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8,846,370 | 1. A microorganism comprising a recombinant nucleic acid molecule encoding a 4-hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) thioesterase, wherein the 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterase hydrolyzes acyl-acyl carrier protein (acyl-ACP), and wherein expression of the 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterase in the microorganism results in production of at least one free fatty acid and/or fatty acid derivative, and further wherein at least 30 wt % of the free fatty acids produced by the microorganism are free fatty acids having an acyl chain length of 12 carbons, 14 carbons, 16 carbons, or any mixture thereof. | 14,187 |
8,746,646 | 1. An end clamp for fastening a framed photovoltaic module on a carrier profile, the end clamp comprising: a first part comprising one flange with a first face having one first tooth system with a plurality of tooth elements and a second smooth face disposed opposite to the first face; and a second part comprising a second tooth system with at least one tooth element, the second tooth system being configured to correspond to the one first tooth system; the first part and the second part together comprising: wherein, the first face of the one flange with the one first tooth system is arranged to face the screw, the first part and the second part are configured to slide one inside the other parallel to the first section and the second section in at least one discrete position corresponding to a specific frame height provided between the surface and the first section, the first part and the second part thereby having one respective remaining degree of freedom and a clearance fit in two other degrees of freedom, the one first tooth system with the plurality of tooth elements extends along the remaining degree of freedom, and the one flange, the second section, and the third section of the first part are arranged in an inverted U-shaped manner. | 36,932 |
9,257,558 | 1. A semiconductor device, the device comprising: a substrate; one or more fins each including a first semiconductor layer formed over the substrate; an oxide layer formed wrapping over an upper portion of each of the one or more fins; and a gate stack including a high-K (HK) dielectric layer and a metal gate (MG) electrode formed wrapping over the oxide layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes silicon germanium (SiGex), and wherein the oxide layer includes silicon germanium oxide (SiGexOy). | 8,625 |
9,047,083 | 1. A method of reducing power consumption of a server cluster of host systems with virtual machines executing on the host systems, the method comprising: recommending host system power-on when there is a host system whose utilization is above a target utilization, and recommending host system power-off when there is a host system whose utilization is below the target utilization, wherein recommending host system power-on includes calculating impact of powering on a standby host system with respect to reducing the number of highly-utilized host systems in the server cluster whose utilization is above the target utilization, with the impact of powering on calculated by simulating moving some virtual machines from highly utilized host systems to the standby host system being recommended to be powered on, wherein recommending host system power-off includes calculating impact of powering off a host system with respect to decreasing the number of less-utilized host systems in the server cluster whose utilization is below the target utilization, with the impact of powering off calculated by simulating moving all virtual machines from the host system, which is being recommended to be powered-off, to less-utilized host systems, wherein calculating impact of powering on or calculating impact of powering off includes computing for the server cluster a sum of the weighted distance above or below the target utilization for each host system, respectively, and wherein calculating impact of powering on or calculating impact of powering off further includes comparing the sum for the cluster without the host system powered-on with the sum calculated for the server cluster with the host system powered-on under a simulation or comparing the sum for the cluster with the host system powered-off under a simulation with the sum calculated for the server cluster with the host system kept powered-on, respectively. | 24,746 |
8,934,147 | 1. A digitizing apparatus that generates an electronic document file by compiling image data of a plurality of pages including a cover page, table-of-content page and ordinary page into a single file, the apparatus comprising: a page numbering unit that assigns an electronic document page number to each of the image data of the plurality of pages; a page number extraction unit that classifies the image data of the plurality of pages into any of the cover page, table-of-content page and ordinary page and extracts a page number described in each of the image data of the plurality of pages; a page number comparator that compares the electronic document page number assigned by the page numbering unit with the page number extracted by the page number extraction unit, for each of the image data of the plurality of pages; a search page identification unit that identifies image data of the table-of-content page representative of searching page numbers to search for other pages, from among the image data of the plurality of pages; and a page number conversion unit configured to perform ordinary page conversion processing and table-of-content page conversion processing, wherein in a case of the ordinary page conversion processing, the page number conversion unit is configured to delete the page number at a page number description area of image data of the ordinary page when the electronic document page number assigned by the page numbering unit differs from the page number extracted by the page number extraction unit, and to generate a numeric font of the electronic document page number corresponding to the page number according to a result of comparison performed by the page number comparator, such that the page number at the page number description area is converted into the corresponding electronic document page number by adding the generated numeric font to the page number description area where the page number has been deleted, and wherein in a case of the table-of-content page conversion processing, the page number conversion unit is configured to delete data at a page-number-for-searching description area in the image data of the table-of-content page and to generate a numeric font of the electronic document page number corresponding to the searching page number according to the result of comparison performed by the page number comparator, such that the searching page number is converted into the corresponding electronic document page number by adding the generated numeric font to the page-number-for-searching description area where the searching page number has been deleted, for a case where the electronic document page number assigned by the page numbering unit is inconsistent with the searching page number at the page-number-for-searching description area. | 31,681 |
8,909,235 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a soft handoff request message by a radio call control (RCC) from a main call control (MCC); wherein the MCC interfaces with a selector distribution unit (SDU); and receiving a message indicating the soft handoff by a channel element control (CEC) from the SDU; wherein: | 17,555 |
8,687,540 | 1. A device for generating a pilot signal for use in a wireless repeater, the pilot signal being added to a transmit signal for transmission on a transmitting antenna of the repeater, the device comprising: a pilot power control unit configured to set a power level of the pilot signal as a function of a gain of the repeater and a power level of the transmit signal, according to a first pilot-to-transmit power ratio when the gain of the repeater is less than a first gain threshold, to transition the power level of the pilot signal from the first pilot-to-transmit power ratio to a second pilot-to-transmit power ratio according to a control curve when the gain of the repeater is greater than the first gain threshold but less than a second gain threshold, the second gain threshold being higher than the first gain threshold, and to set the power level of the pilot signal according to the second pilot-to-transmit power ratio when the gain of the repeater is greater than the second gain threshold. | 30,075 |
9,744,869 | 1. An electrical power supply system of a vehicle, wherein the electrical power supply system comprises: an inverter, an electric machine, a receiving device adapted to receive an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction, and a passive electric circuit arrangement adapted to connect the inverter, the electric machine, and the receiving device, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement comprises: | 1,325 |
8,682,565 | 1. A method, comprising: responsive to idle-stop engine shutdown, retarding intake valve closing; and during a subsequent engine restart from the idle-stop, performing a first combustion event from rest in a cylinder with a piston at an engine crankshaft position that is retarded from a crankshaft position at which said cylinder's exhaust valve closes, and advanced from a crankshaft position at which the cylinder's intake valve closes, during a cycle of said cylinder. | 41,196 |
9,403,545 | 1. A centralized railway control system comprising: a rail personnel contact database registering, for each railway personnel, an electronic contact address of the railway personnel; and a railway traffic control apparatus for controlling access to railway tracks, said railway traffic control apparatus comprising a processor, a non-transitory medium storing one or more programs of executable instructions, and a network interface through which the railway traffic control apparatus communicates via a network with a user terminal, wherein execution of said one or more programs of executable instructions configures the processor to include: | 24,089 |
9,835,106 | 1. A method of monitoring a fouling condition of a machine comprising: measuring at least one machine parameter; monitoring the at least one measured machine parameter during operation of a machine; deducing a change in the fouling condition of the machine when at least one monitored measured machine parameter reaches a limit value, wherein the at least one monitored machine parameter is monitored depending on at least one machine parameter other than the at least one monitored machine parameter in defined operating point ranges of the machine, wherein a change in fouling condition of the machine is deduced when at least one monitored machine parameter within a defined operating point range reaches at least one limit value individual to the operating point range, wherein a currently traversed operating point is used for monitoring the fouling condition of the machine only when the currently traversed operating point has been traversed in the respective operating point range for a defined minimum duration, except that an exiting from the respective operating point range for less than a defined tolerance time is permitted; determining the machine is in a fouled condition based at least in part on the measured at least one machine parameter; and conducting failure and damage control operations to the machine based on the determination that the machine is in the fouled condition. | 31,947 |
9,644,099 | 1. A compound according to the formula: wherein X is —CR Y is nitrogen; Z is oxygen; R R R R R R R R R R a member selected from | 25,819 |
9,407,859 | 1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: reproducing, via a display on the mobile terminal, a moving picture; extracting, via a controller on the mobile terminal, a still picture at an interrupted timing when the moving picture reproduction is interrupted; generating, via the controller after the reproducing of the moving picture begins and in response to the moving picture reproduction being interrupted, at least one of a graphic image and numeral information that represents information about a reproduction rate, said information about the reproduction rate not being a time status of the reproduction of the moving picture; and after the moving picture has been interrupted and is not being reproduced, displaying, via the display, the still picture overlapped by the at least one of the graphic image and the numeral information on the moving picture, wherein the still picture overlapped by the at least one of the graphic image and the numeral information are displayed together on a moving picture list that is for selecting a moving picture to be reproduced from a list of moving pictures, and wherein the at least one of the graphic iamge and the numeral information is only displayed on the moving picture list if a respective moving picture has been reproduced on the display and then interrupted and is not displayed on the moving picture list if a respective moving picture has not yet been reproduced on the display, thereby distinguishing the moving picture that has been reproduced and interrupted from the moving picture that has not been reproduced. | 38,095 |
