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8,947,853 | 1. A super capacitor structure comprising: a first modified carbonaceous electrode; a second modified carbonaceous electrode; a solid polymer electrolyte interposed between the first modified carbonaceous electrode and the second modified carbonaceous electrode; a first conductive pad electrically connected to the first modified carbonaceous electrode; and a second conductive pad electrically connected to the second modified carbonaceous electrode; wherein the first modified carbonaceous electrode and the second modified carbonaceous electrode each comprises a conductive carbonaceous material containing an active material in a three-dimensional state, and wherein the conductive carbonaceous material includes a carbon fiber having a resistivity lower than 5×10 | 13,722 |
8,609,918 | 1. A method of producing a para-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon, the method comprising: reacting a methylating agent and an aromatic hydrocarbon in the presence of a catalyst formed by coating MFI type zeolite having a particle size of not more than 100 μm with a crystalline silicate to produce the para-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon. | 20,612 |
9,402,270 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory device that stores a primary identifier that is unique to the apparatus, wherein the primary identifier correlates with a displayed identifier of the apparatus that is used by a remote device to initiate communications with the apparatus; identifier logic stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions that when executed by one or more processors of the apparatus cause the apparatus to at least generate a secondary identifier in response to receiving an association request that includes the displayed identifier when the apparatus is in a bootstrap mode, wherein the bootstrap mode is a state of the apparatus when the apparatus is initializing and will accept a new association with the remote device, wherein the association request is a wireless communication that initiates establishing secure communications between the remote device and the apparatus, and wherein the identifier logic is configured to generate the secondary identifier by (i) disabling a previously generated secondary identifier and (ii) generating the secondary identifier again as a different identifier in response to receiving the association request when in the bootstrap mode; and communication logic stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors of the apparatus cause the apparatus to at least establish secure wireless communications with the remote device by causing the remote device to identify the apparatus using the secondary identifier instead of using the primary identifier. | 10,807 |
9,353,628 | 1. An airfoil for a turbine engine comprising: an airfoil having pressure and suction sides extending in a radial direction from a 0% span position at an inner flow path location to a 100% span position at an airfoil tip, wherein the airfoil has a relationship between a leading edge dihedral and a span position, the leading edge dihedral negative from the 0% span position to the 100% span position, wherein a positive dihedral corresponds to suction side-leaning, and a negative dihedral corresponds to pressure side-leaning. | 41,766 |
8,981,190 | 1. A plant of corn variety CV910566, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV910566 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121460. | 17,458 |
8,904,966 | 1. An edible dog chew toy comprising: a first toy member having a first engagement portion defining a stepped configuration, the first engagement portion including an undivided shaft having a tapered end portion; and a second toy member having an aperture that is of variable diameters to define a stepped configuration, the aperture being complimentary to the configuration of the first engagement portion, the first engagement portion being selectively insertable within the aperture to effectuate detachable engagement between the first toy member and the second toy member, the second toy member being moveable relative to the first toy member when engaged with the first toy member, wherein at least one of the first toy member and the second toy member are formed from a consumable material; the first toy member and second toy member being configured to be selectively engageable in a first configuration and a separate second configuration, in the first configuration, the first toy member extends from the second toy member in a first direction such that the first and second toy members collectively define a generally V-shaped configuration, in the second configuration, the first toy member extends from the second toy member in a second direction opposite to the first direction such that the first and second toy members collectively define a generally S-shaped configuration. | 17,625 |
9,759,449 | 1. A feedwater heating system comprising: a heat pump in which a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator are connected in sequence in an annular manner to allow a refrigerant to circulate, the heat pump drawing heat from a heat source fluid that passes through the evaporator, the heat pump heating feedwater that passes through the condenser; and a feedwater tank that can be supplied with the feedwater from a feedwater path through which the feedwater passes through a waste heat recovery heat exchanger, a supercooler, and the condenser in sequence, wherein the waste heat recovery heat exchanger is an indirect heat exchanger between the feedwater supplied to the feedwater tank via the feedwater path and the heat source fluid, the waste heat recovery heat exchanger being configured to perform indirect heat exchange between the feedwater which is in a state prior to being supplied to the supercooler and the heat source fluid which has passed through the evaporator of the heat pump, wherein the supercooler is an indirect heat exchanger between the feedwater supplied to the feedwater tank via the feedwater path and the refrigerant, the supercooler being configured to perform indirect heat exchange between the feedwater which is in a state subsequent to passing through the waste heat recovery heat exchanger and prior to being supplied to the condenser and the refrigerant which is supplied from the condenser to the expansion valve, and wherein the condenser of the heat pump is an indirect heat exchanger between the feedwater supplied to the feedwater tank via the feedwater path and the refrigerant, the condenser being configured to perform indirect heat exchange between the feedwater which has passed through the supercooler and the refrigerant which is supplied to the supercooler from the compressor. | 17,079 |
9,475,999 | 1. A process for the production of middle distillate hydrocarbon bases from an ethanol feedstock that is produced from a renewable source that is obtained from biomass, said process comprising at least: a) purification of said ethanol feedstock to produce a purified feedstock, b) transformation of said purified feedstock obtained from a) into an olefinic effluent comprising at least 50% by weight of olefins having between four to six carbon atoms relative to the total mass of the hydrocarbon compounds that are formed, whereby said transformation is conducted in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one ferrierite zeolite, c) separation of the olefinic effluent that is obtained from b) by eliminating at least a portion of water that is formed during b) and thereafter producing at least one hydrocarbon gaseous effluent that for the most part has three or fewer carbon atoms and at least one olefinic hydrocarbon liquid effluent that for the most part has more than four carbon atoms, d) oligomerization of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon gaseous effluent and a portion of the olefinic hydrocarbon liquid effluent obtained from c) in the presence of a zeolitic catalyst comprising ZSM-5, NU-10, or ZBM-30 or a mixture thereof, producing an effluent comprising middle distillate hydrocarbon bases, and e) fractionation of the effluent that is obtained from d). | 3,873 |
8,985,512 | 1. A fuselage, comprising: a skin defining an outer shape of the fuselage and including: a structural frame operatively coupled to the inner side of the skin, wherein the structural frame includes a plurality of frame members operatively coupled to and extending circumferentially around the inner side of the skin, wherein the frame members are spaced longitudinally along the fuselage; wherein the outer face-sheet and the inner face-sheet are constructed of fiber reinforced composite material as a unitary structure and collectively define a plurality of cavities spaced longitudinally along the fuselage, wherein each cavity of the plurality of cavities extends circumferentially and at least partially around the fuselage and is positioned between adjacent frame members of the plurality of frame members, wherein a core section of the plurality of core sections is positioned within each cavity of the plurality of cavities, and wherein the plurality of core sections and the plurality of cavities are elongate in a circumferential direction around the fuselage. | 28,128 |
9,639,138 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a main system that has at least two states, a normal state and an energy-saving state, the energy-saving state being a state in which the main system consumes less energy than in the normal state; a sub-system that transmits and receives data to and from outside, and that when the main system is in the energy-saving state and the electronic device receives information-request data requesting information from the outside, if response data to the information-request data is not generable by the sub-system, causes the main system to recover to the normal state; and a first memory storing response-availability information, the response-availability information indicating in which communication protocol the response data is generable by the main system; wherein the sub-system causes the main system not to recover to the normal state when the main system is in the energy-saving state and the electronic device receives the information-request data from the outside, if the sub-system determines that the response data is not generable by the main system, based on the communication protocol of the information-request data and the response-availability information stored in the first memory, and if the response data is also not generable by the sub-system; a second memory that stores information for response generation, the information for response generation being used to generate the response data to the information request data; wherein when the main system is in the normal state and the electronic device receives the information request data from the outside, the sub-system causes the second memory to store the information for response generation based on the response data generated by the main system, and when the main system is in the energy saving state and the electronic device receives the information request data from the outside, if the sub-system determines that the response data is generable based on the information for response generation stored in the second memory, the sub-system generates the response data. | 17,619 |
9,540,899 | 1. A method of forming a downhole seal between inner and outer tubulars, the method comprising: bonding a sealing element to an insert with a bond that bonds at temperatures less than a first temperature and increasingly breaks down at temperatures higher than the first temperature; defeating the bond between the sealing element and the insert at a second temperature higher than the first temperature; and, subsequently forming a seal between the inner and outer tubulars with the sealing element including axially actuating a swaging cone of the first tubular relative to the insert, and axially actuating the swaging cone includes deforming the insert and sealing element radially outwardly. | 3,293 |
