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8,347,598 | 1. A method for assembling a combined cycle power generation system, said method comprising: coupling a gas turbine in flow communication with a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG); coupling a steam turbine in flow communication with the HRSG via at least one steam conduit; positioning a steam turbine inlet valve within the at least one steam conduit to control admission of steam to the steam turbine: positioning a bypass conduit upstream the steam turbine inlet valve to initially bypass the steam turbine until a pressure and a temperature are within respective ranges suitable for admitting steam to the steam turbine during a startup procedure; coupling at least one layer of at least one heating element to a portion of the at least one steam conduit between the bypass conduit and the steam turbine inlet valve, wherein the at least one heating element includes a plurality of layers; operatively coupling at least one controller to the at least one heating element; and programming the at least one controller to vary a rate of temperature change in the portion of the at least one steam conduit. | 6,041 |
8,405,156 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; an isolation region formed in the substrate to isolate an element formation region from another region; a gate electrode formed over the element formation region to extend over each of first and second regions of the isolation region opposing each other with the element formation region interposed therebetween; and a pair of diffusion regions formed in the element formation region so as to be spaced apart from each other in a channel length direction with reference to the gate electrode, wherein at least a portion of each of upper surfaces of the first and second regions is depressed to a depth of not less than 5% of a channel width to be located under an upper surface of the element formation region, and a portion of the gate electrode is arranged in each of resultant depressions, wherein the element forming region is arranged, in a first direction, between a first region of the substrate and a second region of the substrate, wherein the element forming region is arranged, in a second direction, between a third region and a fourth region of the substrate such that the upper surface of the element forming region is higher than an upper surface of the third region and an upper surface of the fourth region, and wherein the element forming region is surrounded by the first region of the substrate, the second region of the substrate, the third region of the substrate, and the fourth region of the substrate in a plane view of the substrate. | 26,741 |
9,698,694 | 1. A control circuit for regulating an output voltage of a switched mode power supply having a variable input voltage and at least one power switch, the control circuit operable to generate a comparison voltage based on the output voltage of the switched mode power supply and an adjustable duty cycle of a control signal provided to the at least one power switch; determine a constant reference voltage based on whether the generated comparison voltage falls within one of a plurality of voltage ranges, each voltage range associated with a different constant reference voltage; and adjust the duty cycle of the control signal provided to the at least one power switch of the switched mode power supply as a function of the determined constant reference voltage and the output voltage. | 35,942 |
9,003,495 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving in an operational center of a communication system, an authorization message from a trusted source entity, the authorization message authorizing one or more information messages from one or more non-trusted source entities to the operational center; in response to the authorization message, creating in the operational center an automatically verifiable authorization condition that tests positively for the one or more information messages; sending, after creating the automatically verifiable authorization condition, a message to a non-trusted source entity for triggering a transmission of the information messages to the operational center, wherein the message to the non-trusted source entity comprises an invitation to transmit an information message to a defined messaging number of the operational center; in response to an information message received from the non-trusted source entity, checking in the operational center, whether the automatically verifiable authorization condition is met; when the automatically verifiable authorization condition is met, recording information from the information message as operational data of the operational center; receiving the authorization for the one or more information messages in an authorization message with a predefined field format; extracting at least one information element from a data field of the authorization message; extracting at least one information element from an information message that met the automatically verifiable authorization condition created in response to the authorization message; and compiling an operational data record comprising the at least one information element from the authorization message and the at least one information element from the information message that met the automatically verifiable authorization condition, wherein at least one of the creating and checking in the operational center is performed by computer equipment, wherein the messaging number is a number dedicated to operational center messaging, and in the operational center: | 39,235 |
9,738,375 | 1. A winglet for an aircraft, such that the winglet comprises one piece that comprises: a first blade that comprises: a second blade that comprises: a root region that comprises a channel that comprises composite plies that comprise a non-metallic first support and a non-metallic second support, each aligned substantially orthogonal to a chord line for the root region, the channel configured to receive an attachment system that comprises an extension between the first non-metallic support and the second non-metallic support and planar surfaces, connected substantially orthogonal to the extension, configured to connect to at least one of the supports within the root region, the attachment system configured to attach, at least via the extension, the winglet to the wing of the aircraft such that the root region comprises: | 33,496 |
9,298,906 | 1. An analyzing apparatus validating system that executes validation of an analyzing apparatus system, the analyzing apparatus validating system comprising a computer comprising: a parameter acquiring unit acquiring a parameter for qualification implementation of the analyzing apparatus system from an electronically supplied qualification plan document describing a qualification plan and an electronically supplied qualification implementation procedure manual of the analyzing apparatus system describing a qualification implementation procedure, both the electronically supplied qualification plan document and the electronically supplied qualification implementation procedure manual being prepared by an apparatus manufacturer and a user; a validation executing unit executing the validation of the analyzing apparatus system using the acquired parameter for qualification implementation; and a report creating unit creating, in a predetermined format, a qualification report of the analyzing apparatus system on a basis of a validation result obtained by executing the validation. | 3,355 |
9,642,163 | 1. A train control apparatus comprising: an on-vehicle base station that is mounted on a train; a ground base station that is installed on a ground and is capable of communicating with the on-vehicle base station; an on-vehicle control device that is mounted on the train, reports a current position of the train to the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station, and controls an operation such that the train is capable of being stopped before reaching a stop limit, which the on-vehicle control device has acquired from the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station and which is a limiting position before which the train is capable of running safely; and a ground control device that is installed on the ground and transmits the stop limit, which is calculated on a basis of information on the current position acquired from the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, to the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, wherein the on-vehicle control device, when the ground base station that is a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station is switched, includes | 43,663 |
9,139,878 | 1. A method for diagnosing and treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a human subject, said method comprising: (a) performing a nucleic acid-based detection assay to detect mRNA expression level of at least three genes comprising IFI44L, CIG5 and IFI44 in cells of a blood sample from the human subject, wherein the at least three genes does not comprise OASL, IRF7 and PARP9; (b) determining that the cells from the human subject express the at least three genes comprising IFI44L, CIG5 and IFI44 at a level greater than the expression level of the respective genes in cells of a blood sample from a healthy human control, thereby diagnosing the human subject as having SLE; and (c) administering an effective amount of an anti-interferon-alpha antibody to the human subject expressing the at least three genes comprising IFI44L, CIG5 and IFI44 at a level greater than the expression level of the respective genes in cells of a blood sample from a healthy human control, thereby treating SLE in the human subject. | 33,746 |
8,840,054 | 1. A fishing reel housing for attachment to a rod along a longitudinal rod axis, the housing having: a shaft configured to accept a line dispensing spool, the line dispensing spool having a central axis of rotation; and an adjustment mechanism for selectively adjusting the shaft in a direction transverse to the longitudinal rod axis and transverse to the central axis of the line dispensing spool while maintaining the shaft in its longitudinal position along the rod axis. | 13,161 |
9,066,970 | 1. A dialysis solution comprising (i) at least one 6-deoxy-6-sulfanylcyclodextrin of the general structure I: where (ii) the following ingredients in the following concentrations: | 30,977 |
8,522,292 | 1. A method of reducing media streaming bandwidth, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of first requests for media from a plurality of first clients during a first time interval; aggregating the plurality of first requests as a first batch; starting streaming the media to the plurality of first clients via a first stream; receiving a plurality of second requests for the media from a plurality of second clients during a second time interval; aggregating the plurality of second requests as a second batch; starting streaming the media to the plurality of second clients via a second stream that is temporally offset from the first stream; determining whether streaming the media to the plurality of first clients via the second stream in place of the first stream will not disrupt playback of the media at the plurality of first clients, the determining comprising determining whether the plurality of first clients has sufficient media stored locally; and if so, collapsing the first stream by: switching the plurality of first clients from the first stream to the second stream; and ending the first stream. | 42,732 |
9,243,576 | 1. A method for controlling nitrogen oxide (NOx), comprising: predicting a NOx generation amount using a virtual sensor; comparing the predicted NOx generation amount with a predetermined NOx target amount; and controlling NOx generation so that the predicted NOx generation amount follows the NOx target amount, wherein said predicting the NOx generation amount comprises: | 19,616 |
8,480,370 | 1. A wind turbine system, comprising: a wind turbine blade including: a plurality of truss members, with individual truss members connected between corresponding pairs of truss attachment member to form a three-dimensional truss structure, with at least one truss member extending diagonally and chordwise, wherein the at least one truss member is in tension. | 16,994 |
9,077,929 | 1. A portable electronic device based user-definable remote-control interface system, comprising: a network platform having a plurality of built-in remote-control codes stored thereat; and a portable electronic device being wirelessly linked to the network platform and including: a display and input unit adapted to show an interface allocation information map; the interface allocation information map being divided into a plurality of sub-areas, each of which can be defined as one of an object and a button; any sub-area from the plurality of sub-areas defined as a button being assigned with some attributes, according to which the portable electronic device searches the network platform for one of the built-in remote-control codes from the plurality of built-in remote-control codes that corresponds to the attributes assigned to the button and downloads the corresponding built-in remote-control code, any sub-area defined as an object being only a name of a remotely controllable device and does not correspond to any of the built-in remote-control codes from the plurality of built-in remote-control codes, and is used to identify and distinguish a selected device; a storage unit electrically connected to the display and input unit for storing the interface allocation information map and each downloaded built-in remote-control code; and a processing unit electrically connected to the display and input unit as well as the storage unit, and relating each downloaded and stored built-in remote-control code to its corresponding button; a wireless transceiver module separable and electrically docked with the portable electronic device, the wireless transceiver module including a case, a sleeve or a barrel provided with a connector and a transmitting element, the connector correspondingly engaging with a mating connector provided on the portable electronic device; and wherein the interface allocation information map integrates and shows remote control information of a variety of remotely controllable devices. | 37,470 |
