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9,641,624 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, in a service provisioning mediator entity of a communications system, information defining a set of service provisioning triggering messages, said set comprising at least one message and the service provisioning mediator entity configured to store information of services that can be provisioned in the communication system; receiving a service provisioning triggering message from a further network entity involved in providing a service to a user, said service provisioning triggering message comprising information relating to an identifier associated with the user; and triggering service provisioning in the communications system for the user by the service provisioning mediator entity in response to receiving said service provisioning triggering message wherein the service provisioning comprises at least one of provisioning access to the communication system, provisioning access to at least one service supported by the communication system and provisioning access to at least one application, the service provisioning mediator entity submitting, as at least a part of the triggered service provisioning, at least one of user profile defining access to services and settings for the service, to at least one information store external to the service provisioning mediator entity, wherein the at least one information store external to the service provision mediator entity comprises at least one of a home subscriber server, a domain name server, or a service subscription repository. | 6,532 |
9,219,406 | 1. A method of operating a power-packet-switching power converter which passes energy through a parallel combination of an inductor plus a capacitor, using phase legs which include switches with bidirectional current conduction capability, comprising the actions of: a) monitoring voltages at the terminals of the inductor; b) measuring current through said inductor; c) updating estimates of the parasitic resistance and parasitic capacitance of the inductor, and the inductance of the inductor, and the capacitance of the capacitor; d) simulating the present current carried on said inductor, using the variation of the voltages with time to estimate the rate of change of the current, and using said estimates of the parasitic resistance and parasitic capacitance of the inductor; and e) controlling the operation of multiple phase legs, each including two bidirectional switches, which pump power into and out of said inductor, in partial dependence on said simulating step d); f) performing steps a-e in a cycle which includes periods when the inductor-capacitor combination is totally disconnected. | 36,803 |
8,840,365 | 1. A turbocharger comprising: a housing; an adjustable core at least partially circumferentially surrounded by the housing, the adjustable core comprising: an adjustment mechanism coupled to the adjustable core configured to adjust an axial position of the housing relative to the adjustable core in response to adjustment commands. | 49,869 |
9,487,767 | 1. A method for constructing a recombinant fungal host cell comprising one or more copies of a polynucleotide construct integrated in its genome, said method comprising: a) providing a fungal host cell transformed with an integrative polynucleotide construct, said construct comprising a first polynucleotide encoding a selectable marker, wherein the first polynucleotide, a 5′ untranslated region thereof and/or a riboswitch operably linked therewith comprises a spliceosomal intron which has 1 to 5 nucleotides between its branch site and its acceptor site; and a second polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest; b) cultivating the transformed fungal host cell under conditions conducive for expressing the selectable marker; and (c) isolating a recombinant fungal host cell comprising one or more copies of the polynucleotide construct integrated in its genome. | 16,954 |
9,810,020 | 1. A motorized window treatment comprising: a covering material; a drive assembly configured to raise and lower the covering material; a motor drive unit including a motor configured to drive the drive assembly to raise and lower the covering material between a fully-open position and a fully-closed position and to any position intermediate the fully-open and fully-closed positions; and at least one battery pack configured to hold at least one battery for producing a battery voltage to power the motor drive unit; wherein the motor drive unit is configured to monitor the magnitude of the battery voltage, the motor drive unit further configured to operate the motor at a reduced motor speed in response to the state of charge being reduced below a first predetermined threshold. | 12,606 |
8,664,697 | 1. A transistor device, having a multilayer structure in which a high electron mobility transistor and a heterojunction bipolar transistor, which are composed of a compound semiconductor, are overlapped on the same substrate and epitaxial-grown thereon, wherein the multilayer structure contains an In a band gap energy of the In | 42,207 |
9,181,861 | 1. An internal combustion engine control apparatus comprising: a turbocharger including a compressor; and a controller having executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed during operation of an internal combustion engine, perform operations to: | 26,469 |
8,645,968 | 1. An information processing system capable of communicating via a network with a printing apparatus which returns from power saving by external access, the information processing system comprising: a printer driver program unit installed in a first information processing apparatus and adapted to send print data to said printing apparatus; an application program unit installed in a second information processing apparatus communicating with the first information apparatus via the network and adapted to access said printing apparatus and acquire information from said printing apparatus; and an event managing unit adapted to manage a plurality of notification destinations of notification of an event occurrence, wherein the application program unit comprises: a requesting unit adapted to request notification of event occurrence generated by processing by said printer driver program unit to said event managing unit, wherein the event occurrence is defined as sending the print data from said printer driver program unit to said printing apparatus; and a determination unit adapted to determine presence or absence of the notification of the event occurrence by said printer driver program unit, wherein said application program unit accesses said printing apparatus and acquires information from said printing apparatus, in the case when said determination unit determines that there is the notification of the event occurrence, and wherein said application program unit does not access said printing apparatus, in the case when said determination unit determines that there is not a notification of the event occurrence. | 43,938 |
9,421,989 | 1. A rolling stock in which a cab end structure, an end structure, an underframe, side structures, and a roof structure are joined together, and the cab end structure is covered with an outside plate having a streamlined shape, the rolling stock comprising: a pair of left and right post members provided upright on inner sides of left and right end portions of an end beam of the underframe, the end beam being joined to a lower portion of the cab end structure; a recess portion being open frontward, the recess portion being formed in a front portion of the end beam between the pair of post members; and an impact absorbing member formed on the front face of the end beam where a front end portion of the impact absorbing member projects from the end beam, wherein the recess portion has such a size that the impact absorbing member is accommodated within the recess portion after being compressively deformed. | 37,744 |
9,532,468 | 1. A wiring board, comprising: a first resin insulating layer; a plurality of conductor pads formed on the first resin insulating layer and comprising a first conductor pad and a second conductor pad; a second resin insulating layer formed on the first resin insulating layer such that the second resin insulating layer is covering the first conductor pad and the second conductor pad; an outermost surface conductor wiring layer formed on the second resin insulating layer and comprising a first outermost surface conductor wiring layer and a second outermost surface conductor wiring layer; a plurality of via conductors penetrating through the second resin insulating layer and comprising a first via conductor connecting the first outermost surface conductor wiring layer and the first conductor pad and a second via conductor connecting the second outermost surface conductor wiring layer and the second conductor pad; and a solder resist layer formed on the second resin insulating layer such that the solder resist layer is covering the first outermost surface conductor wiring layer and has at least one opening portion exposing the second outermost surface conductor wiring layer, wherein the first via conductor and the first outermost surface conductor wiring layer comprise a first main metal, and the second via conductor and the second outermost surface conductor wiring layer comprise a second main metal which is different from the first main metal of the first via conductor and first outermost surface conductor wiring layer. | 38,306 |
9,797,261 | 1. A nozzle guide vane or turbine blade of a gas turbine engine, the nozzle guide vane or turbine blade comprising: at least one internal cooling chamber for passage of cooling air, the at least one cooling chamber including: (i) a leading edge portion, and (ii) at least one inlet portion through which cooling air enters the at least one cooling chamber from a feed source; and a partitioning element disposed in the at least one inlet portion of the at least one cooling chamber and extending into the at least one cooling chamber to define a sub-chamber wholly or partly within the at least one cooling chamber, the partitioning element and the leading edge portion constitute boundaries of the sub-chamber, the sub-chamber having an inlet configured to receive cooling air from the feed source, the partitioning element including: | 32,449 |
8,459,976 | 1. An apparatus to adjust directional conductivity of nanorods in an electrophoretic gel containing dissolved metal, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate positioned relative to the first substrate to allow placement of the electrophoretic gel between the first and second substrates; an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is disposed on the first substrate and the second electrode is disposed on the second substrate, and wherein the electrode pair is adapted to produce an electrical field through the electrophoretic gel between the first and second substrates in response to a potential difference across the first and second electrodes; a field control apparatus coupled to the first and second electrodes to apply the potential difference across the first and second electrodes in response to a control signal; and a computing device comprising a processor, a memory, and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to: | 23,209 |
