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G01B,H01S | 9,709,381 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A surface emitting laser comprising: a lower reflector; an active layer; a gap portion; an upper reflector; and a driving unit, wherein the lower reflector, the active layer, the gap portion, and the upper reflector are arranged in that order, wherein the surface emitting laser is capable of varying a wavelength of emitted light by changing a distance between the upper and lower reflectors, wherein the driving unit moves one of the upper and lower reflectors in an optical axis direction of the emitted light, wherein, λ wherein λ wherein one of the upper and lower reflectors from which the light is emitted includes |
G06F,H04L,H04M | 9,608,992 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A mobile terminal device comprising: a display configured to display an icon display screen including one or more icons; an operation accepting module configured to accept an operation input; a setting module configured to set at least one icon to be kept secret according to a setting operation; a display control module configured to control the display such that, in a first mode, the at least one secret icon set by the setting module is not included in an icon display screen, and, in a second mode, the at least one secret icon set by the setting module is included in the icon display screen; a memory module configured to register an operation input as the permission operation which permits the second mode; and a detection module configured to detect the permission operation based on a comparison of the registered operation input with an operation input accepted by the operation accepting module; wherein, when the display is in the first mode and the permission operation is detected by the detection module, the display control module switches the display to the second mode such that the secret icon is included in the icon display screen, and, wherein, when displaying of an operation screen of an application corresponding to the secret icon is stopped and then the icon display screen is displayed on the display without detection of the permission operation, the display control module controls the display such that the icon display screen does not include the secret icon. |
H04L,H04W | 9,635,688 | 2017-04-25 | 1. An electronic device comprising circuitry, the circuitry configured to: control transmitting a multiple receiver request to send (MR-RTS) signal indicating a request to initiate data transmission for a plurality of communication devices, and control receiving one or more clear to send (CTS) signals, the CTS signal is transmitted in response to the MR-RTS signal, wherein the MR-RTS signal includes a first address field indicating a transmitter and a second address field indicating the plurality of communication devices, and the CTS signals are transmitted a predetermined time after receiving the MR-RTS signal by one or more of the plurality of communication devices. |
A45F,B29C | 9,636,875 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A method of manufacturing a backpack frame, comprising: layering sheets of a first material cut to define the shapes of arranging interstitial layers of reinforcing material selectively between the sheets of the first material so as to reinforce parts of the elongate stay portions, the mid-back portion, and the lower portion; applying a resin to the layered and arranged sheets of the first material and the interstitial layers to create a preform; applying defined conditions of elevated temperature and pressure to the preform for a defined period of time; and using a mold to create the backpack frame from the preform. |
H04L | 9,590,979 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. |
H04L,H04W | 9,635,663 | 2017-04-25 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an access point controller implemented in at least one of a memory or a processor, the access point controller configured to receive a first control packet from a wireless access point via a first channel having a first priority, the access point controller configured to receive a second control packet from the wireless access point via a second channel having a second priority different than the first priority, the access point controller configured to send, in response to the first control packet, a third control packet to the wireless access point via the first channel such that the wireless access point receives the third control packet within a period of time after the third control packet is sent, the access point controller configured to send, in response to the second control packet, a fourth control packet to the wireless access point via the second channel such that the wireless access point receives the fourth control packet within a period of time after the fourth control packet is sent, the period of time after the third control packet is sent being shorter than the period of time after the fourth control packet is sent based on the first channel having the first priority and the second channel having the second priority. |
F02M | 9,574,534 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A fuel rail assembly, comprising: a fluid conduit extending along a first longitudinal axis and having a body portion with inside and outside surfaces, said conduit having an opening at one of first and second longitudinal ends thereof, said fluid conduit further having an inlet configured to be coupled to a high-pressure fuel pump, at least one outlet, and a conduit interior forming a fluid flow passageway between said inlet and said at least one outlet configured to allow for fluid communication therebetween; an end cap assembly mounted to said fluid conduit and configured to cover and close said opening, said end cap assembly including: |
G10L,H04N | 9,596,471 | 2017-03-14 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a communication device comprising a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to: determine an ambient interference level of ambient interference at one or more of a data stream source and a data stream destination; determine a bit rate modification by using the ambient interference level as an index to select the bit rate modification from a bit rate modification table; and modify a bit rate of a lossy compressed data stream communicated from the data stream source to the data stream destination with the bit rate modification. |
C01G,C01P,H01M,Y02E,Y02P | 9,698,420 | 2017-07-04 | 1. Li-Ni composite oxide particles having a composition of Li x Ni 1−y−a−b Co y M1 a M2 b O 2 wherein x, y, a and b represent 1.00≦x≦1.10; 0<y≦0.25; 0<a≦0.25; and 0≦b≦0.10, respectively; M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al and Mn; and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr and Mg, a product of a metal occupancy (%) of lithium sites of the Li-Nicomposite oxide as determined by Rietveld analysis of X-ray diffraction thereof and a crystallite size (nm) of the Li-Ni composite oxide as determined by the Rietveld analysis being not less than 700 and not more than 1400. |
B23P,B25H | 9,533,384 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A method for accurately assembling and positioning a modular tooling structure for manipulating a workpiece, comprising: generating, at one or more computers, three dimensional design information representing a configuration for the modular tooling structure, wherein the three dimensional design information includes position data describing a position for at least one engaging member of the modular tooling structure with respect to the workpiece, the position data comprising an x-value, a y-value, and a z-value; physically positioning a multi-dimensional gauge with respect to a base structure based on the position data; and physically assembling the modular tooling structure independent from the workpiece by using the three dimensional design information such that a first end of the modular tooling structure is removably connected to the base structure and the at least one engagement member is positioned at a second end of the modular tooling structure and is in engagement with the multi-dimensional gauge, wherein the position of the at least one engaging member of the modular tooling structure is maintained when the modular tooling structure is disconnected from the base structure. |
