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9,180,038 | 1. A walker having height adjustment, comprising: a base including an outsole having a roil over shape and an insole provided along an inside surface of the base for receiving a foot; and at least one adjustable length strut assembly connected to the base; wherein the walker can be converted between a fully extended configuration and a fully retracted configuration, as well as to numerous configurations having a plurality heights between the fully extended and the fully retracted configurations, the at least one strut assembly including a strut extension; a lower strut support extending upwardly from the base, the lower strut support forming a receiving slot for slidably receiving the strut extension therein, the lower strut support integrally formed with the base and a same material forming the base; a strut sleeve connected to a top surface of the lower strut support and defining a slot corresponding to the receiving slot of the lower strut support for slidably receiving the strut extension therein, and the strut sleeve including at least one strap connecting mechanism; a strut cuff provided at a proximal end of the strut extension; wherein the strut extension generally extends a maximum extended length from the receiving slot in the fully extended configuration such that the maximum extended length is defined as a segment of the strut extension extending beyond the strut sleeve and outside of the lower strut support including a portion extending within the strut sleeve, and the strut extension extends within the receiving slot a distance that is slightly less than the maximum extended length in the fully retracted configuration such that the strut cuff and the strut sleeve abut one another. | 8,781 |
8,720,201 | 1. A method of sensing a reduction in fuel screen area in a fuel system, the method comprising: detecting an engine shutdown; initiating an electronic engine control (EEC) built in test; shifting a metering valve from a first position to a second position; determining a travel time of the metering valve; and sensing a reduction in fuel screen area based on the travel time of the metering valve. | 29,170 |
9,643,287 | 1. A method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade in a production facility, comprising the steps of: positioning a first overhung gantry to extend transversely over an elongated first mould part for manufacturing one of a first part and a second part of the blade, after positioning the first overhung gantry, moving the first overhung gantry in a first direction to perform a first working action at the first mould part with a first tool mounted on the first overhung gantry, moving the first overhung gantry from the first mould part to an elongated second mould part for manufacturing the other of the first and the second part of the blade through movement of the first overhung gantry in a second direction transverse to the first direction, positioning the first overhung gantry to extend transversely over the second mould part, and performing a second working action at the second mould part by means of the first tool or a second tool mounted on the first overhung gantry. | 21,394 |
9,734,643 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a location determination and user identification system operating in a personal computing device having at least one processor, data associated with a signal from a location beacon, the signal being a low-power radio signal emitted from a location beacon at a banking center of a financial institution; determining, by the location determination and user identification system operating in the personal computing device, a location of the personal computing device based on the received data associated with the signal emitted from the location beacon, wherein the location of the personal computing device is within a predefined proximity of a location of the location beacon; identifying, by the location determination and user identification system, a unique identifier associated with the personal computing device within the predefined proximity of the location of the location beacon, the unique identifier including an international mobile station equipment identity (IMEI) of the personal computing device; based on the unique identifier associated with the personal computing device within the predefined proximity of the location of the location beacon, identifying a user associated with the personal computing device within the predefined proximity of the location of the location beacon; determining, by the location determination and user identification system, whether the identified user is entitled to access a secure area within the banking center; responsive to determining that the user is entitled to access to the secure area, providing access to the secure area within the banking center to the user based on the identification of the user associated with the personal computing device, the access being provided for a predetermined amount of time; determining whether the user has accessed the secure area within the predetermined amount of time; and responsive to determining that the user has not accessed the secure area within the predetermined amount of time, canceling the provided access. | 4,627 |
9,127,845 | 1. An electric fireplace comprising: a housing comprising an electric fireplace and heater; a simulated fire generator within a viewing area of the housing; a controller electrically coupled to the housing, the controller configured to control one or more functions of the electric fireplace and heater; a display screen for displaying operative functions of said electric fireplace and heater; and the display screen being attached to the housing and configured to move from a non-view position to a view position in response to the controller. | 41,649 |
8,915,709 | 1. A method of determining an angle of attack for an airfoil in a flowing fluid, wherein an angle of attack is an angle between a flow direction of the flowing fluid and a chord of the airfoil, the method comprising: emitting a light beam from a leading edge of the airfoil into the flowing fluid at an emission angle, wherein the light beam is backscattered by particles in the flowing fluid as backscattered light; receiving a portion of the backscattered light at the emission angle; and determining the angle of attack for the airfoil as the emission angle at which a maximum velocity occurs based on the received portion of the backscattered light, wherein the maximum velocity is greater than or equal to a determined velocity. | 32,770 |
8,943,339 | 1. A data transmitting apparatus for processing data to be transmitted to a data receiving apparatus which reproduces received data stored in a received data storage unit, comprising: a signal processor for processing data; a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the data processed in said signal processor to said data receiving apparatus; a signal processing controller for controlling said signal processor to operate intermittently; a clock/power controller for restricting a clock signal supply and/or power supply to said signal processing controller during a non-operating time period of said intermittent operation; a wake-up controller for lifting the restriction put by said clock/power controller based on an amount of data stored in said received data storage unit; and a sending data storage unit for temporarily storing the data processed by said signal processor, wherein said transmitter wirelessly transmits the data processed by said signal processor and stored by said sending data storage unit to said receiving apparatus while said signal processor is processing another data, said transmitter wirelessly transmits the data to said receiving apparatus during an operating time period of said intermittent operation of signal processing by said signal processor, the data processed by said signal processor and stored by said sending data storage unit during a previous operating time period of said intermittent operation, and said transmitter stops wirelessly transmitting the data processed by said signal processor during the non-operating time period of said intermittent operation of said signal processor. | 35,357 |
9,468,398 | 1. A method for detecting and quantifying intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEPi) of a respiratory patient breathing with the assistance of a ventilator comprising: receiving by a processing device respiratory airway data from one or more sensors adapted to non-invasively monitor a respiratory patient; correcting for leaks in an airway circuit of the ventilator by the processing device by modifying the respiratory airway data to compensate for leak flow in the respiratory airway data; calculating from the modified respiratory airway data by the processing device two or more parameters that are indicative of or quantify intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure of the patient; and generating by the processing device an indication of intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure based on the two or more parameters. | 40,895 |
9,464,112 | 1. A peptide inhibiting NF-κB activity as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4. | 6,805 |
8,663,739 | 1. A method of manufacturing a mat containing silica aerogel, the method comprising: (S1) producing a wet gel by mixing water glass, an acidic solution, and alcohol in a reactor; (S2) modifying a surface of the wet gel by adding an organic silane compound and an organic solvent to the reactor and mixing; (S3) separating an upper liquid from a solution in the reactor and impregnating a fibrous matrix with the upper liquid; and (S4) drying the fibrous matrix impregnated with the upper liquid. | 61 |
8,629,570 | 1. A blade assembly for a horizontal-axis wind turbine rotor comprising: a central rotor hub having a central axis and a rotor hub shaft; said rotor hub shaft having a portion extended in a front of said central rotor hub and another portion extended in a rear of said central rotor hub; a plurality of blades mounted on said central rotor to rotate through a plane of rotation, each of said blades lying along a blade axis and having a proximal end radially extended from said central rotor and a distal end outwardly extending to define a blade surface between said proximal end and said distal end, wherein said blade surfaces are arranged in such a manner that when an air flow exerts on said blade surfaces, said central rotor is driven to rotate for generating a rotational power to a power generator; a plurality of rods or cables of equal size, made of a rigid hard or flexible material; each end of a first group of said plurality of rods or cables of equal size connecting with each other to form a plurality of frames; each corner of a first frame of said plurality of frames fixedly or movably attached to said blade surface of one of said plurality of blades; each one end of a second group of said plurality of rods or cables of equal size fixedly or movably attached to each said corner of said first frame and each other end of said second group of said plurality of rods or cables of equal size fixedly or movably attached to said front extended portion of said rotor hub shaft. | 41,925 |
9,677,850 | 1. A device for aligning the cross-hairs of a reticle of a telescopic sight mounted on a mounting surface of a firearm, the device comprising: a first card having at least one reference line arrayed across a front surface of the first card and at least one reference line arrayed across a rear surface of the first card; a second card having at least one reference line arrayed across a front surface of the second card and at least one reference line arrayed across a rear surface of the second card; a connecting element holding the first card and the second card together in a common plane, the connecting element having at least one flat surface parallel to the reference lines of the reference cards; and a level mounted to the first card and oriented in a direction parallel to the flat surface; wherein when the device is positioned flush against the mounting surface of the firearm, the level indicates the levelness of the mounting surface, and the reference lines indicate the position of a properly aligned reticle. | 245 |
