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1. A key retainer for a railway car coupler key, comprising: a retainer guide having an open end, a closed end, and two opposed sides extending from the closed end defining a slot; the retainer guide having two opposed flanges, each of said opposed flanges having a through hole, and said through holes being vertically ...
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9,294,039
1. A bias circuit, for providing a bias signal at a bias output connection, the bias circuit connected to a first power supply connection and to a second power supply connection, the bias circuit comprising: a current mirror, comprising a common terminal connected to the first power supply connection, a first current-c...
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8,657,529
1. A method for planarizing unevenness which is an uneven surface of a seabed when installing submarine cables, tubes or pipelines, comprising the steps of: installing a plurality of bag-shaped filter units, each containing predetermined block objects, on said unevenness, an entirety of the installed plurality of bag-s...
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1. An after treatment device of an engine, which includes a urea solution injection section configured to inject a urea solution to exhaust gas, which is discharged from a combustion chamber of the engine to the outside through an exhaust pipe, a nitrogen oxide treatment section configured to convert nitrogen oxide (NO...
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8,881,934
1. An adapter plate of a storage module adapter assembly for a modular container comprising: first and second longitudinal frame members each having generally horizontal flange members at a top portion thereof; and the first longitudinal frame member having a first height, and the second longitudinal frame member havin...
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9,236,598
1. An electrode, comprising: a rectangular solid metallic frame having a solid metallic edge; a plurality of layers of carbon nano tubes wrapped on said solid metallic edge; and said plurality of layers of carbon nano tubes bonded to said solid metallic edge by a bonding agent.
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1. A compression apparatus comprising: a compressor main body that houses a rotor to be rotatively driven; an intake channel connected to an intake port of the compressor main body; a suction adjusting valve disposed in the intake channel; a discharge channel connected to a discharge port of the compressor main body; a...
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9,415,852
1. An aircraft, of the powered airship type with at least partial buoyancy, comprising: an external envelope having a shape defined by a rounded upper portion and a substantially flat bottom face, said shape designed to produce, under the effect of the relative wind, an overall resultant downward force, when said airsh...
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9,120,072
1. An ammonia detoxification device comprising: an electric heater; an ammonia decomposition chamber that receives gas to be treated containing ammonia, and thermally decomposes the ammonia in the absence of oxygen by heat from the electric heater; a thermally decomposed gas burning chamber that receives the gas to be ...
27,083
9,465,064
1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising: a power source comprising at least one resonator; a power receiver comprising at least one resonator, wherein the power receiver is configured to receive electrical power transmitted wirelessly by the power source; a first detector comprising one or more loops of conduct...
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8,707,656
1. A tower for a wind power installation, the tower comprising: a wall extending from a foundation in an upwards direction towards a nacelle and defining an enclosed space; a safety blanket distended across the tower interior along an inner surface of the wall to thereby split the enclosed space into an upper compartme...
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1. An electric vehicle battery attaching/detaching device comprising: a battery mounting unit formed on an electric vehicle and adapted to detachably mount a battery; a loader having a plurality of battery stands, each battery stand being adapted to detachably mount a fully-charged battery to be exchanged with the batt...
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8,345,830
1. A method comprising: receiving an audio indication of a recipient for a message, the message to be sent by a user to the recipient; searching an electronic database for an existing electronic account of the recipient, the account populated with information, the information not being created or interactively provided...
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1. A post mount comprising: a base attachable to a surface, the base having a post-receiving portion, the post-receiving portion having a flange-receiving portion defining a first slot and a shaft-receiving portion defining a second slot and having an underside, the second slot being narrower than the first slot; and a...
547
8,658,398
1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes the mature endoglucanase of SEQ ID NO:36, wherein said nucleic acid is codon-optimized for expression in a yeast strain wherein at least one nucleotide within a sequence of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 consecutive A, T, C or G nucleotides is replaced with...
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8,897,705
1. A data transmitting system, comprising: a processor; a first transmitting interface; a first transmitting apparatus, utilizing the first interface to output data; a second transmitting interface; a second transmitting apparatus, utilizing the second transmitting interface to output data; and a signal transmitting li...
