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9,518,472 | 1. A turbine engine stator wheel, comprising: a plurality of vanes each comprising an inner platform, an outer platform presenting attachment tabs on the outside, and at least one airfoil extending between the inner and outer platforms, the vane and the outer platform together with the attachment tab forming a single piece of ceramic matrix composite material or of organic matrix composite material; and a metal assembly ring in which the attachment tabs of the vanes are engaged, the metal ring supporting all of the vanes, extending continuously along the outer platforms of a plurality of adjacent vanes, and forming a distinct assembly part between the vanes and a casing. | 32,889 |
9,598,329 | 1. An ethylene oligomerization process for creating a refined 1-butene product from ethylene using an ethylene oligomerization system, the ethylene oligomerization process comprising the steps of: introducing a reaction solution into a process fluid contained in an internal fluid conduit of an internal baffle single pass reactor at about a proximal end of the reactor such that the process fluid traverses an operative length of the reactor by flowing along a process fluid flow pathway; introducing ethylene, an oligomerization pre-catalyst and a co-catalyst separately into the process fluid proximate to an oligomerization reaction zone such that the ethylene, the oligomerization pre-catalyst and the co-catalyst are distributed in the process fluid; introducing a catalyst inhibitor into the process fluid in a catalyst deactivation zone disposed in the internal baffle single pass reactor by way of a catalyst inhibitor injection port in fluid communication with the internal fluid conduit to terminate all oligomerization and side-reactions, the catalyst deactivation zone extending along the operable length of the internal baffle single pass reactor from about the catalyst inhibitor injection port to a distal end of the internal baffle single pass reactor, such that the catalyst inhibitor is distributed in the process fluid; passing unused catalyst inhibitor from the distal end of the internal baffle single pass reactor to avoid buildup of unused catalyst inhibitor in the internal baffle single pass reactor; and operating the ethylene oligomerization system such that where the ethylene oligomerization system comprises the internal baffle single pass reactor, the separation system and the external motion driver, where the internal baffle single pass reactor has the oligomerization reaction zone and the catalyst deactivation zone and where the catalyst deactivation zone is positioned downstream of the oligomerization reaction zone. | 4,777 |
9,448,048 | 1. A shell comprising a shell casing, a detonator, a payload, a shell base and a parting charge for ejection of the payload and the shell base from the shell over a target area, wherein the shell base, following separation from the shell, can be divided into smaller parts which are harmless for the environment, wherein the shell base comprises a cylindrical container comprising an upper, open end face part and a lower, closed end face part, and a disc-shaped cap detachably mounted on the upper open end face part, and wherein the cylindrical container comprises at least two closely packed discs, wherein the discs, following ejection of the shell base, can be divided into smaller disc parts via engraved kerfs on the discs. | 48,065 |
8,941,434 | 1. A system for transmitting data with reduced simultaneous switching output (SSO) noise, the system comprising: an encoder comprising a plurality of encoder inputs and a status output, the encoder inputs configured to operate in a plurality of input states, and to transition between the input states of the plurality of input states by a plurality of state transitions; and a plurality of input/output (I/O) circuits controlled by the encoder, the plurality of I/O circuits configured to operate in a plurality of I/O states, and to transition between I/O states of the plurality of I/O states by the plurality of state transitions; each I/O circuit of the plurality of I/O circuits associated with a power supply decoupling capacitance of a plurality of power supply decoupling capacitances, the decoupling capacitance of a first one of the plurality of I/O circuits being substantially smaller than the decoupling capacitance of a second one of the plurality of I/O circuits, each of the plurality of state transitions corresponding to a level of SSO noise when executed by the plurality of I/O circuits, the level of SSO noise of a first subset of the plurality of state transitions being lower than the level of SSO noise of a second subset of the plurality of state transitions; the encoder configured to: | 9,795 |
8,356,413 | 1. A method of making a foil bearing, the foil bearing having an inner surface, an inner portion, and an outer portion, the method comprising the steps of: thermally spraying a first material onto an outer surface of a sacrificial substrate to form the foil bearing inner portion, the first material comprising a solid film lubricant, and the outer surface having a shape that is complementary to the inner surface of the foil bearing; thermally spraying a second material over the inner portion to form the outer portion, the second material comprising a metal; removing the sacrificial substrate to expose an inner surface of the foil bearing; and cutting a portion of the foil bearing to form a slit therein; and bending the cut portion of the foil bearing outward to form a flange. | 16,003 |
9,086,910 | 1. A load control device including a processor for assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources, the load control device comprising: a receiver that receives a transaction process request; an assignment controller that selects assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then stores the transactions in transmission queues provided for the assignment destinations respectively, wherein at least one of the transmission queues comprises a hardware storage device; a transmitter that transmits transaction data stored in the transmission queues to the assignment destinations; an overflow detector that monitors whether or not the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues corresponding to the respective assignment destinations exceeds an upper limit; and a reassigning part that, when the number of transactions exceeds the upper limit as a result of the monitoring by the overflow detector, reselects assignment destinations to which the transactions stored at the number of transactions exceeding the upper limit are assigned, wherein an ON/OFF state of a power source of each of the computation resources is controlled based on an expected number of transactions, and the assignment controller selects the assignment destinations based on the ON/OFF state of the power source of each of the computation resources. | 46,307 |
8,924,305 | 1. An information distributing method executed by a request server arrangeable in a global network connected to a home network wherein the home network includes a user equipment and a digital media player, the method comprising: receiving, by the request server over the global network, a media request for a media content having a specific media type and format, the media request originating from the user equipment, said media request comprising a media identifier of said media content and a user identifier of a user of said user equipment; processing, by the request server, said media request in a request processor by: selecting, by the request server, response information; generating, by the request server, a response based on the selected response information and based on said detected specific media type and format of the media content, said response also being of said specific media type and format, wherein said response includes a message informing said user of the disallowed access to said media content; and transmitting, by the request server, said response over said global network to said user equipment, said response enabling rendering by the digital media player of said message. | 11,207 |
9,238,975 | 1. A lubrication device comprising: a lubricant feed circuit; a bypass circuit; and a valve interposed between the feed circuit and the bypass circuit and comprising: in the first position, a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the second outlet is open, while a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the first outlet is closed; and in the second position, the fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the first outlet is open, while the fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the second outlet is closed; wherein at least in the second position, the valve member separates the first and second chambers in substantially leaktight manner, while the second chamber remains in fluid flow communication with the second outlet. | 43,853 |
9,085,500 | 1. A process for producing a product containing propylene and ethylene by simultaneous conversion of methanol and ethanol through a reaction in an adiabatic sequentially operated reactor containing a plurality of reaction stages, the process comprising: providing each of the plurality of reaction stages of the reactor with a fixed bed of a form-selective catalyst; charging a gaseous feed stream comprising methanol, dimethyl ether, and H feeding ethanol into more than one of the reaction stages of the reactor; and directing an effluent from a first reaction stage of the reaction stages to a next reaction stage of the reaction stages, wherein the more than one reaction stages comprise the final reaction stage. | 1,498 |
9,119,845 | 1. A method for treating an alpha-synucleinopathy in an individual having or at risk of developing an alpha-synucleinopathy, wherein the individual does not have a mutation in the gene encoding beta-glucocerebrosidase, comprising administering to the individual (i) a pharmacological chaperone that binds to beta-glucocerebrosidase in an amount effective to treat the alpha-synucleinopathy, wherein treating the alpha-synucleinopathy comprises increasing the activity of β-glucocerebrosidase and thereby modulate the levels of alpha-synuclein and (ii) a second therapeutic agent, wherein the pharmacological chaperone is an isofagomine compound or derivative thereof. | 45,742 |
9,694,458 | 1. An interior cleaning device for a machine tool, said interior cleaning device comprising: a pipe arranged inside a cover covering at least a periphery of a machining section of the machine tool, and a pump for supplying liquid into the pipe, wherein the pipe includes: wherein the interior cleaning device is configured to eject the liquid, which is supplied by the pump into the second pipe, through the second ejection section and the first ejection section to clean accumulated substances accumulated inside the cover, and the first pipe further includes a hole for supplying air between the first pipe and the second pipe. | 18,186 |
8,744,496 | 1. A method for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to facilitate paging in high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) wireless communications, the method comprising: receiving, when the WTRU is in one of a Cell Paging Channel (CELL_PCH) and a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) Registration Area Paging channel (URA_PCH) state, HSDPA associated paging indicator channel (PICH) information elements comprising PICH information; compiling a list of candidate PICHs for HSDPA; determining a value k corresponding to the number of candidates; calculating a selection index equal to: where U_RNTI is a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) radio network transaction identity (U-RNTI) of the WTRU; selecting PICH information from the list of candidate PICHs based on the selection index; receiving a paging indicator over a PICH using the selected PICH information; receiving a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) radio network transaction identifier (H-RNTI); and receiving a high speed physical shared channel using the received H-RNTI. | 8,346 |
