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8,541,777 | 1. A color conversion film that absorbs light from an organic electroluminescent part emitting blue-green light and converts the light to visible light at a longer wavelength, the color conversion film, comprising: a first dye and a second dye that are different, wherein the first dye is a polymer dye having an average molecular weight of 1000 to 1,000,000 and having properties including absorbing light incident on the color conversion film and transferring the absorbed energy of the light to the second dye without emitting light, and wherein the second dye is a dye that receives the energy from the first dye and emits light. | 15,348 |
9,500,310 | 1. A non-rotating coupling system, comprising: (a) a male connector ( (b) a female connector ( (c) a sleeve ( (d) a spring ( (e) a plurality of balls ( wherein said at least one ridge ( | 17,328 |
9,205,114 | 1. A dosage form of a fermented cereal composition comprising (a) 1×10 (b) 18 to 90 grams, by dry weight, of said fermented cereal; and (c) an active agent in an amount suitable for the treatment of an inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder or inflammatory gastrointestinal disease, wherein the active agent is 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) or a corticosteroid, and wherein said fermented cereal is obtained by fermenting a cereal gruel with a culture of said | 26,661 |
8,878,759 | 1. A method of projecting a 2-D video image onto a screen, the projected 2-D video image being made up of sequential image frames at a video frame rate, the method comprising: receiving an input video image made up of video frames at a processor; in the processor, processing each input in real-time to obtain quantized data representative of one or more respective phase-only kinoforms; writing the quantized data representative of one or more respective phase-only kinoforms to a reflective phase-only spatial light modulator to sequentially represent each said kinoform; illuminating the reflective phase-only spatial light modulator with visible light from an illumination source to provide a phase modulated output beam; processing the phase modulated output beam from the reflective phase-only spatial light modulator by optics to reconstruct the sequential image frames across the screen at a replay field in real-time for viewing the 2-D video image; and controlling the intensity to achieve a desired image brightness from frame to frame. | 19,471 |
8,828,765 | 1. A method of processing a silicon surface to provide surface passivation for high-efficiency silicon-based devices, comprising: positioning a substrate with a silicon surface in a chamber, wherein the silicon surface comprises graded-density silicon to provide an anti-reflection surface; heating the chamber to a temperature within a high-temperature processing range; with a dopant-containing precursor that is in communication with the chamber or that was previously formed on the silicon surface, forming an emitter junction proximate the silicon surface by doping the substrate; and while the chamber is maintained at the temperature within the high-temperature processing range, forming a passivation layer on the graded-density silicon anti-reflection surface, wherein a dopant-containing layer is formed on the silicon surface during or prior to the emitter junction forming and wherein the passivation layer forming is performed with the dopant-containing layer in place on the substrate, whereby the passivation layer is sandwiched between the dopant-containing layer and the graded-density silicon anti-reflection surface. | 26,299 |
9,416,718 | 1. An engine equipped with a secondary air supply device where an exhaust port for discharging exhaust gas of the engine to outside is formed in a cylinder head, the engine comprising: a fuel tank disposed over the cylinder head for storing fuel of the engine; an exhaust muffler disposed beneath the fuel tank and below the exhaust port in a region lateral of the cylinder head; an exhaust pipe connecting the exhaust port to the exhaust muffler; a secondary air introduction pipe connected to the exhaust pipe for introducing air into the exhaust muffler; and a tailpipe for discharging exhaust gas of the exhaust muffler to the outside, the exhaust muffler having an upper surface portion, the fuel tank having a lower surface portion, the upper surface portion of the exhaust muffler and the lower surface portion of the fuel tank defining therebetween a space, and the tailpipe disposed to meander in the space in both horizontal and vertical directions, wherein the exhaust pipe is connected to the exhaust port by means of a fastener member, the fastener member disposed in the space defined between the upper surface portion of the exhaust muffler and the lower surface portion of the fuel tank, and the tailpipe meanders in the space in such a manner as to avoid an imaginary extension line of the fastener member. | 21,175 |
9,111,693 | 1. Method for manufacture of the electrochemical system of the super capacitor of high specific capacity and energy density, comprising manufacture of electrically connected in parallel of semi-wound packages of micro/mesoporous carbon composite electrode pairs separated by porous cage, including steps in which: a) pre-made carbon film is dried in vacuum at up to 150° C. and is cut to the electrode dimensions, b) an aluminium layer is deposited to the carbon film by vacuum deposition method, forming a current collector, whereas, carbon film temperature is maintained during covering approximately same as that of the covered metal, whereas c) controlling of the aluminium coating contact is performed by reference voltage within the range of 50V to 20V, whereas | 33,524 |
9,297,930 | 1. A low water content soft lens for eye, comprising a base material, a layer made of an acidic polymer and a basic polymer being formed on at least a part of a surface of the base material, wherein the water content of the lens is 1% or less; wherein the layer made of an acidic polymer and a basic polymer is composed of one layer made of an acidic polymer and one layer made of a basic polymer, so two layers in total; or the layer made of an acidic polymer and a basic polymer is composed of one or two layers made of an acidic polymer, and one or two layers made of a basic polymer, and three layers in total; wherein the base material contain, as a main component, a polymer of the following component A, or a copolymer of the following components A and B: the component A is a polysiloxane compound represented by the following formula (A1): wherein X the layer made of an acidic polymer and a basic polymer contains two or more kinds of acidic polymers and one or more kinds of basic polymers. | 40,834 |
8,663,342 | 1. A process for producing a nitrogen-containing composition from an aqueous solution which contains an ammonium salt of aliphatic carboxylic acid obtained from a biological starting material, while recovering at least one member selected from an aliphatic carboxylic acid, a salt of aliphatic carboxylic acid and an ammonium salt of sulfuric acid from the solution, wherein the process comprises the following steps (1) to (3): (1) a crystallization step of concentrating and crystallizing the ammonium salt of sulfuric acid from an aqueous solution that contains the ammonium salt of sulfuric acid, (2) a solid-liquid separation step of solid-liquid separating the ammonium salt of sulfuric acid obtained in the crystallization step, and (3) a crystallization mother liquid recycling step of recycling a crystallization mother liquid obtained in the solid-liquid separation step to at least one step selected from the crystallization step and one or more steps that precede the crystallization step, in which not all of the crystallization mother liquid is recycled. | 42,355 |
9,730,187 | 1. A method of performing distributed scheduling by a reception device configuring a target link corresponding to one of a plurality of links in a communication network, the method comprising: adding up resource allocation demand amounts included in resource information broadcasted by a counterpart transmission device configuring the target link and one or more adjacent transmission devices by a preset Resource Unit (RU); adjusting self-resource information in consideration of resource position information included in the broadcasted resource information and the added resource allocation demand amount and transmitting the adjusted self-resource information to the counterpart transmission device; measuring channel quality by a pilot signal received from the counterpart transmission device until data transmission using resources determined based on a predetermined distributed scheduling rule of the broadcasted resource information is performed; and feeding back channel quality information according to the measurement to the counterpart transmission device. | 21,798 |
9,240,926 | 1. A base station configured to map system information formed of a plurality of blocks to predetermined regions of a downlink shared channel and transmit the mapped system information to a mobile station, comprising: a system information transmission control unit configured to divide each of the predetermined regions into a first half and a second half in a time direction; and a transmission data generation unit configured to map the system information to at least one of the first half and the second half, wherein the system information transmission control unit switches positions of the first half and the second half in rotation every transmission timing of the predetermined regions on the shared channel, wherein when one of the predetermined regions overlaps a predetermined transmission prohibited subframe, the system information transmission control unit sequentially changes a position of the transmission subframe until the one predetermined region does not overlap the transmission prohibited subframe any more. | 4,011 |
9,521,624 | 1. A computer-implemented method on a wireless device for adjusting the wireless device's power configuration, the method comprising: selecting a profile, the profile comprising a first criterion; determining that a current power configuration of the wireless device fails to meet the first criterion based upon a plurality of stimuli; determining that applying a power configuration adjustment at a particular time is acceptable; determining an optimized power configuration for the wireless device, the optimized power configuration indicating a power level suitable for a plurality of stations in communication with the wireless device, the optimized power configuration determined based upon the selected profile; and adjusting the power configuration based upon the optimized power configuration at the particular time. | 3,902 |
