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9,004,334 | 1. A holder for a handheld electronic device, the holder comprising: a container defining a space for receiving the handheld electronic device, the container including a liner providing an inner surface facing inwardly towards the space, the liner comprising a material embedded in the liner to cause no unevenness in the inner surface, wherein the embedded material is interactive with infrared light emitted from the handheld electronic device and received by the embedded material, wherein the interaction comprises absorption of a majority of the emitted infrared light, such that, while the handheld electronic device is being received by the container, any reflected infrared signal effected by the interaction has an intensity outside a range of intensities that is operative for effecting activation of a functionality of the handheld electronic device when the reflected infrared signal is sensed by the handheld electronic device. | 8,393 |
9,505,621 | 1. A method for producing an architecture of carbon nanotubes, wherein each carbon nanotube has a specific length and a reactive end, said method comprising: producing carbon nanotubes having at least two types of zones along their length, wherein each zone type has a characteristic structure that confers specific properties; processing said carbon nanotubes to selectively attack one zone type more aggressively than another zone type, whereby to segment the carbon nanotubes into carbon nanotubes having specific lengths and reactive ends; and joining the segmented carbon nanotubes with each other at their reactive ends, whereby to produce the architecture of carbon nanotubes. | 17,590 |
8,869,757 | 1. A cooling system of a vehicle, comprising: a high temperature radiator that cools a high temperature coolant circulating an engine; a low temperature radiator that cools a low temperature coolant passing a water cooled intercooler and a low exhaust gas recirculation cooler of a turbo charger; a cooling fan that blows air to the high temperature radiator and the low temperature radiator; a high temperature coolant pump that pumps the high temperature coolant; a low temperature coolant pump that pumps the low temperature coolant; a control portion that controls the high temperature coolant pump, the low temperature coolant pump, and the cooling fan according to driving conditions of the vehicle and environmental conditions; a transmission oil heat exchanger through which the high temperature coolant passes; a transmission pump that circulates a transmission oil through the transmission oil heat exchanger; an axle oil heat exchanger through which the high temperature coolant passes; and an axle pump that circulates an axle oil through the axle oil heat exchanger. | 24,762 |
8,908,261 | 1. A device exhibiting enhanced luminescence, comprising: a substrate; a mirror adjacent to the substrate; a dielectric spacer adjacent to the mirror; an absorptive layer adjacent to the dielectric spacer, the absorptive layer having a wavelength of peak absorption; a luminescent layer adjacent to the absorptive layer, the luminescent layer having an absorption bandwidth, the absorptive layer being configured to re-emit in a bandwidth that overlaps with the absorption bandwidth of the luminescent layer; and a transparent cover; wherein the dielectric spacer has a thickness of about one-fourth of the wavelength of peak absorption of the absorptive layer, forming a critically coupled resonator configured to maximize intensity of luminescence from the luminescent layer. | 13,158 |
8,893,364 | 1. A method of setting a wheel hub assembly having a spacer therein on a shaft, axle or spindle comprising: accessing a wheel hub assembly having a spacer and at least one bearing therein mounted on a shaft, axle or spindle; torquing a retaining nut on the wheel hub assembly to a specified torque for said wheel hub assembly, said torque specified by a manufacturer of said wheel hub assembly as a final desired torque, said retaining nut securing said assembly together, wherein a compressive load is applied to said spacer and said at least one bearing; rotating a wheel hub of said wheel hub assembly to set said at least one bearing; reducing the torque on said retaining nut after said rotating step to a torque less than said specified torque; measuring endplay within said wheel hub assembly using an endplay measuring tool by applying a force to said tool to move said hub in a first axial direction until a cessation of movement of said hub at a first position, applying a force on said tool in a second axial direction opposite to said first axial direction until a second cessation of movement of said hub at a second position, determining a first measurement at said first position and a second measurement at said second position to measure relative movement between a structure of said tool and said shaft to determine said endplay of the bearing by comparing said first measurement to said second measurement; and adjusting the torque on said retaining nut to obtain a desired endplay measurement of said wheel hub assembly, wherein the resultant torque on said retaining nut at said desired endplay measurement is different from said specified torque for said wheel hub assembly. | 8,341 |
8,471,181 | 1. An element for a wall, ceiling or floor covering including a heating means, and two different bushes which differ from each other by means of diameter or shape, or both, and which are electrically connected with different conductive sections of the heating means. | 46,111 |
9,496,590 | 1. A method for generating Li 2-x O 2 in a redox reaction wherein x is an integer between 0 and 2, the method comprising reacting lithium ions with oxygen ions in the presence of a catalyst, whereby the catalyst comprises individual metal clusters arranged as cluster fields on a cathode, such that each cluster comprises a predetermined number of metal atoms, the number selected from between 3 and 50, wherein a film covers at least a portion of the cathode, wherein the film is alumina having a thickness of up to about 1 nm. | 15,452 |
8,960,104 | 1. An article of furniture configured to be deployed in a generally upright use position and to be folded into a generally compact stowed position comprising: a base comprising a center portion and two legs, the two legs extending from the center portion; a support coupled to the base; an arm coupled to the support; a worksurface coupled to the arm and comprising a length and a width; a first pivot mechanism coupling the support to the base so that the support can be pivoted relative to the base and folded from a generally vertical orientation in the use position to a generally horizontal orientation for the stowed position; a second pivot mechanism coupling the arm to the support so that the arm can be rotated relative to the support and folded from a generally horizontal orientation in the use position to a generally vertical orientation for the stowed position; and a third pivot mechanism coupling the worksurface to the arm so that the worksurface can be rotated relative to the base when in the use position; wherein in the stowed position the worksurface folds into alignment with the support, the support folds into alignment with the legs of the base, and the width of the worksurface fits within a cavity defined by an inner edge of each of the two legs and the center portion of the base such that the majority of the worksurface is substantially coplanar with a plane defined by the cavity. | 3,389 |
8,414,270 | 1. A system comprising: an internal combustion engine; a fluidic device; an electrically-actuated fluid pump in fluid communication with the fluidic device, wherein the fluid pump includes a pump motor; and a control system operable for controlling a speed of the fluid pump via the pump motor, wherein the control system is configured for: calculating a feedforward torque term as a function of a set of operating values, including a desired fluid line pressure; determining a closed-loop speed control torque term using a speed error of the fluid pump; adding the feedforward torque term to the closed-loop speed control torque term to thereby calculate a commanded torque value; and transmitting the commanded torque value to the pump motor to thereby control the speed of the fluid pump, wherein the control system is configured for determining when the engine is not running, and for controlling the speed of the fluid pump only when the engine is not running. | 38,040 |
8,922,972 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first solar module support frame comprising both a microinverter connector and a plurality of plug-and-play electrical connectors integrated therein, wherein the first solar module support frame is configured to receive both a first solar electric module and a first microinverter and to carry electrical power to the first solar module support frame plug-and-play electrical connectors, and wherein the first solar module support frame further comprises a plurality of plug-and-play thermal fluid plumbing connectors integrated therein and is further configured to receive a solar thermal module; and a thermal cooling brace comprising a heat transfer cooling pipe in fluid communication with the plurality of plug-and-play thermal fluid plumbing connectors for transferring a thermal fluid therethrough, wherein the thermal cooling brace is supported by the first solar module support frame, and further wherein the heat transfer cooling pipe is in direct contact with and transfers heat from a backside of the first solar electric module. | 43,818 |
9,131,535 | 1. An electric heating catalyst comprising: a heat generating element which generates heat by applying electricity and which heats a catalyst by generating the heat; a case which accommodates the heat generating element; an insulating member which is provided between the heat generating element and the case, which supports the heat generating element, and which provides insulation from electricity; an electrode which is connected to the heat generating element while passing through an electrode chamber and which supplies electricity to the heat generating element, the electrode chamber being a space positioned between an inner wall surface of the case and an outer circumferential surface of the heat generating element and the electrode chamber having a side wall surface formed by the insulating member; and an occluding member which is formed of such a highly airtight insulating material that the highly airtight insulating material has an airtightness higher than those of the heat generating element and the insulating member, and the highly airtight insulating material provides insulation from electricity and which covers the outer circumferential surface of the heat generating element and end surfaces of the insulating member disposed on an upstream side and a downstream side. | 33,903 |
8,785,960 | 1. A composite wafer comprising: a solid volume of a polymeric binder having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; suspended within the polymeric binder, a plurality of semiconductor dies each (i) having a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and at least one sidewall spanning the first and second faces, and (ii) being a bare-die light-emitting element comprising a plurality of active semiconductor layers that cooperatively emit light; a reflecting layer disposed on a surface of the polymeric binder or disposed within at least a portion of the polymeric binder proximate at least one semiconductor die; and disposed on the first face of each semiconductor die, at least two spaced-apart contacts each having a free terminal end (i) at least a portion of which is not covered by the polymeric binder and (ii) available for electrical connection, the contacts each contacting a different active semiconductor layer of the semiconductor die, wherein (i) at least a portion of the polymeric binder is transparent to a wavelength of light emitted by at least one of the semiconductor dies, and (ii) the reflecting layer has a reflectivity of at least 50% to a wavelength of light emitted by at least one semiconductor die. | 18,577 |
9,689,321 | 1. An engine assembly comprising: an internal combustion engine including an engine block having at least one cylinder defining a bore axis, and at least one piston moveable within the at least one cylinder; wherein the internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft defining a crank axis, the crankshaft being moveable to define a plurality of crank angles (CA) from the bore axis to the crank axis; at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, each in fluid communication with the at least one cylinder and each having respective open and closed positions; a spark plug operatively connected to the at least one cylinder; a controller operatively connected to the internal combustion engine and configured to receive a torque request (T wherein the controller includes a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions, execution of the instructions by the processor causing the controller to: | 4,321 |
