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9,576,597 | 1. A method comprising: selecting a zone of one or more tracks on a disk drive having a plurality of magnetic sensors on a transducer head; determining a performance matrix related to the selected zone; and selecting a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of magnetic sensors based on the determined performance matrix so that only the first subset is used for data recovery in the selected zone and the second subset is used for servo recovery in the selected zone. | 2,827 |
9,481,334 | 1. A vehicle front section structure comprising: a pair of left and right front side members extending along a vehicle front-rear direction at both vehicle width direction sides of a power unit installed in a vehicle front section; a bumper reinforcement connecting together front end portions of the pair of left and right front side members in a vehicle width direction; an extension portion that extends further to a vehicle width direction outer side from a rear face of a vehicle width direction outer side end portion of the bumper reinforcement; a projection portion that is disposed at a front face of the extension portion, at a position separated to the vehicle width direction outer side of the vehicle width direction outer side end portion of the bumper reinforcement, and that projects out toward a vehicle front side; and a spacer that is joined at a rear end portion thereof, to a side face on the vehicle width direction outer side of at least one of the front side members, that extends out to the vehicle width direction outer side of at least one of the front side members, and that has a front end portion of the spacer joined to a rear face of the extension portion, wherein: the projection portion includes the spacer includes the one end portion of the inner wall is disposed at the vehicle front side of the inside wall with the extension portion interposed therebetween, and the one end portion of the outer wall is disposed at the vehicle front side of the outside wall with the extension portion interposed therebetween. | 40,261 |
8,488,158 | 1. A method for controlling rendering settings for a printer to generate one or more digital patterns that are readable by a digital pen, the method implemented on at least one computer, the method comprising: selecting a printer; printing a first test sheet on the selected printer, the first test sheet having a plurality of regions, each region having a different digital pattern configured with an arrangement digitally readable indicia, each indicia having a defined area; applying an outline to each of the plurality of regions on the first test sheet; interacting with each region using the digital pen, wherein each interaction is substantially within at least one of the applied outlines; uploading data from the digital pen to a processor; determining the smallest indicia readable by the digital pen; and updating a printer control file with the determined smallest indicia, the printer control file usable by the printer to produce a desired digital pattern. | 18,015 |
9,551,981 | 1. A system implemented in hardware, comprising: a processor executing a manager that operates to: receive a subscribe message from at least one subscriber device, wherein the subscribe message is a request to receive updates regarding presence information; receive data from a sensor at a power generation facility, wherein the data defines a detected gas emission level of the power generation facility; communicate the data defining the detected gas emission level to the at least one subscriber device using Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication; and transmit a control signal to the power generation facility in response to a determination that the detected gas emission level exceeds a predetermined margin of error of a predicted gas emission level of the power generation facility, wherein the control signal changes power output of the power generation facility. | 27,295 |
8,602,145 | 1. A driving system used in an electric vehicle, comprising: a wheel hub defining therein an accommodation space; a vehicle motor mounted in one side of said wheel hub, said vehicle motor comprising a rotor, and a stator having an axle inserted through the center of said wheel hub; a bushing sleeved onto said axle of said stator and rotatably supported on said axle by axle bearings; a pinion rotatably supported on said axle of said stator and connected to one end of said bushing; a driving wheel fixedly mounted on said bushing for synchronous rotation, said driving wheel having a plurality of transverse grooves spaced around the periphery thereof; a hubcap fastened to an opposite side of said wheel hub, said hubcap comprising a plurality of thrust pins respectively inserted through respective holes thereof, and an annular flange protruded from an outside wall thereof opposite to said wheel hub; a direct-drive active clutch mounted in the accommodation space inside said wheel hub; a first clutch presser plate and associating spring members; a switching push-pull plate mounted on the annular flange of said hubcap; a reducing clutch mounted on the annular flange of said hubcap at one side relative to said switching push-pull plate; a second clutch presser plate arranged at one side relative to said reducing clutch; a planet gear holder disposed at one side relative to said switching push-pull plate for enabling said reducing clutch to be set in between said planet gear holder and said switching push-pull plate; a plurality of planet gears equiangularly and pivotally mounted on said planet gear holder and meshed with said pinion; an outer cover covered on said wheel hub over said hubcap; a clutch switching unit mounted in said outer cover and adapted for selectively switching said switching push-pull plate and said direct-drive active clutch; and a tooth ring mounted inside said outer cover, said tooth ring comprising an internal gear meshed with said planet gears for enabling said planet gears to reduce the output speed of said vehicle motor and increase the output torque thereof. | 35,111 |
9,449,268 | 1. A device tag comprising: a housing comprising: the device tag further comprising an electrical connector carried by the housing and constructed and arranged to provide an electrical connection between the battery operated device and the battery; and an electronic device carried by the housing, the electronic device having a transmitter constructed and arranged to transmit and receive wireless data signals to and from a separate unit, and a controller connected to the transmitter. | 47,765 |
9,494,682 | 1. A radar weather data signal processing module comprising: a pulse compression unit that pulse-compresses a received weather signal; a correlation coefficient calculation unit that calculates a correlation coefficient based on the pulse-compressed weather signal; and a weather variable calculation unit that calculates a weather variable based on the calculated correlation coefficient, wherein the pulse compression unit comprises: a format conversion unit that converts a horizontal polarized wave in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) signal and a vertical polarized wave I/Q signal that are received weather signals, into a format of floating decimal point data; a linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal-applying unit that applies a reference LFM signal; a window application unit that applies window functions to the horizontal polarized wave I/Q signal and the vertical polarized wave I/Q signal that are converted by the format conversion unit and the reference LFM signal; a fast fourier transform (FFT) performance unit that performs FFT on the signals to which the window functions are applied; a convolution unit that performs convolution on the signals on which FFT is performed by the FFT performance unit; and an inverse FFT (IFFT) performance unit that generates a compressed horizontal polarized wave I/Q signal and a compressed vertical polarized wave I/Q signal by performing IFFT on the convoluted signals. | 34,049 |
8,601,407 | 1. A method of performing a maskless lithography process, comprising: providing a proximity correction pattern, wherein the proximity correction pattern has a first geometric shape; generating a deformed pattern based on the proximity correction pattern, wherein the deformed pattern has a second geometric shape that resembles the first geometric shape; performing a first convolution process to the proximity correction pattern to generate a first proximity correction pattern contour; processing the first proximity correction pattern contour to generate a second proximity correction pattern contour; performing a second convolution process to the deformed pattern to generate a first deformed pattern contour; processing the first deformed pattern contour to generate a second deformed pattern contour; identifying mismatches between the second proximity correction pattern contour and the second deformed pattern contour; and determining whether the deformed pattern is lithography-ready in response to the identifying; wherein at least one of: the performing the first convolution process, the processing the first proximity correction pattern contour, the performing the second convolution process, the processing the first deformed pattern contour, the identifying mismatches, and the determining is performed by one or more electronic processors. | 16,910 |
9,293,948 | 1. A system for providing uninterrupted power to elements of infrastructure, comprising: a shelter including a wall connected to a roof, and an enclosure defined in part by a portion of the wall, the enclosure defining an interior volume that is not visible to occupants of the shelter; one or more photovoltaic modules disposed on the roof of the shelter, which generate current when exposed to light; one or more electrical storage batteries disposed in the interior volume of the enclosure, the one or more batteries being electrically connected to the photovoltaic modules such that the photovoltaic modules supply current to the battery when the photovoltaic modules are illuminated; an element of infrastructure connected to a power network, the element of infrastructure also being selectably electrically connected to said battery via a switch; a sensor in electrical communication with said element of infrastructure and adapted to detect interruption of a flow of power between said element of infrastructure and said power network; a Critical Node Infrastructure Support (CNIS) controller in electrical communication with said switch and said sensor, the controller adapted to supply power from said one or more storage batteries to said element of infrastructure when the sensor detects interruption of a flow of power between said element of infrastructure and said power network, wherein the element of infrastructure comprises a traffic signal, and wherein the traffic signal comprises a signal controller, and wherein, when the sensor detects an interruption of a flow of power between said element of infrastructure and said power network, the CNIS controller sends a signal to the signal controller directing the signal controller to operate the traffic signal with reduced functionality. | 38,601 |
8,591,209 | 1. A piston pump, comprising: a housing portion having (i) a first bore structure defining a bore, and (ii) a second bore structure defining a housing outlet passage positioned in fluid communication with said bore, (iii) a terminal end surface, and (iv) a valve seat extending between said terminal end surface and said second bore structure; an outlet valve cap including a cavity structure defining a cavity, said second bore structure and said valve seat being configured and arranged to place said bore in fluid communication with said cavity; a spherical blocking body positioned in said cavity; a spring arranged and configured to bias said spherical blocking body into contact with said valve seat, wherein said cavity structure includes (i) a receptacle surface defining a receptacle, said spring being positioned in said receptacle, (ii) a plateau surface extending from said receptacle surface, (iii) a ramp surface extending from said receptacle surface, (iv) a ledge surface extending from said ramp surface, and wherein said housing portion is positioned in relation to said outlet valve cap such that said terminal end surface abuts said ledge surface so that (i) a free space is defined between said terminal end surface and said ramp surface, and (ii) an outflow passage is defined between said terminal end surface and said plateau surface. | 32,938 |
