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8,811,094 | 1. A method of operating a non-volatile memory device including first through N-th word lines, a plurality of bit lines and non-volatile multi-level memory cells respectively connected between the first through N-th word lines and the bit lines, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, the method comprising: receiving a read command directed to a first memory cell connected to an M-th word line (WL), where M is an integer ranging from 1 to N−1; in response to the read command, reading data from at least one of a memory cell connected to word lines adjacent to the M-th word line; selecting at least one of a first group of read voltages and a second group of read voltages from among a plurality of predetermined groups of read voltages in response to the data read from the at least one of a memory cell connected to word lines adjacent to the M-th word line; and distinguishing between an erased state and a first programmed state for the first memory cell using a first read voltage selected from the first group of read voltages, and distinguishing between a second programmed state and a third programmed state for the first memory cell using a second read voltage selected from the second group of read voltages, wherein a number of read voltages in the first group of read voltages is greater than a number of read voltages in the second group of read voltages. | 36,705 |
8,487,585 | 1. A battery pack configured to be interfaced with an electrical device, comprising: a battery pack housing; at least three terminals including a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and a sense terminal, the at least three terminals configured to be interfaced with corresponding terminals of the electrical device; a plurality of rechargeable battery cells arranged within and supported by the housing, each of the battery cells having a respective state of charge, power being transferable between the battery cells and the electrical device; a balancing circuit configured to detect a charge imbalance among the battery cells based on a plurality of voltages of the plurality of rechargeable battery cells detected at substantially the same time; and a microprocessor configured to interrupt operation of the battery pack when a balanced ratio between the battery cells falls outside a predetermined range. | 46,846 |
8,851,728 | 1. A vehicle headlamp comprising: a support board; a light-emitting module supported on the support board; a control circuit section supported on the support board and configured to control a lighting of the light-emitting module; and a reflector including a reflecting face configured to reflect and collect the light emitted from the light-emitting module, wherein the control circuit section includes, on at least a part of the control circuit section, an opposing portion that is opposed to the reflecting face, and the support board is configured to support the light-emitting module and the control circuit section so that the opposing portion is disposed at a position away from an optical path of light to be collected by the reflector, wherein the light-emitting module comprises a plurality of light-emitting devices, wherein the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module, wherein the vehicle headlamp further comprises a charge coupled device (CCD) camera, wherein the control circuit section obtains image data taken by the CCD camera, wherein the control circuit section analyzes the image data to judge a position of any vehicle running ahead wherein, if a vehicle running ahead is present, the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module based on the position of the vehicle running ahead, and wherein the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module so as to turn off the light-emitting device that forms a divided light distribution pattern containing the position of the vehicle running ahead. | 10,032 |
8,834,600 | 1. A process for recovering at least one metal oxide from a titaniferrous or aluminaferrous mixture comprising: (A) preparing a molten slag, said molten slag is prepared by (B) adding to the molten slag an alkali metal carbonate; (C) isolating molten iron from the molten slag to produce a residual slag; and (D) recovering the at least one metal oxide from the residual slag, wherein the at least one metal oxide is one or more of Al | 19,777 |
8,791,356 | 1. A photovoltaic (PV) module, comprising: a substrate having a plurality of individual serially connected solar cells defined thereon; a bus tape applied along each of at least two of said plurality of solar cells for collecting the charge generated by said plurality of solar cells between said bus tapes; a conductive member interconnected between said bus tapes, said conductive member disposed on an underside of each of said bus tapes and in direct contact with said at least two solar cells, wherein said conductive member is a foil ribbon; an insulating material strip beneath said foil ribbon, a portion of said foil ribbon extending longitudinally beyond ends of said insulating material strip and onto said at least two solar cells of the plurality of solar cells beneath said bus tapes; and a junction box configured for delivering the generated charge to an external load or other component, said conductive member connected to said junction box. | 13,962 |
8,792,245 | 1. An electrical device, comprising: a coil assembly comprising plural coil units in a stack arrangement, wherein each of said coil units comprises alternate loops and vacant portions, said loops of each coil unit are aligned with said vacant portions of a next coil unit of said stack arrangement, and there is a spacing interval between every two adjacent loops of a coil unit and a next coil unit of said stack arrangement, so that an airflow flows through said vacant portions and said spacing interval; and a case structure having a receptacle for accommodating said coil assembly. | 7,437 |
8,637,285 | 1. A method for lysing biological cells in a liquid comprising: (a) placing biological cells in a liquid, (b) generating an ultrasonic pulsating pressure wave (PPW) in the liquid, the method comprising the steps of: | 43,993 |
8,512,791 | 1. A process of preparing a bakery product, consisting of: a) providing: b) combining the dry composition or the liquid composition with flour and one or more other ingredients to produce a dough or batter, wherein the one or more other ingredients are selected from the group consisting of untreated starch, baking powder, yeast, water, sweeteners, sodium flavoring, colorants, fat, and emulsifiers, wherein the one or more other ingredients is not whole egg; and c) baking the dough or batter to produce a bakery product, wherein the bakery product: | 13,594 |
8,434,807 | 1. A plastic skin as a surface cover for a part for the interior of a vehicle, the plastic skin comprising: an electric conducting path embedded in said plastic skin; said plastic skin being composed of a plastic material; and, said electric conducting path being a mixture of said plastic material of said plastic skin and a conducting material wherein: said plastic material is polyvinylchloride (PVC); said conducting path is a mixture of said polyvinylchloride (PVC) and graphite or a mixture of polyvinylchloride (PVC) and carbon black; said plastic skin has a layer thickness: and, said conducting path is arranged as an intermediate layer within said layer thickness of said plastic skin. | 5,861 |
8,770,544 | 1. An electric waste gate actuator for a turbocharger, comprising: a housing having an installation space inside; a decelerator installed in an upper portion of the installation space; a lever coupled to an upper end of the decelerator and installed outside the installation space; a driving motor installed in a lower portion of the installation space; a blocking plate dividing the installation space into the upper portion, where the decelerator is installed, and the lower portion, where the driving motor is installed, and preventing foreign particles generated in the decelerator from being introduced into the lower portion of the installation space; and a sensor unit installed under the blocking plate to measure a rotation angle of the decelerator, wherein the blocking plate comprises: | 20,159 |
9,070,993 | 1. A connector comprising: a housing having an insertion portion, an upper part of which is opened so as to permit insertion of a connection end portion of a connection target having a plurality of contact portions and at least one notch, said housing further including at least one confirmation groove for viewing a tip end position of the connection end portion of the connection target inserted into the insertion portion from above, and at least one concave portion formed at the base of the insertion portion; an actuator rotatably attached to the housing and rotatable between an open position where the upper part of the insertion portion is opened and a closed position where the upper part of the insertion portion is covered, the actuator having at least one cut out portion which is located right above the confirmation groove of the housing when the actuator is located at the open position, and at least one convex portion formed on a surface of the actuator which is on an opposite side face relative to the at least one cut out portion and corresponds to the at least one concave portion of the housing; and a plurality of contacts fixed to the housing, wherein the connection target is mechanically held in the housing with the plurality of contact portions of the connection target being electrically connected to the plurality of contacts, and the at least one convex portion of the actuator is fitted into the corresponding at least one concave portion of the housing through said at least one connection target notch, by rotating operation of the actuator in relation to the housing. | 28,060 |
8,673,899 | 1. A compound of Formula (Im 1 ) wherein: R A Cy the oxodihydropyridyl ring in Formula Im E is (a) a bond or (b) (C R R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, monohydrate, enantiomer or diastereomer thereof; provided that the compound is not a compound represented by structural formulas PR-221 or PR-313, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, enantiomer or diastereomer thereof, wherein PR-221 is represented by the following structural formula: and PR-313 is represented by the following structural formula: | 29,301 |
9,334,708 | 1. A flow control device comprising: a body defining at least a portion of a flow passageway; at least one movable member in operable communication with the body, movable between at least a first position that provides a first restriction to flow through the flow passageway and a second position that provides a second restriction to flow through the flow passageway; a circuit in operable communication with the at least one movable member and in operable communication with a fluid flowing through the flow passageway, the circuit being configured such that electrical current is flowable from one conductor to another conductor of the circuit through the fluid in the flow passageway such that increases in conductivity of the fluid allows electrical current to flow directly through the fluid and the same electrical current is flowable through an element to cause movement of the at least one movable member from the first position to the second position; and one or more batteries in operable communication with the circuit, the one or more batteries supplying the electrical current to the circuit flowing directly through the fluid. | 42,436 |
8,557,684 | 1. A method comprising: performing a laser grooving to remove a low-k dielectric material in a wafer to form a trench, wherein the trench extends from a top surface of the wafer to stop at an intermediate level between the top surface and a bottom surface of the wafer, and wherein the trench is in a scribe line between two neighboring chips in the wafer; filling a polymer into the trench; curing the polymer; and after the step of curing the polymer, performing a die saw to separate the two neighboring chips, wherein a kerf line of the die saw cuts through a portion of the polymer filled in the trench and wherein a non-vertical portion of a terminal surface of the polymer in the trench interfaces with a semiconductor substrate of the wafer after the die saw. | 28,811 |
