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9,183,163 | 1. A method, comprising: maintaining, by a first network controller, a first database which stores information associated with a first set of interfacing devices of a local-area network, wherein the first database includes a database mirror for a subset of a second database of a second network controller which has primary control of a second set of provisioned interfacing devices of a wide-area network, wherein a respective interfacing device obtains sensor data from one or more attached physical devices, and wherein a respective physical device includes a sensor for measuring one or more physical attributes; and responsive to determining that the second network controller that hosts the second database for the provisioned interfacing devices of the wide-area network has gone offline, configuring the first network controller to obtain primary control of the first set of interfacing devices of the local-area network. | 11,256 |
9,336,852 | 1. A memory, comprising: a plurality of word lines; a measurement block suitable for measuring an active duration of an activated word line among the multiple word lines; and a refresh circuit suitable for controlling a refresh operation to refresh one or more of the multiple word lines adjacent to the activated word line when the active duration is measured to exceed a threshold. | 36,684 |
9,373,300 | 1. A power management method for a display, part of a plurality of scan lines of an original frame image classified to a first group, and the other part of the plurality of scan lines of the original frame image classified to a second group, the scan lines corresponding to the first group and the scan lines corresponding to the second group interlacing with each other, a first pulse timing distribution for controlling the first group to be displayed during one of a plurality of successive first periods on a display, a second pulse timing distribution for controlling the second group to be displayed during another one of the plurality of successive first periods on the display, the power management method comprising: comparing contents in the original frame image with contents in a previous image to generate a plurality of successive second periods, wherein the second period has a first stage and a second stage; shortening a plurality of time intervals in the first pulse timing distribution and outputting the first pulse timing distribution for displaying a first sub-frame image on the display during the first stage of one of the plurality of successive second periods, and shortening a plurality of time intervals in the second pulse timing distribution and outputting the second pulse timing distribution for displaying a second sub-frame image on the display during the first stage of the other one of the plurality of successive second periods; and turning off a driving circuit of the display during the second stage in each of the successive second periods. | 15,163 |
8,533,657 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a substrate having a device thereon, the substrate including: | 29,769 |
9,544,099 | 1. User Equipment (UE) comprising circuitry to: transmit a request to a serving evolved Node B (eNodeB) for permission to transmit to a group of peer UEs, wherein the group of peer UEs is established using application layer signaling directly between peer applications running on respective peer UEs of the group of peer UEs, wherein the peer applications include one of a net meeting application, a group chat application, and Skype; receive a resource allocation assignment in response to the request, the resource allocation assignment specifying a group identifier, the group identifier identifying a group including the UE and the group of peer UEs, wherein the group identifier is a multicast media access control-layer radio network temporary identifier (MC-RNTI) in accordance with a standard of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of standards for long term evolution (LTE); and transmit a D2D multicast transmission to the group of peer UEs using a resource assigned by the serving eNodeB. | 6,319 |
9,264,846 | 1. A mobile communications resource manager, comprising: at least one smart card configured to accept and store a user's personal information suitable for use in commercial transactions and communications operations; at least one cellular radio modem; at least one non-cellular radio modem; a controller configured for: a near field communication modem for use in management of connections and proximity based connectionless transactions of said at least one of a plurality of user accessible electronic devices, wherein said near field communication modem comprises: | 15,795 |
9,332,591 | 1. An apparatus for applying electromagnetic energy to an object in an energy application zone at a plurality of modulation space elements (MSEs), each modulation space element being a set of one or more values, each of a variable that may affect a field pattern excited in the energy application zone and is controllable by the apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a power source configured to generate and supply RF energy; one or more antennas configured to transmit the RF energy supplied by the power source, to a cavity, under control of at least one processor and; the at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: determine an amount of energy to be supplied to one or more of the antennas at each of the plurality of MSEs; select at least one power supply protocol for each of the plurality of MSEs, wherein at least two of the power supply protocols selected for different MSEs differ, at least one of the at least one power supply protocol including at least one rule for setting intermissions in the transmission of RF energy; and cause electromagnetic power supply to one or more of the antennas in at least a subset of the plurality of MSEs, based on the determined amount of energy and based on the selected power supply protocol. | 14,898 |
9,768,478 | 1. A battery assembly comprising: a plurality of prismatic battery cells each including a pair of opposing major sides and minor sides extending therebetween, the battery cells being arranged in an array with at least one of the major sides facing another of the major sides, wherein the minor sides cooperate to define first and second longitudinal sides of the array; a plurality of spacers interleaved with the cells, each of the spacers including a frame disposed against at least two of the minor sides of a corresponding one of the cells and an elongate member extending between opposing portions of the frame and across one of the major sides of the corresponding cell to create an air gap between adjacent cells to allow air circulation between the cells; a pair of endplates sandwiching the array, one of the endplates defining an inlet port; an inlet manifold disposed on the first longitudinal side and extending between the pair of endplates, wherein the inlet manifold is aligned with the inlet port such that air flows into the manifold in a direction substantially parallel to the first longitudinal side; and a plate disposed within the manifold, extending along the first longitudinal side from a proximal end adjacent the inlet port on one of the endplates to a distal end adjacent the other of the endplates, and spaced apart from the first longitudinal side such that a distance between the plate and each of the minor sides is equal to define a plenum in fluid communication with the manifold and the air gaps, wherein the plate has openings that each define a pass-through area that allows the air to circulate through the plate and into the plenum, and wherein the openings are arranged on the plate such that the plate has a larger pass-through area near the proximal end than near the distal end. | 24,066 |
9,766,180 | 1. Method for imaging a molecular strand, the method comprising providing a sample volume comprising the strand with trapping beads attached on opposite ends of the strand; providing an excitation beam having an excitation focus in the sample volume wherein an excitation of a fluorophore on the strand by the excitation focus results in a fluorescence response when the excitation focus coincides with the fluorophore; scanning the excitation focus in the sample volume along a one dimensional scanning line; providing optical traps, trapping the trapping beads at the ends of the strand in the sample volume and extending the strand between the optical traps to form a one-dimensional trapping line parallel to the scanning line; aligning the trapping line to coincide with the scanning line to have the scanning excitation focus coincide with the strand; and recording the fluorescence response as a function of a plurality of distinct scanning positions of the excitation focus along the scanning line. | 39,361 |
8,835,079 | 1. A method of manufacturing a separator plate for a fuel cell comprising: forming a separator plate of a material, wherein the separator plate material is one that forms on a major face of said separator plate an outer layer having lower electrical conductivity as to an inner core of said separator plate; optionally, depositing a hydrophilic coating on said outer layer; defining a pattern associated with a major face of said separator plate; and ablating with a laser beam at least a portion of said outer layer from said major face according to said pattern to form a finished separator plate. | 21,185 |
8,427,298 | 1. A method of processing signals from a glucose sensor, comprising: coupling a first amplifier that includes an output terminal that provides a first output signal, to a signal source; coupling a second amplifier that includes an output terminal that provides a second output signal, to the output terminal of the first amplifier, wherein the first output signal is a predetermined ratio of the second output signal, and the first output signal and the second output signal are associated with an in vivo monitored glucose level; operatively coupling an analog to digital (ND) converter to the output terminal of the second amplifier; comparing signals at the second amplifier output terminal to a predetermined threshold value; and processing a signal associated with the signals at the second amplifier output terminal when another signal at the second amplifier output terminal exceeds the predetermined threshold value. | 32,064 |
9,018,863 | 1. A rotating electromechanical converter comprising at least the following elements, arranged around a common axis: a stator comprising magnetic circuits and polyphase energising windings; a first (inner) rotor at a distance from said stator and coupled to a first externally accessible shaft, comprising magnetic circuits and polyphase energising windings; a second (inter) rotor between the first rotor and the stator, coupled to a second, externally accessible, shaft, comprising magnetic circuits and permanent magnetic members for co-operation with the magnetic circuit of at least the stator such that a magnetic flux generated by these permanent magnetic members traverses both these magnetic rotor circuits and stator circuits; and means for modifying the state of magnetisation of at least a part of the respective second rotor areas which each lie between two successive permanent magnetic members. | 41,304 |
9,377,794 | 1. A system comprising: Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) providing combined data and voltage over wires, the PSE having a voltage source for generating a voltage for transmission on the wires after powering up of the PSE; and a Powered Device (PD) connected to the PSE by at least the wires to receive the data and voltage, wherein the PSE contains a memory that stores information identifying that the PD is able to receive the voltage over the wires for powering the PD, wherein the PSE contains a controller, wherein, when the PSE is powered up, the controller is configured to access the information stored in the memory and, based on the information, control the PSE to supply the voltage to the wires to power the PD, wherein the system is a Power Over Ethernet system, and wherein the controller is configured to perform an abbreviated PoE detection and classification routine, detecting a power requirement of the PD, each time the PSE is powered up. | 3,213 |
8,813,297 | 1. A floor cleaning device, comprising: a floor cleaning head; a component housing including at least one active functional component; a pole connectable to said component housing to actuate or interface with said at least one active functional component, said pole including two sections; a joint for moving said two pole sections between two different angular orientations, said joint adapted to lock automatically in each of said two different angular orientations; and an actuator controllable at a handle portion of said pole to allow a user to selectively unlock said joint and move said two pole sections between said two different angular orientations; wherein said joint includes an inner curved sidewall, an adjacent outer curved sidewall, said outer curved sidewall including first and second locking openings corresponding to said two different angular positions of said joint; wherein said joint includes a pivot and a biased locking element reciprocatingly slidable about said pivot into and out of respective of said first and second locking openings; the floor cleaning device further comprising a disengagement member for moving said biased locking element out of either of said first and second locking openings to unlock said joint; and wherein said disengagement member includes first and second legs corresponding to the first and second locking openings, respectively. | 15,728 |