8,401,596 | 1. A communication device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave generating means for outputting an electromagnetic wave; and a transmitting/receiving means for transmitting data by modulating the electromagnetic wave in accordance with data as well as receiving data transmitted from the other device by demodulating the electromagnetic wave outputted by the electromagnetic-wave generating means or the electromagnetic wave outputted by the other device as the other party of communication, wherein the transmitting/receiving means transmits attribute information indicating communication ability of the device itself as well as receives attribute information indicating communication ability of the other device as the data, the electromagnetic-wave generating means turns off the output of the electromagnetic wave for a given period of time after the transmission of the data based on the attribute information, the attribute information transmitted and received by the transmitting/receiving means includes information concerning the given period of time for which output of the electromagnetic wave is turned off, and the electromagnetic-wave generating means turns off output of the electromagnetic wave for the given time determined by the attribute information. | 48,416 |
9,041,182 | 1. A semiconductor package, comprising: a semiconductor chip including a front electrode on a front surface thereof and a back electrode on a back surface thereof; a front-side cap portion being positioned to face the front surface of the semiconductor chip, a first air gap exists in a portion between the semiconductor chip and the front-side cap portion, the front-side cap portion includes a front-side penetrating electrode; a back-side cap portion being positioned to face the back surface of the semiconductor chip, the back-side cap portion being bonded with the front-side cap portion to hermetically seal the semiconductor chip, a second air gap exists in a portion between the semiconductor chip and the back-side cap portion, the back-side cap portion includes a back-side penetrating electrode; a front-side connecting portion which electrically connects the front electrode and the front-side penetrating electrode; a back-side connecting portion which electrically connects the back electrode and the back-side penetrating electrode; and a barrier metal layer provided between the back-side penetrating electrode and the back-side connecting portion, the barrier metal layer being in contact with both the back-side penetrating electrode and the back-side connecting portion, the barrier metal layer preventing oxidation of the back-side penetrating electrode. | 26,327 |
9,751,418 | 1. A charge managing system for performing charge to an electric vehicle, the system comprising: a power receiving device for receiving, from an external device, power to be used for charge; a storage battery for accumulating power to be used for charge to the electric vehicle; a charger for performing charge to the electric vehicle; and a charge managing server for controlling the charger and calculating a charge power of the charger to charge the electric vehicle, wherein the charge managing server includes: a communicating unit for acquiring information on power that can be used for charge from the power receiving device, power that can be used for charge from the storage battery, and rated output information on the charger, and a charge-capacity calculating unit for calculating a charge power of the charger to charge the electric vehicle, based on power that can be used for charge from the power receiving device, power that can be used for charge from the storage battery, and the rated output power of the charger. | 22,093 |
9,617,803 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a direct current (DC) power distribution bus; an energy storage system coupled to the DC power distribution bus wherein the energy storage system comprises: a power dissipater coupled to the DC power distribution bus; a drilling riser; a plurality of wires coupled to the drilling riser; a first and second electrical tensioner coupled to the drilling riser via a first and a second wire of the plurality of wires and coupled to the power distribution bus; a hydro-pneumatic tensioner coupled to the drilling riser via a third wire of the plurality of wires; and a controller configured: to transfer energy from the energy storage device to at least one of the first and second electrical tensioners; to store energy from at least one of the first and second electrical tensioners in the energy storage device; to measure tensions delivered by the hydro-pneumatic and electrical tensioners; and to determine a tension for the first and second electrical tensioners based, in part, on the measured tensions of the hydro-pneumatic and electrical tensioners. | 40,150 |
9,649,756 | 1. An outrigger stabilizing foot apparatus for a nail gun, the apparatus comprising: an integrated slide rail magazine including a magazine body defining a fastener aperture and a bottom; a slide rail with at least on rail extension extending from the magazine body; and a magazine sliding block including upper magazine sliding arms defining a slide rail aperture which captures the slide rail, the magazine sliding arms extending upward past the bottom to opposite sides of the fastener aperture; and a first slide engagement finger, a second slide engagement finger positioned above the first slide engagement finger, and a third slide engagement finger positioned above the second slide engagement finger along the magazine sliding arms. | 29,267 |
9,098,509 | 1. A call restricting processor-implemented method, comprising: obtaining a transmission related to a call request, the transmission including a value for a call attribute; extracting from the transmission the value for the call attribute; generating a database query to a database containing call rule restrictions data using the extracted value for the call attribute; querying a database containing call rules data using the generated database query, to extract associated call rules for the transmission related to the call request, wherein the call rules comprise business grammar rules containing legal, regulatory and enterprise-based call compliance rules for collections and auto-calling; obtaining at least one associated call rule to apply to the call request, based on querying the database; applying the obtained call rule to the call request; and determining via a processor whether the call is permitted based on applying the call rule to the associated call request and further determining based on evaluation of the associated call rules the applications and settings needed to be delivered to a source of the call request and at least one value of the call attribute. | 6,444 |
9,052,552 | 1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate including: a second substrate including: a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules and held between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein among a first inter-electrode distance between the first main common electrode and the first main pixel electrode, a second inter-electrode distance between the second main common electrode and the first main pixel electrode, a third inter-electrode distance between the second main common electrode and the second main pixel electrode, and a fourth inter-electrode distance between the third main common electrode and the second main pixel electrode in a second direction that intersects perpendicularly the first direction, respectively, the first inter-electrode distance is substantially the same as the fourth inter-electrode distance, and the second inter-electrode distance is substantially the same as the third inter-electrode distance, and the second and third inter-electrode distances are larger than the first and fourth inter-electrode distances, and the second and third inter-electrode distances are set up to an optimal inter-electrode distance defined as follows: in a range of voltage which is applied between the main pixel electrodes and the main common electrodes, more than 90% of a peak transmissivity is obtained by the optimal inter-electrode distance, and wherein a first alignment treatment direction performed to the first alignment film to initially align the liquid crystal molecules is substantially in parallel with and a same direction to a second alignment treatment direction performed to the second alignment film to initially align the liquid crystal molecules. | 4,066 |
9,266,395 | 1. An axle shaft comprising an elongated solid center section having a longitudinal axis, the shaft having first and second longitudinally spaced end portions, the elongated solid center section extending substantially completely between the first and second longitudinally spaced end portions, the first end portion having an outer surface defining an external spline, the second end portion having a radially outwardly extending flange, wherein the first end portion defines a cavity extending axially under the external spline, and wherein the second end portion defines a cavity extending axially under the flange. | 3,568 |
9,290,097 | 1. A power electronic drive circuit comprising: a dc bus; a first energy storage device coupled to the dc bus, the first energy storage device configured to output a dc voltage; a first bi-directional dc-to-ac voltage inverter coupled to the first energy storage device and to the dc bus; a first electromechanical device coupled to the first bi-directional dc-to-ac voltage inverter; a charging system coupled to the dc bus via a charge bus, the charging system comprising: a controller configured to cause the charging system to supply a charging voltage to the dc bus based on a voltage received from the voltage source external to the power electronic drive circuit; and one or more bi-directional dc-to-dc voltage converters coupled to the dc bus; wherein the controller is further configured to cause one of the first bi-directional dc-to-ac inverter and the one or more bi-directional dc-to-dc voltage converters to: wherein, upon boosting the charging voltage, the controller is further configured to cause a first bi-directional dc-to-dc voltage converter of the one or more bi-directional dc-to-dc voltage converters to buck the third charging voltage to a fourth charging voltage and supply the fourth charging voltage to the first energy storage device. | 29,285 |
9,187,801 | 1. An apparatus for recycling metal scraps, comprising: a mold having a cavity for converting the metal scraps, an inlet disposed in one longitudinal end thereof, and an outlet disposed in another longitudinal end thereof, the inlet and the outlet communicating with the cavity; a gate movably mounted near or adjacent the outlet of the mold so as to open and close the outlet; a gate actuator moving the gate to an open or closed position; a scrap feeder for supplying the metal scraps into the cavity of the mold, a conversion plunger intruded into the cavity via the inlet of the mold and compacting the metal scraps to form a solid compact having a shape corresponding to the cavity; a press actuator reciprocating the conversion plunger between inside and outside of the mold so as to provide a conversion pressure; and a mold housing enclosing the mold, wherein the mold comprises a plurality of mold blocks, each of said plurality of mold blocks having an arcuate shape for defining only a circumferential portion of the cavity, wherein each of said plurality of mold blocks are mounted in the mold housing adjacent to each other defining the cavity and radially relative to the cavity, wherein each mold block is adjacent to one mold block of said plurality of mold blocks on its left side and to another of said plurality of mold blocks on its right side opposite its left side as viewed from a front of said outlet, wherein an inner surface of said mold tapers from a larger diameter to a smaller diameter from the inlet in a direction toward the outlet. | 24,760 |