9,305,613 | 1. A memory module comprising: a data buffer having a data bus interface; a dynamic random access memory coupled to the data buffer; a switch connected in parallel with the data buffer, the switch to selectively bypass the data buffer when the data buffer is powered down and the memory module is being addressed; and a registered buffer having an address bus interface, wherein the switch is to selectively bypass the data buffer based on a program signal obtained from an address bus via the address bus interface. | 33,037 |
9,183,716 | 1. A computer system, comprising: at least one processing unit; memory operably associated with the at least one processing unit; a system for managing images generated from a movable camera that is storable in memory and executable by the at least one processing unit, the system for managing images comprising: | 8,362 |
8,731,724 | 1. A controller for presenting an estimate of fault cost in a building management system comprising: a processing circuit configured to maintain a history of energy usage values for the building management system and a threshold parameter establishing an energy usage value limit relative to the history of energy usage values; and wherein the processing circuit is further configured to identify energy outlier days by comparing energy use for a day to the history of energy usage values and the threshold parameter; wherein the processing circuit is further configured to subtract an estimated average daily cost, calculated with the outlier days, from an estimated average daily cost calculated excluding the outlier days to estimate an additional cost of the energy outlier days; wherein the processing circuit is configured to assign the estimated additional cost of the energy outlier days to the estimate of the fault cost in the building management system; and wherein the processing circuit is configured to output the estimated fault cost to at least one of a remote device and a local electronic display. | 49,532 |
8,590,082 | 1. A mattress core including: (a) an array of strings of pocket springs extending in parallel across the mattress core; and (b) a fastener coupling the array of strings of pocket springs together, wherein said array of strings of pocket springs includes single strings of pocket springs and double strings of pocket springs, each double string of said double strings of pocket springs including a superior string of pocket springs mounted over an inferior string of pocket springs, wherein each double string of said double strings is arranged between a corresponding pair of said single strings of pocket springs, and wherein each superior string of pocket springs is coupled to a corresponding inferior string of pocket springs by another fastener. | 17,428 |
9,660,487 | 1. An automatic positioning wireless power transfer system to provide wireless power transfer to and from an object in need of said power transfer, said transfer system comprising: a mobile housing having a plurality of wheels and an internal power storage entirely contained within the mobile housing, the mobile housing configured to change a direction of travel and automatically sense the object approaching the mobile housing to enjoy a degree of freedom using its plurality of wheels to autonomously go in front of, along sides thereof, under and around the object and a retractable arm to tilt and raise the mobile housing to achieve alignment of a first transceiver of the mobile housing and a second transceiver of the object independent of whether said object occupies a designated space; the first transceiver coupled to and disposed on said mobile housing; wherein said object has the second transceiver configured to transmit power wirelessly, or to receive power wirelessly, or both; wherein said first transceiver is configured to transmit power wirelessly to said second transceiver, and to receive power wirelessly from said second transceiver; a control module to detect and automatically align said first and second transceivers; wherein said first transceiver is configured to autonomously move in a horizontal direction to align with said second transceiver; wherein said first transceiver has a transmission vector, said first transceiver is configured to tilt relative to the mobile housing, thereby causing said vector to tilt between a zero degree angle to a 90 degree angle; wherein said control module is configured to automatically determine between a transmitting mode and a receiving mode, wherein the transmitting mode transmits power to the object, and wherein the receiving mode receives power from the object; and a base station configured to transfer power to and from said mobile housing, wherein the base station is coupled to a power source. | 13,233 |
8,508,206 | 1. An adaptive constant ON time adjustment circuit for controlling a power stage circuit to convert an input voltage to an output voltage and to provide an output current to a load, the output voltage including at least a high voltage stable status and a low voltage stable status and being capable of shifting between the high and low voltage stable statuses, wherein a time period for shifting from one stable status to another stable status is a transient period, the adaptive constant ON time adjustment circuit comprising: a transient period detection circuit detecting a transient period indication signal and generating a transient ON time (transient TON) control signal; an ON time (TON) generation circuit generating a constant normal ON time and a longer or shorter transient ON time, the TON generation circuit determining an ON time of a square wave signal according to the transient TON control signal; and a driver circuit controlling the power stage according to the square wave signal, wherein when the transient period indication signal indicates that the power stage circuit is not in the transient period, the square wave signal generated by the TON generation circuit has the constant normal ON time; and wherein when the transient period indication signal indicates that the output voltage is shifted from high to low, during the transient period, the square wave signal generated by the TON generation circuit has the shorter transient ON time; and when the transient period indication signal indicates that the output voltage is shifted from low to high, during the transient period, the square wave signal generated by the TON generation circuit has the longer transient ON time. | 39,406 |
8,379,479 | 1. A system comprising: a controller comprising first, second and third terminals provided independently of each other; and a memory comprising fourth, fifth and sixth terminals provided independently of each other and provided correspondingly to the first, second and third terminals of the controller; the controller being configured to output a write data signal to the third terminal while the controller is clocking the first terminal and the memory being configured to receive the write data signal from the sixth terminal while the fourth terminal is being clocked in response to the clocking the first terminal; the memory being configured to output a read data signal to the sixth terminal while the memory is clocking the fifth terminal and the controller being configured to receive the read data signal from the third terminal while the second terminal is being clocked in response to the clocking the fifth terminal, the memory being configured to clock the fifth terminal while the fourth terminal is being clocked, and the fourth terminal is being clocked while the controller is clocking the first terminal. | 35,664 |
8,729,113 | 1. A compound selected from the group consisting of (S)-4-[2-(4-benzyl-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4′-fluoro-biphenyl-4-yloxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4-chloro-3-fluoro-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4-bromo-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(3,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4-methoxy-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[2-(4-trifluoromethyl-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; 3-[2-((S)-2-amino-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-4-yl)-ethoxy]-benzonitrile; 3-[4-(S)-2-amino-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-4-yl)-ethoxy]-benzoic acid methyl ester; (S)-4-[2-(3,5-difluoro-phenoxy)-ethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; 3-[2-((S)-2-amino-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-4-yl)-ethoxy]-benzoic acid benzyl ester; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-fluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3-chloro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3,4-difluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-3-fluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-bromo-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3-chloro-4-fluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(2,4-difluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; 3-[(S)-2-(S)-2-amino-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-4-yl)-1-methyl-ethoxy]-benzonitrile; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-phenoxy-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-(S)-2-phenoxy-propyl)-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(R)-2-(3-chloro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(R)-2-(3-chloro-4-fluoro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(R)-2-(3,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-propyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-(S)-2-phenoxy-butyl)-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-bromo-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3-chloro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-3-fluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(2,4-difluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-fluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3,4-difluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3-chloro-4-fluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-trifluoromethyl-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(3-benzyloxy-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; 3-[(S)-1-((S)-2-amino-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-4-ylmethyl)-propoxy]-phenol; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(2,4,5-trifluoro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(naphthalen-2-yloxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-2-(2,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-3-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(R)-3-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-butyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (4 S)-4-[3-(3,5-difluoro-phenyl)-pentyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-[(S)-1-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-ethoxymethyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-((S)-1-phenyl-propoxymethyl)-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(2,4-difluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(3-chloro-4-fluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(3,4-difluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-cyclobutyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(3,5-difluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(3-chloro-5-fluoro-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[1-(4-bromo-phenyl)-cyclopropyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; (S)-4-{2-[(3-chloro-phenyl)-dimethyl-silanyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine; and (S)-4-{2-[(4-chloro-phenyl)-dimethyl-silanyl]-ethyl}-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine. | 42,734 |
8,818,827 | 1. An electronic device for causing movie information to be displayed, the electronic device comprising: one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media including a set of instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to: | 1,401 |
