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9,496,752 | 1. A hybrid power source system comprising: a solar cell module or a fuel cell module; direct-current to direct-current (DC/DC) voltage converter configured to supply a voltage to a load and a secondary cell after said solar cell module or said fuel cell module is connected to an input side of the DC/DC voltage converter, said load and said secondary cell being connected to an output side of the DC/DC voltage converter, wherein a generated electric power which said solar cell module or said fuel cell module generates is converted into the voltage, and wherein said secondary cell is connected in parallel with said load; division resistors configured to divide a voltage developed across said secondary cell to generate a reference voltage; and a shunt circuit connected in parallel with said secondary cell on the output side of said DC/DC voltage converter, wherein said shunt circuit is configured to generate a voltage having a magnitude which enables the secondary cell to be substantially in a full charging state, and wherein said magnitude is such that an overcharging of said secondary cell is prevented, wherein said shunt circuit comprises: a standard voltage generating portion configured to generate a standard voltage, wherein operation of said DC/DC voltage converter is controlled based on a difference between said reference voltage and said standard voltage, and wherein a voltage at which said secondary cell becomes substantially fully charged is determined from the following: wherein Vmax is said voltage at which said secondary cell becomes substantially fully charged, R is a ratio of resistance values of said division resistors, and Vs is said standard voltage. | 45,370 |
9,159,674 | 1. A bonded structure comprising a vertical stack, from bottom to top, of a first substrate, a structurally damaged bonded material layer of a first structurally damaged metallic material layer and a second metallic material layer, and a second substrate, wherein said structurally damaged bonded material layer includes metal grains extending across an interface between said first structurally damaged metallic material layer and said second metallic material layer, wherein said first structurally damaged metallic material layer includes a first metallic composition comprising an ionic species and an elemental metal, and said second metallic material layer includes a second metallic composition comprising an elemental metal, wherein said first metallic composition is different from said second metallic composition. | 15,850 |
9,415,442 | 1. A process for synthesis of stable, non-agglomerated ultra-small clusters of metals/alloy having size less than 5 nm encapsulated in mono-disperse silica particles comprising; a. obtaining metal/alloy-thiolate clusters of less than 2 nm by modified Brust method using a 3:1 ratio of metal/alloy:thiol in a 1:1 mixture of methanol and water, using thiolate ligand N, N, N-Tripropyl (11-mercaptoundecyl) ammonium Chloride; b. encapsulating with silica by a one step hydrolysis using tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) in ethanol-water mixture to obtain monodisperse silica spheres encapsulating the metal/alloy clusters having a size less than 2 nm, and c. further comprising calcining the monodisperse silica particles encapsulating the ultra-small metal/alloy clusters under a flow of air at 350° C., to obtain stable metal/alloy clusters with a nanoparticle size of less than 5 nm. | 43,300 |
9,681,761 | 1. A simply structured rack, comprising: a rack body formed as a chamber for accommodating bottles and cans, wherein the rack body is formed and surrounded by a first rack plate and a second rack plate, both of which comprise a main plate, a first connection plate and a second connection plate, the two ends of the main plate are curved towards the same side to form the first and the second connection plate, the first connection plate of the first rack plate is connected with the second connection plate of the second rack plate in a sliding manner, and the second connection plate of the first rack plate is connected with the first connection plate of the second rack plate in a sliding manner; a guide block being arranged on the internal surface of the second connection plate of the first rack plate which is away from an end of the main plate, a sliding groove being arranged on the external surface of the first connection plate of the second rack plate matching with the guide block, the guide block being arranged in the sliding groove in a sliding manner; the upper edge of the second connection plate of the first rack plate extending towards the chamber and curving downwards to form a first extension sheet, the lower edge of the second connection plate extending towards the chamber and curving upwards to form a second extension sheet, a guide rail being formed and surrounded by the first extension sheet, the second extension sheet and the second connection plate, and the first connection plate of the second rack plate being arranged in the guide rail in a sliding manner; clamping openings being arranged on two ends of the sliding groove to clamp the guide block. | 22,009 |
8,627,723 | 1. A method for measuring frequency and amplitude of an input signal comprising: receiving the input signal at an input of a comparator and at an input of an analog-to-digital converter, the comparator and the analog-to-digital converter being contained within a common housing; comparing a voltage of the input signal with a reference voltage using the comparator to produce a first output signal representing zero crossings of the input signal, the first output signal being a square wave; dividing the first output signal using a digital divider to aggregate periods of the square wave; measuring the aggregated periods of the square wave to determine elapsed time between aggregated consecutive zero crossings of the input signal; and digitizing the input signal using the analog-to-digital converter to produce a second output signal representing the amplitude of the input signal. | 20,900 |
9,265,209 | 1. A pepper plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of pepper line HJA-FD-1188 or pepper line HJA-114-1061, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-120663 and ATCC Accession Number PTA-120664, respectively. | 4,857 |
9,089,392 | 1. A method of implanting an ocular implant for treating an ocular disorder of an eye, comprising: forming a self-sealing incision in the cornea of the eye into the anterior chamber of the eye; introducing an implant through the incision into the anterior chamber, the implant comprising: positioning the implant in the eye using the implantation instrument and the delivery wire on which the implant is mounted, wherein the implant is positioned between a first and second tissue layer and into fluid communication with the suprachoroidal space using the delivery wire on which the implant is mounted; withdrawing the delivery wire from the internal lumen of the implant; injecting drug-release material through the delivery wire as the delivery wire is being withdrawn from the internal lumen of the implant filling the internal lumen of the implant with the drug-release material, wherein injecting drug-release material includes creating a lake of the drug-release material near the distal end of the implant; eluting the at least one active agent from the drug-release material to treat the eye as the drug-release material degrades, wherein the space is maintained after the lake of drug-release material degrades. | 42,550 |
8,460,505 | 1. A process for the manufacture of a ski having a binding plate for a binding or components thereof, said process comprising the step of: bonding the binding plate without screws or welding over its whole surface with an adhesive to a top face of the ski in a separate operating step after manufacture of the ski, wherein the adhesive comprises a layer having a maximum thickness of 5 to 10% of the thickness of the binding plate; and wherein said binding plate comprises a flat, one-piece plate that is thin relative to said ski, and wherein said ski and said binding plate form an integral constructional unit in respect of mechanical properties and with no damping volumes between the binding plate and the ski. | 26,041 |
9,447,765 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an engine; an electrical bus; a first set of electrical components configured to demand current from the electrical bus while the engine is on and demand no current while the engine is off; a second set of electrical components configured to demand current from the electrical bus while the engine is off and demand no current while the engine is on; and at least one controller programmed to selectively turn the engine off in response to an expected change in current demand on the bus that would (i) result from turning the engine off and (ii) cause total current demand to be less than a predetermined threshold and, in response to the engine being off, control current demands for the first set and the second set to match the expected change that resulted in turning the engine off. | 16,521 |
9,273,261 | 1. A method for removing a component from a hydrocarbon gas ( 1 ′, 1 ″), in particular from a gas extracted from a gasfield or an oilfield, said component changing from an initial concentration to a treated gas concentration, said method comprising the steps of: prearranging a vertical elongated container ( said first inlet port ( feeding a treatment liquid ( feeding said hydrocarbon gas ( wherein in said chamber of said at least two treatment chambers ( selecting a treatment mode from the group consisting of: wherein said component to be removed is selected from the group consisting of: wherein a step is provided of compensating a mechanical deformation of said inner partition wall ( | 31,154 |
9,350,250 | 1. A converter for use in high voltage direct and alternating current power transmission, the converter comprising a primary charge transfer converter, including first and second primary terminals for connection to one or more electrical networks, a plurality of charge transfer elements, and a plurality of primary switching elements connected in a single series connected circuit between the first and second primary terminals, each charge transfer element including at least one resonant circuit having a resonant frequency, the plurality of charge transfer elements and the plurality of primary switching elements being connected in a cascade circuit wherein the plurality of charge transfer elements comprise a first set of charge transfer elements connected in series between the first and second primary terminals and a second set of charge transfer elements connected in series, each charge transfer element being connected in parallel with a different set of at least one primary switching element, a primary switching element of each different set of at least one primary switching element being shared in parallel with a charge transfer element of said first set and a charge transfer element of said second set, and wherein the primary switching elements are operable at a frequency equal or approximately equal to the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit to selectively cause charging and discharging of each resonant circuit to transfer charge between the charge transfer elements and thereby create a voltage difference between the first and second primary terminals. | 6,442 |
9,272,123 | 1. An applicator for insertion and lubrication of a body lumen, comprising: an elongate, hollow, cylindrical outer sheath including a receiving cup at a distal end for receiving a lubrication capsule; a plunger slidingly received within the elongate, hollow cylindrical outer sheath, the plunger including a piercing element at a distal end adapted to extend into the receiving cup; a liquid filled capsule disposed in the receiving cup; and wherein the piercing element is used to puncture the capsule located in the receiving cup prior to insertion of the applicator into the body lumen, and wherein the plunger can be depressed once the applicator is inserted into the body lumen to eject the pierced capsule into the body lumen, after which the applicator is withdrawn. | 43,416 |
