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8,889,456 | 1. A method for fabricating a photovoltaic device, comprising: performing a gettering process in a processing chamber which restricts formation of a layer of gettering materials on a substrate, the gettering process including evaporating one or more of titanium, molybdenum and/or chromium into the processing chamber to remove contaminates of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen from the processing chamber by forming a layer of gettering material chemically bonded to the contaminates on a sidewall of the processing chamber that is separate from the substrate; forming a solder layer on the substrate; annealing the solder layer to form uniformly distributed solder dots grow on the substrate; and etching the substrate using the solder dots to protect portions of the substrate and to form cones in the substrate such that the cones provide a three-dimensional structure for the photovoltaic device, wherein the uniformly distributed solder dots provide a uniformity in the cones ranging from 1 cone per micron to 1 cone per 4 microns. | 26,739 |
8,433,492 | 1. An accelerator reaction force control apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a means for detecting a position of an accelerator; a means for changing a reaction force of the accelerator; and a controller configured to control the reaction force changing means, wherein; wherein the controller controls the reaction force changing means to eliminate the increase in the reaction force of the accelerator when the accelerator position is reduced to equal to or less than the second position threshold. | 40,181 |
9,612,489 | 1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising: an insulating layer; a first electrode formed along a y-axis of an x-y plane on a first side of the insulating layer, wherein the first side of the insulating layer comprises a first surface extending across the x-y plane at a first depth along a z-axis relative to the x-y plane and a second surface extending across the x-y plane at a second depth along the z-axis, wherein the first depth is above the second depth, the electrode comprising two or more finger-like regions, wherein at least one finger-like region of the two or more finger-like regions is disposed on top of the second surface of the first side of the insulating layer, and wherein a first portion of the at least one finger-like region is disposed below the first depth and wherein a second portion of the at least one finger-like region is disposed above the first depth; a second electrode formed on a second side of the insulating layer opposite the first side; a liquid crystal layer, wherein alignment of a plurality of liquid crystals within the liquid crystal layer is determined by operation of the first and the second electrode. | 10,610 |
9,793,430 | 1. A transistor structure, comprising: a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises: a heterostructure, wherein the heterostructure forms a heterojunction with the lightly-doped/undoped region; a collector terminal, wherein the collector terminal is in contact with the collector region; a gate terminal, wherein the gate terminal is in contact with the heterostructure; and an emitter terminal, wherein the emitter terminal is in contact with the lightly-doped/undoped region and the emitter region. | 223 |
8,831,269 | 1. A bobbin comprising: a stratiform composite structure comprising an amorphous carbon structure and a carbon nanotube film structure composited with the amorphous carbon structure; wherein the carbon nanotube film structure is a free-standing structure, the amorphous carbon structure and the carbon nanotube film structure are combined by van der Waals attractive force and covalent bonds therebetween. | 44,222 |
9,603,928 | 1. A method for treating a Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in a subject in need thereof, comprising sequentially or simultaneously administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of (1) aminolevulinic acids (ALAs) and (2) a substance selected from the group consisting of a chelating agent, hydrogen peroxide, and an ascorbic acid. | 23,773 |
8,828,902 | 1. A reusable catalyst system comprising a transition metal catalyst based on a transition metal selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, ruthenium, and rhodium, within a porous polymeric matrix bead wherein the porous polymeric matrix bead is formed by an interfacial polymerization process comprising (a) dissolving or dispersing the transition metal catalyst in a first phase; (b) dispersing the first phase in a second continuous phase to form an emulsion; (c) reacting one or more bead-forming materials at the interface between the dispersed first phase and the continuous second phase to form a porous polymeric matrix bead encapsulating the dispersed first phase transition metal catalyst; and optionally (d) recovering a porous polymeric matrix bead from the continuous phase; wherein the bead-forming materials comprise at least one aromatic polyisocyanate with or without at least one tolylene diisocyanate, wherein the porous polymeric matrix bead has a homogeneous porous structure and the catalyst is homogeneously distributed throughout the porous polymeric matrix bead, and the catalyst is coordinated with polymer of the porous polymeric matrix bead, whereby the catalyst is maintained within the bead for catalytic contact with organic liquid which enter the porous polymeric matrix bead. | 625 |
9,686,089 | 1. A system comprising: a receiver to receive, at a user equipment (UE), an indication of an uplink/downlink (UL-DL) subframe configuration of a scheduling cell in a wireless time-division duplex (TDD) system that utilizes cross-carrier scheduling; the receiver further to receive an indication of a UL-DL subframe configuration of a scheduled cell in the wireless TDD system that utilizes the cross-carrier scheduling, the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduled cell being different from the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell, wherein transmission on a component carrier (CC) of the scheduled cell is based on a resource allocation received on a CC of the scheduling cell; and a processor to identify a reference UL-DL subframe configuration based at least in part on the UL-DL subframe configurations of the scheduling cell and scheduled cell; and wherein the receiver is further to receive, from the scheduling cell of an enhanced NodeB (eNB), a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) signal of the scheduled cell according to a subframe timing of the reference UL-DL subframe configuration; wherein: the reference UL-DL subframe configuration is equal to 1 if the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell is equal to 1 and the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduled cell is equal to 2, 4, or 5; the reference UL-DL subframe configuration is equal to 2 if the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell is equal to 2 and the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduled cell is equal to 5; the reference UL-DL subframe configuration is equal to 3 if the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell is equal to 3 and the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduled cell is equal to 4 or 5; and the reference UL-DL subframe configuration is equal to 4 if the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell is equal to 4 and the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduled cell is equal to 5. | 24,970 |
8,477,129 | 1. A system for displaying images, comprising: a reference voltage source outputting a voltage signal, wherein the magnitude of the voltage signal is 1/N of a driving voltage; a digital-to-analog converter converting the voltage signal to a first voltage; a multiplier receiving and multiplying the first voltage by N to output the driving voltage; and a buffer receiving the driving voltage to drive a data line, wherein the multiplier further comprises: a first capacitor comprising a first terminal and a second terminal; a first switch comprising a first input terminal receiving the first voltage, a first output terminal coupled to the first terminal of the first capacitor, and a first control terminal controlled by a first control signal; a second switch comprising a second input terminal receiving the first voltage, a second output terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first capacitor, and a second control terminal controlled by a second control signal; a third switch comprising a third input terminal coupled to the second output terminal, a third output terminal grounded, and a third control terminal controlled by the first control signal; a fourth switch comprising a fourth input terminal, a fourth output terminal coupled to the third input terminal, and a fourth control terminal controlled by a third control signal; and a voltage-doubling circuit comprising an input terminal receiving the first voltage and an output terminal coupled to the fourth input terminal and outputting a second voltage, wherein when the fourth switch is turned on, the multiplier output a sum of the first voltage and the second voltage. | 15,988 |
8,887,579 | 1. A digital flowmeter comprising: a vibratable conduit; a driver connected to the conduit and operable to impart motion to the conduit; a first sensor connected to the conduit and operable to sense the motion of the conduit and generate a first sensor signal representative of said sensed motion, wherein said first sensor signal is a periodic signal having a first amplitude and a first frequency; a second sensor connected to the conduit and operable to sense the motion of the conduit and generate a second sensor signal representative of said sensed motion, wherein said second sensor signal is a periodic signal having a second amplitude and a second frequency; and a control and measurement system connected to the driver, the first sensor, and the second sensor, the control and measurement system comprising circuitry to: | 47,286 |
9,248,806 | 1. A vehicle security system for a vehicle, comprising: at least one controller; and at least one communications module coupled to the at least one controller, wherein the at least one controller is configured to: prevent the one or more wheels from rotating if the received information indicating whether the vehicle is in a state to allow operation of the vehicle indicates the vehicle is not in a state to allow operation of the vehicle, wherein the at least one controller is configured to prevent the one or more wheels from rolling by being configured to: | 47,217 |
8,583,412 | 1. A method for controlling a simulation being performed by a simulation system, said simulation regarding an operation of a Fieldbus system comprising at least one Fieldbus Interface Module (FIM) communicatively coupled to a plurality of field devices, comprising the steps of: initiating a current simulation of at least a portion of said operation of said Fieldbus system, wherein during a duration of said current simulation said Fieldbus system is exclusive of any real devices, said current simulation including a plurality of sequential steps involving said FIM, comprising; obtaining intermediate simulation information indicating a progress of said current simulation, said progress defining which steps of said plurality of sequential steps have been performed, are being performed, and are to be performed; communicating at least a portion of said intermediate simulation information to at least one user of said simulation system; and controlling said progress of said current simulation using at least one visual element of a computer display, wherein said current simulation is executed using at least one Link Active Schedule which defines a plurality of simulated functional block execution processes for said current simulation in terms of time and order of performance. | 40,206 |
8,719,404 | 1. A method of managing data packets, the method comprising: a first hardware node in a network interconnect receiving a data packet from a network; the first hardware node examining the data packet for a particular regular expression, wherein the data packet is from a particular internet protocol (IP) address, wherein the particular regular expression is a predefined pattern of non-executable characters, wherein the predefined pattern of non-executable characters forms a text phrase that describes a particular subject matter, wherein the first hardware node comprises a first regular expression cache that stores a copy of a first regular expression, and wherein the first hardware node examines the data packet by searching the data packet for the first regular expression that is stored in the first regular expression cache within the first hardware node; in response to the first hardware node failing to identify the first regular expression in the data packet by matching the particular regular expression to the first regular expression, forwarding the data packet from the first hardware node to a second hardware node in the network interconnect for further examination of the data, wherein the second hardware node examines the data packet by searching the data packet for a second regular expression that is stored in a second regular expression cache within the second hardware node; establishing a hierarchy of multiple hardware nodes in the network interconnect, wherein higher hardware nodes in the hierarchy are capable of detecting more complex regular expressions as compared with lower hardware nodes in the hierarchy; sequentially sending the data packet through lower to higher hardware nodes in the hierarchy until the particular regular expression is identified; in response to determining that the particular IP address is from a trusted IP address, bypassing the second hardware node and sending the data packet directly to an egress hardware node on the network interconnect; and sending the data packet from the egress hardware node back to the network. | 31,721 |
