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9,395,794 | 1. A remote controller comprising: a case; a touch panel that is disposed on an outer surface of the case, the touch panel receives an operation input for controlling a control subject; a control unit that transmits, to the control subject, a control signal for controlling the control subject based on the operation input received by the touch panel; a substrate that is disposed within the case so as to be movable with respect to the case and, when the touch panel receives the operation input, the substrate comes into contact with the touch panel so that the substrate vibrates with respect to the case due to an impact caused by contact with the touch panel; a sensor that is disposed on the substrate, the sensor detects the vibration of the substrate with respect to the case caused by contact with the touch panel, the sensor outputs a detection signal indicating detection of the vibration; a touch detecting unit that identifies whether or not the operation input is performed based on the detection signal; and a power supply control unit that controls power supplied to the control unit to increase the power supplied when the touch detecting unit identifies that the operation input is performed compared to the power supplied when the touch detecting unit identifies that the operation input is not performed. | 5,159 |
9,197,062 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a network computing device, a command to connect electricity service to a subscriber side of a service switch; monitoring a circuit internal to the subscriber side of the service switch to detect whether a condition is present in the circuit internal to the subscriber side of the service switch, wherein monitoring the circuit internal to the subscriber side of the service switch comprises: determining whether or not to connect electricity service to the subscriber side of the service switch based at least in part on whether the condition was detected to be present during the monitoring. | 62 |
9,008,043 | 1. A method of communicating data in a wireless communication system including a first type network communicating based on a number of OFDM symbols, a second type network which is different from the first type network, and a user equipment (UE) which is communicating with at least one of the first type network and the second type network, the method performed by the UE which moves between a coverage of the first type network and a coverage of the second type network and comprising: performing a combined track area update (TAU) to the first type network; receiving a packet switched (PS) mobility management (MM) back-off time value from the first type network; starting a PS MM back-off timer based on the received PS MM back-off time value; when the UE moves from a first cell of the first type network to a second cell of the second type network, determining whether the PS MM back-off timer is running, whether the UE's Temporary Identity used in Next update (TIN) is set to a Global Unique Temporary Identity (GUTI), and whether the first cell and the second cell belong to a same location area (LA) associated with a circuit switched (CS) domain; and when the PS MM back-off timer is running, the UE's TIN is set to the GUTI, and the first cell and the second cell belong to the same LA, starting a location update procedure (LAU) procedure. | 22,960 |
8,459,168 | 1. A semi-fabricated armor layer for use in production of an armor panel configured to protect a body from an incoming projectile, comprising: a carrier and a plurality of ceramic armor elements each having front and rear end surfaces and a side surface extending therebetween along a height axis of the element, wherein said carrier is flexible and each of a majority of said armor elements is bonded to said carrier along a contact area at one of its end surfaces, is free of such bonding at remaining areas of said one of its end surfaces, and is further free of the bonding to adjacent armor elements at its side surface so that, when said carrier has a planar orientation, at least a majority of the armor elements has their height axes essentially parallel to each other and, when the carrier is at least slightly bent, the height axis of at least one of said elements is inclined relative to the height axis of another of the armor elements adjacent thereto, wherein a ratio between a size of the contact area of the end surface of the ceramic armor elements with which the ceramic armor elements are bonded to the carrier and a size of the end surface is less than 1/1 and not smaller than 1/10. | 27,945 |
8,372,472 | 1. A process for forming a photovoltaic conductive feature, comprising: providing a substrate comprising a passivation layer disposed on a silicon layer; depositing a surface modifying material comprising a UV-curable material on at least a portion of the passivation layer; curing the UV-curable material to form a cured material; depositing a composition comprising at least one of metallic nanoparticles comprising a metal or a metal precursor to the metal onto at least a portion of the cured material; and heating the cured material and the composition such that at least one of the cured material or the composition etches a region of the passivation layer and such that the composition forms at least a portion of a photovoltaic conductive feature that is in electrical contact with the silicon layer. | 38,178 |
8,822,746 | 1. A process for the selective hydrogenation of at least one unsaturated hydrocarbon compound using a hydrogenation catalyst comprising an ordered intermetallic compound, which is selected from the group consisting of Fe 4 Al 13 , orthorhombic Co 4 Al 13 , hexagonal Co 4 Al 13 , and monoclinic Co 4 Al 13 . | 29,724 |
9,170,565 | 1. An interior component positioning structure comprising: a case; an inner frame which is arranged inside the case and an upper surface of which is provided with a positioning fitting recess; a module which is arranged as being positioned inside the inner frame; and a parting member which is provided with a parting member positioning projection that is provided on a lower surface of the parting member facing the upper surface of the inner frame, and that is fitted into the positioning fitting recess of the inner frame, thereby positioning the parting member with respect to the inner frame, wherein the case is provided with a flange-shaped projecting section provided on an inner peripheral surface of the case at a position higher than an upper surface of the module and arranged between the inner frame and the parting member, and the flange-shaped projecting section is provided with an insertion hole through which the parting member positioning projection of the parting member is inserted to project, wherein the parting member includes (i) an outer section comprising a first slanted section which is positioned on an upper surface of the flange-shaped projecting section, (ii) a middle section which is adjacent to the outer section and comprises a flat section which is positioned on the upper surface of the flange-shaped projecting section in an area corresponding to the inner frame, (iii) an inner section which is adjacent to the middle section and comprises and a second slanted section which is tilted from an inner peripheral end of the flat section toward the upper surface of the module and projects radially inwardly beyond an inner peripheral end of the flange-shaped projecting section. | 22,014 |
8,884,597 | 1. A synchronous buck DC-DC converter system, comprising: a high side switch and a low side switch coupled to a power supply, each switch is configured to transition states from an on state to an off state and from an off state to an on state to deliver current to an inductor and a load; low side driver circuitry configured to control the conduction state of the low side switch and configured to drive the low side switch with a first gate drive control signal during a first mode of operation and with a second gate drive control signal during a second mode of operation; wherein the first gate drive control signal is stronger than the second gate drive control signal and the second gate drive control signal is configured to cause a slower switch transition of the low side switch compared to the first gate drive control signal; and wherein the first mode of operation includes at least one of a continuous conduction mode (CCM) or a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) when current through the inductor is positive relative to the load, and the second mode of operation includes the CCM when current through the inductor is negative relative to the load. | 44,522 |
8,722,785 | 1. A process for producing a composite of saponified product of an ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer, which comprises mixing, at a temperature of 80° C. to 105° C., a composition (A) containing a saponified product of ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer with a degree of saponification of 99 to 100% by mol (A1) and having a moisture content of 50% by weight or higher, with a water-swellable layered inorganic compound (B) to obtain a composition (C) having a moisture content of 10% by weight or higher and less than 60% by weight, and then mixing, at a temperature of 150° C. to 250° C., the composition (C) with a saponified product of ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer with a degree of saponification of 99 to 100% by mol (A2). | 4,567 |
9,705,143 | 1. A fuel cell device supplying electric power with an image pickup device which can detect a consumption power of the image pickup device, comprising: a fuel cell stack which outputs the electric power through a chemical reaction between fuel gas and oxidant gas; a purge valve which executes a purging operation of the fuel cell stack; a fuel cell system controller which controls the purge valve in accordance with the consumption power detected by the image pickup device; and a cell voltage detector which detects an output voltage of the fuel cell stack, wherein the fuel cell system controller determines whether or not to notify request of the purging operation based on the detected output voltage of the fuel cell stack, and wherein the fuel cell system controller decides whether or not an unoperated state of the image pickup device reaches a predetermined time, and, when deciding that the unoperated state reaches the predetermined time, causes the purge valve to execute the purging operation. | 12,273 |
9,504,836 | 1. A system to deliver an electrical therapy to a patient to whom another electrical therapy is also delivered, comprising: an electrical stimulator to deliver electrical pulses to the patient for the electrical therapy; and a controller connected to the electrical stimulator and configured to operate in a first mode to control delivery of the electrical pulses for the electrical therapy when the other electrical therapy is not delivered and to operate in a second mode in response to delivery of the other electrical therapy, wherein operating in the first mode includes performing a first sensing operation and operating in the second mode includes performing a second sensing operation different from the first sensing operation. | 22,778 |
8,543,109 | 1. A method for searching for a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) in a mobile communication device having a plurality of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, the method comprising: separately starting a plurality of Home PLMN (HPLMN) timers according to a corresponding plurality of HPLMN timer values stored respectively in the plurality of SIM cards; performing a PLMN search for one of the plurality of SIM cards at an expiry of a corresponding one of the plurality of HPLMN timers; updating a PLMN list with one or more PLMNs found during the PLMN search; for all of the plurality of SIM cards, determining whether the PLMN list contains any PLMN with a higher priority than a currently registered PLMN; and for any SIM card of the plurality of SIM cards in which there is any PLMN with the higher priority than the currently registered PLMN, performing a location registration in the PLMN with the higher priority. | 31,280 |
8,905,672 | 1. An apparatus for impeding movement of a vehicle having rotating wheels, the apparatus comprising: a housing configured to be positioned in a path of the vehicle such that at least one rotating wheel crosses the housing; a netting having a contracted arrangement and an extended arrangement, the netting being disposed in the housing in the contracted arrangement and being configured to become wrapped around the wheel in the extended arrangement; and a snagging member coupled to the netting and configured to snag the wheel, wherein the netting is configured to be pulled out of the housing and into the extended arrangement when the snagging member snags the wheel. | 15,921 |
8,555,657 | 1. An environment control apparatus for cultivating plants comprising: a casing including a bottom having first and second holes; a thermoelectric cooling module including first and second sides, with the first side facing the casing, with the thermoelectric cooling module mounted in the first hole; a hollow heat reservoir; a temperature control pipe including two ends connected to the heat reservoir, with the temperature control pipe including a heat exchanging section in contact with the second side of the thermoelectric cooling module; a first power device mounted on the temperature control pipe; an auxiliary heat pipe including two ends connected to the heat reservoir, with the auxiliary heat pipe including a heat dissipating section located in the second hole; and a processor coupled to the thermoelectric cooling module and the first power device. | 35,874 |