9,673,680 | 1. A flywheel assembly comprising: a flywheel surround assembly including a space for receiving a flywheel mass, the assembly defining upper and lower support planes: a motor-generator stator hanging from the upper plane, defining an axis of rotation, having a field coil encircling the axis, and having an armature coil about perpendicular to the field coil; a hollow motor-generator rotor in the form of a cylinder with an open end and an opposite end coupled to a hub; the rotor open end receiving the stator into the rotor hollow, the rotor for rotation about the axis; the flywheel mass surrounding and coupled to the rotor; a lower electromagnetic bearing (EMB an upper electromagnetic bearing (EMB a plurality of three or more stator rings (SR the field coil located between a pair of rings; the armature coil interengaged with slots in each of the rings; at least three stator rings (SR between a first pair of adjacent stator rings (SR between a second pair of adjacent stator rings (SR wherein no magnetic path exists between pole assemblies in the first plurality of pole assemblies and no magnetic path exists between pole assemblies in the second plurality of pole assemblies. | 6,286 |
8,508,956 | 1. A modular electronics assembly for reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI), the electronics assembly comprising: a first electronic component having an output; a second electronic component having an input with an input impedance; a circuit matching element having an input coupled to the output of the first electronic component and an output coupled to the input of the second electronic component, the output of the circuit matching element configured to provide an output impedance that matches the input impedance of the second electronic component; a conductive surface configured to form a volume, the first electronic component and the circuit matching element disposed within the volume; wherein all non-conductive passages from the volume to the external environment have at least one cross-sectional opening having a continuous conductive perimeter with a maximum linear length within the opening of less than one quarter wavelength of a maximum shielding frequency. | 21,327 |
8,907,628 | 1. A method comprising: a. connecting two 12 volt batteries of opposite voltage in an electrical circuit, of an internal combustion automobile, with bipolar DC outputs, with a center tap grounded; b. connecting a reversible automotive DC motor to the bipolar DC outputs; c. running the motor in one direction by a DC current produced by a positive voltage from a first battery of the two batteries without any control, in the electrical circuit, between the first battery and the motor; d. subsequently running the motor in a reverse direction by a DC current produced by a negative voltage from a second battery of the batteries without any control, in the electrical circuit, between the first battery and the motor; and e. connecting at least one alternator, in the circuit, to the batteries to control electrical charge to the batteries. | 7,142 |
8,436,486 | 1. A gearless wind power turbine comprising a drive train including a rotor hub carrying rotor blades, a main shaft, and a generator having a power larger than 500 kW with a generator housing a stator and a generator shaft rigidly connected to the main shaft, the main shaft having a main shaft axis, a tower, and a supporting frame mounted on the tower, a) the rotor hub and the generator being located on opposite sides with respect to the tower; b) the main shaft being supported by the supporting frame by means of a front bearing close to the rotor hub and a rear bearing close to the generator; c) the stator, being rigidly attached to the generator housing, | 16,989 |
9,714,578 | 1. A method of depositing an abradable coating on a gas turbine engine component comprising: forming a slurry mixture comprising at least bi-modal ceramic particulate with up to about 70% by volume of coarse particulate wherein said coarse particulate is at least one of Ln2Si2O7, Ln2SiO5, silica, barium strontium aluminosilicate (BSAS), monoclinic hafnium oxide, rare earth gallium garnet (Ln2Ga2O9), where Ln is at least one of Scandium (Sc), Yttrium (Y), Lanthanum (La), Cerium (Ce), Phraseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Promethium (Pm), Samarium (Sm), Europium (Eu), Gadolimium (Gd), Terbium (Tb), Dysprosium (Dy), Hlomium (Ho), Erbium (Er), Thulium (Tm), Ytterbium (Yb), Lutetium (Lu), and up to about 65% by volume of fine particulate, wherein said fine particulate includes at least one of Ln2Si2O7 or Ln2SiO5 where Ln is at least one of Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, a polymer solution consisting essentially of one anionic and one cationic dispersant such that the slurry becomes a reversible gel, a low vapor pressure organic solvent and at least one sinter aid selected from the group consisting of iron, aluminum, titanium, cobalt, nickel, gallium, indium, or any compounds thereof; direct writing said reversible gel slurry to said gas turbine engine component; drying said reversible gel slurry at one of room temperature or a second temperature between about 30° C.-80° C. to form a reversible gel matrix; and, sintering said dried reversible gel matrix on said gas turbine engine component at a temperature greater than about 1204° C. and less than 1357° C., forming a layer of said abradable coating having a thickness greater than about 5 mils and a porosity of about 5 percent to about 50 percent, wherein said sintered layer is also comprised of a doped rare earth disilicate where said at least one sintering aid is a doping composition that dissolves into, and dopes the rare earth disilicate. | 319 |
9,065,139 | 1. A fiber negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, comprising: a carbon fiber current collector; an outer layer which is a tubular composite layer of a Sn oxide and M an intermediate layer formed of a Sn alloy, which has a lithium occlusion capacity and which is present at an interface between the carbon fiber current collector and the outer layer (M of M | 40,760 |
9,852,816 | 1. A compact nuclear fusion reactor comprising a spherical tokamak having a toroidal plasma chamber and a plasma confinement system arranged to generate a magnetic field for confining a plasma in the plasma chamber, wherein: the plasma confinement system is configured so that the major radius of the confined plasma is 1.5 m or less; the plasma confinement system includes toroidal field magnets having toroidal field coils made from material comprising high temperature superconductor, the toroidal field magnets being configured such that the magnetic field includes a toroidal component of at least 5 T; the spherical tokamak comprises a cryostat configured to cool the high temperature superconductor to 30K or less; wherein the high temperature superconductor is BSCCO or (Re)BCO. | 16,671 |
8,485,167 | 1. An abnormality detection apparatus for an air/fuel ratio sensor that outputs a signal that corresponds to air/fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine based on oxygen concentration in exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, comprising: an air/fuel ratio control portion that performs an active air/fuel ratio control of periodically fluctuating the air/fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine between a rich state and a lean state; a data acquisition portion that acquires, as data for detecting abnormality, a parameter that corresponds to responsiveness during change of output of the air/fuel ratio sensor between a rich peak and a lean peak during the active air/fuel ratio control performed by the air/fuel ratio control portion; a straight line setting portion that sets a straight line that represents a tendency of change of the parameter relative to change in intake air amount of the internal combustion engine based on the data acquired by the data acquisition portion a plurality of times; and an abnormality determination portion that determines presence/absence of abnormality of the air/fuel ratio sensor based on comparison between an abnormality criterion value and a gradient of the straight line set by the straight line setting portion. | 23,280 |
9,195,030 | 1. An imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having refractive power; a second lens element having refractive power; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having negative refractive power; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric; and a sixth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric; wherein the imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power, a central thickness of the third lens element is CT | 10,841 |
8,599,332 | 1. A light guide plate comprising: a light incident surface arranged facing a plurality of point light sources arrayed in a line; a light exit surface orthogonal to the light incident surface; and two side surfaces orthogonal to the light incident surface and the light exit surface, wherein light from the plurality of point light sources introduced from the light incident surface is diffused by a diffusion unit arranged on the light exit surface or a surface facing the light exit surface, wherein the light diffused by the diffusion unit exits from the light exit surface, wherein a distance between a point light source positioned at an end of the plurality of point light sources and the light incident surface is different from a distance between a point light source not positioned at the end of the plurality of point light sources and the light incident surface, wherein the plurality of point light sources are all directed in the same direction and are arranged on the same straight line, and wherein the distance between the joint light source positioned at the end and the light incident surface is defined so that an angle when an upper surface and a lower surface of the light incident surface are seen from the point light source is narrower than a spread angle of the light emitted from the point light source at a cross-section perpendicular to the light incident surface and the light exit surface. | 23,903 |
9,712,923 | 1. A microphone comprising: a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) circuit configured to convert a voice signal into an electrical signal, an integrated circuit coupled to the MEMS circuit, the integrated circuit including a voice activity detector that determines whether voice is present in data representative of the electrical signal; the integrated circuit has a first mode of operation when the data is not provided to an external-device interface of the microphone and a second mode of operation when the data is provided to the external-device interface, the first mode of operation having a first power consumption and the second mode of operation having a second power consumption, the first power consumption being less than the second power consumption, the integrated circuit configured to provide an interrupt signal to the external-device interface after detection of voice activity in the data; the integrated circuit includes a buffer in which the data representative of the electrical signal is buffered in order to provide time for the integrated circuit to process the data representative of the electrical signal; wherein the integrated circuit selectively provides the buffered data to the external-device interface at an overclocked rate after detection of voice activity. | 40,323 |
9,821,173 | 1. A compound having the following formula: X Y pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. | 9,653 |
9,765,126 | 1. A recombinant microorganism comprising a non-native nucleic acid molecule encoding a non-LEC1-type HAP3-like polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the polypeptide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:16, and SEQ ID NO:20, wherein expression of the non-native nucleic acid molecule in the recombinant microorganism produces increased biomass or lipid with respect to a control microorganism that does not include the non-native nucleic acid molecule encoding a non-LEC1-type HAP3-like polypeptide; further wherein the microorganism is an alga or heterokont. | 17,479 |