8,555,907 | 1. A non-slip tip system comprising a body, wherein the body: comprises a proximal end and a distal end and defines a cavity along a central longitudinal axis that opens to a proximal end-opening and a distal-end opening; comprises a first portion at the proximal end and a second portion at the distal end, wherein the cavity in the first portion comprises a first cross-sectional profile and the cavity in the second portion comprises a second cross-sectional profile, and wherein the second cross-sectional profile extends further from the central longitudinal axis than the first cross-sectional profile; comprises gripping protrusions extending distally from the distal end; and defines a plurality of apertures in the first portion, wherein the plurality of apertures comprises a first aperture disposed a first distance from the distal end and a second aperture disposed a second distance from the distal end; and includes a detent track in an inner surface of the first portion of the body configured to guide an outwardly biased detent stop between the first and second apertures, wherein the detent track comprises a linear indentation in the inner surface extending between the first aperture and the second aperture, wherein the linear indentation comprises a width defined orthogonally with respect to the central longitudinal axis and tangentially with respect to the inner surface, wherein each of the plurality of apertures comprises a width defined orthogonally with respect to the central longitudinal axis and tangentially with respect to the inner surface, and wherein the width of the linear indentation is narrower than the width of each of the plurality of apertures. | 3,510 |
8,700,581 | 1. A method for providing a map of an enterprise system, comprising: executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor: accesses data describing a document from one or more sources; associates one or more map objects associated with the map of the enterprise system with the document, including associating a document object in the one or more map objects with the document, wherein the one or more map objects includes a repository object, the repository object representing a repository where the document is stored, and wherein one of the one or more map objects associated with the document includes an indication of a location in the repository where the document is stored; identifies at least one relationship between the one or more map objects, including identifying a relationship between the document object and the repository object; generates the map of the enterprise system based on the at least one relationship; accesses the map objects associated with the map by searching the map, the search being based on the at least one relationship between the map objects and a search request received from a user, the search comprising a map traversal to identify one or more map objects matching the search request; transmits for display the map and the identified one or more map objects matching the search request; and retrieve the document based on the indication of the location in the repository. | 12,376 |
9,164,384 | 1. A process for forming a pattern, comprising the steps of applying a resist composition comprising (A) a polymer and (B) a photoacid generator onto a substrate, baking the composition to form a resist film, exposing the resist film to high-energy radiation to define exposed and unexposed regions, baking, and applying an organic solvent developer to form a negative pattern wherein the unexposed region of resist film is dissolved and the exposed region of resist film is not dissolved, said polymer (A) comprising recurring units of the general formula (1) and recurring units of the general formula (2): wherein R 1 is hydrogen, fluorine, methyl or trifluoromethyl, Z is a single bond, phenylene, naphthylene, or (backbone)-C(═O)—O—Z′—, Z′ is a straight, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 10 alkylene group which may contain a hydroxyl moiety, ether bond, ester bond or lactone ring, or a phenylene or naphthylene group, XA is an acid labile group, YL is hydrogen or a polar group having at least one structure selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, cyano, carbonyl, carboxyl, ether bond, ester bond, sulfonic acid ester bond, carbonate, lactone ring, sultone ring and carboxylic anhydride, said photoacid generator (B) having the general formula (3): wherein R 2 and R 3 are each independently a straight, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 20 monovalent hydrocarbon group which may be substituted with or separated by a heteroatom, R 4 is a straight, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 20 divalent hydrocarbon group which may be substituted with or separated by a heteroatom, or a pair of R 2 and R 3 , or R 2 and R 4 may bond together to form a ring with the sulfur atom, L is a single bond or a straight, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 20 divalent hydrocarbon group which may be substituted with or separated by a heteroatom, Xa and Xb are each independently hydrogen, fluorine or trifluoromethyl, and k is an integer of 1 to 4. | 12,881 |
8,794,219 | 1. An EGR control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, in which a first EGR device supplies part of burned gases to cylinders as a first EGR gas via an intake passage, and a second EGR device supplies another part of the burned gases to cylinders as a second EGR gas via a path shorter than a path of the first EGR device, comprising: engine speed-detecting means for detecting engine speed which is rotational speed of the engine; load parameter-detecting means for detecting a load parameter representative of load on the engine; and EGR control means for controlling an amount of the first EGR gas and an amount of the second EGR gas via the first EGR device and the second EGR device, respectively, according to the detected engine speed and the detected load parameter, wherein said EGR control means controls the amount of the first EGR gas and the amount of the second EGR gas such that when a combination of the load represented by the load parameter and the engine speed is in a predetermined region, an in-cylinder first inert gas amount which is an amount of inert gas excluding oxygen in the first EGR gas supplied to the cylinders exceeds a second inert gas amount which is an amount of inert gas excluding oxygen in the second EGR gas supplied to the cylinders, and the in-cylinder first inert gas amount more exceeds the second inert gas amount as the engine speed is higher or the load represented by the load parameter is larger, wherein said EGR control means comprises: first inert gas amount-calculating means for calculating a first inert gas amount which is an amount of inert gas excluding oxygen in the first EGR gas supplied to the intake passage; in-cylinder inert gas total amount-calculating means for calculating an in-cylinder inert gas total amount which is a total amount of inert gases excluding oxygen in the first EGR gas and the second EGR gas supplied to the cylinders; target value-calculating means for calculating a first target value which is a target of the first inert gas amount, and a second target value which is a target of the in-cylinder inert gas total amount, according to the engine speed and the load parameter; first EGR control means for controlling the amount of the first EGR gas via the first EGR device, such that the calculated first inert gas amount converges to the calculated first target value; and second EGR control means for controlling the amount of the second EGR gas via the second EGR device, such that the calculated in-cylinder inert gas total amount converges to the calculated second target value, wherein said target value-calculating means calculates the first target value and the second target value such that when a combination of the load represented by the load parameter and the engine speed is in the predetermined region, the in-cylinder first inert gas amount exceeds the second inert gas amount, and the in-cylinder first inert gas amount more exceeds the second inert gas amount as the engine speed is higher or the load represented by the load parameter is larger. | 29,314 |
8,426,471 | 1. A method for reducing fat in a body of a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the skin of the subject a composition comprising less than 1% by weight of a compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomer thereof. | 20,921 |
8,684,373 | 1. A cart moving machine comprising: a. a substantially rectangular body, defined by a front portion, two generally parallel side portions, and a rear portion; b. a movement assembly positioned on the body and including a power source coupled to a drive mechanism, the movement assembly being adapted to translate the machine relative to a surface; c. a hitch positioned on the front portion of the body and adapted to engage a cart; d. a mast extending from the rear portion of the body, opposite the hitch and including a beacon positioned thereon; and e. a mast positioning mechanism, the mechanism adapted to allow the mast to be selectively positionable relative to the body between an enclosed position toward the hitch and an exposed upright position. | 49,553 |
8,755,483 | 1. A nuclear fuel composition comprising: a nuclear fissile material; and a neutron-absorption material adjoining the nuclear fissile material, the neutron-absorption material including 25 wt %-75 wt % samarium as a partial substitute for a remainder amount of a rare earth element to limit destroying a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity of the nuclear fissile material by the rare earth element, wherein the neutron-absorption material comprises ≦0.5 wt % of a combined weight of the nuclear fissile material and the neutron-absorption material. | 6,098 |
9,011,047 | 1. A supporting structure for an offshore wind power generator, comprising: a lower support part comprising: a lower concrete part provided on a base installed on a sea floor, the lower concrete part being reduced in width from a bottom thereto to a top; at least one lower hollow space formed in the lower concrete part; and a lower inner-pipe attached to a circumferential inner surface of the lower hollow space, the lower inner-pipe being made of steel or FRP (fiber reinforced plastic); and a main body part coupled to an upper end of the lower support part, the main body part comprising: a main-body concrete part; at least one main-body hollow space formed in the main-body concrete part, the main-body hollow space communicating with the lower hollow space; and a main-body inner-pipe attached to a circumferential inner surface of the main-body hollow space, the main-body inner-pipe being made of steel or FRP wherein the main body part comprises a plurality of units assembled with each other with respect to a vertical direction, wherein a shear key and a shear key depression are respectively provided in upper and lower ends of the main-body concrete part of each of the units so that the adjacent upper and lower units are assembled with each other. | 43,021 |
9,753,066 | 1. A method of processing large-scale data regarding an electrical power grid, the method comprising: accessing a large-scale data set comprising information regarding an electrical power grid; processing data of the large-scale data set to identify a filter which is configured to remove erroneous data from the large-scale data set; using the filter, removing erroneous data from the large-scale data set; and after the removing, processing data of the large-scale data set to identify an event detector which is configured to identify events of interest in the large-scale data set. | 19,748 |