8,799,580 | 1. A storage apparatus, comprising: one or two or more storage devices in which a plurality of volumes are constructed in a storage area; and a controller which specifies an access target volume among the plurality of volumes on the basis of an access request from an access request source, and executes data I/O processing on the specified access target volume, wherein the controller comprises a CPU which executes arithmetic processing and a CPU memory which is connected to the CPU via a CPU memory bus, wherein the CPU is configured from one or two or more CPU cores and a CPU cache which comprises a temporary area in a portion of a main storage area, wherein the CPU discriminates an attribute of the access target volume or target data which is the target of the data I/O processing on the basis of the access request and selects memory bus optimization execution processing or cache poisoning optimization execution processing in accordance with the discrimination result, wherein, if the memory bus optimization execution processing is selected, the CPU stores the target data among the data stored in the CPU memory in the main storage area of the CPU cache and loads the target data stored in the main storage area of the CPU cache into the CPU core, wherein, if the cache poisoning optimization execution processing is selected, the CPU stores the target data among the data stored in the CPU memory in the temporary area of the CPU cache, and loads the target data stored in the temporary area of the CPU cache into the CPU core, and wherein, if the target data is loaded from the main storage area of the CPU cache, the CPU core executes at least processing to check the target data loaded from the main storage area of the CPU cache, and if the target data is loaded from the temporary area of the CPU cache, executes processing to check the target data loaded from the temporary area of the CPU cache. | 40,372 |
8,552,121 | 1. A method for providing a polymer having terminal functionality, said method comprising reacting a terminally active polymer with a cyclic compound that comprises in its ring structure one or more sulfur atoms and one or more M atoms where M is silicon or tin, thereby providing said polymer having terminal functionality, wherein at least one of said one or more M atoms is bonded to at least one halogen atom or a secondary amine group. | 25,309 |
8,450,170 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a substrate including an active region abutting a trench; disposing an insulation pattern on the active region and disposing a conductive pattern on the insulation pattern; forming a first oxide pattern connected to the insulation pattern to cover a lower portion of the conductive pattern; forming a second oxide pattern to fill the trench; forming a third oxide pattern on the second oxide pattern to cover the first oxide pattern; and forming an insulation layer and a conductive layer on the conductive pattern, the first oxide pattern and the third oxide pattern, wherein the active region includes an upper portion having a first width, the insulation pattern has the first width and a bottom portion of the conductive pattern has a second width greater than the first width, wherein the bottom portion of the conductive pattern contacts the insulation pattern, and wherein the first oxide covers bottom edges of the bottom portion of the conductive pattern and lower sidewalls of the conductive pattern, and wherein forming the first and third oxide patterns comprises: | 34,945 |
9,420,387 | 1. A method for hearing assistance device communications between a transmitter having a first clock and a receiver having a second clock, the method comprising: synchronizing the first clock, having a first frequency drift, and the second clock, having a second frequency drift, at a synchronization time; determining a time interval between the synchronization time and a transmission time of a plurality of repeated transmissions, wherein a first transmission of the plurality of transmissions transmits a packet having a packet length based on the first frequency drift and the second frequency drift; calculating a drift window using an initial drift window and a potential drift amount between the first clock and the second clock over the time interval including using a calculation of a number of sleep window intervals between the first transmission and a second transmission of the plurality of transmissions, wherein the initial drift window is a product of a sleep interval and clock accuracy; and transmitting the plurality of repeated transmissions with the transmitter, including transmitting the first transmission on a first channel and retransmitting the first transmission on a second channel when the receiver does not receive the packet on the first channel, each transmission having a preamble having a preamble length based on the drift window, the plurality of transmissions having a duration of at least a wake interval. | 31,268 |
9,612,814 | 1. A computer system comprising: a controller configured to deploy operating system software to a plurality of target machines, each target machine arranged in one of a plurality of groups of target machines, each group of target machines coupled to the controller via a corresponding Local Area Network (LAN) segment of a plurality of LAN segments of a network, wherein the controller further comprises: a job request queue configured to queue requests to install operating system software on the plurality of target machines, the requests including at least (a) an identifier of a selected target machine from the plurality of target machines and (b) a selected installation job from a plurality of installation jobs, and further wherein the identifier in each request comprises a machine name, and the target machine comprises a hardware environment, and the selected installation job comprises one or more instructions to install an operating system having an operating system name associated with the selected target machine; a job dispatcher coupled to the job request queue, the job dispatcher configured to retrieve requests from the job request queue, and to determine a machine location including a specific LAN segment location of the selected target machine from the machine name in the request to install operating system software, the job dispatcher further configured to route the selected installation job to a selected one of two or more run queues based on the LAN segment location of the selected target machine as determined from the machine name in the request to install operating system software; and two or more run queues, each run queue configured to receive installation jobs associated with only one a selected of the LAN segments, wherein each run queue in the plurality of run queues comprises a dedicated set of workers that service the installation jobs for only the selected one of the LAN segments, by executing one or more instructions to install the corresponding operating system on the selected target machine, and wherein each run queue is coupled to only one corresponding LAN segment of the plurality of LAN segments; and | 47,849 |
8,427,623 | 1. A thin film transistor array panel, comprising: a display area comprising: a gate line; a data line insulated from and crossing the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a peripheral area disposed on the periphery of the display area and comprising: a driving signal line formed from the same layer of material as the gate line and configured to receive an external signal; a gate insulating layer disposed on the driving signal line; a connection signal line disposed on the gate insulating layer and formed from the same layer of material as the data line; a disconnection prevention member overlapping a first side surface of the connection signal line; and a connection assistance member disposed on the disconnection prevention member and connecting the driving signal line and the connection signal line, wherein the first side surface of the connection signal line has a reverse-tapered etching profile. | 29,093 |
9,711,971 | 1. A wireless power-supplying system comprising a power-transmitting coil provided on the ground and a power-receiving coil provided above the power-transmitting coil, for wirelessly supply electric power from the power-transmitting coil to the power-receiving coil, the wireless power-supplying system comprising: a flexible cover provided so as to cover the power-transmitting coil and configured to be inflated to occupy a space between the power-transmitting coil and the power-receiving coil, wherein during the inflation of the flexible cover, the flexible cover assumes a specific shape capable of removing a foreign object laid on the flexible cover before occupying the space between the power-transmitting coil and the power-receiving coil. | 49,962 |
8,538,784 | 1. A system of determining a cost of workers compensation insurance for a selected time period based upon monitoring, collecting and communicating data representative of the risk's business characteristics, whereby the cost is adjustable by relating the business characteristics to predetermined standards, said system as implemented in an insurance carrier comprising: means for predetermining a risk profile and a base cost of workers compensation insurance based on said risk profile; means for interfacing in real-time with the risk's payroll processor during the selected time period; means for monitoring, in real-time, a plurality of data elements representative of an operating state of the risk or a payroll modification during the selected time period; means for collecting selected data elements out of the plurality of data elements when said ones are determined to have a pre-selected relationship to the risk's business operations, the selected data elements comprising at least the following actuarial classes: payroll, number of employees, job classification, and payroll per employee; means for consolidating said selected ones for identifying a surcharge or discount to be applied to the base cost and, means for producing a final cost for the selected time period from the base cost and the surcharge or discount. | 33,120 |
9,274,234 | 1. A nuclear medicine imaging apparatus configured to detect radiation emitted by a nuclide with which a subject is dosed and to reconstruct a nuclear medicine image, comprising: a clock configured to measure a time; a reference time receiver configured to receive a reference time used as a reference for a measuring of the time; a detection time memory configured to record detection times at each of which a radiation is detected, by using the time measured by the clock; and a revising circuit configured to revise the detection times recorded by the detection time memory, by using the reference time received by the reference time receiver, wherein the revising circuit revises the detection times by calculating a time error that occurred during an image taking period of a predetermined image taking process, by using a first time error and a second time error, and further distributing a calculated time error to each of the detection times recorded by the detection time memory during the image taking period, the first time error is a time error between the time measured by the clock and the reference time received by the reference time receiver at an image taking process starting time in an image taking, and the second time error is a time error between the time measured by the clock and the reference time received by the reference time receiver at an image taking process ending time in the image taking. | 4,087 |
9,011,274 | 1. A method for putting a golf ball into a target hole comprising the steps of: providing a putter with a putter grip which has a chart thereon with a cap attached to the top of the grip, wherein the cap contains a bubble level, and wherein the chart has a plurality of rungs; placing a tee a predetermined distance past a ball towards a hole; standing a predetermined distance behind the ball away from the hole; holding the putter grip a predetermined distance from a golfer's eye towards the hole; setting a bottom rung of the chart adjacent the ball; setting a second rung of the chart adjacent the tee; determining the number of rungs from the bottom rung to the rung that is horizontally aligned with the hole; determining the distance from the ball to the hole by multiplying the determined number or rungs from the bottom rung to the rung that is horizontally aligned with the hole by the distance between the ball and the tee; determine the slope of the green using the bubble level; and striking a ball towards an aiming point using the determined slope of the green to aim the ball and using the determined distance from the ball to the hole to determine how much force to strike the ball. | 33,801 |
