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9,671,703 | 1. An optical arrangement, comprising: an optical element, comprising: wherein: | 26,919 |
9,100,096 | 1. A method, comprising: adjusting a relative phase between signals fed to antenna ports of an antenna structure such that a first signal fed to one of the antenna ports has a different phase than a second signal fed to another one of the antenna ports to provide antenna pattern control and to increase gain in a selected direction toward a receive point, wherein the antenna structure comprises a plurality of antenna elements, each operatively coupled to a different one of the antenna ports, wherein electrical currents flowing in the antenna structure are such that the antenna ports are isolated at a desired signal frequency range; and using a transmit power level that is lower than the transmit power used in a non-pattern control operation of the antenna structure such that a communications device utilizing the antenna structure obtains a desired wireless link performance with the receive point using reduced transmit power compared to the non-pattern control operation, thereby reducing a specific absorption rate. | 10,369 |
9,708,716 | 1. A method for the photoreduction of molecules, the method comprising: (a) illuminating a fluid sample comprising the molecules to be reduced and a hydrogen surface-terminated diamond electrode having a negative electron affinity with light comprising a wavelength that excites electrons from the valence band of the diamond to the conduction band of the diamond, thereby inducing the emission of the excited electrons from the diamond into the fluid sample, wherein the emitted excited electrons induce the reduction of the molecules to form a reduction product, further wherein substantially all of the reduction product is formed via the emitted excited electrons; and (b) collecting the reduction product, wherein a counter electrode is immersed in the fluid sample. | 9,844 |
8,789,958 | 1. A flat panel display device, wherein the flat panel display device comprises a backlight system and a display panel, wherein: the backlight system comprises a light source, a light homogenization mechanism, and a back frame; the back frame carries the light source and the light homogenization mechanism; and the back frame comprises at least two assembling pieces, the at least two assembling pieces being joined to form the back frame, the back frame further comprising a bracing piece fixed to the assembling pieces, the bracing piece adapted to fix a circuit board, the bracing piece comprising a bracing body, a first suspension section, a first bearing section, and a first resilient bent section, the bracing body being fixed to the assembling pieces, the first suspension section extending from the bracing body toward one side of the bracing body, the first bearing section being spaced from the bracing body and extending from the first suspension section toward one side of the first suspension section, the first resilient bent section being located between the first bearing section and the bracing body and being bent from the first suspension section toward one side of the first suspension section, the first bearing section and the first resilient bent section resiliently clamping a first side edge of the circuit board. | 19,385 |
8,388,678 | 1. An implantable or insertable medical device comprising as components: (a) a substrate component comprising a depression that is at least partially filled with a therapeutic-agent-containing material that comprises a first therapeutic agent, and (b) a porous membrane component engaged with the substrate component and disposed over the depression such that it regulates transport of chemical species between the depression and the exterior of the device upon implantation or insertion of the device into a subject, wherein one component having an inner surface at least partially surrounds the other component having an outer surface, wherein the inner surface is engaged with the outer surface, wherein the components are formed from materials that have a different thermal expansion coefficient (TEC), wherein either (i) wherein both components expand upon heating such that the inner surface moves outwardly relative to the outer surface and such that the porous membrane component disengages from the substrate component upon heating the medical device and wherein the component that at least partially surrounds the other component is the component with the higher TEC or (ii) wherein both components contract upon cooling such that the inner surface moves outwardly relative to the outer surface and such that the porous membrane component disengages from the substrate component upon cooling the medical device and wherein the component that at least partially surrounds the other component is the component with the lower TEC, and wherein the porous membrane component is engaged with the substrate component upon implantation or insertion of the device into a subject. | 18,597 |
9,047,832 | 1. An electronic display comprising: a display panel comprising columns of pixels configured to be programmed with frames of image data, wherein the columns of pixels are grouped into superpixel columns that each comprise a plurality of pixel columns, wherein the plurality of pixel columns of each superpixel column comprises at least a first pixel column of a first color, a second pixel column of a second color, and a third pixel column of a third color; display driver circuitry comprising: | 40,421 |
9,425,952 | 1. An application specific integrated circuit tangibly encoding a program of instructions executable by the integrated circuit to perform a method for protecting data from algebraic manipulation, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a data word s εF the application specific integrated circuit fixing a basis {1, b the application specific integrated circuit executing instructions for drawing an index i from a set I :={1, . . . , n}; encoding, by the application specific integrated circuit, s as (s, i, f protecting the index i against fault injection attack with a weak algebraic manipulation detection (AMD) code, wherein a received triple r:=({tilde over (s)}, ĩ, {tilde over (v)}) εF declaring an error if the received triple r is invalid, wherein an error is detected in ({tilde over (s)}, ĩ, {tilde over (v)}) by checking the index ĩ, and if the ĩ-check passes, checking whether {tilde over (v)}=f | 15,152 |
9,737,869 | 1. A reactor comprising: a reaction-side flow passage through which a reaction fluid as a reaction object flows, the reaction-side flow passage being provided with a hollow space having a constant width; a heat-medium side flow passage provided in parallel with the reaction-side flow passage through a heat-transfer partition, provided with a hollow space formed therein through which a heat medium flows, the space of the heat-medium side flow passage having a constant width and extending in a direction parallel to a flow direction of the reaction fluid in the reaction-side flow passage; and a catalyst configured to promote a reaction of the reaction fluid, the catalyst separately formed from the reaction-side flow passage and provided in the reaction-side flow passage so that a cross section of the reaction-side flow passage defined by the catalyst is smaller on a downstream side than on an upstream side in the reaction-side flow passage; wherein the catalyst has a plate shape, the catalyst is divided into a plurality of parts that are arranged away from each other in a flowing direction of the reaction fluid in the reaction-side flow passage, and wherein the catalyst is corrugated. | 5,376 |
8,486,380 | 1. A method of bleaching, destaining, deodorizing, sanitizing or disinfecting a surface, an article of clothing or a textile comprising: (a) providing a formulation comprising: (b) combining the first component with the second component whereby a reaction formulation comprising peroxycarboxylic acid is produced; and (c) applying the reaction formulation to the surface, the article of clothing or the textile for bleaching, stain removal, odor reduction, sanitization, disinfection, or a combination thereof. | 23,198 |
9,297,320 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: flowing exhaust from a dedicated EGR cylinder to each of an exhaust catalyst via a bypass passage and an engine intake via an EGR passage; adjusting, responsive to a catalyst temperature, a relative flow through the bypass passage and EGR passage via a bypass valve by increasing the relative flow through the bypass passage while correspondingly decreasing flow through the EGR passage as the catalyst temperature falls below a threshold, the threshold including a catalyst light-off temperature, and decreasing the relative flow through the bypass passage while correspondingly increasing flow through the EGR passage as the catalyst temperature exceeds the threshold; determining a required bypass flow rate to maintain the catalyst temperature at the threshold; and enriching the dedicated EGR cylinder based on each of the catalyst temperature and the required bypass flow rate. | 10,200 |
9,492,832 | 1. A sprinkler comprising: a frame; a deflector rotatably connected to the frame; a brake controlling rotation of the deflector, the brake having a fluid and a rotor in the fluid configured for rotation with the deflector; a regulator in the fluid having a first shape at a first temperature and a different, second shape at a second temperature, the regulator being configured to change from the first shape to the second shape and adjust rotation of the rotor in response to the change in temperature; and a portion of the regulator that bends as the regulator changes from the first shape to the second shape. | 8,903 |
9,171,190 | 1. A method of exchanging data between an appliance and a remote device, the method comprising: sensing at an appliance a connection with a communication device, the communication device remote from the appliance and comprising a wireless device and a data connection for coupling the communications device to the appliance; if a data key is stored at the appliance, if a data key is not stored at the appliance, exchanging data between the communication device and the appliance using the data key, the feature credential of the data key including information that identifies the appliance and associates data received from the appliance with the appliance said exchanging data occurring over one of a plurality of communications protocols via the wireless device and data connection, the security credential including information designating a type of the communications protocol. | 39,124 |
9,067,493 | 1. An agricultural tractor comprising an internal combustion engine for delivering torque, wheels or tracks for imparting a propulsive force to the ground, and a power takeoff shaft for delivering torque to implements attached thereto, a mechanical drive connection between the engine and the power takeoff shaft, an electrical generator drivingly connected to the engine, and at least one electrical motor arranged to deliver a propulsion force to the wheels or tracks, the at least one electrical motor being electrically connected to, and powered by, the electrical generator, characterised in that the tractor further comprises a battery connected to the electrical generator and to the electrical motor, and a first motor/generator which provides said electrical generator drivingly connected to the engine, and to which the battery is connected so that electrical energy can be passed therebetween, wherein the first motor/generator can operate as a motor so that the power takeoff shaft is at least partially powered by electrical energy from the battery, the tractor further comprising an epicyclic gearbox having three input/outputs, wherein a first input/output is drivingly connected to the mechanical drive connection, a second input/output is drivinqly connected to the at least one electrical motor, and a third input/output is drivingly connected to the wheels or tracks, and wherein torque provided by the engine is summed with torque provided by the at least one electrical motor and delivered as a driving force to the wheels or tracks. | 23,992 |
9,083,032 | 1. A lithium rechargeable battery, comprising: a cathode plate comprised of a cathode current collector layer; and a cathode layer comprising particles of a mixed cathode active material comprised of: an anode plate spaced apart from the cathode plate and comprised of an anode current collector layer; and an anode layer comprising a mixed anode active material comprised of: a polymer electrolyte disposed between the cathode plate and the anode plate, wherein the particles of a spinel lithium titanium oxide (Li | 47,950 |
