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9,551,260 | 1. A deterioration diagnosis device for determining a deterioration degree of an oxidation catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, the deterioration diagnosis device comprising: a multi-gas sensor disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst, the multi-gas sensor including a multi-gas sensor element unit that integrally includes a NO an NO concentration calculation unit configured to calculate an NO concentration in the exhaust gas after passing through the oxidation catalyst based on the NO a deterioration judgment unit configured to determine a deterioration degree of the oxidation catalyst from an evaluation value based on the NO concentration calculated by the NO concentration calculation unit, wherein the NO the NO the solid electrolyte body of the NO the interlayer contains a solid electrolyte component having oxygen ion conductivity of equal to or more than 50% by mass, the interlayer also including a first metal oxide of at least one kind of metal oxide selected from the group consisting of the metal oxides of Co, Mn, Cu, Ni and Ce, and the detection electrode contains Au in an amount equal to or more than 70% by mass, the detection electrode not including the first metal oxide. | 19,392 |
9,142,972 | 1. Power reception equipment for a resonance type non-contact power supply system, the power reception equipment comprising: a secondary-side resonance coil, which receives electric power from a primary-side resonance coil possessed by power supply equipment; a rectifier, which rectifies electric power received by the secondary-side resonance coil; a secondary matching unit provided between the secondary-side resonance coil and the rectifier; a charger, to which electric power rectified by the rectifier is supplied; an electrical storage device connected to the charger; and a control unit, which adjusts the secondary matching unit when the electrical storage device is being charged, wherein the control unit is configured to store, in the charging, a relationship between charging power from the power supply equipment during a power ascension phase and a matching state of the secondary matching unit as data in a storage device, and the control unit is also configured, during a phase in which power output from the power supply equipment falls, to adjust the secondary matching unit to bring the secondary matching unit into a suitable state corresponding to the charging power on the basis of the data that has been stored in the storage device during the power ascension phase. | 11,766 |
9,237,855 | 1. A method of operating a heart rate monitor of a wearable fitness monitoring device to adjust at least one setting for operating the heart rate monitor, wherein operating the heart rate monitor comprises: (a) operating a light source in the heart rate monitor in a skin characterization mode by emitting a succession of light pulses, at least some having variable intensity with respect to one another; (b) detecting a variation in intensity of light from the light pulses emitted in the skin characterization mode after the light has interacted with a user's skin; (c) determining a mathematical function having the intensities of the succession of light pulses emitted in (a) as an input and the variation in intensity of light detected in (b) as an output, thereby obtaining a response characteristic of the user's skin from the mathematical function or a characteristic thereof; and (d) using the response characteristic of the user's skin to adjust a gain and/or light emission intensity of the heart rate monitor operating in a first mode for detecting one or more characteristics of the user's heartbeat waveform. | 17,385 |
9,400,122 | 1. A solar thermal system comprising: a solar heat collector that absorbs solar heat and heats a heat medium received therein; a heat storage tank that contains heating water, includes a first heat storage exchanger and a second heat storage exchanger connected to the solar heat collector through a heat storage pipe disposed at upper and lower portions therein respectively, and includes at least one diffuser that diffuses heating return water to an inside of the heat storage tank; a pressure sensor sensing a pressure in the heat storage pipe and a circulation pump pressing and circulating the heat medium, wherein the pressure sensor and the circulation pump are connected to the heat storage pipe; a heat medium supplementary water tank that is connected to the heat storage pipe through a pressing pump to supplement a lack of the heat medium; an auxiliary boiler that has a heating water outlet connected to a heating water supply pipe of the heat storage tank through a first 3-way valve for controlling the heating water supply, and a heating water return port connected to the at least one diffuser of the heat storage tank through a second 3-way valve for controlling the heating water return; a check valve that is connected between the first 3-way valve for controlling the heating water supply and the heating water return port of the auxiliary boiler; and a heating load that is connected to the heating water outlet of the auxiliary boiler and the second 3-way valve for controlling the heating water return. | 48,487 |
8,842,707 | 1. A semiconductor laser element, comprising: an active layer; a window region including a disordered portion formed by diffusion of a group-III vacancy, the window region including an impurity free disordered portion of the active layer; a non-window region including a portion of the active layer having a quantum well structure; and a layer near the active layer, the layer being doped with an impurity that preferentially substitutes a group-V site, wherein the impurity that preferentially substitutes the group-V site has a diffusion coefficient equal to or smaller than 3×10 wherein a difference between an energy band gap in the window region and an energy band gap in the non-window region is equal to or larger than 50 meV. | 4,818 |
8,712,672 | 1. An automatic stop and restart device for an engine that is disposed in a start and transmission system of a vehicle which comprises: a transmission for changing gears to transmit power of the engine to driving wheels of the vehicle; a transmission operation device for receiving an external transmission operation to operate a transmission state of the transmission; a ring gear that is provided to a crank shaft of the engine, a starter motor for starting the engine; a pinion gear that is capable of approaching and separating from the ring gear and is driven by the starter motor to rotate; pinion gear thrust unit configured to thrust the pinion gear to the ring gear so that the pinion gear engages with the ring gear to crank the engine; and ring gear rotation speed detection unit configured to detect a ring gear rotation speed, the automatic stop and restart device comprising a controller which comprises transmission state determination unit configured to determine whether the transmission is in a drive range or in a non-drive range, the controller performing an automatic stop process for the engine if a predetermined automatic engine stop condition is satisfied, and a restart process for the engine by controlling drive of the starter motor and the pinion gear thrust unit if a predetermined restart condition is satisfied after the predetermined automatic engine stop condition is satisfied, wherein, if the transmission operation device is changed from the drive range to the non-drive range during the restart process for the engine after the predetermined restart condition is satisfied in the automatic stop process for the engine, the controller stops the drive of the starter motor. | 21,220 |
8,989,962 | 1. A structure for controlling an integrated active engine mount of a vehicle, comprising: an integrated active engine mount disposed between an engine and a vehicle body; a controller controlling the integrated active engine mount, wherein the controller is configured to perform: | 18,137 |
9,535,926 | 1. A method comprising: performing a first set of operations for a first transaction, the first transaction pertaining to file system operations performed on data stored in a file system, the first set of operations for the first transaction comprising a write operation and one or more pre-write operations for the first transaction with respect to the data; delaying, by a processing device of a server computer system, a second set of operations for the first transaction, the second set of operations for the first transaction comprising one or more post-write operations for the first transaction with respect to the data; identifying a second transaction pertaining to the data; and in response to identifying the second transaction, canceling the second set of operations for the first transaction, and canceling a first set of operations for the second transaction, the first set of operations for the second transaction comprising one or more pre-write operations for the second transaction with respect to the data. | 44,088 |
8,438,356 | 1. A method comprising: controlling a plurality of memory devices including a first group of memory devices and a second group of memory devices; determining a first period associated with the first group of memory devices; issuing a first command to the first group of memory devices based on the first period; determining a second period associated with the second group of memory devices; and issuing a second command to the second group of memory devices based on the second period. | 32,635 |
9,251,335 | 1. A method, comprising: at a security dashboard computing platform comprising at least one processor, a memory, and a communication interface: wherein the security score for the customer of the financial institution is determined based on one or more security preferences of the customer of the financial institution and one or more weighted criteria for evaluating customer security preferences, and wherein the one or more weighted criteria comprises an indication of an amount of time elapsed since a password change event associated with the customer account of the customer of the financial institution, an indication of whether a one-time passcode is required at login for the customer account of the customer of the financial institution, and an indication of whether a one-time passcode is required when responding to a challenge question for the customer account of the customer of the financial institution. | 28,382 |
8,751,842 | 1. A microcontroller comprising: a data input unit that receives a first input data and outputs a start request signal upon receiving the first input data; an oscillator that starts according to the start request signal, to generate a clock signal; a clock signal supply control unit that outputs the start request signal supplied from the data input unit to the oscillator, and outputs a first clock signal and a second clock signal based on the clock signal; and a CPU (central processing unit) that operates with the second clock signal, wherein the data input unit receives the first input data without receiving the first clock signal from the clock signal supply control unit, the data input unit receives a second input data using a first clock signal and the clock supply control unit outputs the second clock signal to the CPU after the second input data is received by the data input unit. | 29,030 |
9,415,601 | 1. A printing apparatus to which a liquid vessel for containing liquid is fixed, and configured such that a user can supply the liquid to the liquid vessel, comprising: a sensor for performing remaining liquid detection for checking whether or not the liquid is present at a predetermined position in the liquid vessel; a control unit that executes the remaining liquid detection using the sensor; a consumption calculation unit that calculates consumption of the liquid that is consumed from the liquid vessel; and a storage unit that updates and stores the consumption of the liquid calculated by the consumption calculation unit, wherein, when a print job is being executed, the control unit executes the remaining liquid detection after a first predetermined amount of the liquid is consumed. | 5,622 |
8,536,080 | 1. A direct method for manufacturing boron carbide ceramic fiber from boron carbide, consisting of: digesting cellulose in an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and disulfide to form a viscose; dispersing a metal-based material in the cellulose based viscose to form a boron carbide loaded slurry, the metal-based material comprising boron carbide (B spinning the boron carbide loaded slurry to form a green fiber, the green fiber comprising a matrix of cellulose with the boron carbide dispersed therein, wherein in one step the green fiber and the cellulose matrix are formed, the cellulose acting as a binder in the fiber forming process; heat treating the boron carbide loaded cellulose matrix of the green fiber to a low temperature to produce excess carbon as a sintering aid, wherein via sintering the boron carbide fuses together as the temperature increases to a high temperature to form boron carbide ceramic fiber, and wherein the reaction forming boron carbide (B | 27,529 |
