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8,462,933 | 1. A method for calculating a workforce requirement for operators in a contact center, the method comprising: accepting, by a computing device, input parameters including at least a call volume in a particular period of time, an average handle time for a call by an operator, and a maximum queuing time before abandoning queuing of a call; initializing, by the computing device, a number of the operators; calculating, by the computing device, a probability of queuing of the call using an Erlang C formula based upon at least the call volume and the number of the operators; calculating, by the computing device, a call abandonment rate as a service objective by multiplying the probability of queuing of the call and a probability that a handle time of the operator is at least the maximum queuing time in an exponential distribution, wherein the exponential distribution includes the maximum queuing time multiplied by a result of the call volume minus the number of the operators and further divided by the average handle time; and calculating, by the computing device, the workforce requirement for operators in order to meet a predetermined service objective by recurrently repeating the calculating of the probability of queuing of the call and the calculating of the call abandonment rate, with respect to an increase and a decrease in the number of the operators. | 26,436 |
9,073,145 | 1. An impeder for controlling a magnetic field path in a workpiece in an electric induction welding process, the impeder comprising: a magnetic material comprising a plurality of magnetically conductive, high Curie temperature solid wires assembled in a bundle, each of the plurality of wires electrically isolated from each other, the magnetic material having a longitudinal exterior boundary and a first end exterior boundary of a first magnetic material end and a second end exterior boundary of a second magnetic material end, the first magnetic material end opposing the second magnetic material end; and a high temperature enclosure having a longitudinal interior boundary and a first enclosure end interior boundary of a first enclosure end and a second enclosure end interior boundary of a second enclosure end, the first enclosure end interior boundary opposing the second enclosure end interior boundary, the first enclosure end interior boundary facing the first end exterior boundary of the magnetic material, and the second enclosure end interior boundary facing the second end exterior boundary of the magnetic material, the longitudinal exterior boundary and the first and second end exterior boundaries of the magnetic material respectively spaced apart from the longitudinal interior boundary and the first and second enclosure end interior boundaries of the high temperature enclosure to form a continuous internal coolant flow passage in the impeder, the high temperature enclosure having at least one inlet port in the first enclosure end for injecting a cooling medium into the continuous internal coolant flow passage and at least one outlet port in the second enclosure end for discharging the cooling medium from the continuous internal coolant flow passage, the at least one inlet port axially aligned with the at least one outlet port. | 24,921 |
8,575,295 | 1. A thermoplastic molding composition comprising A) from 29 to 97.5% by weight of a thermoplastic polyamide, B) from 1 to 20% by weight of melamine cyanurate, C) from 0.5 to 10% by weight of an organic phosphorus compound based on 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene oxide (DOPO) as parent structure, comprising, as component C, oligomers of the formula or oligomers of DOPO with acrylates of the formula or a mixture of these, D) from 1 to 50% by weight of a fibrous filler, the aspect ratio (L/D) of which is from 4 to 25, and the arithmetic average fiber length of which is from 40 to 250 μm, and E) from 0 to 50% by weight of further additives, where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to E) does not exceed 100%. | 2,511 |
8,606,850 | 1. A method for controlling transmission of an attachment to an e-mail using a plurality of computers comprising: establishing a direct connection between a computing machine and a mobile computing device; the mobile computing device configured to execute a manager application regardless of whether the direct connection is active; the mobile computing device further configured to host an e-mail application that is accessible by the manager application; the mobile computing device further configured to execute a host application for accessing the manager application; the host application comprising a web service application; the mobile computing device further connectable to an e-mail server for executing a server e-mail application that manages e-mail events for the e-mail application; receiving a request at the web service application of the host application via the direct connection to download said attachment, said e-mail previously received at said e-mail application with an indication of said attachment, said request received from a browser executing on the computing machine, said browser providing an indication of said e-mail and said indication of said attachment, said browser accessing the web service application by accessing an address hosted by said host application; requesting said attachment from at least one of said e-mail server and an attachment server in response to said receiving said request; and when said attachment is received at said mobile computing device, transmitting said attachment to said browser. | 41,511 |
9,593,185 | 1. A stable suspension of a solid catalyst component used in propylene polymerization, wherein said suspension comprises said solid catalyst component and a liquid medium containing propylene and an alkane for dispersing said solid catalyst component. | 36,786 |
9,306,196 | 1. A packaging material for a lithium ion battery, the packaging material comprising: a base material layer that is formed from a film obtained by biaxially stretching a multi-layered coextruded film including a metal foil layer that is laminated on one surface of the base material layer; an anti-corrosion-treated layer that is laminated on the metal foil layer; an inner adhesive layer that is laminated on the anti-corrosion-treated layer; and a sealant layer that is laminated on the inner adhesive layer. | 29,715 |
8,892,769 | 1. A method of routing data in a multi-node wireless network operating in a process control environment and having a plurality of direct wireless connections between a plurality of network devices, wherein each of the plurality of network devices is a node of the multi-node wireless network, the method comprising: attaching graph identifiers to data packets of a first type at originating network devices to send the data packets of the first type between pairs of the plurality of network devices; routing the data packets of the first type at intermediate network devices using the graph identifiers, wherein each of the graph identifiers corresponds to one of a plurality of graphs, each of the plurality of graphs associated with two or more of the plurality of nodes and one or more of the plurality of direct wireless connections; wherein at least two of the plurality of graphs differ in at least one node associated with the respective graph; and routing data packets of a second type at intermediate network devices based on information other than graph identifiers. | 16,259 |
9,074,296 | 1. A solid core nanoparticle comprising a substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co 3 O 4 material characterized by at least a 5×7 array of selected area electron diffraction spots. | 1,597 |
9,038,898 | 1. A security device comprising: a consumer product; a removable housing element having a base, a cover, and at least one opening; at least one attaching mechanism that serves a security purpose to connect the housing to the consumer product; the at least one attaching mechanism is sized to fit through the opening in the housing, the at least one attaching mechanism is completely concealed by the housing and the housing and the at least one attaching mechanism are separable from one another; and wherein the housing is configured to be in a shape representing one of a trademark, trade dress, theme, promotion or commemorative event. | 4,034 |
8,655,495 | 1. A method for controlling a current in a wind park comprising at least one wind turbine, wherein the wind park comprises at least one current generator, the method comprising: detecting a grid irregularity; determining an optimal reactive current to be provided at a predetermined location in the wind park during the grid irregularity; and determining, using one or more processors associated with a wind turbine controller, a corresponding active current to be generated from the at least one current generator so as to provide the optimal reactive current at the predetermined location, characterized in that the corresponding active current is determined based on at least an impedance value between the current generator and the predetermined location. | 28,367 |
9,633,419 | 1. An application processor, comprising: an image signal processing circuit to receive a image signal from an image sensor; and a memory controller to control a data processing operation of a memory device, wherein the image signal processing circuit comprises: a distortion correction circuit to correct a distorted image into an undistorted image; and an image enhancement circuit to improve the undistorted image using a high-frequency component of the distorted image, wherein the distortion correction circuit corrects the distorted image using a size of a Gaussian interpolation kernel controlled according to a degree of distortion determined based on a distance from a center of a image, and wherein a plurality of patches in the distorted image and a plurality of patches in the undistorted image each include a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component. | 4,386 |
9,093,182 | 1. A fast reactor comprising: a reactor vessel; a core and a coolant disposed in the reactor vessel; a bulkhead disposed in the reactor vessel, the bulkhead surrounding the core from a lateral side; an intermediate heat exchanger disposed between an inner surface of the reactor vessel and the bulkhead, the intermediate heat exchanger being configured to cool the coolant that has been heated by the core; a pump for coolant disposed between the inner surface of the reactor vessel and the bulkhead, the pump for coolant being configured to pressurize the coolant that has passed through the intermediate heat exchanger so as to be cooled; a neutron shield disposed below the pump for coolant; a core supporting mechanism comprising an upper supporting plate which is disposed in the reactor vessel between the pump for coolant and the neutron shield, the upper supporting plate being mounted to the bulkhead and being provided with an opening through which the pressurized coolant from the pump passes; a lower plenum structured below the core supporting mechanism, the lower plenum being configured to guide the coolant that has been pressurized by the pump for coolant to the core; and a coolant guide mechanism disposed between an outlet of the pump for coolant and the upper supporting plate, the coolant guide mechanism being configured to guide the pressurized coolant from the pump for coolant to the lower plenum through the opening of the upper supporting plate, wherein: the coolant guide mechanism is connected to the opening of the upper supporting plate; the coolant guide mechanism includes an annular upper header mounted on the outlet of the pump for coolant, and an annular lower header disposed below the upper header and mounted on the upper supporting plate; the upper header is provided, in a circumferential direction thereof, with a plurality of downwardly projecting nozzles through which the pressurized coolant from the pump for coolant passes; and the lower header is provided with a nozzle receiver that is slidably engaged with the nozzles of the upper header. | 1,699 |