9,082,367 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel that has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which there is provided a display section formed of a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, wherein the second substrate has detection electrodes of a touch panel, wherein each pixel has a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, wherein the display section is divided into a plurality of blocks each of which is formed of the pixels disposed on a plurality of display lines adjacent to one another, wherein the counter electrode is an electrode common to the pixels in each block, wherein the counter electrode of each block also functions as a scanning electrode of the touch panel, wherein the liquid crystal display device has a driving circuit which supplies a counter voltage and a touch panel scanning voltage to the counter electrodes of the respective blocks, wherein the driving circuit has a gradation voltage generation circuit which generates a plurality of gradation voltages, wherein the gradation voltage generation circuit has a plurality of amplifier circuits which output the plurality of gradation voltages, wherein each amplifier circuit has a current adjustment circuit capable of adjusting current flowing in the amplifier circuit itself, and wherein the driving circuit | 8,176 |
9,540,524 | 1. Process for the preparation of a dispersion containing carbon nanotubes, which comprises the following steps: 1. preparation of a mixture of dispersing agent, dispersing aid and, optionally, carbon nanotubes, 2. if carbon nanotubes have been added in step 1, optional pre-dispersion of the mixture from step 1, 3. dispersion of the mixture from step 1 or of the pre-dispersed mixture from step 2, wherein the dispersion is carried out using a high-pressure homogenizer, during which the viscosity of the dispersion increases to a maximum and then decreases and wherein all or part of the mixture is guided in a loop during the dispersion, wherein further CNT agglomerates are added continuously or discontinuously to the mixture during the dispersion, an initial dispersion being obtained, 4. further dispersion of the initial dispersion obtained in step 3 in the high-pressure homogeniser, optionally in loop mode, a final dispersion being obtained. | 26,800 |
8,977,332 | 1. A device comprising: a retractor, for retracting a tissue, comprising a shaft, a first member coupled to a proximal end of the shaft, and a tip coupled to a distal end of the shaft, wherein the tip comprises a retractor portion and an oximeter sensor; a force sensor operatively coupled to the retractor via the first member; and a second member, wherein the force sensor comprises a first connection point and a second connection point, and the first connection point of the force sensor is coupled to the first member and the second member is coupled to the second connection point of the force sensor. | 10,183 |
9,219,412 | 1. A buck converter having an input and an output and comprising: a high-side switch, a low-side switch, a protection switch and a shutter switch, each having a respective control terminal and respective first and second main terminals; the first low-side main terminal being connected to a ground, the second low-side main terminal and the first high-side main terminal being connected to a converter node, the second high-side main terminal being connected to the second protection main terminal and the first protection main terminal being connected to an input node such that the high-side switch and the protection switch are in anti-series, the first shutter main terminal being connected to the protection control terminal, the shutter control terminal being electrically coupled to the input node, and the second main shutter terminal being directly connected to the output; wherein either; (a) the protection switch is a NMOS transistor and the shutter control terminal is electrically directly coupled to the input node; or (b) the protection switch is a PMOS transistor and the shutter control terminal is electrically coupled to the input node by a floating supply for providing an offset voltage from a voltage at the input node. | 31,890 |
8,437,806 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a first display configured to display data according to a user input, the first display including a light-emitting display; a second display including an electronic paper display; and a controller configured to: | 6,498 |
8,507,231 | 1. A high throughput method for converting starch-containing plant material to one or more fermentation products comprising: providing a plurality of samples comprising starch-containing plant material; drying said samples to achieve a specific moisture level; liquefying each sample by heating the sample in a convected oven to obtain a liquefact, fermenting the liquefact of each sample in a small volume container under conditions sufficient for obtaining one or more fermentation products; pasteurizing said samples under conditions sufficient to terminate fermentation; wherein one or more fermentation products is produced. | 3,006 |
9,195,239 | 1. A method for controlling a system for metering and mixing a product consisting of two components, namely a first component ( 4 ) and a second component ( 5 ) designed to be mixed in a mixer ( 3 ) at a predetermined metering ratio, the system comprising two pumps, namely a first, double-acting, reciprocating pump ( 1 ) capable of feeding the first component ( 4 ) into the mixer ( 3 ), and a second, double-acting, reciprocating pump ( 2 ) capable of feeding the second component ( 5 ) into the said mixer ( 3 ), the movement of the piston of each of the first and second pumps ( 1 , 2 ) being reversible, the method comprising the following steps: actuating the first pump ( actuating the second pump ( continuously determining the volume remaining in each of the first and second pumps ( triggering the reversal of the piston of the first pump or the second pump after having determined that the volume remaining in the first pump or the second pump in the current direction i) of expulsion or ii) of suction and of expulsion is insufficient to ensure the said predetermined metering ratio, wherein, the feeding of the first component ( the feeding of the second component ( the second component ( | 28,663 |
8,870,883 | 1. A method of guiding a tool relative to a portion of an anatomy with a moving guide member, comprising: positioning a track member relative to the anatomy; positioning the guide member relative to the anatomy with the track member in a first position; guiding the tool relative to the anatomy with the guide member in the first position; moving the guide member to a second position; and guiding the tool relative to the anatomy in the second position. | 26,369 |
9,222,168 | 1. A forming method of a laminated structure by internal oxidation, comprising: forming an alloy coating layer, wherein the alloy coating layer has a columnar grain structure and comprises a first metal element and a second metal element, and the first metal element is oxidized more easily than the second metal element; and performing a thermal oxidation treatment process to the alloy coating layer, so as to form a plurality of oxide layers and a plurality of metal layers stacked alternately along a growth direction of the columnar grain structure from a surface portion of the alloy coating layer, wherein a material of the oxide layers comprises an oxide of the first metal element, and a material of the metal layers comprises the second metal element. | 9,518 |
9,037,086 | 1. A method for controlling a Bluetooth device, comprising the steps of: establishing a Bluetooth link; controlling the Bluetooth device to enter sniff mode; handling a sniff anchor point after wakeup preparation and before sleep preparation; handling a first wakeup operation between the wakeup preparation and the sleep preparation; and appending the first wakeup operation to coincide with the sniff anchor point when a timing interval of first wakeup operations and a timing interval of sniff anchor points are equal or multiples of each other. | 41,957 |
8,884,056 | 1. A method of decreasing the amount of an aromatic aldehyde in a composition comprising: reacting the aromatic aldehyde in the presence of a reaction medium comprising a nucleophilic solvent, an ionic liquid, or combinations thereof, and a carboxylic acid, the reaction taking place at a pH in a range of 1 to 5 in the absence of a hydrogenating agent and an oxidizing agent, to form an aromatic carboxylic acid, an aromatic alcohol or both. | 40,051 |
9,839,733 | 1. A blood pump system for providing ventricular assistance to a patient, the blood pump system comprising: a continuous flow blood pump; a motor drivingly coupled with the continuous flow blood pump; and a control unit operatively coupled with the motor, the control unit including a processor and memory storing (a) target pump characteristic data defining a target pressure-flow curve for the continuous flow blood pump, the target pressure-flow curve being different from a pressure-flow characteristics curve of the continuous flow blood pump when driven by the motor at a constant rotational rate, and (b) instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: | 22,361 |
8,398,130 | 1. A tray anti-opening apparatus comprising: a housing adapted to be fixedly coupled to a crash pad; a tray retractably received in the housing; a rotary bar hingedly coupled to the housing to be rotatable in a vertical pitch direction and in a horizontal yaw direction with respect to the tray, wherein the rotary bar is rotated in the vertical pitch direction upon impact when an impact force is applied to a vehicle; and a pin coupled on an one end of the rotary bar, wherein an end of the pin is selectively inserted into an insertion hole formed in the vertical direction in the tray when the rotary bar is rotated in the vertical pitch direction by the impact force applied to the vehicle, wherein the rotary bar is rotatably coupled to the housing by a joint having a first rotational axis and a second rotational axis such that the rotary bar is rotatable about the first rotational axis in the horizontal yaw direction and about the second rotational axis in the vertical pitch direction; and wherein the rotary bar includes a weight on the other end thereof. | 24,342 |
8,565,841 | 1. A cell phone comprising: a radio communication transceiver/receiver unit which transmits and receives speech or data by radio; a broadcast receiver which receives broadcast waves such as of a TV broadcast; a power supply unit which supplies power to each of the radio communication transceiver/receiver unit and the broadcast receiver; a power supply management unit which manages supply of power to the radio communication transceiver/receiver unit or the broadcast receiver; a power supply monitoring unit which monitors the is operable to monitor a useful power level of a battery; and a TV viewing information storage unit that stores an ON or OFF operating condition of a function of restricting the viewing of the TV broadcast, wherein, when the function of restricting is set ON, the power supply management unit directs the power supply monitoring unit to check the useful battery power level, and, when the function of restricting is set OFF, the power supply monitoring unit is not directed to check the useful battery power level, and further, when the function of restricting is set ON; an alarming unit which alarms the user that the useful power of the battery is less than a useful battery power level threshold value while a broadcast is being received, the battery supplying power to the broadcast receiver; and a power supply restricting unit which restricts the supply of power to the broadcast receiver after the alarm has been provided, wherein the power supply restricting unit turns off a television function of the cell phone if a non-interrupt switch of the cell phone is not depressed. | 26,979 |
8,715,289 | 1. A medical device for preparing a bone of a joint of a patient comprising: a miniaturized numerically controlled instrument having a housing, the housing including a controller, a processor, a guide connector, and a tool driver; a patient-specific reference guide having a connecting portion removably coupled to the guide connector of the housing, wherein the patient-specific reference guide has a three-dimensional inner surface preoperatively configured from preoperative scans of the bone of the joint conducted as part of a preoperative plan to mirror and mate with a corresponding surface of the bone of the joint of the patient in only one position, the inner surface configured to automatically register the numerically controlled instrument to the patient's bone intraoperatively; and a cutting tool removably coupled to the tool driver, the cutting tool movable within the tool driver by the controller along a patient-specific tool path determined during the preoperative plan for preparing a portion of the bone of the patient while the guide connector of the housing is mounted on the connecting portion of the patient-specific reference guide; wherein the processor converts the patient-specific tool path to signals for the controller; and wherein the controller operates the tool driver from the signals. | 7,776 |
