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8,957,725 | 1. An energy saving circuit connected between a power supply and a motherboard, the energy saving circuit comprising: a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, a fifth resistor, and a sixth resistor; a switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the power supply through the first resistor to receive a standby voltage, a second terminal grounded through the second resistor; a first electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the switch, a second terminal being connected to the power supply through the third resistor to receive the standby voltage, and a third terminal is grounded; wherein the second terminal of the first electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the first electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the first electronic switch receiving a high-level signal; the second terminal of the first electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the first electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the first electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; a second electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the motherboard to receive a power on signal from the motherboard, a second terminal being connected to the power supply through the fourth resistor to receive the standby voltage, and a third terminal is grounded; wherein the second terminal of the second electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the second electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the second electronic switch receiving a high-level signal; the second terminal of the second electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the second electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the second electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; a third electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the second electronic switch, a second terminal being connected to the second terminal of the first electronic switch, and a third terminal is grounded; wherein the second terminal of the third electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the third electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the third electronic switch receiving a high-level signal; the second terminal of the third electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the third electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the third electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; a fourth electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the third electronic switch, a second terminal being connected to the power supply to receive the standby voltage through the fifth resistor, and a third terminal is ground; wherein the second terminal of the fourth electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the fourth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the fourth electronic switch receiving a high-level signal; the second terminal of the fourth electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the fourth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the fourth electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; a fifth electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the fourth electronic switch, a second terminal being connected to the power supply to receive the standby voltage through the sixth resistor, and a third terminal is ground; wherein the second terminal of the fifth electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the fifth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the fifth electronic switch receiving a high-level signal; the second terminal of the fifth electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the fifth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the fifth electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; and a sixth electronic switch comprising a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the fifth electronic switch, a second terminal being connected to the motherboard, and a third terminal connected to the power supply to receive the standby voltage; wherein the second terminal of the sixth electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the sixth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the sixth electronic switch receiving a low-level signal; the second terminal of the sixth electronic switch is disconnected from the third terminal of the sixth electronic switch, in response to the first terminal of the sixth electronic switch receiving a high-level signal. | 37,002 |
9,107,162 | 1. An apparatus to be employed by an evolved Node B (eNB), the apparatus comprising: communications circuitry to communicate with a user equipment (UE) over a wireless communication network; and control circuitry, coupled to the communications circuitry, to: determine, based on a search space equation, a set of distributed EPDCCH candidates for the UE from the PRB-pairs of the first EPDCCH-PRB set, wherein the individual distributed EPDCCH candidates include one or more of the distributed ECCEs, and wherein the different distributed EPDCCH candidates of the set of distributed EPDCCH candidates are first mapped to distributed ECCEs including EREGs of different localized ECCEs of the PRB-pairs, and then mapped to distributed ECCEs including EREGs of a same localized ECCE as another distributed EPDCCH candidate; configure, for the UE or another UE, a second EPDCCH-PRB set including a plurality of PRB-pairs that are fully overlapped, partially overlapped, or fully non-overlapped with the PRB-pairs of the first EPDCCH-PRB set, wherein the second EPDCCH-PRB set is configured as a localized EPDCCH-PRB set including a plurality of localized ECCEs having EREGs of a same PRB-pair; and determine, based on the search space equation, a set of localized EPDCCH candidates for the UE or the another UE from the second EPDCCH-PRB set. | 28,877 |
8,542,699 | 1. A method for content synchronization in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving over a first communication channel a first data packet communicated in at least one of a multicast and a broadcast service; adding a primary counter value to the first data packet, the primary counter value being indicative of a total size of data packets sent over a second communication channel to a base station within a period of time; adding a secondary counter value to the first data packet if the first data packet has a timestamp later than a scheduling time, the scheduling time associated with a scheduling interval for transmitting data packets; and sending an updated first data packet that has the first data packet received including the primary counter and the secondary counter over the second communication channel to the base station. | 22,975 |
9,738,381 | 1. A method for collecting acoustic data from an industrial machine, comprising: providing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a flight control system and an acoustic receiver attached thereto; using the flight control system to autonomously identify a specific location based on a location emanating a selected acoustic signature from the industrial machine, wherein the specific location includes a source of the selected acoustic signature; and positioning the unmanned aerial vehicle at the specific location so that the acoustic receiver collects acoustic data from the industrial machine at the specific location, wherein the acoustic data includes at least one of a frequency or an amplitude of a sound wave from the industrial machine, and collecting the acoustic data includes determining the at least one of the frequency or the amplitude. | 863 |
9,521,592 | 1. A Mobility Management Entity (MME), comprising: one or more hardware elements; wherein said one or more hardware elements are configured to: receive a request for a handover of a User Equipment (UE) from a source radio access network, RAN, to a target RAN, wherein the source RAN provides voice service via a packet switched domain and the target RAN provides voice service via a circuit switched domain; register, in response to the request for the handover, or after a predetermined period elapsing from a handover of the UE to the MME, a correlation between the UE and the MME in a Home Location Register/Home Subscriber Server (HLR/HSS); and transfer, in response to a request for transferring from a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), the mobility management for the UE to the SGSN. | 19,809 |
8,367,512 | 1. A method of preparing self-aligned isolation regions between two neighboring sensor elements on a substrate to reduce cross-talk of the two neighboring sensor elements, comprising: patterning an oxide layer to form an oxide implant mask with an opening between the two neighboring sensor elements on the substrate; performing a first implant to form a deep doped region between the two neighboring sensor elements and starting at a distance below a top surface of the substrate; and performing a second implant to form a shallow doped region between the two neighboring sensor elements after performing the first implant, wherein the deep doped region and the shallow doped region are self-aligned, wherein a bottom portion of the shallow doped region overlaps with a top portion of the deep doped region, wherein the shallow doped region and the deep doped region prevent electrons from flowing between the two neighboring sensor elements. | 2,797 |
9,263,854 | 1. A computing device to perform a non-linear equalization of a data signal to be output from a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), the computing device comprising: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute an equalization module, wherein the equalization module is configured to: | 45,793 |
9,580,824 | 1. An anion-conducting polymeric membrane comprising a polymer blend or mixture of a copolymer consisting essentially of styrene and vinylbenzyl-R s with at least one polymeric constituent selected from the group consisting of: (a) a linear or substituted non-aromatic polyolefin; (b) a polymer comprising uncharged cyclic amine groups; (c) a polymer, excluding polystyrene, comprising at least one of a phenylene group and a phenyl group; (d) a polyamide; and (e) the reaction product of styrene and vinylbenzyl-R wherein R s is a positively charged cyclic amine group and the copolymer contains 10%-90% by weight of vinylbenzyl-Rs based upon the total weight of the copolymer, wherein the total weight of said at least one polymeric constituent in the membrane is less than the weight of the copolymer in the membrane, and wherein said polymeric membrane enables a carbon monoxide selectivity of at least 50%. | 2 |
9,296,304 | 1. A system for charging electric vehicles comprising: an electric vehicle; a charger; a charger-side registration device configured to register presence of said electric vehicle; an electrical energy source configured to supply AC current; a charger energy supply line connected to said energy source; at least one primary-conductor loop unit in said charger; a first loop half in said at least one primary-conductor loop unit; a second loop half in said at least one primary-conductor loop unit, said second loop half and said first loop half being arranged side-by-side to pass current in mutually opposite sense and to form a double dipole loop; at least one switching unit configured to controllably connect said energy supply line to said at least one primary-conductor loop unit, said at least one switching unit being assigned to said at least one primary-conductor loop unit; said charger energy supply line extending in a branched feed line; an unbranched return conductor line, said return conductor line having a return conductor end; an ending switching unit, said return conductor end being short-circuited to a terminal of said ending switching unit; and, a secondary conductor loop unit configured for magnetic coupling to said primary conductor loop unit, said secondary conductor loop unit being arranged on said electric vehicle. | 48,499 |
9,534,906 | 1. A system for mapping a shopping space comprising: a plurality of motorized transport units; a store map database for storing a map of the shopping space; and a central computer system coupled to the plurality of motorized transport units and the store map database, the central computer system being configured to: divide the map of the shopping space into a plurality of sections; assign a unique section identifier to each of the plurality of sections in the shopping space; associate, in the store map database, a blocked tag with each unique section identifier corresponding to a section of the shopping space inaccessible to the plurality of motorized transport units; associate, in the store map database, an accessible tag with each unique section identifier corresponding to a section of the shopping space accessible by at least one of the plurality of motorized transport units; for each unique section identifier having an accessible tag, allow an access restriction setting to be configured for the corresponding section; and provide navigation instructions to the plurality of motorized transport units based on access restriction settings of each section of the shopping space stored in the store map database. | 3,636 |
8,924,749 | 1. A method of limiting power consumption of a first device, the first device responsive to commands from a second device, the method comprising: determining a maximum allowable power consumption for the first device; receiving, at the first device from the second device, a command to be performed by the first device; determining an amount of power that would be consumed by the first device during performance of the command; sending, to the second device from the first device, a response to the command wherein the response signals the second device to transmit an additional command to the first device; if the amount of power that would be consumed by the first device during performance of the command would be greater than the maximum allowable power consumption for the first device, adjusting the power consumption of the first device wherein adjusting power consumption of the first device includes delaying the transfer of the response to the command; and performing the command at the first device. | 24,647 |