9,806,615 | 1. A DC-DC power converter, comprising: a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer having a SOI layer separated from a substrate by a buried insulator, wherein the SOI layer and the buried insulator are selectively removed from at least one first portion of the SOI wafer, and wherein the SOI layer and the buried insulator remain present in at least one second portion of the SOI wafer; at least one gallium nitride (GaN) transistor formed on the substrate in the at least one first portion of the SOI wafer; at least one complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor formed on the SOI layer in the at least one second portion of the SOI wafer; a dielectric covering the GaN and CMOS transistors; interconnects in the dielectric connecting the GaN and CMOS transistors; and at least one magnetic inductor formed on the dielectric. | 11,467 |
8,612,481 | 1. A system configured to proxy a data access command from a first storage system to a second storage system via a cluster interconnect, comprising: a processor configured to execute a storage operating system of the first storage system, the storage operating system configured to receive a block-level protocol data access command associated with a data container stored on the second storage system, the block-level protocol data access command comprising a block-based identification of the data container, the storage operating system further configured to determine whether to service the block-level protocol data access command based on the block-based identification, the storage operating system further configured to map the block-based identification of the block-level protocol data access command to a file handle associated with the data container, the storage operating system further configured to generate a file-level protocol data access command comprising the file handle, and the storage operating system further configured to transmit the file-level protocol data access command over the cluster interconnect to the second storage system, the second storage system configured as a multi-protocol storage system for servicing, via a local port, both a file-level protocol and a block-level protocol for accessing the data container, and wherein the data container is accessed via the cluster interconnect in response to a failure of the local port. | 32,451 |
9,827,278 | 1. A method of killing a cancer cell in a human subject comprising administering intravascularly to the subject multiple doses of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a purified replicative vaccinia virus that: (i) lacks a functional thymidine kinase (TK) protein and (ii) expresses a nucleic acid encoding human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), wherein said dose comprises at least 1×10 9 plaque forming units (pfu) of the virus. | 22,019 |
8,472,279 | 1. A method for channel skewing, comprising: providing a number of groups of data signals to a memory component comprising a plurality of memory devices, each of the number of groups corresponding to a respective channel, and each of the number of groups of data signals having a different channel clock signal associated therewith; adjusting a phase of a group of data signals corresponding to at least one of the number of channels such that the group of data signals are skewed with respect to a group of data signals corresponding to at least one of the other respective channels; and providing the respective different channel clock signals to the plurality of memory devices along with the respective groups of data signals. | 40,266 |
8,546,683 | 1. An electrically conductive glass comprising, in this order: a glass surface; a transparent electrically conductive oxide film in contact with the glass surface; a grid comprising a passivated metal film in direct contact with the transparent electrically conductive oxide film; and an oxide semiconductor porous film directly physically contacting the transparent electrically conductive film, wherein: the passivated metal film comprises a grid metal selected from the group of metals consisting of Cr, Co, Ti, Mn, Mo, W, Zn, Sn, Ni—Cr alloy, Fe—Ni—Cr alloy Al—W alloy, Ni—Zn alloy, and Ag—Zn alloy; an outer layer of the grid comprises a passivated oxide film of the grid metal; the passivated oxide film has a thickness of about 10 to 500 nm and is provided only on the outer layer of the grid; and the oxide semiconductor porous film is in direct physical contact with the transparent electrically conductive oxide film at a portion of the transparent electrically conductive oxide film that is not in contact with the grid. | 29,196 |
9,587,759 | 1. Apparatus comprising: a spindle having extending spindle portions configured with spindle glands; a compressor having extending compressor portions configured with compressor glands, and a snap ring configured to engage the spindle glands and the compressor glands in order to attach the spindle and the compressor together, so that the compressor may be quickly released from the spindle by releasing an engagement between the snap ring, the spindle glands and/or the compressor glands; wherein the extending spindle portions comprise inwardly extending flanges configured to receive and engage outwardly extending flanges of a tube nut that forms part of a diaphragm attachment; and the snap ring is configured to engage the extending spindle portions in order to resist outward movement of the inwardly extending flanges and maintain a coupling with the tube nut. | 10,582 |
8,596,036 | 1. A hybrid propulsive engine, comprising: an at least one co-axial-flow jet engine including an at least one substantially co-axial-flow independently rotatable compressor rotor drivingly connected to a turbine via a shaft, wherein the at least one co-axial-flow jet engine is configured to provide an at least one thrust associated with a working fluid passing through at least a portion of the at least one axial-flow jet engine; an at least one mechanical energy extraction mechanism configured to extract energy from the working fluid by being directly mechanically driven by the movement of the working fluid and being mechanically coupled to the energy extraction mechanism, and at least partially convert that energy to electrical power; a control circuit to allow a user to control a suitable rotational velocity of the at least one substantially co-axial-flow independently rotatable compressor rotor based at least partially on a user input indicating a desired flight condition; an at least one torque conversion mechanism configured to convert at least a portion of the electrical power to torque; and the at least one substantially co-axial-flow independently rotatable compressor rotor mounted to rotates on bearing members that disposed radially outward from the axial-flow independently rotatable compressor rotor and configured to be rotatably driven at least partially responsively from the torque provided by the at least one torque conversion mechanism. | 11,487 |
8,532,833 | 1. An integration controller controlling a grid-connected power storage system, comprising: a controller configured to: a communication unit configured to change a communication path and a ground path of the serial bit streams according to the path control signal, and transmit and/or receive the serial bit streams through the changed communication path; and an isolator configured to electrically separate the controller from the communication unit, wherein the controller is connected to a first power source and a first ground connection and the communication unit is connected to a second power source and a second ground connection. | 28,523 |
8,912,332 | 1. A compound according to formula (I) wherein n is an integer between 0 and 10, Y is a bond, —CH R Z is selected from m is an integer between 0 and 10, R R A is a bond or —(C═O)—, R X is —(CH p is an integer between 0 and 10 R R wherein, if X is a branched alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group, a cyclic alkyl or alkenyl group, an aryl or heteroaryl group, then one C atom of this group X is optionally substituted with R 5 . | 29,150 |
8,500,828 | 1. A process for preparing a bio-diesel, comprising the steps of, in the presence of an additional free fatty acid source, reacting a raw oil-fat with C 1 -C 6 monohydric alcohol in a reactor, and separating fatty acid esters from the reacted materials, so as to produce the bio-diesel, wherein the amount of the free fatty acid in the free fatty acid source ranges from 2-100 wt % and is higher than the amount of the free fatty acid in the raw fat-oil. | 38,391 |
8,608,408 | 1. A tension leg platform for use in offshore hydrocarbon production and drilling operations, wherein the tension leg platform comprises: a. a plurality of column pairs, wherein each column pair comprises a primary column connected with a secondary column by a secondary pontoon, wherein the plurality of column pairs remain connected after installation of the tension leg platform, wherein the primary columns are configured to support a deck, and wherein the secondary columns are connected with the primary columns below a draft of the tension leg platform, and wherein the secondary columns do not extend past the draft; b. a plurality of primary pontoons for connecting the primary columns to one another; and c. wherein each secondary column of each column pair of the plurality of column pairs has a tendon connected therewith, wherein each tendon extends vertically from the secondary column associated therewith to an anchor on a sea floor. | 6,593 |
9,584,141 | 1. A circuit comprising: a digitally controlled oscillator configured to generate an oscillator signal according to an oscillator tuning word; and a detector configured to output one of a first control word and a second control word that is derived from the first control word, as the oscillator tuning word, wherein the detector is further configured to latch the first control word and to output the latched first control word as the second control word in response to a start signal, and the output of the latched first control word is provided to the digitally controlled oscillator. | 14,300 |
9,285,588 | 1. A see-through display device comprising: a light source configured to emit light; a projection optical system configured to project image light generated from the light; a transparent substrate including an inner surface which faces an observer observing an image represented by the image light, and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface; a transmissive hologram including a first surface, which the image light enters from the projection optical system, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first interference fringe which allows the image light to propagate from the first surface to the second surface; wherein the hologram is supported on the inner surface or between the inner and outer surfaces, wherein the outer surface causes Fresnel reflection of the image light deflected by the first interference fringe, wherein the image light is incident on the outer surface as S-polarized light, wherein an emission angle of the image light emitted from the outer surface is larger than an incidence angle of the image light incident on the inner surface, wherein the first interference fringe is recorded by two-light flux interference of object light and reference light, which are incident on the first surface, and wherein the projection optical system is absent from an optical path of a main beam of the reference light which is used for recording the first interference fringe. | 36,999 |
