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9,202,752 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first semiconductor substrate including a first integrated circuit, a wiring layer is formed on a part of the first semiconductor substrate; a second semiconductor substrate mounted over the first semiconductor substrate, the second semiconductor substrate including a second integrated circuit; a post made of an inorganic substance and formed on a part of the wiring layer and a part of the first semiconductor substrate; an adhesive layer made of an organic substance arranged between the first and the second semiconductor substrates, the adhesive layer covers the post; a via made of an electrical conductor that penetrates through the second semiconductor substrate, the adhesive layer and the post, and reaches the wiring layer; and wherein the inorganic substance is silicon oxide or silicon nitride. | 48,382 |
9,822,738 | 1. An arrangement, comprising: an ejector with a base element including a throat that fluidically connects a first opening and a second opening to each other, the throat including a narrowest part that is fluidically connected to an associated third opening, the throat widening, at least partially, towards the first and/or second openings; and a receptacle in which the ejector is accommodated as a functional component so as to function as a jet pump in the arrangement, the receptacle including two connection fittings and a receiving area on an outlet side of the ejector that is fluidically connected to the two connection fittings, wherein the receptacle is configured in one piece with an intake system of a turbocharger, or in one piece with part of the intake system. | 34,003 |
9,087,051 | 1. A peripheral communication system comprising: a processor; a plurality of peripherals, connected to the processor; and a programmable peripheral interconnect, connected to each peripheral, wherein: at least one of the peripherals is event-generating, being configured to signal an event to the programmable peripheral interconnect; at least one of the peripherals is task-receiving, being configured to respond to a task signal from the programmable peripheral interconnect by performing a task; said task-receiving peripheral comprises a task register, addressable by the processor, associated with the task, and is configured to perform the task in response to a change in the contents of the task register; the programmable peripheral interconnect is configured to access a memory in which a mapping can be stored between an event of a first peripheral and a task of a second peripheral, the mapping comprising (i) an identification of the event of the first peripheral, and (ii) an address of a task register associated with the task; and the programmable peripheral interconnect is configured so that, if a mapping is stored in memory between an event of a first peripheral and a task of a second peripheral, the interconnect will provide a channel by sending a task signal to the second peripheral in response to a signal of the event from the first peripheral. | 8,432 |
9,820,594 | 1. An insert to limit a rate of flow of liquid from a cup, the insert comprising: a first extended rim extending circumferentially around the insert in a first direction, wherein the first extended rim comprises a first inner surface that forms a first angle greater than 90° with a plate of the insert; a second extended rim extending circumferentially around the insert in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the second extended rim comprises a second inner surface that forms a second angle greater than 90° with the plate of the insert; and a mount configured to locate the insert within the cup above the liquid contained therein but below a brim of the cup so that the first and the second extended rims of the insert are spaced predetermined distances from an inner surface of the cup such that, when a person drinks from the brim of the cup fitted with the insert, the rate of flow of liquid to the brim is limited by the insert, wherein the mount comprises a plurality of protuberances extending from a recess formed between the first extended rim and the second extended rim, and wherein the insert disposed in the cup is configured to be rotatable 180 degrees about a rotational axis parallel to the plate between a first orientation and a second orientation. | 44,865 |
8,682,338 | 1. A method for routing and switching RF signals comprising: providing one or more remote radio units, each remote radio unit configured to transmit one or more downlink RF signals and to receive one or more uplink RF signals; providing at least one digital access unit configured to communicate with the one or more remote radio units; translating the uplink and downlink signals between RF and base band as appropriate; packetizing the uplink and downlink base band signals, wherein the packetized signals correspond to a plurality of carriers; configuring each remote radio unit to receive or transmit a respective subset of the plurality of carriers, each respective subset of the plurality of carriers including a number of carriers; reconfiguring each remote radio unit by: routing and switching the packetized signals among the one or more remote radio units via the at least one digital access unit according to a result of the reconfiguring. | 16,547 |
8,513,833 | 1. A system comprising: a first electrical path having a terminal; a second electrical path having a terminal; a plurality of first photovoltaic (PV) dies within the first electrical path, each first PV die adapted to convert light having a first wavelength range to electrical energy; a plurality of second PV dies electrically connected within the second electrical path, each second PV die adapted to convert light having a second wavelength range different than the first wavelength range to electrical energy; and, a circuit electrically connected between the terminals of the first and the second electrical paths to limit an absolute voltage difference between the terminals to no greater than a threshold voltage; wherein each first PV die is a mid-energy (mid-E) PV die having a middle energy gap and is optimized to absorb wavelengths within a visible light spectrum, and each second PV die is a low-energy (low-E) PV die having a low energy gap and is optimized to absorb wavelengths of light outside the visible light spectrum. | 6,323 |
9,734,780 | 1. A driving method of a liquid crystal display device comprising a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines, the driving method comprising a step of: inverting a polarity of an image signal, which is input to the plurality of pixels from the plurality of signal lines, every one frame period, wherein, in each frame period, the polarity of the image signal is different between any two pixels which are adjacent to each other with one of the plurality of signal lines positioned therebetween, wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises a liquid crystal element comprising a pixel electrode and a transistor comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the transistor comprises a semiconductor having a wider band gap than a silicon semiconductor, wherein a value of an off-state current per 1 μm of a channel width of the transistor is less than or equal to 100 zA/μm under a condition at which a voltage between a source and a drain of the transistor is in a range of from 1V to 10V, wherein the transistor further comprises an insulating film over the semiconductor, wherein the insulating film comprises a metal oxide of a Group 13 element, and wherein a proportion of oxygen of the metal oxide is higher than a stoichiometric value. | 31,359 |
9,210,657 | 1. A method for a user equipment (UE) with regards to a discontinuous reception (DRX) functionality in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a value for a timer related with DRX operation from a network; and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a period including X PDCCH subframes based on the timer, wherein the received value for the timer is X, wherein each of the PDCCH subframes is a subframe where the PDCCH can be received, and wherein the period starts at subframe n+1, when an event for starting the timer occurs at the subframe n. | 25,357 |
9,030,172 | 1. A vehicle allowing a power storage device mounted therein to be externally charged using electric power from an external power supply, said vehicle comprising: a power generation device; and a control device for controlling said external charging, during said external charging, when it is estimated that charging of said power storage device cannot be completed within a target charging time period set by a user using only the electric power from said external power supply, said control device charging said power storage device with the electric power from said external power supply additionally using electric power generated by said power generation device. | 5,361 |
9,192,001 | 1. A capacitance based reactive power balancing current limited power supply (RPBCLPS) circuit, said circuit comprising: an AC current input; a fuse disposed in electrical communication with said input and structured to electrically protect a capacitor from high frequency current harmonics and over voltage spikes; said capacitor disposed in electrical communication with said fuse and said AC current input, and structured to transfer charge from said AC current input to a local floating DC load; a diode clamp disposed in electrical communication with said fuse, said AC current input, and said capacitor, and structured to electrically protect said capacitor from over voltage spikes; and a rectifier disposed in electrical communication with said diode clamp, said capacitor, said fuse, and said AC current input, and structured to rectify said AC current input into DC current for driving said DC load; wherein said fuse, capacitor, diode clamp, and rectifier are collectively disposed and structured to introduce a current phase shift opposite an inductive phase shift associated with said local floating DC load, such that said current phase shift improves a reactive power balance of at least a local premises associated with said DC load, wherein said RPBCLPS circuit includes no inductance circuitry between said AC current input and said rectifier. | 1,204 |
8,825,291 | 1. A vehicle vibration-damping controlling apparatus comprising: a power source loaded on a vehicle; a vehicle vibration-damping controlling unit configured to control the power source and execute vibration-damping control to suppress sprung vibration of the vehicle; and a coordinating unit configured to change a control amount of the vibration-damping control based on a judgment target amount that is used in judging control and is variable along with an output control of the power source accompanied by an execution of the vibration-damping control, wherein the coordinating unit changes the control amount of the vibration-damping control according to a relationship between the control amount of the vibration-damping control and the judgment target amount so as to inhibit a variation of the judgment target amount and to inhibit affecting the judging control, when an operational state of the power source is an operational state in which the judging control is necessary and when the relationship is a relationship that inhibits the judging control, the judging control monitoring rotational variation of an output shaft, and the control amount being a vibration-damping torque and the judgment target amount being an engine rotational speed. | 39,023 |
8,643,901 | 1. A detection apparatus comprising: a first measuring unit that measures, from a binary image, density levels of first regions having a first grayscale value and density levels of second regions having a second grayscale value, the first regions and the second regions being alternately arranged in a first direction in the binary image, the binary image being disposed on a second surface of a holding member, the holding member including a first surface and the second surface provided opposite the first surface; a storage unit that stores, in the storage unit, information indicating an association between a distance from the first measuring unit to the second surface and a contrast between the first region and the second region positioned adjacent to each other obtained as a result of the first measuring unit measuring the density levels; a calculator that calculates a contrast between the first region and the second region positioned adjacent to each other by using the density level of the first region and the density level of the second region measured by the first measuring unit; and a detector that specifies a distance corresponding to the contrast calculated by the calculator by using the information stored in the storage unit, and detects a deflection of the holding member in the first direction by using the specified distance as the distance from the second surface to the first region and the second region positioned adjacent to each other. | 24,191 |
