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8,415,129 | 1. A polypeptide comprising at least two heterologous domains, wherein a first domain is a thermally stable sequence non-specific double-stranded nucleic acid binding domain and the second domain is a thermally stable polymerase domain that has polymerase activity, wherein the first domain specifically binds to polyclonal antibodies generated against either Sso7d (SEQ ID NO:2) or Sac7d (amino acids 7-71 of SEQ ID NO:10). | 1,986 |
8,831,481 | 1. An electrophotographic apparatus comprising: a cylindrical electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photoconductive layer formed from amorphous silicon; a charging device for charging a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member; and an image exposure device for irradiating the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member with an image exposure beam to form an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member with the electrophotographic apparatus having no unit for maintaining a uniform surface temperature of the electrophotographic photosensitive member throughout its surface, wherein, the electrophotographic photosensitive member has such a temperature dependence of photosensitive-member characteristics that the photosensitive-member characteristics vary depending on the surface temperature, when the electrophotographic photosensitive member is equally divided into two regions in a cylindrical shaft direction, absolute values of the temperature dependence of the photosensitive-member characteristics in the two regions are not the same, and the electrophotographic photosensitive member is arranged in the electrophotographic apparatus, so that, when among the two regions, a region which has a smaller absolute value of the temperature dependence of the photosensitive-member characteristics is defined as a first region, and a region which has a larger absolute value of the temperature dependence of the photosensitive-member characteristics is defined as a second region, the change of the surface temperature of the first region becomes larger than the change of the surface temperature of the second region when an image is formed by the electrophotographic apparatus. | 41,167 |
8,824,764 | 1. A method for capturing the shape of a dento-maxillofacial object out of volumetric image data of said dento-maxillofacial object, said method comprising: a. performing, via a computer, a segmentation of said volumetric image data with at least one calculated segmentation parameter indicative of a distinction between said dento-maxillofacial object and its background, and b. capturing, via the computer, the shape of said dento-maxillofacial object from said segmented volumetric image data. | 16,982 |
9,423,825 | 1. A mobile computing device comprising: a processor coupled to a bus; a memory coupled to said bus; an exterior housing assembly defining an exterior front surface, an exterior back surface opposite to said exterior front surface, and exterior sides; a home button disposed on said exterior back surface; and a display panel coupled with said bus and operable to display information and operable to receive touch input from a user, wherein said exterior front surface is free of any additional user Input/Output (I/O) devices apart from said display panel. | 13,799 |
8,353,180 | 1. A refrigerating apparatus, comprising: a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a radiator, an expander, and an evaporator for performing a refrigeration cycle, wherein the refrigerant circuit includes an oil separator configured to separate oil from two-phase gas/liquid refrigerant flowing out from the expander, and an oil feed path configured to send the oil separated by the oil separator and retained in a bottom of the oil separator to a suction side of the compressor, the refrigerating apparatus further comprising: a refrigerant flow limiting section that limits a flow of fluid flowing in the oil feed path for preventing liquid refrigerant in the oil separator from being sucked to the compressor through the oil feed pipe. | 44,356 |
9,260,387 | 1. A process for producing phenol and/or cyclohexanone, the process comprising: (a) contacting cyclohexylbenzene with an oxygen-containing gas under conditions effective to produce an oxidation effluent containing cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide; (b) contacting at least a portion of the oxidation effluent containing cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide with a cleavage catalyst under conditions effective to produce a cleavage effluent containing phenol and cyclohexanone, wherein the oxidation effluent and/or the cleavage effluent contains a by-product comprising one or more phenylcyclohexanol isomer and/or one or more phenylcyclohexanone isomer, in which the total weight of 2-phenyl-1-cyclohexanol and 2-phenyl-1-cyclohexanone is less than 20% of the total weight of all phenylcyclohexanol isomers and all phenylcyclohexanone isomers; (c) contacting at least a portion of at least one of the oxidation effluent and the cleavage effluent containing the by-product with a dehydration catalyst under conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the one or more phenylcyclohexanol isomer and at least a portion of the one or more phenylcylcohexanone isomer to phenylcyclohexene, wherein the product of the contacting step (c) comprises less than 5000 ppm of 1-methylcyclopentenylbenzene and cyclopentenylmethylbenzene. | 18,881 |
8,413,391 | 1. A solar panel mounting system comprising: at least two A-shaped support frames, each A-shaped support frame including a respective top bracket; a tilt arm connected to an A-shaped support frame at a position along a front of the A-shaped support frame, such that each A-shaped support frame has a respective tilt arm; a top lateral support member connected to the at least two A-shaped support frames at each respective top bracket; a bottom lateral support member connected to each respective tilt arm, wherein each tilt arm is attached to an A-shaped support member at a location to align the bottom lateral support member with at least one bottom mounting hole on a solar panel frame; and a first solar panel clamp attached to the top lateral support member; and a second solar panel clamp attached to the bottom lateral support member, wherein the first and second panel clamps comprise: a top section comprising: a rear section; mounting hardware to attach the top and rear sections together around a lateral support member; a first solar panel having a frame connected to a first side of the first and second solar panel clamps; and a second solar panel having a frame connected to a second side of the first and second solar panel clamps; wherein the spacer fin of each solar panel clamp provides a fixed gap between the first and second solar panels. | 45,347 |
8,352,802 | 1. A diagnostic apparatus for computers, comprising a diagnoser that connects to a PC, comprising: an SD connector for connecting the diagnoser to an SD port of a PC; a storage medium for storing diagnostic program code that automatically runs on the PC via said SD connector, in response to connecting the diagnoser to the SD port of the PC, and for storing an identifier of a remote online help-desk facility; a modem for communicating wirelessly with the remote online help-desk facility using the stored identifier, for enabling the remote online help-desk facility to remotely perform diagnostic tests on the PC, via the diagnostic program code, and for transmitting the test results to the remote online help-desk facility; and a processor for controlling said storage medium and said modem. | 44,574 |
9,816,387 | 1. An airfoil fairing shell for a gas turbine engine comprising: an airfoil section between an outer vane endwall and an inner vane endwall, at least one of said outer vane endwall and said inner vane endwall including a radial attachment face, a suction side tangential attachment face, a pressure side tangential attachment face, and an axial attachment face, said suction side tangential attachment face perpendicular to a resultant aerodynamic load generated by said airfoil. | 46,775 |
9,603,245 | 1. An electrolytic copper foil for a negative electrode current collector of a lithium-ion secondary battery constituting the negative electrode current collector for the lithium-ion secondary battery, the electrolytic copper foil having a surface roughness Rz of from 0.8 to 2.8 μm on both a first surface and a second surface thereof, the electrolytic copper foil having a 0.2% proof stress after heat treatment under a temperature between 200 and 400° C. of 250 N/mm at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the electrolytic copper foil on which an active material layer is provided being rust-proofed. | 21,791 |
8,706,982 | 1. A machine readable storage device or storage disc including program code which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to at least: detect a non-transactional load operation in a function including a plurality of memory operations, the non-transactional load operation to load from a first one of a plurality of memory locations; insert a first atomicity operation in the function to store a copy of a global transaction value as a local transaction value (LTV); insert a second atomicity operation to compare the LTV to a transaction counter value to determine whether a transaction has updated any of the memory locations in the plurality of memory locations after an initiation of the function, the transaction counter to increment when any of the memory locations is updated; and when the comparison of the transaction counter value and the LTV indicates that the transaction has updated at least one of the memory locations after the initiation of the function, insert a third atomicity operation to analyze a version value associated with the first one of the memory locations to determine whether the first one of the memory locations was updated after the initiation of the function, wherein the first and second atomicity operations do not include a lock operation that determines if a lock associated with the first memory location is un-owned. | 6,917 |
8,647,509 | 1. A method of producing salt comprising: directing a saltwater desalination plant reject stream into a salt plant feed stream; selectively filtering said salt plant feed stream to remove scaling species, wherein said filtering step comprises directing said salt plant feed stream through a nanofiltration section to produce a filtered feed stream wherein at least 90% of the calcium and at least about 98% of the magnesium has been removed from said salt plant feed stream in said nanofiltration section; processing said filtered feed stream by directing said filtered feed stream through a membrane-based concentrator section to produce a concentrated stream; directing said concentrated stream to an evaporator section, wherein a high purity moist salt or slurry is produced; and directing said high purity moist salt or slurry to a crystallizer section, wherein said salt is produced, wherein said nanofiltration section is operated at a pH that is less than about 7.0 to enhance calcium and magnesium removal. | 11,315 |
8,979,635 | 1. A gaming system for playing a wagering game, the gaming system comprising: a cabinet configured to house electronic components operable for conducting the wagering game; at least one electronic input device coupled to the cabinet and configured to receive a physical input from a first player to initiate the wagering game and transform the physical input into an electronic data signal; at least one electronic display device coupled to the cabinet and operable to display aspects of the wagering game; at least one electronic random element generator configured to generate one or more random elements associated with play of the wagering game; at least one processor; and at least one memory device storing instructions which cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one electronic display device and the at least one electronic input device to: | 30,579 |
