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9,776,271 | 1. A nozzle to be used in a desoldering tool which sucks solder, the nozzle comprising: a distal end surface suitable to be heated to a temperature to melt the solder, wherein said distal end surface defines a non-circular opening at an upstream end of the suction path of the molten solder and a circular opening at a downstream end of said nozzle said non-circular opening having a first dimension length measured along a first straight-line passing through a center of said opening, and having a second dimension width measured on a second straight-line perpendicular to the first straight-line, the second dimension width being less than the first length; and a nozzle end member including a distal end ring forming the distal end surface and an insertion body extending from said distal end ring wherein the insertion body includes a proximal end portion opposite of the distal end ring, the proximal end portion defining a proximal end hole having diameter greater than said width and less than said length of said non-circular opening; and a nozzle base formed with a hollow-opening to receive said insertion body, wherein, the nozzle base has a higher thermal conductivity than the nozzle end member, and the nozzle end member has a higher anti-corrosivity/erosivity than the nozzle base. | 17,118 |
9,590,494 | 1. An electronic circuit, comprising: a first III-N based switch and a second III-N based switch, wherein a source of the first III-N based switch is coupled to a first reference ground and a drain of the second III-N based switch is coupled to a DC high voltage node; and an inductive component connected in series with a resistor and coupled to a node between the first and second III-N based switches; wherein a first side of the resistor is coupled to a second reference ground which is electrically isolated from the first reference ground, and a second side of the resistor is coupled to a control circuit, the control circuit also being coupled to the second reference ground. | 45,909 |
9,155,164 | 1. An RF system comprising an RF device and an RF signal coupling-in apparatus for operating the RF device, comprising: an oscillator for generating an RF signal for operating the RF device comprising means for generating a voltage signal proportional to the degree of matching of the RF device on the basis of the RF signal generated by the oscillator and a signal reflected by the RF device, and a device for generating a control signal for matching the output frequency of the oscillator on the basis of the voltage signal proportional to the degree of matching of the RF device. | 19,962 |
9,358,907 | 1. An apparatus for back-folding a standup seat of a vehicle, wherein a standup associated back-folding unit is installed between a hook mounted to a lower frame of a seat cushion to be locked to or unlocked from a striker of a floor panel, and a recliner mounted to a side frame of a seatback such that a forward folding operation of the seatback and a forward folding operation of a headrest is automatically performed by operating the recliner during a standup operation, wherein a standup operation input mechanism comprises: | 43,688 |
9,103,712 | 1. A housing for a weighing apparatus which is adapted to be connected to a carrier element, the housing including: (a) a bottom plate which is either integral with the weighing apparatus or is adapted to receive one or more components of the weighing apparatus, the bottom plate including a peripheral side wall; (b) an elastic sealing element located on an underside of the housing including in an annular peripheral area of an underside of the bottom plate, the elastic sealing element also including a peripheral protruding area which protrudes laterally from the bottom plate beyond the bottom plate peripheral side wall; (c) a housing upper part having an upper part cover wall and an upper part side wall; and (d) wherein when the bottom plate and housing upper part are placed in an installed position on a surface of the carrier element (i) the upper part side wall encompasses the bottom plate peripheral side wall and impinges on the peripheral protruding area of the elastic sealing element so as to form a seal between the upper part side wall and the bottom plate, and (ii) the underside of the housing in the annular peripheral area of the bottom plate presses the elastic sealing element against the surface of the carrier element to form a seal between the bottom plate and the carrier element. | 23,625 |
8,683,141 | 1. A semiconductor memory system, comprising: a flash memory comprising a plurality of memory chips, each of the memory chips comprising a plurality of blocks, and each of the plurality of blocks comprising physical pages to store data; and a controller configured to: | 7,731 |
8,571,154 | 1. A method of adjusting a delay in a controlled propagation path of a first signal (S 1 ) to that of an uncontrolled propagation path of a second signal (S 2 ) using a time-delay based control architecture, the method comprising: a) generating a first autocorrelation value from a sampled first signal (S b) generating a second autocorrelation value from a delayed sampled first signal (S c) computing a first difference value by subtracting the first autocorrelation value from the second autocorrelation value; d) amplifying the first difference value by a first gain; e) selecting one of the first and second autocorrelation values as a first autocorrelation selection value; f) generating a third autocorrelation value from a sampled band-limited first signal (S′ g) generating a fourth autocorrelation value from a delayed sampled band-limited first signal (S′ h) computing a second difference value by subtracting the third autocorrelation value from the fourth autocorrelation value; i) amplifying the second difference value by a second gain; j) selecting one of the third and fourth autocorrelation values as a second autocorrelation selection value; k) comparing the first autocorrelation selection value to the second autocorrelation selection value to select the larger of the first autocorrelation selection value and the second autocorrelation selection value; l) selecting one of the first or second amplified difference value associated with the larger autocorrelation selection value as a control error signal; m) filtering the control error signal to form a variable delay control signal; n) applying the variable delay control signal to a variable delay device in the controlled propagation path of the first signal; o) repeating steps (a)-(n) until the magnitude of the variable delay control signal is less than a first predetermined threshold, thereby indicating a time delay match between the outputs of the first received signal and the second received signal, where S where S′ where M is the signal index, N is the delay index, and ΔT is the unit delay time. | 16,561 |
9,798,551 | 1. A method for providing a scalable compute fabric, comprising: determining a workflow for processing by the scalable compute fabric, wherein the workflow is based on an instruction set; dynamically configuring a processing pipeline for processing the workflow, wherein the dynamic configuring of the processing pipeline is based on a size and a type of instructions of the instruction set; arbitrating sharing of compute resources between the processing pipeline and a second processing pipeline, wherein the processing pipeline and the second processing pipeline have priority levels; interrupting the second processing pipeline if the processing pipeline has a priority level that is higher than a priority level of the second processing pipeline; and executing the workflow using the processing pipeline. | 36,156 |
9,149,746 | 1. A high speed filtration device using porous filtration media comprising: a housing; an inlet pipe for supplying inflow water to be filtered into the housing; a filtration media bed arranged above a bottom surface of the housing; an outflow pipe arranged below the filtration media bed to discharge water filtered through the filtration media bed out of the housing; a backwash equipment arranged between the bottom surface of the housing and the filtration media bed to supply backwash water upflow; and a discharge pipe for discharging backwash water and pollutants above an upper portion of the filtration media bed, characterized in that the filtration media bed is provided with a porous filtration media, the inflow water is filtered by downflow through the filtration media bed, the porous filtration media consists of particles formed by mixing glass powder with vesicant, heating at a high temperature and pulverizing after cooling, thereby having particles of less than 3 mm in diameter, 0.4˜1.2 g/cm during backwashing process, a level of the backwash water is set to be higher than the discharge pipe and lower than an upper portion of the housing so as not to overflow the housing, the discharge pipe is positioned at a lower portion than a middle point between the upper portion of the housing and the filtration media bed, the porous filtration media is entrained and rises along with pollutants by supply of backwash water, and after the porous filtration media settled down, the backwash water and the pollutants are discharged through the discharge pipe. | 14,680 |
9,236,615 | 1. A method for producing electric power comprising the step of: supplying a hydrogen containing gas from a supply of a hydrogen containing gas, supplying an oxygen containing gas from a supply of an oxygen containing gas, and providing a fuel cell including a hydrogen chamber connected to the supply of the hydrogen containing gas, an anode having one face in contact with the hydrogen chamber and the other face in contact with a first face of a solid state electrolyte, and a cathode having one face in contact with a second face of the solid state electrolyte and an oxygen chamber in contact with the other face of the cathode and connected to the supply of the oxygen containing gas, where the cathode comprises at least one compound having the general formula (I): where p, q, and r are integers, x is a real number having a value greater than 0.0 and less than 1.0 or 0.0<x<1.0, A is a divalent metal or mixture of divalent metals, A′ is a trivalent metal or mixture of trivalent metals, B is a transition metal or mixture of transition metals, the three distinct building blocks: ABO 3 , A′BO 2+x and A′O 2+x are combined in different ways according to the following rules: p≧q and q≧r, where p ranges from 1 to 4, q ranges from 1 to 4, and r ranges from 0 to 4, where the compounds have high oxygen activation activity and high oxygen mobility at an intermediate temperature between about 400° C. and about 800° C. reducing an operating temperature of intermediate temperature fuel cells currently operating at temperatures above 800° C., where the trivalent metal ions A′ are readily convertible between their plus three oxidation state and their plus four oxidation state, but in a lattice of the composition, the trivalent metal ions A′ are rendered not readily convertible between their plus three and plus four oxidation states, where the transition metals B are all square pyramidally coordinated, and where ordered A cations localize oxygen vacancies into layers improving conductivity and oxygen diffusivity at the operating temperature; and producing electric power. | 42,290 |
9,223,366 | 1. An electronic apparatus that includes a central processing unit and at least one device and that is identical to or different from an electronic apparatus in which the central processing unit is capable of simultaneously executing multiple applications, the electronic apparatus comprising: a determiner configured to determine usage rates of the central processing unit and the device for each application being executed, on the basis of at least one of statistical information and log information of the central processing unit and the device; a divider configured to determine proportions of power consumptions of the central processing unit and the device relative to a power consumption of the entire electronic apparatus; and an estimator configured to estimate a proportion of a power consumption for each application relative to the power consumption of the entire electronic apparatus, on the basis of the usage rates of the central processing unit and the device for each application, the usage rates being determined by the determiner, and the proportions of the power consumptions of the central processing unit and the device relative to the power consumption of the entire electronic apparatus, the proportions being determined by the divider. | 17,491 |