8,735,700 | 1. A bearing member to be used for an action mechanism in a keyboard instrument, the action mechanism including an action member that pivots in accordance with a key-depressing operation, the bearing member comprising: an inner layer having a through hole through which a shaft provided in the action member is inserted; and an outer layer formed in an outer side of the inner layer, | 8,720 |
8,939,547 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a conveying mechanism configured to convey a sheet in a first direction; a line recording head in which nozzles are arrayed along a second direction intersecting the first direction; a holder configured to hold the line recording head, the holder having a first abutment portion in the first direction, a second abutment portion in the second direction, and a third abutment portion in a third direction that is a direction of a gap between the nozzles and the sheet direction; a displacement mechanism configured to displace the holder in the second direction and the third direction, the displacement mechanism having a fixed portion and a movable portion; an elastic portion provided between the movable portion and the holder and configured to exert an urging force in the second direction; and a reference portion having a first positioning surface that can come into contact with the first abutment portion, a plurality of second positioning surfaces that differ in the second direction and that can come into contact with the abutment portion, and a third positioning surface that can come into contact with the third abutment portion, wherein when the line recording head is to be positioned in the second direction, the holder is displaced in the second direction against the urging force of the elastic portion using the displacement mechanism to bring the abutment portion into contact with one of the second positioning surfaces, thereby positioning and fixing the holder to the reference portion, with the urging force exerted thereto. | 6,600 |
9,317,108 | 1. A hand-held wireless electronic device for interacting with a display, the device comprising: a MEMS accelerometer responsive to tilt of the device in a plurality of axes wherein: a sliding user input element that generates sliding input electrical signal having a magnitude responsive to a user-imparted sliding motion on the hand-held device, wherein the sliding user input element does not comprise an accelerometer; a digital electronic circuit connected to the accelerometer and connected to the sliding user input element wherein the circuit: a communications module electrically coupled to the electronic circuit wherein: a battery that powers the accelerometer, the sliding user input element, the digital electronic circuit and the communications module; and a circuit that manages the battery and optimizes power consumption for the device. | 14,161 |
9,545,968 | 1. A saddle-type electric vehicle comprising: an electric motor configured to drive a rear wheel; at least two batteries aligned in a lateral direction of the vehicle, and configured to supply electrical power to the electric motor; a battery case for accommodating the at least two batteries, the battery case including an open upper surface and a length in a front-rear direction greater than a lateral width of the battery case, the battery case further including a left wall, a right wall, a front wall connecting front ends of the left wall and the right wall, and a rear wall connecting rear ends of the left wall and the right wall; a steering shaft supporting a front wheel; a head pipe supporting the steering shaft; and a seat rail located below a seat; wherein the battery case includes a beam portion disposed between the at least two batteries, connected to an inner surface of the front wall of the battery case, and extending rearward from the front wall of the battery case, and the beam portion includes a first attachment portion attached to an upper portion of the front wall of the battery case, and a second attachment portion attached to an upper portion of the rear wall of the battery case; at least a portion of the front wall of the battery case is located rearward of the head pipe and is positioned higher than a lower end of the head pipe; the head pipe is connected to an attachment portion on the front wall of the battery case; the seat rail is fixed to the rear wall of the battery case; and the seat rail and the head pipe are connected to each other through the battery case. | 44,408 |
8,567,178 | 1. A continuously combusting rotary vane engine comprising: a cowl defining a shared expansion/compression cavity wherein an exhaust portion of a working fluid and an intake portion of the working fluid both operate; a rotor rotatably mounted within the cowl, the rotor having a plurality of radially mounted blades configured to compress and expand a working fluid within the shared expansion/compression cavity of the cowl, and wherein each of the plurality of radially mounted blades extend and retract only once per revolution of the rotor, the blades expanding through the exhaust portion of the shared expansion/compression cavity and retracting through the intake portion of the shared expansion/compression cavity; and a separate combustor in fluid communication with the cowl to receive the intake portion of the working fluid compressed by operation of the rotor; and wherein at least a portion of the compressed intake portion of the working fluid is mixed with a fuel source to form a mixture and the mixture is substantially continuously combusted within the combustor to form a combustion product that is delivered to the exhaust portion of the shared expansion/compression cavity to drive the rotor. | 47,985 |
8,679,193 | 1. An apparatus for post amputation residuum maintenance, the apparatus comprising: an elongated shell having a longitudinal axis and defining a hollow interior closed at a distal end, the shell having an opening extending from a proximal end and adapted to receive a residuum into the interior of the shell, and a longitudinal slit having a circular aperture at each end; and a second shell having a longitudinal axis and substantially arcuate in a cross-section taken transverse to the longitudinal axis of the second shell, the second shell adapted to be positioned adjacent to the residuum and configured to cover at least a portion of the opening of the shell, wherein the second shell comprises: an inner foam layer comprising a soft material; and an outer foam layer comprising a rigid material, wherein the outer layer is positioned adjacent to the inner foam layer. | 15,223 |
8,711,626 | 1. A flash memory apparatus comprising: a cell array comprising a plurality of main blocks, a code addressable memory(CAM) block, and a security block; a control unit configured to detect a threshold voltage change data of a main block to which a program operation has been performed among the plurality of main block, perform a leveling operation to divide the threshold voltage change data of the main block to have a plurality of levels, read the plurality of levels with different value according to a level position based on verification lines previously set for determining whether the program operation is correctly performed, and set a trimming value corresponding to the read plurality of levels; and a read voltage generation unit configured to generate a read voltage according to the set trimming value. | 31,263 |
8,988,345 | 1. A method for recognizing a selected target event, comprising: in a display device comprising a plurality of sensors, operating a selected sensor of the plurality of sensors at a first polling rate corresponding to a higher potential latency; receiving initial user-related information from the selected sensor; determining whether the initial user-related information matches one of a plurality of pre-events, wherein each of the pre-events corresponds to one or more different patterns of pre-events, and each of the patterns leads to a different possible target event; where the initial user-related information matches one of the plurality of pre-events, operating the selected sensor at a second polling rate that is faster than the first polling rate and that corresponds to a lower potential latency that is less than the higher potential latency; receiving subsequent user-related information from the selected sensor; where the subsequent user-related information matches a selected target event from among the different possible target events, providing feedback associated with the selected target event to the user via the display device; and where the subsequent user-related information matches a predictive pre-event that is not the selected target event: | 24,735 |
9,037,792 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing caching for applications with solid-state storage devices, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of solid-state drives that are available for caching input/output operations; detecting at least one distinguishing hardware property of at least one solid-state drive within the plurality of solid-state drives; determining at least one attribute of an application; selecting the solid-state drive for caching at least one input/output operation of the application based at least in part on the attribute of the application in combination with the distinguishing hardware property of the solid-state drive. | 28,439 |
9,485,755 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, by a mobile station, higher layer signaling indicating resource allocation among a plurality of carriers, wherein the plurality of carriers comprises a first carrier and a second, different carrier; receiving, by the mobile station, control information in the first carrier, wherein the control information indicates that information for the mobile station is on the second carrier, and wherein the control information indicates a location and size of the information in the second carrier; decoding, by the mobile station, the information in the second carrier based on the control information; and performing communication, by the mobile station, with the base station using both the first carrier and the second carrier. | 23,720 |
9,017,884 | 1. A biofuel cell configured for use in vivo in a liquid medium containing a sugar and oxygen, wherein an anode comprises an anode enzyme capable of catalyzing the oxidation of the sugar and an anode redox mediator of low redox potential capable of exchanging electrons with the anode enzyme, and a cathode comprises a cathode enzyme capable of catalyzing the reduction of oxygen and a cathode redox mediator of high redox potential capable of exchanging electrons with the cathode enzyme, wherein each of the anode and cathode electrodes is formed of a solid agglomerate of a conductive material mixed with the corresponding enzyme and redox mediator and is solid with an electrode wire; the anode and cathode electrodes are surrounded with respective first and second semipermeable membrane letting through oxygen and glucose and blocking the enzyme and the redox mediator; and an assembly of the anode and cathode electrodes, including their corresponding first and second semipermeable membranes, is surrounded with a third semipermeable membrane letting through glucose and oxygen and blocking enzymes and redox mediators. | 22,349 |
9,327,181 | 1. A ski system, comprising: a ski having an upper surface and a lower surface; a toe binding mount provided on the upper surface of the ski, the toe binding mount comprising a plurality of bolts that each has a shaft that is mounted in a respective threaded aperture in the ski and a head that is raised above the upper surface of the ski; a toe binding that is releasably mounted on the toe binding mount, the toe binding including a support plate that has a plurality of apertures, and a spring-biased stop that has a base that is mounted on the support plate, the spring-biased stop including an opening that is wider than the head of a first of the bolts that receives the head of the first of the bolts, wherein a first of the apertures in the support plate includes a receiving portion that is sized to receive the head of a respective one of the bolts and a locking portion that is wider than a shaft of the respective one of the bolts but narrower than the head of the respective one of the bolts, and wherein the spring-biased stop covers the receiving portion of the first of the apertures while the opening in the spring-biased stop exposes the locking portion of the first of the apertures. | 22,379 |
