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9,771,794 | 1. A drilling optimization collar for use proximate a drilling tool within a wellbore, the drilling optimization collar comprising: a pipe segment installed in a drill string proximate the drilling tool; a groove formed within an external wall of the pipe segment; and a fiber optic sensor filament within the groove and having a plurality of sensor elements, wherein each of the plurality of sensor elements comprises a segment of the sensor filament, and wherein pairs of sensor elements are placed on opposite sides of the pipe segment; wherein the sensor filament is configured to sense a condition of the wellbore and a load on the drilling optimization collar. | 1,915 |
9,318,533 | 1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory, comprising: forming a first control line layer; forming a memory element layer over the first control line layer; forming an embedded resistor layer over the first control line layer, the embedded resistor layer includes a first portion associated with a first set of embedded resistors within a first region of a memory array and a second portion associated with a second set of embedded resistors within a second region of the memory array; and performing a first doping process to the first portion subsequent to the forming an embedded resistor layer, the performing a first doping process causes the first set of embedded resistors to be less resistive than the second set of embedded resistors. | 36,663 |
8,852,819 | 1. A system for controlling fuel cell operating characteristics of a fuel cell within a mobile communication device comprising: a desiccant actuating apparatus; and desiccant, in close proximity to the desiccant actuating apparatus and the fuel cell, whereby actuation of the desiccant actuating apparatus activates the desiccant; wherein the desiccant is adhered directly to the fuel cell. | 39,800 |
8,604,077 | 1. A polyester having a structure corresponding to (1): wherein the polyester is derived from wherein in formulas (1) and (1 p is an integer of at least 2, a is 0 or 1, b is 0 or 1, R R X is hydrogen or a lower alkyl. | 30,747 |
9,842,862 | 1. A manufacturing method of a flexible electronic structure formed by a carrier separation process, comprising steps of: providing a carrier; attaching a flexible substrate to the carrier; forming a plurality of touch-sensing units coplanarly on the flexible substrate, wherein a first interval region is formed between the adjacent touch-sensing units; coplanarly forming at least one first anti-interference spot within the first interval region, wherein a distance is between the at least one first anti-interference spot and the adjacent touch-sensing unit; coplanarly forming a ground unit with the plurality of touch-sensing units, wherein the grounding unit and the adjacent touch-sensing unit have a second interval region therebetween; forming at least one second anti-interference spot within the second interval region, wherein both the plurality of touch-sensing units and the ground unit are disposed coplanarly with the at least one second anti-interference spot; and separating the flexible substrate from the carrier. | 37,384 |
8,922,798 | 1. A method for creating a printed product, which comprises the following steps executed by a computer: storing at least one file in a first data format in a memory, the file at least containing information for the method for creating the printed product, the first data format included in at least two memory areas, a first memory area of the at least two memory areas containing attributes for method steps to be carried out and/or for materials of a printing process and/or of the printed product; decoding the file into a representation in a main memory of a computer, the representation included in at least two memory areas, data of a first memory area of the representation being essentially identical with data of the first memory area of the file of the first data format by at least having same nodes and attribute indexes; applying at least one operation to data of the representation in the main memory, depending on the operation, data of the representation are changed; encoding the data of the first data format from the data of the representation; transmitting the data of the first data format as a further file or data stream to at least one processing device for processing or treating printed products or originals; adapting the printed product, a processed or treated version of the printed product, or a processed/treated version of the original, based on the data that have thus been changed; and creating the printed product using the adaptation. | 42,234 |
9,293,766 | 1. A lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide cathode material, comprising: a plurality of secondary particles, each of the secondary particles consisting of aggregates of fine primary particles, and each of the secondary particles including a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide, which is expressed as Li wherein, the lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide has a structure with different chemical compositions of primary particles from the surface toward core of each of the secondary particles; wherein, the lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide cathode material is formed by coating manganese hydroxide on the surface of nickel cobalt hydroxide, then mixing with lithium hydroxide to form a mixture, and finally sintering the mixture to obtain the cathode material. | 1,112 |
8,701,133 | 1. An optical information recording medium comprising: a plurality of recording layers, each of which undergoes a change in a refractive index by irradiation with a recording beam; and at least one intermediate layer provided between the plurality of recording layers, wherein the recording layers and the intermediate layer have different refractive indices, and wherein among interfaces between the plurality of recording layers and the at least one intermediate layer, a recording layer and an intermediate layer disposed adjacent to the recording layer at an incident side from which the recording beam enters the recording layer are merged with each other at an interface therebetween, whereby a refractive index gradually changes at the interface, which satisfies 0.001<((n2−n1))/(n2+n1)) | 40,028 |
8,940,740 | 1. A method for inhibiting motility of a Vibrio cholerae which comprises contacting the Vibrio cholerae with an effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of at least one compound represented by the following formulae: and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, solvate thereof, prodrug thereof and mixtures thereof. | 13,782 |
8,444,851 | 1. A causticization process for a reception and transport of lime mud from a continuously operated pressurized filter that maintains an excess pressure of at least 0.5-2 bar, comprising: providing a filter having at least one filter element that is covered with a filter screen and partially submerged in a liquid mixture that contains lime mud and partially located in a gas phase above a level of the liquid mixture, separating a filtrate from the lime mud by withdrawing the filtrate through the filter screen of the filter element while rotating the filter element the liquid mixture and the gas phase to dry lime mud collected on the filter element, releasing the dry lime mud from the filter element, the dry lime mud falling into a reception chute arranged above the level of the liquid mixture, maintaining a level of dry matter content of the dry lime mud of 65-90%, coupling the reception chute to a horizontal collection pipe, a transport screw, disposed inside the horizontal collection pipe, feeding the dry lime mud to an outlet chute arranged at one end of the horizontal collection pipe, providing the outlet chute with a tube valve having a flexible inner tube, feeding the dry lime mud into the tube valve to form a column of dry lime mud inside the tube valve, the flexible inner tube holding the column of dry lime mud inside the tube valve, the column of dry lime mud forming a pressure lock inside the tube valve, lowering a pressure outside the flexible inner tube and expanding the flexible inner tube, the flexible inner tube releasing the column of dry lime mud, and a rotating cell feed, arranged under the tube valve, feeding out the released column of dry lime mud from the tube valve and feeding the dry lime mud to a lime kiln. | 14,749 |
9,101,849 | 1. A toy vehicle, comprising: a body including at least one detent; a first mechanism coupled to the body and reconfigurable between at least a first position relative to the body and a second position relative to the body; a second mechanism coupled to the body and reconfigurable between at least a first position relative to the body and a second position relative to the body; and an actuator coupled to the first mechanism and the second mechanism, the actuator being movable relative to the body from a first position to a second position and to a third position where the at least one detent secures the actuator in at least the second position, the movement of the actuator from the first position to the second position causing the first mechanism to move from its first position to its second position relative to the body, and the movement of the actuator from its second position to its third position causes the second mechanism to move from its first position to its second position relative to the body, wherein the actuator extends from the body a first distance in its first position and a second distance in its second position, and the second distance is greater than the first distance. | 41,987 |
8,543,677 | 1. A communication control device capable of performing data communication with an information processing device connected through a network, for performing data communication corresponding to a command from an application part which requests data communication with said information processing device, comprising: a communication control part for performing data communication corresponding to the command from said application part and for outputting response information obtained through the data communication to said application part; and a virtually response part for storing information received from said information processing device and for generating virtual response information, containing information as to said information processing device, responding to the command from said application part, wherein said communication control part manages registration information including at least one command for requesting virtual data communication performed hypothetically with said virtually response part registered, obtains the virtual response information through the virtual data communication with said virtually response part and outputs the obtained virtual response information to said application part when the command received from said application part is registered in said registration information, while obtaining the response information through actual data communication with said information processing device and outputting the obtained response information to said application part when the command received from said application part is not registered in said registration information. | 32,891 |
9,758,966 | 1. A method of producing a semi-product for a structural element or for a core for a building panel, wherein the method comprises the step of: attaching at least two distance strips by an adhesive to a first wood board; attaching a second wood board to the distance strips by an adhesive; cutting the first and the second wood boards and the distance strips in the length direction of the wood boards; cutting the first wood board, the second wood board, and a first distance strip of the at least two distance strips in a direction different than the length direction of the wood boards, and cutting the first wood board, the second wood board, and a second distance strip of the at least two distance strips in the direction different than the length direction of the wood boards. | 16,099 |
9,052,947 | 1. A system comprising: machine readable medium to hold program code, when executed, to determine dynamically if a transaction is to be executed pessimistically; modify a pointer of an indirect call to an optimistic read barrier for a transactional load operation within the transaction to call to reference a pessimistic read barrier in response to determining dynamically the transaction is to be executed pessimistically; and a processor associated with the machine readable medium to execute the program code. | 550 |
