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9,356,589 | 1. An interchannel skew adjustment circuit comprising: a phase adjustment circuit configured to receive a signal of a first channel, delay the signal by a discretely variable delay amount, and output a delayed signal; a channel coupling circuit configured to receive the signal output from the phase adjustment circuit and a signal of a second channel, and detect a phase difference between these two signals; a controller configured to control the delay amount in the phase adjustment circuit based on a result detected by the channel coupling circuit; a PVT variation detection circuit configured to detect PVT variations of the phase adjustment circuit, and output PVT information indicating the PVT variations; and a PVT variation compensation circuit configured to compensate a control value output from the controller to the phase adjustment circuit based on the PVT information to control the delay amount in the phase adjustment circuit, wherein the PVT variation detection circuit includes | 26,445 |
9,163,606 | 1. A hydroelectric system comprising: an outer tube having a top cover and a water inlet; an inner tube having an opening to allow water flow from the outer tube to the inner tube; a movable plate with solid sides and a porous top, said plate spanning the diameter of the inner tube and located within the inner tube to control the flow of water into the inner tube; hydroelectric turbines to capture the energy from falling water flowing into the inner tube; and an outlet for the incoming water. | 15,068 |
9,561,973 | 1. A process removing phosphates from wastewater containing solubilized phosphates, the process comprising the steps of: raising the pH of the wastewater to a pH of less than 8 by adding calcium containing compounds to the wastewater, whereby solubilized phosphates are precipitated and brushite is the predominant mineral in the precipitated phosphates; and removing the precipitated phosphates mixed with a magnesium phosphate, a magnesium ammonium phosphate, biosolids, iron, gypsum, or a combination thereof from the wastewater. | 6,761 |
8,483,660 | 1. A method for controlling access of a User Equipment (UE), by a Mobile Management Entity, in a communication system including a femto Base Station (BS), the method comprising: if the UE is connected to the femto BS, storing Local BreakOut (LBO) service information including information about UEs subscribed to an LBO service provided by the femto BS from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS); if a service request message of the UE through the femto BS is received, determining whether the UE has been subscribed to the LBO service from the LBO service information; and if the UE is subscribed to the LBO service, transmitting, to the femto BS, a message for permitting the femto BS to provide the LBO service to the UE, wherein the LBO service is provided to the UE, LBO traffic data transmitted from the UE is transmitted to an external public Internet network through the femto BS using an Internet Protocol (IP) address allocated by the femto BS. | 2,961 |
9,492,625 | 1. A dry powder inhaler for delivering medicament to a patient, the dry powder inhaler comprising: a housing defining a chamber for receiving a dose of powdered medicament; an inhalation port in fluid communication with the chamber; an airflow inlet at a distal end of the chamber providing fluid communication between the chamber and an exterior of the housing; an elastic planar flutter element in the chamber, the elastic planar flutter element having substantially planar outer surfaces, a tensioned distal end held substantially taut across the chamber proximate to the airflow inlet, and a free proximal end opposite to the distal end and downstream of the airflow inlet; and a dose of powdered medicament coated onto and tightly bound to at least a portion if at least one of the substantially planar outer surfaces of the elastic planar flutter element, wherein an airflow through the chamber induces vibrations in the elastic planar flutter element sufficient to detach the dose of powdered medicament from the at least one of the substantially planar outer surfaces and aerosolize the dose of powdered medicament into the airflow. | 48,378 |
8,613,638 | 1. A dismantling apparatus for a flat-screen TV, applicable to both a large-sized flat-screen TV and a medium/small-sized flat-screen TV, comprising: an inclined workbench having an inclinable receiving surface for receiving the flat-screen TV thereon; and a horizontal workbench having a horizontal receiving surface, an evacuation system which includes a mercury removing means being an activated carbon filter which is adapted and configured to remove and recover mercury, a blower, and a pipe | 30,428 |
8,586,691 | 1. A method for providing a polymer with a terminal block, said method comprising: a) anionically initiating polymerization of a monomer system that comprises at least one type of polyene so as to provide a plurality of living polymer chains, each of said chains comprising polyene mer, b) reacting at least some of said living polymer chains with one or more cyclic compounds so as to provide terminally functionalized living polymer chains, the ring structure of each of said one or more cyclic compounds comprising silicon atoms alternating with O, S or N atoms, and c) reacting said terminally functionalized living polymer chains with a sufficient amount of one or more ethylenically unsaturated functional monomers so as to provide a terminal block that includes up to about 100 mer units derived from said one or more functional monomers, thereby providing said polymer with a terminal block. | 15,802 |
9,139,997 | 1. A gully arrangement comprising: a housing having an inlet at an upper end thereof, a reservoir in a lower region thereof, and a conduit system forming a trap at a side of the housing; and a valve provided in an upper region of the housing and adapted to close the inlet in an event that liquid in the reservoir of the housing rises substantially to a level of the valve, wherein the conduit system comprises an upper outlet conduit communicating directly with the reservoir in the housing at a second level, below the inlet and providing both an upper exit directly from the reservoir and also an outlet from the housing, the upper exit from the reservoir being closed by a removable stopper, and a lower outlet conduit communicating directly with the reservoir in the housing and providing a lower exit directly from the reservoir of the housing at a lower level than the upper exit from the reservoir, and extending in an upwardly inclined direction to communicate with the upper outlet conduit intermediate the upper exit from the reservoir of the housing and the outlet of the upper outlet conduit from the housing, the removable stopper and the upwardly inclined lower outlet conduit forming the trap of the conduit system, between the reservoir and the outlet of the upper outlet conduit from the housing, for preventing an escape of odors into the housing reservoir from a drainage system in which the gully arrangement is installed. | 11,021 |
8,877,068 | 1. A pre-treatment method for ultraviolet light disinfection of water streams having suspended solids in a liquid fraction using ultraviolet light irradiation from a uv light bank with uv light tubes, comprising: a. injecting sulfur dioxide (SO b. removing and disposing of the suspended solids from the acidified liquid fraction fanning recovered treated water, c. passing the recovered treated water between the light tubes to prevent and remove scaling and prevent solids from adhering to the light tubes to provide sufficient exposure to ultraviolet light for disinfection to produce a disinfected recovered treated wastewater, and d. adjusting the pH of the disinfected recovered treated water for reuse. | 7,184 |
8,504,278 | 1. A method of controlling engine operation, the method comprising: entering a catalyst light-off mode; initiating a timer in response to entering the catalyst light-off mode; generating an oxygen sensor signal; when the oxygen sensor signal reaches an oxygen sensor threshold, determining a time period from the timer; and when the time period is greater than a first time threshold, generating a first error signal corresponding to an oxygen sensor heater error. | 23,365 |
9,137,278 | 1. A method for controlling at least one media file, the method comprising: allocating, by a system, allocated bit rates to a media file that comprises a plurality of chunks and is expected to be streamed over a last mile channel that is bandwidth limited; receiving, by the system and from a media streamer, a manifest file for multiple versions of the media file; wherein different version of the media file differ from each other by bit rate; wherein a manifest file associated the media file comprises retrieval information required for retrieving different versions of the media file; receiving by the system a manifest file request from a client that is hosted on a user device, wherein the manifest file request is received from a client and comprises a request to receive retrieval information required for a retrieval of a manifest file associated with a requested media file that is requested by the client; wherein the last mile channel is downstream to the media streamer; wherein the last mile channel is located downstream to the system; wherein the system differs from the user device and the media streamer; wherein the user device differs from the media streamer; wherein the user device is downstream to the last mile channel; selecting by the system a selected version of the media file based on (a) bit rates of the different versions of the requested media file, and (b) a bit rate allocated for a transmission of the requested media file to the client; generating by the system a modified manifest file for the requested media file by removing retrieval information associated with all non-selected versions of the requested media file; wherein the modified manifest file comprises retrieval information required only for a retrieval of a selected version of the requested media file; and sending to the client the modified manifest file. | 34,456 |
8,717,161 | 1. An H2S system for protecting a worker at a worksite by responding to an H2S alarm event at the worksite, the H2S alarm event being a concentration of H2S gas exceeding a predetermined safe limit, the H2S system comprising: a holder; a local monitor responsive to the H2S alarm event, the local monitor having selectively an on state and a lockout state, the local monitor being automatically switched from the on state to the lockout state in response to being connected to the holder, the on state and the lockout state are as follows: in the on state, the local monitor sounds a local audible alarm in response to the H2S alarm event; in the on state, the local monitor emits an alarm signal over a local wireless communication link in response to the H2S alarm event; in the lockout state, the local monitor sounds the local audible alarm in response to the H2S alarm event; and in the lockout state, the local monitor is inhibited from emitting the alarm signal over the local wireless communication link in response to the H2S alarm event. | 7,328 |
9,263,932 | 1. A DC-DC converter for operating in a bypass mode of outputting the input voltage, unchanged, from an output terminal as an output voltage when an input voltage applied at an input terminal is higher than the predetermined voltage and for operating in a boost mode of increasing the input voltage and outputting the output voltage from the output terminal when the input voltage is lower than the predetermined voltage, comprising: an error amplifier for outputting an error between an output voltage and a predetermined voltage; a phase compensation impedance element for performing phase compensation, and for accumulating the error across one end to generate an error voltage; a determination unit for monitoring a voltage output of the error amplifier to determine whether the voltage output of the error amplifier is higher, or lower than a reference voltage according to the predetermined voltage, and for outputting a determination signal indicating results of the determination; and a voltage setting unit comprising: | 9,666 |
9,708,968 | 1. A carburetor for a two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising a circular cylindrical valve hole formed substantially in the middle of a carburetor unit and a rotary valve which is fitted into the valve hole such that a circular cylindrical portion thereof can rotate, wherein the rotary valve is disposed so as to perpendicularly cross a fuel intake path and an air intake path which are formed substantially parallel with respect to each other in the carburetor, and a fuel supply-side bore which controls the flow rate along the fuel intake path and the air supply-side bore which controls the air capacity along the air path pass through part of the cylindrical portion substantially perpendicularly to the axial direction of the rotary valve, wherein an annular recess is formed in part of a circumferential wall of an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion of the rotary valve so as not to correspond to the fuel supply-side bore and the air supply-side bore. | 17,242 |