8,455,266 | 1. A memory device, comprising: a first set of electrodes; a first ferroelectric polymer layer formed on the first set of electrodes; a second set of electrodes formed on the first ferroelectric polymer layer and extending transversely to the first set of electrodes; a polymeric protective layer formed on the first ferroelectric polymer layer and extending over the second set of electrodes, and portions of the polymeric protective layer being formed in spaces between adjacent electrodes in the second set of electrodes; a second ferroelectric polymer layer formed directly on the polymeric protective layer; and a third set of electrodes formed on the second ferroelectric polymer layer and extending transversely to the second set of electrodes, wherein the first set of electrodes, the first ferroelectric polymer layer and the second set of electrodes form a first memory stack, and the second set of electrodes, the second ferroelectric polymer layer and the third set of electrodes form a second memory stack. | 33,701 |
8,863,319 | 1. A helmet, comprising: an outer shell layer; a middle shell layer connected to the outer shell layer through an outer energy and impact transformer layer, the outer energy and impact transformer layer operable to absorb energy from mechanical forces imparted onto the outer shell layer, wherein the outer energy and impact transformer layer allows the outer shell layer to slide relative to the middle shell layer; an inner shell layer connected to the middle shell layer through an inner energy and impact transformer layer, the inner energy and impact transformer layer operable to absorb energy from mechanical forces imparted onto the middle shell through the outer shell and the outer energy and impact transformer layer, wherein the inner energy and impact transformer layer allows the middle shell layer to slide relative to the inner shell layer, wherein the outer energy and impact transformer layer and the inner energy and impact transformer layer comprise a gel. | 40,746 |
8,858,660 | 1. A throat plug for a gasifier vessel, the throat plug comprising: a first cavity, the first cavity being configured to hold at least one device in the first cavity, the first cavity being accessible through a hole formed in the throat plug; a second cavity, the second cavity being nested within the first cavity, the second cavity being configured to hold a fuel injector; and a third cavity that surrounds the first cavity along an outer radial surface of the first cavity and along an inner radial surface of the first cavity opposite the outer radial surface, the third cavity configured to circulate a coolant through the third cavity to cool a temperature of the first cavity. | 6,133 |
8,502,616 | 1. A composite electronic module comprising: a non-reciprocal circuit element including a permanent magnet, a ferrite, and an electrode pattern; electronic components including magnetic substances; and a substrate on which the non-reciprocal circuit element and the electronic components are mounted; wherein the electronic components are mounted on the substrate such that lines of magnetic force generated by the permanent magnet are concentrated to a non-reciprocal circuit element side. | 23,638 |
9,796,296 | 1. A base frame assembly comprising: (a) a pair of spars, each spar comprising a plurality of apertures, a channel, and a pair of recesses; (b) a panel comprising opposing sides, wherein each side is configured to fit within the channel of each spar; (c) a first beam inserted within a first recess of the pair of recesses of each spar; and (d) a second beam inserted within a second recess of the pair of recesses of each spar; wherein the first beam is configured to have a length that approximates a combined width of a passenger seat and a surrounding monument, and the second beam is configured to have a length that approximates a width of the passenger seat. | 48,258 |
8,948,828 | 1. An apparatus for cooling a superconducting machine comprising: at least two condenser chambers, each of the at least two condenser chambers making thermal contact with a cold head and each of the at least two condenser chambers including a connecting line, via which the at least two condenser chambers are connected fluidically to an evaporator chamber, the at least two condenser chambers being designed such that a liquid cooling fluid is movable, against the force of gravity, from at least one of the at least two condenser chambers into the evaporator chamber as a result of a pressure difference between a first pressure in a first of the at least two condenser chambers and a second pressure in a second of the at least two condenser chambers, each of the respective first and second pressures being determined by a respective temperature in a respective one of the at least two condenser chambers. | 11,480 |
9,704,125 | 1. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by at least a processor of a computing system cause the processor to implement: a multi-level distribution planning logic comprising: | 42,284 |
9,386,699 | 1. A mounted structure comprising: a substrate having a substrate electrode; an electronic component having a component electrode; and a bonding part bonding the substrate electrode and the component electrode, wherein the bonding part is constituted by a solder reinforcing part and a solder bonding part; the solder reinforcing part is a side vicinity part of the bonding part, and is constituted by In of 3 wt % or more and 8 wt % or less and Sn of 88 wt % or more, and the solder bonding part is constituted by a Sn—Bi system solder material and In of 0 wt % or more and less than 3 wt %. | 5,652 |
8,576,057 | 1. A fuel consumption saving drive supporting device which informs a driver of advice based on an increase or a decrease of a calculated mileage, comprising: a detector configured to detect vehicle information related to a drive operation or a drive condition of a vehicle; a mileage calculating section configured to calculate a mileage based on the vehicle information and store a history of mileage information on a driver basis and on a drive condition basis; a drive evaluating section configured to compare past mileage information recorded at every predetermined time with the current mileage information of the driver, extract the drive operation or the drive condition of the vehicle which leads to a mileage variation, and inform a driver of advice according to the extracted drive operation or drive condition; wherein if a first advice is informed to the driver due to a deterioration of the mileage, the drive operation and the mileage information related to the deterioration of the mileage are stored; and if the driver operation which induced informing the driver of the first advice is not detected within a predetermined time after the mileage information related to the deterioration of the mileage is detected, the drive evaluating section informs the driver of a second advice which expressly indicates that the driver operation that induced the informing of the first advice, is no longer detected, wherein the second advice is configured to expressly identify the driver operation that induced the informing of the first advice. | 15,854 |
8,822,157 | 1. A method for identifying a protein toxic to an insect, said method comprising the steps of screening insecticidal bacilli cultures for S-layer protein genes by PCR with primers specific for S-layer homology regions in SEQ ID NO: 1, isolating the S-layer protein gene and transforming bacteria with said S-layer protein gene; and screening the bacteria for expression of the S-layer protein gene, | 24,829 |
8,515,694 | 1. A method for operating a fuel quantity gauging system, said method comprising: using at least one pump to blend a first fuel from a first fuel source with a second fuel from a second fuel source to produce a fuel mixture within a fuel tank; utilizing redundant sensor sets at separate locations within the fuel tank to measure properties of the fuel mixture within the fuel tank, wherein the redundant sensor sets include a first sensor set in a feed box area in the fuel tank and a second sensor set in an inboard tank compartment in the fuel tank; inputting, using a fuel quantity computer coupled to the redundant sensor sets, the measured properties from the feed box area into a first instance of a fuel regression equation, wherein the first instance of the fuel regression equation includes an unknown intercept A and an unknown slope B; inputting, using the fuel quantity computer, the measured properties from the inboard tank compartment into a second instance of the fuel regression equation, wherein the second instance of the fuel regression equation includes the unknown intercept A and the unknown slope B; solving, using the fuel quantity computer, for the unknown intercept A and the unknown slope B by combining the first and second instances of the fuel regression equation, wherein the solved slope B and the solved intercept A define a fuel regression curve; and utilizing the defined fuel regression curve to calculate at least a quantity of fuel in the fuel tank. | 39,240 |
9,579,966 | 1. A hybrid drivetrain for a motor vehicle, comprising: a combustion engine coupled to a combustion engine driveshaft, said combustion engine driveshaft carrying one or more driveshaft pinions; an electric machine connected to power electronics and to an electrical energy storage device, said electric machine having a stator and a rotor; said combustion engine and said electric machine being connectable for torque-transmission to an output shaft; an electric machine driveshaft carrying one or more driveshaft pinions, and a planetary gear set coupling said rotor of said electric machine to said electric machine driveshaft, said planetary gear set having a plurality of elements including a sun gear, a web, and an internal gear, and wherein one of said elements acts as input element and another of said elements acts as an output element of said planetary gear set; at least one driveshaft pinion of the combustion engine driveshaft forming a switchably torque-transmitting pinion pairing with a corresponding collective shaft pinion of a first collective shaft that is coupled for torque-transmission to said output shaft; at least one driveshaft pinion of said electric machine driveshaft forming a torque-transmitting pinion pairing with a corresponding collective shaft pinion of a collective shaft that is coupled for torque-transmission to said output shaft; and a switchable clutch configured to selectively connect said rotor of said electric machine to said input element or to said output element of said planetary gear set. | 8,684 |
8,564,276 | 1. A method for determining a state of an electric igniter of a gas turbine burner, comprising: comparing a time-dependent signal, which characterizes an ignition current of the electric igniter, with an upper limit value and a lower limit value; and comparing the characterizing time-dependent signal with a set-point current mean value, wherein the characterizing time-dependent signal describes a magnitude of the ignition current, and wherein in each case the upper limit value and the lower limit value are time-dependent, forming a set-point current envelope curve, and wherein the set-point current mean value is time-dependent, forming a set-point current trend characteristic. | 25,260 |