9,338,741 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at an actuator device of a security system, a radio frequency (RF) wake-up signal from a security management device of the security system, wherein the RF wake-up signal is received at a radio frequency module of the actuator device; activating a wireless transmitter/receiver from a low power mode in response to the received RF wake-up signal, wherein the wireless transmitter/receiver is distinct from the radio frequency module; establishing communication with the security management device using the wireless transmitter/receiver; receiving actuation instructions from the security management device; and performing actuation of the actuation device. | 31,412 |
9,842,242 | 1. A method for determining a finger movement event on a fingerprint sensor, the fingerprint sensor comprising: an array of sensing elements for sensing a fingerprint pattern each sensing element having a sensing structure arranged in a sensing structure plane, and at least a first finger detecting structure and a second finger detecting structure arranged adjacent to said array of sensing structures, each finger detecting structure being provided in the form of a capacitive plate for sensing a capacitive coupling between a finger and the capacitive plate, each of said capacitive plate having a substantially larger surface area than each of the sensing structures, said capacitive plate being connected to finger detector circuitry configured to generate a signal indicative of a finger touching at least part of said first capacitive plate, wherein a magnitude of said first signal is indicative of the area portion of the first capacitive plate being touched by the finger, said second capacitive plate being connected to finger detector circuitry configured to generate a signal indicative of a finger touching at least part of said second capacitive plate, wherein a magnitude of said second signal is indicative of the area portion of the second capacitive plate being touched by the finger, wherein said method comprises the steps of: | 35,497 |
9,634,492 | 1. A power generation method comprising: determining a reference total power intended to be generated by a plurality of power generators; calculating a current command value using the reference total power and an instantaneous velocity sensed by each of the plurality of power generators; and regulating an output current of the power generator using the calculated current command value such that a total power output by the plurality of power generators is approximate to the reference total power. | 19,088 |
9,431,074 | 1. A shiftable memory supporting bimodal data storage comprising: a memory to store data words, the memory providing built-in shifting capability to shift a contiguous subset of the data words from a first location to a second location within the memory, the built-in shifting capability to shift only data words of the contiguous subset having a size that is smaller than a total size of the memory; and a bimodal data storage operator to operate on a data structure comprising the contiguous subset of data words and to provide in-place insertion of a data value using the built-in shifting capability and provide in-place deletion of an existing data value by replacing the existing data value with dummy data representing a hole in the data structure, wherein a data word comprises data values. | 3,318 |
9,021,993 | 1. A water heater comprising: a tank which stores a liquid to be heated; a heater disposed midway in a to-be-heated liquid piping to form a flow channel through which the to-be-heated liquid flown out from the tank flows into the tank again, the heater including a heating flow channel, the to-be-heated liquid flown out from the tank into the to-be-heated liquid piping flowing into the heating flow channel where a temperature of the to-be-heated liquid is increased, and then the to-be-heated liquid being flown into the to-be-heated piping on an inlet side of the tank; and a distribution control unit which distributes the to-be-heated liquid stored in the tank into the to-be-heated liquid piping, wherein the distribution control unit controls a flow rate of the to-be-heated liquid which passes through the heating flow channel of the heater, thereby pulsating, within a boiling time, the to-be-heated liquid which circulates through the flow channel including the tank and the heater, and which passes through the heating flow channel of the heater, wherein the boiling time being set as a time to be taken for an entire volume of the to-be-heated liquid to reach a predetermined temperature, and wherein the distribution control unit controls the flow rate of the to-be-heated liquid which passes through the heating flow channel of the heater so that the entire volume of the to-be-heated liquid stored in the tank passes through the heater a predetermined number of times or less within the boiling time. | 25,065 |
9,082,048 | 1. A method of authentication, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a plurality of first measurements, the plurality of first measurements corresponding to a first biometric parameter associated with a user, wherein at least some of the plurality of first measurements are obtained at different times; receiving, by the processor, a plurality of second measurements, the plurality of second measurements corresponding to a second biometric parameter associated with the user, wherein at least some of the plurality of second measurements are obtained at different times; analyzing, by the processor, the plurality of first measurements to obtain a first correlation value, wherein the first correlation value is a first degree of conformity of the plurality of first measurements; analyzing, by the processor, the plurality of second measurements to obtain a second correlation value, wherein the second correlation value is a second degree of conformity of each of the plurality of second measurements; combining, by the processor, the plurality of first and second measurements into a first composite dataset in which the plurality of first measurements are weighted according to the first correlation value and the plurality of second measurements are weighted according to the second correlation value; obtaining, by the processor, a first test measurement corresponding to the first biometric parameter; obtaining, by the processor, a second test measurement corresponding to the second biometric parameter; determining, by the processor, a confidence level of user authentication in view of a comparison of the plurality of first and second test measurements with the first composite dataset; analyzing, by a processor, the first test measurement in combination with the plurality of first measurements to obtain a third correlation value; and supplementing the plurality of first measurements with the first test measurement when the confidence level is above a threshold value and the third correlation value is within a predetermined range. | 38,797 |
9,338,772 | 1. A method for configuring component carriers in carrier aggregation, comprising: receiving a carrier aggregation capability message from a selected user equipment (UE) at an enhanced Node B (eNode B) configured to provide service for a plurality of UEs within the eNode B′s network, wherein the carrier aggregation capability message includes a plurality of carrier aggregation capabilities of the UE; configuring a plurality of component carriers at the eNode B for the selected UE based on the carrier aggregation capability message of the selected UE; broadcasting from the eNode B a component carrier configuration message containing component carrier configuration information that is common to the plurality of UEs; communicating from the eNode B component carrier configuration information that is specific to one of the plurality of UEs using dedicated communication signaling to form configured component carriers; and activating or deactivating selected configured component carriers at the eNode B for the selected UE based on bandwidth and quality of service needs of the selected UE, wherein the selected configured component carriers are activated or deactivated by transmitting a bitmap from the eNodeB to the UE that includes bits to indicate the selected configured component carriers that are activated or deactivated, wherein the selected component carriers are deactivated based on selected deactivated rules, wherein the selected deactivation rules include at least a predetermined time period a selected component carrier has not be used to transmit data to the selected UE. | 48,224 |
9,705,038 | 1. An engineered substrate assembly, comprising: a handle substrate including a first substrate material that includes poly-aluminum nitride (p-AIN), wherein the handle substrate includes a bonding material encapsulating the first substrate material, wherein the bonding material does not include III-V materials; and a solid state structure including an active region disposed between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer is disposed between the active region and the bonding material encapsulating the first substrate material, and wherein the first semiconductor layer comprises gallium nitride (GaN) having a Ga-face that directly interfaces with the bonding material and an N-face that directly interfaces with the active region. | 36,907 |
8,415,715 | 1. A memory cell comprising: a semiconductor; a tunnel barrier adjacent to the semiconductor, wherein the tunnel barrier comprises: a charge trap structure adjacent to the tunnel barrier; a charge block structure adjacent to the charge trap structure; and a gate adjacent to the charge block structure. | 46,443 |
8,396,181 | 1. A method for producing a neutron flux, comprising: locating a probe tip adjacent a pyroelectric crystal within a chamber; evacuating said chamber of ionizable gases; introducing a gaseous source of ions of deuterium within said chamber; changing the temperature of said pyroelectric crystal in the chamber containing the gaseous source of deuterium ions; wherein changing the temperature of said pyroelectric crystal produces an ion beam about said probe tip by field ionization of said gaseous source of deuterium ions; and positioning a deuterated target in a trajectory of said ion beam; wherein contact between said ion beam and said deuterated target produces a neutron flux. | 16,887 |
9,569,895 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a depth determination unit for acquiring actual object depth information of different portions of an actual object as a function of distance of the portions of the actual object from an object imaging device; a display control unit for providing virtual object depth information of different portions of a virtual object as a function of the distance of the portions of the virtual object from a virtual imaging device at a location corresponding to the object imaging device; and a judgment unit for judging an anteroposterior relationship between a shot image of the actual object and the virtual object for each portion by use of the actual object depth information and the virtual object depth information of the portions included in the actual object and in the virtual object; wherein the display control unit causes projection of the virtual object to be overlapped on the shot image of the actual object based on the anteroposterior relationship judged by the judgment unit, such that portions of the shot image overlap the virtual object when the actual object depth information is less than the virtual object depth information and particular portions of the virtual object overlap the shot image of the actual object when the depth information of corresponding portions of the actual object is greater than the depth information of the particular portions of the virtual object. | 24,393 |
8,850,825 | 1. A method, comprising: discharging, from a turbine compressor, an air stream in connection with compressing air used during combustion in a gas turbine; compressing the air stream to generate a pressurized stream; indirectly heating the pressurized stream using heat from an oxygen stream from an Ion Transport Membrane (ITM); generating the oxygen stream and a non-permeate stream using the ITM, wherein the non-permeate stream is passed to a gas turbine burner and the oxygen stream is passed to a first heat exchanger; combusting a fuel gas in combination with the non-permeate stream to generate a heated non-permeate stream, wherein a temperature of the combination of the fuel gas and the non-permeate stream is below a predefined threshold temperature for a gas turbine burner, and a concentration of oxygen in the heated non-permeate stream is such that when mixed with a fuel gas stream results in an oxygen concentration below a lower flammable limit of the mixture; heating at least a portion of the pressurized stream using heat from the heated non-permeate stream, wherein the heated non-permeate stream is cooled during the indirect heating; and mixing the cooled non-permeate stream with the fuel gas for the gas turbine or introducing the cooled non-permeate stream at a point between the turbine compressor and an expander. | 10,402 |
9,139,964 | 1. A compactor comprising: a frame; an engine coupled to the frame; an exhaust system coupled to the engine and configured to remove a heated exhaust air from the engine; a compacting member rotatably coupled to the frame and configured to rotate in contact with a substrate of paving material; and an air system comprising: | 39,999 |
