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8,716,125 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprising: forming a via in a dielectric layer; forming a first barrier layer in the via; forming a copper region in the via; depositing a second barrier layer over the copper region; and depositing a capping layer over the second barrier layer; wherein depositing the second barrier layer comprises depositing a self-assembled monolayer in a chamber of a chemical vapor deposition tool; and wherein depositing the capping layer over the second barrier layer is performed in the chamber of the chemical vapor deposition tool. | 2,044 |
9,078,678 | 1. A method of manufacturing an ablation probe, comprising: forming divisions from a first end of a flat, electrically conductive, sheet towards an opposing second end of the sheet to form a plurality of electrode tines and a common electrode base from the sheet; bending opposing third and fourth ends of the sheet towards each other; and affixing the third and fourth ends relative to each other to form an elongated member. | 36,340 |
9,055,006 | 1. A method for mitigating of denial of service (DoS) attacks in a software defined network (SDN), comprising: receiving a DoS attack indication performed against at least one destination server; programming each network element in the SDN to forward a packet based on a diversion value designated in a packet diversion field, upon reception of the DoS attack indication; instructing at least one peer network element in the SDN to mark a diversion field in each packet in the incoming traffic addressed to the destination server, wherein each network element in the SDN receiving the packet with the marked diversion field is programmed to divert the packet to a security server, wherein the diversion field is at least one field in any one of an internet protocol (IP) header and a MAC header; and instructing edge network elements in the SDN to unmark the diversion field of each packet output by the security server, wherein each network element in the SDN is programmed to forward the unmarked packets processed by the security server to the at least one destination server. | 5,598 |
9,794,515 | 1. An apparatus of a multimedia telephony services over internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystems (IMS) (MT SI) receiver operable to support region of interest (ROI) signaling with a MTSI sender, the apparatus including one or more processors and memory configured to: receive, at the MTSI receiver, a requested region of interest (ROI); signal the requested ROI for transmission to the MTSI sender via a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) feedback message; and decode, at the MTSI receiver, encoded video received from the MTSI sender, wherein the encoded video corresponds to the requested ROI. | 5,405 |
9,020,653 | 1. A method of providing power from a renewable resource, the method comprising: receiving a signal at a response device of a load demand module directly from a renewable variable power generation module, the signal including an output capability value for the renewable variable power generation module; calculating an input power demand value for the load demand module based on the output capability value of the received signal; and controlling a customer load on a power transmission and distribution grid based on the calculated input power demand value. | 7,694 |
8,432,176 | 1. A test apparatus having a test head and a probe card holder detachably holding a probe card including a probe pin for contacting a semiconductor integrated circuit to test the semiconductor integrated circuit, the test apparatus comprising: a heater for heating the probe card; and a heater holder secured to the probe card holder, for holding the heater so that the heater touches the probe card when the probe card is held by the probe card holder, wherein the probe card holder has an aperture exposing the test head and the heater holder fits into and thereby closes the aperture. | 3,501 |
9,047,851 | 1. An optoelectronic pickup, comprising: at least one light source configured to direct light to impinge an instrument string of a musical instrument; a plurality of photoreceivers configured to detect light emitted by the at least one light source and reflected from the instrument string, the plurality of photoreceivers electrically coupled such that an electrical signal generated by a particular photoreceiver is inverted relative to an electrical signal generated by a photoreceiver adjacent to the particular photoreceiver; and a filter arrangement coupled to one or both of the at least one light source and the plurality of photoreceivers, the filter arrangement configured to control affects of spurious light upon an electrical signal produced by the plurality of photoreceivers, the spurious light comprising light energy that impinges the plurality of photoreceivers and is unrelated to a condition of the instrument string. | 21,088 |
8,726,640 | 1. A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases in an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, comprising: at least one reductant decomposition catalyst arranged in the exhaust gas flow, wherein the at least one reductant decomposition catalyst is a hydrolysis catalyst; a metering device arranged upstream of the at least one reductant decomposition catalyst in an exhaust gas line for supplying reductant, wherein the reductant is an aqueous urea solution; at least one other catalyst device provided downstream of the reductant decomposition catalyst; an inlet section for the exhaust gas comprising at least one flow deflection area arranged upstream of the reductant decomposition catalyst and constructed such that the exhaust gas is fed into a housing portion radially outside an inlet pipe adjoining the reductant decomposition catalyst, the housing portion enclosing the inlet pipe; a front inlet opening of the inlet pipe through which the exhaust gas is guided in counterflow to the reductant decomposition catalyst, wherein the reductant is fed into the flow deflection area of the exhaust gas flow, which flow deflection area is associated with the inlet opening, and at least one additional gas guide pipe arranged in the housing portion radially outside the inlet pipe that causes a gas flow in a meandering shape with the exhaust gas flow being deflected a number of times between the exhaust gas line opening radially into this area and the reductant decomposition catalyst, wherein the at least one additional gas guide pipe is fastened to a front wall of the housing portion enclosing the inlet pipe and having a cone angle substantially identical to that of the inlet pipe, and the at least one additional gas guide pipe is formed by a plurality of pipes that are nested one inside the other by a plurality of conical pipes which are nested one inside the other. | 7,022 |
9,172,117 | 1. A method of operating a battery-operated device enabling prioritization of battery usage for a plurality of tasks formed by one or more tasks for each application of a plurality of applications of the battery-operated device, the method comprising: for each task of the one or more tasks for each application of the plurality of applications of the battery-operated device: wherein at least one of the preceding actions is performed on at least one electronic hardware component including at least one processor and memory containing software executable by the at least one processor whereby the at least one electronic hardware component is configured to perform the at least one of the preceding actions. | 31,195 |
9,143,071 | 1. A method of controlling a wind power installation having a generator having a stator, a pole wheel that includes a plurality of rotor poles with a respective pole winding, and an air gap between the stator and the pole wheel, the method comprising: controlling a respective exciter current through each pole winding, and wherein further including at least one of the following two steps: varying at least one of the exciter currents through a first pole winding relative to at least one of the exciter currents through a second pole winding; and varying at least one of the exciter currents in dependence on a position of the pole wheel relative to the stator. | 27,868 |
8,682,572 | 1. A method for evaluating fuel consumption efficiency of a vehicle driven by a driver, comprising: a. collecting data associated with said driver's driving performance from a plurality of sensors comprised in said vehicle; b. identifying, by a processor, a plurality of driving events based on the data collected and determining weighted effects of the driving events, wherein the weightings are based upon a specific driver's own performance, wherein each of the weighted effects is the impact of each of these events upon the vehicle's fuel consumption when the vehicle is being driven by said driver; c. estimating, by said processor, the driver's performance in at least one driving event from among the identified plurality of driving events, wherein that at least one event when poorly performed is associated with increased fuel consumption, taking into account the weighted effects; and d. based on the estimated driver's performance of the at least one driving event, making an evaluation of a fuel consumption efficiency of the vehicle driven by said driver and providing said evaluation as a readable output to said driver. | 4,604 |
9,551,321 | 1. A method for controlling a wind turbine, the method comprising: measuring a loading condition acting on the wind turbine; determining a first scaler factor based on the measured loading condition; determining a correction parameter for the wind turbine, the correction parameter a function of at least two measured operating conditions and representative of a real-time operational state of the wind turbine; determining a second scaler factor based on the correction parameter; calculating an adjustment set point for the wind turbine by multiplying the first scaler factor by the second scaler factor; and, controlling the wind turbine based on the adjustment set point. | 36,960 |
9,567,671 | 1. Apparatus for depositing a plurality of atomic layers on a substrate, the apparatus comprising a deposition head configured for rotating through a rotation trajectory, the deposition head having an output face configured to at least partly face the substrate and supply a precursor gas to the substrate via a precursor gas supply, wherein the output face has a substantially rounded shape defining a movement path of the substrate, the apparatus configured to deposit the plurality of atomic layers during movement of the substrate through the apparatus, the apparatus further comprising a transporter configured to transport the substrate towards and away from the deposition head, wherein the transporter is configured for moving the substrate towards the deposition head at a first position, and wherein the transporter is configured for moving the substrate away from the deposition head at a second position, to thereby define a first part of the rotation trajectory where the precursor gas supply faces the substrate and a second part of the rotation trajectory where the precursor gas supply does not face the substrate; a gas switching structure configured for switching between | 10,299 |