9,434,374 | 1. An apparatus for a user and for a vehicle being configured to support the user, the apparatus comprising: an operation-switch assembly being configured to be supported by the vehicle, and the operation-switch assembly also being configured to switch propulsion operation of the vehicle between a first propulsion-operation mode and a second propulsion-operation mode; in the first propulsion-operation mode, the operation-switch assembly also being configured to permit propulsion of the vehicle to be influenced by a power-train assembly being configured to generate a power-train force; and in the second propulsion-operation mode, the operation-switch assembly also being configured to: a wheel assembly being configured to operatively couple to the vehicle in such a way that the wheel assembly transmits a torque force that facilitates rolling movement of the vehicle relative to a surface; and the operation-switch assembly including a friction-gear assembly being configured to operatively couple to the power-train assembly in such a way that the power-train assembly rotates the friction-gear assembly once operated; and wherein: the wheel assembly includes: the friction-gear assembly includes: and the power-train assembly includes: | 25,636 |
8,756,296 | 1. A method for distributing file data, comprising the following computer-implemented operations: obtaining a first request message for downloading a first file from a first client, and determining an autonomous system (AS) where the first client is located according to an address of the first client; judging whether a first edge server supporting peer to peer (ES-P) which stores the first file exists in the AS, if the first ES-P exists in the AS, returning an address of the first ES-P storing the first file to the first client; obtaining a third request for downloading the first file from the first client; obtaining information of other clients that are downloading the first file in the AS, according to the third request and information about a mapping between the other clients and the first file recorded in the first ES-P; and returning the information of the other clients to the first client; wherein the method further comprises: selecting a second ES-P in the AS according to a preset rule if the first ES-P storing the first file does not exist in the AS; returning an address of the second ES-P to the first client; receiving a second request message sent by the second ES-P; recording a mapping between the second ES-P that forwards the second request message and the first file, and returning an address of a third ES-P storing the first file in another AS to the second ES-P that forwards the second request message; and obtaining the first file from the third ES-P storing the first file, and sending the first file to the first client. | 44,035 |
9,201,815 | 1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a server computer, a network connection with each of a plurality of network devices over a computer network, wherein a respective established network connection facilitates sending or receiving an unsolicited packet to or from a corresponding network device over the computer network; responsive to receiving sensor data from a first network device over the computer network, determining a second network device that is subscribed to the sensor data received from the first network device; determining, by the server computer, a previously-established network connection to the second network device over the computer network; and sending, by the server computer over the computer network, the sensor data to the second network device via the previously-established network connection. | 23,631 |
8,512,358 | 1. A suturing needle comprising a hollowed sharp distal portion interconnected via an open bore to a proximal portion, wherein said sharp distal portion comprises: a tip and a single notch; said notch being confined so as to be located on said open bore at said needle's distal end, opposite to said tip; said bore and said notch are adapted to accommodate a first portion of a suture; a second potion of said suture adjacent to said first portion extending along the outer surface of the needle; said suture having at least one anchoring stopper between the first and second portions; the dimensions of said anchoring stopper are greater than the dimensions of said notch, such that the entire anchoring stopper is retained by said notch outside of said open bore so as to prevent movement of the suture relative to said needle; said anchoring stopper adapted to anchor said suture within said tissue. | 20,832 |
9,202,636 | 1. A photoelectric conversion element comprising: a substrate; a first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer comprising a second electrode, in this order, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer comprises a compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R 1 and R 2 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which may have a substituent, X, Y and Z each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, wherein at least one of X, Y and Z is an electron withdrawing group, and wherein the dye has an imidazolone moiety. | 28,824 |
8,692,882 | 1. A surveillance apparatus, comprising: a camera having an image capturing component that captures image data; a local memory functionally coupled to the camera; a recording facility that records the image data into available portions of a circular buffer in the local memory as a first file using a digital video file format; a protecting facility that responds to a signal to record the image data by designating a segment of the circular buffer as a write-protected portion and by indexing the write-protected portion as a second file in the circular buffer, wherein the segment includes a pre-recorded subset recorded before the signal is received and a post-recorded subset to be recorded after the signal is received; and wherein the local memory is configured to allow access to at least one of the files. | 40,546 |
9,023,623 | 1. A method for preparing an allicin solution comprising the following steps: (A) extracting allicin, which comprises the following steps: (1) adding alliinase and deoxygenated pure water to a container, in a water bath, filled with argon or high purity nitrogen in a water-to-alliinase ratio of 1000-2000 ml to 35.4 g, stirring thoroughly to completely dissolve the alliinase, adjusting the temperature of the water bath to 25-35° C., and controlling pH at 6.5-8.5 to obtain an alliinase solution; (2) preparing an alliin solution in a water-to-alliin ratio of 500-1000 ml to 35.4 g, adding the alliin solution dropwise into the container containing the alliinase solution, stirring thoroughly, and continuously filling the container with argon or high purity nitrogen so that the container is fully filled with the argon or high purity nitrogen, wherein a ratio of alliin to alliinase is 1 mg to 1-2 IU; and (3) after completion of the dropwise addition of the alliin solution, continuously stirring and reacting for 20 to 40 minutes in total to obtain an enzymolysis reaction solution containing allicin, immediately replacing warm water in the water bath with ice water to lower the temperature of the water bath to 0° C., and using an ultrafiltration membrane of 1000-5000 Da to remove alliinase to obtain an aqueous solution of allicin; and (B) diluting the aqueous solution of allicin with a solvent precooled to a temperature of 0-4° C. within a clean bio-safety cabinet to obtain an allicin solution. | 2,170 |
9,007,036 | 1. A rotary electrical machine with excitation ( 1 ) provided with a digital regulator device ( 2 ), said rotary electrical machine adapted to operate as a generator and supply an output voltage (Ub+) adjusted by an excitation current (Ie), and having a pass-band limited by a first predetermined cut-off frequency (F 1 c ), said digital regulator device ( 2 ) comprising: control means ( a regulator loop ( | 36,028 |
8,562,700 | 1. A multi-functional compact fuel converter apparatus to provide heat, hydrogen and olefins comprising: a reactor; a continuous supply of fuel to the top of the reactor; a continuous supply of oxygen to the top of the reactor; an electrostatic atomized fuel injection device located in the reactor below said supply of fuel and said supply of oxygen; a droplet source extending from and coupled to the fuel injection device; a grounded mesh screen located below the fuel injection device, wherein a voltage difference applied between the droplet source and the grounded mesh creates an electrospray, the grounded mesh screen being located approximately 1-2 cm from the droplet source to sustain the electrospray; a pre-heat region in the reactor below said supply of fuel and said supply of oxygen having sufficient temperature and length to fully vaporize said atomized liquid fuel; a source of heat for vaporization of atomized liquid fuel; a fuel-oxidizer mixing region in the reactor; and a catalyst on a foam support near the bottom of the reactor. | 24,257 |
8,948,947 | 1. A moving body comprising: a storage vessel that stores fuel gas; a pressure detection means for detecting a pressure inside of the storage vessel; a temperature detection means for detecting a temperature of the storage vessel; a transmitting means for transmitting a data signal generated based on the pressure and the temperature thus detected to an external fuel gas supply device; a communication electric power supply device that supplies electric power to the transmitting means; a lidded box that protects inside thereof a gas feed port for filling fuel gas into the storage vessel; a lid opened-state detection means for detecting an opened state of a lid of the lidded box; and a control device that activates the transmitting means after the lid has been opened, and performs communication between the transmitting means and the fuel gas supply device, wherein the control device includes an activation determination means for determining either (1) being a state in which activation of the transmitting means is not permitted, or (2) being a state in which activation of the transmitting means is permitted, the control device activates the transmitting means in a case of the activation determination means having determined being a state in which activation is permitted, and the control device determines being a state in which activation is not permitted in response a failure that causes the transmitting means to not be able to transmit data that is adequately reliable. | 26,663 |
9,060,946 | 1. A method for sunless tanning of skin comprising applying to selected areas of the skin a white, color-stable formulation consisting essentially of: (a) a concentration of vanillin adjusted to obtain the desired shade of tan; (b) an effective amount of dihydroxyacetone for tanning the skin; (c) a white emulsion consisting essentially of lime oil dispersed in lime juice and at least one emulsifier; and (d) effective amounts of octyl salicylate and octyl methoxycinnammate for color stabilization. | 10,646 |
9,225,041 | 1. An automobile lead battery, comprising: a plurality of anode plates for storing electricity in a chemically reactive state, the plurality of anode plates formed in a mesh shape by forming a plurality of cuts in series on a lead plate strip rolled to a uniform thickness and performing expansion processing; a plurality of cathode plates for storing electricity in a chemically reactive state, the plurality of cathode plates having a size identical to the anode plates and being in a mesh shape; an electrolyte; a plurality of separators disposed between the anode plates and the cathode plates so that the anode plates and the cathode plates are electrically insulated and mechanically separated, the plurality of separators formed by impregnating an absorbent glass mat (AGM) with the electrolyte, such that a chemical reaction for storing electricity is facilitated and an inner pressure of a cell is maintained constant; an upper case and a lower case, made of polypropylene and including a plurality of separate unit cells, each of the unit cells including the anode plates, the cathode plates, the separators, and the electrolyte; and a cap screw-coupled into a screw hole formed in each of the unit cells of the upper case so as to exhaust a gas generated during charge and discharge when pressure of the gas is over a predetermined level; wherein the cap comprises: an outer cap screw-coupled into the screw hole formed in each of the unit cells of the upper case, the outer cap comprising a fixed cavity having one closed end at a central portion thereof and an open end, an exhaust passage connected to the closed end of the fixed cavity so as to communicate with outside, and a fixed fin and a pressure protrusion, which protrude in a form of a cone at a center of the closed end of the fixed cavity; an inner cap inserted into the open end of the fixed cavity of the outer cap and fastened by a fastening lock, the inner cap including a gas hole having both open ends at a center thereof; and a valve provided between the outer cap and the inner cap, the valve comprising a hinge membrane of which a top and a bottom are fixed to one end of the inner cap and the fixed fin to close the fixed cavity, a pressure part connected to the hinge membrane and being in contact with the pressure protrusion to support a predetermined pressure and to block one open end of the gas hole, and a blockage membrane connected to the hinge membrane and the pressure part, wherein a bottom of the blockage membrane is either in contact with or spaced apart from the inner cap according to the inner pressure of the cell, and a top of the blockage membrane is exposed to the exhaust passage and is not supported by the inner cap so that one end of the gas hole is blocked and the blocked end of the gas hole is opened when the pressure part is not supported by a pressure more than the predetermined level. | 30,565 |
