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9,072,124 | 1. A dimming controlling apparatus comprising: a lighting driving unit for driving a lighting appliance; a power supply unit for supplying power required to drive the lighting appliance; a storage unit for storing a plurality of dimming profiles comprising time zones for driving the lighting appliance and dimming levels in accordance to the time zones; a sensor unit comprising at least one of a temperature sensor, an illumination intensity sensor, and a movement sensor and generating a sensing signal; a selection unit for selecting a dimming profile to be used in driving the lighting appliance from the plurality of dimming profiles stored in the storage unit; and a controller for controlling the lighting driving unit and the power supply unit by using at least one of the selected dimming profile and the sensing signal generated by the sensor unit, wherein the selection unit comprises a dip switch having at least one pin and selects a dimming profile corresponding to an on/off combination of the at least one pin of the dip switch from the plurality of dimming profiles. | 49,070 |
8,484,930 | 1. A method of assembling a box-type assembly, the method comprising providing a first section having a web and a pair of flanges and a second section having a web and a pair of flanges, inserting a manufacturing pilot through a cupped-hole locator formed in the web of the first section, positioning a first end of a spacer over the manufacturing pilot and over the cupped-hole locator of the first section, where the cupped-hole locator of the first section includes a lip structure that extends away from the first section and into the spacer, engaging a second end of the spacer over a cupped-hole locator formed in the web of the second section, where the cupped-hole locator of the second section includes a lip structure that extends away from the second section and into the spacer, securing the flanges of the first and second sections together, and removing the box-type assembly from the manufacturing pilot. | 42,490 |
8,679,866 | 1. A light emitting device comprising: an LED chip having a quantum well structure and a light emitting layer made of a gallium nitride compound semiconductor, said LED chip emitting a light having a peak wavelength in a range from 420 nm to 490 nm; a first transparent material covering said LED chip; a second transparent material for protecting said LED chip and said first transparent material; and a phosphor for absorbing a part of the light from said LED chip and emitting a light having a wavelength different from the light from said LED chip; wherein said phosphor comprises a phosphor having a garnet structure and including cerium as an emission center, and wherein said phosphor is included in second transparent material, and the light from said LED chip and the light from said phosphor are mixed to make a white light. | 15,834 |
8,620,089 | 1. A method of recognizing features from sensed data points collected in a 3D environment comprising: sensing the 3D environment using a sensor that collects a plurality of sensed data points from the 3D environment, each sensed data point having spatial coordinate information in three dimensions x, y and z; populating a strip histogram grid having a plurality of strips, each strip having a z, a dx dimension and a dy dimension, wherein dx is a portion of an x dimension of the strip histogram grid and dy is a portion of a y dimension of the strip histogram grid, and wherein the z dimension is divided into a plurality of dz portions of the z dimension, so that each strip is divided into a plurality of cells, each cell having a dimension of dx, dy, and dz, by assigning each sensed data point to a strip in the strip histogram grid that has x, y and z dimensions that encompass the spatial coordinate information of the respective assigned sensed data point, and assigning each sensed data point to one of the plurality of dz portions of the z dimension, initializing a ground support variable for each cell of the plurality of cells to zero; incrementing the ground support variable associated with a respective cell by 1 each time a sensed data point is assigned to that respective cell or a sensed data point is assigned to a cell in a surrounding strip having a same z dimension as the respective cell and being within a set distance of the respective cell; and estimating the local ground plane for the respective strip as being the lowest z level corresponding to a cell within the respective strip with a respective ground support variable greater than a threshold. | 39,620 |
9,750,884 | 1. A syringe comprising: a syringe body with a fluid chamber, the syringe body having a distal end and a proximal end, with an extrusion opening at the proximal end; the fluid chamber in communication with the extrusion opening; an outer plunger slidably disposed in the fluid chamber and including a slot; and an inner plunger slidably disposed in the outer plunger; wherein the inner plunger includes a first locking mechanism configured to prevent the inner plunger from sliding away from the proximal end of the syringe body, when the outer plunger is being depressed to eject a dermal filler from the fluid chamber; the lock mechanism comprising a locking arm engaged with the slot of the outer plunger and a locking groove in the syringe body configured to engage the locking arm. | 43,145 |
9,169,143 | 1. A sewage treatment method, comprising the following steps: (1) introducing a wastewater feed into a first end of a first aeration basin to mix with a first concentrated mixed liquor to obtain a first mixed liquor; (2) aerating the first mixed liquor in an aeration section of the first aeration basin to obtain a second mixed liquor at a second end of the first aeration basin; (3) introducing the second mixed liquor to a first sedimentation basin to perform a sedimentation treatment to obtain a supernatant liquid and the first concentrated mixed liquor; (4) discharging the supernatant liquid, and returning at least a part of the first concentrated mixed liquor to the first end of the first aeration basin so as to have a sludge age of greater than 50 days, wherein the ratio of the aeration treatment time of the first aeration basin to the sedimentation treatment time of the first sedimentation basin is 1:0.5 to 1:6; and (5) passing the supernatant liquid through a biologic regulation zone, a second aeration zone and a second sedimentation zone in turn to obtain a first water effluent and a second concentrated mixed liquor, and returning a first part of the second concentrated mixed liquor to the biologic regulation zone. | 4,722 |
8,835,953 | 1. A lighting device, comprising: a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) sets, wherein at least two of the plurality of LED sets have peak emission wavelengths different from each other; a plurality of sets of phosphor layers respectively coated on corresponding LED sets among the plurality of LED sets, at least one of the plurality of sets of phosphor layers being adapted to be excited by a portion of light emitted by the corresponding LED set thereof to emit light having a dominant wavelength ranging form 500 nm to 580 nm, and at least another one of the plurality of sets of phosphor layers being adapted to be excited by a portion of light emitted by the corresponding LED set thereof to emit light having a dominant wavelength ranging from 590 nm to 650 nm; and an input terminal connected to the plurality of LED sets for providing energy thereto for enabling the plurality of LED sets to emit light. | 6,187 |
9,769,070 | 1. A computer implemented method of providing a platform for optimizing traffic on a computer network including a plurality of routing domains that route the traffic to one or more destination networks, the plurality of routing domains interconnected via one or more data center interconnect links, the method comprising: defining a plurality of service providers that are able to route traffic to a destination network via the plurality of service providers; identifying each service provider of the plurality of service providers that is capable of routing the traffic from the plurality of routing domains to the destination network; determining values for QoS characteristics of the one or more data center interconnect links; determining values for QoS characteristics of routes originating from each service provider of the plurality of service providers that is capable of routing the traffic from the plurality of routing domains to the destination network; and determining whether the traffic for the destination network will be re-routed from a first service provider to a second service provider of the plurality of service providers based on the values of the QoS characteristics for (1) each of the routes originating from service providers of the plurality of service providers and (2) the one or more data center interconnect links. | 28,292 |
8,371,437 | 1. A module for a conveyor mat comprising: a body part having a front side and a rear side joined by an underside; hinge loops extending in a conveying direction from said front side and transversely spaced apart at mutual intermediate distances; a mounting frame having a carrier part extending downwardly from said underside and formed integrally with the body part; and a guide element detachably mounted to said carrier part beneath said underside. | 43,130 |
9,142,297 | 1. A nonvolatile memory device comprising: a plurality of memory blocks; a first pass transistor array configured to transmit a plurality of drive signals to a first memory block among the plurality of memory blocks in response to a first block selection signal; a second pass transistor array configured to transmit the plurality of drive signals to a second memory block among the plurality of memory blocks in response to the first block selection signal; and a third pass transistor array disposed between the first pass transistor array and the second pass transistor array, configured to transmit the plurality of drive signals to a third memory block among the plurality of memory blocks in response to a second block selection signal. | 7,140 |
9,289,091 | 1. A beverage container comprising a press ring system, the press ring system comprising: an upper support member; a lower support member; a plurality of flaps coupled to the upper support member and the lower support member by attachment elements; and a filter disposed between the upper and lower support members; wherein the press ring system is disposed below a dome lid connected to the beverage container, the dome lid including a body having a substantially circular planer top surface, a filter slot on the body, a guide hole through the substantially circular planar top surface; and a sealing portion around the guide hole. | 8,225 |
8,509,895 | 1. An adaptive dual chamber pacemaker and/or cardioverter defibrillator for delivering ventricular stimulation to the heart correlated with hemodynamic performance of the heart, comprising: a. at least one hemodynamic sensor for monitoring said hemodynamic performance of the heart; b. an atrial electrode and at least one ventricular electrode, adapted to sense ventricular and atrial signals; c. a learning module comprising a spiking neural network processor adapted to learn to associate the ventricular-atrial intervals sensed by said electrodes with the hemodynamic performance sensed by said at least one hemodynamic sensor, and calculate ventricular-atrial intervals and replace said ventricular-atrial intervals calculated from the sensed ventricular and atrial signals with the learned associated ventricular-atrial intervals and cause delivery according to the learned associated ventricular-atrial intervals of a ventricular stimulation to the heart during atrial fibrillation episodes, wherein said spiking neural network processor further comprises: I. an input layer temporal synchronizer performing a pre-processing stage of said hemodynamic performance of the heart sensed by said at least one hemodynamic sensor; II. a middle layer comprising of an array of dynamic synapses, wherein said dynamic synapses are grouped in columns, and III. an output layer comprising at least one integrate and fire neuron for each said dynamic synapse column of the middle layer, said at least one integrate and fire neuron being adapted to perform said learning to associate ventricular-atrial intervals with said hemodynamic performance of the heart; d. a micro controller for controlling said learning module, and e. at least one pulse generator and operational amplifier controlled by said micro controller for stimulating the heart with said ventricular stimulation. | 31,192 |