9,456,632 | 1. A electronic vaporizing device, comprising: a battery and a liquid storage component in an elongated cylindrical housing having at least one air inlet and an outlet; a hollow cylindrical component comprising a fiber material, with the hollow cylindrical component in the elongated cylindrical housing and having a central axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the elongated cylindrical housing, with the hollow cylindrical component in contact with the liquid storage component, and an atomizing chamber formed within inner cylindrical walls of the hollow cylindrical component between a front end opening and a back end opening of the hollow cylindrical component, to allow air to flow into the atomizing chamber from the front end opening and out from the back end opening of the hollow cylindrical component; an air flow path from the one or more air inlets through the atomizing chamber in the hollow cylindrical component, to the outlet; and a wire coil in the atomizing chamber wound on a porous component and electrically connected to the battery. | 32,881 |
9,531,283 | 1. A power supply apparatus, comprising: a multi-outputs power supply circuit having a plurality of output terminals, and the multi-outputs power supply circuit providing a first voltage from one output terminal among the output terminals and providing a second voltage from another one output terminal among the output terminals, wherein a rated voltage value of the first voltage is greater than a rated voltage value of the second voltage; and a first regulating circuit coupled between the one output terminal and the another one output terminal, wherein the first regulating circuit is enabled when the first voltage exceeds a first threshold, and begins to regulate the second voltage after being enabled. | 43,008 |
9,593,351 | 1. A polynucleotide comprising a first coding sequence and a second coding sequence, wherein the first coding sequence encodes a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase and the second coding sequence encodes a sucrose invertase. | 7,763 |
8,622,670 | 1. A packing system for aerogenerator blades, the packing system comprising a root frame configured to hold a root portion of a first aerogenerator blade laterally adjacent to a root portion of a second aerogenerator blade, the first aerogenerator blade and the second aerogenerator blade being positioned in an edgewise position; and a binding frame configured to hold a tip portion of the first aerogenerator blade laterally adjacent to a tip portion of the second aerogenerator blade and to hold a root portion of a third aerogenerator blade, in an edgewise position and laterally adjacent to the tip portion of the second aerogenerator blade, wherein the root frame and the binding frame are thereby configured to hold the first aerogenerator blade directly adjacent to the second aerogenerator blade, with no additional element therebetween from the root portion of the first aerogenerator blade and the root portion of the second aerogenerator blade to the tip portion of the first aerogenerator blade and the tip portion of the second aerogenerator blade. | 30,081 |
9,012,727 | 1. A plant which expresses a chimeric protein, said chimeric protein comprising a transcription factor fused to a repressor domain sequence that converts said transcription factor into a transcription repressor, wherein said transcription factor is a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10, or a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10 but in which 1-20 amino acids have been deleted, substituted, added or inserted, and wherein the seeds of said plant exhibit an increase in weight, an increase in amount of fat and oil, or an increase in fat and oil content, in comparison to a wild-type plant not expressing said chimeric protein. | 34,573 |
9,512,694 | 1. A flow control assembly, comprising: a tubing portion having a port configured to be part of a flow path in the flow control assembly; a porous material configured for preventing fluid flow though the flow path in a closed position and for allowing fluid to flow in the flow path by opening from the closed position in response to a stimulus in a wellbore; a housing external to the tubing portion and defining a second part of the flow path; and an inflow control device positioned (i) in the second-part of the flow path defined by the tubing portion and (ii) between the housing and an outer wall of the tubing portion. | 46,549 |
9,685,155 | 1. A method for distinguishing one or more components of a signal, comprising steps: acquiring the signal from an environment with a sensor; processing the signal to estimate a set of analysis features, wherein each analysis feature defines an element of the signal, and has feature values that represent parts of the signal; processing the signal to estimate input features of the signal; processing the input features using a deep neural network (DNN) to assign an associative descriptor to each element of the signal, wherein a degree of similarity between the associative descriptors of different elements is related to a degree to which the parts of the signal represented by the elements belong to a single component of the signal; processing the similarities between associative descriptors to estimate correspondences between the elements of the signal and one or more components in the signal; and processing the signal using the correspondences to distinguish the parts of the one or more components of the signal, wherein the steps are performed in a processor. | 40,382 |
9,333,862 | 1. A control device for an AC electric vehicle that is applied to a configuration in which an auxiliary power unit that supplies power to a load including lighting and air-conditioning is connected to an intermediate DC circuit unit between a converter that converts an AC voltage input through a main transformer to a DC voltage and an inverter that converts the DC voltage to an AC voltage, wherein a carrier frequency of the converter is changed on a basis of initial temperature that is a temperature of a converter main circuit element at a time when a vehicle is stopped and input current of the auxiliary power unit such that a temperature variation of the converter main circuit element in a vehicle stopped state where the vehicle has entered a stopped state is reduced. | 5,259 |
9,613,956 | 1. A semiconductor device having punchthrough stop (PTS) doping in bulk fin field effect transistors, the device comprising: fins formed on a substrate, each pair of the fins having a fin pitch, wherein each of the fins has an undoped fin channel and a punchthrough stop doping region underneath the undoped fin channel; a narrow shallow trench isolation trench formed between the fin pitch of the fins; a wide shallow trench isolation trench formed at an outside edge of the fins; and a doped layer filling the narrow shallow trench isolation trench and the wide shallow trench isolation trench, wherein a vertical thickness of the doped layer in the narrow shallow trench isolation trench is greater than a vertical thickness of the wide shallow trench isolation trench. | 25,588 |
9,687,991 | 1. A microscopic geometry cutting method for providing a microscopic geometry on a surface of a workpiece, comprising: providing a reciprocating stage that changes a cutting depth of a cutter at high speed and a relative moving mechanism that relatively moves the cutter and the workpiece in a direction substantially orthogonal to a cutting direction of the cutter; an input step for inputting a target geometry and feed speed for machining the surface of the workpiece; a frequency analyzing step for analyzing a frequency of a target track of the cutter decided according to the target geometry and feed speed input in the input step; a machining condition deciding step for deciding a machining condition from a result obtained in the frequency analyzing step; a program generating step for generating a machining program in accordance with the machining condition decided in the machining condition deciding step; and a machining step for executing a machining in accordance with the machining program generated in the program generating step, wherein the machining strep comprises: | 40,335 |
9,494,920 | 1. An indicator comprising: a housing; a movement lodged in said housing; a watch glass above the housing; a fluid pump driven by said movement for pumping a fluid; and at least one channel arranged so that the fluid circulated by said pump reaches said channel in order to fill said channel for displaying indications wherein the circulation of the fluid in said channel serves to indicate seconds. | 37,957 |
9,484,118 | 1. A nuclear fuel assembly for a boiling water reactor comprising: a base, the base including at least one housing, each of the at least one housing delimited by a closed bottom and a peripheral wall, the peripheral wall extending upwardly from the closed bottom; a head; a bundle of full length fuel rods and partial length fuel rods, the bundle extending longitudinally between the base and the head, at least one partial length fuel rod having a lower end received in one of the at least one housing, the closed bottom being larger than the lower end, the peripheral wall surrounding the lower end, each lower end including a lowermost surface, the entire lowermost surface of each of the at least one partial length fuel rod directly rests freely on one of the at least one closed bottom such that the base does not longitudinally retain the at least one partial length fuel rod from moving upwardly with respect to the base. | 39,417 |
9,746,227 | 1. A process for regulating a compressor for a refrigerating system with a motor, where a controller regulates the cooling liquid flow through the compressor via at least one valve thus regulating the temperature of a cooling site, where in addition at least one temperature in the compressor is measured and analysed, and the temperature of the cooling site is regulated using an on-off mode of the motor once the temperature in the compressor exceeds an upper temperature threshold, wherein the on-off mode of the motor is characterised by a periodic switching on and off of the motor in that the motor is switched off for a specific or definable initial time period and then switched on for a specific or definable second time period, and where the on-off mode is maintained until the at least one temperature in the compressor reaches a lower temperature threshold, and the temperature of the cooling site is regulated using a continuously switched on motor as soon as the motor reaches the lower temperature threshold, and the controller converts a variable corresponding to the cooling requirement of the cooling site into a switch signal for the at least one valve, which results in a clocked opening and closing of the at least one valve. | 33,751 |
9,772,250 | 1. A leak detection sensor comprising: a transducer, the transducer defining a mounting hole, the mounting hole configured to be repeatable, the transducer comprising at least two leads connected to the transducer and to a processing device, wherein only a first lead of the at least two leads is connected to the conductive layer, wherein the mounting hole is in the center of the base, a center of the piezoelectric layer, and a center of the conductive layer, wherein the transducer is coated in a non-conductive dampening material, wherein the leak detection sensor is a burst/tamper sensor and one of an array of sensors and is configured to be repurposed based at least on the mounting hole, and wherein the processing device is configured to | 8,558 |
9,691,062 | 1. A consumer computing device, the computing device comprising: a non-transitory memory; one or more wireless transceivers; a display device; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory, the one or more wireless transceivers, and the display device, the one or more hardware processors configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the computing device, when the computing device comes within range of a beacon device associated with a merchant, to automatically perform operations comprising: | 30,016 |