9,817,192 | 1. A method of protecting an optical module, comprising: preparing an optical module including a lens element; and attaching a protector to the optical module in a Manner that the protector covers a surface of the lens element, wherein the optical module includes the protector is inserted through the waveguide introduction opening. | 3,156 |
8,450,293 | 1. A compound of the formula: wherein: R each R wherein each aryl is optionally substituted with one or more groups independently selected from halo, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy, (C or a salt thereof. | 9,151 |
9,109,122 | 1. A culinary article or a domestic electrical cooking appliance having a food cooking surface, the food cooking surface including a Zr- and/or Nb- and/or Ti-based coating that is doped with Si and subjected to carburizing and/or nitriding during or after deposition of the Si and the Zr and/or Nb and/or Ti, wherein silicon content is between 1 and 15 at. %. | 666 |
9,321,460 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an avoidance controller configured to perform an avoidance control process for avoiding a collision between the vehicle and an external object by automatically steering the vehicle around the external object, if the external object is present on a route of the vehicle, or if the external object is about to enter the route; the avoidance controller comprising: an external object position judger configured to judge over a period of time a three-dimensional relative position and relative apparent shape of the external object with respect to a position of the vehicle; and a railroad crossing barrier estimator configured to estimate the presence of a railroad crossing barrier by estimating that the external object is the railroad crossing barrier when the transverse width of the relative apparent shape of the external object increases and the height of the relative apparent shape of the external object decreases over the period of time; wherein, if the external object is estimated as the railroad crossing barrier, the avoidance controller cancels or changes the avoidance control process with respect to the railroad crossing barrier to prevent the vehicle from automatically steering around the railroad crossing barrier. | 14,742 |
9,581,656 | 1. A method for detecting a phase failure in an energy supply grid during operation of an inverter, which is connected to the energy supply grid for feeding electrical energy via a YNd transformer, wherein values for an output current and an output voltage of the inverter are sensed, and power switches of the inverter are switched using control signals, wherein the control signals are generated depending on the values of the output current and output voltage at a fundamental frequency of the energy supply grid, comprising: transforming the output current values into a symmetrical positive-sequence current value and into a symmetrical negative-sequence current value of a coordinate system rotating at the fundamental frequency of the energy supply grid using a measurement signal conditioning circuit; determining a ratio of the negative-sequence current value to the positive-sequence current value using a controller; and detecting a phase failure in the energy supply grid if the determined ratio of the negative-sequence current value to the positive-sequence current value is greater than a preset threshold value for longer than a preset time period using the controller. | 18,229 |
9,174,543 | 1. A method for producing a manganese oxide/graphene nanocomposite, comprising: mixing a manganese precursor and a graphene colloid; reacting the manganese precursor and the graphene colloid; in a liquid phase to obtain a reaction solution at room temperature in the absence of a surfactant; and adding an oxidizer to the reaction solution to react the reaction solution with the oxidizer for 6hours or less at room temperature to produce the manganese oxide/graphene nanocomposite. | 8,458 |
8,580,244 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a sugar and a water soluble linear polymer conjugate, wherein the water soluble linear polymer conjugate comprises: a linear polymer comprising cyclodextrin moieties and comonomers which do not contain cyclodextrin moieties (comonomers); and camptothecin moieties covalently linked to the linear polymer, wherein the camptothecin moieties are cleaved from the water soluble linear polymer conjugate under biological conditions to release the camptothecin moieties; wherein the water soluble linear polymer conjugate comprises at least four cyclodextrin moieties and at least four comonomers. | 14,948 |
8,961,252 | 1. A vest which enables the user to control their buoyancy in the water comprising: a neck opening; a pair of arm holes; a front side with an exterior and interior surface and one or more pockets each having an opening on the exterior surface; a back side with an exterior and interior surface and one or more pockets each having an opening on the exterior surface; a plurality of foam inserts configured for selective engagement through the openings into the pockets on the front side and the back side for user control of the amount of buoyancy of the user; the back side has a lower end and a tab extending downward from the lower end of the back side; and the back side has a string or rope having one end attached to the tab whereby the string or rope extends downward from the tab, the tab and string or rope being configured to allow the user to pull the vest over their head. | 39,050 |
9,533,639 | 1. A battery system, comprising: a battery module; a high voltage interlock (HVIL) circuit; measurement electronics configured to measure a parameter related to an output of the battery module; and an integrated connector coupled to the battery module, wherein the integrated connector comprises: | 39,304 |
8,782,675 | 1. A method comprising: in a display window memory, storing contents of first and second windows; on a display device, displaying the contents of the first and second windows from the display window memory; with a first processor that executes Java bytecodes directly: creating a Java software object for abstracting the display window memory; executing a first application program for controlling the contents of the first window through the Java software object, at least in part by calling routines of a Java graphics library for performing operations in the first window; and executing a first window manager program; and with a second processor: executing a second application program for controlling the contents of the second window; and executing a second window manager program; wherein executing the first window manager program includes executing the first window manager program for, through a Java native interface call, informing the second window manager program about creation, movement and re-sizing of the first window; and wherein executing the second window manager program includes executing the second window manager program for: controlling placement of the second window on the display device; controlling whether the first window is located in a foreground on the display device; and controlling placement of the first window on the display device, in response to being informed by the first window manager program through the Java native interface call. | 49,968 |
8,725,328 | 1. A monitoring system for a pump pumping cooling water from upstream to downstream to cool the marine engine, the monitoring system comprising: a sensor sensing a characteristic of the cooling water at a location that is downstream of the pump; a control circuit in communication with the sensor, the control circuit being configured to receive the sensed characteristic of the cooling water, compare the sensed characteristic of the cooling water to a stored nominal value, and determine a present operational condition of the pump based on the comparison; wherein the control circuit is further configured to compare the sensed characteristic to a stored minimum value and determine the present operational condition of the pump based on the comparisons to both of the stored nominal value and the stored minimum value; and wherein the control circuit is further configured to interpolate a percent operational efficiency of the pump based on the comparisons to the stored nominal value and stored minimum value. | 21,434 |
8,358,082 | 1. A method of igniting an unlit lamp comprising: generating a control voltage, wherein the control voltage has a first range of values for controlling duty cycle of driving signals that control power to the unlit lamp and a second range of values for controlling frequency of the driving signals; and ramping the control voltage from a first level to a second level at a predefined rate to sequentially control a duty cycle sweep and a frequency sweep of the driving signals to provide an increasing output voltage to the unlit lamp while the output voltage across the unlit lamp is less than a predetermined level. | 25,746 |
9,766,679 | 1. A power monitoring device which monitors power of a power consuming device using the power supplied from a utility grid, the power monitoring device comprising: a power amount actual value holding unit which holds an actual value of a power amount used in the power consuming device in the past; a target power setting unit which calculates a predicted value of a power usage amount used in the power consuming device using the actual value of the power amount, receives information indicating respective power utilization rates of respective time periods of the utility grid, changes a previously determined target power amount to a target power amount that is reduced from the predicted value of the power usage amount concerning a time period in which a respective power utilization rate is larger than a prescribed threshold, and sets respective target power amounts of the respective time periods; and an assessment and control unit which obtains the power usage amount used in the power consuming device, and performs control for performing power saving of the power consuming device in a time period in which the obtained power usage amount exceeds the target power amount. | 23,557 |
9,012,098 | 1. A hydrogen production apparatus for generating a reformed gas containing hydrogen using a raw fuel and steam, the hydrogen production apparatus comprising: a burner; a combustion tube provided so as to surround flame of the burner and exhausting an exhaust gas of the burner from one side thereof; a reforming unit provided in a tubular shape so as to surround the combustion tube and subjecting the raw fuel and the steam to a reforming reaction to generate the reformed gas; an exhaust gas flow path provided in a tubular shape so as to pass through between the combustion tube and the reforming unit, fold back at the other side of the reforming unit, and extend through outside of the reforming unit on a predetermined side, the exhaust gas flow path passing the exhaust gas exhausted from the one side of the combustion tube; a low temperature shift unit provided in a tubular shape on one of inside and outside of an extending portion of the exhaust gas flow path that extends on the predetermined side so as to extend along the extending portion, the low temperature shift unit subjecting the reformed gas generated in the reforming unit to a shift reaction to reduce a carbon monoxide concentration in the reformed gas; and a preferential oxidation unit provided in a tubular shape on the other of the inside and the outside of the extending portion so as to extend along the extending portion, the preferential oxidation unit preferentially oxidizing the reformed gas subjected to the shift reaction in the low temperature shift unit to further reduce the carbon monoxide concentration. | 38,659 |
9,723,762 | 1. A data center comprising: heat producing components; and an air handling system configured to provide temperature and humidity conditioned air to the heat producing components to cool the heat producing components, wherein the air handling system comprises: wherein the thermal storage unit is configured to: | 14,782 |
