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9,347,115 | 1. A method for recovering a rare earth element comprising the steps of: providing an aqueous solution containing (i) a rare earth element and (ii) a water-soluble salt that is one or more members selected from the group consisting of a chloride, a perchlorate, a chlorate, a bromate, a bromide, a periodate, an iodate, and an iodide, the water-soluble salt being present in the aqueous solution at an anionic ion concentration of 4 to 10 mol/l; and adding an alkali metal sulfate thereto so that a precipitate of a double sulfate of the rare earth element is generated. | 29,399 |
9,679,563 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a plurality of microphones operatively coupled to the electronic device; a single channel signal processing module configured to perform a specified audio process associated with at least one audio channel signal corresponding to a portion of the plurality of microphones when the at least one audio channel signal is received; a first voice recognition module configured to recognize a specified command through voice recognition of the first audio data; a multi-channel signal processing module configured to perform a specified audio process associated with a multi-channel audio signal corresponding to all of the plurality of microphones; and an audio data processing module capable of being implemented with at least one processor, wherein the audio data processing module is configured to: wherein the electronic device further comprises one of: | 15,960 |
9,016,808 | 1. A vehicle brake device comprising: a hydraulic brake device that generates a base hydraulic pressure by a master cylinder in dependence on the stepping-on of a brake pedal and that applies the generated base hydraulic pressure directly to wheel cylinders of respective wheels connected to the master cylinder through oil passages provided with hydraulic control valves thereon, to make the respective wheels generate a base hydraulic brake force corresponding to the base hydraulic pressure; and a regenerative brake device that makes some of the wheels generate a regenerative brake force; wherein the hydraulic brake device and the regenerative brake device are brought into cooperative operations to apply a vehicle brake force corresponding to the manipulation state of the brake pedal, to a vehicle based on the base hydraulic brake force and the regenerative brake force; and wherein: the hydraulic chamber of the master cylinder is provided with a master cylinder-side port being in communication with a reservoir tank; a piston being slidden in the hydraulic chamber is provided with a first piston-side port facing on the master cylinder-side port and a second piston side port separated from the first piston-side port by a predetermined distance in a pressure increasing direction of the piston and facing the master cylinder-side port; wherein before the stepping-on of the brake pedal, the hydraulic chamber is in communication with the reservoir tank through the first piston-side port and the second piston-side port; with the stepping-on start of the brake pedal, the hydraulic chamber is blocked from communication with the reservoir tank through the second piston-side port; while the brake pedal is moved from the stepping-on start by the predetermined distance in the pressure increasing direction, the hydraulic chamber is kept to communicate with the reservoir tank through the first piston-side port; when the piston moves beyond the predetermined distance, the hydraulic chamber is blocked from communication with the reservoir tank through the first piston-side port and the second piston-side port; and the first piston-side port is provided with an orifice that is configured to restrict the flow of brake fluid from the master cylinder to the reservoir tank at the time of a quick stepping of the brake pedal but not to restrict the flow at the time of a non-quick stepping. | 13,636 |
8,441,488 | 1. An apparatus for processing an action script for visual display of a graphical image, the apparatus comprising: at least one memory circuit to store a plurality of operational codes and a plurality of control words; a parser circuit to parse the action script into a plurality of descriptive elements and corresponding data, and to extract data from the action script and to store the extracted data in the at least one memory circuit as the plurality of control words having the extracted data in predetermined fields, wherein the plurality of descriptive elements are a plurality of tags or bytecodes; a converter circuit to convert the plurality of descriptive elements of the action script into the plurality of operational codes; an execution circuit to perform a selected operation in response to a selected operational code of the plurality of operational codes using the extracted data stored in the at least one memory circuit to generate pixel data for the graphical image; a first decoder circuit to decode a descriptive element to determine a corresponding parsing operational code of the plurality of operational codes to control the parsing of the action script by the parser circuit; and a second decoder circuit to decode each operational code of the plurality of operational codes to generate a corresponding plurality of control signals to control the execution circuit to perform the selected operation, of a plurality of operations, corresponding to the selected operational code of the plurality of operational codes. | 33,487 |
8,742,531 | 1. An electrical device comprising: a first electrode comprising at least one dendritic metal structure, wherein the at least one dendritic metal structure has a multi-branched and irregular structure; a second electrode; and an electrically active structure disposed between the dendritic metal structure and the second electrode; wherein a solid electrolyte is disposed on the electrically active structure; wherein the dendritic metal structure is disposed on the solid electrolyte, and wherein the region of the solid electrolyte disposed directly beneath the dendritic metal structure has an increased concentration of metal. | 28,723 |
9,752,597 | 1. A hydraulic control valve assembly to be integrated into a pressure compensated load sensing hydraulic system including a fluid source having an outlet, the hydraulic control valve assembly comprising: a first working unit to control a first hydraulic function of a machine and including a first directional and return flow control in the form of a first spool, a first function flow control to selectively communicate a working pressure of the first function to the fluid source, and a first downstream flow control; a second working unit arranged downstream of the first working unit, the second working unit to control a second hydraulic function of the machine and including a second directional and return flow control in the form of a second spool and a second function flow control to selectively communicate a working pressure of the second function to the fluid source; and a supply conduit extending through the first working unit and the second working unit and in fluid communication with the outlet of the fluid source; the fluid source to respond to a change in at least one of the working pressure of the first function and the working pressure of the second function by varying a pressure at the outlet; the first downstream flow control to selectively restrict a flow of fluid from the fluid source to the second working unit. | 35,035 |
9,223,736 | 1. A device comprising: a transmission circuit configured and arranged to transmit data in accordance with a signal bus protocol that uses passive bias to set a signal bus to a recessive value in the absence of an actively-driven signal value and including a control circuit configured and arranged to | 24,771 |
9,580,966 | 1. An all electric powered mobile jumbo drill machine operating in a mine configured to use provided AC electric power, the mobile jumbo drill comprising: a support structure including a plurality of wheel sets; a self-contained battery module removably mounted on the support structure; at least one hydraulic hammer; an AC motor mounted on the support structure and coupled to at least one wheel set and the battery module; a DC/AC inverter and variable speed drive coupled to the AC motor and the battery module; a battery charger in electrical communication with the battery module, with the battery charger mounted on the support structure; a hydraulic pump coupled to the AC motor and one of one wheel set and the hydraulic hammer; a hydraulic motor coupled to the hydraulic pump; a cable reel mounted on the support structure and including an electric cable coupled in the mine to provided AC electric power; and an electric switch device, coupled to a system controller, with the electric switch device configured to selectively connect the AC motor to one of the battery module and the electric cable in the mine, wherein the provided AC power through the electric cable energizes one of the AC motor coupled to the hydraulic hammer to drill and the battery charger to charge the battery, and wherein the electric cable is configured to be reeled up on the cable reel and the battery module is configured to power the hydraulic motor for movement from a first location to a second location and subsequent to the movement from the first location to the second location the electric cable is configured to again be coupled to the mine provided AC electric power. | 41,093 |
8,420,982 | 1. An oven comprising: a main body portion having a cooking space therein; loess layers that are coated on inner walls of the main body portion and that comprise red clay and yellow mica, respectively; and heat generation rods that are disposed on at least one side of the cooking space so as to heat the cooking space. | 8,517 |
8,449,148 | 1. A lighting device for forming a pattern comprising: an LED light source using an LED light emitting element; a first refractive element adapted to refract light emitted from the LED light source to form an enlarged image of a light emitting shape of the LED light emitting element when viewed in an optical axis direction of the LED light source at a predetermined position; and a casing accommodating the LED light source and the first refractive element and having a light outgoing aperture for emitting the light applied from the first refractive element to an outside of the casing. | 23,077 |
9,346,192 | 1. A system for processing a supply of post-consumer scrap plastic film into near-virgin quality blown film product, comprising: a shredder configured to tear and delaminate the supply of film, wherein surface area of the film is exposed; a water bath configured to wash the shredded film with an additive having a surfactant and agitate the shredded film in the water bath to remove contaminates therefrom; a wet grinder configured to grind the washed film; a friction washer for washing the ground film to remove additional contaminates from the ground film; wherein at least one of the water bath or the friction washer contains hot water; a postwash sink float water bath configured to wash the ground film and subject the ground film to at least one of mechanical agitation and hydraulic agitation; a dryer for drying the washed film; and a compactor configured to process the dry, washed film into granulated objects of near-virgin quality blown film product. | 33,108 |
9,517,946 | 1. A method of assembling a plumbing system for water reclamation around a landmass, comprising: providing: a first drain line configured to receive water from at least one in-building, used water source of a first group of sources and piped to a first community shared water purification system graded for purifying the first group of sources and a first intended re-use; a second drain line configured to receive water from at least one in-building, used water source of a second group of sources, the second group of sources being different from the first group of sources and wherein the second drain line does not communicate with the first drain line and is in communication with a destination point; and a third drain line configured to receive water from an external source, the external source being rain water or snow melt exterior to a building wherein the third drain line is separate from the first and second drain line and is piped to a second community shared water purification system graded for rain water and snow melt; and wherein the first, second, and third drain lines located and sized based on a reuse strategy computed by a community shared computing system comprising a hardware processor and a memory; wherein the reuse strategy includes a purification strategy according to detected chemical and biological content and the reuse strategy is further based on topographical survey data of the landmass, area rainfall and snowfall data, one or more building sizes of the landmass, run-off speed and rate of flow at one or more locations of the landmass, and water accumulation volume and speed at one or more locations of the landmass; wherein the first group comprises in-building sources other than a toilet or dump sink wherein the dump sink receives chemical, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industrial waste. | 16,492 |
9,848,947 | 1. A medical device, comprising: a shaft assembly, including: | 2,474 |
9,137,751 | 1. A concurrent control method for a communication device embedded with Wi-Fi Direct comprising: determining whether a beacon interval of the communication device and a beacon interval of the WLAN AP are the same; measuring a time difference between a target beacon transmission time (TBTT) of the communication device and a nearest target beacon transmission time (TBTT) of the WLAN AP when the beacon interval of the communication device and the beacon interval of the WLAN AP are the same; dynamically adjusting a target beacon transmission time (TBTT) of a Wi-Fi Direct connection according to the time difference between the TBTT of the communication device and a nearest TBTT of a wireless local area network access point (WLAN AP) and whether a channel for the Wi-Fi Direct connection and a channel for the WLAN connection are different comparing the time difference with at least one threshold to determine whether shifting a time synchronization function (TSF) timer of the communication device; when the channel for the Wi-Fi Direct connection and the channel for the WLAN connection are different and the time difference is less than a first threshold, shifting a time synchronization function (TSF) timer of the communication device to make the time difference between TBTT of the communication device and TBTT of the WLAN AP greater than the first threshold. | 23,128 |