8,750,262 | 1. A method of operating a mobile wireless communications device, comprising: receiving at least a portion of a beacon signal including at least one beacon symbol from another communications device; making a signal transmission decision based on priority information communicated by said received beacon signal portion, said priority information including a session priority level, said session priority level being the higher priority level of two devices in a communications session to which the session priority level corresponds; and wherein making a signal transmission decision includes deciding to transmit user data at a transmission power level which is determined by the mobile wireless communications device as a function of at least one of a user priority level or the session priority level. | 40,014 |
9,769,536 | 1. A virtual broadcast server adapted to concurrently route each of a plurality of segments of digital content to a plurality of client nodes of an underlying network for concurrent playback of the segment by the plurality of client nodes, the virtual broadcast server comprising: (a) an overlay network database adapted to store a network topology representing a current state of an overlay network built on top of the underlying network, wherein the network topology of the overlay network includes: (b) a performance tracker adapted to monitor metrics from network traffic among the plurality of client nodes along the overlay network; (c) a learning engine adapted to: (d) an overlay network creator adapted to dynamically reconfigure the network topology of the overlay network based at least in part upon changes in the quantified congestion levels, by modifying the set of routing paths. | 44,366 |
8,912,446 | 1. A termination structure for a superconducting cable, comprising: a first tube including a conductive rod therein to form a room temperature section; and a second tube including a conductive rod therein to form a temperature gradient section; wherein the first tube and the second tube are directly joined by a spacer as a seal between the room temperature section and the temperature gradient section, | 15,065 |
8,974,703 | 1. A conductive paste comprising: a conductive powder; a metallic glass, the metallic glass being an alloy having a disordered structure, the metallic glass including a first element having a heat of mixing value with the conductive powder of less than 0; and an organic vehicle. | 21,781 |
9,126,539 | 1. A load-carrying device for use with a vehicle rack, the device comprising: an elongate body having a load-bearing surface, a first end portion, and a second end portion opposite the first end portion; and an elongate arm having a distal end and a proximal end opposite the distal end, the proximal end attached to the second end portion of the elongate body by a pivot assembly, the pivot assembly including a prop member having a first pivotal connection to the second end portion of the elongate body and a second pivotal connection to a location on the arm spaced from the proximal end, and a slide assembly pivotally connected to the proximal end of the arm, the slide assembly being configured to constrain motion of the proximal end of the arm to a discrete linear path running along a length of the elongate body; wherein the arm is configured to pivot between a collapsed position and an in-use position, and the proximal end of the arm moves toward the first end portion of the elongate body when the arm is pivoted from the collapsed position to the in-use position. | 20,431 |
9,705,106 | 1. A flexible organic light emitting display comprising: a first ultra-thin film glass substrate including aluminum silicide; a thin film transistor (TFT) element on the first ultra-thin film glass substrate; and an organic light emitting element on the TFT element, wherein the aluminum silicide of the first ultra-thin film substrate has a higher concentration in an area of the first ultra-thin film glass substrate farther away from the TFT element than in any other area. | 25,289 |
9,162,902 | 1. A method for removing selenium-containing materials from an aqueous solution comprising: introducing an unmodified TiO adjusting the pH of the mixed solution with addition of an acid or base additive; transferring the mixed solution to a reactor that produces UV light with a 315-400 nm wavelength range; exposing the mixed solution to the UV light to induce photocatalytic reduction and removal of selenium oxyanions from the mixed solution in the form of elemental selenium. | 43,064 |
8,524,406 | 1. A fuel cell system including a fuel cell, for conducting, depending on a necessity of a warm-up, a rapid warm-up operation performing a rapid warm-up on the fuel cell at the time of starting at a temperature blow freezing point, the system comprising: a memory programmed to store an operation termination condition of the last operation of the system; a judgment device which calculates a remaining amount of product water based on data read out from the memory at the time of starting the system to make judgments, from the remaining amount and a start-up associated temperature which reflects an internal temperature of the fuel cell at the time of starting, on whether or not a rapid warm-up of the system is necessary and whether to start without circulating the cooling water of the fuel cell when a rapid warm-up is necessary; and a power generation control device which conducts the rapid warm-up operation by executing, based on the judgment result provided by the judgment device, with or without circulating the cooling water, a low-efficiency power generation where a reactant gas to be supplied to the fuel cell is less than that in a normal power generation and an electronic power loss is larger than that in a normal power generation, wherein the judgment device comprises an impedance measuring function programmed to measure an impedance of the fuel cell and an associated temperature measuring function programmed to measure an associated temperature which reflects the internal temperature of the fuel cell, and calculates the remaining amount of the product water by a formula based on data including the measurement result of the impedance at the time of the last termination of the operation and the measurement result of the associated temperature, wherein the data includes an impedance at the time of the last termination of the operation of the fuel cell, the associated temperature at the time of the last termination of the operation of the fuel cell, and an accumulated amount of scavenging air for discharging water in the fuel cell at the time of the last termination of the operation of the fuel cell, wherein a graph of the start-up associated temperature of the fuel cell—the remaining amount of the product water (Vw) is divided into a plurality of zones, and a judgment whether to start without circulating the cooling water is made depending on which zone of the plurality of zones the start-up associated temperature at the time of starting the fuel cell and the remaining amount at the time of starting the fuel cell belong to, and wherein the fuel cell system is mounted on a fuel cell vehicle, and, at the time of starting at a temperature below freezing point, a judgment whether the fuel cell vehicle can drive is made by the judgment device. | 25,272 |
8,342,314 | 1. Object transfer device comprising: a frame, a gripper including a gripper body, a guiding member adapted to guide the gripper body with respect to the frame; the gripper including: wherein the operating device comprises a magnetic element and is capable of overcoming the action of the return device only when the magnetic element is subjected to a magnetic field greater than an efficiency threshold, and wherein the frame comprises a control device of the gripper capable of creating a magnetic field greater than the efficiency threshold in at least one zone of the frame dedicated to the operation of the gripper; said guiding member being designed so that the magnetic element of the gripper is driven along a movement path passing through the operation zone of the gripper defined by the control device. | 23,492 |
9,507,594 | 1. A computer-implemented method of compiling a program code into predicated instructions, comprising: extracting, from control flow of the program code, constraints between instructions of the program code; solving constraint problem between the instructions by determining and assigning a value to a predicate vector that satisfies the constraints to each of the instructions; and generating a predicate guard and a predicate update for each of the instructions based on the predicate vector to control sequencing of instruction execution of each of the instructions to turn the instructions into the predicated instructions that can be executed on a processor that does not include any program counter which controls sequencing of instruction execution, wherein the predicate guard and predicate update of an instruction provide sequencing information of the corresponding instruction when the corresponding instruction is executed on the processor that does not include any program counter that controls sequencing of instruction execution, wherein the predicate guard of an instruction controls whether the corresponding instruction should be executed and the predicate update of an instruction updates a predicate register bit of the processor which controls when the corresponding instruction is executed. | 127 |
9,710,325 | 1. A method of operating non-volatile storage, comprising: a) reading a first unit of data stored in a group of non-volatile storage elements on a memory die using a plurality of different read levels; b) storing results of reads at the two most recent different read levels on the memory die; c) determining a count of how many of the non-volatile storage elements in the group showed a different result between the reads at the two most recent read levels; d) determining whether a minimum of the count is greater than a threshold number; e) storing the first unit of data in a data latches on the memory die without applying error correction if the minimum count is less than or equal to the threshold number; f) storing the first unit of data in the data latches on the memory die with applying error correction if the minimum count is greater than the threshold number, including: | 46,540 |
9,336,495 | 1. A method for training a semantic indexing model comprising: providing a search engine with a first query; receiving a set of documents of a plurality of documents related to the first query from the search engine; generating, by at least one hardware processor, an expanded query by merging at least a portion of a subset of the set of the documents with the first query; and training the semantic indexing model based on the expanded query; wherein the training comprises presenting at least a portion of the plurality of documents to a user, receiving indications of which of the plurality of documents are relevant to the expanded query and which of the plurality of documents are irrelevant to the expanded query; wherein the training updates the model based on the expanded query, the documents that are relevant to the expanded query and the documents that are irrelevant to the expanded query; wherein the updating comprises modifying the model by computing the model such that is minimized, where f is the model, q′ denotes the expanded query, d + denotes documents that are relevant to the query q′ and d − denotes documents that are irrelevant to the query q′. | 15,820 |
