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8,917,594 | 1. A method of data processing, comprising: receiving a Layer in response to receipt from a source station of a Layer in response to a queue overrun condition on the ingress queue of the network switch while the reservation is active, the network switch preserving data frames in the data flow of the source station transmitted pursuant to the reservation and discarding other data frames. | 24,981 |
9,431,665 | 1. A flow field plate for fuel cell applications, the flow field plate comprising: an electrically conductive plate having a first surface defining a plurality of channels, each channel having an active area section and a peripheral section, the active area section being configured to be placed at an interior section of a fuel cell at which electrochemical reactions are occurring characterized by presence of catalyst layers and the peripheral section being configured to be placed peripheral to active area section in a fuel cell characterized by absence of catalyst layers; a hydrophilic layer disposed only over a portion of the active area section; and a hydrophobic layer disposed only over a portion of the peripheral section. | 28,960 |
9,148,068 | 1. A power supply system comprising: an input from three-phase alternating current (AC) power grid lines; an output for supplying electrical power to rack-mounted computing equipment; a main power circuit including a power factor correction (PFC) module and a PFC bulk capacitor coupled to the output, wherein the main power circuit is configured to draw power from one or more of the three-phase power grid lines; and a bypass power circuit including a rectifier and a shelf bulk capacitor coupled in parallel to the PFC bulk capacitor, wherein the bypass power circuit is configured to draw power from each of the power grid lines, and rectify the three-phase AC current from the power grid lines to produce a rectified output across the shelf bulk capacitor, wherein the main power circuit is configured to provide electrical power to the output during normal operation, and the bypass power circuit is configured to provide electrical power to the output during bypass operation upon failure of the PFC module. | 32,065 |
9,748,772 | 1. A method of controlling a solar power plant comprising photovoltaic modules (PV modules) and a power conversion system arranged to convert the power collected by the PV modules for transmission by means of an electric power transmission system, the conversion system comprises a plurality of DC/DC converters, a power collecting grid and a DC/AC inverter, and wherein the PV modules are arranged in arrays of PV modules, each PV array having an interface connected to, and controlled by, a respective one of the DC/DC converters, the power collecting grid being arranged to provide an interface between the plurality of DC/DC converters and an input of the DC/AC inverter the method comprising monitoring the performance of each PV array, and a first mode of operation comprising: a first step of regulating, wherein the voltage level of each interface between a PV array and the corresponding DC/DC converter is adjusted, which regulating is based on a performance model of the PV array and an efficiency model of each DC/DC converter, which efficiency model describes the relationship between the voltage and the power of the respective DC/DC converter, and which regulating includes monitoring the output power of each DC/DC converter during the first step of regulating and using the monitored output power of each DC/DC converter as a feedback for adjusting the voltage level of each interface between PV array and corresponding DC/DC converter, a second step of regulating, wherein the voltage level of the power collecting grid, is adjusted, which regulating is based on an efficiency model of the DC/AC inverter, which efficiency model describes the relationship between the voltage and the power of the respective DC/AC converter and which regulating includes monitoring the output power of the DC/AC inverter, during the second step of regulating and using the monitored output power of the DC/AC inverter as a feedback for adjusting the voltage level of the power collecting grid. | 15,780 |
9,351,497 | 1. A meat tenderizer comprising: a handle; a plurality of spaced apart curved blades; a plurality of cross bars; a right side plate; and a left side plate, the convex edges of the curved blades not being sharpened, the blades being attached at each end thereof near one end of the side plates, the handle being attached at each end thereof near the other end of the side plates, the cross bars being attached to and across the concave edges of the blades. | 24,774 |
8,626,184 | 1. A method for execution in a communication device, the method comprising: displaying a graphic representation of a location of a mobile device on a screen of the communication device at a given resolution; receiving location information of the mobile device on an ongoing basis; determining whether location information of the mobile device is needed; determining a specified distance corresponding to a pixel of the screen at the given resolution and if location information of the mobile device is not needed, transmitting a message to the mobile device indicating that location information of the mobile device is not needed; if location information of the mobile device is needed, transmitting a message to the mobile device indicating the specified distance and that an update of location information of the mobile device is needed only if the mobile device travels the specified distance. | 36,865 |
8,887,953 | 1. A method of dispensing sprayable material in a desired spray pattern, comprising the steps of: providing an aerosol container defining an aerosol chamber adapted to contain sprayable material; mounting a valve assembly on the aerosol container to form an aerosol assembly, where providing an actuator member; supporting at least one flexible outlet member on the actuator member such that at least one pair of edges defined by the at least one flexible outlet member overlap; supporting a movable member on the actuator member to define an actuator assembly; arranging the sprayable material and propellant material within the aerosol assembly; supporting the actuator assembly on the valve assembly to define a dispensing path extending from an interior of the aerosol chamber to an exterior of the aerosol chamber through the valve assembly, the actuator member, and the flexible outlet member; displacing the movable member such that the movable member acts on the at least one flexible outlet member to deform the at least one flexible outlet member to alter an effective cross-sectional area of at least a portion of a dispensing path to control fluid flow along the dispensing path and thereby cause the sprayable material to be dispensed in the desired spray pattern, and displacing the actuator member to place the valve assembly in the open configuration to allow the propellant to force the sprayable material out of the container assembly along the dispensing path. | 43,894 |
9,376,950 | 1. A reducing agent tank comprising: a container main body which stores a reducing agent; a pipe which includes a suction port positioned in said container main body and guides said reducing agent from said suction port to outside of said container main body; and a strainer which is provided at said suction port of said pipe, said strainer includes: a surrounding portion having a first filter portion which surrounds an internal space of said strainer to partition said internal space and an external space of said strainer and allows said reducing agent to pass through between said internal space and said external space; and a facing portion which extends into said internal space of said strainer to face with said first filter portion through a gap space communicating with said suction port in said internal space and partition said gap space and said external space, wherein said surrounding portion has a peripheral portion which surrounds a periphery of said internal space, and a bottom portion which closes a first end of said peripheral portion, and an opening portion is formed at a second end of said peripheral portion, and said facing portion has a cover portion which is attached to said second end, and a projecting portion which extends from said cover portion into said internal space, and said gap space is positioned between a Whole circumference of said projecting portion from a portion at which said projecting portion is connected to said cover portion to a leading end portion of said projecting portion and said peripheral portion, and between said leading end portion and said bottom portion, and a dimension of said gap space between said leading end portion and said bottom portion is smaller than a thickness of said bottom portion. | 13,981 |
8,716,510 | 1. A method for emitting or absorbing light in the spectral range from 400 nm to 500 nm (blue light) in an organic-electronic device, comprising the step of providing a platinum-dicyano-bisisocyanide complex of formula I: wherein (a) R1, R3=each independently H or a branched or unbranched aliphatic or heteroaliphatic group C (b) R1=CH wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11 or A12=H or wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11 or A12=an aliphatic group of the formula C | 41,441 |
9,060,572 | 1. A button fixing member made of a synthetic resin, which is used to fix a button having a fixing opening to a cloth, the button fixing member comprising: a plate-like base and a post protruding from the base to a front surface side of the base, the post capable of being deformed after it passes through the cloth and then the fixing opening of the button when the button is fixed to the cloth, wherein the post includes a cavity extending from an opening on a rear surface of the base to a closed end on a tip-side of the post concentrically with the post, and a solid portion between the closed end of the cavity and a tip of the post, wherein a diameter of the cavity is gradually reduced from the opening to the closed end, wherein the post includes a post proximal part rising from the base, an outer diameter of the post proximal part being constant, and a post distal part, an outer diameter of which is gradually reduced from an upper end of the post proximal part to the tip, the post proximal part including the cavity. | 18,641 |
9,290,824 | 1. A method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by hot-rolling a steel slab of a chemical composition comprising C: 0.001 to 0.10 mass %, Si: 1.0 to 5.0 mass %, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0 mass %, at least one of S and Se: 0.01 to 0.05 mass % in total, sol. Al: 0.003 to 0.050 mass %, N: 0.001 to 0.020 mass % and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, subjecting to single cold rolling or two or more cold rollings including an intermediate annealing therebetween to a final thickness and further to a primary recrystallization annealing, application of an annealing separator composed mainly of MgO and a finish annealing, wherein the primary recrystallization annealing a temperature rising rate S1 between 500 to 600° C. is made to not less than 100° C./s and a temperature rising rate S2 between 600 to 700° C. is made to 30° C./s to 0.6×S1° C./s, while a total content W (mol %) of an element having an ionic radius of 0.6 to 1.3 Å and an attracting force between ion and oxygen of not more than 0.7 Å −2 included in the annealing separator to MgO is adjusted to satisfy the following equation (1) in relation to the S2: | 29,022 |
8,425,507 | 1. A method of denervating a basivertebral nerve, comprising: identifying a treatment zone within an inner cancellous bone region of a vertebral body, the treatment zone corresponding to a likely location of the basivertebral nerve within the inner cancellous bone region; inserting a cannula having a curved bore within the inner cancellous bone region of the vertebral body, advancing the cannula and a sharpened stylet inserted within a lumen of the cannula toward the midline of the vertebral body, thereby forming a curved path to the treatment zone; removing the sharpened stylet from the cannula; inserting a channeling stylet within the lumen of the cannula and advancing the channeling stylet beyond an open distal end of the cannula, wherein the channeling stylet is flexibly deformable to navigate the cannula yet rigid enough to retain a straight form upon exiting the open distal end of the cannula; creating a linear path beyond the curved path toward the treatment zone by advancing a distal end of the channeling stylet beyond the curved path; removing the channeling stylet; inserting a radiofrequency (RF) probe through the cannula to the treatment zone, and delivering RF energy to the treatment zone within the inner cancellous bone region of the vertebral body sufficient to denervate at least a portion of the basivertebral nerve within the treatment zone, wherein the treatment zone is located in a region that is between 10% and 40% of the distance from the posterior wall to the anterior wall of the vertebral body. | 46,215 |