8,644,998 | 1. A pre-programmed energy management ballast or driver, comprising: a power circuit operative to selectively convert power from an AC input into a form suitable for driving a light source; a profile control component pre-programmed to control the provision by the power circuit of electrical power to the light source according to a pre-programmed energy profile as a function of a current time value; a bypass component operatively coupled to the AC input to sense a predefined on/off pattern in application and removal of AC input power at the AC input, the bypass component providing a signal or message to the profile control component to selectively affect profile control of the provision of electrical power to the light source based on the on/off pattern; an internal clock component operative to provide the current time value to the profile control component; and a sync input operative to start or program the internal clock component, where the sync input is operative to receive a current time signal from the AC input as simplex clock information, and to synchronize the internal clock component with a current time according to the received simplex clock information. | 40,541 |
9,456,339 | 1. A method for unauthorized surreptitious monitoring and, surreptitious control of, a remote wireless computer controlled communication device, comprising receiving surreptitiously at said remote computer controlled wireless communication device and installing surreptitiously and without authorization on said remote computer controlled wireless communication device computer program instructions from a control system, said computer program instructions being configured to enable at least one of an unauthorized surreptitious monitoring, unauthorized surreptitious controlling, or unauthorized surreptitious communications function on said remote computer controlled wireless communication device, said computer program instructions being constructed according to characteristics of said computer controlled wireless communications device such that said computer program instructions are surreptitiously installed and accepted by said computer controlled wireless communication device as if authorized and said computer program instructions include a module component configured to surreptitiously monitor at least one aspect of the operation of said remote wireless computer controlled communication device; and the user of said device is unaware of said surreptitiously receiving and installing surreptitiously and without authorization on said remote computer controlled wireless communication device computer program instructions from said control system wherein said module component includes a selective router component configured to surreptitiously monitor and manage communications of said remote wireless computer controlled communication device; Said selective router component is configured to surreptitiously control said communications of said remote wireless computer controlled communication device. | 39,033 |
8,656,649 | 1. A roofing section, comprising: a roof framing structure comprising a plurality of structural supports, wherein said plurality of structural supports comprises: a panel system disposed in overlying relation to said roof framing structure and comprising a plurality of panels, wherein said first side of each said secondary support is in a relative position to said panel system that is selected from the group consisting of engaging a corresponding flat portion of an underside of said panel system or disposed in closely-spaced relation to said corresponding flat portion of said underside of said panel system, and wherein no portion of said roof framing structure is closer to said underside of said panel system than said first side of said plurality of secondary supports. | 46,185 |
9,745,508 | 1. A method of hydraulic fracturing in a subterranean formation, comprising: injecting a fluid comprising a proppant into the subterranean formation to sequester at least one target species within the subterranean formation via sequestration within the proppant, the proppant comprising a material adapted to sequester the at least one target species, which is formed external to the subterranean formation and formed external to the proppant and the material; and exposing the material to the at least one target species to sequester the at least one target species within the material prior to injecting the proppant. | 7,165 |
9,172,099 | 1. A method of making a device with a fibrous sheet, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a fluorinated polymer; forming an aggregation of fibers, the aggregation of fibers formed by electrospinning the solution of a fluorinated ion conducting polymer; forming the fibrous sheet from the aggregation of fibers; mechanically compacting the fibrous sheet to increase fiber density; welding fibers together at fiber intersection points by exposing the fibers to a solvent vapor; and interposing the fibrous sheet between an anode and a cathode. | 7,275 |
9,379,454 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining an RF voltage at an output of a first tunable matching network of a communication device, wherein the RF voltage is obtained at a transmission frequency of the communication device by a detector, wherein the first tunable matching network has one or more variable capacitors with variable capacitance values, wherein the first tunable matching network is coupled with a first antenna of the communication device; determining derivative information associated with the RF voltage based on first derivatives of the RF voltage and the variable capacitance values, wherein the first derivatives are calculated according to finite differences of two sequential measurements for each of the RF voltage and the variable capacitance values; performing first tuning of the first tunable matching network using the derivative information; determining a predetermined relationship based on a target impedance, a transmit frequency and a receive frequency; and performing second tuning of a second impedance matching network based on the predetermined relationship, wherein the second impedance matching network is coupled with a second antenna of the communication device, and wherein the second tuning is based on adjusting a second variable component of the second impedance matching network. | 22,563 |
8,806,241 | 1. An information processing apparatus having a first power mode and a second power mode in which consumption power is lower than consumption power in the first power mode, comprising: a nonvolatile program storage unit configured to store a first program and a second program, both the first program and the second program being executed in the first power mode; a first arithmetic unit configured to execute, in the first power mode, the first program which is loaded to a first storage unit from the nonvolatile program storage unit; a second arithmetic unit configured to execute, in the first power mode, the second program which is loaded to a volatile second storage unit from the nonvolatile program storage unit; a transferring unit configured to transfer, if a condition required to transit to the second power mode is satisfied, the second program from the nonvolatile program storage unit to the first storage unit; and a control unit configured to stop, if the condition required to transit to the second power mode is satisfied, power supply to the volatile second storage unit and control the information processing apparatus so as to transit to the second power mode, wherein if a condition required to return to the first power mode is satisfied, the control unit resumes the power supply to the volatile second storage unit and controls the information processing apparatus so as to transit to the first power mode, the transferring unit transfers the second program stored in the first storage unit to the volatile second storage unit, and the second arithmetic unit executes the second program in accordance with transferring the second program to the volatile second storage unit. | 12,162 |
9,159,961 | 1. A secondary battery, comprising: a case, the case including a first side having a center and having a plurality of bendable beads on the first side, the beads in an original state having a peak height h and a width w, a ratio of the peak height h to the width w of each bead satisfying h and w being in a same unit of measure; and an electrode assembly in the case, the electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator disposed between the first and second electrodes, each bead in the original state protruding in an inward direction toward the electrode assembly, wherein: the plurality of beads includes a bead that is a closed curve and encircles the center of the first side. | 11,232 |
9,515,025 | 1. A two-dimensionally stretchable electronic device comprising: a flexible substrate having a supporting surface; and a semiconductor structure supported by said supporting surface and having a spatially-varying contour profile that varies in at least two lateral spatial dimensions relative to the supporting surface, wherein the semiconductor structure is discontinuously bonded to said supporting surface; and wherein the contour profile varying in at least two spatial dimensions accommodates stretching, compressing, and/or flexing in more than one direction without device failure. | 18,740 |
8,668,502 | 1. An electrical assembly, comprising a main board includes at least an upper copper layer and a lower copper layer dielectrically stacked with each other and each etched to form with first and second conductive traces for signal transmission, the main board defining an opening with a plurality of first conductive pads interconnected to the first conductive traces and distributed along an edge of the opening, a plurality of second conductive pads disposed at ends of the second conductive traces located on an upper surface thereof; and a socket connector electrically and physically seated in the opening and including a socket body and a plurality of first and second contacts mounted therein, the first contacts having first tail portions extending to a bottom surface of the socket body and interconnected with the second conductive pads of the lower layer on the main board; and wherein the second contact comprises a horizontally structure fixed to the bottom surface of the socket body and a cantilever structure extending out of edges of the socket body to solder upon corresponding first conductive pad. | 16,970 |
8,659,281 | 1. A buck converter, comprising: an input node being coupled to a power source; a first MOSFET having a gate, a drain coupled to the input node, and a source coupled to an intermediate node; a second MOSFET having a gate, a drain coupled to the intermediate node, and a source coupled to a reference node; a PWM module being coupled to the gate of the first MOSFET and the gate of the second MOSFET respectively; an inductor and a first capacitor being in parallel connection with the second MOSFET, the inductor having a first terminal coupled to the intermediate node and a second terminal, the first capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the inductor and a second terminal coupled to the reference node; an input current acquired unit being coupled between the drain of the first MOSFET and the input node to obtain an input current Iin of the buck converter; an input voltage acquired unit being coupled to the input node to obtain an input voltage Uin of the buck converter; an output current acquired unit being coupled between the second terminal of the inductor and an output node to obtain an output current Iout of the buck converter; an output voltage acquired unit being coupled to the second terminal of the inductor to obtain an output voltage Uout of the buck converter; and a control unit being coupled to the input current acquired unit, the input voltage acquired unit, the output current acquired unit, the output voltage acquired unit and the PWM module respectively, wherein the control unit controls the switch frequency of the PWM module and acquires the corresponding input current Iin, the corresponding input voltage Uin, the corresponding output current Iout and the corresponding output voltage Uout; wherein the input current acquired unit comprises a first sampling resistor and a first voltage acquired unit, the first sampling resistor is coupled between the input node and the drain of the first MOSFET, the first voltage acquired unit is coupled to the first sampling resistor to acquire a voltage U | 3,740 |