9,785,662 | 1. A method for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising the steps of: receiving a message on the at least one device sending data over a network, wherein the message comprises at least one of an authorization link or an instruction to send a combination of characters to a specified destination; activating the activation link or sending the combination of characters to the specified destination to authorize retrieval from at least one network element the data that was sent over the network by the at least one device; retrieving from the at least one network element the data that was sent over the network by the at least one device; archiving the data sent over the network by the at least one device in at least one database; analyzing the archived data to determine the presence of one or more key words in the data and/or one or more key phrases in the data; and sending an alert based on the determination of the presence of at least one of the one or more key words in the data and/or the one or more key phrases in the data. | 10,523 |
8,851,713 | 1. A lens member comprising: a central axis; a light-incident side including a Fresnel-lens surface provided with a plurality of annular prisms that are concentrically arranged with respect to the central axis; and a light-exit surface opposite to the light-incident side; the Fresnel-lens surface further including an annular lens portion that is concentrically arranged with respect to the central axis, and that is extended to be longer than the plurality of annular prisms in a direction of the central axis and wider than a total width of at least two annular prisms of the plurality of annular prisms in a direction perpendicular to the central axis. | 27,038 |
8,897,722 | 1. An isolation module, comprising: a step-up autotransformer comprising a first winding and a second winding that are electrically coupled in series at a center node to form series coupled windings; a first port configured to couple an antenna to a first end node of the series coupled windings; a second port coupled to a balancing network at a second end node of the series coupled windings; a third port coupled to a transmit path at the center node; and a fourth port coupled to a differential receive path across the first end node and the second end node, wherein an impedance of the balance network is adjusted based on a change in a ratio of a number of turns in the first winding to a number of turns in the second winding away from a value of one. | 31,332 |
8,650,387 | 1. An IC chip comprising: a plurality of different software modules, each operating according to a different noncontact communication principle; a communication section configured to transmit commands, in accordance with the different noncontact communication principles, to the plurality of software modules for processing, wherein a mask section of the IC chip is configured to mask all interrupts before transmitting the command to the software modules; and a boot management section configured to switch software module boot-up based on the received transmitted command, wherein if during boot-up of a first software module among said plurality of software modules, the transmitted command is for processing of a second software module, than the second software module boot-up is started and completed, and thereafter the boot-up of said first software module may resume. | 133 |
9,173,263 | 1. A light module with linear LED serial group drive device, comprising: an AC input rectifier unit having an input end coupled to an AC Power to convert an AC half-wave voltage signal into a DC full-wave voltage signal for output; an operating voltage control unit having a first end coupled to the AC input rectifier unit via a first passive element, and a second end coupled to ground via a second passive element; a microprocessor coupled to the operating voltage control unit; a dimming control unit coupled between the AC input rectifier unit, operating voltage control unit, and microprocessor; a current setting unit coupled to the microprocessor; an EMI suppression unit having an end coupled to an output end of the AC input rectifier unit via a third passive element, and another end coupled to the microprocessor; an LED serial light module composed of a plurality of LEDs serially connected to each other, the LED serial light module divided into one or more LED groups (L one or more switch units corresponding to the LED groups (L whereby an intelligent control is composed of the operating voltage control unit, microprocessor, dimming control unit, current setting unit, EMI suppression unit, and the switch unit; the LED serial light module is divided into a plurality of the LED groups (L | 3,089 |
9,147,372 | 1. A display device, comprising: a display panel having a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of source signal lines; a gate driver that sequentially selects the plurality of gate signal lines and performs scanning thereon; and a source driver that supplies data signals through the plurality of source signal lines to a plurality of pixels, respectively connected to a selected gate signal line, wherein the source driver comprises: wherein, with respect to each of the source output amplifiers, by using the switching unit in order to switch a destination of a first type data signal having a positive potential and a second type data signal having a negative potential, which are sequentially outputted from the source output amplifiers, the first type data signal and the second type data signal are supplied in an alternating fashion to the respective plurality of pixels connected to each of the plurality of gate signal lines, and only one of either the first type data signal or the second type data signal is supplied to the plurality of pixels connected to each of the plurality of source signal lines, wherein, every time a frame period is switched, a data signal supplied to the plurality of pixels is switched between the first type data signal and the second type data signal for each of the plurality of source signal lines, wherein the source driver comprises: wherein the switching unit switches a destination of the first type data signal to a source signal line among the plurality of source signal lines every time the first source output amplifier outputs the first type data signal, and switches a destination of the second type data signal to another source signal line, which is different from said source signal line that is the destination of the first type data signal, among the plurality of source signal lines every time the second source output amplifier outputs the second type data signal. | 26,084 |
9,201,601 | 1. A storage system which is connected to a host computer, comprising: a storage device; a first controller which comprises a first volatile memory and which controls data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a second controller which is connected to the first controller and which comprises a second volatile memory and controls, together with the first controller, the data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a non-volatile memory; and a battery device, wherein, upon a power outage, the battery device starts supplying electric power to the first controller and the second controller, and wherein the second controller copies data which is stored in the first volatile memory to the second volatile memory and, after copying is complete, stops operation of the first controller, stops the power supply from the battery device to the first controller, and stores data, which is stored in the second volatile memory, in the non-volatile memory. | 49,094 |
8,775,625 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by a device, that a virtual machine should be moved from a first physical system to a second physical system; sending, from the device, a first set of instructions to one or more service appliances at the first physical system; sending, from the device, the first set of instructions to one or more service appliances at the second physical system, sending, from the device and after performance of the state synchronization, a second set of instructions to instantiate a copy of the virtual machine in the second physical system; instantiating, by the device, the copy of the virtual machine at the second physical system, the copy of the virtual machine beginning a second session and processing data upon instantiation, shutting down, by the device, the virtual machine at the first physical system, the device, when shutting down of the virtual machine, being further to: | 2,866 |
9,614,364 | 1. A detection system of distributed generation islanding based on power frequency carrier, the detection system comprising: a power frequency carrier signal generating device ( a power frequency carrier signal detection device ( a signal coupling transformer ( a substation bus ( a distribution power generator (DG) ( a safety isolation breaker ( wherein said power frequency carrier signal generating device comprises a voltage and current monitor circuit, the power frequency carrier signal generating device ( wherein the power frequency carrier signal detection device ( wherein the power frequency carrier signal generating device ( wherein the power frequency carrier signal detection device ( wherein the power frequency carrier signal generating device is connected with said signal coupling transformer though phase A, B C live wires and the N middle wire so that the signal can be send by anyone signal phase, any two phases parallel way or three phases parallel way; wherein the power frequency carrier signal generating device is connected with said signal coupling transformer though phase A, B, C live wires and the N middle wire, or through one of the phase A, B and C live wires and the N middle wire; and wherein the power frequency carrier signal detection device contains a hardware signal synthesis circuit, and the hardware signal synthesis circuit includes 3 voltage transformers: the first voltage transformer ( | 41,046 |
8,725,002 | 1. A method for time transfer in a passive optical network, comprising: an optical line terminal (OLT) ranging optical network units (ONUs) and obtaining ranging information, then, triggered by a periodic pulse per n second (PPnS), wherein n is a positive integer, generating a periodic PPnS timestamp and time of day (TOD) based on a local reference counter, wherein the TOD includes a year, month, day, hour, minute and second corresponding to a current PPnS; the OLT sending said ranging information, the periodic PPnS timestamp and the TOD to the ONU; the ONU predicting a time of the next second according to said periodic PPnS timestamp, the TOD and the ranging information, and outputting the PPnS corresponding to the time of the next second. | 17,742 |
9,297,314 | 1. A nacelle for incorporation into a gas turbine engine, comprising: a nacelle having an inner wall defining a bypass duct, and an outer wall, at least one drive shaft extending through said inner wall, said at least one drive shaft to be connected to a gas turbine engine receiving the nacelle, said at least one drive shaft being connected to drive at least two accessory gear boxes, with said at least two accessory gear boxes being received between said inner and outer walls of said nacelle; and said at least two accessory gearboxes being circumferentially spaced; and said at least one drive shaft consists of one drive shaft driving both of said at least two accessory gearboxes via a first split shaft and a second split shaft within the nacelle. | 30,880 |
8,648,911 | 1. A communication system comprising: a control device that divides one frame into plural sub-frames, distributes image signals of a first image to the plural sub-frames such that a sum of signal levels in the one frame is zero, superimposes the image signals on an image signal of a second image, and outputs the image signals; a display device that displays, for each of the sub-frames, an image based on the image signals output from the control device; and a reception device that shoots an image displayed on the display device in each period same as a period of the sub-frames and calculates the difference between two image signals obtained in each period which is the same as the period of the sub-frames to acquire and display the image signals of the first image, wherein the reception device adds up image signals obtained in each period which is the same as the period of the sub-frames to acquire and display the image signal of the second image, and wherein, when a number of sub-frames in the one frame is represented as n, where n is an integer number equal to or greater than 3, the reception device includes: | 20,583 |