9,083,270 | 1. An electric bicycle driving apparatus comprising: a speed change mode operator to output a low-speed mode signal or a high-speed mode signal; a controller to receive the low-speed mode signal or high-speed mode signal output from the speed change mode operator and output a first control signal corresponding to the low-speed mode signal or a second control signal corresponding to the high-speed mode signal; a generation-signal provider to provide a generation signal output from a generator; a motor-driver operating-signal regulator to receive the first control signal or second control signal when the speed change mode operator outputs the low-speed mode signal or high-speed mode signal, to regulate a level of the generation signal output from the generation-signal provider and to provide the resulting signal to a motor driver that drives a motor, wherein the motor-driver operating-signal regulator provides a lowered level of generation signal to the motor driver that is operated upon receiving power of a battery, and cuts off an abnormal signal transmitted from the motor driver; a motor-driver operating-signal sensor electrically connected to the motor-driver operating-signal regulator and motor driver, the sensor serving to sense a current operating signal for the motor driver output from the motor-driver operating-signal regulator, wherein the controller contains a preset reference range of the operating signal for the motor driver; and a motor-driver operating-signal decider to decide whether or not the current operating signal for the motor driver sensed by the motor-driver operating-signal sensor is within the reference range of the operating signal for the motor driver under control of the controller, wherein the controller temporarily stops operation of the motor driver if the motor-driver operating-signal decider decides that the current operating signal for the motor driver is not within the reference range of the operating signal for the motor driver. | 6,946 |
8,950,184 | 1. A device for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a heat exchanger of a circuit of a working medium situated in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine, the circuit including an expansion machine; a pump connected upstream from the heat exchanger; and a coupling heat exchanger situated in the circuit of the working medium, the working medium of the circuit and a cooling medium of the internal combustion engine flowing through the coupling heat exchanger; wherein at least one flow out of the coupling heat exchanger is selectively fed into a connecting line which is connected to the internal combustion engine in a warm-up phase of the internal combustion engine preceding reaching of a normal operating temperature of the internal combustion engine, and wherein the at least one flow out of the coupling heat exchanger is selectively fed into a radiator inlet of a radiator when the internal combustion engine is operating at the normal operating temperature. | 25,849 |
8,516,794 | 1. A method of aspirating a fuel combustion engine with non-atmospheric gases to produce a subsequently useful byproduct, the steps of the method comprising: sequestering CO combining the sequestered CO aspirating a fuel combustion engine exclusively with the precombustion gas stream, wherein the fuel combustion engine internally combusts the precombustion gas stream with a hydrocarbon fuel; collecting exhaust gas from the fuel combustion engine, wherein the collected exhaust gas comprises CO removing O | 6,454 |
9,627,567 | 1. A method for manufacturing a solar cell module, the method comprising: a first step of sequentially layering and thermocompression-bonding at least one solar cell, at least one encapsulant, and at least one protective component to prepare a stack; and a second step of heating the solar cell of the stack, an increase in temperature of the solar cell indirectly heating the encapsulant. | 40,456 |
9,437,903 | 1. A cooling system for a battery module, comprising: a cold plate being generally rectangular in shape and formed from a conductive material; a cooling route created within the cold plate; and two headers disposed at least partially external to the cold plate, at least partially internal to the cold plate, and parallel with one another; and cross flow branches of the cooling route, wherein the cross flow branches are in fluid communication with the two headers, wherein the cross flow branches extend between and perpendicular to the two headers, wherein each cross flow branch comprises an elliptical cross-sectional shape having a major diameter and a minor diameter smaller than the major diameter, and wherein each cross flow branch comprise an approximately 90° twist proximate to each header such that the major diameter of the elliptical cross-sectional shape of each cross flow branch is substantially parallel with longitudinal axes of the two headers between the approximately 90° twists and substantially perpendicular with the longitudinal axes of the two headers outside of the approximately 90° twists. | 14,352 |
9,307,511 | 1. A base station in a mobile phone network, the base station comprising: a processor configured: a memory configured to store information on the registered mobile station. | 20,708 |
9,430,448 | 1. A method comprising: selecting a media search source via a user interface; providing a form-based interface that allows an entry of inputs to form a media search query, wherein the form-based interface comprises at least an authentication interface, and wherein the media search query uses at least a third-party hosting service for user photos; submitting the media search query to the media search source comprising account-based modules for the third party hosting service, wherein the authentication interface authenticates a user for an account with the third-party hosting service; receiving a media search result for viewing on the user interface based on the media search query, the media search result comprising media items from at least the account of the third-party hosting service; displaying the media search result in a collection depository on the user interface; clustering the media items dynamically through a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed into one or more stacks having a variable number of the media items, wherein the variable number is selectable by the user through the user interface; processing the clustered media items based on a data size of each of the media items to generate edited clustered media items; generating a storyboard comprising the edited clustered media; receiving a user-selected presentation comprising a plurality of different styles, wherein the plurality of different styles comprises at least two of a picture frame, a television, a billboard, a tree, a postcard, a kaleidoscope, a landscape, and a street scene, for a visual presentation; automatically populating the user-selected presentation with the storyboard of the edited clustered media items, wherein the edited clustered media items automatically populate within a viewing window of a corresponding one of the plurality of different styles; and storing the media search query as a custom category created by the user, wherein the custom category comprises a user created feed having a title, a category, and an XML-based persistence of the inputs to form the media search query, wherein selection of a tab for the custom category resubmits the media search query using the user created feed. | 32,017 |
9,026,464 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a communications module that establishes a telephonic connection between an automated attendant of a merchant and a customer; an identification module that receives an identifier, the identifier alerting the merchant that the customer has a customer billing profile, the identifier received in conjunction with the telephonic connection, the identifier comprising an electronic signal; a billing profile access module that receives electronic access to the customer billing profile in response to one or more of the identification module receiving the identifier and an action by the customer during the telephonic connection providing the electronic access, the customer billing profile comprising one or more of billing information, contact information and shipping information of the customer, the customer billing profile stored electronically in a computer system external to a computer system available to the merchant and to the automated attendant; and a transaction module that processes a sales order using the customer billing profile of the customer in response to a customer approval of the sales order, the customer billing profile received from the billing profile access module, the sales order for one or more of a product and a service offered by the merchant, the sales order one or more of received and identified via the automated attendant, wherein at least a portion of the communications module, the identification module, the billing profile access module, and the transaction module comprise one or more of hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media executable on a processor. | 47,393 |
8,678,753 | 1. An apparatus for controlling a fluid flow comprising: first and second spaced walls defining opposite sides of a first fluid passageway extending along a first axis, wherein at least one of said first and second walls is cantilevered along said first axis and includes a distal end moveable relative to said first axis in response to changes in the flow temperature to passively vary a size of said first fluid passageway; and at least one slot defined in said distal end, said at least one slot extending along a slot axis being transverse to and spaced from said first axis. | 40,754 |
8,857,428 | 1. An apparatus that can make sleeping easier for a wearer by blocking out light and dilating one or more nasal passages of the wearer, wherein said apparatus comprises: a) a sleep mask comprising: b) an integral nasal dilation device comprising: | 24,479 |
8,828,608 | 1. A secondary lithium battery having an anode comprising graphene nanosheets doped with a doping element “M” to form a M-graphene nanosheet (M-GNS), wherein said doping element M is selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, boron, sulfur, phosphorus and combinations thereof, and said anode comprises 0.001 molar % to 30 molar %, of said doping element on said graphene basis. | 36,783 |
9,573,169 | 1. A vehicle for cleaning parabolic trough solar collectors, the vehicle comprising: a motorized vehicle comprising a front part, a rear part, a chassis, and a water tank included in the chassis; a front cleaning arm located at the front part, and a rear cleaning arm located at the rear part, each comprising a telescopic part having several sections; a pivot head pivotally coupled to a free end of the telescopic part of the corresponding front arm or rear arm, said pivot head supporting at least one cleaning brush which is rotatable around its axis and comprises water spraying nozzles; proximity sensors for controlling the proximity of the at least one cleaning brush to the solar collector; a high-pressure pump for feeding the spraying nozzles with water from the tank; a transverse guide rail disposed on each of the front part and the rear part of the vehicle; a linear movement mechanism disposed on each of the transverse guide rails, for providing linear movement to the cleaning arms along the transverse guide rails; a shaft, connected to at least one of the at least one cleaning brush of at least one of the cleaning arms, for moving said at least one cleaning brush in relation to the corresponding pivot head; a retraction actuator for actuating said shaft, said retraction actuator being suitable for causing the movement of the shaft in order to overcome an obstacle susceptible of interfering with at least one of the at least one cleaning brush, when receiving a signal from the proximity sensors detecting the presence of said obstacle; a first valve for selectively supplying water from the high-pressure water pump towards the front cleaning arm or towards the tank; and a first manometer for controlling the pressure between the first valve and the front cleaning arm. | 46,311 |
8,644,108 | 1. A system comprising: a memory controller; and at least one memory device communicatively coupled to the memory controller, the memory device including: the memory device being configured for: i) high speed operation to follow from the mode selection signal being at the first logic level; and ii) low speed operation to follow from the mode selection signal being at a second logic level. | 2,206 |
