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9,068,501 | 1. A dual scroll turbocharger system, comprising: an exhaust flow passage with an interior dividing wall, the interior dividing wall partitioning the exhaust flow passage into a first scroll and a second scroll; and a branch communication valve positioned within the exhaust flow passage, the branch communication valve comprising a first chamber and a second chamber separated by a valve dividing wall, and rotatable around a rotational axis. | 37,824 |
9,394,877 | 1. A wave power plant comprising: at least one wave power converter comprising at least one buoyant body, an energy converter unit, a wire, a motor, a valve, and a compressor, wherein said energy converter unit includes a mechanical-electric, mechanical-hydraulic, or piezo-electric energy converter, and is arranged in the sea, or on the seafloor, under the buoyant body, wherein said buoyant body and mechanical-electric, mechanical-hydraulic, or piezo-electric energy converter is connected by the a wire fixed at one end to the mechanical-electric, mechanical-hydraulic, or piezo-electric energy converter, and arranged to the buoyant body at the other end by a winch powered by the motor arranged in the buoyant body, and wherein said buoyant body comprises at least one ballast tank for controlling the buoyancy of the buoyant body, wherein the ballast tank comprises a bottom valve for supply and discharge of water, the buoyant body further comprising a ventilation pipe arranged to the ballast tank via the valve and the compressor arranged to the ballast tank via the valve for supply and discharge of air, the buoyant body and the energy converter unit are provided with a UAC transducer, the buoyant body is provided with a wire tension meter or Kilo Pound meter to measure the wire tension, and a laser meter or float to measure the filling level or pressure in the ballast tank, the energy converter unit is provided with a pair of end position sensors to measure a stroke of the mechanical-electric, mechanical-hydraulic, or piezo-electric energy converter. | 36,929 |
9,815,116 | 1. A method for producing porous sintered aluminum comprising: mixing aluminum powder with a sintering aid powder containing titanium to obtain a raw aluminum mixed powder; mixing the raw aluminum mixed powder with a water-soluble resin binder, water, and a plasticizer containing at least one selected from polyhydric alcohols, ethers, and esters to obtain a viscous composition; drying the viscous composition in a state where air bubbles are mixed therein to obtain a formed object prior to sintering; and heating the formed object prior to sintering in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, wherein when a temperature at which the raw aluminum mixed powder starts to melt is expressed as Tm (° C.), a temperature T (° C.) of the heating fulfills Tm−10 (° C.)≦T≦685 (° C.). | 5,092 |
8,571,602 | 1. A method of operating a mobile device for providing print output, the method comprising: initializing a print output from the mobile device; determining a location of the mobile device by initiating a position location procedure; querying a local database that is maintained by the mobile device to determine output device options based, at least in part, on the determined location of the mobile device and one or more filtering criteria which include at least a threshold proximity of the determined location of the mobile device to one or more of the output device options; determining the output device options from the local database in response to the query; determining whether a selected output device is local or remote, the selected output device being selected from among the output device options; determining that a connection from the mobile device to the selected output device is wireless based on an identity of the selected output device, wherein the connection to the selected output device is available at the determined location of the mobile device; and communicating, via a print application interface to a wireless transceiver for transmission over the connection, at least one image stored within the mobile device to the selected output device for conversion into a hard copy. | 10,396 |
9,644,420 | 1. An emergency shelter comprising: a plurality of reinforced walls defining a substantially enclosed interior space in which people can enter in emergencies; a doorway opening formed in at least one of the walls to permit entry into and exit from the enclosed interior space; a door mounted adjacent the doorway opening and configured to slide horizontally relative to the doorway opening between an open position and a closed position; and a latching assembly for latching and locking the door in the closed position, the latching assembly comprising: | 1,366 |
8,502,496 | 1. A power charging device for an electric vehicle with an electric energy store, comprising: (a) at least one rectifier means for converting a supply voltage into a charging d.c. voltage; (b) a contacting means for contacting a plug-in connection supply point of the electric vehicle; and (c) a residual current monitoring device for detecting a current difference in the contacting means and/or in the electric vehicle during a charging process of the energy store of the electric vehicle, wherein the residual current monitoring device is designed at least for detection of a direct current difference ΔI and comprises one cutoff element which can interrupt the charging process when a predeterminable direct current cutoff difference is exceeded over a predeterminable cutoff time. | 9,041 |
9,047,081 | 1. A system comprising: a processor comprising a register file including a first packed data register and a second packed data register, a decoder to decode a first instruction, register renaming logic to associate physical registers with architectural registers, and execution logic coupled to the decoder and the register renaming logic, wherein, responsive to the decoder decoding the first instruction, the execution logic is to convert at least four packed signed data elements to at least four unsigned results, wherein the at least four packed signed data elements from the first packed data register is converted to the at least four unsigned results, the unsigned results are saturated if the corresponding signed data elements are beyond a range of the unsigned results and stored in the second packed data register, and each of the first at least four packed signed data elements has a first number of bits, each of the at least four unsigned results has a second number of bits, and the second number of bits is one half the first number of bits; and a memory controller coupled to the processor, wherein the memory controller is integral with the processor. | 39,450 |
9,752,084 | 1. A method of dewatering and desalting crude oil, comprising: mixing a dewatering and desalting agent and a crude oil having a specific gravity of about 14 to 23° API at a concentration of at least 100 ppm, wherein said dewatering and desalting agent comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of Formula 1 and Formula 5; where R is and R represents a copolymer with a molecular weight in the range from 1000 to 4000 Daltons, w and v are independently a whole number consistent with the molecular weight, R where A is a number between 1 and 9, B is H, E, G and J are a radical independently selected from the group consisting of:—H, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, iso-propyl, sec-butyl, iso-butyl, tert-butyl, n-butyl, phenyl, cyclohexyl, and cyclopentyl, L is a radical represented by methyl or ethyl, and M is a hydroxyl group, O is a number between 1 and 5, T is represented by groups E, G and J, NO Z is a radical independently selected from the group consisting of methanesulfonate, benzenesulfonate and para-toluenesulfonate. | 41,443 |
9,329,308 | 1. Apparatus comprising: an optical element having a first optical port surface and having a second optical port surface, wherein the first and second optical port surfaces are on opposite sides of the optical element; and a sidewall surface of the optical element disposed around the optical element such that the first and second optical port surfaces of the optical element are not included in the sidewall surface; wherein the optical element has a graded refractive index that continuously increases from the first optical port surface to the second optical port surface; wherein the first optical port surface has a larger area than the second optical port surface; wherein the sidewall surface provides optical reflection within the optical element via a metallic coating on the sidewall surface; wherein the first optical port surface has a first number of electromagnetic modes greater than or equal to two; wherein the second optical port surface has a second number of electromagnetic modes greater than or equal to two; wherein the first number of electromagnetic modes and the second number of electromagnetic modes are equal. | 19,387 |
8,697,055 | 1. A composition comprising an isolated Bacillus coagulans bacterium and tea. | 5,795 |
8,655,977 | 1. A system, comprising: an intermediate device communicatively connected to a host device and a sequential device in a storage area network, wherein the host device is configured to issue different kinds of commands to the sequential device, wherein the different kinds of commands issued by the host device include an inquiry command to obtain information about the sequential device, wherein the sequential device is configured to sequentially process requests from the host device, and wherein the intermediate device is configured to: | 15,340 |
9,248,838 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a battery for storing electrical energy; a battery charger for controlling storage of electrical energy in the battery using an external power source; a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) unit; and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) communicatively coupled to the battery charger and the HVAC unit, the ECU configured to: | 49,033 |
9,062,611 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: a spool; a first accessory gearbox connected to and driven by the spool and positioned substantially inside a core cowling; a second accessory gearbox connected to and driven by the first accessory gearbox and positioned substantially outside of the core cowling on a fan case; a scavenge pump connected between the first accessory gearbox and the second accessory gearbox, wherein the first accessory gearbox drives the second accessory gearbox through the scavenge pump; a supply pump connected to and driven by the second accessory gearbox; an oil tank positioned on the fan case; an oil filter positioned on the fan case; and a lubrication circuit connecting the scavenge pump, the supply pump, the oil tank, and the oil filter. | 20,389 |
9,215,862 | 1. An animal tag applicator including: a first jaw portion to engage at least a part of an animal tag; a second jaw portion; first and second handle portions pivotally connected together such that movement of the handle portions towards each other will cause movement of the first and second jaw portions towards each other; a biasing member to bias said first jaw portion to an open position; said first jaw portion being caused to move by the biasing member to the open position only after said animal tag has engaged and secured to an animal's ear; an over-center linkage means provided between said first handle portion and said first jaw portion which, in a first over-center position, enables the movement of said first jaw portion towards said second jaw portion upon the movement of the handle portions towards each other, but in a second over-center position, enables said first jaw portion to be released into said open position; wherein said over-center linkage means includes at least a pair of linkage members pivoted together and moveable from said first over-center position to said second over-center position and from said second over-center position to said first over-center position through a center position; wherein a control means is moveable with said second handle portion to be engageable with said over-center linkage means, to move said over-center linkage means from said first over-center position through said center position to said second over-center position, the control means being so positioned on said second handle portion relative to the over-center linkage means that the control means will engage with the over-center linkage means to move the over-center linkage means to said second over-center position and to enable the first jaw portion to open, only when said first and said second handle portions have moved closer together; wherein said biasing member includes a spring having a spring end portion connected with an end of said over-center linkage means, and wherein an opposite end of said spring is connected with said second handle portion to bias and trigger opening of the first jaw portion to said open position after the over-center linkage means is in said second over-center position. | 1,114 |