9,790,893 | 1. A flow duct for a gas turbine engine comprising: the flow duct disposed along a centerline of the gas turbine engine and defining a stream flow passage; first and second rows of heat exchangers disposed along the engine centerline of the gas turbine engine and integrated in the flow duct in fluid communication with the stream flow passage of the flow duct; and an adjustable nozzle positioned within the flow duct, the adjustable nozzle having a first nozzle wall assembly and a second nozzle wall assembly that define a nozzle span, such that air passing through the flow duct passes through the nozzle span; wherein: further comprising an adjustable diffuser downstream of the adjustable nozzle, the adjustable diffuser including a first diffuser wall assembly and a second diffuser wall assembly, the first diffuser wall assembly having a first diffuser wall and the second diffuser wall assembly having a second diffuser wall, wherein the first and second diffuser wall assemblies are each adjustable to adjust a diffuser span between the first diffuser wall and the second diffuser wall; wherein each of the first and second nozzle wall assemblies are four-body linkages, each having pivotal joints that adjust the nozzle span between the first nozzle wall and the second nozzle wall; and wherein each of the first and second diffuser wall assemblies are four-body linkages, each having pivotal joints that adjust the diffuser span between the first diffuser wall and the second diffuser wall. | 9,203 |
9,599,050 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an engine; a catalyst purifying exhaust gas of the engine; a grille shutter adjusting an opening area of a radiator grille; and an electronic control unit configured to: | 48,881 |
8,785,788 | 1. A wiring board with a built-in electronic component, comprising: a substrate having an opening portion and having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface; and an electronic component having a third surface and a fourth surface on an opposite side of the third surface and positioned in the opening portion of the substrate such that the third surface faces a same direction as the first surface of the substrate, wherein | 6,548 |
8,876,497 | 1. A linear compressor, comprising: a fixed member including a cylinder that provides a compression space for a refrigerant; a moving member including a piston that compresses the refrigerant inside the cylinder, and a supporter comprising a central portion and a supporting portion that expands in a radius direction of the piston, the moving member being linearly reciprocated with respect to the fixed member; a plurality of front main springs, each having one end supported at a front surface of the supporting portion of the supporter and the other end supported at the fixed member, and being positioned to be symmetric around the piston; a rear main spring having one end supported at a rear surface of the central portion of the supporter and the other end supported at the fixed member; and a frame having a mounting hole in which one end of the cylinder is mounted, and having a fastening portion brought into contact with the cylinder, wherein the frame further includes an electric wiring hole provided at one side of the frame to supply power to a linear motor installed around the cylinder and at least one resistance reduction hole formed around the mounting hole to reduce air resistance during the linear reciprocation of the piston, and wherein a deformation prevention portion protrudes from the fastening portion in an axial direction longer than other parts of the fastening portion, only at an inner portion of the electric wiring hole or the at least one resistance reduction hole to reinforce a strength of the fastening portion of the frame in a side of the electric wiring hole or the at least one resistance reduction hole. | 22,785 |
9,328,228 | 1. A chloroprene rubber composition, prepared by carrying out emulsion polymerization of a total 100 parts by mass of monomers at least containing chloroprene in the presence of 0.5 to 7.0 parts by mass of a rosin acid salt as emulsifier and terminating the emulsion polymerization by addition of a polymerization inhibitor and 0.005 to 0.5 parts by mass of a phosphorus-based compound and 0.01 to 1.0 parts by mass of phenol-based compound as antioxidant, wherein the content ratio of the phenol-and phosphorus-based compounds, phenol-based compound:phosphorus-based compound, is 0.5 to 5:1. | 17,875 |
8,618,212 | 1. A composition comprising: a nanostructure; a polymeric ligand, which ligand comprises a radical or cationic initiator, wherein the polymeric ligand comprises one or more dicarbinol moieties coupled to the silicone backbone. | 35,147 |
8,418,865 | 1. A bottle having two separated spaces in a bottle body, comprising: a bottle body having a mouth with an external thread formed around an outer circumferential surface of the mouth; an additive storage container inserted into the mouth, and having a cylindrical additive storage part opened at an upper end thereof and provided with a discharge port at a lower end thereof; and an opening unit having an end plate being in surface contact with the open upper end of the cylindrical additive storage part, a main cap extending downward in an axial direction from an outer circumferential edge of the end plate and having an internally threaded portion engaging with the external thread of the mouth through a screw engagement, and a slider extending downward in an axial direction from an inner circumferential edge of the end plate and movably inserted into the cylindrical additive storage part, thus selectively opening or closing the discharge port, wherein the open upper end of the cylindrical additive storage part is integrally provided with a flange that has an outside protrusion extending outward in a radial direction from the cylindrical additive storage part, the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical additive storage part is provided at a predetermined position spaced apart from the flange by a predetermined distance with an external thread that has a same pitch as that of the external thread of the mouth, and the main cap is provided at a predetermined position inside the internally threaded portion with an outside hooking protrusion that engages with the external thread of the cylindrical additive storage part through a screw engagement and is hooked by the outside protrusion, the outside hooking protrusion projecting inward from the main cap in a radial direction, so that when the opening unit is rotated, the outside hooking protrusion is hooked by the outside protrusion, thus removing the cylindrical additive storage part from the mouth, and, a seal piece inserted into the lower surface of the cylindrical additive storage container at a position where the lower surface contacts the end of the slider. | 33,459 |
9,242,932 | 1. A method of producing meso-biliverdin, the method comprising: reacting phycocyanobilin with an amphoteric compound to yield meso-biliverdin, wherein the amphoteric compound is selected from the group consisting of sodium bicarbonate, potassium carbonate, and sodium carbonate. | 39,907 |
9,076,042 | 1. A method of generating index elements of objects in images captured by a camera system, the method comprising: capturing a first group of multiple images of an object in a field of view of the camera system; detecting the object in the first group of multiple images; generating a first set of single-frame signatures of the object, the single-frame signatures of the first set corresponding to features of the object derived from the multiple images of the first group; producing a first average signature of the object, the first average signature being an average of the single-frame signatures of the first set, and the first average signature being a first index element of the object; producing a cumulative signature of the object, the cumulative signature being a weighted average of the single-frame signatures of the first set; capturing a second image of the object; detecting the object in the second image; generating a second single-frame signature derived from the second image; updating the cumulative signature by weighing the second single-frame signature and averaging the weighted second single-frame signature with the cumulative signature; and determining whether to accept or reject the updated cumulative signature and the first average signature as a match, wherein the first average signature is updated based on the second single-frame signature when the updated cumulative signature and the first average signature are accepted as a match, and a second average signature of the object is produced based on the second single-frame signature when the updated cumulative signature and the first average signature are rejected as a match, the second average signature being a second index element of the object. | 45,052 |
9,778,646 | 1. A robot controller for controlling a robot which supplies and/or discharges a workpiece to and/or from each of at least one machine tool, the robot controller comprising: a data communicating part which obtains data representing an operation state of the machine tool at predetermined timing by communication with the machine tool; a motion pattern storing part which stores a plurality of motion patterns of the robot for the machine tool; and a motion controlling part which wherein the motion controlling part | 5,705 |
9,256,996 | 1. A security system for allowing access to secure areas, the system comprising: at least one access control device configured to control the flow of items or users in an at least one secure area; an access control database containing information regarding criteria for allowing access to the at least one secure area; and a control system configured to receive information from the at least one access control device and to compare the information to the access control database to determine if access is to be granted; the control system configured to modify access if a discrepancy is noted, the control system including a training model configured to modify the access based on operator-based rules and based on the discrepancy to train a user to adhere to access policies. | 19,630 |
9,157,966 | 1. A system for determining on-line battery's state of charge, the system comprising: a measurement section having a voltage sensor, a current sensor and a temperature sensor, the measurement section adapted to take on-line measurements from the battery; a computer having a battery dynamic model stored in a non-volatile memory, the battery dynamic model including various values of parameters R a computer having a processor adapted to receive the on-line measurements from the measurement section and to calculate an open circuit voltage online, using an equation where V BAT —Battery terminal voltage, ΔV R —Voltage drop due to battery resistance, and ΔV P —Voltage drop due to polarization phenomenon; wherein ΔV in which values of R s , C st , R st , C lt and R lt are determined from the battery dynamic model by comparing the received on-line measurements to the battery dynamic model; and a display unit for displaying the state of charge of the online battery. | 15,353 |
8,702,847 | 1. A method for extracting or capturing carbon dioxide from air, comprising: (a) exposing air containing carbon dioxide to a solution comprising a base, wherein the base is selected from sodium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, or potassium hydroxide, and resulting in a basic solution which absorbs carbon dioxide and produces a solution comprising a carbonate; (b) transferring said carbonate from said solution comprising a carbonate to a solid state; and (c) increasing the temperature of the carbonate generated in step (b) to release carbon dioxide and to regenerate the base of step (a). | 41,003 |
9,106,183 | 1. A multi-chip module comprising: a power amplifier die including one or more power amplifiers; and a controller die including control logic of a direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converter, the control logic configured to compare a plurality of voltages generated from a supply voltage to a reference voltage that is independent of the supply voltage and to generate one or more control signals based at least partly on the comparisons, the DC-DC converter configured to generate an output voltage based on the one or more control signals and provide the output voltage to the power amplifier die. | 19,191 |
8,505,189 | 1. A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a backlight unit, comprising: a feed mechanism configured to arrange a plurality of light-emitting diodes in a row; a testing mechanism having a testing module and a disposal module, wherein the testing module is configured to test the function of the light-emitting diodes, wherein the disposal module is configured to discharge the light-emitting diodes that do not pass the test of the test module; a first feed rail connecting the feed mechanism and the testing mechanism, wherein the first feed rail is configured to transfer the light-emitting diodes from the feed mechanism to the testing mechanism; an attachment mechanism having a guiding feeder and a fixing device; and a second feed rail connecting the testing mechanism and the attachment mechanism, wherein the second feed rail is configured to transfer the light-emitting diodes, that passed the test of the test module, from the testing mechanism to the guiding feeder, wherein the guiding feeder is configured to arrange the light-emitting diodes, that passed the test of the test module, to align a circuit board, and wherein the fixing device is configured to bond the light-emitting diodes, that passed the test of the test module, to the circuit board. | 47,676 |
