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8,991,482 | 1. A temperature equalization system, comprising: an installation; a heat equalizer disposed in a natural heat carrier, and being made of a material of heat conduction to exchange heat with the natural heat carrier; a fluid transmission duct disposed between the heat equalizer and the installation, and having a fluid contained therein for heat transmission; a pump connected in series with the fluid transmission duct for pumping the fluid; first and second fluid bypass ducts disposed in parallel in the installation and both in communication with the fluid transmission duct, the first and second fluid bypass ducts respectively having first and second bypass control valves connected in series therewith, only the second fluid bypass duct having a bypass auxiliary pump connected in series therewith for pumping the fluid flowing therethough; and a control means controlling an operation of temperature equalization system, the control means | 23,192 |
8,429,434 | 1. A control method with a management server apparatus for use in a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices having a plurality of storage units coupled to said management server apparatus to provide a logical volume and making up a plurality of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) groups, and an air conditioner coupled to said management server apparatus, said method comprising: calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to said plurality of storage devices; calculating the heating value of each storage device included in said plurality of storage devices for each of said plural combinations; calculating the distribution factor of said heating value to said air conditioner, based on said heating value and positional information of said plurality of storage devices and said air conditioner for each of said plural combinations; calculating the quantity of heat conducted to said air conditioner from said heating value and said distribution factor; calculating the power consumption of said air conditioner to cool said quantity of heat conducted to said air conditioner for each of said plural combinations; selecting a combination included in said plural combinations based on said power consumption of said air conditioner; and issuing a move instruction of moving the data stored in a first storage device to decrease the work amount to a second storage device to increase the work amount to said plurality of storage devices, based on said selected combination. | 11,894 |
8,671,429 | 1. A method comprising: displaying a first user interface on a display associated with a host device, the first user interface comprising first content listings for first content available through the host device received from a first guide source external from the host device; coupling an external device receiving second content different than the first content to the host device; receiving second content listings for the second content from the first guide source; supplementing the first user interface to form a second user interface that includes both the second content listings available through the external device and the first content listings available through the host device; and displaying the second user interface on the display associated with the host device. | 35,770 |
8,425,394 | 1. A centrifugal separator comprising: a spindle rotatably arranged in the centrifugal separator by means of a bearing device; said spindle being connected to a rotor in which centrifugal separation takes place during operation; a drive device which during operation is operable to cause the spindle and the rotor to rotate; a lubricating device comprising a reservoir arranged to contain a quantity of lubricant; and a pump device disposed in the centrifugal separator rotatable about a central axis, said pump device comprising a lubricant inlet situated at a first radially inner level to receive lubricant from the lubricant reservoir; an outlet device to deliver at least part of said lubricant from the lubricating device in the form of lubricant mist; and a duct for conveying lubricant from the lubricant inlet to the outlet device, which outlet device comprises at least one lubricant outlet situated outside the first radially inner level; said centrifugal separator further comprising a housing which at least partly surrounds the bearing device and the lubricating device and which allows lubricant mist to pass from the lubricating device to the bearing device; and wherein, the pump device comprises a gas inlet for input of a quantity of gas into the duct, and the outlet device comprises a gas outlet for delivery of said quantity of gas from the duct, whereby a gas flow is maintained from the gas inlet to the gas outlet during rotation of the pump device, in such a way that the gas flow brings along lubricant present in the duct towards the outlet device. | 42,956 |
9,814,148 | 1. A wearable electronic device, comprising: a ring-shaped main body; plural receiving parts separated from each other and disposed within the ring-shaped main body, wherein each of the plural receiving parts comprises an opening, and the opening is formed in an inner surface of the ring-shaped main body; a wiring board integrally formed within the ring-shaped main body and in communication with the plural receiving parts; plural circuit boards detachably disposed within the corresponding receiving parts and connected with the wiring board, wherein one of the plural circuit boards is aligned with the corresponding opening, and introduced into the corresponding receiving part through the corresponding opening, wherein each of the plural circuit boards comprises a connection part, and the connection part is connected with the wiring board; and plural bottom covers detachably disposed within the ring-shaped main body, wherein one of the plural bottom covers is aligned with the corresponding opening to shelter a top side of the corresponding circuit board. | 46,005 |
8,345,833 | 1. A method of processing a telecommunication call, the method comprising: receiving at a computing system signaling information associated with a first call from a first caller placed by the first caller using a telephonic device, the first call intended for a called party; determining whether the called party's telecommunications line is unavailable; after the called party's telecommunications line is determined to be unavailable, determining if the unavailable called party's telecommunications line becomes available; providing, via the computing system, a first notification to the called party of the first call, wherein the first notification includes: providing, via the computing system, a user interface via which the called party can request a second notification transmission to the first caller related to the availability of the called party's telecommunications line be inhibited; in the absence of the called party requesting inhibition of the second notification transmission, and at least partly in response to the determination that the telecommunications line associated with the called party has become available, at least partly causing the transmission of the second notification to the telephonic device associated with the first caller related to the availability of the called party telecommunications line, wherein the second notification to the telephonic device associated with the first caller enables, at least in part, the first caller to initiate a second call to the called party's telecommunications line that had been unavailable; receiving a third call from a second caller before the subscriber's telecommunication line has become available, and transmitting a third notification to the subscriber providing information on the third call; and receiving a selection from the subscriber indicating that a fourth notification should be transmitted only to one of the first caller or the second caller. | 2,980 |
9,190,694 | 1. A lithium ion battery comprising a positive electrode comprising a cycle-able lithium metal oxide, a negative electrode, a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and supplemental lithium distinct from lithium associated with the lithium metal oxide and supplemental to cycling lithium supplied by the lithium metal oxide, the supplemental lithium being in an amount corresponding to about 2.5% to about 35% of the negative electrode capacity, wherein the negative electrode comprises an active material comprising a silicon-carbon composite material and has an average dry thickness of at least 25 microns, the active material having a tenth cycle specific capacity of at least 1000 mAh/g at a rate of C/3 and voltage range between 4.5V to 1.5V, and wherein the supplemental lithium is in the form of electroactive lithium or at least a portion of an SEI layer. | 36,702 |
8,420,637 | 1. A method of treating glaucoma or ocular hypertension which comprises applying to the eye of a person suffering from ocular hypertension or glaucoma an effective amount of a compound having the following formula wherein a dotted line represents the presence or absence of a double bond, wherein when said dotted line the represents the absence of a double bond, R 3 , R 5 , R 6 and R 7 are all present, and when said dotted line represents the presence of double bond only one of R 3 and R 5 and one of R 6 and R 7 are present; R is H, halogen or C R R R R R R R Y is OH. | 20,353 |
8,654,955 | 1. A dual-use portable conferencing product kit for connecting to a fixed conferencing setup and for portable conferencing, comprising: a portable enclosure, wherein said enclosure contains a microphone and a speaker, wherein said enclosure comprises a first bi-directional audio port, wherein said enclosure further comprises an external audio interface; first circuitry operable to create a conferencing link to a distant party through said first bi-directional audio port, whereby a person in the audio vicinity of said product can initiate and conduct an audio conference with that distant party; a breakout box connectible to said external audio interface, wherein said breakout box comprises a connector, an audio-out channel and an audio-in channel, wherein all of said connector and said audio out and audio-in channels are operable to connect to external conferencing equipment; second circuitry operable to create a breakout conferencing link to a distant party through said external audio interface and said breakout box, whereby a person in the audio vicinity of said product can initiate and conduct an audio conference with that distant party by way of the external conferencing equipment and at least one of the microphone or the speaker is operable to provide audio input or audio output, respectively, for the breakout conferencing link; and routing circuitry operable to perform at least one of the functions of disabling said microphone and routing audio input through said external audio interface and disabling said speaker and routing audio output through said external audio interface. | 1,667 |
9,648,483 | 1. A method, comprising: forming status information comprising information on a power source state of a device including remaining battery energy, sending status information to a control device, receiving a discovery control signal from the control device, said discovery control signal having been formed at least partially based on said status information, and carrying out discovery of proximal devices based on said discovery control signal and said power source state, wherein carrying out discovery of proximal devices comprises performing a graph traversal based on the discovery control signal and hierarchical proximity information, and wherein carrying out said discovery comprises determining discovery frequency at least partially based on remaining battery energy. | 15,534 |