9,196,881 | 1. A system comprising: a power tool including a housing, a motor, a drive mechanism mechanically coupled to the motor, and an output element mechanically coupled to the drive mechanism, the housing defining an opening, the motor operable to drive the drive mechanism and the output element, the output element producing an output force when driven by the drive mechanism; a non-motorized sensing tool including a housing, a printed circuit board and a sensing element electrically coupled to the printed circuit board, the housing defining an opening that is similarly shaped and sized relative to the opening defined in the housing of the power tool, the sensing element operable to detect a characteristic external to the sensing tool and output a signal indicative of the detected characteristic; and a rechargeable battery pack configured to be removably and independently coupleable to the power tool and the non-motorized sensing tool, the battery pack operable to provide power to the motor to drive the drive mechanism and the output element when connected to the power tool, and operable to provide power to the printed circuit board when connected to the non-motorized sensing tool, at least a portion of the battery pack being positioned within the opening of the power tool to connect to the power tool and alternatively being positioned within the opening of the non-motorized sensing tool to connect to the non-motorized sensing tool, wherein the rechargeable battery pack includes a housing, at least one lithium-based battery cell positioned within the housing, a terminal, and a latch mechanism, wherein, when the battery pack is coupled to the power tool, the latch mechanism engages the housing of the power tool to secure the battery pack to the power tool such that a portion of the battery pack housing remains exposed, and wherein, when the battery pack is coupled to the non-motorized sensing tool, the latch mechanism engages the housing of the non-motorized sensing tool to secure the battery pack to the non-motorized sensing tool such that the portion of the battery pack housing remains exposed. | 36,033 |
9,461,841 | 1. A communication system comprising a plurality of networks to each of which first nodes and at least one second node are connected, wherein the first nodes are assigned to a common virtual address indicating that the first nodes belong to a group, the common virtual address not being assigned to the at least one second node, the second node is connected to a terminal transmitting and receiving a terminal frame and does not belong to the group, each first node in each of the networks is set as a link to a respective first node of an other network, and the second node of each of the networks has: wherein the frame generator retrieves an address corresponding to a destination of the terminal frame received from the terminal from the database and determines, when the retrieved address is the common virtual address, a physical address of any one of the first nodes in its own network as a destination of the network frame, wherein the frame generator recognizes a first node whose link to the other network is normal, and determines the physical address of the recognized first node as the destination of the network frame, and wherein the first node has a monitoring device monitoring state of the link to the other network, and an address managing device notifying the other nodes of information on an instruction to exclude said first node from candidates of the destination of the network frame when trouble occurs in the monitored link. | 40,607 |
8,763,871 | 1. A storage system comprising: a battery mounted to a vehicle body and disposed within a storage compartment; a container coupled to the battery; a receptacle coupled to the battery; and a panel pivotally connecting a back surface of the receptacle to a top surface of the battery; wherein the receptacle is movable in a fore-and-aft direction for providing a raised platform in a first configuration and for facilitating storage in a second configuration. | 6,289 |
8,564,259 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a buck boost converter for generating a regulated output voltage responsive to an input voltage and switching control signals; switching control circuitry for generating the switching control signals responsive to the regulated output voltage, a maximum duty cycle signal and a mode signal; mode control circuitry for generating the maximum duty cycle signal and the mode signal responsive to a buck PWM signal and a boost PWM signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal phase shifted from the first clock signal by a fixed, programmable amount; and a phase shifter for generating the first clock signal and the second clock signal responsive to a reference voltage and a synchronization signal. | 4,069 |
9,544,792 | 1. A method of joint scheduling in a dual-carrier fixed wireless backhaul network operating with a primary carrier and a secondary carrier, the wireless backhaul network comprising a plurality of nodes comprising a plurality of Hub modules, each Hub module serving one or more remote backhaul modules (RBMs) through Hub-RBM radio links, wherein the method comprises: for Hub modules (Hubs) and RBMs configured for dual-carrier operation using the primary carrier and the secondary carrier, and wherein the primary carrier is a licensed band and the secondary carrier is a lower cost shared band or an unlicensed band, providing a frame structure wherein control signaling messages are carried on the primary carrier; performing network entry for each said RBM on the primary carrier; and performing carrier assignment wherein each Hub transmits a broadcast frame on the primary carrier assigning each served RBM to the primary carrier or the secondary carrier; and wherein performing network entry further comprises: and wherein performing carrier assignment further comprises: for Hub-RBM links for each Hub and respective served RBMs of at least part of the network (neighborhood): | 7,200 |
8,421,253 | 1. An axial flux generator for generating electricity from exhaust gas, comprising: a. a fixed axle; b. a rotating hub located on said fixed axle; c. an inner stator disc mounted on said fixed axle, said stator disc includes at least one coil located therein capable of generating an electric current when a magnetic field is rotated around said stator disc; d. two outer magnetic discs spaced apart and mounted on said hub and on opposite sides of said stator disc, each said magnetic disc including at least two magnets mounted on its inside surface with opposite polarity facing inward toward said stator disc; e. a metallic flux plate located over the outside surface of each said magnetic disc; and, f. a plurality of radially aligned blades attached to said hub and extending beyond said magnetic discs and into the flow of exhaust gas flowing adjacent to said apparatus thereby causing said magnetic discs to rotate around said stator disc and produce an electric current on said coil. | 40,109 |
8,927,182 | 1. A photosensitive resist composition for forming a color filter comprising: (A) a diacrylate monomer, (B) a colorant selected from the group consisting of an organic pigment and carbon black; (C) a binder polymer comprising a copolymer of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one carboxyl group and other copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers, wherein the proportion of the carboxyl group-containing unsaturated monomer in said copolymer is of from 5 to 50 wt %; and (D) a photopolymerization initiator; wherein (A) is of formula (II) wherein R D is —S— or —O—; E is —OR R wherein the photosensitive resist composition comprises wherein the photosensitive resist composition is used for forming the color filter. | 36,956 |
9,546,332 | 1. A method for synthesizing first alkyl-adamantane fuel, comprising: providing a first isoprenoid and/or functionalized isoprenoid feedstock; producing first mixture by hydrogenating said first feedstock with hydrogen gas using at least one first hydrogenation catalyst, wherein producing said first mixture further comprises distilling said first mixture to produce at least one sesquiterpane; producing a second mixture by isomerizing said first mixture from about 0.3 hour to about 48 hours using a first acidic catalyst; and distilling said second mixture to produce said first alkyl-adamantine fuel. | 3,886 |
9,654,969 | 1. A method to manage a security key to be used for a cooperative communication at a subscriber station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a first input value of a serving base station and a second input value of a member base station for the cooperative communication; transmitting the first input value to the serving base station, and the second input value to the member base station; generating a first security key of the serving base station based on the first input value, and a second security key of the member base station based on the second input value; performing the cooperative communication using the first security key with the serving base station or the member base station; and if a notification indicating that the member base station is changed into a new serving base station, is received, performing the cooperative communication using the second security key with at least one of the new serving base station or the serving base station. | 45,437 |
9,074,457 | 1. A method for remediating high permeability channels in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation of a hydrocarbon reservoir comprising: heating the formation containing one or more of the high permeability channels; injecting water containing dissolved solids into the formation; forming a steam front in the formation; and managing steam quality at the steam front for forming a steam generation interface intersecting one or more of the high permeability channels for forming particulates in the high permeability channels and controlling deposition of the formed particles within the high permeability channels and reducing the permeability therealong. | 28,507 |
8,554,915 | 1. A method of managing network communications between a first network device, a second network device, the second network device having a first network address and a second network address, and a network storage entity that stores the first network address and the second network address of the second network device, said method comprising: receiving at the network storage entity, from said first network device, said first address of said second network device; and transmitting from said network storage entity at least said second address of said second network device to the first network device, wherein the first network device includes a first Bluetooth device, the second network device includes a second Bluetooth device and the first address includes a Bluetooth Device Address (BDA) associated with the second network device. | 15,266 |
9,614,448 | 1. A switching power-supply device, in which an input power is applied to a primary winding of a transformer, a pulse voltage is induced in a secondary winding of the transformer by turning on and off a switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer and an output voltage rectified and smoothed by a secondary-side rectifying-and- smoothing circuit having a rectifier diode and a smoothing capacitor is outputted, the switching power-supply device comprising: a transient state detection circuit, which detects a transient state and outputs a soft-drive instruction signal; and a drive circuit which turns on-and-off the switching element in a soft-drive operation, in which a charging speed of a gate voltage at a time of passing a gate threshold voltage is delayed as compared to a normal operation, in a case where the soft-drive instruction signal is inputted, wherein the transient state detection circuit is configured to detect, as the transient state, a period from a time of starting until a drain current of the switching element oscillates due to responsibility of a feedback control after the output voltage reaches a steady voltage, wherein the transient state detection circuit is configured to detect, as the transient state, an overload state detected by a feedback signal from the secondary side and to output the soft-drive instruction signal during a preset period of time, wherein the switching power-supply device has an auto-restart function of restarting to turn on-and-off the switching element, and wherein the switching power-supply device comprises a restarting delay circuit to delay an auto-restart cycle upon restarting from stop due to a continuous overload state. | 11,715 |
9,455,624 | 1. A power supply with power factor correction circuit, connected with a three-phase voltage, and comprising: three rectifier modules, receiving three voltage from the three-phase voltage including a first phase voltage, a second phase voltage and a third phase voltage, and each rectifier module further comprising: at least one power factor correction controller, being connected to the main switch and configured to switch the main switch; an analog device, being connected to the working voltage convertor and configured to control the working voltage convertor; a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the analog device; wherein the analog device is for pulse width modulation; and a current sensor, wherein the current sensor is coupled with the voltage output terminal and the processor, configured to detect current from the voltage output terminal and transfer current data to the processor, then the processor determines to control the working voltage convertor through the analog device according to the current data. | 25,182 |