9,773,287 | 1. A weapon management system using a police officer black-box, the weapon management system comprising: a first police officer black-box configured to sense an aiming movement of a user to a subject based on sensing information received from a plurality of sensor modules included in a weapon of the user and to collect, based on the sensed aiming movement, environment information from an environment information collecting module associated with the user; and a weapon management server configured to receive external environment information from a plurality of second police officer black-boxes located within a preset boundary around the user, based on an event message received from the first police officer black-box according to the aiming movement to the subject. | 22,244 |
8,961,684 | 1. A method of producing a modified coal combustion product comprising combusting coal in the presence of a particle size-reducing additive, wherein the modified coal combustion product has an average particle size less than an average particle size of a coal combustion product combusted from the coal without the additive. | 22,050 |
9,740,044 | 1. A set of polarizing plates comprising a front-plate-integrated polarizing plate to be disposed at a viewing side of a liquid crystal cell, and a back-side polarizing plate to be disposed at a back side of the liquid crystal cell, the front-plate-integrated polarizing plate including a front-side polarizing plate and a front plate, the front plate being disposed at a viewing side of the front-side polarizing plate, being stuck via an ultraviolet curing type resin or a pressure sensitive adhesive, and having a Young's modulus equal to or greater than 2 GPa, wherein both the front- and back-side polarizing plates are each a polarizing plate having a polarizer composed of a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin film having at least one surface with a transparent protective layer composed of a transparent polymer film laminated thereon, a distance d1 to the liquid crystal cell from that surface of a polarizer of the front-side polarizing plate which is farther away from the front plate is larger than a distance d2 to the liquid crystal cell from that surface of a polarizer of the back-side polarizing plate which is closer to the front plate, d1 is 100 μm or less, and d2 is 5 μm or more, and a total thickness of one or more transparent polymer films that the front-side polarizing plate has is larger than a total thickness of one or more transparent polymer films that the back-side polarizing plate has. | 33,466 |
8,913,007 | 1. A display apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit that captures a moving image of a user in a predetermined imaging space with respect to a direction in which an image is displayed by a display unit; an image analyzer that analyzes the captured moving image and calculates a position of the user in the predetermined imaging space, wherein the image analyzer: a display controller that causes the display unit to display information to guide the user to the optimum viewing position when the calculated position of the user is at a position other than the optimum viewing position. | 15,361 |
8,782,856 | 1. A rope connection comprising: a rope termination of a rope having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of sub-ropes, said rope termination comprising a termination member having proximal and distal ends and a plurality of load pins formed in a closed annulus around said longitudinal axis, each of said plurality of sub-ropes being spliced into itself to form a looped end arranged around said load pins and each of said plurality of sub-ropes being of equal length, wherein said termination member further comprises at least two tabs interconnecting said load pins, which said tabs extend radially outwardly from said longitudinal axis such that a circular cylindrical surface concentric with said longitudinal axis and intersecting said tabs entirely surrounds said load pins and said sub-ropes disposed around said load pins, said rope extending from said proximal end of the termination member; and a connector for connection with said tabs; whereby tension in the rope is equally transferred to said connector through said tabs and equally divided between said load pins and each of said plurality of sub-ropes. | 24,042 |
8,640,687 | 1. A method for melting snow, comprising: a. shredding the snow; b. mixing the shredded snow with heated melting water within an upright induction chamber positioned within a melting chamber filled with water and simultaneously drawing the melting water and snow downwardly through the induction chamber with a fan pump disposed in the induction chamber, the fan pump comprising a plurality of spaced-apart blades positioned along the length of the induction chamber; c. discharging a portion of the liquid composed of the melted snow and melting water expelled from the induction chamber via the fan pump forcing a portion of the liquid through a discharge subsystem; and d. reheating a portion of the liquid composed of the melted snow and melting water expelled from the induction chamber in a heating subsystem and directing such heated liquid back into the induction chamber for use in melting additional snow via the fan pump forcing a portion of liquid composed of the melted snow and melting water through the heating subsystem and back into the induction chamber. | 35,813 |
9,470,958 | 1. A lens driving apparatus comprising: a lens holding member that holds a lens and has a first contact part and a second contact part; a rack provided in the lens holding member and that transmits a motor driving force to the lens holding member; a first guide part that contacts the first contact part and supports the lens holding member so as to be movable back and forth in an optical axis direction of the lens; a second guide part that contacts the second contact part and supports the lens holding member so as to be movable back and forth in the optical axis direction, the second guide part being farther positioned apart from the rack than the first guide part in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction; and an energizing member that generates an energizing force in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction at a position apart from the second contact part in a longitudinal direction of the second guide part, wherein the energizing force energizes one end of the first contact part with respect to the first guide in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction and another end of the first contact part with respect to the first guide part in a second direction opposite to the first direction. | 3,969 |
8,613,907 | 1. A method of reducing the proliferation of a cancer cell comprising contacting the cancer cell with a composition consisting of a pharmaceutical carrier and an inhibitor of a ligand binding to an integrin receptor on the cancer cell, wherein the integrin receptor comprises integrin A6, wherein the ligand comprises laminin 5, and wherein the cancer cell expresses a mutated Ras and a mutated p53. | 38,327 |
9,517,606 | 1. A composite structure comprising: a plurality of components coupled together forming a joint, wherein said plurality of components are oriented such that a gap is defined at least partially therebetween; wherein said plurality of components are coupled together such that said gap extends along a length of said plurality of components; wherein at least one of said plurality of components comprises a bent portion such that a radius gap is defined between said plurality of components; and a filler structure positioned in said gap, said filler structure comprising a closed cell foam core having a porosity within a range defined between about 20 percent and about 40 percent by volume of said closed cell foam core, and said filler structure pre-formed and having a cross-sectional shape substantially similar to a cross-sectional shape of said gap; and wherein said closed cell foam core is fabricated from a silicone-based material. | 33,966 |
8,775,740 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor coupled to an address bus; a cache memory that couples to the address bus and comprises cache data, the cache memory divided into a plurality of ways; and a store buffer that couples to the address bus, and comprises store buffer data, a store buffer way and a store buffer index, wherein, the processor selects the store buffer data for use by a data load operation if both (i) a selected way of the plurality of ways matches the store buffer way and (ii) at least part of a virtual address on the address bus matches the store buffer index; otherwise, when the selected way matches the store buffer way, the processor selects the cache data corresponding to the selected way, and when the selected way does not match the store buffer way, the processor ends a store buffer access; a hashed address generator that couples to the address bus and converts the virtual address present on the address bus into a current hashed address; and a hash memory that couples to the address bus and comprises a saved hashed address associated with the cache data; wherein the current hashed address is compared to the saved hashed address; and wherein the result of the comparison of the hashed addresses is the selected way. | 32,095 |
9,490,719 | 1. A power supply controller comprising: an input interface configured to electrically receive a first power supply measurement signal and a second power supply measurement signal from a switched-mode power supply; a first controller configured to provide a first control parameter based on the first power supply measurement signal; a second controller configured to provide a second control parameter based on the second power supply measurement signal; a transformation circuit configured to a switch signal generator configured to generate switching signals based on the first switching control parameter and the second switching control parameter, wherein each of the switching signals depends on both the first switching control parameter and the second switching control parameter; and a driver circuit configured to electrically drive the switching signals. | 8,032 |
8,960,747 | 1. A lifting bracket assembly, comprising: a bracket configured to operably engage means for adjusting a lifting angle, and having a coupling device extending therefrom, said coupling device adapted to selectively attach the lifting bracket assembly to a device for moving a load; said means for adjusting a lifting angle selectively engaged to the bracket such that the bracket is at least partially received within the means for adjusting a lifting angle; and a point of suspension mounted to the means for adjusting a lifting angle, said point of suspension adapted to removably attach the lifting bracket assembly to means for lifting a load. | 27,955 |
9,631,574 | 1. A fuel injection control device for an internal combustion engine having a direct injector that is operated to inject fuel into a cylinder of the engine in a compression stroke and an intake stroke of the engine, the fuel injection control device performing fuel injection from the direct injector to supply a requested fuel injection amount determined based on an engine operating state, the fuel injection control device comprising: an electronic control unit that is programmed to set a target fuel injection amount of the fuel injection from the direct injector in the compression stroke to a requested value corresponding to the engine operating state, when the requested fuel injection amount is less than or equal to the target fuel injection amount, operate the direct injector to inject the requested fuel injection amount of fuel in the compression stroke, and when the requested fuel injection amount is greater than the target fuel injection amount, operate the direct injector to inject, in the intake stroke, an amount of fuel that is obtained by subtracting the target fuel injection amount from the requested fuel injection amount and operate the direct injector to inject the target fuel injection amount of fuel in the compression stroke. | 21,075 |
