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8,992,242 | 1. A connector assembly comprising: a first connector having a first casing and a plurality of first terminals; and a second connector having a second casing and a plurality of second terminals, | 11,927 |
9,333,014 | 1. An apparatus for fixation and reduction of a fractured distal portion of a bone, comprising: a bone plate comprising: | 12,698 |
9,069,488 | 1. A system comprising: a host electronic device; and a storage device that is coupled to the host electronic device via an interface between the host electronic device and the storage device; wherein: the storage device comprises a computing environment operable to execute one or more applications on the storage device; and the storage device and the electronic device are configured to allow an application running on the storage device to use input and output functions of the host electronic device; and wherein: the computing environment on the storage device comprises an application processing part comprising at least one application processor for executing the application on the storage device, and an interface processing part comprising at least one interface processor that is separate to the application processor, for interfacing between the application processor and the host device, the computing environment being configured such that communication between the host device and an application that is being executed on the application processor takes place via the interface processor. | 32,067 |
8,604,103 | 1. An additive composition for a hydraulic composition, comprising: (A) one or more copolymers selected from the group consisting of compounds (1), (2) and (3) shown below; and (B) a mixture of compounds represented by the general formula (B2) shown below <compound (1)> a copolymer, or a salt thereof, of an alkenyl ether derivative represented by the general formula (A1) and a monomer represented by the general formula (A3): wherein R wherein R <compound (2)> a copolymer comprising, as constituent units, a monomer (i) represented by the general formula (A2) shown below and one or more monomers (ii) selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the general formulae (A3) above shown and the general formula (A4) shown below, having a molar ratio of (ii)/(i)=70/30 to 95/5; wherein R wherein R <compound (3)> a copolymer comprising, as constituent units, a monomer unit (iii) represented by the general formula (A5) shown below and one or more monomers (ii) selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the general formulae (A3) and (A4) above shown, having a molar ratio of (ii)/(iii)=60/40 to 90/10; wherein R wherein A wherein the average of the sum in total of m1, m2 and m3 of the mixture of compounds represented by the general formula (B2) is 0.5 to 2.5. | 7,356 |
8,404,983 | 1. A removable electric controller for a garage door opener, comprising: a base unit, the base unit comprising a base seat, a driving member, a light source member, a lampshade, an inductive circuit line, a power member and a circuit terminal connecting plate, the circuit terminal connecting plate comprising a main connecting port module, the driving member, the light source member, the inductive circuit line, the power member and the circuit terminal connecting plate being fixedly connected to the base seat, the driving member, the light source member, the inductive circuit line and the power member being electrically connected to the circuit terminal connecting plate; a cover, the cover having a connecting surface, the connecting surface having an opening at a top end thereof, the cover being coupled to a central section of the base seat of the base unit, the opening of the connecting surface facing the circuit terminal connecting plate connected to the base seat of the base unit, the circuit terminal connecting plate being exposed out of the cover; and a control box unit, the control box unit comprising a box lid and a control circuit board, the box lid having an open top side and an open rear side, the control circuit board having a guide insertion end, the control circuit board being located in the box lid, the guide insertion end of the control circuit board being connected to the main connecting port module of the circuit terminal connecting plate on the base unit, the box lid of the control box unit covering the connecting surface of the cover. | 19,882 |
8,916,771 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a first electrode disposed on a substrate; a first unit cell disposed on the first electrode and configured to convert light into electricity; an intermediate reflector disposed on the first unit cell, the intermediate reflector comprising embedded metallic nanoparticles; and a second unit cell disposed on the intermediate reflector and configured to convert light into electricity, wherein a diameter of the metallic nanoparticles is equal to or greater than 5 nm and equal to or less than 100 nm, wherein a plane fill factor of the metallic nanoparticles is equal to or greater than 0.1% and equal to or less than 10%, and wherein surfaces of the metallic nanoparticles are covered by an oxide film or a nitride film, and a number of the metallic nanoparticles disposed at a center portion of the intermediate reflector is greater than a number of the metallic nanoparticles disposed at a surface of the intermediate reflector. | 3,966 |
9,847,395 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a gate structure extending from a first surface into a semiconductor portion and surrounding a transistor section of the semiconductor portion; a field plate structure extending from the first surface into the transistor section and comprising a field electrode; a mesa section of the transistor section separating the field plate structure and the gate structure; and a contact structure comprising a first portion directly adjoining the mesa section and a second portion directly adjoining the field electrode, wherein the first and second portions include stripes and are directly connected to each other. | 36,079 |
8,579,530 | 1. An aerosol system comprising at least two aerosol containers for separately keeping different substances, whereas each aerosol container has a valve portion; and a head portion containing a channel system and an exhaust opening, wherein the channel system provides communication between valve openings of the valve portions of the at least two aerosol containers and the exhaust opening, wherein the head portion comprises a head opening extending over the valve portions of the at least two aerosol containers; wherein the head portion or at least one part of the head portion is movable with respect to the aerosol containers, such that the channel system can take different configurations when the head portion or the at least one part of the head portion is located in a first position or a second position, wherein the head opening in the head portion is configured for communication between a channel opening of the channel system and the valve openings of the valve portions of the at least two aerosol containers, wherein one aerosol container contains mascara, and another aerosol container contains a cleaning fluid, and further wherein the head portion or the at least one part of the head portion is a slider adapted to slide to the first position or the second position. | 27,539 |
9,187,824 | 1. A method of graphene film synthesis, the method comprising: a. providing a copper foil, b. placing the foil in a microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition chamber, c. evacuating the chamber to approximately 2 Torr, d. providing hydrogen gas to the chamber, e. exposing the foil to plasma, f. providing methane gas maintaining approximately 10 Torr in the chamber, wherein the foil is supported by a ceramic stud elevating the foil above a molybdenum puck. | 900 |
8,913,216 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a backlight unit; and a liquid crystal panel which forms an image using light emitted by the backlight unit, and comprising: wherein an area of the liquid crystal layer corresponding to each of the subpixels is divided into a first liquid crystal area facing one of the diffusing areas and a second liquid crystal area facing one of the transparent areas and transmittances of the first and second liquid crystal areas are adjusted separately, and wherein the thin film transistor layer includes a first transistor for controlling a transmittance of the first liquid crystal area and a second transistor for controlling a transmittance of the second liquid crystal area. | 49,577 |
9,192,110 | 1. A system for controlling irrigation comprising: a server; software executable on said server and configured for programming and running an irrigation schedule for an irrigation system; said software causing said server to graphically display a hierarchical watering plan interface comprising: | 43,600 |
8,764,784 | 1. A tattoo needle housing, comprising: a substantially hollow structure configured to surround a plurality of tattoo needles, wherein the substantially hollow structure comprises a bottom edge portion at one end thereof that has a convex outward shape that substantially matches and conforms to a collective convex outward shape of the tips of the plurality of tattoo needles taken as a group, wherein the substantially hollow structure comprises one or more ports manufactured into one or more of a top surface and a bottom surface thereof, and wherein the substantially hollow structure comprises an end wall adjacent to the tips of the plurality of tattoo needles configured to form a reservoir to retain ink adjacent to the plurality of tattoo needles. | 29,307 |
8,760,176 | 1. A test system for capacitors in a digitally controllable oscillator (DCO) comprising: capacitor toggling logic configured to switch on and off a selected one of the capacitors at a modulation frequency; a tone generator configured to generate a tone; a mixer configured to receive the tone and an output carrier signal from the DCO while the capacitor toggling logic is switching the selected one of the capacitors on and off, and to output an intermediate frequency signal having FM sidebands based on the modulation frequency and relative capacitor size; and an evaluation circuit configured to evaluate a frequency deviation associated with the selected one of the capacitors based on at least one of the FM sidebands. | 1,857 |
8,860,248 | 1. A demand response unit (DRU) interposed between a utility's electrical power line and at least one load to which power is supplied by the utility over the line, comprising: at least one detector measuring a characteristic of an electrical waveform by which power is transmitted by the utility to the load, the detector determining when a value of the measured characteristic exceeds a predetermined threshold for a first predetermined period of time, and if the threshold is exceeded, when the measured value exceeds a second predetermined threshold for a second predetermined period of time, and the detector processing a predetermined number of samples acquired during each cycle of the waveform to produce an average value of the characteristic which is compared to the threshold thereby to reduce the effect of extraneous events which may temporarily change the value of the measured characteristic, successive samples acquired for processing not being acquired at the same phase location on the cycle of the waveform during which they are acquired; and, power control means responsive to an output from the detector to at least partially interrupt flow of power to the load during the period of time when the measured value exceeds the predetermined threshold thereby to reduce the load on the utility. | 13,071 |