9,206,617 | 1. A wind power installation comprising: a foundation with a plurality of segment anchors embedded therein, the plurality of segment anchors being radially arranged; a leveling ring which is aligned and fixed on a top side of the foundation, the leveling ring having an upper surface that is level to provide in situ leveling of pylon segments while erecting a pylon, the leveling ring including a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes at an outer circumference of the leveling ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes at an inner circumference of the leveling ring; a pylon which has at least one pylon segment, the at least one pylon segment including a lower pylon segment that includes a lower flange ring and a pylon wall plate, the lower flange ring including a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes at an outer circumference of a width of the leveling ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes at an inner circumference of the leveling ring, the lower pylon segment being located on the leveling ring, the lower flange ring of the lower pylon segment being on top of the leveling ring; a plurality of pairs of single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolts, each of the segment anchors coupled to a respective pair of the single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolt, wherein each single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolt of the pairs of bolts has a first end coupled to the respective segment anchor and a second end that projects a predetermined distance above a top side of the foundation, each single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolt of the pairs of bolts being positioned on opposite sides of the pylon wall plate; a gap located between the top side of the foundation and the leveling ring that is produced by aligning and fixing the leveling ring; a grouting material that has been placed in the gap after the upper surface of the level ring has been leveled, each single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolt extending from a respective one of the plurality of anchors embedded in the foundation, through the grouting material, through the leveling ring, and through the lower flange ring of the pylon segment, one of single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolts of each pair extending through a hole in the outer circumference of the leveling ring and the lower flange ring and the other of the pair of the single, integral, continuous, uninterrupted bolts extending through a hole in the inner circumference of the leveling ring and the lower flange ring; and a nut coupled to the top end of each of the bolts of the pairs of the single, integral, uninterrupted bolts, overlying the lower flange ring of the pylon segment and holding the lower flange ring in a butting contact with the leveling ring. | 31,220 |
8,459,021 | 1. A method for controlling a supercharged engine equipped with a supercharger operable to supercharge fresh air to be introduced into a combustion chamber of the engine, comprising steps of: setting a geometric compression ratio to 16 or more; and allowing a compression self-ignition combustion under an air-fuel ratio leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to be performed at least in a low engine speed range, wherein, at engine loads lower than a given engine load within an engine operating region at which the compression self-ignition combustion is performed, a fresh air amount is reduced and an effective compression ratio is increased, as compared with a higher engine load side than the given engine load within the engine operating region, and, at engine loads higher than the given engine load, a supercharging pressure based on the supercharger is increased to increase the fresh air amount, and the effective compression ratio is reduced, as compared with engine loads lower than the given engine load. | 28,070 |
9,531,120 | 1. An electrical connector, comprising: a first shell comprising an external threaded portion; a second shell comprising an outer surface, wherein the outer surface comprises an unthreaded portion, and wherein the unthreaded portion comprises a plurality of recesses arranged around an annular track; a coupling nut comprising an internal threaded portion configured to threadably engage the external threaded portion of the first shell; and an annular insert secured relative to the coupling nut, wherein the annular insert comprises an inner surface comprising a plurality of spring-loaded teeth extending radially inward, and wherein the spring-loaded teeth are positioned around the unthreaded portion of the second shell and are rotatably aligned with the recesses in the second shell; and a biasing sleeve positioned around a portion of the outer surface of the second shell, wherein the biasing sleeve is configured to bias the external threaded portion of the first shell toward the internal threaded portion of the coupling nut when the coupling nut threadably engages the first shell. | 15,754 |
8,451,122 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an integrated circuit having a contactless interface that includes two pads intended for connection to a coil, wherein the integrated circuit includes load modulation circuitry coupled to one of the two pads for half duplex communication when the coil is inductively coupled to a coil of a separate device; a coil; an amplifier coupled to receive a signal from the coil when the coil is inductively coupled, and to drive one of the two pads, the amplifier providing a receive simplex communication path and blocking half duplex communications therethrough; and a circuit coupled to one of the two pads to detect effects of the load modulation circuitry, and to drive a signal on to the coil to provide a transmit simplex communication path to restore the half duplex communications. | 33,936 |
9,362,139 | 1. A wafer level method of making a micro-electronic and/or micro-mechanical device, having a capping structure with electrical wafer through via connections, comprising the steps of: providing a first wafer of a semiconductor material having a first side and a second side and a plurality of holes and/or recesses in the first side, and a barrier structure extending over the first wafer on the second side, said barrier structure comprising an inner layer of an insulating material and an outer layer of another material; applying metal in said holes so as to cover the walls in the holes and the bottom of the holes; removing the barrier structure and providing contacts to the first wafer through connections on the second side of the first wafer; providing bonding structures on either of said first side or the second side of the first wafer; bonding the first wafer to a second wafer carrying electronic and microelectronic/mechanic components, such that the first wafer forms a capping structure covering the second wafer; and singulating the bonded first and second wafers to individual devices; wherein the first wafer is a semiconductor wafer, and wherein the barrier structure comprises an oxide layer on the second side of the first wafer, and a resist layer covering the first wafer. | 42,727 |
9,295,123 | 1. A light-emitting diode (LED) driver integrated circuit (IC) comprising: a first terminal to connect to a first LED string; a current sense feedback circuit connected to the first terminal, the current sense feedback circuit generating a current sense feedback signal based on a first voltage level at the first terminal; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter connected to the current sense feedback circuit, the A/D converter generating a digital current sense feedback signal based on the current sense feedback signal and including a plurality of comparators each having a first input constructed to receive the current sense feedback signal and a second input constructed to receive a respective reference voltage of a plurality of reference voltages; and a sample latch connected to the A/D converter to store the digital current sense feedback signal. | 46,332 |
9,520,857 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an input terminal; an output terminal; a filter circuit connected between the input terminal and the output terminal and having a first phase characteristic, a first passband, and a first stopband, the filter circuit including a plurality of series arm resonators connected in series with one another along a signal line between the input terminal and the output terminal, and a plurality of parallel arm resonators connected between the signal line and a reference potential; and an auxiliary circuit connected in parallel with the filter circuit between the input terminal and the output terminal, the auxiliary circuit including a first capacitor element, a second capacitor element, and a resonator connected in series between the first capacitor element and the second capacitor element, the auxiliary circuit having an attenuation band within the first stopband and a second phase characteristic that is opposite to the first phase characteristic in the attenuation band. | 3,521 |
9,581,024 | 1. An opposed-piston engine, comprising: a cylinder block with first and second opposing sides and a plurality of cylinders disposed in an inline array between the opposing sides, in which each cylinder includes an intake port separated in an axial direction of the cylinder from an exhaust port, an undivided intake chamber inside the cylinder block; a first air inlet that opens through the first side into the intake chamber and a second air inlet that opens through the second side into the intake chamber; each air inlet having an elongate dimension; all of the cylinder intake ports being contained in the intake chamber to receive charge air therein; and, an exhaust chamber in the cylinder block including at least one exhaust outlet that opens through one of the opposing sides; all of the cylinder exhaust ports being contained in the exhaust chamber to discharge exhaust thereinto. | 22,066 |
9,266,052 | 1. A process for removing carbon dioxide from ambient air, comprising the steps of passing ambient air in contact with a solid sorbent comprising an amine to absorb carbon dioxide from the air, and releasing absorbed carbon dioxide into the interior of a greenhouse; wherein the solid sorbent comprising an amine has a carbon dioxide holding ability dependent on humidity. | 6,677 |
9,403,150 | 1. A method of forming a metal catalyst composition, comprising: performing a plurality of atomic layer deposition cycles to form metal oxide over-coat on a supported metal catalyst, where one or more of the atomic layer deposition cycles include sequential steps: | 48,228 |
8,813,441 | 1. A mount for a pitched roof, comprising: a fastening plate; at least one support extending upwardly from the fastening plate supporting a pair of mounting surfaces a predetermined distance above the pitched roof, wherein at least a portion of the fastening plate extends laterally from the at least one support, the lateral portion of the fastening plate has a plurality of fastening holes in at least two rows on the plate; wherein the pair of mounting surfaces are configured to support at least one photovoltaic panel wherein at least one of the mounting surfaces is a predetermined distance above the pitched roof; a clamp housing between the pair of mounting surfaces comprising vertical abutment surfaces defining a spacer configured to laterally space apart the at least one photovoltaic panel and a pair of longitudinally extending stabilizer channels, each defined by a space between the clamp housing and the mounting surfaces on either side of the clamp housing and a longitudinally extending clamp receiving channel; a clamp comprising (i) a pair of laterally extending clamp plates that are configured to cooperate with the pair of mounting surfaces to bear against and clamp the at least one photovoltaic panel when a clamping force is applied (ii) at least one clamp stabilizer configured to prevent the clamp plate from tilting when the clamping force is applied (iii) a clamping rod comprising a threaded bolt and square nut extending from the clamp plates to the clamp housing to create a clamping force between the mounting surface and the clamp plate, wherein the clamping rod is slidably received into the longitudinally extending clamp receiving channel and wherein the nut is received in the clamp receiving channel to prevent pivoting of the nut relative to the clamp housing, the clamp housing further extends above the mounting surface and the pair of stabilizer channels. | 32,763 |
8,513,826 | 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a vertical turbine rotor for rotating around a core axis, the turbine rotor comprising a central axis; turbine support comprising a vertical stationary support shaft within and concentric to the turbine rotor and in relation to the support shaft, the support shaft positioned radially inside the central axis; one or more blades coupled to the turbine rotor, the one or more blades configured to capture wind energy to rotate the turbine rotor relative to the turbine support; stabilization magnet means comprising one or more turbine support magnets positioned along a side of the turbine support adjacent the turbine rotor and one or more turbine rotor magnets positioned along a side of the central axis adjacent the turbine support and opposing the turbine support magnets, wherein a repelling force generated between the turbine support magnets and the turbine rotor magnets creates a space between at least a portion of the turbine rotor and at least a portion of the turbine support; levitation magnet means positioned along an upper portion of a platform of said turbine support adjacent a lower portion of the turbine rotor, and positioned along a lower portion of said turbine rotor adjacent said platform of said turbine support, creating a space between said turbine support and said turbine rotor due to magnetic repulsion, whereby said turbine rotor levitates off said platform; and one or more generators configured to generate electric power in response to rotation of the turbine rotor relative to the turbine support. | 30,878 |