A47L,F16J | 9,732,854 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A sealing system for sealing between an inner pipe and an outer pipe of a telescoping vacuum cleaner suction pipe, comprising: at least one annular base body of a first material, and an annular sealing body of a second material on the base body, said sealing body having a flexible sealing lip and being located at and projecting beyond an axial end of the base body so as to form a free end of the sealing system, wherein the sealing lip is sloped in a radial direction and decreases in thickness in a direction toward a free end thereof. |
H01J,H01L | 9,653,316 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A plasma processing method using a plasma processing apparatus including a lower electrode serving as a mounting unit of an object to be processed, and an upper electrode disposed to face the lower electrode, the plasma processing method comprising: supplying a processing gas into a processing container in which the object to be processed is disposed; supplying a plasma generating power of a frequency ranging from about 100 MHz to about 150 MHz to the lower electrode as a power for generating plasma of the processing gas supplied into the processing container, and supplying a biasing power which is a power having a frequency lower than the frequency of the plasma generating power to the lower electrode; and etching the object to be processed by the plasma of the processing gas while pulse-modulating the biasing power so that a duty ratio ranges from about 10% to about 70% and the frequency ranges from about 5 kHz to about 20 kHz in a state where the plasma generating power is maintained to be turned on in a substantially constant state while the biasing power is modulated with the duty ratio which ranges from about 10% to about 70% in order o uniformize a plasma density at a central portion and at a peripheral portion of the object to be processed. |
H04L,H04W | 9,680,811 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A communication method executed in an application server in an IP Multimedia System (IMS) network, comprising: receiving a service request from a requesting party in the IMS network; performing a third-party authentication by a first authenticating party in the IMS network on the service request according to a gray list and obtaining an authentication result, wherein the gray list includes at least the following three attributes: requesting party, authenticating party and service; processing the service request by the first authenticating party according to the authentication result; and receiving a request from a second authenticating party in the IMS network to modify a service level granted to the requesting party; and further comprising dynamically updating the gray list according to a request of any authenticating party. |
E21B | 9,695,681 | 2017-07-04 | 1. A method of fracturing a wellbore formation comprising: positioning an end of a coiled tubing string adjacent a first location within a wellbore, the tubing string extending from a surface location to the first location; pumping fluid down the wellbore at a pumping pressure to perform a fracturing procedure to fracture a wellbore formation adjacent the first location; monitoring a pressure within the wellbore adjacent the first location in real time during pumping fluid down the wellbore and the fracturing of the wellbore formation with at least one sensor connected to the surface via a communication line positioned within an interior of the coiled tubing string; and modifying the fracturing procedure in real time with pumping fluid down the wellbore and fracturing the wellbore based on monitoring the pressure within the wellbore, wherein modifying the fracturing procedure in real time comprises changing the pumping pressure of the fluid being pumped down the wellbore while continuing to pump fluid down the wellbore to continue to fracture the wellbore, wherein the pumping pressure is changed at the surface and without the use of downhole flow regulators. |
G06F,H04L | 9,635,103 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A system, comprising: at least one processor; a memory, comprising program instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to implement a virtualization host for a plurality of virtual compute instances; wherein the virtualization host is configured to: the dynamic rate control, configured to: wherein a work request from at least one other individual virtual resource request queue of the plurality of individual virtual resource request queues is placed in the physical resource request queue during the delay. |
B24B,C09G,C09K,H01L | 9,564,337 | 2017-02-07 | 1. A polishing liquid for chemical mechanical polishing comprising: cerium oxide particles, an organic acid A, a polymer compound B having a carboxyl acid group or a carboxylate group, and water, wherein the organic acid A is p-toluenesulfonic acid, a content of the organic acid A is 0.001 to 1 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, a content of the polymer compound B is 0.01 to 0.50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, and a pH of the polishing liquid is in the range of 4.0 to 7.0. |
B41J,G03G,G06K,H04N | 9,651,890 | 2017-05-16 | 1. An exposing device comprising: an exposing unit having a plurality of light emitters arranged in a main scanning direction, the exposing unit being configured to form a scanning line by exposing an image surface in the main scanning direction, and to form a plurality of pixels arrayed in the main scanning direction by sequentially forming a particular number of scanning lines shifted in a sub-scanning direction, each of the particular number of scanning lines having a plurality of spots arranged in the main scanning direction, each of the plurality of pixels being formed by the particular number of spots arranged in the sub-scanning direction; a clock generator configured to generate frequency-spread clocks having frequency that is spread with a particular modulation cycle; and a driver configured to drive each of the plurality of light emitters of the exposing unit to emit light during a lighting period based on the frequency-spread clocks to form one spot, the driver being configured to set an interval of exposure start time of the particular number of scanning lines, wherein at least one interval of exposure start time is different from a reference period that is obtained by dividing a period for forming the plurality of pixels arrayed in the main scanning direction by the particular number; and wherein the particular number of scanning lines exists within a range in the sub-scanning direction of one pixel array, the particular number of scanning lines having a relationship such that modulated waveforms of the particular number of scanning lines compensate each other, the modulated waveforms being formed with the particular modulation cycle. |
