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9,057,357 | 1. A wind turbine comprising: a first ring comprising first and second arcuate elements, said first and second arcuate elements adapted to interconnect about an axis to form a first interconnected ring wherein said first interconnected ring incorporates a groove interface; a second ring comprising first and second arcuate elements, said first and second arcuate elements adapted to interconnect about an axis to form a second interconnected ring wherein said second interconnected ring incorporates a groove interface; a cylindrical fan blade housing comprising: at least one off-axis electrical generator having at least one rotating gear where said rotating gear is engaged and driven by at least one of said interior gear interfaces of said fan blade housing when said fan blade housing rotates about an axis within said groove interfaces of said first and second rings; and a solar panel in operative communication with said fan blade housing, said solar panel being configured to convert solar energy into electrical energy usable for rotating said fan blade housing. | 27,713 |
8,709,670 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a fuel cell system configured to provide motive power for the vehicle and including a cathode loop (i) being arranged such that a portion of the loop forms a water pooling location where water normally pools during stack operation or after stack shut-down and (ii) including a normally open mechanical check valve disposed within a vicinity of the water pooling location. | 34,795 |
9,698,720 | 1. An electrical drive system, comprising: an energy storage device for generating a supply voltage, the energy storage device having at least one energy supply line, each energy supply line including one or more energy storage modules connected in series in the energy supply line, each energy supply line including an energy storage cell module with at least one energy storage cell and a coupling device with a plurality of coupling elements configured to connect the energy storage cell module selectively into the respective energy supply line or to bypass the energy storage cell module in the respective energy supply line; a fuel cell system coupled to the output terminals of the energy storage device or connected in parallel with the energy storage device; and a control device coupled to the energy storage device, the control device configured to | 14,994 |
9,828,531 | 1. An adhesive composition comprising a continuous aqueous medium and further comprising (i) particles of a polymer dispersed in said aqueous medium; and (ii) particles comprising fatty amide and one or more fatty acid, wherein 50 mole % or more of said fatty acid is in the carboxylate form, and wherein the weight ratio of said fatty amide to said fatty acid is from 0.12:1 to 2.3:1, wherein said particles comprising fatty amide and one or more fatty acid are dispersed in said aqueous medium, and wherein the amount of fatty amide is 0.1% to 5% by weight based on the dry weight of the polymer. | 1,056 |
9,028,842 | 1. A composition suitable for injection into a subject comprising: i) an adjuvant and/or physiological tolerable buffer, and ii) an isolated peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NOs: 17 and 7-12. | 39,056 |
9,408,278 | 1. A light-emitting circuit that receives current supplied from a variable current source, the light-emitting circuit comprising: a first light-emitting element having a first anode and a first cathode; an NPN bipolar transistor that is series-connected to the first light-emitting element, and has a base terminal, a collector terminal, and an emitter terminal; and a second light-emitting element having a second anode and a second cathode that is parallel-connected to a series circuit composed of the first light-emitting element and the NPN bipolar transistor, and which differs in luminescent color from the first light-emitting element, wherein the collector terminal is connected to the variable current source, the emitter terminal is connected to the first anode, the second anode is connected to the collector terminal, the second cathode is connected to the first cathode, one of two terminals of a fixed resistor element is directly connected to the base terminal, the other terminal of the fixed resistor element is directly connected to the collector terminal, and the resistance of the NPN bipolar transistor varies in accordance with variation of a magnitude of current flowing through the base terminal via the fixed resistor element depending on the magnitude of the current supplied from the variable current source. | 45,115 |
8,905,123 | 1. A method for reducing energy consumption in a HVAC system in an automobile having a front portion and a rear portion, and a central axis extending from the front portion to the rear portion, and the automobile having a frame defining an engine bay and a passenger area, the frame having a front end proximal to a front end of the automobile, the method comprising the steps of: providing a liquid-gas converter located on the central axis in front of the engine bay and behind the front end of the frame; providing a radiator located on the central axis behind and adjacent the liquid-gas converter; circulating a first fluid in a first fluid loop positioned in the engine bay and connected to a compressor, the liquid-gas converter and a heater core located between the engine bay and the passenger area; converting, using the liquid-gas converter, the first fluid in the first fluid loop from liquid to gas or from gas to liquid; compressing, using the compressor, the first fluid in the first fluid loop; circulating a second fluid in a second fluid loop positioned in and solely confined to the engine bay separate from the first fluid loop and connected to a coolant pump, the radiator, a motor with an inverter and a fuel cell configured to supply electricity to the motor with the inverter; cooling, using the radiator, the second fluid in the second fluid loop in order to cool the motor with the inverter or the fuel cell; determining, using a temperature sensor located outside the engine bay and coupled with the frame, an ambient temperature of an ambient air to an exterior of the automobile; determining, using a moisture sensor located outside the engine bay and coupled with the frame, an ambient moisture content of the ambient air to the exterior of the automobile; providing a first fan located on the central axis adjacent and behind the radiator, the first fan capable of rotating at a maximum speed; rotating the first fan in a first direction at a first speed below the maximum speed for transmitting a first airflow heated by the radiator and the fuel cell and the motor with the inverter towards the liquid-gas converter when the ambient temperature is below a predetermined temperature that is set below a desired passenger area temperature for reducing an amount of ice that fauns on the liquid-gas converter, the predetermined temperature having a first predetermined temperature value when the ambient moisture content is below a predetermined moisture content value, and having a second predetermined temperature value greater than the first predetermined temperature value when the ambient moisture content is greater than the predetermined moisture content value; rotating the first fan in a second direction at a second speed below the maximum speed for transmitting a second airflow from an area outside the engine bay towards the liquid-gas converter when the ambient temperature is not below the predetermined temperature; receiving, using the heater core, the circulated first fluid via the first fluid loop; transferring, using the heater core, a third airflow into the passenger area using accumulated energy from the circulated first fluid in the first fluid loop; and transmitting, using a second fan located adjacent the heater core, the third airflow towards the passenger area, wherein the first speed remains substantially constant as the ambient temperature increases from a first temperature less than 0° C. to a second temperature greater than the first temperature and less than the predetermined temperature, and the second speed remains substantially constant as the ambient temperature increases from a third temperature greater than the predetermined temperature to a fourth temperature greater than the third temperature. | 47,931 |
9,545,996 | 1. A multilayer construction for an array of riblets comprising: a first layer having a plurality of individual laterally spaced tips each with an integral base expanding laterally beyond the periphery of the tip bottom surface, said tips consisting of a superelastic shape memory material in an austenitic form in a non-stress state; and, a polymer layer surrounding the base of each of said tips in predetermined spaced relation, said polymer layer adhering to a vehicle surface. | 47,139 |
9,162,392 | 1. An apparatus for layer-by-layer production of three-dimensional objects, comprising: a radiation source which emits an electromagnetic radiation; a control unit for control of a beam of the electromagnetic radiation; a lens in a path of the electromagnetic radiation beam; at least one deposition surface; and a construction chamber, the construction chamber comprising: wherein the lens directs the beam of electromagnetic radiation to an object point of the layer of hardenable material on the construction platform, wherein vapours produced in the construction chamber during melting of the hardenable material circulate and is cooled in the construction chamber, thereafter condensing on the at least one deposition surface in a controlled manner, and wherein the at least one deposition surface is located within and outside the construction chamber and the at least one deposition surface is located at the top surface of the construction chamber. | 27,795 |
9,413,361 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor, wherein at least a portion of the processor is clocked by a system clock signal; a first clock source configured to generate a first reference clock signal; a second clock source configured to generate a second reference clock signal; wherein a frequency of the second reference clock signal is lower than a frequency of the first reference clock signal; and a clock generation unit configured to: | 40,980 |
8,726,856 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: a cylinder; a piston reciprocally mounted within the cylinder; a connecting rod extending from the piston; and two spaced-apart rollers mounted on the connecting rod, wherein a first one of the rollers is adapted to engage an outer edge of a primary cam means and a second one of the rollers is adapted to engage an outer edge of a secondary cam means, the primary and secondary cam means being affixed to, and rotatable with, a common output shaft, wherein the first roller and the second roller are located on diametrically opposite sides of the output shaft, and the connecting rod comprises an elongated aperture, the output shaft passing through the aperture. | 1,285 |
9,289,987 | 1. A heating element, comprising: a substrate; a conductive layer disposed on the substrate, the conductive layer comprising an outer perimeter and an inner region thinner than the outer perimeter, the outer perimeter comprising conductive elements spaced apart from one another; a resistive layer, comprising: at least one upper layer defining a boundary of a fluid chamber, the boundary aligned vertically above the central resistive portion. | 5,631 |
9,008,543 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an apparatus body; a rotatable image carrier including a rotary shaft; an exposure device configured to form a latent image through exposure of a surface of the image carrier and retractable from an exposure position; an image formation unit disposed detachably from the apparatus body; a guide member to guide the exposure device to the exposure position, the guide member being used both to guide the image formation unit to the apparatus body and to guide the exposure device to the exposure position; and a support member including a projection, wherein the image formation unit includes at least the rotatable image carrier, the exposure device is supported by the support member including the projection, and the guide member includes a guide groove in which the rotary shaft of the image carrier and the projection can be inserted. | 21,403 |
8,513,046 | 1. A manufacturing method of a photoelectric conversion device, comprising the steps of: forming a first amorphous silicon layer in contact with a first surface of a single crystal semiconductor substrate; and forming a first microcrystalline silicon layer by a plasma CVD method in contact with the first amorphous silicon layer, wherein the first microcrystalline silicon layer is formed under a deposition condition where a pressure in a reaction chamber is greater than or equal to 450 Pa and less than or equal to 10000 Pa. | 30,899 |
9,000,929 | 1. A glucose monitoring device, comprising: a memory; a data processing section operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the data Processing section is configured to: a communication module operatively coupled to the data processing section and configured to communicate the status identifier to the remote device when the remote device is placed within the established communication range. | 33,911 |
