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9,435,216 | 1. A sealing arrangement between: (a) a rotor and (b) a stator or a housing, the sealing arrangement comprising: a support device; a holding plate; and a seal element comprising a wire with bristles wrapped around the wire and a clip holding the wire and bristles together located between the support device and the holding plate, the clip having an inner surface contacting the bristles and an outer surface contacting the support device; the support device extending radially, and, in the axial direction of the turbomachine, having an axial contour stiffening the support device; wherein the support device or the seal element is configured so as to be ring-shaped or segmented in the circumferential direction, wherein the support device is configured so as to have a wavy or zigzag shape in a developed view. | 13,723 |
9,625,964 | 1. A method of delivering power to an electronic device, comprising: receiving, by a power center, a broadcast transmitted by the electronic device, the broadcast including a unique identification of a power tip; verifying the unique identification and connection location of the electronic device; determining power requirements for the electronic device based on the unique identification and connection location; validating a power specification of the power tip meets the power requirements for the electronic device; and delivering power to the electronic device based on the determined power requirements. | 15,636 |
8,508,264 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first voltage rail; a second voltage rail; a PMOS transistor that is coupled to the first voltage rail at its source; an inverter string that is coupled to the drain of the PMOS transistor and that is configured to output a power on reset (POR) signal; a voltage divider that is coupled between the drain of the PMOS transistor and the second voltage rail; a switch network having: a controller that is coupled to control the first and second switches, wherein the first and second switches are complementary driven; wherein the voltage divider further comprises a plurality of impedance elements coupled in series with one another between the drain of the PMOS transistor and the second voltage rail, and wherein the first switch is coupled to a first node within the voltage divider, and wherein the second switch is coupled to a second node within the voltage divider; wherein the plurality of impedance elements further comprises a plurality of resistors; wherein the first switch further comprises a first NMOS transistor that is coupled to the first node of the voltage divider at its source and the gate of the first PMOS transistor at its drain, and wherein the second switch further comprises a second NMOS transistor that is coupled to the second node of the voltage divider at its source and the gate of the first PMOS transistor at its drain. | 12,340 |
9,670,208 | 1. A compound of Formula I: or a stereoisomer, tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: X X R R R R each R each R R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R | 26,146 |
8,753,426 | 1. A polymeric material comprising repeating units of the following Formulae I-III: wherein: Formula I can be connected to Formula II or III, but can not be connected to itself; Formula II can be connect to Formula I or III, but can not be connected to itself; and Formula III can be connected to Formula I or II or itself, wherein: Ar a) a tetravalent arylene group having 6 to 24 carbon atoms which is unsubstituted or substituted with at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of C b) a tetravalent C c) two or more of Ar Ar a) a C b) a C c) two or more of Ar Ar 1 and Ar 2 can be identical or different arylene or heteroarylene ring structures relative to each other; Ar Ar X and Y are identical or different from each other, and are selected from O, S, NH, and NR, wherein R is a substituted or un-substituted C | 4,426 |
8,429,899 | 1. A regeneration system comprising: a particulate matter (PM) filter loading module that determines a current soot loading level of a PM filter; a PM filter temperature module that determines a temperature of the PM filter; an exhaust flow rate module that determines an exhaust flow rate of the PM filter; and a control module that | 42,006 |
8,569,614 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a substrate of a first conductive type having at least one via hole, the at least one via hole having a textured surface having a plurality of uneven portions; an emitter layer of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type formed in the substrate; at least one first electrode formed on the emitter layer positioned on a first surface of the substrate; at least one current collector positioned on a second surface of the substrate, which is opposite the first surface and electrically connected to the at least one first electrode through the at least one via hole; and a second electrode positioned on the second surface of the substrate to be spaced apart from the at least one current collector and electrically connected to the substrate, wherein the substrate further comprises a plurality of uneven portions formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the substrate, a height of each of the plurality of uneven portions formed in the at least one via hole is greater than a height of each of the plurality of uneven portions formed on the at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the substrate, and each of the plurality of uneven portions has a pyramid shape and the height of each uneven portion formed at the at least one via hole is approximately 10 μm to 50 μm, and the height of each of the plurality of uneven portions formed on the at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the substrate is 5 μm to 10 μm. | 17,605 |
8,935,753 | 1. A network based healthcare management system utilized for functional interaction by a plurality of principals, the system comprising: a plurality of client devices; a host server; a network coupling said host server with said plurality of client devices; a plurality of user profiles stored on said host server, said plurality of user profiles each defining privilege parameters based on a combination of user role and identity; a plurality of service operation modules stored on said host server each selectively set with a corresponding relationships requirement between interacting principals; a plurality of different client applications, at least one stored on each client device, each client application being compatible for coupling with at least one service operation, wherein access to each of said service operations is selectively restricted responsive to an access determination based on a combination of client application identity and said privilege parameters, the access determination being made in adaptive manner based on a session context monitored by said host server and compliance with the relationship requirement corresponding to the service operation; wherein said service operations control access by generating an access denied exception if the client application is unregistered with the service operation, said privilege parameters for each user profile are stored in an access control list (ACL). | 24,276 |
9,540,982 | 1. An exhaust train for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an integrated thermoelectric generator comprising at least one thermoelectric module comprising only one duct, through which exhaust gas flows and in which the at least one thermoelectric module is arranged so that a hot side of the at least one thermoelectric module is in direct contact with the exhaust gas, while a cold side of the at least one thermoelectric module is cooled by a heat transfer medium, wherein the at least one thermoelectric module is incorporated gastightly into the duct on the cold side of the at least one thermoelectric module, wherein the duct comprises a rectangular or a trapezoidal cross section with flat side walls, wherein the integrated thermoelectric generator is integrated into one or more of the flat side walls, wherein the at least one thermoelectric module is provided with a protective layer against excessive temperatures thereon, and wherein the protective layer comprises one or more metal alloys that form double, triple, quadruple or quintuple eutectics and having a melting point in a range of from 200° C. to 1800° C. | 9,220 |
8,382,075 | 1. An air stripper comprising: a vessel having an interior for receiving a contaminated liquid; a tube disposed within the vessel, the tube forming a fluid path for transporting a gas into the interior of the vessel; a weir disposed within the vessel adjacent the tube; a gas exit port forming a fluid path out of the vessel for transporting the gas from the interior of the vessel; a contaminated liquid inlet, the contaminated liquid inlet forming a liquid path for supplying contaminated liquid to the interior of the vessel; a process fluid outlet port, the process fluid outlet port forming a liquid path for withdrawing process fluid from the interior of the vessel; and a level sensor and control that measures a level of process fluid within the vessel and controls the rate of contaminated liquid supplied into the vessel through the contaminated liquid inlet and the amount of process fluid withdrawn out of the vessel through the process fluid outlet port in order to maintain process fluid within the vessel at a predetermined operating level; wherein the weir includes a first weir end and a second weir end and is disposed within the vessel to define a first process fluid circulation gap between the first weir end and a first wall of the vessel and to define a second process fluid circulation gap between the second weir end and a second wall of the vessel which enables process fluid in a continuous liquid phase within the vessel to flow through the first and second circulation gaps when gas is introduced into the vessel from the tube, the first and second weir ends being disposed below the predetermined operating level of the process fluid within the vessel, and wherein the contaminated liquid includes volatile compounds. | 47,583 |
8,565,772 | 1. A handover method between heterogeneous networks, in which a call manager of a network including a Circuit Switching (CS) network supporting a CS call, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network supporting a packet call, and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network for anchoring a call, provides handover, from the LTE network to the CS network, to a first terminal that uses one radio channel and can access the CS network and the LTE network, the method comprising: upon receiving a request for handover to a base station of the CS network from the first terminal via a node of the LTE network, establishing a line to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) of the CS network; switching a session between the first terminal and a second terminal in communication with the first terminal to a session between the call manager and the second terminal; establishing an Internet Protocol (IP) bearer between the call manager and the second terminal; sending a handover command to the first terminal to establish a radio channel to the base station of the CS network; and upon completing the handover of the first terminal, converting data transmitted through the IP bearer into data of the CS network for providing to the first terminal, and converting data transmitted through the radio channel into data of the LTE network for providing to the second terminal. | 21,250 |
