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1. A connection device for at least one media line that fluidly communicates a medium, the connection device comprising: a connector having portions defining a socket, a line-side plug configured to be coupled to the media line, the line-side plug located within the socket and circumferentially sealed with respect to t...
1,908
9,667,487
1. A method of controlling a receiving input device, comprising: receiving input data corresponding to a first input type from a transmitting input device; changing an input type from the first input type to a second input type; transmitting information about the change of input type; receiving a report descriptor indi...
8,359
9,175,621
1. A method of controlling an engine system of a vehicle, the engine system including an engine having a plurality of cylinders, the method comprising: detecting, at a processor, engine knock in at least one cylinder of the plurality of cylinders; calculating, at the processor, knock density for each cylinder in which ...
6,230
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1. A method of controlling the crosslinking reaction and enhancing the viscosity of an aqueous fracturing fluid for fracturing a subterranean formation, the method comprising: blending an aqueous fluid and a hydratable polymer that is capable of gelling in the presence of borate ions together for a period of time suffi...
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1. A composition comprising: the compound of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; phosphatidylcholine, and, a phosphate buffer selected from the group consisting of sodium phosphate dibasic, sodium phosphate monobasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium phosphate dibasic, and mixtures thereof, ...
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8,348,636
1. A wave energy converter for compressing air from the movement of a wave comprising: a first cylinder having a first cap end opposite a first open end, such that a first compression chamber is disposed within said open end and is in fluid communication with a first intake valve and a first exhaust valve carried by sa...
22,380
9,381,340
1. A garment for preventing pressure ulcers in a loaded muscle(s), the garment comprising: a stretchy, form-fitting main body portion, at least one non-stretchy, opening portion comprising a layer of material forming holes therein or mesh material joined and positioned within the main body portion at or near the loaded...
30,088
9,578,472
1. A method of providing an email service for an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) for a sender and a recipient without a known email address, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a remote server within a computer-based operating environment that includes access to a recording medium operable ...
20,010
9,174,124
1. A method of controlling a game with a mobile touch-enabled device, comprising: rendering a trigger button on a display of the mobile touch-enabled device; receiving first data from a sensor of the mobile touch-enabled device indicative of an amount of tilt of a corner of the mobile touch-enabled device relative to a...
9,230
8,609,056
1. Iron(III) orthophosphate of the general formula FePO 4 ×nH 2 O (n less than or equal to 2.5), said iron(III) orthophosphate being in the form of platelet shaped crystals having an average primary particle size with a thickness of less than 300 nm and at least one dimension perpendicular to the thickness having a siz...
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8,937,642
1. A stereo image data transmitting apparatus, comprising: a stereo image data output unit that outputs stereo image data including left-eye image data and right-eye image data; a superimposition information data output unit that outputs data of superimposition information to be superimposed on an image that is based o...
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1. A multicarrier transmission system for transmitting a signal comprising digital data over a predetermined number of subchannels, the system comprising: at least a transmitter having a synthesis filter bank deduced from a prototype filter by frequency translation, the transmitter including a serial-to-parallel conver...
13,441
9,247,504
1. Capacitive sensor device for a handheld radio transceiver connected with an antenna element, for estimating a specific absorption rate (SAR) of the handheld radio transceiver, wherein the sensor device is coupled with the antenna element, and wherein during the operation of the handheld radio transceiver the antenna...
5,497
9,017,807
1. A transparent conductive film comprising: a first transparent resin layer comprising metallic nanowires or carbon nanotubes; a second transparent resin layer comprising a conductive polymer; and a third transparent resin layer provided between the first transparent resin layer and the second transparent resin layer,...
4,898
9,383,789
1. An apparatus comprising: one or more thermal sensors; thermal trip point circuitry coupled to the one or more thermal sensors and configured to detect that one or more thermal thresholds have been exceeded by respective outputs of the one or more thermal sensors; and thermal control circuitry configured to respond t...
28,645
9,564,813
1. A switching power-supply device that rectifies an input voltage of an alternating-current power supply to a direct-current voltage, applies the direct-current voltage to a primary winding of a transformer to cause switching operation of a switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer, thereby...