8,587,764 | 1. An optical integrator system comprising a first optical integrator including a plurality of first wavefront dividing elements juxtaposed, and a second optical integrator including a plurality of second wavefront dividing elements juxtaposed, said first optical integrator and said second optical integrator being arranged in order from an entrance side of light; wherein each of the first wavefront dividing elements is so constructed that rays obliquely incident to a center on an optical axis of an entrance surface of the first wavefront dividing element are emitted in parallel with the optical axis from the first wavefront dividing element; each of the second wavefront dividing elements is so constructed that rays obliquely incident to a center on an optical axis of an entrance surface of the second wavefront dividing element are emitted in parallel with the optical axis from the second wavefront dividing element; a spacing L where P no lens or optical element having optical power is arranged in the optical path between the first optical integrator and the second optical integrator. | 10,811 |
8,680,136 | 1. A compound having the structure of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Y is a 1-4 atom alkylene, optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of Cl, F, CN, CF R R each R each R each R each R each R X is selected from a group consisting of —CO R each R m is independently an integer from 1 to 2, wherein each C | 26,115 |
9,505,429 | 1. An electric power steering apparatus, comprising: a steering torque detection unit configured to detect steering torque to be input to a steering mechanism; a current command value calculation unit configured to calculate a current command value based on at least the steering torque detected by the steering torque detection unit; an electric motor configured to generate steering assist torque to be given to a steering shaft of the steering mechanism; a motor control unit configured to drive and control the electric motor based on the current command value; a steering angle detection unit configured to detect a steering angle of a steering wheel; a voltage target value setting unit configured to set a voltage target value of the electric motor based on the steering angle detected by the steering angle detection unit; a motor rotation speed detection unit configured to detect a motor rotation speed of the electric motor; and a current limiting value setting unit configured to set a limiting value of the current command value calculated by the current command value calculation unit by using the voltage target value set by the voltage target value setting unit and the motor rotation speed detected by the motor rotation speed detection unit, based on a motor output characteristic of the electric motor, wherein the motor control unit is configured to drive and control the electric motor based on the current command value obtained by limiting the current command value calculated by the current command value calculation unit to the limiting value set by the current limiting value setting unit as an upper limit. | 16,575 |
9,450,883 | 1. A method for managing website access for a user who is initially not logged in to a website, comprising: receiving a request sent by the user via a client to access a webpage that requires the user to log into the website, the request comprising an original page address of the webpage; encoding, using a computer processor, at least a portion of the original page address to generate an encoded portion, the encoded portion being substantially shorter in length than at least the portion of the original page address that is encoded; generating a short address that includes the encoded portion combined with a domain name of a short URL management server; redirecting the client using the short address; maintaining a mapping of at least the encoded portion and the original page address; redirecting, after the client is redirected using the short address, the client to a login server for the user to perform login using a login address that is based at least in part on the short address; in the event that the user successfully logs in at the login server, redirecting the client based at least in part on the short address; and determining an original page address corresponding to the website based on the mapping of at least the encoded portion and the original page address. | 41,740 |
8,685,344 | 1. A droplet actuator comprising a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein: (a) the first substrate comprises one or more electrodes configured for conducting one or more droplet operations; and (b) the second substrate is arranged in relation to the first substrate and spaced from the surface of the first substrate by a distance to define a space between the first substrate and second substrate, wherein the space comprises a fluid, and wherein the distance is sufficient to contain the fluid disposed in the space; (c) the first or second substrate comprises a wettable surface defining a wettable path, wherein the wettable path is not an electrode path, and wherein the wettable path is defined from a position accessible to an exterior locus of the droplet actuator into an internal locus of the droplet actuator sufficient to: (d) the internal locus is in sufficient proximity to one or more of the electrodes such that activation of the one or more electrodes results in a droplet operation. | 24,804 |
9,534,555 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine comprising a control unit that supplies via a fuel injection valve a first fuel that is difficult to ignite and a second fuel that is easy to ignite into a cylinder, and burns the first fuel that is difficult to ignite as well by igniting the second fuel that is easy to ignite, wherein the control unit carries out at least one of a reduction in a supply amount of the first fuel that is difficult to ignite and an increase in a supply amount of the second fuel that is easy to ignite, if a temperature of intake air sucked into the cylinder falls below a combustion critical temperature that is determined from a ratio of the first fuel that is difficult to ignite to the fuels supplied into the cylinder and an EGR rate. | 16,401 |
8,574,712 | 1. An exterior building surface comprising a multilayer composition comprising: a) a thin topcoat layer having a dry film thickness of less than 200 microns having an L* value of less than 70 units on the CIELab* scale, and an inherent total solar reflectance value of less than 60% coated directly over at least one underlayer (b); b) the at least one underlayer, wherein the total solar reflectance (TSR) of the underlayer(s) together is greater than 60%, and wherein said underlayer(s) comprise a) an uncoated substrate or b) a substrate having thereon at least one primer layer, said primer layer(s) on the substrate between the substrate and the thin topcoat, said substrate is selected from is selected from the group consisting of brick, stone, terra cotta, slate, concrete, cementitious materials, fiber cement, rigid and flexible polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane foam, asphalt, mineral materials and thermoplastic poly olefins (TPO); wherein the L* value and color of the multi-layer composition is substantially the same as that of the topcoat layer, and wherein the TSR of the multilayer composition is at least 8% (absolute) higher than the inherent TSR of the topcoat, wherein said inherent total solar reflectance is the TSR of a composition at infinite thickness and is estimated by measuring the TSR of a dry film thickness of at least 1.2 mils on the same substrate, for a topcoat of the same pigment grind at a 40 percent pigment level. | 48,236 |
9,806,263 | 1. A polymer comprising one or more units of formula I wherein R on each occurrence identically or differently denotes straight-chain or branched alkyl with 16 to 24 C atoms, which is optionally fluorinated. | 3,599 |
9,488,450 | 1. A landmine sensor system configured to detect one of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), landmines or other buried explosives, the landmine sensor system being mounted in place of a backhoe digging bucket of a backhoe vehicle, the landmine sensor system comprising: a mounting portion having arc swing points formed by a pair of curved slots for hanging the landmine sensor system on a fixed holding pin which is part of a backhoe arm of the backhoe vehicle, and a removable holding pin opening configured to receive a removable holding pin when positioned in a mounting position on the backhoe arm; and an electronic sensor wand arm assembly mounted to the mounting portion via a spring assembly which allows for lateral movement of the electronic sensor wand arm assembly with respect to the mounting portion on condition that the electronic sensor wand arm assembly impacts an obstacle as the backhoe arm swings from side to side. | 41,565 |
8,988,167 | 1. An RF signal blocking device for blocking a portion of an RF signal inputted therein in a prescribed frequency band if an RF power value of the RF signal is greater than or equal to a predetermined level, the RF signal blocking device comprising: an LC resonance circuit including a capacitor unit that includes at least one capacitor and an inductor unit that includes a first inductor and a second inductor connected in parallel, and having a resonant frequency higher than the prescribed frequency band; wherein the second inductor includes a fuse wire which is disconnected as a result of the RF signal having the RF power value greater than or equal to the predetermined level being inputted therein, and the resonant frequency of the LC resonance circuit after disconnecting the fuse wire of the second inductor being set in the prescribed frequency band. | 45,667 |
9,735,392 | 1. A method of encapsulating a device including a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom, comprising: locally treating at least one of the protrusions, at least one of the at least one of the having a corresponding shadow region; and depositing a thin film to encapsulate the device after a local treatment of the at least one of the protrusions. | 16,691 |
8,572,194 | 1. A method of accessing message accounts on a user device, comprising: providing multiple message accounts on the user device, wherein the multiple message accounts includes at least a first message account, a second message account, a third message account, and a fourth message account; receiving user input selecting the first message account and the second message account; linking the first message account and the second message account to create a first combined message box; receiving user input selecting the third message account and the fourth message account; linking the third message account and the fourth message account to create a second combined message box; displaying the first combined message box as a list of messages from both the first message account and the second message account; and displaying the second combined message box as a list of messages from both the third message account and the fourth message account. | 42,566 |
8,775,839 | 1. An electronic circuit comprising a bus; a peripheral coupled to said bus, the peripheral having a storing circuit for a succession-presetting and a parameter setting currently-effective for peripheral operation on said bus; and a power management circuit operable in response to a power management transition request to send a first signal to said peripheral, and to initiate a bus frequency transition, and to send a second signal to the peripheral after the bus frequency transition, and said peripheral is responsive to the first signal to stall peripheral operation on said bus, said peripheral operable to automatically promote the succession pre-setting to currently-effective status for the peripheral after peripheral operations on said bus are stalled and responsive to the second signal to re-enable peripheral operation on said bus. | 35,977 |
8,642,455 | 1. A method comprising: formulating an ink of particles wherein about 50% or more of the particles are flakes each containing at least one element from group IB, IIIA and/or VIA and having a non-spherical, planar shape, wherein overall amounts of elements from group IB, IIIA and/or VIA contained in the ink are such that the ink has a desired stoichiometric ratio of the elements, wherein the flakes each have a longest dimension between about 5 microns and greater than about 500 nm; coating a substrate with the ink to form a precursor layer; and processing the precursor layer in one or more steps to form a dense film. | 3,611 |