9,076,724 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit system comprising: providing a wafer having a via, the wafer having a top side and a bottom side; mounting a top interconnect to the via at the top side; mounting an interconnect pillar to the via at the bottom side; attaching a device interconnect to the interconnect pillar; forming a base adhesive covering the interconnect pillar and the device interconnect, wherein forming the base adhesive includes an inorganic filler material and an organic filler material; and forming a die by singulating the wafer. | 21,644 |
9,106,921 | 1. A transcoder for converting video signal into a processed video signal, the transcoder comprising: a demultiplexer that demultiplexes the video signal into a moving image stream, an audio stream and a subtitle stream; stream probe that generates stream format identification data based on the video signal; a plurality of hardware transcoders, coupled to the demultiplexer, including moving image transcoder hardware, audio transcoder hardware and subtitle process hardware; a processing device, coupled to the demultiplexer, that is configurable based on moving image transcoder software, audio transcoder software and subtitle transcoding software; a transcoder configuration module, coupled to the demultiplexer, the stream probe, the plurality of hardware transcoders and the processing device that generates configuration data based on the stream format identification data and further based on output selection data that indicates: a remultiplexer, coupled to the transcoder configuration module, the plurality of hardware transcoders and the processing device, that generates the processed video signal by remultiplexing the transcoded video stream, the transcoded audio stream and the processed subtitle stream, based on the configuration data. | 1,441 |
9,271,375 | 1. An occupancy sensor, comprising: an occupancy sensing element; a wireless transceiver for receiving wireless signals from a remote device to configure the occupancy sensor from a remote location, the wireless transceiver capable of operating in a micro-Access Point (μAP) mode; and a processor in communication with the wireless transceiver, the processor for executing instructions to control at least one of a configuration and an operational characteristic of the occupancy sensor and for commanding and decoding communication signals sent between the occupancy sensor and the remote device; wherein said wireless transceiver is further configured to transmit wireless signals to the remote device, said transmitted wireless signals including information representative of an operational characteristic of said wireless occupancy sensor during a previous time period. | 29,989 |
9,731,605 | 1. An electrified powertrain system for a vehicle, comprising: an electric machine mechanically rotatably coupled to a driveline; a plurality of low-voltage electrically-powered powertrain actuators; an inverter module including an inverter electrically connected between a high-voltage DC power bus and the electric machine, and an inverter controller; a low-power DC/DC converter electrically connected between the high-voltage DC power bus and the inverter controller; and an auxiliary power module electrically connected to the high-voltage DC power bus and electrically connected to a low-voltage DC power bus; wherein the inverter controller directly communicates with the auxiliary power module; wherein an ignition module indicates either a key-on state, a key-accessory state or a key-off state; and wherein, when the ignition module is in either the key-off state or the key-accessory state: | 19,525 |
9,088,604 | 1. A computer-implemented method for treating locally created files as trustworthy, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying at least one file created on a computing system protected by a security system that determines whether files encountered by the computing system are trustworthy; determining that the security system has classified the file created on the computing system as untrustworthy; identifying a software application used to create the file on the computing system; determining that the software application used to create the file on the computing system is a reputable software application used to create trustworthy files within a user community comprising users of computing systems protected by the security system; in response to determining that the software application used to create the file is a reputable software application, mitigating false positives associated with the file on the computing system where the file was created by establishing a trustworthiness exception that: | 2,490 |
9,513,001 | 1. An oxy-combustion boiler unit, comprising: a furnace for combusting fuel and for emitting flue gas resulting from combustion, the furnace having a first combustion zone, a second combustion zone and a third combustion zone, the second combustion zone being between the first combustion zone and the third combustion zone; an air separation unit for receiving air and for separating oxygen gas from the air; at least one conduit for mixing a first portion of the separated oxygen gas with a first flow of the flue gas to form a first oxidant flow having a first predetermined content of oxygen of between 15% and 23% by volume oxygen therein, for mixing a second portion of the separated oxygen gas with a second flow of the flue gas to form a second oxidant flow having a second predetermined content of oxygen of between 15% and 23% by volume oxygen therein, and for directing a third portion of the separated oxygen gas to the first, second and third combustion zones of the furnace for combustion of the fuel, wherein the at least one conduit directs the first oxidant flow to the first combustion zone of the furnace, directs the second oxidant flow to the first, second and third combustion zones of the furnace, and directs the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be sent to the first, second, and third combustion zones; and a controller for combustion zone stoichiometry control of the furnace by causing a first amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be sent to the first combustion zone, a second amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be sent to the second combustion zone, and a third amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be sent to the third combustion zone; the controller configured such that the first amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas is determined based on the controller determining a fuel feed rate at which fuel is fed to the furnace for combustion and correlating that fuel feed rate with operating parameters of the furnace to identify a necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the furnace to combust a first fraction of the fuel within the first combustion zone such that a difference between the necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the furnace to combust the first fraction of the fuel and a total amount of oxygen supplied to the first combustion zone via the first oxidant flow and the second oxidant flow is the first amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be directed to the first combustion zone via the at least one conduit; the controller configured such that the second amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas is determined based on the controller identifying a necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the furnace to combust a second fraction of the fuel within the second combustion zone that is smaller than the first fraction of the fuel such that a difference between the necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the second combustion zone to combust the second fraction of the fuel and a total amount of oxygen supplied to the second combustion zone via the second oxidant flow is the second amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be directed to the second combustion zone via the at least one conduit; and the controller configured such that the third amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas is determined based on the controller identifying a necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the furnace to combust a third fraction of the fuel within the third combustion zone that is smaller than the second fraction of the fuel such that a difference between the necessary amount of oxygen to be fed to the third combustion zone to combust the third fraction of the fuel and a total amount of oxygen supplied to the third combustion zone via the second oxidant flow is the third amount of the third portion of the separated oxygen gas to be directed to the third combustion zone via the at least one conduit. | 28,872 |
9,463,801 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a battery; an electric motor; a vehicle control unit configured to control a flow of power from the battery to the electric motor; a variable input control in electrical communication with the vehicle control unit and configured to receive user inputs that transition the variable input control between multiple control positions, each one of the control positions corresponding to a different amount of power being supplied to the electric motor by the battery; and a memory storage device configured to record the amounts of power supplied to the electric motor in response to the user inputs over a period of time; and wherein the vehicle control unit periodically sends signals to adjust the amounts of power delivered from the battery to the electric motor for one or more of the control positions so that a control position located within a central range of the variable input control corresponds to an average of the amounts of power recorded by the memory storage device. | 2,734 |
9,812,707 | 1. Lithium iron phosphate having an olivine crystal structure, wherein the lithium iron phosphate has a composition represented by the following Formula 1 and carbon (C) is coated on the particle surface of the lithium iron phosphate containing a predetermined amount of sulfur (S): wherein M is at least one selected from Al, Mg, Ni, Co, Mn, Ti, Ga, Cu, V, Nb, Zr, Ce, In, Zn and Y, X is at least one selected from F, S and N, and −0.5≦a≦+0.5, 0≦x≦0.5, 0≦b≦0.1 wherein the sulfur (S) is contained at an amount of 0.1 to 2% by weight, based on the total weight of the lithium iron phosphate, wherein the sulfur (S) is derived from a precursor for preparation of the lithium iron phosphate, and wherein the sulfur and the carbon are present in the form of a structure in which carbon is coated on the surface of lithium iron phosphate particles and the sulfur is contained inside of lithium iron phosphate particles. | 26,696 |
9,316,324 | 1. A shear valve for use in a high performance liquid chromatography system, the shear valve comprising: a first shear valve member; a second shear valve member; and a housing for housing one of the first and the second shear valve members, wherein the housing is shrink-fit to the one of the first and second shear valve members and is prestressed against the housed shear valve member to achieve sealing in pressurized applications, | 10,380 |
9,155,035 | 1. A base station for use in a communication system, the communication system being a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) system, the communication system having a first-type communication standard and a second-type communication standard, the first-type communication standard being an IEEE 802.16m standard, and the second-type communication standard being an IEEE 802.16p standard, the base station comprising: a transceiver, being configured to receive an uplink signal from a wireless device, the uplink signal comprising a station identification (STID) and a piece of identifying information, wherein the uplink signal comprises a subframe, the subframe comprises a bandwidth request channel (BR channel), the bandwidth request channel comprises three bandwidth request blocks, each of the bandwidth request blocks comprises a data subcarrier set and a preamble sequence subcarrier set, the data subcarrier sets are used to carry an access message, the access message comprises the station identification and a first bit of a predefined bandwidth request index, the identifying information is represented by the first bit of the predefined bandwidth request index, the communication system defines twenty four preamble sequences, each of the preamble sequence subcarrier sets is configured to carry one of the twenty four preamble sequences, and a plurality of second bits of the predefined bandwidth request index correspond to the twenty four preamble sequences; and a processor electrically connected to the transceiver, being configured to determine that the wireless device belongs to one of a first-type wireless device and a second-type wireless device according to the identifying information, wherein the first-type wireless device conforms to the first-type communication standard and the second-type wireless device conforms to the second-type communication standard. | 16,097 |