9,248,201 | 1. A method of detecting the presence or activity of a target molecule in a sample comprising: a) contacting the sample with i) a polynucleotide encoding a biosensor polypeptide comprising a modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase of a parental thermostable luciferase that is modified by a substitution of an amino acid at a position that corresponds to position 507 of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the encoded amino acid sequence of the parental thermostable luciferase has at least 90% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase has a C-terminal portion of the thermostable luciferase joined to an N-terminal portion of the thermostable luciferase by a peptide linker comprising a sensor region capable of interacting with a target molecule in a cell, and wherein the modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase has an enhanced response after interaction of the biosensor with the target molecule relative to at least one of: ii) a substrate for the modified thermostable luciferase; and b) detecting luminescence in the sample. | 33,639 |
9,612,118 | 1. A planar microelectromechanical gyroscope structure comprising: a circular structure that extends around a center point; a central spring structure for suspending the circular structure to four central anchor points, symmetrically located around the center point; four central circle points and four peripheral circle points between the central circle points on the circular structure, neighboring ones of said four peripheral circle points forming a pair of peripheral circle points and neighboring ones of said four central circle points forming a pair of central circle points, wherein the central spring structure is configured to connect each of the four central anchor points to the pair of central circle points on the circular structure, wherein a connection between the central spring structure and the circular structure is configured to transform a radial on-plane displacement of a first circle point of the pair of peripheral or central circle points to a reverse radial on-plane force on a second circle point of the pair of peripheral or central circle points, wherein a direction of the radial on-plane displacement of the first circle point, and a direction of the radial on-plane force on the second circle point, are orthogonal. | 5,575 |
9,196,426 | 1. An ion storage electrode comprising: a substrate having a nanofibrillar film with a thickness of at least one monolayer disposed thereon, the film being formed from a plurality of doped amphoteric conjugate polymer nanofibers, wherein the polymer nanofibers have a diameter of from 1 to 100 nm and a length of from 2 to 30 μm, wherein the film of nanofibers is substantially free from polymer aggregates, and wherein the film of nanofibers is disposed on the substrate such that the polymer nanofibers are oriented substantially parallel to the substrate surface. | 33,381 |
8,889,468 | 1. A method for fabricating a tandem photovoltaic cell, comprising: forming a bifacial top cell, comprising: forming a bottom cell, comprising: forming a coupling layer between the bifacial top cell and the bottom cell, the coupling layer being free from a parasitic junction between the bifacial top cell and the bottom cell. | 24,613 |
8,514,978 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a receiver system, a modulated carrier signal, wherein the carrier signal is modulated using a reference signal, and wherein an acquisition by a digitizer is synced to the reference signal such that the modulated carrier signal has known timing with respect to a start of an acquisition within the digitizer, wherein the receiver system comprises an onboard signal source, the method further comprising generating the modulated carrier signal by modulating a signal provided from the onboard signal source of the receiver system; routing the modulated carrier signal through the receiver system to generate a processed signal; receiving the processed signal at the digitizer; digitizing the processed signal at the digitizer; and determining a delay of the modulated carrier signal routed through the receiver system based on the timing of the processed signal. | 30,444 |
9,163,575 | 1. A method for an engine system, comprising: based on a first output from a catalyzing sensor and a second output of a non-catalyzing sensor, determining an intake oxygen concentration and a fuel vapor concentration; adjusting exhaust gas recirculation responsive to the determined oxygen concentration; and adjusting fuel injection responsive to the determined fuel vapor concentration. | 1,153 |
8,840,202 | 1. A dishwasher appliance comprising: a tub that defines a wash chamber, said tub extending between a first side and a second side along a lateral direction, said tub also extending between a front and a back along a transverse direction, the transverse direction being perpendicular to the lateral direction; a door mounted proximate said tub for permitting selective access to the wash chamber of said tub, an interior surface of said door having a contour along the lateral direction when said door is in a closed position, the contour having an obtuse angle; a rack assembly mounted within the wash chamber and configured for receipt of articles for cleaning; and a silverware basket removably mounted to a front of said rack assembly such that said silverware basket is disposed between said rack assembly and said door along the transverse direction when said door is in the closed position, said silverware basket having an outer profile along the lateral direction that is complementary to the contour of said door, said silverware basket also having an inner profile along the lateral direction that is complementary to the contour of said door, said silverware basket comprising | 24,579 |
8,720,332 | 1. A cylinder throw-on/off apparatus for a printing press, comprising: at least one printing unit comprising a plate cylinder including a notch in an outer surface thereof, an impression cylinder including a notch in an outer surface thereof, and a blanket cylinder disposed between said plate cylinder and said impression cylinder and including a notch in an outer surface thereof; a cylinder throw-on/off motor which is driven while the notch of said blanket cylinder opposes the notch of said plate cylinder to throw on/off said blanket cylinder with respect to said plate cylinder, and driven while the notch of said blanket cylinder opposes the notch of said impression cylinder to throw on/off said blanket cylinder with respect to said impression cylinder; rotation phase detection means for detecting a rotation phase of said printing press; accelerating means for accelerating said printing press to a predetermined printing speed; throw-on operation control means for driving said cylinder throw-on/off motor, while the printing press is accelerating at a predetermined rate, to control throw-on operation of said blanket cylinder for said plate cylinder and said impression cylinder; and motor drive amount calculation means which, when controlling the throw-on operation of said blanket cylinder, calculates a drive amount of said cylinder throw-on/off motor, on the basis of a curve representing a predetermined relationship between the rotation phase of the printing press and the drive amount of the cylinder throw-on/off motor, the speed of the printing press undergoing a speed change at a predetermined rate relative to the predetermined printing speed without requiring a constant speed period, and the rotation phase thereof detected by said rotation phase detection means. | 28,328 |
8,759,556 | 1. A method for the selective extraction of functionalized fatty acid ester(s) from seeds of oleaginous plants comprising at least one extraction stage comprising: (i) extracting fatty acid esters by simultaneously feeding into a reactor containing said seeds: a light anhydrous alcohol a basic catalyst, and an extraction solvent, (ii) selectively extracting the functionalized fatty acid esters by adding said extraction solvent into the reactor in a direction countercurrent to the light alcohol, to yield: an alcohol phase enriched with the functionalized fatty acid ester(s), a solvent phase comprising non-functionalized fatty acid esters, a glycerol phase, and an oil cake. | 45,363 |
9,749,774 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a gateway in a first network, a message from a peripheral network in a second network different from the first network, wherein the message is intended for an end device within the first network; periodically receiving and storing data associated with the end device, the stored data comprising a last known status of the end device of the first network, one or more services provided by the end device, and a time at the end device; determining the message intended for the end device is a status request of the end device's status and is answerable from the gateway and transmission of the message to the end device is not required, wherein the gateway is configured to respond to the status request from the peripheral network; retrieving the stored data for the end device, the stored data being received from the end device and stored prior to receiving the message intended for the end device; and generating, by the gateway, a response message in response to the received message based on the stored data, the response message intended for the peripheral network. | 26,834 |
9,145,140 | 1. A method comprising: scanning a target area using one or more sensors of a vehicle to obtain target area information, wherein the vehicle is configured to operate in an autonomous mode and the target area is a type of area where traffic signals are typically located; detecting a traffic signal in the target area information; determining a location of the traffic signal; determining a state of the traffic signal; after detecting the traffic signal, determining the location of the traffic signal, and determining the state of the traffic signal, determining a confidence in the traffic signal, wherein determining the confidence in the traffic signal comprises comparing the location of the traffic signal to one or more known locations of traffic signals; and controlling motion of the vehicle in the autonomous mode based on: the state of the traffic signal and the determined confidence in the traffic signal. | 45,008 |
8,700,419 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving clickstream data describing actions entered by a user while viewing content; retrieving a user attribute of the user; retrieving content information describing the content; merging the clickstream data with the user attribute and with the content information to generate in memory data of a timeline describing the content information associated to the clickstream data; comparing by a processor the data of the timeline to advertising attributes of advertisements; determining by the processor the data of the timeline matches one of the advertising attributes; retrieving an advertisement associated with the one of the advertising attributes; and sending the advertisement to the user. | 20,361 |
