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8,748,482 | 1. A lubiprostone crystal, wherein the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of said crystal comprises characteristic peaks measured at the following 2θ reflection angles: 14.6±0.2°, 17.0±0.2° and 19.6±0.2°. | 5,529 |
9,472,823 | 1. A hydrogen generator comprising: a reformer operative to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by using a raw material gas; a hydro-desulfurizer operative to remove a sulfur compound in the raw material gas; a recycle passage through which the hydrogen-containing gas is supplied to the raw material gas before the raw material gas flows into the hydro-desulfurizer; an ejector which is disposed on a raw material gas passage provided upstream of the hydro-desulfurizer and into which the hydrogen-containing gas flows from the recycle passage; and a heater operative to heat the ejector. | 9,695 |
8,665,878 | 1. A device, comprising: a receiver for receiving a sequence of DATA frames from a second device; a transmitter for sending wireless signals toward the second device; a processor programmed to provide an acknowledgement frame to the transmitter for transmission toward the second device, the acknowledgement frame associated with a DATA frame of the sequence of DATA frames that is received from the second device, the acknowledgment frame comprising wherein the acknowledgment frame implies receipt at the device of | 9,601 |
9,337,565 | 1. A shielded connector, comprising: a holder formed with a hole; and a wire, inserted into and retractable from the hole of the holder, and comprising a conductor and a sheath covering the conductor, wherein the sheath is made of a resin composition having elasticity, wherein the sheath comprises protrusions formed to be convexly protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the sheath, wherein the protrusions have an elasticity so as to be deformable, and wherein a height of the protrusions is such that the protrusions are pressed and deformed by an inner surface of the hole so as to prevent an ingress of liquid into the shielded connector. | 42,745 |
8,394,668 | 1. A method of manufacturing an oxide thin film, comprising: (A) applying an oxide precursor solution comprising at least one of zinc (Zn), indium (In) and tin (Sn) on a substrate, (B) heat-treating the oxide precursor solution to form an oxide layer, (C) repeating the steps (A) and (B) to form a plurality of the oxide layers, wherein an interface region between the oxide layers has a higher density of oxide than an internal region of each of the oxide layers, and wherein a refractive index of the oxide thin film is greater than a refractive index of a similarly-formed single-layer oxide structure having a thickness that is equal to a thickness of the oxide thin film. | 395 |
9,197,094 | 1. A wireless charger comprising: a charging surface configured to receive a chargeable device thereon; at least one transmitting coil configured to inductively transfer power to at least one receiving coil associated with the chargeable device; a bumper assembly having a first and second bumper that are movable away from the charging surface to allow the chargeable device to be retained therebetween, wherein the first and second bumpers are biased to return toward the charging surface in order to provide a holding force against the chargeable device; and a controller configured to ping different charging protocols, one at a time, to a receiver associated with the chargeable device and selecting a compatible charging protocol based on information received from the receiver. | 18,944 |
8,353,738 | 1. A method for processing a workpiece, the method comprising: providing i) an at least one finishing apparatus “A” for an at least one finishing operation, ii) an at least one piece of workpiece fabrication machinery “B” other than the at least one finishing apparatus “A”, iii) an at least one piece of metrology equipment, iv) an at least one processor readable memory device, v) an at least one operative computerized network connecting the at least one processor readable memory device, the at least one finishing apparatus “A”, the at least one piece of workpiece fabrication machinery “B”, and the at least one piece of metrology equipment; finishing the workpiece with the at least one finishing apparatus; sensing an in situ finishing information with an operative sensor; determining a change for a process control parameter using an at least one processor, the at least one operative computerized network, and a family of processing information comprising (i) an at least one yield information at least in part related to a cost of manufacture, (ii) the in situ finishing information, (iii) an information from the at least one piece of metrology equipment at least in part related to the at least one finishing operation, (iv) an information at least in part related to the at least one finishing apparatus “A”, and (v) an information at least in part related to the at least one workpiece fabrication machinery “B” and at least in part related to the at least one finishing operation; and changing the process control parameter to change a processing control with an operative controller and wherein the processing control comprises a processing control at least in part related to the at least one finishing operation. | 18,291 |
8,741,602 | 1. A method for producing a glucuronide, comprising culturing a transformed Saccharomyces cerevisiae that has been transformed by the insertion in an expressible manner of a gene coding for UDP-glucose dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis or rat and a gene coding for UDP-glucuronosyl transferase from a mammal in the presence of glucose and a substance being glucuronided to cause a glucuronide of the substance being glucuronided to be produced; and collecting the produced glucuronide in culture medium. | 38,901 |
9,754,073 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a target pattern that is defined by a main pattern, a first cut pattern associated with a first mask, and a second cut pattern associated with a second mask, the first mask being different than the second mask; with a computing system, checking the target pattern for compliance with a first constraint associated with the first cut pattern; with the computing system, checking the target pattern for compliance with a second constraint associated with the second cut pattern; with the computing system, modifying the target pattern to create a modified target pattern in response to determining that a violation of either the first constraint or the second constraint is found during the checking; and fabricating, using the first mask and the second mask, an integrated circuit associated with the modified target pattern. | 2,988 |
9,763,312 | 1. A dimming lampholder comprising a seat, a cover body, a cap, a screwing ring, a printed circuit board, a knob and a plurality of electrical connecting plates, wherein a circular stepped surface is formed at an external periphery of a top surface of the seat, wherein a positioning slot, a plurality of first engaging holes and a plurality of second engaging holes are formed on a surface enclosed by the circular stepped surface, wherein the seat is extended downwardly to form a cylindrical shape and has an opening formed at a bottom of the seat and penetrating into the seat, with a plurality of clamping slots formed on the seat; wherein the cover body includes a plurality of engaging hole pillars protruded from a top of the cover body, with a plurality of arc chutes disposed around a periphery of the cover body and symmetrical with one another, and with an insert hole with an expanded internal diameter connected to an end of each arc chute; wherein the cap is a circular arc cap shaped object and includes an outwardly protruding ring disposed near a bottom of the cap and having an outer thread formed at a bottom of the outwardly protruding ring and provided for connection, with a penetrating hole formed at a center of a top of the outwardly protruding ring, with the bottom of the cap being an inwardly penetrating opening, and with a penetrating slot formed on a circular wall; wherein the screwing ring has a hollow penetrating a bottom of the screwing ring, with a circular stepped surface formed inwardly at the bottom of the screwing ring, and with an inner thread formed on an inner side of the screwing ring; wherein the printed circuit board has a switch, a dimming circuit installed on a side of the printed circuit board, a knob coupled to the switch and the dimming circuit, and a plurality of electrical connecting screws installed at a top of the printed circuit board, with the plurality of electrical connecting screws electrically connectable to the switch and the dimming circuit, wherein a bottom of the printed circuit board has a plurality of conductive plates formed into a bent shape with a horizontal section facing outward and with a distal end having an engaging hole, and wherein the plurality of conductive plates is electrically coupled with the switch and the dimming circuit; wherein the plurality of electrical connecting plates is formed into a bent shape with each having an engaging hole formed at a top of the electrical connecting plate and an abutting portion formed at a bottom of the electrical connecting plate; wherein the printed circuit board is vertically erected from a bottom end from the positioning slot of the seat, wherein the engaging holes of the plurality of conductive plates of the printed circuit board are one-to-one corresponsive to the plurality of first engaging holes of the seat; wherein the plurality of electrical connecting plates is installed into the opening of the bottom of the seat in an upward direction of the engaging holes of the plurality of electrical connecting plates, wherein a middle section of the plurality of electrical connecting plates is inserted into a corresponsive clamping slot of the seat, wherein the engaging holes of the plurality of electrical connecting plates are one-to-one corresponsive to the plurality of first engaging holes of the seat, wherein the engaging holes of the plurality of conductive plates coupled to the bottom of the printed circuit board, the plurality of first engaging holes of the seat, and the engaging holes of the plurality of electrical connecting plates are connected by a plurality of engaging members respectively; wherein the cover body is accommodated into the seat in an upward direction of the plurality of engaging hole pillars, wherein the plurality of engaging hole pillars of the cover body in the seat is one-to-one corresponsive to the plurality of second engaging holes, wherein the abutting portions of the plurality of electrical connecting plates is one-to-one correspondingly remained at the plurality of arc chutes and on a side of the insert holes of the plurality of arc chutes, and wherein the plurality of second engaging holes and the plurality of engaging hole pillars are coupled by inserting a plurality of engaging members respectively; wherein the knob coupled to the switch and the dimming circuit of the printed circuit board enter along a penetrating slot of the knob until the circular stepped surface at the external periphery of the top surface of the seat abuts a bottom edge of the cap; and wherein the screwing ring is sheathed on the external periphery of the seat by the hollow of the screwing ring, wherein the inner thread of the screwing ring is gradually engaged with the outer thread of the cap until the circular stepped surface of the screwing ring abuts the outwardly protruding ring of the cap. | 24,253 |
9,842,243 | 1. A fingerprint sensing device comprising: a sensing chip comprising an array of sensing elements, said sensing elements being configured to be connected to readout circuitry for detecting a capacitive coupling between each of said sensing elements and a finger placed on a sensing surface of said sensing device; a coating material arranged in a layer on top of said array of sensing elements, said coating material comprising a plurality of cavities filled with a mold material, wherein said mold material is deposited by compression molding; wherein locations of said cavities correspond to locations of said sensing elements, such that a cross-section area of a cavity covers at least a portion of an area of a corresponding sensing element, said cavities comprising openings between adjacent cavities so that a liquid mold can flow between adjacent cavities during compression molding; and wherein a dielectric constant of said mold material is higher than a dielectric constant of said coating material. | 34,528 |