9,750,749 | 1. A method of treating thyroid eye disease comprising: selecting a patient having thyroid eye disease and administering to the selected patient a composition comprising an agent that interferes with hyaluronan synthesis in an amount that is effective to inhibit hyaluronan synthesis in a retro-ocular space, wherein the agent is 4-benzhydryloxy-1-[3-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-propyl]-piperidine (HQL-79), ethyl 3-(2-(3-fluorophenyl)pyrimidine-5-carboxamido)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate, N-(1-(7,8-dihydro-5H-pyrano[4,3-d]pyrimidin-2-yl)pyrrolidin-3-yl)-2-(3-fluorophenyl)pyrimidine-5-carboxamide, 2-(3-fluorophenyl)-N-{1-[(methylamino)carbonyl]piperidin-4-yl}pyrimidine-5-carboxamide, 2-(3-fluorophenyl)-N-[1-(6-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-2-yl)pyrrolidin-3-yl]pyrimidine-5-carboxamide, or 2-(3-fluorophenyl)-N-[1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)piperidin-4-yl]pyrimidine-5-carboxamide. | 4,643 |
8,653,421 | 1. A wind turbine comprising a nacelle and at least one weather mast situated on the nacelle so as to be exposed to exterior environmental conditions; wherein the at least one weather mast comprises: an electric heating wire; and a lightning protective cage consisting of interconnected pipings; wherein the interconnected pipings exhibit an electrical ground connection that conducts a lightning strike to earth; wherein the electric heating wire is situated inside a piping of the interconnected pipings; wherein the electric heating wire is coupled to a power source to receive current, and is coupled to earth so as to exhibit an electrical ground connection that conducts a lightning strike to the earth; and wherein the electrical ground connection of the interconnected pipings is independent of the electrical ground connection of the electric heating wire. | 10,160 |
8,843,611 | 1. A method for transmitting a Web Services (WS) message, comprising: providing data in the form of a WS message; addressing the WS message to a plurality of receiving nodes; and transmitting the addressed WS message to the plurality of receiving nodes, wherein if multiple errors are found in the WS message addressed to multiple receiving nodes, the multiple errors respectively corresponding to the multiple receiving nodes, collecting the multiple errors, and receiving an error response message based on the multiple errors which reports the existence of the receiving nodes through the error response message, wherein the addressing includes initially addressing each individual receiving node's address in one WS message. | 25,252 |
9,763,329 | 1. A circuit board, comprising: conductive traces being sandwiched by an upper insulating layer and a lower insulating layer; a first array of conductive vias extending perpendicularly to the conductive traces, the vias in the first array of conductive vias being arranged such that any two adjacent vias in a row of vias extending along any given dimension in the first array of conductive vias are equally spaced from each other; and isolation resistors embedded within the first array of conductive vias such that each isolation resistor is disposed between at least two adjacent vias in the first array of conductive vias, wherein the conductive traces include a first group of conductive traces, each of the conductive traces in the first group of conductive traces being coupled to a different conductive via in the first array of conductive vias through one of the isolation resistors, each isolation resistor being disposed closer to the conductive via to which the isolation resistor is coupled than all other conductive vias surrounding the isolation resistor, each isolation resistor being configured to produce a copy of a signal flowing through the conductive via that is coupled to one end of the isolation resistor on the conductive trace that is coupled to an opposite end of the isolation resistor. | 25,621 |
9,200,442 | 1. A beam for fabrication of a moment-resisting frame, the beam comprising: one or more webs extending along a longitudinal axis, the one or more webs including a first side and a second, opposite side; and a plurality of flanges connected to the one or more webs and extending along the longitudinal axis, at least one flange of the plurality of flanges being positioned on the first side of the one or more webs and at least another flange of the plurality of flanges being positioned on the second, opposite side of the one or more webs, each flange of the plurality of flanges having an approximately planar major side that is oriented approximately perpendicular to the one or more webs, each approximately major side having a width that gradually decreases along the longitudinal axis from a first location to a second location, the width of each approximately major side gradually increases along the longitudinal axis from the second location to a third location, the second location being positioned between the first location and the third location; and wherein the one or more webs and the plurality of flanges form a generally tubular shape. | 44,396 |
8,362,839 | 1. A method for operating an amplifier circuit comprising: operating a first device and a second device as amplifiers to generate an output in a first mode of operation; operating a third device and a fourth device to commutate an inductor in the first mode of operation; operating the first device and the second device to commutate the inductor in a second mode of operation; and operating the third device and the fourth device as amplifiers to generate the output in the second mode of operation. | 23,537 |
9,399,321 | 1. Method for producing three-dimensional objects ( 6 ) layer by layer using a powdery material ( 7 ) which can be solidified by irradiating it with a high-energy beam ( 4 ), said method comprising the steps of; applying a first layer of powdery material onto a working area ( solidifying a part of said first layer by irradiating it with a high-energy beam; applying a second layer ( determining a rate at which the temperature of the second layer ( determining a layer thickness of the second layer based upon the determined rate at which the temperature of the second layer ( wherein: | 47,024 |
9,477,752 | 1. A method for developing an ontology via a computer system for processing communication data, wherein the ontology is a structural representation of language elements and the relationships between those language elements within a domain stored in memory of the computer system, the method comprising: receiving, by a training module of the computerized system, a training set of communication data, wherein the communication data is voice audio; transcribing, by the training module, the set of communication data into textual files; processing the textual files, by the training module, to identify scripts within the textual files, wherein scripts are repeated patterns that appear in the training set of communication data; following the identification of scripts, executing a zoning process by the training module that segments conversations within the textual files into meaning units, wherein each meaning unit is a sentence; after the zoning process has been completed, executing a term extraction process by the training module that evaluates the meaning units to extract terms from the textual files, wherein a term is a short word or phrase; after executing the zoning process, executing a pre-ontology tagging process by the training module that tags all the terms such that any given term does not span more than one meaning unit and such that any two given terms do not overlap each other; following the pre-ontology tagging, processing the textual files by the training module to identify context vectors, wherein the context vectors are linkages between the tagged terms in the textual files and the words that appear before or after each of those tagged terms in the textual files; after identifying the context vectors, building dendrograms by the training module based on the context vectors, wherein each dendrogram is a hierarchical cluster that centers around a given tagged term; after the development of the dendrograms, developing relations within the training set of communication data by the training module based on the dendrograms, wherein a relation is a pair of tagged terms that appear in proximity to one another in the textual files; and storing the tagged terms and the relations in a database as an ontology. | 3,150 |
8,992,656 | 1. A method of injecting solids into an electric arc furnace, wherein the electric arc furnace contains a molten metal bath and a slag layer on top of the molten metal bath, and wherein there is a layer comprising a mixture of slag and molten metal between the molten metal bath and the slag layer, the method comprising (A) feeding fuel and oxidant into the combustion chamber of apparatus comprising (A.1) a combustion chamber having first and second opposed ends, (A.2) a burner within said combustion chamber at one of said first and second opposed ends, and inlets for fuel and for oxidant to said burner from outside said combustion chamber; (A.3) a nozzle having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the inlet is at the other of said first and second opposed ends of said combustion chamber, (A.4) a duct having an upstream end closed around the outlet of said nozzle and an open downstream end, and (A.5) a feeder tube having an inlet outside said apparatus and an outlet in said duct between the closed and open ends of said duct, wherein said combustion chamber, said nozzle, and said duct are coaxial, through the inlet for fuel and the inlet for oxidant, respectively, and combusting said fuel and oxidant in said combustion chamber to produce a gaseous stream of gas comprising products of said combustion which stream passes through said nozzle into said duct, and (B) feeding particulate solids through said feeder tube into said duct and entraining said solids in said stream of combustion products to form a mixed stream consisting of said particulate solids and said gaseous stream which passes out of the open end of said duct, and injecting said mixed stream toward the molten metal bath at one of (i) a velocity controlled such that the mixed stream penetrates into the slag layer, or (ii) a velocity controlled such that the mixed stream penetrates through the slag layer into said mixture of slag and molten metal, or (iii) a velocity controlled such that the mixed stream penetrates both through the slag layer and through said mixture of slag and molten metal and penetrates into the molten metal bath. | 49,048 |
9,617,683 | 1. A separation membrane being substantially free from curling comprising an elongated fluid-permeable base and a first separation layer formed over substantially most of the base, wherein the base comprises any one of a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric or a net, wherein the first separation layer composed of a polymer material is a single layer being formed over the base while infiltrating to a certain depth of the base or through to the reverse side of the base, wherein the first separation layer includes: wherein a separation-layer-lacking portion, at which only the base is present while the first separation layer is absent, exists between each widthwise outer end of the thinner portion and each widthwise end of the base, said widthwise ends perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the base, wherein a width of the thinner portion positioned on an outside of each widthwise end of the predetermined thickness portion is 0.1 to 10% of a width of the elongated fluid-permeable base, and wherein a width of the separation-layer-lacking portion which exists between the widthwise outer end of the thinner portion and the widthwise end of the elongated fluid permeable base is 0.1 to 10% of the width of the elongated fluid-permeable base. | 36,463 |
8,807,154 | 1. A rupture disk for relieving pressure between the interior of a box and the exterior of the box, the box having an outlet opening, comprising: a) a first layer that provides a gasket which abuts the box, the gasket having a central opening which aligns with the box opening; b) a second layer in the form of a reverse buckling disk having a disk flange, a domed portion and a weakened score on the dome that defines a disk burst pressure, the second layer having concave and convex sides; c) a third layer that is an outlet ring that sandwiches the second layer in between the first and the third layer layers, the outlet ring having a central opening surrounded by an edge; d) a plurality of regularly spaced apart and circumferentially extending teeth on the third layer extending from said edge inwardly a distance, each tooth having a circumferentially extending edge; e) a plurality of recesses, one recess in between each pair of said teeth; f) the combination of teeth and recesses extending completely around said third layer central opening; g) a plurality of tabs on the first and third layers, said tabs including circumferentially spaced apart tabs on each of said first and third layers, each tab having a tab opening, said tabs generally aligning so that a fastener can be passed through the tab openings of the first layer and the third layer; h) fasteners that affix the first and third layers to the box; i) wherein the second layer is generally circular and surrounded by the fasteners; and j) wherein circumferentially extending edge of each tooth is positioned on the concave side of the second layer and next to the score. | 16,724 |