9,673,469 | 1. An anode for a solid oxide fuel cell, comprising a cermet having a metallic component and a ceramic component, wherein: (a) the metallic component of the cermet comprises— (b) the ceramic component of the cermet comprises a ceramic electrolyte material having a particle size which is larger than that of the nanoscale ceramic particles of the metallic component. | 6,945 |
9,132,560 | 1. A hair remover comprising: a main unit having a gripper; a head unit having a movable blade and a fixed blade for removing hair; a motor; a drive transmission unit configured to transfer a rotation driving force of said motor to reciprocate said movable blade; and a rotating mechanical section configured to rotatably support said head unit with respect to said main unit, wherein said main unit is provided in one end thereof with an extension portion said main unit and said extension portion having longitudinal axes that are in parallel to each other, wherein said extension portion is offset with regard to the longitudinal axis of said main unit to define a recess which houses said head unit, said extension portion being provided with said rotating mechanical section, said rotating mechanical section being configured to support said head unit to be capable of switching between a state of a first position where a longitudinal axis of said head unit is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said main unit so that said hair remover has an I-shaped appearance and a state of a second position where the longitudinal axis of said head unit is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said main unit so that said hair remover has a T-shaped appearance, and wherein said drive transmission unit is configured to transfer the rotation driving force of said motor to said movable blade to reciprocate said movable blade in said states of said first and second positions. | 12,214 |
8,941,006 | 1. A photovoltaic cell, comprising: at least one substrate comprising a polyolefins-based overwrap, wherein the polyolefins-based overwrap comprises two oxygen barrier layers and an oxygen scavenger layer, wherein the oxygen scavenger layer is situated between the two oxygen barrier layers, and wherein the two oxygen barrier layers are situated between two polyolefin layers; two electrode layers; and an organic photovoltaic layer situated between the two electrode layers, wherein the oxygen scavenger layer comprises a trigger mechanism that is capable of initiating the oxygen scavenging when triggered by exposure to UV light, and wherein the trigger mechanism comprises a UV photoinitiator that, when exposed to UV light, triggers formation of free radicals capable of consuming oxygen. | 25,217 |
9,518,509 | 1. A method for manufacturing a structure with cellular cores that can be used in a structural panel of a turbojet nacelle, including at least one block of cellular cores having; a central portion with core honeycomb cells; and at least two side portions each including side honeycomb cells, said side honeycomb cells comprising: wherein said method comprises: A) forming junction walls on the side honeycomb cells by opening the edge honeycomb cells, the junction walls being capable of interacting for forming a junction area; B) unfolding the junction walls thus formed in step A; and C) joining the junction walls thus unfolded in step B and belonging to two different side portions end-to-end so that said junction walls are fitted together so as to form a junction area. | 30,866 |
9,041,056 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a gate electrode formed above the substrate; a gate insulating film formed under the gate electrode; a channel layer formed under the gate insulating film by using a channel layer material, the channel layer material being a material different from that of the substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate so as to interpose the channel layer therebetween in a channel direction; and a source extension layer formed in the substrate between the channel layer and the source region so as to be abutted on a source-side end portion of the channel layer, the source extension layer forming a heterointerface with the channel layer, and the heterointerface being a tunnel channel for carries and extending in a first direction parallel to a surface of the substrate, the surface of the substrate being opposed to a lower surface of the gate insulating film via the channel layer, wherein the material of the substrate and the channel layer material respectively have first and second band gaps to cause the carriers to flow in a second direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate through the heterointerface. | 25,797 |
9,504,032 | 1. A method of transferring small packets in a wireless network, the method comprising: generating, by a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a control frame for transmission to an Access Point (AP) in the wireless network; indicating in a field of the control frame, on a condition that the first WTRU has data buffered for transmission, information related to an estimated time required for transmission of the buffered data; transmitting the control frame via an uplink to the AP; and receiving a response from the AP, wherein the response includes a granted TXOP. | 41,520 |
8,626,746 | 1. A method of tracking modifications to a field in a relational table of a database instance supported by a relational database server, said method comprising: receiving a relational query specifying an update request indicating a new value for said field of said relational table, wherein a present value of said field equals a first value when said relational query is received; in response to receiving said relational query specifying said update request: storing said first value in said relational table as a historical value of said field; and storing said new value in said field in said relational table as said present value of said field, wherein said new value represents said present value of said field in said relational table after processing of said update request and said first value is also available as said historical value in said relational table after processing of said update request, and wherein storing of said first value and said new value in said relational table is enabled by storing two values in said field in said relational table, and wherein said field is enabled to store two values by: | 49,529 |
9,525,761 | 1. A mobile communication device, comprising: a substrate, comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; an antenna element, disposed on the first surface and converting a feeding signal into an electromagnetic wave, wherein the antenna element comprises: a sensing element, disposed on the second surface and generating a sensing signal in response to proximity of an object, and an orthogonal projection of the sensing element on the first surface and an orthogonal projection of the second portion on the first surface being overlapped with each other and having the same shape. | 14,216 |
9,407,163 | 1. A power converter device, comprising: a double-sided electrode module that converts direct current power to alternating current power; a heat dissipating base in which heat dissipation surfaces, facing one another, of the double-sided electrode module facing to one another are held, with insulation layers being present between the heat dissipating base and the heat dissipation surfaces; a capacitor module that constitutes a smoothing circuit for inhibiting fluctuation in DC voltage; and a positive electrode conductor plate and a negative electrode conductor plate that transmit electric power between the capacitor module and the double-sided electrode module wherein: the double-sided electrode module comprises: the positive electrode conductor plate includes a first welding portion at which the positive electrode conductor plate is connected to the DC positive electrode wiring board of the double-sided electrode module by welding; the negative electrode conductor plate includes a second welding portion at which the negative electrode conductor plate is connected to the DC negative electrode wiring board of the double-sided electrode module by welding; and the positive electrode conductor plate and the negative electrode conductor plate are stacked one on top of another and integrated together by a resin. | 39,531 |
9,091,404 | 1. In a solar light assembly characterized by a photovoltaic light collecting panel connected to a storage battery and provided with a light sensing means connected to enable a switch rendered operative to connect a light source to said storage battery upon sensing ambient light below a predetermined level, the improvement comprising: an adjustable mount pivotally adjustable about two generally orthogonally aligned axes attached to said solar light assembly; a generally parabolic reflector secured to said mount, said reflector including a focus; and light conveying means connected between the said focus of said reflector and said light sensing means. | 22,160 |
9,124,463 | 1. A communication device comprising: (A) host communication leads; (B) subsystem communication leads; (C) controller circuitry coupled to the host communication leads and to the subsystem communication leads, the controller circuitry including: | 17,262 |
8,653,610 | 1. A non-planar semiconductor transistor device, comprising: a substrate layer; a plurality of source and drain electrodes on the substrate layer, with a plurality of corresponding conductive channels extending between corresponding source and drain electrodes; and a gate stack on the substrate layer, crossing over the plurality of conductive channels, the gate stack extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the conductive channels extend, the gate stack comprising: a dielectric layer running along the substrate and the plurality of conductive channels and arranged with a substantially uniform layer thickness; a work-function electrode layer covering the dielectric layer and arranged with a substantially uniform layer thickness; a metal layer, distinct from the work-function electrode layer, covering the work-function electrode layer and arranged with a substantially uniform height with respect to the substrate such that the metal layer fills a gap between proximate conductive channels of the plurality of conductive channels; and a barrier layer disposed between the metal layer and the work-function electrode layer, the barrier layer configure to getter an interface layer and reduce a distance between the work-function electrode layer and the conductive channels, wherein the metal layer of the gate stack is stress-engineered to have an intrinsic state of compressive or tensile stress to provide compressive or tensile stress to the conductive channels. | 10,459 |
8,471,019 | 1. A semiconductor device selected from the group consisting of a diode, an organic field effect transistor, a solar cell, or a device containing a diode, and/or organic field effect transistor and/or solar cell comprising a non-polymeric compound as an organic semiconductor, wherein said compound is a quinoid diheteroacene of the formula I wherein X is O, S or NR, each of R, R and R | 23,948 |
8,917,477 | 1. A disk device comprising: a disk recording medium; a drive motor configured to support and rotate the recording medium; a suspension assembly configured to support a head to be movable relative to the recording medium; a housing containing the recording medium, the drive motor and the suspension assembly; a filter in the housing and opposite to part of an outer peripheral edge of the recording medium, and through which an airflow generated by rotation of the recording medium flows; an exhaust hole formed at the housing and located opposite to an upstream side of the filter with respect to the airflow; and an air-intake formed at the housing and located opposite to a region of the housing, whose pressure is lower than a pressure of the upstream side of the filter. | 1,536 |
9,371,306 | 1. A cyclic (poly)glycerol sulphate compound of formula (I): wherein n is an integer from 0 to 20; and each —C | 34,244 |