9,136,558 | 1. A battery comprising: a housing including a layer comprising a self-sealing ionomer material; and an electrochemical cell; wherein the housing encloses the electrochemical cell; and wherein the layer is at least 0.5 mm thick. | 34,486 |
9,273,666 | 1. A Magnus type power generator comprising: a horizontal rotary shaft having a rotary body that transmits a rotation torque to a power generating mechanism, wherein said rotary body comprises multiple driving motors; multiple rotary columns disposed radially from an outer periphery of said rotary body, connected at their proximal end to said multiple driving motors, and at their distal end to end caps, said end caps having a disk shape of a diameter larger than a diameter of said rotary columns; wherein said rotary columns further comprise two crossing spiral ribs wound about said columns in a clock and counter clockwise direction respectively; multiple air flow planes installed upon, and located behind an outer peripheral surface of said rotary columns; wherein: | 10,757 |
9,781,572 | 1. A method for managing positioning data within a database, the method comprising: storing positioning data in a database, wherein the positioning data associates, for each location of multiple geographic locations to which a wireless station provides wireless service, a signal strength of a signal received from the wireless station at the respective location; designating geographic reference points at respective geographic positions; and iteratively refining the positions by repetitively receiving, from a wireless device, a signal strength value of a signal received by the wireless device from the wireless station; selecting one of the clusters based on the signal strength value received from the wireless device; and determining a location of the wireless device based on the selected cluster; wherein iteratively refining the positions includes: | 46,147 |
8,597,015 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a tool having a plurality of parts; a frame comprising a base and a positioning system, the positioning system configured to position a prepreg assembly relative to the tool, move relative to the tool and the base of the frame, and move a part in the plurality of parts relative to other parts in the plurality of parts during shaping of the prepreg assembly; and a shaping system associated with the frame and configured to move relative to the prepreg assembly, the prepreg assembly positioned relative to a number of parts in the plurality of parts for the tool connected to the base, to change a first shape of the prepreg assembly to form a second shape for an airfoil when the positioning section moves relative to the tool. | 44,070 |
8,957,505 | 1. A device substrate, comprising: a flexible substrate; a patterned structure configured on the flexible substrate, and the patterned structure comprising a plurality of openings, wherein an aspect ratio of the plurality of openings of the patterned structure is greater than 1; a protective layer, configured on the patterned structure, wherein the protective layer does not completely fill the plurality of openings of the patterned structure to provide air gaps between the protective layer and the patterned structure, and the patterned structure comprises an organic material and the protective layer comprises an inorganic material; and a device layer, configured on the protective layer. | 47,767 |
9,709,075 | 1. A Sabbath elevator drive system for driving motion of an elevator compartment based on energy from an energy source, the drive system comprising: (a) a displacement mechanism mechanically associated with the elevator compartment for moving the elevator compartment between floors; (b) an energy accumulator configured to receive, store and subsequently supply a quantity of energy that is input and output without flow of electrical current; and (c) a charge/discharge arrangement associated with said energy accumulator, said displacement mechanism and the energy source, said charge/discharge arrangement being configured to switch between: | 41,645 |
8,663,104 | 1. A method of controlling changes to a patient's therapy, the method comprising: storing a plurality of therapy alteration permission levels on a computing device that represent various levels of authority for changing a current therapy of a patient; storing a data item of an electronic medical record, the data item including a field for at least one portion of an electronic medical record of a patient; applying one of the plurality of therapy alteration permission levels to the data item of an electronic medical record of the patient; deciding, via the computing device, whether the patient's current therapy can be modified based on the therapy alteration permission level applied to the data item of the electronic medical record; identifying a new therapy based on at least the electronic medical record; comparing the new therapy to the current therapy; and adjusting one or more parameters associated with at least one of the current therapy or the new therapy to minimize side effects. | 39,228 |
9,126,856 | 1. A method of producing glass sheets, said method being a fusion process characterized by the steps of: (a) melting batch materials in a glass melting vessel comprised of zirconia refractory to form molten glass; (b) fining the molten glass in a fining vessel made of a platinum based refractory to remove gasses; (c) transporting the molten glass to a stir chamber through a finer to stir chamber connecting tube made of a platinum based refractory; (d) stirring the molten glass in the stir chamber; (e) delivering the molten glass to a forming apparatus; (f) forming the glass into a ribbon; and (g) cutting glass sheets from the formed ribbon; wherein: (i) the method comprises determining a zircon devitrification temperature at a platinum interface of the molten glass formed in step (a) and maintaining a temperature of each of the glass melting vessel, fining vessel, and finer to stir chamber connecting tube in excess of said zircon devitrification temperature; and (ii) the glass sheets of step (g) have a secondary zirconia based defect level of less than 0.1 defects per pound. | 45,837 |
8,492,164 | 1. A laminated device, comprising: a first layer comprising microchannels that end in a first crossbar; and a second layer comprising microchannels that end in a second crossbar; wherein the first crossbar defines at least a portion of one edge of an M2M manifold; wherein the second crossbar projects into the M2M manifold; wherein an interface between the microchannels in the second layer and the manifold is formed by an open gap between the first and second crossbars. | 8,950 |
9,175,759 | 1. A vehicle drive device comprising: a rotary electric machine; a fluid coupling disposed coaxially with the rotary electric machine on a first axial direction side with respect to the rotary electric machine; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine and the fluid coupling, | 8,505 |
8,596,542 | 1. An optical reader comprising: an image sensor having two dimensional array of photosensitive elements; imaging optics for focusing an image of a target onto the image sensor; a housing in which the image sensor and the imaging optics are disposed; a first source of light for projecting light externally from the optical reader, the first source of light being spaced a first distance from the image sensor; a second source of light for projecting light externally from the optical reader, the second source of light being spaced a second distance from the image sensor, the second distance being greater than the first distance; wherein the optical reader is operative to capture a first frame of image data via actuation of the image sensor and the first source of light; wherein the optical reader is operative to capture a second frame of image data via actuation of the image sensor and the second source of light without actuation of the first source of light; wherein the optical reader is operative to process captured image data for attempting to decode a decodable indicia, wherein the first source of light comprises a plurality of LEDs, and wherein the second source of light comprises a plurality of LEDs. | 22,595 |
8,379,253 | 1. A structured document conversion apparatus configured to convert structured document data that contains document data in a plurality of nodes in a tree structure and can associate a print attribute with each of the plurality of nodes, the apparatus comprising: a deletion unit configured to determine whether a print attribute associated with a node of a lower hierarchical layer than a top layer in the tree structure is a print attribute capable of being reflected to document data contained in the node of the lower hierarchical layer, and in a case where the print attribute associated with a node of the lower hierarchical layer is determined as capable of being reflected to the document data contained in the node of the lower hierarchical layer, reflect the print attribute associated with the node of the lower hierarchical layer to the document data contained in the node of the lower hierarchical layer and delete the print attribute associated with the node of the lower hierarchical layer, wherein the structured document conversion apparatus generates structured document data in which the print attribute is associated with the highest hierarchical layer in the tree structure. | 28,884 |
8,964,381 | 1. An electronic device locking/unlocking mechanism, which is assembled with an electronic device including a movable module, a device body module and a support arm disposed between the movable module and the device body module for supporting and locating the movable module on the device body module, the locking/unlocking mechanism being disposed on at least one of the movable module and the device body module, whereby when the movable module is closed onto the device body module, the locking/unlocking mechanism is held to lock the movable module, the support arm having two pivoted ends at which pivot pins are mounted, whereby the support arm is pivotally connected to the movable module and the device body module via the pivot pins respectively, at least one of the pivot pins being able to provide a frictional locating resistance, whereby when the movable module is closed on the device body module, the pivot pin is stressed to store energy and when the movable module is unlocked, the pivot pin unstressed to release the energy so as to automatically bound open the movable module to form a gap between the movable module and the device body module; the electronic device locking/unlocking mechanism comprising: a connection arm movable between a first position and a second position, the connection arm having a first end and a second end; an elastic unit disposed at the first end of the connection arm to normally apply an elastic force to the connection arm for keeping the connection arm positioned in the first position; and a locking section disposed at the second end of the connection arm, the locking section being held in a dent formed on the electronic device, when the connection arm is moved to the second position, the locking section being released from the held state, whereby the pivot pin is unstressed to automatically bound open. | 34,809 |
9,108,382 | 1. A corrugated board system for producing corrugated board, the corrugated board system comprising: a first material supply device for dispensing a first material web; at least a second material supply device for dispensing at least a second material web; a corrugated board production device for producing a corrugated board web lined on at least one side from the first material web and the at least second material web; a web tension measuring regulating arrangement, which is arranged between the corrugated board production device and the first material supply device, wherein the web tension measuring regulating arrangement comprises a web tension measuring regulating device with a web tension measuring mechanism for measuring the web tension of the first material web and a first web tension regulating mechanism for regulating the web tension of the first material web, said web tension measuring regulating arrangement further comprising at a second web tension regulating mechanism to further regulate the web tension of the first material web, the web tension measuring regulating device being arranged between the second web tension regulating mechanism and the corrugated board production device, said web tension measuring regulating arrangement further comprising at least a third web tension regulating mechanism to further regulate the web tension of the first material web, wherein the at least third web tension regulating mechanism is arranged upstream of the second web tension regulating mechanism on the first material web, said web tension measuring regulating arrangement further comprising an information processing unit, which is connected to the web tension measuring regulating device in a data-transmitting manner, said information processing unit being connected to the second web tension regulating mechanism in a data-transmitting manner, said information processing unit being connected to the at least third web tension regulating mechanism in a data-transmitting manner, said information processing unit receiving web tension information referring to the first material web from the web tension measuring mechanism, said information processing unit being configured so that to change the web tension of the first material web up to a first web tension limit value, said information processing unit sends web tension regulating signals to the first web tension regulating mechanism to actuate the first web tension regulating mechanism, said information processing unit being configured so that to change the web tension of the first material web beyond the first web tension limit value, said information processing unit sends web tension regulating signals to the second web tension regulating mechanism to actuate the second web tension regulating mechanism, said information processing unit being configured so that to change the web tension of the first material web beyond a second web tension limit, said information processing unit sends web tension regulating signals to the at least third web tension regulating mechanism to actuate the third web tension regulating mechanism. | 22,614 |