9,276,238 | 1. An organic light-emitting diode comprising an organic light-emitting diode substrate in which a concave-convex structure is provided in at least a part of a surface, wherein the concave-convex structure is capable of obtaining an atomic force microscope image in which a plurality of dots are dispersed when observed by an atomic force microscope, wherein the concave-convex structure of the organic light-emitting diode substrate is defined by the configuration of a histogram created by a process comprising: measuring a diameter of each of the plurality of dots present in a randomly selected region having an area of 25 μm obtaining a frequency distribution from a number of dots having a diameter corresponding to each of sections obtained by partitioning a diameter range for each 20 nm; calculating a total area of dots, which are present in each of the sections from the frequency distribution; and creating the histogram in which the total area is shown in a Y-axis and the diameter of the dot is shown in an X-axis, the histogram has a plurality of peaks, wherein the plurality of peaks comprise one main peak in which a total area of dots corresponding to a corresponding peak has a maximum value, and one or more sub-peaks in which the total area is 10% or more of the maximum value, and wherein the chromaticity of light emitted from the organic light-emitting diode is in a range of chromaticity coordinates (x, y)=(0.28 to 0.50, 0.29 to 0.45) in a CIE standard colorimetric system. | 36,422 |
8,623,896 | 1. A compound of formula (I) wherein A G L is a single bond, C R R R R Y each R each R each R each R or a salt or N-oxide thereof; wherein the term “aryl” refers to phenyl, naphthalenyl, anthracenyl, indenyl or phenanthrenyl; wherein the term “heterocyclyl” refers to heteroaryl and their unsaturated or partially unsaturated analogues; and wherein the term “heteroaryl” refers to a monocyclic group selected from pyridyl, pyridazinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazinyl, pyrrolyl, pyrazolyl, imidazolyl, triazolyl, tetrazolyl, furanyl, thiophenyl, oxazolyl, isoxazolyl, oxadiazolyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, and thiadiazolyl, or a bicyclic group selected from quinolinyl, cinnolinyl, quinoxalinyl, benzimidazolyl, benzothiophenyl, and benzothiadiazolyl. | 16,063 |
9,105,976 | 1. A linear radio frequency identification antenna, comprising: an insulating material; a shielding material directly connecting with the insulating material to form a closed body; and a conductive wire covered by the closed body such that the conductive wire, the insulating material, and the shielding material together form a linear-shaped body, the insulating material is disposed on a side of the conductive wire, and the shielding material is disposed on another side of the conductive wire. | 40,953 |
9,794,837 | 1. A measurement control apparatus, comprising a processor coupled with a non-transitory storage medium storing executable instructions; wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive measurement configuration information sent by a control node, wherein the measurement configuration information comprises one of a list of first-type cells, a type of first-type cells, a list of second-type cells, a type of second-type cells, hierarchical cell structure (HCS) priorities, a frequency of first-type cells, and a dedicated parameter for evaluating an event trigger threshold; detect one of cell signal quality and signal strength of a cell; determine, according to the measurement configuration information and one of the cell signal quality and signal strength respectively, whether to report an event or a measurement result of the cell to the control node; and skip, when a first-type cell and a second-type cell that are indicated by the measurement configuration information simultaneously exist in an active set, reporting a first event of the first-type cell, wherein the first event of the first-type cell is that signal quality or signal strength of the first-type cell is lower than a predetermined criterion. | 39,292 |
9,471,716 | 1. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process for changing contact condition data used in contact analysis between components, according to a design change, the process comprising: in response to an instruction to replace a first component with a second component by the design change, determining whether contact condition data that correlates a surface of the first component with a surface of a third component that is different from the second component has been set; upon determining that the contact condition data has been set, extracting a surface of the second component, which corresponds to the surface of the first component included in the contact condition data and is to be contacted in the contact analysis with the third component; and changing the contact condition data so as to correlate the extracted surface of the second component with the surface of the third component instead of the surface of the first component. | 14,209 |
8,950,721 | 1. A securing member comprising: an upper piece that is capable of abutting against upper surfaces of two adjacent plate-like modules and extends in a right-left direction; a shaft portion having a single wall and integrally formed with the upper piece that extends downward from a center of the upper piece, both sides of the single wall abutting side surfaces of the adjacent plate-like modules; a lower piece integrally formed with the shaft portion that extends to both sides from a lower end of the shaft portion so as to be larger than the upper piece and has abutment portions which are capable of abutting against lower surfaces of the adjacent plate-like modules on upper portions of the lower piece; and a mounting hole that is formed on the lower piece at one side of both sides with respect to the shaft portion and penetrates through the lower piece in an up-down direction, wherein the lower piece is mounted on a mounting target of the adjacent plate-like modules through the mounting hole in a state where the side surfaces of the adjacent plate-like modules are made to abut against the shaft portion so that the upper piece is lowered to abut against the upper surfaces of the adjacent plate-like modules and the abutment portions of the lower piece abut against the lower surfaces of the adjacent plate-like modules, wherein a bottom surface of the lower piece is curved or bent such that a portion just under the shaft portion is the highest in a state before the securing member is mounted on the mounting target, and if the securing member is mounted, the bottom surface is deformed to be made into a state of being along the mounting target. | 21,734 |
9,581,983 | 1. A method for precisely transporting and positioning vehicle build devices in a manufacturing assembly line using an automated guided cart (AGC), the method comprising the steps of: defining a cart path with a guide path device, the cart path including a first location proximate a build operation area; placing an AGC in communication with the guide path device; engaging at least one vehicle build device with the AGC; supporting a vehicle component by the vehicle build device; selectively and automatically moving the AGC along the cart path to the first location through sensing of the guide path device by a sensor connected to the AGC in communication with a memory device having programmed instructions, a processor and a drive device; and stopping the AGC in the first location thereby precisely dimensionally positioning the vehicle component at the first location without further movement of the vehicle component relative to the vehicle build device. | 46,663 |
9,427,732 | 1. A coated substrate comprising: a substrate; a first washcoat layer comprising: a second washcoat layer comprising: | 3,042 |
8,492,283 | 1. A method for storing and delivering a reticle comprising the steps of: (a) storing at least a first reticle in a housing of a stocker; (b) delivering a first gas to the housing; (c) automatically determining whether a predetermined time out period will have elapsed between a first time when an additional reticle was most recently exposed to a second gas different from the first gas and a second time when the additional reticle is scheduled to be used to process a wafer, wherein the timeout period is an amount of time after which the first reticle must be exposed to the second gas before using the first reticle to process the wafer; (d) automatically delivering at least one reticle pod having the additional reticle into an enclosure having a separate ambient environment within the housing of the stocker before the timeout period elapses, if step (c) determines that the time out period will have elapsed between the first and second times; (e) delivering the second gas to the enclosure; and (f) automatically retrieving the reticle pod from the enclosure. | 44,059 |
8,903,938 | 1. A method for a computing system that hosts multiple virtual machine nodes to enhance access of the hosted virtual machine nodes to remote data, the method comprising: under control of a node manager software system that is executing on the computing system to manage operations of the multiple virtual machine nodes, | 3,365 |
9,529,419 | 1. A switching element, comprising: a plurality of interfaces connected with a processing pipeline and a packet buffer; a clock generator connected with the processing pipeline and the packet buffer, the clock generator configured to operate at a determined speed; where the determined speed of the clock generator is adjusted according an operating state of the interfaces; and a memory configured to store a hardware forwarding database to store packet forwarding information for packets received at the interfaces, at least a portion of the hardware forwarding database configured to be powered down in accordance with the determined speed of the clock generator being adjusted and the at least a portion of the hardware forwarding database being duplicated in another memory. | 40,854 |
9,384,907 | 1. A conductive electrode for an electrical energy storage system containing an aqueous electrolytic solution, said electrode comprising a metallic current collector and an active material, said current collector comprising a protective conductive layer placed between said metallic current collector and said active material, characterized in that said protective conductive layer consists essentially of: between 30% and 85% in a proportion by weight of dry matter of a copolymer matrix, said copolymer comprising vinyl chloride units and/or vinyl acetate units and/or carboxylic acid groups; and between 70% and 15% in a proportion by weight of dry matter of conductive fillers, in addition to the proportion by weight of dry matter of copolymer in order to achieve 100% of a total weight of said protective conductive layer. | 7,556 |
9,744,574 | 1. Apparatus for processing kitchen waste, the kitchen waste comprising food waste, the apparatus comprising: an inlet for receiving the kitchen waste; a comminuter to comminute the received waste to provide comminuted waste; a dewatering device to dewater the comminuted waste to provide dewatered comminuted waste; a compressor to compress the dewatered comminuted waste; and an outlet to provide processed waste ready for collection, wherein the inlet has a lid moveable between a closed position and an open position and the inlet communicates with a hopper having an outlet, the hopper outlet communicating with the comminuter by a door mechanism, and wherein the door mechanism and the lid are interlocked such that the door mechanism opens to supply food waste to the comminuter only when the lid is in the closed position and such that the lid is openable to allow a user to add food waste into the hopper only when the door mechanism is closed. | 15,901 |
9,137,890 | 1. A wiring board comprising: a first insulating layer; a plurality of wiring patterns on the first insulating layer so as to be spaced apart from each other; a plating layer on at least one of the wiring patterns; a second insulating layer containing silicone therein and having an opening, wherein an outermost surface of the plating layer is exposed from the opening and serves as a connection pad; and a silica film on the outermost surface of the plating layer. | 4,115 |
9,320,424 | 1. An image display apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit that obtains a first moving image and a second moving image, first pulse data and second pulse data, and a wide field of view image, the first moving image and the second moving image being captured at different imaging positions of a fundus and being respectively associated with the first pulse data and the second pulse data based on a biomedical signal obtained in capturing the moving image, and the wide field of view image being obtained by capturing an area including the imaging positions of the first moving image and the second moving image; a synchronous unit that executes processing for synchronizing display timing of the first moving image and the second moving image based on the first pulse data and the second pulse data; and a display control unit that synchronously displays the first moving image and the second moving image on the wide field of view image on a display unit based on the display timing. | 49,863 |
9,828,868 | 1. A seal segment comprising: a flapper seal having a first surface and a second surface; a wire mesh acting as a hinge for the flapper seal, the wire mesh including: a spring comprising: a bracket including: | 38,872 |