9,710,872 | 1. An information extraction method, comprising: identifying a set of at least one dot output to a target; extracting information from the set of at least one dot; and performing correction on geometric distortion of the set of at least one dot, wherein: performing correction on the geometric distortion comprises performing correction on projection and rotation distortion of the set of at least one dot; performing correction on the projection and rotation distortion comprises detecting four reference dots in a region of the set of at least one dot and performing correction on the projection and rotation distortion using the four reference dots; and performing correction on the projection and rotation distortion comprises generating a set of horizontal lines and a set of vertical lines passing through the at least one dot, extracting two horizontal lines from the set of horizontal lines, and extracting two vertical lines from the set of vertical lines; the four reference dots are intersections of the two horizontal lines and the two vertical lines; the two horizontal lines comprise a horizontal line closest to an origin and a horizontal line farthest from the origin; and the two vertical lines comprise a vertical line closest to the origin and a vertical line farthest from the origin. | 4,733 |
9,748,923 | 1. An elastic wave device comprising: a support layer including a through-hole or a recess opened at an upper surface thereof; a piezoelectric thin film arranged on the support layer to extend above the recess or the through-hole of the support layer; and an IDT electrode provided on at least one of upper and lower surfaces of the piezoelectric thin film in a region of the piezoelectric thin film that extends above the recess or the through-hole; wherein an elastic wave propagating in the piezoelectric thin film is a secondary mode of a plate wave that contains a U1 component as a main component of displacement; a propagation velocity of the secondary mode of the plate wave is about 7000 meters per second or more; the piezoelectric thin film is made of LiTaO Euler angles (φ, θ, ψ) of the LiTaO | 707 |
9,128,343 | 1. A method of making an optical element including an electrochromic apodized aperture having variable light transmittance through an aperture area in response to an applied electrical current, the method comprising the steps of: i. forming an aperture body including an area defining the aperture area, the body including a fluid containment area overlapping the aperture area, a fill port outside the aperture area and a fill passage extending from the fill port to the fluid containment area outside of the a aperture area wherein the fill passage is circuitous between the fill port and the fluid containment area; ii. forming a cover for the aperture body; iii. attaching the cover to the aperture body; iv. following the attaching of the cover to the body, vacuum filling the fluid containment area with an electrochromic fluid having variable light transmittance in response to an applied electrical current by placing the electrochromic fluid into the fill port, followed by sealing the fill passage with a sealant. | 5,816 |
9,176,192 | 1. A method of identifying the operation of an electrical appliance comprising an induction motor, the method comprising: electronically receiving, via a computing apparatus, data from a sensor coupled to the computing apparatus, the data including measurements of electrical consumption by a plurality of appliances; analyzing, via the computing apparatus, the data to characterize the electrical consumption by the plurality of appliances; providing feedback from the computing apparatus that an electrical appliance comprising an induction motor is in operation at a given time when a path traced by real power values against corresponding reactive power values over a time period of interest comprises one or more substantially circular arcs based on the analysis; wherein the real power values are related to the total real power supplied to the plurality of appliances as a function of time and the reactive power values are related to the total reactive power supplied to the plurality of appliances as a function of time. | 15,235 |
9,073,264 | 1. A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising: forming a solidified layer by irradiating a portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, formation of the solidified layer and formation of the another solidified layer being repeatedly performed in a chamber; wherein a localized gas flow is provided in the chamber at a position that is horizontally spaced apart from a route of the light beam, the route being in the chamber, and at least a part of a fume generated outside of the localized gas flow by the irradiation of the light beam is subsequently entrained by the localized gas flow. | 46,993 |
8,370,000 | 1. A method for providing power-efficient operation of a plurality of cooling fans, comprising: testing a plurality of cooling fans at a plurality of speeds, over an operating range of delivered airflow to determine, in each of one or more regions of the operating range, a first number of cooling fans to be enabled, and, for each cooling fan enabled, a speed at which the cooling fan shall be operated, to deliver the delivered airflow for such region, the determination based on the first number of cooling fans operating with a lower power requirement than another power requirement of a second number of cooling fans to deliver the same delivered airflow for such region as the first number of cooling fans, wherein testing the plurality of cooling fans comprises; testing the first number of cooling fans at the plurality of speeds to determine a first operating characteristic, the first operating characteristic indicative of power drawn versus delivered airflow over the operating range for the first number of cooling fans; testing the second number of cooling fans at the plurality of speeds to determine a second operating characteristic, the second operating characteristic indicative of power drawn versus delivered airflow over the operating range for the second number of cooling fans; determining one or more first regions of the operating range in which the first number of cooling fans draw less power than the second number of cooling fans; and determining one or more second regions of the operating range in which the second number of cooling fans draw less power than the first number of cooling fans. | 8,994 |
8,486,446 | 1. Oral pharmaceutical composition providing controlled release or delayed release of rifamycin SV as an active ingredient or both controlled release and delayed release thereof, said composition containing rifamycin SV in association with one or more pharmacologically acceptable excipients(s), wherein the controlled and/or delayed release is given by a multi-matrix structure comprising: a) an amphiphilic matrix in which the active ingredient is incorporated; b) a lipophilic matrix which is formed by a substance having a melting point of less than 90° C. and in which a) is dispersed; and c) a hydrophilic matrix, wherein release of the active ingredient takes place solely in the colon. | 15,305 |
9,342,641 | 1. A method of configuring a logic analyzer based on user input received through a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising: receiving at least one first GUI input identifying at least one characteristic of a target system configured to be connected to the logic analyzer; receiving at least one second GUI input indicating a footprint associated with the target system; and receiving at least one third GUI input indicating a mapping between the footprint and a connector of the logic analyzer, wherein the first GUI input indicates a type of the target system, and the indicated type is a type of double data rate (DDR) or low power DDR (LPDDR) memory bus. | 46,015 |
9,683,475 | 1. An exhaust structure of a vehicle comprising: an engine; an exhaust device operatively connected to the engine; and a rear cowl covering a vehicle rear portion, said exhaust device including an exhaust pipe and a muffler connected to a rear portion of the exhaust pipe, said muffler including a main body formed by a top wall extending beneath and along a top face of the rear cowl and a bottom wall extending obliquely upwardly in a rear direction of the vehicle above and along a bottom face of the rear cowl, a plurality of expansion chambers partitioned by a partition, connecting pipes connecting the plurality of expansion chambers, and a tail pipe configured to discharge exhaust air from said muffler; said muffler being covered by said rear cowl, wherein: outlines of said muffler and said rear cowl are each formed such that a width decreases toward the rear direction of the vehicle; said tail pipe and said connecting pipes are provided so as to penetrate said partition; positions where said tail pipe and said connecting pipes penetrate said partition are offset from each other in the vertical direction; and an outline of said muffler is formed such that the bottom wall of the main body that extends obliquely upwardly in the rear direction of the vehicle above and along the bottom face of the rear cowl forms a width in a height position where said tail pipe is arranged that is smaller relative to a width in a height position where said connecting pipe and a catalyst are arranged. | 12,748 |
8,420,770 | 1. An inkjet ink, comprising: a polyamic acid (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of 50,000-500,000 and a structural unit of Formula (1) below prepared from at least a compound (a1) having two or more anhydride groups and a diamine (a2); at least one selected from the group consisting of an amic acid compound (B1) prepared from a compound (a3) having two or more anhydride groups and a monoamine (a5), and an amic acid compound (B2) prepared from a diamine (a4) and a compound (a6) having one anhydride group; and a solvent (C), wherein in Formula (1), R | 32,586 |
9,004,599 | 1. A seat module for an aircraft passenger, comprising: a seat including a first sitting surface and a back; a separation panel extending along at least one side of the seat, the seat being movable between an upright position, in which the back of the seat extends more or less vertically, and an extended position, in which the back extends in a plane more or less perpendicular to the separation panel, the separation panel comprising a rear portion extending behind the back of the seat in the upright position; and a covering that extends at least over a surface of the rear portion of the separation panel, wherein the rear portion of the separation panel forms a back for the passenger in the extended position of the seat, the back of the seat is movable towards the separation panel to form a second sitting surface in the extended position, the separation panel comprises a first side portion extending laterally from the rear portion along the first sitting surface, with a same height as the rear portion, the first side portion including a front vertical section extending continuously downward, in a direction perpendicular to a floor, to at least a plane of the first sitting surface, the front vertical section of the first side portion is forward of a joint between the first sitting surface and the back of the seat, and the covering further extends over a surface of the first side portion, and a thickness of the covering over the rear portion of the separation panel is greater than a thickness of the covering over the first side portion of the separation panel. | 19,021 |
9,037,140 | 1. A system, comprising: a first wireless device having a first range of wireless coverage; a second wireless device having a second range of wireless coverage; a third wireless device having a third range of wireless coverage and configured for wireless communication with the first wireless device and the second wireless device, the third wireless device configured to wirelessly receive synchronization information including a superframe from the first wireless device and transmit the synchronization information to the second wireless device, wherein an operation of the first wireless device, an operation of the second wireless device and an operation of the third wireless device are coordinated based on the synchronization information; and a portable wireless device configured for wireless communication with any of the first wireless device, the second wireless device and the third wireless device to receive a subset of the synchronization information, wherein an operation of the portable wireless device is coordinated based on the subset of synchronization information. | 32,357 |
9,559,222 | 1. A method for making a solar cell, the method comprising: (a) providing a stack including a substrate, a barrier layer disposed on the substrate, and an anti-reflective layer disposed on the barrier layer, the anti-reflective layer having charge centers; (b) generating a corona with a charging tool; and (c) contacting the anti-reflective layer with the corona thereby injecting charge into at least some of the charge centers in the anti-reflective layer, wherein the charge is uniformly distributed throughout the anti-reflective layer; and wherein a thickness of the barrier layer is sufficient to prevent electron tunneling from the substrate to the anti-reflective layer without negating effects of the introduced charge in the antireflective layer. | 14,591 |