8,874,517 | 1. A computer system, comprising: a storage device; and a computer including a filesystem in communication with the storage device; wherein the computer stores filesystem journal operations for file activities in a journal file system into a hierarchical tree, and summarizes changes made to files in a filesystem in the hierarchical tree to determine which files require being read and backed up due to changes to content and which files have changed but do not require being read and backed up. | 14,360 |
9,639,404 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a set of application programming interface (API) terms-of-service (ToS) feature information that includes identifying information for at least one API and respectively associated ToS features for each identified API, wherein the respectively associated ToS features do not relate to API functionality; receiving, by one or more processors, ToS preference information that relates to ToS related preferences for a user, wherein the ToS related preferences are submitted by the user via a user interface, and wherein the ToS related preferences do not include preferences for desired API functionality; and evaluating, by one or more processors, a strength of a match between each respective API identified in the API ToS feature information set and the ToS preference information to yield a match value for each API identified in the API ToS feature information set. | 36,902 |
8,834,346 | 1. A stimulus sequencer for generating a sleep therapy stimulus waveform for a patient, the stimulus sequencer comprising: a sequence address generator configured to receive a stimulus start signal from a timer of a closed loop neuromodulator and to provide an address related to a stimulus sequence of the sleep therapy; a sequence memory array coupled to the sequence address generator, the sequence memory array configured to receive the address from the sequence address generator and to provide stimulus sequence information related to the address; a stimulus generator selector coupled to the sequence memory array, the stimulus generator selector configured to receive the stimulus sequence information from the sequence memory array, to receive a stimulus duration signal from the timer of the closed loop neuromodulator, and to provide a generator select, signal to a stimulus generator of the closed loop neuromodulator using the stimulus sequence information and the stimulus duration signal, the generator select signal including stimulus type information related to stimulus pulses generated using the closed loop neuromodulator; and wherein the sleep therapy stimulus waveform includes a sequence of one or more stimulus types. | 44,437 |
9,725,375 | 1. A method for preparing a light olefin using an oxygen-containing compound, comprising the following steps: step a) in which a hydrocarbon with four or more carbons is introduced from k feeding branch lines of pre-carbon deposition zone in parallel into k secondary pre-carbon deposition zones in a dense phase fluidized bed reactor, and is brought into contact with a completely regenerated and/or fresh catalyst, so as to be converted into a light olefin product-containing stream, while forming a pre-carbon deposited catalyst; wherein the catalyst is passed sequentially through 1 step b) in which a raw material comprising the oxygen-containing compound is introduced from n feeding branch lines of reaction zone in parallel into n secondary reaction zones of the dense phase fluidized bed reactor, and is brought into contact with the pre-carbon deposited catalyst, to generate a light olefin product-containing stream and a spent catalyst; wherein the pre-carbon deposited catalyst flowed out from the k step c) in which the light olefin product-containing stream flowed out from the pre-carbon deposition zone and the reaction zone is separated from the entrained spent catalyst; the isolated spent catalyst is passed into the n step d) in which the spent catalyst flowed out from the n wherein k≧1, n≧1, and m≧2. | 35,097 |
8,649,813 | 1. A method for improving latency in a wireless communications system, comprising: receiving a session request from an access terminal to initially establish a call with at least one target access terminal through a dispatch console, the call comprising a voice communication between the access terminal and the at least one target access terminal; performing an initial allocation of resources associated with credentials of the at least one target access terminal; receiving and buffering session updates from the dispatch console, wherein buffering session updates includes buffering received messages until a setup of the call is completed; and updating the initial allocation of resources based upon the buffered session updates. | 10,058 |
9,337,479 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and desorbing a lithium ion; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and desorbing a lithium ion; and a nonaqueous electrolyte including a nonaqueous solvent and a solute, the positive electrode active material containing in a proportion of 60:40 to 90:10 (mass ratio), the nonaqueous electrolyte including cyclic carbonate and chain carbonate as the nonaqueous solvent, a content proportion of the cyclic carbonate being 10% by mass or greater and 40% by mass or less of the nonaqueous electrolyte, and a content proportion of dimethyl carbonate included in the chain carbonate being 25% by mass or greater and 100% by mass or less. | 8,208 |
9,228,048 | 1. A process comprising: providing a cyclodextrin with at least one isocyanate-reactive group on at least a portion of the cyclodextrin; providing a polyurethane prepolymer; providing water; combining the cyclodextrin, the water and the polyurethane prepolymer; and reacting the polyurethane prepolymer with the water and the cyclodextrin to form a foam composition comprising the cyclodextrin crosslinked with the polyurethane prepolymer and having a foam structure, wherein the cyclodextrin crosslinked with a polyurethane prepolymer comprises a reaction product of a reactive isocyanate moiety reacted with at least one isocyanate-reactive group on at least a portion of the cyclodextrin, and the isocyanate-reactive group is an active hydrogen on a modifying group attached to the at least a portion of the cyclodextrin wherein the content of the water in the composition is in the range from 10 wt. % to 80 wt based on the composition, prior to the crosslinking, foaming and drying steps; and wherein the content of the cyclodextrin in the composition is from 0.5 wt % to 50 wt % based on the composition, prior to the crosslinking, foaming and drying steps. | 19,896 |
9,281,010 | 1. A method for controlling an output of content, comprising: displaying a timeline bar on a touchscreen comprising a linear shape and disposed along a linear axis and configured to enable searching and selection of a playback position in the content; in response to detecting, via the touchscreen, a touch on a point of the timeline bar, distorting the linear shape of a predetermined section of the timeline bar centered on the point by a predetermined distance to be a form of at least one of zigzag curve, spiral, pulse, square-wave, sinusoidal wave, saw-tooth, triangle, rectangular wave and spring and including an additional length for selecting the playback position with an increased precision; if a drag input is detected within the distorted predetermined section including the form of the at least one of the zigzag curve, the spiral, the pulse, the square-wave, the sinusoidal wave, the saw-tooth, the triangle, the rectangular wave and the spring moving along the linear axis, shifting the predetermined section along the linear axis; and if the drag input is detected within the distorted predetermined section moving along the at least one of the zigzag curve, the spiral, the pulse, the square-wave, the sinusoidal wave, the saw-tooth, the triangle, the rectangular wave and the spring, identifying the playback position along the at least one of the zigzag curve, the spiral, the pulse, the square-wave, the sinusoidal wave, the saw-tooth, the triangle, the rectangular wave and the spring using the increased precision. | 40,259 |
8,578,837 | 1. A method for cushioning the deceleration of a piston in an expandable chamber motor powered by a pneumatic fluid which comprises: a) sensing a predetermined value in pressure of said pneumatic fluid on the downstream side of said piston in said expandable chamber motor, where said value indicates that said piston will reverse direction, and b) using said predetermined value in pressure to pilot a main exhaust passage for allowing said pneumatic fluid to rapidly and substantially depressurize at, or just before, a bounce-back position, where said piston reverses direction, and c) keeping sufficient pressure to pilot said main exhaust passage, until said pneumatic fluid on the downstream side has substantially depressurized, whereby said piston of said expandable chamber motor is brought to a full stop with minimized deceleration forces, and minimized bounce back. | 32,676 |
9,256,782 | 1. An apparatus for processing a document image, comprising: a generating unit to generate a luminance component image from the document image; an estimating unit to estimate a luminance image from the luminance component image; and an adjusting unit to adjust the luminance component image according to the luminance image estimated, wherein, the estimating unit estimates luminance values of pixels at least in horizontal edge areas of the luminance component image according to luminance values of pixels in a part of a background of the luminance component image, and if the estimated luminance values of the pixels in the horizontal edge areas are determined as acceptable according to a predetermined criterion, the estimating unit estimates the luminance image according to the estimated luminance values, and if the estimated luminance values are determined as unacceptable according to the predetermined criterion, the estimating unit estimates the luminance image by using a largest one of the luminance values of the pixels in each column of pixels in the luminance component image as the luminance values of all of the pixels in that column. | 24,192 |
8,396,014 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a network adapter configured for wireless communication using a plurality of wireless technologies that share at least one of a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components, wherein said network adapter, in operation, shares at least one of the plurality of shared HW components by generating a notification indicating that a shared HW resource has become available to a requesting device that needs said HW resource; configuring said requesting device to an unmask state such that said requesting device receives said generated notification, and upon receiving said notification in the unmask state, wakes up and performs a pending action; and configuring said requesting device to a mask state in which said requesting device ignores said generated notification. | 48,323 |
8,556,184 | 1. A chipless RFID tag comprising a plurality of separate parallel conductive strips formed on a dielectric support, wherein conductive bridges interconnect neighboring conductive strips, the conductive bridges delimiting, between the conductive strips, dielectric strip portions of different lengths, each dielectric strip portion determining a resonance frequency of the tag, the resonance frequencies of the tag altogether defining an identification code. | 42,120 |
9,737,099 | 1. A reversible necktie, comprising: A) a knot assembly, said knot assembly comprises first and second faces, a dividing wall, first and second top edges, and first and second bottom edges; B) a knot section, said knot section comprises first and second folding guides, and first and second bottom knot section edges; C) an apron section; and D) a strip assembly. | 15,000 |