9,284,476 | 1. A method comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a magnetic surfactant, the magnetic surfactant comprising a cationic surfactant having a magnetically susceptible counterion, wherein the magnetically susceptible counterion comprises at least one anion of the group of dysprosium chloride, dysprosium sulfide, erbium sulfide, and any derivative thereof; and introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; and applying a magnetic field to the treatment fluid so as to increase a viscosity of the treatment fluid at a location outside the wellbore. | 7,446 |
9,749,922 | 1. A communication control method for performing an offload from a cellular RAN to a wireless LAN, comprising the steps of: transmitting information for the offload, by a cellular base station included in the cellular RAN; receiving the information from the cellular base station, by a user terminal which has a cellular communication unit and a wireless LAN communication unit and which exists in a cell of the cellular base station, wherein the information includes parameters to be applied to the access network selection, the parameters including a first threshold to be compared with a cellular signal strength of the cellular RAN, a second threshold to be compared with a wireless LAN signal strength of the wireless LAN, and a third threshold to be compared with a load of the wireless LAN; and performing an operation related to the offload on the basis of the information received from the cellular base station, by the user terminal, wherein the step of performing the operation comprises a step of performing an access network selection between the cellular RAN and the wireless LAN, and the step of performing the access network selection comprising a step of selecting the wireless LAN to perform the offload, in response to the cellular signal strength being lower than the first threshold, the wireless LAN signal strength being higher than the second threshold, and the load of the wireless LAN being lower than the third threshold. | 32,121 |
9,071,141 | 1. A single-phase bi-directional AC/DC power converter having a DC side and an AC side for interfacing between a DC power distribution network to which DC loads and/or DC power sources are connected and an AC power distribution grid operating at a line frequency, comprising a full-bridge switching circuit connected between an AC source or load and a DC link, a DC link capacitor, and a bi-directional synchronous rectifier (SR) DC/DC power converter in series with said full bridge switching circuit and receiving power from or delivering power to said DC link and capable of providing DC voltage regulation in one direction of power transfer and an increased DC voltage in another direction of power transfer, and a DC side control loop in said DC side of said power converter for controlling duty cycle of switches of said bi-directional SR DC/DC converter whereby capacitance of said DC link capacitor can be reduced while limiting voltage variation at an output of said DC/DC power converter, said DC side control loop having a transfer function that has relatively increased gain at twice the AC line frequency to limit DC side voltage variation at a frequency which is twice said line frequency. | 9,057 |
8,454,469 | 1. A power split transmission capable of energy recovery, the power split transmission comprising: a rotatable input shaft and a rotatable output shaft; a mechanical transmission system for mechanically transmitting mechanical power between the rotatable input shaft and the rotatable output shaft, the mechanical transmission comprising a planetary gear train that mechanically couples the input shaft to the output shaft; a hydraulic transmission system containing a fluid for hydraulically transmitting hydraulic power between the input shaft and the output shaft, the hydraulic transmission system comprising a first positive displacement device mechanically coupled to the input shaft, a second positive displacement device mechanically coupled through the planetary gear train to the mechanical transmission system, and means for storing and releasing energy within the hydraulic transmission system, the energy storing and releasing means comprising high and low pressure accumulators and not comprising a flywheel, the first and second positive displacement devices being fluidically coupled to the high pressure accumulator through a high pressure line and fluidically coupled to the low pressure accumulator through a low pressure line, at least one of the first and second positive displacement devices being operable to store energy from the power split transmission by operating as a pump to store a portion of the fluid at an elevated pressure in the high pressure accumulator, the second positive displacement device being operable to release energy to the power split transmission by operating as a motor driven by the fluid released from the high pressure accumulator; and means for operating the mechanical and hydraulic transmission systems so that the power split transmission has multiple operating modes, a first operating mode characterized by the output shaft receiving power from the input shaft through at least one of the mechanical and hydraulic transmission systems, a second operating mode characterized by the output shaft receiving power from only the energy storing and releasing means, a third operating mode characterized by the output shaft receiving power from the input shaft through at least one of the mechanical and hydraulic transmission systems and from the energy storing and releasing means, and a fourth operating mode characterized by the output shaft delivering power to the energy storing and releasing means. | 1,085 |
9,692,411 | 1. A level sensing printed circuit board, comprising: a sensing capacitor having a sensing plate and a negative plate, the sensing plate being a positive plate and configured to sense the electrical conductivity of a material causing a stimulus and provide positive plate signaling containing information about the electrical conductivity sensed, and the negative plate corresponding to a ground plane of the level sensing printed circuit board; a variable frequency oscillator having a comparator with an input configured to respond to the positive plate signaling, and provide variable frequency oscillator signaling containing information about variable frequency oscillations based upon the positive plate signaling sensed; and a signal processing module configured at least to: | 43,784 |
8,513,495 | 1. A seed of canola line SCV291489, representative sample of seed of which was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11750. | 32,329 |
9,690,555 | 1. A system for optimizing an application workflow, comprising: a memory having computer readable instructions; and a processor for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions including: characterizing the application workflow by determining at least one baseline metric related to an operational control knob of an embedded system processor, the application workflow configured to perform a real-time computational task encountered by at least one mobile embedded system of a wirelessly connected cluster of systems supported by a server system; performing an optimization operation on at least one baseline metric of the application workflow while satisfying at least one runtime constraint; and outputting an annotated workflow, the annotated workflow being a result of the performing of the optimization operation. | 28,281 |
8,412,251 | 1. An apparatus comprising: processing circuitry configured to: | 1,039 |
9,730,574 | 1. An endoscope, comprising: an endoscope shaft; and a main body connected to the endoscope shaft, the main body including a camera connection, wherein the camera connection is configured to mechanically fix an optical recording device to the main body, wherein the main body is electrically conductive, wherein the camera connection includes an electric insulating body configured to insulate the optical recording device from the main body when the optical recording device is mechanically fixed to the camera connection, and wherein the camera connection includes a metallic ring nut with an external thread onto which a corresponding internal thread of the optical recording device can be screwed. | 537 |
8,507,590 | 1. A process comprising reacting an anhydride compound of Formula (IV) with an aniline compound of Formula (V) in the presence of a first solvent to provide a compound of Formula (VI) wherein R 1 , R 4 , and R 5 are hydrogen, R 2 and R 3 are each t-butyl, R 7 and R 8 are independently at each occurrence a halogen, a cyano functionality, or a C 1 -C 6 functionality, “n” and “m” are each zero, and X is a halogen selected from chlorine or bromine; and reacting the compound of Formula (VI) with a compound of Formula (VII) in the presence of a base and a second solvent to provide a compound of Formula (I) wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 7 , R 8 , “n”, and “m” have the same meaning as defined above, and R 6 is —(CHS p )—OH where p is an integer having a value of 2 to 4, or | 24,655 |
8,842,770 | 1. A method of coding and decoding information conveyed by a pulse signal by a transceiver device, the method comprising: sending repetitively, from the transceiver, a reference pulse followed by a pulse train, the pulse train including at least a first information pulse delayed with respect to the reference pulse by a first delay and a second information pulse delayed with respect to the first information pulse by a second delay different from the first delay; and decoding a received pulse signal, at the transceiver device, by at least | 44,648 |
9,796,668 | 1. A compound of the formula: wherein: R R R or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, tautomers, acetals, ketals, or optical isomers thereof. | 8,386 |
8,710,602 | 1. A magnetic junction having a magnetoresistive region and being for use in a magnetic device comprising: a pinned layer; a nonmagnetic spacer layer; a free layer, the nonmagnetic spacer layer residing between the pinned layer and the free layer, at least a portion of the magnetoresistive region being between the pinned layer and the free layer; at least one insulating layer adjacent to at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer such that the at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer are between the at least one insulating layer and the nonmagnetic spacer layer and the at least one insulating layer is external to the magnetoresistive region; and at least one magnetic insertion layer adjoining the at least one insulating layer, the at least one magnetic insertion layer being external to the magnetoresistive region of the magnetic junction; wherein the magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. | 43,078 |