9,655,070 | 1. A method of managing timing alignment, TA, functionality for a communication device of a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation that multiple component carriers are aggregated to support wider transmission bandwidth, the method comprising: receiving a radio resource control, RRC, message indicating a usage of a timing advance command for each of a plurality of component carriers configured to the communication device, from a cell in a network of the wireless communication system; when the timing advance command has been received from the cell in the network for each of the plurality of component carriers, applying the timing advance functionality corresponding to each of the plurality of component carriers, for updating a plurality of timing advance values for the plurality of component carriers; and when updating the plurality of timing advance values for the plurality of component carriers, starting or restarting a plurality of time alignment timers for the plurality of component carriers. | 11,901 |
9,810,414 | 1. A lighting apparatus comprising: a heat radiation frame having a first receiving space; at least one light emitting device on the heat radiation frame; a diffusion frame provided on the heat radiation frame to protect the at least one light emitting device and diffuse a light emitted from the at least one light emitting device; a support frame received in the first receiving space of the heat radiation frame and having a second receiving space; and at least one module received in the second receiving space; wherein the heat radiation frame comprises an upper end portion having a flat top surface, wherein a horizontal heat radiation plate is disposed on the upper end portion of the heat radiation frame and comprises at least one of a thermal conductive silicon pad and a thermal conductive tape; wherein the module is provided under the heat radiation plate, and wherein the support frame comprises: a first outer surface having a constant curvature; a second outer surface more inward than the first outer surface of the support frame and vertically extending from an upper end portion to a lower end portion of the support frame; and a third outer surface protruded outward from the first outer surface of the support frame and vertically extending from the upper end portion to the lower end portion of the support frame; wherein the heat radiation frame comprises a groove formed on an upper surface of the upper end portion thereof and corresponding to the at least one light emitting device; wherein the horizontal heat radiation plate comprises an insertion hole formed therethrough and corresponding to the at least one light emitting device; wherein the groove is aligned with the insertion hole in a horizontal direction; and wherein a roughness of an inner surface of the diffusion frame is greater than a roughness of an outer surface of the diffusion frame. | 21,041 |
9,730,311 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an apparatus body; a body housing that houses the apparatus body; a circuit unit including a circuit board that drives and controls the apparatus body; and a circuit housing that houses the circuit unit and that is integrated with the body housing, wherein a heat sink is provided on a circuit unit side of a partition wall so as to be brought into contact with an element of the circuit board, the partition wall erecting along a vertical direction or a substantially vertical direction to separate the inside of the body housing from the inside of the circuit housing, and wherein the heat sink has an upper end portion and a lower end portion at least one of whose width gradually decreases to reach a tip portion. | 15,591 |
9,832,826 | 1. An emergency lighting system, comprising: a battery backup module; and an LED driver module, wherein the LED driver module includes line interface circuitry for connecting the LED driver to a power supply, at least one control input for receiving external control signals, and a plurality of outputs, wherein a first output comprises an interface capable of controlling a plurality of LEDs and a second output is connected to a charging input of the battery backup module and is capable of providing a charging current, via a channel of the LED diver module, to charge the battery backup module when the power supply is uninterrupted, wherein the battery backup module and the LED driver module include a shared communication channel for communicating control signals, and wherein the battery backup module includes an output connected to an intermediate power input of the LED driver for providing DC voltage during an interruption in the power supply; wherein the provided DC voltage is sufficient to power at least a portion of the LED driver and at least one of the plurality of LEDs; and wherein the LED driver controls the plurality of LEDs during the interruption in the power supply. | 18,223 |
8,636,476 | 1. A feeding system for an inductive load from a variable power energy source, that converts into spaced pulses of constant energy the DC power supplied by the energy source, wherein the feeding system does not use batteries and comprises a bridge circuit in communication with the energy source, a digital micro controller for controlling the bridge circuit as a function of system variables, and wherein the output/load of said bridge circuit comprises a resonant RCL series circuit, in which the RCL's inductance is the inductive load itself. | 15,118 |
9,340,007 | 1. A device for replacing the printing rollers of a printing unit for in-line flexographic rotary machines comprising: a work position for a first printing roller, a holding position for a second, held printing roller, a removal position for said first printing roller to be removed, movement means for movement of said first printing roller from said work position to said removal position and for movement of said second printing roller from said holding position to said work position, wherein: said movement means comprises a pair of rods that are pivoted with respect to a pivoting axis, each one of said pair of rods comprising an abutment protrusion that is adapted to engage lateral ends of said first printing roller and of said second printing roller, said holding position and said removal position are at a higher level than that of said work position, rotation of said pair of rods around said pivoting axis defining a region, said working position being arranged inside said region; said removal position and said holding position being arranged outside said region on mutually opposed sides thereof, said holding position, said working position, and said removal position being affected by the rotation of said pair of rods within said region; thereby said pair of rods are adapted to move said first roller toward the removal position rotating around said pivoting axis, as consequence the second roller moving by gravity from the holding position to the working position. | 18,350 |
8,843,985 | 1. An application processing method comprising: receiving a transmission stream including a plurality of applications and information on the plurality of applications, the plurality of applications providing a plurality of different functions with regard to a common broadcasting program and being configured to be executable by a plurality of different specification broadcasting receiving apparatuses, respectively; extracting information on an attribute of each of the plurality of applications, from the information on the plurality of applications, information on an attribute of each of the plurality of applications which includes information on each of the plurality of different specification broadcasting receiving apparatuses; and selecting an application, among the plurality of applications, which is executable by a broadcasting receiving apparatus, by comparing the information on the attribute of each of the plurality of applications with information on an attribute of the broadcasting receiving apparatus corresponding to a specification of the broadcasting receiving apparatus; and executing the selected application. | 28,499 |
9,367,744 | 1. A method of fingerprinting media contents comprising: a) extracting data from said media contents, said extracted data including encoded videos or audios, segments of videos or audios, image frames, audio waveforms and associated timestamps; b) generating a plurality of digital fingerprints from said extracted data of said media contents; c) processing said media contents including video or audio contents based on different segments, and extracting multiple fingerprints based on said segments with timestamps, or processing said media contents including video or audio contents based on different framerates, and extracting multiple fingerprints based on said framerates, wherein said segments are selected based on complexity of said media contents, and said framerates are determined based on resolution of said media contents; d) continuously executing fingerprint extraction and match operation before and during playing said media contents, and being able to real-timely conduct necessary processes based on match results; e) providing more accurate fingerprint matching results and further processes, based on timing of timestamps, including displaying detailed information or advertisement at specific time; replaying, muting or skipping specific segments; masking partial videos or audios; and f) maintaining, in a database, a copy of said plurality of digital fingerprints in association with information identifying said media contents. | 18,963 |
9,728,972 | 1. A method of installing a back feed circuit breaker into an existing main service panel that receives electrical power from power lines that provide power from a utility power grid, the back feed circuit breaker comprising a housing having a first surface and a plurality of wire fastening devices, the main service panel including a main circuit breaker electrically connected to one or more bus bars such that an alternative energy source that is connected to the back feed circuit breaker can provide power to the utility power grid via the power lines without the provided power passing through the one or more bus bars, the main circuit breaker comprising a housing having a first surface and a plurality of wire fastening devices, the method comprising: connecting the back feed circuit breaker into the existing main service panel by securing each of the power lines within one of the plurality of wire fastening devices of the back feed circuit breaker such that the back feed circuit breaker is electrically connected, in the main service panel, to the power lines in a parallel electrical connection with the main circuit breaker, wherein the first surface of the housing of the back feed circuit breaker is located adjacent and parallel to the first surface of the main circuit breaker when the back feed circuit breaker is connected into the existing main service panel, wherein the electrical connection of the back feed breaker to the power lines is in the main service panel and between the main circuit breaker and the utility power grid to form a circuit from the back feed circuit breaker to the utility power grid, the circuit providing an electrical path for power provided from the alternative energy source to flow through the back feed breaker to the utility power grid without passing through the one or more bus bars of the main service panel. | 9,350 |
8,912,590 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a main surface; a MONOS-type memory cell formed over the main surface and having a channel; an n-channel transistor formed over the main surface; a p-channel transistor formed over the main surface; and a nitride film formed in a manner to contact respective top surfaces of the MONOS-type memory cell, the n-channel transistor, wherein the nitride film applies stress to the channels of the MONOS-type memory cell, the n-channel transistor, and the p-channel transistor, the MONOS-type memory cell, the n-channel transistor, and the p-channel transistor each include a gate electrode, the MONOS-type memory cell and the n-channel transistor each include a first side wall silicon oxide film and a first side wall silicon nitride film that are layered in this order in a manner to contact a side wall of the gate electrode, and the first side wall silicon oxide film and the first side wall silicon nitride film are covered by the nitride film, and the p-channel transistor includes a second side wall silicon oxide film formed over a side wall surface of the gate electrode, the second side wall silicon oxide film being covered by the nitride film, but includes no side wall silicon nitride film, between the second side wall silicon oxide film and the nitride film, that is included in the MONOS-type memory cell and the n-channel transistor. | 36,435 |
9,715,523 | 1. A method for selecting and playing back on an audio system of a motor vehicle at least one data record from a relational database ( 101 ) having a plurality of data records each data record being a piece of music having associated therewith at least first and second attributes each attribute having an attribute type and an attribute value, the method comprising: receiving a first input as a voice input with a stipulation for the attribute type of the first attribute of the at least one data record to be selected and a stipulation of the attribute value of the first attribute; receiving a second input as a voice input with a stipulation for the attribute value of the second attribute of the at least one data record to be selected; providing a first subset ( selecting data records from the first subset ( providing the selected data records in a second subset; then selecting the at least one data record from the second subset on the basis of the stipulation for the attribute value for the first attribute; and then playing back, on the audio system of the motor vehicle, the selected at least one data record. | 6,371 |
