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9,059,079 | 1. A method for processing an insulator material or a semiconductor material, comprising the steps of: placing the material into a vessel; introducing a first substance into the vessel; pulsing a plasma lamp onto the material in the presence of the first substance to treat a large area of the material with the first substance; introducing a second substance into the vessel; pulsing a laser onto a selected region of the material to treat a selected area of the material with the second substance; and removing the treated material from the vessel. | 2,565 |
9,157,258 | 1. A vehicle assembly for housing an unlocking mechanism provided within a vehicle passenger compartment which is operably connected to a locking device of a trunk lid, the vehicle assembly comprising: an interior body panel having an outer surface including an opening portion for receiving an unlocking mechanism; and a lid removably mounted to the body panel and having a closed position for covering the opening portion and an opened position, the lid defining a lid body having an exterior surface, an edge portion of the exterior surface being continuous and without interruption about a periphery of the exterior surface so that the lid body exterior surface is flush with the body panel outer surface about the entire periphery of the lid body exterior surface, wherein the opening portion of the body panel includes a bottom wall having an engagement hole, and an interior surface of the lid body includes an engagement member which is received in the engagement hole, the engagement member securing the lid to the body panel, wherein the lid body further includes a retaining member opposite the engagement member, and the bottom wall of the opening portion includes a retaining hole for movably receiving the retaining member, wherein the bottom wall of the opening portion further includes a first section and a second section angled inwardly relative to the first section, the retaining hole being located on the second section. | 6,273 |
8,729,956 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a charge-pumping unit configured to charge-pump power voltage in every period of a pumping clock to generate pumping voltage; a first voltage level detection unit configured to receive the generated pumping voltage and detect a maximum voltage level of the received pumping voltage; a second voltage level detection unit configured to receive the generated pumping voltage and detect a minimum voltage level of the received pumping voltage; and a pumping clock generating unit configured to generate the pumping clock, the pumping clock having a frequency that is adjusted in response to an output signal of the first and the second voltage level detection units, wherein the maximum voltage level is detected in response to a pumping period ending and the minimum voltage level is detected in response to a pre-charge period ending. | 2,690 |
8,641,949 | 1. A highly basic ionomer comprising [M1(−B + ) x ] n (OH − ) m , wherein M1 is a polymer-forming monomer comprising an aromatic moiety or a plurality of such monomers at least one of which comprises an aromatic moiety and B + OH − is a highly basic functional group having a pK b of between −0.2-0.2; wherein x is defined as the mole ratio of the basic group to the M1 and is between 0.01-10; n is defined as number of the repeat unit M1 and is between 10-10000; and m is the number of equilibrated moles of OH − , m equals to the product of x and n. | 42,527 |
8,464,550 | 1. A heat exchanger comprising: a first plurality of pipes configured to allow flow of refrigerant therethrough; a second plurality of pipes configured to allow flow of refrigerant therethrough; a plurality of cold accumulating pipes, each cold accumulating pipe comprising a refrigerant duct configured to allow flow of refrigerant therethrough, and a cold accumulating medium cavity configured to hold a cold accumulating medium, wherein, for each cold accumulating pipe, an elongated length of the cold accumulating medium cavity runs alongside a length of the refrigerant duct in a parallel manner; at least one upper collecting vessel comprising a first upper collecting vessel region and a second upper collecting vessel region; and at least one lower collecting vessel comprising a first lower collecting vessel region and a second lower collecting vessel region, wherein the first plurality of pipes, the second plurality of pipes, and the cold accumulating pipes are arranged in parallel, wherein ends of the first plurality of pipes are connected in a fluid-transmitting manner to the first upper collecting vessel region and the first lower collecting vessel region, wherein ends of the second plurality of pipes and ends of the refrigerant ducts are connected in a fluid-transmitting manner to the second upper collecting vessel region and the second lower collecting vessel region, and wherein the first plurality of pipes, the second plurality of pipes, and the plurality of cold accumulating pipes have a common width, and the first plurality of pipes is directly adjacent to the second plurality of pipes, the second plurality of pipes is directly adjacent to both the plurality of cold accumulating pipes and the first plurality of pipes, the plurality of cold accumulating pipes is directly adjacent to the second plurality of pipes but is not directly adjacent to the first plurality of pipes. | 6,793 |
8,953,554 | 1. A method in a radio network comprising a plurality of radio network nodes, the method comprising: determining a mode of user equipment, wherein the mode is one of an active mode or an idle mode; and signaling to said user equipment one or more relative thresholds, the one or more relative thresholds selected based on the mode of the user equipment, wherein the one or more relative thresholds are usable to establish a downlink measurement activity level as determined by a comparison of a measurement quantity of a target cell with that of a reference cell; and receiving downlink measurements by the target cell at a reduced downlink activity measurement level if a comparison of a first measurement quantity of the target cell and a second measurement quantity of the reference cell indicates that the target cell is worse than the reference cell by the relative threshold, and receiving downlink measurements by the target cell at a normal downlink activity measurement level if the first measurement quantity of the target cell becomes greater than or equal to the second measurement quantity of the reference cell by the relative threshold. | 32,619 |
8,670,554 | 1. A method for network transmission of voice, comprising: combining two digital audio signals into a composite source separable audio (SSA) signal, each digital audio signal of the two digital audio signals representing an independent mixture of a target source voice and an ambient noise, wherein outputs of the plurality of microphones within the first group are summed together as a first output and the outputs of the plurality of microphones within the second group are summed together as a second output, thereby defining a first virtual microphone and a second virtual microphone, respectively, and wherein the combining process comprises interleaving the two audio signals to generate the composite SSA signal. | 44,160 |
9,292,660 | 1. A system for generating a report identifying a therapeutic agent for an individual with lung cancer comprising: a. at least one device configured to assay a plurality of molecular targets in a biological sample from the individual with lung cancer to determine molecular profile test values for the plurality of molecular targets, wherein the plurality of molecular targets comprises PTEN, CTNNB1, cKIT, BRAF and PIK3CA; b. at least one computer database comprising: c. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to input the molecular profile test values and to compare each of the molecular profile test values with a corresponding reference value from the at least one computer database in (b)(i); d. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to access the at least one computer database in (b)(ii) and to identify at least one therapeutic agent if present in the at least one computer database for each of the plurality of molecular targets wherein said comparison to the reference values in (c) indicates a likely benefit of the at least one therapeutic agent; and e. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to generate a report that comprises a listing of the members of the plurality of molecular targets for which the comparison to the reference value indicated a likely benefit of the at least one therapeutic agent in (d) and the at least one therapeutic agent identified in (d). | 14,314 |
9,380,123 | 1. A method, comprising: in a companion electronic device, performing operations for: receiving, from a source electronic device, an advertisement message that includes information about a first activity being performed in a first application at the source electronic device, wherein the information about the first activity comprises a value that is determined based at least in part on an activity descriptor for the first activity; determining that a second application in the companion electronic device is available for continuing the first activity, the continuing comprising commencing a second activity in the second application based on a current state of the first activity so that a state of the second activity corresponds to the current state of the first activity; requesting, from the source electronic device, extended activity data that comprises information about the current state of the first activity, wherein extended activity data comprises activity-related information comprising one or more of: state information that describes a state of the first application and external information about resources used for performing the activity; upon receiving the extended activity data from the source electronic device, using the extended activity data to configure the second application to commence the second activity so that the state of the second activity corresponds to the current state of the first activity; and commencing the second activity in the second application. | 22,671 |
9,326,818 | 1. A catheter comprising: an elongated tubular catheter body with at least one lumen extending there through; a deflectable intermediate section having proximal and distal ends and at least two off-axis lumens extending there through, the proximal end of the deflectable intermediate section being attached to a distal end of the catheter body; and a distal assembly distal of the deflectable intermediate section, the distal assembly comprising: at least first and second washers at the distal end of the deflectable intermediate section, each of the first and second washers having at least two off-axis lumens, each axially aligned with a respective off-axis lumen of the deflectable intermediate section; a puller wire having two proximal portions and a mid-portion transverse to the two proximal portions, each proximal portion extending through a respective off-axis lumen of the deflectable intermediate section and a respective off-axis lumen of each of the first and second washers, the mid-portion being distal of the first and second washers and extending between the two off-axis lumens of the first and second washers; and a control handle comprising a deflection mechanism adapted to act on at least one proximal portion of the puller wire anchored in the control handle to deflect the deflectable intermediate section. | 9,985 |
9,085,297 | 1. An output restriction control device mounted on a hybrid vehicle having an engine and an electric motor, which is drivable by the engine or the electric motor or drivable by cooperation of the engine and the electric motor, the output restriction control device comprising: an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to perform functions of an output restriction control unit, which restricts torque output from the engine and/or the electric motor, wherein the output restriction control unit releases or restores an output restriction in accordance with a predetermined operation of a driver, and a predetermined release rate or a predetermined restoration rate is settable for release or restoration of the output restriction, respectively, wherein the predetermined operation is an operation of an accelerator and an operation of a direction indicator, and the output restriction control unit immediately releases the output restriction with respect to a driver's operation of an accelerator over a predetermined accelerator opening level, restores the output restriction based on a first predetermined restoration rate in restoration from the accelerator operation, releases the output restriction based on a predetermined release rate with respect to a driver's operation of a direction indicator, and restores the output restriction based on a second predetermined restoration rate when the operation of the direction indicator is terminated, and wherein the first and second predetermined restoration rates are different rates and the predetermined release rate is not an immediate release. | 13,381 |
