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8,451,561 | 1. A servo write head for writing a servo pattern on a magnetic tape, comprising: a flat magnetic pattern writing surface having a magnetic gap contoured to correspond to the servo pattern; sloped surfaces disposed upstream and downstream of the magnetic pattern writing surface in a magnetic tape transport direction at positions retreated from a position of the magnetic pattern writing surface, the sloped surfaces extending obliquely relative to the magnetic pattern writing surface; and connecting surfaces disposed between the magnetic pattern writing surface and each of the sloped surfaces, the connecting surfaces being curved gently to smoothly connect the sloped surfaces to the magnetic pattern writing surface, such that the connecting surfaces extend in a position retreating from the position of the magnetic pattern writing surface, wherein each of the connecting surfaces has a curvature greater than a curvature, equal to or greater than zero, of a corresponding sloped surface. | 9,136 |
9,713,892 | 1. A method for controlling an actual thickness of a foamed and molded product formed by a core back operation in which a movable mold platen is moved away from a fixed mold platen using both of mold opening and closing actuators and core back devices which are connected to the movable mold platen, each of the core back devices including a motor, a ball screw shaft of which one end is connected to the motor and the other end is a free end, and a nut screwed onto the ball screw shaft, the method comprising: operating each of the mold opening and closing actuators and the core back devices independently so that positions of shafts of the mold opening and closing actuators are set to core back target completion positions of the shafts and so that positions of the ball screw shafts of the core back devices are set to core back target completion positions of the ball screw shafts to move the nut to push an end surface of a contact support, the contact support being disposed so that the end surface of the contact support faces to an end surface in an axial direction of the nut and having a hollow portion along the axial direction into which the other end of the ball screw shaft is capable of being inserted, wherein the core back target completion position is preliminarily determined for each of the shaft of the mold opening and closing actuators and each of the ball screw shafts of the core back devices by: calculating or measuring at least one of a shape of the foamed and molded product, an opening speed of the movable mold platen, and a stop position of the movable mold platen; calculating a core back target stop reference position value and a stop position offset value for each of the shafts and each of the ball screw shafts based on a result of the calculation or measurement; and obtaining the core back target completion position of each of the shafts and each of the ball screw shafts by adding the stop position offset value to the core back target stop reference position value or subtracting the stop position offset value from the core back target stop reference position value. | 32,698 |
9,841,519 | 1. A system for sensing acoustic waves in a medium, comprising: a first elongated member; a first motion sensor sensitive to vibrations of the first elongated member; a second motion sensor spaced apart from the first motion sensor and also sensitive to vibrations of the first elongated member; a first vibration source operably coupled to the first elongated member and configured to vibrate the first elongated member; and a processing device operably coupled to the first motion sensor and the second motion sensor, the processing device configured to: | 45,401 |
9,424,996 | 1. An electrode active material comprising a carbon material, wherein a volume of micropores having a pore diameter of 50 to 400 nm in the carbon material is 0.05 to 0.40 cc/g as measured by a nitrogen absorption method. | 24,179 |
8,640,819 | 1. A vacuum pumping assembly, comprising: a roughing vacuum pump in operation for a mass spectrometer comprising an elongated vacuum pump body with a top side and two elongated sides; a noise reducing vacuum pump enclosure comprising a rigid outer shell and a noise dampening inner lining, the enclosure extending along the major horizontal axis of the vacuum pump body between first and second axial ends, and; an air gap between the vacuum pump body and the inner lining of the enclosure of about 1 cm to 20 cm; wherein the enclosure substantially covers the top side and the two elongated sides of the vacuum pump body; and, wherein the enclosure is open at both of the first and second axial ends when the vacuum pump is in operation. | 30,381 |
9,429,209 | 1. A magnetically suspended and plane-drove vibration isolator with zero stiffness, comprising: a upper mounting plate ( a lower mounting plate ( a main body ( a clean air compressor ( wherein the main body ( a downside-down sleeve ( a upside-down piston cylinder ( a spherical air bearing ( a voice coil motor in a vertical or Z direction ( a magnetically suspended planar motor ( a displacement sensor in a first horizontal or X direction ( a displacement sensor in a second horizontal or Y direction ( 12 ) and a limit switch in the Y direction ( 15 ) having respective sensitive directions along the direction of the second horizontal driving force that are fitted between the sleeve cylinder ( 6 ) and the lower mounting plate ( 2 ); a controller ( a driver ( wherein an air pressure sensor ( wherein the magnetically suspended planar motor ( | 2,436 |
8,381,524 | 1. A method of using a reciprocating expansion engine in a drive unit, wherein the reciprocating expansion engine has at least two cylinders comprising respective expansion spaces; at least one inlet valve configured to at least partially and occasionally connect the respective expansion spaces to a steam circuit; a crankshaft; at least two connecting rods connected to the at least two cylinders; a piston in each of the at least two cylinders, each piston in working connection with the crankshaft by a respective on one of the connecting rods, each piston configured for movement between top dead center and bottom dead center of the cylinder, wherein the crankshaft is configured such that as soon as at least one piston of one of the cylinders is at the bottom dead center the at least one other piston of another one of the cylinders is already arranged past the top dead center, wherein each of the pistons in their installed state form a hollow space between a cylinder inner wall and an outer surface of a piston neck configured for collecting fluids; said method comprising: transferring heat generated in an internal combustion engine to a heat transfer fluid; changing the heat transfer fluid at least partially into a vaporous aggregate state; expanding the at least partially vaporous heat transfer fluid in the reciprocating expansion engine creating a linear motion that is translated into a torque; transmitting the torque to a crankshaft of the reciprocating expansion engine; and at least partially transmitting the torque to a driven shaft of the drive unit. | 38,501 |
9,296,307 | 1. A charging apparatus that charges a first vehicle including first identification information and a second vehicle including second identification information, the charging apparatus comprising: a first communication line that is connectable to the first vehicle; a second communication line that is connectable to the second vehicle; a voltage detector that, in operation, detects a first voltage pattern corresponding to the first identification information via the first communication line and that, in operation, detects a second voltage pattern corresponding to the second identification information via the second communication line; a communicator that, in operation, communicates with the first vehicle using the first identification information and that, in operation, communicates with the second vehicle using the second identification information; a first power supply line that is connectable to the first vehicle; a second power supply line that is connectable to the second vehicle; and an electrical power supply that, in operation, supplies electrical power to the first vehicle via the first power supply line and that, in operation, supplies electrical power to the second vehicle via the second power supply line, wherein the electrical power supply supplies electrical power to the first vehicle via the first power supply line when the voltage detector detects a third voltage pattern different from the first voltage pattern. | 27,265 |
9,002,424 | 1. A superconducting film-forming substrate having a tape shape, the substrate comprising: a film-forming face for forming a laminate including a superconducting layer thereon; a rear face that is a face at a side opposite to the film-forming face; a pair of end faces connected to the film-forming face and the rear face; and a pair of side faces connected to the film-forming face, the rear face, and the pair of end faces, wherein each of the pair of side faces comprises a spreading face that spreads toward an outer side in an in-plane direction of the film-forming face from an edge part of the film-forming face toward the rear face side. | 7,271 |
9,547,082 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more processors, for each of a plurality of portions of a plurality of vertical columns from a weather radar signal, a reflectivity range selected from a highest reflectivity range and one or more lower reflectivity ranges; determining, by the one or more processors, for each respective vertical column of the plurality of vertical columns, in response to determining that any of the portions of the respective vertical columns are in the highest reflectivity range, whether a combination of the determined reflectivity ranges of the portions of the vertical column meet one or more criteria indicative of high-reflectivity stratiform weather; and generating, by the one or more processors, in response to determining that the combination of the determined reflectivity ranges of the portions of the vertical column meet the one or more criteria indicative of high-reflectivity stratiform weather for each of the vertical columns, a weather radar output that indicates each of the portions of all the vertical columns as associated with one of the one or more lower reflectivity ranges. | 27,300 |
8,773,064 | 1. A charging system for a mild hybrid vehicle, comprising: an engine; an integrated starter and generator (ISG) connected to the engine and configured to generate 3-phase AC electricity and to start the engine; an inverter configured to convert the 3-phase AC electricity generated at the ISG into DC electricity and configured to convert the DC electricity into the 3-phase AC electricity and to deliver the converted 3-phase AC electricity to the ISG; a super capacitor configured to receive the DC electricity from the inverter and be charged by the DC electricity, and to deliver the charged DC electricity to the inverter; a DC-DC converter connected to the inverter and configured to receive the DC electricity from the inverter and drop voltage; a battery configured to receive the DC electricity from the DC-DC converter and to be charged by the DC electricity; and means for preventing reverse charging mounted on a path between the super capacitor and the battery of the mild hybrid vehicle and configured to prevent energy from flowing from the battery to the super capacitor. | 46,055 |
8,818,600 | 1. A driveline operating method, comprising: providing torque from an engine to a driveline coupled to wheels; operating the engine at an idle speed and decoupling the engine from the driveline in response to a reduced driver demand torque; and providing a constant vehicle deceleration rate during the reduced driver demand torque. | 42,671 |
9,760,137 | 1. An apparatus comprising: logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, to translate an input voltage level into a plurality of output voltage levels during a low power consumption state of a device, wherein the logic is to comprise one or more registers to store one or more parameters, wherein, during the low power consumption state, data stored in the one or more registers are to be retained, wherein the one or more parameters correspond to adjustable threshold limits for detection of input, wherein the logic is to comprise circuitry to support one or more of: programmable push/pull or passive pull up voltage options or programmable voltage levels. | 6,699 |
