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8,703,205 | 1. A method for treating a wound infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the wound an effective amount of a composition comprising honey, myrrh, and Nigella sativa seeds. | 30,996 |
8,965,289 | 1. A short range communication device configured to operate as a slave communication device, comprising: a data storage configured to store at least one protocol-specific channel criterion for a connection with a master short range communication device; a short range transceiver configured to execute a preliminary device scan of a scanning set of communication channels to detect radio frequency energy; and a processor configured to execute a full device scan based in part on the protocol-specific channel criterion, wherein the detected radio frequency energy matches an expected condition associated with the protocol specific criterion, and wherein the protocol-specific channel criterion comprises an initial radio frequency energy level of an initial channel of a protocol-specific channel subset corresponding to a prior pairing between the slave communication device and the master short range communication device. | 19,672 |
8,525,378 | 1. An electrical machine with a coil in a magnetic field wherein one or both of: the motion of the coil in the magnetic field generates an electrical potential across the coil ends; and a current resulting from an electrical potential across the ends of the coil result in motion of the coil, wherein said coil has at least two turns and said turns each comprise a first part with a first and second end and composed of a first material, and a second part with a first and a second end composed of a second material, and wherein junction one is where the second end of the first part is connected to the first end of the second part in each turn, and junction two is where the second end of the second part of the first turn is attached to the first end of the first part of the second turn, and wherein when a secondary current is driven through the at least two turns from the first end of the first part of the first turn to the second end of the second part of the second turn, a temperature change is generated between junction one and junction two, thereby providing means to transfer heat from junction one where heat is generated in the machine to junction two for cooling of the electrical machine. | 22,145 |
8,991,969 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a recording control unit configured to cause a recording head which discharges ink to record a recording position adjustment chart used for adjusting a recording position for a plurality of adjustment items where the recording head performs recording onto a recording medium, the recording position adjustment chart including a plurality of patterns for each of the plurality of adjustment items, wherein each of the plurality of patterns for one of the plurality of adjustment items corresponds to one of different shifting amounts of the recording position; and a determination unit configured to determine an adjustment amount for adjusting the recording position for the plurality of adjustment items based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels within an area of a pattern of the plurality of patterns in the recorded recording position adjustment chart, wherein the determination unit determines whether or not to use an adjustment amount that is between a first adjustment amount corresponding to a first shifting amount and a second adjustment amount corresponding to a second shifting amount, wherein the first shifting amount and the second shifting amount are adjacent shifting amounts in the different shifting amounts for adjusting the recording position based on the adjustment items, and wherein, in response to a determination to use an adjustment amount that is between the first adjustment amount and the second adjustment amount, the determination unit uses at least the first adjustment amount and the second adjustment amount to determine the adjustment amount that is between the first adjustment amount and the second adjustment amount. | 17,758 |
8,511,113 | 1. A process for the separation of CO 2 from a gaseous feed stream, comprising the steps of: a) cooling a porous body in the form of a fixed bed to a temperature in the range of from −200° C. to −100° C. to obtain a cold body, said cold body having a surface with a specific surface area of from 1000 to 100000 m b) contacting a gaseous feed stream comprising CO c) removing the solid CO | 27,369 |
9,181,723 | 1. A tent support framework assembly, comprising: a) a plurality of poles; b) a first coupler securing a plurality of said poles to one another, wherein said first coupler comprises first and second hollow tubular bodies, where each of said first and second bodies includes i) a longitudinal through bore defined by a circumferentially closed longitudinal wall and open at one end and a collar piece coaxially projecting from an end opposite said one end and having a bore defined through a circumferentially closed wall of said collar piece transverse to said longitudinal bore, and ii) a hinge arm arcuately projecting from an outer wall of each of the first and second bodies and having an aperture that projects transverse to the longitudinal bore, wherein first and second poles extend from the respective longitudinal bore of each of said first and second bodies, wherein the collar pieces of said first and second bodies are mounted to overlap each other at a third pole mounted through the aligned bores of said collar pieces, and wherein a fastener mounted through the hinge arm apertures secures said hinge arms together and fixes a splay angle between said first and second poles; c) a second coupler securing a plurality of said poles to one another, wherein said second coupler comprises a hollow tubular body including a longitudinal through bore defined by a circumferentially closed longitudinal wall and open at opposite ends of the body, wherein first and second clevis arms project from the second coupler body and are spaced apart in opposed parallel relation to each other a distance sufficient to receive a pole therebetween and each includes an aperture, wherein a fourth pole extends from at least one end of the second coupler body, and wherein a fifth pole is secured to directly pivot about a pivot pin mounted through the fifth pole and the apertures of said first and second arms; and d) wherein said plurality of poles and first and second couplers are mounted to one another to project in multiple planes and form a self-supporting enclosed framework and to which framework a fabric tent cover is overlaid. | 48,117 |
9,612,647 | 1. A method comprising: providing at least two isolated power domains for a physical layer interface from a source PHY to a sink PHY in a display, a first power domain being always on and supplying logic blocks that store status and configuration information needed to power up the source PHY, and a second power domain, higher in voltage than said first domain, and being a power gated domain for a common lane; providing a common mode voltage keeper to retain a common mode voltage after a power down, said voltage needed in a higher power consumption state; and providing a third separate, isolated power domain for a data spline. | 4,872 |
9,823,861 | 1. A method comprising: encoding, by a processing module of a computing device, a data segment of a data object into a set of encoded data slices; determining, by the processing module, storage requirements of the data object; determining, by the processing module, memory device capabilities of a plurality of distributed storage units based on types of memory devices, wherein at least one of the distributed storage units of the plurality of distributed storage units includes multiple types of memory devices, and wherein a first type of memory device has first memory characteristics and a second type of memory device has second memory characteristics; determining, by the processing module, a storage mode based on one or more of the storage requirements of the data object, the memory device capabilities of a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory, and a type of data, the storage mode including a time phase indicator specifying one or more time intervals for a given set of storage requirements; identifying, by the processing module, a set of distributed storage units of the plurality of distributed storage units that have at least one or more of the multiple types of memory devices based on the storage mode; and sending, by the computing device, at least a write threshold number of encoded data slices of the data segment to the set of distributed storage units for storage in the at least one or more of the multiple types of memory devices in accordance with the storage mode, wherein the write threshold number is greater than a decode threshold number and less than a total number, wherein the decode threshold number corresponds to a minimum number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices that is needed to recover the data segment, wherein the total number corresponds to a number of encoded data slices in the set of encoded data slices. | 42,654 |
8,793,656 | 1. A regression testing selection method executed by a processor for a framework based application having programming applications with both language program files and configuration files, said method comprising: abstracting a frame configuration model instance by analyzing configuration files prior to any modifications made to the program; said frame configuration model instance denoting individual configuration nodes in said framework model and further defining relationship between one or more code units in said configuration nodes and program code units in said application; constructing one or more control flow test cases by profiling select test cases of said application, wherein said control flow consists of code units traversed during test case execution and control flow of said code units; and obtaining an extended control flow by correlating configuration nodes in said framework configuration model instance with said code units in said control flow; identifying a test case to be run with a regression test suite selector after any modification is changed to the application wherein said test case includes an extended control flow; selecting a test case of which said extended control flow is changed as a test case to be re-executed after one or more modifications is made to said application; and wherein method of selecting said to be re-executed test case further comprises: identifying configuration files before and after modifications; determining impact of said identified configuration changes on said extended control flow of one or more test cases; and selecting a particular test case of which extended control flow is affected an identified configuration change and selecting it as said test case to be re-executed. | 33,983 |
9,719,735 | 1. A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, the heat exchanger comprising: at least one tube through which a coolant is adapted to flow; at least one manifold into which the coolant, corning out of the at least one tube, flows, the at least one manifold having a manifold top part and a manifold bottom part; and outwardly extending protrusions forming a passage geometry for receiving the at least one tube, are formed on the manifold top part and the manifold bottom part, wherein punched slots in the manifold top part are covered on an inside by a wall section of the manifold bottom part, wherein punched slots in the manifold bottom part are covered on an outside by a wall section of the manifold top part, and wherein the punched slots of the manifold top part and the punched slots of the manifold bottom part are slots provided on each side, in a longitudinal extension direction of the manifold, of each of the outwardly extending protrusions at a base portion thereof. | 31,786 |