9,084,949 | 1. A water treatment system comprising: a first container; a pump fluidly coupled to the first container; a filter fluidly coupled to the pump opposite the first container; a valve having an inlet fluidly coupled to the filter opposite the pump, the valve having a first outlet fluidly coupled to the first container and a second outlet; at least one UV germicidal light spaced apart from the first container and fluidly coupled to the second outlet, wherein a fluid from the second outlet flows over, along and in direct contact with at least a portion of a length of the at least one UV germicidal light; a second container spaced apart from the at least one UV germicidal light, the second container having an inlet fluidly coupled to receive the fluid from the at least one UV germicidal light, wherein the fluid flows over the at least one UV germicidal light prior to entering the second container; and, at least one electrical generator configured to couple with a bicycle, the at least one electrical generator being electrically coupled to provide electrical power to the at least one UV germicidal light and the pump. | 24,368 |
9,599,834 | 1. A depolarizer, comprising: a first photoalignment layer; and a first birefringent layer deposited on the first photoalignment layer; wherein the first photoalignment layer comprises a first plurality of segments, each of the first plurality of segments with at least one of a different fast axis orientation and a different pretilt angle, such that each of a first plurality of segments of the first birefringent layer over the corresponding segment of the first photoalignment layer has at least one of a first different fast axis angle and a first different birefringent value. | 1,289 |
9,269,914 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a first flexible substrate; a second flexible substrate; an element layer between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate; a first bonding layer between the first flexible substrate and the element layer; and a second bonding layer between the second flexible substrate and the element layer, wherein the element layer comprises a light-emitting element, wherein the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer extend beyond an end portion of the element layer and are in contact with each other, and wherein the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate extend beyond the end portion of the element layer, an end portion of the first bonding layer, and an end portion of the second bonding layer and are in direct contact with each other. | 27,331 |
9,428,688 | 1. A method of making a phosphor composition, the method comprising: forming a powder mixture comprising Ca heating the powder mixture at or near atmospheric pressure in the presence of a forming gas mixture comprising nitrogen and hydrogen; and forming from the powder mixture a first phase comprising a nitride phosphor having a nominal composition of Ca | 31,986 |
8,673,256 | 1. A process of sequestering carbon dioxide comprising the steps of: (a) reacting a metal silicate with a first caustic alkali-metal hydroxide to produce a metal hydroxide comprising metal formerly contained in the metal silicate; (b) reacting carbon dioxide with at least one of a second caustic alkali-metal hydroxide and an alkali-metal silicate to produce at least one of an alkali-metal carbonate and an alkali-metal bicarbonate; and (c) reacting the metal hydroxide product of step (a) with at least one of the alkali-metal carbonate and the alkali-metal bicarbonate produced in step (b) to produce a metal carbonate comprising metal formerly contained in the metal silicate of step (a). | 12,859 |
9,224,136 | 1. A system comprising: a processor; and a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive an account identification number, check amount indication, and check image, where the check image is an image of a check captured by a camera; perform optical character recognition on the check image to determine a routing number for the check image; validate the routing number for the check image; and initiate a check deposit for the check image. | 1,941 |
9,756,133 | 1. A computer readable medium useful in association with a computer which includes one or more processors and a memory, the computer readable medium including computer instructions which are configured to cause the computer, by execution of the computer instructions in the one or more processors from the memory, to identify a local area network though which a device connects to a wide area network by at least: receiving, from the device and from one or more other devices, router-specific data that is specific to a router through which the local area network is connected to the wide area network and that is not accessible from the router through a connection between the router and the wide area network; and determining that the device and at least one of the other devices connect to the wide area network through the same local area network upon a determination that the router-specific data received from the device and the at least one of the other devices is specific to one and the same router; wherein the router-specific data includes a local area network media access control address of the router. | 8,862 |
9,850,753 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a downhole metal structure, which is a tubing string; a downhole receiver in electrical communication with the downhole metal structure; a surface transmitter in electrical communication with the downhole metal structure; wherein the surface transmitter is configured to transmit a signal communicating both power and data to the downhole receiver; and a signal monitor that comprises a comparator circuit to monitor electrical communication between the surface transmitter and the downhole receiver, and if a fault in the electrical communication between the surface transmitter and the downhole receiver is sensed, to disconnect the surface transmitter from the downhole metal structure. | 48,925 |
9,648,997 | 1. A waterless toilet, comprising: a box-like casing with a toilet seat being fixed on top and a heater being attached on bottom; a urine/feces separation device provided inside the casing; a transport conveyor, provided inside the casing, that has an endless belt wound around a driver roller and a driven roller; a drier drum including drum main bodies, an internal drum heater, and a drain pipe, a first receptacle, provided below the urine/feces separation device in such a manner as to be freely insertable/retractable, that collects urine; and a second receptacle, provided below the drier drum in such a manner as to be freely insertable/retractable, that collects solid waste, wherein the urine/feces separation device includes rotary plates and fixed plates, wherein urine and feces are separated in the urine/feces separation device, the urine is collected in the first receptacle where the urine is vaporized by the heater, and solid waste, including the separated feces and toilet paper, is transported to the drier drum via the urine/feces separation device and the transport conveyor, heated by the internal drum heater, collected in the second receptacle through the meshes of the drum main bodies by intermittently rotating the drier drum, and dried by the heater. | 44,722 |
9,686,093 | 1. A method of defining a message to be sent to at least one appliance regarding a schedule for performing a cycle of operation, the method comprising: acquiring pricing data from a source of information about a resource consumed by the appliance while performing the cycle of operation; obtaining a user preference for a tradeoff factor where the tradeoff factor is indicative of at least one of a user's desire to save money or a user's reluctance to delay a cycle of operation for the appliance; calculating at least one projected rate for the use of the resource by the appliance for a future series of time periods to define a series of projected rates: assigning a delay request to selected time periods based on the tradeoff factor and the projected rate; creating a projected schedule for performing the cycle of operation for the future series of time periods where the projected schedule incorporates the delay request assigned to the selected time periods; incorporating the projected schedule into the message; and transmitting to the appliance the message so that the appliance performs the cycle of operation based on the projected schedule; wherein the tradeoff factor is used to determine a rate threshold above which the delay request is assigned and the rate threshold is a summation of I) an average of the series of projected rates and II) a product of the tradeoff factor and a standard deviation of the series of projected rates. | 30,286 |
8,932,747 | 1. A lithium battery, comprising: a first plate formed by a plurality of first electrode material layers stacked on one another, wherein at least one of the plurality of first electrode material layers comprises a thermal activation material doped therein, wherein the thermal activation material comprises a nitrogen-containing polymer which is formed by a reaction between diones and one selected from amines, amides, imides, maleimides or imines; a second plate, wherein the plurality of first electrode material layers comprises a top electrode material layer close to the second plate and a bottom electrode material layer away from the second plate; and a separator located between the first plate and the second plate, and wherein contents of the thermal activation material doped in the plurality of first electrode material layers increase gradually from the bottom electrode material layer to the top electrode material layer of the plurality of electrode material layers. | 11,485 |
9,315,108 | 1. A method comprising: receiving sensor data indicating that a vehicle has arrived at a destination location; determining a synchronized arrival time describing when the vehicle arrived at the destination location, the synchronized arrival time determined based in part on the sensor data; determining one or more vehicle functions associated with the vehicle based in part on the synchronized arrival time; wherein determining the one or more vehicle functions based in part on the synchronized arrival time comprises: executing at least one of the one or more vehicle functions. | 9,040 |
8,554,415 | 1. A steering system for a motor vehicle equipped with a cargo-handling machine including a pair of left and right loading portions, comprising: a turning actuator that turns a steered wheel according to an operation of a steering member; a side shift actuator that shifts the pair of loading portions in the left-right direction; a lateral acceleration sensor that detects lateral acceleration; and a control unit that controls driving of the side shift actuator, wherein the control unit includes a target side shift amount calculating section that calculates a target side shift amount of the pair of loading portions based on lateral acceleration detected by the lateral acceleration sensor. | 12,373 |
9,073,443 | 1. An electric or hybrid motor vehicle device, comprising: a charge or discharge unit, which has a vehicle-side energy transfer unit configured for touch-free coupling with a corresponding external energy transfer unit for charging or discharging at least one battery device; a motor vehicle level-adjustment unit configured to adjust at least two different motor vehicle heights; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a gap between the vehicle-side energy transfer unit and the corresponding external energy transfer unit to a charge level by means of the motor vehicle level-adjustment unit during a charging or discharging proces, wherein the adjustment unit comprises a control unit configured for automatic or partially automatic adjustment of the charge level by means of the motor vehicle level-adjustment unit, wherein the control unit has a regulatory operating mode configured to adjust the charge level for the charging or discharging process depending at least on a charge or discharge output of the charge or discharge unit. | 23,039 |
9,334,042 | 1. A protection device for protecting a fuselage of a rotorcraft against a pyramid-shaped structure for carrying a load, the pyramid-shaped structure being provided with a frame having a quadrilateral shape, a first pair of two arms, and a second pair of two arms, each arm extending in elevation upwards from the frame towards an apex, wherein the protection device includes: a protective plate suitable for being interposed between the fuselage and the pyramid-shaped structure; a blade secured to the protective plate for exerting a force on the arms of the first pair in order to break them; and a chevron provided with two branches connected to the protective plate in order to tend to move the arms of the second pair transversely apart from each other. | 42,371 |