9,327,549 | 1. A vehicle wheel rim ( 1 ) having a wheel rim well ( 2 ) and having a wheel disk ( 16 , 25 , 37 ) comprising a first shell element ( 4 , 5 , 20 , 21 ) and a second shell element ( 4 , 5 , 20 , 21 ), wherein the wheel rim well ( 2 ) has a substantially axially extending region ( 3 ) and the first and second shell elements ( 4 , 5 , 20 , 21 ) of the wheel disk ( 16 , 25 , 37 ) each have a substantially axially extending region ( 8 , 9 ), wherein the wheel disk ( 16 , 25 , 37 ) and the wheel rim well ( 2 ) are connected to one another in the axially extending regions ( 3 , 8 , 9 ), and wherein the axially extending regions ( 3 , 8 , 9 ) generate a planar connecting surface between the wheel disk ( 16 ) and the wheel rim well ( 2 ). | 36,539 |
9,748,159 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a supporting substrate having a mounting face and including an electrical connection network, an integrated circuit chip mounted on said mounting face of the supporting substrate and electrically connected to said electrical connection network, an encapsulation block including a primary encapsulation block in which the integrated circuit chip is embedded and which extends above and around the integrated circuit chip on said mounting face of the supporting substrate and an additional encapsulation block above the primary encapsulation block; and a wire made from an electrically conductive material, the wire being self-supportable above the integrated circuit chip and the primary encapsulation block and embedded in said additional encapsulation block, said wire being electrically connected to at least one of said integrated circuit chip and said electrical connection network. | 20,991 |
8,600,973 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining a no-match score, a click score, and a query count for a query term substitution rule that is used to revise queries that include a query term, to include a substitute term for the query term, determining whether to remove the query term substitution rule from a query revision model based on the no-match score, the click score, and the query count. | 24,603 |
8,362,684 | 1. A white light emitting device comprising: a UV, laser or blue LED primary light source; and at least a first layer in optical communication with the primary light source and comprising a epoxy matrix including a polydisperse size distribution of quantum dots adapted to convert light from the light source to a mixed color or white light. | 25,090 |
8,967,342 | 1. A brake mechanism which is operable in a service brake mode and a parking brake mode, the brake mechanism comprising: an output shaft; brake elements for braking the output shaft; a rotationally-fixed housing, said output shaft rotatably arranged in the housing, the housing comprising a brake chamber and a brake element chamber housing said brake elements, the brake chamber being fluidically connected to the brake element chamber; a first control element in the brake chamber, said first control element being fluid pressure actuated; a second control element in the brake chamber, the second control element being biased by a first spring mechanism towards the first control element to move the first control element towards the brake elements to apply the brake mechanism in the parking mode; an oil chamber arranged outside the housing for holding a quantity of oil, said oil chamber comprising a manifold for the supply of oil to the brake chamber, the brake element chamber having an outlet recess which extends into an oil free part of the oil chamber, wherein the housing has an inlet opening connected to the oil chamber at a position located below an oil level which fluidically connects the manifold to the brake chamber; the brake mechanism being arranged so that: | 2,629 |
9,694,576 | 1. A method for ejecting fluids having a viscosity ranging from about 20 mPa-sec to about 100 mPa-sec at 22° C. from a micro-fluid ejection head, the method comprising the steps of: determining (1) if a temperature of the ejection head is below 30° C., (2) if the ejection head has been idle for about 60 minutes or more, or (3) if the ejection head is filled with the fluid having a viscosity ranging from about 20 mPa-sec to about 100 mPa-sec at 22° C., and applying a pre-heat signal to the ejection head for a period of time ranging from about 30 to about 60 seconds when one of the conditions (1), (2) or (3) is determined to be present, providing a fluid ejection signal to ejection heaters on the ejection head subsequent to the pre-heat signal to eject drooling fluid from the ejection head, applying a heat signal to the ejection head for a first period of time to heat the ejection head to a first temperature that is about 20° C. above a fluid ejection temperature for continuous or intermittent fluid ejection from the ejection head; and subsequently, applying a firing signal to ejection heaters on the ejection head during which fluid ejection from the ejection head occurs. | 31,093 |
9,018,812 | 1. A transport vehicle adapted to transport a rider and having a weight supporting wheel, the weight supporting wheel being disposed to support at least part of and during at least part of the time, a summed weight of the rider and of the vehicle, the transport vehicle further comprising: (a) a rider support adapted to support at least part of the weight of the rider, the rider support being displaceable relative to the weight supporting wheel and/or the weight supporting wheel being displaceable relative to the rider support; and (b) an electric generator operatively coupled to be driven by at least one of a displacement of the weight supporting wheel relative to the rider support and a displacement of the rider support relative to the weight supporting wheel; wherein the electric generator includes a series of simultaneously openable and/or widenable magnetic gaps through which a serially conducted magnetic flux can flow where a simultaneous opening and/or widening of the series of simultaneously openable and/or widenable magnetic gaps decreases an intensity of the serially conducted magnetic flux at a rate corresponding to a summation of the opening and/or widening rates of the simultaneously openable and/or widenable magnetic gaps. | 18,360 |
9,497,993 | 1. A process for refilling an electronic cigarette with refillable reservoir, implemented by a container of a single dose of a concentrated aroma, in liquid state, for producing a liquid refill of said electronic cigarette, wherein said container comprises at least a liquid reservoir and a closed mouth, in liquid-tight communication with said reservoir, said process comprising the following steps: extracting said single dose of said concentrated aroma from said container after opening said mouth, implementing said extraction step by forced ejection of said dose of concentrated liquid aroma from said container, by compression thereof; mixing said single dose of said concentrated aroma with a solvent medium, or diluent, thereby obtaining a solution, or a heterogeneous compound, for producing at least one refill for said electronic cigarette; inserting, into the reservoir of said electronic cigarette, an amount of said solution, or said heterogeneous compound, corresponding to an amount required to produce said at least one refill. | 42,991 |
8,440,859 | 1. A process for the manufacture of bioresourced propionic acid from glycerol comprising the following stages: dehydrating, in the gas phase, glycerol to an acrolein containing mixture, in the presence of a first catalyst, (1) partially condensing, by cooling, the acrolein containing mixture and extracting water present in the acrolein containing mixture to give acrolein, (1′) oxidizing, in the gas phase in the presence of a second catalyst, the acrolein to give an acrylic acid stream, (2) extracting an acrylic acid solution from the acrylic acid stream by absorption with a solvent, (3) drying the acrylic acid solution by distillation in the presence of a water-immiscible solvent to form a dry acrylic acid heavy solution, (4) distilling the dry acrylic acid heavy solution in a distillation column to remove light compounds at the top of the distillation column and a heavy fraction at the bottom of the distillation column, (5) distilling the heavy fraction resulting from the preceding stage (5) to remove heavy compounds to give a light fraction, (6) the process further comprising: extracting acrylic acid by fractional crystallization from one or more of: in order to isolate crystals of purified acrylic acid and a solution of mother liquors depleted in acrylic acid; catalytic hydrogenation of the mother liquors isolated in the fractional crystallization stage in the presence of molecular hydrogen in order to form a propionic acid solution; and separation of the propionic acid from the propionic acid solution. | 26,693 |
9,256,260 | 1. A processing system comprising: a plurality of processing devices connected via a communication line, each of the processing devices including: wherein the processing part of one processing device among the plurality of processing devices outputs a control signal for controlling supply/non-supply of the power to the processing part of another processing device, wherein the one processing device further includes: wherein the another processing device further includes: wherein in the another processing device the first signal received by the reception part is input to the communication part, wherein the power supply control part of the another processing device controls supply/non-supply of the power on the basis of the second signal received by the reception part. | 8,207 |
8,601,748 | 1. A wind turbine system erection apparatus, comprising: a body portion for surrounding a mast, the mast having an axis and supporting a wind turbine, the body portion having a window providing access to the axis of the mast, the body portion comprising wind turbine supporting members which support the wind turbine during erection, the wind turbine supporting members affixed about an upper end of the body portion; a section handler secured to the body portion and extending through the window, the section handler adapted to pick, lift, axis-align, and set a mast section; and a movement mechanism secured to the body portion, the movement mechanism adapted to moveably reposition the body portion along a length of the mast of the wind turbine system. | 26,222 |
8,797,176 | 1. A panel-mountable audible warning device, comprising: a housing; a sound generating element within said housing, said housing and sound generating element together defining a resonant cavity having at least one orifice open to the environment; and an internal volume control shutter within said resonant cavity, said shutter including a movable cover adjacent said at least one orifice. | 23,705 |
8,853,493 | 1. A method of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in cotton comprising: (a) inserting a nucleic acid comprising a first silencing sequence capable of silencing a first desired gene into a vector comprising a tobacco rattle virus (TRV) RNA2 sequence to produce a vector comprising a modified TRV RNA2 sequence; (b) preparing a mixed culture of (c) introducing the mixed culture of (d) growing the infected plant tissue for a sufficient to produce systemic TRV infection in the infected plants and to thereby induce gene silencing of the first desired gene. | 3,923 |
9,297,126 | 1. A traffic monitoring apparatus comprising: a housing, which has several longitudinal profiles, aligned parallel to a vertical axis and which are arranged circumferentially around the vertical axis and enclose an inner housing chamber, wherein at least one of the longitudinal profiles has an outer wall, which forms an outer face, and an inner wall, which forms an inner face facing to the inner housing chamber, at least one cooling channel for conveying a cooling medium, the at least one cooling channel formed between the inner wall and the outer wall of the at least one longitudinal profile. | 7,773 |
9,221,540 | 1. A step for an aircraft, the step comprising a support assembly provided with a vertical body carrying a tread, wherein said support assembly is portable, the step including: at least two fastener pegs suitable for fastening to a fuselage of an aircraft, said body having one fastener orifice per peg, said body being carried by said pegs when the body is moved manually towards a fuselage so as to cause each peg to penetrate into a respective fastener orifice; at least one locking system carried by said body for automatically locking a position of at least one peg in a fastener orifice; and unlocking means connected to the locking system to enable the body to be separated manually from the pegs. | 29,928 |