9,172,245 | 1. An electrical outlet, comprising: a receptacle; a sensor operably coupled to the receptacle, wherein the sensor measures electrical parameters at the receptacle; an actuator configured to selectively actuate the receptacle; and a processor that autonomously controls the actuator based at least in part on the electrical parameters measured at the receptacle, electrical parameters from one or more disparate electrical outlets in a microgrid, and a supply of generated electric power in the microgrid at a given time, wherein the microgrid is a local power grid that comprises a plurality of sources of electric power, and wherein one or more of the plurality of sources generate variable amounts of electric power over time. | 15,928 |
8,541,896 | 1. A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water, said system comprising: a buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water; a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to said buoy that is submerged under water when said buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water; and a generator configured to generate electricity based on the pressure head differences in the physical environment created in between the vertical ends of said substantially vertical hollow tube at said desired depth in the deep water to energy; wherein the hollow tube is submerged below the direct influence of surface wave action of the water. | 48,101 |
9,770,944 | 1. An article of manufacture, comprising: a bicycle rim having a longitudinal axis, the bicycle rim including | 48,201 |
8,469,002 | 1. Method for controlling combustion in a multi-cylinder spark-ignition direct-injection internal combustion engine, comprising: determining a desired combustion phasing for maintaining acceptable combustion properties; monitoring combustion phasing of each cylinder; selecting a target combustion phasing corresponding to one of the cylinders having a most retarded combustion phasing; adjusting spark timing in each cylinder not having the most retarded combustion phasing to achieve the target combustion phasing to balance the combustion phasing in all the cylinders at the target combustion phasing; and adjusting an external EGR percentage to converge the balanced combustion phasing in all the cylinders toward the desired combustion phasing. | 18,088 |
8,786,536 | 1. A liquid crystal display comprising: a substrate; a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines; a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors; and at least three gate drivers each exclusively connected to a respective subset of the gate lines, the at least three gate drivers including a first gate driver, a second gate driver, and a third gate driver, wherein the first gate driver includes a first portion disposed on a first side of the liquid crystal display and a second portion disposed on a second side of the liquid crystal display, the second side being opposite to the first side, wherein the second gate driver includes a third portion disposed on the first side of the liquid crystal display and a fourth portion disposed on the second side of the liquid crystal display, wherein the third gate driver includes a fifth portion disposed on the first side of the liquid crystal display and a sixth portion disposed on the second side of the liquid crystal display, wherein the first portion and the second portion of the first gate driver are electrically connected to a first gate line, the third portion and the fourth portion of the second gate driver are electrically connected to a second gate line, and the fifth portion and the sixth portion of the third gate driver are electrically connected to a third gate line, wherein the first portion and the second portion of the first gate driver are further electrically connected to a fourth gate line, the third portion and the fourth portion of the second gate driver are further electrically connected to a fifth gate line, and the fifth portion and the sixth portion of the third gate driver are further electrically connected to a sixth gate line, wherein the second gate line and the third gate line are disposed between the first gate line and the fourth gate line in a layout view of the liquid crystal display, and wherein the fifth gate line is disposed between the fourth gate line and the sixth gate line in the layout view of the liquid crystal display, wherein the gate lines are supplied with gate signals including a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage, and the gate-on voltage is maintained for 3 horizontal periods. | 12,113 |
8,597,803 | 1. A light-emitting composition comprising a compound of formula (I): wherein: core is a nanoparticle core; A is a phosphorescent emitting lumophore selected from the group consisting of: wherein * indicate the point of attachment to L 1 or the core; B is a host; L m is 0 or 1; n is 0 or 1; p is an integer in the range of 1 to 50; q is an integer in the range of 1 to 50; x is an integer in the range of 1 to 100, wherein for x≧2 each L y is an integer in the range of 1 to 100, wherein for y≧2 each L | 13,740 |
9,546,222 | 1. A method for producing low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose having a degree of hydroxypropoxy substitution of from 9.5 to 16.0% by weight, comprising at least the steps of: reacting alkali cellulose with an etherifying agent to obtain low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose, and depolymerizing the obtained low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose, wherein the step of depolymerizing comprises adjusting an oxygen concentration in a reactor to 3 to 7.5% by volume, and wherein the hydroxypropylcellulose is insoluble in water, but soluble in an alkali solution. | 22,849 |
8,593,873 | 1. A method for operating memory cells, comprising: programming a number of memory cells such that each of the number of memory cells are at either a first program state or a second program state, the second program state having a first program verify voltage associated therewith; and reprogramming the number of memory cells such that at least one of the number of memory cells is reprogrammed to a third program state having a second program verify voltage associated therewith, wherein those of the number of memory cells having a threshold voltage less than the second program verify voltage represent a same data value. | 36,387 |
8,822,734 | 1. A process for hydroformylating an olefinic feedstock, comprising forming a homogeneous reaction mixture including the olefinic feedstock, a hydroformylation catalyst and a single inert solvent, reacting the olefinic feedstock with carbon monoxide and with hydrogen in the presence of the catalyst under elevated temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to carry out a hydroformylation of the olefinic feedstock, then recovering substantially all of the solvent overhead as a vapor by reducing the pressure and degassing the product mixture. | 39,429 |
9,672,305 | 1. A system, comprising: a clock generation unit configured to generate an output clock signal; a clock management unit configured to generate an enable signal; a gating circuit configured to: a functional circuit configured to receive the gated clock signal. | 13,338 |
8,958,713 | 1. A power supply system comprising: a switching power supply configured to rectify and smooth an alternating current voltage of an alternating current power supply and generate a predetermined direct current voltage; a first capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode being connected to one end of the alternating current power supply; a second capacitor including a third electrode and a fourth electrode, the third electrode being connected to the other end of the alternating current power supply; a rectification circuit configured to rectify an alternating current voltage applied to the first and second capacitors, the rectification circuit including an output line connected with an output line of the switching power supply; a backflow regulation element that is provided on the output line of the rectification circuit and is configured to regulate backflow of current from the switching power supply towards the rectification circuit; a signal generation circuit connected to the output line of the rectification circuit, the signal generation circuit configured to generate a detection signal corresponding to a zero cross point of the alternating current power supply based on an output of the rectification circuit; a power supply line positioned at a more downstream side than the backflow regulation element and connected to the output line of the switching power supply and the output line of the rectification circuit; an electricity storage unit connected to the power supply line; a voltage limit element configured to limit a voltage of the output line of the rectification circuit to be lower than a voltage of the power supply line, and a control unit that is positioned at a more downstream side than the electricity storage unit, power being fed to the control unit through the power supply line, wherein the control unit is configured to detect a zero cross point based on the detection signal. | 18,499 |
9,427,708 | 1. A hollow fiber membrane module comprising a bundling tube including a body part housing a hollow membrane group inside and head parts placed at both terminals of the body part and O-rings with which the bundling tube is fitted into a housing being attached to outer circumferential surfaces of the head parts, wherein at least one of the head parts are divided into two in a place closer to a terminal of the bundling tube than places where the O-rings are attached while maintaining a cylindrical shape of the head part, and the divided parts have a slidable structure while maintaining a coupled condition therebetween that forms the cylindrical shape. | 23,091 |
8,368,110 | 1. A side view light emitting diode (LED) package structure for mounting on a substrate, the side view LED package structure comprising: a package housing with an emitting opening and a dissipation opening; an LED chip disposed inside the package housing such that the LED chip is oriented to emit light out of the package housing via the emitting opening; two electrode leads electrically connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the LED chip, respectively, such that an external power is supplied to the LED chip via the two electrode leads; and a thermal conductive member not the same as either of the two electrode leads and having a first part and a second part connected to the first part, the first part penetrating through the dissipation opening and the second part being disposed outside the package housing, wherein: | 22,237 |
8,452,914 | 1. An electronic device with improved flash memory compatibility, comprising: a NAND flash, including a plurality of physical blocks, wherein each of the physical blocks is further divided into a plurality of physical pages; a processing unit; and a program memory, storing application software and codes of an operating system, wherein: the application software executed by the processing unit requests for NAND flash access in accordance with a specific page size; and the operating system run by the processing unit acts as an intermediary between the application software and the NAND flash and provides a device driver which allocates a number of the physical pages of the NAND flash to each virtual page of the specific page size for responding to NAND flash access requests from the application software by referring to these virtual pages, wherein the device driver provided by the operating system and run by the processing unit further transforms one virtual page read/write instruction requested by the application software into separate physical page read/write instructions to separately read/write the physical pages allocated to form the virtual page that the virtual page read/write instruction wants to access. | 23,200 |