9,546,586 | 1. An exhaust gas purification system for a common rail type engine, the system comprising: an exhaust gas purification device which is configured for use along an exhaust gas route of the common rail type engine; an electronic control unit configured to provide renewing control of the exhaust gas purification device, the electronic control unit having a plurality of renewing modes for burning and removing a particulate matter deposited in the exhaust gas purification device; a renewing lamp; a renewing switch; and a parking brake; and wherein a first mode of said plurality of renewing modes is a manual auxiliary renewing mode indicated when the clogging state becomes greater than or equal to a prescribed level of the exhaust gas purification device and during which the electronic control unit is configured to control an intake air throttle device to restrict an amount of intake air so that an exhaust gas temperature is automatically increased; wherein a second mode of said plurality of renewing modes is an initialization renewing mode, during which the electronic control unit is configured to provide control of a post injection to supply a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device regardless of a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device, said initialization renewing mode being indicated when the electronic control unit determines that an accumulated drive time of the engine becomes equal to or more than a previously set time; wherein a third mode of said plurality of renewing modes is a manual emergency renewing mode during which fuel is supplied to the exhaust gas purifying device by post injection, said electronic control unit configured to control renewing differently than for said manual auxiliary renewing mode by fixing engine speed at a maximum rotational engine speed and maintaining the engine idling at said maximum rotational engine speed for all renewing of the exhaust gas purification device during the manual emergency renewing mode; wherein the renewing lamp is configured to prompt an operator to execute said manual auxiliary renewing mode, initialization mode, and manual emergency renewing mode; wherein the renewing switch has an active state during which execution of said manual auxiliary renewing mode is permitted; wherein the parking brake is for maintaining control of the working machine equipped with said engine; wherein while the renewing lamp is on, the electronic control unit prevents operation of the manual auxiliary renewing mode when the renewing switch is in an inactive state; and wherein when the renewing switch is in the inactive state for longer than a predetermined leaving time, the renewing lamp is triggered into a warning state that is different from a state that prompts the operator to execute said manual auxiliary renewing mode and the initialization renewing mode, after which the manual emergency renewing mode is invoked by the operator by the operation of the renewing switch to permit the manual emergency renewing mode and operation of the parking brake. | 5,609 |
8,563,690 | 1. A composition comprising a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence RGT and a lipid covalently bound to the amino-terminus of said peptide. | 10,378 |
8,771,617 | 1. A method for extracting tungsten from scheelite, the method comprising the steps of: 1) adding a mixed acid comprising sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid into a decomposition reactor, wherein the sulfuric acid is present in the mixed acid at a concentration of 150-500 g/L and the phosphoric acid is present in the mixed acid at a concentration corresponding to 15-35 wt. % of P 2) heating the mixed acid to a temperature of 70-100° C.; adding scheelite to the decomposition reactor and controlling an amount of the mixed acid present in the decomposition reactor at 3-8 L per kg of scheelite; allowing components in the decomposition reactor to react for 1-6 hr, and filtering to obtain a filtrate; 3) supplementing the filtrate with sulfuric acid; 4) crystallizing the filtrate of step 3) to obtain phosphotungstic acid crystals and a mother liquor; 5) dissolving the phosphotungstic acid crystals in water to obtain a phosphotungstic acid solution; 6) transforming the phosphotungstic acid solution to an ammonium tungstate solution for preparing ammonium paratungstate (APT); and 7) supplementing the mother liquor of step 4) with phosphoric acid and water to obtain a diluted mother liquor comprising sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid at the same concentrations as those in step 1), and using the diluted mother liquor as the mixed acid in step 1) for leaching scheelite. | 38,037 |
9,434,658 | 1. A method for converting an alcohol to a hydrocarbon fraction having a lowered benzene content, the method comprising: converting said alcohol to an initial hydrocarbon fraction containing a blend of alkanes having at least four carbon atoms and benzene by contacting said alcohol, under conditions suitable for converting said alcohol to said initial hydrocarbon fraction, with a metal-loaded zeolite catalyst catalytically active for converting said alcohol to said initial hydrocarbon fraction, and contacting said initial hydrocarbon fraction with a benzene alkylation catalyst, under conditions that form a further processed hydrocarbon fraction containing alkylated benzene product in addition to said blend of alkanes having at least four carbon atoms. | 36,207 |
8,377,736 | 1. A method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film comprising: providing a plurality of substrates, each of the substrates having a copper and indium composite structure, each of the substrates including a peripheral region, the peripheral region including a plurality of openings, the plurality of openings including at least a first opening and a second opening; transferring the plurality of substrates into a furnace, each of the plurality of substrates provided in a vertical orientation with respect to a direction of gravity, the plurality of substrates being defined by a number N, where N is greater than 5, the furnace including a holding apparatus, the holding apparatus including a first elongated member being configured to hang each of the substrates using at least the first opening; introducing a gaseous species including a hydrogen species and a selenide species and a carrier gas into the furnace and transferring thermal energy into the furnace to increase a temperature from a first temperature to a second temperature, the second temperature ranging from about 350° C. to about 450° C. and initiating formation of a copper indium diselenide film from the copper and indium composite structure on each of the substrates; maintaining the temperature at about the second temperature for a period of time; removing at least the selenide species from the furnace; introducing a hydrogen sulfide species into the furnace; increasing a temperature to a third temperature, the third temperature ranging from about 500 to 525° C. while the plurality of substrates are maintained in an environment including a sulfur species to extract out one or more selenium species from the copper indium diselenide film. | 3,635 |
9,072,221 | 1. A sectional driveshaft arrangement for a corn head ( 100 ), the arrangement comprising: a first row unit ( a first driveshaft ( a second driveshaft ( wherein the first slip clutch ( | 11,616 |
9,673,341 | 1. A method for use in forming a photovoltaic device, comprising: forming a metal film on a doped semiconductor; forming a patterned etch resist on the metal film; etching the metal film; forming a dielectric layer on the doped semiconductor and the etch resist such that a first portion of the dielectric layer is directly on the etch resist and a second portion of the dielectric layer is directly on the doped semiconductor; and applying a laser to the first portion and the second portion, the laser having a wavelength absorbable by the patterned etch resist through the dielectric layer to the patterned etch resist, the laser removing the patterned etch resist and the first portion of the dielectric layer, the laser heating the etch resist to cause the etch resist to expand and crumble and the first portion of the dielectric layer breaking apart in response to the expanding and crumbling of the etch resist. | 29,342 |
9,029,037 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: at least one fuel cell having an anode area and a cathode area separated from the anode area by an electrolyte, the cathode area having a cathode gas output line; a first liquid separator having a first liquid outlet; a second liquid separator having a reservoir and a level sensor for measurement of a liquid level in the reservoir, the second liquid separator having a second liquid outlet connected to a liquid output line, the second liquid separator having a valve arranged in the liquid output line, the valve opening the liquid output line when the liquid level in the reservoir has reached a predetermined height; a first bypass line extending from the liquid outlet of the first liquid separator to the second liquid separator or to the cathode gas output line; and an orifice plate in the first bypass line, the first bypass line being heated by at least one of an electrical heater and operational heat to ensure melting of any frozen fluid in the first bypass line, the first liquid separator not including a level sensor for measurement of the liquid level in the first liquid separator or a valve for emptying the liquid out of the first liquid separator in a controlled manner such that the liquid separated out by the first liquid separator is carried away from the first liquid separator to the second liquid separator continuously via the first bypass line. | 3,920 |
9,420,511 | 1. A method for signaling quality of service (QoS) requirements and user equipment (UE) power preference in LTE-A networks, comprising: receiving, at an evolved nodeB (eNB), a message comprising a power preference indication (PPI) from a UE to set a power saving preference for the UE to execute in a low power consumption configuration when handling data traffic provided by the eNB and a QoS preference when handling data traffic provided by the eNB, the message further comprising: detecting a conflict between the PPI and the QoS preference in which the conflict causes the UE, in observation of the QoS preference, to consume more power than the low power consumption configuration; and managing, by the eNB, a QoS configuration for data traffic provided by the eNB based on the identified QoS preference such that one of a configuration that is primarily optimized for power saving and a configuration to satisfy the QoS of active traffic is selected to resolve the conflict between the PPI and the QoS preference based on the message. | 48,365 |
8,768,741 | 1. A method in a healthcare computing environment for displaying at least one clinical item of work in a workflow context associated with a plurality of resources, the method comprising: receiving an information requiring an action; generating, utilizing one or more computing devices, a first resource-specific item of work for a first resource requiring a first action by the first resource, in response to receiving the information requiring the action; determining, utilizing one or more computing devices, a standard workflow for the information requiring the action, the standard workflow including the plurality of healthcare resources, wherein the standard workflow is determined utilizing standard procedural rules determined, at least in part, according to best practices of a healthcare environment; displaying the first resource-specific clinical item of work in the workflow context of the determined standard workflow including a first current workflow state of the first resource-specific clinical item of work and at least one of a first past workflow state and a first potential future workflow state of the first resource-specific clinical item of work; determining, utilizing the one or more computing devices, whether the first action by the first resource has been completed, wherein: | 17,260 |
9,086,881 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring movements of a valid data eye associated with a memory device of a plurality of memory devices of a memory system at a computing system, wherein monitoring includes initiating write commands during one or more refresh periods associated with the valid data eye, wherein the one or more refreshed periods are identified from a plurality of refresh periods, wherein monitoring is performed continuously or for a predefined period of time based upon one or more factors including memory size, system resources, amount of eve-drifting data to be monitored, and number of adjustments, wherein the predefined period of time is selected automatically or by a user; determining drifting in the movement of the data eye, wherein determining includes searching a phase interpolator (“PI”) value or computing a PI value; and correcting the drifting associated with the movements of the data eye, wherein correcting includes adjusting the searched PI value or the computed PI value if at least one of the searched and computed PI values is greater than a threshold value, wherein the threshold value includes a predefined PI value based on predicted or computed temperature variations, wherein a first monitoring at an end of a first refresh period continues as a second monitoring at a start of a second refresh period to facilitate continuity of the monitoring of the movements during the one or more refresh periods, wherein the second refresh period is immediately subsequent to the first refresh period, wherein monitoring comprising checking a left edge and a right edge of the valid data eye, where checking begins with the left edge moving onwards the right edge. | 17,815 |
9,464,057 | 1. A pyrazole derivative according to Formula (I), wherein X as well as any pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, polymorph, tautomers, geometrical isomers, or optically active isomers thereof. | 37,526 |
