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8,400,412 | 1. A display panel comprising: a first substrate; a first sensor pad that is formed on the first substrate; a second sensor pad that is spaced apart from the first sensor pad; a second substrate that is disposed to face the first substrate; a common electrode that is formed on the second substrate; a first sensor spacer that is formed on the second substrate to overlap the first sensor pad and protrudes toward the first substrate; a second sensor spacer that is formed on the second substrate to overlap the second sensor pad and protrudes toward the first substrate; and a sensor electrode that is formed on the first sensor spacer and the second sensor spacer to overlap the first sensor pad and the second sensor pad, wherein the second sensor spacer protrudes toward the first substrate farther than the first sensor spacer, lateral sides of the first sensor spacer and the second sensor spacer are connected to each other by a connection protruding toward the first substrate farther than the common electrode, the sensor electrode is a floating electrode, and the sensor electrode is separated from the common electrode. | 30,034 |
8,993,316 | 1. A vector for delivering a nucleic acid sequence into a living organism, wherein said vector has the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30. | 41,291 |
9,475,456 | 1. A battery system for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, the battery system comprising: a starter circuit comprising a starter battery and a starter which is connected or configured to be connected to the starter battery and is designed to start the internal combustion engine in response to a starter signal; a low-voltage on-board electrical system comprising an on-board electrical system battery which is designed to generate a first voltage and to output a first voltage to the low-voltage on-board electrical system, and at least one electrical consumer; and an on-board electrical system with an increased voltage comprising at least one electrical generator which is configured to be operated by the internal combustion engine and is designed to generate a second voltage, which is higher than the first voltage, and to output the second voltage to the on-board electrical system with an increased voltage, wherein the on-board electrical system with an increased voltage is connected to the low-voltage on-board electrical system by a first coupling unit which is designed to draw electrical energy from the on-board electrical system with an increased voltage and to supply electrical energy to the low-voltage on-board electrical system, and wherein the low-voltage on-board electrical system is connected to the starter circuit by a second coupling unit which is designed to draw electrical energy from the low-voltage on-board electrical system and to supply electrical energy to the starter circuit. | 3,980 |
9,396,142 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: one or more communication units, wherein each of the one or more communication units is configured to: an interface unit coupled to each of the one or more communication units, wherein the interface unit is configured to send an interrupt dependent upon the physical address; wherein to synthesize the virtual address each of the one or more communication units is further configured to synthesize a requester identity, wherein the requester identity is dependent upon an identity of the respective endpoint device. | 14,810 |
8,564,944 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cover configured to be disposed over at least a portion of a display device of a computing device that is configured as a tablet; and a connection portion attached to the cover using a flexible hinge, the connection portion configured to be physically coupled to the computing device using a magnetic coupling device that includes: a first magnet that is disposed in the connection portion such that a magnetic field is aligned along an axis; and second and third magnets are disposed in the connection portion at opposing sides of the first magnet from each other, each having a respective magnetic field that is aligned along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the magnetic field of the first magnet. | 18,647 |
9,707,282 | 1. An isolated immunomodulatory peptide comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1214, or a variant thereof comprising an Ile, Arg or Val at position 5, or an amino acid sequence having at least 90% identity thereto. | 2,966 |
9,252,234 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: doping a p-type substrate to form an N-well from one portion of the p-type substrate adjacent an anode region from another portion of the p-type substrate, wherein an interface between the N-well and the anode extends vertically from a top surface of the p-type substrate to a bottom surface of the p-type substrate; etching a cavity to a selected depth in the anode region adjacent the N-well; depositing p-type doped material in the cavity to form a p-type doped region adjacent the N-well, wherein the interface between the N-well and the anode provides a sidewall boundary of the p-type material and a p-n junction associated with the p-type doped region extends into the N-well and into the anode region; and forming a gate stack on the N-well having a spacer, wherein an outer sidewall of the gate stack is aligned with the vertical interface between the N-well and the anode. | 40,780 |
8,358,732 | 1. A core catcher for a nuclear reactor plant that has a reactor vessel, the core catcher comprising: a main body configured to be placed beneath the reactor vessel and having a plurality of cooling fins extending radially on a bottom surface of the main body; a plurality of cooling channels formed between the cooling fins in the main body and extending radially; a distributor arranged in a central region of the bottom surface of the main body and connected to the plurality of cooling channels so that cooling water in the distributor is led inside of the cooling channels; and a side wall part channel formed at a peripheral region of the main body. | 48,808 |
8,484,950 | 1. A configuration for the purification of an exhaust-gas flow of an internal combustion engine, the configuration comprising: an exhaust line communicating with the internal combustion engine and having a cross section; an exhaust-gas purification element disposed in said exhaust line and having a first end side and a second end side, said element configured to conduct an exhaust-gas flow through said element from said first end side to said second end side, said element configured to attain a homogenization of the exhaust-gas flow over said cross section of said exhaust line and said homogenization continuing in a region downstream of said element as a laminar flow region; and an adding unit disposed downstream of said element for adding a reactant into the exhaust-gas flow, said adding unit being spaced apart from said second end side of said element by a distance of at most 30 mm, said adding unit being disposed in said laminar flow region and said adding unit being configured to cause at least 90 percent of the added reactant to impinge on said second end side of said element. | 3,712 |
9,089,982 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cartridge configured to receive a pen or a cutter; a receiving mechanism configured to receive an object; a first moving mechanism configured to move the cartridge in a predetermined first movement direction; a second moving mechanism configured to move the object in a second direction perpendicular to the predetermined first movement direction; a third moving mechanism configured to move the cartridge in a direction such that the cartridge comes close to the receiving mechanism; and a processor configured to instruct the apparatus to: | 30,519 |
8,601,292 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a voltage regulator having first and second voltage regulator domains, the first and second voltage regulator domains to provide first and second power supply voltages respectively; and a CPU, to be coupled to the voltage regulator, to provide the voltage regulator with a voltage command and to receive the first and second power supply voltages corresponding to the commanded voltage from the voltage regulator, and to receive operating parameter information from the voltage regulator, wherein the CPU is coupled to a controller, the controller operable to determine the allowable voltage command values, wherein the CPU is a multi-core CPU having first and second processor cores integrated on a common semiconductor die, wherein the first and second processor cores receive the first and second power supply voltages respectively from the respective first and second voltage regulator domains, wherein the CPU comprises a logic unit which is operable to: push operation of the CPU to a maximum operating limit of the voltage regulator; and push operation of the CPU to a minimum operating limit of the voltage regulator, and wherein the voltage regulator comprises a master controller to control first and second voltage regulator domains by enabling or disabling cells within the first and second voltage regulator domains, and wherein the controller, which is different from the master controller, is external to the CPU and is operable to cause the CPU to execute a margining routine to determine VID levels for the voltage regulator. | 42,911 |
9,374,765 | 1. A method for maintaining a set of approved acceptable network devices located in a prescribed home zone, the method comprising: initially provisioning a wireless device with a set of approved acceptable network devices located in the prescribed home zone; detecting additional network devices; determining whether additional detected network devices are acceptable network devices, wherein the decision whether the additional detected network devices are acceptable is based upon the network device from which the wireless device was last receiving service. | 11,819 |
9,420,369 | 1. A processing method for an earphone, the method comprising: obtaining a sense signal; obtaining a distance between an earphone and an ear corresponding to the earphone according to the sense signal; comparing the distance with a first preset threshold; closing an audio connection of the earphone if the distance is greater than the first preset threshold for a first preset time after obtaining the sense signal; starting an audio playing program and opening an earphone channel of the earphone in response to the distance being less than or equal to the first preset threshold for a second preset time; and increasing a volume of the earphone channel while the audio playing program is playing and the earphone channel of the earphone is open and in response to the distance changing to be less than or equal to a second preset threshold for a third preset time, wherein the second preset threshold is smaller than the first preset threshold. | 17,694 |
