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8,890,250 | 1. An electrostatic discharge protection structure, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first well region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, and containing first type conducting carriers; a gate structure disposed over a surface of the first well region; a second well region disposed within the first well region, and located at a first side of the gate structure, wherein the second well region contains second type conducting carriers; a first conductive region disposed on the surface of the first well region, and arranged between the gate structure and the second well region, wherein the first conductive region contains the second type conducting carriers; a second conductive region disposed on the surface of the first well region, and located at a second side of the gate structure, wherein the second conductive region contains the second type conducting carriers; a deep well region disposed under the second well region and the first conductive region, and contacted with the second well region, wherein the deep well region is separated from the first conductive region by the first well region, wherein the deep well region contains the second type conducting carriers; and a third conductive region arranged between the second well region, the first conductive region and the deep well region, wherein the third conductive region is contacted with a bottom surface of the first conductive region. | 17,980 |
8,884,613 | 1. A water-chamber working apparatus that performs a predetermined work inside a water chamber of a steam generator, the apparatus comprising: a movable body that is configured to move along a tube plate of the steam generator; an extendable member that includes a first portion and a second portion and that extends and retracts in a direction in which the first portion and the second portion approach each other and a direction in which theses portions move away from each other, where the first portion is attached to a portion of the water chamber that is away from the tube plate via a first joint including two rotation axes intersecting with each other, and the second portion is attached to the movable body via a second joint including two rotation axes intersecting with each other, which are different from the rotation axes of the first joint; a first force application unit that applies a force in a direction in which the first portion and the second portion move away from each other to the extendable member; and a second force application unit that applies a force of rotating the extendable member centering around the first joint, which is a force to cause the second portion to approach to the tube plate, to the extendable member. | 45,333 |
8,447,109 | 1. A method for the compression of a raster type image material by using segmentation, said method comprising the steps of: dividing a widespread start image material ( compressing each segment with an image compression algorithm chosen according to internal qualities of the segment, or with a different set of parameters for the image compression algorithm; storing coordinates for each segment portion in a memory; and processing compressed segments (A, B, C, D) and coordinates (XA, ZB, XC, XD) therefor for a compression result (R), wherein the result (R) is processed for a www-page imaging code, and the compressed segments (A, B, C, D) cited thereby are discrete compressed image files. | 32,674 |
9,287,762 | 1. An inverter that switches an input voltage to flow an excitation current to an excitation winding of a transformer, and outputs an alternating voltage from a secondary output winding of the transformer, wherein in an output circuit that flows a current to a load by the alternating voltage output from the output winding of the transformer, a voltage-responsive connector is connected in series with the output winding to interrupt or connect the output circuit according to a voltage applied to between opposed electrodes by the alternating voltage, and the voltage-responsive connector has characteristics of keeping the electrodes in an insulated state until an instantaneous value of the alternating voltage reaches a predetermined value, and holding the electrodes in a conduction state while the instantaneous value of the alternating voltage has reached the predetermined value and continues to exceed the predetermined value, and quickly returning the electrodes to the insulated state when the instantaneous value of the alternating voltage has fallen below the predetermined value. | 3,300 |
8,434,128 | 1. A method, comprising: determining, by at least one of a policy agent and a policy enforcement server in an enterprise network, that a selected stimulus has occurred, the stimulus being one or more of a passage of a selected time interval, an an occurrence of an event relevant to a degree of sensitivity of a selected communication, and/or content, to an enterprise corresponding to the enterprise network; in response to the determined stimulus, changing, by at least one of the policy agent and the policy enforcement server, a security requirement associated with the selected communication and/or content; determining, by the policy agent, that a nonsubscriber of the enterprise network is a member of a trusted group, the trusted group comprising, as members, at least one subscriber of the enterprise network and at least one nonsubscriber and each member of the trusted group being trusted by the enterprise; and in response to the nonsubscriber being a member of the trusted group, the policy agent at least one of (a) sending the selected communication and/or content and (b) providing the nonsubscriber access to the selected communication and/or content, wherein the trusted group is no longer recognized after at least one of (a) occurrence of a predetermined event adversely impacting a degree of trust between the enterprise and nonsub scriber and (b) passage of a determined period of time and wherein a security mechanism is at least one of deleted, disabled, and denied permission to execute in response to the at least one of (a) occurrence of a predetermined event and (b) passage of a determined period of time. | 24,047 |
9,677,206 | 1. A manufacturing method for fabrics with cut loop pile, the method characterized in that: a synthetic multifilament yarn having total fineness within the range from about 100 denier to about 300 denier is used as a core yarn; and a splittable-microfiber yarn made of polyester and nylon having total fineness within the range from about 50 denier to about 300 denier and a viscose rayon yarn having total fineness within the range from about 100 denier to about 300 denier, are used for a covering yarn; and the method includes the steps of: a yarn manufacturing step for manufacturing a yarn having a structure of a core yarn where the covering yarn is fixed into through a heat treatment after twisting the covering yarn into said core yarn; a textile manufacturing step for knitting a textile using said yarn to include loop pile therein; a pre-fabric manufacturing step for manufacturing pre-fabrics having cut loops through raising and shearing of one surface or both surfaces of said textile; a fabric manufacturing step for manufacturing fabrics wherein the core yarns are outwardly protruded from the covering yarns at the section where said loops are being cut by splitting, weight reduction, and shrinking of said covering yarns through treatment of said pre-fabrics in an alkaline solution for about 30 minutes to about 60 minutes at about 100° C. to about 130° C. to produce soluble byproducts from the partial hydrolysis of the polyester of the covering yarns followed by washing the byproducts away; and a dyeing step wherein dyeing is performed on said fabric manufactured in said fabric manufacturing step for about 30 minutes to about 60 minutes at about 100° C. to about 130° C. followed by washing and drying to allow the cut section of the synthetic multifilament yarn, which is outwardly protruding from the section of the cut loops, to have a shape of a hook by being bent. | 48,451 |
8,923,137 | 1. A client device for communicating with a wireless access point, the client device comprising: a data processing module having a processor and memory configured to receive at least a portion of a frame transmitted by the access point to an intermediate location within the frame; and a channel assessment module having a processor and memory configured to determine a validity window with respect to the intermediate location when at least one channel quality metric is greater than or equal to a given threshold, wherein the data processing module is configured to validate information received within the validity window; wherein the channel quality metric comprises confidence metrics from the output of a Viterbi decoder; and wherein the frame is received though a verification field and the channel assessment module is further configured to diagnose a failure of the verification field on the basis of a duration metric and a difference between a first channel quality metric measured during a preamble of the frame and a second channel quality metric measured during a time corresponding to the intermediate location, wherein the information within the validity window is validated when the failure diagnosis is attributable to deteriorating channel conditions. | 32,597 |
8,459,042 | 1. A ferrule assembly for mounting a combustor component on a combustor housing of a gas turbine engine, the combustor housing at least in part defining an internal combustion chamber of the combustor, the ferrule assembly comprising: a ferrule mount secured to the housing to remain generally stationery relative thereto during operation of the gas turbine engine; and a ferrule mounted on the ferrule mount for transverse sliding movement relative thereto between a first transverse ferrule position and a second transverse ferrule position, the ferrule having a primary opening for receiving the combustor component therethrough for conjoint transverse movement with the ferrule relative to the ferrule mount, said ferrule further having a plurality of purge gas openings formed therein separate from and uniformly spaced transversely from the primary opening a first distance, a plurality of second purge gas openings uniformly spaced transversely from the primary opening a second distance greater than said first distance, and a plurality of third purge gas openings uniformly spaced transversely from the primary opening a third distance greater than said second distance, in the first ferrule position at least one of the second purge gas openings and at least one of the third purge gas openings being blocked by the ferrule mount against the flow of purge gas therethrough, at least one of said blocked second purge gas openings and at least one of said blocked third purge gas openings being unblocked by the ferrule mount in the second ferrule position to permit the flow of purge gas therethrough into the combustion chamber. | 11,300 |
8,524,909 | 1. A compound of formula I wherein R R R R R X is —O— or —CH X′ is —O— or —CH or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt, racemic mixture, corresponding enantiomer or optical isomer thereof. | 19,820 |