8,782,796 | 1. A computer-implemented method for testing network security, the method comprising: storing on a monitoring system at least one specified data message and a at least one specified access credential to at least one third-party web-based service; installing on at least one testing system to be tested on a network, at least one software agent configured with the at least one specified data message and the at least one specified access credential to the at least one third-party web-based service; executing the at least one software agent on the testing system to send the at least one specified data message to the at least one third-party web-based service using the at least one specified access credential; accessing, with a monitoring system which is independent of the network, the at least one third-party web-based service with the at least one specified access credential; comparing, with the monitoring system, if data on the at least one third-party web-based service is equivalent to the at least one specified data message sent by the at least one software agent; and assigning a risk factor to the testing system and the at least one third-party web-based service if any data on the at least one third-party web-based service is equivalent to the at least one specified data message sent by the at least one software agent. | 36,768 |
9,191,233 | 1. A method comprising: enabling a user to provide shortest path bridging (SPB) configuration information; receiving the SPB configuration information from the user; and sending the SPB configuration information to an edge server device, wherein the SPB configuration information is sent in a link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) message. | 43,693 |
8,374,425 | 1. A method, comprising: chromatic classifying pixels of a digital image by, transforming a chromatic domain of definition of pixels from a three-dimensional space into a respective two-dimensional normalized space; defining a reference model of classification by analyzing a plurality of images of distinct types of subjects, generating distinct collections of samples with respective coordinates in the normalized two-dimensional space for each of a number of chromatic classes corresponding to real subjects; and evaluating for each image pixel to be classified a membership class and a membership level within the membership class based on the reference model, wherein said reference model is defined by a parametric membership function continuous on said normalized two-dimensional space for each of said chromatic classes, parameters of which are determined by processing the collection of two-dimensional samples of each of said chromatic classes, said chromatic classifying, transforming, defining and evaluating are performed by one or more configured processing devices, and wherein defining the reference model comprises calculating a mean position of clusters of samples on the normalized two-dimensional space, a variance in respect to a principal direction and to a direction orthogonal to said principal direction and a slope angle of said principal direction using a principal component analysis technique, thus obtaining an elliptical Gaussian model for each of said chromatic classes on said normalized two-dimensional space. | 40,601 |
9,199,477 | 1. An adapter configured to be removably attached in an attached state with a cartridge mounting portion of a printing device and a cartridge comprising a first main body comprising a first surface facing a first direction and a chamber configured to store ink, and an ink outlet portion disposed on the first surface of the first main body and configured to direct the ink from the chamber to an exterior of the first main body, the adapter comprising: a second main body; a second surface facing a second direction intersecting to the first surface; an electrical interface is disposed on the second surface; and a movable portion configured to move with respect to the electrical interface between a first position and a second position, wherein, when the adapter attaches to the ink cartridge, in an attached state, the movable portion is configured to move from the first position to the second position, the movable portion is downstream from the first surface in the first direction, and wherein the movable portion is disposed closer to the electrical interface than the ink outlet portion in the second direction and the electrical interface is disposed downstream from the ink movable portion in the second direction in the attached state. | 6,453 |
9,062,906 | 1. A method of keeping food, produce or crops at a reduced temperature by cooling a volume to a refrigeration temperature, the volume being defined at least in part by a wall, the method comprising: (a) mounting an unmodified conventional room air conditioning unit of the type that has an air conditioner temperature sensor with a lower cutoff temperature of 60° F. or higher, a compressor, and cooling fins, through the wall of the volume with the cooling fins and the temperature sensor disposed inside the volume; (b) mounting a frost sensor on the fins of the air conditioning unit; (c) mounting a heater in close proximity to the temperature sensor of the air conditioning unit; (d) locating a room temperature sensor in the volume in a location remote from the heater and the frost sensor; and (e) operating a control unit having inputs coupled to the frost sensor and the room temperature sensor and an output coupled to the heater, to cause the air conditioner to reduce the temperature in the volume to a desired reduced temperature below the lower cutoff temperature of the air conditioner temperature sensor while avoiding significant frost build up on the fins by the steps of: | 22,230 |
9,175,199 | 1. A method for providing and using a methanol containing fluid comprising the steps of: mixing carbon dioxide gas with hydrogen gas to form a gaseous starting material; introducing said starting material into a reactor having a catalyst to synthesize by way of catalytic synthesis a methanol fluid containing between 5 and 50% by mass methanol and the remainder water; using said methanol fluid for cooling intake air, compressor air, charge air and/or a fuel-air mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine; and, after use as a coolant, combusting said methanol fluid with a primary fuel to power said internal combustion engine. | 41,476 |
8,873,745 | 1. A method for protecting a calculation on an elliptic curve, by an electronic circuit, wherein a point of an elliptic curve is multiplied by a digital value, the method comprising acts of: initializing a first variable with a first function of a random value; initializing at least a second variable with a second function of the point of the elliptic curve; performing a plurality of iterations, each iteration processing a one or more bits of a binary representation of the digital value, wherein each iteration comprises: after performing the plurality of iterations, subtracting from a third value of the first variable the random value. | 43,265 |
9,110,921 | 1. One or more computer-readable memories that store executable instructions to edit a map, the executable instructions, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform acts comprising: receiving, from a user, location input that indicates a location of a feature to be added to a map; making an estimate of a physical location of said feature, said estimate being based on said location input and on an analysis of a photograph of a region covered by said map, said estimate including a probability that said feature is located at said physical location, said probability being below a level at which it can be concluded that said feature is located at said physical location; displaying said estimate to said user on said map; receiving, from said user, an indication of adjustments to be made to said estimate; receiving, from said user, an indication that said estimate, as modified by said adjustments, is where said feature is located on said map; and adding said feature to said map by storing said feature in a database. | 25,419 |
9,440,193 | 1. A urea spray selective catalytic reduction control system comprising: a selective catalytic reduction catalyst in a discharge pipe of an engine, a dosing valve for injecting urea water at an upstream side of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst, and an electronic controller which is configured to control injection of the urea water from the dosing valve by— referring to a plurality of NOx model maps which correspond to an atmospheric pressure condition, an outdoor air temperature and an engine water temperature, determining an amount of NOx on a basis of detection values of an atmospheric pressure detector, an outdoor air temperature detector, and an engine water temperature detector, and controlling the amount of the injection of the urea water from the dosing valve on a basis of the amount of NOx thus determined, wherein each of the plurality of NOx model maps is stored to the electronic controller, which includes a base map including a plurality of outdoor air temperature-dependent NOx maps in which the amount of NOx is set in accordance with an engine rotation, and an amount of injection commanded on the basis of an outdoor air temperature under an atmospheric pressure condition at a ground level is provided, and an outdoor air temperature map selection factor for selecting an outdoor air temperature-dependent NOx map from the outdoor air temperature-dependent NOx maps using an actual outdoor air temperature, and interpolating the NOx value using the outdoor air temperature-dependent NOx map, and a correction map for correcting the NOx value given by the base map under an atmospheric pressure condition at a height, and further includes an engine water temperature correction map for correcting, with an engine water temperature, the NOx value determined by an atmospheric pressure condition and an outdoor air temperature condition. | 36,562 |
8,492,227 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising: forming a first gate electrode of a first transistor and a second gate electrode of a second transistor over a semiconductor substrate, said first gate electrode and said second gate electrode each having a top surface opposite said semiconductor substrate; forming a first insulating film with a thickness that allows concave and convex portions formed due to said first gate electrode and said second gate electrode to remain, over said semiconductor substrate, said first gate electrode, and said second gate electrode, said first insulating film including a first portion which is over said second gate electrode including said top surface of said second gate electrode; forming over said first insulating film and said first portion an etching stopper film that covers said second gate electrode including said top surface of said second gate electrode, but does not cover said first gate electrode; forming a second insulating film with a thickness that allows concave and convex portions formed due to said first gate electrode to remain, over said first insulating film and said etching stopper film such that a portion of said second insulating film is over a portion of said etching stopper film which is over said first portion and over said top surface of said second gate electrode; performing anisotropic etching using said etching stopper film as a stopper to remove said second insulating film from over said second gate electrode, and forming a first side wall spacer of said first transistor; removing said etching stopper film; and performing anisotropic etching on said first insulating film to form a second side wall spacer over said second gate electrode and to form a third side wall spacer which is disposed inside said first side wall spacer of said first gate electrode. | 6,887 |
8,999,047 | 1. A system for removing Hg contained in flue gas from a boiler, the system comprising: a heat exchanger for performing heat exchange of the flue gas from the boiler; a precipitator for removing soot and dust in the flue gas; a wet desulfurization device for removing mercury oxide Hg a water supply line for supplying water containing reductive and humic material to the wet desulfurization device; and a removal assistant supply unit that supplies a removal assistant for removing the reductive and humic material to the water supply line or circulation line. | 21,253 |