8,693,886 | 1. An optical transmission system, comprising: an optical transmitter including a polar coordinate based optical phase modulator that modulates a phase of an optical signal into a phase rotation direction; and an optical receiver including a coupled two-dimensional optical delay detection receiver, at least two AD converters, a differential phase calculation circuit, and a digital adaptive equalizer that linearly equalizes a differential phase component obtained from the differential phase calculation circuit in a phase area, wherein binary or more level of optical phase multilevel modulation signal, which is transmitted from the optical transmitter, is received by the optical receiver, and two output signals of the coupled two-dimensional optical delay detection receiver are converted into respective high-speed digital signals by the AD converters and input to the differential phase calculation circuit, and the differential phase component calculated by the differential phase calculation circuit is adaptively equalized by the digital adaptive equalizer, and thereafter decision processing of the multilevel signal is conducted. | 15,037 |
9,327,614 | 1. A system of controlling a motor for reducing vibration of an electric vehicle, comprising: a driving motor configured to operate as a power source; an accelerator pedal position sensor configured to detect a position value of an accelerator pedal; and a controller configured to calculate a virtual position value of the accelerator pedal limited to an increasing slope or a descending slope based on the position value of the accelerator pedal, and output a final torque of the driving motor by applying a vibration reduction torque gain based on the virtual position value of the accelerator pedal, wherein the controller is configured to calculate the virtual position value of the accelerator pedal using a high pass filter or a low pass filter. | 40,197 |
9,282,519 | 1. A communication apparatus in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: at least one voltage regulator configured to provide a power source; at least one unit configured to process a Radio Frequency (RF) signal using the power source; a controller configured to selectively enable the at least one voltage regulator during an active mode of the communication apparatus; and at least one capacitor configured to maintain an output voltage of the at least one voltage regulator to be greater than a predefined value while the at least one voltage regulator is disable, wherein the controller is configured to: | 37,618 |
8,710,697 | 1. A system comprising: a first power switch disposed to energize a first load in response to a first control; a second power switch disposed to energize a second load in response to a second control; and a cycle control responsive to one of the first and second controls to cycle alternately between operation of one or more of the first and second switches to designate which of the first and second load acts as a primary load; where the first and second power switches are included in one or more power packs that are adapted to connect the first and second power switches to a building wiring system to control the flow of power from one or more sources outside of the power pack to the first and second loads. | 31,768 |
9,654,877 | 1. An audio content playback method for a portable terminal, the audio content playback method comprising: checking by a controller whether a channel is supportable by audio content that is currently engaged in a group of devices engaged in simultaneous playback of the audio content; selectively allocating by the controller a channel to each of devices included in the group based on position information received wirelessly from each device included in the group or based on an input state in a user interface environment that is preset for channel allocation for each device included in the group, wherein the user interface environment that is preset for channel allocation for each device included In the group comprises: a plurality of menu selection items provided in advance to receive selection of a channel allocation scheme corresponding to the supportable channel of the audio content; and sub-menu selection items for selecting a channel for each device included in the group based on the supportable channel of the audio content; and transmitting via short-range communication by an auxiliary communication unit allocated channel information to each device included in the group to allow each device to select its allocated channel and play the audio content; and wherein the sub-menu selection items comprise touch key input items provided in advance for each channel. | 20,253 |
9,693,731 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a body case which has an accommodating section at least partially in a curved shape; a frame which has a first frame section and a second frame section having a width that is narrower than a width of the first frame section, the frame being accommodated in the accommodating section; and a circuit board which is accommodated in the accommodating section so as to be laminated on the frame, wherein a part of the circuit board is superposed on the first frame section, and the circuit board is not superposed on the second frame section. | 23,000 |
9,345,033 | 1. A method of operating a wireless communication device, the method comprising: determining user interface activity initiated by a user application; determining a timer setting based on the user interface activity initiated by the user application; wirelessly transferring the timer setting to a wireless communication network; and exchanging wireless communications initiated by the user application with the wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network uses the timer setting to set a dormancy timer based on the user interface activity initiated by the user application, wherein the dormancy timer controls release of a wireless access link between the wireless communication network and the wireless communication device; wherein determining the timer setting based on the user interface activity comprises selecting the timer setting to reduce the dormancy timer in response to a level of user interface activity below a threshold. | 12,546 |
8,436,031 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a transcription factor modulating compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein said compound is of the following formula | 5,325 |
9,370,750 | 1. A method of making an ion conducting membrane, the method comprising: a) reacting a compound having formula 1 with a polymer having polymer segment 2: to form a copolymer having polymer segment 2 and polymer segment 3: and b) forming the copolymer having polymer segment 2 and polymer segment 3 into an ion conducting membrane, wherein: Z is a C Y is a divalent linking group; E Q P R | 23,543 |
8,504,580 | 1. A computer system implemented method of creating and using multiple artificial intelligence (AI) clones of respective multiple entities comprising the following operations of a computer system: for each of the multiple AI clones, receiving respective text into the computer system from one or more sources; for each of the multiple AI clones, obtaining respective paragraphs from the text received for the AI clones; at least some of the paragraphs comprising multiple sentences, and at least some of the sentences comprising multiple clauses identified based upon figures of speech and punctuation; obtaining a first set of respective context phrases from the received paragraphs, which context phrases are obtained from the respective clauses and are indicative of the context of the respective paragraphs; obtaining respective weights of the context phrases using parameters related to frequency of occurrence of a context phrase relative to other context phrases or to absolute number of occurrences of a context phrase therein; storing the context phrases and the paragraphs as structured data in one or more tables to thereby create initial respective multiple AI clones; for multiple initial AI clones, improving the AI clones by adding paragraphs and a second set of context phrases from text subsequently supplied to the computer system by the source of the text that was used to create the initial AI clones and from one or more other sources, including one or more instructors, and by selectively deleting data from the one or more tables, to thereby create respective improved AI clones; and using the improved AI clones and any remaining initial AI clones that have not been improved, to answer questions posed by users through a process comprising using a compatibility test matching context phrases related to the respective questions to context phrases related to AI clones through a compatibility algorithm relating weights of context phrases related to a question and weights of context phrases related to AI clones, and to direct advertisements to AI clones, wherein a single advertisement is directed essentially concurrently to multiple AI clones, using for the purpose a matching algorithm that uses selected matching criteria in comparing context phrases obtained from the questions or advertisements with said structured data in said one or more tables, which matching algorithm relates context phrases related to advertisements to context phrases related to AI clones and takes into account respective weights of the context phrases that the matching algorithm relates; wherein the AI clones are configured to replace human sources of information in answering a user's question and assist advertisers in selecting plural AI clones that are likely to be receptive to a single advertisement to thereby direct the advertisement only to some of the AI clones, based on the content of the question and the advertisement. | 35,049 |
9,378,939 | 1. A high pressure gas discharge lamp comprising: a ceramic discharge vessel comprising a container wall enclosing a discharge space having a filling; a first electrode and a second electrode, mutually oppositely arranged in the discharge space and defining a longitudinal axis of the discharge vessel; a first feedthrough and a second feedthrough, both extending in a gas-tightly sealed manner through the container wall; wherein the first and second electrodes are mounted on the first and second feedthroughs, respectively; and a UV-enhancer comprising a wall portion and a chamber, said chamber being enclosed by the wall portion of the UV-enhancer and an end part of the container wall of the discharge vessel, wherein the wall portion of the UV enhancer overlaps the end part of the container wall such that an inner surface of the wall portion of the UV enhancer fits over an outer surface of the end of the container wall. | 23,016 |
8,560,007 | 1. A user equipment comprising: an antenna configured to transmit to or receive from at least one external device; a contactless front-end (CLF) unit configured to provide near field communication (NFC); a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) configured to access a communication network and to use a service from the communication network; and a controller configured to determine whether or not the UICC supports NFC, based on the information stored in the UICC and to selectively couple one of the CLF unit and the UICC to the antenna, based on a result of the determining. | 20,604 |
9,608,262 | 1. A method of improving cycle retention in cyclic charge/discharge operation of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, comprising repeated charging and discharging of a lithium ion secondary cell comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, and a separator, wherein said negative electrode comprises a negative electrode active material which comprises: a silicon composite obtained by a thermal chemical vapor deposition treatment on silicon particles having an average particle size of from 50 nm to 50 μm at a temperature of 900° C. to 1,400° C. in a fluidizing gas atmosphere comprising a hydrocarbon or mono- to tri-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, to obtain a carbon/silicon carbide coated silicon powder, and heat-treating said carbon/silicon carbide coated silicon powder in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of 600° C. to 1,400° C. to oxidatively decompose a surface layer of free carbon, wherein the silicon composite comprises silicon particles having an average particle size of from 50 nm to 50 μm whose surfaces are coated with a fused layer of silicon carbide and comprise free carbon in an amount of from 1.3 wt. % to 2 wt. % based on the total weight of said silicon composite, wherein said silicon carbide is present in an amount of from 10 wt. % to 58.3 wt. % based on the total weight of said silicon composite, wherein said silicon composite is in the form of a powder having an average particle size of from 0.08 μm to 52 μm, and wherein said silicon composite further comprises zero-valent silicon in an amount of from 39.9 wt. % to 90 wt. % based on the total weight of said silicon composite, wherein said zero-valent silicon is capable of generating hydrogen gas when reacted with an alkali hydroxide solution. | 45,077 |
