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8,507,599 | 1. A multi-piece golf ball, comprising a solid three-layered core and cover of at least one layer, wherein the core includes a center comprising a first diene rubber composition; an intermediate core layer; and an outer core layer comprising a second diene rubber composition, wherein the intermediate core layer is formed from a thermoplastic ionomeric composition containing acid groups neutralized to 30 wt. % or greater, the ionomeric composition comprising: i) cycloalkene rubber; ii) ionomeric resin; and iii) neutralizing agent, wherein the composition is prepared by providing a masterbatch comprising the cycloalkene rubber and neutralizing agent and mixing the masterbatch with ethylene acid copolymer. | 36,364 |
9,539,986 | 1. A vehicle wiper assembly comprising: a wiper blade having a length, the wiper blade including: wherein the interconnecting member is formed from an active material that includes a shape memory alloy material with a crystallographic phase that is changeable between austenite and martensite; wherein the shape memory alloy material is superelastic and is operatively configured to apply a spring force against the wiper portion of the wiper blade; and wherein the interconnecting member is operative to allow the wiper portion of the wiper blade to articulate about the longitudinal dimension of the base portion. | 47,391 |
8,666,085 | 1. A modular ANR component for provision in an earphone housing, the ANR component comprising: a driver and a sensing microphone, the driver and sensing microphone being housed in a self-contained component housing having an outlet, an acoustic front cavity in the component housing between the driver and the outlet of the component housing, the sensing microphone being provided in the acoustic front cavity, | 41,593 |
8,367,881 | 1. A method for producing a volatile biomass product, comprising: grinding a biomass feedstock to produce ground biomass particles; dispensing the ground particles into thin sheets; subjecting the ground biomass to sequential or concurrent ramps of temperature and pressure shocks; and selectively collecting at least one group of volatile compounds as it is released from the biomass. | 37,401 |
9,815,819 | 1. A compound, or a salt thereof, according to the formula: Wherein m is 0, 1, 2, or 3; p is 1 or 2, wherein m+p is 1, 2, 3, or 4; Z Z Z R R R R R R n is 0-5; R R | 44,948 |
9,666,914 | 1. A battery thermal management system comprising: at least one battery; a plurality of thermoelectric assemblies in thermal communication with the at least one battery, each thermoelectric assembly comprising a plurality of thermoelectric elements, wherein a first thermoelectric assembly of the plurality of thermoelectric assemblies is in electrical communication with a second thermoelectric assembly of the plurality of thermoelectric assemblies; and a circuit in electrical communication with the first thermoelectric assembly and the second thermoelectric assembly, the circuit capable of being selectively switchable to place the first thermoelectric assembly and the second thermoelectric assembly either in series electrical communication or parallel electrical communication with one another in response to at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one temperature of a working fluid that flows into thermal communication with the at least one battery by circulating the working fluid using a fluid control device. | 18,570 |
9,781,907 | 1. System for detecting the level of discomfort of aquatic animals during experimental studies, the system comprising: a water tank ( a reference electrode ( an array of recording electrodes ( a bio amplifier ( a micro-processor for treating the signals, and a low-pass filter for filtering the signals received, capable of filtering signals up to 20 Hz. | 28,856 |
9,058,445 | 1. A method for modeling properties of a reservoir, comprising: constructing a coarse computational mesh for the reservoir in a computer system, wherein the coarse computational mesh comprises a plurality of cells; determining a plurality of flows for each of the plurality of cells based on Dirichlet boundary conditions, wherein determining the plurality of flows for each of the plurality of cells comprises: determining a solution to a coarse pressure equation for the reservoir based on the plurality of flows. | 21,144 |
9,493,010 | 1. A liquid container, comprising: a storage chamber configured to contain a liquid; an air chamber provided to communicate with the storage chamber and configured to contain the air that is introduced into the storage chamber; and an air introducing path provided between the air chamber and the storage chamber and configured to introduce the air contained in the air chamber into the storage chamber, wherein a first introducing port formed to introduce the air into the air chamber is located vertically above a liquid level in the air chamber of the liquid that flows from the storage chamber into the air chamber, in a first attitude that the storage chamber and the air chamber are aligned in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction and that the first introducing port is located vertically above a delivery port which is an air chamber-side opening of the air introducing path, the air introducing path includes a portion extended vertically upward in the first attitude, a second introducing port which is a storage chamber-side opening of the air introducing path is provided in the portion extended vertically upward, the storage chamber is a space formed between a first sheet member and a main wall, the air chamber is a space formed between the first sheet member and the main wall and separated from the storage chamber by a partition wall, the delivery port is formed to pass through the main wall and to be open from inside of the air chamber toward outside of the air chamber, the second introducing port is formed to pass through the main wall and to be open from outside of the storage chamber toward inside of the storage chamber, and the air introducing path making the storage chamber communicate with the air chamber leads from the delivery port to the second introducing port through a surface of the main wall on an opposite side to the air chamber and a surface of the main wall on an opposite side to the storage chamber. | 18,697 |
8,584,130 | 1. A method comprising: displaying a resource allocation matrix, the resource allocation matrix including a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells indicating a quantity of one of a plurality of resources on one of a plurality of physical systems allocated to one of a plurality of virtual systems hosted by the one physical system; receiving an input changing the quantity indicated in a cell, the cell indicating the quantity of a resource on a physical system allocated to a virtual system hosted by the physical system; and adjusting the quantity of the resource allocated to the virtual system based on the input, wherein the quantity of the resource allocated is adjusted by adjusting a percentage of the resource allocated to the virtual system relative to an amount of the resource available for allocation, wherein the input received is movement of a slider displayed in the cell. | 49,676 |
9,057,856 | 1. An optical cable comprising: a coated optical fiber having an optical fiber which includes a core made of glass and a cladding surrounding the core; and a jacket made of a thermoplastic resin, the jacket directly covering the coated optical fiber while in close contact therewith; wherein the optical fiber has the highest modulus of elasticity in materials constituting the optical cable, a glass diameter of the optical fiber being at least 30 μm but not more than 200 μm while being 5% or less of a cable diameter of the optical cable; and wherein a distortion occurring in the optical fiber when bending the optical cable by 180° is 6% or less. | 15,523 |
8,447,398 | 1. A method of treating a patient comprising: implanting a canister housing a cardiac stimulus device having first and second outputs of opposing polarities, the first and second outputs being coupled to first and second electrodes each having a contact surface area, the combined contact surface areas of the electrodes being less than 100 cm placing the first and second electrodes at the following locations in the patient: at a first subcutaneous location over the ribs adjacent the patient's sternum on the anterior portion of the patient's torso; and at a second subcutaneous location over the ribs on the anterior portion of the left side of the patient's torso; and activating the cardiac stimulus device such that the cardiac stimulus device can detect cardiac activity of the patient and, if an arrhythmia is detected, the cardiac stimulus device will deliver cardiac stimulus using the first and second electrodes. | 49,992 |
9,106,533 | 1. A process of sending packets on a network, comprising: A. sending source packets of real-time, voice information from a sender to a receiver on the network at a first source rate that is equal to a first transmission rate; B. receiving at the sender packet loss information based on a loss of source packets at the receiver; C. comparing in the sender the packet loss information with a threshold number; and D. when the packet loss information is greater than the threshold number, sending the source packets at a second source rate and sending at least one of time and path diversity of the real-time, voice information at a first diversity rate, the sum of the second source rate and the first diversity rate being equal to the first transmission rate. | 14,934 |
8,458,427 | 1. A system comprising a memory and a control circuit, wherein said control circuit comprises: a write interface for writing data in said memory with a first clock signal, wherein said write interface is configured for operating with a write pointer in response to a write command; a read interface for reading data from said memory with a second clock signal, wherein said read interface is configured for operating with a read pointer in response to a read command; a synchronization circuit for synchronizing said write pointer and said read pointer with a synchronization latency; and an elaboration circuit for elaborating data in said memory with an elaboration latency, said elaboration latency being smaller than said synchronization latency, wherein the system is configured so that synchronization circuit and the elaboration circuit can perform the respective synchronizing and elaborating in parallel. | 21,566 |
9,064,916 | 1. A heat treatment apparatus for holding a plurality of substrate at predetermined vertical intervals by means of a substrate holder, carrying the substrate holder into a heat treating furnace, and preforming a predetermined heat treatment on the substrates, wherein the substrate holder has plurality of support rings and a plurality of columns, the support rings holding circumferential portions of the substrates to constitute a plurality of multi-plate units under the condition that back surfaces of two substrates held by each of the multi-plate units face each other, each of the columns having claws arranged in a vertical direction, the claws holding the support rings that hold the substrates such that a distance between upper surfaces of the claws vertically adjacent to each other is larger than a distance between the front surface of one of the two substrates held by the multi-plate unit and the back surface of the other of the two substrates, and a first distance between a first pair of substrates that are vertically adjacent each other and have the respective front surfaces facing each other and the other of the first pair of substrates is larger than a second distance between one of a second pair of substrates that are vertically adjacent each other and have the respective back surfaces facing each other and the other of the second pair of substrates, and wherein each of the support rings has a first support ring and a second support ring placed on the first support ring, each of the first support rings being adapted to hold the substrate under the condition that the back surface of the substrate faces upward, each of the second support rings being adapted to hold the substrate under the condition that the front surface of the substrate faces upward. | 49,641 |
