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9,376,922 | 1. An interior cooling configuration formed within an airfoil of a blade of a combustion turbine engine, the interior cooling configuration comprising: a first flow passage and a second flow passage that comprise a side-by-side configuration for a segment; and multiple lateral crossover passages extending between and fluidly connecting the first flow passage to the second flow passage, wherein the crossover passages are staggered; wherein the crossover passages are spaced at longitudinal increments within the segment of the side-by-side configuration; wherein each of the crossover passages connect to the first flow passage at a port; wherein the crossover passages are staggered such that the ports of the first flow passage are staggered about a linear reference axis that extends longitudinally on an inner wall of the first flow passage. | 32,426 |
8,458,583 | 1. A document image generating apparatus, comprising: an accepting unit that accepts an original image; an extracting unit that extracts an original text from the original image accepted by the accepting unit; a translation generating unit that generates translation corresponding to the original text extracted by the extracting unit; a translation color setting unit that sets a color of the translation generated by the translation generating unit; and a document image generating unit that generates a document image in which the translation generated by the translation generating unit is added with the color set by the translation color setting unit to the original image accepted by the accepting unit, wherein in the document image generated by the document image generating unit, a color of the original text is different from the color of the translation; the apparatus further comprising: a layer generating unit that generates an original layer representing the original image accepted by the accepting unit and a translation layer representing the translation generated by the translation generating unit, wherein the document image generating unit composites the original layer and the translation layer generated by the layer generating unit, in order to generate the document image; a determining unit that determines whether the color of original text extracted by the extracting unit satisfies a predetermined condition or not; and an original text color changing unit that changes the color of original text in the document image to be a color which satisfies the predetermined condition when the determining unit determines that the color of original text extracted by the extracting unit does not satisfy the predetermined condition, and that fails to change the color of original text in the document image to be the color which satisfies the predetermined condition when the determining unit determines that the color of original text extracted by the extracting unit satisfies the predetermined condition, wherein the color set by the translation color setting unit does not satisfy the predetermined condition. | 29,749 |
9,539,546 | 1. An exhaust gas processing device comprising: a plurality of exhaust gas passages, wherein exhaust gas exhausted from a diesel engine is divided to pass through the exhaust gas passages; a reducing catalyst which is provided in each of the exhaust gas passages and reduces NOx in the exhaust gas by a reducing agent; a NOx detection sensor which is arranged on an upstream side of the catalyst in an exhaust gas flowing direction and which detects a concentration of NOx contained in the exhaust gas exhausted from the diesel engine; a pressure sensor which is arranged on an upstream side of each of the reducing catalysts in the exhaust gas flowing direction and which detects a pressure in each of the exhaust gas passages; and a control device that obtains a flow rate of the exhaust gas flowing through each of the exhaust gas passages based on at least a detection value of each of the pressure sensors, obtains a flow rate of NOx in each of the exhaust gas passages from the obtained flow rate of the exhaust gas in each of the exhaust gas passages and the concentration of NOx detected by the NOx detection sensor which is arranged on the upstream side of the catalyst in the exhaust gas flowing direction, and obtains an amount of reducing agent to be supplied to each of the reducing catalysts from the obtained flow rate of NOx in each of the exhaust gas passages. | 46,557 |
8,899,163 | 1. A biomass pulverizing apparatus comprising: a pulverizing apparatus body including a feedstock supply pipe for supplying biomass feedstock from above in a vertical axial direction; a pulverizing table for placing the supplied biomass feedstock; a drive section for rotationally driving the pulverizing table; a pulverizing roller for pulverizing the biomass feedstock by a pressing force, the pulverizing roller being operated in conjunction with the rotation of the pulverizing table; a blower unit for forming an upward flow upward from below on an outer peripheral side of the pulverizing table so as to jet conveying gas for conveying the pulverized biomass powder in an air stream; a classifier for classifying the biomass powder accompanied with the conveying gas, the classifier being provided inside the top of the pulverizing apparatus body; a funnel-shaped rectifying member provided below the classifier, the rectifying member including a blowing gas introduction section for supplying blowing gas toward a central portion of the pulverizing table so as to promote movement of the biomass feedstock; an introduction pipe disposed around the tubular portion, for introducing the blowing gas toward the pulverizing table; and a dispersion flow introduction section for introducing dispersion gas in a direction orthogonal to the vertical axial direction from a periphery of the pulverizing apparatus body toward the introduction pipe so as to disperse and drop biomass powder accompanied by the conveying gas, wherein the dispersion flow introduction section is provided between the classifier and the pulverizing roller in the vertical axial direction. | 42,152 |
9,146,451 | 1. A light source device comprising: a discharge lamp that has a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to be opposed to each other in a hollow portion in which a discharge medium is enclosed; and a driving device that supplies a driving voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the driving voltage is applied to the discharge medium through the first electrode and the second electrode such that the discharge medium emits light, wherein in a first period, the driving device periodically changes relative potential of the first electrode with respect to the second electrode, wherein in a second period, the driving device does not periodically change the relative potential of the first electrode with respect to the second electrode, wherein the second period includes a third period of keeping the relative potential of the first electrode with respect to the second electrode to constant potential, and a fourth period of stopping the applying of the driving voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode, and wherein when an absolute value of a difference between an intermediate value between a maximum value and a minimum value of the potential of the first electrode and the maximum value in the first period is b and an absolute value of a difference between a maximum value of the potential of the first electrode in the second period and the intermediate value in the first period is c, a relationship of b<c is satisfied, and wherein a frequency of the relative potential of the first electrode with respect to the second electrode in the first period is higher than 1 kHz and equal to or lower than 10 GHz. | 38,641 |
9,490,476 | 1. A method of manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the method comprising: a coating step of coating a current collector with a graphite-containing negative electrode mixture; a magnetic field application step of applying, to the negative electrode mixture made to coat the current collector in the coating step, a magnetic field in which magnetic lines of force are oriented in one direction parallel to a wide side plane of the current collector coated with the negative electrode mixture; a drying step of drying the negative electrode mixture to which the magnetic field has been applied in the magnetic field application step; and a rolling step of rolling a negative electrode mixture layer resulted from the drying step, wherein the current collector is an elongated current collector and, in the magnetic field application step, a magnetic field is applied in which the magnetic lines of force are oriented in a width direction of the elongated current collector, wherein the width direction is defined as the direction that is orthogonal to the length direction of the elongated current collector and that runs from one long edge of the current collector to the other long edge. | 22,908 |
9,305,851 | 1. A system comprising: an article including a chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) stop material; a polishing head configured to perform a CMP on the article; a polishing pad configured to support the article; a light source configured to emit an incident light; a polishing fluid including a plurality of emitter particles that are capable of emitting a fluorescent light in response to the incident light and a plurality of surfactant particles that attach the emitter particles, wherein the surfactant particles are capable of detaching from the emitter particles and attaching to the CMP stop material when the CMP stop material is exposed to the polishing fluid; a fluorescence light detector configured to detect the fluorescent light, wherein the fluorescent light is detected to have a first intensity when the surfactant particles attach the emitter particles and the fluorescent light is detected to have a second intensity when the surfactant particles detach the emitter particles; and at least one processor configured to control the polishing head based on the detected fluorescent light. | 6,872 |
9,714,130 | 1. A method of using a beverage container lid for distributing a snack, the method comprising steps of: providing a cup; providing a beverage covering segment having a cup rim receiving sidewall extending downward from a peripheral edge of the covering segment, wherein the cup rim receiving sidewall is designed to removeably engage with a rim of a cup; including a snack receiving receptacle formed within the beverage covering segment, the snack receiving receptacle comprising a snack receiving base panel, a snack receiving receptacle sidewall extending between a peripheral edge of the snack receiving base panel and the beverage covering segment, and a snack receptacle cover; including a snack ejector formed within the snack receiving receptacle; including a snack cover receiving ledge formed on the beverage covering segment extending about the snack receiving receptacle; placing the snack within a snack receiving receptacle; compressing a snack ejecting feature located within the snack receiving receptacle with the snack; applying a compression retention force to maintain compression of the snack ejecting feature; and retaining the snack within the snack receiving receptacle by detachably securing a snack receptacle cover to the snack cover receiving ledge. | 18,113 |
9,156,310 | 1. A mechanical drive seal housing comprising: a circular outer diameter; a circular inner diameter; a seal receiving slot located on a first side of the mechanical drive seal housing between the outer diameter and the inner diameter; a lubricant reservoir located adiacent to the seal receiving slot and between the outer diameter and the inner diameter, wherein the lubricant reservoir protrudes adjacent to a surface of a standing lubricant level, and wherein the lubricant reservoir protrudes tapered from a first point of zero protrusion to a point of maximum protrusion to a second point of zero protrusion along substantially one-half the circumference of the mechanical drive seal housing. | 22,166 |
9,728,809 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode containing a titanium-containing oxide; and a nonaqueous electrolyte consisting of (a) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphate, tris(triethylsilyl) phosphate, tris(vinyldimethylsilyl) phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)ethyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)-n-propyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)-i-propyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)-n-butyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)trichloroethyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroethyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)pentafluoropropyl phosphate, bis(trimethylsilyl)phenyl phosphate, dimethyltrimethylsilyl phosphate, diethyltrimethylsilyl phosphate, di-n-propyltrimethylsilyl phosphate, di-i-propyltrimethylsilyl phosphate, di-n-butyltrimethylsilyl phosphate, bis(trichloroethyl)trimethylsilyl phosphate, bis(trifluoroethyl)trimethylsilyl phosphate, bis(pentafluoropropyl)trimethylsilyl phosphate and diphenyltrimethylsilyl phosphate and (b) a sultone having an unsaturated hydrocarbon group, an organic solvent and an electrolyte dissolved in the organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent is at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of propylene carbonate, ethylene carbonate, vinylene carbonate, diethyl carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, methyl ethyl carbonate, tetrahydrofuran, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, dioxolan, dimethoxyethane, diethoxyethane, γ-butyrolactone, acetonitrile and sulfolane, the concentration of (a) in the nonaqueous electrolyte is from 0.1 to 10% by weight, and the concentration of (b) in the nonaqueous electrolyte is from 0.1 to 2% by weight. | 34,223 |