8,528,012 | 1. A method of controlling operation of an electronic device of an audio-video system with a separate remote controller, comprising the steps of: receiving a command code signal with a signal processing electronic device; interpreting the command code signal with the signal processing electronic device to determine an action being requested; after said interpreting step, generating a request for a feedback, the request in at least one of a visual form and an audible form to confirm the action being requested, wherein the feedback is a re-transmission of the command code signal; wherein when a soft key on a touch screen of the remote controller is tapped one time, the command code signal received during said receiving step is generated, and wherein when the soft key is tapped at least two times in succession, the feedback is generated; wherein when a hard key on the remote controller is semi-depressed, the command code signal received during said receiving step is generated, and wherein when the hard key is fully-depressed, the feedback is generated; during said interpreting step, in the signal processing electronic device, retrieving an electronic graphic image file corresponding to a particular appearance of the remote controller from a stored database of electronic graphic image files and sending the electronic graphic image file to the display monitor so that the graphic image displayed on the display monitor corresponds to the remote controller from which the control code signal was received; and executing the action after the feedback via a further command code signal received with the signal processing electronic device within a predetermined time period following said generating step, wherein the further command code signal comprises the user confirmation when a selection is a proper selection and the user cancelling the selection when the selection is an undesired selection, before any command is actually executed by a set-top box. | 5,844 |
8,842,371 | 1. A zoom lens system, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a focus lens portion; a zoom portion including a lens unit that moves for zooming; a relay portion that does not move for zooming; and an aperture stop for light amount adjustment disposed between the zoom portion and the relay portion, wherein: the relay portion comprises, in order from the object side to the image side, a first unit having negative optical power, a second unit that can enter into and exit from an optical path, a third unit having positive optical power, and a fourth unit that is inserted in the optical path for shifting a focal length range of an entire system to a long focal length side in a state that the second unit is removed from the optical path; and when a distance on an optical axis between the aperture stop and a last lens surface of the fourth unit in a state in which the fourth unit is inserted in the optical path is denoted by l_out, a distance on the optical axis between a first lens surface and the last lens surface of the fourth unit is denoted by l_ex, and an aperture diameter in an opened state of the aperture stop is denoted by ea_sp, the following expressions are satisfied: | 36,108 |
9,026,078 | 1. A network policy management system, comprising: a memory to store executable instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor performs operations comprising: collecting information comprising content requests from a plurality of wireless communication devices utilizing services of a cellular communication system, identifications of the plurality of wireless communication devices, identifications of content sources supplying the content being requested, and network conditions during a period when the content requests are received and processed; tagging the information to generate tagged information; storing the tagged information in a user data repository; receiving a new content request from a wireless communication device of the plurality of wireless communication devices; retrieving tagged information according to the new content request, a first identification of the wireless communication device, a second identification of a content source supplying content identified in the new content request, or combinations thereof; generating a communication session policy according to the tagged information; and transmitting the communication session policy to a policy enforcement function system for facilitating a configuration of network elements that enable a communication session between the wireless communication device and the content source for transport of the content identified in the new content request, wherein the communication session is configured with a quality of service identified in the communication session policy. | 26,207 |
8,993,180 | 1. A metal oxygen battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising an oxygen-storing material and lithium oxide, and which uses oxygen as an active substance; a solid negative electrode which is capable of absorbing and discharging lithium ions; an electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a hermetically sealed housing accommodating the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer; wherein the oxygen-storing material has a function of occluding and releasing oxygen and also a function of adsorbing and desorbing oxygen on and from a surface thereof without receiving light beam has an oxygen amount more than 0 mmol/g and less than or equal to 6 mmol/g at a start of charge time, and the oxygen-storing material is a composite metal oxide comprising Y and Mn; wherein the positive electrode has a positive electrode current collector located on its top surface and directly contacting with a top surface of the housing, the negative electrode has a negative electrode current collector located on its bottom surface and directly contacting with a bottom surface of the housing, the positive electrode directly contacts with each of the positive electrode collector, the electrolyte layer and an inner peripheral surface of the housing at each of a top surface, a bottom surface, and a peripheral surface thereof, and the negative electrode directly contacts with each of the negative electrode collector, the electrolyte layer and the inner peripheral surface of the housing at each of a bottom surface, a top surface, and a peripheral surface thereof. | 14,310 |
9,759,146 | 1. An exhaust gas purification control device for construction machine, comprising: an engine; an actuator using the engine as a driving source; an operation unit used by an operator to operate the actuator or the engine; an operation detection unit for detecting whether or not the operation unit is being operated; a purification device for capturing soot in exhaust gas of the engine; an accumulation amount detection unit for detecting an accumulation amount of the soot captured by the purification device; a regeneration unit for performing an regenerating operation, which is an operation of regenerating the purification device, by burning the soot captured by the purification device; a regeneration control unit for executing a plurality of types of controls for the regenerating operation and a manual regeneration switching unit used by the operator to select whether or not to perform the regenerating operation, wherein: the regeneration control unit selectively performs one of an automatic regeneration control, a manual regeneration control and a forced regeneration control based on the accumulation amount of the soot detected by the accumulation amount detection unit, an accumulation amount of the soot for causing the manual regeneration control is greater than an accumulation amount of the soot for causing the automatic regeneration control, an accumulation amount of the soot for causing the forced regeneration control is greater than the accumulation amount of the soot for causing the manual regeneration control, in the automatic regeneration control, the regeneration unit is caused to perform the regenerating operation when it is detected by the operation detection unit that the operation unit is not being operated and the regenerating operation of the regeneration unit is stopped when it is detected by the operation detection unit that the operation unit is being operated, in the manual regeneration control, the regeneration unit is caused to perform the regenerating operation when it is detected by the operation detection unit that the operation unit is not being operated and the regenerating operation is selected by the manual regeneration switching unit, and in the forced regeneration control the regeneration unit is caused to perform the regenerating operation regardless of a detection state of the operation detection unit and regardless of a selection state of the manual regeneration switching unit. | 41,041 |
9,468,612 | 1. A method of treating a fibrotic disease comprising administering, to a patient in need thereof, an effective amount of cysteamine, or a salt thereof; wherein the administration of cysteamine, or a salt thereof, results in amelioration of a fibrotic disease in the patient. | 13,238 |
9,004,418 | 1. An adjustable elevating supporter for television (TV), comprising: a combination seat combined to and supporting a liquid crystal television; a supporter, comprising: an elastic limit piece received in the upper support shaft, wherein the elastic limit piece comprises: an adjusting spring received in the axial hole of the lower support shaft to elastically support the lower end of the upper support shaft upward, wherein the adjusting spring includes: a base connected to the bottom of the lower support shaft. | 22,413 |
8,397,035 | 1. A memory system comprising: a nonvolatile semiconductor flash memory comprising a plurality of blocks, each of the blocks being a unit for erasure of data, each of the blocks comprising a plurality of pages, each of the pages comprising a plurality of first memory cells; a nonvolatile semiconductor random access memory having a plurality of second memory cells, the random access memory being configured to perform a write operation in units smaller than the pages, a memory capacity of the random access memory being smaller than a memory capacity of the flash memory; and a controller being configured to perform: receiving first data from outside of the memory system and writing the first data to the random access memory; copying second data stored in the flash memory to the random access memory; and copying the first and second data stored in the random access memory to a block of the flash memory, wherein the first and second data are associated with consecutive logical sector addresses, and wherein the controller is configured to receive third data from the outside of the memory system simultaneously with a data transfer from the random access memory to the flash memory in copying the first and second data stored in the random access memory. | 28,112 |
9,271,953 | 1. A method of treating autonomic dysfunctions in a subject, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a composition comprising a choline compound; a cholinesterase inhibitor and Acetyl-L-Carnitine in an amount effective to treat one or more of the following autonomic dysfunctions associated with collagen disorders: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan's syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Stickler syndrome, fibrillary disorders, elastin disorders, or Joint Hypermobility Syndrome. | 22,455 |
9,409,560 | 1. A diesel fuel control system for a hybrid electric vehicle comprising: a control unit arranged to store information about a cold filter plugging point temperature of fuel in the vehicle; an ambient air temperature sensor connected to said control unit; a connection from a velocity sensor of the vehicle to the control unit; and a connection from a fuel temperature sensor to the control unit; wherein the control unit is arranged to calculate a temperature of fuel in a fuel filter based on information from the temperature sensors and the velocity sensor, and arranged in connection with an engine control unit such that an internal combustion engine is arranged to start if the calculated temperature of the fuel is below the cold filter plugging point. | 49,182 |
9,703,493 | 1. A method for scheduling transactions for a memory system, the method comprising: determining future memory state data of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for a predetermined number of future clock cycles, the DRAM electrically coupled to a system on chip (SoC); based on the future memory state data, selecting one of a plurality of pending memory transactions that speculatively optimizes DRAM efficiency; sending the selected memory transaction to a shared cache controller; and if the selected memory transaction results in a cache miss, sending the selected memory transaction to a DRAM controller. | 22,035 |