9,211,373 | 1. An irrigation system for a surgical instrument, comprising: an irrigation tube arranged to convey an irrigation fluid along and relative an exterior of the instrument, the irrigation tube having an outer surface portion; an irrigation clip structurally arranged to receive a portion of the irrigation tube, the irrigation clip having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a body portion, and an arm portion, the arm portion structurally configured to selectively attach the irrigation clip to the surgical instrument and to bias the irrigation clip toward the surgical instrument with a biasing force, wherein the irrigation clip includes a tube locking portion structurally arranged to cooperate with the surgical instrument to engage the outer surface portion of the irrigation tube to inhibit rotation and axial displacement of the irrigation tube relative to the irrigation clip in response to the biasing force; and the body portion defines a passage extending therethrough for receipt of the irrigation tube therein, the passage being formed between a series of spaced, alternating offset upper and lower passage walls. | 30,343 |
9,102,955 | 1. A thermotolerant yeast host cell comprising 1. at least one heterologous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes an endoglucanase; 2. at least one heterologous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a β-glucosidase; 3. at least one heterologous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a cellobiohydrolase I; and 4. at least one heterologous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a cellobiohydrolase II; wherein the thermotolerant yeast host cell can grow at a temperature of at least 35° C. or above, wherein the endoglucanase, β-glucosidase, cellobiohydrolase I, and cellobiohydrolase II are secreted; and wherein the host cell is capable of producing ethanol from Avicel. | 46,395 |
9,746,891 | 1. A computer comprising: a motherboard; a resistor; a control circuit coupled to the resistor; and an output circuit coupled to the control circuit; wherein the control circuit is configured to control the output circuit to make a first response when the computer is in a S3/S4 state; wherein the control circuit is further configured to control the output circuit to make a second response when the computer is working at a full speed; wherein the motherboard is configured to output a first voltage to supply an addition card when the output circuit makes the first response; wherein the motherboard is further configured to output a second voltage to supply the addition card when the output circuit makes the second response; and the resistor is coupled to a first detection terminal and a second detection terminal of the addition card, and enables the control circuit to receive a switch signal when the computer is in the S3/S4 state. | 12,869 |
9,475,698 | 1. A method of obtaining a phosphate from a sewage material, the method comprising: subjecting a wet sewage material to a hydrothermal carbonization process to produce a hydrochar and an aqueous product stream; isolating the hydrochar from the aqueous product stream; treating at least a portion of the isolated hydrochar with an aqueous acid under conditions effective to provide an aqueous phosphate material; and isolating the acid-treated hydrochar from the aqueous phosphate material. | 21,099 |
9,371,822 | 1. A wind turbine comprising a bearing system, the bearing system comprising: a bearing for bearing a shaft having a centre axis, the bearing comprising at least one bearing surface; a support for supporting the bearing, the support comprising at least one support surface; and a lockable connection between said bearing and said support, where the lockable connection comprises the at least one bearing surface and comprises the at least one support surface, wherein the support surface is directly and rigidly engaged with and supports the bearing surface when the lockable connection is locked and where forces from the shaft are transferred via the bearing and into the support through said bearing surface being engaged with said support surface, and where said lockable connection ensures a fixed distance between the bearing and the support by the surfaces being directly and rigidly engaged, and wherein a support angle of said support surface, relative to a shaft plane formed by rotating the shaft around a first axis, which first axis is perpendicular to the centre axis and which first axis is comprised in a vertical plane, is in a range from and including 5 degrees to and including 70 degrees. | 17,658 |
8,431,756 | 1. A method for processing oxygenated hydrocarbons to remove oxygen and to form a hydroisomerized and/or dewaxed hydrocarbon product, which process comprise the following steps: (1) providing a feedstock comprising (i) at least 1.2 wt % oxygen content and (ii) a least 50 ppm water content, wherein the feedstock comprises at least 15% by weight of compounds containing at least 6 carbons; and (2) contacting the feedstock with a catalyst composition under conditions sufficient to (a) at least partially deoxygenate the feedstock, (b) at least partially hydroisomerize and/or dewax the feedstock, or (c) both (a) and (b), to form a product, wherein the product exhibits (iii) an oxygen content at least 30% lower than the feedstock oxygen content and one or more of (iv) an iso-paraffin content that is at least 20% higher than the iso-paraffin content of the feedstock, (v) a pour point of a diesel boiling range fraction thereof that is no greater than −10° C., and (vii) a cloud point of a diesel boiling range fraction thereof that is no greater than −5° C., and wherein the catalyst composition is capable of hydroisomerization and/or dewaxing and comprises a zeolitic support selected from the group consisting of ZSM-5, ZSM-23, ZSM-48, and combinations thereof at least one active metal compound, deposited thereon, comprising either a Group VIII noble metal comprising platinum and/or palladium or a combination of a Group VIII non-noble metal comprising nickel, cobalt, iron, and combinations thereof and a Group VIB metal comprising molybdenum and/or tungsten, and a hydrophilic, hydrothermally-stable binder comprising one or more of (A) an oxide, carbide, nitride, phosphide, sulfide, or combination thereof of one or more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, vanadium, molybdenum, manganese, and cerium, (B) activated carbon, and/or (C) carbon on which is deposited one or more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, vanadium, molybdenum, manganese, and cerium. | 18,825 |
8,691,680 | 1. A method for fabricating a memory array, comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate having thereon a plurality of line-shaped active areas and intermittent line-shaped trench isolation regions between the plurality of line-shaped active areas, which extend along a first direction; forming buried word lines extending along a second direction in the semiconductor substrate, the buried word lines intersecting with the line-shaped active areas and the intermittent line-shaped trench isolation regions, wherein the second direction is not perpendicular to the first direction; forming buried digit lines extending along a third direction in the semiconductor substrate above the buried word lines, wherein the third direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and forming storage nodes at storage node sites between the buried digit lines above the buried digit lines. | 48,710 |
8,448,686 | 1. A tire seating apparatus comprising: an air chamber having a sidewall terminating in a cylindrical sealing edge; and an elongate compression device configured to receive and reciprocate through the air chamber, a wheel, and a tire to seat the tire on the wheel; the air chamber configured to receive a distal flange of the wheel in the air chamber and to receive a distal surface of the tire on the sealing edge; the compression device operable to resiliently compress a proximal flange of the wheel against the tire and seat a proximal bead of the tire in the proximal flange and to resiliently compress the distal surface of the tire against the air chamber sealing edge to substantially seal the air chamber; the compression device further configured to resiliently control movement of the wheel and tire away from the air chamber as the air chamber and tire are filled with compressed air through the wheel to seat a distal bead of the tire in the distal flange of the wheel. | 911 |
8,404,064 | 1. Processing steps for laminating a metal substrate with a thin thermoplastic polymer film to create desirable simultaneous commercial properties comprising: a. uncoiling a metal substrate from a coil on a processing line, b. wherein said metal substrate is flat rolled, c. increasing the surface energy of a first major side of said metal substrate to a dyne/cm level of at least 45, d. preheating said metal substrate to at least 200° F., e. preselecting a first film for bonding to said first major side, wherein said first film is either solid or molten, f. pressing said first film onto said first major side by use of a first roll, g. utilizing a first chemical bond for adhering said first film to said first major side thereby creating a metal polymer laminate, h. wherein said first film comprises at least 50% thermoplastic polyester by weight, i. wherein said polyester is PET, PBT, or a mixture of PET and PBT, j. wherein said first film is a maximum of 0.003 inches thick, k. wherein said first film comprises at least one layer, l. post treating said metal polymer laminate by heating said metal polymer laminate to at least the lowest melting point of any polymer in said first film, and m. cooling said metal polymer laminate to below 150° F. for coiling into a finished coil, n. wherein said cooling of said metal polymer laminate creates crystallinity in said first film according to a predetermined criterion, and whereby said finished coil has said desirable simultaneous commercial properties comprising: o. coating continuity of at least three metal thickness bending radius without metal exposure, p. bonding of said first film onto said metal substrate of at least 43 ounces per inch after said cooling, q. a minimum pencil hardness of 2B. | 25,242 |
9,275,003 | 1. A network interface controller (NIC) that is in communication with a host processor in a computing device, the NIC comprising: an atomic operation unit in the NIC that is configured to execute atomic operations in response to receipt of respective requests from nodes that transmit the requests to the NIC over a network, the atomic operation unit comprising: | 31,446 |
8,596,231 | 1. An engine system comprising: an engine; a fuel tank to store a pre-reformed fuel; and a reformer to reform the pre-reformed fuel, wherein a reformed fuel which is reformed by the reformer is supplied to a cylinder of the engine, the reformer is attached to an exhaust pipe of the engine, the reformed fuel is supplied to the cylinder of the engine from an exhaust valve of the engine, an exhaust gas backflow preventer is installed in the exhaust pipe at a downstream side of the reformer, and an adjustment valve, which is adjusted to be mechanically opened at a differential pressure equal to or more than a predetermined differential pressure, is installed at a pipe to connect the fuel tank to the reformer, wherein the adjustment valve is configured to be mechanically opened under a negative pressure generated in the reformer by a suction stroke of the cylinder of the engine to supply the pre-reformed fuel from the fuel tank to the reformer. | 38,314 |
8,904,209 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a power model at a computing device, wherein the computing device is part of a cluster of computing devices; receiving a power cap at the computing device, wherein the power cap and the power model are received from a power policy manager that is separate from the cluster of computing devices, and wherein the power cap is based on one or more tasks performed by the computing device; determining values of a plurality of performance counters associated with the computing device; estimating a power consumption of the computing device using the power model and the values of the plurality of performance counters; and adjusting or maintaining a current power state of the computing device based on the power cap and the estimated power consumption. | 18,064 |