8,414,862 | 1. A process to form Cu 2 ZnSn(chalcogen) 4 , comprising heating to a temperature of about 100° C. to about 500° C. a composition comprising: a) an ionic liquid; b) a copper source; c) a zinc source; d) a tin source; and e) a chalcogen source; wherein the molar ratio of Cu:Zn:Sn:chalcogen is about 2:1:1:4 to about 2:1:1:50. | 251 |
8,980,089 | 1. A process to treat biodegradable residual waters using a bioreactor for high-rate anaerobic ponds, HRAPB, characterized because the process comprises the following stages: a) Placing into contact an entering residual water or substrate with an active biological bed within a mix chamber; b) Translating the residual water to a transition zone where the zone is capable of changing the direction of the incoming residual water to horizontal without substantially disturbing the water's kinetic energy; and c) Sedimenting the residual water from the transition zone in a sedimentation zone with low horizontal velocities and flow in laminar regime. | 28,939 |
9,718,960 | 1. A process for producing articles, the process comprising at least one step of mixing in a molten state a polyamide material with a safety airbag residue powder, wherein said residue is based on a polyamide comprising a silicone coating, and wherein said powder is a micrometric powder having a particle size D 50 of between 50 μm and 400 μm, further comprising: forming granules from the mixture of polyamide material with the safety airbag residue powder; and forming articles from the granules by at least one of: molding, injection molding, injection blow-molding, extrusion, extrusion blow-molding or spinning. | 42,438 |
9,071,416 | 1. A system comprising: a nonce module configured to an encryption module configured to encrypt, without reusing a value of the packet number, more than 2 | 47,856 |
8,618,273 | 1. A polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide fragment of the REIC/Dkk-3 protein, wherein the polypeptide fragment has apoptosis activity and the polynucleotide consists of a nucleotide sequence encoding any of the following polypeptides: (i) a polypeptide consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4; (ii) a polypeptide consisting of SEQ ID NO: 6; (iii) a polypeptide consisting of amino acid 1 to any of amino acids 39 to 78 of the amino acid sequence of the REIC/Dkk-3 protein as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the polynucleotide is a cDNA. | 33,973 |
8,971,417 | 1. A method for generating a higher-layer stream in a multilayer video encoding system in which a lower layer uses a codec that is different from a codec used by a higher layer simultaneously, the method comprising: including, in a higher-layer stream of the higher layer, an identifier for identifying a codec to be used for decoding the higher-layer stream; and including, in the higher-layer stream, information indicating features of the higher-layer stream and information indicating a relationship between the higher-layer stream and a lower-layer stream of the lower layer. | 28,861 |
9,494,480 | 1. A water parameter use and monitoring apparatus comprising: A base station apparatus connected to a main water supply means; said base station having a plurality of joint means including an input cold or ambient joint means engaged to an output of a cold/ambient, or alternately a joint means including a cold and hot water near or at the water supply source; said base station apparatus designed to be installed prior to any distribution lines within a residence or commercial building; electrical circuitry including one or more microprocessors contained with said base station apparatus; a power source connected to said electrical circuitry; one or more flow rate sensors means in close proximity to said water supply means, said one or more flow sensor means in electrical communication with said electrical circuitry; one or more pressure sensors in close proximity to said water supply means, said one or more pressure sensors in electric communication with said electrical circuitry; a temperature sensing means, said temperature sensing means in electrical communication with said electrical circuitry; said base station capable of monitoring and processing the water flow, water energy and/or water quality data or information obtained from the one or more flow rate sensors, one or more pressure sensor data or information, and the temperature sensing means data or information; one or more wireless electrical communication means, said one or more wireless electrical communication means having the capability to transfer water parameter, water energy and/or water quality information and/or data, one or more pressure sensor data or information, and the temperature sensing means data or information said one or more wireless communication means utilizing a router/server or cellular technology to connect and transferring said water parameter, water energy and/or said water quality information and/or data to the internet; and said one or more wireless electrical communication means utilizing encrypted, authentication, integrity and/or non-repudiation format technology to securely provide water use, water energy and/or water quality information and/or data in a confidential format. | 2,068 |
9,374,193 | 1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a processing system configured to determine a rate for receiving channel state information; and a transmitter configured to transmit a frame comprising a control field indicating the determined rate and at least one field indicating that at least a portion of channel state information is requested, wherein at least a first segment of the channel state information was received in a previous frame and wherein the at least one field comprises at least a first field indicating a number of segments of the channel state information remaining to be received in one or more subsequent frames. | 35,785 |
8,997,049 | 1. A method implemented with a processor for debugging software, comprising: identifying software code that needs to be debugged; performing a configuration so that any portion of the software code is capable of executing with a compiled version or an interpreted version; and running the software by executing a first portion of the software using the compiled version and executing a second portion of the software using the interpreted version, wherein debugging occurs during execution of the second portion using the interpreted version and not during execution of the first portion using the compiled version; wherein an address is changed between the compiled version and the interpreted version to perform a switch in execution between these versions, by using assembly language to change the address in an executable or library. | 12,688 |
8,526,346 | 1. A method comprising: determining, at an access point in a wireless communication system, that a plurality of wireless network devices of the wireless communication system are communicatively connected to the access point; determining a number of power save intervals to implement in each beacon interval during a power save communication mode of the wireless communication system based, at least in part, on a number of wireless network devices that are communicatively connected to the access point, each of the power save intervals providing opportunities for the wireless network devices to receive trigger frames from the access point requesting transmission of uplink data frames; determining a trigger frame transmission sequence for each of the power save intervals, the trigger frame transmission sequence indicating an order according to which the access point communicates with each of the plurality of wireless network devices communicatively connected to the access point during each of the power save intervals, wherein a first trigger frame transmission sequence for a first power save interval is different than a second trigger frame transmission sequence for a second power save interval; and transmitting a beacon frame to initiate a beacon interval, the beacon frame comprising an indication of a duration of each of the power save intervals; transmitting, in accordance with the trigger frame transmission sequence for a current power save interval, a trigger frame to at least a first wireless network device of the plurality of wireless network devices to request transmission of uplink data frames from the first wireless network device. | 4,649 |
8,611,594 | 1. An electronic device for interacting with a plurality of virtual avatars, comprising a camera, communications circuitry, and control circuitry, the control circuitry operative to: direct the camera to capture an image of a tag; retrieve locally stored information defining a first virtual avatar; direct the communications circuitry to receive information defining a second virtual avatar provided by another electronic device; display the first and second virtual avatars using a coordinate system corresponding to the tag; receive an input providing an instruction for manipulating at least one of the first and second virtual avatars; and change the display of the at least one of the first and second virtual avatars to reflect the received instruction for manipulating the at least one of the first and second avatars. | 34,387 |
9,815,456 | 1. A vehicle system comprising: a controller programmed to, responsive to a motor coil temperature less than a coil temperature threshold, a transmission oil temperature greater than an oil temperature threshold, a motor phase current having a value other than zero, and a change in the motor coil temperature less than a change threshold, output to a display a motor coil temperature sensor fault without signal guard band use to improve sensor resolution and accuracy. | 14,332 |
9,840,165 | 1. A method for controlling and maintaining optimal traction between wheels of a vehicle equipped with one or more drive wheels electrically powered to drive the vehicle and a drive surface on which said vehicle is driven comprising: a. equipping a vehicle with one or more electric drive motors controllable to translate torque through one or more vehicle drive wheels to drive said vehicle on a drive surface, and providing a source of electric power supplying electric current to the one or more electric drive motors through one or more inverters, a vehicle operator input in communication with the one or more inverters and with a processor and a controller; b. programming the processor to automatically select a motor model torque/speed curve for the one or more electric drive motors that defines optimal vehicle speed and traction on the drive surface and produces a motor commanded torque at an expected rotor speed for the optimal vehicle speed and traction on the drive surface as defined by the motor model torque/speed curve; c. communicating a vehicle operator input comprising at least desired vehicle speed, motor commanded torque from desired vehicle speed, rotor speed, motor stator temperature, and available inverter voltage to the processor and setting the motor commanded torque at the expected rotor speed corresponding to the selected motor torque/speed curve in response to the communicated vehicle operator input; d. automatically determining a maximum electric current to be supplied to the one or more electric drive motors to produce the motor commanded torque at the expected rotor speed to drive the one or more drive wheels on the drive surface; e. automatically controlling the supply of electric current from the source of electric power to direct the determined maximum electric current to the one or more inverters in accordance with the selected motor torque/speed curve, maintaining the maximum electric current, and driving the vehicle with optimal traction on the drive surface; and f. when the ground surface is icy and traction between at least one of the one or more drive wheels and the drive surface is lost, applying an amount of electric current to the one or more electric drive motors sufficient to melt ice under the at least one of the one or more drive wheels with heat generated by operation of the one or more electric drive motors. | 26,893 |
8,384,363 | 1. A DC-to-DC buck converter, comprising: an inductor coupled between an input terminal and one end of a capacitor to conduct an inductor current to the capacitor to produce an output voltage across the capacitor and provide a varying range of load current; a first switch connecting the input terminal to a voltage source; a second switch connecting the input terminal to ground; at least one switch from said first switch and said second switch comprising a self isolated switch; a control circuit controlling the first and second switches and opening both the first and second switches together in order to reduce an increase in the output voltage caused by a substantial reduction in the load current, wherein, in normal operation, said control circuit provides a normal operating sequence to alternatively connect the input terminal to either the voltage source or to ground in response to the output voltage to provide the varying range of load current; and a reverse bias bypass circuit externally connected across the second switch, said reverse bias bypass circuit limiting voltage across the second switch when the input terminal exhibits a reversed or negative voltage while current through the inductor adjusts to the substantial reduction in the load current. | 44,552 |
