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8,883,147 | 1. A method of inhibiting effector activity in a subject, comprising administering to a subject a polypeptide comprising a variant Fc region of a parent Fc region, wherein said variant Fc region comprises a first amino acid substitution at position 236 and a second amino acid substitution at position 328, wherein said first substitution is 236R and said second substitution is 328R, wherein said numbering is according to the EU index in Kabat, wherein the polypeptide is an antibody or an immunoadhesin. | 29,762 |
9,305,562 | 1. A non-transitory machine readable medium having instructions for a computing system, the instructions when executed cause the computing system to: make the computing system operate within a non main CPU/OS processor based operational state while a main system bus of the computing system remains active, wherein one or more functional tasks are operatable by an independent controller while the computing system is within the non main CPU/OS based operational state, the controller being coupled to the main system bus; retrieve encoded music from a data storage resource that is active while the computing system is operating within the non main CPU/OS based operational state; and decoding the encoded music while the computing system is within the non main CPU/OS based operational state. | 43,480 |
9,205,751 | 1. A battery charger (i) capable of receiving power from a power distribution circuit including a fuse and (ii) configured to reduce reactive power through the fuse caused by at least one load, other than the charger, electrically connected with the power distribution circuit. | 12,209 |
9,262,342 | 1. A method of securing contents of a memory comprising: encrypting, by a memory controller, contents of a page frame of the memory based at least in part on a frame key associated with the page frame; generating, by the memory controller, a first encrypted version of the frame key based at least in part on a first process key associated with a first process, wherein the first encrypted version of the frame key is stored in a first memory table associated with the first process; and generating, by the memory controller, a second encrypted version of the frame key different from the first encrypted version of the frame key based at least in part on a second process key associated with a second process and different from the first process key, wherein the second encrypted version of the frame key is stored in a second memory table associated with the second process, the first process and the second process sharing access to the page frame using the first encrypted version of the frame key and the second encrypted version of the frame key, respectively. | 20,781 |
9,209,490 | 1. An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery, the electrolyte comprising: a lithium salt and a non-aqueous organic solvent, wherein the non-aqueous organic solvent includes: about 15 volume % to about 35 volume % of ethylene carbonate, about 1 volume % to about 50 volume % of ethyl propionate, about 1 volume % to about 50 volume % of diethyl carbonate, and about 1 volume % to about 40 volume % of propylene carbonate. | 11,753 |
9,063,399 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a housing; and a vent unit provided to the housing, the vent unit having a two-dimensional lattice unit and a column part, the two-dimensional lattice unit including one-dimensional lattice parts intersecting each other, the column part being provided at each of an intersection of the one-dimensional lattice parts and protruding to at least one of the inside and the outside of the two-dimensional lattice unit, wherein the column part is cylindrical, and a diameter of the cylindrical column part is set to one-third to two-thirds of a lattice pitch of the two-dimensional lattice unit. | 34,639 |
9,643,444 | 1. An identification medium comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal layer on which a hologram is formed, a first supporting member and a second supporting member between which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is sandwiched, and at least one thereof is made of transparent material which does not disturb circularly polarized light reflected from the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a mounting region to be sewn onto an object, the first supporting member and the second supporting member extending to the mounting region and being adhered directly to each other by an adhesive layer in the mounting region, wherein the first supporting member is a polyurethane film or a cloth, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is affixed to both of the first supporting member and the second supporting member by adhesive layers. | 36,851 |
9,107,208 | 1. A method for transmitting an aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station through a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers configured for the user equipment, aperiodic-SRS configuration information on each of component carriers configured for the user equipment, the aperiodic-SRS configuration information being component carrier-specifically configured, wherein a number of the plurality of component carriers configured for the user equipment is determined based upon a capability of the user equipment; receiving, from the base station, a downlink control information (DCI) format through the first component carrier, the DCI format including transmitting, to the base station, the aperiodic SRS through the activated second component carrier based on | 41,721 |
8,456,392 | 1. A method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, the method comprising: forming a plurality of first conductors coupled to a base; coupling a plurality of substantially spherical substrate particles to the plurality of first conductors, wherein each substantially spherical substrate particle of the plurality of substantially spherical substrate particles comprises a semiconductor; subsequent to the coupling to the plurality of first conductors, converting the plurality of substantially spherical substrate particles into a plurality of substantially spherical diodes by depositing a dopant material onto the plurality of substantially spherical substrate particles and annealing or alloying the dopant material with the plurality of substantially spherical substrate particles to form a pn junction in each substantially spherical substrate particle, wherein a mean diameter of the plurality of substantially spherical diodes is greater than about twenty (20) microns and less than about forty (40) microns; and forming a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of substantially spherical diodes. | 12,539 |
9,089,910 | 1. A cutting insert ( 12 ) comprising: opposing upper and lower surfaces ( a cutting insert through bore ( opposing first and second longitudinal walls ( opposing first and second transverse walls ( the cutting insert through bore ( a longitudinal cutting insert axis (A a transverse cutting insert axis (A the cutting insert is two-way indexable and has 180° rotational symmetry about a cutting insert axis (A each of the inner surfaces ( the clamping lips ( each inner surface ( | 45,043 |
8,705,602 | 1. Transmitter equalizer circuitry for operating on an input signal to produce an equalized signal comprising: delay circuitry for producing a plurality of differently delayed versions of the input signal; a plurality of electrical current digital-to-analog converter (“DAC”) circuits; and routing circuitry for selectably routing each of the delayed versions of the input signal to any of the plurality of the DAC circuits coupled to the routing circuitry, wherein the routing circuitry comprises a plurality of multiplexer circuits, wherein input terminals for each of the multiplexer circuits receive the plurality of differently delayed versions of the input signal. | 35,114 |
9,307,572 | 1. A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for supporting dual cell high speed downlink packet access (DC-HSDPA), the method comprising: receiving, via an anchor carrier, a physical layer message for activating a supplementary carrier; activating the supplementary carrier when the physical layer message for activating the supplementary carrier is received via the anchor carrier; receiving, via the anchor carrier or the supplementary carrier, a physical layer message indicating activation of discontinuous reception (DRX); applying a same DRX pattern to both the anchor carrier and the supplementary carrier in response to the physical layer message indicating activation of DRX such that DRX cycles of the anchor carrier and the supplementary carrier are aligned in the DRX pattern, wherein the activation of DRX is common to both the anchor carrier and the supplementary carrier. | 46,988 |
8,611,932 | 1. A system for automatic powering on and turning off of a communications device for communications through a telecommunication network, the system comprising: a base station transceiver having a range and comprising: the communications device; and an add-on transceiver operatively connected to the communication device and | 18,026 |
8,865,847 | 1. A process for polymerizing ethylene and optionally an alpha olefin in a reactor with at least one single site polymerization catalyst in the presence of a continuity additive, said continuity additive comprising: i) a fatty acid dialkanolamide, ii) an oil soluble sulfonic acid, and iii) a dialkanolamine; | 22,967 |
9,776,135 | 1. An exhaust treatment system for a work vehicle, comprising: an exhaust conduit transmitting an exhaust flow from an engine; a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) system connected to the exhaust conduit, the DOC system having a reductant introduced and mixed into the exhaust flow, the DOC system including a DOC conduit; a selective catalytic reduction system (SCR) including: | 3,416 |
9,446,761 | 1. A control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a first engagement device, a rotating electrical machine, a second engagement device, and an output member are sequentially arranged in this order from an input member side on a power transmission path that connects an input member drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine to the output member drivingly coupled to wheels, wherein the control device executes a slip drive mode in order to control both the first engagement device and the second engagement device to a slip engaged state, and to control a rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine to a value that is lower than a rotational speed of the input member and higher than a rotational speed of the output member, and the control device executes the slip drive mode when a current vehicle required force that is required in order to cause the vehicle to travel is increased in a state in which the input member is drivingly coupled to the internal combustion engine, the first engagement device is in a direct-coupling engaged state and the second engagement device is in a disengaged state. | 49,969 |