9,575,788 | 1. A method comprising: receiving by a physical processor executing a hypervisor, from a guest operating system of a virtual machine, a request for an additional virtual processor, wherein the request specifies a virtual proximity domain comprising a first virtual processor and a second virtual processor; selecting from a plurality of physical proximity domains, via the hypervisor, a physical proximity domain that comprises a first physical processor and a second physical processor, wherein the first physical processor currently runs the first virtual processor and is scheduled to run the second virtual processor, and wherein the second physical processor currently runs the second virtual processor; and allocating to the guest operating system, via the hypervisor, a virtual processor of the specified virtual proximity domain that is mapped to a physical processor of the selected physical proximity domain. | 44,758 |
9,429,687 | 1. A lens module, comprising: a substrate assembly comprising: a main body having a front surface and an opposing rear surface, the rear surface being on the image side of the lens module; and a supporting layer with a planar configuration formed on the main body to prevent the main body from deforming, wherein the main body is made of a first material and the supporting layer is made of a second material different from the first material, wherein the refractive index of the supporting layer is the same as the refractive index of the main body, and the ratio of the area of the supporting layer to the area of the entire rear surface is in a range about 50% to about 100%; and an array of lens units formed on the substrate assembly. | 41,657 |
8,708,168 | 1. A tool stand including: a base including a hub and two branches extending from the hub; a bearing placed in the hub; a post including a lower end inserted in the bearing, an upper end, and apertures defined near the upper end; at least an upper tray and a lower tray rotationally supported on the post above the base, wherein the upper tray can be rotated on the post independent of the lower tray; a plug including a head placed against the upper end of the post, a body inserted in the post, and two barbs inserted in the apertures of the post so that the upper and lower trays are kept on the post by the plug; a small wheel connected to the hub and two more small wheels each connected to a corresponding one of the branches; and large wheels connected to the lower tray so that the large wheels do not interfere with the rotation of the base relative to the post. | 49,791 |
9,247,488 | 1. An access point search device comprising: a processor connected to a memory, the processor and memory being configured to: search for an access point store an information item related to an access point found by the search, into a first storage area; store the information item related to the access point stored in the first storage area, into a second storage area; display a result of the search for the access point, based on an information item stored in the second storage area; and determine whether or not a sum of the number of newly-found access points identified by the information items stored in the first storage area and the number of already-found access points identified by the information items stored in the second storage area, is greater than a predetermined number, wherein in a case where it is determined that the sum is greater than the predetermined number, the information items stored in the first storage area are stored into the second storage area, and an information item related to an access point which is less in radio field intensity than the newly-found access point is deleted from among the information items stored in the second storage area. | 40,523 |
8,869,527 | 1. In combination with a charging device having at least one valve element, an actuator for the charging device, the actuator comprising at least one actuating device and a connecting device with a tolerance compensation device, wherein the at least one valve element is coupled via said connecting device to said at least one actuating device and is actuatable by said at least one actuating device, said tolerance compensation device including at least one coupling element which is connected via a push-in connection to at least one actuating rod of said tolerance compensation device, said push-in connection being configured substantially perpendicularly with respect to a circumferential face of said at least one coupling element, wherein said actuating rod has a groove on an end side thereof, wherein, in a preliminary state, said coupling element is adjustable in a direction of a longitudinal axis of said actuating rod and is also adjustable in a direction transverse with respect to the longitudinal axis of said actuating rod, and wherein, in a final state, said coupling element is immobilized in a fixed position with respect to said actuating rod. | 18,286 |
9,399,458 | 1. A method of operating a drive train of a motor vehicle comprising a drive assembly which has at least a combustion engine and an automatic transmission, and the automatic transmission having frictional shift elements positioned between the combustion engine and an output for executing a traction downshift in which at least one frictional shift element of the automatic transmission is engaged and at least one shift element of the automatic transmission is disengaged, the method comprising: engaging at least a first frictional shift element of the automatic transmission; disengaging at least a second frictional shift element of the automatic transmission; and simultaneously reducing torque provided by the combustion engine and starting a reduction of a transfer ability of the second frictional shift element for executing the traction downshift. | 37,944 |
8,672,582 | 1. An automatic safety system comprising: a multipurpose compactor including at least one transmitter fixedly coupled thereto; and a movable unit including a transceiver configured to transmit an identification code at a time interval fixedly coupled thereto, wherein the transceiver utilizes radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to communicate with the at least one transmitter and causes the multipurpose compactor to stop when the identification code is not transmitted; wherein the at least one transmitter is adapted to emit a spherical propagation of a protective field for a direction independent protection of an operator, and wherein an identification code fault command is generated which is representative of the fact that the identification code of the movable unit is not transmitted correctly or is not received correctly, whereby a first and a second drive stop command is generated to stop the drives in both drive directions via a second shutdown pathway. | 6,270 |
9,401,686 | 1. A volume control assembly configured to be coupled to an external electronic device such that said assembly automatically adjusts an audible volume of the external electronic device between a minimum and a maximum volume, said assembly comprising: a housing configured to be positioned proximate the external electronic device; a processor coupled to said housing; a loud actuator coupled to said housing, said loud actuator being operationally coupled to said processor such that said loud actuator defines a maximum volume of an audio signal from the external electronic device; a quiet actuator coupled to said housing, said quiet actuator being operationally coupled to said processor such that said quiet actuator defines a minimum volume of the audio signal from the external electronic device; an amplifier coupled to said housing, said amplifier being operationally coupled to said processor such that said amplifier amplifies the audio signal above the minimum volume defined by said quiet actuator and reduces the audio signal below the maximum volume defined by said loud actuator; an input coupled to said housing, said input being operationally coupled to said processor, said input being operationally coupled to the external electronic device such that said input receives the audio signal from the external electronic device; and an output coupled to said housing, said output being operationally coupled to said processor, said output being operationally coupled to the external electronic device such that the audio signal is directed to the external electronic device between the minimum and maximum volume. | 37,124 |
8,714,205 | 1. A delayed degradability drip irrigation pipe including: a water conduit at a water conduit pressure; and a plurality of drip irrigation outlets, each communicating with said water conduit and providing a water output at a pressure below said water conduit pressure, said water conduit comprising: | 25,398 |
9,753,440 | 1. A method, comprising: using a computer processor, evaluating second data representing status of an energy storage device to make a determination whether the energy storage device has adequate state of charge for a discharging operation; if the determination indicates that the energy storage device has adequate state of charge for a discharging operation, then selecting a discharging rate proportionally scaled based on an average discharge rate for a bi-directional charging system, the discharging rate being clamped between a maximum discharging rate and a zero discharging rate for the bi-directional charging system, the selected discharging rate being based on an average load rate for the bi-directional charging system and on first data representing one or more electrical characteristics of an electrical power distribution system, the bi-directional charging system being operable to charge or discharge the energy storage device; and generating a regulation signal for causing the bi-directional charging system to discharge the energy storage device, the regulation signal being based at least in part on the selected discharging rate. | 11,929 |
9,843,166 | 1. A spark plug comprising: a metallic shell having a through hole extending in a direction of an axis and having an opening at an open end; a cap that is located at a front side of the spark plug and covers the opening in the metallic shell; and a melt portion provided between the cap and the metallic shell, said melt portion joining the cap and the metallic shell to each other, wherein the cap and the metallic shell form a specific space surrounded by an inner surface of the cap and the inner peripheral surface of the metallic shell, the cap has a projection that extends from the peripheral edge of the cap into the specific space so as to form a gap between the metallic shell and the projection of the cap defining a channel communicating with the specific space and the melt portion, and the melt portion is exposed to the specific space so as to exhaust gas generated by welding into the gap. | 39,291 |