8,397,022 | 1. A system for performing a data server backup operation comprising: a host; a data management application (DMA) coupled to the host; a data store array coupled to the host; and, a backup device coupled to the data store array and the data management application; and wherein the host, data management application, data store array and backup device perform a split backup operation, the split backup operation allowing a component on the host and a component on the storage store array to function together logically to provide a backup agent; and wherein the split backup operation comprises a data transfer phase, the data transfer phase comprising | 21,958 |
9,119,158 | 1. A machine type communication terminal operating in a mobile communication network that includes at least one machine type communication terminal, the machine type communication terminal comprising: a communication module for exchanging data; a battery residual capacity detector to detect a residual capacity of a battery power supply when a timer event occurs; a memory to store information about a point in time for detecting the residual capacity of the battery power supply and information about a threshold required for power supply; a controller to determine whether the residual capacity of the battery power supply is less than or equal to the threshold required for the power supply, and to warn against a shortage of the residual capacity of the battery power supply; and a timer to count a period of the timer event regarding when to detect the residual capacity of the battery power supply, wherein an initial point in time regarding when to detect the residual capacity of the battery power supply is predetermined, and the timer event is reset by the controller to a point in time before the residual capacity of the battery power supply is exhausted. | 23,979 |
8,878,678 | 1. A method comprising: capturing samples of sound associated with an environment, the samples of sound being captured by a sensor, wherein the samples of sound are captured while a microphone is muted during a call; processing the samples of sound to determine whether the samples of sound likely include voice activity; when it is determined that the samples of sound likely include the voice activity, providing a first notification, the first notification being arranged to indicate that voice activity is detected and that the microphone is muted; determining, after providing the first notification, whether the microphone continues to be muted; when it is determined that the microphone continues to be muted, determining whether to provide a second notification arranged to indicate that the voice activity is detected and that the microphone is muted; and when it is determined that the second notification is not to be provided, identifying the samples of sound as including voice activity not intended for distribution with respect to the call. | 26,785 |
9,742,865 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed by a server cause the server of an online content management system to: send data to a client device, the data describing a first shared content item and a second shared content item, the first shared content item associated with a first target identifier, the second shared content item associated with a second target identifier; receive a request to join the first shared content item with the second shared content item, wherein the request to join is a first join type that is one of a plurality of join types; join the first shared content item with the second shared content item according to the join type: wherein the first shared content item is a file and the second shared content item is a folder which constitutes the first join type, and the first join type includes combining the first shared content item into the second shared content item and associating the second target identifier associated with the second shared content item to the first shared content item; and reconciling sharing permissions of the first and second shared content items by updating the data describing the first and second shared content items. | 24,571 |
9,266,143 | 1. A fireproof bulkhead comprising a highly porous structure with an intumescent coating, the highly porous structure being formed as a highly porous pimple or nub structure, and the coating being applied to an inner surface of cell walls of the highly porous structure, wherein the highly porous structure has a high level of permeability to gases, and wherein the highly porous pimple or nub structure is produced by forming over a template. | 32,337 |
9,300,005 | 1. A cable-type secondary battery comprising: a core including an electrolyte for supplying lithium ions; an inner electrode, comprising a twisted electrode formed by twisting two or more wire-type inner current collectors coated with an inner electrode active material on surfaces thereof; a separation layer surrounding an outer surface of the inner electrode to prevent a short circuit between electrodes; and an outer electrode surrounding an outer surface of the separation layer, and comprising an outer electrode active material layer and an outer current collector. | 44,881 |
9,129,302 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed by a processing device, perform steps for identifying coupons, comprising: monitoring a refrigerator via a device manager, wherein the device manager provides user access to a first list that includes grocery items inside the refrigerator, wherein the device manager receives status information concerning the grocery items inside the refrigerator, wherein the status information includes information relating to a quantity of one or more grocery items inside the refrigerator; receiving a first user input defining a particular grocery item; generating a shopping list based on the first list, the received first user input, and the status information; comparing the shopping list against a coupon database; identifying one or more available coupons for the first product; outputting the identified one or more available coupons via a graphic display; receiving a second user input defining a strike price; monitoring the price of the particular grocery item; and providing an alert when the price of the particular grocery item equals or falls below the strike price. | 27,494 |
9,423,119 | 1. A device for securing a LED light source module having a recess against a mounting surface comprising: at least one continuous metallic path between the mounting surface and the LED light source module, the continuous metallic path having a feature positionable within the recess to prevent movement of the LED light source module relative to the mounting surface when the device secures the LED light source module against the mounting surface; and at least one electrical connector coupled to the continuous metallic path and electrically isolated from the continuous metallic path for electrically coupling an external conductor to an electrical contact pad of the LED light source module, the at least one electrical connector comprising a first end having a push-in type connector for receiving and securing the external conductor, and a second end formed at least partially from a resilient material to contact the electrical contact pad. | 1,468 |
8,809,637 | 1. A seed of soybean variety HI0912797, wherein a representative sample of seed of said soybean variety HI0912797 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12558. | 17,820 |
9,076,507 | 1. A nonvolatile memory, comprising: a plurality of banks, each bank comprising a plurality of memory cells; control logic comprising a plurality of storage units corresponding to the plurality of banks, respectively, and configured to output write enable signals and read enable signals corresponding to respective banks based on mode information stored in respective storage units; and a plurality of read and write (RW) circuits connected to the plurality of banks, respectively, and configured to independently enable or disable write and read operations of the respective banks in response to the write enable signals and the read enable signals of the respective banks, wherein in an initial state after the mode information is stored in the respective storage units, the control logic activates the write enable signals and the read enable signals of the respective banks regardless of the mode information stored in the respective storage units. | 3,837 |
9,172,584 | 1. A system for high-availability cluster data protection, the system comprising: one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable medium; a processor-based application stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor-based application having: a framework, which when executed, will cause the one or more processors to disable caching of internet protocol addresses queried from a network interface configuration of the computer in response to an initiation of a data protection application and query a cluster configuration of a cluster system to create a cluster map, wherein the cluster map comprises a list of internet protocol addresses associated with applications that provide services to the cluster; and a task dispatcher, which when executed, will cause the one or more processors to: | 7,290 |
9,221,776 | 1. A method for the epoxidation of an olefin comprising: reacting a feed gas composition containing an olefin, oxygen, and a halocarbon moderator having a first optimum moderator concentration M increasing the first temperature to a second temperature T increasing the first optimum moderator concentration to a second optimum moderator concentration M wherein temperature has the units of degrees Celsius, and r is a constant factor which is in the range of from 0.001% to 100%. | 44,115 |
9,276,276 | 1. A portable electronic device comprising: a fuel cell assembly; an actuator for inducing vibration to provide vibration alerts in the portable electronic device, the actuator comprising a fixed portion and a moveable portion; and a linkage extending between the actuator and the fuel cell assembly having a first end connected to the moveable portion of the actuator and a second end coupled to the fuel cell assembly, wherein motion of the moveable portion in response to activation of a vibration alert transfers motion of the actuator to the fuel cell assembly to move fuel in the fuel cell assembly, wherein the fuel cell assembly comprises a fuel storage area, and wherein the second end of the linkage is coupled to the fuel storage area for mixing fuel. | 40,652 |
8,703,526 | 1. A method of fabricating a transparent electrode for use in a quantum dot sensitized solar cell, the method comprising: (S1) introducing quantum dot precursor into a high pressure storage vessel and dissolving the quantum dot precursor using subcritical fluid or supercritical fluid; S2) transporting the quantum dot precursor fluid prepared at (S1) to contact with a conductive thin layer substrate comprised of a metal oxide placed in a high pressure reaction vessel, thereby causing the quantum dot precursor to be adsorbed in the metal oxide thin layer; (S3) recovering, by transporting, non-adsorbed quantum dot precursor fluid of (S2) to the high pressure storage vessel together with the subcritical fluid or supercritical fluid; and (S4) removing the subcritical fluid or supercritical fluid from the high pressure reaction vessel, and reacting the quantum dot precursor, adsorbed at (S2), with a compound comprising a second element which constitutes the quantum dot. | 48,342 |
8,475,586 | 1. A method for forming a structural composite, the method comprising: adding an algae extract to an aggregate mixture so as to provide an effective plasticizer to the aggregate mixture, wherein the algae extract includes an enzyme produced by the algae; and processing the aggregate mixture to form a hardened composite, wherein deriving the algae extract includes the steps of: growing an amount of algae; breaking the cell walls of the grown algae; and separating the algae extract from cell wall material. | 641 |
9,477,419 | 1. A memory control system for controlling read and write operations of a non-volatile memory, wherein the memory control system comprises: a memory controller, which is adapted to implement a write operation for writing at least one block of data to the memory as a sequence of memory write and validation cycles for part of all of the data, wherein the number of cycles is a function of the amount of successfully written data per cycle and is thus variable in dependence on the success of the data writing; and a power management unit, which is adapted to authorize or prevent the memory controller from conducting the write operation at the level of a set of one or more write cycles thereby to control the timing of power consumption resulting from the cycles of the write operation, wherein the set of write cycles is a subset of the total write cycles for the write operation. | 38,375 |