9,795,290 | 1. An apparatus for determining tear film stability of an ocular tear film, comprising: a control system configured to: wherein the control system is configured to determine the stabilization time of the ocular tear film by being configured to: determine an average TFLT in the at least a portion of the region of interest of the ocular tear film for an initial frame and a final frame among the plurality of images; determine a settling value of the TFLT based on a difference between an average lipid layer thickness (LLT) in the initial frame and the final frame among the plurality of images; and determine the stabilization time based on time for the TFLT in the initial frame to reach the settling value. | 46,923 |
9,119,428 | 1. A garment comprising: a trunk portion; a pair of leg portions extending from the trunk portion; a trunk opening extending along the trunk portion between a distal trunk opening end and an opening point on the trunk portion; a pair of leg openings extending between distal ends of the leg portions and the opening point, the leg openings extending along the leg portions on a pair of paths which avoid a kneecap portion, an inside leg portion, and an area between the kneecap portion and the inside leg portion, of each leg portion; and fasteners for reversibly closing the trunk opening and the leg openings; wherein the trunk opening intersects with the leg openings proximate the opening point for facilitating donning and doffing the garment by receiving a user within the trunk opening and leg openings; and the paths extend along the leg portions within a pair of path cross-sectional areas of the leg portions, each path cross-sectional area being between a first midpoint and a second midpoint, the first midpoint located between a frontal centerline portion of the leg portion and an outside leg portion of the leg portion, and the second midpoint located between a rear centerline portion of the leg portion and the inside leg portion. | 30,676 |
9,133,376 | 1. A composition, comprising: at least one curable structural adhesive; and at least one chemically crosslinked elastomer formed a silane-functional polymer; wherein the chemically crosslinked elastomer is present as an interpenetrating polymer network in the structural adhesive; where the curable structural adhesive is a heat-curing epoxy resin composition, comprising at least one epoxy resin A and at least one curing agent B for epoxy resins which is activated by elevated temperature; and wherein the amount of curable structural adhesive is 50 to 95 wt %, and the amount of chemically crosslinked elastomer based on a silane-functional polymer is 5 to 50 wt %, each based on the total composition. | 43,963 |
8,900,526 | 1. A device for manually metering liquids comprising a cylinder, and a piston housed inside the cylinder, with the device being arranged so that during a metering operation, the piston moves along an axis of the piston to suck in or to expel a volume of liquid, the device further comprising: a joint housed in the cylinder and arranged so as to provide a sealing between the cylinder and the piston, wherein during a liquid metering operation, the joint remains fixed with respect to a movement of the piston, wherein the joint comprises | 3,049 |
8,543,777 | 1. A memory control apparatus, comprising a plurality of memory control sections, each of which is connected to one or more memories that require periodic refresh and is configured to perform commands that consume high power including data write, data read, and refresh operations on the one or more memories, wherein said plurality of memory control sections issue, to each of the one or more memories, refresh commands at optimum intervals and with arbitrary timing such that the commands that consume high power do not conflict with each other. | 46,290 |
9,682,829 | 1. An apparatus for transporting containers, said apparatus comprising a transport device, said transport device comprising a first transport section, a second transport section, and a conversion section, wherein said first transport section comprises a first transfer position, wherein said conversion section comprises a plurality of second transfer positions, a container holder, and a container gripper, wherein said first transport section conveys a first container stream along a first transport direction, said first container stream having a first width, wherein said second transport section conveys a second container stream along a second transport direction, said second container stream having a second width that differs from said first width, wherein said conversion section is disposed between said first and second transport sections, wherein said conversion section is configured to pass containers at said first transport section in a controlled manner to any one of said second transfer positions, wherein said second transfer positions are distributed along a third transport direction that extends along said conversion section, wherein said container holder is movable in a controlled manner along said third transport direction between said first transfer position and any one of said second transfer positions, wherein said gripper is configured to grip a container at said first transfer position and to carry said container along said third transport direction to any one of said second transfer positions, wherein said container holder comprises an arm, wherein said container gripper is at an end of said arm, and wherein said arm is configured to swivel. | 3,286 |
9,034,232 | 1. A method for manufacturing a sheet for a solar cell encapsulant, comprising: (1) melt-mixing an EVA resin with an antioxidant, UV absorber and light stabilizer at 80-220° C. and producing EVA resin composition pellets; (2) dry-blending the EVA resin composition pellets with organic peroxide(s) as a crosslinking agent, a co-crosslinking agent and a silane coupling agent at the degradation temperature of the organic peroxide or less, and melt-mixing the resulting blend, each of the crosslinking agent, the co-crosslinking agent and the silane coupling agent being used at an amount of 0.3-1.5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the EVA resin; and (3) forming the sheet from the resultant of the step (2). | 11,994 |
9,706,661 | 1. An electronic device module comprising: a first substrate having an electronic device mounted on one surface thereof; a second substrate bonded to the one surface of the first substrate and including a device accommodating part having a through-hole shape and accommodating the electronic device; an inner molded portion formed in the device accommodating part and sealing the electronic device; a shielding member disposed along an outer surface of the inner molded portion in the device accommodating part and accommodating the electronic device therein; an outer molded portion burying the shielding member therein and formed in the device accommodating part; and external connection terminals disposed on the second substrate and used to connect the second substrate and a main board. | 41,508 |
8,501,557 | 1. A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device comprising: forming a nitride semiconductor layer over a substrate wherein the nitride semiconductor layer has a 2DEG channel inside; forming a drain electrode in ohmic contact with the nitride semiconductor layer and a source electrode spaced apart from the drain electrode, in Schottky contact with the nitride semiconductor layer, wherein the source electrode has an ohmic pattern in ohmic contact with the nitride semiconductor layer inside; forming a dielectric layer on the nitride semiconductor layer between the drain electrode and the source electrode and on at least a portion of the source electrode; and forming a gate electrode on the dielectric layer to be spaced apart from the drain electrode, wherein a portion of the gate electrode is formed on the dielectric layer over a drain-side edge portion of the source electrode. | 39,509 |
8,674,900 | 1. A portable device comprising: a first and a second display unit at opposing surfaces of each other of the portable device configured to display content, wherein the first display unit includes a first touch sensitive area and the second display unit includes a second touch sensitive area; and a controller configured to: detect an unlock command for switching a state of the first display unit from a first locked state to an active state and switching a state of the second display unit from a second locked state to a ready-to-activate state, switch the state of the first display unit to the active state and switch the state of the second display unit to the ready-to-activate state, wherein, when the second display unit is in the ready-to-activate state, the controller activates a first part of the second touch sensitive area, detect an unlock trigger for switching the state of the second display unit from the ready-to-activate state to the active state, and switch the state of the second display unit from the ready-to-activate state to the active state according to the detected unlock trigger, wherein the ready-to-activate state is an intermediate state between the second locked state and the active state. | 44,390 |
9,151,995 | 1. A polymer stabilization alignment liquid crystal display panel comprising: a first substrate plate; a plurality of gate lines disposed on the first substrate plate; a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate plate, and substantially perpendicular to the gate lines, the gate lines and the data lines cooperatively defining a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region comprising at least a main display region and a sub display region, wherein each of the data lines has a first width adjacent to the main display region and a second width adjacent to the sub display region, and the second width is larger than the first width; a dielectric layer positioned on the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of first pixel electrodes positioned in the main display region and on the dielectric layer, each first pixel electrode electrically connecting to the corresponding gate line and data line, and each first pixel electrode not overlapping the adjacent data line and thereby forming a gap therebetween; a plurality of second pixel electrodes positioned in the sub display region and on the dielectric layer, each second pixel electrode electrically connecting to the corresponding gate line and data line, and each second pixel electrode partially overlapping the adjacent data line and thereby forming an overlap width; a stabilization alignment polymer film covering the first pixel electrodes and the second pixel electrodes; a second substrate plate positioned opposite to the first substrate plate; and a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate plate and the second substrate plate. | 11,298 |
8,896,785 | 1. A flat panel display device, wherein the flat panel display device comprises a backlight system and a display panel, wherein: the backlight system comprises a light source, a light homogenization mechanism, and a back frame; the back frame carries the light source and the light homogenization mechanism, the light homogenization mechanism guiding light from the light source into the display panel; the back frame comprises primary assembling pieces, secondary assembling pieces, and a bracing piece for fixing a circuit board having at least one major surface defining a normal direction; the primary assembling pieces have a number of at least two, at least one of the primary assembling pieces having an end forming a joint section, the at least two primary assembling pieces being joined through the corresponding joint sections, the secondary assembling pieces being connected to the primary assembling pieces through joining; the at least two primary assembling pieces comprise a primary assembling piece that has a heat source arranged thereon, the primary assembling piece that has the heat source arranged thereon having a first heat transfer capability, the remaining one or more primary assembling pieces of the at least two primary assembling pieces that have no heat source arranged thereon having a second heat transfer capability, the first heat transfer capability being greater than the second heat transfer capability; the bracing piece comprises a bracing body, a first suspension section and a second suspension section, a first bearing section and a second bearing section, and a first resilient bent section and a second resilient bent section, the bracing body being fixed to the primary assembling pieces or the secondary assembling pieces or both of the primary assembling pieces and the secondary assembling pieces, wherein available mounting points between the bracing piece and the primary assembling pieces or the secondary assembling pieces are of a number of at least two so that the bracing piece is selectively mounted to the back frame at different positions; and the first suspension section and second suspension section extend from the bracing body to be spaced from and opposing each other so as to define therebetween a receiving space for receiving the circuit board therein in such a way that the first and second suspension sections respectively engage first and second opposite side edges of the circuit board by having the circuit board moved into the space in a predetermined direction substantially parallel to the normal direction of the circuit board, the first bearing section and second bearing section being spaced from the bracing body and respectively extending from the first suspension section and the second suspension section to collectively receive the circuit board to be positioned thereon, the first resilient bent section and the second resilient bent section being respectively located between the first and second bearing sections and the bracing body and being respectively bent from the first and second suspension sections toward each other to define a passage having a size smaller than the receiving space, whereby when the circuit board is moved in the predetermined direction substantially parallel to the normal direction of the circuit board to reach and be positioned on the first and second bearing sections, the first bearing section and the first resilient bent section resiliently clamp the first side edge of the circuit board and the second bearing section and the second resilient bent section resiliently clamp the second side edge of the circuit board so as to clamp the circuit board between the first and second suspension sections of the bracing piece. | 21,325 |