9,008,450 | 1. A method of searching for a preferred motion vector in a search window, comprising: receiving a predicted motion vector; searching first motion vectors in the search window along a first direction associated with the predicted motion vector, the first motion vectors having a fixed coordinate in a second direction; determining a cross over point associated with a lowest cost motion vector from among the first motion vectors; searching second motion vectors in the search window along a third direction different from the first direction; and selecting a lowest cost motion vector from among the second motion vectors. | 30,687 |
8,956,839 | 1. An immobilized biocatalyst comprising a substrate; and a biocatalyst linked to the substrate through a linking moiety comprising a C wherein the biocatalyst catalyzes hydration of carbon dioxide. | 13,940 |
9,036,525 | 1. A packet transmission method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: identifying at least one other network service application being able to transmit at least one packet at an event time of a packet transmission schedule of a first network service application; adjusting a packet transmission schedule of the identified at least one other network service application to be synchronized with the packet transmission schedule of the first network service application; and transmitting at least one packet of the first network service application according to the packet transmission schedule of the first network service application and transmitting at least one packet of the at least one other network service application according to the synchronized packet transmission schedule of the at least one other network service application, wherein the identified at least one other network service application comprises a client program of a push data delivery service. | 12,663 |
8,376,586 | 1. A light pointer apparatus comprising: a substantially flat bottom surface comprising a sufficiently large surface area such that when said substantially flat bottom surface is rested upon a substantially flat horizontal surface, said apparatus remains substantially immobile and stable relative to the substantially flat horizontal surface solely by virtue of the plane of contact formed between said substantially flat bottom surface and the substantially flat horizontal surface; a light source for emitting a low-divergence light beam comprising wavelengths in the visible light spectrum with a beam divergence of at most three degrees, fixed in orientation relative to said substantially flat bottom surface so as to emit said low-divergence light beam at a predetermined emission angle of at least 45 degrees relative to the plane of said substantially flat bottom surface; surfaces other than said substantially flat bottom surface capable of being held and moved by a human hand; and said apparatus omitting any connection enabling a computerized device to recognize position or movement of said apparatus relative to the substantially flat horizontal surface; wherein: a user of said apparatus, by holding said surfaces other than said substantially flat bottom surface with the user's hand while said low-divergence light beam is actuated, is enabled to cause light from said low-divergence light beam to visibly strike a selected object on an opposite side of a transparent or partially transparent substantially flat surface relative to said apparatus, while said substantially flat bottom surface is in contact with the transparent or partially transparent substantially flat surface, by moving said apparatus over the transparent or partially transparent substantially flat surface and causing said low-divergence light beam to pass through the transparent or partially transparent substantially flat surface and visibly strike upon or proximate the selected object on said opposite side. | 3,004 |
9,302,628 | 1. A storage compartment comprising: a base comprising: a cover comprising: | 14,842 |
8,369,957 | 1. A retinal prosthesis comprising: an electrode array suitable to be mounted in close proximity to a retina; a demultiplexer suitable to be mounted internal to the sclera and electrically coupled to the electrode array; an electronics package suitable to be outside the eye; a single cable suitable to pierce the sclera electrically coupling said demultiplexer to said electronics package; and a coil electrically coupled to said electronics package. | 48,629 |
9,643,432 | 1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a conveyor configured to transport a medium along a conveyance direction; a liquid ejector configured to eject liquid onto the medium to create an image on the medium; a cutter located downstream from the liquid ejector in the conveyance direction, the cutter being configured to cut the medium; and a controller configured to execute the following operations: a first ejecting operation that ejects the liquid onto the medium using the liquid ejector to complete a first part of the image; a first conveyance operation that follows the first ejecting operation and that, using the conveyer, conveys the medium a first distance along the conveyance direction when the medium is not to be cut prior to a second ejection operation in sequence, wherein the second ejecting operation follows the first conveyance operation and ejects the liquid onto the medium using the liquid ejector to complete a second part of the image that builds on the first part of the image; a second conveyance operation that follows the second ejecting operation and that using the conveyer, conveys the medium a second distance, different from the first distance, along the conveyance direction; a cutting operation that follows the second conveyance operation and that cuts the medium using the cutter; a third conveyance operation that follows the cutting operation and that, using the conveyer, conveys the medium a third distance, different from the first distance, along the conveyance direction; and a third ejecting that follows the third conveyance operation and that ejects the liquid onto the medium using the liquid ejector to complete a third part of the image that builds on the second part of the image; wherein the sum of the second distance and the third distance are substantially equal to the first distance. | 29,146 |
9,105,882 | 1. An energy storage cell, comprising: a cell body extending two-dimensionally in an extension plane and having four lateral planes arranged along a circumference of the extension plane, with two of said lateral planes extending in each case parallel to one another and with the extension plane having a center point; first and second rectangular conductor electrodes respectively disposed on two mutually opposite lateral planes, said conductor electrodes being disposed in each case symmetrically in the direction of the circumference about a center of the corresponding said lateral plane, and each said conductor electrode forming a contact point where an edge thereof contacts the respective said lateral plane, and said conductor electrodes having edges remote from the corresponding said lateral plane and extending non-parallel with the circumference of the extension plane; wherein said edges remote from the corresponding said lateral plane are defined as remote edges; wherein at least one of said conductor electrodes is constructed such that an angle γ formed between a line extending from the center point of the extension plane to one of said remote edges of said one of said conductor electrodes and a line extending from the center point of the extension plane to the center of the respective said lateral plane has a value of 25°<γ<55°; and wherein an angle β between a connecting line of edges formed between said lateral planes, which edges define said lateral planes that comprise said conductor electrodes in the direction of the circumference, and the center point of the extension plane on the one hand and a connecting line between the center of the respective said lateral plane and the center point of the extension plane on the other hand has a value of 40°<β<60°. | 30,704 |
9,698,981 | 1. A method for a wireless module to transmit a sensor measurement, the method performed by the wireless module, the method comprising the wireless module, in sequence: changing (i) a processor from a sleep state to an active state and (ii) a radio from a radio off state to a connected state; transmitting a message with the sensor measurement and receiving a response, wherein the message includes a module digital signature processed with a private key for the wireless module; transmitting a detach message, wherein, after receiving the response and before transmitting the detach message, the wireless module does not receive (i) a radio bearer reconfiguration message, and (ii) a radio resource control connection release, and wherein the wireless module transmits the detach message (x) while the radio for the wireless module comprises a radio resource control connected (RRC_CONNECTED) state and (y) before the radio for the wireless module utilizes a discontinuous reception (DRX) state; and, changing (i) the radio to the radio off state and (ii) the processor to the sleep state. | 25,591 |
9,494,074 | 1. Arrangement for a combustion engine with direct injection, comprising: a high pressure pump connectable to the internal combustion engine via a high-pressure rail, wherein the high pressure pump is configured to pump fuel into the high-pressure rail for the direct injection of fuel, the internal combustion engine; at least two fuel storages for LPG and petrol, respectively; a LPG line running from the LPG storage to an inlet of the high-pressure pump; a petrol fuel line running from the petrol storage to the inlet of the high-pressure pump, the LPG line being separate from the petrol fuel line, said high-pressure pump arranged for switching between directly injecting the LPG and the petrol into the high-pressure rail of the internal combustion engine; a LPG pump received in the first fuel storage and operative to pump the LPG, via the LPG line, to the inlet of the high-pressure pump; a petrol fuel pump operative to pump the petrol, via the petrol fuel line, to the inlet of the high-pressure pump; a first non-return valve provided in the LPG line; a second non-return valve provided in the petrol fuel line; and a control valve upstream from the high pressure pump mounted across the second non-return valve provided in the petrol fuel line, wherein the control valve is configured to allow the LPG to enter at least part of the petrol fuel line during switching. | 20,527 |
9,436,168 | 1. A computer implemented method of controlling any energy conversion plant, including power plants of all kinds, having a plurality of measured parameters that include one or more temperatures, pressures, partial pressures, mole numbers, flows, in and out electrical and/or mechanical powers, position of valves, and other actuators, the method maximizing thermal efficiency of the plant with respect to a subset of the measured parameters that can be manipulated, termed Variables, subject to operational, structural, financial, and environmental constraints, wherein the constrained maximization is called optimizing, wherein the computer is either an integral part of the a control system of the plant in that it reads measured parameters from a Data Acquisition System (DAS) and writes the Variables maximizing values into the control system as set-points in a closed loop optimization, or reads measured parameters from the DAS whilst human operators apply maximizing values of the Variables or modify the plant itself in an open loop optimization, comprising: (1a) determining a set of [all relevant] measured thermodynamic properties throughout the plant and its Variables subset including those measured parameters that can be independently manipulated via an interface with the DAS, or via manual input; (1b) deriving, from the measured parameters in accordance with (1a) and corresponding thermodynamic properties, a state of the plant that constitutes [all relevant] the set of measured thermodynamic properties throughout the plant, as well as energy mass and entropy flows, temperatures, pressures, partial pressures, mole numbers, liquid and gas flows and electrical input and output values, real velocity vector fields, by way of relevant balance equations and particular expressions; (1c) from the derived plant state, partitioning the plant into a finite number of real irreversible physical continuums in accordance with continuum-mechanics, and which correspond to discontinuities of measured and derived parameters making up the derived state of the plant and satisfying conservation-of-mass condition(s); (1d) constructing an isometric, in a thermodynamic metric, map in accordance with differential geometry of each real continuum established in (1c) from a thermodynamic manifold, which is spanned by thermodynamic coordinates and time, to a region of a Galilean manifold spanned by spatial and time coordinates; (1e) constructing a plant model using the partitions into physical continuums determined in accordance with (1c) and in accordance with a physical real arrangement of actual hardware of the plant, as incedenting physical continuums, exhibited as a graph in accordance with graph theory, which can be reduced to a planar graph, wherein each boundary of a real continuum plays a role of an edge and each real continuum a role of a node; (1f) converting each partitioned real, irreversible physical continuum into a virtual corresponding reversible continuum or Reversible Masking of the real continuum, subject to constraint(s) that each real continuum and corresponding reversible continuum assume same boundary values of thermodynamic properties in accordance with (1a) through (1e) and that their derivatives are continuous and equal at the boundaries, as well as mass-flow-rate, wherein the partitioned irreversible real continuums, which are governed by a system of conventional balance equations and constituent phenomenological equations, are converted into partitioned Reversible Maskings substitutes, which are governed by a system of partial differential equations excluding any constituent equations, but including either an equation of Thermodynamic Geodesic Field (TGF) in the thermodynamic metric or a direct Reversible Energy Conservation (REC), uniquely describing the reversible continuum (called a Mathematical Model of the reversible continuum), (1g) constructing an equivalent reversible virtual plant by mapping the partitioned Reversible Masking substitute equations from (1f) into the plant model constructed in (1e), such that the graph of (1e) is maintained, wherein the partition of a real plant of irreversible real physical continuums is mapped into a partition of Reversible Maskings substitute equations, with a same incidence matrix in accordance with the graph theory of (1e); (1h) solving the mapped equations from (1g) for a current plant state in terms of velocity vector fields across the reversible continuums and storing the values of the solutions within the spaces defined by the reversible continuums; (1i) constructing an objective function (called Loss) to be minimized by a surface integral of kinetic energy obtained from the velocity vector field(s) derived according to (1h) over the boundary of each Reversible Masking, inputting to a numerical integration the velocity field(s) and density field(s) of values at each? boundary according to (1e), outputting a difference in kinetic energy between boundaries where matter leaves and enters the Reversible Masking, subtracting, from the sum of all kinetic energy increment, actual work delivered by the real plant; (1j) simulating the plant using the solved equations from (1g) using the constructed virtual reversible plant and adjusting the set-points of the control system in the simulation to determine the Variables defined in (1a) that correspond to minimization of the Loss constructed in (1i) resulting in maximizing efficiency of the plant according to a predetermined objective function; and (1k) applying the Variables derived according to (1j) that minimize the objective function constructed according to (1i) to the real thermal power plant. | 35,275 |