9,243,086 | 1. A catalyst component for olefin polymerization, comprising a reaction product of: (1) a spherical carrier; (2) a titanium compound; and optionally, (3) an electron donor, wherein the spherical carrier comprises solid particles directly formed in reaction of at least the following components: (a) a magnesium halide represented by a general formula of MgX (b) an alcohol compound; and (c) an epoxy compound represented by a general formula (I): wherein R 2 and R 3 are independently hydrogen, a C 1 -C 5 linear or branched alkyl, or a C 1 -C 5 linear or branched haloalkyl. | 33,472 |
9,034,647 | 1. An injectable graft composition for myocardial tissue regeneration, said composition comprising acellular extracellular matrix (ECM) from a mammalian tissue source comprising small intestine submucosa (SIS), said ECM comprising endogenous matrix metalloproteases (MMPs), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β), fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), said ECM further comprising an exogenously added supplemental bioactive component comprising a collagen Type IV protein, said supplemental collagen Type IV protein comprising at least 0.1% by weight of said composition, said supplemental collagen Type IV protein being linked to said ECM, wherein said supplemental collagen Type IV protein interacts with said MMPs to modulate activity thereof and said VEGF to control and enhance angiogenesis and, thereby, matrix formation and remodeling when said composition is administered to damaged cardiovascular tissue. | 31,193 |
8,687,302 | 1. An apparatus comprising: interface circuitry, the interface circuitry comprising at least one data path and an adaptive power supply configured to provide a variable supply voltage to said data path of the interface circuitry; wherein the adaptive power supply comprises a reference voltage circuit having a plurality of field effect transistors collectively configured to provide a variable reference voltage for the adaptive power supply, wherein different ones of the field effect transistors are biased into different operating regions. | 6,314 |
9,072,049 | 1. A communications device comprising: a receiver; a transmitter; and a processor; wherein the communications device is configured to: | 7,523 |
8,424,809 | 1. A watercraft configured to operate using a morphable skin to manipulate viscous boundary layer processes, comprising: a watercraft having a surface; a morphable skin having first and second surfaces, said first surface of said morphable skin being attached to at least a portion of said surface of said watercraft, said second surface of said morphable skin comprising asperities, said asperities configured to exhibit a morphable configuration of said second surface relative to said surface of said watercraft; an actuator in operative communication with said morphable skin, said actuator configured to apply a control signal to said morphable skin; and a controller in communication with said actuator, said controller configured to provide a command to said actuator to control at least one of a speed, a direction and an attitude, said command based at least in part on a deviation of a perceived speed, direction or attitude from a desired speed, direction or attitude; whereby, in response to a command signal provided to said actuator, said actuator controls said second surface of said skin so that said skin assumes a modified surface configuration relative to said surface of said watercraft so as to control a fluid dynamic force to exert a control authority over at least one of said speed, said direction and said attitude of said watercraft. | 22,141 |
8,640,500 | 1. A method of operating a glassmelting furnace, comprising (A) providing a glassmelting furnace having walls defining a chamber that encloses a bath comprising glassmaking materials, a crown over said bath, at least one glassmelting oxy-fuel burner through a wall to provide heat to said bath by combustion in a combustion zone that is located between said bath and said crown, wherein the atmosphere within said glassmelting furnace contains vapor-phase alkali species and the inner surface of said crown is susceptible to corrosion by reaction with said vapor-phase alkali species, and at least one auxiliary burner through a wall of said furnace that produces a gaseous stream of combustion products and that is vertically oriented away from the surface of the glassmaking materials to feed said gaseous stream of combustion products to flow along said inner surface of said crown between said combustion zone and said crown, and (B) combusting fuel and oxidant having an oxygen content higher than that of air at said at least one glassmelting burner at a stoichiometric ratio greater than 1.0 to provide heat to said bath, while combusting fuel and oxidant at said at least one auxiliary burner at a stoichiometric ratio of less than 1.0 to produce a gaseous stream of combustion products comprising carbon monoxide and containing no alkali, and passing said gaseous stream of combustion products along said inner surface of said crown to at a suitable velocity effective to establish and maintain a layer of said combustion products flowing along said inner surface which interact with alkali species from said combustion zone which are thereby inhibited from reacting with said inner surface of said crown. | 23,652 |
9,755,417 | 1. A vehicle system, comprising: an electrical bus; a battery module coupled to the electrical bus via a contactor and a disconnector; and a controller configured to: | 35,588 |
9,088,969 | 1. A method for establishing a connection to a bluetooth device, comprising: receiving a connection request to a device corresponding to contact information stored in the bluetooth device that is inputted to the bluetooth device by a user selecting the contact information; collecting, when no device information of bluetooth devices corresponds to the selected contact information, the device information of bluetooth devices discovered within a bluetooth communication range of the bluetooth device; and when a user touches a bluetooth button on a screen, establishing a connection to the bluetooth device having the device information matching with the selected contact information in part from among the collected device information, wherein the contact information is at least one of a contact name and a phone number. | 9,647 |
9,599,094 | 1. A method of manufacturing an aerodynamic shell part for a wind turbine blade, the aerodynamic shell part comprising a recess for arrangement and connection of a spar cap within said recess, said method comprising the steps of: providing a first mould part having a first forming surface that defines a part of an exterior of the aerodynamic shell part, laying up fibre-reinforcement material and an optional sandwich core material in the first mould on the first forming surface, arranging one or more inserts having an exterior shape corresponding to at least sides of the recess of the aerodynamic shell part, supplying resin to said fibre-reinforcement material and optional sandwich core material, curing or preconsolidating the resin, and removing the one or more inserts. | 45,322 |
9,620,283 | 1. A magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) circuit comprising: a control circuit including a base coil, a variable current source, a variable tuning capacitor and a control load, said variable current source selectively providing a predetermined current to the base coil so as to generate an oscillating magnetic field at a predetermined frequency; and at least one receiver circuit including a receiver coil, a tuning capacitor and a sensor that measures an environmental condition, said receiver coil being tuned to a resonant frequency that causes it to be magnetically coupled to the base coil at the predetermined frequency, wherein sensor measurements provided by the sensor in the at least one receiver circuit cause a change in the magnetic coupling between the base coil and the receiver coil that causes a change in the voltage across the control load. | 47,557 |
8,708,538 | 1. A vehicle lamp comprising: a plurality of light sources; and a light guide plate arranged to emit light to the front side of the lamp from a second surface facing a first surface by internally reflecting light, which is emitted from the respective light sources, by a plurality of reflective elements on the first surface after causing the light to enter the light guide plate from a rear end face of the light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate is curved to the first surface and gradually becomes thinner toward the front side, and the plurality of reflective elements are disposed at a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction and extend in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction. | 27,381 |
9,795,097 | 1. A growing system, comprising: a pump device including an inlet and an outlet, wherein said inlet of said pump device is fluidly connected to a fluid source; a main manifold fluidly connected to said outlet of said pump device; a plurality of feeder pipes fluidly connected to said main manifold; and a plurality of growing assemblies for growing plants, each of said growing assemblies comprising: | 8,652 |
9,404,541 | 1. A mating connection for a clutch assembly, comprising: a first component including: a second component including: none of the openings in the plurality of openings is open to the first opening; each tooth included in the plurality of teeth extends through a respective opening included in the plurality of openings; said each tooth has a respective end piece extending beyond the second component in the first direction; and, the respective end piece extends beyond the respective hole in a second direction from the respective hole toward the first opening. | 46,056 |
9,087,417 | 1. A window device for a motor vehicle comprising: a transparent first pane including a first structure for coupling out light; a transparent second pane connected in parallel with the first pane said second pane having a second structure for coupling out light; and a lighting device for coupling a first light into the first pane, wherein a second light can be coupled into the second pane independent of the first light. | 33,561 |
8,975,112 | 1. An organic electronic device method, comprising providing a substrate, providing a lower electrode and providing an organic active layer with an upper electrode over it the organic active layer, the organic layer being a photoconductive layer obtainable in the form of a bulk heterojunction by spraying a sheet-like substrate with at least two different spraying agents being sprayed simultaneously onto a same surface area. | 19,667 |
9,428,378 | 1. A component, comprising: at least two semiconductor elements connected to one another via at least one structured connecting layer; wherein at least two hermetically tightly sealed cavities are formed between the at least two semiconductor elements, and different defined internal pressures prevail in the at least two hermetically tightly sealed cavities, and wherein at least a first one of the cavities is sealed by a circumferential bonding frame in the connecting layer, and wherein at least a second one of the cavities is at least partially sealed by a welding joint between the at least two semiconductor elements, and wherein a semiconductor material of at least one of the two semiconductor elements is included in the welding joint. | 12,665 |