8,932,426 | 1. A method for connecting a pipe fitting with a pipe wall of a buried pipeline comprising the steps of: exposing a top, outer pipe wall surface of said pipe wall to an aboveground location, producing an exposed outer pipe wall surface; providing a circumferential pipe surface between said outer pipe wall surface and an inner pipe wall surface enclosing an opening in said pipe wall; inserting a portion of said pipe and an internal stiffener through said opening, wherein a leading end of said pipe comprises a laterally extending, compressible projection which expands to contact said inner pipe wall surface of said pipeline, and the leading end of said pipe further includes an electrofusion wire; connecting said portion of said pipe with said circumferential pipe surface by a process using the electrofusion wire selected from the group consisting of electro-fusion, and heat fusion, forming a seal between said pipe and said circumferential pipe surface, wherein the internal stiffener prevents said pipe from pulling away from said circumferential pipe surface during the connecting process; and removing the internal stiffener from said pipe after the connecting process. | 11,219 |
9,203,071 | 1. A multilayer microporous membrane comprising: i. a first layer comprising ≦20.0 wt % polymethylpentene, based on the weight of the first layer; <20.0 wt % polypropylene based on the weight of the first layer and further comprising ≧60.0 wt % polyethylene based on the weight of the layer, wherein the polyethylene comprises a first polyethylene having an Mw<1.0×10 ii. a second layer comprising 10.0 wt % to 40.0 wt % polymethylpentene based on the weight of the second layer, 21.0 wt % to 35.0 wt % polypropylene based on the weight of the second layer, and ≧20.0 wt % polyethylene based on the weight of the second layer, wherein the polyethylene comprises a first polyethylene having an Mw<1.0×10 the second layer having a composition that is not the same as that of the first layer and the second layer having a thickness ≦2.0 times that of the first layer. | 5,919 |
8,382,036 | 1. An arrangement of seats for passengers of a vehicle having a cabin defining a longitudinal axis, the arrangement comprising a plurality of rows of seats, each row comprising (a) paired, parallel first and second seats, each seat defining a longitudinal axis angled between −45° and +45° relative to the longitudinal axis of the cabin, (b) paired, parallel third and fourth seats, the third and fourth seats positioned parallel to the first and second seats, and (c) paired, parallel fifth and sixth seats, the fifth and sixth seats not positioned parallel to the first, second, third, and fourth seats. | 15,123 |
8,721,249 | 1. A method for loading a pack storing device of an order-picking line with packs of one or a plurality of beverage articles, comprising: providing at least one group of packs; manually loading the pack storing device with at least one pack from the at least one group of packs by one or more operators, and preparing, by the order-picking line, a further group of packs automatically or partly automatically from packs stored in the pack storing device so that based on a picking order a sequence of packs is formed from packs stored in the pack storing device and the formed sequence of packs is one of arranged or palletized on the further group of packs; the pack storing device comprising at least one storage lane, the at least one storage lane being at least one of configured and arranged such that the at least one pack can at least one of be driven thereon and be further transported by the dead weight of the pack, to an intended or predetermined area of the at least one storage lane; the at least one storage lane of the pack storing device comprising at least one receiving element for receiving the at least one pack from the one or more operators, wherein the at least one receiving element comprises a lateral pack guiding means; and the pack storing device comprising a plurality of vertically superposed planes. | 46,936 |
9,562,457 | 1. A device for delivering a liquid additive, the device comprising: an additive delivery unit having at least one hydraulic component for delivering the liquid additive, said at least one hydraulic component having electrical connections, and said additive delivery unit having a first plug connector bringing together all of said electrical connections; an electronic unit having a second plug connector configured to be connected to said first plug connector; and said first plug connector and said second plug connector being disposed and constructed for forming a plug connection when said electronic unit is brought into contact with said additive delivery unit and for maintaining the plug connection upon said electronic unit being separated from said additive unit. | 1,426 |
9,770,533 | 1. A process to form a bone grafting material, comprising: providing a porous collagen scaffold containing collagen fibers; inserting the collagen scaffold into a perfusion chamber of a perfusion flow system; continuously providing a mineralization perfusion fluid flow through the collagen scaffold at a flow rate through said collagen scaffold of 1 μm/s to 10 mm/s, said mineralization fluid containing an ion-containing extracellular fluid, which supplies mineral ions to said collagen scaffold such that hydroxyapatite (HA) crystals form on said collagen fibers and wherein said collagen scaffold has a geometry that inhibits said mineralization perfusion fluid from flowing around said scaffold rather than through said scaffold. | 7,246 |
9,833,812 | 1. A vibration generating device comprising: a housing having an internal space; a base member installed in the housing and disposed at a central portion of the housing; a first plate installed on the base member, the base member being disposed at a central portion of the first plate; a first piezoelectric element installed on an upper surface of the first plate; a connection member installed on the first piezoelectric element and disposed in a circumferential direction at an edge of the first piezoelectric element; a second piezoelectric element installed on the connection member and disposed to face the first piezoelectric element with an edge of the second piezoelectric element being connected to the edge of the first piezoelectric element through the connection member; a second plate installed on the second piezoelectric element; and a vibration amplifying part installed on an upper surface of the second plate, wherein when the first piezoelectric element is deformed, the first plate is vertically deformed at an edge portion thereof with the central portion thereof being fixed to the base member. | 1,687 |
9,404,480 | 1. A system for generating electricity using geothermal heat from within a drilled well, comprising: a heat nest configured in an area between a heat point determined as a lowest depth where appropriate heat is encountered in a well and the bottom of a bore hole of the well; multiple bore holes being drilled into rock surrounding the heat nest configured to create more surface area through which geothermal energy may flow, the multiple bore holes being drilled in multiple directions, including drilled vertically, horizontally, diagonally or any angle, in relation to the bore hole of the well and being filled with heat conductive material; a heat exchanging element configured with a first side and a second side, and configured in the heat nest at a point between the heat point of the well and the bottom of the bore hole of the well; a piping system configured with a downward flow pipe coupled to the first side of the heat exchanging element for bringing contents from a surface of the well into the heat nest and configured with an upward flow pipe coupled to the second side of the heat exchanging element for carrying heated contents to the surface of the well from the heat nest; a heat conductive material injected into an area within the heat nest near the bottom of the well between the heat exchanging element and rock surrounding the heat nest to form a closed-loop, solid state heat exchange system to heat contents of the piping system flowing into and out of the heat exchanging element at an equilibrium temperature at which the rock surrounding the heat nest and generating the geothermal heat continually recoups the geothermal heat it is conducting to the heat conductive material and above which the geothermal heat generated by the rock surrounding the heat nest dissipates as the heat conductive material conducts heat from the rock surrounding the heat nest to the heat exchanging element, the heat conductive material connecting the rock surrounding the heat nest and the heat exchanging element, the heat conductive material solidifying to substantially fill the area within the heat nest to transfer heat from the rock surrounding the heat nest and the heat exchanging element; an electricity generating component including a thermal engine, the electricity generating component receiving geothermal heat from the contents of the piping system coupling a heat harnessing component to the electricity generating component, with the upward-flow pipe conveying the contents of the piping system heated by the heat exchanging element to the surface of the well and into the electricity generating component; and insulation inserted into the well and to surround at least the upward- flow pipe on at least one position between the heat nest and the surface of the well to maintain a temperature of the contents of the piping system constant as the contents of the piping system are pumped to the surface of the well, wherein the closed-loop solid state heat extraction system extracts geothermal heat from the well without exposing the rock surrounding the heat nest to a liquid flow. | 9,498 |
8,712,882 | 1. A method of implementing predictive time entry for workforce management systems, the method comprising: receiving, by a workforce management system, a time card with time entries that were populated by an employee; processing, at the workforce management system, the time card for the employee to generate a time card template; identifying, by the workforce management system, an organization of which the employee is a member; identifying, by the workforce management system, a plurality of employees who are also members of the organization; automatically pre-populating, by the workforce management system, a plurality of time cards for the plurality of employees using the time card template and resulting in a plurality of pre-populated time cards; providing the plurality of pre-populated time cards to the plurality of employees for completion; receiving, by the workforce management system, modifications to one or more of the plurality of pre-populated time cards, wherein the modifications are made by one or more of the plurality of employees during completion; filtering, by the workforce management system, modifications that are specific to the one or more of the plurality of employees and that do not apply to all of the plurality of employees to generate filtered modifications; updating, by the workforce management system, the time card template based at least in part on the filtered modifications to create an updated time card template; and updating, by the workforce management system, ones of the plurality of pre-populated time cards that have not yet been completed, wherein the ones of the plurality of pre-populated time cards are updated based at least in part on the updated time card template. | 13,187 |
8,710,765 | 1. An illumination system, comprising: a power supply including a boost converter operating in the discontinuous conduction mode, a flyback converter operating in the critical conduction mode, and a switch coupled to said flyback converter; and several light emitting diodes receiving power from said power supply. | 23,468 |
8,400,957 | 1. A method of operating a first node in a network of nodes and connections, each connection connecting two nodes, wherein the method comprises the steps of: detecting, in response to a configuration change, a different configuration in a node connected to the first node; identifying a number of nodes, from a plurality of nodes connected to the first node, that include the different configuration; determining that the identified number of nodes exceeds a predetermined threshold; and instructing each of the plurality of nodes to implement the different configuration in response to the determination. | 37,605 |