9,828,898 | 1. An optimized structure for an integrated catalytic muffler for purifying exhaust gas from an engine and reducing noise when the exhaust gas flows to a rear of a vehicle, the optimized structure comprising: a case having an inlet and an outlet; and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic unit mounted to the case, wherein a portion of the SCR catalytic unit is inserted into the case and a remaining portion is exposed out of the case, wherein the SCR catalytic unit is coupled to the case by bolting or clamping. | 39,864 |
8,604,908 | 1. An apparatus for storing articles of a collection, the apparatus comprising: a set of cubbies, each cubby in the set of cubbies configured to store an article of the collection; a set of sensors, each sensor in the set of sensors adjacent a particular cubby in the set of cubbies and configured to wirelessly receive data from an article arranged in the particular cubby; a collection database configured to store a characteristic of each of a set of characteristic types for each article in the collection; a set of display elements, each display element in the set of display elements coupled to a particular cubby in the set of cubbies and operable within a set of modes to illuminate the particular cubby, each mode in the set of modes defining a visual representation corresponding to a particular characteristic of a particular article arranged in the particular cubby; a user interface configured to receive queries from a user; a control logic configured to identify cubby locations corresponding to articles of the collection by polling sensors in the set of sensors, configured to set a first combination of modes of the set of display elements in response to a first query specifying a first characteristic type of articles of the collection, and configured to set a second combination of modes of the set of display elements different than the first combination of modes in response to a second query specifying a second characteristic type of articles of the collection, the first combination of modes intersecting the second combination of modes at a subset of the set of display elements. | 8,873 |
8,647,768 | 1. A positive active material composition for an electrochemical device, comprising: a carbon-based additive including a hydroxyl group (—OH) and an enol group (—C═C—OH) on the surface, having a peak area ratio (OH/C═COH) of a hydroxyl group peak area and an enol group peak area of an infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectrum ranging from about 0.5 to about 10, having a specific surface area of about 50 m a positive active material; a conductive material; and a binder; wherein the carbon-based additive includes the heterogeneous element in a content of about 1 wt % to about 13 wt % and carbon in a content of about 87 wt % to 99 wt %. | 3,707 |
9,538,323 | 1. A wearable apparatus, comprising: a positioning module, configured for selectively receiving first positioning information; a local wireless communication module, capable of communicatively connected with an external electronic apparatus; and a processor module, coupled to the positioning module and the local wireless communication module, the processor module being adapted to: | 24,836 |
8,571,717 | 1. A group management apparatus configured to manage a plurality of air conditioning facilities installed in a plurality of buildings as a plurality of groups, the group management apparatus comprising: an obtaining section configured to obtain operational data of the air conditioning facilities through a plurality of control units disposed in the buildings on a one-to-one basis, the control units being configured to control the air conditioning facilities within the buildings; an extracting section configured to extract one or more groups satisfying predetermined conditions from the groups based on a plurality of assessment perspectives, and a screen generating section configured to generate screens displaying a result extracted by the extracting section, the extracting section being further configured to extract said one or more groups satisfying the predetermined conditions from the groups based on at least one of the screen generating section being configured to generate the screens showing the result in an order of the magnitude of trouble with respect to the plurality of assessment perspectives. | 40,144 |
9,494,333 | 1. A driving control for a communicating motor, the driving control comprising: a controller; a transmit circuit coupled to the controller; a connector for coupling to a communicating motor, the transmit circuit coupled to the connector; a first node coupled between the transmit circuit and the connector; and a transmit sense circuit coupled between the first node and the controller; wherein, the controller is configured to control the transmit circuit to provide a test transmit signal to the connector for transmitting to the communicating motor, the transmit sense circuit is configured to detect the actual signal provided to the connector by the transmit circuit at the node coupled between the transmit circuit and the connector, and the controller is configured to compare the test transmit signal to the actual signal detected by the transmit sense circuit to determine whether the transmit circuit is operational. | 16,539 |
9,781,680 | 1. A communication method for managing positions of a plurality of terminal apparatuses, comprising: acquiring positional information; carrying out communication compatible with a first radio communication system, for the purpose of transmitting positional information on own terminal apparatus to a management apparatus; carrying out communication compatible with a second radio communication system having a shorter maximum transmission distance than that of the first radio communication system; collecting, by way of the second communication system, remaining amount information on remaining amounts of battery from the other terminal apparatuses and autonomously selecting, from among the other terminal apparatuses and the own terminal apparatus, a single terminal apparatus based on remaining amount information on a remaining amount of battery of the own terminal apparatus and the collected remaining amount information on the remaining amounts of battery; and acquiring, by the autonomously selected single terminal apparatus, the positional information and transmitting, by the selected single terminal, the acquired positional information and identification information on the terminal apparatuses, acquired when the remaining amount information of the remaining amounts of battery of the rest of terminal apparatuses is collected, to the base station apparatus by way of the first radio communication system, wherein, when another terminal apparatus that is not the own apparatus is selected autonomously, the positional information acquired by own apparatus is not transmitted to the base station apparatus and the identification information collected by own apparatus is not transmitted to the base station apparatus. | 23,385 |
8,917,712 | 1. A communication terminal that performs bidirectional communication using different frequencies for transmission and reception, comprising: a receiving unit receives a reception signal that is transmitted from a base station at a constant interval; a detecting unit detects a reception start time comprising an arrival time of a first wave of a pilot channel of a reception period during which the reception signal is received by the receiving unit, and also detects an assignment of a transmission opportunity and a reception opportunity; an adjusting unit adjusts, by offsetting the arrival time, a transmission start time of a transmission period during which a transmission signal is to be transmitted, so that the transmission start time coincides with the reception start time; and a transmitting unit starts a transmission of the transmission signal to the base station at the adjusted transmission start time, wherein according to the assignment of the transmission opportunity and the reception opportunity, the receiving unit receives the reception signal and the transmitting unit transmits the transmission signal at the same time based on the adjusted transmission start time. | 567 |
9,662,308 | 1. A compound of formula: wherein n is an integer selected from 1 to 10, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof. | 16,417 |
9,597,818 | 1. A geopolymer brick fabrication system comprising: a mixer ( a moulding section ( a curing section ( wherein the frame structure ( | 13,167 |
9,377,436 | 1. An electrophoresis gel cassette comprising a cassette housing defining a gel compartment for molding a gel member wherein the gel compartment comprises a fill port at an inlet end of the gel compartment and one or more overfill ports at a distal end of the gel compartment with respect to a filling direction, and wherein the one or more overfill ports are arranged in fluidic communication with an overfill chamber. | 11,272 |
9,535,875 | 1. A method for managing connections between a first processor and a second processor of an internal device interface, comprising: performing a handshake procedure; responsive to the handshake procedure, connecting the first processor to the second processor, the connecting comprising causing the first processor to assert a ready signal; transacting data via the connection; and responsive to a suspension condition, suspending the connection, the suspending the connection comprising causing the first processor to de-assert the ready signal. | 29,764 |
9,220,254 | 1. An upside down rectangular prism box shaped bed bug device which covers a bed including a mattress and box spring comprising: a horizontal rectangular top sheet for the bed; three vertical side sheets for the bed having lower free edges, two of the three vertical side sheets both having front edges which extend transversely with respect to the lower free edges and extending on opposing sides of the device from each other; a vertical shorted side sheet for the bed which extends between the front edges of the two of the three vertical side sheets, the vertical shorted side sheet having a lower free edge and a height less than a height of the three vertical side sheets; a slippery band and/or an adhesive band attached to and located at the lower edges of each of the three vertical side sheets and the vertical shorted side sheet for the bed, the slippery and/or adhesive band surrounding the bed and being formed on an outside of the vertical side sheets and the shorted side sheet for the bed, or an inside of the vertical side sheets and the shorted side sheet for the bed, or to both the inside and the outside of the vertical side sheet sheets and the shorted side sheet for the bed, wherein the slippery band and/or adhesive band extends continuously without interruption along an entire perimeter defined by the lower edges of the three vertical side sheets and the vertical shorted side sheet for the bed. | 39,132 |
