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9,844,141 | 1. A structure, comprising: a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a multilevel wiring network disposed on a substrate; and a first inductor integrated into said multilevel wiring network of said integrated circuit, said first inductor comprising a first planar magnetic core and a first conductive winding, said first conductive winding turned around said first planar magnetic core in a generally spiral manner; a second inductor integrated into said multilevel wiring network of said integrated circuit, said second inductor comprising a second planar magnetic core and a second conductive winding, said second conductive winding turned around said second planar magnetic core in a generally spiral manner; said first and second conductive windings further being electrically coupled to one another on one side of said inductors but not electrically coupled to one another on another side of said inductors, said planar magnetic cores having a principal plane which is parallel with said respective wiring planes; wherein at least one of the first and second planar magnetic cores has a laminated configuration comprising at least one layer of a magnetic material and at least one non-magnetic layer, said non-magnetic layer comprising current rectifying elements that prevent electrical current circulation in said planar magnetic cores perpendicularly to said principal plane. | 10,153 |
8,978,459 | 1. Measurement equipment for measuring the inflation pressure of a tire of a vehicle wheel ( 1 ), the equipment comprising: a body ( a communication orifice ( an indicator member ( position-identification means ( | 26,093 |
8,873,694 | 1. A fast neutron emitting source multiplier assembly, consisting essentially of: (1) a driver source of (2) a surface material consisting essentially of foil or wire; and (3) a beryllium segment as a multiplier segment; wherein the driver source of | 41,635 |
8,925,326 | 1. A system, comprising: a gas turbine combustor, comprising: | 29,406 |
8,607,551 | 1. An exhaust gas purifier which includes a NOx catalyst of a selective reduction type and a diesel particulate filter arranged in series to each other, and which is disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, wherein the exhaust gas purifier comprises: a passage for urea supply having a hydrolysis catalyst therein and a passage for hydrocarbon supply having an oxidation catalyst therein, the passages being parallel to each other on an upstream side of both the NOx catalyst of the selective reduction type and the diesel particulate filter, wherein the passage for urea supply and the passage for hydrocarbon supply are independent of each other, wherein the passage for hydrocarbon supply and the passage for urea supply branch off from the same exhaust passage, and wherein the passage for hydrocarbon supply is arranged in an outer circumferential side of the passage for urea supply; a urea feeder which supplies urea only to the passage for urea supply; and a hydrocarbon feeder which supplies hydrocarbon only to the passage for hydrocarbon supply. | 16,882 |
9,293,356 | 1. A system for fluid processing one or more substrate surfaces arrayed in a fluid, the system comprising: a process section with a frame having a plurality of process elements to process the substrate surfaces without contacting the substrate surfaces; a substrate holder assembly having a holder frame and a number of substrate holders, each of which is coupled to the holder frame and is configured for holding a substrate so that each substrate holder of the holder assembly holds a different substrate in the substrate holder assembly for transport as a unit with the substrate holder assembly to and from the process section; and the substrate holder assembly and each substrate holder thereof are removably coupled to the process section frame, and at least one of the substrate holders of the substrate holder assembly is movable relative to the holder frame and positionable in repeatable alignment with respect to a predetermined feature of the process section and independent of positioning of the holder frame with respect to the process section. | 13,033 |
9,522,721 | 1. A system for providing a predictive suggestion, the system comprising: an electronic GPS mapping computer, the electronic GPS mapping computer having a display and being in communication with a sonar device and a control mechanism of a trolling motor; a memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, the computer-executable instructions causing a processor to: | 29,293 |
9,057,071 | 1. A recombinant carboxydotrophic acetogenic microorganism comprising at least one genetic modification which disrupts the 2,3-butanediol biosynthesis pathway compared to a parental carboxydotrophic acetogenic microorganism and thereby produces a reduced amount of 2,3-butanediol and/or a precursor thereof compared to a parental carboxydotrophic acetogenic microorganism and produces at least one desired product by fermentation of a gaseous substrate comprising CO, wherein the carboxydotrophic acetogenic microorganism comprises at least one genetic modification which disrupts the expression and/or activity of an enzyme selected from the group consisting of an enzyme capable of converting pyruvate to acetolactate, an enzyme capable of converting acetolactate to acetoin, and an enzyme capable of converting acetoin to 2,3-butanediol. | 13,015 |
9,117,976 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a substrate having flexibility; an adhesive; an insulating film over the substrate having flexibility, the insulating film comprising nitrogen and silicon; a light-emitting element over the insulating film; a layer capable of preventing entry of moisture over the light-emitting element; and a second adhesive between the light-emitting element and the layer capable of preventing entry of moisture, wherein the adhesive is provided between the light-emitting element and the substrate having flexibility, wherein the insulating film is provided between the substrate having flexibility and the light-emitting element, and wherein the light-emitting element comprises: | 761 |
9,823,838 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; an input device operatively coupled to the at least one processor; a screen operatively coupled to the at least one processor; and memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor; said memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to store a first application, a second application, and a third application; said input device operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to detect, utilizing the at least one processor, a first user input; said screen operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to present, utilizing the at least one processor, an application window representation group including a plurality of application window representations including a second application window representation associated with the second application and a third application window representation associated with the third application; said screen operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to, in response to the first user input, present, utilizing the at least one processor, a first window for presenting first data associated with the first application; said input device operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to detect, utilizing the at least one processor, a second user input; said screen operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to, in response to the second user input, present, utilizing the at least one processor, a second window for presenting second data associated with the second application where a first size of the first window is sized to fit a second size of the second window on the screen, such that a first border of the first window corresponds to a second border of the second window; said input device operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to detect, utilizing the at least one processor, a third user input; said screen operatively coupled to the at least one processor configured to, in response to the third user input, change, utilizing the at least one processor, the presentation of the first window and the second window, such that the first border of the first window remains visible in correspondence based on the second border of the second window. | 37,307 |
9,790,911 | 1. An engine control device applied to a vehicle equipped with: an electric actuator for changing a suspension property of said vehicle; a suspension control device for driving said actuator; and an internal combustion engine, the engine control device comprising an engine control part programmed to: automatically stop the operation of said engine when a predetermined engine operation stop condition is satisfied; and automatically start the operation of said engine when a predetermined engine operation start condition is satisfied, wherein said engine control part is programmed to: judge if a malfunction occurs in said suspension control device; continue the operation of said engine when a stop inhibition requesting signal for inhibiting the automatic stop of the operation of said engine is sent to the engine control device in order to drive said actuator and said engine control part judges that no malfunction occurs in said suspension control device even if said engine operation stop condition is satisfied; and ignore said stop inhibition requesting signal and automatically stop the operation of said engine when said engine operation stop condition is satisfied and said engine control part judges that the malfunction occurs in said suspension control device even if said stop inhibition requesting signal is sent to the engine control device. | 29,066 |
8,355,387 | 1. A method of providing spatial reuse in a wireless network for communicating compressed or uncompressed video/audio, the method comprising: transmitting a bandwidth reservation request for data communication with a receiver to a coordinator; receiving a first response indicating availability of the receiver for the data communication; listening to a local channel for channel busy indication (CBI) messages transmitted by other stations in the wireless network; forming a local channel occupation report by the receiver based on the CBI messages, wherein the local channel occupation report comprising data indicative of one or more time periods during which one or more stations in the wireless network other than the receiver are scheduled to transmit data messages to the coordinator that can interfere with data communication by the receiver; transmitting the local channel occupation report from the receiver to the coordinator; receiving a second response comprising data indicative of one or more allocated channel time slots scheduled by the coordinator based on the local channel occupation report; and simultaneously transmitting audio and/or video (A/V) data by multiple stations to the receiver during the one or more allocated channel time slots while sharing a same frequency band channel. | 571 |
9,249,814 | 1. A split type hanging buckle, comprising: a hanging buckle main body, on which a buckle base is arranged; a buckling cavity is formed in the buckle base, and an opening of the buckling cavity is divided into an inserting segment and a buckling segment that are connected with each other; an aperture of the buckling segment is less than an aperture of the inserting segment, and a clamping neck, which is contracted inwards, is formed at a position where the inserting segment is connected with the buckling segment; at least one side of the clamping neck is provided with an elastic clamping key; two sides of the clamping neck are located between two elastic clamping keys, or a distance from one elastic clamping key to another side of a relevant clamping neck is less than the aperture of the buckling segment; and a connection part, on which an inserting shaft is arranged to be inserted into the buckling cavity; wherein a diameter of the inserting shaft is smaller than or equal to the aperture of the buckling segment and greater than an aperture of the clamping neck; one end of the inserting shaft that is inserted into the buckling cavity is provided with a clamping head; wherein a diameter of the clamping head is greater than the aperture of the buckling segment and smaller than or equal to the aperture of the inserting segment; wherein a bottom wall of the buckling cavity relative to the opening of the buckling cavity is made from magnetic material, and the clamping head of the inserting shaft is made from the magnetic material, a circular stepped hole is formed on the opening of the buckling cavity at a hole shoulder of the buckling segment, and an outer circumference of the stepped hole is tangent to the elastic clamping key; an aperture of the stepped hole is not greater than that of the inserting segment, and a circular flange is formed at other end of the inserting shaft relative to the clamping head; a diameter of the circular flange is greater than the aperture of the buckling segment and less than or equal to the aperture of the stepped hole: a length of the inserting shaft from a shaft end surface of the clamping head to the circular flange is smaller than a distance from the bottom wall of the buckling cavity to the hole shoulder of the stepped hole, and greater than or equal to a distance from the bottom wall of the buckling cavity to a bottom wall of the stepped hole. | 37,762 |