9,078,175 | 1. A method in a target Mobility Management Entity (MME) or a target Serving General Packet Radio Service Support (SGSN) node for handling a mobility procedure or session procedure, the target MME node or the target SGSN node being comprised in a radio network, the method comprising: receiving, from a source MME node or a source SGSN node, a communication message comprising a QoS parameter associated with a source serving network system, the communication message further comprising one of a Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW) or a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) capability information element, the capability information element indicating if at least one of a PGW and PCRF node supports maximum allowed QoS handling; comparing a maximum allowed QoS of a target serving network with the QoS parameter associated with the source serving network and the capability information element; and providing instructions to a source serving gateway (SGW) for the mobility procedure or session procedure for each Packet Data Network (PDN) connection associated with a requesting user equipment, the instructions being based the comparing. | 41,317 |
9,238,615 | 1. A process for the preparation of 5-amino-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalic acid of formula (II) comprising the iodination of 5-aminoisophthalic acid of formula (I) or a salt thereof with molecular iodine and in the presence of iodic acid as an oxidizing agent, wherein the iodination reaction is carried out in a solvent selected from the group consisting of water, aqueous saline solution, hydroalcoholic mixture of lower alcohols C 1 -C 4 and aqueous mixtures of dioxane or glycols, at a pH lower than 3.5. | 27,142 |
9,748,373 | 1. A metal-insulator-semiconductor field effect transistor (MISFET) device, comprising: a barrier layer on a substrate; a source/drain over and in direct contact with the barrier layer; a first etch stop layer over and in direct contact with the source/drain; a gate dielectric layer on the substrate, a portion of the gate dielectric layer overlying a portion of the first etch stop layer; a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer, a portion of the first etch stop layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the source/drain along a line parallel to a major surface of the substrate; a second etch stop layer on the gate electrode; an inter-layer dielectric over the substrate, the source/drain, and the gate electrode, the inter-layer dielectric contacting and extending along a top surface of the first etch stop layer; a first contact extending through the inter-layer dielectric and the first etch stop layer to the source/drain; and a second contact extending through the inter-layer dielectric and the second etch stop layer to the gate electrode. | 6,020 |
9,038,596 | 1. A method of controlling an engine for preventing pre-ignition, comprising: operating a cylinder to pump air without injected fuel while another cylinder combusts a lean air-fuel mixture; and limiting an amount of intake air charge directed into the cylinders to be less than a threshold, the limiting increased as a degree of leanness of the air-fuel mixture increases. | 16,055 |
8,787,860 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a downconverted signal in a digital domain, the downconverted signal comprising an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal; generating a first signal of a signal channel based on the downconverted signal; generating a second signal of an image channel based on the downconverted signal; filtering the second signal using first weights to produce a pilot training signal; filtering the second signal using second weights to produce an image cancellation signal; generating an output signal by subtracting the image cancellation signal from the first signal to resolve a desired signal; updating the first weights based on the first weights, the second signal, the pilot training signal, and a pilot signal; and updating the second weights based on the second weights, the output signal, and the pilot training signal. | 24,601 |
8,357,840 | 1. A seed of inbred maize variety PH18DY, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-13061. | 16,665 |
9,485,858 | 1. A flexible display device comprising: a flexible display panel comprising a folding area and a peripheral area; and a first outer member on a surface of the flexible display panel and comprising a first groove pattern at the folding area, wherein the first groove pattern comprises: wherein a width of the first groove pattern satisfies the Formula W=F+2×S=π×R, and wherein W denotes the width of the first groove pattern, F denotes a width of the flat surface, S denotes a width of each of the inclined portions, π denotes a circular constant, and R denotes a radius of curvature of the flexible display panel at the folding area. | 16,834 |
9,793,064 | 1. A crystalline carbonaceous material comprising: a layered structure comprising a plurality of layers; and a filler between the layers, wherein the plurality of layers with the filler therebetween have an interlayer spacing d002 at a (002) plane, and the interlayer spacing d002 is at or between 0.489 nm and 1 nm when its X-ray diffraction is measured using a CuKα ray, wherein the crystalline carbonaceous material is a natural graphite, an artificial graphite, mesophase carbon microbeads, or a combination thereof, and wherein the crystalline carbonaceous material has a specific surface area at or between 39.4 m | 30,082 |
8,770,198 | 1. A connector comprising: a main conduit having an inlet portion and an outlet portion that form a first passage for supply of a first gas in a forward direction, the inlet portion is adapted to receive a supply of the first gas and deliver the first gas to the outlet portion; a gas conduit having a first end and a second end that form a second passage for supply of a second gas, the first end of the gas conduit is adapted to connect to a second gas supply, and the second end is adjacent the outlet portion of the main conduit and delivers the second gas into the main conduit such that the second gas is directed to flow in the forward direction to facilitate mixing of the second gas with the first gas in the main conduit. | 15,029 |
9,132,826 | 1. An energy capture device, comprising: a first planetary gear assembly operatively coupled to an engine, the first planetary gear assembly adapted to engage and disengage, via a first overrunning clutch, a shaft coupled to a generator; a second planetary gear assembly at least partially fixed to the first planetary gear assembly, the second planetary gear assembly adapted to engage and disengage, via a second overrunning clutch, the shaft; wherein, during a first period, the first overrunning clutch disengages the shaft and the second overrunning clutch engages the shaft. | 46,099 |
9,225,718 | 1. A service card, comprising: secure memory that stores user credentials used to securely authenticate the service card and access a service foreign to a consumer host device through a wireless broadband network, the user credentials associated with a broadband service provider; one or more processors configured to: wherein the service card is configured to insert into the expansion port of the consumer host device or an accessory connected to the consumer host device and is separate from the consumer host device, wherein the service card accesses the foreign service independent and loading a driver onto the consumer host device. | 6,093 |
9,002,537 | 1. An electric vehicle battery system comprising: a rechargeable traction battery pack configured to supply electric power to a propulsion system of a vehicle; data-gathering circuitry configured to monitor or test an aspect of the traction battery pack and in response to generate a traction battery pack status report; gatekeeper circuitry configured to permit or deny the rechargeable traction battery pack (i) supplying electric power to the propulsion system or (ii) receiving a recharge, the permit or deny in response to a management instruction issued by a remote battery manager system; and a communication system configured to communicate with the remote battery manager. | 16,810 |
9,221,698 | 1. A hybrid artificial wetland water purification system, comprising: a first aerobic artificial wetland that induces a vertical flow of introduced water, which is to be purified, and allows pollutants to be removed; an anaerobic artificial wetland that induces a horizontal flow of treated water which is introduced from the first aerobic artificial wetland, and allows pollutants to be further removed; and a second aerobic artificial wetland that induces a vertical flow of treated water which is introduced from the anaerobic artificial wetland, and allows air to be supplied inwardly such that the amount of dissolved oxygen of the introduced treated water increases. | 22,295 |
8,516,687 | 1. A vehicle battery replacing apparatus for detaching a battery from or attaching a battery to a battery support portion provided in a vehicle from below, the apparatus comprising: a battery mount portion having a hole, the battery mount portion configured to support the battery upon detachment of the battery from or attachment of the battery to the battery support portion, the battery mount portion opposing the battery support portion; vehicle hoist members arranged at opposite sides of the hole, which move together with the battery mount portion to contact the vehicle body at least when the battery is detached from or attached to the battery support portion, so that upper surfaces of the vehicle hoist members are higher than an upper surface of the battery mount portion; and a lifting-lowering mechanism for lifting and lowering the battery mount portion having the vehicle hoist members, and a battery lifting-lowering portion configured to move through the hole in the battery mount portion, between a position below the upper surface of the battery mount portion and a position above the hole in the upper surface of the battery mount portion to lift and lower the battery when the vehicle is in a lift position by the vehicle hoist members. | 19,084 |