27,603
9,847,549
1. An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and an additive, the additive comprising a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein, L
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1. A vehicle with at least one cooling circuit for cooling of a fuel cell system, wherein the cooling circuit comprises: a cooling heat exchanger that includes a first stage and a second stage arranged in such a way that the first and second stages are flowed through serially, one after another by motion-related airflo...
18,009
9,146,761
1. A method for allocating time resources for a virtualization system supporting at least two operating systems (OSs), the method comprising: configuring an adjustment value for a first OS and a second OS, and configuring a threshold value for time resource adjustment for each of the first OS and the second OS, the thr...
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9,277,832
1. A method of allowing sampling of tester product comprising: instructing a user to lift a cover on a first tester product assembly to expose at least one tester product, the first tester product assembly comprising: a base located in a tester product assembly receptacle of a display shelf, the base including a front ...
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1. A fluid pump comprising: a motor unit that comprises a stator, a rotor, and a rotational shaft on which the rotor is fixed, to thus generate a rotating torque; a pump unit that is placed separately from the motor unit on one side of the motor unit, and that comprises an impeller for pumping fluid; a first power tran...
3,228
9,537,024
1. An optoelectronic device comprising a hybrid metal-dielectric optoelectronic interface disposed above an underlying substrate, wherein the hybrid metal-dielectric optoelectronic interface comprises i) an array of nanoscale dielectric resonant elements, and ii) a metal film disposed between the dielectric resonant el...
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8,552,701
1. System for regulating a load voltage in power distribution circuits comprising at least: a regulation transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, the secondary winding of the regulation transformer being operatively arranged in series between a power source and the load, the power source being capa...
46,092
9,045,132
1. A hybrid vehicle, comprising: an engine; a starter motor configured to start the engine; and a controller configured to inhibit engine stop during a vehicle stop event in response to a starter motor heat associated with restarting the engine during vehicle stop events exceeding a corresponding heat threshold within ...
45,192
8,858,654
1. A method for producing an activated carbon for an electric double layer capacitor electrode comprising adjusting a carbon material (including a calcined product of a carbon material) in particle size, followed by mixing the carbon material with an alkali activator at a mix ratio of the carbon material: alkali activa...
30,388
9,426,627
1. A method of electronically predicting queue characteristics of a queue of humans, the method comprising: broadcasting a query from an originating smart phone to one or more receiving smart phones; analyzing, on the originating smart phone, responses from the receiving smart phones to determine signal characteristics...
6,368
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1. A method for transmitting optical downstream signals and optical upstream signals via a single optical fiber in a point to multipoint network between a central unit and a plurality of network units, the method which comprises: generating an optical downstream transmission signal formed of downstream signals with a c...
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1. An apparatus, comprising: a source processor configured to transmit data via a primary link; and a sink processor coupled to the source processor via the primary link and a secondary link, wherein the sink processor is configured to receive the data via the primary link; wherein the source processor is further confi...
28,600
8,845,483
1. A system comprising: a hybrid power train including an engine, a first electrical torque provider, a second electrical torque provider mechanically coupled to the engine by a first shaft, a load mechanically coupled to the first electrical torque provider by a second shaft, and a clutch mechanically coupling the fir...
143
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1. A system to express at least two separated materials to a selected location from an expressing assembly, having a first chamber and a second chamber operable to maintain a first material separated from a second material; an outlet portion including an outlet connection portion extending from the first chamber and th...
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9,661,086
1. A computer-implemented method performed by a social networking system, comprising: receiving, by the social networking system, from a remote third-party system hosting a third-party application, the remote third-party system different from the social networking system, a notification that a first user has a unidirec...
17,009
8,909,488
1. A method for apportioning usage of a utility in a multi-unit building, the method comprising: (a) measuring total usage of the utility by the multi-unit building using a meter unit to produce a total usage measurement; (b) positioning at least one sensor unit in a single unit of the multi-unit building; (c) monitori...
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8,654,388
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a display controlling unit that controls to display a setting screen based on functional information and setting screen information, wherein a transforming unit that transforms the output setting into a setting on a predetermined format based on the operation that is r...
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1. An electric storage device, comprising: an electric storage element including an external terminal; and a bus bar connected to the external terminal, a face of the bus bar which opposes the external terminal being flat, wherein the bus bar includes a thin-walled portion and a thick-walled portion, the thin-walled po...