8,446,032 | 1. A hydroelectric power generator assembly for generating electrical power from a moving body of water, the power generator assembly comprising: a buoyant power generator comprising: | 35,195 |
8,838,310 | 1. A control device for a hybrid vehicle for outputting motive power to a drive shaft with an internal combustion engine and a motor generator serving as a driving source, said hybrid vehicle including a first motor generator capable of generating electric power with the motive power received from said internal combustion engine, a power split device configured to mechanically distribute the motive power from said internal combustion engine between said first motor generator and said drive shaft, a second motor generator having a rotation shaft coupled to said drive shaft, and a power storage device capable of supplying and receiving electric power to and from said first and second motor generators, said internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas recirculation device for recirculating part of exhaust gas to an intake pipe of said internal combustion engine again through a recirculation valve, said control device comprising: a during-abnormality travel control unit programmed to cause said hybrid vehicle to travel in limp-home mode with said internal combustion engine serving as a driving source when abnormality of said second motor generator is detected; and a during-abnormality operation limitation unit programmed to limit operation of said internal combustion engine during travel in said limp-home mode, said during-abnormality operation limitation unit programmed to prohibit operation for recirculating the exhaust gas by said exhaust gas recirculation device during travel in said limp-home mode. | 30,115 |
9,255,171 | 1. An oligomer-polymer composition comprising an oligomer composition O having a weight average molecular weight of from 1000 to 150,000 g/mol (measured by GPC), and a polymer composition P having a weight average molecular weight of at least 80,000 g/mol (measured by GPC), wherein the oligomer composition O and the polymer composition P each independently comprise a copolymer comprising: (a) optionally at least 23% by weight of at least one monomer represented by Formula 1: where both R (b) optionally at least one hydrophilic monomer in an amount sufficient that the resultant copolymer has an acid value less than 150 mg KOH per g of polymer, (c) optionally of one or more monomers represented by Formula 2: where R X with the proviso that when X (d) optionally less than 77% by weight of monomers other than components (a), (b) or (c), where the percentages or amounts of (a), (b) (c) (d) are by weight calculated as a proportion of the total weight of (a)+(b)+(c)+(d) and thus total 100%; where independently at least one of the components (a), (b), (c), (d) and the copolymer obtained from components (a), (b), (c) and/or (d) is biorenewable as defined by an amount of carbon-14 sufficient to produce a decay of at least about 1.5 disintegrations per minute per gram carbon (dpm/gC); and where at least one component (a) is present in either oligomer composition O or polymer composition P, and wherein the oligomer-polymer composition comprises: (a) component (a) in an amount from 24% to 70% by weight being one or more monomers represented by Formula 1 (b) component (b) being one or more acid functional monomer(s) in an amount from 0.5% to 15% by weight, in an amount also sufficient that the resultant copolymer has an acid value of from 3 to 100 mg KOH per g of polymer, (c) component (c) in an amount from 0.01% to 10% by weight being one or more monomers represented by Formula 2 in which X (d) component (d) if present in an amount less than 75% by weight of monomer(s) other than components (a), (b) or (c) not containing styrene, butyl acrylate, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate and/or mixtures thereof; and with the provisos that | 13,313 |
9,199,798 | 1. A drive apparatus, comprising: a first gear fixed to an axial conveyance screw arranged within a case; a second gear arranged in tandem with the first gear in an axial-center direction of the conveyance screw; a third gear that meshes with the first gear and the second gear to impart a drive power to the both gears; a first support member that supports the first gear to enable movement in one radial direction; and a second support member that supports the second gear to disable movement in a radial direction, wherein the number of teeth of the first gear is different from the number of teeth of the second gear, a side surface at the second gear side in the first gear is formed with a first cam unit that protrudes toward the second gear, a side surface at the first gear side in the second gear is formed with a second cam unit that protrudes toward the first gear, and when the first cam unit and the second cam unit work together, a circumferential relative displacement, generated along with rotation of the third gear, between the first gear and the second gear is configured to be converted into a displacement in the one direction of the first gear, in a predetermined period in accordance with the number of rotations of the third gear. | 28,677 |
8,841,969 | 1. An automatic gain control feedback amplifier, comprising: an amplification circuit unit configured to amplify voltage input from an input terminal and output the amplified voltage to an output terminal; a feedback circuit unit connected between the input terminal and the output terminal and including a feedback resistor unit of which a total resistance value is determined by one or more control signals and a feedback transistor connected to the feedback resistor unit in parallel; and a bias circuit unit configured to supply predetermined bias voltage to the feedback transistors; wherein the amplification circuit unit includes | 46,075 |
8,967,972 | 1. A turbine blade comprising a tip end carrying a shroud and at least one fin, which extends radially away from the shroud, the fin comprises a first sidewall and a second sidewall, which are spaced apart from each other, and are connected to the shroud, and a cutting edge, which is connected to the first and second sidewalls, said cutting edge thereby creating a hollow space between the sidewalls, the shroud, and the cutting edge, and further extends radially away from the first and second sidewalls; wherein the wall thickness of the first and second sidewalls are constant in a radial direction for at least 50% of the sidewall height. | 3,439 |
8,362,322 | 1. A method of increasing lignin content in a plant, said method comprising: a) introducing into a plant cell an isolated nucleic acid comprising a regulatory region operably linked to a polynucleotide encoding a lignin-modulating polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having 95% or greater sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:149, said polypeptide having a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent epimerase/dehydratase domain; and b) selecting a plant produced from said plant cell that has at least a 35% increase in lignin content in a tissue of the plant as compared to the lignin content in tissue of a corresponding control plant that does not comprise said nucleic acid. | 38,507 |
9,199,215 | 1. A Fischer Tropsch (“FT”) reactor comprising: at least one FT tube; a primary cooling fluid flow path that extends in a direction that is substantially parallel to the longitudinal length of the FT tube; and a secondary cooling fluid flow path, wherein the secondary cooling fluid flow path circumscribes at least a length of the primary cooling fluid flow path and extends in a direction that is different than the direction of the primary cooling fluid flow path, wherein the secondary cooling fluid flow path is not in fluid communication with the primary cooling fluid flow path within the FT reactor. | 15,381 |
8,555,101 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an input/output (I/O) device adapted to implement a layered protocol stack for communication on a serial interconnect, the I/O device including, receiving logic adapted to receive a power state request referencing a power state; storage adapted to hold a referencing to the power state associated with a plurality of power sub-states; and configuration logic adapted to select a power sub-state of the plurality of power sub-states based at least in part on an algorithm relating power consumption associated with the I/O device to a performance metric associated with the I/O device and to configure the I/O device according to specifications of the power sub-state in response to selecting the power sub-state. | 7,130 |
9,767,891 | 1. A method comprising: providing passive write assist to a memory comprising an array of memory cells by: | 30,205 |
8,999,993 | 1. A radioprotector compound of Formula I: wherein and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates or tautomers thereof. | 25,566 |
8,378,336 | 1. A liquid crystalline organic semiconductor material, comprising a thermotropic liquid crystalline compound having at least one bonding form selected from the group consisting of (p-type organic semiconductor compound residue)-(n-type organic semiconductor compound residue)-(p-type organic semiconductor compound residue), and (n-type organic semiconductor compound residue)-(p-type organic semiconductor compound residue)-(n-type organic semiconductor compound residue), wherein the phase transition temperature of the liquid crystalline compound between a liquid crystal phase and an isotropic liquid phase in a temperature raising step is 200° C. or higher. | 7,592 |
9,768,337 | 1. A photonic bandgap structure, comprising: a first layer of Gallium Phosphide (GaP); a layer of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs); a first conductive layer located between said first layer of Gallium Phosphide and said layer of Gallium Arsenide, with the distance from a top surface of said first layer of Gallium Phosphide to a bottom surface of said layer of Gallium Arsenide being less than 200 nanometers; a second conductive layer; a second layer of Gallium Phosphide, with said second layer of Gallium Phosphide lying between said first conductive layer and said second conductive layer, said first conductive layer being in direct contact with said first layer of Gallium Phosphide; a third conductive layer and a fourth conductive layer; a third layer made of Gallium Phosphide with said third layer of Gallium Phosphide lying between said second conductive layer and said third conductive layer and said layer of Gallium Arsenide lying between said third conductive layer and said fourth conductive layer; a fifth conductive layer; a first layer of Germanium, with said first layer of Germanium lying between said fourth conductive layer and said fifth conductive layer; a second layer of Germanium located below and connecting to said fifth conductive layer; said fifth conductive layer being located below and connecting to said first layer of Germanium; said first layer of Germanium being located below and connecting to said fourth conductive layer; said fourth conductive layer being located below and directly connecting to said layer of Gallium Arsenide; said third conductive layer being located below and connecting to said third layer of Gallium Phosphide; said third layer of Gallium Phosphide being located below and connecting to said second conductive layer; said second conductive layer being located below and directly connecting to said second layer of Gallium Phosphide; said second layer of Gallium Phosphide being located below and connecting to said first conductive layer, and said first conductive layer directly connecting to said first layer of Gallium Phosphide; and wherein: said first, said second, said third, said fourth, and said fifth conductive layers have real dielectric constants which are less than zero; and a total thickness from a top surface to a bottom surface of said photonic bandgap structure is less than one micron. | 23,831 |