9,188,287 | 1. A product for fluidic applications, comprising at least one surface segment having a plurality of ribs in contact with a fluid flowing in a flow direction, wherein the ribs have a length and a shape, and adjacent ribs delimit between them in each case a valley, wherein in each case at least two ribs with the valley they respectively delimit are combined in a group, and at least two of these groups are present, wherein each group is separated from each group arranged adjacent to it, viewed transverse to the flow direction of the fluid, by a valley, the height profile of the valley separating the respective groups from each other differs in each case from the height profile of the valleys delimited by those ribs of the groups which at the same time are adjacent to the valley separating the groups from each other, the end faces of the ribs against which fluid flows are chamfered or rounded, wherein groups lying behind each other viewed in the flow direction of the fluid are arranged at a distance from each other, wherein a floor of a spacing area present between groups arranged spaced from each other in the flow direction is lower than a floor of the valleys of groups adjacent to the respective spacing area, wherein the groups are arranged offset to each other viewed in the flow direction of the fluid, and wherein at least two ribs of a group have different heights in relation to the floor of the valley separating them from an adjacent group. | 5,364 |
9,678,495 | 1. A control apparatus for controlling a plug-in hybrid vehicle including a secondary battery that can be charged with external power, the control apparatus performing control so as to drive the vehicle using only a motor at the beginning of a journey and to start an internal combustion engine when a storage amount of the secondary battery falls to or below a predetermined value to drive the vehicle using the motor and the internal combustion engine concomitantly, the control apparatus comprising: at least one ECU configured to: obtain an engine stoppage period in which an internal combustion engine is stopped, control charging and discharging of the secondary battery, and set an upper limit value of a storage amount of the secondary battery to be lower when the engine stoppage period equals or exceeds a predetermined period than when the engine stoppage period is shorter than the predetermined period, wherein the control apparatus is configured to classify journeys of the vehicle into a plurality of travel patterns corresponding to respective consumption amounts of electricity stored in the second battery, on the basis of an average value of required output during travel using only the motor at the beginning of a single journey, and a travel distance, and the control apparatus predicts a travel pattern of a subsequent journey on the basis of an appearance frequency of the classified travel pattern, and the ECU is configured to set the upper limit value of the storage amount used when the engine stoppage period equals or exceeds the predetermined period at a value determined in accordance with the predicted travel pattern. | 46,709 |
9,189,225 | 1. A method of managing firmware on a thin client device including a processor, the method comprising the steps of: executing, by the processor, a base loader stored in nonvolatile memory of the thin client device to download, from a remote firmware server, a caching loader for nonvolatile storage on the thin client device; and executing, by the processor, the caching loader to executing a terminal emulation program on the thin client to establish communication, via the network interface, with a remote application server for facilitating interaction, via a peripheral device of the thin client, with at least one application executing on the remote server; and restricting operation of the terminal emulation program prior to authentication of the user via the at least one authentication device, wherein the thin client comprises at least one authentication device, the method further comprising executing, on the thin client, a user authentication services application to authenticate a user via the at least one authentication device. | 48,618 |
9,085,608 | 1. A solid support having covalently attached thereto through a cycloaddition reaction a peptide or peptidomimetic, wherein said peptide or peptidomimetic a) carries a net positive charge; b) is 2 to 6 amino acids in length or is an equivalently sized peptidomimetic; and c) is amphipathic in nature, having one or more lipophilic groups, one of said lipophilic groups comprising at least 7 non-hydrogen atoms. | 34,178 |
9,400,413 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a light emission unit; a heat dissipating member to which heat generated by said light emission unit is transferred; a first housing that contains said light emission unit and said heat dissipating member; a first cover that is used for at least part of an exterior of said first housing, said first cover having at least one first opening formed therein; and a second housing that can turn with respect to said first housing, said second housing containing a second light emission unit, wherein the at least one first opening is formed in a surface, opposed to said second housing, of said first cover. | 23,576 |
9,524,804 | 1. A control room for monitoring and controlling a nuclear power plant including a first nuclear reactor unit and a second nuclear reactor unit, the control room comprising: a central workstation providing monitoring capability for both the first nuclear reactor unit and the second nuclear reactor unit; a first operator at the controls (OATC) workstation in front of and to one side of the central workstation providing monitoring and control capabilities for the first nuclear reactor unit but not for the second nuclear reactor unit; a second OATC workstation in front of and to the other side of the central workstation providing monitoring and control capabilities for the second nuclear reactor unit but not for the first nuclear reactor unit; a first manual safety panel (MSP) located to the one side of the central workstation providing safety-related monitoring information and manual controls for the first nuclear reactor unit; and a second MSP located to the other side of the central workstation providing safety-related monitoring information and manual controls for the second nuclear reactor unit, wherein the central workstation, the first OATC workstation, the second OATC workstation, the first MSP and the second MSP are disposed in the control room. | 47,415 |
8,892,469 | 1. A gaming device in a casino gaming network, comprising: a gaming controller; a first memory; a display; a first communication interface, the first communication interface operable to facilitate communication between the gaming device and one or more devices in the casino gaming network; a gaming device housing including a door, said door movable between an open position and a closed position, when said door is in said closed position defining an interior area and when said door in said open position permitting access to said interior area, the interior area including one or more devices; the interior area further including a security system, the security system including a security system housing, the security system housing including a processor, a second memory, a portable power source, a second communication interface, and a sensor; the security system operable to: | 18,816 |
8,371,829 | 1. A pump comprising: a pump body having a substantially cylindrical shaped cavity having a side wall closed by two end surfaces for containing a fluid, the cavity having a height (h) and a radius (r), wherein a ratio of the radius (r) to the height (h) is greater than about 1.2; a piezoelectric device operatively associated with a central portion of one end surface and adapted to cause an oscillatory motion of the end surface at a frequency (f) having bending modes and breathing modes of resonance, thereby generating radial pressure oscillations of the fluid within the cavity including at least one annular pressure node in response to a drive signal being applied to the piezoelectric device; a drive circuit having an output electrically connected to the piezoelectric device for providing the drive signal to the piezoelectric device at the frequency (f), wherein the drive signal is a square-wave signal having a duty cycle that attenuates a harmonic component of the square-wave signal coinciding with a frequency of a mode of the piezoelectric device other than the fundamental bending mode of the piezoelectric device; a first aperture disposed at any location in the cavity other than at the location of the annular pressure node and extending through the pump body; a second aperture disposed at any location in the pump body other than the location of the first aperture and extending through the pump body; and, a valve disposed in at least one of the first aperture and second aperture to enable the fluid to flow through the cavity when in use. | 3,177 |
8,410,185 | 1. A hydrogen storage system including an organic polymer product, characterized by the improvement that the organic polymer comprises a porous polymer prepared by cross-linking of a plurality of a stereo-contorted core monomer component having a structure selected from the group of a spiral core structure and tetrahedral core structure and forming a benzene ring from the plurality of the cross-linked stereo-contorted core monomer component. | 16,362 |
9,120,881 | 1. A ligand compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein R | 32,199 |
9,457,439 | 1. A fastening and loosening device that performs fastening or loosening by screwing and arranging a plurality of stud bolts to an object to be fastened, screwing a nut onto each of the plurality of stud bolts, and rotating the nut while applying tension to the stud bolt in an axial direction away from the object to be fastened, the fastening and loosening device comprising: a plurality of transport devices movable along an array direction of the plurality of stud bolts; a plurality of first control devices that independently controls the plurality of transport devices; a plurality of bolt tensioners supported on the plurality of transport devices; a plurality of second control devices that independently controls the plurality of bolt tensioners; a main control device that controls the plurality of first control devices and the plurality of second control devices; a first network arranged in a first passage and connects the main control device and each of the first control device; a second network that includes the first network that connects the main control device and each of the first control device as well as another network that is arranged in a second passage which is different from the first passage and connects each of the first control device and each of the second control device; a fault diagnosis device that is provided in the main control device and is connected to the first network, and a switching device included in the main control device and configured to switch between a first control form to control the transport device through the first control device via the second network and a second control form to control the transport device via said another network when the first control device is broken away from the main control device. | 31,644 |
8,823,099 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a gate disposed over a substrate, the gate including a gate electrode; a spacer disposed on a sidewall of the gate, wherein the sidewall of the gate is partially defined by the gate electrode; a first doped region disposed in the substrate, wherein a portion of the first doped region is disposed beneath the gate; a second doped region disposed in the substrate, wherein a portion of the second doped region is disposed beneath the spacer but not the gate, the second doped region being more heavily doped than the first doped region; and a third doped region disposed in the substrate, wherein the third doped region is aligned with the spacer and is not disposed below the gate, the third doped region being more heavily doped than the second doped region; wherein: the second doped region extends further into the substrate than the first doped region; and the third doped region extends further into the substrate than the second doped region. | 4,981 |
9,758,876 | 1. A method for forming a plurality of precision holes in a glass substrate by drilling, the method comprising: affixing a sacrificial cover layer to a surface of the glass substrate; positioning a laser beam in a predetermined location relative to the glass substrate and corresponding to a desired location of one of the plurality of precision holes; forming a through hole in the sacrificial cover layer by repeatedly pulsing the laser beam at the predetermined location; and pulsing the laser beam into the through hole formed in the sacrificial cover layer at the predetermined location thereby creating the one of the plurality of precision holes, wherein a number of pulses applied to the glass substrate is determined by a desired depth of the one of the plurality of precision holes, wherein the sacrificial cover layer comprises glass and has a different composition than the glass substrate. | 35,337 |