8,593,102 | 1. A portable, self-sustaining power station comprising: a transportable container; a stationary solar panel secured to an upper surface of said container and configured to receive sunlight; a plurality of movable solar panels stowed beneath said stationary solar panel in individual compartments; a mounting assembly including a first and second roller tube each having an upper wall, a lower wall and opposing side walls with a plurality of upper rollers spaced apart and extending at least partially above said upper wall and secured to said side walls by an upper transverse axle member and a plurality of lower rollers spaced apart and extending at least partially below said upper wall and secured to said side walls by a lower transverse axle member constructed and arranged to support each of said movable solar panel and allow movement from the stowed position beneath said stationary solar panel to a deployed position wherein each said movable solar panel is configured to receive sunlight; a hydraulic actuator secured to each said movable solar panel and each said side wall constructed and arranged to counter balance the weight of each said solar panel and aid in tilting said movable solar panels for optimum orientation; a ratchet shaft rotatably mounted to said side members, said ratchet shaft including a ratchet wheel mounted along each end of said ratchet shaft adjacent to a locking pawl, said locking pawl allowing rotation of said ratchet wheel to allow a tilt angle increase of said movable solar panels; an actuator for disengaging said locking pawl to allow a tilt angle decrease of said movable solar panels; an engine driven electrical generator mounted within said container and accompanying said solar panels by a power storage device for storing electrical energy generated from said solar panels and said engine generator; wherein the power station provides a reliable source of power derived from said power storage device wherein said solar panels are deployed to obtain an optimum panel orientation to allow said solar panels to supply a primary power to the power storage device and said engine driven electrical generator supplies a supplemental power to said power storage device. | 11,742 |
8,554,650 | 1. A method, comprising: merging, in a computer system, an importable electronic template having a text field and a response field, into a first and second general purpose template, respectively, to form a respective updated first general purpose template and updated second general purpose template; providing, to a first potential auction participant and a second potential auction participant, the updated first general purpose template and updated second general purpose template, respectively; receiving, from the first potential auction participant, a first response associated with the response field as merged into the updated first general purpose template; receiving, from the second potential auction participant, a second response associated with the response field as merged into the updated second general purpose template; qualifying at least one of the first and the second potential auction participants as an actual participant in a first auction, prior to commencement of the first auction, wherein the qualification is based at least in part on the respective first and second responses; automatically updating, in the computer system, both the updated first general purpose template and the updated second general purpose template into a respective first revised general purpose template and a second revised general purpose template, in response to receipt in the computer system of a modification to the importable electronic template; and qualifying at least one of the first and the second potential auction participants as an actual participant in a second auction, prior to commencement of the second auction, based at least in part on the respective revised first general purpose template and the revised second general purpose template. | 32,000 |
8,830,385 | 1. A drive unit comprising: a holding member holding an object to be driven; a polymer actuator device provided on one side of the object to be driven; one or more supporting members provided on another side of the object to be driven; and a fixing member directly or indirectly fixing a first end of each of the polymer actuator device and the one or more supporting members, wherein a second end of each of the polymer actuator device and the one or more supporting members is directly or indirectly connected to an end of the holding member, wherein the polymer actuator device has a bending rigidity substantially equal to a bending rigidity of each of the one or more supporting members. | 29,373 |
9,611,243 | 1. A process for preparing a compound of the following formula: wherein R 1a represents a cation, H, or C 1-12 alkyl, comprising the steps of: (1) performing a cycloaddition reaction on the compound of the following formula: wherein in R 2a and R 6 independently represent hydroxy protecting groups, with a compound of the following formula: wherein R 7 represents C 1-6 alkoxy or C 1-12 alkyl-COOR 9 , where R 9 represents C 1-3 alkyl and R 8 represents halide or H to form a compound of the following formula: wherein R 2a , R 6 , R 7 , and R 8 are each defined above; (2) aromatizing the cyclodiene of formula (IV) to form the aromatic product of the following formula: (3) Reducing the ester of the compound of formula (V) to a benzyl alcohol and oxidation of benzyl alcohol to an aldehyde followed by addition of a carbon to said aldehyde to form an alkyne resulting in a compound of the following formula: (4) coupling the terminal alkyne with N wherein R | 30,553 |
9,518,984 | 1. A method for determining the presence of a material of interest (MOI) in a sample, in which the MOI is, a). a blood group antigen present on a red blood cell, in said sample, or b). an antibody in said sample that binds to a blood group antigen present on a red blood cell, which method comprises, | 41,705 |
9,644,151 | 1. A method comprising: (a) providing a biomass feedstock comprising cellulose and water; (b) contacting the biomass feedstock with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst capable of activating molecular hydrogen in a hydrocatalytic treatment at a temperature in a range of about 180 to 290 degrees C. to form a hydrocatalytically treated mixture comprising a plurality of hydrocarbon and oxygenated hydrocarbon molecules; (c) separating the hydrocatalytically treated mixture into at least a first overhead fraction comprising at least one of a hydrocarbon and oxygenated hydrocarbon molecules and a first bottom stream comprising (i) at least one compound having a separation point having a temperature in a range of about 100 to 600 degrees C. at a pressure of about atmospheric pressure, and (ii) at least one volatile organic compound, wherein the first bottom fraction comprises at least one of phenol, o-cresol, p-cresol, anisole, 4-methylanisole, catechol, guaiacol, 4-methlguaiacol, 1,3-dimethoxybenzene, syringol, vanillin, methoxyphenol, methyl phenol, dimethyl phenol, ethyl phenol, methyl ethyl phenol, methoxypropylphenol, benzene diol, and propyl phenol; (d) vaporizing the at least one volatile organic compound from the first bottom fraction using at least a heat exchange medium; (e) partially oxidizing a portion of the first bottom fraction without the vaporized at least one compound to generate a gas mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, wherein the heat exchange medium comprises the gas mixture; (f) providing the gas mixture to a water gas shift reaction zone external to where the biomass feedstock is contacted with hydrogen to generate hydrogen and carbon dioxide; and (g) providing the hydrogen from step (f) for use in step (b). | 35,892 |
8,994,600 | 1. An antenna assembly operable for receiving high definition television signals, the antenna assembly comprising: at least one tapered loop antenna element configured to be operable for receiving UHF high definition television signals; at least one reflector element spaced-apart from the tapered loop antenna element for reflecting electromagnetic waves generally towards the tapered loop antenna element, the reflector element including a grill or mesh surface and at least one perimeter flange extending outwardly relative to the grill or mesh surface; and a printed circuit board having fastener holes, wherein the tapered loop antenna element includes spaced-apart end portions having fastener holes; and wherein the printed circuit board is attached to the tapered loop antenna element by mechanical fasteners inserted through the fastener holes of the printed circuit board that are aligned with the fastener holes of the spaced-apart end portions. | 12,370 |
9,434,770 | 1. An isolated peptide consisting of SEQ ID NO: 13 that has one or more modified residue, wherein the modified residues comprises one or more residues that have been enzymatically cyclized, wherein the isolated peptide comprises a thioester bridge in a region from residue position 6 to residue position 16. | 1,733 |
8,589,889 | 1. A desktop error verification system for verifying an error in an application of an embedded system, the system is implemented by a processor, the processor comprising: application programming interface (API) wrappers corresponding to an API supported by a plurality of operating systems (OSs) of the embedded system, each of the API wrappers corresponding to one of the Oss; and an API wrapper storage unit capable of storing a table, which allows mapping with the API supported by a desktop OS, wherein an API wrapper is replaced by an API corresponding to the function of the API of the embedded system and supported by a desktop OS, and the API wrapper calls the replaced API, thereby verifying an error in the application, and wherein the processor verifies the error in the application for the embedded system, independent of reference to a development language of the application and an operating system on which the application is executed, wherein the API wrapper stored in the table calls the API supported by the desktop OS, thereby verifying the error in the application, and wherein the API wrapper storage unit stores information on a size of a stack and a size of a memory required in the embedded system environment. | 33,754 |
9,031,411 | 1. A wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical fiber network system comprising: a signal provider generating at least one set of optical signals of a plurality of different wavelengths; a plurality of modulation modules coupled to said signal provider, and each said modulation module comprises: a plurality of user receivers each coupled to one of said modulation modules to successively receive said one of said plurality of different wavelength optical signals retrieved by said modulation module according to said pre-identified random sequence thereof. | 47,405 |
9,264,211 | 1. A system, comprising: a clock module; a first sampling circuit coupled to the clock module to receive first values therefrom; a second sampling circuit coupled to the clock module to receive second values therefrom; wherein the first sampling circuit includes a first converter, a first phase interpolator, and a first sampler; wherein the first converter is coupled to replace the first values with first replacement values for input to the first phase interpolator; wherein the second sampling circuit includes a second converter, a second phase interpolator, and a second sampler; and wherein the second converter is coupled to replace the second values with second replacement values for input to the second phase interpolator; wherein the second sampler further includes: | 27,454 |
8,672,085 | 1. A variable ratio transmission mechanism adapted for use in an automobile steering system, the automobile steering system including coaxially-disposed first and second steering shafts that extend along a first direction, said variable ratio transmission mechanism comprising: a securing unit connected co-rotatably to the first steering shaft about a first axis that extends in the first direction; a connecting unit connected co-rotatably to the second steering shaft about the first axis; a motor including a main body that is connected to one of said securing unit and said connecting unit and that is co-rotatable with the one of said securing unit and said connecting unit about the first axis, and a revolving shaft that extends along a second axis extending in a second direction different from the first direction and that is revolvable relative to said main body; and a transmitting unit including a first transmitting component that is provided on the other one of said securing unit and said connecting unit, and a second transmitting component that is provided on said revolving shaft of said motor and that meshes with said first transmitting component; wherein, when the first steering shaft rotates about the first axis by a selected rotational angle without a revolving movement of said revolving shaft, said first and second transmitting components are angularly positioned relative to each other, and the second steering shaft is rotated about the first axis by the selected rotational angle; wherein, when the first steering shaft rotates about the first axis by a selected rotational angle with the revolving movement of said revolving shaft about the second axis, the second steering shaft is rotated about the first axis by a different rotational angle; wherein said main body of said motor is connected co-rotatably to said securing unit, and said first transmitting component is provided on said connecting unit; and wherein said second transmitting component is configured as a worm, said first transmitting component being configured as a worm gear. | 3,885 |