8,839,150 | 1. A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: presenting first graphical objects on a user interface shown on a display of a device; receiving, from a first input tool, a first touch input through the user interface, the first touch input tracing a perimeter around a subset of the first graphical objects following a movement of the first input tool touching the display; responsive to the first touch input, transforming an area of the user interface including the subset of the first graphical objects within the perimeter into a second graphical object, wherein the first graphical objects include two-dimensional file or folder icons and the second graphical object includes a three-dimensional sphere, and wherein transforming the area of the user interface into the second graphical object comprises transforming the area of the user interface enclosed by the perimeter into the sphere, wherein the file or folder icons are displayed on the sphere; receiving a second touch input in response to a second input tool touching the second graphical object; and responsive to the second touch input, animating the second graphical object in the user interface so that it appears to become smaller, and compressing or archiving data represented by the second graphical object. | 1,272 |
9,392,862 | 1. Apparatus comprising: a bottle having a rear surface and a track extending along the rear surface, having a downwardly directed stopping surface; and a clip having an upper portion, an inner leg and an outer leg, extending downward from opposite ends of the upper portion, an upwardly directed stopping surface and a first mounting structure, wherein the first mounting structure engages the track of the bottle as the clip is moved upward along the bottle with the first mounting structure within the track to hold the clip in place within the track, with the inner leg extending downward, being spaced apart from the outer leg and from the bottle, and with additional movement of the clip within the track being prevented by contact between the upwardly directed stopping surface and the downwardly directed stopping surface, wherein the clip additionally comprises a second mounting surface, comprising a concave cylindrical surface coated with a contact adhesive, forming a portion of an outer surface of the outer leg for adhesively attaching a different bottle. | 43,050 |
9,672,505 | 1. A method for verifying an authenticity of a payment terminal, implemented by a device for verifying authenticity, wherein the method comprises: transmitting, to the payment terminal, a request for obtaining a piece of identification data, which identifies the particular payment terminal, by using a contactless communications interface; receiving a response, through said contactless communications interface and coming from the payment terminal, to said request for obtaining a piece of identification data, wherein the response comprises the piece of identification data that identifies the particular payment terminal and comprises a one-time use password generated by the payment terminal according to a predetermined method of generation; comparing a field of said response with at least one piece of pre-recorded identification data; when the field comprises a piece of identification data identical to said at least one piece of pre-recorded identification data, issuing an assertion of authenticity of said payment terminal; and when the field comprises a piece of identification data different from said at least one piece of pre-recorded identification data, issuing a piece of information on absence of authentication of the payment terminal. | 5,456 |
9,382,779 | 1. A flow control device for installation in a subterranean wellbore, the flow control device comprising: an interior surface that defines an interior chamber, the interior surface includes a side perimeter surface and opposing end surfaces, a greatest distance between the opposing end surfaces is smaller than a largest dimension of the opposing end surfaces; a first port through one of the end surfaces; and a plurality of second ports through the interior surface and apart from the first port, each of the plurality of second ports having open first and second ends for allowing fluid flow therethrough, the first ends in fluid communication with the interior chamber and the second ends in fluid communication with a common fluid source, the side perimeter surface operable to direct flow from at least one of the plurality of second ports to rotate about the first port; wherein one of the open second ends of the plurality of second port has a resistance to fluid flow therethrough that is different from a resistance to fluid flow through another one of the open second ends of the plurality of second port; wherein the first port comprises an outlet from the interior chamber and the plurality of second ports comprises a plurality of inlets to the interior chamber; wherein a portion of fluid from the common fluid source flows through one of the plurality of inlets while a portion of fluid from the common fluid source flows through another of the inlets. | 48,083 |
8,866,088 | 1. A radiation image conversion panel comprising a substrate, a step-cured resin layer subjected to a step-by-step curing process and formed on a main face of the substrate, and a phosphor formed during a curing reaction of the resin layer by vapor deposition on a main face of the resin layer on a side opposite from the substrate and made of a columnar crystal; wherein at least the main face of the resin layer has a surface energy of at least 20[mN/m] but less than 35 [mN/m]. | 34,313 |
9,316,571 | 1. Method for monitoring the state of a rotor blade of a wind turbine, comprising: measuring an acceleration of the rotor blade with a first signal, wherein the acceleration is measured at a first radial position at a predetermined distance from the rotor blade root in at least one direction comprising a first directional component orthogonal to the axis of the rotor blade; measuring a strain of the rotor blade with a second signal, wherein the strain is measured at a second radial position disposed in the area of the first radial position to the rotor blade root; determining a first positional change on the basis of the acceleration; determining a first value corresponding to the rotor blade stiffness by means of calculation on the basis of the first positional change and the strain; and determining the rotor blade state from the first value. | 14,888 |
8,926,729 | 1. An apparatus of producing a reducing gas to be supplied to a direct reduction iron-making furnace, comprising: an internal-heating reformer for reforming a natural gas by adding steam and oxygen to the natural gas to supply a mixture of the natural gas, the steam and the oxygen to a catalyst bed in the reformer and by proceeding both an endothermic reaction of a reformation with steam and an exothermic reaction of partial oxidation in the catalyst bed to generate a reducing gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide and having a temperature range between 900 and 1,100° C.; a carbon dioxide remover for removing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas discharged in the direct reduction iron-making furnace; an exhaust-gas recycling line for recycling as the reducing gas the exhaust gas from which the carbon dioxide is removed by the remover; a heat exchanger for increasing a temperature of the carbon dioxide-removed gas to a range between 400 and 700° C. with the exhaust gas discharged in the direct reduction iron-making furnace before recycling the carbon dioxide-removed gas as the reducing gas for the direct reduction iron-making furnace; and a line for supplying the exhaust gas discharged from the direct reduction iron-making furnace to the heat exchanger before supplying it to the carbon dioxide remover. | 45,569 |
8,671,890 | 1. A pipe assembly for use in a boiler, the pipe assembly comprising a pipe having an outer wall adapted for heat exchange, the pipe having heat sensing means located in a recess section of the outer wall thereof, wherein an internal bore of the pipe has a substantially constant cross section in the region of the heat sensing means, wherein the pipe comprises an offset portion, along a longitudinal axis of the pipe in the region of the heat sensing means, defined by a concave area along an external portion of one side of the pipe and a corresponding convex area along an external portion of a diametrically opposite side of the pipe and substantially parallel to the concave area. | 27,194 |
9,284,830 | 1. A method for recovering and treating hydrocarbon fluids using a hydraulic fracturing process comprising the steps of: i) recovering a fluid stream from a well, where the fluid stream comprises liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon species or both, produced water, suspended solids, and dissolved contaminants; ii) separating the hydrocarbon species from the fluid stream to produce a second fluid stream comprising liquid water; iii) directing the second fluid stream to a first filtration medium; iv) passing essentially all of the second fluid stream through the medium to produce a permeate stream and a filter cake; v) reusing, recycling or disposing of the treated fluid stream wherein the medium is a nonwoven sheet and has an efficiency of 60% or greater for particles of 1 micrometer size or greater and a water flow per unit area of the sheet, per unit pressure drop across the sheet of at least 20 milliliters per minute per centimeter squared of medium per kilopascal pressure of the liquid (ml/min/cm 2 /kPa), and a life expectancy of at least 150 minutes, and wherein filtering the produced water with the medium produces a filter cake upstream of, and in contact with, the medium and concentrated with suspended solids and other precipitated particles, and wherein the filter cake is allowed to build to a pre-determined level and after having reached said level, the filter cake is dewatered, separated from the filter medium, and disposed of separately from the filter medium. | 21,045 |
8,554,815 | 1. In a frequency synthesis device, a method for synthesizing signal frequencies using a single reference clock and a primitive ratio of integers, the method comprising: accessing a plurality (k) of reference clock frequency values (f for each synthesized clock frequency value, calculating a raw ratio of integers Np finding a greatest common divisor (GCD) of Np for each raw ratio of integers, such that: selecting a common clock frequency value (f performing a calculation to determine a final ratio of integers N for each synthesized clock frequency value, the calculation a function of values selected from the common clock frequency value, each primitive ratio of integers, each reference clock frequency value, where C is an integer value; storing each final ratio of integers, cross-referenced to its associated synthesized clock frequency value, in a tangible memory medium; and using a final ratio of integers accessed from the tangible memory medium to generate the associated synthesized clock frequency value. | 19,063 |
9,585,019 | 1. A device management apparatus, in a sensor network system, that mediates between an owner of a device and a user who is not the owner of the device in order to permit the user to use the device through a wide area network, wherein the device is selected from a plurality of monitoring sensor devices, comprising: a device information storage in which information of each of the plurality of monitoring sensor devices is registered comprising an owner condition for giving access to the device, wherein the owner condition includes a controllable time and a control range indicative of which function of the device is used; an acquisition section which acquires a desired condition, for getting access to the device, from the user; and a matching process section which performs matching between the desired condition acquired from the user and the owner condition comprised in the information of each device registered in the device information storage thereby configured to: select a device satisfying the desired condition as a target device; generate contract information about a contract indicating a payment amount that the user accepts to pay related to the use of the target device between an owner of the target device and the user; and grant a control right of the target device to the user for the controllable time indicated in the owner condition. | 12,299 |
9,215,510 | 1. A method for tagging a media asset, the method comprising: receiving verbal input from a user while the user is accessing the media asset; receiving a request to adjust playback of the media asset; responsive to receiving the verbal input and the request, cross-referencing a combination of the verbal input and the request with an attribute database to identify an attribute associated with the combination; and associating the identified attribute with the media asset. | 8,500 |
9,644,116 | 1. A windshield repair kit comprising: a) a laminate having a protective barrier film, an adhesive layer, and a peel-able cover, the protective barrier film having at least one side to which the adhesive layer is applied, the adhesive layer being formulated from an acrylic or silicone base compound comprising one or more types of photo initiators, the acrylic or silicone base compound being configured to be cured in a presence of a UV light; the peel-able cover being configured to removably cover one or more exposed portions of the adhesive layer, and b) a covering being configured to removably receive the laminate, the covering being further configured to reduce a transmission of the UV light to the adhesive layer to a level that prevents a UV activation of the adhesive layer while the laminate is within the covering. | 11,959 |