8,905,902 | 1. A gym kit comprising: A) a back board having B) a bench press bar having C) a standing board having D) two handles each of which is attached to an associated bungee cord during use. | 15,882 |
8,819,606 | 1. An integrated circuit device, comprising: one or more functional block(s) comprising a first circuitry implemented with a first group of one or more timing constraint value(s), wherein the first group of timing constraint value(s) are specified for reliable operation of the integrated circuit device at a first temperature range; one or more functional test block(s) associated with each of the functional block(s) comprising a second circuitry implemented with a second group of one or more timing constraint value(s), wherein the second group of timing constraint value(s) are specified at value(s) for reliable operation of the integrated circuit device at a second temperature range, wherein the second temperature range is less than the first temperature range; a built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry implemented with the first group of timing constraint value(s) that is operable to test the one or more functional test block(s); and an integrated circuit (IC) controller implemented with the first group of timing constraint value(s) that is operable to initiate the BIST circuitry, wherein the IC controller is further operable to receive the BIST circuitry results. | 10,349 |
9,657,992 | 1. An induction furnace for heating a workpiece, the induction furnace comprising: a chamber; an insulation cylinder positioned within the chamber, the insulation cylinder including a base cover that is selectively movable between a first position and a second position, wherein the first position is configured to position the workpiece within a heating zone of the induction furnace and wherein the second position is configured to position the workpiece within a cooling zone of the induction furnace; a cylindrically shaped cooling manifold positioned in the cooling zone, the cylindrically shaped cooling manifold constructed to surround the base cover when the base cover is in the second position within an inner wall of the cylindrically shaped cooling manifold; a heat exchanger configured to draw hot air from the chamber; a blower configured to blow cooled air that has passed through the heat exchanger into the cooling zone via the cooling manifold; and a translation system comprising: | 19,238 |
8,630,417 | 1. A method of operating by a second processing unit a content recorded by a first processing unit, said first and second processing units having each a specific key being managed by a central server, the processing units having access to a removable storage memory intended to record the content ciphered by a content key and also data associated to said content, the content key being produced according to steps a to d or d′ as follow: a) deciphering, by the key specific to the first processing unit, a first constant provided by the central server for obtaining a first local key, b) deciphering a second constant provided by the central server with the first local key, obtaining an intermediate key, c) obtaining a variable by the first processing unit, d) ciphering the contents with a content key obtained by deciphering the variable with the intermediate key, storing in the storage memory the ciphered content, the first and second constants and the variable, or d′) ciphering the content with a content key equal to the variable, storing in the storage memory the ciphered content, the first and second constants and the variable ciphered with the intermediate key, restoring by the second processing unit the content ciphered with the content key produced according to steps a, b, c and d or d′, the following steps being previously carried out by the central server: 1) obtaining the first local key by the central server, the first local key being such that when ciphered by the key specific to the first processing unit, the first constant is obtained, 2) obtaining a second local key by the central server, the second local key being such that when ciphered by the key specific to the second processing unit, the first constant is obtained, 3) calculating a transcoding key by deciphering the second constant by the first local key then by ciphering the result by the second local key, 4) sending the transcoding key to the second processing unit, and according to the following steps carried out by the second processing unit, A) deciphering by the key specific to the second processing unit, the provided first constant for obtaining the second local key, B) deciphering the transcoding key with the second local key to obtain the intermediate key, C) deciphering the variable by the intermediate key to obtain the content key, D) deciphering the content with the content key and restoring the content by the second processing unit. | 36,298 |
8,395,350 | 1. A method for charging a hybrid electric vehicle, comprising the steps of: (a) detecting a failed starting event involving an engine; (b) determining if the failed starting event involving the engine is the result of insufficient energy on a high voltage battery used both for vehicle propulsion and for vehicle starting; (c) when the failed starting event involving the engine is the result of insufficient energy on the high voltage battery, then monitoring for a low voltage external power source to be connected to a low voltage circuit of the hybrid electric vehicle; (d) once the low voltage external power source is connected to the low voltage circuit of the hybrid electric vehicle, then converting energy from the low voltage external power source and charging the high voltage battery through the low voltage circuit of the hybrid electric vehicle with the converted energy from the low voltage external power source; and (e) monitoring one or more readings and fault conditions with a control module during charging of the high voltage battery by the low voltage external power source, and using the control module to automatically make adjustments to the charging based on the monitored readings and to automatically stop the charging based on the monitored fault conditions. | 17,772 |
9,523,953 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit configured to perform an image forming preparation operation and an image forming operation; and a controller configured to control performance of a user authentication operation according to distance information between a portable electronic device and the image forming apparatus, and to control performance of at least one of the image forming preparation operation and the image forming operation, according to the distance information between the portable electronic device and the image forming apparatus, wherein if the distance information indicates the portable electronic device is less than a first predefined distance from the image forming apparatus, the controller controls performance of the user authentication operation, if the user authentication operation is successful and the distance information indicates the portable electronic device is less than a second predefined distance from the image forming apparatus, the controller controls performance of at least one of the image forming preparation operation and the image forming operation, and the second distance is less than the first distance. | 44,597 |
9,301,897 | 1. An apparatus for supporting a patient during a medical procedure supported on a floor, the apparatus comprising: a. a first patient holding structure; b. a second patient holding structure hingedly attached to the first patient holding structure by a pair of spaced opposed hinges, so as to form an open frame for orienting the patient; c. a first connector joining the first patient holding structure; d. a second connector joining the second patient holding structure; e. a first upright column support subassembly linked to the first connector and including a first base member and a first upright column support subassembly extending from and joined to the first base member; f. a second upright column support subassembly linked to the second connector and including a second base member and a second upright column support subassembly extending from and joined to the second base member; g. an angulation subassembly linked to each of the first and second connectors, the angulation subassembly comprising: h. a controller, the controller actuating the degree of angulation of the connectors so as to actuate angulation of the spaced opposed hinges while simultaneously maintaining a vertical distance between the hinges and the floor substantially constant. | 45,788 |
8,963,734 | 1. A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly for displaying information, the PCB assembly comprising: a plurality of power and control buses configured to carry power provided by a power supply and control signals provided by a controller; a plurality of plug-in back panel modules configured to be connected to each other via the plurality of power and control buses, wherein the plurality of plug-in back panel modules include a set of connectors configured to receive the power from the power supply and the control signals the controller; and a plurality of plug-in light emitting diode (LED) modules for displaying the information via a plurality of LEDs, wherein each of the plurality of plug-in LED modules includes a set of pins configured to connect to the set of connectors of each of the plug-in back panel modules, wherein each of the plurality of plug-in LED modules is configured to be individually plugged into, and removed from, each of the plug-in back panel modules, wherein lengths of the plurality of power and control buses are configured to be adjusted to connect the plurality of plug-in back panels to each other via the plurality of power and control buses at varying distances, and wherein the controller is configured to adjust the information displayed on the plurality of plug-in LED modules by transmitting a signal to adjust the information at the PCB assembly. | 34,850 |
9,013,800 | 1. A zoom lens, substantially consisting of: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, provided in this order from an object side; the first lens group and the second lens group being moved to change magnification; the first lens group substantially consisting of a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, in this order from the object side; and the zoom lens satisfying the following conditional formulae: wherein fw is the focal length of the entire system at a wide angle end, f | 42,133 |
9,308,809 | 1. A hybrid powertrain, comprising: a planetary gear including three rotational elements, wherein a carrier among the three rotational elements is coupled to an engine; a motor generator directly coupled to one of the remaining two rotational elements of the planetary gear; a first driving gear installed to be rotated by receiving driving force from the rotational element coupled to the motor generator; a second driving gear installed to be rotated by receiving driving force from the other one of the remaining two rotational elements of the planetary gear; an output shaft having a first driven gear and a second driven gear meshed with the first driving gear and the second driving gear, respectively; and a first brake installed to switch a state limiting a rotation of the rotational element coupled to the second driving gear, wherein a first clutch installed to intermit the driving force is provided between the rotational element coupled to the motor generator and the first driving gear, and a second clutch installed to intermit the driving force is provided between the rotational element coupled to the second driving gear and the second driving gear. | 12,335 |