8,381,278 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: establishing a security inflow contract between a work-initiating system and an application server instance, wherein the security inflow contract enables a connector between the work-initiating system and the application server instance to submit work to the application server instance for execution and to deliver messages to message endpoints of the application server instance in the context of a caller identity, wherein said establishing the security inflow contract comprises: performing, by the application server instance, the one or more tasks indicated by the work instance under the established caller identity and within the indicated security context. | 26,287 |
9,667,150 | 1. An apparatus for controlling a surge voltage, comprising: an input power supply; a transformer which is configured to induce a voltage on a secondary side from a primary side based on the input power supply, wherein the primary side includes a plurality of primary coils (Np a snubber circuit which includes a plurality of snubber coils (Nb wherein the plurality of snubber coils are organically operating with the plurality of primary coils on the primary side of the transformer and the plurality of secondary coils on the secondary side of the transformer. | 20,656 |
8,674,471 | 1. A semiconductor device supplying a charging current to a charging-target element, comprising: a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type formed on a main surface of said semiconductor layer and having a first node coupled to a first electrode of said charging-target element and a second node coupled to a power supply potential node supplied with a power supply voltage; a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type formed in a surface of said first semiconductor region at a distance from said semiconductor layer and having a third node coupled to said power supply potential node; and a charge carrier drift restriction portion restricting drift of charge carrier from said third node to said semiconductor layer; said charge carrier drift restriction portion includes a resistor connected between said power supply potential node and said third node of said second semiconductor region. | 22,544 |
8,745,327 | 1. A method for controlling prioritization of tiering and spin down features in a data storage system, the method comprising: in a data storage array comprising a plurality of physical data storage disks for storing data: | 46,898 |
8,979,489 | 1. A low pressure turbine of a turbomachine comprising a stator provided with a case, a nozzle belonging to an upstream stage and a nozzle belonging to a downstream stage, each of the two stages housed in the case also comprising a bladed mobile wheel arranged downstream from the nozzle of its stage, the nozzle of the upstream stage being segmented so as to form angular nozzle segments each with an external structure from which nozzle blades project radially inwards, wherein each external structure comprises: a first tab bearing radially on a hook on the stator fixed to the case, a second tab bearing radially on a reaming in the case, said first and second tabs of the external structures of the segments delimiting an annular upstream cooling air circulation cavity, jointly with said case, a contact surface extending in the downstream direction from the second tab and lined with an abradable element on the inside in contact with the mobile wheel of the upstream stage, said contact surface comprising a downstream end bearing axially on the nozzle of said downstream stage and bearing radially on a stop of the case or said nozzle in the downstream stage, the contact surfaces of the external structures of the segments cooperating with said case, to delimit an annular downstream cooling air circulation cavity communicating via a passage with said upstream cavity. | 27,755 |
9,064,202 | 1. A data processing apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain multi-valued data, a multi-value of which shows gradation of each of a plurality of pixels forming an image to be formed on a predetermined area of a print medium; a dot arrangement determining unit configured to determine a dot arrangement of the plurality of pixels corresponding to the predetermined area for each of predetermined areas, according to a unit matrix that arranges dot arrangement patterns corresponding to the plurality of pixels, the dot arrangement patterns being used to determine the dot arrangement and being based on multi-valued data corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels in the multi-valued data obtained by the obtaining unit; and a layout determining unit configured to determine a layout of the dot arrangement patterns in the unit matrix depending on a position of the predetermined area on the print medium, so that the layout of the dot arrangement patterns in the unit matrix used for a first predetermined area and the layout of the dot arrangement patterns in the unit matrix used for a second predetermined area, a position of which differs from a position of the first predetermined area on the print medium. | 6,955 |
9,193,643 | 1. A process for the production of ethylbenzene, comprising: (a) reacting benzene with ethanol, or with a mixture of ethanol and ethylene, wherein the ethanol comprises water in the range of 5-20% by weight, at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, in the presence of a catalytic system comprising a zeolite belonging to the BEA family, to form a reaction mixture comprising ethylbenzene; and (b) separating the reaction mixture into an aqueous phase, a fraction ( wherein the separating (b) of the reaction mixture occurs subsequent to the reacting (a), and wherein a molar ratio of benzene to ethanol, or of benzene to ethanol plus ethylene ranges from 2 to 20, and a molar ratio of ethanol to ethylene ranges from 0.1 to 5. | 32,915 |
9,289,400 | 1. A method of treating or ameliorating levodopa-induced dyskinesia in a patient suffering from Parkinson's Disease, said method comprising administering to said patient a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of formula (I): wherein in formula (I): R R n is 2, mixtures thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 43,451 |
8,577,671 | 1. A method of inferring a change of a conversation session during continuous user interaction with an interactive content providing system having a processor, the method comprising: providing access to a set of content items, each of the content items having associated metadata stored in an electronically readable medium that describes the corresponding content item; receiving at the processor a first input from a user, the first input including linguistic elements intended by the user to identify at least one desired content item; associating by the processor at least one linguistic element of the first input with a first conversation session; providing by the processor a first response based on the first input and based on the metadata associated with the content items; receiving at the processor a second input from the user; inferring by the processor whether or not the second input from the user is related to the at least one linguistic element associated with the first conversation session; upon a condition in which the second input is inferred to relate to the at least one linguistic element associated with the first conversation session, providing by the processor a second response based on the metadata associated with the content items, the second input, and the at least one linguistic element of the first input associated with the first conversation session; and upon a condition in which the second input is inferred to not relate to the at least one linguistic element associated with the first conversation session, providing by the processor a second response based on the metadata associated with the content items and the second input. | 20,144 |
9,253,635 | 1. A method for enabling network devices to join a low-power wireless network, the method comprising: sending, with a first network device, beaconing information indicative of a time when authentication information will be sent; sending, with the first network device, the authentication information relating to the low-power wireless network wherein: the first network device is joined with the low-power wireless network, the low-power wireless network includes a plurality of network devices, the authentication information is sent prior to receiving any communication from a second network device, and the authentication information is sent wirelessly toward the second network device; receiving the authentication information with the second network device, the second network device not being joined with the low-power wireless network; determining, with the second network device, that the authentication information is valid; sending, with the second network device, a request to join the low-power wireless network, wherein the request to join the low-power wireless network: determining, with the first network device, a plurality of schedules; sending scheduling data wirelessly with the first network device, the scheduling data indicative of the plurality of schedules; receiving the scheduling data with the second network device; determining, with the second network device, the plurality of schedules; selecting, with the second network device, a schedule from the plurality of schedules; sending selection data wirelessly with the second network device, the selection data indicative of the selected schedule; sending slowdown data wirelessly with the first network device, wherein the slowdown data is indicative of a slowdown factor; receiving the slowdown data with the second network device; and reducing a frequency of subsequent communications between the first network device and the second network device based, at least in part, on the slowdown factor. | 20,068 |
9,766,959 | 1. A method comprising: outputting, by a display device of a wearable computing device, a visual indication of information associated with a notification, wherein the notification is associated with a notification attribute; while the visual indication is being output: determining, by the wearable computing device, that the user has perceived the information associated with the notification based at least in part on determining that the display device remains within the field of view of the user for at least the threshold duration; responsive to determining that the user has perceived the information associated with the notification, detecting, by the wearable computing device, at least one physiological parameter representative of a reaction of the user to the information associated with the notification; and controlling, by the wearable computing device and based on the at least one physiological parameter, at least one notification configuration setting related to outputting information associated with other notifications associated with the notification attribute. | 19,967 |
9,784,482 | 1. A magnetic cooling apparatus comprising: a cooling module, the cooling modules including a plurality of magnets to alternately apply a magnetic field to the two magnetic regenerators and withdraw the applied magnetic field, the cooling module being disposed in the magnetic field created by the magnets; a first drive unit to drive the bi-directional fluid supply device; a second drive unit to rotate the two magnetic regenerators; and a controller to control operation of the first drive unit and the second drive unit, wherein the cooling module is rotatably arranged in a circumferential direction, and wherein the controller is configured to control the first drive unit to drive the bi-directional fluid supply device to switch the direction of the flow in the guide flow passage at the time of magnetization and demagnetization of each of the first magnetic regenerator and the second magnetic regenerator. | 17,646 |