9,227,524 | 1. An electric-powered vehicle comprising: a plurality of parallel-connected unit power storage modules each including a power storage device, a contactor connected in series to the power storage device, and a control device capable of managing a status of the power storage device; an electrical load, connected to the power storage device through the contactor, whose driving is controlled by using powers of the power storage devices; and an integration control device connected to at least the control devices of the unit power storage modules, wherein the electrical load includes at least one dynamotor controlled by the integration control device, and wherein the integration control device, when detecting an abnormality of any of the unit power storage modules, performs open and close control of the contractor of the unit power storage module having the detected abnormality, and limits a drive torque of the dynamotor. | 15,459 |
8,411,796 | 1. An OFDM signal receiver comprising: a first delay section for receiving an analog-to-digital converted OFDM signal as an input and for delaying the OFDM signal by a time corresponding to an effective symbol period Tu of the OFDM signal and outputting the delayed signal; a correlation calculating section for outputting a correlation signal showing a correlation between the output of the first delay section and the OFDM signal; a second delay section for outputting at least one delayed correlation signal obtained by delaying the correlation signal; an adding section for performing addition of the correlation signal and the at least one delayed correlation signal; an interval integration section for outputting an integration signal showing a result of transfer integration over a definite interval performed on an output of the adding section; a symbol period smoothing section for smoothing the integration signal for an interval of the effective symbol period of the OFDM signal; and a window position detection section for calculating window position information from an output of the symbol period smoothing section. | 16,815 |
8,643,884 | 1. An image forming system comprising: a mobile object; an information processing device; and an image forming device which receives data from the information processing device to perform image forming, wherein the information processing device; a storage unit that stores a location data representing a location of the image forming device; a region determining unit that determines a region of a predetermined range including the location of the image forming device based on the location data stored in the storage unit; a position obtaining unit that obtains a positional data for a position of the mobile object; a judgment unit that judges whether or not the position of the mobile object is within the region determined by the region determining unit based on the positional data obtained by the position obtaining unit; a transmission unit that starts transmission of data to the image forming device if the judgment unit determines that the position of the mobile object is within the region; and an instruction transmitting unit that transmits, to the image forming device, a deleting instruction for deleting reception-completed data, if the judgment unit determines that the position of the mobile object is outside the region after the transmission unit started transmission of data to the image forming device, and the image forming device includes a unit that deletes, when receiving the deleting instruction, the reception-completed data up to a time point when receiving the deleting instruction. | 28,933 |
9,257,139 | 1. A suspension having a gimbaled dual stage actuation structure, comprising: a flexure comprising a gimbal, the gimbal comprising at least one spring arm and a tongue connected to the at least one spring arm; a piezoelectric motor mounted on the at least one spring arm of the gimbal; and a stiffener mounted on the motor with an adhesive, wherein the adhesive comprises a layer of adhesive that is located between the motor and the stiffener. | 17,250 |
8,909,494 | 1. A low cost self-calibrating home site monitor device for use in a system employing a number of monitor devices, each monitor device being coupled to a heating system operated by fuel for accurately computing fuel usage of said heating system, each self-calibrating home site monitor device comprising: (a) a current sensor circuit component coupled to a motor of said heating system operated by fuel for detecting motor current to be used in computing burn times; (b) a real time clock component used for measuring run time durations of fuel heating system burn times; (c) a microprocessor operatively coupled to the current sensor circuit and to the real time clock unit; (d) a memory operatively coupled to the microprocessor for storing burn pre-purge and burn post-purge parameters, and fuel usage rate parameters including an initial burn coefficient and recalibrated burn coefficients; (e) said microprocessor being operative to compute said initial burn coefficient using parameters of said home site heating system including nozzle size, pump pressure and nozzle pressure to compute burn times periodically using real time intervals when the heating system is operating, and said burn pre-purge and burn post-purge parameters, and to determine fuel usage using total burn times occurring between two successive fuel deliveries and said recalibrated burn coefficient for the rate of fuel usage value; (f) in response to each receipt of delivery time data, said microprocessor being operative to recalibrate the burn coefficient using said delivery time data, which includes an actual amount of fuel required to fill up a fuel tank of said heating system, so as to provide a high degree of accuracy over time in determining actual fuel usage by the heating system to enable efficient scheduling of fuel deliveries; and (g) communication interface circuits coupled to the microprocessor for enabling said home site monitor device to establish two way communication for downloading files containing initialization data, said delivery time data, and any change in heating system parameters and for uploading files containing records including recalibrated burn coefficients for the rate of fuel usage values, and most recent fuel usage computed by said microprocessor since a last fuel delivery. | 30,674 |
9,511,982 | 1. A rail system comprising: a carrier profile which has a cross section that is open in an upward direction, a rail which is inserted into the open cross section of the carrier profile in such a manner, that a gap remains at least between one side of the rail and a side wall of the carrier profile forming a boundary of the open cross section, and at least one clamping profile which is inserted in the gap is in contact with an inner contact surface thereof laterally at a bearing surface of the rail and partially overlaps the rail, at least one upper part of the open cross section of the carrier profile expanding laterally downward to an undercut cross-sectional region which is bounded by two opposite upper side wall sections of the carrier profile which are one of inclined inwardly and curved concavely, and at least one part of the cross section of the at least one clamping profile tapers downward in a wedge fashion and is bounded in the direction of the rail by the inner contact surface and in the direction of the side wall of the carrier profile by an outer contact surface thereof which lies in contact with a said corresponding upper sidewall section, the at least one part being fitted into an appropriately shaped part of the gap within the undercut cross-sectional region of the carrier profile. | 30,102 |
9,266,502 | 1. A steering apparatus comprising: a key lock collar being fitted on a steering shaft and restricted from rotating by a steering lock mechanism when performing a steering lock; and a cylindrical slip ring being interposed between the steering shaft and the key lock collar in radial directions, wherein the slip ring includes a plurality of protruded portions protruding outwardly or inwardly in the radial directions and being provided in a circumferential direction, and an axis-directional portion of the steering shaft which portion is covered by the slip ring is formed with at least two large-diameter portions and a small-diameter portion. | 9,930 |
9,277,512 | 1. A communication method of a target transmitter, the method comprising: calculating a target metric, based on a weight of the target transmitter and a transmission rate of the target transmitter, wherein the weight of the target transmitter is set based on a value representing a relative importance of a transmission rate between the target transmitter and a target receiver according to a neighbor metric; and adaptively establishing a transmission power, for a subsequent transmission period of the target transmitter, based on a result of comparing an absolute value of a difference between a transmission rate for the subsequent transmission period of the target transmitter and a metric associated with a transmission rate of the target transmitter to a predetermined threshold, wherein the transmission rate for the subsequent transmission period of the target transmitter is calculated based on an average of the target metric and a neighbor metric, wherein the neighbor metric is determined with respect to a transmission rate of a neighboring transmitter. | 15,719 |
9,378,645 | 1. A method of constructing, using a processor, a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach, the method comprising a first set of steps and a second set of steps, the first set of steps using values of a plurality of reference parameters, the first set of steps comprising: providing, for at least one of a plurality of strategic parameters, a value relating to a user strategy, said strategic parameters corresponding to at least some of said reference parameters, the values of a parameter corresponding to all the possible options offered for setting this parameter; and in automatically constructing said vertical profile using the value thus provided, the method additionally comprising a second set of steps carried out during a flight of the aircraft and comprising: a) presenting the crew of the aircraft with the values of a plurality of parameters referred to as tactical parameters, which have been used to calculate the vertical profile, the tactical parameters corresponding to at least some of said reference parameters; b) modifying at least one of said tactical-parameter values presented in step a); and c) automatically reconstructing the vertical profile using the value modified in step b); and further comprising an additional step, forming part of the second set of steps, situated between steps b) and c), and comprising verifying and validating each tactical parameter value modified in step b), and wherein only modified values that have been verified and validated are used in step c). | 14,202 |
9,181,811 | 1. A device for varying blade pitch for a rotary wing aircraft including: a main rotor having a plurality of blades; at least one main flap per blade, each main flap being turnable about an axis to modify the pitch of the blade; main actuators controlling the angles of inclination of the main flaps; and a flight control system controlling the main actuators; wherein the device for varying blade pitch comprises at least one secondary flap incorporated in each blade and a swashplate having a non-rotary plate and a rotary plate rotating with the main rotor, the rotary plate acting via a mechanical connection to change the angle of inclination of each main flap and consequently to change the pitch of the corresponding blade, the main actuators being electric actuators for moving and varying the angle of inclination of the non-rotary plate in order to control the main flaps at least cyclically, each secondary flap being subjected to multi-cyclic control by a piezo-ceramic secondary flap electric actuator incorporated in each blade and having a utilization frequency equivalent to at least (b+1)ω, where b corresponds to the number of blades of the main rotor and ω corresponds to the speed of rotation of the main rotor. | 48,285 |
9,194,036 | 1. A plasma vapor deposition system comprising: a top target electrode disposed in a plasma chamber, wherein the top target electrode comprises a first target material to be deposited, wherein the top target electrode comprises a central region surrounded by a peripheral region; a bottom electrode disposed in the plasma chamber and spaced below the top target electrode; a workpiece holder disposed in the plasma chamber between the top target electrode and the bottom electrode; and at least one auxiliary target electrode disposed in the plasma chamber disposed between the top target electrode and the workpiece holder, the auxiliary target electrode comprising a mesh with a plurality of openings in a plane of the auxiliary target electrode parallel to a major surface of the bottom electrode, wherein the least one auxiliary target electrode comprises a second target material to be deposited, wherein the auxiliary target electrode has a central portion disposed below and overlapping with the central region of the top target electrode and an edge portion disposed below and overlapping with the peripheral region of the top target electrode, wherein a thickness of the auxiliary target electrode in the edge portion is different from a thickness of the auxiliary target electrode in the central portion, wherein the mesh comprises a first layer having first set of openings and a second layer having second set of openings, wherein the second set of openings comprise a central opening having a larger diameter than a diameter of surrounding openings of the second set of openings, wherein the first layer and the second layer are parallel to each other, and wherein the thickness is measured along a direction from the top target electrode to the bottom electrode. | 37,464 |