8,357,524 | 1. A method of producing a chemically modified mutated subtilisin that catalyzes a transamidation or a transpeptidation or a transesterification reaction comprising replacing one or more amino acids at positions selected from the group of positions, position 62 in the S replacing the thiol hydrogen of said one or more replacing cysteine residues with a substituent moiety selected from the group of substituents consisting of (R)-2-methoxy-2-phenyl-ethylmethanethiosulfonate, (S)-2-methoxy-2-phenyl-ethylmethanethiosulfonate, (R)-2-hydroxy-2-phenyl-ethylmethanethiosulfonate, (S)-2-hydroxy-2-phenyl-ethylmethanethiosulfonate, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-2-oxazoldinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(R)-4-isopropyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(S)-4-isopropyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(R)-4-phenyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(S)-4-phenyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(R)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(S)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(2′-methanethiosulfonatoethyl)-(R)-4-phenyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(2′-methanethiosulfonatoethyl)-(S)-4-phenyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(2′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(R)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(2′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(S)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone, N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(3aR-cis)-3,3a,8,8a-tetrahydro-2H-indeno[1,2-d]-oxazol-2-one and N-(3′-methanethiosulfonatopropyl)-(3aS-cis)-3,3a,8,8a-tetrahydro-2H-indeno[1,2-d]-oxazol-2-one. | 32,267 |
9,671,132 | 1. A tank assembly comprising: a selective catalytic reduction tank; a water or solvent based solution, dispersion or emulsion provided in the selective catalytic reduction tank, the water or solvent based solution, dispersion or emulsion comprising a precursor configured for selective catalytic reduction; and an electrical resistance heating element assembled in the selective catalytic reduction tank and immersed in the water or solvent based solution, dispersion or emulsion, the electrical resistance heating element configured to carry an electrical current, wherein the electrical resistance heating element comprises a textile fabric and at least one electrical heating wire comprised of metal filaments or metal fibers, wherein the electrical heating wire is fixed onto the textile fabric, wherein the textile fabric is present in the selective catalytic reduction tank according to a double curved or three dimensional surface such that an arrangement of the textile fabric in the selective catalytic reduction tank is bent in more than one plane of the textile fabric and deviates from a planar arrangement, wherein the tank assembly is attached to an exhaust of a motor vehicle. | 17,240 |
8,593,057 | 1. An organic electroluminescent display device, comprising: first to fourth pixel regions each including red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, each of the first to fourth pixel regions being divided into first and second columns, and the first column being divided into first and second rows, wherein a red sub-pixel region and a green sub-pixel region are respectively arranged in the first and second rows, and a blue sub-pixel region is arranged in the second column; a red emitting layer formed in the red sub-pixel region; a green emitting layer formed in the green sub-pixel region; and a blue emitting layer formed in the blue sub-pixel region, wherein the red sub-pixel region has a first rectangular shape having a first vertical length and a first horizontal length being larger than the first vertical length, and the green sub-pixel region has a second rectangular shape having a second vertical length and a second horizontal length being larger than the second vertical length, and wherein the blue sub-pixel region has a third rectangular shape having a third horizontal length and a third vertical length being larger than the third horizontal length. | 5,143 |
8,720,292 | 1. A transmission system for a vehicle, said transmission system comprising: a plurality of gear trains configured to provide respective speed steps housed in a crankcase, said plurality of gear trains being configured to be selectable, a shift drum turnably supported by the crankcase, and configured to select one gear train of the plurality of gear trains in response to a turned position; a shift position changing drive assembly coaxially connected to the shift drum and configured to be operated by receiving a drive force, the shift position changing drive assembly configured to drivingly turn the shift drum in response to the operation; a shift position sensor configured to detect which one of the gear trains is being selected; a shift actuator configured to exert power driving the shift position changing drive assembly; a crankshaft having an axis extending in a vehicle-width direction; and an oil pan joined to the lower portion of the crankcase, wherein the shift actuator and the shift position sensor are mounted to a cover member mounted to the crankcase to cover the crankcase, wherein the shift position sensor is disposed below a plane passing through respective central axes of the crankshaft and a counter shaft, and the shift actuator is disposed below the shift position sensor, and wherein the plurality of gear trains are disposed between a main shaft and the counter shaft which are rotatably supported by the crankcase so as to have respective axes parallel to the crankshaft rotatably supported by the crankcase, and the shift position sensor disposed between the crankshaft and the counter shaft as viewed from the side and the shift actuator are disposed along an outer circumference of a drive gear disposed on the crankshaft. | 16,086 |
9,066,720 | 1. An energy source for renal neuromodulation configured for connecting to a catheter having a distal portion comprising an energy delivery element configured for placement at a treatment site within a renal blood vessel, the energy source adapted to be coupled to the energy delivery element and configured to deliver energy via the energy delivery element to target neural fibers proximate to a wall of the renal blood vessel, wherein the energy source comprises a component configured to— wherein the energy source further comprises a component configured to— | 1,918 |
9,686,549 | 1. A video decoding apparatus for decoding an image, the apparatus comprising: an offset extractor configured to extract an offset to be applied to a reference frame from encoded data; an interpolation unit configured to interpolate pixels in the reference frame based on a motion vector of a current block; an offset adder configured to add the extracted offset to the interpolated pixels to thereby generate a predicted block; and a decoder configured to wherein the decoder is configured to reconstruct the residual block, | 42,015 |
8,489,449 | 1. A system for managing loyalty incentives for a customer, comprising: a. a personal loyalty account at a centralized server, assigned to the customer for storing a first amount of loyalty incentives for the customer, b. a loyalty card carried with the customer for identifying and accessing the personal loyalty account and including a loyalty purse for storing a second amount of loyalty incentives, and c. a first merchant terminal operable to interface with the loyalty card for granting the customer an awarded amount of loyalty incentives by selecting, in accordance with a first predefined amount of loyalty incentives that is independent of the awarded amount of loyalty incentives, whether: | 45,053 |
9,266,792 | 1. A dimerized product from oligomers, comprising: at least one oligomer-based composition or feedstock selected from the group consisting of terpene(s), alpha-olefin oligomer(s) (AOO), and related olefins; at least one solid acid catalyst to said feedstock for isomerization, wherein said oligomer-based composition or feedstock and said catalyst are converted into a dimerized product having less than 2 wt % total oligomers by processes of isomerization utilizing heat, protonation: maximizing the concentration of reacting olefin during protonation; utilizing a minimum reaction temperature zone to extend said catalyst lifetime; decreasing trimer and oligomer formations via an active recycle protocol to produce dimerized products in the absence of trimeric, tetrameric, and up to octameric; and utilizing a first fractionation process that mildly reduces pressure for the evaporation of unreacted feedstock to produce a dimerized product. | 44,512 |
9,793,098 | 1. A vacuum coating and plasma treatment system comprising: a first plasma assembly facing a substrate, the first plasma assembly including: a magnetic system creating magnetic field lines which extends into and confines a plasma in front of the first plasma assembly and a substrate, the magnetic system including magnets that form a magnetic barrier and a sputtering racetrack such that the remote arc discharge is confined by the magnetic barrier and extends along a direction parallel to the long edge of the magnetron target, the remote arc discharge extending from the remote arc discharge cathode hood to the remote arc discharge anode hood; a magnetron cathode power supply connected to the magnetron cathode and to the remote anode; and a remote arc discharge power supply connected between the remote anode and the primary cathode. | 12,720 |
8,753,422 | 1. A process for providing cast iron or semi steel and hydrogen-rich reusable reducing gas by using a high pressure refractory lined shaft furnace having operative top, bottom, and middle zones, operating at a pressure between 5 and 50 kg/cm 2 g, the process comprising: (i) feeding iron ore from an inlet provided in the operative top zone along with a slag producing material; (ii) gasifying a carbonaceous material in a separate refractory lined gasifier, operated at a pressure between 5 and 50 bar, using preheated oxygen, to provide reducing gas at a temperature of at least 1400° C.; (iii) feeding in parts the reducing gas to the high pressure shaft furnace through tuyeres provided at the operative bottom zone; (iv) smelting the iron ore and slag material by using the reducing gas in the high pressure shaft furnace, to provide molten iron and molten slag; (v) controlling and maintaining the temperature to between 1400 and 1700° C., required for iron ore reduction and melting in the operative bottom zone of the high pressure shaft furnace during the operation; (vi) collecting molten iron and molten slag in the operative bottom zone; (vii) discharging molten iron and molten slag from the operative bottom zone; (viii) discharging spent reducing gas from the operative top zone into a gas cleansing unit; (ix) extracting dust and sulfur from the spent reducing gas in the gas cleansing unit, to provide a purified spent reducing gas; and (x) passing the purified spent reducing gas through a shift catalyst selected from the group consisting of copper, platinum, zinc, aluminum, iron and chromium in the presence of steam to provide the hydrogen-rich reusable reducing gas, wherein excess oxygen is fed through the tuyeres at the operative bottom zone of the high pressure shaft furnace to produce semi steel. | 31,809 |
9,348,560 | 1. An apparatus for generating, for a particular parallel hardware configuration that includes at least a first particular hardware resource and a second particular hardware resource heterogeneous to the first particular hardware resource, a program based on a graph associated with an application, the apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store data descriptive of a graph, the graph including: a processor configured to generate, based on the data, program code of the program, the program code including a first state indicator that is associated with the first node and that indicates whether a first execution of a first instance of the first execution task is scheduled at the first particular hardware resource and whether a second execution of a second instance of the first execution task is scheduled at the second particular hardware resource. | 9,672 |