9,319,759 | 1. A method, comprising: maintaining, by an Optical Line Terminal (OLT), a polling status list of Logical Link Identifiers (LLIDs) associated with a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONUs), the polling status list including a respective entry for each LLID of the LLIDs, wherein entries of LLIDs associated with a same ONU of the plurality of ONUs are linked together within the polling status list; processing the polling status list, wherein processing the polling status list comprises processing the entries of the LLIDs associated with the same ONU consecutively; and in response to said processing, sending, by the OLT, polling grants to an ONU of the plurality of ONUs, the polling grants corresponding to respective LLIDs associated with the ONU, the respective LLIDs being eligible for polling, and wherein sending the polling grants comprises sending the polling grants in first consecutive time slots to the ONU. | 11,675 |
8,691,038 | 1. A method of preparing a molded article comprising the steps of: a. providing a mold apparatus comprising: b. forming, from a first thermoplastic composition, a heated first thermoplastic sheet ( c. contacting a first portion of said second surface of said heated first thermoplastic sheet with said perimeter edge of said first mold portion, contacting a first portion of said second surface of said heated second thermoplastic sheet with said perimeter edge of said second mold portion; d. drawing reduced pressure through said plurality of perforations of said interior mold surface of said first mold portion, such that a second portion of said second surface of said first heated thermoplastic sheet substantially matches said contour of said interior mold surface of said first mold portion, thereby forming a first profiled thermoplastic sheet ( e. positioning said first mold portion and said second mold portion towards each other thereby: f. fusing together said contact portion of said first surface of said first profiled thermoplastic sheet and said contact portion of said first surface of said second profiled thermoplastic sheet, by means of residual heat of sheet formation residing in each of said first profiled thermoplastic sheet and said second profiled thermoplastic sheet, thereby forming a fused and profiled multisheet article; and g. cooling said fused and profiled multisheet article thereby forming said molded article; h. wherein said facing portion of said first surface of said first thermoplastic profiled sheet and said facing portion of said first surface of said second thermoplastic profiled sheet together define an interior space of said molded article. | 1,846 |
8,840,814 | 1. A process of preparing alkali metal titanate, comprising the steps of: i) mixing an aqueous, titanium-containing slurry with an alkali metal compound to form a mixture; ii) allowing the mixture to react at a temperature of 20-100° C. by agitating it at normal pressure for 20 hours maximum to form an alkali metal titanate solution; and iii) drying the alkali metal titanate solution of step ii) to form a dried crystalline alkali metal titanate product. | 35,083 |
9,323,547 | 1. A method in a computing device, the method comprising: receiving, from a physical processor core on which a thread is scheduled, an undefined opcode exception indicating that that physical processor core does not support an instruction that caused the undefined opcode exception; identifying the instruction that caused the undefined opcode exception; selecting a second physical processor core which supports the instruction; and scheduling the thread to run on the second physical processor core starting at the identified instruction that caused the undefined opcode exception, the second physical processor core supporting functionality which supports the identified instruction. | 35,668 |
9,210,590 | 1. A method for activating at least one inactive cell in a wireless access telecommunications infrastructure, the wireless access telecommunications infrastructure comprising an active cell containing a plurality of terminals, the method comprising: transmitting a presence signal by the at least one inactive cell; receiving measurement reports from the plurality of terminals detecting the presence signal, the measurement reports indicating measurements of the presence signal by the plurality of terminals; processing information contained in the received measurement reports in a processing system of the wireless access telecommunications infrastructure to provide a processing result; and activating the at least one inactive cell when the processing result fulfills at least one activation condition such that at least one of the plurality of terminals is within a coverage area of the at least one activated cell. | 18,023 |
9,061,756 | 1. A method for determining an ability of an aircraft to reach a performance goal during a flight, the method comprising: identifying, using a model of the aircraft and flight state data, a current performance of the aircraft during operation of the aircraft, such that the current performance comprises a current: lift, thrust, and drag, of the aircraft in flight; identifying a current flight envelope of the aircraft based upon a performance monitor comparing the current performance of the aircraft to a predicted performance for the aircraft based upon a baseline design for the aircraft, thus deriving delta performance factors and correcting an aerodynamic and engine database generating a next predicted aircraft performance input to the model; the performance monitor applying limits, based upon a desired state, onto the current flight envelope; and the aircraft performing an operation based on the current flight envelope of the aircraft. | 17,208 |
9,365,679 | 1. A benzodithiophene based copolymer containing thieno[3,4-b] thiophene units, having a structural formula: wherein R R R n is a natural number from 7 to 80. | 24,968 |
9,523,692 | 1. A composition comprising a molecular weight protein ladder comprising five or more purified proteins, each having a different apparent molecular weight by electrophoresis, wherein at least one of the purified proteins is a first deglycosylated laminin polypeptide having an apparent molecular weight greater than 200 kDa by SDS PAGE, wherein said first laminin polypeptide is optionally either reduced and alkylated, dephosphorylated, or dephosphorylated and reduced and alkylated; wherein said five or more purified proteins of the molecular weight protein ladder, when resolved and visualized on an electrophoretic gel, display a pattern wherein the bands of the ladder are approximately equidistantly spaced from one another. | 3,550 |
9,224,217 | 1. A method for generating a chart, the method comprising: providing for display a data view of data, the data view comprising a plurality of data cells each displaying a data item, the plurality of data cells being organized into columns; receiving, by one or more processors, an input selecting a first data cell of the plurality of data cells, the first data cell being located in a first column, the first column being any column in the data view, the first data cell being any data cell in the first column; in response to the input, comparing the input with one or more specified criteria for determining whether the input is for generating the chart; based on determining that the input is for generating the chart, determining, by the one or more processors, a data type of the first data cell; upon determining that the data type is a non-numerical data type, determining, by the one or more processors, that a most likely chart type of the chart is a count of data items in the first column grouped by distinct data items in the first column; designating, by the one or more processors, the most likely chart type as one or more chart parameters for the chart, including designating a first axis of the chart for the distinct data items and designating a second axis of the chart for respective counts of data items grouped by the distinct data items; and generating the chart representing the respective counts. | 5,709 |
9,825,190 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter region of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type positioned on a front surface of the substrate, the emitter region forming a p-n junction along with the substrate; an anti-reflection layer positioned on the emitter region; a first electrode connected to the emitter region through the anti-reflection layer, the first electrode including a plurality of front electrodes positioned directly on the emitter region on the front surface of the substrate and at least one front electrode current collector positioned directly on the emitter region on the front surface of the substrate and extending in a direction crossing the plurality of front electrodes configured to connect the plurality of front electrodes; a back passivation layer positioned on a back surface of the substrate, the back passivation layer having a plurality of via holes exposing a portion of the back surface of the substrate; and a second electrode which is positioned on a back surface of the back passivation layer and is connected to the substrate through the plurality of via holes, wherein the back passivation layer includes a silicon oxide layer positioned on the back surface of the substrate, the silicon oxide layer having a thickness of 50 nm to 200 nm and a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.7, an amorphous silicon layer positioned on the silicon oxide layer, the amorphous silicon layer having a thickness of 50 nm to 100 nm and a refractive index of 3.0 to 3.8, and an amorphous silicon nitride layer positioned directly on the amorphous silicon layer, the amorphous silicon nitride layer having a thickness of 10 nm to 50 nm and a refractive index of 1.8 to 1.9 configured to enhance an absorptance of the substrate with respect to light of a long wavelength equal to or greater than 1,000 nm. | 3,493 |
9,414,311 | 1. A device for wireless communication comprising: a wireless local area network (WLAN) module to implement a WLAN communications link, wherein the WLAN module is configured to maintain the communications link by transmitting a beacon frame containing a power save information element; and a peer power save module configured to include, in the power save information element of the beacon frame, information that the WLAN module will enter a power save mode; wherein the power save information element further comprises a count value, and wherein the peer power save module is further configured to decrement the count value from an initial value with each beacon transmission after the communications link has been inactive for a predefined period of time. | 46,458 |