9,842,935 | 1. A manufacturing method of low temperature poly silicon (LTPS) thin film transistors (TFTs), comprising: forming a semiconductor layer and a LTPS layer on one surface on a base layer; forming an oxide layer is formed on one side of the semiconductor layer facing away the base layer, and forming the oxide layer on one side of the LTPS layer facing away the base layer; a forming a plurality of first photoresist layers of a first thickness on the oxide layer; arranging a corresponding first cobalt layer on each of the photoresist layers, a vertical projection of the first cobalt layer overlaps with a vertical projection of the corresponding first photoresist layer; doping high concentration doping ions into a first area of the semiconductor layer, and the high-concentration being larger than 1×10 removing the first cobalt layer, and applying an ashing process to a portion of the first photoresist layers to obtain second photoresist layers of a second thickness, the second thickness is less than the first thickness; arranging a corresponding second cobalt layer on the second photoresist layer, a vertical projection of the second cobalt layer is overlapped with the vertical projection of the corresponding second photoresist layer; doping low concentration doping ions into a second area of the semiconductor layer, and the low-concentration being less than 1×10 removing the second cobalt layer, and applying the ashing process to the second photoresist layers to remove the second photoresist layers. | 35,790 |
9,114,398 | 1. A method for performing digital multiplex PCR assay within a plurality of reaction channels of a microfluidic chip to identify DNA sequence variations in each of a plurality of patient samples to diagnose a disease status, a disease risk or predict a therapeutic drug response for each patient, said method comprising: (A) for each patient sample, providing a flow of genomic DNA sample within one of the reaction channels, each reaction channel having a different patient sample; (B) introducing a plurality of different assay-specific reagent solutions to the flow of genomic DNA sample in a reaction channel to form a plurality of test mixtures and simultaneously perform different assays on the test mixtures in the reaction channel, wherein each of the plurality of the test mixtures in the reaction channel undergoes a different assay; (C) performing a PCR procedure on the test mixture within the reaction channel; (D) performing a thermal melt procedure on the test mixture after performing the PCR procedure; (E) collecting data on the thermal melt procedure; (F) performing an analysis of the collected thermal melt data with a controller programmed to ascertain the presence or absence of a DNA sequence variation of interest within the test mixture; (G) performing a conversion of the results of the analyzing step with the controller into a digital signal by designating a result indicating the presence of the DNA sequence variation of interest as 1 and designating a result indicating the absence of the DNA sequence variation of interest as 0, or vice versa; (H) performing an analysis of the outcome of step G with the controller for each of the patient samples to determine whether the outcome is ambiguous, such that if the controller determines that the outcome is ambiguous, the controller causes the repeating of steps B through G at least once with the same assay-specific reagent solutions used in step B to improve the confidence in the determination of the presence or absence of the DNA sequence variation of interest; (I) performing an analysis of the outcome of step G with the controller for each of the patient samples to determine whether the outcome is ambiguous, such that if the controller determines that the outcome is not ambiguous, the controller causes the repeating of steps B through H at least one time with a different assay-specific reagent solution adapted to identify a different DNA sequence variation relevant to the diagnosis or prediction; and (J) performing a statistical analysis on the results of steps B through I with the controller to derive a diagnosis or a prediction and a level of confidence in the diagnosis or prediction. | 40,873 |
9,029,376 | 1. A method for the treatment of a Dengue virus infection, comprising administering in a therapeutically effective amount to a mammal in need thereof, a compound of Formula I below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is C—R X and Z are independently selected from the group consisting of O, S and N—R R R R | 29,212 |
9,063,356 | 1. An apparatus for repairing a display device having a pattern defect on a surface of a substrate where an electronic circuit pattern having said pattern defect is formed, comprising: a first gas supplying portion for supplying a first gas; a tubule configured to have a plasma generated within the tubule from the first gas and for jetting the plasma toward the surface of the substrate from the tubule; a second gas supplying portion for supplying a second gas comprising a material gas for forming a thin film or an etching gas toward the surface of the substrate from an opening of the second gas supplying portion, wherein the second gas supplying portion is provided separately from and outside of the tubule; an observation mechanism including a camera which compares a normal pixel and a defective pixel, recognizes a location and a size of the defect of the pattern defect and categorizes the type of the defect; and a mask for making the plasma jet finely pointed, wherein said mask is provided between said tubule and the substrate, the second gas supplying portion is provided between said mask and the substrate, and a plurality of through holes of different dimensions are formed on the mask. | 14,256 |
9,697,641 | 1. A method of producing a pixel coverage mask based on an alpha value, the method comprising: combining a virtual coverage mask that indicates which virtual samples and real samples within a pixel are covered by a graphics primitive and a quantized alpha mask based on the alpha value and on an alpha-to-coverage ordering of the real samples and the virtual samples to produce the pixel coverage mask; outputting the pixel coverage mask for the pixel; and generating an antialiased image based on the pixel coverage mask, wherein the quantized alpha mask represents the alpha value in a coverage mask format and indicates which virtual samples within the pixel are deemed to be covered based on the alpha value. | 48,208 |
9,841,783 | 1. A device, comprising: a wearable display including at least one curved surface to present content, the wearable display including a first display portion, a second display portion, and a third display portion, the second display portion being disposed between the first display portion and the third display portion; at least one sensor to sense at least gravitational force direction; and system circuitry to: | 33,060 |
9,728,283 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cam immersed in water at a temperature of at least 212° F.; a reciprocating cam follower contacting a surface of the cam, the reciprocating cam follower also immersed in the water, the reciprocating cam follower including a permanent magnet; an electrically conductive coil magnetically coupled with the permanent magnet of the reciprocating cam follower such that movement of the cam follower induces an electrical signal in the electrically conductive coil; and a sealed housing immersed in the water and containing the electrically conductive coil, the sealed housing sealing the electrically conductive coil from contact with the water, leads of the electrically conductive coil being electrically accessible from outside the sealed housing and from outside the water. | 31,506 |
9,610,855 | 1. A slow charging method of a vehicle including an on-board charger, comprising: detecting, by a controller, a charging request; detecting, by the controller, temperature of the on-board charger in response to detecting the charging request; determining, by the controller, whether the temperature of the on-board charger is within a predetermined temperature range; adjusting, by the controller, a charging output of the on-board charger to a predetermined value when the temperature of the on-board charger is within the predetermined temperature range; and charging, by the controller, a battery of the vehicle with the adjusted charging output of the on-board charger, wherein the adjusted charging output of the on-board charger is less than a previous charging output of the on-board charger, and a charging time of the adjusted charging output is greater than that of the previous charging output. | 10,888 |
8,850,186 | 1. An information processing apparatus that performs communication using an electronic certificate, comprising: a data storage system comprising a data storage device and storing at least a control program; and a data processing system comprising a CPU and coupled to the data storage system, the data processing system operative by the control program at least to: set identification information for identifying the information processing apparatus; change the identification information which has been set; store the set identification information in the data storage system; issue a first request for issue of the electronic certificate, containing the identification information stored in said data storage system, to a certificate authority; determine whether or not the identification information stored in said data storage system is changed to identification information different than that contained in the first request after the first request is issued to the certificate authority, and before an obtaining of the electronic certificate issued by the certificate authority in response to the first request; issue a notification indicating an error, said error caused due to a change of the identification information stored in said data storage system, the notification to be issued when it is determined that the identification information stored in said data storage system is changed to identification information different than that contained in the first request; and issue a second request for issue of a new electronic certificate, when it is determined that the identification information stored in said data storage system is changed to identification information different than that contained in the first request. | 6,970 |
9,613,959 | 1. A method of forming a field effect transistor (FET) over a substrate, comprising: forming a recess through an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer along a sidewall spacer; forming a high-κ dielectric layer to cover bottom and sidewall surfaces of the recess; forming a metal gate within a remainder of the recess not occupied by the high-κ dielectric layer; performing a first series of one or more etches to lower the high-κ dielectric layer and the metal gate, a residue of the high-κ dielectric layer being left along the sidewall spacer; performing a second etch to form a tapered upper surface for the sidewall spacer, a height of the sidewall spacer monotonically decreasing as approaching the metal gate; and performing a third series of one or more etches to remove the residue of the high-κ dielectric layer and planarize the metal gate. | 45,662 |