9,172,105 | 1. An electronic equipment, comprising: a fuel cell for supplying an electric power to the electronic equipment; a power source switch for controlling start and stop of supply of the electric power of the fuel cell to the electronic equipment; a checking unit, which checks an electric power of the fuel cell; a humidity detection unit, which detects humidity of a solid high polymer film of the fuel cell; and a control unit, which controls the checking unit, wherein in a case where the humidity detection unit detects that the humidity of the solid high polymer film is higher than a predetermined humidity set in advance, the control unit controls the checking unit so that the checking unit checks the electric power of the fuel cell comparing a voltage of the fuel cell with a first reference voltage, and wherein in a case where the humidity detection unit detects that the humidity of the solid high polymer film is lower than the predetermined humidity set in advance, the control unit controls the checking unit so that the checking unit checks the electric power of the fuel cell comparing a voltage of the fuel cell with a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage. | 37,956 |
9,594,869 | 1. An isolated E. coli cell that lacks functional rpe, sgcE, talA, and talB genes. | 35,866 |
9,472,108 | 1. A method of updating an airfield lighting system, comprising: removing a light source from an existing light fixture of an airfield lighting system, wherein the removed light source is not a light emitting diode (LED) light source; replacing the removed light source with an LED light source in the existing light fixture without modifying or replacing any other element of the existing light fixture, wherein the LED light source includes a plurality of active LEDs; and adding a controller for the LED light source to the existing light fixture, wherein the controller is configured to maintain, upon a failure of one or more of the plurality of active LEDs of the LED light source, a same luminosity emitted by the LED light source as before the failure by increasing a luminous power already being emitted by the other active LEDs of the LED light source that have not failed, and wherein the existing light fixture includes an optical assembly configured to distribute light emitted by the LED light source into a same photometric pattern as before the light source was removed from the existing light fixture and replaced with the LED light source. | 22,063 |
8,809,669 | 1. A photovoltaic generator, comprising: a plurality of parallel-connected arrays, each array including multiple parallel-connected strings of series-connected photovoltaic modules; at least one shorting switch electrically coupled to only a portion of the photovoltaic modules of a string, the portion being at least two of the photovoltaic modules of the string, the at least one shorting switch configured to short-circuit the portion of the photovoltaic modules of the string based on a predefined voltage value across the string being exceeded, wherein only some of the arrays include a shorting switch, and wherein the arrays that include the shorting switch are located adjacent to an inverter. | 40,863 |
9,079,822 | 1. A process, comprising: reacting a hydrate melt with mononitrotoluene, to form dinitrotoluene, wherein: the hydrate melt comprises Fe(NO | 893 |
9,227,723 | 1. An adjustment mechanism for adjusting pitch of blades of at least one propeller of a system of contra-rotating propellers for a turbomachine in which each blade is configured to move around a radial axis, comprising: a linear actuator; and a device to convert movement imparted by the linear actuator into rotation of each of the blades in a synchronized manner around their radial axis, the device comprising a bracket of longitudinal axis formed of a central ring, an outer ring, and multiple radial arms rigidly connected to the central ring and to the outer ring, the radial arms traversing a principal annular airstream of the system of contra-rotating propellers, the central ring configured to be subject to actuation of the linear actuator, the central ring and the outer ring being positioned in two separate planes, orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, such that the radial arms are inclined relative to the longitudinal axis, and the bracket being shaped as a truncated cone. | 9,298 |
8,813,625 | 1. A method of manufacturing a device for treating a vascular cavity, the method comprising: arranging a plurality of spools on a yarn wheel, each of the spools comprising wire; braiding the wire from each of the plurality of spools to form a textile structure, wherein braiding the wire comprises: heat treating the textile structure, wherein after the heat treatment the textile structure is expandable from a compressed state to an expanded state, the textile structure comprising a bulb in the expanded state. | 27,811 |
9,476,839 | 1. A device for detecting a counterfeit pharmaceutical product, comprising: a plurality of light sources configured to emit light at a plurality of different wavelengths onto an object potentially including a suspect product, at least one of the plurality of different wavelengths not being matched to an excitation frequency of a light-sensitive compound; at least one image acquisition device; and at least one display for observing a color comparison of an image of the object illuminated by the plurality of different wavelengths and an image of a known product under illumination of the same wavelengths. | 15,142 |
8,531,854 | 1. A power factor correction converter, comprising: at least two groups of bidirectional switches; an autotransformer; a boost inductor; a bus filter capacitor; at least two front bridge arms; and a rear bridge arm, wherein a front end of each group of the at least two groups of the bidirectional switches is connected to a coil of the autotransformer in one-to-one correspondence, wherein a rear end of each group of the at least two groups of the bidirectional switches is connected to one end of an alternating current (AC) input power grid, wherein a central tap of the autotransformer is connected to an output end of the boost inductor, wherein an input end of the boost inductor is connected to the other end of the AC input power grid or, a central tap of the autotransformer is connected to the other end of the AC input power grid, wherein the boost inductor is integrated in the autotransformer, wherein the front end of each of the at least two groups of bidirectional switches is connected to an intermediate connection point of one of the front bridge arms, wherein the rear end of each of the at least two groups of bidirectional switches is connected to an intermediate connection point of the rear bridge arm, wherein each of the front bridge arms include two diodes unidirectionally connected in series, wherein the intermediate connection point is located between the two diodes, wherein two ends of each of the front bridge arms are connected to two ends of the bus filter capacitor, respectively, wherein the rear bridge arm includes two diodes unidirectionally connected in series, wherein the intermediate connection point is located between the two diodes, and wherein two ends of the rear bridge arm are connected to two ends of the bus filter capacitor, respectively. | 635 |
9,826,585 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) tube lamp, comprising: a lamp tube, having a first pin and a second pin at a first end of the lamp tube and a third pin at a second end of the lamp tube, for receiving an external driving signal; a rectifying circuit for rectifying the external driving signal to produce a rectified signal, the rectifying circuit comprising a first rectifying circuit coupled to the first and second pins, wherein the first rectifying circuit comprises diodes; the rectifying circuit comprising a second rectifying circuit coupled to the third pin, wherein the second rectifying circuit comprises two diodes, and a common node between the two diodes of the second rectifying circuit connects an anode and a cathode respectively of the two diodes of the second rectifying circuit; an EMI reducing element coupled between the common node between the two diodes of the second rectifying circuit, and the third pin; and a filtering circuit coupled to the rectifying circuit, for filtering the rectified signal to produce a filtered signal for driving an LED module to emit light, the filtering circuit comprising a capacitor connected in parallel with an LED unit included in the LED module, wherein the LED module is configured to receive the filtered signal for emitting light, and the filtering circuit is coupled between an anode of one of the two diodes of the second rectifying circuit, and a cathode of the other diode of the two diodes of the second rectifying circuit. | 48,080 |
8,452,777 | 1. A method comprising, at an automated preference system comprising a set of computer processors: receiving a request from a first entity external to the preference system while the first entity is displaying a prospective content contribution; and operating the set of processors to: | 15,311 |
8,579,148 | 1. A reusable straw comprising: a first part having a hollow elongated body that has a first end and an opposing second end; a second part having a hollow elongated body that has a first end and an opposing second end, wherein the second part has a width that allows the first part to be received within a hollow interior of the first part and form a seal therebetween; a first coupling member formed along an inner surface of the first part proximate the first end; a second coupling member formed along an outer surface of the second part at the first end thereof, the first and second coupling members mating together to securely and sealingly couple the second part to the first part; a first indicator indicia formed along an outer surface of the first part proximate but spaced from the first end thereof; and a second indicator indicia formed along an outer surface of the second part proximate but spaced from the first end thereof, wherein when the first and second coupling members mate securely together, the second indicator indicia is at least substantially obscured by the first part, thereby providing a visual indicator to a user that the first and second parts are properly coupled to one another; wherein, the first coupling member comprises one of a male member and a female member and the second coupling member is complementary and comprises the other of the male member and female member, wherein insertion of the male member into the female member results in a snap-fit between the first and second parts. | 23,285 |
9,132,094 | 1. A composition comprising at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient chosen from 2,5-dichloro-3-(5-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-nitrophenyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)-4,6-dimethylpyridine 1-oxide, at least one phosphate derivative, and at least one polyvinylpyrrolidone derivative compound; wherein said at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient is present in the composition in granular form and wherein the bulk density of the composition is greater than 0.2 g/mL. | 3,465 |
8,602,583 | 1. A luminaria assembly comprising: an outer container including a base and a plurality of outer side panels assembled over the base; and an inner container configured to hold a ballast for the luminary assembly, wherein the inner container is formed inside the outer container and includes a plurality of reservoir side panels formed over the base such that the plurality of reservoir side panels are separated from the plurality of outer side panels by a gap; wherein: | 34,690 |
