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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 convert...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 w...
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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.
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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 ...
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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, where...
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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 engi...
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 ...
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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 swit...
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 ele...
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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;...
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 ...
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 moti...
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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...
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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 conf...
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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 longi...
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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, p...
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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; determ...
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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/ou...
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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 t...
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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 c...
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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...
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...
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9,594,869
1. An isolated E. coli cell that lacks functional rpe, sgcE, talA, and talB genes.
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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 fix...
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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 tw...
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
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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...
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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 tex...
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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 freq...
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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 ...
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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 signa...
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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:
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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 interio...
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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 pharmac...
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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...
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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 p...
2,772
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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...
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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...
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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...
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 t...
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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 SE...
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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 me...
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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 press...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 rigid...
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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 ou...
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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 t...
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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 u...
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...
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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 thi...
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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...
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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...
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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 thr...
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...
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 orthogon...
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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 polyp...
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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 fa...
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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 auxili...
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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 ...
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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 win...
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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.
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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:
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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 orga...
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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 ...
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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 t...
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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 perm...
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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 t...
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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...
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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 th...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 hy...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 w...
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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) sa...
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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 approac...
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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...
30,705
9,315,175
1. A vehicle comprising: a vehicle-driver interface; and an automated braking system configured to
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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 flowin...
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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 d...
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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 regul...
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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 comprisin...
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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 lo...
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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 in...
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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 bear...
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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 devi...
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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 secti...
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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.
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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...
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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 popula...
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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,...
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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 inch...
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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 uni...
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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 mem...
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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 par...
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