8,553,392 | 1. An electronic component, comprising: a container including a hollow portion in which a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface, which is provided in a plane different from the first bottom surface, are formed; a first conductor, which is formed on the first bottom surface and passes through the container toward an outside; a second conductor, which is formed on the second bottom surface and passes through the container toward the outside; a first electrode disposed on the first conductor in the hollow portion; a second electrode, which is disposed on the second conductor in the hollow portion and is opposed to the first electrode at a predetermined interval; and an electrolyte, which is provided in contact with the first electrode and the second electrode. | 33,271 |
8,729,997 | 1. A dipole-ring magnetic circuit, comprising a plurality of identically shaped permanent magnet pieces arranged in such an annular shape that magnetization directions make one rotation halfway around the annular shape, and each radial dimension of the permanent magnetic pieces is from 30 to 150 mm, wherein the permanent magnet pieces produce a substantially one-directional magnetic field at a uniform strength in an interior space which is surrounded by the permanent magnet pieces; two or more of the permanent magnet pieces have a magnetization direction of forming an angle of from 150 to 210 degrees with respect to the direction of the magnetic field which is on a plane perpendicular to a central axis of the annular shape, and are called “specified magnet pieces”; and at least in each of the specified magnet pieces, a value of magnetic coercive force increases with decreasing distance to the interior space along a radial direction of the annular shape, and the decreasing distance is from ⅕ to 1/25 of the radial dimension of the specified magnet piece to the interior space. | 38,429 |
9,527,687 | 1. A printing apparatus comprising: a printing table; a loader to load sheets of print media to the printing table; a moveable tray on which at least one row of media sheets are placed, said moveable tray being moveable between a position in which it is accessible to an operator for placing media sheets thereon and another position in which at least part of the moveable tray is accessible to the loader for picking the print media sheets but inaccessible to the operator; and wherein at least a portion of the moveable tray and a portion of the at least one row of media sheets remain accessible to the operator when the movable tray is in the another position in which at least part of the moveable tray is accessible to the loader; wherein the moveable tray comprises a media support surface provided with sheet holders to position print media sheets at predetermined positions on the surface and restrict movement of the sheets in at least one direction on the media support surface; wherein the media support surface is provided with an array of the sheet holders to position at least two rows of print media sheets; and wherein the loader comprises at least two rows of suction cups, each row corresponding with a row of media sheets placed on the moveable tray. | 914 |
9,533,918 | 1. A method for fabricating a ceramic material, the method comprising: proving a mixture of a reactive filler with a preceramic polysilazanes material, wherein the reactive filler is selected from the group consisting of aluminum filler metal powder, titanium filler metal powder and combinations thereof; and wherein the mixture has an amount of up to 40 weight percent of reactive filler; infiltrating the mixture into pores of a fibrous structure that has coated fibers, wherein the coating on the coated fibers has an coating thickness, represented as a variable t polymerizing the preceramic polysilazanes material to form a green body; and thermally treating the green body in an environment that is substantially free of oxygen to convert the polymerized preceramic polysilazane material into a ceramic material including at least one nitride phase that is a reaction product of the reactive filler and the preceramic polysilazane material. | 2,704 |
9,060,736 | 1. An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating that forms an interference pattern by diffracting X-rays emitted from an X-ray source; an absorption grating that shields a portion of the interference pattern; a detector that detects the X-rays emitted from the absorption grating; and a moving unit that changes relative positions of a sample object and the absorption grating, wherein the sample object is positioned between the X-ray source and the diffraction grating or between the diffraction grating and the absorption grating, wherein the moving unit changes the relative positions of the sample object and the absorption grating from first relative positions to second relative positions, wherein the detector detects the X-rays at least when the sample object and the absorption grating are at the first relative positions and when the sample object and the absorption grating are at the second relative positions, and wherein the second relative positions correspond to relative positions of the sample object and the absorption grating in at least one of a state where the sample object and the absorption grating have been moved relative to each other from the first relative positions in a periodic direction of the absorption grating by a length corresponding to an integral multiple of a period of the absorption grating and a state where the sample object and the absorption grating have been rotated relative to each other from the first relative positions in a plane perpendicular to an X-ray axis by an angle corresponding to an integral multiple of 180/n degrees, where n denotes the number of periodic directions of the absorption grating. | 38,445 |
8,596,972 | 1. A duct for a gas turbine engine comprising: a first composite duct section defined along a longitudinal axis; and a first metallic support ring section mountable to said first composite duct section at least partially about said longitudinal axis, said first metallic support ring section includes a first reinforcement ring section which extends from said first support ring section toward said longitudinal axis, wherein said first metallic support ring section includes a multiple of apertures to receive fasteners which interface with said first composite duct section, said first reinforcement ring transitions into a multiple of reinforcement plates, each of said multiple of reinforcement plates includes an aperture to receive a fastener to mount an engine system component; a second composite duct section defined along said longitudinal axis, said second composite duct section mateable with said first composite duct section; and a second metallic support ring section mountable to said second composite duct section at least partially about said longitudinal axis, said second metallic support ring section includes a second reinforcement ring section which extends from said second support ring section toward said longitudinal axis, said second metallic support ring section adjacent to said first metallic support ring section. | 6,285 |
8,450,773 | 1. A photodetector, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of III-V compound semiconductor layers epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate including: a first electrode electrically connected to the plurality of InAsSb light-absorbing layers; and a second electrode electrically connected to the contact layer. | 30,534 |
8,373,313 | 1. A remotely-controllable electrical switch, comprising: a housing having an outer envelope configuration compliant with standards for premises electrical power control devices; a plurality of electrical terminals configured to attach to premises electrical wiring multi-ampere power conductors; a first single-pole, single-throw relay and a second single-pole, single-throw relay, each configured to conduct multi-ampere electrical power from a common terminal of the plurality of terminals whereto first respective contacts of both of the relays are connected, to respective first and second runner terminals of the plurality of terminals, to each of which a second contact of one of the respective relays is connected, in response to application of an energization signal to an actuation element of one of the respective relays; a controller having a circuit switching routine that issues a relay deactuation command to deactuate a heretofore-actuated one of the respective relays and, thereafter, a relay actuation command to actuate a heretofore-deactuated one of the respective relays; a first counter function configured to acquire a first clock-based count value corresponding to a time interval between successive zero crossings or between successive zero crossings of like polarization; a second counter function configured to use the first count value as a basis for generating a count-based anticipated zero crossing time signal; and a relay transfer start function configured to initiate transfer from continuous actuation of the first relay to actuation of the second relay in response to the anticipated zero crossing time signal. | 24,113 |
8,834,877 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide encoding an antibody, or antigen-binding fragment thereof, specific for folate receptor alpha (FRα), said antibody or antigen-binding fragment comprising: a) a light chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, a light chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, a light chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a heavy chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6, a heavy chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7, and a heavy chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8; b) a light chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10, a light chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 11, a light chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 12, a heavy chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14, a heavy chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, and a heavy chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 16; c) a light chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18, a light chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19, a light chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 20, a heavy chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22, a heavy chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23, and a heavy chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 24; or d) a light chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 26, a light chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 27, a light chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 28, a heavy chain CDR1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 30, a heavy chain CDR2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 31, and a heavy chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 32. | 21,495 |
8,785,764 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: first and second substrates facing each other, wherein first and second electrodes are formed on the first and second substrates, respectively; an electrolyte inlet formed to pass through the first substrate and configured to receive an electrolyte; and an inlet sealing member connected to an external surface of the first substrate and outwardly extending from a top portion of the electrolyte inlet, wherein the top portion is formed in the external surface of the first substrate, and wherein the inlet sealing member comprises an encapsulation space being in fluid communication with the electrolyte inlet; and wherein the inlet sealing member comprises: a first end that is formed closest to the electrolyte inlet and open towards the electrolyte inlet; and a second end that is formed farthest from the electrolyte inlet and closed when viewed externally from the photoelectric conversion device; wherein the width of the first end is greater than the width of the second end. | 40,606 |