9,223,579 | 1. A root complex comprising: receive logic configured to couple to a non-coherent link that is to couple to a device, the receive logic to receive from the device an incoming transaction that is to reference a non-coherent atomic operation; translation logic to map the non-coherent atomic operation to a coherent atomic operation in response to the receipt of the incoming transaction; and transmit logic configured to be coupled to a coherent link, the transmit logic to transmit an outgoing transaction that is to reference the coherent atomic operation to a processor that is to couple to the coherent link, in response to the translation logic mapping the non-coherent atomic operation to the coherent atomic operation, wherein the non-coherent atomic operation is of a protocol that calls for the root complex to be the completer of the incoming transaction. | 23,096 |
9,014,077 | 1. A method of conducting a financial transaction via radio frequency communications, the method comprising: causing the debiting of an account associated with a radio frequency communications device based at least in part on the determination of an identifier of the radio frequency communications device via operation of a host computer having an application program running thereon, the host computer configured to: | 813 |
9,770,908 | 1. An inkjet head comprising: a plurality of nozzle holes that is two-dimensionally located in a nozzle formation surface facing a recording surface of a recording medium in a first direction parallel to a main-scanning direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording medium and in a sub-scanning direction parallel to the conveyance direction of the recording medium, wherein two nozzle holes that form dots adjacent in the main-scanning direction are dispersedly located so as not to be adjacent in the sub-scanning direction, the two nozzle holes that form dots adjacent in the main-scanning direction are not separately located at one end and the other end in the sub-scanning direction of the plurality of nozzle holes that is two-dimensionally located; the plurality of nozzle holes is divided into a plurality of nozzle formation areas in which the nozzle holes are arranged in the first direction and in a second direction inclined with respect to the sub-scanning direction, the plurality of nozzle formation areas is arranged in the sub-scanning direction, and the two nozzle holes that form dots adjacent in the main-scanning direction are dispersedly located so as not to be in the same nozzle formation area, and the two nozzle holes that form dots adjacent in the main-scanning direction are not separately located at one end and the other end in the sub-scanning direction in the whole region including the plurality of nozzle formation areas; the nozzle holes are allocated to the plurality of nozzle formation areas in order in accordance with arrangement order of dots to be formed in the main-scanning direction, and arrangement order of the plurality of nozzle formation areas in the sub-scanning direction is changed so that the two nozzle holes that form dots adjacent in the main-scanning direction are not separately located at the one end and the other end in the sub-scanning direction in the whole region including the plurality of nozzle formation areas; a nozzle formation area in which the nozzle holes are allocated in order from one end of a line including a plurality of nozzle holes arranged in the second direction coexists with a nozzle formation area obtained by inverting, around an axis in the main-scanning direction, the nozzle formation area in which the nozzle holes are allocated in order from the one end of the line including the plurality of nozzle holes arranged in the second direction. | 22,856 |
9,804,901 | 1. A method for managing a distributed computing system, the method comprising: receiving, from a management computer associated with a controller node of the distributed computing system, an instruction to initiate an update of a main computer of the controller node, the main computer controlling services for the distributed computing system includes a set of nodes that execute workloads to perform the services; withdrawing one or more services controlled by the main computer of the controller node by storing data associated with the one or more services in a storage device; transmitting a request to the management computer for a software update package, the software update package comprising a full updated image of software of the main computer; receiving the software update package from the management computer; rebooting the main computer utilizing the full updated image of the software of the main computer of the software update package, wherein the reboot of the main computer replaces a full image of the main computer with the full updated image of the main computer of the software update package; and restoring the one or more services controlled by the main computer upon updating of the main computer. | 10,543 |
8,827,100 | 1. A bottle cap having: an upper boundary comprising a substantially flat planar cap surface and an attachment skirt depending from the periphery of, and below, said planar cap surface; a detachable section defined by an annular recess in, and projecting below, said planar cap surface; a frangible joint defined at the foot of said recess to connect said detachable section to the remainder of said cap; and a tool engagement socket within said detachable section, said socket protecting from said upper boundary to terminate below the position of said frangible joint, said socket being configured to allow the application of torque to said detachable section. | 25,379 |
8,858,163 | 1. A ventilation inlet comprising a ventilation pipe to receive flow from a first flow zone and to deliver the flow to a second flow zone; a divider arranged to divide a portion of the ventilation pipe into a static pressure zone and a total pressure zone; and a deflector arranged to direct flow from the total pressure zone at least partially across the static pressure zone to restrict delivery of the flow from the static pressure zone to the second flow zone dependent on the pressure of the flow in the first flow zone. | 12,537 |
9,571,225 | 1. A method comprising: estimating a data rate associated with transmission of a data stream over a communication link according to a pre-defined communication protocol; selecting a required target error rate from a plurality of pre-defined target error rate values based on whether the estimated data rate is within a range of at least one of a plurality of pre-defined data rate threshold values, wherein each of the pre-defined target error rate values is mapped to one of the plurality of pre-defined data rate threshold values, and wherein the pre-defined data rate threshold values are selected, and the plurality of pre-defined target error rate values are mapped to the pre-defined data rate threshold values, such that the selected target error rate is higher than a target error rate which the communication protocol specifies for the estimated data rate; updating a link adaptation parameter associated with the communication link to maintain the required target error rate; and transmitting the data stream over the communication link using the updated link adaptation parameter. | 7,334 |
8,567,462 | 1. A studless tire having a tread produced from a rubber composition for a studless tire, comprising: a rubber component including epoxidized natural rubber and butadiene rubber; aromatic oil; silica; and carbon black, wherein the epoxidized natural rubber is present in an amount of 1 to 60% by mass and the butadiene rubber is present in an amount of 10 to 80% by mass, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, and the aromatic oil is present in an amount of 30 to 80 parts by mass and the silica is present in an amount of 30 to 80 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. | 47,216 |
8,781,563 | 1. Apparatus for monitoring vital signs of one or more living subjects, the apparatus comprising: a monitoring station; at least one sensor in communication with the monitoring station, the sensor comprising: wherein the antenna system comprises one or more groups of antennas and each group of antennas comprises: a transmit antenna connected to transmit ultra wideband pulses generated by the ultra wideband radar system; and a plurality of receive antennas spaced apart from the transmit antenna and connected to receive ultra wideband pulses reflected by the living subject; and wherein, for each group of antennas, the plurality of receive antennas have higher gains than the transmit antenna; and wherein the antenna system comprises a generally planar substrate and at least one antenna that comprises a first element on a first side of the substrate and a second element on a second side of the substrate opposed to the first side, wherein each of the first and second elements are symmetrical about a centre line. | 24,659 |
9,083,049 | 1. A process comprising: forming a dispersion comprising a first ionomer, an additive, and at least one of an alcohol or water; said ionomer comprising a polymeric molecule having a carbon-fluorine backbone chain with perfluoro side chains containing sulfonic groups; casting and drying the dispersion to form a dried first layer comprising the first ionomer and additive, the additive comprising nanoparticles of a metal oxide having at least one dimension that is less than 200 nm and a metal oxide purity ranging from 90-100 percent pure, the nanoparticles of the metal oxide being present in at least one weight percent of the dried first layer, and wherein the nanoparticles of the metal oxide comprise one of the following: (1) CeO | 10,019 |
9,456,477 | 1. A lighting device for providing power from an AC power source to turn on a light source, comprising: a pair of input terminals to which the AC power source configured to output an AC current may be electrically connected; a pair of output terminals to which the light source may be electrically connected; a rectifier circuit configured to generate a pulsating current by full-wave rectification of the AC current; a conversion circuit configured to convert the pulsating current from the rectifier circuit into a DC current, and to output the DC current to the pair of output terminals; and a control circuit configured to control the conversion circuit, wherein the rectifier circuit comprises: a pair of first input ends electrically connected to the pair of input terminals, respectively; and a pair of first output ends electrically connected to the conversion circuit, wherein the conversion circuit is a single-ended primary inductance converter, wherein the conversion circuit comprises: a pair of second input ends electrically connected to the pair of first output ends of the rectifier circuit, respectively; a pair of second output ends electrically connected to the pair of output terminals, respectively; a first capacitor connected between the pair of second input ends; a first series circuit comprising a first inductor and a switching element, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the first capacitor; a second series circuit comprising a second capacitor and a second inductor, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the switching element; and a third series circuit comprising a diode and a third capacitor, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the second inductor, wherein the third capacitor is connected between the pair of second output ends, wherein the first inductor and the second inductor have inductances by which a time period, during which the diode is electrically connected, is made shorter than a half period of a resonance period of a closed loop circuit that comprises the first capacitor, the first inductor, the second capacitor and the third capacitor, and wherein the control circuit is configured to control the switching element in such a manner that the switching element is turned on at fixed periods. | 42,261 |
8,501,690 | 1. A method for the improvement of joint immobilization or fusion, the method comprising: administering an effective amount of a composition comprising a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) to a patient, to improve the joint immobilization or fusion process, wherein the patient is a post-menopausal woman. | 47,150 |
8,524,308 | 1. A method of producing a processed tea leaf product comprising extruder processing tea leaves under a pressure with an extruder, wherein a maximum temperature in a cylinder of the extruder during the extruder processing is 80° C. to 130° C., wherein the extruder processing is conducted by supplying (1) the tea leaves and (2) an aqueous sugar solution without any additional additive, and wherein a maximum pressure in the cylinder during the extruder processing is 0.2 MPa to 30 MPa, and wherein the extruder processing is conducted while supplying 1 to 100 parts by weight of the aqueous sugar solution, per 100 parts by weight of the tea leaves. | 33,684 |
