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9,052,718 | 1. A system, comprising: a non-transitory computer readable media bearing: one or more instructions for determining a position, velocity, acceleration, bearing, direction, rate-of-change of bearing, or rate-of-change of direction of a self-guided hospital bed; one or more instructions for generating self-guided hospital bed status information; and one or more instructions for generating route-to-destination information based on one or more target location inputs and the self-guided hospital bed status information. | 23,324 |
8,810,931 | 1. An imaging lens comprising: a fixed first lens group having a positive refractive power and including a plurality of lenses, a second lens group serving as a focus group and including a negative lens, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side; and a stop, wherein the fixed first lens group includes only a 1a wherein the stop is disposed between the 1a where f is a focal distance of an entire system and f1b is a focal distance of the 1b th lens group. | 49,187 |
8,427,167 | 1. A method for identifying a presence of a leakage path in a multi-cell voltage source, comprising: measuring the voltage of the voltage source using a first circuit path configuration to obtain a first voltage measurement, wherein the first circuit path configuration comprises a pair of amplifiers connecting in inverting configurations; when the first voltage measurement shows a deviation from a predetermined voltage, deriving a leakage impedance and a leakage voltage from the first and second voltage measurements; and if a deviation is not detected, repeating another iteration of measuring the voltage of the voltage source to obtain a new first voltage measurement; and after a predetermined number of iterations in which a deviation is not detected, configuring the circuit path to another circuit path configuration to obtain a revised measurement of the voltage source; and using the revised measurement of the voltage source to determine if the revised measurement deviates from the predetermined voltage. | 15,329 |
9,820,477 | 1. A method for pest control in a confined space having an original temperature and an original pressure using flue gas from a biomass power plant, the method, in sequence, comprising: step 1) treating flue gas from a biomass power plant to yield treated flue gas having a volume concentration of carbon dioxide of exceeding 85 vol. %; step 2) during a fallow period, continuously aerating the confined space with the treated flue gas to allow a gas pressure in the confined space to reach between 0.110 and 0.140 megapascal of absolute pressure and the volume concentration of carbon dioxide in the confined space to reach between 50 and 90 vol. %; and step 3) stopping aerating the confined space until a final temperature and a final pressure in the confined space equal the original temperature and the original pressure, respectively. | 46,711 |
8,866,404 | 1. A backlight module, wherein the backlight module comprises: a back bezel; a plurality of light-emitting diodes disposed on the back bezel; and a driving circuit electrically connected to the light-emitting diodes for driving the light-emitting diodes, wherein the driving circuit comprises: | 18,797 |
8,880,518 | 1. A method comprising: determining a plurality of relevance values that corresponds to a plurality of respective products in response to receipt of a search query, each relevance value indicating a relevance of the respective product with regard to the search query; determining a plurality of probability values that corresponds to the plurality of respective products, each probability value indicating a probability that the respective product is to be purchased by a consumer, the plurality of probability values being based on a plurality of respective time windows that are associated with the plurality of respective products, each time window defined to include a respective plurality of purchase days selected from a respective series of consecutive days, each series of consecutive days including the respective plurality of purchase days intermixed with one or more respective non-purchase days, each time window further defined to not include the one or more respective non-purchase days, each purchase day being a day on which the product associated with the corresponding time window is purchased, each non-purchase day being a day on which the product associated with the corresponding time window is not purchased; and combining the plurality of relevance values and the plurality of respective probability values to provide a plurality of respective rankings to be assigned to the plurality of respective products with regard to the search query. | 33,937 |
9,278,121 | 1. A method of treating an infection and infection-induced inflammation in non-immortalized cells, the method comprising topically administering a therapeutically effective amount of an HPA3NT3 peptide. | 44,202 |
8,860,016 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a pair of electrodes; and a photoelectric conversion layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer is a bulk hetero layer where a fullerene or a fullerene derivative and a p-type organic semiconductor material are mixed, an ionization potential of the photoelectric conversion layer is 5.2 eV to 5.6 eV, at least one electron blocking layer is provided between at least one of the pair of electrodes and the photoelectric conversion layer, and the ionization potential of the electron blocking layer adjacent to the photoelectric conversion layer is higher than the ionization potential of the photoelectric conversion layer. | 15,120 |
9,241,445 | 1. A method of cultivating a plant comprising a step (A) of irradiating a plant with a red light and a step (B) of irradiating a plant with a blue light, wherein the red light irradiation step (A) and the blue light irradiation step (B) are independently carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that the temperature in a cultivation atmosphere at the red light irradiation step (A) is lower than that at the blue light irradiation step (B). | 30,502 |
8,523,980 | 1. An apparatus for water reclamation comprising: an above ground inlet for admitting warm humid ambient air; a buried pipe coupled to the inlet head and sloping downward in the ground; a cistern coupled to a downward end of the buried pipe; a heat element in an exit tube coupled at a downward end of the buried pipe; a passive heater coupled to the heated element; and a one or more Bernoulli apertures arranged on an upper end portion of the tube that is rotatable to position the apertures to face normal to the natural flow of ambient air. | 36,631 |
9,714,614 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: closing an aspirator control valve (ACV) responsive to diagnosing a first engine degradation condition; and opening the ACV in response to diagnosing a second engine degradation condition, the second engine degradation condition being distinct from the first engine degradation condition, wherein the second engine degradation condition includes degradation of one or more sensors providing input to a control algorithm for the ACV. | 825 |
8,398,116 | 1. An airbag for a vehicle, the airbag formed as a bag body by sewing together a base cloth, wherein the bag body comprises a main body part having a pair of side surfaces, a base end side, a tip end side, and a sewing part adjacent said base end side, said side surfaces cooperating to provide an upper rim, said bag body being configured so that a direction in which the bag body unfolds expands from the base end side of the bag body to the tip end side thereof and creates a maximum bulging point at the upper rim of the side surfaces, and the bag body is configured such that, as the bag body unfolds a tensional force is created to pull the upper rim of the bag body toward an outer side by forming a tension line extending so as to cross with the direction in which the bag body unfolds, along a side surface of the bag body, from the maximum bulging point to an intersection between the upper rim and the sewing part. | 24,889 |
9,486,593 | 1. A spray device comprising: a reservoir having an inner chamber configured so as to contain a fluid substance; and an emission structure coupled to the reservoir for emission of the fluid, said emission structure including a nozzle membrane that includes: | 18,388 |
8,444,333 | 1. A developer, comprising: a feeder that feeds a developing solution to a photosensitive resin composition layer; a dispersed-material-filter, wherein the developing solution in which a photosensitive resin composition, separated from the photosensitive resin composition layer is dispersed, is passed through the dispersed-material-filter, passing of the dispersed photosensitive resin composition through the dispersed-material-filter serving to flocculate the photosensitive resin composition dispersed in the developing solution; and a flocculated-material-filter that removes a flocculated photosensitive resin composition from the developing solution passed through the dispersed-material-filter. | 1,124 |
9,485,763 | 1. A method for receiving a downlink signal by a user equipment having a radio frequency (RF) unit, a processor and a memory, the method comprising: repeatedly receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within a first bundle of continuous subframes; and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) associated with the PDCCH starting from a subframe n+k after a subframe n in which the PDCCH is last received within the first bundle of continuous subframes, wherein k is an integer greater than 0. | 11,827 |
9,109,022 | 1. A carrier polypeptide-target polypeptide conjugate comprising: a carrier polypeptide domain comprising a first unnatural amino acid residue, wherein the carrier polypeptide domain comprises an antibody or antibody fragment; and, a target polypeptide domain comprising a second unnatural amino acid residue; wherein the carrier polypeptide domain and target polypeptide domain are conjugated together through the first and second unnatural amino acid residues; wherein the first amino acid residue is incorporated into the antibody or antibody fragment, and/or the second unnatural amino acid residue is incorporated into the target polypeptide, in vivo in a methylotrophic yeast cell during translation using an orthogonal tRNA-synthetase/tRNA (O-RS/O-tRNA) pair derived from an wherein the first or second unnatural amino acid comprises an azido moiety, an alkynyl moiety, or an alkenyl moiety; and wherein the first and second unnatural amino acid are covalently coupled via a cycloaddition reaction. | 25,463 |