9,605,440 | 1. A memorial photo box to provide a backlit high resolution photo to a viewer of a grave marker, comprising: a rear housing having a rear wall, upper and lower walls and first and second side walls and a front opening defined by the upper and lower walls and the first and second side walls; a top cover having upper and lower walls and first and second side walls and a lip formed about a front opening defined by the upper and lower walls and the first and second side walls; the top cover mounted onto the rear housing; a high resolution photo and protective UV sheeting disposed between the lip formed about the front opening of the top cover and the front opening of the rear housing; the rear housing containing one or more strands of light bulbs and circuitry to provide power and operate the one or more strands of light bulbs; and the high resolution photo disposed between the lip formed about the front opening of the top cover and the front opening of the rear housing to be illuminated by the one or more strands of light bulbs. | 39,369 |
8,722,214 | 1. An apparatus comprising a substrate, one or more underlayers and a magnetic layer wherein the magnetic layer comprises magnetic grains and grain boundaries comprising hybrid additives, the hybrid additives having two or more different additives, wherein a first one of the two or more different additives comprises C, which imparts an increased surface roughness to the magnetic layer, the first additive is in a range of about 2% to 98% by volume of the hybrid additives, and wherein a second one of the two or more different additives comprises an oxide, a nitride or a carbide, which counteracts the increased surface roughness imparted to the magnetic layer by the first additive, the second additive is in a range of about 2% to 98% by volume of the hybrid additives. | 9,633 |
8,680,702 | 1. A control system for wind power plants, said wind plants comprising a plurality of aerogenerators; each of the plurality of aerogenerators being connected in parallel to other of the plurality of aerogenerators through a direct current (DC) multi-terminal direct current (MTDC) network at medium voltage comprising a plurality of bipolar and DC electric lines; each of the plurality of aerogenerators comprising an electric aerogenerator having a plurality of stator independent three phase electric star circuits, each of the circuits being connected with a stage power static conversion from alternating voltage to direct voltage; the stage power static conversion comprising a plurality of AC-DC conversion modules, each of the conversion modules having a respective input connected to a respective star circuit and a respective pair of output terminals; each of the AC-DC conversion modules being connected in series to remaining ones of the plurality of AC-DC conversion modules so that each of the terminals of each of the AC-DC conversion modules is directly Connected to the terminal of an adjacent conversion module; two AC-DC conversion modules at an edge of the series provide a respective terminal and respective output connected to the stage power static conversion to form a medium voltage and DC bipolar line; the control system comprises means for receiving at least a voltage signal coming from a DC medium voltage line electrically connected to said converters and a mechanical torque signal produced by said aerogenerators and controls a plurality of AC-DC conversion modules of said plant, within the conversion modules are a plurality of electronic devices driven by impressed voltage and producing a respective partial continuous voltage at outputs above said AC-DC conversion modules; a plurality of secondary control stages and a single main control stage for each aerogenerator; each of the secondary control stages has a multiplicity equal to a number of stars of said aerogenerator, comprises a voltage regulator and supplies a control signal to a respective AC-DC conversion module and is designed to keep said partial continuous voltage at a constant value; said voltage regulator having an input and receiving a reference voltage for a voltage to be output by a respective AC-DC conversion module and a reference current signal for current to be produced by a respective AC-DC conversion module and generating a correction signal of the reference current signal for restoring a voltage imbalance on outputs of the respective AC-DC conversion module with respect to other AC-DC conversion modules, so that the direct voltage provided on an MTDC line is equally divided among all of the AC-DC conversion modules. | 34,367 |
8,630,196 | 1. A method for conducting a transaction using a vehicle's multiprocessor system, the method including: operating multiple processors that communicate through a network in the vehicle's multiprocessor system, wherein the multiple processors operate as a distributed processing system, and wherein the system is configured to: using the second application to display a list of icons available; selecting an icon from the list of icons available, wherein the selected icon displays a user interface that has at least one of an electronic menu and multiple electronic menus for conducting a transaction; receiving user input through the electronic menu instructing transaction initiation; generating a transaction selection from the electronic menu; transmitting the selection through the new device; processing an amount of the selection from the user and transmitting the amount back to the particular one of the multiple processors in the multiprocessor system in the vehicle; and providing directions to the user for moving to a location for picking up the transmitted selection. | 5,784 |
9,485,239 | 1. A method, comprising: establishing, based on an authentication credential provided by a user via a first client application, a first authenticated session for a computing device, the first authenticated session being associated with the first client application; generating a master authentication token and a first authentication token corresponding to the first authentication session; responsive to an authentication request associated with a second client application, generating, based on the master authentication token and an identification of the second client application, a second authentication token comprising a session identifier different from a session identifier of the first authentication token; and using the second authentication token to establish a second authenticated session for the computing device, the second authenticated session being associated with the second client application. | 40,519 |
8,942,081 | 1. A method of receiving, by a user equipment, control information from a base station, the method comprising: receiving a second downlink control channel and a demodulation reference signal for the second downlink control channel in a subframe; and decoding the second downlink control channel carrying the control information based on the demodulation reference signal, wherein the subframe includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) symbols, among which a predefined number of leading OFDM symbols of the subframe is used as a first control region configured for reception of a first downlink control channel and remaining OFDM symbols other than the predefined number of leading OFDM symbols are used as a data region, and wherein the second downlink control channel is received on a second control region configured in the data region, and wherein the demodulation reference signal is received on the second control region. | 44,118 |
9,416,711 | 1. An exhaust gas heat energy recovery and pollution control system for a marine vessel, comprising: (a) an exhaust gas boiler that receives exhaust gases from a gas or fuel oil-burning internal combustion engine of 500 kW or more on the marine vessel, wherein the boiler produces usable steam-based power and heat from heat recovered from the exhaust gases; (b) a variable capacity wet scrubbing system that sprays a mixture into the exhaust gases, such that a temperature of the exhaust gases is lowered so as to prevent damage to a PTFE-based material, and wherein the mixture includes water and an optional reagent configured to remove or neutralize pollutants in the exhaust gases; (c) two or more condensing heat exchangers that receive exhaust gases, wherein the two or more condensing heat exchangers comprised of PTFE-based material that exhibits corrosion resistant and condensation promotion characteristics, wherein the two or more condensing heat exchangers produce usable power and heat from heat recovered from the exhaust gases, and wherein the reagent may additionally be added to exhaust gases exiting the two or more condensing heat exchangers; (d) a variable flow and variable pressure exhaust gas mover that facilitates movement of the exhaust gases via the exhaust gas boiler, the wet scrubbing system, the two or more condensing heat exchangers, and interconnecting piping, ducting, and appurtenances; (e) a liquid collection and treatment system that collects liquid condensate and spray from the two or more condensing heat exchangers and collection points, and adds a reagent configured to remove or neutralize pollutants in the liquid condensate and remove particulates; (f) one or more heat sinks to receive thermal energy from exhaust gases through the two or more condensing heat exchangers and exhaust gas boiler; (g) an interconnecting fluid conduit that allows for movement of exhaust gases between the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas boiler, the wet scrubbing system, the two or more condensing heat exchangers, and the exhaust gas mover, wherein the interconnecting fluid conduit includes at least one mechanism for preventing backflow of fluid to the exhaust gas boiler and the internal combustion engine; and (h) a control system communicatively coupled with a plurality of sensors control actuators, and external interfaces in the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas boiler, the wet scrubbing system, the two or more condensing heat exchangers, an external power source for the system, the one or more heat sinks, the exhaust gas mover and the liquid collection and treatment system, wherein the control system collects data from the sensors and issues commands to the exhaust gas boiler, the wet scrubbing system, the two or more condensing heat exchangers, the exhaust gas mover and the liquid collection and treatment system based on the data received from the plurality of sensors. | 29,635 |
8,455,910 | 1. A light emitting diode package, comprising: a substrate; a reflecting layer formed on a top surface of the substrate; a light emitting chip mounted on the reflecting layer; and a lens including: | 38,800 |
9,133,250 | 1. A recombinant expression vector comprising a heterologous polynucleotide molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence greater than 90% identical to the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 6. | 16,692 |
8,813,835 | 1. A method for the “in-situ” extraction of bitumen or heavy oil from oil sand deposits as a reservoir, comprising: applying thermal energy to the reservoir to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen or heavy oil; providing an electric/electromagnetic heater and an extraction pipe; leading away the liquefied bitumen or heavy oil using the extraction pipe; configuring a plurality of linearly expanded conductors arranged in inductor pairs including a forward and a return conductor, the inductor pair disposed at least in portions parallel in a horizontal alignment at a same predetermined depth of the reservoir; and connecting the ends of the forward conductor and return conductor to each other forming the induction pair in an electrically conducting manner inside or outside the reservoir and together the ends form a conductor loop, and are connected to an external alternating current generator outside the reservoir for electric power, wherein a plurality of key parameters for the electric/electromagnetic heating of the reservoir are chronologically variable and are changed from outside the reservoir to optimize an extraction volume during the extraction of the bitumen or heavy oil, wherein multiple power generators are used, each of which supplies current to the induction pair, whereby phase positions of the electric currents relative to one another are variable and are adapted to a plurality of particular requirements, and wherein the current supplied to the inductor pair is between the frequency range of 1 to 500 kHz. | 21,458 |