8,488,922 | 1. A dispersion compensator, comprising: a waveguide including an input end configured to receive an input optical signal and an output end configured to provide an output optical signal; a first closed loop resonator, the waveguide and the closed loop resonator constituting a tunable coupler, a first portion of the tunable coupler being a first optical coupler having an input configured to receive the input optical signal and an output, a second portion of the tunable coupler constituting a differential phase cell having an input coupled to the output of the first optical coupler and an output, a third portion of the tunable coupler being a second optical coupler having an input coupled to the output of the differential phase cell and an output configured to provide the output optical signal, wherein, collectively, the first and second couplers and the differential phase cell constitute a Mach-Zehnder interferometer having first and second arms extending between the first and second couplers, the differential phase cell including the first and second arms of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the first arm having a first length and the second arm having a second length different than the first length, such that the first arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer includes a portion of the first closed loop resonator, and the differential phase cell further including a tuning element configured to adjust a phase of light propagating in one of the first and second arms; a second closed loop resonator optically coupled to a portion of the second arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer between the first and second couplers; and a tuning element including a thermal device located adjacent to the second arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a portion of the second closed loop resonator, the thermal device overlapping the portion of the second arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the portion of the second closed loop resonator to adjust a temperature of the portion of the second arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a portion of the second closed loop resonator. | 1,704 |
9,752,811 | 1. A refrigeration control system for a refrigeration unit having a refrigeration cabinet volume capable of being maintained at a temperature below ambient temperature, a compressor capable of compressing refrigerant, a condenser capable of cooling the refrigerant, one or more external fans capable of circulating air over the condenser, an evaporator capable of cooling the internal cabinet volume, one or more internal fans capable of circulating air over the evaporator, and a temperature sensor that detects a refrigeration unit internal cabinet temperature, comprising: a presence sensor that detects the presence of humans at the refrigeration cabinet; and a controller, in communication with the temperature and the presence sensors, that controls the compressor and the internal and external fans responsive to input from the temperature and the presence sensors and anticipated actuation of the temperature and the presence sensors, in accordance with a target temperature of the refrigeration cabinet volume set at the controller, the controller controlling at least one of the external fans between a plurality of operating speeds independently of the operating state (ON or OFF) of the compressor such that, for a given refrigeration cabinet volume target temperature setting, the at least one of the external fans, in the event of detected or anticipated presence of human traffic, operates at a lower speed than in otherwise identical operating conditions in an absence of human traffic, wherein the controller is configured to operate responsive to the temperature and the presence sensors and anticipated actuation of the temperature and the presence sensors such to control the fan speed according to the following operational modes: | 31,338 |
8,634,987 | 1. A control apparatus for an electric vehicle having an electric motor for driving vehicle wheels, a friction brake for braking vehicle wheels in accordance with depression of a brake pedal by a driver of the electric vehicle, a brake sensor for detecting a brake operation amount which represents a depression amount of the brake pedal, and a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed, comprising: torque setting means for setting a target creep torque of said electric motor based on said brake operation amount and said vehicle speed; motor controlling means for drive-controlling said electric motor based on said target creep torque; and sensor abnormality detecting means for detecting an abnormality in said brake sensor, wherein, when an abnormality occurs in said brake sensor, said torque setting means sets said target creep torque at or above a minimum creep torque required for creep travel regardless of said brake operation amount. | 35,347 |
8,882,342 | 1. A watch case comprising: a middle, a tube which is provided with a thread and is integral with the middle, a control crown provided with a thread which can be screwed onto the thread of said tube, the control crown comprising an outer part with a distinctive mark which can be seen from the exterior, and an inner part which is accommodated inside the outer part and is provided with said thread which can be screwed onto the thread of the tube, one of said parts comprising means for connection to a control rod, and in particular to a rod of a winding mechanism, and clamping means in order to keep said outer part and said inner part in an angular position which is determined relative to the longitudinal axis of said tube, characterized in that wherein said inner part comprises first angular indexing means, the outer part comprises second angular indexing means, these indexing means being formed such as to engage axially in one another by means of relative axial displacement between the inner part and the outer part, these indexing means being kept engaged by said clamping means. | 29,898 |
8,775,881 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a logic die; a memory disposed in the logic die; a processor embedded in the logic die, the processor arranged to build a test pattern in the memory, the test pattern structured to test an associated electronic device structure, wherein the processor and the memory are arranged to generate a series of bursted patterns and stalls to test the associated electronic device structure. | 22,186 |
9,187,642 | 1. A fire-resistant optical element for a vehicle or a building, said optical element consisting of a polymer compound and up to 30 wt. % of at least one additive ingredient, wherein said at least one additive ingredient is selected from the group consisting of fillers, reinforcing materials and materials that provide a special effect; wherein said polymer compound has a spectral transmittance T of at least 85% at a wavelength of 380 nm and at a thickness of 2 mm, said polymer compound transmits light with wavelengths in a range of 380 nm to 750 nm, said polymer compound has a colour rendering index R wherein said polymer compound consists of: a polysulphide with a structural formula (II): a polyether sulphone with a structural formula (IX): a polyaryl ether sulphone with a structural formula (XI): wherein R is a para-phenylene group and n is from 20 to 1000. | 29,076 |
8,957,179 | 1. A method of producing a shape memory polyamide fabric, comprising: adding an aromatic polyvalent carboxylic acid and an aromatic polyvalent amine when polyamide is polymerized, thereby synthesizing a copolyamide prepolymer having an aromatic component, a total amount of which ranges from 0.4 mol % to 10 mol % based on an amount of a raw material for the polyamide; subjecting the copolyamide prepolymer to weaving or knitting, thereby producing a woven or knitted fabric; and subjecting the woven or knitted fabric to a heat treatment under conditions of (1) below and then to a dyeing treatment under conditions of (2) below: wherein Tg is a glass transition temperature of a copolyamide prepolymer, Tx is a heat treatment temperature, Tm is a melting point of a copolyamide prepolymer, and Td is a dyeing temperature. | 7,834 |
8,800,230 | 1. A masonry block system comprising: a plurality of blocks, configurable in a stackable row, each of said plurality of blocks having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein said bottom surface of each of said plurality of blocks is configured to match with the top surface of each of said plurality of blocks, wherein each of said plurality of blocks contains a cavity such that said stackable row has a vertical opening therethrough; and a starter rail, configured to mate with said bottom surface of each of said plurality of blocks and configured to be in communication with said vertical opening, said rail including at least a first longitudinal planar surface and a second longitudinal planar surface longitudinally connected to the first longitudinal planar surface, wherein an angle between said first longitudinal planar surface and said second longitudinal planar surface is acute and forms a void when one of the said plurality of blocks is placed over said starter rail, wherein the first longitudinal planar surface is co-planar to a base of the one of the said plurality of blocks when the one of the said plurality of blocks is placed over said starter rail, and wherein the bottom of said void has a larger width than the width of the vertical opening, such that when hardenable, flowable material is poured into said opening and void of said starter rail, movement of the blocks is prevented; a channel located proximate said top surface, said channel extending throughout said plurality of blocks; and wherein at least one of said plurality of blocks has a third surface configured to mate with said top surface to form an intersection. | 11,811 |
9,574,970 | 1. A distributed optical fibre sensor for determining at least one physical parameter as a function of position along a sensing fibre from properties of probe light backscattered within the sensing fibre, the sensor comprising: a probe light source arranged to launch probe light pulses into the sensing fibre, the probe light pulses including successive groups each of two or more probe light pulses having different optical wavelengths to each other; a detector arranged to detect probe light backscattered in said sensing fibre, including separately detecting interference signals in the backscattered probe light arising from respective probe light pulses of said different wavelengths; and an analyser arranged to determine said parameter as a function of position along the sensing fibre from the detected interference signals of one or more of said wavelengths, wherein the probe light source is arranged such that the two or more different optical wavelengths of probe light pulses in a group provide one or more predetermined relative phase bias misalignments between the interference signals arising from the different wavelengths. | 35,941 |
9,234,210 | 1. An auxotrophic mammalian cell genetically engineered to disrupt expression of a protein, said cell comprising: a gene disruption of a gene encoding a glycine N-methyltransferase, wherein said glycine N-methyltransferase is inactive or not expressed in said auxotrophic mammalian cell; and wherein said auxotrophic mammalian cell is unable to grow or undergoes cell death in the absence of cysteine. | 28,533 |
9,124,453 | 1. A receiver for estimating a channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system, the receiver comprising: a maximum estimator configured to estimate, from a signal received from a transmitter through multipaths, a delay value of a multipath having a maximum power among the multipaths; a rotator configured to circular-rotate the signal using the estimated delay value before the signal is input to a fast fourier transform (FFT) unit; and a channel estimator configured to estimate a channel impulse response of the circular-rotated signal. | 40,558 |
9,410,488 | 1. A variable valve timing control device of an internal combustion engine, the variable valve timing control device controlling a valve timing control system that controls valve timing of the internal combustion engine, comprising: an electronic control unit configured to adjust a valve timing in response to receiving an operation amount of the valve timing control system, the electronic control unit calculating a brake operation amount for controlling the valve timing, and dividing the brake operation amount calculated by the electronic control unit at position detection timing of the valve timing control system, and outputting a divided brake operation amount until next position detection timing, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control a division method of the brake operation amount to switch so that the effective current cannot be increased when an environmental temperature reaches a high temperature, or to switch in response to a drive power supply voltage for a motor that drives the valve timing control system, and a number of divisions of the operation amount is increased when the drive power supply voltage for the motor that drives the valve timing control system is low. | 34,036 |
9,409,552 | 1. An electronic park brake module for use with a vehicle, the electronic park brake module comprising: a processor; and an electronic memory unit, wherein the processor and the electronic memory unit are configured to cooperate to: wherein the first predetermined amount of braking force exceeds the second predetermined amount of braking force, and wherein the second predetermined amount of braking force exceeds the third predetermined amount of braking force. | 27,729 |