9,036,316 | 1. A vehicle safety device that is installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle having an electric heater serving as a heat source of a heating apparatus housed in a warm water tank and that is configured to interrupt a current supplied from a power supply to the electric heater via a supply line, comprising: a first interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in an interrupted condition when a temperature of the electric heater or a temperature within the warm water tank reaches a first set temperature, and to return the supply line to an energized condition when the temperature of the electric heater or the temperature within the warm water tank decreases to a third set temperature that is lower than the first set temperature; and a second interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in the interrupted condition such that the supply line cannot be returned to the energized condition when the temperature of the electric heater or the temperature within the warm water tank reaches a second set temperature that is higher than the first set temperature, wherein the second interrupting mechanism interrupts the supply line differently from the first interrupting mechanism, and the second interrupting mechanism interrupts the supply line at a position that is closer to the power supply than is a position at which the first interrupting mechanism interrupts the supply line. | 21,181 |
8,903,627 | 1. A control device of an internal combustion engine to be applied to an internal combustion engine including: a fuel-mixing air supply means that supplies fuel-mixing air made of fuel including at least gasoline and air to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage through which an exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber passes; an air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in the exhaust passage on the downstream side of the catalyst, the air-fuel ratio sensor that generates an output value in accordance with the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas passing through the exhaust passage; and a target air-fuel ratio setting means that sets a target air-fuel ratio of the fuel-mixing air based on the output value from the air-fuel ratio sensor, the control device of the internal combustion engine, comprising: a hydrogen concentration detection means that detects hydrogen concentration in the exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber; and a correction means that corrects the target air-fuel ratio set by the target air-fuel ratio setting means based on the hydrogen concentration detected by the hydrogen concentration detection means; and an intake air flow rate detection means that detects an intake air flow rate indicating mass of air taken into the internal combustion engine per unit time, wherein the target air-fuel ratio setting means sets the target air-fuel ratio by changing an amplitude amount indicating a variation amount from a theoretical air-fuel ratio to the lean side or the rich side based on the intake air flow rate detected by the intake air flow rate detection means, the correction means corrects at least the changed amplitude amount from the theoretical air-fuel ratio to the lean side based on the hydrogen concentration detected by the hydrogen concentration detection means, the target air-fuel ratio setting means sets the target air-fuel ratio to an air-fuel ratio on the rich side of the theoretical air-fuel ratio based on the output value of the air-fuel ratio sensor corresponding to a change in an interior of the catalyst from a reduction atmosphere that reduces the exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst to an oxidation atmosphere that oxidizes the exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst, and the target air-fuel ratio setting means sets the target air-fuel ratio to an air-fuel ratio on the lean side of the theoretical air-fuel ratio based on the output value of the air-fuel ratio sensor corresponding to a change in the interior of the catalyst from the oxidation atmosphere to the reduction atmosphere. | 2,963 |
9,200,869 | 1. A composite optical device for day and night time sighting and measuring distance, having a laser application device, a day-time optical device, a thermal imaging optical device and a display, which comprises: the day-time optical device installed between an objective unit and an eye-piece, the eye-piece and the objective unit being arranged seeing each other, the day-time optical device comprising an objective lens, a first beam splitter, a first attenuator, a second beam splitter, a relay unit, an eye-piece lens, and a second attenuator sequentially installed between the objective unit and the eye-piece so as to control an amount of light from outside the composite optical device; the laser application device comprising a beam shaping lens for shaping and sighting a laser emitted from a laser source, a focus lens installed in front of the beam shaping lens for controlling an emitting angle of the laser, and a folding minor installed in front of the focus lens for reflecting the laser passed through the beam shaping lens and the focus lens to the first beam splitter; and the display installed on one side of the second beam splitter to transmit a specific image to the second beam splitter, the second beam splitter reflecting the specific image transmitted from the display to be superposed on the eye-piece lens. | 6,924 |
8,827,217 | 1. A system comprising: a Cathode Ray Tube monitor caddy comprising an upper brace coupled to a lower brace, an upper horizontal plate member further coupled to the upper brace, and a lower horizontal plate member further coupled to the lower brace, the Cathode Ray Tube monitor caddy is configured to secure a Cathode Ray Tube monitor between the upper horizontal plate member and the lower horizontal plate member; and a conversion bracket coupled between the upper horizontal plate member and the lower horizontal plate member of the Cathode Ray Tube monitor caddy, wherein (a) the conversion bracket is configured to support a flat panel monitor that is attached to the conversion bracket and (b) wherein the conversion bracket is coupled to the upper horizontal frame via two prongs of the conversion bracket. | 11,215 |
9,751,614 | 1. An aircraft, comprising: at least two wings, each wing configured to twist during flight along a portion of the length of the wing; at least one inboard propulsion engine connected to each wing, located at some distance along the wing span; at least one outboard propulsion engine connected to each wing, located at some distance along the wing span, the at least one outboard propulsion engine positioned closer to a wing tip of the wing to which it is connected than the at least one inboard propulsion engine; and a controller configured to independently control thrust of the at least one outboard propulsion engine and the at least one inboard propulsion engine, including controlling thrust of the at least one outboard propulsion engine to produce the twist to thereby significantly change flight dynamics of the aircraft while maintaining aeroelastic stability. | 35,266 |
9,245,342 | 1. An obstacle detection device, comprising: a storage unit at least storing an image; a quasi-vertical edge detection module coupled to the storage unit to receive an input image and perform a quasi-vertical edge detection procedure on the input image to obtain a plurality of quasi-vertical edges; an intersection determination module determining whether each of the quasi-vertical edges intersects a virtual horizontal served as a horizon line in the image and dividing the image into a above-horizon zone and a below-horizon zone; a position determination module determining whether an end of one of the quasi-vertical edges intersecting the virtual horizontal is located in a detection zone according to position of the end of the one of the quasi-vertical edges and range of the detection zone if the one of the quasi-vertical edges intersects the virtual horizontal, wherein the detection zone is located within the below-horizon zone which is below the virtual horizontal; and an obstacle detection module determining that an obstacle exists and issuing a warning if the end of the one of the quasi-vertical edges intersecting the virtual horizontal is located in the detection zone. | 38,833 |
8,403,197 | 1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a handle portion; a body portion fixed to the handle portion; a tool portion remotely actuable from the handle portion, the tool portion including an anvil jaw and a cartridge jaw containing a cartridge with staples arranged in at least one longitudinal row, the longitudinal row of staples defining a longitudinal tool axis, at least one of the cartridge jaw and anvil jaw being mounted for reciprocal axial movement in the direction of the longitudinal tool axis relative to the other of the cartridge jaw and anvil jaw between an open position for receiving tissue and a closed position for clamping the tissue; and a firing mechanism actuable from the handle portion to fire the staples from the cartridge jaw when the jaws are in the closed position. | 15,537 |
8,949,665 | 1. A communication network device for use in simultaneously providing a bus based communication signal and a power signal on a bus of a communication network, comprising: a housing; a bus controller disposed in the housing, the bus controller including a controller input/output line to provide bus based communication signals; a bus power supply disposed in the housing, the bus power supply producing a power signal for providing power via a first bus to multiple devices that are connected to the first bus external to the housing, an output in the housing to which the first bus may be connected, the output providing a connection to the bus controller input/output line and to the power supply so that the power signal and the communication signals are simultaneously transmitted over the first bus when the first bus is connected to the bus controller and the bus power supply by way of the output. | 2,697 |
8,604,904 | 1. A portable device comprising: an opening formed in one case of a dual structure; a partitioning member for partitioning the opening; a projection formed on the partitioning member so as to project to a front surface side of the case; and at least two push buttons attached from a back surface side of the case to partitions partitioned by the partitioning member; wherein each of the push buttons comprises: wherein, for one of the at least two push buttons, one of the locking portions contacts an outer edge of the opening of the back side surface of the case, and another of the locking portions contacts the outer edge of the opening of a front side surface of the partitioning member to prevent slip-out of the one push button when the one push button is attached to the partition from the back surface side of the case; and wherein the projection is sandwiched between the locking portion of the one push button and the locking portion of another of the at least two push buttons. | 41,019 |
9,338,585 | 1. A method in a User Equipment (UE) device of a user for automatically determining an intended partner device that the user desires to interact with, the method comprising: determining a UE orientation value; determining a UE elevation value; receiving a beacon signal, wherein the beacon signal includes: determining a signal strength value for the beacon signal; selecting the candidate partner device as the intended partner device based on at least: transmitting a message to the intended partner device using the device identifier of the candidate partner device. | 694 |
8,991,165 | 1. An energy recovery system comprising: a base energy conversion system comprising: a hydrogen processor that is configured to utilize heated water vapor to generate hydrogen gas; and a low-grade heat recovery system that is coupled with the first low-grade heat channel, comprising: wherein the vaporized water is heated by at least a portion of the high-grade waste heat component within the low-grade heat recovery system as the vaporized water is being transported to the hydrogen processor. | 16,652 |
8,761,041 | 1. A radio communication system comprising: at least one first base station; a second base station that is in a radio wave reachable range of the at least one first base station and has a radio wave reachable range shorter than the radio wave reachable range of the at least one first base station: and a management device configured to manage the at least one first base station and the second base station, wherein the second base station comprises: wherein the second base station further comprises: a handing-off unit configured to select the at least one first base station to be handed off based on the neighboring base station information and to transmit a hand off request including an identification of the at least one first base station to the management device when the determining unit determines that the state of the terminal in communication is an idle state, wherein after handing off a communication session of the terminal having the idle state to the at least one first base station, the radio transmission unit and the radio reception unit are in a stopping state. | 42,323 |