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8,357,813
1. A process for the epoxidation of an olefin, which process comprises reacting a feed comprising an olefin and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a carrier and silver deposited on the carrier, which carrier comprises at least 85 weight percent α-alumina and has a surface area of at least 1.3 m 2 /g, a med...
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1. A composition for stabilizing a source of active halogen in aqueous solution for use in an industrial water process system, said composition comprising: (i) at least one substituted N-hydrogen compound selected from the group consisting of p-toluenesulfonamide, 5,5-dialkylhydantoins, methanesulfon-amide, barbituric ...
2,550
9,113,451
1. A radio communication system comprising: a high power base station; and a low power base station provided in a communication area of the high power base station and having transmission power lower than transmission power of the high power base station, comprising: a division ratio determination unit that determines ...
35,436
8,613,138
1. A method for repairing an integrally bladed rotor having a plurality of blades extending outwardly from a rotor disk and including a blade having a damaged portion, the integrally blade rotor having been manufactured without using linear friction welding to join the plurality of blades to a rotor disk, the method co...
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8,786,357
1. A device comprising: a voltage generator configured to receive an input voltage and generate a plurality of voltage signals based, at least in part, on the input voltage; and a memory device configured to store programming, wherein the voltage generator is configured to select a voltage signal from the plurality of ...
11,228
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1. A method for deploying markup content to browser applications comprising the following steps: accepting inbound data; transforming said inbound data into XML messages; selecting a content provider interface; forwarding said XML messages to the selected content provider interface; receiving an XML message response fr...
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1. An apparatus for treating a bifurcated region of a body lumen, comprising: a catheter having a first catheter branch and a second catheter branch, wherein the first catheter branch includes a first distal portion and the second catheter branch includes a second distal portion; a sheath coupled to the first distal po...
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8,924,775
1. A data storage device, comprising: storage media comprising a plurality of sectors configured to store data; and a controller configured to selectively read and write data to the plurality of sectors, the controller being further configured to: tag a sector of the plurality of sectors as a bad sector to be relocated...
4,350
9,427,701
1. A method for controlling a dehumidifier comprising: (a) providing a dehumidifier having a water level switch and pump, the water level switch comprising a closed hollow rod and a floater having a magnet and a hole, the closed hollow rod being disposed within the hole of the floater, the closed hollow rod further hav...
6,572
9,829,007
1. A turbine sealing system, comprising: a static structure disposed radially outward from a tip of a rotating component, the static structure having a seal assembly slot formed therein; a seal assembly including a support block disposed within the seal assembly slot, a sealing material disposed along a bottom portion ...
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9,027,474
1. A marking device for golf balls, which comprises a seat, an arch-shaped retainer, and a bottom plate; wherein the seat defines a central recess extending downwardly from a top surface thereof and defines a bottom opening, at a recessed bottom surface thereof, which communicates with the central recess, the seat is p...
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8,695,225
1. A mirrored compass comprising a base member; a hinged cover comprising a mirror and a sighting window for sighting a land mark or the like; and a vial assembly pivotally mounted to said base member, the vial assembly comprising: a vial; a magnetized indicator member journaled in the vial; and an azimuth ring; a hing...
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1. A method for discharging liquid from an intake tract of a turbocharger arrangement which has an internal combustion engine, which can be supercharged by at least one turbocharger, and a charge-air-cooler which is arranged in the intake tract between the turbocharger and the internal combustion engine, comprising: co...
39,186
9,062,594
1. A turbocharger system comprising: a primary inlet for flow communication with an exhaust gas manifold of an engine and an exhaust outlet; a first relatively small turbocharger having a first turbine with an inlet and an outlet; a second relatively large turbocharger having a second turbine with an inlet and an outle...
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8,762,680
1. A computer implemented method comprising: dispatching a first amount of a resource to a set of capped partitions, a partition being a data processing system in a virtualized data processing environment; computing, using a processor and a memory, a used portion of the first amount used in a first period; forecasting ...
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1. A wind turbine comprising: a hub; a first inboard blade and a second inboard blade, the first inboard blade and second inboard blade spaced apart and mounted on the hub of the wind turbine; a first outboard blade pivotally connected to the first inboard blade and a second outboard blade pivotally connected to the se...