8,779,695 | 1. An LED driver comprising a power converter for powering an LED fixture and a control unit for controlling the power converter and/or the LED fixture, wherein the control unit comprises: an input terminal for receiving an input signal, an output terminal for providing an output signal to the power converter and/or the LED fixture for controlling the power converter and/or the LED fixture, receive, by means of a download, a program comprising an algorithm for converting the input signal to the control signal for the power converter and/or the LED fixture and following receipt of the program, establish a conversion from the input signal to the output signal using the algorithm. | 3,795 |
8,973,754 | 1. A case for a stick, the stick having oppositely facing operative and inoperative ends, the operative end adapted to clean teeth, said case including: an inner component and an outer component, said inner component being pivotal relative to said outer component and pivoting from an open position in which the operative end of the stick is adapted to be exposed for use to a closed position in which the operative end of the stick is adapted to be protected by said outer component, said inner component further having a pair of longitudinally extending spaced inner walls between which the entire stick is adapted to be accommodated, said inner walls each defining a free end and being resiliently flexible which, when the stick is extended longitudinally out from between the inner walls and the inner walls are manually pinched, the free ends will approach each other resulting in the free ends engaging the extended stick to immobilize the stick relative to said inner component such that the operative end protrudes outward from said inner to be used to clean teeth while the remainder of the stick remains between said inner walls. | 4,263 |
8,746,010 | 1. A method for producing glass sheets from molten glass using a forming structure that has an outer surface at least a part of which is composed of zircon and comes into contact with the molten glass during use of the forming structure, said method comprising in order: (A) melting batch materials to produce molten glass having a treatment composition, said batch materials comprising silica; (B) delivering the molten glass having the treatment composition to the forming structure at a delivery temperature T (C) melting batch materials to produce molten glass having a production composition; (D) delivering the molten glass having the production composition to the forming structure; (E) using the forming structure to produce a glass ribbon; and (F) separating glass sheets from the ribbon produced in step (E), said glass sheets having the production composition; wherein: (i) at T (ii) the treatment composition has a zircon breakdown temperature T (iii) the treatment composition has a ΔT (iv) the production composition has a delivery temperature T (v) the production composition has a zircon breakdown temperature T (vi) the production composition has a ΔT (vii) ΔT (viii) the performance of steps (A) and (B) reduces the level of zirconia defects in glass sheets produced by steps (C) to (F); and (ix) step (B) is no longer being performed when step (D) is performed. | 16,185 |
8,469,978 | 1. A surgical band device that is laparoscopically implantable within a patient's body, comprising: a flexible expansion-resistant section having first and second ends, the expansion-resistant section having a flat face extending along its length between the first and second ends, the expansion-resistant section being of uniform-cross section between the first and second ends; and a lockable latch having first and second latch parts coupled to the first and second ends of the expansion-resistant section; wherein the first and second latch parts have a fixed longitudinal curvature when the first and second latch parts are unlocked; and wherein the expansion-resistant section having a longitudinally extending configuration along its length when the first and second latch parts are unlocked and the surgical band device is fed laparoscopically through tissue within the patient's body and a radial shape configuration along its length when the first and second latch parts are locked and the surgical band device is positioned around tissue within the patient's body; wherein the first latch part of the lockable latch including an exterior body having an interior lumen, said exterior body having side through-openings communicating with said lumen, said lumen including a front opening, wherein said front opening is lined with an inwardly-beveled face; wherein the first and second latch parts of said lockable latch are engaged by a male-female type engagement; wherein the second latch part of the lockable latch including two lateral prongs extending from a prong body, said prong body having an outwardly-beveled face, said lateral prongs extending forward of said prong body and ending in two corresponding lateral catches, said lateral catches including angled side faces for engaging with said lumen of said first latch part, said lateral catches further engaging in a lockable one-way engagement with said side openings of said first latch part when said first and second latch parts are fully engaged and wherein upon full engagement, said outwardly-beveled face of said second latch part mates with said inwardly beveled face of said first latch part. | 49,714 |
8,718,014 | 1. A method for handing off a communication session of a user equipment from a first network to a second network, the method comprising; Determining, by a network information server in the first network, whether an accessible base station of the second network is located in a vicinity of the user equipment based on information on a current location of the user equipment within the first network; generating, by the network information server in the first network, a trigger signal when the network information server determines the accessible base station of the second network is located in the vicinity of the user equipment; transmitting, by the network information server in the first network, the trigger signal to a call transmitting server; generating, by the call transmitting server, when the trigger signal is received, an activation message with a first telephone number as a caller number when the accessible base station of the second network is determined to be located in the vicinity of the user equipment, wherein the activation message is a short message service (SMS) message; transmitting the generated activation message to the user equipment; searching, by the user equipment, for the accessible base station of the second network when the activation message with the first telephone number is received by the user equipment; and executing the handoff from the first network to the second network when the user equipment finds the accessible base station of the second network and enters a service area of the accessible base station. | 40,166 |
8,452,768 | 1. A method of generating targeting parameters of a media buy plan for an advertising campaign including one or more advertisements to be displayed in conjunction with presenting web pages, based on a history of search events, comprising: receiving key phrases relative to a subject of the advertisements for which the targeting parameters of the media buy plan are to be generated; providing the received key phrases as proposed key phrases to determine, from search events indicative of historical data of uses of a search service, a first subportion of search events for first queries of the search service that have been received from a first sub-population of users and a second subportion of search events for second queries of the search service that have been received from a second sub-population of users, the first queries including one or more of the proposed key phrases and the second queries not including one or more of the proposed key phrases; applying classification processing to determine potential targeting parameters that, statistically, contribute to membership in the first sub-population of users that have submitted the first queries of the search service including one or more of the proposed key phrases and contribute to membership in the second sub-population of users that have submitted the second queries of the search service not including one or more of the proposed key phrases, wherein the potential targeting parameters include one or more user characteristics, the user characteristics including demographic data; associating statistics with the potential targeting parameters, based on the historical data, indicative of factors usable to determine whether to use the potential targeting parameters as the targeting parameters of the media buy plan, wherein the targeting parameters include one or more characteristics of users to be targeted by the media buy plan; and generating recommendations regarding the media buy plan based, at least in part, upon the statistics associated with the potential targeting parameters, the recommendations indicating whether to use at least some of the potential targeting parameters as the targeting parameters of the media buy plan. | 29,916 |
9,399,887 | 1. An assembly comprising: a frame defining at least one channel; a backing inserted within said channel, said backing having a front surface, a bottom surface opposite said front surface, a first side edge, a second side edge opposite said first side edge, a central support defining a central axis, and a plurality of alternating tabs extending from said central support to said first side edge to define notched out spaces between said alternating tabs, with said second side edge defining a plane that is parallel to said central axis of said central support; and a weatherstripping material coupled to said backing and extending from said front surface of said backing. | 23,827 |
8,359,457 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a controller; and a plurality of dynamically reconfigurable circuits connected to one another in series below the controller to perform operations in a manner of a pipeline, wherein (A) the controller inputs to a first one of the dynamically reconfigurable circuits: data that is to be processed, and reconfiguration information including identification information that identifies an item of circuit information used to constitute an execution circuit necessary for a computation executed on the data in the dynamically reconfigurable circuits, from among a plurality of items of circuit information held individually by the dynamically reconfigurable circuits, and information that indicates a number of times the computation is to be executed individually by the dynamically reconfigurable circuits, and (B) each of the dynamically reconfigurable circuits includes | 18,027 |
8,597,904 | 1. A method for reducing tumor size or number by inhibiting proteasome activity in a population of cancerous cells comprising: (i) contacting a population of cancerous cells with an amount of an analog of the following compound comprising the 12-membered ring structure having a double bond at the 3,4 position, or an amount of an analog of the following compound comprising the 12-membered ring structure having a double bond at the 3,4 position, said contacting being effective to inhibit the activity of a β5 catalytic subunit of the proteasome of said population of cancerous cells, wherein the double bond at the 3,4 position of the 12-membered ring covalently attaches the compound to the threonine residue of the β5 subunit of the catalytic site of the proteasome of said cancerous cells; (ii) confirming inhibition of proteasome activity; (iii) assessing the tumor size; and (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) until a reduction in tumor size or number is observed. | 47,036 |
8,933,288 | 1. A process for separating components in a feed stream by simulated countercurrent adsorptive separation comprising: introducing a feed stream, comprising at least one preferentially adsorbed component and at least one non-preferentially adsorbed component, and a desorbent stream into two different ports via two different corresponding transfer lines along a multi-bed adsorptive separation chamber having a plurality of beds that are serially connected in fluid communication and comprising a predetermined number of spaced ports with corresponding transfer lines in fluid communication therewith for introducing and removing fluid into and from the adsorptive separation chamber and withdrawing an extract stream and raffinate stream through two different ports of the multi-bed adsorptive separation chamber via two different corresponding transfer lines; flushing residual fluid comprising residual desorbent from an intermediate transfer line between the desorbent stream transfer line and the raffinate stream transfer line away from the adsorptive separation chamber to remove the residual fluid from the intermediate transfer line; directing the residual fluid flushed from the intermediate transfer line to a destination other than the inlet of a raffinate column; and shifting the raffinate stream to the intermediate transfer line and withdrawing the raffinate stream through the intermediate transfer line. | 21,174 |