9,016,080 | 1. A system comprising: a first heat exchanger; an expansion device in direct fluid communication with the first heat exchanger; a pumping device in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger; and a valve receiving a fluid from the pumping device and movable between a first position allowing the fluid through a first flow path and a second position to allow the fluid to flow through a second flow path, a second heat exchanger; an energy storage device in heat transfer relation to the second heat exchanger; wherein when the valve is in the first position, the first flow path extends from the valve through the first heat exchanger and from the first heat exchanger through the second heat exchanger; and when the valve is in the second position, the second flow path extends from the valve, through the second heat exchanger bypassing the first heat exchanger. | 7,691 |
9,752,202 | 1. A high cleanliness molten steel refining device, comprising: a first container adapted to receive molten steel poured from a molten steel supply device; and a droplet forming device positioned within the first container and comprising a second container comprising: wherein the first container is a tundish, the droplet forming device is within a tundish body of the tundish, and the droplet forming device is adjacent to a lower region where molten steel is poured, wherein the droplet forming device further comprises a molten steel accommodating portion at a lower portion of a molten steel pouring region in the tundish body to accommodate the molten steel poured from the molten steel supply device and is configured to move the poured-in molten steel to the droplet forming portion via the molten steel accommodating portion, and wherein the droplet forming portion further comprises an opening on an opposite side of a region where the plurality of droplet holes are formed is coupled so that an upper portion of the molten steel accommodating portion is passed through via the opening or located at an upper portion of an outer circumference surface of the molten steel storage space of the molten steel accommodating portion so that an upper portion of the molten steel accommodating portion is passed through via the opening. | 46,098 |
8,490,104 | 1. An information processing method comprising: initializing an application on an information processing apparatus by a predetermined system controller of an operating system launched thereon; generating an execution space for the application, the execution space being an environment that executes the application on the predetermined operating system; creating, in the execution space of the application, an execution space controller, including within a local resource manager; allocating, by a global resource manager of the system controller, resources of the information processing apparatus to the execution space in advance of execution of the application; starting one or more processes of the application in the execution space; allocating, by the local resource manager of the execution space, the resources allocated thereto to each of the processes started in the execution space, wherein surplus resources, which result from the local resource manager subtracting the resources allocated to the processes started in the execution space from the resources allocated to the execution space, are reserved in the execution space; requesting the additional resource allocation from the process; determining by the local resource manager whether or not the surplus resources, reserved in the execution space to which the process belongs, satisfies the request for the additional resource allocation; upon the surplus resources not satisfying the request, requesting by the local resource manager to the global resource manager to allocate additional resources to the execution space; and allocating by the local resource manager the additional resources, included in the surplus resources reserved in the execution space and the resources allocated additionally by the global resource manager to the execution space, to the process. | 18,750 |
8,387,211 | 1. An arrester for locking a vehicle door or vehicle hatch or the like in the open position thereof, comprising: a male arrester part for fastening to a first vehicle part, with a locking bolt, and a female arrester part for fastening to a second vehicle part, configured for inserting the locking bolt into the female arrester part, the female arrester part having a rotary latch mechanism for latching the inserted locking bolt and a blocking element for locking the rotary latch mechanism in a position latching the locking bolt, the male arrester part having a first pushbutton mechanism and the female arrester part having a second pushbutton mechanism, the blocking element being configured to be actuated by actuating one of the first and second pushbutton mechanisms, wherein an actuation of the blocking element unlocks the rotary latch mechanism, the unlocked latch mechanism allowing the locking bolt to be unlatched. | 46,192 |
8,581,505 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a controller to (i) receive a feedback signal from a primary-side of a transformer, wherein the feedback signal represents a current in the primary-side of the transformer (ii) to generate one or more duty cycle modulated switch control signals to control a voltage on a primary-side of the transformer to regulate a load current on a secondary-side of the transformer to an approximately average value based on the feedback signal from the primary-side of the transformer without using a feedback signal from a secondary-side of the transformer, and (iii) to compensate for imbalances in a primary-side interface of the transformer. | 3,937 |
9,484,583 | 1. An electrode assembly for a fuel cell comprising: a first catalyst layer directly adjacent an electrolyte membrane and comprising first active catalyst particles supported on first support particles having a first support size; and a second catalyst layer directly adjacent the first catalyst layer and a gas diffusion layer opposite the electrolyte membrane comprising second active catalyst particles supported on second support particles having a second support size, wherein the first support particles are a non-carbon support, the second support particles comprise carbon, and the first support size is greater than the second support size. | 25,081 |
9,306,081 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cell strings each including a plurality of solar cells arranged in a first direction and a first wiring member electrically connecting the plurality of solar cells together, the plurality of solar cell strings arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a second wiring member electrically connecting together the solar cell strings adjacent in the second direction, wherein the second wiring member includes the first wiring-member piece includes first portion of the wiring is exposed from the first insulating layer and is covered with the second insulating layer, and second portion of the wiring is exposed from the second insulating layer and is covered with the first insulating layer, and the first portion of the wiring is electrically connected to the solar cell, and the second portion of the wiring is electrically connected to the second wiring-member piece. | 35,548 |
8,524,334 | 1. An optical film comprising at least one compound represented by formula (1): where Y | 10,395 |
9,431,825 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a combined local management unit, comprising: | 22,906 |
8,412,137 | 1. A radio transmitter comprising: a radio module; a battery from which power is fed to the radio module; a metal plate; and a mounting substrate having a first principal surface facing the metal plate and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface, wherein the radio module comprises a transmission module generating a transmission signal and an antenna configured to wirelessly transmit the transmission signal, the metal plate is located so as to cover a part of the battery and a part of the antenna, the battery is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna, a main radiation direction of the antenna is parallel to a principal surface of the metal plate, the radio module is formed on the first principal surface, and a ground electrode of the radio module is formed on the second principal surface, the mounting substrate being located between the radio module and the ground electrode, and the antenna has a spiral shape, a helical shape, or a meander shape on the mounting substrate, and has pieces on both the first and second principal surfaces of the mounting substrate. | 32,544 |
8,645,022 | 1. A vehicle control system comprising a plurality of actuator driving nodes that control actuators in accordance with a driver's demand and a vehicle status, and communication means for interconnecting said plurality of actuator driving nodes, thereby controlling at least one of driving, steering and braking of a vehicle, wherein each of said actuator driving nodes has a control program selecting function that selects one of a plurality of control programs based on an operation state of itself and operation states of the other actuator driving nodes, wherein each of said actuator driving nodes has a failure detecting function that detects its own failure and notifies the occurrence of the failure to the other actuator driving nodes via said communication means, and said control program selecting function selects a control program for safely stopping control based on the failed state of itself and the failed states of the other actuator driving nodes. | 15,644 |
9,070,849 | 1. A method comprising: first attaching a plurality of side-emitting light emitting diodes to a first plate; second attaching said plurality of side-emitting light emitting diodes to a second plate; creating a pattern of reflective surfaces between said first and second plates; and removing a substrate connected to the first plate attached to said plurality of side-emitting light emitting diodes; wherein said reflective surfaces are configured to reflect light from said plurality of side-emitting light emitting diodes through at least one of said plates, and wherein said first and second attaching and said creating form a light emitting diode apparatus. | 32,272 |
8,479,853 | 1. A system for controlling a flow rate of an airstream through a portion of a front end of a vehicle body, the system comprising: a hood configured to cover the portion of the front end to thereby define an under-hood area; a grille opening disposed at the front end of the vehicle body and configured to permit the airstream to enter the under-hood area from the ambient; a vent opening defined by the hood, wherein the hood is configured to permit at least a portion of the airstream to exit the under-hood area to the ambient; a selectable position shutter assembly configured to control the size of the vent opening and adjust a flow rate of the airstream through the under-hood area; and a divider arranged in the under-hood area and configured to split the airstream into a first portion and a second portion; wherein: | 34,751 |
8,681,712 | 1. A re-establishment method for an Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control entity, the method comprising: performing Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control (AM RLC) entity re-establishment by a Radio Resource Control (RRC) entity; and if only a receiving side of the AM RLC entity is re-established, deleting all control protocol data units (PDUs) except for some control protocol data units (PDUs) related to a transmitting side of the AM RLC entity, wherein the PDUs related to the transmitting side of the AM RLC entity are a move receiving window upper-field (MRW SUFI) and a poll super-field (POLL SUFI); and if only the transmitting side of the AM RLC entity is re-established, deleting all control protocol data units (PDUs) except for some control protocol data units (PDUs) related to the receiving side of the AM RLC entity, wherein the PDUs related to the receiving side of the AM RLC entity are an acknowledgement status report, a window SUFI, and a move receiving window acknowledgment super-field (MRW ACK SUFI). | 23,429 |
9,157,113 | 1. A system for detecting an analyte comprising: a substrate comprising a planar array comprising a population of sensor elements at a density of at least 20,000 sensor elements per 1 mm a detector system configured to distinguish signals generated from individual sensor elements of the separate redundant sensor elements that are bound to the analytes; and a data processor having instructions configured to combine each of the signals distinguished from the separate redundant sensor elements, wherein the signals indicate the presence of the analyte, and wherein the signals comprise optical signals, or non-optical signals generated by the separate redundant sensor elements. | 11,739 |
8,752,338 | 1. A roof mount, comprising: a base plate having at least one mounting hole for receiving at least one screw for attaching said mounting plate to a roof surface, said base plate further including a first threaded attachment element; a flashing member having a raised section with a flashing aperture and a flange extending about a periphery of a base of said raised section, said raised section defining a recess in a bottom surface of said flashing member sized to at least partially receive and surround said base plate when said flange rests on the roof surface; an attachment body having first and second lateral edges and a second threaded attachment element configured to threadably engage said first threaded attachment element; and a slide bracket having: | 48,833 |