8,936,658 | 1. A method of reforming gasification gas to decompose organic impurities contained in the gasification gas, the method comprising: introducing a gasification gas into at least one first pre-reforming stage comprising a zirconium catalyst stage and a noble metal catalyst stage in series, wherein the zirconium catalyst stage is arranged in a direction of flow before the noble metal catalyst stage, and downstream from the at least one first pre-reforming stage, introducing a gas into at least one second reforming stage containing a metal catalyst, wherein the at least one second reforming stage is effective to reduce a content of a tar impurity, ammonia, or a combination thereof of the gas introduced into the at least one second reforming stage, wherein the gasification gas is contacted with the noble metal catalyst of the at least one first pre-reforming stage in the presence of an oxidizing agent, and/or the gas is contacted with the metal catalyst of the at least one second reforming stage in the presence of an oxidizing agent. | 34,190 |
9,664,106 | 1. A rotary combustion engine system comprising: an axially extended shaft; at least one compression chamber and at least one expansion chamber offset therefrom, said at least one compression chamber and said at least one expansion chamber communicating through a transfer port defined therebetween, said at least one compression chamber having at least one air intake coupling port, and said at least one expansion chamber unit having at least one exhaust coupling port; and a housing assembly enclosing said at least one compression chamber and said at least one expansion chamber, said housing assembly having a fuel introduced therethrough for ignition in said at least one expansion chamber; | 25,583 |
8,907,403 | 1. A memory device, comprising: a tunneling insulating layer on an active region; a charge storage layer on the tunneling insulating layer; a blocking insulating layer on the charge storage layer; and a control gate electrode on the blocking insulating layer, wherein the control gate electrode has an edge portion spaced farther apart from the blocking insulating layer than a central portion of the control gate electrode, and wherein a surface of the control gate electrode, which faces the blocking insulating layer, has a central portion with a pointed inverted triangular sectional structure. | 19,138 |
8,680,364 | 1. A method for reliably and predictably introgressing soybean Aphis glycines resistance into non-resistant soybean germplasm or less resistant soybean germplasm comprising: a. providing a first soybean germplasm that has resistance to b. providing a second soybean germplasm that lacks resistance to c. crossing the first soybean germplasm with the second soybean germplasm to provide progeny soybean germplasm; d. analyzing said progeny germplasm to determine the presence of resistance to (1) detect a resistance to (2) determine the presence or absence of an allelic form of DNA linked to the gene coding for resistance to e. selecting progeny that tests positive for the presence of resistance to | 786 |
9,432,185 | 1. An apparatus for a mobile node, the apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to configure the mobile node to provide secure communication with a home domain while roaming over a foreign domain, the instructions configuring the mobile node to: | 2,691 |
9,310,069 | 1. A high efficiency condensing heater and boiler comprising; an outer vault of generally rectangular cross-section; an inner generally rectangular cross-section casing received within said vault and having opposed top and bottom walls and opposed side walls, said walls being formed of concrete and spaced inwardly of said vault to provide an exhaust passageway there between, a plurality of capillary serpentine water tubes formed within said concrete walls to permit the flow of water there-through and having a water inlet and an outlet, a combustion chamber within the lower portion of said casing, a source of fuel in said chamber, a plurality of water drums located above said combustion chamber for receiving heated water from the outlet of said capillary tubes, said water drums extending in a serpentine manner longitudinally of said casing and having an inlet and an outlet, a series of steam generating tubes located above said water drums and receiving heated water from the outlet of said water drums and extending in a serpentine fashion longitudinally of said casing, said water drums and said steam generating tubes being exposed to heated air rising from said combustion chamber, at least one steam drum supported above said steam generating tubes and having an inlet and an outlet and receiving steam therefrom, said steam drum being exposed to heated air rising from said combustion chamber, the heated air exhausting from said casing adjacent the top thereof and passing through said exhaust passageway between the casing and said vault, and an outlet from said one or more steam drums for the passage of steam out of said vault. | 35,804 |
8,895,844 | 1. A solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell comprising: a nanoimprinted surface, wherein the nanoimprinted surface includes a first arrangement of surface features; and an electrode disposed on the nanoimprinted surface, wherein the electrode comprises a second arrangement of surface features that are based on the first arrangement of surface features, and wherein the second arrangement of surface features collectively define a plasmonic back reflector. | 4,912 |
9,288,448 | 1. An event detecting method of an image monitoring device, the method comprising: setting first and second monitoring events related to a monitored image; obtaining a monitored image; detecting an occurrence of a first monitoring event with respect to an object from the obtained monitored image; detecting an occurrence of a second monitoring event with respect to the object from the obtained monitored image when the first monitoring event occurs; and storing information regarding the detected occurrence of the second monitoring event, wherein the setting the first and second monitoring events comprises: | 37,807 |
9,062,553 | 1. A turbine distributor blade segment configured to be supported by a turbine casing of an aeronautical turbo-engine, comprising: a front connection structure of the turbine distributor blade segment and a rear connection structure of the turbine distributor blade segment, the front connection structure configured to rest on a support which is supported by the turbine casing; and an anti-wear device including a part made of metal material that envelops a front end of the front connection structure, and is interposed between the front connection structure and the support, to provide sliding contact between the front connection structure and the support, wherein the anti-wear device is retained axially in position on the blade segment by a securing structure that co-operates with the front connection structure, and wherein the anti-wear device extends along an entire length of the front connection structure, and includes at a rear end of the anti-wear device at least one dropped edge, the front connection structure including a form of a tongue which extends axially, and including at a rear end of the front connection structure at least one cut-out which can receive the dropped edge. | 1,543 |
9,833,837 | 1. A method of atomizing an Al 2 O 3 -forming metal alloy, comprising gas atomizing a molten Al 2 O 3 -forming alloy to form a spray of atomized particles in an atomization chamber, first exposing the atomized particles in the atomization chamber downstream of an atomizing nozzle to a gaseous first reactive species to form a reaction product as a surface layer on the atomized particles and then exposing the surface layer on the atomized particles to a gaseous second reactive halogen species in the atomization chamber in a manner that an amount of the second reactive halogen species is retained in the surface layer on the atomized particles. | 12,995 |
8,350,748 | 1. A process for automatically determining meteorological conditions in the vicinity of a reference aircraft (ACr) provided with at least one meteorological radar ( 2 ), said process comprising the steps of: determining through said meteorological radar ( receiving through reception means ( defining with respect to said reference aircraft (ACr), at least one space meshing (M), comprising a plurality of points (P), each one of said points (P) being representative of a geographical position and each one of said primary area (Zp) and auxiliary area (Za) being defined, at least partially, by a set of points (P) of said meshing (M); associating with each one of the points (P) of said meshing, a data related to at least one of said primary and/or auxiliary meteorological information, wherein said data comprises a type, an intensity, and a date of detection of said meteorological information; determining from said primary area (Zp) and auxiliary area (Za), a geographical area (Ze) being extended with respect to said primary area (Zp), said extended area (Ze) being defined, at least partially, by a set of points (P) of said meshing (M); and determining from said primary and auxiliary meteorological information, the meteorological conditions associated with said extended area (Ze), wherein said meshing (M) is a three-dimension regular meshing, wherein said meshing (M) is normalized to facilitate data exchange. | 14,244 |
9,202,200 | 1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating comparative analysis of entity credibility, the computer-implemented method comprising: identifying at least one filter for restricting entities to include as part of the comparative analysis; filtering a plurality of entities based on the at least one filter to obtain a set of entities satisfying the at least one identified filter; aggregating credibility scores for each entity of the set of entities, wherein each credibility score quantifies, into a numeric value, qualitative credibility data and quantitative credibility data directed to reputation of a different entity of the set of entities, wherein the qualitative credibility data comprises reviews and the quantitative credibility data comprises ratings about experiences and accounts with the entity; ordering the credibility scores for the set of entities; generating an index based on the ordering of the credibility scores, wherein generating the index comprises plotting in a graph (i) a plurality of data points representing the credibility score of each entity of the set of entities based on the ordering and (ii) an indicator identifying in the graph, the credibility score of a particular entity from the set of entities; isolating from the index, a subset of the set of entities having a credibility score exceeding a specified score; determining at least one commonality in the qualitative and quantitative credibility data of the subset of entities; and providing to the particular entity in the set of entities and not in the subset of entities, the at least one commonality as a suggested business practice for improving the particular entity credibility score. | 5,818 |
8,418,487 | 1. A process-fluid chiller system for chilling a process fluid and comprising: a process load being a heat source; a storage tank in which the process fluid can be stored; first and second pipes extending from respective first and second openings in the storage tank and placing the storage tank in fluid communication with the process load for transferring heat from the process load to the process fluid; a first fluid pathway communicating process fluid away from the storage tank and back to the storage tank and extending from a third opening in the storage tank; a refrigeration system that can be selectively activated to chill the process fluid, the refrigeration system comprising an evaporation device disposed along the first fluid pathway for evaporating a refrigerant from a liquid state to a gaseous state while drawing heat from the process fluid and a compressor for elevating a pressure of the refrigerant in the gaseous state; a second fluid pathway extending between first and second ends wherein both of the first and second ends are in fluid communication with the first fluid pathway and are upstream of the evaporation device, wherein the first fluid pathway extends in parallel to the second fluid pathway between said first and second ends; a closed-loop heat exchanger disposed along the second fluid pathway and receiving an exchange medium to draw heat from the process fluid; a valving arrangement to selectively divert process fluid to the second fluid pathway; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of the exchange medium received by the closed-loop heat exchanger; and a control system operable to receive a signal from the temperature sensor corresponding to the temperature of the exchange medium and operable to control activation of the refrigeration system and operable to control the valving arrangement to selectively place the closed-loop heat exchanger in fluid communication with the storage tank by controlling the valving arrangement in response to the signal from the temperature sensor. | 37,849 |