9,454,712 | 1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising: determining boundary regions of an image that depicts a scene, each of the boundary regions comprising less than an entirety of the image; computing intermediate saliency maps of each of the boundary regions, the intermediate saliency maps representing visual saliency of portions of the scene that are captured in the boundary regions, the intermediate saliency maps computed based on the visual saliency of the portions of the scene captured in the boundary regions being background of the scene; and combining the intermediate saliency maps to generate a base saliency map of the image, the intermediate saliency maps being combined to suppress an effect of one or more foreground objects on the base saliency map, the one or more foreground objects that have the effect suppressed occupying a majority of one of the boundary regions. | 43,540 |
8,853,956 | 1. A driver arrangement for driving first and second organic light emitting diode circuits, the driver arrangement comprising: a reference terminal, a power source terminal, and first and second output terminals, the first organic light emitting diode circuit comprising a first side to be coupled to the reference terminal and a second side to be coupled to the first output terminal, the second organic light emitting diode circuit comprising a first side to be coupled to the first output terminal and a second side to be coupled to the second output terminal, and the driver arrangement comprising: a first element coupled to the first output terminal and the reference terminal, and a first switch coupled to the power source terminal and the first output terminal, and a second element coupled to the second output terminal and the reference terminal, and a second switch coupled to the power source terminal and the second output terminal, the first element and the first switch being coupled to each other and via a first inductor to the first output terminal, and the second element and the second switch being coupled to each other and via a second inductor to the second output terminal, wherein the first and second elements are coupled in parallel to the first and second organic light emitting diode circuits. | 4,224 |
9,269,951 | 1. A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, comprising a mixture of a lithium/manganese spinel oxide represented by Formula I and a lithium/nickel/cobalt/manganese oxide represented by Formula II: wherein, M is a metal having an oxidation number of 2 to 3; 0<x≦0.2; 0<y≦0.2; 0.1≦z≦0.1; 0.45≦b≦65; 0.2≦c≦0.4; and 0.65≦b+c≦0.85 wherein the mixing ratio of the lithium/manganese spinel oxide of Formula I to the lithium/nickel/cobalt/manganese composite oxide of Formula II is in the range of 10:90 to 90:10 (w/w); and wherein the cathode active material exhibits the life characteristics that the capacity at 300 cycles is more than 80% relative to the initial capacity. | 4,594 |
8,814,518 | 1. A platform cooling arrangement in a turbine rotor blade having a platform at an interface between an airfoil and a root, wherein the rotor blade includes an interior cooling passage formed therein that extends from a connection with a coolant source at the root to at least the approximate radial height of the platform, wherein, in operation, the interior cooling passage comprises a high-pressure coolant region and a low-pressure coolant region, and wherein, along a side that coincides with a pressure side of the airfoil, a pressure side of the platform comprises a topside extending circumferentially from the airfoil to a pressure side slashface, and along a side that coincides with a suction side of the airfoil, a suction side of the platform comprises a topside extending circumferentially from the airfoil to a suction side slashface; the platform cooling arrangement comprising: a platform cavity formed within at least one of the pressure side and the suction side of the platform, the platform cavity including an inboard floor and an outboard ceiling; a high-pressure connector that connects the platform cavity to the high-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage; a low-pressure connector that connects the platform cavity to the low-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage; and a pin bank formed within the platform cavity, wherein the pin bank includes a plurality of pins that extend in an approximate radial direction between the floor and the ceiling of the platform cavity; wherein the pins comprise non-integral pins, each of which inserts through a pin aperture formed through the underside of the platform. | 23,482 |
9,816,403 | 1. A method for controlling inlet pressure of a pump in a closed loop thermodynamic cycle, comprising: circulating a working fluid in a working fluid circuit that includes the pump fluidly coupled to an expander that is operative to convert energy from the working fluid into mechanical energy, the working fluid circuit including a high pressure side and a low pressure side; receiving in a control system a first pressure detected at the high pressure side of the working fluid circuit via a plurality of sensors; receiving in the control system a second pressure detected at the low pressure side of the working fluid circuit via the plurality of sensors; adding or removing working fluid mass from the working fluid circuit via a mass management system based on the first pressure, the second pressure, or a combination thereof, the mass management system being connected to the working fluid circuit and having a working fluid vessel fluidly coupled to the low pressure side of the working fluid circuit, wherein one or more valves coupled to the mass management system are actuated in the control system to add or remove the working fluid mass from the working fluid circuit; receiving in the control system a third pressure detected in the working fluid vessel via the plurality of sensors; determining in the control system whether the third pressure is less than the second pressure; and adding additional working fluid to the working fluid vessel and adding working fluid mass into the low pressure side of the working fluid circuit from the working fluid vessel via the mass management system if the third pressure is less than the second pressure. | 48,137 |
8,343,858 | 1. A method for manufacturing a microcrystalline semiconductor film, comprising: mixing a deposition gas containing silicon with hydrogen and applying high-frequency power to form a first microcrystalline semiconductor film over a substrate; performing treatment for flattening the first microcrystalline semiconductor film; performing treatment for removing a superficial layer of the flattened first microcrystalline semiconductor film; and mixing a deposition gas containing silicon with hydrogen and applying high-frequency power to form a second microcrystalline semiconductor film over the first microcrystalline semiconductor film with the superficial layer removed. | 39,055 |
9,478,956 | 1. An in use cover for an outdoor electrical device comprising a lid hinged to a base, the lid having at least one panel including a frangible segment configured to be removed to provide a portal into an interior of the cover for an electric cord to access an electrical device, the at least one panel having an arched flange extending around at least a portion of the frangible segment, the lid further including a laterally projecting peripheral flange, a peripheral skirt extending from the peripheral flange and an internal rail extending parallel to the peripheral skirt, a lid channel extending between the peripheral skirt and the internal rail and the base including an outer base rail and an inner base rail, a base peripheral channel extending between the outer base rail and the inner base rail, the internal rail being seated in the base peripheral channel and the outer base rail being seated in the lid channel when the lid is closed, a portion of the peripheral flange extending through the frangible segment, the portion of the peripheral flange extending through the frangible segment having cut away notches leaving open spaces extending completely through the portion of the peripheral flange, the open spaces facilitating removal of the frangible segment, a portion of the at least one panel extending through the frangible segment, said portion of the at least one panel including a portion of the internal rail, said portion of the at least one panel being continuous with the at least one panel, whereby water which may pass through the open spaces will be blocked from passing into the interior of the cover. | 29,383 |
9,825,188 | 1. A solar cell module, comprising: two solar cells, each including: a semiconductor photo-electric conversion body having a first main face and a second main face; a first electrode on the first main face, the first electrode comprising a bus-bar electrode having one or more gap portions through the bus-bar electrode, the bus-bar electrode directly contacting the first main face; and a second electrode on the second main face having a polarity opposite to that of the first electrode; a wiring member that electrically connects the first electrode of one solar cell to the second electrode of another solar cell; and wherein each of the two solar cells include: an electrically conductive connection layer that contacts the wiring member and extends continuously across each of the one or more gap portions, the electrically conductive connection layer being in direct contact with a portion of the first main face that is exposed at each of the one or more gap portions in the bus-bar electrode, wherein in each of the two solar cells: the first electrode further comprises a plurality of finger electrodes with a constant spacing between adjacent finger electrodes, and a gap portion length of each of the one or more gap portions in a longitudinal direction of the wiring member is smaller than the constant spacing between adjacent finger electrodes. | 31,131 |
9,676,469 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an outer band covering at least a portion of a first structure, the outer band having a first edge opposite a second edge, the second edge forming a first load redistribution ramp corresponding to a bend in the first structure; an inner band positioned beneath a second structure, the inner band having a first surface opposite a second surface, the second surface forming a second load redistribution ramp corresponding to the bend in the first structure, wherein a portion of the inner band adjacent to the second surface forms a curve around an edge of the second structure such that the second load redistribution ramp forms a wedge between the first structure and the second structure; and a fastener coupling together the outer band, the first structure, the second structure, and the inner band, a portion of the fastener extending through an aperture in each of the outer band, the first structure, the second structure, and the inner band. | 47,747 |
8,428,835 | 1. A method of controlling operation of a vehicle powertrain, including a driving engine, a multi-speed manual gearbox and a clutch, the method comprising: determining, via a control system with a computer, a target power to be provided by the powertrain as a function of information displayed on a display screen of the computer corresponding to an intention of a driver, wherein the information relating to the intention of the driver is maintained on the display screen in response to a release of the vehicle accelerator for declutching during a change of gear ratio, such that the control system does not display and process inaccurate information obtained between a clutch opening instant and a clutch closing instant, when determining the target power to be provided. | 48,692 |
9,349,553 | 1. A slide switch, comprising: a case forming an accommodation space; a first contact disposed in the accommodation space; a second contact disposed in the accommodation space; a third contact disposed in the accommodation space; and a slider fixed to the third contact, wherein the slider is movable between a first position in which the first contact and the second contact are electrically insulated from each other and a second position in which the first contact and the second contact are electrically connected to each other via the third contact, the case includes a projection supporting the third contact in a normal direction of a plane which includes a moving path of the slider in the accommodation space, the third contact includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion and the second portion are displaceable in the normal direction of a plane which includes a moving path of the slider in the accommodation space, and the projection in the case restricts a movement of the third portion of the third contact in the normal direction. | 11,280 |