9,673,430 | 1. A power supply device comprising: plural battery cells having electrode portions; and bus bars connecting the electrode portions of the plural battery cells each other, wherein each of the electrode portions includes (i) a pedestal portion having a flat surface and (ii) an electrode terminal projecting from the pedestal portion, wherein each of the bus bars includes a thick portion formed at a center of the bus bar and a thin portion thinner than the thick portion formed in at least one part of an end edge of the bus bar, wherein the thin portion includes a welding portion to which the flat surface of the pedestal portions is welded, wherein the thin portion is formed in a recess shape as a recess shaped portion in a plan view which is recessed from the end edge of the bus bar, wherein the electrode terminal is in a cylindrical shape, and wherein the recess shaped portion is formed in a semicircular shape along the cylindrical shape of the electrode terminal. | 20,452 |
9,344,956 | 1. A communications node for use in a communications network having a core network and a base station that can communicate with a plurality of mobile devices, the base station having a membership based access mode and a non-membership based access mode, the communications node comprising: a memory storing a list of membership identifiers associated with the base station when the base station is operating in said membership based access mode; a communication module receiving a configuration message from the base station indicating that the base station has changed from the membership based access mode to the non-membership based access mode; and a control module operable to process the received configuration message and to determine that the base station has changed from said membership based access mode to the non-membership based access mode and, in response to such determination, to delete the stored list of membership identifiers associated with the base station. | 39,794 |
8,507,130 | 1. A water based lithium secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an aqueous electrolyte solution obtained by dissolving an electrolyte made of a lithium salt in a pH buffer solution containing a potassium salt, wherein a variation in pH value of the aqueous electrolyte solution after a charge-and-discharge operation is repeated 20 cycles at a temperature of 20° C. is controlled to ±0.5 or less. | 35,268 |
8,974,741 | 1. A device for treating gases by means of a plurality of surface plasmas, comprising: at least one dielectric substrate having two opposite main surfaces, a plurality of first electrodes parallel to one another deposited on one of the two opposite main surfaces of said substrate, and a plurality of second electrodes parallel to one another deposited on the other main surface of the two opposite main surfaces of said substrate, the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are arranged so that an inter-electrode distance is in a range between 2 and 15 mm, said plurality of first and second electrodes being connected to two terminals of an electric power supply source, respectively so as to generate the plurality of surface plasmas, and at least one catalytic support, which is not in contact with the dielectric substrate and said plurality of first and second electrodes, and integrating a catalyst; the at least one catalytic support being in front of a surface of the dielectric substrate having the plurality of surface plasmas generated thereon, wherein the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes cover from 10 to 90% of a total area of the two opposite main surfaces of the dielectric substrate, respectively, wherein the plurality of first electrodes have a same potential, and wherein the plurality of second electrodes have a same potential. | 40,646 |
8,725,166 | 1. A mobile communication terminal comprising: a wireless communication portion configured to communicate wirelessly with an access point; a search portion configured to search for a potential access point with which to communicate; and a registration portion configured to register at least one access point in a database contained within the mobile communication terminal, wherein the search portion searches for the potential access point if it is registered in the database and if the potential access point is registered in the database and found by the search portion, the wireless communication portion communicatively connects to the potential access point, wherein if the potential access point is not found, the wireless communication portion determines whether another potential access point is registered in the database, wherein the searching for a potential access point is finished if no other potential access point is registered in the database. | 38,744 |
8,706,391 | 1. A method for creating an abbreviated description of an original navigation route, the navigation route having an originating point and a destination point, and represented by a plurality of links, each link joining a plurality of nodes, the method comprising: for each node reached by an incoming link on the original route and having multiple exiting links, each exiting link having a heading: determining, by at least one computer, a heading of the incoming link; determining, by the computer, the heading of the exiting link along the route exiting the node; scoring, by the computer, each of the multiple exiting links using a scoring system; responsive to a determination by the computer that the exiting link along the route is not the highest scoring exiting link, placing, by the computer, a breadcrumb in the abbreviated description of the route, the breadcrumb including coordinates of a point represented by the node, a representation of a heading of the incoming link, and a representation of a heading of the exiting link along the original route; and placing, by the computer, a breadcrumb at the end of the abbreviated description of the original route, the breadcrumb including coordinates of a node representing a point at the end of the route and a representation of a heading of an incoming link to the node. | 33,612 |
9,831,794 | 1. A power conditioning unit for delivering power from a DC power source to an AC grid, the power conditioning unit comprising: a plurality of input terminals for connecting to the DC power source; a plurality of output terminals for connecting to the AC grid; a DC-DC converter connected to the plurality of input terminals for converting a voltage at the plurality of input terminals to a voltage above an AC grid voltage; a DC link connected to an output of the DC-DC converter; a current control circuit connected to the DC link, the current control circuit comprising a switch and an inductor; a DC-AC converter connected to an output of the current control circuit; a reference current generating circuit that generates a sinusoidal reference current synchronized to the AC grid based on an output voltage of the DC-AC converter; and a controller that turns the switch on, allowing current to flow, when an output current from the inductor is lower than the sinusoidal reference, and turns the switch off when the output current from the inductor is higher than the sinusoidal reference. | 48,469 |
8,438,249 | 1. A sensor-Net system, comprising a base station gateway node, a router node connected to the base station gateway node in a wireless communication, and a first sensor node of a plurality of sibling sensor nodes connected to the base station gateway node and to the router node in a wireless communication, the base station gateway node and the router node being in continuous operation, the first sensor node intermittently activating to an operation mode and then deactivating to a sleep mode for a predetermined sleep time period, wherein the router node has a storage unit for storing a respective time configuration flag for each corresponding to each of the sibling sensor nodes; wherein the router node, upon receiving a first time setting command from the gateway node, at a timing of setting a latest time of the router node, turns on the respective time configuration flags held in the storage unit; wherein the first sensor node issues a command transmission request to the router node while activated to the operation mode prior to a next deactivation to the sleep mode; wherein the router node, upon reception of the command transmission request from the first sensor node, checks to see the ON or OFF status of the time configuration flag of the first sensor node, and obtains the latest time of the router node, transmits, only when the time configuration flag is ON, the time setting command based on the latest time of the router node to the first sensor node having transmitted the command transmission request in the operation mode; wherein the sensor node in the operation mode sets an internal lime based on the time setting command from the router node, adds a time stamp to an observation value based on the internal time, and then transmits the observation value to the router node; and wherein the router node turns off the time configuration flag held in the storage unit at the timing of receiving a reply to the time setting command; and wherein a processing unit of a management server connected to the gateway node calculates an influence between a first wearer wearing one sensor node and a second wearer wearing another sensor node, the influence is calculated based on a correlation determined between a first observation value transmitted by the sensor node worn by the first wearer and a second observation value transmitted by the sensor node worn by the second wearer that are both stored in an observation value storage unit of the management server. | 38,352 |
9,712,123 | 1. A reconfigurable power amplifier capable of selecting a wide band frequency, the reconfigurable power amplifier comprising: first and second input transistors configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal; and a reconfigurable adaptive power stage including a first reconfigurable adaptive power cell (RAPC) and a second RAPC, wherein the reconfigurable adaptive power stage is configured to select the wide band frequency using one or more of the first and second common-gate bias voltages and to amplify the RF signal. | 12,932 |
8,525,803 | 1. A display device comprising: an on-screen display (OSD) generator that generates information indicative of a plurality of sections corresponding to a plurality of predetermined functions of the display device, wherein the sections are arranged in a predetermined pattern in an OSD; a screen to display the sections in the predetermined pattern; and a controller to control the screen to: (a) display a first section in the predetermined pattern differently from one or more other sections in the predetermined pattern based on a first signal generated based on a touch input on a touch pad, and (b) display information indicative of a change of a parameter corresponding to the first section based on a second signal generated based on a touch trajectory on the touch pad, wherein: the controller is further configured to: (c) determine a first number of menu items displayed in a first direction, (d) determine a second number of the menu items displayed in a second direction; (e) compare the first number to the second number; (f) shift one or more of the menu items in response to a movement command signal based on a result of the comparing; and (g) when the number of menu items changes from a first state to a second state, change shifting of one or more of the menu items from one of the first direction or the second direction to the other one of the first direction or the second direction in a same screen, | 18,325 |