8,763,854 | 1. A cup dispenser comprising: a body defining a storage region adapted for receiving an associated stack of cup-shaped articles, said body including an open end that provides access to the storage region; a plurality of fingers connected to the body for restricting said open end of the body, each of said fingers comprising: (i) a first end connected to the body; (ii) a second end; (iii) a ramped portion located between the first and second ends, said ramped portion comprising a first ramp surface that converges toward a center of the cup storage region as it extends away from said open end of said body into said storage region and a second ramp surface located between the first ramp surface and the first end, wherein said second ramp surface diverges away from said center of said cup storage region as it extends away from said open end of said body into said storage region; (iv) a tip that interconnects said first ramp surface to said second ramp surface; and, (v) a tab connected to said first ramp surface by a living hinge; an adjustment ring connected to the body and movable relative to the body, wherein movement of said adjustment ring alters a radial position of each of said fingers relative to said body, said adjustment ring comprising a plurality of adjustment cams and each of said fingers comprises a follower connected to said tab and engaged with one of said adjustment cams; each of said plurality of adjustment cams comprising an adjustment slot defined in said adjustment ring, and each follower comprising an adjustment stud projecting from said tab and located in a respective one of said adjustment slots. | 16,984 |
8,872,476 | 1. A charging management system for receiving a signal from a battery to be charged, and controlling a charging circuit of a charger so as to charge the battery according to the received signal, the charging management system comprising: a first signal-output port adapted for outputting a first control signal representing a first charging current to the charging circuit; a second signal-output port adapted for outputting a second control signal representing a second charging current to the charging circuit; a third signal-output port adapted for outputting a third control signal representing a variable third charging current to the charging circuit; and a controller electrically connected with the first, second and third signal-output ports so as to control the charging management system to operate in at least one of a first mode and a second mode, wherein (i) in the first mode, the controller selectively controls outputs of the first signal-output port and the second signal-output port; and (ii) in the second mode, the controller only controls an output of the third signal-output port. | 40,411 |
9,571,205 | 1. An interference cancellation system, comprising: a receiver coupled to a single receiving antenna or array, the receiver being configured to receive a first signal; an interference estimation module, wherein said interference estimation module is configured to receive said first signal from said receiver, to estimate and to output an interference component of said first signal; and, an optical interference cancellation module in communication with said interference estimation module, wherein said optical interference cancellation module receives said first signal and said estimated interference component, and wherein said optical interference cancellation module is configured to optically cancel at least a portion of said estimated interference component from said first signal. | 43,355 |
8,853,947 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a light emitting diode (LED) lamp; a power generating panel that is disposed at a position where the power generating panel is capable of receiving sunlight and light irradiated by the LED lamp, and that is configured to generate electric power by receiving the sunlight and the light irradiated by the LED lamp, the power generating panel being located at a lower position than the LED lamp; a storage battery that is configured to store the electric power generated by the power generating panel and to supply the electric power to the LED lamp; a lamp drive portion that is configured to drive the LED lamp using pulse signals; a remaining amount detection portion that is configured to detect a remaining amount of the electric power stored in the storage battery; and a control portion that is configured to control, in accordance with the remaining amount detected by the remaining amount detection portion, a pulse width and a period that are used when the lamp drive portion drives the LED lamp, wherein the control portion is configured to cause the lamp drive portion to drive the LED lamp at a first duty cycle when the remaining amount detected by the remaining amount detection portion is equal to or more than a first threshold value, the first duty cycle being a ratio of a first pulse width with respect to a first period, and wherein the control portion is configured to cause the lamp drive portion to drive the LED lamp at a second duty cycle when the remaining amount is less than the first threshold value, the second duty cycle being a ratio of a second pulse width with respect to a second period and being smaller than the first duty cycle, the second period being longer than the first period. | 42,785 |
8,937,894 | 1. A method of allocating a multicast resource to a multicast group for a multicast communication in a base station, the method comprising: persistently allocating the multicast resource to the multicast group; generating a MAP information element (IE) including allocation information of the multicast resource, an allocation period indicating a period in which the multicast resource is allocated, and a lifetime indicating a time for transmitting a next MAP IE; transmitting the MAP IE to the multicast group; and transmitting the next MAP IE including new allocation information on the multicast resource to the multicast group when the lifetime expires, wherein the next MAP IE is transmitted at a frame or superframe whose number satisfies N modulo L+1=0, where N is the number of the frame or superframe, and L is the lifetime. | 181 |
9,144,526 | 1. A stand-up wheelchair, comprising: a stand-up assembly having an articulated structure movable between a sitting configuration, a kneeling configuration, a reaching configuration, a leaning configuration, or a standing configuration and a different one of a sitting configuration, a kneeling configuration, a reaching configuration, a leaning configuration, or a standing configuration; a plurality of rotatable members operable to frictionally interface the stand-up wheelchair to a travel surface and to move the stand-up wheelchair along the travel surface; a stabilization assembly having a plurality of flywheels operable to apply a righting torque along one or more of a transverse axis, a longitudinal axis, a vertical axis of the stand-up wheelchair, or combinations thereof; and a dynamic stability controller operably coupled to the stabilization assembly, the dynamic stability controller operable to cause one or more of the plurality of flywheels to change spin responsive to a detected change in a center of mass location. | 41,699 |
8,524,335 | 1. For a synthetic turf system including a synthetic turf surface comprising a plurality of synthetic ribbons operatively attached to a backing mat, a method comprising the steps of: grooming a synthetic turf surface; and, applying a stiffening agent to the synthetic turf surface, wherein the stiffening agent comprises diethylene glycol monobutyl ether; wherein the synthetic turf surface further includes an infill layer of particulate material atop the backing mat and dispersed among the plurality of synthetic ribbons such that portions of the synthetic ribbons extend above the infill layer, each of the plurality of synthetic ribbons having an initial stiffness that will increase upon application of the stiffening agent. | 23,718 |
9,501,152 | 1. A computer-implemented method of controlling a machine user interface, comprising: receiving information including motion information for a control object; determining from the motion information whether a motion of the control object is an engagement gesture according to an occurrence of an engagement gesture applied to at least one virtual control construct defined within a field of view of an image capturing device, comprising: manipulating the control according to at least the engagement gesture. | 38,019 |
8,609,596 | 1. A gear oil composition comprising a mineral base oil, (A) an ashless dithiocarbamate compound, and (B) an ester of pentaerythritol and isostearic acid, wherein said ashless dithiocarbamate compound is present in the gear oil composition in an amount of from 1 to 5.0% by mass based on the total amount of the gear oil composition, said ester having a hydroxyl value of 20 to 100 mg KOH/g and present in an amount of from 0.1 to 8.0% by mass based on the total amount of the gear oil composition, and said ashless dithiocarbamate compound comprises at least one compound represented by formula (1) where R | 29,763 |
9,293,248 | 1. An electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter system, comprising: a first terminal to receive a first phase signal of a three-phase signal; a second terminal to receive a second phase signal of the three-phase signal; a third terminal to receive a third phase signal of the three-phase signal; a first filter inductor to filter the first phase signal; a second filter inductor to filter the second phase signal; a third filter inductor to filter the third phase signal; and a switch control module, comprising: wherein the processor module activates the driver circuit to generate a lagging power factor of the three-phase signal by actuating at least one of the first, second, and third switches when the first threshold is exceeded for coupling at least one capacitor from each of the first, second, and third filter capacitor banks into the EMI filter. | 49,551 |
9,171,979 | 1. A solar battery comprising; a substrate; a rear electrode on a top surface of the substrate; a light absorbing layer on the rear electrode including a first through-hole; a second through-hole exposing the rear electrode through the light absorbing layer; a buffer layer on a top surface and a lateral side surface of the light absorbing layer; a front electrode layer on the buffer layer; and a connection wiring extending from the front electrode layer and formed within the second through-hole; wherein the buffer layer is disposed between, in a first direction parallel to the surface of the substrate, the light absorbing layer and the connection wiring, wherein the rear electrode is separated by the first through-hole, and wherein the connection wiring is in direct contact with the buffer layer in the second through-hole. | 9,515 |
8,460,437 | 1. A method of treating process gas from an anaerobic digestion system, comprising: receiving a process gas stream from the anaerobic digestion system; flowing the process gas stream upward through a vertical column; forming treated gas by flowing a caustic liquid solution downward through the vertical column such that substantially all acid is removed from the process gas; and bubbling treated gas out of an opening at the top of the vertical column, wherein the treated gas is substantially free of acid. | 30,029 |
9,556,786 | 1. An assembly comprising: a turbine housing that comprises a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage that extends to the wastegate seat wherein the bore comprises a bore axis, a bore axial length and a bore diameter and wherein the wastegate seat comprises a conical surface; a bushing disposed at least in part in the bore wherein the bushing comprises a bushing bore, a bushing axis, a bushing axial length and a bushing inner diameter; a rotatable wastegate shaft disposed at least in part in the bushing bore wherein the wastegate shaft comprises an shaft axis, a shaft axial length and a shaft diameter, wherein the wastegate shaft comprises a shoulder and a control end, wherein the shaft diameter is less than the bushing inner diameter and wherein a diameter of the shoulder is greater than the bushing inner diameter; a control arm operatively coupled to the wastegate shaft wherein the bushing is disposed between a surface of the control arm and the shoulder of the wastegate shaft and wherein the bushing axial length is less than an axial distance between the surface of the control arm and the shoulder of the wastegate shaft; a wastegate arm that extends from the wastegate shaft wherein the shoulder is disposed between the wastegate arm and the control end of the wastegate shaft; and a wastegate plug that is a flapper valve that extends from the wastegate arm wherein the wastegate plug comprises a toroidal surface defined by a portion of a torus wherein, in a closed state, the toroidal surface contacts the conical surface of the wastegate seat to cover the wastegate passage and wherein the wastegate shaft, the wastegate arm and the wastegate plug comprise a unitary component. | 66 |