9,404,137 | 1. A method for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, comprising: treating the cellulosic material with an enzyme composition comprising a glycoside hydrolase family 61 (GH61) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound, wherein the combination of the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and the heterocyclic compound enhances hydrolysis of the cellulosic material by the enzyme composition compared to the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity alone or the heterocyclic compound alone with a ratio greater than 1 according to the following formula: wherein the heterocyclic compound is a compound of formula (I) or (II): wherein each bond indicated with a dashed line is single or double; R R R wherein each pair of R or a salt or solvate thereof. | 11,294 |
8,765,831 | 1. A photocurable resin composition comprising: a carboxyl group-containing resin having a carboxyl group; a photopolymerization initiator; a vinyl group-containing elastomer having a vinyl group; and a styryl group-containing compound having a styryl group. | 16,804 |
9,427,677 | 1. An adjustable height hurdle comprising: (a) two substantially parallel horizontal hollow legs, each leg having a leading end and a trailing end; (b) two stationary hollow uprights, each upright extending upwardly from the trailing end of a leg, and defining an intersection between a leg and an upright; (c) two movable hollow gate tubes, each gate tube telescoping relative to an upright and having a top end; (d) a gate board connecting the top ends of the gate tubes, the gate board having a top that defines a hurdle height; and (e) a height adjustment system for adjusting the hurdle height to a plurality of defined heights, the height adjustment system comprising: | 42,244 |
9,398,773 | 1. An unloader paddle, comprising: an elongated arm having opposite proximal and distal ends; and a blade secured to the elongated arm distal end, the blade comprising a face, a first edge portion, a second edge portion, and a convexly curved third edge portion, wherein the second and third edge portions extend from the first edge portion and converge to form a tip region, and wherein the tip region is angled in a direction transverse to the face. | 34,334 |
9,237,658 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a nanocarbon substrate including at least one of graphene and carbon nanotubes; and inorganic particles covalently bonded to the nanocarbon substrate and therein forming a hybrid conductor, the inorganic particles including at least one of nickel and iron and being configured and arranged to facilitate transfer of charge carriers with the nanocarbon substrate via the covalent bonds between the nanocarbon substrate and the inorganic particles. | 14,236 |
8,889,399 | 1. A non-naturally occurring microbial organism having increased production of 1,4-butanediol, which is prepared by introducing exogenous genes or increasing expression of endogenous genes encoding enzymes converting succinate into 4-hydroxybutyrate, 4-hydroxybutyrate into 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA directly or through 4-hydroxybutyryl phosphate, and 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA into 1,4-butanediol directly or through 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde, in a microorganism capable of producing succinate, wherein said enzyme that converts 4-hydroxybutyrate into 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA directly is a 4-hydroxybutyrate:CoA transferase, wherein said enzymes that converts 4-hydroxybutyrate into 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA through 4-hydroxybutyryl phosphate is a butyryl kinase and a phosphotransbutyrylase, wherein said enzyme that converts 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA into 1,4-butanediol directly is an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase, wherein said enzymes that converts 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA into 1,4-butanediol through 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde is an aldehyde dehydrogenase and an alcohol dehydrogenase. | 2,862 |
8,624,364 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system comprising: providing a base integrated circuit package having a base integrated circuit on a base substrate thereof; attaching a base barrier on the base substrate and adjacent a base perimeter of the base substrate; mounting a stack substrate over the base substrate, the stack substrate having a stack substrate aperture with the stack substrate having an inter-substrate connector thereon; and dispensing a connector underfill through the stack substrate aperture encapsulating the inter-substrate connector, overflow of the connector underfill prevented by the base barrier wherein surfaces of the connector underfill of the stack substrate, the stack substrate, and the base integrated circuit package form a cavity. | 15,589 |
9,816,603 | 1. An axle assembly comprising: a housing assembly having an interior surface, a first lubricant passage, and a second lubricant passage; an input shaft that is rotatable about an axis and includes a first end and a flange portion disposed opposite the first end, the flange portion having a flange lubricant hole; a first roller bearing assembly that is disposed proximate the housing assembly and rotatably supports the input shaft; an output shaft that is at least partially disposed in the housing assembly and is configured to provide torque to a second axle assembly; a pinion that is rotatable about the axis and that has a pinion hole that receives the output shaft; second and third roller bearing assemblies that rotatably support the pinion, wherein the second lubricant passage has a second lubricant passage outlet that is disposed between the second roller bearing assembly and the third roller bearing assembly; and an interaxle differential unit that is disposed in the housing assembly and is operatively coupled to the input shaft and the output shaft and compensates for rotational speed differences between the input shaft and the output shaft; wherein the first lubricant passage is disposed between the interior surface and the interaxle differential unit and has a first lubricant passage outlet that is disposed between the first end of the input shaft and the first roller bearing assembly, wherein lubricant that exits the first lubricant passage outlet flows through the first roller bearing assembly and then passes through the flange lubricant hole to lubricate the interaxle differential unit. | 22,445 |
9,531,100 | 1. A connector comprising: a terminal to be connected to a mating terminal by a relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal; a connector housing supporting the terminal; and a terminal displacement portion displaceably supporting the terminal in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal, wherein the terminal comprises: a mating terminal contact portion for contacting the mating terminal: and a terminal holding portion having an insulating rib projecting radially outwardly therefrom; wherein the terminal displacement portion comprises: an elastic support member supporting the terminal against the connector housing; and a leaf spring contact portion provided at an opposite side of the mating terminal contact portion on the terminal; and wherein the leaf spring contact portion is configured to contact an electric pull-out terminal of the connector housing as a result of the terminal being connected to the mating terminal. | 11,115 |
9,130,368 | 1. An overload prevention method for an electric circuit having a plurality of components including a first component and a second component, the first component having a first set of pre-computed parameters, and the second component having a second set of pre-computed parameters, the overload prevention method comprising: observing, by a sensor device, a first set of monitored parameters for the first component; observing, by the sensor device, a second set of monitored parameters for the second component; computing, by a microcontroller, a first limited value for the first component using the first set of pre-computed parameters and the first set of monitored parameters; computing, by the microcontroller, a second limited value for the second component using the second set of pre-computed parameters and the second set of monitored parameters; determining, by the microcontroller, if the first limited value has reached a first limit or the second limited value has reached a second limit; limiting, by the microcontroller, one of the first set of monitored parameters if the first limited value has reached the first limit; and limiting, by the microcontroller, one of the second set of monitored parameters if the second limited value has reached the second limit. | 4,719 |
9,634,160 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a base dopant of a first conductive type, wherein a front surface of the semiconductor substrate has a surface roughness larger than that of a back surface of the semiconductor substrate; an emitter layer adjacent to the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and having a second conductive type; a back surface field layer on the semiconductor substrate having a first conductive type dopant of the first conductive type; a front passivation film for passivating the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a back passivation film for passivating the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and having a contact hole; a first electrode electrically connected to the emitter layer; and a second electrode in partial contact with the back surface of the semiconductor substrate through the contact hole, wherein the back passivation film comprises the first conductive type dopant, and wherein the second electrode comprises the first conductive type dopant, wherein a portion of the back surface field layer is disposed between the semiconductor substrate and a back passivation film, and wherein an another portion of the back surface field layer is disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the second electrode, wherein the portion of the back surface field layer and the back passivation film comprise a same conductive dopant material, and wherein the another portion of the back surface field layer and the second electrode comprise a same conductive dopant material, a protrusion of the second electrode is protruded from the back passivation film and, an end of the protrusion of the second electrode contacts the back surface field layer. | 7,419 |
9,174,717 | 1. An intake air cooling system for a marine vessel, the intake air cooling system comprising: a turbocharger configured to compress externally introduced intake air by using part of exhaust gas generated from an engine and including a front end from which the intake air is introduced and a rear end through which the intake air is supplied to the engine; a cooling part configured to cool at least one of the intake air compressed in the turbocharger and the exhaust gas passing through the turbocharger and including one or more cooling units arranged along a flow of the intake air or the exhaust gas; and an absorption cooling device configured to receive a heat source from a first operating fluid circulating through the cooling units, wherein the absorption cooling device comprises: an evaporator configured to cool a second operating fluid by using evaporation latent heat of a coolant; an absorber configured to accommodate an absorption liquid that absorbs the coolant evaporated in the evaporator; a regenerator configured to heat and regenerate the absorption liquid of the absorber that is weakened by the absorption of the coolant, by using the intake air discharged from the turbocharger and supplied as the heat source; and a condenser configured to condense the coolant evaporated in the regenerator. | 3,665 |