9,236,555 | 1. A MEMS device, comprising: a continuous portion of a base layer; a first piezoelectric layer portion operably connected to a surface of the continuous portion of the base layer; a first conducting portion positioned adjacent to a first side of the first piezoelectric layer portion; a second conducting portion positioned adjacent to a second side of the first piezoelectric layer portion, wherein the first side is opposite to the second side and the first and second conducting portions are positioned so as to apply a first electric field to the first piezoelectric slab; a second piezoelectric layer portion operably connected to the surface of the continuous portion of the base layer at a location spaced apart from the first piezoelectric layer portion; a third conducting portion positioned adjacent to a third side of the second piezoelectric layer portion; a fourth conducting portion positioned adjacent to a fourth side of the second piezoelectric layer portion, wherein the third side of the second piezoelectric slab is opposite to the fourth side of the second piezoelectric layer portion and the third and fourth conducting portions are positioned so as to apply a second electric field to the second piezoelectric layer portion; and a voltage source operably connected to the first, second, third and fourth conducting portions and configured to apply a desired potential across the first and the second conducting portions, and across the third and fourth conducting portions, such that the first piezoelectric layer portion and the second piezoelectric layer portion cause the continuous portion of the base layer to deform based upon a desired deformation. | 12,056 |
8,619,707 | 1. A method of managing an address allocated by a coordinator in a Low power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN), comprising the steps of: receiving a first beacon data request message from a mobile node that has entered into a communication region of the coordinator; measuring a first Link Quality Indication (LQI) of the first beacon data request message; setting the first LQI as a minimum communication threshold value with the mobile node; setting an alarm region, based on the first LQI, that is an LQI range for sensing whether the mobile node leaves the communication region; if a second beacon data request message is transmitted from the mobile node, measuring a second LQI of the second beacon data request message; checking whether the second LQI is included in the alarm region; if the second LQI is included in the alarm region, periodically transmitting a node alive check message to the mobile node; and releasing an address allocated to the mobile node according to an LQI corresponding to each of response messages transmitted, in response to the node alive check message, from the mobile node. | 34,231 |
9,460,500 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising a display; and processing circuitry configured to | 19,329 |
9,766,235 | 1. A trifunctional crosslinking reagent of formula wherein s is from 1 to 12; A is an affinity group selected from the group consisting of biotin and derivatives thereof, carbohydrates and glycans; S Z is aryl or heteroaryl, and R′, R″ being selected from hydrogen, substituted (C1-C6) alkyl, substituted aryl and substituted heteroaryl, wherein R′ and R″ do not simultaneously represent hydrogen. | 23,520 |
8,594,912 | 1. An auto-stop/start system for a vehicle, comprising: an object identification module that determines a location of an object that is in a path of the vehicle; a distance determination module that determines a distance between the vehicle and the location of the object; a period determination module that determines a period based on a speed of the vehicle and the distance between the vehicle and the location; and an auto-stop/start control module that selectively disables provision of fuel to an engine of the vehicle while an ignition system of the vehicle is ON based on the distance and that selectively disables the provision of fuel to the engine when the period is less than a threshold period, wherein the threshold period is greater than zero. | 47,350 |
9,345,000 | 1. A wireless device comprising: an antenna; a physical layer (PHY) interface coupled to the antenna; a media access control layer (MAC) coupled to the PHY, the MAC including multiple virtual MACs that are allocated time on the PHY; and a communication bandwidth allocator to allocate communication bandwidth on the PHY to the multiple virtual MACs, the communication bandwidth allocator including a network monitor to monitor PHY usage by each virtual MAC, a history repository to record information provided by the network monitor, and a bandwidth allocator to allocate communication bandwidth to the multiple virtual MACs, wherein the bandwidth allocator is configured to allocate excess bandwidth to a primary virtual MAC. | 25,247 |
8,976,050 | 1. Mixed-signal circuitry, comprising: a first switching-circuitry unit for use in an analogue-to-digital converter; and a second switching-circuitry unit for use in a digital-to-analogue converter, the first switching-circuitry unit is configured to sample an input analogue signal and output a plurality of samples based on a first plurality of clock signals; the second switching-circuitry unit is configured to generate an output analogue signal based on a plurality of data signals and a second plurality of clock signals; and the first and second pluralities of clock signals have the same specifications as one another. | 9,565 |
9,209,623 | 1. A method comprising: determining, based on at least a respective state of charge of each electrical device from a set of electrical devices, a respective first power draw of each electrical device, wherein each electrical device is coupled to an electrical grid, wherein the respective first power draw is a respective scheduled power draw of each electrical device; receiving an electrical-system-regulation value from an electrical-system operator that coordinates electricity transmission in the electrical grid, wherein the received electrical-system-regulation value indicates a variation from a scheduled power consumption of the electrical grid and a particular one of a regulation-down service and a regulation-up service; determining a second power draw for a given electrical device from the set of electrical devices based on at least the determined respective first power draw for each electrical device and the received electrical-system-regulation value; and transmitting to the given electrical device a power-draw message indicating the determined second power draw. | 48,238 |
9,679,495 | 1. A method of computerized training using an interactive computerized training system, comprising: providing over a network by an application server for display a terminal of a content designer an avatar user interface configured to enable the content designer to at least: receiving at the application server over the network from the content designer terminal at least a selection of first avatar from the library of avatars, and role assignment, a first voice assignment for a first presentation, and a second voice assignment for a second presentation; presenting via a user terminal to a user the first presentation of the first avatar speaking using the received first voice assignment, in the assigned role, using a first script, wherein the first avatar is animated and lips of the first avatar are synchronized with vocalization, using the first assigned voice, of the first script; presenting via the user terminal to the user the second presentation of the first avatar speaking using the received second voice assignment, in the assigned role, using the first script, wherein the first avatar is animated and lips of the first avatar are synchronized with vocalization, using the second assigned voice, of the first script so that the user can evaluate the effect of voice on a listener. | 2,568 |
8,940,436 | 1. A method of manufacturing sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile, comprising: mixing a base powder comprising sulfur powder and polyacrylonitrile powder; heating the base powder to a temperature of from 250 to 500 degree Celsius under a nonoxidative atmosphere while preventing the effluence of sulfur vapor to obtain a crude sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile; cooling the crude sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile; and heating the cooled crude sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile to a temperature of from 150 to 400 degree Celsius under a nonoxidative atmosphere to obtain a sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile. | 1,762 |
9,322,394 | 1. An electricity-generating platform having a buoyancy to at least partial submerge when placed in a stream of water, comprising: a fluid turbine configured to rotate about an axis when placed in a stream of flowing water; an electric generator adapted to generate electricity in response to rotation of the turbine; first and second buoyant lateral side supports, the turbine being mounted between the side supports; and a support frame connecting the first and second lateral supports to the turbine; wherein the buoyancy of the platform is such that the turbine is at least partially submerged when the platform is placed in the stream of water; the support frame being configured to vertically move the turbine to adjust a depth of the turbine relative to the first and second lateral side supports. | 8,290 |
9,244,352 | 1. A coating composition for use with an overcoated photoresist, the coating composition comprising a resin comprising cyanurate groups and hydrophobic groups, wherein the resin has halogen substitution. | 49,222 |
8,616,253 | 1. A tyre for a vehicle wheel, having a tread band comprising an annular central portion astride an equatorial plane and two annular shoulder portions arranged on axially opposite sides with respect to the annular central portion, the annular central portion being separated from each annular shoulder portion by a respective circumferential groove, wherein the annular central portion comprises a plurality of blocks arranged along at least one circumferential row between two circumferential grooves, and at least one transversal sipe capable of being adapted to define two circumferentially consecutive blocks, wherein the transversal sipe has a main surface oriented in a substantially radial direction and provided with at least one deformation defining, in adjacent circumferentially consecutive blocks, respective portions of mutual constraint, wherein said deformation has an overall decreasing width from an axial end of the sipe to a central zone thereof, wherein said deformation has a radial extension smaller than that of said main surface and extends radially more outwardly proceeding from the axial end of the sipe toward the central zone thereof. | 8,430 |
9,236,620 | 1. An all vanadium redox flow battery (RFB) having a composite separator between positive and negative electrolytes each comprising a vanadium redox couple, the RFB characterized by: the composite separator having a porous structure consisting essentially of pores having a median diameter between 5 nm and 250 nm; the composite separator comprising aggregated inorganic particles enmeshed in a matrix, the aggregated inorganic particles comprising an acid-stable, hydrophilic, inorganic material and the matrix comprising a substantially fully fluorinated polyolefin, wherein the substantially fully fluorinated polyolefin is from 30% to 95% of the polyolefin and inorganic material combined weight; and a pressure controller configured to regulate pressures applied to the positive and negative electrolytes on respective sides of the composite separator during battery operation, thereby adjusting the volume of the positive and negative electrolyte by flowing positive or negative electrolyte across the composite separator. | 32,252 |
9,045,284 | 1. A conveyor device ( 10 ) for transporting hollow bodies formed of a thermoplastic material, which comprises: at least one means ( at least one fixed cam ( a contact layer ( wherein the cam follower ( | 43,244 |
8,519,247 | 1. A combination stringed musical instrument, comprising: a body portion; and a neck portion selectively rotatable to rotate 180 degrees about the body portion; wherein the neck portion is at least partially enveloped by the body portion; wherein the neck portion includes a first major face having a first stringed musical instrument formed thereon; wherein the neck portion includes a spaced and opposed second major face having a second stringed musical instrument formed thereon; wherein either the first stringed musical instrument or the second stringed musical instrument is in a playing position when the neck portion is rotated. | 31,392 |