8,908,545 | 1. A method for improving Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) performance in network access, the method comprising: detecting an encapsulated outgoing data packet; processing a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) layer in the outgoing data packet to obtain routing information for establishing a connection to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel and to determine when the PPP layer encapsulates at least TCP and Internet Protocol (IP) layers of the outgoing data packet; and when the PPP layer encapsulates at least TCP and IP layers of the outgoing data packet: removing the PPP layer including the encapsulated TCP and IP layers from the outgoing data packet; and processing the outgoing data packet in accordance with a locally driven application protocol path comprising encapsulating data of the outgoing data packet with a Layer 7 header in place of the removed PPP layer, wherein the application protocol path is configured to act as a TCP proxy connection over the VPN tunnel; and the method further comprising: determining when the outgoing data packet does not include a PPP layer and processing the outgoing data packet in accordance with an access configuration path when the outgoing data packet does not include a PPP layer. | 12,952 |
8,860,203 | 1. A stretchable base plate comprising: a stretchable substrate; metal electrodes that are separated and located in a plurality of rows on the stretchable substrate; and a power wiring for electrically coupling respective ones of the metal electrodes in each row. | 14,055 |
8,948,826 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a display housing having a first display unit; an operation housing coupled to said display housing so that said operation housing is movable relatively to a facing surface of said display housing, said operation housing having a second display unit which displays an operation screen and a touch panel piled on the second display unit so that the operation screen is visible; a position detection unit for detecting a relative position of said display housing and said operation housing; and a control unit for deciding an application displayed on the first display unit in accordance with the relative position detected by said position detection unit; wherein said control unit switches the operation screen displayed on the second display unit to provide an operation block including one or more operation keys associated with the application displayed on the first display unit, and increases the number and changes the type of operation blocks displayed on a touch panel display of the second display unit as the visible surface area of the second display unit increases as the relative position of said display housing and said operation housing changes, wherein when at least two applications are running at the same time, the control unit switches a display between the at least two applications in response to a sliding of the display housing relative to the operation housing between at least two predetermined relative positions. | 45,243 |
8,635,827 | 1. A method of roofing an occupancy structure, said method comprising: providing a roofing membrane that comprises at least one thermoplastic membrane layer, said roofing membrane provided for bonding to the roof of an occupancy structure, where the occupancy structure includes a roof member that is at least partially constructed of a plastic material and extends above said roofing membrane when said roofing membrane is applied to the occupancy structure; providing a substantially solid hot melt thermoplastic sealant; heating said substantially solid hot melt thermoplastic sealant to enable said substantially solid hot melt thermoplastic sealant to flow; and applying a layer of said substantially solid hot melt thermoplastic sealant to an exterior surface of said thermoplastic membrane layer and a plastic portion of the roof member after said roofing membrane is bonded to the roof to seal the joint between said roofing membrane and the roof member. | 21,397 |
8,998,473 | 1. A light reflector structure for horticultural lamps comprising: a light reflector frame has an upper wire frame and a lower wire frame each of generally rectangular form that are spaced apart and attached at an upper peripheral edge and a lower peripheral edge by a plurality of transverse brackets; at least four of said plurality of transverse brackets have a hook formed at a top end and a bottom end wherein each of said hooks open inwardly of said upper wire frame and said lower wire frame; at least one reflective panel is disposed inwardly of said at least four transverse brackets engaging said hooks with a reflective surface of each reflective panel oriented inwardly of said at least four transverse brackets; and at least two pairs of opposed transverse brackets of said plurality of transverse brackets have an extended member at said top end disposed to extend upwardly over a cover of a horticultural lamp enclosure. | 30,934 |
8,726,295 | 1. A network on chip (‘NOC’) comprising: Integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers; each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller; each memory communications controller for controlling communication between an IP block and memory; each network interface controller for controlling inter-IP block communications through said routers; each IP block adapted to the NOC by a low latency, high bandwidth application messaging interconnect comprising an inbox and an outbox; a computer software application segmented into stages, each stage comprising a flexibly configurable module of computer program instructions identified by a stage identifier (‘ID’) with each stage executing on a thread of execution on an IP block; and at least one of the IP blocks comprising an input/output (‘I/O’) accelerator that administers at least some data communications traffic to and from the at least one IP block, wherein the I/O accelerator further comprises: an aggregation of sequential and non-sequential logic configured to function in response to a single opcode executed on a thread of execution on a processor in the at least one IP block that comprises the I/O accelerator to perform multiple load operations of data from said memory, formulate the loaded data into a plurality of messages according to an application pipeline protocol, and send the plurality of messages through the outbox according to the application pipeline protocol. | 9,855 |
9,294,356 | 1. A method for managing devices in a system, comprising: receiving information associated with a first device in the system and a first set of capabilities provided in the first device; receiving information associated with a second device in the system and a second set of capabilities provided in the second device; determining one or more required capabilities that need to be activated for the system, the system comprising at least the first device and the second device; for each of the one or more required capabilities, selecting automatically by a processor based on an information received and one or more criteria, which capability in the first device and the second device to activate to satisfy the one or more required capabilities; and activating said selected capability in the first device or the second device, wherein at least one capability in the first set of capabilities is a same capability provided in the second set of capabilities, and wherein responsive to said at least one capability in the first set of capabilities being selected to activate, the same capability in the second set of capabilities is selected to deactivate, and wherein the one or more criteria comprises distributing activation of said each of the required capabilities across said first device and the second device. | 11,191 |
9,081,291 | 1. A resist stripping solution composition, comprising (a) a basic compound including one or more selected from among compounds represented by Formulas 1 to 3 below, (b) an amide compound represented by Formula 4 below, (c) a polar solvent, and (d) a polyol compound represented by Formula 5 below: wherein R wherein R wherein R wherein, based on a total weight of the resist stripping composition, the resist stripping solution composition includes, (a) 5˜30 wt % of the basic compound including one or more compounds represent by Formulas 1 to 3, (b) 20˜80 wt % of the amide compound represented by Formula 4, (c) 10˜70 wt % of the polar solvent, and (d) 0.05˜20 wt % of the polyol compound represented by Formula 5. | 38,201 |
8,811,536 | 1. A method for receiving a radio frequency signal, comprising: digitizing, without prior alteration of frequency, an analog radio frequency representation of each of a plurality of radio frequency signals modulated to represent information content of an information communication, to produce a respective plurality of digital radio frequency signals having a respective associated radio frequency digital clock having an associated clock rate of at least a minimum rate required to capture and digitally represent the information content of the information communication present in the analog radio frequency representation; concurrently switching the plurality of digital radio frequency signals and associated digital radio frequency clock to ones of a plurality of digital signal processors; selectively automatically controlling the concurrent switching of a plurality of digital signals and associated digital clock to the respective plurality of digital signal processors; and producing, by the digital signal processors, processed representations of information contained in respective analog radio frequency representations. | 44,943 |
8,806,253 | 1. A microprocessor having power gate control logic comprising: an instruction scheduling unit coupled in handshaking relationship with an execution unit, said execution unit comprising a state machine implementing power gate control logic and logic for measuring a number of instructions being issued from the instruction scheduling unit per cycle and functional macros; said instruction scheduling unit comprising an instruction queue; wherein instructions are selectively sent between said instruction queue in said instruction scheduling unit and the functional macros according to said power gate control logic implemented by state machine in the execution unit, said state machine determining if the number of issued instructions per cycle is less than a threshold value, and determining further if at least two of the instructions being issued from the instruction scheduling unit are independent of each other only when the instructions issued per cycle is less than a threshold level, and issuing power gate mode control signals to remove power to the functional macros dynamically when said instructions are independent of each other without incurring significant loss of performance. | 22,915 |
9,768,703 | 1. A method for operating a power converter, comprising: during activation of a synchronous rectifier controller on a secondary side of the power converter, using a delay mechanism to temporarily disable driving of a gate of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) by the synchronous rectifier controller to enable synchronization of the synchronous rectifier controller to a switching frequency on a primary side of the power converter rather than a ringing frequency; and after driving of the gate of the MOSFET by the synchronous rectifier controller has been disabled for a pre-specified period, using the delay mechanism to enable driving of the gate of the MOSFET by the synchronous rectifier controller. | 20,852 |
8,418,961 | 1. A device for supporting a door which is pivotably received in a fuselage airframe of an aircraft, with a counter bearing arranged in the region of a doorframe and a thrust bearing located opposite in the region of the door, wherein the counter bearing has a counter bearing surface and the thrust bearing has a mounting in which a thrust bearing surface which can tilt around at least one spatial axis is received, and the counter bearing surface lying against the thrust bearing surface at least in some regions when the door is closed. | 1,761 |