8,505,309 | 1. A system for improving the efficiency of a power generation facility, comprising: a turbine comprising a compressor which receives inlet-air, a combustion system and a turbine section, wherein the turbine produces an exhaust-gas; a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) which receives a portion of the exhaust-gas and produces steam; and a preheater that obtains heat energy from the HRSG and that uses that heat energy to improve the efficiency of the power generation facility, wherein the heat energy obtained from the HRSG is obtained from a fluid drawn from a predetermined point on a feed line within the HRSG, and wherein after heat energy has been extracted from the fluid, the fluid is returned to the HRSG at a location immediately downstream of the predetermined point on the feed line. | 11,060 |
8,749,364 | 1. An in-vehicle display apparatus comprising: a meter design file storage device; a vehicle data output device; a meter image control device; and a meter image display device, wherein the meter design file storage device is able to store a plurality of meter design files, the meter image control device generates a meter image such that data output from the vehicle data output device is arranged on a meter design expressed by selected at least one of the plurality of meter design files stored in the meter design file storage device, the meter image display device displays the meter image, and at least one of the meter design file storage device and the meter image control device processes only the meter design file that includes authorization data. | 27,732 |
8,720,621 | 1. An electrically driven vehicle equipped with a battery usable for running, the electrically driven vehicle comprising: a power generation unit including an engine and a generator driven by the engine that charges the battery, the power generation unit being detachably mounted on a vehicle body, and a connection part that brings a first electric system in which the battery and the power generation unit are electrically connected together into a connected state in a state in which the power generation unit is mounted in a mounting position and brings the first electric system into a disconnected state in a state in which the power generation unit is dismounted from the mounting position, the connection part switches a connection state of the first electric system in accordance with mounting or dismounting of the power generation unit, wherein the connection part electrically connects the vehicle body and the power generation unit together in the state in which the power generation unit is mounted in the mounting position and brings a second electric system having a system voltage lower than that of the first electric system into a connected state and brings the second electric system into a disconnected state, the connection part switches a connection state of the second electric system in accordance with mounting or dismounting of the power generation unit, the connection part includes a hybrid connection part common to the first and second electric systems, the connection part is configured to bring the second electric system into the connected state prior to the first electric system when the power generation unit is mounted in the mounting position, and the electrically driven vehicle further comprises control circuitry that stops an operation of the power generation unit when the second electric system is brought into the connected state prior to the first electric system in a state in which the power generation unit is operating. | 37,582 |
8,610,382 | 1. A method of actively discharging a common bus of a machine having an engine, a generator, a traction motor and one or more auxiliary devices, the method comprising: monitoring a speed of the engine with respect to a first lower threshold; monitoring a voltage of the common bus with respect to a second upper threshold; and enabling one or more of the generator, the motor and the auxiliary devices if the engine speed falls below the first lower threshold and the voltage exceeds the second upper threshold so as to discharge voltage from the common bus. | 16,138 |
9,026,672 | 1. A method for providing content, the method comprising: dividing, by a computer system, a content file into a sequence of data blocks; defining, by the computer system, segments each including interleaved non-consecutive data blocks from the sequence of data blocks; distributing, by the computer system, the segments to a plurality of first subscriber units; receiving, by the computer system, from a requesting subscriber device, a request for the content file; and transmitting, by the computer system, an instruction to the plurality of first subscriber units to simultaneously transmit the segments to the requesting subscriber device at a rate at least as great as a playback rate of the content file. | 7,669 |
8,633,062 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit package system comprising: forming a paddle, an outer lead, and an inner lead between the paddle and the outer lead, the inner lead having a vertical lead edge extended from a non-exposed side to an exposed side and facing the outer lead; forming a non-vertical paddle edge of the paddle and a non-vertical lead edge of the inner lead facing the non-vertical paddle edge, with the non-vertical edge lead extended from the exposed side to the non-exposed side, having a separation between the inner lead and the paddle with the separation greater at the non-exposed side than at the exposed side; encapsulating an integrated circuit die over the paddle with the encapsulation over the inner lead and exposing the exposed side; and attaching an external interconnect connected with the inner lead and the outer lead. | 19,947 |
8,509,530 | 1. An image processing apparatus that extracts, from an input image data, a foreground pixel configuring a foreground image of the input image data, comprising: a foreground extracting section having: an uniform density pixel-block extracting portion that segments the input image data into plural pixel blocks, and extracts an uniform density pixel block in which a pixel value difference of pixels is less than a predetermined value among the plural pixel blocks; a background dominant color calculating portion that calculates a background dominant color based on a pixel value in the uniform density pixel block extracted by the uniform density pixel block extracting portion; a foreground-pixel block determining portion that compares the background dominant color calculated by the background dominant color calculating portion and a pixel value in a target pixel block, determines whether or not the target pixel block is a foreground pixel block configuring the foreground image, and generates a foreground pixel-block mask based on the pixel block determined to be the foreground pixel block; and a foreground dominant-color calculating portion that calculates a foreground dominant color based on a pixel value in the foreground pixel block determined by the foreground-pixel block determining portion; a layout analysis processing section having: a foreground region extracting portion that extracts a foreground region configured with sequential foreground pixel blocks, based on the foreground pixel-block mask generated by the foreground-pixel block determining portion, and generates a foreground information regarding the extracted foreground region; an adjacent-foreground distance direction calculating portion that calculates a distance of the foreground regions extracted by foreground region extracting portion and directions of the foreground regions extracted by foreground region extracting portion; and a text string region extracting portion that extracts a text string configured with the foreground regions, based on the distance and directions calculated by the adjacent-foreground distance direction calculating portion; and a foreground-pixel extracting section that extracts from the input image data the foreground pixel based on the background dominant color, the foreground dominant color and the extracted text string region by the text string region extracting portion. | 49,148 |
9,740,672 | 1. A computer system programmed to update embedded content, the computer system comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium, the non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions encoded thereon, comprising instructions for: displaying web page content, including at least one Iframe providing content from a remote domain; generating design information based on a statistical analysis of style components of the web page content; displaying a settings window responsive to a client request, wherein the settings window provides options for the content from the remote domain, wherein the settings window is separate from the at least one Iframe; updating a local version of the content in the at least one Iframe as the client provides input to the settings window; re-displaying at least one Iframe in real time responsive to client input to the settings window, at least one of the re-displayed Iframes providing an updated local version of the content, wherein redisplaying comprises passing the updated local version of the content to the at least one Iframe using cross domain messaging; communicating the updated local version of the content to the remote domain in accordance with the input to the settings window; communicating the design information regarding the web page content to the remote domain; and receiving the content from the remote domain for display in the at least one Iframe, wherein the content has been updated in accordance with the design information. | 6,907 |
9,679,512 | 1. A shift register comprising: an input terminal, a reset terminal and an output terminal, wherein the shift register further comprises: a first input module connected to the input terminal and configured to pull up a potential of a first node under an effect of a signal received by the input terminal; an output module connected to the output terminal and configured to pull up a potential of the output terminal under an effect of the potential of the first node; a reset module connected to the reset terminal and configured to pull down the potential of the first node under an effect of a signal received by the reset terminal; and an output pulling-down module connected to the output terminal and configured to pull down the potential of the output terminal under an effect of a first clock signal, wherein the first input module, the output module, the reset module and the output pulling-down module are connected to the first node; and the shift register further comprises a second input module connected to the input terminal and the first node and configured to connect the input terminal to the first node within an operation time of the first input module and the output pulling-down module under the effect of the first clock signal. | 26,945 |