8,484,187 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: displaying, on a mobile device, a search engine results page that includes (i) a text region that displays textual information relating to one or more search results that are responsive to a search query and (ii) an image region disposed in a position beneath the top of the search engine results page, wherein the image region displays a map that includes icons that specify locations on the map that are associated with two or more of the search results that are responsive to the search query; and in response to receiving user input on the mobile device, (i) locking the image region to the top of the search engine results page, (ii) modifying the image region to display a map that includes a single icon that specifies a location on the map that is associated with a single one of the two or more search results that is responsive to the search query, and an image associated with the single one of the two or more search results, and (iii) expanding the text region to display the textual information and additional textual information relating to the single one of the two or more search results that is responsive to the search query. | 40,397 |
9,291,110 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine including: a combustion chamber, an intake passage through which air drawn into the combustion chamber flows; an intake valve disposed in the intake passage; a cylinder injection device that directly injects a fuel containing at least gasoline into the combustion chamber; and a variable valve mechanism that continuously changes opening/closing timing and an opening amount of the intake valve, the control device comprising: an intermediate product generation amount estimating device that estimates a generation amount of an intermediate product that is generated from an unburned portion of the fuel supplied to the combustion chamber, wherein after the cylinder injection device injects the fuel into the combustion chamber, the variable valve mechanism opens the intake valve in a large valve opening amount for a predetermined time period when a generation amount of the intermediate product that is estimated by the intermediate product generation amount estimating device is large, and the variable valve mechanism opens the intake valve in a small valve opening amount for the predetermined time period when the generation amount of the intermediate product that is estimated by the intermediate product generation amount estimating device is small. | 6,403 |
8,511,067 | 1. A reductant reservoir for an emission control system comprising; a pump assembly having an intake adapted to withdraw reductant from the reductant reservoir into a first flow path formed in the pump assembly; a heating element associated with the pump assembly for heating the reductant withdrawn from the reductant reservoir through the intake, thereby providing heated reductant; an outlet formed in the pump assembly for delivering a first portion of the heated reductant from the first flow path to the emission control system; and a nozzle assembly fluidly connected to the first flow path formed in the pump assembly, the nozzle assembly adapted to eject a second portion of the heated reductant from the first flow path into the reductant reservoir. | 42,681 |
9,575,825 | 1. A processing unit for a data processing system, the processing unit comprising: a memory; and a processor core coupled to the memory, wherein the processor core includes at least one execution unit that, responsive to receiving a push instruction of a sending thread that requests that a message payload identified by at least one operand of the push instruction be pushed to a mailbox of a receiving thread and that includes a completion enable parameter that is enabled, executes the push instruction, and wherein the processing unit, responsive to execution, by the processor core, of the push instruction including the enabled completion enable parameter, initiates transmission of the message payload to the mailbox of the receiving thread by: | 39,607 |
9,644,531 | 1. A hybrid drive device comprising: a clutch that engages and disengages an output member of an internal combustion engine and an input member of an automatic transmission device with and from each other; and a rotary electric machine disposed radially outwardly of the clutch so as to at least partially overlap the clutch in an axial direction as seen from a radially outer side, the rotary electric machine having a stator fixed to a case and a rotor comprising a plurality of thin plates and coupled to the input member of the automatic transmission device; a clutch lubricating oil hole formed in a center shaft that extends at a center portion of the clutch and the rotary electric machine; a rotary electric machine lubricating oil hole formed in the center shaft; and separation means for separating lubricating oil such that lubricating oil from the clutch lubricating oil hole is led to the clutch and lubricating oil from the rotary electric machine lubricating oil hole is led to the thin plates of the rotor or the stator of the rotary electric machine. | 24,517 |
8,678,813 | 1. A method for producing a stream of hot combustion exhaust gases with a settable temperature for use in the defined ageing of an exhaust catalyst, the method comprising: producing exhaust gases from a burner apparatus combustion process involving a burner apparatus operating within a combustion chamber; dividing the exhaust gases originating from the burner apparatus combustion process into a first part-stream and a second part-stream, with different mass flows; combining again the first part-stream and the second part-stream after cooling of the second part-stream, in order to produce the stream of hot combustion exhaust gases at a desired temperature between the temperature of the combustion process and the temperature of the cooled, second part-stream; and defined ageing of an exhaust catalyst involving subjecting the exhaust catalyst to the stream of hot combustion exhaust gases produced at the desired temperature, and wherein the production of a stream of hot combustion gases derived from the burner apparatus combustion process comprises operating the burner apparatus according to the principle of reverse firing, wherein a flow direction of the second part-stream is reversed relative to a flow direction of the first part-stream. | 25,455 |
8,907,977 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a display module having a display that displays images thereon, the display including a first zone and a second zone, the first zone including at least one execution zone in which at least one application is executed; an input module configured to receive an external command; and a controller configured to change a size of the second zone to include a portion of the at least one execution zone in response to a first input received at the input module, and to generate at least one icon corresponding to at least one application executed in the at least one execution zone in the second zone having the changed size. | 7,107 |
8,871,021 | 1. A concrete mixture, comprising: (i) a hydraulic cement; (ii) a supplementary cementitious material including at least 1.0 wt % carbon; (iii) water; (iv) an air entraining agent in a concentration of at least 0.2 oz/100 wt % of cementitious material; and (iv) a carbon encapsulating agent including a non-foaming surfactant including a nitrilotrisethanol aliphatic soap in sufficient concentration to sequester a majority of the carbon in the supplementary cementitious material. | 1,403 |
9,748,591 | 1. A filtering device for the air to be supplied to a fuel cell or for filtering pesticides, comprising: a first carrier medium; an activated carbon stratum as adsorbent arranged on the first carrier medium; an adhesive immobilizing individual particles of the activated carbon stratum together; wherein the adhesive bonds the activated carbon stratum onto a first face of the first carrier medium; a second carrier medium having a first face; wherein the first and second carrier medium are spaced apart on opposing sides of the activated carbon stratum; wherein the activated carbon stratum is not bonded to or glued to the second carrier medium; wherein the activated carbon stratum is arranged on and abutting directly onto the first face of the second carrier medium; wherein an opposing second face of the first and second carrier medium does not have an activated carbon stratum secured thereto. | 40,620 |
9,059,482 | 1. A lead-acid battery, comprising: a container which includes a cell compartment for housing a plate pack and an electrolyte and has an opening at a top thereof; a cover extending over the opening of the container; and a top lid covering a recess formed in a top surface of the cover, wherein the top lid is joined to the top surface of the cover to enclose the recess so as to form an exhaust chamber, the cover includes an internal gas exhaust path for guiding gas generated in the plate pack, from the cell compartment to the exhaust chamber, and also includes a plurality of external exhaust paths which establish communication between the recess and a portion outside the battery, a first external exhaust path of the plurality of external exhaust paths and a second external exhaust path of the plurality of external exhaust paths are directly connected to the same recess, said first external exhaust path and said second external exhaust path being disposed on opposite ends of the lead-acid battery, wherein when said top lid is disposed on said cover in a first orientation, said first external exhaust path is directly coupled to said exhaust chamber so as to allow gas to flow from said exhaust chamber to said first external exhaust path, and said second external exhaust path is isolated from said exhaust chamber, and when said top lid is disposed on said cover in a second orientation, said second external exhaust path is directly coupled to said exhaust chamber so as to allow gas to flow from said exhaust chamber to said second external exhaust path, and said first external exhaust path is isolated from said exhaust chamber. | 6,430 |
9,135,520 | 1. A method for matching test imagery to reference imagery, comprising the acts: generating color histogram data that corresponds to test imagery captured by a camera-equipped mobile device; matching said test imagery color histogram data with color histogram data that corresponds to reference imagery, said matching being performed by a hardware processor of said camera-equipped mobile device; said test imagery histogram data and said reference imagery histogram data comprising values corresponding to a plurality of quantized bins; and said matching including determining one or more of the following: | 19,229 |
9,624,235 | 1. A method of inhibiting AP endonuclease-1/redox factor-1 (hAPE1) activity in a tumor cell resistant to DNA damaging agents comprising application to the tumor cell of a compound having the structure: wherein R 1 is H, a C1-C5 alkyl group, which can be branched, unbranched, cyclic or acyclic, or a 3-5 member ring, which can be homocyclic or heterocyclic; R 2 is H, or a C1-C5 branched, unbranched, cyclic or acyclic alkyl group, and R 3 and R 4 are independently and separately H, a C1-C5 alkyl group, which can be branched, unbranched, cyclic or acyclic, or a 3-5 member ring, which can be homocyclic or heterocyclic. | 2,855 |
8,651,515 | 1. An occupant protection apparatus comprising: an airbag in which a plurality of chambers can be formed with a single inflator, wherein an occupant is protected from a shock of a side impact on a vehicle sidewall by deploying the airbag between the vehicle sidewall and the occupant; and wherein the plurality of chambers of the airbag comprises: a door arm rest chamber that can be deployed above and below a door arm rest in a vehicle vertical direction, and wherein the door arm rest chamber is configured to be deployed into direct contact with the occupant; and a chest chamber that is disposed closer to an inner side of an occupant compartment in a vehicle width direction than the door arm rest chamber and is configured to be deployed around a chest region of the occupant to secure a space between the vehicle sidewall and the occupant; and a pressure valve, that is in flow communication between the door arm rest chamber and the chest chamber, is positioned in a rearward region of the door arm rest chamber and is configured to provide for deployment of the chest chamber to secure the space between the vehicle sidewall and the chest region of the occupant. | 415 |
9,490,633 | 1. An electrical energy system, comprising: a housing including: | 4,754 |
