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8,593,413 | 1. A sensory structure of a touch panel, comprising: a substrate having a first surface; a first electrode layer having a first part thereon located on said first surface; an insulating layer located on said first part of said first electrode layer; plural through-holes formed within said insulating layer and passing therethrough, wherein said first electrode layer has a second part thereof located on said insulating layer and connected to said first part by said through-holes; and a second electrode layer patterned as being partially arranged on said insulating layer and separated from said second part of said first electrode layer, wherein said first electrode layer and said second electrode layer are respectively constructed by plural mesh-typed electrode structures connected to a corresponding first trace and a corresponding second trace having a plan width of less than 30 μm. | 38,205 |
9,081,613 | 1. A computer program product for facilitating performing operations of a computing environment, said computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: | 33,706 |
9,039,421 | 1. An educational apparatus, comprising: a spherical element; said spherical element having a first outer surface; an elevated planar structure having a first support structure and a second support structure; said first support structure having a first horizontal planar surface; said second support structure similar to the first support structure and having a second horizontal planar surface, said second support structure being positioned and configured so as to create an elongate opening between a peripheral edge of said first support structure and a peripheral edge of said second support structure, wherein said elongate opening is dimensioned and configured to allow said spherical element to roll along said peripheral edge of said first support structure and said peripheral edge of said second support structure; a first set of plurality of elongate rectangular openings in said first planar surface in proximity to and along said peripheral edge of said first support structure; a second set of plurality of elongate rectangular openings in said second planar surface in proximity to and along said peripheral edge of said second support structure; a first set of plurality support members and wherein each of said support members in said first set of support members includes a first upwardly extending lower portion, a first upper portion hingedly connected to said first lower portion and a first generally horizontal base disposed in one of said first elongated rectangular openings; a second set of plurality of support members and wherein each of said support members in said second set of support members includes a second upwardly extending lower portion and a second horizontal base disposed in one of said second elongated rectangular openings; a first plurality of rotatable rollers; a second plurality of rotatable rollers; wherein one of said rotatable rollers in said first plurality of rotatable rollers is rotatably disposed on one of said upper portions of each of said first set of support members for supporting said spherical element above said first planar surface and a portion of said spherical element below said first planar surface to rotate freely along said elongate opening for movement of said spherical element in a plurality of directions by positioning and rotation of one or more of said first set of rotatable rollers; a first fixed member mounted on said first outer periphery of said spherical element; a first plurality of holders each including a base, a first telescopic upright member and a first horizontal arm, said first plurality of holders being positioned adjacent said first or said second support structure members; a first complementary member including a first small metal piece held by said first holder; wherein each of said plurality of first and second rollers have knobs for manual rotation of said plurality of drive rollers to thereby rotate said first and second spherical elements, respectively. | 41,514 |
8,758,680 | 1. An air cleaning method, comprising: pressurizing by an air blower air taken into a container main body containing a liquid as sterilizing fluid, deodorant fluid, or water; blowing the air pressurized by the air blower into a cylindrical body, spaced from the container main body, which has upper and lower openings and extends in a vertical direction, from the upper opening, the lower opening being an air blowing port separated from a surface of the liquid; blowing out of the lower opening, the air blown from the upper opening into the cylindrical body and rotating and descending in a spiral manner, so as to collide with the liquid, plunging the air into a bottom of a liquid containing part for containing the liquid in the container main body, and agitating and mixing the air and the liquid; and raising the air agitated and mixed with the liquid on an outside of the cylindrical body, and discharging the same through an outlet in a side wall of the container main body to an outside of the container main body. | 19,141 |
9,676,628 | 1. An integrated process for recovery of a helium rich stream and a hydrogen rich stream from a feed stream containing 10-80 volume percent hydrogen, 0.1-5.0 volume percent helium, and the balance being higher boiling components, comprising: (a) routing the pressurized feed stream to a cryogenic separation unit wherein the majority of the higher boiling components are separated and removed from the feed stream; (b) heating a stream containing helium removed from the cryogenic separation unit and routing the heated stream to at least one hydrogen transport membrane where the heated stream is separated into a hydrogen rich permeate stream, and a retentate stream depleted of hydrogen; (c) routing the retentate stream depleted of hydrogen to at least one oxidation unit and reacting it with an oxidant to remove substantially all the remaining hydrogen in the retentate to produce a helium containing stream, wherein the helium concentration ranges from about 5-40 volume percent and the balance being higher boiling components; (d) routing the helium containing stream to a phase separator and sequentially a dryer wherein most of the water is removed; and (e) routing the dried helium containing stream to the same or a different cryogenic separation unit where the majority of remaining higher-boiling components are removed and a helium rich product stream having about 80% or higher helium content by volume is obtained. | 29,437 |
9,136,344 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising: grinding a back side of a substrate evenly; and forming a nitride semiconductor layer on a front side of the substrate to generate a stress that causes the front side of the substrate to become protruded by performing epitaxial growth on the front side of the substrate, after the grinding, wherein compressive stress is generated in the nitride semiconductor layer that is formed, and wherein the back side of the substrate is formed to have an evenly ground surface whereas the front side of the substrate is formed to maintain the protruded state. | 27,928 |
8,455,383 | 1. A process of reactivating an alkylation catalyst that has experienced deactivation, the process comprising: providing a first reaction zone containing an alkylation catalyst that has experienced deactivation; providing a second reaction zone containing H-beta zeolite catalyst upstream of the first reaction zone; introducing a feed stream comprising benzene and ethylene to the reaction zones; and reacting at least a portion of the benzene with ethylene under alkylation conditions in both the first and second reaction zones to produce ethylbenzene. | 13,260 |
9,708,096 | 1. A self-opening closure, comprising: a tubular pouring spout, which defines a longitudinal axis and is provided on its inner side with an internal thread having a pitch angle, a cap, which upwardly covers the pouring spout and which, for the purpose of opening the closure, is rotatable in an opening direction and, for the purpose of reclosing the closure, is rotatable in a closing direction opposite to the opening direction, wherein the cap comprises at least one driver, which defines a front edge; and a self-opening sleeve, which is provided with an external thread that engages in the internal thread of the pouring spout, and which on its inner side comprises at least one driving cam, wherein the driving cam defines a guide face which, when the closure is opened for the first time, cooperates with the front edge of the driver in order to move the self-opening sleeve in the pouring spout in a screw-like manner downward out of an starting position into an opening position, wherein the front edge runs inclined downward by a first angle of inclination relative to the longitudinal axis, wherein the guide face runs inclined by the same angle of inclination as the front edge relative to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the first angle of inclination of the front edge of the driver is greater than or equal to the pitch angle of the internal thread of the pouring spout. | 13,639 |
9,674,150 | 1. A method of caching hierarchical items in a network environment, the method comprising: receiving, by a server machine from a computing device communicatively connected to the server machine, a request for a change to a web site; updating, by the server machine, a master tree to reflect the change to the web site, the master tree having nodes representing hierarchical items of the web site and edges representing hierarchical relationships among the hierarchical items, each node of the nodes in the master tree having a tree timestamp and a node timestamp, the updating including updating the tree timestamp and the node timestamp of a first node affected by the change and updating the tree timestamp of any upstream parent node of the first node in the master tree; determining, by the server machine, a permission tree affected by the change, the permission tree associated with a user group permitted to view a particular portion of the hierarchical items of the web site, the permission tree having a set of nodes corresponding to the particular portion of the hierarchical items of the web site and representing access restriction of the user group to the particular portion of the hierarchical items of the web site; identifying, by the server machine, a dirty node in the permission tree, the identifying including comparing the tree timestamp of a root node of the master tree with a tree timestamp of a root node of the permission tree; and constructing, by the server machine, a portion of the permission tree containing the dirty node, the constructing including updating the tree timestamp and the node timestamp of the dirty node and updating the tree timestamp of any upstream parent node of the dirty node in the portion of the permission tree containing the dirty node such that only the portion of the permission tree affected by the change is updated. | 13,045 |
9,367,342 | 1. A virtual machine system for implementing one or more virtual machines and a deactivator that deactivates the one or more virtual machines, the virtual machine system comprising: a processor utilizing a device; and a memory storing therein a program executed by the processor, the virtual machine system causing the processor to execute the program stored in the memory to implement the one or more virtual machines and the deactivator, wherein the deactivator includes a deactivating signal output unit that outputs a deactivating signal to each of the one of more virtual machines, the deactivating signal instructing each of the one or more virtual machines to stop operating, each of the one or more virtual machines includes an output unit that outputs, in response to receiving the deactivating signal output from the deactivating signal output unit, a deactivation prohibiting signal while the virtual machine is executing deactivation prohibited processing, the deactivation prohibited processing being processing that involves the device and during which the virtual machine is not permitted to stop operating, the deactivation prohibiting signal indicating that the virtual machine is not permitted to stop operating, the deactivator (i) deactivates a virtual machine that does not output the deactivation prohibiting signal in response to receiving the deactivating signal output from the deactivating signal output unit, and (ii) does not deactivate a virtual machine that outputs the deactivation prohibiting signal in response to receiving the deactivating signal output from the deactivating signal output unit, each of the one or more virtual machines includes a processing time reducing unit that, when the virtual machine is executing the deactivation prohibited processing in response to receiving the deactivating signal output from the deactivating signal output unit, performs processing time reduction processing of reducing processing time required until termination of the deactivation prohibited processing, the deactivation prohibited processing includes update processing involving at least one of (i) processing that, when terminated due to interruption, physically damages the device and (ii) processing that, when terminated due to interruption, disables correct reading of data from the device, the processing time reduction processing is executable when the update processing has not been completed, and the processing time reduction processing terminates the deactivation prohibited processing even when the deactivation prohibited processing has not completed and starts execution of recovery processing at highest execution priority, the recovery processing only including the update processing associated therewith among the deactivation prohibited processing. | 5,553 |
9,687,777 | 1. A gas separation composite membrane, comprising: a gas permeable supporting layer; and a gas separating layer containing a crosslinked polyimide resin above the gas permeable supporting layer, wherein the crosslinked polyimide resin has a structure in which 2 to 4 molecules of a polyimide compound is coordinated with a divalent to tetravalent central metal via an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, wherein when the crosslinked polyimide resin has plural central metals, the plural central metals are linked via the polyimide chain of the polyimide compound, and wherein a concentration of metal complex in a coating liquid forming the gas separating layer is from 0.2% to 30% by mass relative to 100% by mass of the polyimide compound. | 18,623 |
9,188,300 | 1. A headlamp for a vehicle comprising: a light emitting device (LED) assembly; a reflector to reflect a light generated by the LED assembly at the front of the vehicle; and a lens to project a light reflected by the reflector and emitted to an area in front of the vehicle, wherein the LED assembly comprises: | 27,877 |