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1. A method of decrementing access terminal assignments in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving an assignment message with a MACID other than a MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for an interlace; and decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the assignment message, wherein...
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9,804,853
1. An instruction compression apparatus comprising: an indicator generator configured to generate an indicator code that indicates an issue width of an instruction bundle to be executed in a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor, and a number of No-Operation (NOP) instruction bundles following the instruction bun...
5,013
8,694,380
1. A method, comprising: maintaining payment account information by using a payment application in a mobile device memory included in a mobile device, wherein the payment application is not browser based and is a mobile operating system platform based mobile application preinstalled or downloaded and installed on the m...
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8,701,015
1. A method for device interaction, the method comprising: in a mobile device comprising a customizable graphical user interface having at least a first geometric region configurable by a user of the mobile device to be responsive or non-responsive to a first mode of user input and a second geometric region separate fr...
36,413
8,776,506
1. A method for predicting a NOx amount, comprising: generating exhaust gas from an engine and passing the exhaust gas to an exhaust pipe; detecting an 02 amount in an intake air; determining a reference 02 amount in the intake air according to a driving condition of the engine; determining a reference NOx amount conta...
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9,797,069
1. A substrate with high fracture strength comprising: a substrate body; the substrate body comprising a first surface and a second surface; the second surface being opposite to the first surface; a plurality of first nanostructures; the plurality of first nano structures protruding from the first surface of the substr...
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1. A method of treating a subject having an amyloid disease or disorder, wherein said subject comprises at least one fibril, comprising administering a composition comprising a peptide consisting of a myelin basic protein fragment, wherein said fragment consists of the amino acid sequence KRGX 1 X 2 X 3 X 4 X 5 X 6 HP ...
21,084
8,883,503
1. A hydrogel scaffold composition comprising: a hydrogel layer, the hydrogel layer comprising one or more polyvinyl alcohol polymers and one or more phenylboronate-containing copolymers, wherein the hydrogel layer is configured for cell growth into one or more of cell-sheets or tissues; and a polyvinylidene fluoride m...
11,327
9,187,809
1. A consolidated material, comprising: coated particles in a matrix, said coated particles comprising a core material, and at least one intermediate layer on said core material; wherein said at least one intermediate layer comprises a material different from said core material and said intermediate layer has a fractur...
34,143
8,772,015
1. A process for removing contaminants from a gas stream, the process comprising, a) providing a biofilter having a medium, the medium comprising granules, wherein each granule comprises a core and a coating, wherein the granules or their cores have a sphericity of 0.75 to 1, a particle size of 1 to 16 mm and a uniform...
22,600
9,485,077
1. A method, comprising: operating a physical layer device in a network device, using circuitry of the network device, in a full duplex mode where the physical layer device transmits and receives data on a single twisted wire pair; upon a first determination that a first direction of transmission in the full duplex mod...
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8,589,009
1. A method of controlling a state of charge of an electric energy accumulator in a hybrid vehicle having an internal-combustion engine and an electric machine, the method comprising the acts of: in a first sub-range of a working state-of-charge range being within a theoretically possible state-of-charge range of the e...
29,625
8,988,354
1. An input device comprising: a frame; a plurality of buttons disposed in the frame; a processor disposed in the frame and configured to operate the input device in one of a plurality of modes of operation including: a housing coupled to the frame and configured to receive and secure a display device, wherein the hous...
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9,012,314
1. A method for forming doping regions, comprising: providing a substrate; forming a first-type doping material on the substrate, wherein the step of forming the first-type doping material on the substrate comprises providing a first mask comprising a first opening on the substrate, coating the first-type doping materi...
2,270
8,459,614
1. A pulling system, comprising: a puller body; a pair of drums rotatably attached to the puller body to accept a flexible line to be pulled; a pair of drive motors; and a pair of harmonic drive gear reduction units mechanically coupled between the pair of drums and the pair of drive motors.
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1. A quaternized hyperbranched polymer having end-groups of formula (I): wherein the quaternized hyperbranched polymer is a condensation reaction product of a reaction mixture consisting of:
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1. A seed, plant, plant part, or cell of inbred maize variety PH1M7A, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-120812.