9,736,625 | 1. A method for transmitting cardiac data from a wireless sensor to a host device, the method comprising: digitizing cardiac sound data and ECG data received at the wireless sensor; filtering the digitized cardiac sound data and ECG data; compressing the cardiac sound data and the ECG data using an adaptive differential compression component; combining the compressed cardiac sound data and compressed ECG data into a common packet structure; and transmitting the common packet structure from the wireless sensor to the host device via a Bluetooth Low Energy communications link. | 27,101 |
9,796,895 | 1. A method of using a carbon-Michael compound to reduce heat transfer comprising: locating the carbon-Michael compound between a heat provider and a heat receptor, wherein | 1,298 |
9,272,352 | 1. A system for reducing solder voids in a module, wherein the module comprises a substrate and a component soldered to the substrate, wherein the module is mounted in a solar cell die housing, wherein an opening is formed at a top of the solar die housing when the module is mounted in the solar cell die housing, the system comprising: a sealed chamber comprising the module and a vacuum cover, wherein a bottom surface of the vacuum cover that interfaces with the solar cell die housing extends beyond the perimeter of the opening; a mount including a recessed area that is sized to receive the solar cell die housing; a heat source coupled to the sealed chamber within the mount and configured to move within the mount that is below the recessed area and away from the sealed chamber after the solder voids are reduced in the module; and a vacuum source coupled to the sealed chamber. | 27,863 |
8,555,781 | 1. A garbage processing recycler, comprising: a series of top compartments aligned above a series of bottom compartments; wherein each top compartment has an inner side that includes a vertical slot through which a compressor arm can traverse; wherein a hydraulic arm attaches to at least one compressor arm, which is attached to a compressor plate that can descend into the top compartment to compress materials located therein; wherein a support base slides in and out of a support slot located near a bottom of the top compartment, and when inserted insures that said materials are compressed via the compressor plates. | 16,615 |
8,595,515 | 1. A data center, comprising: a power distribution network having a power capacity; a first deployment of a plurality of computers installed in the data center that draw power from the power distribution network, each of the computers having a peak power draw, wherein the power capacity is less than a maximum power draw defined by summing the peak power draw from each of the plurality of computers, and a second deployment of a cluster of computers installed in the data center subsequent to, and electrically isolatable from, the first deployment of the plurality of computers and comprising between approximately 7% and approximately 46% of the first deployment of the plurality of computers, such that a maximum power draw defined by summing the peak power draw from each of the computers in the first and second deployments of computers is greater than the power capacity, and an operating power draw defined by summing an actual power draw from each of the computers in the first and second deployments of computers is less than the power capacity; wherein an amount of the computers in the cluster of computers of the second deployment installed in the data center subsequent to the first deployment of the plurality of computers is based, at least partially, on a workload type executing on the computers, and the amount of the computers in the cluster of computers of the second deployment installed in the data center subsequent to the first deployment of the plurality of computers is further based, at least partially, on a percentage of operating time of the computers in the first and second deployments spent in a power-capping mode. | 48,462 |
9,667,933 | 1. A color filter array comprising: a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units, each minimal repeating unit comprising an M×N set of individual filters, and each individual filter in the set having a photoresponse selected from among four different photoresponses, wherein each minimal repeating unit includes: | 42,901 |
8,392,605 | 1. A method of fast multicast, comprising the following steps of: (a) determining an edge node of a time domain overlapping sub-tree of multicast tree corresponding to multicast service based on analysis of the multicast service in time domain; (b) initiating a static multicast member of the multicast service on said edge node, so that an interface at which the static multicast member is initiated generates and maintains a request for the multicast service; (c) generating a first multicast forwarding tree from said edge node to a multicast root node through the overlapping sub-tree, so that a multicast service flow can be transmitted to said edge node in advance before a receiver sends out the request for the multicast service flow; (d) establishing a second multicast forwarding tree from the receiver to the edge node after the receiver sends out the request for the multicast service flow, so that the multicast service flow is transmitted from the edge node to the receiver; wherein said step (a) comprises: (a1) setting a fast multicast management module in a multicast network and setting a fast multicast agent module on each multicast router; (a2) establishing an inter-connection as well as a group of fast multicast systems after said management module and agent module have been initiated; (a3) monitoring the time domain distribution of multicast services on the multicast router and reporting to the management module the time domain monitoring result of the multicast services periodically by the agent module in said group; (a4) determining and saving the edge node of each multicast service in a following cycle by the management module after it receives the time domain monitoring result of the multicast service. | 49,218 |
8,617,938 | 1. A method for semiconductor fabrication, comprising: forming a buffer layer on a semiconductor layer; depositing an amorphous or polycrystalline elemental layer on the buffer layer; and diffusing elements of the elemental layer through the buffer layer and into the semiconductor layer, wherein said elements are diffused through material forming the buffer layer and thereby reach and diffuse through the semiconductor layer. | 5,148 |
9,471,157 | 1. A computer mouse comprising: a mouse device comprising a mouse body, a mouse button and a mouse roller mounted on a top side of the mouse body, and a sensing device mounted on a bottom side of the mouse body; a socket mounted to the mouse body; and a size-augmenting device comprising a shell body defining a receiving slot for receiving the mouse body, a plug mounted to the shell body, and a laser generator mounted to the shell body and configured to produce a laser beam, wherein the receiving slot extends through a top surface and a bottom surface of the shell body; when the mouse body is received in the receiving slot of the shell body, the plug is inserted to the socket. | 33,599 |
8,806,151 | 1. A method, comprising: partitioning a data storage device into a plurality of concurrently accessible units (CAUs), wherein each of the plurality of CAUs includes one or more memory blocks; receiving a first command from a host controller, wherein the first command includes an operation to be performed, and one or more addresses on which the operation will be performed; preparing an array of memory blocks dependent upon the one or more addresses, wherein the array includes a memory block from each of the plurality of CAUs; and performing the operation responsive to receiving a second command from the host controller. | 1,125 |
9,089,537 | 1. A composition of isolated Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2) antigens comprising: i) an isolated glycoprotein B2 (gB2) fragment, wherein the fragment of gB2 consists of amino acid residues 31-726 or amino acid residues 31-727, wherein residue numbering begins at the starting methionine of gB2; ii) an isolated glycoprotein H2 (gH2) fragment in a complex with glycoprotein L2 (gL2) or a fragment thereof, wherein the fragment of gH2 consists of amino acid residues 21-802, wherein residue numbering begins at the starting methionine of gH2, and wherein the gL2 or fragment thereof comprises the ectodomain of the full length protein; and iii) an adjuvant, in an amount effective to enhance the immune response to said antigens of steps i) and ii), comprising a cationic liposome delivery vehicle and an isolated non-coding nucleic acid molecule. | 18,859 |
9,392,081 | 1. A method for sending requests, comprising: determining, by a device comprising a processor, the requests and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections between a client and a proxy server; and sending, by the device, the requests to the proxy server via idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server so as to forward the requests to a Web server by the proxy server, if the requests are serial requests and the idle TCP connections exist between the client and the proxy server, and if the requests are serial requests and the number of idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server is larger than or equal to the number of TCP connections which are needed during sending the requests; and establishing, by the device, TCP connections between the client and the proxy server according to the number of idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server, and the number of TCP connections which are needed during sending the requests, if the requests are parallel requests and the number of idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server is smaller than the number of TCP connections which are needed during sending the requests; and sending, by the device, the requests to the proxy server via the idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server and the established TCP connections so as to forward the requests to the Web server by the proxy server, wherein before sending the requests to the proxy server via the idle TCP connections between the client and the proxy server, the method further comprises: | 36,073 |
9,559,838 | 1. A method, carried out by a processor device, of cryptographic processing of data (X) that includes at least one transformation ( 100 , 100 1 - 100 6 ) of an input data item (s) into a result data item (s′), the method comprising: a step (E wherein said compression operation ( wherein the verification step (E | 35,011 |
8,689,440 | 1. A method of forming a hollow component with an internal structure from first and second panels, the method comprising: providing a preform comprising first and second panels, the panels being oriented such that each panel defines an interior and an exterior facing surface with at least one protrusion extending from the exterior facing surface of at least one of the first and second panels; and expanding the preform against a die, such that the at least one protrusion is transferred from the exterior facing surface of the at least one panel to the interior facing surface of the at least one panel so as to define an internal structure, wherein the protrusion is formed by arranging an article on the exterior facing surface of the at least one panel; and encapsulating the article on the exterior facing surface of the at least one panel by a material deposition process. | 28,629 |
9,791,445 | 1. An isolated protein comprising a fusion protein containing an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the carboxyl terminus of said SEQ ID NO:4 is operatively linked to a protease cleavage site having six carboxyl-terminal histidine residues. | 36,718 |