9,130,412 | 1. A motor drive assembly for a vehicle, comprising: an electric motor including an annular stator and a rotor configured to rotate inside of the stator; a speed reducer configured to reduce a rotation speed output from the electric motor; and a differential configured to distribute a rotation output from the speed reducer to right and left vehicle wheels, wherein the rotor of the electric motor comprises a first bearing located on a first side of the rotor close to the speed reducer, a second bearing located on a second side of the rotor opposite from the first side of the rotor and remote from the speed reducer, a spindle rotatably supported by the first bearing and the second bearing, and a rotor core mounted on an outer periphery of the spindle and configured to receive a rotating force from the stator, wherein the spindle comprises a first shaft portion having, on an outer periphery thereof, a cylindrical first bearing fitting surface on which the first bearing is fitted, a tubular, hollow, rotor core mounting portion having an inner diameter larger than a diameter of the first bearing fitting surface, and an end plate closing an end portion of the rotor core mounting portion on a first side of the rotor core mounting portion close to the speed reducer, wherein the first shaft portion is coupled to the end plate, and wherein the speed reducer comprises: | 20,713 |
8,495,507 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: detecting, by one or more processors, a request for an electronic conversation, where the request is made by a sender to a recipient and wherein the electronic conversation includes instant messaging in a chat window; determining, by one or more processors, that topic based screening is enabled for the recipient of the request for an electronic conversation; determining, by one or more processors, based on information provided by the sender, a topic for the electronic conversation; displaying the topic to the recipient; determining that the recipient accepts the topic wherein the determining, by one or more processors that the recipient accepts the topic includes starting the electronic conversation between the recipient and the sender; detecting words of the electronic conversation between the recipient and the sender; determining, by one or more processors, based on at least one of the words, that at least one of the recipient and the sender has strayed from the topic; and presenting a reminder of the topic to the recipient and the sender. | 8,786 |
9,674,926 | 1. A method for controlling street lighting over a plurality of interconnected road segments, comprising the steps of: detecting speed and direction of travel of a road user on a road segment; propagating a signal comprising speed and direction of travel data of the road user, and an identification of the road user's road segment, through a series of adjacent road segments starting from the road user's road segment; dynamically assigning a road class and a corresponding maximum lighting level to each road segment, said road class representing photometric requirements based on visual needs of the road user in the road segment and said road class been selected on the basis of at least stored road type data associated to each road segment, and traffic parameters determined for each road segment for a current time period, said road type data comprising at least geometrical characteristics of road segment and an allowed speed limit, setting a new lighting level equal to said maximum lighting level at each road segment whose distance to the road user is not greater than a first distance; and comparing, for each road segment, said new lighting level with a current lighting level, and changing the current lighting level to the new lighting level if they are different; wherein said distance is calculated on the basis of said speed and direction of travel of the road user; wherein said traffic parameters relate at least to speed and density of road users on that road segment over said current time period; wherein the method further comprises a step of selecting a subset of eligible road classes for each road segment, on the basis of road user information contained in said signal, before dynamically assigning to each road segment a road class selected from said subset at least on the basis of stored road type data associated to each road segment and traffic parameters determined for each road segment for a current time period; wherein, beyond said first distance from the road user, each road segment is set a new lighting level which gradually decreases towards a predetermined minimum lighting level at a second distance greater than said first distance; wherein, upon concurrent reception of a plurality of said signals at a road segment, a new lighting level is set for each signal wherein the distance to the road user's road segment is not greater than said second distance, the current lighting level for this road segment being compared with the highest new lighting level and changed to this highest new lighting level if the highest new lighting level is different from the current lighting level; and wherein the above steps are repeated every few milliseconds. | 8,544 |
9,098,520 | 1. At a computer device configured for operating an operating system a method for handling a data object; the method comprising: operating an open function on said data object and receiving a pointer associated with a physical address of said data object, said operating being for providing access to said data object when said data object is deleted, said open function being a function of said operating system; monitoring said data object for detecting said deletion activity; receiving an event indicating said deletion activity; in response to said event, utilizing said pointer for accessing said physical address of said data object; and copying said data object from said physical address to a recycle bin, wherein said copying is only performed in response to said event; thereby enabling efficient restoring of said deleted data object. | 21,650 |
9,157,528 | 1. A brake mechanism for a hybrid transmission, the brake mechanism comprising: a clutch unit surrounding an axis of rotation; wherein the clutch unit includes a first engagement mechanism and a second engagement mechanism, each surrounding the axis of rotation; wherein each of the first and second engagement mechanisms presents at least one tooth; a disc surrounding the axis of rotation, wherein the disc defines at least one slot; wherein each of the first and second engagement mechanisms is movable relative to the disc between a disengaged position and an engaged position; wherein the at least one tooth of the first engagement mechanism is configured to engage the at least one slot of the disc when in the engaged position to cease rotation of the disc in a first direction of rotation; wherein the at least one tooth of the second engagement mechanism is configured to engage the at least one slot of the disc when in the engaged position to cease rotation of the disc in a second direction of rotation, opposite the first direction of rotation; and wherein the disc is configured to rotate about the axis of rotation, relative to the clutch unit, when each of the first and second engagement mechanisms are in the disengaged position. | 45,934 |
9,655,676 | 1. A method of percutaneous treatment of a prostate lesion using radio frequency, comprising: with an imaging device, acquiring an image of a patient's prostate; identifying within the patient's prostate at least one location to be treated; selecting a bipolar electrode assembly for radio frequency treatment, the assembly comprising an outer helical electrode and an inner electrode arranged concentric with the outer helical electrode; representing a planned target region on the image of the patient's prostate, comprising a graphical representation of at least an active part of the outer helical electrode superimposed on the image at a target position, wherein the planned target region encloses at least in part the at least one location to be treated; positioning the bipolar electrode assembly in proximity of a patient's perineum, comprising positioning a guiding member in proximity of the patient's perineum, the guiding member comprising an outer member, an inner member, a first through-passage between the outer member and the inner member, and a second through-passage arranged through the inner member; determining an external starting position of the bipolar electrode assembly outside the patient by projecting the graphical representation along a direction of insertion; positioning the guiding member according to the graphical representation projecting along the direction of insertion; disposing the outer helical electrode in the first through-passage and inserting the outer helical electrode percutaneously into the patient's prostate; disposing the inner electrode through the second through-passage, and inserting the inner electrode percutaneously into the patient's prostate; wherein the guiding member maintains a position outside the patient during insertion of the outer helical electrode and the inner electrode; and capturing the outer helical electrode that is inserted into the patient's prostate with the imaging device and then displaying the outer helical electrode with the planned target region on the image of the patient's prostate so as to obtain a direct verification of a degree of match between a position of the outer helical electrode and the planned target region. | 49,154 |
9,503,871 | 1. A method of transmitting a communication to a user, the method comprising: (a) determining, by a processor, a first communication scheme from a potential set of communication schemes; (b) transmitting, by the processor, a first communication in accordance with the first communication scheme, the first communication scheme defining a first communication service by which the first communication is to be transmitted and a first user device to which the first communication is to be transmitted; (c) determining, by the processor, whether an acknowledgment response has been received from the first user device within a predefined period from transmission of the first communication; and responsive to determining that the first communication was not received by the first user device: wherein the potential set of communication schemes is based on one or more of: | 16,769 |
9,564,852 | 1. A solar energy system, comprising: a solar active component having a first planar face, a second planar face opposite said first planar face, and a perimeter frame surrounding said first and second planar faces, the solar active component defining a flat planer body having a longitudinal planar axis and a transverse planar axis orthogonal to said longitudinal planar axis; an above-ground support having a mounting surface and a vertical axis, wherein the solar active component is supported by the above ground support, such that at least a portion of its perimeter frame is proximate the mounting surface, and wherein the longitudinal planar axis is mounted in line with the vertical axis of the above-ground support such that the first and second planar faces are simultaneously subject to solar exposure. | 3,366 |
8,477,428 | 1. A zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; a third lens unit having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power; and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit is stationary during zooming, wherein at least the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fifth lens unit move along an optical axis during zooming, and wherein, when fw is a focal length of the entire zoom lens at a wide-angle end and m2z is an amount of movement of the second lens unit during zooming from the wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and wherein a sign of the amount of movement m2z is positive when the second lens unit is positioned closer to the image plane at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end and the sign of the amount of movement m2z is negative when the second lens unit is positioned close to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end, the following condition is satisfied: | 1,569 |
9,773,252 | 1. A server configured for automatically identifying references to a new business within published content returned from an online source over a network, the server comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the server to: store business data describing previously identified new businesses in a business repository; store data that represent online sources that have published content referencing previously identified businesses in a source search index; receive search results returned by a search engine in response to receiving a submitted query via a plurality of search query interfaces, and; identify and extract references to new businesses that are included in published content included in the received search results by applying a pattern recognition algorithm that is configured to process one or more text patterns extracted from the published content, wherein a new business is one of a newly opened business or a business that is about to open; verify each of a set of new businesses in the extracted references by determining whether data representing the new business is already stored in the business repository; and maintain the source search index. | 15,698 |