8,853,901 | 1. A motor rotor system, comprising: a) an axis of rotation; b) a rotor iron core mounted on the axis of rotation; c) a permanent magnet; d) a magnetic ring bracket; and e) a magnetic ring; wherein: the permanent magnet, the magnetic ring bracket, and the magnetic ring are mounted on the rotor iron core; the magnetic ring is sheathed on the magnetic ring bracket; the magnetic ring bracket is located at one end of the rotor iron core and connected with an end face of the rotor iron core; an annular outer side wall of the magnetic ring bracket comprises a locating slot; an inner side wall of the magnetic ring comprises a positioning convex part; the locating slot is embedded with the positioning convex part to enable the magnetic ring to be mounted at an outer side of the magnetic ring bracket; the magnetic ring bracket comprises an annular inner ring; a plurality of cooling fan blades extend out of the outer side wall of the annular inner ring; and the annular outer side wall of the magnetic ring bracket connects with a top side of the cooling fan blades. | 38,383 |
9,007,902 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a network switch, a data frame containing congestion status information for at least a first traffic class and a second traffic class associated with packets being transmitted by the network switch to a network interface device; and when the network switch determines, in response to the data frame containing congestion status information, that the congestion status information indicates congestion corresponding to the first traffic class, reducing a rate of transmission, by the network switch, of packets (i) corresponding to the first traffic class and (ii) destined for the network interface device. | 41,461 |
8,815,085 | 1. A process for reducing the total acid number of a liquid hydrocarbon feed, comprising contacting, without the addition of hydrogen gas, a liquid hydrocarbon feed having an initial total acid number of at least 0.5 mg/g KOH with a catalyst comprising a metal titanate having an MTiO 3 structure, wherein M is a metal having a valence of 2+ at a temperature of between 200° C. and 400° C., thereby resulting in a treated hydrocarbon product having a final total acid number at least 10% lower than the initial total acid number. | 26,580 |
8,857,543 | 1. A motor vehicle having a drive unit with an internal combustion engine (VM), disposed in an engine compartment provided with a hood (M) and an electrical machine for at least assisting in driving the vehicle and for generating electric energy, and a power electronics system (LE) for operating the motor vehicle by at least one of the internal combustion engine (VM) and the electrical machine by controlling the electric power supplied to, and by, the electric machine during operation of the motor vehicle by the internal combustion engine and the electrical machine, the power electronics system (LE) being arranged in the engine compartment above the internal combustion engine (VM) and below the hood (M), within a housing (G) which is disposed above the engine at a minimum distance from the engine compartment hood (M), the housing (G) being mechanically connected to, and supported by, body parts of the motor vehicle. | 16,176 |
9,581,323 | 1. An LED-based lighting system with enhanced convective through-flow in an approximately vertical direction, the apparatus comprising: a light generation module comprising a first plurality of LED sources and a second plurality of LED sources, the first plurality of LED sources and the second plurality of LED sources arranged to illuminate along an optical axis in a distal direction; a first region defined by a first perimeter, the first perimeter forming a first polygon such that each of the first plurality of LED sources defines a vertex of the first polygon; a second region defined by a second perimeter, the second perimeter forming a second polygon such that each of the second plurality of LED sources defines a vertex of the second polygon; a third region enclosed by the first region and outside of the second region; and, a first plurality of optics adapted to optically align with the first plurality of LED sources and a second plurality of optics adapted to optically align to the second plurality of LED sources; for each one of the LED sources in the first plurality of LED sources and the second plurality of LED sources of the light generation module: at least one aperture defined in the third region, each of the at least one apertures providing an axial fluid communication path through the aperture and approximately parallel to the optical axis to remove heat from one or more of the heat transfer members, wherein each of the axial fluid communication paths extends proximally to exhaust to ambient atmosphere. | 1,143 |
9,040,159 | 1. An electronic element comprising: a substrate comprising a surface; and a transparent conductive layer comprising at least two carbon nanotube films directly stacked and located on the surface of the substrate, wherein each of the at least two carbon nanotube films comprises carbon nanotubes oriented along a primary orientation and substantially parallel to a surface of the each of the at least two carbon nanotube films, the surface of the each of the at least two each carbon nanotube films is parallel to the surface of the substrate, the carbon nanotubes in the each of the at least two carbon nanotube films are joined end to end along the primary orientation, an angle exists between the primary orientations of the carbon nanotubes of two adjacent carbon nanotube films, and the angle is in between 0° and 90°. | 19,143 |
9,005,480 | 1. A method for replacing a first ligand on a quantum dot with a second ligand, the method comprising: mixing a reaction mixture comprising a plurality of quantum dots having the first ligand non-covalently bound to the quantum dots, and a siloxane polymer comprising the second ligand, such that the second ligand displaces the first ligand and becomes non-covalently bound to the quantum dots without using solvent, and wherein the siloxane polymer has a T | 5,806 |
8,469,338 | 1. A lifting apparatus, comprising: a base having a proximal end, a distal end, a first pair of generally parallel laterally offset channels with open top ends, and a second pair of generally parallel laterally offset channels with open top ends; a first pair of rotatable arms extending inside the first pair of channels; a second pair of rotatable arms extending inside the second pair of channels; one arm of the first pair of arms and one arm of the second pair of arms rotating about a generally common first axis; the other arm of the first pair of arms and the other arm of the second pair of arms rotating about a generally common second axis; the first and second pairs of arms being rotatable in concert between lowered and raised positions; the arms of the first pair of arms being generally laterally adjacent one another when at the lowered position; the arms of the second pair of arms being generally laterally adjacent one another when at the lowered position; a receiving portion; the one arm of the first pair of arms and the one arm of the second pair of arms being rotatably coupled to the receiving portion about a generally common third axis; the other arm of the first pair of arms and the other arm of the second pair of arms being rotatably coupled to the receiving portion about a generally common fourth axis; the first and second axes being separated by a distance generally equal to a distance between the third and fourth axes. | 29,380 |
9,375,069 | 1. A package for a consumer care composition, the package comprising a container containing a consumer care composition in the form of a solid stick, the container having a base, a solid stick of the consumer care composition supported on the base at a fixed longitudinal position, an annular sleeve surrounding the solid stick, the annular sleeve being coupled to the base by a coupling mechanism, the coupling mechanism being adapted to control longitudinal movement of the annular sleeve relative to the base between extended and retracted positions, wherein the base includes a cavity for receiving the sleeve in the retracted position, wherein the cavity is an annular cavity between the base and an inner part, wherein the base comprises a transverse wall on which the solid stick is mounted, wherein the transverse wall is porous and disposed above a central cavity within the base, wherein the consumer care composition includes a fragrance, and further wherein the package comprises at least one selectively openable conduit communicating with a region including the consumer care composition. | 23,471 |
9,504,582 | 1. A method of correcting a toe bone deformity, comprising: exposing a joint between first and second bones; inserting a bone implant into the joint, the bone implant comprising a first portion including a socket portion, a second portion including a ball portion operatively connected to the socket portion, and a resorbable portion operatively connected to the first and second portions; inserting an edge portion of the respective first and second portions into the respective first and second bones; and aligning the ball portion with the socket portion such that the ball portion is configured to rotate a predetermined amount relative to the socket portion, and wherein the predetermined amount of rotation is limited by the resorbable portion for a predetermined period of time. | 14,958 |
8,920,771 | 1. A process for producing a H 2 -containing product gas and for producing purified water from a raw water stream containing contaminants, the process comprising: (i) withdrawing a reformate comprising H (ii) passing at least a portion of the reformate from step (i) to a first evaporator of a plurality of evaporators of a thermal water purification system; (iii) passing at least a portion of the raw water stream to the first evaporator; (iv) introducing a first steam stream into the first evaporator, the first steam stream formed in a second evaporator of the plurality of evaporators of the thermal water purification system; (v) heating the at least a portion of the raw water stream passed to the first evaporator in step (iii) in the first evaporator by indirect heat transfer with the at least a portion of the reformate from step (ii) and separately by indirect heat transfer with the first steam stream from step (iv) to form a second steam stream by evaporating a portion of the at least a portion of the raw water stream, thereby cooling the at least a portion of the reformate, forming a first condensate stream from the first steam stream, and concentrating the contaminants in the at least a portion of the raw water stream; (vi) withdrawing the second steam stream from the first evaporator; (vii) withdrawing the at least a portion of the reformate from the first evaporator; (viii) withdrawing the first condensate stream from the first evaporator, wherein the purified water comprises the first condensate stream; (ix) withdrawing the at least a portion of the raw water stream from the first evaporator, the at least a portion of the raw water stream having a higher concentration of the contaminants than when it was introduced into the first evaporator; and (x) passing the at least a portion of the reformate withdrawn in step (vii) to a gas separator and separating the at least a portion of the reformate in the gas separator to produce at least a portion of the H | 44,926 |
9,105,887 | 1. A method for controlling an injector in a fuel cell system, said method comprising: setting an injector pulse width for at least one predetermined duty cycle; determining an injector close time for the at least one predetermined duty cycle based on the injector pulse width; changing the injector pulse width for the at least one predetermined duty cycle; determining an injector close time for the at least one predetermined duty cycle based on the changed injector pulse width; repeating the step of changing the injector pulse width for the at least one predetermined duty cycle such that a variety of injector pulse widths are used for the at least one predetermined duty cycle; repeating the step of determining injector close time for the at least one predetermined duty cycle each time the injector pulse width is varied such that injector close time is determined for each of the variety of injector pulse widths for the at least one predetermined duty cycle; determining an error for the at least one predetermined duty cycle for each of the injector pulse widths used; and using the injector pulse width with the lowest error for the at least one predetermined duty cycle. | 34,550 |
9,722,328 | 1. A contact part, comprising: a sleeve enclosing a receiving space; a contact spring secured to an inside of the sleeve, the contact spring including one or more planar terminal bearing regions configured to mount the contact spring in the sleeve, each of the one or more planar terminal bearing regions having a central recess; and a locking pin configured to: | 44,211 |