9,505,656 | 1. A process of forming a dry premix product comprising fibers and granular materials, comprising: adding multiple stages of loads of sandy granular materials consisting of particle sizes from 0.149 mm to 9.5 mm and polymeric fibers to a mixer; mixing each load of said sandy granular materials and polymeric fibers for 5 to 10 seconds; adding and mixing cementant materials to said mixer to form a dry premix product having an isotropic and homogeneous distribution of said polymeric fibers; optionally adding and mixing coarse aggregates; and unloading said dry premix product from said mixer, wherein the polymeric fiber content of the dry premix product is between 0.1 and 0.25 wt %. | 1,832 |
9,266,638 | 1. A transparent monolayer bottle comprising: a thermoplastic polyester matrix; a plurality of domains forming a discrete phase within the thermoplastic polyester matrix, each domain encompassing at least one incompatible filler and possibly a plurality of voids dispersed in the matrix, the domains having a range of dimensions in an axial plane essentially parallel to a surface of the monolayer bottle, wherein the dimensions of at least some of the domains in said axial plane of the monolayer bottle fall within a range of from about 400 nm to about 700 nm; and at least one light absorbent composition, wherein the at least one light absorbent composition absorbs light in a region of the visible spectrum such that X is reduced to less than 7.5 compared to a transparent monolayer bottle comprising the same components without a light absorbent composition in an equation where Ai is the percent of light absorbed at a wavelength i, where Ni is the number of domains per hundred square microns at wavelength i, where i ranges from 400 nm to 700 nm, and where the transparent monolayer bottle has a measured haze value of at least 4%. | 2,883 |
9,060,244 | 1. A host device, comprising: operating equipment comprising a first and second component; and a first near field communication (NFC) device configured to convert energy received from a second NFC device into electrical power and use the electrical power to power on the first and second component of the operating equipment to perform a function based on a signal received from the second NFC device, wherein the first NFC device is configured to use the electrical power to power on the second component after powering off the first component, wherein the first NFC device is configured to instruct the first component to provide data to the first NFC device while the first NFC device uses the electrical power to power the first component, and wherein the first NFC device is configured to transfer the data to the second component for processing while the first NFC device uses the electrical power to power the second component. | 10,775 |
9,510,316 | 1. A node-enabled transport system, comprising: an autonomous vehicle configured to move from an initial location to a shipping location in response to control input; a control system disposed on the autonomous vehicle, the control system having an output coupled to the control input of the autonomous vehicle, the control system further having at least one input for receiving an instruction on a desired movement for the autonomous vehicle and producing a control signal on the output responsive to the instruction received; a mobile master node associated with the autonomous vehicle, the mobile master node providing a directional output signal as the instruction to the input of the control system, wherein the mobile master node is one of a plurality of nodes in a wireless node network; and wherein the mobile master node further comprises wherein the node processing unit of the mobile master node, when executing the code maintained on the node memory, is configured to | 10,698 |
9,081,399 | 1. A charge pump regulator circuit that powers a variable load, the circuit comprising: an oscillator producing an oscillating signal that has an amplitude and a frequency that are both variable depending on an amplitude of a variable drive signal; and a charge pump connected to receive the oscillating signal, the charge pump outputting a current at about a voltage level to the variable load; wherein the oscillator produces more than one version of the oscillating signal from multiple nodes within the oscillator. | 44,188 |
9,748,799 | 1. An external battery module (EBM) comprising: a communication server board (CSB) slot configured to receive only a CSB, wherein the EBM operates regardless of whether the CSB is positioned in the CSB slot; and a battery charger slot configured to receive only a battery charger, wherein the EBM operates regardless of whether the battery charger is positioned in the battery charger slot. | 41,358 |
8,394,925 | 1. A polypeptide comprising a variant Fc region comprising amino acid substitutions at positions 428 and 434, wherein said amino acid substitutions are a leucine that is not the wild-type amino acid at position 428 and a serine that is not the wild-type amino acid at position 434, wherein said polypeptide is an antibody or an immunoadhesin and wherein numbering is according to the EU Index in Kabat et al. | 45,335 |
8,443,994 | 1. A bottle cap assembly comprising: an anchor means for attachment to a bottle having a ridge extending outward from a threaded neck of said bottle; a cap portion being removably attached to said anchor means and having a retaining sleeve along an entire circumference of said cap portion, said retaining sleeve having a rim; and a retaining means for attachment of said cap portion to said anchor means, wherein said retaining means comprises: a rod element housed in said retaining sleeve, being generally flexible and straight; and a locking means to prevent detachment from said retaining sleeve at an end of said rod element, said locking means engaging said rim of said retaining sleeve. | 4,481 |
9,726,664 | 1. A method for discovering a preventive or therapeutic regimen for the prevention or treatment of diabetic micro- or macrovascular complications, comprising the steps of: a) feeding LDLr b) before, during and/or after this diet treating the mice with the preventive or therapeutic regimen; c) checking whether any change in the micro- or macrovascular system of the animal occurs. | 16,497 |
8,840,794 | 1. A device for separating ferromagnetic particles from a suspension, comprising: a tubular reactor having a length; a particle extractor disposed adjacent one end of the tubular reactor; a magnetic separation device including an elongated revolving feed device and a plurality of magnets moved in a continuous loop by the elongated revolving feed device; wherein the magnetic separation device, including the revolving feed device and plurality of magnets, is arranged fully outside the tubular reactor; and wherein the revolving feed device is configured to move the magnets in a feed direction along at least a part of the length of the tubular reactor toward the particle extractor, thereby attracting the ferromagnetic particles (a) toward the particle extractor and (b) toward locations radially outward from a central axis of the tubular reactor; and at least one structure at or proximate the particle extractor for extracting the ferromagnetic particles from the radially outward locations. | 45,919 |
9,762,558 | 1. A personal health device comprising: a hardware processor; a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the hardware processor, the program logic comprising: wherein the personal health device does not comprise a near field communication (NFC) chip. | 23,888 |
8,625,591 | 1. A method for optimizing a group management protocol, comprising: receiving, by a multicast router, a membership report from a group member; determining, by the multicast router, whether the membership report carries an EXCLUDE mode non-empty source list; when the membership report carries the EXCLUDE mode non-empty source list, processing the membership report carrying the EXCLUDE mode non-empty source list as a non-source-specific join report and completing a non-source-specific join, wherein the non-source-specific join report is an INCLUDE mode membership report that carries any source list or an EXCLUDE mode membership report that carries an empty source list; and when the membership report does not carry the EXCLUDE mode non-empty source list, updating a corresponding state inside the multicast router with information of the membership report that does not carry the EXCLUDE mode non-empty source list. | 24,322 |
9,840,999 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: a first cooling system that cools at least a cylinder block with a first cooling water a second cooling system that cools an intake port with a second cooling water that is at a lower temperature than the first cooling water; and a controller which is configured wherein the way of cooling by the first cooling system is unchanged whether a knock is detected. | 528 |
9,140,209 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: an engine block; a cylinder head attached to the engine block; and a waste heat recovery system including: | 26,444 |
9,482,111 | 1. A fan section of a gas turbine engine comprising: a fan containment case assembly including: an outer case of an aluminum alloy, wherein the outer case extends circumferentially around an axial centerline; a thermally conforming liner assembly located inwardly of the outer case, wherein the thermally conforming liner assembly includes a circumferential liner of an aluminum alloy, wherein the circumferential liner includes a first section located forward of a fan blade region and a second section located in the fan blade region, the thermally confirming liner assembly including a forward acoustic liner located inwardly of and adjacent to the first section of the circumferential liner and a honeycomb core located inwardly of and adjacent to the second setion of the circumferential liner; and a ballistic liner located between the outer case and the thermally conforming liner assembly. | 5,371 |
9,428,386 | 1. A method for producing a light-emitting semiconductor element or a semiconductor device, which comprises growing a Group-III nitride crystal on a growth surface of a single-crystal substrate, wherein the single-crystal substrate satisfies the following expressions (1) and (2) and has a back surface of concave shape, wherein Z1 (μm) is an amount of warpage of physical shape in a growth surface of the single-crystal substrate and Z2 (μm) is an amount of warpage calculated from a radius of curvature of crystallographic-plane shape in a growth surface of the single crystal substrate: | 38,137 |
9,362,646 | 1. A contact for a high speed electrical connector, the contact comprising: a base region; a first elongated member comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion, the proximal portion of the first elongated member being attached to the base region; a second elongated member comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion, the proximal portion of the second elongated member being attached to the base region; and a strap coupling the first elongated member to the second elongated member, wherein the strap is conductive and compliant such that the first elongated member is capable of moving independently of and is electrically connected to the second elongated member, and wherein: | 37,574 |
8,992,641 | 1. A gasification system comprising: a gasifier; a feed conduit comprising a downstream end coupled in flow communication with said gasifier and an upstream end configured to receive a fuel mixture comprising a quantity of particulate solid fuel and a quantity of carrier gas; and a gasifier startup system comprising: | 15,715 |