8,459,249 | 1. A linked tracker system for driving a plurality of individual solar tracker assemblies displaced in a large field for following the motion of the sun relative to the earth, the linked tracker system comprising: a single driving apparatus for rotating a plurality of linked drive shafts configured to drive mechanically linked multiple rows of the individual solar tracking assemblies, at least one drive shaft from the plurality of drive shafts affixed to each solar tracking assembly and the at least one drive shaft being minimally constructed to withstand the forces of being driven by the single driving apparatus; a worm-gear box assembly directly mounted to one or more support columns anchored to the ground and connected to the each solar tracker assembly for providing motion by the driving apparatus to the each solar tracker assembly to avoid transmitting of external forces exerted on the each solar tracker assembly to the plurality of linked drive shafts between the worm-drive gear boxes and to transmit the external forces to the one or more anchored support columns, said worm-gear box assembly affixed and driven by the at least one drive shaft; wherein the at least one drive shaft comprise articulating joints for compensating for non-linearity between trackers in a horizontal and a vertical direction. | 35,479 |
9,661,922 | 1. An outdoor modular system comprising: a plurality of vertical support pieces, each of the plurality of vertical support pieces including: a plurality of panel wall assemblies selectively engagable with the plurality of vertical support pieces, each panel wall assembly comprising: wherein a respective panel wall assembly is secured between a pair of adjacent vertical support pieces via one of thumb screws and set screws positioned in the screw holes of the vertical support pieces, the one of the thumb screws and the set screws positioned within the screw holes such that they are tightened against a surface of the panel wall assembly to apply pressure to the surface of the panel wall assembly and secure the panel wall assembly relative to the pair of adjacent vertical support pieces. | 44,611 |
8,784,015 | 1. A portable power drill comprising: a housing; a drive motor; a rotative drive spindle configured to carry a drilling implement and being axially displaceable relative to the housing for feeding movements; a coupling for transferring rotational movement from the drive motor to the drive spindle irrespective of axial displacement of the drive spindle; and a feed mechanism for axially displacing the drive spindle; wherein the feed mechanism comprises: wherein said transmission comprises: wherein said first and second pulleys are exchangeable to change a rotation speed of said feed shaft in relation to a speed of the drive motor. | 31,670 |
9,428,409 | 1. A kit for installation on a top portion of a tank to treat a liquid comprising: a pump volute or hydrocyclone head having an inlet and throat having an outlet and a central axis, wherein the outlet of the throat is configured to be installed on the top portion of the tank and the tank has a maximum inner diameter that is larger than an inner diameter of the outlet of the throat; and a wave energy source comprising a first electrode within the pump volute or hydrocyclone head that is aligned with the central axis, and a second electrode that is configured to be installed within the tank such that the second electrode is spaced apart and axially aligned with first electrode along the central axis. | 9,462 |
9,120,295 | 1. A selectively permeable protective structure comprising: (a) a continuous chitosan/polyhydroxyalkyl film and (b) at least one layer of fabric, wherein the film is obtained by a process comprising the steps: | 28,804 |
8,941,693 | 1. A method comprising: detecting, by display driver logic, inactivity on an auxiliary channel between said display driver logic and display logic when a main link is on; deactivating said auxiliary channel by said display driver logic; wherein deactivating said auxiliary channel by said display driver logic, comprises: leaving the main link on when the auxiliary channel is deactivated. | 38,524 |
9,656,096 | 1. An electromagnetic treatment device for accelerating cytosolic ion binding to a corresponding cytosolic buffer to modulate a biochemical signaling pathway employed for tissue growth, repair and maintenance, the device configured to increase a voltage across a target ion binding pathway according to an asymmetrical binding kinetics of the target pathway, wherein the target ion binding pathway has an ion bound time, the device comprising: a flexible and circular lightweight wire coil applicator; and a signal generator configured to apply an electromagnetic signal to the applicator to induce, in the target pathway, a peak electric field between 1 to 100 V/m, wherein a signal generated by the signal generator has a pulse duration, random signal duration or carrier period which is less than twice the ion bound time, applied in a burst of waveforms having a pulse duration of between 1 μs and 100 μs, further wherein the signal generated has a burst duration between 1 to 10 msec of between 5 MHz to 50 MHz carrier waves, repeating between 1 and 10 bursts/sec. | 35,302 |
8,803,868 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: generating display images for a display screen of a mobile device, the display images including animation, the mobile device having a plurality of power consumption states for a user interface to control power consumption in the use of the mobile device, the power consumption states including a full operation state and a plurality of reduced power consumption states to reduce power consumed by the display screen by gradually imposing changes in illumination and animation as the mobile device is transitioned to different power consumption states in response to a device setting and in response to power limitations for the mobile device, each power consumption state including a combination of certain restrictions on illumination and certain restrictions on animation, a lower power consumption state having greater restrictions on illumination and greater restrictions on animation for the user interface than a higher power consumption state; transitioning the mobile device from a higher first power consumption state to a lower second power consumption state of the plurality of power consumption states in response to power limitations for the mobile device, wherein transitioning the mobile device from the first power consumption state to the second power consumption state includes: | 35,895 |
9,556,031 | 1. A composition of matter comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes on a metal substrate, the plurality of carbon nanotubes comprising entangled agglomerations of carbon nanotubes wherein the plurality of entangled agglomerations of carbon nanotubes is clustered with a characteristic dimension of less than 1 millimeter, the plurality of carbon nanotubes comprising a plurality of diameters and a plurality of lengths, the plurality of carbon nanotubes formed by reacting carbon dioxide with a gaseous reducing agent in the presence of an iron-containing catalyst, at least some of the carbon nanotubes of the plurality of carbon nanotubes comprising a particle of the iron-containing catalyst at an end thereof, the iron-containing catalyst having a diameter between about 1.3 and about 1.6 times a diameter of the respective carbon nanotube. | 33,333 |
8,613,771 | 1. An intervertebral artificial disc for positioning between a first and second vertebra, comprising: a first endplate having a plurality of protrusions for attaching to the first vertebrae and an extension portion extending towards the second adjacent vertebra; a second endplate having a plurality of protrusions for attaching to the second vertebrae and an extension portion extending towards the first vertebrae; a flexible member having an upper portion and a lower portion; a plate positioned completely within a first cavity in the upper portion of the flexible member; and, wherein the extension portion of the first endplate is adapted to fit within the first cavity in the upper portion of the flexible member and the extension portion of the second endplate is adapted to fit within a second cavity in the lower portion of the flexible member wherein the extension portion of the first endplate engages with the plate to allow translation. | 3,820 |
8,903,033 | 1. A high resolution digital rod position indication system for determining an axial position of a control rod within a reactor, the control rod being coupled to a drive rod that is moved by predetermined increments spaced apart along a range of motion, said high resolution digital rod position indication system comprising: a plurality of detection coils spaced apart at predetermined intervals, the spacing of the predetermined intervals being greater than the spacing of the predetermined increments, adapted to be excited by a low voltage ac source, each of said plurality of detection coils adapted to sense the presence of the drive rod, each of said plurality of detection coils adapted to produce an output signal, said output signals having fluctuations corresponding to each incremental movement of the drive rod; a data acquisition unit adapted to be placed in electrical communication with each detection coil of the plurality of the detection coils, said data acquisition unit sampling said output signals from the plurality of the detection coils; a processing unit in communication with said data acquisition unit, said processing unit deriving the axial position of the control rod, relative to each predetermined increment, based on said fluctuations corresponding to the incremental movements. | 11,781 |
9,313,840 | 1. A method comprising: operating a switching power converter in discontinuous conduction mode when an input voltage to the switching power converter is less than a threshold voltage; operating the switching power converter in critical conduction mode when the input voltage is greater than the threshold voltage; receiving a primary-side sense signal, wherein the primary-side sense signal is from a portion of a switching power converter that includes a primary-side of a transformer and the sense signal represents a secondary-side voltage across a secondary-side of the transformer; when the switching power converter is operating in critical conduction mode: generating a switch control signal pulse in accordance with the determined time value, which indicates occurrence of the minimum value of the secondary-side voltage, to control conductivity of a switch that controls current in the primary-side of the transformer of the switching power converter. | 22,941 |
8,860,943 | 1. A method for fabricating a plasmonic structure for use in a surface plasmon resonance sensor, comprising: coating a surface of an optically clear substrate with a monolayer of microspheres forming a sphere mask; etching the sphere mask to produce an array of microholes; depositing an adsorption layer on the etched sphere mask and the surface of the optically clear substrate; depositing a metallic film on the adsorption layer; and removing the sphere mask. | 14,297 |