9,444,349 | 1. A control circuit of a DC/DC converter including a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a switching transistor disposed on a current path of the primary winding of the transformer, and a detection resistor connected to the switching transistor, the control circuit comprising: a feedback terminal receiving a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage of the DC/DC converter; a current detection terminal receiving a detection voltage generated in the detection resistor; a conversion circuit configured to amplify, attenuate and/or level-shift at least one of the feedback voltage and the detection voltage, wherein a gain and/or a shift of the conversion circuit are variable; a pulse modulator configured to generate a pulse signal pulse-modulated such that the output voltage of the DC/DC converter approaches a target value, based on the feedback voltage and the detection voltage passed through the conversion circuit; a driver configured to drive the switching transistor based on the pulse signal; a burst control circuit configured to control a switching period during which the switching transistor is switched and a stop period during which the switching transistor is fixed to switching-OFF; and a gain controller configured to control the gain and/or the shift of the conversion circuit, wherein the gain controller sets the conversion circuit to a first state in which a gain of the conversion circuit is a first gain under normal conditions, set the conversion circuit to a second state in which the gain of the conversion circuit is a second gain greater than the first gain when the feedback voltage is decreased to a predetermined first threshold, set the conversion circuit to a third state in which the gain of the conversion circuit is a third gain greater than the first gain and smaller than the second gain during a predetermined period when the feedback voltage is increased to a second threshold greater than the first threshold, and, thereafter, returns the conversion circuit to the first state. | 15,528 |
9,008,477 | 1. A method of fabricating on a polymer a single-mode polymer waveguide (PWG) array and a stub so that the single-mode polymer waveguide (PWG) array and the stub are aligned with a silicon waveguide (SiWG) array fabricated on a silicon (Si) chip and a groove fabricated along a direction in which the SiWG is fabricated, whereby an adiabatic coupling is realized, the method comprising the steps of: coating a clad layer on the polymer; preparing a first mask along an alignment base line above a core layer and a under clad layer coated; fabricating a core array on the clad layer according to a photolithography process with the first mask, wherein the refractive index of a material of the core layer being larger than the refractive index of a material of the clad layer; coating a base layer used to fabricate the stub by use of a same type polymer material as that of the core array, so that the core array is covered by the base layer; preparing a second mask having an exposure pattern different from the first mask along the same alignment base line used in the preparation of the first mask; and fabricating the stub according to a photolithography process with the second mask. | 23,147 |
8,352,469 | 1. A computer-implemented method of generating a stop word list for information retrieval and analysis, the method comprising: providing a corpus of documents and a plurality of keywords; constructing a term list of all terms in the corpus of documents; determining keyword adjacency frequency of each term in the corpus of documents, wherein the keyword adjacency frequency comprises the number of times a term occurs adjacent to one of the keywords; determining keyword frequency of each term in the corpus of documents, wherein the keyword frequency comprises the number of times a term occurs within one of the keywords; excluding from the term list each term having a ratio of keyword adjacency frequency to keyword frequency that is less than a predetermined value; and truncating the term list based on a predetermined criteria to form the stop word list. | 34,192 |
9,395,094 | 1. An apparatus for dehumidification of an air flow, comprising: an outer box provided with an inlet port for damp air inlet, and with an outlet port for outlet of de-humidified air, a first heat exchanger for pre-cooling and successively heating said air flow, and comprising two distinct and separate conduit assemblies for reciprocal heat exchange, wherein a first conduit assembly is passed by said damp air flow coming from said inlet port, and a second assembly is passed by said de-humidified air flow and is directed to said outlet port, a second heat exchanger arranged downstream of said first heat exchanger and apt of cooling said air flow and of condensing dampness therein contained, and comprising: a third conduit assembly passed by said air flow to be dried and coming from said first conduits, a fourth conduit assembly thermally associated to said third assembly, and able of being supplied with a refrigerating flow and of conveying the refrigerating flow to a refrigerant flow outlet, a collecting chamber able of intercepting and collecting the dampness of said air flow condensed inside said second heat exchanger, and arranged downstream of said second heat exchanger, wherein the apparatus for dehumidification also includes: a second chamber downstream of said collecting chamber, contiguous to said second heat exchanger and connected to the outside by a respective emission mouth, a third chamber: a) not communicating to said second chamber, b) connected to the conduits of said second assembly, c) connected to the outside of said outer box by a respective inlet mouth, able of implementing a return path from said second heat exchanger and said first heat exchanger which also comprises: a first leg which at least partially crosses said collection chamber, a second leg which passes through said second chamber and which then passes through said emission mouth, a third leg branching out from said emission mouth to said inlet mouth across a dehumidifier, a fourth leg passing through said third chamber. | 612 |
9,091,203 | 1. An arrangement to use waste heat from an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, wherein the arrangement comprises an exhaust gas line to remove exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas line is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of a thermoelectric generator, a latent heat accumulator is thermally connected to the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric generator, wherein the latent heat accumulator is combined with an electrical accumulator charger that uses electrical energy that is produced when the vehicle is braked to charge the latent heat accumulator. | 46,539 |
9,389,690 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first sensor configured to generate a first output; a camera configured to generate a second output; and a processor configured to: | 46,934 |
9,447,729 | 1. A compression ignition engine having a flat, opposed eight cylinder arrangement, comprising: a first bank having four cylinders; a first turbocharger coupled to an exhaust side of the first bank; a second bank having four cylinders, the first bank and the second bank separated by a vee angle of 180 degrees; a second turbocharger coupled to an exhaust side of the second bank; and a crankshaft having four crankpins and being configured such that opposing pistons from the first bank and from the second bank are coupled to the same crankpin, wherein the four cylinders in the first bank are numbered wherein the first bank and the second bank are independently operable. | 41,057 |
9,497,905 | 1. A light system comprising: a support member; a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp secured to the support member; a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) secured to the support member, wherein energy produced by simultaneous operation of the HID lamp and the LEDs is characterized by a combined energy profile; at least one camera mounted to the support member; and control circuitry in operative communication with the HID lamp and the LEDs, the control circuitry is operative to: | 28,719 |
9,246,686 | 1. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions when executed by a processor: generate a salt value, using a processor, in response to an API (Application Programming Interface) request for salt value set up received at a salt service included in a first network controlled by a first entity, the API request being validated using an authentication policy, and the salt value is a random number that when combined with a customer password is used to generate a hash value for customer authentication; generate a salt identifier used to reference the salt value, using the processor; store the salt value in a data store where the salt value is referenced by the salt identifier; provide the salt value and the salt identifier to a second network controlled by a second entity in response to the API request for salt value setup to enable the salt identifier to be stored in association with a first hash value generated from the salt value and a customer password for future customer authentications; retrieve the salt value from the data store in response to an API request for authentication received at the salt service that is validated by the authentication policy, the API request for authentication including the salt identifier; and provide the salt value to the second network in response to the API request for authentication enabling customer authentication to be performed by comparing the first hash value with a second hash value generated from the salt value and a customer password. | 1,466 |
9,121,644 | 1. A moving bed gasification/thermal treatment reactor with geometry in which moving bed reactor particles serve as both a moving bed filter and a heat carrier to provide thermal energy for thermal treatment reactions, such that the moving bed filter and the heat carrier are one and the same to remove solid particulates or droplets generated by thermal treatment processes or injected into the moving bed from other sources, the reactor comprising: a housing for a reactor chamber, the housing being composed of a reactor wall with a top wall and a base, a chute is provided in the top wall of the housing for the supply of moving bed reactor particles, the housing also includes sloping bottom walls adjacent a bottom of the reactor chamber of the reactor and extending from the reactor wall, the sloping bottom walls which meet adjacent the bottom of the reactor chamber of the reactor wherein the sloping bottom walls guide the moving bed reactor particles and captured char to the bottom of the reactor chamber of the reactor where it is removed by the removal augers, the top wall, reactor wall and sloping bottom walls defining the reactor chamber; moving bed reactor particles functioning as both a moving reactor bed and a heat carrier; a feedstock supply auger conveying feedstock into the reactor chamber; a removal auger removing moving bed reactor particles and char resulting from the thermal treatment process; and a moving reactor bed composed of the moving bed reactor particles and serving as both a moving bed filter and a heat carrier to provide thermal energy for thermal treatment reactions, the moving bed reactor particles flow downward from an outlet of the chute by gravity to the bottom of the reactor chamber where the moving bed reactor particles are discharged from the bottom of the reactor chamber by the removal auger; wherein the feedstock supply auger and removal auger are in a facing relationship causing interaction between the moving bed reactor particles and the feedstock particles in a manner facilitating the desired transfer of heat. | 15,729 |
9,291,797 | 1. A lens module comprising: a first lens having positive refractive power of which an image-side surface is convex; a second lens having negative refractive power of which an image-side surface is concave; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power and having a shape in which an image-side surface thereof is convex; and a sixth lens having refractive power, having a shape in which an image-side surface thereof is concave, and having at least one point of inflection formed on the image-side surface thereof, wherein an optical system including the first to sixth lenses satisfies Conditional Equation 5: where f5 indicates a focal length [mm] of the fifth lens and f1 indicates a focal length [mm] of the first lens. | 26,697 |
9,632,159 | 1. A method for automated spectral fat saturation, the method comprising: recording a magnetic resonance (MR) spectrum with the aid of a high frequency (HF) coil and a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device, a static magnetic field covering a recording volume of the MRT device; automatically analyzing the MR spectrum, the analyzing comprising searching for at least two resonant frequencies in the form of a fat peak and a water peak and a minimum between the fat peak and the water peak; adjusting the homogeneity of the static magnetic field with the aid of at least one shim coil; automatically deciding as to whether the recording, the automatically analyzing, and the adjusting are reperformed, the deciding being a function of a predetermined criterion, wherein the predetermined criterion comprises whether a characteristic value describing the MR spectrum is higher or lower than a threshold value; and reperforming the recording, the automatically analyzing, and the adjusting, or calculating an HF pulse for fat saturation based on the deciding, the calculating of the HF pulse for fat saturation comprising calculating the HF pulse for fat saturation as a function of the result of the searching. | 39,745 |