G01R | 9,739,859 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A method for operating a magnetic resonance system comprising a data acquisition scanner comprising a radio-frequency (RF) radiator and a gradient system, said method comprising: from a control computer, operating said data acquisition scanner according to a pulse sequence; in said pulse sequence, generating a gradient, with said gradient system, in a gradient direction, as a spatially dependent magnetic field; while said gradient is generated, radiating a selective RF excitation pulse with said RF transmission system, said selective RF excitation pulse being configured to excite nuclear spins of a first material in a first partial region of an examination subject and not to excite nuclear spins of a second material in said first partial region, and to not excite nuclear spins of said first material in a second partial region of the examination subject and to excite nuclear spins of said second material in said second partial region; in said pulse sequence, radiating a number of refocusing pulses and acquiring raw magnetic resonance data from said first and second partial regions resulting from excitation of said nuclear spins of said first material and excitation of said nuclear spins of said second material, and spatially coding said raw magnetic resonance data along said gradient direction; and storing said raw magnetic resonance data in electronic form in a memory and making said raw magnetic resonance data stored in said memory available in said electronic form for further processing. |
A61B,G16H | 9,566,010 | 2017-02-14 | 1. An apparatus for monitoring cardiac status, comprising: a heart rate detection unit, which measures heart rate of a user; an acceleration detection unit, which measures acceleration or activity level of the user, wherein the activity level is calculated by the acceleration detection unit based on the acceleration; and a calculating unit, which calculates a cardio force index (CFI) and a cardio force ratio according to the weight, the heart rate, and the acceleration or the activity level of the user, wherein the CFI is calculated with the following formula (Ia) or (Ib): and the cardio force ratio is a ratio between a CFI of exercise and a CFI of walking of the user and is calculated with the following formula (II): |
B23P,B25J,B64F,G05B,Y10T | 9,573,272 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A method for operating a positioning system, the positioning system comprising a plurality of positioners each including at least one manipulator, wherein a respective base coordinate system is associated with each of the manipulators, the method comprising: grasping a single component jointly with each of the manipulators of the plurality of positioners, synchronously manipulating the component with the manipulators while jointly grasping the component with the manipulators, determining a position and an orientation of the component in an initial situation, determining a position and an orientation of the component in a target situation, determining reference movement parameters, the reference movement parameters defined relative to a coordinate system associated with the component and describing a movement of the component from the position and the orientation in the initial situation to the position and the orientation in the target situation, transforming the reference movement parameters into the respective base coordinate system of each of the manipulators, and operating the manipulators based on the respective transformed reference movement parameters. |
H02M | 9,735,665 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A circuit for use in a power converter, comprising: a control circuit coupled to detect whether an electrical energy source is coupled to an input of the power converter; and a switch coupled to the control circuit and coupled to transfer energy from the input of the power converter to an output of the power converter during a first operating mode, wherein the control circuit is coupled to drive the switch in the first operating mode when the electrical energy source is coupled to the input of the power converter, wherein the control circuit is coupled to drive the switch in a second operating mode when the electrical energy source is uncoupled from the input of the power converter, wherein the control circuit is further coupled to drive the switch in the second operating mode to discharge a capacitance coupled between input terminals of the power converter to a threshold voltage in less than a maximum period of time. |
F21S,G02B | 9,732,924 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A headlight lens for a vehicle headlight, the headlight lens including a body of transparent material, the body comprising: at least one light entry face, at least one optically effective light exit face, a light passage section, a light tunnel which, via a bend, transits into the light passage section configured for imaging the bend as a bright-dark-boundary, and an alignment structure configured for aligning the headlight lens in a vehicle headlight, the alignment structure being arranged on a surface of the light passage section facing the light tunnel. |
G01N | 9,746,460 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A method of detecting the interaction between at least one entity and a dielectric layer containing different electron levels in the energy band gap of the dielectric layer, the method comprising the following steps: a) depositing the at least one entity on the dielectric layer; b) subjecting the dielectric layer and the at least one entity deposited on the dielectric layer to exciting electromagnetic radiation that does not give rise to observable luminescence of the at least one entity itself under the conditions implemented in step c); and c) detecting the luminescence of the dielectric layer, in which the radiative and non-radiative electron transitions between the energy levels of the band gap have been influenced as a result of its interaction with the at least one entity; wherein the dielectric layer is made of a member selected from the group consisting of: silicon oxide, in which silicon nanoparticles are distributed, and wherein said dielectric layer comprises Si—H, Si—O—Si, and Si—OH bonds, with a stoichiometry, in terms of atoms of Si and O, of SiOx, with 0<x <2; silicon nitride, in which silicon nanoparticles are distributed, and wherein said dielectric layer comprises Si—H, Si—N—Si, and N—H bonds, with a stoichiometry, in terms of atoms of Si and N of SiyNz, with 1<y <3 and 0<z <4; and a silicon oxy-nitride, in which silicon nanoparticles are distributed, and wherein said dielectric layer comprises Si—H, Si—N—Si, Si—O—Si, Si—OH, and N—H bonds, with a stoichiometry, in terms of atoms of Si, N, and O, of SitOuNv, with 1<t <3, 0<u <1, and 0<v <2; wherein the at least one entity is a biological entity. |
H02H,H02J,H02M | 9,742,269 | 2017-08-22 | 1. An apparatus comprising a voltage control circuit ( 30 ) for coupling a field device coupler ( 22 ) to a bus line ( 16 ), wherein at least one field device ( 21 ) can be connected to the field device coupler ( 22 ), the voltage control circuit comprising: a first input terminal ( a chopper-type regulator ( buffer capacitors ( an impedance circuit ( output terminals ( wherein the impedance circuit ( |
B01L,C12N,C12Q | 9,644,232 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A method for amplification of circulating nucleic acids that are present in a non-cellular fraction of a biological sample, the method comprising: filtering the biological sample to separate the non-cellular fraction from intact cells; collecting the separated, non-cellular fraction onto a dry solid matrix; extracting the circulating nucleic acids from the collected, non-cellular fraction; circularizing the extracted, circulating nucleic acids to form single-stranded nucleic acid circles; and amplifying the single-stranded nucleic acid circles via random-primed rolling circle amplification using completely random primers comprising a nucleotide analogue to form an amplified, circulating nucleic acid product, wherein the circularizing, and amplifying steps take place in a single reaction vessel without any intervening isolation or purification steps. |