9,010,640 | 1. A stream dot pattern, comprising: a plurality of reference dots consecutively arranged in a single line according to a predetermined rule; and an information dot which is located at an end point of a vector expressed with one of a plurality of virtual reference points as a start point and whose information is defined by at least one of a distance and a direction from the virtual reference points, wherein the virtual reference points are provided at predetermined positions on a second virtual reference line, the second virtual reference line is virtually defined at a predetermined position from the reference dots and/or a first virtual reference line and is formed by a straight line and/or a curve, and the first virtual reference line is virtually provided on the plurality of reference dots and is a single line formed by a straight line or a polygonal line and/or a curve. | 40,030 |
9,819,942 | 1. A method to encode an image comprising: selecting an intra prediction mode; performing transformation and quantization to obtain transform coefficients of the image; and performing entropy encoding of the transform coefficients scanned according to a scanning mode selected based on the selected intra prediction mode, wherein the scanning mode is selected to be a horizontal scanning mode when the selected intra prediction mode is a vertical intra prediction mode, and the scanning mode is selected to be a vertical scanning mode when the selected intra prediction mode is a horizontal intra prediction mode. | 29,172 |
8,492,996 | 1. A load control device with an adjustable high-end trim for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source, the load control device comprising: a bidirectional semiconductor switch coupled in series electrical connection between the source and the load, and operable to control the amount of power delivered to the electrical load between a low-end trim and the adjustable high-end trim, the semiconductor switch having a control input for controlling the semiconductor switch in response to a firing voltage signal derived entirely from analog control circuitry; and a user-accessible adjustment actuator for adjusting the high-end trim of the load control device from a first level to a second level lower than the first level, the adjustment actuator mounted on a front surface of the load control device, the adjustment actuator inaccessible to a user when a faceplate is mounted on the load control device, the adjustment actuator accessible to a user when the faceplate is not mounted on the load control device; wherein actuations of the user-accessible adjustment actuator have substantially no affect upon the low-end trim of the load control device. | 36,798 |
8,790,067 | 1. An engine comprising: a blade stage; a circumferential array of blade outer air seal segments; and a support ring carrying the blade outer air seal segments and comprising: | 29,295 |
8,409,536 | 1. An exhaust gas purification apparatus of an internal combustion engine comprising: a selective reduction type NOx catalyst that is arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; and a reducing agent addition part that is arranged in said exhaust passage at an upstream side of said selective reduction type NOx catalyst, and adds a reducing agent for supplying NH wherein said selective reduction type NOx catalyst has an active spot which purifies NOx by the use of NH a vicinity site, which is located in the vicinity of said active spot, and a distant site, which is located distant from said active spot, exist in said adsorption site; said vicinity site tends to deliver NH a control part is provided which controls the addition of the reducing agent from said reducing agent addition part based on the desorption rate of NH | 19,918 |
9,279,357 | 1. An exhaust component for combustion gases coming from a motor vehicle engine comprising: at least one exhaust duct delimited by a wall comprising an end segment; at least one flange having a bearing surface, the flange delimiting at least one exhaust gas inlet communicating with the exhaust duct, the exhaust gas inlet being delimited by a cannon connected to the flange, the cannon being attached to the end segment; and at least one outer neck attached to the end segment, wherein the end segment is arranged between the flange and the outer neck, the end segment being pierced with at least one hole between the flange and the outer neck, and the end segment, the flange, and the outer neck being secured through the addition of a filler material; an interstice between the cannon and the end segment is tubular and separates the cannon from the end segment radially with respect to a central axis of the exhaust gas inlet; and an interstice between the end segment and the outer neck is tubular and separates the cannon from the end segment radially with respect to a central axis of the exhaust gas inlet, and wherein the filler material is infiltrated between the flange and the end segment of the exhaust duct, through the hole, and in the interstice between the end segment and the outer neck. | 47,801 |
9,179,675 | 1. A method for modulating emergence of monocotyledonous, sedge or dicotyledonous weeds in a substrate in need thereof comprising applying to the weeds and/or the substrate an amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of N-(decenoyl)pyrrolidine, N-(trans-cinnamoyl)pyrrolidine, (2E,4Z-decadienoyl)pyrrolidine, N-(decenoyl)piperidine, (2E,4Z-decadienoyl)piperidine, (2E,4Z-decadienoyl)hexamethyleneimine, and N-(decenoyl)hexamethyleneimine effective to modulate emergence of monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous weeds in said substrate. | 30,364 |
9,619,852 | 1. A mobile device coupled to a communications network for authenticating a user comprising: a user interface, a first sensor and a second sensor, and a transaction authentication information unit, said transaction authentication information unit operating an authentication workflow comprising an a user specific authentication context and an explicit authentication task, said user specific authentication context based on a plurality of user specific information, said transaction authentication information unit receiving a first data set from said first sensor associated with a first user specific authentication context, said transaction authentication information unit receiving a second data set from said second sensor, said second data set associated with a second user specific authentication context, and said transaction authentication information unit dynamically calculating a weighting for said first data set and said second data set and based on said weighting, said first data set, and said second data set, determining a correlation between said first data set and said second data set, said weighting being adapted based on said first data set or said second data set, said transaction authentication information unit based on said correlation authenticating said user, wherein if said correlation is less than a threshold, the authentication is unsuccessful and the transaction authentication information unit initiates said explicit authentication task. | 36,877 |
8,763,299 | 1. A vertically adjustable scope base comprises, a rail assembly; a front base; a rear base; an incline mechanism; an incline adjuster; a pivot fastener; the rail assembly comprises an optics mount, an incline mechanism mount, and a pivot mechanism mount; the front base comprises a pivot mechanism and a front base attachment mechanism; the rear base comprises a threaded sleeve and a rear base attachment mechanism; the incline mechanism comprises an incline mechanism housing, an adjuster bevel gear, an extension rod bevel gear, and a threaded extension rod; the adjuster bevel gear comprises an axle mount; and the extension rod bevel gear comprises an extension rod mount. | 28,320 |
9,790,663 | 1. A work vehicle comprising: an engine; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine; a work implement driven by hydraulic fluid discharged from the hydraulic pump; a work implement operating member configured to operate the work implement; a work implement control valve configured to control a hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the work implement; a capacity control device having a load sensing valve and controlling the discharge capacity of the hydraulic pump so that a differential pressure between a discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump and an outlet hydraulic pressure of the work implement control valve becomes a predetermined value; a travel device driven by the engine; a power transmission device including an input shaft, an output shaft, and a motor, the power transmission device transmitting driving power from the engine to the travel device, the power transmission device being configured so that a rotation speed ratio of the output shaft with respect to the input shaft is changed by changing a rotation speed of the motor; an accelerator operating member configured to change an engine rotation speed; and a control unit configured to increase a speed of the work implement by increasing the engine rotation speed when an operation amount of the work implement operating member is increased, and to control a tractive force of the vehicle by controlling an output torque of the motor, the control unit determining a required tractive force which is a target tractive force of the travel device on the basis of the operation amount of the accelerator operating member and controls the output torque of the motor so that the tractive force of the vehicle becomes the required tractive force, the control unit including a storage unit configured to store required flow rate information which defines a relationship between the operation amount of the work implement operating member and a required flow rate to the hydraulic pump, the control unit determining the required flow rate corresponding to the operation amount of the work implement operating member by referring to the required flow rate information, and the control unit determining the engine rotation speed on the basis of the required flow rate and the discharge capacity of the hydraulic pump. | 19,978 |
9,536,589 | 1. A method of operating a memory controller, the method comprising: transmitting data signals to a memory device over each one of at least two parallel data links; sending a timing signal to the memory device on a first dedicated link, the timing signal having a fixed phase relationship with the data signals; driving a data strobe signal to the memory device on a second dedicated link; receiving phase information from the memory device, the phase information generated internal to the memory device and based on a comparison between the timing signal and a version of the data strobe signal internally distributed within the memory device to sample the data signals; and adjusting a phase of the data strobe signal relative to the timing signal based on the received phase information. | 24,867 |
8,824,270 | 1. A method of communicating using orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signaling in a communication network comprising: sending an echo profile probe from a first node; receiving the echo profile probe at a second node; determining a channel delay spread using the received echo profile probe; calculating, based on the channel delay spread, a minimum cyclic prefix length that maintains signaling orthogonality; and transmitting the cyclic prefix length from the second node to the first node. | 9,729 |
9,512,780 | 1. A heat transfer assembly for controlling heat transfer of a turbine engine having a housing and having a compressor, a combustor and a turbine located within the housing, the compressor having a compressor vane and the turbine having a turbine vane and a turbine blade, said heat transfer assembly comprising: a flow control device comprising a sidewall coupled to the turbine and in flow communication with the compressor vane, said sidewall configured to define a first flow path from the compressor vane to the turbine vane and a second flow path from the compressor vane to the turbine blade; a heat exchanger coupled to the housing and located between the compressor and the turbine, said heat exchanger in flow communication with at least one of said first flow path and said second flow path, wherein said heat exchanger is coupled to the housing and inboard of the combustor; and a fluid supply device coupled to said housing and comprising an inlet and an outlet, said inlet and outlet coupled to said heat exchanger in flow communication and configured to direct a cooling fluid through said heat exchanger. | 1,900 |