8,403,258 | 1. An energy system for an aircraft, comprising: a first energy source with a first operating characteristic; a second energy source with a second operating characteristic; a consumer that has a required means for the operation of the consumer; and a power regulating device in communication with the first energy source and the second energy source to determine the first operating characteristic and the second operating characteristic, and the power regulating device measures a requirement of the required means of the consumer, controls the first energy source to generate a first requirement share of the required means based on the first operating characteristic and controls the second energy source to generate a second requirement share of the required means based on the second operating characteristic, with the first requirement share and the second requirement share making up the required means for the operation of the consumer, wherein the first operating characteristic and the second operating characteristic change based on the flight phase of the aircraft. | 32,063 |
9,763,827 | 1. A method of treating meibomian gland disease in at least a portion of an eyelid by a clinician, comprising: positioning a back plate of a treatment device between an eyeball and an eyelid of a patient; using the treatment device to heat tissue of the eyelid adjacent to the meibomian glands of the patient to a temperature sufficient to melt or soften meibum of the meibomian glands; positioning a compressive element of the treatment device adjacent to the outer surface of the eyelid while the back plate of the treatment device is positioned between the eyeball and the eyelid, wherein the compressive element is mechanically linked to the back plate and an aperture exists between the back plate and the compressive element which permits viewing of the eyelid margin by the clinician through the aperture; applying a compressive force to the eyelid using the compressive element or the back plate; visually monitoring through the aperture the eyelid margin along the portion of the eyelid being treated while the compression force is being applied; adjusting treatment to the eyelid while the compressive force is being applied and the eyelid margin is being viewed through the aperture in order to increase an amount of meibum expressed from the orifices. | 3,186 |
8,926,763 | 1. A method for cleaning internal parts of a gasoline engine, the method comprising the steps of: (1) connecting an outlet of a cleaning liquid supply pipe of a cleaning liquid storage tank containing a cleaning liquid airtightly to a port of an intake pipe of the gasoline engine, said cleaning liquid supply pipe having the outlet at its front end and a gas supply port thereon, said intake pipe having the port below a throttle valve-attached position thereof; (2) operating the engine to place the inside of the intake pipe under reduced pressure condition, and supplying continuously the cleaning liquid from the cleaning liquid storage tank to the inside of the intake pipe through the port positioned below the throttle valve-attached position thereof and simultaneously drawing continuously a gas having an oxygen concentration of less than 20 volume percent into the intake pipe via the gas supply port, wherein the gas having an oxygen concentration of less than 20 volume percent rapidly expands and the cleaning liquid turns into liquid drops such that the liquid drops are carried with the gas into the inside of the engine to bring the liquid drops of the cleaning liquid into contact with the internal parts of the engine, thereby cleaning the internal parts with the cleaning liquid; and (3) exhausting the cleaning liquid having been brought into contact with the internal parts of the engine with an exhaust gas of the engine. | 46,490 |
8,913,366 | 1. A virtual photon power converter circuit comprising: a) a discrete electric field circuit, said electric field circuit having a discrete power source; b) a discrete magnetic field circuit, said magnetic field circuit having a discrete power source; c) circuit for generating a fields mixing point for said discrete electric field circuit and said discrete magnetic field circuit, wherein said circuit generating a fields mixing point comprises a pair of capacitor plates used as conductors between a secondary winding in a first transformer and a primary winding in a second, mixing transformer in the magnetic field circuit forming a capacitive electric field circuit; and d) wherein the primary of said mixing transformer is suspended in the capacitive electric field circuit. | 12,367 |
8,789,248 | 1. A chain hook comprising: an elongate body; a first hook at a first end of the elongate body for connection to a load; and a second hook at a second end of the elongate body for connection to at least one chain; wherein the first and second hooks are in different planes, and the second hook comprises a pair of mutually opposed lugs positioned on an underside of a nose portion and a tail end of the second hook whereby a captive link of the chain in the second hook is allowed to swing free such that the links of the chain can be kept in alignment. | 26,396 |
8,897,849 | 1. A cardiovascular risk evaluation apparatus comprising: a body unit comprising: an air system; a light emitting element drive circuit; a processor; and a memory; a cuff connected to the air system of the body unit by an air tube; a hypoxic acquisition unit within the processor of the body unit that acquires a measurement result that includes a blood oxygen saturation level and a blood pressure, which are measured in a hypoxic period in which the blood oxygen saturation level of a subject is lower than a threshold value; a non-hypoxic acquisition unit within the processor of the body unit that acquires a measurement result that includes a blood oxygen saturation level and a blood pressure, which are measured in a non-hypoxic period of the blood oxygen saturation level of the subject; an indicator detection unit within the processor of the body unit that calculates a cardiovascular risk evaluation indicator for the subject based on a relationship between blood oxygen saturation level and blood pressure that is based on the measurement result acquired by the hypoxic acquisition unit and the measurement result acquired by the non-hypoxic acquisition unit, a display information generation unit within the processor of the body unit that outputs the cardiovascular risk evaluation indicator to an output unit that is connected to the processor of the body unit, wherein the processor judges whether or not the subject is sleeping, and wherein the hypoxic acquisition unit acquires a measurement result that includes a blood oxygen saturation level that is measured in a hypoxic period in a case of a judgment that the subject is sleeping, and a blood pressure that was measured when the blood oxygen saturation level was measured. | 9,774 |
9,030,854 | 1. A method for minimizing common mode voltage in an arrangement having a three-phase, multi-level inverter having a DC-link with a neutral point dividing the DC-link into two halves, wherein an output voltage of the inverter is controlled on the basis of an output voltage reference, an output LCL-filter connecting the inverter to a grid, and a virtual-ground connection between the LCL-filter and the neutral point of the DC-link, the method comprising: determining a zero-sequence component of an LCL-filter inverter-side current; calculating a zero-sequence damping and voltage balancing term based on the LCL-filter inverter-side current zero-sequence component and voltages over the two halves of the DC-link; and adding the zero-sequence damping and voltage balancing term to the output voltage reference. | 49,484 |
9,300,009 | 1. An ionic liquid of the general formula Y + T − , wherein Y + is a positively-charged component of the ionic liquid and Z − is a negatively-charged component of the ionic liquid, wherein Z − has a composition of the following formula: wherein R provided that, if R wherein R | 38,620 |
8,818,471 | 1. A superconducting coil device, comprising: a plurality of coil units arranged in a circle to form a toroidal shape, wherein each of the plurality of coil units comprises: wherein, for each of the plurality of coil units, | 39,278 |
8,976,868 | 1. A motion picture decoding method for making an inter-field motion compensation prediction and executing a decoding process on a motion picture signal by using a motion vector, wherein each frame is composed of two fields being a top field and a bottom field, respectively, a reference field is the top field and a decoding field is the bottom field, a number of pixels of a chrominance vertical component is different than a number of pixels of a luminance vertical component, a horizontal component and a vertical component of a luminance motion vector indicating vertical displacement of one luminance pixel of a field image by a value of “4” of a vector component of the luminance motion vector as units are MVx and MVy, respectively, and a horizontal component and a vertical component of a chrominance motion vector indicating vertical displacement of one chrominance pixel of a field image by a value of “8” of a vector component of the chrominance motion vector as units are MVCx and MVCy, respectively, the method comprising: making the inter-field motion compensation prediction so as to satisfy: | 18,294 |
8,939,603 | 1. A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp tube, including: a hollow transparent tube body; a heat-dissipating base disposed in the transparent tube body and engaged with inner walls of the transparent tube body; a light-emitting module provided on a first surface of the heat-dissipating base; a control circuit module provided on a second surface of the heat-dissipating base to be separated from the light-emitting module; an electrical-conductive element penetrating the heat-dissipating base to be electrically connected to the light-emitting module and the control circuit module; and a pair of electrical-conductive caps covering both ends of the tube body to be electrically connected to the control circuit module, wherein two opposite side edges of the heat-dissipating base are bent downwardly toward a first surface thereof to form first inwardly folded edges, a first track is formed on the first surface and defined by the two first inwardly folded edges, and a circuit board of the light-emitting module is guided by the two first inwardly folded edges to slidably fit on the first track; wherein the two opposite side edges of the heat-dissipating base are bent upwardly toward a second surface thereof to form second inwardly folded edges, a second track is formed on the second surface and defined by the two second inwardly folded edges, and a circuit substrate of the control circuit module is guided by the two second inwardly folded edges to slidably fit on the second track. | 39,277 |
8,658,374 | 1. A process for the selective binding of aggregated protein molecules in the presence of non-aggregated molecules of the protein, comprising contacting under selective binding conditions a solution containing both said aggregated and non-aggregated protein molecules with a binding agent which is a polyionic material having a binding avidity for said aggregated protein molecules as present in the sample, wherein the protein molecule is one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of an immunoglobulin, an albumin, a peptide hormone, a growth hormone, erythropoietin, and interferon, wherein said selective binding conditions include the presence of a competition agent in solution, which competition agent has ionic groups having a lesser binding avidity for the aggregated protein molecules than does the polyionic material and a salt concentration not exceeding 250 mM and a pH of from 5 to 10. | 45,949 |
9,244,492 | 1. A docking station comprising: a housing; a connector insert located on the housing and arranged to mate with a connector receptacle on a portable computing device; a second connector to connect to an accessory; an audio jack located on the housing and arranged to accept an audio plug; a first data path coupled between the connector insert and the audio jack and further coupled between the connector insert and the second connector; and a second data path coupled between the connector insert and the second connector. | 20,933 |