8,800,837 | 1. The A surgical instrument, comprising: a housing; an endoscopic portion extending distally from the housing and defining a first longitudinal axis; a drive motor disposed at least partially within the housing; a drive tube disposed in mechanical cooperation with the drive motor, the drive tube being rotatable about a drive tube axis extending therethrough; a firing rod disposed in mechanical cooperation with the drive tube, at least a portion of the firing rod being translatable with respect to the drive tube, wherein at least a portion of the firing rod extends through an aperture of a plate, the aperture including a non-round cross-section for preventing rotation of the firing rod with respect to the plate; wherein the plate is not rotatable with respect to the housing; and an end effector disposed adjacent a distal portion of the endoscopic portion, the end effector being in mechanical cooperation with the firing rod so that the firing rod drives a surgical function of the end effector, wherein a portion of the firing rod is rotatable with respect to the housing, and wherein a portion of the firing rod is not rotatable with respect to the housing. | 2,910 |
9,750,779 | 1. A process for preparing a food or feed composition from Jatropha curcas comprising: (a) crushing or grinding at least 200 kg of one or more (b) acidifying the slurry of step (a) to a pH of 1-5 by adding an acidified aqueous antioxidant solution to form an acidified slurry; (c) incubating the acidified slurry for a period of at least 1 hour; (d) separating the incubated acidified slurry by centrifuging or decanting into three distinct fractions: (i) a fraction containing oil, (ii) an aqueous fraction comprising unoxidized phorbol esters and curcin, and (iii) a detoxified solid cake; and (e) further processing the detoxified cake to provide the a food or feed composition. | 28,873 |
9,344,950 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a source node device by a first intermediate node device that comprises a processor, via a wide beam optical communication interface, a first data packet comprising a first radio link quality metric value associated with a radio link connecting the source node device and a destination node device; determining, by the first intermediate node device, a second radio link quality metric value associated with forwarding the first data packet; comparing, by the first intermediate node device, the first radio link quality metric value to the second radio link quality metric value, resulting in a comparison value; and forwarding the first data packet, by the first intermediate node device, to the destination node device via the wide beam optical communication interface in response to a condition associated with time being determined to be inversely proportional to the comparison value being determined to have been satisfied. | 11,199 |
8,594,158 | 1. A base station—repeater station pair, comprising: a base station having an input for a broadcast signal and being arranged to transmit, in use, a transfer signal over a link using electromagnetic (EM) radiation; and a repeater station arranged to receive, in use and through EM radiation, the transfer signal from the base station and from the transfer signal broadcast the broadcast signal using EM radiation, | 28,183 |
9,557,364 | 1. A fuse blow detection circuit, comprising: a fuse circuit comprising a fuse having a first end coupled to ground; a common node coupled to a second end of said fuse; a pre-charge circuit coupled to said common node for pre-charging said common node to a pre-charged HIGH level; an inverter having an inverter output and an inverter input, wherein said inverter input is coupled to said common node; a feedback latch coupled between a voltage source and ground and having a latch input coupled to said inverter output and a latch output coupled to said common node, wherein said feedback latch comprises a p-channel field effect transistor (FET) having a gate coupled to said inverter output, a source coupled to said voltage source, and a drain coupled to said common node, and an n-channel FET having a gate coupled to said inverter output, a source coupled to said common node, and a drain coupled to said ground; and a test circuit coupled to said common node, wherein in a normal mode said test circuit adds strength to said feedback latch for purposes of maintaining said common node at said pre-charged HIGH level, such that in a test mode said feedback latch is weaker than in said normal mode for purposes of maintaining said common node at said pre-charged HIGH level, wherein said test circuit comprises a contribution transistor having a gate coupled to said output and a drain coupled to said common node, and a switch transistor having a source coupled to said voltage source, a drain coupled to said source of said contribution transistor and a gate controlled by a test mode signal, wherein said p-channel FET has a width/length ratio that is greater than or equal to 1.8 times the wide the length ratio of the p-channel FET. | 10,129 |
8,628,820 | 1. A method of making a reflective article, comprising: forming a coating stack over at least a portion of a transparent glass substrate having a first major surface configured to face incident radiation and a second major surface configured to face opposite a direction of incident radiation the coating stack comprising: a basecoat formed over at least a portion of the second major surface; a primary reflective coating formed over at least a portion of the basecoat, wherein said primary reflective coating is opaque to visible light; an inorganic protective coating formed over at least a portion of the primary reflective coating and comprising a mixture of silica and alumina; and a metallic anti-corrosion coating positioned between the primary reflective coating and the inorganic protective coating, wherein said anti-corrosion coating comprises a nickel-containing metal alloy, said anti-corrosion coating has a thickness in the range of 20 nm to 40 nm; and heating the coated substrate to at least a softening temperature of the glass substrate. | 19,131 |
9,102,779 | 1. A method of reducing discoloration from oxides in a polyurethane foam, the method comprising: forming a mixture from a polyether polyol, an aromatic diisocyanate, a blowing agent, a surfactant, and a catalyst; adding to the mixture at least about 5 parts per hundred polyol tris(dipropyleneglycol)phosphite and at least about 5 parts per hundred polyol poly(dipropyleneglycol)phenyl phosphite to form a foam formulation; wherein a total weight percentage of the tris(dipropyleneglycol)phosphite and poly(dipropyleneglycol)phenyl phosphite combined in the foam formulation is up to about 15%; reacting the foam formulation to form an open cell polyurethane foam; wherein the polyurethane foam is sufficiently open cell so as to have an air permeability of about 1.5 cfm; and wherein the polyurethane foam is resistant to discoloration from oxides so as to measure at least 3 on a grey scale as defined by ISO 105-A03 when tested for discoloration in accordance with AATCC 23-2005. | 39,497 |
9,508,886 | 1. A method for making a crystalline silicon solar cell substrate, comprising the steps of: depositing a doped dielectric layer over the backside surface of a crystalline silicon substrate, said doped dielectric layer having a polarity opposite said polarity of said crystalline silicon substrate; exposing portions of said backside surface of said crystalline substrate through said doped dielectric layer; depositing an overlayer over said doped dielectric layer and said exposed portions of said backside surface of said crystalline silicon substrate; performing pulsed laser ablation of said overlayer with a flat top laser beam on said silicon substrate to form continuous base openings nested within said exposed portions of said backside surface of said crystalline silicon substrate, said flat top laser beam having a beam intensity profile flatter as compared to a Gaussian beam intensity profile and having a rectangular beam cross section; and forming doped base regions in said crystalline silicon substrate through said continuous base openings. | 40,813 |
9,425,647 | 1. A charging control apparatus that controls a state of charge of a secondary battery installed in a vehicle by a regulator possessed by an alternator, the charging control apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: calculate an SOC indicating a state of charge of the secondary battery; perform a determination of whether the calculated SOC is greater than a predetermined threshold; and control the regulator in such a manner that, in a case where it is determined that the calculated SOC is greater than the predetermined threshold, a power generation voltage of the alternator comes to a low state, and in a case where it is determined that the calculated SOC is less than the predetermined threshold, a power generation voltage of the alternator comes to a high state, wherein the threshold has hysteresis, and the determination is based on a first threshold in a case where the SOC is decreasing and the determination is based on a second threshold which has a value greater than that of the first threshold in a case where the SOC is increasing; and the processor being configured to control the regulator in such a manner that, in a case where it is determined that the SOC increases and is greater than the second threshold, a power generation voltage of the alternator comes to a low state, in a case where it is determined that the SOC decreases and is less than the first threshold, a power generation voltage of the alternator comes to a high state, and in a case where it is determined that the SOC is between the first predetermined threshold and the second predetermined threshold, the power generation voltage of the alternator is maintained. | 32,447 |
9,604,632 | 1. A control system for a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and two motors to which electric power is supplied from a battery, that is configured to select a drive mode from a mode where the vehicle is powered by the engine, and a mode where the vehicle is powered by at least one of the motors while stopping the engine, comprising: determination means that determines whether a state of charge of the battery is lower than a first threshold during propulsion of the vehicle by the two motors by supplying the electric power from the battery while stopping the engine; and drive force restriction means that restricts a total drive force of said two motors for propelling the vehicle to an allowable limit which is lower than a theoretical maximum drive force of said two motors when the state of charge of the battery is lower than the first threshold. | 5,239 |
