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9,778,829 | 1. A device, comprising: at least one processor; a display accessible to the at least one processor; and storage accessible to the at least one processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to: detect first eye input to a first location on a user interface (UI) presented on the display; in response to detecting the first eye input, identify at least two selector elements as at least being presented on the display proximate to the first location; in response to identification of the at least two selector elements as at least being presented on the display proximate to the first location, execute respective functions associated with the at least two selector elements, and present a magnification interface on the UI, the magnification interface comprising a larger rendition of the at least two selector elements relative to presentation of the at least two selector elements on the UI prior to the detection of the first eye input; in response to selection, from the magnification interface, of a first selector element of the at least two selector elements, cease execution of the respective function associated with a second selector element of the at least two selector elements, wherein the first selector element is different than the second selector element. | 21,064 |
9,130,091 | 1. An assembly comprising: a photovoltaic building sheathing element capable of being affixed on a building structure, the photovoltaic building sheathing element comprising: wherein the body portion includes one or more geometric features protruding from the body portion, the geometric features being adapted to engage a vertically adjoining device before installation and each of the one or more geometric features is capable of being flattened out; and wherein the one or more geometric features comprise one or more extended ledge ribs disposed on the body lower surface portion, the extended ledge ribs capable of engaging a top peripheral edge of the vertically adjoining device. | 2,608 |
9,723,453 | 1. A method of determining a location of a mobile device via enhanced location based trilateration, the method comprising: receiving, via a processor of the mobile device, location information from one or more external devices, the received location information including a waypoint from each of the one or more external devices; performing normalization operations to normalize the received waypoints; ranking the normalized waypoints; storing the normalized waypoints in memory; selecting four waypoints from memory based on the rankings; and applying the four selected waypoints to a kalman filter to generate a final location waypoint. | 31,743 |
8,664,038 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system comprising: forming a package paddle and a terminal adjacent to the package paddle, wherein forming the package paddle includes: attaching a stack paddle directly to the package paddle with a first stack adhesive, wherein the stack paddle is offset from a center of the package paddle; mounting a first base integrated circuit directly to the package paddle with a first adhesive, wherein the first base integrated circuit is adjacent to the stack paddle and offset from the center of the package paddle; mounting a second base integrated circuit directly to the first base integrated circuit with a second adhesive; connecting a stack integrated circuit with the stack paddle, the terminal, the package paddle, or a combination thereof; mounting the stack intergrated circuit directly over the stack paddle with a second stack adhesive; and encapsulating the package paddle, the stack intergrated circuit, the stack paddle, the first base integrated circuit, and the second base integrated circuit with the package paddle partially exposed. | 41,877 |
9,608,530 | 1. A circuit configuration, comprising: a primary winding of a transformer; a resonant converter feeding energy into said primary winding of said transformer; a control circuit for controlling said resonant converter and having a plurality of modules, said plurality of modules including: | 1,245 |
9,203,640 | 1. A system for coupling controller area network (CAN) buses via a twisted pair wire cable within a transmission line to extend the communication range of CAN buses, the system comprising: a first repeater device comprising: a second repeater device connected to the first repeater device via the inter-bus twisted pair and connected to a second CAN bus, whereby the first and second repeater devices connected via the inter-bus twisted pair using low differential voltage provide faster signal transition, wherein the inter-bus twisted pair link interconnects the high speed CAN transceiver of the first repeater device with a high speed CAN transceiver of the second repeater device, the second repeater device being connected to the second CAN bus, wherein both the high speed CAN bus transceivers of the first and second repeater devices use low differential voltage for communicating on the inter-bus twisted pair to substantially decrease signal transition time and enable extended signal transmission range. | 44,977 |
9,850,878 | 1. A method for generating a vapor comprising: a) heating a closed loop pipe containing a heat transfer liquid having a boiling temperature at one atmosphere of pressure, wherein the pipe is positioned such that concentrated solar energy from a solar collector is focused on a portion of the closed loop pipe thereby heating the transfer liquid to an operating temperature that is above the boiling temperature of the heat transfer liquid at the one atmosphere of pressure; b) pressurizing the closed loop pipe by means of a closed internal chamber, where vapor of the heat transfer liquid can form in an upper section of the chamber but cannot be released, thereby self-regulating the vapor pressure of the heat transfer liquid contained in the closed loop pipe to maintain the heat transfer liquid in its liquid state in the closed loop pipe at the operating temperature; c) extracting thermal energy from the closed loop pipe by means of a heat exchanger with a portion of the closed loop pipe located in the heat exchanger and the heat exchanger including a vapor outlet pipe for vapor; d) connecting a ground source of natural gas and a ground source of thermal energy to a gas/water separation tank; e) separating of ground water from the natural gas by supplying geothermal energy from the ground source to the gas/water separation tank thereby heating the ground water; f) connecting the heated ground water in the separation tank to the heat exchanger to supplement the thermal energy from the heat transfer liquid in the closed loop pipe in the heat exchanger; and g) injecting the heated ground water from the heat exchanger into the ground to assist in extraction of natural gas from the ground. | 44,022 |
9,789,600 | 1. A spacer for spacing a tool from a tool stand, the spacer comprising a spacer body and a locking member, the spacer body having first and second opposing faces, the locking member extending from a first end thereof adjacent to the first face to a second end thereof adjacent to the second face, the locking member being configured to slide relative to the spacer body along a direction from the first end to the second end when the tool and the tool stand are in an attached state, the first end and the second end each being provided with at least one locking surface, wherein the spacer is arranged such that at application of a locking force each locking surface of one of the first and second ends transmits the locking force to each locking surface of the other of the first and second ends. | 48,750 |
8,422,815 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an original image inputting unit that accepts an input of an original image to be image-processed; a local area setting unit that sets a local area, with a pixel of which brightness is to be converted being a center of the local area, from the original image; a local histogram calculating unit that calculates a local histogram relating to brightness of the local histogram; a local histogram calculating unit that calculates a local cumulative histogram by accumulating the local histogram; a monotone increasing function determining unit that determines first and second monotone increasing functions, respectively, corresponding to cumulative frequency values in first and second classes of the local cumulative histogram; a weighting function determining unit that determines first and second weighting functions, respectively, corresponding to the first and second monotone increasing functions; a conversion function producing unit that produces a conversion function relating to brightness of the pixel from the first monotone increasing function weighted by the first weighting function and the second monotone increasing function weighted by the second weighting function; and a conversion unit that converts the brightness of the pixel by the conversion function. | 39,705 |
8,877,669 | 1. A hydroisomerization catalyst for processing a bio-based feed into biodiesel fuels comprising: a catalytic material comprising a uni-dimensional pore zeolite comprising a pre-loaded platinum group metal; and a matrix component; wherein the catalytic material and the matrix component are processed together to form the hydroisomerization catalyst. | 35,323 |
8,876,917 | 1. A method for manufacturing a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising: step of fabricating a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator; step of fabricating at least one of a negative electrode tab having one end with a planar shape varying in accordance with the production process lines and a positive electrode tab having one end with a planar shape varying in accordance with the production process lines; step of connecting the one end of the positive electrode tab to the positive electrode and connecting the one end of the negative electrode tab to the negative electrode; step of stacking the positive electrode with the positive electrode tab, the separator, and the negative electrode with the negative electrode tab, and rolling the stack; and step of inserting the rolled stack in a casing. | 32,650 |
8,574,741 | 1. A method for controlling a plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries that, in an interconnected system in which a power generation device that fluctuates in output and an electric power storage-compensation device comprising a plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries connected in parallel are combined to supply power to an electric power system, are each included in the electric power storage-compensation device and compensate for output fluctuations of the power generation device, the method comprising compensating for the output fluctuations of the power generation device, while controlling so that all of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries are within a predetermined charged range by: detecting when one or more of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries reaches one of a charge end or a discharge end within the predetermined charged range; when one sodium-sulfur battery of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries reaches the discharge end of the predetermined charged range, charging the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the discharge end of the predetermined charged range by uniformly discharging all sodium-sulfur batteries of the plurality of sodium sulfur batteries other than the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the discharge end of the predetermined charged range and simultaneously discharging voltage from all of the sodium-sulfur batteries other than the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the discharge end to maintain the power output for the interconnected system at a predetermined target value; and when one sodium-sulfur battery of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries reaches the charge end of the predetermined charged range, discharging the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the charge end of the predetermined charged range, to charge a sodium-sulfur battery other than the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the charge end of the predetermined charged range, wherein values for the discharge end and the charge end are set by setting control target values of a bidirectional converter, wherein the charge end of one of the sodium-sulfur batteries is detected by measuring a voltage increase, and wherein the discharge end of one of the sodium-sulfur batteries is detected by measuring a voltage decrease. | 25,275 |