8,304
8,670,889
1. Unitary rolling vehicle ( 10 ) comprising a rolling member, a drive system supported by the rolling member and arranged to drive the rolling member for rotation, the centre of mass of the drive system being lower compared to the centre of the rolling member in the vertical direction at rest, and a control system for...
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1. A control switch device for connection between an alternating current (AC) power supply and a load to be controlled by said control switch device, said control switch device comprising: a switch control component, said switch control component having a control input for receiving control instructions to alter switch...
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1. A diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration control device, provided for an exhaust-gas processing device of a diesel engine, the exhaust-gas processing device including a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) disposed in an exhaust channel and a DPF disposed on a downstream side of the DOC, for controlling execution o...
40,306
8,565,127
1. A method of managing a communication system having a first end and a second end, comprising steps of: (a) monitoring a respective level of voice activity at the second end; and (b) making a decision regarding a corresponding level of voice activity at the first end based at least in part on the respective level of v...
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1. A power converter circuit, comprising: a switching circuit comprising a transformer and at least one electronic switch; an auxiliary voltage source configured to provide a supply voltage, the auxiliary voltage source comprising a capacitor and a first inductor inductively coupled to the transformer and electrically ...
757
8,884,425
1. A semiconductor package comprising: an interposer having: an upper semiconductor die affixed to the upper face of the interposer; a lower semiconductor die affixed to the undercarriage face of the interposer, wherein the interposer is positioned between the upper semiconductor die and the lower semiconductor die, an...
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1. A system comprising: an ion source; a cell coupled to the ion source and configured to operate in at least three different modes comprising a collision mode, a reaction mode and a standard mode, the three different modes each configured to select analyte ions from a plurality of ions introduced into the cell from th...
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8,842,699
1. A wireless communication system comprising: a transmitting apparatus; and a receiving apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus transmits first data to the receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus performs transmission of second data, data part of which is same as that of the first data, without waiting f...
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1. A method for removing heat from an exothermic reaction comprising: (a) dividing a reactant feed stream into at least two separate reactant substreams; (b) feeding each reactant substream into a separate reaction train which comprises a reactor; (c) feeding a coolant stream from a common coolant reservoir into each r...
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1. A olefin composition for a filler, comprising: an olefin polymer that has at least one hydrolyzable group or at least one hydrolyzed product of the hydrolyzable group; and a basic hydrolysis catalyst which is alkylamine, wherein the olefin polymer is a graft polymer that comprises polyethylene to which an unsaturate...
5,170
8,642,170
1. A coating system for use over a substrate, comprising: an IR interaction portion comprising at least one layer, an outermost layer of the IR portion dissipating incident infrared radiation in the range of 0.9-2.5 micrometers while being transparent to incident radar; a performance portion underlying and in contact w...
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1. A method of inhibiting growth of a cell expressing tissue factor (TF), comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of an Ixolaris polypeptide such that the growth of the cell is inhibited, wherein the amount of Ixolaris polypeptide is 1-250 ug kg −1 , wherein the Ixolaris polypeptide is at least 95% iden...
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8,666,952
1. A method for concurrently resizing and modifying an Read-Copy Update (RCU)-protected hash table in a computer system having one or more processors operatively coupled to a memory, said memory including a computer usable medium storing an RCU-protected first hash table and at least one program of instructions executa...
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing an advance payment for the trade-in of an item, the method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: determining by way of a computer system whether a customer of a merchant is eligible for a payment for a trade-in of an item prior to receiving the item fr...
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1. A maize plant or a maize plant cell comprising an expression cassette effective for reducing expression of at least one endogenous short lived auxin responsive production gene, wherein said expression cassette comprises a promoter that functions in plants operably linked to a nucleic acid configured for RNA silencin...
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8,490,030
1. A method of characterizing a plurality of clips of an integrated circuit layout for clustering, at least one clip including multiple polygons, the method comprising: (a) identifying polygons of a first clip and a second clip; (b) initializing states of all polygons in the first and second clips as unmatched; (c) for...