8,972,412 | 1. A method, comprising: calculating, by at least one server computer communicatively coupled to a network, a link match score indicating whether a search engine ranking for a first website having a first Internet protocol (IP) address would improve if said first website were to be modified to include a hyperlink pointing to a second website having a second IP address, wherein said first IP address comprises a first class C IP address and said second IP address comprises a second class C IP address, wherein said link match score is a function of whether a first three octets of said first class C IP address matches a first three octets of said second class C IP address; determining, by one or more of said at least one server computer, whether said link match score exceeds a predetermined value; and responsive to a determination that said link match score exceeds said predetermined value, transmitting a recommendation to an operator of said first website to modify said first website to include a hyperlink to said second website. | 5,734 |
9,703,285 | 1. A method of determining scheduling priorities of jobs, each job comprising one or more programs, of different types to facilitate workload management of job execution in a clustered processing environment by enabling management of different types of computing resources separately in the clustered processing environment comprising different types of computing resources, the method comprising: allocating, by one or more processors of the clustered processing environment, shares of multiple managed resource types of a plurality of managed resource types to at least one user entity of a clustered processing environment, wherein the allocating comprises allocating one or more shares of each of the multiple managed resource types to the at least one user entity, wherein the multiple managed resource types are different types of computing resources of one or more computing machines in the clustered processing environment, and wherein resources of the clustered processing environment are shared to perform system tasks; and assigning, by a job scheduler executing on the one or more processors of the clustered processing environment and responsible for scheduling jobs using the multiple managed resource types, a job priority for a subsequent job submitted by a user entity of the at least one user entity, wherein the job priority is determined based on a type attribute of the subsequent job, the type attribute identifying a resource type of the only managed resources types of the different types of computing resources capable of completing the subsequent job and wherein the job priority of the subsequent job is also determined based on a number of the user entity's remaining shares of each individual managed resource type of at least two managed resource types allocated to the user entity, wherein a first managed resource type of the two managed resource types is the resource type identified by the type attribute, wherein the first managed resource type has a greater influence in determining the job priority of the subsequent job than other managed resource types excluding the first resource type comprising the at least two managed resource types; and executing, by at least one resource of the resources of the clustered processing environment identified by the type attribute, the subsequent job, at a given time, the given time determined by the one or more processors based on the assigned job priority. | 24,942 |
9,049,428 | 1. An image generation system comprising: a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image captured by an imaging section; a captured image storage section that stores image data about a plurality of live-view images captured by the imaging section; a depth information acquisition section that acquires depth information about a photographic object observed within the captured image, and depth information about a placement position determination photographic object for determining a placement position of a virtual object based on the plurality of live-view images; an object processing section that performs a process that: an image generation section that generates an image in which the virtual object is synthesized with the captured image, wherein | 39,187 |
9,719,153 | 1. A method for shortening operation shutdown time of high pressure acid leach equipment in a hydrometallurgical process, wherein the high pressure acid leach equipment comprises (i) a first piping, wherein the first piping is used to transfer an ore slurry into the high pressure acid leach equipment; (ii) a multistage heater, wherein the multistage heater is used stepwise to increase temperature and pressure of the ore slurry before leaching or a leached slurry; (iii) an autoclave, wherein the autoclave is used to add sulfuric acid to the ore slurry with temperature and pressure increased by the multistage heater (ii) and to leach the ore slurry to obtain a leached slurry at high temperature under high pressure; (iv) a multistage flash tank to adjust the pressure of the leached slurry; (v) a second piping, wherein the second piping is used to discharge the leached slurry from the high pressure acid leach equipment; and (vi) a piping for self-circulation, wherein the piping for self-circulation is used to discharge the leached slurry from the multistage flash tank (iv) to transfer the leached slurry to the multistage heater (ii); wherein, in case of operation shutdown of the high pressure acid leach equipment, the leached slurry is subjected to self-circulation inside the high pressure acid leach equipment by transferring the leached slurry from the autoclave (iii) through the multistage flash tank (iv) and the piping for self-circulation (vi) to the multistage heater (ii), so that the high temperature and high pressure atmosphere of the autoclave (iii) is held. | 34,279 |
9,607,725 | 1. A method for producing a graphene structure, the method comprising: preparing a substrate; conducting a hydrophilization treatment on a predetermined portion of the substrate by plasma treatment with oxygen (O conducting a base coating treatment comprising an adhesion agent on a surface of the substrate, wherein the adhesion agent is selectively disposed in a pattern at a predetermined portion of the substrate between the surface of the substrate and a hydrophobization treatment; conducting the hydrophobization treatment by forming a resist or a halide having the pattern at the predetermined portion of the substrate; disposing graphene on the surface of the substrate exposed from the pattern of the resist or halide; removing the resist or the halide from the hydrophilized substrate; reducing the graphene disposed on the surface of the substrate; and forming an electrode connected to the graphene disposed on the surface of the substrate. | 32,679 |
8,796,558 | 1. A base of a surface-mount electronic component package to hold an electronic component element and to be mounted on a circuit board with a conductive bonding material, the base comprising: a principal surface; at least one external connection terminal to be electrically connected to the circuit board, the at least one external connection terminal being formed in the principal surface; a bump formed on the at least one external connection terminal, the bump being smaller than the at least one external connection terminal; and a distance d between an outer periphery end edge of the at least one external connection terminal and an outer periphery end edge of the bump along an attenuating direction of stress on the at least one external connection terminal, the stress being generated in association of mounting of the base on the circuit board, the stress attenuating along the attenuating direction of stress, wherein the distance d is more than 0.00 mm and equal to or less than 0.45 mm. | 16,874 |
8,886,157 | 1. A mobile device comprising: a display device; a user interface to receive an emergency mode request from a user; a processor configured to execute instructions to implement an emergency mode process based upon the receipt of the emergency mode request from the user, the emergency mode process to: a memory configured to store the instructions. | 30,373 |
9,324,999 | 1. A cathode for lithium secondary batteries comprising a combination of one or more compounds selected from Formula 1 and one or more compounds selected from Formula 2: wherein 0<a<0.3, 0<x<0.8; 0<y<0.6; 0<s<0.05, 0<t<0.05 and 0<b<0.3 and 0<c<0.2, M is a metal or a non-metal element having a 6-coordinated structure. | 35,582 |
9,242,007 | 1. A method of delivering a functional nucleic acid and a chemotherapy drug, comprising contacting: (a) a first intact, bacterially derived minicell that contains (i) a functional nucleic acid molecule or (ii) a plasmid comprising a segment that encodes a functional nucleic acid molecule, and (b) a second intact, bacterially derived minicell that contains a chemotherapy drug with a target tumor cell, wherein the functional nucleic acid molecule targets a transcript encoding a protein in the tumor cell that contributes to drug resistance to the chemotherapy drug in the tumor cell. | 5,947 |
9,793,555 | 1. A fuel cell comprising: a membrane electrode assembly; a first separator; and a second separator, wherein the membrane electrode assembly comprises: wherein the first gas diffusion layer is comprised of a porous member mainly comprised of conductive particles and a polymer resin, and is provided with a first main surface and a second main surface positioned on a side opposite to the first main surface, the second main surface being in contact with an adjacent one of the pair of catalyst layers, the first gas diffusion layer including a plurality of longitudinal gas flow passages being formed on a first main surface side of the first gas diffusion layer so as to extend along a length direction of the first gas diffusion layer and so as to be adjacent to one another, and so that a rib portion that separates the mutually adjacent plurality of longitudinal gas flow passages from each other has a porosity that is lower than a porosity of a lower area positioned on a second main surface side below the rib portion, and wherein the first separator is placed on the first main surface side of the first gas diffusion layer, wherein the first separator includes a first main surface and a second main surface positioned on a side opposite to the first main surface, wherein the first main surface of the first separator is in contact with the first main surface of the first gas diffusion layer, wherein the first main surface of the first separator includes no gas fluid passage which overlaps with one of the plurality of the longitudinal gas flow passages when seen from a thickness direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein the second separator includes a first main surface and a second main surface positioned on a side opposite to the first main surface, wherein the first main surface of the second separator is in contact with the first main surface of the second gas diffusion layer, wherein the first main surface of the second separator includes a gas fluid passage, and wherein the first main surface of the second gas diffusion layers has no gas fluid passage. | 44,221 |