9,377,954 | 1. A method comprising: responsive to a memory allocation function call to a library for allocating memory to a data structure in a multiclass memory system: | 31,834 |
9,079,657 | 1. A wing of an aircraft with an upper side and a lower side, the wing comprising: a main wing, which has an upper surface positioned on the upper side, and a lower surface positioned on the lower side, which surfaces in each case run along a main wing chordwise direction; at least one high lift flap coupled to the main wing such that the at least one high lift flap is movable between a retracted and an extended setting; and at least one spoiler coupled to the main wing such that the at least one spoiler is rotatable and projects beyond a trailing edge of the main wing; | 3,744 |
8,865,822 | 1. A hot melt adhesive composition, comprising: a) at least one thermoplastic silane grafted poly-α-olefin (P) that is solid at 25° C.; and b) at least one reaction product (RP) of a polyisocyanate with an isocyanate reactive silane (S); wherein the polyisocyanate is selected from the group consisting of 2,4- and 2,6-toluoylendiisocyanate (TDI), 4,4′-, 2,4′- and 2,2′-diphenylmethandiisocyanate, 1,3- and 1,4-phenylendiisocvanate, naphthaline-1,5-diisocyanate (NDI), 3,3′-dimethyl-4,4′-diisocyanatodiphenyl (TODI), 1,6-hexamethylendiisocyanate (HDI), 2-methylpentamethylene-1,5-diisocvanate, 2,2,4- and 2,4,4-trimethyl-1,6-hexamethylendiisocyanate (TMDI), 1,12-dodecamethylendiisocvanate, cyclohexane-1,3- and cyclohexane-1,4-diisocyanate, 1-isocyanato-3,3,5-trimethyl-5-isocyanatomethyl-cyclohexane (=isophorone diisocyanate or IPDI), perhydro-2,4′- and -4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI), 1,4-diisocyanato-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexane (TMCDI), m- and p-xylylendiisocyanate (m- and p-XDI), m-tetramethyl-1,3- and m-tetramethyl-1,4-xylylene diisocyanate, p-tetramethyl-1,3- and m-tetramethyl-1,4-xylylene diisocyanate (m- and p-TMXDI), isocyanurates thereof, biurets thereof, and mixtures thereof, wherein the isocyanate reactive silane (S) contains only one isocyanate reactive group, wherein the isocyanate reactive group is selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, mercapto group and amino group, and wherein the reaction product has a molecular weight M | 38,249 |
8,711,486 | 1. A method for displaying, to a viewer, a marker on a head up display (HUD), the method comprising: determining a horizontal orientation angle relative to a predetermined reference line of the HUD; and displaying a one-dimensional marker having a marker orientation angle measured relative to the predetermined reference line of the HUD, wherein the marker orientation angle is substantially equal to the horizontal orientation angle. | 45,314 |
9,049,253 | 1. A processor-implemented method of operation for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoint device comprising: receiving, by the SIP endpoint device, an unsolicited NOTIFY message from a call manager component, the unsolicited NOTIFY message having a specific event header that signals to the SIP endpoint device to utilize a reset/restart mechanism specific to the call manager component, a body of the SIP NOTIFY message communicating one of a plurality of actions to be taken by the SIP endpoint device, the plurality of actions including a reset operation and/or a restart operation; and wherein the reset operation specified in the body of the SIP NOTIFY message cause the SIP endpoint device to: after waiting until all active calls on the SIP endpoint device have ended, unregistering all lines of the SIP endpoint device from the call manager component; performing a power-on reset of the SIP endpoint device; accessing a server to read a configuration file of the SIP endpoint device; re-registering all the lines of the SIP endpoint device with the call manager component; receiving a call ID from the call manager component; and verifying that the call ID received matches a unique call ID sent to the call manager component in a last registering transmission. | 9,411 |
9,812,446 | 1. An electronics apparatus comprising: a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface; a first switch connected to a second switch and soldered in series with the first switch on the first surface of the first substrate creating an electrical connection to allow high frequency switching between the first switch and the second switch; insulation including a first surface attached to the second surface of the first substrate; and a second substrate having a pocket of low permittivity material located between the first switch and the second switch on a second surface of the insulation, the second surface of the insulation being opposite to the first surface of the insulation where the first switch and the second switch are located. | 33,372 |
9,174,855 | 1. A TBP (tri-butyl phosphate)-nitrate based solvent extraction process for the production of high purity nuclear grade rare metal oxides comprising: subjecting ammonium nitrate-ammonium sulphate effluent generated in a TBP (tri-butyl phosphate)-nitrate based solvent extraction process for the production of high purity nuclear grade rare metal oxides to recycling as a stripping solution so as to strip metal nitrate values from a solvent stream organic phase into an aqueous phase comprising (i) common ion electrolytes based ammonium nitrate-ammonium sulphate effluent to strip hydrolysable rare metal species and (ii) sulphate anion in said ammonium nitrate-ammonium sulphate effluent with complexing ability towards rare metal ions favouring stripping of the rare metal ions from the organic phase into the aqueous phase by equilibration of rare metal solvent extract comprising rare metal nitrate TBP adduct with an aqueous solution containing ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulphate thereby enabling contact of said rare metal nitrate TBP adduct in the organic phase with (NH forming aqueous soluble complex salts of respective rare metal ions in the aqueous phase to favor stripping of the rare metal ion from the organic phase into the aqueous phase for recovery of high purity nuclear grade rare metal oxides from said aqueous phase. | 40,188 |
8,791,136 | 1. A compound having the structural formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt-or N-oxide thereof, wherein R G is —CH R each R w is 0, 1, 2 or 3; each R x is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; J is absent, —C(O)—, —NR the ring system denoted by “B” is absent, arylene, heteroarylene, wherein each of Y wherein Y Q is a single bond, —CH the ring system denoted by “A” is heteroaryl or aryl; each R y is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; in which | 20,633 |
9,852,850 | 1. An electrode comprising: a current collector; and an active material layer, wherein the active material layer comprises first to fourth layers, wherein the second layer is provided between the first layer and the third layer, wherein the third layer is provided between the second layer and the fourth layer, wherein the first layer is in contact with the current collector, wherein the first layer comprises a first element which is selected from, Mg, Ca, Ga, Al, Ge, Sn, Pb, Sb, Bi, Ag, Zn, Cd, As, Hg, and In, wherein the third layer comprises a second element which is selected from, Mg, Ca, Ga, Al, Ge, Sn, Pb, Sb, Bi, Ag, Zn, Cd, As, Hg, and In, wherein the second layer comprises the first element or the second element, wherein the second layer comprises at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and fluorine, wherein the fourth layer comprises the first element or the second element, and wherein the fourth layer comprises at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and fluorine. | 22,318 |
9,753,127 | 1. A measurement apparatus measuring a flight time of a search wave corresponding to a time after the search wave is emitted and before a reflected wave of the search wave is received, the measurement apparatus comprising: a transceiver emitting the search wave, receiving the reflected wave, and outputting a receiving signal; a memory portion; a sampling portion generating a sampling data of the receiving signal and causing the memory portion to store the sampling data, wherein the sampling portion includes a measurement portion measuring the flight time based on the first signal data and the second signal data and generating a measurement value of the flight time; and a determination portion determining a sampling period of the receiving signal corresponding to the first signal data based on the measurement value of the flight time, wherein the first processing unit causes the memory portion to selectively store the sampling data of the receiving signal in a specific period with an emission event of the search wave as a reference, as the first signal data, the first processing unit and the second processing unit operating in parallel, the specific period corresponds to the sampling period determined by the determination portion, the second processing unit causes the memory portion to store, as the second signal data, the sampling data generated by sampling the receiving signal, the sampling data corresponding to a period longer than the specific period and including the specific period, and the measurement portion selects, as the measurement value of the flight time, either the flight time calculated based on the first signal data or the flight time calculated based on the second signal data. | 36,739 |
8,873,214 | 1. Wind turbine hub and nacelle assembly including a lightning conducting means for conducting lightning between the hub and the nacelle, the hub being mounted for rotation relative to the nacelle and being adapted to support turbine blades, the hub including a hub conductor for connection to a turbine blade supported by the hub, the lightning conducting means including a conductive track and a terminal which confront and are displaceable relative to each other, one of the conductive track and the terminal being mounted on the hub and being electrically connected to the hub conductor and the other of the conductive track and the terminal being mounted on the nacelle, the terminal including a terminal main body which is spaced from the conductive track and a sacrificial conductive terminal extension extending from the terminal main body towards the track. | 3,116 |
9,365,799 | 1. A process for extracting immobilized oils from oil containing materials, said process comprising: providing an oil containing material; and providing a mixture of food grade solvents, comprising a blend of ethyl lactate and ethanol or a blend of ethyl acetate and ethanol, to said oil containing material, thereby extracting the immobilized oil from the oil containing materials. | 48,906 |
8,919,575 | 1. A froth tank defining an inner chamber having a cylindrical upper portion and a conical lower portion, comprising: a plurality of stationary pickets extending downwardly into the cylindrical upper portion; and a plurality of movable pickets extending upwardly into the cylindrical upper portion; wherein the movable pickets are positioned to travel around the stationary pickets thereby generating flow channels in the cylindrical upper portion of the tank. | 25,492 |
9,492,878 | 1. Toolset for manufacturing a metal liner for a composite vessel, comprising: a mandrel configured in several mandrel elements forming support elements of primary parts constituting the metal liner, wherein, the metal liner comprises a vessel liner with rounded ends, and the support elements comprise a front body and a rear body to receive respectively a first rounded metal liner end and a second rounded metal liner end; and annular sectors designed to be positioned on junction ends of said front body and rear body to support junction ends of said first rounded metal liner end and said second rounded metal liner end, wherein the mandrel elements are parts made of a soluble material. | 42,570 |