8,609,222 | 1. A vehicle interior component in which a back-fastened member is fastened to a back side of a resin interior base material with a fastener, comprising: a fastener-driven rib having plasticity and plate shape integrally formed on the back side of the resin interior base material so as to protrude from the back side in such a posture that the fastener-driven rib is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the back side; and the fastener driven into the fastener-driven rib so as to pass through the fastener-driven rib in such a posture that the fastener intersects with the fastener-driven rib, whereby the fastener is engaged with the fastener-driven rib. | 26,501 |
8,347,498 | 1. A method for repairing a guide vane segment of a gas turbine, wherein the guide vane segment has a plurality of radially or predominantly radially oriented guide vanes, a radially inner shroud and a radially outer shroud, the inner and outer shrouds each being connected to the guide vanes, the method comprising: determining a number of irreparable guide vanes of said guide vanes in said guide vane segment, the guide vane segment including a circumferential center; determining if the irreparable guide vanes are situated outside of the circumferential center of the guide vane segment in a first segment half; performing further steps when said irreparable guide vanes are situated outside of the circumferential center of the guide vane segment in the first segment half, the further steps including: | 34,415 |
9,605,628 | 1. A filter cleaning apparatus comprising: a filter holding assembly for securing the filter within a cleaning chamber wherein the filter holding assembly comprises a bottom support plate, a top support plate and a vibrating plate; a vibrator operatively coupled to the filter holding assembly and configured to vibrate the vibrating plate and thus vibrate the filter; and a nozzle module that reciprocates along a longitudinal axis of the filter and delivers cleaning air simultaneously over substantially 360° and perpendicular to an interior surface of the filter. | 17,201 |
9,710,284 | 1. A system for configuring a motherboard, said system being connected to a remote server for receiving a SKU parameter set therefrom through a network and comprising: a programmable non-volatile memory; a switch that has a first terminal coupled to said programmable non-volatile memory, a second terminal, and a third terminal; a control chipset that is coupled to said second terminal of said switch; a baseboard management controller (BMC) that is coupled to said third terminal of said switch and said control chipset, that receives the SKU parameter set from the remote server, and that stores a predetermined memory allocation therein, wherein when an electrical connection between said first and third terminals of said switch is established, said BMC is configured to store the SKU parameter set into said programmable non-volatile memory according to the predetermined memory allocation, and wherein the SKU parameter set includes a plurality of SKU parameters for configuring the motherboard, the predetermined memory allocation includes a plurality of start addresses and a plurality of segment lengths, each one of the plurality of start addresses and the plurality of segment lengths being associated respectively with a plurality of memory segments in said programmable non-volatile memory for storing one of the plurality of SKU parameters; and a basic input/output system (BIOS) module that is coupled to said control chipset, that stores the predetermined memory allocation therein, wherein when an electrical connection between said first and second terminals of said switch is established, said BIOS module is configured to load the SKU parameter set from said programmable non-volatile memory according to the predetermined memory allocation during a booting operation of the motherboard and to update the SKU parameter set stored therein. | 23,295 |
8,703,126 | 1. A method of reducing the viscosity of a formulation containing a monoclonal antibody in an amount of at least about 80 mg/ml comprising the addition of a salt or a buffer in an amount of about 150-200 mM, wherein the salt or buffer is derived from arginine or histidine. | 7,531 |
8,835,368 | 1. A lubricating composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and a product obtained/obtainable from a 1,4-conjugate addition of an aminocarboxylic acid to an activated olefin. | 14,463 |
9,386,452 | 1. An access control method for a user equipment to handover from a source network to a target network, the method comprising: sending, by a source mobility management network element in the source network, a first message to a closed subscriber group (CSG) server, wherein the first message comprises a public land mobile network (PLMN) list; receiving, by the source mobility management network element, a second message that is sent by the CSG server and comprises access control information of the user equipment, the access control information of the user equipment including subscription data corresponding to a PLMN ID of a target cell in the PLMN list, wherein the target cell is in the target network, and wherein the subscription data comprises CSG subscription data; obtaining, by the source mobility management network element, the subscription data corresponding to the PLMN ID of the target cell from the access control information; and determining, by the source mobility management network element, whether to allow the user equipment to handover to the target cell according to the subscription data corresponding to the PLMN ID of the target cell. | 13,969 |
9,476,864 | 1. A radioactive gas monitor comprising: a detection unit that detects radiation emitted from radioactive nuclides contained in sample gas; and a measurement unit that processes a signal transmitted from the detection unit and outputs an engineering value corresponding to radioactive concentration, wherein the detection unit has a detection tube through which the sample gas flows, a first detector to which a first concentration measurement range within all required measurement ranges of radiation is allocated, a second detector to which a second concentration measurement range within all required measurement ranges of radiation is allocated, wherein concentrations in the second concentration measurement range are higher than concentrations in the first concentration measurement range, and a shield which shields the detection tube, the first detector, and the second detector from environmental radiation, the measurement unit has a first measurement unit which processes a signal transmitted from the first detector and a second measurement unit which processes a signal transmitted from the second detector, the shield has at least one detector installing hole having a central axis orthogonal to a central axis of the detection tube, and at least the first detector between the first detector and the second detector is arranged inside the detector installing hole, and an inner diameter of the detection tube and a relative position between the detection tube and the first detector are determined so that the measurement range of the first detector and the measurement range of the second detector are overlapped with each other. | 25,610 |
8,691,087 | 1. A filtration apparatus that removes chips from a chip-containing machining fluid, comprising: a conveying path for the chips; a chip conveying member provided in the conveying path; a filtration drum provided parallel to the conveying path; a drum housing chamber that houses the filtration drum; a communication section that communicates with the drum housing chamber from the conveying path via an inlet; a baffle plate disposed in the communication section; a chip scraping member provided in the drum housing chamber; and a magnet attached to an outer wall surface of the drum housing chamber, wherein the conveying path comprises an input port for a machining fluid provided on an upstream side thereof and an ejecting port for chips provided on a downstream side thereof, the chip conveying member conveys chips in the machining fluid from the input port to the ejecting port, the filtration drum is driven to rotate around a shaft center parallel to the chip conveying direction in the conveying path, an outer circumferential surface of the filtration drum constituting a filtration filter for the machining fluid, the drum housing chamber is provided with a slope inclined from a side wall of the conveying path toward the filtration drum near the communication section and a bottom surface continuous to the slope, and includes a gap that allows the chip scraping member to move between the bottom surface or the slope and the outer circumferential surface of the filtration drum, the baffle plate has a width smaller than that of the communication section, has such a shape that extends from the slope of the drum housing chamber through the communication section so as to protrude over the conveying path, is disposed closer to one side far from the input port out of both sides of the communication section to thereby function as means for blocking the machining fluid from flowing from the conveying path into the drum housing chamber via the communication section within a setup range, while allowing the machining fluid to flow into the drum housing chamber outside the setup range, the chip scraping member functions as means for moving through the gap of the drum housing chamber toward the communication section to thereby scrape chips from the bottom surface or the slope of the drum housing chamber and sending the scraped chips from the baffle plate to the conveying path, the magnet functions as means for fixing the chips in the machining fluid flowing into the drum housing chamber from the inlet by a magnetic force on the bottom surface or the slope of the drum housing chamber, and the periphery of the inlet is configured as a magnet non-existing section where the magnet does not exist so as to suppress a phenomenon that chips in the machining fluid are fixed in the vicinity of a top edge of the slope of the drum housing chamber by the magnetic force of the magnet. | 38,220 |
8,377,805 | 1. A method, comprising: applying an energy beam to at least one light-shielding element arranged between a preformed semiconductor thin film and an energy beam irradiating source including generating a lighted shielded region on the preformed semiconductor thin film via the at least one light-shielding element; and in response to the applying, growing a crystal in a pre-defined direction with the light-shielded region as a starting point. | 33,103 |
8,935,328 | 1. A computer implemented real-time multi-user 3D query system comprising: a. plurality of users, having digital identity certificate, connected to a server wherein each user is authenticated by inputting its login and password details; b. a session module, associated with each authenticated user, wherein the session module allows the authenticated user to select at-least one more authenticated user from a list of all authenticated user to establish a private network between them; c. a database module, associated with each authenticated user of the private network, containing at-least plurality of 3D objects, wherein the database module allows at least one authenticated user of the private network to select at least one 3D object from the database module; d. a display module, associated with the server, wherein the display module simultaneously displays the selected 3D object in a data format on display screen of each authenticated user of the private network; e. a modification module, associated with the display module, wherein the modification module allows at least one authenticated user of the private network to modify the 3D object by inputting 3D parameters of at least one part of the 3D object; f. a 3D query module, associated with the server, wherein the 3D query module receives the 3D parameters from the authenticated user of the private network and computes it to output a modified 3D object along with the digital identity certificate of the corresponding authenticated user of the private network on the display screen of at-least one authenticated user of the private network; and g. a data storage module, associated with each authenticated user of the private network, wherein the modified 3D object and digital identity certificate of corresponding authenticated user are saved in the data storage module. | 42,097 |