9,399,304 | 1. A blade heating system for a razor, and said blade heating system comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive blades each having a cutting edge and a back non-cutting edge; a blade cartridge structured and configured for containing said plurality of electrically conductive blades within said cartridge so that the cutting edge of each of said plurality of blades is operatively positioned for cutting hairs when the blade cartridge is moved along the skin surface of a user, and said blade cartridge having a top surface and a back; a switch lever hingedly attached to said blade cartridge, and said switch lever being selectively positionable between a closed position against said blade cartridge and an open position defined by said switch lever being moved away from said blade cartridge; a battery carried on said switch lever and including a positive and a negative terminal; and at least one conductive contact for electrically connecting said plurality of electrically conductive blades to the battery when said switch lever is in the closed position for delivering electric current to said plurality of electrically conductive blades, wherein flow of the electric current through said plurality of blades causes said plurality of blades to be heated. | 10,607 |
9,447,105 | 1. A triazine compound of Formula II, wherein, R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, —NO wherein R2 is selected from the group consisting of —NO wherein R3 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, —NO R1 and R2 together form substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring as set forth below: wherein R4, R5, and R6 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, (C1-C6) alkyl, —NH | 26,793 |
8,433,438 | 1. A system to process a plurality of mailpieces, the system comprising: a postage device configured to print postage evidence on each respective mailpiece, the printed postage evidence including an information based barcode containing a first unique identifier associated with each respective mailpiece; a sorter for sorting the plurality of mailpieces, the sorter including an image reading device for reading address data and the first unique identifier from the information based barcode printed on each respective mailpiece; a first processor associated with the postage device configured to collect first parametric data associated with each respective mailpiece; and a second processor, associated with the sorter, for receiving the collected first parametric data from the first processor, wherein: the second processor is configured to associate each first unique identifier obtained from reading of the information based barcode printed on each respective mailpiece with second parametric data associated with each respective mailpiece collected during sortation of the respective mailpieces on the sorter, and the second processor is configured to generate a delivery point barcode containing a second unique identifier for each respective mailpiece, and combine the respective first and second parametric data together with the respective first and second unique identifiers for generation of a postal authority report and/or client report. | 4,514 |
9,471,072 | 1. A regulator circuit, comprising: a current detector configured to sense a load current and convert the sensed load current to a DC current sense signal; and an adjustment circuit comprising: wherein the adjustment circuit is configured to adjust an output voltage within predetermined upper and lower voltage limits based on the DC current sense signal, and wherein the output voltage control signal causes the output voltage to increase or decrease within the predetermined upper and lower voltage limits. | 7,931 |
8,534,786 | 1. A discharge energy recovery device configured to recover discharge energy discharged from a piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven, comprising: a drive voltage generator configured to generate a voltage to drive the piezoelectric element; a discharge voltage monitoring unit configured to monitor a discharge voltage discharged from the piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven by the drive voltage generator; a plurality of charge accumulating devices configured to accumulate a charge corresponding to a the discharge voltage monitored by the discharged voltage discharge voltage monitoring unit; and a selection unit configured to select a number of the charge accumulating devices from the plurality of charge accumulating devices such that the selected number of charge accumulating devices have a capacity sufficient to store the charge corresponding to the discharge voltage monitored by the discharge voltage monitoring unit. | 48,255 |
9,610,031 | 1. An assembly, comprising: a sensor; a mounting unit for placement on a skin of a host; a sensor introducer coupled to the sensor and to the mounting unit, the sensor introducer configured to transcutaneously introduce a portion of the sensor through the skin of the host to a first predetermined location relative to the mounting unit; and a data processing unit configured to be coupled to the mounting unit by the host or a caretaker, the data processing unit pushing the sensor forward to a second predetermined location relative to the mounting unit upon coupling to the mounting unit. | 13,053 |
9,159,672 | 1. A structure comprising: a substrate comprising a backside surface; through vias comprising nubs extending from the backside surface; a backside passivation layer coupled to the backside surface, the backside passivation layer comprising only a single layer of material; and circuit features embedded within the backside passivation layer and coupled to the nubs, the circuit features comprising recessed surfaces, at least a portion of the backside passivation layer between the recessed surfaces and a first passivation layer surface of the backside passivation layer. | 23,770 |
9,285,333 | 1. A combustible gas detection device comprising: a heat generation resistor disposed in an object atmosphere where its resistance changes with its own temperature; an energization control section which controls the switching of an energization state of the heat generation resistor every time a predetermined time period elapses such that the heat generation resistor alternately has resistances corresponding to two predetermined temperatures set in advance; a temperature measurement resistor disposed on a substrate having the heat generation resistor disposed thereon where its resistance changes with an environmental temperature which is the temperature of the object atmosphere; a gas concentration computation section which calculates a concentration of a combustible gas contained in the object atmosphere by using a voltage generated across the heat generation resistor which is detected when electricity is supplied to the heat generation resistor by the energization control section, and using the environmental temperature based on a voltage change which occurs as a result of a change in the resistance of the temperature measurement resistor, wherein the period of time has a length determined in advance such that a change in the environmental temperature which occurs when the energization control section switches the energization state of the heat generation resistor falls within a range of 0.5° C. | 42,222 |
9,650,483 | 1. Carrier plate for a decorative panel, the carrier plate comprising a thermoplastic material comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted polyolefin, a filler, and a pore inducer, wherein the proportion of the filler is between ≧10 wt.-% and ≦60 wt.-%, and the carrier plate has a porosity between ≧10 wt.-% and ≦45 wt.-%, wherein the porosity is calculated according to formula I wherein ρ | 28,775 |
9,687,964 | 1. A polishing pad for use with high-speed mechanical buffers or for use by hand comprising: a foam pad; and at least one of a cloth and a foam that are each different in abrasiveness than the foam pad coupled to a top surface of the foam pad, the at least one of the cloth and the foam covering part of the top surface of the foam pad such that gaps in the coverage provided by the at least one of the cloth and the foam allow for the foam pad and the at least one of the cloth and the foam to touch a polishing surface at the same time; and wherein the foam pad of the polishing pad comprises a waffle-pad configuration. | 38,873 |
9,244,733 | 1. A kernel execution order scheduling apparatus comprising: an estimation unit configured to estimate respective execution times of kernels based on an effective progress index (EPI) of each of the kernels; and a hardware-based control unit configured to determine an execution order of the kernels based on the estimated respective execution times of the kernels and respective priorities of the kernels, wherein the estimation unit comprises a progress index estimator to estimate the EPI a memory progress index (MPI), and a kernel progress index (KPI) based on a history of a kernel repeatedly executed during execution of an application program; an MPI estimator to estimate a final MPI based on a real progress index (RPI), the EPI, a memory efficiency (ME) of each of the kernels, and ME variation with respect to kernels to be executed; and a KPI estimator to estimate a final KPI based on the RPI, the EPI, an operating system (OS) efficiency, that is, a kernel efficiency (KE) with respect to each of the kernels and KE variation with respect to kernels to be executed. | 1,969 |
9,528,342 | 1. A method of setting and maintaining a tool in a set position for a period of time in a borehole, comprising: causing a component of a device to move in a first direction relative to another component of the device during setting of the tool; interengaging one or more features of the component with the another component during the relative movement; creating a set condition of the tool engaged with the component and the another component with the causing and interengaging; and during unsetting of the tool, dissolving at least the one or more features and allowing the component and the another component to move in a second direction opposite the first direction relative to each other. | 13,403 |
8,454,313 | 1. A wind turbine comprising: a first rotor connected to a first shaft and rotatable about an axis of rotation, the first rotor further comprising: a nacelle including an electric generator connected to the first shaft; and a tower supporting the nacelle. | 41,036 |