9,680,391 | 1. A droop detector, comprising: a plurality of input nodes, each input node configured to receive a supply voltage; an output node; a plurality of detector modules, each detector module comprises: an input terminal coupled to each input node, an output terminal coupled to the output node; and an input tracking unit configured as a voltage follower to detect a droop in the supply voltage coupled to each input node and output an output voltage that follows the supply voltage on the output terminal when the droop is detected on the supply voltage, wherein each detector module is configured to provide a non-linear feedback to temporarily disconnect the output terminal of each detector module from the output node when each detector module is detecting no droop at its input while other detector modules of the plurality of detector modules are detecting at least one droop at other input nodes of the plurality of input nodes; and a comparator coupled to the output node and configured to output a control signal when the droop is detected. | 45,228 |
8,851,326 | 1. A folded sheet dispenser comprising a. a mounting frame adapted to hold a stack of folded sheets, the mounting frame including a back panel, a bottom portion and a top portion; b. a cover connected to the mounting frame, the cover having an inside surface which faces the mounting frame and an exterior surface forming the front of the dispenser, the cover having at least one projection extending from the inside surface; c. a dispensing opening located at or near the bottom portion of the mounting frame; d. an overfill prevention device located at or near the top portion of the mounting frame, said overfill prevention device comprises wherein the projection on the cover engages the locking element as the cover is being closed such that the locking element releases the bracket to allow the bracket to move to the dispensing position. | 8,917 |
9,182,232 | 1. A method for magnetically altering an operation of a node in a wireless node network having a master node operative to communicate with a server, comprising: detecting, by the node, one or more magnetic field changes in a proximate environment of the node; altering, by the node, a management function of the node in response to the detected one or more magnetic field changes; and transmitting, by the node to the master node, information about the altered management function to be forwarded to the server. | 39,021 |
8,908,747 | 1. A method, in a mobile terminal configured to receive a number N or less different data streams transmitted in parallel over N antennas where N is an integer greater than one, of controlling adaptive rank multi-antenna wireless communication for the mobile terminal, the number of different data streams actually transmitted in parallel to the mobile terminal corresponding to transmission rank, the method comprising: utilizing a full-size codebook containing precoder elements for all N transmission ranks to determine a recommended transmission rank and precoder matrix for use in transmitting data to the mobile terminal if a speed of the mobile terminal does not exceed a predetermined threshold; utilizing a reduced-size codebook which excludes the precoder elements for at least transmission rank-N to determine the recommended transmission rank and precoder matrix for use in transmitting data to the mobile terminal if the speed of the mobile terminal exceeds the predetermined threshold, wherein transmission rank-N corresponds to N different data streams being transmitted in parallel over the N antennas; and transmitting an indication of the recommended transmission rank and precoder matrix to a network. | 1,510 |
9,361,137 | 1. A computer-implemented method to manage value changes of parameters of an application in a data processing system, based on application phases and based further on restrictions specific to parameter types, the computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a plurality of phases of the application in the data processing system, each phase corresponding to a time period during a lifecycle of the application; identifying a plurality of parameters of the application, including a first parameter of a first parameter type and further including a second parameter of a second parameter type different from the first parameter type; defining, in a parameter administration component of the data processing system, a first restriction attribute applicable to all parameters of the first parameter type and that specifies: (i) a first of the plurality of phases during which any parameter value of the first parameter type is permitted to change and (ii) a second of the plurality of phases during which any parameter value of the first parameter type is not permitted to change; defining, in the parameter administration component, a second restriction attribute applicable to all parameters of the second parameter type and that specifies: (i) the second phase as a phase during which any parameter value of the second parameter type is permitted to change and (ii) a third of the plurality of phases during which any parameter value of the second parameter type is not permitted to change; and enforcing the first and second restriction attributes upon all parameters of the first and second parameter types, respectively, by the parameter administration component when executed by one or more computer processors, such that the first parameter of the first parameter type is permitted to be changed during the first phase and precluded from being changed during the second phase, and such that the second parameter of the second parameter type is permitted to be changed during the second phase and precluded from being changed during the third phase. | 9,800 |
9,329,145 | 1. A material screening apparatus, which identifies a material by contacting a surface of the material and calculating a thermal feature value of the material, the apparatus comprising: heat generators configured to individually generate heat; temperature sensors respectively attached to the heat generators and configured to measure temperatures of the heat generators; and a controller configured to control heat generation of the heat generators, process temperature values measured by the temperature sensors, and calculate a thermal feature value of the material, wherein the controller calculates thermal effusivity, which is the thermal feature value of the material, by applying the temperature values measured by the temperature sensors to the equation: where βobj represents thermal effusivity of the material, T T T T β β | 22,068 |
8,975,863 | 1. A charging station for use in charging, an electrically powered vehicle, said charging station comprising: a housing defining an interior and an opening configured to permit access to the interior; a door configured to substantially cover the opening; and a hinge assembly configured to removably couple said door to said housing and to provide a pivotal movement of said door relative to said housing between at least a closed position, a first open position, and a second open position, said hinge assembly comprising a base member coupled to one of said housing and said door and a bracket coupled to the other of said. housing and said door, said base member defining an aperture, said bracket including a projecting member configured to be operably disposed within the aperture, said projecting member and said base member configured to permit removal of said door from the housing when said door is in the first open position, said projecting member and said base member configured to prevent removal of said door from the housing when said door is in the second open position. | 43,839 |
8,531,033 | 1. A contact plug structure formed on a contact hole of an insulating layer of a semiconductor device, comprising: a metal silicide layer formed on a bottom part of the contact hole; a manganese oxide layer formed on the metal silicide layer in the contact hole; and a buried copper formed on the manganese oxide layer, the buried copper substantially filling the contact hole, wherein the manganese oxide layer includes: a first manganese oxide layer which is an amorphous layer including silicon and is formed on the metal silicide layer; and a second manganese oxide layer which is a mixture of amorphous and nanocrystals and is formed on the first manganese oxide layer. | 41,098 |
8,897,192 | 1. A method comprising: configuring a mobile device to operate in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein the DRX mode includes DRX sleep periods and DRX awake periods, wherein during each DRX awake period the mobile device monitors, for a dynamically-allocated resource, a plurality of downlink layer transmitting, by a network, signaling comprising a DRX control parameter that indicates a first of said DRX awake periods. | 11,310 |
9,575,428 | 1. An electrostatic-image developing toner comprising toner particles comprising: a binder resin comprising a polyester resin; a release agent; and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin, wherein 70% or more of all release agent is present within 800 nm from surfaces of the toner particles, and the styrene-(meth)acrylic resin is present in an amount of 5 to 25 atomic percent of the resin components in the surfaces of the toner particles as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). | 21,058 |
9,191,175 | 1. A method for supporting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices using a HARQ Channel Identifier (ACID) in a wireless access system, the method comprising: transmitting, at a base station, a first uplink (UL) A-MAP Information Element (IE) including first resource allocation information and a first ACID to M2M devices sharing a Station Identifier (STID); transmitting, at the base station, a second uplink (UL) A-MAP Information Element (IE) to the M2M devices sharing the STID in a subframe in which a second M2M device is to retransmit a UL burst, the second UL A-MAP IE including a second ACID and second resource allocation information for allocating a resource region to a first M2M device; receiving the UL burst retransmitted using the first ACID from the second M2M device in the subframe; and receiving a new UL burst transmitted using the second ACID and the second resource allocation information from the first M2M device in the subframe, wherein the first and second M2M devices share the STID, and the first and second ACIDs are different from each other. | 40,707 |
9,070,937 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a stacked plurality of adjacent fuel cells collectively forming a fuel cell stack, said fuel cells each including a pair of first and second plates at respective opposite ends thereof and an electrolyte therebetween, a first said fuel cell having a first said plate in engagement with a second said plate of a second fuel cell adjacent to said first fuel cell at respective engagement surfaces thereof and including an interfacial seal in mutual engagement with said first plate of said first fuel cell and said second plate of said second fuel cell; and a slip mitigation arrangement between at least one pair of said first and said second fuel cells comprising: a first seat recessed in said engagement surface of said first plate, a second seat recessed in said engagement surface of said second plate, and a key member having opposite ends seated in said first and said second recessed seats such that relative movement between said first and said second fuel cells is reduced, and the key member having an unexpanded cross-sectional geometry smaller than cross-sectional geometry of said first and said second seats and an uncompressed length greater than a combined depth of said first and said second seats; and wherein the first and second plates at opposite ends of a fuel cell are formed of a material having a first relative hardness, the key member is formed of a material having a second relative hardness equal to or less than said first relative hardness, and said interfacial seal is formed of a material having a third relative hardness less than both said first and said second relative hardnesses. | 44,444 |
8,727,757 | 1. A molding die set, comprising: a first molding die having a first molding chase, a cavity piece, which is supported by the first molding chase and which constitutes a bottom part of a cavity, and a movable clamper, which is movably supported by the first molding chase and which encloses the cavity piece so as to form a cavity-concave section; a second molding die having a second molding chase, a work supporting section, which is supported by the second molding chase and biased and on which a work will be mounted, and a center insert, which is located adjacent to the work supporting section; and a pot being provided to one of the first molding die and the second molding die, the pot feeding resin for molding the work, wherein the second molding die further has a thickness adjusting mechanism, which makes the work supporting section absorb thickness variation of the work and brings the work into contact with the movable damper when the work supported by the work supporting section is clamped with the movable damper of the first molding die, and the movable clamper is held by a first elastic member having an elastic power greater than an elastic power of a second elastic member of the thickness adjusting mechanism which biases the work supporting section. | 30,500 |