8,489,141 | 1. A portable electronic apparatus comprising: a first housing having an operation unit and an operation detection unit that detects pressing on the operation unit; a second housing coupled to the first housing and movable between an opened state exposing the operation unit and a closed state covering the operation unit forming a gap with the first housing linking to the outside; a control unit that implements a first control that corresponds to pressure when pressure is detected by the operation detection unit in the opened state, and a second control when pressing is detected by the operation detection unit in the closed state; a plurality of operation detection units, wherein the control unit implements the second control when an even pressure is detected simultaneously by the plurality of operation detection units; an alarm unit, wherein the control unit issues an alarm as the second control, using the alarm unit; and a recording unit that records information that associates pressure and water depth, wherein the control unit deduces water depth based on pressure of pressing and the corresponding information recorded in the recording unit, and issues an alarm of the deduced water depth result using the alarm unit as the second control, when pressure is detected by the operation detection unit when the apparatus is in the closed state. | 14,211 |
8,879,453 | 1. A method comprising: receiving data at an access point, in which the data is destined for a station that communicates wirelessly with the access point and in which the station has a power-save mode to conserve power; comparing a bit pattern of the data at the access point to at least one filtering pattern previously provided by the station and stored at the access point; storing the data at the access point, when the bit pattern matches the at least one filtering pattern at the access point; changing an indication value from an initial value to a set value, when the bit pattern matches the at least one filtering pattern at the access point; and communicating the indication value to the station to wake the station from the power-save mode, based on matching the bit pattern of the data to the at least one filtering pattern. | 9,017 |
9,196,466 | 1. An apparatus for analyzing a sample including a mixture of components, comprising: an ion source; means for separating or partially separating different components of the mixture, and providing a sequential eluent of the components to the ion source over a period of time, wherein the means for separating or partially separating performs liquid chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (“HPLC”), anion exchange, anion exchange chromatography, cation exchange, cation exchange chromatography, ion pair reversed-phase chromatography, chromatography, single-dimensional electrophoresis, multidimensional electrophoresis, size exclusion, affinity or reverse-phase chromatography, Capillary Electrophoresis Chromatography (“CEC”), electrophoresis, ion mobility separation, Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Separation (“FAIMS”) or capillary electrophoresis; a collision, fragmentation or reaction device for receiving ions from the ion source; a bypass device disposed upstream of the collision, fragmentation or reaction device, wherein the bypass device is switchable to cause ions from the ion source to either pass through the collision, fragmentation or reaction device or bypass the collision, fragmentation or reaction device; and a mass analyzer for obtaining mass spectra from ions received from the collision, fragmentation or reaction device, and from ions that bypass the collision, fragmentation or reaction device. | 16,524 |
9,732,665 | 1. A compression ignition internal combustion engine comprising: a cylinder block and a cylinder head; a piston including a cavity that defines a combustion chamber in cooperation with the cylinder block and the cylinder head; and a nozzle for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber, wherein the cavity includes: a depth of the open surface becomes shallower toward a radially outer side of the piston, a distance from the nozzle to the open surface is greater than a distance from the nozzle to the reentrant surface, a height position, in a central axis direction of the piston, of a ridgeline between the bottom surface and the open surface is lower than a height position, in the central axis direction of the piston, of a ridgeline between the bottom surface and the reentrant surface, the nozzle injects first and second fuel sprays toward the open surface and the reentrant surface, respectively, the nozzle injects a third fuel spray between the first and second fuel sprays, the nozzle injects a fourth fuel spray sandwiching the first fuel spray in cooperation with the third fuel spray, and when the piston is viewed in the central axis direction, a distance to the nozzle from a point where an outer circumferential edge of the open surface intersects a direction of the third fuel spray is greater than a distance to the nozzle from a point where the outer circumferential edge of the open surface intersects a direction of the fourth fuel spray. | 12,778 |
9,055,551 | 1. A prefix allocation method, comprising: receiving by a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA), a registration request for a second interface of a multiple interfaces enabled Mobile Node (MN) from a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG), the registration request comprises an MN ID, a Proxy Care-of Address (PCoA) bound to a requested prefix and a first service type associated with the second interface, wherein the first service type comprises an access technology type of the second interface of the multiple interfaces enabled MN; obtaining by the LMA, a first Home Network Prefix that is already allocated to a first interface of the multiple interfaces enabled MN, wherein the LMA stores multiple binding entries, one of the multiple binding entries comprises the first home network prefix and a second service type, and the second service type comprises the same access technology type as the access technology type in the first service type, the LMA obtaining the first home network prefix comprises searching the multiple binding entries for the binding entry comprises the second service type, and obtaining the first home network prefix in the searched out binding entry; and allocating by the LMA, the first home network prefix to the second interface as the requested prefix; wherein, the multiple interfaces enabled MN supports the shared prefix model, and the service of the multiple interfaces enabled MN is connected to the network, via the first interface and the second interface of the MN concurrently, to obtain more bandwidths. | 44,885 |
9,732,731 | 1. An airborne wind turbine system, comprising: an aerial vehicle having a fuselage; an electrically conductive tether having a first end secured to the aerial vehicle and a second end secured to a rotatable drum positioned on a tower onto which the tether is wrapped when the aerial vehicle is reeled in; a perch extending from the tower; one or more perch booms attached to the perch and pivotably mounted to the tower; wherein when the aerial vehicle is secured to the perch, the aerial vehicle is positionable in a first lowered parked position where a rear end of the fuselage extends downwardly; and wherein the aerial vehicle is movable to a raised parked position caused by rotation of the one or more perch booms with respect to the tower wherein the fuselage is positioned in a generally horizontal position. | 20,317 |
9,540,660 | 1. A method for generating a stable modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus vector comprising: providing a vector or vectors containing two nucleotide sequences of at least 2000 nucleotides each, wherein each nucleotide sequence encodes a single Ebola virus glycoprotein; substituting at least 400 nucleotides in one or both of the nucleotide sequence(s) to generate two divergent sequences; wherein the 400 substituted nucleotides do not alter the amino acids encoded by the two divergent sequences; and generating a stable MVA vector comprising the two divergent sequences stably inserted into the MVA genome, wherein the two divergent sequences share stretches of identity of no more than 10 contiguous nucleotides; and wherein the two nucleotide sequences encode Ebola virus Sudan and Ebola virus Zaire glycoproteins. | 47,803 |
9,499,939 | 1. A method of protecting material processing equipment, the method comprising; conveying a biomass material under an electron beam on a conveyor; and enclosing motor components in an equipment enclosure that does not surround the conveyor and that is opaque to ionizing radiation; and purging the enclosure with a gas selected from the group consisting of oxygen reduced air, nitrogen, argon, helium, carbon dioxide, and mixtures thereof. | 28,423 |
8,874,944 | 1. A communication device connected to a network access device constituting a network and capable of communication through the network, comprising: a circumstance determining unit that determines whether or not the network is in a circumstance of executing a protocol causing blocking of communication on the network by changing the link speed to the network access device; a power saving determining unit that determines whether or not a predetermined power saving performance condition is satisfied; and a link speed control unit that maintains the link speed when it is determined that the power saving performance condition is satisfied and when the network is in the circumstance of executing the protocol. | 22,585 |
9,562,505 | 1. A fuel system for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the fuel system comprising: a variable pressure fuel supply configured to selectively supply fuel at different pressure levels; a fuel injector including, a controller connected to the actuator and to the variable pressure fuel supply, the controller configured to generate a control signal to cause the variable pressure fuel supply to supply fuel to the injector cavity at a first pressure level during an initial portion of the injection event and at a second pressure level, higher than the first pressure level, during a subsequent portion of the injection event occurring after the initial portion, wherein the first and the second set of injector orifices are sized to maintain a flow rate of fuel into the combustion chamber at a substantially constant rate during the initial portion of the injection event and the subsequent portion of the injection event. | 4,328 |
9,068,493 | 1. An exhaust gas purification system equipped with a selective reduction catalyst that is capable of adsorbing ammonia and is for using the ammonia to reduce NOx in exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine, and a specified gas concentration sensor that is disposed on a downstream side of the selective reduction catalyst and responds at least to the NOx and the ammonia, the exhaust gas purification system comprising: a passageway area limiting device that is disposed in the exhaust gas passageway on the downstream side of the selective reduction catalyst; a limiting device controlling means which, when a gas concentration detected by the specified gas concentration sensor has become equal to or greater than a predetermined start-of-diagnosis threshold value or when a difference obtained by subtracting from the gas concentration an estimated NOx concentration on the downstream side of the selective reduction catalyst obtained by computation has become equal to or greater than a predetermined start-of-diagnosis threshold value, increases the quantity of the ammonia capable of being adsorbed by the selective reduction catalyst by raising the pressure inside the exhaust gas passageway with the passageway area limiting device; a determining means that determines the abnormal state in which abnormal outflows of ammonia or NOx are occurring on the basis of the gas concentration detected downstream of the selective reduction catalyst or the difference obtained by subtracting from the gas concentration detected downstream of the selective reduction catalyst and an estimated NOx concentration on the downstream side of the selective reduction catalyst obtained by computation after the pressure inside the exhaust gas passageway has been raised; and a reducing agent supply device that supplies a reducing agent derived from the ammonia to the inside of an exhaust gas passageway on an upstream side of the selective reduction catalyst, wherein an operation of the reducing agent supply device is modified based on the determination of the determining means. | 39,493 |
9,388,256 | 1. A method of functionalizing polypropylene with a benzoyloxy moiety, said method comprising: providing a mixture comprising a polymer comprising a polypropylene component and benzoyl peroxide; and applying a mechanical energy to said mixture through solid-state shear pulverization in the presence of cooling at least partially sufficient to maintain said polymer in a solid state during said pulverization, said pulverization at least partially sufficient to graft a benzoyloxy moiety onto said polypropylene component, said pulverization providing a benzoyloxy-functionalized polymer. | 37,305 |
9,729,335 | 1. A method for remotely accessing data, adapted to remotely access a storage unit of a local apparatus through a cloud server, wherein the local apparatus further comprises a network unit, an embedded controller and a system control chip, the method comprises: receiving a remote control signal through the network unit from the cloud server by the embedded controller and controlling a first switch unit of the local apparatus so as to determine whether to cut off a connection between the system control chip and the network unit by the first switch unit, wherein the first switch unit is coupled to the storage unit, the system control chip and the embedded controller; when receiving the remote control signal, determining by the embedded controller on whether a power management state of the local apparatus is a power saving state or a working state, wherein, under the power saving state, power supply to the system control chip is stopped; under a condition that the power management state is determined to be the working state and the system control chip obtains a control of the local apparatus, activating the first switch unit by the embedded controller to establish the connection between the network unit and the system control chip and to cut off a connection between the network unit and the storage unit, so that the system control chip accesses the storage unit and a data received by the network unit is transferred to the storage unit through the system control chip; and under a condition that the power management state is determined to be the power saving state and the embedded controller obtains the control of the local apparatus, activating the first switch unit by the embedded controller to cut off the connection between the system control chip and the network unit and to establish the connection between the network unit and the storage unit, so that the data received by the network unit is directly transferred to the storage unit through the first switch unit. | 1,693 |