8,987,740 | 1. A method of forming an electromagnetic radiation detector comprising: forming at least one buried electrode in an insulator layer; forming a graphene layer over said insulator layer; forming at least one p-n junction within said graphene layer, wherein one of said at least one p-n junction does not overlie, and is laterally offset from a sidewall of, one of said at least one buried electrode; forming at least one first upper electrode, wherein each of said at least one first upper electrode has a pair of sidewalls that overlie a top surface of one of said at least one buried electrode; forming at least one second upper electrode that does not overlie, and is laterally offset from sidewalls of, said at least one buried electrode; and forming a measurement circuitry configured to measure an electrical current between, or an electrical voltage across, said at least one first upper electrode and said at least one second upper electrode. | 12,795 |
8,820,466 | 1. A working machine wherein: a motor mounted on a machine body such that a shaft center of an output shaft thereof coincides with a lateral direction of the machine body; an engine hood covering the motor is provided with an open/close cover that can open an inside of the engine hood backward; a compressor bracket attached on a lateral surface of the motor on an output shaft side, with a compressor at a position behind the output shaft of the motor is attached and fixed; and an alternator positioned behind the output shaft of the motor and vertically displaced in position from the compressor, wherein the compressor bracket is provided with a tension pulley that provides tension to a compressor belt that transmits power of the motor to the compressor, and wherein the compressor bracket is provided with a belt tension adjusting mechanism that makes an adjustment of the tension of the compressor belt from a back side of the engine hood, the tension being provided by the tension pulley. | 25,038 |
9,210,969 | 1. A disconnectable connecting device comprising: a second coupling mechanism; a first connecting device, wherein said first connecting device comprises a flexible strap having a length extending in a longitudinal direction, wherein said strap includes a first end and a second end and a first side and a second side, wherein at least one of said first side and said second side proximate said first end includes a plurality of engagement elements that are configured to engage with a corresponding engagement opening disposed in said second coupling mechanism, said first connecting device further including a first coupling mechanism disposed on said second end of said strap, said first coupling mechanism configured for being removably connected with said second coupling mechanism for forming a disconnectable connecting device; wherein one of said first and second coupling mechanisms comprises a male connecting mechanism and the other of said first and second coupling mechanism comprises a female connecting mechanism; said male connecting mechanism comprising a central, fixed protrusion extending co-axially with said longitudinal direction of said flexible strap and configured for engaging in a corresponding central channel in said female connecting mechanism, and first and second flexible coupling members extending co-axially with said longitudinal direction of said flexible strap length, each of said first and second flexible coupling members disposed on opposite sides of said central, fixed protrusion and having an inner surface confronting said central fixed protrusion and an outer surface opposite said inner surface, said outer surface of each of said first and second flexible coupling members including an engagement shoulder, configured for engaging with a corresponding engagement shoulder in said female connecting mechanism, each of said first and second flexible coupling members flexible in a direction transverse to said longitudinal direction of said strap length when depressed without the use of a tool urging said first and second flexible coupling members toward said central fixed protrusion of said male connecting mechanism; and said female connecting mechanism including first and second flexible coupling member engagement regions disposed on opposite sides of said female connecting mechanism central channel, each of said first and second flexible coupling member engagement regions including an opening configured for receiving one of said first and second flexible coupling members and for providing access to said first and second flexible coupling members once inserted into said first and second flexible coupling member engagement regions without the use of, said first and second flexible coupling member engagement regions further including an engagement shoulder, configured for engaging with a corresponding engagement shoulder of one of said first and second flexible coupling member engagement shoulders of said first and second flexible coupling members of said male connecting mechanism when said male connecting mechanism is inserted in a first direction linearly co-axially with said longitudinal direction of said flexible strap into said female connecting mechanism, and configured for linearly co-axially with said longitudinal direction of said flexible strap disengaging from said female connecting mechanism in a second direction opposite said first direction when both said first and second flexible coupling members of said male connecting mechanism are urged inward toward said central, fixed protrusion of said male connecting mechanism. | 19,583 |
8,730,447 | 1. A lithographic apparatus comprising: a projection system; a liquid confinement structure configured to at least partly confine immersion liquid to an immersion space defined by the projection system, the liquid confinement structure and a substrate and/or a substrate table; a humid gas space defined between the projection system, the liquid confinement structure and the immersion liquid in the immersion space, the humid gas space configured to contain humid gas to within the humid gas space; and an opening, to the humid gas space and connected or connectable to a source of the humid gas, configured to supply the humid gas to the humid gas space. | 7,653 |
9,601,722 | 1. A method of manufacturing a display device, the method comprising: providing a first electrode on a base substrate; providing a fluorine-containing pixel defining layer on the base substrate and the first electrode such that the pixel defining layer exposes at least a portion of the first electrode; pretreating the first electrode; and providing an organic layer on the first electrode after pretreating the first electrode, wherein pretreating the first electrode includes: | 15,925 |
8,484,942 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: a fan, a first compressor rotor and a second compressor rotor; a first turbine rotor and a second turbine rotor, and wherein said first turbine rotor drives said second compressor rotor as a high spool, and wherein said second turbine rotor drives said first compressor rotor as part of a low spool, and a gear reduction driving said fan with said low spool at a reduced speed, and such that said fan and said first compressor rotor rotate in the same direction, and wherein said high spool operates at higher pressures than said low spool; a lubrication system for lubricating components across a rotation gap, the lubrication system including a lubricant input, a stationary first bearing receiving lubricant from said lubricant input and having an inner first race in which lubricant flows, and a second bearing for rotation within said first bearing, said second bearing having a first opening in registration with said inner first race such that lubricant may flow from said inner first race through said first opening into a first conduit; and said first bearing also having an inner second race into which lubricant flows, and said second bearing having a second opening in registration with said inner second race such that lubricant may flow from said inner second race through said second opening into a second conduit, with said first and second conduits delivering lubricant to distinct locations. | 7,128 |
8,651,915 | 1. An object for entertaining a viewer comprising: an at least partially rigid base material comprising at least one flexible portion formed into the shape of the object such that the base material retains the shape of the object; and metal particles blended with the base material in at least a portion of the shape of the object, wherein a plurality of portions of the object contain different densities of metal particles blended with the base material, wherein the metal particles blended with the base material react to a magnetic field generated by a drive magnet positioned near the object, such that the reaction of the metal particles animates at least the at least one flexible portion of the shape of the object. | 23,138 |
9,831,063 | 1. A method for implanting selenium, said method comprising flowing a feedstock gas to an implanter with a co-flow gas that is effective to combat at least one of the ion source failure modes of (i) sputtering of a cathode, (ii) deposition of solids on insulating surfaces, and (iii) solids buildup that causes shorting between two components of differing electric potential, and (iv) solids buildup on the cathode, wherein the feedstock gas comprises an organoselenium compound that is isotopically enriched above natural abundance in at least one selenium isotope, said organoselenium compound is of the formula R′SeR″ wherein each R can comprise hydrogen, halide, alkyl, alkoxy, or nitrogen-containing functionality and wherein the organoselenium compound isotopically enriched above natural abundance of at least one selenium isotope of | 47,845 |
8,805,360 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption and enhancing user experience in a mobile wireless device, the method comprising: during operation of the mobile wireless device; | 8,192 |
8,739,184 | 1. A method for aggregating data regarding a system component from a plurality of data sources to provide a single aggregated Common Information Model (“CIM”) object to a requesting client application, the method comprising: a CIM object manager (“CIMOM”) requesting data regarding a system component from a first one of the data sources connected to the CIMOM; upon receipt of the requested system component data from the first one of the data sources, the CIMOM updating an aggregate CIM object for the system component using the received system component data in accordance with a priority of the first one of the data sources relative to the remaining data sources; and repeating the requesting and updating in connection with each of the remaining data sources in accordance with a relative priority of the remaining data source. | 22,717 |
8,350,991 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a display screen; an internal light source; a translucent layer; and a reflector, wherein: | 39,243 |