9,359,236 | 1. A method of facilitating increased operating efficiency of a wastewater treatment system, the method comprising: configuring a dissolved air flotation (DAF) unit in a wastewater treatment system in fluid communication between a contact tank and a biological treatment unit to remove solids from a portion of a first mixed liquor output from the contact tank prior to the portion of the first mixed liquor entering the biological treatment unit and to recycle at least a portion of the solids to the contact tank, the recycle of the at least a portion of the solids to the contact tank reducing an amount of biological oxygen demand to be treated in the biological treatment unit as compared to the wastewater treatment system operating in the absence of recycling the at least a portion of the solids to the contact tank, and to recycle the at least a portion of the solids from the DAF unit to the contact tank in an amount sufficient to reduce the energy consumption of the wastewater treatment system. | 32,212 |
8,522,899 | 1. A rotary cone drill bit, comprising: a body; a leg depending from the body; a bearing shaft extending from the leg; a cone mounted to the bearing shaft; wherein the leg terminates at a shirttail edge adjacent a base of the cone; a preformed hard material plate having an edge and a bottom surface; and an adhesive material attaching the bottom surface of the hard material plate to a substantially conforming surface of the leg, wherein the edge of the hard material plate defines at least a portion of the shirttail edge. | 31,943 |
8,916,819 | 1. A method of increasing ion throughput within an accumulator, an energy lift and a pulsed ion source, operated in that order upon a batch of ions, comprising the steps of: (1) loading a batch of ions into the accumulator; (2) changing the electrical potential of the energy lift to raise the potential energy of the batch of ions contained therein; (3) ejecting the batch of ions from the pulsed ion source; | 34,638 |
9,329,075 | 1. A seat occupancy determination device configured to be provided at one of seating portions of a plurality of vehicle seats of a vehicle, the plurality of vehicle seats mounted to the vehicle to be placed next to each other in a right-left direction, the plurality of vehicle seats in which a passenger is seated to face a front or a rear of the vehicle, comprising: a pair of seat occupancy amount detection devices configured to be provided at a front portion and a rear portion of one of a right side and a left side of the vehicle seat, the pair of seat occupancy amount detection devices detecting a seat occupancy amount increasing and decreasing in response to a change of a load applied to each portion of the seating portion; a seat occupancy threshold value setting device setting a seat occupancy threshold value which corresponds to a threshold value of the seat occupancy amount; a seat occupancy state determination device determining a seat occupancy state of the vehicle seat by comparing a seat occupancy calculation amount calculated based on a detected signal transmitted from the pair of seat occupancy amount detection devices with the seat occupancy threshold value; and an unbalanced load detection device detecting a degree of unbalance of the load applied to a right portion and a left portion of the seating portion in response to an inclination angle of the vehicle in the right-left direction; wherein the seat occupancy threshold value setting device corrects the seat occupancy threshold value in response to the degree of unbalance of the load applied to the right portion and the left portion of the seating portion based on a detected signal transmitted from the unbalanced load detection device. | 24,894 |
8,883,356 | 1. An electrolyte comprising: a lithium salt; a solvent; and an additive, wherein the additive comprises substances A, B and C, wherein substance B has the chemical structure of at least one of wherein substance C includes at least 1,3 2-dioxathiane, 2-oxide, and wherein the amount of substance A can be from about 0.1% to about 10% of the electrolyte by weight, wherein the amount of substance B can be from about 0.5% to about 25% of the electrolyte by weight, and wherein the amount of substance C can be from about 1% to about 15% of the electrolyte by weight. | 23,765 |
9,530,503 | 1. A memory device including a plurality of strings of memory cells, comprising: a plurality of stacks of conductive strips, including first upper strips configured as first string select lines for the strings in the plurality of strings, second upper strips configured as second string select lines for the strings in the plurality of strings, and intermediate strips configured as word lines for the strings in the plurality of strings, the strings of memory cells being disposed vertically between stacks of conductive strips in the plurality of stacks; and control circuitry coupled to the first string select lines and the second string select lines, and configured to select a particular string in the plurality of strings by applying a first turn-on voltage to a first string select line in the first string select lines coupled to the particular string, and a second turn-on voltage to a second string select line in the second string select lines coupled to the particular string. | 3,708 |
8,981,636 | 1. A lamp comprising: an envelope that includes a globe and a case; a mount made of an electrically conductive material and having a cylinder portion and a cover portion that closes one end of the cylinder portion, the mount closing an opening at one end of the case; an extension member mounted on the cover portion of the mount and extending into the globe; a light-emitting element attached to the extension member and disposed inside the globe; a circuit unit disposed inside the case and configured to light the light-emitting element; and an insulation member disposed inside the case and insulating the circuit unit from the mount, wherein the insulation member has a cylindrical portion that is inserted into the cylinder portion of the mount and has a protrusion portion that is formed on an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion and that protrudes toward the mount, the insulation member being attached to the mount by the protrusion portion pressing on an inner surface of the cylinder portion of the mount. | 29,471 |
9,203,007 | 1. A light emitting diode assembly, comprising: a red light emitting diode chip; a short wavelength light emitting diode chip emitting light having a shorter wavelength than light emitted from the red light emitting diode chip; a base substrate; a first heat dissipator dissipating heat generated from the short wavelength light emitting diode chip and the first heat dissipator comprising: a second heat dissipator dissipating heat generated from the red light emitting diode chip and the second heat dissipator comprising: wherein the second heat dissipator having higher heat dissipation capability than the first heat dissipator and the second via has a larger volume than the first via. | 45,660 |
9,800,018 | 1. A chip scale ultra violet laser source comprising: a substrate; a plurality of chip scale ultra violet laser elements on the substrate, wherein each chip scale ultra violet laser element comprises: a master laser diode on the substrate coupled to the phase modulator of each laser element and coupled to the photodetector of each laser element; wherein each laser element emits an ultra violet beamlet from the exit facet; and wherein each laser element is frequency and phase locked to the master laser diode. | 21,390 |
9,576,954 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a first gate and a second gate disposed over a substrate; a first gate spacer arranged along a sidewall of the first gate and a second gate spacer arranged along a sidewall of the second gate; a source/drain disposed over the substrate and between the first gate and the second gate; a liner arranged between the first gate and the second gate, the liner being in contact with the first gate spacer, the second gate spacer, and the source/drain; a recessed oxide disposed within a region between the first gate and the second gate and in contact with a portion of the liner over the source/drain; and a spacer material disposed over the recessed oxide and between the first gate and the second gate. | 28,115 |
8,701,421 | 1. A method of generating electricity while producing minimal impurities, the method comprising: obtaining hydrogen produced at least in part from either an uncertain power source or a pollution producing power source, the power source at a first location; directing oxygen and the hydrogen into a combustion chamber at a second location, the combustion chamber substantially free of nitrogen and at a pressure less than an ambient pressure outside and proximate to the combustion chamber; igniting a reaction between the oxygen and the hydrogen within the combustion chamber, thereby generating heat and steam; and utilizing at least one of the heat and the steam to generate electricity at the second location. | 41,321 |
9,245,929 | 1. A light-emitting component arrangement, comprising: at least one flexible printed circuit board having at least one edge region wherein the at least one edge region is provided with an edge depression; at least one light-emitting component coupled to the flexible printed circuit board; at least one electromechanical connecting part; wherein the at least one electromechanical connecting part is mechanically fixed to the flexible printed circuit board and is electrically coupled to the light-emitting component, and wherein the at least one electromechanical connecting part includes a connecting part body having a top side and an underside, wherein the underside of the at least one electromechanical connecting part is provided with at least one electrically conductive contact region by means of which the electromechanical connecting part is electrically coupled to the flexible printed circuit board, wherein the at least one electromechanical connecting part is provided in the edge depression of the at least one edge region such that the underside bears on an exposed surface of the edge region, wherein the at least one electromechanical connecting part has an electromechanical connection on the top side for mechanically and electrically connecting a connecting element which is external to the printed circuit board wherein the at least one electrically conductive contact region is electrically connected to the electromechanical connection through the connecting part body. | 13,699 |
9,761,381 | 1. An electrochemical cell, comprising: a negative electrode can having a bottom portion and a side surface portion; a positive electrode can having a bottom portion and a side surface portion, with the positive electrode can being sealed with the negative electrode can and an insulating material, to form a containing portion along with the negative electrode can; a first electrode which is arranged on the negative electrode can in the containing portion; a second electrode which is arranged on the positive electrode can in the containing portion; a separator which is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and insulates both of the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electrolytic solution filling the containing portion, wherein the negative electrode can and the positive electrode can have non-magnetic properties and wherein an electrically conductive protective film having corrosion resistance with respect to the electrolytic solution is formed on the entire inner bottom surface of the bottom portion of at least one of the negative electrode can and the positive electrode can, which is in contact with the electrolytic solution. | 19,175 |
9,677,041 | 1. A culture apparatus comprising: a heat insulating box main body having a box shape and a culture space therein for culturing a sample; a humidification water reservoir disposed at a bottom of the culture space, the humidification water reservoir for storing humidification water to control humidity of the culture space; a heat transfer condensation member penetrating the heat insulating box main body and having one end disposed inside the culture space and the other end disposed outside the heat insulating box main body, the heat transfer condensation member includes a condensation portion disposed inside the culture space, the condensation portion is inclined downward toward the humidification water reservoir, the one end leads condensed water condensed on a surface of the condensation portion into the humidification water reservoir; and a first heat insulating sealing member disposed between the heat insulating box main body and a portion of the heat transfer condensation member that penetrates the heat insulating box main body, the first heat insulating member includes an extending portion that extends along a part of the condensation portion into the culture space, the extending portion is inclined downward toward the humidification water reservoir and leads condensed water adhering to a periphery of the extending portion into the humidification water reservoir. | 47,967 |