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8,477,264
1. A liquid crystal module comprising: a transmissive liquid crystal cell; a board included a light guide plate compromising a frame including a projection
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1. A method of adaptively synchronizing performance margins of a multi-engine system, the method comprising the steps of: continuously, and in real-time, determining a performance margin of a first engine and a performance margin of a second engine; calculating a difference between the performance margins of the first ...
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8,514,659
1. A dual beam system comprising: a planar array of transducers; and a multiplexer configurable into at least a first state and a second state, the multiplexer configured to electrically connect transducers of the planar array of transducers to a plurality of connections differently in the first state than in the secon...
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1. A delivery edge profile aggregation system, comprising: a user profile aggregation device (UPAD) for a subscriber that is located at a delivery edge at a subscriber location and configured to interface with at least one subscriber database in a wired network core of a wired service provider and at least one subscrib...
6,681
8,626,885
1. A franking system, comprising: a plurality of franking machines capable of communicating through a public communications network, with a management server, to send invoice indexes, each franking machine of said plurality of franking machines sending an invoice index indicative of franking performed by itself; and a ...
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1. An electronic component, comprising: a main body, one side of the main body having a plurality of recesses, wherein each of the recesses has a first inner width along a first direction, a second inner width along a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, a third inner lateral side, and a four...
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8,822,450
1. A compound of Formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein: R n is 0, 1 or 2; R M is hydrogen or a cation; R R R R
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1. A processor-implemented method of improving a gyroscope based on determining a noise variance of an axis of a gyroscope, the method comprising: representing, by the processor, a plurality of gyroscope readings for the axis in a histogram, the histogram including a plurality of bins associated with respective ranges;...
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1. A method for operating an engine, comprising: defining an efficient engine operating region over an engine operating domain; applying a first filter to a desired engine power to provide a filtered engine power via a controller if the desired engine power is within the efficient engine operating region; applying a se...
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9,314,757
1. A method for generating a ternary carburizing gas mixture, the method comprising: removing atmosphere from inside a reactor, the inside of the reactor containing a layer of a regiospecific hydrogenation catalyst comprising palladium or platinum, heating the inside of the reactor to an operating temperature of the ca...
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8,514,843
1. A method of propagating routes for routing at least one digital stream towards a destination, the method being performed by a first location server of a first IP telephony domain and suitable for managing locations of clients and telephony routes of said first IP telephony domain, and comprising the following steps:...
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1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising compound 196 having the structure: and one or more excipients selected from calcium carbonate, sodium carbonate, lactose, calcium phosphate, sodium phosphate, croscarmellose, cellulose, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, povidone, methylcellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, an...
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8,490,103
1. A computer system comprising: an operating system instance; plural multi-core processors, each of said multi-core processors being an integrated circuit with plural processor cores, each of said cores being configured to execute processes assigned by said operating system instance; a utilization monitor to track res...
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8,429,831
1. A dryer having an inlet conduit supplying an incoming gas stream and an exit area that produces a drying gas, comprising: a first gas conditioning chamber and a second gas conditioning chamber together forming a closed space for the conditioning of a gas supplied by a gas source and discharged at a nozzle exit, the ...
15,392
9,425,641
1. A battery charger non-concurrently performing a first operation to charge a main battery and a sub-battery by using an external power supply, and a second operation to charge the sub-battery by using the main battery, comprising: a power supply circuit connected to the external power supply and configured to generat...
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8,993,852
1. A plant, a plant part, or a seed of soybean variety XB11K13, representative seed of said soybean variety XB11K13 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13446.
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1. A harness to releasably restrain an animal, the harness comprising: a pivotable frame, said pivotable frame having a first hinge coupler and a second hinge coupler configured to removeably affix said first hinge coupler and said second hinge coupler together, said first hinge coupler is configured having a first fin...
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9,516,643
1. A terminal device comprising: a reception circuit configured to and/or programmed to receive first information; and a transmission circuit configured to and/or programmed to transmit a physical uplink shared channel based on a detection of a physical downlink control channel with a downlink control information forma...