8,637,746 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X18A643, produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH8JV with a second plant of variety PH17C4, wherein representative seed of said varieties PH8JV and PH17C4 have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-7761 and PTA-120279, respectively. | 43,311 |
9,351,641 | 1. A mobile processing device system for patient monitoring data acquisition, comprising: a repository of information associating a particular patient monitoring device type for displaying a particular patient parameter with a particular image type displayed by said device type and with a particular text label identifying said particular patient parameter in said particular image type; a portable processing device including an imaging device for acquiring image data representing an image presenting patient parameter data from the particular patient monitoring device type; an image recognition processor, using said information, for analyzing said image data to identify said particular text label identifying said particular patient parameter and a value of said particular patient parameter, and wherein said image recognition processor recognizes said particular image type of a plurality of different images types presented by said device type; and an output processor for communicating data representing said particular patient parameter and said value to a destination. | 40,510 |
9,365,126 | 1. A wireless charging system for an electric vehicle, the system comprising: a vehicle charging pad configured to wirelessly receive power from a base charging pad spaced from the vehicle charging pad; and a detection apparatus on a surface of the vehicle, the detection apparatus configured to detect existence of a moving object within an exclusion zone underneath the vehicle, the detection apparatus comprising at least one antenna assembly configured to transmit radiation and to receive radiation reflected from material within the exclusion zone, the at least one antenna assembly having a radiation pattern for at least one of the transmitted radiation and the received radiation having a maximum gain and having a first gain intensity along a first line perpendicular to the surface less than half of the maximum gain on a linear scale. | 26,081 |
9,560,764 | 1. A chip-component structure, comprising: a multilayer capacitor including a laminated body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes stacked on each other, and first and second outer electrodes provided on opposite longitudinal component end surfaces of the laminated body and electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of internal electrodes; and an interposer including a substrate including a component mount surface, a substrate mount surface opposed to the component mount surface, a through-hole extending between and open to the component mount surface and the substrate mount surface, a component connecting electrode provided on the component mount surface and joined to one of the first and second outer electrodes, an external connection electrode provided on the substrate mount surface, and an in-hole electrode provided in the through-hole to connect the component connecting electrode and the external connection electrode and electrically connected to the one of the first and second outer electrodes; wherein a periphery of the through-hole is in contact with the component connecting electrode when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the substrate mount surface; and the through-hole includes a space which is not filled with the in-hole electrode. | 11,993 |
9,531,136 | 1. A keystone jack for use as a port in a wired computing network, comprising: a housing; a plug receptacle within said housing configured to receive a plug connector therein; a termination portion of said housing for connecting a network cable thereto; a first circuit disposed between said plug receptacle and said termination portion; a plurality of conductive terminals, which are disposed within the plug receptacle and are configured to electrically communicate, together with the first circuit, one or more signal pairs between the plug receptacle and the termination portion; and an interfacing unit, which comprises pin terminals that extend to an outside of the housing, wherein the pin terminals are electrically connected to one or more of the signal pairs communicated between the plug receptacle and the termination portion, for accessing the one or more of the signal pairs by a supplementary electric unit that is detachably attachable to the pin terminals. | 10,173 |
9,836,711 | 1. A job execution system comprising: a job controller that executes an operational job using a computer resource; an authorization controller that requests an authorization regarding whether the job controller permitted to execute the operational job using the computer resource and that receives an authorization result for the request; a group manager that creates a group in which multiple of the operational jobs is grouped; and a resource information storage that stores an ID of the computer resource which requires an authorization before used by the operational job, wherein the authorization controller requests the authorization with respect to the operational job included in the group created by the group manager, and receives the authorization result with respect to the group, wherein if the authorization controller receives the authorization result indicating that job execution is permitted with respect to the group, the job controller executes each of the operational jobs included in the group, wherein if the authorization controller receives the authorization result indicating that job execution is not permitted with respect to the group, the job controller does not execute each of the operational jobs included in the group, wherein if an ID of the computer resource used by the operational job is stored in the resource information storage, the authorization controller requests the authorization regarding whether execution is permitted for the operational job using the computer resource, and wherein if no ID of the computer resource used by the operational job is stored in the resource information storage, the job controller executes the operational job using the computer resource even if the authorization controller does not request the authorization. | 24,165 |
8,633,280 | 1. A method of depolymerizing a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) or styrene-butadiene rubber, comprising contacting a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) or styrene-butadiene rubber at 30-100° C. in the presence of at least one transition metal catalyst represented by the formula Ia or Ib: wherein: m=0 or 1, n=0 or 1; when n=0, p=0 or 1; when n=1, p=0; when m=0, n=1 or n=0 and p=1; when m=1, n=0 or 1 and p=0 or 1, wherein when n=1, p=0; M is a transition metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium (Ru), molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W); L L is an electron-donating ligand; “Y when m=1, X is oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, CH, CH when m=0, Y is oxygen, nitrogen, carbonyl or imino; when n=0 and p=1, L when n=1 and p=0, X R R E, E | 40,427 |
8,660,776 | 1. A method for starting an internal combustion engine, the method comprising: starting, using a control unit, at least one function at a specific crankshaft angle; and shifting a start of a function of the at least one function, from the starting of the internal combustion engine until reaching a final condition, by a shift angle to a later crankshaft angle. | 27,228 |
9,357,497 | 1. A device for controlling a power consumption of a receiving unit, the receiving unit being arranged to control an apparatus in response to a reception of a wireless or non-wireless operation control signal from a transmitting unit, the apparatus comprising a product that is remotely controlled via a combination of the transmitting unit and the receiving unit, the device comprising: a controller for, in response to a detection of a state of the apparatus, controlling the power consumption of the receiving unit for reducing an average power consumption of the receiving unit; a receiver for receiving the operation control signal, the device being configured to switch the receiving unit off when the apparatus is switched on or off or is in another state and to switch the receiving unit back on in reaction to a reception of the operation control signal; and a processor for, in response to an analysis of traffic exchanged between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit, generating statistics and generating a message. | 35,555 |
9,403,202 | 1. A method for lubricating an interior of a heat exchanger tube, comprising: applying a lubricant including a mixture of an additive and a solvent onto an interior of the tube; injecting a first flow of a drying agent into a first end of the tube to force a first portion of the solvent from the interior of the tube via a second end of the tube; heating the flow of the drying agent to remove additional solvent from the interior of the tube via evaporation; forming the tube to a selected shape after injection of the first flow of the drying agent; and injecting a second flow of the drying agent into the tube to force a second portion of the solvent from the interior of the tube, thereby leaving a coating of the additive on the interior of the tube. | 15,431 |
9,102,227 | 1. A hybrid vehicle transmission comprising: a first planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a first ring gear, a plurality of first planet gears, and a first planetary carrier; an input shaft coupled to the first ring gear to transfer power between an engine and the first ring gear; a second planetary gear set having a second sun gear, a second ring gear, a plurality of second planet gears, and a second planetary carrier; an output shaft coupled to the first and second planetary carriers to transfer power between the first and second planetary carriers and the output shaft; and a double-rotor electric machine having a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor; | 42,711 |
8,484,405 | 1. A method for managing memory pages in a computing system running one or more virtual machines, the method comprising: monitoring utilization of memory allocated to a virtual machine; detecting a condition in which adjustment of the allocated memory is to be initiated; as a response to detection of the condition, determining an age of each of a plurality of compressed pages stored in a compression cache, wherein each compressed page is a memory page that has been compressed and stored in the compression cache and wherein the age of a compressed page is a time during which the compressed page has been resident within the compression cache; and further in response to the detection of the condition, adjusting a size of the compression cache based on the determined ages of the plurality of pages in the compression cache. | 43,333 |
9,522,986 | 1. In a mineral building composition comprising at least one mineral binder and protective-stabilized polymer, the improvement comprising employing, as at least one protective colloid, a polyvinyl alcohol comprising at least one tertiary amine group or quaternary ammonium group. | 17,268 |
8,440,676 | 1. A composition comprising a plurality of solid particles, each particle comprising sucralose and 4-amino-5,6-dimethylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2(1H)-one or salts, solvates, and/or esters thereof. | 9,982 |
8,808,406 | 1. A method of manufacturing a secondary battery, comprising: providing 1) an electrode assembly comprising an outer surface, 2) a sealing tape attached to and surrounding at least part of the outer surface of the electrode assembly, wherein the sealing tape comprises i) an adhesive layer contacting the outer surface of the electrode assembly and ii) a base layer formed on the adhesive layer, wherein the base layer is formed of a material which has directionality and wherein the base layer comprises first and second regions, and 3) a can configured to receive the electrode assembly and sealing tape; placing the electrode assembly and the sealing tape into the can so as to form an assembled secondary battery; and subjecting the base layer to contact electrolyte, wherein the base layer at least partially loses directionality and partially shrinks so that the first region is thicker than the second region and contacts an inner surface of the can. | 282 |