9,755,162 | 1. An organic light emitting device, comprising an anode, a cathode, a light emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode; and an electron transport layer disposed between the cathode and the light emitting layer, an electron injecting layer disposed between the electron transport layer and the cathode, and the electron transport layer comprising a material of an organic metal chelate, the electron injecting layer comprising LiF, Liq, CsF or Cs wherein the organic metal chelate has a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of −3.9 eV˜−3.3 eV and a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level less than −6.0 eV, and the light emitting layer is in direct contact with the electron transport layer, wherein the organic metal chelate comprises ZnPc. | 35,452 |
8,794,213 | 1. An internal combustion engine which includes a valve deactivation mechanism driven by a hydraulic actuator which is driven by hydraulic pressure, comprising: a response delay time after a signal is sent to oil control valves until intake and exhaust valves are activated or deactivated is used to form a control map in response to control parameters; wherein said valve deactivation mechanism is controlled based on the control map. | 43,211 |
8,674,489 | 1. An interconnect device comprising: a support formed by several superimposed substrates and/or layers in which at least one hole is formed, the hole having walls forming a closed contour and being formed by a cavity and one or several slots communicating with the cavity, the cavity is formed by a first opening made in a first substrate and a second opening, with a different cross-sectional area from the first opening and made in a second substrate, the one or several slots extending over all or part of the length of the hole, one or several conducting elements being positioned on at least one wall of the hole and passing through the hole, the one or several conducting elements each being intended to connect conducting areas to each other situated on either side of the support, wherein at least one of the one or several conducting elements is housed in one of said one or several slots and covers less than an entire surface of said one of said one or several slots. | 11,971 |
9,052,260 | 1. A method of detecting a moisture condition in a building wall having wall cavity defined by an exterior sheathing portion and an interior drywall portion opposite the exterior sheathing portion, the method comprising: placing a water-absorbent material in contact with an interior surface of the exterior sheathing portion so that the material can absorb water that may infiltrate the exterior sheathing portion; and indicating detection of the moisture condition in response to the water-absorbent material expanding and pushing a portion of an indicator outside the wall cavity from a first position to a second position. | 6,675 |
9,696,180 | 1. A portable power quality analyzer comprising: a portable carrying case enclosure having an openable cover for enabling a user to access components within the portable carrying case enclosure when the cover is open, the portable carrying case enclosure including at least one voltage connection and at least one current connection accessible at an outer surface of the portable carrying case enclosure configured for temporary connection to at least one phase line of electrical services, the portable carrying case enclosure further including a handle attached to the outer surface configured for transportability of the portable carrying case enclosure from one monitoring site to another; an input module disposed within the portable carrying case enclosure and coupled to the at least one voltage connection and the at least one current connection, the input module configured for monitoring waveforms of voltages and currents of the at least one phase line of the electrical services; a processing module disposed within the portable carrying case enclosure and configured for processing the waveforms and determining power quality events; a user interface unit disposed within the portable carrying case enclosure and accessible by the user only when the cover is open, the user interface unit including a display module configured to display voltage and current waveforms monitored by the input module and to display power quality events determined by the processing module; a first communication module disposed within the portable carrying case enclosure for communicating over a first network, the communication module configured for wirelessly transmitting information from the portable power quality analyzer using at least one first wireless communication protocol and wirelessly receiving information into the portable power quality analyzer using the at least one first wireless communication protocol; and a memory including code of a program to configure the portable power quality analyzer to operate as a server or a client of a second network, wherein the first communication module is configured to receive wireless signal strength data from at least one other portable power quality analyzer and the processing module is configured to execute the code to operate as a server if a wireless signal strength of the portable power quality analyzer is greater than a wireless signal strength of the at least one other portable power quality analyzer. | 44,580 |
9,133,474 | 1. A seed of a transgenic corn plant comprising insect control event 5307, wherein a representative sample of said seed has been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection as ATCC Accession No. PTA-9561. | 40,709 |
9,496,472 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a solid shaped volume of a polymeric binder; suspended within the binder, a semiconductor die having a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and at least one sidewall spanning the first and second faces, the semiconductor die being a bare-die light-emitting element comprising a plurality of active semiconductor layers that cooperatively emit light; disposed on the first face of the semiconductor die, at least two spaced-apart contacts each having a terminal end not covered by the polymeric binder, the contacts each contacting a different active semiconductor layer of the semiconductor die; and disposed over and in electrical contact with at least a portion of each of the terminal ends of the contacts, an anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACA), wherein at least a portion of the polymeric binder is transparent to a wavelength of light emitted by the light-emitting element. | 41,486 |
8,471,754 | 1. A time measurement circuit configured to measure the time difference between edges of a first signal and a second signal, the time measurement circuit comprising: a sampling circuit configured to acquire a logical level of the first signal at a timing of an edge of the second signal, wherein the sampling circuit enters a metastable state when time difference between edges of the first signal and the second signal is shorter than a predetermined period, the predetermined period corresponding to at least one of a setup time and a hold time of the sampling circuit, and wherein a transition time of an output signal of the sampling circuit in the metastable state corresponds to the time difference in a one-to-one manner, and a time scale of the transition time is longer than a time scale of the time difference; and a transition time measurement circuit configured to measure the transition time of the output signal of the sampling circuit in the metastable state so as to determine the time difference. | 2,171 |
8,865,252 | 1. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device by using a thin film deposition apparatus, the apparatus including a loading unit to arrange a substrate, which is a deposition target, on an electrostatic chuck, a deposition unit including a thin film deposition assembly to form a thin film on the substrate, and an unloading unit to separate the substrate on which deposition is completed from the electrostatic chuck, the method comprising: arranging the substrate on the electrostatic chuck by using the loading unit; disposing the electrostatic chuck having the substrate thereon either on a first guide block moving along a first guide rail in a first direction or on a second guide block moving along a second guide rail in the first direction; depositing a deposition material discharged from the thin film deposition apparatus on the substrate while the substrate or the thin film deposition apparatus is moved relative to the other; separating the electrostatic chuck from said either the first or second guide block by using the unloading unit; and returning said either the first or second guide block on respective said first or second guide rail in a return direction opposite to the first direction toward the loading unit, wherein the first guide block remains on the first guide rail and the second guide block remains on the second guide rail. | 13,465 |
9,778,783 | 1. A system comprising: a touchscreen element for sensing a touch image that corresponds to an area of the touchscreen that has an elongated interface object positioned at least proximate it, wherein the elongated interface object has a pitch and a yaw with respect to the touchscreen; and a processor and a memory, wherein the processor and memory are configured to perform the following operations: | 20,226 |
9,711,333 | 1. An atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment system, comprising: a plasma source including at least one electrode, a gas in a gas chamber, and an AC power supply that supplies power to the at least one electrode to form a plasma in the gas; and a radial-flow surface having a jet nozzle through which the gas flows, the jet nozzle having a nozzle diameter, wherein the radial-flow surface has a surface profile that conforms to a nonplanar treatment surface of an object, the radial-flow surface separated from the nonplanar treatment surface by a gap that is less than two times the nozzle diameter so that the gas flows radially outward from the nozzle and between the radial-flow surface and the nonplanar treatment surface. | 5,135 |
9,785,168 | 1. A power generation amount prediction apparatus comprising: a sensor configured to detect a measured value of a power generation amount by a first power generation device that generates power from natural energy; a memory configured to store, for each of specific times, measured value and a predicted value of the power generation amount by the first power generation device for a plurality of days; and a controller configured to | 9,088 |