8,722,965 | 1. A hybrid maize variety X90C500 seed, wherein representative seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH1MD0 with a second plant of variety PHWPD, and wherein representative seed of said varieties PH1MD0 and PHWPD have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-120432 and PTA-11978, respectively. | 46,140 |
9,597,968 | 1. A system for charging a battery powered vehicle and including a charging receptacle on the vehicle electrically coupled to the battery, wherein the charging receptacle is disposed within a charging port having a charging port housing, a hinged door, and a hinge pocket, the system comprising: a source of electrical energy; a connector electrically coupled to the source for charging the battery when the connector is electrically coupled to the receptacle; and a shroud on the connector for preventing the connector from being exposed to weather related elements, wherein the shroud forms a compressive seal around the charging receptacle that covers both the charging port housing and the hinge pocket. | 36,701 |
8,426,994 | 1. A method of control of noise emission from a wind park in operation, the wind park comprising a plurality of wind turbines, the method comprising: providing measurements of at least one wind speed and of at least one wind direction to a park noise emission emulation module including, for each of two or more of said plurality of wind turbines, a wind turbine noise emission model being suitable for producing a prediction of noise emission from the wind turbine as a function of at least one operational characteristic, the geographical position of each of said plurality of wind turbines, and the geographical position of at least one noise emission point, emulating the noise level at the at least one noise emission point as a result of noise emitted by said plurality of wind turbines, and controlling the operation of the wind park from the result of the emulation so as to prevent the noise level at the at least one noise emission point from exceeding a predetermined threshold level. | 42,464 |
9,355,770 | 1. A method for designing a transformer comprising: setting specifications for the transformer input voltage, output voltage, and power capacity, setting the primary winding length as a fixed length according to an empirically derived optimization formula, estimating an initial secondary winding length by calculating the secondary length L to be the specified secondary voltage multiplied by said primary winding length divided by the specified primary voltage, determining minimum wire gauges for the primary and secondary windings necessary to meet said specified power capacity wherein the initial winding lengths and determined initial wire gauges form the initial primary and the initial secondary windings, winding the initial secondary winding around a selected secondary core segment, winding the initial primary winding around a selected primary core segment, testing the output voltage of the transformer to determine whether the output voltage meets the output voltage specification, modifying iteratively the secondary winding length and rewinding and retesting the output voltage until the output voltage meets the output voltage specification, testing the width of wound secondary winding to determine whether the secondary windings fill the selected secondary core segment, modifying iteratively the secondary winding gauge and rewinding and retesting the secondary windings until the secondary windings fill the selected secondary core segment, testing the width of wound primary winding to determine whether the primary windings fill the selected primary core segment, modifying iteratively the primary winding gauge and rewinding and retesting the primary windings until the primary windings fill the selected primary core segment. | 38,849 |
8,435,657 | 1. A preservation assembly of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack comprising: a polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack that is provided with an oxidizing agent passage having an inlet and an outlet and extending through a cathode and a reducing agent passage having an inlet and an outlet and extending through an anode, the polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack being configured to generate power through an electrochemical reaction caused to occur in the cathode and the anode using an oxidizing agent supplied from the inlet of the oxidizing agent passage and a reducing agent supplied from the inlet of the reducing agent passage; and a maintaining unit that maintains a pressure-reduced state in the oxidizing agent passage and the reducing agent passage, wherein: the maintaining unit includes a sealing container that encloses the entirety of the polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack and is provided with an exhaust outlet, and the maintaining unit further includes at least one of an exhaust device attached in a sealed state to the exhaust outlet, a sealing plug that seals the exhaust outlet, and a sealing valve disposed to close the exhaust outlet in a sealed state. | 148 |
8,512,959 | 1. A method of biomarker discovery, said method comprising the steps of: providing a complex analyte mixture sample, said sample comprising proteins and peptides, as a candidate biomarker source, said complex analyte mixture sample being depleted of proteins that are less than 10% of the total number, and simultaneously represent at least 50% of the total mass, of proteins and peptides in said sample, said depleted proteins and peptides being denominated abundant proteins; providing a control sample for said complex analyte mixture sample; injecting a model animal with an aliquot of said abundant protein-depleted complex analyte mixture sample as an immunogen so as to generate, from individual hybridoma cell lines, a population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte mixture sample; screening said population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte mixture sample against another aliquot of said complex analyte mixture sample; screening said population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte mixture sample against an aliquot of said control sample; and selecting at least one monoclonal antibody that exhibits a statistically significant difference in binding to an antigen in said complex analyte mixture sample compared to an antigen in said control sample, whereby the antigen(s) selectively bound by said at least one selected monoclonal antibody are said biomarker(s). | 3,039 |
9,458,591 | 1. A system for preparing ground to place piles therein, said system comprising: means for rotating an anchor assembly, the anchor assembly comprising a screw anchor, an extension shaft coupled to the screw anchor, a reducer section having a plurality of pin holes disposed around its periphery, the anchor assembly adapted for inserting into the ground to a predetermined depth; a removable coupler apparatus positioned in the anchor assembly, the coupler apparatus comprising a rotatable longitudinal shaft that is coupled to a plurality of slidable pins that are slidable through the pin holes in the anchor assembly and orienting it so that the pins are aligned with the pin holes; means for rotating the longitudinal shaft to slide the pins through the pin holes and secure the removable coupler apparatus to the anchor assembly; means for attaching a shaft section to the longitudinal shaft and attaching a pipe section to the removable coupler apparatus; and means for rotating the pipe section to cause the anchor assembly and removable coupler apparatus to be pulled into the ground to a desired depth. | 34,647 |
9,544,849 | 1. A method for transmitting a signal of a station (STA) operable in a power saving mode in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a first time period by applying a scaling factor to a first time interval related to the power saving mode, and transmitting at least one of a PS-Poll frame and a trigger frame according to the determined first time period, wherein the scaling factor applied to the first time interval is commonly applied to a second time interval and a third time interval related to the power saving mode, when the STA determines a second time period from the second time interval and a third time period from the third time interval. | 33,442 |
9,165,236 | 1. A smart card manufacturing method comprising a dielectric carrier film, with on one side, at least one electrical contact zone and, on a second side opposite to the first one, an electronic element assembly comprising at least one electronic chip and connecting wires, the electronic chip being connected to the said at least one electrical contact zone by the connecting wires going through a first set of openings in the dielectric carrier film, the method comprises the following steps: on the second side of the dielectric carrier film, props of metal wires are fixed on the electrical contact zone in a direction perpendicular to the plane defined by the dielectric carrier film and having a height that is greater than or at least equal to the height of the connecting wires before a protective resin is applied to form a first protective coat with thickness that is at least equal to the maximum extension of said props in a direction perpendicular to the plane defined by the said dielectric carrier film, with an area along the plane of the dielectric carrier film that is greater than the required format of the smart card, on the first protective coat, a second protective coat is applied at least on the electronic chip, with an area along the plane of the dielectric carrier film that is greater than the required format of the smart card, said second protective coat being placed on said props, the second protective coat is fixed to the first protective coat by curing the first protective coat, the assembly obtained in that way is cut to the required format. | 41,433 |
8,547,595 | 1. An image processing apparatus for performing a process of superimposing a pixel having a plurality of color components on an edge extracted from an input image including a plurality of color components, comprising: an edge determination section for determining whether or not a pixel of interest in the input image is a pixel constituting an edge that satisfies a given condition; an edge direction determination section for determining a direction in which a surrounding pixel having a color more similar to a color of the pixel of interest than pixels surrounding the pixel of interest is present on the basis of a difference between a pixel value of the pixel of interest and an average value of pixel values of pixels in a first region adjacent to the pixel of interest, and a difference between the pixel value of the pixel of interest and an average value of pixel values of pixels in a second region different from the first region and adjacent to the pixel of interest, when the edge determination section determines that the pixel of interest is a pixel constituting an edge that satisfies the given condition; and a process determination section for determining, on the basis of a direction determined by the edge direction determination section, whether or not to perform a process of superimposing a pixel having a plurality of color components on the pixel of interest; a determination section for determining color components of a superimposing pixel when the process determination section determines to perform the superimposing process; and a superimposing process section for performing the process of superimposing a pixel having the color components determined by the determination section on the pixel of interest. | 7,985 |