8,457,029 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory comprising computer-executable code that, when executed by the at least one processor, is configured to cause the apparatus to: | 8,023 |
9,467,157 | 1. An atomic cell comprising: metallic atoms; a first substrate having a concave which is opened on one surface side thereof, the concave having a bottom surface and an inner side wall; a second substrate that is bonded to the one surface side of the first substrate, and forms an inner space where the metallic atoms are sealed, together with the first substrate; a communication hole that communicates with the inner space, the communication hole extending from the inner side wall directly adjacent to a lower surface of the second substrate, the communication hole further extending into the second substrate so that the communication hole is in a bent-shaped structure; and a sealing portion that is disposed at one end of the communication hole in the second substrate directly adjacent to an upper surface of the second substrate. | 21,784 |
8,390,472 | 1. An automatic meter reading (AMR) system, comprising: a reader; a plurality of endpoints, wherein each of the plurality of endpoints is adapted to conduct radio frequency (RF) communication with the reader; wherein each of the plurality of endpoints initiates a communication session with the reader as part of a bubble-up operating mode by transmitting a one-way communication; and wherein the reader selectively initiates two-way communication with individual ones of the plurality of endpoints in response to receipt of a one-way communication from each of those endpoints, and wherein the reader adjusts a bubble-up operation parameter in a first endpoint via the two-way communication. | 903 |
9,518,507 | 1. An electric hybrid vehicle, comprising: a first electric motor coupled to a battery; a combustion engine having an exhaust conduit; a turbine at least partially positioned within the exhaust conduit, the turbine coupled to a generator configured to supply a charge to the battery or current to the electric motor; and a wastegate configured to permit a fluid stream from the exhaust conduit to bypass the turbine when open and spin the turbine when closed, and configured to open when the battery is fully charged. | 24,440 |
8,982,592 | 1. A power conversion system comprising: a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) unit for receiving a feedback current signal and a feedback voltage signal from a power source and generating an MPPT reference signal based at least in part on the feedback current signal and the feedback voltage signal; a DC bus for receiving DC power from the power source; a power converter for converting the DC power on the DC bus to alternating current (AC) power, the power converter comprising: a converter controller for: | 40,919 |
9,142,838 | 1. An anode for improving the redox stability of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), the anode comprising: a porous metal substrate, formed of metal particles; a first porous anode functional layer, formed of a redox-stable material on the porous metal substrate; and a second porous anode functional layer, formed on the first porous anode functional layer, wherein the redox-stable material comprises a perovskite structure material, the porous metal substrate has a thickness greater than that of any of the first and the second porous anode functional layers, to provide mechanic support for the first and the second anode functional layers, the metal particles have porous shells, the porous shells contain fine Fe and Ni particles on the surface to absorb leakage oxygen by oxidation, and the second porous anode functional layer is submicron-structured or nano-structured. | 8,985 |
9,244,521 | 1. A method for managing power and performance, comprising: determining a power state for a device connected to a system; determining that the device should change power states; sending a signal to the device to put the device in a D3-cold state while the system is a GO/SO state; and sending a WAKE# signal from the device to a controller to cause the device to exit the D3-cold state when the device determines that the device should change power states, wherein the WAKE# signal is received at a pin on the controller that is different than a designated WAKE# signal pin. | 3,417 |
9,457,444 | 1. A machine tool, comprising: a cover covering a machining space; a table; a saddle; and a pair of expandable and contractible movable covers respectively disposed on two side surfaces of the table or the saddle in the moving direction thereof, wherein one end of each of the expandable and contractible movable covers is fixed to a side surface of the table or the saddle and the other end of each of the expandable and contractible movable covers is fixed to the cover; upper surfaces of the movable covers are inclined in a direction perpendicular to the direction of expansion and contraction of the movable covers in a manner such that they slope down from one side not fixed to any one of the table, cover or saddle to the other side, and a direction of inclination of the upper surface of one of the movable covers is opposite to that of the other of the movable covers so that chips which have fallen onto the upper surfaces of the movable covers flow downward from the other sides of the movable covers toward opposite sides of the table or saddle in opposite directions. | 43,574 |
9,059,373 | 1. A method for protecting a thermal sensitive component during a thermal process, the method comprising: providing the thermal sensitive component disposed on a board; providing a protection apparatus comprising a thermoelectric material; and protecting the thermal sensitive component with the protection apparatus during the thermal process, wherein the thermal process comprises a sub-process of a board process, and the board process comprises a manufacturing process, a repairing process or a rework process, and further wherein protection apparatus actively cools the thermal sensitive component during the thermal process in response to applying a voltage to the protection apparatus. | 20,322 |
9,680,176 | 1. An energy storage battery, wherein a positive electrode electrolyte and a negative electrode electrolyte having a pH value within a range of 2 to 8 are used, characterized in comprising: an ion exchange membrane, formed by graft-polymerizing styrenesulfonate to a resin film base material a matrix of which is ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, as a diaphragm of the positive electrode electrolyte and the positive electrode electrolyte. | 44,524 |
9,703,437 | 1. A touch panel, comprising a glass substrate and a conductive film arranged on the glass substrate, the conductive film comprising a base material and a conductive layer arranged on the base material, wherein the conductive layer comprises first conductive patterns and second conductive patterns, each of which comprises a plurality of meshes formed by conductive wires crossing each other; the first conductive patterns are each of an X-shaped structure and arranged in an array form, and the second conductive patterns are each formed at a region surrounding by the adjacent first conductive patterns, arranged adjacent to and insulated from the first conductive pattern, and arranged in an array-form, the first conductive pattern comprises a first conductive segment and a second conductive segment extending in opposite directions, and a third conductive segment and a fourth conductive segment extending in opposite directions, the first conductive segment, the second conductive segment, the third conductive segment and the fourth conductive segment are connected to each other, and the first conductive segment and the second conductive segment are perpendicular to the third conductive segment and the fourth conductive segment, respectively, a total length of the first conductive segment and the second conductive segment is of a first value, and a total length of the third conductive segment and the fourth conductive segment is of a second value equal to the first value, the first value and the second value are greater than or equal to 3 mm, and less than or equal to 7 mm, the third conductive segments are each of a size and a structure identical to the fourth conductive segments, each of the third conductive segments and the fourth conductive segments comprises a first top end segment, the first top end segment comprises a first perpendicular segment perpendicular to an extension direction of the third conductive segment and the fourth conductive segment and a first sharp end segment inclined at an angle of greater than 90° and less than 180° relative to the first perpendicular segment, a length of the first perpendicular segment is B, a perpendicular distance from the first perpendicular segment to each of the first conductive segment and the second conductive segment is C and a length of the first sharp end segment is D, the first conductive segments are each of a size and a structure identical to the second conductive segments, each of the first conductive segments and the second conductive segments comprises a second top end segment, the second top end segment includes a second perpendicular segment perpendicular to an extension direction of the first conductive segment and the second conductive segment and a second sharp end segment inclined at an angle of greater than 90° and less than 180° relative to the second perpendicular segment, and a perpendicular distance from the second perpendicular segment to each of the third conductive segment and the fourth conductive segment is A. | 49,397 |
8,895,899 | 1. A glazing comprising, a plurality of enameled conducting wires having a width at most equal to 0.1 mm, wherein in a “zebra” test in which the enameled conducting wires are oriented parallel to those of an image of the “zebra” test and the glazing receives an incident light beam at an angle of 30° in relation to the normal to the glazing, the increase in distortion is at most 70% of that existing in the absence of the enameled conducting wires with the wires arranged parallel to those of the image, wherein the enameled conducting wires have a resistivity at most equal to 3.5Ω□, and wherein each conducting wire is obtained by a process comprising depositing a photosensitive emulsion in the form of a wire on a substrate of the glazing through a wire mesh of an applicator that deposits said photosensitive composition and thermally treating said photosensitive composition to form each wire, said wire mesh comprising from 50 to 200 wires per centimeter, each wire having a diameter of from 15 to 70 μm, and a surface roughness on a face directed towards a substrate of from 2 to 10 μm. | 34,940 |
9,061,238 | 1. A concentrator for providing a breathing gas comprising: at least one sieve bed comprising a vessel containing a gas separation medium; a first chassis component, comprising at least one protrusion extending from the first chassis component to couple with a surface of the at least one sieve bed vessel; and a first locking element to engage the surface of the at least one sieve bed vessel to lock the coupled vessel to the first chassis component as the vessel and first chassis component are pressed together concentrically along a central axis with an insertion force; wherein the protrusion cross-sectional shape and the vessel cross-sectional shape are concentric. | 28,841 |
8,578,388 | 1. A method for optimizing the performance of application programs in hybrid CPU systems having a plurality of different CPUs comprising: loading an application program into a hybrid CPU system; sampling said loaded application program, carried out as static analysis of the threads in the application program, to determine whether the application program is single threaded or multithreaded; running a multithreaded application program on a first CPU; running a single threaded application program on a second CPU, having the same performance capacity as the first CPU; wherein said second CPU is run at a higher speed than said first CPU in response to said carrying out of said static analysis; sampling the running application program to determine if the single or multithread type of the application has changed; and changing the CPU on which the application is being run responsive to a thread type change. | 30,445 |
8,849,550 | 1. A method for controlling an exhaust gas temperature of an engine of a vehicle during interruption of fuel supply to the engine, wherein the engine is adapted to drive a driveline of the vehicle, comprising interrupting fuel supply to the engine, and while the fuel is interrupted, alternating back and forth between at least a first operating mode and a second operating mode and thereby controlling exhaust gas temperature of the engine, wherein, in the first operating mode, the engine is disengaged from the driveline, and in the second operating mode, a brake torque is generated by engine compression braking. | 12,441 |