9,517,072 | 1. Apparatus for advancing a vascular implant into a blood vessel, the apparatus comprising: a first elongate member, the first elongate member having sufficient column strength to function as a pusher member; and a second elongate member, the second elongate member being thinner than the first elongate member and extending to a distal end located at a first point which is at or near a distal end of the first elongate member, the first and second elongate members forming an implant retaining portion while the distal end of the second elongate member is located at the first point, the implant retaining portion located proximal of the first point, the implant retaining portion comprising a space located between the first and second elongate members and configured for receiving an implant portion, with the first elongate member on one side of the space and the second elongate member on another side, wherein the implant retaining portion further comprises a proximal side and a distal side which further circumscribe the space, the proximal and distal sides being effective to prevent an implant received in the implant retaining portion from moving out of engagement with the implant retaining portion as the first elongate member is moved distally and proximally, wherein the implant retaining portion is removable by withdrawing the second elongate member in a proximal direction with respect to the first elongate member, thereby moving the distal end of the second elongate member proximally beyond a former location of the implant retaining portion, wherein the second elongate member is removably connected to the first elongate member at the first point. | 26,279 |
9,211,802 | 1. A system comprising: a battery pack comprising a plurality of subdivisions; a measurement system configured to determine a plurality of subdivision electrical parameters, each subdivision electrical parameter of the plurality of subdivision electrical parameters being associated with one of the plurality of subdivisions; a battery control system communicatively coupled to the measurement system, the battery control system configured to identify a subdivision satisfying a criterion based on one or more first calculated derivative ratios, the one or more first calculated derivative ratios comprising derivative ratios of a first subdivision electrical parameter associated with one subdivision of the plurality of subdivisions relative to a second subdivision electrical parameter associated with another subdivision of the plurality of subdivisions. | 26,882 |
9,305,966 | 1. A method of forming an image sensor, the method comprising: receiving a substrate having a sensor array region and a periphery region, the substrate having a front side surface and a back side surface; forming a plurality of metallization layers overlying the front side surface of the substrate; forming a bottom anti-reflective coating (BARC) layer over the back side surface of the substrate, the BARC layer having a first thickness over the sensor array region and a second thickness over the periphery region, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness; forming a metal shield over the second thickness of the BARC layer; and forming one or more dielectric layers over the metal shield and the first thickness of the BARC layer. | 14,348 |
8,636,973 | 1. A process for manufacturing a crystalline substance comprising the steps of a) delivering an unsaturated solution of the substance to be crystallized into a fluidized bed dryer, under pressure and temperature conditions of applying a vacuum and maintaining a temperature range, in order to dry the solution of a substance to be crystallized to thereby obtain a supersaturated solution, in which crystallization takes place, and b) applying vacuum and maintaining a temperature range in the fluidized bed dryer after completion of the step of delivering the unsaturated solution of the substance to be crystallized, wherein the vacuum and the temperature are regulated in a manner in order to obtain the desired crystalline product as a homogenous product, wherein the crystalline substance is an inorganic or organic salt. | 4,153 |
9,388,932 | 1. An automotive selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system sensor holder, the holder comprising: a tube having an inlet to receive incoming fluid from a first SCR line, having an outlet to lead exiting fluid to a second SCR line, and having a passage between said inlet and said outlet; a chamber having an interior accessible to said passage, said interior designed to receive an SCR system sensor, said chamber having an opening leading to said interior such that the SCR system sensor extends through the opening directly into the passage between the inlet and outlet; and a retainer having a portion moveable in said opening of said chamber, wherein, when said portion is moved in said opening toward said interior, said portion abuts the SCR system sensor and holds the SCR system sensor in the automotive SCR system sensor holder, and wherein, when said portion is moved away from said interior, the SCR system sensor is releasable out of the automotive SCR system sensor holder. | 20,932 |
8,504,476 | 1. A method of certifying a check comprising: receiving by a first computer a request from a second computer to certify a check from a payer to a payee, the check serving to withdraw funds from an account of the payer; receiving by the first computer an image file containing an image of the check from the second computer; obtaining an account number and an amount from the image file by the first computer; determining using the account number whether funds equal to the amount are in the account; and when funds equal to the amount are in the account, putting a hold on the funds equal to the amount and issuing a certification number and a password by the first computer. | 36,520 |
8,790,506 | 1. A method of purifying a hydrogen stream using an electrochemical cell comprising: providing a cylindrical shaped outer metal electrode member having a longitudinal axis for containment of said electrochemical cell; locating at least one hollow wet polymeric membrane having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of said cylindrical outer metal electrode member to provide an inner compartment and an outer compartment; locating at least one porous sintered metal electrode in a form of tubular sintered metal filter having a longitudinal axis within said hollow wet polymeric membrane; providing at least one gas inlet for feeding a hydrogen stream that is to be purified to the inner compartment; and providing a gas outlet for passing purified hydrogen gas thru the outer shell of the cylindrical shaped member; wherein said porous sintered metal electrode is adapted to be connected to an anode terminal of a dc supply with an electrical conductor to work as an anode and said cylindrical outer metal electrode member is adapted to be connected to a cathode terminal of the dc supply with another electrical conductor to work as a cathode; wherein said porous sintered metal electrode acts as an anode and a porous qas conduit which allows qas flows from said qas inlet into pores of said porous sintered metal electrode where the qas reacts to form protons which then migrate across the polymeric membrane, one said porous sintered metal electrode combined with one said polymeric membrane to form one electrochemical tube assembly. | 27,371 |
8,352,081 | 1. An HVAC data processing and communication network, comprising: a demand unit coupled to a data bus and configured to: a subnet controller configured to send a demand message to said demand unit via said data bus instructing said demand unit to provide a portion of said maximum. | 49,747 |
8,449,997 | 1. A power source, comprising: a first battery pack comprising a plurality of metal-air batteries; a second battery pack comprising a plurality of non-metal-air batteries; and a thermal energy transfer system coupled to said first and second battery packs, wherein said thermal energy transfer system is configured to operate in at least a first mode and a second mode, wherein in said first mode said thermal energy transfer system transfers thermal energy generated by said first battery pack to said second battery pack for heating said second battery pack, and wherein in said second mode said thermal energy transfer system reduces the thermal energy transferred from said first battery pack to said second battery pack, said thermal energy transfer system comprising: | 1,721 |
8,448,037 | 1. A method for a transceiver node in a wireless communication network for data packet communication, the method relating to a random access procedure by which a user equipment (UE) attempts an access to the communication network via the transceiver node, and comprising: receiving a preamble from the UE, wherein the preamble indicates one of at least two alternative scheduling scenarios for a subsequent scheduled message; receiving, in accordance with the one of the alternative scheduling scenarios; the message in a first subframe and in a second subframe within a roundtrip time (RTT), and initiating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process when the message is received in the first subframe. | 30,339 |
9,684,184 | 1. An actuator module for optical image stabilization of a lens assembly relative to an image sensor in a camera, comprising: a coil mounting structure, wherein two or more optical image stabilization (OIS) coils are mounted to the coil mounting structure; a lens assembly structure configured to hold a lens assembly, wherein one or more autofocus coils are affixed to the lens assembly structure; a spring assembly, comprising: a plurality of trapezoidal magnets affixed to the magnet holder for magnetic interaction with one or more of the two or more optical image stabilization coils and the one or more autofocus coils; and at least two pairs of Hall sensors mounted on opposite sides of the lens assembly structure, wherein respective Hall sensors of each pair are mounted on opposite sides of respective ones of the two or more optical image stabilization coils, and wherein the opposite sides of the optical image stabilization coils are opposite one another in a direction along the optical axis of the lens assembly structure. | 9,990 |
8,852,773 | 1. A battery pack, comprising: at least one battery module including a plurality of battery cells aligned in one direction; a housing that accommodates the at least one battery module and includes a coolant How path arranged therein; and a junction box arranged at a predetermined location in a vicinity of the battery module, the junction box having a sleeve arranged parallel to the coolant flow path through which a coolant flows, the junction box including an electronic component selected from a group consisting of a resistor, a fuse and a relay. | 15,407 |
8,934,267 | 1. An isolated DC-DC converter system comprising: (a) a primary side circuit; (b) a secondary side circuit; and (c) an output voltage feedback circuit; wherein said primary side circuit is configured to accept an input voltage; said primary side circuit is configured to electrically couple said input voltage to said secondary side circuit; said primary side circuit is galvanically isolated from said secondary side circuit; said secondary side circuit is configured to generate an output voltage; said output voltage is electrically coupled to a main electrical load that is external to said isolated DC-DC converter system; said main electrical load comprises a point-of-load (POL) device; said output voltage feedback circuit comprises a signal coupling device and controller; said signal coupling device is configured to sense the state of said output voltage; said signal coupling device is configured to feedback said sensed state to said controller; said feedback conforms to a quasi-linear voltage transfer characteristic that is proportional to said output voltage; said controller is electrically coupled to and modulates the operation of said primary side circuit; said output voltage feedback circuit is configured to provide loose regulation of said output voltage in response to changes in said input voltage; and said loose regulation is configured to allow greater than ±4% variation in said output voltage in response to changes in said input voltage. | 5,845 |