8,920,197 | 1. A method of assembling a connector receptacle comprising: assembling a subassembly by: receiving a first plurality of contacts, each having a contacting portion at a first end and a through-hole portion at an opposite end, the first plurality of contacts including a first contact further having a second through-hole portions at the opposite end; insert molding the first plurality of contacts to form an overmold portion; and attaching a second plurality of contacts to the overmold portion, each of the second plurality of contacts having a contacting portion at a first end and a through-hole portion at an opposite end; receiving a connector receptacle housing, the connector receptacle housing having a tongue, the tongue being substantially hollow; inserting an end of the first overmold portion, the contacting portions of the first plurality of contacts, and the contacting portions of the second plurality of contacts of the subassembly, a first ground contact, and a second ground contact in a back opening in a back of the tongue; and aligning the first ground contact with a first edge opening on a first edge of the tongue and the second ground contact with a second edge opening on a second edge of the tongue. | 39,306 |
9,337,744 | 1. A method, comprising: (a) starting a capacitor pre-charge operation, wherein the pre-charge operation involves charging a storage capacitor of an AC-to-DC converter with multiple pulses of charging current so that the capacitor voltage increases in multiple charging steps from an initial storage capacitor voltage of approximately zero volts up to a final pre-charge storage capacitor voltage that is approximately equal to a peak voltage amplitude of a sinusoidal AC supply voltage; (b) determining a periodicity of the AC supply voltage; (c) identifying one sequence of a plurality of stored sequences and obtaining a sequence of switch turn on time values, wherein each stored sequence of the plurality of stored sequences is a sequence of switch turn on time values, wherein the obtained sequence of switch turn on time values is determined based at least in part on the determined periodicity; (d) waiting for a next zero crossing of the AC supply voltage; (e) if there is a next switch turn on time in the identified sequence then turning the switch on in accordance with the next switch turn on time value in the identified sequence and returning to (d) otherwise if there is not a next switch turn on time in the identified sequence then terminating the capacitor pre-charge operation, wherein the sequence identified in (c) is identified by a microcontroller, wherein a turning on of the switch in accordance with a switch turn on time value causes a pulse of charging current to flow in a current path provided that a rectified voltage output by a full bridge rectifier is adequately larger than the voltage on the storage capacitor when the switch is turned on, wherein the current path extends from the full bridge rectifier, then through an inductor, then through the storage capacitor, then through the switch, and then back to the full bridge rectifier, and wherein the microcontroller does not measure the voltage on the storage capacitor and use information from that measurement to determine when to turn the switch on at any time between: 1) the turning on of the switch a first time in accordance with a first switch turn on time in the identified sequence, and 2) the turning on of the switch a last time in accordance with a last switch turn on time in the identified sequence; and (f) after the terminating of the capacitor pre-charge operation then detecting the storage capacitor voltage on the storage capacitor and using the detected storage capacitor voltage to control an output voltage of the AC-to-DC converter when the AC-to-DC converter is operating in a Power Factor Correction (PFC) mode, wherein (f) is performed by the microcontroller. | 49,077 |
9,050,903 | 1. A method of regulating a torque output of a vehicle powertrain, comprising: generating a plurality of torque requests; associating each of said plurality of torque requests with one of a plurality of arbitration domains to form torque request sets associated with each of said plurality of arbitration domains; arbitrating a first torque request set within a first of said plurality of arbitration domains to provide a first torque request; introducing said first torque request into a second torque request set associated with a second of said plurality of arbitration domains; arbitrating said second torque request set within said second arbitration domain to provide a second torque request; and regulating a torque source based on said second torque request. | 5,471 |
9,175,032 | 1. A crystalline form of (2R,3R,4S,5R)-2-(6-amino-9H-purin-9-yl)-5-((((1r,3S)-3-(2-(5-(tert-butyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)ethyl)cyclobutyl) (isopropyl)amino)methyl) tetrahydrofuran-3,4-diol: | 10,922 |
9,721,681 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cylindrical pressure vessel including an upper vessel section, a lower vessel section, and a mid-flange, the upper vessel section and the lower vessel section being joined by the mid-flange; a cylindrical central riser disposed concentrically inside the cylindrical pressure vessel and including an upper riser section disposed in the upper vessel section and a lower riser section disposed in the lower vessel section; a reactor core comprising fissile material disposed inside the cylindrical pressure vessel in the lower vessel section; control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) units controlling control rod insertion actively into the reactor core, the CRDM units being disposed inside the cylindrical pressure vessel above the reactor core and in the lower vessel section with no vertical overlap between the upper vessel section and the CRDM units; a riser transition section disposed between the upper riser section and the lower riser section, the riser transition section being connected to the mid-flange by gussets having first ends welded to the mid-flange and second ends welded to the riser transition section, the gussets being angled downward such that the riser transition section is disposed below the mid-flange; a CRDM support plate disposed below the riser transition section and supporting the CRDM units; and tie rods suspending the CRDM support plate from the mid-flange. | 14,307 |
8,981,589 | 1. A method for operating an electrical system, the electrical system comprising a fuel cell coupled to a bus and a switching arrangement, the bus comprising a positive rail and a negative rail coupled to a negative battery terminal of a battery, the switching arrangement comprising a first switching element coupled between a positive capacitor terminal of a capacitive element and the positive rail and configured to allow current from the positive capacitor terminal to the positive rail when closed, a second switching element coupled between a negative capacitor terminal of the capacitive element and the positive rail and configured to allow current from the positive rail to the negative capacitor terminal when closed, a third switching element coupled between the positive capacitor terminal and a positive battery terminal of the battery and configured to allow current from the positive capacitor terminal to the positive battery terminal when closed, and a fourth switching element coupled between the negative capacitor terminal and the positive battery terminal and configured to allow current from the positive battery terminal to the negative capacitor terminal when closed, the method comprising: operating the switching arrangement such that a battery voltage of the battery is substantially equal to a fuel cell voltage of the fuel cell when a state of charge of the battery is greater than a lower threshold value and less than an upper threshold value; operating the switching arrangement to couple the capacitive element electrically in series between the battery and the bus when the state of charge of the battery is less than or equal to the lower threshold value; and operating the switching arrangement to couple the capacitive element electrically in series between the battery and the bus when the state of charge of the battery is greater than or equal to the upper threshold value. | 46,117 |
9,134,016 | 1. A luminaire comprising: an elongate connector; a lighting receptacle; a base assembly; a first adjustment arm having a first portion pivotally connecting to the lighting receptacle, the first portion being rotatable about an axis that is fixed relative to the adjustment arm, the first adjustment arm having a second portion spaced-apart from the first portion, the second portion being rotatable about an axis of the elongate connector, the axis of the elongate connector being fixed relative to the adjustment arm, the elongate connector being slidably moveable relative to the base assembly along a defined path, and the first adjustment arm having a slot positioned between the first and second portions; a second adjustment arm having a first portion pivotally connecting to the lighting receptacle, a second portion spaced-apart from the first portion of the second adjustment arm, the second portion of the second adjustment arm connecting to the base assembly, and a slot positioned between the first and second portions of the second adjustment arm, the second portion of the first adjustment arm pivotally connecting to and engaging with the second adjustment arm via the elongate connector which is slidably moveable within the slot of the second adjustment arm; and an adjustment member threadably connected to the lighting receptacle, the adjustment member being threadably adjustable from a lower position adjacent to the lighting receptacle to an upper position spaced-apart from the lighting receptacle, the adjustment member pivotally engaging with the first adjustment arm via the slot of the first adjustment arm. | 42,749 |
9,291,127 | 1. An engine arrangement comprising an engine, a charge air cooler connected to an engine inlet side of the engine, an air bypass for bypassing the charge air cooler, a turbocharger arranged upstream of the air bypass, and an EGR system connected between an engine outlet side and an engine inlet side of the engine via one or more EGR lines, wherein the air bypass enters the EGR system at an air bypass port of an EGR line for mixing air with exhaust gas at the engine outlet side of the EGR system, wherein the air bypass enters the EGR system between a first EGR cooler and a second EGR cooler, the second EGR cooler is arranged downstream of the first EGR cooler, wherein the first and second EGR coolers form a cooled EGR line, and output gas of the second EGR cooler is arranged to flow into a mixing port, where the exhaust gas is arranged to be mixed with air from the charge air cooler, wherein the engine outlet side and the engine inlet side are connected via a direct EGR line free of an EGR cooler, and wherein the turbocharger is selectively connectable to the direct EGR line and to the cooled EGR line. | 48,061 |
9,830,887 | 1. A method of controlling a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) appliance, the method comprising: a HVAC appliance control displaying, on an alphanumeric display of the HVAC appliance control, a plurality of menu options user-selectable therefrom for entering operational parameters whereby to configure the HVAC appliance control to control an HVAC appliance, the menu options further including an option user-selectable for rotating the displaying on the alphanumeric display; the HVAC appliance control receiving a user input indicating selection of the option for rotating the displaying; the HVAC appliance control determining a response to the user input; and the HVAC appliance control implementing the determined response by rotating the displaying from a first display orientation to a second display orientation. | 8,765 |
8,523,211 | 1. A knee roller, comprising: a support frame; a handlebar assembly adjustably attached to the support frame, the handlebar assembly being non-pivotal relative to the support frame; a knee support adjustably attached to the support frame, the knee support configured for supporting a knee of a user; a pair of coaxial wheels attached to the support frame at a position below the knee support, where the pair of coaxial wheels rotates about a common rotation axis, and a vertical plane defined by the rotation axis intersects the knee support; a first auxiliary wheel positioned towards a front end of the support frame, the first auxiliary wheel configured to swivel based on a direction of travel of the knee roller when the first auxiliary wheel engages a ground surface; a second auxiliary wheel positioned towards a rear end of the support frame, the second auxiliary wheel configured to swivel based on the direction of travel of the knee roller when the second auxiliary wheel engages the ground surface; wherein a tangential plane formed by a point of contact of the first auxiliary wheel and points of contact of the pair of coaxial wheels is different from a tangential plane formed by a point of contact of the second auxiliary wheel and the points of contact of the pair of coaxial wheels, allowing the first and second auxiliary wheels to conditionally engage the ground surface; and wherein the position of the pair of coaxial wheels with respect to the knee support substantially distributes a weight received at the knee support over the pair of coaxial wheels and allows the knee roller to turn about a vertical axis perpendicular to and intersects with the rotation axis. | 39,962 |
9,580,511 | 1. A binding polypeptide comprising at least one glycan comprising at least one moiety of Formula (IV): wherein: A) Q is NH or O; B) CON is a connector moiety; C) X is a cytotoxin; D) Gal is a galactose moiety; E) Sia is a sialic acid moiety. | 38,734 |
8,592,230 | 1. A method of patterning a substrate, comprising: providing a focusing plate adjacent to a plasma chamber containing a plasma, the focusing plate configured to extract ions from the plasma through at least one aperture that provides focused ions towards the substrate; and directing first ions through the at least one aperture to one or more first regions of the substrate, the first ions configured to react with first gaseous species provided in ambient of the substrate on the one or more first regions of the substrate, wherein the first gaseous species comprise a dopant of a first type; and directing second ions through the at least one aperture to one or more second regions of the substrate, the second ions configured to react with second gaseous species provided in ambient of the substrate on the one or more second regions of the substrate, the second gaseous species comprising a dopant of a second type. | 29,001 |