9,038,858 | 1. An aerosol device for distributing a plurality of liquids, comprising: an aerosol container having an inch bead portion; a set of two aerosol valves, each of which has a stem and a housing and is provided in the inch bead portion of the aerosol container; a fitting member whose inner peripheral shape corresponds to an outer peripheral shape of the set of two housings so that it supports the housings of respective stem insertion portions of the set of two aerosol valves by projecting above the inch bead portion; and a cover in which an outer periphery of the fitting member is covered so that respective stems of the two aerosol valves project from an upper end of the cover, and a lower end of the cover is fixed to an outer periphery of the inch bead portion, wherein the fitting member comprises a plurality of axially-extending circumferentially-spaced elastically-deformable engagement pieces that engage the container at the inch bead portion, the plurality of engagement pieces being mounted annularly in a circumferential direction of the aerosol container, each one of the plurality of engagement pieces configured to have a buffer space circumferentially to each side resulting in a plurality of buffer spaces circumferentially alternating with the plurality of engagement pieces; wherein each one of the plurality of the engagement pieces comprises an outward facing surface having a projecting portion located along a first portion of the outward facing surface, the projecting portion being configured to engage with a lower surface of the inch bead portion, a second portion of the outward facing surface, adjacent to said first portion, being configured to contact an inward-most surface of the inch bead portion; wherein the fitting member further comprises a plurality of axially-extending circumferentially-spaced elastically-deformable fitting pieces, each one of the fitting pieces engaging at least one of the housings to secure the aerosol valves to the fitting member, the plurality of fitting pieces being located radially inward of and radially spaced from the plurality of engagement pieces; and wherein each one of the plurality of axially-extending, circumferentially-spaced, elastically-deformable fitting pieces has an engagement projection extending radially inward to a respective first radial position, and is configured so that such first radial inward position is a deformed position resulting from being pushed radially outward when the set of two aerosol valves is fitted into the fitting member. | 6,136 |
8,365,694 | 1. A spark plug, comprising: a spark plug main body including: a cylindrical pressing member having a tool engagement portion in an upper portion, and a male thread formed on an outer circumferential face of the pressing member for engagement with a female thread of a plug hole of an internal-combustion engine to fix the spark plug main body to the internal combustion engine. | 48,498 |
8,856,345 | 1. A method for arranging redundancy in a process control system comprising at least one client device, at least one data source and at least one server device providing data transfer between the at least one client device and the at least one data source, the method comprising: arranging, for one client device of the at least one client device, at least two parallel logical connections for transferring the same data in parallel between one data source of the at least one data source and the one client device, checking, at the one client device, property information on parallel data units transferred by the parallel logical connections, the one client device being provided with predetermined order criteria for the property information, comparing, at the one client device, property information on the parallel data units transferred by the parallel logical connections, and selecting data units, based on the comparing step, delivered via the parallel logical connections, having, according to the predetermined order criteria, the best property information for the use of one or more applications processing the data units, wherein the parallel logical connections between the one client device and one server device of the at least one server device are arranged according to an OPC standard {OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for Process Control}, and for each comparing step, the selecting step selects a single data unit, having the best property information, from among the parallel data units, and disregards other data units from among the parallel data units. | 22,412 |
8,532,982 | 1. An apparatus to encode an audio/speech signal, the apparatus comprising: a signal transforming unit to transform an inputted audio signal or speech signal into at least one of a high frequency resolution signal and a high temporal resolution signal; a psychoacoustic modeling unit to control the signal transforming unit; a time domain encoding unit to encode the signal, transformed by the signal transforming unit, based on a speech modeling; and a quantizing unit to quantize the signal outputted from at least one of the signal transforming unit and the time domain encoding unit. | 4,576 |
8,722,046 | 1. A composition comprising a combination of F1 and V antibodies, wherein said F1 antibodies comprise an F1 antibody having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO:5, or an antibody fragment that retains the complimentarity determining regions (CDRs) of SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO:5. | 18,052 |
8,354,553 | 1. A preparation method of an organic-transition metal hydride comprising the following steps: a) preparing a complex reducing agent composition by reacting alkali metal, alkali earth metal, or a mixture thereof, with an aromatic compound of C10 to C20 in an aprotic polar solvent; and b) preparing, in the absence of a hydrogen source, an organic-transition metal hydride represented by formula 1 by reacting the prepared complex reducing agent composition and an organic-transition metal halide represented by formula 2; wherein B A is O or S; M X is a halogen element; m is an integer equal to the valence of M n is an integer of 1 to 10. | 11,083 |
9,634,581 | 1. A power generator assembly comprising: a housing comprising a flow passage; a piezoelectric transducer located about a perimeter of the flow passage and configured to generate an electrical charge when subjected to a stress exerted by a fluid pressure of a fluid in the flow passage; a hydraulically actuatable device and a flow line configured to convey the fluid to the hydraulically actuatable device, wherein the fluid is pressurized hydraulic fluid for operating the hydraulically actuatable device; and a sensor configured to monitor a characteristic of the hydraulically actuatable device, wherein the sensor is powered by the electrical charge generated by the piezoelectric transducer. | 42,021 |
9,251,086 | 1. A method comprising: providing access to a plurality of virtual storage units of a solid-state storage device over a cache interface, at least one of the virtual storage units comprising a cache unit; exchanging cache management information for the at least one cache unit with one or more cache clients over the cache interface, the one or more cache clients comprising a user application executing on a host device, wherein exchanging cache management information comprises sending a garbage collection request to the one or more cache clients and receiving a garbage collection response from the one or more cache clients, the garbage collection request identifying one or more logical block addresses of an erase block targeted for a garbage collection process that recovers physical capacity of invalid data from the erase block and copies valid data from the erase block to a different erase block, the garbage collection response identifying which valid data of the one or more logical block addresses for data of the erase block to evict from the at least one cache unit; and managing the at least one cache unit based on the cache management information exchanged with the one or more cache clients by marking the valid data identified by the garbage collection response as invalid and evicting the invalid data from the at least one cache unit based on the garbage collection response as part of the garbage collection process. | 43,286 |
8,643,178 | 1. A semiconductor chip comprising: an internal circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate; an interlayer insulating layer formed over the internal circuit; first and second internal power supply lines formed on and/or in the interlayer insulating layer, and electrically connected to first and second power supply terminals of the internal circuit, respectively; first and second power supply chip pads formed on the interlayer insulating layer, and electrically connected to the first and second internal power supply lines, respectively; a passivation layer and a first lower dielectric layer sequentially stacked over the first and second internal power supply lines and the first and second power supply chip pads; a first redistributed power supply line disposed on the first lower dielectric layer, the first redistributed power supply line directly connecting the first internal power supply line to the first power supply chip pad through a first via-hole and a first power supply chip pad opening, respectively, which penetrate at least the first lower dielectric layer and the passivation layer; a first upper dielectric layer formed over the first redistributed power supply line; and a second redistributed power supply line disposed on the first upper dielectric layer, the second redistributed power supply line directly connecting the second internal power supply line to the second power supply chip pad through a second via-hole and a second power supply chip pad opening, respectively, which penetrate at least the first upper and lower dielectric layers and the passivation layer. | 40,474 |
9,389,615 | 1. A guidance system for a vehicle having optical sensors and a working component attached to the vehicle having optical targets, the guidance system comprising: a guidance computer to: receive inputs from the optical sensors associated with optical signals generated from the optical targets on the working component; and calculate at least one of a roll (X) directional misalignment, pitch (Y) directional misalignment, or yaw (Z) directional misalignment of the working component in relation to an orientation of the vehicle based on the inputs from the optical sensors. | 18,945 |
8,520,067 | 1. A method for calibrating a measuring system ( 1 ) based on at least one camera ( 4 ) for determining the position of an object ( 2 ) in a reference three-dimensional coordinate system ( 3 ), in which the external and internal parameters of the camera are calibrated in various steps, the method comprising at least three steps: in a first method step, the internal camera parameters of a certain camera ( in a second method step, using the assigned internal camera ( in a third method step, using the determined position ( wherein the steps are executed in sequential order and non-iteratively. | 30,601 |
8,353,667 | 1. A method for adjusting a yaw angle of a wind turbine from an actual yaw angle to a desired yaw angle, the wind turbine comprising a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor blades attached to a hub, the method comprising: measuring a wind direction at a location of the wind turbine; measuring a yaw angle of the wind turbine; calculating a set signal for a yaw angle modification as a function of the measured wind direction and the measured yaw angle; measuring a yaw momentum of the wind turbine; calculating a pitch angle of the rotor blades as a function of the set signal and the measured yaw momentum; and adjusting the pitch angle of the rotor blades according to the calculated pitch angle such that a yaw momentum is generated for changing the yaw angle from the actual yaw angle to the desired yaw angle. | 21,001 |