9,169,131 | 1. A method for removing total organic compounds from a brine solution containing nonvolatile organic compounds to permit further processing of the brine solution by an electromechanical filter, said method consisting of: introducing a brine solution to a tank; introducing an acid to said tank to adjust and maintain the pH of the brine solution in the tank such that the pH does not exceed 2; boiling the brine solution in the tank at a temperature of 220° F.-225° F. in the presence of the acid to concentrate the brine solution in said tank and cause said brine solution to react with said acid such that a portion of the nonvolatile organic compounds in the brine solution thermally decompose, oxidize and convert to volatile organic compounds; recovering converted volatile organic compounds from the brine solution in the tank to reduce the amount of total organic compounds in the brine solution; removing the brine solution from the tank after the total organic compounds in the brine solution have been reduced; distilling the brine solution removed from the tank with steam to convert at least some of the nonvolatile organic compounds remaining in the brine solution to additional volatile organic compounds; recovering the additional volatile organic compounds from the brine solution after the brine solution has been distilled to further reduce the amount of total organic compounds in the brine solution; and processing the distilled brine solution with the electromechanical filter after the additional volatile organic compounds are recovered from the brine solution. | 22,755 |
8,432,342 | 1. A pixel of an organic light emitting display, the pixel comprising: a first transistor comprising: a second transistor comprising: a third transistor comprising: a fourth transistor comprising: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) comprising: | 24,321 |
9,609,009 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, first event data indicative of computer network activity of an entity that is part of or has interacted with a computer network, the computer system including a real-time event processing engine and a batch event processing engine; constructing a variable behavior baseline of the entity by using one of the real-time event processing engine or the batch event processing engine in the computer system, based on the first event data, the variable behavior baseline being representative of computer network activity of a particular type by the entity, wherein constructing the behavior baseline of the entity comprises using a machine learning model to construct the behavior baseline of the entity; sharing the variable behavior baseline between the real-time event processing engine and the batch event processing engine; receiving, at the computer system, second event data indicative of additional computer network activity associated with the entity; comparing, by the other one of the real-time event processing engine and the batch event processing engine, the second event data to the shared variable behavior baseline of the entity; determining, by said other one of the real-time event processing engine and the batch event processing engine, that the additional computer network activity associated with the entity represents a network security anomaly or a network security threat, when said comparing results in a determination that the second event data has a specified relationship to the shared variable behavior baseline of the entity; and adjusting the variable behavior baseline of the entity based on the machine learning model. | 34,912 |
9,793,537 | 1. A method of manufacturing a three dimensional electrode structure, comprising: depositing a first layer of contiguous, separated, interdigitated stripes of an active, electrode, paste material and an intermediate material on a substrate in a first direction, the intermediate material being one of either a liquid or gel electrolyte, or a porous material filled with electrolyte; and depositing a second layer of contiguous, separated, interdigitated stripes of the active material on the first layer of interdigitated stripes of material and the intermediate material on the first layer in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. | 20,572 |
8,753,905 | 1. A method of manufacturing a display device, the method comprising: forming a first layer on a first rigid glass substrate, the first layer having a hydrophobic surface; forming a second layer on the first layer to prepare a carrier substrate, the carrier substrate including the first rigid glass substrate, the first layer, and the second layer; bonding a second rigid thin glass substrate onto the second layer; forming and encapsulating a display portion on an upper surface of the second rigid thin glass substrate, the second rigid thin glass substrate positioned between the display portion and the second layer; and irradiating a laser beam to delaminate the first layer and detaching the second rigid thin glass substrate from the first rigid glass substrate. | 36,840 |
8,788,033 | 1. An energy-releasing carbon nanotube transponder responsive to changes in a chemical concentration or electrical property of its environment, and wherein said energy-releasing carbon nanotube transponder is up to 500 nanometers in diameter for delivering electrical energy to a cellular tissue, the energy-releasing nanotube transponder comprising: (a) at least one carbon nanotube; and (b) a nanocapacitor connected to a first end of said at least one carbon nanotube, wherein said nanocapacitor is capable of storing a predetermined amount of electric energy in the form of a mean charge density in the range of between about 1.2×10-5 and about 2.4×10-5 Coulombs/cm2, and said at least one carbon nanotube being connected to said nanocapacitor acts as a nanoswitch for releasing said predetermined amount of electrical energy to said cellular tissue in response to a change in the environment of said energy-releasing carbon nanotube transponder, and wherein a plurality of said energy-releasing carbon nanotube transponders is capable of releasing a biologically destructive electric charge in the range of between about 21 and about 30 microCoulombs/cm2 to said cellular tissue. | 8,696 |
8,928,131 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first substrate; a transistor including a source region and a drain region over the first substrate; an insulating layer over the transistor; a first conductive layer electrically connected to one of the source region and the drain region through a first opening portion in the insulating layer; a second conductive layer electrically connected to the other of the source region and the drain region through a second opening portion in the insulating layer; a first resin layer over the insulating layer; a first layer comprising a conductive particle electrically connected to the first conductive layer in a third opening portion in the first resin layer; a second resin layer over the first layer; a second layer comprising a conductive particle over the second resin layer; a third conductive layer over the second layer; a second substrate over the third conductive layer; and a third substrate over the second substrate, wherein the third conductive layer is electrically connected to the first conductive layer through the first layer, the second resin layer and the second layer, wherein each of the first substrate and the third substrate is a flexible substrate, and wherein each of the second substrate and the third substrate comprises a material in which a resin and a particular of silicon dioxide are mixed. | 49,602 |
8,945,591 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising an immunostimulatory oligodeoxynucleotide molecule (ODN) consisting of the sequence oligo-dIC 26-mer (SEQ ID NO:30). | 13,691 |
8,379,104 | 1. A camera device, comprising: an image capturing unit, a storage system, and at least one processor; and one or more programs stored in the storage system and executed by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising: an image obtaining module operable to predefine a face feature value and an eyes feature value of people, store the face feature value and the eyes feature value into the storage system, and control the image capturing unit to capture a series of digital images of a group of persons; a face detection module operable to detect one or more face areas from each of the digital images according to the face feature value, analyze an image resolution of each of the face areas, and count a number of faces in the face areas in each of the digital images; an eyes detection module operable to detect an eyes area from each of the face areas according to the eyes feature value, analyze an image resolution of each of the eyes areas, and count a number of eyeballs in the eyes areas in each of the digital images; and an image selection module operable to calculate a ratio of the number of faces to the number of eyeballs in each of the digital images, select target images whose ratio of the number of faces to the number of eyeballs is 1:2 from the digital images, and determine one of the target images as a non-blinking image of the group of persons; and wherein the image selection module is further operable to determine whether a total number of the target images is more than one; and wherein the image selection module determines the target image as the non-blinking image if a total number of the target images is equal to one, or selects one of the target images whose face area and eyes area have a highest image resolution as the non-blinking image if the total number of the target images is more than one. | 22,943 |
9,337,133 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a conductive pad disposed over a substrate; a first passivation layer disposed over the conductive pad; a second passivation layer disposed over the first passivation layer; a stress buffer layer disposed over the second passivation layer; and a conductive interconnect layer over and coupled to the conductive pad and over the stress buffer layer, the conductive layer directly contacting sidewalls of the first passivation layer and the stress buffer layer, the stress buffer layer extending along a top surface and a sidewall of the second passivation layer and directly contacting the first passivation layer. | 31,553 |
8,357,074 | 1. A transmission system for transmitting mechanical power flow originating from an engine and an electric machine to an output, comprising: an input, planetary gear sets, torque transfer clutches, a hydraulic circuit, and first and second control modules; the input operatively connected to one of the planetary gear sets; the hydraulic circuit comprising flow management valves and pressure control solenoids selectively operative to apply the torque transfer clutches; the torque transfer clutches selectively actuable to control operation in one of a fixed gear operating range state and a continuously variable operating range state; the first control module: the second control module: | 40,902 |
8,617,418 | 1. A conductive film removal agent comprising an acid having a boiling point of 80° C. or higher, or a base having a boiling point of 80° C. or higher, or a compound which generates an acid or a base by external energy in combination with a solvent, a resin containing a quaternary amino group in a part of the structure thereof, and a leveling agent, wherein the resin is a cationic resin. | 21,026 |
9,769,080 | 1. A switch comprising: a plurality of reserved pools of buffers in a shared memory, each reserved pool of buffers associated with one of a plurality of egress ports and reserved to store data to be forwarded to the egress port; a shared pool of buffers in the shared memory, the shared pool of buffers configured to store data to be forwarded to any of the plurality of egress ports; a multicast pool of buffers in the shared memory reserved to store Multicast packets received from any ingress port to be forwarded to at least one egress port to members of a Multicast group; and a pool select logic comprising a first counter and a second counter, the pool select logic configured to select a free buffer to allocate from the multicast pool of buffers based on counts stored in: i) the first counter configured to count a total number of free buffers; and ii) the second counter configured to count a number of buffers in the multicast pool of buffers, and wherein the first counter is further configured to be preset to a total number of buffers in the shared memory which is less than a sum of: i) free buffers in the shared pool of buffers; ii) free buffers in the reserved pools of buffers; and iii) free buffers in the multicast pool of buffers. | 17,706 |