8,433,807 | 1. In an Internet Protocol (IP) edge device, a method for providing access termination information to a User Equipment, comprising: setting up an Internet Protocol (IP) session for a User Equipment (UE); managing the IP session by determining when the IP session needs to terminate based on access termination information received by, or generated from, one or more of: a network management system; a policy server; or a policy document; based on the determined need to terminate the IP session, adding the access termination information to a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) message in an Option field or a Diagnostic field thereof; and sending the BFD message that carries the access termination information to the UE so that the UE can perform corresponding operations according to the access termination information. | 25,292 |
9,237,470 | 1. An apparatus for receiving and transporting real time resource usage data, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of narrowband receivers, deployed geographically within a grid, wherein each of said plurality of narrowband receivers is configured to receive transmissions from a least one of a plurality of automated meter reading (AMR) meters, and wherein each of said plurality of AMR meters transmits identical data on each of a plurality of frequency bands that are hopped according to a hopping sequence, and wherein said hopping sequence is initially unknown to said plurality of narrowband receivers; and a controller, coupled to said plurality of narrowband receivers, configured to control said plurality of narrowband receivers such that said each of said plurality of AMR meters is identified, and configured to control said plurality of narrowband receivers such that corresponding data from said each of said AMR meters is received on at least one of said plurality of frequency bands, wherein said controller determines an identification for said each of said plurality of AMR meters by initially setting all of said plurality of said receivers to the same one of said plurality of frequency bands and receiving identification data from those of said plurality of AMR meters that transmit on said same one of said plurality of frequency bands. | 23,367 |
9,835,034 | 1. A method for detuning a rotor-blade cascade, comprising a multiplicity of rotor blades, of a turbomachine, the method comprising: a) establishing for each of the rotor blades of the rotor-blade cascade at least one setpoint natural frequency ν b) compiling a value table ν c) measuring the mass m d) determining actual natural frequency ν e) in the event that the actual natural frequency ν f) repeating steps c) to e) until the actual natural frequency ν | 41,873 |
8,943,848 | 1. An integrated ventilation unit configured to provide ventilation and conditioned air to an indoor space, comprising: a heat pump system comprising: an energy recovery device configured to transfer heat between a return air stream and a supply air stream; a control unit configured to control operation of the heat pump system and the energy recovery device; an intake air chamber configured to receive outside air; and a heater located adjacent the intake air chamber, wherein the control unit is configured to: | 36,683 |
8,575,808 | 1. An electric motor, comprising: a magnetic field induction device and an induced field device, the magnetic field induction device and the induced field device rotating relative to one another, the induction device comprising a set of two conducting coils that are coaxial, through which currents travel in the same direction, and a superconducting element placed between the two conducting coils and placed in a plane that is inclined relative to an axis of the two conducting coils, said superconducting element channeling the magnetic field produced by the two conducting coils on either side of the inclined plane, one and the same current traveling through the two conducting coils. | 39,915 |
9,561,244 | 1. A method for treating a neoplasia in a human, comprising administering to the human an amount of actein effective to treat the neoplasia and an effective anti-neoplastic amount of at least one additional chemotherapeutic agent, wherein the at least one additional chemotherapeutic agent is selected from the group consisting of cisplatin, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, herceptin, paclitaxel, and tamoxifen, wherein the amount of actein is about 0.2 μg/ml to 20.0 μg/ml; and wherein the amount of cisplatin is about 2 μg/ml to 20 μg/ml, the amount of doxorubicin is about 0.02 μg/ml to 0.2 μg/ml, the amount of 5-fluorouracil is about 0.002 μg/ml to 0.2 μg/ml, the amount of herceptin is about 0.8 μg/ml to 32 μg/ml, the amount of tamoxifen is about 2 μg/ml to 50 μg/ml, and the amount of paclitaxel is about 0.5 nM to 5 nM. | 38,546 |
8,626,250 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a terminal body including a battery; a solar cell disposed on one surface of the terminal body, and configured to convert light energy into electric energy to supply power to the battery; a plurality of luminous elements configured to generate and emit light, and arranged on one surface of the solar cell, the plurality of luminous elements being arranged with having spaces left such that the solar cell absorbs light through the spaces non-arranged with the plurality of luminous elements; a sheet disposed on a front surface of the solar cell and configured to support the plurality of luminous elements; a protection layer formed onto a front surface of the sheet and configured to protect the plurality of luminous elements; an intermediate portion located between the protection layer and the sheet and configured to fill the spaces; and a controller configured to control the plurality of luminous elements to display visual information and to execute a predetermined operation based on a selection of predetermined displaying luminous elements among the plurality of luminous elements, wherein each of the sheet, the protection layer and the intermediate portion is made of transparent materials such that ambient light of the mobile terminal is transmitted therethrough so as to reach the solar cell. | 5,133 |
8,563,351 | 1. A method for manufacturing a photovoltaic device comprising: providing a substrate; forming a first conductive layer over the substrate; forming first grooves in the first conductive layer using a nanoimprint and etching process, the nanoimprint and etching process comprising pressing a mold having a pattern into an intermedium layer disposed over the first conductive layer and etching the first conductive layer; forming an absorption layer over the first conductive layer, the absorption layer filling in the first grooves; forming second grooves in the absorption layer using a nanoimprint process in the absorption layer; forming a second conductive layer over the absorption layer, the second conductive layer filling in the second grooves; and forming third grooves in the second conductive layer and the absorption layer, thereby defining a photovoltaic cell unit. | 49,084 |
9,732,730 | 1. A wind turbine comprising: a wind turbine tower having a top and a bottom; a nacelle provided on top of the wind turbine tower; a rotor hub rotatably mounted to the nacelle; one or more wind turbine blades mounted to the rotor hub, wherein the wind turbine blades form a rotor plane, wherein the rotor plane is facing upwind relative to a wind direction; a floating foundation having a upper section configured to be mounted to the bottom of the wind turbine tower, wherein the foundation has a buoyant body and is configured to be installed at an offshore position having a predetermined water depth, wherein each of the one or more wind turbine blades comprises at least an inner blade section with a first aerodynamic profile and an outer blade section with a second aerodynamic profile, wherein the inner blade section has a stall-controlled aerodynamic profile and the outer blade section has a pitch-controlled aerodynamic profile, wherein the inner blade section is mounted to the rotor hub and the outer blade section is coupled to the inner blade section by at least one pitch junction, the wind turbine having a pitch control system which is configured to pitch the outer blade section relative to the inner blade section at wind speeds above a first wind speed, and wherein the wind speed acting on the inner blade sections defines a first thrust value, the wind speed acting on the outer blade sections defines a second thrust value, wherein the wind speed acting on the inner and outer blade sections defines a resultant thrust value acting on the rotor hub, and wherein the pitch control system is adapted and configured to use the first thrust value as a reference thrust value as a parameter, and wherein the pitch control system is adapted to control the pitching of the outer blade sections and the pitch control system is adapted to regulate the second thrust value relative to the first thrust value and to control the pitching of the outer blade sections so that the resultant thrust value is maintained at a substantially constant value. | 39,938 |
9,122,522 | 1. A method comprising; executing, by an accelerated processing device (APD), a first task; monitoring, by the APD, for an interruption in the execution of the first task; switching autonomously, by the APD, to a second task if the interruption is detected; subsequently notifying a scheduler that the APD has switched from the first task to the second task, wherein the first task and second task are from a run list comprising one or more tasks; and responding, by the scheduler to the notification, by sending one or more instruction messages to update the APD if the priority of the second task is less than the priority of at least one remaining task in the run list. | 20,764 |
9,487,878 | 1. A method of manufacturing a lighting tile having a substrate bearing an electrode structure, the method comprising: providing a substrate bearing a light emitting structure with an electrically conductive seed layer patterned into tracks; connecting ends of said tracks to an electrical power supply; and electroplating a layer of electrode metal onto said tracks using current from said electrical power supply, thereby forming an electrode structure comprising a plurality of electrically conductive tracks disposed over said substrate; and an electrical connection region connecting to said plurality of tracks, wherein the height of said tracks tapers away from said connection region to compensate for reduction in luminance from said lighting tile from the electrical connection region. | 45,239 |
8,602,364 | 1. A trailing-edge flap system comprising a trailing-edge flap and a movement device that moveably couples the trailing-edge flap to an aerofoil, the movement device comprising at least a translatory mover that translatory moves the trailing-edge flap and at least a rotational mover that rotationally moves the trailing-edge flap, wherein the translatory mover is configured as a telescope drive comprising several individual telescopic boxes which are arranged nested in one another and can be moved relative to one another for moving the trailing-edge flap along a line of translatory movement, wherein, when seen from the aerofoil, the trailing-edge flap is rotationally coupled to a last telescopic box whereby a pivot bearing point is defined, wherein the rotational mover is configured as a lever kinematics comprising: a stationary pivot being fixed to the aerofoil and being provided for a single lever that is coupled to the trailing-edge flap in a second pivot at the end of a connection bar. | 10,885 |
8,353,176 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a chassis; and a liquid cooling unit including a heat exchanger, the liquid cooling unit capable of: being in an open position providing access inside the chassis, being in a closed position, being movable between the open and closed positions without removing the liquid cooling unit from the chassis, and being secured in the closed position. | 44,073 |
9,049,312 | 1. An interactive method for characterizing printer streaks, the method comprising: a. printing an image onto a printable media using a printing system in operable communication with an automated image quality artifact characterization system; b. observing the printed image and identifying the presence of at least one image quality artifact in the image; c. accessing an interactive tool and operating program integrated with the automated image quality artifact characterization system; d. implementing a user focus and selection process within the interactive tool to identify the boundaries of a region of interest within the image including at least a portion of the image quality artifact for characterization; e. running the operating program to select the identified region of interest for characterization by the automated image quality artifact characterization system; f. generating a one dimensional streak density profile of only the identified region of interest of the image using a two-dimensional characterization data set within the automated image quality artifact characterization system, the density profile representing intensity and color value variation within the selected region of interest of the image; g. implementing a user parameter selection process within the interactive tool to select descriptor parameter values to be used by the automated image quality artifact characterization system in characterization of the selected region of interest of the image; h. inputting the selected parameters into the operating program; i. operating an automated image-quality characterization algorithm within the automated image quality artifact characterization system that uses the selected parameters to calculate streak characterizing values; j. repeating steps (c)-(i) based on operator feedback from the calculations of step (i) as many times as necessary to generate a streak characterization of the selected region of interest; and k. optimizing the printer system according to the generated streak characterization to remove streaks. | 39,703 |
9,578,979 | 1. A mounting device for collectables, the mounting device being configurable to a wall-mounted configuration, in which the mounting device supports a collectable on a wall, and a horizontal support surface mounted configuration, in which the mounting device supports a collectable on a horizontal surface, the mounting device comprising: a pair of support members, each support member including: | 36,217 |
8,664,560 | 1. An apparatus for abating fluorocarbons in gas reaction products from a vacuum processing chamber comprising: a dielectric tube in fluid communication with an outlet port of the vacuum processing chamber; a coil disposed around the dielectric tube; and an RF source, connected to the coil, wherein the coil is adapted to dissociate fluorocarbons in the gas into smaller molecules upon receiving RF energy from the RF source, and wherein the RF source is adapted to provide sufficient RF energy for such dissociation. | 46,850 |