9,825,806 | 1. A mobile communication method, comprising the steps of: when a mobile station detects a radio link failure in a radio link with a first radio base station in a state where a bearer using an extended sequence number as a sequence number in a PDCP layer is established between the mobile station and the first radio base station, causing the mobile station to establish a bearer using a regular sequence number which is a sequence number shorter than the extended sequence number by performing a reconnection procedure with a second radio base station not supporting the extended sequence number; and causing the mobile station to reset setting of the extended sequence number and a COUNT value simultaneously when information which instructs use of the extended sequence number is not included in RRC connection reconfiguration transmitted from the second radio base station. | 29,892 |
9,397,544 | 1. An electromagnetic pump compensation power supply apparatus that is electrically connected to an AC power line on a downstream side of a power supply line breaker of a power supply unit of an electromagnetic pump, improves a power factor during normal operation, and supplies power to the electromagnetic pump at a time of loss of AC power supply to the electromagnetic pump, the electromagnetic pump compensation power supply apparatus comprising: a rotor shaft that rotates around an axis; a flywheel that stores rotation energy and is fixed to the rotor shaft; an exciter rotor winding that is fixed to the rotor shaft; a rotating rectifier that is fixed to the rotor shaft, and converts alternate current generated on the exciter rotor winding into direct current; a winding type synchronous machine rotor winding that is fixed to the rotor shaft, and receives direct current supplied from the rotating rectifier; a winding type synchronous machine stator winding that is fixed in a stationary manner so as to face the winding type synchronous machine rotor winding, constitutes a winding type synchronous machine along with the winding type synchronous machine rotor winding, and converts rotational energy into electrical energy and electrical energy into rotational energy; an exciter stator permanent magnet apparatus that includes a synchronous machine side power supply line that connects the winding type synchronous machine stator winding and the AC power line on a downstream side of the power supply line breaker; and a DC power supply unit that uses, as power source, the same AC power line that is a power source for the electromagnetic pump power supply unit, and is configured to convert alternate current into direct current and configured to supply direct current to a drive mechanism and cut off a supply of the direct current, wherein the drive mechanism is configured to generate an opposing force against the restoring force of the elastic body and to lose the opposing force as the supply of the direct current is cut off. | 24,213 |
9,641,066 | 1. A switching regulator circuit comprising: an inductor having an input and a regulator output; driver circuitry having a driver output directly connected to the input of the inductor, a power supply input, a charge input, and a current setting input; a power supply having a power supply output directly connected to the power supply input; a decoupling capacitor directly connected to the power supply output; charge and discharge circuitry having a charge output directly connected to the charge input, an enable input, and a first comparator input; comparator circuitry having a first comparator output directly connected to the first comparator input, a target voltage input, and a regulator input coupled to the regulator output; and peak and valley control circuitry having a second comparator input directly connected to the first comparator output and a current setting output directly connected to the current setting input, the peak and valley control circuitry including clock counter circuitry having a trigger input connected to the second comparator input of the peak and valley control circuitry, a clock input, and a clock count output coupled to the current setting output. | 45,374 |
9,251,604 | 1. A method of generating a tomography image, the method comprising: performing a depth scan on one spot on a surface of a subject using modulated light received from a spatial light modulator configured to modulate either one or both an intensity and a phase light received from a light source according to a pattern for each of a plurality of patterns of the spatial light modulator; obtaining depth scan data for each of the plurality of patterns of the spatial light modulator by repeating the depth scan on the spot for each of the plurality of patterns of the spatial light modulator; forming a matrix R representing a vector space based on a correlation of signal values of the depth scan data for each of the plurality of patterns of the spatial light modulator; performing a matrix decomposition on the matrix R; dividing the vector space represented as a sum of subspace components into a noise subspace and a signal subspace based on a threshold and a matrix obtained by the matrix decomposition, wherein the threshold is determined based on characteristics of the subspace components or noise levels of the signal values; reconstructing a vector space based on either one or both of components of the signal subspace and components of the noise subspace; and generating the tomography image based on the reconstructed vector space. | 40,405 |
9,406,363 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a decoder circuit coupled to a first memory block and a second memory block, the decoder circuit including a first level decoder and a shared second level decoder coupled to the first level decoder, the decoder circuit configured to select wordlines of the first memory block responsive to a first section of the first level decoder and the shared second level decoder being enabled, and to select wordlines of the second memory block responsive to a second section of the first level decoder and the shared second level decoder being enabled; and a plurality of pre-decoder circuits, each of the plurality of pre-decoder circuits coupled to a respective level decoder and configured to enable the respective level decoders based on a respective number of bits of an address signal. | 35,772 |
9,462,549 | 1. A wireless device comprising: a receive frame management module configured to receive a beacon frame from a wireless access point; a power management module configured to determine an expected time for receiving a Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM) beacon based at least in part on an analysis of the beacon frame, wherein the analysis comprises determining an interval between successive DTIM beacons and a counter to the next DTIM beacon; a scheduler module configured to schedule a wake-up time for processing a group addressed message based at least in part on the expected time for receiving the DTIM beacon and a duration of the DTIM beacon; wherein the power management module is further configured to: a groupcast processing module configured to: wherein the receive frame management module is further configured to, after the indication is sent, receive the DTIM beacon. | 47,105 |
9,603,087 | 1. A femtocell for conserving power, comprising: a transmitter module of the femtocell configured to be inactive for periods of call inactivity and data inactivity within a corresponding femtocell geographic coverage area; a monitoring device of the femtocell configured to monitor the femtocell geographic coverage area for a presence of a cellular handset device; and a controller module of the femtocell configured to calculate a location of the cellular handset device based on a first random access channel (RACH) transmitted to a macrocell base station from the femtocell and a second RACH transmitted to the cellular handset device, and to activate the transmitter module upon receipt of a special signal from the cellular handset device based on the location of the cellular handset device, wherein the special signal is received by the femtocell from the cellular handset device: upon a call initiated by the cellular handset device, the call being setup without use of the macrocell base station; or upon a call received by the cellular handset device, the call being setup by the macrocell base station, and wherein a content of the special signal is inapplicable to the macrocell base station. | 41,737 |
9,537,143 | 1. A lead acid electrochemical cell comprising two electrodes and a sulfuric acid electrolyte characterized by: at least one of said two electrodes comprising a high surface area, porous, open-pore foam construct forming a three-dimensional lattice structure of a uniform material, having contiguous elements comprising a core of the lattice and a matrix of interstitial cells extending in three dimensions, the interstitial cells being defined between intersections of the elements; substantially the entirety of said elements being coated with doped diamond-like carbon; said coated elements being substantially contiguous and electrically conducting; a solid active material retained in said lattice by said coated elements; said sulfuric acid electrolyte in contact with substantially all of the exposed surfaces of said solid active material; and, wherein said lattice acts as a current collector of said electrochemical cell. | 10,854 |
8,614,928 | 1. A method of enabling a seismic data acquisition module for use in a wireless array, the method comprising: initializing the seismic data acquisition module in response to a sensed change in orientation of the seismic data acquisition module from a first orientation to a second orientation relative to the surface of the Earth; discovering at least one other seismic data acquisition modules in the wireless array; and establishing a data transfer path between the seismic data acquisition module and the at least one other seismic data acquisition module. | 43,004 |
9,347,526 | 1. A multistage automatic transmission, for a motor vehicle, comprising: an input drive shaft ( first, second and third planetary gear sets (P first and second spur gear stages (S at least third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth rotatable shafts ( at least five shift elements ( the input shaft ( the ring gear of the first planetary gear set (P the third shaft ( the carrier of the second planetary gear set (P the carrier of the third planetary gear set (P the fourth clutch ( | 10,766 |
8,728,782 | 1. A method of producing a biofuel from fermented butyric acid, comprising: a) providing a fermentation broth containing butyric acid produced through fermentation of a carbohydrate; b) subjecting the fermentation broth to extraction in a liquid-liquid extraction column using trialkylamine as an extraction solvent to obtain the butyric acid in the form of trialkylammonium butyrate; c) supplying the trialkylammonium butyrate to a distillation column to separate the trialkylammonium butyrate into butyric acid and trialkylamine; and d) converting the butyric acid separated from the distillation column into butylbutyrate through esterification with butanol, and supplying the trialkylamine separated from the distillation column to the liquid-liquid extraction column as the extraction solvent for step b). | 40,245 |
9,537,369 | 1. A motor, comprising: a rotor module, comprising: a stator module, comprising: two magnetic bearings, disposed on a top portion and a bottom portion of the shell respectively and configured to support the rotor module, wherein each magnetic bearing comprises: a first annular magnet unit, disposed on an surface of the composite structure, wherein the surface of the composite structure faces to the top portion or the bottom portion of the shell, the first annular magnet unit comprises a plurality of first sheet magnets and a plurality of second sheet magnets, the first sheet magnets and the second sheet magnets are alternately arranged; and a second annular magnet unit, disposed on the fixing portion of one of plurality of magnetic bearings and corresponding to the first annular magnet unit, wherein the second annular magnet unit comprises a plurality of third sheet magnets and a plurality of fourth sheet magnets, the third sheet magnets and the fourth sheet magnets are alternately arranged, wherein a surface, facing to the second annular magnet unit, of the first sheet magnets and a surface, facing to the second annular magnet unit, of the second sheet magnets have different magnetic poles, wherein a surface, facing to the first annular magnet unit, of the third sheet magnets and a surface, facing to the first annular magnet unit, of the fourth sheet magnets have different magnetic poles. | 19,996 |