9,377,190 | 1. A burner, comprising: a primary nozzle having a longitudinal axis and configured to emit a fuel flow; a primary flame holder having first and second faces and a plurality of apertures extending through the flame holder from the first face to the second face, positioned with the first face toward the nozzle and intersecting the longitudinal axis of the nozzle; the primary nozzle and the primary flame holder being separated by a distance D a preheat mechanism configured to preheat the primary flame holder in a startup mode and not to preheat the primary flame holder in the operational mode, the preheat mechanism being configured to support a preheat flame in a position between the primary nozzle and the first face of the primary flame holder. | 18,524 |
9,595,734 | 1. A non-aqueous liquid electrolyte for a secondary battery, comprising: an electrolyte; at least one or more cyclopropane compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (I-1), a compound represented by the following formula (II-2), and a compound represented by the following formula (III-1′), in an organic solvent, wherein, in formula (I-1), R wherein, in formula (II-2), R wherein, in formula (III 1′), R | 36,595 |
9,707,859 | 1. A hover system comprising: an electric motor including a winding, a first set of permanent magnets and a first structure which holds the first permanent magnets wherein an electric current is applied to the winding to cause one of the winding or the first set of permanent magnets to rotate; a second structure, configured to receive a rotational torque from the electric motor to rotate the second structure, the second structure holding a second set of permanent magnets wherein the second set of permanent magnets are rotated to induce eddy currents in a substrate such that the induced eddy currents and the second set of permanent magnets interact to generate lift forces and propulsive forces; a platform; a joint, coupled to the platform, wherein the joint is configured to allow the electric motor to tilt around two or more different axes relative to the platform to change directions in which the propulsive forces are generated; and a plurality of actuators configured to tilt the electric motor around the two or more different axes. | 31,181 |
8,752,886 | 1. A mounting module for a front panel of a motor vehicle, the front panel having an air feed opening formed therein, the mounting module comprising: a forward-mounted reinforcing frame; and a cooling air flap module having a closed mounting frame with opposite lateral webs, lateral bearings at each of the opposite lateral webs, cooling air flaps having opposite ends pivotally connected to the lateral bearings at the opposite lateral webs of said closed mounting frame, and an actuating device mounted adjacent one of the lateral webs and having actuating elements for pivoting said cooling air flaps, said closed mounting frame being fixed in said forward-mounted reinforcing frame, said closed mounting frame with said forward-mounted reinforcing frame being connected as a constructional unit to the front panel so as to form a module. | 48,985 |
9,110,836 | 1. Integrated biosensor and simulation method to assist in medical decision-making comprising the steps of: sensing a biological host by a biosensor platform comprising a multifunctional array coupled to a plurality of sensors that each sense automatically one or more system-level function of the biological host; and simulating by a controller comprising a systems-biology platform comprising a genomics database, proteomics database, pharmacogenomics database, metabolomics database, pharmacokinetics database, transcriptomics database, disease database and drug database; such that the controller uses the systems-biology platform to simulate automatically the biological host at each said one or more system-level function of such biological host by such simulation using each function sensed by the biosensor platform and also such simulation using each database of said systems-biology platform according to one or more knowledge-based techniques in the systems-biology platform to provide therapy, diagnosis or other automated feedback. | 35,508 |
8,866,799 | 1. A method of driving a display panel, the method comprising: controlling a latch sequence of image data and an output sequence of gate lines driving circuit parts in a forward direction in response to a normal-mounting mode selection signal for displaying a normal mounted image as a full frame on a display panel, the image data being latched to data lines driving circuit parts, the display panel including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; applying the latched image data and gate signals outputted from the gate lines driving circuit parts to the display panel; applying a dummy gate signal to at least one dummy gate line adjacent to a last gate line of the gate lines, in response to an inverted-mounting mode selection signal for displaying an inverted mount image as a full frame on the display panel; controlling the latch sequence of the image data and the output sequence of the gate lines driving circuit parts in a reverse direction; and applying the latched image data and the gate signals outputted from the gate lines driving circuit parts to the display panel, wherein the dummy gate signal is applied during an asynchronous period between serial signal streams of first and second frame rate control chips controlling a frame of the image data. | 36,785 |
8,356,161 | 1. An integrated circuit for performing an operation having at least a simple computational function and a complex processing function, the circuit for performing an operation having at least a simple computational function and a complex processing function, the circuit comprising: a configurable simple computational unit including a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a first interconnection network to configure interconnections between selected ones of the computational elements in response to configuration information to perform the simple computational function of the operation, wherein the configured interconnections remain fixed during the performance of the simple computational function; a configurable complex processing unit including a second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a second interconnection network to configure the interconnections between selected ones of the second plurality of computational elements in response to the configuration information to perform the complex processing function of the operation, wherein the configured interconnections remain fixed during the performance of the complex processing function; and a third interconnection network coupled to the configurable simple computational unit and the configurable complex processing unit, the third interconnection network sending the configuration information to the simple computational unit and the complex processing unit. | 8,980 |
9,431,679 | 1. An electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrode stacks including at least one stacked and folded type electrode stack in which a plurality of electrode units are stacked in a stacking direction such that the electrode units are separated by a sheet of separating film, wherein the stacked and folded type electrode stack comprises at least one stepped portion formed within the stacked and folded type electrode stack by the electrode units having different areas transverse to the stacking direction, the electrode units being stacked on one another with the sheet of separating film being disposed therebetween, wherein each of the electrode units comprises one selected from the group consisting of positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and unit cells, each unit cell having at least one positive electrode and at least one negative electrode that are stacked with a separator disposed therebetween, wherein the electrode assembly includes a Z-folded type electrode stack stacked together with a second electrode stack by using the separating film, the second electrode stack having a type selected from the group consisting of a jelly-roll type electrode stack, a stacked and folded type electrode stack, or a combination thereof, and wherein the electrode assembly comprises a second stepped portion formed between one of the plurality of electrode stacks and an adjacent second electrode unit. | 43,382 |
9,108,744 | 1. An airport comprising a ground level surface for support and horizontal movement of aircraft to and from runways, an underground surface below said ground level surface, said ground level surface including areas for loading and unloading of aircraft at parked positions, passenger gate areas on said underground surface and in underlying relation to said parked positions, and loading/unloading means for movement of passengers between said gate areas and to or from aircraft when in said parked positions, said loading/unloading means including first means for movement of passengers between a first level approximately that of said underground surface and landings at a second level approximately that of said ground level and second means for movement of passengers between said landings and a third level from and to which passengers can directly enter into and exit from aircraft, and upstanding structures that extend above said ground level surface and that overlie portions of said gate areas and of said landings to provide overhead protection for passengers when in said gate areas and when moving between said first level and said landings, wherein aircraft are movable longitudinally into said parked positions. | 43,690 |
9,793,501 | 1. An organic light emitting diode display, comprising: a flexible substrate; a driving layer positioned on the flexible substrate and including a thin film transistor; an element layer positioned on the driving layer and including an organic light emitting diode that is connected to the thin film transistor; a thin film encapsulation layer covering the element layer and encapsulating the element layer along with the flexible substrate; and a compensation layer positioned between the element layer and the flexible substrate, wherein the organic light emitting diode includes a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor, an organic emission layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the organic emission layer, and wherein the compensation layer is disposed between the flexible substrate and the first electrode in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the flexible substrate, the compensation layer includes a viscoelastic material. | 49,583 |
8,566,472 | 1. A password providing system configured to issue a password for use in accessing age-restricted content, comprising at least one processor configured to be connected to a network and configured to: receive a request for a password from a user computer on a network; receive from the user computer, over the network, a still or video image of a user of the user computer, the image of the user provided by a camera associated with the user computer; receive an image of an identification document having identification information associated with the user of the user computer, wherein the image of the identification document is distinct from the still or video image of the user; cause display of the still or video image and the image of the identification document on a display device associated with the at least one processor to allow an operator to compare the still or video image against the identification information on the identification document and make a determination from that comparison if the user of the user computer is of an appropriate age to access age-restricted content accessible using the password; and transmit the password to the user computer upon a determination by the operator that the user of the user computer is of an appropriate age to access the age-restricted content accessible using the password. | 35,860 |