8,591,165 | 1. A material handling vehicle having a longitudinal axis, said vehicle comprising: a fork carriage defining an upper slot and a lower slot, each having a longitudinal axis and wherein said upper slot is further defined by side walls that are each angled upwardly and outwardly relative to the said longitudinal axis of said upper slot; and a pair of forks including pins coupled to said fork carriage with one of said pins in each of said upper slot and said lower slot, and wherein said forks are capable of moving both vertically and angularly relative to said fork carriage. | 201 |
9,016,938 | 1. An electronic contact thermometer comprises: A case; A circuit board which is installed in said case; A display; A switch; A power supply device which is installed in one end of said case; and A sensing part which is installed in one end of said case, electrically connected with said circuit board; Said display and switch are disposed on one side of said case and electrical connected with said circuit board; Said sensing part comprises: A positioning nugget which is installed in the same end of said case that the sensing part is installed in; A metallic contact part which is fixed on said positioning nugget; A temperature sensing chip; and 2 conducting lines which are electrical connected to the temperature sensing chip; Several positioning rods protruding from the surface of said positioning nugget; Said metallic contact part is a round cap with flat contacting surface, which comprises several positioning sticks on the surrounding wall, which connect to said positioning rods for making said metallic contact part protruding from but not contact to said case; Said temperature sensing chip is disposed inside said metallic contact part; Said conducting lines are connected with 2 ends of said temperature sensing chip, which are tangled and attached on the inside wall of said metallic contact part. | 3,036 |
8,483,048 | 1. A method for distributing state information within a multi-chassis router comprising a first master routing engine and a second master routing engine, wherein the second master routing engine acts as a standby routing engine for the first master routing engine, the multi-chassis router further comprising a local routing engine, wherein the first master routing engine, the second master routing engine, and the local routing engine are physically coupled within the multi-chassis router and configured to operate as a single router within a network, the method comprising: communicating updates to the state information with the first master routing engine to the second master routing engine of the multi-chassis router, wherein the updates are communicated according to a hierarchically-ordered and temporally-linked data structure, wherein communicating the updates to the second master routing engine comprises replicating the hierarchically-ordered and temporally-linked data structure within the second master routing engine; and after communicating the updates from the first master routing engine to the second master routing engine, communicating the updates from the first master routing engine to the local routing engine. | 6,840 |
9,790,918 | 1. A wind turbine blade connector assembly for connecting a blade portion to a hub portion in a wind turbine rotor, the connector assembly comprising: a plurality of bushings arranged in a first row and in a second row along a circumference of one of the blade portion or the hub portion and suitable for receiving corresponding studs, wherein the bushings comprise an elongated body having major and minor faces and two lateral faces, the lateral faces extending at least partially into one of the blade portion or the hub portion, and the lateral faces being inclined to each other and converging into the respective major and minor faces, the bushings in the first row arranged upside-down relative to the bushings in the second row and between the bushings in the second row such that the major faces of the bushings in the first row alternate with the minor faces of the bushings in the second row; the body of each bushing configured for receipt of a triangular pattern of three studs, wherein a first stud is adjacent the minor face and second and third studs are spaced apart and adjacent the major face; and wherein the plurality of bushings thereby provide an outer ring of the studs and a concentric inner ring of the studs interspaced between the outer ring of studs. | 45,417 |
8,702,041 | 1. An aircraft comprising: a fuselage, a wing, a plurality of aeronautical engines disposed on said fuselage, and a plurality of rocket propulsion units, wherein the wing is fixed, substantially straight and elongated in a lateral direction of the fuselage, and has a greater span than a length of the fuselage, and said plurality of rocket propulsion units comprises a plurality of propellant tanks positioned in a rear portion of the fuselage, the wing is positioned on said rear portion, and a front portion of the fuselage comprises a cabin, the aircraft being constructed to commence flight in a horizontal orientation, and wherein said aircraft is a single stage aircraft. | 14,946 |
8,967,984 | 1. A twin rotary compressor, comprising: a hermetic casing; a crankshaft installed in the hermetic casing and having first and second eccentric portions eccentrically protruding from an axial center of the crankshaft in opposite direction to each other; a first cylinder installed in the hermetic casing and having a first rolling piston thereof coupled to the first eccentric portion, and configured to perform first-stage compression of refrigerant; a second cylinder installed in the hermetic casing and having a second rolling piston thereof coupled to the second eccentric portion, and configured to receive refrigerant that has undergone first-stage compression in the first cylinder and to perform second-stage compression of the received refrigerant; a middle plate positioned between the first and second cylinders; an upper bearing and a lower bearing installed at respective outer sides of the first cylinder and the second cylinder so as to define a first compression space and a second compression space in the first and second cylinders together with the middle plate; and a communication passage connected between an outlet side of the first compression space and an inlet side of the second compression space, wherein the middle plate comprises an inlet connected to a refrigerant suction pipe, and a communication hole formed at a middle portion of the inlet toward the first cylinder, wherein the first cylinder comprises a first suction hole connected to the communication hole of middle plate, wherein the lower bearing comprises a first discharge hole connected to one end of the communication passage so as to discharge the first-stage compressed refrigerant toward the second compression space, wherein the second cylinder comprises a second suction hole connected to another end of the communication passage so as to guide the first-stage compressed refrigerant to be introduced into the second compression space, wherein the upper bearing comprises a second discharge hole connected to an inner space of the hermitic casing so as to guide the second-stage compressed refrigerant into the inner space of the hermitic casing, and wherein a height of the first cylinder is equal to a height of the second cylinder. | 32,321 |
9,495,164 | 1. A method for providing branch prediction for a branch instruction, the method comprising: updating an old version of a global history vector of a first length, an old version of a global history vector of a second length, and an old version of a program counter with data from the most recent instruction cycle on a per-sector basis; generating, after the updating has started and before the updating is complete, a first index based on the old version of a global history vector of a first length and the old version of a program counter; generating, after the updating has started and before the updating is complete, a second index based on the old version of a global history vector of a second length and the old version of a program counter; retrieving, after the updating has started and before the updating is complete, a first branch prediction by applying the first index to a first tagged geometric length (TAGE) branch prediction table for a first history length, wherein first TAGE branch prediction table is developed in part with a loop prediction component; retrieving, after the updating has started and before the updating is complete, a second branch prediction by applying the second index to a second TAGE branch prediction table for a second history length wherein second TAGE branch prediction table is developed in part with a loop prediction component; generating, after the updating has started and before the updating is complete and using a saturating counter, a third branch prediction that is not based on a global history vector; detecting a branch misprediction event in the first branch prediction or the second branch prediction; discarding, based on the detecting, the old versions of the global history vectors of the first length and the second lengths; disabling a path corresponding to the first branch prediction and a path corresponding to the second branch prediction and selecting a path corresponding to the third branch prediction for a current instruction sector; detecting that a new instruction sector has been reached; enabling the updated version of the global history vector of the first length, the updated version of the global history vector of the second length, and the updated version of the program counter based on detecting that a new instruction sector has been reached; generating a first verification hash value using the updated version of the global history vector of the first length; generating a second verification hash value using the updated version of the global history vector of the second length; comparing a first tag from the first TAGE branch prediction table to the first verification hash value; comparing a second tag from the second TAGE branch prediction table to the second verification hash value; determining, based on the comparing, that the data from the first branch prediction and the data from the second branch prediction both match the branch instruction and global history vector; and selecting a path corresponding to the first branch prediction or a path corresponding to the second branch prediction based on a preference for the branch prediction that is based on a global history vector of a longer length. | 19,644 |
8,899,873 | 1. An improved pumped storage facility having an upper reservoir with a bank retaining water therein and a lower reservoir at different elevation than the upper reservoir, means for pumping water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir, and means for generating electrical power when water flows from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir, the improvement comprising: (a) an outdoor seating area constructed on at least a portion of the bank of the upper reservoir facing the lower reservoir, the outdoor seating area including at least some human-seating structures; (b) a manmade track surface constructed around the lower reservoir, wherein at least a portion of the track surface is visible from the seating area; and (c) a performance area that is adjacent to the track surface and is visible from the seating area. | 39,910 |
8,356,537 | 1. A firearm action assembly comprising: a) an action mechanism configured to place a bullet in line with a barrel of a firearm; and, b) a charging handle having, c) a spring interposed between the first finger member and second finger member such that, at rest, said locking finger is positioned to engage the action of the firearm. | 2,599 |
9,481,586 | 1. A desalination system, comprising: a desalination apparatus, comprising: wherein each of the ion exchange membranes in the first group is a cation exchange membrane; and an electrodeionization apparatus configured to receive a stream from the first channels of the first group of the alternating first and second channels of the desalination apparatus for further processing. | 13,894 |
9,071,977 | 1. A method of performing a communication by a station in a whitespace band, the method comprising: transmitting, by the station to a database device, a channel scheduling request frame for querying scheduling information on available channels; and receiving, by the station from the database device, a channel scheduling response frame including the scheduling information on the available channels, wherein the channel scheduling response frame includes a channel number field, wherein, if a channel availability time field is included in the channel scheduling response frame, a value of the channel availability time field indicates a starting time when a channel indicated by the channel number field is available for operation, and wherein, if the channel availability time field is not present in the channel scheduling response frame, the station takes a time that the channel scheduling response frame is received as the starting time. | 20,358 |
9,806,665 | 1. A method of controlling a photovoltaic power plant, the method comprising: providing a reactive power setpoint to a photovoltaic inverter that converts direct current generated by a plurality of solar cells to alternating current; detecting a real power output of the photovoltaic power plant at a point of interconnection (POI) of the photovoltaic power plant to a power grid; comparing the real power output of the photovoltaic power plant to a minimum real power generation level; and changing the reactive power setpoint to unity power factor in response to detecting that the real power output of the photovoltaic power plant is below the minimum real power generation level. | 11,401 |