9,039
9,206,116
1. A process for producing a compound according to formula (18) or a salt thereof comprising the steps a) providing a compound according to formula (1), or tautomer, or salt thereof, b) methylating the compound according to formula (1), or tautomer, or salt thereof, to obtain a compound according to formula (2), or tau...
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1. A double-port energy storage system comprising: a bidirectional power conversion circuit including an AC side and a DC side; a DC-AC inverter circuit including a DC side and an AC side; an electric energy storage facility connecting between the DC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit and the DC side of...
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9,801,188
1. A method of managing interference by a serving access point (AP), comprising: identifying a neighboring AP whose transmissions on particular resources potentially interfere with transmissions between the serving AP and a served access terminal (AT); sending a request for the neighboring AP to modify transmissions on...
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9,665,668
1. A method comprising: identifying a dispatching rule corresponding to a dispatching decision to be made in a simulation of a production environment, wherein the dispatching rule is associated with a plurality of data processes; identifying, by a computing system, a simulation marker in a representation of the dispatc...
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1. An immunogenic composition comprising the M2e peptide and at least one peptide derived from the HA2 protein of influenza virus, wherein said peptides are fused to an outer surface of Dps as fusion proteins, wherein said M2e and said at least one peptide derived from HA2 are fused separately and simultaneously to N- ...
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8,563,440
1. A process for chemical treatment of a substrate that features a top surface and lateral surfaces by means of making contact with a liquid, chemically effective process medium with at least the bottom surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate is moved relative to the process medium during the simultaneous imple...
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9,853,655
1. A method comprising: controlling a first set of switches to deliver a first voltage signal through a first set of capacitors to a common node; controlling a second set of switches to deliver a second voltage signal through a second set of capacitors to the common node, wherein the first set of capacitors is electric...
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1. An method comprising: receiving clinician note data in a first electronic system that includes patient medical-related data; processing the clinician note data using a natural language data processor and medical record interpretation rules to automatically convert the clinician note data into an electronic medical r...
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9,784,226
1. A vehicle fuel delivery system, comprising: a first line configured to deliver fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine (ICE); a second line configured to return fuel from the ICE to the fuel tank; a heat exchanger which abuts a portion of the second line and is in thermal communication with the second...
7,674
9,414,064
1. An image processing method of performing filtering on image blocks using a plurality of deblocking filters having different filter strengths, the image processing method comprising: a first calculating step of calculating a boundary strength between two adjacent image blocks; a second calculating step of calculating...
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9,109,219
1. A vector for expressing recombinant proteins in isolated host cells, comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding in a single open reading frame, from 5′ to 3′: a) a peptidic secretion signal which is functional in said isolated host cells, b) a 6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase enzyme (MGMT) or mutant thereof, whe...
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8,574,022
1. A toy car comprising: a chassis having four wheels rotatably attached thereto and having a body secured to the chassis; and the four wheels have a first weight that is at least 40% of the total weight of the toy car, and wherein the chassis further includes: a rear portion having a pair of oppositely facing openings...
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1. A system comprising: a media content processing subsystem configured to transmit to, communicate with, and receive a signal or data stream containing a media content instance from, a media content provider; and an input device comprising a plurality of control surfaces each configured to cause said input device to t...
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8,391,252
1. A method, comprising: scheduling at a base station of a wireless communication network a first radio access terminal mode for a first mobile station during a first time region of a radio frame, the first time region of the radio frame comprising a downlink communication region, an unused time region, and an uplink t...
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9,538,959
1. A system for monitoring a user comprising: a transmitter positioned in a first location in a vicinity of the user; a sensor system to be worn by the user, configured to collect data comprising sound and image data of the user, a user's vital data and ambient condition data and transmit the collected data wirelessly ...
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1. A dust collecting device that is attached to an impact tool and collects dust generated by the impact tool in which a tool bit coupled to a front end region of a tool body is caused to rectilinearly move in an axial direction of the tool bit, the dust collecting device comprising: a dust collecting part having a dus...
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8,413,940
1. A holding device for fastening an add-on part to a support frame of a vehicle, the holding device comprising: an upper bracket fastened to the support frame in a mounted state of the holding device; a lower bracket separate from the upper bracket and selectively fastened to the support frame below the upper bracket ...