8,615,342 | 1. A hybrid vehicle that includes an engine and a motor that generate drive power for driving the hybrid vehicle, comprising: a road condition acquisition portion which is installed in the hybrid vehicle, and which acquires information on an actual road condition; a storage portion in which road data is stored; a route setting portion that sets a route to a destination, based on the road data stored in the storage portion; a travel pattern setting portion that sets a travel pattern on the route set by the route setting portion, based on the road data stored in the storage portion; an operation schedule setting portion that sets an operation schedule that is a schedule of operations of the engine and the motor, based on the travel pattern set by the travel pattern setting portion; and a control portion that controls the operations of the engine and the motor based on the information on the actual road condition acquired by the road condition acquisition portion and the operation schedule set by the operation schedule setting portion, wherein the information on the actual road condition is an actual road gradient; the control portion determines whether the hybrid vehicle is located near an operating state change point at which operating states of the engine and the motor are to be changed in the operation schedule; if the control portion determines that the hybrid vehicle is located near the operating state change point, the control portion determines whether the gradient of the actual road changes; and if the control portion determines that the gradient of the actual road changes, the control portion changes the operating states of the engine and the motor according to the operation schedule, and if the control portion does not determine that the gradient of the actual road changes, the control portion does not change the operating states of the engine and the motor, the operating states being set by the operation schedule. | 49,559 |
9,726,187 | 1. A method of controlling a turbocharger system comprising a first turbocharger and a second turbocharger, the first turbocharger comprising a first compressor driven by a first turbine and providing a compressed air output defining a boost pressure and the second turbocharger comprising a second compressor driven by a second turbine, the method comprising: receiving exhaust gases from an associated engine at a gas input; controlling at least one of a wastegate and an arrangement of adjustable vanes in the first turbocharger selectively to affect the flow of exhaust gases between the gas input and the first turbine on the basis of the boost pressure, such that a proportion of the energy of the received exhaust gases is provided to the first turbine; driving the second turbine with the exhaust gases passing through at least one of: | 42,361 |
9,349,963 | 1. A photoelectric conversion material comprising: an organic material having an absorbing coefficient of about 1.5×10 wherein, in the formula (1), one or more of R | 20,015 |
9,214,696 | 1. A method for manufacturing a battery cell including an electrode assembly and electrolyte provided in a battery case made of a laminate sheet having a resin layer and a metal layer, comprising: (a) mounting the electrode assembly in the battery case and sealing the periphery of the battery case except for one end part of the battery case through thermal fusion; (b) introducing the electrolyte through the end part of the battery case and sealing the end part of the battery case via thermal fusion; (c) charging-discharging the battery cell to activate the battery cell; (d) transferring gas generated during activation and excess electrolyte to the end part of the battery case by centrifugal force; and (e) removing the gas and excess electrolyte from the end part of the battery case, wherein, in step (d), the battery cell is mounted on a centrifugal separator to make the end part of the battery case face an inside of the centrifugal separator and then rotated, enabling the gas to migrate to the end part of the battery case by centrifugal force. | 4,418 |
9,287,788 | 1. A resonant converter including: a resonant tank; a switching circuit that connects the resonant tank to a power supply according to a first switching sequence; a synchronous rectifier circuit that supplies power to an output; wherein the rectifier circuit is switched according to a second switching sequence; and a phase delay module arranged to delay the second switching sequence with respect to the first switching sequence by a variable phase delay to achieve a desired power output, said phase delay module configured to use feedback from the output to develop an error signal based on a difference between a nominal value of a voltage at the output and an actual value of the voltage at the output, said error signal having a characteristic that varies in response to a first change in the actual value of the voltage at the output to thereby cause a change in the variable phase delay and a corresponding second change in the actual value of the voltage at the output that results from the change in the variable phase delay; wherein the second switching sequence is a phase delayed version of the first switching sequence and wherein a duty cycle of the first switching sequence is equivalent to a duty cycle of the second switching sequence. | 11,490 |
9,265,095 | 1. A cold crucible induction melter, comprising: a plurality of metal sectors forming a wall of the cold crucible induction melter, each of the metal sectors including an inner curved portion forming an inner side surface of the metal sector, the inner curved portion being convex inward relative to the wall and having a semicircular shape as a whole to prevent an electric arc from being generated, an outer planar portion forming an outer side surface of the metal sector and having a planar shape, two side planar portions forming side surfaces of the metal sector, connecting the inner curved portion to the outer planar portion and having a planar shape, a top planar portion forming a top end surface, a bottom planar portion forming a bottom end surface, a cooling passage longitudinally formed in inside the metal sector such that an inner periphery of the metal sector forms the cooling passage, the cooling passage extending from a bottom end surface to a top end surface of the metal sector such that both ends of the cooling passage are open, respectively, at the bottom end surface and the top end surface of the metal sector, and an insulation layer covering the inner curved portion and the two side planar portions; and a connection pipe connecting the cooling passage of the metal sector to a cooling passage of an adjacent metal sector on the top end surface of the metal sector, wherein a coolant flows in one direction from a bottom end to a top end of the metal sector and a top end to a bottom end of the adjacent metal sector. | 46,323 |
8,673,603 | 1. A method of producing 2,3-butanediol by microbial fermentation of a substrate comprising at least CO and H 2 , the method comprising: a) passing the substrate into a bioreactor comprising a culture of at least one b) anaerobically fermenting the substrate to produce 2,3-butanediol and at least one co-product, wherein the substrate is provided such that a specific rate of hydrogen uptake from 0 mmol/L/day to 400 mmol/L/day by the culture is maintained and produces from 2 g/L/day to 45 g/L/day of 2,3-butanediol. | 44,267 |
9,815,242 | 1. An apparatus for manufacturing three-dimensional objects by selective solidification of a build material applied in layers, the apparatus comprising: a build platform on which at least one three-dimensional object is to be generated in layers, said build platform being disposed in an X-Y plane; a heating element for inputting thermal energy into the build material, said heating element at least partly overlying said build platform; a drive device for generating a relative motion between said build platform and said heating element in at least one of an X or Y direction; said heating element having at least two simultaneously usable functional openings formed therein, one of said at least two functional openings being embodied as a material passthrough and another of said at least two functional openings being embodied as a radiation passthrough; and an additional device for heating or for heating and cooling to control a temperature of the build material applied through said material passthrough. | 23,244 |
9,613,561 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a plurality of common lines including a first common line; a plurality of drive lines; a plurality of light emitting elements connected to the plurality of common lines and the plurality of drive lines; a source driver to apply a voltage to the plurality of common lines on a time-sharing basis; a sink driver to draw a current from at least one drive line among the plurality of drive lines, the at least one drive line being connected to a light emitting element to be lighted-up among the plurality of light emitting elements; at least one charging device connected to the first common line and configured to increase a voltage of the first common line to a predetermined value when the voltage of the first common line is lower than the predetermined value during a period while the source driver does not apply the voltage; and at least one discharging device connected to the first common line and configured to decrease the voltage of the first common line to the predetermined value when the voltage of the first common line is higher than the predetermined value during the period while the source driver does not apply the voltage, wherein said at least one discharging device is electrically connected to the first common line during a part of or all of a period when said at least one charging device is electrically connected to the first common line, and wherein said at least one charging device and said at least one discharging device are connected to each other by a discharging semiconductor switch such that when the discharging semiconductor switch is closed said at least one charging device and said at least one discharging device are electrically connected to each other and to the first common line, and the plurality of common lines do not form part of an electrically conductive path between the at least one charging device and the at least one discharging device. | 9,043 |
9,285,505 | 1. A method for managing photovoltaic fleet output with the aid of a digital computer, comprising the steps of: providing a computer with a physical distance between two locations in a geographic region suitable for operation of a photovoltaic fleet and evaluating a temporal distance as a ratio of the physical distance and cloud speed above the photovoltaic fleet within the geographic region; measuring sky clearness over the two locations using ground-based sensors; providing the computer with recorded irradiance measures for the one of the locations comprising a time series of irradiance measures recorded at successive times, comprising the steps of: providing the computer with forecast irradiance measures for the one location, each forecast irradiance measure corresponding to one of the recorded irradiance measures; bounding in the computer statistical error between the recorded irradiance measures and the forecast irradiance measures by evaluating in the computer a mean and standard deviation; relating in the computer the sky clearness that was measured over the two locations with a correlation coefficient by solving in the computer an empirically-derived exponential function of the temporal distance; generating in the computer an input set of forecast clearness indexes as a ratio of each of the forecast irradiance measures for the one location, and clear sky irradiance; and weighting in the computer each forecast clearness index by the correlation coefficient to form an output set of forecast clearness indexes for the other location and proportioning in the computer the mean and standard deviation to the output set of forecast clearness indexes; and comparing the output set of forecast clearness indexes to the sky clearness that was measured over the two locations. | 41,996 |
8,486,180 | 1. A process for producing a concentrated carbon dioxide stream for use in the production of merchant carbon dioxide during the regeneration of adsorbent and production of a carbon dioxide containing tail gas in an adsorption bed of a hydrogen pressure swing adsorption unit cycle, the process comprising fractionating the carbon dioxide containing tail gas produced during regeneration of the adsorbent in the adsorption bed by counter-currently depressurizing the adsorption bed to desorb a carbon dioxide adsorbed to the adsorbent of the adsorption bed thereby forming a carbon dioxide rich fraction which is withdrawn from the adsorption bed and passed to a first desorption tank followed by purging the adsorption bed to allow for displacement of any residual carbon dioxide from the adsorbent thereby forming a carbon dioxide lean fraction which is withdrawn from the purged first adsorption bed and passed to a second desorption tank, wherein the concentration of carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide rich fraction is greater than 60 mole %, and wherein during counter-current depressurization, the adsorption bed is reduced to a pressure that ranges from about ambient pressure to about 15 psig. | 27,666 |