9,796,286 | 1. A vehicle charging network comprising: a plurality of vehicles each having a respective rechargeable battery pack and a respective vehicle telematics unit (VTU); and a server having a processor, memory, and a transceiver in communication with the VTUs, wherein the server is in communication with a remote client device and is programmed to: | 17,939 |
8,699,054 | 1. A method of determining final media selection parameters, comprising: receiving, at a printer, a print job including a print client indicator, the print client indicator being existing information in the communication protocol being utilized to send the print job from a print client, wherein the existing information is typically not used to determine media selection parameters; and selecting at least one of the final media selection parameters that is used to select media onto which content included in the print job received at the printer is to be printed based on the existing information that is typically not used to determine media selection parameters, wherein said selecting the at least one of the media selection parameters comprises: comparing the print client indicator to a plurality of entries in a mapping module; determining if a matching entry including the print client indicator exists in the mapping module; determining if the matching entry includes a media selection parameter specifying a media type, a media size, or a media type and a media size for the print job; determining if the media type, the media size, or the media type and the media size specified by the media selection parameter is defined and operational for the printer; and outputting the media selection parameter as one of the final media selection parameters if the matching entry exists in the mapping module and the media type, the media size, or the media type and the media size specified by the media selection parameter is defined and operational. | 31,308 |
8,636,923 | 1. A process for producing synthesis gas from biomass, comprising: (a) contacting said biomass with oxygen, in a first vessel containing a gasification zone, in an amount effective to oxidize said biomass and to heat said biomass to a temperature no greater than 750° C.; (b) contacting at least one combustible material with oxygen, in a second vessel containing an oxidation zone, to oxidize said at least one combustible material and to heat said at least one combustible material to a temperature of at least 1,100° C., thereby providing a hot oxidized gas; (c) passing said hot oxidized gas produced in step (b) from said second vessel to said first vessel, whereby said oxidized biomass produced in step (a) is contacted with said hot oxidized gas produced in step (b) to heat said biomass to a temperature of at least 900° C., thereby producing a raw synthesis gas, wherein said raw synthesis gas contains at least one combustible material; (d) separating said at least one combustible material from said raw synthesis gas produced in step (c) to provide a treated synthesis gas; (e) passing said separated at least one combustible material of step (d) to said second vessel; and (f) recovering said treated synthesis gas provided in step (d). | 3,383 |
9,798,693 | 1. An apparatus for data transmission, comprising: a mode controller configured to determine whether a signaling speed of operation of an electronic device is a high-speed mode or a low-speed mode and to select a data bus inversion algorithm based on whether the signaling speed of operation is the high-speed mode or the low-speed mode; and a transmitter configured to use the selected data bus inversion algorithm to encode data and to send the encoded data and a data bus inversion flag to a receiver over a transmission line. | 27,947 |
9,185,408 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an input video stream including a plurality of input frames having a temporal sequence; encoding, by a processor in response to instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the plurality of input frames in a coding order, wherein encoding the plurality of input frames includes: transmitting or storing the output bitstream. | 24,157 |
9,790,286 | 1. A ligand-targeted multi-stereoisomer peptide-polymer conjugate compound comprising the formula: [sP]n-(L)-Pol-sPL, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, wherein: [sP] wherein the 2 to 4 different stereoisomer peptides are selected from within 1) SEQ ID NOs: 7, 8, 9 and 113; 2) SEQ ID NOs: 7, 12, 17 and 27; 3) SEQ ID NOs: 7, 11, 12 and 17; 4) SEQ ID NOs: 7, 109, 110 and 124; 5) SEQ ID NOs: 45, 46, 48, and 70; 6) SEQ ID NOs: 48, 99, 102 and 105; 7) SEQ ID NOs: 106, 108, 113 and 128; 8) SEQ ID NOs: 104, 116, 117, and 133; 9) SEQ ID NOs: 107, 116, 117, and 136; 10) SEQ ID NOs: 119, 122, 123 and 155; 11) SEQ ID NOs: 138, 141, 142 and 143; 12) SEQ ID NOs: 137, 139, 142 and 143; or 13) SEQ ID NOs: 144, 145, 146 and 147, wherein any of the amino acids in each of the stereoisomer peptides can be in D or L form and, optionally, where D-amino acid peptides are in inverso or retro-inverso configuration, wherein each of the 2 to 4 different stereoisomer peptides in said group is connected to Pol via (L), L is a non-cleavable linker comprising Gly-Gly or Lys-Lys, or a cleavable linker comprising SEQ ID NO: 315 or SEQ ID NO: 316, Pol is poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) or a derivative thereof, sPL is a stereoisomer peptide ligand comprising SEQ ID NO: 8, 10, 43, 85, 103, or 154, and wherein said stereoisomer peptides each target the functional domain of a different specific target protein involved in diseases caused by abnormal angiogenesis to inhibit, antagonize, bind, block, disrupt, interact or suppress, each simultaneously and independently, and positively or negatively said target protein, wherein said target protein is selected from VEGF, VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, EGFR, PDGFR, FGF, NgR, HSP90, HSP70, HSP72, HSC70, av33, av35, a531, NRP-1, neuroepithelin, proepithelin, p53, MMP-1, 3, and 8, collagen type IV and type XVIII, tumnstatin, endostatin, TSP-1, p13K, TAK-1, akt, STAT3, MAPK, a-synuclein, 0-amyloid, mTOR, GSK3b, myelin, tau, PolyQ peptide, PRNP, BDAI, CCL5, CCR3, CXCR6, amino peptidase-P, annexin Al, gp120, gp41, p24, tat, protease, integrase, reverse transcriptase, Vif, PfCDPK1, UIS3, DHFR-TS, or Acps. | 41,452 |
9,663,149 | 1. A vehicle hood comprising: an inner panel; an outer panel coupled to the inner panel; and an insert disposed between the outer panel and the inner panel and formed of a material that is brittle relative to a material of the outer panel; the insert including a plurality of strips connected to each other, each strip having a thickness from the outer panel toward the inner panel, and each strip having a width and a length greater than the thickness. | 23,050 |
9,846,029 | 1. A laser system generating a reference laser light plane of high accuracy for stake out and marking purposes, the laser system comprising a laser emitter and in distance thereof a laser receiver; the laser emitter comprising: the laser receiver comprising: wherein at least one of the circuitry of the laser receiver and the control unit of the laser emitter being designed to weight the information derived from the electrical output signal of the acceleration sensor, wherein weighting criteria are set by a user for determining the accuracy the laser receiver should work with or the sensitivity the laser receiver should act with in respect of the movements of the laser receiver, and wherein the control unit of the laser emitter is provided with an adjustment unit and is designed to adjust and/or re-adjust the laser plane emitted by the laser emitter in automatic response to the movement of the laser receiver detected by the acceleration sensor, wherein the acceleration sensor is configured to generate an electrical output signal according to the detected movement, which electrical output signal is optionally weighted by the circuitry of the laser receiver or the control unit of the laser emitter according to the set weighting criteria, and wherein adjustment comprises at least one of: a rotating speed of the emitted laser beam rotated by the equipment of the laser emitter to provide a reference laser light plane; or intensity of the laser light. | 43,074 |
9,413,056 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing having a first housing member and a second housing member, the first housing member being coupled to the second housing member by a pivotable joint; a communications module disposed in the first housing member and configured to transmit and/or receive radio signals using at least one communications standard; an aerial glass cover mounted on a side of the second housing member so as to form a skin covering the side of the second housing member, the aerial glass cover comprising a glass carrier having a surface on which at least one antenna is printed, the at least one antenna comprising an antenna element, a feed point for feeding the antenna element, and a ground point, the at least one antenna being configured to operate in at least one communications band associated with the at least one communications standard; and a transmission line formed between the communications module and the at least one antenna, the transmission line comprising a connector located in the pivotable joint, the connector comprising a first metallic pin arranged for contact with the feed point and a second metallic pin arranged for contact with the ground point. | 45,354 |
9,619,282 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a task to be scheduled for execution on an information handling device having two or more cores of different size; determining an appropriate scheduling of the task for execution on the two or more of cores of different size, wherein the appropriate scheduling of the task is determined via a core signature for the task, wherein the core signature is determined via a procedure comprising: determining if the task fits on a little core; determining if the task is high priority; and determining if the task is executable on the little core within a threshold tolerance with respect to little core utilization; directing the task to an appropriate core for execution based on the appropriate scheduling determined; and executing the task on the appropriate core. | 13,657 |
9,350,964 | 1. A barrel-based white balance filter, comprising: a barrel prepared from an opaque material and attachable to a camera lens of a camera; and a white balance component including a milky white or gray filter and a milky white or gray annular rim axially extended from the periphery of said milky white or gray filter, said milky white or gray filter adjustably mounted in said barrel and axially movable relative to said barrel between an extended position and a fully received position, said milky white or gray annular rim being completely received within said barrel and protected by said opaque barrel against the radiation of vivid light or reflected light when said white balance component is in said fully received position. | 17,705 |
8,962,288 | 1. A method for producing a fermentation product, comprising: (a) saccharifying a cellulosic material with an enzyme composition comprising one or more cellulolytic enzymes in the presence of a peroxide-generating system and a polypeptide having peroxidase activity to form a saccharified cellulosic material, wherein the presence of the polypeptide having peroxidase activity increases saccharification of the cellulosic material compared to the absence of the polypeptide having peroxidase activity; (b) fermenting the saccharified cellulosic material of step (a) with one or more fermenting microorganisms to produce the fermentation product; and (c) recovering the fermentation product from the fermentation. | 13,579 |