9,386,635 | 1. An induction heating cooking device comprising: a top board on which a heating container is placed; a heating coil, which is provided under the top board and is adapted to inductively heat the heating container; an inverter for supplying a high-frequency electric current to the heating coil; a plurality of electrodes provided on a back surface of the top board, around a periphery of the heating coil; a capacitance detection portion adapted to supply a high-frequency signal to the electrodes and to detect a capacitance in each of the electrodes; a storage portion capable of storing the detected capacitance as a reference value; a control portion adapted to perform control such that a heating output from the inverter comes to have a first set value set at start of induction heating; and a boiling-over detection portion that includes a plurality of storage areas that store initial capacitances associated with each of the plurality electrodes, wherein the boiling-over detection portion determines, for each electrode, whether respective differences between the initial capacitance stored in the storage areas that are associated with the plurality of electrodes and a reference value have changed by a first amount of change associated with a given electrode, wherein when the capacitance has changed by the first amount of change associated with the electrode, a boiling-over state is determined, wherein the first amount of change corresponds to a threshold capacitance value and the threshold capacitance value at which a boiling-over state is determined is different for each of the plurality of electrodes; wherein the boiling-over detection portion is adapted to stop a heating operation of the inverter or to reduce the heating output from the inverter to a second set value smaller than the first set value, upon detecting a boiling-over state, wherein the electrodes are provided in a linear shape, along the heating coil around an outer periphery of the heating coil. | 19,062 |
9,657,708 | 1. A pumped storage system comprising: operating mechanisms that convert movement of water or air into work of individual high-pressure pumps, wherein the pumps pump water through water ducts from a natural body of water into a reservoir, wherein the reservoir is placed above a water level of the natural body of water; a device for conversion of a flow of water through the water ducts from the reservoir into useful work; the system further includes volumes, located at a bottom of the natural body of water and connected to the high-pressure pumps, wherein the high-pressure pumps are configured to pump water at high pressure into the volumes; a pressure accumulator for normalization of pressure in the volumes; and a buffer volume located at a coastline and located below the reservoir and above the water level in the natural body of water, wherein the buffer volume includes pressure accumulators to protect the water ducts from a pressure spike due to hydraulic impact. | 27,041 |
8,698,017 | 1. A switch device, comprising: switches; a case having an interior in which the switches are accommodated; tube portions provided on an upper surface of the case, the tube portions opening in an up and down direction of the case and communicating with the interior of the case; operation knobs provided swingably in a front and back direction of the case so as to cover upper openings of the tube portions; operation rods passing through the openings of the tube portions from the operation knobs and extending into the interior of the case, the operation rods configured to transmit movement of the operation knobs to the switches; and a cover covering the upper surface of the case while exposing the operation knobs, the operation knobs being arranged so as to be spaced from each other in the front and back direction of the case, wherein | 47,651 |
8,811,813 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a body; and a movable unit coupled with the body, the movable unit being rotatable with respect to the body around a first axis and a second axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first axis, wherein the movable unit includes a first magnetic-field generating portion arranged near an end which is near the first axis, among the ends of the movable unit, and a second magnetic-field generating portion arranged at a position where the second magnetic-field generating portion is substantially symmetric to the first magnetic-field generating portion about the second axis, and wherein the body includes a first magnetic-field detection sensor arranged near a position where the first magnetic-field detection sensor faces one of the first and second magnetic-field generating portions in a state in which the movable unit is rotated around the first axis and approaches the body, a second magnetic-field detection sensor arranged at a position where a change in a detection result of the second magnetic-field detection sensor is restricted in a case where the movable unit is rotated around the first axis, and a control unit configured to perform control in accordance with a state of the movable unit with respect to the body based on output signals of the first and second magnetic-field detection sensors. | 40,580 |
8,916,252 | 1. A structural composite part, comprising: pre-impregnated fiber plies laid-up in a plurality of layers, wherein in each layer adjacent fiber plies are laid up almost edge-to-edge, a longitudinal composite joint extending in the plane in a longitudinal direction of at least two of the edge-to-edge connected fiber plies and connecting edges of at least two of the adjacent fiber plies, and a nanostructure arranged within the composite joint, the nanostructure making the composite joint a structural part of the composite part. | 39 |
9,788,792 | 1. A system for screening skin for tissue damage comprising: a support frame structure; at least one image acquisition device; a retention framework structure for reception of, and stable retention of, said at least one image acquisition device, said retention framework attached to said support frame structure, wherein: said at least one image acquisition device is situated with said retention framework so as to be separate from any other structure of said system for screening skin for tissue damage, so as to acquire images without artifacts or other distortions. | 31,526 |
8,675,630 | 1. A method for wireless communications, comprising: assigning a unique IP mobility anchor identifier to each of a plurality of IP mobility anchors associated with a mobile device for providing a plurality of associated services, the IP mobility anchors selected from the group consisting of Home Agents (HAs) and Local Mobility Anchors (LMAs); negotiating an IP flow reservation for each service between the mobile device and the respective IP mobility anchor for each IP mobility anchor identifier; signaling a request from the mobile device to associate an IP flow of each negotiated IP flow reservation with an IP tunnel to a particular IP mobility anchor; and multiplexing multiple simultaneous connections from the mobile device to the plurality of IP mobility anchors in the mobile IP network by sending packets for each service through each respective IP flow and associated IP tunnel to each of the plurality of IP mobility anchors. | 12,132 |
8,883,358 | 1. A lithium air secondary battery having a negative electrode member which has metal ions occluded therein and emits metal ions, a positive electrode member which ionizes oxygen, and a separator which is impregnated with an electrolyte and disposed between the negative electrode member and the positive electrode member, the lithium air secondary battery being characterized in that the positive electrode member comprises at least a base material, a carrier, a catalyst, and a binder, wherein the catalyst is a metal oxide catalyst, the positive electrode member further includes a current collector and a metal porous material which is a nickel (Ni) felt functioning both as the carrier and the current collector, the Ni felt has a specific surface area of 0.03 m the carbon material weight ratio represented by the following formula in the positive electrode member is 50% or less: | 24,473 |
9,195,598 | 1. A system coupled to a host, wherein the system is coupled to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cache and a flash cache, wherein the DRAM cache is smaller in size than the flash cache, the system comprising: a memory; and in response to determining that tracks in flash cache have to be discarded to release the space requested by the command, asynchronously discarding tracks via an asynchronous discard scan process from the flash cache, wherein the command to release the space does not wait for completion while the asynchronous discard scan process is being executed, wherein prior to completion of execution of the asynchronous discard scan process, responding to the host that space release operation has been started for the flash cache, and wherein the command to release the space fails via timeout if the command to release the space waits for the asynchronous discard scan process to complete. | 44,043 |
9,305,115 | 1. A method of comparing a search key to a plurality of access control list (ACL) rules stored in a plurality of content addressable memory (CAM) blocks of a content search system, the method comprising: generating a covering prefix table comprising a plurality of covering prefix entries and an enable signal bitmap; storing the plurality of covering prefix entries in a classification CAM block; storing the enable signal bitmap in a random access memory; comparing the search key to the plurality of covering prefix entries stored in the covering prefix table, wherein each of the plurality of covering prefix entries corresponds to a respective CAM block from among the plurality of CAM blocks; selectively enabling a subset of the plurality of CAM blocks; comparing the search key with each respective ACL rule from among the plurality of ACL rules stored in the subset of the plurality of CAM blocks; determining a best match between the search key and the plurality of ACL rules; and determining a match address or an index of a CAM block from among the subset of the plurality of CAM blocks whose respective ACL rule has the best match. | 37,792 |
9,053,082 | 1. A method to be carried out in a computer system that includes a processing unit, a keyboard, a mouse, a display unit and a data storage device, the data storage device having stored thereon a spreadsheet file having at least a sheet with lines and columns, said columns representing fields, said sheet having sheet content with a header portion having at least a designation line with a field designation for each column, and a data portion, wherein each line comprises a record, the method comprising: /a/ identifying a single reference field; /b/ an allocating step in which a field type is allocated to fields other than the reference field, said field type belonging to a set of field types comprising attribute, parent/child, and flow; /c/ defining a link, for each field with an allocated field type, which establishes said link with another linked field, within said sheet or another sheet, wherein: /d/ building a hierarchical model representing the parent/child links, defining at least two hierarchical levels, said model comprising all the fields involved in the parent/child links; and /e/ generating a graphical hierarchical multilevel representation of said sheet content, with at least one graphical view showing one or more hierarchical level and displaying said representation with graphical objects on the display unit. | 35,073 |
8,685,057 | 1. A dental tweezers comprising: a plastic tweezers main body, the plastic tweezers main body comprising: a removable metal weight attached to the plastic tweezers main body, the removable metal weight extending into the pair of weight cavities. | 47,737 |
9,215,678 | 1. A method comprising: a) transmitting, by a base station to communicate employing a plurality of cells, at least one control message to a wireless device, said at least one control message comprising: b) transmitting, by said base station, a timing advance command comprising: c) starting or restarting a first time alignment timer corresponding to a first cell group identified by said first cell group index if said base station successfully transmits said timing advance command to said wireless device. | 1,353 |