9,325,024 | 1. A gas decomposition component comprising: a cylindrical-body membrane electrode assembly (MEA) including a solid electrolyte, a first electrode disposed on an inner-surface side of the solid electrolyte, and a second electrode disposed on an outer-surface side of the solid electrolyte; a first porous conductive-paste-coated layer formed on an inner circumferential surface of the first electrode, wherein the first porous conductive-paste-coated layer has a thickness of 5 μm or more and 300 μm or less and a porosity of the first porous conductive-paste-coated layer is in the range of 20% or more and 80% or less, a metal mesh sheet disposed on an inner circumferential side of the first conductive-paste-coated layer, a porous metal body inserted on the inner-surface side of the metal mesh sheet and electrically connected to the first electrode, an electrical connection between the first electrode and the porous metal body is established through the first conductive-paste-coated layer and the metal mesh sheet, and a second porous conductive-paste-coated layer is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the porous metal body and an inner circumferential surface of the metal mesh sheet. | 48,132 |
8,520,634 | 1. A method for operating a femtocell base station, the method comprising: a. obtaining, by the femtocell base station, a list of one or more designated wireless devices capable of wireless communication with the femtocell base station; b. determining, by the femtocell base station, an operating condition of the femtocell base station, the operating condition indicative of a count of the designated wireless devices which are in a condition for wireless communication with the femtocell base station; and c. switching, by the femtocell base station, the femtocell base station between an active state and a standby state based on the operating condition, wherein the femtocell base station facilitates communication between one or more wireless devices and a communication network when in the active state, and wherein the standby state corresponds to reduced operation of the femtocell base station compared with the active state, wherein determining the operating condition comprises paging one or more of the designated wireless devices via one or more cellular base stations other than the femtocell base station, each of the one or more designated wireless devices configured to respond to said paging by providing an indication of location for provision to the femtocell base station via a network interface of the femtocell base station, and wherein the count of the designated wireless devices which are in the condition for wireless communication with the femtocell base station is based at least in part on said indications of location. | 10,713 |
9,212,079 | 1. A method for making a sheet of glass by a vertical drawing process comprising: a. forming a glass ribbon using a forming assembly, said ribbon having a central region and two edge regions, each of which has a first side and a second side; b. successively removing sheets of glass from the glass ribbon using a separating assembly; and c. guiding both the first and the second side of each of the ribbon's edge regions with an edge guiding assembly, the edge guiding assembly being located below the forming assembly and above the separating assembly at a location below that at which the glass of the glass ribbon has passed through its glass transition temperature range; wherein: (i) the edge guiding assembly contacts the edge regions of the glass ribbon; (ii) in addition to the edge guiding assembly, one or more pulling rolls contact the edge regions of the glass ribbon; and (iii) a population of 50 sequential sheets of the successively removed sheets of glass have a lower standard deviation in stress values in at least one location as compared to a population of 50 sequential sheets produced under the same conditions but without the edge guiding assembly. | 22,756 |
9,129,791 | 1. An induction RF fluorescent lamp, comprising: a lamp envelope with a re-entrant cavity both covered on a partial vacuum side with phosphor and filled with a working gas mixture, the re-entrant cavity having an open entrance end and a closed innermost end; a power coupler located inside the re-entrant cavity, the power coupler comprising a core overwound with at least one turn of an electrical conductor and having an innermost end proximate to the innermost end of the re-entrant cavity; and a pliable spacer positioned between and in contact with both the innermost end of the power coupler and the innermost end of the re-entrant cavity, the pliable spacer having a shape that both provides structural support to prevent movement of the power coupler with respect to the re-entrant cavity and to provide axial alignment of the power coupler to the re-entrant cavity. | 43,034 |
9,372,926 | 1. A computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable instructions in combination with a processor, the computer-readable storage device and the processor configured to perform actions, comprising: identifying matching videos in a set of videos based on at least one of: textual metadata associated with the videos, and structured metadata associated with the videos, the structured metadata including at least one of: video size, video length, video quality or video format, text extracted from an audio track by speech-to-text analysis, or phonetic transcription extracted from the audio track; producing a result page with at least some of the matching videos wherein each of the matching videos of the results page are different from one another and wherein the result page is a web page viewed inside a browser; computing compressed thumbnails for the matching videos in the result page; enabling a user selection of each of the matching videos in the result page, said user selecting the video by either hovering, mousing over, scrolling or clicking on the video in the result page; constructing a video summary in response to each selection from the result page of one of the matching videos that are different from one another that provides to an end user an abbreviated review of the matching video selected by the end user, the video summary comprising a plurality of frames but not all of the frames from the matching video selected by the end user; optimizing the video summary to the display capabilities of a client device; and activating, by a server, streaming of the video summary to the client device such that the client device displays the video summary within the context of the result page in response to the user selection of one of the matching videos. | 23,252 |
9,157,885 | 1. A method of electrochemically detecting a target substance containing a labeling substance, comprising: (1-1) bringing the target substance containing the labeling substance into contact with a probe holding substrate in which a probe for trapping the target substance containing the labeling substance is held on the probe holding substrate and allowing the target substance containing the labeling substance to be trapped by the probe; (1-2) detaching the labeling substance, the target substance or a moiety which is a part of the target substance and contains the labeling substance from the probe holding substrate obtained in the process (1-1) and attracting to a working electrode in which a trapping substance for trapping the labeling substance, the target substance or the moiety which is a part of the target substance and contains the labeling substance is not present, wherein the working electrode and the probe holding substrate are arranged so as to be opposed to each other with a space therebetween; and (1-3) electrochemically detecting the labeling substance, the target substance or the moiety which is a part of the target substance and contains the labeling substance which has been attracted to the working electrode in the process (1-2), wherein the probe holding substrate in the process (1-1) is a probe holding substrate in which the probe for trapping the target substance containing the labeling substance is held on a substrate body through a holder, and wherein the holder has a first layer composed of a metal that is dissolved in a solution or an alloy thereof and the probe which has trapped the target substance containing the labeling substance is detached from the substrate body of the probe holding substrate by bringing the solution into contact with the holder in the process (1-2). | 34,204 |
8,614,779 | 1. A lateral electric field type active-matrix addressing liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including gate bus lines, common bus lines parallel to the gate bus lines, and drain bus lines intersected with the gate bus lines and the common bus lines; a second substrate held to be opposite to the first substrate at a predetermined gap; a liquid crystal layer placed between the first substrate and the second substrate; pixel regions defined by the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines to be arranged in a matrix array; and each of the pixel regions including a switching element, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, and a common electrode electrically connected a corresponding one of the common bus lines; wherein in each of the pixel regions, at least one light-shielding electrode extends side-by-side along the drain bus lines that define the pixel electrode, wherein a first distance between said at least one light shielding electrode and an adjacent one of said drain bus lines is no more than a linewidth of the adjacent one of said drain bus lines; the at least one light-shielding electrode is overlapped with at least one part of the pixel electrode corresponding to the pixel region in such a way that an insulating film intervenes between the at least one light-shielding electrode and the at least one part, wherein the at least one part extends side-by-side along the drain bus lines; the at least one light-shielding electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode corresponding to the pixel region at a position in the pixel region; and liquid crystal molecules confined in the liquid crystal layer are rotated in planes approximately parallel to the first substrate, thereby displaying images. | 32,219 |
9,603,088 | 1. A method for a wireless area network, the method performed by an access point (AP) comprising: transmitting a beacon frame to a station operating in a power save mode, the beacon frame including a Traffic Indication Map (TIM) element indicating that the AP has a buffered frame for the station; receiving, from the station, a power save (PS) poll frame and at least one duplicated PS poll frame to request the AP to transmit the buffered frame on a first 20 MHz channel and at least one second 20 MHz channel, the least one duplicated PS poll frame being received on the at least one second 20 MHz channel; and transmitting the buffered frame to the station as a response to at least one of the PS poll frame and the at least one duplicated PS poll frame, wherein the PS poll frame and the at least one duplicated PS poll frame respectively comprise a data field that is scrambled based on a scrambling sequence that represents an entire bandwidth in which all of the PS poll frame and the at least one duplicated PS poll frame are transmitted. | 188 |
9,463,616 | 1. A device for direct printing on containers, comprising: at least one printing unit including at least one print head; a conveying system, which includes a plurality of container reception means arranged for rotation about an axis of rotation (A) and which is configured such that the container reception means circulate on a closed path and a print area of an outer surface of a container accommodated in a container reception means is movable past the print head for direct printing onto the print area; and at least one first drive adapted to rotate the container reception means, accommodating the container, about its axis of rotation (A) by means of at least one of open-loop or closed-loop control unit, the first drive being adapted to be variably controlled such that the print area is moved past the print head at a predetermined, substantially constant non-zero printing distance by controlled superposition of the rotary movement of the container reception means about its axis of rotation (A) and the circulation of the container reception means on the closed path. | 41,954 |
9,831,089 | 1. A method, comprising: forming a metal gate arrangement comprising at least a metal work function layer, and a plurality of additional layers, and adjusting an effective work function of the metal gate arrangement as a whole by performing plasma treatment on one or more of the plurality of additional layers in the metal gate arrangement. | 48,408 |