9,691,922 | 1. An adjusting device for adjusting orientation of an energy conversion board comprising: a first frame member for fixing and receiving the energy conversion board; a second frame member holding the first frame member, the first frame member being rotatable relative to the second frame member around a first rotating axis; a third frame member holding the second frame member, the second frame member be rotatable relative to the third frame member around a second rotating axis; and a base supporting the third frame member, the second frame member and the first frame member with the energy conversion board, the third frame member being rotatable relative to the base around a third rotating axis; wherein the first rotating axis is perpendicular to the second rotating axis, the third rotating axis is coaxial with the first rotating axis. | 13,939 |
9,032,937 | 1. A fuel air mixer, comprising: a mixing tube comprising a mixing tube inlet with an annular rim and mixing tube inlet inner diameter, and a mixing tube outlet in fluid communication with the mixing tube inlet; a first cylindrical portion disposed upstream of the mixing tube inlet and having a first edge, an oppositely disposed second edge disposed proximate the mixing tube inlet with the second edge of the first cylindrical portion and the annular rim of the mixing tube inlet being spaced apart by an opening, and a first cylindrical portion inner diameter that is less than the mixing tube inlet inner diameter; a body portion encircling the mixing tube inlet and engaging the mixing tube and the first cylindrical portion so that an inner surface of the body portion and an exterior surface of the mixing tube encircled by the body portion define a fuel reservoir with the opening between the second edge of the first cylindrical portion and the annular rim of the mixing tube inlet placing the fuel reservoir in fluid communication with the mixing tube inlet, wherein a width of the opening between the second edge of the first cylindrical portion and the annular rim is a fixed distance that cannot be varied when the fuel air mixer is assembled, and wherein the body portion further includes a fuel inlet port placing the fuel reservoir in fluid communication with an exterior of the body portion; wherein the body portion comprises: a second cylindrical portion having a first edge, an oppositely disposed second edge, and a second cylindrical portion inner diameter; an intermediate cylindrical portion disposed between the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion and having a first edge, an oppositely disposed second edge, and an intermediate cylindrical portion inner diameter that is greater than the second cylindrical portion inner diameter; a first transition portion connecting the first cylindrical portion to the intermediate cylindrical portion; and a second transition portion connecting the second cylindrical portion to the intermediate cylindrical portion. | 15,723 |
9,559,447 | 1. A method of making an electrical connector, the method comprising the steps of: forming an insulator housing with a plurality of through holes extending from a first surface to a second surface of the insulator housing; locating a flowable polymeric material adjacent at least one retention region in each of the through holes; positioning contact members within each of the through holes; applying sufficient energy and/or pressure to the electrical connector so the flowable polymeric material flows into engagement with retention features on the contact members; and cooling the electrical connector so the flowable polymeric material fuses to the contact members in a retention regions. | 43,450 |
8,912,529 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: a contact area including: a doped emitter layer having a first conductivity on a substrate having a second conductivity; a patterned layer formed on the doped emitter layer, the patterned layer including openings that expose areas of the doped emitter layer; an epitaxial layer having a crystalline phase grown in contact with an upper surface of the doped emitter portion, the epitaxial layer having a same conductivity type as the doped emitter layer with a greater doping concentration than the doped emitter layer, the dopant concentration of the epitaxial layer ranging from 1×10 a diffusion region having a first conductivity extending from the epitaxial layer into the doped emitter layer, wherein a dopant concentration that provides the first conductivity in the diffusion region having a greater dopant concentration than other portions of the doped emitter layer, the diffusion region has a depth ranging from between 40% and 60% of the thickness of the epitaxial layer, as measured from an interface between the doped emitter layer and the epitaxial layer; and conductive contacts formed on the epitaxial layer in the openings. | 33,549 |
9,245,588 | 1. A stack type memory device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first stack structure and a second stack structure, each of the first and second stack structures including a plurality of memory cells stacked on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first stack structure and the second stack structure are divided by an insulating plug; a plurality of bit lines formed at one side of the plurality of memory cells of the first and second stack structures, respectively, and stacked on the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of word line structures, each of the word line structures including: wherein the plurality of memory cells constituting the first and second stack structures are connected in parallel. | 32,592 |
8,986,704 | 1. A polypeptide comprising a mutant OspA fragment heterodimer selected from the group consisting of Lip-S1D1-S2D1 (SEQ ID NO: 186), Lip-S2D1-S1D1 (SEQ ID NO: 192), Lip-S1D1-S2D4 (SEQ ID NO: 198), and Lip-S2D4-S1D1 (SEQ ID NO: 203). | 40,520 |
9,724,726 | 1. A coating film production apparatus that produces a coating film, said apparatus comprising: a feeder supplying a mixture coating material including coating particles; and one or two first rolls and a second roll facing the first rolls configured to provide a gap between the first rolls and the second roll and roll the mixture coating material, wherein the feeder supplies the mixture coating material to the gap between the first rolls and the second roll, at least one of the first rolls has, on its surface, a surface layer configured to press the mixture coating material so that a penetration depth of the coating particles into the surface layer in rolling the mixture coating material is 5% to 50% of a diameter of the coating particles, the coating particles include one of: (1) artificial graphite particles having a collapse pressure of a granule that is an aggregate of the coating particles of approximately 0.02 GPa and a crush pressure of approximately 0.3 GPa; and (2) nickel-based cathode material particles having a collapse pressure of approximately 0.02 GPa and a crush pressure of approximately 50 GPa; a surface layer of the at least one of the first rolls includes at least one of: (1) a fluororesin film; and a (2) diamond-like carbon (DLC) film; and a relational expression of a Young's modulus of the surface layer is: a crush pressure of the coating particles×20>the Young's modulus of the surface layer>a collapse pressure of the granule. | 4,655 |
8,556,455 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a plurality of point light sources; and conductive patterns electrically connected to the point light sources, wherein: each of the point light sources includes two electrodes having different polarities, and the point light sources are defined in a plurality of light source arrays each including a predetermined number of point light sources, and driving power is supplied to each light source array; and the adjacent light source arrays are arranged such that one of the electrodes of the point light source in one of the adjacent light source arrays is opposed to one of the electrodes of the point light source in another one of the adjacent light source arrays; the point light sources are arranged such that the opposed electrodes have a same polarity; and the opposed electrodes are connected to same one of the conductive patterns. | 26,027 |
9,697,291 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client system of a first user, a query comprising one or more n-grams; parsing the one or more n-grams of the query to generate a query command, wherein the query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint; identifying from a plurality of objects based on the query command: generating one or more search results based on the first and second sets of objects, wherein each search result corresponds to an object of the plurality of objects. | 32,668 |
8,956,505 | 1. A feed system for a comminuted cellulosic material comprising: a chip bin including an upper chip inlet, an interior chamber oriented vertically and a lower discharge port, wherein the chip bin includes an upper chamber having a continuously curved cross section, and a lower chamber having a curvilinear cross section and an cross-sectional area decreasing in a downward direction; a chip metering device configured to convey dry chips provided from a chip supply to the upper chip inlet; liquor inlets to the chip bin positioned at multiple elevations on the lower chamber of the chip bin and adapted to inject liquor in the lower chamber, wherein the chip bin retains sufficient liquor and chips within the lower chamber to create a hydraulic pressure on the chips at the lower discharge port; a horizontally oriented chip transport device coupled to the lower discharge port to receive the chips and liquor from the bin under the hydraulic pressure, and a high pressure transfer device having an inlet coupled to a discharge of the chip transport device to receive the chips and liquor directly from the chip transport device, wherein the inlet of the high pressure transfer device is at an elevation equal to or higher than an elevation of the discharge of the chip transport device, and wherein the hydraulic pressure of the chips and liquor at the discharge of the chip bin is sufficient to feed the chips and liquor to the high pressure transfer device, and the hydraulic pressure is equal to or higher than a pressure of the chips and liquor at the inlet of the high pressure transfer device. | 43,656 |
8,352,217 | 1. A power control system comprising: a first module, a second module, a third module, and an integrated circuit; said second module monitors a performance characteristic of one or both of said first module and said integrated circuit; in a first operating mode, said second module determining power control information based on said performance characteristic and a reduced power mode; in a second operating mode, said second module determining further power control information based on said performance characteristic and a further reduced power mode; said power control information and further power control information being communicated with said third module. | 13,209 |
8,493,884 | 1. A multi-topology and multi-service routing system for routing a stream between several nodes, Ni, said routing system comprising a network, the stream being transmitted from one source to one destination, or one source to several destinations, taking account of mobility requirements of users and of the network nodes, wherein a node, Ni, of the network comprises wherein said xSVi is configured for interrogating the module LOCi associated with the xSVi, and said module LOC is configured for interchanging information including: location information of the users present in the network, and accessibility and topology information relating to all links that exist between service modules xSV of various services, in order to generate a distribution tree associated with a stream between a source and several destinations taking account of the mobility requirements of the users and of the network nodes. | 19,639 |
9,484,753 | 1. A device for balancing overall levels of electrical charge of N blocks of cells, where N>2, the N blocks configured to be connected into a circuit during a charging phase during which cells of the connected blocks accumulate charge and during a discharging phase during which the cells of the connected blocks return the charge in a form of electrical current, the device comprising: at least one switch SSi and one switch PSi where 0<i≦N−1, wherein: | 47,724 |