9,465,551 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request to upload a data object to a logical data container; determining a counter associated with processing a plurality of requests to upload one or more data objects to one or more logical data containers, the plurality of requests including the request; accessing a value recorded for the logical data container, the value indicative of a potential pending request affecting the logical data container; and processing the request based at least in part on a comparison of the counter and the value, the processing comprising: | 22,461 |
9,357,894 | 1. A mobile robotistic mopping machine comprising: a body frame; a mop cloth detachably mounted to the body frame; a power device mounted to the body frame and having two wheels opposite to each other and two motors opposite to each other, each of the motors being connected with one of the wheels for driving said one wheel to rotate; and a control device mounted inside the body frame and electrically connected with the motors for controlling the motors; wherein when the body frame is synchronous with normal rotations of the two wheels to drive the mop cloth to move forward for a predetermined distance, the control device controls and makes one of the motors reversely rotate and makes the other normally rotate, so in this way, the body frame makes the mop cloth turn for a predetermined angle, and wherein the body frame comprises a housing, a mounting portion, a wing-shaped member, at least two linking members, and at least two resilient members, the mounting portion being mounted inside the housing, the mounting portion having at least two first axial tubes extending upward from a bottom side thereof, the wing-shaped member having at least two second axial tubes extending upward from a top side thereof, each of the second axial tubes being axially movably inserted into one of the at least two first axial tubes, each of the linking members being connected with one of the at least two first axial tubes and one of the at least two second axial tubes, each of the resilient members being sleeved onto one of the at least two linking members and abutting against an end wall of one said first axial tube and an end wall of one said second axial tube; the mop cloth being coupled to an external peripheral edge of the wing-shaped member; the power device is mounted to the mounting portion. | 3,353 |
8,554,300 | 1. An implantable medical device (IMD) contained in a hermetically sealed housing, comprising: a programming coil enclosed by said hermetically sealed housing; a communication unit coupled with the programming coil, wherein the communication unit is configured to enable communication between an external programming device and the IMD by utilizing alternating electromagnetic fields; a detection unit configured to sense MRT interference fields, wherein voltage pulses induced in the programming coil and originating from a pulsed alternating electromagnetic field of the MRT are detected; and a control unit that configured to receive an MRT detection signal from the detection unit, wherein communication with the external programming device via the programming coil is not detected at the same time; wherein the IMD is connected to at least one electrode which is connected to the detection unit, and wherein the MRT detection signal is transmitted only when the sensed MRT interference fields is simultaneously detected via the programming coil enclosed by said hermetically sealed housing and via the at least one electrode. | 15,788 |
9,353,478 | 1. A method for selective removal of chlorine and phosphorus from a cellulosic biomass solids, said method comprising a plurality of vessels: a. providing each of said vessels with one of detrimental species-containing cellulosic biomass solids; b. introducing a quantity of a base solution having a pH of greater than 9 from an inlet into a first vessel of said plurality of vessels containing said detrimental species-containing cellulosic biomass solids at a temperature in the range of about 0° C. to about 60° C.; c. repeating step (b) for a second vessel of said plurality of vessels; d. introducing a quantity of aqueous solution having a pH of at most 8 from an inlet into said first vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (b) thereby discharging the basic water effluent; e. repeating step (d) for the second vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (c); f. introducing a quantity of gas or organic solution from an inlet into the first vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (d) and discharging the aqueous effluent; g. repeating step (f) for the second vessel of said plurality of vessels treated according to step (e); h. recycling at least a portion of the discharged aqueous effluent as a portion of the base solution; i. transferring at least a portion of the biomass treated according to steps (f) and (g) to a digestion and/or reaction vessel; j. wherein at least 2 of the vessels are undergoing at least one of the steps (b) through (i) at the same time; and k. wherein the amount of the total basic water effluent from the plurality of vessels is in the range of from about 3 parts to about 0.5 parts relative to about 1 part of detrimental species—containing cellulosic biomass solids (dry basis). | 33,848 |
9,714,598 | 1. A reducing agent mixer for use with a vehicle exhaust system, the reducing agent mixer comprising a mixer body having a side wall arranged around a central axis to define an internal space adapted to house mixing of exhaust gas and reducing agent when the exhaust gas moves in a downstream direction through the mixer body, an upstream baffle including an upstream helical portion that extends circumferentially about and axially along the central axis and an axially extending inlet wall formed to include at least one primary inlet opening, and a downstream baffle formed to define a primary outlet opening and including a first downstream flat portion, a second downstream flat portion, and a downstream helical portion that extends circumferentially about the central axis and interconnects the first downstream flat portion and the second downstream flat portion, a doser configured to discharge the reducing agent through an opening of the side wall into the internal space of the mixer body, and a reducing agent delivery sub-assembly including an injection cone and a manifold, the injection cone having a tapered body that extends between a narrow end and a wide end thereof and an extension wall that extends outwardly away from the wide end, the manifold including an interface portion formed to define a cone-receiving cavity that receives the narrow end of the injection cone and a plurality of attachment arms coupled to the interface portion, the attachment arms formed to define a plurality of guide channels fluidly connected with the cone-receiving cavity, and the extension wall of the injection cone cooperates with the attachment arms to close the plurality of guide channels to define a plurality of guide chambers. | 11,282 |
8,662,549 | 1. A method of lifting an item, the method comprising: providing a fitting comprising an attachment member and a lifting member which is pivotally coupled to the attachment member; lowering the fitting into position with the lifting member positioned below the attachment member; securing the attachment member to the item; lifting the lifting member by rotating it about its pivot until it engages the item; engaging the lifting member with a crane hook; and transmitting lifting load from the crane hook to the item via the lifting member. | 5,935 |
8,872,846 | 1. A method for providing an interactive map to a user via a computing system, the method comprising: receiving a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer comprises a base map and the second layer comprises dynamic information; providing the second layer over the first layer, wherein the second layer is opaque over the first layer; and displaying an interface comprising the first layer and the second layer, wherein the dynamic information of the second layer is suspended in response to at least a portion of a new first layer being received, wherein the interface includes a user interface element configured to adjust a level of transparency of he second layer. | 24,190 |
8,512,200 | 1. A method for operating a hybrid drive of a vehicle, comprising: providing at least one internal combustion engine and at least one first electric machine as drive machines of a first drive train of the vehicle, and an associated first transmission; performing at least one of: (1) adaptation of the total torque of the drive machines of the first drive train in a shifting operation of the transmission in order to at least one of (a) reduce the load at the transmission and (b) modify rotational speeds according to a new transmission ratio; and (2) restriction of the torque gradient of the drive machines of the first drive train to a specified, maximum torque gradient of the resulting total torque of the drive machines of the first drive train in a transition between acceleration operation and trailing throttle operation; providing at least one second electric machine for driving at least one second drive train; and one of the following is performed: (i) electric energy additionally produced in the at least one of the adaptation of the total torque and the restriction of the torque gradient by an increased generator-driven operation of the first electric machine is utilized by the at least one second electric machine for driving the at least one additional drive train, for the propulsion of the vehicle, or (ii) energy additionally required in the at least one of the adaptation of the total torque and the restriction of the torque gradient for an increased engine-driven operation of the first electric machine is generated by the second electric machine; wherein the maximum torque gradient for the restriction is selected such that a common mounting of at least one of the combustion engine, the first electric machine, and the first transmission is shifted without jerking from a first final position to an opposite, second final position. | 15,525 |
8,752,902 | 1. A trim attachment retainer comprising: a body portion having a proximal end and an engagement end; at least one cross member integral with and substantially orthogonal to the body portion; first and second barbs vertically aligned on and extending from the engagement end, the first and second barbs having a base and a distal end, wherein the distal end is closer than the base to the at least one cross member; and a slot disposed proximate the intersection of the at least one cross member and one of the proximal end and the engagement end, the slot defining a living hinge. | 35,882 |
9,172,835 | 1. An image forming apparatus in a first network, the image forming apparatus comprising: a searching section configured to search for another image forming apparatus in the first network and a second network different from the first network; and a transmitting section configured to transmit a setting for the image forming apparatus to the other image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus is a same type of image forming apparatus as the other image forming apparatus, wherein the transmitting section is configured to directly transmit the setting to the other image forming apparatus if the other image forming apparatus is in the first network and the transmitting section is configured to transmit the setting to the other image forming apparatus using a router as an intermediary if the other image forming apparatus is in the second network that is different from the first network. | 23,855 |