9,151,255 | 1. A spill resistant fuel supply system for a marine engine, the fuel supply system comprising: a vapor separator having: a high pressure pump configured to pump fuel under positive pressure from the vapor separator chamber to an internal combustion engine; a containment housing that includes surrounding walls that enclose a containment space that (i) contains the vapor separator and the high pressure pump and (ii) is configured to contain fuel leaked from the vapor separator and from the high pressure pump, wherein the containment space is isolated by the vapor separator housing from the vapor separator chamber, and wherein at least one of the walls is an insulating wall, and wherein the insulating wall extends in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction that are perpendicular to each other; a laterally-extending series of openings along a laterally-extending edge of the insulating wall; chambers that are within the insulating wall and elongated in the longitudinal direction and spaced apart in the lateral direction, wherein each of the chambers extends longitudinally from a respective one of the openings to a closed end of the respective chamber; a series of plugs, each plug being inserted in a respective one of the openings to seal the opening, leaving an air space that extends, within the respective chamber, from the respective plug to the closed end of the respective chamber; and a strip that gangs the plugs together, with a spacing between adjacent plugs that matches a spacing between adjacent openings, to facilitate inserting the plugs into the openings simultaneously, wherein the strip is attached to each plug at an end of the plug that projects longitudinally-away from the closed end of the respective chamber. | 43,950 |
9,352,276 | 1. An exhaust after-treatment system for treating an exhaust produced by an engine, comprising: an exhaust conduit; an injector for dosing a reagent exhaust treatment fluid into the exhaust conduit; a swirl device for mixing the reagent exhaust treatment fluid and the exhaust within the exhaust conduit, the swirl device including a cylindrical tube downstream from the injector that defines an inlet for receipt of the reagent exhaust treatment fluid and the exhaust, and a swirl member attached to the cylindrical tube, the swirl member conically expanding outward from the cylindrical tube and including a plurality of tabs separated by elongate slots, the plurality of tabs being configured to swirl the reagent exhaust treatment fluid and a portion of the exhaust and minimize contact between the reagent exhaust treatment fluid and the exhaust conduit; and a flow reversing device positioned downstream from the swirl member, the flow reversing device configured to direct a mixture of the exhaust and reagent exhaust treatment fluid as the mixture exits the swirl member in a direction back toward the cylindrical tube. | 25,034 |
8,847,655 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: an array of switching elements, comprising a first set of switching elements and a second set of switching elements, a switching element of the first set of switching elements having a different electrical resistance than a switching element of the second set of switching elements; and at least one controller electrically connected to the array of switching elements, the controller configured to generate at least one coarse tuning signal, a first fine tuning signal, and a second fine tuning signal, wherein | 13,022 |
9,649,940 | 1. A device for controlling an electric vehicle comprising: a power consumption detector configured to detect a first power consumption of main electric loads associated with the operation of the electric vehicle and a second power consumption of optional electric loads on the electric vehicle; a controller configured to determine a first predicted distance that can be travelled corresponding to the first power consumption detected and a second predicted distance that can be travelled corresponding to the second power consumption detected; and a display configured to display the first and second predicted distances that can be travelled, wherein the controller changes the displayed predicted distances based on turn-on or turn-off settings of the main electric loads, turn-on or turn-off settings of optional electric loads, priorities of the main electric loads, and priorities of the optional electric loads, wherein the controller is configured to: | 49,874 |
8,388,709 | 1. A cutting tool, comprising: a substrate being a cutting tool substrate; a hard material coating on said substrate, said hard material coating having one or more layers, including at least one titanium diboride layer deposited by a thermal CVD process; said titanium diboride layer having a thickness of at least 0.1 μm and having a fine-grained structure with an average grain size of at most 50 nm; and wherein no boron-containing diffusion zone exists in a material of said cutting tool substrate. | 47,020 |
9,323,670 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, in a data storage device, a plurality of unaligned data packets; constructing, in the data storage device, a data bundle by concatenating different ones of the plurality of unaligned data packets; utilizing data loss protection identifiers to track the construction of the data bundle; and employing the data loss protection identifiers to prevent at least one of packet data loss or metadata loss in response to detecting a state reset of the data storage device. | 12,892 |
9,680,769 | 1. A computer implemented method by a local provider edge (PE) device for implementing an E-tree service, the method comprising: obtaining, by the local PE device, leaf PE attribute information of a peer PE device; determining, by the local PE device, whether: the local PE device is a leaf PE device connecting one or more leaf nodes rather than connecting a root node, and the leaf PE attribute information of the peer PE device indicates that the peer PE device is a leaf PE device connecting one or more leaf nodes rather than connecting a root node; and forbidding, by the local PE device, a pseudo-wire (PW) connection between the local PE device and the peer PE device in response to determining that (a) the local PE device is a leaf PE device connecting one or more leaf nodes rather than connecting a root node, and (b) the leaf PE attribute information of the peer PE device indicates that the peer PE device is a leaf PE device connecting one or more leaf nodes rather than connecting a root node; and wherein, in response to determining that the leaf PE attribute information of the peer PE device indicates that the peer PE device is a non-leaf PE device, the method further comprises: | 42,316 |
9,156,285 | 1. A printing system for printing on a print medium, comprising: a first linehead disposed opposite a first side of the print medium, the first linehead defining one or more print zones where a liquid is jetted onto the first side of the print medium; a plurality of transport rollers disposed adjacent to the second side of the print medium, wherein at least one transport roller is disposed opposite the first linehead and is aligned with one of the one or more print zones of the first linehead; a vacuum manifold disposed opposite the second side of the print medium, wherein the vacuum manifold is aligned with the aligned transport roller and outputs a vacuum force that operates on the second side of the print medium to deflect the print medium causing an increase in a wrap angle of the print medium around the aligned transport roller; and one or more sealing rollers disposed adjacent to the second side of the print medium and laterally adjacent to the vacuum manifold to prevent leakage of air. | 2,093 |
9,192,481 | 1. An expandable prosthetic implant device for engagement between vertebrae, comprising: an inner member having a hollow interior portion, the hollow interior portion including a plurality of teeth, and including a first end portion configured to engage a first vertebral body; an outer member having a hollow interior portion configured to coaxially receive a portion of the inner member therein and including a second end portion configured to engage a second vertebral body, wherein the inner and outer members are moveable relative to each other along a longitudinal axis; a gear member positioned between the inner member and outer members and capable of rotating along an axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein the hollow interior portion of the outer member includes a plurality of teeth, wherein the gear member engages the teeth of the inner member and the teeth of the outer member, and wherein rotation of the gear member causes the outer member to move relative to the inner member along the longitudinal axis. | 47,015 |
9,010,041 | 1. A height-adjustable roof anchor for solar modules, the roof anchor comprising: a base having a hole therein, the hole comprising an inner wall; a height adjustment member having an upper portion configured to engage at least one solar module with a brace, the height adjustment member extending from the hole of the base and upwardly away from the base, the height adjustment member having an annular groove formed around the circumference of the rod, the annular groove positioned within the hole; a locking portion engaging the annular groove so as to retain the height adjustment member in the hole and allow the height adjustment member to rotate about a rotational axis, wherein the height adjustment member is configured to adjust a height of the at least one solar module during rotation about the rotational axis; a sleeve disposed over the height adjustment member and configured to be disposed through an opening in the brace; and an anti-rotation portion to prevent relative rotation between the sleeve and the brace. | 32,515 |
8,493,711 | 1. An electrode material comprising: a conformal surface coating of metal oxide, said metal oxide coating comprising one or more of manganese, nickel, cobalt, iron, aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, rhodium, iridium, osmium, rhenium, vanadium, tungsten, tantalum, palladium, lead, tin, titanium, copper, zinc, niobium or lithium, wherein said metal oxide coating is not solely MnO a monolithic porous carbon structure comprising a carbon xerogel formed with one or more carbon microfibers, carbon nanofibers, carbon nanotubes, graphite, graphene, carbon black or activated carbon, said porous carbon structure further comprising pores of above average pore size and pores of below average pore size, wherein said pores of above average pore size have an average diameter larger than about two nanometers and wherein pores of below average pore size are smaller than about five micrometers. | 37,798 |