8,692,632 | 1. A resonator element comprising: a base portion; a resonating arm that is extended from the base portion, in a first direction, the resonating arm having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; an elongated groove that is formed in the first surface of the resonating arm and that is extended in the first direction, wherein the resonating arm comprises: the first surface of the resonating arm is coplanar along an entirety of the weight portion, the arm portion and the arm root portion, and a percentage of a length of the weight portion in the first direction to a length of the resonating arm in the first direction is equal to or more than 35% and equal to or less than 41%. | 48,147 |
8,511,076 | 1. A mixing and/or evaporating device, through which exhaust gas can flow axially, for being arranged in an exhaust gas-carrying line of an exhaust system of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine, the device comprising: an outer wall; and a plurality of blades arranged distributed in a circumferential direction, each of the blades projecting inwardly from the outer wall, wherein: | 36,565 |
9,305,083 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: under control of one or more processors of a computing device: | 34,104 |
8,520,184 | 1. An exposure apparatus comprising: a projection optical system via which a substrate is exposed to an exposure beam through an immersion liquid; a liquid supply system including a supply channel fluidly connected to a space under the projection optical system, which supplies the immersion liquid; a first liquid recovery system including a recovery channel fluidly connected to the space which recovers the supplied immersion liquid from the space, the immersion liquid recovered from the space being disposed of without returning to the supply channel; a liquid immersion area forming member below which the substrate is moved during the exposure, and via which the first liquid recovery system recovers the immersion liquid from the space, the liquid immersion area forming member having an opening through which the exposure beam is projected; a first measuring system which measures at least one of a property and composition of the immersion liquid recovered from the space and discharged from the liquid immersion area forming member; and a controller which determines whether or not to perform a cleaning of the liquid immersion area forming member based on a measurement result of the first measuring system. | 31,102 |
9,543,564 | 1. An energy storage device comprising a. an anode, b. an electrolyte, and c. a cathode comprising | 15,750 |
8,425,281 | 1. An electric abrasive sharpener for sharpening an edge comprising a housing supporting a pair of interconnecting abrasive wheels mounted for rotatable movement in a sharpening slot, each of said abrasive wheels respectively having a raised helical thread extending in a radial direction continuously generally along the length of said abrasive wheels, a portion of one of said helical threads being disposed between two portions of the other of said helical threads during rotation for contacting the edges, a power drive connected to said pair of abrasive wheels for rotation in opposite directions about respective longitudinal axes, said helical threads having thread portions at the lead-in and lead-out portions respectively at each end of said abrasives wheels, said initial thread portions of said helical threads having peripheral edges at said lead-in and said lead-out portions, and said peripheral edges of at least one of said lead-in and said lead-out portions being substantially beveled along a plane intersecting said respective axes of rotation to form chamfers to reduce kick-back of the edge being sharpened. | 44,877 |
9,424,634 | 1. A method of inspecting and sorting munitions, ordnance or other manufactured parts, comprising the steps of: consecutively conveying parts along a path which extends through a plurality of inspection stations including a circumference vision station; facilitating movement of the parts through the circumference vision station such that all sides of each part are at least temporarily visually unobstructed; illuminating an exterior side surface of each part when the part is visually unobstructed to generate a plurality of side images of the parts; processing the side images of the part to identify physical part characteristics or defects; and sorting the parts in accordance with the part characteristics or defects. | 8,486 |
9,765,637 | 1. An assembly for an aircraft turbine engine comprising: an integral element including a disk and a plurality of blades projecting from the disk, wherein at least at one of two opposite surfaces of at least one of the blades, the blade has a connection zone connecting said blade to the disk, said connection zone comprising a first part arranged at an external flowpath delimitation surface provided on the disk, and at least a second end part arranged at a recess in the disk located along an axial extension of said external flowpath delimitation surface, an average fillet radius defined by said second end part being larger than an average fillet radius defined by said first part, and wherein the assembly comprises a flowpath reconstruction part formed in an aerodynamic continuity of said external flowpath delimitation surface, so as to cover said recess, a portion of said flow path reconstruction part being arranged around a portion of the two opposite surfaces of the at least one of the blades. | 48,830 |
9,273,580 | 1. Reducing agent metering system for injecting a reducing agent into an exhaust gas flow of a supercharged diesel engine for selective catalytic reduction; wherein the metering system is connected to a reducing agent tank from which a reducing agent can be taken, and wherein the metering system has at least one nozzle by which the reducing agent can be injected into the exhaust gas flow by a compressed air supply; wherein at least one part of the compressed air supply is taken from the supercharger of the diesel engine, and further includes an electric air pump for producing compressed air and wherein the pump is temporarily activated when a minimum pressure of the charging air is not reached, and wherein parallel to the air pump, there is a bypass for bypassing the air pump when the pressure of the charging air of the charger exceeds the air pump pressure; and further wherein downstream of the air pump and the bypass there is a pressure sensor so that the air pump is turned on or off depending on the pressure which has been measured by the pressure sensor and wherein the metering system has a binary nozzle comprising an externally mixing nozzle. | 2,824 |
9,059,797 | 1. A method for detecting a fault of a submarine device, the method comprising: receiving an input optical detection signal, and transmitting the optical detection signal to an input optical detection signal side along a preset loop; changing, according to a change of an ambient environment state parameter, an optical parameter of the optical detection signal transmitted to the input optical detection signal side when a fault occurs, so that the input optical detection signal side judges that the fault occurs according to the change of the optical parameter of the optical detection signal, wherein changing, according to the change of the ambient environment state parameter, the optical parameter of the optical detection signal when the fault occurs comprises: | 22,476 |
9,258,914 | 1. An assembly to connect a first section of a chassis for an electronic device to a second section of a chassis for the electronic device, comprising: a hinge assembly to be coupled between the first section of the chassis and the second section of the chassis to allow rotation of the second section of the chassis with respect to the first section of the chassis; and a translation assembly to be coupled to the hinge assembly of the chassis for the electronic device to allow translation of the second section of the chassis with respect to the first section of the chassis; wherein rotation of the hinge assembly activates the translation assembly. | 17,579 |
8,734,811 | 1. A multiple epitope fusion protein comprising epitopes from more than one Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype, wherein the protein comprises an amino acid sequence a sequence with at least 95% identity to the contiguous amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:52. | 8,046 |
9,542,701 | 1. A method comprising: storing, at a server computer, a plurality of layers corresponding to a map of a geographic area, wherein the plurality of layers includes at least a first layer specifying a first class of roads and a second layer specifying a second class of roads; receiving, from a remote computer over a network, a request for map data corresponding to the map, wherein the request for the map data indicates a portion of the map that is to be rendered; and in response to the request, transmitting, to the remote computer over the network, at least the first layer and the second layer, wherein the first layer and the second layer are in a format that is usable by the remote computer to render, without receipt of additional map data, both the portion of the map and a zoomed version of the portion of the map, and wherein the zoomed version of the portion of the map includes additional map details based on the second class of roads. | 14,309 |
8,608,998 | 1. A process for stripping chemically bonded spinning solvent from a solution-spun nonwoven web comprising the steps of: providing a solution-spun nonwoven web comprising solvent-laden polymeric fibers having average fiber diameters of less than about 1 micrometer, where the solvent is the spinning solvent used in the solution spinning process and transporting the nonwoven web through at least one infrared solvent stripping station wherein infrared radiation irradiates the nonwoven web in the absence of a solvent stripping fluid impinging on the nonwoven web in order to reduce the solvent concentration of the fibers to less than about 10,000 ppmw. | 49,104 |
8,773,260 | 1. A mobile computing device, comprising: a housing; a sensor coupled to the housing, the sensor generating a sensor signal in response to detecting a motion of the housing; and a processor receiving the sensor signal from the sensor, the processor activating an alert in response to comparing the sensor signal to a threshold signal, wherein the threshold signal corresponds to a state in which the mobile computing device is at rest for a preset period of time. | 49,943 |
8,580,764 | 1. A method of treating a cell proliferative disorder in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of (−)-trans-3-(5,6-dihydro-4H-pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolin-1-yl)-4-(1H-indol-3-yl)pyrrolidine-2,5-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with a therapeutically effective amount of a second anti-proliferative agent, wherein the second anti-proliferative agent is gemcitabine wherein (−)-trans-3-(5,6-dihydro-4H-pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolin-1-yl)-4-(1H-indol-3-yl)pyrrolidine-2,5-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and said second anti-proliferative agent are not administered concurrently, and wherein the cell proliferative disorder is non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer or colon cancer. | 15,147 |
8,522,757 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: an engine block for internal combustion; a high-pressure (HP) turbocharger having a turbine and a compressor each in communication with the engine block, the turbine being configured for receiving exhaust gas from the engine block, and the compressor being configured for delivering intake air to the engine block; a low-pressure (LP) turbocharger having a turbine and a compressor each in communication with the HP turbocharger, the turbine being configured for receiving exhaust gas from the HP turbocharger turbine, and the compressor being configured for delivering intake air to the HP turbocharger compressor; a turbogenerator in communication with the LP turbocharger, the turbogenerator configured for receiving exhaust gas from the LP turbocharger turbine and recovering heat energy from the exhaust gas to generate electricity; an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system having an EGR-pump, EGR inlet located downstream from the turbogenerator, and an EGR mixer located between the LP turbocharger compressor and the HP turbocharger compressor, the EGR-pump being configured for drawing exhaust gas from the EGR inlet and controllably delivering exhaust gas to the EGR; and an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled with the EGR-pump and adapted to command the EGR-pump to deliver a desired EGR rate to the engine block. | 26,087 |