8,975,201 | 1. A process for manufacturing a matrix for a thermostructural fibrous composite material, consisting of a mineral containing nanocrystalline cristobalite, wherein said process comprises the following steps: the geopolymer synthesis of potassium polysiloxonate K—(Si—O—Si—O) | 19,797 |
9,404,630 | 1. A method of operating a headlamp of a motor vehicle configured to operate in at least two illumination states comprising: detecting at least one influencing variable, which influences a future change of a mode of the headlamp from one of the at least two illumination states into another of the at least two illumination states; detecting a time profile of the at least one influencing variable; generating a control signal operable to effect a change of the mode of the headlamp from a current illumination state of the at least two illumination states into another illumination state of the at least two illumination states with a signal generator; receiving the generated control signal with a controller; modifying the control signal with the controller to delay the change of the mode of the headlamp depending on the time profile of the influencing variable; and controlling the mode of the headlamp with the modified control signal. | 25,933 |
9,162,959 | 1. A mixture of organic acids and nitric acid prepared by a method comprising the steps of: preparing an aqueous solution of an organic compound, wherein the organic compound is selected from the group consisting of monohydric alcohols, diols, polyols, carbohydrates, and mixtures of carbohydrates; combining, over time, employing a controlled process, in a closed reaction vessel, under a positive pressure of oxygen, the aqueous solution of the organic compound and an aqueous solution of nitric acid to oxidize the organic compound to a mixture of organic acids; maintaining controlled, moderate temperatures of from about 25° C. to about 50° C., controlled positive pressure of oxygen, and controlled agitation of the organic compound and nitric acid reaction mixture during the oxidation reaction; and removing a portion of the nitric acid from the combined aqueous solution to give a mixture of organic acids. | 42,644 |
9,333,964 | 1. A method for controlling a hybrid powertrain, the powertrain including a drive axle, an engine operatively coupled to the drive axle, a first electric machine operatively coupled to the drive axle, a second electric machine operatively coupled to the drive axle, and a controller in communication with the engine, the first electric machine, and the second electric machine, the method comprising: receiving, via the controller, a torque request; determining, via the controller, whether the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only operating mode, wherein the engine is off when the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode; determining, via the controller, a plurality of possible motor torques of the first and second electric machines capable of achieving the torque requested only if the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode; determining system power losses of the powertrain for all the possible motor torques of the first and second electric machines capable of achieving the torque requested while the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode; determining a lowest power loss of the system power losses determined for the plurality of possible motor torques of the first and second electric machines while the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode; determining a first operating torque for the first electric machine and a second operating torque for the second electric machine that correspond to the lowest power loss while the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode; and commanding, via the controller, the first electric machine to generate the first operating torque and the second electric machine to generate the second operating torque in order to achieve the torque requested while minimizing the system power losses while the hybrid powertrain is operating in the electric-only mode. | 12,533 |
8,502,500 | 1. A method for a shared electrical circuit infrastructure for charging electric vehicles comprising: receiving, at a circuit sharing controller, a message from an electric vehicle charging station that indicates a request for an allocation of electric current, wherein the electric vehicle charging station shares an electrical circuit with a set of one or more other electric vehicle charging stations, and wherein at least some of the set of other electric vehicle charging stations are presently allocated electric current; determining that granting the request would exceed a maximum amount of electric current supported by the electrical circuit; and responsive to that determination, adjusting the electric current allocations of at least some of the set of other electric vehicle charging stations such that the requesting electric vehicle charging station can be allocated electric current for at least some amount of time and the maximum amount of electric current supported by the electrical circuit is not exceeded. | 40,842 |
8,412,558 | 1. A computer based method of analyzing a plurality of parts, each of the parts having at least one part characteristic, comprising; establishing at least one dynamically accessible repository of said part characteristics using a computer processor; establishing a relationship between at least a portion of said parts and at least one of said part characteristics using said computer processor; and analyzing said portion of said parts in response to said relationship using said computer processor, wherein the step of establishing said relationship further comprises: establishing a part category; associating at least a portion of said parts with said part category based upon at least one of said characteristics of said part; and establishing said relationship between said associated parts and a cost characteristic. | 46,471 |
8,466,661 | 1. A wind turbine facility comprising a power generator adapted to convert mechanical energy to electric energy in the form of AC-power, an AC/AC converter adapted to receive variable frequency AC-power from the power generator, and adapted to generate substantially fixed frequency AC-power, a harmonic filter system, and a grid transformer comprising one or more primary windings being operationally connected to the AC/AC converter so as to receive substantially fixed frequency AC-power therefrom, the grid transformer further comprising one or more secondary windings adapted to be operationally connected to an associated, substantially fixed frequency AC-power supply grid, wherein the grid transformer further comprises at least one tertiary winding being operationally connected to the harmonic filter system in order to suppress unwanted harmonics generated by the AC/AC converter, and wherein a turn ratio between a primary winding and the tertiary winding is selected such that a voltage of the tertiary winding is lower than a nominal voltage level of the associated AC-power supply grid voltage, wherein the voltage of the tertiary winding is less than or equal to 1000V. | 16,852 |
8,482,016 | 1. A semiconductor light-emitting device comprising: a base board having a mounting surface and a conductor pattern located adjacent the mounting surface; a semiconductor light-emitting chip having a top surface, a side surface, a bottom surface and an edge located between the top surface and the side surface, located adjacent the mounting surface of the base board so that the bottom surface faces the mounting surface, and the semiconductor light-emitting chip includes a substrate having a top surface and at least one semiconductor layer having a top surface, a side surface, a bottom surface and a light-emitting layer located between the top surface and the bottom surface of the semiconductor layer, the top surface of the substrate including the edge of the semiconductor light-emitting chip, the at least one semiconductor layer located adjacent the top surface of the substrate so that the bottom surface of the semiconductor layer faces the top surface of the substrate, and including at least one chip electrode adjacent the top surface of the at least one semiconductor layer, the at least one chip electrode electrically connected to a portion of the conductor pattern of the base board via a bonding wire; an optical plate having a side surface, a bottom surface and an edge located between the side surface and the bottom surface, the optical plate being located over the top surface of the at least one semiconductor layer of the semiconductor light-emitting chip so that the bottom surface of the optical plate overlaps the top surface of the at least one semiconductor layer; a wavelength converting layer having a side surface and a thickness, the wavelength converting layer disposed between the edge of the optical plate and the edge of the semiconductor light-emitting chip so that the side surface of the wavelength converting layer extends from the edge of the optical plate toward the edge of the semiconductor light-emitting chip, and the wavelength converting layer encapsulating the at least one semiconductor layer and a part of the bonding wire; a frame located adjacent the mounting surface of the base board so as to surround the semiconductor light-emitting chip and the wavelength converting layer; and a reflective material layer having an inclined surface disposed between the frame and the side surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip, the side surface of the wavelength converting layer and the side surface of the optical plate while also surrounding another part of the bonding wire, wherein the inclined surface contacts with the side surface of the wavelength converting layer and extends from the edge of the optical plate toward the edge of the wavelength converting layer. | 18,073 |
9,321,776 | 1. A compound of formula (I): wherein: each R, when present, is independently: R R R R R R Z, when present, is an atom or a group each time independently selected from the group consisting of O, NH, C(O), NHC(O), C(O)NH, S, S(O), and S(O) m is zero or 1; n is 1; p is zero or an integer ranging from 1 to 3; q is 1 or 2; and Cy is or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 26,664 |
9,109,207 | 1. An isolated nucleotide sequence consisting essentially of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a full length complementary sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 or a sequence which hybridizes with the full length SEQ ID NO: 4 under stringent hybridization conditions, wherein said stringent conditions are 2×SSC, 10×Denhardts solution, 0.1% SDS, 5 mM EDTA, 50 mM Na 2 HPO 4 , 250 μg/ml herring sperm DNA and 50 μg/ml of t-RNA at 60° C. provided that said nucleotide sequence encodes a protein that conserves dextransucrase enzymatic activity. | 41,961 |
9,057,569 | 1. A ceramic heat sink material for a pressure contact structure configured by providing a resin layer on a ceramic substrate, which is any one of a silicon nitride substrate, an aluminum oxide substrate, and an aluminum nitride substrate and has a surface roughness Ra in a range of 0.1 to 5 μm and a three-point bending strength of 300 MPa or more, wherein the resin layer has durometer (Shore) hardness (A-type) of 70 or less, and an average value of gaps existing in an interface between the ceramic substrate and the resin layer is 3 μm or less. | 20,722 |
8,848,626 | 1. A method in a base station for managing multiple user access to a communication link, the method comprising: receiving from a mobile terminal a user transmission on a contention-based channel of the communication link, the user transmission including a data transmission and a reference signal, the reference signal being derived from a base sequence that is shifted according to a cyclic shift selected by the mobile terminal; determining the cyclic shift selected by the mobile terminal, by detecting the reference signal included in the user transmission; determining which of a plurality of retransmission identifiers is mapped to that cyclic shift according to a defined mapping between cyclic shifts and retransmission identifiers; and upon failing to demodulate the data transmission included in the user transmission: | 22,538 |