9,509,011 | 1. A method of rebalancing electrolytes in a redox flow battery system, comprising: directing hydrogen gas in the redox flow battery system to a catalyst surface; fluidly contacting the hydrogen gas with an electrolyte comprising a metal ion at the catalyst surface; and chemically reducing the metal ion by the hydrogen gas at the catalyst surface, while a state of charge of the electrolyte remains substantially balanced, or a pH of the electrolyte remains within a predetermined range. | 33,174 |
8,943,547 | 1. A computer-implemented method for configuring application control rules, comprising: generating a new application control rule that specifies restrictions or a permission on executing a software application, a function of an application or a category of applications; collecting information about one or more computers in a network, the information comprising information about software applications deployed on the one or more computers and one or more existing application control rules associated with the software applications; determining a priority for each of the new application control rule and the one or more existing application control rules; testing, by a processor, the new application control rule using the collected information to determine verdicts rendered by the new application control rule that restrict or permit an execution of the software application, the function of an application or the category of applications; comparing verdicts rendered by the new application rule with the verdicts rendered by the existing application control rules to identify conflicts between the compared rules; and upon detecting a conflict between the compared rules, reconfiguring one of the compared rules with a lower priority to eliminate the conflict. | 6,856 |
8,720,477 | 1. A drain assembly, comprising: a closing element, the closing element having a lower surface; one or more floating elements extending from the lower surface of the closing element; and a receiver element having an inner ring and an outer ring, the receiver element having one or more receptacles disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring of the receiver element to movably receive corresponding one or more floating elements, and the receiver element having one or more inlet openings associated with the outer ring and one or more outlet openings associated with the inner ring, wherein the one or more inlet openings associated with the outer ring are adapted to receive a liquid, the liquid filling the one or more receptacles to provide a lifting movement to the one or more floating elements within the corresponding one or more receptacles to lift the closing element to fill the one or more receptacles with the liquid and the one or more outlet openings associated with the inner ring are adapted to drain the liquid from the one or more receptacles. | 36,117 |
8,420,101 | 1. A composition comprising: a vaccine, wherein the vaccine comprises K88 fimbria and a fusion protein, further wherein the fusion protein comprises a mutant LT enterotoxin linked with a wild-type STb enterotoxin. | 38,031 |
8,463,391 | 1. A system, comprising: an electricity generator configured to convert internal body energy of a living subject to electrical energy; and an internal power transmitter configured to be disposed in the living subject, the internal power transmitter operably coupled to the electricity generator to receive at least a portion of the electrical energy therefrom, the internal power transmitter includes a transducer configured to convert the at least a portion of the electrical energy to a second type of energy, the internal power transmitter further configured to deliver the second type of energy out of the living subject. | 40,182 |
9,038,058 | 1. A computer-implemented method for program-assisted configuration of a wind turbine software package for controlling operation of a wind turbine, the method comprising: providing a plurality of software components each corresponding to a respective hardware component of a wind turbine product model separate from the wind turbine and representing a plurality of hardware components of the wind turbine, the wind turbine comprising at least one of a controller unit, a data storage unit, and a tower with a plurality of blades attached at a nacelle housing; providing, for each of the plurality of software components, parameter information specifying one or more of a plurality of wind turbine component parameters of the wind turbine product model including blade length and tower height, wherein the blade length is associated with component parameter values of short and long, wherein the tower height is associated with component parameter values of short and high; providing a set of wind turbine parameter compatibility rules pertaining to the plurality of wind turbine component parameters and including a first wind turbine parameter compatibility rule specifying to prohibit a user from setting the tower height to short when the blade length is set to long; and establishing a wind turbine configuration for the wind turbine software package by performing a series of iterations, each iteration comprising defining a group of wind turbine component parameter values based on the wind turbine parameter compatibility rules, receiving, as user input, an input parameter value selected from the groups of wind turbine component parameter values corresponding to a hardware component of the wind turbine, and updating a wind turbine component parameter based on the input parameter value; wherein at least one iteration in the series further comprises programmatically limiting the group of wind turbine component parameter values in the next iteration in the series based on the input parameter value and the wind turbine parameter compatibility rules, in order to prohibit the user from applying a subsequent input parameter value incompatible with a previous input parameter value, wherein the user is in a first instance only permitted to set the tower height to high, based on the first wind turbine parameter compatibility rule. | 49,096 |
9,793,188 | 1. A method of growing an oxide layer on a semiconductor device, the method comprising the step of contacting at least one surface of a semiconductor device with the dilute aqueous solution comprising: (a) an oxidant, wherein the oxidant is H (b) a compound comprising fluorine; (c) one or more additives; and (d) water. | 10,492 |
9,493,474 | 1. A compound having structural Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein: n1 and n2 can be individually either 0 or 1; R represents a fused bicyclic or spirocyclic aliphatic diamine having one of the following structures: wherein R-I represents a 9-11-membered saturated bicyclic heterocyclic ring system sharing 1 carbon atom, and R-II represents a 8-10-membered saturated bicyclic heterocyclic ring system sharing 2 carbon atoms, wherein each ring of R-I and each ring of R-II has 1 Nitrogen atom; R Z Z 2 is: one of W R one of R one of R R R F, or —OC one of Y where Y provided further that where n1 or n2 is 0, the adjacent Y | 22,426 |
8,422,455 | 1. A method comprising: a) transmitting a plurality of control format indicators by a base station, said base station configured to communicate employing a plurality of carriers, a control format indicator in said plurality of control format indicators: b) transmitting said downlink control information by said base station on said first subframe of said first carrier, said downlink control information: c) transmitting at least one control message by said base station, said at least one control message configured to cause, in a wireless device, configuration of radio resources of: d) transmitting second transmission format and scheduling information by said base station on said second control channel in said second subframe, said second transmission format and scheduling information being for one or more second data packets to be transmitted on said second data channel; and e) transmitting said one or more second data packets by said base station on said second data channel in said second subframe. | 27,479 |
8,518,252 | 1. A system to produce sterile water for injection (SWFI) for on-site and on-demand intravenous fluid reconstitution, from feed water, comprising: a) a water preconditioning module comprising a pre-filter, a primary pump, reverse osmosis membranes, de-ionization resin beds, and first and second flow restrictors, b) a hydrothermal processor module comprising a first heat exchanger, a reactor coupled with a heater, a flow restrictor and a plurality of valves, c) a fluid staging compartment comprising a surge tank, a conductivity sensor in said surge tank, a recirculation pump, and a drain valve, | 49,822 |
9,762,603 | 1. A method executed by one or more computing devices for determining an impact of a data element on enterprise security, comprising: analyzing, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, information retrieved over a computer network from one or more enterprise databases which store the data element to determine a plurality of impact values of the data element, wherein the plurality of impact values correspond to a plurality of impact factors and wherein the plurality of impact factors comprise one or more risk factors and one or more impression metric factors; receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, for each of the plurality of impact factors, a plurality of value bands, each value band indicating a risk value corresponding to a predetermined range of impact values of that impact factor; mapping, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the plurality of impact values to a plurality of risk values based at least in part on the plurality of band values for each impact factor in the plurality of impact factors; receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a plurality of weights corresponding to an assessment perspective, wherein each weight in the plurality of weights pairs with a corresponding impact factor in the plurality of impact factors; and determining, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, an element impact for the data element according to the assessment perspective by: | 43,722 |
8,932,545 | 1. A method for the synthesis of a mesoporous lithium transition metal compound by a liquid crystal templating method, the method comprising the steps of (i) reacting a lithium salt with one or more transition metal salts in the presence of a surfactant, the surfactant being present in an amount sufficient to form a liquid crystal phase in the reaction mixture (ii) heating the reaction mixture so as to form a sol-gel and (iii) removing the surfactant to leave a mesoporous product, wherein the surfactant concentration in the reaction mixture lies in the range of 40-60 wt %, and wherein a lyotropic liquid crystal phase is formed in the reaction mixture and maintained through steps (i) and (ii) by controlling the reaction conditions to prevent destabilisation thereof. | 13,808 |
8,766,549 | 1. HID lighting system ( 100 ), comprising: an HID lamp ( a resonant electronic driver ( wherein the lamp has a frequency spectrum containing at least one arc-shaping acoustic resonance frequency as well as unwanted acoustic resonance frequencies; wherein the driver ( 10 ), during normal operation, is designed to provide the lamp ( 1 ) with frequency-modulated lamp current so that the lamp current has a relatively broad power spectrum within a range between 10 kHz and 200 kHz, said power spectrum including an enabling power amplitude coinciding with said arc-shaping acoustic resonance frequency while only having non-enabling power amplitudes coinciding with said unwanted acoustic resonance frequencies. | 10,942 |
