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9,278,552 | 1. An image processing apparatus for an ink jet printing apparatus to print images on a printing medium by using at least two nozzle arrays, each of which includes multiple nozzles arranged in a nozzle arranging direction crossing a conveying direction of the printing medium, such that a non-image area is provided on the print medium between image areas on which the images are printed, comprising: a detecting unit configured to detect a relative printing position displacement between print positions by the at least two nozzle arrays in the conveying direction; and a correcting unit configured to correct the printing position displacement by adding adjustment data corresponding to the detected printing position displacement to data for the non-image area for at least one nozzle array of the at least two nozzle arrays so as to adjust a number of lines of the non-image area on the at least one nozzle array, the line extending in the nozzle arraying direction, to align the relative printing position between print positions by the at least two nozzle arrays. | 10,272 |
8,361,827 | 1. A method for interconnecting a first solar cell adjacent to a second solar cell in an array of solar cells, the method comprising: providing a first solar cell adjacent to a second solar cell, wherein at least the first solar cell includes a semiconductor layer formed on top of a backmetal layer; etching a portion of the semiconductor layer of the first solar cell to expose a portion of a top surface of the backmetal layer of the first solar cell; and interconnecting the first solar cell and the second solar cell by coupling the exposed top surface of the backmetal layer of the first solar cell to a top surface of the second solar cell using an interconnect tab. | 25,840 |
9,841,007 | 1. A wind turbine tower, comprising: a plurality of tower segments that are stacked one on top of another on a foundation to form the wind turbine tower, wherein the plurality of tower segments includes a lower tower segment having a lower end face and a lower region, wherein a plurality of cavities are located in the lower region of the lower tower segment, the lower tower segment including through bores between the lower end face of the lower tower segment and a bottom of each of the plurality of cavities, wherein the lower tower segment is a precast concrete tower segment, wherein each of the cavities is configured to receive a levelling unit for levelling the lower tower segment on the foundation. | 29,518 |
8,510,255 | 1. A method for detecting occupancy of an enclosure comprising: determining a probability that occupants of the enclosure will depart from or arrive at the enclosure at a certain time of the day based on a pre-existing model of occupancy patterns, the pre-existing model being available to a thermostat at the time of installation of the thermostat in the enclosure, the model being indicative of a probability that occupants of the enclosure will depart from and arrive at the enclosure at certain times over the course of a day; monitoring, by the thermostat after installation of the thermostat in the enclosure, communication signals which indicate a likelihood of occupancy of the enclosure ranging from not occupied to occupied; revising the model of occupancy patterns based at least in part on the monitored communication signals; and determining a probability that occupants of the enclosure will depart from or arrive at the enclosure at a certain time of the day based on the revised model of occupancy patterns, wherein the pre-existing model is generated based on a type of information other than the monitored communication signals. | 34,892 |
9,243,966 | 1. The pressure sensor ( 1 ) for measuring pressures undergone by an anthropomorphic dummy ( 2 ) in an abdominal or thoracic section of the trunk of said dummy, characterized in that it comprises at least two tight and flexible pressure-measurement chambers ( 4 ) arranged in the abdominal or thoracic section of the trunk of said dummy on either side of a median sagittal plane (P) of said abdominal or thoracic section, said pressure-measurement chambers ( 4 ) being filled with incompressible fluid ( 6 ) whereof the pressure varies as a function of the intensity of the forces exerted on said chambers which each comprise at least one pressure-measurement cell ( 5 ) capable of delivering at its outlet an electric signal representative of the pressure of said fluid ( 6 ) in said pressure-measurement chambers. | 9,426 |
8,991,768 | 1. Improved high speed laminar flow wing structure, on an aircraft, having in combination the following: a) strake extending forwardly of the wing inboard extent, b) reversed fillet at strake junction with the wing leading edge, c) plain flap and hybrid plain-split flap structures and flap deflecting actuators therefor carried at the wing trailing edge, rearward of the strake and reversed fillet, said actuators having a pivoting axis that is collinear with a pivoting axis of said split flap. | 14,154 |
9,268,175 | 1. A display device, comprising: a display panel including a polarizing plate, a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an array substrate, the display panel including a display area in which an image is to be displayed and a display surrounding area located around the display area; a parallax barrier including a first substrate and a second substrate, the parallax barrier including a separation area and a separation surrounding area that is located around the separation area, the separation area configured to separate the image displayed on the display panel by parallax, an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate of the parallax barrier and the polarizing plate of the display panel; and a spacer arranged in a space between (i) an area of the array substrate corresponding to the display surrounding area of the display panel and (ii) an area of the first substrate corresponding to the separation surrounding area of the parallax barrier, wherein the adhesive layer, the polarizing plate, the color filter substrate, and the liquid crystal layer are arranged between the first substrate and the array substrate, and wherein the spacer has a thickness smaller than a distance between the first substrate and the array substrate. | 16,147 |
8,371,321 | 1. A free floating canopy shade system for use in a pool comprising; a canopy having four legs each leg supported by a float placed on the water, each float having a top opening and having an outer cylindrical wall and an inner cylindrical wall resting on a bottom, the inner cylindrical wall being sized to receive one of the legs through said top opening, said inner cylindrical wall being supported by radial walls connecting the inner cylindrical wall to the bottom and to the outer cylindrical wall, said float being water tight and open at the top; said top opening allows items to be placed within the float adjacent the leg during use of the float; wherein an open shaded area is created beneath the canopy bounded only on four corners by each said float. | 25,830 |
9,549,476 | 1. A portable electronic device requiring securing against theft, said device comprising: a device body defined by at least one exterior wall; a lock cavity having an opening thereinto, the opening being accessible at said exterior wall of said device, and being defined by an upper edge, a juxtaposed lower edge, and juxtaposed side edges; said lock cavity being defined by a plurality of cavity walls including an upper wall, a juxtaposed lower wall, and juxtaposed side walls that extend in a direction deeper into said cavity and away from said opening, said side walls being angled relative to each other with a separation distance between them gradually increasing in a direction into said lock cavity, away from said opening into said lock cavity over most of the extension of said side walls into said cavity, whereby a separation distance between said cavity side walls is larger than a separation distance between said side edges defining said opening. | 32,033 |
9,396,286 | 1. A method of determining whether a key is stored in a radix tree, comprising: identifying a first chunk of a key; traversing a radix tree including a plurality of containers; identifying, based on the traversing, a container including a first sequence of elements, the first sequence of elements having a first prefix; determining whether the first chunk matches the first prefix; when the first chunk is determined to match the first prefix: | 34,759 |
8,562,767 | 1. A method of heat treating a steel bearing component, the method comprising: (i) induction heating at least a part of the steel bearing component followed by quenching at least said part of the steel bearing component, the induction heating causing the hardness of the steel bearing component to increase in a near surface region of up to 500 microns from an outer surface of the steel bearing component and generating a compressive residual stress of about −25 MPa to about −1000 MPa in the near surface region; and (ii) subsequently subjecting the steel bearing component to martensite through-hardening or bainite through-hardening so as to generate a microstructure in the steel bearing component that includes martensite and/or bainite. | 34,722 |
8,495,997 | 1. A system for securing solar panels to a purlin framing support member, comprising: a purlin framing support member having a cross-sectional shape; a solar panel clip having a cross-sectional shape that is the same as the cross-sectional shape of said purlin framing support member and being slideable over said purlin framing support member, said solar panel clip further having an upper solar panel spacing section having a washer mount at a top of said upper solar panel spacing section and having first and second parallel, vertical faces extending downwardly from said top, said first and second parallel, vertical faces having a gap therebetween and a pair of dimples extending out from each vertical face towards the gap; first and second solar panel bearing platforms, said first solar panel bearing platform extending perpendicularly from a lower edge of said first parallel, vertical face, and said second solar panel bearing platform extending perpendicularly from a lower edge of said second parallel, vertical face; a first key extending from said first solar panel bearing platform and a second key extending from said second solar panel bearing platform; and a first locking surface extending perpendicularly from said first solar panel bearing platform and a second locking surface extending perpendicularly from said second solar panel bearing platform, wherein said first and second locking surfaces are abuttable against a purlin framing support member surface and each of said first and second locking surfaces include a bore for attachment to the purlin framing support member surface. | 35,853 |
9,394,719 | 1. A bar table for removably supporting a canopy, wherein the canopy includes supporting poles, the bar table comprising tabletop assemblies and table leg assemblies for supporting the tabletop assemblies, characterized in that the number of the tabletop assemblies is two or more, wherein two adjacent tabletop assemblies are rotatably connected together by a movable connecting piece, the rotatably connected tabletop assemblies present a straight layout after being unfolded, and fastening components having a loosen state for receiving the support poles of the canopy and a locking state for fastening the support poles of the canopy are respectively arranged at two ends of the tabletop assemblies; each respective table leg assembly includes a standing pole and a movable pole of which one end is rotatably connected to the standing pole, one of each two adjacent tabletop assemblies is rotatably connected to the standing pole, while the other tabletop assembly is rotatably connected to the movable pole; rotation shafts are arranged at all rotatable connection joints, and the rotation shafts are parallel to one another; and the fastening component comprises a fixed seat fixedly connected to the tabletop assemblies and a sliding seat slidably connected to the tabletop assemblies, a bolt is hinged to the sliding seat and a lock nut is arranged on the bolt, an opening slot is arranged on the fixed seat for receiving the bolt, and a rod insertion space is formed between the fixed seat and the sliding seat for accommodating the support poles of the canopy. | 16,253 |
9,545,597 | 1. A process for separation or purification of gaseous streams by removal of acid gases using a liquid amine solution, the process comprising the steps of: contacting the gaseous stream with liquid lean amine solution in at least one continuous flow stirred-tank reactor; removing a sweetened gaseous flow from said continuous flow stirred-tank reactor; removing rich amine solution from said continuous flow stirred-tank reactor for regeneration; passing rich amine solution through at least one flash tank stripper; removing acid gases and vapor from said flash tank stripper; and removing lean amine solution from said flash tank stripper for recirculation to said continuous flow stirred-tank reactor; wherein the gaseous stream is contacted with liquid lean amine solution in a plug flow reactor downstream of said continuous flow stirred-tank reactor. | 4,155 |