8,601,305 | 1. A power gating device in a system including at least one function block, comprising: a control unit configured to generate a first interrupt signal based on a mode change signal when a mode of the system is changed from a normal operation mode to a stand-by mode, and configured to generate a second interrupt signal based on the mode change signal when the mode of the system is changed from the stand-by mode to the normal operation mode; a memory unit configured to store data of the function block based on the first interrupt signal, and configured to restore the stored data to the function block based on the second interrupt signal; and a power source unit configured to provide a normal operation power to the function block and the memory unit based on a power down signal in the normal operation mode, and configured to provide a stand-by power to the memory unit based on the power down signal in the stand-by mode, wherein the power source unit provides the stand-by power to the memory unit during an activated period of the power down signal and the function block is controlled to be in a power-off state during the activated period of the power down signal, and the memory unit is controlled to be in a semi-power-off state during the activated period of the power down signal the power source further comprising: a regulator configured to provide the normal operation power to the function block, a second function block, and the memory unit in the normal operation mode; and a current limiter configured to provide the stand-by power to the second function block and the memory unit in the stand-by mode. | 34,196 |
9,581,262 | 1. A vacuum valve comprising a closure element, a valve housing with a valve opening and an interior space in which the closure element is arranged, said closure element, in a closed state of the vacuum valve, bears against a valve seat surrounding the valve opening, the valve housing including a housing wall which delimits the interior space and which is comprised of sheet metal and which, to form the valve opening, is provided with a window recess, and wherein the valve opening is surrounded by a flange ring which is connectable by way of screw connections to an attachment flange of a vacuum unit which has an interior space, to which vacuum unit the vacuum valve is attachable, the flange ring has the valve seat against which the closure element is caused to bear when the vacuum valve is in the closed state, wherein the housing wall is adapted to be clamped between the flange ring of the vacuum valve and the attachment flange of the vacuum unit. | 14,617 |
9,414,454 | 1. A solid state lighting apparatus adapted to operate with alternating current (AC) received from an AC power source, the lighting apparatus comprising: a substrate; an array of solid state light emitters arranged on or supported by he substrate, the array of solid state light emitters comprising a plurality of electrically mutually exclusive solid state light emitter sets each comprising multiple solid state light emitters, wherein at least two different solid state light emitter sets of the plurality of electrically mutually exclusive solid state light emitter sets are arranged to be activated and/or deactivated at different times relative to one another during at least a positive portion of an AC cycle; at least one driver circuit component arranged on or over the substrate and arranged to drive the array of solid state light emitters; and at least one reflective structure positioned between one or more solid state light emitters of the array of solid state light emitters and the at least one driver circuit component and arranged to reduce or eliminate absorption by the at least one driver circuit component of light generated by the one or more solid state light emitters, wherein the at least one reflective structure comprises at least one of the following features (a) or (b): (a) the at least one reflective structure is arranged over and in contact with at least a portion of the at least one driver circuit component, or (b) the at least one reflective structure comprises at least one raised element that is adhered to or deposited on a first face of the substrate and has a height exceeding a height of at least one solid state light emitter of the array of solid state light emitters; wherein the lighting apparatus is devoid of any switched-mode power supply providing AC to DC conversion utility and is arranged in electrical communication between the AC power source and the array of solid state light emitters. | 3,955 |
9,683,943 | 1. An inspection apparatus comprising: an illumination section for illuminating an inspection target by a photometric stereo method; an imaging section for capturing an image of the inspection target illuminated by the illumination section; an inspection image generating section for obtaining a normal vector of a surface of the inspection target based on a plurality of luminance images acquired by the imaging section, to generate an inspection image made up of a plurality of pixel values in accordance with the normal vector; a display section for switching and displaying at least one of the plurality of luminance images and the inspection image, or simultaneously displaying at least one of the plurality of luminance images and the inspection image; an adjustment section for adjusting at least one of a control parameter of the imaging section and a control parameter of the illumination section; and an updating section for updating an image being displayed on the display section to an image where the control parameter has been reflected when the control parameter is adjusted, wherein, when the display section displays the inspection image, the adjustment section adjusts a generation condition for the inspection image by the photometric stereo method, and the adjustment section adjusts a characteristic size out of the generation conditions. | 25,979 |
9,212,432 | 1. A spunbond fiber of from less than 2.00 denier and a spin tension of less than 45 grams at 2500 m/min consisting of visbroken polypropylene having an M w /M n of from 3.5 to 7.0, an M z /M w is from 2.2 to 7.0, and a melt flow rate (230/2.16) from 50 to 100 dg/min. | 40,974 |
9,466,853 | 1. A battery comprising: an anode comprising aluminum metal; a cathode comprising spinel AIMn an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte is an ionic liquid comprising an aluminate selected from the group consisting of alkylimidazolium aluminates, alkylpyridinium aluminates, alkylfluoropyrazolium aluminates, alkyltriazolium aluminates, aralkylammonium aluminates, alkylalkoxyammonium aluminates, aralkylphosphonium aluminates, aralkylsulfonium aluminates, and mixtures thereof. | 19,380 |
9,019,782 | 1. A memory macro comprising: a plurality of memory cell units arranged in groups of a first direction and groups of a second direction; a plurality of first amplifying circuits, wherein each amplifying circuit of the plurality of first amplifying circuits is coupled to a plurality of first memory cell units arranged in a first group of the first direction via a first data line; a first driver circuit configured to drive the plurality of first amplifying circuits; a first level shifter configured to level shift an input signal operating in a first power domain to an output signal operating in a second power domain; and a control circuit configured to generate timing and control signals, the timing and control signals comprising the input signal for the first level shifter, wherein | 46,414 |
8,622,243 | 1. A dispensing system comprising: a reservoir assembly including a reservoir containing material to be dispensed; an activation unit, the reservoir assembly removably coupled to the activation unit for replacement by a similar reservoir assembly, an electromagnetic radiation waveguide having an inlet and an outlet and providing a path for transmission of electromagnetic radiation from the inlet to the outlet, an electromagnetic radiation emitter carried by the activation unit directing electromagnetic radiation into the waveguide via the inlet, an electromagnetic radiation sensor carried by the activation unit sensing electromagnetic radiation from the waveguide via the outlet, at least part of the waveguide carried by the reservoir assembly and removable therewith, and a control mechanism to control the operation of the emitter and receive input from the sensor to determine whether the electromagnetic radiation sensed by the sensor indicates that a portion of the waveguide carried on the reservoir is photochromic. | 15,763 |
9,492,782 | 1. An oxygen concentrator comprising: a compressed air supply source for outputting compressed air; first and second sieve beds including an absorbing material configured to selectively adsorb nitrogen from air under increased pressure and discharge the adsorbed nitrogen under reduced pressure integrated therein and configured to generate oxygen at a high concentration by separating nitrogen from the compressed air; an air supply flow channel supplying the compressed air from the compressed air supply source to the respective sieve beds respectively; an exhaust flow channel discharging exhaust air in each of the sieve beds to the atmosphere respectively, the air supply flow channel including a main flow channel connected to the compressed air supply source and first and second branch flow channels branched from the main flow channel and connected to the first and second sieve beds respectively; first and second air supply valves provided respectively in the first and second branch flow channels and configured to communicate the compressed air supply source with the first and second sieve beds alternately; and an exhaust valve provided in the exhaust flow channel and configured to communicate the first sieve bed with the atmosphere when the first air supply valve is closed, and communicate the second sieve bed with the atmosphere when the second air supply valve is closed, wherein the air supply valves each include a diaphragm valve as a main valve and an electromagnetic pilot valve configured to drive the main valve in a direction of closing the branch flow channel by pilot air, a pilot flow channel configured to supply the pilot air to the electromagnetic pilot valves is branched from a position on the upstream side of the air supply valves in the air supply flow channel, and first and second check valves configured to prevent a reverse flow are provided respectively at positions in the first and second branch flow channels on the upstream side of the first and second air supply valves, the first and second air supply valves and the exhaust valve are mounted on a single manifold base, the first and second branch flow channels and the exhaust flow channel are formed in the manifold base, and the first and second check valves are mounted therein, the manifold base is provided with first and second check valve mounting holes for inserting and mounting the first and second check valves from the outside therein, the first and second branch flow channels each include a primary-side flow channel hole extending from a side wall of the check valve mounting hole to the upstream side and a secondary-side flow channel hole extending from an inner portion of the check valve mounting hole to the downstream side, the check valve includes a hollow outer cylinder provided with a first opening configured to communicate with the secondary-side flow channel hole at an end in an axial direction, and is fitted in the check valve mounting hole with the first opening on the inner portion, and a check valve main body configured to prevent a reverse flow from the side of a hollow core cylinder disposed in the outer cylinder and the secondary-side flow channel hole, and the compressed air from the primary-side flow channel hole is introduced into the core cylinder through first and second air introducing holes opened in side walls of the outer cylinder and the core cylinder, is introduced out from the interior of the core cylinder through an air deriving hole opened in the core cylinder, and is guided to the first opening via a periphery of the check valve main body. | 21,113 |
8,397,044 | 1. A memory management method comprising the steps of: allocating a second memory area in a computer by a program having at least one thread including object data which is executed by a processor in the computer; storing the object data in a first memory area in accordance with execution of the at least one thread; moving the object data stored in the first memory area to the second memory area; checking whether or not the object data that is necessary for subsequent execution of the at least one thread exists in the second memory area to be released, in response to an instruction by the program to release the second memory area; releasing the second memory area if the object data that is necessary for subsequent execution of the at least one thread does not exist in the second memory area as a result of the check; and moving the object data that is necessary for subsequent execution of the at least one thread to a memory area different from the second memory area to be released if the object data that is necessary for subsequent execution of the at least one thread exists in the second memory area to be released as a result of the check, and releasing the second memory area. | 3,916 |
