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8,716,053 | 1. A process for sealing a multilayer article comprising: (a) providing a multilayer article to be sealed wherein said article comprises a photoactive layer disposed on a length of flexible substrate; (b) applying a sol-gel layer to the outermost layer of said article; and (c) heating the sol-gel layer with one or more pulses of radiation to cure the sol-gel layer into a glass layer without substantially affecting other layers, wherein the radiation is from a radiation source having emission spectrum in the range of from 200 to 1000 nm and each of the one or more pulses has a duration in the range of 1 to 1000 microseconds. | 28,169 |
8,341,960 | 1. An apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a power plant by operating a multi-heat source power plant, comprising: a thermal collector having access to heat from a solar collector as a first heat source for heating a first fluid to a first temperature; a topping power generation cycle using said first fluid as a motive fluid; a geothermal second heat source for heating a second motive fluid, which is different from said first motive fluid, to a second temperature lower than the first temperature; a heat exchanger that transfers heat from said first fluid to said second fluid to raise the temperature of said second fluid to a higher temperature; and a bottoming power generation cycle using said second fluid, heated to the higher temperature, as a motive fluid. | 24,220 |
8,978,029 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving, from an entity via a network, a selection of a deployment template; based on compatibility information of the selected deployment template, identifying platforms of the entity compatible with the compatibility information, the identifying including: receiving a selection of a platform, from the identified platforms, to which the selected deployment template is to be deployed, the selection received in response to generating and providing a web page including a listing of the identified compatible entity platforms to which at least one version of the selected deployment template can be deployed; validating the selected deployment template for deployment to the selected platform; and when the selected deployment template is successfully validated for deployment to the selected platform, deploying the selected deployment template to the selected platform. | 10,079 |
9,065,274 | 1. A connection apparatus circuit comprising: an isolation transformer having a first coil and a second coil, wherein the first coil has a first terminal, a second terminal and a center tap; an impedance matching network coupled between the center tap and a relay terminal; a high-voltage capacitor coupled between the relay terminal and a ground terminal; and a first high-voltage surge protector coupled between the center tap and the relay terminal; wherein when a high-voltage surge exceeds a default value between the first terminal or the second terminal and the ground terminal, the first high-voltage surge protector is conducted to clamp current on the impedance matching network; wherein when a DC high-voltage occurs between the first terminal or the second terminal and the ground terminal, the high-voltage capacitor is an open circuit to break current path between the first terminal or the second terminal and the ground terminal. | 47,212 |
9,664,773 | 1. A method of learning parameters of a radio heat map comprising: receiving, at a mobile device, one or more messages from a server via an electronic communications network, said one or more messages comprising at least locations of one or more wireless transmitters transmitting signals in an area and an electronic digital map of said area; estimating parameters of a signal strength propagation model of at least one of said signals transmitted from at least one of said one or more wireless transmitters based, at least in part, on said locations of said one or more wireless transmitters and said electronic digital map of said area, said parameters being estimated iteratively in said area based, at least in part, on an estimated power absorbed by a number of structural features causing path loss of said at least one of said signals, said structural features separating said at least one of said one or more wireless transmitters from an estimated location of said mobile device, said number of said structural features being determined via said electronic digital map of said area; and communicating said estimated parameters to said server via said electronic communications network. | 40,347 |
8,852,432 | 1. An induced symbiotic osmosis pump (ISOP) comprising: a plurality of closed loops comprising an initial closed loop, intermediate closed loops, and a final closed loop, each closed loop comprising a riser pipe having a given length and a downpipe having substantially the given length, the riser pipe receiving riser solution having a riser solute concentration at a base from an induced osmosis semipermeable membrane and communicating the riser solution at an opposed end to an in loop pump, the riser pipe being adapted to communicate the riser solution upward from the induced osmosis semipermeable membrane to a pressure exchanger, the pressure exchanger being adapted to communicate pressurized riser solution to an in loop reverse osmosis membrane, the in loop reverse osmosis membrane being adapted to produce an in loop reverse osmosis solution having a reduced solute concentration compared to the riser solution and to produce a remainder riser solution having an increased solute concentration compared to the riser solution, the in loop reverse osmosis membrane of the initial closed loop and the intermediate closed loops being adapted to communicate the in loop reverse osmosis solution to an additional closed loop, the plurality of closed loops being adapted to communicate the remainder riser solution back to the pressure exchanger, the pressure exchanger being adapted to communicate the remainder riser solution downward through the downpipe; the downpipe comprising a check valve, wherein the initial closed loop receives desoluted source solution having an initial solute concentration from an initial reverse osmosis module receiving source solution having a source solute concentration from an initial pump adapted to pump the source solution from a source, wherein the in loop reverse osmosis membrane of the final closed loop communicates potable water to a storage tank; and, wherein the source pump electronically communicates with an electrical source. | 12,656 |
9,562,744 | 1. Soft body armor comprising: a cover, at least one stack of a plurality of woven fabric layers positioned within said cover, at least one stack of a plurality of second fabric layers also positioned within said cover and being adjacent to said stack of a plurality of woven fabric layers, said second fabric layers comprising high tenacity fibers having a tenacity of at least about 7 g/d, and wherein said second fabric layers comprise unidirectionally oriented non-woven fabrics; a first separator layer positioned between said stack of woven fabric layers and said stack of second fabric layers, said first separator layer consisting of a lightweight, thin and flexible thermoplastic film having an areal density of from 15 g/m a second separator layer positioned between said stack of second fabric layers and said cover, said second separator layer consisting of a lightweight, thin and flexible thermoplastic film having an areal density of from 15 g/m | 49,395 |
9,610,285 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of baclofen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and naltrexone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the therapeutically effective amount of naltrexone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is an amount of about 25 to 100 milligrams and baclofen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is an amount between about 15 and about 120 milligrams. | 25,778 |
8,948,951 | 1. A vehicle behavior control apparatus comprising: a force generating mechanism which makes front wheels and rear wheels of a vehicle generate a driving force or a braking force, independently from each other; suspension mechanisms, each of which connects each of said front wheels and said rear wheels, both arranged as unsprung articles of said vehicle, to a vehicle body arranged as a sprung article of said vehicle; and a control section which controls said driving force or said braking force that said force generating mechanism makes said front wheels and said rear wheels generate, in accordance with behaviors of said vehicle body; wherein, said force generating mechanism makes wheels provided separately from said front and said rear wheels generate a driving force or a braking force, independently, said control section: obtains a state of a movement of said vehicle body when said vehicle is running; calculates, based on said obtained state of said movement, a plurality of target movement state amounts for controlling at least behaviors which are coupled with each other among behaviors of said vehicle body; calculates said driving force or said braking force that said force generating mechanism makes said front and rear wheels generate, and said driving force or said braking force that said force generating mechanism makes said wheels provided separately from said front and rear wheels generate, such that a plurality of said calculated target movement state amounts are achieved; and controls an operation of said force generating mechanism using signals indicative of said calculated driving force or said calculated braking force that said force generating mechanism makes said front and rear wheels generate, and a signal indicative of said calculated driving force or said calculated braking force that said force generating mechanism makes said wheels provided separately from said front and rear wheels generate. | 31,340 |
8,627,799 | 1. An apparatus constituting part of an induction and fuel delivery system for a cylinder of a piston internal combustion engine, said apparatus comprising: a cyclone into which is tangentially discharged a flow of heated air to generate a sustained vortex of high rotational speeds; a modulatable fuel injector delivering a flow of atomized fuel into said cyclone wherein it underdoes flash evaporation and energetic mixing; a delivery duct connecting said cyclone to an inlet tract of said cylinder wherein a vortex fuel-air mixture is mixed with induction air; and means to prevent overheating of said modulatable fuel injector. | 33,653 |
8,551,223 | 1. A method of removing unburned carbon from fly ash comprising the steps of: adding water to fly ash to produce slurry; adding collector to said slurry; feeding said slurry and collector to a submerged agitator having a rotation shaft penetrating a cylindrical main body in an axial direction thereof, a plurality of chambers formed by a plurality of partition walls dividing an inside of the main body in the axial direction thereof and an agitating vane fixed to the rotation shaft, the partition walls and agitating vane overlapping along a longitudinal axis defined by the cylindrical main body, the agitating vane rotating in each chamber to apply a shearing force to said slurry and said collector to modify the surface of said unburned carbon and said collector to enhance adsorption of said unburned carbon to said collector; adding frother to said slurry and said collector to which the shearing force is added; agitating said slurry and said collector to generate air bubbles; and adhering unburned carbon of said fly ash to the air bubbles to rise said unburned carbon. | 35,427 |
8,565,674 | 1. A portable terminal operable in a tag mode and a read mode, the portable terminal comprising: a Near Field Communication (NFC) module comprising a plurality of amplifiers; an antenna assembly comprising a plurality of antenna modules respectively connected to the plurality of amplifiers; a mode selector for controlling the plurality of amplifiers to perform a power supplying operation and a power cutting operation; and a controller for outputting a control signal to the mode selector according to the tag mode and the read mode, wherein, in the tag mode, the controller outputs a control signal to the mode selector to cut power supplied to parts of the plurality of amplifiers, and wherein, in the read mode, the controller outputs a control signal to the mode selector to continue to supply power to the plurality of amplifiers. | 16,040 |
8,922,053 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor chip comprising: a plurality of data output buffers outputting a data signal; a plurality of first power-supply pads supplied with a first power-supply potential; a first wiring connected between the first power-supply pads and the data output buffers in common; a strobe output buffer outputting a strobe signal for the data signal; a second power-supply pad provided independently of the first power-supply pads and supplied with a second power-supply potential; and a second wiring between the second power-supply pad and the strobe output buffer, the second wiring being electrically independent of the first wiring; wherein the first power-supply potential is substantially equal to the second power-supply potential. | 29,435 |
8,628,682 | 1. A composition comprising a fluorosurfactant and a hydrotrope wherein the hydrotrope comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of compounds of formula (I) and compounds of formula (II): wherein: R=R n=1-3; and G=—SO wherein: R=R n=1-3; R R X=Cl, Br, or I; and wherein the weight ratio of the fluorosurfactant to the hydrotrope is in the range of 1:10 to 10:1. | 37,446 |