9,761,867 | 1. A nanocomposite electrode as a positive or negative electrode of a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising: an open porous nanocomposite material including a homogenous intermixed distribution of a nanoparticulate electronically active material having a first average particle size and a nanoparticulate electronically conductive material having a second average particle size, the first average particle size and the second average particle size being about the same size and differing by a factor of no more than 2, and are in a range of 5 nm to 500 nm, wherein the nanoparticulate electronically conductive material is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) in the form of nanostubs or of about spherical nanoparticles, and wherein the open porous nanocomposite material has a conductive porous nanomesh structure including an agglomeration of the nanoparticulate electronically conductive material that completely wraps nanoparticles of the nanoparticulate electronically active material. | 37,233 |
9,401,440 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a back electrode layer disposed on a support substrate and having a first groove partially exposing the support substrate; a first side insulating part formed on a side surface of the back electrode layer; a light absorbing layer disposed on the back electrode layer and having a second groove partially exposing the back electrode layer; a front electrode layer on the light absorbing layer; a connecting wire extending through the light absorbing layer and electrically connecting the back electrode layer with the front electrode; and a second side insulating part on a side surface of the connecting wire; wherein the connecting wire and the second side insulating part fill space of the second groove; wherein the connecting wire is integrally formed with the front electrode layer and material of the connecting wire is same as material of the front electrode layer; and wherein the first side insulating part includes an oxidized material of the back electrode layer and is positioned between the side surface of the back electrode layer and the connecting wire. | 35,099 |
8,575,062 | 1. A process for forming a bulk hydroprocessing catalyst, the method comprises: co-precipitating at reaction conditions at least a Group VIB metal precursor feed and at least a Promoter metal precursor feed selected from Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, to form a product mixture comprising a first catalyst precursor and a first supernatant containing at least a Promoter metal residual and at least a Group VIB metal residual in an amount of at least 10 mole % of the metal precursor feeds, wherein the reaction conditions comprise a temperature between 25-350° C. and a pressure between 0 to 3000 psig and a pH of 0-12; adding at least a precipitant to the product mixture at a molar ratio of precipitant to metal residuals ranging from 1.5:1 to 20:1 to precipitate at least 50 mole % of metal ions in the residuals forming additional catalyst precursor; isolating the catalyst precursors from the product mixture, forming a second supernatant containing less than 5000 ppm of metal ions in the metal residuals; and sulfiding the catalyst precursors forming the bulk catalyst. | 6,374 |
8,893,692 | 1. A method for ignition for internal combustion engines with an ignition coil ( a spark plug ( measuring the primary current actually in the primary current circuit (P), comparing the measured primary current with a predetermined target current, and readjusting the pulse width modulation and/or a frequency modulation of the pulse signal in the primary circuit (P) based on the comparison result, in order to achieve the desired current, and wherein an instantaneous flyback current induced in the ignition coil ( | 19,703 |
8,475,573 | 1. A system for increasing the active life of an SCR catalyst, the system comprising: (i) at least one first flue gas conduit designed to transport flue gas from a combustion zone to an SCR catalyst; (ii) at least one SCR catalyst positioned between the at least one first flue gas conduit and at least one second flue gas conduit, wherein the at least one second flue gas conduit is designed to transport flue gas from the SCR catalyst to additional downstream systems or environmental controls, each of the at least one SCR catalyst being split into two SCR catalyst sections; (iii) a large particle ash collection area located in between each of the two SCR catalyst sections so as to enable the collection of at least about 50 percent of any large particle ash present in the flue gas prior to the entry of the flue gas into the at least one SCR catalyst; (iv) at least one rotary valve positioned to be in working communication with the large particle ash collection area, the at least one rotary valve being adapted to collect any large particle ash captured by the at least one large particle ash collection area and supply such large particle ash to the at least one second flue gas conduit; and (v) at least one hopper, each at least one hopper positioned to be in working communication with each at least one rotary valve, the at least one hopper being adapted to funnel large particle ash to one of the at least one rotary valve. | 39,776 |
9,487,190 | 1. An auxiliary emergency braking system for a vehicle, said braking system comprising: a parallelogram linkage including an upper arm and a lower arm disposed in and maintained in parallel relation, each arm having a first end thereof pivotally connected to the vehicle, and the opposing second end thereof pivotally connected to a braking cross beam having a braking pad affixed to a lower surface thereof; said first ends being rearwardly disposed in relation to the direction of vehicle travel relative to said second ends; said parallelogram linkage configurable between a raised stowed position and a lowered deployed position wherein said braking pad engages the underlying supporting surface to slow the vehicle; a retaining system to retain said parallelogram linkage in said stowed position, said retaining system including a locking pin removably engaging a flange connected to said upper linkage, and a solenoid mechanically configured to disengage said locking pin upon activation; said parallelogram linkage deploying from said stowed position under the influence of gravity when said locking pin is disengaged; and a restraining stop attached to the vehicle to limit the pivotal movement of said parallelogram linkage when said brake system is deployed. | 33,867 |
9,703,038 | 1. A facet optical coupler comprising: a silicon substrate having a first two-dimensional edge and a second two-dimensional edge opposite the first two-dimensional edge; a layer of second material disposed on the silicon substrate and having a two-dimensional edge substantially co-planar with the first two-dimensional edge of the silicon substrate; an undercut region in the silicon substrate, the undercut region being proximate to and offset from the first two-dimensional edge of the silicon substrate and being distal from the second two-dimensional edge of the silicon substrate; and a waveguide embedded within the layer of second material and having an end positioned over the undercut region such that the waveguide only partially extends across the undercut region, wherein the undercut region is closer to the first two-dimensional edge than the waveguide. | 38,344 |
8,877,155 | 1. A method for producing hydrogen from an off-gas originating from a gas to liquid (GTL) process, the method comprising the steps of: providing an off-gas stream originating from a gas to liquid (GTL) process, the off-gas stream comprising hydrogen, nitrogen, argon, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons; introducing the off-gas stream to a cryogenic unit having a cryogenic distillation column under separation conditions sufficient to affect separation of light ends and heavy ends, the light ends comprising H2, N2, Ar and CO, the heavy ends comprising hydrocarbons; withdrawing the light ends from the cryogenic distillation column and introducing the light ends in the presence of steam to a first CO shift reactor under conditions operable to produce a first shift stream, wherein the first shift stream comprises an increased amount of H2 and CO2 as compared to the light ends; introducing the first shift stream to a first pressure swing absorber (PSA) to produce a first hydrogen product stream and a first tail gas, the first tail gas comprising CO2; withdrawing the heavy ends from the cryogenic distillation column and introducing the heavy ends in the presence of steam to a steam methane reformer (SMR) under conditions operable to reform the hydrocarbons to produce a reformed stream, wherein the reformed stream comprises an increased amount of H2 and CO as compared to the heavy ends; introducing the reformed stream to a second CO shift reactor under conditions operable to produce a second shift stream, wherein the second shift stream comprises an increased amount of H2 and CO2 as compared to the reformed stream; and introducing the second shift stream to a second pressure swing absorber (PSA) to produce a second hydrogen product stream and a second tail gas, the second tail gas comprising CO2 and unreacted hydrocarbons. | 29,035 |
8,499,174 | 1. A method for resuming from a sleep state, as defined by the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification, the method comprising: receiving a request to resume operation of a computer system from a sleep state to an executing state; initiating a restoring process to restore the computer system to the executing state, wherein the restoring process comprises loading information from a portion of a nonvolatile memory medium to a computer system memory medium using demand paging, wherein the portion of the nonvolatile memory medium where the information is stored is not accessible by an operating system of the computer system, and wherein the restoring process comprises: receiving a request to access the computer system memory medium, wherein the request to access the computer system memory medium requires access to a portion of the computer system memory medium in the executing state, wherein said receiving the request to access the computer system memory medium is performed prior to completion of the restoring process. | 30,727 |
9,074,146 | 1. An apparatus for producing diesel from a hydrocarbon stream comprising: a hydrotreating reactor for hydrotreating a first hydrocarbon stream in the presence of a hydrotreating hydrogen stream and hydrotreating catalyst to provide a hydrotreating effluent stream in a hydrotreating effluent line; a hydrotreating fractionation column in communication with said hydrotreating reactor for fractionating a liquid hydrotreating effluent stream, said hydrotreating fractionation column being in downstream communication with said hydrotreating effluent line; a hydrocracking reactor for hydrocracking a second hydrocarbon stream in the presence of a hydrocracking hydrogen stream and hydrocracking catalyst to provide a hydrocracking effluent stream, said hydrocracking reactor being in communication with a bottom of said hydrotreating fractionation column for hydrocracking a diesel and heavier stream from said hydrotreating fractionation column; a hydrocracking separator in communication with said hydrocracking reactor for separating the hydrocracking effluent stream into a vaporous hydrocracking effluent stream comprising hydrogen and a liquid hydrocracking effluent stream and said hydrotreating effluent line in downstream communication with said hydrocracking separator for mixing the vaporous hydrocracking effluent stream comprising hydrogen with the hydrotreating effluent stream; and a hydrocracking fractionation column, separate from the hydrotreating fractionation column, in communication with said hydrocracking separator for fractionating a stream comprising liquid hydrocracking effluent to provide a low sulfur diesel stream. | 37,157 |
8,456,776 | 1. A disk drive comprising: a disk drive base; a disk rotably mounted to the disk drive base; an actuator rotably mounted to the disk drive base; and a head gimbal assembly attached to the actuator, the head gimbal assembly comprising | 4,260 |
9,194,369 | 1. A method for controlling a wind turbine having at least one rotor blade, routing a modulation beam out of a chamber of the rotor blade in order to change an air flow along the rotor blade; electrostatically changing a volume of the chamber via an electrical voltage, wherein the volume of the chamber is changed via electrically operable actuator; and wherein the volume is at least partially defined between two metallic surfaces and which is changed via an electrostatic effect of an electrical voltage. | 46,132 |
8,460,568 | 1. A continuous method for making a nanostructured surface comprising: (a) placing a substrate comprising a nanoscale mask on a cylindrical electrode in a vacuum vessel, (b) introducing etchant gas to the vessel at a predetermined pressure, (c) generating plasma between the cylindrical electrode and a counter-electrode, (d) rotating the cylindrical electrode to translate the substrate, and (e) anisotropically etching a surface of the substrate to provide anisotropic nanoscale features on the surface. | 34,290 |