9,417,948 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of data storage cells; and circuitry configured to: | 15,609 |
8,476,643 | 1. A radiation-emitting body comprising: a layer sequence being free of a substrate and having an active region for generating electromagnetic radiation; a coupling-out layer for coupling out the generated radiation, said coupling-out layer being arranged on a first side of the layer sequence; a reflection layer for reflecting the generated radiation, said reflection layer being arranged on a second side of the layer sequence opposite the first side; and an interface of the layer sequence which faces the reflection layer and which has a lateral patterning having a plurality of projecting structure elements, the reflection layer being connected to the layer sequence such that the reflection layer has a patterning corresponding to the patterning of the interface, wherein the reflection layer contains a metal or is formed as a metallic layer, and wherein the interface of the layer sequence is roughened such that the structure elements are distributed irregularly on the interface. | 48,848 |
9,192,785 | 1. A device for determining a position of a component that is moveable in a linear manner along an assigned axis, the device comprising: a reference element that extends in a direction of the assigned axis, the reference element being assigned to the component, the component operable to be brought into mechanical contact with the reference element; and a piezo transducer arranged on the reference element, the piezo transducer operable to generate and receive vibrations in the material used for the reference element, wherein the component is in mechanical contact with an edge of the reference element, on which the piezo transducer is arranged, wherein the mechanical contact between the component and the reference element is created with a sliding or rolling element, and wherein the sliding or rolling element is moveable in a groove of the reference element. | 31,722 |
8,645,092 | 1. A method for providing quality control services in connection with a project for initiation of a process plant wherein field devices are disposed at respective field sites in the process plant, the method comprising: generating quality control data at the field sites with a portable computer in response to quality control task information provided via a user interface of the portable computer; transmitting, from the portable computer, the quality control data to a host computer having a database with initiation project history information wherein the initiation of a process plant includes phases leading up to normal, live operation of the process plant; and storing the quality control data in the database of the host computer by integrating the quality control data with the initiation project history information in the database. | 28,470 |
9,735,407 | 1. An energy storage apparatus, comprising: one or more energy storage devices; and an outer housing that houses the one or more energy storage devices, wherein the outer housing includes an outer housing main body, a cover that closes an opening of the outer housing main body, an outer terminal disposed on the cover, and a communication part defining a passageway allowing a communication between an interior and an exterior of the outer housing, wherein the communication part includes a functional membrane that extends substantially parallel to the cover for passage of a gas in a first direction perpendicular to the cover and prohibits passage of a liquid, the communication part further including a protruding section that extends substantially parallel to the cover for passage of the gas, which has passed the functional membrane, in a second direction parallel to the cover, and wherein the functional membrane is confined inside the communication part. | 28,341 |
8,472,278 | 1. A circuit for adjusting a clock signal having a first transition from a first logic level to a second logic level, a second transition from the second logic level to the first logic level, and a third transition from the first logic level to the second logic level in a period, the circuit comprising: a performance monitoring circuit provided in a semiconductor die and configured to measure at least one performance characteristic associated with a functional circuit in the semiconductor die and generate a measured at least one performance characteristic; and a clock adjustment circuit configured to receive the measured at least one performance characteristic and to adjust occurrence of one of the second transition and the third transition or occurrences of both of the second transition and the third transition of the clock signal based on the measured at least one performance characteristic to generate an adjusted clock signal having a primary transition from the first logic level to the second logic level and a secondary transition from the second logic level to the first logic level. | 6,299 |
9,200,598 | 1. An assembly housed inside an LPG fuel tank for motor vehicles, said assembly comprising: an LPG pump; a support flange configured to support system operating and safety devices, said support flange being inside the LPG fuel tank and including a hole sufficiently large to permit removal of the LPG pump from inside the LPG fuel tank without a need to empty the LPG fuel tank first; a container configured to house the LPG pump, said container being sealed to and integral with the support flange at the hole inside the LPG fuel tank; a cap configured to seal the container housing the LPG pump; a fuel suction pipe configured to convey LPG from the LPG fuel tank; a fuel intake pipe configured to convey the LPG from the fuel suction pipe into the container; a flow control device, disposed between the fuel intake pipe and the fuel suction pipe, and configured to shut off or open flow of the LPG from the fuel suction pipe via the fuel intake pipe to said container before the LPG flows to the container housing the LPG pump, said flow control device being completely arranged on the support flange between the fuel intake pipe and the fuel suction pipe, and being operable from outside the LPG fuel tank; a fuel supply pipe for supplying said fuel to an engine and being connected to said engine and passing through the cap; a device configured to empty the container, the cap and a section of the fuel supply pipe downstream from the flow control device of any LPG remaining after the flow control device has been closed; and a return pipe configured to return the LPG to the LPG fuel tank. | 21,337 |
8,913,616 | 1. A network protocol for data transfer between an initiator that is an interface initiating communication over a network and a destination that is an interface responding to the communication initiation of the initiator, wherein: a command signal containing an instruction is transferred via a channel between the initiator and the destination, the instruction defining a meaning and a characteristic of information contained in a transfer signal transferred from the initiator to the destination via a channel or in a response signal transferred from the destination via the channel, a most significant bit of the command signal indicates a priority corresponding to a transaction between the initiator and the destination in the network when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to the first transfer signal transmitted via the channel, and indicates whether the transfer signal is a last transfer signal transferred between the initiator and the destination when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to the transfer signal following the first transfer signal that a highest priority is assigned to a transaction between the initiator and the destination in the network when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to address information contained in the transfer signal and response information contained in the response signal, and indicates last data of a signal transferred between the initiator and the destination when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to control information contained in the transfer signal and data contained in the transfer signal and the response signal, the control information contained in the transfer signal further includes a priority field, and a priority of the transaction is determined based on a value obtained by combining the most significant bit of the command signal and the priority field. | 16,880 |
8,571,147 | 1. A method of correlating a digital communications signal from a satellite, comprising: (a) defining a window equal to a portion of an epoch of said digital communication signal, wherein the portion corresponds to one of a plurality of portions that span the entire epoch; (b) correlating said digital communication signal across said window; (c) identifying whether a correlation peak results from said correlating; and (d) establishing timing parameters for receiving additional digital communication signals from other satellites in response to presence of said correlation peak, wherein said establishing comprises establishing the timing parameters based on a location of the window within the epoch. | 22,669 |
9,811,773 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by a computing system, a code; determining, by the computing system, an image on which the code is to be superimposed; associating, by the computing system, a block of the code with a corresponding part of the image; determining, by the computing system, at least one of the block of the code or the corresponding part of the image is relatively more important than, respectively, another portion of the code or another part of the image; adjusting, by the computing system, an opacity of the block of the code to generate an adjusted opacity for the block of the code, wherein the adjusting the opacity of the block of the code to generate an adjusted opacity for the block of the code is based on the determining that at least one of the block of the code or the corresponding part of the image is relatively more important than, respectively, another portion of the code or another part of the image; and generating, by the computing system, a personalized code from the code superimposed on the image based on the adjusted opacity for the block of the code. | 35,238 |
9,496,432 | 1. A method for forming front side metal contacts of a photovoltaic cell, the method comprising: providing a dielectric layer on a textured surface of a silicon substrate, said dielectric layer being a surface passivation layer; forming openings through the dielectric layer at predetermined locations where a patterned metal silicide layer needs to be formed; providing a metal layer on the silicon substrate, at least at the location of the predetermined openings; performing a pulsed laser annealing step providing at least one UN laser pulse with a laser fluence in the range between 0.3 J/cm performing an etching for removing unreacted metal in the metal layer. | 23,749 |
8,997,946 | 1. An electro-mechanical brake assembly, comprising: a brake head; a brake disk stack adjacent the brake head and having a center axis; and an electro-mechanical actuator mounted to the brake head for applying braking pressure to the brake disk stack, the actuator being radially offset from the center axis; the actuator including: | 8,082 |
8,696,721 | 1. A fastener, comprising: a proximal fastener head and fastener shaft having a tip distal to the fastener head, the fastener head comprising a screw lumen, an external groove and one or more openings between the screw lumen and external groove, and an expandable member located at least partially in the external groove and protruding through the one or more openings into the screw lumen; and a secondary screw configured for the screw lumen comprising a screw body with threads and a screw head having an angled edge; wherein the screw lumen is configured such that the secondary screw may in a distal position reside in a position completely distal to a screw lumen opening and expandable member such that the expandable member is in a resting position and when rotated from said completely distal position into a proximal position the secondary screw angled edge resides in a position about the external groove such that the expandable member enlarges to an expanded configuration in which an outer diameter of the expandable member is greater than a largest outer diameter of the fastener. | 2,527 |