9,122,140 | 1. A polarization converter, comprising: a first light collection optics having a light input surface and an optical axis; an unpolarized light source capable of injecting an unpolarized light beam into the light input surface along a first propagation direction parallel to the optical axis; an optical device comprising a birefringent prism, the optical device disposed facing the first light collection optics and opposite the light input surface, wherein the optical device is capable of splitting the unpolarized light beam into a first polarized light beam and a second polarized light beam having orthogonal polarization states, at least one of the first and second polarized light beams diverging from the first propagation direction; and a reflector disposed to reflect the first and second polarized light beams back through the optical device and the first light collection optics, toward the light input surface, wherein the first polarized light beam passes through the light input surface at a first position displaced from the unpolarized light source, and the second polarized light beam passes through the light input surface at a second position displaced from the first position and the unpolarized light source. | 17,075 |
8,592,436 | 1. A compound of the formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein: X represents two hydrogen atoms, a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom or a C Z represents a bond, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom substituted by a hydrogen atom or a C R1 represents a 2, 4 or 5-pyrimidine ring or a 4-pyridine ring, the ring being optionally substituted by a C R2 represents a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring or a benzyl group; the rings being optionally substituted by 1 to 4 substituents selected from a C R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a C R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a C R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a C R6 represents a hydrogen atom or a C R7 represents a hydrogen atom or a C n represents 0 to 3; and m represents 0. | 30,366 |
9,795,034 | 1. A wiring board, comprising: an insulating substrate having two main surfaces facing each other, side surfaces perpendicular to and connecting to the two main surfaces, and concave portions that are concave into the side surfaces and that connect to at least one of the two main surfaces; and external terminals disposed from one of the main surfaces to inner surfaces of the respective concave portions, each of the external terminals comprising a main surface area which is located on the one of the main surfaces and has a convex-shaped section, that is convex out from the one of the main surfaces, disposed along each of the concave portions, an interval between the concave portion and the convex-shaped section disposed along the concave portion at a central portion of the concave portion being narrower than an interval between the concave portion and the convex-shaped section disposed along the concave portion at an edge portion of the concave portion. | 46,256 |
9,564,632 | 1. A titanium disilicide (TiSi 2 ) substrate characterized by a layered crystalline structure exhibiting Si only layers, wherein the TiSi 2 substrate is at least partially coated with a thin layer of SiO 2 having a thickness from about 1 nm to about 5 nm. | 26,817 |
8,377,247 | 1. A method for fabricating a composite stringer on a composite panel, the method comprising the steps of: placing a form on a first surface of the composite panel; draping a composite material over the form so as to form a lay up; enclosing the composite panel and lay up-covered form with a vacuum bag; and consolidating the lay up to the composite panel so as to form a stringer wherein the stringer is characterized by a profile having a first stringer side and a second stringer side, wherein the first stringer side extends from a stringer top to a first stringer leg and a second stringer side extends from the stringer top to a second stringer leg, the first stringer side and second stringer side each extending in a continuous curve from the stringer top to a respective stringer leg and wherein the curve of each stringer side is characterized by at least one inflection point such that the curve of each stringer side is characterized by at least a first convex section and at least a first concave section. | 39,058 |
9,524,570 | 1. A production system comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable medium including computer program code instructions; and a user interface; the user interface and the processor, under control of the computer program code are configured to: | 31,513 |
8,372,368 | 1. A crystalline silicoaluminophosphate intermediate pore molecular sieve having the 29 Si MAS NMR spectra of FIG. 9 . | 4,192 |
9,555,764 | 1. An airbag comprising: an airbag body that is formed in a bag shape by joining a peripheral edge of a passenger-facing surface facing a passenger in an inflated state and a peripheral edge of a passenger-opposite surface opposite to the passenger-facing surface in the inflated state; an inlet of pressurized fluid that is formed on the passenger-opposite surface; a vent hole that is formed on the passenger-opposite surface and that is configured to communicate inside and outside of the airbag body; a regulation portion that is provided inside of the airbag body and that is configured to regulate discharge of the pressurized fluid from the vent hole; and a coupling portion that is configured to temporarily join the passenger-facing surface and the passenger-opposite surface and that is breakable, wherein the regulation portion comprises: wherein the link member is supported by a support portion which is provided on the opposite side of a portion where the vent hole cover is supported by the passenger-opposite surface, with respect to the vent hole. | 33,668 |
8,599,645 | 1. A mobile robot control system, the system comprising: a transducer configured to transmit emissions and to receive reflections of transmitted emissions; a rotatable reflector coupled to the transducer to direct transmitted emissions away from the transducer and to direct reflections of transmitted emissions toward the transducer; and a processor configured to: | 35,654 |
8,392,730 | 1. A current sharing method for a DC (Direct Current) power supply, comprising: taking a latest detected bus current as a reference current to perform current sharing control on a local host current; and calculating and timing sending time of the local host current according to the latest detected bus current, the local host current, and a preset corresponding relationship between a difference between the local host current and the bus current and the sending time of the local host current, and if no new bus current is detected within a timing time, sending the local host current as a new bus current to a bus when the timing times out. | 46,769 |
9,475,031 | 1. A biorefining system for co-producing activated carbon along with primary products, said system comprising: a host plant configured to convert a feedstock comprising biomass into one or more primary products and one or more co-products containing carbon; a reactor system configured to pyrolyze and activate said one or more co-products, to generate activated carbon and pyrolysis off-gas; and an oxidation unit configured to oxidize said pyrolysis off-gas, to generate CO wherein at least some of said energy is recycled and utilized in said host plant; and wherein at least some of said CO | 21,025 |
9,180,864 | 1. A hybrid vehicle which outputs power generated from an engine and a motor generator to a drive shaft through a power transmitting mechanism, the hybrid vehicle comprising: an electricity storing means for exchanging power with the motor generator; a contactor which enables or disables a connection between the motor generator and the electricity storing means; a charge state calculation means for calculating a charge state of the electricity storing means; a standard opening and closing means for turning off the contactor when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is lower than a standard lower-limit value; and an engine startup opening and closing means for maintaining the contactor in an on state when an engine startup signal is input, even when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is a value for turning off the contactor by the standard opening and closing means, wherein the contactor turning-on operation executed by the engine startup opening and closing means is executed when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is higher than an engine startup lower-limit value which is lower than the standard lower-limit value by a predetermined value, and the engine is started by the motor generator. | 41,099 |
9,816,489 | 1. A tower for a wind turbine, comprising: a hollow shell defining an interior, the hollow shell extending generally along a longitudinal axis, the hollow shell comprising a plurality of legs and a plurality of walls, each of the plurality of walls disposed between and connected to neighboring legs of the plurality of legs; and a platform disposed in the interior and connected to the shell, the platform comprising: | 7,816 |
9,657,626 | 1. A diesel engine exhaust system, comprising: a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) brick configured to receive exhaust gases from a diesel engine and oxidize hydrocarbons therein; a passive NOx adsorber (PNA) brick separate and downstream from the DOC brick and configured to store NOx from the exhaust gases up to 150° C.; and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system downstream from the PNA brick and configured to reduce NOx in the exhaust gases; wherein the PNA brick includes palladium and platinum and has a palladium to platinum content of at least 3:1. | 22,576 |
8,539,974 | 1. A forced fluid switch, comprising: a first plenum in communication with a first port; a second plenum in communication with a second port; a third plenum in switched communication with the first plenum and the second plenum and in communication with a third port; and a fourth plenum in switched communication with the first plenum and the second plenum and in communication with a fourth port; a first valve assembly configured to switch between the third plenum in communication with the first plenum and the second plenum, the first valve assembly including a first tubular valve seat connecting the first plenum with the third plenum and a second tubular valve seat connecting the second plenum with the fourth plenum, and wherein the first valve assembly includes a first spherical stopper configured to be moved between the first tubular valve seat and the second tubular valve seat; and a second valve assembly configured to switch between the fourth plenum in communication with the first plenum and the second plenum, the first valve assembly including a third tubular valve seat connecting the second plenum with the third plenum and a fourth tubular valve seat connecting the second plenum with the fourth plenum, and wherein the second valve assembly includes a second spherical stopper configured to be moved between the third tubular valve seat and the fourth tubular valve seat, wherein the first, second, third and fourth plenums and the first and second valve assemblies are enclosed within a case forming the forced fluid switch, the enclosing case divided by a first separator dividing the forced fluid switch into a first part and a second part, and wherein a second divider is configured to divide the first part into the first plenum and the second plenum and a third divider is configured to divide the second part into the third plenum and the fourth plenum, wherein the four ports penetrate through exterior walls of the case, wherein the two valve assemblies of the forced fluid switch connect their respective plenums internally to the exterior walls of the case with a first forced fluid path internal to the case and a second forced fluid path internal to the case, wherein in the first forced fluid path, the third plenum is in communication with the first plenum through the first valve assembly and the fourth plenum is in communication with the second plenum through the second valve assembly, and in the second forced fluid path, the third plenum is in communication with the second plenum through the first valve assembly and the fourth plenum is in communication with the first plenum through the second valve assembly, and wherein each port provides external fluid communication for its respective plenum, with the first plenum and the second plenum in fluid communication through the first port and the second port external to the forced fluid switch. | 23,819 |