8,661,701 | 1. A digital angle gauge comprising: a gauge body including a reference surface that is engageable with the surface of an object to be measured for inclination; means mounted in said gauge body for determining an inclination angle of the surface of an object with which said reference surface of said gauge body is engaged, the inclination angle including an absolute inclination angle determined relative to an absolute zero point stored in said gauge; a digital screen pivotally connected to said gauge body and responsive to said means for determining for visually displaying the determined absolute inclination angle in both numerical and intuitively graphic formats, said screen including a numerical display portion for numerically displaying the determined absolute inclination angle and a graphic display portion located adjacent said numerical display portion that intuitively and non-numerically depicts the determined absolute inclination angle adjacent to and simultaneously with the numerical display of the determined absolute inclination angle, said graphic display portion simulating a bubble level vial having a plurality of discrete position marking indicia arranged side by side and defining a series of vertically non-overlapping bubble positions between opposing left hand and right hand ends of said simulated bubble vial, each said bubble position in said vial corresponding to a respective range of absolute inclination angles, said graphic display portion further including a simulated bubble icon that is movable in said simulated bubble level vial to assume a bubble position in said vial that corresponds to the determined absolute inclination angle; said gauge body including opposing front and back faces, opposing top and bottom faces, and a pair of opposing side faces, said top, bottom and side faces interconnecting said front and back faces, said reference surface being defined by one of said bottom and side faces; a least one manually engageable operating button for operating said gauge, which operating button is mounted in said top face of said gauge body; at least one said operating button including a ZERO angle calibration button that is momentarily engaged to set an incremental angle reference point, said inclination angle comprising an inclination angle determined relative to said ZERO angle reference point; said numerical display portion for numerically displaying the determined incremental inclination angle; said digital screen for displaying said absolute angle incremental inclination angle simultaneously and adjacent to one another on said screen. | 37,693 |
9,728,206 | 1. A storage device comprising: a controller that controls a first write element to write data to a plurality of alternating data tracks on a storage medium and a second write element to write data to at least one data track interlaced with the plurality of alternating data tracks, wherein the first write element is configured to write data at a first write width and the second write element is configured to write data at a second write width less than the first write width. | 11,134 |
9,002,681 | 1. Computer-assisted method for designing a composite-material structure with a plurality of components, wherein it includes the following stages: a) Providing a multi-cell surface ( b) Transforming said multi-cell surface ( concatenating contiguous cells and maintaining point and tangent continuity between them; c) Using said optimised surface ( wherein | 25,195 |
8,826,446 | 1. A computer-implemented method for adjusting privacy protection for a user in a plurality of applications, the method comprising: receiving, using one or more processors, privacy settings information including one or more of the user's privacy settings from the plurality of applications, a privacy setting determining an availability of at least one feature of the user to other users; generating, using one or more processors, a template based on the privacy settings information from the plurality of applications; sending, using one or more processors, a privacy protection request to the user, wherein the privacy protection request includes a plurality of privacy protection levels; receiving, using one or more processors, a level of privacy protection from the user, wherein the privacy protection level determines a privacy setting for each of a set of features associated with the user; adjusting, using one or more processors, the privacy settings information in the template including adjusting at least one corresponding privacy setting in the template associated with the user in response to receiving the level of privacy protection from the user; and applying, using one or more processors, the adjusted at least one corresponding privacy setting to an associated privacy setting at one or more of the plurality of applications based on the adjusted template, wherein the plurality of applications are associated with the user. | 35,695 |
9,841,529 | 1. A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus comprising: a drill collar with a flow line; a first magnet embedded in the drill collar; a second magnet axially separated from the first magnet; a magnetically permeable member split into three rings wherein the member is disposed within the flow line and wherein the member is positioned between the first magnet and the second magnet; and an antenna disposed between the first magnet and second magnet. | 24,357 |
9,284,050 | 1. A rotor blade for a rotary wing aircraft comprising: a root region extending from a rotor head to about 15% to 20% of a blade radius; a main region extending from a radial extent of the root region to about 80% to 95% of the blade radius; and a tip region extending from a radial extent of the main region to a blade tip, at least a portion of one of the root region, the main region and the tip region including an airfoil profile section defined by a scaled set of coordinates in which a set of x/c coordinates defined as a ratio of an x coordinate to a blade chord length, and y/c coordinates defined as a ratio of a y coordinate to the blade chord length, listed in Table I are scaled by a selected factor. | 14,259 |
8,436,406 | 1. A solid state image sensing device comprising: a photoelectric conversion unit having a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type being opposite to each other; a first transistor that has (a) a first gate, and (b) a drain region and/or a source region of the first conductivity type; a second transistor that has (a) a second gate, and (b) a drain region and/or a source region of the first conductivity type; a potential barrier having the second conductivity type, a part of the potential barrier being at least partially overlapped by the first gate and a part of the potential barrier being at least partially overlapped by the second gate; and an isolation region containing an insulator configured to isolate the photoelectric conversion unit from at least one of the first and second transistors, a part of the potential barrier being at least partially overlapped by the isolation region, wherein the potential barrier is provided so as to surround the photoelectric conversion unit when viewed from an overhead direction, wherein the potential barrier has a charge path through which charges overflow from the photoelectric conversion unit, and wherein a part of the first semiconductor region of the photoelectric conversion unit and a part of the potential barrier are provided at a same depth from a surface of the photoelectric conversion unit. | 49,893 |
8,752,293 | 1. A method of fabricating a composite structure, comprising: forming a plurality of modules each having an edge, each of said modules comprising a plurality of adjacently stacked uncured composite pre-preg fibers, each of said plurality of modules being substantially planar; joining the plurality of modules together by joining respective edges of two adjacently positioned modules to form a scarf joint between said adjacently positioned modules, said respective edges are substantially co-planar, wherein an assembly is formed; after joining the plurality of modules to form the assembly, bending the assembly into a shape; and co-curing the assembly. | 41,782 |
8,799,692 | 1. A method for power control, the method comprising: establishing a peer relationship with one or more peer communication devices based on establishing an association with a distinct coordinating communication device; entering into a low-power operating state; waking up and determining that there is no buffered data to transmit to said one or more peer communication devices; transmitting a no-data indication message to each of said one or more peer communication devices while operating in an active operating state; receiving an acknowledgment message from said each of said one or more peer communication devices based on said transmitted no-data indication messages; and upon determining that each of the received acknowledgment messages has a no-data indication, entering the low power operating state. | 24,543 |
8,834,347 | 1. A system for providing anti-habituating sleep therapy, the system comprising: a closed loop neuromodulator configured to receive first activity information from a patient, to detect a first sleep disorder event using the first activity information, and to provide, in response to the first sleep disorder event, a first series of stimuli using a set of stimulation parameters; wherein the first series of stimuli includes: a first stimulus configured to not interrupt the first sleep disorder event; and a second stimulus, following the first stimulus, the second stimulus having more energy than the first stimulus and configured to interrupt the first sleep disorder event; wherein the closed loop neuromodulator is configured to detect a habituation event and to adjust an anti-habituation stimulation parameter in response to the detected habituation event; wherein the habituation event includes habituation to the first series of stimuli, and wherein the closed loop neuromodulator is configured to detect the habituation to the first series of stimuli using at least one of: wherein the closed loop neuromodulator is configured to adjust the anti-habituation stimulation parameter after an energy of the first series of stimuli exceeds the stimulus energy threshold; and wherein the energy of the first series of stimuli includes at least one of: | 12,622 |
9,591,697 | 1. A domestic appliance cover plate, comprising: an at least semi-transparent support plate having a bottom provided with at least one colored layer and at least one semi-transparent or opaque metallic layer, wherein the metallic layer has at least one continuous cut-out section, said colored layer being provided in a region of the cut-out section; the domestic appliance further comprising a light source disposed beneath the colored layer, said colored layer having at least one continuous cut-out section for passage of light from the light source; wherein the metallic layer is configured to extend above the colored layer without a cut-out section over an entire surface of the cut-out section in the colored layer. | 41,686 |
8,853,597 | 1. A heat spreading/temperature uniformity device for a bake oven, the heat spreading/temperature uniformity device being applicable to the bake oven, comprising: at least one rack body movably disposed in a receiving space defined by the bake oven; and multiple heat spreading members configured as elongate flat members distributed over and arranged on the rack body in an inclined state and integrally connected therewith, wherein a first inclined side of each heat spreading member and the rack body containing a first angle and a second opposite inclined side of each heat spreading member and the rack body defined a second angle, wherein the first and second angles are adjustable so as to change a direction of heat radiation and wherein each heat spreading member is formed with multiple perforations in communication with the receiving space so as to uniformly spread heat to the receiving space via heat radiation; wherein the multiple heat spreading members are arranged on the rack body in a substantially double U-shaped pattern; wherein the multiple rack body is sector-shaped and the heat spreading members are arranged on the rack body in a sector-shaped pattern. | 22,846 |
9,752,279 | 1. A method for recycling waste material including waste paper comprising: introducing the waste material and water into a pressure vessel; treating the waste material in the pressure vessel at an elevated processing temperature of at least about 212° F. and an elevated processing pressure above atmospheric pressure to form a treated waste material including a substantially re-pulped waste paper; discharging the treated waste material from the pressure vessel; and thereafter separating the treated waste material with a screening device into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising the substantially re-pulped waste paper and the second portion comprising large debris, wherein the step of separating further comprises washing the first portion through the screening device with an amount of water sufficient to dilute the first portion to from about 1% to about 20% by weight solids. | 39,593 |
8,480,926 | 1. A compound represented by a formula (1): wherein, R independently represents hydrogen, or alkyl having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms, and any —CH Ar represents naphthylene, anthrylene, phenanthrylene, or phenylene; and every hydrogen in phenylene is replaced by halogen, and any hydrogen in naphthylene, anthrylene and phenanthrylene may be replaced by halogen. | 42,590 |
8,747,362 | 1. A microneedle device comprising a microneedle array provided with microneedles made from polylactic acid having a weight average molecular weight of 40,000 or more, wherein at least a part of the microneedle array is coated with a carrier containing a physiologically active ingredient and the viscosity of the carrier is 100 cps to 100000 cps; and wherein the weight average molecular weight is a weight average molecular weight after sterilization by electron-beam or gamma-ray irradiation. | 2,892 |