9,392,702 | 1. A method of manufacturing a surface mount device to be mounted on a base member, the surface mount device including plural lead units each including a lead composed of a body portion and a foot formed at an end of the lead and a diffusion prevention portion for preventing a diffusion of a solder provided on the lead, comprising: introducing solder into plural concave portions provided in a front side of a pallet and aligned to correspond to the leads of the plural lead units; contacting or inserting each of the leads into the solder introduced in the respective concave portion while the solder is melted by heating to form a solder portion at the foot of the lead to protrude and have a summit portion extending away from the foot; removing the leads with the solder from the concave portion so that the summit portion of the solder portion is facing the base member to mount the surface mount device to the base member; and wherein a through hole that is open to a back side of the pallet, opposite the front side, is provided in the bottom of each of the concave portions. | 28,653 |
9,303,323 | 1. A method for treating seawater, comprising: feeding water into an anode compartment to generate hydrogen ions, wherein the water fed into the anode compartment has a conductivity less than 300 μS/cm; feeding water into a cathode compartment; electrically generating dihydrogen gas in the cathode compartment from water; feeding seawater comprising bicarbonate and carbonate ions into a central compartment, wherein the central compartment contains either no material or only inert media, and wherein the central compartment is between the anode and cathode compartments and separated from the anode and cathode compartments by cation exchange membranes; and subjecting the seawater to an ion exchange substitution reaction in the central compartment to exchange the hydrogen ions produced from water in the anode compartment for sodium ions in the seawater, wherein the sodium ions transfer from the central compartment to the cathode compartment; lowering a pH of the seawater in the central compartment to less than about 6.5 using an electrically driven membrane process wherein seawater pH is inversely proportional to an applied current and independent of any media in the central compartment; and converting bicarbonate and carbonate to carbonic acid in the central compartment, wherein the dihydrogen gas generated in the cathode compartment and carbon dioxide formed in the central compartment are simultaneously extracted in a controllable molar ratio, wherein the molar ratio of dihydrogen gas to carbon dioxide is controlled in part by varying the applied current density. | 17,782 |
9,507,420 | 1. A method for providing a haptic feedback to assist in capturing images, comprising: obtaining, via an image capture device, an ambient light measurement of an environment in which the image capture device is present; detecting, via the image capture device, one or more objects within one or more image frames captured by the image capture device; and changing, via the image capture device, a manner in which the haptic feedback is provided to a user of the image capture device, based at least in part on the obtained ambient light measurement and the detected one or more objects, wherein the haptic feedback is either enabled or disabled, depending on the ambient light measurement, wherein if the haptic feedback is enabled, the image capture device conveys at least one item of information to assist the user in recording an image by using the haptic feedback, and wherein if the haptic feedback is disabled, the image capture device conveys the at least one item of information to assist the user in recording an image without using the haptic feedback. | 13,234 |
8,655,680 | 1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having embodied thereon computer-useable instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for reducing disruptions to a clinician during medication administration, the method comprising: automatically and without human intervention receiving an input from a medication dispensing station indicating that the clinician has initiated a medication-administration process for a patient in a clinical care room, wherein the input is received upon the clinician retrieving medication(s) associated with the patient from the medication dispensing station; and incident to receiving the input: | 5,916 |
9,453,656 | 1. A method of modulating a speed of a fan motor of a cooling unit to maintain a supply air temperature value at a predetermined setpoint, said method comprising: providing a supply air temperature sensor, said supply air temperature sensor operable to measure said supply air temperature value; providing a variable frequency drive having a timer for counting a period of time in signal communication with said fan motor and said supply air temperature sensor, said variable frequency drive operable to collect said supply air temperature value from said supply air temperature sensor; modulating, by said variable frequency drive, said speed of said fan motor to maintain said supply air temperature value at a predetermined setpoint of 95° F. using direct proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control when said period of time exceeds 10 minutes and said supply air temperature value is greater than 90° F.; resetting, by said timer, said period of time to 0 when said supply air temperature value is less than 78° F. and said period of time exceeds 10 minutes; modulating, by said variable frequency drive, said speed of said fan motor to maintain said supply air temperature value at a predetermined setpoint of 55° F. using reverse PID control when said supply air temperature value is lower than approximately 58° F. or is greater than approximately 68° F. or said period of time has not yet exceeded 10 minutes; modulating, by said variable frequency drive, said speed of said fan motor at 80% of a maximum fan motor speed when said supply air temperature value is greater than 58° F. but less than 68° F., and said period of time at which said fan motor has been operating at a minimum speed equal to or greater than 10 minutes; modulating, by said variable frequency drive, said speed of said fan motor to maintain said supply air temperature value at said predetermined setpoint of 55° F. using reverse PID control when said speed of said fan motor is at 80% of said maximum fan motor speed and said supply air temperature value is less than 56° F.; modulating, by said variable frequency drive, said speed of said fan motor to maintain said supply air temperature value at said predetermined setpoint of 95° F. using direct PID control when said supply air temperature value exceeds 78° F. | 33,559 |
9,534,526 | 1. A system for cooling exhaust components of a marine engine, the system comprising: an exhaust manifold that conveys exhaust gas from the marine engine; an exhaust conduit having a first end that receives the exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold and an opposite, second end that discharges the exhaust gas; a cooling water jacket on the exhaust conduit, wherein the cooling water jacket conveys cooling water along an outer surface of the exhaust conduit to thereby cool the exhaust conduit and warm the cooling water, wherein the cooling water jacket has first and second channels that are separate from each other; and a pump that pumps cooling water into the first and second channels and along the outer surface in parallel from the second end of the exhaust conduit to the first end of the exhaust conduit. | 46,954 |
8,872,662 | 1. A flat identification antenna for receiving signals from a tag attached to an item placed on the antenna, the antenna comprising an antenna core, the antenna core comprising: a first planar array comprising a plurality of first discrete planar loops made of conductive material, said plurality of first loops are arranged so as to partially overlap each other in a first direction; a second planar array parallel to said first planar array, the second array comprising a plurality of second discrete planar loops made of conductive material, said plurality of second loops are arranged so as to partially overlap each other in a second direction different from the first direction; and an insulating board positioned between said first and second arrays. | 46,337 |
9,446,157 | 1. A compound of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein n is 1 or greater; and R comprises a divalent linking group bonded to a chelating agent, wherein the is optionally a PET-active or therapeutic radioisotope. | 14,145 |
8,814,052 | 1. A smart card usable in magnetic stripe swipe transactions with a transaction terminal configured to read transaction information encoded on a magnetic stripe of a standard transaction card, the smart card comprising a card body, which comprises: a magnetic stripe emulator for use with the transaction terminal; a smart card chip programmed with at least one transaction application for providing secured data for use in a transaction and dynamic card verification data; a card controller separate from the smart card chip in communication with the magnetic stripe emulator, wherein the card controller is configured to receive through an interface to a source external to the smart card the dynamic card verification data provided by the smart card chip and control the magnetic stripe emulator to emit a magnetic field encoded with at least a portion of the secured data and the dynamic card verification data; and a power supply. | 16,896 |
8,463,193 | 1. A calibration apparatus for calibrating a communications terminal, the apparatus comprising: a data store arranged to store amplifier unspecific power control data; a processing resource arranged, when in use, to receive a first indication of a first desired output power level and a second indication of a second desired output power level, and to retrieve from the data store a first amplifier unspecific value associated with the first desired output power level and a second amplifier unspecific value associated with the second desired output power level; and an amplifier operably coupled to the processing resource and arranged to generate, when in use, a first output signal and a second output signal corresponding to the first and second retrieved values, respectively; wherein the processing resource is arranged to receive, when in use, a first measured value associated with the first output signal and a second measured value associated the second output signal, and the processing resource is arranged to support an interpolator capable of performing an interpolation using the first and second measured values. | 38,932 |
9,446,110 | 1. A composition comprising: a) an isolated antigen selected from the group consisting of gcpE (SEQ ID NO:7), pstA (SEQ ID NO:8), kdpC (SEQ ID NO:9), papA2 (SEQ ID NO:10), impA (SEQ ID NO:11), umaA1 (SEQ ID NO:12), fabG2_2 (SEQ ID NO:13), aceAB (SEQ ID NO:14), mbtH2 (SEQ ID NO:15), IpqP (SEQ ID NO:16), map0834c (SEQ ID NO:17), cspB (SEQ ID NO:18), lipN (SEQ ID NO:19), or map1634 (SEQ ID NO:20) genes of b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. | 15,680 |
9,111,847 | 1. A method for manufacturing a chip package, the method comprising forming a layer over a carrier; forming further carrier material over the layer; selectively removing one or more portions of the further carrier material thereby releasing one or more portions of the layer from the further carrier material; and adhering a chip comprising one or more contact pads to the carrier via the layer; wherein forming a layer over a carrier and forming further carrier material over the layer comprises adhering a foil comprising the layer and further carrier material to the carrier. | 28,130 |
8,722,977 | 1. A plant of soybean variety A1036320, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120787. | 1,442 |
9,419,779 | 1. A system, comprising: a full-duplex driver including a closed-loop transconductor; an extraction element connected with the full-duplex driver, the extraction element configured to determine a transmitter voltage of the full-duplex driver; a hybrid element connected as a feedback impedance of the full-duplex driver, the hybrid element including a hybrid voltage tapped from the feedback impedance; a correlation element, the correlation element configured to determine a polarity of a hybrid leakage voltage based on the hybrid voltage and the transmitter voltage; and an integrator, the integrator configured to determine a value of the hybrid leakage voltage, the value of the hybrid leakage voltage and the polarity of the hybrid leakage voltage being used to tune a transconductance of the full-duplex driver to drive the hybrid leakage voltage towards zero. | 38,508 |