8,872,976 | 1. A method for generating a left-eye image and a right-eye image usable to create a 3D effect, the method comprising: (a) receiving a 3D-compatible image having a left-eye portion and a right-eye portion, wherein: (b) generating the left-eye image based on the left-eye portion and the overlay; and (c) generating the right-eye image based on the right-eye portion and the overlay, wherein both of the left-eye and right-eye images include the same information from the overlay. | 27,765 |
8,755,013 | 1. A liquid crystal display, comprising: a first substrate; a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix on the first substrate, a pixel comprising a first pixel electrode electrically connected to at least one of a first transistor and a second transistor and a second pixel electrode electrically connected to at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor, wherein the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are separated from each other; a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a common electrode; a data line extending in a first direction; a gate line extending in a second direction; a storage line extending parallel with the gate line and comprising a first branch portion extending parallel with the data line; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules; an alignment layer member comprising: a diffusion stop layer disposed on inner surfaces of the lower reactive mesogen layer and the upper reactive mesogen layer to block the lower reactive mesogen layer and the upper reactive mesogen layer from being diffused to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal layer on at least one of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode is divided into at least four domains, wherein a domain is defined by an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied to the at least one of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, wherein an electric field generated between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode is different from an electric field generated between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode, and wherein the liquid crystal molecules are vertically aligned with the first substrate in the absence of the electric field. | 2,999 |
8,905,247 | 1. A shelving system for installation upon a wall, comprising: a hanger track mountable substantially horizontally upon a wall; at least two main panels hangable vertically in mutually parallel relation upon the hanger track and substantially perpendicular to the wall, each one of the at least two main panels having a formational plane of symmetry and being molded integrally to define on each one of the main panels: wherein the panel right side and panel left side are substantially bilaterally symmetrical about the formational plane of symmetry; at least one wardrobe rod having two opposite ends, each end engageable with respective wardrobe rod hooks of two adjacent panels of the at least two main panels, wherein the at least one wardrobe rod further comprises: at least one shelf disposable between the two adjacent panels, each end of each shelf resting directly, without a bracket, upon respective planar shelf ledges of the two adjacent panels; wherein the clamp assembly can be loosened to allow the interior segment to slide back and forth relative to the exterior segment, and wherein the clamp assembly can be tightened to hold and maintain the relative positions of the interior and exterior segments. | 22,973 |
8,652,249 | 1. A method of reducing or eliminating the effect of fly ash or other combustion ashes on air entrainment in an air-entraining cementitious mixture, comprising the steps of: forming a cementitious mixture comprising water, cement, fly ash or another combustion ash, and an air entrainment agent, and entraining air in the mixture; wherein a sacrificial agent is also included in the cementitious mixture in at least an amount necessary to neutralize the detrimental effects of components of said fly ash or other combustion ash on air entrainment activity, the sacrificial agent comprising a material or mixture of materials that, when present in the same cementitious mixture without fly ash or the other combustion ash in said amount, causes less than 2 vol. % additional air content in the cementitious mixture, wherein the sacrificial agent comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of the structure NR R R wherein R | 4,992 |
9,241,518 | 1. A glove comprising a plurality of discardable layers, the glove comprising: at least one outer layer comprising a material having physical and chemical properties of water or chemical resistance and abrasion or penetration resistance; and at least one inner layer comprising a material having skin compatibility properties for use against the skin of a wearer; wherein: each of the at least one outer layer is discardable and has an outer tab at a wrist area that is formed in one piece and integrally with the at least one outer layer; each of the at least one inner layer has an inner tab at the wrist area that is formed in one piece and integrally with the at least one inner layer; the outer tab is positioned to completely cover and is longer than the inner tab, wherein the inner tab is recessed relative to the outer tab; and each of the plurality of discardable layers comprises a glove in and of itself. | 13,511 |
9,083,848 | 1. A speaker display method of a videophone terminal, the method comprising: matching each of a plurality of voice characteristic information to one of a plurality of character images in a one-to-one correspondence and storing a result of the matching in a memory; receiving an image and a voice from a communication unit; detecting voice characteristic information and character images from the received voice and the received image, respectively; searching character characteristic information corresponding to the voice characteristic information from the memory; selecting one character image corresponding to the searched character characteristic information from the plurality of character images stored in the memory; and displaying the selected character image as distinguished from other character images. | 28,116 |
8,652,236 | 1. A method for recovery of high purity carbon dioxide from a gaseous source comprising the steps of: a. feeding a gas (G b. absorbing the gas (G c. pressurising and heating the liquid (L d. separating by flashing in a flash column (A e. pressurising the liquid leaving the flash column (A f. separating the liquid (L g. cooling the stripper off gas obtained in step f in order to provide a cooled gas (G | 778 |
9,017,699 | 1. An immunogenic composition comprising an isolated antigen unrelated to Onchocerca volvulus activation-associated secreted protein (Ov-ASP), the antigen mixed with a specific immune response-potentiating effective amount of an isolated Ov-ASP adjuvant comprising amino acids 14-223 of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the antigen is from a pathogenic microorganism against which a mammal is in need of an immune response. | 7,573 |
9,438,550 | 1. A method for transferring data between a mobile device and a host, comprising: sending, in response to instructions from a processor, application data requests from a mobile device to a host over a first connection at a first frequency; receiving data from the host responsive to the sent application data requests; selecting a power management mode, from a plurality of power management modes, based on an amount of battery power remaining on the mobile device, wherein selecting a power management mode is further based on the amount of battery power remaining being below a predetermined amount; changing the frequency that the application data requests are sent from the first frequency to a second frequency associated with the selected power management mode; wherein at least two of the power management modes are a low power mode configured to conserve the amount of battery power remaining on the mobile device and a normal operation mode, wherein the normal operation mode is configured to allow the mobile device to send application data requests more frequently than when the mobile device is in low power mode, wherein the frequency at which some application data requests are sent is not changed to the second frequency while the mobile device is in the low power mode; and exiting the low power mode when an amount of battery power remaining is above a predetermined amount. | 9,103 |
9,215,692 | 1. A base station in a communication system including a terminal and the base station itself, where traffic is generated regularly in the terminal, the base station allocates a resource to the terminal, and the terminal transmits the traffic through the resource, comprising: an allocation unit that determines resource allocation based on a report from the terminal indicating that a transmission status of the traffic does not satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition includes that at least one parameter being monitored becomes greater than a threshold of the parameter, further comprising: a unit that measures a usage rate of the resource, and a unit that reduces allocated resources when the usage rate is less than a predetermined threshold. | 17,969 |
9,124,179 | 1. A method for controlling a first current in a first direct voltage network which is connected to a direct voltage converter, the method comprising: transmitting energy between the first and a second direct voltage network by means of a transformation unit of the direct voltage converter, providing a current control for the control of a second current in the second direct voltage network, determining a second current setpoint from a first current setpoint of the first direct voltage network based on a transfer function of the transformation unit, which second current setpoint is fed to the current control and therefore the first current of the first direct voltage network is controlled. | 37,485 |
8,396,854 | 1. A method of managing digital documents, the method comprising: simultaneously receiving, at a host device, a first set of digital documents from a client device over a wide area network, the first set of digital documents including a first digital document and a second digital document, the first set of digital documents generated from a single digitizing process; separating the first digital document and the second digital document; routing the first digital document and the second digital document to a client pending queue associated with a first client account; extracting a first set of structured information from the first digital document; storing the first set of structured information in a first relational database; storing the first digital document in a first directory; generating a web portal that includes the first set of structured information and the first digital document; receiving, through the web portal, a first set of criteria related to a first document destination; transmitting the first digital document and the first set of structured information to the first document destination; extracting a second set of structured information from the second digital document; storing the second set of structured information in the first relational database; storing the second digital document in the first directory; receiving, through the web portal, a second set of criteria related to a second document destination; and transmitting the second digital document and the second set of structured information to the second document destination. | 23,224 |
9,201,483 | 1. An image processing unit, comprising: an always on circuit block, configured to receive a first bias voltage from a power supply unit, wherein the first bias voltage serves as an operating voltage for the always on circuit block; and a non-always on circuit block, comprising a microcontroller of the image processing unit, wherein when the non-always on circuit block operates under a first operation mode, the non-always on circuit block receives a second bias voltage from the power supply unit served as an operating voltage for the non-always on circuit block, so as to perform an image processing operation on an image input signal, and when the non-always on circuit block operates under a second operation mode, the non-always on circuit block stops receiving the second bias voltage from the power supply unit, so as to stop the image processing operation, and at least the microcontroller of the non-always on circuit block is powered down; wherein the always on circuit block controls the power supply unit to start supplying the second bias voltage to the non-always on circuit block according a second event trigger signal, such that the non-always on circuit block enters the first operation mode from the second operation mode; and wherein one of the always on circuit block and the non-always on circuit block controls the power supply unit to stop supplying the second bias voltage to the non-always on circuit block according a first event trigger signal, such that the non-always on circuit block enters the second operation mode from the first operation mode. | 21,294 |