8,454,888 | 1. An apparatus for injecting particulate and/or gaseous material into a metallurgical vessel for use in a metallurgical process, the apparatus comprising a duct through which to inject said material comprising a duct wall of concentric annular passages for in flow of cooling water from a rear end to a forward end of the duct along a first of said annular passages and for outflow of cooling water from the forward end to the rear end of the duct wall along a second of said annular passages; said concentric annular passages provided by concentric sleeves consisting of an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve and an intermediate sleeve; an annular duct tip at the forward end of the duct joining at least the inner and outer sleeves so as to provide a water flow connection between the first and second water flow passages; said duct tip having an annular inner end component, an annular outer end component, an annular central component located between the inner and outer end components, and a plurality of radially extending dividers, which are disposed radially with respect to the duct and are spaced circumferentially within the duct tip, and which divide a space between the outer end component and the central component into discrete radial passages to serve as internal water flow passages through which water is to flow radially with respect to the annular duct tip; said outer sleeve providing at least a part of an outer surface of said apparatus and having a rear portion of greater diameter than a forward portion; said intermediate sleeve having a rear portion of greater diameter than a forward portion and said rear portion of said intermediate sleeve disposed adjacent said rear portion of said outer sleeve; and said rear portion of said outer sleeve and said rear portion of said intermediate sleeve configured such that the radial width of the annular passage provided between the outer sleeve and the intermediate sleeve adjacent the rear portion of the outer sleeve is generally the same as the radial width of the annular passage provided between the outer sleeve and the intermediate sleeve adjacent the forward portion of the outer sleeve. | 1,815 |
8,513,686 | 1. A light emitting diode comprising: a die with an area of 100,000 square microns or less; an active structure formed from Group III nitride material; a silver-based mirror layer providing electrical contact with the active structure; and a barrier layer including a portion that surrounds the silver-based mirror layer and extends to the active structure to prevent reaction of silver with other parts of the light emitting diode, wherein the light emitting diode is operable with a forward voltage of less than 4.0 volts and approximately 20 milliamps of drive current to produce a radiant flux of at least 24 milliwatts and a dominant wavelength between 395 and 540 nanometers. | 39,815 |
8,801,997 | 1. A method of fabricating a flexible device, comprising: surface-treating one or both sides of a carrier plate in a regionally selective manner so that regions with different surface-treatments are formed on the same side of the carrier plate; forming a glass-filler reinforced plastic substrate film on the carrier plate which was surface-treated as aforesaid, the glass-filler reinforced plastic substrate film being provided in a form of a transparent composite in which a glass-filler is impregnated with a transparent siloxane based resin having a crosslinkable reactive group; forming thin film patterns on the aforesaid glass-filler reinforced plastic substrate film; and separating the glass-filler reinforced plastic substrate film having the thin film patterns formed thereon from the carrier plate. | 12,926 |
8,399,888 | 1. A p-type SiC semiconductor comprising a SiC crystal that contains, as impurities, Al and Ti, wherein an atom number concentration of Ti is equal to or less than an atom number concentration of Al. | 16,131 |
9,059,961 | 1. A method of managing a network comprising a non-static collection of machines, comprising: at a first client node to be coupled to the network: | 29,346 |
8,500,859 | 1. A method of removing carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air, comprising: directing a flow of carbon dioxide-laden gas into contact with ambient air to form a carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air, directing a flow of said carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air through a monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure disposed at a first relatively higher elevation that is supporting an amine sorbent capable of binding carbon dioxide to the sorbent, so as to remove carbon dioxide from the mixture, moving said monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure from contact with said flow of carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air into a regeneration enclosure disposed at a second relatively lower elevation, regenerating the sorbent by causing saturated steam carrying process heat at a temperature of not greater than about 120° C. to come into contact with the carbon dioxide capture structure in the regeneration enclosure at said relatively lower elevation, thereby causing separation of carbon dioxide from the sorbent into the regeneration enclosure, withdrawing separated carbon dioxide from the regeneration enclosure, selectively moving the carbon dioxide capture structure out of the regeneration enclosure from said second relatively lower elevation back to a position at said first relatively higher elevation disposed in the flow path of carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture, thereby permitting the regenerated sorbent to bind additional carbon dioxide from the flow of said carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture, cyclically repeating said movements between said first and second elevations of the monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure between the regeneration enclosure and into contact with the carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air, and directing said withdrawn separated carbon dioxide to a storage structure. | 20,680 |
9,537,917 | 1. A method, performed by a server, for providing, to a client device, media segments from multiple variant streams, the method comprising: providing, to the client device, a variant playlist file that identifies a plurality of variant streams each corresponding to a different encoding of a same media presentation; tracking a first set of media segments downloaded by the client device, wherein media segments of the first set of media segments are encoded at a first encoded bitrate and are identified in a first playlist file for a first variant stream identified in the variant playlist file; receiving, from the client device, a request for a second playlist file that identifies a second set of media segments from a second variant stream identified in the variant playlist file, wherein media segments of the second set of media segments are encoded at a second encoded bitrate; responsive to the second encoded bitrate being higher than the first encoded bitrate: responsive to the second encoded bitrate being lower than the first encoded bitrate: | 42,429 |
9,017,021 | 1. A method of fabricating a turbine casing made of composite material having fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the casing being secured to at least one ring or ring sector that is situated on an inside face of the casing and that is mechanically connected through the casing to at least one equipment fastener part situated on the outside face of the casing, the method comprising: making a fiber preform for the casing; and densifying the fiber preform and shaping the fiber preform by a mold, the densifying comprising wherein the ring or ring sector is incorporated in the casing during the shaping and densifying the fiber preform. | 25,106 |
9,133,760 | 1. A brake negative pressure generating device for a vehicle, the device comprising: an electrically-driven supercharger for drawing in, compressing, and supplying outside air to an engine; a vacuum chamber connected to an inlet opening of the electrically-driven supercharger and supplying negative pressure for brake force boosting, the inlet opening of the electrically-driven supercharger being connected to an air cleaner via an inlet passage; a negative pressure supply passage for connecting the inlet opening of the electrically-driven supercharger and the vacuum chamber; a first negative pressure control valve for opening and closing the negative pressure supply passage, a second negative pressure control valve being installed at a position close to the air cleaner, in the inlet passage to open and close the inlet passage, an outlet opening of the electrically-driven supercharger being connected to a turbocharger via an intake passage, a control valve for opening and closing the intake passage being installed in the intake passage, and an air vent valve for selectively communicating the intake passage with the outside being installed between the intake passage and the outlet opening of the electrically-driven supercharger. | 31,373 |
9,315,764 | 1. A method of producing fatty-acid-rich oil from a by-product from vegetable oil refining, the by-product being selected from a group consisting of soapstocks and wet gums, the method comprising the steps of: mixing the by-product with a solvent prior to a hydrolysis step, said solvent comprising glycerin; adding caustic to the by-product to adjust the pH of the by-product to an optimal working pH range of an enzyme selected from a group consisting of phospholipase A1, phospholipase A2, phospholipase C, lipase, and protease; adding the enzyme to the by-product to hydrolyze the by-product into fatty-acid-rich oil containing free fatty acids and phosphatide molecules, and to split the by-product into a fatty-acid-rich oil phase, an emulsion phase and a water phase; and separating the fatty-acid-rich oil phase. | 22,919 |
9,193,915 | 1. A horizontal heat recovery coke oven chamber, comprising: a floor; a front wall extending vertically upward from the floor and a back wall opposite the front wall; a first sidewall extending vertically upward from the floor between the front wall and the back wall and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall; and a monolith crown positioned above the floor and spanning from the first sidewall to the second sidewall. | 45,542 |
9,410,168 | 1. A biomass comprising whole and/or lysed cells of a methanotroph bacteria and, a δ 13 C ranging from about −30‰ to about −70‰, wherein said methanotroph bacteria comprises a heterologous polynucleotide and wherein said methanotroph bacteria comprising said heterologous polynucleotide produce a biomass comprised of whole and/or lysed cells with a δ 13 C ranging from about −30‰ to about −70‰ when cultured with a C 1 substrate. | 36,283 |
9,163,573 | 1. An industrial combustion liquid propane-fueled engine, comprising: at least one intake port; a fuel injection system comprising at least one fuel injector configured to inject liquid propane into the at least one intake port; and an engine controller comprising a governor device configured to maintain the speed of the engine at or near a predetermined value, wherein the engine controller controls the at least one fuel injector to control a rate and a timing of fuel injection into the at least one intake port based on at least one of: the predetermined value as selected by a user, the predetermined value as selected by the engine controller, and the predetermined value as sensed by a powertrain control module and communicated to and controlled by the engine controller. | 44,815 |
8,827,452 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a wavefront sensor configured to measure real time aberration values of a wavefront returned from an eye of a patient during a slit lamp eye examination session when the eye of a patient is examined using a slit lamp eye examination device and with the wavefront sensor combined with the slit lamp eye examination device and configured to provide an output signal indicating the real time aberration values; and a display, coupled to the wavefront sensor, configured to show a dynamic display indicating the real time aberration values output by the wavefront sensor and with the display configured to be viewed while also viewing the eye of the patient during the examination. | 41,896 |
8,350,400 | 1. A ribbon drive power generation method comprising: providing a substantially constant diameter stationary outer containment tube having an inner wall, an outer wall, an intake at a first end, and an outlet at a second end; passing a fluid through the outer containment tube for rotating at least one ribbon extending radially inward from an outer peripheral edge a length less than a radius of the outer containment tube to form a central axial opening in the ribbon; providing a rigid central tube attached to an inner edge of the ribbon; providing at least one magnet attached to the outer peripheral edge of the ribbon; providing at least one stator and at least one field coil attached to the outer wall of the outer containment tube; and generating electricity from the rotation of the ribbon within the outer containment tube via the movement of the magnet relative to the stator and field coil, wherein the ribbon is located entirely within the outer containment tube in a longitudinal direction, and is formed of coils extending in a helical manner from the first end to the second end of the outer containment tube, and wherein a frequency of coils per unit length of outer containment tube increases from the first end to the second end of the outer containment tube. | 28,899 |