8,385,092 | 1. A power converter system comprising: a switching circuit comprising a full-bridge circuit having a plurality of switches operable to be turned on and off to cause current to flow to deliver power to a load; a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit operable to generate PWM control signals for turning on and off the switches in the switching circuit; a dead time generation circuit coupled to the control circuit, the dead time generation circuit operable to introduce a dead time into the PWM control signals for the switches in the switching circuit; a sensor circuit operable to sense the direction of current flow, wherein the direction of current flow is related to a likelihood of shoot-through in the switching circuit, the sensor circuit operable to output a current vector signal indicative of whether the direction of current flow is positive or negative; and a dead time enable/disable circuit coupled to the sensor circuit, the dead time enable/disable circuit operable to enable the introduction of dead time into the PWM control signals in response to the current vector signal being indicative of positive current flow, the dead time enable/disable circuit further operable to disable the introduction of dead time into the PWM control signals in response to the current vector signal from the sensor circuit being indicative of negative current flow, whereby dead time is introduced only when it is necessary to prevent shoot through in the switching circuit. | 2,894 |
9,789,867 | 1. A method for learning a kisspoint of an engine clutch in a hybrid vehicle, the method comprising: determining whether a kisspoint learning entrance condition is satisfied in order to determine whether kisspoint learning of the engine clutch is possible while driving a vehicle; and performing kisspoint detection for the kisspoint learning of the engine clutch while driving when it is determined that the kisspoint learning entrance condition is satisfied, wherein when determining whether the kisspoint learning entrance condition is satisfied, it is determined that the kisspoint learning entrance condition is satisfied when a kisspoint learning history of the engine clutch does not exist within a driving cycle of ignition-off after ignition-on of the vehicle, a driving load of the vehicle while driving is constantly maintained, and a battery SOC exists within a predetermined range. | 12,549 |
9,599,125 | 1. An system to provide air circulation via a fan where said fan has a female retaining member, said system comprising: a mounting plate comprising a male retaining member; a nut comprising a hexnut and neck; a screw rod disposed within a post with a slot; a motor for turning the screw rod relative to the post; where the post is positioned upright in an area growing plants; where said screw rod is provided through the hexnut of the nut so that the neck of the nut is disposed within the slot; where said hexnut moves along the screw rod and said neck correspondingly moves along said slot when the motor turns relative to the post; and, where said mounting plate is secured to the neck of the nut and said male retaining member is inserted into said female retaining member so that the mounting plate and fan move with the neck along said slot when the motor turns relative to the post. | 32,477 |
9,346,166 | 1. An article take-out apparatus, comprising: a robot having a hand capable of holding an article; a 3D measuring device measuring surface positions of a plurality of articles stored in bulk in a 3D space so as to acquire position information of a plurality of 3D points; a connected set processing unit determining connected sets made by connecting 3D points which are close to each other, from the plurality of 3D points acquired by the 3D measuring device; an article identifying unit identifying positions and postures of the articles, based on position information of 3D points belonging to the connected sets, wherein the article identifying unit determines positions and postures representing the connected sets, based on positions of 3D points belonging to the connected sets; a hand position and posture processing unit determining positions and postures of the hand capable of taking out the articles, the positions and postures of the articles being identified by the article identifying unit, wherein the hand position and posture processing unit determines the positions and postures of the hand corresponding to the positions and postures determined by the article identifying unit; and a robot control unit controlling the robot to move the hand to the positions and postures determined by the hand position and posture processing unit and take out the articles, wherein the article identifying unit is configured to identify the positions and postures of the articles, based on the position information of the 3D points belonging to the connected sets, and without using a model or pattern matching. | 14,341 |
8,532,246 | 1. A control rod for a pressurized water nuclear reactor comprising: an elongated tubular cladding having an axial dimension with a first end at one extent of the axial dimension and a second end at another extent of the axial dimension, the tubular cladding having an outside diameter sized to fit within a narrowest dimension of a hollow interior of a control rod guide thimble within a nuclear fuel assembly, the control rod guide thimble hollow interior having an upper end that receives the control rod and a lower end that has a reduced internal diameter portion that functions as a dashpot when the control rod is dropped within the guide thimble, the reduced diameter portion extending from a lower portion of the control rod guide thimble upward for not more than twenty percent of a height of the hollow interior of the guide thimble; a first end plug closing off the first end of the elongated tubular cladding and designed to be slidably received within the dashpot; a first neutron absorbing material occupying a lower portion of the elongated tubular cladding in the vicinity of the lower end plug and extending a distance axially through the elongated tubular cladding substantially equal to or slightly greater than a length of the elongated tubular cladding that would be received within the dashpot when the control rod was fully inserted into the control rod guide thimble; a second neutron absorbing material occupying a portion of a remainder of the hollow interior of the elongated tubular member above the first neutron absorbing material, the second neutron absorbing material having a substantially higher reactivity worth than the first neutron absorbing material; and a second end plug for closing off the second end of the elongated tubular cladding. | 4,450 |
9,764,969 | 1. A method of manufacturing a bimetallic catalyst for reductively decomposing nitrate nitrogen, comprising: (a) mixing a powder including a trivalent iron oxide, a powder including a trivalent iron oxyhydroxide powder or a combination thereof in an aqueous solution; (b) mixing a copper precursor and a palladium precursor in the aqueous solution to form a precursor mixture; (c) reacting the powder with a hydrochloric acid solution mixed in the aqueous solution in the step (a) or with a hydrochloric acid solution mixed with the copper precursor and the palladium precursor in the step (b) to transform the powder into an iron oxychloride form in the precursor mixture; (d) drying the precursor mixture; (e) firing the dried precursor mixture at a temperature from about 300° C. to about 450° C. to form a fired product; and (f) reducing the fired product by a reducing agent, thereby producing the bimetallic catalyst on a hematite support. | 13,674 |
9,026,838 | 1. A computer system that performs data communication with an I/O device via host bus adaptors (HBAs) connected to the I/O device, the computer system comprising: a first HBA that constitutes an operational path and on which a first PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card having a PCI PM function serving as a power saving function is mounted, and a second HBA that constitutes a standby path and on which a second PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card having the PCI PM function is mounted; a control section that is configured to control the first HBA and the second HBA, wherein the control section is configured to first performs control such that the first PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card of the first HBA is set to an active state and the second PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card of the second HBA is set to a power saving state; wherein, when a failure occurs in the operational path, the control section is configured to: perform a communication recovery process for the operational path applied to the first HBA, wherein the communication recovery process comprises: sending a task management request to the first HBA and receiving the response of the task management request from the first HBA, and further perform changing the second PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card from the power saving state to an active state; and when the communication recovery processing ends unsuccessfully, the control section is configured to perform control such that communication is made with the I/O device by using the second PCI/PCIe-bus expansion card of the second HBA, wherein the control section is configured to perform the changing before receiving the response of the task management request. | 16,714 |
9,510,880 | 1. A bone plate system, comprising: a bone plate including a first surface and a second surface, the bone plate including at least one threaded aperture, the threaded aperture being conically tapered between the first surface and the second surface at a constant first taper angle defined between a longitudinal axis of the threaded aperture and an internally threaded surface of the threaded aperture; and at least one fastener including an elongate shaft and a threaded head, the threaded head being conically tapered between a proximal end of the threaded head and a distal end of the threaded head at a second taper angle defined between a longitudinal axis of the threaded head and an externally threaded surface of the threaded head, wherein a plurality of circumferentially spaced recesses are formed in the threaded head and define a plurality of threaded tabs; wherein the first taper angle is greater than the second taper angle; and wherein the at least one fastener is configured for insertion within the at least one threaded aperture at a plurality of different insertion angles while achieving a locking engagement between the threaded head and the threaded aperture. | 11,227 |
9,284,626 | 1. A method for purifying an impure aqueous solution of lithium bicarbonate containing divalent metal cations the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a bed of an organic weak acid cation exchange resin that is substantially free of multivalent cations and has been neutralized with sodium ions, wherein the resin has a selectivity for cations in the sequence of Li b) passing the impure aqueous solution of lithium bicarbonate through the bed provided by step a) to remove the divalent metal cations from the impure aqueous solution; c) collecting a solution containing sodium ions from the bed at a beginning of step b); d) collecting a purified aqueous solution of lithium bicarbonate from the bed during step b) and following step c); e) passing the solution collected in step c) through the bed to displace lithium ions from the bed to produce a solution containing lithium ions following step d); f) collecting the solution containing lithium ions during step e); g) passing water through the bed following step e) to rinse the bed; h) passing an aqueous solution containing an acid through the bed following step g) to elute the divalent metal cations from the cation exchange resin; i) passing water through the bed following step h) to rinse the bed; j) passing an aqueous solution containing sodium hydroxide through the bed following step i) to neutralize the cation exchange resin thereby providing the bed recited in step a). | 13,231 |