8,388,731 | 1. A modular ductwork assembly for decontaminating an air stream circulating within an HVAC system, the assembly comprising: (a) at least one ionizing module for removing particulates from said air stream; (b) at least one sterilization module for neutralizing airborne pathogens present in said air stream; (c) at least one ozone treatment module for neutralizing organisms and odoriferous constituents present in said air stream, and (d) at least one ozone sensor for monitoring gaseous ozone levels, wherein each of said modules is arranged substantially adjacent to at least one of the other modules. | 1,901 |
9,828,119 | 1. A metering device for the volumetric metering of a pharmaceutical powder and filling of a plurality of target cavities with the metered powder, wherein the plurality of target cavities are arranged in a common plane, comprising: a metering station, wherein the metering station comprises a powder storage container, a filling station, wherein the filling station comprises the plurality of target cavities, and a movable metering member, wherein the metering member configured for cyclical movement between a first spatial arrangement and a second spatial arrangement, wherein in the first spatial arrangement the movable metering member engages the metering station and wherein in the second spatial arrangement the movable metering member engages the filling station, wherein the metering member comprises a flat transfer surface, wherein a plurality of metering cavities are arranged in the flat transfer surface, wherein the number and geometric distribution of the metering cavities corresponds to the number and the geometric distribution of the target cavities, wherein the metering station further comprises a flat contact surface that provides a sealing contact of the metering member through engagement with the flat transfer surface, wherein metering openings are formed in the contact surface, wherein the number and geometric distribution of the metering openings corresponds to the number and geometric distribution of the metering cavities, wherein powder channels connect the powder storage container and the metering openings, wherein, in the plane of the transfer surface, the metering cavities each have an open side and a base opposite from the open side, wherein the base of the respective metering cavity is formed at least in sections by an air-permeable filter element, wherein a central pressure channel is formed in the metering member and is connected in a pressure-transmitting manner to the metering cavities through the filter elements. | 14,492 |
9,350,955 | 1. A computer server system comprising: a computer processor configured by executable instructions to: receive a multimedia message from a mobile device over a network that is at least partially wireless, the multimedia message containing a photograph of sky reflected off of a solar reflection apparatus; extract a location of the photograph from the mobile device; identify a compass in the photograph to determine an orientation of the solar reflection apparatus; determine a sun path based on the extracted location and the determined orientation; compute solar capacity at the location based on image analysis of the photograph by comparing the photograph to the sun path; and generate a solar analysis report including the solar capacity based on the sun path to provide for the mobile device. | 33,685 |
9,192,096 | 1. An electric lawn tractor power management system, comprising: a power management switch on an electric lawn tractor having a normal mode setting and a power management mode setting; a blade motor controller connected to the power management switch on the electric lawn tractor commanding a blade motor to rotate at a power management speed that is lower than a normal speed when the power management switch is set to the power management mode setting; a traction drive motor controller connected to the power management switch on the electric lawn tractor commanding a traction drive motor to rotate up to a maximum power management speed and a power management acceleration rate lower than a normal maximum speed and a normal acceleration rate when the power management switch is set to the power management mode setting; the blade motor controller increasing the speed of the blade motor over the power management speed in the power management mode in response to an excess loading condition based on sensors indicate power use of the blade motor or the traction drive motor exceeding pre-specified limits. | 31,617 |
9,537,097 | 1. A method of manufacturing a substrate for an OED, comprising: forming a conductive pattern directly on a release surface of a releasable substrate; forming a precursor material layer for an adhesive layer directly on the conductive pattern and a surface of the releasable substrate having the conductive pattern, the precursor material layer comprising a high refractive coating solution comprising an organic or inorganic binder and scattering particles; laminating a second substrate directly on the precursor material layer; and converting the precursor material layer into an adhesive layer, wherein the conductive pattern is formed to be exposed to a surface of the adhesive layer opposite to a surface of the adhesive layer attached to the second substrate, and the surface of the adhesive layer, which includes the exposed conductive pattern, is a planarized surface having a maximum height roughness of 1 μm or less, and wherein the conductive pattern is formed to have a ratio of an area of the conductive pattern exposed to the planarized surface to be 0.1% to 40% of a total area of the planarized surface, for the substrate for an OED to have a sheet resistance of the planarized surface of 5 Ω/□ or less. | 38,724 |
9,422,909 | 1. An automatic stop device for a vehicle engine, comprising: an automatic stop control unit which performs automatic engine stop when a predetermined automatic stop initiating condition is established while a vehicle is stopped, and prohibits automatic engine stop when the automatic stop initiating condition is not established; a restart control unit which performs automatic engine restart when a predetermined automatic stop cancelling condition is established after the engine is automatically stopped; and a storage unit which stores a cause of prohibiting automatic engine stop when automatic stop of the engine is prohibited while the vehicle is stopped, or a cause of performing automatic engine restart when the engine that has been automatically stopped is automatically restarted, wherein the storage unit stores a plurality of cause items obtained by classifying the cause of prohibiting automatic engine stop or the cause of performing automatic engine restart according to a same type of cause, and the number of serving times which is the number of times when each of the cause items serves as the cause of prohibiting automatic engine stop or as the cause of performing automatic engine restart, the storage unit includes a plurality of memory blocks, in which the number of serving times of each of the cause items is stored, the memory blocks being provided for each of predetermined time ranges representing an automatic stop execution time, the automatic stop execution time being a period of time during which the engine is automatically stopped, and when the automatic stop of the engine is prohibited or when the engine is automatically restarted, the count number in a specific memory block where the cause item to which the cause of prohibiting automatic engine stop or the cause of performing automatic engine restart belongs, and the time range to which a measured automatic stop execution time of the engine belongs intersect is increased so as to store the number of serving times of each of the cause items for each of the automatic stop execution times. | 9,623 |
8,445,033 | 1. A process for preparing a formulation for treatment of bacterial infections, said process comprising the step of: (a) preparing an extract of each of the following plants: (b) mixing the extracts to provide the formulation. | 12,618 |
8,858,837 | 1. An electrolyte comprising a eutectic mixture formed of an amide group-containing compound and a lithium-free ionizable salt, wherein a molar ratio of the amide group-containing compound to the lithium-free ionizable salt ranges from 1-8: 1, and wherein the eutectic mixture is one selected from the group consisting of a mixture of methylurea and NaSCN, a mixture of acetamide, urea and NaSCN, a mixture of methylcarbamate and NaSCN, and a mixture of N-benzylformamide and NaSCN. | 12,550 |
8,808,769 | 1. A method of extracting a pharmacologically active fraction from Andrographis paniculata stems, wherein the pharmacologically active fraction includes concentrations of pharmacologically active ingredients, and wherein one of the pharmacologically active ingredients is andrographolide, comprising: soaking stems of filtering the chloroform and aqueous 60% methanol to obtain a first residue and a first filtrate; settling the first filtrate to provide two immiscible layers, wherein the two immiscible layers are an aqueous methanol layer and a chloroform layer; separating the chloroform layer; concentrating the chloroform layer to obtain a first dry extract; dissolving the first dry extract in hexane; filtering the first dry extract dissolved in hexane to obtain a second residue and second filtrate; drying the second residue and storing as a first fraction; re-extracting the first fraction to obtain a second fraction; and combining the first and second fractions to provide the pharmacologically active fraction; wherein said pharmacologically active fraction treats inflammation. | 49,172 |
8,686,221 | 1. A method for increasing yield in plants grown under reduced nitrogen availability relative to corresponding wild type plants, comprising increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a class I homeodomain leucine zipper (HDZip) hox5 polypeptide or homologue thereof, and selecting for plants having increased yield, wherein said class I HDZip hox5 polypeptide or homologue thereof comprises from N-terminal to C-terminal: (i) an acidic box; (ii) a class I homeodomain; and (iii) a leucine zipper with more than 5 heptads, and said class I HDZip hox5 polypeptide or homologue thereof comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, and wherein said increased yield is one or more of: increased total seed yield per plant, increased number of filled seeds, increased seed fill rate, increased number of flowers per panicle, or increased harvest index. | 10,305 |
8,999,253 | 1. A compact conic apparatus for incinerating waste to make fertilizer, the apparatus comprising: a spinning centrifugal waste grinder for grinding a waste mixture of the waste with calcium carbonate and for centrifugally distributing the ground waste mixture; a crucible coaxial with the spinning centrifugal waster grinder and removably attached below the spinning centrifugal waster grinder; a crucible cover concentric with the crucible; a combustion chamber between the crucible and the crucible cover for oxidizing the waste mixture from the waste grinder, the combustion chamber including a molten metal bath; a heating member attached to the bottom of the crucible cover and configured proximal to the molten metal bath for combusting the mixture of the waste and the calcium carbonate to produce at least one of at least one acidic gas and a slag, the slag comprising calcium oxide, wherein the calcium oxide reacts with moisture present in the waste to produce calcium hydroxide, wherein at least one of the molten metal and the calcium hydroxide neutralizes the at least one acidic gas to prevent corrosion of the apparatus and generates metal compounds usable as fertilizers, wherein the heating member facilitates combustion at a temperature ranging between a melting point of a metal in the molten metal bath and a boiling point of the metal in the molten metal bath; at least one heat exchanger coaxial with the spinning centrifugal waste grinder and coaxial with the crucible; and an insulator concentric with the at least one heat exchanger. | 27,123 |
9,102,646 | 1. A single step process for the synthesis of 4-aryl substituted chromanes of Formula 2 comprising subjecting 3-aryloxy-1-phenylpropan-1-ol of Formula 1 to gold (III) chloride-catalyzed intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reaction to obtain 4-aryl substituted chromanes of Formula 2 wherein ‘Ar’ is selected from the group consisting of α-Naphthyl, 4-Methylphenyl, Phenyl, β-Naphthyl, 4-Chlorophenyl, 4-Bromophenyl, 4-Fluorophenyl, 4-Cyanophenyl, 2-Methylphenyl, 2-Chlorophenyl and 2-Bromophenyl. | 2,125 |