9,240,603 | 1. A method of controlling a fuel cell system of a vehicle, comprising: a fuel cell having catalyst, for performing power generation by inducing reaction of oxygen or hydrogen at the catalyst; a gas supply unit configured to supply at least one of the oxygen and the hydrogen to the fuel cell; a voltage controller configured to control power generation voltage of the fuel cell; a load driven by electric power outputted from the fuel cell; and a gas supply controller configured to control the voltage controller to fix an actual voltage of the fuel cell to a predetermined voltage outside a voltage range where an oxidation-reduction of the catalyst proceeds, and, in a state where the actual voltage is thus fixed, the gas supply controller is configured to control the gas supply unit such that concentration of at least one of the oxygen and the hydrogen is adjusted in accordance with electric power required by the load, the method comprising: by use of the gas supply controller, supplying electric power to a motor by the fuel cell system; performing a first warm-up operation of the fuel cell if it is determined that a temperature of the fuel cell is a first predetermined temperature or less, and fixing, during the first warm-up operation, via the gas supply controller, the voltage of the fuel cell to a voltage value within a voltage region where degradation is relatively small, the voltage region being below the voltage range where the oxidation-reduction proceeds, and changing, via the gas supply controller, an amount of gas supplied to the fuel cell in accordance with the electric power required by the load, during the first warm-up operation, in a case where the predetermined voltage is equal to or less than a minimum motor drive voltage required for said vehicle to drive; and as long as a temperature of the fuel cell is a second predetermined temperature or less, performing a second warm-up operation with the power generation voltage fixed to the predetermined voltage; performing a normal operation of the fuel cell when it is determined that the temperature of the fuel cell is higher than the second predetermined temperature, and performing the first warm-up operation with the power generation voltage adjusted to a value which is the minimum motor drive voltage or more and below the voltage range where the oxidation-reduction of the catalyst proceeds, wherein the vehicle is able to travel during the normal operation, the second predetermined temperature is lower than the first predetermined temperature, and wherein the vehicle is permitted to travel during the first warm-up operation and the vehicle is not permitted to travel during the second warm-up operation. | 2,810 |
8,632,894 | 1. A substrate for an electronic device, comprising: an organic semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface; an inorganic layer containing a metal atom; and an intermediate layer between the organic semiconductor layer and the inorganic layer so as to make contact with both the first surface of the organic semiconductor layer and the inorganic layer, the intermediate layer being constituted of a compound, as a main, component thereof, represented by a general formula R—X—O-M, wherein R is a hydrocarbon group, X is a sulfonyl group, and M is a metal atom, the metal atom M and the metal atom contained in the inorganic layer belonging to a congener in the periodic table, and molecules of the compound being oriented along a thickness direction of the intermediate layer in a state that the hydrocarbon group R is positioned on the side of the organic semiconductor layer and the metal atom M is positioned on the side of the inorganic layer. | 16,600 |
9,250,901 | 1. A computing system comprising: a plurality of registers configured to store remote contexts of a plurality of functional units of the computing system, wherein the plurality of functional units comprises at least two heterogeneous processor cores; a mapping table that maps the remote contexts to the plurality of functional units; and an execution unit configured to execute a remapping tool to: | 10,044 |
9,017,087 | 1. A cable connector assembly comprising: a cable connector having a mating side that faces in a mating direction, the mating side configured to engage a mating connector; and a housing frame having a connector-receiving space that is partially defined by a sidewall, the cable connector being disposed in the connector-receiving space, the sidewall having a wall spring that is formed from material of the sidewall and that is coupled to the cable connector, the wall spring configured to resiliently flex from a relaxed condition to a compressed condition to permit the cable connector to move during a mating operation, the wall spring providing a biasing force to the cable connector in the mating direction when the wall spring is in the compressed condition. | 46,818 |
8,399,536 | 1. An irradiated polymer composition comprising: (A) at least one polyolefin resin, wherein the polyolefin resin is selected from the group consisting of: (B) least one non-phenolic stabilizer, wherein the irradiated polymer composition is produced by a process comprising mixing the polyolefin resin with the non-phenolic stabilizer to form an intermediate polyolefin resin; irradiating the intermediate polyolefin resin with about 1 to about 20 Megarad of electron beam radiation to form an intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin; the intermediate polyolefin resin being irradiated in a reduced oxygen environment, wherein active oxygen is in an established and maintained concentration of less than about 15% by volume, with respect to a total volume of the reduced oxygen environment; maintaining the intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin in the reduced oxygen environment for a period of time sufficient for a significant amount of long chain branches to form within the intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin; and treating the intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin while the intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin is in the reduced oxygen environment to substantially deactivate all free radicals present in the intermediate irradiated polyolefin resin. | 13,832 |
9,510,311 | 1. A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: establishing a connection with a cell based on an initial access procedure; receiving a downlink signal from the cell, the downlink signal comprising an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signal or single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) signal, the downlink signal further comprising a first cyclic prefix; estimating a time of arrival of the received downlink signal; determining a transmit symbol time for an uplink signal to the cell based on the estimated time of arrival of the received downlink signal; and transmitting the uplink signal to the cell, wherein the uplink signal is one of an OFDMA signal or SC-FDMA signal with a second cyclic prefix, and wherein the second cyclic prefix has a different length than the first cyclic prefix. | 47,078 |
9,440,322 | 1. An object positioning and fixing device that positions and fixes a target object on a base member in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, comprising: said base member comprises a reference seating surface for positioning in the vertical direction, and said target object comprises a contacting surface that can contact against said reference seating surface; said base member comprises a fitting hole that is formed to open to said reference seating surface, and a reference member that is fixed in said fitting hole; said target object comprises an installation hole that is formed to open to said contacting surface at a position corresponding to said reference member, and an annular engagement member that is fixed in said installation hole; said reference member comprises a fitting cylindrical portion that is fitted into and fixed in said fitting hole, an engagement projection that is formed integrally with said fitting cylindrical portion so as to have a larger external diameter than said fitting cylindrical portion and a smaller diameter than said annular engagement member and that projects from said reference seating surface toward said target object, a tapered engagement surface that is formed on at least a portion of an external peripheral surface of said engagement projection and whose diameter becomes smaller towards said target object, and a base end contacting surface that is formed on a base end of said fitting cylindrical portion side of said engagement projection so as to have a smaller external diameter than that of said annular engagement member and that contacts against said reference seating surface; and said annular engagement member comprises a tapered contacting surface that, when said base end contacting surface is contacted against said reference seating surface, can engage in a tightly contacting state with said tapered engagement surface of said engagement projection, via elastic deformation in a radially outward direction of said annular engagement member. | 11,733 |
8,966,152 | 1. An integrated on-chip memory device component, comprising: a plurality of memory banks; and multiple logical ports, each logical port coupled to one or more of the plurality of memory banks, enabling access to multiple memory banks for multiple independent data access requests, wherein each data access request includes a memory address with a first set of bits indicative of a memory bank, among the plurality of memory banks, and a second set of bits indicative of a memory row within the memory bank indicated by the first set of bits, among the plurality of memory banks, per clock cycle, each memory bank accessible by a single logical port per clock cycle and each logical port accessing a single memory bank per clock cycle. | 10,707 |
8,364,860 | 1. A data-processing system comprising: a plurality of data-processing devices; a data-handling facility shared by the data-processing devices; an aggregation facility for receiving signals indicative for individual requirements from the data-processing devices for a performance of the shared data-handling facility and for providing a control signal indicative for a required activity level to meet the aggregated requirements; a control device for controlling an activity level of the data-handling facility depending on the control signal; and a latency logic unit with a time-stamp unit for providing a point in time indication, a FIFO-memory having an input coupled to said time-stamp unit for storing a point in time indication of a data handling request from a monitored data processing facility, and a subtractor coupled to the time-stamp unit and an output of the FIFO-memory to subtract a point in time indication of a data handling request from a point in time indication of an execution of the request by the shared data handling facility. | 37,682 |
9,404,024 | 1. An adhesive composition, comprising: an acrylic copolymer having at least one alkyl group, at least one hydroxyl group, at least one furyl based group and at least one silane group; and a curing agent, wherein the acrylic copolymer is prepared by copolymerizing a monomer mixture that includes a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having an alkyl group, a (meth)acrylic acid ester having a hydroxyl group, a compound having a furyl based group, and a monomer having a silane group, wherein the monomer having a silane group has the following Formula 4: wherein R2, R3, and R4 are halogen or an alkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, s is from 1 to about 10, and R5 is —NCO, and wherein the adhesive composition is uncured. | 2,735 |