9,255,227 | 1. A process for the synthesis of hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a synthesis gas in an oxygenate reactor: (b) converting the synthesis gas in an oxygenate synthesis step, in the presence of an oxygenate synthesis catalyst, to an oxygenate-containing feed comprising methanol and/or dimethyl ether, and further comprising a C3+ higher alcohol mixture in the amount of 5-15 wt % on a total oxygenate basis of the oxygenate-containing feed; wherein the oxygenate synthesis catalyst is selected from the group consisting of ZnO/Cr (c) converting the oxygenate-containing feed, in the presence of gasoline synthesis catalyst, to hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline; and (d) cooling the oxygenate-containing feed by indirect heat exchange with boiling water inside the gasoline reactor during the gasoline synthesis. | 43,934 |
8,745,368 | 1. A notebook computer, comprising: a display; a power switch; a proximity sensor disposed adjacent to the power switch for sensing an object approaching the power switch to output a sensing signal; a memory used for storing a basic input output system (BIOS); a control unit used for performing at least a part of the power on self test (POST) according to the sensing signal and the BIOS before the display shows an image, and controlling the display to display the image after the power switch is triggered. | 18,500 |
9,637,443 | 1. A method for forming graphene quantum dots comprising: adding an amino acid starting material to a vessel; and heating the amino acid starting material in the absence of a solvent for a time no longer than ten minutes to pyrolyze the amino acid starting material and form graphene quantum dots. | 36,265 |
8,425,939 | 1. A remedy wherein phagocytic activity of macrophages is enhanced and all or a part of the pathogens present in the macrophages are exterminated, the remedy comprising: particles, which are capable of being phagocytized by macrophages, with diameters of 1 to 6 μm made of PLGA (poly(lactic acid/glycolic acid) copolymer) with a molecular weight of 10,000 and a monomer ratio of lactic acid/glycolic acid of 50:50 to 75:25, the particles containing rifampicin, the particles containing a least one member selected from the group consisting of lipopolysaccharide and a medicament for treating a disease, and the particles containing PVA (polyvinyl alcohol). | 4,085 |
9,194,450 | 1. A pre-stressable elastomer component comprising: first and second plates being formed as one of cylindrical shells, conical shells, cylindrical half-shells, conical half-shells, cylindrical shell segments and conical shell segments, the first and the second plates being aligned and defining a central axis such that the elastomer component is in a form of at least one of a bush, a half-bush and a bush segment; at least one elastomer layer that is entirely formed between the first and the second plates and radially spaced from the central axis; at least one separating element is completely encased by the elastomer layer in an interior thereof; at least one pressure-resistant supply line with a valve, the supply line with the valve passes into the elastomer layer and communicates with the at least one separating element such that, on supplying a pressure media, via the supply line with the valve, chambers form in a region of the at least one separating element due to the surrounding elastomer layer being forced apart, when the chambers are filled with the pressure media and expanded, the surrounding elastomer layer is squashed, and the elastomer component is pre-stressed, and the chambers are entirely radially spaced from the central axis. | 6,043 |
9,297,566 | 1. A method of operating a refrigerator appliance comprising a variable speed compressor, the steps comprising: receiving a set point temperature T measuring the temperature T calculating an excess enthalpy H determining an instantaneous cooling capacity required C calculating a compressor speed that delivers at least the instantaneous cooling capacity required C operating the variable speed compressor at the determined compressor speed. | 472 |
9,112,248 | 1. An electrical combination comprising: a hand held power tool including a power tool housing, a motor supported by the power tool housing, and a plurality of power tool terminals electrically connected to the motor, the plurality of power tool terminals including a power tool sense terminal; a battery pack including a controller operable to monitor a state of charge of a number of battery cells less than the plurality of battery cells and to generate a signal based on the monitored state of charge of the number of battery cells less than the plurality of battery cells, the signal being operable to control the operation of the hand held power tool. | 1,342 |
9,139,454 | 1. A method of reducing contamination in water comprising: providing a turbulence inducing device, the turbulence inducing device including: | 26,543 |
8,530,207 | 1. A photosynthetic microorganism comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding an exogenous acyl-acyl carrier protein (acyl-ACP) thioesterase selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO:2, and variants thereof having at least 80% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or 2, wherein the acyl-ACP thioesterase, when queried against Pfam database hidden Markov models, demonstrates inclusion in Pfam PF01643 with a bit score higher than 20.3 and an E-value of less than or equal to 0.01, and wherein the photosynthetic microorganism produces at least one free fatty acid, and further wherein greater than 35% of the at least one free fatty acid or fatty acid derivative produced by the photosynthetic microorganism has a chain length of 16 carbons. | 4,589 |
8,668,420 | 1. Method of assembling parts made from composite materials by means of a riveting member of the type comprising firstly an insert and secondly a sleeve adapted to at least partially contain the insert and having an end provided with a head and a tubular end able to be deformed with a view to constituting a bulb on one side of the materials to be assembled, a hole passing through the materials to be assembled being produced, the sleeve being introduced and held in the hole with its head in abutment on the rims of the end of the hole and so that its tubular end projects therefrom on the other side, said method being characterised in that it consists of: | 30,819 |
8,739,762 | 1. An engine controlling apparatus, comprising: an idle speed setting unit that sets a target idle speed upon idling of an engine mounted on a vehicle; a target torque setting unit that sets a target torque in response to the target idle speed set by said idle speed setting unit; an ignition timing controlling unit that controls an ignition timing of the engine and an intake air amount controlling unit that controls an intake air amount of the engine so that the target torque set by said target torque setting unit is implemented; a steering angle detection unit that detects a steering angle of a steering wheel of the vehicle; and a torque value setting unit that sets a torque value larger as the steering angle detected by said steering angle detection unit increases; wherein said intake air amount controlling unit increases the intake air amount as sum of the target torque and the torque value increases, said ignition timing controlling unit retards the ignition timing so that the engine outputs the target torque set by said target torque setting unit, the control for increasing the intake air amount is carried out simultaneously with retarding of the ignition timing, and the torque value set by the torque value setting unit is reflected only to the intake air amount but not to the ignition timing. | 38,586 |
8,650,152 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing execution of a predefined data driven multi-step workflow, comprising: associating a rule with a step of the workflow, wherein the rule specifies one or more conditions; receiving input data for the step of the workflow, wherein the input data specifies a database query to be performed as the step of workflow; performing the step of the workflow by executing the database query to obtain a result set that includes a plurality of data elements from the database; prior to performing a next sequential step in the workflow, evaluating one or more of the plurality of data elements in the result set using the one or more conditions specified in the rule associated with the step of the workflow, wherein one of the conditions specified by the rule specifies data required in the result set in order to satisfy the condition; upon determining that one or more elements in the result set satisfy the one or more conditions, invoking a process associated with the rule, wherein the invoked process is configured to normalize each data element that satisfies the one or more conditions; and after invoking the associated process, performing a next sequential step in the multi-step workflow, wherein a next sequential step is passed the result set. | 21,539 |
9,627,965 | 1. A power converter comprising: a DC/DC converting circuit configured to provide a variable electric power, which comprises a first output terminal electrically connected to one terminal of an external load and a second output terminal; and a first energy storage element comprising: wherein the power converter provides a power supply for the external load according to the DC/DC converting circuit and the first energy storage element, and the variable electric power is less than the power required by the external load. | 15,071 |
8,945,960 | 1. An optical device processing method for processing an optical device wafer having a plurality of optical devices formed on a front side and a plurality of crossing division lines for partitioning the optical devices, each of the optical devices having electrodes formed on the front side, the optical device processing method comprising: a groove forming step of forming a groove on the front side of the optical device wafer along each division line, the groove having a depth reaching a finished thickness; a reflective film forming step of forming a nonconductive reflective film on the front side of the optical device wafer after performing the groove forming step, thereby forming the reflective film on at least side surfaces of the groove; an electrode exposing step of removing the reflective film formed on the electrodes on the front side of the optical device wafer after performing the reflective film forming step, thereby exposing the electrodes; and a grinding step of grinding a back side of the optical device wafer before or after performing the electrode exposing step, thereby reducing the thickness of the optical device wafer to the finished thickness until the groove is exposed to the back side of the optical device wafer to divide the optical device wafer into individual optical device chips. | 46,277 |
8,622,710 | 1. A wind turbine component comprising: a laminate of fibrous material and plastic; an electrical cable having a lateral surface, an upper side and a lower side and being embedded in said laminate; said laminate including a fibrous material cover layer and a plurality of lower fibrous material layers; said plurality of lower fibrous material layers including a topmost lower fibrous material layer disposed beneath said cover layer; said lower side of the electrical cable resting on the topmost lower fibrous material layer; said cover layer being arranged so as to cover said upper side of said electrical cable; and, a profile arranged on said lateral surface and configured to counteract a formation of a hollow space or a plastic nest between said lateral surface and said fibrous material cover layer during the manufacture of said laminate; and, said cover layer extending laterally beyond said profile and resting against said topmost lower fibrous material layer. | 5,782 |