9,777,122 | 1. A polysiloxane having repeating units of the formula: wherein R is a linear, branched or aromatic organic group, and wherein the polysiloxane has one or more end groups comprising a functional group selected from anthraquinone amide groups; anthraquinone sulfonamide groups; thioxanthone amide groups; or thioxanthone sulfone amide groups. | 31,438 |
9,152,994 | 1. A method for greenhouse gas (GHG) trading comprising: providing at least one geographically defined biosphere box comprising at least one of a terrestrial and an aquatic ecosystem, wherein the at least one geographically defined biosphere box is compartmentalized into at least one GHG reservoir; measuring at least one GHG flux in the at least one GHG reservoir by a measuring system that comprises: comparing the at least one measured GHG flux of the at least one GHG reservoir with the first baseline to generate at least one first resultant GHG flux data of the at least one geographically defined biosphere box using a data processing system; and defining a closed-end fund comprising a plurality of traded items wherein each traded item corresponds to the at least one first resultant GHG flux data of the at least one geographically defined biosphere box using the data processing system. | 19,003 |
9,496,704 | 1. A method of detecting a symmetrical short-circuit in a multiphase electrical power supply network, the method comprising: monitoring a first section of the power supply network for a symmetrical short-circuit by way of a first protective device; monitoring a second section of the power supply network for a symmetrical short-circuit by way of a second protective device; additionally monitoring the first section of the power supply network for a symmetrical short-circuit with the second protective device configured as a standby protective device while executing a distance protection function and, if a symmetrical short-circuit is detected in the first section, issuing a shutoff command to a circuit breaker after a predefined grading time has elapsed; and monitoring the power supply network for a presence of an electrical oscillation with an oscillation detection device and emitting an oscillation signal blocking the issuing of the shutoff command by the second protective device if an oscillation has been detected in the power supply network; in the event that a symmetrical short-circuit in the first section has been detected by the second protective device before an oscillation in the power supply network has been detected by the oscillation detection device, issuing the shutoff command irrespective of the presence of an oscillation signal if the grading time has elapsed; and in the event that an oscillation has been detected by the oscillation detection device before a symmetrical short-circuit has been detected in the first section by the second protective device, blocking the shutoff command by the pending oscillation signal. | 30,808 |
8,576,608 | 1. A memory apparatus comprising: a plurality of memory cells, each of the plurality of memory cells including a first resistance change element; and a read-out circuit including a reference memory cell, the read-out circuit configured to compare a resistance state of a memory cell selected from among the plurality of memory cells to a resistance state of the reference memory cell to perform a read-out of the selected memory cell, wherein, | 40,732 |
9,217,402 | 1. A method, comprising: in response to a leak detected following a refueling event in a vehicle with an engine and a capless refueling system, cleaning the capless refueling system using engine vacuum by adjusting a valve to apply the engine vacuum to the capless refueling system, the adjusting the valve performed responsive to the leak detected following the refueling event. | 33,593 |
8,987,281 | 1. A method of treatment of a non-small cell lung cancer, the method comprising the steps of administering a compound of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a patient; and administering to the patient one or more additional chemotherapeutic agents, wherein the one or more chemotherapeutic is a taxane. | 43,869 |
8,989,924 | 1. A rotary-wing drone ( 10 ) with multiple rotors ( 12 ) driven by respective motors ( 110 ) controlled by application of differentiated motor commands ( 158 ) so as to pilot the drone in attitude and speed, said drone comprising altitude estimator circuit ( 134 ), adapted to deliver an absolute altitude value of the drone expressed in an absolute terrestrial system, comprising: a telemetry sensor ( characterized in that the altitude estimator circuit ( 134 ) further comprise: a barometric sensor ( an estimator ( a state estimator module for validating the signal delivered by the telemetry sensor, adapted to analyze the echoes reflected, and, based on the result of this analysis, to modify accordingly the parameters of the estimator and/or allow or inhibit the application to the estimator of the signal delivered by the telemetry sensor; and wherein the state estimator module is further adapted to analyze the echoes reflected, and, based on the result of this analysis, to deduce the presence and the configuration of an obstacle in the operating range of the telemetry sensor and to apply to the estimator a corrective action adapted to compensate for the effect of the obstacle on the relative distance estimated by the telemetry sensor. | 21,154 |
8,621,131 | 1. A method, comprising: generating a packet with a first semiconductor chip, the packet destined to transit a first substrate and be received by a node of a second semiconductor chip, the packet including a packet header and packet body, the packet header including an identification of a first exit point from the first substrate and an identification of the node; and sending the packet to the first substrate. | 28,509 |
8,783,074 | 1. A vandal guard for a utility enclosure, comprising: a cover, comprising: | 15,472 |
8,344,249 | 1. An electrical box comprising: at least four sides extending from a bottom to an open top and a front surface; a first outer tab extending from one of the at least four sides and proximate the front surface; a second outer tab extending from one of the at least four sides opposite the first outer tab and proximate the front surface; a first aperture adjacent the first outer tab; a second aperture adjacent the second outer tab; a first locking tab slidably mounted to a first track at the first aperture; a second locking tab slidably mounted to a second track at the second aperture; and, wherein the first and second locking tabs slide towards the front surface coupled to the respective first or second track for securing a mounting wall between the first outer tab and the first locking tab and between the second outer tab and the second locking tab. | 18,014 |
8,682,766 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at least one ACH transaction by a computer system executing a payroll ACH service from a payroll vendor for a client of the payroll vendor, the payroll ACH service provided by a payroll ACH service provider that is separate from the payroll vendor; verifying the at least one ACH transaction by the payroll ACH service of the payroll ACH service provider, the verifying including error checking of the at least one ACH transaction by the computer system; executing the at least one ACH transaction by the payroll ACH service of the payroll ACH service provider; and limiting financial risk to the payroll vendor by assuming initial responsibility for a non-sufficient fund (NSF) result from the at least one ACH transaction by the payroll ACH service provider. | 45,942 |
8,408,005 | 1. A process for H 2 recovery from a H 2 -containing gas stream from a gasifier, the process comprising: feeding the H feeding a first portion of nitrogen produced in an air separation unit (ASU) to the first HTM as a HTM permeate sweep stream; recovering a first H feeding a retentate stream from the first HTM to a second hydrogen transport membrane (HTM); feeding a second portion of nitrogen produced in the ASU to the second HTM for use as a HTM permeate sweep stream; and recovering a second H | 18,907 |
8,951,011 | 1. A wind turbine with at least one blade comprising: a first accelerometer mounted at a first radial position of the blade and being adapted to determine a first acceleration value, a second accelerometer mounted at a second radial position of the blade different from the first radial position, and said accelerometer being adapted to determine a second acceleration value, and a controller adapted to generate a signal based on said first and second acceleration values, wherein said controller is adapted to determine an estimate of the second acceleration value based on the first acceleration value and generate said signal if a difference between the second acceleration value and the estimate of the second acceleration value exceeds a threshold. | 39,257 |
8,354,764 | 1. A surface mount motor, comprising: a motor body including a tubular motor casing; a terminal provided on the motor body, the terminal being mounted on a circuit board; and a holder attached to the motor casing of the motor body, wherein the holder includes: | 38,188 |
9,137,863 | 1. An illumination device power control module, comprising: an alternating current (AC) power source terminal, configured to receive an AC voltage; a rectifier, configured to convert the AC voltage to a rectified voltage; a valley-fill power factor correction circuit, comprising: a regulator, having a voltage supply terminal coupled to the rectifier, the regulator being configured to generate a stable voltage on the voltage supply terminal; a control unit, having a power supply terminal coupled to the voltage supply terminal of the regulator for receiving the stable voltage, and a current sensing terminal configured to generate a first predetermined potential, and to convert the first predetermined potential to a second predetermined potential according to a change in the stable voltage to perform multistage brightness control, the first predetermined potential being not equal to the second predetermined potential; a second inductor, having a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the regulator and a positive output voltage terminal of the illumination device power control module, and a second terminal coupled to a ground terminal of the control unit; an eighth capacitor, having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the rectifier, and a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the rectifier; a second resistor, having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first inductor, and a second terminal coupled to a first terminal of the regulator; a third capacitor, having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the second inductor, and a second terminal coupled to the ground terminal; a sixth capacitor, having a first terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal of the control unit, and a second terminal coupled to the ground terminal of the control unit; a seventh capacitor, having a first terminal coupled to the current sensing terminal of the control unit, and a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the sixth capacitor; a ninth capacitor, having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the rectifier and the power supply terminal of the control unit, and a second terminal coupled to the ground terminal of the control unit; an eighth resistor, having a first terminal coupled to an overvoltage protection terminal of the control unit, and a second terminal coupled to a second terminal of the regulator; a shunt resistor, having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the second inductor and the ground terminal of the control unit; a transistor, having a first terminal coupled to a drive terminal of the control unit, a second terminal coupled to a second terminal of the shunt resistor and the current sensing terminal of the control unit, and a third terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first inductor; and a fourth diode, having a negative bias terminal coupled to the second terminal of the transistor, and a positive bias terminal coupled to the ground terminal. | 38,074 |