9,742,632 | 1. A network interface controller (NIC) to couple to a host computing device, the NIC comprising: a host interface to couple to the host computing device; a hybrid software-defined networking (SDN) controller implemented in circuitry of the NIC and configured to perform at least one SDN control function to reduce SDN processing load on the host computing device, the hybrid SDN controller comprising: wherein: the SAL is configured, in response to a request including a change in configuration of a physical network, to provide a simulated representation of the physical network based at least in part on the network stack and the change in configuration included in the request, to execute testing utilizing the simulated representation of the physical network, and to expose the simulated representation of the physical network to the host computing device as an actual representation of the physical network. | 2,772 |
9,297,173 | 1. A jump form system provided with a lockable roll back carriage assembly, the assembly comprising: a rack affixed to an inner portion of a telescoping roll back carriage assembly; a pinion rotatably mounted on an outer portion of the telescoping roll back carriage assembly for engagement with the rack; and a lock arm pivotably mounted to the outer portion adjacent to the pinion, the lock arm comprising a proximal pivotable connection, a distal aperture or loop, and teeth disposed therebetween for lockable engagement with the pinion; wherein the rack and the pinion include complementary teeth such that the pinion will be locked into place on the rack when the lock arm is pivoted into engagement with the pinion. | 44,672 |
8,875,819 | 1. A hybrid drive system for a vehicle, the hybrid drive system comprising: a primary drive sub-system having: a supplemental drive sub-system electrically and mechanically isolated from the primary drive sub-system, the supplemental drive sub-system having: a drive controller for controlling the electric motor and the clutch assembly, the drive controller controlling engagement of the clutch assembly only: the drive controller is configured to control disengagement of the clutch assembly at other times including when the primary drive sub-system satisfies a demanded motive power during cruising or acceleration of the vehicle in order to isolate the electric motor from the rear-most drive axle. | 8,719 |
9,045,699 | 1. A hydrocarbonaceous material upgrading method comprising the steps of: inputting a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock that has diluent therein into vaporization equipment to generate a first bottoms, wherein said first bottoms is a vaporization bottoms that is substantially unpumpable at pipeline conditions and has a first viscosity, a first density, a vaporization bottoms weight, and a pour point; inputting said first bottoms into a reactor at an input rate; heating, at an operating pressure, and with a heater that is inside said reactor, said first bottoms to a reactor temperature and for a residence time, wherein said reactor temperature is from and including 720° F. to 760° F. and at least a first hydrocarbonaceous material constituent boiling point temperature; vaporizing, under said operating pressure, at least some of said first bottoms to produce a first mass of hydrocarbonaceous material vapor; producing, through chemical reactions, a second mass of hydrocarbonaceous material vapor whose condensation point temperature is equal to or less than said first hydrocarbonaceous material constituent boiling point temperature, wherein said first and second masses of hydrocarbonaceous material vapors have a combined partial pressure; generating a second bottoms having a bottoms viscosity that is greater than said first viscosity, and a bottoms density that is greater than said first density; admitting to said reactor a sparge gas that reduces said combined partial pressure of said first and second masses of hydrocarbonaceous material vapors in said reactor; removing at least a portion of said first and second masses of hydrocarbonaceous material vapors from said reactor through action of said sparge gas; forming a hydrocarbonaceous material condensate from said at least said first and second mass of hydrocarbonaceous material vapors; and removing said second bottoms from said reactor at a second bottoms removal, wherein said operating pressure is compatible with ancillary equipment that is external of said reactor, wherein the liquid mass amount of said second bottoms in said reactor depends on said input rate, said second bottoms removal rate, and the mass amounts of each of said first and second masses of hydrocarbonaceous material vapors, wherein said residence time is sufficient to allow at least some of said chemical reactions and is related to said reactor feed rate, said second bottoms removal rate, and to said liquid mass amount in said reactor, wherein said reactor is a continuous feed, single pass reactor, wherein said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate has a second viscosity that is less than said first viscosity, and a second density that is less than said first density, wherein said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate has a lower average molecular weight and lower average boiling point temperature than said second bottoms and said first bottoms, wherein the weight of said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate, relative to said vaporization bottoms weight, is proportional to said reactor temperature, said residence time, and said operating pressure, wherein said second bottoms does not meet crude oil pipeline specification, wherein said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate weight is at least 40% of said vaporization bottoms weight, wherein said second density and said second viscosity of said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate are each substantially independent of said reactor temperature and said residence time, and wherein said hydrocarbonaceous material condensate meets crude oil pipeline specification. | 10,147 |
8,857,409 | 1. A method for compensating for a valve lift deviation of an engine equipped with a continuous variable valve lift (CVVL) mechanism, in which the valve lift deviation is compensated for by a mass air flow (MAF) sensor for measuring a reference air flow rate and a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensor for measuring the pressure of an intake manifold, comprising: determining whether learning conditions for learning a valve lift deviation are met; after the determination, comparing a value MAP_MES measured by the MAP sensor and a modeled pressure MAP_MDL of a surge tank calculated based on an air flow rate measured by the MAF sensor; if the MAP_MES value and the MAP_MDL value are different, learning the valve lift; and after the learning, calculating the final valve lift by adding the learned value of the valve lift to a stored basic valve lift characteristics; wherein the learning conditions include a normal operation of MAF sensor, a steady state of engine speed, and an inactive state of throttle feedback control of intake air flow rate. | 37,359 |
8,778,843 | 1. A method for determining whether a sample contains or has an increased likelihood of containing a pathogenic protozoan comprising: a) providing a vessel containing a reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture comprises at least one forward primer comprising SEQ ID NO: 6, at least one reverse primer comprising SEQ ID NO: 7, a nucleic acid target from the sample, and a pool of oligonucleotide probes selected from the group consisting of: wherein the reaction mixture is capable of amplifying, by a multiplex quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), a segment of the nucleic acid target to produce an amplicon; and wherein production of the amplicon is primed by the at least one forward primer and the at least one reverse primer; b) incubating the vessel under conditions allowing production of the amplicon if the sample contains the pathogenic protozoan; and c) determining that the sample contains the pathogenic protozoan or that the sample has an increased likelihood of containing the pathogenic protozoan if the amplicon is detected, or determining that the sample does not contain the pathogenic protozoan or that the sample does not have an increased likelihood of containing the pathogenic protozoan if the amplicon is not detected. | 27,455 |
9,121,043 | 1. A method for producing glycolic acid in a fermentative process comprising: culturing a modified microorganism in an appropriate culture medium comprising a source of carbon, modulating in said microorganism an expression of a target icd gene with an external stimulus, and recovering glycolic acid from the culture medium, wherein, in said microorganism belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae genus, expression of the target icd gene involved in glycolic acid biosynthesis pathway is under control of a heterologous inducible promoter having activity that is modulated with said external stimulus, wherein said heterologous inducible promoter is selected from the group consisting of: a promoter regulated by a modified repressor of phage lambda, a modified lac promoter regulated by a temperature sensitive lac repressor, and a promoter having activity that is modulated with chemical external stimulus. | 28,104 |
9,470,181 | 1. A fluid pump comprising: a hollow housing; an electric motor having an armature with a commutator, said electric motor being rotatable about a motor axis with application of an electric current to said commutator; a pump section rotationally coupled to said electric motor for receiving fuel at a relatively low pressure through a fuel inlet and pressurizing said fuel to a relatively high pressure; a motor brush in electrical contact with said commutator and having a shunt wire extending therefrom; and an end cap closing one end of said housing and defining a high pressure chamber with said housing which is occupied by said fuel at said relatively high pressure; said end cap comprising: | 39,720 |
9,464,565 | 1. A wastegate valve comprising: a valving element which opens and closes an exhaust gas bypass path, the exhaust gas bypass path extracting a part of exhaust gas flow from an inlet side of an exhaust gas path of a turbine housing and feeding the part of the exhaust gas flow to an exhaust gas outlet path; a valve stem which stands upright from the valving element; an operating lever which has one end formed with an insertion hole where the valve stem is inserted with play and another end to which rotational force is applied; a support plate which is provided on one end of the valve stem opposite to another end which is inserted through the insertion hole; and a damping member which is provided between the support plate and the operating lever in an axial direction of the valve stem to suppress vibration of the valving element, wherein, in a space between the support plate and the operating lever in the axial direction, the damping member has: wherein the damping member includes, wherein each of the bottom spring part and the top spring part includes a contiguous flange part formed on an outer periphery of the large-diameter part, both of the flange parts of the bottom spring part and the top spring part being joined together. | 22,341 |
9,666,905 | 1. An electrolytic solution for an electrochemical device or a secondary battery comprising nonaqueous solvent (I), a lithium salt, and 0.001 to 20% by mass of a compound represented by the following formula (1) or a compound represented by the following formula (A), wherein R 1 represents CH 3 —Rf—, CH 2 F—Rf—, or CHF 2 —Rf—, and Rf in R 1 represents an alkylene group which may optionally have a fluorine atom, Rf l and m may be the same as or different from each other, and individually represent an integer of 0 to 5, wherein R A1 represents a C2-C9 group having an unsaturated bond, Rf l and m may be the same as or different from each other, and individually represent an integer of 0 to 5. | 23,121 |