9,522,205 | 1. A method for introducing hydrogen peroxide vapor at different concentration levels to interior surfaces of lumens of medical instruments inside a sterilization chamber of a single sterilizer, comprising the steps of: obtaining a user input via a user interface of said single sterilizer; selecting one of a plurality of sterilization programs using said user input, wherein the plurality of sterilization programs includes a non-concentrated sterilization program and at least one concentrated sterilization program; partially filling an injector concentrator of said single sterilizer with an initial volume of liquid hydrogen peroxide solution, wherein said initial volume is determined by said selected sterilization program, wherein said liquid hydrogen peroxide solution has an initial concentration of less than 60% by weight; when said selected sterilization program is a concentrated sterilization program, preferentially vaporizing the water content of said liquid hydrogen peroxide solution by heating said injector concentrator and intermittently evacuating a condenser chamber connected to said injector concentrator using a vacuum pump, wherein said intermittent evacuation removes a portion of any vaporized water content in said condenser chamber, and wherein said vacuum pump can independently evacuate said condenser chamber regardless of the pressure within said sterilization chamber; and terminating said preferential vaporizing when the remaining liquid hydrogen peroxide solution in said injector concentrator is measured to exceed a target concentration, wherein said target concentration is determined by said selected sterilization program; then for all sterilization programs, intermittently transferring a portion of the liquid hydrogen peroxide solution from said injector concentrator to a separate pre-heated vaporizer of said single sterilizer, wherein said vaporizer is connected to both said injector concentrator and to said sterilization chamber; vaporizing any liquid hydrogen peroxide solution in said vaporizer into hydrogen peroxide vapor; and maintaining said hydrogen peroxide vapor in contact with said medical instruments as part of a diffusion cycle until sterilization is achieved. | 13,180 |
8,863,646 | 1. A system, comprising: a compressor; a crankshaft; a motor coupled to the crankshaft; a first member coupled to the crankshaft, wherein the first member comprises a first magnet that translates along with the first member; a piston; a second member coupled to the piston, wherein the second member comprises a second magnet that translates along with the second member; and a barrier completely isolating the first member from the second member, wherein the first magnet magnetically couples with the second magnet through the barrier to impart translational motion from the first member to the second member. | 39,104 |
8,363,245 | 1. A printing system comprising: an image forming apparatus; a server having a print-related information sending unit, a first generation unit, a first sending unit, and a second sending unit; and a client terminal having a print execution requesting unit, a judging unit, a judgment result sending unit, a second generation unit, and a third sending unit, wherein the print execution requesting unit is adapted to specify data among data stored in the server, and send a print execution request to the server, wherein the print-related information sending unit is adapted to receive the print execution request sent by the print execution requesting unit, and send print-related information relating to the specified data to the client terminal, wherein the judging unit is adapted to receive the print-related information sent by the print-related information sending unit, and judge whether or not the client terminal is able to generate print data with the specified data based on the print-related information, wherein the judgment result sending unit is adapted to send a judgment result obtained by the judging unit to the server, wherein the first generation unit is adapted to, in a case where the judging unit judges that the client terminal is unable to generate print data with the specified data, generate print data based on the specified data, wherein the first sending unit is adapted to send the print data generated by the first generation unit to the image forming apparatus, wherein the second sending unit is adapted to, in a case where the judging unit judges that the client terminal is able to generate print data with the specified data, send the specified data to the client terminal, wherein the second generation unit is adapted to generate print data based on the specified data sent by the second sending unit, and wherein the third sending unit is adapted to send the print data generated by the second generation unit to the image forming apparatus. | 29,888 |
9,130,387 | 1. A hybrid integrated wind-solar-diesel-city power supply system comprising multiple wind power subsystems, each one of which comprises a wind generator and a power control model, wherein said wind power control model includes a power convertor model for converting alternating-current output from a wind generator into direct-current, and a power control model, which is configured to automatically search a maximum power generated by a wind generator in its operation, so as to control the wind power subsystem to output power in a way of tracking its maximized power output; multiple solar power subsystems, each one of which comprises solar panels and a solar power control unit, wherein said solar power control unit includes a power control model, which is configured to automatically search a maximum power generated by solar panels in operation so as to tracking its maximized power output; at least one diesel-city power subsystem, which comprise a city power supply, a diesel fuel generator and a rectifier switch unit, wherein said rectifier switch unit includes a switch model, a generator self-start model and a rectifier model, said switch model being configured to selectively switch on or off the diesel fuel generator and the city power to connect with or disconnected from the hybrid power supply system, said rectifier model being configured to convert the alternating-current of the city power supply into the direct-current; a direct-current bus unit, said wind power subsystems and said solar power subsystems and said at least one diesel-city power subsystem being coupled to said direct-current bus unit for direct-current afflux; a main control unit; multiple high frequency rectifiers; and a direct-current distribution unit, which includes at least one set of batteries; wherein said multiple high frequency rectifiers are multiplexedly connected with the output of said direct-current bus unit and the input of said direct-current distribution unit; and said main control unit is configured to select a set of subsystems from said multiple wind power subsystems and enable said selected set of subsystems and disable others, so as to let a sum of maximum power output of all enabled subsystems to be larger than or equal to power demanded while minimize number of the enabled subsystems contained in the selected set of subsystems, said power demanded being calculated based on voltage and current output of said direct-current bus and voltage and current output of a direct-current distribution unit, said maximum power output of each one of said wind power subsystems and said solar power subsystems being calculated based on their respective operation status. | 13,971 |
9,793,589 | 1. A band-pass filter, comprising: a single dielectric substrate comprising a single dielectric layer having an upper surface and a lower surface opposed to each other, the single dielectric substrate having a cuboid shape extending in a waveguide axial direction; a pair of conductor layers respectively arranged on the upper surface and the lower surface of the dielectric substrate; two rows of through hole groups for forming sidewalls, which are formed at predetermined intervals in the waveguide axial direction so as to electrically connect the pair of conductor layers, the two rows of through hole groups for forming sidewalls being arranged in the single dielectric substrate so as to be separated away from each other at a fixed distance in a width direction orthogonal to the waveguide axial direction, each row of through hole groups for forming sidewalls being linearly arranged in a single straight line that is in parallel with the waveguide axial direction; and a plurality of center through holes for electrically connecting the pair of conductor layers, the plurality of center through holes being formed in parallel to the waveguide axial direction and arranged in a center of a waveguide formed in a region surrounded by the pair of conductor layers and the two rows of the through hole groups for forming sidewalls. | 32,609 |
9,379,170 | 1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device comprising: a gate line including a gate electrode on an array substrate and comprised of a first conductive layer; an active layer over the gate line with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween and comprised of an amorphous zinc oxide semiconductor; a first source electrode and a first drain electrode on a source region and a drain region of the active layer, respectively, and comprised of a second conductive layer; an interlayer insulating layer over the array substrate with the first source electrode and the first drain electrode; red, green, and blue color filters on the interlayer insulating layer and covering a pixel region in which an image is displayed; a first protective layer over the array substrate with the color filters and including a first contact hole and a second contact hole exposing the first source electrode and the first drain electrode, respectively; a second source electrode and a second drain electrode comprised of a third conductive layer on the first protective layer and electrically connected to the first source electrode and the first drain electrode through the first contact hole and the second contact hole, respectively; a second protective layer over the array substrate with the second source electrode and the second drain electrode and having a third contact hole exposing the second drain electrode; a pixel electrode comprised of a fourth conductive layer on the second protective layer and electrically connected to the second drain electrode through the third contact hole; a partition over the array substrate with the pixel electrode and partitioning the pixel region; an organic light emitting layer over the array substrate with the partition; and a common electrode on the organic light emitting layer, wherein the gate electrode is located to cover a lower portion of the active layer and the second source electrode is extended to cover the channel region of the active layer. | 30,528 |
8,770,016 | 1. A diesel particulate filter (referred to as “DPF” hereinafter) failure detection method for detecting a failure in a DPF that is arranged in an exhaust pipe guiding exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine to the atmosphere, the DPF failure detection method comprising: calculating a deposited amount (referred to as “theoretical deposited amount” hereinafter) of a particulate matter (referred to as “PM” hereinafter) deposited on the DPF from an operating state of the internal combustion engine; measuring a deposited amount (referred to as “actual deposited amount” hereinafter) of the PM on the DPF based on an electrical capacitance of an electrical capacitance type PM sensor configured by two electrodes disposed in the DPF; and determining that the DPF has a failure, when a divergence of the actual deposited amount from the theoretical deposited amount exceeds an allowable limit. | 43,105 |
9,652,029 | 1. A visual apparatus which detects an interaction object, comprising: a transmitter adapted to transmit a first burst to be received by the interaction object; a camera adapted to capture the interaction object in synchronization with the first burst; and a receiver adapted to receive a second burst transmitted from another visual apparatus to be received by the interaction object, wherein: when the receiver receives the second burst, the transmitter transmits the first burst with adjusted timing such that the transmitter transmits the first burst in a same timing as the second burst, and the camera captures light transmitted from the interaction object, the light being synchronized to the first burst transmitted in the same timing as the second burst. | 33,931 |