9,760,223 | 1. An input device comprising: a sensor unit configured to detect an approach state of an object at a plurality of detection positions and to output the detection result as detection data; a positional data calculation unit configured to calculate positional data indicating an approach position of the object on the basis of the detection data at the plurality of detection positions; a filter unit configured to perform at least one of a first process which reduces the influence of noise included in the detection data output from the sensor unit and inputs the detection data to the positional data calculation unit and a second process which reduces the influence of noise included in the positional data output from the positional data calculation unit; and a noise amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of noise included in the detection data, wherein the filter unit changes a processing method in at least one of the first process and the second process, depending on the amount of noise calculated by the noise amount calculation unit, such that an amount of reduction in the influence of the noise increases as the amount of noise increases and decreases as the amount of noise decreases; wherein the filter unit performs at least one of a first low-pass filtering process which attenuates the noise included in the detection data output from the sensor unit and inputs the detection data to the positional data calculation unit and a second low-pass filtering process which attenuates the noise included in the positional data output from the positional data calculation unit, and the filter unit changes noise attenuation characteristics of at least one of the first low-pass filtering process and the second low-pass filtering process, depending on the amount of noise calculated by the noise amount calculation unit, such that the attenuation of the noise increases as the amount of noise increases and decreases as the amount of noise decreases; wherein the filter unit calculates a processing result of a new low-pass filtering process, on the basis of an addition result of a value, which is obtained by multiplying at least one previous target value among a series of target values to be subjected to the new low-pass filtering process by a first weight coefficient, and a value obtained by multiplying a previous processing result of the new low-pass filtering process by a second weight coefficient, in at least one of the first low-pass filtering process and the second low-pass filtering process, the filter unit increases the second weight coefficient relative to the first weight coefficient as the amount of noise increases and decreases the second weight coefficient relative to the first weight coefficient as the amount of noise decreases, on the basis of the amount of noise calculated by the noise amount calculation unit. | 25,018 |
9,161,276 | 1. A method of providing service continuity for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising: receiving, at a serving cell of an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) from the WTRU, measurement reports associated with target cells that neighbor the serving cell; receiving, at the serving cell from the WTRU, a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of frequencies on which the WTRU is currently and/or interested in receiving multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) via an MBMS single frequency network (MBSFN); transmitting, from the serving cell to the WTRU, a handover command to handover to one of the target cells, the one target cell being selected based, at least in part, on the indication; receiving, at the one target cell, a random access channel (RACH) preamble or RACH message; transmitting a RACH response from the one target cell; and transmitting, from the one target cell, at least one of the MBMS. | 43,875 |
9,527,279 | 1. A liquid droplet discharge device comprising: a plurality of pressure chambers in communication with a plurality of nozzles, wherein the pressure chambers are configured to store ink; an oscillation plate that is disposed over the pressure chambers, so that an elastic wall of each of the pressure chambers is formed; pressure generating elements that are disposed to face the plurality of the pressure chambers through the oscillation plate; a drive waveform generator provided to each of the nozzles and configured to generate, for said each of the nozzles, a drive waveform by using, as an input, drive waveform data that indicates a shape of the drive waveform for driving the corresponding pressure generating element; a residual oscillation detector configured to detect residual oscillation that is generated in each of the pressure chambers after driving the pressure generating elements; and a controller configured to correct, during printing, the drive waveform data for said each of the nozzles, based on a detection result by the residual oscillation detector. | 17,792 |
9,186,352 | 1. A composition for use on human skin comprising: a mixture comprising | 47,773 |
8,999,462 | 1. A photosensitive monomer, doped into an alignment film of a liquid crystal panel, wherein the photosensitive monomer is represented by one of the following formulae (II)˜(VIII): wherein group R is an alkyl group comprising 1˜12 carbon atoms, wherein one or two nonadjacent —CH | 33,727 |
8,580,652 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: forming an isolation region in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, the isolation region comprising an isolation insulating film filling a trench formed in the main surface, and the isolation region being in a region where a through hole of the semiconductor substrate is to be formed and being in a region other than the region where the through hole is to be formed wherein the through hole passes through the main surface; forming an interlayer insulating film on the main surface; forming an electrode pad on the interlayer insulating film; forming the through hole by processing the semiconductor substrate and the interlayer insulating film such that a part of the electrode pad is exposed in the through hole and the interlayer insulating film is thinned in the through hole; and forming a through electrode in the through hole, wherein the through electrode contacts the exposed part of the electrode pad and the thinned interlayer insulating film. | 36,559 |
8,555,864 | 1. A method for operating a combustion engine, the method which comprises: providing an internal combustion engine including a fresh-air system, an exhaust-gas system, an exhaust-gas turbocharger with a compressor disposed in the fresh-air system and a turbine disposed in the exhaust-gas system; providing an exhaust-gas recirculation cooler in a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line; providing a pressure sensor in the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line in flow direction in front of the exhaust-gas recirculation cooler, the pressure sensor including an absolute pressure sensor; diverting, via the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line, recirculated exhaust-gas from the exhaust-gas system downstream of the turbine of the exhaust-gas turbocharger by using a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve and feeding recirculated exhaust-gas upstream of the compressor of the exhaust-gas turbocharger as a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation mass flow into the fresh-air system; providing an exhaust-gas flap in the exhaust-gas system downstream from where the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas system; and opening the exhaust-gas flap and controlling a volume flow through the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line exclusively with the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve as long as a pressure drop across the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve exceeds a given value and additionally actuating the exhaust-gas flap in a direction of closing in case the pressure drop across the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve falls below the given value in order to control the volume flow through the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line. | 47,194 |
8,691,436 | 1. A rechargeable battery comprising: an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed between the first and second electrodes; a case to receive the electrode assembly, the case including an open top portion; a cap assembly arranged on the open top portion of the case; a lead tab having one end affixed to the cap assembly to electrically connect the cap assembly to the first electrode; and a stopper affixed to the cap assembly and having one end arranged on the lead tab, the stopper facilitating a portion of the lead tab contacting the one end of the stopper when the lead tab is bent. | 37,376 |
9,165,642 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a memory cell having a latch circuit with a true data storage node and a complement data storage node; a true bitline; a complement bitline; a first access transistor coupled between the true bitline and the true data storage node; a second access transistor coupled between the complement bitline and the complement data storage node; bitline circuitry coupled to the true and complement bitlines, said bitline circuitry powered from a first set of power supply voltages including a first high supply voltage; and a wordline driver circuit including a true wordline coupled to a control terminal of the first access transistor and a complement wordline coupled to a control terminal of the second access transistor, said wordline driver powered from a second set of power supply voltages including a second high supply voltage that is greater than the first high supply voltage; wherein the wordline driver circuit is configured, when the memory cell is operable in a read mode, to implement in a single memory read cycle: | 11,861 |
9,150,488 | 1. A process for producing acrylic acid and ethanol from biomass comprising: (a) contacting said biomass with an oxidizing gas comprising oxygen and steam at a temperature of at least 550° C. and no greater than 800° C., thereby oxidizing said biomass; (b) treating at least a portion of said oxidized biomass produced in step (a) with an oxidizing gas comprising oxygen and steam to heat said oxidized biomass to a temperature which is at least 800° C. and does not exceed a maximum of 850° C.; (c) treating at least a portion of said oxidized biomass produced in step (b) with an oxidizing gas comprising oxygen and steam to heat said oxidized biomass to a temperature which is at least 900° C. and does not exceed a maximum of 1000° C., thereby producing a crude synthesis gas; (d) purifying the crude synthesis gas to provide a purified synthesis gas; (e) reacting at least a portion of the carbon monoxide from said purified synthesis gas with hydrogen from said purified synthesis gas to provide methanol; (f) reacting said methanol in the presence of a dehydration catalyst to produce dimethyl ether; (q) reacting said dimethyl ether to provide a product comprising propylene and ethylene; (h) reacting said ethylene to produce ethanol; and (i) subjecting said propylene to one or more reaction steps to produce acrylic acid. | 25,822 |
9,788,769 | 1. A handheld multi-parameter measuring instrument, comprising: a housing having a sidewall and opposed first and second surfaces, the sidewall, the first surface and the second surface cooperatively forming a cavity; a cover attached to the sidewall and rotatably connected to the housing, a finger being capable of being received between the cover and the sidewall of the housing attached to the cover; and a blood oxygen measuring device comprising a blood oxygen transducer and a signal processing unit, the blood oxygen transducer comprising a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit; the light emitting unit being configured to emit red light and infrared light alternately; the light receiving unit being configured to receive the red light and the infrared light emitted from the light emitting unit; wherein the signal processing unit is received in the cavity of the housing and controls the light emitting unit to emit the red light and the infrared light alternately; the signal processing unit is further configured to calculate oxygen saturation based on a signal received by the light receiving unit; an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor, comprising: a first ECG electrode located on the first surface and adapted to engage a surface of a thumb of a right hand while the right hand is supporting the instrument and the finger is received between the cover and the sidewall, and a second ECG sensor located on the sidewall and adapted to engage a palm of a left hand while the right hand is supporting the instrument; wherein (a) the light emitting unit is located at a side of the cover attached to the housing, and the light receiving unit is located at the sidewall of the housing attached to the cover; or (b) the light emitting unit is located at the sidewall facing the cover, and the light receiving unit is located at a side of the cover facing the housing; or (c) the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are both located at the sidewall facing the cover; wherein the cover has an open and a closed position, the closed position being adapted to prevent entry of a finger into the instrument, and the open position being adapted to receive the finger such that the forward end of the finger is completely accessible to an environment external to the instrument while the blood oxygen measuring device measures blood oxygen. | 43,925 |
8,342,274 | 1. A control device for a power transmission device for a vehicle comprising: an electrical differential part that has a differential mechanism that is coupled between an internal combustion engine and a driving wheel and an electric motor that is coupled to the differential mechanism for power transmission, the electrical differential part controlling a differential state of the differential mechanism by controlling an operating state of the electric motor; a differential restriction device that is capable of selectively switching the differential mechanism between a non-differential state in which a differential action of the differential mechanism is disabled and a differential enabled state in which the differential action of the differential mechanism is enabled; and a differential state control device that, in the case where the internal combustion engine is driven on a different type of fuel from a reference fuel prescribed as a fuel for driving the internal combustion engine and an output torque of the internal combustion engine is thus greater than the output torque of the internal combustion engine produced when the internal combustion engine is driven on the reference fuel, expands a non-differential range, on the basis of which the differential restriction device determines to switch the differential mechanism into the non-differential state, compared to the non-differential range for use when the internal combustion engine is driven on the reference fuel, wherein in expanding the non-differential range, a switching boundary line is deviated to an increased output torque. | 3,387 |