8,400,661 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory recording medium storing instructions, which when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform a method comprising: a) storing points allocated to each of a plurality of users in a respective virtual account; b) receiving a print job request from one of the users; c) with a processor of a computing device, computing a cost in points for executing the print job request, based on a formula which, for at least some of the users, takes into account whether the print job comprises a document or version of a document which has been previously submitted by the user for printing and takes into account whether a printer selected for printing is asleep or is awake, and if asleep, a cost of waking up the printer; d) updating the user's virtual account to account for the computed cost; e) generating a representation of the current status of the user's virtual currency account for presenting to the user; f) providing for repeating of b), c), d), and e) at least once; and g) providing for the user to redeem excess points in the virtual currency account for at least one option other than printing. | 30,593 |
8,689,472 | 1. A wear assembly for excavating equipment comprising a wear member having a cavity for receiving a base on the excavating equipment and a lock opening, and a lock secured to the wear member in the lock opening for adjustment between a pre-established hold position where the lock holds the wear member to the base received into the cavity and a pre-established release position where the wear member can be installed on the base, the lock being secured to the wear member in both the pre-established hold position and the pre-established release position irrespective of the insertion of a base in the cavity. | 27,310 |
9,130,204 | 1. A system for drying of exhaust gases from a fuel cell system, comprising: at least one first heat exchanger; at least one second heat exchanger; a common exhaust gas inlet and a common exhaust gas outlet for the first and second heat exchangers; a common coolant inlet and a common coolant outlet for the first and second heat exchangers; a common air outlet for the first and second heat exchangers; a valve arrangement with a plurality of valves; and at least one condensate extractor for extracting condensate; wherein the valve arrangement is adapted for operating either the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger in an icing phase and for operating the respective other heat exchanger in a regeneration phase; wherein in the icing phase a first part of a flow of exhaust gas into the common exhaust gas inlet and out of the common exhaust gas outlet and a flow of coolant into the common coolant inlet and out of the common coolant outlet flow through the respective heat exchanger in order to ice water vapour contained in the exhaust gas; and wherein in the regeneration phase a second part of the exhaust gas flows out of the common exhaust gas inlet through the respective heat exchanger to the common air outlet and thereby thaws the ice formed in the respective heat exchanger, subsequently extracting the thawed ice through the condensate extractor. | 41,029 |
9,790,418 | 1. A pumpable sealant composition for establishing hydraulic isolation in a cemented subterranean well, comprising: a silica-particle suspension with no intrinsic cementitious properties which, upon exposure to multivalent ions, forms a gel. | 20,658 |
9,296,309 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a motor configured to provide drive torque; a storage device connected to the motor and configured to receive power from an external supply for facilitating charging; a climate control system configured to heat and cool at least one of a passenger compartment and the storage device; a user interface configured to provide a charge level selection; and at least one controller configured to: receive input indicative of a present charge value, an identity of a present driver from a key, an ambient temperature, and a climate control system power consumption, disable charging when the present charge value corresponds to the charge level selection: and modify the charge level selection based on historic climate control system power consumption associated with the present driver and the ambient temperature. | 46,085 |
9,647,187 | 1. A two-dimensional phased array beam former comprising at least first and second chips having each top and bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the first chip being attached to the top surface of the second chip; the first and second chips having each an emitter side surface, the emitter side surfaces of the first and second chips facing a same direction and comprising each a plurality of emitters; wherein each of said first and second chips comprises at least one conductive post extending between said top and bottom surfaces; the at least one conductive post of the first chip being vertically aligned with and connected to the at least one conductive post of the second chip; and wherein at least one of the first and second chips comprises at least one heat conducting wall that is not in electrical contact with the at least one conductive post. | 47,940 |
8,556,157 | 1. A method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus including a first component and a second component, comprising: forming a first solder bump on one of the first component and the second component; forming a second solder bump on the other one of the first component and the second component; the first solder bump contains Bi, and the second solder bump contains Sn; bringing the first solder bump into contact with the second solder bump at a temperature higher than the liquidus temperature of any of the first and the second solder bumps such that the first and the second solder bumps are fused together to form a solder joint of an alloy having a lower liquidus temperature than any of the first and the second solder bumps; solidifying the solder joint between the first and the second component; and wherein the first solder bump contains Bi in the range from 85 to 90 wt. %. | 2,532 |
9,382,166 | 1. A combination composition for adding plant growth factors to soil, comprising a combination of organic fibers longer than one-half inch and comprising nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium available for plants, in combination with organic substratum providing pH balancing in the range of between about 6.0 and 7.0. | 11,078 |
9,529,974 | 1. A computer implemented method for filtering open source documents to detect events, the method comprising: storing, at a first server, indications and warnings associated with each of a plurality of event types, each of the event types being related to a disease or pest infestation affecting a plant or non-human animal; receiving a selection of an event type; receiving a selection of a surveillance location; identifying information sources that may have data about the selected event type; downloading publicly accessible data from the selected information sources; filtering the data, using an alert generation module developed using Bayesian causal models, to identify a subset of the data containing indications and warnings that suggest that the disease or pest infestation is occurring; creating and storing an event report identifying the disease or pest infestation based on the subset of the publicly accessible data containing the indications and warnings; and outputting the event report over a communications network. | 42,731 |
9,606,175 | 1. A device comprising: a connector including an external port; a port controller including logic to: a multiplexer coupled to the external port and the port controller, wherein the logic is to send a routing signal to the multiplexer to activate the program path. | 32,045 |
9,316,207 | 1. A method of fault detection using a plurality of detectors through entering values measured by the detectors into an apparatus configured to perform fault detection steps for a wind power generator, comprising the steps: step a: using a plurality of detectors to acquire measured values from the wind power generator and entering into the apparatus measured values including vane rotational speed measured by a second detector comprising a vane rotation detector, three phase mean voltage and power measured by a third detector comprising a power detector, vane pitch angle measured by a first detector comprising an encoder, and wind speed measured by a fourth detector comprising a wind speed detector; step b: determining if the measured vane rotational speed value by the second detector is equal to the actual vane rotational speed value, and the measured three phase mean voltage value by the third detector is equal to actual three phase mean voltage value, if the result is negative, the process goes to step c, if the result is affirmative, the process goes to step d; step c: the measured vane rotational speed value is determined to be faulty and the measured three phase mean voltage value is determined to be faulty and the fault detection process is terminated for fault correction; step d: determining if the measured power value by the third detector is equal to actual power value by checking if a relative error is less than 5% of actual power value and: if it is, determining that the measured power value is equal to actual power value and proceeding to step f; or, if it is not, proceeding to step e; step e: determining the measured power value error, if the relative error is equal or more than 5%, the result is to be determined faulty, and the process is terminated for fault correction; step f: determining if the measured vane rotational speed value is normal and if the measured three phase mean voltage value is normal; step g: determining if actual power coefficient (C wherein the measured vane pitch angle value (β obtain a calculated tip speed ratio (λ wherein a calculated power coefficient (C wherein √{square root over ((λ wherein λ is actual tip speed ratio, λ step h: determining if the measured power value, the measured vane pitch angle value, and the measured wind speed value are normal and the fault detection process is completed without any fault being detected; step i: determining if the measured vane pitch angle value (β step j: it is confirmed that the measured vane pitch angle value (β step k: it is confirmed that the measured wind speed value is determined to be faulty, and the fault detection process is terminated for fault correction. | 15,044 |
9,815,451 | 1. A control system for a hybrid electric vehicle, the vehicle having a powertrain comprising at least one electric propulsion motor and at least one engine, the control system being configured to control the vehicle to operate in an electric vehicle (EV) mode in which the at least one engine remains switched off and the at least one electric propulsion motor is configured to deliver drive torque and in a boost mode in which the at least one engine is switched on to provide additional power to drive the vehicle, the control system being configured to receive a target vehicle speed set by a driver and being configured to control the powertrain to maintain the target vehicle speed, wherein the control system includes a determination module configured to, when the vehicle is operating in EV mode, determine whether a boost location exists ahead of the vehicle, wherein the boost location is a location at which a gradient of a driving surface requires selection of the boost mode in order to maintain the target vehicle speed, the control system being configured automatically to command starting of the at least one engine before the boost location is reached and wherein, when the vehicle is operating in the boost mode, the control system is configured to assume the EV mode in advance of arrival at an EV mode location if the control system determines that EV mode may be assumed without a drop in vehicle speed exceeding a prescribed value before the EV mode location is reached. | 24,348 |
8,715,324 | 1. A fixation plate comprising: a base section with an angled proximal end including left and right rounded corners and at least a first contour; a leg section extending from the base section with a rounded distal end and at least a second, different contour; an angled longitudinal axis; one or more apertures in the base section on said longitudinal axis; one or more apertures in said leg section on said longitudinal axis; a left, straight side extending from the rounded distal end to the left rounded corner of the proximal end; and a longer, angled, straight right side parallel to said angled longitudinal axis diverging from the left straight side along its length and extending from the rounded distal end to the right rounded corner of the proximal end. | 24,518 |
9,225,009 | 1. A precursor composite for an electrode material, said precursor composite comprising graphene oxide with a C:O ratio between 2.5 and 3.5, and an electrochemically active material (EAM) in nanoparticulate form comprising a tetravalent vanadium oxohydroxide. | 24,879 |