8,373,475 | 1. A phase interpolator, comprising: a delay difference detector configured to detect a delay difference between a first input signal and a second input signal, and output a first delay control signal that indicates whether the delay difference is greater or smaller than a reference value; and a phase interpolation driver including a first set of drivers, and configured to interpolate the first and second input signals based on the first delay control signal and output a phase interpolator output signal, wherein the first set of drivers includes a first plurality of drivers and a second plurality of drivers, an input for each driver of the first plurality of drivers is connected to the first input signal, an input for each driver of the second plurality of drivers is connected to the second input signal, and outputs for the first and second plurality of drivers are commonly connected, and wherein the first and second plurality of drivers are configured to be enabled when the delay difference is smaller than the reference value, and to be disabled when the delay difference is greater than the reference value. | 15,838 |
9,281,186 | 1. A coloured colored photovoltaic (PV) module comprising: a photovoltaic cell; and an appearance modifying system that interacts with at least a portion of the incident light on the photovoltaic cell to cause a modified visual appearance to an observer, wherein the appearance modifying system spatially demultiplexes incident light to provide a power-creating component and an appearance-modifying component and wherein the appearance-modifying component is substantially directed to the observer, the appearance modifying component comprising a plurality of facets provided to a glazing and embedded elements provided to photovoltaically inactive areas, wherein the spatially demultiplexing comprises configuring the facets and embedded elements such that the facets refract light reflecting off the embedded elements substantially toward the observer. | 44,299 |
8,501,594 | 1. A method for depositing a silicon germanium layer on a substrate, comprising: depositing a first layer comprising silicon and germanium atop the substrate using a first process gas mixture including a first silicon precursor comprising silicon and chlorine but not including a second silicon precursor consisting of silicon and hydrogen; and depositing a second layer comprising silicon and germanium atop the first layer using a second process gas mixture including the second silicon precursor but not including the first silicon precursor, wherein the first layer and the second layer form the silicon germanium layer. | 25,171 |
8,360,014 | 1. An enclosure for housing an engine, the enclosure comprising: an intake chamber, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator and an engine are disposed, including engine intake equipment arranged therein, the engine intake equipment including an air cleaner and an intake silencer; a radiator chamber, separate from the chamber where the engine is disposed, including the radiator and a radiator fan, wherein the intake chamber is adjacent to the radiator chamber to cause at least one wall face of the intake chamber to be subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which is driven by the radiator fan; and one or more spaces other than the radiator chamber and the intake chamber including a liquid-liquid heat exchanger that extracts heat from engine coolant to the exterior, wherein control means operates the radiator fan to be driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when an engine intake air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature, even when the engine coolant bypasses the radiator and flows into only the liquid-liquid heat exchanger. | 17,524 |
9,797,301 | 1. A turbocharger ( 10 ) using exhaust gas flow to drive a turbine wheel ( 12 ) in a turbine housing ( 20 ) and a wastegate valve assembly ( 26 , 126 ) to control exhaust gas flow bypassing the turbine wheel ( 12 ), the turbocharger ( 10 ) comprising: a tubular chamber ( a valve ( an actuator ( wherein some exhaust gas flow bypasses the turbine wheel ( | 46,526 |
9,822,807 | 1. A fastener for attaching a first wire panel to a second wire panel together, the fastener comprising: a body sufficiently large to cover four wire rods, the body having first, second, third and fourth grooves about a periphery of the body, the first groove and the second groove being parallel to each other and having detents configured to retain the wire rods of the first wire panel in the first and second grooves for holding the body to the first wire panel, the third and fourth grooves being parallel to each other and perpendicular to the first and second grooves and being configured to receive corresponding transverse wire rods of the first wire panel and the second wire panel, the body having a threaded hole; and a mountable member sufficiently large to cover four wire rods, the mountable member having a threaded protrusion configured to be threaded onto the threaded hole of the body to clamp the first and second wire panels between the mountable member and the body, the mountable member having a handle portion on an exterior side for rotating the mountable member in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction for removably attaching the mountable member to the body. | 10,774 |
8,436,442 | 1. An indirect-conversion-type radiation image detection device comprising: a scintillator that converts radiation into light; a plurality of pixels each including a sensor portion and a TFT switch, and that are provided in a two-dimensional form, each of the sensor portions having: a plurality of common electrode lines that are formed at an electromagnetic wave downstream side of the sensor portions, connected to the first electrodes, and supply the bias voltage; a first insulating film that is provided between the sensor portions and the common electrode lines, and that insulates the sensor portions and the common electrode lines; a plurality of contact holes formed in the first insulating film; and a plurality of contacts each having one end connected to one of the first electrodes via one of the contact holes respectively, and other end connected to the common electrode line. | 4,560 |
8,920,773 | 1. A process comprising: roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material; roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material; leaching the roasted metal bearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution; conditioning the pregnant leach solution to form a preprocessed metal bearing material; and leaching the preprocessed metal bearing material in acid medium. | 12,715 |
9,675,948 | 1. A stirring method comprising the steps of: preparing a pair of stirring tanks, each tank being provided with an output-input member, stirring a liquid inside the stirring tanks by a stirrer, and each liquid in the stirring tanks is sent out by air pressure, connecting the output-input members of the stirring tanks with a pipe, providing a switch for controlling supply of a liquid to nozzles located in the pipe, controlling flow of the liquid between the stirring tanks by the switch so that when the switch is off a liquid is not being applied, and the liquid in one stirring tank is sent to the other stirring tank, and when the switch is on, the liquid in the one stirring tank is sent to the nozzles, wherein the liquid is circulated between the stirring tanks, and some of the liquid is flowing at all times. | 16,731 |
8,776,764 | 1. A method of operating a fuel system including a first fuel pump coupled upstream of a second, positive-displacement fuel pump, comprising, when second fuel pump operation is not requested, operating the first fuel pump to maintain a fuel rail pressure at a fuel rail while supplying fuel to an engine cylinder through an injector; and adjusting a flow control valve to vary an effective pump volume of each pump stroke of the second fuel pump to maintain an elevated pressure in a pump chamber of the second fuel pump below the fuel rail pressure and without affecting fuel rail pressure. | 20,098 |
9,564,648 | 1. A method for determining whether one of at least three possible locations in an anode sub-system of a fuel cell system is leaking, said method comprising: determining there is a leak in the anode sub-system of the fuel cell system; determining a first leak flow value defining a leak rate of the leak during first system operating parameters; estimating a first effective leak area using the first leak flow value and the first system operating parameters for each of the three possible leak locations; determining a second leak flow value defining a leak rate of the leak during second system operating parameters, said second system operating parameters including an increased cathode airflow to a fuel cell stack that is greater than a cathode airflow to the fuel cell stack during the first system operating parameters; estimating a second effective leak area using the second leak flow value and the second system operating parameters for each of the three possible leak locations; comparing the first effective leak area to the second effective leak area for each of the three possible leak locations; and determining which of the three possible locations the leak may be occurring based on the difference between the first effective leak area and the second effective leak area for each location. | 21,565 |
9,043,272 | 1. A system for determining the start of one or more patterns of characters in an input character string, the patterns being defined by at least one character of the input character string, the input character string being provided to the system, the system operating in a series of states, the series of states including at least one start state and at least one terminal state, the system comprising: finite state automaton, the finite state automaton being responsive to each character of the input character string and selectively transitioning to a next state in response to each character; an automaton memory having stored therein a state transition table and a special state table; the special state table including special state information; the special state information including start state entries and terminal state entries, the special state information having at least a first code to indicate whether the special state information is a start state entry or a terminal state entry, each start state entry including a start state register select code, each terminal state entry including a second code identifying the one or more particular patterns, and a start state register number code; and a plurality of start state registers, each register of the plurality of start state registers being identifiable by the start state register number code and having stored therein information relating to the location in the input character string of the start of a particular pattern of the one or more patterns; the state transition table including current state information corresponding to the current state of the finite state automaton, character information corresponding to the characters in the input character string, next state information relating to the next state to which the finite state automaton will transition in response to the current state information and the character information, and special state table information corresponding to the next state information and indicating whether the system should perform a lookup in the special state table. | 36,419 |
9,199,315 | 1. A method of making a twist drill from a drill blank; said twist drill having a longitudinal axis about which said drill is configured to rotate during use; said twist drill comprising: a plurality of main cutting edges disposed at a tip portion, said main cutting edges being connected to one another by a chisel edge; said main cutting edges being disposed to run rectilinearly toward said chisel edge; a plurality of secondary cutting edges, each being disposed adjoining a corresponding one of said main cutting edges; a plurality of flutes being configured and disposed to permit removal of chips produced during drilling; each of said secondary cutting edges being disposed to run along a corresponding one of said flutes in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said drill; each of said flutes comprises a flute wall portion which extends from a corresponding secondary cutting edge substantially toward the longitudinal axis; each of said secondary cutting edges having a plurality of secondary rake angles (γ) at points along the length thereof, which secondary rake angles (γ) are defined by a tangent of said flute wall portion perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a radial line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and which secondary rake angles (γ) increase along the length of said secondary cutting edges in a direction away from said tip portion; said method comprising the steps of: forming a first rectilinear main cutting edge by grinding said drill blank; forming a first flute and a first secondary cutting edge corresponding to said first main cutting edge by grinding said drill blank and removing increasing amounts of drill material along the length of the drill blank to form a first plurality of secondary rake angles (γ) which increase along the length of said first secondary cutting edge in a direction away from said tip portion while maintaining the twist drill to have a constant diameter (D) along the length thereof; performing the above steps for at least one additional main cutting edge and its corresponding flute and secondary cutting edge, and forming the twist drill to have a core diameter that remains constant in a longitudinal direction of the twist drill. | 25,251 |
9,185,888 | 1. A lighting assembly comprising: a vessel submerged within water of an ecosystem; a heat sink at least partially disposed through the vessel; a first substrate disposed within the vessel and having driving circuitry thereon; at least one lighting device electrically connected to the driving circuitry that emits light within the water of the ecosystem; and wherein heat from the circuitry is conveyed through the heat sink to the water; wherein the heat sink comprises a primary heat sink disposed within the vessel that is engaged by the substrate to provide a thermal path from the substrate to the primary heat sink; and wherein the heat sink further comprises a secondary heat sink extending from the primary heat sink away from the vessel. | 3,220 |