9,605,648 | 1. An air-blower dual-energy-extraction wave and tidal power generation device, comprising: an air blower mechanism, which comprises: a housing, which comprises a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening; a piston, which is arranged in the housing and defines an upper chamber and a lower chamber in the housing; a connecting rod, which has a first end connected to the piston; and a push member, which is arranged outside the housing and connected to a second end of the connecting rod; a first conduit, which comprises a first aperture, a second aperture, a third aperture, and a fourth aperture, the first aperture being connected to and in communication with the first opening of the housing, the second aperture being connected to and in communication with the second opening of the housing, the third aperture being adapted to receive gas or liquid; a second conduit, which has a first end connected to and in communication with the third opening of the housing and a second end adapted to receive gas or liquid; a first check valve, which is arranged in the first conduit between the first aperture and the third aperture; a second check valve, which is arranged in the first conduit at the second aperture; a third check valve, which is arranged in the second conduit; a fourth check valve, which arranged in the first conduit between the first aperture and the second check valve and the fourth aperture; a bracket, which supports the air blower mechanism thereon to allow the push member of the air blower mechanism to move with respect to the bracket; and a power generation mechanism, which comprises: an gas accumulation, constant-pressure, and pressure-regulating barrel, which is connected to and in communication with the fourth aperture of the first conduit to receive and accumulate the gas or the liquid and comprises a third conduit; and a vane wheel power generator, which is arranged beside the third conduit of the gas accumulation, constant-pressure, and pressure-regulating barrel; wherein the push member of the air blower mechanism is adapted to be driven by tides and waves to have the piston that is coupled to the push member selectively draw the gas or the liquid into the upper chamber and the lower chamber of the housing so that the gas or the liquid is accumulated and stored in the gas accumulation, constant-pressure, and pressure-regulating barrel for subsequent release to drive the vane wheel power generator to rotate for generating electrical energy; wherein the housing of the air blower mechanism has an inside surface that comprises: a metallic layer; an epoxy resin layer, which is arranged on an outer surface of the metallic layer; and a plastic sheet layer, which is arranged on an outer surface of the epoxy resin layer; wherein the metallic layer serves as an inner lining and a metallic layer receives the piston to slidably fit therein. | 35,136 |
9,284,681 | 1. An adjustable iron holder for supporting, storing, and draining an electric steam iron, comprising: an outer housing having an elongate vertical rear wall, laterally opposed side walls, and a storage compartment at a lower end thereof; a removable drain receptacle configured to be slidably received in said outer housing storage compartment for collecting and holding water drained from the iron or which may leak from the iron; a generally rectangular iron holding plate having a rear wall, laterally opposed side walls, and a bottom wall configured to removably receive and support the steam iron therein in either a toe down or toe up position; said iron holding plate pivotally connected at a lower end to said outer housing so as to be selectively movable relative to a vertical axis for optimal draining of the iron supported therein in a toe down position; and angular adjustment means disposed between said outer housing and said iron holding plate for adjusting and releasably retaining said iron holding plate and the iron supported therein in a toe down position at a selected angle relative to a vertical axis to facilitate optimal draining of water from the iron supported therein. | 23,056 |
9,401,673 | 1. A control apparatus for a synchronous rotary machine, the rotary machine comprising a rotor having P pole pairs, where P is a positive integer, and a stator having S slots, where S is a positive integer equal to 3 or greater, the stator wound with stator windings of respective phases; wherein designating a prescribed value as a value obtained by multiplying a lowest common multiple K of the number of slots S and double the number of pole pairs P by a positive integer, designating a value obtained by multiplying a sum of the prescribed value and the number of slots S by a mechanical angular velocity of the rotor, and a value obtained by multiplying a difference between the prescribed value and the number of slots S by the mechanical angular velocity of the rotor, as respective suppression-object angular velocities, and designating a first angular velocity and a second angular velocity as respective prescribed angular velocities, the first angular velocity being obtained by multiplying a sum of the prescribed value and the number of pole pairs P by the mechanical angular velocity of the rotor and the second angular velocity being obtained by multiplying a difference between the prescribed value and the number of pole pairs P by the mechanical angular velocity of the rotor, the control apparatus comprises current passing circuitry configured for passing fundamental-frequency sinusoidal-waveform currents through the stator windings, each fundamental-frequency sinusoidal-waveform current having superimposed thereon at least one harmonic-frequency current having an angular velocity equal to a prescribed angular velocity, for thereby suppressing a varying electromagnetic force acting on the rotor and having an angular variation velocity equal to a suppression-object angular velocity. | 5,457 |
9,759,181 | 1. A wind turbine blade having on at least a part of the outer surface thereof, as the outermost layer, a polyurethane-based coating, said coating including a polyurethane binder prepared from: (a) a base component consisting of one or more polyols, said one or more polyols having an average functionality of at least 2.0 and less than 8.0; wherein at least 50% by weight of said one or more polyols have aliphatic polyester segments included therein and have a molecular weight of 300-3,000 g/mol; and (b) a curing agent component consisting of one or more polyisocyanates, said one or more polyisocyanates having an average functionality of less than 3.0; wherein at least 50% by weight of said one or more polyisocyanates are selected from: wherein the polyurethane-based coating has a viscosity of 150-15,000 mPa·s at application to the wind turbine blade as measured at 25° C. in accordance with ISO 2555:1989. | 48,711 |
8,821,354 | 1. An abdominal muscle and cycle workout machine comprising: a bench including a cycling apparatus at a first distal end, and handlebars provided at a distance from a second distal end such that an end user simultaneously conducts an abdominal muscle exercise and a cycling exercise; wherein said bench is elevated off of a ground surface; wherein the bench is further defined as a first bench member and a second bench member; wherein the first bench member is adjacent the first distal end whereas the second bench member is adjacent to the second distal end; wherein the first bench member includes padded structure atop thereof; wherein the second bench member includes a back support resting thereon, and in mechanical communication with the handlebars such that upon rotation of said handlebars, the back support translates from a flat position to an elevated and angled position, and vice versa; wherein handlebar supports extend from opposing sides of the bench and each support a handlebar hinge atop thereof; wherein the handlebars are further defined as a left handlebar and a right handlebar attach at a top position of the handlebar hinges, respectively; wherein the handlebar hinges and the left handlebar and right handlebar rotate with respect to the handlebar supports; wherein the back support attaches to the handlebar hinges via a linkage member; wherein the linkage member is a “U” shaped member that extends from the handlebar hinges around to a rear surface of the back support; wherein the linkage member is secured to the back support, and translates the back support from said flat position to said elevated and angled position whilst the left handlebar and right handlebar rotate with respect to the handlebar support, and which collectively enable the end user to conduct said abdominal crunch exercise; wherein the first bench member includes curve contours along opposing sides; wherein the curve contours enables said end user to manipulate their legs when pedaling the cycling apparatus. | 20,341 |
8,845,795 | 1. A water recovery device comprising: a desiccant stack including a chamber defining an airflow path therein, the desiccant stack including a plurality of desiccant trays, each desiccant tray including a desiccant media cartridge and an amount of liquid desiccant placed within the desiccant tray and absorbed by a media material of the media cartridge, the desiccant media cartridge having a media material, the media material being placed in a configuration having a plurality of folded sections and a plurality of gaps between the folded sections, the media material being oriented such that an airstream flowing through the chamber flows substantially parallel to a direction of extension of the folded sections of the media material; a condenser communicating with the desiccant stack; and a heat exchanger communicating with the desiccant stack for providing heat to the desiccant stack; wherein the water recovery device is operated in a charge cycle for circulating ambient air through the chamber to remove water vapor by the liquid desiccant and retaining water vapor in the chamber, the water recovery device being further operated in an extraction cycle to remove the retained water vapor within the chamber, the condenser providing a cooling source to condense the water vapor and thereby produce an amount of water condensate. | 42,043 |
8,894,527 | 1. A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle, comprising: an input shaft receiving engine torque; a first planetary gear set disposed on the input shaft, and including: a second planetary gear set disposed on the input shaft, and including: a first motor/generator directly connected to the first sun gear; and a second motor/generator directly connected to the second sun gear. | 19,290 |
9,404,975 | 1. A battery monitoring system, comprising: an integrated circuit that includes a voltage measurement unit measuring a cell voltage value of each of a plurality of battery cells connected in series; a plurality of voltage measurement lines that connect positive and negative electrodes of the plurality of battery cells and the integrated circuit; and a control circuit that monitors state of each of the plurality of battery cells, based on the cell voltage value measured by the voltage measurement unit, wherein: the integrated circuit includes a pseudo voltage generation unit that generates a pseudo voltage; the voltage measurement unit includes: the control circuit inputs the pseudo voltage, instead of the voltage between the pair of voltage measurement lines, to input terminals of the selection circuit and diagnoses state of selection by the selection circuit based on a voltage value detected by the detection circuit; a resistor is provided to each of the plurality of voltage measurement lines: the integrated circuit includes a discharge circuit that discharges the battery cell so that a discharge current flows in the resistor, as the pseudo voltage generation unit; and the control circuit diagnoses the state of selection by the selection circuit, based on a first voltage that is detected by the detection circuit when discharge by the discharge circuit is not executed and a second voltage that is detected by the detection circuit when discharge by the discharge circuit is executed. | 4,164 |
8,481,212 | 1. A non-aqueous secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a separator, the negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material comprising a graphitic carbon material and a composite in which a carbon coating layer is formed on a surface of a core material comprising Si and O as constituent elements, the composite having a carbon content of 10 to 30 mass %, the composite having an intensity ratio I a half-width of a (111) diffraction peak of Si being less than 3.0° when a crystallite size of an Si phase contained in the core material is measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuKα radiation. | 9,274 |
9,521,423 | 1. A video data decoding apparatus having a lossless mode and a lossy mode, the apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to detect a control flag associated with at least a part of an encoded image for decoding, enable, when in the lossless mode of operation and the control flag is enabled, sample-based angular intra-prediction but disable edge filtering of prediction samples, disable, when in the lossless mode of operation and the control flag is disabled, sample-based angular intra prediction but enable edge filtering of prediction samples, enable, when in the lossy mode of operation and the control flag is enabled, residual differential pulse code modulation coding and edge filtering of prediction samples, and disable, when in the lossy mode of operation and the control flag is disabled, residual differential pulse code modulation coding but enable edge filtering of prediction samples. | 3,469 |