9,686,833 | 1. A light emitting device driving apparatus, comprising: a rectifier circuit configured to rectify alternating current (AC) power to generate driving power for operating a plurality of LED arrays; a controller integrated circuit (IC) including a plurality of internal switches connected to respective output terminals of the plurality of light emitting diode (LED) arrays and configured to control a path of a current flowing in the plurality of LED arrays by adjusting operations of the plurality of internal switches according to a magnitude of the driving power; and a current controlling circuit connected to the output terminal of at least one of the plurality of LED arrays and configured to control a current flowing in the at least one LED array, wherein the plurality of LED arrays includes: wherein the plurality of internal switches include: wherein the current controlling circuit includes at least a voltage divider having one end connected to the common node, and a second end connected to ground, such that when the last switch is closed, a current output from the last LED array passes through the last switch and the voltage divider. | 26,932 |
9,160,014 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell including a plurality of cells being laminated in a laminate direction of the fuel cell, each of the cell producing electrical energy by an electrochemical reaction with a reactant gas; signal applying unit for applying an AC signal having a predetermined frequency to the fuel cell; measuring means for measuring an impedance of the cell when the signal applying unit applies the AC signal to the fuel cell; supplying means for supplying a purge gas to a gas passage where the reactant gas flows; and purging means for purging the gas passage so as to discharge water present in the gas passage when an operation of the fuel cell is stopped, the purging being executed by controlling the supplying means based on the impedance of the cell measured by the measuring means, wherein the cell includes a wet region and a dry region which are set depending on a distribution of an amount of water in the cell when the purging is executed so as to set a total amount of water in the fuel cell to be necessary amount of water to start up the fuel cell; the measuring means is configured to measure the impedance at a local portion located at a boundary portion between the wet region and the dry region in the cell; and the purging means is configured to terminate the purging when the impedance measured by the measuring means is larger than a predetermined reference threshold value. | 48,321 |
8,580,426 | 1. A secondary battery, comprising: an electrode assembly having a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator disposed between the first and second electrode plates; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the case, the cap assembly including: wherein the protrusion of the short-circuit plate has a hollow cylindrical shape, a blocking part being disposed inside the protrusion to divide an interior of the protrusion into upper and lower regions. | 12,632 |
9,665,336 | 1. A method of transmitting video data from a wireless display source device to a wireless display sink device, the method comprising: obtaining encoded video data for a frame of video data; receiving, by a video codec, the encoded video data from a media player of the wireless display source device; storing, by the video codec, a predefined frame to an output buffer for the media player; outputting the predefined frame for the frame of video data; receiving, by the video codec, an indication the output buffer has been consumed by the media player; storing, by the video codec in response to receiving the indication, a timestamp that represents a presentation time for the predefined frame for the frame of video data; and sending the encoded video data for display at a display device associated with the wireless display sink device in association with the timestamp. | 35,621 |
8,925,598 | 1. A pneumatic tire having a tread pattern, the tire comprising a tread portion including a pair of circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction; and a land portion provided between the pair of circumferential main grooves and extending in the tire circumferential direction, the land portion including a bulging portion bulging in an arc shape in a tire radial direction as a sectional outline of a tread surface of the land portion and chamfered portions connected to the bulging portion and extending straight toward respective groove walls of the circumferential main grooves, a portion of the bulging portion bulging in the tire radial direction with respect to a virtual tread profile line of a tire tread surface of the tread portion including opposite contact patch ends of the tire, the virtual tread profile line being determined by an arc shape of a radius of curvature in a sectional shape of the tread portion, a maximum bulging amount of the bulging portion with respect to the virtual tread profile line ranging from 0.1 mm to 0.8 mm, the chamfered portions being provided on opposite sides of the bulging portion in a tire width direction, such that the bulging portion begins at respective outward ends of the chamfered portions that are located outwardly beyond the virtual tread profile line, respective inward ends of the chamfered portions opposite to the respective outward ends are located inwardly of the virtual tread profile line, and the chamfered portions cross the virtual tread profile line, and at least one of the circumferential main grooves changes a groove position in a first wave shape in the tire width direction on the tire tread surface and in a second wave shape in the tire width direction on a tire tread groove bottom, a cycle of the first wave shape is longer than a cycle of the second wave shape, groove walls of the at least one of the circumferential main grooves connected between the tire tread surface and the tread groove bottom are inclined surfaces, with inclination angles of faces of the inclined surfaces changing along the tire circumferential direction and the inclination angles being in a range of 10 to 40 degrees. | 49,859 |
9,147,402 | 1. A method for detecting which one of symbols of watermark data embedded in an original audio signal, by modifying sections of said original audio signal in relation to at least two different reference data sequences, is present in a current section of a received version of the watermarked original audio signal, wherein said received watermarked original audio signal can include at least one of noise and echoes, said method comprising: correlating in each case said current section of said received watermarked signal with candidates of said reference data sequences; based on peak values in the correlation result values for said current signal section, detecting, using related values of false positive probability of detection of the kind of symbol, which one of the candidate symbols is present in said current signal section; wherein said false positive probability is calculated in a recursive manner, wherein a total false positive probability for a given number of correlation result peak values is evaluated by using initially the false positive probabilities for a number smaller than said given number of correlation result peak values, and by increasing gradually the number of considered correlation result peak values according to the required detection reliability, and wherein for a first peak value and a first one of said candidate symbols said false positive probability is calculated, and a) if the corresponding false positive probability is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, assuming the current candidate symbol to be the correct symbol; b) if said false positive probability is not smaller than said predetermined threshold value, calculating said false positive probability for said first peak value for the following one of said candidate symbols and the processing continues with a); c) if none of the calculated false positive probability values is smaller than said predetermined threshold value, continuing a) and optionally continuing b) for a following one of said peak values; d) if none of the calculated false positive probability values is smaller than said predetermined threshold value, assuming the candidate symbol for which the minimum false positive probability has been calculated to be the correct symbol. | 4,333 |
8,689,554 | 1. Engine arrangement of the type comprising an internal combustion engine having an intake line, an exhaust line and an EGR line for recirculating gases from the exhaust line to the intake line, wherein at least one turbine is located on the exhaust line, wherein the arrangement comprises a water vapor generating arrangement using exhaust gases energy to transform liquid water into water vapor and wherein the water vapor is injected in the exhaust line upstream of the turbine, wherein the EGR line is branched of the exhaust line upstream of the turbine and the water vapor generating arrangement comprises at least one EGR/water heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the EGR line and the water to be vaporized. | 37,090 |
9,387,453 | 1. An electrochemical conversion system comprising: an electrical-energy-generating mechanism selectively operable between a charge condition and a discharge condition; and a controller system coupled to the electrical-energy-generating mechanism, the controller system being configured to selectively place said electrical-energy-generating mechanism in one of said charge condition and said discharge condition, | 11,709 |
9,142,846 | 1. A fuel cell system having a fuel cell that is supplied with a fuel gas and an oxidant gas and generates power from an electrochemical reaction, the system comprising a control unit programmed to: determine, upon activation of the fuel cell, whether or not a fuel gas leakage occurs in a fuel electrode side of the fuel cell after starting a fuel gas supply to the fuel cell while maintaining a state of not removing current from the fuel cell, but before starting an oxidant gas supply to the fuel cell, and start the oxidant gas supply to the fuel cell based on the determination. | 24,639 |
9,489,975 | 1. A method of determining an optical disk presence, type and condition, comprising: (a-i) driving a spindle motor and detecting presence of a disk based on an amount of a load applied to the spindle motor, and executing focus control based on light reflected from the disk and concluding, based on focusing being possible, that the disk that is present is a first optical disk configured to record data; (a-ii) driving the spindle motor and detecting presence of a disk based on an amount of a load applied to the spindle motor, and executing focus control based on light reflected from the disk and concluding, based on focusing not being possible, that the disk that is present is a transparent protective disk, which is different from the first optical disk configured to record data; (b-i) driving the spindle motor and detecting absence of a disk based on an amount of a load applied to the spindle motor, and executing focus control based on light reflected from the disk and concluding, based on focusing being possible, that the first optical disk configured to record data is present, but is mischucked; and (b-ii) driving the spindle motor and detecting absence of a disk based on an amount of a load applied to the spindle motor, and executing focus control based on light reflected from the disk and concluding, based on focusing not being possible, that no disk is present. | 9,056 |
9,655,741 | 1. A prosthetic disc for insertion between adjacent vertebrae, the prosthetic disc comprising: a first plate having a first surface configured to engage a vertebra and an opposite inwardly directed bearing surface; a second plate having a second surface configured to engage a vertebra and an opposite inwardly directed bearing surface; a rigid mobile core having first and second bearing surfaces configured to cooperate with the bearing surfaces of the first and second plates to allow the first and second plates to slide and translate over the core and a lateral edge between the first and second bearing surfaces; and a retaining formation which holds the core captive between the first and second plates; wherein the retaining formation includes two or more recesses circumferentially spaced apart about the periphery of the core and two or more inwardly directed pegs on the first plate each peg opposing a circumferentially spaced recess; wherein the circumferentially spaced recesses extend in a direction radially inward from the lateral edge of the core toward a center portion of the core. | 42,728 |