8,356,247 | 1. A system for controlling and monitoring the rendering of electronic content to a viewer via an electronic communications network, comprising: a system-end computer equipped and configured for communications via said electronic communications network, including one or more computer processors and one or more system servers communicating via said electronic communications network with one or more electronic content pages, said one or more electronic content pages having one or more content rendering areas, said one or more electronic content pages being remotely accessible via said electronic communications network by a viewer, said viewer having an electronic network communications device with a browser application having a window having a viewable area defined by said window's dimensions and scrolling position for perceiving said one or more electronic content pages, said viewer's electronic network communications device further comprising a display screen for perceiving said browser window; said system further comprising an electronic database for storing one or more data records identifying said one or more electronic content pages, and said one or more content rendering areas within said one or more electronic content pages, and one or more electronic content files for rendering at said one or more content rendering areas; one or more electronic content file servers for storing said one or more electronic content files; one or more electronic network communications interface software applications providing an electronic user interface for receiving from system users communicating via said electronic communications network data designating one or more of said electronic content pages, one or more of said content rendering areas within said one or more electronic content pages and one or more of said electronic content files for rendering at said one or more content rendering areas, and for creating a stored data record of the one or more data records for storage in said electronic database containing said data; a tag that is generated by a said system software application for placement on said designated one or more electronic content pages, said tag having a reference to said stored data record and a link to said system software application, said tag, when the electronic content page wherein said tag is placed is requested by said viewer communicating via said electronic communications network via said electronic network communications device and browser application, causing a communication to be sent from said electronic content page wherein said tag is placed to said system custom software application; a system software application executing when said communication from said tag is received to retrieve said data from said stored data record corresponding to said data record referenced in said tag and generating and writing to said designated electronic content page a correlator code; a correlator code that is generated by said system software application and is written to said designated electronic content page, said correlator code generating a marker for said one or more content rendering areas on said one or more electronic content pages designated in said stored data record and causing said one or more electronic content files designated in said stored data record to be retrieved and loaded at said one or more designated content rendering areas designated in said stored data record; and said correlator code further determining, via retrieval of information from said browser application, whether a said content rendering area designated in said stored data record is within said browser window dimensions and scrolling position and whether said browser window is the primary window open on said display screen of said viewer's electronic network communications device and causing said one or more electronic content files designated in said stored data record to be rendered at said one or more content rendering areas of said one or more electronic content pages designated in said stored data record if a predefined area of said electronic content page is within said viewer's browser window dimensions and scrolling position and said browser window is the primary window open on said display screen of said viewer's electronic network communications device. | 44,645 |
9,250,618 | 1. An energy management system, comprising: a central control system comprising a demand response server; a power transmission system configured to supply electrical power to a plurality of user locations by way of a common local transformer; and a plurality of home energy management systems in communication with said demand response server, each of said plurality of home energy management systems configured for communications with at least one home appliance, wherein said demand response server is configured to transmit local transformer identification and local transformer constraint information to each of said plurality of home energy management systems whereby each of the plurality of home energy management systems that share the common local transformer together form a local network based on said transformer identification, such that each home energy management system in the local network is configured to communicate shared data with each of the other home energy management systems in the local area network and whereby each of said plurality of home energy management systems instructs the at least one home appliance to modify its energy consumption based at least in part on the shared data and the local transformer constraint information. | 5,139 |
8,635,798 | 1. A communication connector system for a weapon, the weapon having an upper receiver at an upper part of the weapon with electronics associated with the upper receiver, the weapon having a base at a lower part of the weapon, the base having a lower receiver and a hand grip, the base housing electronics, the upper receiver being rotatably coupled to the lower receiver and movable between a closed position and an open position, the communication connector system comprising: an upper connector assembly configured to be coupled to the upper receiver, the upper connector assembly having an upper connector being configured to be communicatively connected to the electronics in the upper receiver, the upper connector having a mating interface; and a lower connector assembly having a lower connector being configured to be communicatively connected to the electronics in the base of the weapon, the lower connector being configured to be mounted to the base of the weapon, the lower connector having a mating interface mated with the mating interface of the upper connector when the upper receiver is in the closed position; wherein the mating interfaces are physically separable from one another so the upper receiver is configured to be moved to the open position from the closed position. | 20,827 |
9,243,109 | 1. A biaxially stretched product comprising a copolyamide comprising monomeric units of: (i) aliphatic non-cyclic diamines X and aliphatic non-cyclic dicarboxylic acids Y or aliphatic non-cyclic α,ω-amino acids Z, and (ii) diamines M and diacids N in an amount between 0.1 to 1.5 wt % based on the total amount of copolyamide, and in which M and N are cyclic, wherein the product has been stretched at a temperature of between the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the melting temperature (Tm). | 37,764 |
9,031,267 | 1. A loudspeaker for an audio sound system, comprising: a direct audio input configured to receive a first audio signal to be radiated from the loudspeaker as direct sound; an indirect audio input configured to receive a second audio signal to be radiated from the loudspeaker as indirect sound, wherein the first and second audio signals are generated independently from a common signal; a direction parameter input configured to receive direction parameters characterizing a direction in which the direct sound is to be radiated, the direction established by modifying the phase, amplitude and delay of the first audio signal using the direction parameters; a driver array having a plurality of drivers arranged along at least a first spatial dimension; and a digital signal processor-based controller configured to: | 703 |
8,620,607 | 1. A method to determine energy usage of a portable device, the method comprising: determining a first plurality of linear equations representative of energy expended in a portable device for a second plurality of functions, the second plurality of functions including at least one software function of the portable device, the first plurality being more than the second plurality; and determining, using a processor, energy values corresponding to the second plurality of functions by applying a statistical method to the first plurality of linear equations. | 9,042 |
9,026,981 | 1. A computer implemented method for performing a dielectric reliability assessment for an advanced semiconductor, the method comprising: receiving data associated with a test of a macro of the advanced semiconductor to a point of dielectric breakdown; scaling, by a processor, the data for the macro down to a reference area; extracting a parameter for a Weibull distribution from the scaled down data for the reference area; deriving a cluster factor (α) from the scaled down data for the reference area; and projecting a failure rate for a larger area of the advanced semiconductor based on the extracted parameter, the cluster factor and the recorded data associated with the dielectric breakdown of the macro, wherein the parameter include a Weibull shape factor (β) and scale factor (τ) and wherein the Weibull shape factor (β), the scale factor (τ) and the clustering factor (α) are extracted according to: | 41,950 |
8,919,054 | 1. An anti-fatigue floor tile, comprising: a base foam substrate with a length and a width exceeding a depth and having a back surface; a top rubber layer attached by vulcanization to the base foam substrate opposing the back surface, the first and second marginal perimeter portions each defining a plurality of dovetail projecting lugs and alternating dovetail lug-receiving recesses for joining a plurality of the floor tiles together as a mat with the dovetail lug-receiving recesses of one of the floor tiles receiving the opposing dovetail projecting lugs of an adjacent second one of the floor tiles, the lug-receiving recesses and the projecting lugs defined in the marginal perimeter portions of the floor tile by water jet without compression of the foam substrate, whereby the walls of the dovetail lug-receiving recesses and the projecting dovetail lugs are substantially planar without cupping, whereby the support surfaces of the top rubber layer of adjacent connected floor tiles support footwear or wheeled traffic of a user thereon remote from the aligned second lands of the adjacent marginal perimeter portions to restrict the footwear or wheeled traffic from scuffing against the joined marginal perimeter portions of the adjacent joined floor tiles so that the top rubber layer is not delaminated from the base foam substrate thereby. | 19,484 |
9,512,783 | 1. A system for supplying fuel, the system comprising: a primary circuit for delivering fuel from a fuel tank to a primary circuit outlet; a first supply circuit connected to the primary circuit outlet, the first supply circuit comprising a first supply circuit pump configured to pump fuel from the primary circuit outlet to engine fuel nozzles; a second supply circuit also connected to the primary circuit outlet, the second supply circuit comprising: a controller configured to perform a freeze condition calculation based on the second supply circuit sensor signal to detect a freeze condition, wherein the controller is further configured to provide a drive signal to the second supply circuit pump when the freeze condition is detected, and wherein the controller is further configured to send a drive signal to the second supply circuit pump until the freeze condition is no longer detected by the controller. | 36,496 |
8,523,977 | 1. A method of desulfurizing a silicon killed steel comprising the steps of: forming a slag over a molten metal, drawing a vacuum to less than 5 torr over the combination of slag and molten metal, stirring the molten metal and slag, deoxidizing and desulfurizing the molten metal and slag to degas the steel reducing at least sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen contents, and reducing activity of oxygen in the molten metal to less than 30 ppm, and forming a slag composition after degassing the steel comprising: | 3,748 |
8,940,347 | 1. A method of producing an oil, the method comprising: providing a high shear device comprising at least one rotor and at least one complementarily-shaped stator configured to mix a gas with a liquid; contacting a gas with an organic oil in said high shear device at a temperature above the solidification temperature of the oil such that said oil maintains a liquid phase, wherein said gas is selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, noble gases, and carbon dioxide, thus forming a product, wherein said product is a dispersion comprising a continuous oil phase having gas bubbles dispersed therein, wherein the gas bubbles have a mean diameter of less than 50 μm, and wherein the dispersion is no less than 5% saturated or supersaturated with the gas. | 32,406 |
8,872,890 | 1. A receiver, comprising: a decode processing circuit that decodes a video signal received from outside; a circuit that acquires identification information including a format concerning 2D or 3D of video from a layer corresponding to each frame of the video signal; and a processing circuit that performs processing for an image display by the video signal based on the identification information, the identification information having offset information indicating a timing when switching of the 3D format of the video occurs or a timing when switching of the 3D video and the 2D video occurs, the processing performed by the processing circuit includes switching processing for switching of the 3D format or of the 3D video and the 2D video, and the processing circuit starts the switching processing before the switching occurs based on the offset information. | 992 |