8,872,420 | 1. A volumetric three-dimensional light-emitting display, comprising: an array of elements arranged, as defined by the relative positions of the elements' centerpoints, in a close-packed relationship that forms regular tetrahedrons between adjacent centerpoints, wherein each element's centerpoint is defined by the three-dimensional position of the element's source of visible light; and an array of electrical conductors, wherein each element is in electrical contact with exactly two electrical conductors configured to energize the element, and wherein the array of elements comprises voxels that each consist of four elements and each voxel is capable of generating full color. | 11,499 |
9,465,451 | 1. A method for displaying additional information about a scene element displayed in a frame of video content being presented on a display, the method comprising: determining a location of the display in relation to an augmented reality device wherein a plurality of markers is used to determine the location of the display, wherein the augmented reality device comprises a secondary display, and wherein the location of the display is used to map points on the display to points on the secondary display; detecting a selection of the scene element wherein a viewer looks through the augmented reality device to view the display and utilizes the augmented reality device to point at and select the scene element; and displaying the additional information to the viewer on the secondary display, in response to the selection. | 39,897 |
8,602,065 | 1. An anticipatory failure indicator for fluid circulation piping, the indicator comprising: a first sacrificial member which is configured to be in direct contact with fluid within the piping and to be weaker than the piping; a chamber which is isolated from the fluid circulation at least partly by means of the first sacrificial member; an electrical response member which is arranged into the chamber and which is configured to produce an electrical response upon exposure to the fluid, which has entered to the chamber via a failed sacrificial member; an indication body portion housing the chamber; an electrical response member; the first sacrificial member; an interface for connecting to the piping; and an adaptor having a corresponding first interface for connection to the indication body portion and having a second interface for connecting to the piping, wherein the indicator is configured to provide an electrical response as a direct indication of a failed sacrificial member and as an anticipatory indication of failed piping. | 45,024 |
9,180,878 | 1. A hybrid vehicle control device comprising: an engine; a motor; a first clutch disposed in a driving force transmission path between the engine and the motor; a second clutch disposed in a driving force transmission path between the motor and a drive wheel; and an engine start control section configured to begin an engine start control upon receiving a mode transition request to change to a hybrid vehicle mode while an electric vehicle mode is selected in which the first clutch is disengaged, the engine start control section executing a control to transition the second clutch to a slip engagement state, beginning engagement of the first clutch when slippage of the second clutch is determined, and starting the engine using the motor as a starter motor, the engine start control section having a second clutch slip transition control section configured to control the transition of the second clutch to the slip engagement state when the engine start control is begun based on a mode transition request resulting from an accelerator depression operation, by increasing a torque transmission capacity of the second clutch according to a prescribed slope after dropping the torque transmission capacity of the second clutch to a value smaller than a target drive force, the second clutch slip transition control section being further configured to make an increase rate of a motor torque outputted from the motor larger than an increase rate of the target drive force upon the second clutch slip transition control section beginning to increase the torque transmission capacity of the second clutch according to the prescribed slope. | 31,736 |
8,831,045 | 1. A method for establishing Time Alignment by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a Node B, information for identifying a dedicated preamble on a downlink control channel; transmitting the dedicated preamble based on the information to the Node B; receiving from the Node B a response message to the transmitted dedicated preamble on a downlink shared channel, wherein the response message includes a timing adjustment information and information for a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) report; establishing Time Alignment based on the timing adjustment information included in the response message; and transmitting the CQI report based on the information for CQI report to the Node B. | 15,211 |
8,348,915 | 1. An initial product adaptable to serve as a garment for receiving an absorbent structure, said garment adapted to be worn around the waist of a user, said initial product comprising: a chassis for receiving said absorbent structure, said chassis extending in a longitudinal direction about a longitudinal axis dividing the chassis into a first lateral half and a second lateral half, said first lateral half comprising a first lateral margin and said second lateral half comprising a second lateral margin, said first and second lateral margins being joined to a central structure along a first line of joinder and a second line of joinder, respectively, said first and second lines of joinder extending substantially parallel to said longitudinal axis, said central structure comprising a backsheet layer and a topsheet layer and said absorbent structure sandwiched therebetween, wherein longitudinal terminal edges of the backsheet layer and the topsheet layer extend to the first and second lines of joinder, said chassis further extending in a transverse direction about a transverse axis dividing the chassis into a first end and a second end, said chassis being delimited by a periphery comprising a first end edge at said first end and a second end edge at said second end, said first and second end edges extending substantially parallel to said transverse axis, said periphery further comprising a first lateral edge of said first lateral margin and a second lateral edge of said second lateral margin, | 17,038 |
9,433,113 | 1. A charger comprising: a storage case storing a charger unit therein; a winding groove defined in an outer circumferential surface of the storage case for winding therein a first cord that is connected to the charger unit; a plug recess defined in the storage case for storing a plug that is connected to a distal end of the first cord, the second cord extends from the charger unit to outside of the storage pouch via a hole formed through the storage case in the storage pouch; and a protector having a shape extending along an upper end of the storage cover and being made of resin material for protecting the upper end of the storage cover to reduce scratching caused by abrasive contact between the upper end of the storage cover and the second cord. | 25,176 |
9,724,593 | 1. A pusher tip, comprising: a body including a top section and a base section, the top section defining a concave surface extending between a proximal end and a distal end, the top section configured for attachment to a paddle shaft at the proximal end, and the base section defining a convex, continuous and planer surface and configured for placement against a surface, wherein the concave surface of the top section provides a variation in flexibility of the top section with a low flexibility at or near the distal end and a gradual increase in flexibility along the concave surface leading away from the distal end towards the proximal end. | 29,527 |
9,731,805 | 1. A water jacketed exhaust pipe for use with marine engines, said water jacketed exhaust pipe comprising: an exhaust pipe having a tail end; a water jacket disposed in surrounding spaced relation with said exhaust pipe, said water jacket having a tail end; an annular spray ring disposed between said exhaust pipe and said water jacket, said spray ring defining a generally V-shaped cross-section including a radially inward leg and a radially outward leg; said radially inward leg including a first plurality of annularly spaced apertures; said radially outward leg including a second plurality of annularly spaced apertures and each of said first plurality of annually spaced apertures being angularly aligned relative to each of said second plurality of annularly spaced apertures. | 37,870 |
9,023,789 | 1. A polypeptide comprising the analogue of SEQ ID No: 1 having about a 10-fold or greater selectivity for binding to the human amylin receptor over binding to the human calcitonin receptor and wherein: (a) said analogue of SEQ ID No: 1 comprises a proline residue at position 21; wherein the amino acid sequence numbering of the analogue corresponds to the amino acid numbering sequence of SEQ ID No: 1; and (b) wherein the polypeptide has at least one substituent attached to at least one of its amino acid residues. | 34,944 |
8,611,159 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory write interface configured to drive a memory having a daisy-chained clock, a first interface configured to receive output data from a programmable device and a second interface configured to control transmission of the output data to the memory by an IO element, the first interface operating according to a global clock of the programmable device and the second interface operating according to a local clock used only by the apparatus; a delay circuit configured to add a delay to the local clock with respect to the global clock; and a configuration circuit configured to adjust the delay added to the local clock to implement write-leveling at the memory, wherein the memory write interface comprises a first-in-first-out (FIFO) system that comprises a reset circuit configured to reset the FIFO system upon a transition from a receive mode to a transmit mode. | 16,129 |