9,132,831 | 1. A control apparatus for a vehicle with a driving power source to output driving power for running to a driving wheel, wherein in a case where a restart is requested on the driving power source in an accelerator-on state after a stop operation is performed on the driving power source during running of the vehicle and before the vehicle stops running and an accelerator position difference between an accelerator position upon the restart request of the driving power source and an accelerator position upon the stop operation of the driving power source is equal to or more than a predetermined determination value, the control apparatus performs a driving power moderating control that gradually increases driving power output to the driving wheel, in a case where the accelerator position difference is smaller than the determination value, the control apparatus does not perform the driving power moderating control, and in a case where the restart is requested on the driving power source in the accelerator-on state after the stop operation is performed on the driving power source during running of the vehicle and an accelerator operation is repeatedly performed between on and off after the restart request, the driving power moderating control increases a degree of gradual increase in the driving power output to the driving wheel every time the accelerator-on operation is performed. | 19,120 |
9,287,139 | 1. A method comprising: forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor substrate; removing the dummy gate stack thereby forming a recess; implanting a portion of the semiconductor substrate through the recess, wherein an amorphous region is formed from the portion of the semiconductor substrate; forming a strained capping layer, wherein the strained capping layer extends into the recess; performing an annealing on the amorphous region to re-crystallize the amorphous region; and then removing the strained capping layer. | 21,368 |
9,077,052 | 1. A system for use in supplying power to a power storage device, said system comprising: a charging device comprising: a controller programmed to: | 35,820 |
9,368,820 | 1. A solid oxide fuel cell having anode, cathode and electrolyte layers each formed essentially of a multi-oxide ceramic material, each of said layers having a structure selected from the group consisting of nanocrystalline, nanocomposite and amorphous, each of said structures being a far-from-equilibrium metastable structure, said electrolyte layer having a matrix of said ceramic material and a dopant dispersed therein in an amount substantially greater than its equilibrium solubility in said ceramic matrix to form the metastable structure, said electrolyte layer being impervious and serving as a fast oxygen ion conductor. | 48,190 |
9,577,243 | 1. A solid composite for use in a cathode of a lithium-sulphur electric current producing cell wherein the solid composite comprises 1 to 75 wt.-% of expanded graphite, 25 to 99 wt.-% of sulphur, 1 to 50 wt.-% of one or more further conductive agents other than expanded graphite, and 0 to 50 wt.-% one or more binder, based on the total amount of the solid composite. | 38,106 |
8,925,986 | 1. A clamp for manipulators, the clamp comprising: two jaws; a body provided with two coplanar seats for housing the jaws, wherein the jaws are both translatable in parallel in a respective seat alternately, between a retracted position and an extended position; an electric motor for actuating the jaws, the motor having a shaft; an electronic unit for controlling the electric motor, housed inside the body of the clamp; a transmission assembly operatively interposed between the electric motor and the jaws, wherein the transmission assembly comprises: two pushing screws, coplanar and parallel to said housing seats, provided with respective and reciprocally engaged gear wheels, in which one of the two pushing screws is rotated by the electric motor and rotates, in its turn, the other pushing screw in the opposite way; two translation assemblies, each of which pushes a jaw to translate and is meshed with the threaded portion of the respective pushing screw, which causes the displacements thereof in response to an activation of the electric motor. | 27,327 |
9,219,264 | 1. A separator for a rechargeable lithium battery, the separator comprising: a porous substrate; and a phase transition region formed of a phase transition material directly on the porous substrate, wherein the phase transition material has an insulator-to-conductor phase transition temperature of from about 67° C. to about 75° C., and the phase transition region is less than or equal to about 10% of the porous substrate in area, and wherein the phase transition material is a phase transition material of vanadium oxide (VO 2 ) doped with tungsten. | 15,264 |
9,425,978 | 1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a device-controlling computer, a communication session with a target sensor-interfacing device, wherein the target sensor-interfacing device obtains sensor data from one or more attached physical devices that each includes a sensor for measuring one or more physical attributes; selecting, from a plurality of rules to be processed by a set of sensor-interfacing devices of a computer network, a rule which is to be processed by the target sensor-interfacing device, wherein a respective rule includes an action description that indicates instructions for performing an action, and the respective rule also includes a rule-triggering condition that indicates criteria for processing the respective rule's action description; sending, by the device-controlling computer to the target sensor-interfacing device, the rule selected for the target sensor-interfacing device to configure the target sensor-interfacing device to process the selected rule's action description in response to the selected rule's rule-triggering condition being satisfied by sensor measurement data from the target sensor-interfacing device or another sensor-interfacing device of the computer network; obtaining, from the target-interfacing device over the computer network, data that includes at least a sensor measurement and a geographic location; and in response to receiving a request, from a client device, to obtain a device-monitoring user interface (UI): | 27,193 |
8,506,243 | 1. A turbine article comprising: a substrate; a plurality of solid geometric surface features protruding from the substrate, each of the plurality of geometric features including a substantially uniform protrusion height extending from the substrate and a protrusion width, and a ratio of the protrusion width to the protrusion height is 1-10, with the protrusion height being at least 0.01 inches (0.254 millimeters); and a thermally insulating topcoat disposed over the plurality of geometric surface features, the thermally insulating topcoat including segmented portions that are separated by faults extending through the thermally insulating topcoat from the plurality of geometric surface features. | 1,503 |
9,705,519 | 1. A circuit for correcting time encoder errors comprising: a time encoder having a time encoder input, a time encoder output, and a current summing point; and a pulse width modifier coupled to the time encoder output, the pulse width modifier having a current output coupled to the current summing point, and having a corrected output; wherein the pulse width modifier is configured to calibrate duty cycle errors and nonlinearity errors on the time encoder output, to correct the duty cycle errors and the nonlinearity errors on the time encoder output, and to output the corrected output. | 33,950 |
8,955,223 | 1. A method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head comprising the steps of: preparing a first substrate having a surface provided with flow channels for supplying liquid formed as recesses or through-grooves and a second substrate provided with energy generating elements for generating energy to be utilized to eject liquid; transferring transfer liquid onto the surface of the first substrate in a predetermined direction by means of a roller-shaped transfer body; and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together by way of the transfer liquid; the transfer body contacting the first substrate substantially by a same and equal distance by way of the transfer liquid in a direction orthogonal relative to the predetermined direction in the step of transferring transfer liquid. | 36,368 |
9,798,808 | 1. A method implemented by a computer for determining for a set of co-ordinate records a number of incidents associated with co-ordinates within a query area, comprising: storing data representing a binary tree comprising leaf nodes, a root node and branch nodes wherein the leaf nodes are associated with individual items of co-ordinate data identified by the set of co-ordinate records, and the root node and branch nodes are each associated with a pair of child nodes, and are each associated with split values, wherein the storing the co-ordinate data identifies the individual items of the co-ordinate data in an array, which is an indexed array as an initial group, wherein generation of the linearized tree form occurs in place where the process takes the array of co-ordinate data and generates a linearized tree by implementing a number of grouping steps within the array that results in an ordered array of co-ordinate data, and wherein each of the grouping steps creates another level of a tree, wherein the co-ordinate data is visualized in a form of intensity data, and wherein calculation of the split value and separation of the set of co-ordinates into two groups based on the split value is an N log N process to make the process suitable for processing a large volume of data; receiving a query identifying a query area; selecting the root node as the first node to be processed; determining if the current node being processed corresponds to a leaf node and if so determining whether the item of co-ordinate data associated with the current node is within the query area and, if so, incrementing the number of incidents identified as being within the query area by a value corresponding to the number of incidents associated with the leaf node; if the current node being processed is not a leaf node, determining the extent to which a bounding box associated with the node intersects with the query area wherein the bounding box associated with the root node identifies an area bounding all of the co-ordinates identified by the individual items of co-ordinate data; if the bounding box associated with the current node being processed is contained entirely within the query area, increasing the number of incidents identified as being within the query area by a value corresponding to a determined number of incidents associated with the current node and not scheduling the child nodes of the current node as nodes for processing; if the bounding box associated with the current node is entirely within the query area, scheduling the child nodes of the current node as nodes for processing and associating the child nodes with a bounding box wherein the bounding boxes associated with the child nodes correspond to the bounding box of the current node being processed divided into two parts on the basis of the split value associated with the current node; and | 68 |
9,766,685 | 1. A processor comprising: a plurality of circuits to independently operate; and a first logic coupled to the plurality of circuits to cause at least one of the plurality of circuits to operate with a power control cycle including a plurality of on times and a plurality of off times according to an ON-OFF keying protocol, each of the plurality of off times to be of a first off duration if no interrupt is pending during the off time and of a second off duration if an interrupt is pending during the off time, wherein the first off duration corresponds to a maximum off time for a platform including the processor and the second off duration corresponds to a maximum interrupt off time for a hardware device of the platform, wherein the first logic is to cause the at least one circuit to delay exit from a current on time when an interrupt is received. | 7,170 |