8,690,332 | 1. A binocular glare tester attachment for use with an ophthalmic instrument, said binocular glare tester attachment comprising: a pair of eye cups, both said eye cups each comprising an opaque facing wall partially enclosing a hollow interior chamber and having a viewing aperture, said aperture defining a central viewing line of sight axis, and said opaque facing wall having a plurality of lights disposed radially around said central viewing line of sight axis. | 20,635 |
9,562,403 | 1. A top-tensioned riser system for a dry-tree semi-submersible vessel comprising: a substantially vertical riser extending upward from a wellhead on the seafloor; a coaxial conductor surrounding an upper portion of the riser in spaced-apart relation; a coaxial keel guide surrounding a lower portion of the conductor sized to slidingly engage the conductor; a tensioner positioned above the coaxial keel guide and attached to the conductor and the riser proximate an upper end of each; a keel guide support structure attached to the keel guide and the dry-tree, semi-submersible vessel proximate the keel thereof; a keel joint centralizer attached to the riser proximate the keel guide and sized to substantially prevent radial movement of the riser relative to the conductor, wherein the riser, the conductor, the keel guide, the keel guide support structure, and the keel joint centralizer are configured such that side loads on the riser are reacted from the riser to the conductor via the keel joint centralizer and thence to the keel of the vessel via the keel guide and the keel guide support structure. | 3,865 |
9,351,591 | 1. A display having an expanding device for maintaining the display upright, wherein said display ( 10 ) comprises three or more flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) having lateral edges ( 15 ) connected to one another forming corners, and wherein said expanding device ( 200 ) comprises a plate ( 20 ) having a first hinge ( 21 ) dividing said plate ( 20 ) into first and second plate portions ( 20 a , 20 b ), an elastic tensile element ( 7 ) pulling said first and second plate portions ( 20 a , 20 b ) towards each other to fold the plate ( 20 ) around said first hinge ( 21 ) from a flat folded position to an angled working position, and at least one limiting member ( 23 ) which has a connection edge hingedly connected to the first plate portion ( 20 a ) by a second hinge ( 22 ) and a free edge ( 23 a ) which, when the plate ( 20 ) is in said angled working position, is in contact with the second plate portion ( 20 b ) in order to limit the folding of the plate ( 20 ) to said angled working position, wherein said second hinge ( 22 ) forms an angle greater than zero degrees with respect to said first hinge ( 21 ), and wherein the expanding device ( 200 ) is located between at least two adjacent flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) forming a corner of the display ( 10 ) and the first and second plate portions ( 20 a , 20 b ) of the expanding device ( 200 ) are connected to said two adjacent flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) forming said corner of the display ( 10 ) in order to push from within the flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) from a collapsed position, in which the flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) have a flat arrangement, to an expanded position, in which the flat panels ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ) have a three dimensional arrangement capable of being held upright. | 38,258 |
9,175,315 | 1. A method for producing butyl esters comprising: a) providing an oil and converting at least a portion of the oil into carboxylic acid by contacting the oil with one or more enzymes, wherein the one or more enzymes are selected from an esterase, lipase, phospholipase, lysophospholipase, or a mixture thereof; b) providing the converted carboxylic acid to a fermentation process; and c) contacting butanol produced in the fermentation process with the provided carboxylic acid and at least one catalyst capable of esterifying the carboxylic acid with the butanol to form butyl esters of the carboxylic acid, wherein the catalyst is an enzyme selected from an esterase, lipase, phospholipase, lysophospholipase, or a mixture thereof; wherein the carboxylic acid in the fermentation process is present at a concentration sufficient to produce a two-phase mixture. | 12,096 |
9,441,931 | 1. A MEMS apparatus for a fuze device, comprising a silicon device layer comprising a micro-rotor being comprised of a perforated disc with an open center with a hub spoke, a perimeter edge and an integral cavity that is inboard the perimeter edge, where the integral cavity is sufficiently large to retain an explosive material needed for a fuze; | 49,359 |
9,639,015 | 1. A toner composition comprising particles which comprise: a styrene/n-butylacrylate/β-carboxyethylacrylate copolymer resin having a ratio of styrene monomer to n-butylacrylate monomer to β-carboxyethylacrylate monomer in the copolymer resin from 69 to 90 parts styrene monomer, from 9 to 30 parts n-butylacrylate monomer, and from 1 to 10 parts β-carboxyethylacrylate monomer, wherein the weight average molecular weight of the copolymer resin is from 30,000 to 40,000 and wherein the number average molecular weight of the copolymer resin is from 8,000 to 15,000; a wax comprising a Fisher Tropsch wax and a paraffin wax, wherein the Fisher Tropsch wax is present in an amount of from 7% to 11% by weight based on the weight of the toner composition, and the paraffin wax is present in an amount of from 1.5% to 2.7% by weight based on the weight of the toner composition; and an optional colorant, wherein the toner particles have a circularity of from about 0.940 to about 0.999, wherein the toner particles contain wax domains having an aspect ratio of from about 1.4 to about 1.8, and wherein the toner particles contain wax domains having a roundness of from about 1.3 to about 1.6. | 29,731 |
9,217,300 | 1. A riser support system comprising: an external sleeve coupled around a laterally disposed riser; and a stress joint coupled to the riser and disposed longitudinally at an end of the external sleeve having a portion inside the external sleeve, wherein an annular space is formed between the sleeve and the portion of the stress joint, the annular space configured to allow the portion of the stress joint to move radially within the sleeve. | 40,682 |
8,985,105 | 1. A method for controlling a motor of a blower in a gas delivery device, the method being performed by a microcontroller to include the steps of: determining a rotational position of an impeller connected to a rotor at a plurality of locations in a rotation of the impeller using a single rotor position sensor which generates rotor position data, wherein the rotor position data is normalized for determining a rotation period of the rotor, determining a velocity of the impeller, and adjusting a timing of winding excitations for controlling a speed of the impeller. | 16,091 |
9,788,239 | 1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: applying a different requirement for a concerned inter-frequency measurement for a specific carrier frequency if the UE receives an instruction from an eNodeB (eNB), wherein: | 2,992 |
9,673,214 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: an element region disposed on a substrate, semiconductor elements being collocated in the element region; and a peripheral region disposed on the substrate, the peripheral region surrounding the element region, wherein the element region extends in a first direction parallel to the substrate and includes a plurality of wiring layers laminated on the substrate, the peripheral region includes a peripheral layer arranged to surround the element region, the peripheral layer includes a first part extending in the first direction and a second part extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first part and the second part have mutually different cross-section structures, the first part is constituted of a second material having an internal stress with an opposite sign to an internal stress of a first material constituting the wiring layer, and the second part is constituted of a third material having an internal stress with an identical sign to the internal stress of the first material. | 39,921 |
9,416,546 | 1. A method of installing and removing decking; comprising: aligning a track for decking relative to a joist; attaching the track to the joist; and snapping a decking board into a retaining portion of the track after attaching, wherein snapping comprises pressing the decking board downward and causing a snap-fit element in the track to be displaced as the decking board is moved downward, the snap-fit element being unitary with a base of the track, the snap-fit element having a first flange extending upwardly from a base of the track, a second flange extending inwardly and upwardly from the first flange, and a third flange extending outwardly and upwardly from the second flange, the second flange and the third flange forming an inward protrusion; allowing the inward protrusion in the snap-fit element to engage a recess in a side of the decking board, wherein the second flange abuts a lower portion of the recess and the third flange abuts an upper portion of the recess in the side of the decking board to removably retain the decking board; pulling the decking board upwardly away from the track; and allowing the inward protrusion in the snap-fit element to elastically displace as the decking board is moved upward to remove the decking board from the track. | 37,968 |
9,797,605 | 1. A heat pump system comprising a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, an indoor-side heat exchanger, a hot-water supply-side heat exchanger, an indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism, a hot-water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism, and a heat source-side heat exchanger, the refrigerant circuit including wherein the heat pump system is configured to operate in, when a heating load for heating air by the indoor-side heat exchanger and a hot-water supply load for heating water by the hot-water supply-side heat exchanger are required simultaneously, the heating priority mode adjusts a degree of subcooling of the indoor-side heat exchanger based on the opening degree of the indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism and the opening degree of the hot water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism, the hot-water supply priority mode adjusts any one of a degree of subcooling of the hot-water supply-side heat exchanger and a discharge temperature of the compressor based on the opening degree of the indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism and the opening degree of the hot water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism, and wherein a ratio of an indoor-heating capacity and a hot-water supply capacity is controlled by an indoor-heating/hot-water supply opening-degree ratio determined by (i) the opening degree of the indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism with respect to a pressure reducing mechanism total opening degree and (ii) the opening degree of the hot-water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism with respect to the pressure reducing mechanism total opening degree, the pressure reducing mechanism total opening degree being a total of (i) the opening degree of the indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism and (ii) the opening degree of the hot-water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism, and when the pressure reducing mechanism total opening degree is changed, a change amount of the opening degree of the indoor-side pressure reducing mechanism and a change amount of the opening degree of the hot-water supply-side pressure reducing mechanism are determined by the indoor-heating/hot-water supply opening-degree ratio. | 925 |
8,672,804 | 1. A hybrid vehicle driving system, including: an internal combustion engine; an electric motor; a battery unit which supplies electric power to the electric motor; and a transmission mechanism including wherein, when the vehicle is being driven by selecting a given second gear level by the second synchromesh unit, a pre-shifting to a first gear level which is lower than the given second gear level is implemented by the first synchromesh unit. | 31,051 |