8,786,106 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising; a semiconductor chip having a passivation film on part of a front surface thereof which is a functional surface; a stress relieving layer having an upper surface and a side surface provided on the passivation film; a sealing resin layer provided on the stress relieving layer for sealing the front surface of the semiconductor chip, the sealing resin layer extending to a side surface of the stress relieving layer; and a rewiring provided on the upper surface of the stress relieving layer, the rewiring having a side surface positioned inside of the stress relieving layer such that the upper surface of the stress relieving layer is partly exposed; wherein the sealing resin layer is in direct contact with the semiconductor chip without the passivation film and in contact with the upper surface of the stress relieving layer, and the sealing resin layer entirely covers the stress relieving layer, the passivation film and the rewiring. | 32,751 |
8,878,528 | 1. A magnetic sensor comprising: a MEMS device including, an oscillator including the MEMS device, the oscillator including a control loop to maintain output of the oscillator constant and wherein a value of the magnetic field is reflected in a control signal of the control loop used to maintain the output constant. | 26,968 |
9,363,469 | 1. A passive-active terminal adapter for use in connecting subscriber devices to receive downstream signals from a cable television network and to deliver upstream signals from the subscriber devices to the network, in which electrical power is supplied to operate the terminal adapter, comprising: a signal splitter which separates downstream signals into active branch downstream signals and passive branch downstream signals; a passive branch circuit receptive of the passive branch downstream signals; an active branch circuit receptive of the active branch downstream signals, the active branch circuit including an active signal conditioner which modifies characteristics of the active branch downstream signals conducted through the active branch circuit; a sensor connected to sense power consumption of the active branch circuit indicative of a normal operative condition, an inoperative operative condition, and an abnormally operative condition of the terminal adapter, the sensor supplying a first control signal indicative of normal operating conditions and supplying a second control signal indicative of inoperative and abnormal operating conditions, wherein the sensor senses current consumed by the terminal adapter and voltage supplied to the terminal adapter and determines the normal operating condition, the inoperative condition and the abnormally operative condition from an amount of current consumed and a level of voltage supplied relative to a predetermined range of current consumption, and further wherein the sensor senses an amount of current consumption less than or greater than the predetermined range of current consumption to determine the abnormally operative condition; a termination impedance having a predetermined impedance characteristic; and a switch receptive of the first and second control signals and connected to the signal splitter and the active branch circuit and the termination impedance, the switch having a first operative position which conducts the active branch downstream signals from the splitter to the active branch circuit, the switch also having a second operative position which conducts the active branch downstream signals from the splitter to the termination impedance and which disconnects the active branch circuit from the splitter, the switch assuming the first operative position in response to the first control signal and assuming the second operative position in response to the second control signal. | 859 |
8,449,709 | 1. A method of fabricating a window frame for an aircraft, wherein the window frame includes a curved joggle surrounding a central opening, comprising the steps of: laying up a plurality of plies over a tool such that corresponding axes of fiber orientations for the plies radiate substantially from a fixed point, the tool having a curved stepped tool surface for forming the curved joggle in the window frame, a curvature of the stepped tool surface comprising a compound curvature including an S-shaped curvature in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of a step comprising the curved stepped tool surface, and the plurality of plies comprising a composite material; forming corresponding slits in corresponding areas of each of the plies where fibers in the plies cross and bridge the curved joggle such that, for each of the corresponding slits, a given slit is oriented in a direction perpendicular to a corresponding given axis of orientation of fibers for a corresponding given ply; forming the window frame by compressing the plurality of plies on the tool with a pinch plate and a plug; and, consolidating the plurality of plies. | 26,928 |
8,379,819 | 1. A method of indexing a recording of a telephony session, carried out in a computerized system, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, during the recording of said telephony session or during a playback of said recording, an indication including parameters which identify a discrete segment of the recording as being of interest; and (b) storing, in an index associated with the recording of the session, an identifier which identifies said discrete segment of the recording; wherein said identifier identifies said discrete segment by one of the following options: (i) a start point and an end point; (ii) a reference point and a duration beginning with said reference point; (iii) a reference point and a duration ending with said reference point; (iv) a reference point and a duration centered on said reference point; (v) a reference point, a first duration occurring before and ending with said reference point, and a second duration beginning with and occurring after said reference point; (vi) a reference point, an offset forwards or backwards from the reference point, and a duration beginning with or ending with said offset. | 15,343 |
8,998,741 | 1. A swing training system for improving muscle memory and weight transfer during a swinging motion comprising: a first device, the first device comprising: a lateral side having a trapezoidal shape; and | 9,536 |
8,442,001 | 1. A method, comprising: transmitting scheduling information for transmission of first information on one or more frequencies corresponding to an unreserved portion of a frequency band; and transmitting scheduling information for transmission of second information on one or more frequencies corresponding to a first reserved portion of the frequency band, wherein the first reserved portion is assigned to a first base station of a plurality of base stations, and a frequency reuse scheme is employed over the one or more frequencies corresponding to the first reserved portion of the frequency band. | 32,897 |
9,291,958 | 1. An image heating apparatus comprising: an endless belt configured to heat an image on a sheet in a nip; a heater configured to heat said belt, said heater being cooperative with said belt to form a sliding portion between an inner surface of said belt and said heater; a rotatable member cooperative with said heater to sandwich said belt to form said nip between an outer peripheral surface of said belt and said rotatable member; a detecting member provided on a surface of said heater relatively remoter from said sliding portion than said heater and configured to detect the temperature of said heater; a controller configured to control the timing of feeding the sheet to said nip on the basis of an output of said detecting member; and lubricant provided in at least a part of said sliding portion except for a range which is in opposing relation with said detecting member, wherein said sliding portion is free of the lubricant in the range. | 37,484 |
8,569,586 | 1. A soybean variety CL0911453, representative seed of said soybean variety CL0911453 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12144. | 20,045 |
9,496,441 | 1. A solar cell module support assembly comprising: a solar cell module and a frame supporting the solar cell module; a drive motor changing a disposition angle and disposition direction of the frame; a power transmission unit transmitting power of the drive motor to the frame and supporting the frame, wherein the power transmission unit comprises: a motion conversion unit to convert rotating motion of the power transmission unit into rotating motion and vertical motion of the frame; first connection support units connecting upper and lower portions of a rear surface of the frame; second connection support units connecting the first connection support units to the motion conversion unit; a driving shaft connected to the drive motor, the driving gear being connected to the driving shaft; and a disc-shaped member disposed around the driving gear and forming a rotation space in which the driving gear is rotated therein, wherein the driven gears comprise: | 29,686 |
9,625,976 | 1. A method comprising: synchronizing, at a first device, to a bus clock of a wired communication bus, wherein the wired communication bus connects the first device to a second device and the first device is configured to transfer data to and from the second device via the wired communication bus; determining, at the first device, a power save time period measured in terms of the bus clock of the wired communication bus; sending, via the wired communication bus, a request from the first device to the second device, wherein causing, at the first device, the first device to enter a reduced power mode within the power save time period. | 28,490 |
9,130,146 | 1. An actuator, comprising: a drive beam; a lower electrode formed on the drive beam; a piezoelectric element provided on the lower electrode; an upper electrode provided on the piezoelectric element; an upper wiring connecting the upper electrode and a wiring for supplying a voltage to the upper electrode; and an insulating part providing electrical insulation between the upper electrode and the lower electrode and formed under the upper wiring such that it covers an end of the lower electrode, wherein the insulating part includes insulating extension parts extended on opposite sides of the upper wiring in a width direction of the upper wiring, and the insulating part includes an inorganic insulating film and an organic insulating film. | 31,428 |
9,664,364 | 1. A structure of a lamp tube module, configured with at least one direct current (DC) light-emitting element and a power conversion apparatus in a lamp tube, said power conversion apparatus comprising a first fluorescent lamp simulation module and second fluorescent lamp simulation module, said first fluorescent lamp simulation module and second fluorescent lamp simulation module each having two power input connection ends and comprising a resistor and an inductor connected in series between said two power input connection ends, and in electric connection with a bridge rectifier in electric connection with said DC light-emitting element; wherein one of said power input connection ends of said first fluorescent lamp simulation module and/or second fluorescent lamp simulation module is configured to electrically connect a capacitor, adapted to reduce and isolate the interaction influence of an input power source on a DC component of said lamp tube module, allowing the power to be reduced, and further protecting said DC light-emitting element; wherein said DC light-emitting element is connected in parallel with said bridge rectifier and said first fluorescent lamp simulation module, said bridge rectifier, and said second fluorescent lamp simulation module are connected in series with each other, said capacitor being connected in series with said bridge rectifier. | 19,788 |
8,649,924 | 1. A hybrid system control method, the hybrid system comprising an internal combustion engine, variable speed means for varying and outputting a rotational velocity of the internal combustion engine, electric means for electrically driving drive wheels, a battery for the electric means, and control means that has a map for deciding target torques of the internal combustion engine and the electric means and is for command-controlling the internal combustion engine and the electric means on the basis of the map, and in the map, there are defined a maximum torque line that demarcates an upper limit torque that the electric means is capable of supplying as a function of at least a vehicle velocity and a battery state-of-charge and a margin torque line that is a predetermined margin lower than the maximum torque line, the control method comprising the steps of: detecting an accelerator stroke position, the vehicle velocity and the battery state-of-charge; performing electric travel by the electric means when the position on the map determined by the detected accelerator stroke position, vehicle velocity and battery state-of-charge is in a torque position below the margin torque line; initiating startup processing of the engine in order to transition to hybrid travel when the position on the map becomes a torque position on or above the margin torque line; and setting the target torque of the engine and the target torque of the electric means and command-controlling the engine and the electric means in order to achieve a torque corresponding to the detected accelerator stroke position when the position on the map becomes a torque position exceeding the maximum torque line. | 45,533 |