8,374,541 | 1. A group response detecting system, comprising: a plurality of nodes to be assigned to a plurality of operators, said each node detects input of the corresponding operator to transmit detection information in a wireless manner; and a host operable to receive the detection information transmitted by said each node, wherein said host transmits a predetermined signal to said plurality of the nodes in a predetermined cycle, the predetermined signal including information (hereinafter referred to as “signal identification information”) for identifying the predetermined signal, wherein said each node includes: a detection unit operable to perform detecting processing of the input a plurality of times while changing time during the one cycle, and a transmitter operable to transmit information to said host, in response to the predetermined signal, the information including the detection information, and information (hereinafter referred to as “time point information”) indicating at which point of time during the one cycle the detecting processing detects the detection information, a storage unit operable to store the detection information associated with the signal identification information and the time point information, wherein when the detection unit detects change of the detection information, said storage unit rewrites the detection information, the signal identification information, and the time point information as stored to the detection information as changed, and the signal identification information and the time point information included in the predetermined signal in the cycle in which the change is detected, and wherein said transmitter transmits the detection information, the signal identification information, and the time point information as stored in the storage unit to said host in response to the predetermined signal. | 25,318 |
9,153,720 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an interconnect, wherein the interconnect comprises: | 21,507 |
9,578,844 | 1. A plant, a plant part, or a seed of soybean variety AR1310304, wherein a representative sample of seed of said soybean variety AR1310304 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-122748. | 26,481 |
8,896,313 | 1. An electromagnetic receiver assembly, comprising: a first elongated housing, wherein the first elongated housing defines an interior chamber; receiver electrodes configured to be in contact with water when in operation, wherein the receiver electrodes are mounted at separate points along the first elongated housing; sensor electronics disposed in the interior chamber of the first elongated housing and electrically coupled to the receiver electrodes; a second elongated housing rotatably coupled to the first elongated housing, wherein the second elongated housing defines an interior chamber; additional receiver electrodes configured to be in contact with water when in operation, wherein the additional receiver electrodes are mounted at separate points along the second elongated housing; wherein the electromagnetic receiver assembly is configured for deployment on or near a bottom of a body of water. | 35,390 |
9,246,765 | 1. A system for managing auto-discovery and migration of virtual cloud infrastructure on a cloud management platform comprising: a configuration database, wherein the configuration database is configured to store managed entity attributes; a first server comprising a service console, the first server electronically coupled to a computer network and configured to: a second sever comprising a management console, the second server configured to: | 42,032 |
8,800,739 | 1. A spooling apparatus comprising: a spool for holding wire, the spool having a wire-retaining section and end plates, the wire-retaining section having an outer surface, and the spool defining an axially extending, central aperture; a conductive plate positioned on an end plate of the spool adjacent the wire-retaining section, the conductive plate having an aperture aligned with the central axis of the spool, and at least one conductive extension that extends through a corresponding aperture of the end plate such that the at least one conductive extension is outside the spool and adjacent to the outer surface of the wire retaining section, the conductive plate further comprising a conductive attachment electrically connected to the conductive plate and extending through the central aperture and the central axis of the spool, and the conductive attachment having a connection point for connecting to an external voltmeter; and a wire spooled onto the wire-retaining section, at least a portion of the wire being uninsulated and in electrical contact with the at least one conductive extension of the conductive plate. | 8,239 |
8,541,772 | 1. A nitride semiconductor stacked structure having a first surface on which a semiconductor including In x Al y Ga 1-x-y N (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, x+y≦1) can be stacked, the structure comprising: a substrate having a step portion, the step portion including an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface; a first buffer layer including In a first crystal layer provided on the first buffer layer, including In a second buffer layer including In a second crystal layer covering the second buffer layer, including In | 27,415 |
9,544,848 | 1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a first receiver configured to receive a paging message from a first device, the paging message configured in a null data packet (NDP) format and comprising a paging identification (P-ID) field and a direction identifier (DI) field, the P-ID field indicating an identifier of the first device, the DI field indicating whether the first device is an access point or a non-access point device; a processor configured to decode the paging message; and a second receiver configured to receive a beacon signal based on the paging message, wherein the processor is configured to transition the second receiver to an awake state via a trigger signal based on the paging message, wherein the second receiver is further configured to receive the beacon signal after the transition to the awake state, the first receiver further configured to, when in an awake state, consume less power than the second receiver when in an awake state. | 48,380 |
8,975,859 | 1. An energy storage system comprising a storage battery, a solar cell and a commercial AC power source, wherein, when a charge level of the storage battery is not greater than a reference charge level, a discharge from the storage battery to a load device is permitted or prohibited depending on a time zone, wherein the storage battery is charged with electric power from the solar cell, wherein electric power from at least one of the solar cell, the commercial AC power source, and the storage battery is supplied to the load device, wherein, in the daytime, when an amount of electric power generated by the solar cell is less than an amount of electric power consumed by the load device and the charge level of the storage battery is higher than the reference charge level, the discharge from the storage battery to the load device is permitted, wherein, in the daytime, when the amount of electric power generated by the solar cell is less than the amount of electric power consumed by the load device and the charge level of the storage battery is not higher than the reference charge level, the discharge from the storage battery to the load device is not permitted, and wherein the discharge from the storage battery which makes the charge level of the storage battery lower than the reference charge level is permitted at night. | 34,381 |
9,514,852 | 1. A method of reducing the volume of an elongated boiling water reactor fuel assembly fuel channel having a plurality of sides, with each side connected along the elongated dimension to two other sides, for storage, comprising, substantially in the following order, performed under water, the steps of: enclosing the fuel channel with the plurality of sides connected, in an outer sleeve that extends over the entire elongated dimension of the fuel channel, and is malleable, wherein a portion of the outer sleeve is perforated to allow the water to escape and the perforations have traps to prevent debris from escaping with the water; inserting an inner sleeve within the fuel channel with the inner sleeve extending over the elongated dimension around an inside surface of the fuel channel; attaching a top of the outer sleeve to a top of the inner sleeve and a bottom of the outer sleeve to a bottom of the inner sleeve around an entire circumference of the fuel channel; and laterally compacting the fuel channel within the outer sleeve over the entire length of the outer sleeve at the same time. | 39,111 |
8,837,605 | 1. An apparatus for performing compressed video bitstream conversion with reduced algorithmic delay, the apparatus comprising: a pass-through module configured to: a trans-coding module configured to vary a format used to represent the incoming bitstream of video data; and a switch module coupled to the pass-through module and the trans-coding module, wherein the switch module is configured to respond to a determination that available bandwidth of the outgoing network connection is insufficient to accommodate bitrate of the incoming bitstream of video data, by routing the incoming bitstream of video data to the trans-coding module to vary at least one encoding parameter of said incoming bitstream of video data. | 15,467 |
9,480,694 | 1. A method for treating a CXCR1/2 chemokine mediated disease, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula SX-682 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein the CXCR1/2 chemokine mediated disease is a pulmonary disease selected from asthma, cystic fibrosis, adult respiratory disease, airway hyperresponsiveness, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchiolitis obliterans, chronic bronchitis, cor pulmonale, dyspnea, emphysema, hyperinflation, hypoxemia, hyperoxia-induced inflammations, hypoxia, surgical lung volume reduction, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, small airway disease, or ventilation-perfusion mismatching. | 43,516 |
9,750,860 | 1. A motor, comprising: a rotor that can be driven about an axial direction; and a stator, which has a winding arrangement that can be supplied with a current; wherein the stator is radially compressible and expandable, and wherein the winding arrangement has at least one sub-winding, which is reversibly deformable. | 8,507 |
8,962,202 | 1. An internal reforming solid oxide fuel cell stack, comprising cell modules integrated with each other, each of the cell modules comprising: a tubular reformer having at least one first opening formed in an outer surface of the tubular reformer, the first opening communicating with an internal channel; and at least one tubular reactor having at least one second opening formed in an outer surface of the tubular reactor, the second opening communicating with an internal channel, with a reaction part formed in the tubular reactor, the reaction part comprising unit cells connected in series to each other, wherein an air passage is formed in an outer surface of the tubular reactor, and the first opening and the second opening are connected to each other so that gas that is reformed by the tubular reformer is drawn into the reactor. | 24,605 |
8,838,772 | 1. A method for simultaneously analyzing multiple packetized media streams in a network, said method comprising: receiving network traffic corresponding to a plurality of media streams at a node of the network, said network traffic including packets having destination information and a media payload; filtering said network traffic into said plurality of media streams on a packet-by-packet basis, based upon said destination information; passing the media payload of each packet of each of the plurality of media streams excluding, at least, a header of each said packet, to one of a plurality of hardware-implemented analyzer ports respectively associated with each destination; building a plurality of isolated media streams in parallel with one another, based, at least in part, upon the passed media payload of each said packet that excludes, at least, the header of each said packet, wherein each of the plurality of isolated media streams includes only one stream of packetized data; effecting said filtering and passing simultaneously at the rate said network traffic passes through the node; computing statistics associated with each of the plurality of isolated media streams, wherein said statistics comprise at least a delay factor (DF) parameter and a media loss rate (MLR) parameter; and replacing the destination information of at least one of the plurality of isolated media streams with new destination information. | 11,717 |
8,654,146 | 1. A method for rendering a computer-generated image using a stencil buffer, comprising: receiving a complex arbitrary polygon comprising multiple closed polygonal contours, the multiple closed polygonal contours comprising at least an outer contour and one or more inner contours; separating the complex arbitrary polygon into its constituent closed polygonal contours; dividing each constituent closed polygonal contour into primitives, each primitive being a polygon having at least 3 and at most P vertices where 2<P<N, where N is the number of vertices of the closed polygonal contour; concatenating the resulting primitives with primitives resulting from dividing one or more of the other constituent closed contours; and using a stencil buffer to render the concatenated primitives to produce a computer generated image. | 22,754 |