8,887,627 | 1. A barbecue apparatus having a roasting space in which meat is roasted and roasting meat by heating the roasting space, the apparatus comprising: a main body comprising a casing of a box shape with a top thereof opened so as to form the roasting space, a cover disposed on an upper part of the casing to open/close the roasting space of the casing and having a smoke hole for discharging smoke from roasting of meat in the roasting space, and a first hinge disposed to connect the casing and the cover so as to open/close the cover; a roasting part comprising circular plates disposed at left and right sides to roast meat in the roasting space provided in the main body, roasting bars whose ends are disposed at a certain interval along the circumference of the circular plate, and a shaft outwardly protruding from a center of the circular plate equipped with the roasting bars; a driving part comprising a gear and a motor that are coupled to and rotate the shaft so as to rotate the roasting part; a main heating source comprising one or both of a charcoal basket and a burner disposed at a lower part of the roasting space to heat the roasting space such that meat is roasted in the roasting space of the main body; and an auxiliary heat source disposed at an upper part of the roasting space to provide heat to the roasting space separately from the main heating source such that meat roasted by the main heating source keeps warm when the main heating source is removed, wherein the auxiliary heat source comprising a halogen lamp comprises; an opening formed in a rear surface of the casing such that the halogen lamp is disposed at an upper part of the roasting space so as to be adjacent to the roasting part disposed in the roasting space a cover part protruding from the rear surface of the casing to block the opening and providing an installation space in which the halogen lamp is disposed; and a second hinge disposed to connect the cover part and the rear surface of the casing such that the cover part opens/closes, and the halogen lamp disposed in the installation space is replaced by the second hinge. | 35,864 |
9,555,082 | 1. A method for reducing the risk of developing metabolic dysfunctions related to obesity, comprising administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of a composition containing Saccharomyces cerevisiae var boulardii together with an additional amount of microencapsulated extracted superoxide dismutase enzyme, wherein the additional amount of microencapsulated extracted superoxide dismutase enzyme is present in an amount from about 1 mg to about 100 mg. | 40,180 |
9,399,129 | 1. An implantable medical lead comprising: a body including a distal portion with an electrode and a proximal portion with a lead connector end; and an electrical pathway extending between the electrode and lead connector end and including a single coiled inductor including first and second electrically conductive filar cores and a lead conductor electrically coupled between the lead connector end and the single coiled inductor, wherein the first and second filar cores are electrically coupled together at a proximal terminal on a proximal end of the coiled inductor, the first and second filar cores are electrically coupled together at a distal terminal on a distal end of the coiled inductor, and wherein the first and second filar cores are helically wound together into a coiled portion to form at least a portion of the single coiled inductor between the proximal and distal terminals, the filar cores being electrically isolated from each other in the coiled portion, wherein the proximal terminal is located distal of the lead connector end and is electrically coupled to a distal end of the lead conductor, the lead conductor being electrically coupled to the lead connector end, and the distal terminal located proximal of the electrode is electrically coupled to a portion of the electrical pathway extending to the electrode. | 2,822 |
8,703,314 | 1. A prismatic battery comprising: an electrode assembly which includes a positive electrode including a belt-shaped positive electrode core member and a positive electrode active material layer formed on both surfaces of the positive electrode core member, a negative electrode including a belt-shaped negative core member and a negative electrode active material layer formed on both surfaces of the negative electrode core member, and a belt-shaped separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly, wherein the electrode assembly is formed by winding the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator in the longitudinal directions thereof, and has a flat portion in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are laid flat, and folded portions in each of which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are curved and folded, the folded portions being adjacent to the flat portion; the negative electrode has, the positive electrode has, in an end portion thereof from which winding is started, a two-sided positive-electrode active material layer portion in which the positive electrode active material layer is provided both on an outer surface of the positive electrode core member and on an inner surface of the positive electrode core member; and in the two-sided positive-electrode active material layer portion in the end portion of the positive electrode, | 45,092 |
8,625,272 | 1. A portable electronic device, comprising: a flat body having a front surface, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, a through hole passing through the flat body and extending from the front surface to the rear surface, a plurality of first connection terminals disposed adjacent to the through hole, and a terminal area on the rear surface and adjacent to the through hole, wherein the through hole is adapted to couple with an external docking element for signal or power transmission, and the first connection terminals disposed at the terminal area are adapted to contact with a plurality of second connection terminals of the external docking element for signal or power transmission when the through hole couples with the external docking element. | 40,218 |
8,539,545 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, with a network management system, business policy graph information that defines a business policy graph of a network, wherein the business policy graph comprises a first set of endpoint computing resources configured as a first security domain and a second set of endpoint computing resources configured as a second security domain without an indication of any policy enforcement points within the network, wherein the business policy graph is independent of a physical topology of the network, wherein the first set of endpoint computing resources includes endpoint computing resources physically located at two or more different geographic locations, wherein the second set of endpoint computing resource includes at least one endpoint computing resource physically located at one of the two or more different geographic locations at which the first set of endpoint computing resources is located, wherein each of the two or more different geographic locations is associated with at least one respective policy enforcement point of a set of policy enforcement points, and wherein each endpoint computing resource of the first set and the second set of endpoint computing resources is accessible to a user to perform a computing task; receiving, with the network management system, an indication of a set of network policies to apply to the first security domain and the second security domain, wherein a first portion of the network polices applied to the first security domain is different from a second portion of the network policies applied to the second security domain; automatically determining, with the network management system, one or more policy enforcement points of the set of policy enforcement points, the one or more policy enforcement points being required to enforce the network polices against the first set of endpoint computing resources of the first security domain and the second set of endpoint computing resources of the second security domain, wherein automatically determining the one or more policy enforcement points comprises automatically determining the one or more policy enforcement points based on physical network topology information readable by the network management system, and wherein the physical network topology information includes information about the location of the first and second sets of endpoint computing resources and the set of policy enforcement points within the network; and applying, with the network management system, the network policies to the one or more policy enforcement points of the set of policy enforcement points in order to enforce the network policies against the first set of endpoint computing resources of the first security domain and the second set of endpoint computing resources of the second security domain. | 48,192 |
9,284,203 | 1. A process for converting a feedstock to biogas comprising steps of, a) producing a synthesis gas from pyrolysis of the feedstock; b) separating organic compounds from the synthesis gas and returning the separated organic compounds to step a) as additional feedstock; and, c) adding the synthesis gas to an anaerobic digester. | 23,890 |
8,912,255 | 1. A self-consolidating concrete (SCC) mixture, comprising: a mixture of coarse aggregate (CA), fine aggregate (FA), very fine aggregate (VFA), cementitious materials including Portland cement or Portland limestone cement, an ASTM C494 Type F polycarboxylate ether high range water reducer, and water, wherein the VFA has a particle size distribution in which 95-100% passes a 2.5 mm sieve and in which 20 to 100% passes a 75 μm sieve; wherein: the total cementitious materials are present in an amount between 260 and 375 kg/m CA is present in an amount between 700 and 1130 kg/m FA is present in an amount between 481 and 1010 kg/m VFA is present in an amount between 135 and 500 kg/m ASTM C494 Type F polycarboxylate ether high range water reducer is present in an amount between 0.1 and 0.28 weight percent of polycarboxylate solids relative to total cementitious materials; and wherein the SCC mixture has a water-to-cement ratio which ranges between 0.4 and 0.8. | 9,745 |
8,712,337 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a signal by one radio of a plurality of radios in a first wireless network, the received signal compatible with data transfer protocols of the first wireless network; monitoring, with a monitoring module operatively connected to the one radio of the plurality of radios, a property of the received signal, the monitoring module communicatively coupled, using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) connection, to a second network, the second network operating independently of the data transfer protocols of the first wireless network; receiving instructions from a remote communication module over the second network by the monitoring module, the instructions being configured for controlling communications with the monitoring module; transmitting, by the monitoring module, through the second network, and not through the first wireless network, a value representative of a current state of the property of the received signal when the property of the received signal changes to the current state from a previous state. | 17,829 |
9,023,945 | 1. A process for preparing a polyethylene composition comprising the following steps: (a) providing at least a first amount of ethylene to a first gas-phase reactor; (b) providing at least a first amount of Ziegler-Natta catalyst to the first gas-phase reactor to produce at least a first amount of polyethylene polymer within the first gas-phase reactor; (c) transferring at least a portion of the first amount of polyethylene polymer and at least a portion of the first amount of Ziegler-Natta catalyst to a second gas-phase reactor; (d) providing at least a second amount of ethylene in the presence of a first amount of hydrogen to the second gas-phase reactor to obtain a second polyethylene polymer to produce a polyethylene composition comprising the first polyethylene polymer and the second polyethylene polymer, wherein the polyethylene composition comprises a density of greater than about 0.950 g/cm wherein t wherein at least one of the first or second gas-phase reactors comprises a first and second polymerization zone, the first polymerization zone having a first hydrogen pressure and the second polymerization zone having a second hydrogen pressure, wherein the first hydrogen pressure and the second hydrogen pressure are different such that at least a portion of the second amount of ethylene moves through the first and second polymerization zones and at least a portion of a gas mixture of each polymerization zone is partially or totally prevented from entering the other zone wherein the polyethylene composition comprises: (A) from about 40 to about 60% by weight of an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer with density equal to or greater than about 0.960 g/cm (B) from about 40 to about 60% by weight of an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer having a MIE value lower than the MIE value of (A). | 10,286 |
9,587,550 | 1. A component of an exhaust system for a combustion engine, the component comprising: a hollow jacket wall forming a first component exterior and with a first intermediate space surrounded by the hollow jacket wall and which hollow jacket wall comprises a ventilation connection point, the first intermediate space being fluidically connected to a ventilation device via a ventilation connection line and via the ventilation connection point, whereby fluid can be supplied to the first intermediate space from an area surrounding the component; another hollow jacket wall forming another component exterior and with a second intermediate space surrounded by the another hollow jacket wall, said another hollow wall being closed except for at least one connection point that is closable in a pressure-tight manner, wherein the at least one connection point comprises a vacuum connection point and the second intermediate space is fluidically connected via the vacuum connection point to a vacuum generating device through a vacuum connection line; and an intermediate connecting line, said first intermediate space and said second intermediate space being connected in series via said intermediate connecting line, wherein said ventilation connection point and said vacuum connection point are selectively opened and closed to create a vacuum in the second intermediate space and to create ambient pressure in the first intermediate space. | 28,294 |