8,965,747 | 1. An automatic three-phase unbalanced load compensation experimental device, comprising: an automatic compensation device, a load simulation part, and a detection, display and control part, wherein the automatic compensation device comprises a power capacitor and an intelligent grouping load switch, and both ends of the power capacitor are respectively connected with the intelligent grouping load switch which is connected with the electrical network, wherein the load simulation part comprises A-phase load, B-phase load and C-phase load which have the same components, a switch power supply, an analog output module and a relay output module, wherein the input end of the switch power supply is connected to the electrical network by a micro circuit breaker, and the output end of the switch power supply is connected to the supply terminals of the analog output module and the relay output module, wherein the A-phase load, the B-phase load and the C-phase load each comprise a plurality of single-phase nonlinear reactors with fixed impedances, a plurality of magnetic control reactors with adjustable single-phase impedances, a plurality of single-phase capacitors, a plurality of single-phase resistors, a plurality of single-phase AC contactors, a plurality of anti-parallel thyristors and a plurality of intermediate relays, wherein A-phase, B-phase and C-phase simulated loads of the above three phases are connected to an electrical network through a first molded case circuit breaker, wherein the input ends of the analog output module and the relay output module are connected to RS-485 buses through an Ethernet module; the output ends of the analog output module are connected to the A-phase, B-phase and C-phase simulated loads of the plurality of anti-parallel thyristors, respectively; and the output ends of the relay output module are connected to the A-phase, B-phase and C-phase simulated loads of the plurality of intermediate relays, wherein the detection, display and control part comprises a plurality of current transformers, a second molded case circuit breaker, a three-phase digital display ammeter, a three-phase electric power monitoring instrument, a protocol conversion module, RS-485 buses, Ethernet cables and an upper computer, wherein the Ethernet cables are connected to the upper computer through the protocol conversion module, wherein the load simulation part is connected with the electrical network; the automatic compensation device is connected with the electrical network, connected with the load simulation part in parallel and located in front of the load simulation part; the three-phase digital display ammeter of the detection, display and control part is connected with the plurality of current transformers of the electrical network on the load simulation side; the three-phase electric power monitoring instrument of the detection, display and control part is connected with an access point electrical network of the automatic compensation device, and wherein for the C-phase load, one end of the magnetic control reactor with adjustable single-phase impedance is connected with the single-phase AC contactor, the other end of the single-phase AC contactor is connected with one end of the anti-parallel thyristor, and the other end of the anti-parallel thyristor is connected with one end of the contact of the intermediate relay; one end of the single-phase nonlinear reactor with fixed impedance is connected to one end of the single-phase AC contactor, and the other end of the single-phase AC contactor is connected with one end of the contact of the intermediate relay. | 32,937 |
8,759,029 | 1. A hybridoma cell line deposited with International Depositary Authority of Canada on Aug. 29, 2006 under accession number ADI-290806-02. | 10,371 |
9,322,579 | 1. A thermo-magnetic cycle apparatus comprising: a magneto-caloric element which generates heat dissipation and heat absorption in response to strength change of an external magnetic field; and a magnetic field modulating device which modulates the external magnetic field so that a magnetized period, when the magneto-caloric element is placed in a strong external magnetic field, and a demagnetized period, when the magneto-caloric element is placed in a weak external magnetic field which is weaker than that in the magnetized period, are periodically altered, and so that the magnetized period is shorter than the demagnetized period. | 41,609 |
9,848,943 | 1. A catheter comprising: an elongated catheter body; a distal tip section having a tip electrode with a distal end, the tip electrode including a needle centering insert; a needle electrode assembly extending through at least the elongated catheter body and the tip electrode, the needle electrode assembly being longitudinally movable relative to the catheter body and distal tip section into an extended position and a retracted position, the needle electrode assembly including a needle electrode; an injection control handle proximal of the catheter body configured to move the needle electrode assembly into the extended position and the retracted position; a fluid path B extending through at least the catheter body and having a distal exit at the distal end of the tip electrode; and a fluid path A extending through at least the catheter body and having a distal exit at a distal end of the needle electrode assembly, wherein the fluid path B and the fluid path A are isolated from each other, wherein the tip electrode has a longitudinal passage and the needle centering insert is situated in the longitudinal passage, and wherein the fluid path B has a proximal portion that extends through the needle electrode assembly, a distal portion that extends between the needle electrode assembly and a guide tube surrounding the needle electrode assembly, and a mid-portion that connects the proximal portion and the distal portion and traverses a side wall of the needle electrode assembly. | 39,609 |
9,148,017 | 1. A power demand management apparatus comprising: a power demand acquiring section that acquires a predicted power demand, which is a power demand predicted for a predetermined period in the future; a consumer house information holding section that, for each of a plurality of request methods or request conditions for requesting that a consumer house restrict power demand, and for each of a plurality of the consumer houses, holds a sensitivity that indicates a probability that the consumer house will comply with a request when the request is issued to the consumer house with the corresponding request method or request condition; a consumer house selecting section that, when the predicted power demand exceeds a predetermined target value, selects a first consumer house whose sensitivity with respect to a first request method or request condition is greater than or equal to a first reference value and selects a second consumer house whose sensitivity with respect to a second request method or request condition is greater than or equal to a second reference value; and a restriction requesting section that issues a request for power demand restriction to the first consumer house using the first request method or request condition, and issues a request for power demand restriction to the second consumer house using the second request method or request condition. | 11,084 |
9,435,451 | 1. An electronic expansion valve, comprising: a valve component for regulating flow rate of fluid flowing through the electronic expansion valve, wherein the valve component comprises a valve body, a valve seat arranged in the valve body, a valve needle able to open and close the valve seat, an actuation mechanism for driving the valve needle to move axially, and a drive mechanism for providing the actuation mechanism with motive power, and wherein the actuation mechanism comprises a spindle which is movable axially; and an electromagnetic retaining mechanism for retaining the spindle, wherein when the electromagnetic retaining mechanism is energized, the electromagnetic retaining mechanism retains the spindle in a first axial position at which the valve needle is allowed to adjust the opening degree of the valve seat, and when the electromagnetic retaining mechanism is de-energized, the electromagnetic retaining mechanism releases the spindle to a second axial position at which the valve needle closes the valve seat, wherein the electromagnetic retaining mechanism comprises an electromagnetic coil, a fixed iron stationary relative to the electromagnetic coil, and a movable iron movable relative to the fixed iron, wherein the movable iron is connected to a first end of the spindle in such a manner that the movable iron is rotatable but cannot move axially relative to the spindle, and wherein a rolling bearing is provided between the movable iron and the first end of the spindle, and comprises an inner race fitted with the first end of the spindle and an outer race fitted with the movable iron. | 18,984 |
9,104,010 | 1. An imaging lens, comprising: a plurality of lenses, wherein, for two lenses which are arranged adjacently and separately from each other, a first surface on an image side of one of the lenses closer to an object side and a second surface on the object side of the other of the lenses closer to the image side face each other across an air space, the air space being termed an air lens, wherein a shape of the air lens is defined such that the first surface on the image side of the one of the lenses closer to the object side is taken as a first surface on the object side of the air lens and the second surface on the object side of the other of the lenses closer to the image side is taken as a second surface on the image side of the air lens, wherein the plurality of lenses includes at least first and second air lenses, the first air lens being positioned on a most object side in the imaging lens and the second air lens being positioned on a most image side in the imaging lens each have a biconvex shape, and wherein the first air lens positioned on the most object side in the imaging lens and the second air lens positioned on the most image side in the imaging lens are the only air lenses having a negative power in the imaging lens. | 47,422 |
9,058,169 | 1. A method for waking up remote devices, comprising: generating, by a wake-up signal generator unit, voltage signals with different characteristics, including a wake-up signal; receiving, by a remote device power supply unit, said wake-up signal; and identifying, by the remote device power supply unit, said wake-up signal when in a sleep state, wherein, when said remote device power supply unit is in the sleep state and does not output a supply voltage required for normal operation of the remote device, said wake-up signal generator unit generates the wake-up signal as instructed by an external control signal inputted from a wake-up control port, and sends the wake-up signal to the remote device power supply unit through a wake-up signal feeding line that connects the wake-up signal generator unit and the remote device power supply unit, and wherein, after said remote device power supply unit in the sleep state correctly identifies the arriving wake-up signal, said remote device power supply unit wakes up to operate normally, and generates and outputs the supply voltage required for normal operation of the remote device, to wake up the remote device from a power-off state. | 15,149 |