9,246,477 | 1. A common mode voltage level shifting circuit, comprising: input nodes configured to receive a differential signal with a first common mode voltage; a pair of shunt capacitors coupled between the input nodes and a corresponding pair of output nodes; a threshold voltage circuit, including the output nodes, coupled to the differential signal though the shunt capacitors, the threshold voltage circuit configured to provide a second common mode voltage for the differential signal at the output nodes; and current sources that are controlled according to a level of the first common mode voltage, the current sources coupled to the output nodes to effect the second common mode voltage. | 27,127 |
9,411,220 | 1. A laser light source apparatus, comprising: a laser light source in which an emitted laser beam is a laser beam having different spread angles in two orthogonal directions; a condenser lens that converges the laser beam emitted from the laser light source; and a light guide unit that propagates and emits the laser beam converged by the condenser lens, wherein the beam in a direction having a smaller converging angle of the laser beam converged by the condenser lens is made incident at an angle other than perpendicular to an incident end face of the light guide unit. | 10,484 |
9,334,516 | 1. A process for preparing a composition comprising glucose, the process comprising: (1) forming a mashing mixture comprising a milled energy crop, water and an alpha-amylase enzyme; (2) forming a liquefied mash from the mashing mixture, the liquefied mash comprising (i) coarse insoluble particles comprising cellulose, (ii) non-liquefied starch particles, (iii) fine insoluble particles and (iv) liquefied starch; (3) forming an adjusted liquefied mash by the liquefied mash to a pH suitable for hydrolysis of cellulose by cellulase enzyme; (4) fractionating the adjusted liquefied mash to form (i) a coarse fraction comprising greater than 50% by weight of coarse insoluble particles contained in the adjusted liquefied mash and greater than 50% by weight of the non-liquefied starch contained in the adjusted liquefied mash and (ii) a fine fraction comprising greater than 50% by weight of the fine insoluble particles contained in the adjusted liquefied mash and greater than about 50% by weight of the liquefied starch contained in the adjusted liquefied mash; (5) admixing at least a portion of the coarse fraction with at least one cellulase enzyme and liquefying the admixture to form a coarse fraction hydrolyzate; and (6) (i) admixing at least a portion of the coarse fraction hydrolyzate with at least a portion of the fine fraction to form a combined liquefied admixture, (ii) adding a glucoamylase enzyme to the combined liquefied admixture, and (iii) saccharifying the combined liquefied admixture to form the composition comprising glucose. | 35,241 |
9,321,644 | 1. A system for producing hydrogen and oxygen from water, comprising: a target that heats to at least a temperature that thermally decomposes water, receives water vapor, heats the received water vapor to the temperature that thermally decomposes water to form a heated vapor, and passes the heated vapor to an oxygen selective membrane, wherein the target includes an oxide-based refractory material mixed with a dark-colored metal oxide; the oxygen selective membrane that, at or near the temperature that thermally decomposes water, separates oxygen from the heated vapor to form a hydrogen-rich vapor; a cooling chamber that cools the hydrogen-rich vapor to at least a specified temperature; and a hydrogen selective membrane that separates hydrogen in the hydrogen-rich vapor to leave substantially water vapor. | 47,359 |
8,474,831 | 1. Axially adjustable tool holder, essentially constituted by a principal body ( 1 ) with attachment, in a recess ( 2 ) of which is slidably mounted a mobile part ( 3 ) for mounting a tool ( 4 ), characterized in that the mobile part ( 3 ) for mounting a tool ( 4 ) cooperates with a ring for transverse adjustment ( 5 ), freely mounted in rotation on an extremity of the principal body ( 1 ) including the recess ( 2 ) for mounting said mobile part ( 3 ) for mounting a tool ( 4 ), and secured transversely to said extremity, by means of a ball bearing device ( 8 ), and presented in the form of a sleeve provided with an interior thread ( 5 ′), said ball bearing device ( 8 ) allowing axial play of said ring for transverse adjustment ( 5 ), when the mobile part ( 3 ) is tightened, which guarantees application of a proximal face ( 51 ) of the adjustment ring ( 5 ) against a corresponding distal external supporting flange ( 1 ′) of the principal body ( 1 ), the mobile part ( 3 ) being locked in working position, after adjustment, by means of at least one device for tightening ( 6 ) by traction cooperating with a corresponding part ( 7 ) of the mobile part ( 3 ). | 16,658 |
9,147,609 | 1. A semiconductor substrate having a plurality of devices, said semiconductor substrate comprising: a plurality of through silicon vias disposed in said substrate extending from a top surface of said substrate to a bottom surface of said substrate; a conductive filler disposed within each of said plurality of through silicon vias, each of said plurality of through silicon vias having a hollow center to reduce thermal stress in said semiconductor substrate, said hollow center being entirely surrounded by said conductive filler to provide space for said conductive filler to expand inward; wherein each of said plurality of through silicon vias has a pinched off region at a bottom portion to prevent contamination during processing of said semiconductor substrate, and wherein said hollow center is tapered in said pinched off region. | 13,713 |
9,575,207 | 1. An apparatus for providing a signal indicative of a property of an earth formation, the apparatus comprising: a carrier configured to be conveyed through a borehole penetrating the earth formation; a neutron source disposed on the carrier and configured to emit neutrons into the earth formation; a radiation detector disposed on the carrier and configured to detect radiation from the earth formation due to interaction of emitted neutrons with the earth formation and to provide the signal indicative of the property; and a radiation detector neutron shield configured to shield the radiation detector from emitted neutrons that did not interact with the earth formation; wherein the radiation detector shield comprises a glass ceramic material having a plurality of nano-crystallites, each nano-crystallite in the plurality having a periodic crystal structure with a diameter or dimension that is less than 1000 nm that includes Li and/or Boron and a rare-earth element that have positions in the periodic crystal structure of each nano-crystallite. | 27,325 |
8,487,890 | 1. An in-cell touch-sensitive panel comprising: a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate comprising: a color filter (CF) substrate opposite to the TFT substrate and comprising: | 14,468 |
8,445,744 | 1. An absorbent article comprising: a topsheet; an outer cover; an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and outer cover; wherein the outer cover comprises an extrusion bonded laminate, the extrusion bonded laminate comprising: wherein the outer cover is elastic to at least 50% engineering strain; wherein the nonwoven has a high chemical affinity for the first outer layer; wherein the first outer layer has a low chemical affinity for the core layer; and wherein the first outer layer comprises an amount of draw down polymer greater than 45 wt%. | 11,360 |
9,751,414 | 1. An electric plug-in connection comprising a socket for receiving a plug; the electric plug-in connection further including: a locking unit for automatic locking of the socket and the plug, the locking unit comprising a blocking element having a gear rod section and a transmission element built as a gear arrangement, the blocking element arranged at a first end of the transmission element; and an actuator for actuating the locking unit when the actuator is electrically actuated, wherein the actuator is arranged at a second end of the transmission element opposite the first end and causes a first linear movement which is translated into a second linear movement perpendicular to the first linear movement via the blocking element. | 14,058 |
8,586,280 | 1. An article comprising: a particulate comprising a polymeric matrix of polymer material in which is dispersed: one or more image-forming agents comprising a light activated dye; and a photo-oxidizing agent, wherein the polymeric matrix of the particulate allows the photo-oxidizing agent to diffuse within the particulate towards the one or more image-forming agents when the particulate is exposed to a temperature greater than the T g of the polymer material, and wherein the diffused photo-oxidizing agent is activated by light having a wavelength of about 200 to about 450 nm to thereby cause the one or more image-forming agents to form one or more images. | 38,355 |
9,077,194 | 1. A method of controlling power delivered to one or more loads in an inductive power transfer (IPT) system having a primary conductive path and one or more pick-up devices adapted to receive power inductively from the primary conductive path, the method comprising: varying a frequency of a current in the primary conductive path; detecting a frequency or an indication of the frequency in a pick-up inductively coupled with the primary conductive path; and controlling power supplied to a load associated with said pickup dependent on the detected frequency or the indication of the frequency of the current in the primary conductive path. | 37,066 |
9,561,732 | 1. An information issuance system comprising: processing circuitry configured to acquire information on a plurality of electric vehicles via a network, and segment, based on the acquired information, the electric vehicles existing within a demand-and-supply adjustment district and travelling by use of electric power into first to N-th groups on the basis of a number of the electric vehicles; set first to N-th target periods different from each other with respect to the first to N-th groups and generate first to N-th requests for requesting the electric vehicles to restrain electric charges from being performed during the first to N-th target periods; and transmit, via the network, the first to N-th requests to the electric vehicles belonging to the first to N-th groups before starts of the first to N-th target periods. | 39,184 |
8,545,681 | 1. A process for improving the efficiency of a combined-cycle power generation plant and desalination unit, the process comprising: supplying exhaust gases from a gas turbine set used to generate electrical power to a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG); supplying salinous water into a thermal desalination unit; utilizing steam from the HRSG as a first heat source in the thermal desalination unit to produce a distillate vapor and brine from the desalination unit by heat exchange; and introducing thermal energy from a second heat source from the combined-cycle power generation plant to the thermal desalination unit to increase the mass flow rate of product water from the desalination unit, said second heat source comprising a heat exchanger fed by condensate from said thermal desalination unit, wherein hot water from said heat exchanger is provided to a reduced atmosphere flash tank to generate steam that is provided to said thermal desalination unit; said method further comprising providing a third heat source, wherein said third heat source is an economizer heat exchanger in the HSRG; providing heated water from said economizer heat exchanger to said reduced atmosphere flash tank and wherein a portion of said heated water from said economizer heat exchanger is also directed to a salinous feed water heat exchanger via a three-way valve to preheat salinous feed water of a reverse osmosis unit. | 38,246 |