9,592,077 | 1. A cannula for preventing spraying of liquid, the cannula comprising: a support tube capable of partially inserting into a human body to guide a surgical instrument to an inside of the human body; and a handle integrally formed with the support tube to allow the surgical instrument to be in and out of the human body, wherein the handle comprises a plurality of seal plates coupled to an inside thereof to prevent spraying of liquid onto an operator by an internal pressure of the human body and an outlet formed at side surface thereof, wherein each seal plate is provided at a central portion thereof with an incision portion partially formed through which the surgical instrument is inserted, and wherein the outlet is disposed between two adjacent seal plates of the plurality of seal plates to reduce an internal pressure of the handle between the two adjacent seal plates to atmospheric pressure. | 4,541 |
8,962,376 | 1. An optoelectronic device, including a semiconductor body having a surface to receive photons and a plurality of doped regions of opposite doping polarities, the doped regions extending substantially from the surface of the semiconductor body and into the semiconductor body, and being arranged in one or more pairs of opposite doping polarities such that each pair of doped regions forms a corresponding space charge region having a corresponding electric field therein and regions of relatively high resistivity are disposed between respective pairs of said doped regions, the space charge regions including the regions of relatively high resistivity and the high resistivity regions of the semiconductor body include regions of respective different phases of the semiconductor body having respective different bandgaps, the space charge region extending substantially from the surface of the semiconductor body and into the semiconductor body such that photons entering the semiconductor body through the surface and travelling along paths within the space charge region generate electron-hole pairs in the space charge region that are separated in opposing directions substantially orthogonal to the photon paths by the electric field and collected by the corresponding pair of doped regions, thereby providing an electrical current to be conducted from the device. | 10,075 |
8,576,089 | 1. A system for facilitating data communication connection to a building from an optical fiber communication line running underground from a communication service provider source to a proximity of the building, the system comprising: an underground fiber optic branch line coupled to the fiber optic communication line and having a terminal end extending generally towards the building; a receptacle housing the terminal end of the fiber optic branch line, wherein the receptacle is disposed at least partly underground and is accessible from above ground; and a connector coupled to the terminal end of the fiber optic branch line and residing within the receptacle, wherein the connector includes a window for viewing light transmitted through a fiber optic cable coupled to the branch line via the connector. | 49,242 |
8,358,412 | 1. A system for sorting biological particles in a liquid flow, each of the biological particles having a moving speed different from one another in the liquid flow, said system comprising: an optical mechanism emitting laser beam onto each of the biological particles to detect light therefrom; a controller determining the moving speed of each of the biological particles in the liquid flow in accordance with the light detected therefrom; and an electric charger charging each of the biological particles based upon the moving speed thereof. | 14,952 |
9,017,726 | 1. A poly(organophosphazene)-superparamagnetic nanoparticle complex comprising a biodegradable and thermosensitive phosphazene-based polymer showing a sol-to-gel behavior depending upon the temperature change; and a superparamagnetic ferrite nanoparticle represented by Chemical formula 2a, or Chemical formula 2b: Wherein, Me is a transitional metal selected from the group consisting of Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn, T is tetrahedral site, and O is octahedral site. | 17,917 |
8,486,680 | 1. An isolated, synthetic, or recombinant polypeptide having a xylanase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, and amino acid residue change at amino acid residue 44 such that amino acid residue 44 Serine, Ser (or “S”) is changed to Threonine, “Thr” (or “T”). | 4,454 |
8,467,726 | 1. A communication device which performs, when attached to a first region of a moving body, wireless communication with a communication partner device attached to a second region of the moving body, said communication device comprising: a motion obtaining unit configured to obtain motion information indicating a motion of at least one region of the moving body; a parameter determining unit configured to determine a parameter corresponding to the motion of the region of the moving body indicated by the motion information obtained by said motion obtaining unit, using parameter information in which the motion and a parameter indicating a communication mode for successful wireless communication are associated with each other; and a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with the communication partner device according to the parameter determined by said parameter determining unit, wherein said motion obtaining unit is configured to obtain, as the motion information, information indicating a motion of the first region, and the parameter information is information in which the motion of the first region and a parameter which corresponds to signal strength of a radio signal received from the communication partner device when the motion is measured and indicates the communication mode for successful wireless communication are associated with each other in advance. | 18,245 |
9,772,758 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores executable program code that directs a computing system to provide an interactive user interface having functionality for interactively editing a tournament bracket, wherein the user interface: displays a hierarchical tree representation of the bracket, wherein the hierarchical tree representation includes a visual representation of each game of the bracket, each visual representation of a game positioned to indicate a round to which the game is assigned; displays, within the hierarchical tree representation of the bracket, for games that are not fully dependent upon outcomes of other games in the bracket, game addition elements that are selectable to add new games to the bracket; responds to user selection of a game addition element corresponding to a selected game by adding the new game to the bracket, in a round preceding a round of the selected game, such that a winner of the new game plays in the selected game; displays multiple listings of team designators, including at least (1) a listing of teams, and (2) a listing of placements; and provides a drag-and-drop interface than enables a user to select a team designator from one of the multiple listings of team designators, and to drag and drop the selected team designator to a visual representation of a target game in the hierarchical tree representation to thereby assign the team designator to the target game, whereby the user can assign to the game a team or a placement, wherein the user interface is configured to update respective visual representations of games to display teams determined to correspond with assigned placements. | 1,036 |
9,581,041 | 1. A system comprising: a first coating deposited on a first substrate, the first coating comprising a first non-ceramic bond layer, a second non-ceramic bond layer, and a first ceramic outer layer, wherein the second non-ceramic bond layer is between the first non-ceramic bond layer and the first ceramic outer layer, wherein the first non-ceramic bond layer defines a first porosity and the second non-ceramic bond layer defines a second porosity that is greater than the first porosity; and a second coating deposited on a second substrate, the second coating comprising a third non-ceramic bond layer deposited on the substrate and a second ceramic outer layer deposited on the third bond layer, wherein the second coating is configured to abrade the first coating, and wherein during operation of the system, the second coating abrades the first ceramic outer layer of the first coating. | 22,126 |
8,802,477 | 1. A method for forming a heterojunction III-V photovoltaic (PV) cell, the method comprising: forming a first intrinsic layer on a substrate; forming a first back surface field layer on the first intrinsic layer; forming a first amorphous silicon layer on the first back surface field layer; performing a layer transfer of a base layer from the substrate, the base layer having a thickness of less than about 20 microns, wherein the layer transfer comprises spalling, and wherein spalling comprises: forming a second-intrinsic layer on the base layer; forming a second-amorphous silicon layer on the second intrinsic layer; and forming a transparent conducting oxide layer on the second amorphous silicon layer. | 47,796 |
8,611,260 | 1. A distance estimation system for estimating a distance between two electronic devices, said system comprising: a power adjustable transmitter that is capable of having its power level adjusted between successive transmissions of packets of data, wherein said packets of data are transmitted at a plurality of different power levels; a remote device that is remote from the power adjustable transmitter for receiving the packets of data, wherein said remote device includes a packet-to-loss ratio unit for providing data representative of a packet-to-loss ratio of the packets of data received by the remote device, said remote device including means for determining a percentage of packets of data that are transmitted at each of the plurality of different power levels to provide a packet distribution vector; and distance estimation means for generating a distance estimation signal responsive to the packet distribution vector such that the distance estimation signal is associated with a power level at which the power level adjustable transmitter is not able to sufficiently transmit the packets of data to the remote device. | 28,714 |
9,358,305 | 1. A composition for oral administration to a subject, the composition comprising: a) a targeting moiety comprising an anti-ICAM antibody, wherein the targeting moiety recognizes and binds to ICAM-1 on a gastrointestinal epithelial cell; b) an agent, and c) a protective agent effective to protect the targeting moiety and agent of b) from degradation prior to arrival at the locus of the gastrointestinal epithelial cell, wherein the targeting moiety and the agent of b) are constituted so that they are transported across the gastrointestinal epithelium after arrival at the locus of the gastrointestinal epithelial cell. | 38,686 |
8,424,581 | 1. An apparatus for applying a tab onto an article, comprising, a tabber housing; a conveyor supported by the tabber housing and configured to advance an article to be tabbed along a predetermined path of travel; a tab dispenser supported by the tabber housing and positioned above the path of travel and configured to dispense a tab from a web of material containing tabs and onto the article as it passes under the tab dispenser; and an air conveyor supported by the tabber housing and configured to withdraw the web of material after tabbing, and further comprising a housing having an air chamber and a web entry, a web exit and air port communicating with the air chamber, and a nozzle assembly positioned within the air chamber and comprising upper and lower nozzle plates that extend across the air chamber and spaced from each other to form a web delivery channel that is aligned with the web entry and web exit, each of said nozzle plates further comprising a plurality of air nozzles extending through the nozzle plate and configured to pass pressurized air from the air chamber into the web delivery channel such that a web of material entering the web entry is drawn from the web entry through the web delivery channel and out of the web exit. | 30,668 |
8,617,249 | 1. A proximal humeral prosthesis, comprising: a humeral head having a distal end and a proximal end, said proximal end of said humeral head adapted to be coupled to a glenoid cavity of a scapula; a humeral stem core having an outer surface, a distal end, and a proximal end, said proximal end of said humeral stem core adapted to be coupled to the distal end of the humeral head; a humeral stem graft having an inner surface, a distal end, a proximal end, and an outer surface comprising at least one tendon attachment site, said inner surface of said humeral stem graft adapted to be positioned around at least a portion of the outer surface of the humeral stem core with said proximal end of said humeral stem graft contacting the distal end of the humeral head to axially compress said humeral stem graft beneath the humeral head being axially compressed; and an intramedullary stem having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end of said intramedullary stem adapted to be directly coupled or indirectly coupled to the distal end of the humeral stem core. | 43,643 |