9,505,642 | 1. A water treatment system configured as a vertically stacked trickle filter-clarifier combination having a reservoir assembly, the reservoir assembly comprising: a reservoir with an upper trickle filter compartment and a lower clarifier compartment, the reservoir having a collapsed configuration with a first volume and an expanded configuration with a second volume, wherein the second volume is at least 4 times larger than the first volume; a separator located between the upper trickle filter compartment and the lower clarifier compartment; a drain configured as a conduit between the upper trickle filter compartment and the lower clarifier compartment; a biological medium carrier within the upper trickle filter compartment, wherein the biological medium carrier has a collapsed configuration with a first volume and an expanded configuration with a second volume; a support frame configured to support the reservoir assembly, the support frame having a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration and having an upright central support member with at least one set of radial support cross members moveably connected with the upright central support member in an umbrella configuration; the biological medium carrier being connected with radial support cross members; and wherein the radial support cross members are length-adjustable. | 44,577 |
8,632,204 | 1. A solar powered lighting arrangement, comprising: a solar cell; a light source adapted to be at least partly powered by electrical power derived from the solar cell; and a structural member having a first side provided with a first reflective surface arranged to direct sunlight towards the solar cell and a second side, opposed to the first side, onto which the light source is arranged and thermally coupled for dissipating heat generated by the light source when emitting light, wherein said arrangement is adapted to angle said first reflective surface of the first side such that a focal point of sun light is kept upon said solar cell as the sun moves across the sky. | 32,856 |
9,795,000 | 1. An illumination device, comprising: a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) chains; a driver circuit coupled to each of the plurality of LED chains for automatically changing a color temperature output from the LED chains as a function of a time of day; a control module coupled to the driver circuit, said control module comprises: | 19,384 |
9,310,021 | 1. A retention and rotation assembly, comprising: a first support having a first bore extending along an axis AA, a threaded surface on an inside of the first bore; a lug received in the first bore, the lug being rotatable relative to the first support about the axis AA, a threaded surface on an outside surface of the lug, the lug being in threaded engagement with the first support when the lug is received in the first bore; a second support having a second bore, an inside surface of the second bore being engageable with an outside surface of the lug, the second support being fixed relative to the lug about the axis AA when second support is engaged with the lug; a locking element extending through a bore in the lug and into at least a portion of the second support; wherein a rotation of the locking element in a first direction about the axis AA increases a friction between the lug and the first support thereby inhibiting rotation of the lug relative to the first support about the axis AA, and a rotation of the locking element in a second direction about the axis AA decreases a friction between the lug and the first support thereby facilitating rotation of the lug relative to the first support about the axis AA. | 9,758 |
8,892,264 | 1. An apparatus for determining an operating schedule of a controller of at least one energy storage asset operated by an energy customer of an electricity supplier, so as to generate energy-related revenue, over a time period T, associated with operation of the at least one energy storage asset according to the operating schedule, wherein the energy-related revenue available to the energy customer over the time period T is based at least in part on a wholesale electricity market, the apparatus comprising: at least one communication interface; at least one memory to store processor-executable instructions and a mathematical model for the at least one energy storage asset, wherein the mathematical model facilitates a determination of the operating schedule for the controller of the at least one energy storage asset based at least in part on a first operation characteristic of the at least one energy storage asset, a second operation characteristic of at least one energy consuming asset in communication with the at least one energy storage asset, and a forecast wholesale electricity price associated with the wholesale electricity market; and at least one processing unit, communicatively coupled to the at least one communication interface and the at least one memory, wherein upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the at least one processing unit: | 49,231 |
9,101,365 | 1. A catheter comprising: an elongated catheter body generally defining a catheter axis; a distal electrode assembly mounted on a distal end of the catheter body, the distal electrode assembly having a first elongated member defining a longitudinal axis and a plurality of spines surrounding the first elongated member and converging at their proximal and distal ends, the proximal end of the spines are anchored to the distal end of the catheter body, each spine comprising at least one electrode and having a curvature so that the spine bows radially outwardly from the first elongated member; a proximal electrode assembly mounted on the distal end of the catheter body proximal of the distal electrode assembly and having a second elongated member configured with a generally radial portion and a generally circular portion generally transverse to the catheter axis, the generally circular portion comprising a plurality of electrodes; a control handle at a proximal end of the catheter body; a first tensile member extending between the control handle and the distal electrode assembly; and a second tensile member extending between the control handle and the proximal electrode assembly, wherein the control handle is configured for user manipulation of the first tensile member to change the curvature of the spines of the distal electrode assembly, and for user manipulation of the second tensile member to contract the proximal electrode assembly. | 17,910 |
9,322,350 | 1. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium including stored data representing instructions executable by a computer to control an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, comprising: executable instructions for increasing an amount of overlap time between open intake valves and open exhaust valves of a cylinder in a first group of cylinders on a first cylinder bank in response to exhaust backpressure for a second group of cylinders on a second cylinder bank being greater than a predetermined pressure plus an offset with exhaust backpressure differences between cylinder banks, and in response to exhaust backpressure for the second group of cylinders being less than the predetermined pressure minus the offset, the second group of cylinders in communication with a turbocharger. | 14,616 |
8,844,311 | 1. A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet; a door attached to the cabinet, the door having a front panel and an inner liner; the inner liner disposed in the door; an opening through the liner for receiving ice from an ice storage area; an ice chute in the door in operable connection with the opening for transporting ice received discharging ice into a container positioned in the ice receiving area beneath the outlet; and | 43,067 |
9,686,248 | 1. A computing device configured to be communicatively coupled to a third party server via a network, comprising: a boot device configured to: a central processing unit communicatively coupled to the boot device via a data bus, wherein the central processing unit is configured to: | 42,297 |
8,868,707 | 1. A computer-implemented method of using an intermediary, executing on a first computing device, to facilitate communication between a first server and an application that also executes on the first computing device, the method comprising: intercepting, at the intermediary, from the application, a first request to remove, update or store data on the first server, wherein the first request conforms to a first protocol; relaying, by the intermediary, the first request to the first server using the first protocol; receiving, by the intermediary, a response from the first server; responding, by the intermediary, to the first request with the response obtained from the first server; and updating, by the intermediary, a local store with: wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. | 6,980 |
8,622,859 | 1. A system for hydraulic hybridization of a motor vehicle, the system comprising: a planetary gear mechanism comprising a first planetary member, a second planetary member, at least one planet gear, and a third planetary member, wherein one of the first, second, and third planetary members is a sun gear, wherein one of the first, second, and third planetary members is a ring gear, and wherein one of the first, second, and third planetary members is a carrier; an engine, the engine comprising a crank shaft; a transmission, the transmission comprising a transmission input shaft; and a hydraulic pump/motor, the hydraulic pump/motor comprising a pump shaft; wherein the first planetary member is mechanically coupled to the pump shaft, such that rotation of the first planetary member rotates the pump shaft and rotation of the pump shaft rotates the first planetary member, wherein the second planetary member is mechanically coupled to the crank shaft, such that rotation of the crank shaft rotates the second planetary member, and wherein the third planetary member is mechanically coupled to the transmission input shaft, such that rotation of the third planetary member rotates the transmission input shaft; wherein the hydraulic pump/motor is part of a parallel hydraulic hybrid system. | 33,318 |
8,983,633 | 1. An electrical equipment control device, comprising: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time of an electrical equipment desired by a user, operation period information indicating a period required for operation by the electrical equipment, and electrical power information indicating an electrical power required for operation by the electrical equipment; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information received by the reception unit and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of the electrical equipment is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information indicating an electrical power charge that changes hour to hour; an operation time computing unit for computing, based on the desired time information, the operation period information and the electrical power information received by the reception unit and the electrical power charge information acquired by the electrical power charge information acquisition unit, the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the electrical equipment is operated within the time-shift period set by the time-shift period setting unit falls to or below a predetermined charge; an operation determination unit for determining whether a state retention electrical energy that is consumed by the electrical equipment for retaining a post-operating state is greater than a predetermined value, wherein the time-shift period setting unit changes the time-shift period according to a determination result of the operation determination unit, wherein the time-shift period setting unit shortens the set time-shift period when the operation determination unit determines that the state retention electrical energy that is consumed by the electrical equipment for retaining post-operating state is greater than a predetermined value; and a transmission unit for transmitting, to the electrical equipment, the operation start time or the operation termination time computed by the operation time computing unit. | 24,990 |
8,869,970 | 1. A scraper for a conveyor belt, comprising: a base; and a tapering scraper tip extending from the base, having an inner surface and an outer surface tapering towards the inner surface, the inner surface of the tapering scraper tip terminating in a non-linear scraping edge comprising two obliquely-extending portions that intersect at an obtuse angle to define a channel for channeling debris towards the outer surface. | 7,354 |