9,850,002 | 1. Status indicating light unit, comprising: a power input terminal, coupleable to an external power supply, an illumination circuit, comprising at least one LED, a continuous connection circuit, coupled to the illumination circuit and configured to effect a continuous power transfer from the power input terminal to the illumination circuit, with a continuous DC current being provided to the illumination circuit by the continuous connection circuit and with a continuous illumination being provided by the illumination circuit, a pulsed power reception circuit, coupled to the illumination circuit and configured to draw power from the power input terminal in a pulsed manner and to continuously emit power to the illumination circuit, with a continuous DC current being provided to the illumination circuit by the pulsed power reception circuit and with a continuous illumination being provided by the illumination circuit, wherein the pulsed power reception circuit comprises: wherein the pulsed power reception circuit is configured to effect power transfer from the power input terminal to the illumination circuit and to the chargeable element, when the alternating switch is in the closed state, and wherein the pulsed power reception circuit is configured to de-couple the illumination circuit and the chargeable element from the input terminal, when the alternating switch is in the open state, wherein the chargeable element is coupled to the illumination circuit in such a way that it provides power to the illumination circuit, when the alternating switch is in the open state, and wherein the continuous connection circuit and the pulsed power reception circuit provide separate current paths from the power input terminal to the illumination circuit, and a mode selection switch adapted to couple the continuous connection circuit to the power input terminal in a continuous power draw mode, resulting in a continuous power draw pattern of the status indicating light unit, and adapted to couple the pulsed power reception circuit to the power input terminal in a pulsed power draw mode, resulting in a pulsed power draw pattern of the status indicating light unit, with the respective power draw patterns of the status indicating light unit indicating an operational status of the status indicating light to the external power supply, and wherein the status indicating light unit is an exterior aircraft light unit. | 23,780 |
9,015,440 | 1. An autonomous memory sub-system, comprising: a controller having a condition monitoring block; first and second autonomous memory devices having bus traffic wherein the first autonomous memory device includes a die including a memory in the die to store contents and a control engine embedded in the same die with the memory, the condition monitoring block monitors the bus traffic and based on monitored results re-allocates resources to dynamically improve system performance, the first autonomous memory device including a first inter-die communication port physically coupled to a die of the second autonomous memory device to communicate with the die of the second autonomous memory device, and the first autonomous memory device including a second inter-die communication port physically coupled to a die of an additional autonomous memory device to communicate with the die of the additional autonomous memory device different from the first and second autonomous memory devices; and a third autonomous memory device that is not a neighboring device to the first and second autonomous memory devices, wherein the controller selects contents of the third autonomous memory device to relocate to the first and second autonomous memory devices that are neighboring devices, and the first, second, and third autonomous memory devices further include a scratch pad memory port to couple external memory. | 48,807 |
8,455,822 | 1. An apparatus for high accuracy beam placement and navigation to a feature of interest on a sample, comprising: a source of ions, the source producing ions of more than one elemental species; and a particle beam column for producing a coaxial mixed beam of ions including ions of more than one elemental species and for focusing the mixed beam to a focal point at or near the sample. | 36,712 |
8,696,235 | 1. A precast concrete paver block for assembly with other like paver blocks to form a paved surface, said precast concrete paver block being a solid core block having a first pair of flat parallel side walls and a second pair of transverse parallel side walls, one side wall of said first pair of parallel side walls having at least one block engaging projection in at least one or more portions of said one side wall and disposed between a top and bottom surface of said paver block, the opposed side wall of said first pair of side walls having a slot to receive in close sliding fit said at least one said block engaging projection of an adjacent one of said paver blocks for side-by-side interengagement while permitting horizontal displacement of said adjacent paver block and said block engaging projection thereof while preventing vertical displacement thereof in said slot wherein a top face of said paver blocks lie in a substantially common planar surface, spacer means formed integral in a base portion of said at least one block engaging projection, further spacer means is integrally formed in a portion only of one side wall of said second pair of said transverse parallel side walls, said paver block when assembled with further of said paver blocks in interconnected engagement on a support bed providing open-joint areas about said paver blocks extending from said top surface to said support bed. | 40,123 |
9,797,380 | 1. A system for generating electrical energy, said system comprising: a nacelle for housing electronic components; a plurality of batteries; a plurality of compressor fans; a plurality of solar panels for providing power to the compressor fans and/or the batteries; a turbine; a generator coupled to the turbine for generating electricity; a master control unit operable to determine whether to send generated electricity to a power grid, the batteries, the compressor fans, or for internal use; a transformer capable of increasing or decreasing a voltage of the generator; a plurality of air intakes that allow air to enter the nacelle from the atmosphere; a holding tank that captures air exhausted by the turbine, wherein the holding tank has a plurality of outlets to vent exhausted air into the atmosphere; wherein the holding tank is functional to protect birds from the turbine; wherein the plurality of said compressor fans force air into the nacelle, creating a compressed air, and said compressed air drives said turbine; and wherein an existing wind turbine's nacelle and internal components are repurposed without a blade hub, long blades attached to the blade hub, and a tower. | 45,103 |
8,916,303 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell having a cell laminate formed by laminating a plurality of single cells, each of the single cells having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an electrolyte membrane existing between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, and a reactant gas flow channel, the fuel cell system comprising: an estimating unit programmed to estimate a residual water content distribution in the reactant gas flow channel in a cell plane of each single cell while taking into consideration water transfer that occurs between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode via the electrolyte membrane; and an operation control unit programmed to limit an electric current drawn from the fuel cell when the residual water content in the reactant gas flow channel estimated by the estimating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, wherein the cell laminate is configured so that reactant gas is supplied to the reactant gas flow channel of each single cell in the cell lamination direction, wherein the operation control unit is programmed to decrease a current limiting value for the fuel cell if the location where a residual water content is equal to or greater than the threshold is located where liquid water can less easily be discharged, this being (i) a location closer to an inlet side than an outlet side of a reactant gas flow channel, or (ii) a location closer to a downstream side of a reactant gas flow in the cell lamination direction, and wherein the operation control unit is programmed to increase a current limiting value for the fuel cell if the location where a residual water content is equal to or greater than the threshold is located where liquid water can more easily be discharged, this being (i) a location closer to an outlet side than an inlet side of a reactant gas flow channel, or (ii) a location closer to an upstream side of a reactant gas flow in the cell lamination direction. | 21,366 |
9,567,926 | 1. A control unit of an internal combustion engine comprising: one or more processing devices receiving instructions to perform: an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) control step sending an EGR command signal so as to bring an EGR gas supply amount by an EGR apparatus to a target EGR gas supply amount to control an opening degree of an EGR valve; a supercharger control step sending a supercharging command signal so as to bring a supercharging amount of a supercharger provided with a variable flow mechanism to a target supercharging amount to control an opening degree of the variable flow mechanism; an in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio calculation step calculating an in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio based on an operating state of the internal combustion engine; a transient state determination step determining whether the internal combustion engine is in a transient state based on the in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio in the cylinder calculated by the in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio calculation step; and a switching step switching the EGR command signal and the supercharging command signal so that the opening degree of the EGR valve and the opening degree of the variable flow mechanism become smaller than in a normal state when the internal combustion engine is determined to be in the transient state by the transient state determination step; wherein the transient state determination step comprises: wherein the transient state determining step determines the internal combustion engine to be in the transient state when the first determination step determines that the in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio is not greater than the first threshold value and the second determination step determines that the in-cylinder oxygen excess ratio difference is not less than the second threshold value, such that the switching step switches the EGR command signal and the supercharging command signal to reduce the opening degree of the EGR valve and the opening degree of the variable flow mechanism than in the normal state to reduce emission amount of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and smoke (PM). | 36,766 |
8,470,421 | 1. A biodegradable resin bottle having a wall formed by a biodegradable resin and a vacuum-evaporated film, formed by a plasma CVD method, on an inner surface of the wall, wherein said vacuum-evaporated film exhibits hydrocarbon peaks stemming from CH, CH the vacuum-evaporated film exhibits, as measured by FT-IR, a peak stemming from an OH group in a region of a wave number of 3200 to 3800 cm the biodegradable resin is a polylactic acid. | 21,869 |
8,541,682 | 1. A spacer device for spacing electrical harnesses in a turbomachine, the device comprising: clamping spring clips for clamping onto the harnesses, said clips being mounted spaced apart from one another on a common support, wherein a first clip is mounted on a first harness via retention means for preventing any translation of the device with respect to the first harness, and wherein the device includes a strip mounted around the first clip to close the first clip once the first harness has been mounted in the first clip, the strip being fastened in a non-releasable manner on said support. | 45,442 |
9,369,183 | 1. An apparatus for measuring wireless power transfer at an operating frequency between a transmitter and a receiver, the apparatus comprising: a first clock configured to generate a first clock signal at a first clock frequency; a current zero crossing detector configured to detect a zero crossing of a current of the wireless power transfer at a transmit antenna of the transmitter; a voltage zero crossing detector configured to detect a zero crossing of a voltage at the transmit antenna of the wireless power transfer; and a controller configured to operate based on a second clock signal, the first clock frequency different than a second clock frequency of the second clock signal, the controller further configured to determine a phase offset between the voltage and the current of the wireless power transfer by measuring an amount of time between the zero crossing of current and the zero crossing of voltage based on the first clock signal, and to measure an amount of wireless power transfer based on the first clock signal, the voltage, the current, and the phase offset. | 48,923 |