8,778,698 | 1. A judging method for judging performance of a test strip for chromatography quantitative measuring according to development of an inspection target solution, the judging method comprising: applying an inspection target solution to a chromatography test strip; applying an optical beam emitted from a light source to the chromatography test strip, the chromatography test strip including an application part to which the inspection target solution is applied; holding a marker reagent using a marker reagent hold part; eluting the marker reagent by development of the inspection target solution; causing a specific binding reaction in a base part to occur between the marker reagent and an analysis target included in the inspection target solution; immobilizing a bounded material of the marker reagent and the analysis target in a detection part; detecting, in the detection part, an optical signal utilizing a transmitted light or reflected light from the chromatography test strip, and quantitatively measuring the concentration of the analysis target included in the inspection target solution from the detected signal; calculating a value of inclination of time variation of a value of the detected signal, which is generated due to flow of the marker reagent that accompanies with the development of the inspection target solution between the marker reagent hold part and the detection part, after said applying the inspection target solution; comparing the value of inclination with a prescribed value set as a reference; and judging a performance of the chromatography test strip as being deteriorated when the value of the inclination is lower than the prescribed value. | 20,235 |
8,802,235 | 1. A multi-arm compound according to Formula 1: wherein: X is one of carbon (C), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), or sulfur (S); m is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 and indicates a total number of arms; Y is alkyl; L R n a is a numerical character uniquely identifying each of said arms; wherein when R wherein at least one of R wherein at least one L | 37,441 |
8,545,626 | 1. A method for producing a nitride semiconductor crystal, the method comprising: feeding a raw material gas to a seed crystal; and growing a nitride semiconductor crystal vertically to a growth face of the seed crystal; wherein the growth face of the seed crystal is a non-principal plane of the seed crystal, the nitride semiconductor crystal grown on the seed crystal is a plate-like crystal, the seed crystal comprises at least a crystal growth face having a first side and a second side that are parallel with each other, a first side face which is a face vertical to the crystal growth face and has the first side of the crystal growth face as one side, and a second side face which is a face vertical to the crystal growth face and has the second side of the crystal growth face as one side, wherein a distance from the first side to second side of the crystal growth face is 5 mm or less, and a ratio of average length/distance is from 2 to 400, wherein the average length is an average value of a length of the first side and a length of the second side of the crystal growth face, and the distance is the value of the distance from the first side to the second side of the crystal growth face. | 47,867 |
9,034,831 | 1. A liquid pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) a compound of formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (b) one or more pharmaceutically acceptable lipids; and (c) one or more pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic surfactants; wherein upon dilution with an aqueous solution at an aqueous solution to composition ratio of 100:1 by weight, the composition forms an aqueous dispersion having an absorbance of more than about 1.0 at a wavelength of about 400 nm. | 1,229 |
8,530,151 | 1. A method for detecting the presence of an HCMV in a cancer tissue sample, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing said cancer tissue sample suspected of containing HCMV from a subject, said tissue sample being embedded in a paraffin matrix, sectioning said tissue sample to a thickness of 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 microns, and then mounting said tissue sample to a transparent support; b) subjecting said tissue sample to a de-paraffinizing procedure comprising rinsing said tissue sample in xylene at least one time, followed by rinsing said tissue sample at least one time in a series of ethanol solutions of decreasing concentration, said decreasing ethanol concentrations are selected from the group consisting of 100%, 95%, 75% and 50%; c) subjecting said tissue sample to an epitope condition procedure to reduce epitope variability in said tissue sample comprising incubating said tissue sample in 10% neutral buffered formalin for a time period sufficient for epitope conditioning and subjecting said tissue samples to digestion with an enzyme; d) subjecting said tissue sample to an antigen retrieval procedure comprising incubating said tissue sample in a citra buffer if the tissue samples were originally fixed with a formalin based fixative or in a distilled water if the tissue samples were originally fixed in a non-formalin based fixative for a time period sufficient for said antigen retrieval; e) contacting the tissue sample with a blocking agent selected from the group consisting of: (f) contacting said tissue sample with at least one antibody capable of binding to at least one epitope of HCMV to form an antibody-epitope complex, under conditions suitable for binding of said antibody with said epitope; and (g) detecting said antibody epitope complex. | 26,870 |
9,297,357 | 1. A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine, the rotor blade assembly comprising: a first blade segment defining a first joint end; a second blade segment defining a second joint end; and a blade insert extending between a forward end coupled to the first blade segment and an aft end coupled to the second blade segment, the blade insert comprising: | 28,500 |
9,421,518 | 1. A process for producing a carbon substrate loaded with metal oxides on the basis of a carbon material comprising metal oxide nanoparticles and suitable for use in and/or as a catalyst, wherein the process comprises the following process steps: (i) in a first process step, nanoparticles of metal oxides are dispersed in a matrix based on at least one organic polymer, (ii) then, in a second process step, the polymer matrix containing the nanoparticles is subsequently carbonized to carbon, (iii) optionally followed by a third process step of activation, wherein the first process step involves producing the organic polymer in situ in the presence of the metal oxide nanoparticles, wherein surface-modified or surface functionalized metal oxide nanoparticles are dispersed in the respective organic monomers or solutions or dispersions thereof, and the organic monomers are then polymerized in the presence of the metal oxide nanoparticles, wherein the metal oxide nanoparticles are crystalline having a crystallinity of at least 70% and wherein the metal oxide nanoparticles have a BET surface area in the range from 1 to 2,000 m | 33,748 |
8,823,923 | 1. A method of measuring energy expenditure in a living subject, comprising: administering a specified dose of doubly-labeled water ( obtaining samples at three or more times of body water from the living subject; measuring determining (1) a combined value of flux of body water and exhaled carbon dioxide from a change in measured | 3,054 |
9,120,081 | 1. An oxidation catalyst, the catalyst comprising a particulate carbon support having formed thereon a transition metal composition comprising a transition metal and nitrogen, wherein: the transition metal composition comprises a transition metal nitride, transition metal carbide-nitride, or a combination thereof; the total Langmuir surface area of the catalyst is at least about 1000 m the transition metal is selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, and combinations thereof; the transition metal constitutes from about 0.5 to about 10% by weight of the catalyst; and the oxidation catalyst further comprises carbon nanotubes at the surface of the carbon support. | 49,413 |
9,078,201 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: decoding a page from a first cell, the page associated with a paging interruption time; determining whether to connect to a different second cell in response to decoding the page; responding to the page by connecting to the first cell or the second cell based at least in part on the determination; and performing interference cancellation on a signal received from the first cell, the second cell or another cell at a first rate when transitioning from an idle mode to a connected mode and at a second rate when in the connected mode, the second rate being slower in comparison to the first rate. | 38,876 |
8,479,758 | 1. A method of reducing water consumption in a water distribution system comprising a water-supply pipe and a plurality of water consumption points connected to the water-supply pipe for water supply at a supply pressure, comprising restricting the supply pressures at the water consumption points; and for each of the water consumption points: determining a desired supply pressure level, determining an available supply pressure level, subtracting the desired supply pressure level from the available supply pressure level to obtain a difference, and restricting the supply pressure by producing a pressure drop of a portion of the obtained difference. | 14,212 |
8,464,048 | 1. A method comprising: issuing a secure launch, via an operating system (OS), on a master processor of a system; constructing a spanning tree across a plurality of processors of the system, the plurality of processors including the master processor and a plurality of slave processors, using the master processor, including assigning a unique identifier to each of the plurality of processors; and launching a trusted agent on the plurality of processors using the spanning tree, including executing the trusted agent on each of the plurality of processors concurrently in a coordinated single instruction multiple data (SIMD) operation to validate a memory configuration of the system, and computing and storing a hash of a secure kernel in a master hub agent of the system. | 26,526 |