9,532,438 | 1. A system for wirelessly controlling LED lighting comprising: a plurality of LED lamps, each lamp being equipped with a wireless communication module; a wireless gateway comprising: a smart device being in communication with the wireless gateway and configured to be controlled by a user; wherein: the signal conversion module is configured to convert communication data between the first communication device and the second communication device; the AC/DC power module is configured to convert AC power into DC power to supply to the first communication device, the second communication device, the micro-controller and the signal conversion module; and the micro-controller is configured to generate a unique lamp ID for each LED lamp, and embed the unique lamp ID into a signal for controlling each LED lamp through the wireless communication module so that the unique lamp ID is detectable in a form of visible light. | 22,704 |
9,069,411 | 1. A detecting circuit, applied to a touch system including a touch panel and a display, wherein the touch panel includes a plurality of electrodes facing each other, and the electrodes including a plurality of first electrodes operatively provided with a driving signal during mutual capacitive detection and a plurality of second electrodes providing mutual capacitive coupling signals, wherein the second electrodes includes a first detecting electrode, a second detecting electrode, a third detecting electrode and a fourth detecting electrode parallelized continuously, and the detecting circuit executes the following operations: detecting signals of the second electrodes to generate a plurality of dual differences comprising a first dual difference and a second dual difference, wherein the first dual difference is the difference between a first difference and a second difference, and the second dual difference is the difference between the second difference and a third difference, wherein the first difference is the difference between the signals of the first detecting electrode and the second detecting electrode; the second difference is the difference between the signals of the second detecting electrode and the third detecting electrode; and the third difference is the difference between the signals of the third detecting electrode and the fourth detecting electrode, wherein when the display updates frames during detection by the detecting circuit, the signals of the second electrodes comprises the mutual capacitive coupling signals and noises from the display, and the dual differences suppresses the noises. | 26,297 |
8,881,134 | 1. A system for updating at least one facility in a computing storage environment, comprising: at least one processor device, operable in the computing storage environment, wherein the at least one processor device is adapted for: | 37,580 |
9,288,884 | 1. A discharge lamp lighting device for controlling lighting of a discharge lamp, device comprising: a drive unit that drives the discharge lamp; and a control unit that controls the drive unit; wherein the control unit varies a current value of overshoot and undershoot generated in a waveform of a drive current that is applied when the drive unit drives the discharge lamp, at least according to a magnitude of drive power supplied to the discharge lamp. | 39,025 |
9,672,323 | 1. A computer readable non-transitory article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a computer to control a warpage of a multilayered substrate, the computer readable instructions comprising: first instructions to discretize a two-dimensional surface of the multilayered substrate into finite planar elements, wherein the multilayered substrate has an upper wiring layer and a lower wiring layer, wherein the upper and lower wiring layers are made of at least two different materials having different elastic moduli, and wherein the materials are distributed two-dimensionally with different occupancies; second instructions to calculate a difference in coefficient of thermal expansion of the two-dimensional surface based on composite properties determined from two elastic moduli, two occupancies, and difference between the two occupancies obtained for each finite planar element; third instructions to calculate the warpage of the multilayered substrate based on the calculated composite properties of the two-dimensional surface according to a finite element method; fourth instructions to calculate a maximum length scale that corresponds to an allowable warpage; fifth instructions to extract an element involved with a pattern having a length scale greater than a maximum length scale by digital filtering of the difference in coefficient of thermal expansion to produce an extracted element; sixth instructions to reduce the difference in coefficient of thermal expansion by adjusting a mixing ratio of the two different occupancies for the extracted element involved with a pattern having a length scale greater than the maximum length scale to produce an adjusted mixing ratio; seventh instructions to calculate the warpage of the multilayered substrate based on the adjusted mixing ratio of the two different occupancies according to the finite element method; and eighth instructions for repeating steps of said fifth, sixth and seventh instructions until the calculated warpage falls below a required warpage. | 13,739 |
8,498,821 | 1. A method of classifying a therapeutic intervention for arresting or killing malignant melanoma (MM) cells, comprising: (a) from a panel of MM cells classified according to genomic subgroups, selecting at least one MM cell line from each subgroup, wherein the panel is assembled from a method comprising: (b) contacting the at least one MM cell from each subgroup with the therapeutic intervention; (c) assaying the effectiveness of the therapeutic intervention to arrest or kill the at least one MM cell from each subgroup; (d) classifying the therapeutic intervention according to the determined effectiveness of the therapeutic intervention to arrest or kill the at least one MM cell from each subgroup, wherein the plurality of samples, m, consists of SKMEL119, HS944, WM1366, WM88; WM3248; 1205LU; 451LU, SKMEL19, SKMEL28, SKMEL30, SKMEL63; WM35, WM983, WM983C, WM3211, M14, MEWO, SKMEL2, SKMEL5, UACC257, UACC62, WM122, WM13662, WM239A, WM32112, WM32482, WM793B, and 501MEL, and MALME3M and WM882, and wherein when the therapeutic intervention arrests or kills the at least one MM cell from a first subgroup, but not another subgroup, it indicates specificity of the therapeutic intervention to arrest or kill MM cells of the first subgroup. | 16,828 |
8,978,720 | 1. A pneumatic tire comprising: a cylindrical annular structure being formed of a metal plate; a rubber layer that will become a tread portion provided along a circumferential direction of the annular structure on an outer side of the annular structure, a width of the tread portion being defined by a width of the rubber layer; a carcass portion including fibers covered with rubber, provided on both sides in a direction parallel to a center axis of a cylindrical structure including the annular structure and the rubber layer; and an inner liner provided on an inner side of the carcass portion; wherein in a meridian cross-section of the structure, an outer side of the rubber layer and the outer side of the annular structure have the same form; and a width of the annular structure is greater than or equal to a width of the rubber layer, thereby terminating the rubber layer within a width of the annular structure. | 13,065 |
8,356,362 | 1. An arm accessory device 100 comprising: (a) a glove base b) an extension panel (c) a securing means (d) a pocket (e) a closing means engaged with the pocket wherein the closing means is a strap | 9,691 |
8,638,215 | 1. A sensor unit, comprising: at least one sensor configured to measure an ambient condition; a controller, said controller configured to operate said at least one sensor to obtain measurement data related to said ambient condition, said controller configured to compute an alert level at least in part from said measurement data, said controller configured to report at least a portion of said measurement data when said alert level exceeds a threshold; and a fan provided to said controller, said fan configured to improve ambient air exchange with said at least one sensor, said controller configured to operate said fan in connection with said at least one sensor to improve a responsiveness of said at least one sensor to changes in said ambient conditions; wherein said controller is configured to operate said fan in response to one or more commands from a monitoring system that monitors a plurality of sensor units, said monitoring system configured to send said one or more commands in response to smoke detection by a second sensor unit. | 1,457 |
9,153,817 | 1. A lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer comprising a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, and a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer comprising an alloy-formable active material, and a negative electrode current collector; a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode active material layer has an easily swellable resin having a degree of swelling with the non-aqueous electrolyte of 20% or more, and the negative electrode active material layer has a hardly swellable resin having a degree of swelling with the non-aqueous electrolyte of 2% to less than 20%. | 17,214 |
9,229,674 | 1. A system comprising: a memory; and at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to: | 6,636 |
9,037,327 | 1. A Distance to Empty (DTE) calculation method for an electric vehicle, the DTE calculation method comprising: obtaining a battery's initial available energy; calculating the battery's accumulative consumption energy consumed while driving a current accumulative driving distance; calculating the battery's remaining available energy from the initial available energy and the accumulative consumption energy; calculating a final fuel efficiency corresponding to driving the current accumulative driving distance; and calculating a DTE from the final fuel efficiency and the remaining available energy, wherein the DTE is calculated from the following equation: DTE (km)=the final fuel efficiency (km/kWh)×the remaining available energy (kWh). | 29,451 |
8,680,656 | 1. A CPV module, comprising: a leadframe including a first section and a second section disposed in spaced relation to each other, the first section including a connector portion and a die pad portion that is attached to the connector portion and defines opposed top and bottom surfaces, the second section including a base portion, a connector portion extending from the base portion, and at least two prong portions extending from the base portion in spaced, generally parallel relation to each other, wherein the connector portions of the first and second sections of the leadframe extend in generally co-planar relation to each other along a common first plane, and the die pad portion of the first section extend along a second plane that is disposed in spaced, generally parallel relation to the first plane; and a receiver die mounted and electrically connected to the first section, and electrically connected to each of the prong portions of the second section by respective ones of at least first and second electrical connectors. | 48,041 |
9,258,104 | 1. A system comprising: a transceiver having a power range corresponding to a small cell station; a processor; and a memory having instructions for execution by the processor to: | 43,444 |
9,143,857 | 1. A method for reducing noise within an acoustic signal, comprising: separating, via at least one computer processor, an acoustic signal into a plurality of sub-band signals, the acoustic signal representing at least one captured sound; and reducing an energy level of a noise component in a sub-band signal in the plurality of sub-band signals, the reducing based on: | 13,872 |
9,291,363 | 1. A portable heater comprising: an elongated heater housing having an inlet end and an outlet end; a combustion chamber positioned within said heater housing, wherein said combustion chamber and said heater housing define an airflow cooling channel therebetween; a tray disposed above said heater housing and adjacent said airflow cooling channel, said tray having a rear portion upstream from a front portion, wherein said tray includes a bottom wall and a projecting sidewall, wherein said sidewall defines a tray opening; wherein said front portion of said tray is spaced upstream from said outlet end of said housing; and wherein said tray narrows in a downstream direction from said rear portion to said front portion to reduce the exposure of heat from said combustion chamber to said tray. | 4,189 |