8,753,085 | 1. A device for changing a pitch of a blade of an impeller or a propeller mounted on a rotor shaft, the shaft having supporting structure, the device comprising: at least one nut and screw linear actuator having first and second portions which are movable in relation to each other, a non-rotary mechanical element rigidly connected with the first portion of the actuator, lever means having a rotary point at the supporting structure, being fixable to the blade, and configured to allow a relative pitching of the blade, a first bearing mounted to the non-rotary mechanical element so as to be disposed between the supporting structure and the non-rotary mechanical element, the first bearing allowing a relative rotation between the supporting structure and the at least one linear actuator, a second bearing mounted to the second portion of the actuator so as to be disposed between the actuator second portion and the lever means, the second bearing being movable relative to the first bearing by the at least one linear actuator, wherein, when operating the at least one linear actuator, the actuator second portion is moved axially, leading to an angular movement of the lever means causing a change of the pitch of the blade, and a force is generated that acts upon the non-rotary element so that the rotor shaft is unaffected by the force, and wherein moving the second portion of the at least one actuator relative to the first portion of the at least one actuator causes the second bearing to move closer to or farther away from the shaft. | 10,033 |
9,738,209 | 1. A system comprising: a mounting structure defining an opening there through, the mounting structure comprising a peripheral frame defining a first corner, a second corner, and a third corner; and a slide-out room operably connected to the mounting structure for selective translation through the opening, the slide out room comprising: wherein rotation of the first drive screw in a first direction of rotation results in translation of the first corner unit through the opening in a first direction of translation; and wherein rotation of the first drive screw in a second direction of rotation results in translation of the first corner unit through the opening in a second direction of translation. | 14,226 |
9,181,579 | 1. A method for detecting a non-nucleic acid compound of interest in a sample, comprising the steps of: a) providing a binding construct comprising a non-nucleic acid recognition portion which recognizes and binds said compound of interest, and a nucleic acid portion; b) mixing said binding construct with said sample to form construct-compound complexes in solution; c) providing one or more surfaces, wherein said surfaces comprise particles bearing one or more accessible binding targets capable of recognizing and binding to said recognition portion of said binding construct; d) introducing said one or more surfaces to said solution of said construct-compound complexes in order for said one or more surfaces to form construct-surface complexes with any unbound binding constructs, whereby said solution contains said construct-compound complexes and said construct-surface complexes; e) separating said construct-surface complexes from said solution leaving behind said construct-compound complexes in solution; f) using the solution obtained in step (e), which comprises said construct-compound complexes, without washing said construct-compound complexes, directly in a polymerase chain reaction for amplification of the nucleic acid portion of the binding construct in said construct-compound complexes; and g) detecting the presence or absence of amplified nucleic acid from said polymerase chain reaction, wherein the presence of said amplified nucleic acid indicates the presence of said compound of interest in said sample. | 39,424 |
9,379,419 | 1. A system for battery thermal management, the system comprising: a battery case; at least one battery cell, wherein the at least one battery cell is at least partially submerged within a liquid contained within the battery case; at least one pump to circulate the liquid via tubing from the battery case to a cooling unit back to the battery case, wherein the liquid is a phase change material (PCM); and a pressure relief valve connected to the battery case. | 2,440 |
8,936,614 | 1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a housing supporting first and second actuators thereon; an elongated shaft extending distally from the housing and defining a longitudinal axis; first and second jaw members pivotally coupled to a distal end of the elongated shaft about a pivot axis; first and second drive members extending through the elongated shaft, the first drive member operatively coupled between the first actuator and the first jaw member such that manipulation of the first actuator induces pivotal movement of the first jaw member about the pivot axis, the second drive member operatively coupled between the second actuator and the second jaw member such that manipulation of the second actuator induces pivotal movement of the second jaw member about the pivot axis; a compression spring having an end associated with the first drive member; and a coupling member operatively associated with the first and second drive members, the coupling member selectively movable between a locked configuration in which the coupling member is pressed against the bias of the compression spring and wherein the first and second drive members are coupled to one another and move concurrently to pivot the jaw members in a bilateral manner, and an unlocked configuration wherein the first and second drive members are decoupled from one another and move independently to pivot their respective jaw member in a unilateral manner. | 6,141 |
9,780,277 | 1. Thermoelectric device comprising: a semiconductor stacked thermoelectric thin film including a first high-purity layer composed of SiGe as a main material and a composite carrier supply layer formed on the first high-purity layer, wherein the composite carrier supply layer includes a second high-purity layer and third high-purity layer composed of Si as a main material, and a carrier supply layer held between the second and third high-purity layers and composed of SiGe as a main material; and | 32,385 |
9,734,100 | 1. A computing device-implemented method for remote platform management, comprising: re-directing a selected network packet received via a network interface controller (NIC), the selected network packet re-directed and transmitted as a System Management Bus (SMBus) packet over an SMBus to a target associated with a pre-defined SMBus address; generating a System Management Interrupt (SMI) with an SMBus host controller upon receipt of the SMBus packet, the SMI triggering a transition to System Management Mode (SMM) by a central processor unit (CPU) in the computing device; retrieving the SMBus packet from the SMBus host controller with system firmware; examining the contents of the retrieved SMBus packet with the system firmware; and transmitting, based on a result of the examination, a reply SMBus packet to the NIC, the reply SMBus packet assembled into a network packet at the NIC and sent via the NIC to a sender of the selected network packet to establish a remote management connection. | 9,377 |
9,845,774 | 1. An insert, comprising: an annular body having a top surface, bottom surface, inner surface, and outer surface, the top surface opposite the bottom surface, the inner surface extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, the outer surface extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, the inner surface opposite the outer surface; a first groove defined by the top surface of the annular body, the first groove for coupling an intake air port of an intake manifold to a cylinder head; a second groove defined by the outer surface of the annular body, the second groove for circulating gaseous fuel received from a gas runner of the intake manifold; and a plurality of openings to fluidically couple the second groove to an interior of the intake air port, whereby the insert is configured to mix gaseous fuel and intake air at a coupling location between the intake manifold and the cylinder head, wherein the outer surface is oriented to be in face-sharing contact with the intake air port when the insert is positioned at the coupling location between the intake manifold and cylinder head, wherein the second groove extends from the outer surface toward the inner surface, and wherein each of the plurality of openings is arranged along the inner surface of the annular body and fluidically coupled to the second groove. | 29,492 |
9,257,733 | 1. An armouring material for use in an air secondary battery, comprising an armouring sheet constituted by laminating an outer layer including heat-resistant resin film, a metal foil layer, and an inner layer including a thermoplastic resin film, being equipped with an opening part for taking oxygen in, perforating through the outer layer, the metal foil layer and the inner layer, and an oxygen-permeable membrane being joined to an inner layer side in an opening part periphery so as to cover the opening part, wherein the oxygen-permeable membrane is constituted from a thermoplastic resin membrane and inorganic particles having pores having pore diameter of 10 Å or less contained in the thermoplastic resin membrane, wherein the thermoplastic resin membrane has one surface on which hydrophobic treatment was effected, and the one surface of the thermoplastic resin membrane on which hydrophobic treatment was effected is directed to the armouring sheet side. | 35,590 |
9,522,365 | 1. A process for making a porous cross-linked charged cellulosic polymeric membrane comprising: i) adding a base to a porous cellulose acetate membrane comprising a plurality of acetate groups in the presence of a solution of 0.25-2% epichlorohydrin to cross-link said cellulose acetate therein to provide a cross-linked cellulose acetate membrane, and ii) reacting said cross-linked membrane with glycidyl trimethylammonium chloride to introduce a positively charged group wherein said process is carried out in the presence of sodium sulfate, and the resulting porous cross-linked charged cellulosic polymeric membrane comprises a plurality of cellulose acetate groups and swells from 40% to 250% by volume in a solution of water. | 37,039 |
8,704,150 | 1. An optical apparatus, comprising: a primary beam splitter configured to split an incident light beam into a primary plurality of light beams and to direct a first beam of the primary plurality of light beams in a first direction and a second beam of the primary plurality of light beams in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a secondary beam splitter positioned in beam paths of the first and second beams of the primary plurality of light beams to split the first and second beams of the primary plurality of light beams into a secondary plurality of light beams and to split the second beam of the primary plurality of light beams into a tertiary plurality of light beams, wherein the secondary beam splitter is oriented to direct a first beam of the secondary plurality of light beams and a first beam of the tertiary plurality of light beams orthogonal to one another, and a second beam of the secondary plurality of light beams and a second beam of the tertiary plurality of light beams both parallel to one another and orthogonal to the first beam of the secondary plurality of light beams and the first beam of the tertiary plurality of light beams; and a primary plurality of beam reflectors positioned to redirect the secondary and tertiary plurality of light beams toward a common detector. | 19,242 |