9,163,299 | 1. An apparatus for producing titanium metal comprising: (a) a first heating unit for heating and gasifying a first material selected from magnesium and titanium tetrachloride, and a first channel for supplying the gaseous first material from the first heating unit; (b) a second heating unit for heating and gasifying a second material selected from magnesium and titanium tetrachloride at a temperature of not lower than 1600° C., and a second channel for supplying the gaseous second material from the second heating unit; (c) a venturi section including an entrance channel, an exit channel, and a throat having a smaller cross-sectional area between the entrance channel and the exit channel, wherein the second channel is connected to the entrance channel and the first channel merges with the throat so that magnesium and titanium tetrachloride flowing through the first channel and the second channel merge in the throat and the merged gaseous magnesium and titanium tetrachloride are mixed in the exit channel, and wherein a temperature of the throat and the exit channel is controlled at not lower than 1600° C.; (d) a titanium metal deposition unit in communication with the exit channel, the titanium metal deposition unit having a deposition substrate for depositing the titanium metal at a temperature from 715 to 1500° C.; and (e) a discharge unit for discharging the mixed gas in communication with the titanium metal deposition unit; wherein the second material is different from the first material. | 40,852 |
8,790,442 | 1. A method for producing metallic iron nodules comprising the steps of: assembling a hearth furnace having a moveable hearth comprising refractory material and having at least a conversion zone and a fusion zone, providing a hearth material layer comprising carbonaceous material on the refractory material, providing a layer of reducible material comprising reducing material and iron bearing material arranged in a plurality of discrete portions over at least a portion of the hearth material layer, delivering oxygen gas into the hearth furnace in the conversion and fusion zones at a ratio of at least 0.7:1 pounds of oxygen to pounds of iron in the reducible material to heat the conversion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material and to heat the fusion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material, and heating the layer of reducible material to form from the discrete portions one or more metallic iron nodules and slag. | 19,774 |
9,091,809 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a substrate; a first layer formed adjacent to the substrate, the first layer being formed of a first material having a first index of refraction; at least one second layer formed adjacent to the first layer, the second layer being formed of a second material having a second index of refraction, the second index of refraction being larger than the first index of refraction; a third layer formed adjacent to the second layer, the third layer being formed of a third material having a third index of refraction, the third index of refraction being smaller than the second index of refraction; and a plurality of planar waveguides formed in the second layer, each planar waveguide having an input on one edge of the second layer and an output on one edge of the second layer with the input and output being on different line-of-sight paths, the plurality of planar waveguides being formed such that intersections of the plurality of planar waveguides occur at approximately right angles and each of the plurality of planar waveguides includes a substantially 90° turn between the input and the output signals; wherein the inputs located on edges of the second layer that are opposite one another are offset from each other in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of the input signal; wherein the outputs located on edges of the second layer that are opposite one another are offset from each other in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the output signal. | 25,297 |
9,587,572 | 1. A system, comprising: an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders that receive a charge flow from an intake manifold, at least one of the plurality of cylinders comprising a primary exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cylinder connected to an EGR manifold that is flow connected to the intake manifold and remaining ones of the plurality of cylinders being in flow communication with an exhaust manifold that is flow connected to an exhaust passage that emits exhaust gas from the remaining ones of the plurality of cylinders; and a controller operably connected to the internal combustion to receive a plurality of operating parameters associated with operation of the plurality of cylinders, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a net torque output of each of the plurality of cylinders; determine a base net torque output from the net torque outputs of the plurality of cylinders; determine a torque adjustment for each of the plurality cylinders as a function of the base net torque output and the net torque output of the respective cylinder; and reduce a torque imbalance of the internal combustion engine by adjusting a load on the engine in response to the torque adjustments for the plurality of cylinders so the net torque output of each of the plurality of cylinders corresponds to the base net torque output. | 39,555 |
9,527,368 | 1. A twist beam axle assembly suited for use as a drop beam axle, comprising a straight cross-beam, right and left rigid longitudinal arms mounted at opposed ends of the cross-beam, and right and left wheel mounting members also mounted at said opposed ends of the cross-beam, each of said right and left wheel mounting members having a vertical member extending upwardly relative to the cross-beam, said wheel mounting members being shaped on upper portions thereof to be mounted to a wheel support assembly and having on lower portions thereof an axle locating portion, said axle locating portion matingly receiving a corresponding end portion of said cross-beam, said right and left arms having at one end an axle locating portion matingly receiving the corresponding end portion of said cross-beam, said cross-beam having an open cross-section and being rigid in bending but flexible in torsion, the open cross-section of said cross-beam having horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry, but asymmetric horizontal and vertical geometries, wherein said cross-beam is set in the axle locating portions of said right and left arms and said wheel mounting members with an interference fit, wherein said right and left arms are adapted to be joined to the chassis frame of the vehicle, wherein said cross-beam has a section in a shape of an asymmetric cross potent. | 49,828 |
9,428,609 | 1. A multi-arm polyethylene glycol derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein L represents a group selected from a linear or branched alkylene, arylene, or cycloalkylene group having two or more carbon atoms and combinations thereof, which may have an ether bond in a chain; X represents a dehydroxylation residue of a linear sugar alcohol having 5 or 7 carbon atoms; m is the number of polyethylene glycol chains bonded to X and represents 4 or 6; n is the average addition molar number of oxyethylene groups and n represents an integer of 3 to 600; Y represents a single bond or an alkylene group which may have an ester bond, a urethane bond, an amide bond, an ether bond, a carbonate bond, a secondary amino group, a urea bond, a thioether bond or a thioester bond in a chain or at an end; and Z is independently selected from the group consisting of the following formula (a), formula (b), formula (c), formula (d), formula (e), formula (f), formula (g), formula (h), formula (i), formula (j), formula (k), formula (l), formula (m), formula (n), formula (o), and formula (p): wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, which may contain a fluorine atom. | 1,101 |
8,531,141 | 1. A method of calibrating a current sensing instant to latch a current value from a set of current signals comprising: providing a current command including a magnitude at a Gamma angle to control a motor when the motor is operating in a motoring mode at a shaft speed; providing a matching current command including a same magnitude at a same Gamma angle to control the motor when the motor is operating in a braking mode at a same shaft speed; monitoring, when the motor is controlled by the current command and operating in the motoring mode, a first actual averaging rms current magnitude of three phase currents of the motor; monitoring, when the motor is controlled by the matching current command and operating in the braking mode, a second actual averaging rms current magnitude of the three phase currents of the motor; adjusting a current sensing instant until an observed first actual averaging rms current magnitude in the motoring mode equals an observed second actual averaging rms current magnitude in the braking mode. | 33,255 |
9,470,421 | 1. A combustor cap assembly, comprising: an annular shroud having a first end portion and a second end portion; an impingement plate coupled to the annular shroud proximate to the second end portion, the impingement plate including a first side portion, a second side portion and an outer band portion, the impingement plate at least partially defining a plurality of impingement cooling holes and a cooling flow return passage; a cap plate coupled to the impingement plate, the cap plate having an impingement side which faces the second side portion of the impingement plate, the impingement side being axially spaced from the second side portion to define an impingement air plenum therebetween, wherein the cooling flow return passage is in fluid communication with the impingement air plenum; and a fluid conduit in fluid communication with and coupled to the cooling flow return passage, wherein the fluid conduit extends from the first side portion of the impingement plate towards the first end portion of the annular shroud; wherein the combustor cap assembly is mounted in a head end of a combustor and configured to receive a flow of air supplied to the head end of the combustor, direct a first portion of the received flow of air through the plurality of impingement cooling holes into the impingement air plenum in a first direction, and direct at least some of the first portion of the received flow of air from the impingement air plenum into the fluid conduit in a second direction substantially opposite the first direction. | 44,235 |
8,374,744 | 1. A tire pressure monitoring system having capabilities for processing amplitude shift key (ASK) tire pressure monitor (TPM) data signals, the system comprising: a receiver configured to receive the ASK TPM data signals from one or more TPMs configured to monitor operating conditions of a tire; and a controller in communication with the receiver and configured to process partial TPM data packets according to a gap processing methodology, the partial TPM data packets each having at least one gap of unusable information due to an inability of the receiver to compensate for residual amplitude modulation (AM) in the TPM data signal resulting from rotation of the tire, the controller replacing the unusable information with usable information. | 48,200 |