9,540,014 | 1. An abnormality determination system comprising: an autonomous moving object including a distance measuring unit that is disposed to face a road surface in a moving direction and that measures a distance to the road surface; a charging unit including a connection terminal for charging a battery of the autonomous moving object; a stepped portion disposed on a road surface which is subjected to measurement by the distance measuring unit when the autonomous moving object is connected to the connection terminal of the charging unit and is positioned at a predetermined position, the stepped portion being a reflecting portion configured to reflect a signal output from the distance measuring unit; and a determination unit configured to (i) determine whether a distance to the stepped portion measured by the distance measuring unit at a time of positioning of the autonomous moving object at the predetermined position is less than a threshold value, and (2) determine that the distance measuring unit is abnormal when the distance to the stepped portion, including the reflected light path of the reflecting portion, measured by the distance measuring unit at the time of positioning of the autonomous moving object is greater than the threshold value. | 16,833 |
9,656,694 | 1. An impact energy absorbing vehicle charging port support arrangement comprising: a vehicle body including a vehicle front end portion; a charging port support member supported on the vehicle front end portion with the charging port support member including an energy absorbing structure that is configured and arranged to deform towards a support structure of the vehicle front end portion and into an energy absorbing area that is disposed forward of the support structure of the vehicle front end portion during a frontal impact such that the charging port support member moves upward and rearward during the frontal impact; and an electric charging port attached to the charging port support member, with the electric charging port being configured to receive an electric charging connector; the charging port support member including a charging port mounting wall slanting upward and rearward in the vehicle lengthwise direction, and a charging port mounting opening provided in the charging port support member receiving the electric charging port support member, the charging port mounting opening being directed in an upward direction. | 9,925 |
9,472,476 | 1. A test structure for testing an integrated circuit, wherein the test structure and the integrated circuit are manufactured on a same substrate material and the testing being conducted is in a temperature-controlled environment, the test structure comprising: a top structure positioned above the integrated circuit, the top structure configured to generate heat and including a first metal material, the first metal material including a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal; a bottom structure positioned below the integrated circuit, the bottom structure including a first silicon material; a first side structure positioned between the top structure and the bottom structure and located next to a first side of the integrated circuit, the first side structure being characterized by a first height, the first side structure including a second metal material; a second side structure positioned between the top structure and the bottom structure and located next to a second side of the integrated circuit, the second side structure being characterized by a second height, the second side structure including a third metal material, wherein the top structure is not electrically connected to the first and second side structures. | 21,103 |
8,383,054 | 1. An integrated reactor, comprising: an exothermic microchannel comprising an exothermic reaction catalyst; an endothermic reaction microchannel adjacent the exothermic microchannel and comprising an endothermic reaction catalyst, the endothermic reaction catalyst having a length, in the direction of flow, of at least 10 cm; and a wall separating the exothermic reaction catalyst and the endothermic reaction catalyst; wherein a gap of at least 0.2 mm exists between a wall of the endothermic reaction microchannel and a surface of the endothermic reaction catalyst; wherein the endothermic reaction catalyst has a length of at least 17 cm. | 31,933 |
8,365,169 | 1. A system comprising: an interconnect; processing cells connected to the interconnect, the processing cells containing corresponding cache memories and corresponding virtual machines, each of the virtual machines including a corresponding operating system and application; and a storage cell connected to the interconnect, the storage cell to store data portions that correspond to different ones of the processing cells, the data portions owned by individual ones of the processing cells to enable data communication over the interconnect without cache coherency support, wherein the cache memories are to store copies of virtual machine data also stored in the data portions of the storage cell, wherein a first and second of the processing cells are configured to migrate a particular one of the virtual machines from the first processing cell to the second processing cell, wherein the migrated virtual machine in the second processing cell is configured to retrieve virtual machine data from a corresponding one of the data portions in the storage cell. | 15,125 |
8,656,064 | 1. A communication device comprising: a first communication module configured to detect an external communication device in accordance with a first communication mode and communicate with the detected external communication device; a second communication module configured to detect the external communication device in accordance with a second communication mode and communicate with the detected external communication device, wherein power consumption of the second communication mode is lower than that of the first communication mode in detecting the external communication device; a controller configured to cause the second communication module to detect the external communication device in accordance with the second communication mode, and then connect the first communication module to the external communication device detected by the second communication module, wherein the controller causing (i) transmission of an advertising indicating that the communication device is detectable in the second communication mode and including information specifying that a service available in the first communication mode is unavailable in the second communication mode, and (ii) causing the second communication module to detect the external communication device in accordance with the second communication mode, and then upon receiving an advertising by the second communication module indicating that the communication device is detectable in the second communication mode and including information indicating a service available in the first communication mode is unavailable in the second communication mode, the controller causing the first communication module to transmit a connection request in the first communication mode to the external connection device. | 47,684 |
8,361,518 | 1. A concentrate [1] obtained by centrifugation or decantation of crude olive pomace oil characterized in that it comprises a step a) of filtration of the starting crude olive pomace oil carried out through filters having a pore size comprised in the interval of 0.1 to 20 microns and a temperature below 70° C., characterized in that the concentrate has a concentration of triterpenic acids above 20%. | 32,316 |
8,867,012 | 1. A liquid crystal device comprising: an element substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes on one surface thereof; an opposed substrate holding a liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the one surface of the element substrate; and a sealing material including a gap material that controls a distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate and bonds the element substrate and the opposed substrate to each other, the sealing material having a first side extending along a first direction, a second side extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, a third side that opposes the first side, and a fourth side that opposes the second side, wherein at least one of the element substrate and the opposed substrate has a shoulder portion provided in an area overlapped with the sealing material for increasing the distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate in the area overlapped with the sealing material to be larger than the distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate in an area surrounded by the sealing material, and wherein an inter-substrate conductive material is provided between the element substrate and the opposed substrate in an area overlapped with the shoulder portion such that the inter-substrate conductive material electrically connects an electrode on the element substrate to another electrode on the opposed substrate, and the electrode on the element substrate is disposed outside of the sealing material at a crossing part of the first side of the sealing material and the second side of the sealing material, wherein | 7,889 |
9,017,898 | 1. A fuel cell comprising: an anode including nickel and an oxygen ion conductive material; a cathode; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, in a cross section of the anode, the anode having a region in which an average value of a contact length of a particle of nickel and a particle of the oxygen ion conductive material is greater than or equal to 0.4 micrometers and less than or equal to 0.9 micrometers. | 49,053 |
9,189,782 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: an acquisition module configured to acquire an image of a commodity; a detection module configured to detect the commodity from the image acquired by the acquisition module; a recognition module configured to compare the feature amount of the commodity detected by the detection module with the feature amount of each reference commodity to recognize the reference commodity of which the similarity degree is greater than a threshold value as a commodity candidate; a commodity candidate display module configured to display the commodity candidates recognized before a given waiting time period elapses in the descending order of similarity degree, and then successively display the commodity candidates recognized after the waiting time period elapses in sequence without changing the display order of the commodity candidates recognized before the given waiting time period elapses; and a reception module configured to receive an operation of selecting one from the displayed commodity candidates. | 19,731 |
8,985,432 | 1. A foldable container comprising: (a) a body having an interior chamber with a top opening and a closed bottom, the body including two opposing first sidewalls and two opposing second sidewalls, the first sidewalls and the second sidewalls forming a perimeter around the interior chamber, the first sidewalls being foldable along respective vertical fold lines; (b) a bottom panel positionable within the interior chamber to be laid against the closed bottom, the bottom panel being hingedly coupled to the body and being foldable along a first horizontal fold line that subdivides the bottom panel into two adjoining bottom sections, wherein the first horizontal fold line is perpendicular to the first sidewalls; and (c) a lid hingedly coupled to the body for selectively closing the top opening, the lid being foldable along a second horizontal fold line that subdivides the lid into two adjoining lid sections; (d) the container being foldable between: | 44,606 |
9,351,821 | 1. A blood filter, comprising: a hub extending in a hub direction from a first hub end to a second hub end along a longitudinal axis; a plurality of legs extending away from the second hub end along the longitudinal axis, each of the legs including: a plurality of arms extending away from the second hub end along the longitudinal axis, each of the arms having a first end and a free end, the first end of each arm contiguous to a portion of the leg, the free end of each of the arms being closer to the longitudinal axis than the hook of each of the legs, the free ends of the plurality of arms being spaced radially transverse to the longitudinal axis at substantially the same radial distance. | 7,377 |
9,271,564 | 1. An oral care implement comprising: a handle; a head attached to the handle, the head comprising a frame having a proximal protrusion, a distal protrusion and a central portion extending between the proximal and distal protrusions, a floor of the proximal protrusion and a floor of the distal protrusion being elevated relative to a floor of the central portion; a first upstanding wall extending upwardly from the floor of the proximal protrusion and forming a closed loop that surrounds the floor of the proximal protrusion and a second upstanding wall extending upwardly from the floor of the distal protrusion and forming a closed loop that surrounds the floor of the distal protrusion; a cleaning element assembly comprising a first carrier, a second carrier and a third carrier, wherein the first carrier is coupled to the frame so that a bottom portion of the first carrier abuts the first upstanding wall and the second carrier is coupled to the frame so that a bottom portion of the second carrier abuts the second upstanding wall, the third carrier being movably supported above the central portion. | 21,182 |