8,480,343 | 1. A fastener comprising: a head including a drive feature adapted to be driven by a tool to rotate the fastener; a shaft joined with and extending away from the head, the shaft terminating at an end, the shaft defining a longitudinal axis; a primary thread formed along the shaft, the primary thread coiling around the shaft toward the end, the primary thread including a last thread located at the end of the shaft, the last thread terminating at a leading portion; and a chisel brake point joined with the end, the chisel brake point including a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface that cooperatively form a chisel edge, the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface being non-planar with one another, and disposed at a first angle relative to one another, so that the chisel brake point is in the form of a “V”, wherein the last thread coils around the end and merges into at least one of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface to form an intersecting portion, the intersecting portion forming a substantially continuous surface with the at least one of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface, wherein the leading portion is located adjacent the chisel edge and projects outwardly from the end to scoop material scraped by the chisel edge, as the chisel edge pre-bores a hole in a work piece with the fastener, and to transfer the material to the last thread, whereby the material is fed to the primary thread so that the material is moved from a bottom of the pre-bored hole and out of the pre-bored hole. | 12,524 |
8,720,534 | 1. A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, comprising; a multiplicity of exchanger tubes for conveying a first fluid, which are fastened on at least one base, the exchanger tubes being arranged in a housing through which a second fluid flows, wherein a holding member is arranged inside the housing, at least two of the exchanger tubes being braced relative to one another by means of the holding member, wherein the exchanger tubes are curved essentially in a U-shape and are respectively fastened with an inlet and an outlet end on the base, wherein the exchanger tubes define a region of space between them, wherein the holding member comprises a first portion which extends at least partially along the space, and a second portion which extends from the first portion to interact with the exchanger tubes to brace them relative to one another, wherein the holding member comprises at least two holding member parts, and wherein a web extending transversely to the exchanger tubes is formed on at least one of the holding member parts, and wherein appendages projecting between neighboring exchanger tubes are formed on the web. | 3,999 |
9,193,272 | 1. A method for jump-starting a first electric vehicle by a second electric vehicle providing the jump-start, when no power supply system is available to start the first electric vehicle, wherein each of the first and second electric vehicles is provided with a step-up/step-down converter as a charging device, the method comprising: temporarily interconnecting electrical systems of the first electric vehicle receiving the jump-start and the second electric vehicle providing the jump-start during a time of the jump-start, wherein a d.c. link busbar of the second electric vehicle providing the jump-start is connected to a d.c. link busbar of the first electric vehicle receiving the jump-start. | 19,008 |
8,488,440 | 1. A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications system, comprising: a mobile station; a first base station that serves the mobile station; and a second base station that is coordinated with the first base station, wherein the mobile station obtains channel state information corresponding to the second base station and transmits to the first base station an indication of the channel state information corresponding to the second base station, wherein the first base station decides a precoder according to the indication of the channel state information corresponding to the second base station, and wherein the channel state information corresponding to the second base station is quantized at the mobile station. | 43,313 |
8,690,731 | 1. A method for controlling a start-stop system for an engine in a vehicle, comprising: automatically restarting the engine under at least one condition that includes a direction of movement of a transmission gear lever, and suppressing automatic restarting of the engine under at least one other condition that includes the direction of movement of the gear lever, when the engine has been autostopped and the gear lever is shifted out of NEUTRAL. | 47,554 |
9,701,315 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving first information from a first mobile device via a first signal; selecting a vehicle occupant position from a plurality of vehicle occupant positions based on the first signal; selecting, based on the vehicle occupant position, a first projector of a plurality of projectors within a vehicle; and providing data representing display information to the first projector, wherein the first projector projects the data onto a display of a first window of the vehicle, wherein the display information is determined based on first in-vehicle display preference information selected based on the first information, wherein the first window is visible from a first viewing angle associated with the vehicle occupant position and a second viewing angle associated with a second vehicle occupant position of the plurality of vehicle occupant positions, wherein the display is configured such that the display information is visible from the first viewing angle, and wherein the display is configured such that the display information is not visible from the second viewing angle. | 45,219 |
9,322,551 | 1. An apparatus for habitable space conditioning comprising: a furnace having a combustion air inlet, a flue gas outlet, a habitable space air inlet for receiving air to be conditioned from a habitable space, a conditioned air outlet for providing conditioned air to said habitable space, and heat exchange means for transferring heat from a flue gas generated by said furnace to said air to be conditioned; a flue gas exhaust conduit in fluid communication with said furnace flue gas outlet, said flue gas exhaust conduit having a flue gas exhaust gas outlet; a conditioned air conduit providing fluid communication between said furnace conditioned air outlet and said habitable space; a return air conduit providing fluid communication between said habitable space and said furnace habitable space air inlet; and air humidification system for humidifying said air to a level up to about 60% relative humidity without water from an external water supply. | 20,562 |
9,517,984 | 1. A method, comprising: converting 2,3-butanediol to 2-butanol by | 19,032 |
8,393,305 | 1. A control valve for a fluid circulation circuit, comprising a valve body ( 12 ), said valve body delimiting a housing of revolution for a regulating member ( 26 ) capable of rotating about a rotation axis (XX) and of taking various angular positions to control the distribution of the fluid through a plurality of orifices, and in which the regulating member ( 26 ) is surrounded by a sealing segment ( 42 ) in the shape of an open ring, that is fixedly attached in rotation to the regulating member ( 26 ), characterized in that elastic means ( 68 ; 86 ) are provided to separate two ends ( 44 , 46 ) of the sealing segment ( 42 ) in order to deform it radially outward and ensure that the sealing segment ( 42 ) is pressed against the valve body housing; wherein the elastic means ( | 2,100 |
9,178,313 | 1. An electric vehicle charging port control device comprising: a charging port comprising a passive-engagement part configured to engage an active-engagement part of a charging connector as the result of an operation performed by a user, the charging port configured to supply power from an external power source when in an engaged state; a locking mechanism that, when the active-engagement part and the passive-engagement part are in the engaged state, is configured to yield a locked state between the active-engagement part and the passive-engagement part and restrict disengagement by a restricting member moving in a locking direction, thereby preventing release of the active-engagement part, and to yield an unlocked state between the active-engagement part and the passive-engagement part in which release is permitted by the restricting member moving in an unlocking direction opposite the locking direction; at least one controller configured to energizingly drive the restricting member using a motor so that the restricting member moves to a position in front of a predetermined position when the restricting member is being moved to the predetermined position; a toggle spring disposed between the restricting member and a vehicle body; the restricting member being biased towards the predetermined position, from the position in front of the predetermined position, by an elastic force of the toggle spring after being energizingly driven to the position in front of the predetermined position by the motor when the restricting member is being moved to the predetermined position; and the at least one controller being further configured to move the restricting member in the locking direction, then in the unlocking direction, before the active-engagement part and the passive-engagement part engage. | 22,240 |
9,543,846 | 1. A switching power source, comprising: a dimmer connected to an alternating current power supply and having a plurality of operating modes; a filtering and rectifying module connected to the dimmer and configured to filter an alternating current output from the dimmer to obtain a filtered alternating current and rectify the filtered alternating current into a direct current; a dimmer switching module connected to the dimmer; a control module connected to the filtering and rectifying module and the dimmer switching module respectively, and configured to detect a current operating mode of the dimmer when the switching power source is powered on, to generate a dimmer control signal according to the current operating mode, and to control the dimmer switching module to turn on or off according to the dimmer control signal to control the dimmer to enter a desired operating mode; and a primary constant current circuit connected to the control module and the filtering and rectifying module, respectively, wherein the control module controls the primary constant current circuit to output a constant current. | 44,584 |
9,711,633 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a dielectric layer on a Group III-nitride semiconductor layer; selectively removing portions of the dielectric layer over spaced apart source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer; implanting ions having a first conductivity type directly into the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer wherein an implantation energy is selected to provide a peak implant concentration near a two dimensional electron gas region at an interface of the semiconductor layer and a channel layer underlying the semiconductor layer, wherein the ions are implanted at an implant energy less than about 80 keV; after selectively removing the portions of the dielectric layer, annealing the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer to activate the implanted ions; and providing metal contacts on the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer, wherein the peak implant concentration is within about 100 Å of the interface of the semiconductor layer and the channel layer. | 42,509 |