9,143,289 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer program instructions; in which the at least one memory, with the computer program instructions, is configured with the at least one processor to cause the apparatus at least to: | 23,966 |
9,574,850 | 1. A firearm reticle, comprising: a) a first horizontal cross-hair; b) a first vertical cross-hair that intersects said first horizontal cross-hair; c) two or more vertical markings upon said first horizontal cross-hair; d) two or more horizontal line markings above said vertical markings upon said first horizontal cross-hair; e) two or more evenly spaced horizontal cross-hairs on said first vertical cross-hair below said first horizontal cross-hair; and f) two or more vertical cross-hairs on said evenly spaced horizontal cross-hairs. | 39,944 |
9,334,997 | 1. A pipe vibration control system comprising: a pipe vibration control device having a frame including vertical members fixed at a ceiling and arranged at both sides of the pipe and having lateral members fixed at the vertical members and arranged at the upper and the lower portions of the pipe, the vertical members and the lateral members constituting the frame to enclose the pipe under a no-contacted state while keeping spaces in upward, downward, rightward and leftward directions, and the pipe vibration control devices are arranged two or more locations around a pipe line of the pipe hung and supported at the ceiling and a pipe line in a direction crossing at a right angle with the pipe line. | 14,828 |
8,536,377 | 1. A process for preparing N,N-substituted 3-aminopropan-1-ols by a) reacting secondary amine with acrolein at a temperature of (−50) to 100° C. and a pressure of 0.01 to 300 bar, and b) reacting the reaction mixture obtained in stage a) with hydrogen and ammonia in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst at a pressure of 1 to 400 bar, | 41,597 |
8,622,873 | 1. A method of monitoring the use of exercise equipment at an exercise facility, having a plurality of items of exercise equipment, the method comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of usage monitors, each usage monitor associated with an item of exercise equipment and operable to detect whether the respective item of exercise equipment is being either or both operated and occupied at a given time, the monitor being operable to determine whether the item of exercise equipment is being occupied independently of whether it is being operated; monitoring the usage of the said plurality of the items of exercise equipment concurrently using the said usage monitors, and thereby calculating, for at least some of the items of exercise equipment, a measurement related to the proportion of a period of time during which one or more respective items of exercise equipment are used. | 23,683 |
9,645,139 | 1. A method for identifying a compound having cell-protective activity, comprising: incubating a test compound with a nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT); measuring an activity of the NAMPT; and identifying the test compound as having cell-protective activity when there is an increase in the activity of the NAMPT compared to a control that is not incubated with the test compound, wherein the test compound is a compound having formula (I): wherein: each of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 is independently selected from hydrogen, halo, hydroxyl, sulfhydryl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, cyclopropyl, —N 3 , cyano, —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), nitro, —C(O)O(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —C(O)NH 2 , —C(O)NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —C(O)N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —S(O) 2 NH 2 , —S(O) 2 NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), and —S(O) 2 N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 ; R and R′ are defined according to (1), (2), (3) or (4) below: (1) R and R′ together with C 2 and C 3 , respectively, form a fused phenyl ring having formula (II): wherein each of R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , and R 8 is independently selected from hydrogen, halo, hydroxyl, sulfhydryl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, cyclopropyl, —N 3 , cyano, —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), nitro, —C(O)O(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —C(O)NH 2 , —C(O)NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —C(O)N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —S(O) 2 NH 2 , —S(O) 2 NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), and —S(O) 2 N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 ; or (2) R and R′ together with C2 and C3, respectively, form a fused heteroaryl ring containing 6 ring atoms, wherein from 1-2 independently selected ring atoms is N; and wherein said heteroaryl ring is optionally substituted with from 1-2 independently selected R b ; or (3) R and R′ together with C 2 and C 3 , respectively, form a fused heterocyclic ring containing from 5-6 ring atoms, wherein from 1-2 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), NC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), O, and S; and wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with from 1-3 independently selected R a ; or (4) each of R and R′ is, independently, hydrogen, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, or C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl; each of L 1 and L 2 is, independently, C 1 -C 3 alkylene, which is optionally substituted with from 1-2 independently selected R c ; A is: (i) CR (ii) C⊚O; or (iii) C (iv) heterocycloalkylene containing from 3-5 ring atoms, wherein from 1-2 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C Z is: (i) —NR (ii) —C(O)NR (iii) —OR (iv) —S(O) (v) heterocycloalkenyl containing from 5-6 ring atoms, wherein from 1-3 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C (vi) C (vii) heteroaryl containing from 5-14 ring atoms, wherein from 1-6 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C (viii) C (ix) arylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (x) heteroarylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (xi) heteroarylcycloalkyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: each of R 10 and R 11 is independently selected from the substituents delineated collectively in (a) through (1) below: (a) hydrogen; (b) C (c) heteroaryl containing from 5-14 ring atoms, wherein from 1-6 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C (d) C (e) —C(O) (C (f) C (g) C (h) arylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (i) heteroarylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (j) heteroarylcycloalkyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (k) C (l) C provided that one of R R 12 is: (i) C6-C10 aryl that is optionally substituted with from 1-4 R (ii) heteroaryl containing from 5-14 ring atoms, wherein from 1-6 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C (iii) C (iv) C (v) arylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: (vi) heteroarylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: or (vii) heteroarylcycloalkyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: R 13 is: (i) C (ii) heteroaryl containing from 5-14 ring atoms, wherein from 1-6 of the ring atoms is independently selected from N, NH, N(C (iii) C or (iv) arylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: or (v) heteroarylheterocyclyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: or (vi) heteroarylcycloalkyl containing from 8-14 ring atoms, wherein: R a at each occurrence is, independently selected from halo, hydroxyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy, oxo, thioxo, ═NH, ═N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), and cyano; R b at each occurrence is independently selected from the substituents delineated in (aa) through (dd) below: (aa) C (bb) halo; hydroxyl; cyano; nitro; —NH (cc) C (dd) phenyl or heteroaryl containing from 5-6 ring atoms, wherein from 1-2 of the ring atoms of the heteroaryl is independently selected from N, NH, N(C R c at each occurrence is, independently selected from halo, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), and cyano; R d at each occurrence is, independently selected from hydroxyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), and cyano; and R e at each occurrence is, independently selected from hydroxyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy; C 1 -C 6 thioalkoxy; C 1 -C 6 haloalkoxy; C 1 -C 6 thiohaloalkoxy; —NH 2 ; —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 ; —NHC(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); cyano; —C(O)H; —C(O)(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —C(O)(C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl); —C(O)OH; —C(O)O(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —C(O)NH 2 ; —C(O)NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —C(O)N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 ; —SO 2 (C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —SO 2 NH 2 ; —SO 2 NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); —SO 2 N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 ; and L 3 -(C 1 -C 6 alkylene)-biotin, where in L 3 is a —O—, —NH—, —NCH 3 —, —C(O)—, —C(O)NH—, —C(O)NCH 3 —, —NHC(O)—, or —NCH 3 C(O)—. | 24,633 |
9,427,703 | 1. CO 2 separation and recovery equipment comprising: a CO shift reactor into which a gas containing main components of CO and H an inlet valve provided on an inlet side of the CO shift reactor; an outlet valve provided on an outlet side of the CO shift reactor; a steam control valve that applies high-temperature steam to a foregoing part of the inlet valve; a gas composition analyzer that senses a gas composition of the gas flowing into the CO shift reactor; and a shift reaction controller configured to control the inlet valve, the outlet valve, and the steam control valve, wherein the shift reaction controller is programmed to control the steam control valve based on a difference in molar amount of CO and H wherein the shift reaction controller is programmed to control the inlet valve and the outlet valve of the CO shift reactor on the basis of a catalyst tank temperature of the CO shift reactor, including controlling the inlet valve and the outlet valve when energy determined on the basis of the catalyst tank temperature of the CO shift reactor is deviated from an upper limit energy or a lower limit energy, wherein the shift reaction controller is programmed to calculate a total amount of temperature energy necessary for a catalytic reaction in the CO shift reactor from the molar amount of CO that is calculated from the analysis results of the gas composition analyzer and temperature energy necessary for the catalytic reaction, and wherein the shift reaction controller is programmed to open the inlet valve to the CO shift reactor and simultaneously close the outlet valve when the energy determined on the basis of the catalyst tank temperature is lower than the total amount of the temperature energy necessary for the catalytic reaction, so that the CO shift reactor is in a pressurized state and the catalyst tank temperature is raised. | 39,293 |
9,553,983 | 1. A method, implemented by one or more computing devices, comprising: receiving a request from a first user to initiate a communication session between the first user and a contact, wherein the contact is associated with a plurality of communication addresses; identifying, in a communication history of the first user, a plurality of instances when the first user initiated communication with the contact by using at least a first communication address; selecting a first instance, of the plurality of instances, when the first user initiated communication with the contact, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on a first characteristic, and wherein the first characteristic comprises a similarity between a time of day associated with the first instance and a time of day of the requested communication session; determining a first portion of the communication history, wherein the first portion of the communication history is defined by a first predefined time period before a time corresponding to the selected first instance and a second predefined time period after the time corresponding to the selected first instance; determining one or more additional instances, within the first portion of the communication history, when the first user initiated communication with the contact; using the first portion of the communication history to determine an order in which the plurality of communication addresses associated with the contact should be used to initiate the requested communication session; and attempting to initiate the requested communication session by using one or more of the plurality of communication addresses in the determined order. | 3,362 |