9,640,703 | 1. An avalanche photodiode, comprising: an i-type avalanche multiplication layer including Al; a light absorption layer disposed above a top surface of the avalanche multiplication layer with respect to a light beam; an i-type window layer disposed above a top surface of the light absorption layer with respect to the light beam; a p-type conductive region formed in an upper portion of the window layer and surrounded by the window layer; a p-type electric field relaxation layer disposed between the avalanche multiplication layer and the light absorption layer, the electric field relaxation layer having a higher carrier concentration than a carrier concentration of the light absorption layer; a first n-type electrode; and a second p-type electrode electrically connected to the p-type conductive region. | 17,008 |
8,562,824 | 1. A water purification system comprising: a boiling chamber comprising a boiler cover; a demister cyclone attached to a top of said boiler cover; wherein the demister cyclone comprises a curved separating chamber comprising: a top portion; a bottom portion; and a curved wall connected to the top portion and to the bottom portion; an entry port into the curved separating chamber, wherein said entry port is located in a perimeter defined by the curved wall, wherein a height of the entry port is less than a height of the curved wall; an inlet, whereby an incoming flow can pass through the inlet to the entry port and thereby enter the curved separating chamber, wherein a flow passing through the entry port is biased to travel along the curved wall; and an outlet located towards a center portion of the curved separating chamber; a passageway between the demister cyclone and boiling chamber, through the boiler cover; and at least one of a baffle, metal groove, or a combination thereof, located proximate to the passageway on a bottom of said boiler cover. | 22,281 |
9,648,974 | 1. A baking sheet formed of a metal planar plate member having a polygon shape defined by multiple sides, having a thickness and periphery, having upper and lower planar surfaces, having a side-to-side dimension that is at least an order of magnitude greater than the thickness of the metal planar plate member, a peripheral channel that extends about the periphery of the metal planar plate member, the peripheral channel being disposed closely adjacent to all sides of the metal planar plate member, wherein the metal planar plate member has four straight sided, in combination with a grate member on which the metal planar plate member is positioned in an oven, wherein the metal planar plate member is a solid structure bounded by upper and lower planar surfaces that respectively define the upper and lower planar surfaces of the metal planar plate member, wherein the upper and lower planar surfaces of the metal planar plate member are disposed in parallel with each other, wherein the upper and lower bounded planar surfaces of the metal planar plate member are of the same surface area size, wherein the lower bounded surface of the metal planar plate member is the lowermost rest surface of the metal planar plate member for positioning on the grate member, wherein the grate member is constructed and arranged to extend beyond the sides of the metal planar plate member, wherein each side of the metal planar plate member is joined at a contiguous corner, wherein the metal planar plate member is constructed of steel, wherein each side of the metal planar plate member is formed by a flat sidewall surface that extends about the entire periphery of the solid structure and that extends orthogonal to both the upper and lower bounded surfaces of the metal planar plate member, wherein the metal planar plate member has the channel on the upper planar surface thereof, wherein the channel is semi-circular in cross-section and is maintained as semi-circular extending about the entire metal planar plate member, wherein the channel includes straight respective semi-circular channel sections adjacent to the sides and extending as a semi-circular channel along the entire length of each straight section, and smaller respective semi-circular channel sections adjacent each corner and extending as a semi-circular channel about a circumference of each smaller section, wherein the semi-circular channel has only a semi-circular surface with opposed top ends of the channel terminating at the upper planar surface of the metal planar plate member and at respective inner and outer locations of the upper planar surface of the metal planar plate member, wherein both the straight and smaller semi-circular channel sections have respective semi-circular cross-section surfaces, wherein each of the smaller semi-circular cross-section surfaces are contiguous with adjacent straight semi-circular cross-section surfaces, and wherein each of the smaller semi-circular cross-section surfaces are disposed in an arc at the plate member corner in joining the adjacent straight semi-circular cross-section surfaces. | 13,932 |
9,298,493 | 1. A method for use in managing system I/O load, the method comprising: when a background operation is available to be executed on a processor core, determining whether a credit value associated with the processor core satisfies a memory use criterion; executing the background operation on the processor core when the credit value associated with the processor core satisfies the memory use criterion, the background operation having a memory use requirement; modifying the credit value associated with the processor core by an amount corresponding to the memory use requirement; detecting that memory is required for operations other than background operations; and in response to said detection, reducing a level of replenishments of credits for the processor core in order to allow more memory for the operations other than the background operations, wherein before the reduction the level of replenishment was set to replenish the credits to the credit value. | 24,098 |
9,286,115 | 1. A system comprising: at least one processor of a computing device; a memory of the computing device; and a program execution manager loaded into the memory causing the at least one processor to: | 4,934 |
8,598,071 | 1. A method of preparing a functionalized adsorbent material comprised of a cyclic amine polymer for removing CO 2 from CO 2 -containing gaseous streams, which method comprises: forming a mixture comprised of a cyclic amine, a Brønsted acid initiator in a solvent, and a mesoporous silica; forming the cyclic amine polymer in the presence of the mesoporous silica; and retrieving the resultant functionalized adsorbent material from the mixture as a solid; wherein the resulting cyclic amine polymer has an amine density of below about 20.0 mmol amine/gram. | 49,452 |
9,294,521 | 1. A method for processing streaming media service data in an LTE (long term evolution) system, the method comprising: receiving, by a scheduling device, a scheduling terminate message from a user equipment, wherein the scheduling terminate message indicates the scheduling device is to stop scheduling streaming media service data corresponding to a first streaming media service; stopping scheduling, by the scheduling device and according to the scheduling terminate message, LTE air interface resources for transmitting streaming media service data corresponding to the first streaming media service to the user equipment, wherein the streaming media service data corresponding to the first streaming media service is delivered from a server and is requested by the user equipment; and releasing, by the scheduling device, the LTE air interface resources occupied by the streaming media service data according to the scheduling terminate message, wherein releasing the resources occupied by the streaming media service data comprises at least one of discarding unprocessed service data which is in the streaming media service data and is cached in a packet data convergence protocol layer, discarding service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be a packet data convergence protocol data unit, and instructing a radio link control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is delivered to the radio link control layer, instructing a media access control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be hybrid automatic repeat request data, wherein the hybrid automatic repeat request data does not comprise data obtained by processing other streaming media service data than the streaming media service data. | 47,923 |
8,521,395 | 1. A control device of an inverted pendulum type mobile apparatus having a travelling motion unit capable of moving on a floor surface, an actuator which drives the travelling motion unit, and a base body mounted with the travelling motion unit and the actuator and configured to be tiltable with respect to the perpendicular direction, comprising: a tilt angle measuring element configured to generate an output according to an actual tilt angle of the base body; a force detector configured to detect at least a force applied to the base body in the horizontal direction; and a travelling motion unit controller configured to determine a manipulated variable for control which is configured to define a driving power to be applied to the travelling motion unit so as to approximate a tilt difference between a measured value of the tilt angle and a desired tilt angle to zero by using the measured value of a tilt angle of the base body denoted by the output from the tilt angle measuring element, a predefined value of the desired tilt angle, an output from the force detector; and a manipulation-adjusting variable allowed to be set variably, and to control the travelling motion of the travelling motion unit via the actuator according to the determined manipulated variable for control; wherein the travelling motion unit controller is configured to determine the manipulated variable for control of the travelling motion unit so as to tilt the base body toward a direction opposite to a direction of the force detected by the force detector. | 986 |
9,805,272 | 1. A storage system of original frames of monitor data, comprising: a monitor sensor, providing a plurality of original frames; an event marking circuit, having an input terminal coupled to the monitor sensor, configured to determine event intensities respectively corresponding to the original frames provided by the monitor sensor, and respectively marking the event intensities on the original frames; a data storage circuit, coupled to an output terminal of the event marking circuit, and configured to completely store the original frames marked by the event marking circuit; and a frame processing circuit, coupled to the data storage circuit, and configured to check the original frames in the data storage circuit according to the event intensities, wherein regarding a plurality of first original frames that the original frames with an existing time falling within a first time section, the frame processing circuit preserves the original frames having an event occurred in the first original frames, and deletes other original frames in the first original frames, and regarding a plurality of second original frames that the original frames with the existing time falling within a second time section, the frame processing circuit preserves the original frames with higher event intensities in the second original frames, and deletes other original frames in the second original frames. | 28,791 |
9,312,702 | 1. A method of controlled battery depowering, comprising: providing an automotive battery to be depowered; providing a substantially non-ionic depowering medium comprising between 1 and 25 weight percent carbon conductor uniformly dispersed in a substantially non-ionic aqueous medium; contacting positive and negative terminals of the battery with the depowering medium; and maintaining contact between the depowering medium and the positive and negative terminals for a period of time sufficient to depower the battery; wherein increases in battery temperature and evolution of H | 4,737 |