9,849,793 | 1. An electrical storage system comprising: a main battery configured to supply electric power to a driving motor of a vehicle; an auxiliary battery configured to supply electric power to an auxiliary mounted on the vehicle; a bidirectional DC-DC converter provided between the auxiliary battery and a power supply path from the main battery to the driving motor, the bidirectional DC-DC converter being configured to step down an output voltage from the power supply path to the auxiliary battery, the bidirectional DC-DC converter being configured to step up an output voltage from the auxiliary battery to the power supply path; and a controller configured to: control charging and discharging of the auxiliary battery; when an allowable output power of the main battery decreases and an electric power becomes insufficient for a required vehicle output, supply an electric power to the power supply path by discharging the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter; and when an allowable input power of the main battery decreases and a regenerated electric power generated by the driving motor is not entirely charged into the main battery, charge part of the regenerated electric power into the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter, wherein the main battery is a non-aqueous secondary battery, the controller is configured to control a discharge electric power so that the discharge electric power does not exceed the allowable output power, the controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value, the controller is configured to reduce the allowable output power when the evaluation value exceeds a target value, the controller is configured to, when the evaluation value indicates a state where an ion concentration in an electrolyte of the main battery is biased to a discharge side before the evaluation value exceeds the target value, discharge the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter and charge an electric power from the auxiliary battery into the main battery, and the evaluation value is a value for evaluating a degradation component that reduces output performance of the main battery as a result of a bias of the ion concentration due to discharging of the main battery on the basis of a current value during charging and discharging of the main battery. | 3,360 |
9,800,499 | 1. An Ethernet switch for routing Ethernet data packets, the switch comprising: a data ingress port; a plurality of data egress ports; network fabric connecting the data ingress port with the data egress ports, and comprising a plurality of interconnected switching elements; an encapsulator connected for reception of an incoming data packet from the ingress port, and configured to generate an internal data packet comprising a header portion and a payload portion, the header portion including routing information relating to a route through the interconnected switching elements, and derived from routing information of an incoming data packet, and the payload portion comprising that incoming data packet, wherein the encapsulator is also configured to determine whether the routing information of the incoming data packet relates to a link aggregation group having multiple links associated therewith, and, if so, to generate link aggregation group information including a network route value for inclusion in the header of the internal data packet, wherein the encapsulator is further configured to select a link aggregation group algorithm based upon the routing information, the selected link aggregation group algorithm selected from a plurality of possible algorithms, the encapsulator subsequently using the selected link aggregation group algorithm to determine a distribution value and add the distribution value to the header of the internal data packet, the distribution value providing a preferred distribution across the egress ports used to form the link aggregation group, and wherein the distribution value is thus used for determining selection of one of the links associated with the link aggregation group for routing of the data packet concerned. | 10,825 |
9,360,922 | 1. A data processing system comprising: a microcontroller; a memory IC which includes a nonvolatile RAM array configured to perform read and write of data and to retain the data even in a standby state in which a power supply to the nonvolatile RAM array is cut off, and which is accessible by the microcontroller; and a power supply unit operable to control the power supply to the microcontroller and the memory IC, separately, wherein when a control signal to control the read and write of data to the nonvolatile RAM array is at a high level, the memory IC is enabled to perform the read and write of data to the nonvolatile RAM array, and when the control signal is at a low level, the memory IC is disenabled to perform the read and write of data to the nonvolatile RAM array, and wherein the microcontroller sets the control signal at a low level, when the memory IC is shifted to the standby state by the power supply unit. | 13,736 |
9,281,749 | 1. A power supply system comprising a plurality of power supplies, each of the plurality of power supplies comprising: an oscillator system configured to generate a clock signal at a clock node, wherein the oscillator system of each of the plurality of power supplies is electrically coupled at the clock node to synchronize the clock signal associated with each of the plurality of power supplies; a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator configured to generate a PWM switching signal based on an error voltage and the clock signal; and a power stage configured to generate an output voltage based on the PWM switching signal. | 25,479 |
9,550,430 | 1. A method for dynamic and forward management of recharging of batteries with electric power, the method comprising the steps of: associating a single power supply point with a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle being comprised of a rechargeable battery and a user; electrically connecting each vehicle to said single power supply unit; identifying each vehicle after the step of electrically connecting each vehicle, wherein the step of identifying each vehicle comprises the steps of: determining a forward duration, a forward beginning time of said forward duration, and a forward ending time of said forward duration for each vehicle based on recorded data of said single power supply unit and said confirmed data; determining a schedule for each vehicle to recharge for a respective forward duration, wherein the step of determining a schedule comprises the steps of: recharging each vehicle according to a respective schedule at said single power supply unit. | 31,825 |
9,614,199 | 1. A feedthrough through a housing component of a housing, the feedthrough comprising: a material which is a glass material or a ceramic material; and at least one conductor embedded in said material and guided through an opening in the housing component, said at least one conductor having a cross section and at least two sections including a first section having a first substantially round cross section with a diameter (ID) in a region of the feedthrough through said material and a second section having a second substantially non-round cross section, said at least one conductor being a one-part component, said first substantially round cross section having a first cross-sectional area which is substantially the same as a second cross-sectional area of said second substantially non-round cross section. | 4,108 |
8,909,370 | 1. An interactive system comprising, in combination: (a) a robot; and (b) an operator interface for accepting input from and displaying output to a remote human operator; in which system | 17,746 |
9,344,150 | 1. A broadband powerline communications device comprising: a mains electrical wiring connection configured to receive mains electrical power; an electrical socket coupled to the mains electrical wiring connection and configured to provide the mains electrical power; a mains filter disposed between the mains electrical wiring connection and the electrical socket for minimizing noise resultant from a further device coupled to the electrical socket, the mains filter including at least one capacitor and at least one inductor; energy consumption monitoring circuitry configured to monitor energy consumption of the further device, wherein the energy consumption monitoring circuitry utilizes (1) the at least one capacitor in determining the instantaneous level of the voltage supplied to the further device, and (2) the at least one inductor in determining the instantaneous level of the current supplied to the further device; a Powerline Communication (PLC) interface configured to communicate broadband data via the mains electrical wiring connection; a broadband communications interface; a communications interface configured to bridge communications between the PLC interface and the broadband communications interface; and a processor configured to control the bridging of communications between the PLC interface and the broadband communications interface. | 27,028 |
9,851,064 | 1. A vehicle lamp comprising: a lens component made of a resin; an insertion portion formed on the lens component; a lamp body made of a resin; and a groove formed in the lamp body, and inner surface of the groove having an adhesive portion and a non-adhesive portion, the insertion portion being inserted into the groove and the lens component being fixed to the lamp body by a moisture curing type adhesive introduced into the groove, wherein, at least a portion of the insertion portion received in the groove and directly touching at least a portion of the non-adhesive portion, with the adhesive portion facing and spaced apart from the insertion portion by a gap with a constant thickness ranging from 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm, and the moisture curing type adhesive being disposed within the gap. | 18,154 |
9,281,426 | 1. A method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: fabricating a system, said system comprising a light amplification element and a charge transport element, said light amplification element comprising at least one of a light induced physical change element and a light-induced chemical change element, each of said light amplification element and said charge transport element comprising one or more of a graphene layer, graphene oxide, graphene nano platelets, functionalized graphene, a graphene hybrid composite, graphene/superconductor composite, tubular shaped nano carbon, semiconductor powder, thin film, nano wire, and nano rod, said graphene layer having a thickness that is between 0.1 nanometer and 50 micrometers, said charge transport element comprising at least one of a composite of hybrid graphene, a composite of graphene nano platelets, and a polymer, when exposed to light energy, said system adapted to undergo at least one of: wherein said light amplification element is adapted to: | 27,851 |
8,864,058 | 1. An apparatus for producing a colored powder of a polymeric material, the apparatus comprising: a pulverizer which produces a powder from polymeric material, wherein the temperature of the powder increases during pulverization; and a mixer which mixes the powder with a colorant while the powder retains at least some of the temperature increase produced by the pulverization; wherein the colorant is a liquid formulation which further comprises a water component to facilitate coating of the powder at the increased temperature in which a portion of the water component is driven off upon contact in the mixer with the increased temperature powder. | 46,182 |
8,535,255 | 1. A device for stabilizing a limb, comprising: a. a cushioned therapeutic boot comprising a leg engaging portion, a foot engaging portion, and a leg-accepting aperture extending along a front side of the side boot, b. a stabilization block, c. a tether, said tether having an end secured to said block and said tether extending from said block, and d. a fastener means for securing the stabilization block in place on the boot for stabilizing the limb, with said block being located on one side of said tether and said fastener means being located on an opposite side of said tether. | 12,785 |