9,101,836 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: one of rendering or projecting, to a group display screen, display content associated with a multiplayer game; receiving and processing user input received from a first plurality of mobile terminals, according to a set of rules associated with a first role in the multiplayer game; and receiving and processing user input received from a second plurality of mobile terminals, according to a set of rules associated with a second role in the multiplayer game, wherein user input received from a first of the first plurality of mobile terminals is processed by a game server to enable a corresponding mobile terminal user to actively compete against at least a second of the first plurality of mobile terminals, and wherein user input received from at least a first of the second plurality of mobile terminals is processed by the game server to at least one of: add or modify a rule of the multiplayer game affecting all mobile terminal users actively participating as competitors in a single instantiation of the multiplayer game; add or modify a rule of the multiplayer game affecting an individual mobile terminal user actively participating as a competitor in a single instantiation of the multiplayer game; or add to or modify a capability of an individual mobile terminal user actively participating as a competitor in a single instantiation of the multiplayer game. | 25,325 |
8,345,863 | 1. A method of countering side-channel attacks on an elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC), the method comprising: providing a system for message communication between a pair of correspondents, a message being exchanged in accordance with ECC instructions executable on computer processors of the respective correspondents, the ECC instructions including: wherein the first elliptic curve equation becomes Y wherein: X is a Jacobian variable X coordinate; each a and b is one of a finite field Fq having elements q (q is a prime), x and y are Affine variable x and y coordinates, B is a converted value of b from the first elliptic curve equation to the second elliptic curve equation, s and t are the coordinates of the input point P of the ECC. | 12,195 |
8,454,845 | 1. A method of fabricating an interconnection system comprising: forming a plurality if dielectric layers, wherein forming said plurality of dielectric layers further comprises: filling said via holes in said plurality of dielectric layers; sintering said plurality of dielectric layers at a high temperature; metallization of said plurality of dielectric layers; stacking said plurality of metalized dielectric layers in a pressing die by a stacking machine; and laminating said plurality of metalized dielectric layers by a hot press, thereby forming a single bonded laminate. | 41,421 |
8,929,217 | 1. A method for traffic management and resource allocation on a shared access network comprising: estimating a bandwidth capacity of a gateway configured to communicate over an air interface; determining a demand rate, a traffic priority, and traffic weighting of an IP gateway, wherein the gateway passes traffic between the IP gateway and air interface, such that the gateway and the IP gateway are both on the same side of the air interface; allocating bandwidth to the IP gateway based on the estimated bandwidth capacity and at least one of the demand rate, the traffic priority, and the traffic weighting; allocating bandwidth to the IP gateway in advance of demand when, based on the estimated bandwidth capacity, excess bandwidth is available; scheduling traffic at the IP gateway based on at least one of the traffic priority, a service plan of a very small aperture terminal (VSAT), and physical layer properties of the VSAT; and performing priority queue servicing of traffic at the gateway using a real time traffic priority queue, a non-real time traffic priority queue, at least two modulation and coding queue groups, and a code block queue, wherein estimating the bandwidth capacity is based on a distribution of traffic for VSATs, the distribution of traffic including traffic of a plurality of different modulation and coding schemes. | 20,906 |
9,583,721 | 1. An organic electronic device, comprising: a substrate; and a first electrode layer, an organic layer comprising an emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which are sequentially formed on the substrate; wherein the substrate comprises: wherein the high refractive layer has a smaller projected area than that of the first electrode layer, and the first electrode layer is formed on both of the high refractive layer and the base layer in which the high refractive layer is not formed. | 38,358 |
9,702,748 | 1. A method of detecting a particle, comprising: magnetizing a particle using an AC magnetic field; generating an AC voltage, from the magnetized particle, in a sensing device having a conductive substantially 2-dimensional lattice structure; superimposing a DC magnetic field on the generated AC voltage in the sensing device; and measuring an AC Hall voltage at the sensing device. | 28,611 |
9,764,822 | 1. A full-scale, multirotor all-electric aircraft system sized, dimensioned, and configured for transporting one or more human occupants and payload, the system comprising: a multirotor airframe fuselage, having a structure supporting the total vehicle weight together with the one or more human occupants and payload; a multirotor upper truss structure connected to the multirotor airframe fuselage; a plurality of motor and propeller assemblies attached to the multirotor upper truss structure, the plurality of motor and propeller assemblies each comprising a plurality of pairs of counter-rotating propeller blades, the plurality of motor and propeller assemblies being controlled by a plurality of motor controllers; an electrical power-generating system comprising one of: a power distribution and circuit breaker subsystem autonomously monitoring and controlling distribution of the generated electrical voltage and current to the plurality of motor controllers and an avionics system; and wherein the plurality of motor controllers are commanded by one or more autopilot control units, where the one or more autopilot control units control the commanded electrical voltage and torque or current for each of the plurality of motor and propeller assemblies and track the rotations per minute (RPM) and the torque produced or the current consumed at each of the plurality of motor and propeller assemblies. | 6,302 |
8,457,099 | 1. A method of supporting mobility in a communications system, the system including a mobile node, a routing control node, a data packet forwarding node and an access node, said access node serving as the mobile node's point of attachment to a network via a wireless link, the method comprising: operating the mobile node to transmit a forwarding control message to the routing control node via said access node, said message being forwarded to said routing control node over a control path which does not traverse said data packet forwarding node, wherein the routing control node is located outside of a firewall that is used to protect the data packet forwarding node; operating the routing control node to establish a data packet forwarding path between the data packet forwarding node and one of said access node and mobile node, said routing control node being outside said data packet forwarding path; and operating the routing control node to transmit a response message to said mobile node indicating acceptance of a request for establishment of said data packet forwarding path. | 44,710 |
9,115,480 | 1. Cutter head for dredging ground under water, said cutter head being attached to a ladder of a cutter suction dredger, which said cutter suction dredger is anchored to the ground by a spud post that transmits considerably reaction forces occurring during dredging to the ground, and around which said spud post said ladder is hauled alternately from port side to starboard side using winches, such that the cutter head is moved through the ground in a lateral sweeping movement around said spud post, which said cutter head comprises a rotation-symmetrical revolving body which is rotatable around its rotation axis by a drive and which is provided along its peripheral surface with a number of cutting tools for penetrating into the ground, wherein an attachment of said cutter head to said ladder is such that the rotation axis of the cutter head runs substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the ladder and tangential to the sweeping movement, wherein the revolving body comprises a plane-symmetrical cylindrical body, spherical segments are provided on both end sides of the cylindrical body, and the cutting tools are arranged on said spherical segments, wherein the active length of the cutting tools protruding outside a holder for the cutting tools lies between 20 and 250 mm. | 3,082 |
9,329,884 | 1. A processor comprising: a tracing register to store a value indicative of whether tracing is enabled or disabled; a tracing module to generate trace data while tracing is enabled; a buffer to store the trace data; logic to write a value to the tracing register indicating that tracing is enabled in response to a request from a virtual machine, the request associated with a first trace output page and a second trace output page; a trace translation lookaside buffer (TTLB) to store a first trace output page translation of the first trace output page and a second trace output page translation of the second trace output page; logic to determine that the second trace output page is not resident in a main memory; logic to copy the trace data to the first trace output page in the main memory in response to a determination that the second trace output page is not resident in the main memory; and logic to load the second trace output page into the main memory using the second trace output translation and copy the trace data from the first trace output page to the second trace output page. | 30,214 |
8,918,986 | 1. Method for making a stator of an electric machine, the stator comprising a stator core, the stator core comprising a main body and a plurality of slots which are axially extended inside the main body and are adapted to receive bar conductors of a bar stator winding, the method comprising the steps of: inserting at least one preshaped insulating sheet inside the respective slot of said plurality of slots; hot shaping the preshaped insulating sheet inside the respective slot, along the entire axial extension of the slot, in order to confer form regularity and stability to said preshaped insulating sheet; and inserting at least a bar conductor of the bar stator winding into said at least one respective slot in order to assemble said stator; wherein the hot shaping step comprises pressing the preshaped insulating sheet inside the slot against the walls of the slot by inserting a preheated shaping tool inside the slot and subsequently removing such tool. | 14,541 |
9,738,519 | 1. A fuel reformer producing a reformed gas by catalysis by using a fuel gas, the fuel reformer comprising: a body portion in which a tubular combustion chamber extending between a first end and a second end is provided; a combustion nozzle located closer to the first end of the combustion chamber and generating a flame by injecting a combustion gas; an exhausting pipe located closer to the second end and exhausting an exhaust gas generated in the combustion chamber; a gas distribution gap isolated from an inner portion of the combustion chamber and provided along an outer shell of the combustion chamber; an outer reforming portion formed by filling the gas distribution gap with a reforming catalyst; a fuel gas introduction pipe located upstream of the outer reforming portion, introducing a fuel gas to the gas distribution gap, and including an end provided with an inlet discharging the fuel gas; and a reformed gas exhaust pipe located downstream of the outer reforming portion and exhausting a reformed gas from the gas distribution gap, wherein: the fuel gas introduction pipe is inserted into a protrusion portion provided in the inner space of the columnar protruding portion and filled with the reforming catalyst, and the fuel gas introduction pipe is configured to discharge the fuel gas from the inlet of which an opening is buried in the reforming catalyst to the protrusion portion of the columnar protruding portion. | 17,273 |
9,126,783 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet bundle housing unit that houses a plurality of recording sheets piled as a sheet bundle; a swing member having a sheet contact portion on one end side thereof relative to a swing axis, the swing member swinging, about the swing axis, between a projection position at which the sheet contact portion projects above a sheet placement surface of the sheet bundle housing unit and a non-projection position at which the sheet contact portion does not project above the sheet placement surface, the swing member moving from the projection position to the non-projection position by pressing of the sheet bundle placed on the sheet placement surface against the sheet contact portion; a sheet detection unit that detects presence or absence of the sheet bundle in the sheet bundle housing unit using the swing member; a visible image forming unit that forms a visible image on the recording sheet; and an interlocking mechanism that moves the swing member to the non-projection position, regardless of presence or absence of the sheet bundle in the sheet bundle housing unit, by interlocking with the sheet bundle housing unit being pulled out from an apparatus body, wherein | 31,248 |