8,451,970 | 1. A variable delay circuit comprising: a delay circuit that includes a first delay unit and a second delay unit and delays an input signal to generate an output signal; a selection signal generation unit that detects a delay value of the delay circuit and generates a selection signal to select a delay unit for delaying the input signal among the first delay unit and the second delay unit; a first control unit that controls a delay value of a selected delay unit which is selected by the selection signal in response to a delay increase/decrease signal; and a second control unit that controls a delay value of a non-selected delay unit which is not selected by the selection signal, wherein the input signal is a clock with a clock frequency, and the second control unit controls the delay value of the non-selected delay unit to be N*clock frequency (N is an integer of 2 or larger)−the delay value of the selected delay unit, and wherein the selection signal generation unit generates the selection signal to change the delay unit selected at a time when a difference between the delay values of the first delay unit and the second delay unit becomes M*clock frequency (M is an integer of 1 or larger). | 5,048 |
9,656,352 | 1. A flux coating composition comprising: a composition paste including an elastomer solution mixed with a flux powder or a flux paste, the elastomer solution comprising: the composition yields no metal oxides and ≦50 ppm of carbon, ash, fumes, smoke, or other by-product contaminants when the composition is heated in a brazing operation. | 2,998 |
9,346,893 | 1. A process for the preparation of epiK5-amine-O-oversulfate-derivatives having a glucosamine 3-O-sulfate content of at least 40%, which comprises (a) treating an epiK5-N-sulfate-derivative, in acidic form, with a tertiary or quaternary organic base, letting the reaction mixture to stand for a time period of 30-60 minutes at a pH of approximately 7 and isolating the corresponding organic base salt of said epiK5-N-sulfate; and (b) treating said tertiary amine or quaternary ammonium salt of said epiK5-N-sulfate-derivative with an O-sulfation agent in the conditions of 0-oversulfation and isolating the epiK5-amine-O-oversulfate-derivative. | 37,439 |
8,885,721 | 1. A method of encoding images comprising: receiving an image with an image pattern comprising a checkerboard arrangement of pixels from two channels of a stereoscopic view; classifying the disparity of regions in the image as being one of high disparity, low disparity and zero disparity, wherein the disparity is determined by at least one of bandpass filtering the image patterns and computing distortion, wherein the distortion is computed by comparing original pre-image pattern images to the images represented in the image pattern after being decoded, wherein the amount of disparity comprises at least one of an amount of estimated motion in corresponding regions of the images, and an amount of illumination change in corresponding regions of the images; turning off or negatively biasing an encoding feature of an encoding process for regions of an image pattern based on the disparity classification, when the regions include an amount of disparity in the represented images of the same frame such that the amount of disparity in the represented images would result in cross-contamination between the represented images if encoded with the encoding feature. | 20,707 |
8,424,588 | 1. A casting die comprising an area of dimples where a plurality of first dimples are formed at least on a part of the surface of the cavity and/or at least on a part of a runner, in a random pattern and formed in a dispersed manner, and where the first dimples are formed in shallow hemispherical shapes and the ratio of communication that is defined by the number of first dimples that communicate with the other one or more first dimples against the total number of the first dimples is 80% or more. | 15,075 |
8,995,449 | 1. A method of processing a packet comprising: receiving a key request including a key and an identifier (ID), the key including data extracted from a packet; selecting at least one entry in a table indicated by the ID, the entry providing a starting address of a path to a set of rules stored in a memory; processing the entry, based on at least one field of the key, to determine a subset of rules, the subset of rules being a portion of the set of rules; applying the at least one field against the subset of rules; and outputting a response signal indicating whether the at least one field matches at least one rule of the subset of rules. | 49,138 |
8,400,017 | 1. A wireless power transfer system for computer peripherals, comprising: a source magnetic resonator, integrated into a source station and connected to a power source and power and control circuitry; a device magnetic resonator, integrated into a computer peripheral; at least one additional device magnetic resonator, integrated into at least one additional computer peripheral; at least one additional source magnetic resonator integrated into the source station and connected to the power and control circuitry; wherein power is transferred non-radiatively from the source magnetic resonator to the device magnetic resonator, and the quality factors of the source and device resonators, Q | 17,446 |
9,067,308 | 1. A ratchet wrench, comprising: a body ( a ratchet ( a first pawl ( a first position, wherein at the first position, the first pawl ( a second position, wherein at the second position, the first pawl ( a second pawl ( a first position, wherein at the first position, the second pawl ( a second position, wherein at the second position, the second pawl ( a control member ( when the control member ( when the control member ( wherein at least one of the first pawl ( wherein the body ( | 41,572 |
9,745,869 | 1. A system, comprising: a sub-cooler including a liquid working fluid; a recuperator fluidly coupled to the sub-cooler so as to receive a first portion of the liquid working fluid; a first flow control valve fluidly coupled to the sub-cooler in parallel with the recuperator so as to receive a second portion of the liquid working fluid; and a boiler, including: | 25,903 |
9,637,858 | 1. A laundry treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet having a front panel having an introduction port; a chamber provided in the cabinet to receive laundry introduced through the introduction port; a door configured to open and close the introduction port selectively about one of a first rotational axis and a second rotational axis, the second rotational axis being different from the first rotational axis; a first switching unit provided at the door, and based on movement thereof, the first switching unit is configured to couple the door to the front panel to be rotatable about the first rotational axis; a second switching unit provided at the door, and based on movement thereof, the second switching unit is configured to couple the door to the front panel to be rotatable about the second rotational axis, wherein the second switching unit is configured to couple the door to the front panel when the first switching unit uncouples the door from the front panel; a first receiving unit configured to provide a space to install the first switching unit and the second switching unit; a second receiving unit configured to provide a space into which a user's finger can be inserted, the second receiving unit being separated from the first receiving unit; a body rotation shaft rotatably coupled to the door; a handle body provided inside the second receiving unit and fixed to the body rotation shaft; and a push unit that is fixed to the body rotation shaft to be located inside the first receiving unit and configured to make the first switching unit move when the handle body rotates, wherein the door comprises an outer frame that forms an outer circumferential surface of the door and an inner frame coupled to the outer frame to face the front panel, and the handle body is configured to rotate toward the outer frame and the push unit is configured to rotate toward the inner frame when the handle body rotates. | 21,364 |
9,227,447 | 1. An inkjet printer for recording an image on a recording medium by ejecting ink from a recording head while intermittently conveying the recording medium, the inkjet printer comprising: a recording head for ejecting ink onto a recording medium from a plurality of nozzles; conveyance means for conveying the recording medium; a carriage having the recording head mounted therein, the carriage being reciprocable in a direction intersecting with a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a platen for retaining the recording medium, the platen being arranged so as to be opposed to a surface of the recording head, on which the plurality of nozzles are arranged; a heater provided in the platen, for heating the recording medium; a housing having at least the platen and the carriage built therein; housing-suction means for sucking a gas from an outside into an inside of the housing, the housing-suction means being arranged at a position opposed to a rear surface of the carriage on an upstream side in the conveyance direction; ducts respectively provided on an upper part of the carriage on a forward side in a moving direction thereof and an upper part of the carriage on a rearward side in the moving direction thereof, the ducts being arranged so as to project toward the housing-suction means; carriage-suction means for sucking the gas, which is sucked by the housing-suction means, into the carriage, the carriage-suction means being arranged on a distal end of a projecting part of each of the ducts at a position opposed to the housing-suction means; and an exhaust port having an elongated hole shape, the exhaust port being formed along the moving direction in a lower part of a front surface of the carriage on a downstream side in the conveyance direction, wherein the housing-suction means has a height in a vertical direction, which is larger than a height of the carriage-suction means in the vertical direction, wherein the gas sucked by the housing-suction means is separated into the gas to be caused to flow through an inside of the carriage by the carriage-suction means, and into the gas to be caused to flow through an outside of the carriage, wherein the each of the ducts comprises a bending portion for causing the gas, which is sucked by the carriage-suction means, to flow in an inward direction of the carriage, wherein the gas flowing through the inside of the carriage cools the inside of the carriage, wherein the gas flowing through the inside of the carriage is discharged from the exhaust port, and wherein the discharged gas is discharged to an outside of the housing while being mixed with the gas flowing through the outside of the carriage. | 35,839 |
9,471,270 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device; a touch screen configured to sense a touch input, and switch between an active state and an inactive state, wherein the active state is in a screen on state of the touch screen and the inactive state is in a screen off state of the touch screen; and a controller configured to: recognize an external device corresponding to a touch region of a first touch input applied to the touch screen in the inactive state, receive a plurality of consecutive touch inputs applied to the touch region of the touch screen in the inactive state, and when the received touch inputs satisfy a preset criteria: unlock a locked state of the recognized external device, display an unlocked screen of the recognized external device on a first region of the inactivated touch screen in response to the unlocked state, and when the inactive state of the touch screen is switched to the active state, change the unlocked screen of the recognized external device to screen information of the mobile terminal. | 46,393 |
8,876,929 | 1. A filter device disposed in a discharge path of a moist fluid passage, in which a reactive gas containing a moisture content is exhausted from a fuel-cell stack of a fuel cell system, the filter device comprising: a fluid introducing path which introduces a fluid that flows in the discharge path; a filter to permeate the fluid introduced from the fluid introducing path and remove foreign matter in the fluid; a fluid discharge path which discharges the fluid that passed the filter; and vibrating means that vibrates the filter wherein the vibration means is a rotating driving mechanism which is connected to the filter so as to rotate and vibrate the filter, or an eccentric rotating mechanism that rotates the filter eccentrically, wherein the moisture content that adheres to the filter is flicked out toward the fluid introducing path and is removed by rotation of the filter by the rotating driving mechanism, or by eccentric rotation by the eccentric rotating mechanism. | 2,924 |