9,181,260 | 1. A crystalline form of sitagliptin sulfate (1:1) characterized by an X-ray powder diffraction pattern having peaks at 2θ values equal to 14.8±0.2°, 15.1±0.2°, 17.1±0.2°, 19.4±0.2°, 21.9±0.2°, 24.0±0.2° and 25.4±0.2°. | 30,619 |
9,663,835 | 1. A process for fractionating lignocellulosic biomass, the process comprising: (i) providing lignocellulosic biomass with an amount of hemicellulose present in the biomass in its native form at an amount ranging from 15-35 wt % of the biomass; (ii) providing a first solvent and combining with the lignocellulosic biomass, wherein the first solvent dissolves at least some of the cellulose present in the lignocellulosic biomass; and (iii) providing a second solvent and combining with the material from step (ii), wherein at least some of the cellulose that is dissolved by the first solvent in step (ii) precipitates out of the liquid phase; wherein the first solvent is chosen from one or more of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, polyphosphoric acid, acetic acid, sulfur dioxide, zinc chloride, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, ammonia, lithium chloride/N,N-dimethylacetamide, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, dimethylsulfoxide/tetrabutylammonium fluoride trihydrate, and N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide. | 49,568 |
9,255,507 | 1. A reagent injection system for a catalytic emissions reduction assembly of a combustion turbine, the reagent injection system comprising: an exhaust duct comprising: a plurality of injectors operatively coupled to one of the first and second sections, the plurality of injectors extending radially inward toward a longitudinal axis of the exhaust duct; wherein each injector of the plurality of injectors is configured to inject a reagent into the exhaust gases flowing through the exhaust duct. | 45,676 |
8,691,405 | 1. A secondary battery comprising a bare cell comprising: an electrode assembly; a can accommodating the electrode assembly therein and having an opening; and a cap plate closing the opening and comprising at least one coupling portion at two opposing ends thereof in its lengthwise direction, each coupling portion having a contact recess; a protection circuit module provided with a circuit board and adapted to control the charging/discharging of the bare cell; and a connecting member to electrically connect the bare cell to the protection circuit module, the connecting member having a bare cell connecting portion, wherein the bare cell connecting portion has an insertion portion inserted into the contact recess, wherein the bare cell connecting portion further includes a base, and wherein the insertion portion protrudes from the base. | 42,631 |
9,110,809 | 1. A method for managing memory traffic, comprising: causing first data to be written to a data cache memory, wherein a first write request comprises a partial write and writes the first data to a first portion of the data cache memory; tracking the number of partial writes in the data cache memory; issuing a fill request for one or more partial writes in the data cache memory if the number of partial writes in the data cache memory is greater than a predetermined first threshold. | 48,375 |
8,513,933 | 1. A DC-DC converter comprising: an inductor operably connected between a first node and an output node; a high side switch operably connected between a high side supply input node and the first node; a low side switch operably connected between a low side supply input node and the first node; switch control circuitry for controlling said switches, wherein the switch control circuitry comprises first monitoring circuitry for determining whether a first time period between the high side switch turning off and the inductor current reaching zero is less than a predetermined threshold time period, wherein if the first time period in one duty cycle is less than the predetermined threshold time period the switch control circuitry inhibits the low side switch from turning on in a subsequent cycle. | 15,306 |
9,821,798 | 1. A powertrain method comprising: by a controller, | 27,848 |
9,315,072 | 1. A bogie shaft assembly for a railway vehicle, the bogie shaft assembly comprising: a bogie shaft having an interface; and a cladding disposed on said bogie shaft and functioning as a stone guard, said cladding having a metal component being at most as electrochemical noble as a metal material forming said interface of said bogie shaft, and forming a metal matrix, in which a structural phase is distributed, said structural phase increasing a resistance of said cladding to stone impact. | 46,072 |
9,529,768 | 1. A computer, comprising: an integrated central processing unit, interface controller and Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) clock circuitry in a single chip, a Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) channel directly extending from the interface controller to convey address and data bits of a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus transaction in a serial form, wherein the first LVDS channel comprises a first unidirectional, differential signal pair to convey data in a first direction and a second unidirectional, differential signal pair to convey data in a second, opposite direction; and wherein the PLL clock circuitry generates different clock frequencies, and the interface controller conveys the PCI bus transaction through the LVDS channel based on the different clock frequencies. | 28,888 |
8,668,961 | 1. A method of making a coated article comprising an antireflection coating, the method comprising: mixing a photomonomer comprising at least one radiation curable monomer capable of polymerization through exposure to ultraviolet radiation or electron beam with a titanium alkoxide to form a mixture; applying the mixture directly or indirectly on a substrate to form a layer covering substantially all of a major surface of the substrate; first curing the layer by exposing substantially all of an outer surface of the layer to ultraviolet radiation or electron beam after its application for about 5 to 120 seconds; and subsequently firing the cured layer, so as to form an antireflection coating comprising at least a titania-inclusive layer on the substrate. | 38,815 |
8,906,385 | 1. A composition comprising a polynucleotide, wherein the polynucleotide encodes at least one amino acid sequence selected from the group of amino acid sequences consisting of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4, and combinations thereof, and wherein the polynucleotide is present in an expression vector. | 18,150 |
9,416,031 | 1. A desalination system, comprising: a steam raising device comprising a liquid section separated from a steam section by a membrane system; a membrane distillation device comprising a first steam section separated from a liquid section by a wall, and a second steam section separated from the liquid section by a membrane system; and a heat exchange device comprising a first liquid section separated from a second liquid section by a wall; wherein the steam raising device, the membrane distillation device and the heat exchange device are implemented such that feed liquid fed into the second liquid section of the heat exchange device is heated by a brine liquid from the liquid section of the steam raising device, and such that permeate from the steam section of the steam raising device is condensed in the first steam section of the membrane distillation device, thereby heating heated feed liquid from the heat exchange device. | 4,364 |
9,737,180 | 1. A toilet comprising: a base comprising a top surface and a bottom surface; an intake module coupled to the top surface of the base, the intake module comprising a seat and adapted to receive a user; a water reservoir the top surface of the base; a plunger disposed within the water reservoir; a tube connecting the water reservoir to the intake module; and a nozzle connected to the tube and located proximate the intake module, wherein the nozzle is positioned at an angle to be aimed approximately at the anus of the user engaging the seat. | 46,756 |
9,616,882 | 1. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle, the hybrid vehicle having: an engine in which fuel is combusted to enable an output of a driving force; a motor which is enabled to output the driving force by means of an electric power; a continuously variable transmission which is enabled to perform a continuously variable transmission between an input and an output by means of a hydraulic pressure supplied from an oil pump; a clutch disposed between the engine and the motor; and control means for controlling the engine, the motor, the continuously variable transmission, and the clutch, the engine and the motor providing driving sources for the oil pump, the control means comprising: coast stop control means for stopping a fuel supply to the engine when the vehicle is traveling; and low return control means for returning a transmission gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission to a low side during a stop of the vehicle after the engine is restarted during the stop of the vehicle in a case where the transmission gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is a transmission gear ratio higher than a predetermined transmission gear ratio, when detecting that the coast stop control means is operated and, thereafter, the vehicle is stopped. | 45,604 |
8,889,662 | 1. A method of altering the sex ratio in avian offspring, the method comprising the acute administration of an adrenal glucocorticosteroid to an ovulating avian female. | 99 |
8,743,542 | 1. An apparatus for cooling of a substantially closed space where continuous or intermittent heat is produced by at least one heat source, with recirculation air, comprising a heat exchanger with a first set of ducts and a second set of ducts, each set of ducts having an in- and outlet, wherein the in- and outlet of the first set of ducts are connected to the space to form a first recirculation path, the in- and outlet of the second set of ducts are connected to an environment of the space to form a second recirculation path, and wherein the heat exchanger is a plate heat exchanger, and wherein the apparatus further comprises a mixing valve to allow heated air to flow from the outlet of the second set of ducts through the mixing valve to the inlet of the second set of ducts. | 24,350 |
8,585,637 | 1. A method for delivering insulin to a patient, the method comprising: sensing a glucose level and providing a glucose measurement signal representative of the sensed glucose; providing a control signal as a function of the glucose measurement signal in accordance with a control model and a glucose measurement error model, wherein the glucose measurement error model is derived from actual glucose sensor measurement data; and delivering insulin in response to the control signal. | 39,355 |