9,533,164 | 1. A method of operating an implantable pulse generator for stimulating tissue of a patient, comprising: providing power to a voltage converter of the implantable pulse generator at a first voltage level; outputting a second voltage level by the voltage converter, the second voltage level being a variable voltage level that is controlled by a control signal provided to the voltage converter, the second voltage level being provided to pulse generating circuitry of the implantable pulse generator, the second voltage level being selectable from a plurality of voltages including non-integer multiples of the first voltage level; generating pulses by the pulse generating circuitry, the pulse generating circuitry including current control circuitry for controlling the pulses to cause the pulses to provide constant current to tissue of the patient; and applying at least two different control signals to the voltage converter during individual pulses to provide successively increasing voltages to the pulse generating circuitry during a respective pulse of constant current. | 5,297 |
9,661,786 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a bottom case comprising a bottom board and a plurality of side walls connected to and surrounding the bottom board; an accommodation unit disposed on the bottom case; an electromagnetic induction module, wherein at least one portion of the electromagnetic induction module is disposed in the accommodation unit; a heat-dissipating component which is disposed on the bottom case and separated from the accommodation unit, and the heat-dissipating component facing an inner surface of one of the side walls; an elastic clip comprising a main body; a fixing portion disposed on the main body and mounted on the heat-dissipating component; and a pressing portion disposed on the main body; a printed wiring board having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface faces the accommodation unit; and an electronic component comprising a main body and a plurality of pin feet, wherein the pin feet are electrically connected to the printed wiring board, and the main body of the electronic component is clamped between the heat-dissipating component and the pressing portion of the elastic clip, wherein a first minimum straight distance between the bottom board and a top surface of the one of the side walls located away from the bottom board is smaller than a second minimum straight distance between the bottom board and the fixing portion, and a third minimum straight distance between the elastic clip and the one of the side walls facing the heat-dissipating component is smaller than a fourth minimum straight distance between the heat-dissipating component and the one of the side walls facing the heat-dissipating component. | 12,585 |
8,623,629 | 1. An isolated polypeptide having xylanase activity and comprising an amino acid sequence, said amino acid sequence having at least 75% identity with the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, and which polypeptide has i) one or more amino acid modification in a position selected from: 113, 122, and 175; and ii) one or more further amino acid modification in a position selected from: 12, 13, 34, 54, 77, 81, 82, 104, 110, 113, 118, 122, 141, 154, 159, 162, 164, 166, 175, and 179, wherein said positions are determined as the position corresponding to the position of | 47,666 |
9,462,538 | 1. A wireless mesh network comprising: a plurality of mesh points coupled together in a wireless mesh network arrangement, with at least some of the mesh points configured to support a 20/40 MHz mode of operation and to switch from the 20/40 MHz mode of operation to a 20 MHz mode of operation, and with at least one of the mesh pints configured to | 20,639 |
9,303,569 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: valve timing varying unit that is capable of changing a valve timing of an intake valve, and intake valve control unit for setting a target value of an air amount index in which an air amount in a cylinder is reflected, and also calculating a target valve timing that is a target value of the valve timing of the intake valve based on the target value of the air amount index, and controlling the valve timing of the intake valve so that the valve timing matches the target valve timing by driving the valve timing varying unit; wherein the intake valve control unit comprises: maximum air amount VT calculation unit for, in a case where a predetermined operation condition that a plurality of local maximum points exist on a characteristic line representing a relation between the valve timing of the intake valve and the air amount index is established, calculating a valve timing corresponding to a maximum value of the air amount index as a maximum air amount VT, and air amount maximizing unit for, in a case where the operation condition is established and the maximum value of the air amount index is less than the target value, changing the valve timing of the intake valve towards the maximum air amount VT. | 40,022 |
8,350,846 | 1. A method of rendering an image using ray tracing, the method comprising: determining a rate of change between a first ray origin of a first ray cast in a first frame and a second ray origin of a second ray cast in a second frame, wherein the first frame is a new frame, wherein the second frame is an existing frame, wherein the first ray origin and the second ray origin correspond to a moving camera perspective; comparing the determined rate of change to a threshold rate of change to determine whether the determined rate of change is more than the threshold rate of change, wherein the threshold rate of change is a relatively high rate of change that corresponds to a motion blur that is naturally expected; and determining whether to build a new acceleration data structure based on the comparison of the determined rate of change and the threshold rate of change, including: | 13,616 |
8,842,671 | 1. A method for communication in a network operating in accordance with a standard that allocates a given number of bits m for layer-2 addressing of nodes in the network, the method comprising: accepting at a layer-2 switch in the network an assignment to one or more nodes in the network of respective layer-2 extended addresses, each comprising n=m+k bits, k>0; receiving at the switch a given data packet for forwarding, the given data packet comprising a layer-2 destination address and a layer-3 destination address in accordance with the standard, the layer-3 destination address comprising t bits, t≧k; and forwarding the given data packet from the switch to one of the nodes by reading from the given data packet and combining the layer-2 destination address and k bits from the layer-3 destination address so as to reconstruct the n bits of the extended layer-2 address of the one of the nodes. | 8,368 |
8,928,582 | 1. A method for facilitating an interaction between an electronic system and a user in accordance with a legacy software application, the electronic system comprising a computing system and an input device, the computing system comprises of the legacy software application, a display, a processor, and one or more sensors for detecting a present object, and the input device comprises of a plurality of user-manipulated input controls, the method comprising: executing the legacy application with the processor; executing a supplemental software program with the processor, to identify a plurality of interactive features for the legacy application; dynamically assigning functionality to the plurality of user-manipulated input controls based on the plurality of identified interactive features; displaying a visual depiction of the assigned functionality on the display of the computing system; receiving an input from the user via one or more of the user-manipulated input controls; processing the input at least partly by the supplemental software program; and providing a result of said processing to the legacy application wherein the functionality assigned to any given one of the plurality of user-manipulated input controls varies dynamically depending upon whether the one or more sensors detect an object proximate to the given one of the plurality of user-manipulated controls, wherein the plurality of identified interactive features includes at least one feature that does not correspond to an interactive feature provided by the legacy application, and wherein the supplemental software program is a plugin. | 14,921 |
9,394,109 | 1. A spiral conveyor comprising: a drive tower having a bottom and a top and having an outer periphery extending from the bottom to the top and rotating about a vertical axis; a plurality of parallel drive rails extending in length from the bottom to the top of the drive tower on the periphery; wherein each of the drive rails includes an entrance segment at the bottom in an upgoing spiral and at the top in a downgoing spiral and a fixed segment, each segment having a radially outwardly projecting ridge, wherein the entrance segment is movable relative to the fixed segment to provide a range of spacings between the ridges on consecutive entrance segments. | 3,063 |
9,411,724 | 1. A circuit comprising: an interface to receive a plurality of address lines; an upper processing path to receive a first sub-set of the plurality of address lines; a lower processing path to receive a remaining sub-set of the plurality of address lines in parallel with the upper processing path; an intermediate code based on the first sub-set of the plurality of address lines and an intermediate carry result from the remaining sub-set of the plurality of address lines; and a hot signal type to designate a decode scheme for a plurality of select lines generated based on the plurality of address lines; wherein the interface to receive the plurality of address lines comprises a circuit to receive “k×m” address lines, wherein “k” represents a number of addresses and “m” represents a bit width of the “k” addresses; and wherein the upper processing path to receive the first sub-set of the plurality of address lines comprises the upper processing path to receive “k×n” address lines at a code reduction unit, wherein “k” represents the number of addresses and further wherein “n” represents the bit width of the “k” addresses in which “n” is less than or equal to “m” of the “k×m” address lines received at the interface. | 3,773 |
9,561,961 | 1. An injectable soft tissue filler composition comprising (a) about 40% calcium phosphate particles, based on the weight of the filler composition, wherein the calcium phosphate particles have a porosity of about 10% to about 90%, a surface area of about 1 m (b) about 5% to about 15% poloxamer, based on the weight of the filler composition, wherein the poloxamer is a hydrogel that is in the form of a liquid at 25° C. and in the form of a gel having a viscosity of about 2000 cP or more at 35° C., (c) a persistence enhancer selected from the group consisting of dextran and agarose, and (d) aqueous carrier, wherein the soft tissue filler composition has a pH of about 6.5 to about 7.5, wherein the soft tissue filler composition can be injected through a 27 gauge or smaller opening needle, and wherein the soft tissue filler composition is pliable, moldable, flexible, and has a viscosity of about 100,000 cP to about 200,000 cP after injection into the soft tissue. | 37,456 |
8,734,823 | 1. An implantable device, comprising: at least one semi-permeable barrier of a polymer film or thermoplastic hollow fibers substantially enclosing at least one first auxotrophic microorganism and at least one second auxotrophic microorganism, the at least one first auxotrophic microorganism including at least one nucleic acid construct encoding at least one first vaccine therapeutic agent and located in a first compartment, the barrier defining an interior region and exterior region; and a peristaltic pump for dispensing the at least one first vaccine therapeutic agent; wherein the device includes at least one metabolite required by at least one auxotrophic microorganism; and the at least one second auxotrophic microorganism including at least one nucleic acid construct encoding at least one second vaccine and located in a second compartment; wherein the first and second compartments are configured to release the first vaccine prior to the second vaccine. | 30,681 |