9,203,243 | 1. A serial load control subsystem for leveling a cumulative electrical load in a system including multiple, individual, electrical loads and a power source selectively connected to the electrical loads by the control subsystem, which load control subsystem includes: a plurality of pulse-width modulation (PWM) switches each selectively connecting the power source and a respective individual electrical load; a controller adapted for programming with a PWM switch cycle schedule; said controller being connected to the PWM switch and adapted to provide scheduled switch signals to said PWM switch; said scheduled switch signals being adapted to control said PWM switch operation to minimize electromagnetic emissions from said system; said controller including a scheduling function adapted for calculating a schedule of opening and closing the plurality of switches to provide a minimum load variance among said plurality of switches; said scheduling function being adapted to open a respective switch when another switch closes; said processor including a wrap scheduling function adapted for accommodating a duty cycle for a switch if the duty cycle is less than a remaining PWM cycle: by providing a single On-time for a period; and by allocating any excess to the beginning of the PWM cycle; a central coordinator connected to said processor; said wrap scheduling function being accomplished by said central coordinator; said wrap scheduling function is accomplished by distributing control of each switch's PWM cycle to a respective individual switch; multiple control registers each connected to a respective PWM switch and adapted for maintaining an ON-time setting for a present PWM period which is less than a remaining PWM cycle; said control registers being adapted for loading with a next PWM period when an end value of a system PWM cycle is reached and the next PWM cycle is started; an additional register for implementing wrap scheduling by defining additional transitions occurring when an On-time is split; an array of registers adapted for scheduling initial On/Off states followed by phase settings causing the On/Off states to toggle as a PWM counter passes those settings; an array of registers adapted for scheduling pairs of subsequent turn-on and turn-off events as the PWM counter passes those settings; said processor includes a state logic function adapted for controlling said registers; said registers being buffered; a plurality of buffers adapted for being written to asynchronously with the PWM operations; said registers being updated with settings for the next PWM period without disrupting an ongoing PWM cycle; a token passing scheduling technique wherein each said PWM switch is provided with its own On-time duration and a first switch is synchronized to a common PWM cycle; as each switch finishes its On-time, it passes a token signal to a next switch permitting that switch to perform its On-time; an analog PWM system for aligning ramp oscillators whereby closing a switch results in opening another switch and starting a ramp cycle of the next switch; said processor including a rotational distribution for PWM load modulation remaining after serial load leveling whereby rotationally symmetric pulses transmit equal power; a PWM procedure is used for affecting smaller duty cycles; wherein said processor includes a delta-sigma modulation, pulse-density or pulse-coded modulation function for forming arbitrary waveforms; and a power cycling function sets an On-time of a designated first switch, which is adapted for generating tokens to control subsequent switch timings as duplicates of the first switch timing. | 2,477 |
9,236,622 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: at least one sensor including a pair of electrodes disposed on a substrate, the sensor being calibrated to produce an output signal having a magnitude that is (i) proportional to a relative humidity in a vicinity of the sensor during a first instance while exposed to water vapor and (ii), proportional to an amount of liquid water on the sensor during a second instance while exposed to liquid water. | 29,563 |
9,047,496 | 1. A method for selecting a sub-population of objects from a population of objects based on user-selection events, the method comprising: assigning a selection-criterion value to each object in the population of objects; maintaining a total probability distribution, combining probability distributions associated with each non-expired user-selection event, that represents the probability of each object in the population being potentially of interest to the user based on the selection-criterion value assigned to the object; and randomly selecting objects from the population of objects with a selection probability for each object proportional to the probability of the object being potentially of interest to the user according to the total probability distribution. | 17,383 |
9,244,602 | 1. A mobile terminal comprising: a display configured to display information; a plurality of touch pad strips configured to receive a touch input, wherein each of the plurality of touch pad strips is of an elongated shape; a processor configured to: wherein the plurality of touch pad strips are separated from the display such that the touch input can be received from a user without contacting the display, wherein each of the plurality of touch pad strips is proximate to the display and extends along different sides of the display, wherein a first touch pad strip among the plurality of touch pad strips extends vertically along one side of the display, and a second touch pad strip among the plurality of touch pad strips extends horizontally along another side of the display, wherein the first touch pad strip is different from the second touch pad strip and the one side of the display is different from the another side of the display, wherein the plurality of touch pad strips are situated on a surface of the mobile terminal where the display is located, wherein a length of the first touch pad strip is equal to or less than a length of the one side of the display, and a length of the second touch pad strip is equal to or less than a length of the another side of the display, wherein the processor is further configured to provide at least an audible, visual, or tactile feedback to the user when the touch input is detected, wherein the first touch pad strip and the second touch pad strip are coupled at a region on the surface of the mobile terminal, and wherein the processor is further configured to scroll the screen horizontally and vertically simultaneously in response to a touch input applied to the region. | 49,683 |
8,380,262 | 1. A slide phone, comprising: a first body comprising a base sheet and a peripheral side wall perpendicularly extending from the surrounding edges of the base sheet; a main sheet mounted on the first body, the main sheet comprising a guiding member, a pair of racks positioned on opposite sides of the first body, and a pair of connecting members connecting the guiding member and the racks at two opposite ends of each connecting member; a second body slidably installed on the guiding member of the main sheet and capable of moving relative to the first body to open or close the slide phone, wherein when the slide phone is closed, the second body forms a receiving space together with the first body, and the peripheral side wall of the first body defines a cutout therein for allowing the second body to partially slide out of the first body to open the slide phone; a pair of levers positioned on opposite sides of the first body, each lever connected to a corresponding one of the racks by one pair of ends of the lever; a keypad mounted on another pair of ends of each of the levers, the keypad being lifted up or pulled down relative to the first body by the levers, wherein the keypad is pulled down by the levers to be accommodated in the receiving space when the slide phone is closed, and is lifted up by the levers to be substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the second body when the slide phone is opened; and a pair of supports slidably mounted on the first body adjacent to the levers via the connecting members correspondingly for supporting a bottom surface of the keypad when the keypad has been lifted up by the levers. | 47,794 |
8,778,287 | 1. A process for separating in a grouped manner actinides(III), (IV), (V) and (VI) that are present in a highly acidic aqueous phase with a pH lesser than or equal to 0, from fission products, including lanthanides and yttrium, that are also present in the highly acidic aqueous phase, comprising the following steps: a) coextracting the actinides(III), (IV), (V) and (VI), the lanthanides, and yttrium from the highly acidic aqueous phase by bringing the highly acidic aqueous phase into contact with a water-immiscible organic phase which comprises at least one solvating extractant chosen from diglycolamides and malonamides in an organic diluent, and by separating the highly acidic aqueous phase from the organic phase; and b) selectively stripping the actinides(III), (IV), (V) and (VI) from the organic phase by bringing the organic phase into contact with a weakly acidic aqueous phase with a pH higher than 0, the weakly acidic aqueous phase comprising at least one complexing agent which complexes the actinides(III), (IV), (V) and (VI) in the weakly acidic aqueous phase, and nitrate ions, and by separating the organic phase from the weakly acidic aqueous phase; wherein said nitrate ions are present in an amount effective to substantially inhibit co-stripping of lanthanides and yttrium from the organic phase. | 24,288 |
9,150,466 | 1. A process for dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons comprising: flowing a catalyst in a catalyst bed, in a downward direction, through a dehydrogenation reactor, wherein the catalyst is added at a catalyst inlet temperature of at least 650° C.; and flowing a paraffinic feedstream in an upward direction through the catalyst bed, thereby contacting the paraffinic feedstream with the catalyst at dehydrogenation reaction conditions, thereby generating a product stream, wherein the paraffinic feedstream is added at a paraffinic feedstream inlet temperature of at least 400° C. and less than 600° C., wherein the paraffinic feedstream travels in an upward direction through the dehydrogenation reactor, providing for a substantially countercurrent flow of catalyst and paraffinic feedstream and wherein the paraffinic feedstream inlet temperature is between 100° C. and 250° C. below the catalyst inlet temperature, wherein the catalyst bed includes a packing grid comprising multiple layers of ribbons, wherein the ribbons refer to metal strips formed and angled relative to each other and the layers are stacked to be in contact with neighboring layers. | 38,777 |
8,889,289 | 1. A battery terminal holder fixture for holding terminals of a battery in alignment, said fixture comprising: a first side member having a plurality of first teeth extending in spaced and generally parallel relationship to one another; and a second side member having a plurality of second teeth extending in spaced and generally parallel relationship to one another; wherein said second side member is configured to move relative to said first side member between an open position and a closed position; wherein said second side member opposes said first side member such that a number of said plurality of first teeth oppose a corresponding number of said plurality of second teeth and a slit is defined between each of said adjacent teeth when said fixture is in said open position; wherein said second side member opposes said first side member such that said number of said plurality of first teeth are staggered relative to said corresponding number of said plurality of second teeth to reduce said slit in size and capture the terminals of the battery therebetween when said fixture is in said closed position; wherein said first side member further includes a first base and said plurality of first teeth extend from said first base in spaced and generally parallel relationship to one another; wherein said second side member further includes a second base and said plurality of second teeth extend from said second base in spaced and generally parallel relationship to one another; wherein said second base opposes, and is configured to move relative to, said first base; a handle extending from said first base and said second base; wherein said handle includes a first handle portion extending generally perpendicularly from said first base and a second handle portion extending generally perpendicularly from said second base; wherein said first handle portion defines a cross-section that is generally C-shaped and defines a cavity configured for receiving a portion of said second handle portion as said second handle portion moves relative to said first handle portion; wherein each of said first handle portion and said second handle portion are configured to be grasped by one hand of a user; wherein said second handle portion is configured to move relative to said first handle portion to cause said second base and said plurality of second teeth to move relative to said first base and said plurality of first teeth; and wherein a biasing device disposed to react between said first handle portion and said second handle portion to bias said second handle portion away from said first handle portion. | 10,920 |