8,794,442 | 1. Package structure for glass containers for pharmaceutical use, comprising a tray accommodating at a raised position with respect to its bottom a support plane having, for the introduction of said containers, a plurality of holes spaced from each other with a preset spatial order and having a central symmetry axis orthogonal to said support plane, said support plane further holding, at each of said holes, elastically yielding means for holding a container by means of a holding force radial with respect to said central symmetry axis, said holding means extending into the volume enclosed by a projection of the perimeter of each of said holes in a direction parallel to said central symmetry axis, wherein said holding means are arranged beneath said support plane, wherein said holding means comprise at least one rib which develops along a circumference centered on said central symmetry axis and is adapted to elastically fit against equally distributed areas around a circumference of, or the entire circumference of, an external perimeter of a side wall of a container received within said hole, wherein each of said holes has an associated basket projecting from the support plane and beneath said holes and said at least one rib is formed in the basket, and wherein the basket has an internal side surface in which the rib is formed and a base which serves as support for a base or head of a container received in the basket, wherein the at least one rib extends along a circumferential line of the internal side surface of the basket, wherein an external side of the basket opposite the internal side surface in which the rib is formed is concave, the basket being configured to retain the container such that at least a portion of the container is supported on the base of the basket and at least a portion of the container projects above the support plane, wherein the support plane is supported perimetrally by a support shoulder which extends along the internal surface of all the side walls of the tray, the shoulder being located closer to the top than to the bottom of the tray and separates a lower portion of the tray from a perimetrally larger upper portion of the tray. | 47,518 |
9,329,165 | 1. A centrifugal separation kit installed to a centrifugal separator to divide blood into blood cell components composed of a Red Blood Cell (RBC) layer and blood plasma components composed of a Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) layer and a PPP (Platelet Poor Plasma) layer in order from a bottom thereof, comprising: a) an injector having an opening at an upper portion thereof so that a piston having a rubber packing installed thereto is movably inserted into the upper portion through the opening, the injector having a first predetermined volumetric capacity corresponding to a known volume of whole blood (Wb) and an insert portion at a lower portion thereof to which an injector needle is installed thereto; and b) a centrifugal separation tube loadable on the centrifugal separator with the injector installed thereto, comprising: wherein the centrifugal separation tube is configured for including a predetermined amount of cell isolation gel having a volume of equal or greater than 0, and wherein a lower side of the collecting unit has an adjusted location so that the second predetermined volumetric capacity is substantially equal to the sum of the volume of the cell isolation gel and a predetermined fraction of the first predetermined volumetric capacity, wherein the predetermined fraction corresponds to a known volume of RBCs (Vb) present in the known volume of whole blood (Wb). | 16,685 |
8,906,632 | 1. A method of treating asthma in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to and inhibits the expression or intracellular signaling of long-form BLT2. | 47,991 |
8,749,069 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; a metal interconnection line formed on the substrate; an interlayer dielectric formed on the metal interconnection line; and a via hole penetrating the interlayer dielectric and exposing a portion of the metal interconnection line, and having a triple profile in which an upper portion of the via hole has a wet etch profile, a middle portion of the via hole has a high selectivity dry etch profile, and a lower portion of the via hole has a high etch rate dry etch profile and a taper angle in a range of about 30° to about 70°. | 22,271 |
9,731,248 | 1. A composite membrane comprising: a) a porous support; b) a gutter layer comprising dialkoxysilane groups; and c) a discriminating layer; wherein at least 10% of the discriminating layer is intermixed with the gutter layer. | 12,482 |
9,174,841 | 1. A solid oxide fuel cell anode comprising: a porous permeable metal substrate; a diffusion barrier layer disposed over the porous permeable metal substrate; and a nano-composite film disposed over the diffusion barrier layer and having a plurality of metal nanoparticles, a plurality of metal oxide nanoparticles, and a plurality of nano gas pores that are connected to form a plurality of nano gas channels;, the sizes of the metal nanoparticles are larger than the sizes of the metal oxide nanoparticles, and the sizes of the metal nanoparticles are about 2 to 4 times of the sizes of the metal oxide nanoparticles; wherein the metal nanoparticles connect with one another to form a 3-dimensional (3D) electron conductive network while the metal oxide nanoparticles connect to form a 3D oxygen ion conductive network, the 3D electron conductive network and the 3D oxygen ion conductive network are interlaced or intermixed each other, the nano gas pores between the metal nanoparticles and the metal oxide nanoparticles are formed by hydrogen reduction, the size of the metal nanoparticles is smaller than 100 nm, the size of the metal oxide nanoparticles is smaller than 40 nm, and the size of the nano gas pores and the size of the nano gas channels are smaller than 100 nm, the diffusion barrier layer is made of a compound with perovskite structure selected from the group consisting of lanthanum strontium manganese chromite, lanthanum strontium manganese cobaltite, lanthanum strontium chromite, and lanthanum strontium cobaltite, the lanthanum strontium manganese chromite is La | 41,604 |
9,528,385 | 1. A method of controlling the angular orientation of at least one variable fluidfoil, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving detected fluidfoil angular orientation data for the at least one fluidfoil; b) receiving data regarding the operating point of the variable fluidfoil and/or of all or part of a broader system in which the variable fluidfoil is employed; c) receiving a fluidfoil angular orientation demand; d) selecting a modification algorithm for calculating a modified angular orientation demand, the selection of the modification algorithm being made according to the operating point of the variable fluidfoil and/or of all or part of a broader system in which the variable fluidfoil is employed; e) generating the modified demand by modifying the fluidfoil angular orientation demand before it is used to control adjustment of the at least one fluidfoil, the modification being performed using the detected fluidfoil angular orientation data; and f) outputting the modified demand and controlling the at least one fluidfoil angular orientation in accordance with the modified demand. | 24,616 |
9,549,387 | 1. A method for reducing interference in a conducted radio frequency (RF) link, the method comprising: determining country information for an electronic device having a conducted RF link; based on the country information, determining if any RF channels are not available to be radiated for wireless communications; and if an unavailable RF channel exists, using the unavailable RF channel for RF signal generation and transmission over the conducted RF link. | 27,477 |
8,555,847 | 1. A process for production of an intake manifold or splitter ( 1 ) to be mounted on a cylinder head block of an internal combustion engine, the process comprising: providing mounting the bearing parts ( installing the completed sub-assembly ( implementing a molding or over-molding at a level of the contact surface of the at least one connection plate ( | 9,918 |
8,794,907 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: a multiple stage compressor with stages of stator vanes and rotor blades; a combustor; a turbine; a heat exchanger; a last stage of airfoils in the compressor having an internal cooling air circuit to provide cooling for the airfoil; a cooling air supply passage to supply cooling air to a cooling air inlet of the last stage airfoil; the cooling air supply passage connected to a stage of the compressor having a lower pressure than the last stage airfoil; a cooling air discharge passage to discharge spent cooling air from a cooling air outlet of the last stage airfoil; the cooling air discharge passage passing through the heat exchanger; a fuel passing through the heat exchanger to cool the cooling air discharged from the last stage airfoil; and, passing the preheated fuel into the combustor. | 11,172 |
8,398,992 | 1. A method of modulating the immune response to one or more infectious agents in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a plurality of compositions, each composition being administered to a different site of the subject wherein each composition comprises at least one purified antigenic molecule, wherein at least one purified antigenic molecule in each composition comprises one or more epitopes of the same infectious agent or a strain thereof, and wherein the one or more molecules of each composition comprise in aggregate a set of epitopes distinct from that of any other composition so administered, wherein (a) each site is, or substantially drains to, an anatomically distinct body part selected from the group consisting of a lymph node, a group of lymph nodes, a nonencapsulated cluster of lymphoid tissue, and the spleen (b) the distance between each pair of sites is greater than the distance between any two anatomically distinct lymph nodes or groups of lymph nodes nearest each site and (c) wherein the distinct epitopes between the compositions differ from each other by an epitopic variance defined as the sum of the number of non-conservative amino acid changes and one half of the number of conservative amino acid changes divided by the total number of amino acids in the epitope, and wherein the epitopic variance between the distinct epitopes between the compositions is between 0.05-0.5, wherein said infectious agent causes the infectious disease in amounts effective to modulate said immune response. | 1,799 |
8,347,852 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: adjusting a timing and number of injections, in a given engine cycle, of a pre-ignition suppressing fluid injection to a cylinder based on an indication of pre-ignition in the cylinder being higher than a threshold while a rate of change in a parameter indicative of cylinder aircharge is higher than a threshold rate; and adjusting a split ratio of the pre-ignition suppressing fluid injection based on the indication. | 3,123 |
9,286,318 | 1. An edge server configured to perform overwrite preventive processing of a corresponding file in a core server, comprising: a communication interface device which is configured to communicate with a core server; and a processor which is connected to a memory and the communication interface device and configured to provide a first home directory and write a file in the first home directory according to a write request to the first home directory, wherein the core server provides a core space, the core space is a file system space to become a copy destination of updates of files and directories of each of the first home directory and a second home directory, the first home directory is a first file system space used by a user, the second home directory is a second file system space used by the user and provided by a separate edge server, wherein a first file is a file in the first home directory that has been updated, the preventive processing is executed by the processor and includes the processes of: creating a first directory in the first home directory; copying the first file to the first directory while maintaining a path structure of the first file; copying the first directory to the core space as the process of copying the update of the first home directory to the core server; creating a second directory in the first home directory;and moving directories, excluding the second directory, and files belonging to a route directory of the first home directory to the second directory while maintaining the path structure, wherein the first file copied to the first directory is a same file as a file in the files that have been moved to the second directory, and the path structure of the first file in the second directory is a same as the path structure in the first directory, wherein the second file is a file that has been updated in the second home directory and copied to the core space, and wherein the first file is a file that corresponds to the second file and has not been copied to the core space. | 25,555 |