9,155,290 | 1. A genetically modified mouse whose genome comprises a replacement at an endogenous mouse IL-15 locus of a mouse genomic segment comprising sequences of mouse exons 3, 4, 5 and 6 coding for a mature mouse IL-15 polypeptide with a human genomic segment comprising human IL-15 exons coding for a mature human IL-15 polypeptide to form a humanized IL-15 gene, wherein the human IL-15 exons in said human genomic segment consist of human exons 3, 4, 5 and 6, wherein the humanized IL-15 gene is under control of endogenous mouse IL-15 upstream regulatory elements at the endogenous mouse IL-15 locus, and wherein the genetically modified mouse comprises a human IL-15 polypeptide in serum following treatment of said mouse with Poly I:C. | 34,128 |
8,534,043 | 1. A turbofan engine, comprising: a fan duct wall having an engine core side and a fan airstream side, wherein the fan duct wall has an opening passing through the fan duct wall; a container mounted to the fan duct wall so as to surround the opening, wherein the container is positioned on the engine core side of the fan duct wall; a heat exchanger core having a plurality of air passageway structures, wherein the heat exchanger core is actuable between an unextended position in which the heat exchanger core is positioned substantially inside the container and a partially extended position in which the heat exchanger core is partially extended out of the container through the opening; and a baffle positioned inside the container and aligned with the heat exchanger core so as to define a flow path when the heat exchanger core is in the partially extended position, wherein the flow path extends from the fan airstream side of the fan duct wall through the opening, through a portion of the heat exchanger core positioned inside the container, and through the opening to the fan airstream side of the fan duct wall. | 35,103 |
9,047,993 | 1. A method for producing spherical fuel and/or breeder material cores having a size in the range between 300 μm and 800 μm, for producing cores made of uranium oxide and/or uranium carbide and/or a uranium containing mixed oxide and/or mixed carbide by dripping a solution containing a uranyl nitrate, as well as auxiliary agents in the form of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol and polyvinyl alcohol in an ammoniacal precipitation bath for the formation of microspheres; aging the microspheres in an ammoniacal aging water; washing the microspheres; and drying as well as a thermal treatment of the microspheres, characterized in that the microspheres are separated from the ammoniacal precipitation bath via a first separator, and for aging, led to the ammoniacal aging water, wherein the time period within which the microspheres are in contact with the ammoniacal precipitation bath up to the contact with the ammoniacal aging water, is the same, or approximately the same for each microsphere by means of the first separator; the microspheres are transferred via a transfer device from the ammoniacal aging water to a multistage cascade scrubber, in which the microspheres are washed until they are free, or substantially free, of ammonium nitrate, and at least one of the auxiliary agent contained in the microspheres; and after the drying of the microspheres, the latter are calcined and distributed in a monolayer during a thermal treatment. | 17,810 |
8,711,750 | 1. A method comprising: in a network device: connecting and registering with a cable modem termination system (CMTS); sending a sleep request to said CMTS; receiving a first message from said CMTS that indicates that a media access control (MAC) management message will be transmitted by said CMTS after a predetermined time interval; subsequent to receiving said first message, powering down one or more components of said network device and setting a sleep timer to a value equal to the duration of said predetermined time interval minus a transition period; and powering up said one or more components of said network device upon expiration of said sleep timer. | 28,997 |
9,661,834 | 1. A dual-bearing reel configured to cast a fishing line in a forward direction, comprising: a reel body including a spool housing portion having an inward opening; and a spool including a bobbin trunk, a first flange and a second flange, the bobbin trunk having a first end and a second end, and being configured to wind the fishing line, the first flange being disposed on the first end of the bobbin trunk and having a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the bobbin trunk, and the second flange being disposed on the second end of the bobbin trunk and having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the bobbin trunk, an outer peripheral part of at least one of the first flange and the second flange, comprising | 35,781 |
9,583,758 | 1. A method for manufacturing a battery electrode comprising: providing a sheet of conductive material; framing the sheet of conductive material with a polymeric material; forming a contact tab along at least one opposing edge of the frame; and conveying the electrode using the polymeric tab and/or contact tab as dogs. | 25,618 |
8,852,547 | 1. A process for making, using, and recovering components of a supported catalyst, said supported catalyst comprising catalytic metal on a carbon nanotube support, said process comprising the steps of: | 45,525 |
8,929,054 | 1. A dielectric material comprising: at least one layer of material comprising: wherein the organometallic particles comprise stacked organometallic molecules, and wherein the organometallic particles include a first type of organometallic particles and a second type of organometallic particles, the second type of organometallic particles having a different characteristic than the first type of organometallic particles. | 7,116 |
9,812,633 | 1. A piezoelectric composition having a perovskite structure represented by general formula ABO 3 , and having a composition represented by compositional formula x(Bi 0.5 K 0.5 )TiO 3 -yBi(Mg 0.5 Ti 0.5 )O 3 -zBiFeO 3 , wherein x+y+z=1, and also represented by a region, in triangle coordinates using x, y, and z in the compositional formula, enclosed by pentagon ABCDE with vertices of point A (1,0,0), point B (0.7,0.3,0), point C (0.1,0.3,0.6), point D (0.1,0.1,0.8), and point E (0.2,0,0.8) but exclusive of segment AE joining point A (1,0,0) and point E (0.2,0,0.8). | 30,311 |
9,165,524 | 1. A display device comprising: a display panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines; a data driver supplying a data signal to the plurality data lines; and a signal controller controlling the gate signal and the data signal, wherein the signal controller includes a data converter converting a gray value of image data when a difference in a gray value of the image data of two adjacent pixels of the plurality of pixels connected to a same data line of the plurality of data lines is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, wherein: the data converter includes: a data comparator counting a number of cases where the difference in the gray value of the image data of the two adjacent pixels connected to the same data line is greater than or equal to the first threshold value and determining whether the number of cases is greater than or equal to a second threshold value; and a gray value corrector converting the gray value of the image data when the number of cases is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, and the data comparator: counts, when the plurality of pixels is disposed in a zigzag with respect to the plurality of data lines, and counts the number of cases where the difference is greater than or equal to the first threshold value by comparing the differences in the gray values of the image data of two pixels of the plurality of pixels that are adjacent in a diagonal direction. | 1,297 |
8,721,671 | 1. A body fluid sampling system with an electric penetrating member actuator in a flat stationary housing for advancing a penetrating member, comprising: an electronic drive force generator that includes a plurality of coils; a penetrating member coupled to the electronic drive force generator; a flat magnetically permeable flag attached at proximal or drive end of the penetrating member moveable in the flat stationary housing, wherein the flat magnetically permeable flag increases the surface area of the penetrating member to enhance electromotive forces generated between the proximal end of the penetrating member and the plurality of coils, the flag including a metal core; the electronic drive force generator being coupled to position feedback to control power delivered to the electric powered drive force generator and control velocity and displacement profiles of the penetrating member to compensate for variation in skin thickness and variations in skin deformation when a penetrating member is driven through the skin when sampling body fluid; and circuitry for controlling current to the plurality of coils, the circuitry providing an electronic stop for the penetrating member after it has pierced the skin, wherein subsets of said plurality of coils are selectively activated in sequence to move the metal core, which in turn causes the electronic drive force generator to move the penetrating member at a faster rate into a tissue site and a slower rate out of the tissue site to provide a spontaneous blood flow and yield at least a 70-80% success rate in obtaining a blood sample, the circuitry providing for an ability to control depth of penetration and penetrating member speed into and out of the tissue site to allow for compensation for changes in skin thickness, the circuitry in operation phasing power of the coils, with a moving field being generated that pushes a flag along just below a synchronous speed of the coils, wherein controlling a rate of sweep, and generating multiple sweeps, the flag can be moved at a desired speed. | 34,176 |
8,597,122 | 1. A method of providing a player with access to a gaming feature of a gaming apparatus in a gaming system, wherein the gaming feature is associated with a game of chance, the method comprising: obtaining player identity information from a token to identify the player requesting access to the gaming feature; checking the player identity information against stored player identity information corresponding to a plurality of players authorized to access one or both the gaming feature or the gaming apparatus; inhibiting access to one or both the gaming feature or gaming apparatus if the player identity information does not authorize access to one or both the gaming feature or the gaming apparatus; if the player identity information authorizes access to the gaming feature and the gaming apparatus, receiving a player password entered through a player interface at the gaming apparatus, wherein the player password comprises at least one image corresponding to one or both the gaming feature or a game available at the gaming apparatus; checking the received player password against a predefined player password associated with the received player identity information; and providing player access to the gaming feature at the gaming apparatus if the received player password and the predefined player password correspond with one another. | 37,208 |
9,503,906 | 1. A method of evaluating a potential location within a process environment for addition of a wireless field device to an existing network of a plurality of existing wireless field devices, the method comprising: placing a handheld field maintenance tool in the potential location; causing the handheld field maintenance tool to identify wireless field devices within communicative range of the potential location; viewing information, on a display of the handheld field maintenance tool, related to wireless communication at the potential location, wherein information related to wireless communication at the potential location comprises a device identifier and a signal strength for each identified wireless field device; providing a recommendation of which wireless sensor network the wireless field device should join; and wherein the handheld field maintenance tool is intrinsically safe. | 39,952 |