9,568,365 | 1. An ATR infrared spectrometer for analyzing a chemical composition of a sample, the ATR infrared spectrometer comprising: an elongated ATR crystal having an entrance face, a longitudinal axis, a width, a first longitudinal end, and a second longitudinal end; said entrance face being arranged at said first longitudinal end of said elongated ATR crystal; an infrared light detector line having a plurality of infrared-light-detecting regions and being arranged at said second longitudinal end of said elongated ATR crystal, wherein a first overall extent of all of the plurality of infrared-light-detecting regions of said infrared light detector line corresponds to said width of said elongated ATR crystal in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said elongated ATR crystal; an infrared light emitter line having a plurality of infrared-light-emitting regions and being arranged directly adjacent to said entrance face of said elongated ATR crystal; said sample being arranged adjacent to said elongated ATR crystal between said infrared light emitter line and said infrared light detector line; said infrared light emitter line being configured to emit infrared light; said infrared light being emitted to directly enter said elongated ATR crystal via said entrance face and being guided in said elongated ATR crystal to said infrared light detector line thereby undergoing total internal reflection and interacting with said sample; and, said first overall extent being greater than a second overall extent of all of the plurality of infrared-light-emitting regions of said infrared light emitter line. | 41,702 |
8,802,258 | 1. A single point watering assembly for a battery having a plurality of cell access ports each having a top edge, the system comprising: a manifold overlying the plurality of cell access ports, the manifold including a plurality of bosses integral with and each adapted to extend downwardly from the remainder of the manifold through one of the access ports beyond the associated top edge; and a plurality of valve cartridges each supported by one of the manifold bosses, each valve cartridge adapted to be located entirely below the associated top edge when the manifold is mounted on the battery. | 9,808 |
8,539,010 | 1. A virtual machine, comprising: a computer including a memory, a processor, a timer and an input/output (I/O) device; and a virtual machine monitor to be loaded on the memory and executed by the processor, the virtual machine monitor controlling execution of at least one guest operating system (OS) on the processor, accepting a process request from the guest OS to the computer and handing over a result of execution made by the computer in response to the process request to the guest OS, wherein the virtual machine monitor makes the processor function as: a unit to receive a timer setting from the guest OS, the timer setting being for making the timer generate a timer interrupt after a lapse of a setting period; a timer changing unit to change the setting period set in the timer setting so that a ratio of first I/O wait time to first I/O process time other than the first I/O wait time becomes approximate to a ratio of second I/O wait time to second I/O process time, the first I/O wait time being time recognized by the guest OS as I/O wait time, time first I/O process time being time recognized by the guest OS as I/O process time, the second I/O wait time being time recognized by the virtual machine monitor as I/O wait time, and the second I/O process time being time recognized by the virtual machine monitor as I/O process time; a unit to set the timer setting with the changed setting period in the timer; and a unit to notify, when receiving the timer interrupt, the guest OS of occurrence of the timer interrupt. | 46,465 |
9,364,213 | 1. A method of capturing a moving heart valve leaflet in a beating heart of a patient, comprising: inserting an instrument through a chest wall of the patient and into a chest cavity of the patient through a minimally invasive opening; inserting a distal end of the instrument through a heart wall and into the beating heart of the patient; grasping the moving valve leaflet of a heart valve in the beating heart with the distal end of the instrument; confirming, at a proximal end of the instrument external to the patient, capture and proper positioning of the moving valve leaflet relative to the instrument with a fiber optic capture confirmation system having a plurality of illumination fiber optics and a plurality of detection fiber optics, the detection fiber optics configured to detect light from the illumination fiber optics reflected off of the leaflet when the leaflet is properly positioned relative to the instrument, the capture confirmation system providing a plurality of independent indications of the positioning of the leaflet relative to the instrument, wherein the step of confirming capture and proper positioning includes confirming that the moving valve leaflet is captured directly against and in contact with a capture surface at the distal end of the instrument, the capture surface defining a plurality of apertures that are covered by the valve leaflet when the valve leaflet is properly captured and positioned, each aperture connecting to a respective longitudinal channel extending through the instrument, each longitudinal channel containing at least one of the illumination fiber optics and at least one of the detection fiber optics. | 6,894 |
9,530,597 | 1. A relay drive apparatus that controls supply of electric power to an electronic device, the relay drive apparatus comprising: a relay switch that includes a coil and that is turned ON when a voltage of the coil is equal to or greater than a predetermined value to supply the electric power to the electronic device, the coil having one end to which a predetermined voltage is applied and having another end grounded via a resistor; and a voltage adjusting section that increases the voltage of the coil to a value equal to or greater than the predetermined value by drawing a current which flows through the coil and allowing the current to flow to a ground not via the resistor when the supply of the electric power starts and that reduces the voltage of the coil to a voltage not below the predetermined value by gradually reducing a drawing amount of the current which flows through the coil after the supply of the electric power starts, wherein the voltage adjusting section includes: | 37,612 |
9,163,568 | 1. A cylinder deactivation system comprising: a fuel determination module that, during engine cranking: a fuel injection module that injects said desired amount of fuel into said cylinder during engine cranking; a cold start control module that, when said desired amount of fuel is greater than a maximum amount of fuel that a fuel pump is capable of supplying during one crankshaft revolution and at least one of said air temperature and said engine coolant temperature is less than a predetermined cold start temperature, maintains an intake valve and an exhaust valve associated with said cylinder in respective closed positions while said desired amount of fuel is injected; and an enabling/disabling module that disables the cold start control module when at least one of (i) said desired amount of fuel is less than said maximum amount of fuel that said fuel pump is capable of supplying during one crankshaft revolution and (ii) at least one of said air temperature and said engine coolant temperature is greater than said predetermined cold start temperature. | 45,684 |
8,779,812 | 1. A circuit for selectively providing a clock signal according to one of a plurality of reference clock signals, comprising: a locking circuit, comprising: a frequency lock loop (FLL), comprising: a multiplexer circuit configured to selectively provide one of the locking circuit up signal and the FLL up signal to the first control circuit input according to a reference clock select signal, and to selectively provide one of the locking circuit down signal and the FLL down signal to the second control circuit input according to the reference clock select signal, wherein the multiplexer circuit comprises: a first multiplexer, comprising: a second multiplexer, comprising: | 23,880 |
9,133,789 | 1. A nacelle for an airplane engine, comprising: a thrust reverser; a front cowl and a rear cowl, the rear cowl being mounted such that it can the rear cowl can slide between an upstream position defining a small cross section of nozzle and a downstream position defining an enlarged cross section of nozzle; and an intermediate member attached to a front frame of the thrust reverser and positioned edge to edge with said front cowl, this intermediate member; defining a housing having a hollow interior facing downstream into which an upstream edge of said rear cowl penetrates when the rear cowl is in its upstream position and a centering member extending upstream and on opposite side of the housing for proper positioning of the front cowl. | 17,653 |
9,677,182 | 1. An electrolytic cell comprising: an anolyte compartment; a catholyte compartment; a NaSICON membrane that separates the anolyte compartment from the catholyte compartment; an anolyte is housed within the anolyte compartment, wherein the anolyte comprises a solvent comprising an alcohol and a quantity of sodium levulinate, sodium valerate, sodium 5-hydroxy pentanoate, or sodium 5-alkoxy pentanoate, and wherein the only positive cation in the anolyte compartment is a sodium cation; a catholyte is housed within the catholyte compartment; and a voltage supplier configured to decarboxylate the sodium levulinate, the sodium valerate, the sodium 5-hydroxy pentanoate, or the sodium 5-alkoxy pentanoate, wherein the decarboxylation forms radicals that react to form a hydrocarbon fuel compound. | 25,456 |
8,811,781 | 1. An assembly with selective optical transmissivity, the assembly comprising: a first layer including a plurality of liquid lens units, wherein each of the plurality of liquid lens units has a first state configured to selectively focus incoming optical rays within a focal range defined between a first focal length and a second focal length; and a second layer spaced apart from the first layer, wherein: wherein each of the plurality of liquid lens units has a second state configured such that the incoming optical rays are directly transmitted through the liquid lens unit without focusing the incoming optical rays to within the focal range such that the incoming optical rays are not focused onto the associated waveguide inlets and are transmitted through the optically transmissive substrate. | 39,420 |
8,614,239 | 1. A compound of formula (Ia) wherein X is N or C(H); R R R R R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 35,320 |
9,069,697 | 1. A controller, comprising: a transmit block wherein a direction of data on a first differential pair and a second differential pair of a cable is configurable by a Basic Input/Output System, and in response to a configuration of the direction of data in a same direction a bandwidth of data is to be doubled. | 46,577 |
9,037,564 | 1. A method for automatic storage of electronic content with cloud computing, comprising: creating on a cloud application on a cloud server network device with one or more processors, a modified Galois field GF(p (a) selecting a prime integer p, (b) selecting an integer n greater than or equal to one, (c) selecting two or more irreducible polynomials P1(x) and P2(x) for field multiplication operations from a set of irreducible polynomials wherein a largest power for a lead variable in P1(x) and P2(x) includes p, n, or p (d) creating a Galois field lookup table, (e) creating a modified Galois field GF(p (f) generating p (g) populating a first portion of the Galois field lookup table with the generated p (h) populating a second potion of the Galois field lookup table with a plurality of virtual network address locations, actual network address locations, virtual protocol port address designations and actual protocol port address designations, or combinations thereof, for locating a plurality of other cloud server network devices each with one or more processors on the cloud communications network; securely storing the modified Galois field GF(p configuring with the cloud application the modified Galois field GF(p (a) one or more inputs to the modified Galois field GF(p (b) the first internal output producing a second internal output from the second portion of the Galois Field lookup table including selected ones of the plurality of virtual network address locations, actual network address locations, virtual protocol port address designations and actual protocol port address designations, or combinations thereof; receiving electronic content on the cloud application and storing the electronic content in the non-transitory computer readable medium on the cloud server network device via a cloud communications network comprising: one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks; splitting the received electronic content with the cloud application into a plurality of portions; saving with the cloud application the plurality of potions in a plurality of cloud storage objects; inputting from the cloud application one or more pre-determined inputs into the modified Galois field GF(p outputting with the cloud application from the modified Galois field GF(p a plurality of address locations including: the virtual network address locations, actual network address locations, virtual protocol port address designations and actual protocol port address designations, or combinations thereof, stored in the Galois Field lookup table in the modified Galois Field GF(p wherein the plurality of address locations are located anywhere on the one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks of the cloud communications network; storing securely the plurality of address locations output from the modified Galois field GF(p sending securely the plurality of cloud storage objects to the plurality of other cloud servers on the cloud communications network with the plurality of address locations output from the modified Galois field GF(p wherein the plurality of cloud storage objects are distributed and located in a plurality of other locations on the cloud communications network; and providing a layer of security and privacy for the electronic content on the cloud communications network with the plurality of address locations output from the modified Galois field GF(p | 28,544 |