9,035,567 | 1. A light-emitting diode driving apparatus comprising: a rectifying circuit that can be connected to AC power supply and rectifies an AC voltage of the AC power supply to provide a rectified voltage; an LED portion that includes first and second LED sections serially connected to the output side of said rectifying circuit, each of the first and second LED sections including at least one LED device; a third LED section that includes at least one LED device serially connected to said second LED section; an LED driving portion that controls a current flowing in said LED portion; a charging/discharging capacitor that is connected in parallel to said LED portion; a capacitor charging path that is connected to said charging/discharging capacitor whereby charging said charging/discharging capacitor; a capacitor discharging path that is connected to said charging/discharging capacitor whereby discharging said charging/discharging capacitor; a capacitor charging constant current portion that is connected on said capacitor charging path and adjusts a capacitor charging current to a constant current; a first portion that is connected in parallel to said second LED section, and controls the flowing current amount in said first LED section; a second portion that is connected in parallel to said third LED section, and controls the flowing current amount in said first and second LED sections; a fourth portion that is connected serially to said third LED section, and controls the flowing current amount in said first, second and third LED sections; a first current control portion that controls said first portion; a second current control portion that controls said second portion; a fourth current control portion that controls said fourth portion; and a current detection portion that detects a current detection signal based on the amount of a current flowing in an output line serially connected from said first LED section to said third LED section, wherein when the rectified voltage applied to said LED portion becomes high, said charging/discharging capacitor is charged with the charging current through said charging path, and | 9,222 |
9,309,144 | 1. A glass composition characterized in that it is selected from the group consisting of a glass composition (A) consisting of, in molar percentages: 72.3% of SiO2; 7.8% of B2O3; 14% of Na2O; 5.9% of Al2O3; or: 74.3% of SiO2; 7.8% of B2O3; 12% of Na2O; 5.9% of Al2O3; and a glass composition (B) consisting of, in molar percentages: 63 to 76% of SiO 5 to 12% of ZrO 0 to 12% of B 0 to 2% of La 11 to 14% of Na 3 to 5% of K | 39,353 |
8,487,559 | 1. A diesel-electric drive system comprising: a generator having a rotor mechanically coupled to a diesel engine and a stator having two polyphase winding systems; a DC-link converter having two self-commutated pulse-controlled converters, wherein phases of each of the two polyphase winding systems are connected to corresponding phases on an AC voltage side of a corresponding self-commutated pulse-controlled converter, and wherein DC voltage sides of the two self-commutated pulse-controlled converters are connected in parallel to a DC-link capacitor of the DC-link converter; two resistors connected in series between a phase on the AC voltage side of one of the two self-commutated pulse-controlled converters and a corresponding phase on the AC voltage side of the other pulse-controlled converter, and a two-pole switching apparatus having a first switching state connecting the two resistors in each phase in series and a second switching state disconnecting the series connection of the two serially connected resistors in each phase and connecting the phases of each of the two polyphase winding systems separately via the resistors at a star point, so that the two polyphase winding systems are electrically decoupled from each other in the second switching state, wherein each of the two serially-connected resistors has a resistance value equal to one half of a resistance value of an equivalent braking resistor. | 21,370 |
9,754,864 | 1. A semiconductor power device comprising: a lead frame unit having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface; two or more pluralities of single in-line leads arranged in a row near a side of the lead frame unit; two or more semiconductor chip stacks each including a molding encapsulation; wherein a source pad on the top surface of the low-side semiconductor chip of said each of the two or more semiconductor chip stacks is electrically and mechanically connected to ground; and wherein the high-side and low-side semiconductor chips and the first clip of said each of the two or more semiconductor chip stacks and at least a majority portion of the lead frame unit are embedded in the molding encapsulation. | 3,721 |
8,690,741 | 1. A nested weight plate, comprising: a first weight plate increment; a second weight plate increment configured to receive the first weight plate increment, wherein the first weight plate increment is nested within the second weight plate increment; a turning mechanism including a screw, the screw being received in the first weight plate increment such that rotation of the screw in a first direction causes the screw to extend into and engage the second weight plate increment, and such that rotation of the screw in a second direction opposite the first direction causes the screw to retract from and disengage from the second weight plate increment. | 45,964 |
8,670,518 | 1. A fully passive decay heat removal system comprising: a hot pool having received therein hot sodium heated by a nuclear reactor core; an intermediate heat exchanger which heat-exchanges with the sodium of the hot pool; a cold pool having received therein cold sodium cooled by passage through the intermediate heat exchanger, the cold pool being isolated from the hot pool; a support barrel extending vertically through the boundary between the hot pool and the cold pool, in which the upper end of the support barrel is higher than the liquid level of the hot pool, and the lower end thereof penetrates into the cold pool; a sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger having a heat transfer tube, the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger being received in the support barrel in order to remove decay heat from the inside of the nuclear reactor; a sodium-air heat exchanger which is provided at a position higher than the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger; an intermediate sodium loop for heat removal which connects the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger with the sodium-air heat exchanger; and a primary pump which pumps the sodium of the cold pool to the hot pool via the nuclear reactor core in a normal operating state to maintain a difference in liquid level between the hot pool and the cold pool, such that the liquid level of the hot pool is higher than that of the cold pool, wherein a portion of an effective heat transfer tube of the heat transfer tube is immersed in the cold pool in a normal operating state, and a surface of a lower end of a shroud for the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger, the lower end being immersed in the sodium of the cold pool, has perforated holes. | 23,329 |
9,836,480 | 1. A method for generating a graphical user interface for assessing metrics in a hierarchical filesystem comprising a filesystem tree comprised of nodes including a root node, wherein each non-leaf node of the tree represents a directory, the method comprising: causing to be displayed, for a first directory, a first displayable feature having a first area, wherein the first area is determined based at least in part on a value of a first metric determined for the first directory; for each of a plurality of filesystem objects within the first directory, for at least one of the plurality of filesystem objects within the first directory, | 2,101 |
9,467,086 | 1. A vehicle-mounted motor driving control board formed by one printed circuit board and including a circuit formed thereon which drives two inverter circuits connected respectively to two three-phase motors mounted on a vehicle and a voltage step-up/step-down circuit for supplying electric power to the inverter circuits, the vehicle-mounted motor driving control board comprising: a voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit for driving said voltage step-up/step-down circuit; a first inverter driving circuit for driving one of said two inverter circuits; a second inverter driving circuit for driving the other of said two inverter circuits; a first power supply circuit for supplying electric power to part of constituent circuits constituting said voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit, said first inverter driving circuit and said second inverter driving circuit; and a second power supply circuit for supplying electric power to the remainder of said constituent circuits constituting said voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit, said first inverter driving circuit and said second inverter driving circuit, wherein: said voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit includes an N-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit that is one of said constituent circuits for driving a circuit for generating an N-phase potential in said voltage step-up/step-down circuit, and a P-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit that is one of said constituent circuits-for driving a circuit for generating a P-phase potential in said voltage step-up/step-down circuit; said first power supply circuit supplies electric power to one of said N-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit and said P-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit and to all of said constituent circuits constituting said first inverter driving circuit; and said second power supply circuit supplies electric power to the other of said N-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit and said P-phase voltage step-up/step-down driving circuit and to all of said constituent circuits constituting said second inverter driving circuit. | 11,347 |
9,771,712 | 1. A basement drain sewage recovery and discharge device, the device comprising: a housing having a base, upstanding sidewalls, an interior volume, and a lid; a suction pump located within the housing; a discharge pump located within the housing; a power source for powering the suction pump and the discharge pump; a pickup tube connecting to a suction tube, said suction tube connecting to said housing for drawing fluid into said housing from a floor drain, the floor drain having a cap; a cylinder located on the pickup tube for inserting the pickup tube into the floor drain; a donut circumscribing the pickup tube, the donut connected to a second air line, the donut inflated by a compressor connected to the second air line; said discharge pump connecting to a discharge tube for discharging said fluid out of said housing; a fluid level sensor and a suction pump switch; wherein detection of fluid beyond a threshold level activates the fluid level sensor and the suction pump switch which energizes said suction pump; said lid further comprising an exhaust port fixed therein; said housing having an opening such that air is drawn from said housing interior and out of said exhaust port to draw suction on said suction tube; an electric motor driving an impeller; a discharge port connecting to said discharge tube; a fluid level sensor for energizing said electric motor when a fluid level within said housing interior reaches a threshold level, and; said pickup tube is positioned within the floor drain and sealed with a cap. | 14,682 |
9,418,963 | 1. A method for bonding substrates comprising contacting a first bonding surface of a first substrate with a second bonding surface of a second substrate to form an assembly; and compressing the assembly in the presence of an oxidizing atmosphere under suitable conditions to form a bonding layer between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the conditions comprise application to the assembly of an electromagnetic field; wherein | 41,007 |
8,357,812 | 1. A process for preparing a rejuvenated epoxidation catalyst, the process comprising: providing a quantity of spent epoxidation catalyst comprising silver and having a cumulative alkylene oxide production of 0.16 kT/m3 of the spent epoxidation catalyst or more; and, depositing silver on the spent epoxidation catalyst in an amount of 1% w or more, based on the weight of the spent epoxidation catalyst, without the prior removal of any silver from the spent epoxidation catalyst. | 43,551 |