8,872,494 | 1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device for use in a DC-DC converter configured to switch a voltage fed to a load in accordance with a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, the device comprising: an error voltage generating part configured to generate an error voltage based on a difference between a feedback voltage and a preset reference voltage, the feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage; a mode setting part configured to set an operating mode of the device to a light-load mode or a non-light-load mode by outputting a mode signal indicative of the mode, the setting done based on the error voltage; an oscillation signal generating part configured to generate an oscillation signal when the device is in the non-light-load mode, and configured to turn off the oscillation signal when the device is in the light-load mode, the oscillation signal having a fixed period; a pulse generating part configured to generate a pulse signal before the oscillation signal generating part starts generating the oscillation signal, wherein generating the pulse signal is triggered by a switch from the light-load mode to the non-light-load mode; and a control part configured to turn the PWM signal off when the oscillation signal and the pulse signal are not generated, and to turn on the PWM signal upon occurrence of the pulse signal at a first time and upon occurrence of a transition of the oscillation signal at a second time, the PWM signal having a duty ratio based on the error voltage. | 28,614 |
9,522,056 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a toothbrush head; toothbrush bristles fixed to the toothbrush head; and means for moving the toothbrush head in up and down directions and for simultaneously rotating the tooth brush head in a plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions; and wherein the means for moving the toothbrush head in the up and down directions and for simultaneously rotating the tooth brush head in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions includes a motor, a motor shaft, a disk, a swing arm, a post, and a pin; wherein the apparatus is configured so that the motor rotates the motor shaft causing the disk to rotate which causes both the pin to move in the up and down directions and the swing arm to rotate in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions; wherein the movement of the pin up and down causes the post to move up and down which causes the toothbrush head to move up and down; wherein the rotation of the swing arm in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions causes the post to rotate in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions which causes the toothbrush head to rotate in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions; and wherein the disk includes first and second ramp portions which cause the pin to move in the up and down directions as the disk rotates. | 5,772 |
9,210,402 | 1. An image coding method of coding a plurality of blocks included in a plurality of pictures of an image, the image coding method comprising: (i) determining, for each of one or more associated blocks, whether or not to add a motion vector of the associated block to a list, and (ii) adding the motion vector of the associated block to the list when determining that the motion vector of the associated block is to be added to the list, the one or more associated blocks being one or more blocks included in the plurality of blocks; selecting a motion vector from the list as a motion vector predictor; and (i) coding a current block using a motion vector of the current block, and (ii) coding a difference between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor selected in the selecting, the current block being a block which is included in the plurality of blocks and is different from the one or more associated blocks, wherein, in the determining, it is determined that the motion vector of the associated block is not to be added to the list when an associated picture and an associated reference picture match temporally or when a current picture and a current reference picture match temporally, the associated picture being a picture including the associated block, the associated reference picture being a picture which is referred to using the motion vector of the associated block in coding of the associated block, the current picture being a picture including the current block, and the current reference picture being a picture which is referred to using the motion vector of the current block in the coding of the current block, and wherein, in the determining, it is determined that the motion vector of the associated block is not to be added to the list when only one of the following is true: a view including the associated picture is different from a view including the associated reference picture; and a view including the current picture is different from a view including the current reference picture, so as to determine that the motion vector of the associated block is not to be added to the list when the associated picture and the associated reference picture match temporally or when the current picture and the current reference picture match temporally except when the associated picture and the associated reference picture match temporally and the current picture and the current reference picture match temporally. | 31,549 |
8,417,843 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an interface unit which is connected to an external storage medium; an identification unit which identifies the external storage medium connected to the interface unit; and a controller which performs a media function corresponding to information of reproduction of media data stored in the identified external storage medium, wherein the controller plays the media data from a point of time at which play was suspended, or displays using a viewer program a file including the media data that was displayed. | 19,034 |
9,279,355 | 1. A urea solution injection nozzle, comprising: a urea solution flow path; a gas flow path surrounding the urea solution flow path; a junction area joining the gas flow path to the urea solution flow path, so that gas flowing through the gas flow path is introduced into the junction area so as to be mixed with urea solution from the urea solution flow path; an outer surface of the urea solution injection nozzle surrounding the urea solution flow path, the gas flow path, and the junction area; an injection port provided on the outer surface and connected to the junction area so as to have the urea solution mixed with the gas injected therefrom; a side surface discharge port provided on the outer surface so that the gas unmixed with the urea solution is discharged from the side surface discharge port in the same direction with the injection direction of the urea solution mixed with the gas from the injection port, wherein the outer surface includes a portion extended from the side surface discharge port to the injection port, so that the gas unmixed with the urea solution and discharged from the side surface discharge port flows along the portion of the outer surface extended from the side surface discharge port to the injection port so as to reach the injection port; and a branching flow path extended from the gas flow path to the side surface discharge port so as to supply the side surface discharge port with the gas unmixed with the urea solution. | 12,601 |
9,268,719 | 1. A memory module comprising: a signal buffer having a module data interface to communicate module data, a module command interface to receive module commands, a first memory data interface, a second memory data interface, a first memory command interface, and a second memory command interface separate from the first memory command interface; a first memory device group, including at least one memory device, the first memory device group receiving first-memory commands from the first memory command interface and communicating first-memory data with the first memory data interface; and a second memory device group, separate from the first memory device group and comprising at least one memory device, the second memory device group receiving second-memory commands from the second memory command interface and communicating second-memory data with the second memory data interface; the signal buffer having steering logic to derive the first-memory commands and the second-memory commands from the module commands, and to communicate the module data associated with each module command between the module data interface and one of the first or second memory device groups as the first or second memory data, respectively; wherein the steering logic conveys the module data associated with each module command between the module data interface and one of the first and second memory data interfaces in a first mode and conveys the module data associated with each module command between the module data interface and both the first and second memory data interfaces in a second mode. | 5,572 |
8,961,911 | 1. A process for selective leaching of zinc from a mixture or ore containing zinc sulfide, comprising: a. contacting the mixture or ore with an aqueous leachant to form a resulting leachate and residual solids from the mixture or ore, said leachant comprising: 1) an oxidant with an oxidation potential to oxidize the sulfur present only to elemental sulfur, and 2) alkali metal hydroxide in an amount sufficient to form soluble alkali metal zincate; b. extending the contact time between leachant and solids to reach a selected zinc recovery and selectivity in the leachate while maintaining operative reagent concentrations; c. separating desired resulting leachate from the residual solids; and d. recovering zinc from the resulting leachate, | 9,059 |
8,892,751 | 1. In a packet network which has a separation of call control plane and service bearing plane, a media gateway controller (MGC) provides call control function and a media gateway (MG) provides service bearing function, a method for negotiating a session description protocol (SDP) version between the MGC and the MG, comprising: sending, by the MGC using H.248 protocol, an audit capability command request to the MG to request for information of all SDP versions supported by the MG, wherein the audit capability command request carries a property parameter instructing the MG to return information of all the SDP versions supported by the MG; receiving, by the MGC-using H.248 protocol, an audit capability command response from the MG which contains information of all SDP versions supported by the MG; determining, by the MGC, based on the received information of all SDP versions supported by the MG, an SDP version to be used, which is supported by both the MGC and the MG; sending, by the MGC, a modify request containing the determined SDP version to be used as a value of the property parameter to the MG; and one of the following: receiving, by the MGC, a success response related to SDP version negotiation, after the MG confirms that the SDP version to be used is supported; or receiving, by the MGC, a failure response related to SDP version negotiation, after the MG confirms that the SDP version to be used is not supported. | 27,082 |
9,511,493 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store a program; and a processor that executes the program to implement: an arrangement unit configured to arrange a virtual object corresponding to a structural member in a virtual space corresponding to a working space of a robot system; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of the virtual space images, different in arrangement of the virtual object from one another, in the virtual space which corresponds to a captured image and in which the virtual object is arranged; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, without an instruction of an operator of the information processing apparatus, a plurality of evaluation values each corresponding a respective one of the plurality of the virtual space images, each evaluation value indicating an amount of adaptability of arrangement of the virtual object to the work of the robot system based on the virtual space image; and a selection unit configured to select an optimum evaluation value optimally suitable for the work of the robot system, from among the plurality of the evaluation values, by determining a respective difference value between a reference value and each of the plurality of evaluation values, and selecting as the optimum evaluation value an evaluation value having a smallest difference value. | 24,412 |
8,800,894 | 1. A fluidic oscillator comprising: at least one channel including an interacting cavity disposed therein, at least one first inlet communicating with the interacting cavity to flow fluid inward, and at least one first outlet communicating with the interacting cavity to spray the fluid flowing through the interacting cavity outward, characterized in that: at least one turbulent flow passage is used to guide a fluid in the at least one turbulent flow passage to flow into the interacting cavity or cavities so as to interact with the fluid from the first inlet(s) from one of two opposite first longitudinal walls of the interacting cavity or cavities, such that a turbulent flow effect is generated in the interacting cavity or cavities, and then the fluid in the interacting cavity flows out of the first outlet(s) to generate oscillatory spray; the fluidic oscillator includes one channel, and the at least one turbulent flow passage is fixed in a second longitudinal wall of the channel; the at least one turbulent flow passage includes a second inlet fixed therein to flow the fluid inward and a second outlet to guide the fluid in the at least one turbulent flow passage to the first outlet of the interacting cavity of the channel individually; the second outlet is located at a middle portion of the interacting cavity; the interacting cavity or cavities are defined between middle sections of two symmetrical stopping members attached on the first outlet, and each stopping member includes one control passageway disposed on an outer side thereof; a connection of the at least one turbulent flow passage and the interacting cavity or cavities are located at the middle portion of the interacting cavity; a diameter of the interacting cavity of the fluidic oscillator is within 5 mm to 20 mm, and a range of a flowing path of the fluid in the interacting cavity is within 5 mm to 20 mm. | 35,975 |