9,378,888 | 1. A power transfer system comprising: a power transmission unit including a power transmission coil; and a power reception unit including a power reception coil; wherein the power reception unit includes: mutual inductance and mutual capacitance that are equivalently generated between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil constitute an electromagnetic coupling circuit, the power-transmission-unit-side resonant circuit and the power-reception-unit-side resonant circuit resonate with each other, and power is transferred from the power transmission unit to the power reception unit; energy of power that has not been transmitted from the power transmission unit is retained in the power-transmission-unit-side resonant circuit as resonance energy; and energy that has not been supplied to an output among energy of power received by the power reception unit is retained in the power-reception-unit-side resonant circuit as resonance energy. | 21,257 |
8,656,358 | 1. A plant control system comprising: program editing means for creating a control program including an interlock condition and diagnosis of an interlock; plant control means for executing a program object in the control program; a display unit; interlock diagnosing means for updating and automatically displaying on the display unit satisfaction/dissatisfaction of the interlock condition in a ladder circuit at a predetermined point in time before the present; and wherein the interlock diagnosing means specifies a contact that is a first trigger of the dissatisfaction of the interlock condition, and displays on the display unit only the first trigger contact of the dissatisfaction of the interlock condition in a graphic language even if plural stages of interlock circuits are formed. | 45,857 |
8,448,243 | 1. A computer-implemented method for detecting unknown malware in an executable file, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: generating a first region-of-interest identifier that represents a region of interest within the executable file at a first time; receiving, at a second time, a request to scan the executable file for malware; generating a second region-of-interest identifier that represents the region of interest within the executable file at the second time; comparing the first and second region-of-interest identifiers to determine that the region of interest at the second time is different than the region of interest at the first time by performing a binary differential on the first and second identifiers and determining, based on the result of the binary differential, that the region of interest at the second time includes at least one executable instruction that has been modified since the first time or was not included in the region of interest at the first time; using the difference between the region of interest at the first and second times to determine whether the executable file comprises malware by determining whether the executable instruction is programmed to perform a suspicious action that suggests the executable file comprises malware. | 15,514 |
8,877,997 | 1. A process for quenching an effluent stream from a methanol to olefins reactor, comprising: passing the effluent stream to a quench tower; passing a circulating water stream to the quench tower, and cascading the water stream down the tower, wherein the quench tower comprises a series of disc and donut trays for the water to cascade down the tower; spraying a second water stream to generate a spray of water droplets, where the spray is directed to vapor channels where the effluent stream flows, wherein the spray is directly spread over the openings in trays disposed in the quench tower for contacting the spray with the effluent stream; and contacting the effluent stream with the water stream and the spray of water droplets to remove catalyst particles from the effluent stream, thereby creating a quenched effluent stream and a water and solids outlet stream. | 24,936 |
9,106,101 | 1. An electrical distribution network improvement method comprising: receiving, by a processor, user input, wherein the user input comprises electrical distribution network (EDN) configuration information, load information, and demographic information of a geographic area to which the EDN distributes electric power; calculating, by the processor, dynamic plug-in electric vehicle (“PEV”) load information in the EDN, the PEV load information calculated based on the demographic information that comprises life-expectancy of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) being used in the geographic area, wherein calculating the PEV load information further comprises: updating, by the processor, the load information with the PEV load information; performing, by the processor, a simulation using a simulator based on the EDN configuration information, the demographic information and the load information to obtain a simulation result; analyzing, by the processor, the simulation result using an analytics engine to obtain an interpretation result; determining, by the processor, an improvement program for the EDN based on the interpretation result; and modifying the EDN by applying the improvement program to the EDN. | 36,480 |
8,912,830 | 1. A processor comprising: a plurality of voltage regulators; a plurality of clock generators; and a plurality of cores, wherein each core is coupled with a respective one of the plurality of voltage regulators and a respective one of the plurality of clock generators, and wherein at least one core is to perform an atomic ratio change of the respective one clock generator. | 12,396 |
9,209,711 | 1. A control method for determining components of a control voltage of an inverter adapted for feeding power to a grid, in course of which a vector direction of a voltage of the grid is determined, on a basis of active power and reactive power of the grid, current reference signal components are determined, and Park vector components are generated by Park transformation from current components associated with phase currents of the inverter, characterized by transforming the current reference signal components into transformed current reference signal components on a basis of a vector direction, generating a first error signal by leading a first component of the Park vector components and a first component of the transformed current reference signal components to a first subtracting unit, and generating a second error signal by leading a second component of the Park vector components and a second component of the transformed current reference signal to a second subtracting unit, guiding the first and the second error signals through control blocks each comprising three parallel signal paths and outputting summed up outputs of the three parallel signal paths, wherein out of the three parallel signal paths, determining the components of the control voltage on a basis of outputs of the control blocks by inverse Park transformation. | 7,405 |
9,074,704 | 1. A valve comprising: a spool axially movable within a valve body; a shaft associated with the spool and extending out of the valve body; an adapter having a through hole for receiving the shaft; a shaft seal for sealing against the shaft, wherein the shaft seal is adapted for transverse movement during assembly of the valve for aligning to the shaft at an alignment position and then is held in such alignment position after assembly of the valve; a holding device having a cavity for receiving the shaft and the shaft seal; and a seal carrier for supporting the shaft seal, wherein the seal carrier and shaft seal are unitary, with the seal carrier extending radially outwardly from the shaft seal and being held against a surface of the adapter by the holding device and sealing thereagainst, wherein a maximum outer transverse dimension of the shaft seal is less than an inner transverse dimension of the cavity of the holding device at a location transversely concentric the outer transverse dimension of the shaft seal, after assembly of the valve. | 4,861 |
8,402,960 | 1. An archery bow having a brace condition and a drawn condition, the archery bow comprising: a riser, a first limb and a second limb; a drawstring extending between the first limb and the second limb, said drawstring moving in a plane as the bow is drawn; a first cable extending between the first limb and the second limb; and a cable guard attached to the riser, the cable guard comprising a body portion and a cable engaging portion, the cable guard biasing a portion of said first cable away from the riser, said biasing including a component oriented in, or parallel to, said plane, said component directed away from the riser. | 42,397 |
8,907,467 | 1. A semiconductor package, comprising: a copper-containing baseplate having a die attach region and a peripheral region; a transistor die having a first terminal attached to the die attach region of the baseplate, and a second terminal and a third terminal facing away from the baseplate; and a frame comprising an electrically insulative member having a first side attached to the peripheral region of the baseplate, a second side facing away from the baseplate, a first copper-containing metallization at the first side of the insulative member and a second copper-containing metallization at the second side of the insulative member, wherein the insulative member extends outward beyond a lateral sidewall of the baseplate, the first metallization is attached to the part of the first side which extends outward beyond the lateral sidewall of the baseplate, and the first and second metallizations are electrically connected at a region of the insulative member spaced apart from the lateral sidewall of the baseplate. | 42,893 |
9,263,958 | 1. A power supply, comprising: an energy transfer element coupled between an input of the power supply and an output of the power supply, wherein the output of the power supply is galvanically isolated from the input; a switch coupled to the energy transfer element to control a transfer of energy from the input to the output of the power supply; a controller coupled to the switch, wherein the controller includes: | 6,613 |
8,470,293 | 1. A silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieve crystallized from a synthesis mixture comprising a source of colloidal silica (SiO 2 ), a source of phosphorus, a source of alumina (Al 2 O 3 ), water (H 2 O), a structure directing agent (R) and optional seeds, wherein the molar ratio of structure directing agent relative to the source of alumina R/Al 2 O 3 ranges from 1.3 to 1.9 and the ratio of water to the source of alumina H 2 O/Al 2 O 3 ranges from 20 to 34, said sieve comprising a crystal size distribution such that the average crystal size as measured from SEM micrographs, is between 0.7 to 2.2μm. | 44,137 |
8,849,887 | 1. A method comprising: receiving first user request at a cluster of application servers, the first user request to be processed via a first server version; processing, via the first server version, the first user request at a first set of application servers of the cluster of application servers while a second set of application servers of the cluster of application servers is being updated from the first server version to a second server version or a third server version, wherein the first set of application servers is associated with the first server version; dynamically holding one or more user requests in a spin mode while the second set of application servers is being updated to the second server version or the third server version, wherein the one or more user requests include a second user request to be processed via the second server version or a third user request to be processed via the third server version; and selectively routing, from the spin mode, the second user request or the third user request to the second set of application servers for processing upon completion of the update of the second set of application servers to the second server version or the third server version, respectively. | 33,142 |
8,628,943 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an operon that codes for carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, a membrane-associated electron transfer protein, a ferredoxin oxidoreductase, and a promoter, said sequence being at least 97% identical to SEQ ID NO. 1. | 31,445 |
9,617,195 | 1. A low-temperature method of generating smoke, the method comprising initiating a frontal polymerization reaction by heating a composition comprising a monomer compound that exothermically polymerizes upon initiation with an initiator compound and an initiator compound that initiates polymerization of the monomer compound present at a mass concentration that is 5% or more of the mass concentration of the monomer compound, wherein the polymerization of the monomer compound is exothermic, wherein the concentration of initiator compound is 5% or more of the concentration of monomer compound, and wherein the smoke mainly comprises thermal decomposition products of the initiator compound; wherein the initiator compound is t-butyl peroxybenzoate. | 43,624 |