8,731,841 | 1. A system comprising: at least one computing device; at least one computer program, configured with a computer-readable medium, for use with at least one computer system and wherein the computer program includes a plurality of instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to direct a pre-determined patterned delivery of a plurality of frozen particle therapeutic compositions to at least one biological tissue of at least one subject by a remote controlled device, the plurality of frozen particle therapeutic compositions including at least two sub-sets of frozen particles that include different therapeutic agents and at least one tracer agent; and compare information related to the delivery with information regarding at least one clinical outcome following receipt by the at least one subject; and at least one imaging device configured to measure the at least one tracer agent and provide real-time feedback control of the plurality of frozen particle therapeutic compositions administered to the at least one subject. | 15,191 |
8,802,102 | 1. A stable liquid aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising (a) a human IgG1 anti-human Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNFα) antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, at a concentration of 45 to 105 mg/ml, (b) a polyol, (c) a polysorbate at a concentration of 0.1 to 10 mg/ml, and (d) a buffer system comprising succinate and having a pH of 4.5 to 7.0, wherein the antibody comprises the light chain variable region and the heavy chain variable region of D2E7. | 11,500 |
9,181,838 | 1. A vehicle exhaust system comprising a catalyst positioned in an exhaust passage of a vehicle, a honeycomb catalyst body comprising and a phase change material, the phase change material comprising a metal or metal alloy, contained in at least some of said cells, said phase change material located adjacent to said catalyst in said honeycomb body such that a temperature of said catalyst is maintained between engine shut-down and subsequent start-up and is regulated during operation of said vehicle. | 7,372 |
8,824,718 | 1. A loudspeaker apparatus which comprises at least one sound generator, wherein a channel which conducts sound at least in part is arranged in one sound radiation direction of the sound generator, which channel is suitable for directing sound emerging from the sound generator along the course of the sound-conducting channel in such a way that the sound emerges from the loudspeaker apparatus at a second end—designed in the form of a sound outlet opening—of the sound-conducting channel at a radiation angle defined by the sound outlet opening, characterized in that the sound-conducting channel has on an inner wall a mainly sound-reflecting material in some portions and a mainly sound-absorbing material in other portions, wherein the mainly sound-reflecting material is arranged inside the sound-conducting channel on a face situated radially on the inside and the mainly sound-absorbing material is arranged inside the sound-conducting channel on a face situated radially on the outside, and a cross-section of the sound-conducting channel is made substantially constant over at least 50% of the length of the sound-conducting channel. | 14,899 |
8,541,327 | 1. A glass composition consisting essentially of: a. about 28-30 mole percent of SrO; b. about 35-75 mole percent SiO c. a plurality of compounds from the group of compounds consisting of La d. said La e. said Al f. said B g. said Ni less than about 5 mole percent. | 30,152 |
9,346,992 | 1. A polymer thick film thermally conductive thermoformable dielectric composition comprising: (a) 10-35 wt % first organic medium comprising 10-50 wt % urethane resin dissolved in 50-90 wt % first organic solvent, wherein the weight percent of the urethane resin and the first organic solvent are based on the total weight of the first organic medium; (b) 10-35 wt % second organic medium comprising 10-50 wt % thermoplastic phenoxy resin dissolved in 50-90 wt % second organic solvent, wherein the weight percent of the thermoplastic phenoxy resin and the second organic solvent are based on the total weight of the second organic medium; (c) 2-20 wt % diacetone alcohol, wherein the weight percent is based on the total weight of the composition; and (d) 1-70 wt % thermally conductive powder; wherein the weight percent of said first organic medium, said second organic medium, said diacetone alcohol and said thermally conductive powder are based on the total weight of the composition. | 28,736 |
9,404,925 | 1. A cancer vaccine comprising at least one peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 12, 14, 18 and 26, wherein the vaccine further comprises an adjuvant. | 910 |
9,047,085 | 1. A method for controlling a display device that has self-refresh capabilities, the method comprising: exiting a power-saving state, wherein the power-saving state comprises a state where a graphics processing unit (GPU) is placed in a sleep state and a transmitter side of a communications path coupled between the GPU and the display device is shut down; executing a fast resume routine that includes only a portion of the operations included in a full initialization routine; generating updated pixel data for display on the display device based on commands and data received via an auxiliary communications channel that is included in the communications path; causing the display device to exit a panel self-refresh mode after the commands and data are received via the auxiliary communications channel; transmitting the updated pixel data to the display device; and continuing with a full initialization operation that includes operations not included in the fast resume routine after transmitting the updated pixel data to the display device. | 16,881 |
9,557,801 | 1. A cache device comprising: a cache memory including a plurality of memory areas associated with a plurality of ways, respectively; an access controller configured to control access to the memory areas; a plurality of counters respectively associated with the memory areas, each of the counters configured to determine if an unused time of a respective one of the memory areas is greater than a predetermined time, the unused time representing a time period during which the respective memory area has not been accessed; a power controller configured to control power supplied to the memory areas individually such that power supplied to a memory area for which the unused time is greater than the predetermined time is standby power that is lower than operating power, the operating power being power required for reading or writing data with respect to the memory area; a first write buffer configured to store write request information for requesting to write data; and a second write buffer, wherein | 18,800 |
9,027,465 | 1. A closed holder comprising: a first wall part; and a second wall part, wherein the first and the second wall part are interconnected such that at least a first storage space, at least a first fluid connection and at least a first removable seal are formed between the interconnected first and second wall part, the first removable seal being removable through fluid pressure and defining an opening when removed, wherein the first removable seal is in communication with the first storage space and seals a communication to or from the at least first fluid connection, wherein the first removable seal is formed by a part of the connection of the first wall part to the second wall part having a lacquer layer resulting in a controlled reduced adhesion, wherein, in proximity of the first removable seal, a first additional connection of the first wall part to the second wall part is provided, which cancels the reduced adhesion, wherein the first additional connection is provided along a peripheral edge of the holder, wherein the first additional connection extends a considerable extent along a circumference of the first fluid connection, and wherein the first removable seal is provided between the first storage space and the first fluid connection. | 2,727 |
9,038,369 | 1. A method for aftertreatment system diagnostics, comprising: producing an exhaust stream with an internal combustion engine; detecting a first signal indicative of a first NOx amount within an exhaust stream with a first NOx sensor at a first position that is upstream of an oxidation catalyst; passing the exhaust stream through the oxidation catalyst; detecting a second signal indicative of a second NOx amount within the exhaust stream with a second NOx sensor at a second position that is downstream of the oxidation catalyst and upstream of an SCR catalyst; determining a health indicator value of the oxidation catalyst based at least in part on a difference between the first and second NOx amounts, wherein determining the health indicator value comprises determining a ratio that is the difference between first NOx amount and the second NOx amount divided by the first NOx amount; comparing the health indicator value to a threshold ratio; and providing an indication of oxidation catalyst degradation when the health indicator value is less than the threshold ratio, wherein the threshold ratio is based on a sensitivity of the first and second NOx sensors to NO | 29,225 |
8,601,563 | 1. A wireless tag that includes a unique ID, comprising: a first encoded data generator that generates first encoded data of different values based on the unique ID for each time of receiving an ID inquiry; a second encoded data generator that generates second encoded data used for decoding the first encoded data, the second encoded data having a different value corresponding to the first encoded data of different values; a communication unit that replies to the ID inquiry for each time of receiving by transmitting a combination of the first encoded data and the second encoded data; and a flag that, in reply to each ID inquiry, is set whether to reply with the unique ID or with a combination of the first encoded data and the second encoded data, wherein when the flag is set to reply with the unique ID, the communication unit replies to each ID inquiry by transmitting the unique ID instead of a combination of the first encoded data and the second encoded data. | 49,831 |
9,549,121 | 1. An image acquiring method comprising: acquiring a first image; determining a first sub-image corresponding to a first object from the first image; and replacing the first sub-image with a second sub-image different from the first sub-image to obtain a second image, wherein the determining the first sub-image corresponding to the first object from the first image comprises: analyzing a first area of the first image; and determining a sub-image complying with a predetermined condition as the first sub-image, wherein the analyzing the first area of the first image and the determining the sub-image comprise: dividing an image corresponding to the first area into M sub-images, M being a positive integer; performing a color channel histogram analysis on each of the M sub-images to determine M color histograms; determining a first color histogram from the M color histograms, an absolute value of a difference between the first color histogram and a second color histogram of a neighbouring area being larger than a first preset threshold; and determining a sub-image of an area, to which the first color histogram is related, as the first sub-image. | 29,349 |