8,491,226 | 1. A conveyance device for the pneumatic conveyance of powdered material from a feed line connected to a powdered material reservoir to a delivery line, comprising: a first conveying chamber comprising a first rigid gas permeable filter element, a first annular housing, and first and second caps, said first annular housing surrounding said first rigid gas permeable filter element to create a first annular space therebetween, said first annular housing having first and second ends, said first and second caps being removably engaged with said first and second ends respectively of said first annular housing; and a second conveying chamber comprising a second rigid gas permeable filter element, a second annular housing, and third and fourth caps, said second annular housing surrounding said second rigid gas permeable filter element to create a second annular space therebetween, said second annular housing having first and second ends, said third and fourth caps being removably engaged with said first and second ends respectively of said second annular housing; a first inlet pinch valve at said inlet of said first conveying chamber; a first outlet pinch valve at said outlet of said first conveying chamber; a second inlet pinch valve at said inlet of said second conveying chamber; a second outlet pinch valve at said outlet of said second conveying chamber; a first Y-shaped line section having one inlet and two outlets, with said inlet connected to said reservoir through said feed line and said outlets connected to said first inlet pinch valve and said second inlet pinch valve respectively; a second Y-shaped line section having two inlets and one outlet, with said inlets being connected to said first outlet pinch valve and said second outlet pinch valve respectively, and said outlet connected to said delivery line; one or more control valves being operable to selectively open or close said first and second inlet pinch valves and said first and second outlet pinch valves, and to selectively apply negative pressure or admit compressed gas through said first and second rigid gas permeable filter elements to draw in powdered material from said reservoir through said feed line into said first conveying chamber while said powdered material, which had been previously drawn into said second conveying chamber, is forced out of said second conveying chamber through said delivery line; and to draw powdered material from said reservoir through said feed line into said second conveying chamber, while said powdered material, which had been previously drawn into said first conveying chamber, is forced out of said first conveying chamber through said delivery line. | 11,222 |
9,666,889 | 1. A power management system of an aircraft ground support vehicle, comprising: a power production control module in communication with a fuel cell system of the aircraft ground support vehicle to control production of electrical power by the fuel cell system, the fuel cell system configured as a sole source of power to directly power a traction system of the aircraft ground support vehicle and an auxiliary power output of the aircraft ground support vehicle; and a power distribution control module in communication with the fuel cell system to control distribution of the electrical power between the traction system and the auxiliary power output. | 13,372 |
9,664,510 | 1. A method of automatically estimating locations of a plurality of different objects that are capable of being moved by a plurality of different actors, said method comprising: using a set of first sensors and at least one processor to track and store in memory approximate paths over time of said plurality of different actors, thereby determining actor path data; using a set of second sensors and said at least one processor to track and store in memory approximate locations over time of said plurality of different objects, thereby determining object location over time data; wherein said first sensors and said second sensors need not be the same types of sensors, and at least said set of second sensors is only able to approximately determine the locations over time of said plurality of different objects; using said at least one processor to use both said actor path data and said object location over time data to determine if the location of a given object and the path of a given actor correlate over time, thereby determining at least one tentative association probability between said given object and said given actor; wherein the probability that an object, once moved by an actor, remains associated with said actor, is less than or equal to 1, and changing a tentative association probability between an object and an actor is assigned at least one penalty cost parameter; and using said at least one processor, said actor path data, said object location over time data, said at least one tentative association probability between said given object and said given actor, and said at least one penalty cost parameter to determine the at least one of a probable location of said given object at one or more times and the association probability between said given object and said given actor at one or more times; wherein at least some of said actors are further tagged with a unique ID wireless device carried by said actors, further using a set of third wireless device sensors and said at least one processor to associate said unique ID with at least some of said actors; and further using said at least one processor to determine association probability between said given object and said given actor at one or more times, wherein said given actor is also associated with said unique ID; wherein said unique ID wireless device is a Smartphone, and wherein said unique ID is supplied by at least one of an app running on said Smartphone; or wherein said Smartphone additionally comprises a WiFi transceiver with a WiFi address, and said unique ID is supplied by said Smartphone's WiFi address; or wherein said Smartphone additionally comprises a Bluetooth transceiver with a Bluetooth address, and unique ID is supplied by said Smartphone's Bluetooth address. | 10,094 |
9,636,715 | 1. A process for sanitizing and cleaning comprising: providing a flow of carrier fluid, providing a spray head having a mixing chamber that receives said flow of carrier fluid, said spray head converting said carrier fluid to a spray and dispensing said spray, in said mixing chamber, mixing at least ozone and ozone reaction products with said carrier fluid, whereby said ozone and ozone reaction products are provided in said spray by mixing said ozone and ozone reaction products in said carrier fluid immediately before said carrier fluid containing said ozone and ozone reaction products is dispensed as said spray. | 44,164 |
8,561,853 | 1. A system for airtight preservation of a consumer fluid present within a container having an inlet, said system comprising: a case adapted to be made integral with said container by a fitting in correspondence of said inlet, said case comprising a body having a through seat adapted to define at least one passage between an outside environment and the inside of the container; a compensation casing having an inlet mouth, said casing being adapted to be inserted within said container via said through seat and adapted to receive a substitute fluid; a connecting manifold connected to said compensation casing in correspondence of said inlet mouth, said manifold being such as to slide into said through seat to a sealing stop position; a device adapted to be removably connected with said manifold, said device comprising a portion adapted to be contained within said through seat, said device comprising a first duct adapted to put into communication said compensation casing with environment external to the container through said connecting manifold, and comprising a second duct adapted to put into communication an inside of the container with said environment through said at least one passage, said device further comprising means for irreversible induction of the substitute fluid along said first duct; wherein said irreversible induction means arrange, at a variation of an internal volume taken up by said consumer fluid concomitantly to a delivery of said fluid, a proportional flow of said substitute fluid in said compensation casing in order to compensate for said internal volume variation and keep overall pressure internally to said container at a substantially constant predetermined value, and wherein said irreversible induction means also comprises an antireflux one-way valve. | 759 |
8,626,359 | 1. A rotorcraft control system, comprising: a rotor blade having a moving surface operatively connected for movement among various positions; an actuator receptive of a modified control signal and operatively connected to move the surface among the various positions; a sensor operably coupled to the actuator to generate a sensor response signal reflective of a response of the actuator to the modified control signal; and a controller to output the modified control signal to the actuator, the controller including a control loop to generate the modified control signal from an initial control signal that is modified by relating the initial control signal and the sensor response signal and by accounting for actuator inaccuracies, sensor sensitivities and noise, wherein the controller comprises a Kalman filter that outputs for summation with the initial control signal an inverse value of a linear sensor sensitivity to actuator commands and a value of sensor sensitivity to external disturbances. | 15,342 |
9,220,431 | 1. A system of electrodes for transdermal conduction of electrical signals, the system comprising: a flexible strap having an inner surface for being placed in contact with a patient and an outer surface for facing outward from the patient, wherein the flexible strap includes a plurality of apertures linearly spaced along a region of the flexible strap, each aperture of the plurality of apertures extending from the outer surface of the flexible strap to the inner surface of the flexible strap, the flexible strap further comprising: a flexible strip including an electrically conductive and adhesive material, the flexible strip having a first side adhered to the inner surface of the flexible strap along a region having the plurality of apertures, and a second side configured for removable attachment to a patient; and a plurality of electrode parts removably coupled to the first side of the flexible strip through the plurality of apertures of the flexible strap, each electrode part of the plurality of electrode parts comprising: | 31,175 |
8,777,442 | 1. An illuminated winter sports board, comprising: a deck; a plurality of light emitting devices mounted within the deck in a ornamental pattern, wherein said light emitting devices are in electrical connection with an energy source; and wherein said energy source is mounted into the deck in a removable battery pack which can be charged without removing it from the deck. | 33,308 |
9,193,212 | 1. A marker-making kit for assembling a customized marking device comprising: a base unit; one or more mixing tubes; one or more marker barrels; one or more marker nibs; one or more marker reservoirs; one or more end plugs; a press mechanism coupled to the base unit, the press mechanism adapted to assemble a marker comprising one of the one or more marker barrels, one of the one or more marker nibs, one of the one or more marker reservoirs, and one of the one or more end plugs, wherein the press mechanism is configured to be moved by a user from a first position to a second position relative to the marker being assembled; and a color-mixing tray removably coupled to the base unit, the color-mixing tray having one or more mixing tube holders. | 14,827 |
9,048,745 | 1. A method of starting up a DC/DC converter having a high-frequency transformer that comprises a primary winding that is supplied with current from an input-side DC link via an inverter bridge having pulsed switches and comprising a secondary winding configured to charge an output-side DC link via a rectifier bridge, the method comprising operating the switches of the inverter bridge during a startup of the DC/DC converter to load the output-side DC link in a manner that deviates from a normal operation of the switches in order to limit the currents that flow in the DC/DC converter during the startup of the DC/DC converter, wherein operating the switches of the inverter bridge during the startup of the DC/DC converter comprises switching the switches at a pulse width that is fixed during each of a limited number of stages of the startup, and wherein a duty cycle of the switches is not more than 5 percent during each of the stages of the startup. | 41,136 |