8,862,910 | 1. A portable information processing terminal, comprising: an application storage section in which an application is stored; an obtaining section for obtaining an application from an outside, and storing the obtained application in the application storage section; an application management table in which a power consumption, per unit time, for the application stored in the application storage section, is registered; a battery section for supplying power to the portable information processing terminal; a charge control section for detecting for connection to a battery charger, and controlling whether the battery section is to be charged by using the battery charger; a remaining battery power management section for managing a remaining battery power in the battery section; an application control section for requesting the application stored in the application storage section to be executed; an application execution section for executing the application according to a request from the application control section; a power measurement section for measuring the power consumption per unit time for the application which is being executed; an application status management section for managing the application management table, and calculating an execution-enabled time period for the application, based on the power consumption for the application per unit time, and the remaining battery power in the battery section; and a display section for displaying the execution-enabled time period for the application, wherein the power measurement section determines that the remaining battery power of the battery section is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value, and requests the application control section to execute the application for which the power consumption information per unit time has not been obtained, to measure the power consumption for the application per unit time. | 21,164 |
9,577,421 | 1. A method for operating a wind turbine connected to a power grid, the method comprising: measuring, via one or more electric current sensors, one or more current feedback signals at a plurality of locations in the wind turbine; receiving, via a controller, the one or more current feedback signals from the one or more electric current sensors of the wind turbine; determining, via the controller, whether a ground fault is occurring in the wind turbine at each of the locations based on the current feedback signals; in response to detecting a ground fault, tripping one or more electrical components of the wind turbine; and, electrically de-coupling the wind turbine from the power grid. | 11,057 |
8,810,316 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first differential pair of gain devices and associated bias circuitry configured for operation in a full gain mode; a second differential pair of gain devices configured for operation in a reduced gain mode; a switching unit configured to disable the first differential pair of gain devices and enable the second differential pair of gain devices in the reduced gain mode, and to disable the second differential pair of gain devices and enable the first differential pair of gain devices in the full gain mode; and a resistor coupled across the second differential pair of gain devices, the resistor configured to maintain constant input impedance of the apparatus when in the reduced gain mode. | 23,607 |
8,519,646 | 1. A container lid is adapted to be releasably supported on a container comprising: a base adapted to be releasably mounted on the container in order to allow the container lid to be releasably supported on the container, with the base including a hole extending therethrough and adapted to align with and communicate with an opening of the container when the container lid is supported on the container; a control mechanism mounted and bore on the base and disposed within a circumferential edge thereof, with the control mechanism including a circuit board, a motor, a transmission system, and a sensing system; and first and second hoods pivotally mounted and bore on the base and disposed within the circumferential edge thereof, with the first hood engaged with and being driven to pivot by the control mechanism, with the first and second hoods structurally connected to each other in a manner that pivoting of the first hood would cause the second hood to pivot oppositely from the first hood, with the first and second hoods arranged symmetrically and disposed above the hole and moveable between a first operation position with the first and second hoods cooperating to prevent a foreign object to pass therebetween and a second operation position with the first and second hoods being apart and having a gap therebetween through which the foreign object is adapted to be passed and moves into the hole; wherein the base includes first, second, third and fourth receiving sections defined thereon, with the first hood including two first connecting sections pivotally engaging the first and third receiving sections respectively, with the second hood including two second connecting sections pivotally engaging the second and fourth receiving sections respectively. | 18,399 |
9,356,171 | 1. A method for forming a single-crystal thin-film material layer of a first material comprising: depositing a thin-film material layer on a surface selected from a substrate and a template layer on a substrate, the thin-film semiconductor layer having an initial microstructure selected from the group consisting of amorphous, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline, and polycrystalline; laser-heating to a crystallization temperature a seed spot in the thin-film material layer between one and one thousand nanometers in diameter of the thin-film material layer, using a laser focal spot size on the order of a critical size of nucleation of the thin-film material layer, the seed spot having size on the order of the critical size of nucleation of the thin-film material layer, and thereby crystalizing the seed spot; the crystallized seed spot consisting of a single crystal seed in the thin-film material layer; extending the seed spot into a single-crystal seed line by laser-heating at least one crystallization zone adjacent to the seed spot and drawing the crystallization zone across the thin-film material layer; and extending the single crystal seed line across the thin-film material layer by laser-heating a crystallization zone adjacent to the seed line and drawing the crystallization zone across the thin-film semiconductor layer. | 2,435 |
8,384,282 | 1. A self-assembly LED lamp kit containing at least the following components: a. A lamp base connected to a constant-current power supply; b. a polycarbonate lamp cover; c. a printed circuit board (PCB) with at least one LED lamp bead; d. a pair of electrical wires connected to said power supply and said PCB; e. a recycled metal container with a hole at the bottom to accommodate said electrical wires and said PCB through a hollow screw, said hollow screw having M6 screw thread on the outside surface and M3 screw thread on the inside surface, wherein said lamp base is fixed to the top of the container, and said lamp cover is fixed to the bottom of the container; and f. a plastic disc insulating said lamp base and said metal container, wherein said plastic disc also acts as a template for drilling said hole on the bottom of said recycled metal container. | 35,780 |
9,000,293 | 1. A reflective photovoltaic solar concentration system, comprising: a primary reflecting mirror changing direction of solar light beams entering the system and redirecting the solar light beams towards a secondary reflecting mirror changing the direction of received light beams and redirecting the solar light beams towards a tertiary optical element, the tertiary optical element comprising: | 27,760 |
8,856,403 | 1. A communication module comprising: first and second signal line connection terminals; a first current path having one end electrically connected to said first signal line connection terminal; a second current path having one end electrically connected to said second signal line connection terminal; a transmitter which sends a signal utilizing a change of a current by changing the current flowing between the other end of said first current path and the other end of said second current path; a third current path having one end connected to said one end of said first current path; a fourth current path having one end connected to said one end of said second current path; a switching part which switches a conductive/non-conductive state between the other end of said third current path and the other end of said fourth current path; a power source part provided without being electrically connected with said first and second signal line connection terminals; and a controller which is connected to said transmitter, said switching part and said power source part, and which operates with supply of power from said power source part, and which controls said transmitter and said switching part, wherein while said switching part brings about the non-conductive state between said other end of said third current path and said other end of said fourth current path by being applied with a control signal from said controller, said switching part brings about the conductive state between said other end of said third current path and said other end of said fourth current path by not being applied said control signal, and said switching part includes: | 38,918 |
9,515,597 | 1. An electric machine comprising: a primary mechanical output or input; a plurality of electric sub-machines configured to selectively drive, or be driven by, the primary mechanical output or input respectively; a controller configured to: monitor a parameter of the electric machine indicative of the power of the electric machine; engage or disengage one or more of the plurality of electric sub-machines dependent upon the monitored parameter, so as to increase the number of sub-machines simultaneously driving, or being driven by, the primary mechanical output or input respectively at higher electric machine powers; and engage a further sub-machine of the plurality of sub-machines at a power interval; and engage a further sub-machine of the plurality of sub-machines at a power interval, in which each sub-machine has a maximum rated power of at least three times the power interval. | 34,786 |
8,427,892 | 1. A device comprising: a memory to store data; and a memory controller connected to the memory via a plurality of data lines and a strobe line, the memory controller using the plurality of data lines to write a data burst as a plurality of data signals, the memory controller using the strobe line to transmit a strobe signal, the strobe signal being used to control writing of the data signals to the memory, and the memory controller including: a plurality of write data generation circuits that each transmit one of the plurality of data signals on one of the plurality of data lines, the plurality of write data generation circuits being controlled by write enable signals, and a write strobe generation circuit to generate the strobe signal and the write enable signals, the write strobe generation circuit including: a first flip-flop and a second flip-flop, a logic OR gate connected to receive an output of the first flip-flop and an output of the second flip-flop, a third flip-flop connected to receive an output of the logic OR gate, a first logic NAND gate connected to receive the output of the logic OR gate and a clock signal, a second logic NAND gate connected to receive the output of the first flip-flop and an inverted output of the second flip-flop, a fourth flip-flop connected to receive an output of the second logic NAND gate, and a third logic NAND gate connected to receive an output of the first logic NAND gate and an output of the fourth flip-flop, logic to generate a first signal that defines portions of the strobe signal, the logic to generate the first signal including: a first pair of serially connected flip-flops that receive the output of the third flip-flop, the first pair of serially connected flip-flops being clocked by a clock that has a frequency that is twice a write frequency for the memory, and a delay chain to: receive an output of the first pair of serially connected flip-flops, and output the first signal based on the received output of the first pair of serially connected flip-flops, a buffer to receive the first signal, and logic to generate, based on an output of the third logic NAND gate, a second signal that is an input to the buffer. | 25,207 |
9,688,253 | 1. A chock deployment apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a chock including a pair of spaced-apart, parallel chock side panels, a chock rear panel extending between the chock side panels, a sloped chock front panel extending between the chock side panels and a chock interior formed by and between the chock side panels, the chock rear panel and the chock front panel, and wherein the tether reel is disposed in the chock interior; a tether reel carried by the chock; and a chock tether extendable from the tether reel. | 12,041 |
8,793,794 | 1. A computer security method operating a monitor, the method comprising: sending a challenge from the monitor, the challenge sent to a security process of a monitored computing system running a real-time operating system, or to a challenge handler that monitors integrity of the security process, wherein the security process is configured to periodically, in hard real-time, check integrity of an application or a data element used by the application; monitoring for a response to the challenge from the security process or challenge handler; determining that a response has not been received from the security process or challenge handler within a specified hard real-time interval; in response to determining that a response has not been received from the security process or challenge handler within a specified hard real-time interval, determining that the monitored computing system may have been tampered with; and in response to determining that the monitored computing system may have been tampered with, sending a notification to shut down at least part of the monitored computing system or at least part of the application. | 48,460 |