9,841,245 | 1. A rocker chiller, comprising: a chilling tank having first and second opposing sides and first and second opposing ends spaced apart at a greater distance relative to a spacing between the first and second opposing sides, said tank including a curved bottom portion configured to hold heat-exchanging liquid at a liquid level in said tank and for receiving carcasses in the heat-exchanging liquid in said tank; a baffle assembly comprising a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis about which said baffle assembly may be at least partially rotated, and at least one baffle blade extending at least partially along a length of said curved bottom portion of said tank and parallel to said drive shaft, said drive shaft connected to a first of the at least one baffle blade by a first pair of support arms, which extend adjacent first and second opposing ends of the first baffle blade; and power means for oscillating each of said at least one elongated baffle blade side-to-side in a corresponding arc along said curved bottom portion of said tank; wherein said baffle assembly further comprises a plurality of spaced-apart and elongate baffle members extending in respective radial directions from said drive shaft towards the curved bottom portion of said tank, said plurality of spaced-apart and elongate baffle members contacting said drive shaft at spaced-apart locations along said drive shaft relative to the first pair of support arms and defining a plurality of openings therebetween, which extend below the liquid level in said tank, and being sized and shaped to push a plurality of the carcasses laterally through the heat exchanging liquid in a direction generally orthogonal to a lengthwise forward movement of the carcasses from the first end of said tank to the second end of said tank; wherein the plurality of openings between said plurality of spaced-apart and radially-extending baffle members are sized and shaped to enable passage of the heat-exchanging liquid therethrough as the plurality of spaced-apart and elongate baffle members and the first baffle blade oscillate back-and-forth in respective arcs through the heat-exchanging liquid; and wherein said plurality of spaced-apart and elongate baffle members are not joined at their distal ends by the first baffle blade. | 40,784 |
8,525,549 | 1. A function cell comprising: a first field effect transistor (FET) device; a second FET device; a first node connected to a gate terminal of the first FET device and a gate terminal of the second FET device, wherein the first node is operative to receive a voltage signal from an alternating current (AC) voltage source; an amplifier portion connected to the first FET device and the second FET device, the amplifier portion operative to receive a signal from the first FET device and the second FET device; a phase comparator portion having a first input terminal connected to an output terminal of the amplifier and a second input terminal operative to receive the voltage signal from the AC voltage source, the phase comparator portion operative to output a voltage indicative of a bit of a binary value. | 16,271 |
9,138,681 | 1. A system for reducing CO 2 in air comprising: a reaction container configured for a gas-liquid reaction to occur therein; a body of liquid solution comprising a quantity of calcium hydroxide in solution therein disposed in the reaction container, the reaction container being open to atmospheric pressure having a body portion for retaining the body of liquid solution comprising a quantity of calcium hydroxide in solution therein; at least one inlet disposed in the reaction container for communication of gaseous air into and within the body of liquid solution within the reaction container; the at least one inlet including a dispersal mechanism for introducing a finely dispersed volume of gaseous air containing CO the dispersal mechanism configured to finely disperse the finely dispersed volume of gaseous air containing CO at least one outlet from the reaction container for releasing the volume of gaseous air having reduced CO wherein the body portion of the reaction container comprises a precipitate collection region adapted to collect the precipitate of calcium carbonate for removal from the container; wherein the reaction container includes a valve or hatch or submersible vacuum for removing the precipitate of calcium carbonate from the container. | 2,416 |
9,822,789 | 1. A turbo compressor comprising: a compression stage that is provided with an impeller that rotates; a housing provided with a first space that in addition to housing lubricating oil houses a gear member that transmits rotating force to the impeller, and a second space in which the ambient pressure becomes lower than the first space; a pressure equalizing tube that circulates a gas from the first space toward the second space; and an oil separating device that is provided in the first space and that separates the lubricating oil contained in the gas, wherein the oil separating device has a suction passage that communicates with the pressure equalizing tube; and the suction passage has: a suction port which opens to the first space and from which the suction passage suctions the gas of the first space, an interconnecting opening which communicates with the pressure equalizing tube and from which the suction passage discharges the gas to the pressure equalizing tube, and a centrifugal separation portion that is provided with a first demister, a second demister that, in relation to a flow direction of the gas from the suction port to the interconnecting opening in the suction passage, is provided on the downstream side of the first demister, and a curved passage that is provided between the first demister and the second demister. | 35,814 |
9,455,431 | 1. A method for fabricating a cyanometallate cathode battery, the method comprising: providing a cathode of A providing an anode; proving a metal ion-permeable membrane separating the anode from the cathode; providing a third electrode including “B” metal ions selected from the first group of metals; intercalating “B” metal ions from the third electrode to an electrode selected from a group consisting of the anode, the cathode, and both the anode and cathode; forming a completely fabricated battery; subsequent to forming the completely fabricated battery, discharging the battery in response to creating a battery external voltage potential between the cathode and the anode; and, forming a cathode of B | 18,013 |
9,750,125 | 1. A power supply apparatus comprising a power supply module including: a wind tunnel structure including two power supply substrates with different voltage levels and insulation members forming two faces of the wind tunnel structure other than faces formed by the power supply substrates, each of the power supply substrates having a cooling unit mounted on only one of surfaces thereof, the power supply substrates being opposed with the cooling units adjacent to each other; and another wind tunnel arranged in a downstream of the wind tunnel structure, wherein the two power supply substrates are electrically connected to each other via a transformer and a capacitor arranged in the other wind tunnel. | 23,901 |
9,385,791 | 1. An apparatus to be employed by a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising: communications circuitry to communicate with an evolved Node B (eNB) over a wireless communications network; feedback circuitry coupled with the communications circuitry, the feedback circuitry to: | 2,219 |
9,729,189 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a system on a chip (SoC) including: a power supply circuit; a power management circuit operatively coupled to the power supply circuit; a first wireless communications circuit configured to receive an RF signal and operatively coupled to the power supply circuit and the power management circuit, the first wireless communications circuit, when receiving an input signal power, has an output signal power that is no greater in magnitude than the input signal power such that a net radio frequency (RF) power gain of the first wireless communications circuit is at most unity and, the first wireless communication circuit configured to remain operational at least nearly constantly during operation of the SoC; and a second wireless communications circuit operatively coupled to the power supply circuit and the power management circuit, the second wireless communications circuit configured to be inactive or duty-cycled during at least an ultra-low power consumption mode, the first wireless communications circuit configured to consume less power than the second wireless communications circuit during an operation of the SoC when the first wireless communications circuit and the second wireless communications circuit are both operational in a same operational mode established by the power management circuit. | 45,296 |
9,455,664 | 1. A sun-tracking photovoltaic solar collector array, the array comprising: a plurality of solar devices; a support assembly supporting the solar devices so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis, the support assembly comprising: | 36,411 |
8,912,745 | 1. A method for operating a drive motor of a drive system, the method comprising: providing a control variable, which is ascertained as a function of one state variable or multiple state variables of the drive system and as a function of a default variable, to an output stage for operating the drive motor; reading the control variable previously provided to the output stage back from the output stage to obtain a read-back control variable; ascertaining a back-calculated torque from the read-back control variable; comparing the back-calculated torque and a predefined monitoring torque; and providing the control variable or an alternative control variable ascertained from the monitoring torque to the output stage as a function of a result of the comparison for the purpose of operating the drive motor. | 47,825 |
8,827,729 | 1. An electrical connector system, comprising: a first connector; a second connector configured to be mated to the first connector; a latching means configured to secure the first connector to the second connector when the first connector is completely mated with the second connector; and a connector position assurance (CPA) member, said CPA member being movable from a start position to an end position, wherein said latching means prevents movement of the CPA member to the end position when the first connector is not completely mated to the second connector and the CPA member prevents the latching means from releasing the first connector when the CPA member is in the end position and wherein when moved to said end position, the CPA member activates a signal circuit to enable an electrical power source. | 49,618 |
8,779,247 | 1. A plant of soybean variety A1026289, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121136. | 44,393 |
8,907,013 | 1. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising: (A) about 5 wt % to about 89 wt % of a polycarbonate resin; (B) about 10 wt % to about 94 wt % of a polycarbonate-polysiloxane copolymer; and (C) about 1 wt % to about 70 wt % of a modified acrylic-based copolymer, wherein the modified acrylic-based copolymer (C) is selected from the group consisting of copolymers formed by the polymerization of (c1) an aromatic acrylic-based compound, alicyclic acrylic-based compound, or a combination thereof; and (c2) a compound copolymerized therewith consisting of an alkyl methacrylate, an alkyl acrylate, an unsaturated carboxylic acid, maleic anhydride, an hydroxyl group-containing acrylate, acrylamide, methacrylamide, a nitrile, an epoxy group containing compound, styrene, α-methylstyrene, or a combination thereof. | 29,000 |
8,722,558 | 1. A process for producing a regenerated hydrotreating catalyst comprising regenerating a spent hydrotreating catalyst in a prescribed temperature range, wherein the prescribed temperature range is a temperature range of T converting a differential heat in a measuring temperature range of 100° C. or more and 600° C. or less to a difference in electromotive force, differentiating the converted value twice by temperature to provide a smallest extreme value and a second smallest extreme value, and representing a temperature corresponding to the extreme value on the lower-temperature side as T | 40,369 |
9,197,600 | 1. A computer networking method, comprising: at a router device configured to connect via a LAN to a client computing device, and function as a gateway for communications from the client computing device to one or more servers over a WAN, for traffic passing through the router, virtualizing address space by associating IP addresses of client computing devices on the LAN, including the client computing device, with virtual LAN-side network addresses and/or servers on the WAN, including the one or more servers, with virtual WAN-side network addresses, such that each request made to the servers on the WAN appears to the servers to originate from one of the LAN-side virtual network addresses, and/or such that each response received from the servers appears to the router device to originate from one of the WAN-side virtual network addresses, and at the router device, programmatically monitoring communications between client computing devices of the LAN and services of the WAN for botnets and viruses by the router device inserting user interface tracking information into a communication sent to the client computing device to enable the router device to identify user interface state at the client computing device, the user interface state including user input and/or selector position at the client computing device, and determining whether viruses operating at the client computing device are initiating communications with the WAN if communications are received from the client computing device at the router device that are unrelated to the identified user interface state. | 30,245 |