8,384,572 | 1. An apparatus for analog to digital signal conversion comprising: a first processor comprising a first input port configured to receive a first input signal, a second input port configured to receive a second input signal, a first output port configured to output a first output signal containing information from said first and second input signals and a second output port configured to output a second output signal containing information from said first and second input signals; a first analog-to-digital converter downstream of said first output port; a second analog-to-digital converter downstream of said second output port; and a second processor comprising a third input port downstream of said first analog-to-digital converter, a fourth input port downstream of said second analog-to-digital converter, a third output port configured to output a digital representation of said first input signal and a fourth output port configured to output a digital representation of said second input signal. | 29,385 |
9,303,549 | 1. A thermal management system, comprising: a first cooling circuit including an air-to-coolant radiator system; a second cooling circuit including an engine coolant jacket, the engine coolant jacket surrounding a plurality of cylinders of an engine; a coolant pump configured to provide coolant to the first cooling circuit and the second cooling circuit in parallel, wherein the air-to-coolant radiator system of the first cooling circuit is configured to cool coolant from the coolant pump; a fan operable to provide air flow to the air-to-coolant radiator system; a cooling shutter, positioned on another side of the air-to-coolant radiator system and remote from the fan, and being adjustable to control the air flow through the air-to-coolant radiator system, where coolant is pumped from the coolant pump through the first coolant circuit without first passing through one or more elements of the second cooling circuit; and a passive orifice flow restrictor, positioned between an outlet of the coolant pump and an inlet of the air-to-coolant radiator system, to control a flow of coolant to the air-to-coolant radiator system. | 15,903 |
9,406,407 | 1. A capture system, comprising: a media area located below-grade and near a primary containment structure of a nuclear reactor; granular media within the media area; discharge piping configured to fluidly connect the media area to the primary containment structure, a distal end of the discharge piping being located in the media area; and a gas outlet pipe coupled to the media area, wherein the granular media has a granular size, the granular size of the granular media decreasing between the distal end of the discharge piping and the gas outlet pipe. | 17,300 |
8,614,258 | 1. A process for converting synthesis gas to an oxygenate, which process comprises contacting a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with a catalyst based on a transition metal-containing, Keggin-type heteropoly compound under conditions of temperature, pressure and gas hourly space velocity sufficient to convert said mixture to at least one alcohol wherein the alcohol is a one carbon to six carbon alcohol, the catalyst having a structure represented by general formula M 1 [HPA]M 2 M 3 where M 1 is at least one metal selected from a group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, zinc, cobalt, iron, manganese, nickel or copper where sum net charge of M 1 is equal to net negative charge of HPA anion; HPA is represented by general formula [XMo 12−(x+y) W x T y O 40 ] wherein Mo is molybdenum, W is tungsten, T is at least one transition metal selected from vanadium, copper, cobalt, iron, titanium, palladium, ruthenium, and manganese, x=0-12, y=0-3 provided that x+y=0-12, and X is at least one of phosphorous, silicon, germanium, and cobalt; M 2 is at least one of rhodium, palladium, iridium, rhenium, ruthenium, platinum and gold, and M 3 is an optional material that is at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal, provided that when M 1 is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, it is a different alkali metal or alkaline earth metal than M 3 , when M 1 is cobalt, X is at least one of phosphorous, silicon and germanium. | 49,450 |
9,555,076 | 1. A method for preventing, treating or delaying cardiac toxicity in a human who has been administered an anti-neoplasm agent, the method comprising administering to the human a neuregulin 1 protein in an amount from about 10 U/kg to about 400 U/kg of body weight of the human once a day for a period of between 3 days and 21 days. | 31,439 |
9,699,291 | 1. A method performed by a general purpose mobile computing device having a first level of input or output capability, the method comprising: detecting a componentized device in range of the general purpose mobile computing device, wherein the componentized device has a second level of input or output capability that is greater than the first level of input or output capability; establishing a relationship with the componentized device, wherein the relationship comprises a wireless communication link with the componentized device; receiving inputs from the componentized device; providing outputs to the componentized device; determining that a second componentized device is in range of the general purpose mobile computing device, wherein the second componentized device has a third level of input or output capability that is greater than the first level of input or output capability; severing the relationship with the componentized device in response to determining that the second componentized device is in range of the general purpose mobile computing device; and establishing a wireless communication link with the second componentized device to receive inputs from the second componentized device and provide outputs to the second componentized device. | 12,363 |
9,649,909 | 1. A vehicle heat management system comprising: a first pump and a second pump that suck a heat transfer medium and discharge the heat transfer medium; a first path in which the heat transfer medium flows and the first pump is disposed; a second path in which the heat transfer medium flows and the second pump is disposed; a first flow passage group that includes flow passages in which the heat transfer medium flows; a first switching valve to which an inlet side of the first path and an inlet side of the second path are connected in parallel and to which outlet sides of the flow passages of the first flow passage group are connected in parallel, wherein the first switching valve switches communication states of the flow passages of the first flow passage group individually between a state communicating with the first path and a state communicating with the second path; and a second switching valve to which an outlet side of the first path and an outlet side of the second path are connected in parallel and to which inlet sides of the flow passages of the first flow passage group are connected in parallel, wherein the second switching valve switches communication states of the flow passages of the first flow passage group individually between a state communicating with the first path and a state communicating with the second path, wherein the first switching valve and the second switching valve operate in conjunction with each other, when a first predetermined condition is satisfied, each of the flow passages of the first flow passage group communicates with either the first path or the second path to provide a heat transfer medium circuit including the first path and a heat transfer medium circuit including the second path which are independent from each other, when a second predetermined condition is satisfied, each of the flow passages of the first flow passage group communicates with both the first path and the second path to provide a heat transfer medium circuit in which the first path communicates with the second path in series; the second path includes a flow passage connected to the first switching valve and a flow passage connected to the second switching valve, the vehicle heat management system further comprising: a third pump that sucks the heat transfer medium and discharges the heat transfer medium; a third path in which the heat transfer medium flows and the third pump is disposed; a second flow passage group that includes flow passages in which the heat transfer medium flows; a third switching valve to which an outlet side of the flow passage of the second path connected to the first switching valve and an outlet side of the third path are connected in parallel and to which inlet sides of the flow passages of the second flow passage group are connected in parallel, wherein the third switching valve switches communication states of the flow passages of the second flow passage group individually between a state communicating with the second path and a state communicating with the third path; and a fourth switching valve to which an inlet side of the flow passage of the second path connected to the second switching valve and an inlet side of the third path are connected in parallel and to which outlet sides of the flow passages of the second flow passage group are connected in parallel, wherein the fourth switching valve switches communication states of the flow passages of the second flow passage group individually between a state communicating with the second path and a state communicating with the third path, wherein the third switching valve and the fourth switching valve operate in conjunction with each other, when a third predetermined condition is satisfied, each of the flow passages of the second flow passage group communicates with either the second path or the third path to provide the heat transfer medium circuit including the second path and a heat transfer medium circuit including the third path which are independent from each other, and when a fourth predetermined condition is satisfied, each of the flow passages of the second flow passage group communicates with both the second path and the third path to provide a heat transfer medium circuit in which the second path communicates with the third path in series. | 14,115 |
9,166,255 | 1. A lithium-sulphur electrochemical battery, comprising: a positive electrode, a negative electrode and, a separator inserted between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and impregnated with an electrolyte in liquid or polymer gel form, wherein the positive electrode is made solely from a porous electronic conductor substrate forming a current collector, the electrolyte comprises a lithium polysulphide Li the lithium polysulphide is formed ex-situ. | 22,346 |
8,474,315 | 1. A liquid level sensor comprising: a detecting unit including an electronic circuit, wherein the electronic circuit repeats an operation of charging for a time being in proportion to a ratio of a length of a part of the second detecting electrode dipped in the liquid to be measured to a total length of the second detecting electrode and an operation of discharging the charged electric charge for a time being in proportion to a ratio of a length of a part of the second detecting electrode being out of the liquid to be measured to the total length of the second detecting electrode. | 3,585 |
8,844,519 | 1. A trough collector system, comprising: a first module comprising a first reflector having a first reflective front surface shaped to concentrate incoming radiation on a linear tube, and a first three-dimensional structural lattice attached to the first reflector opposite the first reflective front surface; a second module comprising a second reflector having a second reflective front surface shaped to concentrate incoming radiation on the linear tube, and a second three-dimensional structural lattice attached to the second reflector opposite the second reflective front surface, wherein the first and second modules are constrained to rotate about a common axis of rotation parallel to the linear tube; and a torque transfer connection directly connecting the first three-dimensional structural lattice to the second three-dimensional structural lattice at a location removed from the axis of rotation, wherein the torque transfer connection comprises a spanning member that attaches to the first three-dimensional structural lattice and attaches to the second three-dimensional structural lattice, and wherein the spanning member is not parallel to the axis of rotation. | 12,234 |