8,908,799 | 1. A transmitter comprising: a parameter adaptor that selects a UASK or UQAM constellation to be used by the transmitter by selecting one of a plurality of different UASK or UQAM constellations by taking into account a target BER performance for different bit positions of input bits; and a UASK (amplitude shift keying with uneven distance) modulator or UQAM (quadrature amplitude modulation with uneven distance) modulator that generates a sequence of UASK or UQAM symbols from the input bits by mapping a respective subset of the input bits to the selected UASK constellation or UQAM constellation without using superposition to produce a respective UASK or UQAM symbol; wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a signal containing the sequence of UASK or UQAM symbols during non-overlapping time intervals. | 3,825 |
9,531,012 | 1. A gas diffusion layer with flowpaths, comprising: an electroconductive substrate; and electroconductive wires disposed on the electroconductive substrate, the electroconductive wires forming flow channels, the flow channels formed by the electroconductive wires have a height of 300 μm or less, the flow channels formed by adjacent electroconductive wires of the electroconductive wires have an equivalent diameter of 300 μm or less, and the electroconductive substrate has one layer of electroconductive wires orthogonal to but not interwoven with the electroconductive wires. | 34,816 |
9,480,497 | 1. A device for nicking skin, the device comprising: an elongate member having a proximal portion and a distal portion, a lumen extending entirely through the elongate member from the proximal portion of the elongate member to the distal portion of the elongate member, wherein the lumen is configured to be coaxially loaded and slidable over an introducer needle, the introducer needle comprising a hub with a proximal portion and a distal portion and a needle extending from the hub, wherein the proximal portion of the elongate member is coaxially loaded over the needle and attachable to the distal portion of the hub; and a first blade slidably attached to the distal portion of the elongate member, wherein the lumen extends distally to at least a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the lumen, wherein the plane includes a point on a distal tip of the first blade. | 29,812 |
8,833,597 | 1. A straw guide container that holds dry ice, the container comprises of: a housing, the housing has a top, a bottom, a first and a second side, the first and the second side have four walls that form an approximately octagonal shape when closed, the first and second side are fixedly attached to each other along the length of one of the walls, the walls of the first and second side that are not fixedly attached have vertical latches that run along the length of the walls that latch onto each other when closed, the top and the bottom sides define walls that merge toward a center point of the housing, the first and the second side wall define a plurality of vertical slits that run along the length of the first and second side wall, the top and bottom sides define a plurality of apertures; and a straw guide, the straw guide is fixedly attached to one of the walls of the second side of the housing and runs vertically to the second side wall. | 41,668 |
9,092,941 | 1. A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising: causing at least one controller to operate with a plurality of gaming machines to display an indication of a plurality of different progressive award values, each of the progressive award values associated with a greater than zero probability of being provided if said progressive award value is selected, and each of the progressive award values associated with a separate, supplemental award value; and causing said at least one controller to operate with said plurality of gaming machines to: | 19,209 |
9,214,146 | 1. An electronic musical instrument comprising: an instrument body having a plurality of FSR keys for producing different musical notes; wherein at least one of the FSR keys is an FSR sensor comprising: a strum rod assembly having at least two strum rods, the strum rod assembly operably connected to the instrument body. | 21,554 |
9,320,145 | 1. An electronic component assembly comprising: a. a printed component structure comprising at least one of a semiconducting ink, an insulating ink and a conducting ink deposited onto a substrate, the component structure defining at least one contact area; b. a connecting lead disposed against or adjacent to said at least one contact area; and c. at least one layer of electrically insulating material enclosing the component structure, wherein at least one of the substrate and the layer of electrically insulating material is a soft material which can deform plastically or elastically under a small compressive force and has a hardness less than 100 on the Shore A scale or a Brinell hardness less than 30, and an end of the connecting lead is held in electrical contact with the at least one contact pad by pressure exerted on them by the substrate and the at least one layer of electrically insulating material. | 28,453 |
8,492,452 | 1. A polymerizable photoinitiator represented by Formula (I): wherein R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl group, and an optionally substituted aryl group, or R1 and R3 represent the necessary atoms to form a five to eight membered ring; p, w, y, and z are all integers with y representing a value 1 to 6, p representing the sum of w and z wherein p also represents a value of 1 to 6, w=1 to (p−z), and z=0 to (p−w); L represents an optionally substituted (p+y)-valent linking group including 1 to 14 carbon atoms; A represents a radically polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate group, a methacrylate group, a styrene group, an acryl amide group, a methacryl amide group, a maleate group, a fumarate group, an itaconate group, a vinyl ether group, an allyl ether group, an allyl ester group, and a vinyl ester group; and X represents a photoinitiating moiety including at least one group capable of initiating a free radical polymerization reaction upon exposure to actinic radiation. | 25,035 |
9,634,082 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first insulating film; a second insulating film overlapping the first insulating film; a stack of semiconductor films interposed between the first insulating film and the second insulating film, the stack of semiconductor films comprising: a gate electrode, wherein the gate electrode and the stack of semiconductor films overlap, and wherein a concentration in nitrogen of the first oxide semiconductor film is higher than a concentration in nitrogen of the second oxide semiconductor film. | 47,888 |
8,535,728 | 1. A hydrogel composition comprising a hydrophilic acrylic acid copolymers dissolved in a composition of silver in water having a total concentration of silver of between about 5 and 40 parts per million, wherein said silver is in the form of a stable and colorless colloidal suspension of silver particles having an interior of metallic silver and an exterior surface of ionic silver oxide, wherein at least 75% of the silver particles have diameters between 0.005 micrometers and 0.015 micrometers, wherein said silver particles are made from a silver electrode in an electrochemical cell, and wherein the composition manifests antimicrobial properties. | 43,888 |
8,800,356 | 1. A method of monitoring catalyst performance, comprising: applying a set of parameter readings for a given sample to a support vector machine to generate a classification output; recording a plurality of classification outputs for a plurality of successive samples over a first duration; and indicating catalyst degradation if a threshold percentage of the classification outputs indicates degraded catalyst performance. | 47,355 |
8,989,728 | 1. A mobile device for accessing content stored on a remote server over a mobile network, wherein the content is to be sent as an attachment in a transaction to a destination, the mobile device, comprising: a processor configured to: wherein, once initiated, the transaction is sent from the management server to the remote server over a TCP/IP connection causing the remote server to attach the content associated with the identifier for the transaction and the attachment of the content to be sent to the destination, wherein the management server determines that the mobile device has insufficient memory to view the list in its entirety, wherein a portion of the list is sent to the mobile device when the mobile device has insufficient memory to access the list in its entirety. | 32,073 |
8,795,906 | 1. A method for generating an electrical current comprising the step of: reacting silicon hydride nanocrystals having a particle size between 0.5 nm and 2.5 nm dispersed in an organic solvent with water, wherein the step of reacting silicon hydride nanocrystals with water takes place in a fuel cell comprising a Y-shaped microfluidic microchannel, wherein the Y-shaped microfluidic microchannel comprises: a first stream and a second stream, wherein the first stream and the second stream are in fluid communication with each other, wherein the first stream comprises the silicon hydride nanocrystals and the second stream comprises water, wherein the silicon hydride nanocrystals are dissolved in isopropyl alcohol thereby forming a silicon hydride nanocrystal/alcohol solution and the silicon hydride nanocrystal/alcohol solution has a concentration between 0.02 mg/ml and 1.0 mg/ml. | 41,375 |
9,142,360 | 1. A mesoporous titania bead having a diameter of 200-1000 nm, specific surface area of 50-100 m 2 /g, porosity of 40-60%, pore radius of 5-20 nm, pore volume of 0.20-0.30 cm 3 /g, and the titania comprised in the bead is anatase titania. | 14 |