9,178,413 | 1. An integrated circuit adapted for coupling to an external AC/DC circuit that includes an external Power Factor Correction (PFC) circuit, wherein the external AC/DC circuit is adapted to receive an AC sinusoidal input signal, wherein the external PFC circuit is adapted to output a DC supply voltage, wherein the AC sinusoidal input signal has a plurality of periods, wherein each period includes two half periods, the integrated circuit comprising: a first terminal; a second terminal; a third terminal; a PFC control circuit comprising: a Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) adapted to output a pulse width modulated signal onto the third terminal; and a PFC Autodetect circuit that monitors a voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein (a) if a digital enable/disable signal is latched to a first digital logic value then the PFC Autodetect circuit enables the PWM if the voltage exceeds a first predetermined voltage for more than a predetermined amount of time, and (b) if the digital enable/disable signal is latched to a second digital logic value then the PFC Autodetect circuit disables the PWM if a low power condition is detected, wherein the first predetermined voltage is at least in part determined by a first multi-bit digital value stored in the PFC Autodetect circuit, and wherein the predetermined amount of time is at least in part determined by a second multi-bit digital value stored in the PFC Autodetect circuit. | 15,517 |
9,555,714 | 1. A power supply system in which a powertrain of an electric-powered vehicle configured to include a first motor-generator for generating vehicle driving force serves as a load, the power supply system comprising: an electric power line electrically connected to said load; a plurality of DC power supplies; a power converter connected across said plurality of DC power supplies and said electric power line; and a control device configured to control operations of said load and said power converter, said load being configured to have a power generation mechanism for generating electric power for charging said plurality of DC power supplies during vehicle traveling or during a vehicle stop, in accordance with an operation command from said control device, said power converter including a plurality of switching elements and being configured to control a voltage of said electric power line by operating with one operation mode among a plurality of operation modes being applied, the plurality of operation modes being different in a manner of power conversion between said plurality of DC power supplies and said electric power line, said plurality of operation modes including: said control device including said plurality of DC power supplies being implemented by a first DC power supply and a second DC power supply having different capacities, and said charging/discharging control unit in said first mode, adjusting said charging/discharging request power setting so as to bring SOC of each of said first and second DC power supplies close to the control target, and in said second mode, adjusting said charging/discharging request power setting so as to bring SOC of one DC power supply having lower capacity than the other of said first and second DC power supplies close to the control target. | 27,059 |
9,476,034 | 1. An engineered ketoreductase polypeptide having ketoreductase activity, wherein said ketoreductase polypeptide is at least 85% identical to SEQ ID NO:2, and wherein the ketoreductase polypeptide comprises arginine at position 40. | 47,076 |
8,646,914 | 1. An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus comprising: a spatial light modulating unit configured to modulate light in a polarization direction of one of two polarized light components, wherein the light is emitted from a light source; a changing unit configured to include a λ/4 plate and to rotate a polarization direction of the modulated light by the modulated light passing through the λ/4 plate twice, wherein the spatial light modulating unit modulates the light from the changing unit so as to modulate the light in a polarization direction of the other of the two polarized light components; an irradiating unit configured to irradiate an eye with the modulated light; and an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image of the eye on the basis of return light from the eye irradiated with the modulated light. | 35,157 |
9,071,667 | 1. A method comprising: forming a request to access a media stream at a client device; responsive to communicating the request to access the media stream, receiving media stream access information via a network, the access information comprising: creating, from the access information, a fragment template for the media stream having entries for each of the one or more fragments associated with the media stream, each entry indicating a playback order, a duration, and a location of a fragment; retrieving the one or more fragments associated with the media stream based on the fragment template; and consuming the retrieved fragments by the client device. | 9,681 |
8,847,908 | 1. A display device, comprising: a display panel that displays an image; a touch panel of electrostatic capacitance coupling type disposed so as to face the display panel; and an adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the touch panel to bond said display panel and said touch panel to each other, wherein the adhesive layer has a shield pattern that is configured to prevent electrical noise generated in the display panel from affecting the touch panel, and wherein the shield pattern has a frame-shaped pattern portion disposed along a circumference of the adhesive layer in a frame shape, and a fine pattern portion disposed inside of said frame-shaped pattern portion in a grid pattern. | 32,595 |
9,016,012 | 1. A wind turbine tower system comprising: a wind turbine tower with a height of at least 80 meters, the wind turbine tower having a vertically extending lattice structure formed of a plurality of modular components, wherein each of said plurality, of modular components being pre-stressed; a wind turbine mounted on the wind turbine tower; wherein tile plurality of modular components includes a plurality of vertical columns, each of the plurality of vertical columns comprising concrete and extending from a base of the wind turbine tower to a top of the wind turbine tower, and the plurality of vertical columns arranged to provide a multi-sided polygonal cross-section; wherein the plurality of modular components further include a plurality of braces between adjacent columns; wherein for each of the columns cross-section area decreases from a base of the wind turbine tower to a top of the wind turbine tower; wherein each of the columns comprises a plurality of ducts with tendons running through the ducts to provide post-tensioning and configured to provide staged post-tensioning such that fewer ducts and tendons are present in successively higher stages of the columns. | 37,706 |
8,931,495 | 1. A system for washing-out concrete pouring equipment comprising: a bin for receiving waste materials washed with water from concrete pouring equipment, wherein the bin is adapted to allow liquid to drain therefrom; a base unit including sidewalls defining a receptacle for receiving the bin and a sloped bottom for conveying liquid drained from the bin to a sump; and a filtering system for filtering particulate matter from liquid provided from the sump to recover the water, the filtering system comprising: | 2,659 |
8,359,832 | 1. An engine exhaust aftertreatment system comprising: an injector configured to introduce a reductant into an exhaust stream of an engine; and a mixer disposed in the exhaust stream including: | 38,834 |
9,544,690 | 1. A method for forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, the method comprising: populating a configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of an upstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers; populating the configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of a downstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers; coupling at least one audio source to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers; receiving an audio signal from the audio source at the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source; sending the audio signal from the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source to a downstream Bluetooth® speaker; sending a tail signal from the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source to an upstream Bluetooth® speaker; and sending the audio signal from the downstream Bluetooth® speaker to each additional downstream Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers until one of the downstream Bluetooth® speakers receives the audio signal and the tail signal. | 28,704 |
8,653,803 | 1. A voltage generation circuit for generating an output voltage by supplying a driving pulse to a transistor connected to a DC power source so as to be turned on, comprising: a voltage detecting circuit that generates a detection voltage according to the output voltage; a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a reference voltage which changes periodically; a comparison circuit that generates a control signal according to a result of a comparison between the detection voltage and the reference voltage, wherein control pulses each having a pulse width according to the detection voltage sequentially appear in the control signal; and a driving pulse generation circuit that generates the driving pulse corresponding to the control pulse and supplies the generated driving pulse to the transistor when the pulse width of the control exceeds a predetermined width, and stops generating the driving pulse when the pulse width of the control pulse becomes smaller than the predetermined width. | 21,143 |
8,739,192 | 1. A disc loading apparatus, comprising: a frame base; a sub-frame disposed on the frame base and comprising a turntable configured to drive a disc; a loading lever disposed on the frame base and configured to load the disc on the turntable; an eject lever disposed on the frame base and configured to eject the disc from the turntable to the outside of the frame base; an eject roller disposed at a leading end of the eject lever and configured to contact an edge of the disc; and an elastic skirt portion comprising a skirt, disposed adjacent to the eject roller, and an elastic extension portion extending from the skirt. | 8,222 |
9,593,252 | 1. An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising: a first nozzle that ejects a base metal pigment ink composition, wherein a diameter of the first nozzle is 30 μm or less, and wherein the base metal pigment ink composition contains a flat base metal pigment of which a 50% average particle diameter D50 is in a range of 100 nm to 1 μm, and a controller that controls an ejection interval T wherein a difference between a 90% average particle diameter D90 of the base metal pigment and a 10% average particle diameter D10 of the base metal pigment (D90-D10) is a range of 0.1 μm to 0.8 μm. | 38,697 |
9,062,449 | 1. A wall structure adapted to be secured to a roof structure, said wall structure comprising: first and second reinforced fibrous wallboards disposed substantially parallel to one another to form a wall cavity therebetween extending from a foundation to a top of said wall structure; a reinforcement member extending continuously from within said foundation through said wall structure to a location above said top of said wall structure, said reinforcement member being secured at one end within said foundation and adapted to be secured at the other end to said roof structure; a first material disposed within said wall cavity from said foundation to a location below said top of said wall structure, said reinforcement member being in direct contact with said first material; and a second material disposed within said wall cavity from said location to said top of said wall structure, wherein said first material is different than said second material. | 7,311 |
9,378,870 | 1. A combination, comprising: a superconducting joint joining superconducting wires each comprising superconducting filaments electrically joined together and tails of the superconducting wires being parts of the wires leading to the joint; a cooling surface comprising a thermally and electrically conductive material; an electrically isolating surface coating provided between the cooling surface and the joint; the superconducting joint, the surface coating and the cooling surface being in mechanical and thermal contact; the superconducting joint being electrically isolated from the cooling surface by the surface coating; the cooling surface being provided with a thermally conductive tag in thermal contact with the cooling surface; and the superconducting joint being mechanically restrained in thermal and mechanical contact with the tag. | 2,226 |