8,967,137 | 1. A solar energy collection apparatus comprising of: said solar energy collection apparatus comprises an absorber plate, said absorber plate comprises a porous metal, in which said porous metal comprises substantially inter-connected strands of metal, said porous metal further comprises a substantially open lattice work of air pores between said substantially inter-connected strands of metal, wherein said inter-connected strands of metal being configured to form a substantially singular object with said open lattice work of air pores, in which said porous metal further comprises a porosity of approximately 85% to 98%, and said open lattice work of air pores comprises a pore size of approximately 0.1 mm to 10 mm, said porous metal further comprises a volume density of approximately 0.1 to 1 grams per cubic centimeter (cc), wherein said porosity, pore size, and density of said porous metal is configured to enable a working fluid to substantially traverse throughout said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal of said absorber plate, and said porous metal absorber plate further comprises a depth of approximately 1 mm to 100 mm, and wherein said depth of said porous metal being configured to trap light rays that penetrates said porous metal absorber plate and generally refracting and reflecting said light rays within said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal of said absorber plate substantially preventing said light rays from escaping, and said porous metal absorber plate being configured to enable a working fluid to substantially traverse said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal of said absorber plate as to enable substantial solar energy harvest from said solar energy collection apparatus without the use of a radiation trap structure in-between said porous metal absorber plate and any type of cover glazing of said solar energy collection apparatus. | 36,550 |
8,346,457 | 1. A method for controlling an automatic shutdown and start-up process of a drive unit in a motor vehicle equipped with a start and stop device by which the drive unit automatically shuts down when the motor vehicle comes to a halt if predefined shutdown conditions are met, and by which a automatically shutdown drive unit is automatically started up if at least one start request is made, the method comprising the acts of: receiving information on at least one of current operating variables of the vehicle, state variables, and other parameters; prior to initiating an automatic shutdown of the drive unit via the start and stop device, predicting a possible stop duration of the drive unit based on the received information; and when the predefined shutdown conditions are met, initiating the automatic shutdown of the drive unit dependent on the predicted possible stop duration. | 31,277 |
8,790,819 | 1. An implantable medical assembly, which comprises: a) a medical device comprising: b) an electrochemical cell comprising: c) wherein the electrically conductive cell casing at the proximal casing opening is directly electrically connected to the device housing at the device contact opening so that there is electrical continuity from the cell casing as the anode terminal to the device housing as a negative electrical contact connected to the at least one electrical circuit and then the terminal pin as the positive electrical contact and the cathode terminal to thereby power the at least one electrical circuit in the device housing. | 14,280 |
8,842,514 | 1. A method for operating a base station in order to communicate with mobile stations, the method comprising: assigning channels to respective ones of the mobile stations, wherein the channels include one or more sub-band channels and one or more diversity channels, wherein each of the sub-band channels is a rectangular region in a resource space, wherein the resource space is a two-dimensional space covering an OFDM band in a frequency dimension and covering a plurality of OFDM symbol durations in a time dimension, wherein the OFDM band includes a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein each of the diversity channels is a noncontiguous set of regions in the resource space; generating transmit data, wherein the transmit data includes payload data for each of the mobile stations and signaling information, wherein the signaling information includes a definition of each of the channels and indicates the channel that has been assigned to each mobile station; and transmitting the transmit data onto a wireless communication medium using OFDM, wherein said transmitting includes transmitting the payload data for each mobile station within the corresponding channel. | 31,173 |
9,172,609 | 1. A method comprising: electing a first layer two (L2) network switch as a master switch for a virtual L2 network switch within a network having a plurality destination devices, each of the destination devices associated with a network address; creating, with the first L2 network switch elected as the master network switch, forwarding information for a second L2 network switch participating in the virtual network switch, wherein the forwarding information maps one or more of the network addresses of the destination devices to network interfaces of the second L2 network switch; and outputting the forwarding information from the first L2 network switch to the second L2 network switch to control switching of L2 network communications by the second L2 network switch. | 19 |
9,769,529 | 1. A method of processing an application in a digital television, the method comprising: downloading and installing a set-top box (STB) application from a service provider; displaying a first application on a display screen; receiving a first control signal for requesting a menu from a remote controller; displaying the menu, which includes an STB application icon for accessing the installed STB application on the display screen; receiving a second control signal for selecting the STB application icon from the displayed menu; displaying a service board for the selected STB application icon on the display screen, the service board including an application list having one or more applications capable of being processed by the service provider; receiving application data of a second application selected from the application list included in the displayed service board from the service provider, the second application being processed by the service provider; and displaying the second application based on the received application data on the display screen, wherein the menu displays a first input group including one or more active application icons and a second input group including one or more inactive application icons, and wherein the STB application icon is included in the first input group or second input group based on whether or not the digital television is subscribed to a service provided by the service provider of the installed STB application. | 46,554 |
8,751,053 | 1. A system, comprising: a direct current (DC), high voltage power line configured to operate at a voltage to deliver electrical energy to a consumer of the energy; a plurality of photovoltaic panels, each respective photovoltaic panel of the plurality of photovoltaic panels having a respective link module coupled between the DC, high voltage power line and the respective photovoltaic panel, the respective link module configured to provide electricity produced by the respective photovoltaic panel solely to the DC, high voltage power line, the respective link module including an inverter configured to transfer electricity from the direct current (DC), high voltage power line to a utility grid; and a management unit coupled to the direct current, high voltage power line to transmit the command to the transceiver of the respective link module and coupled to a local area network to communicate with internet, the management unit to receive the parameter data from the transceiver of the respective link module, and to send control signals to the transceiver of the respective link module to provide individual operational control of the respective photovoltaic panel, wherein the management unit including a web server configured to show photovoltaic panel data, panel performance, panel failure, system efficiency, and power generation information. | 30,711 |
9,756,741 | 1. An enclosure for a printed circuit board comprising a housing with at least one projection formed on an interior surface of a side wall of the housing to engage and support the printed circuit board, said at least one projection having a flat surface that supports the printed circuit board when received in the housing, an angled surface also being formed on an interior surface of the housing to help while the circuit board is being received in the housing to position the printed circuit board on the flat surface with an outer periphery of the printed circuit board disposed laterally inward of the angled surface such that the printed circuit board is free of any surface extending underneath the angled surface, the angled surface being located vertically between the flat surface and an opening in the housing through which the printed circuit board is received in the housing, the enclosure also comprising a cover that clamps the printed circuit board in the housing when the cover is secured to the housing, at least one projection being formed on the cover, the at least one projection engaging the printed circuit board at a location spaced from an outer periphery of the printed circuit board when the cover is secured to the housing and helping to clamp the printed circuit board in the housing. | 37,218 |
9,067,729 | 1. A stacking post for attachment between two side panels to form a wall structure of a commercial storage and transport container, the stacking post having a longitudinal axis and comprising: an exterior wall; an interior wall coupled to the exterior wall; a first internal longitudinally-extending compartment between the interior and exterior walls; and a second internal longitudinally-extending compartment running alongside the first compartment and separated from the first compartment; wherein the stacking post has a cross-sectional shape that is consistent along a majority of the longitudinal axis, the stacking post defining a stacking post width measured along the exterior and interior walls when viewing the cross-sectional shape and a stacking post thickness measured across the exterior and interior walls when viewing the cross-sectional shape, the stacking post width exceeding the stacking post thickness; wherein the exterior wall has an exterior-facing surface, an interior-facing surface extending fully across both of the first and second compartments in a direction of the stacking post width, a first free distal edge joining the exterior-facing surface and the interior-facing surface, and a second free distal edge joining the exterior-facing surface and the interior-facing surface opposite the first free distal edge, the first and second free distal edges abutting an exterior-facing surface of the interior wall at each of a first widthwise distal end of the stacking post, a second widthwise distal end of the stacking post, and at least one non-distal portion of the stacking post between the first and second widthwise distal ends, the exterior wall being spaced from the interior wall between each of the first and second widthwise distal ends and the at least one non-distal portion to define the stacking post thickness, and wherein the interior wall is constructed of a single, unitary and integral sheet spanning across both of the first and second compartments in the direction of the stacking post width, and wherein each of the first and second widthwise distal ends of the stacking post is shaped to join with a corresponding one of the two side panels. | 35,402 |