8,545,749 | 1. A method of making cementitious-based material having a compressive strength greater than about 1,000 psi, the method comprising: placing a plastic cementitious-based material in an insulated concrete form or mold wherein the insulated concrete form or mold has an R-value of at least 1.5 whereby at least a portion of the initial heat of hydration of the cementitious-based material is retained in the insulated concrete form or mold; wherein the cementitious-based material comprises: | 18,572 |
9,564,802 | 1. An electric power conversion device expressed as an equivalent circuit comprising: a power supply; a first parasitic inductance; a first diode; a second parasitic inductance connected to the first diode in series; a second diode connected to the first diode in parallel; a third parasitic inductance connected to the second diode in series; a switching element; a gate circuit; and a load, wherein the equivalent circuit includes a first circuit loop and a second circuit loop, the first circuit loop includes the power supply, the first parasitic inductance, the first diode, the second parasitic inductance, the switching element, and the gate circuit, the second circuit loop includes the power supply, the first parasitic inductance, the second diode, the third parasitic inductance, the switching element, and the gate circuit, where a first LC resonance frequency based on the first parasitic inductance and the second parasitic inductance of the first circuit loop and a junction capacitance of the first diode is denoted as f 1 and a second LC resonance frequency based on the first parasitic inductance and the third parasitic inductance of the second circuit loop and a junction capacitance of the second diode is denoted as f 2 , the first LC resonance frequency f 1 and the second LC resonance frequency f 2 are different frequencies. | 42,843 |
9,677,642 | 1. A torque damper apparatus comprising: an input member to which an engine torque is inputted; damper springs configured to absorb variation of torque inputted from the input member; and a driving power of the engine configured to be transmitted to an output shaft of a vehicle via the input member and the damper springs, wherein: the damper springs comprise a plurality of coil springs arranged along a circumference of the input member; the torque damper apparatus further comprises a first separate member and a second separate member interposed between the damper springs and configured to be independently rotated with respect to each other when the engine torque is transmitted thereto; wherein the first separate member has an outer wall portion positioned at an outer side of the damper springs so that it opposes the outer side surfaces of the damper springs; and wherein the second separate member has an inner wall portion positioned at an inner side of the damper springs so that it opposes to the inner side surfaces of the damper springs. | 41,750 |
8,567,540 | 1. A drive unit, comprising: an input driven by a power source; a differential mechanism; a drum connecting the input and the differential; an electric machine including a rotor; and a planetary gearset located at least partially within the drum for transmitting power from the rotor and the input to drive the differential slower than a rotor speed. | 33,088 |
9,138,213 | 1. A device for occluding an aperture in tissue, the device comprising: a first flexible wire; a second flexible wire, wherein each of the first and second wires is comprised of a shape memory material, wherein each of the first and second wires has a first and a second end; and a hub, wherein each of the first and second ends of the first and second wires are connected to the hub, wherein each of the first and second wires is shaped into first and second geometric forms such that the first geometric form of the first wire and the first geometric form of the second wire form a first plate in a first plane, and the second geometric form of the first wire and the second geometric form of the second wire form a second plate in a second plane that is remote from the first plane, and wherein the first and second plates are separated by a waist, the waist comprising a first waist portion and a second waist portion, the first waist portion having a first length, and the second waist portion having a second length that is greater than the first length. | 27,464 |
9,114,881 | 1. A modular expandable cooling system for use on aircraft having an on-board evaporator through which refrigerant circulates to cool a portion of the aircraft, the cooling system comprising: a rack sized for receiving a plurality of modular cooling units and having a rack inlet connected to a ram air source taken from an exterior surface of the aircraft; and one of the plurality of modular cooling units including: | 47,165 |
8,872,484 | 1. A power supply, comprising: a harmonic generator component, comprising: | 35,326 |
9,530,461 | 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more non-volatile memory devices; a volatile memory system; a memory controller coupled with the one or more non-volatile memory devices and the volatile memory system; the memory controller having therein at least an embedded control agent and memory locations to store state information; wherein the memory controller is to turn off power to the one or more non-volatile memory devices; wherein the memory controller is to copy the state information to the volatile memory system prior to entering a low power state and further cause the volatile memory system to enter the low power state; wherein the embedded control agent is to transition the apparatus out of a deep sleep mode by restoring the state information previously copied to the volatile memory system to the memory controller bypassing a rebuilding state when turning the one or more non-volatile memory devices back on after the memory controller turned off power to the one or more non-volatile memory devices; and control circuitry coupled with the memory controller, the control circuitry to selectively enable and disable operation of the memory controller. | 41,999 |
9,161,134 | 1. An acoustic generator comprising: an exciter that receives input of an electric signal and vibrates; a vibrating body to which the exciter is attached and that vibrates together with the exciter with vibration of the exciter; a resin layer that is provided so as to embed the exciter therein and cover at least a part of a surface of the vibrating body; and a damping member that is attached to a surface of the resin layer and has a non-uniform thickness in a direction orthogonal to a vibration surface of the vibrating body, wherein the damping member is provided in an area in which the damping member overlaps with at least the exciter when viewing from the direction orthogonal to the vibration surface of the vibrating body. | 34,525 |
9,692,821 | 1. A computer-implemented method for transferring a state of an application from a second computing device to a first computing device, the method comprising: detecting a presence of a second computing device, wherein the detecting of the presence is based on a proximity of the second computing device to a first computing device; receiving from the second computing device, a request to initiate a transfer of a state of a first application on the second computing device, wherein a second application on the first computing device is configured to restore the state of the first application; sending to the second computing device, in response to the received request, an approval to initiate the transfer; receiving from the second computing device, based on the sent approval, the state of the first application; and sending to the second computing device, an indication of a successful transfer. | 24,918 |
8,661,179 | 1. A cache memory architecture including a cache memory, comprising: a segment memory configured to contain at least one most significant bit of a main memory address, said at least one most significant bit being common to addresses in a particular main memory segment that includes said main memory address, wherein said segment memory is distinct and separate from said cache memory and a tag memory; said tag memory configured to contain tags that include other bits of said main memory address; and combinatorial logic associated with said segment memory and said tag memory and configured to concurrently compare said at least one most significant bit and said other bits to corresponding portions of a requested main memory address and indicate a cache hit only when both said at least one most significant bit and said other bits match said requested main memory address. | 5,703 |
9,103,182 | 1. A control line assembly for a surface wellhead, comprising: a main housing assembly having an end selectively mounted to the wellhead; a stem in the housing assembly; a penetrating end on the stem extending through a passage in the wellhead; a metal seal ring located at the penetrating end for sealingly engaging a tubing hanger installed within the wellhead when energized; a locking ring that circumscribes the stem and that is in selective restraining contact with the stem; and a hydraulically actuated locking piston that is in engaging contact with the locking ring. | 40,352 |
9,184,895 | 1. A method of interference alignment in a cellular network, comprising: receiving, by a base station, an improper signal from a terminal; and decoding, by the base station, the improper signal based on an improper decoding vector, wherein the improper signal is a signal generated by only a modulation symbol corresponding to a real number value, the improper decoding vector is determined based on an improper precoding vector, and the improper precoding vector has only the real value and separates a real number space and an imaginary number space of a received signal. | 2,838 |
8,512,601 | 1. A paste composition for a solar cell electrode containing a conductive silver powder, a glass frit, and a vehicle, the glass frit being made of glass containing PbO, B | 6,776 |
8,389,214 | 1. A method of increasing carbon flow into a metabolic pathway of a PTS − /Glu − bacterial host cell originally capable of utilizing a phosphotransferase transport system (PTS) for carbohydrate transport comprising, a) modifying an endogenous chromosomal regulatory region which is operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a glucose assimilation protein in a PTS b) allowing integration of the DNA construct to restore a Glu+ phenotype; and c) culturing the transformed host cell under suitable culture conditions, wherein carbon flow into a metabolic pathway of the transformed host cell is increased compared to carbon flow into the corresponding metabolic pathway in a PTS bacterial host cell cultured under essentially the same culture conditions. | 34,695 |