8,672,246 | 1. A method for purifying graphene powder, the method including: (1) ball-milling a graphite material by using a stainless ball to form graphene powder to be a size of 100 nm or smaller; (2) dispersing the graphene powder in a solvent to form a suspension; and (3) separating magnetic impurities during stirring the suspension, by using a magnet, wherein the magnetic impurities were incorporated into the graphene powder during ball-milling from the balls and dispersed in the suspension, and wherein the dispersing in step (2), the stirring in step (3), or the dispersing and the stirring in step (2) and step (3) is performed by using ultrasonication. | 21,004 |
9,172,063 | 1. A method for fabricating a display device, which has a plurality of pixels, on a flexible sheet-like substrate transferred in a first direction, said method comprising: preparing an imprint roller having a surface with a stumper of partition walls for forming the plurality of pixels and for forming a bus line between electrodes of transistors provided at the plurality of respective pixels and the plurality of pixels, and a stumper of alignment marks being located at a predetermined position with respect to the plurality of pixels; forming the partition walls for forming the plurality of pixels and for forming the electrodes of the transistors and the bus line, and forming the alignment marks simultaneously on the flexible substrate along the first direction by pressing the flexible sheet-like substrate against the imprint roller while transferring the flexible sheet-like substrate in the first direction; detecting the alignment marks formed on the flexible substrate and obtaining a positional information of the alignment marks; a first applying step of, based on the positional information, selectively applying a liquid conductive material between parts of the partition walls for forming the electrodes and the bus line using a first applicator so as to form the electrodes and the bus line; and a second applying step of, after the first applying step, detecting the alignment marks formed on the flexible sheet-like substrate and, based on positional information of the alignment marks, applying a liquid insulating material or a liquid semiconductor material onto a part of the electrodes or the bus line formed between the partition walls using a second applicator in a selective manner that depends on positions of the transistors. | 18,345 |
8,885,173 | 1. A film thickness measurement apparatus for measuring a temporal change in film thickness of a film-shaped measuring object having a first surface and a second surface, comprising: a measurement light source supplying measurement light containing wavelength components over a predetermined band to the measuring object; detection means detecting intensities of output light, formed by superimposing reflected light of the measurement light from the first surface of the measuring object and reflected light of the measurement light from the second surface, at each time point by wavelength; and film thickness analysis means obtaining a temporal change in film thickness of the measuring object, wherein the film thickness analysis means obtains a value corresponding to a peak wavelength where an intensity of interfering light generated by the reflected light from the first surface and the reflected light from the second surface interfering with each other is maximized or minimized or an interval of the adjacent peak wavelengths based on spectral waveforms of the output light respectively detected at two or more time points different from each other by the detection means, and obtains a temporal change in film thickness of the measuring object from a temporal change in the value corresponding to the peak wavelength or the interval of the adjacent peak wavelengths, and wherein the film thickness analysis means calculates a difference I(T | 4,682 |
8,952,098 | 1. A rubber composition for a sidewall or base tread, comprising: a rubber component comprising at least two kinds of diene rubbers; and a myrcene polymer, wherein the rubber component comprises at least one kind of diene rubber selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, epoxidized natural rubber, and butadiene rubber, and the myrcene polymer has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 500000. | 21,047 |
9,082,740 | 1. A heating circuit for a battery, comprising: a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a third switch unit, a fourth switch unit, a switching control module, a damping component, a current storage component, and a charge storage component; wherein: the damping component and current storage component are connected with the battery to form at least a first part of a first loop; the first switch unit and second switch unit are connected with each other and with the first part of the first loop to form at least a second part of the first loop; the third switch unit and fourth switch unit are connected with each other and with the first part of the first loop to form at least a part of a second loop; the charge storage component is connected across a first junction point of the first loop between the first switch unit and second switch unit and a second junction point of the second loop between the third switch unit and fourth switch unit, so that the first switch unit, charge storage component, and third switch unit form a first branch configured to transfer energy from the battery to the charge storage component and a second branch configured to transfer energy from the charge storage component to the battery, and the fourth switch unit, charge storage component, and second switch unit form a third branch configured to transfer energy from the battery to the charge storage component and a fourth branch configured to transfer energy from the charge storage component to the battery; and the switching control module is connected with the first switch unit, the second switch unit, the third switch unit, and the fourth switch unit respectively, and is configured to control switching on and off of the first switch unit, the second switch unit, the third switch unit, and the fourth switch unit, so as to control the energy flow between the battery and the charge storage component. | 32,480 |
8,484,707 | 1. A method for granting network access comprising: receiving, by an automobile access point that comprises a computer processor, a request to access a network via the automobile access point from a mobile device; generating, by the automobile access point, a passcode; sending, by the automobile access point, the passcode to the mobile device; receiving, by the automobile access point, a message from the mobile device, wherein the message includes the passcode and a media access control address of the mobile device; receiving, by the automobile access point, an input parameter from an automobile access point operator, wherein the input parameter designates one or more rules for a secure key, and wherein the one or more rules are based on at least a number of access attempts by the mobile device; and generating, by the automobile access point, the secure key based on the media access control address of the mobile device and the input parameter in response to receiving the message, wherein the secure key provides network access to the mobile device according to the one or more rules. | 35,412 |
9,746,988 | 1. A method for processing video data streams for an area, the method comprising: identifying a number of objects in the area from images in the video data streams for the area, wherein the number of objects includes an unmanned aerial vehicle and wherein the video data streams are generated by cameras; identifying a first number of locations for the number of objects using the images in the video data streams, wherein the first number of locations is defined using a coordinate system for the images; forming a number of graphical representations for the number of objects using the images in the video data streams generated by the cameras, wherein the number of graphical representations includes an aircraft icon corresponding to the unmanned aerial vehicle; displaying the number of graphical representations for the number of objects in a second number of locations in a model of the area on a display system with respect to a number of features in the area that is represented in the model, wherein the model comprises a satellite image of the area, the aircraft icon is displayed having an orientation in the model that corresponds to an orientation of the unmanned aerial vehicle over the area, the second number of locations is defined using a geographic coordinate system for the model, and a first location in the first number of locations for an object in the number of objects corresponds to a second location in the second number of locations for a corresponding graphical representation in the number of graphical representations; displaying a second area in the model, the second area representing a field of view for the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein a selection of a graphical representation of the graphical representations causes an image to be displayed in association with the graphical representation, the image is a portion of an image received in a video data stream of the video data streams in which an object corresponding to the graphical representation was identified, the number of graphical representations further includes a person icon present in the second area, and the person icon represents a person identified from the video data stream received from the unmanned aerial vehicle; and displaying a path in the model in association with the person icon, wherein the path is one of the number of graphical representations and is an expected path for the person icon, the path has a direction that represents a direction of movement for the person represented by the person icon, the selection of the graphical representation of the person icon causes a window to be displayed in association with the person icon, the image is displayed in the window and comprises a video that is a presentation of the video data stream received from the unmanned aerial vehicle in which the person was identified, and a graphical indicator is positioned over the video in the window to provide a location in the video for the person corresponding to person icon. | 19,496 |
8,759,125 | 1. A method of forming a composite wafer comprising a plurality of discrete semiconductor dies suspended in a cured polymeric binder, the method comprising: disposing the plurality of discrete semiconductor dies on a mold substrate, each semiconductor die (i) having at least two spaced-apart contacts adjacent the mold substrate, (ii) being spaced away from one or more neighboring semiconductor dies, and (iii) being a bare-die light-emitting element; coating the plurality of semiconductor dies with a polymeric binder; and curing the polymeric binder to form the composite wafer, wherein the contacts of each semiconductor die remain at least partially uncoated by the polymeric binder, and wherein (i) the polymeric binder is transparent to a wavelength of light emitted by the semiconductor dies, and (ii) the polymeric binder contains a wavelength-conversion material for absorption of at least a portion of light emitted from the semiconductor dies and emission of converted light having a different wavelength, converted and unconverted light emitted by the semiconductor dies combining to form substantially white light having a correlated color temperature in the range of 2000K to 10,000K. | 46,088 |
8,802,829 | 1. A method of preparing a rinsable dye comprising the following steps: (a) providing a primary aryl amine containing an aryl group, wherein directly attached to the aryl group are one or more substituent acidic ionic or salt groups that are solubilizing groups; (b) converting the primary aryl amine to a diazonium salt; (c) coupling the diazonium salt to one or more conjugated systems, comprising multiple aryl rings that contain multiple substituent acidic ionic or salt solubilizing groups, to form an azo compound; (d) coupling to the azo compound to a polyalkyleneoxylated aryl amine to which one or more polymeric or copolymeric alkyleneoxy chains are attached to form a polyalkyleneoxylated azo compound; and (e) capping one or more of the solubilizing groups with basic ionic or salt groups to form one or more capped solubilizing groups wherein the acidic ionic or salt group in one or more of the capped solubilizing groups comprises a sulfonic group (SO | 45,496 |