9,371,590 | 1. A method for operating an installation for producing hydrogen including at least one high temperature electrolyzer, the electrolyzer including a plurality of elementary cells, each of the elementary cells including a cathode and an anode separated by an electrolyte, the elementary cells being separated by an interconnection plate, each interconnection plate defining with an adjacent cathode a cathode compartment and with an adjacent anode an anode compartment, the cathodes being made from a cermet including nickel, the method comprising: a) raising a temperature of the cells to an operating temperature of the electrolyzer comprised between 650° C. and 950° C.; b) applying a potential difference to terminals of each of the elementary cells equal to at least 0.62 V; c) supplying the cathode compartments and the anode compartments with neutral gas, or with nitrogen or steam; d) supplying the cathode compartments and the anode compartments with steam; e) applying a potential difference to the terminals of the elementary cells capable of causing electrolysis of water; f) collecting hydrogen produced at the cathodes and the oxygen produced at the anodes. | 22,850 |
9,091,056 | 1. A building connection ( 1 ) between a first structural member ( 2 ) and a second structural member ( 3 ), the first structural member ( 2 ) and the second structural member ( 3 ) being connected by a multipurpose connector ( 4 ) in conjunction with a plurality of fasteners ( 18 ), the building connection comprising: a. the first structural member ( b. the second structural member ( c. the plurality of fasteners ( d. the multipurpose connector ( | 18,906 |
8,406,414 | 1. A method for scheduling ringing signals for a plurality of subscriber lines, comprising: maintaining a schedule of ringing signals for the plurality of subscriber lines in a processor device; determining a plurality of ringing counts in the processor device, each specifying a number of subscriber lines ringing at a selected point in the schedule; receiving a ringing request for a particular subscriber line in the processor device; identifying a position in the schedule for the ringing request based on the ringing counts that does not exceed a maximum ringing limit in the processor device; scheduling the ringing request in the schedule in the processor device responsive to identifying the position; identifying an error condition in the processor device responsive to not identifying a position in the schedule that does not exceed the maximum ringing limit subject to a maximum start delay between when the ringing request is received and when the ringing signal for the particular subscriber line is scheduled to start; and generating a ringing signal using an interface circuit for the particular subscriber line in accordance with the schedule. | 8,087 |
9,520,515 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: a crystalline silicon base member; a rear electrode operatively connected to said crystalline silicon base member; a crystalline silicon emitter member formed from a crystalline silicon mass and having a front face; a front grid electrode operatively connected to said front face of said crystalline silicon emitter member; a PN junction between said crystalline silicon base member and said crystalline silicon emitter member; at least one continuous layer of amorphized silicon material comprising a plurality of substantially separate amorphized silicon regions and disposed within said crystalline silicon mass of said crystalline silicon emitter member; and at least one pair of nanolayers of crystalline silicon metamaterial, wherein each one of said at least one pair of nanolayers of crystalline silicon metamaterial has an undulating configuration comprising a plurality of trough and crest portions wherein said plurality of trough portions of a first nanolayer of said at least one pair of nanolayers are respectively disposed opposite said plurality of crest portions of a second nanolayer of said at least one pair of nanolayers such that said plurality of trough portions and said plurality of crest portions of said at least one pair of nanolayers substantially surround said plurality of substantially separate amorphized silicon regions so as to separate said at least one layer of amorphized silicon material from said crystalline silicon mass. | 39,974 |
9,492,579 | 1. A method for fumigating psyllium comprising: a. separating psyllium husk from psyllium seed and placing the psyllium husk in bags; b. filling a fumigation chamber with the bags of psyllium husk such that the chamber is at least 35% filled by volume with the bags of psyllium husk; c. fumigating the psyllium husk with at least about 40 g/m d. degassing the chamber for at least about 6 hours to form fumigated psyllium husk; wherein the fumigated psyllium husk comprises less than about 50 ppm inorganic bromide residue and wherein the fumigated psyllium husk does not comprise an insect infestation. | 36,035 |
9,650,675 | 1. A method for determining the level of methylation in eukaryotic double stranded DNA, the method comprising contacting a first sample of the eukaryotic double stranded DNA with a restriction endonuclease comprising SEQ ID NO. 4 or a sequence at least 70% identical to SEQ ID NO. 4, having a recognition sequence 5′-TCGA-3′ where a modified cytosine residue in the recognition sequence impairs cleavage, digesting the DNA comprising the recognition sequence 5′-TCGA-3′ in which the cytosine residue is unmodified; and determining the amount of undigested DNA or digested DNA. | 5,884 |
8,359,414 | 1. An interface unit comprising: a buffer configured to store transactions that are to be transmitted to a memory; and a control unit coupled to the buffer; and the buffer is coupled to receive a first address corresponding to a first transaction in response to an address phase of the first transaction, the first transaction transmitted by another source, and wherein the buffer is configured to compare the first address to addresses corresponding to transactions stored in the buffer; and the control unit is configured to assert a retry response during a response phase of the first transaction responsive to the first address matching a second address in the buffer for which a second transaction initiated by the interface unit is in progress, and wherein the control unit is further configured to provide a retry identifier with the retry response to the source, wherein the retry identifier identifies the second transaction. | 3,292 |
8,997,431 | 1. A joist assembly comprising: a first joist spacer including a first end of the first joist spacer, a second end of the first joist spacer, and a roll-lock tab between the first end of the first joist spacer and the second end of the first joist spacer; a second joist spacer including a first end of the second joist spacer, a second end of the second joist spacer, and a roll-lock tab between the first end of the second joist spacer and the second end of the second joist spacer; a first joist segment removably attached to the first joist spacer at the first end of the first joist spacer and to the second joist spacer at the first end of the second joist spacer; and a second joist segment removably attached to the second joist spacer at the second end of the second joist spacer and to the second joist spacer at the second end of the second joist spacer. | 36,742 |
9,566,873 | 1. An operating method of an electric vehicle including a battery, a control unit and a communication unit, the method comprising: establishing communication with an electric vehicle power supply device when an SAE J1772 connector of the electric vehicle is connected to a charging/discharging point of the electric vehicle power supply device; performing an authentication operation on the electric vehicle power supply device via the established communication; charging the battery via the electric vehicle power supply device; checking a current state of charging of the battery; and transmitting a first charging information notification message that includes information related to the current state of charging to a user terminal device, wherein charging the battery is started if the authentication operation is successful, wherein the control unit of the electric vehicle determines whether or not charging the battery is possible, wherein when the charging the battery is possible, the communication unit of the electric vehicle transmits the first charging information notification message to the user terminal device, and wherein when the charging the battery is not possible, the communication unit of the electric vehicle transmits a charging error information notification message to the user terminal device. | 6,519 |
9,512,814 | 1. A method of controlling a spark ignition engine having a spark plug capable of igniting a mixture within a combustion chamber formed in a cylinder, a catalyst provided at an exhaust passage and capable of purifying hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide contained in an exhaust gas in a state where an air-fuel ratio within the exhaust passage is in the vicinity of a theoretical air-fuel ratio, a catalyst temperature detection device that detects or estimates a temperature of the catalyst, and an engine coolant temperature detection device that detects a temperature of the engine coolant, with the spark ignition engine being configured to be capable of igniting the mixture in the combustion chamber and changing valve characteristics of at least an exhaust valve of the engine, wherein the method comprises: executing a first control of igniting the mixture at an ignition timing that is set to be on a more lag side than an MBT, which is an ignition timing in which an output torque of the engine becomes maximum, and opening the exhaust valve from a closed position during an intake stroke in addition to during an exhaust stroke, during a period from the time at which the start of the engine is completed and the engine starts autonomous rotation to the time at which a temperature of the catalyst detected or estimated by the catalyst temperature detection device becomes higher than a first predetermined temperature; and executing a second control of igniting the mixture at an ignition timing that is set on a more advance side than the ignition timing in the first control, and opening the exhaust valve during the intake stroke in addition to during the exhaust stroke, during a period from the time at which the temperature of the catalyst detected or estimated by the catalyst temperature detection device becomes higher than the first predetermined temperature to the time at which the temperature of the engine coolant detected by the engine coolant temperature detection device exceeds a second predetermined temperature, and wherein, in the second control, a time-area of a valve lift of the exhaust valve during the intake stroke becomes greater than the time-area in the first control. | 34,425 |
9,292,775 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a main power supply; an auxiliary power supply that stores therein power from the main power supply, and that supplies the stored power; and circuitry configured to: | 34,149 |
9,011,284 | 1. A transmission, comprising an input shaft; an output shaft; a main gear set comprising a first single planetary gear set, a second single planetary gear set, and a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, and a fourth shaft, wherein rotational speeds of the first shaft, second shaft, third shaft, and fourth shaft vary linearly with each other in an increasing or decreasing rotational speed order of the first shaft, second shaft, third shaft, and fourth shaft; a first power path between the input shaft and the main gear set, comprising a first transmission ratio; a second power path between the input shaft and the main gear set, comprising a second transmission ratio smaller than the first transmission ratio; and a third power path between the input shaft and the main gear set, comprising a third transmission ratio smaller than the second transmission ratio, wherein at least one of the first shaft, second shaft, third shaft, and fourth shaft is connected with an electric motor, wherein the first shaft is capable of being connected with the first power path via a first switching element and with the third power path via a second switching element, wherein the second shaft is capable of being connected with the first power path via a third switching element and with the third power path via a fourth switching element, wherein the third shaft is constantly connected with the transmission output shaft, wherein the fourth shaft is capable of being connected with the second power path via a fifth switching element and is capable of being fixed by a sixth switching element. | 18,085 |