9,513,618 | 1. A numerical controller for controlling a five-axis machine configured to machine a workpiece mounted on a table by means of at least three linear axes and two rotation axes, the numerical controller comprising: a tool direction computation unit configured to calculate a tool direction relative to the workpiece as a tool direction vector representation, a roll-pitch-yaw angle representation, or an Euler angle representation, based on respective positions of the two rotation axes; and a tool direction display unit configured to display the tool direction relative to the workpiece on a display, based on the tool direction vector representation, the roll-pitch-yaw angle representation, or the Euler angle representation which is calculated by the tool direction computation unit, wherein if the tool direction vector representation is to be displayed, the tool direction computation unit is configured to calculate the tool direction relative to the workpiece as the tool direction vector representation, and the tool direction display unit is configured to display the tool direction vector representation relative to the workpiece, if the tool direction vector representation is to not be displayed and if the roll-pitch-yaw angle representation is to be displayed, the tool direction computation unit is configured to calculate the tool direction relative to the workpiece as the roll-pitch-yaw angle representation and the tool direction display unit is configured to display the roll-pitch-yaw angle representation relative to the workpiece, and if the tool direction vector representation is to not be displayed and the roll-pitch-yaw angle representation is to not be displayed, the tool direction computation unit is configured to calculate the tool direction relative to the workpiece as the Euler angle representation and the tool direction display unit is configured to display the Euler angle representation relative to the workpiece. | 18,357 |
8,502,397 | 1. A heat-resistant adhesive sheet for semiconductor device fabrication, the heat-resistant adhesive sheet being attached to a semiconductor chip when the semiconductor chip is encapsulated with resin, and the heat-resistant adhesive sheet is in direct physical contact with the semiconductor chip, wherein: the adhesive sheet comprises a base material layer, an adhesive layer, and a fixing bond layer, wherein the adhesive layer contains a rubber component and an epoxy resin component, and the proportion of the rubber component in an organic substance in the adhesive is in the range of 20 to 60 wt %. | 22,347 |
9,808,737 | 1. A water vapor collector assembly which consists of: a) an optional capillary net which can transport water by capillary forces and which cannot completely block sun ray; b) a dome which allows sun light to pass through; c) a water conveying channel which has an outlet to collect and convey water; d) an optional capillary mat which has an opening and which has dark color as well as which can transport water by capillary forces; e) a floatation base which can float on water surfaces and which has two penetrating slots for a rope that each connects to two optional indented slots for a rope, a penetrating slot for a tube with a penetrating opening, and an optional indented slot for a tube; f) and a water tube anchor which is a hollow tube with a tab in plural form at one rim; g) a rope being able to loop around said two penetrating slots for a rope and said optional indented slots for a rope of said floatation base; h) a tube made of flexible material being able to pass through said penetrating slot for a tube of said floatation base, then, to pass through said opening of said optional capillary mat, then, to encompass said water tube anchor, then, to mount its rim to said tab of said water tube anchor; i) said optional capillary mat being on top of said floatation base when being used; j) said water tube anchor being able to engage with said enlarged penetrating opening of said floatation base; k) said water conveying channel being on top of said optional capillary mat or on the top surface of said floatation base; l) said dome being able to engage with said floatation base with a portion of said optional capillary mat in between-when said optional capillary mat being used; m) said dome being on top of said water conveying channel with a portion of the surface of said dome being on top of said water conveying channel; n) said outlet of said water conveying channel being on top of said water tube anchor; o) said optional capillary net being on top of said dome when being used. | 9,083 |
8,803,180 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a substrate with a top side, a bottom side and side edges; a light emitting diode die disposed on the top side of the substrate; a contact pad disposed on the top side of the substrate; and a layer of silicone disposed over the light emitting diode die, wherein the layer of silicone extends to each of the side edges of the substrate, and wherein the layer of silicone is not disposed laterally above a portion of the contact pad. | 28,101 |
9,771,297 | 1. A method of bending two superposed sheets of glass brought to a bending temperature thereof with a device including: a bending cell in a bending zone, the bending cell being heated at the bending temperature, one or more convex top forms in the bending cell, the one or more convex top forms including means for generating a suction creating an upward airflow blowing over a rim of the sheets, the suction being sufficient to lift and hold the sheets against the one or more convex top forms, a bottom solid concave mold in the bending cell, the bottom solid concave mold including openings on a main face thereof and being movable in the bending cell, and a train of supports moving toward the bending zone, each support passing sequentially beneath the one or more convex top forms, the method comprising: conveying the sheets toward the bending zone by each support of the train; lowering a first convex top form of the one or more convex top forms toward a support of the train of supports; picking up the sheets from the support via the suction which creates the upward airflow blowing over the rim of the sheets; then raising the first convex top form again such that the bottom solid concave mold is able to move from a rest position to a position beneath the first convex top form; then forming the sheets by lowering the first convex top form again to bend the sheets by then pressing on the sheets against a full surface of the bottom solid concave form; then picking up the bent sheets with a convex top form of the one or more convex top forms via the suction such that the bent sheets are secured; raising the convex top form of the one or more convex top forms; and returning the bottom solid concave mold to the rest position; then lowering the convex top form of the one or more convex top forms that picked up the bent sheets such that the bent sheets are secured; delivering the bent sheets to the support of the train of supports; and then taking the bent sheets to a cooling zone via the support of the train of supports. | 45,650 |
8,863,923 | 1. A fluid transmission device, comprising: a cover member coupled to a drive shaft; a converter mechanism comprising a lockup mechanism having a clutch piston that is provided in a lockup chamber surrounded by said cover member and a back surface of said turbine runner, for activating said clutch piston using a control fluid that is supplied to a clutch oil chamber surrounded by said cover member and a back surface of said clutch piston, and effecting power transmission bypassing said converter mechanism by engaging and disengaging said drive shaft and said driven shaft; an inlet passage for leading said working fluid into said lockup chamber from the outside; a communicating passage for leading said working fluid into said converter chamber from said lockup chamber; an outlet passage for leading said working fluid to the outside from said converter chamber; a hollow cylindrical support member which is provided surrounding an outer peripheral surface of said driven shaft; an inner ring which is fixedly mounted on said support member and supports said stator; and a bearing provided in a bearing providing space formed between an inner peripheral surface of said support member and an outer peripheral surface of said driven shaft, wherein said inlet passage comprises a main route and a branch route, said main route includes a first inlet passage formed by cutting a first notch in an inner peripheral surface of said inner ring towards outer peripheral side, and said outlet passage includes a first outlet passage formed by cutting a second notch in an outer peripheral surface of said inner ring towards an inner peripheral side, wherein said first notch and said second notch are formed in different circumferential direction positions relative to said support member, said second notch being non-annular, wherein said bearing providing space forms said branch route, both ends of said bearing providing space being connected to said main route extending in parallel with said first inlet passage at the same location in an axial direction but at the different location in a radial direction, and wherein an orifice is provided at an inlet part of said branch route. | 36,397 |
9,029,188 | 1. A method for manufacturing a solar cell, the method comprising: injecting first impurity ions at a first surface of a substrate by using a first ion implantation method to form a first impurity region, the substrate having a first conductivity type and the first impurity ions having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, and the first impurity region having the second conductivity type; heating the substrate with the first impurity region to activate the first impurity region to form an emitter region from the first impurity region; etching the emitter region from a surface of the emitter region to a predetermined depth to form an emitter part from the emitter region; forming a first electrode on the emitter part to connect to the emitter part and a second electrode on a second surface of the substrate, which is opposite the first surface of the substrate to connect to the second surface of the substrate, injecting second impurity ions at a second surface of the substrate by using a second ion implantation method to form a second impurity region of the first conductivity type, the second surface being opposite the first surface of the substrate; heating the substrate with the second impurity region to activate the second impurity region to form an surface field region from the second impurity region; and etching the surface field region from a surface of the surface field region to a predetermined depth to form a surface field part from the surface field region, wherein the second electrode is connected to the second surface of the substrate through the surface field part. | 47,569 |
9,747,657 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor circuit; and a graphics driver operative on the processor circuit to execute an application that generates frames of video content at a defined frame rate associated with a defined frame rate execution time, the graphics driver operative to: | 35,843 |
9,419,298 | 1. A fuel cell module comprising: a fuel cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells for generating electricity by electrochemical reactions of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas; a reformer for reforming a mixed gas of a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon and water vapor to produce the fuel gas supplied to the fuel cell stack; an evaporator for evaporating water, and supplying the water vapor to the reformer, a heat exchanger for raising a temperature of the oxygen-containing gas by heat exchange with a combustion gas, and supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the fuel cell stack; an exhaust gas combustor for combusting the fuel gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as a fuel exhaust gas and the oxygen-containing gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as an oxygen-containing exhaust gas to produce the combustion gas; and a start-up combustor for combusting the raw fuel and the oxygen-containing gas to produce the combustion gas, wherein the fuel cell module includes: a first area where the exhaust gas combustor and the start-up combustor are provided; an annular second area around the first area and where the reformer and the evaporator are provided; and an annular third area around the second area and where the heat exchanger is provided; and wherein the exhaust gas combustor and the start-up combustor are provided coaxially with and separately away from each other; and the exhaust gas combustor has a combustion cup member, and a combustion gas hole for supplying the combustion gas produced in the combustion cup member to the second area is formed in an outer circumferential portion of the combustion cup member. | 38,021 |