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1. A stable high strength herbicidal composition consisting essentially of: (a) water; (b) glyphosate, predominantly in the form of a combination of dimethylamine salt and potassium salt, in solution in the water in an amount of about 540 grams or greater of acid equivalent per liter of the composition, wherein the com...
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9,263,339
1. A method for forming a semiconductor structure, the method comprising: forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a first lattice constant; forming a recess in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent the gate stack; performing a first selective epitaxial growth to grow a...
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8,799,397
1. A method comprising: creating, by a processing device executing a virtual machine (VM), a first channel for a first application executed by the virtual machine, wherein the first channel is identified by a name of a group to which the first application is a member, the first channel providing communications for the ...
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8,753,957
1. Method for producing solar panels/modules comprising: employing a number of semiconductor wafers which are pre-processed to a point where at least their front surface is made ready to be mounted onto a front glass of the solar panel/module, placing and attaching the intended number of the pre-processed wafers adjace...
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1. A beverage brewing apparatus having a water heating portion and a brewing portion, the water heating portion comprising: a three heating element tank having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and first, second and third heating elements therein; a switch associated with each heating element, said switch controlled by ...
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8,413,622
1. An oil supply device of an engine, comprising: lash adjustors respectively provided at valve drive portions located on an intake side and an exhaust side of a cylinder; a first extending oil passage supplying operational oil to one of said lash adjustors; a second extending oil passage supplying operational oil to t...
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8,705,473
1. A base station apparatus in a small-scale cell of a second system having a system band comprised of a single or a plurality of base frequency blocks, for sharing at least a part of a frequency band with a first system having a large-scale cell and covering the small-scale cell, wherein the base station apparatus com...
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8,625,816
1. A device comprising: a boom having two receptacles that define an axis; a first directional microphone, the first directional microphone having a first vector normal to a first front of the first directional microphone, the first vector approximately parallel with the axis, and a first of the two receptacles configu...
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1. A vehicular acceleration suppression device for suppressing acceleration of a vehicle which depends on a manipulation amount of a drive force instruction manipulation element manipulated by a driver to instruct a drive force to control suppression of the drive force, the vehicular acceleration suppression device com...
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9,621,073
1. A Z-source inverter network comprising: a plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules, each of the plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules comprising; a control system coupled to each of the plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules, the control system comprising;
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1. An apparatus for coupling a power source to a lamp, the lamp comprising one or more light emitting diodes, the apparatus comprising: a first part for receiving a first voltage signal and a first current signal from the power source, the first part comprising a detection part for detecting a first amplitude reduction...
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1. A method of identifying map coordinates of a location within an image captured by a camera, the method comprising: obtaining, at a location server communicatively coupled to the camera, a first image captured by the camera; selecting, at the location server, a single reference point appearing within the first image ...
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1. An apparatus comprising: one or more computer-readable media having instructions; and one or more processors, coupled with the one or more computer-readable media, to execute the instructions to implement a communication module and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) module, wherein the communication module is ...
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8,576,527
1. An intelligent electronic device providing a real-time communications channel and one or more virtual communications channels, the intelligent electronic device comprising: i) a processor and a transmit module coupled to a serial communications link and the processor, the processor transmitting real-time data relate...
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first user input that specifies a first status from a set of statuses; in response to receiving the first user input, displaying, on a screen of a device, a first flow element corresponding to the first status; receiving a second user input that specifies a secon...
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1. An inverted photosensitive device comprising: a surface-treated reflective electrode comprising stainless steel foil; an organic donor-acceptor heterojunction over said reflective electrode; and a transparent electrode over said donor-acceptor heterojunction.
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1. A method for supplying a first gas and a second gas using a purge ring in a photonic processing system, comprising: arranging a first layer and a second layer to define a first plenum and a first baffle; arranging the second layer and a third layer to define a second plenum and a second baffle; receiving a first gas...