9,259,373 | 1. A device comprising: a plurality of substantially parallel primary wales in a substantially longitudinal formation, the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales formed from a material having a diameter approximately 11 times larger than a diameter of a material utilized for forming the plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads; a plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads between at least two of the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales and substantially equally spaced about a length of the plurality of primary wales, the adjacent primary wales and secondary transverse elastomeric threads connected to form a generally tubular configuration, the plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads connected to adjacent primary wales at an angle greater to or less than about 90 degrees with respect to the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales, and wherein a continuous longitudinal arrangement of the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales during any stretch state of the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales is maintained, wherein the plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads are formed to provide an amount of space between at least two of the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales adequate to provide a pressure differential between a region of skin in contact with at least one of the plurality of substantially parallel primary wales and a region of skin covered by the plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads, providing a substantially continuous longitudinal pressure zone for a region of skin in contact with the longitudinal wales, and further providing a substantially no pressure zone in an adjacent region of the skin covered by the plurality of secondary transverse elastomeric threads. | 26,608 |
9,665,136 | 1. A cover for an electronic device comprising: a transparent portion defining a display area of the electronic device; and a non-transparent portion defining a non-display area of the electronic device beside the display area, wherein the non-transparent portion comprises a transparent substrate integrated with the transparent portion, and the transparent substrate defines a plurality of through holes; the transparent substrate further comprises an adhesive layer adhered to an inner wall of each of at least one of the through holes; a color of the adhesive layer is the same as the non-transparent portion. | 42,494 |
9,540,884 | 1. A method of producing a drill bit, such as for drilling a well into an earth formation, the method comprising: forming a bit body having a plurality of blades, each of the plurality of blades including a forward facing face with respect to a direction of rotation of the bit, the forward facing face including a first set of individual cutter pockets at least partially recessed into the forward facing face forming a first row and a second set of individual cutter pockets at least partially recessed into and exposed at the forward facing face forming a second row axially offset relative to the first row; and securing at least one cutting element at least partially within each one of the first and second sets of individual cutter pockets, each at least one cutting element having an abrasion resistance, wherein each of the plurality of blades is formed of a blade material having an abrasion resistance that is less than the abrasion resistance of the cutting element. | 6,881 |
8,577,962 | 1. A server apparatus, comprising: a first memory which stores statistical information that is generated by performing a statistical process of a plurality of pieces of first meta information and a plurality of pieces of second meta information and that indicates a frequency of the plurality of pieces of first meta information as a derivation source of the plurality of pieces of second meta information for each piece of second meta information, the plurality of pieces of first meta information being extracted from image data taken by a plurality of users, the plurality of pieces of second meta information being derived from the plurality of pieces of first meta information through an analysis; a second memory which stores a plurality of different pieces of content information that indicates one of a commodity content and a service content to be recommended; a network interface card to receive, from a client apparatus of one of the plurality of users, the second meta information derived from the plurality of pieces of first meta information in the client apparatus; and a central processing unit to control selecting, on the basis of the second meta information received and the statistical information stored, content information relating to the first meta information having predetermined frequencies or more with respect to the received second meta information from the plurality of pieces of content information stored, and to control the network interface card to transmit the content information selected to the client apparatus, in which the first meta information represents an event corresponding to a number of scenes, in which the second meta information is obtained from feature or tag information representative of a detail or details pertaining to the event such that the obtained second meta information is more specific than the respective feature or tag information, the central processing unit is configured to (i) divide the first meta information of the first memory into pieces pertaining to “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, “why” and “how”, wherein the “who” element is not a personal identity (ii) calculate a degree of similarity for each obtained divided element as compared to that similarly obtained from the client apparatus, (iii) multiply each calculated degree of similarity by a respective predetermined weight value to obtain a number of multiplied weighted values, wherein the predetermined weight value for each element is non-zero and (iv) utilize the multiplied weighted values to select the content information. | 34,343 |
9,810,203 | 1. A method for determining total damage to a gear mechanism of a drive train of a system, comprising: determining a first variable characterizing a torque transmitted by the gear mechanism over time during operation of the system; determining a second variable characterizing a rotational speed of a component of the gear mechanism over time during operation of the system; determining, with a calculator unit, a load collective based upon a first temporal progression of the first variable and a second temporal progression of the second variable; and determining a total damage to the gear mechanism by comparing the determined load collective with a reference load collective using the calculator unit. | 32,887 |
8,451,649 | 1. A bit-line sense amplifier, comprising: a latching unit having a plurality of field effect transistors coupled between first and second bit lines; and a control unit for controlling application of a bias voltage to a set of said field effect transistors such that respective pre-charge voltages are generated at the first and second bit lines with drain currents flowing in said field effect transistors during a pre-charge time period, wherein a bias switch is turned on during said pre-charge time period such that said bias voltage is applied on sources of said field effect transistors with said drain currents flowing through said field effect transistors and through a node of said bias voltage supply during said pre-charge time period. | 22,714 |
8,926,199 | 1. An optical system, comprising: a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) comprising optical and electrical components mounted thereon; a main connector module adapted to substantially enclose the optical and electrical components within a cavity; a second connector module adapted to be removably attached to the main connector module such that when the second connector module is attached to the main connector module, a lens component of the second connector module is positioned in an operable position with respect to the optical components mounted on the PCB; and a pair of fiber retainers adapted to receive and retain optical fiber at an angle greater than zero with respect to grooves that support and position the optical fiber relative to the lens component of the second connector module. | 19,993 |
8,818,690 | 1. An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the apparatus comprising: an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine and configured to detect an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas, the air-fuel ratio sensor having an output characteristic which is nonlinear with respect to the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas; an output deviation converter configured to convert an output deviation to a first predetermined value if an output value of the air-fuel ratio sensor is on a richer side of a predetermined target value and to a second predetermined value if the output value is on a leaner side of the target value, the output deviation being a difference between the output value and the target value, the first and second predetermined values having a same absolute value and opposite signs; a control input calculator configured to calculate a control input to feedback-control the output value of the air-fuel ratio sensor such that the output deviation converted by the output deviation converter is to be zero; and an air-fuel ratio controller configured to control the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas using the control input calculated by the control input calculator. | 12,061 |
9,012,865 | 1. A radiation detector system comprising: (a) detector window assembly (DWA); (b) detector housing body (DHB); and (c) anode wires; wherein said anode wires are installed under tension from one side of said DHB to the opposing side of said DHB; said anode wires are electrically isolated from said DHB via electrical feed thrus; said DHB is constructed of a non-metallic material comprising injection molded plastic; said DWA comprises a separate window support/protective frame (WSPF), detector window film, window retention bezel, and a gas leakage prevention gasket seal; said WSPF is constructed of injection molded plastic material; said DWA and said DHB mate with each other using a “snap fit” means for attachment; said WSPF snaps into said window retention bezel and thereby retains said detector window film in place between said WSPF and said window retention bezel; and said DWA and said DHB mate with said gas leakage prevention gasket seal that is located at the mating interface between said DWA and said DHB. | 29,154 |
9,315,612 | 1. A synthetic lumber article formed from a composite material, said composite material comprising a polyurethane foam and a plurality of inorganic filler particles dispersed therein, said polyurethane foam formed from a reaction mixture comprising: a first polyether polyol having a first molecular weight and a functionality of about 3 or less; a second polyether polyol having a second molecular weight and a functionality of about 3 or greater, the second molecular weight less than said first molecular weight; an aromatic hydrocarbon present in amount of up to about 5 weight percent based on the total weight of said composite material; at least one polyisocyanate, wherein a weight ratio of an amount of the first polyol in the reaction mixture to an amount of the second polyol in the reaction mixture is between about 1:1 to about 5:1, the plurality of inorganic filler particles is present in an amount of about 50 wt % to about 85 wt % based on the total weight of the composite material, the inorganic filler particles include fly ash and glass fibers, wherein a weight ratio of the fly ash to the glass fibers ranges from 6.87:1 to 7.77:1, and the composite material has a density of 52.1 lb/ft | 13,054 |