8,480,846 | 1. A process for preparing a fumed hydrophilic silicon dioxide powder comprising aggregated primary particles having a BET surface area of 175±15 m 2 /g, wherein a thickening effect of the powder, based on the BET surface area, is greater than 18 mPas·g/m 2 , the process comprising: vaporizing a silicon compound; transferring the vaporized silicon compound, optionally with a carrier gas, into a mixing chamber, separately, transferring a fuel gas and primary air into the mixing chamber, and mixing with the silicon compound vapour; igniting the mixture in a burner wherein a flame is burnt into a reaction chamber; introducing secondary air surrounding the flame into the reaction chamber; separating solid silicon dioxide from gaseous substances; and treating the separated solid with a steam at 250° C. to 750° C., wherein the primary air is optionally preheated or enriched with oxygen, a ratio of secondary air/primary air is from 0.05 to 3, a total amount of oxygen is at least sufficient for the complete combustion of the fuel gas and the silicon compound, and an adiabatic flame temperature T | 11,881 |
8,961,453 | 1. A method of monitoring an infusion device having an infusion device outlet and a fluid transfer device with a cycle that consists of a fluid transfer device operation and a rest period, the method comprising the steps of: sensing pressure within a catheter connected to the infusion device outlet at the beginning of a single fluid transfer device cycle and prior to the operation of the fluid transfer device; sensing pressure within the catheter at the end of the rest period of the single fluid transfer device cycle; and determining that the catheter is blocked in response to the pressure sensed at the end of the rest period of the single fluid transfer device cycle being greater than the pressure sensed at the beginning of the single fluid transfer device cycle and prior to the operation of the fluid transfer device. | 41,816 |
9,327,826 | 1. An apparatus for controlling positioning of flaps in an aircraft, comprising: a depressable shift lever downwardly movable to each of a plurality of shift lever positions to control positioning of the flaps of the aircraft to each of a respective plurality of associated flap positions; a shift lever indexing plate comprising a plurality of engagement positions associated with the plurality of shift lever positions, respectively, the shift lever being coupled to an engagement member, the engagement member moving downward with the shift lever and being upwardly biased such that when the shift lever is depressed, the engagement member is able to selectively engage a selected one of the plurality of the engagement positions associated with a selected one of the shift lever positions to command the aircraft flaps to the flap position associated with the selected one of the shift lever positions; the shift lever indexing plate further comprises a web portion which separates the engagement positions of the shift lever indexing plate, the web portion being shaped with pointed and sloped sides forming engagement grooves and the shift lever carrying a pin to engage the engagement grooves and the shift lever being biased by a biasing member such that when the shift lever is at rest and only the shift lever bias is applied to the shift lever, the engagement member must be engaged with one of the plurality of engagement positions of the shift lever indexing plate; wherein the web portion comprises a flat section opposite a plurality of engagement grooves for moving the shift lever pin directly between non-adjacent engagement grooves while the shift lever is moved downward; a safety protrusion that prevents the shift lever pin from moving to an engagement groove associated with a fully extended flap position without first engaging in an immediately adjacent engagement groove; and a plurality of optical sensors corresponding to the plurality of shift lever positions for sensing the shift lever positions based on a beam blocker mechanically coupled to the shift lever for pivoting when the shift lever is moved. | 20,187 |
8,687,558 | 1. A method comprising: querying a gateway node cache in response to a first broadcast probe received at a first node of a wireless Internet-based network; when the gateway node cache identifies a first gateway node, selectively sending a first response to nodes that participated in a search flood associated with the first broadcast probe; determining whether the first node is capable to act as a second gateway node; and broadcasting a second response when the gateway node cache does not identify the first gateway node and the first node is capable to act as the second gateway node. | 29,659 |
8,983,554 | 1. A mobile wireless communications device, comprising: a housing; at least one circuit board carried by the housing and including radio frequency (RF) circuitry carried by the at least one circuit board and comprising a transmitter and receiver, and a processor carried by the at least one circuit board and operative with the RF circuitry; an antenna mounted within the housing and operative with the RF circuitry; a charging circuit mounted within the housing for charging a battery carried by and powering the mobile wireless communications device and comprising at least one charging contact carried by the housing and having an exposed surface on the housing and spaced from the at least one circuit board and configured to engage an external charging cradle when connected thereto, said charging contact further comprising an internal connector comprising a lower biased spring connector that extends downward to engage the at least one circuit board and connecting to the charging circuit and an upper unbiased connector section that extends upward from the biased spring connector; and an RE filter connected to said charging contact and comprising a cylindrical ferrite material surrounding and engaging said upper unbiased connector section of the internal connector at a location adjacent to the charging contact to minimize RF coupling from the at least one charging contact to the antenna and reduce transmitter harmonics emission and receiver de-sense. | 11,124 |
9,457,404 | 1. A method for consolidating a pre-form made of powder, comprising: (a) placing the pre-form between smart susceptors; (b) heating the smart susceptors to their Curie temperature that is greater than a phase change temperature of the pre-form by supplying an alternating current to induction coils which produce a varying magnetic field having a peak strength less than 0.1 tesla and a magnetic flux that passes through surfaces of the smart susceptors; (c) applying consolidation pressure to the pre-form at least during a time period subsequent to the temperature of the smart susceptors reaching the Curie temperature; and (d) while consolidation pressure is being applied, intermittently supplying direct current to the induction coils to produce a pulsed magnetic field having a strength greater than or equal to 0.5 tesla and a magnetic flux that passes through a surface of the pre-form, wherein a pulse rate of the pulsed magnetic field is selected so that the crystallographic phase of the pre-form will oscillate, and the pulsed magnetic field is applied sufficiently long that superplasticity of the pre-form is attained during phase oscillation. | 12,384 |
8,552,122 | 1. A compound of formula V: wherein: | 21,602 |
9,827,242 | 1. A method for improving attention function in schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder which comprises administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as the sole active ingredient a therapeutically effective amount of lurasidone or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof to a mammal in need thereof. | 13,322 |
8,521,071 | 1. A developer bearing member for carrying one-component developer for developing a latent image, the developer bearing member comprising: a base body; a surface layer provided above the base body; and a plurality of concave portions provided on the surface layer, the concave portions spaced apart from one another by and each surrounded by a top portion of the surface layer; wherein a resistivity value of the surface layer is 10 the number of the concave portions per unit area is 2250/mm a major diameter of an opening of each concave portion is 8 to 20 μm, a depth of each concave portion is 2 to 5 μm, a dimensional tolerance of the major diameter is 0.5 μm or less, and a dimensional tolerance of the depth is 0.5 μm or less. | 16,640 |
9,271,346 | 1. A lighting power supply device that receives a pulsating flow converted from an alternating current by a rectifying circuit that rectifies the alternating current subjected to phase control by a phase-controlled dimmer, and generates and outputs direct current voltage/current to be supplied to a lamp, the lighting power supply device comprising: a transistor that flows the current for turning on the lamp; and a control circuit that receives a voltage corresponding to the current for the lamp as an input and controls the transistor, wherein the control circuit includes: wherein the time-voltage conversion circuit includes: wherein the time-voltage conversion circuit is configured to make the capacitor generate a charging voltage corresponding to the phase of the pulsating flow, and wherein the sample-and-hold circuit is configured to take in the charging voltage at a predetermined timing corresponding to a change of an output of the voltage comparison circuit, and to hold and output the taken-in voltage until a next timing. | 1,451 |
8,474,246 | 1. A method of operating a particle filter ( 4 ) in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine ( 1 ), wherein the particle filter ( 4 ), which collects soot particles and ashes, is re-conditioned, in intervals, by a soot-burn off procedure, but wherein, in addition to soot, also non-combustible ashes are deposited during operation of the internal combustion engine, said method comprising the steps of: reducing, in an ash reducing procedure (A), the mass of the ash deposits in the particle filter by heating the particle filter and supplying to the particle filter, together with the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine ( 1 ), a reducing agent which reacts with the ash deposits so as to chemically convert the ash deposits such that at least non-metallic constituent parts of the ash deposits are carried out of the particle filter ( 4 ) by the exhaust gas. | 3,118 |
9,659,528 | 1. A method for controlling an organic light emitting display device, the organic light emitting display device including a plurality of pixels for generating images, each of the plurality of pixels including at least one switching thin film transistor (TFT) connected to a gate line and a data line, a driving TFT connected to a high voltage line and to the at least one switching TFT, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) connected to the driving TFT, the method comprising: varying a voltage at the high voltage line in a step-increased format, providing the varied voltage in the step-increased format to a drain of a specific driving TFT as a drain voltage, and measuring a source voltage of the specific driving TFT to sense a variation in the source voltage over a predetermined time duration; varying the drain voltage according to the sensed variation in the source voltage of the specific driving TFT to generate a varied drain voltage; applying the varied drain voltage to the drain of the specific driving TFT in one of the plurality of pixels; and compensating the specific driving TFT by the varied drain voltage, so as to maintain a constant drain-source voltage at the specific driving TFT. | 19,794 |
9,435,226 | 1. A gas turbine comprising: a heat-resistant portion surrounding a channel for high-temperature gas from an outer peripheral side; an annular member formed in an annular shape on the outer peripheral side of the heat-resistant portion; and a supporting member fitted into a fitting concave portion which has a bottom face facing a downstream side in the high-temperature gas flow direction along an axis of the annular member, recessed from an axial end face of the annular member along the axis, and supporting the heat-resistant portion, wherein the fitting concave portion has a first inclined surface that inclines so as to narrow gradually from an opening edge thereof toward an upstream side in the high-temperature gas flow direction along the axis, and the supporting member has a second inclined surface that inclines so as to come into contact with the first inclined surface, the supporting member comes into contact with the bottom face of the fitting concave portion and is formed in a shape which fits into the fitting concave portion, the supporting member is formed so that, when the supporting member is fitted into the fitting concave portion, the axial end face of the annular member and an axial end face of the supporting member that face the downstream side are located on the same plane, a bolt hole with a female thread portion is formed toward the upstream side in the direction of the axis from the bottom face in the fitting concave portion, a radial outside portion of the supporting member has a semicircular shape, a radial inside portion of the supporting member has a rectangular shape in which the longitudinal direction is the radial direction, a bolt hole is provided in the supporting member, and a bolt is inserted into the bolt hole, is screwed into the female thread portion, and fixes the position of the supporting member. | 7,584 |
8,353,198 | 1. A diagnostic method for performing diagnostics on the intake tract of an internal combustion engine with exhaust gas turbocharger comprising a compressor disposed in the intake tract and a turbine disposed in an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine for the purpose of driving said compressor, the method comprising the steps of: determining a boost pressure of the compressor in a predefined operating state of the internal combustion engine, comparing the determined boost pressure to a predefined base boost pressure in the predefined operating state, and detecting a leak in the intake tract downstream of the compressor in response to determining that the determined boost pressure is less than the predefined base boost pressure in the predefined operating state. | 35,307 |