9,045,804 | 1. A process to produce an aqueous solution of carbohydrates comprising C6-sugar-containing oligomers, C6-sugar monomers, C5-sugar-containing oligomers, C5-sugar monomers, or any combination thereof, the process comprising: (a) reacting biomass or a biomass-derived reactant with a solvent system comprising (i) an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of beta-, gamma-, and delta-lactones, and combinations thereof, and (ii) at least about 1 wt % water; in the presence of an acid catalyst for a time and under conditions to yield a product mixture wherein at least a portion of water-insoluble C6-sugar-containing polymers or oligomers, or water-insoluble C5-sugar-containing polymers or oligomers, if present in the biomass or biomass-derived reactant, are converted to water-soluble C6-sugar-containing oligomers, C6-sugar monomers, C5-sugar-containing oligomers, C5-sugar monomers, or any combination thereof; and then (b) adding a solute to the product mixture of step (a) in an amount sufficient to cause partitioning of the product mixture into an aqueous layer and a substantially immiscible organic layer. | 26,260 |
9,699,106 | 1. An apparatus to perform link aggregation in which a transmission control protocol (TCP) flow is transferred by distributing the TCP flow to a plurality of links, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of first processors each corresponding to a different one of the plurality of links and configured to provide each of TCP packets distributed to each link with an intra-link number; and a second processor configured to: distribute TCP packets transmitted from a first apparatus on a transmission side to the plurality of links; manage, for each of TCP packets distributed to each of the plurality of links, correspondence relationships between intra-flow numbers in each TCP flow and the intra-link numbers of the TCP packets distributed to each link; perform a header conversion process including: replace a first reception acknowledgement response that is transmitted from the second apparatus on the reception side according to the intra-flow numbers of the TCP packets through each of the plurality of links, with a second reception acknowledgement response to be transmitted according to the intra-link numbers, in accordance with the correspondence relationships; and distribute the second reception acknowledgement response to the plurality of first processors. | 14,564 |
9,130,403 | 1. A method of using a system to determine of a load on each of plurality of power line conductors, wherein each power line conductor supplies power to a plurality of power customers and wherein a plurality of meters measure the power delivered to the plurality of customers and wherein each of the plurality of power customers receives power via an associated power meter; the method comprising: receiving, at an automated meter reading system, meter data for a plurality of time periods supplied by each power meter; wherein the meter data supplied by each power meter comprises data of the power consumed by the power customer associated with the power meter; determining, at a meter group system, a first subset of the plurality of meters electrically connected to a first power line conductor of the plurality of power line conductors; determining, at the meter group system, a second subset of the plurality of meters electrically connected to a second power line conductor of the plurality of conductors; for each of the plurality of time periods, combining, at a load profile system, the meter data of each of the first subset of the plurality of meters to determine a first load profile; for each of the plurality of time periods, combining, at the load profile system the meter data of each of the second subset of the plurality of meters to determine a second load profile; outputting, at the load profile system, the first and second load profiles; and determining at the load profile system, that the first load profile differs from the second load profile by one or more predetermined amounts over a plurality of the time periods. | 33,312 |
9,698,371 | 1. A method for preparing an OLED device, comprising the following steps: step (1), providing an OLED device body as a substrate; step (2), using polytetrafluoroethene and silicon oxide as a mixed target, and forming a SiO wherein step (2) further comprising; positioning the substrate in a coating chamber of a magnetron sputtering coater; placing the mixed target, which is composed of polytetrafluoroethene and silicon oxide at a mass ratio of 3:1˜4:1, in the coating chamber; vacuumizing the coating chamber until a base pressure therein is 3.0×10 injecting argon gas into the coating chamber at a flow rate of 300 sccm˜500 sccm; biasing the substrate with a bias voltage of −300V˜−500V, so that a high-frequency voltage is generated in the coating chamber; heating the coating chamber to a temperature of 150° C.˜420° C.; using the mixed target as a negative pole and the substrate as a positive pole, and thus argon gas near the mixed target generates arc discharge and is ionized to generate Ar+ ions; accelerating the Ar+ ions in an electric field to obtain extremely high energy, and then impacting the mixed target with the Ar+ ions; sputtering out atoms on a surface of the mixed target for 20 min˜60 min, and forming a protective layer made of SiO wherein a thickness of SiO wherein a water vapor penetration rate of the SiO | 42,131 |
9,014,861 | 1. A method for noise-reduced operation of a wind turbine, comprising: determining a wind speed during normal operation of the wind turbine; determining a weighted rotor speed setpoint for a rotor of the wind turbine from a first rotor speed setpoint providing a reduced noise emission compared to nominal noise emission of the wind turbine at the wind speed and a parameter representing a tradeoff between power production and noise emission; determining, using the weighted rotor speed setpoint, a torque setpoint for a power conversion assembly connected to the rotor; and applying the torque setpoint to the power conversion assembly to control the wind turbine. | 10,419 |
9,328,393 | 1. A method to process lignocellulosic material, the method comprising: irradiating the lignocellulosic material to produce irradiated lignocellulosic material having reduced recalcitrance; and wet milling the irradiated lignocellulosic material in a vessel while applying a jet mixer to the irradiated lignocellulosic material, using a wet milling system comprising one or more jet mixers and one or more wet mills, wherein one or more jet heads and one or more wet milling heads are disposed in a tank containing a fluid having the irradiated lignocellulosic material dispersed therein. | 32,517 |
9,315,407 | 1. A computer writeable medium incorporating a processor control associated with a system for producing and supplying a coolant to at least one filtration subsystem as well as reconditioning and recombining a return flow of used coolant, comprising: a first subroutine for de-ionizing a subset volume of an untreated inlet water and for recombining untreated and de-ionized sub-volumes within a three way valve; a second subroutine for outputting the re-combined water to a mixing pump and intermixing with a chemical concentrate to produce a coolant exhibiting a specific water to chemical recipe; a third subroutine for drawing a volume of coolant pre-deposited in a main reservoir for successive particle filtering of solids and chilling to adjust a temperature of the coolant prior to communicating to the filtration subsystems; a fourth subroutine for re-introducing a dirty return coolant and for oil skimming and coalescent filtering for removing residual oil; and a fifth subroutine for re-conveying reconditioned fluid from the coalescent filter through a fluid column to a reintroduction location of said main reservoir and resupplying reconditioned coolant for recirculation to the filtration subsystems. | 44,807 |
8,764,894 | 1. An ink dispersion, consisting of: an ink vehicle, consisting of: a colorant dispersed in the ink vehicle; wherein the non-ionic surfactant is a displector, and wherein the displector, when combined with a frother from a waste paper recycling system, enables deinking of the colorant from a medium on which the colorant is established. | 36,282 |
8,839,492 | 1. A pressure steam treatment apparatus comprising a pressure steam treatment chamber and a labyrinth sealing chamber, wherein: the labyrinth sealing chamber is arranged on a fiber bundle inlet and on a fiber bundle outlet of the steam treatment apparatus, a running path of a fiber bundle is in a horizontal direction, wherein plural labyrinth nozzles are arranged on top and bottom of the running path; and the labyrinth nozzles comprise a top side labyrinth nozzle and a bottom side labyrinth nozzle located opposite to each other; a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a distance in a perpendicular direction of the top and bottom side labyrinth nozzles, of a pair of opposing labyrinth nozzles is 0.5 mm or smaller when the ambient temperature of the labyrinth sealing chamber is 140° C. | 20,283 |
8,597,963 | 1. A method of manufacturing a light emitting device (LED), the method comprising: a) providing an LED wafer having a plurality of LEDs formed on a surface thereof; b) fabricating a sheet of phosphor/polymer material comprising a light transmissive polymer material having at least one phosphor material distributed throughout its volume and in which the polymer material is transmissive to light generated by the LEDs and to light generated by the at least one phosphor material; c) selectively making apertures through the sheet of phosphor polymer material at positions corresponding to electrode contact pads of the LEDs of the LED wafer; d1) attaching the sheet of phosphor polymer material to the surface of the LED wafer such that each aperture overlies a respective electrode contact pad, and d2) cutting slots through the sheet of phosphor/polymer material that are configured to pass between individual LEDs prior to said attaching the sheet to the LED; and e) dividing the LED wafer into individual light emitting devices. | 37,599 |
8,459,011 | 1. An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a selective reduction catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage of said engine for reducing NOx in exhaust gases from said engine under existence of a reducing agent; reducing-agent supply means for supplying the reducing agent or a reactant for generating the reducing agent to the upstream side of said selective reduction catalyst; reducing-agent slip determining means for determining occurrence of a reducing-agent slip in which the reducing agent is discharged to the downstream side of said selective reduction catalyst; storage amount changing means for temporarily decreasing a storage amount indicative of an amount of the reducing agent stored in said selective reduction catalyst, from the state where the storage amount is at a maximum, and thereafter increasing the storage amount until the occurrence of the reducing-agent slip is detected; and supply correction amount calculating means for calculating a supply correction amount for correcting an amount of the reducing agent supplied by said reducing-agent supply means, according to an occurrence state of the reducing agent slip when said storage amount changing means changes the storage amount, wherein said reducing-agent supply means calculates a basic supply amount of the reducing agent according to an operating condition of said engine or a NOx concentration on the upstream side of said selective reduction catalyst, and calculates a supply amount of the reducing agent by correcting the basic supply amount using the supply correction amount. | 21,616 |
8,699,620 | 1. A method, comprising: generating a digital transmit signal; receiving a digital receive signal that is based on an amplified analog version of the digital transmit signal, wherein the amplified analog version is produced by a power amplifier having one or more nonlinear characteristics; storing signal samples, the signal samples including (i) transmit samples based on the digital transmit signal and (i) receive samples based on the digital receive signal; arranging sample pairs in sample pair groups, each sample pair comprising a transmit sample of the transmit samples and a receive sample of the receive samples, wherein the receive samples of the sample pairs are aligned with the corresponding transmit samples of the sample pairs; determining representative sample pairs for at least a portion of the sample pair groups; determining gain coefficients based on at least a portion of the signal samples, the gain coefficients being associated with respective first operational ranges of the power amplifier, wherein determining the gain coefficients comprises using the representative sample pairs; determining predistortion values, the predistortion values including using the predistortion values to predistort digital signals to compensate for the one or more nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier. | 41,466 |