9,271,228 | 1. A method of communication for allowing mobile access terminals to use local network services and filter excess broadcast packet traffic, comprising: receiving a packet from a local network at an access point serving the local network, wherein the packet is destined for an access terminal served by the access point, wherein the packet comprises a local breakout packet directly provided to the access point through the local network without flowing through an operator core network, and wherein the local breakout packet further relates to accessing a local service by the access terminal directly through the local network without flowing through the operator core network; sending a first message, as a result of the receipt of the packet, to a non-local network node of the operator core network that manages paging for the access terminal, wherein the first message comprises an indication that the access terminal is to be paged only at the access point; receiving a second message from the non-local network node of the operator core network in response to the first message, wherein the second message instructs the access point to page the access terminal; paging the access terminal only at the access point, from among a plurality of access points of the local network, based on the second message and to indicate the receipt of the packet relating to the local service at the access point for delivery to the access terminal; and filtering packets sent within the local network wherein local breakout traffic directed to the access terminal is reduced and the access terminal remains idle during sending of broadcast packets. | 17,399 |
9,719,466 | 1. A cascade element for a thrust reverser comprising: a first plurality of vanes, disposed in a plurality of rows, and comprising a first, raised geometric pattern on a facing surface of each vane, the facing surface comprising the first, raised geometric pattern and a recessed portion with contiguous walls transitioning the facing surface from the first, raised geometric pattern to the recessed portion and defining a plurality of peaks and a plurality of valleys of the first, raised geometric pattern; wherein the first, raised geometric pattern is configured to increase mixing with a first, internal airflow and a second, external airflow to reduce noise and increase reverse thrust. | 20,227 |
8,521,355 | 1. A method of operating a drive train of a motor vehicle in which the drive train comprises at least a hybrid drive with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, a clutch connected between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor, a transmission arranged between the hybrid drive and a drive output, and either a transmission-internal or transmission-external starting element, the method comprising the steps of: partially engaging the clutch, connected between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor, to a slipping condition when the internal combustion engine is entrained into motion with the electric motor, such that the clutch transmits a constant torque; comparing an actual gradient of speed of the internal combustion engine with a nominal gradient of speed of the internal combustion engine, when the internal combustion engine is entrained into motion with the electric motor; and concluding that the internal combustion engine has started up and is actively providing torque, if the actual gradient is greater than the nominal gradient. | 16,549 |
9,686,830 | 1. A device for supplying energy to at least one consumer comprising: at least one current source; an energy supply unit including at least one energy storage; and a first output node, the first output node receiving energy from each of the at least one current source and the at least one energy storage, wherein the device is configured to supply energy at least temporarily to the consumer through the first output node and further wherein the energy storage is configured to supply energy when the energy delivery by the current source is insufficient and the energy storage still has sufficient energy content; at least one switch configured for connection in parallel with the consumer; and at least one of: at least one controller programmed, based on at least one of the operating state of the consumer and the operating state of the energy storage, to do at least one of: | 12,743 |
9,448,854 | 1. A method for full exploitation, after a plurality of initialization steps, of a set of a plurality of parallel processors to perform a task on a sequence of data chunks by a processor device in a computing environment, wherein each of the data chunks are processed in several time steps and by a plurality of layers with the plurality of layers being dealt with by at least one of a plurality of processors at each of the time steps, the method comprising: automatically partitioning the set of the plurality of parallel processors into disjoint subsets according to indices of the set of the plurality of parallel processors such that wherein, automatically partitioning the task into the plurality of layers independent of partitioning the set of the plurality of parallel processors; automatically assigning each of the plurality of processors to the plurality of layers of the task according to the partitioning of the task such that each of the plurality of processors are busy and each of the data chunks are fully processed within a number of the time steps equal to the number of the plurality of layers, wherein the number of the plurality of parallel processors assigned to the processing of the data chunks at one of the plurality of layers is smaller than the number of the plurality of parallel processors assigned to the processing of the data chunks at a preceding one of the plurality of layers; automatically selecting and using one of a plurality of constraints for restricting any one of the plurality of parallel processors to always work on the same one of the plurality of layers or, for each of the plurality of layers except for a first layer, to always work on a same data chunk as in each of the previous layers; wherein | 21,848 |
9,233,363 | 1. A process for hydroprocessing of heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstock in at least one hydroconversion reactor for hydroconversion of said heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstocks and in at least one hydrotreatment reactor for hydrotreatment of said heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstocks, said process comprising the preparation of two or more catalysts, each catalyst being prepared from one or more catalyst precursors in at least one specific preparation reactor, each preparation reactor feeding one or more hydroconversion or hydrotreatment reactors, and each catalyst contained in a preparation reactor being individually dedicated to hydroconversion or hydrotreatment of said feedstock, and wherein said catalyst(s) dedicated to hydroconversion reactor contain at least one transition metal selected from group VB, VIB, VIII, in an active state, and said catalyst(s) dedicated to hydroconversion is prepared from a precursor which is an organometallic coordination compound of formula (C M is a transition metal selected from group IIA, IIIB, IVB, VB, VIB, VIIB, VIII, IB or IIB of the periodic table of elements, —C a C1-C8, substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched, saturated hydrocarbyl radical, —C -L is a ligand that is sigma-bonded to M, n is an integer equal to 0 to 3, each -L is, independently, a univalent ligand. | 8,134 |
8,808,408 | 1. A process for converting biomass to reaction products, the process comprising: (a) contacting biomass particles with an inorganic material having catalytic properties, the inorganic material including: 1) a zeolite, and 2) at least one of a sepiolite or saponite; and (b) converting the biomass particles to reaction products in the presence of the inorganic material, wherein said biomass particles comprises cellulose or lignocellulose. | 25,824 |
9,821,399 | 1. A method of providing a metal wire to a welding torch, comprising the steps of: advancing an amount of the metal wire from a wire supply source through a guide so that a distal end of the metal wire is positioned in a heat source emitted by a welding torch; detecting the position of the distal end of the metal wire relative to the heat source emitted by the welding torch; and adjusting the position of the distal end of the metal wire relative to the heat source by repositioning an adjustable frame to which the guide is attached, wherein the adjustable frame is rotatably attached to a fixed frame and the repositioning comprises pivoting the adjustable frame toward or away from the fixed frame. | 9,945 |
8,616,087 | 1. A power transmission device for transmitting torque among an engine at a first side, an electric motor at a second side opposite to the first side and axles, comprising: a first shaft having a first gear, a second gear contiguous to the first gear and led out toward the first side for coupling with the engine; a second shaft drivingly coupled with the first shaft and led out toward the second side for coupling with the electric motor; a third gear meshing with the first gear to form a first gearing having a first gear ratio; a fourth gear coaxial with and contiguous to the third gear and without any clutch intervening between the third gear and the fourth gear, the fourth gear meshing with the second gear to form a second gearing having a second gear ratio; a third shaft coaxial with both the third gear and the fourth gear, the third shaft being drivingly coupled with the axles; a first clutch configured to selectively connect and disconnect the third gear with the third shaft; and a second clutch configured to selectively connect and disconnect the fourth gear with the third shaft, wherein both the first clutch and the second clutch are disposed closer to the second side relative to the third gear and the fourth gear. | 30,346 |
8,419,167 | 1. A liquid discharge head comprising: a recording element substrate including a recording element that generates energy for discharging liquid from a discharge port; a base plate including a mounted surface on which the recording element substrate is mounted; an electric wiring substrate including a portion disposed on another surface of the base plate different from the mounted surface, adjacent to the mounted surface, and configured to be electrically connected to the recording element substrate; and a shield member having electric conductivity and configured to shield the portion. | 23,495 |
8,682,697 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by one or more computers associated with a service provider, an audit record for an audit performed on a completed healthcare transaction; identifying, by the one or more computers and based at least in part on the audit record, a billing discrepancy for the completed healthcare transaction; analyzing, by the one or more computers, the identified billing discrepancy utilizing one or more edit generation rules, the one or more edit generation rules comprising at least one or more rules that determine a financial impact caused by the identified billing discrepancy; determining, by the one or more computers and based at least in part upon the one or more edit generation rules, the financial impact caused by the identified billing discrepancy, wherein the financial impact comprises at least a cost savings amount generated by a proposed edit to one or more healthcare transactions subsequently received by the one or more computers from a healthcare provider computer associated with a healthcare provider; comparing, by the one or more computers, the determined financial impact caused by the identified billing discrepancy to a threshold impact value associated with the proposed edit; generating, by the one or more computers and based at least in part upon the determined financial impact exceeding the threshold impact value, the proposed edit; mitigating, by the one or more computers and based at least in part upon implementing the proposed edit on the one or more healthcare transactions subsequently received by the one or more computers from the healthcare provider computer, the financial impact of the identified billing discrepancy in the one or more healthcare transactions subsequently received by the one or more computers. | 30,262 |