9,497,339 | 1. An information processing apparatus that calculates an operation rate of a device based on operation information, comprising a processor that is configured to execute a process including: receiving the operation information indicating an operating state of the device at a predetermined time interval from said device through a network; receiving assets information of the device through the network, said asset information indicating a status of the device as assets; storing the received operation information when the asset information indicates that the status of the device is a predetermined status in a first storing part; and calculating the operation rate based on information obtained by excluding the operation information that is stored when the asset information indicates that the status of the device is the predetermined status from information to be used to calculate the operation rate of the device, wherein the process further includes, with respect to said device from which the operation information indicating that the operating state is abnormal is received receiving elimination information indicating elimination of the abnormality in asynchronization with the predetermined time interval, said elimination information being input by a user in asynchronization with the predetermined time interval; and when the elimination information is received within a period from a reception of the operation information indicating that the operating state is abnormal and until a subsequent reception of the operation information, adding information to said first storing part, which indicates that the abnormality indicated by the operation information lasts from the reception of the operation information to the reception of the elimination information. | 45,486 |
8,915,193 | 1. A railroad hopper car for operation in a rolling direction along railroad tracks, said railroad hopper car having: a first hopper; said first hopper having a discharge; a pair of first and second doors mounted to govern egress of lading from said discharge; said doors being movable between a closed position for retaining lading within said first hopper and an open position for permitting egress of lading under the influence of gravity; a mechanical transmission mounted to drive said doors; said first and second doors being longitudinal doors; said mechanical transmission including a splitting member mounted to said railroad hopper car at a fulcrum; a first linkage connected to said splitting member to a first side of said fulcrum, said first linkage being connected to transmit force from said splitting member to said first door; a second linkage connected to said splitting member to a second side of said fulcrum, said second linkage being connected to transmit force from said splitting member to said second door; and an actuator mounted to drive said transmission, said actuator being mounted to act transversely relative to the rolling direction and predominantly cross-wise to said railroad hopper car. | 30,526 |
9,772,620 | 1. A method in a computing system for constructing a waterjet cutting model, the method comprising: establishing a set of active cutting test observations; over time, receiving instructions each to modify the set of active cutting test observations; over time, receiving a plurality of waterjet cutting model generation requests; for each of the received waterjet cutting model generation requests, generating a waterjet cutting model based upon cutting test observations among all of the cutting test observations that are present in the set of active cutting test observations in accordance with the instructions received as of a threshold time; using a distinguished one of the generated waterjet cutting models to construct at least one tool path for a cutting project; and causing a waterjet cutting tool to perform the cutting project in accordance with the constructed at least one tool path, wherein the method is implemented by one or more processors of the computing system. | 37,117 |
9,599,283 | 1. A system for storage and dosing of ammonia that comprises a solid ammonia storage material capable of binding and releasing ammonia reversibly by adsorption/absorption, the system comprising: a start-up storage unit and a main storage unit, the storage units holding ammonia storage material; a start-up heating device arranged to heat the start-up storage unit to generate gaseous ammonia by thermal desorption from the solid storage material; a main heating device arranged to heat the main storage unit to generate gaseous ammonia by thermal desorption from the solid storage material; a controller configured to monitor and control operation of the main and start-up heating devices, wherein the controller modulates operation of the heating devices such that the main and start-up heating devices are not simultaneously activated; by a) activating the start-up heating unit until the pressure in the start-up storage unit reaches a first pressure threshold; b) thereafter deactivating the start-up heater and activating the main heating unit until either the pressure in the start-up storage unit falls below a second pressure threshold or the pressure in the main storage unit reaches a third pressure threshold; c) if the pressure in the start-up storage unit falls below the second pressure threshold before the pressure in the main storage unit reaches the third pressure threshold, then repeating steps a and b until the pressure in the main storage unit reaches a third pressure threshold; and d) once the pressure in the main storage unit reaches the third pressure threshold, deactivating the start-up heating unit and control the main heating unit to maintain the pressure in the main storage unit between the third pressure threshold and a fourth pressure threshold. | 44,622 |
8,749,624 | 1. A method for simultaneously displaying a first stereoscopic image to a first viewer and a different second stereoscopic image to a second viewer in a repeated sequence having a refresh period, the repeated sequence comprising: a) providing the first viewer with a first decoding device having a first viewer differentiating element for receiving the first stereoscopic image and blocking the second stereoscopic image and further comprising a first left-eye differentiating element and a first right-eye differentiating element for separating left- and right-eye stereoscopic images of the first stereoscopic image, respectively; b) providing the second viewer with a second decoding device having a second viewer differentiating element for receiving the second stereoscopic image and blocking the first stereoscopic image and further comprising a second left-eye differentiating element and a second right-eye differentiating element for separating left- and right-eye stereoscopic images of the second stereoscopic image, respectively; c) displaying the first stereoscopic image to the first viewer by: d) displaying the second stereoscopic image to the second viewer by: wherein displaying the first stereoscopic image comprises modulating light at a spatial light modulator; further comprising disposing a patterned polarization-modifying element having alternating stripes in a light modulation channel; and wherein the alternating stripes impose a first and a second retardation value, respectively, to form interleaved orthogonally polarized images. | 44,146 |
8,530,769 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a switch unit including a movable portion capable of being operated by a user, a support portion supporting the movable portion so as to be directly movable between two positions of all the combinations of three or more positions, and a detecting section detecting that the movable portion has moved to each of the positions; and a control section recognizing a detecting result by the detecting section, wherein the switch unit further include a position-keeping means keeping the movable portion in each of the positions, wherein the switch unit further includes an engaging portion having a first tapered surface and a second tapered surface provided between the respective two positions and causing interference with the movable portion at different timings in the process of movement of the movable portion between the respective two positions, respectively, the first tapered surface restricting the movement of the movable portion, the second tapered surface urging movement of the movable portion. | 25,941 |
9,227,622 | 1. A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an engine, comprising: automatically stopping the engine in response to vehicle power demand dropping below currently available electrical power; and in response to receiving a signal indicating a grade, automatically starting the engine when vehicle power demand is at a first offset below currently available electrical power to reduce a time delay for starting the engine and increase a currently available vehicle power to move the vehicle up the grade, wherein the first offset is greater than a second offset for a vehicle on level ground; wherein the first offset is selected to disable electric creep. | 8,711 |
9,515,098 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first substrate comprising a first conductive layer, a transistor, and a light emitting element; and a second substrate comprising a second conductive layer, wherein one of a source and a drain of the transistor is electrically connected to the first conductive layer, wherein another of the source and the drain of the transistor is electrically connected to the light emitting element, and wherein the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected in parallel with each other. | 25,286 |
9,671,100 | 1. A light system comprising: a main body defining an internal chamber; a lighting assembly secured to the main body, wherein the lighting assembly comprises at least one light unit configured to emit light; an airflow circuit extending around a periphery of the lighting assembly, wherein the airflow circuit is configured to direct airflow out of the main body underneath the lighting assembly; and a protective insert coupled to the main body, wherein the protective insert comprises a support frame coupled to an airflow outlet of the airflow circuit, and wherein the support frame comprises an internal airflow path that connects to one or more airflow passages. | 33,061 |
9,188,071 | 1. A system comprising: a storage estimation module that estimates a first amount of ammonia stored in a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst and that estimates a second amount of ammonia stored in a second SCR catalyst; a substrate temperature estimation module that estimates a temperature of a substrate disposed in the second SCR catalyst based on a temperature of exhaust gas entering the second SCR catalyst and a mass flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through the second SCR catalyst; and an air/fuel ratio control module that controls an air/fuel ratio of an engine based on the first amount, the second amount, and the temperature of the substrate disposed in the second SCR catalyst. | 9,070 |
8,887,288 | 1. A method of detecting a falsification of software installed in an apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: (a) encrypting software configuration information of the apparatus using an encryption and decryption unit specific to the apparatus, and storing the encrypted software configuration information in an external storage, at a time of installation of the software; (b) decrypting the encrypted software configuration information of the apparatus stored in the external storage, using the encryption and decryption unit specific to the apparatus, at a time later than the time of the installation of the software; and (c) determining a presence or absence of the falsification of the software by comparing the software configuration information of the apparatus stored at the time of the installation of the software obtained by said step (b) and current software configuration information of the apparatus. | 30,398 |
9,545,783 | 1. A method of removing epoxy resin from a backing sheet in a housing, the method comprising the steps of: a) peeling back the backing sheet from the epoxy resin over a release element mounted in the housing; and b) collecting the epoxy resin adjacent the release element; wherein the method further comprises the step of adjusting the temperature of the epoxy resin in the housing to be at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the epoxy resin; and wherein step a) comprises peeling the backing sheet from the epoxy resin through a peel-back angle greater than 0° and less than 180°. | 22,293 |
8,668,350 | 1. A lighting system, comprising: an LED array which includes first and second LED sub-arrays; a first input operatively coupled to the first LED sub-array through a controller; and a second input operatively coupled to the second LED sub-array through the controller; wherein first and second wavelength spectrums provided by the first and second sub-arrays, respectively, are adjustable in response to adjusting first and second input signals provided to the first and second inputs, respectively. | 40,565 |
9,527,040 | 1. A process for removing residuals from hollow fiber membranes by enforced convective transport of a washing fluid through a membrane wall, said process comprising the step of bringing the hollow fiber membranes to a bath of the washing fluid prior to mechanically compressing the hollow fiber membranes, guiding the hollow fiber membranes over the roller bearing the groove having a width smaller than the outer diameter of the membranes, the hollow fiber membranes being passed through the groove. | 1,923 |