8,507,623 | 1. A process for preparing a bulk terpolymer, comprising the steps of: continuously introducing a mixture of an N-substituted maleimide monomer, an α-alkylstyrene monomer and an unsaturated nitrile monomer into a polymerization reactor comprising one or more stirred tank reactors; continuously polymerizing the monomer mixture introduced into the polymerization reactor; and transferring the resulting mixture of polymer and unreacted monomers into a devolatilizaton system, in which the polymer/monomer mixture is separated into the polymer and the unreacted monomers. | 20,490 |
9,827,903 | 1. A light system for a vehicle, comprising: a trim panel having an upper portion disposed proximately to a window of the vehicle; a light guide coupled to the trim panel, the light guide having an upper portion disposed between the trim panel and the window and configured to direct an excitation light from an outside environment therethrough; and a light transmissive member operably coupled with the light guide having a photoluminescent structure configured to convert an excitation light into a converted light, wherein the converted light is directed towards a trim panel feature. | 4,519 |
9,705,411 | 1. A non-isolated bidirectional buck-boost converter having a first terminal, a second terminal and a ground terminal, configured for connecting a first voltage source between the first terminal and the ground terminal and for connecting a second voltage source between the second terminal and the ground terminal, the non-isolated bidirectional buck-boost converter comprising: a common node; an inductor; a first switch connected between the common node and the second terminal; a second switch connected between the common node and the ground terminal; first and second auxiliary switches, and a soft-switching cell having a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, the second terminal of the soft-switching cell being connected by the inductor to the common node, wherein, when the non-isolated bidirectional buck-boost converter operates in a boost mode, the second auxiliary switch is closed so as to cause a current to flow through the inductor into the soft-switching cell to allow the second switch to close under a zero-voltage switching condition, and, wherein, when the non-isolated bidirectional buck-boost converter operates in a buck mode, the first auxiliary switch is closed so as to cause a current to flow through the inductor out of the soft-switching cell to allow the first switch to close under a zero-voltage switching condition. | 42,912 |
9,058,443 | 1. A system for determining a generator dispatch plan for a power grid under uncertain conditions comprising: a memory storage device; a processor coupled to the memory device, the processor configured to: receive data modeling power flow of active generation units over nodes of a power grid network of multiple local buses interconnected via alternating current transmission lines, said active generation units including conventional energy generators producing energy; receive during a first time interval data of a set of forecast scenario modeling uncertainty in renewable energy output, said set capturing a finite number of scenarios generation for an immediately successive 2nd time interval; formulate a nonconvex optimization problem modeling an economic dispatch problem under renewable-generation uncertainty using said finite number of scenarios; solve said nonconvex optimization problem during said first time interval to obtain power dispatch levels for said generators and energy levels exchanging with a spot market for each scenario at said immediately successive 2nd time interval that minimizes expected cost of power generation and cost of exchanging energy with a spot market modeled for each said modeled uncertainty, wherein to solve said nonconvex optimization problem includes solving a two-stage minimization problem by: decomposing said non-convex optimization problem based on an iterative outer approximation technique, said decomposing including solving a sequence of lower-approximation problems for a first-stage minimization problem with each iteration improving a piecewise-linear outer-approximation for a recourse function that represents the second time interval stage costs of the spot market access. | 46,065 |
9,314,311 | 1. A remote workstation for the control of percutaneous intervention devices comprising: a control system configured to remotely and independently control at least two percutaneous intervention devices, the control system including at least one input device to control the percutaneous intervention devices, wherein the control system controls movement of at least one of the percutaneous intervention devices along at least two degrees of freedom; and a graphical user interface configured to display a first set of icons representative of the operational status of the two percutaneous intervention devices, the graphical user interface comprising: a linear speed indicator including a vertical bar icon; and a rotational speed indicator including a curved horizontal bar icon, the curved horizontal bar icon intersecting the vertical bar icon and the curved horizontal bar icon having a tangent perpendicular to the vertical bar icon. | 13,752 |
8,341,880 | 1. A method for non-destructive evaluation of roots of potted plants to identify plants possessing a trait of interest, comprising: (i) growing one or more plants in a container in which at least the bottom is substantially transparent, and wherein the container is charged with a particulate, non-transparent growing medium; (ii) sequentially positioning the container with one or more plants for digital imaging of the roots of the plants by a camera below the bottom of the container; and (iii) storing and analyzing information obtained from the plants to identify plants possessing a trait of interest. | 44,129 |
9,114,346 | 1. An air filter cartridge comprising: (a) a coiled media combination comprising a fluted sheet secured to a facing sheet and defining a set of inlet flutes and a set of outlet flutes extending between first and second, opposite, media combination flow ends; the coiled media combination defining: (b) a mold-in-place center resulting from putting a sealant material into an open end of the center of the coil and allowing the sealant to seal at least a portion of the lead end and to close the center against air flow therethrough. | 26,243 |
9,042,951 | 1. An intermediate connection unit of superconducting cables which are connected by a pair of cable cores, each cable core including an electric insulating layer and a superconducting shield layer in an order on an outer periphery of a superconductive conductor, the intermediate connection unit comprising: a reinforcement insulating layer including a large radius section formed thicker than a cable core and inclined surface sections inclined toward electric insulating layers from the large radius section, the reinforcement insulating layer covering a connection parts of superconductive conductors; a plurality of connecting superconducting wires which connect a plurality of superconducting wires arranged so as to cover an outer periphery of the large radius section and a plurality of superconducting wires constituting superconducting shield layers, wherein the connecting superconducting wires have a tapered a shape tapered toward electric insulating layer sides from the large radius section. | 46,131 |
8,635,574 | 1. A computer implemented method of performing incremental coupling, comprising: using at least one processor that is configured or programmed for performing a process, the process comprising: providing a cross-reference node situated at a known location and including reference between a net and at least one of one or more neighboring nets, the cross-reference node relating to cross-coupling between the net and the at least one of the one or more neighboring nets; determining a first constraint level for the cross-reference node, wherein the first constraint level corresponds to permitted actions for the cross-reference node in an event of a modification to the one or more neighboring nets; identifying the modification to a specific neighboring net; and applying the permitted actions for the cross-reference node based at least in part upon the specific neighboring net while preserving the cross-reference node at the known location regardless of changes that occur to the net or to the at least one of the one or more neighboring nets. | 46,469 |
9,681,583 | 1. A heat sink assembly including: a heat sink having a base and fins extending from the base; and a spring clip disposed on the heat sink between the fins, the spring clip including (a) a first tab that forms a first angle with respect to the base of the heat sink, (b) a second tab that forms a second angle with respect to the base of the heat sink, and (c) a serpentine portion, interposed between the first tab and the second tab, and extending in its entirety in a plane that is substantially parallel to an upper surface of the base of the heat sink, wherein the first tab and the second tab are respectively compressible in a direction toward the base of the heat sink. | 47,712 |
9,041,138 | 1. An organic light emitting diode comprising: a substrate; a first electrode; an organic functional layer; and a second electrode; wherein the first electrode, the organic functional layer, and the second electrode are stacked on the substrate, the first electrode is in contact with the substrate, one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises a treated patterned carbon nanotube film, and the treated patterned carbon nanotube film comprises: | 3,258 |
8,465,220 | 1. In combination, a label printing apparatus and a cassette, the cassette comprising a supply of label material and a brake positioned downstream of the supply of label material and upstream of an outlet for the label material, said brake having a first position and a second position, wherein in said first position said label material is clamped by said brake such that the label material is prevented from coming out of the cassette, and in said second position said label material is removable from said cassette via the outlet; and the label printing apparatus comprising a print head, a cassette receiving bay and a brake activation mechanism, said brake activation mechanism arranged to interact with a brake of the cassette, wherein said brake activation mechanism comprises a brake actuating member; wherein relative movement between the cassette and the brake actuating member, after the cassette is received in said cassette receiving bay, causes the brake actuating member to enter an opening in the cassette; and wherein relative movement between the cassette and the brake actuating member, when the brake actuating member is located in the opening, moves the brake, whereby said brake activation mechanism causes said brake to move from the first position to the second position. | 24,642 |
8,656,719 | 1. A thermal power plant comprising: a boiler for burning fossil fuel to generate steam, a steam turbine including a high-pressure turbine, an intermediate-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure turbine which are driven by steam generated in the boiler, an absorber for absorbing and capturing CO2 contained in boiler exhaust gas discharged from the boiler in an absorbing liquid, a desorber for circulating the absorbing liquid between the desorber and the absorber and separating CO2 from the absorbing liquid that has absorbed CO2, a reboiler for feeding a heating source for separating CO2 from the absorbing liquid to the desorber, a steam pipe system for feeding steam taken out from the high-pressure turbine and the intermediate-pressure turbine to the reboiler, and a steam feed source switching device which is installed in the steam pipe system for switching a steam feed source for feeding steam to the reboiler between the intermediate-pressure turbine and the high-pressure turbine so as to satisfy a steam pressure required by the reboiler while the steam turbine is under a partial load operation. | 43,591 |
9,657,680 | 1. A method for a fuel system, comprising: learning a transfer function between a duty cycle for a high pressure fuel pump and fuel rail pressure for a direct fuel injector for nominal bulk modulus conditions; and during conditions when not direct injecting fuel into an engine, operating the fuel pump with a duty cycle based on the learned transfer function and an instantaneous bulk modulus estimate. | 42,884 |