8,713,784 | 1. An apparatus adapted to hold a series of open locking clips and to deliver and apply the leading open locking clip of the series to an article resting on a surface comprising: a housing having a clip cavity for receiving the leading open locking clip and a pivotable feed detent lever for barring the entry of succeeding open locking clips of the series to the cavity until the leading clip is delivered, applied and removed from the apparatus; and a control arm linked to first and second apparatus members, the control arm being movable between a start position and an end position to successively actuate the first and second apparatus members, the first apparatus member adapted to contain and lift the article into position before delivery of the leading open locking clip, the first apparatus member including grabber arms with inwardly directed distal ends to engage the article and hold it in a capture area between the grabber arms above the inwardly directed distal ends of the grabber arms, where the grabber arms are pivotally attached to the housing and include V-shaped slots with first and second legs and link pins adapted to move downwardly in response to operation of the control rod, the link pins first engaging the first leg of the slot to pivot the grabber arm inwardly to a closed position and then engaging the second leg of the slot to maintain the grabber arms in the closed position, and the second apparatus member adapted to deliver the open locking clip to the article and to apply the locking clip to the article before removal of the clip from the apparatus. | 33,683 |
9,224,972 | 1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising: a substrate; a scan line formed on the substrate and configured to transmit a scan signal; a data line and a driving voltage line crossing the scan line and respectively configured to transmit a data signal and a driving voltage; a switching thin film transistor operatively connected to the scan line and the data line; a driving thin film transistor operatively connected to the switching thin film transistor and the driving voltage line; a compensation thin film transistor configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving thin film transistor and operatively connected to the driving thin film transistor; and an OLED operatively connected to the driving thin film transistor, wherein the compensation thin film transistor comprises a first compensation gate electrode and a second compensation gate electrode separated from each other and formed over different layers, and wherein the first and second compensation gate electrodes do not overlap each other in the depth dimension of the OLED display, wherein the compensation thin film transistor further comprises: a compensation semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a first gate insulating layer covering the compensation semiconductor layer, wherein the first compensation gate electrode is formed over the first gate insulating layer; and a second gate insulating layer covering the first gate insulating layer and the first compensation gate electrode, wherein the second compensation gate electrode is formed over the second gate insulating layer, and wherein the compensation semiconductor layer, the first gate insulating layer, the first compensation gate electrode, the second gate insulating layer, and the second compensation gate electrode are sequentially disposed on the substrate in perpendicular direction to the substrate. | 6,339 |
9,526,497 | 1. A surgical instrument for surgically joining tissue, the surgical instrument comprising: a handle assembly; an elongated portion extending distally from the handle assembly and defining a first longitudinal axis; an end effector disposed adjacent a distal portion of the elongated portion, the end effector defining a second longitudinal axis; and an articulation mechanism disposed in mechanical cooperation with the end effector for moving the end effector between a first position where the first longitudinal axis is aligned with the second longitudinal axis and a second position where the first longitudinal axis is disposed at an angle with respect to the second longitudinal axis, the articulation mechanism comprising: | 14,944 |
9,840,740 | 1. A method of detecting a mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane (CFTR) nucleic acid in an individual, comprising: (a) contacting a biological sample comprising a CFTR nucleic acid from an individual with a detectably labeled nucleic acid probe that specifically hybridizes to a mutant CFTR nucleic acid comprising the mutation but not to a wildtype CFTR nucleic acid; and the probe comprises the substitution mutation; and (b) detecting the CFTR substitution mutation in the individual when a hybrid is formed between the detectably labeled nucleic acid probe and the mutant CFTR nucleic acid, wherein the mutation is c.3017C>A. | 47,182 |
9,169,155 | 1. A method of making a vacuum insulated glass window unit, the method comprising: providing first and second glass substrates for the vacuum insulated window unit, with a seal and a cavity located between the glass substrates; pumping a cleaning gas mixture comprising ozone into the cavity; and removing compounds created by reaction with the cleaning gas mixture, and residual cleaning gas, from the cavity. | 2,657 |
8,460,495 | 1. A method of forming a disposable product comprising: forming an absorbent core; capturing the absorbent core between a topsheet and a backsheet to form a core insert; supplying a chassis web; coupling a character strip to said chassis web; coupling a stretch material to said chassis web over said character strip; coupling an intermittent side panel material to said chassis web over said stretch material; bonding said side panel to said chassis web; removing a portion of said stretch film from said chassis web; coupling said core insert with said chassis web. | 4,474 |
9,598,815 | 1. A reducing agent comprising: thiourea dioxide; and carboxylate, wherein the carboxylate comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monocarboxylate, an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid derivative salt, and malonate; and wherein a pH of the reducing agent is in a range from pH8 to pH10. | 25,031 |
9,708,727 | 1. A stirring apparatus of an ingot casting furnace, wherein the ingot casting furnace includes a crucible, a dome, and a transmission rod; the crucible is provided for housing liquid materials for casting the ingot; the dome is provided for housing dopants which can be vaporized; the transmission rod is connected to the dome with an end thereof for moving the dome; the stirring apparatus comprising: a support connected to an inner wall of the dome with two ends thereof; a rotating shaft having two ends, wherein one of the two ends is fixed to the support, the other one of the two ends is provided outside the dome and extends into the crucible; at least one fin provided on the other one of the two ends of the rotating shaft, wherein the at least one fin has a first edge and a second edge which correspond to each other, and have unequal lengths. | 41,289 |
9,710,218 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, weather information; determining, by the processor, a first altitude above which there is no hazardous weather detected based on the weather information; and generating, by the processor, a vertical profile display based on the weather information, wherein the vertical profile display comprises: | 30,938 |
9,230,927 | 1. A method of fabricating a wafer-level chip package, comprising: providing a wafer with at least two adjacent chips, the wafer having an upper surface and a lower surface, and at least one side of each chip includes a conducting pad on the lower surface; forming a recess extending from the upper surface to the lower surface to expose the conducting pad; forming an isolation layer extending from the upper surface to the lower surface, a part of the isolation layer disposed in the recess, wherein the isolation layer has an opening to expose the conducting pad; forming a conductive layer on the isolation layer and the conductive pad; spray coating a photo-resist layer on the conductive layer; exposing and developing the photo-resist layer to expose a part of the conductive layer; etching the part of the conductive layer to form a redistribution layer; stripping the photo-resist layer; and forming a solder layer on the isolation layer and the redistribution layer. | 35,473 |
8,571,235 | 1. A method for processing an audio file to produce a plurality of modified equalized audio files with different audio characteristics but a consistent level of loudness comprising the steps of: receiving an audio file; generating a plurality of equalized audio files from said audio file; modifying each equalized audio file to produce the plurality of modified equalized audio files by: synchronizing the plurality of modified equalized audio files for playback permitting a user to switch between the plurality of modified equalized audio files during playback. | 1,392 |
9,272,817 | 1. A liquid-conditioning dispenser comprising: a tap including a tap connector, a body with a cavity and a spout, the cavity to direct a liquid input to the tap connector to flow out through the spout; and an aeration system integrated with the body, the aeration system includes: | 10,689 |
8,741,856 | 1. A method for treating a Flavovirus infection in a patient, comprising: administering to said patient a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an avermectin or milbemycin compound selected from the group consisting of: ivermectin, doramectin, selamectin, moxidectin, emamectin, eprinomectin, milbemectin, abamectin, milbemycin oxime, nemadectin and macrolide derivatives thereof lacking a sugar residue at the C-13 position, alone or in combination, wherein the foregoing are in a free form or in the form of a physiologically acceptable salt. | 16,111 |
8,729,089 | 1. A pyrido(3,2-d)pyrimidine derivative represented by the structural formula (I): wherein: R R R R X is selected from the group consisting of O, S, NR R R R R wherein said phenyl is optionally and independently substituted with one or more halogens; R R each R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable addition salt or a stereochemical isomeric form thereof or a N-oxide thereof. | 15,916 |
8,968,894 | 1. A power supply device comprising: a power storage element having a hexahedral outer shape, and including a first surface and positive and negative electrode terminals formed on the first surface; a fixing portion fixed to the power storage element on a second surface of the power storage element which is different from the first surface; and a container having an opening corresponding to a shape of the fixing portion, the fixing portion closing the opening in a state that the power storage element is accommodated in the container, wherein the fixing portion includes positive and negative connection terminals protruding from an outer surface of the fixing portion for electrically connecting the positive and negative electrode terminals to an external load. | 40,892 |