9,651,797 | 1. A lens drive apparatus for use in a small camera module, which displaces a lens holder in a direction of an optical axis and a direction orthogonal to the optical axis, the lens drive apparatus comprising: an assembly that is formed by assembling the lens holder together with a magnet disposed around the lens holder; a housing having a base and a cover that are configured to house the assembly; a coil configured to displace the assembly only in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis in collaboration with the magnet; and a Hall device, disposed fixedly with respect to the base, configured to detect a position of the magnet in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis, wherein the coil is a planar coil, a coil plane thereof being parallel with the optical axis and facing an outer surface of the magnet, the planar coil being disposed along an inner surface of the cover between the magnet and the cover. | 22,891 |
9,206,986 | 1. A burner, comprising: a burner head having mixing pipes through which a gas mixture flows; a burner cap seated on the burner head and having an opening formed at a central portion thereof; and an auxiliary burner head seated on the burner head through the opening of the burner cap, and an auxiliary burner cap seated on the auxiliary burner head, wherein the burner head includes a support wall that extends along a peripheral portion thereof and supports the burner cap thereon, and an inner wall formed inside of a periphery of the support wall, the inner wall having a plurality of flame holes formed therein, and wherein a flame pattern generated by the burner head and burner cap, and the auxiliary burner head and auxiliary burner cap includes: | 19,069 |
9,197,126 | 1. A power converting apparatus comprising: a rectification circuit for rectifying an input from an AC input power supply having only single phase; an inverter circuit in which AC sides of at least one single-phase inverter are connected in series and connected to an output of said rectification circuit in series, each single-phase inverter having a plurality of semiconductor switching devices and a DC voltage source, said inverter circuit being configured to superimpose a sum of an output of each single-phase inverter on the output of said rectification circuit; a smoothing capacitor connected to a downstream end of said inverter circuit via a rectifier diode for smoothing an output of said inverter circuit; and a short-circuiting switch of which one end is connected to said inverter circuit and another end is connected to one end of said smoothing capacitor; wherein said short-circuiting switch is set to an ON state to bypass said smoothing capacitor only during time ranges having midpoints that coincide with each of zero-crossing points of a single-phase input voltage from said AC input power supply; and the output of said inverter circuit is controlled by pulse width modulation using a current command generated by determining a first difference between a DC voltage of the smoothing capacitor and a first target voltage, determining a second difference between a voltage of the DC voltage source and a second target voltage, determining first and second outputs by applying feedback control to a first and second differences respectively, and summing the first and second outputs. | 33,633 |
9,027,332 | 1. An exhaust treatment system for increasing a temperature of an exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine, the exhaust treatment system comprising: a burner at least partially disposed in an exhaust gas passageway between the internal combustion engine and an exhaust aftertreatment device, the burner including a combustion chamber and being configured to burn a fuel in the combustion chamber; a flame sensor assembly at least partially disposed within the burner and including an insulator and an electric heating element in heat transfer relation with the insulator; and a control module in electrical communication with the flame sensor assembly, the control module being configured to determine whether a flame is present in the combustion chamber based on feedback from the flame sensor assembly, the control module being configured to detect contamination on the insulator based on feedback from the flame sensor assembly, the control module being configured to operate the heating element in a first mode in response to detection of a contamination in which the control module causes sufficient electrical power to be applied to the heating element to raise a temperature of the heating element to a level that is sufficient to burn contamination off of the insulator. | 5,675 |
8,709,232 | 1. A method of determining blood glucose concentration with a glucose measurement system that includes a test strip and test meter, the test meter having a microcontroller programmed to apply a plurality of test voltages to the test strip and measure a current transient output resulting from an electrochemical reaction in a test chamber of the test strip, the method comprising: inserting the test strip into a strip port connector of the test meter to connect at least two electrodes of the test strip to a strip measurement circuit; initiating a test sequence after deposition of a sample; applying a first voltage and measuring a first current for a first time duration; switching the first voltage to a second voltage different than the first voltage; changing the second voltage to a third voltage different from the second voltage; measuring a second current output of a current transient from the electrodes after the changing from the second voltage to the third voltage; estimating a third current that approximates a steady state current output of a current transient after the third voltage is maintained at the electrodes; calculating a blood glucose concentration based on the first, second and third current outputs of the current transients with an equation of the form: | 18,522 |
9,227,568 | 1. A situation communication mirror adapted for mounting to a transportation vehicle, said situation communication mirror comprising: a rearward facing reflective member comprising at least three integrally-formed and arcuately distinct reflective surface areas; the first reflective surface area having a relatively slight curvature defining a relatively focused driver field of view, and wherein the first reflective surface area extends from a top edge of said reflective member towards a bottom edge of said reflective member, and from an inside edge of said reflective member towards an outside edge of said reflective member; the second and third reflective surface areas each having an increased curvature as compared to the first surface area, and respectively defining wider driver fields of view, wherein the second reflective surface area comprises a longitudinal outside margin of said reflective member opposite the first reflective surface area, and extends from the top edge of said reflective member towards the bottom edge of said reflective member, and wherein the third reflective surface area comprises a longitudinal bottom margin of said reflective member, and extends from an inside edge of said reflective member towards an outside edge of said reflective member; and first, second, and third reflective elongated transition zones adjacent respective first, second, and third reflective surface areas, each transition zone having a degree of curvature intermediate the slight curvature of the first reflective surface area and the increased curvature of the second and third reflective surface areas, and said transition zones dividing the first, second, and third reflective surface areas and defining a visual transition between the relatively focused driver field of view provided by the first reflective surface area and the wider driver fields of view provided by the second and third reflective surface areas, and wherein the first transition zone extends longitudinally adjacent and between the first and second reflective surface areas, and has a width dimension greater than 20% of a width of said second reflective surface area, and wherein the second transition zone extends longitudinally adjacent and between the first and third reflective surface areas, and has a width dimension greater than 20% of a width of said third reflective surface area, and wherein the third transition zone extends diagonally adjacent and between the second and third reflective surface areas, and has a width dimension equal to the width dimension of said first and second transition zones. | 4,941 |
9,343,599 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a substrate having a first surface on which jagged portions are non-uniformly positioned, the jagged portions having an inclination that is greater than 54.76° and less than 90°, and the substrate having a first type semiconductor and a second type semiconductor; a first anti-reflective layer on the first surface of the substrate, the first anti-reflective layer having a first refractive index; a second anti-reflective layer on the first anti-reflective layer, the second anti-reflective layer having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index; at least one reflective layer positioned on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface; a first electrode to contact the first type semiconductor; and a second electrode to contact the second type semiconductor through the at least one reflective layer; wherein the at least one reflective layer includes a first reflective layer having a first refractive index, a second reflective layer having a second refractive index smaller than the first refractive index, and a third reflective layer disposed between the second surface of the substrate and the first reflective layer, wherein the first reflective layer is disposed closer to the second surface of the substrate than the second reflective layer, wherein the first reflective layer is disposed between the third reflective layer and the second reflective layer, wherein the third reflective layer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate, the first reflective layer is disposed on the third reflective layer, and the second reflective layer is disposed on the first reflective layer, and wherein the first reflective layer is formed of a silicon oxynitride layer, the second reflective layer is formed of a hydrogenated silicon oxide layer and the third reflective layer is formed of a silicon oxide layer. | 44,187 |
9,369,812 | 1. A wireless receiver circuit comprising: a wireless receiver unit, coupled to receive a drive voltage, and configured to receive a plurality of digital samples and to output a set of encoded digital output bits; a forward error correction decoder coupled to receive the set of encoded digital output bits from the wireless receiver unit; a forward error correction encoder coupled to the forward error correction decoder and configured to re-encode output of the forward error correction decoder; a Hamming distance unit configured to output a measured Hamming distance between the set of encoded digital output bits from the wireless receiver unit and the re-encoded output of the forward error correction encoder; a voltage control unit configured to adjust the drive voltage to the wireless receiver circuit to a minimum voltage based on a difference between the measured Hamming distance and a target Hamming distance; and wherein the minimum voltage does not turn off the wireless receiver circuit. | 23,323 |
9,785,417 | 1. A method of managing reusable artifacts, comprising: responsive to receiving a request to create a placeholder for a reusable artifact representing a reusable unit, using a processor, creating the placeholder for an appropriate version of the reusable artifact within a container and assigning a first parameter identifying the reusable artifact to an artifact property of the placeholder; responsive to receiving a request to pin a particular version of the reusable artifact to the placeholder, updating a version property of the placeholder to set the version, wherein the request to pin the particular version of the reusable artifact to the placeholder is implemented by assigning a value to a parameter in the placeholder or adding a pin property into the placeholder; and maintaining the particular version as the set version of the reusable artifact regardless of whether new artifact versions are created for the reusable artifact. | 34,028 |
9,457,938 | 1. A crown cap adapted removably coupled to a container, the crown cap having a generally circular central region and a downwardly extending side wall in a generally frusto-conical configuration, the side wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface and an end edge remote from the central region, the exterior surface being formed with a plurality of exterior recesses spaced from the end edge to facilitate shaping of the side wall, the exterior surface having an odd number of recesses, the generally central region including an annular V-shaped projection facing the end edge between the central portion and the side wall for the receipt of an adhesive for sealing a container, the side wall adjacent to the free edge being formed with an inwardly scrolled region continuously curved about a central axis of rotation, the scrolled region extending for 365 to 390 degrees cross-section. | 3,626 |