9,364,503 | 1. A blood-derived plastic comprising a plasticized composition comprising clotted whole plasma and at least one biological response modifier. | 35,951 |
8,766,330 | 1. A solid-state device comprising: a channel formed of a single-layer of MoS2 on a substrate; and a source contact formed of at least a first material and a drain contact formed of at least a second material which is different from the first material on the substrate and in contact with first and second ends of the channel, wherein Schottky junctions are formed at an interface of at least one of the source and drain contacts and the channel exhibiting a photovoltaic effect. | 39,054 |
9,311,214 | 1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring performance of an application across a distributed computing environment, including within a mainframe computer, comprising: invoking an event agent, where the event agent is executed in a run-time environment by a processor of a mainframe computer; receiving, at the mainframe computer, a transaction request from an application, where the application executes on a computing device located remotely from the mainframe computer; detecting, by the event agent, an event caused by the received transaction request, where the event occurs in the run-time environment of the mainframe computer; determining, by the event agent, identifying information for the transaction request from a set of registers residing in the run-time environment, where the identifying information for the transaction request is known to the application but is absent from the transaction request itself, thereby permitting correlation of the transaction request with activities of the application occurring in other areas of the distributed computing environment; generating, by the event agent, an event message for the detected event, where the event message includes the identifying information for the transaction request; and transmitting the event message to a server located remotely from the mainframe computer. | 39,978 |
8,345,406 | 1. An electric double layer capacitor comprising an electrochemical cell, the cell comprising: first and second electrodes each comprising a porous matrix of electrochemically-active particles; and an aqueous-based liquid electrolyte disposed in contact with the electrochemically-active particles, wherein the electrolyte includes an anionic polymer and a polyprotic acid. | 7,198 |
9,840,949 | 1. A valve switching apparatus comprising: a rocker arm coming into contact with a cam to open and close a valve along with a rotation of the cam; and an eccentric generation means, including eccentric cams rotatably arranged to the rocker arm and a rotary shaft eccentrically coupled to the eccentric cams, and provided to the rocker arm so as to allow an eccentric position to be changed by a rotation thereof, wherein the eccentric position of each of the eccentric cams is adjusted according to a rotation of the rotary shaft so that a degree of contact between the cam and the rocker arm is adjustable, wherein the rocker arm comprises a body coupled to the eccentric cams and an operation section pressed by the body to press the valve, and the operation section is coupled through the body by the rotary shaft, and wherein the operation section has a rotation hole formed at one side thereof, the rotary shaft passes through the rotation hole, the operation section has an extension portion formed at the other side thereof, the extension portion extends laterally from an upper side of the rotation hole, the extension portion is provided with a pressure section, and the extension portion is formed with support protrusions protruding to the left and right. | 28,425 |
9,322,145 | 1. A quick coupler for attaching a tool, comprising an attachment bracket with two parallel attachment pins, to an earth moving vehicle, wherein the quick coupler comprises: a frame with a first cutout with an essentially horizontal extension direction and a second cutout with an essentially vertical extension direction so that the cutouts are arranged substantially perpendicular to each other, where each respective cutout is adapted to cooperate with a respective attachment pin of the tool, at least one locking arrangement, moveable in relation to the frame, and adapted to delimit the second cutout in a direction parallel to the first cutout, whereby one of the attachment pins of the tool is locked up in the second cutout, at least one actuator, arranged in the frame and adapted to move the locking arrangement in relation to the frame between a first open position and a second locked position in a direction substantially parallel to the extension direction of the first cutout, and a lock indication device which visually indicates if the locking part is in the first or second position, wherein the at least one actuator is attached between the locking arrangement and the lock indication device and is arranged to linearly move the locking arrangement and the lock indication device in relation to the frame in opposite directions, substantially parallel to the extension direction of the first cutout so that the lock indication device visually indicates when the locking arrangement is in the second locked position by a protrusion of the lock indication device from the frame which therefore makes it visible from outside the frame, wherein the lock indication device comprises at least one elongated indication part with a first distal end and a second proximal end, where the at least one indication part is arranged to linearly run in an opening in the frame so that in the first position it is inserted in the frame and in the second position it protrudes from the frame and becomes visible from outside the frame. | 19,930 |
8,644,960 | 1. A method for displaying, via a user interface, an ambiance setting for a bathing system, the user interface configured to display at least one display page on a display screen, the method implemented by a programmable system including at least one programmable processor and comprising: a) displaying on the display screen, a plurality of ambiance settings selectable by a user of the user interface; b) receiving, at a processor, an indication of a selected ambiance setting from the plurality of ambiance settings displayed on the display screen; c) in response to the selected ambiance setting: | 24,847 |
9,431,946 | 1. A motor control device, comprising: a current command value calculating device configured to calculate a basic current command value based on a torque command value input from the outside and a rotation speed of a motor; a first compensation device configured to compensate for delay of a rotor flux response of the motor by amplifying the basic current command value; a first current command value limiting device configured to restrict a post-compensation current command value by a first current limit value; a second compensation device configured to calculate, based on an amplified current command value calculated by the first compensation device and the first limited current command value calculated by the first current command value limiting device, a compensation value for the amplified current command value; an adding device configured to add the amplified current command value and the compensation value to calculate the post-compensation current command value; and a motor control device configured to control the motor based on the first restricted current command value, the second compensation device being configured to calculate, as the compensation value, a portion of the amplified current command value which has been subject to the restriction by the first current limit value. | 11,635 |
8,388,509 | 1. A system, comprising: circuitry configured to detect a scattered energy from a biological tissue in at least one of a dark-field detection configuration and a Rheinberg detection configuration; and circuitry configured to magnetically perturb hemozoin nanoparticles in the biological tissue in response to a comparison between detected scattered energy information and reference hemozoin nanoparticles scattered energy information; wherein the circuitry configured to magnetically perturb hemozoin nanoparticles in a biological tissue includes one or more processors that, when activated, generate a control signal that causes the comparison between the detected scattered energy and the reference hemozoin nanoparticles scattered energy information. | 49,684 |
9,615,376 | 1. A wireless base station device comprising: a radio resource allocation unit that allocates radio resources to a wireless communication device; a communication unit that communicates data by using the radio resources that are allocated by the radio resource allocation unit; and a priority setting unit that sets a priority of a frequency for allocating the radio resources by the radio resource allocation unit, according to data on communication history of the radio resources for each frequency allocated by the radio resource allocation unit in a communication history during a past specific time period. | 6,179 |
9,373,734 | 1. A semiconductor structure useful in forming a solar cell comprising: a substrate; at least one active layer formed of a material including a homogenous compound of an Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) powder and a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) material atomized into the InGaN powder to thereby align alloy grain boundaries of the at least one active layer after vaporizing the POSS material; and an absorption-enhancing layer for increasing photon propagation into the at least one active layer. | 31,757 |
9,669,144 | 1. An intravascular blood pump comprising: a pumping device; and a system comprising a catheter having a kink sensor, wherein the kink sensor comprises at least one optical fiber having a first end and a second end, the optical fiber is part of an optical pressure sensor, the kink sensor possesses a sensor head firmly connected to the pumping device; the system further comprising an evaluation device attached to the optical fiber of the catheter, wherein the evaluation device is arranged for evaluating a preset light quantity transmitted through the optical fiber as to whether a part of the light quantity is coupled out of the optical fiber along the length of the optical fiber. | 29,032 |