8,622,870 | 1. A power transmission apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a plurality of power split rotors, including at least a first rotor, a second rotor, and a third rotor, which work to rotate in conjunction with each other to split power among a rotary electric machine, an internal combustion engine, and a driven wheel of a vehicle; a power transmission control mechanism working to selectively establish and block transmission of the power between a first rotor that is one of the power split rotors and the internal combustion engine; and a second power transmission control mechanism disposed between the internal combustion engine and the second rotor; wherein | 49,351 |
8,757,402 | 1. A manipulator for the assembly of rotor blades of a wind power installation, having a receiving unit for the receiving of a rotor blade and having a connection unit via which the manipulator is connectable to the boom of a crane in a torque-rigid manner so that the position and/or alignment of a rotor blade received in the receiving unit relative to the boom can be fixed by the manipulator, and having a positioning unit which is arranged between the receiving unit and the connection unit and via which a rotor blade received in the receiving unit can be aligned and/or positioned in a controlled manner relative to the boom, wherein the receiving unit has at least one receiving drive for the movement of a receiving tool, and wherein the positioning unit allows an alignment and/or positioning of the receiving unit with at least two degrees of freedom. | 4,979 |
8,537,483 | 1. A system comprising: a mark module configured to generate i) a first indicator for a first mark on a storage medium detected when first servo data is read from the storage medium, and ii) a second indicator for a second mark on the storage medium detected when second servo data is read from the storage medium; an estimation module configured to, based on i) a first location of a center of the storage medium about which the storage medium is rotated, and ii) a period between times when the first indicator and the second indicator are generated, estimate a first distance or an offset angle relative to the first location of the center of the storage medium; and an adjustment module configured to, based on the first distance or the offset angle, adjust a sampling frequency at which user data is read from the storage medium. | 8,981 |
9,650,416 | 1. A method of treating a cancer in a patient, wherein cells of said cancer overexpress αvβ6, the method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a peptide or a peptide linked to a therapeutically active moiety, said peptide or linked peptide comprising the sequence motif B n RGDLX 5 X 6 LX 8 X 9 X 10 Z m X i or B n RGDLX 5 X 6 IX 8 X 9 X 10 Z m X i , wherein B n is a sequence of n amino acids each of which is any D- or L-amino acid, X 5 , X 6 , X 8 , X 9 , and X 10 each independently represent any amino acid, Z m is a sequence of m amino acids independently selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Ala, Leu, Met, Gln, Lys, Arg, Val, Ile, Trp, Phe and Asp, X i is a sequence of i amino acids each of which is any amino acid, n is 6 to 7, m is at least 1, and n, m, and i are selected to make the maximum length of said peptide 20 amino acids, and wherein said therapeutically active moiety is selected from the group consisting of: mechlorethamine, cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide, melphalan, chlorambucil, hexamethylmelamine, thiotepa, busulfan, carmustine, lomustine, semustine, streptozoein, decarbazine dimethyltriazenoimidazolecarboxamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil, floxuridine, cytarabine, mercaptopurine, thioguanine, pentostatin, vinblastine, vincristine, etoposide, teniposide, dactinomycin, daunorabicin, doxorubicin, bleomycin, plicamycin, mitomycin, L-asparaginase, interferon alphenomes, cisplatin, carboplatin, mitoxantrone and antbracycline, hydroxyurea, procarbazine, mitotane, aminoglutethimide, taxol, flutamide, tamoxifen, ricin, abrin, Pseudomonas exotoxin, tissue factor, TNFα, IL-2, phosphorus-32, iodine-125, iodine-131, indium-111, rhenium-186, rhenium-188, and yttrium-90. | 40,664 |
9,806,634 | 1. An inverter controller comprising: a current controller configured to calculate and output PWM modulation ratio instructions of a plurality of phases including a first phase and a second phase, such that an inverter outputs a predetermined current, based on an instruction supplied from an outside; a switching timing arithmetic unit configured to calculate timings at which switches of the respective phases are opened and closed, based on the PWM modulation ratio instructions; a simultaneous switching avoiding unit configured to determine whether a first switching timing for changing over the switch of the first phase and a second switching timing for changing over the switch of the second phase coincide or not, and to generate, upon determining that the first switching timing and the second switching timing coincide, triangular-wave carriers of the first phase and the second phase by making different waveforms of the triangular-wave carriers; and a switch opening/closing timing generator configured to calculate a timing for opening/closing the switch of each of the phases, based on the triangular-wave carrier and the PWM modulation ratio instruction. | 11,941 |
8,853,477 | 1. A process for producing low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil comprising contacting a carbonaceous biomass feedstock with a microporous crystalline zeolitic catalyst at pyrolysis conditions to produce pyrolysis gases comprising hydrocarbons, the catalyst catalyzing a deoxygenation reaction converting at least a portion of the oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons and removing the oxygen as carbon oxides and water; and condensing a condensable portion of the pyrolysis gases to produce low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil; wherein the catalyst comprises a coherently grown composite of TUN and IMF zeotypes having a three-dimensional framework of at least AlO 2 and SiO 2 tetrahedral units and an empirical composition in the hydrogen form after calcination, ion-exchange and calcination and on an anhydrous basis expressed by an empirical formula of and where M1 is at least one exchangeable cation selected from the group consisting of alkali, alkaline earth metals, rare earth metals, zinc, ammonium ion, hydrogen ion and combinations thereof, “a” is the mole ratio of M1 to (Al+E) and varies from about 0.05 to about 50, “N” is the weighted average valence of M1 and has a value of about +1 to about +3, E is an element selected from the group consisting of gallium, iron, boron, and combinations thereof, “x” is the mole fraction of E and varies from 0 to 1.0, y′ is the mole ratio of Si to (Al+E) and varies from greater than about 9 to virtually pure silica and z″ is the mole ratio of 0 to (Al+E) and has a value determined by the equation: and is characterized in that it has TUN regions and IMF regions that are coherently aligned so that the [010] TUN zone axis and the [001] IMF zone axis are parallel to each other and there is continuity of crystal planes of type (002) TUN and (060) IMF , where the indexing is referred to monoclinic C 2/m and orthorhombic C mcm unit cells for TUN and IMF respectively wherein the catalyst is further characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d-spacings and intensities set forth in Table B1: | 20,951 |
9,225,177 | 1. A wireless power reception method of a wireless power receiver for receiving power from a wireless power transmitter using a power signal through a resonance frequency band, the wireless power reception method comprising: receiving a connection signal for detecting and identifying the wireless power receiver from the wireless power transmitter; transmitting a response signal in response to the connection signal to the wireless power transmitter through a specific frequency band; receiving state information of the wireless power transmitter from the wireless power transmitter through the specific frequency band, wherein the state information comprises an available amount of power of the wireless power transmitter; transmitting specific state information to the wireless power transmitter through the specific frequency band, wherein the specific state information comprises a demanded amount of power of the wireless power receiver, and wherein the demanded amount of power is adjusted by the wireless power receiver within the available amount of power of the wireless power transmitter; and receiving the power from the wireless power transmitter according to the specific state information through the resonance frequency band being a resonance-coupled frequency between the wireless power transmitter and the wireless power receiver and being different than the specific frequency band. | 48,204 |
9,515,755 | 1. A method for TDMA synchronization comprising: providing an ad-hoc TDMA mobile communication network, said communication network comprises a plurality of mobile units; transmitting an information packet from a mobile unit of said plurality of mobile units to each remaining one of said plurality of mobile units, said information packet comprises at least a preamble; receiving said information packet at each remaining one of said plurality of mobile units; measuring at each remaining one of said plurality of mobile units a corresponding preamble detection time t wherein said method further comprising: comparing at each remaining one of said plurality of mobile units said corresponding preamble detection time t adjusting said corresponding preamble detection time t configuring said each remaining one of said plurality of mobile units to wait for a further information packet without adjusting said corresponding preamble detection time, if t rx,i of said each one of said plurality of mobile units equals t corr ; configuring said each remaining one of said plurality of mobile waiting for a further information packet without adjusting said corresponding preamble detection time, if t rx,i is greater than t corr ; configuring said information packet to further comprise a mobile unit identification number, MU_ID, a mobile unit synchronization identification number, SYNC_ID and a data payload; identifying a predetermined slot time size S size for said information packet; identifying said at least one mobile unit identification number MU_ID in said received communication packet; identifying at each one of said plurality of said mobile units, a time slot number S corr at which said preamble terminates; identifying a final time slot S final at which detection of said data packet received from said transmitting mobile unit is detected; determining a time slot number S start for a commencement of common TDMA logical scheme from each remaining one of said plurality of said mobile units: thereby frame synchronizing said common TDMA logical scheme from said at least one mobile unit and said each remaining one of said plurality of said mobile units; and configuring said method to receive said information packet at different reception times. | 46,845 |
9,219,180 | 1. An optoelectronic arrangement comprising: a semiconductor nanowire to participate in the processing of a light, the semiconductor nanowire comprising a first section and a second section: and a mirror to reflect the light, said mirror surrounding at least longitudinally, the first section of the semiconductor nanowire, said second section extending out of the mirror, wherein: | 16,893 |
8,838,126 | 1. A radio communications system comprising: a first base station; a second base station adjacent to said first base station; and at least one mobile station which can communicate with said first base station and said second base station, wherein said second base station changes an operation state from an active state in which a radio link for communication with the mobile station is formed to a radio transmission suspension state in which radio signal transmission is suspended when having judged that there is no mobile station to be connected in said second base station area. | 28,759 |