9,684,982 | 1. A computer-implemented method for performing isotropic reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data, the method comprising: receiving a stack of slices acquired by an MRI device in two or more directions; generating an estimated slice profile based on the stack of slices; | 53 |
9,012,737 | 1. A plant, non-seed plant part, seed, or cell of sorghum variety PHAROLYKE, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-121962. | 49,803 |
8,545,597 | 1. A method for operating a blast furnace comprising the steps of: recovering top gas from said blast furnace; submitting at least a portion of said top gas to a recycling process; and feeding said recycled top gas back into said blast furnace characterised in that said recycling process comprises: feeding the recovered top gas to a reformer unit; feeding volatile carbon containing material to said reformer unit; proceeding to flash gasification of said volatile carbon containing material in said reformer unit, at a temperature between 1,100 and 1,300° C., and thereby producing devolatised carbonaceous material and synthesis gas; and allowing said devolatised carbonaceous material and said synthesis gas to react with said recovered top gas. | 42,955 |
8,680,429 | 1. A laser scribing system for modifying or removing material from a surface, said system comprising: a laser beam focusing and deflection system configured to direct a laser beam through an optical path to place a laser scribing spot onto a surface; an optical detection system including a detector and configured to detect an existing feature on the surface as viewed through the optical path of the deflection system and to provide a focused trace along the length of the feature, and a feedback circuit configured to provide substantially instantaneous feedback on said trace to the deflection system, said deflection system being further configured to move the laser scribing spot in fixed in relation to the trace based on the provided feedback while the laser scribing spot scribes a subsequent feature on the surface that is substantially identical to and tracks along the length of the existing feature in real time. | 15,370 |
9,661,565 | 1. A method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting and receiving data, by a terminal, corresponding to a service flow, to and from a first base station, wherein the terminal is a multi-radio access technology (Multi-RAT) terminal capable of performing a communication with two heterogeneous networks at same time, and wherein the first base station included within one of the two heterogeneous networks supports a long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) scheme; adding a new service flow through a dynamic service process with the first base station; transmitting and receiving data, corresponding to the service flow and the new service flow, to and from the first base station, wherein the data corresponding to the service flow and the data corresponding to the added new service flow are simultaneously transmitted and received until the terminal receives a first secondary system command message from the first base station; receiving the first secondary system command message, instructing an association with the second base station for the new service flow, from the first base station, wherein the second base station is a selected access point (AP) among a plurality of access points (APs), wherein the second base station included within another one of the two heterogeneous networks supports an IEEE 802.16m scheme, wherein the first secondary system command message includes first disconnection time information indicating a disconnection time from the first base station for the new service flow, wherein the first secondary system command message further includes a management command indicating an activation time of an association for the new service flow, and wherein the disconnection time and the activation time indicates a same point of time; performing an association procedure with the selected AP among the plurality of APs according to the management command included in the first secondary system command message; transmitting a first secondary system indication message, indicating a success of the association of the new service flow with the selected AP among the plurality of APs, to the first base station; transmitting and receiving the data, corresponding to the service flow, to and from the first base station; and when the disconnection time and the activation time included in the first secondary system command message reach the same point of time, releasing the association with the first base station for the new service flow based on the first disconnection time information; and immediately transmitting and receiving the data corresponding to the new service flow to and from the second base station based on the management command. | 13,911 |
9,105,412 | 1. A rivet-shaped electrical contact for relay, which is used as a movable contact for the relay, the rivet-shaped electrical contact comprising: a heavy-load contact portion formed of a first silver-oxide type contact material at a normal-open side; and a light-load contact portion formed of a second silver-oxide type contact material at a normal-close side, wherein the hardness of the first silver-oxide type contact material is set to be higher than that of the second silver-oxide type contact material. | 38,656 |
9,590,975 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a network interface configured to wirelessly couple the electronic device to a second target electronic device via an intermediary electronic device in a wireless mesh network; and a processor configured to: | 30,677 |
9,062,635 | 1. A system for estimating pressure of an exhaust manifold operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine, the system comprising: an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) conduit fluidly coupled at one end to the exhaust manifold and at an opposite end to an intake manifold operatively coupled to the engine, an EGR cooler disposed in-line with the EGR conduit and configured to cool exhaust gas flowing therethrough, means for determining a flow value corresponding to a flow rate of exhaust gas through the EGR conduit, a pressure sensor in fluid communication with the EGR conduit adjacent an exhaust gas outlet of the EGR cooler and configured to produce a signal indicative of pressure of the exhaust gas in the EGR conduit adjacent to the exhaust gas outlet of the EGR cooler, and a control circuit including a memory having instructions stored therein that are executable by the control circuit to: | 12,446 |
9,765,750 | 1. An ignition module configured to energize an ignition coil and cause a generation of one or more sparks in a spark plug during a single combustion cycle of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine, said spark plug operably connected to said ignition coil, the ignition module comprising: a control circuit; and a power circuit electrically coupled to said control circuit; wherein said control circuit is configured to receive one or more inputs from external devices or said power circuit, said one or more inputs indicate one or more engine operating parameters, and wherein said control circuit is configured to provide one or more control signals to said power circuit, responsive in part, to said one or more received inputs from said external devices or said power circuit; wherein said power circuit is configured to draw DC electrical energy from an external power source having a first energy level and output AC electrical energy having a second energy level, based in part on one or more control signals received from said control circuit, said second energy level greater than said first energy level, wherein said power circuit is configured to communicate said AC electrical energy to a primary side of the ignition coil, and said ignition coil supplies through a secondary side of said ignition coil a third energy level to said spark plug to generate said one or more sparks in said spark plug during a single combustion cycle of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine; and wherein said power circuit includes a monitoring circuit configured to be operably coupled to said primary side of the ignition coil and configured to monitor a current of said AC electrical energy having said second energy level and communicate a status of said monitored current to said control circuit, wherein said control circuit is configured to detect a misfire of said spark plug through monitoring current of said primary side of said ignition coil, and upon detection of said misfire said control circuit is configured to cause an additional spark in said spark plug to occur prior to completion of said single combustion cycle of the cylinder. | 38,805 |
8,461,764 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) driver arrangement comprising: a control circuit; a power source; a plurality of LED strings, a first end of each of the plurality of LED strings coupled to a common output of said power source; a plurality of controllable current sources, each responsive to said control circuit; a plurality of electronically controlled switches, a control terminal of each of said plurality of electronically controlled switches coupled to a respective output of said control circuit; and a plurality of isolating unidirectional electronic valves, each of said plurality of controllable current sources, said plurality of electronically controlled switches and said plurality of isolating unidirectional electronic valves mutually associated with a respective one of said plurality of LED strings, a first terminal of each of said plurality of electronically controlled switches coupled to a second end of the respective associated LED string, a first end of each of said plurality of isolating unidirectional electronic valves coupled to the respective associated controllable current source and a second end of each of said plurality of isolating unidirectional electronic valves coupled to said first terminal of said respective associated electronically controlled switch, each of said plurality of isolating unidirectional electronic valves arranged to conduct only when the electric potential at said second end is lower than the electric potential at said first end, said control circuit arranged to alternately open and close each of said plurality of electronically controlled switches, each of said respective associated LED strings thereby producing illumination when the associated electronically controlled switch is at least partially closed, and said control circuit further arranged to operate the respective controllable current source only when said respective associated electronically controlled switch is at least partially closed. | 35,675 |
8,852,638 | 1. An injectable depot formulation, comprising: a biocompatible polymer comprising a copolymer of lactic acid and glycolic acid, wherein the biocompatible polymer has a number average molecular weight ranging from 1000 Daltons to 5000 Daltons; an organic solvent combined with the biocompatible polymer to form a viscous gel said solvent selected from the group consisting of benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, ethyl benzoate, ethyl hydroxide, N-methy1-2-pyrrolidone, and mixtures thereof; and a small molecule drug selected from base and salt forms of risperidone incorporated in the viscous gel, wherein the small molecule drug is in the form of particles having a particle size less than 38 μm, wherein the salt forms of risperidone have less than 1 mg/mL solubility in water, and wherein the formulation exhibits an in vivo release profile having C | 13,853 |