G06F | 9,678,795 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method comprising: enabling processor having a ring 3 to ring 0 resource to be used by an application running on a central processing unit repeatedly using only one transition of the central processing unit from ring 3, wherein a ring 3 to ring 0 resource is a resource that requires a transition from ring 3 to ring 0; and avoiding a transition from ring 3 to ring 0 when the processor's ring 3 to ring 0 resource is used repeatedly by the central processing unit; enabling the application to register to use an adjunct processor that is a ring 3 to ring 0 resource; registering the application using a ring 3 to ring 0 transition and then enabling the application to use that resource thereafter without another ring 3 to ring 0 transition. |
B63B,B63H | 9,701,367 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A modular kayak system comprising: a hull having a seating area and a pod opening extending through the hull, the hull including a removable pod interface arrangement; a plurality of removable pods, each removable pod configured to be mounted within the pod opening, each removable pod of the plurality of pods being configured such that only a single one of the removable pods is mountable within the pod opening at a time, each removable pod having at least one functional feature different than the other removable pods, each removable pod having a hull interface arrangement configured to cooperate with the removable pod interface arrangement to mount the removable pod within the pod opening; wherein a first one of the plurality of removable pods is an electric motor pod including a propeller; and wherein a second one of the plurality of removable pods is a floor pod mountable to the removable pod interface arrangement within the pod opening when the electric motor pod is removed from the hull and the removable pod interface arrangement. |
C08G,C08J,C08K,C08L,D06M,Y10T | 9,683,326 | 2017-06-20 | 1. A prepreg formed by impregnating sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent with a thermosetting resin composition, wherein the sizing agent contains an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1), the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers have an (a)/(b) ratio of 0.50 to 0.90 where (a) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (284.6 eV) assigned to CHx, C—C, and C═C and (b) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (286.1 eV) assigned to C—O in a C the thermosetting resin composition contains a thermosetting resin (D), a latent curing agent (E), and at least one of the following [1] and [2]: when containing [1], the thermosetting resin composition contains the thermoplastic resin particles or fibers (F) and the conductive particles or fibers (G) in a mass ratio of 1:1 to 1,000, and the prepreg includes an interlayer formative layer containing (F) and (G) and/or (H) on a surface of a layer formed of the carbon fibers, wherein the aliphatic epoxy compound (A) is a polyether polyepoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule and/or a polyol polyepoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule, and wherein the aliphatic epoxy compound (A) is a glycidyl ether epoxy compound obtained by a reaction of epichlorohydrin with one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, dipropylene glycol, tripropylene glycol, tetrapropylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, trimethylene glycol, 1,2-butanediol, 1,3-butanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 2,3-butanediol, polybutylene glycol, 1,5-pentanediol, neopentyl glycol, 1,6-hexanediol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, glycerol, diglycerol, polyglycerol, trimethylolpropane, pentaerythritol, sorbitol, and arabitol. |
G06F | 9,733,903 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A method for managing assertions in source code components of a development project, comprising: receiving a request to build a software application generated from the development project; identifying, based on prior executions of the software application, resource requirements for each of one or more assertions included in the prior executions of the software application; calculating a score for each of the one or more assertions using at least the identified resource requirements and a priority associated with each of the one or more assertions; selectively inserting, in the source code components, one or more of the assertions based on the determined scores for each of the one or more assertions; while gathering and updating resource utilization data, identifying the score of at least one of the assertions in the source code components that exceeds a threshold score for retaining assertions in the source code components; removing the identified assertion from the source code components; and compiling the source code components of the development project to build the software application. |
G11B,H04N | 9,620,171 | 2017-04-11 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a television receiver from a service provider, a transmission corresponding to an instance of television programming; monitoring, by the television receiver, signal strength or signal quality of the received transmission; determining that the signal strength or signal quality of the received transmission falls at or below a predetermined threshold value during the instance of television programming; storing, by the television receiver, the instance of television programming to a storage device, thereby generating an instance of recorded programming; detecting, by the television receiver, a gap in content within the instance of recorded programming corresponding to the signal strength or signal quality of the received transmission falling at or below the predetermined threshold value during the instance of television programming, wherein detecting includes identifying a start time and an end time of the gap in content; transmitting, by the television receiver to a remote server associated with the service provider using a terrestrial network connection, a request for additional content to repair the gap in content within the instance of recorded programming, wherein the request includes the start time and the end time of the gap in content; receiving, by the television receiver using the terrestrial network connection, additional content associated with the gap in content; editing, by the television receiver, the instance of recorded programming to include the additional content associated with the gap in content, wherein the editing includes inserting the additional content between the start time and the end time of the gap in content; analyzing, by the television receiver, the instance of television programming to identify an alert or warning that replaces audio, or video, or both audio and video of the television programming; transmitting, by the television receiver, using a terrestrial network connection and to the remote server associated with the service provider, a request for replacement content to replace the alert or warning in the instance of recorded programming, wherein the request includes the start time and the end time of the alert or warning receiving, by the television receiver using the terrestrial network connection, replacement content associated with the alert or warning; and editing, by the television receiver, the instance of recorded programming to insert the replacement content in place of the alert or warning. |
G06F | 9,569,285 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A method for message handling, wherein a structured message is transmitted as a reduced message with the structure removed, the method comprising: monitoring messages to be transmitted, the step of monitoring comprising: for each message, identifying one or more elements within the message and structural information associated with the one or more elements; determining the probability that a message will conform to a previously identified format based on the identified elements and the structural information associated therewith; and using the determined probability to decide when to transmit a format template for the message, wherein the format template contains structural information for use by a destination to add the structure removed by a message source back into the message. |