8,880,546 | 1. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a processor cause a computer to: identify a set of keywords, the set including a plurality of keywords; determine historical activity data indicative of activity previously performed with respect to the set of keywords, including determining for each keyword of the plurality of keywords a portion of the historical activity data involving the keyword; compare the historical activity data to a plurality of predefined thresholds, including for each keyword of the plurality of keywords, comparing at least a threshold predefined for the keyword to the portion of the historical activity data involving the keyword; and automatically perform an action for refining the set of keywords, including removing a keyword from the set of keywords, when a result of the comparison indicates that the portion of the historical activity data involving the keyword does not meet the threshold predefined for the keyword. | 14,734 |
9,704,818 | 1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a substrate; a pad disposed over the substrate; a passivation disposed over the substrate and exposing a portion of the pad; and a bump disposed over the portion of the pad; wherein the bump includes a buffering member disposed over the portion of the pad, and a conductive layer surrounding the buffering member and electrically connected to the pad; wherein a portion of the buffering member is disposed within or extended into the pad. | 32,731 |
9,189,053 | 1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a memory circuit including a memory array; a memory control unit that issues access requests to the memory circuit; a power control circuit, coupled to the memory circuit, for controlling power supplied to the memory array and for controlling access to the memory array, wherein the power control circuit supplies the memory array with a supply voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of memory performance levels including a full performance level and at least one power-saving performance level; and a power status feedback unit including a voltage sensing circuit coupled to the memory array for sensing a voltage level of the memory array, wherein the voltage sensing circuit generates a power status signal indicating one of the plurality of memory performance levels of the memory array depending upon the sensed voltage level, and wherein the power control circuit permits the access to the memory array depending upon the power status signal, wherein the power status feedback unit further comprises a switch controller that processes the power status signal to generate a final power status signal for output to at least one of the power control circuit and the memory control unit; and wherein the voltage sensing circuit and the switch controller are located in an always-on voltage domain such that they are operable in any one of the plurality of power-saving performance levels. | 487 |
8,972,157 | 1. A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which stops the engine installed on a vehicle and connected to a compressor of an air conditioner when predetermined stop conditions are satisfied, and restarts the engine when predetermined restart conditions are satisfied, comprising: vehicle compartment humidity-detecting means for detecting a vehicle compartment humidity which is a humidity in a compartment of the vehicle in a state where the engine is stopped; window glass temperature-obtaining means for obtaining a window glass temperature which is a temperature of window glass of the compartment of the vehicle in the state where the engine is stopped; limit humidity-setting means for setting a limit of the vehicle compartment humidity below which fogging of the window glass does not occur, as a limit humidity, according to the obtained window glass temperature; vehicle compartment temperature-detecting means for detecting a vehicle compartment temperature which is a temperature in the compartment of the vehicle; window glass temperature-correcting means for correcting the window glass temperature for use in setting the limit humidity when the detected vehicle compartment temperature is not lower than a predetermined temperature; and restart means for restarting the engine when the detected vehicle compartment humidity becomes not lower than the limit humidity. | 41,967 |
9,698,014 | 1. A photoresist composition, comprising: a combination of a first polymer and a second polymer, a solvent, wherein the first polymer is rendered more soluble in a developer by the action of a photo acid generator and is substantially dissolved in the developer while the second polymer is substantially not dissolved in the developer, and wherein the first polymer has a higher etching resistance than the second polymer; and the photo acid generator. | 8,512 |
9,216,745 | 1. A method of providing shared control over movement of a vehicle within a space, comprising: receiving user input related to a velocity for the vehicle within the space; processing the user input with a local motion planner selectively adjusting the velocity based on a set of predefined constraints and presence of neighboring vehicles in the space to generate a trajectory for the vehicle in the space; communicating motion control signals including the trajectory to the vehicle; and operating drive mechanisms in the vehicle based on the motion control signals to move the vehicle from a first position to a second position within the space for an upcoming time period, wherein the set of predefined constraints comprises a grid map of the space that defines locations of obstacles in the space, wherein the processing of the user input includes searching the grid map to identify the obstacles and to define a path from the first position to the second position in the space that avoids the obstacles, and wherein the obstacles comprise virtual objects displayed in the space or on a monitor in the vehicle. | 26,264 |
9,133,344 | 1. An ink-jet ink, comprising: a) a liquid vehicle; b) a colorant dispersed or dissolved in the liquid vehicle, wherein the colorant imparts a color to the ink; c) a high T d) a near-infrared absorbing dye in the liquid vehicle, wherein the ink is configured such that when printed on a substrate and irradiated with a near-infrared energy source, the near-infrared absorbing dye generates enough heat to uniformly melt the high T | 27,914 |
9,309,242 | 1. A compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of formula (I-A) or formula (I-B): a tautomeric form, stereochemically isomeric form, and isotopic form thereof, wherein each R Y represents —CR D represents a 3 to 12 ring membered monocyclic or bicyclic carbocyclyl or a 3 to 12 ring membered monocyclic or bicyclic heterocyclyl containing at least one heteroatom selected from N, O and S, wherein said carbocyclyl and heterocyclyl may each be optionally substituted by one or more R E represents a bond, —(CR R R —NR —NR —O—C(═O)—NR —NR R R R R or when two of the substituents of R R R R R R R R R R m independently represents 0, 1 or 2; n independently represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; s independently represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; r independently represents 1, 2, 3, or 4; r1 independently represents 2, 3 or 4; or an N-oxide thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a solvate thereof. | 30,678 |
8,512,463 | 1. A bismuth-tellurium-oxide composition consisting of: 22-42 wt % Bi | 47,490 |
8,984,104 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device executing a kernel of a guest operating system, an identification of host cloud to receive an installation of the guest operating system; receiving, by the processing device, a set of configuration requirements associated with the host cloud for installation of the guest operating system in the host cloud; accessing, by the processing device, a set of installation resources in the kernel of the guest operating system to extract resources corresponding to the set of configuration requirements of the host cloud; generating, by the processing device, a migrated operating system image of the guest operating system in view of the extracted resources corresponding to the set of configuration requirements of the host cloud; transmitting, by the processing device, the migrated operating system image of the host cloud for installation in the host cloud; generating, by the processing device, an update to the migrated operating system image of the guest operating system in view of changed set of configuration requirements received from the host cloud; and causing, using the processing device, generated update to the migrated operating system image of the guest operating system to be installed in the host cloud, wherein the host cloud comprises a plurality of target cloud, and wherein at least two migrated operating system images transmitted to at least two of the plurality of target clouds comprise different versions of the guest operating system in view of corresponding different sets of configuration requirements for the at least two of the plurality of target clouds. | 39,163 |
9,507,644 | 1. A computer program product for prioritizing processing units in a computing device for task scheduling, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory storage device storing program instructions to, wherein the program instructions to determine which of the processors is not fully loaded and is in a location with a most favorable thermal condition based on the value of the processor that represents thermal conditions of the location of the processor comprise: wherein the task is scheduled to the first processor if the first processor is not fully loaded and is at the location with the most favorable thermal condition according to the value that represents the thermal condition of the location of the first processor, wherein the task is scheduled to a different processor that is not fully loaded and is at the location with the most favorable thermal condition according to the value that represents the thermal condition of the location of the different processor. | 48,441 |
9,640,830 | 1. A battery comprising: a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, wherein, | 19,129 |
9,035,116 | 1. A process for producing bio-oil, said process comprising: (a) supplying a particulate biomass material to a hopper, wherein said hopper is pressurized via a gas source; (b) supplying the particulate biomass material from said hopper to a gas mixing zone; (c) supplying a carrier gas via the gas source to said gas mixing zone; (d) transporting said biomass material through a reducer located downstream of said gas mixing zone, wherein said reducer defines a flow pathway having a diminishing cross-sectional flow area; and (e) transporting said biomass material through a feed line and into a reaction zone, wherein said feed line is located downstream of said reducer, wherein said carrier gas is used to propel said biomass material during at least a portion of said transporting of step (e). | 29,230 |
8,657,394 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a recording head that ejects a liquid droplet; a liquid tank that stores ink to be supplied to the recording head; a first flow path that is communicated with the recording head and the liquid tank; a pump unit that is provided in the first flow path; and a second flow path that is provided parallel to a portion of the first flow path, such that the second flow path is branched from the first flow path in which the pump unit is provided a fluid path resistance variable unit that is provided in the second flow path and is configured to change a fluid resistance in the second flow path in accordance with a flow rate and a flow direction of liquid flowing through the second flow path and the fluid path resistance variable unit; wherein: the fluid path resistance variable unit increases the fluid resistance in the second flow path when liquid is flowing towards the recording head through the fluid path resistance variable unit and decrease the fluid resistance in the second flow path when liquid is flowing away from the recording head through the fluid path resistance variable unit; and when the liquid droplet is ejected from the recording head, the pump unit operates to feed the liquid from the liquid tank to the recording head to increase the flow rate of the liquid flowing toward the recording head from the liquid tank through the second flow path. | 29,156 |
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