9,831,510 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a cell stack assembly including a plurality of cathode components and a plurality of anode components; a first reactant blower having an outlet situated to provide a first reactant which is split into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion directed to the cathode components; a second reactant blower having an outlet situated to provide a second reactant to the anode components, the second reactant blower comprising a fan portion that moves the second reactant through the outlet, a motor portion that drives the fan portion and a bearing portion associated with the fan portion and the motor portion, and the motor portion having a motor coolant inlet coupled with the outlet of the first reactant blower to receive at least some of the second portion of the first reactant; and a mass flow control valve configured to selectively control a pressure of the second portion of the first reactant introduced into the motor portion of the second reactant blower by controlling an amount of the second portion of the first reactant that flows into the motor coolant inlet for cooling the motor portion, the mass flow control valve maintaining the pressure of the second portion of the first reactant introduced into the motor portion to be higher than a pressure in the bearing portion that is associated with the motor portion. | 47,401 |
8,618,364 | 1. A seed of soybean cultivar S100297, wherein a representative of sample seed of said cultivar is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12356. | 3,190 |
9,544,991 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a multi-layer printed circuit board including a first dielectric material, wherein the first dielectric material is a most predominant of any dielectric materials of the multi-layer printed circuit board; a first signal line and a second signal line forming a first differential pair on a first layer of the printed circuit board; a second differential pair on the first layer of the printed circuit board; and a common mode filter on a second layer of the printed circuit board, wherein all of the first dielectric material is external to the common mode filter, wherein the common mode filter extends directly below a portion of the first differential pair and further extends directly below portion of the second differential pair. | 33,159 |
9,468,975 | 1. A process for treating a zirconium containing feedstock, which includes fluorinating a feedstock comprising dissociated zircon ('DZ') to obtain a zirconium fluorine compound and a silicon fluorine compound; separating the zirconium fluorine compound from the silicon fluorine compound; reacting the zirconium fluorine compound with a non-fluorine halogen, an alkali metal non-fluorine halide or an alkaline-earth metal non-fluorine halide, thereby to obtain a zirconium non-fluorine halide; and subjecting the zirconium non-fluorine halide to plasma reduction, in a plasma reduction stage, in the presence of a reductant, by introducing a feedstock comprising the zirconium non-fluorine halide into a tail flame of a plasma reactor, to obtain metallic zirconium in powdered form. | 25,165 |
8,994,206 | 1. An energy generation system, comprising: a turbine operable to extract energy from a fluid flow and convert the extracted energy into mechanical energy; an electric generator operable to convert the mechanical energy from the turbine into AC electrical energy; a step-up transformer operable to transfer the AC electrical energy at a lower voltage from the electric generator to a higher voltage; and a converter operable to convert the AC electrical energy at the higher voltage to DC electrical energy, the converter comprising a converter leg for a phase of the AC electrical energy, the converter leg having an upper arm with a first plurality of sub-modules and a lower arm with a second plurality of sub-modules, each sub-module operable to function as a controlled voltage source. | 18,118 |
8,497,936 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a display panel adapted to display an image; a camera module having a lens part mounted on a printed circuit board; and a receiving container having a main receiving space receiving the display panel and a sub receiving space extended from the main receiving space and receiving the camera module, wherein the receiving container further comprises sidewalls, a first bottom connected to the sidewalls and disposed in an area corresponding to the main receiving space, and a second bottom extended from a first sidewall of the sidewalls. | 17,296 |
9,211,288 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition, comprising vortioxetine and donepezil together with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. | 14,768 |
9,261,493 | 1. A method of quantitative analysis of hexavalent chromium in a chromate coating, the method comprising: immersing a substrate on which a chromate coating is formed in an aqueous solution comprising lithium hydroxide at a concentration of from 0.8 to 1.3 wt % to extract hexavalent chromium, thereby forming an extraction solution; making the extraction solution acidic; and performing quantitative analysis of extracted hexavalent chromium in the extraction solution, wherein hexavalent chromium contained in the chromate coating is not reduced during the extraction of the hexavalent chromium. | 17,733 |
9,570,648 | 1. An optical proximity sensor, comprising: a light detector die having a planar top surface that includes a light detector sensor area and first and second bond pads on a portion of the planar top surface of the light detector die that does not include the light detector sensor area, the light detector die also including a planar bottom surface, wherein a thickness between the planar top and bottom surfaces of the light detector die is substantially constant; a light source die having a planar bottom surface attached to a portion of the planar top surface of the light detector die that does not include the light detector sensor area, such that the planar bottom surface of the light source die is substantially coplanar with the planar top surface of the light detector die, wherein the light source die includes anode and cathode terminals, wherein one of the anode and cathode terminals of the light source die is located on the planar bottom surface of the light source die and is attached to and electrically connected to the first bond pad on the planar top surface of the light detector die by an electrically conductive material, and wherein the other one of the anode and cathode terminals of the light source die is electrically connected to the second bond pad on the planar top surface of the light source die; an opaque barrier formed on, and extending upward from, the planar top surface of the light detector die between the light detector sensor area and the light source die so that the entire light source die is on an opposite side of the opaque barrier than the light detector sensor area; the opaque barrier being a wafer level opaque barrier and having a height relative to the planar top surface of the light detector die that is greater than a thickness between the planar bottom surface of the light source die and a top surface of the light source die; solder balls or other electrical connectors for both the light detector sensor area and the light source die attached to the bottom surface of the light detector die; and vias in the light detector die that electrically connect the light detector sensor area and the anode and cathode terminals of the light source die to respective ones of the solder balls or other electrical connectors that are attached to the bottom surface of the light detector die; wherein the vias in the light detector die include first and second vias that respectively electrically connect the first and second bond pads on the planar top surface of the light detector die to respective ones of the solder balls or other electrical connectors that are attached to the bottom surface of the light detector die, thereby electrically connecting the anode and cathode terminals of the light source die to the respective ones of the solder balls or other electrical connectors that are attached to the bottom surface of the light detector die. | 12,772 |
8,609,760 | 1. A natural rubber blend, comprising: 100 phr natural rubber; from about 5 to about 25 phr of one or more propylene-ethylene copolymers consisting of propylene and ethylene, said propylene-ethylene copolymers containing from about 10 to about 16 wt % ethylene and having a melting temperature (Tm) of from 60° C. to 105° C.; a heat of fusion of from about 40 J/g to about 80 J/g, and MFR ASTM-1238D, 2.16 kg, 230° C., of about from 1 g/10 min to about 90 g/10 min; wherein (a) aging effect on tensile strength aged at 100° C., 72 h is at least one third less significant on said natural rubber blend than on a blend free of the propylene-ethylene copolymer, but is otherwise identical in terms of its constituents, and (b) aging effect on ultimate elongation aged at 70° C., 72 h is at least one half less significant on said natural rubber blend than on a blend free of the propylene-ethylene copolymer, but is otherwise identical in terms of its constituents. | 7,568 |
9,278,818 | 1. A medium supply device, comprising: a medium cassette that accommodates a medium and that is installed into a predetermined installation part; a dial that is provided on the medium cassette and that is rotatable around a predetermined rotation axis; a position-holding part that is configured to hold the dial at a predetermined rotation position; an arm member that is provided to face the dial of the medium cassette that is installed on the installation part and that includes a plurality of arm parts that are independent of each other and that are independently displaceable; and a detection switch that includes a plurality of switch parts that are pressed by the plurality of arm parts of the arm member, wherein the dial includes the projection parts of the projection formation part selectively contact and displace the arm parts of the arm member in accordance with the rotation position of the dial to selectively press the switch parts of the detection switch, the display part, the rotation engagement member and the projection formation part are integrally combined in an axial direction of the predetermined rotation axis, and the rotation enegagement member forms a plurality of engaged parts that are engageable with an engagement part of the position-holding part and that are positioned in the circumferential direction around the predetermined rotation axis at an even interval. | 28,961 |
9,522,485 | 1. A primary material adapted for use in a mold for molding plastics, the material comprising, in a tempered state, a composition having a material hardness of higher than 340 HB and the composition consisting essentially of, in weight percent: C=0.25 to 0.35 Si=0.04 to 0.20 Mn=1.00 to 2.00 Cr=1.00 to 2.00 Ni=0.30 to less than 0.90 Mo=0.30 to 0.80 V=less than/equal to 0.20 Al=0.01 to 0.03 N=0.0025 to 0.0150 S=less than 0.15 a remainder of Fe and impurities. | 9,841 |
9,734,423 | 1. An image-based structural health monitoring system, comprising: a marker image acquisition unit configured to acquire marker images of markers attached onto a surface of a structure; a marker coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate coordinates of the markers in the marker images; a shape function determination unit configured to determine a shape function by performing spline interpolation based on the calculated marker coordinates; and a structural health evaluation unit configured to evaluate structural health of the structure by calculating strain or stress of the structure based on a radius of curvature calculated at each location on the determined shape function. | 21,264 |