9,242,977 | 1. A compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein: a ring Cy R (1) a halogen; (2) a C1-6 alkyl group optionally substituted with a halogen or an oxo group; (3) a C3-6 cycloalkyl group optionally substituted with a halogen or a C1-3 alkyl group; (4) a C1-6 alkyl group having an oxygen atom substituting for a carbon atom and optionally substituted with a halogen or an oxo group; or (5) a C3-6 cycloalkyl group having an oxygen atom substituting for a carbon atom and optionally substituted with a halogen or a C1-3 alkyl group; R (1) a C1-6 alkyl group, a C2-6 alkenyl group or a C2-6 alkynyl group optionally substituted with a substituent selected from the group consisting of: (2) a hydrogen atom; (3) a hydroxy group; (4) a carboxyl group; (5) —C(O)(O—C1-4 alkyl); (6) a phosphonooxy group; (7) —OP(O)(O—C1-4 alkyl) (8) an amino group; (9) a cyano group; (10) a nitro group; (11) a C1-4 alkylsulfonyl group; (12) a sulfonamide group; (13) a C1-4 alkylsulfonamide group; (14) an oxo group; (15) a carbamoyl group; (16) a C1-4 alkylamide group; (17) a C1-4 alkylcarbamate group; or (18) wherein an arrow a represents binding to the ring Cy X represents a bond, an oxygen atom, C═O or NH; a ring Cy R (1) a C1-6 alkyl group, a C2-6 alkenyl group, a C2-6 alkynyl group or a C3-6 cycloalkyl group optionally substituted with a substituent selected from the group consisting of: (2) a halogen; (3) a C1-4 alkoxy group; (4) a phosphonooxy group; (5) —OP(O)(O—C1-4 alkyl) (6) a sulfonamide group; (7) an oxo group; (8) —NH(C1-3 alkyl); (9) —N(C1-3 alkyl) (10) a carboxyl group; (11) —C(O)(O—C1-4 alkyl); (12) a carbamoyl group; (13) a C1-4 alkylamide group; (14) a hydroxy group; (15) an amino group; (16) a cyano group; (17) a nitro group; (18) a C1-4 alkylsulfonyl group; (19) a C1-4 alkylsulfonamide group; or (20) a C1-4 alkylcarbamate group; A A R (1) a halogen; or (2) a C1-3 alkyl group or C1-3 alkoxy group optionally substituted with a halogen; R (1) a halogen; (2) a C1-3 alkyl group or C1-3 alkoxy group optionally substituted with a halogen; or (3) a hydrogen atom; Y represents an oxygen atom, an optionally oxidized sulfur atom, a methylene group or C═O; Z represents: or a group: having an oxygen atom substituting for a carbon atom forming the ring; R R (1) a C1-6 alkyl group, a C3-6 cycloalkyl group, a C1-6 alkyl group having an oxygen atom substituting for a carbon atom or a C3-6 cycloalkyl group having an oxygen atom substituting for a carbon atom, all of which may be optionally substituted with: (2) a hydrogen atom; arrows b, c, d and e represent binding to the thiazole ring; p represents an integer of 0 to 5; q represents an integer of 0 to 7; r represents an integer of 0 to 2; w represents an integer of 1 to 5; and u represents an integer of 0 to 2; provided that when p, q, r and u respectively represent an integer of 2 or more, R | 11,689 |
9,231,466 | 1. An electronic circuit having a plurality of series circuits each of which has two metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) connected in series, a first power supply terminal being connected to one end of each of the series circuits, a second power supply terminal being connected to an opposite end of each of the series circuits, the electronic circuit comprising: a first bus bar, one end of which is connected to each of the first power supply terminals; a first external electric wire comprising the first bus bar, the first external electric wire connecting the first power supply terminals to one terminal of a power source; a second bus bar, one end of which is connected to each of the second power supply terminals; a second external electric wire comprising the second bus bar, the second external electric wire connecting the second power supply terminals to an opposite terminal of the power source; and a snubber circuit that suppresses surge voltage, the snubber circuit being provided in each of the series circuits and connected between the first bus bar connected to the series circuits through the first power supply terminal and the second bus bar connected to the series circuits through the second power supply terminal, wherein each of the snubber circuits includes a capacitor, one end of each of the snubber circuits is connected to a part of the first bus bar closer to the corresponding first power supply terminal, and an opposite end of each of the snubber circuits is connected to a part of the second bus bar closer to the corresponding second power supply terminal. | 9,868 |
9,164,775 | 1. A method of performing an out of band (OOB) job at a host comprising: transmitting a boot option query from the host to a service processor; determining if a current boot option is an OOB job; identifying at least one of a job type and a device type associated with the OOB job if the current boot option is an OOB job, wherein the job type and the device type are utilized to perform the OOB job; identifying a device for performing the OOB job based, at least in part, on the job type and the device type, wherein a unique identifier is associated with the device; selectively loading an Option ROM and a driver relating to the identified job type and the identified device type; and performing the OOB job. | 9,489 |
9,187,398 | 1. A method of synthesizing a mixture of organic acids, the method comprising the steps of: (a) combining, over time, in one or more closed reaction vessels, under a positive pressure of oxygen and with continuous mixing, an organic compound and an aqueous solution of nitric acid to form a first reaction mixture, wherein the organic compound and the aqueous solution of nitric acid are introduced into the one or more closed reaction vessels; (b) flowing said first reaction mixture through the one or more closed reaction vessels while maintaining (i) a controlled temperature of from about 5° C. to about 105° C. in a portion of the reaction vessel, (ii) a reaction vessel headspace temperature of from about 80° C. to about −42° C., and (iii) a controlled positive pressure of oxygen of from about 0 barg to about 1000 barg, to form a subsequent reaction mixture comprising a mixture of organic acid products and nitrogen oxides, wherein the reaction vessel headspace is maintained at a lower temperature than the temperature of the liquid phase; (c) recirculating the subsequent reaction mixture to the reaction vessel vapor space headspace until the nitric acid oxidation is quenched; and (d) recovering nitric acid from the subsequent reaction mixture, wherein the organic compound is selected from the group consisting of monohydric alcohols, diols, polyols, aldehydes, ketones, carbohydrates, hydroxyacids, cellulose, starch and combinations thereof. | 30,486 |
9,591,309 | 1. A method comprising: performing difference transformation of image samples; performing length selection; performing a prioritized ordering of difference data, said prioritized ordering comprises a defined stopping point for said prioritized ordering that excludes a plurality of image samples; and performing packing that comprises utilizing varying sized bit fields to produce a lossy compressed representation. | 44,013 |
9,089,083 | 1. An electrical circuit comprising: an input operable to receive an AC input voltage; a first inductive element coupled to the input and having first and second outputs connected to respective first and second nodes; a four-quadrant (4-Q) switch connected between the first and second nodes; a capacitor connected between the first node and a third node; a second inductive element connected between the third node and the second node; a first bidirectional device and a first diode connected in series between a positive output node and a negative output node, wherein a first terminal of the second inductive element is connected to a first conductor between the first bidirectional device and the first diode; and a second bidirectional device and a second diode connected in series between the positive output node and the negative output node, wherein a second terminal of the second inductive element is connected to a second conductor between the second bidirectional device and the second diode. | 5,655 |
8,726,399 | 1. A trusted apparatus, comprising: hardware adapted to implement: | 28,797 |
8,735,684 | 1. A seed of soybean cultivar S100168, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12723. | 18,622 |
9,153,554 | 1. A method of adjusting ultrasonic bonding energy on a wire bonding machine, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a reference relationship between increments of free air ball squash versus increments of ultrasonic bonding energy; b) determining an actual relationship between increments of free air ball squash versus increments of ultrasonic bonding energy on a subject wire bonding machine; and c) adjusting at least one ultrasonic bonding energy setting of the subject wire bonding machine such that an adjusted actual relationship between increments of free air ball squash versus increments of ultrasonic bonding energy of the subject wire bonding machine is closer to the reference relationship. | 17,251 |
8,787,045 | 1. A control method of inhibiting harmonic distortion of an input current for use in a power factor corrector, the power factor corrector being connected with a power conversion circuit and comprising a computing circuit, the power factor corrector being operated in a first mode or a second mode, the control method comprising at least steps of: (a) receiving a current command signal from the computing circuit; (b) comparing the current command signal with an input signal of the power conversion circuit, thereby generating a current error signal; (c) adjusting the current error signal; (d) judging whether the power factor corrector is operated in a transition interval between the first mode and the second mode, wherein if the judging condition is satisfied, an addition operation is performed on the unadjusted current error signal, a feedforward signal and the adjusted current error signal, thereby generating a current control signal; and (e) generating a switch control signal according to the current control signal, and controlling a switching element of the power conversion circuit according to the switch control signal, thereby inhibiting harmonic distortion of the input current. | 37,615 |
9,526,087 | 1. A method in a User Equipment (UE) for enabling providing reporting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) to a base station, comprising the steps of: obtaining information of a resource allocation from the base station, for which the radio resources span over at least two sub frames; obtaining at least an indication of a request for reporting CQI on the PUSCH in a plurality of transmissions for which the allocation is valid; and reporting CQI on the PUSCH in a plurality of transmissions for which the allocation is valid. | 24,004 |
8,350,527 | 1. A charging system comprising: a vehicle configured to be chargeable by an external power supply external to the vehicle; a charging cable for supplying electric power from said external power supply to said vehicle; and a relay provided on said charging cable, said vehicle including: a rechargeable power storage device; a charging port configured so that said charging cable can be connected to the charging port; a charger receiving electric power supplied from said external power supply for charging said power storage device; a control unit controlling said relay so that said relay is in an ON state while said power storage device is charged by said charger; and a communication unit using said charging port and said charging cable as a communication path for communicating with a communication device external to the vehicle, said control unit controlling said relay so that said relay is in an OFF state, in a case where communication with said communication device external to the vehicle by said communication unit has come to an end when charging of said power storage device by said charger comes to an end, and said control unit maintaining said relay in the ON state, in a case where communication with said communication device by said communication unit is continuing when charging of said power storage device by said charger comes to an end. | 31,115 |
8,967,686 | 1. An arrangement for fitting a handle device in an openable and closable element of a predetermined thickness, such as a door or a window, there being disposed, interiorly in the element a lock chamber through which extends a rod with a handle at each side of the element, and there being disposed between each handle and the element a washer or cover plate through which the rod also extends, and the rod being, in response to the predetermined thickness, insertable a greater or lesser distance in an opening in at least one of the handles and fixable there by means of an adjustable coupling, wherein the rod comprises a series of transverse grooves on an outwardly-facing surface of the rod, and the rod is provided with a slot through the outside of the rod, wherein the adjustable coupling comprises a body adapted to be fixed to the at least one handle, the body having barbs adapted to engage with the grooves on both sides of the slot, wherein the washer or the cover plate is connected to an adjustment device for adaptation of a position of the washer or the cover plate to a predetermined thickness, the body having a first end, a second end, a first flange extending substantially perpendicularly from the first end and a second flange extending substantially perpendicularly from the second end in a direction opposite the first flange, the adjustment coupling being separate from the washer or the cover plate and being fixable by radially outwardly engaging with the handle and engaging radially inwardly with the rod, and that the adjustment device and the lock chamber are interconnectable to one another by an intermediary of a coupling. | 44,011 |