9,201,228 | 1. A system for photo-processing of a material using incident light, the system comprising: a. a substantially transparent optical element, including a plurality of concentric bands of optical prisms concentric around a focal axis b. a target receiver positioned on the focal axis and configured to hold the material to be photo-processed, wherein the optical prisms concentrate incident light on the target receiver, and wherein the optical prisms receive and concentrate an input light onto the material to be photo-processed, the concentrated light incident on the material having greater than 60 times of at least the UV light of the input light. | 44,917 |
8,888,621 | 1. A self-lubricating chain comprising: an outer link including at least two outer link plates including front and rear connecting pin holes; an inner link including at least two inner link plates each having a pair of front and rear bush holes to which bushes are fitted and fixed; connecting pins connecting the inner and outer links to each other while being fitted and fixed to the connecting pin holes and idly fitted into the bush holes, each of the connecting pins having: a lubricant oil supply device configured to be removably attached to the hollow portion and having a protruding portion that is provided with a lubricant oil outflow port for flowing out lubricant oil to an oil supplying hole opening from an inside of the connecting pin to an outer circumferential surface of the connecting pin; a lid member attached to a first end of the lubricant oil supply device, and the lid member presses and seals the lubricant oil supply device into the hollow portion; and a bottom O-ring disposed between the lubricant oil supply device and the concave fitting portion to tightly seal the lubricant oil supply device with the bottom of the hollow portion, wherein: | 27,096 |
9,679,990 | 1. A method comprising: recessing a semiconductor material to form a cavity therein adjacent to a channel region of a semiconductor structure being fabricated, the recessing forming a first cavity surface and a second cavity surface within the cavity; and implanting one or more dopants into the semiconductor material through the first cavity surface to define an implanted region within the semiconductor material, and form an extended channel interface, the extended channel interface comprising, in part, an interface of the implanted region within the semiconductor material to the channel region of the semiconductor structure. | 46,386 |
8,674,647 | 1. A drive device for an alternating current motor, comprising: an inverter which performs electric power conversion from a direct current to an alternating current; the alternating current motor which is connected to the inverter; a controller which outputs a pulse width modulation signal to the inverter, to thereby control the inverter; and means for applying a voltage to the alternating current motor so that, with respect to 360 degrees which is a fundamental wave cycle of an alternating current output, a line-to-line voltage waveform of the inverter exhibits a continuous positive pulse train during one 180-degree period and exhibits a continuous negative pulse train during another 180-degree period, and detecting a current and a current change rate of the alternating current motor, the alternating current motor being controlled on the basis of a detection value of the current and a detection value of the current change rate. | 7,412 |
8,626,560 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium whose contents include computer-executable instructions which direct a vehicle loyalty evaluation system to: select vehicle purchase records dated within an analysis time period; group related vehicle purchase records by household; add related historical vehicle purchase records and historical vehicle disposal records to grouped vehicle purchase records; define at least one correlation window; and analyze selected vehicle purchase records with at least some of the related historical vehicle records within the correlation window to determine a household loyalty, wherein at least some of the related historical vehicle records fall within the correlation window but outside the analysis time period, wherein the household loyalty comprises a garage loyalty, a disposal loyalty, a garage migration metric and a disposal migration metric for a given household, wherein the garage loyalty metric is an indicator of consistency between at least one of a vehicle manufacturer, make and model associated with at least one vehicle purchase record for the given household, and a vehicle manufacturer, make or model associated with at least one historical purchase record for the given household, wherein the disposal loyalty metric is an indicator of consistency between at least one of a vehicle manufacturer, make and model associated with at least one vehicle purchase record for the given household, and the vehicle manufacturer, make or model associated with at least one historical vehicle disposal record for the given household, wherein the garage migration metric is an indication of the vehicle manufacturer, make, model and segment associated with at least one vehicle purchase record for the given household, in relation to the vehicle manufacturer, make, model or segment associated with at least one historical vehicle purchase record for the given household, and wherein the disposal migration metric is an indication of the vehicle manufacturer, make, model and segment associated with at least one vehicle purchase record for the given household, in relation to the vehicle manufacturer, make, model or segment associated with at least one historical vehicle disposal record for the given household. | 35,690 |
8,775,929 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a storage that stores document information; an image formation processor that receives an instruction to form an image corresponding to target document information selected from the document information stored in the storage, and that performs image formation processing with respect to the target document information; a recording unit that records attribute information, which indicates that the image formation processing with respect to the target document information has been performed and that access to the target document information stored in the storage should be restricted so as to maintain consistency between the target document information stored in the storage and an image formed by the image formation processor, and associates the attribute information with the target document information; and a controller that controls, in a case where a request for processing with respect to the target document information is received, to restrict the requested processing based on the attribute information; a receiver that receives image information obtained from a medium on which an image is formed by the image formation processor with respect to the target document information; and a replacement storage that specifies the target document information which corresponds to the received image information and that rewrites the attribute information so that the attribute information indicates that the image formation processing with respect to the target document information has not been performed and that access to the target document information stored in the storage is not restricted. | 11,590 |
9,531,025 | 1. A manufacture method of a membrane-electrode assembly comprising: an electrolyte membrane; a pair of catalyst layers facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane; and a pair of gas diffusion layers facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane and the pair of catalyst layers, wherein at least one of the pair of catalyst layers includes unwoven cloth comprising fiber-like structures each having proton conduction performance, and a portion of the unwoven cloth is buried in the electrolyte membrane adjacent to the catalyst layer including the unwoven cloth; the method comprising: forming the unwoven cloth on a surface of an undried electrolyte solution that includes materials of the electrolyte membrane; forming the electrolyte membrane having a portion of the unwoven cloth buried therein, by drying the electrolyte solution; and forming the catalyst layer to cover another portion of the unwoven cloth. | 18,889 |
9,463,810 | 1. A method for displaying a remaining range of an electrically drivable motor vehicle, comprising: continuously determining with a control unit a value of an instantaneous remaining range of the motor vehicle attainable with a purely electric drive of the motor vehicle, detecting with the control unit when a range preservation mode is activated, defining, while the range preservation mode is activated, a lower range value and an upper range value, freezing under control of the control unit a display of value of the instantaneous remaining range that was determined at the time the range preservation mode was activated for as long as the instantaneous remaining range that continues to be determined, while the range preservation mode is activated remains between the lower range value and the upper range value. | 24,107 |
9,424,657 | 1. An image processing method, for detecting an image motion information between a first image unit and a second image unit, wherein the first image unit and second image unit respectively comprises a plurality of blocks and each of the blocks comprises a plurality of pixels; the image motion detection method comprising: analyzing pixels at a same position in the blocks of the first image unit to generate a first image statistical information, comprising a first brightness distribution information or a first color distribution information; analyzing pixels at a same position in the blocks of the second image unit to generate a second image statistical information, comprising a second brightness distribution information or a second color distribution information; and comparing the first image statistical information with the second image statistical information to calculate the image motion information, wherein the image motion information indicates a motion of a first pixel from a first position in said first image unit to a second position in said second image unit; wherein, the first position and the second position have a same brightness distribution or a same color distribution. | 217 |
9,043,217 | 1. A medical kiosk configured to provide tele-med services to a user, said medical kiosk including an internal enclosure having a front section, a user video conferencing system and a plurality of medical devices, said user video conferencing system configured for the user to have a real-time or near real-time tele-conference with a medical provider located remotely from said medical kiosk, said user video conferencing system including a first and second video screens, a camera, and a microphone, said first video screen configured to display said medical provider during a video conference between said user and said medical provider, said second video screen being a touch screen configured for said user to provide information regarding said tele-med services, said first and second video screens and said camera are located at a front section of said enclosure, said plurality of medical devices is configured for use by the user to provide information to the medical provider about the user to enable the medical provider to provide real-time or near real-time medical advice to the user while the user is in said enclosure, said enclosure includes a plurality of remotely controlled medical compartments, each of said remotely controlled medical compartments includes at least one of said medical devices, each remotely controlled medical compartment including one of said medical devices that is different from any other of said medical devices located in any other of said remotely controlled medical compartments, each of said remotely controlled medical compartments includes a movable and lockable door that limits access to said at least one medical device in said medical compartment, said door moveable between a closed position and an open position, said closed position of said door limiting access to said medical device in said remotely controlled medical compartment, said open position providing access to said medical device in said remotely controlled medical compartment, each of said doors on each of said remotely controlled medical compartment is selectively unlockable by said medical provider to cause said door to move from said closed position to said open position. | 26,346 |