9,105,329 | 1. A gate driving circuit comprising: a plurality of shift registers, wherein each of the shift registers includes a plurality of stages which sequentially output a gate signal, wherein the stages of a kth shift register are activated when a kth SR selection signal generated as a first logic level voltage is input, and the stages of the kth shift register are not activated when the kth SR selection signal generated as a second logic level voltage is input, wherein k is a natural number equal to or less than the number of the shift registers, and wherein each stage of the kth shift register includes: a pull-up TFT configured to turn on and off depending on a Q node voltage, and output a gate high voltage by turn-on; a pull-down TFT configured to turn on and off depending on a QB node voltage, and output a gate low voltage by turn-on; a node control circuit configured to control the Q node voltage and the QB node voltage to a high supply voltage or a low supply voltage; and a discharge control circuit having a first TFT and a second TFT, the first TFT and the second TFT being configured to discharge the Q node voltage and the QB node voltage, respectively, in response to the second logic level of the kth SR selection signal. | 21,139 |
8,454,590 | 1. A switched inductor system, comprising: a switching regulator configured to receive an input signal and provide a voltage output, the switching regulator having at least one switch and at least one inductor; and a sensing circuit in parallel with the inductor, the sensing circuit including a first RC circuit configured to detect an alternating current component of the voltage output and a second RC circuit configured to detect a direct current component of the voltage output. | 29,779 |
8,975,399 | 1. A method for inactivating TNF-alpha to treat a non-cancer pathology linked to an excessive effect of TNF-alpha, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof: (i) a sulphonated compound of formula I in which • R1 represents R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C5 alkyl and R3 represents an organic group, said organic group comprising 11 or more than H and containing from 6 to 30 carbon atoms including one or more rings or heterocycles, saturated or unsaturated, fused or not, unsubstituted or substituted by one or more substituents chosen from the C1-C5 alkyl, C1-C5 alkenyl, halo, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C1-C5 alkoxy, C1-C5 alkylthio, C1-C5 alkylsulphonyl, acyl, hydroxy, NH2, nitro, C1-C5 alkylamino, di(C1-C5 alkyl)amino, acylamino radicals, said organic group not being linked to the carboxyl by a —NH—CH2— group or by a —NH—CH-alk-group where alk represent an alkyl radical with 1 to 5 carbon atoms, said organic group not comprising a group in which m represents 0, 1 or 2, a, b and c represent CR, where each R represents independently a hydrogen or a C1-C4 alkyl, R1 represents a C1-C4 alkyl or a C3-C7 cycloalkyl, said organic group not comprising a —CO—NHOH group, said organic group not representing a group in which n=1 or 2 and R1 represents H, halogen, CN, lower alkyl or alkoxy, optionally substituted by a halogen, • R2 represents • X represents a hydrogen atom or one or more substituents chosen from the C1-C5 alkyl, C1-C5 alkoxy, C1-C5 alkenyl, halo, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C1-C5 alkylthio, C1-C5 alkylsulphonyl, acyl, hydroxy, NH2, nitro, C1-C6 alkylamino, di(C1-C6 alkyl)amino, acylamino radicals, it being understood that X is not a 3,4-dialkoxy or a 3,4-dialkylthio, (ii) a compound of formula I below for which R2=H: the compound for which the compound for which the compound for which the compound for which the compound for which or (iii) 3-(3-phenoxyphenyl)-2-(phenylsulphonyl)—N—(3-pyridinylmethyl) acrylamide, or an addition salt of (i), (ii) or (iii) with pharmaceutically acceptable acid it being understood that | 32,769 |
9,849,339 | 1. A swimming apparatus comprising: an upper body member adapted to be attached around sections of a human wrist, forearm, upper arm, shoulder, back and waist for aiding in maneuvering the same through water; a lower body member adapted to be attached around a human waist, thigh, and ankle and comprising a tail fluke having a first area contoured to hug a front side of the waist, thigh, and ankle and a second area extending laterally from the thigh and ankle; and the upper body member comprising a flexible membrane extending from the wrist to the waist, the flexible membrane being supported by a skeletal structure; the skeletal structure comprising a plurality of ribs spaced apart and extending laterally from the upper arm and shoulder. | 15,615 |
9,806,957 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed within a server, comprising: receiving, from a first client and by the server, a request to begin an interlink from a source page; receiving, from the first client and by the server, a request from the client to complete the interlink at a target page; storing, by the server, the completed interlink that associates the source page with the target page; receiving a request for the source page; searching, based upon the request for the source page; for a plurality of interlinks having the source page as a beginning; serving, in response to the request, the source page, wherein the served source page includes links respectively associated with the target pages of the plurality of interlinks, weights are respectively assigned to each of the plurality of interlinks, the plurality of the interlinks form a link cloud, and a display of the link cloud reflects the respective weights of each of the plurality of interlinks. | 5,000 |
9,180,155 | 1. A composition for treating metabolic disorders comprising an effective amount of a thymoquinone-enriched essential oil extract, whereby the thymoquine-enriched essential oil extract is prepared by a process comprising the steps of: a. grinding and sieving b. extracting a quantity in excess of 10 kg of the ground seeds with supercritical carbon dioxide at about 140 bar and about 50° C. for about 30 minutes, and removing the resulting oil fraction therefrom; c. re-extracting the ground seeds with supercritical carbon dioxide at about 140 bar and about 60° C. for about 120 minutes, and collecting the resulting essential oil fraction therefrom to obtain said thymoquinone-enriched essential oil extract, wherein said thymoquinone-enriched essential oil extract contains about 27-57% thymoquinone. | 29,522 |
9,403,878 | 1. A method for producing an immunogenic composition, the method comprising: a) producing an influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) antigen in an in vitro cell culture or embryonated egg with an effective amount of a mannosidase inhibitor, wherein the concentration of the mannosidase inhibitor is sufficient to inhibit .alpha.-mannosidase I in the N-glycosylation pathway; b) contacting the influenza virus HA antigen recovered from step a) with endoglycosidase H (Endo H), wherein the concentration of Endo H is sufficient to remove high mannose type glycans; c) isolating a monoglycosylated influenza virus HA antigen produced in step b); and d) producing an immunogenic composition comprising the monoglycosylated influenza virus HA antigen of (c) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or an adjuvant. | 1,412 |
9,374,891 | 1. An integrated electronic unit, comprising: a solid plastic molded part forming an injection-molded circuit carrier, said plastic molded part having electrically conductive tracks on a surface thereof; a circuit board having a first side, a second side, and at least one conductive track, said circuit board being integrated into said plastic molded part with a surface of said first side of said circuit board lying within said plastic molded part and a surface of said second side of said circuit board being flush with the surface of said plastic molded part; wherein the surface of said second side of said circuit board lies in a common plane with said surface of said plastic molded part; and wherein said at least one conductive track of said circuit board is connected electrically conductively to at least one conductive track of said injection-molded circuit carrier. | 31,098 |
8,343,279 | 1. An apparatus for processing substrates, comprising: a substrate support comprising a substrate receiving surface and positioned within a process chamber; a chamber lid comprising: a first conduit coupled to a first gas inlet within the expanding channel; and a second conduit coupled to a second gas inlet within the expanding channel, wherein the first conduit and the second conduit are positioned to provide a gas flow in a circular direction through the expanding channel. | 28,594 |
8,666,635 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: required torque determining means that determines a required torque, which is a required value of torque generated by an internal combustion engine; required air-fuel ratio determining means that determines a required air-fuel ratio, which is a required value of an air fuel ratio of a mixture gas provided for combustion; target air quantity calculating means that calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the required air-fuel ratio, based on data set by linking a relationship of an air quantity and torque in an optimal ignition timing to an air-fuel ratio; air quantity control means that manipulates an actuator for air quantity control in accordance with the target air quantity; fuel injection quantity control means that manipulates an actuator for fuel injection quantity control in accordance with the required air-fuel ratio; torque estimating means that estimates an air quantity which is realized by operation of the actuator for air quantity control, and estimates torque which is realized by the estimated air quantity under the required air-fuel ratio, based on data set by linking a relationship of an air quantity and torque in an optimal ignition timing to an air-fuel ratio; and ignition timing control means that controls an ignition timing to compensate for a difference which occurs between the estimated torque and the required torque by an ignition timing when a predetermined permission condition is satisfied, and keeps the ignition timing at an optimal ignition timing when the permission condition is not satisfied, wherein the required air-fuel ratio determining means comprises required air-fuel ratio calculating means that receives a requirement concerning exhaust gas performance of the internal combustion engine, and calculates an air-fuel ratio which satisfies the requirement as a required air-fuel ratio, change speed lessening means that processes a signal of the required air-fuel ratio calculated in the required air-fuel ratio calculating means to lessen a change speed thereof, and final determining means that determines the required air-fuel ratio the change speed of which is lessened by the change speed lessening means as a final required air-fuel ratio when a predetermined lessening condition is satisfied, and determines the required air-fuel ratio calculated in the required air-fuel ratio calculating means as a final required air-fuel ratio when the lessening condition is not satisfied, the permission condition includes the required air-fuel ratio calculated in the required air-fuel ratio calculating means changing in a rich direction, and a change amount thereof being larger than a predetermined determination reference value, and the lessening condition includes the change amount of the required air-fuel ratio calculated in the required air-fuel ratio calculating means being larger than the determination reference value, and the permission condition being unsatisfied. | 33,029 |