9,654,880 | 1. A sound generator comprising: a piezoelectric element; a vibrating body including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, the piezoelectric element being disposed on the vibrating body, the vibrating body vibrating due to vibration of the piezoelectric element and generating a sound; a first reflection member disposed in a first direction side with respect to the vibrating body, and including a first surface that faces the vibrating body and that is inclined with respect to the first main surface of the vibrating body; a second reflection member disposed in a second direction side, which is opposite to the first direction, with respect to the vibrating body and including a second surface that faces the first surface of the first reflection member with the vibrating body therebetween and that is inclined with respect to the second main surface of the vibrating body; a first opening facing in a third direction, which is different from the first direction, and connecting a first space between the vibrating body and the first reflection member, to a space outside of the first space; and a second opening facing in a fourth direction, which is different from the second direction and the third direction, and connecting a second space between the vibrating body and the second reflection member, to a space outside of the second space, wherein the piezoelectric element is disposed nearer to the first reflection member than to the second reflection member, and wherein the first reflection member includes a first through-hole extending through a portion of the first reflection member facing the piezoelectric element. | 37,071 |
9,106,174 | 1. A rotary electric machine control device that controls a rotary electric machine drive device including an inverter interposed between a DC power source section including a power storage device and an AC rotary electric machine to perform power conversion between DC power from the DC power source section and AC power for the rotary electric machine, the rotary electric machine control device comprising: an inverter control section that controls the inverter by controlling an armature current in a two-axis orthogonal coordinate system that rotates in synchronization with rotation of the rotary electric machine, the armature current being a vector obtained by synthesizing a field current and a drive current extending along respective axes of the orthogonal coordinate system, wherein the inverter control section determines whether connection between the DC power source section and the inverter is in a blocked state, and if it is determined that the connection is in the blocked state, the inverter control section executes zero-torque control in which the inverter is controlled such that torque regenerated by the rotary electric machine becomes zero, and executes high-loss control in which the field current is increased while reducing the drive current to zero so as to increase the armature current while maintaining a torque command provided in the zero-torque control. | 32,818 |
9,100,350 | 1. A router for use in a first datacenter, comprising: a frame receiving module configured to receive a traffic frame comprising a Destination Media Access Control (DMAC) address; and a frame forwarding module configured to: | 34,316 |
9,127,584 | 1. A recovery control system that recovers a dosing valve of a vehicle engine from an abnormality state to a normal state, comprising: a dosing valve having an orifice opening to exhaust gas in an exhaust pipe of the vehicle engine to inject urea solution into the exhaust pipe and being heated by the exhaust gas at a high temperature when the engine is running; a urea tank serving as a source of the urea solution; a supply module that supplies the urea solution from the urea tank to the dosing valve and supplies the urea solution from the dosing valve back to the urea tank by force emptying the dosing valve; a detector that detects an open/close operation abnormality of the dosing valve caused by crystallization of the urea solution at the dosing valve due to the dosing valve being heated by the high temperature of the exhaust gas; and a controller configured to— when the operation abnormality is detected, open the dosing valve, to cause the supply module to force emptying of the urea solution from the dosing valve and supply the urea solution back to the urea tank, which draws the exhaust gas from the exhaust pipe through the orifice and into the urea tank, causing removal of the crystallized urea solution from the orifice and recovery of the dosing valve to the normal state, and then to supply the urea solution to the dosing valve. | 42,748 |
9,490,473 | 1. An anode for a lithium battery, said anode comprising: an electrically conductive substrate; a monolithic sheet of graphite supported on said electrically conductive substrate, said monolithic sheet of graphite having at least one electrochemically active surface which, when said anode is incorporated into a lithium battery, will provide an interface with an electrolyte of said battery; and a solid electrolyte interface layer comprised of a reaction product of a portion of said monolithic sheet of graphite and a Group IV element disposed directly on said at least one electrochemically active surface. | 24,185 |
9,475,697 | 1. A process for purification of gaseous anhydrous HBr contaminated with elemental bromine, which process comprises forming one or more than one liquid α-bromoalkylaromatic compound and gaseous anhydrous HBr having a reduced content of bromine by feeding the bromine-contaminated gaseous anhydrous HBr into countercurrent contact with at least one liquid alkylaromatic hydrocarbon within a packed section of a column and maintaining said packed column under free radical bromination conditions without use of added bromination catalyst and at temperature(s) within the range of 80-105° C. for an average reaction time of less than 12 seconds whereby gaseous anhydrous HBr having a reduced content of bromine and said one or more than one liquid α-bromoalkylaromatic compound and are formed. | 16,400 |
8,359,840 | 1. A method for regenerating a particulate filter, comprising: operating a direct injection gasoline engine having intake and exhaust systems to combust a substantially stoichiometric air-fuel mixture while regenerating the particulate filter; flowing gases from said intake system to said exhaust system at a location upstream of said particulate filter and downstream of a three-way catalyst for the regeneration, while simultaneously flowing gases from a location downstream of said particulate filter to said intake system; and adjusting boost pressure in response to at least a state of particulate filter regeneration. | 34,934 |
9,126,436 | 1. A printing machine comprising: a paper feed unit configured to feed a sheet of paper; a suction transfer unit configured to transfer the sheet of paper fed by the paper feed unit in a transfer direction, with the sheet of paper being attached by suction onto a transfer surface; a transfer and paper discharge unit configured to receive the sheet of paper from the suction transfer unit to transfer and discharge the sheet of paper; and a controller configured to control a suction force of the suction transfer unit in accordance with a paper type, wherein when the controller changes the suction force of the suction transfer unit between successive sheets of paper, the controller is configured prior to a discharge of a precedent sheet of paper to change the suction force of the suction transfer unit and drive the paper feed unit to feed a subsequent sheet of paper, wherein when the controller changes the suction force of the suction transfer unit between the successive sheets of paper, and when the precedent sheet of paper and the subsequent sheet of paper are in a prescribed combination in the paper type and a paper size, the controller is configured to change the suction force of the suction transfer unit in a period after a leading edge of the precedent sheet of paper reaches the downstream end of the suction transfer unit in the transfer direction and before a trailing edge of the precedent sheet of paper reaches a downstream end of the suction transfer unit. | 20,912 |
9,281,830 | 1. A radio apparatus comprising: a first receiver comprising: a detector that detects a preamble from the IF signal which is outputted from the first receiver; a second receiver comprising: a demodulator that demodulates the I signal and the Q signal each of which is outputted from the second receiver; and a controller that halts the operation of the first receiver and activates the second receiver when the detector detects the preamble, and activates the first receiver and halts the operation of the second receiver during standby time; wherein the first filter has a first capacitor and a first resistance, to filter the IF signal; and wherein each of the second filter and the third filter includes (i) a second capacitor having a value larger than the first capacitor, and (ii) a second resistance having a resistance value smaller than the first resistance, to filter the I signal and the Q signal, respectively. | 18,488 |
9,769,086 | 1. A method for providing dynamic account and user device management comprising: transmitting a request for delegate authority to manage a personal electronic user device within a telecommunications network in response to receiving a request from the user device for access to the network; receiving from the user device delegate authority to manage the user device; and managing the user device and monitoring data communicated to and from the user device within the network in accordance with a level of authority delegated by the user device. | 10,665 |
9,205,584 | 1. An injection molding machine closing unit comprising: a substantially C-shaped machine frame having a first leg and a second leg, said machine frame being configured such that free ends of said first leg and said second leg of said machine frame are deformed under influence of a closing force occurring during a closing operation; a stationary mold mounting plate mounted to said first leg of said machine frame; a moveable mold mounting plate; a closing mechanism mounted to said second leg, said closing mechanism being configured to drive said moveable mold mounting plate along a longitudinal direction of said machine frame; a support element for supporting said stationary mold mounting plate at a lower edge thereof on said machine frame against the closing force, said stationary mold mounting plate being fixedly connected to said first leg of said machine frame above said lower edge, said support element including: | 43,842 |
8,729,241 | 1. A method comprising: providing a first glycoprotein preparation of a therapeutic glycoprotein comprising at least one O-linked glycan; subjecting the first glycoprotein preparation to a de-N-glycosylation treatment that removes N-glycans from the glycoprotein preparation; releasing at least one O-linked glycan from a first portion of the treated first glycoprotein preparation by reductive β-elimination, releasing at least one O-linked glycan from a second portion of the treated first glycoprotein preparation by non-reductive β-elimination; and analyzing the released O-linked glycans from the first portion of the treated first glycoprotein preparation and analyzing the released O-linked glycans from the second portion of the treated first glycoprotein preparation. | 38,779 |
8,839,642 | 1. A chemical heat pump including an active substance and a volatile liquid that can be absorbed by the substance at a first temperature and be desorbed by the substance at a second higher temperature, including: a reactor part containing the active substance and arranged to be heated and cooled by an external medium, an evaporator/condenser part containing the portion of the volatile liquid that exists in a condensed state, and arranged to be heated and cooled by an external medium, and a channel for the vapour phase of the volatile liquid, the channel connecting the reactor part and the evaporator/condenser part to each other, characterized in that the reactor part includes a vessel or a container having an area of a side wall arranged as a solar energy collector or having an area of a side wall in direct contact with a solar energy collector, and a matrix for the active substance, said matrix being in contact with said side wall, the active substance and the volatile liquid being selected, so that the active substance at the first temperature is in a solid state from which the active substance when absorbing volatile liquid in the vapour phase thereof at least partly changes to a liquid state or a solution phase, and the active substance at the second temperature is in a liquid state or exists in a solution phase, from which the active substance when releasing the volatile liquid, in particular the vapour phase thereof, changes at least partly to a solid state, and wherein the active substance is held in the matrix at all times whether the active substance is in a solid state, a liquid state, or a solution phase, wherein the matrix comprises open pores, and cross-sectional dimensions of the pores are in a range of 10-60 um. | 19,015 |