9,212,058 | 1. An apparatus for producing hydrogen, comprising: a preprocessing apparatus configured to supply hydro-carbon feed materials to a cylindrical or frustum shaped reaction chamber at or near atmospheric pressure and perform more than one of the following functions: the cylindrical or frustum shaped reaction chamber containing at least one cylindrical or frustum shaped plasma injection array; a flow processing train comprising a reacting region and a particulate separation mechanism, located downstream from said cylindrical or frustum shaped reaction chamber, an outlet located in a base region of the flow processing train, the hydrogen sieve comprising a structure that is selectively permeable to hydrogen, | 7,948 |
9,008,966 | 1. A system for applying one or more route-based modifications to a map, the system comprising: a pathfinder module, implemented using one or more processors, configured to: a restyling module, implemented using the one or more processors, configured to: | 43,159 |
8,571,897 | 1. A computer system for administering applications for insurance, comprising: a processor; a memory storage device having stored data indicative of criteria for eligibility for issue of a life insurance policy prior to comprehensive underwriting, in communication with the processor; the processor configured to: receive data indicative of an application by a proposed insured for life insurance for issue prior to comprehensive underwriting; determine, based on the received data, whether the proposed insured is eligible for life insurance for issue prior to comprehensive underwriting; responsive to a determination that the proposed insured is eligible, generate an output signal having data indicative of instructions to issue a life insurance policy on the life of the proposed insured, and an output signal having data indicative of instructions to commence comprehensive underwriting of the proposed insured, insured; provide to an insurance process administration computer system data relating to the issued initial policy for determining insurance data associated with the issued initial policy; receive data indicative of a result of the comprehensive underwriting process; based on the result of the comprehensive underwriting process, determine terms of a final issued policy; and provide to the insurance process administration computer system data relating to the final issued policy. | 41,426 |
9,412,088 | 1. A method comprising: sending and receiving, by a processor, at a network interface, an interactive communication, wherein the interactive communication is between a first user and one or more other users and wherein the first user is at a first communication device and the one or more other users are at one or more other communication devices; receiving, by the processor, an incoming email during the interactive communication; automatically placing, by the processor, at a communication processing module, the interactive communication on hold in response to receiving the incoming email; in response to placing the interactive communication on hold: sending, by the processor, a response to the email while the interactive communication is on hold; in response to sending the email, taking, by the processor, the interactive communication off hold; and presenting, by the processor, in a user interface, the context information taken from the interactive communication prior to the interactive communication being placed on hold. | 31,533 |
8,716,890 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit; and at least one active circuit in the multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit, the at least one active circuit synthesizing at least one passive lumped element in the multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit. | 21,897 |
9,783,922 | 1. A washing machine comprising: a cabinet; a tub in the cabinet; an air supply unit, which is on an upper surface of the tub to supply air to a center of the tub in a circulating manner; a detergent receiver located at a front upper part of the tub and located at the right or left side of the air supply unit to supply detergent into the tub; a subsidiary detergent receiver located at the front upper part of the tub and located at the other side of the air supply unit opposed to the detergent receiver to supply subsidiary detergent into the tub; a connecting hose connecting the detergent receiver and the subsidiary detergent receiver and guiding water supplied to the detergent receiver to the subsidiary detergent receiver; and a dispenser cover for opening and closing an upper face of the detergent dispenser. | 30,841 |
9,841,755 | 1. A job plan creation system comprising: at least one processor configured to: a central computer, that includes the at least one processor, configured to: collectively control an operating state of a plurality of Numerical Control (NC) machine tools disposed along a plurality of processing lines based on the reconfigured job plan. | 40,019 |
8,850,371 | 1. A method comprising: using a computer system, receiving a design netlist representing a datapath operable to execute a plurality of functions corresponding to a plurality of respective opcode combinations, wherein said datapath comprises an input stage, a register stage, and an output stage, further wherein said register stage comprises a plurality of registers; for a first function corresponding to a first opcode combination, automatically determining a subset of unused registers in said plurality of registers when said datapath performs said first function; and automatically inserting clock gating logic into said design netlist corresponding to said subset of unused registers, wherein said clock gating logic is operable to dynamically clock gate said subset of unused registers contemporaneously when said datapath executes said first function corresponding to said first opcode combination. | 36,194 |
8,641,723 | 1. A device to change the distance between a first member of the human skeletal system and a second member of the human skeletal system, comprising: a flowable substance, wherein this substance is a liquid, gas, or gel; reservoir, wherein this reservoir contains the flowable substance wherein this reservoir is configured to be implanted into the human body, and wherein movement of a moving portion of this reservoir causes the flowable substance to flow; a turbine, wherein this turbine is configured to be implanted into the human body, and wherein this turbine is rotated by a flow of the flowable substance; a pair of thread-engaged members, wherein this pair of thread-engaged members is configured to be implanted into the human body, wherein rotation of a first thread-engaged member relative to a second thread-engaged member changes the distance that these members span together, and wherein changes in the distance that these members span together change the distance between a first member of the human skeletal system and a second member of the human skeletal system; and a gear sequence that transduces rotation of the turbine into rotation of a first thread-engaged member relative to a second thread-engaged member, wherein this gear sequence decreases the magnitude of rotational movement when transducing rotational movement from the turbine to the first thread-engaged member. | 49,558 |
9,644,094 | 1. A butyl rubber composition comprising halogenated butyl rubber, styrene-isobutylene block copolymer, white filler, white reinforcing agent, brominated alkylphenol-formaldehyde resin, phenol resin, and methylol melamine, 5 to 45 parts by weight of the styrene-isobutylene block copolymer being added to 100 parts by weight of the halogenated butyl rubber. | 1,068 |
9,683,012 | 1. A method for preparing a population of antibodies wherein over 65% of the population are active antibodies, comprising: (a) loading a sample comprising a mixture of antibodies to a pre-equilibrated cation exchange column, then optionally washing the column with a wash buffer, and eluting antibodies bound to the column with an elution buffer, thereby removing host cell proteins (HCPs) and antibody isoforms from the sample, wherein the sample of step (a) has a conductivity of 5 to 7 mS/cm; (b) loading a sample prepared by mixing salt with the eluate of step (a) to a hydrophobic interaction column (HIC), and eluting the antibodies bound to the column with an elution buffer, thereby removing the host cell proteins (HCPs) from the eluate of step (a); and (c) loading the eluate of step (b) to an anion exchange column and collecting the flow-through. | 13,353 |
8,370,310 | 1. In a computing environment, a method of managing database recovery time, the method comprising: (a) receiving user input specifying a target recovery time for a database; (b) determining an amount of time to read a data page of the database from persistent storage; (c) determining an amount of time to process a log record of the database to apply changes specified in the log record to a data page; (d) determining a number of dirty pages that presently would be read in recovery if a database failure occurred, wherein a list of dirty pages is contained within one or more dirty page lists, each dirty page list comprising a page identification (pageID) for each of one or more dirty pages and an associated first dirtied log sequence number (firstDirtiedLSN) and wherein each data page is identified by a pageID, an indication of whether or not it is a dirty page, and a page log sequence number (pageLSN) corresponding to a log entry corresponding to a most recent change to the each data page; (e) determining a number of log records that would be processed in recovery if a database failure occurred; (f) adjusting at least one of the number of dirty pages that presently would be read in recovery or the number of log records that would be processed in recovery according to the specified target recovery time, wherein adjusting at least one of the number of dirty pages that presently would be read in recovery or the number of log records that would be processed in recovery according to the specified target recovery time is based on a contiguity factor, wherein the contiguity factor is based on database growth size which determines a quantity of data pages that can be read from persistent storage in a sequential read fashion. | 26,940 |
9,306,015 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a channel layer on a substrate; cell trench patterns and dummy trench patterns in the channel layer, each of the cell trench patterns including a cell shield pattern at a lower region of a cell trench, a cell gate pattern at a middle region of the cell trench, and a cell capping pattern at an upper region of the cell trench, and each of the dummy trench patterns including a dummy trench wider and deeper than the cell trench, a dummy shield pattern at a lower region of the dummy trench, a dummy gate pattern at a middle region of the dummy trench, and a dummy capping pattern at an upper region of the dummy trench; a source electrode on the cell trench patterns filling grooves between the cell trench patterns or the cell trench patterns and the dummy trench patterns; source isolation regions below bottom surfaces of the grooves; source regions under inclined sidewalls of the grooves and extending below the bottom surfaces of the grooves; and an interlayer insulating layer on the dummy trench patterns, wherein an upper surface of the source electrode on the cell trench pattern is flat, and a level of the upper surface of the source electrode is at the same level as an upper surface of the interlayer insulating layer on the dummy trench patterns, and wherein an impurity concentration of each source region is higher than that of each source isolation region. | 29,449 |
8,808,413 | 1. A large diameter abrasive wheel comprising: a body having an aspect ratio defined as a ratio between diameter to thickness of at least about 10:1, wherein the body includes: | 27,201 |
9,622,300 | 1. An SSL assembly comprising an alternating current, referred to as AC, solid state lighting, referred to as SSL, unit; wherein the AC SSL unit comprises at least two SSL devices which are arranged in an anti-parallel manner with respect to one another; and a driver circuit which comprises a resonant circuit that is configured to adapt an input AC drive voltage at an input of the resonant circuit into an output AC drive voltage; wherein the output AC drive voltage is applied to the AC SSL unit; wherein the SSL assembly comprises a plurality of AC SSL units which are arranged in parallel with respect to one another; the driver circuit comprises a corresponding plurality of resonant circuits; wherein each resonant circuit of the plurality of resonant circuits for a corresponding AC SSL unit of the plurality of AC SSL units exhibits a resonance frequency which is dependent on an on-voltage of the corresponding AC SSL unit; and each of the plurality of resonant circuits is configured to adapt the input AC drive voltage at the input of the respective resonant circuit into an output AC drive voltage which is applied to the respective AC SSL unit. | 34,905 |