9,162,203 | 1. A hydrogen generator into which a mixed gas is run and out of which a reformed gas including hydrogen is discharged, the mixed gas including a mixture of a compound containing hydrogen atoms and oxygen or air, the hydrogen generator comprising: an upstream side oxidation unit, a downstream side decomposition unit, a first temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the mixed gas immediately after passing through the upstream side oxidation unit, the first temperature sensor being disposed in a space located between the upstream side oxidation unit and the downstream side decomposition unit, the space being a place where the upstream side oxidation unit and the downstream side decomposition unit do not exist, a flow rate controller, and an electronic control unit that controls the flow rate controller, wherein the oxygen of the mixed gas burns part of the compound in the mixed gas in the upstream side oxidation unit so as to generate heat of combustion, and the heat of combustion is used to break down another part of the compound in the mixed gas in the downstream side decomposition unit to generate hydrogen, and the electronic control unit, through controlling the flow rate controller, controls at least one of a flow rate of the compound contained in the mixed gas flowing into the hydrogen generator and a flow rate of the oxygen or the air contained in the mixed gas so that the temperature of the mixed gas detected by the first temperature sensor is maintained substantially constant at a set temperature, the set temperature being a temperature at which the hydrogen concentration of the reformed gas becoming a predetermined concentration, the set temperature being preset in the electronic control unit. | 19,039 |
8,744,498 | 1. A cordless communication system comprising: a base unit that is configured to be connected to a communication network, the base unit comprising: a handset comprising: a charging base provided independently of the base unit, the charging base comprising: wherein the base unit communicating unit is configured to transmit the handset halt signal to the relaying unit via the first power line, the second power line, and the commercial power network, wherein if the relaying unit receives the handset halt signal from the base unit communicating unit via the first power line, the second power line, and the commercial power network, the relaying unit controls the charging base wireless communicating unit to transmit the handset halt signal to the second handset wireless communicating unit, and wherein the handset switching unit switches from the handset normal mode to the handset power-saving mode if the second handset wireless communicating unit receives the handset halt signal transmitted from the charging base wireless communicating unit. | 45,997 |
8,735,560 | 1. A polynucleotide which encodes an insect inhibitory protein comprising a Cry1Ac polypeptide, said Cry1Ac polypeptide comprising domains I, II, and III, and a supplemental domain III of a Cry1F, Cry2Ab or Cry3Bb operably linked to domain III of said Cry1Ac polypeptide, and wherein said operable linkage of said supplemental domain III is (a) to the N-terminus of said domain III of said Cry1Ac polypeptide; or (b) to the C-terminus of said first domain III of said Cry1Ac polypeptide. | 16,483 |
8,549,846 | 1. An exhaust system that processes exhaust generated by an engine, comprising: a particulate filter (PF) that filters particulates from the exhaust wherein an upstream end of the PF receives exhaust from the engine; a grid of electrically resistive material that is applied to an exterior upstream surface of the PF and that selectively heats exhaust passing through the grid to initiate combustion of particulates within the PF; and a conductive coating that is applied to the exterior upstream surface of the PF wherein the electrically resistive material of the grid contacts the conductive coating and wherein the electrically resistive material transfers thermal energy to the conductive coating to initiate combustion of particulates on the conductive coating. | 36,555 |
9,644,270 | 1. A method of manufacturing an oxide semiconductor comprising: forming an insulation layer on a substrate; plasma treating a surface of the insulation layer, the plasma treating comprises: forming an active pattern comprising an oxide semiconductor on the insulation layer which is plasma treated, wherein in the plasma treating, the substrate is plasma treated using an oxide semiconductor deposition apparatus including a chamber body and a gas outlet disposed in the chamber body and which outputs gas for the plasma treating, the substrate is plasma treated in a first portion of the chamber body relative to the gas outlet before forming the active pattern, and the substrate passes through a second portion of the chamber body different from the first portion relative to the gas outlet after the forming the active pattern. | 8,551 |
8,960,463 | 1. A hydraulic braking apparatus for a crane drive for carrying out crane work comprising at least one hydraulic stopping brake for braking drive movement of the crane drive in an emergency situation, wherein at least one pressure regulation valve is provided for controlling the hydraulic stopping brake to ensure a time-delayed braking torque build-up. | 867 |
9,330,736 | 1. A method for efficiently utilizing processor memory, comprising: monitoring, by a software process executing on a processor, page access counters that measure utilization associated with pages in a main memory located beyond a last-level cache accessible to the processor, wherein the main memory comprises at least a first memory having a first physical memory device type based on a first hardware technology and a second memory having a second physical memory device type based on a second hardware technology, and wherein the first memory has greater efficiency than the second memory; and dynamically changing, by the software process executing on the processor, an assignment associated with at least one of the pages in the main memory between a first physical address space associated with the first memory and a second physical address space associated with the second memory based on the monitored page access counters, wherein dynamically changing the assignment associated with the at least one page comprises: instructing a first memory controller and a second memory controller to switch the assignment associated with the at least one page between the first physical address space and the second physical address space, wherein the first memory controller is directly coupled between the first memory and an interconnection fabric located beyond the last-level cache and wherein the second memory controller is directly coupled between the second memory and the interconnection fabric; and changing a mapping associated with a virtual address that the processor uses to access the at least one page to reflect the switched assignment between the first physical address space and the second physical address space, wherein a memory management unit coupled between the processor and the interconnection fabric maintains the mapping associated with the virtual address in one or more page tables, and wherein the page access counters that measure the utilization associated with the pages in the main memory are integrated into the one or more page tables maintained at the memory management unit; and wherein the first memory comprises a wide input/output (I/O) memory and the second memory comprises a double data rate (DDR) memory. | 12,554 |
8,382,892 | 1. A monophase amorphous hydraulic binder containing silicon, calcium and oxygen atoms in an arrangement comprising silicate building units having an average connectedness of at least Q 1 , with none or a part of the calcium atoms being substituted for by a metal atom M[6] x+ sixfold or higher coordinated with oxygen and/or none or no more than 45 atomic percent of the silicon atoms being substituted for by a metal atom M[4] y+ tetrahedrally coordinated with oxygen, the molar ratio of having a value of 0.2 to 1.5 and the binder having less than 3.5% by weight of water. | 37,865 |
9,280,539 | 1. A speech translation system comprising: a first speech apparatus including a second speech apparatus including a speech recognition/translation server that performs speech translation between the first speech apparatus and the second speech apparatus; wherein the server comprises | 47,037 |
9,628,017 | 1. A motor control device for a vehicle comprising a motor as a drive power source, the motor control device comprising: an acceleration change amount calculation section configured to calculate a change amount of acceleration of the vehicle; an estimation mode setting section configured to, when the change amount of the acceleration that occurs when torque of the motor is set to zero, becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value under a state in which the motor generates drive power to run the vehicle, set a current flowing through the motor to zero; and a permanent magnet temperature estimation section configured to estimate a temperature of a permanent magnet to be used for a rotor of the motor, based on an induced voltage of the motor in a period during which the current flowing through the motor is zero. | 14,449 |
9,840,140 | 1. A multi-speed power transmission for a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including an engine, first and second electric motors, and a final drive for propelling the vehicle, the transmission comprising: an input member configured to connect to the engine; an output member configured to connect to the final drive; a gear train; a stationary member; a first torque-transmitting device configured to connect to the first motor; a second torque-transmitting device configured to connect to the second motor; a lockup clutch configured to connect to the second motor; and a compound planetary gear arrangement including first and second interconnected planetary gear sets, each of the planetary gear sets including three gear members, the compound planetary gear arrangement having first, second, third and fourth junction points, wherein the first torque-transmitting device is configured to selectively connect the first motor to the first junction point of the compound planetary gear arrangement, wherein the second torque-transmitting device is configured to selectively connect the second motor to the fourth junction point via the gear train, wherein the lockup clutch is configured to selectively connect the second motor directly to the fourth junction point of the compound planetary gear arrangement, wherein the input member is operatively connected to the compound planetary gear arrangement at the second junction point, and wherein the output member is operatively connected to the compound planetary gear arrangement at the third junction point. | 14,671 |