8,666,559 | 1. A method for metering energy use in a facility having a plurality of lighting fixtures, comprising: determining, using a sensor coupled to control circuitry local to a first lighting fixture, whether an ambient light level near the first lighting fixture exceeds a predetermined setpoint; in response to determining that the ambient light level near the first lighting fixture exceeds the predetermined setpoint, wirelessly transmitting an override signal from a first lighting fixture to a first group of lighting fixtures within a first transmission range, wherein the override signal is configured to cause one or more of the first group of lighting fixtures to enter into an off state; receiving the override signal at the first group of lighting fixtures; wirelessly retransmitting the override signal directly from one or more of the first group of lighting fixtures to a second group of lighting fixtures within a second transmission range, wherein the second transmission range is outside of the transmission range of the first lighting fixture, wherein the override signal is not passed through a gateway that is not a lighting fixture to be retransmitted from the first group of lighting fixtures to the second group of lighting fixtures, and wherein the override signal retransmitted from the one or more of the first group of lighting fixtures to the second group of lighting fixtures is configured to cause one or more of the second group of lighting fixtures to enter into an off state; receiving the retransmitted override signal at the second group of lighting fixtures and, in response to the retransmitted override signal: (a) conducting an override at the second group of lighting fixtures and (b) reporting a status update from each of the second group of lighting fixtures to a master controller via at least one retransmission by one or more of the first group of lighting fixtures; and metering lighting system energy usage using at least the status information from the second group of lighting fixtures retransmitted to the master controller by the one or more of the first group of lighting fixtures. | 31,036 |
8,929,661 | 1. A method for measuring camber on a surface, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a video stream of a surface; identifying, by a computing device, a key frame of the surface from the video stream by filtering input video frames to identify a candidate image frame using a frame rate of a camera, a speed of a transfer table on which the surface is moving, and a field view of the camera, and by comparing the candidate image frame with a previous key frame by ignoring frames having redundant information; extracting, by a computing device, a portion of the key frame including the surface; and analyzing, by a computing device, the extracted portion of the key frame to thereby determine the camber on the surface. | 31,528 |
9,698,641 | 1. A wind turbine rotary electric machine active segment which extends between two opposite ends to define, together with other wind turbine rotary electric machine active segments, an annular active part about an axis of rotation, said wind turbine rotary electric machine active segment comprising: a laminated pack; and an active member which extends axially, which is fitted inside a seat of the laminated pack and which includes: | 28,959 |
8,833,924 | 1. A system for supplying heated air to ink printed on a print medium comprising: a heater to heat air, an impingement plate with a plurality of holes, a blower for blowing heated air through the holes of the impingement plate onto the print medium, and a piston that is displaceable relative to the impingement plate to a first position such that air blown by the blower is free to flow through a first portion of the plurality of holes and is restricted from flowing through a second portion of the plurality of holes by the piston. | 20,052 |
9,702,002 | 1. A method of selecting and amplifying polynucleotides on a solid support, comprising: a) providing a plurality of amplification oligonucleotides immobilized on a solid support comprising a planar surface or a population of beads; b) hybridizing a population of oligonucleotide probes to a subset of said amplification oligonucleotides, each of said oligonucleotide probes comprising a first portion which is complementary to the amplification oligonucleotides and a second portion which comprises a sequence identical to a selected region of a template polynucleotide; c) performing an extension reaction to extend hybridised amplification oligonucleotides to produce a population of support-bound capture oligonucleotides and a population of unextended amplification oligonucleotides, each capture oligonucleotide in said population comprising a sequence that is complementary to a selected region of a template polynucleotide; d) applying a population of template polynucleotides to the solid support under conditions such that the template polynucleotides selectively hybridise to the support-bound capture oligonucleotides, wherein a portion of the template polynucleotides comprises an adapter sequence identical to the unextended amplification oligonucleotides; e) extending the support-bound capture oligonucleotides that are hybridized to the template polynucleotides, thereby generating extension products, each of the extension products having a portion complementary to the template polynucleotides and a portion complementary to the unextended amplification oligonucleotides; f) amplifying the extension products, wherein the amplifying comprises annealing one or more of the unextended amplification oligonucleotides to one or more of the extension products and extending said one or more unextended amplification oligonucleotides, thereby producing a solid-phase amplification product; and g) sequencing a first strand of the solid-phase amplification product of step f) to obtain at least part of the nucleotide sequence of the template polynucleotide. | 13,000 |
9,364,702 | 1. An apparatus for a user in a wheelchair, comprising: an exercise device providing an exercise area configured to receive a wheelchair; at least one primary handle moveable by a first user in the wheelchair from a first position to a second position; a resistance assembly that opposes movement of the at least one primary handle; at least one spotter handle coupled to move together with the at least one primary handle, the at least one spotter handle accessible by a second user from a position outside the exercise area; an adjustable support member; and a belt secured to the adjustable support member, the belt configured to be driven to move the adjustable support member, the belt looped such that opposing ends of the belt are secured to the adjustable support member. | 24,678 |
9,202,597 | 1. A zirconium alloy for nuclear fuel cladding comprising 0.2 wt % of niobium (Nb); 0.6 wt % of iron (Fe); 0.3 wt % of chromium (Cr); 0.1 to 0.15 wt % of oxygen (O); 0.008 to 0.012 wt % of silicon (Si) and a remaining amount of zirconium (Zr). | 46,894 |
9,041,778 | 1. An image processing device that processes a pair of images imaged by a pair of imaging elements at the same time in the same direction, the device comprising: one image object region extraction means configured to recognize an object, parallax information of which is to be acquired from one image, and to extract one image object region that is an imaged region including an image of the object in the one image; the degree of background calculation means configured to calculate the degree of background that is likelihood of whether either an object image configuration part that configures an image of the object, or a background image configuration part that configures an image of a background other than the object with respect to a plurality of image configuration parts that configures the one image object region; and a parallax calculation means configured to extract the other image object region having an image similar to the one image object region from the other image, and to calculate a parallax between the one image object region and the other image object region. | 27,278 |
8,563,350 | 1. A manufacturing method for a wafer level image sensor packaging structure, comprising steps of: providing a silicon wafer, which has a plurality of image sensor chips, wherein each said image sensor chip has a photosensitive area; providing a plurality of transparent lids; allotting one said transparent lid over the photosensitive area of a respective said image sensor chip; and carrying out a packaging process by arranging an encapsulation compound on a first surface of the silicon wafer so that the encapsulation compound covers circumferences of the transparent lids; wherein the step of carrying out the packaging process comprises steps of: providing a dam at a periphery of the first surface to form a circular structure; and applying the encapsulation compound, which is a liquid compound, into the dam, so that the encapsulation compound covers the circumferences of the transparent lids, but does not cover a top surface of any said transparent lid. | 26,393 |
9,771,184 | 1. A free standing bag kit comprising: a bag having a rectangular opening with a vertical cut at each corner of the rectangular opening; a plurality of connector pieces, wherein each connector piece comprises four sides, with each of the four sides having a tab extending therefrom; wherein each connector piece comprises a crease along a long axis of the connector piece, a crease along a short axis of the connector piece, and a crease at a junction of each tab and the corresponding side of the connector piece; wherein, when each connector piece is folded upon itself along the crease on the short axis of the connector piece, the connector piece has a doubly-ply triangular form with a pair of the tabs on the connector piece arranged on two sides of the double-ply triangular form; wherein, when each connector piece is folded along the crease on the short axis of the connector piece and then folded along the crease on the long axis of the connector piece, the connector piece has a quad-ply triangular form such that the tabs of the connector piece are arranged along a hypotenuse of the quad-ply triangular form connector piece; wherein, each connector piece is connectable, in the quad-ply triangular form, to a corresponding one of the vertical cut at a respective top corner of a bag via two or more of the tabs wherein, when all four connector pieces are connected to the bag at the corresponding vertical cuts the bag and the four connector pieces collectively provide an expandable opening at the top of the bag. | 44,132 |
8,488,229 | 1. A method for calibration of an optically variable filter array apparatus having a wavelength selection element including a multiplicity of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a lattice pattern on an xy plane as a light-receiving surface, for effecting filtering by allowing incidence of at least a single wavelength-dispersion light beam which is dispersed according to wavelength on said wavelength selection element, with an x-axis direction defined as a wavelength dispersion direction, and then varying light passage characteristics by controlling a voltage to be applied to each of the pixels, the method comprising the steps of: inputting wavelength-scanned light of single spectrum into said optically variable filter array apparatus to detect a correlation between an x coordinate of said wavelength selection element and a wavelength of incident light, and putting resultant data in storage; and inputting wavelength-scanned light of single spectrum into said optically variable filter array apparatus and varying a voltage to be applied to each of the pixels of said wavelength selection element to measure a relationship between an applied voltage and an insertion loss for each of wavelengths of light which is incident on and exits from said wavelength selection element, and putting resultant data in storage, said detection of the correlation between the x coordinate of said wavelength selection element and the wavelength of incident light comprising the steps of: | 48,661 |