9,287,803 | 1. An inverter, comprising: a resonant conversion circuit, receiving a direct current (DC) input voltage, and converting the DC input voltage into a DC bus voltage; an inverting circuit, coupled to the resonant conversion circuit, and configured to convert the DC bus voltage into an alternating current (AC) output voltage; a first control circuit, configured to control operations of the resonant conversion circuit, wherein the first control circuit calculates a best working voltage of the resonant conversion circuit based on the DC input voltage and a resonant frequency of the resonant conversion circuit; and a second control circuit, configured to control operations of the inverting circuit, wherein the second control circuit receives the best working voltage calculated by the first control circuit, and controls the inverting circuit to regulate the DC bus voltage accordingly, the second control circuit detects a magnitude of the AC output voltage, and calculates a normal working voltage required for maintaining a normal operation of the inverting circuit accordingly, and one of the first control circuit and the second control circuit compares the best working voltage and the normal working voltage, and the second control circuit controls the inverting circuit to regulate the DC bus voltage to one of the best working voltage and the normal working voltage according to a comparison result. | 37,466 |
8,631,631 | 1. A method of preparing a package comprising a storable, sterile ophthalmic device, the method comprising: (a) immersing an ophthalmic device in an aqueous packaging solution comprising a brush copolymer prepared by reacting a 3-methacrylamidophenylboronic acid with a methacrylated PVP macromer to provide a hydrophilic polymer intermediate; reacting the hydrophilic polymer intermediate with a triethylamine followed by the reactive addition of a methacryloyl chloride; removal of any Triethylamine hydrochloride formed; and isolation of a methacrylated polymeric backbone formed there by; and reacting the methacrylated polymeric backbone with a 3-methacylamidophenyl boronic acid and a DMA to provide a brush copolymer comprising (i) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing one or more boronic acid moieties; and (ii) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing hydrophilic macromonomer, wherein the solution has an osmolality of at least about 200 mOsm/kg and a pH in the range of about 6 to about 9; (b) packaging the solution and the device in a manner preventing contamination of the device by microorganisms; and (c) sterilizing the packaged solution and device. | 34,683 |
8,631,133 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first block-level storage command and a second block-level storage command at a host data processing system, wherein establishing a first virtual transport session, wherein establishing a second virtual transport session, wherein transmitting a first consumer message from the host data processing system to the target block-level storage device using the first transport session, wherein transmitting a second consumer message from the host data processing system to the target block-level storage device using the second virtual transport session, wherein | 12,481 |
8,794,981 | 1. An electrical connector comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB), the PCB including a plurality of contacts; a plurality of wires coupled to the plurality of contacts on the PCB; a non-conductive pad extending across the PCB; a plurality of pins extending across the non-conductive pad, the plurality of pins being coupled to the plurality of contacts; and an overmold covering at least a portion of the PCB and at least a first portion of each of the plurality of pins, the overmold including a first aperture exposing at least a second portion of each of the plurality of pins. | 4,411 |
9,272,871 | 1. A device for holding a winding shaft, said device comprising: a clamping element that fixedly holds the winding shaft; a lever that is rotationally supported about a first axis, the first axis being displaceably positioned relative to a portion of the clamping element; and a clamping disk configured as a cam, with the lever and the clamping disk defining a second axis. | 40,004 |
8,475,912 | 1. A coating composition for forming a low-refractive-index layer, the composition comprising: about 70 to about 95 parts by weight of a fluorine compound including a first fluorine compound represented by Formula 1 below; about 0.1 to about 15 parts by weight of a reactive silicon compound; about 1 to about 20 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate compound; about 0.1 to about 10 parts by weight of a polymerization initiator; and a solvent, wherein: the first fluorine compound represented by Formula 1, the reactive silicon compound, the (meth)acrylate compound, the polymerization initiator, and the solvent are each different from one another, in Formula 1, R in Formula 2(a)-(e), R all parts by weight are based on 100 parts by weight of a total solid content of the composition. | 30,918 |
9,072,090 | 1. A method comprising: determining to one or more of (1) cause, at least in part, a beacon pointer associated with a beacon of a wireless network access point to be transmitted and (2) cause, at least in part, a beacon schedule associated with the beacon of the wireless network access point to be adjusted based, at least in part, on a derivation of one or more other beacon schedules associated with one or more other beacons of one or more other wireless network access points to avoid a conflict between the beacon schedule and the one or more other beacon schedules, wherein the determination to cause the adjustment of the beacon schedule is based, at least in part, on one or more of a determined conflicting beacon schedule and a received indication of a potential conflict between the beacon and the one or more other beacons; determining an average signaling rate; processing the average signaling rate to determine if the signaling rate meets a predetermined criteria; and causing, at least in part, the occupancy level of the wireless medium to be determined based, at least in part, on a determination that the average signaling rate fails to meet the predetermined criteria; wherein the indication of the potential conflict between the beacon and the one or more other beacons is received by way of a mobile device in communication with the wireless network access point and one or more of (1) at least one of the one or more other wireless network access points and (2) another mobile device in communication with at least one of the one or more other wireless network access points; wherein the beacon pointer is transmitted by way of shared channel arbitration transmitting broadcast signaling or by way of unicast addressed frames. | 2,742 |
8,437,638 | 1. An optical modulation circuit comprising: a continuous light source which generates continuous light having n (n≧2) different frequencies with phase synchronization and a constant power, wherein n is an integer; a modulator drive signal generation unit which modulates data to be transmitted into modulator drive signals such as to generate optical subcarriers which have m (m≧1) and l (l≧1) (in total, l+m) different frequencies respectively before and after a frequency of the continuous light and on which different data is superimposed; and an optical modulation unit which modulates the continuous light from the continuous light source into the optical subcarriers using the modulator drive signals. | 20,249 |
8,785,033 | 1. An assembled battery, comprising: a supporter; a plurality of unit cells provided within the supporter, the unit cells being thin layer laminated cells having a cell member and tabs; one or more resins covering the unit cells, wherein the plurality of unit cells are stacked to form one or more laminate structures, and the one or more resins are poured between the cell members and between the unit cells and inner walls of the supporter, wherein the tabs are embedded in the one or more resins, and wherein a dielectric loss tangent of each of the one or more resins within a range of 10 to 1 kHz ranges from 1.0×10 | 17,302 |
9,392,630 | 1. A method for performing communication using a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) peer-to-peer (P2P) device, the method comprising: receiving a first beacon message from an owner of a Wi-Fi P2P group; and identifying a plurality of slots arranged between a reception time of the first beacon message and a reception time of a second beacon message subsequent to the first beacon message, wherein the plurality of slots corresponds to a plurality of service types, the Wi-Fi P2P device performs operations of Wi-Fi P2P communication in one or more slots corresponding to an interested service from among the plurality of slots, and the Wi-Fi P2P device is in a sleep mode in one or more slots corresponding to a non-interested service from among the plurality of slots. | 20,691 |
9,006,501 | 1. A process for producing a renewable fuel blend comprising: hydrotreating a biologically derived feedstock selected from animal, vegetable and seed fats and oils, glycerides, lipids, fatty acids, esters of fatty acids, and combinations thereof to form a hydrotreated effluent; recovering biologically derived C blending a petroleum derived middle distillate with 1 vol. % to 20 vol. % of the biologically derived C wherein: | 13,886 |
8,718,276 | 1. Method of execution of a cryptographic calculation in an electronic component comprising a step of obtaining a point P(X,Y) from at least one parameter t, on an elliptical curve satisfying the equation: starting from polynomials X in the finite field F said method comprising the following steps: /1/ obtaining a value of the parameter t; /2/ determining the point P by executing the following substeps: /3/ using said point P in a cryptographic application selected from the group consisting of encryption or hashing or signature or authentication or identification. | 42,634 |
8,911,900 | 1. A method for producing a battery electrode having a configuration in which a compound material layer containing an active material and a binder is retained on a current collector, comprising: forming protrusions composed of a polymer on a surface of the current collector; forming a first layer of a binder solution in a liquid phase, comprising a binder and a solvent, over the polymer protrusions on the current collector, wherein the first layer of the binder solution is formed such that a distal end of the polymer protrusions protrudes above an upper surface of the first layer of the binder solution and a proximal end of the polymer protrusions contacts the current collector; depositing a liquid phase bilayer consisting of the first layer of the binder solution and a second layer of a compound material paste comprising the active material and a solvent on the current collector by applying the compound material paste over the first layer of the binder solution; and drying the liquid phase bilayer. | 49,784 |
9,397,555 | 1. A power converting apparatus comprising: a power conversion circuit including a route that connects a first switch and a second switch in series and connects a first capacitor and a second capacitor in series, connects the first switch and the first capacitor and connects the second switch and the second capacitor to form a closed loop, connects a connection point of the first switch and the second switch and a connection point of the first capacitor and the second capacitor through a parallel circuit of a first series circuit of an alternating-current power supply, a low-pass filter, and a first inductor and a second series circuit of a second inductor, a third capacitor, and a load, and bypasses the alternating-current power supply and the low-pass filter; a circuit-current detecting section configured to detect a circuit current flowing through the power conversion circuit; a power-supply-voltage detecting section configured to detect a power supply voltage of the alternating-current power supply; and a control section configured to output, to the first switch and the second switch, on a basis of the circuit current detected by the circuit-current detecting section and the power supply voltage detected by the power-supply-voltage detecting section, a pulse signal for alternately opening and closing the first switch and the second switch such that an electric current in which a high-frequency component is mixed with a low-frequency component of the alternating-current power supply flows through the power conversion circuit. | 2,315 |