8,483,034 | 1. An optical pickup comprising: an optical beam generating unit which generates a first beam and a second beam; an objective lens optical system which includes a solid immersion lens having an end face opposing a surface of an optical recording medium having a plurality of layers, and which converges the first beam and the second beam on the optical recording medium; a first branch element which reflects the first beam and the second beam reflected by the end face of the solid immersion lens; a convergence state modifying unit which converges the first beam and the second beam reflected by the first branch element and which modifies convergence states of the first beam and the second beam; and a first optical detector which detects the first beam and the second beam converged by the convergence state modifying unit, wherein a center of the first beam and a center of the second beam are at positions that differ from each other on the end face of the solid immersion lens, the convergence state modifying unit modifies the convergence states of the first beam and the second beam according to layers of the optical recording medium, and the first optical detector includes a first light receiving section which receives the converged first beam and a second light receiving section which receives the converged second beam, and the first optical detector detects a relative inclination angle between the end face of the solid immersion lens and the surface of the optical recording medium based on a difference in quantities of received light between the first light receiving section and the second light receiving section. | 9,718 |
8,718,516 | 1. A drive gear for a generally cylindrical imaging component, the drive gear comprising: a body for engaging the generally cylindrical imaging component; a cylindrical shaft attached to the body, the cylindrical shaft having an end surface; and three prongs extending longitudinally and radially outward from the end surface, wherein the three prongs are shaped to grip an outer cylindrical surface of a drive mechanism. | 35,051 |
8,983,860 | 1. A method performed by one or more data processing apparatus, the method comprising: operating one or more bidders on the one or more data processing apparatus that operate on an internal network that includes an advertisement exchange, each bidder executing in a distinct virtual machine that is a hardware virtualization and wherein the virtual machines are hosted by a host operating system that executes on the one or more data processing apparatus, wherein the host operating system performs operations comprising: | 38,023 |
9,771,286 | 1. An apparatus for biological sewage treatment, comprising: a concentrated mixed liquor driving device that drives a concentrated mixed liquor to flow using a gas; a sedimentation section that provides the concentrated mixed liquor; an aeration section; and an anaerobic treatment section, wherein the concentrated mixed liquor driving device comprises a guiding tube to allow the gas to contact with the concentrated mixed liquor, a gas inlet and a concentrated mixed liquor inlet are set at a lower part of the guiding tube, a gas-liquor mixture conveying section is set at a middle part of the guiding tube, and a gas-liquor mixture outlet is set at a upper part of the guiding tube; wherein the concentrated mixed liquor driving device further comprises a gas-liquor separating device that is fluidly connected with the gas-liquor mixture outlet, wherein the anaerobic treatment section receives a sewage feed and the concentrated mixed liquor from the concentrated mixed liquor driving device and performs anaerobic treatment so as to obtain an anaerobic treatment mixed liquor, wherein the aeration section receives the anaerobic treatment mixed liquor and performs an aeration treatment by contacting the anaerobic treatment mixed liquor with an aeration gas so as to obtain an aeration treatment mixed liquor, wherein the sedimentation section receives the aeration treatment mixed liquor and performs sedimentation so as to obtain a supernatant and a concentrated mixed liquor, and wherein the gas that the concentrated mixed liquor driving device uses to drive the concentrated mixed liquor is the aeration gas collected from the aeration section. | 9,934 |
9,089,167 | 1. An apparatus for opening up the sheath of a cigar and lighting the cigar, comprising: a lighter, comprising a lighter frame including a channel and at least one socket; and a cigar splitter rotably attached within the channel by at least one ball fitting within the at least one socket, the cigar splitter comprising: | 15,157 |
8,762,984 | 1. A method of providing content to a client computing device, the method comprising: registering with a plurality of channel sources to receive content from one or more channels hosted by the plurality of channel sources, wherein each of the one or more channels comprises channel content and channel attributes for defining the channel content; identifying channel content in the registered plurality of channel sources; receiving channel content from the registered plurality of channel sources in response to registering with the plurality of channel sources; validating the content authenticity of the channel content received from the registered plurality of channel sources; aggregating the validated channel content based on the channel attributes defining the channel content; distributing the aggregated channel content to the client computing device; and installing the aggregated channel content on the client computing device based on specifications from a user of the client computing device in a single installation experience. | 30,017 |
9,796,374 | 1. An overheat prevention method comprising: an rpm comparison step of comparing an engine revolution per minute (rpm) speed with a preset rpm speed by a controller when requiring an engagement of an engine clutch; a temperature comparison step of comparing a temperature of a transmission clutch with a preset temperature by the controller when it is determined that the engine rpm speed is less than the preset rpm speed at the rpm comparison step; and a serial drive mode control step of releasing the engine clutch and engaging the transmission clutch, and controlling a hybrid starter generator (HSG) to charge a battery using engine power to provide driving power to a motor by the controller when it is determined that the temperature of the transmission clutch is higher than the preset temperature at the temperature comparison step. | 48,579 |
8,962,915 | 1. A method of increasing tolerance of a plant to an abiotic stress condition, comprising: (a) transforming a plant cell with a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1343, (b) regenerating a plant from said plant cell transformed with said nucleic acid construct, and (c) selecting said plant resultant of step (b) for an increased tolerance to an abiotic stress condition as compared to a non-transformed plant grown under the same growth conditions, wherein said abiotic stress condition is selected from the group consisting of drought, salinity stress and nitrogen deficiency, thereby increasing the tolerance of the plant to the abiotic stress condition. | 48,199 |
9,606,581 | 1. An automated contact cleaning device on a docking station for electronic devices, comprising: a receiver for receiving an electronic device; a base; a piston; the piston having a plunger and an air chamber, the piston being mounted to the base; the receiver being mounted on an exterior top portion of the piston plunger, such that pushing the receiver in a downward direction forces the plunger to compress air in the air chamber; at least one nozzle; the nozzle having a nozzle body and a spray tip, the nozzle being mounted in proximity to the a bottom portion of the air chamber and extending into the air chamber; electrical contacts on the base for connecting to the electronic device, the electrical contacts being positioned directly under the receiver, such that a port on the electronic device will contact the electrical contacts when the receiver is pushed in the downward direction; and the spray tip of the nozzle being directed towards the electrical contacts, whereby the spray tip directs air over the electrical contacts when the receiver is pushed in a downward direction. | 44,197 |
8,802,906 | 1. A method of recovering oil from tires, comprising: providing a supply of automobile tires; axially aligning a quantity of said tires so that they form a cylinder made of a plurality of tires; compressing said bundle and banding said bundle in its compressed state through use of at least one metal strap, to form a bundle of said axially aligned tires; placing one or more bundles in a receptacle; placing one or more receptacles in a pyrolysis chamber; sealing said pyrolysis chamber; heating said pyrolysis chamber, receptacle and bundle to a temperature of 500-1300° F. (260-704° C.), thereby charring said bundle and releasing a vapor; ventilating said vapor from said pyrolysis chamber into a condensation system comprising a plurality of condensation plates which define a circuitous exit pathway for gaseous vapors produced from said pyrolysis chamber and which also define an oil drainage pathway to a condensation tube, through use of a ventilation system; condensing oil from said vapor in said condensation system; collecting said oil; compressing and storing said remaining vapor, with the system resulting in up to 50% oil recovery by weight and a net positive energy production of natural gas cooling the pyrolysis chamber, receptacle and bundle after heating to about 150° F.; removing the charred remnants of the bundle from the receptacle; and separating the charred remnants of the bundle into carbon and metal. | 31,638 |
9,547,355 | 1. A voltage regulator system for a computer processor comprising: a voltage regulator receiving input power at an input and providing regulated output power to the computer processor, the voltage regulator having multiple voltage regulator phases that may be independently switched between an active state regularly and periodically conducting current from the input to the output and an inactive state not conducting current from the input to the output; and a voltage regulator controller communicating with the voltage regulator to determine an electrical current flow from the output of the regulator to the computer processor at a given time and controlling the phases of the voltage regulator in response to the determined electrical current flow so that a first number of phases are in the active state when electrical current flow is in a first range and a second number of phases, greater than the first number, are in the active state when the determined electrical current flows are in a second range greater than the first range; wherein the voltage regulator controller determines an electrical current flow by identifying an operating voltage of the computer processor and using a power value obtained from an energy counter of the computer processor divided by the operating voltage. | 3,129 |
9,674,218 | 1. A method comprising: detecting fraudulent clicks performed towards an on-screen advertisement; wherein the detecting comprises: (a) presenting to a user of an electronic device, a screen comprising content and said on-screen advertisement; (b) injecting a temporary input/output interference that causes an on-screen pointer, that is on route to click within said on-screen advertisement, to exhibit irregular behavior from its regular route; (c) tracking user interactions with an input unit in response to said temporary input/output interference; (d) determining that said user did not perform sufficient manual correction operations that fix said temporary input/output interference; (e) based on step (d), determining that a click performed within said on-screen advertisement, was performed by a click-fraud mechanism. | 42,445 |
9,338,862 | 1. A method for remote lighting control by a processor of a photocontrol device removably attached to a light fixture, comprising: receiving, via a wireless network interface, a request to establish a point-to-point communication session with a remote device using the wireless network interface, the request comprising an authentication credential; receiving, via the communication session with the remote device, a command to control light output produced from the light fixture; initiating performance of the command for the light fixture, the command superseding any other command from ambient light sensing logic of the photocontrol device; and indicating a result of the performance of the command. | 43,409 |