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1. A device for breaking glass articles, the device comprising an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with one another and having a rotatable member interposed there between, the rotatable member being attached to, and capable of being rotated by, a motor, wherein the inlet to the device opens onto the rotatable...
12,691
8,472,886
1. A mobile transceiver apparatus being adapted for communicating radio signals from/to a base station transceiver, the mobile transceiver apparatus comprising a receiver module for receiving an information signal from another base station transceiver, the information signal being received with an information signal st...
42,136
8,463,444
1. A control system for governing temperature levels within a confined space having a heating system, a cooling system, and a thermostat controller operatively coupled to the heating system and the cooling system, the control system comprising: a plurality of environmental sensors adapted to detect temperature levels, ...
10,540
8,926,844
1. A method for reducing an amount of unwanted living organisms within an algae cultivation fluid, the algae cultivation fluid including wanted living algae of genus Nannochloropsis , the method comprising: subjecting the algae cultivation fluid, the algae cultivation fluid including the wanted living algae of genus
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1. A subframe for a rear axle of a two-track motor vehicle, comprising a deformation element provided, as viewed in a vehicle longitudinal direction, at a forward end of the subframe between the subframe and a functional unit of the motor vehicle such that in the event of a rear-end crash a forward shift of the subfram...
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8,872,793
1. A sensor module comprising: a first sensor circuit comprising a first detection electrode whose detection capacitance varies according to an input operation by an input unit after a first precharge voltage is applied to the first detection electrode, a first amplifier formed of a thin-film transistor including a gat...
11,069
9,058,674
1. A computer-implemented method, performed by at least one processor, for image enhancement at a network service, comprising: receiving an image and geolocation information indicating where the image was acquired; identifying, from a library including a plurality of library image portions, a subset of the plurality of...
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8,541,945
1. A lighting device, comprising: a tubular current-conductive housing; a lamp assembly coupled to the tubular current-conductive housing, the lamp assembly including at least one lamp that is electrically coupled to the tubular current-conductive housing; an insulator sleeve disposed around an end portion of the tubul...
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8,909,832
1. A physiological data collection device comprising: an electro-cardiogram (ECG) lead-wire set; a data collection unit comprising: wherein the ECG lead-wire set or the data collection unit or both have one or more structural components that prevent a connection between the male USB data connector and the external comp...
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8,644,498
1. An electronic device comprising: operation keys; and groups of pixels, each group of pixels being comprised in a corresponding one of the operation keys and configured to display an image; wherein directions of the images displayed by the groups of pixels are switchable between a first orientation and a second orien...
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8,447,605
1. A command processing apparatus, comprising: a creating programmed logic circuitry for creating input waveform information including a plurality of amplitude values on a voice waveform input in real time, determined by splitting the input voice waveform into a plurality of partial waveforms, each partial waveform pro...
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1. A storage node for a distributed object storage system, said storage node comprising: a power supply; a plurality of redundant storage elements powered by said power supply; a motherboard powered by said power supply and connected to said plurality of redundant storage elements, said motherboard comprising: a contro...
2,674
9,066,644
1. An upright vacuum cleaner having a slide retractable handle which can be used in a floor-cleaning mode to manoeuvre the cleaner across the floor, and a telescopic suction wand which is fluidly connected to a separating apparatus on the cleaner via a hose and which can be used to clean above the level of the floor, a...
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9,609,691
1. A remote radio equipment comprising: a power amplifier that is operated by a power source with a first voltage or with a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage and that amplifies a transmission signal; an apparatus interface that is connected to an external apparatus that is operated by the power source...
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1. A fitting for connecting conduit carrying liquid color, comprising: a) a first plate, a second plate, and a third plate, wherein the plates are superimposed on top of each other, with the second plate positioned between the first plate and the third plate, each plate having an arcuate interior opening, the arcuate i...
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1. A liquid crystal panel, comprising an array substrate and a color filter substrate bonded together with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, wherein, light blocking strips are provided on a surface of at least one of the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and the surface is opposite to the side of the a...
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8,593,988
1. A method of managing a communications resource in a mesh network, comprising: monitoring a communication channel for one or more carriers; measuring signal strength for the one or more carriers at a plurality of antenna elements; comparing the measured signal strengths at the antenna elements to determine a directio...