8,577,902 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing, from an electronic data storage, data stored in the electronic data storage for multiple attribute classes, the accessed data comprising data values stored in the electronic data storage for each of at least two of the multiple attribute classes; identifying redundancy characteristics of the accessed data within each of the at least two attribute classes by: accessing a rule that indicates a preference to maintain an order of attribute classes within a dimension of attribute classes despite redundancy characteristics, the dimension of attribute classes defining a subset of attribute classes that have a parent-child relationship; identifying a dimension of attribute classes included in the multiple attribute classes, the dimension of attribute classes being arranged in a particular order in the electronic data storage based on a parent-child relationship; determining a relative order among the multiple attribute classes based on the determined measure of redundancy within the accessed data values for each of the at least two attribute classes, including maintaining the particular order of the attribute classes included in the dimension despite the determined measure of redundancy within the accessed data values for each of the at least two attribute classes indicating that a different order of the attribute classes included in the dimension is preferred; organizing the accessed data based on the determined relative order among the multiple attribute classes; compressing, using run length encoding, the organized data in the determined relative order among the multiple attribute classes; generating an index that is descriptive of the compressed data; and storing, in electronic storage, the encoded data and the generated index to enable subsequent searching of the encoded data using the generated index, wherein determining the measure of redundancy within the accessed data values for each of the at least two attribute classes comprises: wherein determining the relative order among the multiple attribute classes based on the determined measure of redundancy within the accessed data values for each of the at least two attribute classes comprises determining the relative order among the multiple attribute classes based on the determined redundancy measure for the attribute class that is based on the number of distinct data values within the attribute class and the determined parameter. | 7,687 |
8,618,917 | 1. A method to control an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a device command signal at a learning remote control, wherein the received device command signal is transmitted from a remote control associated with a controlled electronic device, and wherein the received device command signal is configured to control an operation of the controlled electronic device; communicating device control information from the learning remote control to a base device, wherein the communicated device control information corresponds to the received device command signal; communicating a first identifier that is associated with the controlled electronic device from the learning remote control to the base device, wherein the first identifier is associated with a first input interface residing on the learning remote control; communicating a second identifier from the learning remote control to the base device, wherein the second identifier is associated with at least a second input interface residing on the learning remote control; determining device instruction code information at the base device, wherein the determined device instruction code information includes information that is configured to cause the learning remote control to generate and transmit an emulated device command signal that is substantially the same as the device command signal, and wherein the determined device instruction code information includes information corresponding to the first identifier and the second identifier; communicating the determined device instruction code information from the base device to the learning remote control; and storing the determined device instruction code information in a memory of the learning remote control, wherein the first identifier is associated with an actuation of the first input interface to identify the controlled electronic device, and wherein the second identifier is associated with an actuation of the second input interface to identify the operation of the controlled electronic device. | 38,530 |
9,375,023 | 1. A non-naturally occurring sunflower seed oil with a higher heat stability than a naturally occurring sunflower seed oil, wherein the naturally occurring sunflower seed oil has 4-8% palmitic acid, 2-6% stearic acid, 20-45% oleic acid, and 45-70% linoleic acid of the total fatty acids, and more than 90% alpha-tocopherol of the total tocopherols, and wherein the non-naturally occurring sunflower seed oil is obtained from sunflower seeds that are from seed line IAS-1265, seeds of which seed line were deposited on 20 Mar. 2007 in the NCIMB (National Collection of Industrial, Marine and Food Bacteria) Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, with accession number NCIMB-41477 and has a saturated fatty acid content between 15% and 45% of the total fatty acids present in the oil, an oleic acid content between 45% and 75% of the total fatty acids present in the oil, and a gamma-tocopherol and delta-tocopherol sum content greater than 85% of the total tocopherols present in the oil. | 3,816 |
9,151,002 | 1. A fastener apparatus for a railroad rail and tie, the apparatus comprising: a yoke plate support frame comprising opposing securing arms coupled by a perpendicular yoke plate support, the opposing securing arms spaced apart from each other at a distance to detachably seat the yoke plate support over the railroad tie, and attachment tabs extending above the perpendicular yoke plate support from the opposing securing arms; and a yoke plate comprising a first plate extending along a first plane, a second plate extending out from an edge of the first plate and along a second plane which is at a different angle from the first plane, and yoke plate attachment tabs coupled to the first plate and the second plate, wherein the yoke plate attachment tabs are configured to detachably couple the yoke plate to the yoke plate support frame through the attachment tabs of the opposing securing arms. | 31,453 |
9,176,550 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a device platform comprising a first device and a second device, the first device and the second device each arranged to operate in multiple power modes, the first device comprising a processor with multiple cores, the second device comprising one or more of a processor having a graphics core, an I/O device, a graphics controller, a memory, a wireless communication device, an I/O device controller, or display electronics; and a power knob comprising a user interface element arranged to provide multiple power mode selections for the first device and the second device, the multiple power mode selections to include at least one low power mode in which the first device and the second device operate at a lower power than in a high power mode and in which at least a first one of the multiple cores is to operate under a first operating mode and at least a second one of the multiple cores is to operate under a second operating mode while the low power mode is selected, the first operating mode different than the second operating mode. | 37,783 |
9,476,139 | 1. A method of mitigating an electroplating deposit on a substrate holder that is configured to hold a wafer substrate in an electroplating cell while applying a cathodic current to electroplate metal on the substrate, the method comprising: when the electroplating cell is not being used for electroplating metal on a substrate, providing a deplating disk in the substrate holder such that the deplating disk makes electrical contact with a plurality of electrical contacts in the substrate holder; immersing the deplating disk and substrate holder into an electroplating solution within the electroplating cell; and applying an anodic potential to the deplating disk under conditions sufficient to remove, at least partially, the electroplating deposit from the substrate holder, wherein the deplating disk has a size and a shape matching those of a standard semiconductor wafer. | 22,214 |
8,716,356 | 1. A process for manufacturing a polymer film which comprises the steps A) mixing of one or more aromatic tetramino compounds with one or more aromatic carboxylic acids or esters thereof which contain at least two acid groups per carboxylic acid monomer, or mixing of one or more aromatic and/or heteroaromatic diaminocarboxylic acids, in phosphoric acid to form a solution and/or dispersion wherein said phosphoric acid does not contain any polyphosphoric acid, B) heating of the solution and/or dispersion obtained in step A) to temperatures of up to 350° C. to form a polyazole polymer, C) applying a layer using the mixture from step B) to a support, D) treating the membrane formed in step C) until it is self-supporting, E) detaching of the membrane formed in step C) from the support, F) removing the phosphoric acid present and drying wherein the heating in step B) is done in such a manner that the phosphoric acid being present is not converted into polyphosphoric acid. | 15,463 |
9,425,687 | 1. A method of operating a switched mode power supply circuit, the method comprising: determining an error in a control signal for a switched mode power supply circuit; comparing the error to an error threshold value to provide a filtering selection; adapting filtering of the error based on the filtering selection to provide a selected filtering; and filtering the error using the selected filtering, wherein determining an error in a control signal comprises comparing a present value of the control signal to a target value of the control signal, wherein the control signal comprises a duty cycle value of a switching signal provided to the switched mode power supply circuit and the target value comprises a duty cycle target value for the switched mode power supply circuit, wherein the error comprises a duty cycle error value and the error threshold comprises a duty cycle error threshold value; and wherein comparing comprises comparing the duty cycle error value to the duty cycle error threshold value to provide the filtering selection to an overhead regulator configured to provide operational commands to a voltage regulator. | 45,871 |
9,203,361 | 1. A harmonic control apparatus of a radio frequency device comprising an active device including at least one input terminal and an output terminal, the harmonic control apparatus comprising: a conducting pattern in a first conducting layer, being disposed on a first side of a planar dielectric substrate, facing a second conducting layer on an opposite side of the planar dielectric substrate, the second conducting layer acting as a ground plane; and a complementary open-loop resonator integrated in the conducting pattern to produce a shunt resonator that is configured to act as a short-circuit termination on at least one tuned frequency, wherein the conducting pattern is formed on a semiconductor substrate on which the active device is integrated; wherein the complementary open-loop resonator comprises two concentric rings, the resonator being modeled by an equivalent electric circuit comprising two series transmission lines, a resistance, an inductance and a capacitance that are configured to determine at least one tuned harmonic frequency; and wherein the concentric rings are physically connected to each other. | 923 |
9,559,219 | 1. A method comprising: providing a substrate comprising a device layer on which a plurality of device cells are defined; depositing a first dielectric layer on the device layer; depositing a metal interconnect on the first dielectric layer such that the deposited interconnect is electrically connected to at least two of the device cells and lies across a boundary between at least two of the electrically connected device cells; depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and over the interconnect; and exposing at least one contact point on the interconnect through the second dielectric layer. | 36,896 |
9,552,929 | 1. A composite, comprising: a carbon nanomaterial having an electrically non-conducting polymer coated on a portion of the carbon nanomaterial, wherein the electrically non-conducting polymer is selected from the group consisting of: a form of lignin, polyvinylquinone, polyvinylferrocene, a polyvinylene polymer containing pendant redox groups, and a combination thereof. | 10,325 |
9,171,206 | 1. A method for mapping water tables comprising: receiving a satellite image of an area; identifying water features on the satellite image; identifying elevations of the water features using a digital elevation model of the area; applying an interpolation algorithm to the elevations of the water features to identify water tables and elevations for the water tables, wherein applying the interpolation algorithm comprises approximating the elevation of water tables by connecting water features; subtracting, using a computer, the elevations for the water tables from a digital representation of ground surface topography or subsurface horizon to identify depths of the water tables; and displaying the depths of the water tables on the satellite image. | 18,858 |
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