9,564,157 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a heat-assisted magnetic recording head configured to write to and read from a magnetic recording medium, the head comprising a reader and a writer including a near-field transducer (NFT), the reader comprising a reader center which is laterally offset relative to a writer center of the writer to define a reader-writer offset (RWO) therebetween; a magnetic recording medium comprising a plurality of tracks, the plurality of tracks comprising at least one track used as a region to test for a shift in the RWO resulting from a change in an amount the reader center is laterally offset relative to the writer center due to changes in the NFT; and a processor coupled to the recording head and configured to detect the RWO shift in response to reading data from the at least one track by the reader. | 23,915 |
9,722,442 | 1. A method, comprising the steps of: electrically connecting a first vehicle to a supply of electric power; electrically connecting the first vehicle to a second vehicle through an interface; while the first vehicle is connected to the supply of electric power, transferring electric power from the first vehicle to a battery of the second vehicle to recharge the battery while the first vehicle performs an operation that is different from a recharging operation; decoupling the first vehicle from the supply of electric power; and while the first vehicle is decoupled from the supply of electric power, transferring electric power from the second vehicle to the first vehicle to power at least one operation of the first vehicle; wherein the at least one operation includes a movement of the first vehicle from a first location to a second location; wherein the first vehicle includes a first traction motor; wherein the second vehicle is configured to supply electric power to the first traction motor of the first vehicle; wherein the first traction motor is configured to convert the electric power from the battery of the second vehicle into a mechanical output to effect the movement of the first vehicle. | 3,301 |
8,650,705 | 1. A floor-type vacuum cleaner comprising: a housing; and rollers attached to the housing and configured to provide movement of the housing, each roller being disposed on a roller axle so as to be rotatable, at least one of the rollers including a rigid hub and an air-filled, rubber, resilient, damping tire, wherein the hub includes ends having radial collars, the radial collars of the hub receiving the tire in a positive fit, and wherein the at least one of the rollers includes antitwist protection disposed between the hub and the tire. | 24,449 |
8,409,693 | 1. A data carrier having identifiers, wherein into said data carrier by means of a laser beam, identifiers are introduced that are visible in the form of irreversible changes in the optical properties of the data carrier, caused by the laser beam, wherein: the data carrier comprises, in the stated order, a first metal layer, a transparent foil, a second metal layer and a fluorescent layer, and; the identifiers are introduced into the first metal layer and the second metal layer simultaneously and in perfect register, the identifiers being gaps in the metal layers that are produced by metal ablation by means of the laser beam wherein the fluorescent layer can be seen through the gaps in the metal layers. | 32,282 |
8,358,263 | 1. A method of color control in a backlighting system comprising a video input for receiving video data, a memory, a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) controllers and a plurality of segments, each of the plurality of segments comprises a plurality of light sources and a color sensor, the method comprising: activating the plurality of light sources in a closed loop arrangement using operative feedback received from the color sensor during a first operative mode to produce white light in at least one of the plurality of segments; measuring spectral contents of the plurality of light sources in the at least one of the plurality of segments to compute duty cycle ratio for the plurality of light sources in the at least one of the plurality of segments; storing the duty cycle ratio information; and controlling the plurality of light sources in an open loop arrangement independent of receiving operative feedback from the color sensor during a second operative mode to produce the white light using the duty cycle ratio computed in the closed loop arrangement of the first operative mode, wherein each of the plurality of segments is configurable to operate at a different intensity; and wherein controlling the white light for the segment of the backlighting system during the second operative mode comprises: | 185 |
9,328,204 | 1. A benzodithiophene based copolymer containing thiophene pyrroledione units, having a structural formula: wherein R R R n is a natural number from 8 to 82. | 35,120 |
9,333,477 | 1. A hydrocarbon reforming device using a micro channel heater, comprising: a top plate including an air feeder connected to an air supplier to supply air, a fuel feeder which is connected to a fuel supplier to supply the fuel and has an ignition catalyst applied to the inner wall of the fuel feeder, and a reformed gas exhaust line wherein the reformed gas is generated by reforming reaction; a bottom plate including a source feeder connected to a source (gas) supplier to supply the source gas and an exhaust gas outlet line wherein the exhaust gas is generated from the reaction; an air preheating part which is provided under the top plate and includes a heating plate and a reforming plate alternately laminated therein, wherein the supplied air from the air feeder is preheated using heat residue of the reformed gas and mixed with the fuel, in turn conducting combustion; an upper channel isolation plate which is provided under the air preheating part and through which the combusted exhaust gas and reformed gas only are passed; a reforming reaction part having: a heating plate which is provided under the upper channel isolation plate to transfer heat of combustion (‘combustion heat’) of the exhaust gas; and a reforming plate which is provided under the heating plate and arranged between an upper reformed gas channeling plate and a lower reformed gas channeling plate, to expose the reforming catalyst to top and bottom sides, thereby enabling the source gas to move in a direction perpendicular to the reformed catalyst while contacting the same; an lower channel isolation plate which is provided under the reforming reaction part, to pass only the exhaust gas passing through the reforming reaction part as well as the preheated source gas therethrough; and a source gas preheating part which is arranged between the bottom of the upper channel isolation plate and the top of the bottom plate, and includes a waste heat recovering plate and a source gas preheating plate alternately laminated therein, to preheat the source gas with the exhaust gas passing through the reforming reaction part, wherein micro channels are provided respectively on the top face of the heating plate, the top face of the reforming plate, the bottom face of the upper reformed gas channeling plate, and the top face of the lower reformed gas channeling plate. | 40,350 |
8,873,558 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a packet at an interface at a network device comprising a plurality of interfaces connected to a plurality of links forming a bundle, said bundle associated with a reverse path route; performing a Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) check on the received packet, wherein performing said RPF check comprises performing a security binding check for unicast; and forwarding the packet if the packet passes said RPF check; wherein said RPF check comprises: wherein the received packet passes said RPF check if the interface receiving the packet is connected to one of said plurality of links within said bundle. | 2,299 |
8,609,868 | 1. A process for preparing a compound of general formula (I) in which R R R wherein a compound of formula (VI) in which R is R is reacted with thiourea in water, optionally in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst, in the absence of an organic solvent to give the compound of formula (I). | 27,386 |
9,473,434 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first server computing system from an image processing device, a request to access a data object associated with an application on a second server computing system; sending, from the first server computing system to the second server computing system, a request for the data object; receiving, at the first server computing system from the second server computing system, the data object; receiving, at the first server computing system from the client computing system, a first file, the first file being an electronic document representing a physical document created by the image processing device; determining whether the received data object includes a second file attach thereto, the second file being different from the first file; in response to determining that the second file is attached to the data object, obtaining, at the first server computing system, the second file and merging the first file and the second file to generate a third file, the third file including data contained in each of the first and second files; and performing an update process on the data object by attaching the third file to the data object such that the second file is not attached to the data object. | 22,500 |
9,042,852 | 1. A method carried out by a wireless communication device comprising a receiver, the method comprising: measuring a signal power level of a received signal; measuring a noise power level, wherein measuring the noise power level comprises measuring the noise power level over a bandwidth of the receiver; making a sensitivity-adjustment determination, wherein the sensitivity-adjustment determination comprises a determination that the signal power level is less than a current sensitivity threshold of the receiver, wherein the sensitivity-adjustment determination further comprises a determination that a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the signal power level to the noise power level is greater than a SNR threshold; and responsive to making the sensitivity-adjustment determination, adjusting the receiver from having the current sensitivity threshold to having an adjusted sensitivity threshold that is less than or equal to the signal power level. | 9,823 |
9,601,143 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first disturbance observer (DOB) circuit configured to inject a first disturbance rejection signal into an input control signal of a first stage of a multi-stage actuator using a first summing junction; and a second DOB circuit configured to concurrently inject a second disturbance rejection signal into an input control signal of a second stage of the multi-stage actuator using a second summing junction, each of the first and second DOB circuits comprising a band pass filter and an energy reducing filter comprising at least a selected one of a notch filter or a low pass filter. | 22,949 |
9,649,258 | 1. A system for managing storage of expressed breast milk, comprising: a container comprising a body, a mouth and a lid, wherein said lid has a first circumference and a second circumference, wherein said first circumference is not equal to said second circumference and wherein said lid has a first rotating member extending around said first circumference and a second rotating member extending around said second circumference; a first set of cards, said cards provided with labels signifying a first unit of time; a second set of cards, said cards provided with labels signifying a second unit of time; a transparent cap wherein the cap is configured to fit over said first rotating member and said second rotating member and wherein said cap further comprises an indented portion to define a viewing window for viewing a portion of said first rotating member and a portion of said second rotating member. | 177 |