9,364,228 | 1. An applicator instrument for dispensing surgical fasteners comprising: a housing; a firing system disposed in said housing; an actuator coupled with said housing for actuating said firing system; an elongated shaft extending from said housing, said elongated shaft having an outer diameter; a cap having a proximal end secured to a distal end of said elongated shaft, wherein said cap has a lower distal edge that extends laterally beyond the outer diameter of said elongated shaft, wherein said proximal end of said cap has an outer diameter and said lower distal edge of said cap has a length that is greater than the outer diameter of said proximal end of said cap so that a bottom surface of said cap tapers outwardly from said proximal end of said cap to said lower distal edge of said cap; said cap having a distal end face on an outer surface of said cap that slopes upwardly and proximally from said lower distal edge to an upper end of said cap, said cap including a surgical fastener delivery window formed in said sloping distal end face for dispensing surgical fasteners, wherein said surgical fastener delivery window has a lower end, an upper end, and opposing sides that extend from said lower end to said upper end of said delivery window, wherein said lower end of said delivery window is spaced from said lower distal edge, and wherein said sloping distal end face defines a continuous sloping surface that surrounds said surgical fastener delivery window so that said sloping distal end face extends between said lower distal edge and said lower end of said delivery window, around said opposing sides of said delivery window, and between said upper end of said delivery window and said upper end of said cap. | 36,470 |
9,311,979 | 1. A non-volatile storage system, comprising: a first memory die; and a second memory die located above the first memory die, the first memory die includes a first off-chip driver and the second memory die includes a second off-chip driver, the first memory die includes a first pre-driver that is in a first input signal path of the first off-chip driver, the first pre-driver connects to a second input signal path of the second off-chip driver via a vertical electrical connection between the first memory die and the second memory die, the vertical electrical connection includes a TSV that extends vertically through a substrate of the second memory die. | 507 |
9,267,016 | 1. Vinylidene fluoride polymer powder having an N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone penetration rate of 12 to 100% as measured by an N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone penetration test described below: N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone penetration test: a glass tube 8 mm in inner diameter which is packed with absorbent cotton at a lower portion is allowed to stand vertically; 1 g of sea sand having a particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.3 mm is packed on the absorbent cotton so as to form a lower sea sand layer in such a manner that the surface of the sea sand layer becomes flat; 1 g of the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder is packed on the surface of the lower sea sand layer so as to form a vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer in such a manner that the boundary surface between this layer and the lower sea sand layer as well as the surface of the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer become flat; 1 g of sea sand having a particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.3 mm is packed on the surface of the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer so as to form an upper sea sand layer in such a manner that the boundary surface between this layer and the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer as well as the surface of the sea sand layer become flat; subsequently, 5 mL of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone stained with methylene blue (methylene blue concentration: 0.05% by mass) (liquid temperature: 23° C.) is poured onto the surface of the upper sea sand layer; after the passage of 3 minutes from the pouring, the depth of penetration of the methylene blue-stained N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone into the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer and the thickness of the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer are measured; and the penetration depth is divided by the thickness of the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer and the quotient is multiplied by 100 (100 x penetration depth/thickness of vinylidene fluoride polymer powder layer) to give an N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone penetration rate, wherein the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder is a vinylidene fluoride homopolymer, and wherein the vinylidene fluoride polymer powder is produced by heat treating raw vinylidene fluoride polymer powder at such a temperature that the temperature of the polymer powder is not less than 125° C. to less than a crystal melting temperature of the polymer. | 3,625 |
8,474,350 | 1. A ratcheting tool comprising: a handle formed with a yoke at a first end; a tool head having a toothed hub disposed thereon, said toothed hub being coupled to said yoke at a pivot such that said tool head is coupled to said first end of said handle; a locking spool rotatably carried in said yoke adjacent said toothed hub, said locking spool having a first face, a second face, and a first tooth extending along both said first face and said second face; and wherein said locking spool is rotatable between a first position in which said first face is adjacent said toothed hub, thereby locking said tool head in a selected angular position with respect to said handle, and a second position in which said second face is adjacent to said toothed hub such that said tool head is pivotable about said pivot, said first tooth engaging said toothed hub in both said first position and said second position. | 12,407 |
8,865,574 | 1. A method for depositing a layer of semiconducting nanoparticles onto a substrate under ambient temperature and pressure conditions, comprising: a) suspending a plurality of high purity semiconducting nanoparticles in a nonaqueous polar solvent to yield a suspension; b) connecting an electrically conducting substrate to a first electrode; c) placing a electrode in electric communication with the suspension; d) immersing the electrically conducting substrate into the suspension; e) imparting a first charge onto the suspended nanoparticles; f) imparting a second, opposite charge onto the substrate; g) controlledly depositing a generally uniform layer of semiconducting nanoparticles onto the substrate to define a coated substrate; and h) removing the coated substrate from the suspension into air at a pressure of about 1 atmosphere; wherein the suspension temperature is maintained below about 100 degrees Celsius; and wherein the nanoparticles have dimensions of less than 1000 nanometers. | 34,499 |
9,724,848 | 1. A collapsible, coiled mandrel for use in co-curing of a hollow carbon-epoxy structure comprising: a fiber wetted by a doping material that provides the fiber with a property of stiffness when dried, the fiber being formed with coil turns extending along a longitudinal axis and maintaining an outer coil shape when dried that is resistant to external compression forces and collapsible axially by shear forces applied when an end of the fiber is pulled in a direction along the longitudinal axis, the coil turns being contained within a protective liner. | 14,106 |
9,423,788 | 1. A method comprising: selecting a workpiece to be machined, wherein the workpiece has a bottom surface of a channel, a left wall of the channel, a right wall of the channel, and an entry point of a five-axis machine cutting tool; determining a primary set of flank-milling positions of the five-axis machine cutting tool, wherein the set of flank-milling positions are determined based on the left wall of the channel and the right wall of the channel; determining a trochoidal path comprising a set of upper pseudo-circular patterns and a set of lower pseudo-circular patterns for the five-axis machine cutting tool, wherein the trochoidal path is based on the determined primary set of flank-milling positions; and outputting one or more cutting tool movements. | 12,693 |
9,842,174 | 1. A method for compiling a collection of static documents, the method comprising: receiving a document list that includes a plurality of entries, each of which (a) represents a static document that is to be included in the collection, and (b) identifies a document template that includes instructions executable by a web server to generate the static document represented by that entry; transmitting, to the web server, a request corresponding to a particular entry included in the document list, wherein the request includes a link to the document template identified by the particular entry in the list; receiving a static document in response to transmitting the request; and storing the static document in the collection of static documents. | 30,408 |
9,325,235 | 1. A power factor correction boost converter with a current transformer, the converter comprising: a diode bridge coupled between a first coupling node and a second coupling node; an inductor coupled between said first coupling node and a third coupling node; a power semiconductor subcircuit coupled between said third coupling node and said second coupling node; an output diode coupled between said third coupling node and a positive output node; a control subsystem for controlling said first and second power semiconductor subcircuits, said control subsystem having as input an output voltage of said converter, and an input voltage of said converter, said output voltage being between said positive output node and said second coupling node, said input voltage being between said first coupling node and said second coupling node, said control system comprising: an adaptive observer subcircuit for estimating an inductor current and said output voltage; wherein said adaptive observer subcircuit comprises an auxiliary compensation block for resetting an integrator in said observer circuit when an input voltage waveform for said converter crosses zero with a negative slope. | 47,531 |
8,659,275 | 1. A III-nitride power conversion circuit comprising: a gate driver having a plurality of cascaded inverters, each of said plurality of cascaded inverters including at least one III-nitride transistor; at least one of said plurality of cascaded inverters having a cutoff switch and a III-nitride depletion mode load, said cutoff switch configured to disconnect said III-nitride depletion mode load so as to prevent current from flowing from a supply voltage of said at least one of said plurality of cascaded inverters. | 30,049 |
8,840,082 | 1. A fluid control valve including: a resin valve body formed with a first passage and a second passage; a resin valve upper body connected to an upper surface of the resin valve body; and a resin diaphragm valve element held between the resin valve body and the resin valve upper body, wherein the first passage comprising one end portion formed with a first port communication passage communicating with a first port and one other end portion formed with a first valve hole communication passage communicating with a valve hole, the first port communication passage and the first valve hole communication passage communicating with each other, wherein the resin valve body including a valve seat support part between a valve chamber, the first port communication passage, and the first valve hole communication passage to support a valve seat, wherein the valve seat support part includes a valve seat reinforcement part, wherein the valve seat reinforcement part is formed to close a part of the first passage, wherein the valve seat reinforcement part is a valve seat reinforcement upper part closing a part of the first valve hole communication passage when the valve hole is seen from a side of the resin valve upper body, and wherein the valve seat reinforcement upper part is of a bow shape when the valve hole is seen from the side of the resin valve upper body. | 24,051 |