8,788,552 | 1. A deterministic random number generator comprising: number series generator adapted to generate an infinite Pi series; a summation generator adapted to generate a partial sum of said infinite Pi series; a computer adapted to compute a finite sequence from said partial sum of infinite Pi series; a shuffler adapted to shuffle said computed finite sequence, using a shuffling seed mechanism having a first pre-defined primitive polynomial seed operator and a second pre-defined prime number seed operator, to obtain a shuffled sequence; a one-way masker adapted to apply a one-way masking function to said shuffled sequence to obtain a masked sequence; a non-linear function processor adapted to irreversibly process said masked sequence to obtain a non-linear processed sequence so that said masked sequence and said non-linear processed sequence cannot be correlated; and a linear feedback shift register adapted to receive and shift bits of said non-linear processed sequence in a pre-determined manner to obtain a deterministic random number. | 10,579 |
9,417,846 | 1. A data processing system, comprising: a memory; and a first processing cluster coupled to the memory, wherein the first processing cluster includes a processing unit that is configured to: receive, at a storage subsystem, a first deliver a random number (DARN) operation from a processor core associated with the storage subsystem; in response to receiving the first DARN operation at the storage system, retrieve, by the storage subsystem, a first value from a first base address register (BAR) of the storage subsystem, wherein the first value corresponds to an address of an assigned random number generator (RNG) unit; issue, by the storage subsystem, the first DARN operation with the first value on a first bus, wherein the first bus couples the first processing units to a first RNG unit; in response to issuing the first DARN operation on the first bus, receive, by the processing unit, at least one of a first data and a first indication from the first RNG unit when a second value stored in a second BAR of the first RNG unit is the same as the first value, wherein at least one of the first data and the first indication specifies whether the first RNG unit is functional; and | 16,161 |
9,584,040 | 1. A secondary-side rectifier of an inductive n-phase energy transmission system with n being an integer greater than or equal to 3, the energy transmission system comprising: in each phase a resonant oscillating circuit, each resonant oscillating circuit including at least one inductor and at least one capacitor, wherein the resonant oscillating circuits are star-connected or mesh-connected, the rectifier connected to the oscillating circuits via conductors, wherein the rectifier comprises a series connection of a plurality of diodes with identical conducting directions, wherein, with respect to the oscillating circuits, a first diode of the series connection of diodes is directly connected only between a first pair of the oscillating circuits and wherein a second diode of the series connection of diodes is directly connected only between a second, different pair of the oscillating circuits, each conductor being connected to an anode of one of the diodes, a smoothing capacitor, connected in parallel with the series connection of diodes, wherein a first connecting point of the smoothing capacitor is connected via one of the conductors to an anode of the first diode of the series connection of diodes, and a second connecting point of the smoothing capacitor is connected to a cathode of a last diode of the series connection of diodes, and an output voltage of the rectifier is generated at the first connecting point and the second connecting point of the smoothing capacitor. | 9,570 |
8,695,007 | 1. A computer system comprising: one or more physical processors; and a hypervisor configured to construct multiple virtual computers, each having one or more virtual processors and running on the one or more physical processors, wherein the hypervisor is configured to carry out, for each first cycle, which is a scheduling initialization cycle: (A) virtual processor scheduling initialization; and (B) virtual processor scheduling, and wherein in the (A), the hypervisor is configured to: (a1) calculate, based on a sum of operating frequencies of respective physical processors and a length of the first cycle, a total number of processor cycles, which is a number of processor cycles of the one or more physical processors in the first cycle; and (a2) calculate, with respect to each virtual computer, a number of possessing cycles, which is a value obtained by a distribution of the total number of processor cycles in proportion to service ratios of the multiple virtual computers, in the (B), the hypervisor is configured to: (b1) cause a virtual processor in a virtual computer to run on any of the one or more physical processors based on the number of possessing cycles of each virtual computer. | 40,027 |
9,136,487 | 1. A display device comprising: an insulating and flexible substrate on which an adhesive layer is formed; a support layer adhered to the substrate via the adhesive layer; a cell array formed above the support layer, defining a plurality of pixel regions; a light emitting array comprising a plurality of light emitting structures formed on the cell array to correspond to the plurality of pixel regions; a sealing layer formed on the cell array to seal the light emitting array; a buffer layer, a shielding layer, and a bottom insulating layer formed between the support layer and the cell array, wherein the light emitting array emits light toward the sealing layer; and a ground line formed in a contact hole partially exposing the shielding layer and connected between a ground voltage source of an external circuit and the shielding layer. | 36,771 |
9,851,422 | 1. A shim coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance tomography system, the shim coil arrangement comprising: a printed circuit board comprising one side with a plurality of spacers integrated with the printed circuit board, and an opposite side coated with copper with at least one shim coil etched in the copper; wherein the plurality of spacers are configured to contact a shim coil of an adjacent shim coil arrangement. | 26,717 |
9,180,789 | 1. An electric vehicle comprising: an electronic control unit having a first driving mode for performing no limitation on a power performance of the electric vehicle or performing a predetermined limitation on the power performance and a second driving mode for performing a greater limitation on the power performance than the first driving mode thereby to make electric power consumption smaller than the first driving mode; and a mode changer switch that switches between the first driving mode and the second driving mode, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to: perform both of an output limiting control process for limiting an output of a driving electric motor and a vehicle speed limiting control process for limiting a vehicle speed of the electric vehicle when the mode changer switch selects second driving mode; judge whether a driver of the electric vehicle enters a limitation interrupting request into an input device or not; interrupt both of the output limiting control process and the vehicle speed limiting control process if the driver enters the limitation interrupting request into the input device even when the mode changer switch selects the second driving mode; and resume the output limiting control process while continuing to interrupt the vehicle speed limiting control process if the driver stops entering the limitation interrupting request into the input device while the mode changer switch continues selecting the second driving mode. | 18,656 |
8,570,645 | 1. A device for deflecting a beam of light, said device comprising: a first deflecting member for deflecting a fraction of the beam of light by a first angle, said first deflecting member comprising a first prism comprising: a second deflecting member for deflecting a fraction of the beam of light by a second angle, said second deflecting member comprising a second prism comprising: a rotating member having at least a first state, said rotating member being configured, when in its first state, for rotating the polarization of the beam of light by 90 degrees, said rotating member being located between said first deflecting member and said second deflecting member. | 37,632 |
9,717,759 | 1. An isolated genetically modified cell comprising a genomic modification within exon 2 of a CXCR4 gene, wherein the genomic modification is introduced using a nuclease that binds to a target site as shown in any of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:16, SEQ ID NO:21 or SEQ ID NO:25, the genomic modification comprising a deletion, wherein the CXCR4 gene is inactivated and further wherein if the genomic modification further comprises an insertion, the insertion is a non-coding sequence of less than 3 base pairs. | 10,714 |
9,346,628 | 1. A handling device for handling workpieces, comprising a rotor mounted for rotation about a rotor axis, a rotary drive for introducing a rotary motion into the rotor and at least one workholder assembly, the workholder assembly comprising at least two workholders, which are mounted on the rotor and designed for an at least paired picking up of workpieces at a pickup position and for an at least paired delivery of workpieces at a delivery position during the rotary motion of the rotor, and further comprising adjusting means, which are coupled to at least one workholder of the workholder assembly, and which are designed for a cyclical adjustment of a spacing of workholders of the workholder assembly as a function of the rotary motion of the rotor, wherein the spacing is adjusted by a linear parallel displacement of the least one workholder of the workholder assembly with respect to a second workholder of the workholder assembly. | 48,575 |
8,657,386 | 1. A vehicle wheel comprising a heat-insulation rubber that covers a portion of a rim outer circumference surface where air in a tire air chamber contacts, wherein the heat insulating rubber is disposed centrally along the rim outer circumference surface and spaced apart in a rim width direction from a bead seating portion of the rim outer circumference surface disposed on each side thereof, the heat insulating rubber is U-shaped in cross-section with a base portion and a substantially perpendicular side portion disposed on each end of the base portion, the heat insulating rubber disposed against the outer surface of a well portion of the rim, the side portions of the heat insulating rubber have a part whose thickness gradually decreases as a location at the part goes toward an end part of each side portion of the heat-insulation rubber, the end part of each side portion of the heat-insulation rubber extends up to abut a base of a hump portion on the rim outer circumference surface, and the hump portion is disposed between the bead seating portion and the end part of the heat-insulation rubber. | 44,238 |
8,978,732 | 1. A sonotrode holder for an oscillatable fastening of a sonotrode at a carrier, wherein a direction of oscillation extends from the carrier to the sonotrode, the sonotrode holder comprising: at least one oscillating body having at least one cut-out, with the oscillating body being connected at one end to the sonotrode and having a mount which is configured for fastening to the carrier, the oscillating body having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface confines the cut-out, and the mount is connected to the oscillating body at the outer surface in a region of an oscillating node. | 21,530 |