8,762,953 | 1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions, the at least one medium holding: one or more instructions for executing a first code block, the first code block calling a second code block; one or more instructions for executing the second code block; one or more instructions for generating an exception object based on the execution of the second code block, the exception object containing a stack field, wherein the stack field contains information about the first code block and the second code block, one or more instructions for modifying the stack field such that the exception object indicates that the exception object was generated by the first code block instead of by the second code block; one or more instructions for storing the exception object in memory; and one or more instructions for receiving the exception object at a third code block. | 32,715 |
9,308,910 | 1. A power generating set comprising: an engine operable in response to a flow of fuel to produce a flow of exhaust gas; a generator coupled to the engine and operable in response to operation of the engine to produce a total electrical power; a primary load electrically connected to the generator to receive a portion of the total electrical power; a secondary load selectively connected to the generator to receive a portion of the total electrical power; an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) positioned to selectively transition between a connected state and a disconnected state, wherein the secondary load is connected to the generator when the IGBT is in the connected state and is disconnected from the generator when the IGBT is in the disconnected state; and a particulate filter positioned to receive the flow of exhaust gas from the engine and to filter particulate matter from the exhaust gas, wherein the primary load follows a cyclical pattern, and wherein the IGBT switches between states to selectively connect and disconnect the entire secondary load to maintain an engine parameter above a predetermined value for a predetermined portion of each cycle of the primary load, and wherein the secondary load is positioned within the flow of exhaust gas to heat the flow of exhaust gas before the exhaust gas enters the particulate filter. | 19,360 |
9,286,705 | 1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for displaying an area of wireless-telecommunications coverage (WTC) of a geographic region by a plurality of images, the method comprising: referencing a first image having a first corner and a second corner, wherein the first image includes, (a) a first set of colored pixels that are a first color that depict a first area of WTC where coverage is offered in said geographic region, wherein each pixel in the first set of colored pixels corresponds to a respective geographic location within the first area of WTC in said geographic region, and wherein the first color identifies the first area of WTC where coverage is offered, and (b) a second set of colored pixels that are a second color that depict a second area of WTC where coverage is offered in said geographic region, wherein each pixel in the second set of colored pixels corresponds to a respective geographic location within the second area of WTC in said geographic region, wherein the second color identifies the second area of WTC where coverage is offered, and wherein the first color which identifies the first area of WTC is a different color than the second color which identifies the second area of WTC, wherein the second area of WTC that is identified by the second color is associated with a different wireless telecommunications provider than the first area of WTC that is identified by the first color; utilizing a computing device to register said first image with a real-world physical location by respectively associating said first and second corners with a first set and a second set of real-world geographic coordinates, thereby creating a registered image; identifying said first color; identifying said second color; creating a second image that depicts a single WTC area, wherein said single WTC area corresponds to either the first area of WTC or the second area of WTC, but not both, wherein when said single WTC area corresponds to the first area of WTC, said single WTC area is determined based on the respective geographic locations of pixels in the first image that are the first color, wherein when said single WTC area corresponds to the second area of WTC, said single WTC area is determined based on the respective geographic locations of pixels in the first image that are the second color, and wherein said single WTC area is colored consistently with said first or second color; and presenting said second image on a display device that is coupled to said computing device. | 24,719 |
9,538,649 | 1. A method of manufacturing a module comprising a wiring substrate, one or more column-shaped connection terminals forming an interlayer connection conductor, and one or more first electronic components, the column-shaped connection terminals and the first electronic components being mounted on the wiring substrate and sealed with a resin, the method comprising: a providing step of providing one or more column-shaped connection terminals each having a substantially T-shaped cross section, a first end portion of each of the connection terminals having a larger diameter than a second end portion of each of the connection terminals; a first mounting step of mounting one or more first electronic components on one main surface of the wiring substrate, and mounting the connection terminals on the one main surface of the wiring substrate in such a manner that the second end portion of each of the connection terminals having a smaller diameter is connected to the wiring substrate; and a first sealing step of sealing the first electronic components and the connection terminals with a resin layer. | 25,946 |
9,731,123 | 1. A pacemaker system for a human subject having spasmodic dysphonia, the system comprising: a sensing electrode configured to detect voice activity of the subject and to generate a first signal; a processor, in communication with the sensing electrode, configured to receive the first signal and to generate at least one stimulation parameter based on the first signal in order to activate a glottic closure reflex and to stimulate a recurrent laryngeal nerve or vagus nerve of the subject; a mechanical actuator configured to receive the at least one stimulation parameter and to activate the glottic closure reflex of the subject based on the at least one stimulation parameter in order to selectively activate vocal cord adductor muscles of the subject; and a stimulating electrode configured to receive the at least one stimulation parameter and to activate the recurrent laryngeal nerve or the vagus nerve of the subject based on the at least one stimulation parameter in order to selectively activate vocal cord abductor muscle of the subject, selectively activate the vocal cord adductor muscles of the subject, or activate both the vocal cord abductor muscle and the adductor muscles of the subject. | 43,205 |
9,391,337 | 1. A membrane electrode assembly for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising an anode catalyst layer, a membrane electrolyte, a cathode catalyst layer, and a proton conducting composite polymer electrolyte comprising a proton conducting ionomer and an amount of a metal-ligand complex additive wherein: the metal in the complex is selected from the group consisting of metals, metal alloys, metal oxides, metal salts and combinations thereof; and the ligand in the complex comprises a molecule or polymer thereof wherein the chemical structure of the molecule is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R 1 , R 3 and R 4 are selected from the group consisting of H, CH 3 (CH 2 ) n , CH 3 (CH 2 ) n O, CF 3 (CF 2 ) n , CF 3 (CF 2 ) n O, COOH, PO(OH) 2 , SO 3 H, NH 2 , OH, and wherein X is H, COOH, PO(OH) 2 or SO 3 H and n is an integer from 0 to 10; and wherein R 2 is selected from the group consisting of CH 3 (CH 2 ) n , CH 3 (CH 2 ) n O, CF 3 (CF 2 ) n , CF 3 (CF 2 ) n O, COOH, PO(OH) 2 , SO 3 H, NH 2 , OH, and wherein X is H, COOH, PO(OH) 2 or SO 3 H and n is an integer from 0 to 10. | 43,878 |
9,455,882 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a device of a cloud computing environment, user requirements for the cloud computing environment, receiving, by the device, system requirements associated with the cloud computing environment, generating, by the device, one or more proposed arrangements of sets of computing resources, from the computing resources of the cloud computing environment, based on the user requirements and the system requirements, providing, by the device, information associated with the one or more proposed arrangements to the one or more user devices; receiving, by the device, a change to a particular proposed arrangement, of the one or more proposed arrangements, from a particular user device of the one or more user devices; implementing, by the device, the change to the particular proposed arrangement in the cloud computing environment to generate an updated proposed arrangement, providing, by the device, the updated proposed arrangement to the particular user device; and rebalancing, automatically by the device, the computing resources of the cloud computing environment based on the user requirements and the system requirements. | 1,306 |
8,598,282 | 1. A silicone resin composition comprising (A) 49 to 95 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule, (B) total 0.001 to 50 parts by mass of the following linear organohydrogenpolysiloxanes (B-1) and (B-2); provided that a mass ratio of the components (B-1) to (B-2) is (90 to 99.9):(10 to 0.1), (C) 0.01 to 20 parts by mass of a branched organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least three hydrosilyl groups per molecule, provided that a total amount of components (A), (B) and (C) is 100 parts by mass, (D) a catalytic amount of an addition reaction catalyst, and (E) 0.001 to 1 part by mass of a condensation catalyst, relative to a total 100 parts by mass of components (A), (B) and (C). | 8,983 |
8,521,346 | 1. A method for operating a rail vehicle, the method comprising the following steps: defining at least one coasting point for a predefined route section for deactivating traction of the rail vehicle and permitting the rail vehicle to coast over at least part of a remaining route to an end of the route section, upon reaching the at least one coasting point; storing a plurality of the coasting points in advance for the predefined route section and assigning each of the coasting points a fixed distance from the end of the route section and a fixed travel time until reaching the end of the route section; upon traveling through the predefined route section, continuously checking if for one of the coasting points a currently detected distance to the end of the route section is shorter than the fixed distance to the end of the route section according to a first condition, and if a current travel time to the end of the route section is longer than or equal to the fixed travel time to the end of the route section according to a second condition; signaling possible deactivation of the traction of the rail vehicle when the first and second conditions are fulfilled, and checking a further coasting point of the stored coasting points for fulfillment of the first and second conditions when at least one of the first and second conditions are not fulfilled; and deactivating the traction of the rail vehicle in response to the signaling. | 8,703 |
9,399,730 | 1. An encapsulation structure for a solar energy conversion device comprising: a luminescent wavelength conversion material comprising at least one chromophore and an optically transparent polymer matrix; wherein the at least one chromophore is represented by formula (I-a) i is an integer in the range of 0 to 100; A D L wherein the luminescent wavelength conversion material is configured to encapsulate the solar energy conversion device and inhibit penetration of moisture and oxygen into the solar energy conversion device. | 8,821 |
8,941,769 | 1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject; an image sensor configured to receive the image of the subject; an image storage unit configured to store the image; an image presentation unit configured to enable presenting the image; a transmission unit configured to transmit whole image data corresponding to a whole image received by the image sensor to an image display apparatus; and a display control unit configured, when displaying a partial area of the image stored in the image storage unit on the image display apparatus, to control the image presentation unit to display a the whole image stored in the image storage unit by the image presentation unit and display information indicating the partial area in the whole image, a reception unit configured to receive a screen aspect displayed by the image display apparatus, wherein the transmission unit is configured to transmit to the image display apparatus the whole image data and range information for displaying the partial area by the image display apparatus, wherein the display control unit is configured to display a partial image range matching with the screen aspect together with the whole image, and wherein the transmission unit is configured to transmit image area information matching with the screen aspect as the range information to the image display apparatus. | 30,350 |