9,150,071 | 1. A suspension for supporting a longitudinally extending vehicle frame rail above an axle, comprising: a frame hanger comprising: a frame bracket adapted for connection to a vehicle frame rail; a spring box attached to the frame bracket; a gusset attached to the frame bracket and positioned within the spring box to form a first spring module and a second spring module; said spring box comprising a bottom wall, a top wall, and an outer side wall of the first spring module, and said spring box comprising a bottom wall, a top wall, and an outer side wall of the second spring module; said gusset forming an inner side wall of the first spring module and an inner side wall of the second spring module; a first spring mount positioned within the first spring module; a first shear spring positioned between a first side wall of the first spring mount and the outer side wall of the first spring module; a second shear spring positioned between a second side wall of the first spring mount and the inner side wall of the first spring module; a second spring mount positioned within the second spring module; a third shear spring positioned between a first side wall of the second spring mount and the outer side wall of the second spring module; and a fourth shear spring positioned between a second side wall of the second spring mount and the inner side wall of the second spring module; wherein the spring box includes a first upwardly extending flange extending from the top wall of the first spring module and a second upwardly extending flange extending from the top wall of the second spring module, with a gap positioned between the first flange and the second flange allowing positioning of the gusset between the first and second flanges. | 42,278 |
8,937,198 | 1. A process for making adiponitrile, said process comprising the steps of: (i) reacting in a reaction zone a mixture comprising 1,3-butadiene (BD) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the presence of a catalyst comprising zero-valent Ni and a phosphorus-containing ligand, wherein said phosphorus-containing ligand is selected from the group consisting of a monodentate or bidentate phosphite ligand, a monodentate or bidentate phosphine ligand, a monodentate or bidentate phosphonite ligand, a monodentate or bidentate phosphinite ligand, and a mixture of these ligands, to produce a reaction product comprising 3-pentenenitrile (3PN), 2-methyl-3-butenenitrile (2M3BN), adiponitrile (ADN), and methylglutaronitrile (MGN); (ii) distilling the effluent from the reaction zone of step (i) to remove 1-3-butadiene and to obtain a 1,3-butadiene-depleted stream; (iii) distilling the 1,3-butadiene-depleted stream from step (ii) to obtain streams comprising a pentenenitrile-enriched stream and a catalyst-enriched stream; and (iv) recycling at least a portion of the catalyst-enriched stream of step (iii) to the reaction zone of step (i), | 2,279 |
9,558,989 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a semiconductor substrate; (b) forming a first insulation film over the semiconductor substrate, the first insulation film including a tapered opening that exposes a part of the semiconductor substrate; (c) forming a tapered trench in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate by performing etching using the first insulation film as a mask, the trench being tapered such that a width of the trench opening reduces as it approaches a bottom surface of the trench; (d) embedding a second insulation film in the inside of the trench by forming the second insulation film over the semiconductor substrate; (e) flattening the upper surface of the second insulation film by polishing the second insulation film over the first insulation film; (f) after the step (e), retreating the upper surface of the second insulation film by performing etching; and (g) after the step (f), removing the first insulation film. | 30,794 |
9,599,038 | 1. A method of operating an internal combustion engine, comprising: with an adjustment device setting a compression ratio to a setpoint compression ratio, wherein in a normal operating mode of the internal combustion engine the setpoint compression ratio is determined as a function of an operating variable of the internal combustion engine; and operating the internal combustion engine at least temporarily in a predictive operating mode, in which the setpoint compression ratio is determined as a function of an expected estimated operating variable, said expected estimated operating variable being estimated as a function of an actual gradient of the operating variable of the internal combustion engine over time. | 15,371 |
8,539,986 | 1. Hot gas conducting component ( 1 ), in particular for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, with an insulation ( 3 ) arranged at the component ( 1 ) to which heat-reflecting and/or heat-absorbing color pigments are added; wherein the insulation is present as an insulating molded body ( wherein the color pigments are added to the binder; and wherein the heat-absorbing color pigments comprise black color pigments comprising a copper chromite black spinell and the heat-reflecting color pigments comprise yellow color pigments comprising a buff rutile on the basis of chrome, antimony and titanium. | 31,126 |
9,677,461 | 1. A system for an engine, comprising: a compressor positioned in an intake passage of the engine and coupled to a turbine positioned in an exhaust passage of the engine; an ejector positioned in an engine exhaust flow path, the ejector having an inlet positioned in the exhaust flow path upstream of the turbine and an outlet positioned in the intake passage upstream of the compressor; a wastegate valve of the turbine actuated by a vacuum actuator; and a vacuum conduit coupling the ejector to the vacuum actuator. | 13,118 |
8,868,110 | 1. A wireless communication device capable of communicating within a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication environment, the LTE wireless communication environment including a plurality of raster points uniformly distributed therein, the wireless communication device comprising: a radio module configured to receive signals from the LTE wireless communication environment; and a controller module configured to set a center frequency and a bandwidth of the radio module to define a search band, wherein the bandwidth of the search band is sufficiently large to encompass two or more adjacent raster points of the plurality of raster points, and to detect a presence or absence of a base station within the search band, wherein the controller module is configured to determine a raster point within the search band corresponding to a center frequency of the detected base station based on an integer frequency offset relative to the set center frequency of the radio module when the controller module detects the presence of the base station within the search band based on a primary synchronization signal associated with the base station, and wherein after determining the raster point corresponding to the center frequency of the detected base station, the controller module is configured to shift the center frequency of the radio module by a bandwidth shift frequency substantially equal to a bandwidth of the base station plus a difference between a previous center frequency of the radio module and the detected center frequency of the base station. | 37,853 |
9,457,216 | 1. A self-standing exercise pole, comprising: a pole having a lower end and an upper end, wherein said pole is comprised of an elongated structure; a first base pivotally connected to said upper end of said pole, wherein said first base includes an outer end that is broader than said pole, and wherein said first base is adapted to support said pole in a substantially vertically orientated self-standing manner when positioned upon a floor; a first hand grip attached to said pole near said first base; a second base attached to said lower end of said pole, wherein said lower end is comprised of a ball and wherein said second base includes a socket that said ball is pivotally positioned within, wherein said second base includes an outer end that is broader than said pole, and wherein said second base is adapted to support said pole in a substantially vertically orientated self-standing manner when positioned upon a floor; and a second hand grip attached to said pole near said second base. | 33,370 |
8,805,462 | 1. A method for applying a plastic material, comprising: providing individual conductors, each having a superconducting layer formed on a support; applying a multitude of particles formed of the plastic material to the individual conductors; heat treating the particles applied to the individual conductors; and combining the individual conductors to form a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable in the form of a Roebel conductor. | 27,759 |
8,834,825 | 1. A process for preparing silane in a columnar reaction vessel, the vessel comprising a lower inlet, a lower outlet, an upper inlet and an upper outlet and having a reaction mixture therein, the process comprising: introducing a hydride feed comprising a hydride into the upper inlet of the reaction vessel; introducing a feed gas comprising a halosilane into the lower inlet of the reaction vessel to bubble the feed gas through the reaction mixture, the hydride reacting with the halosilane to produce silane and a halide salt; discharging a product gas comprising silane from the upper outlet; and discharging an effluent comprising the halide salt from the lower outlet, the reaction vessel not being mechanically agitated while reacting the hydride with halosilane. | 11,755 |
8,827,210 | 1. An engine nacelle of an aircraft, comprising: a nacelle housing having an outer flow surface, a front end, a first side and a second side, and a longitudinal axis that is coaxial with a rotational axis of an engine to be mounted within the nacelle housing; and a plurality of vortex generators, wherein each vortex generator is formed as a fin-shaped vortex generator having a connection region laying completely on the outer flow surface of the nacelle housing, and wherein the plurality of vortex generators are arranged at least on one of the first and second sides of the nacelle housing to generate turbulent airflow, wherein a first of the plurality of vortex generators is positioned closest to the front end of the nacelle housing and at an engine-nacelle longitudinal coordinate of X≧L/4, where L is a length of the nacelle housing, X is a position along a longitudinal coordinate extending parallel to the longitudinal axis, and a starting point of the engine-nacelle longitudinal coordinate is a point at which an entry plane of the nacelle housing intersects the longitudinal axis, and the plurality of vortex generators are arranged in such a way that the overall vorticity field generated by the plurality of vortex generators extends over an increasing wing area in the wingspan direction of a wing of the aircraft as the angle of attack increases in order to improve maximum lift. | 6,841 |
9,200,458 | 1. An insulating panel structure for attachment of an exterior cladding material to the exterior of a building, the panel structure comprising: an inner surface abutting the building exterior, an outer surface to be attached to and support the weight of the exterior cladding material, elongate rigid external stringers extending in a plane along the outer surface of the panel for attachment of the exterior cladding material, elongate rigid internal stringers extending in a plane along the inner surface of the panel for placement against the building exterior, rigid connectors extending perpendicularly from the panel inner surface and secured between the rigid external stringers and the rigid internal stringers to transmit compressive forces from the external stringers to the internal stringers, lateral connectors connected both to the rigid external stringers and to the rigid perpendicular connectors and that extend diagonally upward from the rigid external stringers extending along the outer surface of the panel to the rigid internal stringers extending along the inner surface of the panel, the rigid internal stringers, rigid external stringers, the rigid perpendicular connectors and the lateral connectors forming a framework in which each interconnected lateral connector and rigid perpendicular connector form part of a load-bearing triangle to transmit forces arising from the weight of the exterior cladding material from the rigid external stringers of the panel attaching the cladding material to the rigid internal stringers placed against the building as a tensile force in the lateral connectors and a compressive force in the perpendicular connectors, and insulating foam embedded in the space defined between the panel's inner and outer surfaces, the embedded foam having its outer surface recessed from the panel's outer surface to leave an air space between the foam and the exterior cladding material that is attached to the panel's outer surface, the air space forming a continuous vertical passage allowing air movement. | 12,226 |
8,683,813 | 1. A gas turbine engine component comprising: a wall having first and second wall surfaces and defining a cooling hole extending through the wall, the cooling hole including: | 32,870 |
8,626,370 | 1. A control apparatus for a vehicle that has shift modes including a continuously variable shift mode, in which a ratio of a rotational speed of a power source to a rotational speed of a drive shaft is continuously adjusted, and a stepped shift mode, in which the ratio of the rotational speed of the power source to the rotational speed of the drive shaft is fixed, comprising: a control unit that controls a torque that is output from the power source to make a time that is required to bring a drive torque of the drive shaft from a predetermined value to a target value in the stepped shift mode equal to a time that is required to bring the drive torque of the drive shaft from the predetermined value to the target value in the continuously variable shift mode. | 31,885 |