9,006,070 | 1. A method of forming an integrated circuit device, comprising: etching a trench in a silicon substrate; depositing a first layer of isolation material in the trench, the first layer of isolation material projecting above surface of the silicon substrate; capping the first layer of isolation material by depositing a second layer of isolation material, the second layer of isolation material extending along at least a portion of sidewalls of the first layer of isolation material; epitaxially-growing a silicon layer upon the silicon substrate, the silicon layer horizontally adjacent to the second layer of isolation material; and forming a gate structure on the silicon layer, the gate structure defining a channel. | 14,169 |
9,410,091 | 1. A method to prepare a fuel from a liquid biomass, comprising: processing the liquid biomass and a petroleum fraction in the presence of a catalyst, said liquid biomass derived from a non-catalytic thermo-mechanical conversion consisting essentially of: i) grinding a dried cellulosic biomass; and ii) liquefying at least 60 wt. % of the ground dried cellulosic biomass to form the liquid biomass. | 18,252 |
9,081,634 | 1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a first digital signal processing (“DSP”) block having an input interface for receiving a first operand input, a second operand input, a third operand input, and a fourth operand input; wherein the first DSP block comprises: wherein the ALU block includes an XOR tree; wherein the XOR tree comprises: a plurality of output registers; wherein a first portion of the plurality of output registers is respectively coupled to outputs of the plurality of multiplexers; and wherein a second portion of the plurality of output registers is coupled to an output tap of the output taps of the XOR tree. | 19,235 |
8,386,791 | 1. A secure data processing method executable by a microprocessor, comprising: the microprocessor programmed to execute the steps of the method, the method comprising: | 8,700 |
9,173,912 | 1. An enriched extract comprising at least 40% (w/w) polyphenols from Cistus creticus L., obtained by a process comprising the steps of: a. mixing aerial plant parts of b. removing extraction residues and at least partially removing the extractant solvent from the extraction mixture to produce a crude extract; c. redissolving the crude extract in an aqueous solvent having at least 50% (w/w) water, and removing insoluble components to produce a refined extract; d. enriching the refined extract by at least one of the following steps: 1. solid-phase extraction, wherein the polyphenols bind to the solid phase and are eluted by more lipophilic solvents, 2. liquid-liquid extraction, where in the organic solvent phase is the product phase; 3. membrane filtration, wherein the retentate is the product phase. | 7,911 |
8,774,707 | 1. A wireless node for repeating wireless communications in an environment having an external power source, the wireless node comprising: a power terminal for coupling to the external power source; a powered emergency device (PED) housing at least partially housing a powered emergency device coupled to the power terminal, wherein the power emergency device at least one of conveys audio information, conveys visual information, and provides illumination to an area outside of the PED housing; a repeater within the PED housing and, the repeater including: a first AC/DC convertor associated with the repeater and having a direct connection to the power terminal and a direct connection to the repeater; a first battery coupled to the first AC/DC converter and having a direct connection to the repeater; and a second battery associated with the powered emergency device and having independent direct connections to each of the PED and the repeater; wherein the repeater is configured to draw power from any one of the first AC/DC convertor, the first battery, and the second battery. | 24,061 |
8,609,270 | 1. A redox flow battery system comprising a positive electrolyte comprising Fe(III) and Fe(II) in a positive electrolyte supporting solution, a negative electrolyte comprising S 2− and S in a negative electrolyte supporting solution, and a membrane or a separator separating the positive electrolyte solution and electrode from the negative electrolyte solution and electrode, wherein the positive electrolyte comprises potassium ferricyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, or both. | 688 |
9,028,362 | 1. A powertrain for a kinetic hybrid vehicle, comprising: i. a planetary gear system configured as a continuously variable, compound power-split transmission comprising a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port; ii. a flywheel connected to the first port of the planetary gear system through a first clutch; iii. a final drive of the vehicle, the final drive being connected to the second port of the planetary gear system; iv. a first motor/generator directly connected to the third port; v. a second motor/generator directly connected to the fourth port; and vi. an engine powered by internal combustion directly connected to the fourth port through a second clutch. | 28,275 |
8,715,886 | 1. A method for making a fuel cell comprising: producing a solid oxide, non-electrically conductive, unitary ceramic monolith framework including: impregnating the plurality of graded pores of the first porous electrode scaffold with an electrically conductive liquid metal material and impregnating the plurality of graded pores of the second porous electrode scaffold with an electrically conductive active cathode material. | 7,099 |
9,630,502 | 1. A vehicle structure with a detachable high voltage isolation structure, the vehicle structure comprising: a chassis; the detachable high voltage isolation structure connected with the chassis; an axle assembly installed on the chassis, and comprising a differential mechanism and an axle; a power motor disposed within the detachable high voltage isolation structure for driving the vehicle structure; a detachable transmission shaft, wherein the differential mechanism and the power motor are connected with each other through the detachable transmission shaft; a supplemental steering pump disposed on the chassis for providing hydraulic oil to a steering system; a supplemental steering motor disposed within the detachable high voltage isolation structure for driving the supplemental steering pump; a detachable supplemental steering pump connector, wherein the supplemental steering motor and the supplemental steering pump are connected with each other through the detachable supplemental steering pump connector; an air-conditioning compressor disposed on the chassis for producing cool air; an air-conditioning motor disposed within the detachable high voltage isolation structure for driving the air-conditioning compressor; a detachable air-conditioning compressor connector, wherein the air-conditioning compressor and the air-conditioning motor are connected with each other through the detachable air-conditioning compressor connector; a high voltage battery module disposed on the chassis for providing an electric power; a high voltage cable installed on the chassis, wherein the electric power is transmitted from the high voltage battery module to the detachable high voltage isolation structure through the high voltage cable; and a detachable high voltage cable connector, wherein the high voltage cable is connected with the detachable high voltage isolation structure through the detachable high voltage cable connector, wherein while the detachable high voltage isolation structure is detached from the chassis, a combination of the power motor, the supplemental steering motor, and the air-conditioning motor with the detachable high voltage isolation structure is detached from the chassis, and the axle assembly, the supplemental steering pump, the air-conditioning compressor and the high voltage battery module are still connected with the chassis. | 46,451 |
8,881,065 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting, using a processor, entry into a full-screen mode of a user application, wherein the user application is to be displayed in a plurality of display spaces over a network, wherein a display space comprises a substantial portion of the viewing area of a display or all of the viewing area of the display; identifying, by the processor, an additional application over the network, the additional application to generate an action that interrupts the full-screen mode of the user application in the plurality of display spaces, wherein the action that interrupts the full-screen mode of the user application comprises a display action in a display space; generating, by the processor, a message comprising instructions tailored to the additional application to cause the application to disable the action that interrupts the full-screen mode of the user application in all of the plurality of display spaces except for a display space selected to be viewed by the user, wherein the disabling prevents the action from occurring for at least a duration of the full-screen mode of the user application; transmitting, by the processor over the network, the message to the additional application to cause the additional application to disable the action in all of the plurality of display spaces except for the display space selected to be viewed by the user; and when the full-screen mode ends, transmitting an end message to the additional application, the end message comprising instructions tailored to the additional application to cause the additional application to enable the action that was disabled. | 3,358 |
9,546,385 | 1. A recombinant Clostridium thermocellum host cell capable of fermenting xylan, wherein the host cell comprises one or more heterologous polynucleotides encoding one or more xylanase enzymes, wherein the polynucleotide comprises a nucleotide sequence from any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 5-21, wherein the host cell further comprises one or more additional heterologous polynucleotides encoding a xylose isomerase and/or a xylulokinase, and wherein the heterologous polynucleotide that encodes the xylose isomerase comprises the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and the heterologous polynucleotide that encodes the xylulokinase comprises the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. | 13,275 |
9,070,226 | 1. A method for identifying marker features of one or more subsets of a multi-dimensional data, each of the one or more subsets including a plurality of data points associated with a plurality of features, wherein each of the plurality of data points is defined by feature values corresponding to the associated features, the method comprising: identifying, by a processor, a plurality of feature pairs based on a matrix of the plurality of data points and the plurality of features; computing, by the processor, correlation distances between features in each of the plurality of feature pairs based on correlation co-efficient values, wherein a lower correlation distance between the features indicate a highly related feature pair; generating, by the processor, a semi-circle of the plurality of features from a linear pattern of the plurality of features, in a two-dimensional plane, based on the correlation distances, such that the features in the highly related feature pair are placed closer to each other than the features not highly related to each other; evaluating, by the processor, force exerted on each of the plurality of data points by each of the plurality of features and positioning each of the plurality of data points within a region defined by the semi-circle in the two-dimensional plane, based on the evaluation; calculating, by the processor, a mean feature value for each of the features of the plurality of data points of a particular subset from amongst the one or more subsets, wherein based on the calculating, identifying an overall mean of the mean values associated with each of the plurality of features across each of the plurality of data points; representing, by the processor, the overall mean feature value as another semi-circle in the two-dimensional plane and with respect to the overall mean feature value, representing the mean values of each of the features corresponding to the plurality of data points in the particular subset in the two-dimensional plane, wherein the representing comprises identifying a lower bound and an upper bound corresponding to each feature for the particular subset for being plotted in the another semi-circle in the two dimensional plane; and determining, by the processor, the marker features based on a relative position of the mean feature values with respect to the overall mean feature value in the two-dimensional plane, wherein the marker features distinguish a first subset of the multi-dimensional data from a second subset thereof. | 32,877 |