9,257,576 | 1. A coating film forming composition comprising: a component (A): an amino acid generator comprising a protecting group that is eliminated to generate an amino acid; a component (B): a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, or a mixture thereof; and a component (C): a solvent, wherein the amino acid generator is at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of compounds of Formula (2-1) to Formula (2-22): where: D is the protecting group and is one selected from the group consisting of a tert-butoxycarbonyl group and a 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl group. | 24,754 |
9,772,856 | 1. A system comprising: a master programmable device (PD) having native dual-boot capability; and a slave PD without native dual-boot capability and connected to the master PD, wherein: | 24,332 |
9,012,368 | 1. A system for generating and/or screening one or more potential metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the system comprising: a generation module configured to receive identifications of building blocks for determining if the building blocks can be used to form one or more of the potential MOFs, the generation module further configured to determine which of the potential MOFs can be formed by simulating a combining of the building blocks in different arrangements, and wherein the generation module is configured to automatically simulate the combining of the building blocks that are identified without involving energy minimization; and a fabrication system coupled with the generation module, the fabrication system including one or more sources of actual building blocks that are identified, the fabrication system configured to automatically combine the actual building blocks that are used to form the potential MOFs as simulated by the generation module. | 4,008 |
9,750,725 | 1. A pharmaceutical formulation comprising an effective amount of a fatty acid, wherein the fatty acid is: 13-oxo-(7Z,10Z,14A,16Z,19Z)docosa-7,10,14,16,19-pentaenoic acid, 17-oxo-(7Z,10Z,13Z,15A,19Z)-docosa-7,10,13,15,19-pentaenoic acid, 13-oxo-(4Z,7Z,10Z,14A,16Z,19Z)-docosa-4,7,10,14,16,19-hexaenoic acid, or 17-oxo-(4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,15A,19Z)-docosa-4,7,10,13,15,19-hexaenoic acid, where A indicates either E or Z configuration. | 24,893 |
9,739,819 | 1. A cable joint integrity detection system, comprising: a power converter module having a fastener joint; a positive voltage vehicle wiring electrically connected with the power converter module at the fastener joint, the fastener joint comprising a substantially continuous positive voltage electrical connection between the a positive voltage vehicle wiring comprising a B+ cable and a B+ terminal of the power converter module; and at least one current sensor electrically interfacing with the fastener joint to transmit a respective sensor signal to a controller, the controller comprising memory storing a computer program instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the computer program, the controller configured by the computer program to monitor the electrical connection integrity between the fastener joint and the positive voltage vehicle wiring connections by monitoring a respective current sensor to determine substantially continuous receipt of the respective sensor signal by the controller, the controller further configured to indicate a compromised status of the substantially continuous positive voltage electrical connection in the case the receipt of the respective sensor signal is not substantially continuous. | 20,958 |
8,746,341 | 1. A method of foaming a fluid for recovering gas from a gas well and enhancing oil production from a gas-lifted oil well penetrating a subterranean oil-bearing formation, the method comprising: introducing into the fluid a foam-forming amount of a composition comprising the following general structure: wherein: (i) R (ii) R (iii) X is selected from hydrogen, methyl, and ethyl; (iv) Z (v) n is from 6 to 22. | 42,971 |
8,682,235 | 1. The sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: an upstream rotating member pair configured to convey a sheet; a downstream rotating member pair, configured to convey the sheet, provided downstream of the upstream rotating member pair in a conveying direction; an elastic member configured to guide the sheet from the upstream rotating member pair to the downstream rotating member pair; and a guide member having, a bent portion, which is bent, a fixed portion, provided upstream of the bent portion in the conveying direction, configured to fix a upstream portion of the elastic member in the conveying direction, and a supporting portion, provided downstream of the bent portion in the conveying direction, configured to support the elastic member from an opposite side of a guide surface of the elastic member guiding the conveyed sheet so that a portion of the elastic member between the fixing portion and the support portion is deflected, wherein the elastic member is attached to the guide member in a state of being deflected while forming a space with the bent portion of the guide member. | 24,675 |
9,796,600 | 1. A portable drinking water filter system, comprising: a floatable body surrounding a filter opening adapted to receive a water filter therein, the floatable body having a seal extending outward from an outer surface of the floatable body; and a container having an upper opening, a sleeve extending within the container from the upper opening to proximate a base of the container opposite the upper opening, the sleeve defining a cavity within the container and comprising one or more sidewalls surrounding the cavity, the cavity comprising an opening at a top of the sleeve and being open to and in fluid communication with the container proximate a bottom of the sleeve, the container further having a channel in fluid communication with the cavity, the channel extending outside of the cavity within the container from proximate to the base to proximate to the upper opening, wherein the floatable body is disposed in the cavity such that the seal is configured to engage the one or more sidewalls and restrict water from passing between the floatable body and the one or more sidewalls; wherein the floatable body is moveable within the cavity from a first position proximate the base to a second position proximate the upper opening. | 17,731 |
8,423,278 | 1. A navigation aid device, comprising: a calculation time setting module for setting two or more calculation points of time for calculating trial information; a ship-concerned information acquisition module for acquiring ship-concerned information including a position of a ship concerned at every predetermined ship-concerned information acquisition time; a ship-concerned trial information calculating module for calculating ship-concerned trial information including future positions of the ship concerned at the respective two or more calculation points of time based on the most-recently acquired ship-concerned information; a display module for simultaneously displaying on a screen the future positions of the ship concerned so as to correspond to respective positions on the screen; a target-object information acquisition module for acquiring target-object information including a position of a target object other than the ship concerned at every predetermined target-object information acquisition time; and a target-object trial information calculating module for calculating target-object trial information including future positions of the target object at the respective two or more calculation points of time based on most-recently acquired target-object information; wherein the display control module causes the display module to simultaneously display the future positions of the target object at the respective two or more calculation points of time, the future positions of the target object being displayed so as to correspond to respective positions on the screen. | 16,089 |
9,618,500 | 1. A vascular model comprising: at least one man-made chamber including a cover and a base plate, at least one microchannel in the form of a hollow channel structure, at least one first connector in fluidic communication with a lumen of the at least one microchannel and configured to at least one of receive or discharge the at least one first fluid; and a first pump system connected to the lumen of the at least one microchannel via the at least one first connector. | 17,649 |
9,203,939 | 1. A driving system for driving a first module to move relative to a housing, comprising: at least one sensor installed on the housing and for generating a first sensing signal; a first shape memory alloy (SMA) member connecting the first module and the housing; a processing module coupled to the at least one sensor and the first SMA member, the processing module supplying power to the first SMA member for heating the first SMA member when receiving the first sensing signal from the at least one sensor, such that the first SMA member deforms to drive the first module to move away from the housing to an expanding position along a first direction; and at least one first recovery member connecting the first module and the housing, the at least one first recovery member being separate from the first SMA and for driving the first module to move toward the housing so as to be in a containing position along a second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction are straight. | 9,783 |
9,302,592 | 1. An electric vehicle battery exchanging system for reuse application, comprising: a plurality of rechargeable battery packs, each comprising: a battery condition detecting module, for receiving the battery conditions transmitted from the battery cell detecting unit and sending out a judged command for each rechargeable battery pack based on the battery condition from each rechargeable battery pack to determine if the rechargeable battery pack is allowed to be charged; a user ID checking module, for communicating with a user ID device which contains a user ID, checking if the user ID is registered in the user ID checking module under a commercial condition, and sending out a confirmed information when the user ID is registered in the user ID checking module under the commercial condition; a power source, linked to an external power grid, for providing power; a charging controlling module, electrically linked to the rechargeable battery packs, the battery condition detecting module, the user ID checking module and the power source, for charging the rechargeable battery pack determined by the judged command, processing charging until a predetermined battery status is fulfilled and recording amount of power charged; and a battery managing module, electrically linked to the user ID checking module and the charging controlling module, for allowing one rechargeable battery pack to be released for use if the predetermined battery status is met and the confirmed information is received or temporarily stored if the predetermined battery status is met but the confirmed information is not received. | 4,203 |
8,812,885 | 1. A device, comprising: a chip having a processor and wake-up logic; power management circuitry coupled to the chip, the power management circuitry selectively provides a core power supply and an input/output (I/O) power supply to the chip; wherein, even if the power management circuitry cuts off the core power supply to the chip, the wake-up logic detects and responds to wake-up events based on power provided by the I/O power supply; and wherein, while the core power supply is cut off, the wake-up logic propagates a pad state change using daisy chained logic and circuitry of the wake-up logic is polled to determine an origin of a pad state change propagated using the daisy chained logic. | 23,548 |
8,896,993 | 1. An input device comprising: a sensor substrate having one or more conductors disposed on a first side of the sensor substrate and one or more surface mount hardware elements disposed on an second side of the sensor substrate that is opposite the first side; a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate and configured to flex in response to an application of pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input for a computing device that is communicatively coupled to the input device; and one or more layers disposed on the second side of the sensor substrate, the one or more layers having one or more openings therein such that at least a portion of the one or more surface mount hardware elements is disposed through the one or more openings thereby nesting the one or more surface mount hardware elements within the one or more layers. | 8,456 |
8,839,271 | 1. A computer implemented method for sampling call stack information, the computer implemented method comprising: monitoring for an idle event during an execution of a plurality of threads by a set of processors; responsive to an occurrence of the idle event, identifying portion of the plurality of threads based on a policy to form a set of identified threads; and signaling a profiler to collect call stack information for at least one thread in the set of identified threads, in response to the signaling. | 31,864 |