8,965,196 | 1. An imaging system comprising: a microscope objective; a camera configured to produce an image from scanning of a sample along a scanning axis normal to an axis of rotational symmetry of the microscope objective; a lateral offset system along the axis of rotational symmetry, the lateral offset system configured to independently shift position of the image in the camera in a plane normal to the scanning axis; a rotational stage supporting the camera, the rotational stage being rotatable around the axis of rotational symmetry; and a zoom lens system configured to change a scale of the image directed to the camera along the axis of rotational symmetry. | 24,765 |
8,444,706 | 1. An oxidizing composition for the treatment of keratin fibers, comprising; (a) from about 0.01% to about 8% of at least one anionic associative copolymer by weight of said composition; (b) at least one anionic non associative copolymer; (c) at least one peroxide agent; (d) at least one persulfate agent; (e) at least one alkalizing agent; and (f) a carrier medium suitable for keratin fibers. | 15,192 |
8,858,277 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a propulsion system of a waterborne vessel with a controller, comprising: adjusting recovery of energy generated from the propulsion system to maintain position of the waterborne vessel in response to at least an indication of vessel position, wherein the adjusting includes adjusting a braking force generated by a water flow actuator coupled in the propulsion system, where the water flow actuator interfaces with water to recover energy and generate the braking force, and wherein the water flow actuator interfaces with water and is driven to generate a driving force, both the braking force and the driving force generated while the water flow actuator rotates in a first direction. | 34,882 |
9,614,429 | 1. A system for converting alternating current (AC) electrical power to direct current (DC) electrical power comprising: a DC link including a first DC rail; a second DC rail; a passive rectifier coupled with the DC link and including a plurality of phase legs coupled with the first and second DC rails, each of the phase legs having an AC input node, a first passive circuit element connected between the AC input node and the first DC rail, and a second passive circuit element connected between the AC input node and the second DC rail; a multilevel converter coupled with the DC link, and including a middle node, a first active arm coupled between the middle node and the first DC rail, and a second active arm coupled between the middle node and the second DC rail; a plurality of clamping switches each coupled between the middle node of the multilevel converter and respective ones of the AC input nodes of the plurality of phase legs; and a controller operably coupled with the multilevel converter and structured to reduce input current harmonics to the passive rectifier and to reduce input reactive power, via controllably varying voltage outputs of the first and second active arms so as to compensate for differences between voltage phase and current phase in AC electrical power supplied to the system. | 32,882 |
9,281,505 | 1. A battery mounting structure for a vehicle, comprising: a battery frame upper member fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin to which a battery is attached, the battery being disposed at a vehicle body lower side of a floor panel; a battery frame lower member fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin that, with the battery frame upper member, structures a closed cross section structure; and an intermediate member fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin that is interposed between the battery frame upper member and the battery frame lower member, the intermediate member being provided with: a plurality of upper end portions that abut against or are disposed close to a lower face of the battery frame upper member, and a plurality of lower end portions that abut against or are disposed close to an upper face of the battery frame lower member. | 7,055 |
9,286,041 | 1. A system for facilitating the analysis of software code, the system comprising: a decompiler and analysis subsystem operating on a processor, the decompiler and analysis subsystem comprising; means for generating a data-flow graph from at least a portion of the code section that does not match with any of the one of more signature files, the data-flow generation comprising variablization and variable type determination. | 37,857 |
8,470,967 | 1. An environmentally responsive polypeptide comprising at least ten repeats of an amino acid sequence Z 1 Z 2 PX 1 X 2 X 3 X 4 GZ 3 , wherein P is Proline, G is Glycine, X 1 , X 2 , X 3 and X 4 are an amino acid that is not Proline or Glycine and X 1 , X 2 and X 3 are optionally absent, Z 1 , Z 2 and, Z 3 are each an amino acid, and wherein the polypeptide upon stimulation undergoes a conformational change that is accompanied by aggregation. | 45,915 |
9,085,310 | 1. A method of determining a position of a vehicle moving along a guideway, comprising: detecting signals from each of a plurality of localized groups of transponders located beside the guideway as the vehicle moves along the guideway, each localized group being located at a detection location, the individual transponders within each said localized group being spaced a known distance apart from each other, said localized groups being spaced substantially further apart from each other than the individual transponders within each said localized group, wherein as the vehicle passes a current said detection location, the signals from each transponder within the localized group at the current detection location create a footprint in a time domain corresponding to a time the vehicle is in communication with that transponder; identifying a point in a spatial domain between the transponders that bears a known geometric relationship with the transponders of each localized group; and computing an estimate of the position of the moving vehicle by matching a point in the time domain that bears the same geometric relationship to the footprints of the transponders of the localized group at the current detection location as the point in the spatial domain bears with the transponders of the localized group at the current detection location. | 38,198 |
8,381,642 | 1. A rack for use in cooking food items comprising: a plurality of longitudinal elements; a plurality of lateral elements, disposed proximate, and at an angle, to the plurality of longitudinal elements, such that the plurality of longitudinal elements and the plurality of lateral elements form a supporting grid for supporting food items; an upright, disposed on a first end of the rack and affixed to one or more of the plurality of longitudinal elements and the plurality of lateral elements, for substantially enclosing the first end of the rack; and a gate, pivotally coupled to the second end of the rack, with a first, closed position and a second, open position; wherein the upright is provided by bending one or more of the longitudinal elements upwardly; wherein, in the closed position, the gate substantially encloses the second end of the rack; and wherein, in the open position, the gate enables food items to be slideably removed from the second end of the rack. | 33,805 |
9,285,177 | 1. RCWS (Remote Controlled Weapon System or Station) of the deck-penetrator type mountable to a carrier vehicle, comprising: at least one weapon system that is fed by a belt of rounds from the inside of an ammunition container that is positioned, at least substantially, in the RCWS, | 38,216 |
8,912,243 | 1. A foamable composition, comprising: at least one fluoropolymer; talc at a concentration in a range of greater than about 0.2 percent to about 3 percent by weight of the foamable composition, and; a foaming agent comprising magnesium carbonate; wherein said magnesium carbonate is present in a concentration range of about 0.1 percent to about 2 percent by weight of the foamable composition. | 22,428 |
8,857,340 | 1. A simulant material for simulating a primary explosive material, comprising triacetone triperoxide (TATP) primary explosive material, calcium carbonate (CaCo 3 ) solid inert carrier, and at least one inert material. | 23,303 |
8,688,262 | 1. A tube handling system with a semi-automatic lab tube selection apparatus for enabling a user to pick a select lab tube in a standard lab tube holding rack with open-bottom wells that contain one or more lab tubes comprising: a tube selection unit having, | 2,921 |
8,510,474 | 1. A method for supporting a 6to4 tunneling protocol across a network address translation mechanism comprising the steps of: receiving from a first host located on a first network an outbound IPv6 packet encapsulated into an IPv4 packet, the IPv4 packet comprising a IPv4 header with a private IPv4 source address of the first host, the outbound IPv6 packet comprising a IPv6 header with a 6to4 source address, the IPv6 header comprising an Interface ID value, the Interface ID value being a multiplexing identifier that is a unique identifier associated with the first host; translating the private IPv4 source address in the IPv4 header into a public IPv4 source address, transmitting the translated packet over an IPv4 network to a remote host; storing an association between the private IPv4 source address and the Interface ID value of the 6to4 source address for opposite address translation of inbound packets returned by the remote host by deriving the multiplexing identifier from the outbound IPv4 packet; and further comprising the step of: changing the private IPv4 address of the 6to4 source address in the IPv6 header of an outbound packet to the public IPv4 address; and changing the public IPv4 address of the 6to4 destination address of an inbound packet to a corresponding private IPv4 address. | 17,081 |
9,356,529 | 1. A power supply comprising: a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side which are insulated with each other; a first switching element configured to perform a switching operation of switching between an ON state in which a voltage is supplied to the primary side of the transformer and an OFF state in which the voltage is prevented from being supplied to the primary side of the transformer; a second switching element connected to the secondary side of the transformer, configured to switch between the ON state and the OFF state wherein the second switching element is turned off in a case where the first switching element is turned on, and turned on in a case where the first switching element is turned off; and a control unit configured to control the switching frequency of the first switching element so that an output voltage of the secondary side of the transformer becomes a predetermined voltage; and a delay unit configured to delay a timing to turn off the second switching element off by a signal output from the control unit so that a period when the second switching element is turned on in a low load condition is longer than a period when the second switching element is turned on in a normal load condition, wherein a current supplied to the load from the secondary side of the transformer in the low load condition is smaller than a current supplied to the load from the secondary side of the transformer in the normal load condition. | 22,467 |
8,461,366 | 1. A composition comprising a class of sulfonated triorganophosphine compounds represented by the following formula: wherein R1 and R2 each individually represent a monovalent hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl radical selected from alkyl, aralkyl, and alicyclic radicals; wherein R3 represents a divalent or polyvalent alkylene or alicyclic radical which is bonded to the phosphorus atom and to one or more sulfonate substituents via an alkylether link, and further wherein R3 does not contain any aryl moieties; n is an integer representing a number of methylene groups in the alkylether link ranging from 1 to about 5; M represents a monovalent cation; and m is an integer ranging from 1 to 3 representing a total number of sulfonated alkylether substituents bonded to R3; and wherein in each of R1, R2, and R3 the carbon atom attached to the phosphorus atom or a carbon atom directly bonded to the carbon atom attached to the phosphorus atom is additionally bonded to 2 other carbon atoms and 1 hydrogen atom. | 30,197 |