9,578,672 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored thereon executed by a processor in a vehicle comprising a wireless local area network interface and a wireless cellular network interface to provide a communication method, the method comprising: detecting an attempt by a mobile device disposed in said vehicle to establish a transport protocol session with a destination device via said wireless local area network interface; responding to said detected attempt by: monitoring said cellular network layer and said wide area network layer by sending data packets over said wireless cellular network interface to detect if said wide area network layer or said cellular network layer is interrupted; detecting if said wide area network layer or said cellular network layer is interrupted by detecting an interruption in said second transport protocol session; and after detecting an interruption in said second transport protocol session: | 5,941 |
8,945,775 | 1. A battery, comprising: a wound electrode body in which a sheet-like positive electrode and a sheet-like negative electrode are wound; a battery case that houses the wound electrode body together with an electrolyte solution; and an insulating member that isolates the wound electrode body from the battery case, the insulating member being arranged between the wound electrode body and the battery case, wherein the insulating member forms a bag shape and is sealed to completely cover the wound electrode body, and wherein the insulating member is made of a porous material having pores through which the electrolyte solution is able to flow, and an average pore diameter of the insulating member is 0.1 μm to 25 μm. | 18,542 |
9,079,813 | 1. A process comprising: a) introducing in a reactor (A) a stream comprising about 60 weight percent to 100 weight percent isobutanol, optionally water, optionally an inert component, b) contacting said stream with a catalyst (A1) in said reactor (A) at conditions effective to dehydrate the isobutanol to butenes, wherein the dehydration reaction is endothermic; c) recovering from said reactor (A) an effluent comprising: substantially butenes, optionally olefins other than butene, water, optionally unconverted alcohols, various hydrocarbons, and optionally the inert component of step a), d) fractionating said effluent of step c) to remove a portion or all the water, unconverted alcohols, optionally the inert component, and optionally the whole or a part of the various hydrocarbons to get a stream (D) comprising butenes and optionally the inert component, e) introducing a feedstock comprising at least a part of said stream (D) in an OCP reactor, f) contacting said feedstock comprising said stream (D), optionally in combination with a stream (D1) comprising olefins having 4 carbon atoms or more, in said OCP reactor with a catalyst which is selective towards light olefins in the effluent, to produce an effluent with an olefin content of lower molecular weight than that of the feedstock, wherein the catalyst (A1) and the catalyst in the OCP reactor is a single phosphorus modified zeolite, g) fractionating said effluent of step f) to produce at least an ethylene stream, a propylene stream and a fraction consisting essentially of hydrocarbons having 4 carbon atoms or more, optionally recycling the ethylene in whole or in part at an inlet of the OCP reactor of step f), or at an inlet of the reactor (A) or at the inlet of both the OCP reactor of step f) and the reactor (A), optionally recycling the fraction consisting essentially of hydrocarbons having 4 carbon atoms or more at the inlet of the OCP reactor. | 12,753 |
9,080,163 | 1. A host cell expressing a polynucleotide encoding a non-naturally occurring cellobiohydrolase comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to that of SEQ ID NO:2 and modified to comprise an amino acid substitution of an amino acid residue present at one or more of positions 58, 126, 286, and 294, wherein the positions are numbered with reference to SEQ ID NO:4. | 45,438 |
9,462,648 | 1. Light emitting diode (LED) drive circuitry, comprising: a rectifier comprising three inputs adapted for connection to a three-phase power source to respectively receive three-phase currents from said three-phase power source; said rectifier comprising a plurality of diodes connected to rectify said three-phase currents to produce a DC voltage across two outputs of said rectifier; a single phase power transmission system including two wires, respectively connected to said two outputs of said rectifier; a plurality of LEDs connected in series across said two wires at at least one location situated remote from said rectifier, and driven by said DC voltage produced by said rectifier at said two outputs, and being physically separated from said rectifier by said transmission system at said at least one location remote from said rectifier; and first and second current sources connected to the plurality of LEDs and across said two wires, the first current source being configured to drive a first LED of the plurality of LEDs based on said DC voltage, and the second current source being configured to drive the first LED and a second LED of the plurality of LEDs based on said DC voltage, wherein the first current source comprises: a field-effect transistor (FET), a resistor, and a bi-polar junction transistor (BJT), wherein the drain of the FET is connected to a first of the two outputs of said rectifier, the source of the FET is connected to the emitter of the BJT via the resistor, and the collector of the BJT is connected to a second of the two outputs of said rectifier. | 7,977 |
9,706,797 | 1. A kit, for the construction of a single-use brassiere, comprising: a first shaped form for removable-adhesion to a breast comprising a first layer comprising an elastically deformable material having a top surface and a bottom surface, a second layer comprising an adhesive in contact with the bottom surface of the first layer, the adhesive having a first surface permanently adhered to the bottom surface of the first layer and a second surface, and a third layer comprising a removable release layer in removable contact with the second surface of the second layer, the first shaped form comprising an elastic therapeutic tape; and a second shaped form for at least partial adhesion to the first shaped form, comprising a first layer comprising an elastically deformable material having a top surface and a bottom surface, a second layer comprising an adhesive in contact with the bottom surface of the first layer, the adhesive having a first surface permanently adhered to the bottom surface of the first layer and a second surface defining a layering portion, and a third layer comprising a removable release layer in removable contact with the second surface of the second layer, the second shaped form comprising an elastic therapeutic tape; wherein at least a portion of the top surface of the first shaped form includes an overlap region for receiving a layering portion of the second shaped form thereover to form a brassiere. | 926 |
9,382,828 | 1. A method for performing a reductant fluid quality check in a NO x reduction system with a controller, the NO x reduction system comprising a urea tank with the urea and a urea tank level sensor, the NO x reduction system further comprising a NO x reduction catalyst and a NO x sensor downstream of the NO x reduction catalyst, wherein the urea tank is con-ted to a urea injector for injection of the urea upstream of the NO x reduction catalyst, the method comprising: refilling the urea tank; outputting a signal from the urea tank level sensor indicating a urea refill event for urea in the urea tank of the NO determining whether urea fluid quality check abort conditions are met in response to the urea refill event being detected; in response to the urea fluid quality check abort conditions being met, clearing a urea quantity accumulator value in the controller, clearing a latching abort command in the controller, and exiting a urea fluid quality check operable by the controller; passing an exhaust flow with NO injecting an amount of urea from the urea tank with the urea injector upstream of the NO comparing an accumulated urea quantity injected by the urea injector from the urea tank to a low test threshold, and in response to the accumulated urea quantity being less than the low test threshold, exiting a current execution cycle of the urea fluid quality check; in response to the accumulated urea quantity being greater than the low test threshold, comparing the accumulated urea quantity injected by the urea injector from the urea tank to a high test threshold, and in response to the accumulated urea quantity injected from the urea tank by the urea injector being greater than the high test threshold, determining from the signal output by the NO | 17,606 |
8,470,261 | 1. A microfluidic card comprising: a) a loading port configured for introduction of a biological sample; and b) a lysis sub-circuit operably linked to said loading port, wherein said lysis sub-circuit comprises: c) a nucleic acid extraction sub-circuit operably linked to said lysis sub-circuit wherein said nucleic acid extraction sub-circuit comprises: d) an amplification sub-circuit operably linked to said nucleic acid extraction sub-circuit, wherein said amplification sub-circuit comprises a stabilized enzyme mixture, wherein said stabilized enzyme mixture comprises at least one amplification-related enzyme useful for performing amplification on said extracted nucleic acid to generate amplified nucleic acid, e) a fragmentation sub-circuit operably linked to said amplification sub-circuit, wherein said fragmentation sub-circuit comprises: f) a linker ligation sub-circuit operably linked to said fragmentation sub-circuit, wherein said linker ligation sub-circuit comprises: g) a purification sub-circuit operably linked to said linker ligation sub-circuit wherein said purification sub-circuit comprises a nucleic acid purification component. | 20,502 |
9,703,294 | 1. A method of controlling a deflection angle of movable pitching stabilizer means of an aircraft, wherein the method comprises: a preliminary stage (STP an operational stage (STP | 42,208 |
9,725,160 | 1. A method for taking in and blowing out fluid through a plurality of fluid lines that lead into a flow surface section of a flow body and respectively form an opening therein, wherein the flow body extends in a flow body span direction, a flow body chord direction, and a flow body thickness direction, wherein, relative to the flow body thickness direction, the flow body chord direction is substantially parallel to a direction of a flow of ambient air along the flow surface and the flow body span direction is substantially orthogonal to the direction of the flow of ambient air along the flow surface, wherein a plurality of openings forms at least one row of first openings and second openings that are arranged in a successive manner viewed in the flow body span direction, and wherein the first and the second openings are alternately arranged in a successive manner in the flow body span direction, the method comprising: taking in fluid through the first openings during a first time segment and simultaneously blowing out fluid through the second openings during at least a fraction of the first time segment; and blowing out fluid through the first openings during a second time segment and simultaneously taking in the fluid through the second openings during at least a fraction of the second time segment. | 6,847 |
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