8,353,866 | 1. A mixing syringe device for delivering a medicament or medical composition to a site of interest, the mixing syringe device comprising: a multi-chambered open lumen having a distal end and a proximal end, and having at least two longitudinally oriented chambers within an interior of said lumen, each of said chambers configured to store a medicament component or medical composition component in an interior; movable stopper mechanisms disposed at a first end of each chamber to seal said first end, one or more sealing mechanisms capable of temporarily or otherwise opening at the distal end of the multi-chambered open lumen to thereby enclose said chambers, and a syringe sealing mechanism at the distal end of the multi-chambered open lumen capable of creating a seal between the multi-chambered open lumen and a syringe barrel upon insertion of the multi-chambered open lumen within a hollow interior of the syringe barrel; and a syringe barrel having a distal end and a proximal end, and having a hollow interior and an outlet nozzle at said distal end; wherein said multi-chambered open lumen is configured to be movably fitted within the hollow interior of said syringe barrel in a sealing arrangement due at least in part to the syringe sealing mechanism, and the one or more sealing mechanisms are configured to temporarily or otherwise open upon creation of a pressure differential within said chambers of said multi-chambered open lumen due at least in part to movable displacement of the distal end of the multi-chambered open lumen toward the proximal end of the syringe barrel such that medicament component or medical composition component stored in the interior of each chamber is released into and mixed in the hollow interior of said syringe barrel to form a medicament or medical composition for delivery to a site of interest upon use. | 34,274 |
9,688,159 | 1. A method for limiting an operating temperature of a contactor within an electric vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: measuring a resistance within a contactor of an electric vehicle; estimating a temperature of the contactor using the measured resistance; comparing the estimated temperature of the contactor with a threshold temperature; and upon determining that the estimated temperature has exceeded the threshold temperature, limiting current through the contactor. | 33,000 |
8,399,147 | 1. An electrolyte-electrode joined assembly comprising an anode and a cathode with an electrolyte interposed therebetween, wherein the electrolyte comprises an apatite-type oxide in the form of a monocrystal having a face or a direction in which an oxide ion is transferred, or in the form of a polycrystal oriented along a face or a direction in which an oxide ion is transferred, the face or the direction being parallel to the thickness direction, the anode contains at least electron-conductive metal particles having a particle diameter of less than 50 nm, and oxide-ion-conductive oxide ceramic particles, the content of the oxide ceramic particles is less than 75 vol %, and the metal particles are in contact with each other continuously from one surface of the anode that faces the electrolyte to the other surface of the anode. | 36,914 |
8,379,207 | 1. An apparatus for estimating a fluid property comprising: a downhole carrier; an optic member disposed at the downhole carrier and configured to be exposed to downhole fluid; a material disposed within the optic member in at least a radially central portion of the optic member, the material responsive to interaction with components of the downhole fluid that penetrate the optic member; and a detector operably associated with the optic member that detects a change in the material, the change being indicative of the fluid property. | 5,874 |
8,895,745 | 1. A compound of formula (Id): wherein J and L are independently selected from carbon and nitrogen; R R R R R q represents an integer from 0 to 3; R Y and Z independently represent a bond, —CO—(CH R R m and n independently represent an integer from 1-4; s and t independently represent an integer from 0-4; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, with the proviso that the compound of formula (Id) is not: N-{2-fluoro-4-[6-(1-trityl-1H-4-pyrazolyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-yl]phenyl}-N′-isopropyl urea; or N-{2-fluoro-4-[6-(1H-4-pyrazolyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-yl]phenyl}-N′-isopropylurea. | 31,727 |
9,094,111 | 1. A system, comprising: a receiver transducer adapted and configured to receive ultrasonic waves generated by a sender transducer of a sender and to generate a receiver electrical signal based on the received ultrasonic waves; a receiver electrical storage device adapted and configured to store electrical energy based on the receiver electrical signal generated by the receiver transducer; a receiver communications device adapted and configured to send input to the sender, the input comprising a power requirement that causes the sender to change a dwell time of the sender on the receiver; and a receiver controller coupled to at least one of the receiver transducer and the receiver electrical storage device. | 6,953 |
9,808,793 | 1. A catalyst for use in hydrogen production by low temperature partial oxidation of light hydrocarbon, comprising: an oxide support, comprising a first metallic oxide and a second metallic oxide; wherein the first metallic oxide is zirconia (ZrO a first active metal, being nickel (Ni) and carried by the oxide support; wherein the first active metal, a first metal contained by the first metallic oxide, and a second metal contained by the second metallic oxide have a first weight ratio, and the first weight ratio being selected from the group consisting of 30:50:20, 30:35:35 and 30:20:50. | 15,236 |
9,723,663 | 1. A lighting system comprising: a lighting device, a power supply for powering the lighting device, and a switch electrically connecting the lighting device with the power supply wherein the switch is switchable between a high-power state, in which a higher power is provided to the lighting device via the switch, which allows the lighting device to emit the light in high-power mode, and a low-power state, in which a lower power is provided to the lighting device via the switch, which allows the lighting device to provide a further function in a low power mode, wherein the power supply is configured to supply AC power as the higher power and wherein the switch is configured to provide the higher power in the high-power state, and provide DC power as the lower power in the low-power state, and wherein the further function is at least one of a sensing function, processing function, and communication function, wherein the switch comprises a switching element, wherein the switch is configured such that in the high-power state the switching element is conducting, in order to provide the higher power to the lighting device via the switching element, and in the low-power state the switching element is not conducting, in order to provide power to the lighting device via a resistor or capacitor in the switch, wherein the resistor or capacitor is adapted such that in the low-power state the higher power supplied by the power supply is reduced to the lower power. | 22,255 |
8,547,242 | 1. A detecting circuit comprising: an indicating light configured to indicate whether a voltage rail provided by a power supply is within a predetermined voltage range; a switch component having a first terminal connected to the voltage rail, a second terminal connected to the indicating light, and a control terminal, the switch component is a chip integrated with an inverting gate, a first nor gate connected to an output terminal of the inverting gate, a second nor gate connected to the first nor gate, a first field effective transistor connected to the first nor gate, and a second field effective transistor connected to the second nor gate; and a control component, connected to the control terminal of the switch component, capable of controlling an on or off state of the switch component according to the voltage rail; wherein the control component is configured to switch on the switch component to power on the indicating light when the voltage rail is within the predetermined voltage range, and switch off the switch component to power off the indicating light when the voltage rail is out of the predetermined voltage range. | 37,854 |
9,350,831 | 1. A device, comprising: a first single wire protocol physical layer device that is configured to communicate bi-directionally with a second single wire protocol physical layer device via a single wire, wherein communication in a first direction over the single wire is via a voltage signal and communication in a second direction over the single wire is via a current signal; a digital communication block that is configured to transmit and to receive communication signals; and a selector module that is configured to couple the first single wire protocol physical layer device to an interface pin of the device when the device operates in a first mode using a single wire protocol for detection by the first single wire protocol physical layer device of a current signal from a second device, and to couple the digital communication block to the interface pin of the device when the device operates in a second mode using a two wire protocol for detection by the digital communication block of a voltage signal from the second device. | 45,705 |
8,562,085 | 1. An installation device for a slide assembly, comprising: a first rail; a second rail longitudinally movable relative to the first rail, the second rail having an opening, a first contact portion, a second contact portion and multiple holes including at least a first installation hole and a second installation hole, the first contact portion extending from an inner wall of the opening, the first installation hole located between the opening and the second contact portion; a retaining member having a base contacting the first contact portion of the second rail, a release portion extending from the base, a bent portion extending from the release portion and connected with an arm, the arm contacting the second rail so that the release portion is located away from the second rail; the arm extending from the bent portion and beyond the first installation hole of the second rail, the arm having a retaining hole and a positioning portion, the retaining hole located corresponding to the first installation hole of the second rail, the positioning portion located corresponding to the second contact portion of the second rail; a resilient portion extending from the arm and toward the release portion, the resilient portion connected to the second rail and providing a resilient force to keep the retaining hole of the arm facing the first installation hole of the second rail; the first installation hole of the second rail engaged with a first installation member of an exterior equipment, the second installation hole of the second rail engaged with a second installation member of the exterior equipment, the retaining hole of the arm of the retaining member accommodating the first installation member, the positioning portion of the arm contacting the second contact portion of the second rail, the first installation member located in the first installation hole by the retaining member; when a force is applied to the release portion, the arm of the retaining member being moved relative to the second rail and the positioning portion of the retaining member is disengaged from the second contact portion of the second rail, so that the first installation member is released from the first installation hole of the second rail and the retaining hole of the retaining member. | 41,612 |