9,025,185 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit that receives from a first information processing apparatus ( a registering unit that registers in a storing unit the reservation and the information regarding the period of time received by the first receiving unit; a requiring unit that requires the first information processing apparatus to transmit the management setting, in a case where a time at which a communication from the second information processing apparatus was received corresponds to the information regarding the period of time registered in the storing unit; a second receiving unit that receives from the first information processing apparatus, in response to a request by the requiring unit, the management setting to be processed by the second information processing apparatus; a transmitting unit that transmits to the second information processing apparatus the management setting received by the second receiving unit; and an instructing unit, wherein the first receiving unit receives standby time during which the second information processing apparatus is in a standby state, wherein in a case where the reservation is stored in the storing unit when the communication from the second information processing apparatus is received, the instructing unit instructs the second information processing apparatus to send a communication to the information processing apparatus after the standby time received by the first receiving unit has passed, and wherein in a case where the communication from the second information processing apparatus is received after the standby time has passed, the transmitting unit transmits the management setting received by the second receiving unit to the second information processing apparatus. | 25,136 |
9,552,922 | 1. A ferrite core structure for a power supply device of an electric vehicle which includes multiple horizontal core parts arranged spaced apart from each other to prevent a magnetic flux from leaking into the ground, multiple first vertical core parts extending from both ends of said horizontal core parts upward to prevent a magnetic flux from leaking into an outer surface, a second vertical core part having at least two rows extending upward from an intermediate portion of each of said horizontal core parts and being arranged in a direction parallel to said first vertical core parts, and a first support part connecting said multiple first vertical core parts to each other to support said first vertical core parts, provided that said second vertical core parts disperse flexural loading upon both sides of said second vertical core parts to prevent cracks from being generated in a surface of an intermediate portion of a power supply road. | 34,533 |
9,098,209 | 1. A module, comprising: a memory interface configured to interface with a memory controller, the memory interface including a memory data interface and a memory command/address interface; and, the module to execute instructions received via the memory data interface from the memory controller, the instructions to be addressed to a memory space of the module that includes an instruction queue, the instruction queue comprising a plurality of column addresses, wherein the instructions received via the memory data interface include command tag pairs, each command tag pair including a tag value corresponding to an instruction order bit and a command associated with the instruction order bit, wherein the instruction order bits determine a relative order of the instructions and the execution of instructions are reordered using the instruction order bits. | 49,394 |
8,441,147 | 1. A bypass device comprising: a stationary portion of a first set of contacts connected to at least first and second output terminals of a power cell; a symmetrically magnetically latching solenoid that, when energized, moves a moving portion of the first set of contacts from a first position to a second position or from the second position to the first position; and at least one added insulating material positioned between the solenoid and the first set of contacts, and configured to allow a voltage between the magnetically latching solenoid and the first and second output terminals of the power cell to exceed a voltage between said output terminals. | 5,438 |
8,365,586 | 1. A method of monitoring soot mass in a particulate filter of an exhaust system comprising: predicting soot mass in the particulate filter based at least partially on a pressure differential between exhaust flowing into the filter and exhaust flowing out of the filter; and revising the predicted soot mass based at least partially on measured operating parameters indicative of mass flow rate of nitrogen oxides in exhaust flow of the exhaust system and temperature of the particulate filter. | 44,851 |
9,187,390 | 1. A process for the one-step conversion of a pre-treated lignin feedstream that has been pre-treated by steam explosion, hydrolysis, and fermentation into a converted lignin stream, the process comprised of: combining in a lignin conversion vessel: the pre-treated lignin feedstream, water supplied from the group consisting of the pre-treated lignin feedstream, a source other than the pre-treated lignin feedstream and mixtures thereof, hydrogen having a hydrogen pressure which at 25° C. is in the range of 35 to 138.9 bar, and a first catalyst comprising an elemental metal catalyst, and maintaining the combination in the lignin conversion vessel at a first temperature in the range of 320° C. to 360° C. for a time sufficient to create the converted lignin stream, wherein the pre-treated lignin feedstream comprises lignin, cellulose and water wherein the ratio of moles of hydrogen to moles of lignin and cellulose is at least 0.5 and wherein the lignin of the pre-treated lignin feedstream is present as a solid. | 37,195 |
9,030,510 | 1. A color erasing apparatus comprising: a paper feeding section configured to supply to a conveying path a paper on which images are formed by a heat-erasable coloring material; a sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a thickness of the paper; a paper thickness detector configured to determine the thickness of the paper based on the sensor signal; a color erasing section configured to heat the paper, the color erasing section including: a heat source temperature controller configured to individually control the first heat source and the second heat source at different predetermined temperatures that are based on the determined thickness of the paper. | 29,186 |
9,511,762 | 1. A control apparatus for an automatic transmission into which driving forces from driving sources including an engine and a motor are inputted, the control apparatus comprising: a frictional engagement element engaged in a traveling range; engagement start determining means for determining that the frictional engagement element has started the engagement in a case where a load of the motor is increased by a predetermined quantity, during a revolution number control in which a revolution number of an input shaft of the automatic transmission is controlled to a predetermined target revolution number and when the traveling range is selected and the frictional engagement element in a release state is engaged; and determination inhibit means for inhibiting the determination by the engagement start determining means before the determination that the frictional engagement element has started the engagement and in a case where a switching from an HEV mode in which the driving forces from the engine and the motor are inputted to the input shaft to an EV mode in which the driving force of only the motor is inputted to the input shaft occurs. | 11,818 |
9,636,845 | 1. A method of manufacturing PET nurdles, said method comprising: providing a PET crystallizer; passing a plurality of flakes of recycled PET through said PET crystallizer to at least partially dry a surface of said plurality of flakes of recycled PET; providing a multi-screw extruder that comprises: using said pressure regulation system to reduce a pressure within said first and second satellite screw extruders to below about 18 millibars; after passing said plurality of flakes of recycled PET through said crystallizer melting said plurality of flakes of recycled PET to form a polymer melt; while maintaining said pressure within said first and second satellite screw extruders below about 18 millibars, passing said polymer melt through said multi-screw extruder so that: (1) a first portion of said melt passes through said first satellite screw extruder, and (2) a second portion of said melt passes through said second satellite screw extruder; after said step of passing said melt of recycled polymer through said multi-screw extruder, pelletizing said polymer melt into a plurality of polymer nurdles. | 49,255 |
9,854,688 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a frame having a supporting surface; a panel module comprising: an adjusting pad disposed between the supporting surface and the bonding region of the substrate, and the thickness of the adjusting pad being gradually reduced from the center toward the two sides thereof, wherein the thickness of the adjusting pad corresponding to the chips disposed at the center of the bonding region is greater than the thickness of the adjusting pad corresponding to the chips disposed at the two sides of the bonding region. | 24,001 |
9,214,664 | 1. A cathode active material comprising a lithium manganese-based oxide, wherein the lithium manganese-based oxide has a spinel structure, exhibits core-shell phase transition by which phase transition of a crystal structure occurs from a cubic structure to a tetragonal structure in a direction from the surface of particles to the center of the particles during discharging to the 3V region, and comprises a conductive material at the shell, wherein the cathode active material is a complex of the lithium manganese-based oxide and the conductive material which includes a first carbonaceous material and a second carbonaceous material, wherein the cathode active material is formed by mixing the spinel lithium manganese-based oxide with the first carbonaceous material and the second carbonaceous material by high energy milling, and wherein the first carbonaceous material has a particle diameter of 0.3 μm to 30 μm, and the second carbonaceous material has a article diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm in a rang e smaller than the particle diameter of the first carbonaceous material, wherein the lithium manganese-based oxide is formed by calcining a lithium compound and a manganese compound, wherein the lithium compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of Li | 12,701 |
9,122,346 | 1. An input-output calibration method performed by a processing unit connected to an output device and an input device, wherein the output device and the input device correspond to an output device coordinate system and an input device coordinate system, respectively, the method comprising: using the input device to derive a plurality of lines in the input device coordinate system for M calibration points by sensing a viewer specifying the M calibration points' positions, wherein the plurality of lines are between the M calibration points and the viewer's different positions, and M is a positive integer equal to or larger than three; deriving the M calibration points' coordinates in the input device coordinate system according to the plurality of lines; and using the M calibration points' coordinates in the output device coordinate system and coordinates in the input device coordinate system to derive the relationship between the output device coordinate system and the input device coordinate system. | 7,585 |