9,651,916 | 1. A cartridge insertable into a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, comprising: a first unit including a first bearing portion for rotatably supporting an image bearing member; a second unit including a second bearing portion for rotatably supporting a developer carrying member; and a storing medium including an electrical contact, wherein said second bearing portion is provided inside said first bearing portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of said image bearing member, wherein at least a part of said storing medium is supported by said second unit and is provided at a position outside said second bearing portion and inside an outermost end of said first unit with respect to the rotational axis direction, and wherein said electrical contact faces toward a direction crossing the rotational axis direction. | 3,674 |
8,476,844 | 1. A lighting apparatus, comprising: a white light emitting diode (LED) and a red-green-blue (RGB) LED disposed on a mounting and at least partially enclosed by a housing, the RGB LED capable of producing red, green and blue components of light; a first LED driver to control current to the white LED; a second LED driver to control current to the RGB LED; and a microcontroller electrically connected to the first and second LED drivers; wherein: | 36,490 |
8,597,973 | 1. A method for manufacturing CIGS thin film solar cell, comprising: forming a first layer by coating or printing a first ink that contains Cu heating the first layer; forming a second layer by coating or printing a second ink that contains (In,Ga) heating the second layer, wherein x and y satisfy 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1. | 6,605 |
8,910,884 | 1. An injector for injecting a reagent, comprising: a housing; an axially translatable valve member positioned within the housing; an electromagnet positioned within the housing and including a coil of wire positioned proximate the valve member, wherein the valve member moves between a seated position and an unseated position relative to an orifice in response to energizing the electromagnet; a connector coupled to the housing, the connector including an inlet tube concentrically aligned with and surrounding a return tube, the inlet tube being adapted to receive pressurized reagent from a source of reagent, the return tube being adapted to return reagent to the source; a pole piece having an internal passage in communication with the return tube; and a coupling positioned in the housing fluidly connecting the pole piece passage and the return tube, wherein the reagent flows from the inlet tube around the coupling and subsequently through the coupling to enter the return tube, wherein the connector includes a plurality of webs interconnecting the inlet tube and the return tube. | 23,496 |
9,067,786 | 1. A reactor for catalytic primary reformation of hydrocarbons with steam at elevated pressure comprising: a device for top-firing of a reforming process furnace, wherein a firing device configured to heat a thermally insulated furnace space with gas-proof sealed process-managing reforming tubes arranged in the furnace space which are to be fed with a catalyst suitable for reforming processes and through which a reforming gas mixture is passed, and the firing device is comprised of a multitude of burners arranged between these reforming tubes, and the firing device is connected to a supply of fuel gas and a supply of air, and separate feeder devices exist in each burner for the fuel gas and air, said feeder devices being arranged in flush alignment and being lockable individually, and each burner is configured to blend the fuel gas and air in the burner, wherein the feeder device for air into each burner comprises a main inlet channel and an additional secondary inlet channel, and both inlet channels are equipped with facilities that are suitable to adjust and also to shut-off the gas flow, and the secondary inlet channel is branched off from the relevant main inlet channel downstream of the facility for adjustment of the gas flow, and wherein the other channel extends further and forms a primary air channel, and the ratio of cross-sectional areas of the secondary inlet channel to the main inlet channel upstream to the branch-off of the secondary inlet channel ranges between 1:2 and 1:100. | 36,377 |
9,284,917 | 1. A gas distribution manifold in a cylinder head of a heat engine of a motor vehicle, the manifold comprising: a manifold housing comprising an input face for a flow of intake gas and an output face intended to open into the cylinder head of the engine, so as to allow a circulation of the flow of intake gas from upstream to downstream in the manifold housing, the manifold housing further comprising a heat exchanger disposed between an input face and an output face such that the flow of intake gas flows across the heat exchanger between the input face and the output face, and means for injecting a flow of recirculated exhaust gases from the engine into the flow of intake gas, wherein the injection means are configured so that the flow of recirculated exhaust gases is injected counter-current to the flow of intake gas. | 13,132 |
8,726,020 | 1. A method of automatically establishing communication between a trusted network and a perimeter network outside the trusted network; said method comprising: identifying one or more edge servers residing in the perimeter network that are located on a same site as a trusted server residing in the trusted network; attempting, by the trusted server residing in the trusted network, to establish an exclusive lease over communication with one of the identified edge servers in the perimeter network, wherein said exclusive lease prevents other trusted servers residing in the trusted network from communicating with the identified edge server during a hold period for the exclusive lease, said exclusive lease reserving the right of the trusted server to communicate exclusively with the one of the identified edge servers; establishing communication between the trusted server and the one of the identified edge servers for the hold period when the trusted server can establish the exclusive lease over communication therewith; and in response to establishing communication with the trusted server, replicating server configuration information from the trusted network to the edge server. | 207 |
8,342,051 | 1. A dual clutch transmission for a vehicle comprising: a first clutch housing driven by an engine extending along a first axis generally aligned with an output axis of said engine; a chain driven by said first clutch housing; a second clutch housing driven by said chain extending along a second axis generally parallel spaced from said first axis; a first input shaft driven by said first clutch; a second input shaft driven by said second clutch; output shaft(s) driven by said input shafts having selective meshed torsional force transferring gear contact therewith; a differential input gear driven by said output shaft(s); and wherein said chain axially overlappingly extends over a clutch piston of at least one of said first and second clutch housings. | 32,741 |
8,583,688 | 1. A computer based method for creating an application functionality, comprising: determining a first tabset and a second tabset, each of the tabsets including tabs, wherein one or more of the tabs provides a user access to data objects or application elements of one or more applications; presenting the first tabset to an end user; and providing to the end user a persistent tabset selector for enabling the user to selectively display the first and second tabsets if more than one tabset is available to the end user, wherein the tabset selector is visible as continuously part of a primary window of an application-level interface, wherein the primary window renders the data objects or application elements. | 46,699 |
9,847,721 | 1. A voltage converter comprising: a switching driver including a pull-up switching circuit and a pull-down switching circuit, the pull-up switching circuit being configured to connect an input voltage to a switching node in response to a pull-up signal, the pull-down switching circuit being configured to connect a ground voltage to the switching node in response to a pull-down signal; a controller configured to generate the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal in response to a pulse width modulation signal and configured to measure a pull-up turn-on time of the pull-up switching circuit and a pull-down turn-on time of the pull-down switching circuit to control a dead time, the dead time being a time during which both of the pull-up switching circuit and the pull-down switching circuit are turned off; a low-pass filter configured to filter a switching voltage signal on the switching node to generate an output voltage; and a pulse width modulation signal generator configured to generate the pulse width modulation signal based on a reference signal and the output voltage, wherein the controller includes: a detector configured to generate a pull-up digital signal and a pull-down digital signal based on the switching voltage signal, the null-un signal, and the null-down signal, wherein the pull-un digital signal represents the null-un turn-on time and the null-down digital signal represents the null-down turn-on time, a signal generator configured to generate the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal based on the pulse width modulation signal, the pull-up digital signal, and the pull-down digital signal, such that the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal have the dead time corresponding to the pull-up turn-on time and the pull-down turn-on time. | 45,862 |
8,519,649 | 1. A control device of a synchronous machine comprising: an inverter configured to provide an output current to drive the synchronous machine; a controller configured to generate a gate command, wherein the gate command controls the output current, wherein the controller comprises a current tracking pulse width modulation method controller and a voltage type pulse width modulation method controller, wherein the current tracking pulse width modulation method controller only chooses a non-zero vector and generates the gate command by using the chosen non-zero vector at a time when the inverter transitions from not driving the synchronous machine with the output current to driving the synchronous machine, wherein the voltage type pulse width modulation method controller is configured to control the output current of the inverter at a time after the inverter transitions to driving the synchronous machine; and a phase angle and angular velocity estimating section configured to estimate a phase angle and an angular velocity of a rotor of the synchronous machine based, at least in part, on an inductance value, an induction voltage value, the gate command, and the output current to be supplied to the synchronous machine; wherein the controller is further configured to control the output current based, at least in part, on the phase angle and the angular velocity. | 41,271 |
8,597,546 | 1. A process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas, the process comprising: first, separately preheating starting gases comprising a hydrocarbon-comprising stream and an oxygen-comprising stream; then mixing the starting gases in a mixing zone to form a mixture of starting gases; passing the mixture of starting gases through a burner block; after the mixture of starting gases have flowed through the burner block, reacting the mixture of starting gases in a firing space, to form products; and then cooling the products rapidly, wherein: a surface on a firing space side of the burner block is covered with a purge gas stream which is introduced through the burner block by two or more purge gas bores; an averaged ratio of effective surface area of the burner block to a number of the purge gas bores in the burner block is within a range from 5 to 100 cm the purge gas stream conducted through the purge gas bores is deflected by at least one distributor device such that 70 to 100% by volume of the purge gas stream is conducted parallel to the surface on the firing space side of the burner block. | 25,169 |