8,538,591 | 1. A fuel management system comprising: a fuel level sensor which determines a current fuel level of a fuel tank and produces a measurement output responsive to said current fuel level, wherein said fuel level sensor is a fuel tank cap utilizing an ultrasonic transducer which transmits ultrasonic energy into a fuel filler tube of said fuel tank and measures the return echo time of said ultrasonic energy after said ultrasonic energy impinges on a surface of fuel contained within the fuel tank; a fuel level sensor transponder which accepts said measurement output responsive to said current fuel level and transmits said measurement output; a fuel accounting system which receives said transmitted measurement output, stores said transmitted measurement output into a database associated with a fuel consuming system of said fuel tank and calculates a difference between a predetermined fuel tank level and said current fuel level; and a fuel dispensing apparatus which dispenses fuel to said fuel tank based on said calculated difference if said current fuel level is below said predetermined level, wherein said predetermined fuel level and said current fuel level are temperature standardized based on respectively a first temperature of fuel within said fuel tank and a second temperature of fuel supplied by said fuel dispensing apparatus in order to ensure that when dispensing the calculated difference of fuel into the fuel tank, expansion due to a difference in the first temperature and the second temperature will produce a fuel level at said predetermined fuel tank level, and wherein said fuel level sensor measurement output is compensated based on characteristics of said fuel tank and said fuel level sensor by interpolating values contained in a fuel tank calibration table, said fuel tank calibration table being previously generated by a process of evacuating the contents of said fuel tank followed by incremental additions of fuel to said fuel tank coupled with recording said fuel level sensor measurement output associated with the fuel level corresponding to said incremental fuel additions. | 41,840 |
9,021,642 | 1. A combination axe, sledge hammer and pick (CASHP) comprising: A. a head comprising: B. a handle having an upper section and a lower section, wherein the upper section is dimensioned to frictionally fit into the handle insertion bore. | 7,630 |
8,845,934 | 1. A compatibilized polyamide-poly(arylene ether) thermoplastic resin composition, comprising: (a) about 10 to about 50 weight percent of a poly(arylene ether); (b) about 5 percent to about 20 percent of a hydrogenated block copolymer of an alkenyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene and a copolymer of ethylene; (c) about 30 to about 60 percent of a biopolyamide selected from the group consisting of polyamide-410, polyamide-610, and polyamide-1010, polyamide 10T or mixtures thereof; and wherein all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition; and wherein the biomass carbon content of the resin composition is at least 13 percent as measured by ASTM D6866. | 28,046 |
9,366,987 | 1. A developing roller comprising: a tubular base layer of an elastic material; and a surface layer of an elastic material provided on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer; wherein a thickness d | 149 |
8,593,814 | 1. A heat sink comprising: a contact portion; a first support rib, a second support rib, a third support rib and a fourth support rib radially extended from the contact portion; wherein the first support rib is adjacent to the second support rib; and the third support rib is adjacent to the fourth support rib; and a plurality of parallel fins extended from the first support rib, the second support rib, the third support rib and the fourth support rib between two adjacent support ribs; wherein a distance from the contact portion to an edge of the plurality of parallel fins between the first support rib and the second support rib is a first distance; a distance from the contact portion to an edge of the plurality of parallel fins between the third support rib and the fourth support rib is a second distance; and the first distance is less than the second distance. | 37,280 |
8,472,978 | 1. A method in a wireless local area network client device, the method comprising: maintaining a history of profile-location associations, where an association links a profile stored in the client device with a location in a vicinity of which the client device was connected to a wireless local area network described in the profile and where the association includes an indication of a time at which the client device was connected to the wireless local area network when in the vicinity of the location; determining a current location of the client device; comparing the current location of the client device to the locations in the history; and responsive to determining that there is no location in the history that corresponds to the current location of the client device, scanning for wireless local area networks, while in a vicinity of the current location, using a scanning algorithm that is independent of any location in the history. | 25,663 |
9,603,260 | 1. An electronics module comprising a substrate, and a sintered structure on said substrate, the sintered structure being formed from at least partially fused nanoparticle cores made of conductive or semiconductive material, said sintered structure forming at least part of a conductive pattern for an electronic circuit of said electronics module, wherein said substrate is capable of chemically removing at least one encapsulating ligand bonded to and serving as encapsulating material of said nanoparticle cores prior to said fusing, in order to at least partially sinter the nanoparticles to form and to functionalize said sintered structure. | 44,387 |
9,725,744 | 1. A method for enhancing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production in a methanotrophic culture by reducing copper concentrations to effect particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) production, the method comprising: (a) contacting a culture of methanotrophic microorganisms with a medium comprising copper, one or more additional nutrients, and a carbon-containing gas that can be metabolized by said culture; (b) incubating said culture in said medium to cause growth of said culture; and (c) inducing a selection pressure on said culture to transform said culture into a culture that generates PHA preferentially through particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) by: (i) reducing the concentration of copper in said medium to cause production of soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and/or pMMO by said culture, wherein said concentration of copper causes the production of sMMO in some methanotrophic microorganisms; (ii) reducing the concentration of one or more of said nutrients in said medium to cause said culture to generate PHA from said carbon-containing gas using said soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) or said pMMO, wherein PHA is generated by pMMO at a greater rate as compared to sMMO, (iii) returning the culture to the growth conditions of step (b), wherein microorganisms having higher intracellular concentrations of pMMO and PHA grow at a greater rate as compared to those with lower intracellular pMMO and PHA concentrations; and (iv) repeating steps (i), (ii) and (iii), wherein said repetitions selectively favor growth of microorganisms that produce PHA via pMMO, thereby facilitating the pMMO-mediated production of PHA at reduced copper concentrations, and resulting in a culture comprising microorganisms that use pMMO to produce PHA. | 12,540 |
8,486,746 | 1. A method of fabricating a solar cell comprising the steps of: forming a sacrificial layer on a silicon substrate; forming a doped silicon layer atop the sacrificial layer; forming a silicon film atop the doped silicon layer; forming an oxide layer on the silicon film; forming alternating P-type and N-type doped regions on the oxide layer; contacting each of the P-type and N-type doped regions with a metal contact; and removing the sacrificial layer and the silicon substrate. | 47,650 |
8,764,975 | 1. A separation and sterilization device for separating batches of solid material from a liquid slurry including biologically hazardous material and for sterilizing separated solid materials, said device comprising: a pressure vessel defining a chamber for receiving said slurry; a main valved inlet port fluidically connected to said chamber for feeding said slurry into said chamber; a first main outlet port fluidically connected to said chamber; a filter for separating solid material in said slurry from liquid in said slurry, said filter being disposed between said first main outlet port and said main valved inlet port such that said liquid in said slurry passes through said filter and is discharged through said first main outlet port into a valved filtrate discharge line fluidically connected thereto, said valved discharge line having a first steam inlet in fluid communication therewith; a second main valved outlet port disposed upstream of said filter, at a location between said main valved inlet port and said filter, for discharging said solid material from said chamber and allowing fluid to exit the chamber during a sterilization process, said second main valved outlet port including a first temperature sensor and a second steam inlet in fluid communication therewith; a spool piece in the filtrate discharge line to facilitate service and replacement of the filter, wherein removal of the spool piece allows removal of the filter through said first main outlet port; and a condensate line in fluid communication with said chamber to permit condensate to exit said chamber, said condensate line including a second temperature sensor. | 21,640 |
9,450,114 | 1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a photoelectric conversion film provided at a first side of a semiconductor substrate, the first side of the semiconductor substrate located opposite to a second side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the photoelectric conversion film performs photoelectric conversion with respect to light of a predetermined wavelength region and transmits light of other wavelength regions; a first photoelectric conversion layer provided within the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first photoelectric conversion layer performs photoelectric conversion with respect to the light of a first one of the other wavelength regions; and a second photoelectric conversion layer provided within the semiconductor substrate, wherein the second photoelectric conversion layer performs photoelectric conversion with respect to the light of a second one of the other wavelength regions. | 41,201 |
8,993,840 | 1. A soybean plant seed with increased oil content comprising in its genome: (a) a first recombinant DNA construct comprising a first polynucleotide operably linked to at least one first regulatory element, wherein said first polynucleotide comprises a diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) coding region encoding a polypeptide having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:180, based on the Clustal W method of alignment with pairwise alignment default parameters of KTUPLE=1, GAP PENALTY=3, WINDOW=5 and DIAGONALS SAVED=5, wherein said DGAT polypeptide has DGAT activity; (b) a second recombinant DNA construct comprising a second polynucleotide operably linked to at least one second regulatory element, wherein said second polynucleotide encodes a SUT4 sucrose transporter polypeptide, wherein said SUT4 sucrose transporter polypeptide has at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:38, based on the Clustal W method of alignment with pairwise alignment default parameters of KTUPLE=1, GAP PENALTY=3, WINDOW=5 and DIAGONALS SAVED=5, and wherein said SUT4 sucrose transporter polypeptide has sucrose transport activity; and (c) wherein said soybean plant seed exhibits increased oil content as a percentage of seed weight when compared to a control soybean plant seed comprising said first recombinant DNA construct but not comprising said second recombinant DNA construct. | 18,063 |
9,773,991 | 1. A method of protecting a perovskite halide film from moisture and temperature, comprising: positioning the perovskite halide film in a chamber; maintaining the chamber at a temperature of less than 200 degrees Celsius; inserting a first organo-metal compound into the chamber; subsequently inserting a non-hydrolytic oxygen source into the chamber; repeating the inserting of the first organo-metal compound and subsequent inserting of the non-hydrolytic oxygen source into the chamber for a predetermined number of cycles, wherein, the non-hydrolytic oxygen source and the first organo-metal compound interact in the chamber to deposit a non-hydrolytic metal oxide film on the perovskite halide film, the non-hydrolytic metal oxide film protecting the perovskite halide film from relative humidity of greater than 35% and a temperature of greater than 150 degrees Celsius; inserting a second organo-metal compound into the chamber; subsequently inserting a hydrolytic oxygen source into the chamber; and repeating the inserting of the organo-metal compound and subsequent inserting of the hydrolytic oxygen source into the chamber for a second predetermined number of cycles, wherein, the second organo-metal compound and hydrolytic oxygen source interact in the chamber to deposit a hydrolytic metal oxide film on the non-hydrolytic metal oxide film. | 48,866 |