8,484,991 | 1. A heat pump comprising a cooling mode, comprising: a heat-pump liquefier configured for liquefying a vaporized working liquid in a heat-pump mode, the heat-pump liquefier being configured to be, in the cooling mode, a cooling evaporator for vaporizing the working liquid, the heat-pump liquefier comprising a heating advance flow and a heating backflow associated therewith, the cooling evaporator being configured to be able to be brought to such a pressure that a vaporization temperature is below a temperature of an object to be cooled in the cooling mode to which the heating backflow and the heating advance flow are thermally coupled, wherein the object is to be heated in the heating-pump mode, and wherein a temperature in the heating advance flow is higher than a temperature in the heating backflow in the heat-pump mode, and wherein the temperature in the heating advance flow is lower than the temperature in the heating backflow in the cooling mode; a dynamic-type compressor configured to operate, in the heat-pump mode, as a motor-driven compressor, the dynamic-type compressor comprising a rotatable wheel, and the dynamic-type compressor being configured to operate, in the cooling mode, as a generator and being coupled to the cooling evaporator; a heat-pump evaporator configured for evaporating the working liquid in the heat-pump mode, the heat-pump evaporator being, in the cooling mode, a cooling liquefier coupled to the dynamic-type compressor, the cooling liquefier comprising a temperature which is lower than the temperature of the heating backflow, and the cooling liquefier being configured to be able to be brought to a pressure which is smaller than the pressure to which the cooling evaporator may be brought; and a filling/extraction device configured to remove, in the heat-pump mode, working liquid from the cooling evaporator, and to fill, in the cooling mode, the working liquid into the cooling evaporator. | 36,477 |
9,013,166 | 1. A DC-DC converter controller, adapted to control a converting circuit, which is coupled to an input voltage and provides an output voltage at an output end, the DC-DC converter controller comprising: a ramp reference voltage generator, generating a ramp voltage according to a control signal, the input voltage and the output voltage, and superimposing the ramp voltage on a reference voltage for generating a ramp reference voltage; a comparator, comparing the ramp reference voltage with a feedback signal indicative of the output voltage, and outputting a compared result signal for determining a start point in time per cycle; a constant on-time controller, generating a pulse signal with a constant pulse width according to the compared result signal per cycle for determining a conduction period; and a driver circuit, generating the control signal for controlling the converting circuit according to the pulse signal to transmit an electric power from the input voltage into the converting circuit; wherein the ramp reference voltage generator comprises: a current generator, outputting a basic ramp current during the conduction period and the predetermined cut off period, and the basic ramp current has the same amount at a start point in time of the conduction period and at an end point in time of the predetermined cut off period thereof; a buffer circuit, outputting the reference voltage; and a reference voltage resistor, which one end thereof is coupled to the buffer circuit, and the other end thereof is coupled to the current generator, so as to determine the ramp voltage according to the basic ramp current. | 9,892 |
9,085,848 | 1. A carpet seaming iron configured for operation in a first axis, the carpet seaming iron comprising: a base assembly having a heating element and a bottom base surface defining a substantially longitudinal plane; a handle assembly attached to the base assembly, the handle assembly including a left handle portion and a right handle portion, the handle assembly forming a forward hole and a rearward hole that is positioned rearward of the forward hole along the first axis; a cord electrically coupled to the heating element of the base assembly through the handle assembly, at least a portion of the cord passing between the left handle portion and the right handle portion; a rotatable cord guard holder comprising a rigid swivel member that is rotatably coupled to the handle assembly such that the rigid swivel member is rotatable in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal plane of the bottom base surface, the rotatable cord guard holder extending the cord in a direction at an angle to the first axis, the rigid swivel member including a forward flange rotatably inserted into the forward hole of the handle assembly and a rearward flange rotatably inserted into the rearward hole of the handle assembly; and a cord guard coupled to the cord and insertable in the rotatable cord guard holder, the cord guard less rigid than the rotatable cord guard holder to reduce bending of the cord where the cord guard is coupled to the cord. | 13,330 |
9,206,208 | 1. A compound of the formula: wherein | 23,879 |
9,840,744 | 1. A method for producing a cotton plant comprising reniform nematode resistance, wherein the method comprises: crossing a parent selecting one or more F1 progeny plants that have the SNP marker DASCTP_1656_527 to produce selected F1 progeny plants; crossing the selected F1 progeny plants with a second cotton plant to produce F2 progeny plants. | 33,912 |
9,585,892 | 1. A method of treating leukemia in a patient comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a solid form comprising a salt of the compound of formula (I): wherein the salt is selected from the group consisting of: hydrobromide, besylate, esylate, edisylate, mesylate, napsylate, sulfate and tosylate salts. | 27,854 |
8,956,776 | 1. An abnormality detecting method for a fuel cell system that includes at least one fuel-cell cell having an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte membrane, and that includes a fuel cell connectable to an electrical load, an anode-side passage that supplies and exhausts fuel gas to and from the anode of the at least one fuel-cell cell, and a cathode-side passage that supplies and exhausts oxidation gas to and from the cathode of the at least one fuel-cell cell, the abnormality detecting method characterized by comprising: a voltage detecting process of detecting a voltage of the fuel cell; a suppression state setting process of, in the fuel cell system, setting a suppression state where, after normal power generation in the fuel cell is terminated, connection between the electrical load and the fuel cell is interrupted, introduction of the fuel gas to the anode-side passage and introduction of the oxidation gas to the cathode-side passage are suppressed as compared with those during the normal power generation, and emission of the fuel gas from the anode-side passage to an outside of the anode-side passage and emission of the oxidation gas from the cathode-side passage to an outside of the cathode-side passage are suppressed as compared with those during the normal power generation; and an abnormality detecting process of detecting abnormality of, after the fuel cell system is set in the suppression state in the suppression state setting process, the fuel cell system on the basis of the voltage detected in the voltage detected in the voltage detecting process or a variation in the detected voltage, wherein the voltage detecting process includes a voltage variation detecting process of detecting a voltage variation per unit time, which is a real number value, at a predetermined time interval on the basis of the voltage, and the abnormality detecting process includes a process of detecting that the fuel cell system is abnormal when, after the suppression state is set, a period of time that elapses until the voltage variation detected in the voltage variation detecting process becomes a third voltage variation determination value, which is larger than or equal to zero, is shorter than a first time determination value. | 3,823 |
9,739,951 | 1. An optical coupling arrangement for optically coupling first and second ruggedized optical connectors, the optical coupling arrangement comprising: a body arrangement defining first and second in-line ports; an alignment structure disposed within the body arrangement and accessible through the in-line ports, the alignment structure being configured to align optical fibers of the first and second ruggedized optical connectors; a first attachment structure disposed at the first port, the first attachment structure being configured to engage with a rotatable fastening element of the first ruggedized optical connector when the first ruggedized optical connector is received at the first port, the first attachment structure also including a surface against which a seal abuts when the first ruggedized optical connector is engaged with the first attachment structure; and a second attachment structure disposed at the second port, the second attachment structure being configured to engage with a rotatable fastening element of the second ruggedized optical connector when the second ruggedized optical connector is received at the second port. | 2,400 |
9,185,179 | 1. A system comprising: a memory area accessible by a proxy service, said memory area storing a mapping between a session identifier and a user identifier, said memory area further storing a mapping between the user identifier and a set of user computing devices, wherein said proxy service communicates with the user computing devices via push notification channels; and a processor programmed to: | 34,227 |
8,631,645 | 1. A thermal management system comprising: a first electronic circuit configured to determine whether a catalytic converter is active; a second electronic circuit configured to determine whether a SCR catalyst is active; and a third electronic circuit configured to adjust an air and fuel ratio of an engine to operate at a stoichiometric ratio and retard spark of the engine when the catalytic converter is not active, wherein the third electronic circuit does not perform post fuel injection while the catalytic converter and the SCR catalyst are not active, wherein the third electronic circuit is configured to at least one of wherein the third electronic circuit is configured to | 20,571 |
9,427,747 | 1. A centrifugal separator for separating components of varying density included in a fluid, comprising: a non-rotatable frame; a rotatable spindle, extending along a longitudinal axis; a centrifuge rotor, which is mounted on the spindle and rotatable with the spindle and which comprises a rotor casing enclosing an inner separation space; an inlet, which is connected to the separation space for supply of the fluid; at least one outlet, which is connected to the separation space for discharge of a component separated during operation; an electrical drive motor, which comprises a stator and a rotor and is arranged to drive the spindle and thus the centrifugal rotor, wherein the rotor of the drive motor is supported by a first bearing and a second bearing for rotation about a center axis; a coupling member, which is provided between and connected to the rotor of the drive motor and the spindle for transmitting a rotary movement of the rotor of the drive motor to the spindle; a third bearing, which is provided in the frame and supports the spindle in such manner that it is radially elastically provided in relation to the frame for transmitting a first part of radial forces, existing during operation, between the spindle and the frame; the coupling member comprising a lamella coupling and is arranged to transmit a second part of the radial forces, which during operation exist between the spindle and the frame, to the frame via the rotor of the drive motor and at least one of the first bearing and the second bearing; the coupling member comprises a first coupling element, which is connected to the rotor of the drive motor, a second coupling element, which is connected to the spindle; wherein the lamella coupling has a flexible coupling disc provided between and in torque transmitting engagement with the first coupling element and the second coupling element; the flexible coupling disc of the coupling member has a flexibility of a magnitude to permit inclination of the spindle in relation to the center axis; an axial member extending between the spindle and the frame, the axial member being in axial force-transmitting engagement with the spindle and the frame, the axial member being configured to bypass said coupling member from being in the axial force-transmitting engagement; and the flexible coupling disc has a central opening extending entirely there through from a first outermost axial end of the flexible coupling disc to a second outermost axial end of the flexible coupling disc, the axial member extends through the central opening and axially away from the first outermost axial end and the second outermost axial end of the flexible coupling disc. | 1,985 |