9,445,549 | 1. A method of cultivating a plant comprising a step (A) of irradiating a plant with a red light and a step (B) of irradiating a plant with a blue light, wherein the red light irradiation step (A) and the blue light irradiation step (B) are independently, alternately and repeatedly carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that a nutritious liquid containing fertilizer ingredients is applied at each of the red light irradiation step (A) and the blue light irradiation step (B), and the nutritious liquid applied at the red light irradiation step (A) contains carbon dioxide at a concentration higher than the concentration of carbon dioxide in the nutritious liquid applied at the blue light irradiation step (B). | 34,515 |
8,657,741 | 1. A surgical wound retracting device, comprising: a resilient distal ring; a proximal ring; a wound retracting sleeve configured to contact and retract the wound when the device is in use, the wound retracting sleeve extending at least between the proximal ring and the distal ring; an outer radial member; and a release member located radially within a portion of the wound retracting sleeve, and extending between the proximal ring and the outer radial member, wherein when the release member is in use, a pulling force on the release member applies a pulling force on the distal ring to assist in removing the device from a patient. | 21,862 |
9,062,407 | 1. A washing machine comprising: a tub containing water; a heater installed in the tub to heat the water; a drum installed in the tub to receive laundry; a motor to rotate the drum; a vibration sensor to measure displacement data according to vibration of the tub; and a control unit to perform a tub washing course by operating the heater and the motor at set RPM and water temperature, when the tub washing course is selected, to determine whether or not laundry is present in the drum while performing the tub washing course according to the measured displacement data from the vibration sensor, and to change the set RPM and water temperature according to a result of the sensing, wherein the control unit compares the measured vibration displacement data with a set limit value, and lowers the set RPM and water temperature and performs the remaining tub washing course at the lowered RPM and water temperature, when the vibration displacement data exceeds the limit value. | 11,695 |
8,886,423 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; an engine control module (ECM) operable to generate engine control signals and control a speed of the engine via the engine control signals; and a transmission assembly having: | 18,830 |
9,817,457 | 1. A power strip apparatus for powering a plurality of electric devices, the apparatus comprising: a main body having a plurality of outlets for receiving electric plugs, each outlet providing power to an electric device attached by an electric plug of the electric device to the outlet; a power cable for powering the power strip apparatus from an electric supply; and a control board having programming means for independently controlling power to each outlet, the control board using a plurality of relays with each relay being associated with a specific outlet to control power to the outlet and attached electric device; wherein the power strip apparatus is connected to a computer providing programming commands to the control board; wherein the computer commands are based on user provided parameters through a computer program; wherein each relay includes a default on/off state stored in the control board; wherein the computer searches the control board for default states of relays and commands the relays to the default on/off state. | 5,093 |
9,572,111 | 1. A user equipment (UE) comprising: a receiver configured to receive control information on a downlink channel from a base station, wherein the control information includes configuration information for an uplink control channel and at least one margin associated with the uplink control channel; a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including an adaptive modulation and coding report over the uplink control channel in a time interval including at least one time slot; and wherein a transmission power level of the signal is derived by the UE from the at least one margin and a measured pathloss. | 39,268 |
9,031,774 | 1. An apparatus for preventing collision of a vehicle, comprising: an image data acquisition part including at least one external camera installed outside a user's vehicle and configured to photograph surroundings of the user's vehicle to acquire external image data including images for portions of (i) the user's vehicle, (ii) a painted lane at one or more sides of the user's vehicle, and (iii) another vehicle running in an adjacent carriageway, at predetermined time intervals, and including an internal camera installed inside the user's vehicle and configured to photograph a driver of the user's vehicle to acquire driver state image data; an image recognition part configured to analyze the external image data and recognize (i) the user's vehicle, (ii) the painted lane, and (iii) the other vehicle; a running information determination part configured to calculate (i) a first distance between the user's vehicle and the painted lane and (ii) a second distance between the other vehicle and the painted lane on the basis of the recognized external image data, predict a running direction of the user's vehicle and a running direction of the other vehicle, and determine whether a collision point is expected based on the predicted running direction of the user's vehicle and the predicted running direction of the other vehicle, the controller configured to initiate a cruise driving mode on the user's vehicle when the running information determination part determines that the user's vehicle leaves the carriageway and when it is determined that the driver of the user's vehicle is drowsy. | 27,980 |
8,688,028 | 1. A method for configuring a communications device to receive a media broadcast comprising at least one identifiable broadcast segment as part of a broadcast stream, the method comprising: configuring the communications device to receive the broadcast stream comprising a plurality of broadcast segments, wherein the plurality of broadcast segments comprises the at least one identifiable broadcast segment; configuring the communications device to receive a data stream associated with the broadcast stream; configuring at least one computer processor of the communications device to extract from the data stream data that enables a unique identification of the at least one identifiable broadcast segment from the plurality of broadcast segments; configuring the at least one computer processor of the communications device to determine an identification of the broadcast stream; configuring an electronic memory of the communications device to store the identification of the broadcast stream and the data that enables the unique identification of the at least one identifiable broadcast segment; configuring the communications device to present the at least one identifiable broadcast segment; configuring the communications device to detect an input selection corresponding to the at least one identifiable broadcast segment; configuring the communications device to obtain an identity of a responder associated with the input selection; configuring the communications device to create a data packet enabling the unique identification of the at least one identifiable broadcast segment, the data packet comprising at least one of the following: an identification of the identity of the responder, the identification of the broadcast stream, the data that enables the unique identification of the at least one identifiable broadcast segment; and configuring the communications device to communicate the data packet to a server in response to the detection of the input selection. | 23,196 |
9,166,399 | 1. A lithium battery protection circuit coupled to a lithium battery, comprising: an over-charge protection circuit; a logic circuit coupled to over-charge protection circuit and having a first logic output and a second logic output; a level shift circuit coupled to the logic circuit through the first logic output and the second logic output and configured to convert the first logic output and the second logic output to high voltage levels in an over-charge protection state; a substrate switching circuit coupled to the level shift circuit; and a power transistor coupled between a negative end of the lithium battery and an external circuit negative electrode, wherein the level shift circuit includes: | 47,817 |
9,844,592 | 1. A vaccine composition comprising a nonviable immunogen and an adjuvant, wherein said adjuvant comprises at least one of an mRNA of prokaryotic origin and an RNA of prokaryotic origin, wherein the RNA has structural features comprising a 3′ stem-loop structure, at least one of intramolecular base-pairing and nucleotide modifications, no 5′ cap, no 5′ tri-phosphate group and no 3′ poly(A) tail, and wherein the immunogen is an extracellular pathogen. | 4,859 |
9,337,765 | 1. A method for operating an electrical machine which comprises a stator having a coil of electrical conductors, the coil comprising two coil ends that lie opposite one another on the coil; the method comprising the steps: simultaneously determining vibration measurement values with which it is possible to determine elliptic vibration modes of the two coil ends in dependence upon time; also determining ellipse inclinations and phase positions of the elliptic vibration modes of the two coil ends; also determining critical operating states of the electrical machine at which the elliptic inclinations and the phase positions of the elliptic vibration modes of the two coil ends are essentially identical; and then operating the electrical machine in such that the critical operating states are avoided by varying idle power of the electrical machine so that the ellipse inclinations and the phase positions of the elliptic vibration modes of the two coil ends are not essentially identical. | 17,145 |
9,453,805 | 1. A X-ray sensitive battery separator for a secondary lithium battery comprising: a microporous polymer membrane having a X-ray detectable element at least one of dispersed therein, coated thereon, or added thereto, and said X-ray detectable element comprising at least 2 and no more than 20 weight % of the membrane or separator. | 37,775 |
9,150,876 | 1. A recombinant DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to a heterologous promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein the polynucleotide comprises: (a) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase activity, wherein the polypeptide has an amino acid sequence of at least 90% sequence identity, based on the Clustal V method of alignment, when compared to SEQ ID NO:19, 49, 68 or 69; or (b) a complement of the nucleotide sequence, wherein the complement and the nucleotide sequence consist of the same number of nucleotides and are 100% complementary. | 25,083 |