9,323,664 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor circuit to control access to a storage medium; a write access module for execution by the processor circuit to receive a plurality of write access requests to the storage medium, each write access request associated with a separate logical block address (LBA) range, the write access module to store a write LBA range for each write access request in sets of registers included in first registers; a read access module for execution by the processor circuit to receive a read access request to the storage medium associated with a read LBA range, the read access module to store the read LBA range to a set of registers in second registers; a compare module for execution by the processor circuit to compare the stored read LBA range to each of the stored write LBA ranges to determine whether the stored read LBA range overlaps with any one of the stored write LBA ranges; an assign module for execution by the processor circuit to assign a separate index value to each stored write LBA range, the separate index value to indicate a relative time of a given stored write LBA range for a given write access request compared to other stored write LBA ranges for other write access requests from among the plurality of write access requests; and a priority module for execution by the processor circuit to compare index values for first and second stored write LBA ranges based on the first and second stored write LBA ranges overlapping with the stored read LBA range, the priority module to indicate which of the first and the second stored write LBA ranges has a most recent write access request that has an overlapping stored write LBA range with the stored read LBA range based on the comparison of the index values. | 27,573 |
8,727,161 | 1. A rim seal system for use with an internal floating roof for a bulk liquid storage tank to prevent unwanted leakage and evaporation of a stored liquid comprising: a bulk liquid storage tank for containing the stored liquid, said storage tank having an outer containment wall with an inward facing surface; an internal floating roof situated within the bulk liquid storage tank atop the stored liquid, said floating roof having an outward facing perimeter wall; a primary sealing member mounted to and deployed laterally outward from and immediately adjacent to and extending below the perimeter wall of the internal floating roof, said primary sealing member comprising a liquid-mounted seal entirely surrounding the internal floating roof without gaps having a compressible core with a depth greater than the annular distance across the rim space between the perimeter wall of the internal floating roof and the inner surface of the storage tank wall and having the capacity to resiliently compress when the rim space contracts and to expand when the rim space increases due to lateral movement of the internal floating roof; a secondary rigid sealing member mounted to and deployed laterally outward from the perimeter wall of the internal floating roof, said secondary sealing member being interposed between the primary sealing member and the inner surface of the storage tank wall and being maintained in proximal contact with said storage tank wall by an outwardly expanding hanger assembly and by the primary sealing member; said secondary rigid sealing member providing abrasion protection for said primary sealing member as the internal floating roof changes vertical position due to volumetric changes in the stored liquid within the storage tank. | 45,963 |
9,386,676 | 1. An apparatus for containing plasma comprising a generally cylindrical chamber, a first means for creating a magnetic field within the chamber having a field reserved topology, a second means for creating an electrostatic well within the chamber, and a third means for injecting plasma into the chamber. | 709 |
9,759,125 | 1. A method of operating an internal combustion engine and exhaust turbocharger in combination, said engine having a combustion chamber with first and second exhaust orts, the first exhaust port having a first exhaust valve for controlling flow of exhaust gas through the first exhaust port and the second exhaust port having a second exhaust valve for controlling flow of exhaust gas through the second exhaust port, wherein the first and second exhaust ports are coupled via respective first and second exhaust tracts to respective first and second turbine inlets of said exhaust turbocharger, wherein turbine geometries associated with said first and second exhaust tracts are distinct, the method comprising: controlling at least one of a cam shaft and a variable valve timing system to separate exhaust blow-down and exhaust expulsion phases of an exhaust stroke of the engine; directing gas exhausted from the combustion chamber during said blow-down chase of said exhaust stroke to a first of the distinct turbine geometries via the first turbine inlet and the first exhaust port; and directing gas exhausted from the combustion chamber during said expulsion phase of said exhaust stroke to a second of the distinct turbine geometries via the second turbine inlet and the second exhaust port. | 33,972 |
9,052,704 | 1. A method for machining a workpiece employing a computer controlled machine tool, the method comprising: directing said tool along a tool path wherein an engagement angle between said tool and said workpiece gradually varies between a preselected maximum permitted engagement angle and a preselected minimum permitted engagement angle. | 25,961 |
9,601,142 | 1. An apparatus comprising a rotatable data recording medium having a circumferentially extending data track formed from spaced apart embedded servo wedges that extend radially across a recording surface of the medium to define intervening data wedges between each adjacent pair of the servo wedges, each data wedge along the data track having only a single timing field at a beginning portion of the data wedge immediately adjacent a first servo wedge and comprising an alternating pattern at a selected frequency, followed by a plurality of data sectors that extend across the data wedge to an end portion of the data wedge immediately adjacent a second servo wedge with no intersector gaps between the respective data sectors and no additional timing fields between the first and second servo wedges. | 39,880 |
8,850,990 | 1. A system for powering a locomotive, the system comprising: a plurality of traction motor assemblies, each assembly comprising an armature and a field; a first power source connected in parallel with all of the traction motor armatures; a second power source connected in series with across said traction motor fields, all of said traction motor fields being connected to each other in series; and a controller comprising a processor configured for: | 30,795 |
8,596,528 | 1. A method for processing a commercial transaction, the method comprising: receiving at a card reader data from an RF proximity chip card, said data including a first data type indicating an open-loop transaction account, and a second data type indicating a closed-loop transaction account; recognizing at the reader the first data type and the second data type; selecting at the reader between the open-loop transaction account and the closed-loop transaction account, wherein the selecting is performed according to a predetermined merchant preference stored in the card reader; and conducting the transaction at the reader according to the selected transaction account. | 25,094 |
9,466,871 | 1. An antenna device comprising: a casing including a metal casing portion including a main surface, a side surface connected to the main surface, and a notch portion, the main surface having an area greater than an area of the side surface, and at least a portion of the notch portion being located in the side surface; and a feed coil disposed inside the casing and configured to be coupled with the metal casing portion by a magnetic field, and including a winding central portion defining a coil opening portion; wherein the feed coil is disposed adjacent to or near the notch portion and at least a portion of the coil opening portion is directed toward a region including at least the portion of the notch portion located in the side surface. | 30,594 |
9,554,152 | 1. A method of transforming video data in video coding, the method comprising: determining, by a video coding device, a first stage of a two-dimensional transform for transforming a block of video data values, wherein the first stage has a horizontal orientation or a vertical orientation; determining, by the video coding device, a second stage of the two-dimensional transform, wherein the second stage has a vertical orientation when the first stage has a horizontal orientation, and wherein the second stage has a horizontal orientation when the first stage has a vertical orientation; applying, by the video coding device, the first stage of the two-dimensional transform to the block of video data values to generate first stage results; transferring, by the video coding device, the first stage results directly to the second stage without buffering and reordering the first stage results between the first stage and the second stage; and applying, by the video coding device, the second stage of the two-dimensional transform to the transferred first stage results to generate a block of second stage results. | 26,326 |
9,412,997 | 1. A battery, comprising: a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector having a pair of surfaces, and a positive electrode active material layer provided on each of the surfaces of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode; a separator at least including a porous film, an electrolyte. | 49,789 |
8,512,643 | 1. Apparatus for removing volatiles from carbon black comprising a first reactor for creating recycled carbon black, a second reactor for receiving recycled carbon black from said first reactor, mechanical deagglomerating apparatus disposed within said second reactor for deagglomerating said recycled carbon black to produce deagglomerated recycled carbon black, and air flow introduction apparatus disposed in communication with said second reactor for delivering a current of air to said deagglomerated recycled carbon black to establish a high-temperature zone and increase the temperature of said deagglomerated recycled carbon black and release volatiles therefrom. | 33,515 |
9,062,134 | 1. An olefin polymerization process, the process comprising: contacting a catalyst composition with an olefin monomer and optionally an olefin comonomer under polymerization conditions to produce an olefin polymer, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a hybrid metallocene compound and an activator, and wherein the hybrid metallocene compound has the formula: wherein: M is Zr or Hf; X X | 44,085 |
9,455,777 | 1. A method comprising: providing a communication service via satellite beams of a multi-beam satellite system; receiving, from one or more multi-user network access terminals serviced via a first satellite beam of a multi-beam satellite, first resource requests for a first time period for first mobile data traffic associated with a plurality of mobile devices in communication with the one or more multi-user network access terminals, wherein the plurality of mobile devices are associated with user-specific traffic policies, and wherein the user-specific traffic policies comprise a first provisioned service level for a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices and a second provisioned service level different from the first provisioned service level for a second mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices; and scheduling transmission of the first mobile data traffic on first beam resources of the first satellite beam according to the first resource requests and the user-specific traffic policies, wherein the scheduling of the first mobile data traffic comprises allocating a first portion of the first beam resources to the first mobile device and a second portion of the first beam resources to the second mobile device, the first and second portions allocated based on the first and second provisioned service levels, respectively. | 34,855 |
8,873,962 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising a processor executing code to perform the steps of: i) determining a line rate selection for a flexible optical wavelength-division-multiplexing WDM network; ii) determining a traffic routing for said network; and iii) determining, responsive to the determined line rate selection and traffic routing, a channel routing, wavelength assignment and spectrum allocation in said network based on an auxiliary graph, the auxiliary graph G | 24,745 |