9,565,652 | 1. A method for monitoring a paging message in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, the method comprising: receiving, by a M2M device, a paging configuration from a base station to initiate an idle mode, the paging configuration includes a Long Paging Cycle (LPC) indicator indicating whether or not the M2M device has a long paging cycle and a paging offset; determining whether the M2M device has the long paging cycle, wherein the paging configuration further includes an additional paging offset when it is determined that the M2M device has only the long paging cycle of several minutes to several hours; monitoring, by the M2M device in the idle mode, a transmission of a paging message at the paging offset of the paging cycle; and monitoring, by the M2M device in the idle mode, the transmission of the paging message at the additional paging offset of the paging cycle when the paging message is not received at the paging offset, wherein the paging cycle is determined in units of superframes, and wherein a start of a paging available interval is determined by the paging offset. | 12,788 |
9,583,203 | 1. A semiconductor memory device, comprising: a plurality of memory cells configured in a string structure and coupled with bit lines; a read voltage control unit suitable for changing a voltage level of a read voltage that is applied to a target memory cell to be read among the multiple memory cells; a voltage detection unit suitable for detecting a voltage level of the bit lines based on the read voltage and generating a detection signal when a pass current is formed in the target memory cell; a counting unit suitable for generating a count value representing a time lapse between a moment when the reading operation is enabled and a moment when the pass current is formed in the target memory cell; and an information storage unit suitable for storing the count signal in response to the detection signal, wherein the voltage level of the read voltage is increased gradually from a predetermined minimum voltage during the read operation. | 21,779 |
8,847,419 | 1. A control device for a wind turbine having a rotor including a plurality of rotor blades configured to be driven by wind and transmitting a mechanical rotor power to an electrical system which at least partially converts the mechanical rotor power into an electrical power, the control device comprising: a blade sensor operable to measure at least one physical property at a region of an area covered by at least one of the rotor blades, wherein the at least one physical property is dependent on at least one characteristic variable of a wind field describing the wind at the region, and wherein the blade sensor provides a blade sensor signal characterizing the at least one physical property; a rotor sensor means, via which at least one physical property of the rotor is measured and at least one rotor sensor signal which characterises the at least one property of the rotor is provided, the at least one physical property of the rotor comprising the rotor angle θ of the rotor; and an estimation unit which establishes an estimated value for the electrical power generated by the wind turbine using the blade sensor signal and the rotor sensor signal. | 46,996 |
9,163,585 | 1. A portion of a fuel system of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a brake system, wherein the fuel system includes a fuel tank connected to an engine, comprising: (a) an evaporative emissions system; and (b) an evaporative emissions leak check system selectively fluidly-connected to the evaporative emissions system, wherein the evaporative emissions leak check system includes a vacuum source, wherein the vacuum source includes: a control module communicatively-coupled to each of the evaporative emissions system and the evaporative emissions leak check system; a canister; a filter; a purge valve fluidly-connected to the canister; a vacuum containment valve fluidly-connected to the canister; and a two-position switch valve that selectively fluidly-connects the evaporative emissions leak check system to the evaporative emissions system, wherein said two-position switch valve is fluidly coupled to the vacuum source, the filter and the vacuum containment valve. | 12,707 |
9,728,808 | 1. An all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer containing a cathode active material, an anode layer containing an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, containing a first sulfide solid electrolyte material; wherein a ratio of ion resistance of the whole all solid state battery to ion resistance of the solid electrolyte layer is 3.8 or less, and the ion resistance of the solid electrolyte layer is 7.6 Ω·cm | 40,176 |
9,021,739 | 1. A plant cultivation apparatus comprising: a guide rail disposed above a cultivation bed and extending along the length direction of the cultivation bed; a movable unit coupled to the guide rail and configured to move along the guide rail; an arm unit comprising a first end that is coupled to the movable unit, and a second end that is extendable from the movable unit toward the cultivation bed; an ultraviolet (UV) radiation unit coupled to the second end of the arm unit and configured to irradiate the cultivation bed with a set amount of UV light; a sensor configured to measure a distance between the UV radiation unit and the cultivation bed; and a control unit configured to control a length of the arm unit according to distance information included in an output signal of the sensor, and to control a speed at which the movable unit moves along the guide rail such that the entire cultivation bed is irradiated with substantially the same amount of UV light. | 33,261 |
8,949,084 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a simulator that includes one or more computing circuits and that is configured to simulate a system and to propagate at least one state of the simulated system through time in response to a value of a parameter; a generator configured to generate a representation of a region of a plot having dimensions that respectively correspond at least to the parameter and to a characteristic of another state of the simulated system, the representation of the region including a determiner configured to determine a next value of the parameter in response to the representation of the second subregion. | 43,269 |
9,419,113 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: forming a gate electrode layer over a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer over the gate electrode layer; forming a first oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating layer, using a sputtering method; subjecting the first oxide semiconductor film to heat treatment; forming a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film using a sputtering method; subjecting the second oxide semiconductor film to reverse sputtering treatment; subjecting the second oxide semiconductor film to heat treatment in a nitrogen atmosphere; etching the first oxide semiconductor film and the second oxide semiconductor film to form an oxide semiconductor layer and a first buffer layer; forming a conductive film over the oxide semiconductor layer and the first buffer layer; etching the conductive film and the first buffer layer to form source and drain electrode layers, a second buffer layer, and a third buffer layer; and subjecting the oxide semiconductor layer to heat treatment, wherein the second buffer layer and the third buffer layer have higher conductivity than the oxide semiconductor layer. | 14,100 |
8,906,748 | 1. A method for packaging a semiconductor structure, comprising: providing a conductive substrate comprising a first surface, a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface adjacent to the first surface; providing a first electrode line and a second electrode line on the conductive substrate, wherein two ends of the first electrode line are provided on the first surface and the first lateral surface, and two ends of the second electrode line are provided on the first surface and the second lateral surface; providing a semiconductor device on the first surface of the conductive substrate, and electrically connected to the first electrode line and the second electrode line; providing a protective plate with a through hole, wherein the ends of the first and second electrode lines on the first surface are covered by the protective plate, a portion of the end of the first electrode line on the first lateral surface and a portion of the end of the second electrode line on the second lateral surface are exposed out of the protective plate, the semiconductor device is positioned inside the through hole; a sheathing provided inside the through hole to overlay the semiconductor device and to form a semiconductor packaging structure; and a conductive gel provided to directly contact the portions of the ends of the first and second electrode lines where the first and second electrode lines are exposed out of the protective plate, wherein the conductive gel is electrically connected to the first and second electrode lines and cooperates with the protective plate to seal the first and second electrode lines. | 37,504 |
9,635,700 | 1. A method for transmitting uplink information by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring multiple timing advance groups (TAGs); if a transmission of a random access preamble on a secondary serving cell in parallel with a transmission of an uplink signal in a different serving cell belonging to a different TAG is requested, identifying whether a total transmission power required for the transmission of the random access preamble and the transmission of the uplink signal exceeds a maximum terminal output power; and adjusting a transmission power of the uplink signal if the total transmission power exceeds the maximum terminal output power. | 47,120 |
8,692,113 | 1. A connector assembly for a printed circuit board (PCB), the connector assembly consisting of: a single wire tube; a set of differential signal wires disposed in the single wire tube, comprising a plurality of signal wires, and each of the signal wires having an insulator and a conductor; a set of alternating current (AC) power wires disposed in the single wire tube, comprising a plurality of power wires, and each of the power wires having an insulator and a conductor; a ground wire disposed in the single wire tube; a plurality of connecting members separately fastened to the signal wires, the power wires and the ground wire and connected to the PCB; and a connector, comprising an insulated shell extended from one end of the single wire tube and a plurality of conductive pins received therein, and each of the conductive pins having a nipper; wherein an end of each of the set of differential signal wires and the set of AC power wires is electrically connected to the PCB via the connecting member, and the other end of each of the set of differential signal wires and the set of AC power wires is fixed on the nipper. | 64 |
9,807,533 | 1. A method for reproducing audio data of at least one audio object and/or at least one sound source of an acoustic scene in a given environment by at least two audio systems acting distantly apart from each other comprising the following steps: reproducing by one of the audio systems audio signals corresponding to the audio object and/or the sound source arranged in at least one first distance range to a listener and reproducing by another of the audio systems audio signals corresponding to the audio object and/or the sound source arranged in at least one second distant range to the listener, wherein the first and second distant ranges are different and possibly spaced apart from each other or placed adjacent to each other; and processing by a panning information provider of at least one input to generate at least one panning information for each audio system to differently drive the at least two audio systems, in particular to differently generate audio signals, wherein as an input a position data of the position of the audio object and/or of the sound source in the acoustic scene are provided; and wherein as the panning information at least one parameter, in particular a signal intensity and/or an angular position for the same audio object and/or the same sound source are generated for each audio system to differently drive the at least two audio systems, in particular to differently generate audio signals in such a manner that the same audio object and/or the same sound source is panned within at least one distance range and/or between two of the distance ranges of the audio systems; and wherein the panning information is determined by at least one given distance effect function which represents the distance effect functions of the respective audio object and/or the respective sound source in a transfer range between the at least two distance ranges of the audio systems and/or within one of the distance ranges. | 29,096 |
9,642,876 | 1. A method of treating sinusitis in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an oxidative reductive potential water solution, wherein the solution is stable for at least about two months and the solution has a pH of from about 6.4 to about 7.8, wherein the sinusitis results from an infection by one or more bacteria. | 49,614 |