8,932,430 | 1. A semiconductor manufacturing processing system, comprising: a processing chamber configured to house a workpiece that is operated upon by a process that results in an effluent byproduct, wherein the semiconductor manufacturing processing system comprises a plasma ashing system configured to remove material from a surface of the workpiece; an exhaust conduit in direct communication with the processing chamber and configured to receive the effluent byproduct evacuated from the processing chamber to a downstream abatement system; and an afterburner unit comprised within the downstream abatement system and in direct communication with the exhaust conduit, wherein the afterburner unit is configured to generate an abatement plasma that is used to remove the effluent byproduct from the exhaust conduit at a location downstream of the processing chamber, the afterburner unit comprising: | 30,065 |
9,260,193 | 1. A longitudinal beam being made from a composite material and being in the shape of an L, the longitudinal beam comprising: at least one longitudinal web extending along one edge of the longitudinal beam at least one sole on which the at least one longitudinal web is fastened along an edge of the sole and at least one hinge yoke positioned along the beam between the web and the sole, wherein the sole forms at an end at least one receiving part in a form of an open space formed by a ceiling of the sole tapering down in a longitudinal direction of the beam to a floor of the sole, and the receiving part is open toward an opposite side relative to said at least one hinge yoke, and wherein an interface of an ash pan is inserted into the open space of the receiving part. | 42,432 |
8,820,446 | 1. A vehicle, comprising: a power storage device configured to be rechargeable; an electric motor configured to generate driving force for driving said vehicle by using electric power stored in said storage device; a charging mechanism configured to supply electric power output from a power source outside said vehicle to said power storage device; and a controller configured to control state of charge of said power storage device when said power storage device is charged, said controller including: a state estimating unit configured to calculate an index value indicating said state of charge; a detecting unit configured to detect abnormality occurred in said power storage device, and a setting unit configured to increase an upper limit value of said index value when prescribed condition related to deterioration of said power storage device is satisfied, wherein said setting unit is configured to set an amount of change of said upper limit value such that possible distance of travel of said vehicle attains to a target distance or longer, to make smaller said amount of change as the number of increase of said upper limit value increases, to increase said upper limit value repeatedly until said upper limit value reaches a standard value, to maintain said upper limit value at said standard value once said upper limit value reached the standard value, and to maintain said upper limit value at a present value when said abnormality is detected by said detecting unit. | 10,209 |
9,312,697 | 1. A solar generation unit, comprising: a solar module having a discharge controller coupled with the solar module, the discharge controller having wherein when in the first state, the at least one switch wherein when in the first state, the solar cells connected between the positive pole and the negative pole are further connected via the short circuit between the positive pole of the solar module and the positive output terminal and via the short circuit between the negative pole of the solar module and the negative output terminal to output electricity to outside of the solar generation unit through the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal of the discharge controller; wherein when in the second state, the at least one switch wherein when in the second state, the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal do not output electricity from the solar cells. | 48,362 |
8,633,340 | 1. A process for preparing 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,3-dichloropropane (243 db), which process comprises (i) contacting 3,3,3-trifluoropropene (1243zf) with chlorine in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises activated carbon, alumina and/or an oxide of a transition metal. | 42,103 |
8,880,189 | 1. A method of treating discogenic lumbar back pain in a patient comprising: positioning a plurality of electrodes within an anterior epidural space of the patient to a position adjacent to a posterior longitudinal ligament and/or a posterior annulus fibrosus; generating one or more electrical impulses with a pulse generator; and transmitting the electrical impulses through said electrodes to one or more nerves in said posterior longitudinal ligament and/or posterior annulus fibrosus, wherein the electrical impulses at least partially relieve pain associated with the discogenic back pain without producing significant heat-damage to any tissue of the patient, and wherein at least one of the one or more nerves experiences non-thermal, irreversible electroporation. | 7,526 |
8,572,577 | 1. A method for monitoring changes to a value of a program variable within a threaded program which comprises different program threads configured for concurrent execution, the threaded program not changing the value of the program variable outside a predetermined section of the threaded program if the different program threads are properly synchronized with each other, the method comprising the steps of: a debugger program setting a first break point for a start of the predetermined section, and setting a second break point for an end of the predetermined section; the debugger program receiving a command to monitor for the changes to the value of the program variable; the debugger program initiating execution of the threaded program, and during the execution of the threaded program a program tool coupled to the debugger program monitoring execution of the threaded program; responsive to a change to the value of the program variable by one of the program threads in the different program threads, the program tool identifying the change to the value of the program variable, within the threaded program, resulting from the execution of the one program thread in the threaded program; the program tool determining whether the change to the value of the program variable occurred between the start and the end of the predetermined section of the threaded program or outside the start and the end of the predetermined section based on whether the change occurs while the one program thread is executing between the first break point and the second break point; and | 31,958 |
9,637,735 | 1. A method of preparing a conditionally active biologic protein, the method comprising steps of: i. selecting the wild-type mammalian biologic protein; ii. evolving a DNA which encodes the wild-type mammalian biologic protein using one or more evolutionary techniques to create mutant DNAs; iii. expressing the mutant DNAs to obtain mutant proteins at least one of which exhibits both (a) a decrease in activity in an assay at a normal physiological condition that is within a normal range of the physiological condition at a site of administration of the conditionally active protein to a subject, or at a tissue or organ at a site of action of the conditionally active protein of a subject, when compared to the activity of the wild-type mammalian biologic protein in the assay at the same normal physiological condition, and (b) an increase in activity in an assay under an aberrant condition that deviates from the normal range of the physiological condition at the site of administration of the conditionally active protein, or at the tissue or organ at the site of action of the conditionally active protein, when compared to an activity of the wild-type mammalian biologic protein in the assay at the same aberrant condition; iv. selecting a mutant protein exhibits both (a) a decrease in activity in the assay at the normal physiological condition when compared to the activity of the wild-type mammalian biologic protein in the assay at the same normal physiological condition, and (b) an increase in activity in the assay under the aberrant condition when compared to the activity of the wild-type mammalian biologic protein in the assay at the same aberrant condition; and v. producing the conditionally active biologic protein from the mutant protein selected in step (iv) by a technique selected from a protein chemical synthesis technique and a recombinant technique, and wherein the normal physiological condition and aberrant condition are the same condition selected from the group consisting of temperature, pH, osmotic pressure, osmolality, oxidation and electrolyte concentration. | 27,613 |
9,556,502 | 1. A forged 6xxx aluminum alloy wheel product consisting of; (a) 1.15-1.40 wt. Mg; (b) 0.70-0.95 wt. % Si; (c) 0.35-0.50 wt. % Cu; (d) less than 0.05 wt, % V; (e) less than 0.05 wt. % Zr, from 0.05 to 0.30 wt. % Fe, from 0.05-0.15 wt. % Mn, not greater than 0.30 wt. % Cr, and from 0.01 to 0.10 wt. % Ti; (f) the balance being aluminum and other elements, wherein each one of the other elements does not exceed 0.05 wt, in the forged 6xxx aluminum alloy wheel product, and wherein the total of the other elements is not more than 0.15 wt. % in the forged 6xxx aluminum alloy wheel product; wherein the forged 6xxx aluminum alloy wheel product realizes a longitudinal tensile yield strength of at least 45 ksi and an elongation of at least 8% when tested in accordance with ASTM E8 and B557; and wherein the forged wheel product realizes an average radial fatigue life of at least 1,000,000 cycles as tested in accordance with SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) Standard No. J267 (2007), with a 2.8× load factor applied. | 39,518 |
8,420,102 | 1. A composition comprising at least a portion of at least one flagellin that initiates an intracellular signal transduction pathway for a Toll-like Receptor and a portion of a protein of a naturally occurring influenza viral hemagglutinin that lacks a transmembrane domain, a cytoplasmic domain and an HA2 subunit and includes at least a portion of a globular head and at least a portion of at least one secondary structure having at least one β-sheet at a bottom of the portion of the globular head that causes the portion of the globular head to essentially retain its tertiary structure. | 5,441 |
8,405,506 | 1. A secure data entry device comprising: a housing; a protective enclosure located within said housing; tamper sensitive circuitry located within said protective enclosure; and tampering alarm indication circuitry arranged to provide an alarm indication in response to attempted access to said tamper sensitive circuitry, at least part of said tampering alarm indication circuitry being located within said protective enclosure, said tampering alarm indication circuitry comprising: at least one conductor forming part of said protective enclosure; a signal generator operative continuously, whether or not the secure data entry device is operative as a secured keypad device, to transmit a signal along said at least one conductor; and a signal analyzer operative to receive said signal transmitted along said at least one conductor and to sense tampering with said at least one conductor, said signal analyzer being operative to sense said tampering by sensing changes in at least one of a rise time and a fall time of said signal, said at least one of said rise time and said fall time being less than a time normally required for said signal to traverse said at least one conductor. | 8,209 |
9,313,584 | 1. A hearing assistance suitability determining device comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory memory storing thereon a program which is executed by the processor the program causes the processor to: receive hearing ability information indicating hearing levels of a subject for respective frequencies; determine at least one of hearing ability types that corresponds to the hearing ability information, based on a tendency in a change of the hearing levels with respect to the frequencies derived from the received hearing ability information and first predetermined correspondence relationship between each of frequency tendencies and each of the hearing ability types; determine a suitability of the subject for dichotic hearing assistance based on the determined hearing ability type and corresponding second predetermined correspondence relationship, the second predetermined correspondence relationship indicating, for each of the hearing ability types, amounts of clarity improvement each indicating a degree by which a clarity of each of the speech sounds perceived by the subject is improved by the dichotic hearing assistance, the speech sounds including vowels, consonants and a combination of the vowels and the consonants; and present the determined suitability, wherein the suitability is determined based on the amounts of clarity improvement corresponding to the determined hearing ability type. | 13,327 |