9,716,824 | 1. A focus detection apparatus, comprising: an imaging section which acquires image data; a brightness information acquiring section which acquires brightness information at different focus positions and detects a peak position of a brightness evaluation value; a normal focus detection information acquiring section which calculates contrast information using the image data at different focus positions and detects a peak position of a normal AF evaluation value from this contrast information; a special focus detection information acquiring section which detects a peak position of a special AF evaluation value among different focus positions using the brightness information acquired by the brightness information acquiring section and the contrast information calculated by the normal focus detection information acquiring section; a determination section to determine information for focus detection using the brightness information and at least either of the peak position of the normal AF evaluation value detected by the normal focus detection information acquiring section and the peak position of the special AF evaluation value detected by the special focus detection information acquiring section; and a focus detection calculation section which calculates a focus detection position using the information for focus detection determined by the determination section. | 35,875 |
8,500,442 | 1. A chemical analysis method for determining the concentration of carbon monoxide, gaseous water, oxygen and gaseous hydrocarbon in a combustion gas, comprising the steps of: (a) directing wavelength modulated light from a single tunable diode through beam shaping optics laser at a wavelength in the range of from 2 to 2.5 micrometers through the combustion gas to a light detector to produce an absorption profile of the combustion gas and performing an oxygen measurement using an oxygen analyzer (b) digitizing the absorption profile of the combustion gas; (c) storing the digitized absorption profile in a digital computer; (d) processing the digitized absorption profile in the digital computer to produce an output from the computer indicative of the concentration of carbon monoxide, gaseous water and gaseous hydrocarbon in the combustion gas. | 11,728 |
9,293,195 | 1. A sense amplifier for a memory circuit, the sense amplifier comprising: a latch circuit having a first latch node, in which a value held in the latch circuit is latched, and a second latch node, which holds an inverse of the value latched in the first latch node; an intermediate circuit, including a first node selectively connectable to one or more bit lines, a second node connectable to the latch circuit, and an internal node connectable to the first node; bit line selection circuitry connected to the first node, whereby the first node can selectively be connected to one or more bit lines; first and second switches connected between the latch circuit and the second node, whereby the second node is selectively connectable to the first and second latch nodes when the first switch or second switch is respectively on and the latch circuit is isolated from the second node when the first and second switches are off; and a third switch, whereby the latch circuit can be connected to a data bus. | 22,750 |
8,454,705 | 1. A prosthetic device comprising: a body; a cap made of metal material, having inside an acetabular seating, said cap having an internal wall that lines the seating and an external part consisting of a lattice with cells making a plurality of cavities disposed three-dimensionally, open and intercommunicating, connected with each other, said lattice being solid with the external part facing toward the outside of the internal wall, at least part of the lattice is formed, without a break in continuity, by a plurality of geometric meshes of polygonal shape repeated in space over all or part of the body, having a cellular geometry with elementary cells open and contiguous, to define a plurality of polygons with a spatial development delimiting the cavities, so the lattice is able to promote osteo-integration, wherein each geometric mesh is formed by a first polygonal part with four sides, each of said four sides formed as an angled segment, and a second part formed as an angled segment and a third part formed as an angled segment, wherein each angled segment has first and second consecutive rectilinear segments, wherein an angle is formed in the angled segment at an intersection of each pair of its first and the second consecutive segments; wherein the first polygonal part has vertexes that are not co-planar; the second and the third part with angled segments are disposed transversely to the first part substantially across a respective median line of the first part, crossed with respect to each other, superimposed on the first polygonal part, one on one side and one on the other side to define in the space a plurality of hexagons having vertexes that are not co-planar, the first part and the second part forming a first hexagon and a second hexagon of said plurality of hexagons having vertexes that are not co-planar; the first part and the third part forming a third hexagon and a fourth hexagon of said plurality of hexagons having vertexes that are not co-planar; wherein a first end of a first angled segment of the second part coincides with a first vertex of the first part and a second end of a second angled segment of the second part coincides with a second vertex of the first part; and wherein a first end of a first angled segment of the third part coincides with a third vertex of the first part and a second end of a second angled segment of the third part coincides with a fourth vertex of the first part. | 5,536 |
8,890,241 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate including first, second and third surfaces, the second surface being placed above the first surface, the third surface having first and second edges connecting to the first and second surfaces, respectively; an isolation region including an insulator and formed on the first and third surfaces; an active region including the second surface and fenced with the insulator of the isolation region; and first and second semiconductor pillars each protruding upwardly from the second surface in the active region, wherein the first semiconductor pillar is thinner than the second semiconductor pillar. | 47,069 |
9,385,856 | 1. A method for transmitting Time Division Duplexing (TDD) configuration information by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a TDD wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining, by the eNB, a changed TDD configuration indicating a transmission direction of a plurality of sub-frames constituting a frame; generating a system information element including dynamic TDD configuration information indicating the changed TDD configuration; transmitting a system information block including the dynamic TDD configuration information; and sending a Media Access Control (MAC) message including information indicating whether or not a change in TDD configuration is activated, wherein the information indicating whether or not the change in the TDD configuration is activated is indicated by a Logical Channel Identifier (LCID) field included in a MAC header of the MAC message. | 45,811 |
8,603,058 | 1. An absorbent article having a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis, a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting said front and back waist regions, said article comprising: an outer cover stretchable in at least the lateral direction; a liner in opposed relationship with the outer cover and stretchable in at least the lateral direction; and a stretchable absorbent structure disposed between the liner and the outer cover and extending from the crotch region to at least one of the front waist region and the back waist region of the article, the absorbent structure having at least two weakening elements disposed therein extending in the longitudinal direction for improved lateral stretch distribution across the lateral width of the article. | 39,127 |
9,089,573 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition, wherein the active ingredients of the composition consist of: a. L-arginine, b. tetrahydrobiopterin, sepiapterin, or dihydrobiopterin, or any combination thereof, and c. ascorbic acid or ascorbate; wherein the ratio of (a):(b) is 1-30:1; and wherein the ratio of (b):(c) is 1:0.1-15. | 43,773 |
8,396,644 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine operable with light oil or mixed fuel containing light oil, comprising: a fuel supply unit which supplies the light oil or the mixed fuel containing light oil to the internal combustion engine; a gas supply unit which supplies hydrogen to the internal combustion engine; a combustion control unit which controls combustion in the internal combustion engine by use of combustion data related to hydrogen addition concentration previously obtained from multiple combustion waveforms changing depending on the hydrogen addition concentration; and a hydrogen addition quantity determining unit which determines the addition concentration of the hydrogen to be supplied to the internal combustion engine by selecting appropriate data from the combustion data related to the hydrogen addition concentration so as to achieve high thermal efficiency based on status of the internal combustion engine, wherein the determined addition concentration of the hydrogen is in a range of 4 to 16 volume percentage relative to intake air of the internal combustion engine. | 39,457 |
9,158,189 | 1. A display system with reduced blow-by, comprising: a projector operable, based upon input content defining one or more images, to project light through a lens; a first polarizer positioned proximate to the lens receiving and first polarizing the projected light; and a projection screen assembly comprising a transparent projection screen and a second polarizer, wherein the projected light first strikes the transparent projection screen causing a projected image to be displayed and wherein the second polarizer is adapted to second polarize the projected light to provide cross-polarization and reduce blow-by in the display system, wherein the first and second polarizers are configured with first and second axes of polarization, and wherein the first and second polarizers are arranged in the display system with the first axis of polarization substantially orthogonal to the second axis of polarization. | 17,086 |
9,044,901 | 1. A profile assembly for use on a belt, comprising: a base configured to be attached to the belt, wherein the base comprises a housing comprising a channel formed in an upper surface, a lip at about a selected end of the housing defining a sidewall opening, and a bottom surface configured to be in physical communication with a surface of the belt; and a removable profile comprising an upper portion configured to be in physical communication with an object to be conveyed, and a lower portion configured to be inserted into the channel, wherein the lower portion comprises an outwardly extending first protrusion configured to snap fit with the base lip when the profile is inserted into the channel. | 27,516 |
9,546,599 | 1. A turbine engine for an aircraft including a shaft of a turbine engine and a pumping module, comprising: a structural housing including a suction flange, to draw off fuel from a tank, and a delivery flange; a pump shaft connected to the shaft of the turbine engine; a supply pump for supplying the fuel to the turbine engine, mounted on the pump shaft and mounted inside the structural housing, configured to deliver a flow of the fuel as a function of a speed of rotation of the shaft of the turbine engine, the supply pump including a first fixed central part, joined to the structural housing, including a hollow delivery shaft connected to the delivery flange and a movable part mounted outside the fixed central part thereof; an electrical device mounted on the pump shaft and configured, according to a first mode of operation, to drive the pump shaft in rotation to actuate the supply pump and, according to a second mode of operation, to be driven in rotation by the pump shaft to supply electrical power to an equipment of the turbine engine, the electrical device including rotor elements mounted on an external periphery of the movable part of the supply pump and stator elements mounted on an internal periphery of a fixed external crown of the structural housing; and coupling/decoupling means to decouple the shaft of the turbine engine and the pump shaft during the first mode of operation and to couple the shaft of the turbine engine and the pump shaft during the second mode of operation. | 7,665 |