8,937,135 | 1. A biodegradable polymer mixture comprising i) 40% to 95% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to ii, of at least one polyester based on aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids and aliphatic dihydroxy compounds; ii) 5% to 60% by weight, based on the total weight of said components i to ii, of polypropylene carbonate, wherein the polypropylene carbonate chain comprises more than 85% carbonate linkages and less than 15% ether linkages; iii) 0% to 60% by weight, based on the total weight of said components i to iii, of at least one biodegradable homo- or copolyester selected from the group consisting of polylactic acid, polycaprolactone and polyhydroxyalkanoate, and/or of an inorganic or organic filler; iv) 0% to 10% by weight, based on the total weight of said components i to ii, of an epoxy-containing copolymer based on styrene, acrylic ester and/or methacrylic ester, and v) 0% to 15% by weight of an additive; wherein said biodegradable polymer mixture is present in a shrink wrapping film. | 39,648 |
9,534,734 | 1. An apparatus for the controlled pressurization of gas cylinder actuators connected to a single gas filling line, comprising means for controlling and recovering a pressurized gas flow originating from pressurized gas supply means and directed to a gas filling line, at least one sensor for detecting the pressure of the gas that is present in said gas filling line and is adapted to carry pressurized gas to at least one gas cylinder actuator connected thereto, electrically controlled valve means adapted to allow/interrupt the flow of pressurized gas in said gas filling line, an electronic control and management unit connected to said at least one pressure sensor and to said electrically controlled valve means to automate the opening/closing of said valve means in dependence on the signals that arrive from said at least one pressure sensor. | 1,505 |
9,263,739 | 1. A composite anode active material comprising: lithium titanium oxide particles; and a TiN layer on a surface of the lithium titanium oxide particles, wherein the TiN layer has a thickness of from about 1 nm to about 20 nm and comprises TiN particles, said TiN particles having an average particle diameter of from about 20 nm to about 250 nm. | 29,820 |
9,591,860 | 1. A preservative composition comprising a source of ascorbate or erythorbate ions, or a mixture thereof, a source of calcium ions and one or more food grade sequestrants, wherein the molar ratio of ascorbate or erythorbate ions, or a mixture thereof, to calcium ions is of from 0.5:1 to 1.4:1, which preservative composition further contains an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate salt and a reducing agent, selected from the group consisting of a metabisulfite salt, cysteine and one of its amino acid derivatives, all percentages based on the weight of the total composition, and comprising: i) from 4 to 20 wt. % of ascorbic acid; ii) from 4 to 20 wt. % of calcium chloride; iii) from 5 to 30 wt. % of citric acid; iv) from 5 to 50 wt. % of lactose or dextrose; v) from 1 to 30 wt. % of sodium bicarbonate; vi) from 0.1 to 10 wt. % of sodium metabisulfite; vii) from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of potassium citrate; wherein all amounts are based on the total weight of the composition. | 399 |
9,758,626 | 1. An anti-blocking composition comprising: at least one wax; and at least one of the materials selected from: a surfactant, a water-soluble polymeric material, and a wetting agent; wherein said at least one wax is utilized in an amount effective to reduce blocking of a viscoelastic solid when said composition is applied to the surface of said viscoelastic solid. | 47,231 |
9,344,605 | 1. A method for closed-loop color correction based on a multidimensional table, characterized in that the method comprises a step of performing by a processor loop color correction for color conversion based on a multidimensional table, wherein the color conversion establishes a mapping relationship between a set of input points and a set of output points using a multidimensional table, and the multidimensional table is represented by the following expressions wherein, In represents the input of the multidimensional table, each row of the matrix representing an input point and each column representing a color channel of an input point; n represents the number of color channels of an input point, indicating that the multidimensional table is a n dimensional look-up table; m represents the number of input points, indicating the number of nodes in the look-up table; Inpi Out represents the output of the multidimensional table, each row of the matrix representing an output point, and each column representing a color channel of an output point; the j-th row represents output values corresponding to input points represented by the j-th row of In; t represents the number of color channels of an output point; OutPi wherein performing loop color correction for color conversion based on the multidimensional table by the processor includes: Step 1: extracting sample points by the processor to form a color target pattern, the sample points on the color target pattern are used for data collection and calculation; Step 2: using color values by the processor in the color target pattern of step 1 as an input, retrieving device-independent output data from a target characteristic look-up table as target chromatic data, wherein the target chromatic data uses L*a*b* values specified by the International Commission on illumination; Step 3: printing the color target pattern produced in step 1 by a printer in communication with the processor, and then measuring color blocks in the color target pattern using a measurement instrument comprising an optical sensor to obtain measurement data, wherein the measurement data is L*a*b* value of each color block, the optical sensor being in communication with the processor; Step 4: calculating by the processor a degree of color difference between the measurement data and the target data, and correcting the target data according to the difference; Step 5: reproducing a color conversion table by the processor: Step 6: closed-loop correction by the processor, wherein steps 3 to 5 are repeated to perform closed-loop correction on the color conversion table, until satisfied or the occurrence of a rebound in average chromatic aberration. | 1,198 |
9,548,165 | 1. A lithium predoping method comprising kneading and mixing lithium metal with a silicon-base material capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions in the presence of a solvent, wherein said silicon-base material comprising at least one material selected from the group consisting of (a) silicon and a composite dispersion of silicon and silicon dioxide, (b) silicon oxide particles represented by a formula SiOx, wherein 0.5≦x<1.6, having a microstructure wherein silicon nanoparticles are dispersed in a silicon-base compound, and (c) a silicon oxide of the above formula. | 8,557 |
9,439,368 | 1. An apparatus for directing apportion of a flow of water in an irrigated field, said apparatus comprising: a pre-formed irrigation wheel track comprising a first trough capable of receiving a wheel of a mobile irrigation system, said first trough having an elevation and said trough comprising a bottom portion in contact with two opposing and substantially parallel walls, said bottom portion and said two opposing and substantially parallel walls are integrally formed and said troughs are comprised of any material selected from the group consisting; of plastics, metals, wood, and other synthetics and said wheel of the mobile irrigation system being in contact with the bottom portion of said trough. | 39,596 |
8,887,697 | 1. A system for achieving efficient combustion of hydrocarbon fuel in an internal combustion engine, said system consisting of at least (a) an infrared radiation source that emits infrared at wavelengths covering at least a portion of 3-20 micrometers wavelength range; said infrared radiation source being disposed in contact with or at proximity of the hydrocarbon fuel so that the fuel can be excited by said infrared prior to combustion; (b) a hydrogen source that provides hydrogen gas to be burned along with the infrared-excited hydrocarbon fuel in engine cylinder, the hydrogen gas is provided in an amount proportional to the type of engine and hydrocarbon fuel used, in a range of 5-15% in energy fraction; (c) a valve for introducing the hydrogen gas into the engine cylinder during an induction stroke or a compression stroke; and (d) an injector for introducing the infrared-excited hydrocarbon fuel into the engine cylinder near the end of a compression stroke, whereby the infrared-excited hydrocarbon fuel is injected and diffused into the compressed and heated homogeneous mixture of hydrogen gas and air in the engine cylinder, creating a condition for the simultaneous burning of the hydrogen gas and the infrared-excited hydrocarbon fuel and for increased power and reduced combustion knock and nitric oxide emission. | 37,017 |
9,133,759 | 1. A method, comprising: creating a fresh airflow in an intake of an internal combustion engine system; pressurizing the fresh airflow with a pressure source having an inlet for receiving the fresh airflow and an outlet for the pressurized fresh airflow; and diverting a portion of the fresh airflow at the inlet of the pressure source to an air compressor system, wherein diverting the portion of the fresh airflow includes providing a diversion passage around a circumference of the inlet to the pressure source, the diversion passage receiving the portion of fresh airflow. | 31,579 |
9,429,837 | 1. A method of a forming a patterned layer on a substrate, the method comprising: depositing a layer of an aqueous curable imprintable medium on the substrate, the aqueous curable imprintable medium comprising: imprinting a patterned stamp into the curable imprintable medium layer; initiating curing the curable imprintable medium by exposing the curable imprintable medium layer to a predefined part of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum; removing the stamp upon completion of said curing; filling the regions in between the patterned layer with a filler material; forming a further patterned layer on top of the filled patterned layer by repeating the depositing, imprinting, initiating and removing; and removing the filler material after forming the further patterned layer. | 23,473 |
8,905,768 | 1. A charging connector which charges a battery mounted on a vehicle from an external power supply through an opening portion formed to the vehicle, the charging connector comprising: a connector connecting portion which is arranged in an inside of the opening portion and to which a plug of a cable for charging the battery of the vehicle is connected; an outer lid member that covers the opening portion from an outside of the vehicle; an arm made of resin axially supported on the inside of the opening portion, bent to detour an edge of the opening portion, and connected to the outer lid member; an outer lid hinge located in the inside of the opening portion so as to pivot the arm in a plane substantially orthogonal to a plane formed by the opening portion; and an inner lid member, wherein the arm includes an extending portion connected to the outer lid member to draw an arcuate shape with the outer lid hinge being a center thereof and a base portion that couples the extending portion and the outer lid hinge, the opening portion is formed in a substantially arcuate shape at least in a vicinity of the arm and, in a vertical cross section taken along a plane formed by the opening portion, an outer surface of the extending portion opposing to an edge of the opening portion curves so as to be protruded toward the outer lid hinge and an inner surface of the extending portion on the connector connecting portion side curves so as to be recessed toward the outer lid hinge, the outer surface of the extending portion being formed in an arcuate shape extending along a shape of an inner circumference of the opening portion, and the inner lid member is disposed on an opposite side of the inner lid hinge with the connector connecting portion being interposed therebetween so as to seal the connector connecting portion in the inside of the opening position. | 24,292 |
8,626,420 | 1. A method to develop a software based sequencer for a turbine comprising: receiving selected options from predefined settings for a general purpose sequencer software module, wherein the general purpose sequencer software module has standardized software for sequencing any one of a plurality of turbines through defined states of operation, the standardized software having software code generic to all implementations of the general purpose sequencer software module, wherein the selected options relate to characteristics of the turbine and to conditions of the turbine which will trigger the sequencer to transition the turbine from one of the defined states to the next defined state; configuring the general purpose sequencer software module with the selected options; and storing the configured general purpose sequencer software in a non-transitory memory. | 20,140 |