8,689,768 | 1. A fuel injection control apparatus for controlling fuel injection with a first fuel injection valve and a second fuel injection valve in an internal combustion engine including a first intake passage provided with the first fuel injection valve, and a second intake passage provided with the second fuel injection valve, for each cylinder, comprising: a first unit which controls fuel injection with the first fuel injection valve and the second fuel injection valve in accordance with an alternative injection mode in which the first fuel injection valve and the second fuel injection valve are alternately switched every predetermined number of cycles as a fuel injection valve to be used for fuel injection. | 25,541 |
8,567,427 | 1. A blowout preventer, comprising: one and only one block, with the block having a channel, with the channel having at least one end that is dimensioned and configured so that it can be inserted over a portion of a pipe through which fluid can escape; a plurality of plates in the block, initially to one side of the channel; an explosive charge for each of the plates, that when fired, propels the plates across the channel to block the flow of the fluid; and a passage in each of the blocks for each of the plates, that allows the plates to move into place to block the channel, said passage having a far end that prevents the plates from moving too far and bypassing the channel; wherein grooves in surfaces of the plates enable some of the fluid to escape into the pipe above the plates that are blocking its flow. | 23,340 |
9,511,783 | 1. A method for detecting an abnormality of a vehicle including bogies comprising a pair of front and back bogies each having two pairs of right and left wheels on front and back sides while the vehicle is running on a track, the method comprising: an installation step of previously providing a wheel load sensor for measuring a wheel load of a wheel on the track; an index definition step of previously defining an index represented by wheel loads of four wheels provided in at least one of the bogies as the index for detecting a vehicle abnormality according to a type of the vehicle abnormality; a measurement step of measuring the wheel loads of the four wheels provided in at least one of the bogies by the wheel load sensor provided on the track; and a detection step of calculating a value of the index defined in the index definition step from the wheel loads measured in the measurement step, and detecting the vehicle abnormality of the vehicle based on the calculated value of the index, wherein in the index definition step, a primary spring abnormality index as the index when the type of the vehicle abnormality is a primary spring abnormality is defined as in Expression (1) below, and in the detection step, a value of the primary spring abnormality index is calculated from the wheel loads measured in the measurement step, and it is determined that the primary spring abnormality occurs in the vehicle when the calculated value of the primary spring abnormality index is larger than a predefined reference value, where P1 to P4 are the wheel loads of the four wheels provided in the at least one of the bogies: P1 represents a wheel load of a wheel located on a front right side of the at least one of the bogies; P2 a wheel load of a wheel located on a front left side of the at least one of the bogies; P3 a wheel load of a wheel located on a back right side of the at least one of the bogies; and P4 a wheel load of a wheel located on a back left side of the at least one of the bogies in Expression (1). | 6,822 |
9,588,523 | 1. A system configured to monitor and manage natural gas pressure within a plurality of sources, the system comprising: at least one low-pressure source of natural gas; at least one high-pressure source of natural gas; a low-pressure line in fluid communication with said at least one low-pressure source of natural gas; a high-pressure line in fluid communication with said at least one high-pressure source of natural gas; a first junction joining said high-pressure line and said low-pressure line; a compressor having an inlet, said inlet in fluid communication with said first junction; a pressure sensor monitoring the gas pressure at said inlet; a remote pressure sensor monitoring a gas pressure at a location remote from said compressor; a drive mechanism suitable for operating said compressor; a programmable logic controller, said programmable logic controller configured to receive input data from said pressure sensor monitoring the gas pressure at said inlet and configured to receive input data from said remote pressure sensor, said programmable logic controller further configured to provide output data to control the operation of said drive mechanism operating said compressor. | 30,672 |
9,102,399 | 1. A flight control system comprising: a command model modified in response to a Life Improving Control (LIC) algorithm; an inverse aircraft model in communication with said command model to generate a flight control system command to command an aircraft state; and a feedback path from said command model and said aircraft state, said feedback path in communication with said flight control system command, said feedback path modified in response to said Life Improving Control (LIC) algorithm, wherein said Life Improving Control (LIC) algorithm is configured to modify the command model to reduce fatigue loads applied to an aircraft component in response to an aircraft maneuver. | 43,485 |
8,462,307 | 1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising: a plurality of gate lines and data lines arranged on a substrate to define a plurality of unit pixels; thin film transistors (TFTs) each formed at an intersecting region of the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of gate pad portions and data pad portions formed at end portions of the gate lines and the data lines, respectively, at least one of the gate and data pad portions being made up of at least two pad unit portions, each pad unit portion having at least one contact hole such that the contact holes of one of the plurality of gate or data pad portions are arranged in a zigzag or an oblique line format; and pixel electrodes formed at the unit pixels. | 26,738 |
8,520,373 | 1. A display assembly for a portable module, the display assembly comprising: a housing comprising a base portion and a continuous side portion extending from the base portion to define an interior compartment; a resilient body positioned in the interior compartment of the housing, the resilient body comprising a base portion and a continuous side portion extending from the base portion; a display having side and bottom surfaces engaged by the resilient body; a cover plate for enclosing the housing, the cover plate having an expansion gap; and a sealing gasket positioned between only a top surface of the display and the cover plate, the sealing gasket overlapping a portion of the top surface of the display, the sealing gasket being a separate piece from the resilient body; wherein when the cover plate is coupled to the housing, the sealing gasket creates a tight seal between the display and the sealing gasket to inhibit the penetration of foreign matter into the interior compartment of the housing and the expansion gap in the cover plate accommodates the expansion of the sealing gasket. | 32,208 |
9,460,290 | 1. A computing system comprising: one or more input interfaces configured to receive information from a plurality of computing resources; one or more processors configured to monitor one or more taints associated with the information received from at least one of the plurality of computing resources, the one or more processors including at least: at least one taint vector including a plurality of vector fields operated upon by one or more instructions in parallel to monitor and respond to at least one of a plurality of taints indicative of potential security risk originating from at least one of the plurality of computing resources, the at least one of the plurality of taints independently associated with the at least one of the plurality of computing resources, wherein the plurality of vector fields of one or more of the at least one taint vector include at least: at least one taint bias vector; and response logic operable to monitor the at least one taint vector and respond to a predetermined taint condition in a predetermined manner, wherein the response logic is configured to respond to one or more predetermined instructions in parallel by recursively adding the at least one taint bias vector to the at least one taint vector; wherein the predetermined manner includes one or more of ignoring a security risk event, logging the at least one security risk event, displaying a notification, displaying a warning message, generating an alarm, raising an exception, preventing writing by or to one or more of the plurality of computing resources, trapping one or more operations attempted by one or more of the plurality of computing resources, modifying operating frequency, modifying operating voltage, modifying an operating parameter, performing a system call, terminating a particular process, or ending one or more operations of one or more of the plurality of computing resources. | 30,395 |
8,711,861 | 1. A method of processing a packet comprising: receiving a lookup request including a packet header of a packet and an associated group identifier (GID); generating at least one key based on data of the packet header; comparing the GID against a global definition table to determine at least one table identifier (TID); determining, based on the TID, a subset of processing clusters that are capable of operating rule matching for the packet; selecting one of the processing clusters of the subset based on availability; and forwarding at least one key request to the selected processing cluster, the key request including the at least one key and the at least one TID to initiate rule matching using the key. | 25,813 |
9,578,032 | 1. A system comprising: a memory area associated with a computing device, said memory area storing data shared among a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) including a parent VM and a child VM; and a processor programmed to: | 32,396 |
8,490,722 | 1. A riding-type ground working vehicle comprising: left and right wheels which are main drive wheels independently driven to travel by two respective traction motors, steering control wheels provided separately in a longitudinal direction with respect to the left and right wheels, and a working machine that is driven to perform ground work, the riding-type ground working vehicle further comprising: command value calculating section that calculates two target rotational speed command values of the two respective traction motors based on an acceleration instruction and a turn instruction input by a driver; yaw rate detecting section that detects a yaw rate of the vehicle; target yaw rate calculating section that calculates a target yaw rate based on the acceleration instruction and the turn instruction; correction coefficient acquiring section that acquires two correction coefficients relating to the two respective traction motors based on a deviation between the target yaw rate and a yaw rate detection value; and control section that corrects the two target rotational speed command values by the two correction coefficients, and controls driving of the two traction motors based on the two corrected target rotational speed command values. | 45,669 |
9,077,048 | 1. A cable-type secondary battery, comprising: an inner electrode supporter; and a sheet-form laminate of inner electrode-separation layer-outer electrode, helically wound on an outer surface of the inner electrode supporter, wherein the laminate of inner electrode-separation layer-outer electrode is formed by carrying out compression for the integration of an inner electrode, a separation layer for preventing a short circuit, and an outer electrode, wherein a peel strength between the inner electrode and the separation layer or between the separation layer and the outer electrode is 15 to 300 N/m. | 17,795 |
8,461,375 | 1. A process for continuously preparing higher (meth)acrylic esters (C) in a plant comprising a reaction apparatus and a vacuum evaporation stage for receiving a bottom product remaining after separation of a highly pure ester product, the process comprising: transesterifying methyl(meth)acrylate (A) with a higher alcohol (B) in the presence of a catalyst or catalyst mixture in the reaction apparatus; dividing a bottom effluent from the vacuum evaporation stage into a first portion and a second portion; and recycling the first portion to the reaction apparatus; wherein dividing the bottom effluent from the vacuum evaporation stage comprises selecting a proportion of the bottom effluent that will constitute the first portion based on current catalyst activity. | 28,864 |
9,517,846 | 1. A device for extracting and collecting air conditioning hoses, comprising: a flexible hose ( a storage body ( a tractor unit ( said device ( wherein the storage body ( wherein the extraction and collection means ( | 2,498 |