9,673,000 | 1. A multifunction key comprising: a key member, wherein, a portion of the key member is to be exposed on an outside of a shell of an electronic device; a conductive member fixed on a bottom of the key member, wherein the conductive member comprises a first protrusion member and a second protrusion member extending toward a direction away from the bottom of the key member; a circuit baseboard comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein, the first surface comprises a first conductive layer and a resistance layer which are isolated with each other, the first surface faces the conductive member, the first conductive layer and the resistance layer are respectively electrically connected to the first protrusion member and the second protrusion member; the second surface comprises a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal, a first end of the first conductive terminal is electrically connected to the conductive layer via a first conductive hole passing through the circuit baseboard, a first end of the second conductive terminal is electrically connected to the resistance layer via a second conductive hole passing through the circuit baseboard, a second end of the first conductive terminal and a second end of the second conductive terminal are to be electrically connected to an internal circuit of the electronic device; wherein, the conductive layer, and the resistance layer are configured to form a circuit loop with the internal circuit of the electronic device via the first conductive terminal, the second conductive terminal, the first conductive hole, the second conductive hole, and the conductive member; when the key member moves along a direction of arrangement of the conductive layer and the resistance layer, a distance between the second protrusion member and the second conductive hole is changed, a length of the resistance layer between the second protrusion member and the second conductive hole is changed too, and the resistance value of the resistance layer within the circuit loop is changed too, thus to cause the internal circuit of the electronic device to produce different key commands corresponding to different resistance values of the resistance layer within the circuit loop. | 41,148 |
8,647,595 | 1. A method for separating radioactive copper from nickel that contains radioactive copper and radioactive cobalt, which comprises dissolving nickel that contains radioactive copper and radioactive cobalt in a first acid solution to form a resultant solution, passing the resultant solution through a chelating-ion exchange resin-filled column to thereby hold the nickel, radioactive copper and radioactive cobalt on the chelating-ion exchange resin, then passing a second acid solution through the chelating-ion exchange resin-filled column to elute nickel and radioactive cobalt, and thereafter passing a third acid solution having a higher concentration than that of the second acid solution through the chelating-ion exchange resin-filled column after nickel and radioactive cobalt have been eluted therefrom to thereby elute radioactive copper, wherein the chelating-ion exchange resin has an iminodiacetic acid group as a coordinating group, wherein the first acid solution and the second acid solution are hydrochloric acid or nitric acid of from 0.15 to 0.1 mol/L, or sulfuric acid of from 0.07 to 0.05 mol/L, and wherein the third acid solution is hydrochloric acid or nitric acid having a concentration of at least 0.5 mol/L, or sulfuric acid having a concentration of at least 0.25 mol/L. | 10,671 |
9,545,845 | 1. A fueling device that supplies a fuel to a fuel tank, comprising: a passage-forming member made of a weldable resin and configured to form a fuel path connecting to the fuel tank on a filler port side; a fuel path end member made of a resin, located on the filler port side of the fuel path, and attached to the passage-forming member about an axis of the fuel path to provide a seal against the passage-forming member by welding about the axis; and a covering member supported outside of an outer peripheral wall of the passage-forming member to cover a welded part and from outside of the fuel path leaving a gap about the axis, which is formed between the welded part and the covering member and is divided into a plurality of sections, wherein the covering member is arranged to cover the welded part continuously about the axis from outside of the fuel path even at positions between adjacent sections of the gap divided into the plurality of sections, such that sections of the covering member arranged to cover the welded part from outside of the fuel path at the positions between the adjacent sections of the gap are linked with the outer peripheral wall of the passage-forming member or such that the sections of the covering member arranged to cover the welded part from outside of the fuel path at the positions between the adjacent sections of the gap are arranged to cover the welded part with leaving a smaller gap than the gap. | 44,196 |
8,626,368 | 1. A method of managing power generation response within an electric drive system, the electric drive system including a fuel-driven prime mover for driving an electrical power alternator controlled at least in part by an excitation voltage, the electrical power alternator making electrical power available on a DC link having a voltage characteristic and a current characteristic, the method comprising: determining a voltage of the DC link; determining a torque command by an operator of the electric drive system; deriving a mechanical power that is being commanded based on the torque command; determining a desired voltage of the DC link based on the derived mechanical power; providing an excitation voltage command signal to the electrical power alternator based on the desired voltage of the DC link by use of a closed loop controller, wherein the excitation voltage command signal is determined based on a difference value between the voltage of the DC link and the desired voltage of the DC link; and applying an excitation field to the electrical power alternator based on the excitation voltage command signal. | 44,246 |
8,432,873 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: obtaining a selected method for computing channel quality indication (CQI), the selected method being chosen from a plurality of methods available for computing CQI, the selected method being for computing CQI for a specific codeword among a plurality of selectable codewords of a plurality of codewords; computing CQI in accordance with the selected method; and sending the CQI from a user equipment (UE) to a base station. | 41,758 |
8,996,329 | 1. A sensor node control method for controlling a sensor node, the sensor node comprising a sensor configured to sense a surrounding environment of the sensor node, an input part and a controller, the controller comprising a Hardware-assisted Energy Monitoring Architecture (HEMA) and an operation time optimizer, the method comprising: wherein the calculating comprises calculating the sensing rate by dividing the remaining battery capacity by the energy consumption per sensing of the sensor and the operation time. | 10,331 |
8,713,255 | 1. A method of querying a plurality of nodes for data requested by a processor, comprising: determining that the requested data does not exist in a first cache; determining that the requested data does not exist in a second cache; sending a request for the requested data to a node determined to be a home node for a particular memory address associated with the requested data. | 13,021 |
9,680,944 | 1. A method for use by a client device for client-side image selection on a webpage, the method comprising: requesting the webpage from a server; receiving an image tag and a configuration file from the server, wherein the image tag includes a reference to a transparent place image holder and data according to a real image, and wherein the configuration file includes a breakpoint; determining, using the image tag and the configuration file, a selected image from a plurality of images using client capabilities, wherein each of the plurality of images is a same image with a different size or a different resolution than the selected image, wherein determining the selected image using the client capabilities includes determining a screen size for a display of the client device and selecting the selected image using the screen size according to the breakpoint; creating an image handle to request the selected image; transmitting the image handle to the server; and receiving the selected image from the server. | 10,193 |
8,417,815 | 1. A management server which is connected to a plurality of client terminals via a network, comprising: a reception unit constructed to receive a usage log of one of the plurality of client terminals to be managed from the one client terminal; a recording unit constructed to record the received usage log as a log file; a calculation unit constructed to calculate a time period of disuse of the one client terminal to be managed by analyzing the log file recorded by the recording unit; a storage unit constructed to store a management policy including usage-permitted time periods of the plurality of client terminals; and an application unit constructed to, when the time period of disuse of the one client terminal to be managed exceeds a predetermined time period, read out from the storage unit the management policy including the usage-permitted time period used to shorten a usage-permitted time period for the one client terminal, and set the management policy including the shortened usage-permitted time period on the one client terminal, wherein even when the time period of disuse of the one client terminal exceeds the predetermined time period, when the one client terminal executes uninterruptible processing, the application unit does not apply the usage-permitted time period used to shorten the usage-permitted time period for the one client terminal. | 5,339 |
9,238,268 | 1. A spindle/tool combination for a machine tool, comprising: a tool; a spindle, to which the tool is releasably fixable and by means of which the tool is rotatable; wherein the tool has at least one linearly movable rod and the spindle comprises a loading device, which acts on the at least one linearly movable rod of the tool, and a pull/push coupling device, by means of which the at least one rod of the tool is couplable to the loading device, the at least one rod being actuable by means of the loading device by pushing and pulling when coupled; wherein the pull/push coupling device comprises a clamping jaw and the clamping jaw is arranged in the tool; and wherein at least one of the tool and the spindle has a rigid tube or a moveably mounted tube for fluid coupling between the spindle and the tool. | 45,851 |
9,015,981 | 1. A bullpup chassis assembly for use with the barreled action of a firearm, the chassis assembly comprising: a body portion having a channel therein configured to receive at least a portion of a barreled action, a pistol grip, and a magazine well; a trigger rotatably mounted to said body portion in front of said magazine well and adjacent said pistol grip, said trigger further comprising a rearwardly extending trigger link configured to place said trigger into operational contact with a sear of the barreled action; and an adaptor configured to be received within said channel of said body portion, said adaptor having a protruding lip on one end configured to be received within a portion of a handguard cap of the barreled action. | 1,532 |
9,709,142 | 1. A wave energy conversion system, comprising: a pod rotatably supported by a platform structure; a multi-radius energy transmission mechanism in mechanical communication with the pod, the multi-radius energy transmission mechanism including a plurality of gears, each gear of the plurality of gears having an elliptical profile and being rotatably supported at a centerpoint thereof, wherein the plurality of gears cooperate to provide increasing resistance to rotation of the pod as the pod is rotated in a first direction; and an electrical generating device in mechanical communication with the multi-radius energy transmission mechanism. | 41,712 |
8,977,264 | 1. A portable terminal comprising: a memory for storing a Preferred Roaming List (PRL) including information about at least one system; and a controller for acquiring a specific system from the PRL, attempting a call connection through the acquired specific system, determining whether a predetermined number of call connection failures through the acquired specific system has occurred, and repeating the acquiring, the attempting, and the determining until the call connection is successful if the predetermined number of call connection failures has occurred, wherein, if the acquired specific system is not a most preferred system in the PRL, the controller performs a reselection process to acquire the most preferred system and, upon occurrence of Max Access Probe Exit (MAPE) due to the predetermined number or more failures of an access attempt during the reselection process, discontinues the reselection process with the most preferred system for a predetermined time. | 4,565 |
9,488,259 | 1. An actuator comprising: a housing; an expandable member housed within the housing configured to expand and contract; an elongated member in operable communication with the expandable member; and a ratchet in operable communication with at least one of the expandable member and the elongated member being configured to allow movement of the elongated member in a first direction relative to the housing in response to expansion of the expandable member and to prevent movement of the elongated member in a second direction in response to contraction of the expandable member until the elongated member has moved a selected dimension, the ratchet automatically permits movement of the elongated member in the second direction in response to the elongated member having moved the selected dimension. | 28,271 |
8,816,066 | 1. A cellulose ester interpolymer wherein the C2 and C3 positions of each of the anhydroglucose units of the cellulose ester interpolyer are in the alcohol oxidation state, and consisting of anhydroglucose units as the non-terminal monomer units of said cellulose ester interpolymer, wherein R X is formyl, and having an apparent degree of substitution per anhydroglucose unit of X of 0.2 to 1.0, and an apparent degree of substitution per anhydroglucose unit of C | 25,421 |