8,597,432 | 1. A method of manufacturing a material, comprising: cooling a feed comprising a polysaccharide-based organic polymer having a water/moisture content of less than 2 weight % to below 0 degrees C.; separately cooling a refining gas to below 0 degrees C.; and refining said feed in a jet refiner with the cooled refining gas to a desired particle size which is suitable in both size and physical properties as a filler or coating pigment for a fibrous web. | 26,043 |
9,054,443 | 1. A connector comprising: a connector housing having a cylindrical shape and configured to be fitted to a mating housing; and a case including a housing fixing portion having a cylindrical shape therein, wherein the housing fixing portion includes a first rib which extends in a circumferential direction of the housing fixing portion and is formed on an inner circumferential face of the housing fixing portion, the connector housing includes a second rib which extends in a circumferential direction of the connector housing and is formed on an outer circumferential face of the connector housing, an inner circumferential groove which extends in the circumferential direction of the housing fixing portion is formed on an inner circumferential face of the first rib, so that the second rib is inserted into the inner circumferential groove, and vertical protrusions which extend in an inserting direction of the second rib are formed at a plurality of positions on at least one of vertical side walls defining the inner circumferential groove, so that top parts of the vertical protrusions are deformed so as to engage the second rib with the inner circumferential groove when the second rib is inserted into the inner circumferential groove. | 46,078 |
8,406,530 | 1. A method for detecting a numeral connected component in a digital image, said method comprising: receiving a text-line component, wherein said text-line component comprises a plurality of connected components in a digital image; calculating an aspect ratio for each of said connected components in said plurality of connected components, thereby producing a plurality of aspect ratios; calculating a first characteristic of said plurality of aspect ratios; determining a component bounding box for each of said plurality of connected components, wherein each component bounding box comprises a first-side coordinate, a second-side coordinate, a third-side coordinate and a fourth-side coordinate, wherein said first-side coordinate and said second-side coordinate are associated with a first axis of said bounding box and said third-side coordinate and said fourth-side coordinate are associated with a second axis of said bounding box; determining a first variability measure associated with said first-side coordinates; determining a second variability measure associated with said second-side coordinates; determining a third variability measure associated with said third-side coordinates; determining a fourth variability measure associated with said fourth-side coordinates; determining a first accumulation of said first variability measure and said second variability measure; determining a second accumulation of said third variability measure and said fourth variability measure; when said first accumulation and said second accumulation meet a first accumulation criterion: when said first accumulation and said second accumulation do not meet said first accumulation criterion: classifying said text-line component as a numeral component when a first criterion comprising said first characteristic meeting a second criterion and said first variability characteristic meeting a third criterion and said second variability characteristic meeting a fourth criterion is met; and classifying said text-line component as a non-numeral component when said first criterion is not met. | 28,224 |
9,566,943 | 1. A method for making a vehicle available for a user to use the vehicle, comprising: identifying, via a remote user server, the user and authorizing the use of the vehicle by the user upon reception of a user request; sending, via a remote vehicle management server in communication with the remote user server and once the user is authorized, a message to unlock at least one door of the vehicle; sending, from the remote vehicle management server, another message, independent of the message to unlock the at least one door, authorizing starting of an engine of the vehicle by a control system of the vehicle; and allowing, by the control system of the vehicle, the user to use the vehicle; wherein the remote user server is separate from the remote vehicle management server, wherein the remote user server sends an unlock message to unlock the at least one door of the vehicle and an unprotect message to authorize the starting of the engine of the vehicle by the control system of the vehicle to the remote vehicle management server prior to the sending of the message and another message. | 6,029 |
8,748,122 | 1. A method of detecting and identifying a microorganism on a solid or semi-solid medium, comprising: (a) scanning a solid or semi-solid medium, known to contain, or that may contain one or more microorganism colonies to locate any colonies present on the medium; (b) interrogating one of said colonies located during step (a) with an excitation beam having a diameter of less than about 1000 μm, wherein the excitation beam is smaller in diameter than the colony to be interrogated, to produce intrinsic fluorescence (IF) measurements characteristic of a microorganism in said colony; and (c) identifying the microorganism in the colony based on said intrinsic fluorescence (IF) measurements, wherein said identification is to the family, genus, species and/or strain level. | 40,309 |
9,107,292 | 1. An electrically conductive structure comprising: a support layer comprising a plurality of fibers configured as a fiber mat and having apertures defined between the fibers; and a plurality of carbon nanostructures at least partially conformally coating the fibers; | 21,606 |
9,011,241 | 1. A gaming device-enabled method of presenting a tournament game, the gaming device-enabled method comprising: providing a tournament server that is connected to a physical game network; providing a plurality of gaming devices that are connected to the tournament server via the physical game network, each gaming device including a first display on which a base game is presented using a first processor and a secondary display on which a tournament game is presented using a second processor; determining, using the tournament server, locations of active and eligible players for an on-demand tournament game; on an eligible gaming device of the plurality of gaming devices at which an active and eligible player is playing, prompting the player to select multiple tournament games from a list of two or more available tournament games while the base game is active on the first display of the eligible gaming device, wherein the player selects the multiple tournament games from the list of two or more tournament games for immediate initiation of tournament game play on demand on the second display of the eligible gaming device, and wherein the tournament games are separate from the base game on the first display of the eligible gaming device; reconfiguring the gaming device to present the tournament games selected by the player; and processing, using the second processor, game play in the tournament mode and creating, using the tournament server, a final tournament score for the player. | 5,515 |
8,753,050 | 1. A transport apparatus for transporting a rotor blade of a wind power installation on a transport vehicle that includes a plurality of successively arranged and pivotably interconnected wagon elements, the transport apparatus comprising: a blade root carrier adapted to attach to a first wagon element of the transport vehicle for carrying the rotor blade in a region of a rotor blade root thereof on the first wagon element; a central carrier adapted to attach to a second wagon element of the transport vehicle for carrying the rotor blade in a central region thereof on the second wagon element; a gripping portion for fixedly receiving the rotor blade in a region of a rotor blade tip thereof; and a blade tip damper coupled to the gripping portion, the blade tip damper being configured to make an elastic connection between a third wagon element of the transport vehicle and the rotor blade tip and to damp vertical oscillations of the rotor blade tip without supporting the rotor blade. | 2,618 |
8,859,162 | 1. A fuel cell module, comprising: a first support part including a first body part surrounding one side of an outer peripheral surface of a fuel cell and a first connection part formed on one side of the first body part in a longitudinal direction; a second support part including a second body part surrounding the other side of the outer peripheral surface of the fuel cell and the second connection part formed on one side of the second body part in a longitudinal direction; and a fixing part passing through the first connection part and the second connection part to connect and fix the first connection part and the second connection part to each other. | 47,199 |
8,576,951 | 1. A spur avoidance circuit in a mixed-signal radio frequency (RF) receiver where the RF receiver is coupled to receive an incoming RF signal and to generate at least a processed digital output signal, the RF receiver including at least an RF-Analog front end circuit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a digital signal processor (DSP), the spur avoidance circuit comprising: a clock synthesizer circuit configured to generate a first clock signal having a first clock frequency; a clock generator circuit configured to receive the first clock signal and to generate a second clock signal to control the ADC, a third clock signal to control the DSP and a fourth clock signal, the second, third and fourth clock signals having respective second, third and fourth clock frequencies related to the first clock frequency, wherein, in selected operation modes, the clock generator circuit is further configured to apply a jitter sequence to jitter the second and/or third clock frequency around a mean frequency value based on a predictable, periodic pseudo-random number sequence; an input buffer configured to receive input data from the ADC and to store the input data, the input buffer having a write port being driven by the second clock signal and a read port being driven by the third clock signal; an input sample rate converter configured to receive input data from the input buffer or the ADC at an input sampling rate and to generate output data at an output sampling rate being a uniform sampling rate, the input sample rate converter configured to provide the output data to the DSP; an output sample rate converter configured to receive input data from the DSP at an input sampling rate being a uniform sample rate and to generate output data at an output sampling rate matching the fourth clock frequency; an output buffer configured to receive input data from the DSP or the output sample rate converter and to store the input data, the output buffer having a write port being driven by the third clock signal and a read port being driven by the fourth clock signal; and a plurality of bypass signal paths coupled to each of circuit elements including the input buffer, the input sample rate converter, the output sample rate converter and the output buffer, the plurality of bypass signal paths being selectively activated to bypass one or more of the circuit elements coupled thereto, wherein the DSP receives input data either from the ADC, or from the input buffer, or from the input sample rate converter; and the DSP providing output data to either the output sample rate converter, to the output buffer or as the processed digital output signal, wherein the spur avoidance circuit is configured to operate in one or more operation modes selected from a plurality of operation modes using the plurality of bypass signal paths to select or bypass one or more of the circuit elements, the spur avoidance circuit is operated in a first set of operation modes to shift the second, third, and fourth clock frequencies out of a wanted signal channel of the RF receiver and is configured in a second set of operation modes to spread the clock frequency of at least the third clock signal based on the predictable, periodic pseudo-random number sequence. | 41,775 |
8,357,714 | 1. A method for treating ptosis in a subject, comprising administering an effective amount of oxymetazoline to the exterior surface of an eye of a subject in need of such treatment, wherein said effective amount essentially does not affect pupil size. | 26,382 |
8,884,470 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: an antenna circuit; a voltage detection circuit comprising: a first capacitor including a first terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the first transistor and the first terminal of the resistor, and a second terminal electrically connected to a wiring; and a resonance frequency regulating circuit comprising: | 7,501 |