8,438,781 | 1. A vertical planting module comprising: a box having a water inlet on a top of the box and drainage outlets in a bottom of the box; an insert formed of at least one vertical divider linking multiple horizontal dividers parallel to each other with a certain distance in between and at a tilted position, wherein the horizontal dividers and vertical dividers divide the box into multiple nursing cells; insert grooves structured of upper rails and lower rails placed at corresponding positions on side walls inside the box, wherein ends of the upper and lower rails that form openings of the insert grooves have upward bends, and the insert slides into the box via the insert grooves; a plant-growth mat secured against an inner-back of the box by the insert which is prevented from sliding out by the upward bends of the lower rails; a support mount and a fastener located on a back of the box, wherein the support mount has a support surface and a positioning surface and the fastener has a fastening surface; locking grooves configured respectively for locking a dripping hose at a left side and a right side on the top of the box; and a mounting bar configured with groove surfaces matching the support surface, the positioning surface and the fastening surface on the box, such that the box including the insert placed therein is not allowed free movement when mounted on the mounting bar, by the support surface, the positioning surface and the fastening surface matching the corresponding groove surfaces on the mounting bar. | 21,557 |
9,776,885 | 1. A method of refining iron oxide for ironmaking from a leach residue, the method comprising: adding sulfuric acid to nickel oxide ore that includes iron; leaching nickel from the nickel oxide ore using a pressure vessel and forming a leach slurry, and then solid-liquid separating the leach slurry to provide the leach residue that includes hematite and a nickel containing leachate, wherein an amount of the sulfuric acid added is 150 kg to 205 kg per ton of the nickel oxide ore wherein the addition provides 96 kg to 131.2 kg H wherein a sulfur grade of the leach residue is 1 wt.% or less. | 24,793 |
9,287,783 | 1. A power supply device comprising: a PFC (Power Factor Correction) circuit configured to improve the power factor of rectified power; a first DC-DC converter configured to generate a voltage to be supplied to a load upon receiving output of the PFC circuit; and a second DC-DC converter and a third DC-DC converter configured to generate a control voltage upon receiving the output of the PFC circuit, wherein the second DC-DC converter and the third DC-DC converter are cascade-connected, and wherein an input terminal of the third DC-DC converter is connected to both an output terminal of the second DC-DC converter and an output terminal of the first DC-DC converter. | 1,583 |
9,296,312 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a first drive axle drivingly engaging a first wheel of the electric vehicle; a first electric motor mounted directly on the first drive axle; a battery unit that powers the first electric motor; a controller to control the electric motor; wherein the first electric motor comprises a plurality of electric motors, and wherein each of said plurality of electric motors is connected to said battery unit; wherein the controller controls the first electric motor based upon operator demand, vehicle speed, driving resistance, wind resistance, and vehicle weight; wherein the controller controls the plurality of electric motors to have the same rotor rotational speed; and wherein the electric motor includes a dirt excluding seal cover. | 11,801 |
8,884,251 | 1. A method comprising: selecting a diamond material; irradiating the diamond material with electrons to increase toughness and/or wear resistance of the diamond material; and processing the diamond material into one or more diamond tool pieces, wherein the irradiating comprises controlling energy and dosage of irradiation to provide the diamond material with a plurality of isolated vacancy point defects, the isolated vacancy point defects having a concentration in a range 1×10 | 23,070 |
9,768,457 | 1. A driving control method of a fuel cell system, comprising: stopping, by a controller, operation of a fuel cell stack when a flow rate of air of the fuel cell stack is less than a predetermined reference value, after air supply to the fuel cell stack is stopped; and removing, by the controller, a voltage generated in the fuel cell stack, wherein the removing process includes removing, by the controller, a voltage generated in the fuel cell stack, using a plurality of voltage removal processes based on the result of comparing electric output generated by a regenerative braking operation of the fuel cell system with a predetermined regenerative braking limit value, wherein the removing process includes removing, by the controller, a voltage generated in the fuel cell stack by supplying hydrogen to the cathode side of the fuel cell stack, when the difference between the limit value and the generated electric output is less than a predetermined reference value, as the result of the comparison, and wherein the removing process includes removing, by the controller, a voltage generated in the fuel cell stack by charging a battery with the voltage generate in the fuel cell stack, when the difference between the limit value and the generated electric output is greater than a predetermined reference value, as the result of the comparison. | 15,875 |
8,583,952 | 1. A method of controlling power consumption in a computer having a plurality of selectable power states, the method comprising using a power management program installed on the computer to: detect whether or not there is any user activity; detect the identity of each process running on the computer; compare the identity of each process running on the computer with a set of identities of previously identified processes for which it is desirable that the computer maintains a high power state; cause the computer to adopt a predetermined lower power state if all the detected identities of processes are not in said set and no user activity is detected, said predetermined lower power state being a state in which the computer is able to service requests. | 11,177 |
9,650,932 | 1. An insulated reductant tank comprising: a plurality of sides connected to form a tank having an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion having a non-tapered shape and the lower portion having a tapered shape; and a component configured to draw reductant from the tank and supply the reductant to an exhaust aftertreatment system; wherein the upper portion and the lower portion are configured with at least one insulation layer to control freezing of the reductant within the tank, and wherein the at least one insulation layer insulates the upper portion more than the lower portion. | 2,896 |
8,522,783 | 1. A mask cushion to sealingly connect a mask to a wearer's face, the cushion comprising: a frame of resilient material having a rim to at least partially surround the wearer's nose; and a membrane also of resilient material, said membrane being thinner than and relatively more flexible than said frame, said membrane being fixed to and extending away from said frame so as to be spaced from said rim by a gap, said membrane having an outer surface forming a face contacting seal portion that is pre-shaped to generally match the contours of the wearer's face, wherein the face contacting seal portion is structured such that it is not required to turn in on itself to conform with the wearer's face, in use; wherein: the frame and rim are structured to resist deformation so as to form a support structure for the membrane, said rim and frame are not in contact with the wearer's face in use, and said membrane is resiliently deformable towards said gap to abut said rim in use of said cushion. | 9,616 |
8,882,388 | 1. A collection device for collecting and recovering oil and gas from an underwater source, said collection device comprising: a balloon structure defined by an envelope having an opening, which, in operation, is on an underside of said balloon structure, said balloon structure is configured to be placed over an underwater source to collect oil and gasses from said underwater source; a vent adapted to vent the gas from said envelope; control means for controlling an oil upper level, said control means having a closure valve configured to control a flow of the gas from said envelope through said vent, said valve being closable by a valve closure member, said valve closure member is configured to determine a minimum volume of the gas retained in said envelope and operable by floating means configured to float on oil; and buoyancy means in conjunction with said control means controlling the gas volume is configured to control a buoyancy of said balloon structure to enable descent of said collection device to said underwater source and ascent to a surface of a body of water in a controlled manner. | 18,612 |
9,030,971 | 1. A method for simultaneous operation of a short-ranged time division duplex (TDD) mobile wireless system (MWS) with a mobile wireless broadband system, the method comprising: determining, on a wireless communication device, a timing configuration of the mobile wireless broadband system; generating, on a wireless communication device, based on the timing configuration, a time slot map identifying transmitting and receiving opportunities that enable simultaneous operation of the wireless systems within at least one time slot while mitigating interference between the wireless systems; setting sniff anchor points based on guard bands of the timing configuration so short-ranged TDD MWS packets align with the guard bands; and transmitting a message to a remote short-ranged TDD MWS device, the message setting an active communication period for the remote short-ranged TDD MWS device equal to a time period between successive guard bands in the timing configuration. | 9,291 |
8,533,048 | 1. A method, comprising: identifying a plurality of advertiser segments; identifying a plurality of advertisement slots; compiling characteristics of advertisers, wherein the characteristics are associated with at least one of the plurality of advertiser segments; estimating by a computing device, for each identified advertiser segment, a utility value for each identified advertisement slot; determining an estimated optimal grouping of advertisement slots for each advertiser segment based on the estimated utility values; grouping advertisers having common characteristics into at least one of the plurality of advertiser segments; associating one estimated utility value with advertisers grouped in at least one of the advertiser segments and another estimated utility value with advertisers grouped in another of the advertiser segments; and determining, for each advertiser segment, a price for the estimated optimal grouping of advertisement slots according to at least one of the estimated utility values. | 3,252 |
8,705,488 | 1. A method for supporting an idle mode of a terminal in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising: transmitting a first request message for starting an idle mode to a first access node to which the terminal is currently connected; receiving a first response message with respect to the first request message from the first access node; and starting an idle mode when the first response message includes acceptance information accepting a start of the idle mode, and rejecting the start of the idle mode when the terminal fails to meet predetermined conditions for starting the idle mode, wherein when the terminal moves to an area of a second access node while in the idle mode, the first access node recognizes that the terminal has moved upon receiving a request message for releasing resources allocated to the terminal transmitted by the second access node, and upon receiving the request message for releasing the resources, the first access node terminates supporting of the idle mode of the terminal and releases the resources allocated to the terminal, and wherein when the terminal initially moves to the area of the second access node, the terminal transmits a reassociation request message to the second access node, and the second access node transmits the request message for releasing the resources to the first access node by using information included in the reassociation request message. | 22,958 |
8,839,129 | 1. A mobile communication device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs stored in the memory including instructions for displaying a user interface on the touch screen display wherein the user interface includes: | 43,401 |
8,418,967 | 1. An airfoil structural insert comprising: an airfoil structural insert frame; a skin surface disposed about the airfoil structural insert frame; at least one attachment component configured to facilitate coupling to an aerodynamic structure; a leading edge disposed on one end of the airfoil structural insert frame; a trailing edge disposed on an opposite end of the airfoil structural insert frame; and at least one structural element configured to support the skin surface, wherein the structural element comprises a buckling member within said structural element, the buckling member being selected from the group consisting of a polymer, fiber reinforced polymer composite, engineered plastic, and metal, wherein said structural element undergoes at least one nonlinear shape change from a first shape to a deflected shape. | 3,805 |