9,400,278 | 1. A biochip, comprising: a flat carrier; an array of spots containing catcher molecules, each spot being assigned a microelectrode arrangement for detecting binding events between the catcher molecules and target molecules applied via an analyte solution, wherein the microelectrode arrangement is at least a two-pole system, the microelectrode arrangement being at least partially embedded in a hydrophilic reaction layer which is permeable to target molecules and in which immobilized catcher molecules are distributed three-dimensionally, wherein the catcher molecules are configured to cause the binding events, wherein the hydrophilic reaction layer has a thickness of between 2 and 10 μm, and a sum of electrode width and electrode spacing is from 2 to 100 μm, wherein the microelectrode arrangement is an interdigital electrode arrangement, and wherein the hydrophilic reaction layer covers the interdigital electrode arrangement. | 41,941 |
9,520,379 | 1. A method of integrated chip bonding, comprising: forming a conductive trace on a surface of a first work piece; forming a conductive bump on a surface of a second work piece, wherein the conductive bump has a recess; forming a second conductive trace on the surface of the first work piece; and performing a reflow process on a solder layer to electrically couple the conductive trace and the conductive bump, wherein the solder layer fills a part of the recess during the reflow process and wherein the recess faces the second conductive trace. | 31,639 |
8,904,439 | 1. A method for providing media asset information using media asset categories, the method comprising: storing, with a processor, a first plurality of simple categories; identifying a second plurality of simple categories from the first plurality of simple categories based on interests of multiple users; generating a first combination category, wherein the first combination category is based on at least two simple categories from the identified second plurality of simple categories; and generating a display of the first combination category. | 24,255 |
8,560,210 | 1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the control apparatus comprising: a valve stop mechanism that is capable of changing operation states of an intake valve and an exhaust valve between valve operation states and valve closed and stopped states, respectively; fuel cut executing means that executes fuel cut when a predetermined execution condition is established during operation of the internal combustion engine; valve stop executing means that performs valve stop control that changes the operation states of both of the intake valve and the exhaust valve to the valve closed and stopped states, at a time of execution of the fuel cut; fuel cut return request detecting means that detects a return request from the fuel cut; advance fuel supply means that supplies a fuel to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, before an operation state of the exhaust valve is returned to the valve operation state, if a return request from the fuel cut with the valve stop control is detected; fuel supply amount correcting means that corrects the fuel supply amount by the advance fuel supply means in accordance with an amount of an unburned fuel contained in oil which enters an inside of the combustion chamber from a crank chamber side during the fuel cut with the valve stop control; and intake valve advance return executing means that changes the operation state of the intake valve to the valve operation state prior to return of the exhaust valve to the valve operation state, when a return request from the fuel cut is detected, wherein the fuel supply amount correcting means includes negative pressure estimating means that estimates intake manifold negative pressure at a time of return of the intake valve to the valve operation state in accordance with the intake manifold negative pressure immediately before start of execution of the fuel cut and an executing time of the fuel cut, and wherein the fuel supply amount correcting means corrects the fuel supply amount supplied by the advance fuel supply means, based on the intake manifold negative pressure estimated by the negative pressure estimating means. | 26,240 |
9,089,104 | 1. A plant, plant part, seed, or cell of wheat variety A020167A1, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-122117. | 12,354 |
8,720,827 | 1. A dual function lavatory door comprising: a hinged door panel comprising a doorway hinge operable to couple to a first side of a lavatory doorway of a lavatory and to position the hinged door panel to couple to a first interior side-wall of the lavatory in a deployed position; an extendable door panel coupled to the hinged door panel by a vertical hinge, and operable to couple to a second side of the lavatory doorway opposite to the first side and to fold along the vertical hinge into an interior space of the lavatory in the deployed position; and an extension panel coupled to the extendable door panel and operable to extend from the extendable door panel to couple to a second interior side-wall of the lavatory opposite to the first interior side-wall in the deployed position. | 18,844 |
8,680,563 | 1. An optoelectronic component comprising: a substrate; an anode and a cathode; and at least one active layer which is disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein disposed directly on the cathode-side surface of the anode is an amorphous dielectric layer which contains or consists of a metal oxide, a metal nitride or a metal oxynitride, wherein the metal contained in the metal oxide, metal nitride or metal oxynitride is selected from one or several of the metals of the group consisting of aluminum, gallium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, lanthanum and zinc, wherein a hole injection layer having a thickness of less than or equal to 20 nm is disposed directly on the dielectric layer. | 48,158 |
9,509,224 | 1. A method for controlling a synchronous rectifier of a power converter, comprising: generating a control signal to control a synchronous rectification transistor in response to an on-time of a switching signal, a level of a transformer voltage and an output voltage of the power converter, wherein the switching signal is used for switching a transformer; the control signal is generated once the switching signal is turned off; a transformer signal is related to an input voltage of the power converter; the control signal is generated when the on-time of the switching signal is longer than a first time threshold; and generating a protection signal in response to a level of the input voltage and a level of the output voltage, wherein the control signal is generated when the on-time of the switching signal is longer than a second time threshold if the protection signal is generated; the second time threshold is longer than the first time threshold. | 6,211 |
9,317,609 | 1. A computer implemented method for keeping and finding information, comprising: a processor extracting terms from a search query posited by a user; for each term, said processor constructing a semantic vector by: based on said semantic vector, said processor determining whether said term is relevant to said query; and said processor providing a find engine for user access to information via both a find interface and a keep interface, wherein a user query posited via said find engine is satisfied independently of, but may incorporate among returned search results those search results generated by, previously or concurrently, querying an independent search engine. | 33,406 |
9,456,257 | 1. A system for transferring power from a first circuit to a second circuit by a differential signal generated in the first circuit, the system comprising: a first isolation element for transmitting a first component of the differential signal between the first and second circuits; a second isolation element for transmitting a second component of the differential signal between the first and second circuits, the second component being a complement of the first component; a digital rectifier coupled to the first and second isolation elements for generating a rectified voltage in response to the first and second components of the differential signal; circuitry for monitoring the rectified voltage and generating a signal representative of the rectified voltage; a controller for changing the rectified voltage in response to the signal representative of the rectified voltage; and a switch coupled to the output of the digital rectifier, wherein the state of the switch is controlled by the controller in response to the signal representative of the rectified voltage. | 24,999 |
8,599,105 | 1. A method comprising: causing application content to be displayed on a first display of a device; receiving an indication of a transition to a multiple display mode; in response to at least receiving the indication of the transition to the multiple display mode, causing a home screen with home screen content to be displayed by the first display; and in response to at least receiving the indication of the transition to the multiple display mode, causing the application content to transition to being displayed on a second display of the device while the home screen with the home screen content is being displayed by the first display. | 11,053 |
9,444,222 | 1. A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser comprising: a substrate; a first cladding layer disposed on the substrate; a second cladding layer disposed on the first cladding layer; an active layer inserted between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer; a photonic crystal layer; and a lattice point for forming resonant-state arranged in the photonic crystal layer, the lattice point for forming resonant-state configured so that a light wave in a band edge in photonic band structure in the photonic crystal layer is diffracted in a plane of the photonic crystal layer, and is diffracted in a surface vertical direction of the photonic crystal layer, wherein perturbation for diffracting the light wave in the surface vertical direction of the photonic crystal layer is applied to the lattice point for forming resonant-state, and a plurality of the lattice points for forming resonant-state having at least two kinds of different sizes are arranged in the photonic crystal layer. | 38,156 |
9,738,374 | 1. A flight control device for an aircraft, the device comprising: a mount; a lever pivotally mounted on the mount to pivot about at least one axis of rotation and designed to be secured to a control stick of the aircraft; and mechanical means for generating a return force for the lever about the axis of rotation, said mechanical means comprising a spring and a first motor member that are arranged in such a manner that a first end of the spring is constrained to move in rotation with the lever and a second end of the spring is constrained to move in rotation with an outlet shaft of the first motor member; the device being characterized in that it includes an electrical assistance system for assisting said mechanical means for generating a return force, the system comprising a second motor member that is distinct from the first motor member and that is arranged in such a manner that its outlet shaft is constrained to move in rotation with the first end of the spring, the system including control means for controlling the second motor member in order to modify the apparent stiffness of the spring in operation by means of the second motor member. | 21,585 |
9,473,225 | 1. A method for selecting User Equipment (UE) for scheduling/precoding within the coverage area of a communications node having a predefined codebook said method comprising: receiving at the communications node feedback information from each of the UEs within a coverage area of the communications node wherein the feedback information includes at least one precoder matrix indicator (PMI); generating at the communications node a precoder matrix based on the reported PMI from each UE; determining at the communications node correlation values for each UE in the coverage utilising the precoder matrix; identifying a pair of UEs having minimum correlation values; and selecting the identified UEs for scheduling/precoding if the minimum correlation value is less than or equal to a threshold value. | 20,742 |