8,462,892 | 1. A noise-constrained diffusion least mean square method for estimation in adaptive networks, comprising the steps of: (a) establishing an adaptive network having N nodes, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and for each node k, a number of neighbors of node k is given by N (b) establishing an integer i and initially setting i=1; (c) calculating an output of the adaptive network at each node k as d (d) calculating an error value e (e) calculating a local estimate for each node neighboring node k, ψ β and γ being selectable unitless parameters, μ k represents a node step size for each node k, and wherein σ v,k 2 represents an additive noise variance; (f) calculating an estimate of an output vector w wherein l is an integer, c lk represents a combination weight for node k; (g) if e (h) defining a set of output vectors w (i) storing the set of output vectors in computer readable memory. | 34,762 |
9,045,115 | 1. A parking lock device for a vehicle having a right wheel and a left wheel, comprising: a right parking lock mechanism which locks a rotation of the right wheel, the right parking lock mechanism comprising a locking operation prevention mechanism which mechanically prevents a locking operation of the right parking lock mechanism when a wheel rotation speed of the right wheel exceeds a predetermined parking lock prevention wheel rotation speed; a left parking lock mechanism which locks a rotation of the left wheel, the left parking lock mechanism comprising a locking operation prevention mechanism which mechanically prevents a locking operation of the left parking lock mechanism when a wheel rotation speed of the left wheel exceeds the predetermined parking lock prevention wheel rotation speed; a rotation speed sensor which detects a wheel rotation speed of the right wheel; a rotation speed sensor which detects a wheel rotation speed of the left wheel; and a programmable controller programmed to execute the following steps when a shift lever of the vehicle shifts to a parking range: | 21,950 |
9,495,127 | 1. A method of converting speech to text, comprising: generating a language model by analyzing textual content for a first web page to determine a topic of the first web page, determining other pages determined to be directed to the same topic of the first web page, and analyzing content of queries previously submitted to the other pages determined to be directed to the same topic of the first web page, wherein the queries previously submitted to the other pages include queries submitted to respective search capabilities of at least some of the other pages; receiving, at a computer server system and from an electronic device, sound information from a user of the electronic device, and a context identifier that indicates a context within which the user provided the sound information; using the context identifier to select the generated language model from among a plurality of language models; converting speech in the sound information to text using the selected language model; and providing the text for use by the electronic device. | 41,133 |
8,614,352 | 1. A process for preparing methylenediphenyldiamine (MDA) comprising reacting formaldehyde and aniline in the presence of an acidic catalyst, wherein the oxygen content in the process for preparing MDA is ≦500 ppm, based on all compounds present in the process. | 28,311 |
9,391,241 | 1. A light emitting diode comprising a front surface adapted to emit light and a rear surface; a reflective layer on the rear surface of the light emitting diode adapted to reflect light toward the light emitting diode front surface, the reflective layer comprising: a silver tin copper samarium composition having 0.5% tin, 0.2% copper, and 0.2% samarium and the balance silver. | 22,235 |
8,944,499 | 1. An armrest for a vehicle, comprising: an armrest body having a front end, a rear end, and two sides; an intake port formed in the front end of the armrest body; an exhaust port formed in the rear end of the armrest body; a blower installed in the armrest body, the blower being connected to the exhaust port by an exhaust duct, and to the intake port by an intake duct, wherein the intake duct is configured to extend rearward from the intake port, branch off into a plurality of diverged parts, and converge prior to connection with the blower; a plurality of cup holders arranged in a row and positioned forward of the blower and proximate to the diverge parts of the intake duct; and a thermoelement disposed on each of the cup holders, the thermoelement being brought into close contact with the intake duct, wherein the plurality of cup holders comprise a pair of cup holders arranged in a side by side configuration relative to a lateral direction of the armrest body, and wherein the intake duct extends rearwardly from the intake port and branches off into two diverged parts coming into contact with the respective cup holders, the two diverged parts extending rearwards around outer sides of the cup holders and converging with one another prior to being connected to the blower. | 26,707 |
8,666,494 | 1. A method of manufacturing a header for an implantable pulse generator comprising: a. forming a plurality of spring contact rings, each spring contact ring having a bore; a plurality of ring seals, each ring seal having a bore; a sleeve having a wall surrounding a bore; and a strain relief having a bore; b. forming a subassembly by (a) inserting the plurality of spring contact rings and the plurality of ring seals into the bore of the sleeve such that the wall of the sleeve surrounds each of the plurality of spring contact rings and each of the plurality of ring seals and each spring contact ring is separated from any adjacent spring contact ring by a ring seal, and (b) inserting at least a portion of the strain relief into the bore of the sleeve to secure the spring contact rings and ring seals in a position in which adjacent spring contact rings and ring seals are in contact with each other and the bores through the strain relief and each of the spring contact rings and rings seals of the subassembly are aligned with each other; c. inserting a molding pin through the bores of the strain relief and each of the spring contact rings and ring seals of the subassembly; d. overmolding the subassembly to lock the spring contact rings, ring seals and strain relief of the subassembly in position; and e. removing the molding pin; wherein the step of inserting at least a portion of the strain relief into the bore of the sleeve includes (a) aligning a projection with a channel, said channel having a straight section and a camming section angled from the straight section, (b) moving the strain relief into the bore of the sleeve until the projection reaches the camming section, and (c) twisting the strain relief relative to the sleeve to cause the projection to enter the camming section. | 17,785 |
9,845,475 | 1. A prokaryotic expression vector comprising a prokaryotic promoter operably linked to a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a target polypeptide operably linked to a eukaryotic secretion leader, the eukaryotic secretion leader encoded by the polynucleotide being a signal peptide having an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1. | 46,815 |
8,777,339 | 1. A cabinet that is mountable to hinges having hinge pins used to hang a door hung in a door jam so that said cabinet can be pivoted upon the hinge pins independently of the door, said cabinet comprising: a top panel, a bottom panel, a rear panel, an interior side panel and an exterior side panel; a plurality of full apertures located on the interior side panel that extend from an exterior surface of the interior panel to an interior surface of the interior panel; at least one L-shaped bracket comprising a plate having a top, a bottom, sides and at least one aperture located on the plate; said at least one L-shaped bracket is adjustably attachable to any single full aperture of the plurality of full apertures via at least one nut and at least one bolt so as to adjust to the vertical location of the location of the at least one L-shaped bracket in relation to the hinges and hinge pins on the door jam; an arm extending perpendicularly from the top of the plate of the at least one L-shaped bracket; and an aperture located on a distal end of said arm of the at least one L-shaped bracket for engaging one of the hinge pins of the respective door hinge so the cabinet will pivot on said hinge and hinge pin independent of the door hanging on the same hinge and hinge pin; a plurality of partial apertures located on an interior surface of the exterior side panel; said plurality of partial apertures extending a predetermined distance through the exterior side panel and terminating prior to an exterior surface of the exterior side panel so no apertures are visible on the exterior surface of the exterior side panel; and at least one extension rod extending through one of the full apertures located on the interior side panel to one of the partial apertures located on the interior surface of the exterior side panel so that the extension rod is parallel to the top panel and the bottom panel. | 30,358 |
8,963,482 | 1. A power supply apparatus for an electrically powered vehicle, comprising: a main power storage device; a sub power storage device outputting a voltage lower than that of said main power storage device; a charging device operative in external charging for performing first power conversion to receive power from an external power supply and convert the received power into power charged to said main power storage device; and a first switch connected between a predetermined node on an electric conduction path of said charging device in said first power conversion and said sub power storage device, and opened in said external charging, said charging device being configured such that when said external charging is not performed and said first switch is closed said charging device performs second power conversion to receive power from said main power storage device and convert the received power via at least a portion of said electric conduction path into power to be charged to said sub power storage device and said charging device outputs the converted power on said predetermined node. | 24,059 |
9,149,484 | 1. A composition for growing hair by topical application comprising: bimatoprost in free form or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the bimatoprost is contained in an amount of about 0.3% w/w to about 4% w/w; ethanol, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, benzyl alcohol, and, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glycerol monooleate and oleic acid; and, wherein said composition is formulated for topical administration to the skin. | 30,729 |
9,401,637 | 1. A switching regulator controller for a buck switching regulator, the buck switching regulator receiving an input voltage and controlling a high-side switch and a low-side switch using a feedback control loop to generate a switching output voltage, the switching output voltage being applied to an LC filter circuit to generate a regulated output voltage having a substantially constant magnitude on an output node, the switching regulator controller comprising: a comparator configured to receive a first feedback voltage indicative of the regulated output voltage and a comparator reference voltage, the comparator generating a select signal being asserted in response to the first feedback voltage being greater than the comparator reference voltage and being deasserted in response to the first feedback voltage being less than the comparator reference voltage, wherein the first feedback voltage is the regulated output voltage and the comparator reference voltage is selected to have a voltage value between a first positive power supply voltage used for core circuitry and a second positive power supply voltage used for input-output interface circuitry, the first positive power supply voltage being less than the second positive power supply voltage; and a control circuit configured to receive a second feedback voltage indicative of the regulated output voltage and also to receive the select signal, the control circuit configured to operate in a first operation mode comprising a dual PWM/PFM mode or a second operation mode comprising a PWM mode in response to the select signal, the control circuit being configured to operate in a selected operation mode to generate gate drive signals for controlling the high-side switch and the low-side switch, wherein in response to the determination of the comparator, the select signal is asserted to configure the control circuit to operate in the first operation mode using the dual PWM/PFM mode to generate the regulated output voltage indicative of the second positive power supply voltage used for input-output interface circuitry, and in response to the determination of the comparator, the select signal is deasserted to configure the control circuit to operate in the second operation mode using the PWM mode to generate the regulated output voltage indicative of the first positive power supply voltage used for core circuitry; and wherein the control circuit is operated in the dual PWM/PFM mode of the first operation mode by using the PWM mode during a heavy or medium load condition and by using the PFM mode during a light load condition to generate the regulated output voltage indicative of the second positive power supply voltage used for input-output interface circuitry; and wherein in response to the selection of the first operation mode, the control circuit remains in the first operation mode without transitioning to the second operation mode in response to the regulated output voltage being indicative of the second positive power supply voltage used for input-output interface circuitry as indicated by the select signal being asserted and; wherein in response to the selection of the second operation mode, the control circuit remains in the second operation mode without transitioning to the first operation mode in response to the regulated output voltage being indicative of the first positive power supply voltage used for core circuitry as indicated by the select signal being deasserted. | 48,019 |
9,515,346 | 1. A fuel cell power plant, comprising: a plurality of cell stack assemblies each including a plurality of fuel cells and a manifold; and at least one fuse that includes an indicator that provides an output when the fuse interrupts an electrically conductive connection between the manifold of a first one of the cell stack assemblies and a second one of the cell stack assemblies, the electrically conductive connection including at least a selected portion of a voltage of the second one of the cell stack assemblies. | 32,905 |