9,261,959 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: causing at least one projection of a beam of light to span a distance across an eye; receiving data regarding reflections of light off of the eye from the at least one projection; determining an edge of a pupil of the eye from the data; and in response, (i) adjusting a subsequent projection of a beam of light onto the eye to span a shorter distance across the eye than the at least one projection and to pass through or near the determined edge, (ii) receiving data regarding reflections of light off of the eye from the subsequent projection, and (iii) determining, from the data, whether the location of the edge of the pupil has changed. | 32,102 |
9,705,012 | 1. A method for passivating a surface of crystalline iron disulfide, comprising: sputtering iron disulfide to form a layer of crystalline iron disulfide on a substrate, wherein the layer has a surface comprising crystal surfaces; and depositing a capping layer of epitaxial zinc sulfide onto the surface of the crystalline iron disulfide layer under vacuum, wherein the crystal surfaces of the crystalline iron disulfide are encapsulated by the epitaxial zinc sulfide capping layer; wherein the epitaxial zinc sulfide capping layer passivates sulfur atoms present on the crystal surfaces on the surface of the crystalline iron disulfide layer, thereby reducing surface defects as compared to a crystalline iron disulfide layer not capped with a zinc sulfide capping layer. | 7,430 |
9,023,476 | 1. A resin particle (C) comprising a microparticle (A) containing a resin (a) being coated to or adhered to the surface of a resin particle (B) containing a resin (b), wherein the degree of swelling of the microparticle (A) resulting from liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide (X) at a temperature less than the glass transition temperature or the melting point of the microparticle (A) is no greater than 16%, and the resin (a) contains, as a constituent unit, 0.1 to 50 wt % of a non-crystalline non-halogen vinyl monomer (m1) having a solubility parameter [SP value: (cal/cm wherein the non-crystalline non-halogen vinyl monomer (m1) is at least one kind of vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of a silicone-containing vinyl monomer (m11) and a branched alkyl group-containing vinyl monomer (m12) having a carbon number of 8 to 30. | 48,461 |
9,720,402 | 1. A method for facilitating monitoring and control of an industrial process by means of a portable device comprising a projector arranged to project process graphics associated with process components of the industrial process, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a) obtaining, by means of the portable device, process component identification data of a process component; b) obtaining distance data for determining a distance between the portable device and the process component; c) obtaining a process graphics image based on the process component identification data and the distance data for projection by the portable device, wherein the process graphics image is associated with a portion of the industrial process comprising the process component, and wherein information contained in the process graphics image is based on the distance between the portable device and the process component; and d) obtaining an orientation of the projector of the portable device relative to the process component, wherein in the step c) the information contained in the process graphics image is further based on the obtained orientation, wherein the step d) of obtaining an orientation of the projector of the portable device relative to the process component determines which portion of the process graphics describing the industrial process and containing a representation of the process component is obtained in the process graphics image in the step c). | 5,789 |
9,096,270 | 1. A pillar structure for a vehicle, the structure comprising: glass to form a vehicle compartment, including a first glass and a second glass; a pillar to support a roof panel disposed at an upper side of the vehicle compartment; a pillar outer cover provided at an outer side of the pillar, with an outer surface of the pillar outer cover that is adjacent the first glass being at approximately the same height as an outer surface of the first glass that is adjacent the pillar outer cover; a flow passage disposed between the pillar and the pillar outer cover, the flow passage allowing air and rain water that flows over an outer surface of the first glass due to running of a vehicle to flow therethrough; an inlet port provided to the flow passage, the inlet port being configured to allow the air and rain water to flow into the flow passage; an air-water separator provided to the flow passage, the air-water separator configured to separate air and rain water which have flowed from the inlet port as a mixture of air and rain water, the air-water separator configured to discharge rain water that is separated from the air in a direction other than a direction toward the second glass; and an air outlet port provided to the flow passage, the air outlet port being configured to flow out the air which has been separated from the rain water by the air-water separator, the air outlet port being disposed at a position with a pressure lower than a pressure in a vicinity of the inlet port during running of the vehicle, the air outlet port being configured to direct the flown out air in a direction corresponding with a direction along which a surface of the second glass extends. | 4,945 |
9,371,792 | 1. A method for an engine control unit to update internal tables based on feedback from an engine without external computing, comprising the steps of: providing flash memory and RAM memory in the engine control unit; copying fuel adjustment values from the flash memory to the RAM memory; modifying the fuel adjustment values copied to the RAM memory based on feedback from sensors while the engine control unit is running; reassigning the engine control unit to stop reading fuel adjustment value from the flash memory and begin reading fuel adjustment values from the RAM memory; and adjusting a fuel to air mixture in the engine based on the fuel adjustment values from the RAM memory. | 2,329 |
8,973,629 | 1. A tubeless tire comprising: a circumferential inflatable tire cavity; means for completely blocking air flow in a circumferential direction of the tire cavity into a chamber, wherein the means is inflatable and is positioned in the tire cavity; and means for partially restricting air-flow in the tire cavity, wherein the chamber exist between the means for partially restricting air-flow and the means for completely blocking air flow and wherein the means for partially restricting air-flow comprises means for permitting air flow into the chamber, wherein the means for partially restricting air-flow is positioned on an opposite side of the means for completely blocking air flow, in the cavity of the tire, and wherein the means for completely blocking air flow comprises one or more of plastic, foam, rubber and latex. | 28,661 |
9,649,613 | 1. A system for reduction of organic materials, comprising: an infeed module for receiving material comprising organic materials and conveying the material into a reducing atmosphere, the infeed module comprising: | 6,377 |
9,604,628 | 1. A method of controlling a vehicle comprising: in response to depression of an accelerator pedal while the vehicle is on and in park or neutral, | 8,770 |
9,574,322 | 1. A hydraulic excavator comprising: an engine; an exhaust gas treatment device treating an exhaust gas from said engine through a reduction reaction; a reducing agent tank arranged forward of said exhaust gas treatment device and storing a reducing agent to be supplied to said exhaust gas treatment device; a revolving frame on which said engine, said exhaust gas treatment device, and said reducing agent tank are mounted; a mount member provided on said revolving frame and located forward of said exhaust gas treatment device and rearward of said reducing agent tank; a fuel tank mounted on said mount member and having a lateral side surface located outward relative to a lateral edge of said revolving frame; an exterior cover laterally covering said mount member; a coolant pipe arranged through a space under said fuel tank and between said mount member and said exterior cover, for directing a coolant for said engine to said reducing agent tank; and a reinforcement plate provided outward of said coolant pipe and inward of said exterior cover. | 45,423 |
9,162,714 | 1. A front end module for a motor vehicle, comprising: a tubular cross-member; and plastic injection molded components that are injection molded around the tubular cross-member, wherein the plastic injection molded components: | 32,514 |
8,573,403 | 1. A blister sheet having a planar back and provided with a blister having first and second pairs of side walls and a front face held spaced from the plane of the back of the sheet by the side walls, the blister being of elongated shape and the first pair of side walls being longer than the second pair of side walls, the first pair of side walls being so formed that they yield under finger pressure applied to the front face of the blister while progressively collapsing from the front face in response to increasing finger pressure being applied to the front face, and the second pair of side walls responding to the finger pressure by tilting towards one another so that any medication dose which may be located against a tilting side wall is displaced towards a position lying beneath the front face and from which it can be ejected by increasing finger pressure, and wherein the first pair of side walls are formed with parallel steps, and the second pair of side walls have their central regions devoid of steps or corrugations and of planar trapezoidal shape so that they can tilt towards one another about their edges where they join the portions of the blister sheet from which the associated blister protrudes. | 36,313 |
8,528,841 | 1. A spray switch for spray gun, comprising: a press handle for controlling water spray; a spray switch being arranged to the press handle for switching a spray mode; wherein the spray switch arranged to the press handle of the spray gun is switched for changing spray modes between manually controlling the press handle for spraying or continuous spraying by a single press, wherein an elastic wire having symmetric guide pins on two ends thereof is clamped to a main pipe of the spray gun; the spray switch has a guide block having symmetric guide on two lateral sides thereof for guiding the guide pins; symmetric recesses are formed next to the guides respectively for temporary holding the guide pins; by switching the spray switch, the guide block will also be switched to engage or not to engage the guide pins. | 33,038 |