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9,279,926
1. An infrared shielding film having at least one unit formed by stacking a high-refractive-index layer and a low-refractive-index layer, the layers containing a high-refractive-index material and a low-refractive-index material, respectively, the materials having different refractive indices with each other, wherein t...
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1. A Fenton reaction catalyst, comprising, as an active component, a reaction product obtained by mixing reducing organic substances with an iron-supplying source in the presence of water under any one of the following conditions (A) to (C): (A): a condition where the reducing organic substance is ascorbic acid; and th...
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1. For a video editing application, a method for merging metadata with a set of video clips captured on a video camera, the method comprising: receiving a set of metadata from a handheld device that is a separate device from the video camera, the metadata pertaining to the set of video clips and at least partially gene...
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9,815,728
1. A method for reducing fusion line tin-containing defects in glass sheets produced by a fusion process, said fusion process employing an isopipe that comprises a first alumina refractory that forms at least a part of at least one surface of the isopipe which comes into contact with molten glass during the fusion proc...
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8,545,259
1. At least one spare handheld power tool module, comprising: a power tool module arrangement adapted to be electrically connected to one of a primary handheld power tool battery and at least one spare handheld power tool module, the battery having a primary interface adapted to be electrically connected to a handheld ...
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9,818,289
1. A method for providing a reminder on a mobile device, comprising: obtaining a target reminder time closest to a current time from a plurality of remaining reminder events scheduled to execute before a shutdown event of the mobile device; determining a first counting time according to the target reminder time; access...
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1. A paste composition comprising: an inorganic solids portion comprising: a source of electrically conductive metal and a boron lithium tellurium oxide containing boron, lithium and tellurium cations that together comprise at least 80% of the cations present in the boron lithium tellerium oxide, and wherein the minimu...
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1. A tire vulcanizer which vulcanizes and molds a green tire placed in an outer mold by heating the green tire from the outer side and the inner side of the green tire, the tire vulcanizer comprising: an electric platen which is arranged to be in contact with each of the upper and lower sides of a container with the gr...
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1. A time signal generator, adapted to a power converter, the time signal generator comprising: an input unit comprising an amplifier, receiving an error signal, wherein the error signal relates to an output voltage of the power converter; a delay unit comprising a resistor and a capacitor, coupled to the input unit, a...
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8,479,489
1. A method of cooling an exhaust gas stream from an outlet of a turbomachine prior to recirculation to an inlet of the turbomachine, comprising the steps of: channeling the exhaust gas stream from the outlet of the turbomachine to the inlet of the turbomachine through a guide element; cooling the exhaust gas stream by...
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1. A method of synthesizing a polynucleotide on a solid support from a set of oligonucleotide precursors, the method comprising the steps of: repeatedly partitioning a polynucleotide into candidate subunits and for each candidate subunit generating tilings of oligonucleotide precursors that cover the candidate subunit,...
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1. A method for squeezing-off tubing having a puncture or break in the wall thereof, and a fluid flowing therein, comprising: providing a tubing squeeze-off apparatus having a pair of parallel-closing crimping jaws; providing a squeeze-off retainer effective for maintaining the tubing in a squeezed-off condition; crimp...
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1. A running control device of a vehicle including an engine, an accelerator pedal, and a connecting/disconnecting device connecting/disconnecting the engine and wheels, the running control device of a vehicle being configured to execute an engine coupling running mode performed with the engine and the wheels connected...
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9,288,822
1. A method for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in a wireless mesh network, the advertisement being identified by an advertisement identification number and being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by a transmitting node via one or multiple advertisement elements,...
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8,999,036
1. A method for converting landfill gas and other biogases into a compressed biomethane for use as fuel, said method comprising steps of: drawing biogas from a biogas source, then pressurizing the biogas, then chilling the biogas to 40° F. to 70° F., then separating condensed water from the biogas, then compressing the...
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1. A hybrid vehicle, comprising: an engine; a motor, the engine and the motor being driving sources of the vehicle; a first traveling mode in which an output of the engine is utilized to drive the vehicle; a second traveling mode in which the vehicle is driven through an output of the motor with the engine stopped; and...
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