9,535,249 | 1. A virtual image display apparatus comprising: an image processing section that processes an image signal that allows a user to visually recognize a virtual image in accordance with an input signal, the virtual image being one of a right-eye virtual image and a left-eye virtual image; a video image generation section that generates light that allows the user to visually recognize the virtual image in accordance with the image signal from the image processing section; and a virtual image formation section that allows the user to visually recognize the light from the video image generation section in the form of the virtual image displayed in an imaginary video image area, wherein when the video image generation section generates the light and the virtual image formation section allows the user to visually recognize the light from the video image generation section in the form of the virtual image, distortion is produced at least in one of horizontal and vertical directions, the image processing section includes a distortion correction processing portion that performs distortion correction on the virtual image to be recognized by the user, and the image processing section divides the video image area, which the virtual image formation section allows the user to visually recognize, into a plurality of divided video image areas, and the distortion correction processing portion performs distortion correction in correspondence with each of the divided video image areas, the plurality of divided video image areas including at least a first video image area and a second video image area, the distortion correction processing portion being configured to selectively perform distortion correction in the first video image area without performing distortion correction in the second video image area. | 23,003 |
9,683,029 | 1. A composition for preventing or treating an infection with a HBV having a G145R mutation of HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) or a YMDD (tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate) mutation of HBV DNA polymerase (SEQ ID NO: 13), the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, an antibody comprising a heavy-chain variable region (V H ) having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and a light-chain variable region (V L ) having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7. | 45,267 |
9,332,738 | 1. An egg processing system, comprising: a frame; a controller configured to receive a classification signal indicative of an egg classification status for each of a plurality of eggs carried by an egg carrier; a transfer head assembly in communication with the controller and configured to remove a plurality of eggs from the egg carrier, the eggs being grouped into at least a first and second subset based on the egg classification status, the controller being configured to direct the transfer head assembly to selectively release the first and second subsets separately based on the respective egg classification status of the eggs; a conveyor assembly operably engaged with the frame, the conveyor assembly being configured to transport eggs beneath the transfer head assembly for removal from the egg carrier; and an egg discard receptacle operably engaged with the frame, the egg discard receptacle being configured to translate laterally between the transfer head assembly and the conveyor assembly to receive eggs of one of the first and second subset selectively released thereby. | 7,033 |
9,187,964 | 1. A downhole tool comprising: a first collar; a first chassis portion disposed in the first collar; a first axial load device disposed in the first collar to exert axial force on the first chassis portion; a second collar; a second chassis portion disposed in the second collar; a second axial load device disposed in the second collar to exert axial force on the second chassis portion; and a collar connector coupled to the first collar and the second collar and compressing the first axial load device; wherein the first chassis portion comprises an axial loading mandrel extension that has a large flange of a first outer diameter approximately equal to an inner diameter of the first collar and a small flange of a second outer diameter smaller than the first outer diameter, and wherein the large flange comprises a shoulder abutting the first axial load device. | 6,393 |
9,556,373 | 1. A method of preparing a gel, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a phase-change material, wherein the phase-change material comprises at least one organic phase-change material selected from the group consisting of n-alkanes; (b) providing a gelling agent, wherein the gelling agent comprises at least one saturated olefin rubber and wherein the gelling agent constitutes up to about 10%, by weight, of the gel; (c) mixing together the phase-change material and the gelling agent at a temperature above room temperature, below the flashpoint of the phase-change material and not exceeding 90° C. to partially, but not completely, dissolve the gelling agent, whereby a non-homogeneous mixture is produced; and (d) allowing the non-homogeneous mixture to cool to room temperature. | 5,379 |
8,751,076 | 1. A coupled axle drive system for a vehicle, comprising: a first axle drive device for driving a first axle of the vehicle by a connected engine; a second axle drive device for driving a second axle of the vehicle, the second axle drive device having at least one electric machine for driving wheels of the second axle at least one energy storage device connected to the electric machine; a control device connected to the second axle drive device and to an engine control device or being part of the engine control device, the controller including a route simulator for determining which sections of a specified route should be driven by both the first and second drive devices to achieve quickest traversal of the route and applying power by the second axle drive device based on the determined charge state of the energy store to achieve uniform handling of the vehicle in each of the sections of the route in which the second drive device is actuated. | 1,944 |
8,373,727 | 1. A display apparatus, comprising: a display panel having a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a plurality of sub-pixels disposed according to a delta arrangement; a subtractive color processing circuit generating subtractive color image data in a response to input image data indicative of a gradation associated with the sub-pixels; and a driving circuit driving the display panel in a response to the subtractive color image data, wherein the subtractive color processing circuit performs an error diffusion processing and a weighting processing for the input image data, in which the weighting processing is performed to increase or decrease a value of the subtractive color image data according to a line including a sub-pixel subjected to the subtractive color processing, wherein a value of the subtractive color image data corresponding to a sub-pixel which belongs to a first line increases upon displaying a frame, and a value of the subtractive color image data corresponding to a sub-pixel which belongs to a second line adjacent to the first line decreases upon displaying the frame, wherein the subtractive color processing circuit includes: wherein the weighting circuit determines the weighted image data that corresponds to the sub-pixel belonging to the first line so that the weighted image data takes a value of the input image data and over, and determines the weighted image data that corresponds to the sub-pixel belonging to the second line so that the weight image data takes the value of the input image data or under, wherein the weighting circuit generates the weighted image data so that an equation “Din−1<(DhA+DhB)/2<Din+1” is satisfied by both a value DhA of the weighted image data corresponding to the sub-pixel belonging to the first line of the value Din of the input image data, and a value DhB of the weighted image data corresponding to the sub-pixel belonging to the second line of the value Din, wherein the input image data comprises m bits data, wherein the subtractive color processing circuit carries out an α-bit subtractive color processing for the input image data, thereby generating the subtractive color image data, wherein the weighting circuit generates (α+1)-bit weighted data Dhlsb [α:0] from a lower-order α-bit Din [(α−1):0] of the value Din of the input image data according to the line that includes the sub-pixel to be subjected to the subtractive color processing, wherein the weighting circuit, if no overflow error occurs in a sum of the Din [(m−1):α] and Dhlsb [α:0], determines a value Dh of the weighted image data with a use of an equation “Dh=Din [(m−1):α]+Dhlsb [α:0]” and if an overflow error occurs in the sum, the weighting circuit determines the value Dh of the weighted image data as “all−1”, and wherein the value Din [(m−1):α] means data in which an upper-order (m−α) bit matches with an upper-order (m−α) bit of the value Din of the input image data and the lower-order α bit is “all−0”. | 1,590 |
8,671,935 | 1. A device for delivery of a substance into a cellular organism, said device comprising: an aerosol delivery head for providing the substance in an ionised aerosol form at a delivery region of the organism; and means for applying asymmetric pulse magnetic energy to the delivery region to effect enhanced delivery of the ionised aerosol substance to the cellular organism. | 44,890 |
9,218,550 | 1. A method for producing a customized print, comprising: capturing, by an imaging device, an image of a physical scene including a physical object and a selected physical reference color chart of a plurality of physical reference color charts, each physical reference color chart having a plurality of color patches that each correspond to a same general hue, the same general hue of the colors patches of selected physical reference color chart matching a color of interest of the physical object; correcting, by a processing device, a color value of at least one feature of the physical object using the imaged physical object and the imaged selected physical reference color chart; selecting, by the processing device, a color palette based on the at least one corrected color value; and generating, by a printing device a print based on the selected color palette. | 10,851 |
9,039,706 | 1. A strut configured to be connected to a pair of external bone fixation members along a strut axis, the strut comprising: a strut body that includes a threaded rod and a sleeve, the threaded rod including a rod body that is elongate along the strut axis, the rod body defining an outer surface that is at least partially threaded, and the sleeve including a sleeve body and a bore that extends at least into the sleeve body, the bore configured to receive at least a portion of the threaded rod such that the threaded rod is translatable relative to the sleeve along the strut axis; an actuator supported by the strut body and threadedly attached to the threaded rod, such that rotation of the actuator relative to the threaded rod about the strut axis causes at least one or both of the threaded rod and the sleeve to translate relative to the other of the threaded rod and the sleeve along the strut axis; and a locking mechanism supported by the actuator so as to be pivotable relative to the actuator, about a pivot axis, between a locked configuration whereby the locking mechanism prevents the actuator from rotating relative to the threaded rod, and an unlocked configuration whereby the locking mechanism does not prevent the actuator from rotating relative to the threaded rod, the locking mechanism including a biasing member that exerts a biasing force that biases the locking mechanism from the unlocked configuration toward the locked configuration, the biasing member oriented such that the biasing force is exerted in a direction that is angularly offset with respect to both the strut axis and the pivot axis; wherein the pivot axis is angularly offset with respect to the strut axis. | 5,710 |
8,413,352 | 1. A club head cleaning attachment for a golf shoe, consisting of: a flexible, resilient elastomeric band adapted for being removably secured circumferentially and generally horizontally about a golf shoe, the band having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the band having a shoe contact surface and a shallow, concave toe pocket formed integrally therewith and defining the second end, the toe pocket having a convex external surface, a height defined by the upper and lower edges of the pocket, and a peripheral length coextensive with the concave toe pocket, wherein the toe pocket is sized and configured to correspond to the toe portion only of a golf shoe thereby being clear of the sole and spikes extending from the sole of a golf shoe; and a golf club head cleaning element disposed on the external surface of the toe pocket, the cleaning element extending coextensively along the peripheral length of the toe pocket, wherein the height of the cleaning element does not exceed half the height of the toe pocket. | 25,047 |
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