G06F | 9,746,974 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A capacitance-sensing circuit comprising: a channel input associated with measuring a capacitance of a unit cell of a capacitive sense array; and a capacitive hardware baseliner coupled to the channel input, wherein the capacitive hardware baseliner comprises: wherein the capacitive hardware baseliner generates a baseline current based on a time constant of the channel input associated with the measuring of the capacitance of the unit cell of the capacitive sense array using the programmable baseline capacitor and the programmable baseline resistor, wherein the capacitive hardware baseliner provides the baseline current at the channel input to provide a charge for a sense capacitor, wherein a change in the charge of the sense capacitor is provided by the baseline current indicating a presence of a touch object proximate to the unit cell. |
G06K,G06T | 9,715,723 | 2017-07-25 | 1. A method for defect classification comprising: storing a definition of a region in a feature space, wherein the definition is associated with a defect class and comprises a kernel function, wherein the kernel function comprises a kernel parameter that is associated with a plurality of parameter values, wherein each of the parameter values for the kernel parameter is used to determine a different shape of the region based on the kernel function and corresponds to a different desired rejection rate for automatic classification of a plurality of unclassified defects for the defect class; receiving, by a processing device, a confidence threshold that corresponds to a desired rejection rate for automatic classification of at least one defect associated with the defect class; selecting, by the processing device, one of the parameter values of the plurality of parameter values for the kernel parameter that determines the shape of the region and corresponds to the desired rejection rate associated with the confidence threshold for automatic classification of the plurality of unclassified defects; receiving, by the processing device, inspection data for the plurality of unclassified defects detected in one or more wafer samples under inspection; automatically classifying, by the processing device, the plurality of unclassified defects for the defect class using the kernel function and the selected one of the plurality of parameter values of the kernel parameter that determines the shape of the region and corresponds to the desired rejection rate for the plurality of unclassified defects to generate a first plurality of classification results, wherein the plurality of unclassified defects are classified with a class label associated with the region based on a location of the unclassified defects in the region with the shape determined from the kernel parameter with the one of the plurality of parameter values that is selected based on the confidence threshold that corresponds to the desired rejection rate; obtaining a second plurality of classification results for one or more of the plurality of unclassified defects for the defect class; and combining the first plurality of classification results and the second plurality of classification results. |
C25D,H01H,H01L | 9,637,834 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A method for fabricating an electrically programmable fuse structure, comprising: providing a substrate; forming an anode and a cathode on the substrate; forming a fuse between the anode and the cathode and having an anode-connecting-end connecting with the anode and a cathode-connecting-end connecting with the cathode over the substrate, wherein the fuse includes a first material layer on the substrate, and a second material layer on the first material layer; and forming a compressive stress region in the second material layer of the cathode-connecting-end, wherein the second material layer of the anode-connecting-end has a tensile stress region, a doping concentration of the compressive stress region is greater than a doping concentration of the tensile stress region and a doping concentration difference between the compressive stress region and the tensile stress region is in a range of approximately 1E15 atom/cm |
A61J,B29C | 9,629,784 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A pacifier comprising: a plug, a flexible component, and an inner shield; a flexible component comprising a single structure having a baglet portion, and a shield portion, the shield portion having opposing front and rear sides, the rear side having a protruding member outwardly extending away from the rear side of the shield portion, the protruding member having an opening opposite the rear side of the shield portion, the opening extending into an internal cavity in the flexible component, the internal cavity having a groove along an inner surface of the protruding member, the baglet portion having a head and neck, the neck of the baglet portion extending away from the front side of the shield portion to the head; a plug having a head portion with a topside and an underside and an extension axially extending from the underside of the head portion, the extension having a proximal end adjacent the head portion and a distal end opposite the head portion, the extension having a ridge between the proximal and distal ends, the ridge extending outwardly from the extension, the extension being sized to extend through the opening in the protruding member of the shield portion to fit inside the internal cavity of the flexible component, when the extension of the plug is inserted into the protruding member of the shield portion, the ridge engages the groove securing the plug to the flexible component; and an inner shield having opposing front and rear sides and an interior opening between the front and rear sides, the opening in the inner shield being sized so that the protruding member of the shield portion can extend through the opening to slide the inner shield onto the flexible component, when the pacifier is in an assembled state, the inner shield is positioned between a rear surface of the shield portion and the plug with the underside of the head of the plug resting against the rear side of the inner shield and the rear surface of the shield portion resting against the front side of the inner shield. |
H04L | 9,634,845 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A server for use in a network, the server comprising: a receiver configured to receive data from at least one client device in the network; a processor operatively connected to the receiver; and a transmitter operatively connected to the processor and configured to send data packets with a first source address to the at least one client device in a first session; wherein the processor is configured to generate a session switch information message for transmission to the at least one client device, the session switch information message including a second source address; wherein the session switch information message includes a recommended completion threshold so that, if the at least one client device is less than a predetermined distance from completion of the first session, it can continue to receive the data packets with the first source address in the first session; wherein the receiver is further configured to receive a request from the at least one client device for delivery of packets with the second source address; wherein the transmitter is further configured to send data packets with the second source address to the at least one client device in a second session; and wherein the server is configured so that the data packets are sent using the same transport protocol in the first and second sessions. |