9,106,372 | 1. A method of requesting a plurality of different characteristic indicators from a second communications apparatus in a wireless communications network comprising a first communications apparatus and a plurality of such second communications apparatuses which communicate with the first communications apparatus, the method comprising; the first communications apparatus transmitting a single standing instruction to the second communications apparatus defining at least two interleaving patterns, each interleaving pattern specifying two of the characteristic indicators and defining a pattern according to which the second communications apparatus is to interleave the specified two characteristic indicators in a single feedback channel allocated to the second communications apparatus, the pattern indicating an interval between characteristic indicators and a number of transmissions of one of the two specified characteristic indicators between transmissions of the other of the two specified characteristic indicators, wherein the at least two interleaving patterns differ from each other in terms of how frequently each characteristic indicator is to be sent, the single standing instruction further defining a selection signal to be transmitted from the first communications apparatus to the second communications apparatus according to which the second communications apparatus is to select one of the interleaving patterns. | 44,325 |
8,608,106 | 1. Aircraft having an aircraft cooling system, which comprises: a cooling element, a cooling air supply channel that connects a cooling air supply opening formed in the region of a tail face of the aircraft to a cooling air inlet of the cooling element, and a cooling air outlet channel, characterized in that the cooling element comprises a housing, the cooling air inlet formed in the housing and a plurality of heat exchangers, which are disposed on lateral surfaces of the housing and through which cooling air supplied through the cooling air inlet may flow, and that the cooling air outlet channel connects the heat exchangers of the cooling element to a cooling air discharge opening that is disposed in a region of a fuselage lower shell, upon which, while the aircraft is flying, a lower pressure acts than upon the cooling air supply opening disposed in the furthest aft region of the tail face of the aircraft. | 23,431 |
8,604,739 | 1. A controller for an axial gap-type motor, comprising: a rotor having a permanent magnet; a first stator and a second stator oppositely disposed in an axial direction of revolution of the rotor with the rotor being interposed therebetween; an electrification control portion configured to: a terminal voltage detection portion configured to detect a terminal voltage of the first armature winding of the first stator, wherein the electrification control portion is further configured to supply the field current to the second armature winding of the second stator to weaken the magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnet of the rotor when the terminal voltage of the first armature winding of the first stator is equal to or greater than a defined value as the rotor is revolving. | 23,957 |
8,972,123 | 1. A powershift transmission system comprising: an engine shaft operably connected to at least one engine clutch, the engine shaft driving operational rotation of an engine; a transmission shaft operably connected to at least one transmission clutch, the transmission shaft mechanically linked to one or more gears responsible for rotation of the transmission shaft; a differential comprising at least one axle and at least one differential clutch; and at least one controller; wherein the at least one controller engages and disengages each of the at least one engine clutches and at least one transmission clutches simultaneously or independently, wherein a combination of the at least one engine clutch with the at least one transmission clutch and the at least one differential clutch corresponds to a gear ratio within the system to control speed and direction of axle rotation; wherein, when the at least one differential clutch becomes engaged, the at least one axle rotates at least one of a speed and direction that corresponds to the gear ratio; and wherein the at least one controller is configured to stop movement of the at least one axle while simultaneously allowing the engine shaft to freely rotate in the absence of activation of a brake system. | 196 |
9,222,572 | 1. A belt driving mechanism, comprising: a plurality of pulleys including a driving pulley and a driven pulley; a belt wound around the pulleys and made of a metallic material; and a blower unit, wherein at least one of the pulleys includes an air supply portion for supplying air from an interior of the at least one of the pulleys toward the belt wound around the pulleys, wherein the at least one of the pulleys formed with the air supply portion includes a bulging portion formed on an entire outer circumferential surface of the at least one of the pulleys so as to bulge radially outward from the at least one of the pulleys, wherein the air supply portion includes a groove formed on the outer circumferential surface of the at least one of the pulleys to extend in a circumferential direction of the at least one of the pulleys, a plurality of openings formed on a side surface of the at least one of the pulleys at intervals in the circumferential direction of the at least one of the pulleys, and a communication path which brings the plurality of openings and the groove into communication with each other, wherein the blower unit introduces air into the plurality of openings, wherein the blower unit includes a fan and a duct disposed such that one end of the duct is connected to the fan and another end of the duct faces the side surface of the at least one of the pulleys, and wherein, when the at least one of the pulleys formed with the air supply portion is under rotation, the openings face the other end of the duct one after another, at which time the air is introduced into each of the openings. | 15,953 |
8,578,957 | 1. A breakaway connector for connecting a hose, a fitting, a nozzle or other attachment, comprising: a body and an opposite insert, said insert positioning within said body wherein said body and said insert present a smooth exterior, said body and said insert being generally hollow cylinders for passage of fluid; said body having a first collar defining the width of said body and said insert having a second collar defining the width of said insert, each of said collars having at least two flat faces adapted to receive a tool, each collar having a diameter greater than the diameter of said body and insert said second collar having the same diameter as said first collar; a chamber extending within said body to a throat, a second chamber extending within said insert to a second throat, said second throat opening to a third chamber receiving said body, each of said chambers and each of said throats adapted to pass fluids there through at minimal adverse effects to flow; a biased check valve centered within said throat of said body and a biased check valve centered within said second throat of said insert and a pin positioned and centered between said check valves wherein upon application of sufficient axial force to said connector said pin of said body check valve moves away from insert check valve and thus said check valves close immediately; at least one coil pin joining said first collar and said second collar, to align said body and insert during assembly; at least three shear pins extending radially between said body and said insert; said body and said insert each have threading thereon outwardly of said first collar and said second collar; said body having an open end and threading extending inwardly from said end to a first notch, said first collar locating inwardly from said first notch, an outer extension, generally cylindrical extending inwardly from said first notch opposite said threads, said outer extension having a length at least twice that of said first collar, an inner extension of a lesser diameter than said outer extension, generally cylindrical in shape, said inner extension generally centered within said outer extension, an inner notch forming between said outer extension and said inner extension for receiving said insert, and said inner extension having a centered aperture for fluid passage; said body having a chamber in communication with said end generally extending for the length of the threads to said first collar and into said outer extension, said throat in communication with said chamber opposite said end, said throat having a wider diameter than that of said chamber and a narrow diameter within said body proximate said inner extension; said outer extension having at least one aperture there through for receiving at least one of said shear pins; said insert having an open end and threading extending inwardly from said end to a second notch, said second collar locating inwardly from said second notch, a wall, generally cylindrical extending inwardly from said second collar opposite said second notch, said wall having a length at least twice that of said second collar and a diameter approximately that of said inner notch of said body, a third chamber of a lesser diameter than said wall, generally cylindrical in shape and centered within said insert, said third chamber receiving said inner extension of said body, said third chamber having a centered aperture for fluid passage; said insert having a second chamber in communication with said end generally extending for the length of the threads to said second collar and into said wall, a second throat in communication with said second chamber opposite said end, said second throat having a wider diameter than that of said second chamber and a narrow diameter within said insert proximate said third chamber; said wall having at least one aperture there through for receiving at least one of said shear pins; at least an O-ring and a gasket fitting over said threads, next to said collars, for locating within said first and second notches; and said body and said insert each having said external threading thereon outwardly of said first and second collars to accommodate the connection of one of a hose, fitting, or nozzle when assembled. | 11,556 |
8,754,491 | 1. A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device, comprising: a magnetic stack, comprising a reference layer adjacent to a tunnel barrier, the tunnel barrier adjacent to a free layer, and the free layer adjacent to a metal spacer; an insulating magnet; a n-type Peltier material thermally coupled to the insulating magnet and the magnetic stack; and a p-type Peltier material thermally coupled to the insulating magnet and the magnetic stack; a first metal lead, a second metal lead, a third metal lead, and a fourth metal lead; wherein the n-type Peltier material is adjacent to the first metal lead and a part of the second metal lead is adjacent to the n-type Peltier material, the p-type Peltier material is adjacent to the fourth metal lead and a different part of the second metal lead is adjacent to the p-type Peltier material; wherein the second metal lead is formed on top of both the n-type Peltier material and the p-type Peltier material; wherein the second metal lead is a different material than both the n-type Peltier material and the p-type Peltier material; wherein the insulating magnet is adjacent to the second metal lead, the stack is adjacent to the insulating magnet, and the third metal lead is adjacent to the stack; wherein a left part of the insulating magnet and the n-type Peltier material together sandwich the part of the second metal lead that is adjacent to the n-type Peltier material; wherein a right part of the insulating magnet and the p-type Peltier material together sandwich the different part of the second metal lead; wherein positive current flows into the first metal lead and out through the fourth metal lead via the n-type Peltier material, the second metal lead, and the p-type Peltier material to cool an interface between the n-type Peltier material and the second metal lead and to cool an interface between the p-type Peltier material and the second metal lead; wherein positive current flows into the fourth metal lead and out through the first metal lead via the p-type Peltier material, the second metal lead, and the n-type Peltier material to heat an interface between the n-type Peltier material and the second metal lead and to heat an interface between the p-type Peltier material and the second metal lead; wherein cooling of the interface between the n-type Peltier material and the second metal lead and cooling of the interface between the p-type Peltier material and the second metal lead cause the insulating magnet to transfer a spin torque to rotate a magnetization of the free layer in a first direction, based on positive current flowing into the first metal lead and out through the fourth metal lead; and wherein heating of the interface between the n-type Peltier material and the second metal lead and heating of the interface between the p-type Peltier material and the second metal lead cause the insulating magnet to transfer the spin torque to rotate the magnetization of the free layer in a second direction, based on positive current flowing into the fourth metal lead and out through the first metal lead. | 10,088 |