9,452,110 | 1. An apparatus for holding a pacifier close to a face of a child lying in a crib having opposite first and second top side rails, the apparatus comprising: an elongated assembly having a length sufficient for the assembly to be draped across the first and second top side rails of the crib; a middle section of the assembly, said middle section including pacifier-holding portion for holding the pacifier; and mounting components for holding the middle section on the first and second top side rails of the crib with the assembly draped across the first and second top side rails so that the pacifier extends downwardly to a position close to the face of the child lying in the crib; wherein the middle section of the elongated assembly includes an elastic band that extends along an axis of elongation of the elastic band; wherein the middle section of the elongated assembly includes an elongated cover component that extends along said axis of elongation, said elongated cover component covering the elastic band and including an opening-defining portion intermediate first and second terminal end portions of the elongated cover component; said opening-defining portion defining a pacifier-receiving opening in the cover component for receiving the pacifier; and wherein the middle section of the elongated assembly includes a pair of first and second elastic strips extending transversely across the cover component on opposite sides of the opening, said first and second elastic strips cooperating with the elastic band to hold the pacifier with the pacifier-receiving opening so that a nipple-simulating member of the pacifier extends outwardly away from the cover component. | 47,442 |
8,710,164 | 1. A process for the preparation of diene polymers or vinylarene-diene statistical copolymers comprising: anionic (co)polymerization, in hydrocarbon solvents, of at least one monomer of a conjugated diene, optionally in the presence of a vinyl aryl monomer, and using a compound belonging to the group of lithium alkyls as initiator, characterized in that the total lithium alkyl initiator is modified in situ by means of a reaction with a compound having general formula (I): wherein R is a C | 39,834 |
8,856,714 | 1. A method for designing a 3D semiconductor package, comprising: a special purpose processor receiving a first package layout parameter for a plurality of first terminals included in a first semiconductor package, a second package layout parameter for a plurality of second terminals included in a second semiconductor package disposed above or below the first package, and a connection terminal layout parameter for a plurality of connection terminals to electrically connect terminals of the first semiconductor package to terminals of the second semiconductor package; the special purpose processor generating a first wiring connection layout between the first and second terminals and the connection terminals by applying a first process to the first package, second package, and connection terminal layout parameters, wherein said generating a first wiring connection layout by applying a first process comprises generating an initial solution by applying a first sub-process to the first semiconductor package, second semiconductor package, and connection terminal layout parameters, and generating the first wiring connection layout by applying a second sub-process, which is different from the first sub-process, to the initial solution; and the special purpose processor generating a second wiring connection layout between the first and second terminals and the connection terminals by applying a second process, which is different from the first process, to the first wiring connection layout, wherein the second process includes determining a first reference vector at a center of the first wiring connection layout, sequentially numbering the second terminals and the connection terminals by rotating the first reference vector in a clockwise direction or counterclockwise direction, and connecting the second terminals and the connection terminals having the same number to each other. | 14,558 |
8,885,102 | 1. A video transmission device comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit, via a communication interface comprising a first transmission channel, a second transmission channel, and a third transmission channel, video data having a 4:1:1 format to a video display device configured to display the video data, wherein 4:1:1 represents a ratio of a sampling frequency of a brightness component, to a sampling frequency of a first color difference component, to a sampling frequency of a second color difference component, the first color difference component and the second color difference component of one pixel in a first horizontal line of a first frame of the video data are allocated and transmitted within two clock cycles of the first transmission channel, brightness components of four pixels in the first horizontal line are allocated and transmitted within two clock cycles of the second transmission channel and the third transmission channel, and the transmitter is configured to | 42,735 |
9,054,177 | 1. A method for dividing a thin film device comprising a substrate having thereon a first layer, which is a lower electrode layer, a second layer, which is an active layer, and a third layer, which is an upper electrode layer, all the layers being continuous over the device, into separate cells which are to be electrically interconnected in series, at least the dividing of the cells being carried out in a single pass of a process head across the device, the process head performing at least the following steps in the single pass: a) making a first cut through the first, second and third layers; b) making a second cut through the second and third layers, the second cut being adjacent to the first cut; c) making a third cut through the third layer, the third cut being adjacent to the second cut and on the opposite side of the second cut to the first cut; wherein at least one of the first and second cuts is formed using two laser beams sequentially during the single pass of the process head across the device, the first laser beam forming a cut through the third layer, or the third and the second layer, without damaging at least one underlying layer and the second laser beam being directed through the cut formed by the first laser beam or through the substrate to form a cut through at least one of said at least one underlying layer. | 28,437 |
8,361,191 | 1. A method for recovering nickel and cobalt from a lean ore comprising about 7% to about 40% iron, less than about 1.5% nickel and less than about 0.2% cobalt, the method comprising: leaching a slurry of the lean ore with about 50 to about 300 kg of an acid solution per tonne of lean ore for about 3 hours to about 72 hours at a temperature between ambient to about the boiling point of the solution to form a leach slurry, wherein less than about 3.5% of iron present in the lean ore is extracted during leaching; adding an alkali to the leach slurry to adjust the pH of the slurry to a range of about 3.5 to about 5 and to precipitate contaminating elements, wherein a neutralized slurry is formed; and either: recovering nickel and cobalt from the nickel and cobalt-containing solution, wherein about 60% to about 70% of the cobalt and about 30% to about 55% of the nickel present in the lean ore is recovered. | 4,257 |
8,765,905 | 1. A proton-conducting polymer membrane based on polyazoles which is obtained by a process comprising A) mixing one or more aromatic tetramino compound(s) with one or more aromatic carboxylic acids or their esters, which contain at least two acid groups per carboxylic acid monomer, or mixing one or more aromatic and/or heteroaromatic diaminocarboxylic acids in organic phosphonic acid anhydrides with formation of a solution and/or dispersion, or linear compounds of the formula or anhydrides of the multiple organic phosphonic acids of the formula wherein the radicals R and R′ are identical or different and represent C B) applying a layer using the mixture in accordance with step A) to a support or to an electrode, C) heating the flat structure/layer obtainable in accordance with step B) under inert gas to temperatures of up to 350° C., with formation of the polyazole polymer, and D) treating the membrane formed in step C) until it is self-supporting by a partial hydrolysis of the organic phosphonic acid anyhydride. | 44,607 |
9,380,623 | 1. A method for supporting proximity service (ProSe) between a plurality of UEs including a first UE and a second UE by a network node of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: acquiring ProSe information from the first UE and the second UE; detecting ProSe availability between the first UE and the second UE based on the acquired ProSe information; when the network node detects the ProSe availability between the first UE and the second UE, transmitting a paging message including ProSe permissibility indication information to the at first UE; and receiving ProSe performance result information from the first UE after the proximity service is performed using a direct data path setup request between the first UE which received the paging message and the second UE, wherein the ProSe information includes operator policy information, network ProSe capability information, and network congestion information related to each of the plurality of UEs and further includes at least subscriber information, preference information, device identification information, user identification information, group identification information, a list of opposite UEs, or ProSe relationship information with the opposite UEs of each of the plurality of UEs. | 38,516 |
9,357,919 | 1. A method for alignment of an optical imaging system, comprising: defining an alignment axis with at least a first diaphragm element, wherein the alignment axis connects an aperture of the first diaphragm element to a target located at a distance behind the first diaphragm element, a plurality of sensor elements disposed within a material covering the aperture of the first diaphragm element, the sensor elements arranged in a two-dimensional pattern within the aperture; aligning the optical imaging system relative to the alignment axis until radiation of a beam emitted along the alignment axis onto the imaging system after passing through the imaging system strikes the target through the aperture of the first diaphragm element, the material at least partially transparent to the radiation; performing, with the sensor elements, a first sensor detection of radiation in regard to the radiation of the beam within the aperture of the first diaphragm element; and providing sensor signals generated during the radiation detection to a signal processing unit. | 25,761 |
8,581,845 | 1. A hand responsive device for controlling a cursor on a computer screen comprising: a base; a contacting surface situated on top of the base to be activated by multiple fingers of an open hand; a shaft supporting the contacting surface; a horseshoe shaped member suspended off the base, wherein the shaft is coupled to the horseshoe shaped member; a biaxial device supporting the horseshoe shaped member permitting angular movement of the shaft in the contacting surface so that the contacting surface angularly tips in any direction based on pressure from the multiple fingers of the open hand, the biaxial device comprising a first arm and a second arm, wherein the horseshoe shaped member is coupled to the first arm and the shaft freely rotates around the first arm, and wherein the second arm is orthogonally oriented with respect to the first arm and is mounted to the base by at least one stanchion positioned on at least a first end of the second arm; sensors responsive to the movement of the shaft for converting the angular movement into electrical signals, wherein the sensors measure a rotation of the first arm and the second arm relative to the base; and logic circuit for translating the rotation of the first arm and the second arm that has been sensed into digital signals to move the cursor on the computer screen. | 32,147 |
8,766,247 | 1. An organic light emitting device comprising: a substrate divided into and defined by first to third pixels; a first electrode disposed on the substrate and a second electrode facing the first electrode, the second electrode being spaced from the first electrode; a first light emitting layer and a second light emitting layer disposed in the first pixel and in the second pixel, respectively, between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first triplet exciton confinement layer, a third light emitting layer and a second triplet exciton confinement layer disposed over the first to third pixels in this order, on the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer; a first common layer disposed between a layer including the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer, and the first electrode; and a second common layer disposed between the second triplet exciton confinement layer and the second electrode. | 24,983 |
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