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1. A semiconductor light source lighting circuit which receives an input voltage and applies a drive voltage to a semiconductor light source, comprising: a voltage step-down unit configured to generate the drive voltage lower than the input voltage by turning on or off a first switching element in a voltage step-down m...
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1. A cambered turbine blade comprising a root portion and an airfoil portion, the airfoil portion extending radially outward from the root portion and defining a blade tip at a radially outermost end thereof, the airfoil portion being un-cooled and substantially solid from the root portion to the blade tip and thus fre...
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1. A game object used to provide a random outcome event by movement and final stoppage in an outcome indicating mode comprising: a) a game object body; b) the game object body containing an accelerometer microchip, power source and light-emitting elements within the game object body, light from the light-emitting body ...
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1. A method of dehydrating an ethanol water mixture comprising, a. contacting an ethanol:water mixture of at least 80% w/w ethanol with a first end of a column containing a bed of spherically shaped pearled starch particles; and b. removing a dehydrated ethanol product of at least 99% ethanol from a second end of the c...
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1. A rail shoe assembly for mounting a drilling machine to a rail of a railway track, with the drilling machine including a drill, a cutter, and a support frame with the support frame mounted to the rail of the railway track, said rail shoe assembly comprising: a base adapted to be positioned with respect to the rail a...
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1. A memory management method, comprising the steps of: storing, via a controller embedded in a vehicle, a power cycle value representative of a number of power cycles that a first subset of memory space of a first memory has undergone, said first memory having an assigned predetermined maximum number of erase/write cy...
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1. A method for preparing a gadolinium-doped cerium oxide slurry having a patchwork surface structure with a nanoporous grain boundary, the method comprising: mixing a gadolinium-doped cerium oxide and a polymer binder, thereby forming a first mixture having 12 to 20% by weight of the polymer binder; wet-atomizing the ...
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1. A switching circuit comprising: a full-bridge circuit that includes a first leg, in which a first switch and a second switch are connected in series, and a second leg, in which a third switch and a fourth switch are connected in series, the first leg and the second leg being connected in parallel; and a control circ...
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1. A structure comprising: a substrate; a crosslinked polymer film disposed over the substrate, the crosslinked polymer comprising a random copolymer polymerized from a first monomer, a second monomer, and a third monomer, wherein the third monomer is an epoxy-functional monomer or an acryloyl-functionalized monomer; a...
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1. A soap or sanitizer dispenser comprising: a housing; the housing having a base and a cover; a refill unit located within the housing; a communication interface located within the housing; a power source located in the dispenser for providing power to the dispenser; a power conductor providing power to the communicat...
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1. A wind power support structure, comprising: a fixed position superstructure; and a plurality of wind power turbine modules, wherein each of the plurality of wind power turbine modules is mounted on a rotating bearing facility in the fixed position superstructure such as to allow each one of the wind power turbine mo...
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1. A hazard detection system, comprising: a plurality of safety sensors comprising a smoke sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, and a heat sensor; a safety processor operative to: a system processor operative to execute a plurality of user interface features, wherein the safety processor is characterized by relatively low...
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1. A draft curtain assembly for a roll-up overhead door, the overhead door used to permit and prohibit access to an opening, the opening having a height and a width, the draft curtain assembly comprising: a draft curtain having an upper end and a lower end; a molding coupled to the upper end of the draft curtain; a pai...
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1. A method of reef construction comprising: a. preparing a scaffold comprising an exposed hard calcium containing material; b. exposing the scaffold to a first set of conditions in which a first group of bivalve organisms attach to the scaffold; c. allowing the first group of bivalve organisms to grow to sexual maturi...
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1. A bone screw, comprising: a) a screw head; b) a smooth cylindrical shaft region, wherein said smooth cylindrical shaft region is adjacent to said screw head and is unthreaded to disengage from a bone screw hole upon full insertion; c) a first cylindrical shaft region comprising external threading, said threading of ...
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1. A semiconductor structure, comprising: a capacitor arranged in a first trench formed in a substrate; a transistor on a top surface of the substrate opposite a back side of the substrate; and a via arranged in a second trench formed in the substrate, wherein the first and second trenches have different depths in the ...
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