8,855,641 | 1. A wireless communication device, comprising: a first communication module configured to communicate with another wireless communication device using a first radio access technology (RAT); and a second communication module configured to perform a measurement of a second RAT during a second RAT measurement interval that overlaps with a first RAT measurement gap, the second RAT measurement interval having a duration that is different from a duration of the first RAT measurement gap, wherein the first communication module is configured to maintain a first RAT communication link with the other wireless communication device during the measurement of the second RAT, and wherein the second RAT measurement interval begins during the first RAT measurement gap, and ends after the first RAT measurement gap. | 30,295 |
9,445,665 | 1. A system comprising: (A) at least one service trolley, the at least one service trolley comprising: (i) a container; (ii) a plurality of wheels attached with the container and configured to support the container relative to a support surface and to facilitate movement of the container relative to the support surface; and (iii) at least one fuel canister housed at least partially on or at least partially inside the container; and (B) at least one docking station position, the at least one docking station position located on a craft and configured to receive the at least one service trolley for heating or cooling of at least some contents of the at least one service trolley, the at least one docking station position comprising: (i) at least one fuel cell system configured to receive fuel from the at least one fuel canister housed at least partially on or at least partially inside the container of the at least one service trolley when the at least one service trolley is received by the at least one docking station; and (ii) at least one temperature regulating module arranged to remain with the at least one docking station when the at least one service trolley is moved away from a state of being received by the at least one docking station, the at least one temperature regulating module configured to receive at least one product from the at least one fuel cell system, wherein the temperature regulating module is configurable for at least one of cooling or heating contents of the at least one service trolley (a) when the at least one service trolley is received by the at least one docking station position and (b) by use of the at least one product received by the temperature regulating module from the at least one fuel cell system. | 44,673 |
9,638,568 | 1. A weight apparatus for a waveguide having a wave resistance, comprising: a waveguide in form of a cable; and a weight body having a fixing device; wherein the fixing device fixes the weight body to the waveguide; wherein the weight body is disposed at one end of the cable and tightens the cable by gravity acting on the weight body; wherein the fixing device has a wave resistance which is substantially matched to the wave resistance of the waveguide; and wherein the weight body is of a shape selected from the group of shapes consisting of a frustum shape, a trumpet shape and a drop shape. | 44,409 |
8,541,214 | 1. A process for converting a feed gas comprising syngas and containing at least one of CO or a mixture of CO2 and H2 to a liquid product under anaerobic conditions, said process comprising: a) passing an aqueous seeding solution comprising a monoculture of microorganisms into contact with a gas contacting side of a hydrophilic membrane, passing a liquid portion of the aqueous seeding solution through the membrane and retaining, on the gas contacting side of the membrane, the microorganisms consisting essentially of a monoculture of an anaerobic microorganism, with the gas contacting side serving as an exclusion surface to inhibit penetration of the microorganisms into the membrane and to provide the anaerobic microorganisms as immobilized microorganisms; b) growing a biofilm comprising the immobilized microorganisms of the monoculture on the surface of the gas contacting side of the membrane by passing a feed gas comprising CO or a mixture of CO2 and H2 into contact with the monoculture of microorganisms on the gas contact side of the membrane and permeating a fermentation liquid from a liquid contacting side of the membrane, defined by the face of the membrane opposite the gas contacting side, through the membrane and into contact with the immobilized microorganisms wherein the gas contacting side of the membrane serves as a biofilm exclusion surface to inhibit penetration of the biofilm into the membrane, and the feed gas has an oxygen concentration of less than 1000 ppm; c) producing liquid products under autotrophic conditions by contacting the biofilm with the feed gas, permeating the fermentation liquid from the liquid contacting side through the membrane and into contact with the biofilm, and permeating liquid products from the biofilm across the membrane and into the fermentation liquid, wherein a liquid retention chamber retains the fermentation liquid into contact with the liquid contacting side of the membrane, and the fermentation liquid has a redox potential of less than −200 mV; and, d) collecting fermentation liquid containing liquid products from the liquid retention chamber to recover liquid products from the process. | 46,593 |
9,345,047 | 1. A method for wireless communications, comprising: performing a first clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure to contend for a radio frequency spectrum band for a transmission period, wherein the first CCA procedure is performed before the transmission period during a contention period coordinated among a plurality of operators; determining whether contention is won for the radio frequency spectrum band for the transmission period based on the first CCA procedure; and performing a second CCA procedure, upon a successful completion of the first CCA procedure, to determine availability of the radio frequency spectrum band, wherein the second CCA procedure is performed during a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period in the transmission period. | 44,939 |
9,543,059 | 1. A subsea umbilical configured for use in offshore production of hydrocarbons, the umbilical comprising: an outer sheath; a plurality of functional elements contained within the outer sheath, said functional elements comprising a multicore electric cable and a hose that transports fluid; said multicore electric cable comprising: a plurality of insulated electric conductors electrically insulated from each other and assembled together in a helical or S/Z manner, a protective polymer sheath surrounding said plurality of insulated electric conductors, and a tubular metallic layer located inside said protective polymer sheath and surrounding said plurality of insulated electric conductors, said tubular metallic layer being a barrier against diffusion of hydrogen from an outside to an inside of said multicore electric cable, wherein the tubular metallic layer is made of a metal strip helically wrapped with overlap around the plurality of insulated electric conductors, and wherein the hose is positioned outside the protective polymer sheath. | 18,705 |
8,777,524 | 1. A cutting insert, comprising: a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the top and bottom surfaces and forming an obtuse angle with the bottom surface as well as an acute angle with the top surface, wherein the side surfaces comprise a first side surface and a second side surface which form an obtuse angle with each other when seen from above, wherein an intersection between the first side surface and the top surface forms a main cutting edge, and wherein an intersection between the second side surface and the top surface forms both an inclined cutting edge only for ramp milling and a minor cutting edge, and wherein an obtuse angle which the second side surface forms with the bottom surface is greater than that which the first side surface forms with the bottom surface. | 15,090 |
9,792,736 | 1. A vehicle telemetry device comprising: a processor configured to execute control logic; a memory coupled to said processor; a communications element configured to communicate with a wireless communication network; and a sensor interface configured to connect to a plurality of sensors within a vehicle, wherein (i) said control logic is configured to (a) acquire information from said sensor interface, (b) store said information in said memory, (c) communicate said information to a database external to said vehicle using said wireless communication network and (d) determine a route from a current location of said vehicle to a destination based on said information, (ii) said information from said sensor interface comprises a combination of (a) driver information, (b) vehicle operational status information and (c) external information received from said plurality of sensors, (iii) said information is stored in said database as records associated with a driver identity, a date, a time and location information of said vehicle corresponding to when said information was acquired and (iv) said driver information includes (a) said destination explicitly provided by a driver, (b) a preferred speed, (c) a maximum and minimum range of speed adjustments and (d) a preferred route to said destination. | 30,842 |
9,677,404 | 1. A one-block bladed disk comprising: a hub; and blades connected in one-piece to the hub; wherein the blades, in a foot area adjacent to the hub and extending over about 20% to 30% of a height of the blade, have a dihedral angle and a sweep angle having values increasing continuously both by at least 10° upon approaching the hub. | 47,593 |
9,418,746 | 1. An operating method of a storage device which includes a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller to control the nonvolatile memory, the operating method comprising: reading previously programmed memory cells among the memory cells of the nonvolatile memory and determining a time after erase of the previously programmed memory cells; programming selected memory cells among the memory cells of the nonvolatile memory; and programming meta data indicative of a time after erase of the selected memory cells, based on the determined time after erase of the previously programmed memory cells. | 30,705 |
9,315,175 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a vehicle-driver interface; and an automated braking system configured to | 44,819 |
8,496,031 | 1. A filling valve for filling a container comprising: a valve body having a chamber, a nozzle being connected to the chamber, the nozzle comprising an outlet and a peripheral surface about a central axis, a sealing member operably positioned around the peripheral surface for substantially preventing liquid from flowing into an area about the peripheral surface, and positioned above the outlet for sealably engaging a container, the outlet comprising a plurality of ports oriented in a downward direction defined by an outward angle and a tilt angle where the outward angle is within a range of 30° to 70° from a transverse plane perpendicular to the central axis of the nozzle, directing fluid in a swirling direction during filling of said container, the ports being positioned below the peripheral surface and each having an inlet in communication with the valve body chamber. | 2,364 |
9,735,188 | 1. A unit pixel element, which acts as an image sensor or a solar cell, comprising: a photo detector that drives a photocurrent flow, induced by light incident onto a gate, along a channel between a source and a drain; a first switch that is wired and switched on or switched off between a source terminal of the photo detector and a first solar cell bus; a second switch that is wired and switched on or switched off between a gate electrode of the photo detector and a second solar cell bus; and a third switch that is wired and switched on or switched off between a reset terminal of the photo detector and the second solar cell bus. | 34,766 |