8,900,739 | 1. An electrode layered product for a cell, comprising: a first electrode plate that has a shape of a strip and includes an active material layer formed on a first surface and a second surface of the first electrode plate, the first surface and the second surface of the first electrode plate are on opposite sides of the first electrode plate in a thickness direction of the first electrode plate, and the active material continuously extends along a longitudinal direction of the shape of the strip; a first separator that has a shape of a strip and is stacked on the first surface of the first electrode plate; a second separator that has a shape of a strip and is stacked on the second surface of the first electrode plate; a second electrode plate that has a pectinate, tooth shape and is stacked on an opposite side of the first separator from the first electrode plate, wherein the second electrode plate includes: a third electrode plate that has a pectinate, tooth shape and is stacked on an opposite side of the second separator from the first electrode plate, wherein: the third electrode plate includes: all of the first electrode plate, the first separator, the second separator, the second electrode plate, and the third electrode plate, which are stacked together, are bent in a zigzag manner by folding them back alternately from side to side, and a pitch of the plurality of first tooth sections of the second electrode plate and a pitch of the plurality of second tooth sections of the third electrode plate are shifted from each other by their width length along the longitudinal direction of the shape of the strip of the first electrode plate. | 36,009 |
8,710,353 | 1. A solar energy system with increased photovoltaic and thermal conversion efficiencies comprising: a collection optics for receiving and concentrating incident sunlight, or radiation from a directed electromagnetic energy source; an entrance optics coupled to receive the incident sunlight, or radiation and direct the incident sunlight or radiation into one end of an optical waveguide or at least one optical fiber that includes an optical filtering unit consisting of the optical waveguide or the at least one optical fiber for absorbing and removing infrared light and ultraviolet light from incoming incident sunlight or radiation, the entrance optics interfacing the collection optics with the optical filtering unit; a solar thermal distribution unit conductively coupled with the optical fiber or optical waveguide to absorb heat and redirect the heat from the optical filtering unit into a thermal-loop before visible filtered light is routed to a photovoltaic; a frequency converter consisting of one of a side pumped waveguide or an end pumped waveguide or ring resonators to down-convert the ultraviolet light and up-convert the infrared light to a range between approximately 400 to approximately 1125 nm as a visible band that the photovoltaic is responsive to; and a photovoltaic responsive to the visible band optically coupled to an opposite end of the optical fiber for receiving the visible filtered light from the frequency converter and convening the visible filtered light into electrical energy, the photovoltaic responsive to a range of wavelengths between approximately 400 and approximately 1125 nm to exclude the removed infrared and ultraviolet light wavelengths. | 11,317 |
8,839,761 | 1. A process of extracting work out of a rotary engine comprising: drawing a fresh air charge into a first rotary unit; compressing the fresh air charge into a compressed air charge and a remaining compressed air charge in the first rotary unit; transmitting the compressed air charge from the first rotary unit to a second rotary unit; compressing the compressed air charge into a compound compressed air charge in the second rotary unit; injecting a first fuel into the compound compressed air charge in the second rotary unit; combusting the first fuel with the compound compressed air charge into an exhaust in the second rotary unit; expanding the exhaust in the second rotary unit; transmitting the exhaust from the second rotary unit into the remaining compressed air charge in the first rotary unit; injecting a second fuel into the exhaust and the remaining compressed air charge in the first rotary unit; and combusting the second fuel with the remaining compressed air charge and the exhaust within the first rotary unit to initiate an afterburning mode. | 32,191 |
9,107,166 | 1. A method for managing radio states in a mobile communication device, the method comprising: monitoring a mobility state of the mobile communication device; when the mobility state transitions to a mobility state which is at or above a predetermined threshold, enabling a first short range radio on the mobile communication device; establishing a connection with a compatible first short range radio-enabled device using the first short range radio; when the first short range radio connection is disconnected, disabling the first short range radio after a first predetermined period of time during which both the mobility state is below the predetermined threshold and the first short range radio connection is not reestablished; when the mobility state transitions to a mobility state which is at or above another predetermined threshold, enabling a second short range radio after a second predetermined period of time after the first short range radio has been disabled; and, disabling the second short range radio if no second short range radio connection is established during a third predetermined period of time. | 45,899 |
8,938,250 | 1. A mobile wireless communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of application specific instruction set processors (ASISPs) configured to support one or more processes of a mobile wireless communication protocol, and to track process state information associated with each of the processes; and a unit configured to provide, when an ASISP of the plurality of ASISPs is reallocated from a first process to a second process, the respective ASISP with tracked process state information for the second process. | 29,904 |
9,566,975 | 1. A drive control device comprising: a meshing engagement unit; an engine configured to transmit a first rotation torque to the engagement unit; a rotary machine configured to transmit a second rotation torque to the engagement unit; a detector detecting a predetermined parameter changing in accordance with an operation of an accelerator; and a controller configured to perform a release control of causing the rotary machine to output the second rotation torque in a direction opposite to the first rotation torque at a time the engagement unit is released, the release control comprising wherein a magnitude of an inclination obtained at a time the magnitude of the second rotation torque decreases from the predetermined value is smaller than a magnitude of an inclination obtained at a time the first rotation torque decreases in accordance with an explosive change in the engine in the release control. | 21,986 |
8,348,015 | 1. A method for accessing a room with a ladder connected to a ceiling, the ladder having a plurality of sections having a first and second sides respectively, wherein each said section is telescopically connected together and each said section respectively has a rung with a respective tube attached to each end of said rung so that the respective tubes of each said section are positioned on said first and second sides, the respective tubes align to form a channel on the first side and the second side so that each said side has an extension spring disposed within and along an entire length of each channel, the method provides a plurality of steps including: moving the ladder from a retracted position to a fully extended position so that as the ladder extends below the ceiling an increasingly active force is produced by the two extension springs to counterbalance a weight of the ladder; and retracting the ladder into the retracted position in the room above the ceiling; wherein the step of moving the ladder from the retracted to the fully extended position includes a step of pulling down a lowest section of the ladder sections until plunger assemblies in a section directly above the lowest section find corresponding holes in tubes of the lowest section causing the plunger assemblies to extend into the corresponding holes. | 40,853 |
9,317,716 | 1. An information providing apparatus connected to a plurality of first user terminals and a plurality of second user terminals, wherein the information providing apparatus is configured to apply anonymization processing, wherein the anonymization processing is k-anonymization processing, which is processing for converting data including personal information so that an individual is not identified, wherein the data including the personal information is collected from the plurality of first user terminals, and the information providing apparatus is configured to distribute anonymized data generated as a result of application of the anonymization processing to a respective one of the second user terminals in response to a request from the respective second user terminal, the information providing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store: a processing unit configured to: | 44,725 |
9,831,742 | 1. An electromechanical flywheel method comprising the steps of: placing a rotatable group within an upstanding vacuum vessel, the rotatable group including an elongated cylindrical flywheel mass encircling and attached to a cylindrically arranged homopolar motor-generator rotor; attaching a multi-ring homopolar motor-generator stator and an upper electromagnetic bearing stator to a post extending downward from a vacuum vessel top; in a cylindrical rotor wall, placing radial pluralities and axial pluralities of laminated magnetic path assemblies arranged as a lattice, each laminated magnetic path assembly for completing a staggered magnetic path between adjacent stator rings; inserting the motor-generator and bearing stators in an open upper end of the rotatable group; in a non-levitating flywheel operating mode, supporting the rotatable group with a support pin centrally affixed to a conical hub that coaxially joins a lower end of the cylindrical rotor; in a first levitating flywheel operating mode, levitating the rotatable group with bearings including a lower electromagnetic bearing having a lower electromagnetic bearing rotor fixed to the support pin; and, in a second levitating flywheel operating mode, centering the rotatable group with an upper electromagnetic bearing including the upper electromagnetic bearing stator. | 42,982 |
8,872,970 | 1. A method of determining a synchronization byte in a plurality of transport stream packets, the synchronization byte having a predetermined synchronization value, the method comprising: receiving, via a receiver, a portion of the plurality of transport stream packets; detecting, via a synchronization byte detection portion and starting from the beginning of the portion of the plurality of transport stream packets, a first continuous four-byte pattern that does not include the predetermined synchronization value; detecting, via the synchronization byte detecting portion, a first occurrence of a byte having the predetermined synchronization value located in the portion of the plurality of transport stream packets after the first continuous four-byte pattern that does not include the predetermined synchronization value; detecting, via the synchronization byte detection portion, a subsequent byte separated from the first occurrence by a predetermined byte length; determining, via the synchronization byte detection portion, a byte value of the subsequent byte; and validating, via a synchronization byte validation portion, that the first occurrence is the synchronization byte based on a comparison of the byte value and the predetermined synchronization value. | 46,599 |
8,376,034 | 1. A method of assembling a radiant cooler, said method comprising: providing a vessel shell that defines a gas flow passage therein that extends generally axially through the vessel shell; forming a tube cage including a plurality of cooling tubes defining a plurality of chevron-shaped projections that are coupled together continuously to each said circumferentially-adjacent projection, the plurality of chevron-shaped projections extending circumferentially about a center axis of the tube cage, each chevron-shaped projection including a first side and a second side coupled together at a tip, circumferentially-adjacent pairs of projections coupled together such that a valley is defined between each pair of circumferentially-spaced projections, each of the projection tips being positioned radially outward from each of the valleys; positioning at least one heat transfer panel within said tube cage, such that said at least one heat transfer panel extends radially inwardly from a tip of one of said chevron-shaped projections towards said center axis; coupling at least one downcomer in one valley radially outwardly of the tube cage, such that the at least one downcomer extends generally axially between the first side and the second side of one circumferentially-spaced projection; and orienting the tube cage within the vessel shell such that the tube cage is in flow communication with the flow passage. | 40,686 |