9,661,457 | 1. A communicator device, comprising: one or more processors; memory; a communicator location resource that outputs data indicative of the real-time spatial location of the communicator device to a communication network for transmittal to a communicator location database, the communicator location resource repeatedly outputting real-time data indicative of the real-time spatial location of the communicator device to reflect an updated spatial location of the communicator device; a user input resource that outputs user input to the communication network for transmittal to a user input database containing a user profile identifying the communicator device; a receiver that receives an individualized output signal generated based on a comparison of the spatial location of the communicator device with real-time data; and an output device that outputs an individualized output signal to a user. | 37,542 |
8,936,732 | 1. A glass ceramic emitting white light, having a chemical formula of: aSiO wherein a, b, c, d, n and m represent molar parts, and the values of a, b, c, d, n and m are: a is 25˜50, b is 15˜30, c is 10˜30, d is 10˜25, n is 0.01˜1, m is 0.01˜1, and a+b+c+d=100. | 29,651 |
9,845,893 | 1. An exhaust gate, comprising: a housing having an inlet integrally formed with a first and a second outlet, where the inlet is in fluidic communication with the first and second outlet; a first valve seat formed inside the housing near the first outlet; a second valve seat formed inside the housing near the second outlet; wherein the inlet, first outlet, second outlet, first valve seat and second valve seat of the housing are formed as a single cast part; a valve flap pivotably attached inside the housing and configured to seal either the first or second valve seats closing the first or second outlets from fluidic communication with the inlet; wherein the valve flap has a minimum cross section diameter that is larger than a maximum diameter opening for each of the inlet, first valve seat and second valve seat; and at least one introduction slot formed partially into a flange connected to the inlet, where the introduction slot is configured to partially form an assembly gap for the valve flap to pass through the inlet during assembly of the exhaust gate, where the assembly gap is larger than the minimum cross section diameter of the valve flap. | 14,568 |
9,632,841 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a processing system, arranged to execute an application; and a management circuit, arranged to detect an operating behavior of the application during execution of the application, analyze the detected operating behavior of the application to generate an application identification result which indicates if the application is a specific application, and configure an application-dependent task according to at least the application identification result, wherein the application-dependent task comprises adjusting operating frequency and operating voltage of a processor of the processing system, and the application-dependent task is a dynamic thermal management (DTM) task; wherein the management circuit comprises: an application behavior database, arranged to store operating behaviors of a plurality of specific applications; a classification unit, arranged to detect the operating behavior of the application, and determine the application identification result by checking if the detected operating behavior of the application is classified as one of the operating behaviors of the specific applications; a control unit, arranged to determine a task setting at least based on application behavior information of the application and configure the application-dependent task by the task setting when the application identification result indicates that the application is classified as one of the specific application, wherein the task setting is a thermal strategy for the application. | 27,089 |
9,751,409 | 1. An electric vehicle comprising: a motor unit configured to drive a wheel, the motor unit including motor coils; a control system that controls the motor unit, the control system including an inverter; a temperature sensor that is associated with the motor coils of the motor unit and is configured to sense temperature Tmc of the motor coils or a temperature sensor that is associated with the inverter and is configured to sense temperature Tic of the inverter; and a limiter configured to, if the temperature Tmc sensed by the temperature sensor is equal to or greater than a motor coils temperature threshold, reduce a motor current of the motor unit, or to, if the temperature Tic sensed by the temperature sensor is equal to or greater than an inverter temperature threshold, reduce a current command value to the inverter, the limiter being further configured to, upon detecting the sign that the temperature Tmc or Tic has started to drop, stop reducing a motor current of the motor or reducing the current command value to the inverter. | 41,772 |
8,957,490 | 1. A device comprising: a silicon structure having an exposed surface be exposed to light rays; a photoelectrically active portion located beneath the exposed surface within the silicon structure; and an internal structure located beneath the active portion, the internal structure having art interface surface generally parallel to the exposed surface at which total internal reflection of light rays occurs such that at least some of the light rays are redirected toward the photoelectrically active portion. | 4,817 |
8,673,808 | 1. A method of preparing a composite catalyst for hydrocarbon steam cracking comprising: (a) mixing an oxide catalyst (0.5≦j≦120, 1≦k≦50, A is transition metal, and x is a number corresponding to the atomic values of Cr, Zr, and A and values of j and k) represented by CrZr (b) molding a mixture of the (a); and (c) sintering a molded object obtained in (b) wherein the obtained composite catalyst has a ring shape that has an outer radius r | 34,743 |
9,667,145 | 1. A power supply circuit comprising: a transistor coupled to a power source and configured to provide current to a load connected to an output of the power supply circuit; an amplifier having an input operably connected to the output of the power supply circuit and an output configured to provide an indication of voltage at the output of the power supply circuit; a transconductance load having a transconductance less than a transconductance of the amplifier; a switch connected between the output of the amplifier and the transconductance load; and a controller operably connected to the output of the amplifier and to a gate of the transistor, the controller configured to: | 33,209 |
8,936,397 | 1. A sliding bearing of a wind turbine, comprising: a first bearing shell comprising a sliding surface; a second bearing shell; a plurality of bearing pads arranged between the first bearing shell and the second bearing shell; and a machining element arranged between the first bearing shell and the second bearing shell to treat the sliding surface, wherein the bearing pads are connected to the second bearing shell, and wherein the sliding surface is prepared and arranged so that the bearing pads can slide along the sliding surface when the first bearing shell and the second bearing shell are moved in respect to each other. | 19,099 |
8,873,123 | 1. A microscope apparatus comprising: a spatial light modulator that modulates the wavefront of illuminating light from a light source; a scanner that has two mirrors independently pivoted about two non-parallel axes, and that two-dimensionally scans the illuminating light whose wavefront has been modulated by the spatial light modulator; a relay optical system that guides the illuminating light, whose traveling direction has been changed by the scanner, to an objective optical system; and a modulation-region adjusting unit that moves a wavefront modulation region of the spatial light modulator, in which an image is formed, in response to pivoting of the mirrors, wherein: | 19,172 |
9,816,526 | 1. A wall ring for a fan having a fan wheel, comprising at least one heating element for heating the wall ring; wherein the heating element comprises an electrically conductive heating layer that is disposed on an inner side of the wall ring that faces the fan wheel; wherein the electrically conductive heating layer of the heating element is configured as an electrically conductive CNT lacquer having carbon nano-materials; and wherein the heating element has contact elements on side edges that run in the axial direction, so that the direction of a current flowing through the heating element faces in the circumferential direction of the wall ring. | 26,762 |
8,724,481 | 1. A field device controlling system comprising: a field device; a controller connected to the field device to communicate through a first communication route; and a device monitoring unit connected to the field device to communicate through a second communication route distinct from the first communication route, the device monitoring unit including | 3,356 |
8,789,996 | 1. An illumination system, comprising: a light guide having a frosted light input surface on an edge of the light guide; and a light source configured to direct light into the frosted light input surface, wherein peaks and valleys of material on the frosted light input surface define striations extending in a direction roughly parallel to a short dimension of the edge. | 6,142 |
8,653,312 | 1. A method for producing a water-insoluble liquefied fuel oil containing a hydrocarbon, comprising the steps of: subjecting a mixture that contains biomass containing lignocellulose, an organic solvent, and water to liquefaction; simultaneously with or after liquefaction, causing a mixture of the liquefied fuel oil that contains the organic solvent and an aqueous phase that contains a water-soluble organic substance to come into contact with a dehydration catalyst under pressure and then subjecting the resultant to dehydration, or causing the mixture of a liquefied fuel oil that contains the organic solvent and an aqueous phase that contains a water-soluble organic substance to come into contact with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst under pressure, and then subjecting the resultant to hydrogenation; and separating a water-insoluble liquefied fuel oil from the mixture after dehydration or hydrogenation, wherein the dehydration catalyst or hydrogenation catalyst is a zeolite catalyst or a Pd/Al 2 O 3 catalyst. | 44,817 |
8,901,057 | 1. A hardness control composition for use in alkaline cleaning conditions comprising: a starch based hybrid polymer, a maleic polymer and a hydroxycarboxylic acid salt; wherein the maleic polymer comprises at least one of the following: polymaleic acid, hydrolyzed polymaleic anhydride or cis-2-buenedioic acid homopolymer; and further wherein said maleic polymer is present in an amount of from about 20 wt. % to about 40 wt. %. | 25,673 |
9,116,518 | 1. A detection method for detecting at least one electrical failure affecting an electrical control system of a hydraulic actuator for actuating variable geometries of an aeroengine, the control system comprising two control paths capable of being used in an alternative manner for delivering a control electric current to an electrohydraulic member for transforming said electric current into hydraulic power that is delivered to the actuator, the detection method comprising: after the control system has been started and before a starter-generator of the engine is powered, performing the following steps for each of the control paths in succession: delivering a predetermined test electric current over said control path; evaluating a difference between the test electric current and a measurement of the electric current transformed into hydraulic power by the electrohydraulic member; and if said difference is greater than a predefined threshold, detecting an electrical failure on that path. | 6,527 |
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