9,255,001 | 1. A micro device transfer head array, comprising: a base substrate; a first insulating layer on the base substrate; an array of electrostatic transfer heads, each electrostatic transfer head including a mesa structure over the first insulating layer, wherein each mesa structure has a maximum width of 1 to 100 μm; a second insulating layer over a top surface of each of the mesa structures; a patterned metal layer over the second insulating layer and the top surface of each of the mesa structures; a through via extending through the base substrate; and a dielectric layer covering the patterned metal layer on the top surface of each of the mesa structures. | 42,581 |
9,147,892 | 1. A porous material for a fuel cell electrolyte membrane, wherein at least one strength auxiliary layer is provided inside and/or on a surface of a high porosity layer, the high porosity layer and the at least one strength auxiliary layer constitute a multilayer structure, and an average diameter of pores of the high porosity layer is different from an average diameter of pores of the strength auxiliary layer, wherein the average diameter of pores of the at least one strength auxiliary layer is 0.01 to 10 μm and the average diameter of pores of the strength auxiliary layer is larger than a largest through-hole diameter of the high porosity layer, wherein the at least one strength auxiliary layer has a dense portion with through holes which is finger-void porous structure, and wherein the high porosity layer has a sponge-like bicontinuous structure which is fibrillar structure and has more porosity than the dense portion of the strength auxiliary layer. | 39,469 |
9,321,158 | 1. A pole assembly, comprising: a chuck, which includes a chuck body with a distal chuck body opening, a chuck stop piece, opposed fastener openings extending therethrough the chuck body, a shank, which extends away from the distal chuck body opening and chuck stop piece, wherein said distal chuck body opening extends perpendicular to the opposed fastener openings; a socket piece, which includes a conduit fitting body and a socket fitting body, and opposed fastener openings extending through the conduit fitting body, a socket stop piece which extends between the conduit fitting body and socket fitting body, and a socketed body opening extending therethrough the socket fitting body; a conduit received within the distal chuck body opening of the chuck and further received within an unsocketed body opening of the conduit fitting body, the conduit engaging an inner periphery of the chuck body and the conduit fitting body, wherein the conduit consists of EMT conduit. | 31,817 |
8,835,639 | 1. A process for the preparation of a compound of Formula 1, comprising coupling a carboxylic acid of Formula 2 with an aniline of Formula 3 in the presence of a coupling agent selected from the group consisting of 2-chloro-1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate, HBTU, HCTU, 2-chloro-4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazine, HATU, HOBT/EDC, and propane phosphonic anhydride; wherein each R R R each X is independently a bond or is an optionally substituted C each R y is an integer from 0-4; and each R′ is independently selected from hydrogen or an optionally substituted group selected from a C | 31,651 |
9,428,588 | 1. A bio-hybrid material comprising: an alloy part free of Ni; an organic acid having three or more active ester groups; and a cytokine, wherein the alloy part free of Ni forms an ester bond with the organic acid through one of the three or more active ester groups of the organic acid, and the organic acid and the cytokine are immobilized via an amide bond through active ester groups free of the ester bond with the alloy part free of Ni among the three or more active ester groups of the organic acid. | 37,982 |
8,890,345 | 1. Turbine driving a power conversion means, the power conversion means comprising several and preferably more than three power conversion units, of approximately similar power conversion capacity, each power conversion unit has coupling means for coupling the power conversion units to the turbine, the turbine having measuring means for determining the rotation speed of the turbine and/or a flow speed of the turbine driving flow of wind or water and a control system for controlling the coupling means in dependence of the determined rotation speed and/or flow speed characterized in that the control system has means for activating and deactivating the coupling means so that the power conversion units are used equally and disabled power control units remain switched off, wherein the power conversion units each comprise a compressor with a compression chamber ( 55 ) at one side limited by a piston ( 17 ; 54 ) and drive means ( 12 , 14 , 16 ) for moving the piston reciprocatingly in the compression chamber between a top dead centre position (TDC) and a bottom dead centre position (BDC), and the coupling means ( 11 ; 15 ) couple and decouple the rotation of the turbine and the reciprocating movement of one or more pistons ( 17 ; 54 ). | 41,975 |
8,506,502 | 1. A system for quantifying a neuromuscular response, the system comprising: (a) a stimulator configured to apply a first mode of stimulation to the patient, wherein the first mode of stimulation is Train Of Four (TOF); (b) one or more sensors configured to measure the patient's response to stimulation; and (c) a computer configured to: | 15,897 |
9,802,624 | 1. A vehicle adapted for autonomous driving, the vehicle comprising: a propulsion unit; an autonomous driving system configured to control operation of the vehicle without a driver at least during initial motion of the vehicle; and an object detecting system configured to assist the autonomous driving system, the object detecting system including at least one vehicle state sensor for use in determining at least one measured value representative of a selected parameter, and a computer processing unit configured to compare at least one selected reference value of the selected parameter with the at least one measured value representative of the selected parameter to detect an obstructing object which prevents or limits initial displacement of the vehicle from a standstill position during initial motion of the vehicle by the autonomous driving system, wherein the selected parameter comprises a vehicle state parameter. | 48,682 |
8,519,055 | 1. A curable polyester, consisting of: i. diacid residues, comprising about 20 to 100 mole percent, based on the total moles of diacid residues, of the residues of isophthalic acid; ii. diol residues, comprising about 10 to 100 mole percent, based on the total moles of diol residues, of the residues of 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol; and iii. polyol residues, comprising about 2 to about 40 mole percent of the residues of at least one polyol, based on the total moles of diol and polyol residues; wherein said curable polyester has a number average molecular weight of about 500 to about 10,000 daltons, a glass transition temperature of about −35° C. to about 50° C., a hydroxyl number of about 20 to about 300 mg KOH/g of polyester, and an acid number of 0 to about 80 mg KOH/g of polyester. | 11,503 |
9,779,553 | 1. A method for displaying a digital artifact on a mobile computing device comprising a processor, a camera and a display, the method comprising: a) receiving at the processor a request from a user for a digital marker image that represents a specific, preexisting, captured view of a particular location in the real-world environment; b) displaying on the display the requested digital marker image superimposed on at least a portion of a view of a current real-world environment provided by the camera, wherein the requested digital marker image, when displayed, is positioned relative to the view of the current real-world environment such that it is capable of being visually aligned by the user with the view of the current real-world environment, through positioning of the mobile computing device by the user; c) receiving at the processor an indication from the user that the requested digital marker image and the view of the current real-world environment have been aligned by the user; d) marking the location of the current real-world environment upon the user's indication that the requested digital marker image and the view of the current real-world environment have been aligned by the user; e) displaying on the display a digital artifact associated with the marked location simultaneously with the view of the current real-world environment; and f) displaying on the display an adjusted digital artifact in response to an adjustment by the user of the view of the current real-world environment, wherein the digital marker image and the digital artifact are not the same, and wherein the digital marker image comprises at least one of: i) a digital picture of the particular location, and ii) a digitized 2 dimensional drawing that highlights unique characteristics of the particular location. | 10,347 |
8,934,964 | 1. A method for graphical representation of a train of ECG complexes, each of said electrocardiogram (ECG), complexes respectively comprising an R wave and a T-P interval and having respectively variable isoelectric baselines, the method implemented on an electronic processor, the method comprising: obtaining electrocardiogram (ECG) signals from electrodes placed on a subject and, using said electronic processor, carrying out two alignments for each complex as follows: aligning said complexes in terms of signal amplitude by obtaining a respective T-P interval for each ECG complex, using said T-P interval to infer said respective isolectric baseline and aligning said isoelectric baselines; and aligning said complexes temporally using a predetermined point on respective R-waves, thereby to graphically represent said train of ECG complexes as a superposition of said ECG complexes into a single complex. | 26,357 |
8,357,101 | 1. An electro-oculography apparatus that measures an eye potential of a user, said electro-oculography apparatus comprising: an eye potential measuring unit configured to measure the eye potential generated by an eye movement of the user and to output an eye potential original signal based on the measured eye potential; a first filtering unit configured to receive the eye potential original signal output from said eye potential measuring unit and to output a first eye potential signal by applying one of a maximum value filtering and a minimum value filtering to the received eye potential original signal; a second filtering unit configured to receive the first eye potential signal output from said first filtering unit and to output a second eye potential signal by applying the other of the maximum value filtering and the minimum value filtering to the received first eye potential signal; and a filtering detail determination unit configured to determine the filtering to be performed by said first filtering unit and said second filtering unit, based on a blink signal included in the eye potential original signal, the blink signal being generated when the user blinks, wherein, for a signal comprising a plurality of samples, the maximum value filtering replaces a value of each respective sample with a sample value having a largest amplitude from among a plurality of samples centering on the respective sample, wherein, for a signal comprising a plurality of samples, the minimum value filtering replaces a value of each respective sample with a sample value having a smallest amplitude from among a plurality of samples centering on the respective sample, and wherein, when the blink signal has a positive potential, said filtering detail determination unit causes said first filtering unit to perform the minimum value filtering to the received eye potential original signal and causes said second filtering unit to perform the maximum value filtering to the received first eye potential signal. | 19,833 |
9,380,906 | 1. A multifunctional cookware, comprising a pot body, the pot body having a chassis and a vessel, with the chassis being provided with a top surface and a bottom surface, the vessel being formed at a side of the chassis and being provided with a holding space; a steaming pan, the steaming pan covering a surface of the vessel opposite to the chassis and being removable from the vessel, and the steaming pan being provided with vent holes penetrating the steaming pan; and a pot lid having a shape corresponding to a periphery of the vessel, and the pot lid removably covering a surface of the steaming pan opposite to the vessel to form a sealed space with the vessel; wherein a side of the pot lid is provided with a handle, and a groove is formed on the pot lid at a location opposite to the direction along which a pillar of the vessel is extended. | 36,139 |
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