9,712,450 | 1. A method comprising: identifying one or more channel queues associated with one or more RF channels, wherein the one or more RF channels are associated with a Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS) bonding group and wherein the DOCSIS bonding group receives downstream data from a first node; determining one or more respective lengths of the one or more channel queues; determining a data throughput of the DOCSIS bonding group; in response to determining that all of the respective lengths are greater than a length threshold and the data throughput is greater than a throughput threshold, causing the first node to decrease the data rate of the downstream data; and in response to determining that at least one of the respective lengths is less than the length threshold or the data throughput is less than the throughput threshold, causing the first node to increase the data rate of the downstream data. | 2,759 |
9,420,400 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, network congestion information associated with a level of network congestion of network devices associated with a communication network; and in response to receiving the network congestion information, controlling, by the system, transitioning an application between application states, based on the network congestion information, a wireless communication state associated with a device that uses the application, and a mapping function that maps the application states of the application to wireless communication states associated with the device. | 18,207 |
9,042,044 | 1. A color filter substrate, comprising: a base substrate having a black matrix pattern thereon, the black matrix pattern having a plurality of openings; and a plurality of color filter layers in different colors, disposed on the base substrate and located at the openings of the black matrix pattern, the color filter layers being glass layers in different colors, wherein the base substrate having the black matrix pattern is a glass plate which is formed by encapsulating a matrix shaped macromolecular osmosis film which has absorbed carbon powder grains with the use of a molten glass liquid, wherein the base substrate is a glass substrate, and wherein the color filter layers are glass layers which are formed by firing glass raw materials mixed with colorants in different colors. | 29,480 |
9,359,927 | 1. An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine comprising: a low pressure EGR mechanism that is equipped with a low pressure EGR passage which serves to introduce a part of an exhaust gas flowing through a portion of the exhaust passage downstream of a turbine of a centrifugal supercharger to a portion of an intake passage upstream of a compressor as a low pressure EGR gas, and a low pressure EGR valve which serves to change a channel cross section of said low pressure EGR passage; a selective reduction type catalyst that is arranged in-a portion of the exhaust passage downstream of a connection portion of said low pressure EGR passage; a supply device which serves to supply an ammonia derived compound to said selective reduction type catalyst, and is arranged in such a manner that the ammonia derived compound is able to be supplied into the exhaust passage at a location upstream of the connection portion of said low pressure EGR passage; and a control unit that: causes said supply device to supply the ammonia derived compound therefrom when said low pressure EGR valve is in a valve open state, makes the amount of the ammonia derived compound supplied from said supply device larger in cases where an amount of the low pressure EGR gas flowing through said low pressure EGR passage is large, in comparison with the case where it is small. | 47,123 |
8,441,973 | 1. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) for a wireless communication system, comprising: recognizing that further data for a UE signaling connection is not available; determining, by the UE, whether the UE is in a battery-efficient state; if the UE is not in the battery-efficient state, enabling the UE to transmit a signaling connection release indicator with a cause value; if the UE is in the battery-efficient state, determining whether the UE is in a high-mobility state; if the UE is in the high-mobility state and is in the battery-efficient state, enabling the UE to transmit the signaling connection release indicator with the cause value; and if the UE is not in the high-mobility state and is in the battery-efficient state, disabling the UE from transmitting the signaling connection release indicator with the cause value. | 28,229 |
9,753,862 | 1. A method in a data processing system including an upper level cache memory and a lower level cache memory employing different replacement policies, the method comprising: in the lower level cache memory, providing a respective one of a plurality of counters for each of a plurality of cache lines in a particular congruence class; the lower level cache memory initializing a counter value for a cache line in the particular congruence class that was castout from the upper level cache memory, wherein the initializing is performed based on an indication of whether the cache line was accessed in the upper level cache memory following installation in the upper level cache memory; and the lower level cache memory selecting a victim cache line from among the plurality of cache lines in the particular congruence class for eviction from the lower level cache memory by reference to counter values of the plurality of counters. | 3,529 |
8,358,921 | 1. A line feedthrough through a heating kettle cover of a heating kettle of a reducing agent tank, comprising: a heating kettle cover of the heating kettle; at least one line penetrating an opening in the heating kettle cover; and a sealing element sealing off the line in the opening, wherein the sealing element is an elastic plug sealing stopper, which is plugged sealingly into a receptacle associated with the heating kettle cover, wherein the receptacle is formed by an intermediate element disposed on the heating kettle cover, and wherein the intermediate element is acted upon by a holding-down device disposed on the cover. | 49,014 |
8,623,103 | 1. A method of producing a gas oil composition comprising steps of: preparing a gas oil composition (A) comprising an FT synthetic base oil in an amount of 60 percent by volume or more on the basis of the total amount of the gas oil composition (A); and then (Step 1) adding to the composition (A) by line-blending, forced-stirring or leaving to stand a lubricity improver additive comprising a fatty acid and/or a fatty acid ester in an amount of 20 mg/L or more and 300 mg/L or less in terms of the active component on the basis of the total amount of the gas oil composition (A), subsequently (Step 2) adding to the composition (A) by line-blending, forced-stirring or leaving to stand a cold flow improver additive comprising an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer and/or a compound with a surface active effect in an amount of 20 mg/L or more and 1000 mg/L or less in terms of the active component on the basis of the total amount of the gas oil composition (A), and wherein the gas oil composition has a sulfur content of 5 ppm by mass or less, an aromatic content of 1 percent by volume or less, an oxygen content of 100 ppm or less, a density at 15° C. of 760 kg/m | 2,002 |
9,465,138 | 1. A method for determining a presence of one or more objects in an area, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first luminaire comprising a first light source, a second light source, and a sensor, wherein the first light source is configured to emit a narrow, first light beam adapted to illuminate a first predefined area, the second light source is configured to emit a wide, second light beam adapted to illuminate a background area surrounding the first predefined area, and the sensor is configured to detect at least a back-reflection of the first light beam and a back-reflection of the second light beam: simultaneously detecting at a first time-point, with the sensor, the back-reflection of the first light beam and the back-reflection of the second light beam; providing the detected sensor information from the first time-point to a controller; comparing, by the controller, sensor information indicative of a signal strength of the detected back-reflected first light beam to sensor information indicative of a signal strength of the detected back-reflected second light beam, wherein said comparing step comprises determining whether the signal strength of the detected back-reflected second light beam normalized to a lumen output of the second light source is greater than the signal strength of the detected back-reflected first light beam normalized to a lumen output of the first light source; and determining whether the one or more objects are present in the area based on the outcome of said comparing, wherein the one or more objects are determined to be present in the area when the normalized signal strength of the detected back-reflected second light beam is determined to be greater than the normalized signal strength of the detected back-reflected first light beam, and further wherein the one or more objects are determined to not be present in the area when the normalized signal strength of the detected back-reflected first light beam is determined to be greater than the normalized signal strength of the detected back-reflected second light beam. | 23,975 |
8,870,540 | 1. A transverse flow water turbine comprising a rotor mounted to be rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis, the rotor comprising at least two planes perpendicular to the axis and at least three blades disposed between the at least two planes, each of the at least three blades supported at a first and second end by one of the at least two planes, and the at least three blades causing the rotor to rotate about the axis when the blades are located in flowing water, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of members in the form of a structure triangulated in three dimensions, wherein at least one of said blades comprises one of said members, wherein said at least one blade is elongate and has a line that is substantially straight, wherein the line of said at least one blade is not parallel to said axis and is arranged such that the line of the blade and the axis do not lie in a common plane, wherein the plurality of members form a plurality of triangles, and wherein at least one of the plurality of triangles of the structure triangulated in three dimensions comprises one of the at least two planes and two of the at least three blades. | 25,409 |
8,450,268 | 1. A method of treating a subject suffering from a lack of appetite, suppressed appetite, or a disease or disorder that results in decreased food intake comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of the following: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. | 45,312 |
9,052,495 | 1. A zoom lens, comprising multiple lens units in which a distance between adjacent ones of the multiple lens units changes for zooming, wherein: when an average value of a change in refractive index with respect to a temperature change within a temperature range of from 0° C. to 40° C. is ΔNav, at least one lens unit L of the multiple lens units comprises multiple optical elements A made of materials satisfying the following conditional expression: when an anomalous partial dispersion ratio for a g-line and an F-line is ΔθgF when i indicates an order of the at least one optical element A | 43,593 |
9,720,305 | 1. An imaging aid aiding imaging of a predetermined region of a surface of an object having minute concave and convex portions and being subject to intense specular reflection, comprising: a light source unit that irradiates light; and a cover lid that has a shape to cover a predetermined region of a surface of the object, wherein a part of a surface of the cover lid corresponding to a predetermined angular range from a normal line direction directly opposing the predetermined region is a black surface, and another surface of the cover lid corresponding to another angular range is made of a light-source surface diffusing and emitting light irradiated from the light source unit, and the cover lid comprises a upper portion facing the surface of object; and a side portion provided between the surface of object and the upper portion and connecting the upper portion; wherein the light source unit is provided near(on) the side of the upper portion of the side portion of the cover lid, and a region to be the black surface is provided on the inner surface of upper portion according to a predetermined angular range centered on a normal line of the surface of the object, the angular range of the black surface region of the cover lid is determined so that a degree of separation of a brightness value of pixels in the predetermined region in an image obtained by imaging the surface of the object equal to or below a predetermined threshold value becomes a predetermined value. | 5,205 |