H01L | 9,576,825 | 2017-02-21 | 1. Device for alignment of a first contact surface of a first substrate with a second contact surface of a second substrate, said device comprising: a first platform for holding the first substrate, a second platform for holding the second substrate, first detection means configured to detect first X-Y positions of first alignment keys located on the first contact surface of the first substrate in a first X-Y plane in a first X-Y coordinate system which is independent of the motion of the first substrate, second detection means configured to detect second X-Y positions of second alignment keys which correspond to the first alignment keys and which are located on the second contact surface of the second substrate in a second X-Y plane parallel to the first X-Y plane in a second X-Y coordinate system which is independent of the motion of the second substrate, and drive means for moving at least one of the first platform and the second platform to align the first contact surface of the first substrate with the second contact surface of the second substrate, wherein the drive means aligns the first contact surface based on the first X-Y positions in a first alignment position and aligns the second contact surface based on the second X-Y positions in a second alignment position, wherein the first and second X-Y planes in the detection of the first and second X-Y positions are at least quasi-identical to a contacting plane of the first and second contact surfaces during contacting. |
G06F,Y02D | 9,557,801 | 2017-01-31 | 1. A cache device comprising: a cache memory including a plurality of memory areas associated with a plurality of ways, respectively; an access controller configured to control access to the memory areas; a plurality of counters respectively associated with the memory areas, each of the counters configured to determine if an unused time of a respective one of the memory areas is greater than a predetermined time, the unused time representing a time period during which the respective memory area has not been accessed; a power controller configured to control power supplied to the memory areas individually such that power supplied to a memory area for which the unused time is greater than the predetermined time is standby power that is lower than operating power, the operating power being power required for reading or writing data with respect to the memory area; a first write buffer configured to store write request information for requesting to write data; and a second write buffer, wherein |
A01D,A23N,B07B | 9,681,679 | 2017-06-20 | 1. A sorting table apparatus for separating fruit from foreign objects, the sorting table apparatus comprising: a frame having a longitudinal axis extending along a direction of travel of the fruit; a set of rollers rotatably mounted on said frame, each roller of said set of rollers comprising a shaft having ends and an axis orthogonal of the longitudinal axis of said frame, each roller having couplings shaped so as to define gaps adapted to allow the fruits or the foreign objects to pass therethrough, said set of rollers having a first roller and a last roller, all of the rollers of said set of rollers other than said last roller being slidingly mounted along the longitudinal axis of said frame; an actuator and a transmission connected to said set of rollers so as to rotate the rollers of said set of rollers around the axis thereof so that the fruit travels forward on the rollers; an adjustment mechanism adapted to adjust a distance between the axis of the rollers, said adjustment mechanism comprising a kinematic mechanism that connects the shafts of the rollers, said kinematic mechanism having a pair of levers hinged at each end of the shaft, wherein the ends of each lever of said pair of levers are hinged to ends of the levers of an adjacent shaft, said adjustment mechanism comprising a linear actuator connected to said first lever so as to move said first roller such that the rollers translate with respect to said last roller, said last roller being fixed in translation; and at least one cam having a metal plate hinged at a pin coaxially to said last roller, said at least one cam having slots in an oblique position with respect to a horizontal axis that slidingly houses pins applied to the ends of the shafts of some of the rollers, said slots having a decreasing length from said first roller towards said last roller. |
A01D | 9,717,175 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A rock guard for a transverse rotary disc cutterbar used on an agricultural harvester for crop cutting while propelled in a forward direction comprising: a plurality of transversely spaced apart rotating discs geared for simultaneous rotation about generally upstanding axes, each disc having a pair of knives removeably attached by a connector in diametric opposition on the disc for rotation therewith, the pairs of knives on adjacent discs being rotationally offset by 90 degrees; and a rock guard disposed adjacently beneath the rotating knives of each of the plurality of discs, the rock guard having an upper surface generally parallel to and spaced apart from a plane defined by rotation of the knives, a leading edge, and a first access channel in the upper surface having a depth which increases the spacing to the plane of the rotating knives, the first access channel aligned on a first radial axis from the respective upstanding axis, each rock guard further comprising a second access channel similarly configured to the first access channel but rotationally offset to a second radial axis oriented such that one half of the knives on the cutterbar may be simultaneously aligned with the respective first access channels or second access channels on the plurality of rock guards. |
B60N | 9,623,770 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A vehicle seat comprising: a seat back frame on which a reclining mechanism is arranged at a lower part thereof; and a seat cushion frame made at least partly of a resin material, wherein the reclining mechanism, arranged on a lower end side of the seat back frame, and a rear end side of the seat cushion frame are coupled with a metallic coupling member, a metal member is integrally formed on the rear end side of the seat cushion frame, an upper part of the coupling member is mounted to the reclining mechanism, and a lower part of the coupling member is welded and connected to the metal member provided on the rear end side of the seat cushion frame, the seat cushion frame is provided with a height adjustment mechanism mounting part to which a height adjustment mechanism for displacing a height of the seat cushion frame with respect to a vehicle floor is mounted, and the coupling member extends to a position aligned with at least a part of the height adjustment mechanism mounting part in an up and down direction in a state that the coupling member is welded to the rear end side of the seat cushion frame. |