8,402,748 | 1. A fuel control system for a vehicle, comprising: a first electronic circuit configured to supply fuel to a cylinder of a diesel engine for combustion within the cylinder; a second electronic circuit configured to determine a plurality of heat release rates based on a plurality of pressures within the cylinder at a plurality of crankshaft positions during the combustion, respectively, a crankshaft position where the combustion began, and location of the cylinder in a predetermined firing order of the diesel engine, to determine a plurality of heat release amounts based on the heat release rates, respectively, and to determine a heat release value based on a difference between a maximum one and a minimum one of the heat release amounts; a third electronic circuit configured to selectively indicate that the fuel is a diesel fuel alternative when the heat release value is less than a predetermined heat release value, wherein the predetermined heat release value is less than a second predetermined heat release value associated with diesel fuel; a fourth electronic circuit configured to initiate regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) when an amount of particulate within the DPF is greater than a predetermined amount; a fifth electronic circuit configured to determine a target amount of diesel fuel to be supplied to an exhaust system for the regeneration of the DPF; a sixth electronic circuit configured to determine a correction for the target amount based on the heat release value and the second predetermined heat release value; and a seventh electronic circuit configured to increase the target amount based on the correction, wherein the first electronic circuit is further configured to supply the increased target amount of the fuel to the exhaust system for the regeneration of the DPF. | 15,790 |
9,580,705 | 1. An isolated polypeptide having dihydroxy-acid dehydratase (DHAD) activity, wherein the polypeptide is a Streptococcus mutans DHAD and comprises one or more amino acid substitutions selected from: (a) aspartic acid at a position corresponding to position 33 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (b) glutamic acid at a position corresponding to position 62 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (c) valine at a position corresponding to position 115 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (d) glutamic acid at a position corresponding to position 116 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (e) serine at a position corresponding to position 119 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (f) arginine at a position corresponding to position 158 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (g) glutamine at a position corresponding to position 176 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (h) leucine at a position corresponding to position 179 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (i) arginine at a position corresponding to position 322 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (j) serine at a position corresponding to position 425 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (k) glycine at a position corresponding to position 524 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (l) valine or leucine at a position corresponding to position 562 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (m) arginine, cysteine, or glycine at a position corresponding to position 563 of SEQ ID NO: 168; (n) glutamic acid at a position corresponding to position 564 of SEQ ID NO: 168; and (o) aspartic acid at a position corresponding to position 567 of SEQ ID NO: 168. | 2,520 |
9,592,483 | 1. A system for mixing deionized water and sheath fluid concentrate comprising: a first container to contain deionized water; a second container to contain concentrated sheath fluid having a first concentration, wherein the first container and the second container are configured to simultaneously contain different fluids; a pressurized reservoir; a valve that has a first input, a second input, and an output, wherein: a pump that is fluidically interposed between the valve and the pressurized reservoir and configured to flow deionized water in the first container and concentrated sheath fluid in the second container into the pressurized reservoir at a flowrate that is sufficiently slow that substantially no bubbles form in the pressurized reservoir; and a controller that is configured to maintain a concentration of a mixture of the deionized water and the concentrated sheath fluid in the pressurized reservoir such that the mixture has a concentration of sheath fluid less than the first concentration by repeatedly switching the valve between the first position, thereby supplying a first amount of deionized water by the pump to the pressurized reservoir, and the second position, thereby supplying a second amount of concentrated sheath fluid by the pump to the pressurized reservoir. | 27,172 |
9,351,098 | 1. A first device, comprising: a processor; and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to: receive at least a first Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signal from a BLE beacon; and enable a first function of the first device at least in part in based on receipt of the first BLE signal, wherein the first BLE signal contains location information for a first location in which the first BLE beacon in disposed, wherein the instructions are executable to: enable the first function for a threshold time in response to receipt of the first BLE signal; and disable the first function in response to expiration of the threshold time during which at least one subsequent BLE signal containing the location information is not received. | 15,056 |
9,694,072 | 1. A method for decreasing proliferation of a neuroendocrine tumor cell comprising contacting a neuroendocrine tumor cell with an effective amount of an antibody or an antibody fragment that specifically binds an antigenic fragment consisting of SEQ ID NO:5 of an NMDA glutamate receptor and inhibits or decreases NMDA glutamate receptor activity, thereby decreasing proliferation of the neuroendocrine tumor cell. | 42,877 |
9,255,897 | 1. A compact scanner apparatus having a scanning beam mounted within a tunnel through which objects are carried on a conveyor, the compact scanner apparatus comprising: a. a first isolation device curtain mounted to the tunnel in a manner to cover an upper portion of an entry of the tunnel; b. a second isolation device curtain mounted to the tunnel in a manner to cover a lower portion of the entry of the tunnel; c. the first and second isolation device curtains substantially covering the entry of the tunnel; d. when the first and second isolation device curtains are in a rest position, the second isolation device curtain resides coplanar with the first isolation device curtain; and e. a third isolation device curtain mounted to the tunnel in a manner to cover an exit of the tunnel. | 38,891 |
8,971,473 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a chamber; a target positioned within the chamber comprising a material configured to generate neutrons or gamma rays when struck by ions; a gas source in fluid communication with the chamber configured to deliver a gas to the chamber; an RF antenna configured to cause a plasma to be generated at a source location in the chamber from the gas; a plurality of magnets proximate the target, the plurality of magnets configured to direct secondary electrons generated when the ions strike the target back to the target, thereby suppressing the secondary electrons from backstreaming to the source location; and a high voltage source in communication with the target. | 17,441 |
8,738,190 | 1. An industrial automation hardware device, comprising: a memory storage medium storing an energy object extension to an industrial protocol having a comprehensive suite of attributes, messages and services utilized for monitoring or control of an energy consuming or producing resource by a manufacturing automation application, wherein the energy object extension comprises: | 43,345 |
9,511,672 | 1. A charge device that performs a communication with a vehicle via a communication line in a charge cable, the charge cable having (i) a built-in power line to provide an electric power to the vehicle for charging a secondary battery of the vehicle and (ii) the built-in communication line, the charge device comprising: a pilot communicator controlling and detecting a voltage level of the communication line to exchange charge progress notices with the vehicle to control a charge operation; an in-band communicator sending and receiving charge information to and from the vehicle via the communication line, the charge information multiplexed with other signals on the communication line; and a master controller controlling the in-band communicator, wherein the master controller resets a slave controller included in the in-band communicator of a charge device based on a fulfillment of a preset condition regarding (i) detection contents of the pilot communicator, (ii) communication contents of the in-band communicator, or (iii) an operation state of the in-band communicator. | 37,589 |
8,438,770 | 1. A handguard system for use on a firearm having a receiver with a socket defined by a forwardly extending circumferential rim, a barrel received within the socket of the receiver, and a cocking lever housing carried above the barrel, the handguard system comprising: a partial tubular body having a rearward end, a forward end, an inner surface, and an open slot formed along a top thereof to accommodate the cocking lever housing, the partial tubular body receivable over the barrel of a firearm with the rearward end abuttable against the receiver at the forwardly extending circumferential rim; a circumferentially extending groove formed in the inner surface of and forward from the rearward end of the partial tubular body; and a clamp element having a body with a clamp end and a heel extending substantially perpendicularly from an opposing end of the body, adjustably positioned within the partial tubular body with the heel extending radially outwardly and received in the circumferential groove, wherein the clamp element is movable between an engaged position and a release position. | 105 |
9,711,969 | 1. A method for wirelessly transmitting power by a power transmitter, the method comprising: transmitting power having a first amount for charging a first power receiver; receiving a search signal from a second power receiver while transmitting the power having the first amount; registering the second power receiver in a wireless power network; adjusting an amount of the power based on registering the second power receiver, such that the power has a second amount for charging the first power receiver and the second power receiver; and transmitting the power having the second amount for charging the first power receiver and the second power receiver. | 26,972 |
9,661,248 | 1. An integrated circuit operable with a flexible reference signal, comprising a reference generator configured to generate, in response to a control signal, the flexible reference signal; wherein the reference generator comprises a signal convertor configured to receive the control signal and to convert the control signal into a programming signal; and a signal generator configured to receive the programming signal and generate, in response to the programming signal, the flexible reference signal; and wherein the reference generator comprises a voltage regulator configured to receive a supply voltage and generate an operation voltage having a variation of from about 0.001% to about 3.0% cross PVT variation; and wherein the operation voltage is provided to the signal convertor and the signal generator. | 33,592 |
8,865,341 | 1. An electrochemical cell packaging material for housing an electrochemical cell body, the electrochemical cell body including a positive electrode comprising a positive-electrode active material and a positive-electrode collector, a negative electrode comprising a negative-electrode active material and a negative-electrode collector, and an electrolyte filled between said positive electrode and said negative electrode; and sealing said electrochemical cell body by heat-sealing of a peripheral edge part of the electrochemical cell packaging material; said electrochemical cell packaging material characterized in that the electrochemical cell packaging material is a multilayer film having a structure formed by laminating at least a base layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, and a heat-sealable layer in this order; said adhesive layer includes an identification mark; and said identification mark is composed of an adhesive to which a color pigment is added to give a solids content of 5 wt % or greater and 30 wt % or less. | 8,610 |