8,877,024 | 1. A sensor control apparatus comprising: a gas sensor including a first measurement chamber into which an object gas is introduced, a first oxygen pump cell having a first solid electrolyte layer and paired first electrodes provided on the inside and outside, respectively, of the first measurement chamber, a second measurement chamber communicating with the first measurement chamber, and a second oxygen pump cell having a second solid electrolyte layer and paired second electrodes provided on the inside and outside, respectively, of the second measurement chamber; and a control section including a drive circuit section configured to perform drive control for adjusting an oxygen concentration of the object gas introduced into the first measurement chamber through supply of electricity to the first oxygen pump cell and for applying an ordinary voltage to the second oxygen pump cell, and calculation means programmed to calculate a concentration correspondence value which represents a concentration of a specific gas, on the basis of the magnitude of current flowing through the second oxygen pump cell to which the ordinary voltage is applied, the drive circuit section further includes a constant current circuit, the sensor control apparatus being characterized in that the control section further includes preliminary control means programmed to perform, before start of the drive control and at the time that the drive circuit section performs drive control for adjusting the oxygen concentration of the object as introduced into the first measurement chamber through supply of electricity to the first oxygen pump cell, preliminary control which supplies a constant current to the second oxygen pump cell over a constant time, to thereby control to a constant level an amount of oxygen pumped out from the second measurement chamber to the outside of the second measurement chamber; and the sensor control apparatus further includes a storage means configured for storing control conditions of the sensor control apparatus which are associated with the amount of the pumped oxygen and are determined for the gas sensor individually, the control conditions being determined to bring into a target range the concentration correspondence value calculated by the calculation means after start of the drive control which is started after the preliminary control is executed in a state in which a reference gas having a known concentration is introduced into the gas sensor, wherein the preliminary control means programmed to execute the preliminary control under the control conditions, wherein the control conditions include at least one of the constant current and the constant time determined for the gas sensor individually. | 6,423 |
9,591,748 | 1. A capacitance touch panel, comprising: a substrate comprising a touching area and a peripheral area around the touching area; a plurality of insulated protrusions in the touching area; an insulated frame in the peripheral area; a plurality of first conductive patterns arranged in a plurality of rows along a first orientation; a plurality of second conductive patterns arranged between neighboring rows of the first conductive patterns, wherein the first conductive patterns are electrically insulated from the second conductive patterns; a plurality of connecting portions, wherein each connecting portion connects two neighboring first conductive patterns arranged in a row; and a plurality of bridging members electrically connecting two neighboring second conductive patterns; wherein one of the insulated protrusions has a curved surface and covers one of the connecting portions; and wherein at least one of the insulated protrusions overlaps partially at least one of the second conductive patterns. | 21,775 |
8,555,908 | 1. A tent frame assembly comprising: first and second trekking poles; each trekking pole having a first grip end and a second tip end; a bracket; the bracket having an elongated central portion and first and second end portions; the first and second end portions each having openings therein; the opening in the first end portion of the bracket adapted to receive the second tip end of the first trekking pole and the opening in the second end portion of the bracket adapted to receive the second tip end of the second trekking pole, the first grip end of each trekking pole being adapted to be supported by the ground, thereby forming a roof support truss for a tent; a first angle formed between the central portion and the first end portion and a second angle formed between the central portion and the second end. | 27,615 |
8,615,065 | 1. A nuclear reactor lower internals structure having an axial and a circumferential dimension comprising: a tubular core barrel supported coaxially within the lower internals and having an inside vertically extending surface and an upper and lower end; and a reflector having a plurality of axial and circumferential segments and an outside curvature that substantially matches a curvature of the inside surface of the core barrel and contacts at least a substantial portion of the inside surface of the core barrel covered by the reflector, is supported substantially over at least a central axial length of the core barrel that extends substantially from or above the lower end toward the upper end and over at least a portion of the circumferential dimension covered by the reflector, the reflector further has an inside contour that matches an outside contour of an abutting array of a plurality of nuclear fuel assemblies that are designed to be supported within the core barrel to form a nuclear core and the axial and circumferential reflector segments are separately, fixedly connected to and respectively supported by the inside vertically extending surface of the core barrel at a plurality of axial and circumferential locations and wherein the reflector does not extend substantially continuously from the lower end to the upper end of the core barrel and is divided into axial sections that interface with each other at an acute angle with the inside surface of the core barrel. | 42,645 |
9,822,760 | 1. A joined blade rotor system to install on or forming part of a horizontal axis wind turbine, the joined blade rotor system comprising: a plurality of joined blade assemblies extending radially from a central hub having a substantially horizontal axis; wherein each joined blade assembly comprises at least two blades, a first blade and a second blade or more blades in different rotor planes, said first and second blades are connected by one or more brace systems to each other; the one or more brace systems comprising brace struts hingedly or rigidly connected to the second blade and hingedly or rigidly connected to the first blade, the brace struts being rigidly connected to at least either the second blade or the first blade and the first and the second blades are connected to the central hub directly or using a root mounting and pitch bearings with a gap and a stagger distance. | 41,092 |
9,051,128 | 1. A transmission device for glass substrate, which comprises: a transmission channel, the transmission channel being configured to load and transmit the glass substrate, the transmission channel comprising: a first mode transmission channel and a second mode transmission channel, disposed in connected manner and to transmit in order; a calibration mechanism, the calibration mechanism being disposed at a junction between the first mode transmission channel and the second mode transmission channel, and for calibrating a position of the glass substrate during transmission; and a decompression mechanism, the decompression mechanism comprising a plurality of air tubes and a plurality of air outlets disposed on the air tubes, the air tubes being connected to air outlets, the plurality of air outlets of the plurality of air tubes being arranged in a matrix format with equal intervals, the decompression mechanism being disposed at the junction between the first mode transmission channel and the second mode transmission channel; the decompression mechanism being configured for that when the calibration mechanism calibrating the position of the glass substrate, the decompression mechanism blowing air to the glass substrate behind the transmission channel to reduce the pressure of the glass substrate on the transmission channel so as to reduce the friction between the transmission channel and the glass substrate; and the decompression mechanism further being configured for that when the calibration mechanism is not performing the calibrating to the position of the glass substrate, the decompression mechanism being in a standby state or turned off during transmission of the glass substrate rather than blowing air to the glass substrate so as to save energy; wherein the first mode transmission channel is roller type, and the transmission channel comprises a plurality of roller axes, each of the plurality of roller axes is disposed perpendicular to the transmission direction and with intervals along the transmission direction, each of the plurality roller axes is disposed with a plurality of transmission rollers being separated with intervals along a direction perpendicular to the transmission direction and for contacting the glass substrate. | 25,758 |
8,346,780 | 1. An integrated search server which is coupled with a plurality of search clients, a plurality of search servers, and a plurality of file servers, the integrated search server comprising: a processor, and a main storage device, wherein the processor obtains digest information which is related to a search condition included in an integrated search result obtaining request received from one of the plurality of search clients, and which is for narrowing down search servers from which search results are obtained, from each of the plurality of search servers, and narrows down the search servers from which the search results are obtained, from the plurality of search servers, based on the obtained plural pieces of digest information and a predetermined search server narrow-down rule, wherein the processor further obtains the search results corresponding to the integrated search result obtaining request, from the search servers which have been narrowed down, integrates the search results, and provides the integrated search result to the search client, wherein each of the plural pieces of digest information is a score value of each document included in the search results provided based on the search condition by the plurality of search servers, wherein the processor compares the score values for the plurality of search servers, and thereby narrows down the search servers from which the search results are obtained, wherein the number of search results to be provided to the search client is set to k (an integer equal to or larger than 1), wherein each of the plural pieces of digest information is a maximum score value and a minimum score value of the documents included in the search results in each of the plurality of search servers, and wherein the processor selects search servers (candidate search servers) having the number of search results, in which a sum of the search results is equal to or larger than the k, in descending order of the maximum score value, selects search servers (supplementary search servers) in which the maximum score value is larger than the minimum score value which is the smallest in the candidate search servers, from search servers other than the selected candidate search servers, narrows the servers from which the search results are obtained, down to the candidate search servers and the supplementary search servers, and provides k search results with top score values, from the search results provided from the search servers which have been narrowed down, to the search client. | 28,247 |
9,687,839 | 1. A method of regenerating hydrogenation catalyst activity in-situ, the method comprising: a) providing a hydrogenation reactor for carbohydrates, said reactor being configured to have at least a first and a second vessel, said first vessel having a first catalyst and said second vessel having a second catalyst, said first and second catalysts being either the same or of a different material, said first and second vessels are arranged either in serial communication or in parallel communication with each other; and b) rinsing each respective vessel and catalyst with subcritical deionized water of between about 130° C.-250° C. for an extended period. | 15,860 |
8,701,369 | 1. A tower for a wind turbine, comprising: at least one tower section having a jacket wall and a pair of tower section flanges, a first of the pair of tower section flanges at an upper end of the at least one tower section and a second of the pair of tower section flanges at a lower end of the at least one tower section; a platform positioned within one of the at least one tower sections; a first plurality of flexible, tensile load carrying members that extend from the platform to the second of the pair of tower section flanges at the lower end, wherein the first plurality of flexible, tensile load carrying members include at least one of wires and chains; and a ladder that is accessible via the platform and that extends downward from the platform. | 2,573 |
9,391,460 | 1. A power control apparatus, provided at a consumer site having a distributed power supply capable of supplying power and a load equipment, controlling a stand-alone operation in which power supplied from the distributed power supply is converted into AC power and the converted AC power is supplied to the load equipment, the power control apparatus comprising: a determination processing unit that determines whether or not a supplied power from the distributed power supply satisfies a demanded power required for operating the load equipment, when it operates in the stand-alone operation; and a supply control unit that suspends the stand-alone operation if it is determined that the supplied power does not satisfy the demanded power, wherein the determination processing unit | 27,138 |