8,588,986 | 1. A computerized method implemented on one or more processors for transmission network control, the transmission network including transmission lines and corresponding switches, the transmission network being configured for use in providing electricity from a generator to an end user, the method comprising: receiving and storing at the one or more processors a sensitivity parameter; identifying, using the one or more processors, a switchable set of switches within the transmission network using the sensitivity parameter; determining, using the one or more processors, a candidate switch from the switchable set to change a corresponding state, wherein the state can be changed from open to closed and closed to open; determining, using the one or more processors, a proposed change of state of the candidate switch; updating, using the one or more processors, an optimal power flow (OPF) problem stored in a memory as a function of the candidate switch and the proposed change of state; determining, using the one or more processors, and storing in a memory a solution to the updated OPF problem; generating, using the one or more processors, an updated sensitivity parameter based on the stored solution to the updated OPF problem; and determining, using the updated sensitivity parameter, if the stored solution to the updated OPF problem meets a predetermined criterion. | 27,088 |
8,584,446 | 1. A filter regeneration system for controlling regeneration of a particulate filter adapted to filter particulate matter present in exhaust emissions of an engine of a vehicle, comprising: a control unit programmed to enable activation of a heating device of the particulate filter for causing heating thereof; at least one sensor in communication relationship with the control unit operatively coupled to the particulate filter for sensing at least one operating parameter thereof, wherein the control unit is programmed to: receive data relating to the at least one sensed operating parameter from the at least one sensor; condition activation of the heating device based on a comparison of the received data with at least one respective threshold; adjust a value of said at least one threshold based on an operating condition of the vehicle, said operating condition being detected based on the received sensed data; keep a collection of last received data; and determine said value of the at least one threshold based on a statistical analysis of the data in said collection, wherein said statistical analysis is performed by obtaining a statistical distribution of the data in the collection; and said value of the at least one threshold is determined based on a predetermined percentile of said statistical distribution. | 31,839 |
9,638,122 | 1. A method for an engine including a SCR catalyst, the method comprising: for a vehicle in motion: | 8,150 |
8,396,387 | 1. An image forming apparatus which operates in one of a plurality of power states including a low-power state, comprising: a reception unit that receives image data transmitted from an external device; an acquisition unit that acquires image data by reading a document; an image forming unit that executes a printing function of forming an image based on the image data received by said reception unit or a copying function of forming an image based on the image data acquired from said acquisition unit; a setting unit that sets a shift time until a power state of the image forming apparatus shifts to the low-power state after execution of image formation by said image forming unit; and a control unit that performs control, according to a first control mode, to: | 32,412 |
9,837,931 | 1. A steady-state control method of a three-phase dual-mode inverter, applicable to a micro-grid dual-mode inverter parallel system; the said micro-grid dual-mode inverter parallel system includes a plurality of dual-mode inverters, a grid-connected/off-grid switch, a three-phase grid and an inverter control circuit; each dual-mode inverter includes a DC energy storage capacitor, a three-phase inverter circuit, an inverter control circuit and an LC filter circuit, the DC energy storage capacitor, the three-phase inverter circuit and the LC filter circuit are connected in sequence, the LC filter circuit is connected with a line impedor, the line impedor is connected with the grid-connected/off-grid switch through an AC bus, and the grid-connected/off-grid switch is accessed to the three-phase grid; the inverter control circuit includes a sampling and conditioning circuit, a phase locked loop circuit, a controller and a driving and protection circuit; the input end of the sampling and conditioning circuit is connected with the LC filter circuit; the controller is connected with the input end of the driving and protection circuit, the output end of the sampling and conditioning circuit and the output end of the phase locked loop circuit; and the input end of the phase locked loop circuit is connected with the AC bus; wherein the said steady-state control method of a three-phase dual-mode inverter includes an off-grid steady-state control method and a grid-connected steady-state control method; the off-grid steady-state control method is as follows: 1) at the starting point of each sampling period, the sampling and conditioning circuit is used to sample voltage u 2) the capacitor voltages u 3) droop control operations are carried out on reference value U* of the output voltage amplitude, reference value ω* of angular frequency, reference value P* of active power, reference value Q* of reactive power and above-mentioned active power P and reactive power Q of the dual-mode inverter to obtain output voltage amplitude U 4) reference voltages u 5) product of u 6) reference voltage feed-forward sections k 7) dead-beat control of current is carried out on reference values i wherein, K is controlled variable constant that K is larger than 0 and smaller than 1, L 8) coordinate transformation are carried out on d 9) bipolar modulation are carried out on d the grid-connected steady-state control method is as follows: the output voltage phase according to step 4) of the above-mentioned off-grid steady-state control method is adjusted to φ*+δ, and the on-off of the switch tube of the three-phase inverter circuit is controlled according to step 1) to step 9) of the above-mentioned off-grid steady-state control method, wherein, φ* is voltage phase of the three-phase grid detected by the phase locked loop circuit, δ=δ wherein, I | 17,398 |
8,655,973 | 1. A device management system configured to manage a plurality of devices arranged and divided into a plurality of management groups, wherein the device management system comprises a plurality of master units, a plurality of slave units, and a connection unit, wherein the plurality of master units are arranged in management groups which are different from each other, the plurality of master units comprising a first master unit arranged in a first management group and a second master unit arranged in a second management group, wherein the plurality of slave units comprise at least one first slave unit arranged in the first management group and at least one second slave unit arranged in the second management group, wherein the first master unit is configured to communicate with the first slave unit by using a first communication network to manage the first slave unit, wherein the second master unit is configured to communicate with the second slave unit by using a second communication network to manage the second slave unit, wherein the first master unit is connected to the first slave unit through a signal line, wherein the second master unit is connected to the second slave unit through a signal line, wherein the first slave unit is connected to a first device arranged in the first management group and manages the first device according to a management of the first master unit, wherein the second slave unit is connected to a second device arranged in the second management group and manages the second device according to a management of the second master unit, wherein the first master unit comprises a detecting means that detects whether or not the second master unit malfunctions and the second master unit comprises a detecting means that detects whether or not the first master unit malfunctions, wherein the connection unit switches a connection that connects the first master unit to the second communication network based on the connection unit receiving a connection command from the first master unit, and wherein the connection unit switches a connection that connects the second master unit to the first communication network based on the connection unit receiving a connection command from the second master unit, wherein each of the first master unit and the second master unit comprises a connection command transmitting means, a communication means, and a management means, | 12,579 |
9,398,083 | 1. A method for invoking application services in response to a tag reading by a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps, performed in a service broker server, of: receiving an input message, the input message comprising tag data being associated with a tag read by the mobile terminal using local communication, the input message further comprising a recipient identifier linked to the mobile terminal; determining, using a plurality of parameters associated with the tag reading, a plurality of matching application servers, each of the matching application servers being associated with conditions of a tag reading subscription request received by the service broker server, wherein conditions of the tag reading subscription request for each of the matching application servers are satisfied by values of the plurality of parameters; and sending an invocation message to each of the matching application servers to invoke a respective application service of each of the matching application servers, the invocation message comprising the recipient identifier enabling each of the application services to send content to the mobile terminal and the tag data, wherein the step of determining the plurality of matching application servers further includes: | 31,987 |
8,826,048 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); and a graphics processing unit (GPU) communicatively coupled to the CPU; wherein a first thermal management system compares a metric representing a combined measure of power used by the CPU and power used by the GPU to a shared power budget, wherein a state of the CPU and a state of the GPU are regulated to maintain the metric within the shared power budget, wherein responsibility for managing the CPU and the GPU transitions from a legacy thermal management system of the apparatus to the first thermal management system when the first thermal management system is enabled, and transitions from the first thermal management system to the legacy thermal management system when the first thermal management system is disabled, wherein the legacy thermal management system specifies the budget to the first thermal power management system in response to an event that affects the shared power budget. | 21,417 |
8,656,108 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cache memory including a plurality of ways; way predictor logic to keep track of cache accesses to the plurality of ways and to determine if an access to a first way of the plurality of ways is to be disabled to save power, the determination based upon a first logical signal having a first logical state representing a predicted miss to the first way; one or more counters associated with each way of the plurality of ways to count accesses, wherein the first logical signal is to be set to the first logical state when one of said one or more counters reaches a saturation value; and control logic to adjust said one or more counters associated with each way of the plurality of ways according to said access. | 3,770 |
9,779,142 | 1. A method to process database queries, the method comprising: accessing, by executing an instruction with a processor, a plurality of bottom-k sketches summarizing a plurality of data sets in response to receiving a query, a first one of the bottom-k sketches including pairs of ranks and weights for a first number of items from a first one of the data sets, the first number of items having smallest ranks among a set of items included in the first one of the data sets, the first one of the bottom-k sketches also identifying a next largest rank corresponding to a smallest remaining rank among the remaining items included in the first one of the data sets but not included in the first one of the bottom-k sketches; determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, a combination sketch based on a combination of the plurality of bottom-k sketches, the combination sketch containing items from the plurality of bottom-k sketches having respective ranks less than a limiting rank, the limiting rank being a minimum of a plurality of next largest ranks corresponding respectively to the plurality of bottom-k sketches, the combination sketch including more items than are included in any one of the plurality of bottom-k sketches; and determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, a query result based on the combination sketch, the query result being responsive to the query. | 20,927 |
8,586,858 | 1. A solar cell modular unit comprising: a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface; an electrical printed circuit formed on said top surface; a solar cell mounted on the top surface of the substrate, the solar cell having a top surface and a bottom surface; means for connecting said bottom surface of said solar cell to said electrical printed circuit on said top surface of said substrate; a base assembly mounted to the top surface of the substrate comprising: a secondary optical element (SOE) having a top end, a bottom end, surrounding side walls extending from said top end to said bottom end, said side walls having an inner surface defining a top opening and a bottom opening and said top opening being larger than said bottom opening, said SOE telescopically received in said tunnel of said tower member such that said SOE is suspended above said solar cell. | 40,307 |