8,738,206 | 1. A method of providing hydraulic pressure during a transition from gas-powered engine operation to electric motor operation in a hybrid electric vehicle, the method comprising: operating a gas-powered engine with a main pump and a battery-powered electric motor with an auxiliary pump by substantially matching, for a period of time until a triggering event occurs, a main pressure arising from operation of the main pump and an auxiliary pressure arising from operation of the auxiliary pump before the transition from gas-powered engine operation to electric motor operation has completed; and boosting the auxiliary pressure to an operational pressure in response to the triggering event. | 827 |
9,019,291 | 1. A method comprising: analyzing one or more inputs that are indicative of a level of activity in a memory controller to determine a level of memory stress, the analyzing performed in a display control unit configured to process image data into an output frame for display; selecting a set of thresholds from a plurality of sets of thresholds to be compared to an amount of image data in the display control unit responsive to the determined level of memory stress, the selecting performed in the display control unit; comparing the selected set of thresholds to the amount of image data, the comparing performed in the display control unit; and determining a quality of service (QoS) level, in the display control unit, for image data reads to the memory controller responsive to the comparing. | 22,091 |
9,201,419 | 1. A method of monitoring and controlling an industrial process by means of a control system, the industrial process associated with a plurality of process variables, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a set of process related images, which are user-selected, on a display device of the control system, each process related image of the set of process related images being associated with a process variable of the plurality of process variables, wherein the process related images of the set of process related images are displayed in succession without interaction from a user, and wherein a duration of displaying each process related image of the set of process related images is predetermined, receiving process variable data of the plurality of process variables while the step of displaying is carried out, and when process variable data is received indicating that a process variable has a status value outside a predetermined accepted range, and in response thereto: | 31,306 |
9,638,120 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising: a compressor arranged in an intake passage of the internal combustion engine, the compressor configured to supercharge gas flowing in the intake passage; a first cooling water circuit configured to circulate cooling water; an intercooler arranged in the intake passage closer to a downstream side as compared with the compressor, the intercooler configured to exchange heat between the gas flowing in the intake passage and the cooling water circulated in the first cooling water circuit; an EGR device configured to adjust an EGR rate of EGR gas for supplying a portion of exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine to the intake passage closer to an upstream side as compared with the intercooler, an ECU configured to: (a) control the temperature of the cooling water of the intercooler to a target temperature in a specified external air state in which an external air temperature and an external air humidity are a specified temperature and a specified humidity, the target temperature being the temperature of the cooling water of the intercooler required for ensuring a specified performance in the specified external air state; and (b) control the EGR device based on an EGR rate mapping in which the EGR rate is set according to a relationship with parameters for determining an operating state of the internal combustion engine, the EGR rate mapping configured to set the EGR rate so that a dew point of cooler inflow gas flowing into the intercooler does not exceed the target temperature when the EGR gas is introduced by using the EGR device. | 13,433 |
8,386,087 | 1. A method for an energy control system to control load shedding and payback spikes of a total population having a plurality of subset populations of homes that include one or more energy consuming devices, executed via a controller with at least one memory storing executable instructions for the method, comprising: determining an energy usage and peak load profile for the total population of homes based on physical parameters of each home; segregating the total population of homes into the plurality of subset populations by a randomizing distribution routine; and controlling each subset population independently for a demand response event to operate each subset population independently in a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode based on a state of an energy supplying utility that is indicative of at least one of a peak demand period and an off peak-demand period, wherein the demand response event is executed for the total population by each subset population responding dependently via an incoming communication message. | 37,616 |
9,614,171 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode; a light-emitting layer over the first electrode; a second electrode over the light-emitting layer; and a protective layer over the second electrode, wherein: the first electrode includes at least indium-tin oxide, the light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, the second electrode includes at least magnesium and silver, the protective layer is spaced from the first electrode with a bank interposed therebetween, the protective layer comprises: | 13,979 |
9,371,762 | 1. A catalyst protection device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a catalyst that is provided in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine and that purifies exhaust gas; a bed temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a current bed temperature of the catalyst; and an injection amount increasing unit configured to increase an amount of fuel injected in the internal combustion engine when the current bed temperature approaches a predetermined determination value, wherein the injection amount increasing unit is configured to increase the amount of injected fuel, by a first increase value that is obtained on the basis of (i) a first base increase value which is obtained on the basis of the operating state of the internal combustion engine, and (ii) a correction coefficient which is obtained on the basis of the current bed temperature and a target bed temperature lower than the predetermined determination value so that a temperature of the bed does not rise above the predetermined determination value during the increase of the amount of fuel injected in the internal combustion engine. | 29,567 |
9,560,208 | 1. A method, comprising: monitoring a local audio stream collected by an audio input device associated with a communication device in a multi-party call for local audio content, wherein the multi-party call includes a plurality of communication devices communicatively connected across a communication network; monitoring a remote audio stream associated with the multi-party call for remote audio content, wherein the remote audio stream represents a combined signal of audio content received from each communication device participating in the multi-party call; determining, by the communication device and based on the remote audio content, whether the local audio content is absent from the remote audio content; and providing, by a notification service associated with the communication device, a mute notification to the communication device when the local audio content is determined to be absent from the remote audio content, wherein the mute notification causes the communication device to present at least one audible and visual alert to an output device of the communication device. | 47,450 |
8,802,134 | 1. A method for producing a patch comprising a support layer and an adhesive agent layer arranged on at least one surface of the support layer, the method comprising: obtaining an adhesive agent layer composition comprising heating the adhesive agent layer composition at a temperature in a range from a melting point (° C.) of the drug to a temperature higher than the melting point by 10° C. for 8 to 24 hours; and cooling the heated adhesive agent layer composition to a temperature lower than the melting point of the drug at an average rate of temperature drop of 1 to 20° C./hour, thereby obtaining the adhesive agent layer comprising the drug at a supersaturated concentration in a dissolved form, wherein a content of the oxybutynin in the adhesive agent layer composition in terms of free oxybutynin is an amount which results in 10 to 50% by mass in the obtained adhesive agent layer, the adhesive agent layer composition comprises, as the adhesive base agent, the acrylic-based polymer and the rubber-based polymer at a mass ratio of 1:4 to 1:19, and a mass ratio of the oxybutynin to the liquid paraffin is 0.5:1 to 1.2:1 in the adhesive agent layer composition. | 42,709 |
9,018,749 | 1. A laser direct structuring (LDS) stacked package, comprising: a substrate; a LDS mold material covered die attached to the substrate, wherein at least one surface of the LDS mold material has metalized circuit traces; and a package attached to the metalized circuit traces. | 24,463 |
9,104,168 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member including a photosensitive layer; a developing unit configured to form a toner image by supplying a developing agent containing toner to the image bearing member to cause the toner to adhere to a surface of the image bearing member in conformity with an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a cleaning unit configured to remove residual toner from the surface of the image bearing member; a heating element configured to heat the image bearing member, the heating element including | 23,889 |
9,656,088 | 1. A method of determining estimated remaining longevity for an implantable stimulator having a power source, comprising: using a programmer processor to acquire from the implantable stimulator a signal comprising data associated with the power source in the implantable stimulator and a date in which the stimulator was implanted; using the programmer processor and the data to determine whether a pre-recommended replacement time threshold (pre-RRT) has been attained for replacing the implantable stimulator; using the programmer processor to select an equation in which to calculate a recommended replacement time (RRT), the equation is selected in response to determining a time period that extends from the date in which the stimulator was implanted until a date in which the pre-RRT is attained; and using the programmer processor to generate a notification to a user as to the RRT. | 37,976 |
8,591,174 | 1. A device for generating energy from wind, comprising: a wind turbine comprising a rotatable main body with a front and a rear and a hollow interior, wherein the main body rotates around an axis of rotation extending longitudinally between the front and the rear, wherein the front of the main body comprises an open inlet adapted to collect wind and direct it to the hollow interior, wherein the hollow interior gradually narrows in diameter from the front to the back, thereby increasing the speed of the wind, and wherein the wind is directed to and out of one or more outlet nozzles extending at an angle from the rear of the main body, thereby causing the main body to rotate and generate energy. | 27,061 |
8,701,371 | 1. A method of constructing a multi-level multiple unit building comprising: premanufacturing non-weight bearing walls at a site distant from a building site; positioning an exterior visible primary load-bearing steel assembly at the building site that provides lateral outermost planar surfaces of the building that are offset and external to any outermost planar surfaces provided by premanufactured non-weight bearing walls after the building is constructed; pouring at least a first monolithic concrete slab, a second monolithic concrete slab, and a third monolithic concrete slab at the building site; lifting the third monolithic concrete slab, wherein a top surface of the third monolithic concrete slab comprises a roof of the building and a bottom surface of the third monolithic concrete slab comprises a ceiling of a building level below the third monolithic concrete slab; employing a top surface of the second monolithic concrete slab as a shared floor of an upper building level comprising multiple units; employing a bottom surface of the second monolithic concrete slab as a shared ceiling of a lower building level comprising multiple units; and attaching the non-weight bearing walls to the bottom surface of the third monolithic concrete slab and the top surface of the second monolithic concrete slab. | 36,249 |