9,196,776 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: first and second solar cells arranged in a predetermined direction; and a connection member configured to electrically connect the first and second solar cells, the connection member having a width extending in the predetermined direction and a height extending in a direction crossing the predetermined direction, the connection member having an insulating substrate and a conductive body that is formed on the insulating substrate and on a surface facing the first and second solar cells, such that a first portion of the conductive body is sandwiched between the first solar cell and the insulating substrate, and such that a second portion of the conductive body separate from the first portion is sandwiched between the second solar cell and the insulating substrate, wherein each of the first and second solar cells includes: a photoelectric conversion part having a light receiving surface and a back surface provided on an opposite side to the light receiving surface; n-side electrodes on the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part; and p-side electrodes on the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part, a first section having a first surface opposed to the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part included in the first solar cell; and a second section having a second surface opposed to the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part included in the second solar cell, the conductive body includes a plurality of first conductive regions provided on the first surface and extending along the width of the connection member in the predetermined direction along the n-side electrodes included in the first solar cell and facing the n-side electrodes, the plurality of first conductive regions being spaced apart from each other in the direction crossing the predetermined direction, and the insulating substrate includes a plurality of first insulating regions formed on the first surface and being alternatively arranged with respect to the plurality of first conductive regions in the direction crossing the predetermined direction, such that one of the first conductive regions is sandwiched between an adjacent two of the plurality of first insulating regions in the direction crossing the predetermined direction and such that the plurality of first insulating regions do not overlap any of the plurality of first conductive regions, the plurality of first insulating regions directly physically contacting via resin the p-side electrodes on the back surface of the first solar cell, the conductive body includes a plurality of second conductive regions provided on the second surface and extending along the width of the connection member in the predetermined direction along the p-side electrodes included in the second solar cell and electrically contacting the p-side electrodes of the second solar cell, the plurality of second conductive regions being spaced apart from each other in the direction crossing the predetermined direction, and the insulating substrate includes a plurality of second insulating regions formed on the second surface and being alternatively arranged with respect to the plurality of second conductive regions in the direction crossing the predetermined direction, such that one of the second conductive regions is sandwiched between an adjacent two of the plurality of second insulating regions in the direction crossing the predetermined direction and such that the plurality of second insulating regions do not overlap any of the plurality of second conductive regions, the plurality of second insulating regions directly physically contacting via resin the n-side electrodes on the back surface of the second solar cell, each first conductive region is electrically connected to each n-side electrode included in the first solar cell and each first insulating region physically contacts one of the p-side electrodes included in the first solar cell, each second conductive region is electrically connected to each p-side electrode included in the second solar cell and each second insulating region physically contacts one of the n-side electrodes included in the second solar cell, and each first conductive region and each second conductive region are electrically connected to each other. | 43,101 |
8,438,436 | 1. A method of securing a design-for-test scan chain within a programmable integrated circuit device (IC), the method comprising: placing the programmable IC in an operational mode; responsive to a request to access a scan chain within the programmable IC, selectively enabling a secure mode within the programmable IC according to a configuration state of the programmable IC, wherein enabling secure mode within the programmable IC provides access to the scan chain; and responsive to enabling the secure mode, retaining the programmable IC in the secure mode and preventing the programmable IC from re-entering the operational mode until the programmable IC is power cycled. | 45,984 |
9,784,637 | 1. An adsorption characteristic measuring apparatus that supplies a predetermined adsorption gas to a sample accommodated in a sample tube to measure an adsorption isotherm, the apparatus comprising: a refrigerant container that is filled with a constant-temperature refrigerant in which the sample tube is immersed; a sample tube fitting that is provided at an opening of the sample tube; an adsorption gas supply configured to supply the adsorption gas; a gas-supply fitting that is provided at a supply port of the adsorption gas supply; a pipe that is provided between the gas-supply fitting and the sample tube fitting and includes a reference volume having an inner space of a predetermined reference volume, a plurality of pipes, and a plurality of on-off valves; an exhaust pump that is connected to the pipe through the on-off valves; a reference-volume pressure gauge configured to detect a pressure value of the reference volume, a sample tube pressure gauge configured to detect an internal pressure of the sample tube; and a measurement controller configured to perform opening/closing control of the plurality of on-off valves according to predetermined steps and measures an adsorption isotherm based on the internal pressure value of the sample tube and the pressure value of the reference volume, wherein the measurement controller is configured to obtain a plurality of sets of measurement values including a true equilibrium pressure value and a true adsorption amount, and further configured to calculate the adsorption isotherm based on the plurality sets of measurement values, wherein the measurement controller includes: a unit-time leak pressure value receiver configured to receive a unit-time leak pressure value, wherein the unit-time leak pressure value is a pressure increase value per a unit time of the internal pressure value of the sample tube caused by a non-adsorption gas leaking from the outside of the sample tube fitting into an inner space of the sample tube in a state where the sample tube is sealed after the inside of the sample tube is exhausted; a measured equilibrium pressure value receiver configured to determine a measured equilibrium pressure value at which a temporal change of the internal pressure value of the sample tube becomes an equilibrium state when the sample tube is in a closed state after supplying an adsorption gas present in the reference volume into the sample tube having the inside exhausted prior to the supplying; a true equilibrium pressure value calculator configured to calculate a true equilibrium pressure value after correction of a real leak pressure value is performed on the measured equilibrium pressure value, the real leak pressure value being the unit-time leak pressure value multiplied by a leak time; and a true adsorption amount calculator configured to calculate an adsorption amount of the adsorption gas on the sample under the true equilibrium pressure value based on the pressure value of the reference volume and the true equilibrium pressure value. | 3,978 |
9,246,419 | 1. A method of controlling a motor connected to a battery, the motor having a reluctance torque higher than a magnetic torque at a time of a highest torque generation, and comprising a rotor connected to an output shaft of an engine, the method comprising: decelerating the output shaft with a first applied torque when in a high rotation speed range; decelerating the output shaft with a second applied torque that is larger than the first applied torque when in a low rotation speed range, supplying fuel to the engine to rotate the output shaft in the low rotation speed range or the high rotation speed range; supplying power from the battery to the motor to give a torque to the output shaft in a same direction as a rotation direction of the output shaft; and supplying more torque to the output shaft when rotating the output shaft in the low rotation speed range than when rotating the output shaft in the high rotation speed range, wherein the first and second applied torques cause the output shaft's rotation speed to decrease, wherein the magnetic torque is a torque generated by attraction and repulsion between poles of the rotating magnetic field of a stator and magnetic poles of permanent magnets of the rotor, wherein the reluctance torque is a torque generated only by attraction forces between poles of a rotating magnetic field of the stator and salient poles of the rotor. | 29,297 |
9,162,565 | 1. A fuel tank mounting system for a movable machine, comprising: a tank; and a movable mounting apparatus connecting the tank to a frame of the movable machine, the movable mounting apparatus enabling vertical motion of the tank relative to the frame, the movable mounting apparatus including a spring and shock absorber, the shock absorber including tunable hydraulic dampening, the shock absorber including a stationary mode of operation being active when the movable machine is being loaded and a moving mode of operation being active when the movable machine is in motion, the shock absorber exhibiting a first amount of dampening in the stationary mode of operation and a second amount of dampening in the moving mode of operation, the second amount of dampening being greater than the first amount of dampening. | 26,036 |
9,248,492 | 1. A panel system, comprising: a first panel including a thermally insulating material; a first panel wing attached to the first panel, wherein the first panel and first panel wing define a first channel; a hinge material connected to the first panel and first panel wing; a flexible tubing disposed in the first channel; and a thermal transfer medium disposed over a surface of the first panel and thermally connected to the flexible tubing. | 5,774 |
9,341,950 | 1. A method of forming a patterned layer, comprising: forming a photoresist layer on a layer; disposing the layer with the photoresist layer formed thereon in an exposure apparatus, wherein the exposure apparatus exposes the photoresist layer on the layer to form a plurality of strip exposed patterns on the layer, and the exposure apparatus comprising: performing a development process on the photoresist layer, so as to form a patterned photoresist layer on the layer; and patterning the layer by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask. | 1,602 |
9,172,114 | 1. An energy storage device comprising a cathode region, the cathode region comprising: an active material region comprising an active material that expands or contracts from a first volume to a second volume during a period of charge and discharge; a catholyte material spatially confined in spatial regions not occupied by the active material region, wherein the catholyte material comprises: | 17,311 |
9,095,900 | 1. A generative production method for producing a component by repeated, consecutive selective melting and/or sintering of a powder by heat introduced by beam energy, such that powder particles fuse and/or sinter in layers, wherein the method comprises using powder particles of a first material which are surrounded in part or over an entire surface thereof by a second material that has a lower melting point than that of the first material and/or has a property which lowers the melting point of the first material when it is mixed with the first material, the first material being selected from Ni-based alloys, Fe-based alloys, Co-based alloys, alloys of formula MCrAl where M is Ni or Co, tungsten, and tungsten alloys, and the second material comprising on or more of boron, germanium and silicon; and wherein (i) the first material has a melting point of more than 1500° C.; and/or (ii) the method further comprises subjecting the component to a heat treatment with and without pressure, such that the second material is distributed uniformly in the first material; and/or (iii) the method further comprises preheating the powder or heating the powder by energy in addition to the beam energy. | 3,910 |
9,500,715 | 1. A secondary battery tester comprising: a voltage measuring unit for measuring a terminal voltage between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a secondary battery without applying an AC voltage; a current measuring unit for measuring a current flowing between the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the secondary battery without applying an alternating current; a capacitance deriving means for deriving, from the voltage measured by the voltage measuring unit and the current measured by the current measuring unit, capacitance of the secondary battery at a predetermined time from the start of measurement; a storage unit for preliminarily storing temporal variation of capacitance of a normal secondary battery; and a determination means for comparing the capacitance at the predetermined time derived by the capacitance deriving means and the capacitance at the predetermined time obtained from the temporal variation of the capacitance stored in the storage unit, and determining whether the secondary battery being measured is degraded. | 47,107 |
8,635,313 | 1. A method, comprising: requesting a first device in a computer network to provide device settings that include wide area network (WAN) configuration data and local area network (LAN) configuration data as part of network settings, the device settings including information specific to the first device; converting the device settings including the WAN configuration data and the LAN configuration data to data in a device independent format and storing the data in the device independent format; identifying a replacement device to replace the first device in the computer network; after the first device is removed from the computer network and after the replacement device is added to the computer network: | 11,253 |
8,559,837 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image heating member configured to heat an image formed on each of a plurality of first recording materials and a second recording material, the second recording material having a thickness greater than the first recording materials; a pressing member configured to form a nip, between itself and said image heating member, in which each recording material is to be nipped and conveyed; and an executing portion configured to execute different image heating conditions during the heating of the first recording materials when the image formed on the first recording materials is to be subsequently formed on the second recording material, wherein the executing portion is also configured to execute an operation in a first mode in which the image formed on each of the plurality of the first recording materials is heated under a first image heating condition and an operation in a second mode in which the image formed on the second recording material is heated under a second image heating condition, wherein when the images are formed in the first mode and subsequently the image is formed in the second mode, a switching operation is carried out in which the first recording material is heated under a third image heating condition different from the first image heating condition, said switching operation being started before finishing the operation in the first mode so that the heating of images on the first recording materials is performed under different image heating conditions when the image formed on the first recording materials is to be subsequently formed on the second recording material, and wherein the first and third image heating conditions comprise a sheet passing speed of the first recording material, and wherein the sheet passing speed of the third condition is higher than the sheet passing speed of the first condition, so that the sheet passing speed of the first recording materials in the first mode is increased when the image formed on the first recording materials is to be subsequently formed on the second recording material. | 19,526 |