9,734,992 | 1. A plasma processing apparatus of generating plasma by high frequency discharge of a processing gas between a first electrode and a second electrode which are provided to face each other within an evacuable processing vessel that accommodates therein a substrate to be processed, which is loaded into and unloaded from the processing vessel, and performing a process on the substrate held on the first electrode under the plasma, the plasma processing apparatus comprising: a first high frequency power supply configured to output a first high frequency power having a frequency suitable for ion attraction into the substrate on the first electrode from the plasma; a first high frequency transmission line configured to transmit the first high frequency power outputted from the first high frequency power supply to the first electrode; a first matching device configured to match impedance on the side of the first high frequency power supply with load impedance on the first high frequency transmission line; a second high frequency power supply configured to output a second high frequency power having a frequency suitable for plasma generation; a second high frequency transmission line configured to transmit the second high frequency power outputted from the second high frequency power supply to any one of the first electrode and the second electrode; a second matching device configured to match impedance on the side of the second high frequency power supply with load impedance on the second high frequency transmission line; and a high frequency power modulation unit configured to control the second high frequency power supply such that a first period during which the second high frequency power is on or has a first level and a second period during which the second high frequency power is off or has a second level lower than the first level is alternately repeated at a predetermined pulse frequency, wherein the first matching device includes: a matching circuit having a variable reactance element provided on the first high frequency transmission line; a sampling-average-value calculating circuit configured to sample voltage detection signals and electric current detection signals corresponding to the first high frequency power on the first high frequency supply line with a preset sampling frequency and calculate an average value of these signals during a first monitoring time set for both of the first period and the second period in each cycle of the pulse frequency; a moving-average-value calculating circuit configured to calculate a moving average value of the voltage detection signals and the electric current detection signals based on an average value obtained from the sampling-average-value calculating circuit in each cycle; a load impedance-measurement-value calculating circuit configured to calculate a measurement value of the load impedance with respect to the first high frequency power supply based on the moving average value of the voltage detection signals and the electric current detection signals obtained from the moving-average-value calculating circuit; and a matching controller configured to vary a reactance of the variable reactance element such that the measurement value of the load impedance obtained from the load impedance-measurement-value calculating circuit is equal or approximate to a preset matching point corresponding to impedance on the side of the first high frequency power supply. | 35,225 |
9,040,812 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode and on which light is incident; a first unit cell disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first unit cell comprising an intrinsic semiconductor layer comprising a first surface that is textured by exposed crystalline silicon grains and that faces the second electrode, and a non-textured opposing second surface; and a second unit cell disposed between the first unit cell and the second electrode, wherein an average crystal volume fraction of the intrinsic semiconductor layer of the first unit cell is equal to or greater than 25% and equal to or less than 75%, and wherein the intrinsic semiconductor layer comprises a mixed phase hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon based material comprising an amorphous silicon based material that partially covers the exposed crystalline silicon grains. | 30,250 |
8,616,683 | 1. A liquid ejection device comprising: a passage unit in which a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of pressure chambers in communication with the plurality of nozzles are aligned in one direction respectively; and a piezoelectric actuator arranged on the passage unit and applying a pressure to liquid in the plurality of pressure chambers, wherein in the passage unit, a plurality of inspection spaces not in communication with the plurality of nozzles are provided away from the plurality of pressure chambers in a perpendicular direction which is perpendicular to the one direction, the piezoelectric actuator includes: the plurality of inspection electrodes are provided away from the plurality of driving electrodes in the perpendicular direction, and are aligned in the one direction. | 20,009 |
8,372,398 | 1. Nanobody against Von Willebrand Factor (vWF), said Nanobody consisting of 4 framework regions (FR1 to FR4 respectively) and 3 complementarity determining regions (CDR1 to CDR3 respectively), wherein a) CDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence YNPMG [SEQ ID NO: 22]; and b) CDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence AISRTGGSTYYPDSVEG [SEQ ID NO: 32] or the amino acid sequence AISRTGGSTYYARSVEG [SEQ ID NO: 31]; and c) CDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence AGVRAEDGRVRTLPSEYTF [SEQ ID NO: 42], the amino acid sequence AGVRAEDGRVRTLPSEYNF [SEQ ID NO: 41] or the amino acid sequence AGVRAEDGRVRSLPSEYTF [SEQ ID NO: 43]. | 43,352 |
8,962,134 | 1. A sealant article useful for sealing a substrate surface and having a first surface and a second surface, wherein said first surface is comprised of a deformable composition that is capable of conforming to a substrate surface when subjected to heat and/or pressure and is comprised of at least one thermoplastic, at least one (meth)acrylate-functionalized monomer or oligomer selected from the group consisting of epoxy (meth)acrylates and urethane (meth)acrylates, at least one thermally activatable free radical initiator, and at least one inorganic filler in finely divided form and said second surface of said sealant article has been at least partially cured by exposing said second surface to an amount of radiation effective to induce at least partial curing of said second surface of said sealant article, wherein said second surface prior to said curing is comprised of said deformable composition and wherein said at least partial curing is effective to render said second surface less deformable than said first surface and is controlled so that substantially only the deformable composition on and immediately proximate to the second surface is fully cured, thereby forming a thin film upon the second surface. | 42,821 |
8,951,696 | 1. An electrode/membrane assembly for a fuel cell, comprising a fuel electrode bonded to one surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane and an air electrode bonded to the other surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein the fuel electrode comprises: a first catalyst layer consisting of a platinum-ruthenium alloy first catalyst supported by carbon, in which platinum Pt and ruthenium Ru are included at a mass % of Pt:Ru=10-95:5-90, wherein Pt+Ru=100 and, a second catalyst layer laminated to both the first catalyst layer and the polymer electrolyte membrane, the second catalyst layer consisting of a platinum-ruthenium-metal (M) alloy second catalyst, in which platinum Pt, ruthenium Ru and the metal M are included at a mass % of Pt:Ru:M=10-95:1-90:0.001-30, wherein: the second catalyst is supported by carbon and laminated to the polymer electrolyte membrane, and the metal (M) has a lower dissolving potential than ruthenium. | 22,611 |
9,392,669 | 1. A protection circuit comprising: an electrical circuit electrically coupled with a power supply circuit, wherein the power supply circuit is adapted to receive a supply of power from a primary power source through a switch; a controller configured to cause generation of an electrical signal and application of the electrical signal to the power supply circuit via the electrical circuit; and a sensor configured to generate an output indicative of an electrical response associated with the power supply circuit responsive to the electrical signal applied to the power supply circuit; wherein the controller is further configured to: wherein the electrical circuit is configured to: | 14,219 |
9,850,542 | 1. A method of treating ovarian cancer in a cancer patient in need thereof, comprising: (a) determining the expression levels of BBOX1, C5orf41, CHEK1, DEPDC1, DLGAP5, FAM43A, FOXO3, HSD11B2, PLCD1, PPL, PROS1, SDCBP2, SERTAD4, SLC45A3, and TMEM158 in a sample of said patient's cancer; (b) selecting a patient wherein the expression levels of CHEK1, DEPDC1, SERTAD4, SLC45A3, and TMEM158 are downregulated compared to a non-cancerous sample and the expression levels of BBOX1, FAM43A, FOXO3, HSD11B2, PPL, PROS1, and SDCBP2 are upregulated compared to a non-cancerous sample; and (c) administering olaparib to said selected patient to treat said ovarian cancer. | 23,510 |
9,654,756 | 1. A method comprising: capturing at least one image of a scene using chromatic pixels that use a first color space and using panchromatic pixels, the chromatic pixels and the panchromatic pixels being on at least one image sensor; detecting a correlated color temperature of the scene; interpolating chromatic pixel values of the chromatic pixels and a panchromatic pixel value of the panchromatic pixels per pixel to generate a merged image including at least three color channels in the first color space and a panchromatic channel in the first color space; converting the at least three color channels of the first color space to a first panchromatic light intensity channel in a second color space and at least two first chrominance channels in the second color space based on the detected correlated color temperature; calculating a ratio per pixel between the first panchromatic light intensity channel in the second color space and a second panchromatic light intensity channel in the second color space, where the second panchromatic light intensity channel is based on the panchromatic value per pixel; applying the ratio to the at least two first chrominance channels per pixel to determine pixel values in at least two second chrominance channels of the second color space; and converting channels per pixel from the second color space including the at least two second chrominance channels and the second panchromatic light intensity channel to at least one of the first color space and a third color space. | 9,094 |
8,789,510 | 1. A method of controlling a throttle valve of a diesel vehicle, comprising: determining idle enter conditions in which an acceleration pedal is not pressed and a vehicle speed is 0; and controlling an amount of air supplied into cylinders of an engine by controlling an EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) valve and a throttle valve such that the amount of air supplied into the cylinders of the engine becomes a desired amount of air, through a predetermined air amount map unit that stores the desired amount of air corresponding to the number of revolutions of the engine and an amount of injected fuel, when the vehicle enters an idle mode in which the acceleration pedal is not pressed down and the vehicle speed is 0; wherein in the controlling the amount of air, when the EGR valve is an open loop type and the throttle valve is a close loop type, the EGR valve is closed and the throttle valve is controlled such that the amount of air supplied into the cylinders through the throttle valve follows the desired amount of air. | 2,858 |
8,658,409 | 1. An isolated polypeptide having acetyl xylan esterase activity, wherein the polypeptide (i) has at least 90% sequence identity to amino acids 34 to 308 of SEQ ID NO: 2, or (ii) is a fragment of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2. | 14,095 |
9,394,819 | 1. An exhaust gas processing device comprising: an exhaust gas introduction passage that exhausts exhaust gas exhausted from a diesel engine; a plurality of first exhaust gas passages which are branched from the exhaust gas introduction passage and which exhaust the exhaust gas; an exhaust gas purification unit which is provided to each of the first exhaust gas passages and which purifies the exhaust gas; a second exhaust gas passage which is provided to a portion where the plurality of first exhaust gas passages converge and which exhausts the exhaust gas exhausted from the plurality of first exhaust gas passages; an exhaust gas temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the exhaust gas at a convergence portion where the plurality of first exhaust gas passages converge; an atmospheric pressure sensor that detects an atmospheric pressure; and a processing unit that obtains a convergence portion pressure which is a pressure at the convergence portion based on a total flow rate of the exhaust gas exhausted from the diesel engine, which is obtained while the diesel engine is operating, the temperature of the exhaust gas detected by the exhaust gas temperature sensor, and the atmospheric pressure detected by the atmospheric pressure sensor, wherein each of the exhaust gas purification units includes a reducing catalyst which is provided to each of the first exhaust gas passages and which reduces NOx in the exhaust gas by a reducing agent, each of the first exhaust gas passages includes a particular filter provided on an upstream side of each of the reducing catalysts in an exhaust gas flowing direction, and a pressure sensor which is arranged between each pair of the particular filter and the reducing catalysts and which detects a pressure in each of the first exhaust gas passages, and the processing unit obtains a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through each of the first exhaust gas passages based on at least the convergence portion pressure and the pressure in each of the first exhaust gas passages, which is detected by the pressure sensor, whereby the processing unit supplies an appropriate amount of reducing agent to each NOx reducing catalyst to convert NOx in the exhaust gas based on the obtained flow rates through each of the first exhaust gas passages. | 3,420 |
8,365,152 | 1. A method for detecting infeasible paths in a program, comprising: performing a path-insensitive abstract interpretation to generate invariants that hold true in program locations; projecting said invariants along all paths to other program locations; enumerating a set of combinations of the projected invariants by generating subsets of the projected invariants that correspond to locations in continuous path segments in the program and checking the enumerated combinations to determine whether their conjunctions are logically false using a Boolean satisfiability solver and a theory-satisfiability solver in combination; and if an enumerated combination is checked and found to having a logically false conjunction, determining that an associated set of paths is infeasible. | 23,709 |