9,366,479 | 1. A plume mitigation system for a wastewater concentrator, the plume mitigation system comprising: a primary transfer pipe at all times during operation fluidly connected to an exhaust stack, the primary transfer pipe diverting a portion, but not all, of exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust stack to the wastewater concentrator; and a return pipe fluidly connected to the concentrator and to the exhaust stack, the return pipe directing a moisture rich gas flow from the concentrator to the exhaust stack, wherein the primary transfer pipe is fluidly connected to the exhaust stack at a first location and the return pipe is fluidly connected to the exhaust stack at a second location, the second location being downstream of the first location in a direction of gas flow through the exhaust stack, and wherein moisture rich gas exiting the concentrator is mixed with exhaust gas in the exhaust stack, thereby effectively lowering a relative humidity of the moisture rich gas, which makes the combined exhaust gas and moisture rich gas less likely to form a condensation plume upon exiting the exhaust stack to the atmosphere. | 29,134 |
9,527,535 | 1. A variable spoiler device for a rear bumper of a vehicle comprising: a drive motor fixedly mounted to a rear back beam; a spoiler panel to operate by drive power received from the drive motor via drive shaft of a power transmission mechanism, the spoiler panel performing a retraction operation to cause the spoiler panel to closely contact a lower surface of the rear bumper, and performing a protrusion operation to cause the spoiler panel to move downwards from the rear bumper to a protruded position; a pair of link mechanisms to connect the spoiler panel to the power transmission mechanism to enable the retraction and protrusion operations of the spoiler panel; and a pair of support brackets fixedly mounted to the rear back beam while supporting the link mechanisms such that the link mechanisms are pivotable through pivotal coupling thereof to the support brackets, respectively, wherein each of the link mechanisms comprises: | 17,580 |
8,438,221 | 1. A message alert broadcast broker system for providing a broadcast message to a plurality of user devices located within a geographically defined broadcast target area, the system comprising: a broadcast service bureau communicatively coupled for receiving from one of a plurality of coupled broadcast agent access systems providing a broadcast request from an originating broadcast agent associated one broadcast agent message origination systems, the broadcast request including a broadcast agent identification, the geographically defined broadcast target area, and a broadcast message, the broadcast service bureau having a stored geographically defined broadcast message jurisdiction for the originating broadcast agent and configured for verifying the broadcast request as a function of the broadcast agent identification including an authority of the originating broadcast agent to send the broadcast message to the broadcast target area by comparing the stored geographically defined broadcast message jurisdiction for the originating broadcast agent with the broadcast target area associated with the broadcast message in the broadcast request, the broadcast service bureau processing the verified broadcast request for transmission to one or more broadcast message networks providing broadcast message alerting service to at least a portion of the broadcast target area. | 48,600 |
9,127,658 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: an engine block including a cylinder; a piston positioned within the cylinder, wherein the piston is configured to reciprocate in the cylinder along a cylinder axis; a crankshaft configured to be driven by the piston; a fuel system for supplying an air-fuel mixture to the cylinder; and an electric starting system including a starter motor, a battery receiver, and a lithium-ion battery removably attached to the battery receiver, wherein the lithium-ion battery is configured to power the starter motor to start the engine, wherein the lithium-ion battery includes at least one lithium-ion cell having a cell axis, and wherein the battery receiver is positioned so that with the lithium-ion battery attached to the battery receiver, the cylinder axis and the cell axis are not parallel to one another; wherein the crankshaft is a vertical crankshaft and the battery receiver is positioned above the crankshaft; and wherein the battery receiver comprises a receptacle for receiving the lithium-ion battery and an air intake for allowing air to flow to the engine block. | 44,183 |
8,437,271 | 1. A method performed by a network system capable of communicating with a first end point device over a wireless access network, the method comprising: determining whether a forwarding agent of the first end point device is compliant with a wireless access network forwarding policy, the forwarding agent capable of forwarding data between a wireless access network modem of the first end point device and a wireless local area network modem of the first end point device to provide a forwarding service to one or more additional end point devices communicatively coupled to the first end point device by a wireless local area network, the wireless access network modem enabling the first end point device to communicate with the network system over the wireless access network the wireless local area network modem enabling the first end point device to communicate with the one or more additional end point devices over the wireless local area network, the wireless access network forwarding policy either allowing the forwarding service or not allowing the forwarding service; if the wireless access network forwarding policy allows the forwarding service, and the forwarding agent of the first end point device is providing the forwarding service, allowing traffic associated with the one or more additional end point devices; and if the wireless access network forwarding policy does not allow the forwarding service, and the forwarding agent of the first end point device is attempting to provide or is successfully providing the forwarding service, taking an action, the action comprising assisting in causing a first notification to be presented through a user interface of the first end point device, assisting in causing a second notification to be presented through a user interface of a second end point device of the one or more additional end point devices, restricting at least an aspect of traffic associated with the first end point device, or a combination of these. | 9,266 |
9,730,152 | 1. A method, comprising: camping on a first cell as a source cell in a selected public land mobile network (PLMN) by a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE supports FDD-TDD joint operation, and wherein the first cell has a time division duplex (TDD) carrier type that transmits or receives one at a time so as to provide a delay-tolerant service; receiving an enhanced paging message that indicates an incoming transmission for the UE and includes additional paging information on a service type of the incoming transmission; selecting a second cell as a target cell that supports frequency division duplex (FDD) operation based on the additional paging information, wherein the target cell has a FDD carrier type that provides a delay-sensitive service indicated by the additional paging information; and performing random access channel (RACH) procedure with a target base station and thereby establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the target cell. | 9,410 |
8,455,754 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell element, comprising: forming a reverse conductivity type layer on a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type; forming a conductive layer on the reverse conductivity type layer, forming a contact region by heating and melting less than the entire conductive layer such that the contact region electrically connects the conductive layer and the semiconductor substrate; and forming a negative electrode and a positive electrode by | 46,327 |
9,778,564 | 1. An imprint material comprising: an (A) component; a (B) component; and a (C) component: (A) a compound of Formula (1); (B) a compound having alkylene oxide units and having 2 to 6 polymerizable groups at the ends of the compound, in which the alkylene oxide units are ethylene oxide units, propylene oxide units, or a combination thereof; and (C) a photopolymerization initiator in the formula, R 1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R 2 is a hydrogen atom or a C 1-3 alkyl group; n is 1 or 2; when n is 1, R when n is 2, R wherein the (A) component is contained in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less relative to the total mass of the (A) component and the (B) component. | 29,236 |
8,442,599 | 1. Portable information terminal equipment comprising: two units; a connecting section for connecting the two units with each other for relative movement; a connecting section driving mechanism for changing the relative positions of the two units to open/close the units; and a controller for controlling the connecting section driving mechanism to move either or both the units from a first relative position to a relative position at a prescribed relative angle to each other when receiving a call or a message based on information about the sender of the call or the message and/or the received message to thereby inform a user of the receipt of the call or the message; wherein: the connecting section rotatably supports the two units on a rotation axis substantially perpendicular to a display surface; and the connecting section driving mechanism changes the relative positions of the two units by rotating either or both the units on the rotation axis. | 28,802 |
9,410,751 | 1. A method of controlling cooling of an electronic system comprising: providing a cooling system comprising a controller controlling operation of the cooling system, the cooling system cooling the electronic system, the controller: applying the automatically determined adjusted control setting to the adjustable power-consuming cooling component, wherein the comparison facilitates reducing power consumption of at least one of the cooling system or the electronic system while ensuring that the system target temperature associated with at least one of the cooling system or the electronic system is within a desired range. | 13,682 |
9,613,032 | 1. A method, comprising: causing, via a portable device, a user to be exposed to media content via a delivery device, the delivery device being selectively coupled to the portable device; receiving, via the portable device, a user actuation that corresponds to at least one user interest associated with the media content; registering first event metadata on the portable device based at least in part on the at least one user interest and the media content; sending the first event metadata to a remote server device; receiving, from the remote server device, processed event metadata that identifies one or more items that relate to the at least one user interest and the media content, the processed event metadata including first processed metadata associated with the first event metadata and second processed event metadata based at least in part on the at least one user interest and the media content, wherein the second processed event metadata is received by the remote server device from a supplemental service server; and receiving, at the portable device, the one or more items. | 29,565 |