9,744,001 | 1. A dental appliance system, comprising: a first appliance of a series of appliances designed to incrementally implement a treatment plan, comprising a first shell having a plurality of cavities therein designed to receive teeth of a jaw in a first stage of the treatment plan with at least one of the plurality of cavities being a cavity configured to accommodate virtual maximum dimensions, in three dimensions above the gingival line, of an unerupted or erupting tooth therein; and a second appliance of the series of appliances, comprising a second shell having a plurality of cavities therein designed to receive teeth of the jaw in a second stage of the treatment plan the second shell having a cavity that corresponds with the cavity configured to accommodate virtual maximum dimensions of an unerupted or erupting tooth of the first shell and wherein the virtual maximum dimensions are calculated by taking the maximum dimensions of two or more virtual tooth geometry data sets of the same type of tooth. | 8,461 |
9,752,045 | 1. A conductive polymer composite comprising: (A) a π-conjugated polymer, and (B) a dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (1) and having a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000, wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R 2 represents any of a single bond, an ester group, and a linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the hydrocarbon group optionally containing either or both of an ether group and an ester group; “Z” represents any of a single bond, a phenylene group, a naphthylene group, an ether group, and an ester group; and “a” is a number satisfying 0<a≦1.0. | 34,182 |
9,560,537 | 1. A method of estimating a location of an interference signal source, the method comprising: using a first antenna configured to receive an interference signal from the interference signal source; using a second antenna arranged proximate to the first antenna and configured to receive global positioning system (GPS) signals; determining an initial trend in variation in power of the interference signal from the interference signal source relative to a position of the second antenna by iteratively performing steps including setting, upon determining the initial trend, a current trend to be the initial trend; directing a repositioning of the second antenna by iteratively performing steps including determining an estimate of the location of the interference signal source upon obtaining a minimum number of usable measurements and observing in the current trend a peak measurement of power exceeding a minimum threshold; determining a confidence in the estimate; and indicating the location of the interference signal source, upon determining the estimate, on a map presented on a display; wherein the indication of the location includes an indication of the confidence in the estimate. | 6,096 |
8,350,067 | 1. A compound having the formula: wherein Q is —C(O)H, —CH═CHC(O)OY 1 , —C(R)H(CH 2 ) n OY 1 , or —C(R)HCH 2 C(O)OY 1 ; R is H or —OY 2 ; n is 1 or 2; Y 1 , Y 2 , Y 3 , and Y 4 are each independently H or a hydroxyl protecting group; U is —OY 6 ; Y 5 is H or a hydroxyl protecting group or Y 5 , together with the oxygen atom to which it is bound, is a leaving group; and Y 6 is H or a hydroxyl protecting group or Y 6 , together with the oxygen atom to which it is bound, is a leaving group, provided that when Q is —(CH 2 ) 3 OY 1 , —OY 6 is a leaving group, and Y 1 , Y 3 , and Y 4 are protecting groups, Y 5 is not H. | 454 |
8,868,077 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a first relocation request message corresponding to a user equipment in a source Radio Access Network (RAN); in response to receiving the first relocation request message, multicasting a second relocation request message to multiple local RANs, the second relocation request message including parameters enabling the multiple local RANs to allocate resources such that a pre-configured relocation acknowledgement is received from any of the multiple local RANs in response to the second relocation request message; receiving a first pre-configured relocation acknowledgement from a first local RAN of the multiple local RANs to which a user equipment may be handed into; and forwarding the first pre-configured relocation acknowledgement toward the source RAN. | 37,655 |
8,556,981 | 1. A medical implant comprising: a monolithic metal insert having a bone ingrowth structure, an intermediate structure and a bearing support structure, said bone ingrowth structure having a porosity sufficient to promote bone ingrowth; a bearing surface formed from a polymer material, said bearing surface being attached to said bearing support structure, wherein said bearing support structure has a greater porosity relative to the intermediate structure such that the bearing support structure allows the polymer material of the bearing surface to attach thereto and such that the intermediate structure inhibits said polymer material from translating through said bearing support structure to said bone ingrowth structure, and wherein, along an axis passing through the bone ingrowth structure, the intermediate structure, and the bearing support structure, each of the bone ingrowth structure and the bearing support structure includes respective first portions having a first porosity and respective second portions having a second porosity, said first porosity of said respective first portions being different than said second porosity of said respective second portions. | 47,751 |
9,692,490 | 1. A method, comprising: configuring a transmit beam of a first node in a wireless network to transmit a signal at a plurality of first angles; while the first node is transmitting the signal at each first angle in the plurality of first angles, calculating an RF map based at least in part on characteristics of the transmit beam at each first angle in the plurality of first angles, corresponding characteristics of the receive beam at each second angle in the plurality of second angles, and corresponding measured signal parameters at each second angle in the plurality of second angles. | 13,410 |
8,857,567 | 1. A powered jib boom attachment usable with mobile cranes, boom truck cranes, and telescopic boom assemblies having a telescopic crane boom with a distal tip, said jib boom attachment comprising: a jib boom mounting bracket having a lower portion and fixed connection to the distal tip of a telescopic crane boom; a jib boom rotation base in pivoting connection with said jib boom mounting bracket, allowing up and down vertical articulation of said jib boom rotation base relative to said jib boom mounting bracket, said jib boom rotation base having a bottom portion and a top surface positionable into a horizontal plane; a rotation bearing drive assembly having an upper portion rotatable up to approximately 360-degrees relative to a lower portion, said lower portion having fixed connection with said top surface of said jib boom rotation base, said rotation bearing drive assembly fully operational to provide approximately 360-degrees of rotation regardless of the boom angle of an attached telescopic crane boom, said jib boom mounting bracket staying in fixed in orientation to the connected telescopic crane boom distal tip during all rotation of said rotation bearing drive assembly and while transferring bending and torsion loads from said jib boom member to the connected telescopic crane boom; a jib boom support structure having fixed connection to said upper portion of said rotation bearing drive assembly, said jib boom support structure having a surface remote from said rotation bearing drive assembly in a geometric plane substantially parallel to that of said top surface of said jib boom rotation base, wherein when said top surface of said jib boom rotation base is in a horizontally-extending plane said surface of said jib boom support structure remote from said rotation bearing drive assembly is also in a horizontally-extending plane; a jib boom member having an upper surface and fixed connection to said jib boom support structure that places said upper surface of said jib boom member in the same geometric plane of said surface of said jib boom support structure remote from said rotation bearing drive assembly; and a linear leveling actuator connected between said lower portion of said jib boom mounting bracket and said bottom portion of said jib boom rotation base, said connection of said linear leveling actuator to said jib boom mounting bracket below said pivoting connection of said jib boom rotation base to said jib boom mounting bracket, said linear leveling actuator having a cylinder articulating said bottom portion of said jib boom rotation base up and down in response to out-of-level orientations of said top surface of said jib boom rotation base resulting from out-of-level orientations in said upper surface of said jib boom member, said linear leveling actuator automatically extending and contracting different amounts in response to each instance of out-of-level positioning experienced by said jib boom member, with said extension and contraction being proportional to the amount of out-of-level positioning said jib boom member attains and also being commenced as often as needed to maintain said top surface of said jib boom rotation base in a horizontally-extending plane, said linear leveling actuator also extending and contracting while a telescopic crane boom having fixed connection to said jib boom mounting bracket is raised and lowered; an electronic leveling sensor in fixed association with said jib boom rotation base and also in electrical communication with said linear leveling actuator; and power supply means adapted for providing power to operate said electronic leveling sensor and said linear leveling actuator, said power supply means associated with said jib boom rotation base and in electrical communication with said electronic leveling sensor and said linear leveling actuator, wherein when a change in load placed upon said jib boom member causes out-of-level positioning in said jib boom member and also in said jib boom support structure having fixed connection to said jib boom member, said top surface of said jib boom rotation base in a geometric plane substantially parallel to that of said jib boom support structure deviates from its horizontal plane, said electronic leveling sensor in fixed association with said jib boom rotation base senses said deviation and electrically communicates with said linear leveling actuator, causing said linear leveling actuator to automatically extend and contract a proportional amount in response and push or pull said jib boom rotation base an appropriate amount to cause said top surface of said jib boom rotation base, said jib boom support structure, and said jib boom member to regain level orientation in a horizontally-extending plane, with said automatic extension and contraction of said linear leveling actuator in response to out-of-level positioning in said jib boom member further occurring during articulation of the telescopic crane boom to which said jib boom mounting bracket has a fixed connection. | 8,611 |
9,254,451 | 1. Process for the continuous evaporation of halogen hydracids and water from biomass-hydrolyzates characterized in that water- and halogen-hydrate-containing biomass-hydrolyzates are continuously transferred into an evacuated container which is partially filled with a heat carrier that is chemically inert and insoluble with the biomass hydrolyzates and water and that is continuously heated so that the supplied heat will in whole or in part be transferred to the biomass-hydrolyzate for the purpose of evaporation of water and halogen hydracids, which are then continuously removed and separated via the top of the container, while biomass-hydrolyzate-particles that have formed are continuously removed at the side or from the bottom of the container and separated, wherein the biomass-hydrolyzates are fed into the container via at least one of a nozzle below the phase boundary of the heat carrier and a nozzle pointing downwards above the phase boundary of the heat carrier, said nozzle creating a two-component atomization effect. | 32,188 |
8,505,381 | 1. A capacitive acceleration sensor comprising: an acceleration sensor moving part coupled to an anchor which is external to the acceleration sensor moving part; an acceleration sensor stationary part which, together with the acceleration sensor moving part, forms a capacitor for detecting acceleration; a sealing structure hermetically enclosing but not contacting said acceleration sensor moving part; and at least one support pillar enclosed by but not directly contacted by said acceleration sensor moving part, both ends of said at least one support pillar being in contact with inside walls of said sealing structure; wherein said acceleration sensor moving part is electrically connected to said at least one support pillar when an acceleration is applied to the acceleration sensor and when no acceleration is applied to the acceleration sensor. | 16,768 |