8,893,493 | 1. An exhaust system for a turbocharged internal combustion engine comprising: a first exhaust conduit extending between, and in fluid communication with, a first engine cylinder and a turbocharger inlet and configured to conduct exhaust gas from the first engine cylinder to the turbocharger inlet; a second exhaust conduit extending between, and in fluid communication with, a second engine cylinder and an inlet for an exhaust gas recirculation system and configured to conduct exhaust gas from the second engine cylinder to the exhaust gas recirculation system; an exhaust gas bypass extending between, and in fluid communication with, the first and second exhaust conduits and configured to divert exhaust gas flowing through the second exhaust conduit to the first exhaust conduit and the turbocharger inlet under conditions of varying exhaust gas recirculation demand of the internal combustion engine; a flow divider extending within the second exhaust conduit to define a first flow passage and a second flow passage, the first flow passage being in fluid communication with the inlet of the exhaust gas recirculation system and in fluid communication with the first exhaust conduit, and the second flow passage being in fluid communication with the first exhaust conduit; an exhaust gas particulate filter disposed for receiving exhaust gas flowing from the first engine cylinder; one or more sensors disposed and configured for indicating whether a backpressure in the exhaust system has exceeded a predetermined level; and an engine controller operatively connected to the one or more sensors and to a fuel delivery system for delivering fuel to the first engine cylinder and the second engine cylinder; wherein the engine controller is configured to determine, based at least in part on the backpressure in the exhaust system, whether regeneration of the exhaust gas particulate filter is required; wherein the engine controller is further configured to deliver fuel to the second engine cylinder at a rate and quantity associated with normal operation of the second engine cylinder without regard for whether regeneration of the exhaust gas particulate filter is required; and wherein the engine controller is further configured to deliver fuel to the first engine cylinder at a rate and quantity associated with not only operation of the second engine cylinder, but also regeneration of the exhaust gas particulate filter, whenever regeneration of the exhaust gas particulate filter is required. | 7,767 |
8,994,291 | 1. A lighting system, comprising: first and second lighting devices each comprising at least one controllable source of visible light configured to illuminate a space to be utilized by one or more biological occupants; and at least one controller coupled to control operation of the at least one source of visible light of each of the first and second lighting devices, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control operation of the sources of visible light of the first and second lighting devices so as to vary a characteristic of visible light emitted from the lighting devices into the space over a period of time at least in part in accordance with a chaotic function. | 13,557 |
9,273,335 | 1. A method for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, comprising: saccharifying the cellulosic material with an enzyme composition comprising a GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a quinone compound, wherein the combination of the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and the quinone compound enhances hydrolysis of the cellulosic material by the enzyme composition compared to the GH61 polypeptide alone or the quinone compound alone according to the following formula with a ratio greater than 1: | 11,242 |
9,105,939 | 1. A battery electrode comprising: a collector; and an active material layer formed on a surface of the collector, wherein the active material layer includes a plurality of binders having different specific gravities and being more present at a collector side in the active material layer, the plurality of binders comprising: | 23,273 |
8,567,355 | 1. An integrated control system for use with an engine connected to a generator, the generator providing electrical power to a switchgear, the engine operating using a gas produced by a gasifier that is associated with the engine as a fuel source, the integrated control system comprising: an electronic controller operably associated with the gasifier, the engine, the generator, and the switchgear, wherein the electronic controller includes a gasifier programmable logic controller, an engine electronic control module, and a switchgear controller that are adapted to exchange information with one another in a coordinated fashion; a gas flow sensor disposed to monitor a gas flow from the gasifier to the engine through an engine gas control valve and provide a gas flow signal indicative of the gas flow to the electronic controller; a gas oversupply sensor disposed to monitor a gas oversupply from the gasifier and provide an oversupply signal indicative of the gas oversupply to the electronic controller, wherein the gas oversupply is a portion of the gas flow from the gasifier that is not provided to the engine; a power output sensor disposed to monitor a power output of the switchgear and provide a power output signal indicative of the power output to the electronic controller; wherein the electronic controller is disposed to change a gas production of the gasifier and change a power output rating of the switchgear based on the gas flow signal, the oversupply signal, and the power output signal. | 44,159 |
9,357,486 | 1. A method for power down location update of a mobile subscriber station that is in idle-mode, the method comprising: transmitting, by a first network entity in a paging zone, a paging message to a mobile subscriber station (MSS) when the MSS is in an idle-mode, the MSS having entered the idle-mode by performing de-registration in the paging zone; receiving, at the first network entity, a request to perform a location update of the MSS in the idle-mode as part of powering down the MSS via a ranging request message, the ranging request message being transmitted from the MSS and indicating the powering down of the MSS; in response to the ranging request message, performing the location update of the MSS; releasing idle-mode retaining information related to the MSS if the power down location update of the MSS is successful; and discontinuing, at the first network entity, idle-mode paging control for the MSS at the time of power down. | 14,914 |
8,568,151 | 1. A concealable connector for disposing in a housing of an electronic device, the housing having a base wall and a housing edge that is provided with an opening, said concealable connector comprising: two upright sidewalls spaced apart from each other and disposed on the base wall, the opening being in spatial communication with a space between said upright sidewalls; a guiding groove formed in the base wall and disposed between said upright sidewalls; a guiding rod having a first end that extends slidably into said guiding groove, and a second end; and a sliding module including wherein one of said upright sidewalls is provided with a lateral guiding groove that extends in a direction the same as a sliding direction of said casing and is formed with a protruding mechanism which is disposed at one end of said lateral guiding groove distal from the housing edge, said sliding module further including a post projecting from one side of said casing and extending into said lateral guiding groove, and said spring abutting against said protruding mechanism and said post. | 37,080 |
8,784,020 | 1. A key cutting machine comprising: a housing; a carriage supported on said housing, said carriage rotatable between a carriage up position and a carriage down position; a latch connected to said carriage to latch said carriage in said carriage down position; a trigger supported on said carriage and configured to release said latch and allow said carriage to move from said down position to said up position; a key clamp connected to said carriage; a key cutting element located at least partially within said housing; and a motor connected to and capable of driving said carriage; and wherein said carriage is configured to move to said down position and be locked in place relative to said key cutting element by said latch, after said key cutting element cuts a key, until said trigger is pulled to release said latch. | 4,197 |
8,773,217 | 1. A distributed-line directional coupler comprising: a first conductive line between first and second ports to convey a signal to be transmitted; and a second conductive line, coupled to the first conductive line, between third and fourth ports, wherein the second line is interrupted approximately at its middle, the two intermediary ends of the second conductive line being connected to attenuators. | 25,820 |
8,771,137 | 1. Method to operate a clutch device in an electro-mechanical transmission mechanically-operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, comprising: in response to a failure condition detected within a flow control device configured to facilitate flow of hydraulic fluid for operating the clutch device, selectively preventing the flow of hydraulic fluid from entering the flow control device and feeding the clutch device; initiating synchronization of the clutch device when the clutch device is intended for activation; and only if the clutch device is synchronized, selectively permitting the flow of hydraulic fluid to enter the flow control device to activate the clutch device. | 4,250 |
8,818,661 | 1. A method of optimizing a drive system having a prime mover and a continuously variable transmission (CVT), the CVT having a plurality of spherical power adjusters, each power adjuster having a tiltable axis of rotation, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a desired range of current of the prime mover; selecting a predetermined speed of a vehicle equipped with the drive system; applying a load to the CVT and the prime mover and operating the CVT and the prime mover at the predetermined speed; monitoring a current draw of the prime mover; comparing the current draw to the desired range of current; and adjusting a ratio of the CVT based at least in part on the comparison. | 9,790 |
9,503,837 | 1. A method of performing, by a device to device (D2D) terminal, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: overhearing a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted from a base station to a D2D transmitting terminal and decoding the PDCCH based on a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal, wherein the PDCCH includes an uplink resource for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and an uplink resource for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); overhearing a PUSCH including D2D data transmitted from the D2D transmitting terminal to a D2D receiving terminal based on the PDCCH; overhearing a PUCCH transmitted from the D2D receiving terminal to the D2D transmitting terminal based on the PDCCH, the PUCCH including an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) message with respect to the PUSCH including the D2D data; and transmitting the D2D data in accordance with the ACK/NACK message to the D2D receiving terminal when the ACK/NACK message indicates NACK for performing cooperative HARQ, wherein the D2D terminal, the D2D transmitting terminal and the D2D receiving terminal are included in a D2D group, and wherein each terminal belonging to the D2D group knows the C-RNTI of each of the other terminals belonging to the D2D group such that each terminal is capable of overhearing signals associated with the other terminals. | 15,874 |