9,202,255 | 1. An apparatus for identifying a multimedia object, comprising: an acquiring unit, implemented at least in part by one or more computing processors, that acquires query fingerprints f a plurality of classifying units, wherein each fingerprint algorithm F a combining unit, implemented at least in part by one or more computing processors, that, for each of the reference multimedia objects, calculates a distance D as a weighted sum of the decisions relating to the reference fingerprints derived from the reference multimedia object according to the fingerprint algorithms F an identifying unit, implemented at least in part by one or more computing processors, that identifies the multimedia object as matching the reference multimedia object with the smallest distance which is less than a threshold TH wherein for each of at least one of the classifiers, the corresponding classifying unit further calculates the decisions through the classifier based on the query fingerprint and the reference fingerprints by: | 3,038 |
8,550,208 | 1. A muffling device, comprising: an inner flow conditioner shaped as a generally conical frustum comprising an upstream base and a downstream base, a diameter of the upstream base being larger than a diameter of the downstream base, the inner flow conditioner comprising an exhaust can disposed substantially around the inner flow conditioner and shaped as a generally circular cylinder, the exhaust can comprising wherein the inner flow conditioner and the exhaust can are configured to conduct a fluid inward through the inlet into the inner flow conditioner, through the inner flow conditioner downstream end wall discharge openings and the inner flow conditioner sidewall discharge openings into the exhaust can, and outward through the exhaust screen discharge openings; wherein the exhaust can and the inner flow conditioner downstream end wall at least partially define a downstream end annular area therebetween; and wherein a ratio of the inner flow conditioner downstream end wall area to the downstream end annular area is about 0.12 to about 0.97. | 22,364 |
8,486,765 | 1. A method for making a structure for thermal management of circuit devices, comprising: providing a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein at least one of the first and second substrates includes a circuit element; forming in at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate an entrance through-hole extending through a thickness of the first substrate or the second substrate; forming in at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate an exit through-hole extending through a thickness of the first substrate or the second substrate; forming respective bonding elements on at least one of the first and second substrates; and bonding the first and second substrates at the respective bonding elements to form a seal between the first and second substrates and to form a first coolant channel extending laterally between the first and second substrates and separating the first and second substrates principally by a thickness of the bonding elements. | 1,627 |
9,005,831 | 1. An offset control arrangement for controlling voltage values of a fuel cell system for producing electricity with fuel cells, each fuel cell in the fuel cell system including an anode side, a cathode side and an electrolyte between the anode side and the cathode side, the offset control arrangement and fuel cell system comprising: at least one fuel cell array of at least two fuel cells, and at least one load for performing a load function; control circuitry for at least one offsetting source for monitoring input voltage of the load to obtain monitoring information; a control processor programmed to monitor the information; the at least one offsetting source in serial connection to the at least one fuel cell array; a power level of the at least one offsetting source being substantially low compared to a power level of the fuel cell array, the at least one offsetting source being arranged to perform at least unidirectional shifting of a fuel cell array output voltage to reduce a voltage window apparent to the load based on at least one of the monitoring information and the processed monitoring information; and disconnection means for disconnecting the at least one fuel cell array from the load, when a reason for disconnection is detected in the input voltage monitoring of the load by detecting that the input voltage rises out of a specified bound. | 33,853 |
9,252,701 | 1. An apparatus for storing and/or converting solar energy into a mechanical and/or electrical energy product, said apparatus comprising: an enclosed volume chamber having a wall defining an interior of the chamber, said wall having an inner surface including a plurality of thermophotovoltaic cells located directly thereon wherein the thermophotovoltaic cells line the entire inner surface of the wall, or a wall defining an interior chamber said wall being formed by the thermophotovoltaic cells facing the interior of the chamber; at least one first opening extending through the wall of the chamber for admitting a condensed high-temperature solar energy beam into the chamber; a heat absorbing member located within said chamber for receiving at least a portion of the solar energy beams; at least one inlet extending through the wall of the chamber for feeding air into said chamber wherein the air becomes heated; an open space containing air located between the inner surface of the chamber and the heat absorbing member, wherein a portion of the condensed high energy solar beam heats the air contained within the open space; a first conversion device associated with the thermophotovoltaic cells for converting the heat energy into electrical energy; at least one outlet for allowing said heated air to exit said chamber; and a second conversion device configured for cooperating with the outlet for receiving the heated air and for converting the heated air to mechanical and/or electrical energy, wherein the solar energy beams, the heat absorbing member, and the heated air within the chamber emit heat energy to the thermophotovoltaic cells. | 13,655 |
8,933,278 | 1. A process for producing ethanol, comprising: hydrogenating acetic acid and/or an ester thereof in a reactor in the presence of a catalyst to form a crude ethanol product; separating a portion of the crude ethanol product in a first distillation column to yield a first distillate comprising acetaldehyde and ethyl acetate, and a first residue comprising ethanol, acetic acid, and water; separating a portion of the first residue in a second distillation column to yield a second residue comprising acetic acid and water and a second distillate comprising ethanol; reacting the acetic acid from a first portion of the second residue with at least one alcohol in an esterification unit to produce at least one ester product stream, and a water stream that is substantially free of acetic acid; and recovering ethanol from the second distillate. | 39,261 |
8,858,901 | 1. A process for trapping a metal, the process comprising contacting a KMgF 3 compound with a gaseous or liquid phase comprising a metal fluoride and/or a metal oxyfluoride, such that at least a portion of the metal fluoride and/or the metal oxyfluoride is retained by the KMgF 3 compound. | 29,672 |
8,494,985 | 1. A method for profiling network traffic of a network, comprising: identifying, using a processor of a computer system and based on a first pre-determined criterion, a training set from a plurality of flows obtained from the network traffic, wherein the training set is associated with a network application and comprises a plurality of captured payloads corresponding to the plurality of flows; determining, using the processor and based on a first pre-determined algorithm, a set of signature terms from the training set, wherein the set of signature terms are selected from a plurality of substrings extracted from the plurality of captured payloads; representing a portion of the plurality of captured payloads as a plurality of regular expressions, each comprising a first sequence of one or more signature terms based on the set of signature terms; generating a modified term transition state machine (MTTSM), comprising a plurality of states coupled by a plurality of links to form a plurality of paths, by: analyzing, using the processor and based on the MTTSM, a flow separate from the plurality of flows and associated with a server in the network, comprising: determining, based on the analysis result, the server as executing the network application. | 17,700 |
9,420,033 | 1. A computer program product for managing file transfer protocol (FTP) commands to a remote system, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising: receiving a first defined FTP command having a first group identifier; queuing the received first defined FTP command in a command queue; receiving, while the first defined FTP command is queued in the command queue, a second defined FTP command having a second group identifier; comparing the first group identifier from the queued first defined FTP command and the second group identifier from the received second defined FTP command; determining, based on the comparing, that the first group identifier and the second group identifier match; identifying the first defined FTP command as being configured to cause data to be pulled from the remote system; identifying the second defined FTP command as being configured to cause the performance of at least one of a group of actions consisting of: pushing data to the remote system and deleting data of the remote system; prioritizing, in response to the determining that the group identifiers match, in further response to the identifying the first defined FTP command as being configured to cause data to be pulled from the remote system, and in further response to the identifying the second defined FTP command as being configured to cause the performance of at least one of the group of actions consisting of: pushing data to the remote system and deleting data of the remote system, the second defined FTP command ahead of the first defined FTP command in the command queue; executing, in response to the prioritizing, the second defined FTP command; and executing, after the executing the second defined FTP command, the first defined FTP command. | 35,856 |
9,683,401 | 1. A system comprising: a jacket comprising multiple armor panels; wherein: | 12,581 |
8,596,748 | 1. A liquid ejection apparatus, comprising: a conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium in a predetermined conveying direction; a storage device configured to store image data; a first-liquid ejection head having a plurality of first ejection openings formed therein for ejecting a first liquid to form an image on the recording medium; a second-liquid ejection head having a plurality of second ejection openings formed therein for ejecting a second liquid having a property of coagulating or precipitating components of the first liquid, the second-liquid ejection head being disposed upstream of the first-liquid ejection head in the conveying direction, an amount of the second liquid to be ejected from each of the plurality of second ejections opening being determined based on the image data; and a controller configured to control the first-liquid ejection head and the second-liquid ejection head, wherein the recording medium is separated into a plurality of unit areas along the conveying direction and a perpendicular main scanning direction that is perpendicular to the conveying direction, the plurality of unit areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixels defined by a resolution of the image, and the controller being further configured to judge whether the determined amount of the second liquid to be ejected from an earlier-ejection opening of a pair of second ejection openings of the plurality of second ejection openings is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, the pair of second ejection openings being constituted by the earlier-ejection opening and a later-ejection opening which are arranged side by side in the main scanning direction and arranged at different positions in the conveying direction, the second-liquid ejection head being configured to eject the second liquid from the earlier-ejection opening onto one of a pair of unit areas of the plurality of unit areas at an earlier timing than from the later-ejection opening onto the other of the pair of unit areas, the pair of unit areas being located at the same position in the conveying direction and arranged side by side in the main scanning direction; determine an amount of the second liquid to be ejected from the earlier-ejection opening for which the controller has judged that the determined amount of the second liquid is equal to or greater than the first predetermined value, to an amount smaller than the first predetermined value; and determine an amount of the second liquid to be ejected from the later-ejection opening, to an amount that is determined based on the image data for the other of the pair of unit area. | 40,841 |