9,186,423 | 1. A compound of radiocontrast agent for tau protein, comprising a structural formula: wherein, F is an element selected from a group consisting of a radioactive element with labeling function and a non-radioactive element without labeling function. | 26,267 |
8,355,226 | 1. A ground fault sensing device for a drive system that converts direct current electrical power from a direct current power supply into alternating current electrical power and drives an electric motor with that alternating current electrical power, comprising: an extraction circuit that is connected to a power supply line of the direct current power supply via a coupling capacitor, that detects an amplitude wave that is generated when an alternating current side including the electric motor is suffering a ground fault, and that extracts the envelope of the amplitude wave; a measurement circuit that measures the voltage level of the envelope; and a determination circuit that makes a decision as to whether or not a ground fault has occurred on the alternating current side by comparing together the voltage level measured by the measurement circuit and a ground fault decision value, wherein the ground fault decision value is set according to the rotation speed of the electric motor. | 37,294 |
8,742,657 | 1. A first device, comprising: a pixel comprising: | 34,582 |
8,708,036 | 1. A heat exchanger for cooling high-temperature gas, comprising: a gas tank portion into which the high-temperature gas is supplied through an inlet port of the gas tank portion; a plurality of tubes configured such that the high-temperature gas flowing from the gas tank portion passes therethrough, each of the tubes having an expansion portion located at a side of the inlet port; and a cooling-medium tank portion covering each of the tubes with a gap defined therebetween, the cooling-medium tank portion being configured such that a cooling medium flows in the gap on an outer peripheral surface of the plurality of tubes, wherein the tubes are stacked and the expansion portions of the tubes are joined each other so that high-temperature gas passages in the tubes and the gap as a cooling medium passage are separated, a partition portion between the gas tank portion and the cooling-medium tank portion has a thickness larger than a thickness of the gas tank portion or the cooling-medium tank portion; and a circular plate, wherein: | 33,741 |
9,051,857 | 1. A diesel particle filter comprising a ceramic wall-flow filter substrate and a coating applied in the inflow ducts, wherein the wall-flow filter substrate comprises inflow ducts, outflow ducts, and walls between the inflow ducts and the outflow ducts, the walls comprise pores that connect the inflow ducts and outflow ducts, the coating comprises material with a high melting point and has a solid matter loading of 1-50 g/L in relation to the volume of the wall-flow filter substrate, the coating is present in a manner that closes off pores that connect the inflow ducts and outflow ducts in a manner that inhibits the passage of soot particles at the inflow side without preventing the passage of gaseous exhaust-gas constituents, and the material of the coating predominantly contains one or more oxides which have a high melting point and the particle sizes of which are adapted to the pore sizes in the wall of the wall-flow filter substrate in such a way that the d | 36,492 |
9,720,373 | 1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, wherein a cartridge, having a first contact portion and a second contact portion, is detachably mountable to said image forming apparatus in a mounting direction, said image forming apparatus comprising: a main assembly, wherein the second contact portion is located at a position downstream of the first contact portion with respect to the mounting direction; a movable member movable between a projected position in which said movable member is in an insertion path of the second contact portion when the cartridge is mounted to said main assembly, and a retracted position in which said movable member is retracted from the insertion path; a first portion-to-be-contacted, provided on said movable member, for placing said movable member in the retracted position by being contacted by the second contact portion; a second portion-to-be-contacted, provided on said movable member at a position downstream of said first portion-to-be-contacted with respect to the mounting direction, for placing said movable member in the retracted position by being contacted by the second contact portion; and a recess provided in said movable member between said first portion-to-be-contacted and said second portion-to-be-contacted with respect to the mounting direction, said recess being recessed beyond said first portion-to-be-contacted and said second portion-to-be-contacted in a moving direction of said movable member, and said recess crossing the insertion path when said movable member is in the projected position, wherein the first contact portion and the second contact portion are capable of passing said movable member in the mounting direction without the second contact portion entering said recess in the process of mounting said cartridge to said main assembly. | 9,846 |
9,227,385 | 1. A method for processing a translucent rigid substrate laminate comprising the steps of: preparing a translucent rigid substrate laminate by adhering two or more translucent rigid substrates with photocurable adhering agent; fixing the laminate to a cradle with adhesive X, adhesive Y, or combination thereof described below; <adhesive X> an adhesive composition, which contains (A′) polyfunctional (meth)acrylate, (B′) monofunctional (meth)acrylate, (C′) organic peroxide, and (D′) decomposition accelerator of the organic peroxide, in which total mass of the constituents (A′), (B′), (C′), and (D′) occupies 90% by mass or more of the composition <adhesive Y> an adhesive composition, which contains (A) polyfunctional (meth)acrylate, (B) monofunctional (meth)acrylate, and (C) photopolymerization initiator, in which total mass of the constituents (A), (B), and (C) occupies 90% by mass or more of the composition performing processing A for cutting the laminate, which is fixed to the cradle, in a thickness direction and forming a desired number of divided translucent rigid substrate laminates, or performing desired outline processing B on the laminate which is fixed to the cradle; and peeling the processed translucent rigid substrate laminate from the cradle by applying external force without heating the translucent rigid substrate laminate at 40° C. or more, wherein the processing B is performed, and the adhesive X and the adhesive Y are applied to the cradle and/or the bonding planes of the laminates in an application pattern in which the adhesive Y surrounds the adhesive X. | 11,824 |
9,278,685 | 1. A hybrid powertrain operating method, comprising: opening a driveline disconnect clutch positioned in a driveline between an electric machine and an engine in response to a request to adjust a transfer function of a torque converter lockup clutch; rotating at least a portion of the electric machine in the driveline; applying the torque converter lockup clutch in a plurality of step increases of application force commands in response to the request to adjust the transfer function of the torque converter lockup clutch; and adjusting the transfer function of the torque converter lockup clutch based on an amount of current supplied to the electric machine to maintain electric machine speed at a constant speed while applying the torque converter lockup clutch in the plurality of step increases in application force commands. | 38,398 |
9,123,923 | 1. A redox flow battery comprising a porous membrane or a composite membrane, wherein said porous membranes is made of at least one organic high molecular weight resin selected from the group consisting of polysulfone (PSF), polyketone, polyimide (PI), polybenzimidazole, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polyvinyl pyridine, polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polypropylene, polyethylene, polybutadiene, and cellulose acetate, said composite membrane is prepared via doping inorganic particles in the pores of the porous membrane, the pore size, porosity, and thickness of said porous membrane and composite membrane are 0.05˜20 nm, 20˜60%, and 20˜500 μm, respectively, said porous membrane and composite membrane are free of ion exchange groups, and said redox flow battery is a vanadium flow battery. | 5,367 |
8,911,020 | 1. A passenger seat comprising: (a) a seat back support; (b) a head rest assembly slidingly coupled to the seat back support via at least one track, the head rest assembly comprising: wherein the rest bar is positioned adjacent the head support when the lower head support is in a stowed position, and wherein the rest bar is positioned a distance forward of the head support when the lower head support is in a deployed position. | 26,692 |
8,370,930 | 1. A method for filtering an email comprising: analyzing one or more non-image portions of the email to calculate a distribution profile for the email, at least some of the distribution profile based upon a first location of a first non-image portion of the email and a second location of a second non-image portion of the email, the first non-image portion associated with a first feature, the second non-image portion associated with a second feature; and determining whether to filter the email based at least in part on the distribution profile, at least some of at least one of the analyzing or the determining implemented at least in part via a processing unit. | 12,520 |
8,481,331 | 1. A color indicator composition, comprising: a first composition comprising an indicator dye dissolved in a solvent; a second composition comprising a reducing agent, said reducing agent adapted to react with said indicator dye and form a reduced indicator dye, said reducing agent comprising sodium methoxide, sodium ethoxide, sodium propoxide, sodium butoxide, potassium methoxide, potassium etlaoxide, potassium propoxide, potassium butoxide, calcium methoxide, calcium etlaoxide, calcium propoxide, calcium butoxide, magnesium methoxide, magnesium ethoxide, magnesium propoxide, magnesium butoxide, or an organosiloxane polymer having a viscosity of from 1 to about 1 million centistokes, or any combination thereof; and said reduced form of said indicator dye adapted to visibly change color upon exposure to hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, or ethylene oxide. | 27,045 |