9,645,590 | 1. A system for providing on-chip voltage supply, the system comprising: a plurality of local voltage regulators, each local voltage regulator comprising a first input, a second input, and an output; a transconductance amplifier connected with the local voltage regulators and configured to drive the local voltage regulators, the transconductance amplifier comprising a first input, a second input and an output; a reference voltage source; and a plurality of transistors; wherein: the output of the transconductance amplifier is connected to the first input of each local voltage regulators; the first input of the transconductance amplifier is connected to the reference voltage source; the first input of each local voltage regulator is connected to ground through a first capacitor; the output of each local voltage regulator is connected to gate of each transistor correspondingly; source or drain of each transistor is connected to a load, to the second input of the local voltage regulator, to each other through a plurality of first resistors representing metal routing resistance, and to ground through a RC network; and a tapping point in the RC network is connected to the second input of the transconductance amplifier; wherein the reference voltage source is configured to make an adjustment to voltage at the first input of the transconductance amplifier so that voltage at the source or the drain of each transistor is increased by a predetermined amount before a predictable current loading jump, and to cancel the adjustment after fluctuation of voltage at the source or the drain of each transistor caused by the adjustment is settled. | 16,516 |
9,620,668 | 1. A composition for manufacturing an electrode, comprising: metal nanoparticles dispersed in a dispersive medium, wherein the metal nanoparticles contains silver nanoparticles of 75 weight % or more, the metal nanoparticles are chemically modified by a protective agent having a main chain of organic molecule comprising a carbon backbone of carbon number of 1 to 3, the metal nanoparticles contain 70% or more in number-average of metal nanoparticles having a primary grain size within a range of 10 to 50 nm, and the composition further comprises one or two or more species of an additive selected from a group consisting of metal oxides, metal hydro-oxides, organic metal compounds, and silicone oils. | 38,096 |
8,417,263 | 1. A method for generating a recommendation on a mobile device of a user, the method comprising the steps of: determining a first location of the mobile device; determining a first time and a first date wherein the first time and the first date correspond to the current time and the current date; comparing the first location, the first time and the first date to event details of a plurality of scheduled events wherein the event details specify locations, times and dates of the scheduled events; determining a matching event from the plurality of scheduled events wherein the location, the time and the date of the matching event correspond to the first location, the first time and the first date; generating the recommendation wherein the recommendation is generated at least in part based on the matching event; and transmitting the recommendation to the mobile device wherein the mobile device displays the recommendation; wherein the recommendation recommends multimedia content associated with the matching event and further wherein the multimedia content is transmitted to the mobile device in response to user input on the mobile device which accepts the recommendation. | 533 |
9,006,146 | 1. A superconducting cable, comprising: an insulating layer formed around an external circumference of a conductor, wherein the insulating layer has at least three layers of a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer and a third insulating layer respectively from an inside layer to an outside layer, and the insulating layer is impregnated with liquid nitrogen, a product of dielectric constant ∈ the product of dielectric constant ∈ the first insulating layer has a thickness which is equal to or less than ¼ of a thickness of an entire insulating layer, the second insulating layer has a thickness which is in a range of 1/10 to ⅓ of the thickness of the entire insulating layer, and the third insulating layer has a thickness which is obtained by subtracting the thickness of the first insulating layer and the thickness of the second insulating layer from the thickness of the entire insulating layer. | 36,645 |
9,763,281 | 1. A mobile communication system, comprising a mobile station (UE); a mobility management entity (MME); a serving GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) support node (SGSN); and a serving gateway (S-GW), wherein the MME and the SGSN support an Idlemode Signaling Reduction (ISR) feature, wherein the S-GW maintains all bearers in a case where at least one of the MME and the SGSN performs restart, wherein the at least one of the MME and the SGSN pages the UE, upon reception of a Downlink Data Notification message regarding an international mobile-station subscription identifier (IMSI) from the S-GW, and wherein the UE re-attaches based on the paging. | 40,869 |
9,306,813 | 1. A machine-implemented method for advertising services in a peer-to-peer networking environment, the method comprising: while advertising, by a local device, one or more services of the local device, comparing operating conditions of a remote device and operating conditions of the local device, wherein the local device and the remote device are located within a predetermined proximity of a wireless network; transmitting an advertisement request from the local device to the remote device based at least in part on the comparison of the operating conditions of the local device and the remote device, the advertisement request identifying the one or more services of the local device and requesting the remote device to: determining that the advertising request was accepted and then terminating the local device's advertising of the one or more services of the local device. | 32,641 |
9,458,070 | 1. A method for preparing 1,1,3-Tetrafluorontopene (HFO-1234ze), characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: (1) charging a reactor with a fluorination catalyst in two sections, wherein the first section of the fluorination catalyst is controlled at a temperature of 200-300° C., and the second section of the fluorination catalyst is controlled at a temperature of 350-450° C.; and (2) introducing a gasified HF with 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane (HCC-240fa) and/or 1,1,3,3-tetrachloro-prop-1-ene (HCO- 1230za) into the reactor, passing through the first section of the fluorination catalyst and then through the second section of the fluorination catalyst, wherein a molar ratio of HF to the total organic phase is from 5:1 to 20:1, a contact time for the reaction is 1-30 seconds, and a reaction pressure is 0.1-1.2 MPa, forming a product stream; and (3) passing the product stream through a distillation tower; wherein: | 36,574 |
8,435,793 | 1. A method for recovering a metal in a material included in a light-emitting element, the method comprising: dissolving the material in an organic solvent to form a solution of the material; and heating the solution at a temperature higher than 800° C. under an oxygen atmosphere to obtain an oxide of the metal. | 9,265 |
9,587,186 | 1. A method for gasifying a carbonaceous material, comprising feeding the carbonaceous material to an upper vessel of a gasifier; drying and devolatilizing the carbonaceous material in the upper vessel; reacting the dried and devolatilized carbonaceous material with steam and air in a lower vessel surrounded by a water jacket to produce ash and gas; collecting the ash of the carbonaceous material through a grate system in sealing engagement with the bottom of the lower vessel; maintaining the pressure inside the upper vessel and the lower vessel between 75 psia and about 150 psia; and passing between about 60% and about 75% of the gas produced in the lower vessel through a refractory structure in the upper vessel. | 21,343 |
9,495,684 | 1. A system comprising: a presentation unit configured to present to at least one member of a population a plurality of avatars associated with at least one instance of media content; a physiologic activity measurement unit configured to measure at least one physiologic activity of the at least one member of the population, the at least one physiologic activity proximate to at least one presented avatar among the plurality of avatars associated with at least one instance of media content; an association unit configured to associate the at least one physiologic activity with at least one mental state; and a media content identification unit configured to identify at least one instance of media content based on the at least one mental state. | 7,724 |
9,403,149 | 1. A solid phosphoric acid catalyst, comprising: an amount of silicon orthophosphate and, optionally, an amount of silicon pyrophosphate, having an integrated XRD reflectance intensity ratio of silicon orthophosphate to silicon pyrophosphate of at least about 5:1, and a promoter comprising niobium, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, aluminum, boron, or any mixture thereof. | 15,274 |
9,486,803 | 1. A pipette tip comprising a proximal region and a distal region, wherein: the proximal region comprises an exterior surface and an annular flange at the proximal terminus of the proximal region; the distal region wall thickness tapers smoothly from the wall thickness at the distal region terminus is about 0.0040 inches to about 0.0055 inches. | 10,730 |
9,639,136 | 1. A scalable monitoring apparatus for race detection of a multicore-based parallel program, the scalable monitoring apparatus comprising: a monitoring code inserting unit configured to add a scalable monitoring code to a source parallel program to generate a transformed source parallel program; a thread monitoring unit configured to generate a data structure of a thread generated according to execution of the transformed source parallel program; an access event selecting unit configured to inspect a race likelihood according to execution of the transformed source parallel program to select an access event; an access event storage unit configured to store the access event selected by the access event selecting unit in a shared data structure; a power measuring unit configured to measure power data according to execution of the source parallel program and store the measured power data; and a power analyzing unit configured to analyze the power data stored by the power measuring unit to determine whether an energy bug has been generated, wherein the power measuring unit measures the power data in synchronization with a point in time at which the access event selecting unit selects the access event. | 31,426 |
9,775,741 | 1. A method for cerebral cooling, comprising the steps of: providing a cooling assembly comprising: inserting the first elongate tubular member into a patient's nasal cavity through the patient's first nostril such that the plurality of ports are positioned in the nasal cavity; inserting the second elongate tubular member into the patient's nasal cavity through the patient's second nostril such that the plurality of ports are positioned in the nasal cavity; and delivering the pressurized fluid onto a surface of the patient's nasal cavity by infusing the pressurized fluid from the reservoir through the manifold, into the lumens and through the plurality of ports of the first and second elongate tubular members. | 49,224 |
9,809,461 | 1. Titanium dioxide in the shape of columnar particles, wherein: the particles have a weight-average major-axis length of 8.0-14.0 μm and the particles having a major-axis length of 10 μm or larger are included in a proportion of 35% by weight or more, and the particles have a specific surface area of 1.0-3.5 m the particles having a major-axis length of less than 5.0 μm are included in a proportion of 20% by weight or less; the particles having a major-axis length of 10-20 μm are included in a proportion of 25% by weight or more; the particles have a weight-average minor-axis length of 0.3-0.8 μm; and the aspect ratio (weight-average major-axis length/weight-average minor-axis length) is in the range of 5-40. | 23,958 |
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