8,358,152 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: one or more logic blocks, each including a clock distribution network configured to distribute a pulse clock signal; and a clock unit coupled to the one or more logic blocks and configured to generate the pulse clock signal that is formed using a chain of inverting logic gates, and to provide the pulse clock signal to the clock distribution network; wherein the clock unit includes an enable input that is coupled to one input of one of the inverting logic gates; wherein the clock unit includes a scan enable input that is coupled to one input of another one of the inverting logic gates; wherein the clock unit includes a memory bypass input that is coupled to another input of the another one of the inverting logic gates; and wherein the clock unit is configured to selectively enable and disable the pulse clock signal in response to an enable signal on the enable input. | 24,076 |
8,614,364 | 1. A method for converting energy from a renewable energy source and a hydrocarbon feedstock into a liquid fuel comprising: using energy from a renewable energy source to power an air separation unit in communication with a synthesis gas generation unit; supplying oxygen from the air separation unit to the synthesis gas generation unit; feeding hydrocarbon feedstock to the synthesis gas generation unit; producing synthesis gas in the synthesis gas generation unit using the oxygen from the air separation unit for partial oxidation of the hydrocarbon feedstock; and converting the synthesis gas into a liquid fuel. | 43,704 |
9,570,979 | 1. A power stage of a multi-phase voltage regulator having a plurality of phases, the power stage comprising: a first switch operable to connect a load to a supply voltage in a first switching state of the power stage; a second switch operable to connect the load to ground in a second switching state of the power stage; driver circuitry operable to set the power stage in the firs switching state, the second switching state or a non-switching state in which both switches are off responsive to a switching control signal received by the power stage; and a power management unit operable to move the power stage from a nominal power mode to a first low power mode if the power stage is in the non-switching state for a predetermined time period, and move the power stage from the first low power mode to a second low power mode responsive to a control signal instructing the power stage to enter the second low power mode, wherein the power stage provides one phase of the multi-phase voltage regulator, wherein the power management unit is operable to disable the driver circuitry in the second low power mode but not in the first low power mode so that the power stage can near instantaneously return to the first switching state from the non-switching state in the first low power mode. | 12,821 |
8,848,597 | 1. A method for transmitting channel status information at a relay node, the method comprising: receiving, by the relay node from a base station, a Backhaul downlink signal including a pilot signal; performing, by the relay node, a channel estimation for a Backhaul downlink channel based upon the pilot signal included in the Backhaul downlink signal; generating, by the relay node, channel status information based upon the channel estimation, wherein the channel status information includes at least one of rank information, precoding information, or channel quality information; and transmitting, by the relay node, the channel status information through a Backhaul uplink subframe, wherein the Backhaul uplink subframe through which the channel status information is transmitted is decided based upon a subframe index to which a Backhaul downlink subframe is not designated and a Backhaul uplink transmission timing relation, wherein the channel status information is periodically transmitted from a channel status information periodic transmission starting point, and wherein the Backhaul uplink transmission timing relation corresponds to at least one of a timing relation between a Backhaul uplink grant and a Backhaul uplink data transmission or a timing relation between the Backhaul uplink data transmission and a Backhaul downlink acknowledgement response. | 41,288 |
8,674,062 | 1. A cell culture composition comprising filamentous fungus cells into which a heterologous DNA construct has been introduced to allow expression of a polypeptide in an amount that is higher than the amount expressed in the absence of said heterologous DNA construct, wherein said DNA construct comprises a DNA sequence encoding said polypeptide, and wherein said polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and has endoglucanase activity. | 33,763 |
8,868,492 | 1. A method for synchronizing a commit of a same transaction at both a primary database server and a secondary database server that replicates transactions made at the primary database server, comprising steps of: via a forward channel to said secondary database server, said primary database server transmitting, to said secondary database server for replication, log records recording changes made by said transactions; said primary database server persistently storing in a first persistent log a commit record recording a commitment of a transaction of said transactions; via said forward channel to said secondary database server, a first process executing at said primary database server transmitting said commit record to said secondary database server; via a back channel that is different than said forward channel, a second process that is different than the first process and that is executing at said primary database server receiving, from the secondary database server, an indication that said secondary database server has persistently stored said commit record in a second persistent log; in response to (1) receiving said indication that said secondary database server has persistently stored said commit record in said second persistent log and (2) said primary database server persistently storing said commit record in the first persistent log, said primary database server determining that said transaction has been committed; wherein the steps are performed by one or more computing devices. | 13,499 |
9,310,234 | 1. An apparatus for flow rate testing of a testing fluid through a tube having an inlet end and an outlet end, the apparatus comprising: a hydraulic power unit providing an inlet pressure to move the testing fluid through the tube, the hydraulic power unit having an inlet and an outlet; a plurality of test equipment connected in series with the tube, comprising: a reservoir tank supplying the testing fluid to the hydraulic power unit and collecting the testing fluid from the tube, the reservoir tank having an inlet connected to the outlet end of the tube and an outlet connected to inlet of the hydraulic power unit; and hoses interconnecting the hydraulic power unit, the flow meter, the pressure gauge, the tube, and the reservoir tank in a closed loop that reuses the testing fluid. | 21,295 |
8,392,207 | 1. A method for managing insurance claim denials on behalf of a healthcare provider, comprising the steps of: receiving a claim denial and a patient medical record associated with said claim denial from said healthcare provider over a communications network by a nurse review module of a server operated by a third-party service provider; comparing said claim denial to a denial status grid comprising a list of denial types and an appeal success rate for each denial type on the list by said nurse review module of said server, wherein said nurse review module provides a recommendation to proceed with or to decline to proceed with an appeal of the claim; determining to proceed with the appeal of the claim denial based on the recommendation; preparing an appeals package comprising an appeals overturn letter and a supporting document in support of said appeal to said claim denial by said nurse review module of said server; submitting said appeals package to said an insurer associated with said claim denial by an appeals coordinating module of said server over said communications network to file said appeal to said claim denial; monitoring the progress of said appeal filed with said insurer by a process management module of said server; and processing an appeal determination received from said insurer; and determining by an appeals decision matrix module of said server to file a second level appeal when said appeal is denied or partially denied. | 6,741 |
9,114,753 | 1. An apparatus to simulate fuel loss to a motor comprising: a fuel level monitor; and a device in communication with said monitor, wherein said device intermittently simulates fuel loss conditions when said fuel level monitor measures fuel to be at a predetermined fuel level by intermittently interrupting power to an ignition system, wherein the predetermined fuel level is greater than zero. | 37,771 |
9,554,890 | 1. A prosthetic capsular device system configured to be inserted in a natural capsular bag of an eye after removal of a lens, the system comprising: a prosthetic capsular device, the prosthetic capsular device comprising: a medicament delivery device, the medicament delivery device comprising: | 21,648 |
9,175,643 | 1. A system for controlling EGR stream outlet temperature before entering an engine intake system, the control system comprising: an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve positioned within an EGR passage fluidly connecting an engine exhaust stream and an engine intake stream; a super heater fluidly coupled by an inlet and an outlet to the EGR passage after the EGR valve; a boiler fluidly coupled by an inlet to the super heater and by an outlet to the EGR passage; a first temperature sensor for determining a temperature of an EGR stream exiting the boiler; a waste heat recovery (WHR) system for recovering heat from an EGR stream passing through the EGR passage, the WHR system comprising: a fluid loop including a fluid pump continuously circulating a working fluid from an outlet end of the pump to an inlet end of the pump, wherein the loop passes into and out of the boiler and then into and out of the super heater; a condenser coupled to the fluid loop; a turbine coupled to the fluid loop; a recuperator coupled to the fluid loop; a three-way valve coupled to the fluid loop to a position after the super heater and before the turbine; a bypass valve coupled to the fluid loop for diverting the working fluid away from the boiler; and a controller electronically coupled to the first temperature sensor, the three-way valve and the bypass valve, wherein the controller opens the bypass valve in response to a temperature signal from the first temperature sensor, and wherein; the controller diverts the working fluid to a variable expansion valve fluidly coupled to the three-way valve in response to a temperature signal from the first temperature sensor. | 47,133 |
9,616,768 | 1. A method for controlling an electric machine for a drive train of a motor vehicle, wherein the electric machine can provide a torque both at positive and also at negative rotation speeds, the method comprising: performing a checking procedure with the aid of a characteristic curve as to whether a desired torque value can be provided by the electric machine, wherein the characteristic curve represents a limit torque with respect to the rotation speed and comprises a first section for positive rotation speeds and a second section for negative rotation speeds, the first section and the second section being arranged in the same quadrant of a graph; controlling the torque output by the electric machine and provided from the drive train to wheels so that the torque does not exceed the limit torque for the rotation speed; and during the procedure of starting up the electric machine from the rotation speed of zero, initially the particular section of the characteristic curve that has a lower limit torque in a start-up range is used in the checking procedure irrespective of an algebraic sign of the rotation speed. | 45,759 |
9,266,801 | 1. A process for the production of an aliphatic alcohol, including the co-production of ether, by the indirect hydration of an olefin in a reactor having a multistage adsorption section with counter current flow of olefin feed and sulfuric acid, comprising the recycle of said ether and injection of said ether into said process under conditions effective to provide said ether as a vapor, wherein there is an extract saturation (ES) gradient in 2 or more reactor stages and said ether is injected at a reactor stage that has a higher ES than the lowest ES location. | 17,256 |