8,547,621 | 1. A laser light source, comprising: a semiconductor laser light source operable for emitting a laser beam; a laser medium excited by the semiconductor laser light source to emit light; two reflectors operable for working as a resonator to confine the light emitted by the laser medium; and a holder operable for holding the laser medium, wherein the laser medium is formed of a ceramic material situated in the resonator, wherein the holder includes a stress generation structure operable for (i) generating tensile stress in an area of the laser medium along an optical path of the light emitted by the laser medium and (ii) controlling a polarization direction of the light emitted by the laser medium. | 24,913 |
9,189,255 | 1. A method for generating a runtime message of an application, comprising: utilizing a computer to perform: | 29,666 |
9,601,747 | 1. A method of constructing a nanobattery, said method comprising the steps of: a. forming a nanostructured anode electrode directly on a nano-pitted anode substrate, wherein said nano-pitted anode substrate is an oxidized metal thin film configured as both an anode current collector and an anode growth substrate for said nanostructured anode electrode, including the step of nano-pitting said anode substrate through an electrochemical process; b. forming a nanostructured cathode electrode directly on a nano-pitted cathode substrate, wherein said nano-pitted cathode substrate is an oxidized metal thin film configured as both a cathode current collector and a cathode growth substrate for said nanostructured cathode electrode, including the step of nano-pitting said cathode substrate through an electrochemical process; and c. forming an electrolyte layer intermediate of said nanostructured anode cathode and said nanostructured anode to construct said nanobattery. | 44,987 |
8,840,908 | 1. A vaccine composition comprising: (a) one or more antigens, or at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide antigen; (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient, and (c) a lipid adjuvant of the formula: wherein: R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and wherein the one or more antigens, or at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide antigen is from an influenza virus. | 7,357 |
8,769,548 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring consumption of computing resources of multiple running instances of a media player program implemented in software executed on the computing device to render respective media content in a graphical user interface of the computing device, the graphical user interface associated with an additional program configured to render additional content, different from the media content, to the graphical user interface; instructing the multiple instances to reduce respective portions of the computing resources consumption upon determining that a requested increase in computing resources consumption of the media player program would cause the computing resources consumption of the media player program to exceed a first predetermined level and a new consumption of the computing resources of one or more remaining running instances of the media player program after shutting down the selected instances would be below the first predetermined level; and upon determining that the consumption of the computing resources, after accounting for the instructed reductions and for the requested increase, is above the first predetermined level, selecting one or more of the multiple running instances for shut down according to one or more rules designed to maximize a number of presentations of the respective media content rendered in the graphical user interface; shutting down the selected one or more instances, such that the new computing resources consumption is below the first predetermined level. | 4,497 |
9,433,393 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a reference value calculating unit that calculates a reference value used for normalizing a flow of a contrast material, on a basis of a chronological transition of a signal intensity of the contrast material in a predetermined region, for each of a plurality of groups of X-ray images chronologically taken while using the contrast material; a generating unit that, for each of the plurality of groups of X-ray images, normalizes the flow of the contrast material at each of pixels by using the reference value calculated by the reference value calculating unit and generates an image in which a feature value of the normalized flow of the contrast material is reflected in each of the pixels; and a display controlling unit that causes a predetermined display unit to display the image generated by the generating unit, wherein each of the plurality of groups of X-ray images is either a group of images showing a state where the contrast material has been injected or a group of images obtained by subtracting an image taken immediately prior to the injection of the contrast material from each of the images showing the state where the contrast material has been injected. | 33,430 |
9,308,954 | 1. An alignment tool for use with a vehicle having a door moveably secured to a door frame and a door latch assembly defined on the door, the door latch assembly configured to removably receive a striker pin of the vehicle having a body and a head, the alignment tool comprising: (a) a body having a front surface and a rear surface, wherein the rear surface of the body is engageable with a cross-car door frame member to set a fore/aft position of the striker pin; (b) a through-hole extending through the body that is substantially the same circumference as an outer circumference of a head of a striker pin of a vehicle; (c) an annular collar surrounding the through-hole and extending from the front surface of the body, wherein the annular collar has an inner circumference that is substantially the same circumference as the outer circumference of the head of a striker pin, wherein the head of the striker pin is substantially flush within the annular collar when the rear surface is engaged with the cross-car door frame member; (d) a first end surface defined on the body that is configured to engage a fore/aft door frame member to set a cross-car position of the striker pin; and (e) a latch-engaging assembly engageable with a portion of the door latch assembly to set a vertical position of the striker pin. | 18,550 |
8,848,140 | 1. A plasmonic optical spectrum filtering device comprising: a resonator structure comprising an electrically conductive metal grating structure, a buffer layer adjacent to the grating structure, and a dielectric material adjacent to the buffer layer, wherein the electrically conductive metal grating structure comprises at least two openings capable of transmitting a portion of an electromagnetic spectrum to generate a filtered output having a predetermined range of wavelengths via optical resonance. | 11,906 |
9,597,629 | 1. A method for separating off carbon dioxide from a gas mixture, in particular from breathing air, with a life-sustaining device, wherein in a first method step the gas mixture is fed to an adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one first pressure, and in a second method step a gas mixture is conveyed out of the adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one second pressure that is higher than the first pressure. | 8,281 |
9,667,297 | 1. A venting and sealing assembly, comprising: a housing; a rigid substrate coupled by flexure bellows to the housing, the flexure bellows for enabling movement of the rigid substrate relative to the housing, thereby providing a moveable rigid substrate; a vent hole formed in the rigid substrate for venting between an interior and an exterior of the housing; a breathable membrane coupled across the vent hole of the moveable rigid substrate, the breathable membrane being pulled inward in response to predetermined changes in pressure being sensed between the interior and the exterior at the vent hole; a flexible substrate having a closed-loop sealing rib integrated thereon, the closed-loop sealing rib being aligned beneath the moveable rigid substrate around the breathable membrane; a vent path being formed between the exterior, the breathable membrane covering the vent hole of the moveable rigid substrate, and the flexible substrate; and the vent path being automatically sealed in response to predetermined pressure pulling the moveable rigid substrate inwards thereby isolating the breathable membrane by the closed-loop sealing rib of the flexible substrate. | 1,274 |
8,780,558 | 1. A device comprising a first element having at least one surface in need of heating or cooling and at least one heat transfer element in thermal communication with each surface in need of heating or cooling, wherein each heat transfer element comprises at least one heat exchange region, each having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein each heat exchange region independently comprises the contact surface of each heat transfer region and the second surface of each heat transfer region each independently comprise an essentially liquid impermeable material; and at least a portion of the contact surface of each heat transfer region is operatively attached to at least one surface in need of heating or cooling. | 8,538 |
8,686,767 | 1. A method for a programmable timing in digital integrated circuits implementing peak current mode controlled power converters comprising: setting a second timer value; setting a third timer value with respect to the second timer value; detecting a reset event; reloading a second counter from a current timer value to the second timer value upon detecting the reset event; resetting a second pulse width modulated waveform amplitude from a second amplitude value to a first amplitude value upon detecting the reset event; and setting a first pulse width modulated waveform from a first amplitude value to a second value upon the second counter reaching a third value. | 22,352 |
8,809,843 | 1. A photoelectrode comprising: a semiconducting substrate of nano- and/or micro-wires coated with a nickel-molybdenum metal catalyst. | 45,132 |
9,350,248 | 1. A power supply device comprising: a parallel circuit of a thyristor and a thermistor having a positive temperature coefficient; a DC power supply circuit having a pair of output ends and being to receive power through the parallel circuit; and multiple buck converters connected in parallel with each other between the pair of output ends of the DC power supply circuit, the multiple buck converters including a main converter and at least one sub converter, each of the main converter and the at least one sub converter including the main converter further including a secondary winding magnetically coupled with the inductor of the main converter, the main converter being configured to control the thyristor in accordance with a voltage across the secondary winding of the main converter, and the drive circuit of the main converter being configured to, when a short circuit of the switching element of the at least one sub converter occurs, terminate driving of the switching element of the main converter. | 38,958 |
9,435,209 | 1. A system, comprising: a turbomachine blade segment, comprising: | 32,248 |
8,871,342 | 1. A cellulose fibre-based support having at least one surface coated with a layer comprising at least one water-soluble polymer having hydroxyl functions, wherein at least some of the hydroxyl functions have been reacted before coating onto the cellulose fibre-based support with at least one organic molecule that contains an aldehyde function and at least one vinylic function. | 17,041 |
9,816,492 | 1. A system for generating mechanical power comprising: a radiation concentrator; a memory metal component comprising at least one of a wire and a ribbon and having a length oriented along a first axis, the memory metal component being selectively exposed along the length to direct concentrated radiation through the radiation concentrator, the memory metal component being constructed and arranged to experience a first phase change from a first phase to a second phase based upon a first change in temperature resulting from the selective radiation exposure so as to exert a first predetermined force in a first direction along the first axis causing the memory metal component to create a tension force along the first axis; a recovery element connected to the memory metal component that exerts a second predetermined force in a second direction along the first axis that is opposed to the first direction; and a drive member operatively connected to the memory metal component that performs work in response to the first predetermined force in each cycle from the first phase to the second phase and back to the first phase, wherein the work performed over time is maximized by optimizing a frontal area of the at least one of the wire or the ribbon, a maximum stress in the at least one of the wire or the ribbon, a maximum strain of the at least one of the wire or the ribbon, the length of the at least one wire or the ribbon, and the frequency of the cycles. | 6,588 |