9,512,670 | 1. A method of protecting at least one part of a structure with a system of modular panels, comprising: forming a plurality of modular panels, each of the modular panels being formed by pulling at least one covering onto a preformed or bent frame, where the covering is made from shade fabric and is pocket-shaped, such that the covering has a first layer, a second layer, a plurality of closed sides adjoining the first layer and the second layer, and at least one open side; and protecting a structure with the modular panels comprising joining two or more of the modular panels into a larger unit using at least one connecting plate assembly, where each connecting plate assembly comprises two connecting plates and a plurality of fasteners, where joining two or more of the modular panels into a larger unit comprises sandwiching one corner of each of the two or more modular panels between the two connecting plates and joining the connecting plates together with the fasteners. | 9,989 |
8,795,551 | 1. A water absorbing material comprising: a waste material having a content of 20 wt % to 90 wt % to a total weight of the water absorbing material, and including two or more chemically distinct plastic materials; and the water absorbing material being granular, and having: the water absorbing material having a multi-layer structure having a granular core portion and a coating layer portion, and the coating layer portion comprising water-soluble powder of a coloring material which is configured to develop a color upon contact with external moisture, and which is directly contained in the coating layer portion. | 36,881 |
9,502,654 | 1. Method of manufacturing a multilayer semiconductor element, said method comprising the steps of: providing a carrier; providing a first device layer on said carrier by solution printing of a first material solution for forming said first device layer; and providing a second device layer by solution printing of a second material solution on said first device layer, said second material solution comprising second device layer material dissolved in a solvent; wherein said method comprises a step of providing prior to providing said second device layer a barrier interlayer for being arranged in between said first and said second device layer, said barrier interlayer comprising an interlayer material being insoluble to said solvent, wherein said interlayer material is a semiconductor material, and said barrier interlayer being arranged for enabling electric interaction between said first device layer and said second device layer. | 45,623 |
8,913,172 | 1. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising: a memory for storing taken images therein; a display including a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is open; a selection image display controller for controlling the display screen to display, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for allowing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and a taken image display controller, wherein, in accordance with the start-up of the information processing apparatus, the taken image display controller selects, in a random manner, a taken image to be displayed from the taken images stored in the memory, and controls the display screen to display the selected taken image while the selection image is displayed. | 9,564 |
9,716,286 | 1. A method of making a monolithic fuel cell device, comprising: sequentially dispensing a first plurality of first electrode sub-layers in paste form; pressing a first plurality of elongate removable physical structures in a spaced-apart parallel orientation on the first plurality of first electrode sub-layers to partially embed the first plurality of elongate removable physical structures in an uppermost sub-layer of the first plurality of first electrode sub-layers; sequentially dispensing a second plurality of first electrode sub-layers in paste form over the first plurality of elongate removable physical structures and uppermost sub-layer of the first plurality of first electrode sub-layers, wherein sequentially dispensing the first and second plurality of first electrode sub-layers is in order of increasing porosity; drying the first and second pluralities of first electrode sub-layers to form a first electrode layer with the first plurality of elongate removable physical structures embedded within with at least one end of each of the first plurality of elongate removable physical structures freely protruding from the first electrode layer; dispensing one or more electrolyte sub-layers over the first electrode layer and drying the one or more electrolyte sub-layers to form an electrolyte layer; sequentially dispensing a first plurality of second electrode sub-layers in paste form over the electrolyte layer; pressing a second plurality of elongate removable physical structures in a spaced-apart parallel orientation on the first plurality of second electrode sub-layers to partially embed the second plurality of elongate removable physical structures in an uppermost sub-layer of the first plurality of second electrode sub-layers; sequentially dispensing a second plurality of second electrode sub-layers in paste form over the second plurality of elongate removable physical structures and uppermost sub-layer of the first plurality of second electrode sub-layers, wherein sequentially dispensing the first and second pluralities of second electrode sub-layers is in order of decreasing porosity; drying the first and second pluralities of second electrode sub-layers to form a second electrode layer with the second plurality of elongate removable physical structures embedded within with at least one end of each of the second plurality of elongate removable physical structures freely protruding from the second electrode layer; forming a laminated multi-layer stack by pressing together the first electrode layer, the electrolyte layer, and the second electrode layer; pulling the first and second pluralities of elongate removable physical structures out of the laminated multi-layer stack to reveal spaced-apart active passages through each of the first and second electrode layers; and thereafter, sintering the laminated multi-layer stack to form an active cell comprising the spaced-apart active passages embedded in and supported by the sintered first and second electrode layers, the active cell having decreasing porosity in the first and second electrode layers in a thickness direction away from the electrolyte layer. | 5,535 |
9,848,102 | 1. A display control apparatus comprising: at least one processer; and a memory, wherein the at least one processer executes instructions stored in the memory to thereby cause following units to function: a display control unit configured to control display of a display unit; a communication unit configured to start wireless communication with a printing apparatus according to a decrease in distance between the display control apparatus and the printing apparatus; and a display switching unit configured to perform a predetermined display related to printing in a case where the communication unit starts communication with the printing apparatus while a content to be printed is displayed on the display unit, and wherein the display control unit is configured to not perform the predetermined display in a case where the communication unit starts communication with the printing apparatus while a content not to be printed is displayed on the display unit. | 35,568 |
8,975,049 | 1. A recombinant E. coli comprising: (a) an acetolactate synthase polypeptide having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:82 and having acetolactate synthase activity; (b) an acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase polypeptide having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:44 and having acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase activity; (c) a dihydroxy-acid dehydratase polypeptide having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:46 and having dihvdroxv-acid dehydratase activity; (d) a 2-keto-acid decarboxylase polypeptide having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:28 and having 2-keto acid decarboxylase activity, wherein the 2-keto-acid decarboxylase can convert α-keto-isovalerate to Isobutyraldehyde; and (e) a NADH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:38 and that converts isobutyraldehyde to isobutanol, and having a disruption of an endogenous adhE gene, or the endogenous adhE gene and an endogenous IdhA gene; and wherein the recombinant | 28,144 |
9,664,096 | 1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the control apparatus comprising: a plurality of cylinders; fuel injection valves configured to inject fuel to each of the plurality of cylinders; a catalyst that is provided in an exhaust passage, the catalyst being configured to purify gas that is emitted from the internal combustion engine; an upstream-side sensor that is arranged upstream of the catalyst, the upstream-side sensor being configured to output an output value corresponding to an actual air-fuel ratio of gas that is emitted from the internal combustion engine; a downstream-side sensor that is arranged downstream of the catalyst, the downstream-side sensor being configured to output an output value corresponding to an actual air-fuel ratio of gas that is emitted from the catalyst; and an electronic control unit configured to: | 26,016 |
9,297,339 | 1. A controller applied to an internal combustion engine including a fuel vapor processing system, which purges and processes collected fuel vapor in intake air at a downstream side of an air flow meter, and an exhaust gas recirculation system, which recirculates some of the exhaust gas to the intake air using intake negative pressure, the controller comprising: an electronic control unit that is programmed to: correct at least one of a volume efficiency or a cylinder intake air amount of the internal combustion engine in accordance with an amount of purge air drawn into the intake air, use an intake air temperature correction amount to correct an ignition timing of the internal combustion engine in accordance with an intake air temperature, and calculate the intake air temperature correction amount using the at least one of the volume efficiency or the cylinder intake air amount that has been corrected by the electronic control unit. | 39,889 |
9,404,129 | 1. A method for producing resveratrol or an oligomeric or glycosidically-bound derivative thereof comprising: a) cultivating a recombinant micro-organism comprising an engineered operative metabolic pathway producing resveratrol or an oligomeric or glycosidically-bound derivative thereof in a culture media comprising a carbon substrate from which the micro-organism can produce resveratrol, wherein the culture media does not require an external source of coumaric acid, and wherein the operative metabolic pathway produces: b) recovering the resveratrol or the oligomeric or glycosidically-bound derivative thereof from the culture media. | 19,179 |
9,671,573 | 1. An optical receptacle which is produced by injection molding, disposed between a plurality of light emitting elements or a plurality of light receiving elements and a plurality of optical transmission members, and configured to optically connect the light emitting elements or the light receiving elements to end surfaces of the optical transmission members, respectively, the optical receptacle comprising: a plurality of first optical surfaces each configured such that light emitted from a corresponding one of the light emitting elements is incident on the first optical surface, or configured to emit light propagating inside the optical receptacle toward a corresponding one of the light receiving elements; a plurality of second optical surfaces each configured to emit the light incident on the first optical surface toward an end surface of a corresponding one of the optical transmission members, or configured such that light from a corresponding one of the optical transmission members is incident on the second optical surface; a third optical surface configured to reflect the light incident on the first optical surface toward the second optical surface, or configured to reflect the light incident on the second optical surface toward the first optical surface; and a plurality of recesses formed on a surface where the plurality of second optical surfaces are disposed, wherein, before release from a mold in the injection molding, a center-to-center distance of an adjacent two of the first optical surfaces and a center-to-center distance of an adjacent two of the second optical surfaces are shorter than a distance between optical axes of light emitted from an oppositely-disposed adjacent two of the light emitting elements, or a distance between optical axes of light emitted from an oppositely-disposed adjacent two of the optical transmission members, and after release from the mold, a center-to-center distance of the adjacent two first optical surfaces and a center-to-center distance of the adjacent two second optical surfaces are shorter than the distance between the optical axes of the light emitted from the oppositely-disposed adjacent two light emitting elements or the distance between the optical axes of the light emitted from the oppositely-disposed adjacent two optical transmission members. | 23,651 |
9,539,598 | 1. A dispenser comprising: a concentrate container for holding a concentrated liquid; a concentrate pump in fluid communication with the concentrate container; an inlet for a diluent; a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the concentrate pump and the diluent inlet wherein the concentrate and diluent are mixed together to form a diluted mixture; a diluted mixture passageway from the mixing chamber to an outlet of the dispenser; an air pump; an air passageway in fluid communication with the diluted mixture passageway; a mixing media; wherein the diluted mixture is mixed with compressed air from the air pump and the air and diluted mixture flow through the mixing media and is dispensed at the outlet as a foam; and wherein movement of the air pump requires presence of diluent. | 48,577 |