9,048,480 | 1. A composition having the formula wherein X is S or O; wherein Y is wherein Z is SO wherein n is from 1 to 1000, and wherein G comprises guanidine or guanidinium, said guanidine having the formula said guanidinium having the formula wherein R wherein R wherein A | 9,404 |
9,556,941 | 1. A variable transmission comprising: an input shaft; a first ring assembly rotatably disposed in a housing selectively drivingly engaged with the input shaft using a first clutch, the first ring assembly configured to be prevented from rotating relative to the housing by a first grounding clutch and the first ring assembly comprising a first variator ball engagement surface that is in driving engagement with a plurality of tiltable variator balls; a carrier assembly rotatably disposed in the housing and selectively drivingly engaged with the input shaft using a second clutch, the carrier assembly comprising an annular arrangement of the plurality of tiltable variator balls each having a ball axle shafts, and configured to be prevented from rotating relative to the housing by a second grounding clutch; a second ring assembly rotatably disposed in the housing selectively drivingly engaged with an output shaft using a third clutch or gears of a planetary gearset rotatably disposed on the second ring assembly, the second ring assembly comprising a second variator ball engagement surface that is in driving engagement with each of the variator balls; a third grounding clutch that engages the ring gear of the planetary gearset; and the output shaft selectively drivingly engaged to a sun gear and a plurality of planet output gears of the planetary gearset using the third grounding clutch, wherein said transmission has a forward infinitely variable operating mode, a reverse infinitely variable operating mode, a continuously variable operating mode, and a continuously variable overdrive operating mode. | 31,932 |
9,827,324 | 1. A method of treating a disease or disorder of the airways in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering via pulmonary inhalation to the subject an aqueous liquid formulation comprising an aqueous liquid carrier, a sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin (SAE-CD), and a dose of corticosteroid dissolved therein, wherein i. the SAE-CD has the structure: wherein: each R is independently —H or —(CH wherein the average degree of substitution of —(CH ii. the corticosteroid is budesonide; and iii. the formulation provides an enhanced pharmacokinetic profile over a suspension based formulation administered under similar conditions, wherein the molar ratio of SAE-CD to corticosteroid is greater than 10:1, and wherein more than 50 % by weight of the corticosteroid is complexed with the SAE-CD. | 31,077 |
9,257,615 | 1. A method of manufacturing a light emitting device package comprising the steps of: forming an insulating layer on a metal core; forming a metal layer on the insulating layer; forming a first cavity to expose a top surface of the metal core by removing parts of the metal layer and the insulating layer; forming a second cavity to expose the top surface of the metal core on a position apart from the first cavity at a predetermined distance by removing parts of the metal layer and the insulating layer; directly mounting a light emitting device on the top surface of the metal core in the first cavity; and after forming the second cavity, forming a conductive layer on the top surface of the metal core in the second cavity. | 1,087 |
8,676,149 | 1. A mobile communication device for communicating with a base station and having first and second alternative communication modes, said first communication mode having higher quality of service and higher power consumption than said second communication mode, and said device comprising: a power supply; wherein said mobile device is responsive to a characteristic of said power supply indicative of a reduced reserve of energy in said power supply to select said second communication mode and transmit to said base station a state indication identifying existence of a low energy condition of said power supply, said state indication to cause said base station to respond by allocating more resources to reception of signals transmitted by said mobile device operating in said second communication mode than in said first communication mode wherein said mobile communication device is arranged to express in said second communication mode a characteristic selected from a group consisting of: | 17,848 |
9,650,924 | 1. A method for operating a two-stroke engine having a cylinder, a piston disposed in sliding engagement with the cylinder, and an exhaust valve configured to open and close an exhaust port, the method comprising: directing air and a fuel into the cylinder; burning a mixture of the air and the fuel to force the piston between a top dead center (TDC) position and a bottom dead center (BDC) position; cyclically opening and closing the exhaust valve according to a first valve timing during movement of the piston relative to the cylinder; receiving a signal that is indicative of a condition associated with pre-ignition of the mixture of the air and the fuel, the condition associated with pre-ignition of the mixture of the air and the fuel includes at least one of an inlet air temperature above a predetermined temperature threshold and an engine load above a predetermined load threshold; and selectively opening and closing the exhaust valve according to a second valve timing, based at least on the signal, wherein a crank angle duration to move the exhaust valve from a closed position to a maximum lift position according to the second valve timing is less than a crank angle duration to move the exhaust valve from the closed position to the maximum lift position according to the first valve timing, and wherein a total crank angle duration of the exhaust valve being open according to the second valve timing is equal to a total crank angle duration of the exhaust valve being open according to the first valve timing. | 37,886 |
8,424,504 | 1. A rotary piston internal combustion engine including a housing having a two lobed epitrochoidal inner peripheral surface, end casings for the housing, an output shaft journalled in the end casings, a three flanked rotary piston within the housing mounted on the shaft eccentrically with respect thereto and geared to rotate at one third speed of the output shaft whereby working chambers are formed between the rotor flanks and the inner surface of the housing, the rotor having side seals which engage with inner side faces of the end casings, a cooling circuit around which a cooling medium is circulated for cooling the rotor, the cooling circuit including at least one internal passageway provided in the rotor and a passageway in each end casing, the internal passageway of the rotor and the passageways of the end casings aligning as the rotor rotates, and the cooling circuit further including a cooling heat exchanger, a circulating pump and connecting ducting, the cooling medium being provided by blow-by gasses which have leaked from the working chambers past at least one of the side seals of the rotor to the cooling circuit. | 764 |
8,541,325 | 1. A silica-titania glass consisting of 7-10 wt. % titania and 90-93 wt. % silica and said glass has an internal transmission of greater than 95%/cm over the wavelength range of 340 nm to 840 nm, a fictive temperature less than 900° C. in combination with greater than 600 ppm [OH] by weight, and said glass having a hydrogen (H 2 ) concentration of less than 2×10 17 hydrogen molecules/cm 3 . | 1,208 |
9,777,673 | 1. A method for dismantling a solid fuel engine containing propellant, the method comprising: mounting the engine on a static test rig; immersing the engine with the static test rig directly in a tank filled with water; starting the engine to combust the propellant and expel combustion products into the water; withdrawing the engine with the static test rig from the tank after the combustion of the propellant; and disassembling the engine. | 30,654 |
9,228,503 | 1. A method for handling uncontrolled combustions in an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, the method comprising: providing, during a monitoring period, a first measuring window for detecting knocking events of normal combustions caused by the spark plug and a second measuring window which is situated with respect to time before the first measuring window for detecting uncontrolled combustions independent from the ignition by a spark plug, wherein the uncontrolled combustions occur independently of ignition by a spark plug and being detected in or at the internal combustion engine; and determining a number of detected uncontrolled combustions independent from the ignition by a spark plug in a monitoring period and comparing the number to a threshold value, a temperature in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine being dropped if the threshold value is exceeded; wherein the uncontrolled combustions are detected based on structure-borne noise oscillations of the internal combustion engine and for detecting the uncontrolled combustions, a measuring window is activated as a function of the position of the structure-borne noise oscillations in comparison to a first crankshaft angular range, which is different from a second crankshaft angular range in which knock events of a controlled combustion are expected; and wherein if the at least one further threshold which is below the threshold value is exceeded, the temperature in the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine is dropped to a lesser extent than when the threshold value is exceeded. | 37,591 |
9,594,126 | 1. A method of monitoring an inverter that comprises separate input-side connectors for respective multiple direct-current generators when coupled thereto with regard to the occurrence of a critical fault current, comprising: transmitting within the inverter all currents that are fed in at the individual input-side connectors via at least two pairs of input lines that are separately conducting the currents that are fed in at different input-side connectors; measuring within the inverter differential currents between the input lines separately for each of the at least two pairs of input lines using one or more measuring devices; comparing the differential currents with a limit value separately for each of the at least two pairs of input lines, wherein a case of the limit value being exceeded is recognized as a fault using a monitoring device; additionally determining a sum of the differential currents simultaneously occurring in all of the at least two pairs of input lines using the monitoring device; and comparing the sum with a further limit value, wherein a case of the further limit value being exceeded is likewise recognized as a fault using the monitoring device. | 29,217 |