8,443,664 | 1. An equalizing tank for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system comprising: a housing including a housing upper part and a housing lower part, and a guide pipe fixed thereto, the guide pipe extending into an interior space of the housing, a float positioned surrounding the guide pipe, and a device for monitoring the fluid level in the equalizing tank, said device comprising: wherein the contact carrier includes a pot-shaped portion which interacts with a complementary portion formed on the housing in order to permit a releasable connection of the switching unit to the housing, the switching unit releasable from the housing such that the contact carrier is removable from the guide pipe without removal of the float from the housing, and wherein the pot-shaped portion of the contact carrier which bears the sensor element or switching element extends centrally from a base of the pot-shaped portion, and a housing of the plug-in connector is oriented substantially perpendicular with respect to a longitudinal axis of the contact carrier of the switching unit. | 12,718 |
9,787,072 | 1. An electrical junction box, comprising: a cover removably attachable to a base plate of an existing junction box installation, the cover defining an interior cavity; a base portion coupled to the base plate, the base portion dividing the interior cavity of the cover to form a high-voltage section and a low-voltage section within the interior cavity of the cover, the high-voltage section isolated from the low-voltage section; a transformer positioned within the interior cavity of the cover and mounted to the base portion, the transformer in electrical communication with high-voltage terminals and low-voltage terminals, the high-voltage terminals positioned in the high-voltage section and the low-voltage terminals positioned in the low-voltage section; and a circuit board including a microprocessor, the circuit board positioned within the interior cavity of the cover and remotely controlling one or more pool, spa, or landscaping lights wired to the circuit board. | 28,068 |
9,751,067 | 1. A method, comprising performing the following steps in the recited order: (A) forming a mixture comprising a carboxylate source and a lead-bearing material disposed in a liquid component; (B) generating a lead carboxylate precipitate in the mixture as the carboxylate source reacts with the lead-bearing material; (C) increasing the pH of the liquid component of the mixture to dissolve the lead carboxylate precipitate into the liquid component of the mixture; (D) isolating the liquid component of the mixture from one or more insoluble components of the lead-bearing material in the mixture; (E) regenerating the lead carboxylate precipitate either by adding an antisolvent to the liquid component of the mixture or by adding an acid to decrease the pH of the liquid component of the mixture; and (F) isolating the regenerated lead carboxylate precipitate from the liquid component of the mixture. | 13,635 |
8,365,551 | 1. A refrigerator having a vacuum insulator, comprising: a refrigeration loop that comprises a condenser, an evaporator, a compressor, a suction line supplying refrigerant flowing from the evaporator to the compressor, and a capillary tube providing refrigerant flowing from the condenser to the evaporator; an outer conduit; an inner conduit received within said outer conduit such that an annular space is positioned between said outer conduit and said inner conduit along at least a portion of the length of said outer conduit; and a pair of seals positioned at the ends of said outer conduit, said pair of seals configured for connection to said outer conduit and said inner conduit so as to enclose at least a portion of the annular space and fix the position of the inner conduit within the outer conduit, the annular space being evacuated so as to create a vacuum enclosed within said pair of seals, said outer conduit, and said inner conduit; wherein said inner conduit forms at least a portion of the suction line or the capillary tube. | 43,007 |
9,034,080 | 1. A process for the production of a fluid enriched in carbon dioxide starting from a waste gas from a ferrous metallurgy unit (HF) comprising carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, the process comprising; compressing at least a portion of the waste gas in a first compressor, drying the compressed waste gas, separating the dried waste gas by an adsorption process in an adsorption unit to produce a first gas gas enriched in carbon dioxide and depleted in carbon monoxide and a second gas depleted in carbon dioxide and enriched in carbon monoxide, separating the first gas in a separation unit, to produce a fluid enriched in carbon dioxide and a recycling gas comprising carbon monoxide, removing the fluid enriched in carbon dioxide as product, recycling the recycling gas from the separation unit to the adsorption unit at the inlet pressure of the adsorption unit and sending at least a portion of the gas depleted in carbon dioxide to the ferrous metallurgy unit or another ferrous metallurgy unit. | 22,536 |
8,806,353 | 1. A method for an electronic communications dialog between a plurality of users using digital images, comprising the steps of: providing an ability to select a template for entering one or more words and one or more associated images one at a time that constitute an electronic communications dialogue; providing an ability to enter one or more words into the template corresponding to the electronic communications dialogue; providing an ability to select one or more images from a visual dictionary, each of the one or more images having a direct correspondence with the one or more words entered into the template such that the one or more images are configured to convey a message represented by the one or more words to one or more of the plurality of users, and each of the one or more images has one or more associated words provided by the user such that each of the one or more images conveys meaning based on the one or more associated words; providing an ability to insert each image into a page for the electronic communications dialogue; and providing an ability to display the electronic communications dialogue containing the images to at least one other user via the page. | 31,708 |
8,535,519 | 1. A filter element of a motor vehicle fuel filter, comprising: a filter body for installation into a filter housing, said filter body having a raw unfiltered side and a clean filtered side, said filter body including; wherein said heating element is arranged to heat fuel in said filter body; wherein said filter element is configured for use in said filter housing. | 10,386 |
8,828,609 | 1. A method for manufacturing an electrochemical cell having an anode and a cathode separated by a separator and a gel electrolyte, said method comprising the steps of assembling the anode, the cathode and the separator, and injecting a liquid electrolyte composition between the anode and the cathode, said liquid electrolyte composition comprising a polymer, an aprotic liquid solvent and a lithium salt, wherein: the polymer in the liquid electrolyte composition is a non-cross-linked polymer that has functional groups capable of polymerizing via cationic polymerization; the liquid electrolyte composition does not contain any crosslinking agent or polymerization initiator; and the cell is submitted to an electrochemical cycling comprising a charging step and a discharging step, without any preliminary heating step or irradiation step, said cycling causing crosslinking of the polymer. | 22,041 |
9,737,508 | 1. A method of treating pruritus associated with a burn, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of 3-[(3aR,4R,5S,7aS)-5-[(1R)-1-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ethoxy]-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3,3a,4,5,6,7,7a-octahydroisoindol-2-yl]cyclopent-2-en-1-one (serlopitant) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or polymorph thereof to a patient in need of treatment. | 37,988 |
8,449,652 | 1. A process for the separation of a gas, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a mixture containing the gas with a solid sorbent comprising at least one poly(ionic liquid) compound under such conditions as to obtain a product having a lower concentration of the gas than the mixture and a solid sorbent containing absorbed gas which has been removed from the mixture; and (b) treating the solid sorbent under conditions as to substantially desorb the gas contained in the solid sorbent so as to obtain a regenerated solid sorbent wherein the treatment step is one or more steps selected from the group consisting of heating, depressurizing, and displacing the gas. | 32,284 |
9,161,457 | 1. An apparatus for manufacturing a camera module, the apparatus comprising: a base jig disposed at a lower part of a PCB to hold the lower part of the PCB; a bonding head picking up an image sensor and attaching the image sensor onto the PCB; and a housing bonding tool picking up a housing assembly and attaching the housing assembly onto the PCB so that the image sensor attached onto the PCB is received in the housing assembly, wherein the base jig is tension-movable in a vertical direction, as in Z-axial direction in the lower part of the PCB, so that an upper surface of the PCB is an identical reference plane for attaching the image sensor and the housing assembly when the image sensor is picked up by the bonding head and attached onto the PCB, and wherein the base jig is composed of one pair of base jig parts that is opened more widely than the size of the PCB, and a heat-resistant tape formed all over upper surfaces of the pair of base jig parts, the base jig aligning a tilt by using the tension of the heat-resistant tape. | 21,079 |
9,590,055 | 1. A thin film transistor, comprising a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the source electrode and the drain electrode are formed above the active layer, and located at a first end and a second end of the active layer which are opposite to each other, respectively; and the drain electrode completely covers the second end of the active layer, wherein the drain electrode comprises a covering electrode and a contacting electrode connected to each other, the covering electrode completely covers the second end of the active layer and is of a width in a longitudinal direction greater than or equal to that of the active layer, the contacting electrode is configured to contact a pixel electrode and is of a width in the longitudinal direction greater than that of the covering electrode, the longitudinal direction is perpendicular to a connecting line between the first end and the second end of the active layer. | 4,563 |
8,482,630 | 1. An apparatus of adjusting an automatic white balance, the apparatus comprising: a candidate area extracting unit to extract, from an input image, a candidate area having color information by eliminating an area that does not include color information; an effective area extracting unit to determine a grey area from the candidate area based on a relationship between Cr and Cb with respect to the candidate area and a relationship between R and B with respect to the candidate area, and to extract an effective area from the grey area based on a correlation between a color temperature and the grey area; and a white balance adjusting unit to determine a white balance parameter from the effective area and to adjust a white balance with respect to the input image. | 12,402 |
9,771,806 | 1. A turbine blade having hollowness, comprising a front-side wall in which a blowout port is provided at the rear edge portion; a back-side wall of which a portion of the inner wall surface is exposed from the blowout port, with cooling air flowing along the inner wall surface at the exposed region; and a first recess provided in the inner wall surface of the back-side wall at the exposed region, wherein the contour of the first recess, viewed from the normal direction of the inner wall surface of the back-side wall, is set to a shape that is symmetrical centered on a reference axis that intersects the flow direction of cooling air at 45 degrees with respect to the flow direction of cooling air, and that broadens along the reference axis, the first recess is further provided in a partial region of the inner wall surface of the back-side wall that faces the front-side wall and is continuous with the exposed region, a second recess having the same shape as the first recess is further provided in a region that is a partial region of the inner wall surface of the front-side wall, and that faces the partial region of the inner wall surface of the back-side wall in which the first recess is provided, and perpendicular cross-sectional shapes of the first recess and the second recess include respective circular arcs with a depth equivalent to 0.3 multiplied by a diameter of a respective circle including a respective circular arc of the respective circular arcs. | 11,082 |