9,580,757 | 1. A method for determining the presence or absence of one or more specific serogroups of pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in a food sample, comprising incubating the food sample in a culture medium enabling growth of performing a lysis of the subjecting the sample solution to a first series of polymerase chain reactions (PCR), using primers to amplify the following and, in case that stx1 and/or stx2 as well as the eae gene and the specific biomarker gene for at least one serogroup are amplified in the first series of PCRs: verifying the presence of the one or more specific serogroups of STEC by performing a second series of PCRs on concentrates of the | 3,444 |
8,361,477 | 1. A kit for immunizing a subject against both Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, comprising a first immunogenic component and a second immunogenic component, wherein: (a) the first immunogenic component comprises an aqueous formulation of a conjugated capsular saccharide from Streptococcus pneumoniae ; and (b) the second immunogenic component comprises a conjugated capsular saccharide from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C. | 28,397 |
8,960,187 | 1. A concentrator, comprising: a plurality of reflector support structures with each reflector support structure having a bottom surface and a top surface that is substantially parabolic; a base having a top surface configured to abut the bottom surface of each reflector support structure; a reflector element comprising a single contiguous piece of material, is formed independent of the plurality of reflector support structures, and has an outer surface that is substantially an elliptical paraboloid and an inner surface that is substantially an elliptical paraboloid, the outer surface is configured to abut the top surface of the plurality of reflector support structures, and the plurality of reflector support structures assist in maintaining the elliptical paraboloid of the outer surface and the elliptical paraboloid of the inner surface when the reflector element is exposed to environmental conditions; a plurality of compressible elements positioned between the plurality of reflector support structures and the reflector element; and a reflective coating overlapping at least a portion of the inner surface or the outer surface. | 495 |
8,855,369 | 1. A computer-implemented process for generating a face recognition training database for each person detected as being located in an environment, comprising: using a computer to perform the following process actions: | 11,897 |
9,538,472 | 1. A function performing apparatus comprising: a first wireless interface; a function performing unit configured to perform a specific function; and a controller, wherein the first wireless interface comprises: wherein the controller comprises: wherein the controller is configured to perform: the shifting of the operation state includes: | 25,764 |
9,557,555 | 1. An optical module comprising: a first plate-shaped member having a silicon region, a component forming surface, and a light transmissive optical component for transmitting light, the light transmissive optical component being formed on the component forming surface by applying etching to the silicon region; and a second plate-shaped member having a semiconductor region, a principal surface, and a light reflective optical component for reflecting the light transmitting through the light transmissive optical component, wherein the light reflective optical component has a surface formed by applying etching to the semiconductor region, the light reflective optical component being formed on the principal surface, wherein an impurity concentration of the silicon region in the first plate-shaped member is lower than an impurity concentration of the semiconductor region in the second plate-shaped member, the first and second plate-shaped members are bonded to one another such that the component forming surface of the first plate-shaped member on which the light transmissive optical component is formed and the principal surface of the second plate-shaped member face one another, and an optical path for the light transmitting through the light transmissive optical component between the light transmissive optical component and the light reflective optical component is along the component forming surface of the first plate-shaped member and the principal surface of the second plate-shaped member. | 35,274 |
8,557,764 | 1. A method for treating HIV infection comprising: contacting a CLIP molecule expressing cell with an inhibitor of γδT cell expansion, activation and/or effector function in an effective amount to treat the HIV infection, wherein the inhibitor of δγT cell expansion, activation and/or effector function is a CLIP activity inhibitor, wherein the CLIP activity inhibitor is a peptide that displaces CLIP, wherein the agent that displaces CLIP is FRIMAVLAS (SEQ ID NO. 2). | 21,090 |
9,438,260 | 1. A semiconductor apparatus comprising: a sub ADC that outputs a digital intermediate value corresponding to a signal level of an input signal as a multi-bit digital value; a sub DAC that outputs an analog intermediate value corresponding to the digital intermediate value; a residue amplifier that amplifies a difference between the input signal and the analog intermediate value and outputs a residue signal; and an output stage circuit that outputs a digital output value, the digital output value being generated by correcting the digital intermediate value by a correction coefficient, wherein the sub DAC comprises: the output stage circuit obtains the digital intermediate value for each of the combinations of the unit elements and the bits at the time of the calibration operation and calculates the correction coefficient according to the obtained digital intermediate value. | 15,049 |
8,601,288 | 1. An interconnect for an integrated circuit to communicate transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and one or more target IP cores coupled to the interconnect, comprising: a power manager having a hierarchy of two or more layers including a hardware logic portion to control a power consumption of two or more domains in the integrated circuit, where each layer of the power manager performs its own function; individual domain controllers, comprising hardware logic of the power manager, to transition components in an appropriate domain in the integrated circuit into and out of a desired power consuming mode, and cooperates with a software based power management component including an operating system; wherein the power manager has its own 1) dedicated CPU, 2) dedicated state machine or 3) any combination of the two to execute power management instructions; wherein the power manager controls the power consumption of two or more domains without using a CPU IP core utilized by other IP cores on the integrated circuit to execute the power management instructions; and wherein each domain controller is configured with conflict resolution logic on how to control the desired power consuming mode of its domain that includes a shared resource by the IP cores of the integrated circuit when one or more power management policies being implemented overlap to control the power consuming mode of the shared resource. | 34,183 |
9,537,734 | 1. A network-based high performance SAP monitoring system comprising: a hardware engine selecting a packet to be updated from input packets by performing session-based filtering and pattern matching on the input packets, identifying to which application protocol belongs among dynamic information and action gateway (DIAG) protocol, remote function call (RFC) protocol, and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol, and adding identification information of the identified application protocol to the packet to be uploaded; wherein the hardware engine comprises a multicore processor (MCP) logic unit; wherein the MCP logic unit comprises a session matching portion, a packet filtering portion, and an SAP application protocol identification portion, wherein the session matching portion generates a hash value by extracting 4-tuple information of the input packet, compares the generated hash value with a hash value list of a valid SAP application protocol session previously identified, when being matched, transmits a session hash value matched with the corresponding packet to the SAP application protocol identification portion, and when being not matched, transmits the corresponding packet to the packet filtering portion, wherein the packet filtering portion, in accordance with 5-tuple-based packet filtering regulations, determines whether the packet received from the session matching portion is a target of filtering, filters out a packet that is the target of filtering, and transmits a packet that is not the target of filtering to the SAP application protocol identification portion, and wherein the SAP application protocol identification portion, when the packet received from the packet filtering portion is matched with at least one of the three types of SAP application protocol through pattern matching based on a signature for identifying SAP application protocol packets, stores a session hash value and identified protocol information of the corresponding packet, adds identified protocol information to the corresponding packet, and transmits the packet added with the identified protocol information to the software engine, in which the packet received through the session matching portion is added with identified protocol information referring to the hash value transmitted together and transmitted to the software engine; and a software engine comprising a DIAG processor processing the DIAG protocol, an RFC processor processing the RFC protocol, and an HTTP processor processing the HTTP protocol, when receiving the packet added with the identification information from the hardware engine, referring SAP application protocol identification information, extracting data transmitted and received between servers of an SAP client and one of the DIAG processor, RFC processor, and HTTP processor, thereby sorting and processing the three types of SAP application protocol such as the DIAG protocol, RFC protocol, and HTTP protocol. | 30,793 |
9,515,488 | 1. An apparatus for dynamically correcting load imbalance in a three-phase electrical system, the three-phase electrical system having three supply leads and a neutral lead, there being supply voltages present between adjacent supply leads and supply currents on each of the supply leads; there existing a phase relationship between each supply voltage and each supply current, the apparatus comprising: a sensor adapted to sense current on the neutral lead; phase controllers connected between each pair of adjacent supply leads adapted to control the phase relationship between voltage between the supply leads and current on the supply leads, the phase controllers able to push the phase relationship into a lead or lag phase relationship; a processor executing a stored program adapted to read the sensor and determine current on the neutral lead; the processor connected to, and controlling, the phase controllers in order to push some of the phase controllers into a lead phase relationship; the processor adjusting the lead relationship on some of the supply leads to cause the neutral current to go to zero. | 29,118 |
8,942,043 | 1. A method of operating non-volatile storage, comprising: programming a data memory cell at a first end of a NAND string using a set of program pulses that increase in magnitude between pulses by a first step size, including choosing to use the first step size based on position of the data memory cell at the first end of the NAND string; programming additional data memory cells of the NAND string using a set of program pulses that increase in magnitude between pulses by a second step size, including choosing to use the second step size based on position of the additional data memory cells in the NAND string, the second step size is greater than the first step size; subsequent to the programming of the data memory cell at the first end of the NAND string and the programming of the additional data memory cells of the NAND string, applying a read compare voltage to a selected data memory cell of the additional data memory cells; applying a first read pass voltage to the data memory cell at the first end of the NAND string while applying the read compare voltage to the selected data memory cell; applying a set of one or more read pass voltages to multiple unselected data memory cells of the NAND string while applying the read compare voltage to the selected data memory cell, the set of one or more read pass voltages are all higher voltages than the first read pass voltage; and sensing a condition of the selected data memory cell in response to the read compare voltage. | 2,492 |