9,828,318 | 1. A method for selectively producing dipropylene glycol containing 1,1′-oxybis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70 and/or tripropylene glycol containing 1,1′-[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl)bis(oxy)]bis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70, the method comprising reacting a reactant comprising propylene oxide with water in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst is an oxide of at least one element selected from niobium and tantalum, or an acid containing tantalum, wherein the Hammett acidity function (H) of the catalyst satisfies H≦9.3, and wherein the catalyst comprises an alkali metal and/or an alkaline earth metal and optionally further comprises vanadium, and wherein the ratio of the total number of moles of the alkali metal and the alkaline earth metal contained in the catalyst to a total number of moles of vanadium, niobium, and tantalum contained in the catalyst is 0.45 or less. | 32,420 |
9,479,382 | 1. A system, comprising: a plurality of computing devices configured to implement a plurality of resources of a provider network, wherein the resources are organized into a plurality of resource pools, wherein each resource pool of the plurality of resource pools has an associated pricing policy and an associated resource usage interruptibility policy, and wherein at least one resource pool of the plurality of resource pools has a different resource usage interruptibility policy than another one of the plurality of resource pools; and one or more computing devices configured to implement a resource manager; wherein the resource manager is configured to: | 14,794 |
9,754,310 | 1. A payment processing system configured to process payments for purchases made by users, the payment processing system comprising: a non-transitory memory storing account information for a user, wherein the account information includes products previously purchased by the user via the payment processing system; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to execute instructions to cause the payment processing system to perform operations comprising: | 47,759 |
9,568,197 | 1. A fuel nozzle assembly comprising: a fuel nozzle providing a housing at least partially shielding an optical sensor, the sensor configured to detect a fuel delivery parameter, wherein the fuel nozzle includes a fuel exit, and an end of the sensor is arranged near the fuel exit; an optical decoder supported by the housing and in communication with the optical sensor; a trim valve supported by the housing and configured to regulate a flow of fuel to the fuel exit; and wherein the fuel nozzle, the optical sensor, the optical decoder and the trim valve provide an integrated unit with the housing and replaceable as a unitary assembly. | 10,762 |
9,496,428 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising a first cell and a second cell, each of the first cell and the second cell comprising: a first conductive film to serve as a first electrode over an insulator; a first impurity semiconductor layer having one conductivity type over the first electrode; an intrinsic semiconductor layer over the first impurity semiconductor layer; a second impurity semiconductor layer having an opposite conductivity type to the one conductivity type over the intrinsic semiconductor layer; and a second conductive film, which is light-transmissive, to serve as a second electrode over the second impurity semiconductor layer, wherein openings are formed in the second electrode and the second impurity semiconductor layer and at least one of the openings is formed in a light-receiving portion, wherein the one of the openings is surrounded by the second impurity semiconductor layer and the second conductive film, wherein a lowermost part of the one of the openings is inside of the intrinsic semiconductor layer, wherein the first cell and the second cell are isolated from each other by a first scribe line filled with a resin, wherein the first cell is electrically connected to the second cell through a second scribe line filled with a conductive resin, and wherein each of the first scribe line and the second scribe line penetrates the first conductive film, the first impurity semiconductor layer, the intrinsic semiconductor layer, the second impurity semiconductor layer, and the second conductive film. | 32,879 |
9,328,724 | 1. A rocking piston type compressor comprising: a piston rod which is slidable while rocking in a cylinder; a lip ring provided at a leading end portion of the piston rod and configured to seal between the cylinder and the piston rod; and a ring holding member provided at the leading end portion of the piston rod and configured to fix the lip ring to the piston rod by sandwiching the lip ring between the leading end portion of the piston rod and the ring holding member, wherein the lip ring includes: wherein the ring holding member includes a flange portion extending along the periphery of the ring holding member and covering a part of the upper end surface of the lip portion, wherein a back pressure introducing portion is provided in a part of the flange portion where the flange portion does not cover the upper end surface of the lip portion, and wherein the back pressure introducting portion is provided in a part of the flange portion that is disposed apart from a rocking direction of the piston rod. | 46,274 |
8,596,419 | 1. A divider device for a flow of lubricant carried by a gas, the divider device comprising: a distribution barrel having an end face, a plurality of outlet orifices spaced from the end face, and longitudinal distribution channels extending from the end face and communicating with the outlet orifices, and a connection piece mounted upstream of the distribution barrel such that an axial gap is positioned between the connection piece and the distribution barrel, the location of the axial gap in the divider device forming a chamber located between and separating the distribution barrel and the connection piece such that the distribution barrel does not contact the connection piece, the connection piece including a hollow body with a bore through which passes the flow of lubricant and gas, the bore having a localized throttling region of reduced cross section and a region of enlarged cross section, wherein the chamber surrounds a downstream tubular portion of the region of enlarged cross section of the connection piece, the chamber also being positioned between the downstream tubular portion and an assembly tube within which the connection piece is positioned. | 41,370 |
9,676,370 | 1. A washer fluid system for a vehicle comprising: a motor and pump assembly having a housing which defines a fluid inlet for receiving fluid for the washer system; an internally threaded section of the housing at the fluid inlet, wherein the threaded section corresponds to typical external threads on a washer bottle; a holster assembly configured to receive said washer bottle, wherein the holster assembly includes; a cage configured to receive a portion of the washer bottle; a handle to secure the washer bottle within the holster assembly; a locking device to secure a handle of the washer bottle once the washer bottled is placed and rotated to engage the threads located on the housing at the fluid inlet, wherein the bottle is rotated to an assembled position, wherein the locking device prevents rotation of the washer bottle on the threads and relative to the housing defining the fluid inlet; and a bayonet to pierce a foil cap of the washer bottle when the washer bottle is received within the cage portion of the holster assembly; and wherein the motor and pump assembly are in fluid communication with the washer bottle, once the washer bottle is secured within the holster assembly. | 8,115 |
9,035,689 | 1. A method of controlling an operating characteristic of a switching device, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a drive signal to a gate of the switching device to thereby operate the switching device; measuring at least one parameter that is representative of an operating condition of the switching device, wherein the measuring comprises measuring a collector-emitter voltage, a supply current, a switching frequency and a case temperature of the switching device; using the at least one parameter to generate at least one control signal, wherein the using comprises controlling the operating characteristic of the switching device by modifying the drive signal in response to the at least one control signal. | 30,181 |
8,582,498 | 1. A method in a network device comprising: determining the geophysical location of a plurality of devices on a wireless communication network, said devices comprising subscriber access points for said network, said plurality of devices comprising a first device, a second device, and a third device; receiving a subscription request on said first device from a subscriber device; presenting a plurality of geographic areas to a user of said subscriber device; receiving a selection for a specific geographic area; determining that said subscription request encompasses said specific geographic area; determining that said second device is within said specific geographic area; determining that said third device is outside said specific geographical area; and generating configuration information such that said subscriber device may connect to said first device and said second device but not said third device. | 17,645 |
9,279,930 | 1. A light guide plate comprising: a light guide plate main body having a light emitting plane, a bottom plane opposite to the light emitting plane, the light guide plate main body being divided into a plurality of subsections according to a scanning mode, each of opposite edges of each subsection having a borderline, and adjacent two subsections sharing a borderline; a plurality of first scattering dots discontinuously disposed on the subsections of the light guide plate main body; and a plurality of second scattering dots disposed on the borderlines of the light guide plate main body, the second scattering dots being long-shaped microstructures, the microstructures being concave inward from at least one of the light emitting plane or the bottom plane of the light guide plate main body, and a long direction of the second scattering dot being parallel to the borderline. | 4,888 |
9,036,543 | 1. A mobile terminal apparatus in a radio communication system using a relatively wide system band obtained by aggregating a plurality of component carriers each of which is a relatively narrow system band, comprising: an uplink signal generating section for transmitting uplink control signals; a coding and data modulation section configured to concatenate the uplink control signals each of which includes ACK/NACK information of each component carrier assigned to downlink to perform coding and data modulation on a concatenated uplink control signal; and a PUCCH mapping section configured to map the concatenated uplink control signal subjected to coding and data modulation to an uplink control channel (PUCCH) assigned in a Long Term Evolution Advancement (LTE-A) format supporting the plurality of component carriers; and a PUSCH mapping section configured to map the concatenated uplink control signal subjected to coding and data modulation to an uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the concatenated uplink control signal is transmitted either on the PUCCH or on the PUSCH, and when there is no PUSCH transmission, the concatenated uplink control signal is transmitted on the PUCCH. | 49,499 |