8,817,677 | 1. A communication device for transmitting and receiving data to and from a communication terminal device by transmitting a signal during a transmission period for establishing transmission and reception of the data to the communication terminal device when the communication terminal device, which alternately switches between an active state and a sleep state, is switched to the active state, the active state being triggered by receipt of the signal and is a state in which communication is possible, and the sleep state being a state in which communication is not possible, the communication device comprising: a power saving control unit configured to control the transmission period used for transmitting the signal used for switching the communication terminal device from the sleep state to the active state in such a manner that the transmission period during which the signal is transmitted is increased as a power value difference increases, the power value difference being a value obtained by subtracting a total power consumption value of a power consumption appliance including the communication terminal device from an available power supply value for power available to the power consumption appliance; and a communication interface unit configured to transmit the signal containing information indicating the transmission period to the communication terminal device so as to set the communication terminal device in the active state with a period according to the transmission period determined by the power saving control unit. | 40,187 |
9,468,695 | 1. A portable UV device comprising: a housing having a portion configured to be removably attached to a portable smart device by a user; a UV light source disposed within the housing, wherein the UV light source is configured to provide output of sanitizing UV light and configured to sanitize a plurality of target surfaces other than a surface of the portable smart device in response to an operating powered provided thereto; a communication mechanism disposed within the housing, wherein the communication mechanism is configured to receive instructions from the smart device; and a control mechanism disposed within the housing, wherein the control mechanism is coupled to the UV light source, and to the communication mechanism, wherein the control mechanism is configured to provide the operating power to the UV light source, in response to the instructions received from the smart device; and wherein the portable UV device is configured to be physically moved independently from the portable smart device over the plurality of target surfaces by the user to provide the sanitizing UV light to the plurality of target surfaces other than the surface of the portable smart device. | 30,770 |
9,135,400 | 1. A method for displaying a volume of influence by an electrode inserted in neural tissue of a patient, the method comprising: calculating a predicted volume of influence, wherein the predicted volume of influence is a prediction of the amount of neural tissue that will be activated by the electrode: displaying a target volume of influence and the predicted volume of influence on a display screen; and configuring a mathematical model of (a) the electrode inserted inside the neural tissue and (b) a representation of an encapsulation tissue around the electrode. | 37,811 |
8,846,107 | 1. A peroxycarboxylic acid forming composition comprising: about 0.01 wt-% to about 95 wt-% of at least one monoester of a polyhydric alcohol and a C5 to C18 carboxylic acid with an HLB value greater than 3; about 0.001 wt-% to about 25 wt-% of a source of alkalinity; and about 0.001 wt-% to about 50 wt-% of an oxidizing agent wherein the oxidizing agent comprises hydrogen peroxide, or a hydrogen peroxide donor or a peroxide source selected from the group consisting of a percarbonate, a perborate, urea hydrogen peroxide, PVP-peroxides and mixtures thereof; wherein said composition forms peroxycarboxylic acid in an amount from about 0.25 wt-% to about 20 wt-%; and wherein said composition is not at equilibrium, has a pH greater than 12, and is substantially free of a surfactant. | 32,535 |
9,222,855 | 1. A method for restoring a volatile compound that is trapped in a trapping means ( 8 ), wherein the method includes the steps of: flowing a carrier gas through the trapping means, at a controlled rate, to a chamber ( 30 ) of adjustable volume located downstream of the trapping means by increasing the volume of the chamber; and heating the trapping means during the flowing of the carrier gas therethrough to restore the volatile compound; wherein the heating is provided by moving heating means ( 10 ) from a first position remote from the trapping means to a second position close to the trapping means, with the heating means including an inertial element ( 13 ) therein that includes a first cut out portion ( 14 ) that surrounds at least a portion of the trapping means in the second position, and a thermal insulating material except at the cut out portion; and directing heat to the trapping means by radiation and conduction from the inertia material of the heating means. | 1,393 |
8,839,241 | 1. A method for processing information, comprising: determining a first physical appliance to virtualize; creating a first virtual appliance based on the first physical appliance, wherein the first virtual appliance and the first physical appliance both provide a first service; and installing an image of the first virtual appliance on a first blade comprising a storage array, wherein the storage array is configured to use the image of the first virtual appliance to instantiate on demand a first running instance of the first virtual appliance on the first blade in response to a request to provide the first service with respect to the storage array, wherein the first running instance of the first virtual appliance comprises a dynamic set of one or more running instances of virtual appliances, and wherein each of at least some of blades comprising the storage array is installed with at least one virtual appliance image that may be instantiated on demand to provide a corresponding service. | 28,142 |
9,505,985 | 1. A method of converting particulate lignocellulosic material to produce levoglucosenone and char, comprising the steps of: forming a mixture of the particulate lignocellulosic material with a catalyst composition containing a polar organic liquid and an acid, heating the mixture to convert a major portion of a solid phase of the mixture to char and to vaporize a volatile fraction of the catalyst composition during the conversion of the solid phase to char, carrying out the heating in a screw reactor under a pressure less than 900 millibar and a temperature in the range of 190° C. to 500° C. while the mixture is subjected to shearing and compression by the screw reactor to produce levoglucosenone, injecting steam into the screw reactor during the shearing and compression, and separating the levoglucosenone and the volatile fraction of the catalyst composition as a gaseous phase from the solid phase during the shearing and compression, wherein the polar organic liquid is a room temperature ionic liquid having the general formula A or wherein the polar organic liquid is a dipolar aprotic liquid. | 907 |
8,728,241 | 1. An apparatus for combinatorial site-isolated thin film deposition, comprising: a source of a first liquid precursor; a source of at least one additional liquid precursor; a first nebulizer configured to convert a portion of the first liquid precursor to a first aerosolized mist of particles; at least one additional nebulizer configured to convert a portion of the at least one additional liquid precursor to at least one additional aerosolized mist of particles; a first deposition cell configured to direct a portion of the first aerosolized mist of particles onto a first selected region of a surface of a substrate by isolating the first selected region of the surface of the substrate; and at least one additional deposition cell configured to direct a portion of the at least one additional aerosolized mist of particles onto at least one additional selected region of the surface of the substrate by isolating the at least one additional selected region of the surface of the substrate. | 36,085 |
8,356,488 | 1. In a method of producing water by extracting water from moisture in atmosphere, a metal plate type water generation method wherein by cooling a metal plate, generating a water film having a predetermined thickness on a surface of said metal plate by dew condensation, flipping off said generation water film from said metal plate, and peeling off forcibly said generation water film from said metal plate, wherein both the generation water film flipping off process and the generation water film peeling off process are performed in a linear increase amount process of said generation water film on said metal plate and at before stage time of saturation of said generation water film on said metal plate, thereby said before stage time of saturation of said generation water film is flipped off from said metal plate and is peeled off from said metal plate. | 42,356 |
8,977,253 | 1. A method for sending auxiliary detection signaling, each base station in a base station group respectively determining itself as a first base station, comprising: notifying, by a first base station, through a backhaul network other base stations in the base station group of a location of a time-frequency resource for sending auxiliary detection signaling at a carrier frequency of the first base station; or notifying, by an upper-layer network element of base stations in the base station group, all base stations in the base station group of a location of a time-frequency resource for sending auxiliary detection signaling at a carrier frequency of a first base station; notifying, by the first base station, through a broadcast channel a terminal covered by the first base station of the location of the time-frequency resource; respectively sending, by any one of other base stations in the base station group, auxiliary detection signaling at the carrier frequency of the first base station to the terminal covered by the first base station according to the location of the time-frequency resource; receiving, by the terminal covered by the first base station, at the carrier frequency all or part of the auxiliary detection signaling from the other base stations according to the location of the time-frequency resource, and determining a target base station to be switched to according to the received auxiliary detection signaling. | 10,567 |
8,948,997 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine comprising: an initial target value determination means for determining a target value of a control amount of a first control object of an internal combustion engine as a first initial target value and determining a target value of a control amount of a second control object of the internal combustion engine as a second initial target value; an operation amount determination means for determining a first operation amount to be input to the first control object in accordance with a first control target value as a target value for controlling the control amount of the first control object and determining a second operation amount to be input to the second control object in accordance with a second control target value as a target value for controlling the control amount of the second control object; a first operation control means for controlling the operation of the first control object in accordance with the first operation amount determined by the operation amount determination means; a second operation control means for controlling the operation of the second control object in accordance with the second operation amount determined by the operation amount determination means; a correction target value output means for correcting the first initial target value and the second initial target value in accordance with a predetermined rule and outputting the respective corrected initial target values as a first correction target value and a second correction target value; and an estimation means for estimating the state of the internal combustion engine when the control amount of each of the control objects is controlled in accordance with the first operation amount and the second operation amount determined by the operation amount determination means by using the first initial target value and the second initial target value respectively as the first control target value and the second control target value, wherein: | 31,099 |
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