9,756,711 | 1. A discharge lamp lighting apparatus, comprising: a discharge lamp in which a pair of electrodes each having a protrusion at a tip end thereof are arranged to face each other at an interval equal to or less than 2.0 mm in an arc tube, the arc tube enclosing mercury and halogen of 0.20 mg/mm a power supply device configured to supply an alternating current to the discharge lamp, the power supply device being configured to drive in a switchable manner between a regular lighting mode, in which the discharge lamp is being lit with a basic frequency selected within a range of 60 Hz to 1,000 Hz, and a low electric power lighting mode, in which the discharge lamp is being lit with an electric power value within a range of 25 to 80% with respect to a rated power consumption of the discharge lamp, and the power supply device being configured to control a power supply to the discharge lamp such that, in the low electric power lighting mode, after a secondary protrusion forming process in which a secondary protrusion forming alternating current having a frequency equal to or greater than the basic frequency in the regular lighting mode is supplied while lowering an electric power of the lamp, the frequency being selected within a range of 200 to 2,000 Hz, the low electric power lighting mode transitioning to a secondary protrusion maintaining process in which a secondary protrusion maintaining high frequency current having a frequency higher than the basic frequency in the regular lighting mode, the frequency being selected within a range of 100 Hz to 1,500 Hz, and a secondary protrusion maintaining low frequency current having a frequency lower than the frequency of the secondary protrusion maintaining high frequency current is alternately supplied as a secondary protrusion maintaining alternating current, wherein, during the secondary protrusion forming process, a secondary protrusion forming alternating current is supplied in which a boost current is superposed onto a regular lamp current with the selected frequency at a predetermined temporal interval, wherein a superposing ratio or a temporal interval of the boost current varies depending on any of a lamp electric power, a lamp voltage, a lamp current, and combined parameter thereof, wherein, when the superposing ratio of the boost current is varied, the superposing ratio is varied towards a target superposing ratio in a stepwise manner. | 39,772 |
8,845,765 | 1. A method for recovering lipids from microbial biomass, comprising: (i) providing wet microbial biomass which contains lipids to extraction without disrupting the biomass cell walls, (ii) extracting said wet microbial biomass with a liquid extractant at elevated temperature of at least 170° C. and elevated pressure wherein the combination of the temperature and pressure is such that said lipids in said cells are contacted with said extractant, and (iii) subsequently recovering extracted lipids from or with said extractant. | 29,575 |
8,685,530 | 1. A surface-coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating formed on the substrate, wherein: the coating is formed by physical vapor deposition and includes one or more layers; at least one of the one or more layers is a first coating layer; and the first coating layer contains aluminum and nitrogen, has a thermal effusivity of 2,000 to 5,000 J·sec | 41,529 |
9,219,651 | 1. A method, comprising: in a first physical layer device that is coupled via a communication link having a plurality of communication channels to a second physical layer device, wherein during a low power mode of the first physical layer device, a first subset of the plurality of communication channels is in an active state that enables communication at a first transmission rate and a second subset of the plurality of communication channels is in a low power state that enables communication at a second transmission rate lower than the first transmission rate: prior to a decision to transition at least one of the second subset of the plurality of communication channels from the low power state to the active state, determining, based on an analysis of one or more control parameters based on a communication performance measured on at least one of the first subset of the plurality of communication channels in the active state, when to cause a triggering of training of parameters of operation of one or more of a near-end crosstalk canceller, an alien near-end cross talk canceller, a far-end cross talk canceller, an alien far-end cross talk canceller and an echo canceller used by at least one of the second subset of the plurality of communication channels; and executing the training of parameters of operation based on the determination. | 20,270 |
8,949,392 | 1. A method comprising: determining a set of network parameters for one or more switches along a first data path from a first source device to a first destination device, wherein at least one of the parameters indicates congestion condition on a link within the first data path; determining resources available on the first source device; determining whether assigning a job function to the first source device satisfies a service level agreement, based on: in response to determining that the service level agreement is satisfied, assigning the job function to the first source device; and in response to determining that the service level agreement is not satisfied, precluding the job function from being assigned to the first source device. | 5,627 |
9,409,838 | 1. A process for separating butenes and butanes by extractive distillation using a polar solvent, the process comprising: contacting a hydrocarbon mixture comprising butanes and butenes with a lean solvent mixture comprising water and one or more polar solvents in an extractive distillation column to form an enriched solvent fraction comprising the butenes and solvent(s); recovering an overheads fraction comprising butanes from the extractive distillation column; recovering the enriched solvent fraction as a bottoms fraction from the extractive distillation column; feeding the bottoms fraction to a stripper above a stripping section and below a wash section of the stripper to separate the butenes from the enriched solvent fraction; recovering the lean solvent mixture as a bottoms fraction from the stripper; recovering a stripper overheads fraction comprising butenes and water from the stripper; condensing the stripper overheads fraction to form a condensed water fraction and a product butenes fraction; feeding water as a reflux to a top of the stripper wash section; feeding at least a portion of the condensed water fraction intermediate the top and bottom of the stripper wash section as a second reflux. | 1,064 |
9,653,914 | 1. An interface supply system comprising: a switching power supply; a control chip; and a control circuit coupled to the switching power supply and the control chip; wherein the switching power supply is configured to supply power to an interface; wherein the control circuit comprises a first field effect transistor (FET); wherein the first FET is coupled to the switching power supply and the interface; wherein the first FET is configured to output a detection signal to the control chip when a short is caused between the switching power supply and the control circuit; and wherein the control chip is configured to not supply power to the interface upon receiving the detection signal. | 43,098 |
8,726,663 | 1. A system, comprising: a power generation system component with an interior volume configured to hold a fluid that receives energy from a gas turbine exhaust during operation of a power generation system; and a phase change material disposed around an external surface of the power generation system component; and a containment structure surrounding the power generation system component, wherein the containment structure forms an exterior volume between the containment structure and the power generation system component; wherein the phase change material is disposed within the exterior volume and is configured to absorb energy from the fluid during operation of the power generation system having the power generation system component and to heat the fluid in the power generation system component after shutdown of the power generation system. | 33,117 |
9,432,309 | 1. A transmission device control system comprising: a control computer; a network switch including a control port and a controller; a transmission device including a controller; a first transmission medium connecting said control computer and the control port of said network switch; and a second transmission medium which transmits a control signal transmitted/received between the controller of said network switch and the controller of said transmission device, wherein: | 18,132 |
8,444,991 | 1. A method of preparing an immunologically-active adjuvant-bound dried vaccine composition, the method comprising: a. combining at least one aluminum-salt adjuvant, at least one buffer system, at least one glass-forming agent, and at least one antigen to create a liquid vaccine formulation; b. freezing the liquid vaccine formulation to create a frozen vaccine formulation; and c. lyophilizing the frozen vaccine formulation to create a dried vaccine composition; wherein said composition, following dilution with an aqueous diluent, is capable of eliciting an immune response in a subject. | 11,247 |
9,353,668 | 1. A construction machine comprising: an automotive vehicle body ( an engine ( an exhaust side of said engine ( 10 ) and includes a filter ( 21 ) for trapping particulate matter in an exhaust gas emitted from said engine ( 10 ); and a regeneration device ( said regeneration device ( a first calculating unit that estimates a trapping quantity of the particulate matter trapped in said filter ( a second calculating unit that estimates a trapping quantity of the particulate matter trapped in said filter ( 21 ) based upon at least a rotational speed (N) of said engine ( 10 ), a fuel injection quantity (F) and an exhaust gas temperature (GT); and a regeneration determining unit that determines whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed using a first estimated trapping quantity (H said regeneration determining unit is configured to include a low-rotational time processing unit that makes the determination using only the second estimated trapping quantity (H said regeneration determining unit is configured to make the determination using both the first estimated trapping quantity (H | 24,199 |
8,411,852 | 1. A stream cryptographic method comprising: a communication channel between a first computer and a second computer; a diffusion-area A, wherein A contains an initial value A a diffusion mechanism F a diffusion-medium S, wherein S is a m-dimensional binary matrix which includes an anchor positon {dot over (S)}; and further, comprising steps of: (I) generating, by the first and the second computers, and assigned bit for steam encryption/decryption by: (II) encrypting, by the first computer, a bit of a plaintext stream in sequence, wherein the bit of the plaintext stream XORs with the assigned bit of A (III) decrypting, by the second computer, a bit of the ciphertext stream in sequence, received from the first computer, wherein the bit of the ciphertext stream XORs with the assigned bit of A (IV) going back to Step (b), and further, letting t | 9,759 |
9,526,038 | 1. A method for circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) in a wireless communication system comprising: initiating a CSFB process; sending an extended service request (ESR) message on a packet-switched network; monitoring for receipt of an ESR response on the packet-switched network using a first radio frequency (RF) receive chain; in parallel with monitoring for receipt of the ESR response, acquiring an initial circuit-switched network using a second RF receive chain; starting an ESR timer when sending the ESR message; and detecting whether the ESR timer expires before the ESR response is received. | 24,887 |
8,496,295 | 1. A rotary elbow of chair comprising: a mount board; two bearings, each having a first pivot seat and a second pivot seat axially aligning with each other, and the two first pivot seats being separately fixed at two ends of the mount board; two rotating plates, one end of each of which fixedly connects one of the second pivot seats; and a seat board having a linear slot, two pivot shafts penetrating the slot to pivotally connect the other end of each of the rotating plates; thereby the rotating plates can rotate on the mount board about the bearings. | 11,807 |
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