8,929,764 | 1. A printing apparatus comprising: a printing unit configured to print on a printing medium based on print data received from at least one host apparatus; a first storage unit configured to store print information associated with a printing operation; a power supply unit configured to perform first control to supply power to the first storage unit and second control to stop power supply to the first storage unit; a second storage unit configured to receive power supply from the power supply unit regardless of the first control or the second control; a management unit configured to manage transmission history information, indicating printing information which has been sent from the printing apparatus to the at least one host apparatus; a specification unit configured to specify, based on the transmission history information, at least part of the print information stored in the first storage unit, which has not been transmitted to the at least one host apparatus; a storage processing unit configured to store, in the second storage unit, the at least part of the print information specified by the specification unit when the printing apparatus changes from the first control to the second control; and a transmission unit configured to, when the printing apparatus receives a request from a host apparatus to obtain the at least part of the print information after changing to the second control, transmit the at least part of the print information stored in the second storage unit to the host apparatus which has transmitted the obtaining request. | 39,436 |
8,800,860 | 1. A method for cultivating plants, comprising: a) using an assembly for use in cultivating plants, comprising: a plurality of plant pots for use in cultivating plants, in which each plant pot comprises: a side wall ( the side wall ( the bottom ( a reusable and removable tag located on a downward facing surface of the bottom ( the tag comprising a housing ( the code of each plant pot is distinguishable from the codes of the other plant pots, and a computer system having a database in which the codes of the plant pots are stored and which database is designed for storing data for each code which are attributed to said code; at least one optical read unit for optically reading the code of one or more of the plant pots, which optical read unit is connected, or at least connectable, to the computer system for sending the read-out codes to the database; and a processing unit designed for attributing data to each said read-out code and storing data attributed to each respective read-out code with said code in the database; b) reading out the code of the plant pots by said at least one optical read unit; c) providing the processing unit with data relating to the plant that is grown in the plant pot, the code of which is read out in step b); d) sending the codes read out in step b) to the processing unit; and e) using the processing unit, storing the data obtained in step c) in the database with each code received in step d), wherein, the pin has a width greater than a height thereof, the pin has plural snap lugs ( the pin ( | 952 |
9,813,965 | 1. A computing device, comprising: a global positioning system (GPS) component; a wireless communication component; at least one processor; and memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to: | 39,515 |
8,427,036 | 1. A thermal storage system for a lighting system, comprising: a phase change material (PCM); a plurality of pouches wherein the PCM is disposed; a container holding the plurality of pouches wherein the PCM is disposed, wherein the container is thermally conductive, sealed, and structurally arranged for thermal coupling to the lighting system; and a spring loading system disposed in the container, and wherein the plurality of pouches are preloaded against a surface of the container using the spring loading system, wherein the surface of the container is adjacent to the lighting system. | 20,158 |
9,694,503 | 1. A shaver comprising: a handle with an elongated handgrip portion and a mounting portion, a shaver head, the shaver head being attached to the mounting portion, a removable cartridge including at least one blade, the cartridge being adapted to be attached to the shaver head and removed from the shaver head, and an attaching element, adapted to attach the cartridge to the shaver head by snap-fitting wherein the shaver head further comprises a bottom wall positioned in front of the at least one blade in a direction of shaving, lateral walls, and a spring which provides an ejection force which urges the cartridge away from the shaver head when the cartridge is removed from the shaver head, wherein the spring comprises: a holding portion, positioned adjacent to the bottom wall of the shaver head, the holding portion being adapted to attach the spring to the shaver head, and a pair of symmetrically positioned ejection springs, the ejection springs being provided as elastic wings, the elastic wings extending from the holding portion in a direction towards the lateral walls. | 17,134 |
9,403,850 | 1. A compound of Formula (I) or Formula (Ia), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, polymorph, solvate, N-oxide, or isomer thereof: wherein: R R R R R R R R | 32,804 |
9,842,075 | 1. A system, comprising: two host processors; and an enhanced Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) endpoint device; wherein the enhanced PCIe endpoint device comprises: wherein the enhanced PCIe endpoint device presents two PCIe interfaces to the two host processors through the two PCIe controllers, each of which is physically connected to a respective one of the two host processors; wherein in response to receipt, by the two PCIe controllers from the two host processors, of communication traffic that is directed to at least one of the one or more emulated hardware devices: | 23,084 |
9,715,230 | 1. A method for providing user control of a remote control aircraft during an automated trick, the method comprising: receiving a command to perform the automated trick, the automated trick comprising a rotation about a trick axis; in response to the command to perform the automated trick, rotating the aircraft about the trick axis by a trick rotation amount; determining a body attitude state of the aircraft, the body attitude state comprising the attitude of the aircraft; determining a virtual zero attitude state of the aircraft, the virtual zero attitude state comprising the body attitude state with the trick rotation amount removed; determining a target attitude while the aircraft performs the automated trick, the target attitude comprising a desired attitude for the aircraft input by a pilot, the desired attitude being input while the aircraft performs the automated trick; determining an attitude error, the attitude error comprising a difference between the target attitude and the virtual zero attitude; determining one or more torque responses; controlling one or more motors of the aircraft in accordance with the one or more torque responses; and wherein, during performance of the automated trick by the aircraft with the input of the desired attitude by the pilot, the controlling of the one or more motors of the aircraft comprises: | 40,293 |
9,749,065 | 1. A method for testing a radio frequency (RF) data packet signal transceiver device under test (DUT) including communicating via at least one of a plurality of signal channels, comprising: receiving, with a tester via one of said plurality of signal channels, a link initiation data packet from said DUT; transmitting, with said tester via said one of said plurality of signal channels, a tester response data packet responsive to said link initiation data packet; receiving, with said tester via said one of said plurality of signal channels, a DUT response data packet responsive to said tester response data packet; refraining, with said tester, from transmitting via said one of said plurality of signal channels another tester response data packet responsive to said received DUT response data packet; and repeating receiving, with said tester via one of said plurality of signal channels, another link initiation data packet from said DUT, and transmitting, with said tester via said one of said plurality of signal channels, another tester response data packet responsive to said another link initiation data packet. | 26,509 |
8,367,678 | 1. A method of treating spinal muscular atrophy in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering the subject an effective amount of a sodium-proton exchanger inhibitor, wherein the sodium-proton exchanger inhibitor is 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl)-amiloride. | 11,743 |
9,353,651 | 1. A motorcycle having an internal combustion engine, the cylinder arrangement of which is a VR cylinder arrangement with rows of cylinders which are arranged in a staggered manner and pushed into each other, a crank drive acting on a crankshaft in a restricted manner so that two planes which are formed by cylinder axes of each row of cylinders intersect below an axis of the crankshaft , a common cylinder head being present in each case for two rows of cylinders, wherein the common cylinder head comprises three camshafts; characterised in that the cylinder head comprises a group of two, three, four or five gas ducts per cylinder, the group comprising at least one outlet duct and at least one inlet duct, and wherein a geometric arrangement, namely a length and a shape, of the at least one inlet duct of each group is the same for all the cylinders, wherein the inlet ducts lead upwards and open out of the common cylinder head, and wherein the intakes of the inlet ducts of one row of cylinders are located above the three camshafts and between two of the three camshafts. | 38,053 |
9,719,438 | 1. A turbocharger system for a vehicle, the system comprising: a turbocharger; an exhaust manifold conduit being in fluid communication with an inlet of the turbocharger; a tank for compressed gas, the tank being in fluid communication with the exhaust manifold conduit and being arranged to push a pulse of compressed gas into the exhaust manifold conduit during a predetermined pulse duration time period for initial compressor spin up in the turbocharger; a first control unit; and a load sensor connected to the first control unit, the load sensor being arranged to sense a desired engine load from a driver of the vehicle; wherein the first control unit is arranged to estimate a desired change in engine load dependent on received input from the load sensor, estimate a desired turbocharger effect dependent on the estimated desired change in engine load, and control the tank to discharge a predetermined pulse of compressed gas dependent on the estimated desired turbocharger effect, so that compressed gas is pushed into the exhaust manifold conduit during the predetermined pulse duration time period, and wherein the predetermined pulse duration time period is in the range of 0.1-0.3 seconds. | 15,038 |
8,623,358 | 1. A binding protein comprising an antigen binding domain, said binding protein being capable of binding human DLL4, said antigen binding domain comprising six CDRs: CDR-H1, CDR-H2, CDR-H3, CDR-L1, CDR-L2, and CDR-L3, wherein: CDR-H1 is selected from the group consisting of: CDR-H2, selected from the group consisting of: CDR-H3 is selected from the group consisting of: CDR-L1 is selected from the group consisting of: CDR-L2 is selected from the group consisting of: and CDR-L3 is selected from the group consisting of: | 22,979 |
8,669,934 | 1. A driving circuit configured to supply a driving voltage and a driving current to a light emitting element, the driving circuit comprising: a first detection resistor arranged on a path of the light emitting element; a voltage source configured to receive a control signal indicating a target luminance level of the light emitting element, to generate a control voltage and a first threshold voltage according to the control signal, wherein the control voltage has a level that corresponds to the target luminance level and the first threshold voltage is proportional to the control voltage; a controller configured to generate a gate pulse signal having a duty ratio that is adjusted such that the voltage drop across the first detection resistor matches the control voltage; a driver configured to drive, according to the gate pulse signal, a switching power supply configured to generate the driving voltage; and a first comparator configured to assert a first overcurrent detection signal when the voltage drop across the first detection resistor exceeds the first threshold voltage, so as to stop a switching operation of the switching power supply. | 10,889 |
9,104,844 | 1. A dynamic software license platform, comprising: a license pool; a register manager used for receiving a request from a user end to use a piece of software; a user configure unit used for granting a permission to the user end in response to the request, to thereby allow the user end to submit a license setting that indicates a scope of the use desired by the user end; and a license manager used for adding a software license provided by a supplier of the piece of software to the license pool, and dynamically providing the software license from the license pool to the user end according to the license setting submitted by the user end; wherein the license setting from the user end indicates whether the software license is provided to either of a computer host of the user end and a virtual machine in the dynamic software license platform; and wherein, when a number of software licenses required by the user end is greater than a number of the software licenses of the license pool, a highest priority user gets the software license and ordinary priority users share remaining software licenses according to a request order of the ordinary priority users. | 48,650 |