8,376,298 | 1. A clamp comprising: a body including: a nut including: a bolt extending through the nut and configured to engage a threaded aperture of the body, wherein tightening of the bolt causes the third component of the body to slide against the tapered nut surface thus moving the first component towards the nut. | 45,230 |
9,139,377 | 1. A control and tracking method of a charge of material transported by a continuous supply conveyor of a metallurgical furnace, or an electric furnace for production of steel, wherein the continuous conveyor includes, in sequence and starting from its inlet end towards its outlet end, a loading section of the charge of material to be supplied to the furnace, a preheating section of the charge of material loaded, and an introduction section into the furnace of the preheated charge of material, and along the loading section at least a first loading station of material, the method comprising: a) determining a type and weight of the material of a first charge fraction to be loaded in the first loading station in function of a predetermined charge recipe; b) supplying the first loading station with the first charge fraction; c) detecting a weight of the first charge fraction; d) discharging the first charge fraction on the continuous conveyor; e) marking the first charge fraction through identification means; f) detecting overall dimensions of the first charge fraction discharged on the continuous conveyor; g) estimating an advancing speed of the first charge fraction along the loading section of the continuous conveyor and an arrival time of the first charge fraction entering a possibly subsequent loading station of a further charge fraction or the preheating section; h) in proximity to the inlet to the preheating section, recognizing in the charge of material discharged onto the continuous conveyor, the first charge fraction and possible further charge fractions subsequently discharged onto the continuous conveyor by the respective identification means; i) estimating an advancing speed of the first charge fraction and of possible further charge fractions subsequently discharged onto the continuous conveyor along the preheating section and the respective arrival time at the inlet section into the furnace, a′) determining a type and weight of material of the n-th charge fraction to be loaded in the n-th loading station in function of the predetermined charge recipe; b′) supplying the n-th loading station with the n-th charge fraction; c′) determining a weight of the n-th charge fraction; d′) discharging the n-th charge fraction onto the continuous conveyor; e′) marking the n-th charge fraction through respective identification means; f′) detecting overall dimensions of the charge of material discharged onto the continuous conveyor and exiting from the n-th loading station; g′) estimating an advancing speed of the charge of material discharged onto the continuous conveyor and exiting from the n-th loading station along the loading section and an arrival time of the charge of material exiting from the n-th loading station entering a possible subsequent loading station of a further charge fraction or to the preheating section, | 45,906 |
8,650,734 | 1. A method of structurally supporting or replacing a connection between a main pipe and an elbow pipe using an elbow clamp assembly, the elbow clamp assembly including an upper clamp body and a lower clamp body, an elbow boss securable to the elbow pipe, and a cross bolt connected between the elbow boss and the clamp bolt, the method comprising: forming a first aperture through the main pipe and the elbow pipe in a joint area; securing the upper clamp body and the lower clamp body on opposite sides of the main pipe in facing relation; connecting the upper and lower clamp bodies by a clamp bolt extendable through the first aperture; forming a second aperture through the elbow pipe; and securing the elbow boss to the elbow pipe by extending the cross bolt through the second aperture and connecting the cross bolt to the clamp bolt. | 25,827 |
8,934,583 | 1. A device, comprising: a detect logic implemented in an integrated circuit configured to | 11,671 |
8,583,955 | 1. A battery management method, said method operating in conjunction with a battery management system, said system comprising: (a) Power Source Control Unit (PSCU); and (b) Power Monitor Control Unit (PMCU); wherein said PSCU further comprises an electrical power switch that controls electrical current supplied to a wall outlet power adapter responsible for charging a battery supplying power to a computing device; said PMCU monitors the condition of said battery supplying power to said computing device; said electrical power switch is controlled by said PMCU via a communication link between said PMCU and said PSCU; and said PMCU activates said electrical power switch in response to said condition of said battery; wherein said method comprises the steps of: (1) Determining if said PSCU is available, and if so, proceeding to step (3); (2) Issuing a warning message requesting a status of said PSCU and proceeding to said step (1); (3) Determining if battery charging user input parameters are available, and if not, proceeding to step (7); (4) Configuring user battery charge/discharge parameters; (5) Configuring user battery calibration parameters; (6) Configuring user battery recondition parameters then proceeding to said step (1); (7) Executing a battery charge/discharge process; (8) Executing a battery calibration process; and (9) Executing a battery reconditioning process then proceeding to said step (1). | 43,156 |
9,265,129 | 1. An adapter cable, comprising: a first adapter comprising: a second adapter; and a wire connected between the first adapter and the second adapter; wherein the sensor generates the detecting signal on the condition that the sensor senses that the first adapter is held by a user, and the sensor is selected from one of the group consisting of an electromagnetic induction coil, a pressure sensor, and an inductive proximity switch. | 5,519 |
9,065,157 | 1. A method for reducing thermal conditions in a wireless charging system, the method comprising: detecting a chargeable device via at least one of a vehicle connectivity system and a wireless charging protocol; wirelessly charging the chargeable device with a wireless charger; detecting temperature information related to said wireless charging; and adjusting an amount of power provided to the chargeable device by the charger based on the detected temperature information. | 25,276 |
8,872,812 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a stream of images; preprocessing, by a central processing unit (CPU), the stream of images to generate a preprocessed stream of images; transmitting the preprocessed stream of images to a graphic processing unit (GPU); rendering, by the GPU, the preprocessed stream of images, to generate a rendered stream of images for displaying on a display; ascertaining a first frame rate that is associated with one of (i) the preprocessed stream of images or (ii) the rendered stream of images; determining a refresh rate of the display; comparing the first frame rate to the refresh rate of the display; and based on comparing the first frame rate to the refresh rate, controlling (i) a rate of preprocessing, by the CPU, the stream of images, and (ii) a rate of rendering, by the GPU, the preprocessed stream of images, the controlling being performed such that a frame rate of the rendered stream of images is substantially equal to the refresh rate of the display. | 22,861 |
9,584,005 | 1. A system controller for regulating a power conversion system, the system controller comprising: a signal generator configured to receive a converted signal and a first compensation signal and generate a second compensation signal based at least in part on the converted signal and the first compensation signal, the converted signal being associated with an input signal for a power conversion system, the first compensation signal being associated with a sensing signal related to a first current flowing through a primary winding of the power conversion system; a modulation component configured to receive the second compensation signal and a ramping signal and generate a modulation signal based at least in part on the second compensation signal and the ramping signal; and a drive component configured to receive the modulation signal and output a drive signal based at least in part on the modulation signal to a switch to affect the first current, the drive signal being associated with an on-time period, the switch being closed during the on-time period; wherein the system controller is configured to adjust a duration of the on-time period based at least in part on the converted signal and the second compensation signal. | 47,662 |
9,444,160 | 1. An electrical connector to be connected to a mating connector, comprising: a circuit board member formed of an insulation plate member; and a holding member for holding the circuit board member, wherein said circuit board member includes a pair of transmission paths and a pair of connecting sections to be connected with a mating connector of the mating connector, each of said transmission paths has a first width, each of said connecting sections includes a conductive thin section and a first insulation region, said conductive thin section has a second width smaller than the first width, said transmission paths are arranged in parallel so that center lines passing through the transmission paths are away from each other by a first distance, and said connecting sections are arranged in parallel so that center lines passing through the connecting sections are away from each other by a second distance greater than the first distance. | 39,173 |
9,320,123 | 1. A method for operating a high-pressure discharge lamp with a variable power, wherein the high-pressure discharge lamp has a nominal power, and is operated with an instantaneous power, wherein the instantaneous power lies within a relative lower and upper power limit, which depends on an average power, and lies within a predetermined absolute lower and upper power limit, wherein the average power is determined from the one-sided moving average value of the instantaneous power or the exponential smoothing of the instantaneous power of a time segment of predefined length. | 41,727 |
9,429,515 | 1. A optical microscopy vapor-condensation-assisted device comprising: an air blowing device, a vapor producing device and a guide pipe connected with each other; wherein a first end of the vapor producing device is connected to the air blowing device, a second end of the vapor producing device is connected to the guide pipe, the vapor producing device is configured to produce vapor, and the air blowing device is configured to blow air through the vapor producing device into the guide pipe: the vapor producing device comprises a liquid absorbing material, a hollow tube, a heating layer and a power source: and the liquid absorbing material is disposed in the hollow tube, and the heating layer is surrounded an outer surface of the hollow tube and electrical connected to the power source. | 43,558 |
8,763,419 | 1. A motor-operated valve, comprising: a main valve member; a valve main body which is provided with an orifice to be opened/closed by the main valve member, the valve main body having a bypass channel formed therein for bypassing the orifice; an up-and-down movement driving mechanism comprising a rotor and a stator for adjusting a lift amount of the main valve member with respect to the orifice; a normal-flow channel forming part including a normal-flow channel in communication with the orifice; a check valve member that closes the bypass channel in a first position during a normal flow and opens the bypass channel in a second position during a reverse flow, the check valve member being arranged coaxially with the orifice, the check valve member having a tubular form and being slidably fitted over an outer periphery of the normal-flow channel forming part such that the bypass channel is formed on an outer periphery side of the check valve member; and a spring member that constantly urges the check valve member to the first position to close the bypass channel, and wherein during the normal flow, fluid is made to flow only from between the main valve member and the orifice to perform flow rate control, and during the reverse flow, at least a majority of fluid is made to flow without being passed through the orifice to minimize pressure loss, wherein the bypass channel is configured to include a plurality of openings provided at the outer periphery side of the orifice in the valve main body, and wherein the plurality of openings are opened/closed by a flange-like part provided in the check valve member. | 33,602 |
8,568,352 | 1. In combination, a baby bottle and a metered liquid dispensing device for attachment thereto, the combination comprising: a baby bottle, the baby bottle having a first portion extending in a first direction and having a first predetermined length, a second portion defining a threaded neck portion, wherein the length of the neck portion is less than and aligned with the first predetermined length; a metered liquid dispensing device, the metering device including a baby bottle attachment housing having an internally threaded bottle attachment base having a floor extending across the base, the floor having an upper surface and a lower surface, the base being adapted for attachment to the threaded neck portion, and an externally threaded nipple attachment top opposite the base, the top being adapted for attachment of a nursing bottle cap thereto; an internally threaded nipple attachment cap removably secured to the nipple attachment top of the housing; an inner nipple having a flange removably captured between the nipple attachment cap and the nipple attachment top of the housing, an elongate, hollow nipple protrusion extending from the nipple flange, the nipple protrusion having a tip end defining a single orifice for the delivery of liquid through the orifice, wherein the remainder of the inner nipple is imperforate; an outer shield having a flange removably captured between the nipple attachment cap and the nipple attachment top of the housing, the outer shield being disposed over the inner nipple, the shield having a circular shield flange overlying the nipple flange and an elongate, hollow shield protrusion enclosing the nipple protrusion, the shield protrusion having a tip end defining an orifice for the passage of liquid therethrough, wherein the shield prevents collapse of the nipple protrusion and defines a temporary reservoir between the nipple protrusion and the shield protrusion for liquid dispensed from the nipple protrusion; a liquid pump directly attached to the upper surface of the floor; a single liquid delivery line extending from the pump through the housing and extending through at least the inner nipple; an electric motor disposed within the housing, the motor having a magnetic drive mechanically coupling the motor to the pump for selectively operating the pump; a control system disposed within the housing, the control system selectively operating the motor; and a power supply disposed within the housing, the power supply selectively providing electrical power to the motor in accordance with input from the control system. | 6,274 |