9,822,459 | 1. A clamper that is provided at a holding jig used when immersing a plate-shaped workpiece into a surface treatment liquid, and that clamps the workpiece, the clamper comprising: a first clamping member having a first base portion and a first contact portion that is to be in contact with one surface of the workpiece; a second clamping member having a second contact portion that is to be in contact with another surface of the workpiece; and a clamping member biasing member configured to bias at least one of the first clamping member and the second clamping member in a direction of bringing the first contact portion and the second contact portion closer to each other, wherein the first contact portion has a plurality of plate spring portions extending from the first base portion, the plurality of plate spring portions configured to elastically deform independently from each other to come into contact with the workpiece, wherein each of the plate spring portions includes an extending portion extending from the first base portion, and a turnback portion bent at an end of the extending portion, wherein a bending angle of the turnback portion with respect to the extending portion is acute so that the turnback portion comes into surface contact with the workpiece, and wherein elastic deformation of the first contact portion makes the bending angle more acute. | 18,552 |
9,561,976 | 1. A coupling bioreactor for treating malodorous gas and wastewater simultaneously, the coupling bioreactor being in the form of a tower type seal structure, and the coupling bioreactor comprising: a) a water inlet pipe; b) an air inlet pipe; c) a gas inlet pipe; d) a first and a second microporous aerator; e) a water distributor; f) a suspended carrier; g) a gas outlet pipe; h) a water outlet pipe; i) an annular overflow weir, the annular overflow weir comprising an annular sidewall and an annular groove; j) a biofilm; and k) a net cover, the net cover being in a disc shape and comprising a circular edge; wherein: the coupling bioreactor is filled with the suspended carrier; the biofilm is attached to the suspended carrier; the suspended carrier is a polyethylene; a ratio of a volume of the suspended carrier to a capacity of the coupling bioreactor is between 30% and 50%; a ratio of a height to a diameter of the coupling bioreactor is between 3 and 10; the water inlet pipe is adapted to receive wastewater; the gas inlet pipe is adapted to receive malodorous gas; the water inlet pipe, the air inlet pipe, and the first microporous aerator are arranged at a bottom of the coupling bioreactor; the water inlet pipe is connected to the water distributor; the air inlet pipe is connected to the first microporous aerator; the gas inlet pipe and the second microporous aerator are arranged at a middle part of the coupling bioreactor and are connected with each other; the annular overflow weir is arranged at an upper part of the coupling bioreactor and is connected to the water outlet pipe; the circular edge is connected to a top edge of the annular sidewall; the gas outlet pipe is arranged at a top of the coupling bioreactor; and when in use, when the malodorous gas and wastewater are introduced into the coupling bioreactor, the suspended carrier moves randomly in the coupling bioreactor. | 6,399 |
9,718,847 | 1. A compound having formula (Va): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, a tautomer, a stereoisomer or a deuterated analog thereof, wherein: R R R R R R R optionally substituted with from 1 to 2 R wherein the wavy line indicates the point of attachment to the rest of molecule. | 22,683 |
8,779,639 | 1. A drive apparatus for a hybrid vehicle, comprising: an input shaft configured to be rotatably connected to an engine; a motor including a rotor and a stator, the stator being positioned outwardly relative to the rotor in a radial direction of the motor and being held inside a stator holder which has a flange portion extending in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor; an output shaft arranged coaxially with the rotation axis of the rotor and connected integrally with the rotor; a clutch device selectively engaging the input shaft with the output shaft; and a case supporting the input shaft and the output shaft in a manner that the input shaft and the output shaft are rotatable about the rotation axis, accommodating the motor and the clutch device, and including an oil sump for pooling oil; wherein the case includes an end face portion to which the flange portion of the stator holder is fixedly attached; at least one recessed portion is provided on a peripheral wall portion of the case, at a position where the peripheral wall portion is located lower than a level of the oil pooled in the oil sump and where the peripheral wall portion faces the stator holder; and the recessed portion extends in a direction of the rotation axis beyond an axial end face of the stator holder in the direction of the rotation axis and extends to reach the end face portion to provide a fluid communication within the oil sump which is separated by the stator into a front oil sump and a rear oil sump in the direction of the rotation axis. | 32,148 |
9,695,073 | 1. A method of generating a dual biocide comprising: providing a divided electrolytic cell; supplying a sodium chloride solution to the cell to generate an elemental chlorine and a sodium hydroxide effluent stream from the electrolytic cell, wherein the electrolytic cell comprises an anode chamber and a cathode chamber separated by a cation exchange membrane, and wherein the cathode chamber contains a cathode and the anode chamber contains an anode; applying a potential to the electrolytic cell: combining at least a portion of the elemental chlorine stream with the sodium hydroxide stream to form a first biocide sodium hypochlorite solution; and combining at least a portion of the elemental chlorine stream with a salt solution to generate a second biocide at a point of use, wherein a sub-stoichiometric amount of said salt solution generates said second biocide in combination with chlorine and a stoichiometric amount of said salt solution generates said second biocide alone. | 49,264 |
9,228,216 | 1. A process for converting a substrate compound of structural formula (I) to the product compound of formula (II): wherein, | 24,155 |
9,597,324 | 1. A method for treating Parkinson's disease in an individual, which method comprises administering to the individual an effective amount of C-benzyl isofagomine. | 40,676 |
8,811,897 | 1. A Near Field Communication (NFC) device that performs NFC with a reader/writer, said NFC device comprising: an antenna unit configured to receive radio waves from the reader/writer by NFC; a first power source unit configured to generate power from the radio waves received by said antenna unit; a second power source unit that is a drive power source different from said first power source unit and that is capable of being powered ON or OFF; a power-supply state recording unit configured to record power-supply state information indicating a power-supply state of said second power source unit; an NFC unit configured to transmit the power-supply state information recorded on said power-supply state recording unit to the reader/writer via said antenna unit by using NFC; a power source switch unit configured to switch between said first power source unit and said second power source unit according to the power-supply state of said second power source unit, in order to supply power to activate at least said NFC unit and said power-supply state recording unit; a system control unit configured to receive power from said second power source unit and rewrite the power-supply state information recorded on said power-supply state recording unit; a first clock generation unit configured to generate a first clock signal according to the radio waves received by said antenna unit; a second clock generation unit configured to generate a second clock signal to be used for operating said system control unit, from a voltage supplied from said second power source unit; and a clock selection unit configured to select between the first clock signal and the second clock signal so as to be provided to said power-supply state recording unit, wherein said power source switch unit is configured to: (i) switch from said first power source unit to said second power source unit in order to supply power to said NFC unit and said power-supply state recording unit, when said second power source unit supplies power to said system control unit; and (ii) switch from said second power source unit to said first power source unit in order to supply power to said NFC unit and said power-supply state recording unit, when said second power source unit does not supply power to said system control unit, said system control unit is configured to: (i) rewrite the power-supply state information recorded on said power-supply state recording unit to indicate that said second power source unit is powered ON, when said second power source unit is powered ON from OFF; and (ii) rewrite the power-supply state information recorded on said power-supply state recording unit to indicate that said second power source unit is powered OFF, when said second power source unit is powered OFF from ON, and said clock selection unit is configured to select the first clock signal while said power-supply state recording unit is activated by power supplied from said first power source unit. | 5,001 |
8,595,918 | 1. An image taking system comprising: an image sensor including a plurality of unit cells provided in an image taking area of said image sensor, each of said unit cells being configured to perform a photoelectric conversion; an interest-region setter configured to set a plurality of regions of interest within said image taking area; an acquiring-condition determiner configured to determine at least two image-data acquiring conditions required for acquiring respective at least two image data generated in respective at least two of said plurality of regions of interest that are set by said interest-region setter; and an image-data acquirer configured to acquire the at least two image data, by the respective at least two image-data acquiring conditions that are determined by said acquiring-condition determiner, wherein said acquiring-condition determiner includes an exposure-time determining portion configured to determine, as the at least two image-data acquiring conditions, at least two exposure times required for acquiring the respective at least two image data generated in the respective at least two of said plurality of regions of interest, such that the determined at least two exposure times are different from each other, said image-data acquirer includes an exposure-time-based-image-data acquiring portion configured to acquire the at least two image data generated in the respective at least two of said plurality of regions of interest, such that the acquired at least two image data are based on the respective at least two exposure times that are different from each other, and at least one of (i) the setting of said plurality of regions of interest by said interest-region setter and (ii) the determination of the at least two image-data acquiring conditions by said acquiring-condition determiner, is executed before said image-data acquirer acquires the at least two image data. | 11,015 |
9,811,015 | 1. A toner particle, including: two or more glass transition temperatures, wherein a first glass transition temperature for a core of the toner particle is in a first range from 5 degrees centigrade to equal to or less than 9 degrees centigrade; a second glass transition temperature for a shell of the toner particle is in a second range from 50 degrees centigrade to 65 degrees centigrade, and a difference between the first glass transition temperature and the second glass transition temperature is within a third range from 40 degrees centigrade to 50 degrees centigrade. | 18,730 |