9,757,818 | 1. A sacrificial polymer composition comprising: a thermally decomposable polymer comprising repeating units derived from an ester of a dicarboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of oxalic acid, malonic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid and adipic acid and a difunctional tertiary alcohol selected from the group consisting of a compound of formula V and a compound of formula VI: a thermally activated base generator, said thermally activated base generator comprising a cation selected from formula 1, 2, or 3: where each R a carrier solvent selected from acetophenone, α-angelicalactone, γ-butyrolactone, n-butyl acetate, diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, ethyl 3-ethoxypropionate, ethyl lactate, 2-heptanone, methyl isobutyl ketone, γ-octanoic lactone and combinations thereof. | 26,774 |
9,460,472 | 1. A method comprising: creating, by a computer-based journal entry system, journal entries of transaction data based upon predefined journal entry criteria; distinguishing, by the computer-based journal entry system, the transaction data as closed transaction data, in response to the predefined journal entry criteria being executed; and archiving, by the computer-based journal entry system, the closed transaction data. | 34,918 |
8,684,569 | 1. A lens structure for a solid state downlight and arranged for placement between at least one solid state emitter of the solid state downlight and a trim structure, the lens structure comprising: a lower face, an upper face, at least one peripheral edge, and at least one recess defined in the lower face inboard of the at least one peripheral edge; and at least one trim retaining element arranged to retain an upper end portion of a trim structure when the upper end portion is fitted into the at least one recess; wherein the lower face, the upper face, the at least one peripheral edge, the at least one recess, and the at least one trim retaining element are integrally formed of a single continuous light-transmissive material; and wherein the lens structure comprises at least one of the following features (i) and (ii): (i) the at least one trim retaining element is disposed within the at least one recess; and (ii) the at least one trim retaining element comprises multiple trim retaining elements. | 25,328 |
9,574,324 | 1. A work machine comprising: two or more actuators to drive a common drive object, the actuators including at least one hydraulic actuator and one electric actuator; a hydraulic pump for to supply pressurized fluid to the hydraulic actuator; an electric power supply device to supply electricity to the electric actuator; an operating device having a control lever to output, through a single operation via the control lever, an operating signal for concurrently operating the hydraulic actuator and the electric actuator; a controller configured to switch between a plurality of drive modes including a hydraulic-alone drive mode and an electric-alone drive mode, wherein the hydraulic-alone drive mode drives only the hydraulic actuator among the two or more actuators to thereby drive the drive object when the operating device is operated, and the electric-alone drive mode drives only the electric actuator among the two or more actuators to thereby drive the drive object when the operating device is operated; and an input device used by an operator to select, at the operator's request, any one of the plurality of drive modes including the hydraulic-alone drive mode and the electric-alone drive mode, wherein, when one of the hydraulic-alone drive mode or the electric-alone drive mode is selected with the input device, the controller is further configured to switch the drive mode of the drive object in accordance with the drive mode thus selected. | 46,407 |
9,556,091 | 1. A process for making highly purified 1-chloro- 3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFC-1233zd) by the reaction of 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane (240fa) and HF in a reactor at a reactor pressure of from 150 psig to 600 psig wherein the purification of the HCFC-1233zd comprises the sequential steps of: (a) distilling the resulting product stream comprising 1233zd, HCl, HF, and other byproducts are distilled and wherein the bottoms product, rich in HF, is recycled to the reactor; (b) distilling the overhead product from the step (a) distillation column in is fed to a second distillation column to remove the HCl; (c) scrubbing the HCI in the overhead stream of the step (b) distillation with water and recovering as an aqueous solution; (d) phase separating the bottom stream from the step (b) distillation column to recover HF; (e) recycling the HF rich top layer of the phase separation back to the reactor; and (f) scrubbing, drying and distilling the phase separation bottom layer from step (d) to obtain the desired 1233zd at a purity of 99.5% or greater, as measured using gas chromatography. | 40,465 |
9,138,855 | 1. A substrate processing device, comprising: a work table disposed on a plurality of horizontal tracks, wherein the work table is slidably connected to the plurality of horizontal tracks; a motor disposed on the work table; a chuck disposed on top of the motor, wherein the chuck is rotatably connected to the motor; a first spindle unit disposed above the plurality of horizontal tracks; a second spindle unit disposed above the plurality of horizontal tracks; a screw mechanism connected to the first spindle unit or the second spindle unit, wherein the first screw mechanism is configured to displace the first spindle unit and the second spindle unit in a vertical direction perpendicular to the plurality of horizontal tracks; and wherein the first spindle unit drives a first wheel for processing a work piece, wherein the second spindle unit drives a second wheel for processing the work piece, and wherein the chuck turns the work piece, wherein the first spindle unit and the second spindle unit are connected to each other by a pulley and rope system which suspends the first and second spindle units above the plurality of tracks, so that displacement of one spindle up or down in the vertical direction causes the other spindle unit to be displaced down or up, respectively. | 36,026 |
9,604,130 | 1. A method for providing social game play using social network features, the method comprising: receiving, from a first computing device of a first user, first content pertaining to a designation selection selected by the first user of a designated area, the designated area comprising a portion of a playing space of the first user in an online game; sending the first content received from the first user for display in a social network external to the online game to each of a plurality of users having respective social network connections with the first user in the social network; receiving a play request, from each of a second computing device of a second user and a third computing device of a third user, to play in the designated area, the second and the third users being among the plurality of users having respective social network connections with the first user; receiving, from the first computing device of the first user, a respective authorization to each of the second user and the third user to allow access to the designated area by each of the second user and the third user; generating a first additional instance of the designated area and a second additional instance of the designated area, the first and the second additional instances of the designated area having a current state of the designated area within the playing space of an online game; providing, according to the respective authorization, via one or more processors, the second user access to the first additional instance of the designated area and further providing to the third user access to the second additional instance of the designated area; saving for preview by the first user, a first play result selected by the second user for the first additional instance of the designated area and saving a second play result selected by the third user for the second additional instance of the designated area, wherein the first play result comprises a first changed state of the current state of the designated area represented in the first additional instance of designated area and the second play result comprises a second changed state of the current state of the designated area represented in the second instance of the designated area; generating a first social network notification describing the first changed state and a second social network notification describing the second changed state; sending the first and the second social network notifications to the social network external to the online; and receiving a selection by the first user to merge at least one of the first and the second changed states into the current state of the designated area. | 40,751 |
8,829,056 | 1. A method of treating diabetes in a subject in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a substantially enantiomerically pure composition of (+)-(4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2-(3-methylbutanoyl)-5-(3-methylbutyl)-4-(4-methylpentanoyl)cyclopent-2-en-1-one potassium salt. | 22,929 |
9,397,729 | 1. A method of transmitting a signal from an amplifier circuit to an antenna utilizing through-chip coupling, the method comprising: at a first coil on a first integrated circuit (IC) chip of a three-dimensional (3D) IC package, receiving a transmission signal from a processing circuit; wirelessly communicating the transmission signal from the first coil to a second coil on a second IC chip of the 3D IC package, wherein the first coil and the second coil are not in direct contact and wherein the first coil and the second coil vertically overlap, and wherein the first IC chip and the second IC chip form the 3D IC package; and communicating the transmission signal from the second coil to an antenna on the second IC chip. | 37,801 |
8,926,910 | 1. A hydrocarbon trap for reducing cold-start vehicle exhaust emissions consisting essentially of: a monolithic substrate; and an acidic absorption material provided in and/or on said substrate selected from the group consisting of acidic oxides comprising alumina and silica-alumina; superacids comprising sulfated zirconia; a heteropolyacid or a silica-supported heteropolyacid comprising M | 1,884 |
8,404,054 | 1. A method of operating a dishwasher having multiple treating chambers, comprising: a) sensing a soil load in each of the multiple treating chambers; b) determining from the sensed soil loads which of the multiple treating chambers has a lightest soil load to define a treating chamber with the lightest soil load; c) implementing a wash cycle selected for the treating chamber with the lightest soil load by supplying a charge of treating liquid to the treating chamber with the lightest soil load; d) supplying the treating liquid from the treating chamber with the lightest soil load to another one of the multiple treating chambers; and e) implementing another wash cycle selected for the another one of the treating chambers using the treating liquid from the treating chamber with the lightest soil load. | 8,932 |
8,945,309 | 1. In a method comprising cellulose hydrolysis in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement wherein the catalyst comprises (a) a solid support and (b) ruthenium supported on the solid support surface at a dispersion by carbon monoxide adsorption of 0.01 to 0.03. | 8,054 |
8,861,414 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption of a wireless communication device, comprising: reducing, by a receiver in the device, clock rate of a clock during an idle listening period of the device, the reduced clock rate being less than a full clock rate and the clock operating a receiver of the device; detecting, by the receiver, a preamble of a data packet at the reduced clock rate, the data packet received by the receiver during the idle listening period; determining, by the receiver, whether the data packet is intended for the device by correlating data in a preamble of the data packet, where the preamble is comprised of a random sequence of data bits duplicated two or more times and separation between the duplicate sequences is indicative of an address of the device; and restoring, by the receiver, clock rate of the clock to the full clock rate when the data packet is intended for the device. | 11,544 |
9,223,727 | 1. An input-output circuit that connects a USB connector and an internal circuit to each other, the USB connector being configured by five pins including an identification terminal used for identifying a connected accessory device, a data plus terminal and a data minus terminal that form a differential pair, a power supply terminal, and a ground terminal, the input-output circuit comprising: a power supply detecting circuit for determining whether the connected accessory device includes a charger by detecting a feeding of power from outside of the input-output circuit; an identification terminal voltage detecting circuit that detects a voltage of the identification terminal produced by a current provided by the identification terminal voltage detecting circuit being provided to an identification resistance in the connected accessory device; a control unit that controls a charging circuit for charging an electronic device connected to the input-output circuit using the power supply terminal and the ground terminal when the accessory device includes a charger and controls a switching unit in accordance with the connected accessory device based on a detection result acquired through the identification terminal voltage detecting circuit; and a video switch that is inserted into a signal line connecting a video circuit included in the internal circuit and the identification terminal, wherein the USB connector can be connected to a video cable including one video signal line and two stereo audio signal lines, the identification terminal can be connected to the video signal line, and the data plus terminal and the data minus terminal can be connected to the stereo audio signal lines, and when a first voltage representing that the video cable is connected to the USB connector is detected by the identification terminal voltage detecting circuit and then a second voltage representing that the video cable is terminated with specified impedance is detected corresponding to an external display device, the control unit turns on the video switch. | 34,731 |