B65D,F41H | 9,586,750 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A pistol style head to release spray from a pressurized cannister having a valve comprising: a housing having a housing front, a housing rear, and a housing top, the housing comprising cannister attachment means for attaching the housing to the pressurized cannister, a trigger finger guard on the housing front, a stabilizing brace under the trigger finger guard, and a cap on the housing top; valve engagement means, the valve engagement means comprising a tube capable of engaging a valve of the cannister, and a nozzle to direct spray released from the valve through an opening in the housing; a trigger box, the trigger box comprising a trigger pull portion on a box front, opposing box sides, a bridge on a box top along a box rear, spurs extending from each side of the trigger box near the box top and box rear, and a bar on a box bottom along the box rear, the bar resting in a channel of the housing, wherein the nozzle of the valve attachment means is pushed through the box rear and out the box front above the trigger pull portion; and a safety comprising a thumb tab outside the housing, a pair of legs extending from the thumb tab, each leg comprising a safety pin disposed along the each leg, and the each leg terminating in a pivot that rests in saddles of the housing; wherein to release spray from the pressurized cannister the thumb tab is pushed toward the front of the housing moving the safety pin on each leg of the safety off shelves on the end of posts in the housing allowing the spurs of the trigger box to fall onto the shelves when the trigger pull portion is pulled toward the rear of the housing and the bridge depresses the nozzle and the tube to engage the valve and release the spray. |
A41D,Y10T | 9,578,910 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A protective element comprising: a flat first material layer comprised of a low-fold material and forming a supporting layer; a flat second material layer comprised of a folded cut-retardant material; wherein a surface area of the second material layer in a stretched-out state is 1.2 to 2.5 times greater than a surface area of the first material layer in a stretched-out state; wherein the second material layer is placed in a gathered state onto the first material layer; wherein the first material layer forms a gliding layer for the second material layer such that the folded cut-retardant material of the second material layer is moveable on the low-fold material of the first material layer and, by moving relative to the first material layer when engaged by cutting blades that are moving relative to each other, prevents that the first material layer arranged underneath the second material layer is gripped or pinched by the cutting blades. |
B60R | 9,738,236 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A decorative component adapted to be mounted on a vehicle and have an outer surface, which is exposed to the vehicle outside, wherein an in-vehicle camera is arranged in the vehicle while facing the outer surface, and the decorative component transmits light toward the in-vehicle camera from the vehicle outside, the decorative component comprising: a transparent base member, which forms at least a part of the outer surface; and a decorative layer arranged on a part of one of a front side and a back side of the base member, wherein the decorative layer includes: wherein the light transmission reducing portion is a printed dot pattern in which a plurality of dots is arranged. |
B01J,C10K,Y02P | 9,718,047 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A method for separating a chlorine-containing species from an aqueous solution of the chlorine-containing species in a catalytic hydrocarbon conversion process, the method comprising the steps of: oxidizing a spent chloride-containing hydrocarbon conversion catalyst, the spent hydrocarbon conversion catalyst comprising a hydrocarbon residue formed thereon, wherein the oxidizing forms a flue gas comprising chlorine-containing species, water, and oxides of carbon; contacting the flue gas with a water scrubbing stream to dissolve at least a portion of the chlorine-containing species in the water scrubbing stream to form a liquid aqueous acid solution; separating and venting un-dissolved gases from the liquid aqueous acid solution wherein said un-dissolved gases comprise less than 0.01 ppm of a chloro-species; contacting the liquid aqueous acid solution with a hygroscopic liquid to generate a dehydrated hydrogen chloride gas; and contacting the dehydrated hydrogen chloride gas with additional spent chloride-containing hydrocarbon conversion catalyst to sorb chlorine onto the additional spent chloride-containing hydrocarbon conversion catalyst. |
A01K | 9,596,826 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A collapsible and portable pet crate, comprising: a generally rectangular base plate; a generally rectangular front side wall; a generally rectangular back side wall; a generally rectangular roof plate; a left side wall having a left side wall left side edge and a left side wall right side edge and a right side wall having a right side wall left side edge and a right side wall right side edge, wherein each of the sidewalls is connected to the base plate at a bottom of the left side wall and the right side wall, said left side wall and right side wall each containing a support frame that is built along the left side wall left side edge, the left side wall right side edge, the right side wall left side edge, and the right side wall right side edge; and two zippers, each of which zips up the front side wall, the roof plate and back side wall along the edge of the respective left or right side walls, wherein the two zippers are connected to the front sidewall, the roof plate, the back side wall, the left side wall and the right sidewall, wherein each of the two zippers contain two corresponding zipper strips, a first one of the two zipper strips being on an edge of the left side wall and the right side wall and a second one of the two zipper strips being on edges of the front side wall, the roof plate and the back side wall, so that the first zipper strip has its zipper teeth oriented inwardly, and the second zipper strip has its zipper teeth oriented outwardly along the edges of the front side wall and back side wall, and wherein the zipper teeth are turned 180 degrees to be oriented inwardly along the edges of the roof plate, to provide a 180-degree flipped zipper teeth orientation. |
C10G,C10L,Y02E,Y02P | 9,708,544 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A method for processing a biocomponent feedstock, comprising: exposing a feedstock comprising at least about 25 wt % triglycerides to a first catalyst in the presence of hydrogen under effective deoxygenation conditions for forming an at least partially deoxygenated effluent, the at least partially deoxygenated effluent having at least about 40 wt % of olefins and having an oxygen content that is at least 40% less than an oxygen content of the feedstock, the first catalyst comprising a supported Group VI metal catalyst or a supported Group VIII non-noble metal catalyst; separating the at least partially deoxygenated effluent to form a gas phase effluent and a liquid phase effluent, the liquid phase effluent comprising at least 15 wt % olefins; exposing the liquid phase effluent to an acidic catalyst under effective conditions for oligomerization of at least a portion of the olefins to form a product effluent; and fractioning at least a portion of the product effluent to form a diesel product fraction, the diesel product fraction having an olefin to paraffin ratio of at least about 0.04. |
H01L,H01M,H02J,H02S,Y02E | 9,595,909 | 2017-03-14 | 1. An electricity storing solar power generation device, comprising: a plurality of solar cells, the plurality of solar cells including two or more solar cells that have mutually different spectral absorption sensitivities, that are arranged in an order of decreasing band gap in terms of a light path direction of incident light, and that each disperse the incident light by transmitting or reflecting a portion of the incident light that is not absorbed by the solar cell, thereby allowing the portion of the incident light to fall on a next solar cell disposed at a downstream side with respect to the light path direction; and two or more electricity storing devices, each of the two or more solar cells being directly or indirectly electrically connected to one of the two or more electricity storing devices, and electric power generated by each of the two or more solar cells being stored in the electricity storing device electrically connected to the solar cell. |