8,382,906 | 1. A method for cleaning a surface with a cleaning apparatus, the method comprising: transporting a chassis over the surface in a forward transport direction defined by a fore-aft axis, said chassis including cleaning elements supported thereon, wherein the cleaning elements have a cleaning width disposed generally perpendicular to the fore-aft axis; ejecting a volume of cleaning fluid from at least one liquid applicator disposed substantially perpendicular to the fore-aft axis, wherein the cleaning fluid is ejected with sufficient volume and pressure to distribute cleaning fluid across the cleaning width; and smearing the cleaning fluid across the cleaning width using a smearing element attached to the chassis aft of the at least one liquid applicator, | 9,490 |
9,194,843 | 1. A method of detecting defects in a wind turbine blade, comprising steps of: detecting, during motion of the wind turbine blade, a position, over time, of the wind turbine blade with respect to a gravity vector; detecting, within an enclosed space of the wind turbine blade, acoustic information that is emitted from the wind turbine blade; and analyzing the acoustic information in conjunction with the position, over time, of the wind turbine blade to identify a potential defect in the wind turbine blade. | 46,272 |
9,107,315 | 1. A via structure in a multi-layer substrate, comprising: a first metal layer, having an upper surface; a dielectric layer, covering the first metal layer in which a via is opened to expose the upper surface and the via has an inclined wall with an upper edge; and a second metal layer, formed in the via and contacting the upper surface, the inclined wall, wherein a contacting surface of the second metal layer has a top line lower than the upper edge of the inclined wall and an acute angle formed by the upper surface of the first metal layer and the inclined wall is smaller than 75° and the multi-layer substrate is flexible, wherein the via structure can be maintained complete as being bent in bendable areas of the multi-layer substrate, wherein the second metal layer is completely formed in the via and formed on a part of the inclined wall. | 34,490 |
9,762,240 | 1. A clock gating circuit comprising: a first precharge unit configured to charge a first node based on a clock signal; a second precharge unit configured to charge a second node based on the clock signal; a first discharge unit configured to discharge the first node based on the clock signal; a second discharge unit configured to discharge the second node based on the clock signal; a first cross-coupled maintain unit configured to maintain the first node at a charge state according to a voltage level of the second node; a second cross-coupled maintain unit configured to maintain the second node at the charge state according to a voltage level of the first node; and a control unit configured to control the first and second discharge units to discharge the first node or the second node based on a clock enable signal, wherein the control unit is configured to control the second discharge unit so that an output clock signal having a waveform corresponding to the clock signal is output at the second node during a specific time according to the clock enable signal. | 19,575 |
8,654,560 | 1. A memory array comprising: a variable resistance memory element including: an ovonic threshold switch coupled with the first electrode of the variable resistance memory element, a signal line connected to the second electrode of the variable resistance memory element, | 28,597 |
8,377,960 | 1. A compound of the formula (I) wherein R R R R wherein each of the aryl and Het is optionally substituted with 1 to 3 substituents each independently selected from: R R wherein each of the aryl and Het is optionally substituted with 1 to 3 substituents each independently selected from: R wherein the carbocycle or heterocycle is optionally substituted with 1 to 3 substituents each independently selected from halo, (C R R R wherein Het is a 4- to 7-membered saturated, unsaturated or aromatic heterocycle having 1 to 4 heteroatoms each independently selected from O, N and S, or a 7- to 14-membered saturated, unsaturated or aromatic heteropolycycle having wherever possible 1 to 5 heteroatoms, each independently selected from O, N and S; wherein each N heteroatom may, independently and where possible, exist in an oxidized state such that it is further bonded to an oxygen atom to form an N-oxide group and wherein each S heteroatom may, independently and where possible, exist in an oxidized state such that it is further bonded to one or two oxygen atoms to form the groups SO or SO or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 36,607 |
8,388,372 | 1. An electrical connector, comprising: an insulative housing defining a first receiving cavity with a first tongue extending thereinto and a second receiving cavity with a second tongue extending thereinto, the first receiving cavity communicating with the second receiving cavity in an up to down direction and being essentially narrower than the second receiving cavity, the first tongue being parallel to the second tongue; a plurality of first contacts arranged in a row along a transverse direction of the insulative housing and being equipped with a first center grounding contact and two pairs of first differential signal contacts at two sides of said first center grounding contact, each first contact having a contact portion disposed on a mounting surface of the first tongue, a tail portion extending out of the insulative housing and a connecting portion between the contact portion and the tail portion; and a plurality of second contacts disposed on opposite first and second surfaces of the second tongue; wherein the tail portions defines a first distance between said two pairs of first differential signal contacts and a second distance between each pair of first differential signal contacts in a transverse direction of the insulative housing, and the first distance is at least twice larger than the second distance; wherein the tail portions define a third distance between the first differential signal contacts and the first grounding contact, and the third distance is larger than the second distance. | 11,062 |
8,424,737 | 1. A surgical stapling instrument, comprising: a handle assembly having a movable handle; a tool assembly having a plurality of surgical staples; an elongate shaft defining a longitudinal axis, the elongate shaft mounted with the handle assembly for rotation of the elongate shaft about the longitudinal axis; the handle assembly further comprising a firing member extending therefrom and a pivotable locking member mounted in the handle assembly; the firing member extending through the elongate shaft and being advanced when the movable handle is moved in a first direction to fire the surgical staples from the tool assembly and; the pivotable locking member having a surface for engagement by the firing member when the movable handle is moved in the first direction and a distal end that moves into engagement with the elongate shaft when the surface is engaged by the firing member. | 45,113 |
9,043,883 | 1. A security authentication system in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes associated with an authentication group preventing unauthorized access to the data communications network, comprising: a client seeking access to the data communications network, wherein the client is associated with an client identifier and security credentials, wherein the client comprises a processor and a memory; a first node configured as a point of client access to the data communications network, the first node configured to receive an access request including the security credentials and to authenticate the client based on the security credentials; and a second node configured as a point of client access to the data communications network; wherein the client is provided access to the data communications network at the first node and at the second node responsive to a determination that the client is authenticated at the first node, wherein the client is provided access to the data communications network at the second node by automatically transmitting client information from the first node toward the second node for enabling the second node to provide the client access to the data communications network, wherein automatically transmitting the client information from the first node toward the second node comprises: | 8,318 |
8,368,088 | 1. A light-emitting device, comprising: a substrate having a first region and a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are non-overlapping; a light-emitting element disposed over the substrate and located in the second region; and a light-electricity-transforming element disposed over the substrate and located in the first region, wherein at least a portion of a side wall of the light-electricity-transforming element corresponds to at least a portion of a side wall of the light-emitting element, so that at least a side light from the light-emitting element is received and transformed into an electricity power by the light-electricity-transforming device. | 4,622 |
9,272,027 | 1. A live strain of Francisella tularensis Schu4, wherein a gene selected from the group consisting of priA and purA is inactivated. | 49,347 |
8,855,798 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a media file from a plurality of media files, the media file storing acoustic data representative of sounds; determining a mood category of the media file based on a predominant component of a mood vector calculated from the acoustic data representative of the sounds of the media file, the predominant component of the mood vector being one of multiple components of the mood vector, the determined mood category characterizing the media file as evocative of a mood described by the mood category; generating a two-dimensional user interface to the plurality of media files, the two-dimensional user interface depicting a grid that includes a zone whose position in the grid corresponds to the mood category determined based on the predominant component of the mood vector calculated from the media file, the generating of the two-dimensional user interface including coloring the zone based on a count of media files characterized by the determined mood category within a user-configured period of time, the generating of the two-dimensional user interface being performed by a processor of a machine; and presenting the two-dimensional user interface that depicts the grid with the zone whose position corresponds to the mood category. | 5,445 |
9,803,407 | 1. A door opening and closing apparatus comprising a rail module including: the rail member of the rail module fastened to an outside surface of the vehicle body, a part of the drive device is arranged inside the vehicle body through an opening provided on the vehicle body, the door opening and closing apparatus includes; the drive device includes a housing, a portion of the housing is configured to form a part of the outside surface of the vehicle body to close the opening via the sealing member, and the portion of the housing is pressed onto the vehicle body by the rail member and fastened to the vehicle body with the fastening member. | 22,549 |