9,488,697 | 1. A computer-implemented method of evaluating a battery state comprising: collecting, by a battery monitor that is coupled to an industrial vehicle battery, samples recorded by the battery monitor during use of an industrial vehicle, wherein the battery monitor has a processor coupled to at least one sensor to sample battery current, the samples are recorded at a predetermined sampling interval, and the samples represent a measure of a magnitude of a current discharged from a battery powering the industrial vehicle, thus creating a time-based history of a load on the battery during operation of the industrial vehicle; sorting, by a processor of the industrial vehicle, each collected sample into a corresponding bin, where each bin is associated with a value based on the magnitude of the current samples sorted into that bin, and each bin is stored in memory on the industrial vehicle that is accessible by the processor of the industrial vehicle; creating, by the processor of the industrial vehicle, a battery use estimate for each bin by multiplying a number of samples sorted into the bin by the value of the bin, and the sampling interval; determining, by the processor on the industrial vehicle, for each bin, a fractional depletion contribution of the battery by computing a quotient where the quotient is computed by dividing a lifetime expected estimate for that bin by the battery use estimate for that bin; generating, by the processor on the industrial vehicle, a depletion estimate associated with the state of the battery based upon an accumulation of the fractional depletion contributions; and outputting a measure of the battery state based upon the generated depletion estimate. | 13,566 |
8,826,699 | 1. A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres using an internal vapour deposition process, comprising the steps of: i) providing a hollow glass substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side, ii) surrounding at least part of the hollow glass substrate tube by a furnace, iii) supplying glass-forming gases to the interior of the hollow glass substrate tube via the supply side thereof, iv) creating a reaction zone in the form of a plasma with a resonator configured to couple microwaves into the interior of the hollow glass substrate tube to create conditions such that deposition of glass will take place on the inner surface of the hollow glass substrate tube, and v) moving the reaction zone back and forth along the length of the hollow glass substrate tube between a reversal point located near the supply side and a reversal point located near the discharge side of the hollow glass substrate tube so as to form one or more preform layers on the inner surface of the hollow glass substrate tube, both of which reversal points are surrounded by the furnace, wherein the furnace comprises at least three different temperature zones along the length of the substrate tube in the longitudinal direction, a first temperature zone located near the reversal point of the supply side, a second temperature zone located near the reversal point of the discharge side, and a third temperature zone being located in between the first and second temperature zones, wherein a temperature or temperature gradient in one temperature zone is set independently of and is different from a temperature or temperature gradient in the other zone(s) such that a temperature profile is created along the length of the hollow glass substrate tube and a preform layer formed in step v) is subjected to the different temperature zones during its formation to minimize deviations in the refractive index profile of the preform layer along its length, wherein the temperature profile is non-monotonic. | 24,890 |
8,772,467 | 1. A kit for use in a process of detecting members of a set of polymorphisms that occur at identified loci in samples of a patient nucleic acid, said kit comprising: a group of unlabeled blockers capable of hybridizing under stringent conditions with markers in at least one locus contained in the patient sample nucleic acid thereby blocking said markers from further hybridizing to a detectable discriminator, wherein a specific nucleotide sequence of at least one unlabeled blocker of said group of unlabeled blockers is fully complementary to a nucleotide sequence comprising a mutation or a polymorphism in said at least one locus, and wherein the at least one unlabeled blocker is capable of hybridizing under said stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence comprising the mutation or the polymorphism; more than one detectable discriminator, at least one of said more than one detectable discriminator capable of hybridizing under said stringent conditions with the nucleotide sequence comprising said mutation or polymorphism, said at least one unlabeled blocker being capable of blocking said at least one detectable discriminator from hybridizing with the nucleotide sequence comprising said mutation or polymorphism under said stringent conditions; and at least one universal reporter capable of binding with said more than one detectable discriminator, wherein said at least one of said more than one detectable discriminator is denatured from the nucleotide sequence comprising said mutation or said polymorphism in a hybridization product formed by said at least one detectable discriminator and the nucleotide sequence comprising said mutation or said polymorphism under denaturation condition while said at least one unlabeled blocker has a sufficient length so that said at least one unlabeled blocker remains to hybridize with the nucleotide sequence comprising said mutation or said polymorphism in a hybridization product formed by said at least one unlabeled blocker and the nucleotide sequence having said mutation or said polymorphism under said denaturation condition. | 17,487 |
9,481,897 | 1. A hybrid polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase activity, comprising: (a) a first polypeptide fragment which comprises a cellobiohydrolase catalytic domain, wherein the cellobiohydrolase catalytic domain has at least 96% sequence identity to amino acids 19 to 455 of SEQ ID NO: 2 or is a fragment of amino acids 19 to 455 of SEQ ID NO: 2 that has a cellobiohydrolase activity; and (b) a second polypeptide fragment which comprises a carbohydrate binding domain, wherein the carbohydrate binding domain has at least 96% sequence identity to amino acids 468 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 4 or is a fragment of amino acids 468 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 4 that has carbohydrate binding activity; wherein the catalytic domain is at the N-terminal end of the hybrid polypeptide and the carbohydrate binding domain is at the C-terminal end of the catalytic domain. | 20,721 |
9,810,126 | 1. An exhaust conduit adapted to cause exhaust gases to swirl about a longitudinal axis of the exhaust conduit when the exhaust gases flow through the exhaust conduit, the exhaust conduit comprising: a wall having a first side and an oppositely disposed second side, the wall defining a central flow passage extending through the wall, wherein the central flow passage is centered about the longitudinal axis of the exhaust conduit; and a plurality of flow deflecting passages extending through the wall, the plurality of flow deflecting passages being positioned around the central flow passage, the plurality of flow deflecting passages including a first set disposed at a first radial distance from the longitudinal axis and a second set disposed at a second radial distance from the longitudinal axis, and wherein the second radial distance is less than the first radial distance, the flow deflecting passages each including: | 25,250 |
9,062,390 | 1. A method of forming crystalline oxides comprising: providing a substrate; depositing a strontium titanate layer on the substrate by atomic layer deposition; and subjecting the strontium titanate layer to a post-deposition anneal (PDA) under conditions selected to produce large single crystal domains in the strontium titanate layer, wherein the strontium titanate layer has a thickness, and wherein subjecting the strontium titanate layer to the PDA comprises forming single crystal domains having lateral dimensions exceeding the thickness by at least a factor of two. | 40,308 |
8,769,744 | 1. A method for supporting and applying tension to a person's head and neck, the method comprising: providing a device having a support structure and a neck support movably connected to an upper portion of the support structure; placing the structure on a substantially horizontal surface; positioning a person with the person's neck on the neck support, wherein the weight of the person's neck, when applied to the neck support, causes the support structure to apply tension to the person's neck in a direction which is away from the person's shoulders, further comprising, when the weight of the person's neck is applied to the neck support, the support structure moving the neck support in the direction which is away from the person's shoulders, thereby applying tension to the person's neck in the direction which is away from the person's shoulders. | 35,206 |
8,432,911 | 1. A method for use by an encoding node configured for encoding packets for transmission toward a decoding node, the method comprising: receiving, at the encoding node, a control packet of the decoding node, the control packet identifying a reference packet stored in a packet cache of the encoding node that is missing from a packet cache of the decoding node; processing the reference packet stored in the packet cache of the encoding node in a manner for preventing use of the reference packet by the encoding node for encoding packets for transmission to the decoding node; identifying, at the encoding node, a region of a target packet that matches a region of the reference packet stored in the packet cache of the encoding node; and preventing replacement of the region of the target packet with an encoding key identifying the reference packet based on a determination that the reference packet is marked in a manner indicating that the reference packet is not to be used for encoding. | 5,470 |
9,480,576 | 1. A bone graft system for providing fluidic, bone graft material to a site of interest, the bone graft system comprising: a tamping rod; a bone graft cartridge containing the fluidic, bone graft material, the bone graft cartridge including a first opening and a second opening that are each sized to receive the tamping rod; a conduit having a first opening and a second opening, the first opening of the conduit sized to receive the tamping rod; and a handle associated with the first opening of the conduit, the handle including an opening sized and configured to receive the bone graft cartridge; wherein the tamping rod advances the fluidic, bone graft material out of the bone graft cartridge, into the first opening of the conduit, and out the second opening of the conduit to the site of interest as the tamping rod advances through the first opening and the second opening of the bone graft cartridge, through the first opening of the conduit, and into the conduit. | 39,108 |
9,440,918 | 1. A method of purifying (S)-oxiracetam, comprising: dissolving crude (S)-oxiracetam in water, then treating with a 001×7 strong acidic styrene cation-exchange resin and a 201×7 strong alkaline styrene anion-exchange resin; after said treating with the resins, dissoving the crude (S)-oxiracetam in water so as to provide a solution, allowing the solution to stand still at 0° C. to 18° C. for 1 to 3 days, and precipitating the solution to obtain a colorless transparent crystal, wherein a ratio of mass to volume (g/ml) of the crude (S)-oxiracetam and the water used in said dissolving to provide the solution is 1:0.5 to 2; filtering and top-washing the colorless transparent crystal with cold water from 0° C. to 5° C. so as to provide a product; and drying the product in vacuum to obtain high-purity (S)-oxiracetam; wherein said method is performed without any organic solvent. | 9,853 |
9,527,055 | 1. A hydrogen generator comprising: a reformer configured to cause a reforming reaction using a material and steam to generate a hydrogen-containing gas; a shift converter configured to reduce CO in the hydrogen-containing gas by a shift reaction; an evaporator provided adjacent to the shift converter so as to perform heat exchange with an upstream side of the shift converter and configured to evaporate water; and a hydro-desulfurizer provided adjacent to the shift converter so as to perform heat exchange with a downstream side of the shift converter and configured to remove a sulfur compound in the material by a hydrodesulfurization reaction, wherein the hydro-desulfurizer is arranged closer to the downstream side of the shift converter than the upstream side of the shift converter. | 12,648 |