8,766,150 | 1. A device for hardening teeth of a gear wheel by inductive heat treatment followed by a quenching action, the device comprising: a rotary device for rotating a gear wheel about a central axis of the gear wheel; at least two radially movable hardening inductors, wherein the at least two hardening inductors are arranged about a circumference of the gear wheel at a spacing relative to each other, the spacing selected in accordance with an integral multiple of a sector angle of two neighboring teeth of the gear wheel; wherein the at least two hardening inductors, after a certain rotation of the gear wheel, are simultaneously actuated for hardening those teeth of the gear wheel that are positioned in an effective area of the at least two hardening inductors, wherein tooth bodies and/or tooth gaps of the teeth of the gear wheel are hardened; annealing inductors, wherein for each one of the at least two hardening inductors one of the annealing inductors is provided, wherein the annealing inductors are arranged such about the circumference of the gear wheel that areas of the gear wheel hardened previously by the at least two hardening inductors upon rotation of the gear wheel are moved immediately, or after leaving out one or several steps, into the effective area of the annealing inductors. | 29,708 |
8,752,569 | 1. A shutoff fitting as a protection device for blocking a fluid flow through a conduit, comprising: a pneumatic adjustment device including a shutoff member; a separate hybrid gas generator operably connected to the adjustment device, said hybrid gas generator having a reaction chamber with a gas generator and a pressure gas chamber containing compressed gas and arranged adjacent to the reaction chamber; an inlet diaphragm separating the reaction chamber from the pressure gas chamber and penetratable, when the gas generator is activated, so that a passage is established from the reaction chamber to the pressure gas chamber and the pressure in the pressure gas chamber rises; an outlet diaphragm closing the pressure gas chamber and rendered ineffective through destruction when the gas generator is activated and the inlet diaphragm is penetrated and the pressure in the pressure gas chamber rises, to enable compressed gas to flow into the adjustment device which is separate from the hybrid gas generator and to move the shutoff member; and a pressure source configured to activate the adjustment device independently of the hybrid gas generator. | 20,582 |
9,398,845 | 1. Apparatus for generating a three-dimensional topography of a surface of an eye characterized by a distinct visual feature, said apparatus comprising: A) a camera mounted on a fixed base and directed along an imaging axis for generating a sequence of two-dimensional images of the eye including the distinct visual feature, B) a scanner that generates distance information corresponding to distances from an internal reference of the apparatus to the surface of the eye at a plurality of positions along a meridian scan line during a meridian scanning operation, C) a rotary stage for rotating said scanner to a plurality of angular positions, to thereby also rotate an angular position of the meridian scan line, the rotary stage disposed at a determined physical spacing with respect to the fixed base, to thereby also place the camera at a determined physical spacing with respect to the scanner for each of the plurality of angular positions, and D) a control connected to said camera, said rotary stage and said scanner, said control: E) an image processor configured to process the stored distance measurements and the corresponding simultaneously captured two-dimensional images to thereby align the two-dimensional images to obtain a composite three-dimensional image of the eye corresponding to the three-dimensional topography of the eye surface and thereby compensate for eye motion during the plurality of meridian scanning operations. | 4,578 |
9,453,495 | 1. A wind turbine for harvesting energy from both horizontal and vertical wind flow comprising: an open frame structure having at least one generally horizontally disposed circular outer blade supporting member supporting the open frame structure while it rotates about a central vertical axis passing through the center of the supporting member, the circular outer blade supporting member having a bottom annular surface; a plurality of wind energy harvesting generally vertically disposed blades, each rotatable about their vertical axes, mounted to the circular outer supporting member of the open frame structure; and a plurality of rollers spaced below the bottom annular surface of the circular outer blade supporting member. | 30,710 |
8,934,938 | 1. A wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base station devices each configured to have an antenna power allocation function, the wireless communication system configured to realize a coverage area by scattering the plurality of base station devices, each having a plurality of antennas in service areas and configured to control transmission of signals in specific sub-bands using half of the antennas provided at each of the base station devices, wherein each of the base station devices is configured to divide a frequency band into a plurality of first sub-bands for transmitting signals using the plurality of antennas and a plurality of second sub-bands for transmitting signals using the half of the antennas, wherein each of the base station devices is configured to select antennas to transmit each of the second sub-bands, and wherein each of the base station devices is configured to determine transmission power of each sub-band on a basis of the number of first sub-bands and the number of the second sub-bands, wherein the transmission power of the first sub-bands and the transmission power of the second sub-bands can be adjusted to be different from each other. | 39,983 |
9,581,941 | 1. A belt for electrophotography, comprising: a base layer; and or comprising: an elastic layer provided on the base layer; and wherein: the surface layer comprises heteroaggregate comprising an inorganic oxide particle having an average primary particle diameter of from 10 to 30 nm, and an electroconductive metal oxide particle having an average primary particle diameter of from 5 to 40 nm, the electroconductive metal oxide particle being different from the inorganic oxide particle; and wherein: a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the surface layer satisfies a relationship: | 38,762 |
9,444,379 | 1. A control method of a wind power excitation synchronous generation system, wherein the control method comprises the following steps of: detecting an output voltage, an output current and an output power of an excitation synchronous generator by using a power detector, so that a real-time output power information is obtained; using a motor to control a driving of a transmission mechanism, wherein the transmission mechanism is connected between a wind turbine rotor and the excitation synchronous generator to drive the excitation synchronous generator; using an encoder to transmits a position information of the excitation synchronous generator to a digital signal processing controller; using a phase detector to obtain and transmit a phase information of a utility grid to the digital signal processing controller; transferring the phase information of the utility grid into a present position command; comparing the present position command with the position information of the excitation synchronous generator to determine a duty cycle width of a pulse width modulation controlling unit, and to output a power switch timing to a power driving inverter for driving the motor; performing a position servo control of the motor according to the position information of the excitation synchronous generator, so as to allow the transmission mechanism to drive the excitation synchronous generator at a predetermined speed, thereby generating the output power; transmitting the output power to the utility grid in parallel; using a maximum power determining unit to generate a power command according to a sum of a reference wind power and a fine-tuning power, wherein the reference wind power is defined by a pitch angle of the wind turbine rotor and a reference wind speed, and the fine-tuning power is defined as a function of a motor input power; tracking a predetermined power of the power generation system by the power command; wherein the real-time output power information is fed back to a power controller to compare with the power command, and the power controller is used for generating an excitation current command to an excitation controlling unit, and the excitation controlling unit is used for generating an excitation current for controlling an excitation field of the excitation synchronous generator. | 18,557 |
9,445,792 | 1. A medical instrument, comprising: a shaft, at a proximal end of which a handle is arranged, the shaft being mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the shaft with respect to the handle; and a locking mechanism adapted to secure the shaft in various positions of rotation relative to the handle; wherein the locking mechanism is designed as a latching mechanism which has a perforated disk with recesses, and latching elements; wherein each of the latching elements is moveable relative to the perforated disk in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft between (i) a latched position in which the latching element engages in a corresponding one of the recesses of the perforated disk in order to prevent rotation of the shaft relative to the handle, and (ii) an intermediate position, in which the latching element is not engaged in any one of the recesses of the perforated disk; and wherein each of the latching elements includes a spring element that biases the latching element in a direction toward the perforated disk; and wherein a distance between two latching elements arranged next to each other differs from a distance between two recesses arranged next to each other on the perforated disk; wherein the latching elements include at least a first latching element and a second latching element, and the latching elements are configured such that the first latching element can be in the latched position when the second latching element is in the intermediate position. | 14,609 |
9,347,689 | 1. A renewable energy system, said renewable energy system comprising: (a) a plurality of solar panels said plurality of solar panels being adapted to be mounted on a structure and convert solar energy into electrical energy; (b) a plurality of windmills, said plurality of windmills being adapted to be mounted on the structure and convert wind energy into electrical energy; (c) a means for shutting down the renewable energy system, said means for shutting down the renewable energy system being adapted to automatically shut down the system in the event of an emergency; wherein the plurality of solar panels comprise a pyramid-shaped arrangement; and wherein the plurality of windmills are mounted at the base of the plurality of solar panels. | 1,171 |