8,389,176 | 1. A polymer membrane composition for a fuel cell, the composition comprising: a polymer, the polymer including a cation exchange group and a carbon double-bond-containing cross-linkable group; a (meth)acryl-based compound, the (meth)acryl-based compound including a cation exchange group; and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymer is represented by the following Chemical Formula 2: wherein, in Chemical Formula 2, R | 27,569 |
9,701,550 | 1. Device for purification of water, comprising the following components: (a) a storage tank ( (b) a feed pipe ( (c) a reactor ( (d) the storage tank ( (e) an arrangement ( (f) a control ( (g) a measuring line ( the redox sensor ( the arrangement ( the redox sensor ( | 43,271 |
9,014,257 | 1. A method for wireless communications, the method comprising: receiving a packet, which comprises a plurality of sub-packets and is output from a transmitting device; and processing the received packet in a plurality of signal processing modes that correspond to a plurality of transmission modes applied to the received packet, wherein the packet further comprises a packet header, and the packet header comprises a plurality of sub-packet headers having information on the respective sub-packets, wherein each of the plurality of sub-packet headers respectively comprises information indicating a transmission mode, among the plurality of transmission modes, for the corresponding sub-packet, and wherein the plurality of transmission modes are high rate physical layers (HRP) modes which support different processing methods. | 18,801 |
9,850,875 | 1. A method for adjusting a high voltage supply for an ignition spark in an ignition system to be generated with a primary voltage generator, the ignition system including the primary voltage generator and a boost converter, for an internal combustion engine, the method comprising: ascertaining a voltage requirement for an ignition sparkover to be generated; and modifying, in response to the voltage requirement, a switch-on time of the boost converter relative to a switch-off time of the primary voltage generator; wherein at least one of: (i) the modifying includes, in response to a reduced voltage requirement, modifying the switch-on time of the boost converter such that the boost converter is switched on at a later point in time relative to the switch-off time of the primary voltage generator, the switch-on time of the boost converter being prior to the switch-off time of the primary voltage generator, and (ii) the modifying includes, in response to an increased voltage requirement, modifying the switch-on time of the boost converter such that the boost converter is switched on at an earlier point in time relative to the switch-off time of the primary voltage regulator, the switch-on time of the boost converter being prior to the switch-off time of the primary voltage generator. | 12,770 |
9,519,876 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions embodied thereon which, when executed, cause a computer system to perform a method, said method comprising: determining, via communication with a first reporting source comprising a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, a real-time location of an asset; determining, via communication with a second reporting source comprising an electronic sensor coupled with the asset, a real-time operation condition of the asset; populating a database with the real-time location and the real-time operation condition of the asset; utilizing said database to generate an asset report including the real-time location and the real-time operation condition of the asset; utilizing the asset report at a manufacture level to track said asset including its location and operation; generating a maintenance schedule for said asset based on the real-time location and the real-time operation condition of the asset, thereby enabling a manufacturer of the asset to provide maintenance service for the asset; and outputting a period of time during which maintenance is to be performed on said asset without hindering operation of said asset. | 29,930 |
8,466,400 | 1. A calibration tool for aligning a solar collector system with a sun, the calibration tool comprising: an alignment element removably attached along an optical axis of the solar collector system wherein the alignment element is configured to provide information regarding a current alignment between the sun and the solar collector system; a position encoder attached to the solar collector system and configured to generate information regarding a location of the solar collector system upon alignment with the sun; and a processor coupled to both the alignment element and the position encoder, wherein the processor is configured to utilize the information regarding the location of the solar collector system in conjunction with information regarding expected movements of the sun and expected movements of the solar collector system to determine a difference between the location of the solar collector system and the expected movements of the solar collector system, and wherein the difference is used as a calibration adjustment for a movement control mechanism of the solar collector system. | 3,037 |
9,600,114 | 1. A method, comprising: sensing a touch by a touch sensor of an information handling system (IHS); measuring, by the touch sensor, a current pressure exhibited by the touch on the touch sensor thereby generating a current pressure measure; receiving, by a touch tool of the IHS, the current pressure measure; generating, by the touch tool of the IHS, a display image, at a location on a display corresponding to the touch, which is a graphical representation of the current pressure measure, wherein the display image dynamically changes in response to the current pressure measure changing such that the display image remains a graphical representation of an amount of the current pressure measure, and wherein the graphical representation has a first configuration when a first amount of the current pressure measure is within a first range of pressure measurements and has a second configuration when a second amount of the current pressure measure is within a second range of pressure measurements different from the first range of pressure measurements; and displaying, by a display device of the IHS, the display image that changes as the current pressure measure changes, wherein displaying the display image further comprises displaying a graphical representation of an item of content of interest, wherein the item of content is an item available for purchase, wherein different levels of detailed information about the item of content are displayed depending upon the current pressure measure and the different levels of detailed information comprise different levels of information about the item available for purchase, and wherein the different levels of detailed information comprises: | 1,723 |
9,279,794 | 1. A method for compensating for output drift of an electrochemical gas sensor exposed to nitric oxide in a controlled environment comprising: establishing, via a setting in a system controller, a dosage of a nitric oxide to be delivered to a patient; delivering, via a flow control valve, a therapeutic gas comprising nitric oxide to a breathing circuit for delivery to the patient; identifying a change in the setting the system controller; identifying, via the system controller, a sensor recalibration schedule stored in a system controller memory in response to the identified change; identifying, via the system controller, a time for executing a calibration from the sensor recalibration schedule stored in the system controller memory; detecting, via the system controller, if an alarm is active or has been active within a predetermined timeframe at the time the calibration is to be executed, wherein the calibration is postponed if the active alarm is detected or has been detected within the predetermined timeframe, and the calibration is executed if the active alarm is not detected or has not been detected within the predetermined timeframe; implementing, via the system controller, the sensor recalibration schedule identified; continuously measuring, via a first nitric oxide sensor, a concentration of the nitric oxide in the breathing circuit; communicating a signal representative of the nitric oxide concentration from the first nitric oxide sensor to the system controller over a communication path; and determining a response by the first nitric oxide sensor to the nitric oxide concentration after the change in the setting in the system controller. | 41,216 |
8,677,686 | 1. An aquaponic system comprising: a solids separator configured to receive waste water and separate the waste water into settleable solids and suspended-waste water; a first component configured to receive the suspended-waste water and convert the suspended-waste water to nutrient-rich water suitable for hydroponic plant growth, wherein the first component comprises, in series, a nutrification tank configured to convert the suspended-waste water to mineralized water, a nitrification tank configured to convert mineralized water to nitrified water, and a degassing tank configured to convert the nitrified water to the nutrient-rich water; a hydroponic growth apparatus configured to receive the nutrient-rich water, to support hydroponic growth, and to convert the nutrient-rich water to nutrient-depleted water; a fish tank configured to receive the nutrient-depleted water and convert the nutrient-depleted water to the waste water; a second component configured to receive the settleable solids and convert the settleable solids to nutrient-rich sludge; a substrate based growth apparatus configured to receive the nutrient-rich sludge for supporting plant growth, wherein the substrate-based growth apparatus is a soilless media-filled growth bed; and a sludge sump configured to receive nutrient-rich sludge from the second component and nutrient-depleted sludge from the substrate-based growth apparatus to generate a mixture, and to deliver the mixture to the substrate-based growth apparatus. | 1,979 |
9,449,061 | 1. A method for persisting data received from different data sources, the method comprising: receiving a first data record from a data source having a schema, the data record including data fields structured according to the schema; generating a record identifier associated with the data record; creating a different insert event associated with each data field included in the data record, each insert event including a value corresponding to the associated data field in the data record; storing each insert event in a different row of an operation log, each row including the record identifier and a field name corresponding to the data field associated with the insert event stored in the row, a source identifier identifying the data source, and a remote identifier uniquely identifying the data record in the data source; receiving a data request for accessing a value corresponding to a data field in the data record; identifying an entry in the operation log associated with the record identifier that stores a most recent event associated with the data field; transmitting the value included in the identified entry in response to the data request; receiving a modification to the value stored in the identified entry associated with the record identifier; and transmitting a modification update to the data source identified by the source identifier, the modification update comprising the modification to the first value and the remote identifier. | 2,519 |
9,610,824 | 1. A truck, comprising: an alternator having a direct current electrical power output; a combined inverter and charger unit having an alternating current electrical power output; a house battery; a starting battery for starting an engine of the truck, the combined inverter and charger unit configured to charge both of the house battery and the starting battery; a day cab forming an interior space; and a climate control unit for conditioning the interior space of the day cab, wherein the climate control unit is adapted to be powered by an alternating current electrical source, wherein the climate control unit is powered by the alternator through the combined inverter and charger unit, and independent of the house battery, when an engine of the truck is running, and is powered by either the house battery or the starting battery through the combined inverter and charger unit when the engine is not running, and wherein the combined inverter and charger unit is configured to be connected to an alternating current shore power source having an alternating current voltage level to thereby supply the climate control unit with electrical power from the alternating current shore power source and also to charge both the house battery and the starting battery with a charging voltage, wherein the electrical power supplied to the climate control unit by the combined inverter and charger unit when connected to the alternating current shore power source is either at the alternating current voltage level of the alternating current shore power source or at a transformed alternating current voltage level transformed by the combined inverter and charger unit from the alternating current voltage level. | 28,284 |
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