8,960,343 | 1. A grill shutter device configured to be placed to a grill opening portion of a vehicle body front portion comprising: a shutter mechanism controlling a flow rate of air flowing into a vehicle body from the grill opening portion of the vehicle body front portion by an opening and closing operation; a frame configured to support the shutter mechanism within the grill opening portion; an actuator that is held in the frame and performs the opening and closing driving of the shutter mechanism; a holding structure configured to relatively move the actuator to a front side of the frame, based on a collision load at a time of a vehicle collision; and a cover member that covers a front side of the actuator by being affixed to the frame, wherein the cover member is fixed to the frame by an engagement between a first engagement portion provided on the cover member side and a second engagement portion provided on the frame side, and the engagement between the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion is released based on the collision load. | 25,413 |
9,850,279 | 1. A method of reducing the incidence, severity and/or duration of oral mucositis in a subject who has been exposed to a damaging amount of radiation or chemotherapeutic agents, comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of: a) a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of up to 7 amino acids, said peptide comprising the amino acid sequence of X X1 is R; X2 is I or V, wherein X2 can be N-methylated; X3 is I or V, wherein X3 can be N-methylated; P is proline or a proline analogue; wherein SEQ ID NO: 56 is the first four amino acids at the N-terminus of the peptide, or a pharmaceutical salt, ester or amide thereof and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier, diluent, or excipient; or b) a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence of any of SEQ ID NOs: 5, 7, 10, 14, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35, 63, 64, 66-69, 72, 76, 77, 90 and 92 or a pharmaceutical salt, ester or amide thereof and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient. | 45,141 |
9,851,412 | 1. A method for performance analysis and use management of a battery module in an electric vehicle, wherein the battery module comprises a multitude of interconnected battery cells and a battery management system with a plurality of dedicated analysis/control units (ACUs) that analyze performance of the battery module, the ACUs being assigned to individual battery cells and the ACUs being assigned to battery blocks of the battery module, the method comprising: measuring current and voltage of one or more of an individual battery cell and one or more of the battery blocks; calculating a charge removal from the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks; calculating a charge increase of the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks; determining a remaining charge of the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks based on the charge removal and the charge increase; performing failure monitoring of the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks by comparing the remaining charge and the charge removal with references levels to determine if the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks has reached a predefined level of degradation; based on a determination that the remaining charge of the one or more of the individual battery cells and one or more of the battery blocks is below a threshold value, activating one or more of a spare battery cell and a spare battery block of the battery module to extend the range of the electric vehicle; and transmitting a signal identifying the ACU of the battery block and the battery cell, wherein the signal is transmitted wirelessly, wherein the plurality of dedicated ACUs communicate over a same RF channel using a time domain multiple access scheme. | 14,908 |
9,161,668 | 1. A filter assembly for a vacuum cleaning appliance, the filter assembly comprising: a filter body; a filter mounted on the filter body; a biased coupling member moveable relative to the filter body for coupling the filter assembly to a duct of the vacuum cleaning appliance for receiving an air flow exhausted from the filter assembly, the coupling member comprising an air outlet through which the air flow is exhausted from the filter assembly to an inlet of the duct for receiving the air flow exhausted from the filter assembly; and a sealing member for forming a seal between the filter body and the coupling member. | 19,222 |
9,162,198 | 1. A device for providing a mixture of compressed air and liquid reducing agent, the device comprising: a first inflow duct for reducing agent; a second inflow duct for compressed air; an outlet duct for the mixture of compressed air and liquid reducing agent; a mixing point at which the compressed air and the reducing agent are merged; a mixing duct adjoining said mixing point and connecting said mixing point and said outlet duct; said first inflow duct opening into said mixing point in an axial direction; at least two injection ducts connecting said second inflow duct to said mixing point, said at least two injection ducts opening into said mixing point in a tangential direction in a circumferential segment; and a guide structure disposed between said at least two injection ducts, said guide structure being configured to deflect compressed-air flows entering into said mixing point through said injection ducts into a radial direction relative to a reducing agent flow. | 37,785 |
8,368,239 | 1. A method of operating a converter of a wind energy installation, the converter comprising an inverter which drives a generator via a plurality of phases and an intermediate circuit having an intermediate-circuit voltage between an upper and a lower intermediate-circuit potential, wherein the generator is driven with phase potentials at a variable frequency, the method comprising: calculating a shift value between an extreme phase potential of the phase potentials and one of the upper and the lower intermediate-circuit potentials; determining a separation value between a middle phase potential of the phase potentials and the closest intermediate-circuit potential; and generating an additional voltage using the separation value as an amplitude, wherein the phase potentials are shifted through the shift value and the additional voltage is added to the middle phase potential. | 5,469 |
8,585,523 | 1. A power transmitting mechanism for a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a main clutch, a motor/generator, a transmission, and a final reduction gear which are coaxially disposed, and using powers of the engine and the motor/generator in a combined manner, the power transmitting mechanism for the hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine drive shaft coupled to an engine output shaft via the main clutch; a motor output shaft of the motor/generator rotatably supported separately from the engine drive shaft; a drive shaft brake releasing/fixing the engine drive shaft; a motor-brake releasing/fixing the motor output shaft; and a planetary gear mechanism formed of a ring gear coupled to the motor output shaft, a sun gear coupled to the engine drive shaft, a plurality of planetary gears with which the sun gear and the ring gear are engaged, and a planetary carrier coupled to the transmission and receiving and transmitting orbital motions of the planetary gears, wherein: by fixing the main clutch and releasing the drive shaft brake and the motor-brake, driving forces of the engine and the motor/generator are synthesized in the planetary gear mechanism to be transmitted to the transmission; by fixing the main clutch and the motor-brake and releasing the drive shaft brake, only the driving force of the engine is transmitted to the transmission from the planetary gear mechanism; by releasing the main clutch and the motor-brake and fixing the drive shaft brake, only the driving force of the motor/generator is transmitted to the transmission from the planetary gear mechanism, and the motor/generator is inversely operated when braking a vehicle to apply a regenerative brake; and by putting the engine in an idle state to fix the main clutch and inversely rotating the motor/generator to set an output from the planetary gears to “0”, the vehicle stops, and by changing the rotation of the motor/generator to a forward rotation side, the vehicle starts to move. | 15,867 |
8,369,742 | 1. An image forming agent storage container comprising: a container body that stores an image forming agent, the container body configured to be mounted to an image forming apparatus body; a driven transmission member that is provided along a side face of the container body, wherein a driving force is transmitted to the driven transmission member; an operating member that is rotatably supported on the container body; and a guide part that is provided on the operating member, | 38,121 |
9,091,351 | 1. A gate valve system comprising: a valve body having a bore to allow fluid to pass through the valve body, the valve body further having a cavity defined by substantially parallel valve body innerside walls; a gate operationally disposed within the cavity, wherein the gate has a passage to allow fluid to pass, wherein at least one end of the gate is defined by a radius perimeter; a bonnet removably coupled to a face of the valve body and comprising a connecting end, wherein a portion of an innerside of the bonnet includes a curved surface adapted to mate with the at least one end of the gate defined by the radius perimeter; a first valve stem connected to an upper portion of the gate and a second valve stem connected to a lower portion of the gate; and an actuation mechanism operationally positioned and removably connected to the gate by way of a thru-hole in the bonnet, whereby the actuation mechanism effectuates sufficient translational movement of the gate to substantially permit or to substantially impede fluid flow within the system, and the actuation mechanism comprises a ball-screw drive assembly or a hydraulic stem engaged with the first valve stem, and a bearing cap threadedly engaged with the connecting end of the bonnet for removably connecting the actuation mechanism to the connecting end of the bonnet, wherein the actuation mechanism is configured to be removed and replaced by an operationally different actuation mechanism by detaching the ball-screw drive assembly or the hydraulic stem from the first valve stem, detaching the bearing cap from the connecting end of the bonnet, and attaching the first valve stem to the operationally different actuation mechanism. | 1,696 |
9,712,619 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, an input/output (I/O) command generated by a process, the I/O command directed to a virtual storage provided to a host executing the process, wherein the virtual storage comprises a virtual non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drive that is mapped to a first set of remote NVMe storage devices managed by a first storage server and a second set of NVMe storage devices managed by a second storage server; generating a first new I/O command for the first storage server based on the received I/O command; generating a second new I/O command for the second storage server based on the received I/O command; encapsulating the first new I/O command into a first message; encapsulating the second new I/O command into a second message; sending, by the processing device, the first message to the first storage server; and sending, by the processing device, the second message to the second storage server. | 1,600 |
8,982,373 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a creation unit configured to create a virtual device object corresponding to a driver under control of a second application by using a first application in which a first driver corresponding to an image processing device is selectable; a display unit configured to display the created virtual device object; a handover unit configured to extract the first driver selected by a user with the first application and to hand over the first driver to the second application; a registration unit configured to register the first driver which the handover unit hands over with the virtual device object by using the second application; and an output unit configured to output a file by using the first driver which the registering unit has registered with the virtual device object when the user selects the virtual device object by using the file. | 35,593 |
9,237,564 | 1. A method of reconfiguring one or more physical channels at a user equipment in a wireless communication network, comprising: receiving a reconfiguration message from a network for reconfiguring a user equipment (UE) from a first radio resource control (RRC) state to a second RRC state; receiving a retransmitted protocol data unit of the reconfiguration message; transmitting a reconfiguration complete message indicative of a transition of the UE to the second RRC state; receiving a first acknowledgement from the network acknowledging the reconfiguration complete message; and after the reception of the first acknowledgement, cancelling a pending radio link control (RLC) acknowledgement (ACK) protocol data unit (PDU), wherein the pending RLC ACK PDU corresponds to the retransmitted protocol data unit of the reconfiguration message. | 39,234 |
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