9,589,977 | 1. A non-volatile memory, comprising: a substrate having an opening; a first doped region disposed in the substrate along the opening; an embedded-type charge storage transistor disposed in the substrate, wherein the embedded-type charge storage transistor comprises: a charge storage structure disposed on the substrate in the opening; and a conductive layer disposed on the charge storage structure and filling the opening; and a selection transistor disposed on the substrate at one side of the embedded-type charge storage transistor, wherein the selection transistor comprises a metal gate structure. | 42,099 |
9,346,549 | 1. A method for regulating the de-icing of a leading edge of an aircraft, said method employing a de-icing device including a duct for routing a flow of hot air from a hot air source to at least one outlet and a regulator device for regulating said flow of hot air including: a first regulator valve controlled by a first controller setting said first regulator valve in accordance with a fully open position and a regulated position at a first regulation level, and a second regulator valve controlled by a second controller setting said second regulator valve in accordance with a fully open position and a regulated position at the first regulation level, wherein the regulation method comprises: regulating the flow of air in accordance with two regulation levels, the first regulation level for which the first controller sets the first regulator valve to a regulated position or in the event of a malfunction of the first regulator valve the second controller sets the second regulator valve to the regulated position, and a second regulation level for which the first controller and the second controller respectively set the first regulator value and the second regulator valve to the fully open position of both regulator valves, and wherein the first regulation level corresponds to a first predetermined pressure set point, the second regulation level corresponds to a second predetermined pressure set point different than the first predetermined pressure set point. | 7,209 |
9,500,179 | 1. A wind turbine system, comprising: a wind turbine blade elongated along a longitudinal axis, the wind turbine blade including: | 7,677 |
9,269,851 | 1. A method of depositing metal on an exposed surface of a p-type semiconductor region of a semiconductor device comprising a p-n junction, the method comprising: immersing the exposed surface of the p-type semiconductor region on which the metal is to be deposited in a solution of metal ions; producing an electric field in the semiconductor device such that the p-n junction is forward biased; electrochemically depositing the metal on the exposed surface of the p-type semiconductor region of the semiconductor device by reduction of metal ions in the solution, and wherein the electric field is produced by placing into the solution of metal ions at least one electrode which does not physically contact the semiconductor device. | 30,919 |
9,265,023 | 1. A method, comprising: determining, by a system comprising a processor, location related information, associated with a mobile device, and received from a location measurement device within a defined coverage area of a base station device; determining, by the system, additional location related information, associated with the mobile device, and received from other location measurement devices within the defined coverage area of the base station device, determining, by the system, latitude information and longitude information associated with the mobile device based on a triangulation performed as a function of the location related information received from the location measurement device and the additional location related information received from the other location measurement devices. | 41,379 |
9,290,714 | 1. A process for coating a galling-resistant steel tubular component made of one or more metals for drilling or operating hydrocarbon wells, the tubular component including at an end thereof a threaded zone produced on one of an external or internal peripheral surface of the tubular component, depending on whether the end having the threaded zone is male or female in type, the process comprising: dissolving one or more mineral salts, which are not reactive towards the metals of the tubular component, in a solvent so as to form a solution; pre-heating the threaded zone of the tubular component; depositing the solution directly on at least a portion of a steel surface of the threaded zone after the pre-heating; and evaporating off the solvent to obtain a dry film having a crystalline mineral structure having a high specific surface area and which is not reactive towards the steel of the tubular component, wherein the specific surface area of the dry film having a crystalline mineral structure is more than 20 m wherein the solution is an alkaline silicate dissolved in water, and wherein the pre-heating the threaded zone of the tubular component includes heating the threaded zone between 50° C. and 250° C. before depositing the solution. | 6,589 |
9,438,447 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising: computer-readable program code configured to generate a hash value based on routing information of a data frame; computer-readable program code configured to split the hash value into a plurality of chunks, wherein values of the plurality of chunks correspond to a plurality of links associated with a link aggregation group; computer-readable program code configured to modify each of the plurality of chunks based on a number of the plurality of links; computer-readable program code configured to determine a selected link having an up state from the plurality of links based on a hierarchical order of the plurality of chunks; and computer-readable program code configured to forward the data frame to the selected link. | 34,735 |
8,502,457 | 1. A light assembly comprising: a light socket assembly powered by an alternating current source, said light socket assembly containing an outer periphery and a female socket for receipt of a solid state light bulb; an alternating current/direct current converter electrically communicating with said light socket assembly; a first set of direct current contacts formed along said outer periphery; and a solid state lighting source containing an inner annular periphery and a second set of direct current contacts corresponding to said first set of direct current contacts, wherein said solid state lighting source slidably engages said outer periphery of said light socket assembly to electronically mate said first and said second sets of direct current contacts. | 31,858 |
9,771,148 | 1. A method for maximizing flexibility of airport gate operations and minimizing time required for gate operations at airports where aircraft are driven into and out of airport gate parking locations to park at the parking locations in a parallel parking orientation with a longest axis of the aircraft parallel to an airport terminal building without operation of aircraft engines or attachment to tow vehicles, comprising: a. equipping aircraft driving into and out of gate parking locations at an airport with engines-off taxi systems comprising pilot-controllable landing gear wheel-mounted electric drive motors operable to drive the aircraft into and out of the gate parking locations and to turn the aircraft within the gate parking locations; b. providing a plurality of aircraft gate parking locations located adjacent to the airport terminal building and sized to provide at least a minimum clearance for the aircraft to be turned by the pilot with the electric drive motors at least 180° completely within the minimum clearance, each of the plurality of parking locations having at least two extendible and retractable passenger loading bridges spaced to provide simultaneous perpendicular parallel connections between the airport terminal building and front and rear doors of an aircraft parked in the parallel parking orientation with the longest axis parallel to the airport terminal building at each of the plurality of parking locations; c. driving an arriving aircraft by a pilot controlling the pilot-controllable electric drive motors in a forward direction into one of the plurality of parking locations, turning the aircraft 90° in a desired direction completely within the minimum clearance with the electric drive motors, and parking the arriving aircraft in the parallel parking orientation with a first side or a second side of the aircraft facing the airport terminal building; d. extending the at least two passenger loading bridges to at least two aircraft front and rear doors on a first, terminal-facing side of the aircraft so that the at least two passenger loading bridges are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the aircraft and to the airport terminal building and form the perpendicular parallel connections directly between the airport terminal building and the at least two front and rear doors of the aircraft; and e. simultaneously transferring arriving and departing passengers between the equipped aircraft and the airport terminal building through the at least two perpendicular parallel passenger loading bridges and servicing the aircraft and at departure, retracting the at least two passenger loading bridges to clear the parking location, controlling the electric drive motors by the pilot and driving the departing aircraft forward while turning the departing aircraft 90° with the electric drive motors completely within the minimum clearance so that a nose end is facing away from the airport terminal building and the longest axis is perpendicular to the airport terminal building, and continuing to control the electric drive motors by the pilot to drive the departing aircraft in only a forward direction away from the airport terminal building to a takeoff runway. | 31,190 |
9,504,889 | 1. A hollow, wood-type golf club head comprising: a first body member and a second body member releasably coupleable to the first body member by a cantilever mechanism comprising a protruding tip on the first body member and a recess dimensioned to receive the protruding tip on the second body member, wherein the recess comprises a hole through the second body member; the first and second body members releasably coupleable to create a playable club head that can be disassembled by pressing on the protruding tip, through the hole, to disengage the cantilever mechanism, the club head comprising: wherein the cantilever mechanism is located in the playable club head. | 29,511 |
8,551,534 | 1. A method of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, comprising: producing an effective amount of an aerosolized osmolyte with a nebulizer; and delivering the aerosolized osmolyte continuously over a period of at least eight hours via a nasal cannula configured to limit accumulation of liquid droplets therein. | 7,178 |