9,246,895 | 1. A method of setting an identification (ID) and authentication information for each of a plurality of devices, and authenticating network connection between a smart meter and the devices by using a server connected to (i) the smart meter via a first communication network and (ii) a controller, which is one of the devices, via a second communication network, the method comprising: obtaining, by the server from the smart meter, an ID of the smart meter via the first communication network, the ID being associated with user information of the smart meter; obtaining, by the server from the controller, (i) an ID and authentication information of the controller which are associated with user information of the controller and (ii) an ID and authentication information of an appliance, the controller and the appliance each being one of the devices, and the ID and the authentication information of the controller and the ID and the authentication information of the appliance being obtained by the server from the controller via the second communication network without communication with the smart meter; generating, by the server, based on the user information of the smart meter and the user information of the controller, management information in which the ID of the smart meter, the ID and the authentication information of the controller, and the ID and the authentication information of the appliance are associated with one another; transmitting, by the server, based on the management information, the ID and the authentication information of the controller and the ID and the authentication information of the appliance which are associated with the ID of the smart meter, to the smart meter; transmitting, by the controller, an authentication request to the smart meter, the authentication request being information which requests authentication, the authentication request including an ID and authentication information; and obtaining, by the controller from the smart meter in response to the authentication request, permission to establish a network connection between the controller and the smart meter, wherein the controller controls the appliance. | 18,718 |
9,409,233 | 1. A method of manufacturing a molding element for a tire mold, the molding element comprising a sintered part and a non-sintered part attached to the sintered part, the sintered part comprising a shell and a core internal to the shell and formed as one piece with the shell, the core comprising a meshed structure comprising a plurality of cavities, the method comprising: manufacturing the sintered part of the molding element from a metallic powder deposited on a surface of a non-sintered support plate which is completely flat except for any machined striations, wherein the metallic powder is fused layer by layer, and wherein the sintered part is attached to the support plate by fused metallic powder; machining the support plate to form the non-sintered part of the molding element, the machining of the support plate forms the non-sintered part formed as a base on which the sintered part of the molding element rests completely, and the support plate is machined to create a surface exactly the size of the sintered part at a junction where the support plate and the sintered part meet. | 11,964 |
9,042,398 | 1. A routing method, comprising steps of: receiving incoming Internet Protocol (IP) packets at a router; placing a first plurality of the received IP packets intended for an output port of the router in a first queue of a round robin scheduler of the router; placing a second plurality of the received IP packets intended for the output port of the router in a second queue of the round robin scheduler of the router; computing a moving average over time for incoming packet size, from sizes of the IP packets received at the router, the moving average being computed from an average of both the first plurality of IP packets and the second plurality of IP packets over a predetermined period of time; weighting the moving average based on a previous moving average from a previous period of time; dynamically determining a first credit of the round robin scheduler for the first queue and a second credit of the round robin scheduler for the second queue based on the weighted moving average; determining priorities of the first queue and the second queue; comparing the priorities of the first queue and the second queue to each other; wherein: operating the round robin scheduler to take IP packets form the first and second queues in a round robin fashion, for transmission from the router via the output port, in respective amounts based on the dynamically determined first credit and second credit. | 30,453 |
9,761,634 | 1. An electronic device comprising semiconductor memory, wherein the semiconductor memory comprises: a variable resistance element comprising a fixed layer, a variable layer, and a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the fixed layer and the variable layer, the variable resistance element exhibiting a magnetic anisotropy field, Hk, wherein the variable resistance element has a characteristic that a switching current density of the variable resistance element is a function of an external magnetic field, H, around the variable resistance element, the function being proportional to a square of a ratio of “H/Hk” when the magnetization directions of the fixed layer and the variable layer are switched from a parallel state to an antiparallel state. | 28,562 |
8,911,910 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising: a fuel electrode comprising a series of permeable electrode bodies arranged in spaced apart relation; an oxidant electrode spaced apart from the fuel electrode; a charging electrode selected from the group consisting of (a) the oxidant electrode, (b) a third electrode spaced from the fuel electrode and the oxidant electrode, and (c) a portion of the fuel electrode; an ionically conductive medium contacting the electrodes; a controller coupled to a plurality of the electrode bodies of the fuel electrode, said controller being configured to apply an electrical current between the charging electrode and at least one of the permeable electrode bodies with the charging electrode functioning as an anode and the at least one permeable electrode body functioning as a cathode, such that reducible metal fuel ions in the ionically conductive medium are reduced and electrodeposited as metal fuel in oxidizable form on the at least one permeable electrode body, so that said electrodeposition causes growth of the metal fuel among the permeable electrode bodies with the electrodeposited metal fuel establishing an electrical connection between the permeable electrode bodies, wherein said controller is configured to selectively apply the electrical current to a different number of said permeable electrode bodies, each functioning as a cathode, based on at least one input parameter so as to adjust a rate and density of the growth of the electrodeposited metal fuel. | 39,498 |
8,848,866 | 1. A mammography imaging method in which a breast to be imaged is placed in a breast holding means within an area between imaging means of a mammography apparatus, which imaging means include an x-ray source and an image detector and wherein at least the x-ray source is arranged to a rotatable arm structure of the mammography apparatus so as to follow rotational movement of said rotatable arm structure, in which method during the imaging process, said rotatable arm structure is rotated and said x-ray source thus moved with respect to location of the breast, and the breast is irradiated at a number of angular positions of the x-ray source with respect to location of the breast, wherein during the imaging process, said rotatable arm structure carrying the x-ray source is moved continuously and the breast is irradiated during a number of short irradiation periods and, during an irradiation period, said breast holding means is turned as synchronized with the movement of the x-ray source so as to follow the movement of the x-ray source. | 3,924 |
8,531,815 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a case capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements, one or more of the capacitive elements providing at least one capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal; and a cover assembly mountable to the case, configured to deform in the event of a failure, the cover assembly comprising: | 16,772 |
8,875,598 | 1. A unit type wave gear device ( 1 ) characterized in comprising: a tubular unit housing ( a wave gear mechanism ( an input shaft ( the unit housing ( the two-stage cross roller bearing ( the wave gear mechanism ( a shaft end part ( | 44,010 |
9,360,514 | 1. A system for testing an electronic component, comprising: a core in thermal communication with an electronic component, said core comprising a base, a generally opposing top, and at least one side surface, wherein said core defines a cavity that is sized and shaped to receive said electronic component; a plurality of solid state heating/cooling devices each in thermal communication with said core and connected to a power supply; a plurality of heat sinks each in thermal communication with at least one of said plurality of solid state heating/cooling devices; and an air flow bench comprising an air mover, a test chamber, a control system, and a plurality of sensors, wherein said core and said electronic component are positioned within said test chamber. | 37,894 |
9,500,090 | 1. A method of dismounting a wind turbine blade from a wind turbine generator hub mounted to a nacelle placed on a tower, the hub being arranged for having a number of blades attached, where the blade to be dismounted comprises a plurality of fastening bolts extending from the blade or the blade bearing into the hub, the fastening bolts being arranged to engage and to fasten the blade to the hub, the method comprising: placing the blade to be dismounted in a substantially vertical position such that a tip of the blade is facing downwards, removing a number of fastening bolts, mounting a number of bolt-like extensions in positions, where fastening bolts have been removed, the extensions being longer than the fastening bolts, releasing the blade, moving the blade to an intermediate blade position using the bolt-like extensions, attaching a lifting yoke to a number of fastening bolts in the intermediate blade position, and lowering the blade to a desired position using the lifting yoke. | 9,970 |
9,033,652 | 1. An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, said airfoil comprising: a first sidewall and a second sidewall coupled together at a leading edge and a trailing edge, such that a cavity is defined therebetween; a first cooling circuit defined within said cavity, said first cooling circuit comprising a central chamber and at least one impingement chamber having a leading edge chamber, a first cascade impingement chamber, and a second cascade impingement chamber, said central chamber in flow communication with said at least one impingement chamber; and a second cooling circuit defined within said cavity, said second cooling circuit comprising said central chamber and at least one down pass chamber, said central chamber in flow communication with said at least one down pass chamber via a channel defined near a tip of said airfoil. | 12,639 |
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