8,783,868 | 1. A system for optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (CSLO) comprising: a light source arranged to generate a beam of radiation; a beam divider for separating the beam along a sample arm and a reference arm; optics for scanning the beam in the sample arm over a set of transverse locations on a sample; a mirror located between the beam divider and the scanning optics, said mirror having a transmission region aligned with the axis of the sample beam, such that a first portion of the light returning from the sample is transmitted through the transmission region and a second portion of the light returning from the sample at locations radially outside the transmission region is reflected by the mirror; a first detector for measuring the first portion of the light returning from the sample and the radiation returning from the reference arm, and generating a first set of output signals in response thereto; a first processor for converting the first set of output signals into OCT image data; a second detector for measuring the second portion of the light returning from the sample, and generating a second set of output signals in response thereto; and a second processor for converting the second set of output signals into CSLO image data. | 34,275 |
8,784,985 | 1. An optically transparent element comprising: an optically transparent substrate; and an anti-reflective coating disposed on at least one surface of the optically transparent substrate, the anti-reflective coating comprising a polymer having an average particle size of between 1 nm and 100 nm, the polymer consisting essentially of tetraethoxy silane residues and methyltriethoxy silane residues; the polymer comprising at least 50 mole percent of the tetraalkoxy silane residues based on the total moles of polymer; the anti-reflective coating having a refractive index of less than 1.28. | 24,465 |
8,935,025 | 1. A method of providing an electrical charge to a vehicle traction battery using a power inverter module, the method comprising: sensing a temperature of the traction battery; sensing a temperature of the power inverter module; determining an expected voltage oscillation amplitude of the electrical charge from the sensed temperature of the power inverter module and the sensed temperature of the traction battery; calculating a maximum allowable nominal voltage of the electrical charge by subtracting the expected voltage oscillation amplitude of the electrical charge from a maximum allowable voltage of the traction battery; and providing the electrical charge to the traction battery at the maximum allowable nominal voltage. | 3,121 |
8,501,151 | 1. An apparatus comprising a first chamber comprising a first reactant; a second chamber comprising a second reactant; and a porous membrane which divides the first and second chambers; wherein the membrane comprises one or more struts; wherein the membrane comprises a support and a catalyst and the membrane is adapted to allow passage of a first reactant from the first chamber to the second chamber through said membrane; wherein the first reactant is imparted with enough energy by the catalyst upon said passage so as to react with the second reactant, wherein the first reactant reacts with the second reactant only after passage through the membrane; and wherein the membrane is adapted to activate molecules of the first reactant without forming an ionic species before reaction with the second reactant. | 18,018 |
9,096,162 | 1. An information display system for a vehicle, comprising: an information display device mounted on a vehicle and configured to display vehicle information; a mounting member fixed to the vehicle; and a personal digital assistant detachably mounted on the vehicle via the mounting member in such a manner that at least a part of the vehicle information displayed on the information display device becomes obscured by the personal digital assistant and comprising: wherein the personal digital assistant includes an imaging device provided on an opposite surface of the display device and the personal digital assistant is mounted on the vehicle in a rotatable manner about a horizontal axis, and wherein only an upper portion of the information display device becomes obscured by the personal digital assistant. | 32,443 |
9,258,785 | 1. A method for transmitting an uplink signal by a first mobile terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving from a base station, a power control variable determined based on an interference value for a first reception beam used for reception of the uplink signal of the first mobile terminal among multiple reception beams of the base station; receiving from the base station, neighboring reception beam allocation information indicating whether to use other reception beams different from the first reception beam among the multiple reception beams for reception of the uplink signal; determining an uplink transmission power value based on the received power control variable and the received neighboring reception beam allocation information; and transmitting the uplink signal to the base station based on the determined uplink transmission power value. | 44,428 |
9,406,005 | 1. A gamma correction table generation method of measuring a density patch output by an image forming device and including a predetermined unit pattern composed of a plurality of pixels, the gamma correction table generation method comprising: obtaining density information corresponding to the density patch by reading, with a reading sensor, the density patch, wherein the unit pattern is composed of halftone pixels representing a target tone as a pixel unit and white pixels, wherein the halftone pixels is a part of a line in the unit pattern, wherein the density patch is an image in which a plurality of same unit patterns is arranged like a tile in parallel to a line included in each unit pattern, and wherein the unit pattern included in the density patch includes white pixels at least at one of positions adjacent to the halftone pixels such that a width of a line formed by the halftone pixels included in the unit pattern is maintained; correcting the density information based on a ratio of a number of halftone pixels to a number of pixels included in the unit pattern; and generating a gamma correction table based on the corrected density information. | 16,949 |
8,400,131 | 1. A voltage converter circuit, comprising: a boost converter having a switching transistor and configured to receive an input voltage, produce an output voltage, and selectively operate in one of a boost mode, a skip mode, and a linear mode, wherein: in the boost and skip modes, the boost converter switches on and off the switching transistor at a switching frequency to produce an output voltage that is larger than the input voltage, with the boost mode engaged for input voltages smaller than a first predetermined limit and with the skip mode engaged for input voltages between the first predetermined limit and a larger second predetermined limit, and in the linear mode, engaged for input voltages greater than the second predetermined limit, the boost converter turns off the switching transistor at all times to pass the input voltage unboosted. | 1,952 |
9,400,414 | 1. A non-retro-reflective imaging system comprising: foreoptics configured to receive and focus incident electromagnetic radiation to provide a source image having an image volume; a segmented relay optic configured to receive the source image and to reimage the source image onto a tilted image plane that is tilted so as to be non-perpendicular with respect to an optical axis of the imaging system, the segmented relay optic further configured to slice the image volume into a plurality of image slices and spatially position the plurality of image slices such that a depth of focus of each image slice overlaps the tilted image plane; and an image sensor co-aligned with the tilted image plane and configured to produce a reconstructed and substantially in-focus image from the plurality of image slices; wherein a tilt angle of the tilted image plane with respect to the optical axis of the imaging system exceeds an angle of acceptance of the foreoptics, thereby preventing retro-reflection of the incident electromagnetic radiation. | 29,683 |
9,588,965 | 1. A method for identifying and characterizing an analogy in a document, the method comprising: identifying a candidate document, wherein the candidate document comprises an analogy for a target concept, a region of interest, and a linguistic marker included in the region of interest; classifying the candidate document as an analogy document or a non-analogy document based upon a size of the region of interest and a count of the linguistic marker; identifying a source concept from the analogy document, wherein the source concept comprises the analogy; and characterizing the source concept with corresponding metadata, wherein the metadata comprises a familiarity of the source concept, a length of the source concept, and a readability of the source concept, and wherein the familiarity of the source concept is calculated using an extracting Distributional related words using Co-occurrences (DISCO) tool, the length of the source concept is calculated using the size of the region of interest, and the readability of the source concept is calculated using a Flesch-Kincaid readability score method. | 35,132 |
8,370,047 | 1. A method of controlling an internal combustion engine comprising: an intake tract, a controllable throttle valve for controlling the air flow rate in the intake tract, a compressor, which is disposed in the intake tract downstream of the throttle valve and by means of which the internal combustion engine may be operated selectively in a charging mode and a non-charging mode, a first pressure sensor, which is disposed in the intake tract) downstream of the throttle valve and upstream of the compressor, a second pressure sensor, which is disposed in the intake tract downstream of the compressor, the method comprising the steps of: calculating a first pressure value in the intake tract downstream of the throttle valve and upstream of the compressor and a second pressure value in the intake tract downstream of the compressor by means of an intake manifold model, acquiring a first reference pressure by means of the first pressure sensor and a second reference pressure by means of the second pressure sensor, determining whether the internal combustion engine is in the charging mode or in the non-charging mode, correcting the intake manifold model in the event of a deviation of the first pressure value from the first reference pressure and a deviation of the second pressure value from the second reference pressure as a function of the charging mode or non-charging mode. | 1,398 |
9,157,672 | 1. A control device ( 13 ) for controlling a fixed-capacity compressor ( 9 ) associated with an evaporator ( 12 ) through which an airflow ( 3 ) passes in a direction of flow ( 6 ) of the airflow ( 3 ), said compressor ( 9 ) and said evaporator ( 12 ) constituting an air-conditioning loop ( 8 ) of a motor vehicle heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning unit ( 1 ), wherein said unit ( 1 ) includes a housing ( 2 ) having an inlet flap ( 7 ) configured to allow air to be admitted into said housing ( 2 ) in an open position and to prevent air from being admitted into said housing ( 2 ) in a closed position, said device ( 13 ) comprising a temperature gage ( 15 , 16 ) disposed within said housing ( 2 ) and positioned downstream of said evaporator ( 12 ) intended to measure a measured value VM of a characteristic C of a fluid FR, A and comparison means ( 14 ) for comparing the measured value VM of the characteristic C of the fluid FR, A with at least two threshold values VSmin, VSmax of the characteristic C, characterized in that said device ( 13 ) comprises an upstream temperature gage ( 20 ) disposed within said housing ( 2 ) and positioned upstream of said evaporator ( 12 ) and downstream of said inlet flap ( 7 ) in said direction of flow ( 6 ) in order to measure an upstream temperature T 2 of the airflow ( 3 ) and deliver an information item ( 18 ) corresponding to the upstream temperature T 2 , which is taken into consideration by said device ( 13 ) in order to determine the threshold values VSmin, VSmax of the characteristic C, said device ( 13 ) including determining means ( 17 ) to cause the threshold values VSmin, VSmax to vary as a function of an information item ( 18 ) received via the determining means ( 17 ). | 36,072 |