9,782,561 | 1. A catheter, comprising: an elongate shaft body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and defining an inner lumen; and a polymer tip member disposed at the distal end of the shaft body, the shaft body and the tip member including a liner, both a braid member and a coil member surrounding the liner, and a polymer cover surrounding the braid member and the coil member, the tip member further including one or more filaments extending from a position overlapping a distal end of the braid member and abutting a distal end of the coil member on proximal ends of the filaments to a position distal to the braid member and the coil member on distal ends of the filaments. | 11,803 |
9,515,843 | 1. A method, comprising: determining characteristics of a network cable attached to a network device, the network cable comprising a plurality of twisted wire pairs, and the network device comprising a plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices; configuring two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices for data transmission operation over the network cable using the determined characteristics of the network cable, a first of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices operating in a baseband frequency spectrum of the plurality of twisted wire pairs, and a second of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices operating in a second frequency spectrum of the plurality of twisted wire pairs, the second frequency spectrum higher in frequency as compared to the baseband frequency spectrum; and transmitting over the network cable using the configured two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices, the first of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices transmitting data at a higher data rate than the second of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices in response to the first of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices operating in a lower frequency spectrum than the second of the two or more of the plurality of baseband Ethernet physical layer devices. | 8,975 |
9,551,893 | 1. A curved display apparatus, comprising: a display panel; and a fixation member with multiple curvatures which fixes the display panel so that the display panel is curved with multiple curvatures, wherein the fixation member is formed so that a part of the fixation member supporting the display panel is curved with multiple curvatures and contacts the display panel, each of the multiple curvatures being concave with respect to a point facing an image displayed on the display panel, wherein the fixation member comprises a center portion corresponding to a center of the display panel, a peripheral portion corresponding to a peripheral portion of the display panel, and intermediate portions corresponding to portions of the display panel connecting the center of the display panel to the peripheral portions of the display panel, and wherein a curvature, among the multiple curvatures, corresponding to the center portion of the fixation member is larger than a curvature, among the multiple curvatures, of the peripheral portion of the fixation member, and the intermediate portions have curvatures, among the multiple curvatures, which are different from the curvatures of the center and peripheral portions of the display panel. | 48,948 |
9,822,192 | 1. An end-modified conjugated diene-based polymer configured such that an end of a conjugated diene-based polymer is coupled with an aminosilane-based end modifier represented by Chemical Formula 1 below: in Chemical Formula 1, R | 22,004 |
9,331,231 | 1. A process for vapor deposition of a sublimated source material to form thin film on photovoltaic (PV) module substrates, the process comprising: supplying source material to a deposition head; heating the source material so as to sublimate the source material; conveying a plurality of the PV module substrates in a continuous non-stop manner below the deposition head; directing the sublimated source material downwardly within the deposition head so that the sublimated source material deposits on an upper surface of the substrates in a deposition area; and moving the substrates through entrance and exit slots at opposite longitudinal ends of the deposition area, the entrance and exit slots defined by transversely extending entrance and exit seals disposed at a gap distance above the upper surface of the substrates and having a ratio of longitudinal length to gap distance of from about 10:1 to about 100:1; | 32,445 |
8,941,543 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a. a metal layer having a top surface, a bottom surface and at least one side wall; b. a dielectric layer having a top surface, a bottom surface and at least one side wall, at least a portion of said bottom surface of said dielectric layer adjoining at least a portion of said top surface of said metal layer; c. a masking layer having a top surface, a bottom surface and at least one side wall, at least a portion of said bottom surface of said masking layer adjoining at least a portion of said top surface of said dielectric layer; said masking layer further comprising one or more channels extending continuously along at least a portion of said top surface of said masking layer and at least a portion of said side wall of said masking layer, wherein said one or more channels contain antenna therein, said antenna extending from at least a portion of said channel in said top surface of said masking layer to at least a portion of said channel in said side wall. | 41,424 |
9,725,787 | 1. A process for producing a lithium-containing solution from a raw-material brine solution, the process comprising: a) a precipitation step, in which a first part of magnesium and calcium is removed from the raw-material brine solution by precipitation resulting in a first lithium-containing solution, and b) an extraction step, in which a second part of calcium and magnesium is removed from the first lithium-containing solution by liquid-liquid extraction, a resultant product being a second lithium-containing solution. | 20,946 |
8,604,637 | 1. A method for setting a voltage level on a high voltage bus in a fuel cell system, said method comprising: electrically coupling a fuel cell stack to the high voltage bus through a fuel cell DC boost circuit; electrically coupling a high voltage battery to the high voltage bus; electrically coupling high voltage loads to the high voltage bus; determining whether the high voltage battery has failed; disconnecting the battery from the high voltage bus if the battery has failed; measuring the voltage of the fuel cell stack by the DC boost circuit; converting the measured voltage to a voltage set-point value in the fuel cell DC boost circuit that sets the voltage on the high voltage bus where the voltage set-point value changes as the measured voltage changes; determining a maximum current draw from the fuel cell stack based on a media flow to the fuel cell stack and converting the maximum current draw to a minimum stack voltage limit value; and converting the minimum stack voltage limit value to a high voltage bus lower limit value for the high voltage bus. | 3,808 |
8,596,429 | 1. A brake disk rotor comprising a ceramic friction ring adapted for connecting centrally to a connecting flange, the friction ring having a ring shape and being a unitary structure, the friction ring comprising a radially outer region having a friction zone for engagement by braking pads and a radially inner region having a thickness less than that of said outer region so that there is a step where said outer and inner regions meet, said inner region having a radially internal edge and forming a fastening ring providing a fastening surface with fastening bores for receiving fasteners to couple said fastening surface to a corresponding surface of the connecting flange, wherein the friction ring, in the inner region, has relief slots which run between adjacent ones of the fastening bores radially from the internal edge of the radially inner region of the fastening ring and across said step into said outer region, terminating before the friction zone, said relief slots separating completely each inner region section with a fastening bore from an adjacent inner region section with a fastening bore, each relief slot ending at a relief bore having a diameter greater than the width of the slot. | 49,241 |
9,268,167 | 1. A liquid crystal display panel comprising: an active device array substrate; an opposite substrate disposed above the active device array substrate; a sealant disposed between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein the active device array substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and the sealant surrounds the peripheral area; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate and surrounded by the sealant; a black matrix disposed between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate and distributed corresponding to the display area and the peripheral area; and a plurality of rough structures disposed on a portion of the black matrix and distributed corresponding to the peripheral area, wherein each of the rough structures is a continuum having a wave-like surface, surface roughness of the rough structures is greater than surface roughness of the black matrix distributed corresponding to the display area, and the liquid crystal layer contacts the rough structures. | 26,616 |
9,297,324 | 1. A detection apparatus, comprising: a sensor that is disposed in an exhaust path of an internal combustion engine through which an exhaust gas flows, includes an attachment element to which particulate matter in the exhaust gas is configured to attach, and is configured to detect a correlation value that is correlated with an amount of particulate matter which is attached to the attachment element; a heater that is configured to heat the attachment element; and a control unit that is configured to perform a feedback control of a temperature of the attachment element so as to follow a target temperature while a regeneration process is performed to allow the heater to heat the attachment element so as to burn particulate matter which attaches to the attachment element, the control unit being configured to: set the target temperature before a start of the regeneration process so that the target temperature becomes lower, as the correlation value, which is detected by the sensor before the start of the regeneration process, becomes larger; and set a completion timing of the regeneration process before the start of the regeneration process so that a period of the regeneration process becomes longer, as the correlation value, which is detected by the sensor before the start of the regeneration process, becomes larger. | 27,124 |
9,082,302 | 1. A method for aiding piloting of an aircraft during an intermediate approach phase of a descent of the aircraft, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a flight management system, values of parameters relative to the aircraft and a flight thereof; (b) determining, by the flight management system and based on the received values, a vertical profile comprising an adaptive slope, wherein the adaptive slope defines a descent path having a plurality of slope values for the aircraft to observe throughout the intermediate approach phase and thereby enables the aircraft to hold a constant deceleration rate during the intermediate approach phase; (c) automatically implementing control of the aircraft, by an aircraft guidance system, so that the aircraft observes the adaptive slope of the vertical profile throughout the intermediate approach phase and thereby maintains the constant deceleration rate during the intermediate approach phase; and (d) maintaining a fixed thrust, by the aircraft guidance system, throughout the intermediate approach phase. | 2,898 |
9,838,950 | 1. A method of versioning a common access network query protocol (ANQP) group, the method comprising: associating, by an access point, an original common ANQP group version with the common ANQP group, the common ANQP group comprising a plurality of ANQP elements, each ANQP element including an ANQP element identifier (ID) and an associated ANQP element value; transmitting, by the access point, a first message containing the original common ANQP group version to at least one station; associating, by the access point, a new common ANQP group version with the common ANQP group, in response to a change in a composition of the ANQP element IDs in the common ANQP group; and transmitting, by the access point, another message containing the new common ANQP group version to the at least one station. | 14,105 |
9,442,843 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: at least one non-transitory memory device; at least one processor; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a frequency of access on a particular logical address region of a storage device configured to perform dynamic wear leveling is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount; a confirmation unit configured to confirm a logically free region of the storage device in a case where the determination unit determined that the frequency of access is greater than or equal to the predetermined amount; and a free block generation unit configured to perform writing of dummy data to the logically free region confirmed by the confirmation unit and a logical deletion of the logically free region to which the dummy data has been written, wherein the confirmation unit, the free block generation unit, and the determination unit are implemented at least in part by the at least one processor executing at least one program recorded on the at least one non-transitory memory device. | 43,054 |
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