9,411,888 | 1. A content channel curating, hosting and display method, operating in a computer network, comprising: displaying, using a server supported on at least one hardware element, a set of one or more pages, the one or more pages comprising a site template from which a content channel may be defined, a first interface portion that provides a calendar-based tool for defining a content discovery policy for the content channel, and a second interface portion that provides a configuration tool for defining a submission and review policy for the content channel; receiving, from a first entity, first configuration data to define a first content channel using the site template, a first content discovery policy for the first content channel, and a first submission and review policy for the first content channel; receiving, from a second entity distinct from the first entity, second configuration data to define a second content channel using the site template, a second content discovery policy for the second content channel, and a second submission and review policy for the second content channel; for each respective content channel, and as defined by their respective first and second content discovery policy, performing a search across network resources to locate content; for each respective content channel, embedding at least some of the content located by the search in the respective content channel; for each respective content channel, and provided that the submission and review policy for that content channel is satisfied, including in that content channel additional content; displaying each of the first and second content channels as a distinct page; and for at least the first content channel, and as defined by the first discovery policy for the first content channel, repeating the search, and posting into the first content channel a configurable number of content elements every configurable number of days as defined by the first configuration data. | 48,039 |
9,462,558 | 1. A processing circuitry apparatus configurable for operation in a wireless device, the processing circuitry apparatus comprising: a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processing circuitry apparatus to: | 44,548 |
9,399,738 | 1. A circulation type gasification furnace comprising: a gasification furnace that is configured to turn a fluidized medium into a fluidized bed or moving bed, and to produce gasification gas by gasifying a gasification raw material that has been injected into the fluidized medium using heat from the fluidized medium; a combustion furnace that is configured to heat the fluidized medium discharged from the gasification furnace and to combust residue of the gasification raw material; a medium separator that is configured, in order to return the heated fluidized medium to the gasification furnace, to separate the fluidized medium and a combustion exhaust gas from each other, the fluidized medium and the combustion exhaust gas being discharged from the combustion furnace; a gasification gas separator that is configured to separate the gasification gas produced in the gasification furnace and the residue of the gasification raw material from each other, and then to discharge the gasification gas; and a residue discharge section that is configured to create a seal between the gasification gas separator and the combustion furnace, and to discharge the residue separated by the gasification gas separator into the combustion furnace, wherein: the combustion furnace is connected to the medium separator, and the fluidized medium and the combustion exhaust gas are discharged from the combustion furnace to the medium separator; the medium separator is connected to the gasification furnace, and the fluidized medium is discharged from the medium separator to the gasification furnace; as a first path, the gasification furnace is connected to the combustion furnace, and the fluidized medium is discharged from the gasification furnace to the combustion furnace; and as a second path that is different from the first path, the gasification furnace is connected to the gasification gas separator, the gasification gas separator is connected to the residue discharge section, the residue discharge section is connected to the combustion furnace, the gasification gas and the residue of the gasification raw material are introduced from the gasification furnace into the gasification gas separator, and the residue of the gasification raw material separated in the gasification gas separator is discharged to the combustion furnace via the residue discharge section. | 42,203 |
9,609,642 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal device from a base station, an identity specific to the terminal device; obtaining, by the terminal device, preset configuration parameters of a candidate control channel set, wherein the preset configuration parameters comprise an aggregation level of the candidate control channel set and a sequence number of the first control channel element corresponding to the aggregation level; determining, by the terminal device, an antenna port using a function whose input parameters comprise the aggregation level, the sequence number and the identity specific to the terminal device; and receiving, by the terminal device from the base station and using the antenna port, a control channel or a control channel element, wherein the control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH), and the control channel element is an enhanced control channel element (E-CCE). | 11,519 |
8,903,546 | 1. A medical robotic system comprising: an articulated instrument having a plurality of joints; an input device; and a controller configured to command actuation of the plurality of joints in response to manipulation of the input device subject to a virtual barrier constraint in which commanded translational movement of a joint of the plurality of joints from a current area in which the joint has current work space limits to a new area in which the joint has new work space limits is prevented until deployment of the joint satisfies the new work space limits, wherein the current and new work space limits are different in at least an allowable range of angular rotation of the joint. | 11,554 |
9,331,998 | 1. A method of managing an overlay network, performed by a management machine, comprising: determining that a server or gateway provided by a cloud provider is to be added to said overlay network; generating a temporary machine authentication token for said server or gateway; receiving said temporary machine authentication token from said server or gateway and authenticating said server or gateway; receiving at least one parameter associated with said server or gateway from said server or gateway, each of said at least one parameter being received when receiving said temporary token or after receiving said temporary token; and providing a replacement longer expiration machine authentication token that includes at least one received parameter associated with said server or gateway to said server or gateway, wherein after said replacement token has been provided, said server or gateway connects to the overlay network, including establishing at least one secure tunnel, and wherein for any secure tunnel a private Internet Protocol (IP) address or a public IP address of said server or gateway is used to encapsulate an overlay IP address that was allocated to said server or gateway. | 22,135 |
9,406,030 | 1. A computerized method for electronic document classification, the method comprising: providing training documents sorted into a plurality of classes; using a processor to perform linear programming including selecting input values which maximize an output value, given specific constraints on the input values, wherein the output value maximized is a difference between: classifying electronic document instances into the plurality of classes, using at least one preferred classifier corresponding to the input values selected by said linear programming including storing an indication of said classifying in computer memory, wherein some electronic document instances are classified as belonging to none of the plurality of classes. | 22,794 |
9,010,149 | 1. A method of manufacturing an insulated vacuum glass panel, the method comprising: preparing a paste for a spacer, wherein the paste includes at least one of a water glass and silica sol, an alumina (Al screen-printing the paste on one of a first glass plate and a second glass plate and drying the paste to form a plurality of spacers; laminating the first glass plate and the second glass plate with the plurality of spacers therebetween; and welding edges of the first glass plate and the second glass plate such that the edge of first glass plate and the edge of second glass plate directly contact with each other without a frit and evacuating an internal space to form a vacuum space, wherein at least two torch parts are disposed at external sides of the edges of the first glass plate and the second glass plate due to the welding of the edges of the first glass plate and the second glass plate by melting the edges with heat from the at least two torch parts such that the at least two torch parts are disposed on opposite sides with the first glass plate and the second glass plate therebetween, and move in opposite directions, wherein the first glass plate and the second glass plate are formed of a square plate including a pair of first edges and a pair of second edges facing each other such that a first torch part and a second torch part are located at external sides of the pair of first edges, respectively, wherein the first torch part and the second torch part move in opposite directions to weld the pair of first edges, and wherein the at least two torch parts are slantly installed such that end parts toward the first glass plate and the second glass plate face upwards or downwards. | 33,286 |
8,400,778 | 1. A multi-phase switch-mode voltage regulator comprising: a semiconductor flip chip die, comprising a multi-phase switch-mode voltage regulator circuit, wherein the multi-phase switch-mode voltage regulator comprises a plurality of phase circuits, with each phase circuit comprising at least one array of switching elements each comprising a MOSFET transistor and a gate driver dedicated to drive said MOSFET transistor so that a gate coupling resistance capacitance product is reduced; and a lead frame structure having said semiconductor flip chip die attached on, comprising at least two parts, each part having a plurality of finger shaped structures extended unilaterally outward wherein the two parts are arranged to form an inter-digital pattern; wherein each said MOSFET transistor comprises a plurality of discrete DMOS elements laid out in parallel to one another; wherein each phase circuit on said semiconductor flip chip die further comprises: wherein each switching element further comprises a metal gate driver bus electrically coupled to the gates of said plurality of discrete DMOS elements: wherein each said switching element further comprises: wherein said at least one array of switching elements further comprises: wherein said lead frame structure comprises: where the first plurality of finger shaped structures and the second plurality of finger shaped structures are arranged to form an inter-digital pattern, and the third plurality of finger shaped structures and the fourth plurality of finger shaped structures are also arranged to form an inter-digital pattern. | 9,050 |
8,831,994 | 1. A system, comprising: a biometric input apparatus comprising a device for electronically scanning a biometric sample directly from a person of a user; at least one master electronic identicator, further comprising: i) a computer database containing all of the electronically stored biometric samples from all of registered users; ii) a comparator that electronically compares a received biometric sample with previously stored biometric samples to deliver either a successful or failed identification of the user; a data transmittal public network that electronically transmits data between the biometric input apparatus and a master electronic identicator; an electronic communication authorization platform, connected to said master electronic identicator, that authorizes execution of at least one electronic communication upon a successful identification of the user by an electronic identicator; a rule-module invocation platform, that invokes at least one previously designated user-customized rule-module upon successful identification of the user, wherein the user-customized rule module includes at least one user-customized pattern data associated with at least one user-customized execution command; an electronic communication execution platform, that executes at least one electronic communication upon the invocation of a user-customized rule-module per said execution command; wherein an electronic communication is biometrically-authorized in a tokenless manner. | 20,822 |
9,543,799 | 1. A single rotor type motor comprising: a plurality of stators radially arranged, each of the stators including a stator core, a bobbin made of an insulating material and wrapped on an outer surface of the stator core, and coils wound on an outer surface of the bobbin; and a single rotor disposed with a certain gap from an inner surface or an outer surface of the stator; and a wiring unit for electrically wiring the coils wound on the bobbin, the wiring unit being arranged at an opposite side to the single rotor with respect to the stators, wherein the wiring unit includes: a terminal pocket integrally formed with the bobbin, the terminal pocket having a seating groove and an insertion groove, and a coil terminal made of a metal material, wherein the coil terminal is configured to be inserted into the insertion grooves of the terminal pocket, and end portions of the coils are inserted into the seating groove and exposed to the insertion groove, and wherein the coil terminal includes a slot of which one end is open and the other end is closed, a blade formed at the open end of the slot, and a coil fixing groove formed spaced apart from the blade, wherein the coil terminal is configured in such a way that the blade cuts an insulation outer sheath of the end portions of the coils inserted into the seating, and the cut end portions of the coils is press-fitted into the coil fixing groove when the coil terminal is inserted into the insertion groove, thereby electrically connecting the coils. | 7,888 |
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