9,709,227 | 1. A light blade fixture apparatus comprising: an upper housing permanently affixed to a structure; a driver removably affixed directly to the upper housing and configured to be removable without removing the upper housing when a LED harness is connected from the driver to at least one LED; and a lower light emitting diode (LED) housing removably affixed to the upper housing and configured to be removable without removing the upper housing, comprising at least two lower LED housing fasteners wherein the lower LED housing comprises: the at least one LED; a blade lens; and at least one blade lens fastener, wherein at least one lower housing blade aperture is aligned with at least one blade aperture and wherein the at least one blade lens fastener is inserted into the at least one lower housing blade aperture and the at least one blade aperture. | 43,173 |
9,725,122 | 1. A front vehicle body structure comprising: front upper side members extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and disposed at both left and right sides in a width direction of the vehicle; fender apron upper members which are divided into two while extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, disposed at both left and right sides in the width direction of the vehicle, and disposed above the front upper side members in a height direction of the vehicle; first joints mounted on the front upper side members; second joints connecting the two fender apron upper members; and a shock absorber mounting reinforcing member connecting each first joint and second joint, wherein: | 20,290 |
8,977,371 | 1. An illumination controller for controlling illumination of a workspace near a display, the illumination controller comprising: a memory device storing a user's preference for illumination of the workspace; a processor accessing the user's preference in the memory device; an interface between the processor and an electronic sensor located proximate to the display, the interface collecting a reading from the electronic sensor; the processor operating to discover wirelessly the electronic sensor, discover at leas one luminaire in proximity to the electronic sensor and create a sensor-luminaire map which maps each electronic sensor with one or more luminaire; wherein the processor compares the reading with the user's preference, and sends a command to the at least one luminaire to adjust the illumination of the workspace. | 47,429 |
8,937,824 | 1. A photovoltaic (PV) system comprising: a PV array configured to generate a direct current (DC) output from received solar radiation; a DC link coupled to the PV array to receive the DC output therefrom; a DC-to-AC power inverter electrically coupled to the DC link to receive the DC output therefrom and invert the DC output to an AC output; and a damping circuit electrically coupled to the DC link and positioned between the PV array and the DC-to-AC power inverter, the damping circuit comprising a damping resistor and a damping switch. | 45,462 |
9,567,883 | 1. A system to generate pressurized air for hydro-excavation, the system comprising: an internal combustion engine; an exhaust manifold coupled to the internal combustion engine; a vacuum pump mechanically driven by the internal combustion engine; an exhaust silencer configured to hold water, wherein a portion of the exhaust manifold passes through the exhaust silencer to generate steam therein; a steam turbine configured to be driven directly by the steam generated in the exhaust silencer; a primary steam line secured proximate to an upper end of the exhaust silencer to connect to the steam turbine; an air compressor coupled to a mechanical output of the steam turbine to generate pressurized air; a return line coupled to an outlet of the steam turbine and configured to return the water from the steam turbine back to the exhaust silencer; and a secondary steam line configured to bleed off a portion of the steam from the primary steam line to add downstream to an output line of the air compressor to selectively generate a mixture of the steam and pressurized air for use in hydro-excavation. | 25,876 |
8,413,933 | 1. A pipe-suspension bracket comprising a body for receiving a pipe and a suspension part connected to the body for suspending the pipe from a profile in several different ways, the suspension part comprising: an overlie part comprising a bridge part and two leg-parts, the bridge part extending between the two leg-parts and comprising at least one resting section being constructed to rest on an upper surface of the profile and the leg parts constructed to extend on either side of the profile, wherein the overlie part is configured to substantially fit over the profile for suspending the pipe from the profile in one way, a projection formed on the bridge part, the projection being formed to substantially fit in a slot which is formed in the profile by two ridges of the profile for suspending the pipe in another way, and a hole formed in the bridge part, the hole being configured to suspend the pipe-suspension bracket from the profile via a suspension rod for suspending the pipe in yet another way. | 30,461 |
8,492,702 | 1. A light detection system, comprising a light absorbing layer made of a semiconductor having majority carriers and minority carriers, and being incorporated with bandgap modifying atoms at a concentration selected so as to allow generation of photocurrent indicative of absorption of photons at any wavelength at least in the range of from about 3 μm to about 5 μm. | 48,983 |
8,383,228 | 1. A shingle having front and rear exterior surfaces, a width defined by upper and lower edges and a length defined by right and left edges, including an upper headlap portion and a lower tab portion, comprising: (a) a base layer of mat having front and rear surfaces; (b) a coating of asphaltic material on both front and rear surfaces of the mat; (c) coatings of granular material on both front and rear surfaces and adhered thereto, which, together with said base layer of mat and coatings of asphaltic material comprise a first thickness layer; (d) a longitudinal fastening zone between right and left shingle edges, generally intermediate said upper and lower edges; (e) an at least partially externally visible generally longitudinal reinforcement second thickness layer of a substantially thinner dimension than said first thickness layer, adhered to an exterior surface of said shingle and extending at least substantially between right and left edges of the shingle; and (f) said reinforcement layer extending across a lower end of a headlap portion; wherein said reinforcement layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of woven or nonwoven: (i) thin fabric; (ii) plastic film; (iii) paper; (iv) parchment; (v) foil; and (vi) scrim. | 32,249 |
9,262,075 | 1. A method comprising: outputting, by a computing device and for display, a graphical keyboard, wherein: responsive to receiving an indication of user input to select one or more letter keys of the first subset of keys or the second subset of keys, outputting, by the computing device and for display, one or more letters corresponding to the selected one or more letter keys of the first subset of keys or the second subset of keys. | 22,613 |
8,998,426 | 1. A projection system comprising: a projector body including a projection lens that projects an image; an optical filter located in a position downstream of the projection lens; a lens moving section that moves the projection lens from an initial position in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the projection lens; a movement amount detector that detects at least one of the amount of movement of the projection lens from the initial position and the position to which the projection lens has been moved from the initial position; a filter adjuster that changes at least one of the position and the attitude of the optical filter; and an adjustment controller that controls the filter adjuster in accordance with a detection result from the movement amount detector to adjust at least one of the position and the attitude of the optical filter. | 26,068 |
9,391,271 | 1. A resistive random access memory, comprising: a substrate; a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate; and at least one memory cell string, comprising: | 19,389 |
9,318,074 | 1. A method for controlling brightness of a touch display unit of a portable terminal, the method comprising: displaying on the touch display unit a brightness step selection screen for selecting one of a plurality of selectable brightness steps, the plurality of selectable brightness steps corresponding to incremental levels of brightness of the touch display unit; while continuing to display the brightness step selection screen, receiving a single selection user input to select a brightness step among the plurality of selectable brightness steps; while continuing to display the brightness step selection screen and in direct response to the receiving of the single selection user input of one of the plurality of selectable brightness steps, visually distinguishing the selected brightness step among the plurality of selectable brightness steps on the brightness step selection screen; and while continuing to display the brightness step selection screen and in direct response to the receiving of the single selection user input of one of the plurality of selectable brightness steps, regulating the brightness of the touch display unit to correspond to the selected brightness step, wherein the visually distinguishing of the selected brightness step and the regulating of the brightness of the touch display unit at least partly occur at the same time, and wherein the regulating of the brightness of the touch display unit according to the selected brightness step comprises, when there is at least one intervening brightness step between a previously selected brightness step and the selected brightness step, regulating the brightness of the touch display unit from the previously selected brightness step to the selected brightness step without incrementing through the at least one intervening brightness step. | 18,174 |
9,149,627 | 1. A kit, comprising: a body having features; and an implantable medical lead extension attached to the body by being wound around the features of the body, with the implantable medical lead extension in the configuration including a distal end connector having a bore for receiving a proximal end of an implantable medical lead and a proximal end connector having a main body with a pluggable physical connection framework for connecting to a stimulation device. | 23,655 |
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