9,388,182 | 1. A process for converting Lupanine into sparteine, said process comprising the step of treating said Lupanine with a reduction agent, wherein said reduction agent comprises NaBH 4 in combination with Iodine, wherein said reduction agent has a ratio of 1 molar equivalent iodine to 1-6 molar equivalent(s) NaBH 4 , and wherein said Lupanine is treated with said reduction agent in an organic solvent or a mixture of organic solvents. | 31,337 |
9,502,174 | 1. A wireless power transmission apparatus comprising: a resonance unit comprising resonators and configured to form a magnetic resonant coupling with another resonator; a feeding unit configured to transmit alternating current (AC) power to one of the resonators; and a controller configured to determine a value of a capacitor connected to one of the resonators, based on a magnitude of a magnetic field formed by the resonance unit. | 36,706 |
8,832,239 | 1. A shared resource system comprising: a plurality of client devices, including a plurality of optimization agent client devices each including a graphical user interface (GUI) and an optimization agent monitoring resource usage and selectively suggesting resource configuration changes through said at least one client device, each optimization agent client device further a plurality of provider computers in a cloud environment providing a management system, said management system selectively making resource capacity on said plurality of provider computers available to said plurality of client devices and interactively adjusting resource capacity available to said optimization agent client devices responsive to said optimization agent, said each optimization agent further receiving suggested resource configuration changes presented from the management system through said GUI; and a network connecting said plurality of client devices to said provider computers, said plurality of client devices and said provider computers passing messages to each other over said network. | 41,349 |
9,475,495 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an engine; a transmission; an electric machine configured to provide drive torque and regenerative braking torque, the electric machine being selectively coupled to the engine via a clutch; a torque converter and associated bypass clutch coupling the electric machine and transmission, the bypass clutch having an associated torque capacity; and a controller configured to, in response to a braking request indicative of an anticipated regenerative braking event, increase the torque capacity prior to the regenerative braking event by a quantity corresponding to an anticipated regenerative braking torque associated with the anticipated regenerative braking event. | 25,943 |
8,630,256 | 1. A base station in a wireless communications network, comprising: a processor configured to: a memory coupled to the processor. | 30,402 |
8,622,316 | 1. An SCR injection unit, comprising: an injector; a support structure for the injector; a cooling body for the injector; a flange of an exhaust pipe, and a sleeve element for the injector, wherein the cooling body is a passive cooling body which cools the injector only by passive cooling without using liquid cooling fluid, wherein the sleeve element has an elongated, thin-walled connecting section constituting a heat flow throttle, wherein the thin-walled connecting section has a length to thickness ratio greater than 3, and wherein the sleeve element has opposing axial ends, one axial end being at least indirectly connected to the flange of the exhaust pipe and the other axial end being at least indirectly connected to the support structure for the injector. | 43,921 |
9,147,852 | 1. An air resistant photovoltaic cell comprising: a low work function electrode; a photoactive layer comprising an organic polymer wherein said photoactive layer exhibits semiconductor properties and absorbs visible and/or near infrared electromagnetic radiation; a ZnO nanoparticle layer situated between said low work function electrode and said photoactive layer and physically contacting and electrically contacting at least a portion of said low work function electrode and physically contacting and electrically contacting at least a portion of said photoactive layer, wherein said ZnO nanoparticle layer comprises a multiplicity of coupled ZnO nanospheres, wherein individual monomer uncoupled ZnO nanospheres having a mean diameter of 3 to 4 nm are fused as dimer coupled ZnO nanospheres, trimer coupled ZnO nanospheres, tetramer coupled ZnO nanospheres, and pentamer coupled ZnO nanospheres, and wherein a majority of said coupled ZnO nanospheres are dimer coupled ZnO nanospheres; and a transparent high work function electrode comprising a bilayer electrode physically contacting and electrically contacting said photoactive layer. | 37,577 |
9,699,091 | 1. A medium access control module comprising: a plurality of queues; a plurality of gate modules; wherein a plurality of shaping modules to (i) receive the plurality of frames from the plurality of queues or the plurality of gate modules, and (ii) spread data in the plurality of frames over time to generate output signals; and a selector module to select one of the output signals to forward to a physical layer device. | 45,595 |
8,696,922 | 1. A method of plasma etching a platinum material comprising exposing a material consisting of elemental platinum to a plasma etching chemistry comprising CHCl 3 , CO 2 and O 2 . | 42,988 |
9,823,013 | 1. A home appliance device, comprising: an insert which is insertable into a storage space and which has a front cover element and a cover support element; wherein the front cover element is connected to the cover support element in a form-fit manner in at least one first direction and is in at least one pre-assembly state movable with respect to the cover support element in at least one second direction that is at least substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and the insert includes a lateral element embodying at least partly a lateral frame element of the insert. | 26,230 |
8,544,846 | 1. A game machine, comprising: a game board provided with a playfield on which playing balls cascade downward; a launching-operation detector configured to detect a launching operation by a player to start launching the playing balls; an inserted-medium detector configured to detect that a predetermined inserted-medium is received into the game machine; a playing-time counter configured to start to count a predetermined time of play when said inserted-medium detector detects that a predetermined inserted-medium is received; a one-round-play execution device configured to perform one game play, at least until the predetermined time of play as counted by said playing-time counter has lapsed, when said inserted-medium detector detects that the predetermined inserted-medium is received; a launching device configured to launch the playing balls toward the playfield when the launching operation by the player is detected by said launching-operation detector under the condition that the one game play is currently performed by said one-round-play execution device; a win-hole detector configured to detect that the playing ball enters a predetermined win hole mounted on the playfield; a special electrically-movable-win-hole device being variable between an opening state in which the playing balls readily enter a special win hole provided on the playfield and a closing state for making it difficult for the playing balls to enter the special win hole; a start-up hole detector configured to detect that one of the playing balls enters a start-up hole provided on the playfield; a special game determination device configured to determine whether or not to perform a special game in which said special electrically-movable-win-hole device is driven into the opening state under the condition that said start-up hole detector has detected that one of the playing balls enters; and a special game controller configured to perform the special game under the condition that said special game determination device has determined to perform the special game; and a payout device configured to pay a payout medium different from the playing ball out whenever one of said win-hole detector and said start-up hole detector detects that the playing ball enters the predetermined win hole, wherein said one-round-play execution device continues to perform the one game play, after the predetermined time of play as counted by said playing-time counter has lapsed, when the special game controller performs the special game. | 4,890 |
8,584,461 | 1. An apparatus, suitable for generating energy in a aquatic environment, comprising: a power transfer linkage; at least two water piston assemblies connected to the power transfer linkage, each water piston assembly having: wherein when said casing door system is open water flows into said water container, moving said water container in a downward path while simultaneously pushing the water container from the other piston assembly in an upward direction, moving the power transfer linkage in a manner to create power. | 652 |
9,725,110 | 1. An electrically powered vehicle comprising: a main frame; a battery secured to the main frame; a motor secured to the main frame and powered by the battery; at least one axle comprising a plurality of wheels driven by the motor; a manual steering mechanism comprising a steering column operable to pivot the at least one axle; an overhead frame protruding vertically from the main frame; a steering drive shaft supported by the overhead frame; a lever operable to engage and disengage the steering drive shaft from the at least one axle, wherein when the steering drive shaft is engaged with the at least one axle, the steering drive shaft is operable to pivot the at least one axle; and a head unit secured to the steering drive shaft and comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode electrically wired to the battery, wherein the head unit is operable to engage an overhead track wherein the overhead track transfers electrical power to the positive electrode and negative electrode, thereby recharging the battery and driving the motor. | 278 |
8,616,850 | 1. A mounting arrangement for a gas turbine engine blade having a radially directed axis and a radially inner root received within a slot in an associated blade hub, said mounting arrangement including an elongate resilient leaf spring spacer received within said slot between a radially innermost end of said blade root and a radially innermost surface of said slot by interference fit therebetween such that said spacer exerts a radially outward force on said blade root to reduce radial movement of said blade root within said slot. | 12,808 |
9,310,373 | 1. A kit, comprising: a conjugate, comprising | 30,732 |
8,442,747 | 1. An engine system comprising: a first module that determines a cylinder of an engine to be in one of M prediction types and generates a distance from intake signal indicating a number of prediction steps the cylinder is away from an intake stroke, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 3; a second module that determines a cycle type of the cylinder, wherein the cycle type indicates a number of combustion cycles the cylinder has experienced from a last restart of the engine; and a cylinder air charge module that estimates an air mass within the cylinder based on the distance from intake signal and the cycle type. | 18,590 |