9,578,950 | 1. A multiple cosmetic holder and applicator comprising: at least one cosmetic cartridge, the cosmetic cartridge comprising a cylindrical body having an opening to receive a standard cosmetic, an upper lip protruding from the cylindrical body, an upper magnet disposed within the opening, and a lower annular groove on the cylindrical body; a main body configured to hold the at least one cosmetic cartridge, the main body comprising: a cap disposed on the main body that is configured to cover the main body, the at least one cosmetic cartridge, and the standard cosmetic, the cap comprising an aperture in the top surface thereof; and a selector tube configured to extend through the aperture and over a selected standard cosmetic, the selector tube interfacing with the upper lip of the cartridge in a friction fit to remove the cartridge with the selected standard cosmetic when the button is pressed and the locking mechanism is unlocked. | 29,061 |
8,836,296 | 1. A power conversion apparatus which converts power from a three-phase AC power supply to DC power, the power conversion apparatus comprising: a three-phase rectification circuit which rectifies an output voltage of the three-phase AC power supply; a step-up converter circuit which steps up the output voltage of the three-phase rectification circuit; a smoothing device which smoothes an output voltage of the step-up converter circuit; a voltage detection circuit which detects an output voltage of the smoothing device; an AC current component detection circuit which detects an AC current component in which ripple current of an output current of the three-phase rectification circuit is superimposed; a control circuit which has a calculation section and a pulse generation section for controlling the step-up converter; and a single feedback control loop formed by the voltage detection circuit, the calculation section, and the pulse generation section, wherein the calculation section calculates a value obtained by subtracting a detection signal of the AC current component detection circuit and a detection signal of the voltage detection circuit from an output voltage instruction for the step-up converter circuit as a deviation, the pulse generation section having a single proportional integral (PI) control circuit generates a pulse signal for suppressing the deviation to zero, the control circuit outputs the pulse signal to the step-up converter, and the step-up converter circuit includes: a reactor which stores the output current of the three-phase rectification circuit; and a switching device which controls a charge and discharge of the output current stored in the reactor in accordance with a pulse width of the pulse signal outputted from the control circuit. | 1,332 |
9,504,969 | 1. Procedure for liquefying sludge, including: providing a sludge-shearing vessel; the vessel is equipped with operable shearing blades; the blades are of such size and robustness as to be effective, when operated, to shear sludge residing in the vessel; providing a vessel-body of sludge; the vessel-body of sludge includes organic solids and water; a substantial component of the vessel-body of sludge is in the form of bio-cellular strands; providing a vessel-quantity of a biological thickener substance; the chemical and physical characteristics of the thickener are such that, when the thickener is mixed with the water, a viscous liquid is formed, being a liquid having a viscosity that is substantially greater than that of the water; placing the vessel-body of sludge and the vessel-quantity of thickener together in the vessel; forming a viscous vessel-mixture by mixing the water of the vessel-body of sludge with the vessel-quantity of thickener, the solids being dispersed in the viscous vessel-mixture; so operating the shearing blades as to subject the vessel-mixture to violent shearing; operating the shearing blades with enough energy to liquefy the sludge; and transferring the liquefied sludge out of the vessel. | 44,017 |
9,125,628 | 1. A device for sensing human body abnormality using standing-wave radar, the device comprising: a standing-wave sensor for externally transmitting a frequency-swept radio wave, detecting, at two points separated by a fixed distance, a reflected wave received from an external reflection object based on the transmitted wavelength with X being the wavelength of the transmitted wave, and sensing a standing wave combined from the transmitted wave and the received wave; a computation unit for removing a DC component from an intensity distribution of a frequency of the combined wave sensed by said standing-wave sensor, performing a Fourier transform, obtaining a distance spectrum, and computing a change in phase and distance to said reflection object; a signal processor for removing a distance component obtained when no person is present in a measurement space from the distance component to the obtained reflection object, and obtaining distance information that is different from the distance component obtained when no person is present in the measurement space to extract the distance component to a person to be measured who has entered into said measurement space; and a determination unit for sensing an abnormality in a person to be measured from a variation in the intensity distribution of the component associated with a distance to the person to be measured and determining a physical state of said person to be measured and a physiological state including a respiratory rate and pulse from said change in phase. | 636 |
9,116,698 | 1. A method comprising: operating a computing device in a first power mode and in a first operating state, wherein the first operating state comprises first operating state information stored in a volatile memory of the computing device; receiving a first request to change the power mode of the computing device from the first power mode to a second power mode; in response to receiving the first request, storing in a non-volatile memory of the computing device a sub-portion of the first operating state information that includes preserved state information as indicated by at least one application being executed by the computing device, the preserved state information including non-recreate information and re-create information, the re-create information indicating information, separate from the non-recreate information, used to re-create a portion of the first operating state information; receiving a second request to change the power mode of the computing device from the second power mode to the first power mode; and in response to receiving the second request: | 37,645 |
8,986,760 | 1. A method of producing a shelf-stable probiotic-containing food or beverage, comprising: forming a semi-permeable microsphere comprising a probiotic, a high molecular weight polymer, and an effective amount of bacteriostatic agent, introducing the microsphere into a relatively high humidity food or beverage, wherein said relatively high humidity food has a residual moisture level greater than 10% water, and storing said food or beverage before consumption without refrigeration for at least 6 weeks. | 30,551 |
9,416,367 | 1. A method for increasing nitrogen utilization efficiency in a plant comprising: (a) transforming a plant cell with an expression vector comprising an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 31; (b) expressing said nucleic acid molecule in said plant cell under control of a heterologous promoter; (c) generating from said plant cell a plurality of transformed plants in which said nucleic acid molecule is expressed; and (d) selecting from the plurality of said transformed plants a plant having increased nitrogen utilization efficiency as compared to a control plant grown under the same conditions. | 43,233 |
9,224,345 | 1. A liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal panel; a panel driver configured to drive the liquid crystal panel; light emitting sources configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel; driving transistors configured to drive the light emitting sources; a transistor driver configured to control the driving transistors; a DC power source configured to supply DC power to the light emitting sources; and a power controller configured to: | 10,397 |
9,404,165 | 1. A method for producing pig iron by direct processing of iron-containing feed materials, comprising the steps of: a. mixing iron-containing feed materials, carbonaceous reductant, and a fluxing agent to form a mixture; b. cold forming agglomerates from said mixture; c. preheating and pre-reducing at least a portion of said agglomerates to a temperature of 750 to 1200° C., and introducing said preheated agglomerates to a natural gas smelting furnace having a molten iron bath therein; d. heating and melting the agglomerates at a temperature of from 1300 to 1760° C. injecting natural gas with oxygen below the surface of the molten iron bath within the smelting furnace and forming hot metal with a slag thereon; e. removing the slag; and f. tapping the hot metal as pig iron. | 21,919 |
9,046,042 | 1. A method for controlling a variable valve train of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, comprising: at a first operating point of the internal combustion engine, successively reducing a fuel quantity fed in for each cylinder until a predefined unsmooth running limiting value is reached, for each cylinder, determining a cylinder-specific value for the reduction in the fuel quantity at the first operating point based on the determined fuel quantity reduction that achieves the predefined unsmooth running limiting value, and controlling the variable valve train based on the determined cylinder-specific values for the reduction in the fuel quantity at the first operating point. | 21,940 |
9,203,914 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, with one or more computing devices, activity data relating to an activity being performed by a first user, the first user being associated with a social network; determining a location from the activity data as the first user starts to perform the activity; extracting, with the one or more computing devices, a feature from the activity data to identify a type of activity as the first user starts to perform the activity; determining, with the one or more computing devices, a predicted time length of the activity based on the type of activity; notifying, with the one or more computing devices, other users associated with the first user in the social network that the first user is starting to perform the activity and the predicted time length of the activity; determining, from the other users, a second user that is performing a similar activity in proximity of the location; and recommending the second user to the first user. | 25,682 |
9,313,508 | 1. A method for video telephony, the method comprising: receiving video data at a first bitrate as part of an active video telephony session; sending a request to change the first bitrate to a second bitrate; receiving a first intra coded picture in response to the request to change the first bitrate to the second bitrate; in response to detecting the second bitrate, flushing the first intra coded picture from a picture buffer; and in response to flushing the first intra coded picture from the picture buffer, sending a request for a second intra coded picture. | 5,184 |