9,427,657 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a game program to be executed by a computer operationally coupled to an input device operated by a user in an actual space, the input device further being operationally coupled to a sensor configured to detect posture and/or motion of the input device, the computer executing the game program to move an object in a virtual space based on the posture and/or motion information obtained from the sensor, the game program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to at least: obtain input device posture and/or motion information detected by the sensor; calculate the posture of the input device in the actual space based on the input device posture and/or motion information; set a virtual reference plane in the actual space, the virtual reference plane having an orientation that the computer sets based on the calculated posture of the input device at a predetermined timing; obtain additional input device posture and/or motion information detected by the sensor; calculate a further posture of the input device in the actual space based on the additional input device posture and/or motion information detected by the sensor; and display the object moving in the virtual space in accordance with the calculated further posture of the input device relative to the set virtual reference plane in the actual space. | 37,978 |
8,952,565 | 1. An electrical conductor comprising: a plurality of joined strips of conductive material defining a thickness and having a first end with a first cutout and a second end with a second cutout, said plurality of joined strips including at least two square wave deflections being between the first cutout and the second cutout, said plurality of joined strips forming a superimposed stack, a single strip of said stack having a thickness between 0.25 and 6 8 millimeters, said at least two deflections are in a same direction from a plane defined by a surface through which the first cutout and the second cutout extend. | 21,286 |
8,936,929 | 1. A modified Saccharomyces strain expressing xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase and xylulokinase and capable of utilizing xylose in a lignocellulosic hydrolysate for growth or fermentation, comprising: an increase in expression of one or more genes of a galactose metabolic pathway selected from the group consisting of GAL1, GAL7, GAL10, GAL80 and PGM1, and a decrease in expression of one or more genes of the galactose metabolic pathway selected from the group consisting of GAL3, GAL4, GAL11 and PGM2; an increase in expression of one or more genes involved in hexose transport selected from the group consisting of HXT1, HXT2, HXT3, GAL2, HXK2 and GRR1, and a decrease in expression of one or more genes involved in hexose transport selected from the group consisting of HXT4, HXT5, HXT6, HXT11, HXT12, SNF3, RTG2 and REG1; and an increase in expression of one or more genes of an ergosterol biosynthetic pathway selected from the group consisting of ERG1, ERG8, ERG10, ERG11, ERG20, ERG25, ERG26, ERG27, HMG1, CYB5, ERG2, ERG3, ERG4, ERG5, ERG24 and ERG28, relative to a parental | 3,257 |
8,551,563 | 1. A coating method comprising: holding a substrate in a horizontal state on a substrate holding member; supplying a coating liquid onto a front side central portion of the substrate held on the substrate holding member; rotating the substrate holding member about a vertical axis to spread the coating liquid supplied on the front side central portion of the substrate toward a front side peripheral portion of the substrate by a centrifugal force; and damping a wobble of the substrate being rotated, by a wobble damping mechanism including a gas delivery port and a suction port both disposed to face a back side of the substrate, while delivering a gas from the delivery port and sucking the gas into the suction port, wherein the method further comprises moving up and down the wobble damping mechanism between a working position for damping the wobble of the substrate and a waiting position below the working position. | 46,714 |
9,039,939 | 1. An electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a collector; and an active material layer formed on the collector, the active material layer comprising a binder and active material particles, wherein: the active material particles comprise: the metal-containing particles have a primary diameter in a range of 10 to 300 nm, the metal-containing particles contain at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Sn, Ge, Sb, Ga, In, La, and Ce, a pore diameter of the carbonaceous porous material is 0.1 to 5 μm, and the aggregate of the metal-containing particle has a secondary diameter in a range of 100 to 5000 nm. | 16,443 |
9,518,159 | 1. A film comprising at least one layer, wherein said layer comprises an ethylene interpolymer product comprising: (i) a first ethylene interpolymer; (ii) a second ethylene interpolymer, and; (iii) optionally a third ethylene interpolymer; wherein said ethylene interpolymer product has a Dilution Index, Y | 13,764 |
9,784,161 | 1. An exhaust-gas purification system for diesel engines having outlet valves, in utility motor vehicles, the system comprising: an exhaust tract; an oxidation catalytic converter disposed in said exhaust tract; a reducing agent dosing device associated with said exhaust tract and having a reducing agent injection device; a reducing agent decomposition device associated with said exhaust tract; a soot particle separator associated with said exhaust tract; a reduction catalytic converter associated with said exhaust tract; an exhaust muffler associated with said exhaust tract; an exhaust-gas turbocharger having an outlet or an exhaust-gas collecting pipe, associated with said exhaust tract and disposed between the outlet valves of the engine and said oxidation catalytic converter; said oxidation catalytic converter disposed between a minimum distance directly downstream of the outlet valves of the engine and a maximum distance of 0.75 m from said exhaust-gas collecting pipe or said outlet of said exhaust-gas turbocharger; and said reducing agent decomposition device, said soot particle separator and said reduction catalytic converter being integrated into said exhaust muffler and being disposed separately from said oxidation catalytic converter and downstream of said reducing agent dosing device. | 41,768 |
9,232,467 | 1. A method of transceiving a signal, which is transceived with a base station by a user equipment in a carrier aggregation applied wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a scheduling message for a secondary component carrier in a sleep state from the base station through a primary component carrier; initiating a monitoring of the secondary component carrier after receiving the scheduling message; receiving an activation message for the secondary component carrier from the base station; and receiving a downlink signal from the base station through the secondary component carrier or transmitting an uplink signal to the base station through the secondary component carrier, based on the activation message, in a first subframe in which the activation message is received or in a second subframe next to the first subframe, wherein the activation message indicates when the scheduling message is to be received. | 41,381 |
8,574,440 | 1. A method for manipulating an amount of organic material entrained in an aqueous phase of a solvent extraction unit, the method comprising the steps of: providing a computational model for estimating an amount of organic material entrained in an aqueous phase of a solvent extraction unit as a function of an interfacial shear stress between an organic phase and the aqueous phase; using the computational model to estimate a target amount of organic material entrained in the aqueous phase; selecting one or more process parameters to manipulate the amount of organic material entrained in the aqueous phase; adjusting the one or more process parameters to manipulate the amount of organic material entrained in the aqueous phase of the solvent extraction unit; and using the Shear Stress in Fluids equation to estimate the interfacial shear stress, wherein the step of using the computational model comprises using Navier-Stokes equations to estimate a velocity profile of the aqueous phase and to estimate a velocity profile of the organic phase. | 49,289 |
8,342,491 | 1. A transport system for transporting at least one blade or spar for a wind turbine, the blade or spar having a root end and a tip end, the transport system comprising: a root frame structure for holding the root end, and a fixation device adapted to fixate and support the blade or spar between the root end and the tip end, the fixation device comprising: | 24,072 |
9,517,951 | 1. A pre-treatment apparatus comprising: an underwater seawater pre-treatment assembly configured to obtain a pre-treated water by removing impurities from a seawater; a pre-treatment water tank, located on land, configured to accommodate the pre-treated water produced by the pre-treatment assembly; and a connection flow channel configured to connect the pre-treatment assembly and the pre-treatment water tank, wherein the pre-treatment assembly comprises: a plurality of water collection pipes which are supported by a support part, each water collection pipe having a plurality of openings formed on a side portion; a plurality of filtration filters spacedly arranged from each other in a longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of water collection pipes, each filtration filter surrounding a water collection pipe, among the plurality of water collection pipes, the filter being in the form of a hollow cylinder, wherein each filtration filter comprises meshes, a size of the meshes being configured such that the filter does not allow impurities contained in the seawater to pass through, but allows salt to pass through, and each filtration filter has a vertical side portion parallel to a vertical side portion of the water collection pipe, wherein the vertical side portion of the filtration filter directly contacts the seawater to be pre-treated; a water collection tank which is in fluid communication with the water collection pipe and configured to accommodate the pre-treated water that has passed through the filtration filter and the water collection pipe; a water conveying pump configured to suck the pre-treated water from an inner part of the water collection tank and transfer the pre-treated water collected within the water collection tank through a connection flow channel, and a strainer in the form of a ring which is inserted into the outside of the respective filtration filters; a connecting plate which connects a plurality of the strainers with each other; and a water pump which is installed into the connecting plate to raise or lower the entire connection plate by the driving force by jetting seawater, wherein impurities attached to the surface of the filtration filter can be removed by raising or lowering the strainer along the filtration filter, wherein one end of the water collection pipe is closed and the other end of the water collection pipe is in fluid communication with the water collection tank, and the seawater passes through the filtration filter by a difference in pressure between an inside and an outside of the filtration filter and then is collected by the water collection tank via the water collection pipe. | 17,714 |
8,825,061 | 1. A method for wireless network planning, the method comprising the acts of: determining, for a base radio, a number of voice channels for supporting at least two different wireless communication services by the base radio; determining an amount of network traffic per base station site by separately determining an amount of traffic for determining a number of base radios per base station site to support the determined amount of network traffic, wherein the determination of the number of base radios per base site accounts for a fixed amount of control channel overhead regardless of the number of base radios per base station site. | 16,682 |