8,788,748 | 1. A method for implementing enhanced memory performance management comprising: providing at least one memory chip stack having a predefined connection density to enable a predefined high bandwidth connection between each chip in said memory chip stack; and providing said at least one memory chip stack with a memory controller and a plurality of chip rank levels in said memory chip stack including at least a chip rank level one adjacent said controller; a chip rank level two above said chip rank level one; and a chip level three above said chip rank level two; providing a normal bandwidth configuration for said at least one memory chip stack with said chip rank level one with a first bandwidth for data; said chip rank level two with a second bandwidth for data and said chip rank level three with a third bandwidth for data; said first bandwidth greater than both said second bandwidth and said third bandwidth; selectively enabling a high bandwidth data transfer from said memory chip stack on a temporary basis; said high bandwidth data transfer including an equal bandwidth for said first bandwidth, said second bandwidth and said third bandwidth. | 43,571 |
8,419,911 | 1. A deposition method by PVD, comprising: applying electric power to a target in a processing chamber such that a plasma is generated within the processing chamber; and generating sputter particles from the target with the plasma such that the sputter particles form a deposition film on a base material, wherein the target has a recess portion, a surface of the recess portion being formed of a powder material, wherein the recess portion has a depth of at least 1 mm, and wherein said generating sputter particles from the target includes impinging the plasma on the powder material. | 11,198 |
9,172,723 | 1. A method of providing network security within a mobile radio communications network during each of a plurality of handover procedures, the network including a radio access part and a core part, the method comprising: the core part creating a security context for communications between a mobile radio communications device and said network, said creation of the security context comprising generating a security key using a value of a Non-access stratum (NAS) count as an input parameter; as part of an initial handover attempt of said handover procedure, the core part of the network sending a handover command signal to the radio access part of the network, which sends the handover command signal to the mobile radio communications device, and controlling said value of the NAS count so as to ensure that a different respective value of the NAS count is employed during each successful initial handover attempt; and when the radio access part determines that the handover command signal has not been received by the mobile communication device, the radio access part sending a non-delivery indication signal to the core part and the core part resending through the radio access part the handover command signal, including a same NAS count, in response to the non-delivery indication signal. | 48,938 |
9,532,379 | 1. A transmitter transmitting a radio frame in accordance with a wireless communication scheme where the transmitter performs carrier sensing and transmits a radio signal when a wireless communication space is available and waits to transmit the radio signal when the wireless communication space is not available, comprising: a carrier sensing unit that performs carrier sensing in a desired frequency band including a plurality of frequency channels, and a transmitting unit that performs, each time executing carrier sensing, a transmission process where: (1) when the wireless communication space is available as a result of the carrier sensing by the carrier sensing unit, the transmitting unit transmits, in the desired frequency band, one radio frame such that a receiver-side radio apparatus receives a radio frame at a reception timing determined by one or more unit signal detection intervals representing an identifier for the receiver-side radio apparatus, the identifier being defined by using one or more unit signal detection intervals, each of which is a time interval between detection timings of a radio frame, and (2) when the wireless communication space is not available as a result of the carrier sensing, the transmitting unit waits to transmit the one radio frame. | 21,023 |
8,939,246 | 1. An automotive floor structure, comprising: a pair of side sills extending in a fore-and-aft direction on either side of a vehicle body; a front floor panel extending between the two side sills; and a pair of floor frames extending in the fore-and-aft direction below the front floor panel at positions spaced inward from the two side sills, respectively, in a lateral direction of the vehicle body, such that a battery unit is disposed between the two floor frames below the front floor panel, the automotive floor structure further comprising: wherein a portion of the first cross member upper extending between the side sill and the floor frame on each side of the vehicle body has a strength lower than that of a portion of the first cross member upper extending between the floor frames in the lateral direction. | 36,945 |
8,471,142 | 1. A solar energy concentrating system comprising: (1) a light concentrating unit including a parabolic reflector and an ellipsoidal reflector; (2) a light homogenizing unit including a infrared filter and a hollow spherical reflector, wherein the hollow spherical reflector has a hole, wherein the light concentrating unit is disposed to focus solar light to a convergence point which is located outside of and near a plane of the hole of the hollow spherical reflector, wherein the hollow spherical reflector is disposed to pass the light from the light concentrating unit through the hole into an inside of the hollow spherical reflector, and wherein the infrared filter is disposed to cover the hole, wherein the parabolic reflector and the ellipsoidal reflector are coaxial and confocal, wherein one focal point of the ellipsoidal reflector coincides with a focal point of the parabolic reflector and another focal point of the ellipsoidal reflector is located at the convergence point; and (3) one or more photovoltaic modules disposed inside the hollow spherical reflector for absorbing light. | 47,971 |
8,769,209 | 1. A method for improving cache performance in a computer system having a multi-level cache hierarchy comprising: selecting a first line in a cache at level N for potential eviction in response to a cache line miss at level N; querying a cache at level M in the hierarchy to determine whether the first cache line is resident in the cache at level M, wherein M<N; in response to receiving an indication that the first cache line is not resident at level M, then evicting the first cache line from the cache at level N; and in response to receiving an indication that the first cache line is resident at level M, then retaining the first cache line and choosing a second cache line for potential eviction. | 42,776 |
8,358,028 | 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a direct drive generator having a stator arrangement, and a rotor arrangement substantially arranged around the stator arrangement and a longitudinal centre axis, wherein the stator arrangement comprises a stator support structure, which comprises at least one, substantially radial extending stator support element, wherein the stator support element is attached to a stationary shaft, and wherein the stationary shaft, which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal centre axis, is substantially rigid in a radial direction and is at least partially flexible in a direction of the longitudinal centre axis of the generator. | 1,452 |
8,726,956 | 1. A pneumatic tyre in an unvulcanized state, the tyre comprising: an inner wall; and a heat-expandable rubber layer positioned on the inner wall, the heat-expandable layer being formed of an elastomer composition including at least: | 21,108 |
8,569,930 | 1. A piezoelectric actuator comprising: a first piezoelectric vibrator including a first pedestal and a first piezoelectric element connected to the first pedestal; a second piezoelectric vibrator including a second pedestal and a second piezoelectric element connected to the second pedestal; and a vibrating membrane having an opening, wherein said first piezoelectric vibrator is connected to one surface of said vibrating membrane straddling the opening of said vibrating membrane, and said second piezoelectric vibrator is connected to another surface of said vibrating membrane straddling the opening of said vibrating membrane. | 38,024 |
9,428,088 | 1. An occupant support for an occupant attached to a floor of a cabin of a vehicle comprising a seat back with principal support provided by a central spine pivotally attached at its lower end to at least one of a support structure and a seat bottom: wherein said central spine is enabled to articulate to change its inclination under discretionary control by the occupant for comfort; wherein said central spine comprises a section with a constant cross section; wherein said central spine supports a plurality of vertebrae; wherein each of said vertebrae are slidably attached to the section of the spine with a constant cross section so as to provide each of said vertebrae a single degree of freedom of linear motion with regard to the spine; wherein said constant cross section of the spine precludes rotational motion about an axis along said spine; wherein each of said vertebrae supports at least one rib-fin that is adapted support the occupant; and wherein the occupant is enabled to displace said plurality of vertebrae for comfort while occupying said occupant support. | 5,931 |
9,737,661 | 1. An infusion speed measurement instrument configured to fit around a predetermined drip chamber having a side wall and a flange at an upper portion thereof and a drip pipe disposed therein, the infusion speed measurement instrument comprising: a housing having a cylindrical peripheral wall which includes a fitting recessed part formed therein so as to form a concave, drip-chamber-receiving tunnel that extends in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the housing, the fitting recessed part being configured to receive therein the drip chamber with the sidewall of the drip chamber making contact with substantially the entire surface of the fitting recessed part, and with the configuration of the fitting recessed part, per se, being such as to hold the infusion speed measurement instrument on the drip chamber when the drip chamber is hung in an up-down direction; an infusion fluid detector, which is provided in the housing; which is configured to detect drops of infusion fluid dripping from a lower end of the drip pipe of the drip chamber; and which is fitted in the region of the fitting recessed part; an information output unit which is configured to output infusion information based on detection of the infusion fluid by the infusion fluid detector; and an upwardly protruding positioning contact part which is formed in the region of the fitting recessed part and which is configured such that when the infusion speed measurement instrument is installed on the drip chamber and positioned such that the positioning contact part makes contact with a lower surface of the flange of the drip chamber, the infusion fluid detector will be positioned along the sidewall of the drip chamber substantially at the level of the lower, drop-dripping end of the drip pipe. | 10,055 |