9,290,926 | 1. An apparatus for supporting adjacent parallel spaced apart joists from front surface of a perpendicular beam, each of said joists extending between first and second ends and having top and bottom edges, the apparatus comprising: an elongate member sized to extend between a first end proximate to a top edge of a first joist and a second end proximate to a bottom edge of an second adjacent joist; a joist support platform extending from said second end of said elongate member adapted to receive a bottom edge of a first joist thereon; a pair of bottom fastening strips sized to extend substantially upwards from said joist support platform along said beam over a top edge of said beam wherein said bottom fastening strips having a planar surface parallel to said front surface of said beam; and a joist cap extending from said first end of said elongate member adapted to overly a top edge of a second joist adjacent to said first joist. | 5,550 |
8,792,131 | 1. An image processing system comprising a first image forming apparatus, a second image forming apparatus whose model is the same as a model of the first image forming apparatus, and an information processing system, wherein the first image forming apparatus includes a request unit configured, in printing an image designated by a user, to transmit a request for acquiring image data corresponding to the image designated by the user and having been stored within the information processing system to the information processing system, wherein the information processing system includes a dependent processing unit configured, if a request transmitted from the request unit has been received, to execute image processing dependent on a model of the first image forming apparatus on the image data, wherein the first image forming apparatus further includes: a storage unit configured to receive the image data that has been image-processed by the dependent processing unit and to store the received image data; and a first printing unit configured to print the received image data stored on the storage unit, wherein the information processing system further includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a shortcut for referring to the received image data stored on the storage unit to the second image forming apparatus of the same model as the first image forming apparatus, and wherein the second image forming apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured, in printing the image designated by the user, to acquire the received image data stored on the storage unit based on a reference location indicated by the shortcut transmitted from the transmission unit; and a second printing unit configured to print the image data acquired by the acquisition unit. | 18,719 |
8,784,764 | 1. A method for producing an activated carbon material comprising: forming an aqueous mixture consisting essentially of a natural, non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor selected from the group consisting of wheat flour, corn flour, rice flour and potato flour, and an inorganic compound; heating the aqueous mixture in an inert or reducing atmosphere to form a first carbon material; and removing the inorganic compound from the first carbon material to produce a powdered activated carbon material. | 20,348 |
9,282,667 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a display module to display an image; and a variable member to vary a shape of the display module, wherein the variable member comprises wherein a distance between the opposite ends of the second portion is varied such that the opposite ends of the first portion protrude with respect to a central region of the first portion and thereby, the display module is varied in shape. | 17,408 |
9,342,137 | 1. A power system, comprising: at least one powered component; a system capacitance coupled to the at least one powered component; at least one power supply coupled to the at least one powered component, wherein the at least one power supply is configured to operate as a voltage controlled current source to supply power to the at least one powered component when a system load current is below a predetermined threshold, and wherein in direct response to the system load current increasing above the predetermined threshold, the at least one power supply is configured to transition from operation as the voltage controlled current source to operate as a constant current source to supply power, together with the system capacitance, to the at least one powered component when the system load is above the predetermined threshold; and a load reduction mechanism coupled to the at least one powered component and configured to perform at least one load reduction action when the system load current is above the predetermined threshold. | 45,573 |
8,450,376 | 1. A bupropion hydrobromide granulate comprising bupropion hydrobromide and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the bupropion hydrobromide exists in amorphous form. | 20,303 |
8,543,300 | 1. A vehicle behavior control apparatus comprising: a longitudinal driving force distribution control unit configured to control a driving force distribution between front wheels and rear wheels according to a vehicle motion state; and a braking force control unit configured to add a braking force to a wheel that is set according to a driving state of the vehicle, wherein the control of the driving force distribution by the longitudinal driving force distribution control unit is executed later than the addition of the braking force by the braking force control unit. | 35,932 |
8,374,774 | 1. A vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body; a riding portion; an active weight portion attached to the vehicle body so as to be movable forward and rearward in a traveling direction, a driving wheel rotatably attached to the vehicle body; and a vehicle control apparatus configured to control driving torque that is applied to the driving wheel and to control posture of the vehicle body, wherein when climbing up/down a step on a road, the vehicle control apparatus is configured to control a position of center of gravity of the vehicle body (1) in accordance with the step, (2) by changing a tilt angle of the vehicle body, and (3) by moving the active weight portion in such a manner that when climbing up/down the step on the road, the riding portion is first moved without tilting the vehicle body and the vehicle body starts being tilted when the riding portion reaches the moving limit of the active weight portion. | 36,900 |
9,063,532 | 1. A state machine engine comprising: a state machine lattice comprises a plurality of configurable elements; an instruction buffer configured to provide a first instruction associated with an operation of the state machine engine; and an instruction insertion register configured to provide a second instruction associated with the operation of the state machine engine, wherein the state machine engine is configured to remove the first instruction from the instruction buffer in response to an indication that the operation of the state machine engine should be interrupted, wherein the instruction insertion register is configured to provide the second instruction to the state machine lattice in response to an indication that the operation of the state machine may be resumed, wherein the indication that the operation of the state machine engine may be resumed comprises an indication that the state machine lattice is able to analyze data and wherein the second instruction comprises an initialization instruction to indicate that instructions from the instruction buffer are forthcoming. | 37,265 |
9,593,231 | 1. An off-road tire characterized by using as a tread rubber, a rubber composition comprising (A) a rubber component comprising a conjugate diene base rubber, (B) a filler comprising 10 mass % or more of silica based on the total amount of filler, (C) a partial ester compound selected from the group consisting of mono[POP(5) lauryl ether] maleic acid ester, mono[POP(5) myristyl ether] maleic acid ester and mono[POP(5) 2-ethylhexyl ether] maleic acid ester, and (D) a petroleum base resin having a softening point of 30 to 150° C. and an α-olefin base resin, wherein the conjugate diene base rubber comprises at least a styrene-butadiene copolymer rubber. | 35,137 |
9,606,800 | 1. A microprocessor comprising: a front end module configured to a schedule queue module configured to wherein the schedule queue module is configured to reject storing an additional one of the first decoded instructions from the front end module in response to a count of the stored first decoded instructions in the schedule queue module exceeding a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is smaller than a total number of instructions that the schedule queue module is capable of storing, and wherein the first threshold is based on a difference between (i) the total number of instructions and (ii) a total number of threads serviced by the front end module. | 12,551 |
9,090,163 | 1. An automotive vehicle comprising: a battery pack (i) including a plurality of electrically connected storage cells each having an output voltage at a target storage cell state of charge and (ii) configured to provide energy to move the vehicle; a plurality of solar cells electrically connected in series to form a solar panel array having an output voltage at least equal to the sum of the respective output voltages of each of the storage cells at the target storage cell state of charge; and a controller configured to selectively electrically connect the solar panel array and the battery pack to charge the battery pack. | 34,800 |
9,706,096 | 1. A method for taking photo suitable for a mobile device, wherein the mobile device operates in coordination with an extension flash module to achieve fill light, the method comprising: detecting a specific event from the mobile device by the extension flash module before a flashable time, wherein the flashable time is a period from the time at which a last row of photo sensors of a specific frame begins exposure to the time at which a first row of photo sensors of the specific frame ends exposure, wherein the time at which the specific event occurs is a relatively fixed length of time compared to the flashable time, wherein the extension module is a external module out of the mobile device; and triggering a flash instruction so that the extension flash module flashes during the flashable time according to a flash delay time and the period from the specific event to the flashable time, wherein the flash delay time is a delay between the mobile device and the extension flash module, wherein the delay is between triggering a flash instruction to the actual flashing, and wherein t | 16,688 |
9,416,867 | 1. A planetary gear stage ( 2 ) for a gearbox ( 1 ), the planetary gear stage ( 2 ) comprising: a ring gear ( each of the plain bearing arrangements ( | 33,776 |
8,638,759 | 1. A method for evaluating an access point for initial communication establishment or reselection thereto, comprising: estimating a first energy efficiency related to a pathloss and/or a level of interference associated with a first access point, wherein the pathloss relates to a reduction in power of a signal between a transmitter and a receiver; comparing the first energy efficiency to a second energy efficiency of a second access point to determine which one of the first energy efficiency or the second energy efficiency is higher; and at least partly in response to the determination, establishing communication with the first access point if the first energy efficiency is higher than the second energy efficiency or establishing communication with the second access point if the second energy efficiency is higher than the first energy efficiency; wherein the first energy efficiency or the second energy efficiency are computed based at least partly on a symbol rate, a total received power, a received signal power, and the pathloss. | 21,631 |