9,157,415 | 1. A method for controlling an electrical component of a wind turbine, the method comprising: receiving, by the electrical component, a standard set of commands for a first time frame; receiving, by the electrical component, one or more contingency sets of commands for time frames beyond the first time frame; determining if the standard set of commands is received within a start window of the first time frame; implementing, by the electrical component, the standard set of commands during the first time frame if the standard set of commands is received within the start window; and, implementing, by the electrical component, one of the contingency sets of commands received during a previous time frame if the standard set of commands is not received within the start window. | 3,391 |
9,461,601 | 1. A multichannel input device comprising: an automatic number-of-channels and bit depth detector having a bit clock (BCLK) input, a left/right clock (LRCLK) input, a number of channels NCHAN output and a bit depth B output, wherein the automatic number-of-channels and bit depth detector includes a plurality of counters and a logic device; a digital audio interface (DAI) having a data DIN input, the BCLK input, the LRCLK input, an NCHAN input and a B input, the DAI having an output including data associated with an assigned channel; and a digital to analog converter (DAC) having a digital input coupled to the output of the DAI and an analog output; wherein the automatic number-of-channels and bit depth detector includes: a) a first counter and a first latch register for counting one of b) a second counter and a second latch register for counting one of N1, N2 and N3 that was not counted by the first counter; whereby the logic device determines a number of channels NCHAN and a bit depth B using at least two of N1, N2 and N3. | 295 |
8,838,704 | 1. A system for forwarding message data to a recipient, comprising: a server to communicate with a facsimile device in accordance with a local area network protocol to receive, by way of a local area network, a request from the facsimile device, wherein the request contains 1) a scanned paper document as message data associated with 2) a recipient's email address specified by a sender and 3) an encryption indicator that indicates whether the message data is encrypted, the server is to extract the recipient's email address from the request, apply an email header, to the message data, that contains the extracted recipient's email address, send an email containing the message data with the applied email header, to the recipient's email address, the server is to then receive an email message from the recipient that includes information about the recipient's system, check the encryption indicator from the request, and send the message data to the recipient in a format compatible with the recipient's system when determining that the message data is not encrypted and send an email message to the recipient that directs the recipient to contact the sender when determining that the message data is encrypted. | 16,372 |
9,759,018 | 1. A system for aligning an auxiliary line connection in a termination assembly of a marine riser assembly, the system comprising: a terminal block secured to an outer diameter of a termination ring, the terminal block having a piston housing that extends through a sidewall of the termination ring, and the termination ring having a load shoulder on an inner diameter of the termination ring; a ring adapter with a shoulder, the ring adapter having an outer diameter sized to engage the inner diameter of the termination ring when the shoulder of the ring adapter is landed on the load shoulder of the termination ring; a piston pocket extending radially inward from the outer diameter of the ring adapter; a floating ring assembly retained within the piston pocket, the floating ring assembly moveable within the piston pocket; and a piston housed within the piston housing, the piston having a central bore and being moveable between a retracted position where an outer end of the piston is spaced apart from the floating ring assembly, and an extended position where an outer surface of the piston engages an inner surface of the floating ring assembly, forming an auxiliary path from the terminal block to the ring adapter. | 17,847 |
8,479,513 | 1. A control device for controlling operations of a drive unit configured to drive a rotary motor for an electrically assisted turbocharger, the rotary motor being directly connected to a rotating shaft of the electrically assisted turbocharger disposed in intake and exhaust passages of an engine and being driven according to an operating state of the engine, the control device comprising: an internal temperature detector to detect a temperature of the drive unit; an ambient temperature detector to detect an ambient temperature in a space where the drive unit is disposed; and a control section to control drive of the rotary motor by the drive unit based on results of detections by the internal temperature detector and the ambient temperature detector, wherein (a) the control section stops the drive of the rotary motor by the drive unit while the temperature of the drive unit is equal to or above a preset upper limit internal temperature, and (b) while the temperature of the drive unit is below the upper limit internal temperature, | 25,427 |
9,590,625 | 1. A buffer circuit comprising: an amplification unit electrically coupled to an output node and configured to sense and amplify first and second signals; and an active load unit configured to form a peak value of a signal outputted from the output node when the signal transitions, wherein the peak value is different from a steady state of the signal after the signal transitions. | 24,614 |
9,667,157 | 1. A power converter, comprising: a first bus converter for converting a first DC bus voltage into a first high frequency alternating current (AC) voltage; a second bus converter for converting a second high frequency AC voltage into a second DC bus voltage; a resonant circuit for coupling the first bus converter and the second bus converter; a controller for providing switching signals to the first bus converter and the second bus converter to operate the power converter in a soft switching mode, wherein the controller comprises: | 49,672 |
8,825,179 | 1. A medical device lead comprising: a flexible body formed from a polymeric material, the flexible body having a proximal region with a proximal end, a distal region with a distal end, and a plurality of lumens extending from the proximal region to the distal region, the plurality of lumens including a first lumen and a second lumen that is smaller in diameter than the first lumen; a connector coupled to the proximal end of the flexible body of the lead to electrically and mechanically connect the lead to an implantable pulse generator; a first electrode in the distal region of the flexible body; a second electrode in the distal region of the flexible body, the second electrode comprising a ring electrode; a coiled conductor extending within the first lumen from the proximal region to the distal region, the coiled conductor electrically connected to the connector and to the first electrode; and a cable conductor having a proximal end electrically coupled to the connector and a distal end electrically coupled to the ring electrode, the cable conductor consisting of a single helically coiled filar including a plurality of co-radial turns, the single helically coiled filar extending within the second lumen from the proximal region to the distal region, wherein the outer diameter of the coiling of each single helically coiled filar is less than about 0.020 inch (0.508 mm) and is less than the outer diameter of coiling of the coiled conductor. | 16,478 |
9,245,222 | 1. A method comprising: interconnecting multiple functional neural core circuits in a neural network via a dynamically reconfigurable switch interconnect between the multiple functional neural core circuits, wherein each functional neural core circuit comprises a pair of neural core modules overlaid on one another, and each neural core module comprises a plurality of electronic neurons, a plurality of electronic axons and a plurality of electronic synapses interconnecting the plurality of electronic neurons to the plurality of electronic axons; and providing bi-directional propagation of information in each functional neural core circuit; wherein the switch interconnect comprises multiple connectivity neural core circuits. | 8,078 |
8,436,464 | 1. A hollow sealing structure comprising: a base substrate; an insulating layer layered on the base substrate, the insulating layer formed with a functional element portion on a predetermined principal surface thereof and a recess surrounding the functional element portion; a covering portion formed on the principal surface of the insulating layer covering the functional element portion in a spaced manner and having an opening on the recess; a passage portion formed in the insulating layer and connecting the exterior and interior of the covering portion through the opening; and a sealing portion disposed so as to close an opening located in that region of the covering portion which adjoins the recess. | 37,539 |
8,597,928 | 1. An isolated bacteriophage having a specific bactericidal activity against one or more Salmonella bacteria selected from the group consisting of Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella gallinarum and Salmonella pullorum , which is deposited under accession number KCCM11148P. | 46,732 |
8,741,054 | 1. A cementitious material comprising: cement; and a pozzolanic cement additive comprising coal combusted in the presence of at least 8 weight percent of a strength enhancing material comprising combinations of limestone, clay, kaolin, waste concrete, recycled ground granulated blast furnace slag, recycled crushed glass, recycled crushed aggregate fines, silica fume, cement kiln dust, lime kiln dust, weathered clinker, clinker, aluminum slag, copper slag, granite kiln dust, zeolites, limestone quarry dust, red mud, mine tailings, oil shale fines, bottom ash, dry stored fly ash, landfilled fly ash, ponded flyash, sopodumene lithium aluminum silicate materials, and lithium-containing ores, wherein the cement additive comprises weight ratios of from about 20 to about 80 weight percent CaO, from about 5 to about 60 weight percent SiO | 5,035 |
9,085,779 | 1. A process for producing H 2 S gas from a culture of sulphur-reducing bacteria in a biosolution in a bioreactor, the process comprising: feeding elemental sulphur and an electron donor to the culture at a selected sulfur-to-electron donor ratio; maintaining biosolution chemistry so that the concentration of bisulphide and polysulphide species dissolved in the biosolution is at a substantially constant concentration that supports a selected rate of elemental sulfur dissolution, so that polysulphide is provided to the culture in the biosolution at an average rate that is equal to an average rate of polysulphide consumption by the culture in the biosolution; and, removing H wherein the step of maintaining biosolution chemistry comprises: adjusting the flow rate of H maintaining the conductivity of the biosolution at between about 6 mS/cm and about 25 mS/cm by the addition of carbonate, bicarbonate, or hydroxide of alkali or alkali earth metals to the bioreactor. | 35,557 |
8,356,222 | 1. A method of fault diagnosis, comprising: generating signatures by deterministically partitioning lines of cells of a non-volatile memory array, the lines of cells being either rows or columns of cells of the non-volatile memory array; and identifying one or more failing lines of cells based on the signatures. | 40,003 |
8,750,016 | 1. A resistive memory, comprising: a transistor comprising a gate, a source and a drain; and a variable resistor coupled between the drain and a node, wherein during a setting period, the gate receives a first gate voltage, the source receives a first source voltage, the node receives a first drain voltage, and the first source voltage is equal to a grounding voltage, wherein after the setting period, if a resistance value of the variable resistor is not less than a first pre-determined value, a first verification operation is being performed, wherein when the first verification operation is being performed, the gate receives a second gate voltage, the node receives a second drain voltage less than the first drain voltage, and the source receives a second source voltage equal to the grounding voltage. | 18,508 |
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