9,138,650 | 1. A wireless tracking device for tracking a participant in an interactive entertainment experience conducted within a wireless-compatible entertainment facility, said wireless tracking device comprising: a portable body configured to be carried or worn by said participant, said portable body comprising one or more batteries and associated electronic circuitry configured to power and operate said wireless tracking device; non-volatile memory storing at least one identifier uniquely identifying said wireless tracking device; at least one antenna configured to wirelessly receive electrical energy via inductive coupling with a first wireless-compatible device located at a first location within said entertainment facility; a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver powered by said electrical energy and configured to provide short-range wireless communications with said first wireless-compatible device over a first communication range of less than 60 cm; a second RF transceiver powered by said one or more batteries and configured to provide medium-range wireless communications with a second wireless-compatible device over a second communication range of greater than 10 feet and wherein said second wireless-compatible device is located at a second location within said entertainment facility; and wherein said short-range wireless communications and said medium-range wireless communications comprise information uniquely identifying said wireless tracking device. | 42,746 |
8,829,740 | 1. A sealed linear motor system, comprising: a sealed coil assembly having a plurality of coil windings within a base plate and comprising covers disposed about the base plate and coil windings to prevent moisture and/or chemical ingress into the base plate and the coil windings and a plurality of grooves formed in the base plate for sealing the coil windings with a sealing material; and a sealed magnet assembly disposed adjacent to the coil assembly and comprising a plurality of magnets mounted on a magnet mounting plate, a magnet housing disposed on a surface of the magnet mounting plate to cover and seal the plurality of magnets within the magnet housing, and a sealing element disposed between the magnet mounting plate and the magnet housing to seal the magnet assembly. | 29,043 |
9,341,969 | 1. A toner for electrostatic development, containing toner base particles produced by subjecting a toner composition containing binder resin, a coloring agent, and wax to melting and kneading and thereafter pulverization and classification, the binder resin containing polyester resin and crosslinked styrene resin, the polyester resin being in an amount of 75% by weight to 95% by weight and the crosslinked styrene resin being in an amount of 3% by weight to 20% by weight with respect to 100% by weight of the binder resin, the crosslinked styrene resin containing COOH group-containing vinyl resin and glycidyl group-containing vinyl resin, a THF insoluble component in the crosslinked styrene resin being in an amount of 15% by weight to 45% by weight, and the toner having particle size distribution in which a volume median particle diameter (D50) is 5.5 to 7.5 μm, and the toner base particles include 15% by number to 55% by number of toner base particles of not more than 5 μm in particle diameter, and include not more than 1.5% by number of toner particles of more than 10 μm in particle diameter. | 21,232 |
9,736,009 | 1. A method, comprising: generating, by a service oriented architecture manager, a service model of a service oriented architecture of at least one web service; exporting, by a hardware processor, an external model representation of at least one entity of the service model; importing the external model representation of the at least one entity as a network management data model entity of a network manager into a shared information and data model, wherein the importing includes applying a first rule of a set of rules to the exported external model representation of the at least one entity; generating an alert signal, by the service oriented architecture manager and propagating the generated alert to an Integrated Service Management (ISM), based on a fault of the at least one entity of the service model; and generating an alert for the network manager based on the alert signal generated by the service oriented architecture manager, wherein generating an alert for the network manager includes applying a second rule of the set of rules to the shared information and data model. | 582 |
9,309,867 | 1. A fluid turbine apparatus comprising: a set of radially arranged magnets; a set of radially arranged coils, the set of radially arranged coils axially aligned with the set of radially arranged magnets; a turbine base supporting one of the group consisting of the set of radially arranged magnets and the set of radially arranged coils; a plurality of vanes having a rotatable connection to the turbine base and coupled to another of the group consisting of the set of radially arranged magnets and the set of radially arranged coils; and a linear actuator supported on the turbine base, influencing the axial proximity of the set of radially arranged magnets to the set of radially arranged coils. | 49,054 |
9,763,217 | 1. A method performed by a positioning system for determining the location of a mobile communication device (MCD), the method comprising: determining a cell in which the MCD is located, the determined cell being served by a serving base station connected to a set of radio heads, wherein each one of the radio heads included in the set of radio heads is connected to the base station via a cable, and one of the radio heads included in the set is serving the MCD; determining a cable length value representative of the length of the cable connecting the base station to the radio head serving the MCD; and obtaining one or more measured radio property values; forming a fingerprint using both the determined cable length value and the obtained measured radio property values; and using the formed fingerprint to obtain location information for the MCD, wherein the obtained location information is associated with the formed fingerprint and comprises at least: i) a set of polygon coordinate vectors or ii) a set of coordinates derived from the set of polygon coordinate vectors. | 2,613 |
9,209,340 | 1. An electro-optic device, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode spaced apart from said first electrode; and an active layer of organic semiconducting material between said first electrode and said second electrode, wherein said active layer comprises a quasi-bilayer in which a first plurality molecules from a first layer of active material is interpenetrated by a second plurality of molecules from a second layer of active material formed on said first layer, said first and second pluralities of molecules providing donor-acceptor pairs such that said quasi-bilayer has at least a portion that is a bulk heterojunction active layer, and wherein each of said first plurality of molecules has a long axis that is longer than corresponding transverse axes and said long axis is substantially aligned along a common direction such that said active layer is more sensitive to a first polarization of incident light than a second polarization of said incident light, said first polarization and said second polarization being orthogonal polarization components of said light. | 11,496 |
9,334,643 | 1. A method of constructing a 3-dimensional, convex structure, the method including the steps of: providing a starting structure of substantially flat shape comprising a plurality of frame members, each of the plurality of frame members being substantially identical and longitudinally extending, each of the plurality of frame members being rigid, each of the plurality of frame members being overlapping or intersecting and connected at points of overlap or intersection by abutting connections configured to allow movement of each of the plurality of frame members relative to one another during construction, and a plurality of drive devices configured to displace one of the plurality of frame members from another of the plurality of frame members, the displacement occurring at the point of overlap or intersection; repositioning each of the plurality of frame members by actuating the drive devices to produce a dome structure or portion thereof, and wherein each of the plurality of frame members has at least two ends and a middle, and wherein two of the plurality of frame members are connected abutting at approximately the end of one of the plurality of frame members to a point offset from the middle of an adjacent one of the plurality of frame members. | 11,295 |
8,711,507 | 1. A method of controlling synchronization of a servo clock for reading servo information from a disk that is rotating relative to a read head, the method comprising: determining a location of a servo synchronization marker on a full null servo wedge; estimating a gate delay corresponding to a position error signal (PES) field in a short null servo wedge based, at least in part, on the location of the servo synchronization marker; producing a servo clock timing control signal based on the estimated gate delay; and applying the servo clock timing control signal to the servo clock. | 11,524 |
8,809,221 | 1. A catalyst system for polymerization of propylene comprising: (a) a titanium supported on magnesium dichloride pro-catalyst carrying an internal donor; (b) an organoaluminium co-catalyst; and (c) an external donor comprising pentamethyldiethyltriamine and an alkoxy silane. | 46,876 |
9,716,162 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate including an active pattern; a gate electrode crossing the active pattern; gate spacer structures at both sidewalls of the gate electrode; a gate capping pattern on the gate electrode, the gate capping pattern having an upper surface that is substantially flat; and an insulating layer covering a top surface of the gate capping pattern from a top and covering at least one of two opposing sides of the gate capping pattern from at least one side, the gate capping pattern having an etch selectivity with respect to the insulating layer, wherein the gate capping pattern has a width larger than that of the gate electrode, the gate capping pattern includes extended portions extending toward the substrate and at least partially covering both sidewalls of the gate electrode, and the gate spacer structures and the gate capping pattern are formed of different materials from each other. | 13,883 |
8,454,342 | 1. A modular mold clamp assembly for use in a molding machine, the assembly comprising: a frame having a base member, a first end member and an oppositely-facing second end member, the oppositely-facing first and second end members having mounting areas provided thereon; first and second platens movably mounted on the base member, the platens being movable between an open and a closed position; a drive linkage mounted on the base member, the drive linkage cooperating with the first and second platens to move the platens between the open position and the closed position; a cam follower slidably mounted on the first end member, the cam follower coupled to the drive linkage, whereby the movement of the cam follower moves the drive linkage; the platens, drive linkage and cam follower being mounted on the frame and being movable relative to the frame without transmitting forces to the frame, whereby the frame, containing the platens, drive linkage and cam follower, can be mounted or unmounted to the molding machine by the use of mounting hardware cooperating with the mounting area of the frame. | 16,635 |
9,068,306 | 1. An impact attenuator for vehicles, including an energy absorbing device for decelerating forces, comprising a housing, at least two pins arranged in the housing which are arranged in parallel to each other in the housing, as well as a metallic, elongated draw element, which can be positioned within the housing such that the elongated draw element extends between and in contact with the pins, wherein the pins and the draw element are positioned such that a change of direction appears on the draw element when passing by each pin such that at mutual moving of the draw element and the housing in relation to each other, the movement is decelerated due to deformation of the draw element at passage of each pin, wherein the pins and the draw element are positioned such that the draw element obtains a change of direction of at least 90° when passing at least two of the pins, respectively, wherein the impact attenuator comprises a beam and a collision catcher, which is connected to the beam and displaceable along an outer side of the collision catcher, wherein one of the energy absorbing device or the draw element is connected to the collision catcher and displaceable together with it, while the other of these is fixedly connected to the ground or a fixed structure such that at a possible collision with the collision catcher, this is decelerated due to the mutual movement between the energy absorbing device and the draw element. | 25,010 |
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