8,864,112 | 1. A humidifier comprising: a main body having a hollow interior, the main body including a fluid reservoir for receiving a fluid therein, wherein the fluid reservoir is formed from a material which at least one of minimizes an amount of impurities in the fluid and militates against an emergence of impurities in the fluid; and an extensible discharge vent coupled to the main body and having a neck portion, the vent positionable between a retracted position wherein the neck portion is received in the hollow interior of the main body and an extended position wherein the neck portion extends outward from the main body, wherein in both the retracted position and the extended position the discharge vent emits a mist of the fluid to humidify surrounding air. | 19,383 |
8,427,006 | 1. A device for disconnecting an electric power supply of at least one appliance, said at least one appliance comprising at least one main pilot appliance, the only one appliance in the case of a single appliance being a main pilot appliance, the device comprising: means for linking said device to an electric mains; and means for linking to the electric power supply of said at least one appliance; and means for connecting to the electric mains and for disconnecting from the electric mains the electric power supply of said at least one appliance, including said at least one main pilot appliance; and means for controlling the electric power supply of said at least one appliance, including said at least one main pilot appliance, in relation with the functional state of said at least one main pilot appliance or of a command from the user; means for entering into an override operating mode relatively to a first operating mode where the electric power supply of said at least one appliance is disconnected from the electric mains when said at least one main pilot appliance is in standby or stopped, said override operating mode causing the device to establish or to maintain continuously the connection to the electric mains of the at least one appliance although said at least one main pilot appliance is in a stopped or standby functional state; and means for exiting said override operating mode and causing a return to the first operating mode where the electric power supply of said at least one appliance is disconnected when said at least one main pilot appliance is in standby or stopped, said means for exiting said override operating mode comprising, in the case where said at least one main pilot appliance has a constant power curve over time, an automatic exit consecutive to any change in functional state of said at least one main pilot appliance. | 45,725 |
9,209,157 | 1. A method for forming one or more through vias comprising: forming active devices on a front-side of a first wafer, the first wafer comprising a back-side opposite the front-side of the first wafer; forming one or more recesses in the first wafer prior to forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the front-side of the first wafer, the one or more recesses extending from the front-side of the first wafer to a predetermined distance from the back-side of the first wafer; forming conductive material in the one or more recesses, the conducting material forming one or more through vias; forming a first contact connected to at least one of the one or more through vias; forming a first bonding pad connected to the first contact, wherein the first bonding pad is different from the first contact and wherein the first bonding pad comprises at least one sidewall in physical contact with a dielectric material; forming a dielectric layer over the back-side of the first wafer, wherein the forming of the dielectric layer is performed after the forming the conductive material; and forming a metallization layer within the dielectric layer over the back-side of the first wafer, the metallization layer comprising a second contact electrically connected to at least one of the one or more through vias and also being exposed to allow current to flow to at least one of the one or more through vias. | 3,906 |
9,438,213 | 1. A flip-flop circuit comprising: a clocked pull-down component comprising: a first clock gated pull-down transistor, coupled to a ground voltage, and a second clock gated pull-down transistor, coupled to the ground voltage; a master latch component configured to propagate a true level of an embedded logic function of a data input bundle to a master true storage node, and a complement of the level of the embedded logic function of the data input bundle to a master complement storage node when a clock signal is at a first level; and to hold a first value of the master true storage node and hold a second value of the master complement storage node constant when the clock signal is at a second level; comprising: | 39,183 |
9,275,947 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface positioned on a side opposite to the first surface; a sealing portion formed on the first surface of the substrate; a controller covered with the sealing portion; a semiconductor chip electrically connected to the controller and covered with the sealing portion; a ground ball formed on the second surface of the substrate; and a plurality of differential signal balls formed on the second surface of the substrate, wherein at least some of the plurality of differential signal balls are arranged substantially parallel to one side of the substrate, and the ground ball is positioned between two adjacent differential signal balls. | 12,024 |
8,758,569 | 1. A fabric structure for use as a belt or sleeve used to make textured nonwoven products, the structure being permeable to air and/or water, comprising: a web contact surface having a pattern including a series of raised land areas and depressions adapted to impart a texture to the nonwoven product, and a series of voids adapted to allow passage of water and/or air from the fabric surface into and/or through the structure, the voids being greater than 50 microns in effective diameter, wherein the surface and compressible in the Z direction, and is adapted to be resilient. | 14,547 |
9,210,396 | 1. A stereoscopic image generation apparatus comprising: a parallax value detection unit configured to detect a parallax value between a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal in a stereoscopic video signal; a stereoscopic degree determination unit configured to determine a stereoscopic degree of the stereoscopic video signal based on the parallax value detected by the parallax value detection unit; a cardboard degree determination unit configured to, based on the parallax value detected by the parallax value detection unit, determine a cardboard degree indicating an extent to which a cardboard phenomenon occurs in an object included in the stereoscopic video signal; and an image signal conversion unit configured to, in response to the stereoscopic degree and the cardboard degree, obtain an amount of pixel shift, by which a pixel of at least one signal of the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal is to be shifted, and shift the pixel of the left-eye image signal or the right-eye image signal by the amount of pixel shift. | 26,952 |
8,686,581 | 1. A method for operating a wind turbine when a grid fault with a voltage drop occurs, wherein the wind turbine has a rotor having at least one rotor blade with an adjustable blade pitch angle, a generator connected to the rotor for generating electric power for an electric power supply grid, and a converter connected to the generator and the electric power supply grid, the method comprising the steps of: identifying the grid fault; detecting a present value of a variable of the wind turbine representing a power; presetting a hold setpoint for the variable representing a power of the wind turbine during a hold time, wherein the hold setpoint corresponds to the present value of the variable representing a power when the grid fault arises; determining a maximum permissible setpoint for the variable of the wind turbine representing a power, wherein the maximum permissible setpoint is increased with time once the hold time has elapsed; driving the wind turbine with a setpoint preset which corresponds to the present rotational speed, wherein the setpoint preset is limited to the maximum permissible setpoint; and, ending a preset of the maximum permissible setpoint as soon as the rotational speed-dependent setpoint is less than the maximum permissible setpoint. | 17,951 |
9,660,780 | 1. A method for receiving a CSI-RS (Channel State Information-Resource Signal) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless access system, the method comprising: receiving a configuration for a CSI (Channel State Information) process; receiving the CSI-RS associated with the CSI process from a base station, wherein, when a RI (Rank Indicator)-reference CSI process is configured, the UE is not expected to receive the configuration for the CSI process and configuration for the RI-reference CSI process that have a different number of CSI-RS antenna ports. | 49,779 |
9,240,502 | 1. An element comprising a semiconductor substrate and an electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate, the electrode being a sintered product of a composition for an electrode that comprises phosphorus-containing copper alloy particles, glass particles and a dispersing medium, and the electrode comprising a line-shaped electrode having an aspect ratio, which is defined as electrode short length:electrode height, of from 2:1 to 250:1, and wherein the content of phosphorus in the phosphorus-containing copper alloy particles is from 6 mass % to 8 mass %. | 33,499 |
9,461,006 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one functional circuit; and an electrically-conductive protective layer on a protected surface of the apparatus, where the protective layer is arranged to be substantially opaque to incident light, where at least one portion of the protective layer comprises a plate of a capacitor for coupling at least one signal to said at least one functional circuit; and a second electrically-conductive protective layer on the protected surface of the apparatus, where the second protective layer is arranged to be substantially opaque to the incident light, where at least one second portion of the second protective layer is electrically isolated from a remainder of the protective layer, where the at least one second portion comprises a second plate of the capacitor, where the second protective layer and the first protective layer are electrically isolated from each other by an insulating material, where at least one gap in the first protective layer and at least one gap in the second protective layer are in a staggered arrangement and do not overlap such that together the first and second protective layers create a seamless protective layer against incident light. | 12,379 |
9,499,615 | 1. A multiple-variable dose method for treating idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease in a subject in need thereof, comprising subcutaneously administering to the subject: a 160 mg dose of a recombinant human anti-TNFα antibody administered to the subject within a day; and a 40 mg dose of the antibody administered to the subject within a day, wherein the 40 mg dose is administered two weeks following administration of the 160 mg dose; wherein the antibody comprises: a heavy chain comprising a CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8; a CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6; and a CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4; and a light chain comprising a CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7; a CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:5; and a CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:3. | 31,411 |
8,729,253 | 1. A regioselectively substituted cellulose ester comprising a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents, wherein said regioselectively substituted cellulose ester has a hydroxyl degree of substitution (“DS OH ”) of at least 0.30, wherein the regioselectivity of said regioselectively substituted cellulose ester is such that the sum of the aryl-acyl degrees of substitution at C2 and C3 (“C2DS aryl ” and “C3DS aryl ”) minus the aryl-acyl degree of substitution at C6 (“C6DS aryl ”) is greater than 0.20. | 2,265 |
8,882,470 | 1. A rotor for a wind power generator having at least one blade rotatable around a rotational axis, which blade has a first surface between a leading edge and a trailing edge, which surface in perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the blade has a convex profile having an apex line extending approximately in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blade, wherein at the apex line surface sections of the first surface adjoin in an angle and the opposite second surface is concave in that surface sections of the second surface adjoin in an angle along an apex line of the second surface in parallel to the apex line of the first surface, wherein the surface section of the blade extending between the apex line of the first surface and the trailing edge has a third buckling edge along which a planar surface section adjoining at the trailing edge is bent by about 5°. | 17,851 |
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