9,723,661 | 1. An LED driver circuit comprising: a primary circuit and an electrically isolated circuit that is electrically isolated from the primary circuit; a transformer having a primary winding configured to receive power from an alternating current source and to generate power in a first secondary winding configured to provide power to the electrically isolated circuit, and to generate power in a second secondary winding configured to provide power to the primary circuit; and a conductor connected to an end of the first secondary winding and configured to connect a winding driver signal to the first secondary winding to generate power in the second secondary winding. | 34,982 |
9,716,404 | 1. A charging circuit of a battery, comprising: a charging control module providing a charging voltage; a current detecting module detecting a charging current and generating a detecting voltage according to the charging current; and a compensation module detecting the charging voltage and providing a feedback voltage to the charging control module according to the detecting voltage and the charging voltage, wherein the compensation module further includes: a buffer receiving and buffering the charging voltage, and providing the buffered charging voltage to an operational amplifier; the operational amplifier receiving the detecting voltage and the buffered charging voltage, and subtracting the detecting voltage from the buffered charging voltage to obtain the feedback voltage; a first resistor electrically connected between a first input terminal of the operational amplifier and the current detecting module; a second resistor electrically connected between the first input terminal of the operational amplifier and an output terminal of the operational amplifier; a third resistor electrically connected between an output terminal of the buffer and a second input terminal of the operational amplifier; and a fourth resistor electrically connected between the second input terminal of the operational amplifier and a ground potential. | 27,585 |
8,730,256 | 1. A color selection input device, comprising: a non-static and dynamically adjustable color circle and a color selector representing user-selectable colors arranged on said adjustable color circle according to hue gradation along a direction thereof, wherein the representation of user-selectable colors on said adjustable color circle is non-symmetrically divided into a plurality of non-equal segments including first segments of a user-preferred hue and second segments of non-user-preferred hue; said user-preferred hue and said non-user preferred hue determined according to user preference input, said user-preferred input determined from received hue selection signals of said color selector tracked over a time period; said adjustable color circle modified based upon said user-preferred input to modify on a regular basis said first segments relative to said second segments, wherein each first segment is larger than each second segment, one of the first segments is a segment including the hues of red to yellow, one of the second segments includes a segment including the hues of blue to magenta, wherein a resolution of input in the first segments is higher than a resolution of input in the second segments, and wherein said color selection input device is configured to transmit a color of said user-selectable colors to a lighting system in response to a user selection of the color on said adjustable color circle. | 35,168 |
8,586,035 | 1. A method of enhancing a Th1 immune response in a subject having a chronic fungal infection selected from the group consisting of candidiasis and aspergillosis, comprising administering an antagonist of IL-23. | 48,314 |
9,592,394 | 1. An active implantable medical device comprising: a housing comprising: | 34,910 |
8,729,769 | 1. An electromechanical device comprising: a center shaft; a rotor having a rotor magnet disposed around an outer periphery of the center shaft; and a stator disposed on an outer periphery of the rotor, wherein the center shaft is formed of a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, and when projection is performed in a radial direction from the center shaft toward the rotor magnet, an angle between a direction of carbon fiber in the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic and a direction of the center shaft is 45°. | 39,954 |
8,675,172 | 1. An immersion lithographic apparatus comprising: a table including a recess to position an object therein; a liquid removal device including a first and a second outlet that are each connectable to an under pressure source to remove liquid through the first and the second outlet from the recess, the object or both, the first and the second outlet forming, respectively, a first and a second elongated extractor of a predetermined geometry, wherein the liquid removal device is arranged separate from a liquid confinement structure constructed and arranged to confine liquid in a space between an optical element of said immersion lithographic apparatus and the table, or the object or both; and a controller configured to cause relative movement between the table and the liquid removal device such that the first and the second extractor are adapted to pass over the recess, wherein, in use, one of the first and the second extractor is activated to remove liquid from the recess, the object or both based upon a position of the liquid removal device relative to the object. | 27,953 |
8,903,599 | 1. A failure determination device for determining a failure of a shutter device of a vehicle that has an engine room provided with a condenser of a refrigeration cycle for an aircon, and has a front opening provided with a shutter which can be opened and closed, the shutter device being provided for introducing ambient air into the engine room for cooling the condenser by opening the shutter, comprising: refrigerant pressure detection means for detecting a pressure of a refrigerant discharged from the condenser as a refrigerant pressure; and failure determination means for determining a failure of the shutter device based on the detected refrigerant pressure; opening/closing control means for controlling opening/closing of the shutter by outputting an opening command or a closing command to the shutter device as an opening/closing command, wherein said failure determination means determines that a failure has occurred in the shutter device when a difference between a closing command-time refrigerant pressure which is a refrigerant pressure detected when the closing command has output from said opening/closing control means and an opening command-time refrigerant pressure which is a refrigerant pressure detected when the opening command has output, during operation of the aircon, is not larger than a predetermined value. | 31,393 |
8,385,032 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first boost converter coupled between an input ac source and an output; a second boost converter coupled between the input ac source and the output; a first switch coupled between an input of the first boost converter and ground; a second switch coupled between an input of the second boost converter and ground; a first surge protection diode coupled between the input of the first boost converter and the output; and a second surge protection diode coupled between the input of the second boost converter and the output. | 34,239 |
9,065,090 | 1. A fuel cell, comprising: an electrolyte membrane including an anode surface and a cathode surface; a pair of electrode catalyst layers respectively laminated on the anode surface and on the cathode surface of the electrolyte membrane; a pair of gas flow passage forming members respectively laminated on the pair of electrode catalyst layers; a plurality of gas passages formed on each of the gas flow passage forming members and including a first gas passage and a second gas passage; a pair of separators respectively provided integrally with or independently from the pair of gas flow passage forming members; a pair of introducing passages for respectively introducing fuel gas and oxidation gas to the gas passages; and a pair of discharging passages for respectively discharging fuel off-gas and oxidation off-gas from the gas passages, wherein the first gas passage and the second gas passage are shaped to generate a difference in flow resistance between the first gas passage and the second gas passage in each of the gas flow passage forming members, a corresponding separator of the pair of separators comes into contact with the surface of each of the gas flow passage forming members, each of the gas flow passage forming members includes: wherein a plurality of water passages are formed between the separator and the tabular part, each of the water passages and at least one of the gas passages are in communication via a communication hole formed in the gas passage forming member, the depth of each of the water passages is set to be less than the depth of each of the gas passages, and water generated based on reaction of the fuel gas and the oxidation gas is drawn into the water passage based on capillary action through the communication hole from each of the gas passages, and discharged to the discharging passage based on the flow pressure of gas. | 41,415 |
9,682,693 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine; a first motor that receives and outputs power; a planetary gear having three rotary elements that are connected respectively to a rotary shaft of the first motor, an output shaft of the engine, and a drive shaft coupled to an axle such that on a collinear diagram, the rotary shaft, the output shaft, and the drive shaft are arranged in that order; a second motor that receives and outputs power from and to the drive shaft; a first inverter that drives the first motor; a second inverter that drives the second motor; a battery that exchanges power with the first and second motors via the first and second inverters; and an electronic control unit configured to control the engine such that a rotation speed of the engine increases at a predetermined time when the engine is operative, a signal indicating that respective gates of the first and second inverters are both blocked is received, and an accelerator is ON. | 34,400 |
9,356,321 | 1. A lead-acid battery in which at least one electrode plate group formed such that a plurality of positive electrode plates and a plurality of negative electrode plates are stacked on each other with a separator being interposed between adjacent ones of the positive and negative electrode plates is housed in at least one cell chamber together with an electrolyte, wherein each positive electrode plate includes: each negative electrode plate includes: an area PS of the positive electrode surface layer on the surface of the positive electrode grid is larger than an area NS of the negative electrode surface layer on the surface of the negative electrode grid, NS/PS falls within a range of 0.3-0.8, and the positive and negative electrode surface layers are made of a Pb—Sb based alloy containing antimony at a content of 1.0 to 5.0 mass %. | 8,603 |
9,222,085 | 1. A double-stranded, blunt-ended RNA molecule of 22 basepairs in length comprising: a) an active strand comprising b) a passenger strand that is fully complementary to the active strand and comprises | 13,884 |
9,711,295 | 1. A dye-sensitized solar cell module, the dye-sensitized solar cell module comprising: a working electrode including a first collector and a photo-electrode to which a dye is adsorbed on a first transparent conductive substrate; a counter electrode including a second collector and a catalytic electrode on a second transparent conductive substrate; an electrolyte injected into a space between the working electrode and the counter electrode; wherein the first collector includes a first collector part disposed on a first surface of the first transparent conductive substrate, the first surface of the first transparent conductive substrate facing the second transparent conductive substrate and a first connection part extending from the first collector part, the first connection part extending along a side surface of the first transparent conductive substrate, wherein the second collector includes a second collector part disposed on a first surface of the second transparent conductive substrate, the first surface of the second transparent conductive substrate facing the first transparent conductive substrate and a second connection part extending from the second collector part, the second connection part extending along a side surface of the second transparent conductive substrate, wherein the length of the first connection part extending along the side surface of the first transparent conductive substrate is about 50% to 80% of a thickness of the side surface of the first transparent conductive substrate and the length of the second connection part extending along the side surface of the second transparent conductive substrate is about 50% to 80% of a thickness of the side surface of the second transparent conductive substrate, wherein a first electrolyte injection port is formed at a corner of one side of the dye-sensitized solar cell module and a second electrolyte injection port is formed at a corner of an opposite side of the dye-sensitized solar cell, wherein the first electrolyte injection port and the second electrolyte injection port are arranged in diagonally opposite positions and wherein a first sealant is formed along outer edges of the working electrode and the counter electrode except for at the first electrolyte injection port and the second electrolyte injection port, and a second sealant is formed at the first electrolyte injection port and second electrolyte injection port. | 36,668 |