9,702,552 | 1. A method for producing energy from waste comprising: transforming raw waste to refuse derived fuel (RDF); delivering organic and/or inorganic RDF into a an RDF blending feed hopper; continually purging organic and/or inorganic RDF in the RDF blending feed hopper with nitrogen; feeding the RDF from the RDF blending feed hopper to a thermal reactor via a screw feeder including a conical housing, the feeding including compressing the organic and/or inorganic RDF against the conical housing as the RDF is fed to the thermal reactor to squeeze nitrogen from the organic and/or inorganic RDF; gasifying any organic fraction of the RDF into a syngas containing heat in a non-combustion process within the thermal reactor, wherein the gasification being a sub-stoichiometric environment; melting any inorganic fraction of the RDF in the non-combustion process within the thermal reactor; generating steam using the heat contained within the syngas; cleaning and conditioning the syngas; and using the steam and/or the syngas as an energy source to drive equipment for generating electricity. | 30,759 |
9,049,658 | 1. A method comprising: determining, at a network coordinator device of a peer-to-peer communication network, whether all client devices associated with the peer-to-peer communication network support direct data communication; and in response to determining that all of the client devices support direct data communication, | 1,169 |
9,160,213 | 1. A method comprising: adjusting a speed of a traction motor blower based on ambient temperature, traction motor loss, and one or more traction motor temperatures, the adjusting the speed of the traction motor blower comprising: determining a first blower speed request based on the ambient temperature and the traction motor loss, and determining one or more second blower speed requests based on the one or more traction motor temperatures, the first blower speed request based on a traction motor loss parameter that is separate from the one or more traction motor temperatures; and selecting a highest blower speed request from among the first blower speed request and the one or more second blower speed requests, and adjusting the traction motor blower speed to the highest blower speed that is selected. | 8,801 |
9,755,108 | 1. A light emitting device, including: a semiconductor light emitting element comprising a sapphire substrate and a semiconductor layer; a mounting board; and a light transmission member, wherein the sapphire substrate is bonded to the light transmission member by an adhesive material, wherein the semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on the mounting board in a form of a flip-chip, wherein a roughened peripheral edge part is formed in the sapphire substrate in a mounting board side, wherein the roughened peripheral edge part is formed in such a way that a side surface of the sapphire substrate in the mounting board side is roughened, and wherein the sapphire substrate includes the roughened peripheral edge part, a wall opening part, and a laser beam machined surface, in order from the mounting board side. | 8,966 |
9,746,765 | 1. A method of manufacturing an exterior décor panel for a home appliance, the method comprising: laminating a photosensitive dry film on a front surface of a metal sheet, the photosensitive dry film having a higher etch resistance than the metal sheet against an electrolytic solution; photo-masking the photosensitive dry film attached to the metal sheet to create a pattern having a minimum width of 0.1 mm in the photosensitive dry film, thereby exposing the front surface of the metal sheet corresponding to the pattern in the photosensitive film; electrolytic-polishing the photo-masked metal sheet by dipping the photo-masked metal sheet in an electrolytic bath to allow the electrolytic solution to contact the exposed front surface of the metal sheet and form the pattern in the front surface of the metal sheet; and performing post-treatment on the metal sheet, the post-treatment including washing and removing the photosensitive dry film, wherein the photo-masking comprises: wherein the electrolytic-polishing includes providing a jig configured to secure the metal sheet dipped in the electrolytic bath, the jig comprising: | 23,987 |
9,685,869 | 1. A half bridge circuit comprising: a GaN-based low side circuit including: a GaN-based low side switch having a low side switch control gate, a low side switch source and a low side switch drain, wherein the low side switch source is coupled to a ground and the low side switch drain is connected to a switch node; and a GaN-based low side switch driver having an output coupled to the low side switch control gate; a GaN-based high side circuit including: a GaN-based high side switch having a high side control gate, a high side switch source and a high side switch drain, wherein the high side switch source is coupled to the switch node and the high side switch drain is coupled to a voltage source; and a GaN-based high side switch driver having an output coupled to the high side switch control gate and an input coupled to a level shift circuit; a blanking pulse circuit configured to generate a signal that controls a state of at least one of the GaN-based low side switch and the GaN-based high side switch; a state storage device that is configured to change a stored state corresponding to on and off states of the GaN-based high side switch driver; and | 23,875 |
9,751,198 | 1. A slip-proof system comprising: a screw connection element having recesses and a wrench with cams which fit into the recesses, the screw connection element has an axis, a cylindrical lateral surface and a ring-shaped end face, the recesses extend axially parallel from the end face over at least a portion of the lateral surface, a radial extension of the recesses being restricted to a part of the wall thickness of the screw connection element, the recesses having opposing side walls, the side walls confining the recesses in angular direction and having an outer area and an inner area, and a base extending in angular direction between the side walls and confining the recess in axial direction opposite the ring-shaped end face, the side walls being flat and defined by planes containing the axis in the outer area extending from the end face to about half of the axial length of the recesses, the recesses being expanded by oppositely situated semicircular protrusions of the side walls in the inner area adjoining the outer area of the side walls, and the wrench has a head which is provided with cams which in the axial direction are insertable into the recesses. | 27,728 |
9,802,692 | 1. A method of insulating a structural frame member of a transport vehicle, the method comprising: coupling a first end of at least one flexible insulation member to one of at least two self-retaining foam insulation members using a coupling element; wrapping the at least one flexible insulation member over a first free end of the structural frame member of the transport vehicle and over at least portions of two sides of the structural frame member, to obtain a wrapped structural frame member; and positioning one of the self-retaining foam insulation members on each side of the wrapped structural frame member and in compression fit between each side of the wrapped structural frame member and adjacent structural frame members, such that the self-retaining foam insulation members impart one or more compression forces on the flexible insulation member to secure the flexible insulation member in place without use of any fastener device. | 9,033 |
9,677,127 | 1. A method of detecting a first sequence or a second sequence in a target region of DNA, comprising: (A) providing a double stranded DNA comprising a target region, the target region comprising either a first sequence or a second sequence differing at a mutation site; (B) amplifying the double stranded DNA in a first reaction mixture by a DNA polymerase reaction comprising (C) hybridizing at 25° C. the first amplified DNA in the first reaction mixture to the first hybridization probe or the second hybridization probe, wherein hybridizing occurs in the first reaction mixture and no addition of a reagent occurs between amplifying and hybridizing; (D) applying the first reaction mixture after hybridization onto a first chromatography support; and (E) amplifying the double stranded DNA in a second reaction mixture by a DNA polymerase reaction comprising thereby, obtaining a second amplified DNA comprising the first labeling agent; and (F) hybridizing at 25° C. the second amplified DNA in the second reaction mixture to the first hybridization probe or the second hybridization probe, wherein hybridizing occurs in the second reaction mixture and no addition of a reagent occurs between amplifying and hybridizing; (G) applying the second reaction mixture after hybridization onto a second chromatography support; and (H) determining that the DNA comprises the first sequence by detecting a first hybrid via affinity chromatography on the first chromatography support, the first hybrid being fully complementary between (i) the first hybridization probe labeled with the second labeling agent and (ii) DNA comprising the first sequence labeled with the first labeling agent; or (I) determining that the DNA comprises the second sequence by detecting a second hybrid via affinity chromatography on the second chromatography support, the second hybrid being fully complementary between (i) the second hybridization probe labeled with the second labeling agent and (ii) DNA comprising the second sequence labeled with the first labeling agent, wherein, a ligase enzyme is not required after hybridization. | 49,150 |
8,485,126 | 1. A coating apparatus comprising: a coating part comprising a slit nozzle which applies a liquid material including an oxidizable metal on a substrate; a glove part which provides access to the coating part by an operator; a chamber comprising a coating section in which the coating part applies the liquid material on the substrate and a transport section onto which a substrate which has received the liquid material is transported, a managing area in which the coating part is managed and where the glove part is accessible, and a detection device which detects the entrance of the glove part; an adjusting part which adjusts at least one of oxygen concentration and humidity inside the chamber; and a control part configured to stop an operation of the coating part in response to the entrance of the glove part into the managing area. | 38,532 |
9,057,307 | 1. An installation for aftertreatment of exhaust gas generated by a combustion device of a motor vehicle, said installation comprising: a nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter arranged in an exhaust gas line of the motor vehicle to receive the exhaust gas generated by the combustion device; a particulate filter arranged in the exhaust gas line downstream of and separated from the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter, wherein the particulate filter includes an SCR catalyst catalytic coating; and an SCR catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust gas line downstream of and separated from the particulate filter. | 43,857 |
9,640,822 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a fuel cell; a catalytic reactor having a catalyst including at least one Group VIII noble metal and iron; wherein the catalytic reactor is configured to contact a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon fuel and an oxidant with the catalyst; wherein the catalyst is configured to oxidize sulfur-containing compounds to form sulfur oxides; and wherein the iron concentration in the catalyst is in the range of 0.5% to 40% by weight. | 46,222 |
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