9,488,120 | 1. A method of calibrating injection of fuel into at least one combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine operating at zero brake torque, the internal combustion engine comprising at least one fuel injector and a fuel rail pressurized to a fuel rail pressure, the method comprising steps of: (a) calculating an indicated torque for the internal combustion engine operating at a target fuelling from inputs comprising a fuelling command, the target fuelling being attained by operating the engine at a target engine speed; (b) calculating a friction torque for the internal combustion engine from inputs comprising the target engine speed; (c) calculating a torque error from a difference between the indicated torque and the friction torque; and (d) determining a pulse-width correction factor for a first baseline pulse-width applied to actuate the at least one fuel injector whereby the torque error is within a predetermined range when the internal combustion engine is operating at the target fuelling. | 20,173 |
9,465,727 | 1. A system, comprising: a first processor having a first data bus width and a first memory access rate; a second processor having a second data bus width, which is substantially wider as compared to the first data bus width of the first processor, and having a second memory access rate, which is substantially lower as compared to the first memory access rate of the first processor; a single direct random access memory unit (DRAM) comprising a plurality of memory chips electrically connected with one another by an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus, which are disposed in a stacked arrangement and extend through the plurality of memory chips in a stacking direction, where the data bus of the plurality of memory chips has a third data bus width, which is substantially wider as compared to the first data bus width of the first processor, and has a third memory access rate, which is substantially higher as compared to the second memory access rate of the second processor; and a single memory controller connected to the first and second processors and to the address bus, the data bus, and the control bus, and further to a plurality of chip select enable signal lines for outputting a respective chip select enable signal to each of the plurality of memory chips, wherein: the single memory controller receives memory access requests from each of the first and second processors and converts an address signal within a given memory access request into a set comprising one or more of the chip select enable signals and the address signal, which is outputted to the address bus, so as to relay inputs and outputs of data between each of the first and second processors and one or more of the memory chips, the single memory controller: (i) converts data flowing from the first processor to the DRAM into a modified, wider data signal having a width equal to the third data bus width of the data bus of the plurality of memory chips; (ii) converts data flowing from the DRAM to the first processor into a modified, narrower data signal having a width equal to the first data bus width of the first data bus of the first processor; (iii) does not convert data flowing from the second processor to the DRAM; and (iv) does not convert data flowing from the DRAM to the second processor, and the single memory controller: (i) stores a first backlog of memory access requests received from the first processor; (ii) stores a second backlog of memory access requests received from the second processor; and (iii) services the first backlog of memory access requests or the second backlog of memory access requests on a priority basis depending on which backlog is of a greater number. | 16,429 |
9,683,202 | 1. A softener composition, comprising: (A) 0.05 to 50 wt % of polyurethane-based polymeric UV light absorber; (B) 2 to 15 wt % of cationic softener; and (C) 35 to 97 wt % of water wherein the polyurethane-based polymeric UV light absorber is represented by formula (I): wherein A is selected from the group consisting of the following: wherein, x is an integer of 15 to 20, y is an integer of 20 to 50, and z is an integer of 10 to 15, m is an integer of 15 to 20, and * is a site for bonding to M; each of M and U is —NHCOO; and Y is selected from the group consisting of the following: wherein n is an integer of 5 to 10. | 40,722 |
9,072,653 | 1. A medication carrying case, comprising: a first case half hingedly attached to a second case half; each of said first case half and said second case half having upstanding sidewalls, a perimeter edge, and an open interior volume; wherein said perimeter edge of said first case half is removably securable to said perimeter edge of said second case half; at least one removable medication support member having an upper surface and an underside surface; wherein said at least one removable medication support member is removably secured within said interior volume of said first case half or said interior volume of said second case half via fasteners disposed on said underside of said at least one removable medication support member; said upper surface of at least one removable medication support member comprising at least one depression for supporting a medical item therein; an elongated strap positioned over said at least one depression, said strap having a first strap end connected to said upper surface of said at least one removable medication support member along one side of said at least one depression, and a second strap end removably connected to said upper surface of said at least one removable medication support member along an opposite side of said depression. | 34,659 |
8,368,584 | 1. An airspace risk mitigation system comprising: a plurality of airspace input sources comprising: an airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system configured to receive airspace data from the plurality of airspace input sources, correlating airspace data with new or known objects in the airspace, and fusing airspace data into a common airspace data set, wherein the airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system generates target and system status information; a communications link for communicating between at least one of the plurality of airspace input sources and the airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system; and a risk mitigation support system configured to calculate a risk associated with aircraft operation in the airspace as a function of the target and system status information, wherein the risk mitigation support system is further configured to determine an interaction volume of a manned aircraft in the airspace as a function of expected maneuverability parameters of the manned aircraft in the airspace. | 892 |
8,713,453 | 1. An apparatus comprising at least one physical computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when loaded into at least one hardware processor and executed, transform the at least one hardware processor to perform the following: receive at least one electronic communication addressed to at least one user of communications platform software; analyze the at least one electronic communication to identify at least one third-party service that sent the at least one electronic communication; and generate at least one upsell service offer for presentation to the user based on analyzing the at least one electronic communication, wherein the at least one upsell service offer comprises | 35,495 |
8,614,994 | 1. A method for communication, the method comprising: receiving a signal comprising a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS); determining a first sampling rate based on a PSS transmission rate or a length of said received PSS; using a correlation reference sequence to synchronize to said received PSS at said first sampling rate; and detecting said received SSS at a second sampling rate, wherein said second sampling rate is different from said first sampling rate and wherein said second sampling, rate equals a sampling rate corresponding to an associated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) rate. | 39,594 |
9,199,405 | 1. An apparatus for conveying preforms to a blow-molding machine for producing containers from a thermoplastic material, comprising: a sorting device in which the preforms are sorted with respect to orientation; a gravity conveying device arranged at a discharge end of the sorting device to feed the preforms to the blow-molding machine; and transfer device, arranged between the sorting device and the gravity conveying device, to transfer the preforms from the sorting device to the gravity conveying device; wherein the sorting device, the conveying device, and the transfer device each comprise guide surfaces with guide surface contours over which the preforms are guided through the apparatus, wherein the guide surface contours adjoin each other in a substantially stepless manner, the transfer device being configured as a transfer element with a curved guide surface having a shape at a sorting device end adapted to the guide surface contour of the sorting device, and having a shape at a gravity conveying device end adapted to the guide surface contour of the gravity conveying device, wherein the two end-side guide surface contours differ from each other, and the guide surface of the transfer element extends between the two ends in a stepless manner. | 10,709 |
8,785,075 | 1. A fuel cell formed by stacking an electrolyte electrode assembly and separators, said electrolyte electrode assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between said anode and said cathode, said electrolyte electrode assembly being sandwiched between said separators, said separators each comprising: a sandwiching section having a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas along an electrode surface of said anode and an oxygen-containing gas channel for supplying an oxygen-containing gas along an electrode surface of said cathode, separately; a bridge connected to said sandwiching section, and having a fuel gas supply channel for supplying the fuel gas to said fuel gas channel; a fuel gas supply unit connected to said bridge, a fuel gas supply passage for supplying the fuel gas to said fuel gas supply channel extending through said fuel gas supply unit in a stacking direction; and an insulating seal formed around the fuel gas supply passage to seal the fuel gas supply passage from the electrolyte electrode assembly, wherein a fuel gas inlet for supplying the fuel gas to said fuel gas channel, an annular protrusion extending along the side of said fuel gas channel and contacting an outer circumferential region of said anode, a fuel gas discharge channel for discharging the fuel gas after consumption in said fuel gas channel, and a detour path forming wall which contacts said anode, for preventing the fuel gas from flowing straight from said fuel gas inlet to said fuel gas discharge channel are provided in said sandwiching section, and wherein the annular protrusion has a ring shape with a partial cutaway to form the fuel gas discharge channel. | 24,666 |
9,571,330 | 1. A computer network system comprising: plurality of network management tools; a network segment comprising a plurality of hardware devices; and a proxy for interconnecting the network management tools with the network segment; the network management tools, each being assigned at least one functionality for monitoring and controlling at least one of said hardware devices which is polled by the network management tools, wherein the network management tools send a multitude of requests to the proxy for information from said at least one of the hardware devices, and the proxy is configured to combine a plurality of the requests from the different network management tools into a single combined request and to send said combined request to said one of the hardware devices to obtain from said at least one of the hardware devices the information requested by said plurality of the requests from the different network management tools; and wherein: each of the hardware devices has an IP address and some of the hardware devices have duplicate ones of the IP addresses; the proxy receives packets from the hardware devices, each of said packets including the IP address of the hardware device that sent said each packet; when the proxy receives one of the data packets from one of the hardware devices having one of the duplicate IP addresses, the proxy changes the IP address in said one of the data packets to translate the duplicate IP address in said one of the data packets to a unique address to enable the network management tools to work with hardware devices with duplicate IP addresses; the proxy includes a database for storing the requests from the different network management tools, a configuration unit for consolidating the requests from the different network management tools into a single bulk request, and a polling unit for initiating the single bulk request on said one of the hardware devices; and the configuration unit compiles the requests to a configuration for the polling unit. | 35,736 |