9,195,514 | 1. A method of operating a data processing system, wherein the data processing system is associated with a plurality of P-states and a plurality of C-states, comprising: determining a current value of a load indicator of the system based on a plurality of measures, each measure weighted based on its respective system limit for the data processing system, the plurality of measures including a central processor unit utilization measure of the system, a memory utilization measure of the system, a system-internal resources utilization measure, an input/output utilization measure of the system, and a secondary storage utilization measure of the system; determining an operating mode of the system based on the current value of the load indicator, wherein the operating mode comprises a P-state selected from the plurality of P-states and a C-state selected from the plurality of C-states; and operating the system in accordance with the operating mode. | 32,574 |
8,730,849 | 1. A method of receiving information on a relay station in a mobile communication system including a plurality of relay stations capable of recognizing a mobile station, the method comprising: receiving hop information having one bit length and indicating whether a hop number from the relay station to a base station is odd via a superframe header; and determining a timing point for the mobile station to switch from a transmit mode to a receive mode in a time divisional duplex (TDD) scheme according to the hop information, wherein a time period during which a first relay station, whose hop number is odd, operates in the transmit mode corresponds to a time period during which a second relay station, whose hop number is even, operates in the receive mode. | 46,036 |
8,683,157 | 1. A storage system coupled to a host computer, comprising: a first storage apparatus including a plurality of first storage devices and a first controller being configured to manage a first logical device with a first identifier on said plurality of first storage devices; a second storage apparatus including a plurality of second storage devices and a second controller being configured to manage a second logical device with a second identifier on said plurality of second storage devices; a third storage apparatus including a plurality of third storage devices and a third controller being configured to manage a third logical device with a third identifier on said plurality of third storage devices; and a management computer being configured to manage said first storage apparatus, said second storage apparatus, and said third storage apparatus, wherein said management computer is configured to instruct to create a virtual volume with a virtual identifier, said virtual volume corresponding both said first logical device in said first storage apparatus and said second logical device in said second storage apparatus, wherein said first storage apparatus provides said first logical device with said virtual identifier as said virtual volume to said host computer, and the second storage apparatus provides said second logical device with said virtual identifier as said virtual volume to said host computer, wherein, said management computer is configured to instruct to set a copy pair between said created virtual volume and said third logical device in said third storage apparatus, wherein when said first controller in said first storage apparatus receives a write command to write data to said virtual volume from the host computer, said first controller is configured to write said data in said first logical device, transfer said data to said second storage apparatus to write said data in said second logical device, and transfer said write data to said third apparatus to write said data in said third logical device, wherein said management computer is configured to send first information to said first storage apparatus or said second storage apparatus when said management computer instructs to create said virtual volume, and wherein said first information includes said virtual identifier which identifies said virtual volume, said first identifier which identifies said first logical device as a primary volume corresponding to said virtual volume, and said second identifier which identifies said second logical device as a secondary volume corresponding to said virtual volume. | 48,974 |
9,704,237 | 1. A measuring method for measuring a surface form of a measurement surface, the measurement surface being a tread surface or a sidewall surface of a tire having a projection formed thereon, the method comprising: a first measuring step of performing a measurement process a plurality of times while shifting a spotlight emitted from a spot light source in a sub-scanning direction on a reference tire, and acquiring a plurality of pieces of measurement data, the measurement process including illuminating the measurement surface with the spotlight, scanning the measurement surface in a main-scanning direction with the spotlight, receiving reflected light, and acquiring measurement data for one line; a first acquisition step of generating pieces of one-dimensional height data respectively from the plurality of pieces of measurement data, arranging the plurality of generated pieces of one-dimensional height data in a matrix, and generating two-dimensional height data of the measurement surface; a step of generating reference form data of the reference tire by: extracting a boundary of the projection from the two-dimensional height data using an edge detection filter; extracting a region surrounded by the extracted boundary as the projection; and associating a position of the extracted projection with the two-dimensional height data; a second measuring step of performing the measurement process on the measurement surface of a target tire, which is a measurement object, and acquiring the measurement data for one line; a second acquisition step of generating one-dimensional height data using the measurement data acquired in the second measuring step; and a removal step of comparing target one-dimensional height data, which is the one-dimensional height data acquired in the second acquisition step, with one-dimensional height data in the reference form data, a corresponding position of which in the sub-scanning direction is the same as the target one-dimensional height data, and removing a height component of the projection from the target one-dimensional height data, wherein in the step of generating the reference form data, an average or a median of height data at each position in a background region other than the projection is calculated as a reference value of the background region from height data at each position of the two-dimensional height data, a height component at each position in the projection is generated by subtracting the reference value from height data at each position in the projection, and the generated height component is associated with the two-dimensional height data, and in the removal step, a region of the projection in the target one-dimensional height data is identified using one-dimensional height data in the reference form data, a corresponding position of which in the sub-scanning direction is the same as the target one-dimensional height data, and the height component is subtracted from the height data at each position in the identified region of the projection to thereby exclude the projection from the target one-dimensional height data. | 23,352 |
9,379,246 | 1. A method of forming a vertical thin film transistor (TFT) select device, comprising: forming a first vertical TFT select device including a body, a first source/drain (S/D) region and a second S/D region over a substrate, the first S/D region coupled to a first vertical bit line, the second S/D region coupled to a global bit line; forming a second vertical TFT select device including a body, a first source/drain (S/D) region and a second S/D region over a substrate, the first S/D region coupled to a second vertical bit line, the second S/D region coupled to the global bit line; forming a gate dielectric after forming the body, the first S/D region, and the second S/D region of the first vertical TFT select device and the second vertical TFT select device; etching to form a first gate for the first vertical TFT select device and a second gate for the second vertical TFT select device after forming the gate dielectric, the first gate is separated from the body of the first vertical TFT select device by the gate dielectric and has a lower surface that is separated from the global bit line at least partially by a void, the second gate is separated from the body of the second vertical TFT select device by the gate dielectric and has a lower surface that is separated from the global bit line at least partially by a void; and forming a gap fill dielectric after forming the gate, the gap fill dielectric being formed in the void such that the lower surface of the gate is separated from the global bit line by the gap fill dielectric; wherein after etching to form the first gate and the second gate, the gate dielectric extends continuously in a horizontal direction over a portion of the global bit line between the second S/D region of the first TFT select device and the second S/D region of the second TFT select device. | 37,969 |
8,857,866 | 1. A handle for vehicles, comprising: a first rocker which can rotate with respect to a frame, wherein the frame rotatably supports a lever mechanically connected to the first rocker, so that the latter can rotate around a first axis when the lever is driven, wherein a pendulum provided with an inertial mass is pivoted to the frame or to a body integral therewith for oscillating around a second axis, wherein said first rocker is provided with a shoulder suitable for being intercepted by a stop member for preventing at least partially the rotation of the first rocker; and a second rocker provided with the stop member that is mechanically connected to the pendulum for oscillating around a third axis when the pendulum oscillates around the second axis, wherein the second rocker is mechanically connected to the pendulum so as to rotate in a direction in which the stop member moves toward the shoulder independent of the direction of rotation of the pendulum. | 2,195 |
8,578,195 | 1. An image forming apparatus which is connected to a host apparatus, comprising: a first memory; a second memory; a universal serial bus (USB) interface to receive a USB control signal or a USB data signal from the host apparatus; and a central processing unit (CPU) operating in a normal mode using the first memory or in a power saving mode using the second memory, wherein, if the USB data signal is input in the power saving mode, the CPU activates the first memory and converts the power saving mode into the normal mode, and, if the USB control signal is input in the power saving mode, the CPU retains the power saving mode and performs an operation corresponding to the USB control signal using the second memory, and wherein the USB control signal is input through a control endpoint, and the USB data signal is input through a bulk type in/out endpoint. | 6,956 |
8,620,558 | 1. A method performed by a control system incorporating a computer for regulating a vehicle's speed, the method comprising: determining a horizon from position data and map data of an itinerary including route segments, each route segment having a with length, an end, and gradient characteristics; calculating threshold values according to one or more vehicle-specific values; comparing the gradient characteristics of each segment with the threshold values and assigning each segment within the horizon to a respective category according to the results of the comparisons, wherein the threshold values serve as boundaries for assigning the segments to the respective categories; for each segment within the horizon assigned to a category indicating a steep upgrade or a steep downgrade, the method comprises: calculating the vehicle's final speed V when the calculated final speed V correcting the entry speed v wherein the correction is defined by rules for the segment's assigned category, so that V regulating the vehicle's speed according to speed set-point values V | 37,643 |
9,834,236 | 1. A conveyance system comprising: a track that extends across a plurality of areas; a first conveyance carriage that travels along the track; a second conveyance carriage that travels along the track and has a width and a height at least one of which differs from that of the first conveyance carriage; an optical sensor that is provided to one of the first conveyance carriage and the second conveyance carriage, arranged at a position that does not overlap the other of the first conveyance carriage and the second conveyance carriage in a traveling direction, and detects an obstacle in front; a plate member to be detected that is arranged, in an entry section into a certain area where only the other conveyance carriage is allowed to enter out of a plurality of areas, at a position where the other conveyance carriage is allowed to enter the certain area, the position being detectable by the optical sensor provided to the one of the first and second conveyance carriages; and a contact sensor that is provided to the one of the first and second conveyance carriages, arranged at a position where the contact sensor comes in contact with the plate member to be detected, and detects contact with the plate member to be detected. | 24,374 |