8,684,446 | 1. An energy-saving vehicle, comprising: a) a housing comprising an outer portion, an inner portion, an air-flow channel, at least a first air inlet, and at least an air outlet; b) a pair of front wheels; c) a pair of rear wheels; and d) a steering wheel; wherein said air-flow channel is disposed between said outer portion and said inner portion of said housing; said first air inlet is disposed in the front of the vehicle; said air outlet is disposed at the back of the vehicle; said first air inlet and said air outlet are connected to said air-flow channel; said front wheels and said rear wheels are driven by a power unit; a length of said air-flow channel is no less than that of an upper portion of said housing; a separating plate is disposed at the bottom of the vehicle and between said outer portion and said inner portion; said air-flow channel is formed between said separating plate and the bottom surface of the vehicle; said air-flow channel is connected to said first air inlet and said air outlet; and said separating plate is movable with respect to the bottom surface of the vehicle. | 21,685 |
8,547,599 | 1. An image forming apparatus having an image carrier on which an image is formed by a beam scanning comprising: a halftoning unit configured to apply a halftoning process to image data to generate halftoned image data; a shifting unit configured to shift positions of plural pixels included in the halftoned image data in a sub scanning direction to generate shifted halftoned image data, so that a shift in the sub scanning direction of an image formed on the image carrier by a beam scanning is canceled; a determining unit configured to determine whether an area in the shifted halftoned image data has a predetermined pattern, by a pattern matching between a pattern of plural pixels included in the area in the shifted halftoned image data and the predetermined pattern; and an interpolation unit configured to apply an interpolation process for smoothing a pixel-level shift caused by the shifting of the halftoned image data by the shifting unit to the shifted halftoned image data, wherein the interpolation unit does not apply the interpolation process to an area in the shifted halftoned image data determined to be the area having the predetermined pattern in the shifted halftoned image data by the determining unit. | 48,384 |
8,994,351 | 1. A power supply controller, comprising: a drive signal generator coupled to generate a drive signal to control a switching of a power switch to control a transfer of energy from an input of a power supply to an output of the power supply; a feedback circuit coupled to receive a feedback signal representative of the output of the power supply, the feedback circuit coupled to generate a control signal in response to the feedback signal; an oscillator circuit coupled to generate an oscillating signal in response to the control signal, wherein the drive signal generator is coupled to generate the drive signal in response to the oscillating signal, wherein a frequency of the oscillating signal progressively increases from a first frequency to a second frequency with respect to the control signal for a first range of control signal values, wherein the frequency of the oscillating signal remains substantially equal to the second frequency for a second range of control signal values, and wherein the frequency of the oscillating signal decreases from the second frequency to a third frequency with respect to the control signal for a third range of control signal values, wherein the first range of control signal values is less than the second range of control signal values, and wherein the second range of control signal values is less than the third range of control signal values, the third range of control signal values representing a higher load demand on the output of the power supply than the second range of control signal values and the second range of control signal values representing a higher load demand on the output of the power supply than the first range of control signal values; and a current limit adjustment circuit coupled to generate a variable current limit signal in response to the control signal, wherein the current limit adjustment circuit is coupled to increase the variable current limit signal from a minimum current limit to a maximum current limit with respect to the control signal for the first, second, and third ranges of control signal values. | 48,609 |
9,211,689 | 1. A composite material structure comprising at least one reinforcement material and at least one matrix material, said composite material structure comprising: a main frame with at least one load bearing beam having at least one beam surface to which at least one composite material fitting is integrally attached, said at least one composite material fitting comprising: at least one mount portion comprising a bore for receiving a tubular bushing; and an anchoring structure extending from or coupled with said at least one mount portion, said anchoring structure is integrally attached with said main frame; wherein said anchoring structure is comprised of at least one anchoring surface, at least one of said at least one anchoring surfaces is locally aligned with a beam surface and at least one of said at least one anchoring surfaces being substantially parallel to a center axis of said bore; wherein said at least one anchoring surface being substantially parallel to a center axis of said bore is permanently attached to said main frame; wherein said composite material fitting is prepared from at least one reinforcement material and at least one matrix material and wherein said main frame is prepared from at least one reinforcement material and at least one matrix material; and wherein said main frame and said composite material fitting are conjoined by at least one matrix material. | 46,271 |
8,880,076 | 1. A quality transmission method comprising: receiving a reference signal transmitted from a quality calculation target group including all or part of a plurality of cells forming a cell group that transmits downlink data in a coordinated manner, and a reference signal transmitted from a cell not transmitting downlink data in a coordinated manner; calculating a comprehensive quality value for the quality calculation target group on the basis of the received reference signal, and a quality value on a per cell basis on the basis of the reference signal transmitted from the cell not transmitting downlink data in a coordinated manner; and transmitting, to a cell in communication, information on quality of the reference signal transmitted from at least one of a plurality of cells included in the quality calculation target group, when the calculated comprehensive quality value exceeds a first threshold and information on the quality value on a per cell basis, when the calculated quality value on a per cell basis exceeds a second threshold, wherein the first threshold is larger than the second threshold. | 20,783 |
9,527,629 | 1. A steam release free-standing container comprising a bag body and a bottom gusset, the steam release free-standing container having a widthwise direction and a height direction, wherein the bag body has a side sealing portion, which is an end in the widthwise direction and has been subjected to a sealing process, and a sealable portion, which is an upper end in the height direction and has not been subjected to a sealing process, the bottom gusset has a gusset sealing portion, which is an end in the widthwise direction and is a lower end in the height direction and has been subjected to a sealing process, the side sealing portion has an upper side portion, a vapor passage portion, and an intermediate side portion and is formed continuously in order of the upper side portion, the vapor passage portion, and the intermediate side portion from the upper edge of the bag body, the bag body has a cuttable portion between the sealable portion and the vapor passage portion in the height direction, the vapor passage portion has a recessed portion recessed toward an inside of the bag body in the widthwise direction of the bag body, a distance between an inner edge of the recessed portion of the vapor passage portion and a maximum expansion center, which is a center of a maximum expandable portion of the bag body is shorter than a distance between an inner edge of the upper side portion and the maximum expansion center and shorter than a distance between an inner edge of the intermediate side portion and the maximum expansion center, the recessed portion has a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion, the first recessed portion has an upper portion contiguous with the upper side portion, a lower portion contiguous with the intermediate side portion, and a bottom portion contiguous with the upper portion and with the lower portion, the second recessed portion is formed contiguously with the bottom portion of the first recessed portion and has an area smaller than an area of the first recessed portion, the second recessed portion has a bottom portion that is a tip of the recessed portion facing the bag body, an outer edge of the bottom portion of the second recessed portion includes a linear shape that extends in the height direction of the steam release free-standing container, the second recessed portion is configured to be peeled by steam inside the steam release free-standing container to form an opening at the outer edge of the bottom portion, upon the opening having been formed by the steam, peeled parts of the second recessed portion are fastened together by surface tension of water drops of the steam adhering thereto such that the opening is closed, an upper outer edge that is an outer edge of the upper portion is formed contiguously with an outer edge of the upper side portion, and includes a linear shape that inclines downwardly in the height direction toward an inside of the widthwise direction, a lower outer edge that is an outer edge of the lower portion is formed contiguously with an outer edge of the intermediate side portion and includes a linear shape that inclines upwardly in the height direction toward an inside of the widthwise direction, the second recessed portion additionally has a first outer edge and a second outer edge, the first outer edge is formed contiguously with the upper outer edge and the outer edge of the bottom portion of the second recessed portion and includes a linear shape that extends in the widthwise direction, and the second outer edge is formed contiguously with the lower outer edge and the outer edge of the bottom portion of the second recessed portion and includes a linear shape that extends in the widthwise direction. | 41,391 |
8,567,362 | 1. A vehicle engine comprising: a cylinder head; a cam housing provided to the cylinder head, the cam housing having a plurality of cam housing bearing recesses and at least two cam housing side walls that each have a cam housing surface; a cam cap having a lurality of cam cap bearing recesses and at least two cam cap side walls, the cam cap side walls each having a cam cap surface, the cam cap being fixed to the cam housing such that the cam cap surfaces face the cam housing surfaces as corresponding pairs; a plurality of camshafts rotatably supported between the cam housing bearing recesses and the cam cap bearing recesses; a plurality of cams provided to the camshafts; a plurality of rocker arms configured to be pushed by the cams; and a plurality of valves configured to operate by being pushed by the rocker arms, wherein at least one of the cam housing surface and the cam cap surface of each of the corresponding pairs has a groove extending along the at least one of the cam housing surface and the cam cap surface to integrally form an oil supply path between the cam housing surface and the cam cap surface, the oil supply paths correspond in number to the camshafts, the oil supply paths are integrally formed with the at least two cam housing side walls, respectively, so as to be provided along each of the at least two cam housing side walls, and lubricant oil is supplied through the oil supply paths to contact points between the cams and the rocker arms. | 27,033 |
8,507,787 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a base layer; an emitter layer disposed on one side of the base layer; a first electrode in electrical communication with the base layer; and a second electrode in electrical communication with the emitter layer, | 3,797 |