9,489,998 | 1. A magnetic junction residing on a substrate and usable in a magnetic device comprising: a reference layer; a nonmagnetic spacer layer; and a free layer, the nonmagnetic spacer layer residing between reference layer and the free layer, the free layer having a magnetic moment, a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and an out-of-plane demagnetization energy, the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exceeding the out-of-plane demagnetization energy for a quiescent state, the magnetic moment being along a direction in the quiescent state, the free layer having a magnetostriction such that the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy changes so that the magnetic moment is canted by at least five degrees from the direction in the presence of a programming voltage applied for the magnetic junction, the programming voltage being at least 0.1 volts and not more than 2 volts, free layer having a first interface facing the nonmagnetic spacer layer and a second interface opposite to the nonmagnetic spacer layer; wherein at least one of the nonmagnetic spacer layer is an insulating tunneling barrier layer adjacent to the first interface and the magnetic junction further includes an additional insulating layer adjacent to the second interface; wherein the magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. | 48,553 |
8,820,448 | 1. An in-wheel motor installed inside a wheel disk of a wheel to rotationally drive the wheel around a shaft of the wheel by way of applying a current thereto, the in-wheel motor comprising: a coreless cylindrical coil body to which a lead wire for applying a current is connected, the shaft being inserted in an inner circumferential side of the coil body, the coil body supported at one end by a coil body support member that is fixed to the shaft; a cylindrical outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to the wheel disk; a magnet that is fixed on an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke, an inner surface of the magnet disposed proximate an outer circumferential face of the coil body; a cylindrical inner yoke having an outer circumferential face disposed proximate to an inner circumferential face of the coil body, the inner yoke being fixed to the outer yoke and being rotatable around the shaft; a brake disk that is fixed to an inner circumferential side of the inner yoke; and a caliper that is provided on the inner circumferential side of the inner yoke to brake the brake disk. | 44,971 |
8,583,924 | 1. A portable data terminal (PDT) comprising: a Global Positioning System receiver, wherein the Global Positioning System receiver determines a current location of the PDT; at least one memory unit, wherein the at least one memory unit stores at least one software feature installed in the PDT; at least one data input device configured to receive a user input; a display unit configured to display data generated by the PDT; at least one communication unit configured to transmit and/or to receive data to/from an outside source; at least one data collection subsystem configured to generate data according to a received waveform or collected light; and at least one processing unit, wherein the at least one processing unit is configured to perform a method comprising: | 7,387 |
8,631,197 | 1. A method for implementing indirection tables and providing enhanced updates of the indirection tables for persistent media comprising: using a plurality of memory pools to store indirection data; providing an exception pointer table and providing a respective exception list pointer to each of a plurality of exception lists; sorting predetermined-size exception entries of each said exception list by an offset from a start of an I-Track and storing each said exception list in one said memory pool; and providing an insert exception entry for a new host write; and merging the insert exception entry into an initial exception list to provide an updated exception list using an offset of the insert exception entry. | 48,599 |
8,749,090 | 1. An automotive propulsion system comprising: a first voltage source; a power electronics device comprising a plurality of power switching devices coupled to the first voltage source; an electric motor comprising a plurality of windings and a neutral node, the plurality of windings being coupled to the plurality of power switching devices and the neutral node interconnecting the plurality of windings, the electric motor including a plurality of current sensors that measure the flow of current through a respective one of the plurality of windings; a second voltage source coupled to the neutral node of the electric motor and the first voltage source; and a processing system in operable communication with the first and second voltage sources, the power electronics device, and the electric motor, the processing system being configured to: | 35,150 |
9,716,199 | 1. A solar cell apparatus comprising: a substrate having a transmission area and a non-transmission area adjacent to the transmission area; a solar cell disposed at the non-transmission area on the substrate; and a reflection transmission part disposed at the transmission area on the substrate, and including a plurality of bar-shaped lattice patterns extended in a first direction and a plurality of transmission grooves for separating the lattice patterns from each other; a transparent, resilient buffer sheet layer formed to correspond to a shape of the solar cell, the lattice patterns and the transmission grooves to cover the solar cell and the reflection transmission part, wherein the buffer sheet layer comprises ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), wherein the reflection transmission part and the solar cell are alternatively disposed to not overlap each other, wherein the solar cell and the lattice patterns of the reflection transmission part are bonded to the substrate by a bonding part, wherein the solar cell and the lattice patterns are disposed on a same surface of the substrate, wherein a depth of each of the transmission grooves is equal to a height of each of the lattice pattern, wherein the height of each of the lattice patterns is lower than a height of the solar cell, wherein a pitch of the lattice patterns is in a range of 75 nm to 300 nm, and wherein the transmission area has a shape extended in one direction, and the lattice patterns extend in a direction equal to the extension direction of the transmission area. | 49,152 |
8,756,956 | 1. A laundry treatment device, comprising: a housing; a container suspended in the housing in an oscillating manner; and a detecting unit to detect one of the position and the arrangement of the container in the housing, the detecting unit comprising: wherein a memory unit stores algorithms and/or conversion factors, and a processor is configured to calculate the spatial coordinates as a function of the determined magnetic flux density and the determined direction of field lines in accordance with the stored algorithms and/or conversion factors. | 17,335 |
8,602,764 | 1. A sealant mold fixture for sealing an interface between a substrate and a dome element, said sealant mold fixture comprising: a sealant mold ring having an outer skirt joined at a lower end thereof to an outer rim having a size and shape generally to circumscribe the attachment interface, said sealant mold ring further including an integral outer cap portion carried by said outer skirt, said outer cap portion having an opening formed therein to accommodate close slide-fit reception of the dome element; and a metered quantity of a curable sealant material in uncured form partially filling the space between said outer cap portion and said outer skirt; said sealant mold ring having an outer flange on said outer skirt at least slightly shorter than a lower flange formed on the dome element whereby a bead of the sealant material is permitted to extrude outwardly between said outer rim and the substrate in a position substantially circumscribing the interface between the dome element and the substrate to correspondingly seal said interface. | 39,779 |
8,913,836 | 1. A method for projective correction of an image containing at least one text portion that is distorted by perspective, the method comprising the steps of: image binarization, wherein said image is binarized; connected component analysis, wherein pixel blobs are detected in said at least one text portion of said binarized image; horizontal vanishing point determination, comprising estimating text baselines by means of eigenpoints of said pixel blobs and determining a horizontal vanishing point of said at least one text portion by means of said text baselines; vertical vanishing point determination, wherein a vertical vanishing point is determined for said at least one text portion on the basis of vertical features thereof; and projective correction, wherein said perspective in said image is corrected on the basis of said horizontal and vertical vanishing points. | 46,077 |
8,926,732 | 1. A composition comprising: a) a polymerized imidazolium room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) having the formula: wherein, b) an unpolymerized RTIL having the formula: wherein, R X Y Z wherein the unpolymerized RTIL is between 5 mol % to 60 mol % of the total RTIL of the composition. | 24,291 |
9,602,648 | 1. An adapter device for use in communicating with a first electronic device and a second electronic device, the adapter device comprising: an adapter memory component; a first connector operative to maintain a first communications link with the first electronic device; a second connector operative to maintain a second communications link with the second electronic device; and an adapter host subsystem communicatively coupled to each one of the adapter memory component, the first connector, and the second connector, wherein, while both the first communications link is maintained by the first connector and the second communications link is maintained by the second connector, the adapter host subsystem is operative to switch between enabling a first communications path between the adapter memory component and the first communications link via the first connector and enabling a second communications path between the adapter memory component and the second communications link via the second connector, wherein: | 49,213 |
9,535,753 | 1. A method for optimizing resources, comprising: aggregating information handling system data, network data, user data, and application data from a plurality of network resources into a context information set; deriving a complex context information set from an association of the information handling system data, network data, user data, and application data in the context information set; receiving a resource request at an information handling system, the resource request including optimization criteria; generating an optimized resource request based on the optimization criteria; identifying a network resource other than the information handling system to perform the optimized resource request based on the context information set and the complex context information set; executing an action with the network resource to fulfill the optimized resource request; and updating the context information set based on the action. | 3,127 |
8,609,904 | 1. Process for the manufacture of acrolein from glycerol comprising at least the stages of: a) subjecting glycerol to a dehydration reaction to obtain an aqueous stream comprising acrolein; b) separating the stream resulting from stage a) into an acrolein-rich phase and an acrolein-depleted aqueous phase; and c) recycling all or part of the acrolein-depleted aqueous phase to stage a), characterized in that said acrolein-depleted aqueous phase is subjected to oxidation, in the presence of oxygen, oxygen-containing gas, hydrogen peroxide or ozone, before being recycled to stage a). | 8,514 |
9,094,603 | 1. An image pickup device comprising: a camera; a display that displays an image captured by the camera; and a touch panel that overlaps the display, wherein, while the display is displaying the image, when a predetermined single operation is detected on the touch panel, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness brighter than the first brightness, and the display displays, over the image, an indication that the brightness has increased, and wherein the indication continues to be displayed over the image at least after the brightness of the display is changed to the second brightness. | 48,093 |
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