9,829,541 | 1. A method for displaying terminal charging status, comprising: displaying a charging status region on a terminal screen when it is detected that a terminal battery is being charged, with a halo enlarging or shrinking with a preset frequency existing at the edge of the charging status region, wherein, the charging status region is displayed only when the terminal screen is in a lock-screen mode, and the charging status region is not displayed on the terminal screen when the terminal screen is unlocked and operated; according to a ratio of a current electric quantity of the terminal battery to an electric quantity of the terminal battery being fully charged, displaying a filled region having the same ratio in the charging status region; and controlling movements of the filled region in the charging status region according to different angles in inclination of the terminal. | 2,941 |
8,939,196 | 1. A secondary pump-type heat source system, comprising: a plurality of heat sources which are connected in parallel and generate heat source water; a load system in which the heat source water flows; a primary pump supplying the heat source water to the load system; a water supply pipe connecting an outlet of the heat source and the load system; a secondary pump which is provided for the heat source and supplies the heat source water subjected to heat exchange in the load system to the heat source; a water return pipe connecting an outlet of the load system and the secondary pumps; a bypass pipe allowing the water supply pipe and the water return pipe to communicate with each other; a water temperature sensor detecting temperature of the heat source water; and a heat source controller calculating flow quantity of the heat source water flowing in the heat source side and flow quantity of the heat source water flowing in the load system side by assigning a result from measurement by the water temperature sensor to an operation characteristic of each of the heat sources and controlling operation of the secondary pumps based on a result from the calculation. | 6,654 |
8,763,071 | 1. A method, comprising: configuring a mobile device such that the mobile device communicates data to an external network via a cloud-based security system; receiving data from the mobile device; enforcing policy on the data from the mobile device; based on the policy, forwarding the data to the external network; receiving data from the external network; inspecting content of the data from the external network; based on the inspecting content, forwarding the data to the mobile device; determining and storing, in a database, a plurality of attributes for each of a plurality of applications for the mobile device and periodically updating the database, wherein the determining the plurality of attributes comprises determining a security score based on a plurality of factors related to security, and determining a privacy score based on a plurality of factors related to privacy; and utilizing the database in the enforcing policy step to prevent the data from the mobile device from being forwarding if the data relates to an application which does not meet a minimum threshold related to the security score and the privacy score. | 15,314 |
8,757,264 | 1. A method of delivering wellbore fluid below ground, comprising supplying, underground, an aqueous carrier liquid, cucurbituril 8 molecules each providing a host cavity and guest molecules each comprising at least two guest groups, wherein at least one of the guest molecules comprises a polymer chain, where the cucurbituril 8 and guest molecules attach together through reception of guest groups within cucurbituril 8 host cavities, thereby forming extended polymer chains and providing a viscosity enhancing polymer within the carrier liquid. | 11,661 |
8,725,331 | 1. A charge-discharge management system for a vehicle that runs using electricity stored in a battery, the charge-discharge management system comprising: a charge-discharge schedule creation unit configured to create a charge-discharge schedule of the battery for a travel route of the vehicle according to the travel route of the vehicle and a condition of at least one of the vehicle and a road, so that a charge amount of the battery falls within a predetermined range in the travel route; a charge-discharge schedule correction unit configured to a charge-discharge schedule re-creation unit configured to re-create the charge-discharge schedule in response to an occurrence of a change in a via-point of the travel route or a change in the amount of load carried by the vehicle when the vehicle is traveling along the travel route; and a management device configured to: wherein electric power transmission to or charging from an infrastructure external to the vehicle is addable to the charge-discharge schedule. | 43,228 |
9,365,437 | 1. A method for monitoring and controlling a process train of air and ozone dosage used in water and wastewater treatment comprising the following steps: (a) obtaining an online measurement of the UV/Vis absorption of an effluent; (b) comparing the online measurement of the UV/Vis absorption measured for the effluent with a predetermined UV/Vis absorption value stored in a microprocessor; (c) obtaining an online measurement of the oxidation/reduction potential of the effluent; (d) comparing the online measurement of the oxidation/reduction potential measured for the effluent with a predetermined oxidation/reduction potential value stored in the microprocessor; and (e) adjusting the air and ozone dosage of the effluent based on the online measurements of the UV/Vis absorption and oxidation/reduction potential of the effluent as follows: | 15,822 |
8,357,156 | 1. An inflatable medical instrument for tissue damage in gastric reduction surgery, comprising: a main chamber composed of a biocompatible material capable of being selectively inflated; a longitudinally extending tab member secured to an outer surface of the main chamber, the tab member extends radially outwardly from the outer surface of the main chamber for contact with an internal surface of a gastric cavity and includes opposed first and second sides; a series of suction holes are formed along both the first and second sides of the tab member and electrodes are mounted on both the first and second sides of the tab member. | 15,282 |
9,570,145 | 1. A memory controller integrated circuit to control a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) integrated circuit having first and second banks each bank containing an array of DRAM memory cells, the memory controller integrated circuit comprising: a first interface to output a first memory command to the DRAM integrated circuit via a first communications link; a second interface to output a second memory command to the DRAM integrated circuit via a second communications link; the first command to initiate one of a self-refresh operation and a memory operation and the second command to initiate the other of the self-refresh operation and the memory operation; and wherein the memory controller integrated circuit is adapted to initiate a memory operation in each of the first bank via the first interface and the second bank via the second interface in a manner that is concurrent with performance of a self-refresh operation in the other of the first bank and the second bank; and wherein the memory controller integrated circuit is separate from the DRAM integrated circuit; and wherein the memory controller integrated circuit is further adapted to selectively command the DRAM integrated circuit to enter a low power mode following issuance of a command to the DRAM integrated circuit initiating a self-refresh operation. | 7,607 |
8,532,245 | 1. A core shroud comprising: a number of planar members; a number of unitary corners; and a number of subassemblies each comprising a combination of said planar members and said unitary corners, wherein each of said unitary corners comprises a unitary extrusion. | 44,065 |
9,119,167 | 1. A method for broadcasting data, comprising: sending a first message from a Location Server point to point to a device using a positioning protocol, wherein the first message comprises information associated with broadcast messaging for subsequent broadcast communication from the Location Server to the device; and broadcasting one or more Assistance Data (AD) messages from the Location Server to the device based on the information associated with the broadcast messaging. | 26,839 |
8,618,098 | 1. A method for the therapeutic treatment of B-cell lymphoma and/or leukemia comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I: wherein: R is H, —R X is CH or N; Y Y each Y n is 0, 1, 2, or 3; Y m is 0 or 1; Y or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 17,958 |
8,689,158 | 1. A method of performing a statistical static timing analysis of a circuit design in which correlations exist between statistical arrival times of one or more pair of inputs to a hierarchical module, comprising: a) using a computer to perform a first analysis of a network containing an instance of said hierarchical module for identifying said correlations between said statistical arrival times at said one or more pairs of inputs of said hierarchical module; b) generating asserted arrival times at said pair of one or more pairs of inputs of said hierarchical module based on said identified correlations; c) performing a second analysis of said hierarchical module for propagating timing values dependent on said generated asserted arrival times, said second analysis excluding any network external to said hierarchical module; and d) performing a subsequent statistical common path pessimism removal (CPPR) analysis for at least one test during which said timing values dependent on the one or more generated asserted arrival times are used to compute an adjusted statistical test slack. | 24,538 |
8,859,304 | 1. A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device comprising the steps of: forming a layer to be separated over a support substrate; forming a plurality of pixels including a light-emitting element over the layer; separating the layer from the support substrate; transferring the layer to one surface of a substrate with plasticity; putting the substrate over which the plurality of pixels is formed over a support having a curved surface along the curved surface of the support so that the other surface opposite to the one surface of the substrate faces the support; dropping a curable material over the one surface of the substrate; putting a protective layer over the substrate so that the curable material is in contact with part of the protective layer; fixing the protective layer in a region where the protective layer is in contact with the curable material; curving the protective layer along the one surface of the substrate so that a surface of the protective layer facing the substrate is in contact with the curable material in a region overlapping with the light-emitting element; and curing the curable material. | 935 |
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