8,621,080 | 1. A method for accurately predicting capacity requirements for information technology resources, the method comprising: translating business demand into information technology application demand, wherein said M is a set of demand metrics, wherein said M translating said information technology application demand into information technology architecture layer demand; creating resource groups for each information technology application, information technology architecture layer and resource type combination, wherein said resource type is a type of information technology resource used to process said information technology application demand; and computing, by a processor, utilization for each information technology resource group within information technology architecture layers using said created resource groups, said information technology application demand and said information technology architecture layer demand. | 6,062 |
8,769,593 | 1. A method of providing movies or television programs to a client terminal, the client terminal connectable to a video distribution system and a display device, the method comprising the steps of: splitting a complete movie or television program by the video distribution system into an initial program segment and a remaining program segment, wherein the initial program segment is separately broadcast by the video distribution system during a first broadcast time interval during which the remaining program segment is not broadcast and the remaining program segment is separately broadcast by the video distribution system during a second broadcast time interval during which the initial program segment is not broadcast; during the first broadcast time interval, automatically recording the initial program segment of the complete movie or television program in a local memory without user input at the client terminal, wherein the first broadcast time interval occurs during an off-peak hour; during the second broadcast time interval, at the client terminal: | 36,679 |
9,371,209 | 1. A folding apparatus for forming a pattern of single-folded interfolded sheets from a single web of material, the folding apparatus comprising: a sheet cutoff system receiving the single web of material to form a single stream of alternating first and second sheets; a sheet overlap system downstream from the sheet cutoff system operable in a single-folded interfolded mode to orient the stream of alternating first and second sheets into parallel first and second streams of sheets in an alternating overlap orientation, the first stream of sheets being formed by the first sheets and the second stream of sheets being formed by the second sheets, the alternating overlap orientation has each first sheet overlapped with a tail end of a downstream second sheet downstream from the first sheet and a leading end of an upstream second sheet upstream from the first sheet, with both the tail end of downstream second sheet and the leading end of the upstream second sheet being positioned on a same side of the overlapping first sheet, the tail end of the downstream second sheet being positioned adjacent the leading end of the upstream second sheet; first and second counter-rotating folding rolls forming a folding nip therebetween for passage through the folding nip the parallel first and second streams of sheets to produce the single-folded interfolded sheets; and the sheet cutoff system, sheet overlap system and first and second counter-rotating folding rolls defining a sheet flow path, all sheets passing along the sheet flow path from the sheet cutoff system through the folding nip. | 48,146 |
9,259,255 | 1. An orthopedic plate system for use in bone, comprising: an orthopedic implant including a longitudinal axis, and an external surface surrounding an implant through opening formed about an implant through opening axis and defining an implant internal wall with threads; a fixed angle fastener having a head portion having external threads that are capable of mating with the threads of the implant internal wall; and a variable angle locking assembly comprising a locking insert having external threads that are capable of mating with the threads of the implant through opening and having a locking insert internal wall defined by a locking insert through opening which forms a torque driving recess about a locking insert through opening axis whereby the locking insert can be screwed into or removed from the through opening of the implant using the torque driving recess, and a variable angle locking fastener having a variable angle fastener longitudinal axis and a portion for attachment in the bone, and a variable angle fastener head having an external threaded portion, the locking insert internal wall comprising a material that will deform relative to a material of the external threads of the head of the variable angle fastener and the external threads of the variable angle fastener head interacting with the locking insert internal wall to cause the material of the locking insert to flow and accept the head of the variable angle fastener so that the variable angle fastener head will seat in the locking insert in a locked relation to the implant whereby the variable angle fastener longitudinal axis may be coaxial with the locking insert through opening axis or may form an angle up to about 15° relative to the locking insert through opening axis. | 40,423 |
9,634,165 | 1. A method comprising: illuminating, during a manufacturing process, a photovoltaic cell to receive a time integrated irradiance, such that the cumulative power of electromagnetic radiation received by the photovoltaic cell is equivalent to at least 5 hours of solar illumination; and annealing, during the manufacturing process, the photovoltaic cell at a temperature above 90 degrees Celsius for a minimum of 10 minutes, wherein annealing the photovoltaic cell further comprises illuminating the photovoltaic cell during the annealing, the annealing in response to illuminating the photovoltaic cell. | 1,531 |
8,498,863 | 1. A method for processing a mixed acoustic signal comprised of multiple acoustic signals, the method comprising: localizing multiple time-frequency regions of a spectrogram of the mixed acoustic signal to obtain one or more acoustic properties from respective regions; providing at least one pitch estimate for at least one of the multiple acoustic signals as a function of combining the acoustic properties from multiple regions; and recovering at least one of the multiple acoustic signals as a function of the at least one pitch estimate, the recovering including demodulating individual signal contents using the at least one pitch estimate to recover information corresponding to and individual acoustic signal. | 19,853 |
8,737,031 | 1. A voltage monitoring circuit for monitoring voltages across N chargeable and dischargeable series-connected cells of a battery module with a load being connected between a maximum potential and a minimum potential of the battery module, and a current blocking switch being connected between at least a pair of adjacent ones of the cells, wherein N+1 wires are connected from positive terminals and negative terminals of the cells to the voltage monitoring circuit, the voltage monitoring circuit comprising: switching elements connected in series to respective ones of the N+1 wires apart from a wire carrying the maximum potential or the minimum potential, the switching elements being openable and closable by control signals from control lines branched from adjacent ones of the respective wires; resistive elements connected in series respectively to the control lines between control input terminals of the switching elements and the adjacent ones of the respective wires; and anti-fuse elements connected respectively between the control input terminals and the respective wires, the wires being disconnected and connected when the switching elements are opened and closed. | 18,976 |
9,287,331 | 1. A display unit comprising: a display section having a first pixel, second pixel, and a third pixel, wherein the second driving circuit is located between the first driving circuit and the third driving circuit, | 13,224 |
9,391,637 | 1. A method comprising: maintaining a reserved cache line in a plurality of cache lines to store error correcting code (ECC) data, wherein the reserved cache line does not have a virtual memory address and the plurality of cache lines other than the reserved cache line have a virtual memory address; | 43,580 |
9,114,582 | 1. A method for producing a central wing box having an upper panel, a lower panel, a front spar and a rear spar, the upper edges of said spars approximately parallel to an axis Y being connected by the upper panel, and the lower edges of said spars approximately parallel to the axis Y being connected by the lower panel, comprising the step: producing at least one panel and at least one spar from composite material in one piece; wherein the central wing box is produced by wrapping of at least one fiber reinforcement about the axis Y on a mandrel, the said central box having stiffeners parallel to the axis Y in the region of the internal surfaces, including the further steps of depositing fiber reinforcements on removable mandrels in such a way as to obtain a U-shaped profile for each removable mandrel, joining the removable mandrels onto a main mandrel by attaching the U-shaped profiles in such a way that the two arms of two adjacent U-shaped profiles form a stiffener, wherein when the removable mandrels are joined to the main mandrel the removable mandrels protrude outwardly from an exterior surface of the main mandrel, wherein the removable mandrel is only in direct contact with the main mandrel at a surface of attachment to the main mandrel, then wrapping at least one fiber reinforcement around the axis Y; wherein the mandrel is leakproof and extends on either side of the wing box in such a way as to offer a surface on either side for contact with a leakproof space that makes it possible to define a hermetically sealed space with the mandrel; and including the steps of disposing between the fibrous elements forming the central wing box and a bladder at least one smoothing plate comprising at least two parts connected by an articulated joint permitting a relative rotary movement between the said two parts along an axis of rotation parallel to the axis Y. | 34,696 |
9,352,836 | 1. An aircraft interior modular system comprising: a support layer assembly, said support layer assembly comprising: means for attaching the aircraft interior modular system to an interior structure of an aircraft. | 49,400 |
8,576,473 | 1. A smart window comprising: a transparent substrate; a thermochromic or thermotropic transmittance controlling layer on the transparent substrate; and a heater layer for generating heat in response to an external energy source and for supplying the heat to the transmittance controlling layer to control the light transmittance of the smart window, the external energy source comprising a microwave emitter for emitting microwaves. | 18,124 |
9,056,080 | 1. A method of increasing perfusion in a hypoxic region of a tissue in a subject, the method comprising: (a) administering to the subject: (b) increasing perfusion in a hypoxic region of a tissue in a subject through the administering of step (a). | 19,101 |
9,232,085 | 1. A portable terminal apparatus comprising a display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor is configured to: set a scan job for an image processing apparatus to scan a document and return scanned data to the portable terminal apparatus; allow a user to select a first file format for the scanned data when the scan job is set; allow the display to display the scanned data in a preview display area; judge whether or not the first file format selected is enabled such that the scanned data can be displayed on the display; judge whether or not a second file format is enabled such that scanned data in the second file format can be displayed on the display and also can be converted into the first file format, upon the first file format being judged as being not enabled such that scanned data in the first file format cannot be displayed on the display; set the first file format for the scan job upon the first file format being judged as being enabled such that scanned data in the first file format can be displayed on the display, sets the second file format for the scan job, not the first file format, upon the first file format being judged as being not enabled such that scanned data in the first file format cannot be displayed on the display and the second file format being judged as being enabled, and sets the first file format for the scan job upon the first file format being judged as being not enabled such that scanned data in the first file format cannot be displayed on the display and the second file format being judged as being not enabled; allow the transmitter to transmit the scan job to the image processing apparatus, the scan job including information of the set file format; allow the receiver to receive the scanned data from the image processing apparatus as a result of execution of the scan job; allow the display to display the scanned data in an enabled file format in the preview display area, the scanned data being received by the receiver; convert the scanned data from the second file format to the first file format, the scanned data being received by the receiver; and a storage that stores the scanned data in the first file format, the scanned data being received by the receiver, or the converted scanned data converted from the second file format into the first file format. | 25,767 |