8,892,483 | 1. A computer-implemented method of solving a planning problem, the method comprising: receiving in memory a formula comprising a plurality of original clauses, the formula representing the planning problem; configuring a processor to solve the formula, thereby generating a final solution to the planning problem, the final solution being based on one or more solution elements; receiving an environmental modification to the formula, the environmental modification comprising a modification to at least one of the plurality of original clauses that is not implied or derived from the original clauses, prior to generating the final solution; analyzing the modified formula, thereby identifying: (i) one or more solution elements that have been invalidated by the environmental modification, and (ii) identifying any solution elements that have not been invalidated by the environmental modification; and reconfiguring the processor to resolve the modified formula, such that any solution elements that have not been invalidated are reused in generating the final solution. | 24,770 |
8,975,779 | 1. A load management controller for a household electrical installation, the household electrical installation comprising a main panel receiving electricity from a pair of electricity supplies and distributing the electricity to a plurality of electrical sub-circuits, one of which being an energy storage sub-circuit, the pair of electricity supplies comprising a grid supply and a micro-generator supply, the household electrical installation further comprising: i. a power meter to monitor the amount of electricity being supplied by the micro-generator; ii. a power meter to monitor the amount of electricity being consumed in the household; and iii. the load management controller comprising means to determine a surplus electricity amount by determining the amount of electricity generated by the micro-generator which is not being consumed in the household; and altering the amount of electricity supplied to the energy storage sub-circuit to route the surplus electricity to the energy storage sub-circuit; the means to alter the amount of electricity supplied to the energy storage sub-circuit further comprising a high-speed switching device which gradually and continuously adjusts in real time the amount of electricity supplied to the energy storage sub-circuit to set the amount of electricity being supplied to the energy storage sub-circuit to any value between 0% and 100% of the total load of the energy storage sub-circuit so as to continuously match, as closely as possible, the amount of electricity supplied to the energy storage sub-circuit with the surplus electricity, so as to prevent output from the micro-generator supply being exported to the grid. | 28,867 |
9,328,323 | 1. An apparatus for decomposition of organic matter into biogas and compost, the system comprising: a waste processing tank into which solid organic waste is loaded and in which hydrolysis and composting takes place at separate times, with composting of the solid organic waste taking place during a separate stage after hydrolysis is completed, wherein the waste processing tank comprises a drain at or near its base, the drain allowing flow of the percolation liquid out of the waste processing tank during the hydrolysis stage, the drain also serving as a vent through which air flows into and/or out of the solid organic waste in the waste processing tank during the composting stage; a controller programmed to automate addition of percolation liquid in the waste processing tank and initiate switchover from hydrolysis to composting according to pH in the waste processing tank; a spraying system configured to spray percolate liquid onto the solid organic waste in the waste processing tank during the hydrolysis stage, wherein the percolate liquid comprises fatty acids leached from the solid organic waste and wherein the percolate liquid is recycled from the base of the waste processing tank during the hydrolysis stage; and a biogas reactor tank into which the percolate liquid from the waste processing tank is pumped for generation of biogas under anaerobic conditions during a gasification stage. | 10,734 |
8,491,232 | 1. A holder for a chip-removing tool insert, comprising: an approximately bar-shaped cutter carrier, a cavity formed inside an end thereof, which serves as a receiving pocket for a chip-removing tool insert and is delimited by clamping jaws that define an inside width of the receiving pocket, a slot extending with a first end to within the proximity of an inner limit of the receiving pocket so as to permit elastic pivotability of one of the clamping jaws, and extending with a second end to within the proximity of a side edge of the cutter carrier, wherein the second end is closest portion of the slot to the side edge, a clamping arrangement comprising an actuation member for producing a clamping force that acts upon the one of the clamping jaws, wherein the actuation member is arranged within the cutter carrier, and an elastic connecting web that bridges the second end of the slot being disposed between the one of the clamping jaws and the cutter carrier. | 38,242 |
9,633,071 | 1. A computer implemented method for providing information results in response to a natural language information request comprising: receiving a natural language information request from a user wherein the request includes instructions to present results in a predefined format; compiling a computer executable query from said natural language information request from a user wherein said query is formatted to extract data from one or more computer databases; presenting said query to said user prior to execution of said query; enabling a user to change said query prior to its execution; determining an identity of the user, determining access to one or more databases based upon the determined user identity; executing said query to extract data from said one or more determined accessible computer databases; and presenting said user query results to said user in the user requested predefined format. | 47,053 |
9,719,661 | 1. Biometric measurement device, comprising: a lighting assembly, said lighting assembly comprising: a lighting lens and a light emitting diode light source; said lighting lens comprising: a paraboloidal or ellipsoidal reflector formed by a portion of a paraboloid or ellipsoid with symmetry of revolution about an axis of said reflector, and having a focus point; and a dioptric surface arranged so that a light beam that originates from the focus point and is then reflected by the reflector next passes through the dioptric surface, wherein the dioptric surface has two different refractive power values in two directions perpendicular to each other and parallel to said dioptric surface, said two refractive power values being negative; said light emitting diode light source is placed at the focus point of the reflector; and a skinprint capture apparatus having an optical axis forming an image capture direction, in which an angle between the axis of the lighting lens reflector and the optical axis forming the image capture direction is between 24 degrees and 44 degrees. | 19,186 |
9,207,076 | 1. A method for determining ricochet vectors of a probe of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) being executed by a processor of a computing device, the method comprising: setting an approach distance between the probe and a manufactured object, and storing the approach distance into a storage system of the computing device; obtaining coordinates of a center of the probe and an initial vector of the probe for each measurement point of the manufactured object when the probe is manually operated to measure the manufactured object; fitting a measurement element of the manufactured object according to all measurement points of the manufactured object; and for each measurement point, calculating an approach point of the manufactured object according to the approach distance and the initial vector of the probe, determining a position relation between the approach point and the measurement element of the manufactured object, calculating a ricochet vector of the probe according to the position relation, and storing the ricochet vector of the probe into the storage system. | 27,773 |
9,835,390 | 1. An integrated heat sink comprising a unitary graphene material article consisting essentially of a heat collection member and at least one heat dissipation member integral to said heat collection member, wherein the heat collection member is configured to be in thermal contact with a heat source, collects heat from said heat source, and dissipates heat through the at least one heat dissipation member, and further wherein the unitary graphene material is obtained from heat-treating a graphene oxide gel at a heat treatment temperature of at least 100° C. to obtain said unitary graphene material that is a single crystal or polycrystal having a physical density of at least 1.7 g/cm 3 and containing chemically bonded graphene molecules or chemically merged graphene planes having an inter-graphene spacing d 002 from 0.3354 nm to 0.40 nm, an oxygen content from 0.001% to 10%, a degree of graphitization from 1% to 100%, a Mosaic spread value less than 0.7, a thermal conductivity of at least 600 W/mK, wherein said graphene planes in a crystal grain are essentially parallel to one another with an average mis-orientation angle less than 10 degrees. | 13,558 |
9,391,457 | 1. A multi-input electrical power conversion device for converting multiple DC energies each arising from different junctions in a multi junction solar cell into AC energy, comprising: a plurality of electrical input pairs for receiving the multiple DC energies from at least one multi junction solar cell, each of the electrical input pairs being in physical contact with a pair of electrical contacts in the multi-junction solar cell between which one of the junctions is located; a plurality of DC-to-AC inverting circuits each for receiving the DC energy from a different one of the plurality of electrical input pairs, each of the DC-to-AC inverting circuits having a pair of inputs that physically contact one of the electrical input pairs that receive the DC energy; at least one electrical output receiving at least one AC energy from the plurality of DC to AC inverting circuits; at least one MPPT circuit operatively coupled to the DC to AC inverting circuits; a package housing the plurality of electrical input pairs, the plurality of DC-to-AC inverting circuits, the at least one electrical output and the at least one MPPT circuit. | 21,278 |
9,031,125 | 1. An image predictive decoding method comprising: a step of extracting, from compressed data of an image which is divided into a plurality of regions and encoded, encoded data of prediction information to be used for generating a prediction signal of a target region, encoded data of partition information, and encoded data of a residual signal; a step of restoring the partition information by decoding the encoded data of partition information; a step of generating the prediction signal of the target region, wherein when the restored partition information specifies that the target region is divided into first and second partitions, the step of generating the prediction signal of the target region comprises (I) generating a prediction signal of the first partition from an already reproduced signal in such a manner as to (a) obtain the prediction information of one neighboring region selected among a plurality of already reproduced candidate neighboring regions adjacent to the first partition, wherein the prediction information of the one neighboring region includes (b) motion-compensate the identified reference picture for the one neighboring region according to the motion vector for the one neighboring region to thereby generate the prediction signal of the first partition, and (II) generating a prediction signal of the second partition from an already reproduced signal, using prediction information for the second partition restored from the encoded data of prediction information; a step of restoring a reproduced residual signal of the target region from the encoded data of residual signal; a step of generating a reproduction signal of the target region by adding the reproduced residual signal and the prediction signal of the target region; and a step of storing the reproduction signal of the target region as a reproduced signal. | 29,100 |