8,998,028 | 1. A container end comprising: a center panel and a wall outside of the center panel adapted for being seamed to a can body, the center panel and wall defining an internal surface and an external surface; an aperture formed in the center panel and configured to have a closed position in which the aperture is sealed and a fully open position in which product may be dispensed through the aperture; a flexible film fixed to the internal surface of the end outside the periphery of the aperture, and the flexible film defining at least one flexible tongue having an anchored end and a free end, the free end having a distal edge extending under the aperture and terminating directly under the aperture while the aperture is in the fully open position; wherein the distal edge of the free end of the tongue is concealed when the aperture is in the closed position. | 1,556 |
9,726,088 | 1. A method for controlling a vehicle powertrain having a driver-operated vehicle accelerator pedal, comprising: selecting a transfer function shaping parameter; developing a second pedal position signal using an accelerator pedal position signal and a pedal position to pedal position signal transfer function shaped by the selected shaping parameter; and developing a vehicle wheel torque request based upon a pre-calibrated functional relationship between vehicle speed and vehicle wheel torque for the second pedal position signal. | 8,948 |
9,187,931 | 1. A locking mechanism that has a proximal end and a distal end that is adapted to attach to a flat outer web of a vertical track of an overhead door to hold the door locked when the door is in its lowered or closed position, the overhead door having a plurality of rollers that travel vertically within the vertical track, the locking mechanism comprising: a frame, including a distal mounting portion at the distal end thereof that is adapted to be affixed onto the flat outer web of said vertical track, the frame extending proximally therefrom; a sliding pin or dowel having an axis extending proximally-distally in said frame and that passes in an axial direction through an opening in the distal mounting portion of the frame and configured to penetrate the flat outer web portion of said vertical track so as to block travel of the rollers when the pin is extended distally into the track, with an arm affixed onto and extending radially from a proximal end of said sliding pin or dowel, the pin or dowel being free to rotate at least a limited amount; the distal mounting portion of said frame having fastener openings therethrough extending axially and parallel to said sliding pin or dowel; one or more fasteners passing through said fastener openings in said distal mounting portion and configured to engage said flat outer web of said vertical track to secure the distal mounting portion of the locking mechanism to said vertical track; a spring contained within said frame and urging said sliding pin or dowel axially in said proximal direction and out of contact with said rollers; and retaining structure at a proximal end of said frame configured for engaging said radial arm when the sliding pin or dowel is slid distally to a locked position to hold said radial arm and said pin or dowel in the locked position, and the radial arm being configured for being rotated out of engagement therewith to permit the pin to slide proximally to an unlocked position, such that the locking mechanism is configured to be set into position to lock the overhead door by pushing said arm distally against the force of the spring and rotating the arm into engagement with said retaining structure, and is released from such position to unlock the overhead door by rotating said arm out of engagement with said retaining structure. | 8,030 |
8,828,172 | 1. A method for manufacturing a wind turbine rotor blade with a shear web comprising: laying inner fibre material onto an inner surface of a mould, laying at least one first layer of fibre material for the shear web onto the inner fibre material which was placed onto the inner surface of the mould, positioning a first mould core part, comprising a base surface, a top surface and a surface for supporting the shear web, partly onto the at least one first layer of fibre material for the shear web, placing the at least one first layer of fibre material for the shear web-along the surface for supporting the shear web and at least partly along the top surface of the first mould core part, after the placing the at least one first layer of fibre material, positioning the shear web comprising a first surface and a second surface at the surface for supporting the shear web of the first mould core part such that the first surface of the shear web faces the at least one first layer of fibre material at the surface for supporting the shear web, after the positioning the shear web, laying a second layer of fibre material for the shear web onto the inner fibre material which was placed onto the inner surface of the mould, along the second surface of the shear web and at least partly along the top surface of the first mould core part, after the laying a second layer of fibre material, positioning a second mould core part, comprising a base surface, a top surface and a surface for supporting the shear web, partly onto the at least one second layer of fibre material for the shear web, such that the base surface is facing the second layer of fibre material for the shear web and the surface for supporting the shear web is facing towards the second surface of the shear web, and placing part of the second layer of fibre material for the shear web onto the top surface of the second mould core part. | 31,185 |
9,183,147 | 1. A semiconductor chip comprising: a shared memory; a plurality of functional blocks, each configured to access the shared memory; a cache coherence controller configured to provide to the functional blocks a consistent data value for a given data block in the shared memory; a plurality of buses configured to transfer coherent messages between the shared memory and the cache coherence controller; and a programmable trace unit comprising circuitry configured to: | 24,414 |
9,019,530 | 1. A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein a printing program for use by an information processing apparatus communicatively connected to a printing apparatus that includes a recording head transfer section for reciprocating, in a main scanning direction, a recording head for discharging ink toward a recording medium, and a recording medium transfer section for moving the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, wherein the printing program, when executed by the information processing apparatus, performs: determining a first total movement distance of an image at a first angle relative to an original position according to a first movement distance by which the recording head would move in the main scanning direction during a period from a start of movement of the recording head to an end of discharging the ink toward the recording medium if printing were performed and a second movement distance by which the recording medium would move in the sub-scanning direction during the period if printing were performed, determining a second total movement distance of an image at a second angle, different from the first angle, relative to the original position of the image according to a first movement distance by which the recording head would move in the main scanning direction during a period from a start of movement of the recording head to an end of discharging the ink toward the recording medium if printing were performed and a second movement distance by which the recording medium would move in the sub-scanning direction during the period if printing were performed, determining whether the second total movement distance is less than the first total movement distance, and causing the printing apparatus to print the image at the position of the second angle in a case that the second total movement distance is less than the first total movement distance. | 47,348 |
8,827,547 | 1. A method of supplying fluid to a data center, the method comprising: obtaining a hybrid, dual-function fluid distribution unit comprising a hot fluid distribution sub-unit and a coolant distribution sub-unit, wherein in a heating mode of the hybrid, dual-function fluid distribution unit, the hot fluid distribution sub-unit provides hot fluid, and in a cooling mode of the hybrid-dual-function fluid distribution unit, the coolant distribution sub-unit provides chilled fluid; and employing the hybrid, dual-function fluid distribution unit in selectively providing the hot fluid to at least one thermal simulator for a respective electronics subsystem, electronics rack, or row of electronics racks of the data center, and the chilled fluid to the respective electronics subsystem, electronics rack, or row of electronics racks, wherein in the heating mode, the hot fluid is provided by the hot fluid distribution sub-unit of the hybrid, dual-function fluid distribution unit to the at least one thermal simulator for facilitating physical simulation of heated airflow exhaust from said respective electronics subsystem, electronics rack or row of electronics racks, and in the cooling mode, the chilled fluid is provided by the coolant distribution sub-unit of the hybrid, dual-function fluid distribution to the respective electronics subsystems, electronics rack or row of electronics racks to facilitate cooling thereof. | 19,589 |
9,114,294 | 1. A set of golf clubs comprising: a plurality of golf clubs, each having an extended shaft with a club head and a grip on opposing ends thereof, wherein at least one club is an adjustable club comprising: | 26,534 |
9,073,875 | 1. A compound of formula I-A: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, wherein: n is 0-4; X is halo; Z R Q J two occurrences of J two occurrences of J Q J two occurrences of J two occurrences of J J J R is independently selected from H or C | 35,598 |
8,447,434 | 1. A power distribution grid, the grid comprising: an AC generator; a source module electrically connected to the AC generator, the source module comprising: at least one load module electrically connected to the source module, the at least one load module comprising; at least one pair of a first cable and a second cable electrically connecting the source module to an at least one load module; wherein, the source module outputs DC high voltage power on the first cable, and wherein the at least one load module receives DC high voltage power from the source module on the first cable and the microprocessor independently controls the at least one load module; wherein the second cable transmits communications between the source module and the at least one load module; a load connected to an at least one AC outlet; a microprocessor in every source module connected to the power distribution grid, respectively, and independently controlling the every source module without utilizing logic distributed across the power distribution grid; a microprocessor in every load module connected to the power distribution grid, respectively, and independently controlling the every load module without utilizing logic distributed across the power distribution grid; a memory in every source module, respectively; a memory in every load module, respectively; and wherein, the microprocessor of the source module autonomously discovers a topology of the power grid upon initial start up of the power grid; and further comprising: adjacency maps stored in respective memories of the every source module and the every load module, the adjacency maps comprising point to point communication and power connections and load data. | 11,330 |
8,595,692 | 1. A computer implemented method for identifying lock granularization opportunities in computer code, comprising: generating data, with a processor, comprising synchronized code blocks and fields accessed in each code block, wherein each of said code blocks and the fields they access are represented by a set; generating a list with said processor of any non-intersecting synchronized code blocks, wherein said non-intersecting synchronized code blocks have no commonly accessed fields; granularizing locks directly around fields that are accessed within code blocks represented by non-intersecting sets; generating a list with said processor of any intersecting synchronized code blocks, wherein said intersecting synchronized code blocks have at least one commonly accessed field; generating a list with said processor of any overlapping sets from the list of intersecting synchronized code blocks, wherein said overlapping sets have at least one commonly accessed field but no set is a complete subset of another; and identifying fields that are accessed within code blocks represented by any overlapping sets as ineligible for granularized locking. | 35,487 |