9,547,728 | 1. A computer-implemented method for traversing a property graph, comprising: receiving a recursion boundary as an input parameter, wherein the recursion boundary defines a maximum number of levels of the property graph for traversal; dividing, using a processor, an edge table of the property graph into a plurality of fragments; selecting a first fragment for traversing from the plurality of fragments and a set of selected vertices; traversing the first fragment using the set of selected vertices, wherein the traversing identifies a set of edges; determining a set of adjacent vertices using the set of edges while traversing the first fragment; and determining a set of discovered vertices based on the set of selected vertices and the set of adjacent vertices, wherein the set of discovered vertices is constrained based on the recursion boundary. | 15,626 |
9,111,830 | 1. A focal plane array comprising: an array of photodetectors, each photodetector in electrical communication with a corresponding one of an electrode of a read out integrated circuit, wherein the array of photodetectors comprises: | 33,893 |
9,616,184 | 1. A syringe comprising: a hollow rotatable and retractable syringe plunger body comprising a front end and a back end; a hollow syringe barrel slidably disposed inside from the back end of said hollow rotatable and retractable syringe plunger body for storing fluids, said hollow syringe barrel having an open front barrel end; and a distal end; a plunger slidably disposed inside the hollow portion of said hollow syringe barrel from the back end of said hollow rotatable and retractable syringe plunger body, said plunger controls the movement of the fluid in said hollow syringe barrel; a syringe adapter attached to the distal end of said hollow syringe barrel; a syringe plunger adapter attached to said syringe adapter at the front end of said hollow syringe plunger body; a hollow retractable barrel body attached to the back end of said hollow rotatable and retractable syringe plunger body, said hollow retractable barrel body comprising an open end and a close end, wherein said close end comprising plurality of needle openings; a plurality of springs disposed in said hollow retractable barrel body from the open end; and a first needle and a second needle for injecting and ejecting fluid from said hollow syringe barrel, said first needle having a first needle adapter and said second needle having a second needle adapter, wherein said first needle adapter attached to said syringe plunger adapter to move the fluid, further each of said plurality of needles disposed in each of said plurality of springs; wherein said first needle retracts and disengages from said syringe plunger adapter on retracting said hollow rotatable and retractable syringe plunger body and pushing said hollow retractable barrel body simultaneously for facilitating said syringe plunger adapter to align with said second needle on rotation and pushing of said hollow retractable and rotatable syringe plunger body and further facilitating said second needle to push out and retract from said at least one of said plurality of needle openings. | 22,795 |
9,527,855 | 1. The process of preparing a compound of structural formula IIa: wherein Ar is phenyl optionally substituted with one to five R each R R comprising the steps of: wherein W is H; and wherein P is an amine protecting group; Ar is phenyl optionally substituted with one to five R each R R through reductive amination of the salt of formula I and a ketone of formula IV wherein P is an amine protecting group; Ar is phenyl optionally substituted with one to five R each R R | 14,572 |
9,777,948 | 1. A photovoltaic system comprising: an array of solar modules mounted to a support surface, the array including a first solar module, the first solar module comprising: a frame; a photovoltaic laminate supported by an upper portion of the frame; a bracket connected to and cantilevered from an inner surface of the frame below and spaced from the photovoltaic laminate, the bracket including a mounting surface; and an accessory component supported by the mounting surface of the bracket with the accessory component disposed between the mounting surface and the photovoltaic laminate, wherein the bracket extends only along a bottom surface of the accessory component and along a side surface of the accessory component that faces the frame. | 47,792 |
8,694,393 | 1. A method comprising: creating, by a computer-based journal entry system, journal entries of transaction data based upon predefined journal entry criteria; executing, by the computer-based system, the predefined journal entry criteria; distinguishing, by the computer-based system, the transaction data as closed transaction data in response to the predefined journal entry criteria being executed; and archiving, by the computer-based system, the closed transaction data. | 46,707 |
8,387,953 | 1. A vehicle jack comprising: a base; an upright support assembly having a first end and a second end, the first end mounted adjacent and extending upwardly from the base; a guide assembly configured to move along a path defined by the upright support assembly; a lifting frame assembly comprising: an elevation assembly comprising a threaded member and an elongated support member, the threaded member having at least two opposing grooves located adjacent an exterior surface of the threaded member, the elongated support member having a first end and a second end, the first and second ends mounted adjacent the respective first and second ends of the upright support assembly, the elongated support member being further configured to threadedly engage and rotate relative to the threaded member; and a guide bracket mounted adjacent the guide assembly, the guide bracket having at least two opposing surfaces configured to engage the at least two opposing grooves of the threaded member such that the threaded member moves with the guide assembly as the guide assembly moves along the path defined by the upright support assembly. | 28,348 |
8,627,841 | 1. A tank system mounted in a vehicle comprising: a high-pressure tank; a detection device that detects a temperature increase in at least a portion of the high-pressure tank; a decompression device that decompresses the high-pressure tank; and a control device that controls the decompression device to decompress the high-pressure tank when a temperature increase in the at least a portion of the high-pressure tank is detected by the detection device, a temperature sensing device that detects a temperature in at least a part of the vehicle, wherein the control device increases detection sensitivity of the detection device when the temperature detected by the temperature sensing device exceeds a predetermined temperature. | 12,122 |
9,809,896 | 1. A method for producing an electrode having AlPO 4 coating material thereon, comprising the steps of: electrodepositing a Cu preparing a solution of precursors of the AlPO adjusting the pH of the solution to between the isoelectric pH of the substrate and the isoelectric pH of the coating material; immersing the substrate in the solution for a time sufficient for self-assembly of the coating material onto the substrate; whereby an electrically insulating and ionically conducting coating is formed on the substrate; and increasing the thickness of the self-assembled AlPO 4 on the Cu 2 Sb by electrophoretic deposition of additional AlPO 4 onto the self-assembled AlPO 4 at a positive voltage relative to open circuit potential. | 28,420 |
8,691,427 | 1. A method for manufacturing a battery shell applicable to an electronic device, comprising: providing a metal substrate, and a metal implanting component including a bonding part disposed thereon; bonding the metal implanting component to the metal substrate; and forming a plastic component on the metal substrate by an insert molding process; wherein the plastic component covers the metal implanting component, and the plastic component is bonded to the bonding part of the metal implanting component. | 10,168 |
8,524,692 | 1. A method of treating a corneal disorder comprising administering to the eye of a patient in need thereof an ocular composition consisting of a pharmaceutically effective amount of dioleoylphosphatidylglycerol in the form of liposomes from about 10 μg/mL to about 1,000 μg/mL and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier liquid, wherein the corneal disorder is selected from the group consisting of corneal ulcer, corneal erosion, and corneal abrasions. | 45,666 |
9,587,350 | 1. A method for removing ink from printed paper comprising the steps of: (a) pulping printed paper at least 25 wt % of which is old newsprint at a consistency of at least about 3% to obtain a pulp slurry; (b) treating the pulp slurry with an ink removing system, which system comprises: (c) separating the released ink from the pulp slurry in a deinking flotation stage to provide a deinked pulp slurry, wherein the treating step is carried out prior to the deinking flotation stage, and wherein the ink removal efficiency is at least about 50%. | 23,304 |
9,728,500 | 1. A method of fabricating an integrated circuit (IC), the method comprising: forming on at least one of a metal layer or a polymer layer of a die, a surface layer that includes an adhesion-functional group; and applying to the surface layer a next layer to adhere to the surface layer with the adhesion-functional group, wherein the at least one of the metal layer or the polymer layer is a polymer layer and forming the surface layer includes copolymerizing on the polymer layer a polar monomer that includes the adhesion-functional group, and wherein forming the surface layer further includes dispensing on the polymer layer a solution that includes a photoinitiator and the polar monomer with the adhesion-functional group and exposing the solution to light to form the surface layer on the polymer layer. | 11,404 |
8,611,331 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving information related to at least one of a disparate base station, a served user equipment (UE), or a non-served UE at an access point base station in a time division duplexing (TDD) wireless communication environment; selecting a first base station TDD configuration for the access point base station based at least in part upon a second base station TDD configuration for the disparate base station and the information; and recognizing asynchronous operation or synchronous operation of the access point base station. | 22,079 |
9,541,744 | 1. An image pickup lens composed of five lenses for a solid-state imaging element, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power of a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens having a positive refractive power of a meniscus shape with a convex surface facing the image side; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and having: a fifth lens having a negative refractive power of a meniscus shape and having both surfaces formed as aspherical surfaces with a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, the fifth lens being designed so that the negative refractive power of an entirety thereof weakens as distance from the optical axis increases, wherein the following conditional expressions (1), (11), (12), and (13) are satisfied: where f represents a focal length of an overall optical system of the image pickup lens, f | 12,166 |
9,198,747 | 1. A surgical passer for use in treating male urinary incontinence, said surgical passer comprising: a handle; a segment having two ends, one end of the segment extending from said handle; and a spiral section having two ends and a length, one end of the spiral section extending from another end of said segment, said spiral section further including: a first part of said spiral section extending from said segment and being a linear part having a length of between ⅕ and ⅓ the length of said spiral section, a second part of said spiral section extending from said first part of said spiral section and being a circular part, a third part of said spiral section extending from said second part of said spiral section and being a circular part having a radius less than a radius of said second part of said spiral section, and a fourth part of said spiral section extending from said third part of said spiral section, said fourth part of said spiral section terminating in a free end, said spiral section extending in a common horizontal plane perpendicular to said segment. | 37,558 |
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