8,824,862 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a display unit including a screen; a detection unit configured to detect a position designated by a user on the screen; and a controller configured to display, with at least a partial range of a moving image being a display range, a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of frames belonging to the display range by annularly arranging them in time series, and shift, when an operation is judged to be made along a direction in which the plurality of images are arranged based on a result of the detection by the detection unit, the display range in the moving image, wherein the plurality of images annularly arranged and displayed on the screen are a plurality of images each corresponding to a frame set for each of set intervals, wherein the controller displays an operation object for receiving an operation input from the user at substantially the center of the annularly-arranged images, and sets, when an operation is judged to be made to the operation object based on a result of the detection by the detection unit, a setting value of the intervals, wherein the controller discriminates an operation content with respect to the operation object at least between a first operation content and a second operation content, sets the setting value of the intervals when judged as the first operation content, and shifts the display range when judged as the second operation content, and wherein the first operation content is an operation for moving the operation object in a first axial direction on the screen, and the second operation content is an operation for moving the operation object in a second axial direction orthogonal to the first axial direction. | 42,586 |
9,302,721 | 1. An assembly comprising: an undercarriage frame having a hydraulic reservoir therein; one or more utility arms coupled to the undercarriage frame for lifting and lowering attachments coupled to the one or more utility arms; and a hydraulic pump coupled to the undercarriage frame and configured to operate the one or more utility arms, the hydraulic pump is configured to be actuated by a drive shaft of a cab assembly, wherein the undercarriage frame is configured to receive the cab assembly. | 13,959 |
9,585,022 | 1. A method in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of assigning a selected identifier to an application, wherein the TEE includes at least two profile domains for storing applications, and an extended application registry, which includes a profile registry including at least two profile domain registries adapted to store entries of applications stored in said at least two profile domains, and wherein the extended application registry is further adapted to store one or more entries external to said profile registry, the method comprising: receiving a request to load or install, in a selected profile domain or external to any profile domain of the TEE, an application with a selected identifier; when the received request comprises a request to load or install the application in the selected profile domain, and when the selected identifier is not stored in an application entry belonging to a profile domain registry adapted to register applications stored in the selected profile domain, assigning the selected identifier to said application; and when the received request comprises a request to load or install the application external to any profile domain of the TEE, and when the selected identifier is not stored in an application entry belonging to any of said at least two profile domain registries, assigning the selected identifier to said application. | 45,587 |
8,782,694 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a first version of video data and audio data representing media content and a second version of the video data and the audio data representing the media content, wherein the first version is compressed according to a first video compression, wherein the second version is compressed to a second video compression, wherein the first video compression differs from the second video compression, and wherein the media content comprises a first genre; applying, by the system, a first output profile to the first version of the video data and the audio data at a presentation component during a first reproduction of the media content at the presentation component to generate a first user experience of the media content; applying, by the system, a second output profile to the version of the video data and the audio data at the presentation component during a second reproduction of the media content at the presentation component to generate a second user experience of the media content, wherein the first user experience and the second experience are simultaneously presented on a first portion and a second portion of a display device; receiving, by the system, a first preference score of the first user experience and a second preference score of the second user experience; performing multivariate analysis of the first preference score and the second preference score; identifying, by the system, a preferred output profile between the first output profile and the second output profile according to the multivariate analysis, wherein the preferred output profile comprises changes to output characteristics to compensate for a viewing environment, wherein the preferred output profile comprises audio characteristics comprising one of treble, bass, speaker delay, number of audio channels, or combination thereof, and wherein the preferred profile is specific to the first genre of the media content; storing, by the system, the preferred output profile at a network server; and receiving, by the system, a selection of the preferred output profile to compensate for a change in ambient characteristics during presentation of second media content of the first genre via the presentation component. | 31,836 |
9,297,935 | 1. A sensing device with enhanced sensor indication comprising: a first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer including a substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface, and end walls situated at least partially between respective perimeters of the top surface and the bottom surface, wherein the fluorophore-embedded indicator layer is sheet-like in form such that a first dimensional extent of at least one of the end walls between the top and bottom surfaces is substantially less than each of second and third dimensional extents along the respective perimeter of one of the top and bottom surfaces, wherein the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer is at least one of transparent and translucent, wherein the end walls are exposed to an environment external to the sensing device, and wherein at least two of the end walls are substantially non-parallel relative to one another; a first light source for transmitting light into the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer, wherein the transmitted light is reflected inside the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer and absorbed by the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer to generate enhanced light that is emitted from the end walls so as to provide an edge glow effect, wherein the enhanced light includes the light transmitted from the first light source with at least one characteristic modified by the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer; a sensing circuit; a housing for at least partially enclosing the first light source, the sensing circuit, and the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer, wherein the bottom surface of the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer is at least partially covered by a bottom surface barrier, wherein the top surface of the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer is at least partially covered by a top surface barrier, and wherein the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer is positioned directly between the bottom and top surface barriers; a recess formed in the first fluorophore-embedded indicator layer for receiving at least a portion of the first light source therein; a second light source capable of emitting light substantially in a direction opposite the emission of light from the first light source; and a planar printed circuit board (PCB) having an end portion configured to be received inside the recess, wherein the first light source is mounted to a first side of the PCB and the second light source is mounted to a second side of the PCB. | 23,179 |
9,594,594 | 1. A method of allocating media resources on a device, comprising: determining a media resources allocation table based on one or more media resources, the one or more media resources being determined based on media hardware resources on the device, a power consumption of each hardware resource, and predetermined benchmarks of the media hardware resources for performing media operations; adjusting the media resources allocation table based on actual clock speeds determined for the device while it is running the one or more media resources by running test routines on the device and comparing the actual clock speeds of the device to an estimated clock speed of the device; receiving a request for media resources from a first application, wherein the request for media resources includes requested media resources, requested performance and a requested power consumption; in response to receiving the request, comparing the requested media resources with the media resources allocation table based on the requested performance and the requested power consumption to generate a comparison result; when the comparison result indicates that the requested media resources satisfies the requested performance and the requested power consumption: when the comparison result indicates that the requested media resources are not available; | 11,109 |
9,112,097 | 1. A method for metallization of a first solar cell, the method comprising: placing a patterned metal foil on the first solar cell, wherein the patterned metal foil comprises a positive busbar, a negative busbar, a positive contact finger extending from the positive busbar, a negative contact finger extending from the negative busbar, a metal strip, and a tab, wherein the positive and negative busbars and the positive and negative contact fingers are connected to one another by the metal strip and the tab; coupling the patterned metal foil to the first solar cell; and removing the tab and metal strip, wherein after said removing, the positive and negative busbars are not connected to one another. | 31,739 |
9,692,243 | 1. A frequency regulation method for regulating a frequency of a power system by charging or discharging a storage battery, the method comprising: measuring the frequency; obtaining an SOC (state of charge) of the storage battery; determining a base-point indicating a value of power to be charged in or discharged from the storage battery when the measured frequency is equal to a predetermined rated frequency; determining a charge control variable or a discharge control variable that is a power value changed from the base-point by an amount corresponding to a frequency deviation that is a difference between the predetermined rated frequency and the measured frequency to generate the charge control variable or the discharge control variable; and charging or discharging the storage battery based on the charge control variable or the discharge control variable, wherein in the determining a base-point: the base-point is determined to be equal to a charging power value when the SOC of the storage battery is within a first range smaller than a first threshold, the charging power value indicating power that is being charged in the storage battery; the base-point is determined to be equal to a discharging power value when the SOC of the storage battery is within a second range larger than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, the discharging power value indicating power that is being discharged from the storage battery; the base-point is changed according to the SOC of the storage battery; and a third rate of change is smaller than a first rate of change and a second rate of change, the first rate of change being an average rate of change in the base-point with respect to the SOC when the SOC is within the first range, the second rate of change being an average rate of change in the base-point with respect to the SOC when the SOC is within the second range, the third rate of change being an average rate of change in the base-point with respect to the SOC when the SOC is within a third range from the first threshold to the second threshold. | 5,474 |
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