9,500,664 | 1. A system for forming a plurality of sample-containing droplets suspended in a background fluid, comprising: a substrate having a bottom surface and a top surface; a sample well, a background fluid well, and a droplet well each having an upper region protruding from the top surface of the substrate; a network of channels formed in the bottom surface of the substrate and fluidically interconnecting the sample well, the background fluid well, and the droplet well; and a droplet generation region defined by the network of channels and configured to generate sample-containing droplets suspended in the background fluid; wherein the droplet generation region is defined by the intersection of a first channel, a second channel, and a third channel; wherein the first channel is configured to transport sample-containing fluid from the sample well to the droplet generation region, the second channel is configured to transport background fluid from the background fluid well to the droplet generation region, and the third channel is configured to transport sample-containing droplets from the droplet generation region to the droplet well; and wherein the substrate and the upper region of each well are injection molded as a single piece. | 16,672 |
8,473,442 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a state request; determining, by a processor, whether a state exists in a translation dictionary for the state request; reproducing the state if it is not in the dictionary; adding a new state to the dictionary; and mapping a plurality of expressions to a plurality of descriptors, wherein one or more descriptors include one or more rules such that when a given descriptor is encountered an action occurs based on a state associated with the descriptor. | 43,298 |
8,497,467 | 1. A method for controlling an optical filter, comprising: dithering a delay of an optical path within an optical filter unit cell; measuring a position of a filter zero, a position of a filter pole, or positions of both a filter zero and a filter pole by observing an output of the unit cell when the delay is dithered; and using the measurement as feedback for maintaining the position of the filter zero at a desired position, maintaining the position of the filter pole at a desired position, or maintaining the positions of both the filter zero and the filter pole at desired positions. | 646 |
8,567,181 | 1. A method of metering a reagent into an exhaust duct of a combustion engine, wherein the reagent is required for a catalytic conversion of NOx in a SCR-catalyzer, the method comprising: calculating a difference between a calculated and a measured average NOx-concentration each downstream after the SCR-catalyzer; comparing the difference to a difference threshold; and lowering a metering rate to a sinking metering rate upon the difference exceeding the difference threshold, wherein the sinking metering rate is greater than zero, and wherein NOx raw emissions are integrated and a resulting integral is compared to a threshold value, wherein when the resulting integral exceeds the threshold value, the method proceeds as follows: | 32,448 |
9,314,974 | 1. An apparatus for fabricating each of a plurality of differing laminate structures in a family of structures having common features, comprising: a plurality of separate fabrication modules each locally adapted to fabricate a section of the laminate structure on a corresponding tool, the fabrication modules being reconfigurable to fabricate each of the laminate structures in the family thereof, wherein each of the fabrication modules includes a track in which a portion of a forming member is local mounted; the forming member adapted for forming laminate plies over the tool, the forming member extending along a length of the fabrication modules, portions of the forming member being mounted on each of the fabrication modules for movement over the tool along at least two axes, wherein the forming member is removably mounted in the tracks to allow interchangeability of a plurality of forming members respectively having different shapes; and a controller for controlling and coordinating automated operation of the fabrication modules. | 34,509 |
9,025,418 | 1. A method of identifying a patching connection in a communications system, the method comprising: using an acoustic signal generator to transmit an acoustic signal that includes a unique identifier embedded therein over a patch cord from a first connector port to a second connector port; receiving the acoustic signal at the second connector port; extracting the unique identifier from the acoustic signal; and logging a patching connection between the first connector port and the second connector port in a database. | 20,133 |
8,874,790 | 1. A Domain Name System (“DNS”) system for providing domain name resolution services in a network that is at least temporarily partitioned from a global Internet, the DNS system comprising: one or more hardware processors; one or more root name servers; one or more top level domain (“TLD”) name servers; a recursive name server, wherein the one or more root name servers, the one or more TLD name servers, and the recursive name server are collocated together within the network that has a defined network boundary with respect to the global Internet that at least temporarily isolates the network from the global Internet; and a registry operation software configured to manage one or more top level domains and store a subset of top level domain data of the managed top level domains on the one or more TLD name servers, wherein the subset includes records of one or more name servers whose network addresses are within the boundary of the network and wherein the subset is less than a full set of the top level domain data; wherein the recursive name server is configured to query the one or more root name servers during domain name resolution in response to a domain name resolution query received from a requestor; and wherein the one or more root name servers are configured to provide a network address corresponding to one of the TLD name servers in response to a domain name resolution query sent by the recursive name server. | 33,465 |
8,879,210 | 1. A dual stage actuator (DSA) type suspension for a disk drive, the suspension comprising: a load beam; a gimbaled portion including a head slider, the gimbaled portion being attached in gimbaled fashion to the load beam so that the head slider pitches and rolls freely in response to surface irregularities in a surface of a data disk as the data disk travels underneath the head slider; a linear microactuator having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the linear microactuator being attached at its first end to a non-gimbaled portion of the suspension; and a flexible stainless steel connector having a first end and a second end, the first end of the flexible stainless steel connector being attached to the second end of the microactuator, and the second end of the flexible stainless steel connector being attached to the gimbaled portion of the suspension; wherein when the linear microactuator contracts, it pulls the flexible connector which in turn pulls the gimbaled portion thereby rotating the gimbaled portion to effect fine movements of the head slider, the flexible stainless steel connector being sufficiently flexible to allow the gimbaled portion to rotate. | 14,997 |
9,370,559 | 1. A recombinant vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 or SEQ ID NO: 7 and up to 2 additional amino acids, such that the nucleic acid encodes a polypeptide up to 12 amino acids in length. | 33,830 |
9,712,573 | 1. A method comprising: establishing a wireless communication session between a wireless source device and one or more wireless sink devices, wherein the wireless source device and one or more wireless sink devices comprise different devices; notifying the one or more wireless sink devices of a universal queue size selected by the wireless source device for the wireless communication session; sending media packets to each of the wireless sink devices, wherein the media packets are held at the one or more wireless sink devices in sink queues, each of the one or more wireless sink devices having a sink queue with a queue size equal to the universal queue size; calculating a trigger delay interval for each of the wireless sink devices that represents a wait time for a particular wireless sink device between detecting that the sink queue is full and beginning processing of the packets in the sink queue; and notifying each of the wireless sink devices of a respective trigger delay interval; holding the media packets at the wireless source device in a source queue having a queue size equal to the universal queue size; and in response to detecting that the source queue is full, after waiting for a wait time corresponding to a trigger delay interval for one of the one or more wireless sink devices, beginning processing of the media packets in the source queue for display at the wireless source device, wherein the processing at the wireless source device is synchronized with processing of the media packets at the wireless sink devices; and displaying the processed media packets at the wireless source device. | 8,392 |
9,817,752 | 1. A method of enhancing data integrity, the method comprising: receiving, at a storage device, a write request from a host, wherein the write request specifies write data for a first set of one or more logical block addresses in a logical address space of the host; mapping the first set of one or more logical block addresses associated with the write request to a first set of one or more physical addresses of the storage device, wherein the mapping of the first set of one or more logical block addresses associated with the write request to the first set of one or more physical addresses of the storage device is stored in a mapping table, wherein the mapping table includes a plurality of subsets, each subset having address mapping entries corresponding to a group of contiguous logical blocks in the logical address space of the host; and performing, at the storage device, one or more operations for each subset of the mapping table that includes at least one address mapping entry corresponding to a logical block specified by the first set of one or more logical block addresses, including: wherein: the version data structure is a separate data structure from the mapping table, after said performing, the version data structure includes entries with version numbers for multiple subsets, including a distinct entry for each subset of the mapping table that includes at least one address mapping entry corresponding to a logical block specified by the first set of one or more logical block addresses, and the mapping table includes logical address to physical address mapping entries for multiple logical block addresses, including the first set of one or more logical block addresses. | 19,872 |
8,601,221 | 1. A method for optimizing memory commands in multiprocessor systems, comprising: receiving memory commands from a requestor that is a processor or a cache that is local to the processor; evaluating each memory command to determine if the received memory command is a program memory read command, a data memory read command, a memory write command, a program prefetch command, or a data prefetch command, wherein the evaluated memory commands are stored locally; separately buffering received prefetch program commands and received prefetch data commands; performing an optimization operation upon one or more of the received memory commands in response to the evaluation of each memory command; and exposing the optimized memory commands to a central memory arbiter that is arranged to receive the optimized memory commands and memory commands from other requestors by selecting a current highest priority buffered command; wherein said optimization operation includes flushing all buffered program prefetch commands upon receiving a program memory read command. | 32,289 |
9,316,142 | 1. A spark ignition engine comprising: a cylinder head cover attached to a top surface of a cylinder head; a plug hole formed on the top surface of the cylinder head outside of the cylinder head cover; a spark plug attached to an inner part of the plug hole; an ignition coil case having a coil case peripheral wall; an ignition coil integral type plug cap attached to the spark plug, the plug cap being formed by attaching a flexible cylinder portion to an ignition coil case, with a tip part of the flexible cylinder portion being inserted into the plug hole and thus fitted in the spark plug, an intake manifold attached to the cylinder head, a coil case attachment stay directly fixed to the intake manifold and including a board, a cylinder portion through hole formed in the board, the flexible cylinder portion penetrating through the through hole, and an upper part of the board defining a coil case attaching portion, and a tongue piece protruding from the coil case peripheral wall, and mounted on the coil case attaching portion, wherein the coil case peripheral wall abuts a coil case attaching portion edge portion such that the tongue piece is directly attached to the coil case attaching portion with a coil case attaching screw tool in a state in which the ignition coil case is prevented from rotating by the coil case attaching portion edge portion, thereby fixing the ignition coil case to the coil case attachment stay. | 38,935 |
8,828,146 | 1. An apparatus for washing and treating vegetables and fruits in general, said apparatus comprising modular washing units (MWU); where each MWU including a water tight outer casing, connected to a superior closing head and inferior closing door; the outer casing including an outer shell that is suitable to withstand both positive and negative pressure; wherein a basket is positioned inside the water tight outer casing, wherein the basket has a shape that is the same as a shape of the outer shell and the basket is coaxial with the outer shell, yet is slightly smaller in size to form a liquid flow chamber; wherein the internal basket is open on both extremities and provided with wall holes or openings to withhold product to be washed in combination with the inferior closing door while allowing flow of washing liquid; wherein the superior closing head of the MWU is provided with a connection to a feed manifold, equipped with a suitable valve; wherein the product to be processed, which is initially stored in liquid suspension in a suitable feeding hopper, is capable of being drawn by vacuum through said valve into the basket of the MWU; wherein the vacuum is provided by a vacuum system that is provided via a connection with the superior closing head, wherein the superior closing head is equipped with a superior closing head valve separated from the basket by a filter screen that prevents processed product from being drawn by the vacuum; wherein an outlet is provided on the lower edge of the external shell of the water tight casing such that washing liquid is permitted to be discharged at completion of a washing process through the outlet, while the processed product is held inside the basket; wherein the discharged liquid is flowable to different destinations, based upon a particular process phase: wherein the inferior closing door of the MWU features a different design according to the product discharge system in use; wherein the product can be discharged dry from each MWU, in which case the inferior closing door consists of a conical full bore door; said door being connected to a opening system including a sliding bar coaxial with the internal basket, moved by an hydraulic or pneumatic piston; such that when the door is closed the door adheres hermetically to the outer casing, when the door is open the door forms a discharge opening as wide as the internal basket to allow the product to fall by gravity from the basket; wherein the processed product is transportable to a remote MWU for further treatment, and wherein the inferior closing includes a cone shaped body provided with a suitable discharge valve, connected to a product transport manifold, through which the processed product is transportable in liquid suspension by at least one of the vacuum system and the re-circulation pump to a remote MWU for a final discharge. | 1,872 |