9,492,617 | 1. A drug delivery device comprising a cartridge holder comprising, at least one guide track located at a proximal end of the cartridge holder, a longitudinal axis a distal end configured to releasably engage a needle assembly, where the cartridge holder has an interior space between the proximal end and the distal end having a length that extends beyond a proximal end of a cartridge containing a plurality of doses of a drug and where the interior space retains and stabilizes the cartridge, a body having a distal end and comprising a drive mechanism and at least one interaction member located on an inner surface of the distal end that mechanically cooperates with the at least one guide track such that the cartridge holder is axially moved and rotated with respect to the interaction member and the body and the proximal end of the cartridge holder is fixedly attached to a distal end of the body such that a bung in the cartridge will abut a piston rod in the drive mechanism, wherein the guide track comprises a first section and a second section, wherein the first section defines a first path, wherein the first path is oriented and positioned at a first angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cartridge, wherein the second section defines a second path, wherein the second path is oriented and positioned at a second angle with respect to the longitudinal axis, wherein the first angle is smaller than the second angle, wherein, for connecting the cartridge holder to the body, the interaction member is configured to mechanically cooperate with the first section and the interaction member is configured to mechanically cooperate with the second section such that the cartridge holder is rotated in a first direction when the interaction member mechanically cooperates with the first section and the cartridge holder is rotated in the same first direction when the interaction member mechanically cooperates with the second section. | 28,623 |
9,379,907 | 1. An intelligent electronic device for measuring or calculating parameters of electrical services provided to a plurality of loads via a single supply service, the intelligent electronic device comprising: a metering module including: a processing module coupled to each of the metering circuits and configured for administering operation of the intelligent electronic device and processing data obtained from each of the metering circuits; a user interface unit adapted for displaying data and configuring settings of the device; and a communication module configured for transmitting outgoing data to and receiving incoming data from terminals of a communication network. | 22,076 |
8,560,877 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first unit; a second unit; an interface that connects the first unit and the second unit to each other, wherein the second unit controls operation of the first unit by causing a first clock signal to be sent to the first unit via the interface; a power source that supplies electric power to the interface; a first determining unit that determines whether a voltage output from the power source to the interface is in a predetermined operating-voltage range; and a clock generator that starts generating the first clock signal in response to the first determining unit determining that the voltage is in the operating-voltage range, wherein the clock generator transmits the first clock signal to the first unit via the interface, wherein the clock generator starts transmitting the first clock signal as a process of rebooting the apparatus from an energy-saving mode in which the first unit does not receive electric power and the second unit receives a part of electric power. | 17,790 |
9,560,982 | 1. A method for sensing multiple local electric voltages from endocardial surface of a heart and minimizing electro-magnetic interference, comprising: providing a system for sensing multiple local electric voltages from endocardial surface of a heart, comprising: a first elongate tubular member having a lumen, a proximal end and a distal end; a basket assembly comprising: a second elongate tubular member having a lumen, a proximal end and a distal end, the second elongate tubular member having a braided shield disposed between the proximal end of the second elongate tubular member and the distal end of the second elongate tubular member to minimize electro-magnetic interference from sources outside of the second elongate tubular member; wherein the basket assembly is slidingly compressible within the lumen of the second elongate tubular member; wherein the splines comprise a superelastic material such that the basket assembly exhibits a substantially cylindrical shape when radially compressed within the second elongate tubular member and exhibits a radially expanded non-spherical shape when not radially compressed within the second elongate tubular member; delivering the system to the heart; sliding the basket assembly beyond the distal end of the second elongate tubular member, whereby the splines radially expand into the radially expanded non-spherical shape to dispose the basket assembly within a chamber of the heart; contacting proximal heart tissue within the chamber of the heart with the substantially all of the one or more exposed electrodes disposed on the proximal spline portions; detecting multiple local electric voltages with the one or more exposed electrodes contacting the proximal heart tissue from endocardial surface thereat; contacting other heart tissue within the chamber of the heart with substantially all of the one or more exposed electrodes disposed on the medial spline portions and the distal spline portions; detecting multiple local electric voltages with the one or more exposed electrodes disposed on the medial spline portions and the distal spline portions contacting the other heart tissue from endocardial surface thereat; and minimizing electro-magnetic interference from sources outside of the second elongate tubular member while said one or more exposed electrodes are disposed beyond the distal end of the second elongate tubular member. | 30,604 |
9,344,280 | 1. A method for authenticating a document, comprising: obtaining optical character recognition (OCR) characteristics of contents of the document, wherein the contents of the document comprise at least a portion of text from the document; obtaining, separate from the document, biometric characteristics from an individual authorized to access the document; forming a message based on the OCR characteristics of the contents of the document and the separately obtained biometric characteristics of the individual authorized to access the document; generating a digital signature based on the message and a key; writing the digital signature to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag affixed to the document; in response to an attempt to copy the document, reading the digital signature from the RFID tag; verifying an individual attempting to copy the document based on one or more biometric characteristics collected from the individual attempting to access the document and at least a portion of the biometric characteristics of the individual authorized to access the document included in the message comprising the digital signature; and in response to successfully verifying the individual attempting to copy the document, granting the individual copy access to the document by activating a lighting feature comprising a copier that allows the copier to copy at least a portion of the contents of the document. | 5,758 |
8,762,097 | 1. A first data processing system having more than one component configurations depending upon whether a peripheral component is present in the first data processing system, comprising: a memory; an interface to receive at least one peripheral component; and a virtual temperature sensor capable of providing a first system temperature for the more than one component configurations of the first data processing system based at least on one of thermal time constant data of components of the first data processing system and system temperature data measured by one or more physical temperature sensors in each of the more than one component configurations, wherein the virtual temperature sensor calculates a predicted temperature based on whether the at least one peripheral component is installed into the interface and the virtual temperature sensor comprises a characterization table stored in the memory, the characterization table having the thermal time constant data of components of the first data processing system and system temperature data previously measured by one or more physical temperature sensors located on a second data processing system in each of the more than one component configurations, wherein the measured system temperature data on the second data processing system are processed to provide the thermal time constant data of components of the first data processing system, wherein the one or more physical temperature sensors measure temperatures other than an ambient air temperature and wherein the one or more physical temperature sensors are separate and different from a sensor for an ambient air temperature, wherein at least one of the thermal time constant data or the system temperature data measured by one or more physical temperature sensors are selected from the characterization table based at least in part on whether the at least one peripheral component is present in the first data processing system, wherein the virtual temperature sensor is configured to select at least a first one of the thermal time constant data and the system temperature data, if the at least one peripheral component is present in the first data processing system, and wherein the virtual temperature sensor is configured to select at least a second one of the thermal time constant data and the system temperature data, if the at least one peripheral component is not present in the first data processing system. | 31,969 |
8,953,497 | 1. A method, comprising: determining a multicast message to send to a plurality of destination nodes in a mesh network from a source node in the mesh network, the mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes arranged in rows and columns; for each destination node, determining a region among a plurality of regions to be associated with a respective destination node; identifying pairs of destination nodes that are adjacent to each other in different regions; for each pair, determining the more efficient data transmission path from the source node; and changing the region associated with the destination node in the pair determined to not be associated with the more efficient data transmission path; wherein four nodes, J | 45,007 |
9,369,993 | 1. A communication method, performed by a user equipment (UE), the communication method comprising: receiving, from a network, system information including one or more frequencies for a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service; identifying, using the received system information, a specific frequency among the one or more frequencies for the MBMS service; configuring a radio resource control (RRC) message including the identified specific frequency for the MBMS service; and transmitting, to the network, the RRC message including the identified specific frequency for the MBMS service. | 628 |
9,448,840 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a first request to pause rendering of an animation; and responsive to the receiving a first request: | 11,577 |
9,527,406 | 1. An electric vehicle drive system comprising: first and second electric motors; first and second torque limiting units for the first and second electric motors, respectively, the first and second torque limiting units configured to generate respective first and second maximum torques; and a torque split unit configured to receive first input that includes at least a total torque request for the first and second electric motors, and the first and second maximum torques, the torque split unit configured to process the first input without taking into account wheel slip, and to generate at least respective first and second torque requests for the first and second electric motors. | 37,006 |
9,676,555 | 1. A conveyor belt including: a flat belt component; a timing component co-formed with said flat belt component on an underside of the flat belt component, said timing component including first and second adjacent rows of obliquely angled teeth; a layer of netting component on an underside of said flat belt component and over said timing component; and a plurality of reinforcing cords extending longitudinally through said flat belt component; wherein said flat belt component, said timing component, and said reinforcing cords are co-formed to define said conveyor belt having a single pitch line, said pitch line defined by said reinforcing cords. | 20,978 |
9,642,153 | 1. A communications apparatus, comprising: a first radio circuit, communicating with a first wireless network and providing wireless communication services in compliance with a first radio access technology (RAT); a second radio circuit, communicating with a second wireless network and providing wireless communication services in compliance with a second RAT; and at least two antennas, shared by the first radio circuit and the second radio circuit for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals to and from an air interface, wherein when the first radio circuit operates in an idle mode and when the timing of the first radio circuit performing a first receiving activity coincides with the timing of the second radio circuit performing a second receiving activity, the second radio circuit uses the at least two antennas to perform the second receiving activity when a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle duration of the first radio circuit in the idle mode is shorter than a DRX cycle duration of the second radio circuit, and wherein when the first radio circuit operates in a connected mode with DRX and when the timing of the first radio circuit performing the first receiving activity coincides with the timing of the second radio circuit performing the second receiving activity, the first radio circuit uses the at least two antennas to perform the first receiving activity when an inactivity timer of the first radio circuit has not expired; wherein the inactivity timer is assigned by the first wireless network and starts after the first radio circuit has received data. | 12,044 |
9,789,092 | 1. A method for treating adrenomyeloneuropathy, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a composition comprising biotin and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the daily amount of biotin administered to the patient is at least 250 mg. | 14,806 |