8,578,926 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a housing having first and second ends joined by a side wall, the first end defining an opening dimensioned to permit passage of a prepackaged container having comestible substance therein, the second end having an end wall that defines an aperture; a first cap configured to couple with the first end of the housing so as to define a first space between the first cap and the end wall, the first cap further configured to receive and retain the container, the first cap defining an aperture configured to allow passage of the comestible substance from the container when the retained container is opened; a plug having a sealing member and an actuation member, the sealing member configured to engage the aperture on the end wall and close the aperture, the actuation member configured to, when actuated, transfer an actuation force to the sealing member so as to disengage the sealing member from the aperture so as to open the aperture; a second cap configured to couple with the second end of the housing, the second cap defining a second space that is separated and sealed from the first space when the second cap is coupled with the second end of the housing and the plug is in its engaged, position, the second cap further comprising an actuator configured to engage and actuate the actuation member; wherein the first space is dimensioned to hold a selected amount of first reactant and the second space is dimensioned to hold a selected amount of second reactant, the first and second reactants, when mixed by opening of the aperture on the end wall, undergo a chemical reaction that results in a change in temperature of the comestible substance in the retained container. | 556 |
8,998,758 | 1. A chain, comprising: a plurality of first links each composed of one or more first link plates; a plurality of second links each composed of one or more second link plates, the first and second links being arranged in alternating relationship with the first and second link plates of each adjacent pair of links being interleaved; and a plurality of connecting pins each composed of first and second rocker pins that have mutually engaging surfaces that allow the first and second rocker pins to roll against each other, each of said connecting pins extending through a first pin hole of each link plate of a first link and through a second pin hole of each link plate of an adjacent second link to connect adjacent first and second links together while permitting relative articulating movement of the connected links about pin axes along which said pins extend; wherein the permitted articulating movement of the adjacent links of the chain is sufficient to allow the chain, as it comes into engagement with a sprocket, to bend in an inward direction from a straight condition to a bent condition in which it is bent around the sprocket, and, as it disengages from the sprocket, to revert from said bent condition to a straight condition; wherein each first pin hole has a flat first bend-blocking surface and each second pin hole has a flat second bend-blocking surface; wherein each first rocker pin has a first contact portion capable of mutual contact with one of said flat second bend-blocking surfaces, and each second rocker pin has a second contact portion capable of mutual contact with one of said flat first bend-blocking surfaces, wherein said bend-blocking surfaces and contact portions are positioned so that, when a portion of said chain is stretched to a straight condition, said flat second bend-blocking surfaces in said portion of the chain are in contact with said first contact portions in said portion of the chain, and said flat first bend-blocking surfaces in said portion of the chain are in contact with said second contact portions in said portion of the chain, whereby said portion of the chain is prevented from being bent in an outward direction opposite from said inward direction beyond said straight condition; wherein each first contact portion is in the form of a plane and capable of surface-to-surface contact with one of said flat second bend-blocking surfaces; wherein each second contact portion is in the form of a plane and capable of surface-to-surface contact with one of said flat first bend-blocking surfaces; wherein each first contact portion of each connecting pin comes into surface-to-surface contact with one of said flat second bend-blocking surfaces, and each second contact portion of the same connecting pin comes into surface-to-surface contact with one of said flat first bend-blocking surfaces, when the part of the chain in which said connecting pin is located is in said straight condition; and wherein said portion of the chain, when in a straight condition, extends along a pitch plane to which said pin axes are parallel, and the first and second bend-blocking surfaces in said portion of the chain are disposed in planes parallel to said pitch plane. | 11,236 |
9,311,439 | 1. A method of patterning a wafer, comprising: preparing an initial layout having a first design pattern, a second design pattern, and a third design pattern, where the third design pattern is between the first design pattern and the second design pattern, and wherein a distance between a portion of the third design pattern and a portion of one of the first design pattern and the second design pattern is less than a resolution of a photolithography apparatus; extracting a first sub-layout that includes the first design pattern and a second sub-layout that includes the second design pattern from the initial layout; forming a first modified sub-layout that includes a first modified design pattern obtained by modifying the first design pattern of the first sub-layout; generating a modified layout that includes the first modified sub-layout and the second sub-layout; generating a final layout that includes the second sub-layout and a first extended and modified sub-layout that is formed by modifying the first modified sub-layout; forming a first photo mask that includes the second sub-layout; using the first photo mask to form a first etching mask pattern and etching the wafer using the first etching mask as an etch mask; forming a second photo mask that includes the first extended and modified sub-layout; and using the second photo mask to form a second etching mask pattern and etching the wafer using the second etching mask as an etch mask. | 25,008 |
9,695,172 | 1. A compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: X Y Z each instance of R a is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8; each instance of R b is 0, 1, 2, or 3; R R R R R R or R | 11,226 |
8,570,873 | 1. A method for multitenant call communication comprising: through an application programming interface (API) of a telephony resource cluster, receiving a first outbound call request of a first account over HTTP; through the API of the telephony resource cluster, receiving a second outbound call request of a second account over HTTP; servicing the first outbound call request with a first resource of the communication resource cluster; at a second individually assigned call queue, queuing the second outbound call request; dequeuing the second outbound call request at an inter-call rate of the second account; and servicing the dequeued second call request with the first resource of the telephony resource cluster, wherein servicing the dequeued call request comprises establishing a call session to a destination telephony endpoint; wherein the telephony resource cluster can communicate calls over a public switched telephony network (PSTN), and the telephony resource cluster is limited in call capacity. | 27,340 |
8,721,482 | 1. A hybrid drive system comprising: an input member that is connected to an engine so that driving force is transmitted; an output member that is connected to a wheel so that driving force is transmitted; a first rotating electrical machine; a second rotating electrical machine; a power split device that performs a differential operation with at least three rotating elements including an input rotating element that is connected to the input member so that driving force is transmitted, a reaction force rotating element that is connected to the first rotating electrical machine so that driving force is transmitted, and an output rotating element that is connected to the output member so that driving force is transmitted; a reduction gear that performs a differential operation with at least four rotating elements including an input rotating element that is connected to the second rotating electrical machine so that driving force is transmitted, a stationary element that is held against rotation or selectively held against rotation, one of remaining rotating elements of the at least four rotating elements, other than the input rotating element and the stationary element, is a first output rotating element and another of the remaining rotating elements is a second output rotating element; and a control portion that selects an operating mode of the hybrid drive system, from among: | 20,477 |
9,344,010 | 1. A power electronic converter, for connecting AC and DC networks and transferring power therebetween, comprising: first and second DC terminals defining a DC link for connection to a DC network; wherein, in use, the DC link has a reversible DC link voltage applied thereacross; at least one converter limb extending between the first and second DC terminals and having first and second limb portions separated by an AC terminal for connection to an AC network, each limb portion including a plurality of rationalised modules, each rationalised module having first and second sets of series-connected current flow control elements connected in parallel with at least one energy storage device, each set of current flow control elements connected in parallel with at least one energy storage device, each set of current flow control elements including a primary active switching element to selectively direct current through the energy storage device and a primary passive current check element to limit current flow through the rationalised module to a single direction, the current flow control elements and the or each energy storage device combining to selectively provide a voltage source to synthesise an AC voltage at the AC terminal; and a first controller to selectively switch each rationalised module in each limb portion to control the configuration of the AC voltage at the corresponding AC terminal so as to transfer power from the AC network to the DC network in an AC to DC power transfer mode and to transfer power from the DC network to the AC network in a DC to AC power transfer mode, wherein each limb portion includes one or more secondary passive current check elements to limit current flow through the corresponding limb portion to a single direction between the corresponding AC and DC terminals, the or each secondary passive current check element being connected in series with the respective plurality of rationalised modules, characterised in that the first controller is configured to switch each rationalised module in each limb portion so that the or each secondary passive current check element supports part of a differential voltage appearing across the corresponding limb portion and each plurality of rationalised modules supports the other part of the differential voltage appearing across the corresponding limb portion in one of the AC to DC and DC to AC power transfer modes, and the first controller is configured to switch each rationalised module in each limb portion so that each plurality of rationalised modules supports a differential voltage appearing across the corresponding limb portion when the or each corresponding secondary passive current check element is forced into conduction by a reversal of polarity of the DC link voltage across the DC link in the other of the AC to DC and DC to AC power transfer modes. | 37,776 |
9,235,164 | 1. A transfer device, comprising: a nip forming member to contact a surface of an image bearing member to form a transfer nip therebetween; a pressing device comprising a plurality of elastic members, to produce a contact pressure between the nip forming member and the image bearing member according to a restoring force of at least one of the elastic members upon deformation of the elastic member; and a nip pressure changing device to change an amount of elastic deformation of the elastic member between at least two stages to change a nip pressure of the transfer nip, wherein while the contact pressure is produced by one of the elastic members, the nip pressure changing device changes the amount of elastic deformation of a different elastic member, different from the one elastic member that produces the contact pressure, to change the nip pressure of the transfer nip, and the nip pressure changing device switches the amount of elastic deformation of the different elastic member between a first state in which the contact pressure is not produced by the different elastic member and a second state in which the contact pressure is produced by the elastic deformation of the different elastic member. | 12,311 |
9,422,825 | 1. A synchronization ring for a gas turbine engine comprising: a synchronization ring for a variable vane assembly including a radially inner side and a radially outer side wherein the synchronization ring includes a first annular member, a second annular member, and at least one clevis and the first annular member is attached to the at least one clevis by a first roller bracket and the second annular member is attached to the at least one clevis by a second roller bracket; and a plurality of rollers attached to the synchronization ring for engaging a case on the gas turbine engine at least one of the plurality of rollers is spaced radially inward from the radially inner side of the synchronization ring. | 40,095 |