9,035,626 | 1. A switching circuit for extracting power from an electric power source, comprising: an input port for electrically coupling to the electric power source; an output port for electrically coupling to a load; a first switching device configured to switch between its conductive state and its non-conductive state to transfer power from the input port to the output port; an intermediate switching node that transitions between at least two different voltage levels at least in part due to the first switching device switching between its conductive state and its non-conductive state; and a controller adapted to control a duty cycle of the first switching device such that an average value of a voltage at the intermediate switching node is maximized. | 26,560 |
8,380,267 | 1. Superconducting cable system, comprising: at least one superconducting electrical cable arranged in a cryostat, said cryostat formed by two metallic tubes arranged concentrically and at a distance from one another forming a circumferential gap formed by the distance between the tubes for providing, a vacuum space; in said circumferential gap, a first vacuum insulation is disposed, said vacuum insulation has spacers composed of a material having low thermal conductivity and of plastic films coated with a metal and having high reflectivity, with insulations that vary with respect to vacuum pressure within said vacuum space; and an additional layer of thermally insulating material, also disposed within said circumferential gap between the two metallic tubes aloe with said vacuum insulation, where said additional layer of insulating material has thermally insulating characteristics that do not vary with respect to said vacuum pressure within said vacuum space. | 47,048 |
9,256,558 | 1. A method comprising: processing descriptors to control a direct memory access (DMA) channel; synchronizing at least part of the processing, the synchronizing comprising processing a first descriptor of the descriptors to cause the processing to selectively pause based on a trigger value; and controlling the trigger value, the controlling comprising processing at least one other descriptor associated with another DMA channel. | 23,752 |
9,686,145 | 1. A host device comprising: a display; one or more computer processors; and one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the one or more computer processors, perform operations comprising: | 15,704 |
9,581,136 | 1. A wind turbine rotor comprising a hub, a plurality of blades and at least one pitch system for rotating a blade substantially along its longitudinal axis, wherein the pitch system comprises a bearing, a gear and a pitch drive, the pitch drive being arranged on a flange and having a motor and a pinion which meshes with the gear, wherein one of the hub and blade comprises the flange and the other of the hub and blade comprises the gear, and wherein the flange is provided with a hole and an intermediate support is concentrically arranged with respect to the hole, wherein the intermediate support comprises an off-center opening with respect to a central axis of the hole and the pitch drive is mounted through the off-center opening, and wherein the position of the off-center opening is such that the intermediate support can be arranged in a first position in which the drive pinion meshes with a first section of the gear and in a second position in which the drive pinion meshes with a second section of the gear. | 37,300 |
9,132,004 | 1. A silicone artificial breast prosthesis with minimized stress concentration, the silicone artificial breast prosthesis comprising a silicone shell forming an outer wall thereof and a patch adhesion portion for closing a hole formed in a lower surface of the silicone shell from the outside, wherein the silicone shell has a uniform overall thickness, the patch adhesion portion has a patch hole to which a patch is adhered by an adhesive to an inner lower end of the silicone shell, and the patch adhesion portion in which the patch is adhered to the patch hole has the same thickness as that of the silicone shell and the same or similar physical properties as the silicone shell wherein the patch hole has at least one step portion having a step and formed at an inner surface of a portion of the silicone shell contacting the patch. | 13,185 |
8,433,701 | 1. A method for optimizing pattern query searches on a graph database, the method being implemented by a computer including at least one processor and comprising: reading a first pattern query for a pattern search; identifying, using a pattern query optimizer executed by the at least one processor, a complex configuration in the first pattern query, the complex configuration including at least one branch or cycle; and generating, using the pattern query optimizer, two or more subpattern queries by decomposing each branch and cycle of the complex configuration into equivalent straight line nodes joined by edges to be converted to search expressions, wherein the generating includes: forming subgraphs by removing nodes that are adjacent to more than two other nodes in the first pattern query; separating the subgraphs into connected components; searching for and locating nodes in any of the connected components that are connected to less than two other nodes in a same connected component; adding nodes in the first pattern query that are adjacent to the located nodes into the connected components along with connecting edges; and when a cycle is found, splitting the cycle into two or more separate paths. | 35,153 |
8,798,831 | 1. A computer, comprising: a memory configured to store one or more program instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more program instructions stored on the memory, wherein the one or more program instructions are configured to: | 23,009 |
9,385,979 | 1. A computer-implemented method for processing posts in activity streams, comprising: receiving, with one or more computing devices, a client type specifying a type of a client device; receiving, with the one or more computing devices, activity information from an activity source; receiving, with the one or more computing devices, an activity type; creating, with the one or more computing devices, a first protocol buffer using the activity type and the activity information; selecting, with the one or more computing devices, embedded code from a library of embedded code based in part upon the client type and the activity type; adding, with the one or more computing devices, the embedded code to the first protocol buffer to create a second protocol buffer; and sending, with the one or more computing devices, the second protocol buffer for rendering of the activity information. | 1,207 |
9,713,844 | 1. A method for forming a three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of at least one layer of a powder bed provided on a work table in a vacuum chamber, which parts corresponds to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional article, said method comprising the steps of: applying a predetermined thickness of unfused powder particles on said work table in said vacuum chamber; applying a coating material on at least a portion of said unfused powder particles while said unfused powder particles are inside said vacuum chamber and prior to fusing any portion of said powder particles, wherein said coating material (a) is at least partially covering said unfused powder particles, and (b) has at least one material characteristic that differs from a corresponding material characteristic of the unfused powder particles; and after applying the coating material, fusing said unfused powder particles on said work table with an energy beam so as to form said at least one layer of said powder bed. | 44,849 |
9,280,884 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a. a data bus; b. a multitude of sensors connected to the data bus, the multitude of sensors including: c. at least one processing unit connected to the data bus; d. a communications interface connected to the data bus configured to communicate with at least one external monitoring device; and e. a memory comprising: | 38,145 |
9,387,422 | 1. An embedded type emitter, which is embedded fixed to an inner wall of a water pipeline, characterized in that, the emitter ( 2 ) comprises: a dumbbell-shaped tubular column assembly ( a cylinder-shaped tubular column assembly ( an annular filter cloth ( wherein the cylinder-shaped tubular column assembly ( the dumbbell-shaped tubular column assembly ( the cylinder-shaped tubular column assembly ( | 38,385 |
9,067,196 | 1. A zeolite based hydrothermally resistant Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst additive which comprises a product obtained by spray drying and calcination of a raw material mixture having a pH ranging from 5 to 9 comprising: ZSM-5 zeolite ranging from 40 wt % to 60 wt % that has been stabilizing with at least one phosphate source selected from the group consisting of diammonium hydrogen phosphate (DAHP) and monoammonium hydrogen phosphate, wherein the phosphate is measured in terms of P clay ranging from 20 wt % to 40 wt %; and a binder ranging from 10 wt % to 40 wt %; said binder comprising silica in an amount of 75 to 100 wt % with respect to the mass of the binder, said additive being characterized by a pre-hydrothermal acidity of 200-350 μmol/g and a post-hydrothermal acidity of 25 to 150 μmol/g; silica content of above 70 % with respect to the total mass of the additive, and sodium content less than 0.5 wt % with respect to the mass of the additive. | 15,873 |
9,591,572 | 1. A user equipment, comprising: a transceiver including a transmitter and a receiver, the transceiver configured to enable the user equipment to establish a connection with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, the user equipment and the LTE network configured with and utilizing a Connected Discontinuous Reception (CDRX) functionality; and a processor configured to control an operation of the transceiver by: | 17,534 |
9,250,514 | 1. A method for etching a photomask for lithographic applications, comprising: providing a conductive photomask on a substrate support pedestal disposed in a plasma processing chamber, wherein the conductive photomask is fabricated from a dielectric material substrate with a conductive coating; supplying a gas mixture into the processing chamber; and applying a DC or AC power through a conductive path formed in the substrate support pedestal to the conductive photomask during etching, wherein the substrate conductive path in the substrate support pedestal allows DC or AC power to pass therethrough to the conductive photomask. | 42,416 |
8,898,767 | 1. A method for digital content protection, the method comprising: generating a plurality of frame keys; retrieving a plurality of frames from digital content; and at least one of encrypting and decrypting the digital content with a different frame key of the plurality of frame keys that dynamically changes for each frame of the plurality of frames; encrypting a regional title key with a user key to generate an encrypted regional title key; and storing the encrypted regional title key and the encrypted digital content in a storage device. | 47,607 |
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