8,755,296 | 1. A wireless network system comprising: a plurality of wireless communication devices; and an access point connected to each of the wireless communication devices, wherein each of the wireless communication devices includes: a sensor processing unit that generates sensor data including a measurement result acquired by a sensor provided in each of the wireless communication devices; a communication measurement unit that generates communication quality data including a state of communication for transmitting a packet from each of the wireless communication devices; a compression determination unit that determines compression rates of the generated sensor data and the generated communication quality data according to the contents of the generated communication quality data; a compression unit that compresses the generated sensor data and the generated communication quality data according to the compression rates determined by the compression determination unit; and a wireless communication unit that transmits a packet including the sensor data and the communication quality data which are compressed by the compression unit to another of the wireless communication devices or the access point, wherein the wireless communication unit of a first wireless communication device among the wireless communication units receives a first packet transmitted from a second wireless communication device among the wireless communication devices, wherein the compression determination unit of the first wireless communication device determines the compression rates of a first sensor data including a sensor data included in the first packet and a sensor data generated by the sensor processing unit of the first wireless communication device, and a first communication quality data including a communication quality data included in the first packet and a communication quality data generated by the communication measurement unit of the first wireless communication device according to one of the contents of the first sensor data and the contents of the first communication quality data, wherein the compression unit of the first wireless communication device compresses the first sensor data and the first communication quality data at the compression rates determined by the compression determination unit of the first wireless communication device, and wherein the wireless communication unit of the first wireless communication device transmits a second packet including the first sensor data and the first communication quality data which are compressed by the compression unit to a third wireless communication device or the access point. | 1,525 |
8,413,291 | 1. A boneless wiper blade comprising a pivot socket, two end ferrules, a spring steel sheet and a rubber strip, wherein the spring steel sheet is used to support and fix the rubber strip, and the pivot socket, on which a connecting adaptor is installed to connect with wiper arms, is installed on a center of the spring steel sheet and the rubber strip, with the two end ferrules mounted at both ends of the spring steel sheet and the rubber strip; characterized in that a crest section of each end ferrule is eccentrically set so that a longer side of the crest section forms an inwardly curved surface; the crest section and the curved surface is integrated as a smooth curve; an externally curved surface, whose cross section is upwardly convex arc-shaped and integrated with the crest section and the curved surface, is provided at an outer end of each end ferrule; the spring steel sheet is in parabolic shape with a gradually changing curvature, and has no arch section joint; one piece of the spring steel sheet is placed on the rubber strip which features first grooves and second grooves longitudinally at both ends; two spacers are mounted into the first grooves, and barbs of several clips are threaded through square holes in the spring steel sheet, and fitted into the second grooves to assemble the spring steel sheet, the rubber strip and the spacers together. | 20,112 |
9,514,232 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more server devices, from a user, information identifying a particular time and information identifying one or more keywords for generating an alert, the one or more keywords relating to a topic of interest to the user; identifying, by the one or more server devices and based on the one or more keywords, a first set of documents published by a plurality of sources and relating to the topic of interest to the user; determining, by the one or more server devices, that one or more documents, included in the first set of documents, were published prior to the particular time; removing, by the one or more server devices, the determined one or more documents from the first set of documents to form a second set of documents; generating, by the one or more server devices, the alert, the alert including information identifying one or more documents included in the second set of documents; and transmitting, by the one or more server devices, an instruction to a client device to present for display the alert to the user, the alert including a selectable graphic element for the user to interact with the alert. | 6,531 |
9,422,884 | 1. An internal combustion engine control system, comprising: an injector configured to supply fuel to an internal combustion engine; means for calculating power distribution time for the injector; means for detecting a valve opening of the injector; and means for calculating and storing valve opening delay time, the valve opening delay time being a difference between a power distribution start time and a valve opening detection time, wherein, in a case in which the power distribution time for the injector is not less than a predetermined value, the valve opening delay time is calculated and stored, and in a case in which the power distribution time for the injector is less than the predetermined value, the power distribution time for the injector is controlled based on the valve opening delay time stored in the storing means. | 19,362 |
9,514,036 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first request to generate a first test case, wherein the first request comprises a coverage schema associated with a first set of events to be covered in the generated first test case; updating the coverage schema, wherein the updating the coverage schema comprises adding a second set of events to be covered in the generated first test case, wherein the second set of events is determined using machine learning techniques or by performing one of a union operation, an intersection operation, or a cross-product operation between at least two events of the first set of events; generating constraints used to satisfy requirements for meeting the first set of events and the second set of events in the updated coverage schema; responsive to the generating constraints used to satisfy requirements for meeting the first set of events and the second set of events in the updated coverage schema, adding the generated constraints to a constraint library; generating the first test case using the generated constraints and the updated coverage schema; performing a test simulation to identify a passing test case; responsive to the performing a test simulation to identify a passing test case, updating a coverage database to reflect the identified passing test case; receiving a second request to generate a second test case, wherein the second request comprises a coverage schema associated with a third set of events to be covered in the generated second test case; the updating the coverage schema, wherein the updating the coverage schema comprises adding a fourth set of events to be covered in the generated second test case, wherein the fourth set of events is determined using machine learning techniques or by performing one of a union operation, an intersection operation, or a cross-product operation between at least two events of the third set of events; and responsive to a failure obtained in the generating constraints, transmitting a notification to the constraint library to generate constraints for the second test case using machine learning techniques. | 3,312 |
8,612,584 | 1. A computer-implemented method of using eBook reading data to generate time-based information comprising: receiving timing reports from a plurality of clients, the timing reports describing reading time intervals for reading portions of an eBook on the clients, in which the timing reports from different clients describe reading time intervals for different overlapping portions of the eBook; analyzing the overlapping portions described in the reading time intervals of the timing reports for the eBook to generate timing information describing times for reading granular portions of the eBook within the overlapping portions; and storing the timing information. | 2,035 |
8,688,255 | 1. An actuator-link assembly manufacturing method for manufacturing an actuator that can be attached pivotably, at one end thereof, to a control surface of an aircraft or to a horn arm member attached to the control surface in order to drive the control surface, and a link that is coupled to the actuator, the method comprising: a material determining step of determining a material constituting the actuator and a material constituting the link; a computing step of computing a change in gain margin with a change in a rigidity ratio, which is the ratio of the rigidity of the link to the rigidity of the actuator, using a computation model that includes an inertial mass of the control surface, a rigidity of the control surface, a rigidity of the actuator, and a rigidity of the link as parameters and that defines a relationship between the parameters; a rigidity determining step of determining rigidities of the actuator and the link such that the rigidity ratio and the gain margin fall within respective predetermined ranges, based on a computation result obtained in the computing step; a shape determining step of determining shapes of the actuator and the link such that rigidities of the actuator and the link are set to the rigidities determined in the rigidity determining step; a formation step of forming the actuator and the link into the shapes determined in the shape determining step; and an assembly step of coupling and assembling the actuator and the link formed in the formation step, wherein the link is attached pivotably to a fulcrum shaft for rotatably supporting the control surface, and is also attached pivotably to the other end of the actuator via a pivot shaft, and, in the material determining step, the materials are determined such that at least one of the material constituting the actuator and the material constituting the link contains fiber reinforced plastic. | 36,400 |
9,358,525 | 1. A NO x storage material comprising: a support; and potassium permaganate impregnated on the support, wherein the potassium impregnated on the support is promoted with a platinum group metal, and wherein the NO x storage material has an electrical property which changes based on an amount of NO x loading on the NO x storage material, wherein the platinum group metal is selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium, and osmium. | 1,598 |
8,591,039 | 1. An image projection method comprising: capturing at least one image of a moveable display surface and processing the at least one image to detect markers associated with said display surface and to determine the position of the display surface within a projection zone of a projection device based on the position of the detected markers, the projection zone being sized to encompass multiple positions of the moveable display surface; masking the projection zone based on the display surface location to provide a cropped projection zone; modifying an image to be projected so that it is positioned within the cropped projection zone; and projecting the image to be projected generally only on said display surface. | 18,352 |
8,548,767 | 1. Measuring device with at least one first assembly and a second assembly, wherein the first assembly and the second assembly each provides at least two intermediate-frequency interfaces or complex baseband interfaces, wherein: the first assembly is designed for the communication of signals to a device under test and for the reception of signals returned from the device under test and provides at least two intermediate-frequency interfaces or two complex baseband interfaces, the second assembly is designed for the generation of a test sequence and for the analysis of the returned signals and provides at least two intermediate-frequency interfaces or two complex baseband interfaces, the first assembly and the second assembly are connected by the intermediate-frequency interfaces or the complex baseband interfaces via a connection device, which provides at least two input terminals and at least two output terminals, wherein each input terminal is connected to one or more selectable output terminals, to one another, and to a third assembly with at least two intermediate-frequency interfaces or complex baseband interfaces for the variation of a signal generated by the second assembly, wherein the signals are supplied via the at least one first interface of the third assembly from the second assembly to the third assembly and the varied signal is routed via the at least one second interface of the third assembly to the first assembly, wherein the intermediate-frequency interfaces or the complex baseband interfaces of the first assembly and/or the second and/or third assembly are formed as serial digital interfaces, and wherein the first assembly and/or the second assembly and/or third assembly in each case provides a parallel-serial converter. | 34,155 |
8,349,469 | 1. A composite article, comprising: a SiC ceramic part, a stainless steel part, and a connecting layer connecting the SiC ceramic part to the stainless steel part, wherein the connecting layer is formed by placing a Mo foil and a Ti foil between the SiC ceramic part and the stainless steel part with the Mo foil abutting to the SiC ceramic part and the Ti foil abutting the stainless steel part, then heating and pressing the SiC ceramic part, the stainless steel part, the Mo foil and the Ti foil, the connecting layer order includes a first transition layer adjacent the SiC part, a Mo layer, a second transition layer, a Ti layer, and a third transition layer adjacent the stainless steel part. | 12,628 |