8,750,214 | 1. A method in a base station for detecting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codeword comprised in a signal received from a user equipment, which user equipment is arranged to communicate with the base station over a radio channel, which base station has knowledge of one or more HARQ-ACK codewords that are possible to detect in the received signal, the method comprising: receiving a signal from the user equipment over the radio channel, which signal comprises a modulation symbol, estimating a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) value for the received signal, which SNR value will be used to decide whether a first mode or a second mode shall be used for detecting the HARQ-ACK codeword in the received signal, calculating soft values for the modulation symbol in the received signal, when the estimated SNR value is lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value and when the modulation symbol of the received signal comprises more than two bits per modulation symbol, using the first mode for detecting the HARQ-ACK codeword in the received signal, which first mode comprises correlating a subset of the soft values for the modulation symbol in the received signal with the one or more known possible HARQ-ACK codewords, and otherwise, using the second mode for detecting the HARQ-ACK codeword in the received signal, which second mode comprises correlating a set of the soft values for the modulation symbol in the received signal with the one or more known possible HARQ-ACK codewords. | 2,555 |
8,980,535 | 1. A method for forming a resist pattern, comprising: forming a resist pattern on a processing surface, and wherein the forming a resist pattern on a processing surface, comprising: wherein the resist pattern improving material comprises: C8 linear alkanediol; water, and a water-soluble resin. | 32,240 |
9,328,701 | 1. A fuel vaporizer, comprising: a housing comprising an inlet opening with an internal thread; an inlet tube seated in the inlet opening, the inlet tube comprising an undercut head; a bushing through which the inlet tube protrudes, the inside diameter of the bushing being smaller than the outside diameter of the head; and the bushing comprising an external thread with which the bushing is screwed into the inlet opening of the housing, wherein tightening the bushing moves the bushing toward the undercut head to secure the inlet tube in the inlet opening. | 816 |
8,608,757 | 1. An apparatus for removing hair, comprising: a first structural member having a first end portion and a second end portion; a second structural member having a first end portion and a second end portion; a first elongate element secured to the first and second end portions of the first structural member; a second elongate element separate from said first elongate element and secured to the first and second end portions of the second structural member; said first elongate element and said second elongate element each have a portion thereof arranged in mutually twisted relation; and wherein said first structural member is connected to said second structural member solely by said mutually twisted portions. | 7,706 |
8,953,526 | 1. A method of operating a node in a mobile communication network, the network comprising a mobile device, a first base station and a second base station, the first base station having a lower transmission power than the second base station and being within the coverage area of the second base station, the method comprising: determining whether or not the mobile device is in an imbalanced region or a specified part of the imbalanced region between the first base station and the second base station, the imbalanced region comprising an area in which a downlink signal quality from the second base station to the mobile device is greater than a downlink signal quality from the first base station to the mobile device and an uplink signal quality from the mobile device to the first base station is greater than an uplink signal quality from the mobile device to the second base station; and determining whether to switch the mobile device between a first connection state and a second connection state based on the determination of whether or not the mobile device is located in the imbalanced region or the specified part of the imbalanced region; wherein the first connection state is a CELL_FACH state and the second connection state is a CELL_DCH state. | 34,165 |
9,242,928 | 1. A compound represented by the following General Formula (I): where, in General Formula (I), R R R where, in General Formulas (II) and (III), X represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, R * represents a binding position. | 21,411 |
9,238,920 | 1. A liftable building system, comprising: a building structure; a foundation configured for supporting the building structure; a substructure disposable between the foundation and the building structure; at least one guidepost in communication with the building structure, the substructure and the foundation; and a lifting system comprising a motor, at least one linear actuator, and at least two horizontal steel drive shafts connected to the at least one linear actuator, the lifting system extending between a first end and a second end, the first end being in communication with the substructure and the second end being in communication with the foundation so that actuating the lifting system applies a force to axially displace in a substantially up and down direction the substructure with the building structure along or with the at least one guidepost relative to the foundation, wherein the at least one guidepost has a telescopic configuration and the substructure is fixedly engaged to the at least one guidepost such that as the substructure axially translates in an up and down direction, the at least one guidepost telescopically expands and contracts with the substructure, wherein as the at least two horizontal steel drive shafts rotate via actuation of the motor, the at least one linear actuator axially translates in a direction away from the foundation so as to exert an upward force on the substructure and building structure. | 12,000 |
9,181,117 | 1. A system for biological treatment of contaminated water or wastewater, the system comprising: a biological reactor for contacting contaminated water with bacteria and oxygen, a compressed air source, an air supply line connecting the compressed air source to the biological reactor, a water supply line for supplying contaminated water from a source to the biological reactor, the water supply line split into a main stream and a partial stream, a heater installed on the partial stream for heating contaminated water, and a water level control valve associated with the biological reactor, the water level control valve operative to control the supply of compressed air and recirculation of undissolved air in the biological reactor for reinjection into untreated water or wastewater as a function of water level in the biological reactor, wherein the main stream and the partial stream are connected downstream of the heater for mixing the main stream with the heated partial stream and for supplying a resulting full stream of contaminated water to the reactor. | 35,160 |
8,819,359 | 1. A memory system, comprising: a set of N memory modules, wherein each memory module in the set of N memory modules includes a plurality of ranks, wherein each rank is an independent memory that provides the full data width of the memory module, and wherein the plurality of ranks in each memory module share a common data path for the memory module; and a hybrid interleaving mechanism which maps physical addresses to locations within memory modules and ranks so that, physical addresses for a given page all map to a given subset of M memory modules, wherein M<N, and physical addresses for the given page are interleaved across a plurality of ranks which comprise the given subset of M memory modules, wherein the hybrid interleaving mechanism is configured to: | 42,489 |
9,261,015 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device being arranged in a bypass duct between a pressure side and an intake side of a supercharging device, the control device comprising: a bypass valve comprising a valve-closure body which is configured to be pneumatically actuatable, and a control pressure space; a solenoid valve which is configured to open and close a fluidic connection between the pressure side and the intake side via the control pressure space; and a line connecting the solenoid valve with the intake side, wherein, when the bypass valve is in a completely open position, the fluidic connection exists at least temporarily via the control pressure space and the line between the pressure side and the intake side, and a closure of the fluidic connection brings about a resulting force in a closing direction on the valve-closure body. | 34,391 |
9,174,207 | 1. A process for producing compounds comprising at least one nitrile function, the process comprising hydrocyanating an organic compound comprising at least one non-conjugated unsaturation and comprising from 2 to 20 carbon atoms, by reacting said organic compound with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of a catalytic system comprising a complex of nickel having an oxidation state of zero with at least one organophosphorus ligand selected from the group consisting of organophosphites, organophosphonites, organophosphinites and organosphosphines and a cocatalyst, wherein the cocatalyst is selected from the group consisting of: bis(neopentylglycolato)diboron bis(hexyleneglycolato)diboron bis(pinacolato)dlboron tetrakis(pyrrolinido)diboron hexamethyldlsilane tetraphenyldimethyldisilane diphenyltetramethyldisilane tris(trimethylsilyl)silane tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)silane hexaphenyldisilane hexamethyldigermane hexaethyldigermane hexaphenyldigermane hexamethyldistannane hexbutyldistannane hexaphenyldistannane triphenylstannyldimethylphenylsilane triphenylgermanyltriphenylstannane hexaphenyldilead cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer cyclopentadienylchromium dicarbonyldimer cyclopentadienylnickel carbonyl dimer cydopentadienyltungsten tricarbonyl dimer; and methylcyclopentadlenylmolybdenum tricarbonyl dimer. | 9,825 |
9,747,774 | 1. A fall detection system for detecting falls off a mobility vehicle, comprising: a first sensor disposed on the mobility vehicle and generating a first sensor reading corresponding to movement of the mobility vehicle; a second sensor disposed in a mobile device and generating a second sensor reading corresponding to movement of the mobile device; a processor disposed in the mobility vehicle or the mobile device, wherein the processor performs the following: a) retrieving the first sensor reading and the second sensor reading; b) determining a correlation between the first sensor reading and the second sensor reading and entering into a first mode if the correlation exceeds a minimum correlation threshold, otherwise repeating step a) after a first time period if the correlation is below the minimum correlation threshold range; c) determining the correlation between the first sensor reading and the second sensor reading after a second time period, and entering into a second mode if the correlation is below the minimum correlation threshold; d) generating a fall detected signal if the correlation between the first sensor reading and the second sensor reading after a third time period correspond respectively to stationary movement of the mobility vehicle and the mobile device. | 19,862 |
9,546,091 | 1. A method for preparing porous carbon fibers, the method comprising: preparing a carbon nanofiber precursor solution containing a carbon nanofiber precursor and a metal alkoxide [M(OR) electrospinning the precursor solution to obtain electrospun fibers, wherein the precursor solution is prepared to contain the carbon nanofiber precursor and the metal alkoxide at a ratio of 70-99: 30-1 wt %; stabilizing the electrospun fibers to obtain stabilized fibers; and carbonizing or physically activating the stabilized fibers to obtain porous carbon fibers. | 29,207 |
8,685,780 | 1. A method for manufacturing an organic thin film solar cell by ion beam treatment, the method comprising: forming a nanopattern having a concavo-convex structure by irradiating an ion beam onto the surface of a flexible plastic film substrate; and sequentially stacking a bottom electrode layer, a photoactive layer for photoelectric conversion, and a top electrode layer, which have a nanoscale thickness, on the nanopattern of the substrate such that an electron donor and an electron acceptor in the photoactive layer, where electrons and holes are separated, form a nanopattern by the concavo-convex structure of the substrate, thus forming a bulk heterojunction structure. | 41,913 |
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