9,666,319 | 1. A method for treating an absorber pin, said pin comprising a cladding in which there is a material based on sintered boron carbide whose porosity represents less than 1% of the volume of the material, the material having cracks that contain sodium and at least one radioactive substance, the method comprising: a pretreatment step of contacting the material with a pretreatment reaction mixture consisting essentially of molar percentage 0.5% to 25% of carbon dioxide and a chemically inert gas for the remainder; and a treatment step in which the sodium is converted to sodium carbonate by a carbonation reaction by contacting the material with a treatment reaction mixture comprising in molar percentage 0.5% to 5% of steam, 5% to 25% of carbon dioxide and 74.5% to 94.5% of a chemically inert gas, in such a way that expansion of the carbonate causes opening up of the cracks and of the cladding starting from at least one slit made in the cladding as well as the propagation of said method of treatment within the material. | 36,428 |
9,732,693 | 1. A method for controlling an internal combustion engine having at least first, second and third cylinders, comprising: identifying the first cylinder, of which first cylinder internal pressure peaks when a rotational speed of the engine enters a resonance-rotational-speed region at which resonance occurs, and the third cylinder, as depressurizing cylinders; identifying the second cylinder, which is ignited between the identified depressurizing first and third cylinders, as a pressurizing cylinder; and decreasing fuel injection amounts to the identified first and third cylinders and increasing a fuel injection amount to the identified second cylinder, when the rotational speed is within the resonance-rotational-speed region. | 26,954 |
9,287,326 | 1. An integrated circuit (IC) for driving a flexible display, comprising: a first layer comprising a pattern of first features, said first layer being deposited on a flexible substrate, and wherein said first features comprise one or more of data lines, interconnects for thin film transistors. flexible connectors, test patterns, and alignment marks, and wherein said first features comprise: a first set of first features regularly repeating in only a first direction in the plane of the substrate; and a second set of first features regularly repeating in only a second direction in the plane of the substrate, the second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a second layer comprising a pattern of repetitive second features as an array, said second layer being deposited on said first layer, wherein said second features comprise one or more of source, drain and gate electrodes for thin film transistors, and wherein said pattern of the second laver is deposited by depositing a material and patterning said material using a step and repeat mask-based process to: deposit and pattern a first set of the second features in a first area of the second layer; translate said substrate from a first position at which said first set of the second features is depositable to a second position at which a second set of the second features is depositable in a second area of the second lager; deposit and pattern said second set of the second features in said second area; and repeat said step and repeat deposition process to deposit and second features; wherein said first and second layers are aligned to one another so as to allow electrical coupling between said first and second features, and wherein the mask is configured such that the first area is smaller than the entire array and the second area is smaller than the entire array wherein each of said first and second areas are locally aligned to apply local distortion compensation during deposition of said pattern of repetitive second features to enable said alignment. | 7,351 |
9,719,216 | 1. A method for determining a configuration of a paving screed out of several possible configurations, wherein the paving screed is fastened on a machine frame of a tractor of a road paver, the method comprising: detecting a mass of the paving screed by a weighing system and determining the configuration of the paving screed based on the detected mass of the paving screed. | 26,423 |
8,589,907 | 1. A method of updating firmware of a node on a wireless sensor network including a plurality of nodes, comprising steps of: (a) a new node searching for neighbor nodes located within a predetermined distance; (b) the new node designating a parent node among the searched neighbor nodes; (c) in the case where the plurality of nodes include a join receiving state for joining the new node to the wireless sensor network, the designated parent node and the new node establishing a communication link by using the join receiving state; (d) the parent node transmitting firmware to the new node through the established communication link; and (e) the new node receiving the firmware from the parent node, updating existing firmware with the received firmware, and driving the updated firmware to be jointed to the wireless network, wherein each of the nodes of the wireless sensor network is configured based on a time division multiple access (“TDMA”) where an active duration and an inactive duration are alternately repeated, and wherein the step (a) to (c) are performed during the active duration, and the step (d) is performed during the inactive duration, wherein each of the nodes has time slots including a transmit slot for data transmission, a transmit processing slot for processing after the data transmission, a receive slot for data reception, and a receive processing slot for processing after the data reception during the active duration, and wherein in the step (c), the join receiving state is maintained in a receiving mode capable of receiving a signal from a different node during one of the transmit processing slot and the receive processing slot. | 7,512 |
9,263,936 | 1. A power generation system for providing and receiving alternating current from a utility grid comprising: at least one power generating module that generates direct current; at least one grid-interactive inverter where each at least one grid-interactive inverter connects one of the at least one power generating modules to the grid and where each at least one grid-interactive inverter receives the direct current from the connected power generating module and provides alternating current to the grid; and a gateway server communicatively connected to each at least one grid-interactive inverter including: | 8,844 |
9,196,673 | 1. A method of forming capacitors, comprising: providing first capacitor electrodes within support material, the first capacitor electrodes comprising TiN, the support material comprising polysilicon; dry isotropically etching the polysilicon-comprising support material selectively relative to the TiN-comprising first capacitor electrodes using a sulfur and fluorine-comprising etching chemistry, the etching including a plurality of sulfur and fluorine-comprising etching steps individually separated by a hydrogen treating step; and forming a capacitor dielectric over sidewalls of the first capacitor electrodes and forming a second capacitor electrode over the capacitor dielectric. | 35,375 |
9,292,357 | 1. A method of controlling a coalescing of outermost memory transactions, the coalescing causing committing of memory store data to memory for a first transaction to be done at transaction execution (TX) end of a second transaction, the method for generating optimized machine instructions based on an intermediate representation of a program, the method comprising: based on the intermediate representation, generating, by a processor, a first module of optimized non-transactional machine instructions; based on the intermediate representation identifying two atomic tasks to be performed, the two atomic tasks consisting of a first atomic task and a second atomic task, determining whether the two atomic tasks are to be coalesced into a single atomic task; based on determining that the two atomic tasks are not to be coalesced, generating for the first atomic task, a first transaction of transactional machine instructions to be executed and generating for the second atomic task, a second transaction of transactional machine instructions to be executed; and based on determining that the two atomic tasks are to be coalesced, generating for the two atomic tasks, a single coalesced transaction of transactional machine instructions to be executed. | 31,309 |
9,214,285 | 1. A capacitor assembly comprising: a capacitor element comprising an anode formed from an anodically oxidized, sintered porous body and a solid electrolyte coating the anode; a housing that defines an interior cavity within which the capacitor element is positioned and hermetically sealed, wherein the housing contains a surface having a dimension in a longitudinal direction and a dimension in a transverse direction, the surface further defining an outer periphery; an anode termination that is in electrical connection with the anode body, the anode termination containing an external anode termination portion that is located adjacent to the surface of the housing, a cathode termination that is in electrical connection with the solid electrolyte, the cathode termination containing an external cathode termination portion that is located adjacent to the surface of the housing; wherein the external anode termination portion, the external cathode termination portion, or both extend outwardly beyond the outer periphery of the housing surface in the transverse direction by a first distance, wherein the ratio of the first distance to the dimension of the housing surface in the transverse direction is from about 0.05 to about 3.0. | 49,409 |
9,060,338 | 1. A method of providing a low power search mode for signals using a receiver including a plurality of receive chains, the method comprising: listening for a signal with a first receive chain of the plurality of receive chains; when a legacy short training field (L-STF) is detected by the first receive chain, performing a first frequency estimation for the first receive chain; activating one or more additional receive chains of the plurality of receive chains upon detecting the L-STF; determining whether the signal corresponds with a high throughput (HT) or very high throughput (VHT) packet; and upon determining the signal corresponds with a HT or VHT packet, performing respective DC offset estimations for the one or more additional receive chains and using maximal ratio combining (MRC) to receive the signal using the first receive chain and the one or more additional receive chains, the MRC based, at least in part, on results of the first frequency estimation for the first receive chain. | 13,274 |
9,497,702 | 1. A method of controlling power of a physical layer device of a base station in a mobile communication system including a plurality of media access control processing units (MACs) corresponding to a plurality of modems on a one-to-one basis and the plurality of modems each connected with one or more radio frequency (RF) modules covering beam spots dividing a base station cell, the method comprising: operation (a) of checking, by each MAC, information relating to user equipment (UE) traffic managed by the MAC, and determining whether or not a physical layer device managed by the MAC satisfies a power-off condition based on a result of the checking; operation (b) of, when it is determined in operation (a) that an arbitrary MAC satisfies the power-off condition, receiving, information relating to traffic managed by adjacent MACs from the adjacent MACs, and determining whether or not there is an MAC capable of covering based on the received information; and operation (c) of, when it is determined in operation (b) that there is an MAC capable of covering, requesting, by the MAC satisfying the power-off condition, the MAC capable of covering to cover a beam spot managed by the MAC satisfying the power-off condition, and then turning off power of a physical layer device managed by the MAC satisfying the power-off condition, wherein the MAC requested to cover the beam spot in operation (c) adjusts a beam antenna angle of an RF module managed by the MAC requested to cover the beam spot so that a beam antenna of the RF module is directed toward the beam spot for which the request has been made. | 12,635 |
9,201,408 | 1. A method, comprising: limiting a total amount of current drawn through a first charging equipment and a second charging equipment that are each wired on a same electrical circuit to not exceed a maximum amount of electric current supported by the electrical circuit to prevent the electrical circuit from being overloaded, wherein limiting the total amount of current drawn through the first charging equipment and the second charging equipment includes: | 16,183 |