9,180,060 | 1. An omni-directional electric vehicle, comprising: a body having a chair portion on which a user sits; a first detector configured to detect an operation direction and an operation amount of an operation input by the user; and at least one hardware processor configured to execute a program so as to operate as: a first processor configured to generate, based on the operation direction and the operation amount, travel control information including (i) a target straight-movement speed for moving the body in a forward/backward direction set to the body and (ii) a target rotation speed for rotating the body about a rotation center set on the body; and a controller configured to cause the body to turn a corner or a curve according to the travel control information so as to currently perform straight-movement and rotational movement of the body, wherein the first processor is configured to dynamically shift, based on the target straight-movement speed, a position of the rotation center in the forward or backward direction from a reference position previously and fixedly set on the body, and when a magnitude of the target rotation speed is greater than or equal to a threshold, the first processor is configured to dynamically shift the position of the rotation center in a direction closer to an inner side of the corner or the curve. | 23,187 |
9,490,489 | 1. An apparatus for manufacturing fuel cell stack components for integrally bonding gas diffusion layers to both surfaces of a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) basic material, the MEA basic material having an MEA and sub gaskets, the apparatus comprising: a frame; an upper die disposed on the frame to be movable in a vertical direction; a lower die disposed on the frame, and configured to support the MEA basic material and the gas diffusion layers at a lower side of the upper die; bonders disposed at each of the upper die and the lower die and configured to compress the MEA basic material and the gas diffusion layers at a high temperature and a high pressure; steam injectors disposed in the bonders and configured to inject steam to the MEA basic material and the gas diffusion layers; and an ultra-pure water storage tank configured to store ultra-pure water for generating steam to the bonders, and to supply the ultra-pure water to the bonders. | 34,847 |
9,073,048 | 1. An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst comprising a substrate and a catalytic layer supported by the substrate, the catalytic layer comprising: an oxide particle containing a particle of a simple oxide of magnesium, supported by the oxide particle; and a particle of alumina and/or aluminum hydroxide, supported by the oxide particle, | 39,584 |
9,797,611 | 1. A combination air and ground source heating and/or cooling system comprising: an indoor unit including a coil, an inlet line and an outlet line; an outdoor unit including a coil, an inlet line and an outlet line; an in-ground unit including a coil, an inlet line and an outlet line; a flow connector that connects the outlet line of the indoor unit, the inlet line of the outdoor unit and the inlet line of the in-ground unit; a coupling that connects the inlet line of the indoor unit, the outlet line of the outdoor unit and the outlet line of the in-ground unit; a compressor; a reversing valve; an ambient temperature sensor; two line sensors, one of the two line sensors being located at each of the outlet line of the outdoor unit and the outlet line of the in-ground unit; and a controller configured to control the flow connector, the coupling and the reversing valve so that the system is selectively operable: in a first mode, wherein refrigerant bypasses the coil of the outdoor unit; in a second mode, wherein refrigerant bypasses the coil of the in-ground unit; in a third mode, wherein refrigerant flows through the coils of the in-ground and outdoor unit; and in additional, reverse flow modes, wherein the first, second, third and additional, reverse flow modes cover both cooling and heating modes and wherein the controller is configured to select one of the cooling or heating modes based on temperature readings received from the ambient temperature and line sensors. | 45,303 |
9,332,671 | 1. A cooling unit for cooling one or more heat generating devices provided on board of a means of transport, the cooling unit comprising: power electronics for providing the cooling unit with electric power, a heat exchanger for thermally coupling a cooling agent supplied by a central cooling system provided on board of the means of transport with air supplied in and/or into the cooling unit in order to cool the air by means of the cooling agent to thereby provide cooling energy in the form of cold air to the one or more heat generating devices, and a heat pipe for heat dissipation of the power electronics, wherein, at a first portion of the heat pipe, at least some of a working agent contained inside the heat pipe is in the liquid phase and, at a second portion of the heat pipe, at least some of the working agent contained inside the heat pipe is in the gas phase, wherein the first portion of the heat pipe is thermally coupled with the power electronics such that heat from the power electronics is absorbed by evaporating the working agent being in the liquid phase and wherein the second portion of the heat pipe is thermally coupled with the cooling agent such that heat is released to the cooling agent by condensing the working agent being in the gas phase. | 18,935 |
8,803,294 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having a surface made of a semiconductor having a hexagonal single-crystal structure of polytype 4H, said surface of said substrate being constructed by alternately providing a first plane having a plane orientation of (0-33-8) and a second plane connected to said first plane and having a plane orientation different from said plane orientation of said first plane; a gate insulating film provided on said surface of said substrate; and a gate electrode provided on said gate insulating film. | 37,544 |
9,455,370 | 1. A method for coating a solar panel to reduce the amount of light being received by the solar panel's photovoltaic cells, the method comprising the step of: coating the light-receiving area of said solar panel with a sufficient thickness of a coating composition comprising a binder and a sufficient quantity of an opacifier such that said coating composition reduces light transmission therethrough such that the resulting electrical output of said solar panel is reduced to below a predetermined level, wherein the predetermined level is about 200 milliAmps DC. | 27,404 |
9,411,527 | 1. A storage system, comprising: a control device; and a plurality of storage devices for storing data, wherein data is stored in a form of stripe rows including a predetermined number of multiple stripe elements and at least two redundancy codes, wherein a total number of the plurality of storage devices is larger than the predetermined number of the stripe elements composing one of the stripe rows, wherein the stripe elements in each of the stripe rows are stored in different storage devices, a combination of stripe rows having the stripe elements stored in each one of the storage devices is different among at least two of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the control device is configured to: wherein the rebuilding of the stripe elements of the detected at least two stripe rows is executed in order of the number of failed stripe elements in each stripe row. | 4,186 |
8,431,682 | 1. A polymer of formula I wherein R R X P is a polymerisable group, P* is a group that can be converted to or substituted by a polymerisable group P, Sp is a spacer group or a single bond, a, b, c and d are independently of each other 0, 1, 2 or 3, with a +b +c +d≧1, n is an integer >1, wherein the recurring units are identical or different, with the proviso that: a=b=c=1, d=0, R a=b=c=d=1, R | 27,235 |
9,393,515 | 1. A process for purifying a stream rich in carbon dioxide and comprising at least one impurity which is more volatile than carbon dioxide, the process comprising: i) cooling and partially condensing the stream in a heat exchanger, ii) sending the partially condensed stream to a first phase separator operating at a first pressure, iii) reheating, compressing and cooling a gas from the first phase separator and sending the reheated, compressed, cooled gas to a second phase separator operating at a second pressure greater than the first pressure, iv) reducing the pressure of a first liquid from the first phase separator and sending the reduced pressure first liquid to a chamber operating at a pressure lower than the first pressure, v) reducing the pressure of a second liquid down to the first pressure and sending the reduced pressure second liquid to the first phase separator, and sending a third liquid derived from the second liquid from the first phase separator to the chamber, and vi) removing a purified liquid rich in carbon dioxide from the chamber. | 40,134 |
9,069,888 | 1. An apparatus for tracking errors in a computing system that includes a plurality of current error buckets and a plurality of historical error buckets, the apparatus comprising a hardware computer processor, a hardware computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of: inserting, by an error repository manager into a current error bucket, error information describing a first error identified by a timestamp, wherein the current error bucket is associated with a bucket interval determined using a base time interval associated with the error measured from the timestamp; moving, by the error repository manager, the error information in the current error bucket to a historical error bucket upon the expiration of the bucket interval, wherein each historical error bucket has a storage interval determined in dependence upon the base time interval associated with the error and a bucket number associated with the historical error bucket; and moving, by the error repository manager, the error information in a source historical error bucket to a destination historical error bucket upon the expiration of the storage interval associated with the source historical error bucket. | 7,404 |
9,492,545 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a statin dissolved in a polyunsaturated fatty acid (“PUFA”) free acid solvent system, wherein the PUFA free acid solvent system comprises: 45% to 65% eicosapentaenoic acid (“EPA”) by weight; 15% to 25% docosahexaenoic acid (“DHA”) by weight; and 1% to 8% docosapentaenoic acid (“DPA”) (C22:5 n-3) by weight. | 25,701 |
8,775,000 | 1. A method for operating a powertrain system including a multi-mode transmission configured to transfer torque among an engine, torque machines, and a driveline in one of a plurality of fixed gear, variable mode and electric vehicle transmission ranges, the method comprising: selecting candidate transmission ranges associated with a present powertrain operating point and deselecting other candidate transmission ranges not associated with the present powertrain operating point, the candidate transmission ranges comprising the fixed gear, variable mode and electric vehicle transmission ranges; executing a high resolution engine speed/torque search for each of the selected candidate transmission ranges and executing a low resolution engine speed/torque search for each of the deselected candidate transmission ranges, each of said searches executed to determine a respective minimum power cost for operating the powertrain system in the candidate transmission range in response to an output torque request and output speed, wherein executing the high resolution engine speed/torque search for the selected candidate transmission ranges comprises: determining a preferred transmission range comprising the candidate transmission range associated with a minimum of the respective minimum power costs and determining a preferred engine operating point comprising an engine speed/torque corresponding to the minimum power cost for the preferred transmission range; and controlling, by a controller, operation of the powertrain system in the preferred transmission range with the engine operating at the preferred engine operating point corresponding to the preferred transmission range. | 45,789 |
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