8,832,718 | 1. A location-enabled device comprising: a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver; a hardware communication port coupled to the SPS receiver; a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to the hardware communication port; and a memory comprising program code stored therein for execution by the CPU, the program code comprising: | 480 |
9,156,331 | 1. An air-cooled fuel cell vehicle comprising: an air-cooled fuel cell stack configured to use air as a reacting gas and also as a cooling medium; and a radiator disposed in a space of a vehicle front portion surrounded by a vehicle body panel from an upper portion of the radiator and both side portions, in a vehicle width direction, of the radiator, the radiator configured to cool electrical equipment other than the air-cooled fuel cell stack; and wherein the air-cooled fuel cell stack is disposed behind the radiator in the space of the vehicle front portion; wherein the air-cooled fuel cell stack includes: air inlets respectively at both side portions, in the vehicle width direction, of the air-cooled fuel cell stack; and air outlets and an exhaust duct at a central portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the air-cooled fuel cell stack, the exhaust duct configured to discharge air flowing out of the air outlets to a rear side portion of the vehicle; wherein intake ducts extending toward a front portion of the vehicle are respectively connected to the air inlets; and wherein air intake ports of the intake ducts are respectively opened at both side portions, in the vehicle width direction, of the radiator, and at positions closer to the front portion of the vehicle than the radiator. | 13,096 |
9,587,859 | 1. An apparatus for mounting a solar panel on a surface comprising: a) a first top strap having a first end and a second end; b) a second top strap having a third end and a fourth end; c) said straps crossing each other at a point intermediate said first and second ends, and said third and fourth ends; d) a first attachment attaching said first end to a first point on said surface; e) a second attachment attaching said second end to a second point on said surface; f) a third attachment attaching said third end to a third point on said surface; g) a fourth attachment attaching said fourth end to a fourth point on said surface; said first, second, third and fourth points spaced apart; h) a first support having a first top flange and a first bottom flange, said first bottom flange attached to said surface; and i) a second support having a second top flange and a second bottom flange; said second bottom flange attached to said surface; said supports being spaced apart and between said first and second points, and third and fourth points; j) said first top strap attached to said first top flange and said second top flange; k) said second top strap attached to said first top flange and said second top flange; said first and second top straps for mounting said solar panel. | 23,650 |
8,913,907 | 1. A color image forming apparatus comprising a first image forming device configured to form a first color toner image on an image conveying member using a first color toner; a second image forming device configured to form a second color toner image, superposedly on the first color toner image, on the image conveying member using a second color toner having color which is different from color of the first color toner; a third image forming device configured to form a third color toner image, superposedly on the first and second color toner images, on the image conveying member, using a third color toner having color which is different from the color of the first color toner and the color of the second color toner; an executing device configured to execute a test mode in which first, second and third color test toner images are formed superposedly on the image conveying member by said first, second and third image forming devices so that at least one of a screen angle and a screen ruling with respect to the first, second and third color test toner image are different from each other; a detecting device configured to detect a distribution of heights of the first and second and third color test toner images in a moving direction of the image conveying member, in the test mode; and a controlling device configured to control density of the first color toner image to be formed by said first image forming device and density of the second color toner image to be formed by said second image forming device and density of the third color toner image to be formed by said third image forming device, on the basis of the distribution of heights detected by said detecting device, respectively. | 17,831 |
8,573,102 | 1. A machine for processing strip material expelled from an apparatus at a variable line speed, the machine comprising: a sensor for measuring the line speed; a cutter assembly comprising: wherein the cutter assembly cuts the strip material into a plurality of uniform sized pieces in a single pass of each blade plate; and wherein the cutter assembly is operatively connected to the sensor to synchronize the cutting speed with the line speed such that the uniform size is maintained throughout variations in the line speed. | 32,829 |
9,662,238 | 1. A method of deploying a stent to an implantation site of a patient, the method comprising: providing a delivery system loaded with a radially expandable stent, the delivery system including a delivery sheath capsule containing the stent in a compressed arrangement over an inner shaft assembly in a loaded state of the system, and the stent coupled to the inner shaft assembly through an attachment mechanism including a lug having a plurality of fingers extending radially outward therefrom, wherein the lug includes a slot surrounding a support tube, the support tube supporting the stent; wherein the slot defines a range of rotation for the lug about the support tube; delivering the stent in the compressed arrangement through a bodily lumen of the patient and to the implantation site via the delivery system in the loaded state; proximally retracting the delivery sheath capsule relative to the stent, wherein a distal region of the stent self-expands toward a deployed arrangement such that the lug and the plurality fingers pivot relative to the inner shaft assembly to release the stent from the delivery system. | 24,665 |
9,512,272 | 1. A curable composition, comprising: (1) a silicone (A) containing Si—OH group and Si—H group, (2) a silicone (B) containing Si—OH group and Si—CH═CH (3) a hydrosilylation catalyst of a catalyst amount, containing at least one metal compound selected from the group consisting of platinum compounds, palladium compounds, and rhodium compounds, wherein (a): the silicone (A) is the following silicone (A-1) and/or silicone (A-2), the silicone (B) is the following silicone (B-1) and/or silicone (B-2), in case that the silicone (A) consists of the silicone (A-1), the silicone (B) comprises at least the silicone (B-2), and in case that the silicone (A) consists of the silicone (A-2), the silicone (B) comprises at least the silicone (B-1), (b): a molar ratio of Si—H group to the Si—CH═CH (c): in the curable composition, a content of Si—OH group relative to a total amount of the curable composition is 3.4 mass % or greater and 9.8 mass % or less, a content of Si—H group is 0.1 mmol/g or greater and 5.0 mmol/g or less in molar content relative to the curable composition, and a content of Si—CH═CH wherein (iii) silicone (B-1) is a silicone containing 10 mass % or greater of Si—OH group to a total amount of the silicone (B-1), which is obtained by hydrolysis and polycondensation of at least one alkoxysilane selected from the group consisting of an alkoxysilane represented by the general formula (1), (2), and (3): wherein each of R R R R R R each of R R R each of R R | 2,394 |
9,166,176 | 1. A polycyclic aromatic compound or a salt thereof represented by the following formula (I): wherein X represents B, P, P═O, P═S, P═Se, As, As═O, As═S, As═Se, Sb, Sb═O, Sb═S, Sb═Se, an optionally substituted metal in groups 3 to 11 in the periodic table, or an optionally substituted metal or metalloid in group 13 or 14 of the periodic table; and ring A, ring B, ring C, and ring D are the same or different, and each represents an optionally substituted phenyl ring, an optionally substituted phenyl ring fused to an aryl or heteroaryl ring, or an optionally substituted phenyl ring wherein a carbon atom of two adjacent rings are bonded to form a pyrrole ring, | 744 |
8,850,444 | 1. A data transfer control device connected to a network, the data transfer control device comprising: a network interface coupled to a network; and transfer resources for a data transfer set, based on traffic of data received from the network via the network interface, to either one of a transfer-enabled state whereby data transfer for transmitting a received frame data from the network via the network interface is enabled and a plurality of standby states in which data transfer is disabled and which mutually differ at a minimum in terms of at least one of power consumption level and transition time to the transfer-enabled state, wherein a first transfer resource is set, based on the traffic of data received from the network via the network interface, in the transfer-enabled state, a second transfer resource is set, based on the traffic of the data received from the network via the network interface, in one of the plurality of standby states, and a third transfer resource is set, based on the traffic of the data received from the network via the network interface, in another of the plurality of standby states that differs from the standby state of the second transfer resource in terms of at least one of power consumption level and transition time to the transfer-enabled state. | 1,083 |
9,018,792 | 1. An arrangement for operating consumers in a rail vehicle with electrical energy, wherein the arrangement can be supplied selectively with electrical energy from an energy supply network or from a network-independent electrical energy supply unit, comprising: a. a DC voltage intermediate circuit, which is connected to the energy supply network when the arrangement is being supplied from the energy supply network; b. at least one traction inverter, which is connected at the DC voltage side to the DC voltage intermediate circuit and to the AC voltage side to which one or more traction motors of the rail vehicle are connected; and c. an auxiliary system inverter, which at the DC voltage side is connected to the DC voltage intermediate circuit and which at the AC voltage side is connected to a primary side of an auxiliary system transformer, wherein auxiliary systems are connected via an electrical auxiliary system line at a secondary side of the auxiliary system transformer, wherein the auxiliary systems, in contrast to the at least one traction motor, do not serve directly to provide traction of the rail vehicle, wherein the network-independent electrical energy supply unit is electrically connected to the auxiliary system line so that when the arrangement is being supplied by the network-independent electrical energy supply unit, electrical energy generated by said network-independent electrical energy supply unit is transferred via the auxiliary system line, the auxiliary system transformer, and the auxiliary system inverter into the DC voltage intermediate circuit and is available for operating the at least one traction motor. | 38,583 |
8,958,827 | 1. A method of updating a location of a mobile device, comprising: determining the location of the mobile device; based on Internet accessibility of the mobile device, transmitting the location to a location-based service system via Internet communication when Internet access is available and via SS7 communication when Internet access is unavailable; maintaining a queue of locations associated with the mobile device; adding a new entry to the queue including the location and the timestamp; and sorting the location in the queue based on the timestamp. | 25,742 |