9,470,168 | 1. A method of diagnosing deterioration of an oxygen sensor of a vehicle, comprising: calculating a first exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) amount using the output of a mass air flow (MAF) sensor; calculating a second EGR amount using the output of the oxygen sensor; comparing a first difference between the first EGR amount and the second EGR amount with a first predetermined value in a first predetermined operating region; and determining that the oxygen sensor is in danger of deterioration when the first difference between the first EGR amount and the second EGR amount is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value in the first predetermined operating region. | 19,912 |
8,983,632 | 1. A function block execution framework comprising: a processor having a memory, the processor including: N represents a total number of slots; and n represents a number of a slot from 1 to N. | 38,142 |
8,358,514 | 1. An electronic control device comprising: a circuit board having a first surface and a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first surface; a base member that forms a heat sink, wherein the base member has a circuit board side surface, to which the second surface of the circuit board is bonded; an electronic component mounted on the first surface; a molding resin that entirely seals the circuit board and the circuit board side surface of the base member; and a stress reducing portion arranged at least on an outer edge portion of the first surface of the circuit board, wherein: the stress reducing portion is held between the circuit board and the molding resin to reduce stress of a joint portion between the circuit board and the molding resin via the stress reducing portion at the outer edge portion in comparison to stress of a joint portion between the circuit board and the molding resin which are bonded together without holding the stress reducing portion there between; an elastic modulus of the stress reducing portion is lower than an elastic modulus of the circuit board; the stress reducing portion is made of an electrically-conductive adhesive; the electronic component is bonded to the first surface of the circuit board by an electrically-conductive adhesive, which is the same as the electrically-conductive adhesive of the stress reducing portion; and an adhesion improving member, which has an elastic modulus lower than an elastic modulus of the electrically-conductive adhesive of the stress reducing portion and an elastic modulus of the molding resin, is interposed between the electrically-conductive adhesive of the stress reducing portion and the molding resin and contacts the electrically-conductive adhesive of the stress reducing portion and the molding resin. | 2,558 |
8,759,941 | 1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising: a semiconductor chip including a plurality of input/output cells; a plurality of pads formed on a surface of the semiconductor chip; a wire formed on the surface of the semiconductor chip and configured to electrically connect at least one of the plurality of input/output cells and at least one of the plurality of pads; and a first type cell formed in the semiconductor chip and configured not to cause the semiconductor chip to perform erroneous operation even if variations in timing occur, wherein at least two of the plurality of pads are electrically connected to the same input/output cell, a density of the first type cells provided in an internal region of the semiconductor chip located below a first pad out of the at least two pads is higher than a density of the first type cells provided in an internal region of the semiconductor chip located below a second pad out of the at least two pads, a bump is formed immediately above the first pad, no bump is formed immediately above the second pad, the surface of the semiconductor chip is covered with a passivation layer having an opening portion on each of the plurality of pads, a metal plating layer is formed on each of the plurality of pads so that the opening portion is filled with the metal plating layer, the bump is formed on the metal plating layer, and a range within which the internal region is set is between a maximum range within which each of the plurality of pads is formed and a minimum range within which a bonding portion between the metal plating layer and the bump is formed. | 6,104 |
9,530,344 | 1. A display comprising: an array of pixels, each of the pixels having a corresponding light blocking element; one or more light sources to direct light toward the pixels to form an image on the display; and a controller circuit capable of providing data to: | 6,138 |
9,583,716 | 1. An organic electroluminescence device which comprises: a cathode, an anode and an organic thin film layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein: the organic thin film layer comprises at least one layer which comprises a light emitting layer; and the light emitting layer comprises a host and the host is at least one anthracene derivative represented by formula (2): wherein: Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted condensed aromatic group having 10 to 50 nuclear carbon atoms; Ar′ represents an aromatic group selected from the group consisting of a phenyl group, a 1-naphthyl group, a 2-naphthyl group, a 1-anthryl group, a 2-anthryl group, a 9-anthryl group, a 1-phenanthryl group, a 2-phenanthryl group, a 3-phenanthryl group, a 4-phenanthryl group, a 9-phenanthryl group, a 1-naphthacenyl group, a 2-naphthacenyl group, a 9-naphthacenyl group, a 1-pyrenyl group, a 2-pyrenyl group, a 4-pyrenyl group, a 2-biphenylyl group, a 3-biphenylyl group, a 4-biphenylyl group, a p-terphenyl-4-yl group, a p-terphenyl-3-yl group, a p-terphenyl-2-yl group, a m-terphenyl-4-yl group, m-terphenyl-3-yl group, m-terphenyl-2-yl group, and a fluoranthenyl group, each being optionally substitute; X represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group having 6 to 50 nuclear carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group having 5 to 50 nuclear atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group having 6 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxyl group having 5 to 50 nuclear atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylthio group having 5 to 50 nuclear atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxycarbonyl group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a carboxyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group or a hydroxyl group; a and b each represent an integer of 0 to 4; and n represents an integer of 1 to 3 and, when n represents 2 or 3, two or three groups represented by: may be a same or different. | 29,669 |
8,578,191 | 1. A method, comprising: accessing a first utilization value associated with a first switching portion of a distributed network switch; accessing a second utilization value associated with a second switching portion of the distributed network switch; defining a third utilization value associated with the second switching portion of the distributed network switch, the third utilization value based on the first utilization value and the second utilization value; sending to the first switching portion of the distributed network switch a deactivate signal in response to the third utilization value, the first switching portion of the distributed network switch ceasing communication within the distributed network switch in response to the deactivate signal; and updating a forwarding entry associated with the first switching portion of the distributed network switch at a forwarding table associated with a third switching portion of the distributed network switch such that a value of the forwarding entry indicates the first switching portion of the distributed network switch is deactivated. | 49,230 |
8,497,396 | 1. A method for preparing a compound of formula V: wherein R 1 is dimethylaminosulfonyl or a salt thereof, comprising dimerizing a corresponding compound of formula II: to provide the compound of formula V or the salt thereof. | 37,193 |
9,109,514 | 1. A method for recovering air in an aircraft, the method comprising: bleeding a portion of bypass air from an engine bypass; bleeding a portion of core air from an engine core; placing the bled bypass air and the bled core air in a heat exchange relationship external to an engine nacelle to produce heated bypass bleed air and cooled core bleed air; and directing the heated bypass bleed air separately from the cooled core bleed air to one or more of: a cowl de-icing system, and a wing anti-ice system. | 333 |
8,361,923 | 1. A process for producing a complex oxide catalyst containing molybdenum and cobalt, comprising preparing an aqueous slurry by mixing a complex oxide containing molybdenum and cobalt with an acid and water; drying the aqueous slurry to obtain a dried solid; calcining the dried solid, and subjecting the calcined dried solid to a heat treatment in the presence of a reducing substance; wherein the complex oxide is obtained by mixing a molybdenum- and cobalt-containing complex oxide catalyst which has been used in a vapor phase catalytic oxidation reaction with an aqueous extracting solution obtained by dissolving at least one of ammonia and an organic base in water, thereby extracting molybdenum and cobalt into the aqueous phase; drying the aqueous phase to obtain a dried solid, and calcining the dried solid under an atmosphere of an oxidizing gas to obtain the complex oxide. | 43,912 |
8,606,143 | 1. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising: a process cartridge including (i) an electrophotographic photosensitive member, (ii) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on said electrophotographic photosensitive member, and (iii) a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer to be supplied to said developing roller; a main assembly; and a supporting member movable between an inside position which is inside said main assembly of the apparatus and in which said supporting member demountably supports said process cartridge and an outside position outside said main assembly, wherein said supporting member includes a contacting and spacing member capable of taking a contacting position for contacting said developing roller to said electrophotographic photosensitive member and a spacing position for spacing said developing roller from said electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein said contacting and spacing member includes a driving force receiving portion for receiving a driving force for moving between the contacting position and the spacing position, and wherein, when said supporting member is in the outside position, said contacting and spacing member is in the spacing position. | 18,677 |
9,711,074 | 1. An apparatus for preventing an abnormal screen display, comprising: a separator configured to separate a clock signal and a data signal from a clock embedded signal; a first latch that latches the data signal; a lock detector that receives the clock signal and outputs a lock signal at a predetermined level after comparing an Nth clock waveform and an N−1th clock waveform of the clock signal; a control logic unit that selectively outputs a strobe signal based on the predetermined level of the lock signal; a second latch that latches the data signal that is latched in the first latch based on the strobe signal; and, an output section that outputs the data latched in the second latch as a panel driver signal. | 16,654 |
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