9,327,207 | 1. A spherical desalination device, comprising: a hollow, spherical transparent shell defining an internal volume and having an internal surface; a plurality of evaporator trays disposed within the shell, the trays ranging from an uppermost tray to a lowermost tray; a subterranean geothermal water heating system communicating with the internal volume of the shell, the geothermal water heating system being adapted for receiving water to be desalinated; a motor disposed external to the shell, the motor selectively rotating the shell about a horizontal axis, the shell rotating about the evaporator trays; and a resilient seal disposed about the circumference of the lowermost tray, the seal bearing against the internal surface of the shell and wiping condensation from the internal surface of the shell as the shell rotates. | 47,922 |
9,195,509 | 1. A method for optimizing workload placement in a networked cloud computing environment, comprising: defining the networked cloud computing environment as comprising a plurality of independent cloud networks; monitoring a workload; determining, based on the monitoring, whether the workload is new or previously-exists; if the workload is new, determining where to initially place the workload, and placing the workload onto an initial platform based on the determination, the initial platform comprising a first hardware and software combination; if the workload previously-exists, locating the workload on a current platform for further evaluation, the current platform and the initial platform comprising the same platform; taking a measurement of a performance of the workload on a combination of software and hardware of a current platform of an independent cloud network using a set of performance metrics, the set of performance metrics comprising at least one of throughput and energy consumption; identifying an optimal platform for handling the workload based on a set of service level agreement (SLA) terms and a comparison of the measurement of the performance of the workload on the combination of software and hardware of the current platform to measurements of a performance of the workload on a combination of software and hardware of each of all of a plurality of platforms of independent cloud networks where the workload has been measured; determining whether the optimal platform has availability to handle the workload; evaluating if a scarce resource is needed; if a scarce resource is needed, evaluating an effect of swapping the workload with active resources on the optimal platform; if the swapping is not effective, fetching a next workload; if it is determined that the optimal platform has the availability, recommending to migrate the workload to the optimal platform; and migrating the workload from the current platform to the optimal platform if it is recommended. | 36,443 |
8,822,169 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of an antagonist of high mobility group 1 (HMG1) protein, wherein the amount of the antagonist is effective to inhibit HMG1-mediated activation of the inflammatory cytokine cascade, and wherein the HMG1 antagonist is selected from an antibody that specifically binds to HMG1, an antigen-binding fragment of said antibody, or an HMG1 antisense sequence, wherein the HMG1 comprises an antigenic fragment of SEQ ID NO: 4. | 49,364 |
8,758,884 | 1. An instrument display board comprising: a light-transmitting substrate, at least one partial print layer, a different-color print layer having a color tone different from that of the partial print layer, said partial print layer and said different-color print layer being provided on a back surface of the light-transmitting substrate, the difference of the color of said partial print layer and said different-color print layer is visible by an incident light upon the instrument display board, and a shield member which is provided at a position on a front surface of the light-transmitting substrate, said position corresponding to a position surrounding a part of the outer periphery of the partial print layer or the whole of the outer periphery of the partial print layer, wherein the shield member is seen between the partial print layer and the different-color print layer when the instrument display board is viewed from a direction facing the front surface, a portion of the light-transmitting substrate corresponding to the partial print layer is a transparent layer, and the shield member is fixed to the front surface of the light-transmitting substrate through an adhesive or a pressure-sensitive adhesive. | 45,017 |
9,158,348 | 1. A thermal management system comprising: a heat spreader configured to attach to an in-line memory module; a liquid-cooler block having a heat-conducting cold plate comprising: a plurality of breaking features located in the flow path of at least one of the plurality of internal liquid channels; and a securing mechanism configured to maintain thermal communication between the heat spreader and the exterior surface of the cold plate; whereby the thermal management system is configured to transfer heat generated by the in-line memory module from the heat spreader to the cold plate, for removal by the liquid circulating in the plurality of internal liquid channels. | 43,193 |
9,235,964 | 1. A method of operating a gaming system configured to provide one or more casino wagering games, said method comprising: establishing, via a network communication interface of the gaming system, a network communication link between the gaming system and a mobile device separate from the gaming system, wherein the gaming system is configured to present primary wagering game content for the one or more casino wagering games via one or more electronic display devices of the gaming system, and wherein the gaming system includes a value input device configured to receive monetary input for placement of wagers on the one or more casino wagering games; electronically selecting, from a memory storage unit of the gaming system, secondary wagering game content after establishing the network communication link with the mobile device; providing, via the network communication interface, the secondary wagering game content to the mobile device via the network communication link; and in response to the providing of the secondary wagering game content to the mobile device, modifying, via one or more electronic processing units of the gaming system, the primary wagering game content to cause a default theoretical payout percentage for the one or more casino wagering games to reduce in value related to a portion of the default theoretical payout percentage electronically apportioned to the secondary wagering game content. | 35,459 |
9,465,386 | 1. A mobile robotic trolley-based processing system, comprising: a conveyor platform comprising a conveying track, a plurality of air supply valves arranged along said conveying track and connected to a gas supply pipeline, a gantry support unit, said gantry support unit comprising a catenary suspending above said conveying track, a water supply unit having a plurality of water nozzle tubes and at least one conveyer extending along said conveying track for delivering profile materials; at least one machine tool provided at one side of said conveying track for processing profile materials; and at least one mobile robotic trolley, each said mobile robotic trolley comprising a trolley chassis supported on and movable along said conveying track, a plurality of connectors connectable to said air supply valves for conveying air, a pantograph mounted at said trolley chassis and kept in contact with said catenary for collecting power supply from said catenary, a drive control system mounted at said trolley chassis, said drive control system comprising a transmission module linkable to an external central control system for receiving control signals from said external central control system, a cleaner mounted at said trolley chassis and controllable by said drive control system to clean profile materials, said cleaner comprising a cleaner tank for cleaning profile materials and a water inlet pipe connectable to one said water nozzle tube of said water supply unit, and a robot arm mounted at said trolley chassis and controllable by said drive control system to transfer profile materials among said conveyers, said cleaner and said machine tools, and wherein said air supply valves are arranged along two opposite lateral sides of said conveying track; said gantry support unit comprises a plurality of gantry supports spaced along said conveying track; said catenary is suspended from said gantry supports above said conveying track; and said water nozzle tubes are respectively mounted at said gantry supports. | 26,015 |
8,808,411 | 1. A process for making a high purity gas comprising the steps of: (a) adding a carbon-containing feed stream into a first bath vessel containing a first molten metal bath, wherein the first bath vessel is maintained at a pressure, P (b) removing the first vessel gas stream from the first bath vessel and introducing the first vessel gas stream into a third bath vessel containing a third molten metal bath, wherein the third bath vessel is maintained at a third pressure, P (c) removing the third vessel gas stream from the third bath vessel, and optionally condensing the SO (d) adding steam to a fourth bath vessel containing a fourth molten metal bath characterized by a low carbon content, wherein the fourth bath vessel is maintained at a fourth pressure, P (e) adding one or more gas streams produced by step (c) and/or (d) to a second bath vessel containing a second molten metal bath maintained at a second pressure, P | 13,370 |
9,099,632 | 1. A package structure, comprising: a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; a metal layer disposed over at least a portion of the second side of the substrate, wherein a segment of the metal layer extends through the substrate from the first side to the second side, and wherein a portion of the substrate is completely enclosed in a cross-sectional view by the metal layer; a light-reflective layer disposed over the first side of the substrate; and a photonic device bonded to the light-reflective layer from the first side; wherein the package structure is free of a bonding wire over the second side of the substrate. | 44,631 |
9,762,675 | 1. A method of receiving a data set, the method comprising: establishing a first network connection between a server and a first client; receiving at the first client a first data set from the server over the first network connection; and providing, to an interface of the first client, the first data set, wherein (i) data in the first data set is provided from data in a second data set received at the server from a second client via a second network connection, (ii) the second network connection is established by the sending of an inbound connection request by the second client to the server, the second client being inaccessible via inbound connection requests, and (iii) the data in the first data set is represented according to a first data representation independent of a data representation corresponding to the second client. | 11,673 |
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