8,932,373 | 1. A fluidised bed reactor for producing synthesis gas by gasification of solid fuels, having a heater for heating a fluidised bed of the fluidised bed reactor, the heater having at least one cavity, wherein the heater has an oxygen feed for delivering a gas containing oxygen into the cavity of the heater and the cavity adjoins a porous, gas-permeable section of the heater, and wherein the heater is located within the fluidized bed of the reactor and comprises a plurality of tubes arranged concentrically with one another, respectively with an inner tube and an outer tube, at least the inner tube or the outer tube being formed so that it is porous and gas-permeable and the oxygen feed is formed so as to deliver the gas containing oxygen to an annular space between the outer tube and the inner tube. | 7,012 |
8,452,145 | 1. A triple-clad optical fiber comprising: a core, a first inner cladding, a second inner cladding, and an outer cladding wherein, the core comprises a radius of less than about 5 μm, a first index of refraction n the first inner cladding surrounds the core and comprises a radial thickness of at least 10 μm, a numerical aperture of at least about 0.12, and a second index of refraction n the second inner cladding surrounds the first inner cladding and comprises a radial thickness of at least 8 μm, a numerical aperture of at least about 0.20, and a second index of refraction , wherein a relative refractive index percent (Δ%) of the second cladding relative to the outer cladding is greater than 1%; the outer cladding surrounds the second inner cladding and comprises a radial thickness of at least 10 μm and a third index of refraction n | 49,346 |
9,705,349 | 1. A charge control device for charging a battery with electric power output from a charger, comprising: a voltage sensor that detects a voltage of the battery; a current sensor that detects a current of the battery; a charge state calculation unit configured to calculate a charge state of the battery using the voltage and the current; a charger control unit configured to control the charger to output a power to charge the battery; and a charge time calculation unit configured to calculate a remaining charge time of the battery till the charge state of the battery will reach a predetermined charge state based on the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation unit, | 4,357 |
9,145,070 | 1. A slide rail device for a vehicle comprising: a lower rail which extends in a forward and rearward direction and is provided with a large number of lock grooves, extending in an upward and downward direction, which are arranged in the forward and rearward direction, said lower rail being immovable relative to a floor of the vehicle; an upper rail which is supported by said lower rail to be slidable in said forward and rearward direction and provided with a supporting portion; a lock spring which is provided with a supported portion, which is supported by said supporting portion, and a locking portion which is disengageably-engageable with said lock grooves, wherein a biasing force of said lock spring biases said locking portion in a direction to engage with said lock grooves; and a lock release lever, supported by said upper rail, which is rotatable between a locked position, at which said locking portions allowed to engage with said lock grooves, and an unlocked position, at which said lock spring presses in a direction such that said locking portion escapes from said lock grooves against said biasing force, wherein said lock spring generates an engagement-assisting biasing force in a same direction or a different direction from an engaging direction of said locking portion with said lock grooves, and wherein said supporting portion is provided with a pair of supporting surfaces, the space therebetween becoming mutually narrower with respect to the direction of said engagement-assisting biasing force, so that when said supported portion is positioned at a predetermined position by said engagement-assisting biasing force, said supported portion engages with both of said pair of supporting surfaces, so that forward and rearward movement of said supported portion relative to said supporting surfaces is restricted. | 9,032 |
9,612,898 | 1. A fault analysis apparatus comprising: a log element extraction unit configured to extract, from one or more pieces of log information which are output by an information processing system, a log element which is an element constituting the log information; a log combined unit configured to attach, to each of the log elements, system constituent element information expressing a system constituent element related to the log element, the system constituent element being a constituent element of the information processing system, and generate combined log information by combining the log elements attached with the system constituent element information; a pattern extraction unit configured to extract a pattern of information including the system constituent element information from the combined log information; a pattern conversion unit, using an analysis target pattern, being the pattern extracted during an analysis target period in which an analysis is performed, and when the analysis target pattern includes system constituent element information of a conversion target which is system constituent element information not included in a comparison target pattern being a pattern stored in a pattern storage unit and being the pattern extracted during a comparison target period which is a period when a conversion is performed, configured to perform the conversion between the system constituent element information of the conversion target and the system constituent element information included in the comparison target pattern and similar to the system constituent element information of the conversion target in any one of the comparison target pattern and the analysis target pattern; a pattern comparison unit configured to detect a difference by comparing the analysis target pattern and the comparison target pattern after conversion processing with the pattern conversion unit; and a cause portion presenting unit configured to present, as a portion of a cause of a fault, the system constituent element information indicated by the difference detected by the pattern comparison unit. | 45,892 |
8,569,206 | 1. A porous carbon material wherein a volume of a pore having a diameter of in a range of 0.45 to 1.0 nm is 0.4 cm 3 /g or more, a ratio of said volume of the pore having a diameter of in a range of 0.45 to 1.0 nm to a volume of a pore having a diameter of in a range of 0.45 nm to 0.4 μm is 67% or more, and an atomic ratio of hydrogen and carbon is 0.01 to 0.4. | 13,090 |
9,171,200 | 1. A method of identifying gestural interaction comprising: detecting a user with an imaging device; detecting with the imaging device the depth value at a centroid of the user with respect to the imaging device, comprising: detecting with the imaging device a closest distance of the user with respect to the imaging device, comprising: with a processor, identifying an initiation of a gestural interaction based on a ratio of the closest distance and the depth value at the centroid of the user is above a predetermined threshold. | 24,033 |
9,130,095 | 1. A substrate comprising: a plurality of input terminal areas on which input terminals are mounted; a plurality of output terminal areas on which output terminals are mounted; a plurality of device areas, at least one devices being mounted on respective ones of the plurality of device areas; and a plurality of control pin areas on which a plurality of control pins are mounted, wherein | 3,283 |
8,636,945 | 1. A method for producing crystalline particles, comprising: a mixing step of producing a mixed material containing a lead-containing material and an additional material containing lithium and boron, wherein the additional material is at least one of LiBO a first firing step of firing the mixed material at a predetermined firing temperature to form polyhedral crystalline particles. | 3,182 |
9,412,988 | 1. A porous separator, comprising: a porous base film; and a coating layer, the coating layer being on a surface of the porous base film and including: wherein the porous base film is a polyolefin film, and wherein the separator exhibits: | 2,850 |
8,447,502 | 1. An engine system, comprising, an engine with a first and second group of cylinders; a turbocharger; a variable cam timing mechanism including a first cam coupled to the first group of cylinders, and a second cam coupled to the second group of cylinders; and a controller with computer readable code carrying instructions for, in response to an occurrence of pre-ignition in a cylinder in the first group of cylinders, | 2,692 |
9,566,475 | 1. A golf ball comprising: an inner core layer comprising a thermoplastic highly-neutralized ionomer comprising a copolymer of ethylene and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, an organic acid or salt thereof, and sufficient cation source to neutralize the acid groups of the copolymer by 70% or greater, and having a geometric center hardness less than a surface hardness to define a first positive hardness gradient; an outer core layer disposed about the inner core, the outer core being formed from a homogenous thermoset composition and having an interior hardness less than an outer surface hardness to define a second positive hardness gradient; an inner cover layer disposed about outer core layer; and an outer cover layer disposed about the inner cover layer, wherein the second hardness gradient is greater than or equal to the first hardness gradient. | 33,843 |
9,541,026 | 1. A heat exchanger comprising a housing having a top panel, a bottom panel, two side panels, a front panel, and an end panel; said housing further comprising therein: | 36,329 |
8,581,407 | 1. A stacked contact formed between a plurality of metal traces of a multi-layered interconnection circuit, comprising: a base polymer layer; a plurality of first metal traces extending in a first direction; a plurality of second metal traces extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction, wherein the first and second metal traces are alternately formed on separate layers of the interconnection circuit; a plurality of intervening layers of patterned polymer with each of the first and second metal traces being disposed between two of the intervening polymer layers; and a contact window with tapered walls in each of the intervening polymer layers, wherein the contact windows are vertically aligned and each of the contact windows is positioned to expose an underlying one of the first or second metal traces, each of the first and second metal traces excluding the lower most of the first and second metal traces is formed over and in direct contact with an underlying one of the first and second metal traces so as to form a stacked contact aligned with the contact windows and providing an input/output pad, the lower most of the first and second metal traces being formed over the base polymer layer, a tapered portion of each of the second metal traces in a contact window is separated from adjacent second metal traces by an intervening patterned polymer layer, and the multi-layered interconnection circuit includes a plurality of interlayer contacts between the first and second metal traces other than the stacked contact. | 33,454 |