8,898,281 | 1. An information distribution method comprising: acquiring, by a computer, terminal location information of a plurality of mobile terminals, the terminal location information representing each location at which each of the plurality of mobile terminals receives distributed evaluation information of a facility; determining whether a user of one of the plurality of mobile terminals which have received the evaluation information has visited the facility in the evaluation information and calculating a visit distance between the facility which the user has visited and a location at which a mobile terminal of the user receives the evaluation information of the facility which the user has visited, using the terminal location information; and defining a distribution range of the evaluation information using a relationship between the visit distance calculated and a threshold number of visits to the facility by recipients of the distributed evaluation information. | 6,333 |
9,243,308 | 1. A lithium recovery apparatus, which comprises: an adsorption unit comprising a column adsorption tank containing a lithium adsorption material, the adsorption unit configured to receive a lithium solution containing lithium and to flow the lithium solution containing lithium to the lithium adsorption material, the lithium adsorption material configured to adsorb the lithium; an elution unit comprising a hydrochloric acid tank and an elution liquid tank, the hydrochloric acid tank configured to flow hydrochloric acid into said column adsorption tank and the elution liquid tank configured to store a lithium elution liquid resulting from a reaction of the hydrochloric acid with the lithium adsorbed on the lithium adsorption material, the lithium elution liquid containing the hydrochloric acid and lithium chloride; a condensing unit comprising a condensing tank, a heating section, and a drain separator, the condensing tank configured to receive the lithium elution liquid from the elution unit, the heating section configured to receive the lithium elution liquid from the condensing tank, heat the lithium elution liquid, and return the lithium elution liquid to the condensing tank in a cyclic manner, and the drain separator configured to receive lithium elution liquid from the condensing tank and to remove hydrochloric acid from the lithium elution liquid to generate a lithium chloride solution; and a collecting unit comprising a sodium carbonate tank and a collection tank, the sodium carbonate tank configured to add sodium carbonate the lithium chloride solution obtained from said condensing unit and the collection tank configured to collect the lithium in a form of a resulting solution of a condensed lithium precipitation containing lithium carbonate and sodium chloride. | 24,651 |
8,475,064 | 1. A camera blade drive device comprising a base plate having an aperture for an optical path; a blade member that is supported by the base plate and operates so as to open and close the aperture; and a driving ring configured to rotate relative to the base plate, wherein the blade member is linked to the driving ring and operated by rotation of the driving ring, wherein the driving ring is provided with a permanent magnet, wherein the base plate is provided with a coil operable to generate an electromagnetic force by conducting, wherein the base plate is provided with a magnetic member operable to attract the permanent magnet and hold the driving ring in a predetermined position by a magnetic force generated between the permanent magnet and the magnetic member when the coil is non-conducting, and wherein the coil is operable to generate an electromagnetic force which displaces the permanent magnet along a circumferential direction of the driving ring when the coil is conducting. | 15,124 |
8,423,918 | 1. A method of designing a photomask, comprising: using a computer, generating a chip dataset representing an integrated circuit chip design to be included in a cell region of the photomask; using a computer, generating a kerf dataset representing a kerf design to be included in the cell region; determining a portion of the kerf dataset to copy; using a computer, generating a kerf copy dataset, the kerf copy dataset including the portion of the kerf dataset to copy; and using a computer, merging the chip dataset, the kerf dataset and the kerf copy dataset into a photomask dataset representing a pattern of clear and opaque regions of the photomask. | 43,151 |
9,329,101 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: an engine control, a source for gaseous fuel, at least one combustion chamber in which the gaseous fuel is ignited, and an electromagnetically actuated gas injector arranged between the source for the gaseous fuel and the at least one combustion chamber, wherein at least one moment in time at which the gas injector should be in a closed end position the engine control applies an electric test voltage to the gas injector, measures the discharge current caused by the electric test voltage and thus draws a conclusion about the existence of the closed end position of the gas injector. | 5,461 |
9,383,724 | 1. A timepiece mechanism comprising: a time measurement system and a calendar system connected to the time measurement system, the time measurement and calendar systems each being connected to a display system for displaying at least one time related value and at least one calendar related value, and a fast calendar correction system for correcting at any time and in predetermined steps the display of the at least one calendar value while maintaining the at least one time related value and the connection of the display system to the time measurement and calendar systems during the correction phase, wherein the fast calendar correction system includes a correction wheel set connected to the display system, a drive wheel mounted for free rotation on the correction wheel set and permanently connected to the time measurement system, and elastic coupling means between the correction wheel set and the drive wheel, so that the at least one calendar value of the display system is shifted by the calendar system when the fast calendar correction system is not active, or by the fast calendar correction system when it is active, without inducing stresses or movements in the time measurement system and wherein the elastic coupling means include two stop members pressed against toothing of a star of the correction wheel set by two elastic strips, each stop member including a slide-block cooperating with a slide-way integral with the drive wheel to guide the movement of the elastic coupling means and to transmit the motion of the drive wheel only to the at least one calendar value of the display system. | 7,873 |
8,412,382 | 1. A method of managing a site in a mobile environment, comprising: detecting an availability of at least one network device at a site wherein the at least one network device has an operating condition; detecting a first boundary of the site having a first boundary distance; detecting a second boundary of the site having a second boundary distance that is different than the first boundary distance; detecting a plurality of zones including an on-site zone including an area within the first boundary, a first zone including an area beyond the first boundary and within the second boundary, and a second zone including an area beyond the second boundary; detecting a distance of a mobile device relative to the site; initiating a change to a temperature set-point of a thermostat at the site in response to detecting a change in the distance of the mobile device relative to the on-site zone and the first zone and the second zone; initiating an on-site temperature set-point corresponding to the on-site zone: altering the on-site temperature set-point to a first zone temperature set-point corresponding to the first zone that is different from the on-site temperature set-point; and altering the on-site temperature set-point to a second zone temperature set-point corresponding to the second zone that is different from the on-site temperature set-point and the first zone temperature set-point. | 19,102 |
8,893,810 | 1. A wellbore fluid treatment method, comprising: deploying a plurality of sliding sleeves on a tubing string in a wellbore annulus, the sliding sleeves at least including a first sliding sleeve and at least one second sliding sleeve; opening a first housing outlet associated with the first sliding sleeve to communicate fluid pressure from the tubing string to the wellbore annulus by deploying a first plug down the tubing string and pumping fluid pressure in the tubing string; communicating fluid pressure from the tubing string to the wellbore annulus by passing fluid through the open first housing outlet associated with the first sliding sleeve; opening at least one second housing outlet associated with the at least one second sliding sleeve by applying fluid pressure communicated in the wellbore annulus from the first sliding sleeve relative to a pressure chamber on the at least one second sliding sleeve; and communicating fluid pressure from the tubing string to the wellbore annulus by passing fluid through the at least one open second housing outlet associated with the at least one second sliding sleeve. | 39,367 |
8,663,340 | 1. A hair colorant composition comprising: (a) 2,6-dihydroxyethylaminotoluene coupler; and (b) 2-methoxymethyl-1,4-diaminobenzene developer; and (c) an oxidizing agent. | 42,989 |
9,559,991 | 1. A mobile electronic device incorporating an automated message service response system, comprising: said mobile electronic device comprising an interface unit; a database configured to store coalesced data and generate at least one response bank with said coalesced data; and, an application software stored on processing unit of said mobile electronic device configured to establish communication between a mobile electronic device and said database; wherein: | 10,076 |
8,512,980 | 1. A method for making a recombinant plasmin polypeptide, the method comprising: (a) providing a polypeptide having a single N-terminal kringle domain wherein the last four amino acid residues within the kringle domain are identical to residues at positions 91-94 of SEQ ID NO: 2; and a C-terminal domain activation site and serine protease domain; wherein the polypeptide binds to immobilized lysine; and wherein the polypeptide is at least 95% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) contacting the polypeptide provided in step (a) with a protease under conditions sufficient to cleave one or more peptide bonds thereby forming an active recombinant plasmin polypeptide. | 39,811 |
8,456,417 | 1. A user interface system for determining image display presentation characteristics, comprising: a cursor control device for receiving command data related to a displayed cursor in response to user physical interaction with the device; a displayed image parameter selection control for providing image parameter selection data, responsive to the received command data and comprising, a display processor for initiating display of an image having display presentation characteristics determined by said image parameter selection data. | 41,334 |
9,238,992 | 1. An exhaust system in an engine, comprising: an exhaust passage including an outlet, in fluidic communication with at least one combustion chamber in the engine, the exhaust passage integrated into a cylinder head in the engine; a flow rotation element including at least one vane, the flow rotation element positioned in the head and in the outlet of the exhaust passage swirling exhaust airflow exiting the exhaust passage, where the flow rotation element includes a plurality of vanes coupled to an exterior surface of a tubular structure included in the flow rotation element, the vanes having an axial length from leading to trailing edge, the axial length fully inside the head; and an exhaust manifold merging cylinder exits from the head upstream of a catalyst, the merging downstream of the flow rotation element. | 34,649 |
8,501,974 | 1. A process for producing alkyl fatty esters and glycerin from fats/oils and a C1 to C5 lower alcohol(s) by a multistage reaction process, which comprises a step of feeding liquid fats and oils to a reactor provided with a catalyst at an upper stage and sending them to a stage at a downstream side, while feeding a liquid lower alcohol to a reactor at a lower most stage and simultaneously returning a lower alcohol recovered from an outlet of the reactor to a stage at an upstream side, thereby repeating the reaction which further comprises steps of separating a lower alcohol(s) from reaction products comprising fats and oils obtained from the reactor at an upper stage and subjecting the resulting liquid component to oil/water separation to remove glycerin at a stage of the reactor between an upper stage and a lower stage wherein a stoichiometric quantity of lower alcohol in terms of a molar ratio of lower alcohol to fats and oils, calculated as triglycerides, is from 1.5 to 15, wherein the reaction is conducted at a temperature ranging from 60° C. to 200° C. and at a pressure ranging from 0.5 to 8 MPa, and wherein the degree of formation of said alkyl fatty ester is 86.9% or more. | 49,937 |
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