9,621,255 | 1. A spacecraft comprising: a payload subsystem including a digital channelizer; wherein: the digital channelizer provides a portion of spacecraft command functionality and spacecraft telemetry functionality; the spacecraft command functionality consists of down converting and demodulating a command carrier signal to a first intermediate frequency (IF) baseband signal, bit-detecting the IF baseband signal and formatting a resulting bit stream into digital command data; the spacecraft telemetry functionality consists of processing or encoding spacecraft telemetry data into a baseband signal, modulating the baseband signal onto a second IF signal and upconverting the modulated baseband signal to a radio frequency (RF) carrier signal; and the payload subsystem is capable of providing all of the spacecraft command functionality and the spacecraft telemetry functionality. | 40,716 |
8,749,374 | 1. A system for monitoring a low-speed mobility vehicle and having a remote monitoring device adapted to be connected to the low-speed mobility vehicle through a communicator, comprising: an acceleration sensor that is installed at the vehicle to produce an output indicative of acceleration acting on the vehicle; a counter that counts a number of times that each output of the acceleration sensor is equal to or greater than a predetermined value during a prescribed time period, wherein each output of the acceleration sensor is indicative of an acceleration component in one of X, Y, Z axis directions, and the counter counts the number of times that an output of at least one acceleration component exceeds a corresponding predetermined value in one of the X, Y, Z axis directions; a vehicle-stranding determiner that is installed at the vehicle and determines that the vehicle strands upon detecting that the counted number of times is equal to or less than a threshold value; a vehicle-strand-severity discriminator that is installed at the vehicle and discriminates a severity of the stranding of the vehicle in stages based on the detected acceleration of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle strands; a vehicle-stranded signal transmitter that is installed at the vehicle and transmits a vehicle-stranded signal indicating that the vehicle strands to the remote monitoring device through the communicator; and an informer that is installed at the remote monitoring device and informs to a predesignated information addressee in response to the signal that the vehicle is stranded. | 47,241 |
9,477,257 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a dispatch module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device, the dispatch module configured to be operatively coupled to a plurality of processing modules each having a first clock configuration and a second clock configuration, the dispatch module configured to change, at a first time during a predetermined time period, a processing module from the plurality of processing modules from the first clock configuration to the second clock configuration, the dispatch module configured to prohibit a change in clock configuration of each processing module from the plurality of processing modules from the first clock configuration to the second clock configuration at a second time after the first time and within the predetermined time period if an indicator associated with a number of clock configuration changes between a first clock configuration and a second clock configuration within the predetermined time period satisfies a criterion, the criterion being based on a threshold number of times an electric current changes, within the predetermined time period, for at least one of a chip package associated with the dispatch module or a power supply associated with the dispatch module. | 10,226 |
8,504,902 | 1. A method of correcting state errors during virtually connected operation, the method comprising: identifying at least a first state and a second state, the first and second states having a first and second identifier corresponding thereto, respectively, where the first state and the second state comprise different states, and the first identifier and the second identifier comprise different identifiers; receiving a first message, the first message including an message identifier; wherein: when the message identifier matches the first identifier during the first state, executing a first response; and when the message identifier matches the second identifier during the first state, executing a corrective response and transitioning to the second state. | 3,818 |
9,362,435 | 1. A solar cell apparatus comprising: a solar cell on a support substrate; a polymer resin layer on the solar cell; a protective panel on the polymer resin layer; and a composite protective layer at each lateral side of the support substrate, the solar cell, the polymer resin layer, and the protective panel, wherein the composite protective layer directly makes contact with the lateral side of the support substrate, the lateral side of the solar cell, the lateral side of the polymer resin layer, and the lateral side of the protective panel. | 40,461 |
8,772,965 | 1. A power generation system comprising: integrated photovoltaic (PV) panels, each integrated PV panel comprising photovoltaic cells, a junction coupler coupling the photovoltaic cells in series, in parallel, or in combinations thereof, output terminals, and a DC to AC converter comprising switching devices coupled between the junction coupler and the output terminals, wherein integrated PV panels are coupled in series at the respective output terminals and wherein an output voltage of each integrated PV panel includes a stepped voltage waveform comprising a positive DC voltage level and a negative DC voltage level; and a controller for generating switching command signals for the switching devices to synthesize an output voltage of the power generation system. | 45,753 |
9,699,023 | 1. A method for initializing a first network interface that serves as an interface between a network element and a transmission medium, the method comprising: monitoring a stream of data sent to the first network interface, the first network interface includes a plurality of ports that receive corresponding transmission media and the first network interface includes an interface control module for handling and routing traffic; determining that a provisioning update for the first network interface is complete; acquiring provisioning data from a database in response to determining that the provisioning update for the first network interface is complete, the provisioning data comprise a portion of a master set of provisioning information stored in a database, the master set of provisioning information corresponding to multiple network interfaces, which include the first network interface; filtering the provisioning data based on an identifier for the interface control module; sending provisioning data associated with the identifier for the interface control module to a local file of the first network interface; storing the provisioning data associated with the identifier for the interface control module in the local file; and initializing the interface control module of the first network interface based on the provisioning data stored in the local file. | 21,718 |
9,515,329 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell configured to generate electric power through a power generation reaction by using fuel supplied to an anode and air supplied to a cathode; a cathode air heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between a cathode exhaust gas which is air discharged after the air has been used in the fuel cell and the air to be supplied to the cathode to transfer a part of heat energy of the cathode exhaust gas to the air; a desulfurization unit configured to remove a sulfur component from a raw material supplied to the desulfurization unit; a reformer configured to generate a reformed gas which is the fuel from steam and the raw material from which the sulfur component has been removed by the desulfurization unit; and a combustion unit configured to combust an anode exhaust gas discharged from the anode after an anode gas has been used as the fuel in the fuel cell, wherein the cathode exhaust gas flows through the cathode air heat exchanger without flowing through the combustion unit, the cathode exhaust gas which has lost a part of the heat energy by the heat exchange in at least the cathode air heat exchanger, is supplied to the desulfurization unit, and the desulfurization unit is heated by the heat energy of the cathode exhaust gas. | 17,374 |
9,152,468 | 1. In a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) multi-processor architecture having a first plurality of interconnected processor cores and a second plurality of memory controllers coupled by communication links, a method of task management, comprising: determining memory access costs for said NUMA multi-processor architecture by minimizing a memory access cost function for said NUMA multi-processor architecture; dividing said first plurality of interconnected processor cores into one or more zones based on said memory access costs for said NUMA multi-processor architecture, wherein each zone is assigned at least one of said second plurality of memory controllers, and each processor core of each zone accesses memory from a memory controller assigned to said zone; for each zone, allocating at least one task queue to said zone, wherein each task queue allocated to said zone is mapped to at least one processor core of said zone; and for at least one zone, dynamically adjusting at least one of a queue arrangement and a queue granularity of one or more task queues allocated to said zone based on runtime queue pressure for said one or more task queues; wherein said memory access cost function is based on a distance between said first plurality of interconnected processor cores, one or more link costs associated with said communication links and a number of memory access instructions executed on said first plurality of interconnected processor cores. | 44,616 |
8,858,998 | 1. A hybrid hydrogel comprising a plurality of crosslinked polymers wherein the polymers prior to polymerization and crosslinking have a chemical formula described by: the general structural Formula (I), Formula (I) wherein y=1-20 and n=5-600, and the general structural Formula (II), wherein m=10-90 and n=1-150. | 10,551 |
9,842,612 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an on-head bit detector located on a transducer head and configured to detect a reference signal corresponding to bit locations on a storage media; on-head control system circuitry integrated within the transducer head and configured to synchronize a clock signal with the bit-detected reference signal to generate a modified clock signal synchronized with the bit locations on a storage device; an on-head writer configured to record data received from off-head electronics to the bit locations on the storage device using the modified clock signal; and an on-head write driver configured to generate a write signal incorporating the data into the modified clock signal and send the write signal to the on-head writer. | 44,314 |
9,559,360 | 1. A composition comprising: an oxide of a metal coordinated to a protein at a first binding peptide motif, wherein | 23,181 |
9,539,750 | 1. A toothbrush comprising: a handle part, a cross section of the handle part containing plastic material sections of a first hard component, a second hard component, and a soft component; a neck part adjoining the handle part; and a head part carried by the neck part, wherein: the plastic material section of the first hard component in the handle part is a proportion of at least 10% of the cross section of the handle part, the plastic material section of the first hard component is provided with a metallic coating in at least certain regions of the plastic material section of the first hard component, the metallic coating being at least partially covered by the plastic material section of the second hard component by injection molding; the plastic material section of the second hard component and the plastic material section of the first hard component are connected to each other in a mechanical manner, without forming a material bond; and the plastic material section of the soft component is only in contact with the plastic material section of the second hard component. | 44,883 |
9,515,210 | 1. A diode barrier infrared detector device comprising: a first contact layer; an absorber layer adjacent to the first contact layer; a barrier layer adjacent to the absorber layer, wherein the barrier layer comprises a diode structure formed by a p-n junction formed within the barrier layer; and a second contact layer adjacent to the barrier layer, wherein the diode structure comprises: | 42,439 |
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