9,378,513 | 1. An electronic shelf label controlling system, comprising: a first electronic shelf label disposed on a shelf; a controlling device storing a label location table, the label location table recording a relationship between a label identifying information and a label location information of the first electronic shelf label; a deploying device used for obtaining the label identifying information; and a communication gateway device used for communicating between the controlling device, the deploying device and the first electronic shelf label; wherein the controlling device further obtains a location code of the first electronic shelf label by performing a mathematical interpolation on a second electronic shelf label and a third electronic shelf label if the second electronic shelf label and the third electronic shelf label are disposed at two sides of the first electronic shelf label, the location code of the first electronic shelf label is between a location code of the second electronic shelf label and a location code of the third electronic shelf label, and a shelf code of the second electronic shelf label and the location code of the first electronic shelf label are combined to be the label location information. | 13,408 |
9,128,811 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an integrated circuit having: an intellectual property (IP) logic configured to perform operations responsive to instructions; a random number generator configured to generate a random number responsive to a first command from a host controller coupled to the apparatus via an interconnect, wherein the apparatus is coupled to the interconnect via open drain signaling in an enumeration phase; and an identification logic configured to generate a device identifier for the apparatus, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide a reply to the host controller including the random number and a complement of the random number responsive to an identification request from the host controller corresponding to the device identifier, the apparatus further configured to store the device identifier in an identification storage of the apparatus responsive to an identification lock request from the host controller corresponding to the device identifier and regenerate the random number to obtain a device identifier not present in a scoreboard of the apparatus responsive to receipt of a change request from the host controller. | 5,025 |
9,166,426 | 1. An external power supply apparatus of an electric vehicle, the external power supply apparatus comprising: a battery for driving the electric vehicle; an inverter which is configured to convert DC power of the battery to AC power, and which is configured to output the AC power; a first outlet socket which is disposed in the electric vehicle, and through which an output of the inverter is supplied; a relay which is connected downstream from the first outlet socket as viewed from the inverter, and which is configured to turn ON/OFF the output of the inverter; a charging port which is connected downstream from the relay as viewed from the inverter, and which is exposed to the outside of the electric vehicle; an adapter which includes a second outlet socket, and which is to be connected to the charging port; and a controlling unit which is configured to control the relay, wherein when it is detected that the adapter is connected to the charging port, the controlling unit is configured to set the relay to an ON state to allow the output of the inverter to be supplied through the charging port to an electric apparatus outside the electric vehicle. | 45,390 |
8,645,606 | 1. A system for implementing non-standard I/O adapters in a standardized input/output (I/O) architecture, the system comprising: an I/O adapter configured to communicatively couple to an I/O hub via an I/O bus, the I/O adapter configured to communicate in a first protocol, the I/O bus configured to communicate in a second protocol different than the first protocol, and the system is configured to perform: the I/O hub, wherein the system is further configured to perform: | 24,068 |
9,468,917 | 1. In a process for separating gases using a membrane containing a molecular sieve, the improvement comprising using as the molecular sieve a molecular sieve having a mole ratio of at least 10 of (1) at least one oxide of at least one tetravalent element to (2) one or more oxides selected from the group consisting of trivalent elements, pentavalent elements, and mixtures thereof, and having, in its calcined form, an X-ray diffraction substantially as shown in the following Table: | 49,280 |
9,326,101 | 1. A method, comprising: performing, in an Internet protocol low noise block downconverter (IP LNB) assembly that is within a satellite reception assembly; determining location information and/or time information of the IP LNB assembly; providing services based on the determined location information and/or the determined time information; and communicating the determined location information and/or the determined time information to a wireless communication device which is communicatively coupled to the IP LNB assembly; wherein: | 24,011 |
9,068,353 | 1. A wall cladding attachment system for attachment of panels to a building substructure, wherein the system comprises: a plurality of panel mounting brackets for attachment to a building substructure at predetermined intervals in a grid pattern on said building substructure; a plurality of panel assemblies configured for attachment to said mounting brackets such that the panel assemblies are disposed in coplanar relation to other panel assemblies of said plurality of panel assemblies, wherein each of the plurality of panel assemblies includes a panel and a panel frame subassembly including a plurality of side members attached to each of said panels, wherein each of said side members includes a plurality of curved spring clips attached thereto being deformable from a compressed condition to a relaxed condition, wherein each of the plurality of said panel frame subassemblies is configured for engagement with each of said plurality of panel mounting brackets; and a plurality of reveal strips for insertion into a reveal cavity formed between adjoining panel assemblies of said plurality of panel assemblies, wherein said reveal strips compress said plurality of spring clips against a spring bias upon insertion of said reveal strips into said reveal cavity thereby locking said reveal strips in position to cover said mounting brackets in an installed condition of said reveal strips and enabling non progressive removal of said reveal strips during replacement of said panel assemblies. | 14,529 |
9,271,347 | 1. A TRIAC dimmable LED driver circuit comprises an input AC voltage source connected to a rectifier bridge and an LED load, the LED load is connected to an inductor or a transformer, a power MOS transistor, a low voltage MOS transistor and a current sensing resistor, the inductor or transformer includes at least two windings, the first winding is connected to the power MOS transistor, the auxiliary winding is connected to the positive terminal of a supplying diode, the negative terminal of the supplying diode is connected to a supplying capacitor, the LED driver further includes two resistors and an over voltage protection circuit, the resistors are in series and are connected to the auxiliary winding of the inductor or transformer, and the middle point of the resistors are connected to the over voltage protection circuit, the LED driver is characterized in that, a peak current comparator, which is used to compare the voltage between the current sensing resistor and a reference voltage; a maximum on-time timer, which is used to detect the on time of the low voltage MOS transistor, when the voltage on the current sensing resistor is higher than the reference voltage, or the on time of the low voltage MOS transistor reaches the preset time of the maximum on-time timer, the low voltage MOS transistor is turned off. | 11,400 |
9,203,088 | 1. A composite metal oxide represented by the following formula (I): wherein the value of x is ⅔ or more and less than 1, and the value of y is ⅓ or more and less than ⅔, wherein the composite metal oxide has an x-ray diffraction peak near 48 degree, and wherein the composite metal oxide is constituted of an oxide having a P2 structure and a lamellar oxide, said lamellar oxide containing some extent of stacking faults, having and having an octahedral structure and/or a triangular-prism structure. | 33,263 |
8,718,679 | 1. A method for broadcasting location information of a base station, the method comprising: broadcasting a primary location-based service advertisement message including the location information of the base station and timing information for at least one secondary location-based service advertisement message; and broadcasting a first secondary location-based service advertisement message including location information of at least one base station belonging to a second network other than a first network to which the base station belongs with different timing from the primary location-based service advertisement message, according to the timing information included in the primary location-based service advertisement message, wherein the timing information included in the primary location-based service advertisement message includes broadcasting time interval information between the primary location-based service advertisement message and the first secondary location-based service advertisement message. | 16,107 |
9,366,169 | 1. A dosing module ( 1 ) for introducing a reducing agent into an exhaust section of an internal combustion engine for exhaust aftertreatment, wherein the dosing module ( 1 ) has a longitudinal axis ( 28 ), a length, a center of gravity ( 42 ), and defines a plane which is arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis ( 28 ) and on which the center of gravity ( 42 ) is arranged, and comprises a dosing module flange ( 20 ), which is secured on a connecting flange ( 11 ) of an exhaust pipe, wherein a sealing element ( 22 ) is arranged between the dosing module flange ( 20 ) and the connecting flange ( 11 ), characterized in that the sealing element ( 22 ), which separates an interior ( 26 ) of the exhaust pipe from an exterior ( 27 ) of the exhaust pipe, is mounted in a region defined within a distance less than or equal to twenty percent of the length from the plane in a direction parallel the longitudinal axis ( 29 ). | 21,874 |
9,209,153 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first semiconductor chip that is a rectangle having a first side, a second side facing the first side, a third side, and a fourth side; a second semiconductor chip that is a rectangle having a fifth side, a sixth side facing the fifth side, a seventh side, and an eighth side; a chip mounting part, over the same surface of which the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted; and a plurality of bonding wires that couple the first semiconductor chip to the second semiconductor chip, wherein the first side of the first semiconductor chip faces the fifth side of the second semiconductor chip, wherein the first semiconductor chip has a plurality of first electrode pads arranged along the first side, wherein the second semiconductor chip has a plurality of second electrode pads arranged along the fifth side, wherein, of the bonding wires, a first bonding wire, a second bonding wire, a third bonding wire, and a fourth bonding wire are lined up in this order along the first side, wherein, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the chip mounting part, a maximum of a space between the first bonding wire and the second bonding wire is larger than that of a space between the second bonding wire and the third bonding wire, and wherein, when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the chip mounting part, the maximum of the space between the second bonding wire and the third bonding wire is larger than that of a space between the third bonding wire and the fourth bonding wire. | 13,544 |
9,595,370 | 1. A composite flat cable for a solar plant for generating electrical energy and thermal energy having in cross-section a major side, the cable comprising: an outer sheath; first and second main electrical conductors; and first and second ducts configured to circulate fluid; wherein the first and second ducts are between the first and second main electrical conductors in an inner position with respect to a corresponding end of the major side of the cable, wherein the first duct is alongside the first main electrical conductor, wherein the second duct is alongside the second main electrical conductor, wherein both of the first and second ducts comprise a corrugated tube, and wherein both of the first and second ducts further comprise a silicone layer in a radially outer position with respect to the corrugated tube. | 2,264 |
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