9,257,061 | 1. A display device, comprising: a base structure; a plurality of modules coupled to the base structure, each of the modules include a plurality of actuator assemblies, with each of the actuator assemblies being individually controllable to move the actuator assemblies between a retracted state and a plurality of extended states; a plurality of light modules coupled respective ones of the actuator assemblies; and a controller coupled to each of the modules, the controller being programmed to control the actuator assemblies to move the actuator assemblies between the retracted state and the plurality of extended states, wherein the controller accesses a video file to determine a desired state from among the retracted state and the plurality of extended states for each of the actuator assemblies. | 27,140 |
8,967,054 | 1. A table assembly, comprising: a first table leg assembly; a first beam mounted to said first table leg assembly, said first beam defining a first longitudinal beam extent and including a first rail having a downwardly depending locking lip; a first work surface mounted atop said first beam; a second table leg assembly; a second beam mounted to said second table leg assembly, said second beam defining a second longitudinal beam extent oriented substantially perpendicular to said first longitudinal beam extent; a second work surface mounted atop said second beam; and a bracket connecting said first beam and said second beam, said bracket including at least one downwardly depending slot in which said locking lip of said first rail is received, said second beam adjustably connected to said bracket between a first position and a second position, such that when said second beam is connected to said bracket in said first position, said second beam is located a first distance from said first beam, and when said second beam is connected to said bracket in said second position, said second beam is located a second distance from said first beam, said first distance different than said second distance. | 15,005 |
9,744,901 | 1. An apparatus mountable on a vehicle comprising: at least one movable device mountable on the vehicle so that a person around the vehicle sees the at least one movable device, each of the at least one movable device having light emitters and rotating around an imaginary line extending in a height direction of the vehicle; a sensor configured to detect a positional relationship between the vehicle and the person, and a drive controller configured to rotate the at least one movable device toward the person based on the positional relationship detected by the sensor, wherein, in each of the at least one movable device: | 45,937 |
8,816,143 | 1. A method comprising the steps of a) providing a fatty acyl mixture comprising: b) hydrolyzing at least some of the mixture to yield a quantity of C c) oligomerizing at least some of the C d) hydrotreating at least some of the C e) separating at least some of the diesel fuel blendstock from the C wherein the diesel fuel blendstock of Step e) has a cloud point of less than −10° C. | 12,200 |
9,619,596 | 1. A floating memristor emulator, comprising: first, second, third, and fourth current feedback operational amplifiers (CFOAs), each of the CFOAs having y, x, z, and w terminals, the y terminal of the first CFOA being connected to the z terminal of the second CFOA, the y terminal of the third CFOA being connected to the z terminal of the fourth CFOA, and the x terminals of the first and third CFOAs being in operable communication with each other; grounded capacitors C grounded capacitors C a differential voltage input, v a potentiometer R a first parallel resistor-diode combination R a second parallel resistor-diode combination R | 48,144 |
8,456,547 | 1. A device comprising: an image capture device comprising an array of detector elements that generates a corresponding plurality of pixel values comprising a frame of image data; a memory operable to store said pixel values; a display device operable to display an image produced using said pixel values; and a graphics processing unit (GPU) operable to execute a method of processing said pixel values, said method comprising: | 32,827 |
8,826,164 | 1. A method, comprising: at an electronic device with a display, a first user input device, and a second user input device: | 24,333 |
9,656,411 | 1. A separating device configured to separate liquid absorbent fibers for an absorbent article from a material including the liquid absorbent fibers and impurities, the separating device comprising: a case; an insertion port configured to insert the material into the case on an insert airflow; a rotation member housed in the case and configured to agitate and open the material; a discharge port configured to discharge, the liquid absorbent fibers of the material that has been opened with the rotation member, from inside the case, on a discharge airflow; and a regulating plate provided in the case and in a predetermined position between the insertion port and the discharge port, wherein the rotation member is rotatable around a center axis extending along a predetermined direction from the insertion port to the discharge port, the rotation member has protruding sections arranged in a plurality of positions along the center axis and protruding outward in a direction that intersects with the center axis, the insertion port and the discharge port are provided in a ceiling section of the case, the rotation member is arranged away from the ceiling section of the case by a space, the regulating plate is configured to regulate movement of the material from the insertion port to the discharge port and suspended from the ceiling section to divide the space in the predetermined direction, the protruding sections are dispersed along the center axis of the rotation member to avoid the predetermined position of the regulating plate, a shape of a lower end edge section of the regulating plate is an arc-shaped recess corresponding to a rotation path drawn by the protruding sections, and the lower end edge section of the regulating plate overlaps with the rotation path of the protruding sections in an up-down direction of the case. | 46,293 |
9,181,805 | 1. A gas turbine bladed rotor for aeronautic engines; the rotor comprising a rotating turbine disk comprising a crown of peripheral retaining seats, a crown of blades each comprising a respective root housed and retained in a respective said retaining seat, and a turbine disk cooling system comprising, for each blade, a blade passage receiving an incoming cooling air mass and for directing the flow thereof between the turbine disk and the corresponding root, wherein the cooling system includes an air distributor positioned in said blade passage in the form of a perforated element partially closing the blade passage and spaced from a bottom surface of the respective retaining seat, the perforated element having a plurality of spaced apart orifices to subdivide said air mass entering said blade passage into a plurality of airflows and to orient each of the plurality of subdivided air flows in a given direction coincident with an axis of an associated perforation and thereby to direct each said airflow out of the blade passage and into a duct located between the perforated element and the bottom surface. | 7,961 |
9,217,141 | 1. A process for producing a stabilized transglutaminase, the process comprising the steps of: providing a microorganism transformed with a first polynucleotide encoding a transglutaminase pro-sequence peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, 2, or 3 and further transformed with a second polynucleotide encoding a mature transglutaminase comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6; culturing the microorganism under suitable culture conditions to produce a polypeptide complex of the transglutaminase pro-sequence peptide noncovalently bound to the mature transglutaminase; and separating and recovering the polypeptide complex. | 33,129 |
8,606,685 | 1. A method, comprising: determining, using a computing device, an initial price of a financial instrument based at least in part on an estimated revenue for a movie, in which the financial instrument represents the movie; receiving an order to buy the financial instrument; receiving an order to sell the financial instrument; determining, using the computing device, an imbalance between a quantity of received buy orders and a quantity of received sell orders for the financial instrument; determining, using the computing device, a price of the financial instrument based at least in part on the imbalance; and executing a trade on the financial instrument at the determined price. | 3,497 |
8,901,823 | 1. A system of LED-based lights, comprising: a first LED-based light having a first electrical connector configured for engagement with a first conventional fluorescent fixture, a first LED configured to produce light in an area when the first electrical connector is engaged with the first fixture and a first controller electrically coupled to the first LED; a second LED-based light having a second electrical connector configured for engagement with a second conventional fluorescent fixture, a second LED configured to produce light in the area when the second electrical connector is engaged with the second fixture and a second controller electrically coupled to the second LED; and one or more sensors operable to detect a brightness level in the area and output respectively one or more signals indicative of the brightness level, wherein: the first and second controllers are configured to control an amount of power provided to the respective first and second LEDs at least partially based on a signal to adjust the light produced in the area towards a desired brightness level, and at least one of the first and second controllers is operable to estimate an efficiency of the system of LED-based lights, the estimated efficiency being at least partially based on a comparison of the brightness level in the area with a power consumed by the first and second LED-based lights. | 32,307 |
8,774,789 | 1. A method comprising: scheduling, using scheduling logic, a first subscriber identity module (SIM) discontinuous mode pattern; sending, via a communication interface, scheduling instructions for the first SIM discontinuous mode pattern; receiving a network message indicating that the first SIM discontinuous mode pattern and a second SIM discontinuous mode pattern conflict; and scheduling a change to the first SIM discontinuous mode pattern responsive to the message. | 21,309 |
9,035,627 | 1. A switched mode power supply, comprising: a first switch, a second switch, an inductor, and an output capacitor, wherein the first switch and the second switch are coupled together via a node, the inductor is coupled between the node and an output terminal, and the output capacitor is coupled to the output terminal; a third switch and a fourth switch, wherein the third switch is coupled between the first switch at a first node and the node, and the fourth switch is coupled between the second switch at a second node and the node; and a driving circuit configured to drive the first switch and the second switch, the driving circuit being electrically coupled to the node between the first and second switches, wherein the driving circuit is electrically coupled to the first node between the first switch and the third switch and to the second node between the second switch and the fourth switch. | 34,975 |
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