8,793,400 | 1. A computing device-implemented method comprising: communicating, by the computing device, with one or more feature peers, associated with a network, to obtain feature peer information associated with the one or more feature peers; receiving, by the computing device, a customer packet; determining, by the computing device and based on the feature peer information, which of the one or more feature peers support a feature associated with the customer packet; identifying, by the computing device, a service provider associated with the computing device; identifying, by the computing device, service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers; determining, by the computing device, if at least one of the identified service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers matches the identified service provider of the computing device based on a comparison between the identified service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers and the identified service provider of the computing device; determining, by the computing device and based on determining that the identified service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers do not match the identified service provider of the computing device, if an agreement exists between the computing device and at least one of the identified service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers, selecting, by the computing device, at least one of the determined one or more feature peers for the customer packet to traverse when: dropping, by the computing device, the customer packet when the identified service providers associated with the determined one or more feature peers do not match the identified service provider of the computing device and no agreement exists; adding, by the computing device, a feature header to the customer packet to create a modified customer packet when the at least one of the identified service providers associated with the feature peer matches the identified service provider of the computing device or the agreement exists between the computing device and the at least one of the identified service providers associated with the feature peer; and forwarding, by the computing device and based on the feature header, the modified customer packet to the selected at least one of the determined one or more feature peers. | 17,565 |
9,719,441 | 1. A control device for a compression ignition engine, comprising: an engine body including a cylinder; a fuel injection valve configured to inject fuel into the cylinder; a gas state adjustment system configured to adjust a ratio of an amount of fresh air introduced into the cylinder to an amount of exhaust gas to adjust a gas state of the cylinder; and a controller configured to operate the engine body by compression ignition combustion of an air-fuel mixture in the cylinder when the engine body operates in a predetermined compression ignition range, wherein when the engine body operates in a predetermined load range of the compression ignition range, which is higher than a predetermined load, the controller | 14,736 |
9,760,218 | 1. A capacitive touch panel, comprising: an array substrate, an opposing substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the opposing substrate and the array substrate, wherein shielding electrodes, touch drive electrodes and touch sensing electrodes are disposed on one side of the opposing substrate away from the liquid crystal layer; the touch drive electrodes, the touch sensing electrodes and the shielding electrodes are insulated from one another; the touch drive electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are arranged to intersect with each other; orthographic projections of the shielding electrodes on the opposing substrate fall into gaps of orthographic projections formed by the touch drive electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes arranged to intersect with each other on the opposing substrate, the orthographic projections of the shielding electrodes on the opposing substrate are not overlapped with the orthographic projections of the touch drive electrodes or the touch sensing electrodes on the opposing substrate, the shielding electrodes are applied with shielding electrode signals, and the touch drive electrodes are bridged by first bridging electrodes, and the orthographic projections of the shielding electrodes on the opposing substrate are not overlapped with the orthographic projections of the first bridging electrodes on the opposing substrate, wherein the touch drive electrodes and the shielding electrodes are arranged on the same layer; and the touch drive electrode and the shielding electrode are disposed between the touch sensing electrode and the opposing substrate or disposed on one side of the touch sensing electrode away from the opposing substrate. | 39,668 |
9,552,357 | 1. A system for a mobile device search optimizer, comprising: a storage device; a processor; and an optimizer engine, when executed by the processor, | 26,804 |
9,713,150 | 1. A method of managing a component carrier by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving activation pattern information indicating activation or inactivation of at least one serving cell from a base station; activating or inactivating the at least one component carrier according to the activation pattern information, the activation pattern information including an activation pattern indicating activation or inactivation of the at least one component carrier on a subframe basis, the activation pattern information further including a period of the activation pattern and at least one serving cell identifier indicating the at least one serving cell to which the activation pattern is applied, the activation pattern information being periodically applied such that a signaling overhead for activating or inactivating the at least one component carrier can be minimized, the activation pattern being expressed as a subframe-based bitmap, a size of the subframe-based bitmap being equal to the period of the activation pattern; receiving an activation condition from the base station, the activation condition including: a threshold value related to at least one of a quality of a downlink channel, a buffer status of the user equipment, a power headroom status of the user equipment, and a transmission count for a scheduling request signal, the activation condition further including at least one parameter for inactivating the at least one serving cell, the activation condition being received from the base station through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message; autonomously determining whether the at least one serving cell should be inactive by using the threshold value included in the activation condition, the determination being performed in a unit of a single subframe; and inactivating the at least one serving cell based on the at least one parameter included in the activation condition. | 20,778 |
8,693,600 | 1. A phase excursion/carrier wave frequency excursion compensation device, comprising: a signal dividing unit; a preprocessing compensation circuit; a plurality of post-processing compensation circuits; a signal combination unit; a correction amount calculation unit; and a signal correction unit; wherein the signal dividing unit divides inputted signals into frames with a predetermined time interval, and distributes the frames to the preprocessing compensation circuit and the plurality of post-processing compensation circuits; the preprocessing compensation circuit and the post-processing compensation circuits calculate phase compensation amounts for the inputted signals, and output the phase compensation amounts and compensation circuit output signals which are obtained by compensating the inputted signals with the phase compensation amounts; the signal combination unit outputs rearranged signals which are obtained by rearranging the compensation circuit output signals acquired from the post-processing compensation circuits according to the time ordering by which the inputted signals are inputted into the signal dividing unit; the correction amount calculation unit calculates a correction amount on the basis of the phase compensation amounts acquired from the preprocessing compensation circuit and the post-processing compensation circuits; and the signal correction unit corrects a phase of the rearranged signal by using the correction amount. | 41,009 |
8,936,495 | 1. A contact assembly comprising: a base formed at least partially of an electrically nonconductive material; a first electrical contact supported by the base, a first end of the first electrical contact corresponding to a first end of the base and configured to engage a first external conductive circuit element; a second electrical contact supported by the base, a first end of the second electrical contact corresponding to the first end of the base and configured to engage a second external conductive circuit element; the first contact and the second contact being electrically isolated from one another, each contact being configured to compress when engaging an external connector element, the base including: | 43,691 |
8,899,500 | 1. A gas fuel injection valve in which a single nozzle member is fixedly provided in a front end part of a valve housing that has an interior thereof as a gas fuel passage and houses a valve body, and this nozzle member has formed therein a valve seat facing the gas fuel passage, a valve hole extending through a central part of the valve seat and being opened and closed by cooperation between the valve body and the valve seat, a straight throttle hole having a constant internal diameter that is smaller than that of the valve hole and communicating with an outlet of the valve hole, and a nozzle hole having a larger diameter than that of the throttle hole and communicating with an outlet of the throttle hole, wherein when the internal diameter of the throttle hole is D the throttle hole and the nozzle hole are formed so as to satisfy expressions (1) and (2) above. | 20,099 |
8,546,919 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a substrate including a conductive annular via surrounding a portion of the substrate, the substrate and the portion of the substrate having a same material, the conductive annular via having a recessed portion surrounded by inner walls of the annular via on a side of the substrate; and a conductive material covering the recessed portion and in contact with the conductive annular via surrounding the portion of the substrate, wherein at least a portion of the conductive material contacts a material on the side of the substrate. | 49,184 |
9,708,217 | 1. A refractory coating composition, comprising: based on a total weight of the composition, (a) 20 to 40 wt % of cement; (b) 15 to 40 wt % of ground-granulated blast-furnace slag; (c) 5 to 20 wt % of at least one selected from among mica and alumina; (d) 0 to 10 wt % of flyash from a fluidized-bed boiler; (e) 10 to 40 wt % of expanded vermiculite; (f) 10 to 30 wt % of at least one selected from among calcium carbonate and limestone; and (g) 0.5 to 20 wt % of a thickening agent, wherein the ground-granulated blast-furnace slag is slag obtained by quenching slag discharged from a blast furnace of an ironworks with water and has a fineness of 3,300 to 6,200 cm | 22,590 |
9,081,669 | 1. A hybrid non-volatile memory device capable of storing data comprising: a flash-random access memory (RAM) including, | 30,916 |
9,738,093 | 1. An apparatus for marking a metal surface, comprising: a bed for an object comprising a metal surface; a cover forming an airtight space over the bed; a laser marking unit capable of forming a laser beam onto the metal surface; a gas unit for controlling the atmosphere of the space under the cover; a coating unit for producing a coating on the metal surface; a temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the space under the cover; a communication interface; at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive from a remote computer via Internet using the communication interface control data comprising parameters to create a pattern on the metal surface; control the gas unit to produce an atmosphere in space under the cover on the basis of the parameters; control the temperature control unit to produce a temperature in one or more time intervals in space under the cover on the basis of the parameters, the temperature being independently controlled during each interval; control the focus and bandwidth of the laser marking unit on the basis of the parameters to produce the pattern on the metal surface; and control the coating unit on the basis of the parameters to produce a coating on the metal surface. | 11,293 |
8,854,004 | 1. An energy storage system comprising: a battery; an inverter for receiving a first power from an external source and generating a second power; and a converter coupled between the battery and both the external source and the inverter, the converter being configured to enter an off mode between a charge mode for charging the battery and a discharge mode for discharging the battery, wherein the converter is configured to enter the off mode for a set period of time when a difference between a value of the first power and a value of the second power changes polarity. | 13,785 |
9,701,092 | 1. A method for removing matrix from a composite material, comprising the steps of: orienting a laser with a beam axis of the laser approximately perpendicular to a first surface of the composite material, the composite material comprising reinforcement embedded in the matrix and also having a thickness bounded by the first surface and a second surface of the composite material; and traveling, over a region of the first surface of the composite material, of the laser beam, wherein the laser is configured to remove a portion of the thickness of the composite matrix at the region while leaving the reinforcement of the composite material intact, whereby the composite material is bendable at the removed portion. | 36,824 |
9,028,079 | 1. An imaging lens, the lens comprising: a first lens having positive (+) refractive power and including a disc-shaped first medium and a second medium formed at a periphery of the first medium wherein the second medium has a refractive index higher than that of the first medium, wherein a refractive index of the positive (+) refractive power intermittently increases from a center of the first lens to an external side of the first lens; and a second lens having negative (−) refractive power and including a disc-shaped third medium and a fourth medium formed at a periphery of the third medium wherein the fourth medium has a refractive index smaller than that of the third medium, wherein a refractive index of the negative (−) refractive power intermittently decreases from a center of the second lens to an external side of the second lens. | 17,893 |
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