9,685,616 | 1. A semiconductive component having a layer system wherein at least one layer comprises a compound of formula I or II where: R1 and R2 and/or R6 and R7, in each case together, form a heterocyclic 5-membered ring or 6-membered ring having at least one heteroatom selected from S, O, N and P, or a homocyclic 6-membered ring having no further fusion, and R1 and R2 or R6 and R7 are independently an H or another radical if they do not form a heterocyclic or homocyclic ring, R3, R4 and R5 are independently H or a radical selected from aryl, alkyl, fluorinated or partly fluorinated alkyl, unsaturated alkyl, and R8 and R9 are independently selected from halogen, alkyl, fluorinated or partly fluorinated alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, aryl or heteroaryl. | 29,974 |
8,642,208 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a plurality of battery modules, each battery module including an electrolyte layer in a form of a plate, a positive electrode disposed on a first main surface of said electrolyte layer and containing a positive electrode active material and a first additive, and a negative electrode disposed on a second main surface of said electrolyte layer and containing a negative electrode active material and a second additive; and a conductive layer disposed between battery modules, the secondary battery having more than one said battery module and more than one said conductive layer stacked in layers, wherein each positive electrode has the same total mass of the positive electrode active material and the first additive; wherein each negative electrode has the same total mass of the negative electrode active material and the second additive; and wherein said positive electrode active material and said negative electrode active material are varied in content to be set in concentration in accordance with a temperature distribution in the secondary battery. | 38,169 |
8,356,640 | 1. An apparatus for forming a serpentine current collector for a solar cell, said apparatus comprising: a linear channel; first and second chain paths, each including a linear segment disposed along the linear channel on opposite sides of the linear channel; first and second re-circulating chains configured to re-circulate along the first and second chain paths, respectively, and comprising links having vertically oriented uniformly pitched posts extending therefrom; and a wire weaver disposed proximate to a first end of the linear channel configured for simultaneous motion perpendicular to and parallel to said linear channel. | 2,852 |
8,806,242 | 1. Power sourcing equipment within a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of ports, each coupled to a respective one of a plurality of Ethernet links of a vehicular communication network; and a power management module for providing a power supply voltage over the plurality of Ethernet links to a plurality of network node modules of the vehicular communication network via the plurality of ports; wherein the power management module further selectively disables the power supply voltage to a select network node module of the plurality of network node modules and automatically reapplies the power supply voltage to the select network node module during a power retry procedure; wherein the power management module further: wherein the power management module further: | 11,650 |
8,638,653 | 1. A method for sending voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) information over a wireless broadband access communications channel, the method comprising: generating an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame structure for transmission over the wireless broadband access communications channel, the frame structure having a first data region and a second data region, wherein the first data region includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) modulated with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS)and header information modulated with the first MCS, and wherein the second data region uses no CRC and includes only VoIP payload data associated with the header information in the first data region, and the second data region is modulated with a second MCS of higher order than the first MCS; and retransmitting the entire frame comprising the first data region and the second data region after receiving a request from a receiving device receiving the OFDMA frame that determines a critical error is presented in the first data region. | 3,597 |
8,541,979 | 1. A method for actively balancing charge of a battery pack, comprising: discharging a plurality of battery cells through a first current path during a battery discharge cycle; charging a first battery cell via a second current path by transferring energy from a primary coil to a secondary coil of a first transformer during said battery discharge cycle; and discharging a second battery cell via said second current path during said battery discharge cycle by transferring energy from a secondary coil to a primary coil of a second transformer, said second battery cell discharging at least during a portion of time when said first battery cell is charging. | 26,368 |
9,662,318 | 1. A composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a bitopic muscarinic antagonist having the formula: in a therapeutically effective amount for inhibiting activation of at least one muscarinic receptor selected from the group consisting of: M | 12,287 |
8,906,528 | 1. A bicycle electric power source assembly comprising: a tubular member including an inner peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface and a through hole that passes through the tubular member between the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface; an electric power source member disposed inside the tubular member, the electric power source member including a restriction accepting part; and a restricting member disposed in the through hole, the restricting member including a restricting part that engages with the restriction accepting part to restrict relative movement of the electric power source member with respect to the tubular member in an axial direction of the tubular member. | 27,439 |
9,647,300 | 1. A canopy, comprising: a roof; at least one support having a generally vertical portion and a generally horizontal portion wherein the roof is coupled to and supported by the at least one support; a power conditioner operatively coupled to the canopy, wherein the power conditioner is configured for electrical connection to a power network; and a cavity coupled to the canopy wherein the cavity defines at least one space, wherein each of the at least one space is sized to receive a high capacity battery, the cavity comprising: | 28,783 |
9,251,309 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, from a plurality of sensors via a host machine in communication with a system having a plurality n of components, a current performance signature for the plurality n of components, wherein the plurality n includes a first and a second component, and wherein the host machine includes a processor and memory on which is recorded an aging model and a system function model; recording, via the host machine, a calibrated baseline performance signature for the first and the second components; processing the current and calibrated baseline performance signatures through the aging model to determine a future performance signature for each of the first and second components, including comparing the current and calibrated baseline performance signatures to a recorded trace of past performance values for additional first and second components in a prior-fielded system over time; processing the future performance signatures for the first and second components through the system function model to determine a numeric state of function (SOF) of the system for each of 2 executing a control action when any of the numeric SOFs of the system is 0, including: | 23,451 |
9,520,634 | 1. A resonance device, comprising: a case including a first ground surface and a second ground surface which face each other; a stacked part formed inside the case by stacking a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, the first conductive layer being grounded to the first ground surface, the second conductive layer being separated from the first conductive layer without being grounded to the first ground surface; and a transmission layer connecting the second conductive layer to the second ground surface, wherein the stacked part further comprises: a fourth conductive layer which is separated from the first conductive layer toward an opposite side of the second conductive layer without being grounded to the first ground surface; and a pillar configured to electrically connect the second conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer with each other, wherein the first conductive layer has a planar shape, wherein the first conductive layer has first and second ends opposing each other, wherein the first end is interposed between the second and fourth conductive layers, wherein the second end of the first conductive layer is in direct physical contact with the first ground surface, and wherein the pillar is arranged to be parallel with the first ground surface and the second ground surface and is connected with the second ground surface through the second conductive layer and the transmission layer. | 11,624 |
9,237,263 | 1. An annotating method for adding one or more annotations to data which represent a light field, comprising the steps of: capturing data representing a light field with a plenoptic camera in a device; matching, using a processor, the captured data with reference data; retrieving from a memory, using the processor, an annotation which is associated in the memory with an element of said reference data, wherein said annotation is information related to the element; adding, using the processor, said retrieved annotation to said captured data, so as to render a view in which said captured data is shown with the retrieved annotation associated with an element shown in the captured data which corresponds to said element of said reference data; wherein since said captured data was captured with a plenoptic camera more robust matching of said captured data with reference data is achieved, thereby providing for more reliable annotation of element(s) shown in said captured data. | 24,216 |
9,385,565 | 1. A core material used to form a stator core, the core material comprising a predetermined number of core pieces each formed in a shape of letter “T” comprising a tooth portion and a yoke portion, the yoke portions being arranged in series along a straight connecting line, two adjacent yoke portions being connected to each other with a connecting portion, wherein each of the connecting portions includes a center line running perpendicularly to the straight connecting line from a first side of the connecting portion to a second side thereof opposite to the first side, the first side being located on a side of the yoke from which the teeth portion extends, the first and second sides being at least partially coextensive, respectively, with two parallel straight lines both running in parallel with the straight connecting line with a constant distance between the two straight lines, each connecting portion further comprising: a notch portion formed in the first side of the connecting portion and having two peripheral sides between which the center line runs generally equidistantly, the two peripheral sides being shaped at least in part with a straight line and becoming close to each other as running towards the second side of the connecting portion; a through hole formed in communication with the notch portion between the second side of the connecting portion and the notch portion, the through hole being in a shape symmetrical with respect to the center line and elongated along the straight connecting line; and a narrow bridge running along the straight connecting line to connect two adjacent yoke portions, the narrow bridge being symmetrical with respect to the center line and having a first longitudinal edge defining a peripheral edge of the through hole and a second longitudinal edge defining the second side of the connecting portion and running in a straight line manner in parallel with the straight connecting line, wherein the first longitudinal edge comprises two straight-line segments which extend away from each other in a straight-line manner from the center line and part away at a non-zero angle from the straight connecting line as extending away from the center line, and wherein a width of the narrow bridge defined between the first and second longitudinal edges has a smallest width of W measured along the center line and becomes larger as getting away from the center line along the straight connecting line, and the narrow bridge has an imaginary point in the center line within the narrow bridge at which extensions of the two peripheral sides of the notch portion intersect, wherein the imaginary point lies on the center line within a range greater than 0 and less than or equal to 0.3 W measured from an intersection of the center line and the first longitudinal edge of the narrow bridge. | 39,771 |