9,067,626 | 1. A segmented hatch for vehicles, the hatch comprising: an upper hatch defining an upper edge portion and a pair of recessed regions; a first connector for movably connecting the upper portion to a motor vehicle adjacent a rear portion of a roof of a motor vehicle whereby the upper hatch can be moved from a closed position to an open position relative to a vehicle; a lid movably connected to the upper hatch whereby the lid can be moved relative to the upper hatch between open and closed positions, the lid including forward portions that extend over the recessed regions to define a pair of cavities when the lid is in a closed position; a lockable first extensible strut generating a force to assist opening of the upper hatch when the first extensible strut is unlocked; a pair of lockable second extensible struts operably interconnecting the lid and the upper hatch and generating forces to assist opening of the lid relative to the upper hatch, wherein the second extensible struts are disposed in the cavities when the lid is closed relative to the upper hatch portion; a first release configured to selectively unlock the first extensible strut to thereby permit movement of the upper hatch from a closed position to an open position; and a second release configured to selectively unlock the second extensible struts to thereby permit the lid to move from a closed position to an open position relative to the upper hatch. | 49,698 |
9,302,387 | 1. A tool for disconnecting a cable from a top of a railcar, the tool consisting of: an elongated body comprising a first end and a second end spaced apart a distance sufficient to enable a user standing at ground level to disconnect the cable from the top of the railcar using the tool; a handle portion disposed about the first end of the elongated body; a V-shaped engagement member disposed about the second end of the elongated body, wherein the V-shaped engagement member faces away from the handle portion and is configured to engage the cable at the top of the railcar; and a crossbar handle attached to the elongated body, wherein the crossbar handle is located nearer the first end of the elongated body than the second end of the elongated body, and wherein the elongated body, the V-shaped engagement member, and the crossbar handle are a unitary structure. | 3,147 |
9,468,976 | 1. A holder for a cutting tool having a cutting insert, wherein the holder comprises: a beam part which extends in a longitudinal direction from a rear surface of the beam part to a front region of the beam part, and extends in a first transverse direction from a bottom surface of the beam part to a top surface of the beam part, wherein the first transverse direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and a clamping head having a first and a second clamping finger which together form a receiving pocket for receiving the cutting insert, wherein the clamping head is arranged on the front region of the beam part, wherein the clamping head projects above a top surface of the beam part in the first transverse direction by way of a projection, wherein the projection is connected to the first clamping finger, wherein below the projection in a direction opposite to the first transverse direction a clamping gap is provided to enable the first clamping finger to be elastically movable, wherein the clamping gap opens out into the receiving pocket and extends in a direction opposite to the longitudinal direction from an end face of the holder facing a workpiece to be processed as far as up to a rear end of the clamping gap, wherein the rear end of the clamping gap is arranged in a transition region between the clamping head and the beam part, wherein the projection extends in the direction opposite to the longitudinal direction beyond the rear end of the clamping gap by way of a continuation portion, wherein the first and the second clamping fingers are arranged on a first longitudinal side of the holder and the continuation portion is arranged on a second longitudinal side of the holder, wherein the second longitudinal side and the first longitudinal side both extend parallel to the longitudinal direction and parallel to the first transverse direction, wherein the second longitudinal side is spaced from the first longitudinal side in a second transverse direction, wherein the second transverse direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein a coolant guiding channel extends within the holder for supplying coolant and/or lubricant to a coolant outlet arranged in the projection, wherein the coolant guiding channel comprises: wherein the through passage is inclined by an angle in relation to the longitudinal direction and extends from the beam part through the continuation portion into the projection, wherein the cross passage extends transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and connects the through passage with the end passage, and wherein the end passage opens into the coolant outlet. | 25,751 |
8,700,122 | 1. A sensor system comprising: a flexible substrate; a plurality of electrodes coupled to the flexible substrate; an adhesive substrate adjacent to each of the electrodes and the flexible substrate; and a plurality of groups of preparation devices, each group of preparation devices coupled to a respective electrode, each of the preparation devices comprising: | 15,501 |
8,498,686 | 1. A catheter, comprising: an elongated body; an elongated expander extending through the elongated body, and a distal electrode assembly distal a distal end of the elongated body, including: wherein the expander is longitudinally movable relative to the elongated body to vary the spiral form of the band member. | 29,226 |
8,915,731 | 1. A method of performing distributed combustion, comprising the steps of: injecting fuel into a furnace along a fuel injection axis from a fuel nozzle disposed in a burner block, an axis of the fuel nozzle being a fuel injection nozzle; injecting primary oxidant into the furnace from a primary oxidant nozzle, the fuel and primary oxidant nozzles being concentrically disposed with respect to one another; combusting the fuel and primary oxidant in the furnace; injecting first and second jets of secondary oxidant into the furnace from first and second dynamical lances disposed on opposite sides of the fuel nozzle in the burner block; decreasing an amount of the primary oxidant injected from the primary oxidant nozzle as an amount of the secondary oxidant injected as the first and second jets of secondary oxidant is increased; and injecting first and second jets of actuating fluid at angles to the first and second jets of secondary oxidant, respectively, such that the first and second jets of secondary oxidant are fluidically angled away from the fuel injection axis. | 27,895 |
8,671,294 | 1. A method for environmentally cognizant power management in a computing environment, comprising the steps of: gathering first values for a first level of server power metrics from one or more of servers and power supply units in the computing environment; gathering first values for a second level of server power metrics from operating system and applications executed within the servers; gathering first values for environmental metrics; generating a predictive behavior power utilization model based on at least the first level of server power metrics, the second level of server power metrics and the environmental metrics; distributing an application load in the computing environment based on applying the predictive behavior power utilization model to application, utilization and environmental contexts; predicting a resulting power utilization according to the predictive behavior power utilization model and the distributed load; determining an actual power utilization by gathering second values for the first level of server power metrics and the second level of server power metrics under the application load; and updating the predictive behavior power utilization model according to actual power utilization when a difference between the actual power utilization and the predicted power utilization exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 28,280 |
9,520,752 | 1. A rotor assembly for an interior permanent magnet electrical machine, the permanent magnet assembly comprising: a magnet retention structure comprising a circular inner perimeter having a radius; a rotor body within the magnet retention structure, the rotor body having a plurality of pole shoes; at least a first permanent magnet set including a plurality of permanent magnets positioned within the magnet retention structure and between two adjacent pole shoes of the rotor body, the first permanent magnet set having a varying thickness that is greatest at a central portion of the first permanent magnet set and tapers toward opposing edges of the first permanent magnet set; and at least one magnet support extending from the rotor body to the magnet retention structure through the varying thickness of the first permanent magnet set. | 976 |
9,499,879 | 1. A method for producing a cobalt sulfate aqueous solution from an aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid containing cobalt, manganese, copper and calcium, the method comprising mixing the aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid with an acidic organic extractant to extract manganese and calcium by adjusting a pH of the aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid in a range between 2 and 3.5, wherein the aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid containing cobalt, manganese, copper and calcium is prepared by subjecting a discarded lithium ion secondary battery to leaching with sulfuric acid to obtain a leachate, sulfurizing the leachate to obtain a sulfide, subjecting the sulfide to leaching with sulfuric acid to acquire a solution, and separating nickel from the acquired solution by solvent extraction. | 9,936 |
8,916,159 | 1. A composition comprising (a) a hybrid molecule comprising a synthetic molecule and an antibody or antibody fragment selected from the group consisting of Fc, F(ab′)2, Fab, scFv, IgGΔCH2, scFv2CH3, scFv4, scFv3, scFv2, dsFv, and scFv-Fc, wherein the antibody or antibody fragment comprises at least one selenocysteine residue, wherein the at least one selenocysteine residue is located within 10 amino acids of a C-terminus of the antibody or antibody fragment, wherein the at least one selenocysteine residue is cotranslationally incorporated at a UGA stop codon of the antibody or antibody fragment that was recoded from termination to selenocysteine insertion, and wherein the synthetic molecule is covalently linked to the antibody or antibody fragment at the at least one selenocysteine residue, and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. | 23,738 |
8,568,965 | 1. A film comprising a naphthalocyanine compound represented by formula (1): wherein M represents Si, R R wherein at least one of R | 35,798 |
9,828,004 | 1. A ski pole holder for carrying at least a matched pair of ski poles having shafts and handles, in which the handle diameter is greater than the shaft diameter, comprising a shaft holding segment comprising a rectangular solid base having a shaft holding slot that is wider than the shaft diameter and narrower than the handle diameter and longer than twice the handle diameter; and a handle retaining segment attached above and abutting the shaft holding segment, comprising a flat, circular floor with a floor slot corresponding to the shaft holding slot, and an elevated peripheral wall around a portion of a periphery of the floor having a front opening in the wall aligned with and the same width as the shaft holding slot; wherein the floor is large enough to hold a pair of ski pole handles within the peripheral wall; and wherein the ski pole holder is attachable to a bar on a ski lift chair by a fastener on an external side opposite to the front opening. | 2,653 |
9,340,505 | 1. A method for inhibiting activity of a type III secretion system of a bacterium, comprising contacting a bacterium having a type III secretion system with an effective amount of at least one compound that inhibits a type III secretion system, wherein the at least one compound is a compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R9 is selected from the group consisting of: R10 is selected from the group consisting of: R11 is selected from the group consisting of: | 21,878 |