9,246,594 | 1. A light emitting diode light communication device comprising: a housing; at least one optical transceiver comprising at least one light emitting diode and at least one photodetector, and a universal serial bus interface in communication with said at least one optical transceiver, said optical transceiver being constructed and arranged for engagement to, and communication with, at least one electronic device, said optical transceiver being further constructed and arranged for transmission of at least one transmitted light signal comprising light in the visible spectrum and receipt of at least one received light signal comprising light in the visible spectrum, said at least one received light signal being observable to unaided eyes of an individual as illumination, said at least one received light signal comprising a plurality of rapid flashes of light, said rapid flashes of light in the visible spectrum having a frequency which is not observable to the unaided eyes of said individual, wherein said rapid flashes of light in the visible spectrum are configured for transmission of information or data, said information or data comprising at least one optical transceiver identifier, at least one destination optical transceiver location identifier and at least one intermediate optical transceiver location identifier. | 8,366 |
9,346,720 | 1. A process for isomerizing linear alpha-olefins having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms over a heterogeneous catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a hydrogenation metal selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, nickels, and mixtures thereof, and a selectivity promoter selected from the group consisting of selenium and tellurium on a support, wherein the isomerization is carried out at a temperature of from 30 to 120° C. | 10,674 |
8,728,702 | 1. A method for producing a polyester resin (AX) for toner binder for developing electrostatic charge images, comprising; providing in a reaction vessel a polyol and a polycarboxylic acid, and reacting the polyol with the polycarboxylic acid to form a condensation-polymerization polyester resin in the presence of a catalyst containing a catalyst (a) represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R is H or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms which may contain from 1 to 3 ether bonds and/or from 1 to 2 hydroxyl groups; X is a residue formed by removing H of one carboxyl group from an aromatic mono- or polycarboxylic acid, provided that in the case of a polycarboxylic acid, a carboxyl group other than said one carboxyl group may intramolecularly polycondense with an OR group in the same molecule to form a ring structure or may intermolecularly polycondense with an OR group in another molecule to form a structure containing from 2 to 5 Ti atoms; m=1 to 3, n=1 to 3, and the sum of m and n is 4, wherein the content of the catalyst (a) in the entire portion of the catalyst present is 50 to 100% by weight. | 13,818 |
8,486,467 | 1. A method of treating a cosmetic defect in an individual, comprising: a) formulating a water-based solution consisting of: b) subdermally injecting the solution proximate a cosmetic defect that is selected from the group consisting of wrinkles, marrionette lines, glabellar lines, crow's feet, brow furrows, and combinations thereof, thereby treating the cosmetic defect in the individual. | 18,272 |
8,859,561 | 1. A compound of the formula (Ii): wherein: R each R each R X each R each R each R Q is substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl, substituted or unsubstituted C provided that the compound conforms to one of provisions (i)-(iii): (i) R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 14,392 |
8,850,804 | 1. A secondary air injection system for an internal combustion engine of the type having a cylinder block with multiple cylinders, a cylinder head securely fastened to the cylinder block with a head gasket disposed between a head mounting surface formed on the cylinder block and a block mounting surface formed on the cylinder head, and an integrated exhaust manifold including a first exhaust leg having a first passageway formed therethrough to provide fluid communication from a first exhaust port formed in said cylinder head to a first exit port and a second exhaust leg having a second passageway formed therethrough to provide fluid communication from a second exhaust port formed in said cylinder head to a second exit port, the secondary air injection system comprising: a first air injection path for selectively introducing air into the first exhaust leg, the first air injection path having a first supply passage providing fluid communication to a first ditch formed in the head mounting surface of the cylinder block and a first runner formed in the integrated exhaust manifold and providing fluid communication from the first ditch to the first exhaust leg; and a second air injection path for selectively introducing air into the second exhaust leg, the second air injection path having a second supply passage in fluid communication with a second ditch formed in the block mounting surface and a second runner formed in the integrated exhaust manifold and providing fluid communication from the second ditch to the second exhaust leg, the second ditch being isolated from the first ditch; wherein secondary air is injected into the first exhaust leg independently from secondary air injected into the second exhaust leg. | 35,406 |
9,315,491 | 1. A compound of formula (I): R (i) a group of the following formula: wherein P is C Q is selected from —H, —OR, —SR, -Halo, —NR H, C a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic group comprising 1-2 heteroatoms selected from N and O, a 6-membered heterocyclic group comprising 1-2 heteroatoms selected from N and O, optionally substituted by C a 6-membered heterocyclyl comprising 1-2 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, optionally substituted oxo, C a 6-membered heteroaryl comprising 1-2 N heteroatoms, optionally substituted by one or two substituents selected from a 6-membered heterocyclyl and —SC a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl group comprising 1-2 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, optionally condensed with benzene ring and optionally substituted by halogen, —CO —C(O)R, —C(O)N(R) 2 and —S(O) m R wherein R and m are as defined above; Y is selected from —O—(CH Z is selected from halo, —(CH W is selected from a morpholine ring and a pyridine ring; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 15,481 |
8,697,552 | 1. A method of ion implantation comprising: providing a plasma within a plasma region of a chamber; providing a grid assembly comprising a plurality of grid plates, wherein each grid plate comprises a plurality of apertures; flowing a first set of ions from the plasma in the plasma region through the apertures in each of the grid plates in the grid assembly while each of the grid plates is positioned in its respective first position; homogeneously implanting a substrate with at least a portion of the first set of ions that flowed through the apertures in the grid plates while the substrate is supported in its respective first position by a substrate holder, thereby forming a single laterally-homogeneous ion implantation across the substrate from a combination of the first set of ions that have passed through different apertures of the same grid plate; adjusting the position of the substrate or at least one of the grid plates to a respective second position and thereafter flowing a second set of ions from the plasma in the plasma region through the apertures in each of the grid plates in the grid assembly and selectively implanting the substrate with at least a portion of the second set of ions that flowed through the apertures in the grid plates, thereby forming a plurality of laterally spaced-apart ion implantations on the substrate from a portion of the second set of ions that have passed through different apertures of the same grid plate. | 17,477 |
9,296,018 | 1. A beverage garbage can comprising an enclosure presenting a top opening and containing: a compression plate movable between a disengaged position and a compression position in which it closes the opening; a piston situated facing the opening below the compression plate, the piston being mounted to move in translation along an axis between a low position, an ejection position, and a high position in which it is close to the compression plate when it is closed; an ejector for pushing a container resting on the piston while in its ejection position in a sideways direction so as to cause the container to drop sideways off the piston; a control unit associated with motor means for successively causing the compression plate to close after a container has been inserted into the top opening, to cause the piston to rise towards its high position so as to compress the container against the compression plate, to cause the piston to be lowered to the ejection position, and to cause the container to be ejected by making it drop sideways off the piston; and at least one receptacle offset sideways relative to the travel axis of the piston and extending between the bottom drip pan and the piston in its ejection position in order to collect the compressed container when it is ejected sideways by the ejector, wherein the ejector comprises a plurality of paddles extending substantially radially relative to the travel axis of the piston and regularly distributed around this axis, each paddle being pivotally mounted at one of its ends carried by an axis that is off-center relative to the travel axis of the piston and parallel to this axis, and having another end forming pusher that is closer to the travel is of the piston, the pusher-forming ends of the various paddies being arranged so that together they surround the space situated above the piston in the ejection position when the ejector is at rest, and wherein a container is ejected in a direction orthogonal to a given paddle by causing the other two paddles to cause their ends to move away from the travel axis of the piston, and then causing the given paddle to turn in the opposite direction. | 41,149 |
9,543,742 | 1. An electrical wiring device comprising: a housing assembly including a cover assembly and a back body member, the cover assembly including a plurality of receptacle openings, the housing assembly further including a plurality of line terminals and a plurality of feed-through load terminals, the housing also including a plurality of receptacle load terminals substantially aligned with the plurality of receptacle openings; a fault protection circuit disposed in the back body and substantially disposed on at least one printed circuit board (PCB), the fault protection circuit being configured to provide a fault detection stimulus in response to detecting at least one type of predetermined fault condition; a circuit interrupter disposed on a first side of the at least one PCB and configured to place the plurality of line terminals, the plurality of feed-through load terminals and the plurality of receptacle load terminals in a first state in response to a reset stimulus, the circuit interrupter being configured to place the plurality of line terminals, the plurality of feed-through load terminals and the plurality of receptacle load terminals in a second state in response to the fault detection stimulus, the plurality of receptacle load terminals being electrically isolated from the plurality of line terminals and the plurality of feed-through load terminals in the second state; and an auxiliary switch at least partially disposed on a second side of the at least one PCB, the auxiliary switch including a switch throw element movably extending through an opening in the PCB between the first state and the second state, the auxiliary switch being configured to decouple at least a portion of the fault protection circuit assembly from the plurality of line terminals in the second state. | 2,979 |
9,188,199 | 1. A multi-stage automatic transmission, for a motor vehicle, the transmission comprising: an input shaft ( first, second and third planetary gear sets (P first and second spur gear stages (S at least third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth rotatable shafts ( at least five shift elements ( the input drive shaft ( the ring gear of the first planetary gear set (P the third shaft ( the carrier of the second planetary gear set (P the carrier of the third planetary gear set (P the fourth clutch ( | 20,481 |
9,358,614 | 1. A slurry recycling apparatus in which a molded body obtained by wet molding, in magnetic field, slurry formed of alloy powder for a rare earth sintered magnet and mineral oil and/or synthetic fluid is crushed in mineral oil and/or synthetic fluid to recycle the molded body into slurry, wherein the slurry recycling apparatus includes a roughly crushing tank including roughly crushing teeth which roughly crush the molded body, and a finely crushing tank including finely crushing teeth which finely crush the roughly crushed molded body, and a lower portion of the roughly crushing tank and an upper portion of the finely crushing tank are in communication with each other, further comprising a passage, wherein the finely crushing tank and a portion in the roughly crushing tank which is higher than the roughly crushing teeth are in communication with each other through the passage. | 37,050 |
8,467,993 | 1. A method for monitoring a fleet comprising a plurality of measurement tools, the method comprising: collecting data for a current time interval from the fleet by a data collection module; and performing fleet measurement precision (FMP)/tool matching precision (TMP) analysis on the collected data by a FMP/TMP analysis module, wherein FMP/TMP analysis comprises: determining if the first FMP or the second FMP is above a predetermined threshold by a fleet improvement module, and in the event the first FMP or the second FMP is above the predetermined threshold: | 29,832 |
8,693,070 | 1. In a system having a scanner in communication with a computing device, a method comprising the steps of: obtaining, by the scanner, an electronic image of a document having no predefined format and containing numerical information; automatically capturing, in the computing device, the obtained electronic image including the numerical information; organizing, in the computing device, the captured numerical information; enabling editing of the captured numerical information; enabling viewing of the captured numerical information in a desired format; and combining the captured numerical information with other numerical information previously captured from other documents into a report. | 15,369 |