8,454,213 | 1. A decorative lighting device, adapted to be attached onto a vehicle's wheel rim having a central hole, including: a fixing mechanism, which includes a support seat, a clipping-and-abutting plate connected fixedly to the support seat, a plurality of swingable links, one pivot end of each of which is accommodated between and pivoted to the support seat and the clipping-and-abutting plate and formed a plurality of driven teeth, and another end of each of which is swingable with respect to the pivot end and arranged an abutting part wedged by being fixed in the central hole of the wheel rim when the swingable links are extended outwardly, and a rotating wheel, which has a rotating axle located on the support seat and capable of driving the swingable links to make actions of shrinking inwardly or extending outwardly, on an outer surface of which a plurality of driving teeth are formed, which are engaged with the driven teeth of the swingable links, respectively; and a light-emitting assembly, which is connected to the fixing mechanism and includes a lid plate and a plurality of light-emitting units fixed thereto. | 25,131 |
9,703,127 | 1. A method for fabricating a waveguide structure ( 1 ) comprising the steps of: providing a core ( 2 ) comprising a layer of at least an electro-optic dielectric material ( 3 ), a layer of at least a semiconductor material ( 4 ) below the electro-optic material ( 3 ) and a layer of at least a semiconductor material ( 5 ) above the electro-optic material ( 3 ), and providing electrodes ( 6 , 6 ′, 7 , 8 ) that are configurable for voltage application, wherein: the electro-optic dielectric material ( 3 ) is selected to have a Pockels tensor containing at least one non-vanishing element rij where i≠j and the electrodes ( 6 , 6 ′, 7 , 8 ) are provided as comprising respective sets of electrodes ( 6 , 6 ′, 7 , 8 ) that comprise a set of electrodes ( 6 ) that are provided substantially in direct contact with the electro-optic dielectric material ( 3 ) and a set of electrodes ( 7 , 8 ) comprising at least an electrode ( 7 ) that is provided substantially in direct contact with the semiconductor material ( 4 ) provided below the electro-optic material ( 3 ) and at least an electrode ( 8 ) that is provided substantially in direct contact with the semiconductor material ( 5 ) provided above the electro-optic material ( 3 ), wherein the respective sets of electrodes ( 6 , 6 ′, 7 , 8 ) are configurable to apply in the electro-optic material ( 3 ), when the waveguide structure ( 1 ) is in use, at least a substantially horizontal electrical field ( 11 ) and at least a substantially vertical electrical field ( 12 ) that are orientated substantially perpendicular relative to each other, and wherein the horizontal electrical field ( | 29,077 |
8,842,638 | 1. A method for establish an S1 signaling connection in an evolved network during a handover of a user equipment (UE) from a first evolved NodeB (eNodeB) to a second eNodeB, the method comprising: receiving, by the second eNodeB, a first S1 signaling connection parameter associated with a first S1 signaling connection between the first eNodeB and an evolved core network while the UE is in the first eNodeB; allocating, by the second eNodeB, a second S1 signaling connection parameter for associating with a second S1 signaling connection between the second eNodeB and the evolved core network when the UE moves from the first eNodeB to a cell controlled by the second eNodeB; and transmitting, by the second eNodeB, the first and second S1 signaling connection parameters to the evolved core network, wherein the first S1 signaling connection parameter is allocated by an MME (Mobility Management Entity) of the evolved core network. | 21,288 |
9,445,253 | 1. A method for scanning for a mesh network, comprising: monitoring, by a passively scanning node, a shared communication channel for an awake window of a mesh node in a power save mode; detecting a receive window start frame associated with the awake window that is transmitted by the mesh node in the power save mode and prior to the awake window of the mesh node; determining whether to send a probe request based on mesh network information included within the receive window start frame; sending the probe request to the mesh node in accordance with a determination of the mesh network information included within the receive window start frame, wherein the probe request is received by the mesh node during the awake window; receiving a probe response from the mesh node, wherein the probe response includes a set of information for the mesh network enabling the passively scanning node to join the mesh network; and attempting to join the mesh network based on the probe response, wherein the receive window start frame indicates that the awake window of the mesh node is upcoming, and wherein the receive window start frame is smaller in size than a beacon frame configured to indicate when transmitted by the mesh node that the mesh node is not in the power save mode. | 35,681 |
9,424,083 | 1. A method implemented by data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving, at a hub device that includes one or more data processing apparatus, a computation specification that includes a set of grains that specifies an initial state for a computation that is to be performed by a distributed processing system that includes a plurality of data processors, wherein each grain included in the set of grains comprises metadata that specifies a portion of the initial state for the computation; storing, by the hub device, a grain hierarchy that represents a state for the computation based on a grain type associated with each grain included in the set of grains, the grain hierarchy comprising subscription grains for one or more subscriptions for the grain hierarchy, each subscription corresponding to one or more grains included in the grain hierarchy, and each subscription specifying one or more actions to be performed by the hub device; and performing, by the hub device and during performance of the computation, at least one of the one or more actions specified by at least one of the one or more subscriptions; wherein the grain hierarchy comprises: | 5,804 |
9,577,889 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating page-level usage data corresponding to interaction with an item of content, the computer-implemented method comprising: as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions, determining local interaction information corresponding to client interaction with the content item, the local interaction information indicating a set of interaction events implemented locally on the client computing device, during output of the content item, to modify the output of the content item on the client computing device; using at least the interaction information to determine usage data indicating which of the individual content portions, as determined independently from displayable elements within the content item, were output on the client computing device, wherein the usage data indicates a timing of output of the individual content portions on the client computing device; and transmitting the usage data corresponding to the individual content portions for storage as page-level usage data for the content item. | 25,648 |
8,771,885 | 1. A fuel cell power plant comprising: a stack ( a controller ( characterized by: a condenser ( said coolant inlet ( fluid communication between said air outlet ( | 22,495 |
8,695,466 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a cutting means for cutting at least one paper log, the cutting means moving along a predetermined path, said cutting means comprising a blade and an arm, said arm being rotatable about a first stationary axis, said blade being rotatably connected to said arm such that said blade rotates, relative to said arm, about a second moving axis of said arm while the arm rotates about the first axis; a structure defining an interior periphery substantially centered around said first axis of said arm, said interior periphery extending substantially all the way around said first axis of said arm except where a paper log is held to be cut, said structure defining a channel extending along said interior periphery of said structure and extending radially away from said first axis of said arm, said arm moving about said interior periphery of said structure with said blade projecting into said channel; a cooling unit for injecting cooling fluid into a cooling area inside said channel to cool said blade, wherein narrow gaps between said blade and channel side walls permit the cooling fluid to exit, said cooling unit including a plurality of sleeves connected to said structure, said cooling fluid being injected in to said channel via at least said plurality of sleeves. | 41,836 |
9,785,156 | 1. A motor control system, comprising: a motor control device for controlling a motor of a cooling blower for cooling a battery incorporated in a vehicle; and a host controller including a plurality of different pieces of control software applicable to a plurality of destinations for the cooling blower, the host controller transmitting and receiving control information of the motor to and from the motor control device by means of PWM signals Si and So, wherein the host controller embeds a destination-signal request pattern into the PWM signal Si for requesting a destination signal pattern to specify the destinations, and transmits the PWM signal Si to the motor control device; the motor control device, upon receiving the destination-signal request pattern, embeds the destination signal pattern into the PWM signal So and transmits the PWM signal So to the host controller; the host controller specifies one of the destinations for the cooling blower by extracting the destination signal pattern from the PWM signal So and changes over the control software to the control software applicable to the specified one of destinations for the cooling blower; and the destination signal pattern is embedded into the PWM signal So by: | 2,915 |
9,512,821 | 1. An airfoil active boundary layer control system, comprising: a housing including an induction wall having a gas permeable surface, an exhaust wall having at least one exhaust port, and a chamber disposed between and at least partially defined by the induction and exhaust walls; and at least one zero-net-mass-flux actuator in the chamber including an actuator orifice in fluid communication with the gas permeable surface of the induction wall and the at least one exhaust port, the actuator orifice being aligned with the at least one exhaust port. | 22,259 |
9,378,854 | 1. A core catcher in a nuclear reactor, the core catcher comprising: a holding surface in a portion of the reactor that stores a coolant, the holding surface being configured to catch and hold corium; and a cooling unit which is configured to introduce the stored coolant into the core catcher, to cool a whole of the core catcher including the holding surface by heat exchange with the introduced coolant, wherein the holding surface and the cooling unit are constructed by arranging a plurality of corium holding structures laterally adjacent one another in a horizontally extending array, wherein each of the corium holding structures includes a polyhedron having at least one pair of parallel lateral surfaces and defining an inside space in the polyhedron, each corium holding structure further having an opening formed in one of the parallel lateral surfaces, the opening extending from the lateral surface to the inside space and being positioned on the corium holding structure to communicate the inside space of the respective corium holding structure with an inside space of and adjacent corium holding structure arranged in the in the horizontally extending array, wherein coolant in each of the polyhedrons communicates via the opening with a laterally adjacent polyhedron of the lateral array. | 7,049 |
9,608,579 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first amplifier; a second amplifier having a non-inverting input node and an inverting input node; a first conductive path configured to connect an output of the first amplifier to an output node, wherein the first amplifier is configured to provide a first current to a load connected at the output node; a second conductive path configured to connect an output of the second amplifier to the output node, wherein the second amplifier is configured to provide a second current to the load, and wherein an impedance of the first conductive path differs from an impedance of the second conductive path such that the second current is greater than the first current; a third conductive path configured to provide at least a portion of the output of the first amplifier as an input to the non-inverting input node of the second amplifier; a fourth conductive path configured to provide a voltage based on a voltage of the output node as an input to the inverting input node of the second amplifier; and a fifth conductive path configured to provide conductance between the non-inverting input and the inverting input of the second amplifier, wherein the fifth conductive path comprises at least one passive component. | 27,776 |
9,140,564 | 1. An apparatus for establishing lane information using driving information of a vehicle, comprising: a map information storing unit storing digital map information; a driving information collecting unit collecting driving information from a plurality of vehicles; an accumulating and compiling statistics unit accumulating the driving information of each vehicle collected by the driving collecting unit and then compiling statistics on the accumulated driving information; a controlling unit generating a number of lanes based on a statistics result of the accumulating and compiling statistics unit and the digital map information; and a lane information database storing the number of lanes generated by the controlling unit, wherein the driving information includes position information and behavior information. | 48,179 |
9,145,490 | 1. A method for increasing the flame retardancy of a polycarbonate composition, the method comprising adding about 0.1 wt. % to about 2.0 wt. % 1,3-dimethyltetraphenyldisiloxane to the polycarbonate composition; and adding about 0.1 wt. % to about 1.0 wt. % perfluorobutanesulfonate alkali metal salt to the polycarbonate composition; wherein the wt. %, all instances, are based on the total weight of the polycarbonate, the 1,3-dimethyltetraphenyldisiloxane, and the perfluorobutanesulfonate alkali metal salt; and wherein the composition exhibits a flame-retardance rating of UL 94V-0 at 2 mm thickness or less. | 27,402 |
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