9,829,865 | 1. A maintenance support system, comprising: a first storage unit which stores first specification information including predetermined configurations and settings for devices of a process control system which performs control of an industrial process implemented in a plant, the first specification information being correctable by a user; an actual condition information extraction unit configured to extract, from the process control system, actual condition information including current configurations and settings for the devices of the process control system; a first comparison unit configured to compare the first specification information stored in the first storage unit with the actual condition information extracted by the actual condition information extraction unit, the first comparison unit being configured to generate first difference information when there is a difference between the first specification information and the actual condition information, the first difference information including a location in which the difference was generated; a notification unit configured to notify the user of the first difference information; a second storage unit which stores second specification information including configurations and settings for the devices of the process control system; a second comparison unit configured to compare the second specification information stored in the second storage unit with the actual condition information extracted by the actual condition information extraction unit; and an updating unit configured to update the second storage unit to reflect contents of correction by the user for the first specification information stored in the first storage unit when there is no difference between the first specification information and the actual condition information. | 49,369 |
9,828,306 | 1. A process for the preparation of an olefinic product, the process comprising the steps of: (a) reacting an oxygenate feedstock, comprising oxygenate, in an oxygenate reaction zone in the presence of a catalyst comprising a molecular sieve, at a temperature in the range of from 350 to 1000° C., to produce a reaction effluent stream, comprising at least oxygenate, olefin, water and acidic by-products; (b) cooling the reaction effluent stream by means of an indirect heat exchange to a temperature greater than the dew point temperature of reaction effluent stream; (c) further rapidly cooling the heat exchanged reaction effluent stream to a temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the reaction effluent stream by direct injection of an aqueous liquid into a conduit transporting the reaction effluent stream from the heat exchange of step (b) to the quench tower of step d), to form a quench effluent stream; and (d) passing the quench effluent stream into a quench tower and contacting the quench effluent stream with a second aqueous liquid in the presence of at least one set of quench tower internals, to produce a quench tower gaseous stream comprising the olefinic product wherein in step (c) the aqueous liquid is injected by means of a quench fitting. | 3,069 |
9,439,935 | 1. A recombinant Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus, wherein the genome of the recombinant RVF virus comprises a full-length L segment; an M segment comprising a complete deletion of the NSm open reading frame (ORF); and an S segment comprising a complete deletion of the NSs ORF. | 325 |
9,298,975 | 1. A method of creating a video sequence, comprising: receiving a plurality of images captured using an image sensor of a handheld device; automatically identifying in said plurality of images a plurality of facial images of a certain person, said plurality of facial images are captured in different and separate events; and adding said plurality of facial images to a facial video sequence to depict facial changes of said person. | 34,466 |
8,487,396 | 1. A Schottky photodiode comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface, the rear surface to define a cathode; a first epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type over the front surface of said semiconductor substrate and having associated dopant concentration and energy gap values; at least one second epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type over said first epitaxial layer and having associated dopant concentration and energy gap values; a plurality of spaced trenches in said at least one second epitaxial layer crossing therethrough and reaching into said first epitaxial layer; a metal layer in said plurality of spaced trenches and cooperating with said first and said at least one second epitaxial layers to define a Schottky rectifying contact and respective anode contacts, each anode contact having a spacing and a thickness based upon the respective spaced trench; an anode current distributor metal layer over said first epitaxial layer, contacting with said metal layer in said plurality of spaced trenches, and to be coupled to a circuit; a dielectric passivation layer over said anode current distributor metal layer; and a conductive layer over the rear surface of said semiconductor substrate to define an ohmic contact with the cathode and to be coupled to the circuit; the thickness and the spacing between adjacent anode contacts and the dopant concentration and energy gap values of said first and said at least one second epitaxial layers causing said first and said at least one second epitaxial layers to deplete at different applied anode-cathode voltages. | 4,610 |
9,458,397 | 1. A method for producing synthesis gas, comprising: obtaining solid carbon particles and burner fuel by pyrolysis; providing the carbon particles from the pyrolysis in a reactor, together with a process gas; providing the fuel from the pyrolysis to burners having closed ends located in the reactor, at least one burner being provided with means for supplying fuel to an internal space of the burners, the means for supplying fuel are located on an outside of the reactor, a heat exchanger is located adjacent to the means for supplying fuel to the at least one burner for heating of oxidising agent supplied to the at least one burner; gasifying the carbon particles by indirect heating of the carbon particles and the process gas in the same space where the carbon particles are present, by means of radiant heat from the burners, wherein combustion inside the burners is separated from gasification flow such that no direct gas exchange occurs in the reactor between the burners and the process gas, the pyrolysis is preceeding the gasification in a separate stage, and a temperature inside the reactor is 900-1300° C.; and discharging the synthesis gas generated during the gasification from said space. | 2,621 |
9,564,664 | 1. A battery pack temperature control structure for an electric vehicle, the battery pack temperature control structure comprising: a battery module mounted in an inner space of a battery pack case, the battery pack case including an upper cover disposed vertically above the battery module; a heavy-current disconnecting switch for disconnecting a battery heavy-current of the battery module by a manual operation, the heavy-current disconnecting switch including a manual operation unit arranged to be exposed on an outside of the upper cover; and a temperature control unit mounted in the inner space of the battery pack case underneath the upper cover, the temperature control unit including a unit case accommodating a blower fan and a unit duct connected to the unit case in the inner space of the battery pack case to supply a temperature controlled air to the battery module. | 6,158 |
8,603,794 | 1. An isolated polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase I activity, which has at least 80% identity with the sequence of amino acids 1 to 529 of SEQ ID NO:4. | 24,260 |
8,380,518 | 1. A device, including at least one storage device, for retrieving audio data, which corresponds to a first audio fingerprint, the device comprising: an audio fingerprint storage section to store a plurality of audio fingerprints in the storage device; a hashing table to store a plurality of hashing values corresponding to the stored audio fingerprints; a hashing value generating section to extract an indexing bit from the first audio fingerprint and to generate a first hashing value; a table searching section to search the hashing table for a second hashing value matched with the first hashing value; a BER calculating section to calculate a BER (Bit Error Ratio) between the first audio fingerprint and a second audio fingerprint corresponding to the second hashing value; a comparison section to compare the calculated BER with a threshold value; and an audio fingerprint detecting section to detect the second audio fingerprint in accordance with the comparison result, wherein the first fingerprint is generated by partially decoding an encoded input signal to extract Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT) coefficients, selecting one or more MDCT coefficients from among the extracted MDCT coefficients or one or more PolyPhase Filter (PPF) sub bands from among PPF sub bands synthesized from the extracted MDCT coefficients, generating a modulation spectrum by transforming the selected one or more MDCT coefficients or the selected one or more PPF sub bands by using a Fourier transform method, and quantizing the modulation spectrum. | 37,991 |
9,608,150 | 1. A photoelectric converting apparatus comprising: a first potential supplying unit to supply a first potential; a second potential supplying unit to supply a second potential, the value of the second potential being independent of the value of the first potential; a first current output terminal; a second current output terminal; a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, connected to said first current output terminals, and configured to output a first signal obtained by photoelectric conversion; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type opposite to said first conductivity type from which a current signal is not output, and configured to be supplied with a first potential from said first potential supplying unit and connected to said first potential supplying unit; a third semiconductor layer of said first conductivity type, connected to said second current output terminals, and configured to output a second signal obtained by photoelectric conversion; a fourth semiconductor layer of said second conductivity type from which a current signal is not output, and configured to be supplied with a second potential from said second potential supplying unit and connected to said second potential supplying unit; wherein said first semiconductor layer, said second semiconductor layer, said third semiconductor layer and said fourth semiconductor layer are arranged in sequence, wherein said second semiconductor layer and said fourth semiconductor layer are electrically separated from each other, and wherein the first potential to be supplied to said second semiconductor layer and the second potential to be supplied to said fourth semiconductor layer are to be controlled independently from each other. | 929 |
8,908,687 | 1. A system for transmitting policy information, wherein the system comprises a broadband user access equipment and a upper layer network device; wherein a user connects the upper layer network device through the broadband user access equipment; wherein the broadband user access equipment is configured to receive a first protocol message bearing policy information from the upper layer network device, and perform processes based on the policy information; wherein the first protocol message comprises: a policy information transmission type field distinguishing policy information transmission types, an operation type field for distinguishing operation types, and a policy information content field for bearing the policy information; and wherein the first protocol message comprises a first Policy Information Transfer Protocol (PITP) type, wherein the first PITP type comprises the policy information transmission type field distinguishing policy information transmission types, the operation type field for distinguishing operation types and the policy information content field for bearing the policy information. | 26,479 |
9,663,807 | 1. A method for treating lignocellulosic biomass to be supplied to a fermentation system for production of a fermentation product comprising: pre-treating the biomass into pre-treated biomass; separating the pre-treated biomass into a liquid component comprising sugars and a solids component comprising cellulose and lignin; treating the solids component of the pre-treated biomass into a treated component; and digesting lignin cake in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor to produce an anaerobic membrane bioreactor liquid effluent composition; wherein the biomass comprises lignocellulosic material; wherein treating the solids component comprises application of an enzyme formulation and a makeup water to form a slurry; wherein the enzyme formulation comprises a cellulase enzyme; wherein the makeup water comprises a protein source that is different from the cellulase enzyme; wherein the makeup water comprises the anaerobic membrane bioreactor liquid effluent composition, and wherein the lignocellulosic biomass comprises corn cobs and/or corn stover. | 40,750 |
9,493,531 | 1. An isolated chemokine-immunoglobulin fusion polypeptide, comprising a chemokine moiety of human CCL18; and an immunoglobulin moiety selected from the group consisting of the constant region of human IgG2 (IgG2Fc), the constant region of human IgG3 (IgG3Fc), the constant region of human IgG4 (IgG4Fc). | 6,006 |
9,123,856 | 1. A method of increasing the ZT of a thermoelectric material, comprising: exposing a thermoelectric material to elevated pressure and elevated temperature for a time sufficient to increase the ZT of the thermoelectric material, wherein the elevated pressure ranges from about 1 GPa to 20 GPa and the elevated temperature ranges from about 500° C. to about 2500° C.; and recovering the thermoelectric material with an increased ZT when measured at the pressure and temperature of use, wherein, when said consolidated blank of thermoelectric material is exposed to a temperature of use, an increased ZT is maintained for an extended period of time as evaluated at 10 days of exposure to the temperature of use, and wherein the thermoelectric material comprises GeTe—AgSbTe | 30,761 |