8,622,329 | 1. A combined pepper grinder and salt shaker comprising: an upper portion having a first tubular area for storing salt having at least one aperture on a top end for dispensing the salt; said upper portion having attachment means on a bottom end for attaching to a second tubular storage area; and a bottom portion having a pepper grinder that attaches to the upper portion via a pressure fit clip-top shell, spring retaining ring and one or more push buttons that allow a user to easily remove the upper portion from the bottom portion and to rotate the bottom portion to operate the pepper grinder. | 9,813 |
9,298,620 | 1. A system comprising: a first cache, wherein the first cache is set associative with a plurality of sets; and a second cache, wherein the second cache is at a lower level of a cache hierarchy than the first cache; wherein the first cache is configured to: | 40,229 |
9,365,938 | 1. A differential pressure water electrolysis apparatus comprising: a plurality of unit cells stacked to form a cell unit, each unit cell including an electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly and separators stacked on one another, the electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane provided with an anode current collector on one side thereof and a cathode current collector on the other side thereof; first and second end plates disposed at both ends in a stacking direction of the cell unit; and a pressing mechanism provided between the first end plate and the cell unit and pressing the whole cell unit in the stacking direction, the differential pressure water electrolysis apparatus electrolyzing water to produce oxygen on an anode side and hydrogen at a pressure higher than the pressure of the oxygen on a cathode side, wherein the pressing mechanism includes a first corrosion-resistant member fixed to the first end plate, a second corrosion-resistant member that is disposed opposite the first corrosion-resistant member movably back and forth in the stacking direction and that functions as a piston, a third corrosion-resistant member that is fixed to the first corrosion-resistant member or the second corrosion-resistant member and that integrally covers the outer peripheral part of the first corrosion-resistant member and the outer peripheral part of the second corrosion-resistant member to form a fluid introduction chamber communicating with the cathode side, and a pressure-resistant member provided on the outer peripheral part of the third corrosion-resistant member and holding the pressure in the fluid introduction chamber. | 11,036 |
9,598,061 | 1. An electrohydraulic or electromechanical motor vehicle control device for a motor vehicle brake system, comprising an electronic control unit which is connected to a hydraulic unit or to an electrically conductive housing part, wherein the electronic control unit includes at least one first printed circuit board for holding electrical or electronic components and further having at least one contact pin, and at least one electrically conductive connecting contact which contacts the first printed circuit board, the connecting contact contacting a screw fastener extending from the hydraulic unit or the housing part such that an electrically conductive connection is established between the hydraulic unit or the electrically conductive housing part and the a reference potential of the printed circuit board of the electronic control unit, the electronic control unit having a shaped portion forming a bore receiving the screw fastener, the bore having a notch for receiving at least a portion of the connecting contact in order to form the conductive connection. | 8,567 |
9,338,676 | 1. A method for limiting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting from a User Equipment to a network node, comprising: transmitting at least one CQI report to said network node by said User Equipment, wherein said CQI transmission is triggered according to one or more CQI reporting trigger rules, wherein at least one of said CQI reporting trigger rules is based on a scaled CQI feedback cycle, wherein said scaled CQI feedback cycle Ψ is defined as: where T is a basic CQI feedback cycle and μ is a scaling factor, enabling dynamic scaling of said CQI feedback cycle. | 23,174 |
8,516,700 | 1. A method for manufacturing a flat plate heat pipe, including steps of: providing a pipe and a central rod, the pipe having a continuously surrounding wall unit, the wall unit defining a chamber therein, the chamber being formed with a first through-hole and a second through-hole on both ends of the pipe, the central rod being inserted into the pipe in such a manner that an outer surface of the central rod faces an inner surface of the chamber to form a filling space there between, the outer surface of the central rod being formed with a plurality of grooves in communication with the filling space, wherein the grooves are situated parallel to a longitudinal axis of the central rod and extended straight from an end to the other end of the central rod, providing filling powders in the filling space and the grooves, sintering the pipe filled with the powders and then directly drawing the central rod out along an axial direction of the pipe, thereby forming a porous wick structure layer and at least one porous wick structural post on the inner surface of the chamber, the wick structure post having a free end protruding from the wick structure layer; pressing the pipe to become a flattened pipe, the flattened pipe having an upper plate and a lower plate with the porous wick structure, the porous wick structure post being a supporting structure between the upper plate and the lower plate; bonding the porous wick structure post to any one of the upper plate and the lower plate by using diffusion bonding and then the porous wick structure post is bonded to the porous wick structure layer on the inner surface of the upper plate or the lower plate; providing a conduit having a first end exposed to the outside of the pipe and a second end in communication with, and partially received within the chamber prior to sealing the first through-hole and the second through-hole; sealing the first through-hole and the second through-hole of the flattened pipe by diffusion bonding to form a first sealing side and a second sealing side to thereby seal the chamber and connect the conduit to the flattened pipe; and evacuating air in the chamber with the conduit, filling a working fluid in the chamber through the conduit, and sealing the first end of the conduit. | 26,833 |
8,648,342 | 1. A photodetector comprising: a waveguide on a substrate; and a photodetection portion configured to receive light incident on the waveguide, the photodetection portion including, | 46,686 |
8,410,762 | 1. A DC-DC converter which steps down an input voltage to a lower output voltage, comprising: an input terminal to receive the input voltage; an output terminal to output the output voltage; a high-side switch having one end connected to the input terminal; a low-side switch having one end connected to other end of the high-side switch and having other end connected to a ground terminal; an inductor having one end connected to the other end of the high-side switch and having other end connected to the output terminal; a capacitor having one end connected to the other end of the inductor and having other end connected to the ground terminal; a high-side switch controlling circuit configured to generate a high-side switch controlling signal on a basis of a target voltage of the output terminal, the output voltage of the output terminal, and a current flowing through the capacitor, and supply the high-side switch controlling signal to the high-side switch, to control on/off states of the high-side switch; and a low-side switch controlling circuit configured to generate a low-side switch controlling signal on a basis of the high-side switch controlling signal and a current flowing through the inductor, and supply the low-side switch controlling signal to the low-side switch, to control on/off states of the low-side switch. | 11,386 |
9,468,075 | 1. A method to provide emergency lighting, the method comprising: detecting, by a switching controller of an emergency lighting system, absence of electric current in the emergency lighting system; determining, by the switching controller, a state of a main power switch connecting the emergency lighting system with a main power supply, the determining comprises: transmitting a control signal associated with the absence of the electric current to the main power supply through the main power switch; determining the state of the main power switch to be ON as long as the control signal is, received from the main power supply: determining the state of the main power switch to be OFF if the control signal is not received from the main power supply; and switching, by the switching controller, to backup-up power to provide emergency lighting based on the determination of the state of the main power switch. | 43,940 |
9,815,083 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a five-sided container, the container including an open side, a first steel wall opposite the open side, and four steel side walls connected to the first wall, wherein the side walls extend in a first direction with respect to the first wall, and wherein each of the first wall and the four side walls have an interior surface; applying a water-based paint to the interior surfaces of the first wall and the side walls of the container; and continuously forcing heated air at a temperature of about 50 to 200° C. and a velocity of about 0.1 to 10 m/s into the open side of the container as the container moves through a drying chamber to at least partially dry the paint on the interior surfaces of the container, wherein the heated air is directed such that the heated air: | 10,259 |
8,618,775 | 1. A detection system for an over-current internal short in a battery pack, comprising: a plurality of electrically-serially-coupled battery elements storing energy for the battery pack; a sensor system configured to collect a plurality of data from said battery elements; and a controller, coupled to said sensor system, configured to evaluate said plurality of data against one or more predetermined patterns associated with a possible over-current internal short, with said controller configured to indicate said over-current internal short when said plurality of data has a predetermined relationship to said one or more predetermined patterns. | 39,136 |
9,826,477 | 1. A wireless network device, comprising: a power supply module comprising: an LTE module powered by the power supply module, the LTE module comprising: wherein the second electrode unit is electrically connected to the first electrode unit, and the case is rotatable relative to the base. | 17,644 |
9,170,973 | 1. A USB (Universal Serial Bus) communication apparatus comprising: a driver circuit connected to a USB bus and configured to transmit a packet onto said USB bus for a packet transmission period which is determined based on a transmission request signal from another unit; a receiver control circuit configured to generate a fixation request signal and a generation control signal in response to the transmission request signal; a receiver circuit connected to said USB bus, and configured to receive said packet onto said USB bus and to detect a level of signals transmitted on said USB bus so as to generate a squelch signal, and to stop detection of said squelch signal in response to said generation control signal; a line state signal control circuit configured to generate a specific line state signal based on said squelch signal that indicates that the signals transmitted on said USB bus are at a valid level, and to fix said specific line state signal in response to said fixation request signal; and a switch connecting a power supply to said receiver circuit, said switch being operated by the generation control signal, wherein said fixation request signal and said generation control signal are activated during the packet transmission period, and wherein said switch disconnects the power supply from said receiver circuit during the packet transmission period based on said generation control signal. | 9,228 |