9,329,521 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a charging member arranged to come into contact with a surface of an image carrier so as to electrically charge the surface of the image carrier; a charging bias power source applying a charging bias as a direct current voltage to the charging member; a developing member arranged to face to the surface of the image carrier so as to develop a toner image onto the surface of the image carrier; a developing bias power source applying a developing bias taken by superposing alternating current voltage and direct current voltage to the developing member; and a controlling device controlling the charging bias power source and developing bias power source, wherein the controlling device carries out pre-charging control, before starting image forming process transferring the toner image developed on the surface of the image carrier to a transferred medium, to control the charging bias power source so as to electrically charge the surface of the image carrier, and carries out post-charging control, after the image forming process is started, to control the charging bias power source and developing bias power source so as to adjust an electrical potential difference between a surface potential of the image carrier and developing bias to an electrical potential that forms an image difference preventing occurrence of image failure, and wherein the controlling device controls the developing bias power source so as to apply a first developing bias as a rated developing bias and controls the charging bias power source so as to apply a second charging bias higher than a first charging bias as a rated charging bias as the post-charging control. | 44,150 |
9,735,748 | 1. A system comprising: an antenna to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal; and a receiver coupled to the antenna to receive the RF signal via a first pin, the receiver including: | 13,278 |
8,800,415 | 1. A dispenser having an automatic transfer mechanism for dispensing at least first and second rolls of sheet material, comprising: a housing defining an interior space; first and second roll holders at least partially disposed in the interior space and configured to releasably engage the first and second rolls; a drive roller configured to drive the sheet material from the second roll to a feed nip; a diameter sensing member movably coupled with the housing and biased to move in a first direction; a blocker movably coupled with the housing and biased to move in a second direction; wherein the diameter sensing member has a stop; and wherein the blocker has a catch that cooperates with the stop to impede the blocker from moving in the second direction until the diameter sensing member has moved to a predetermined position in the first direction due to dispensing the first roll of sheet material. | 30,512 |
9,738,528 | 1. A method for preparing a graphene comprising: forming a mixed solution including a graphite oxide, a solvent, a first oxidizing agent; and a sulfur compound or a nitrogen compound; forming the graphene by reacting the mixed solution under a subcritical condition or a supercritical condition of the solvent; and recovering the graphene wherein the sulfur compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and the nitrogen compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 2: in Chemical Formula 1, A1 and A2 are each independently linear or branched C1-C10alkylene group or C6-C20 arylene group, and Q is a sulfur atom (—S—) or a sulfone group(—(O═S═O)—), and in Chemical Formula 2, at least one of R1 to R4 is a nitro group (—NO2), and the remainder is hydrogen, linear or branched C1-C7 alkyl group or C6-C20 aryl group. | 23,697 |
8,953,528 | 1. A method comprising: initializing a noise threshold value to a default value; detecting an ambient radio frequency (RF) noise level on a plurality of channels of a wireless network device by execution of processing instructions by a processor in the wireless network device, the wireless network device being configured to communicate with other wireless network devices of a wireless sensor network at the data link layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking model using established data communication protocols, the wireless network devices of the wireless sensor network being synchronized to a common global clock and operating in a low power listening mode with radios de-activated to conserve battery power when the wireless network device is not transmitting data to other wireless network devices of the wireless sensor network; if the ambient RF noise level detected on a pre-determined number of channels is above the noise threshold value, adjusting the noise threshold value by an increment and retesting the ambient RF noise level on the plurality of channels; if the noise threshold value exceeds a pre-determined maximum noise threshold value, suspending data communications by the wireless network device; and if the ambient RF noise level detected on a pre-determined number of channels is below the noise threshold value, retaining the noise threshold value and enabling data communications by the wireless network device. | 41,880 |
9,702,040 | 1. A method of preparing a super-hydrophobic thin film, the method comprising: forming a super-hydrophobic thin film by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on a substrate by using a precursor and a hydrogen gas, wherein the super-hydrophobic thin film comprises a hydrophobic group on a surface of the super-hydrophobic thin film. | 11,457 |
9,422,492 | 1. An integrated process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons from a feed containing at least one fraction of biomass and optionally at least one fraction of another feed, said process comprising: a) pretreating said biomass fraction and optionally said at least one fraction of another feed comprising at least one of a1), a2), a4): b) optionally combining the resultant pre-treated biomass fraction and said at least one fraction of another feed which may or may not have been pre-treated, c) gasifying the resultant effluent obtained from b) and/or of the pre-treated fraction obtained from step a) and optionally of said at least one fraction of another feed introduced directly into gasification in an entrained flow reactor, d) conditioning a synthesis gas obtained from c), comprising: e) recombining at least one fraction of each of the effluents obtained from d3) and d4), f) scrubbing the recombined effluent obtained from e) with water in order to eliminate impurities, g) eliminating acid gases CO h) finally purifying the synthesis gas obtained from g) over at least one guard bed in order to adsorb traces of impurities, i) subjecting the effluent obtained from h) to a catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction. | 37,164 |
8,454,314 | 1. A sectional vane for vertical axis wind power generator, a plurality of the sectional vanes being mounted around and spaced along a main shaft of the wind power generator, and each of the sectional vanes comprising: a frame unit including: a plurality of vane units, each of which includes a vane body; the vane body being provided on a top and a bottom with an upper and a lower guide channel, respectively, and being slidably assembled to and between the upper and the lower frame member through engagement of the upper and the lower guide channel with the upper and the lower guide rail, respectively. | 24,136 |
8,371,529 | 1. An interconnection, in particular in the aerospace sector, comprising: a T-stringer which has a web portion and two foot portions which are connected at an angle at one end of the web portion and are aligned approximately opposite one another; an Ω-stringer which has a comb portion and two foot portions which are connected at opposing ends of the comb portion and are aligned substantially opposite one another; and a connection arrangement which joins together the foot portions of the T-stringer and of the Ω-stringer, wherein the connection arrangement joins together the T-stringer and the Ω-stringer in their longitudinal directions and has a foot portion which joins together the foot portions of the T-stringer and of the Ω-stringer and has a web portion which is aligned substantially vertically to the foot portion, the web portion of the connection arrangement having on one end or on both ends bevels which taper off towards the foot portions of the T-stringer and of the Ω-stringer and the bevel forms an angle of approximately 15 to 45° with the foot portion, the foot portion of the connection arrangement having a first cut which tapers off towards the web portion of the T-stringer and having a second cut which is directed away from the web portion of the T-stringer; wherein the connection arrangement has a first connection element and a second connection element, the first connection element connecting a first foot portion of the T-stringer to a first foot portion of the Ω-stringer and the second connection element connecting a second foot portion of the T-stringer to a second foot portion of the Ω-stringer; wherein the first and second connection elements together have a substantially H-shaped outline; and wherein at least one angle bracket, in particular for connecting a former to the Ω-stringer and the T-stringer, is connected to widening foot portions of the first and second connection elements. | 9,772 |
9,846,577 | 1. A method comprising: initiating a preview graphical user interface (GUI) of a new Internet of Things (IoT) device within an IoT development application, wherein the preview GUI includes one or more graphical elements including a plurality of user-modifiable fields associated with one or more IoT device attributes; in response to initiating the preview GUI of the new IoT device, determining whether a corresponding real IoT device exists and, if not, then generating a virtual IoT device, wherein generating a virtual IoT device comprises searching for an existing device type definition that has a specific virtual device class set and, if found, using the existing device type definition, or creating a new device type definition if an existing device type definition is not found; associating the virtual IoT device or the corresponding real IoT device with a set of device attributes and presentation definitions; establishing a communication channel between the virtual IoT device or the real IoT device with a mobile app; in response to detecting updates to the attributes and/or presentation definitions from the preview GUI, transmitting the updates to the mobile app, the mobile app dynamically updating the attributes and presentation definitions. | 29,483 |
9,663,949 | 1. A slat ceiling apparatus, comprising: a first frame member and a second frame member; the first frame member including a first frame member base, a first frame member outer side extending upwardly from the first frame member base and a first frame member inner side comprising a plurality of upwardly extending tabs each extending upwardly from the first frame member base and having a first frame member inner side height, and a first frame gap defined between the first frame member inner side and the first frame member outer side; the first frame member includinq a first frame member outer side height greater than the first frame member inner side height; the second frame member including a second frame member base, a second frame member outer side extending upwardly from the second frame member base and a second frame member inner side comprising a plurality of upwardly extending tabs each extending upwardly from the second frame member base and having a second frame member inner side height, and a second frame gap defined between the second frame member inner side and the second frame member outer side; a plurality of first slots defined in the first frame member inner side between the first frame member tabs; a second slot defined in the second frame member inner side; and a first slat having a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end opposite the first longitudinal end, the first slat spanning between the first and second frame members, wherein the first longitudinal end is received in one of the plurality of first slots, and the second longitudinal end is received in slot. | 29,985 |
8,981,812 | 1. A logic circuit comprising: a gate comprised of a plurality of transistors wherein the plurality of transistors provide for logical evaluation; a plurality of input lines, each having an asserted state and a null state, connected to the gate; a flash input line, having a first state and a second state, connected to the gate; an output line, having an asserted output state and a null output state, connected to the gate; and a one-shot circuit wherein the flash input line is an input to the one-shot circuit and wherein the one-shot circuit is used to reset the gate and set the output line into the null output state. | 44,281 |