8,665,133 | 1. A method performed on an aircraft, the method comprising: automatically transmitting a radar signal and receiving weather radar reflectivity values; automatically storing the received weather reflectivity values in a three-dimensional buffer; determining whether any of the stored weather reflectivity values indicate the presence of a weather hazard; automatically generating one or more weather hazard icons based on the stored weather reflectivity values; and automatically displaying the generated weather hazard icons on an in-trail procedures (ITP) display. | 4,205 |
8,478,401 | 1. A resuscitation system for use by a rescuer for resuscitating a patient having a ventricular arrhythmia, comprising: circuitry and processing configured for detection of chest compression/phase timing information indicative of the start of a decompression phase; circuitry and processing configured for delivery of electromagnetic therapy for the termination of ventricular arrhythmias; wherein the circuitry and processing for the delivery of electromagnetic therapy utilizes the chest compression phase timing information to initiate delivery of the electromagnetic therapy within 300 milliseconds of the start of the decompression phase. | 43,330 |
9,710,173 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a read cache memory device, comprising: a controller configured to: | 6,198 |
9,124,122 | 1. An impedance control method of a wireless power transmitter configured to transmit power to at least one of target device, the method comprising: generating power for charging by determining an impedance of a source resonator, and adjusting a voltage level of a direct current (DC) voltage to be supplied to a power amplifier; transmitting the charging power to the at least one of target device through magnetic coupling; and adjusting the impedance of the source resonator based on one or more of a reflected wave of the charging power, an amount of power received by each of the at least one of target device, an amount of the charging power, or a transmission efficiency of the charging power. | 13,159 |
8,851,510 | 1. An inflatable curtain airbag system comprising a reinforced region, wherein the inflatable curtain airbag system comprises: a first inflatable airbag assembly comprising a first inflatable curtain airbag that is configured to be mounted to a door of a vehicle structure, wherein the first inflatable curtain airbag is configured to deploy upwardly from the door of the vehicle structure in a direction that is towards a roof of the vehicle structure; a second inflatable airbag assembly comprising a second inflatable curtain airbag that is configured to be mounted to a body of the vehicle structure, wherein the second inflatable curtain airbag is configured to deploy upwardly from the body of the vehicle structure in a direction that is towards the roof of the vehicle structure; and a reinforced region, wherein when the inflatable curtain airbag system is in a deployed configuration, the reinforced region is disposed at an intermediate region of the vehicle structure. | 30,300 |
9,821,919 | 1. An ejection jack, comprising: a toggle assembly operably coupled to a ram air turbine actuator, the toggle assembly comprising: | 1,351 |
8,935,273 | 1. A method of processing a multidimensional query against one or more data sources, the method comprising: detecting and intercepting a multidimensional query that is issued against one or more relational data sources, the multidimensional query involving one or more multidimensional expressions; and decomposing, with a computer system, the multidimensional query, wherein decomposing the multidimensional query comprises: | 7,401 |
9,048,148 | 1. A method for manufacturing a thin-film transistor (TFT) array substrate of a transflective LCD, comprising steps of: providing a substrate; depositing a transparent conductive layer and a first metal layer in turn on the substrate, and patterning the transparent conductive layer and the first metal layer by a multi-tone mask (MTM) to form a gate, a common electrode and a reflecting layer, wherein the gate comprises the transparent conductive layer and the first metal layer; the common electrode is formed by the transparent conductive layer; the reflecting layer is formed by the first metal layer; the MTM is a gray tone mask (GTM); depositing a gate insulation layer on the substrate, and patterning the gate insulation layer by a first mask to remain a portion of the gate insulation layer on the gate and another portion of the gate insulation layer on the common electrode and the reflecting layer, wherein a portion of the common electrode is exposed from the another portion of the gate insulation layer; depositing a semiconductor layer on the substrate, and patterning the semiconductor layer by a second mask to remain the semiconductor layer on the gate; and depositing a second metal layer on the substrate, wherein the second metal layer is formed by stacking a second molybdenum metal layer, a second aluminum metal layer and a third molybdenum metal layer in turn; and patterning the second metal layer by a third mask to form a source and a drain including the second metal layer, wherein the drain is connected to the exposed portion of the common electrode; after forming the source and the drain, removing the another portion of the gate insulation layer to expose the common electrode and the reflecting layer. | 23,349 |
9,688,321 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine generating a flow of exhaust gas as a product of combustion; a vehicle body arranged along a longitudinal axis and having a first vehicle body end configured to face oncoming ambient airflow, a second vehicle body end opposite of the first vehicle body end, and a vehicle underbody section configured to span a distance between the first and second vehicle body ends; a diffuser having a diffuser body disposed at the second vehicle body end and configured to control an underbody portion of the airflow past the second vehicle body end; and an exhaust duct extending along the underbody section, having a duct inlet configured to receive the flow of exhaust gas from the engine, and a duct outlet arranged between the vehicle underbody section and the diffuser and configured to discharge the flow of exhaust gas to the ambient; wherein the diffuser body defines: | 41,369 |
9,540,114 | 1. An exhaust system for an auxiliary power unit (APU) in tail cone section of an aircraft, the exhaust system comprising: an exhaust outlet on a side of the tail cone section; an APU exhaust liner attached to the APU and extending rearward from the APU to the exhaust outlet, the liner having a first section with a constant cross section from the APU to a point proximate the tail cone; and the liner having a second, larger diameter continuously increasing cross section from the downstream end of the first section to the outlet. | 19,361 |
9,105,940 | 1. An electrolyte membrane for a lithium battery, the electrolyte membrane comprising: a matrix comprising a polymerization product of a (meth)acrylate monomer composition; and a porous metal-organic framework dispersed in the matrix, wherein the metal-organic framework comprises a compound comprising a metal ion or metal ion cluster chemically bound to an organic ligand wherein the metal ion is Ti a liquid electrolyte comprising a lithium salt and a nonaqueous organic solvent. | 6,892 |
9,629,353 | 1. A bait rack comprising: a base including a first leg having a first portion extending in a first direction and a second portion extending generally perpendicularly to the first portion and a second leg spaced apart from the first leg and having a first portion extending in the first direction and a second portion extending generally perpendicularly to the first portion and a cross-member extending between the first leg and the second leg; a bait support portion including a first bar and a second bar, the first bar and the second bar each including a first portion coupled to and extending from the cross-member non-parallel to the first portion of the first leg and a second portion curving upwardly from the first portion, the first bar and the second bar defining an access aperture therebetween; and a second cross-member extending generally parallel to the cross-member, the second cross-member being coupled to the first portion of the first bar and the first portion of the second bar. | 20,983 |
9,594,934 | 1. A remote antenna system, comprising: a remote unit, wherein said remote unit includes a remote antenna, a first remote contact and a second remote contact; wherein said first remote contact and said second remote contact are in communication with said remote antenna; and a carrier member having a flat structure with a first side and a second side, wherein said second side is opposite of said first side; wherein said carrier member includes an RFID chip, a first contact and a second contact, wherein said first contact and said second contact are in communication with said RFID chip; wherein said first contact is positioned on said first side of said carrier member and wherein said second contact is positioned on said second side of said carrier member; wherein said RFID chip is adapted so that said RFID chip is not activated unless said first contact and said second contact are physically connected to said first remote contact and said second remote contact respectively. | 38,878 |
8,619,561 | 1. A method for receiving a multimedia message in a wireless terminal, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a reception reservation setup menu, when a setup key of the wireless terminal is input; receiving originating-side information and a correponding reception reservation time range for a multimedia message reception reservation in the reception reservation setup menu; storing the multimedia message reception reservation; when basic information of a multimedia message is received, analyzing the basic information of the multimedia message and displaying an arrival notification of the multimedia message regardless of the basic information and a current time; comparing the basic information of the multimedia message with one or more set multimedia message reception reservations; if the basic information of the multimedia message corresponds with a set multimedia message reception reservation, comparing the current time with a reception reservation time range of the set multimedia message reservation information; if the current time is within the reception reservation time range, downloading the multimedia message; and if the current time is not currently within the reception reservation time range, waiting until the current time is within the reception reservation time range before downloading the multimedia message; wherein the multimedia message is only downloaded when both the basic information of the multimedia message corresponds with the set multimedia message reception reservation and the current time is within the reception reservation time range. | 18,920 |
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