8,895,101 | 1. A method for manufacturing a cable-type secondary battery, the method comprising: forming an anode by putting an electrode slurry including an anode active material, a polymer binder, and a solvent into an extruder; extrusion-coating the electrode slurry on the current collector while continuously providing the current collector to the extruder; drying the current collector coated with the electrode slurry to form an active material layer, the anode having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape and extending longitudinally; forming an electrolyte layer around the perimeter of at least two inner electrodes by putting a solid electrolyte material into an extruder; extrusion-coating the solid electrolyte material on the surface of the at least two electrodes while continuously providing the at least two electrodes to the extruder, the inner electrodes including at least two anodes arranged in parallel; forming an outer electrode around the electrolyte layer, the outer electrode being a tubular cathode having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape, the cathode including a tubular current collector having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape and a cathode active material coated on the inside of the current collector; and forming a protection coating around the outer electrode, wherein the solid electrolyte material includes an electrolyte selected from the group consisting of a gel polymer electrolyte of polyethylene oxide (PEO), polyinylidene fluoride (PVdF), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), or polyvinylacetate (PVAc); and a solid polymer electrolyte of polyethylene oxide (PEO), polyphenylene oxide (PPO), polyetherimide (PEI), polyethersulfone (PES), or polyvinylacetate (PVAc). | 14,567 |
9,745,009 | 1. A clamping device for a bicycle saddle comprising: a seat post having a post head formed on a top of the seat post and having a head hole formed through the post head; a clamping assembly mounted on the post head and having the fixing bolt and the fixing sleeve are mounted respectively through the bolt holes in the clamping caps and the through holes in the clamping base; the spring is mounted around the fixing bolt and abutting the annular abutting flange of the spring recess of the clamping cap in which the spring recess is defined; each clamping base further has a positioning recess defined in an inner surface of the through hole of the clamping base; and each clamping cap further has a positioning protrusion formed on a side of the clamping cap facing a corresponding clamping base and engaging the positioning recess in the corresponding clamping base. | 46,848 |
9,736,937 | 1. A conductive film comprising: a substrate; a transparent electrode layer provided on the substrate; and a conductive pattern layer provided on the transparent electrode layer, wherein the conductive pattern layer includes a metal nitride pattern layer including CuNx, x is a mass ratio of N with respect to a mass of Cu, and 0<x≦0.1, and wherein a thickness of the metal nitride pattern layer is greater than or equal to 20 nm and less than or equal to 160 nm. | 2,144 |
8,404,172 | 1. A method for processing a high temperature crosslinked thermoplastic gel comprising: combining maintaining the combination of the physically crosslinked thermoplastic elastomer gel and the crosslinker at a temperature at which they remain substantially unreacted; and subsequently heating the combination to a temperature at which the oil-swelled physically crosslinked thermoplastic elastomer gel reacts with the crosslinker. | 36,013 |
8,895,975 | 1. A photoelectric element comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; an electron transport layer and a hole transport layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an electrolyte solution; and a sensitizing dye, wherein: the electron transport layer includes an organic compound having an oxidation-reduction site capable of repeated oxidation-reduction; the electrolyte solution serves to stabilize a reduction state of the oxidation-reduction site; the organic compound and the electrolyte solution form a gel layer; the sensitizing dye is in contact with the electron transport layer; and the hole transport layer contains a charge transporter, the charge transporter serving to reduce an oxidized form of the sensitizing dye and having a number average molecular weight of 2,000 or more and 100,000 or less; and the charge transporter is poly(tetramethylpiperidinoxy)methacrylate. | 20,395 |
8,962,902 | 1. A method of converting alkanols to aromatic hydrocarbons comprising: partially dehydrogenating an alkanol feedstock comprising C exposing the oxygenate mixture to a zeolite oxygenate conversion catalyst at an oxygenate conversion temperature between about 250° C. and 550° and an oxygenate conversion pressure between about atmospheric pressure and 1000 psig to produce aromatic hydrocarbons, wherein the carbon yield of aromatic hydrocarbons from the alkanol feedstock is greater than 40%. | 21,834 |
9,186,809 | 1. A table saw comprising: a table surface comprising an aperture; a saw blade protruding through the aperture of the table surface, which saw blade can be used to cut or rip a work piece, the saw blade comprising a center line relative to a cutting direction of the saw blade, wherein the center line extends orthogonally relative to the table surface; a rip fence comprising a longitudinally-extending main body portion, the rip fence extending in a direction along the table surface from a first end to a second end, the rip fence being generally parallel to the saw blade; the rip fence main body portion comprising a recess that extends in a direction along the table surface from a recess first end to a recess second end; and the recess first end is situated substantially at the center line of the saw blade and the recess second end terminates at the second end of the rip fence; and rails along which the rip fence can slide to accommodate work pieces of different widths. | 49,682 |
8,825,416 | 1. A computer program product for phase determination in an electricity grid comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to access power consumption measurements derived from a supply electricity grid device that supplies power at a plurality of phases; computer readable program code configured to access power consumption measurements derived from a set of demand electricity grid devices connected in the electricity grid to the supply electricity grid device; computer readable program code configured to determine a phase of at least one demand electricity grid device in the set of demand electricity grid devices via: computer readable program code configured to output the determined phase for at least one demand electricity grid device in the set of demand electricity grid devices. | 44,484 |
9,706,663 | 1. A printed wiring board, comprising: a first resin insulating layer; a first conductor pattern comprising a plurality of first mounting pads formed on the first resin insulating layer; and a wiring structure positioned on the first resin insulating layer and comprising a second resin insulating layer and a second conductor pattern such that the second resin insulating layer and second conductor pattern are positioned adjacent to the first conductor pattern and that the second conductor pattern includes a plurality of second mounting pads, wherein the plurality of second mounting pads is embedded in the second resin insulating layer such that the second mounting pads have mounting surfaces exposed on an exposed surface of the second resin insulating layer, and the first mounting pads have mounting surfaces such that the mounting surfaces of the first and second mounting pads are formed on a same plane. | 38,684 |
9,251,948 | 1. A transformer structure, comprising: a first coil including two sections of spiral, with a top section including a plurality of metal layers with a folded spiral occupying top X metal layers and a bottom section including a plurality of metal layers occupying bottom Z metal layers, where X and Z represent a number of metal layers having a specific number selected to provide a particular performance of the first coil; and a second coil of the transformer is disposed between the two sections of the first coil and including a plurality of metal layers where Y represents a number of vertically adjacent metal layers, with the specific number chosen to provide the particular performance, such that a sum X+Y+Z represents a total number of vertical metal layers for the transformer structure, wherein the folded spiral includes a reversal of direction of a shape and a subsequent following of the shape in a reversed direction. | 26,408 |
8,354,943 | 1. A viewing device for aircraft comprising: an apparatus configured to generate and display piloting and navigation symbols, wherein the symbols include at least a symbol representing a current direction of an inertial speed vector, a symbol representing a trim-wise and roll-wise command director of the aircraft, depicted graphically by two parallel bars whose inclination and position are representative of a roll and a trim to be held by the aircraft, and a symbol corresponding to an advocated course sector, represented by an angular sector centered on a heading rose, said symbols are displayed superimposed on the representation of an attitude indicator, of artificial horizon type, and a horizontal situation indicator is unburdened of all radionavigation information. | 45,825 |
9,508,415 | 1. A semiconductor memory device, comprising: a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines; a word line driving unit suitable for activating a first word line among the plurality of word lines corresponding to an input address signal; an activation time detection unit suitable for enabling a detection signal by detecting an activation time of the first word line; an address latch unit suitable for latching an address information for a second word line corresponding to the first word line in response to the detection signal; and an address output unit suitable for providing the word line driving unit with the latched address information for the second word line during a refresh operation, wherein the activation time detection unit includes: wherein the reference value depends on an operation state of the memory cell array. | 20,939 |
9,677,896 | 1. A fuel saving-aimed motor vehicle driver assistance system comprising: an on-vehicle location device configured to provide motor vehicle position-related data; a human-machine interface configured to provide a motor vehicle driver recommendations to a motor vehicle driver which would result in fuel savings; and an electronic control unit connected to the on-vehicle location device and the human-machine interface by a communication network, the electronic control unit being configured to identify recurrent routes of the motor vehicle and provide the motor vehicle driver, via the human-machine interface, feedback relating to the motor vehicle by implementing the following functions: Waypoint Management comprising: Route Management comprising: Driver Coaching; wherein the Waypoint Tracking function defines, based on motor vehicle position-related data received from the on-vehicle location device, a succession of Waypoints, which are geographic points that define each recurrent route, at which values of a series of Waypoint attributes are determined and recorded, and based on which the Route Management function is then executed; wherein the Waypoint attributes comprise: invariant Waypoint attributes comprising Waypoint location data, and variable Waypoint attributes comprising Waypoint crossing direction and speed, and motor vehicle status data comprising motor vehicle speed data, motor vehicle fuel consumption data and on-vehicle system usage data; wherein the Waypoint Learning function updates the variable Waypoint attributes when the motor vehicle travels through the Waypoints; wherein the Waypoint Matching function reduces computational load of the electronic control unit by searching the Waypoints for a closest Waypoint that is spatially closest to the current motor vehicle position and having predetermined Waypoint crossing direction and speed and predetermined distance from the current motor vehicle position, and using a scoring function which adopts at least one of the following functions to reduce computational load; computing differences in latitude and longitude only for Waypoints for which the difference in direction is less than ninety degrees; defining partially overlapping geographical work areas, to be loaded separately; and rejecting Waypoints that have differences in latitude and longitude greater than five-hundred meters or a directional distance exceeding one-hundred eighty degrees; wherein if such a closest Waypoint is not found, the Waypoint Tracking function is then executed to define a new Waypoint, or else, if such a closest Waypoint is found, the Waypoint Learning function is then executed to update the variable Waypoint attributes; wherein the Route Identification function concatenates the Waypoints associated with a each recurrent route so as to form an ordered list of Waypoints associated with to each recurrent route; wherein the Route Optimization function identifies characteristic route Waypoints that satisfy a predetermined Waypoint crossing speed condition, compute speed profiles and primary controls for the motor vehicle at the characteristic route Waypoints and expected journey times and fuel consumption along the recurrent routes based on the Waypoint attributes; and wherein the Driver Coaching function provides the motor vehicle driver, based on the speed profiles and the primary controls computed for the characteristic route Waypoints and by means of the human-machine interface, with fuel saving-aimed motor vehicle driving recommendations along the recurrent routes. | 40,500 |
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