9,450,244 | 1. A cathode active material comprising: a lithium cobalt complex oxide including lithium (Li), cobalt (Co), a first element, a second element, and sub-component compound, wherein, the first element is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of aluminum (AI), chromium (Cr), vanadium (V), manganese (Mn), and iron (Fe), the second element is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca), the molar ratios of cobalt, the first element and the second element in the lithium cobalt complex oxide are within ranges of 0.9≦x<1, 0.001≦y≦0.05, and 0.001≦z≦0.05, respectively, providing that the composition of cobalt is x, the composition of the first element is y, and the composition of the second element is z, the sub-component compound includes zirconium (Zr) and at least a part of the Zr of the sub-component compound is present in a crystal grain boundary of the lithium cobalt complex oxide, the content of zirconium is within a range from 0.01 mol % to 10 mol % both inclusive as a ratio (Zr/Co) of zirconium to cobalt in lithium cobalt complex oxide, and the lithium cobalt complex oxide is represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein, MI represents the first element, MII represents the second element, the values of a, x, y and z are within ranges of 0.9≦a≦1.1, 0.9≦x<1, 0.001≦y≦0.05, and 0.001≦z≦0.05, and x+y+z=1. | 32,633 |
8,579,587 | 1. A method of reducing the vibration of a lift and propulsion rotor of a rotorcraft, the rotor having a plurality of airfoil assemblies that perform rotary movement around a drive axis of the rotor, each airfoil assembly comprising a blade extending longitudinally from a root suitable for being fastened to hinge means of a hub of said rotor to a free end, a first distance extending between said free end and said hinge means, the method comprising: varying said first distance cyclically so that the projection of the center of gravity of a blade on a horizontal plane perpendicular to said drive axis and containing said hinge means describes a circle. | 12,259 |
9,600,621 | 1. A method for designing an integrated computational element (ICE) core, comprising: generating with a computer a plurality of predetermined ICE core designs having a plurality of thin film layers, wherein generating the plurality of predetermined ICE core designs includes iteratively varying a thickness of each thin film layer by applying coarse thickness increments to each thin film layer; calculating a transmission spectrum for each predetermined ICE core design; calculating a performance of each predetermined ICE core design based on one or more performance criteria; identifying one or more predictive ICE core designs based on the performance of each predetermined ICE core design; and optimizing the one or more predictive ICE core designs by iteratively varying the thickness of each thin film layer with fine thickness increments, wherein the one or more predictive ICE core designs are configured to detect a particular characteristic of interest. | 26,863 |
9,132,832 | 1. A vehicle power transmission device disposed on a hybrid vehicle having an engine and an electric motor, the vehicle power transmission device including a first member having one of outer circumferential teeth disposed around one axial center or inner circumferential teeth meshing with the outer circumferential teeth and a second member having the other teeth, the inner circumferential teeth and the outer circumferential teeth meshing with each other to limit relative rotation around the one axial center between the first member and the second member, the relative rotation between the first member and the second member being limited to transmit torque of the electric motor to drive wheels, the vehicle power transmission device comprising: a sliding member sliding relative to at least one of the first member and the second member while generating frictional resistance as the first member and the second member relatively rotate within a range corresponding to a circumferential gap between the outer circumferential teeth and the inner circumferential teeth, the sliding member being a hollow elastic body, the sliding member sliding relative to at least one of the first member and the second member depending on magnitude of the torque of the electric motor, the first member including a driving gear, a driven gear mutually meshing with the driving gear being disposed on a transmission shaft making up a portion of a power transmission path from the engine to the drive wheels, the second member including an electric motor rotor shaft relatively non-rotatably fixed to a rotor of the electric motor and the sliding member being pressed by the first member and the second member. | 24,736 |
8,470,418 | 1. An exhaust pipe for an internal combustion engine, the exhaust pipe comprising: a metal tube enclosing a passage through which an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine passes; and a ceramic film covering the metal tube from outside thereof, the ceramic film containing no more than about 0.5 mass % of a metallic element which is dominantly present in a surface of the metal tube; wherein, the ceramic film is a silicon oxide nitride film containing about 30 mass % or less of oxygen and about 10 mass % or more of nitrogen. | 35,061 |
8,465,678 | 1. An amplification device, comprising: a pi-conjugated polymer having an energy migration pathway that transports an excitation energy of the polymer upon exposure of the polymer to electromagnetic radiation, and a chromophore covalently attached to the polymer and in electronic communication with the energy migration pathway, wherein the chromophore emits an emission of radiation greater than that emitted from an essentially identical chromophore associated with a polymer that is free of an energy migration pathway, under essentially identical conditions; a source of energy applicable to the polymer to cause the emission of radiation; and a detector positioned to detect the emission of radiation, wherein a luminescence characteristic of the chromophore is changed upon interaction of the polymer and/or chromophore with an analyte molecule. | 36,482 |
8,394,014 | 1. An endoscope comprising: a shaft having a distal end and a proximal end and defining a longitudinal direction, said shaft having an outer tube and an inner tube, said inner tube extending inside said outer tube, the proximal end comprising an endoscope head having a support element therein, said outer tube and said inner tube being radially spaced apart from one another such that a channel for receiving a light guide is formed between said outer tube and said inner tube, said channel extending in said longitudinal direction, and said shaft further having an intermediate tube having an axial slit extending in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate tube, the axial slit extending over the entire length of the intermediate tube, the intermediate tube being made of steel or of a metal alloy having flexural strength which strengthens said shaft against bending forces, said intermediate tube being arranged between said outer tube and said inner tube, said intermediate tube at least partially surrounding said inner tube, said intermediate tube, due to the axial slit being compressible in order to facilitate assembly of the shaft and fitting snugly against the outer tube from the inside of the outer tube, wherein said shaft viewed radially from the inside outward, comprises said inner tube, said channel, said intermediate tube, and said outer tube, wherein a partially circumferential segment is pushed distally onto said inner tube and is arranged substantially between said outer tube and said inner tube, and wherein said partially circumferential segment is beveled at a distal end of said circumferential segment, wherein the intermediate tube has a bevel at its proximal end and arranged in a proximal area of said shaft such that said bevel sits on said support element. | 43,865 |
8,900,976 | 1. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus by using an organic layer deposition apparatus, the method comprising: attaching a substrate to a transfer unit in a loading unit; transporting the transfer unit into a chamber by using a first conveyer unit comprising a guide member having accommodation grooves to accommodate both sides of the transfer unit so as to guide a first direction movement of the transfer unit to which the substrate is attached, wherein the guide member comprises a first accommodation part, a second accommodation part, and a connection part, and passes through the chamber; forming an organic layer by depositing a deposition material discharged from an organic layer deposition assembly on the substrate while the substrate is moved relative to the organic layer deposition assembly in the chamber at a space from the substrate; separating the substrate on which the depositing has been completed from the transfer unit in an unloading unit; and transporting the transfer unit from which the substrate is separated to the loading unit by using a second conveyer unit that passes through the chamber, wherein the first accommodation part of the guide member is located closer to ground than the second accommodation part, and comprises a lower member, an upper member, and elastic members between the lower member and the upper member. | 40,501 |
9,554,071 | 1. An imager comprising: at least one pixel, each pixel comprising: a first driver and sense circuit having a storage capacitor switchably coupled to the first storage gate by at least one switch, wherein the first driver and sense circuit is configured to (1) provide a second signal that controls operation of the first storage gate to store charge originating from the photosensor, (2) sense an amount of charge driven out to the first storage gate while concurrently providing the second signal, and (3) store charge via the storage capacitor and the at least one switch corresponding to the amount of sensed charge, wherein the second signal is different than the first signal. | 4,939 |
9,652,063 | 1. An input direction determination system that determines an input direction based on an indication position, the input direction determination system comprising: a processor, the processor is configured to | 34,613 |
9,297,585 | 1. A hood-shaped annealing furnace for the thermal treatment of cold-rolled steel strip, the hood-shaped annealing furnace comprising: a base; a protective hood configured to be placed on said base and to receive the steel strip under said protective hood; a gas burner having a heating capacity and being configured to heat a protective gas atmosphere; a blower configured to circulate the protective gas atmosphere heated by said gas burner under said protective hood and to heat the steel strip under said protective hood to a temperature of at least 500° C. in the protective gas atmosphere; an electric heater fed by a public power network and having a heating capacity corresponding substantially to said heating capacity of said gas burner, said electric heater configured to independently heat the protective gas atmosphere as an alternative to said gas burner to a temperature above a recrystallization annealing temperature with said gas burner switched off; and a controller configured to interrupt a supply of gas to said gas burner and activate said electric heater in the event of a surplus of electrical energy in the public power network. | 31,879 |
8,868,937 | 1. A method of remotely controlling power distribution units, the method being executed by a server connected to a network and comprising the steps of: searching for a plurality of power distribution units connected to the network; receiving a message automatically sent out from each of the power distribution units and establishing a message database; allowing a user to log in and make a remote control request; searching the message database to obtain the power distribution units belonging to the user; generating a management and control window to list all the power distribution units of the user for the user to control remotely, wherein the management and control window includes: an equipment adding page having a data entering field for the user to add identification data of a new power distribution unit, thereby adding the new power distribution unit to remotely control; an equipment listing page for listing all the power distribution units belonging to a specific user obtained after searching; a controlling page for organizing all the power distribution units of the specific user according to a specified condition, thereby allowing the user to collectively control all of the power distribution units satisfying the same specified condition. | 23,073 |
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