8,860,972 | 1. A method of causing printing of a document in response to a request from a handheld device, the method being performed by a networked computer system that comprises one or more processors, one or more interfaces operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, and one or more databases operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, the method comprising: receiving from the handheld device, through one or more of the interfaces, one or more queries comprising information that identifies a document and location information that specifies the location of the handheld device; selecting a printing system based on the location information; and transmitting to the selected printing system, though one of the interfaces, information sufficient to cause the printing system to print the identified document. | 1,558 |
9,541,284 | 1. A chemical reactor, comprising: a reactor vessel having a light-transmissible surface proximate to a reaction zone; a movable reactant delivery system positioned within the reactor vessel; a product removal system positioned within the reactor vessel and positioned annularly inwardly or outwardly from the delivery system wherein the product removal system is positioned in close thermal communication with the reactant delivery system to transfer heat to the reactant delivery system; and a solar concentrator positioned to direct solar radiation through the light transmissible surface to the reaction zone. | 27,471 |
9,643,593 | 1. A vehicle drive system for a vehicle comprising a first prime mover, the vehicle drive system comprising: a transmission; an electric motor in direct or indirect mechanical communication with the first prime mover; a torque converter disposed between the electric motor and an output of the transmission; and a control system configured to cause a reduction of fuel provided to the first prime mover, wherein the control system is configured to cause the electric motor to rotate the first prime mover at a speed when the vehicle is stopped, thereby reducing fuel consumption for the vehicle, wherein the torque converter reduces power provided by the electric motor to the output of the transmission while the electric motor rotates the first prime mover at the speed, wherein the first prime mover operates in a cylinder deactivation mode, the electric motor configured to provide power to the first prime mover to provide a smoother idle in the cylinder deactivation mode and to reduce the fuel consumption required by the first prime mover to rotate. | 30,417 |
9,624,849 | 1. A method for controlling an internal combustion engine, comprising: reducing a quantity of air supplied to the internal combustion engine via an air-metering device after a stop request for stopping the engine has been detected; and subsequently increasing the quantity of air supplied to the internal combustion engine via the air-metering device when a detected speed of the internal combustion engine falls below a predefined speed threshold value; wherein the predefined speed threshold value is increased when, after the metered quantity of air is increased up to stopping of the internal combustion engine, an intake cylinder no longer passes through a bottom dead center, wherein the intake cylinder is a cylinder of the internal combustion engine that is in an intake stroke one of immediately after or during the increase of the quantity of air supplied to the internal combustion engine; and wherein the speed threshold value is reduced when, after the metered quantity of air is increased up to stopping of the internal combustion engine, the intake cylinder goes into a power stroke. | 40,695 |
8,903,624 | 1. An internal combustion engine control apparatus whose operations are controlled by a plurality of kinds of actuators, comprising: demanded torque deciding means that decides a demanded torque that the internal combustion engine generates, based on a demanded engine performance that is demanded of the internal combustion engine; demanded efficiency deciding means that, based on the demanded engine performance, decides a demanded efficiency that is a ratio of a torque that is actually output with respect to a torque that the internal combustion engine can potentially output; demanded air-fuel ratio deciding means that, based on the demanded engine performance, decides a demanded air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture that is provided for combustion in the internal combustion engine; demanded potential torque calculation means that calculates a demanded potential torque by dividing the demanded torque by the demanded efficiency; target air amount calculation means that, based on data in which a relationship between an air amount at an optimal ignition timing and a torque is defined in association with an air-fuel ratio, calculates a target air amount for realizing the demanded potential torque at the demanded air-fuel ratio; air amount control means that operates an actuator for air amount control in accordance with the target air amount; estimated potential torque calculation means that calculates an estimated potential torque that is realized when the actuator for air amount control is operated in accordance with the target air amount at the demanded air-fuel ratio; instructed efficiency calculation means that calculates a ratio of the demanded torque with respect to the estimated potential torque as an instructed efficiency; ignition timing control means that operates an actuator for ignition timing control in accordance with the instructed efficiency; fuel injection amount control means that operates an actuator for fuel injection amount control in accordance with the demanded air-fuel ratio; and adjustment means that, when a rate of change in the demanded air-fuel ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold value, makes a temporary adjustment to a value of any one of the demanded torque, the demanded efficiency and instructed efficiency, and the demanded air-fuel ratio in accordance with a type of the demanded engine performance that is currently being given priority, wherein, when the types of demanded engine performance that are currently being given priority are exhaust gas performance and fuel consumption performance, the adjustment means fixes the demanded efficiency and the instructed efficiency to a value of 1, respectively, and also predicts a change in torque that arises accompanying a change in the demanded air-fuel ratio and causes the predicted change in torque to be generated in the demanded torque. | 9,552 |
9,506,603 | 1. An integrated hydrogen storage structure comprising: a plurality of continuously connected thermally conductive elongated members comprising solid metal rods, said elongated members comprising continuously connected openings between said elongated members; a metal hydride material contacting said elongated members and disposed within said connected openings and surrounding said elongated members; and wherein said elongated members comprise an exterior surface additive comprising a wetting agent and at least one of an additional thermally conductive material or alloy disposed on an exterior surface of said elongated members. | 21,628 |
8,446,915 | 1. A method for allocating an IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) address, comprising: in the IPv6 address comprising a subnet prefix area and an Interface ID area, allocating an n number of bits of the Interface ID area as an index area of a lowest level subnet gateway; allocating a first portion of the n number of bits for identifying a lower level subnet gateway; and allocating the IPv6 address to a terminal device linked at the lowest level subnet gateway, wherein n is a positive integer, and the lowest level subnet gateway and the lower level subnet gateway are arranged hierarchically, and allocating the first portion and a second portion of the n number of bits for identifying a first next lower level subnet gateway and a third portion of the n number of bits for identifying a second next lower level subnet gateway. | 9,747 |
8,749,395 | 1. Apparatus for indicating a disconnection within a Distributed Generator (DG), comprising: an alarm module electrically coupled to a conductive frame of a component within the DG, wherein the conductive frame is grounded via a ground rod system, and wherein the alarm module (i) is further coupled to a ground line, (ii) couples a monitoring current to the conductive frame, (iii) monitors flow of the monitoring current to determine a change in the flow, and (iv) generates, as a result of the change in the flow, a notification of the disconnection. | 6,979 |
9,758,169 | 1. A vehicle capable of regenerative braking, comprising: a motor that is configured to be driven with electric power; a mode selector switch that is configured to be manually switched to selectively set a drive mode of the vehicle in an accelerator-off state between an ordinary mode that decelerates the vehicle and a deceleration enhanced mode that decelerates the vehicle with higher deceleration force than deceleration force in the ordinary mode; and a controller that is configured to perform regenerative control of the motor in the ordinary mode, or perform deceleration control of generating the higher deceleration force in the deceleration enhanced mode, in order to decelerate the vehicle in the drive mode set by the mode selector switch, wherein when an accelerator stroke based on a driver's depression of an accelerator becomes higher than a cancellation threshold in the drive mode set to the deceleration enhanced mode, the controller changes the drive mode from the deceleration enhanced mode to the ordinary mode, and the cancellation threshold takes different values when a vehicle speed is in a low speed range and in a high speed range, and the cancellation threshold in the low speed range is higher than the cancellation threshold in the high speed range. | 44,003 |
9,680,324 | 1. A system for controlling a damper, comprising: an energy harvesting device; a voltage conditioning and storage unit coupled to the energy harvesting device, the voltage conditioning and storage unit configured to apply overvoltage and undervoltage protection to a storage capacitor; a controller coupled to the voltage conditioning and storage unit, the voltage conditioning and storage unit configured to apply overvoltage protection to the controller; and a motor control coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to monitor an energy level of the storage capacitor and to actuate the motor control to fully open a damper if the controller determines that an amount of energy remaining on the storage capacitor reaches a predetermined amount. | 46,049 |
9,603,648 | 1. An insertion device for a spinal implant, wherein the spinal implant includes: a) an elongated body to function as a spacer placed in a target interspinous process space between two adjacent spinous processes, wherein the body defines an interior and a proximal internal recess for access to the interior, the proximal internal recess forming a transverse groove; b) a distal anchor that is at least partially threaded and has opposing radially deployable blades mounted for rotation about a pin transversely mounted in the interior; c) a proximal anchor including a spike cap mounted to slide along the body and a drive nut mounted for longitudinal movement along the body between a first position spaced apart from the distal anchor and a second position relatively closer to the distal anchor to thereby compress the two adjacent spinous processes between the spike cap and the distal anchor; and d) an actuation plunger slidably inside the interior for moving the blades from a stowed position to an implant deployed position, the insertion device comprising: | 14,685 |
9,725,404 | 1. A compound of Formula II: wherein X— is an anion and is selected from the group consisting of: | 41,427 |
9,711,795 | 1. An anode for secondary batteries, in which an anode mixture comprising an anode active material and a binder is coated on a current collector, wherein the binder comprises a homopolymer having a molecular weight of 1,100,000 to 1,300,000, wherein the homopolymer is polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF), wherein an amount of the binder is 4 wt. % to 12 wt. % based on an amount of solids of the anode mixture, and wherein the anode active material comprises a lithium metal oxide of Li | 16,389 |
8,407,492 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of completion signals from a processing circuit, wherein each of the plurality of completion signals identifies whether an associated operation has been completed by the processing circuit; generating a plurality of phase signals, wherein the plurality of phase signals includes a respective phase signal generated at a time when each of the plurality of completion signals is expected to be received; determining a plurality of time differences, wherein each of the time differences is associated with a measured time difference between receipt of a completion signal and the respective phase signal generated at the time when the completion signal is expected to be received; generating a composite difference of the plurality of time differences; and adjusting a voltage supplied to the processing circuit based on the composite difference. | 13,105 |
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