9,655,206 | 1. A light control system configured to service more than one individual user, the light control system comprising: a central control engine; a light sensor; and a light source; wherein the central control engine is configured to: receive illumination data from the light sensor, the illumination data pertaining to an individual user; add the received illumination data to an individual actual light profile for the individual user, wherein the individual actual light profile contains first data on an amount of illumination received over time by the individual user, wherein in the first data includes information about at least one of spectrum and intensity; retrieve an individual target light profile for the individual user, wherein the individual target light profile contains second data on the amount of illumination to be received by the individual user, wherein the second data includes information about at least one of spectrum and intensity; assign a priority to the individual target light profile; wherein the priority is based on a difference between the individual actual light profile and the individual target light profile; and adjust an illumination of the light source based on the assigned priority, the individual target light profile and the individual actual light profile. | 43,835 |
9,362,571 | 1. A biodegradable battery comprising: an anode comprising a material including an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein electrochemical oxidation of the anode material results in the formation of a reaction product that is substantially non-toxic; and a cathode comprising a material including an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the cathode being separate from the inner surface of the anode, wherein electrochemical reduction of the cathode material results in the formation of a reaction product that is substantially non-toxic, and wherein the cathode material presents a larger standard reduction potential than the anode material, and wherein the biodegradable battery has a substantially frustoconical shape. | 37,023 |
8,875,989 | 1. A card reader, connected to a portable electronic apparatus, the card reader comprising: a processor, coupled to the portable electronic apparatus and a first screen, wherein the processor receives a trigger signal from the portable electronic apparatus when the portable electronic apparatus is in a standby mode; and a memory card controller, coupled to the processor, the memory card controller detecting whether at least one memory card is inserted into the card reader and generating a memory card inserting status accordingly, wherein the portable electronic apparatus provides a standby power to the card reader and the first screen based on the trigger signal, and the processor receives the memory card inserting status and reads contents of the memory card based on the standby power according to the memory card inserting status, such that the contents of the memory card are displayed on the first screen based on the standby power. | 45,358 |
8,908,842 | 1. A device for communicating information, the device comprising: a low-power transceiver configured to wirelessly transmit a signal comprising instruction data for delivery to a network of addressable devices; an interface circuit for communicating with a central location; and a controller coupled to the interface circuit and to the low-power transceiver, the controller configured to establish a communication link between at least one device in the network of addressable devices and the central location using an address included in the signal, the communication link comprising one or more devices in the network of addressable, the controller further configured to receive one or more signals via the low-power transceiver and communicate information contained within the signals to the central location. | 17,323 |
8,978,203 | 1. A hinge assembly for a trunk decklid of a vehicle, the hinge assembly comprising: a hinge box; a decklid attachment bracket including a contoured surface, the decklid attachment bracket being rotatably attached to the hinge box for rotation about a rotation axis between an open position and a closed position; and a compressible member configured for attachment to one of a body of the vehicle and the hinge box, and positioned relative to the decklid attachment bracket for engagement with the contoured surface as the decklid attachment bracket moves between the open position and the closed position; wherein the contoured surface defines an outer region, a recessed region, and an inner region; wherein the outer region is operable to compress the compressible member as the decklid attachment bracket moves into and out of the open position to absorb energy and dampen movement of the decklid attachment bracket relative to the hinge box; wherein the recessed region is operable to cradle the compressible member without substantially compressing the compressible member when the decklid attachment bracket is disposed in the open position; and wherein the inner region is operable to compress the compressible member to absorb energy and dampen movement of the decklid attachment bracket relative to the hinge box, to limit movement of the decklid attachment bracket beyond the open position. | 10,014 |
9,539,788 | 1. A structure comprising: a chemically patterned substrate, the chemical pattern comprising discrete regions of a first chemical functionality surrounded by a second chemical functionality; and a phase separated block copolymer thin film overlying the chemically patterned substrate, the film including discrete elements of a first phase in a matrix of a second phase, wherein a first set of the discrete elements of the first phase overlie the discrete regions of the first chemical functionality and a second set of the discrete elements of the first phase overlie the second chemical functionality. | 20,973 |
8,923,760 | 1. A method for collaborating user data, comprising: detecting, by a first mobile device, proximity and orientation information for one or more mobile devices; establishing, by the first mobile device, a communication link with the one or more mobile devices, when the proximity and orientation information corresponds to a first shared collaboration state; selecting an application to execute in response to the detected proximity and orientation information; receiving remote user data associated with the application from each of the one or more mobile devices over the communication link; and populating a display interface with visual data associated with the application using local user data and the received remote user data. | 23,071 |
9,502,977 | 1. A control apparatus for a voltage converting apparatus configured to realize one-arm drive using only one of a first arm including a first switching element and a second arm including a second switching element by alternatively switching on the first switching element and the second switching element which are connected in series with each other, said control apparatus comprising: a switching control signal generating device configured to generate a switching control signal for changing on and off of the first switching element and a switching control signal for changing on and off of the second switching element; a current detecting device configured to detect a current value of a drive current flowing through the first switching element or the second switching element, at rise timing of the switching control signal, when the one-arm drive is changed between one-arm drive using the first arm and one-arm driving using the second arm; a current estimating device configured to estimate an average value of the drive current by using the detected current value; and a current controlling device configured to control the drive current on the basis of the estimated average value, wherein the current estimating device estimates that the average value of the drive current is a near-zero value which is close to zero if the detected current value is continuously within a predetermined range, and the current controlling device controls the switching control signal generating device to perform near-zero control corresponding to the near-zero value. | 21,759 |
8,752,641 | 1. A fire blanket assembly comprising: a thermal insulation material, wherein the thermal insulation material defines an opening; a metallic foil layer positioned along a first surface of the thermal insulation material and over at least a portion of the opening; an insert disc positioned adjacent to a second surface of the thermal insulation material opposite the first surface, the insert disc further being positioned at the opening in the thermal insulation material; and a detail including: | 10,725 |
9,631,642 | 1. A method for storing energy using an electrically charged gas, the method comprising the steps of: compressing the electrically charged gas in a compression chamber using external force to generate compressed charged gas; storing the compressed charged gas received from the compression chamber in a containment chamber; transferring a portion of compressed charged gas into an energy recovery unit at high pressure; and expanding the compressed electrically charged gas to regenerate energy in the energy recovery unit. | 31,414 |
8,786,825 | 1. An inspection apparatus configured to determine a property of a substrate, comprising: a radiation source configured to output a radiation beam toward an overlay target on a surface of the substrate; a collimator configured to collimate and focus the radiation beam once reflected from the overlay target, and to separate diffraction orders of a diffraction spectrum of the reflected radiation beam; a detector configured to detect at least a subset of the separated diffraction orders of the reflected radiation beam and to determine first and second properties of respective first and second portions of the subset; and a processor configured to: remove an error of relative positioning from the determination of the property of the substrate based on the determined position of the overlay target. | 42,018 |
9,469,035 | 1. A component supply apparatus, comprising: a depth map measuring means for measuring a depth map of bulk components in a bulk component box for receiving the bulk components; a first robot for gripping one or more components from the bulk component box based on the depth map and releasing the one or more components above a temporary placing table; component profile measuring means for recognizing a position and orientation of the one or more components placed on the temporary placing table, recognizing when the one or more components placed on the temporary placing table includes a plurality of components, outputting an indication of whether the plurality of components are placed on the temporary placing table, outputting an indication of whether one of the one or more components placed on the temporary placing table includes a component of another type, and outputting pattern identification information indicating a matching of the position and orientation of at least one of the one or more components with at least one template image corresponding to a stable condition of the component; removing means for removing one or more components from the temporary placing table in any one or more of the following cases a second robot comprised of a group of robots and configured so that, when the pattern identification information indicates a match with the template images, the robots in the group of robots pass one of the one or more components placed on the temporary placing table between them by a movement preset in accordance with the stable condition to align the component on a pallet so that the position and orientation of the component involves an error of a certain level or less with respect to a final position and orientation that are specified in advance. | 40,824 |
8,782,966 | 1. A support tower, comprising: a ring foundation pad; and a base structure, secured to said foundation pad, and comprising wherein the diameter of each said circular section is greater than the diameter of the adjacent circular section stacked on top of said circular section, and wherein the steel structure abuts and supports the plurality of said adjacent circular sections. | 42,310 |
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