-dimensional (3D) urban modeling apparatus, comprising: a calibration unit for calibrating data about a translation and a rotation of at least one capturing device at a time that input aerial images and terrestrial images were captured; a building model generation unit for generating at least one 3D building model based on the aerial images and the terrestrial images to which results of the calibration by the calibration unit have been applied; a terrain model generation unit for generating a 3D terrain model by converting an input digital elevation model into a 3D mesh; a texture extraction unit for extracting textures of buildings projected orthogonally from each face constituting the building model and textures of terrain related to the terrain model from the aerial images and the terrestrial images; and a model matching unit for generating a 3D urban model by matching the building model with the terrain model, which are based on the textures of buildings and terrain, with each other. | 32,538 |
9,603,180 | 1. A method for managing tune-away in a multi-subscription communication device having a plurality of radio frequency (RF) chains, the method comprising: determining, by the multi-subscription communication device, a first signal strength of a first cell signal and a second signal strength of a second cell signal; identifying one of the first cell signal or the second cell signal as a weaker cell signal to use for performing a tune-away procedure based on a comparison of the first signal strength of the first cell signal and the second signal strength of the second cell signal; and performing, by the multi-subscription communication device, the tune-away procedure to the identified weaker cell signal, wherein one or more of the plurality of RF chains are tuned to the first cell signal to perform the tune-away procedure in response to identifying the first cell signal as the identified weaker cell signal and wherein one or more of the plurality of RF chains are tuned to the second cell signal to perform the tune-away procedure in response to identifying the second cell signal as the identified weaker cell signal. | 15,390 |
8,591,055 | 1. An illuminated clipboard comprising: a clipboard; a source of illumination; a magnifier; and a driver's license holder mounted to the clipboard for holding a driver's license under the magnifier, said driver's license holder being transparent so that information on a driver's license can be viewed through said driver's license holder, the driver's license being illuminated by the source of illumination. | 29,141 |
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