9,609,347 | 1. A method of decoding video data, the method comprising: determining, by a video decoder, a shifted disparity vector by shifting a disparity vector of a current block of the video data horizontally by a first value and vertically by a second value, the first value being equal to two times the width of the current block, and the second value being equal to two times the height of the current block; using, by the video decoder, the shifted disparity vector to generate an inter-view prediction motion vector candidate (IPMVC) indicating motion information of a corresponding block in an inter-view reference picture in a reference view, the corresponding block corresponding to the current block; responsive to determining the IPMVC is unavailable, adding, by the video decoder, a disparity shifted motion vector (DSMV) candidate into a merge candidate list, wherein a horizontal component of the disparity vector is shifted by a third value to derive a motion vector of the DSMV candidate, the third value being equal to 4; determining, by the video decoder, based on an index signaled in a bitstream, a selected merge candidate in the merge candidate list; generating, by the video decoder, a predictive block for the current block using motion information of the selected merge candidate; and adding, by the video decoder, residual data to the predictive block to reconstruct a block of the video data. | 9,806 |
9,321,624 | 1. A saddle pad for a western saddle, said saddle pad comprising: a single flexible upper layer and two side-by-side lower layers that are stitched together and stitched to the upper layer so as to form therewith two respective cavities between the lower layers and the upper layer, two cushions assemblies respectively positioned in said two cavities, each of the cushion assemblies including a flexible carrier member, a cushion thereon defining opposed cushion layers, a partition wall between said cushion layers, and a valve for inflating the cushion with air, and a pump unit for connection to each of said air valves, said partition wall within each cushion controlling flow of air therein. | 8,510 |
8,601,199 | 1. A device capable of performing switching functionality comprising: a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) card having a switch and at least one CXP connector; and a processor for processing instructions for controlling and managing the switch of the PCIe card, including selecting port assignments for a plurality of servers operatively connected to the device; and a virtual machine within the device that utilizes the processor to run the instructions for controlling and managing the switch while at least one separate processor is utilized by the device to perform other device functionality. | 18,253 |
8,811,340 | 1. A method for performing handover at a mobile station of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a first message for requesting handover to a base station; receiving a second message from the base station in response to the first message, the second message including information on a first time duration, information on an offset and information on a plurality of target base stations, wherein the offset is a delay time in frame units; transmitting a third message including information of a selected target base station among the plurality of target base stations to the base station before expiration of a second time duration; and receiving a fast ranging information element from the selected target base station for handover at a time determined based on the first time duration, wherein data communication with the base station is stopped at expiration of the second time duration, and wherein the second time duration is derived from the information on the first time duration and the information on the offset. | 28,102 |
9,237,505 | 1. A method for routing a data packet in a wireless sensor network, the method comprising the steps of: operating network nodes according to a sleep-active schedule, wherein the sleep-active schedule comprises a sleep mode and an active mode; configuring the network nodes to include information on geographic locations of the network nodes and the geographic location of a destination node; dividing the wireless sensor network into a plurality of disjoint areas that are separated by boundaries; separating each area into at least two regions, wherein the at least two regions include an inner boundary region, a central region, and an outer boundary region; selecting forwarding nodes from the network nodes to route the data packet from a source node to the destination node, wherein the forwarding nodes are selected based on the geographic location of the forwarding nodes relative to the destination node, and wherein the network nodes are synchronised relative to each other; and configuring the sleep-active schedule so that only the forwarding nodes that are selected to route the data packet in a time window are operable in the active mode and all other network nodes are operable in the sleep mode. | 21,727 |
9,336,868 | 1. A resistive switching memory device, comprising: a) a plurality of resistive memory cells, wherein each of the resistive memory cells comprises a storage element configured to be programmed to a low resistance state by application of a first voltage in a forward bias direction, and to be erased to a high resistance state by application of a second voltage in a reverse bias direction; b) a plurality of common plates, wherein each of the common plates is connected to a subset of the plurality of resistive memory cells at an anode or a cathode of the storage element; c) a command detector configured to detect a write command that is to be executed on the resistive switching memory device as a first write operation followed by a second write operation; and d) a write controller configured to perform the first write operation on each resistive memory cell in a selected of the subsets of resistive memory cells, and to perform the second write operation on at least one of the resistive memory cells in the selected subset based on the detected write command, wherein one of the first and second write operations is a verify operation, and wherein the first and second write operations are performed with a same bias direction on the common plate with respect to a bit line for the selected subset. | 4,644 |
8,741,308 | 1. A recombinant Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus comprising a heterologous DNA sequence inserted into an intergenic region (IGR) of the viral genome, wherein the IGR is IGR 088R-089L. | 2,950 |
9,630,664 | 1. A load-carrying frame for carrying an external load of an articulated tracked vehicle comprising a front vehicle unit and a rear vehicle unit connected to each other through said load-carrying frame, wherein said front vehicle unit comprises a rolling link, wherein the load-carrying frame is disposed on top of the front and rear vehicle units so as to directly accommodate the external load, and the load-carrying frame is configured for rotatable attachment to the front vehicle unit via said rolling link for enabling rotation of the front vehicle unit relative to the load-carrying frame about an axis of said rolling link running through said load-carrying frame, in an axial main direction of extension of the load-carrying frame. | 1,913 |
9,470,514 | 1. A method of comparing surface profiles of an object, the object being rotatable on an axis in angular increments, such that the object has a longitudinal dimension and an axial dimension, comprising: mounting the object on an axis; acquiring a pre-test longitudinal profile of the object by: using a laser scan micrometer to scan the object in a longitudinal direction, rotating the object about the axis, re-scanning the object, measuring the scan length thereby obtaining a longitudinal height value, and repeating the preceding steps for a number of incremental rotations thereby obtaining a longitudinal height profile; repeatedly and incrementally moving the object in an axial direction and acquiring additional longitudinal height profiles, thereby acquiring a pre-test set of longitudinal height profiles; acquiring a post-test set of longitudinal height profiles for the object in the same manner as the pre-test set of longitudinal profiles; axially and rotationally aligning one or more pre-test longitudinal height profiles with corresponding post-test longitudinal height profiles; and comparing the difference between the pre-test longitudinal height profiles and the post-test longitudinal height profiles. | 38,499 |
9,004,909 | 1. Combustor comprising: a polymer membrane structure comprising an oxygen-permeable polymer membrane, an inlet for introducing air to a feed side of the polymer membrane, and an outlet for delivering oxygen-enriched air from a permeate side of the polymer membrane; an oxygen transport reactor including an oxyfuel combustion chamber having an inlet in communication with a source of fuel, and an outlet, an oxygen-permeable ceramic ion transport membrane comprising a feed side disposed to receive the oxygen-enriched air from the polymer membrane structure and a permeate side to deliver oxygen into the oxyfuel combustion chamber for combustion with the fuel introduced into the oxyfuel combustion chamber of the oxygen transport reactor, the oxygen delivered from the permeate side into the oxyfuel combustion chamber having a higher oxygen purity than the oxygen-enriched air from the permeate side of the polymer membrane. | 4,354 |
8,756,442 | 1. A processor comprising: a first programmable location configured to store a processor power target; a power monitor configured to estimate a power dissipation due to processor load; a power controller configured to adjust a processor power parameter based on the power target and the power dissipation; comprising an interface for an operating system, wherein a second programmable location is configured to store a software processor power target accessible by the operating system; and a sideband interface for an external agent, wherein a third programmable location is configured to store an agent processor power target accessible by the external agent; wherein the processor power target is set to the lowest value stored in the first and second programmable locations. | 2,726 |
8,833,278 | 1. A method for processing ash, the method comprising: separating fly ash from a product gas flow obtained from gasification of fuel, burning the fly ash separated from the product gas flow in fluidized bed combustion at a temperature of not higher than 800° C., to reduce the carbon content in the fly ash, said burning of the fly ash, in fluidized bed combustion producing flue gases, burning the flue gases in combustion conditions in an independent combustion process separate from a main boiler of a power plant that burns the product gas flow, wherein combustion conditions of the independent combustion process reach a temperature of at least 850° C. collecting gas issuing from said independent combustion process as a result of burning the flue gases and purifying said collected gas together with flue gases from the main boiler of the power plant, in at least one purification step. | 33,135 |
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