9,054,707 | 1. A bidirectional power switching apparatus, comprising: first and second first-conductivity-type emitter regions on opposing faces of a second-conductivity-type semiconductor mass, and first and second second-conductivity-type base contact regions, in proximity to said first and second emitter regions respectively; and a drive circuit which, when the control circuitry selects one of said bidirectional switches for turn-on, drives the first and second base contact regions of that switch differently, to forward bias the associated emitter-base junction and permit majority carriers to flow to the associated emitter regions from the emitter regions on the opposing surface; wherein the drive circuit applies sufficient current to the selected base contact region to generate a nonequilibrium carrier concentration, in the interior of said semiconductor mass, which is more than thirty times as great as the off-state equilibrium majority carrier concentration, to thereby lower the voltage drop across the second-conductivity-type semiconductor mass. | 14,087 |
9,576,272 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving an image of a document at a mobile device; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image of the document; extracting data of interest from the image based at least in part on the OCR; and validating the extracted data of interest against reference information stored on the mobile device; wherein the validation comprises device-based validation; wherein the device-based validation comprises normalizing the extracted data of interest to match a predetermined format; and wherein the reference information comprises an immutable or substantially immutable identifier of the mobile device. | 39,170 |
9,187,531 | 1. A method for reducing root-knot nematode infestation in a plant in need thereof comprising applying to the plant, one or more seeds of the plant, and/or a substrate in which the plant is grown, an amount of a whole cell broth of an isolated strain of a | 2,643 |
8,797,167 | 1. A system for monitoring medication events relating to an individual, comprising: circuitry for analyzing received data for an identifier of a first medication event for an individual; circuitry for analyzing the received data for at least one attribute of an individual; circuitry for analyzing the received data for at least one attribute relating to a medication during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for at least one feature of visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for at least one feature of non-visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for a time associated with the first medication event; circuitry for determining a compliance likelihood for the first medication event based on the analyses of the received data; and circuitry for indicating the determined compliance likelihood for the first medication event. | 8,437 |
8,703,831 | 1. An ion exchange membrane, comprising: a microporous membrane support having a porous first side and a porous second side and a continuous porous structure extending from said first side to said second side; and a crosslinked ion transferring polymer filling said continuous porous structure, said polymer formed in the continuous porous structure and comprising the polymerization product of one or more ionogenic monomers, a neutral monomer, and a multifunctional crosslinking monomer, wherein the continuous porous structure comprises pores having a size of about 0.05 microns to about 10 microns. | 28,194 |
8,814,256 | 1. A mounting structure for mounting a film-shaped electric device to a glass panel, comprising: a resin panel attached to a surface of the film-shaped electric device to form a panel-shaped electric device, jointly with the film-shaped electric device, the panel-shaped electric device having a first edge and a second edge; and first and second retaining members attached to one surface of the glass panel in correspondence with the first and second edges of the panel-shaped electric device, respectively, each of the first and second retaining members defining a groove such that the groove opens toward a region of the glass panel to be covered by the panel-shaped electric device, each groove extending between an open end and a closed bottom end, wherein the panel-shaped electric device is retained by the first and second retaining members with the first and second edges of the panel-shaped electric device being received in the grooves defined by the first and second retaining members, respectively, such that the surface of the film-shaped electric device having the resin panel attached thereto faces away from the glass panel, wherein: the glass panel is a sunroof glass panel that is supported by a frame-shaped glass panel holder extending along a periphery of the glass panel and is movable relative to a roof of a vehicle body; and an entirety of each of the first and second retaining members is positioned both outside an inner edge of the glass panel holder and within a containment space defined between the glass panel and the frame-shaped glass panel holder, wherein the first and second retaining members are arranged such that a groove space is formed between the closed bottom end of the groove defined by each of the first and second retaining members and the corresponding edge of the panel-shaped electric device when the panel-shaped electric device is retained by the first and second retaining member. | 32,215 |
8,576,760 | 1. A method for controlling an idle mode in a wireless device, the method comprising: determining neighborhood conditions of the wireless device, which includes determining presence and states of other wireless devices in the neighborhood of the wireless device, wherein determining neighborhood conditions of the wireless device includes determining at least another wireless device operating in an active mode or an idle mode in a vicinity of the wireless device; adaptively setting an idle mode duty cycle used for at least preamble transmission by the wireless device responsive to the determined neighborhood conditions; and transmitting the preamble transmission including a minimum distance value configured to communicate to at least one neighboring serving wireless device the presence of the at least another wireless device operating in the active mode or the idle mode in the vicinity of the wireless device. | 30,330 |
9,541,136 | 1. A rotative assembly comprising: a first element mounted of rotation to a second element around a rotation axis, the first element being spaced from the second element by a radial gap, and the first element including a peripheral groove in the radial gap in a surface of the first element; at least one bearing in the radial gap; and a sealing element in the peripheral groove and extending into the radial gap, the sealing element including at least one sealing lip contacting a surface of the second element, wherein the first element includes an extraction groove in the surface of the first element, the extraction groove extending from an axial end of the first element into the radial gap and into the peripheral groove, and an end of the extraction groove in the peripheral groove forming a space radial opposite the sealing element from the radial gap. | 35,017 |
9,013,065 | 1. A connecting device which can be arranged relative to a photovoltaic module for electrically connecting a plurality of photovoltaic modules to at least one of another photovoltaic module and an inverter device, the connecting device comprising: a housing having a first housing element configured to be disposed directly on the photovoltaic module and a second housing element having a cutout therein; first connection devices for electrical connection to at least one of the plurality of photovoltaic modules disposed within said first housing element; second connection devices for electrical connection to one of a further connecting device disposed within a further connection device and to an inverter device of a semiconductor circuit having at least one semiconductor component arranged in said second housing element; first contact devices, which are associated with said first housing element; second contact devices, which are associated with said second housing element, whereby the semiconductor circuit is configured to be electrically connected to said first connection devices; and a cooling device; whereby said semiconductor circuit is a functional unit including at least one electrically insulating substrate with interconnects arranged thereon and with said semiconductor components materially connected thereto; and whereby said cooling device is in thermal contact with at least one of said at least one electrically insulating substrate and is arranged in said cutout. | 40,312 |
8,626,940 | 1. An apparatus for facilitating content selection at an electronic device, said apparatus comprising: a content stream identifier configured to identify a set of content streams of a plurality of content streams having content available for play out at the electronic device; a display configured to display an indication of each content stream of the set of content streams identified by said content stream identifier; a monitor configured to detect selection of a displayed indication of a content stream displayed at said display; wherein the content stream identifier is further configured to identify an updated set of content streams from the plurality of content streams, the updated set of content including content related to content played out in response to the selection of the displayed indication; and wherein the display is further configured to display an indication of each content stream in the updated set of content streams. | 48,078 |
8,821,745 | 1. A method of synthesizing a graphene oxide membrane, comprising: exposing graphite to microwave radiation so as to exfoliate at least a portion of the graphite into a layered structure; and oxidizing the layered structure so as to give rise to a graphene oxide membrane having an upper surface and a lower surface; wherein the oxidizing is performed after exposure to microwave radiation. | 28,890 |
8,421,600 | 1. A method for utilizing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag in manufacturing comprising the steps of: a first vendor storing data for an initial manufacturing event in an as built history on the RFID tag associated with a manufactured assembly; a second vendor storing additional data for a second manufacturing event into the as built history on the RFID tag, wherein the data for the initial and second manufacturing events include a part number, a vendor identification and other data for a sub-assembly of the manufactured assembly; and wherein the step of storing the additional data for the second manufacturing event comprises a micro-controller on the RFID tag processing commands from an RFID reader to append the data of the second manufacturing event to the data for the initial manufacturing event in a dynamically linked list in the as built history that creates a hierarchical history of the manufactured assembly; wherein the dynamically linked list includes a previous link and a next link to point to a previous record and a next record, respectively; wherein the step of storing the data for the initial and second manufacturing events in the dynamically linked list comprises storing a different part number and serial number for each sub-assembly installed into the manufactured assembly, and the vendor of the sub-assembly to reflect a changing nature of the assembly as sub-assemblies are added to the assembly; and wherein the data for the second manufacturing event includes at least one quality status parameter. | 44,895 |
8,475,494 | 1. An oral stimulatory device comprising a single tubular body configured for being partially positioned within an oral cavity of a user and capable of being deformed, wherein said tubular body is fabricated from a material comprising silicone and a surface of said tubular body comprises a plurality of differently shaped stimulatory elements unevenly spaced along said tubular body and adapted for soothing gums when positioned within said oral cavity. | 28,379 |
9,553,317 | 1. A ceramic cathode material of a solid oxide fuel cell, wherein a chemical formula of the ceramic cathode material is LaCo 0.4 Ni 0.6−x Cu x O 3−δ ,x=0.01−0.3, and δ is an oxygen vacancy value. | 38,605 |
9,359,395 | 1. A compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein L is a C 1-12 alkyl group. | 21,909 |
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