9,037,782 | 1. A method of programming memory cells for a rewritable non-volatile memory module, wherein the rewritable non-volatile memory module has a plurality of physical blocks, each of the physical blocks has a plurality of physical pages, each of the plurality of physical pages has a data bit area and a redundancy bit area, the data bit area has a plurality of physical access addresses and the redundancy bit area respectively records a plurality of flags corresponding to the plurality of physical access addresses, a plurality of logical pages are configured to map to a portion of the plurality of the physical pages, and each of the plurality of logical pages has a plurality of logical access addresses, the method of programming memory cells comprising: receiving a command, wherein the command instructs to perform an update operation on a first logical page among the plurality of logical pages; identifying at least one invalid logical access address and at least one valid logical access among the plurality of logical access addresses of the first logical page according to the command; selecting a first physical page from the plurality of physical pages; setting at least one flag corresponding to the at least one valid logical access address of the first logical page in a valid state and setting at least one flag corresponding to the at least one invalid logical access address of the first logical page in an invalid state; programming data corresponding to the at least one valid logical access address of the first logical page to the data bit area of the first physical page based on the update operation and programming the at least one flag corresponding to the at least one valid logical access address of the first logical page and the at least one flag corresponding to the at least one invalid logical access address of the first logical page to the redundancy bit area of the first physical page, wherein other data storing in the data bit area of the first physical page are invalid except for data corresponding to the at least one valid logical access address of the first logical page; and mapping the first physical page to the first logical page. | 17,014 |
8,881,295 | 1. A method, comprising: generating a garbled circuit for Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) by querying a hardware token gate-by-gate, said hardware token comprising a leakage-protected area, wherein for each gate g of the garbled circuit with input wires and output wires, the hardware token interacts with the leakage-protected area of the token to generate a garbled table for the gate g, and wherein the generating is based on a random correspondence between wire values and their garblings that is unknown to the hardware token; and receiving the garbled circuit from the hardware token. | 21,664 |
9,126,486 | 1. A power supply connector to be attached to a vehicle that is provided with a connection signal line having electric potential modified when a connector of a power charging cable is attached and a control pilot line to which a pilot signal is transmitted from said power charging cable, the power supply connector being configured to output electric power from the vehicle to an external device, the power supply connector comprising: a first connection portion configured to be connected to said connection signal line; and a second connection portion configured to be connected to said first connection portion and said control pilot line, wherein | 25,805 |
9,073,439 | 1. Electric vehicle supply equipment, comprising: an enclosure; an electric vehicle supply circuit for providing a flow of current to an electric vehicle from a power source; a charge circuit interrupting device located within the enclosure, the charge circuit interrupting device being arranged to interrupt the flow of current to the electric vehicle; a grounding monitor circuit located within the enclosure, the grounding monitor circuit coupled to grounding conductors, the grounding monitor circuit having a grounding output signal; a ground default detection circuit located within the enclosure, the ground fault detection circuit coupled to current carrying conductors, the ground fault detection circuit having a fault detection output signal; a controller located within the enclosure, the controller coupled to the grounding monitor circuit, the ground fault detection circuit and the charge circuit interrupting device, where the controller is constructed and arranged to monitor the charge circuit interrupting device by providing a control signal to the charge circuit interrupting device; and logic circuitry arranged to receive results from the charge circuit interrupting device, the grounding output signal and fault detection output signals and the control signal, and assert a close signal based upon the grounding output signal and fault detection signal. | 8,915 |
9,338,338 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: two cameras each with a light sensor, wherein one camera can be active and the other deactive, wherein the light sensor does not detect until the corresponding camera is operational; one or more processing modules; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processing modules, the one or more programs comprise instructions for: detecting, at the active light sensor, an ambient luminance; determining if the detected ambient luminance is less than a preset shading value; and in response to the detected ambient luminance being less than the preset shading value, deactivating the active camera and activating the deactive camera; counting a number of interchange times of the two cameras within a predetermined time period; comparing whether the number of interchange times is greater than a preset number, and controlling the cameras according to the comparison result. | 7,138 |
9,688,847 | 1. A polyolefin composition, comprising: an olefin-based polymer (A) having a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as obtained from a melting endothermic curve which is obtained under a measurement condition of holding a sample at −10° C. for 5 minutes in a nitrogen atmosphere and then increasing the temperature at a rate of 10° C./min with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), of 0 to 80 J/g; and an olefin-based polymer (B) having a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as observed under the foregoing measurement condition, of more than 80 J/g, wherein a content of the olefin-based polymer (A) is 0.5% by mass or more and less than 17% by mass relative to a total content of the olefin-based polymer (A) and the olefin-based polymer (B), and the polyolefin composition has a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as observed under the foregoing measurement condition, of 80 to 120 J/g. | 7,605 |
9,638,094 | 1. A drain mechanism disposed in a wall of an outlet tank of a charge air cooler, the drain mechanism comprising: a first valve head disposed on a first side of the wall and within a hollow interior of the outlet tank; a second valve head disposed on a second side of the wall and an exterior of the outlet tank; and a valve stem having a first end coupled to the first valve head and a second end coupled to the second valve head, wherein the valve stem is reciprocatingly disposed within an aperture formed in the wall of the outlet tank, the aperture providing selective fluid communication between the hollow interior of the outlet tank and the exterior of the outlet tank, wherein the valve stem is surrounded by an electromagnet configured to urge the valve stem in a direction toward the hollow interior of the outlet tank when the electromagnet is electrically energized, wherein the valve stem has a hollow interior including an inlet formed in the first end thereof providing fluid communication between the hollow interior of the outlet tank and the hollow interior of the valve stem and a drain aperture formed in a sidewall of the valve stem, the drain aperture selectively providing fluid communication between the hollow interior of the valve stem and the exterior of the outlet tank. | 24,388 |
9,571,369 | 1. A data acquisition method of a data acquisition apparatus linked to a history server for the monitoring and control of an industrial facility, the data acquisition method comprising: acquiring real-time data by a data acquisition unit; storing, by a control unit, the acquired real-time data in a local data storage unit; determining whether the stored data exceeds a predetermined capacity; determining whether a predetermined data acquisition time is exceeded when the stored data does not exceed the predetermined capacity; determining, by the control unit, whether communication with the history server is in a normal state for transmission-available; attempting, by the control unit, to transmit the stored data to the history server only if the normal state is determined, the stored data does not exceed the predetermined capacity and the predetermined data acquisition time is exceeded; deleting, by the control unit, the stored data that was transmitted when it is confirmed by the history server that the stored data is successfully transmitted; and maintaining, by the control unit, the data in the data acquisition unit when it is not confirmed by the history server that the data transmission is successful and attempting, by the control unit, to re-transmit the data to the history server. | 14,861 |
8,945,780 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte comprising: a nonaqueous solvent consisting essentially of a cyclic carbonate selected from the group consisting of ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, and a mixture thereof, a chain carbonate, and 0.1% by volume or more and not more than 50% by volume of at least one member selected from the group consisting of a halogen element-containing chain carbonate represented by the following formula (1) and a halogen element-containing cyclic carbonate represented by the following formula (2), a mixing ratio of the cyclic carbonate to the chain carbonate in the solvent ranging from 5/95 to 45/55, the nonaqueous solvent being substantially free or lactone; and an electrolyte salt containing a compound represented by the following formula (3) in an amount of 0.001 moles/L or more and not more than 0.5 moles/L relative to the nonaqueous solvent wherein each of R1 to R6 represents a hydrogen group, a halogen group, an alkyl group or a halogenated alkyl group, provided that at least one of R1 to R6 represents a halogen group or a halogenated alkyl group, wherein each of R7 to R10 represents, a hydrogen group, a halogen group, an alkyl group or a halogenated alkyl group, provided that at least one of R7 to R10 represents a halogen group or a halogenated alkyl group, and wherein M represents a monovalent cation; Y represents SO | 14,062 |
8,583,949 | 1. A computer system comprising: at least one processor; a memory; and a network event notification subsystem that acts as a proxy for the computer system when at least a portion of the computer system is in a sleep state, wherein the network event notification subsystem performs the following: | 46,313 |
8,708,099 | 1. A portable anchor for use in a fall arrest protection system, said anchor comprising: a base that abuts a solid support structure, the base comprising a bracket that abuts the solid support structure, said bracket being dimensioned to envelop and receive at least a portion of the solid support structure so as to minimize lateral movement of the base in relation to the solid support structure when secured thereto; a post extending perpendicularly from the base, wherein the central bore is provided through the base and post; at least one attachment point connected to the post for receiving a connector; and a rod adapted to be inserted through the central bore, the rod comprising an anchoring section at a first end of the rod for frictionally engaging a portion of the solid support structure and a locking section in the vicinity of at or near a second end of the rod for reversibly securing the rod to the post. | 22,169 |
9,406,523 | 1. A method of etching a patterned substrate, the method comprising: transferring the patterned substrate into a substrate processing region of a substrate processing chamber, wherein the patterned substrate has exposed doped silicon oxide and exposed undoped silicon oxide; producing plasma effluents by flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into a remote plasma region fluidly coupled to the substrate processing region while forming a remote plasma in the remote plasma region; flowing water vapor into the substrate processing region without first passing the water vapor through any remote plasma; and etching the exposed doped silicon oxide faster than the exposed undoped silicon oxide, wherein the exposed doped silicon oxide is one of boron-doped silicate glass, phosphorus-doped silicate glass or boron-and-phosphorus-doped silicate glass. | 14,923 |
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