9,472,147 | 1. A display device comprising: a display panel comprising a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area adjacent the display area at one side in a first direction, wherein the display area comprises: a timing controller configured to output a first control signal, a second control signal, and a data signal in response to an externally supplied control signal and an input image signal; a gate driver configured to generate a gate signal based on the first control signal, and configured to output the gate signal to the plurality of gate lines via the non-display area; and a data driver comprising a plurality of channels, wherein, based on the second control signal, the data driver is configured to invert a polarity of a data voltage obtained by converting the data signal, by the plurality of channels, and is configured to output the data voltage with the inverted polarity to the plurality of channels, the data voltage being provided to the plurality of data lines via the non-display area. | 40,086 |
9,731,351 | 1. A hybride part comprising: a first portion; a second portion positioned at said first portion; an interface defining said first portion from said second portion; wherein said second portion is produced by additive manufacturing technology and is produced on said first portion and at said interface; a channel extending from said first portion through said interface and into said second portion; said channel has a first average diameter in said first portion and at said interface; said channel has a second average diameter in said second portion and at said interface; said second average diameter being larger than said first average diameter; wherein said channel tapers narrower along a first tapered section of said channel in said second portion wherein said first tapered section tapers narrower at increasing distance from said interface; wherein said channel extends along a first central axis in said first portion at least in proximity to said interface; wherein said channel also extends along a second central axis in said second portion at least in proximity to said interface; wherein said first axis is parallel to and offset from said second axis at and near said interface; and wherein an end of said channel in said first portion at said interface and a first end of said first tapered section of said channel in said second portion at said interface are at a same level, one side of said end of channel in said first portion is within a portion of said first end of said channel in said second portion, said portion being within a third average diameter of a second section of said channel in said second portion, said second section ending at a second end of said first tapered section, and another side of said end of said channel in said first portion is outside of said portion of said first end of said first tapered section of said channel in said second portion. | 17,390 |
8,656,223 | 1. An information handling system comprising: a peripheral component interconnect express root complex including first and second peripheral component interconnect express ports; and a hardware root complex mirroring block in communication with the first and second peripheral component interconnect express ports, the hardware root complex mirroring block configured to mirror data between a first peripheral component interconnect express adaptor connected to the first peripheral component interconnect express port, and a second peripheral component interconnect express adaptor connected to the second peripheral component interconnect express port, to detect a failure of the first peripheral component interconnect express port, and to recover the data from the second peripheral component interconnect express port adaptor in response to the failure of the first peripheral component interconnect express port. | 39,681 |
9,151,264 | 1. An ignition timing controlling apparatus for an engine having plural cylinders, said ignition timing controlling apparatus comprising: a plurality of sensors which detect characteristics pertaining to operation of the engine and output signals corresponding to detected characteristics multiple times per second; and an electronic controller which receives the sensor output signals and is programmed to control ignition timing of the engine based on the detected characteristics, wherein the controller includes a storage section which stores an ignition timing map for the engine which includes torque-valuing ignition timings, and stores an advance angle target amount map which includes advance angle target amounts with which the torque-valuing ignition timings are to be changed into fuel-conserving ignition timings, the controller also includes an ignition timing correction section which changes the torque-valuing ignition timings obtained from said ignition timing map into the fuel-conserving ignition timings using the advance angle target amounts from the advance angle target amount map when the controller determines, based on the change amount of the throttle opening, that a running state of a vehicle is in a cruise state in which little acceleration or deceleration is included, said ignition timing correction section calculates an advance angle target amount for each of the cylinders of the engine based on said advance angle target amount map and executes advance angle control in which the torque-valuing ignition timing of each of the cylinders is advanced incrementally stepwise to the fuel-conserving ignition timing of each of the cylinders based on the advance angle target amount for each of the cylinders, and the ignition timing correction section incrementally advances the ignition timing for each of the cylinders stepwise by an advance angle transition amount in a fixed cycle multiple times per second until the fuel-conserving ignition timing is attained for each of the cylinders, and as the ignition timing for each cylinder is advanced stepwise, a fuel injection amount is correspondingly decreased stepwise. | 10,012 |
8,959,492 | 1. A method for communicating between two programming languages, comprising: receiving one or more commands in a first programming language, each command comprising a plurality of components; encoding each of the received commands as a character string, the character string comprising: decoding the encoded character strings into at least one command in a second programming language, each command in the second programming language corresponding to one of the received commands in the first programming language and performing an analogous task as the corresponding received command in the first programming language; and executing the at least one command in the second programming language. | 40,753 |
8,738,477 | 1. A computer-implemented method for displaying a plurality of bills, each bill having a corresponding bill due date, the method comprising: displaying using a computer an account identifier for each bill in the plurality of bills; displaying using the computer a plurality of timelines with respective date line indicators, each timeline for a respective bill in the plurality of bills, the date line indicator graphically representing the relative due date of the respective bill within the timeline, wherein the plurality of timelines sharing a common scale, the timeline disposed proximate to the account identifier; and wherein each of the account identifiers and timelines are disposed along an axis relative to the other account identifiers and timelines; and wherein for each bill the corresponding account identifier and timeline is surrounded by a corresponding background, wherein each bill has a corresponding status, the method further comprising using the computer to display at least one of a background color, fill pattern, line color of each corresponding background based on the corresponding status associated with the respective bill. | 5,562 |
8,610,373 | 1. A lighting system comprising: a plurality of lighting units each configured to light a target area, each lighting unit comprising: at least one light source; a controllable light source driver coupled to the light source; the light source driver configured to supply power to the light source in accordance with an input control voltage generated by a current source; and a light sensor configured to measure a light flux in the target area of the lighting unit, the light sensor being coupled to said current source, and having a variable conductance corresponding to the light flux, a dimming element having an adjustable conductance, wherein each light sensor is coupled in parallel to the dimming element through a respective diode. | 41,543 |
9,581,128 | 1. A system for generating electrical energy from wave motion in a fluid, the system comprising: a structure, the structure being substantially stationary in response to wave motion in a wave medium, the structure comprising: a float member at least partially surrounding a portion of the structure; the float member moving substantially vertically in response to a wave moving the wave medium; the float member comprising a second force field generating component; the first force field generating component and the second force field generating component configured to hold the linear motion component substantially stationary with respect to the float member; wherein the linear motion component comprises a substructure, the substructure comprising the first force field generating component; the first force field generating component and the second force field generating component hold said substructure substantially stationary with respect to the float member; wherein the rotating component comprises: | 26,064 |
9,422,482 | 1. A process for hydroprocessing a heavy bitumen composition derived from total oil sands bitumen, comprising: a) providing the heavy bitumen composition as a feedstock for the hydroprocessing, wherein the heavy bitumen composition is provided by treating oil sands containing the total oil sands bitumen with a hydrocarbon solvent comprised of an admixture of: 1) a light solvent component comprised of from 95 wt % to 5 wt % of propane and 2) and from 5 wt % to 95 wt % of a deasphalted bitumen fraction of the total oil sands bitumen, having an asphaltene content of not greater than 10 wt % measured according to ATSM D6560, and has an asphaltene concentration by weight, measured according to ASTM D6560, greater than that of the total oil sands bitumen; and b) hydroprocessing the heavy bitumen composition by contacting the heavy bitumen composition with a hydroprocessing catalyst in the presence of hydrogen, wherein the hydroprocessing catalyst comprises at least one Group 6metal and at least one Group 8-10 metal. | 6,097 |
9,457,304 | 1. A roof vent for ventilating a roof of a building via a hole in the roof to the atmosphere, the roof vent comprising: a flange portion for resting on the roof, the flange portion having an opening for overlapping with the hole; a frame portion having sides extending upwardly from the flange portion about the opening, the frame portion for maintaining a cap in a spaced apart relationship with the flange portion; the cap connected to the frame portion and covering over the opening; and a corrugated filter plate positioned between the cap and the flange portion, the corrugated filter plate having a corrugated surface simultaneously, exposing a plurality of alternating folds as furrows and ridges to a passage of air providing a surface area to the passage of air greater than a corresponding planar cross-sectional area of a side of the roof vent, each of the plurality of folds comprising a fold line extending in a direction from the flange portion to the cap, each of the alternating folds having a plurality of individual pores spaced apart from one another on a respective surface of each of the plurality of folds, the corrugated filter plate facilitating the passage of air between the atmosphere and the opening by having a pore size of each of the plurality of individual pores sufficient for facilitating the passage of air through the corrugated filter plate while blocking passage of water droplets through the corrugated filter plate; wherein summation of an effective open area of said each of the plurality of individual pores satisfies a minimum net open area threshold for the planar cross-sectional area. | 18,081 |
9,282,695 | 1. An electric power mower, comprising a cutter configured to cut grasses; a main body configured to support the cutter; at least one wheel supported by the main body in a rotatable manner; an electric motor configured to apply torque to the at least one wheel; a battery interface configured to removably receive a plurality of battery packs including a first battery pack and a second battery pack each of the first and second battery packs being originally designed as a power source of a handheld electric power tool; and an electric circuit unit configured to electrically connect at least the first and second battery packs attached to the battery interface with the electric motor whereby the at least one wheel is driven by electric power supplied from the first and second battery packs. | 16,480 |
9,782,579 | 1. An implantable medical lead comprising: a lead body having a conductor lumen having a substantially smooth inner surface; an electrode on the lead body; and a conductor assembly extending through the conductor lumen, the conductor assembly including: | 1,870 |
9,349,976 | 1. A process for preparing an electronic device comprising at least one functional organic layer on a substrate, the process comprising: (1) locating the substrate with a first functional organic layer on an electrode in a reactor: (2) introducing a nanoparticle layer or a nano or micro structure layer by adhering charged nanoparticles in a form of aerosol onto the first functional organic layer by applying a voltage to the electrode while introducing the charged nanoparticles into the reactor; and (3) further forming a second organic layer or an inorganic layer over the first functional organic layer on which the charged nanoparticles are adhered so that the nanoparticle layer or a nano or micro structure layer is between the first functional organic layer and the second organic layer or the inorganic layer. | 12,738 |
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