8,456,030 | 1. A wave energy converter (WEC) comprising: a float for moving up and down in phase with the waves; a spar for guiding the up and down movement of the float; the spar having an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion of the spar intended to be permanently submerged when the WEC is operational; and a power take off (PTO) device coupled between the float and the spar for converting their relative motion into useful energy including: (a) a drum having an axis of rotation rotatably mounted within one of the float and spar; and (b) cabling means connected between the drum and the other one of the float and spar for causing the drum to rotate as a function of the up and down motion of the float. | 26,037 |
8,550,051 | 1. An engine assembly comprising: an engine structure including: a piston located within the cylinder bore, the piston, the cylinder head and the cylinder bore defining a combustion chamber including: a first intake valve supported by the engine structure and selectively opening and closing the first intake port; a second intake valve supported by the engine structure and selectively opening and closing the second intake port; a first valve lift assembly engaged with the first intake valve; a second valve lift assembly engaged with the second intake valve; and a camshaft assembly rotationally supported by the engine structure and including a first intake lobe engaged with the first valve lift assembly and a second intake lobe engaged with the second valve lift assembly, the first intake lobe rotationally offset from the second intake lobe in a rotational direction of the camshaft assembly. | 6,888 |
9,267,202 | 1. A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, the method comprising: providing deposition apparatus comprising a deposition chamber, a deposition source configured to supply a deposition material, and a deposition source transfer mechanism configured to move the deposition source between a first source position and a second source position along a first direction: transferring, from outside the deposition chamber, a first substrate in a second direction to place the first substrate at a first substrate position within the deposition chamber; subsequently aligning a first deposition mask relative to the first substrate located at the first substrate location; subsequently performing deposition of the first substrate by applying the deposition material to the first substrate from the deposition source located at the first source position; transferring, from outside the deposition chamber, a second substrate in the second direction to place the second substrate at a second substrate position within the deposition chamber; while performing deposition of the first substrate, aligning a second deposition mask relative to the second substrate located at the second substrate position; after completion of deposition of the first substrate, transferring the deposition source from the first source position to the second source position along the first direction; and subsequently performing deposition of the second substrate by applying the deposition material to the second substrate from the deposition source located at the second source position. | 32,678 |
8,578,124 | 1. A memory operation method comprising: receiving a memory operation indication; performing a pre-reserve allocation process before proceeding with said memory operation, wherein said pre-reserve allocation process includes converting available unallocated memory space to allocated memory space if there is sufficient available unallocated memory space to perform said memory operation and pausing a memory operation status indication to an originating application until the pre-reserve allocation process is complete; executing said memory operation if said pre-reserve allocation process returns an indication that there is sufficient memory space allocated to perform said memory operation; and aborting said memory operation if said pre-reserve allocation process returns an indication that there is not sufficient memory space allocated to perform said memory operation. | 5,890 |
8,595,934 | 1. A method for producing a gear wheel, said method comprising: providing a radially inner hub body having external profiles formed with wave crests and wave troughs thereon and an inner recess for mounting said radially inner hub body on a shaft, providing an outer body having internal profiles formed with wave crests and wave troughs thereon and disposing said outer body surrounding said radially inner hub body, and providing an intermediate layer comprising a synthetic resin between and connecting said radially inner hub body and said outer body, wherein at least one of said radially inner hub body and said outer body is a forged steel part, wherein at least one of said external profiles of said radially inner hub body and said internal profiles of said outer body are produced having intermediate layer adhesion-enhancing rough surface areas, and wherein a tooth profile on a radial exterior of said outer body is finished by at least one of honing and grinding after connecting said radially inner hub body to said outer body. | 47,227 |
9,359,695 | 1. A method of making an anode, comprising the steps of: providing fibers from a carbonaceous precursor, the carbonaceous fibers having a glass transition temperature T placing the carbonaceous fibers into a layered fiber mat; fusing the fiber mat by heating the fiber mat to a temperature above the T carbonizing the fused fiber mat by heating the fused fiber mat to at least 650° C. under an inert atmosphere to create a carbonized fused fiber mat. | 3,443 |
8,691,068 | 1. A hybrid continuous and closed photo and thermo-chemical water splitting cycle method consisting essentially of the steps of: receiving a solar radiation; using only the quantum portion of a solar spectrum in a photoreactor for the simultaneous production of hydrogen and ammonium sulfate via photochemical oxidation of aqueous ammonium sulfite solution; reacting the ammonium sulfate with one of a metal oxide selected from a group consisting of ZnO, MgO, CaO, BaO, Fe using the solar thermal radiation for the simultaneous production of oxygen, metal oxide and sulfur dioxide based on one of the decomposition of metal sulfate and decomposition of metal pyrosulfate, wherein the heating rate is maintained at 5° C./min to 50° C./min; adding water to react with the ammonia and sulfur dioxide for the production of ammonium sulfite to close the hybrid photo/thermal water splitting cycles; supplying the regenerated ammonium sulfite to the photoreactor; repeating the steps starting with the hydrogen production step; wherein the method implements a closed water splitting cycle, and wherein only the water is consumed by the closed water splitting cycle. | 26,313 |
8,944,765 | 1. A system for controlling the orientation of the fan blades of a turboprop comprising at least one set of fan blades with adjustable orientation, said set being integral in rotation with a rotating ring connected mechanically with a rotating housing, each blade of the set being coupled, for control of its orientation, to a blade root support pivotably mounted on the rotating ring by means of a bevel gearset made up of a first bevel gear integral with the blade root support and centered on an axis radial to the rotating ring and a second bevel gear attached to the rotating ring, centered on an axis tangential to said rotating ring, and bearing a counterweight eccentric with respect to an axis of rotation of the second bevel gear, the system also comprising a cylinder centered on the axis of rotation of the rotating ring, rotating integrally with the rotating housing, and a rod thereof is connected to each counterweight through radial connecting rods and bellcranks, the system also comprising, for each radial connecting rod, a bellows of trunconical shape through which passes the radial connecting rod and having, at its wider end, means of attachment to a partition to be sealed and, at its narrower end, an O-ring through which the radial connecting rod is free to slide. | 25,433 |
8,445,014 | 1. A method for removing potassium from an animal subject in need thereof comprising administering core-shell particles comprising a core component encapsulated in a shell component to the animal subject, said core component comprising a potassium binding polymer, said shell component comprising a crosslinked amine functional polymer alkylated with hydrophobic agent(s). | 41,112 |
9,226,401 | 1. A multilayer ceramic electronic part to be embedded in a board, the multilayer ceramic electronic part comprising: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces opposing each other, first and second side surfaces opposing each other, and first and second end surfaces opposing each other; first and second internal electrodes stacked with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween and having first and second leads exposed to the first and second side surfaces of the ceramic body; and first and second external electrodes extending from the first and second end surfaces of the ceramic body to portions of the first and second main surfaces and the first and second side surfaces thereof, wherein when lengths from edges of the first or second external electrode formed on the first and second side surfaces of the ceramic body to points at which the first or second external electrode contacts the first and second leads are G the first internal electrodes are connected to the first external electrode by at least one first via extending to at least one of the first and second main surfaces of the ceramic body, and the second internal electrodes are connected to the second external electrode by at least one second via extending to at least one of the first and second main surfaces of the ceramic body. | 24,331 |
9,759,144 | 1. An engine comprising an EGR device which flows back a part of exhaust gas to intake air as EGR gas, characterized in that an actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio of intake pressure concerning exhaust pressure is calculated from detected exhaust pressure P an estimated intake/exhaust pressure ratio of the intake pressure concerning the exhaust pressure is calculated from an engine rotation speed and a fuel injection amount, and an EGR gas weight is calculated based on the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is less than a predetermined value, and the EGR gas weight is calculated based on the estimated intake/exhaust pressure ratio when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is not less than the predetermined value. | 32,591 |
8,978,361 | 1. An apparatus for delivering a reducing agent, the apparatus comprising: at least two elements selected from the group consisting of a storage device, a delivery device, a deflecting device, a detecting device, a separating device and an outlet device, at least one of said at least two elements being a pressure-sensitive element; a line device interconnecting said at least two elements, said line device forming at least one heat sink close to said pressure-sensitive element, said line device having a zone and other regions, said zone having a larger surface area than said other regions, and said zone forming said at least one heat sink; and said at least one heat sink providing a heat bridge connecting a region of said line device forming said at least one heat sink to components of a motor vehicle body or components positioned to be in intensive contact with the outside environment. | 3,088 |
9,650,622 | 1. A transport protein comprising a modified Clostridium botulinum serotype A neurotoxin heavy chain, the heavy chain comprising: (A) a H N -fragment of Clostridium botulinum serotype A of SEQ ID NOs.: 2, 4 or 5; and (B) a H C -fragment of Clostridium botulinum serotype A of SEQ ID NOs.: 2, 4 or 5, modified by the substitution of an amino acid at positions 1195, 1196, 1199, 1204, 1205, 1206, 1207, 1213, 1217, 1258, and/or 1260 with either a naturally occurring or a non-naturally occurring amino acid, wherein the H | 36,569 |
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