9,481,092 | 1. A gear gripping device comprising: a pawl provided to be movable so as to approach a circumference of a gear and capable of engaging a gear groove formed at the circumference of the gear; a first drive part which drives the pawl so as to abut against the circumference of the gear; a second drive part which rotates the gear in a circumferential direction of the gear; and an engagement detection part which detects whether the pawl engages the gear groove. | 13,996 |
9,854,541 | 1. A communication device, comprising: a power amplifier configured to generate an output signal obtained by amplifying a downlink signal, using a supply voltage, and output the output signal; and a processor configured to: wherein communication traffic of the active state is higher than communication traffic of the idle state, and wherein the first idle time information and the second idle time information indicate when the idle state repeatedly occurs. | 1,728 |
8,473,449 | 1. A method for effecting a dialogue with an emulated brain that can receive a query on an input and provide a reply on an output, comprising the steps of: receiving a query in the form of a semantic string; providing a plurality of neurons, wherein one neuron constitutes a predetermined activity neuron that represents one concept and at least one concept is that of an activity associated with a type of verb; parsing the semantic string into basic concepts of the query, each concept associated with one of the plurality of neurons, and clumping the basic concepts into a clump concept by the steps of: determining if the clump concept constitutes part of a dialogue and, if so: | 23,316 |
8,749,167 | 1. A linear light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp, comprising: a housing having two ends; a light-emitting diode printed circuit board (LED PCB), the LED PCB having LED arrays fixed thereon; an LED driver that powers the LED arrays on the LED PCB, the LED driver having two inputs; a voltage sensing mechanism, comprising two end voltage sensing devices and a middle voltage sensing device connected between the two end voltage sensing devices; a control mechanism, receiving and coupling voltage outputs from the two end voltage sensing devices and the middle voltage sensing device and electrically connecting to the two inputs of the driver; and two lamp bases respectively connected to the two ends of the housing, each lamp base having a bi-pin with two pins protruding outwards, and a shock protection switch, wherein the shock protection switch of each of the lamp bases comprises: wherein when the front portion of the switch actuation mechanism is pressed in or twisted on by inserting the bi-pin of the lamp base into a lamp socket, the electrical contacts of each of the two sets of electrical contacts are electrically connected to actuate the shock protection switch; wherein when the shock protection switch is off, the bi-pin is not electrically connected with any one of the voltage sensing devices; and wherein when the bi-pin is inserted into a lamp socket, the shock protection switch is actuated to electrically connect the two pins of the bi-pin respectively with two inputs of one of the end voltage sensing devices. | 39,900 |
9,696,708 | 1. A machining curve creating apparatus for creating a machining curve of a tool used to machine a workpiece by repeating taking, as a partial point sequence, a part of a point sequence expressing a tool path and generating a partial curve, the machining curve creating apparatus comprising: a segmented curve information storage unit configured to store, for each segmented curve of a plurality of segmented curves that are individual curve sections providing the tool path, segmented curve information comprising a number of the generated partial curves included in the segmented curve, a tangential direction at an end point of the segmented curve, and partial curve information in association with the segmented curve, wherein the partial curve information includes at least one of (i) a partial curve length of each of the generated partial curves and (ii) a number of points of the partial point sequence and information that mathematically defines the partial curve; a curve information utilization determining unit configured to compare a characterizing value with the segmented curve information of each segmented curve upon which the partial curve is generated, the characterizing value including at least one of (i) a direction of the point sequence from which the curve is to be generated and (ii) a folding line length, check whether the segmented curve to which the partial curve is to be conformed has already been generated and the corresponding segmented curve information is stored, and when the corresponding segmented curve information is stored, determine to use the stored segmented curve information when the partial curve is generated; and a stored-information-utilized curve generating unit configured to generate a partial curve utilizing the segmented curve information, wherein the partial curve is generated based on the segmented curve information of the stored information utilized curve generating unit to which the partial curve is to be conformed and the information on the partial curve defining the segmented curve, when the curve information utilization determining unit determines to utilize the stored segmented curve information. | 46,806 |
9,258,473 | 1. A camera module, comprising: a camera module housing defining an aperture and an internal cavity to accommodate camera module components; an image sensor coupled to or within the housing; a lens barrel within the housing that contains an optical train disposed relative to the aperture and image sensor to focus images of scenes onto the image sensor along an optical path; an actuator coupled to one or more lenses of the optical train and configured to move the one or more lenses relative to the image sensor to provide zoom or autofocus or both; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the actuator to: | 42,693 |
9,334,135 | 1. A sheet braking device for braking sheets transported in a transport direction, the sheet braking device comprising: at least one holder; at least one sheet guide unit arranged adjacent to the at least one holder for guiding the sheets to be braked which are transported in the transport direction; and at least one sheet braking unit which is held by the at least one holder, said at least one sheet braking unit being arranged adjacent to the at least one sheet guide unit, said at least one sheet braking unit comprising at least one first sheet braking body, which has a first braking region to exert a braking force on the sheet to be braked which is transported in the transport direction, said at least one sheet braking unit comprising at least one second sheet braking body, which has a second braking region to exert a braking force on the sheet to be braked which is transported in the transport direction, wherein the at least one sheet braking unit is configured in such a way that when acting upon the sheet to be braked which is transported in the transport direction, the first braking region of the at least one first sheet braking body and the second braking region of the at least one second sheet braking body are spaced from each other in the transport direction during braking, wherein the at least one first sheet braking body has a first length, and the at least one second sheet braking body has a second length which is greater than the first length. | 44,550 |
8,986,887 | 1. A magnesium secondary battery comprising: a negative electrode for adsorbing and releasing a magnesium ion; a positive electrode for producing a magnesium oxide product in a discharging process; and a non-aqueous magnesium ion conductor disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, wherein: the positive electrode includes an accelerator for promoting the production of the magnesium oxide product in the discharging process, the magnesium oxide product being decomposed to a magnesium ion and an oxygen molecule easier than MgO in a charging process. | 20,816 |
9,450,257 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a fuel gas system which supplies a fuel gas to the fuel cell and circulates the gas discharged from the fuel cell; a purge valve which discharges the gas from the fuel gas system; and a control device that controls the opening/closing operation of the purge valve, wherein a partial pressure of impurities in the fuel gas system is increased more than in a case of ordinary temperature, when the operation temperature of the fuel cell is higher than the ordinary temperature, and wherein the control device controls the opening/closing operation of the purge valve so that partial pressure of impurities in the fuel gas system is constant in the entire load region, in a case where the operation temperature of the fuel cell is the ordinary temperature, and so that the partial pressure of impurities in the fuel gas system is constant in the entire load region, in a case where the operation temperature of the fuel cell is higher than the ordinary temperature, wherein the control device controls the opening/closing operation of the purge valve so as to increase the amount of the gas discharged from the fuel gas system, as the operation temperature of the fuel cell rises. | 14,131 |
8,492,951 | 1. A stator assembly, comprising: a segmented stator having stator portions, wherein each stator portion comprises: stator laminations; end plates arranged axially on opposing sides of the stator portion; structural plates, arranged interior to the end plates, each having a portion that is embedded within the stator laminations, wherein the portion of each of the structural plates comprises notch-like structures; stabilizing elements coupling the end plates and the structural plates together; and hanging members coupled to each of the structural plates to support the structural plates on the stabilizing elements; and connectors to connect the stator portions of the segmented stator together. | 7,914 |
8,383,977 | 1. A sorting and sequencing system for mass-produced, customized objects, each of the objects being marked with a code that includes group data and sequence data indicating a sequence within a group, the system comprising: a plurality of object carriers, each of the object carriers configured to hold one of the objects, and each of the object carriers including an RFID device operable to provide a unique identity for the object carrier; a code-reading mechanism, operable to read the code on each of the objects and to associate each of the objects with one specific object carrier based on the group data and the sequence data; a sorting mechanism responsive to the identity provided by the RFID device on each of the object carriers and operable to direct each of the object carriers holding its associated object into one of a plurality of buffer locations based on an association of the identity of each of the object carriers with the group data of the object carried thereon, thereby sorting the object carriers into a plurality of carrier groups by buffer location; and a sequencing mechanism responsive to the identity provided by the RFID device on each of the object carriers and operable to place the object carriers in each of the carrier groups into a sequence based on an association of each of the object carriers in each of the carrier groups with the sequence data of the object carried thereon. | 11,995 |
9,175,632 | 1. An engine start control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle including a drivetrain including an engine, a motor, a normally-open hydraulic clutch disposed between the engine and the motor, and arranged to be engaged by a clutch hydraulic pressure generated based on a discharge pressure from an oil pump driven by the motor, the engine start control apparatus comprising: an engine start control section configured to crank the engine by using the motor as a starter motor while the hydraulic clutch is slip-engaged when the discharge pressure from the oil pump is ensured by driving the motor, when the engine is started after an ignition switch is switched to an ON state, the engine start control section being configured to drive the oil pump by the motor at a no-load during a predetermined time period after the engine is stopped immediately after the ignition switch is switched to an OFF state. | 29,304 |
8,733,458 | 1. An electrically triggered pressure set packer assembly, the assembly comprising: a packer disposed about a tubular; a gauge secured to the tubular and in electrical communication with surface equipment over an electrical line; a setting mechanism coupled to said packer and the line for electrical surface controlled triggering of setting of said packer; and a fuse for severing communication between said setting mechanism and the electrical line following the setting of said packer, wherein the electrical line remains in contact with the gauge even after the fuse is disabled. | 32,455 |
9,802,822 | 1. A method of treating an apatite solid surface prior to first use in a chromatographic procedure, the method comprising: (a) providing an apatite solid surface, wherein the apatite surface has not previously been used in any chromatographic procedure and has not previously been contacted with any sample; (b) contacting the apatite solid surface with a phosphate buffered solution at a pH of at least about 6.5; and then (c) contacting the apatite solid surface obtained in step (b) with a solution having an alkaline metal hydroxide: and then (d) purifying protein from a sample with the apatite solid surface obtained in step (c). | 23,595 |
9,537,099 | 1. A polymer having two different sets of repeat units consisting essentially of: wherein the two sets of repeat units are a benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene with a 2-ethylhexyl substituted 3-fluorothieno[3,4-b]thiophene and a benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ′]dithiophene with a propyl substituted 3-fluorothieno[3,4-b]thiophene | 4,217 |
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