9,142,361 | 1. An electric storage cell, comprising: a film-like casing configured to house a layered charge collector and electrolyte; and an electrode terminal connected to the charge collector and exposed to an outside of the film-like casing, the electric storage cell being chargeable/dischargeable using the electrode terminal, wherein overall bending portions of the film-like casing are formed in parallel. | 27,070 |
9,074,055 | 1. A method of manufacturing a nanostructure, comprising: forming a first thin film comprising a first block copolymer on a substrate, the first block copolymer comprising cylinders spaced apart from one another by a first interval; forming a guide pattern on the first thin film; forming a second thin film comprising a second block copolymer between portions of the guide pattern; and curing the second thin film to form a sacrificial structure comprising a first sacrificial block and a second sacrificial block spaced apart from one another by a second interval, wherein the second block copolymer is a lamella block copolymer, and wherein a ratio between the first interval and the second interval is approximately 1:1. | 8,926 |
9,520,497 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a gate structure on the substrate; a spacer adjacent to a sidewall of the gate structure; and a semiconductor layer disposed adjacent to the sidewall of the gate structure and disposed in a recess that extends below an upper surface of the substrate, the semiconductor layer being a strain-inducing pattern, wherein a portion of the recess underlies the gate structure, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises a portion that is in the substrate and directly contacts a lower surface of the spacer, and an interface between the spacer and the portion of the semiconductor layer is not below a lower surface of the gate structure, and wherein the portion of the semiconductor layer comprises a first sidewall that has a linear shape and directly contacts the lower surface of the spacer, and the first sidewall of the portion of the semiconductor layer forms an acute angle with the lower surface of the spacer and extends beyond the sidewall of the gate structure. | 25,519 |
8,882,109 | 1. A paper sheet processing apparatus comprising: a taking-in unit configured to take therein paper sheets one by one; a transport unit configured to transport the paper sheets taken in by the taking-in unit; a recognition unit configured to recognize the paper sheets transported by the transport unit; a plurality of stacking units configured to stack the paper sheets transported by the transport unit, the paper sheets stacked in the stacking units being able to be removed from the stacking units; a control unit configured to sort and transport the paper sheets into the stacking units based on a recognition result of the recognition unit; and a detection sensor configured to detect whether the paper sheets have been removed from the stacking units, wherein when the control unit judges that the paper sheets have been removed from the stacking units based on information from the detection sensor, the control unit outputs removal information on the removed paper sheets, and wherein the removal information includes information on sorts of the paper sheets. | 29,918 |
9,445,639 | 1. An intelligent motorcycle helmet comprising: a motorcycle helmet comprising a plurality of internally mounted sensors within the motorcycle helmet, wherein the plurality of sensors is positioned within an embedded electronics layer, wherein the layer comprises logic processing components, wherein the layer is sandwiched between an outer shell of the helmet and an inner shell of the helmet; a compressible liner positioned between the outer shell and the inner shell, wherein the compressible liner houses the embedded electronics layer, wherein the embedded electronics layer of the compressible liner is removable permitting components embedded in the electronics layer to be diagnosed, repaired, replaced, and upgraded; a non-transitory software program executing within the logic processing components receiving input from the plurality of sensors in real-time; and the non-transitory software program automatically executing a programmatic action responsive to the receiving. | 45,058 |
9,847,023 | 1. A method for informing a driver of a host vehicle regarding conditions of an upcoming passing maneuver by the host vehicle, comprising: ascertaining, by processing circuitry, a speed of a target vehicle ahead of the host vehicle; comparing, by the processing circuitry, the ascertained speed of the target vehicle to a speed of the host vehicle; computing a relative speed of the target vehicle to the host vehicle; identifying, by the processing circuitry and based on the comparison, a value, in units of time, of a future point in time at which the passing maneuver would be completed; and displaying to the vehicle driver the relative speed and at least one of (i) the identified value, and (ii) an information derived from the identified value; wherein the relative speed is determined via preinterpolation to account for acceleration of at least one of the target vehicle and the host vehicle. | 1,607 |
8,496,815 | 1. A modular system for recovering iodine from an aqueous brine, comprising: an oil well for producing a flow of aqueous brine; a pipe connected to the oil well for carrying the flow of aqueous brine; a head tank connected to the pipe to receive a portion of the flow of aqueous brine passing through the pipe; a bypass mechanism disposed in the pipe to permit the head tank to capture said portion of the flow of aqueous brine passing through the pipe; a pH controller that acidifies brine received from the head tank to a desired acidity; an oxidizer that converts iodide in the acidified brine to elemental iodine; and at least one activated carbon contactor module removably inserted into a stream of oxidized brine provided by the oxidizer, wherein the at least one activated carbon contactor module binds the molecular iodine to form an iodine complex. | 49,181 |
8,924,471 | 1. A method, comprising: generating syndication content by a productivity application program arranged for execution by a client computer, wherein the productivity application program is one of the group consisting of: a word-processing application program, a spreadsheet application program, a presentation-based application program, a note-taking application program, an e-mail application program, and a drawing application program, the syndication content comprising an electronic document created by the productivity application program; receiving syndication control parameters to control syndication operations, wherein the syndication control parameters are based on input from a content producer utilizing the productivity application program; receiving a control directive to initiate syndication by the productivity application program; and syndicating the syndication content from the productivity application program to form a syndication resource accessible from a content delivery platform over a network using a syndication referent representing a link to the syndication resource accessible from the content delivery platform. | 8,957 |
9,573,680 | 1. A method for enhanced lift generation via flow separation suppression, the method comprising: ejecting a fluid flow over a lifting surface from a fluid ejection orifice; directing a flow direction of the fluid flow over the lifting surface using a plurality of vanes configured in the fluid ejection orifice; and rotating the flow direction in a span-wise direction over the lifting surface by swiveling the vanes. | 37,440 |
8,566,266 | 1. A method for determining an optimal conditional operational schedule for a set of power generators, comprising the steps of: constructing states and transitions of a factored Markov decision process (fMDP) from a target electrical demand and generator variables, wherein the states of the fMDP indicate a number of time steps a state of each power generator in the set is ON or OFF, wherein each transition of the fMDP changes the state of a power generator between ON and OFF states, and wherein the set of power generators includes multiple power generators; constructing a cost function for the fMDP based on the electrical demand, the generator variables, and a risk coefficient, such that the cost function is a weighted sum of a cost of meeting the electrical demand and a risk of not meeting the electrical demand; and solving the fMDP to obtain the optimal conditional operational schedule, wherein the steps are performed in a processor. | 31,581 |
9,266,524 | 1. A power management method for a hybrid vehicle selectively driven by an electric motor and by a heat engine, the electric motor being supplied with power by a unit for storing electrical power able to be recharged by the heat engine, wherein a charge level of the power storage unit is monitored in order to select a heat engine or electric motor drive mode, the power management method comprising: | 44,121 |
9,115,335 | 1. A phosphoric acid ester of general formula 1 or its salt where R EO=—CH PO=—CH(CH BO=—CH(CH with the proviso that at least one of the radicals R where a=2.2 to 10, b=3 to 20, c=0 to 10, d=0 to 10, and R is selected from branched or linear, saturated or unsaturated alkyl radicals having 8 to 20 carbon atoms. | 24,491 |
9,394,532 | 1. An isolated variant alpha-amylase, comprising two or more alterations at positions corresponding to positions 163, 188, 205, 208, and 209 of the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein (a) the variant has at least 90% and less than 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:4; (b) each alteration is independently a substitution, deletion or insertion; and (c) the variant has alpha-amylase activity. | 21,037 |
9,812,601 | 1. A method of making a multi junction solar cell comprising the actions of: providing a silicon substrate; etching a first surface of the silicon substrate; depositing a dielectric layer on the first surface of the silicon substrate; etching a second surface of the silicon substrate wherein the dielectric layer masks the first surface during the action of etching a second surface of the silicon substrate; depositing a silicon germanium graded buffer layer on the second surface of the substrate; depositing a first solar subcell base layer and a first solar subcell emitter layer within or on top of the graded buffer layer; and depositing a second solar subcell base layer and a second solar subcell emitter layer of GaAsP or other III-V material on top of the first solar subcell base layer and the first solar subcell emitter layer. | 15,356 |
8,499,212 | 1. A method for increasing multicasting reliability, said method comprising: generating a plurality of layers of forward error correction coded packets; receiving a request to join a first multicast group in order to receive content and said first layer of said plurality of layers of forward error correction coded packets; transmitting said content and a first layer of said plurality of said forward error correction coded packets; receiving a request to join a second multicast group in order to receive said second layer of said plurality of layers of forward error correction coded packets if said content was not recoverable from said content and said first layer of a plurality of said forward error correction coded packets from said first multicast group; and transmitting a second layer of said plurality of said forward error correction coded packets upon receipt of the request, wherein said transmission of said second layer of said plurality of said forward error correction coded packets is delayed. | 33,588 |
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