B08B,F24C,F24F | 9,587,839 | 2017-03-07 | 1. An autonomous ventilation system, comprising: a variable-speed exhaust fan removing an air contaminant from an area; a controller coupled to the variable-speed exhaust fan and adjusting the speed of the exhaust fan; an exhaust hood coupled to the exhaust fan, the exhaust hood directing the air contaminant to the exhaust fan; and an infrared radiation (“IR”) sensor coupled to the controller, the IR sensor observing a cooking zone associated with cooking equipment beneath the exhaust hood and thereby detecting a change in IR index in said cooking zone, and communicating information relating to detected changes in IR index to the controller, wherein the exhaust hood is located above the cooking equipment, the controller monitors an energy level of the cooking equipment based on the detected changes in IR index in the cooking zone, the controller adjusts the speed of the variable-speed exhaust fan from off to a predetermined idle speed when the detected changes in IR index in the cooking zone indicate that one or more pieces of the cooking equipment have been turned on, the controller detects a decrease of the IR index in said cooking zone based on observations from the IR sensor, the controller adjusts the speed of the variable-speed exhaust fan to a first speed greater than the predetermined idle speed in response to the detected decrease in the IR index in said cooking zone observed by the IR sensor, and the controller turns off the variable-speed exhaust fan when detected changes in IR index in the cooking zone indicate that the cooking equipment has been turned off. |
G06F | 9,684,705 | 2017-06-20 | 1. A computer-implemented method for clustering data, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of samples that have been grouped into existing clusters, the existing clusters comprising a predetermined cluster radius; locating a sample, from within the plurality of samples, that is a centroid of an existing cluster; restructuring the existing cluster to generate a new cluster that includes samples with matching attributes by: restructuring the existing clusters that have not been restructured by generating, using samples within the plurality of samples that are not included in the new cluster, additional new clusters until each sample within the plurality of samples is included within at least one new cluster, wherein for each additional new cluster: |
H01G,H05K,Y02P | 9,633,790 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising: a ceramic body, including an active layer in which a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes are disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween; first and second lead portions extending from the first internal electrode to be exposed to a mounting surface of the ceramic body, and disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a length direction of the ceramic body; a third lead portion extending from the second internal electrode to be exposed to the mounting surface of the ceramic body, and disposed between the first and second lead portions; first and second external electrodes disposed on the mounting surface of the ceramic body to be spaced apart from each other in the length direction of the ceramic body, and connected to the first and second lead portions, respectively, wherein portions of the first and second lead portions not covered by the first and second external electrodes are exposed to the mounting surface of the ceramic body; a third external electrode disposed between the first and second external electrodes on the mounting surface of the ceramic body, and connected to the third lead portion, wherein portions of the third lead portion not covered by the third external electrode are exposed to the mounting surface of the ceramic body; a first insulating part including opposite end portions, which are a pair of first overlap portions covering portions of the first and third external electrodes, respectively, the first insulating part disposed between the first and third external electrodes on the mounting surface of the ceramic body; and a second insulating part including opposite end portions, which are a pair of second overlap portions covering portions of the second and third external electrodes, respectively, the second insulating part disposed between the second and third external electrodes on the mounting surface of the ceramic body, wherein 0.005≦i/e≦0.7, in which i is a width of one of the first and second overlap portions, and e is a width of one of the first to third external electrodes partially covered by the one of the first and second overlap portions. |
B01D,C02F,G01F,G06F | 9,709,429 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) sensor system for a membrane based water filtration plant comprising: a remote telemetry unit (RTU), a supervisory control and data acquisition unit (SCADA), and a plurality of MEMS sensors for measuring pressure, flow rate, and conductivity of a stream; said water filtration plant is comprised of a train comprised of a membrane vessel containing a plurality of membrane elements; said membrane vessel and said membrane elements receive a feed stream and produce a concentrate stream and a permeate stream; said membrane elements are arranged in series creating an interface between each adjacent membrane element; said MEMS sensors measure the flow rate, pressure, and conductivity of said feed stream, concentrate stream, and permeate stream at said interface between each adjacent membrane element; said membrane vessel is further comprised of conventional pressure sensors, conventional conductivity sensors, and conventional flow sensors; said conventional pressure sensors are comprised of a conventional pressure sensor in each of said feed stream entering said membrane vessel, and concentrate stream and permeate stream exiting said membrane vessel; said conventional conductivity sensors are comprised of a conventional conductivity sensor in each of said feed stream entering said membrane vessel, and concentrate stream and permeate stream exiting said membrane vessel; said conventional flow sensors are comprised of a conventional flow sensor in each of said feed stream entering said membrane vessel, and concentrate stream and permeate stream exiting said membrane vessel; wherein said membrane vessel is further comprised of a conventional temperature sensor in said feed stream entering said membrane vessel; said conventional pressure sensors measure the pressure of said permeate, concentrate, and feed streams of said membrane vessel; said conventional conductivity sensors measure the conductivity of said permeate, concentrate, and feed streams of said membrane vessel; said conventional flow sensors measure the flow rate of said permeate, concentrate, and feed streams of said membrane vessel; said conventional temperature sensor measures the temperature of said feed stream of said membrane vessel; said RTU communicates with said MEMS sensors and said SC.ADA to provide said MEMS sensor pressure and conductivity measurements to said SCADA, said RTU communicates wirelessly with said MEMS sensors; said conventional pressure sensors, said conventional conductivity sensors, said conventional flow sensors, and said conventional temperature sensor provide measurements directly to said SCADA; wherein said SCADA uses measurements taken by said MEMS sensors, said conventional pressure sensors, said conventional conductivity sensors, said conventional flow sensors, and said conventional temperature sensor to identify if at least one of said membrane elements is compromised, wherein each of said MEMS sensors is comprised of a removable smart sensor structure (RSSS) and a control/data transceiver chip (CDTC); said RSSS is comprised of a smart part and at least one of a pressure sensor or a conductivity sensor; wherein said smart part is comprised of a coil, voltage regulator, inductive transceiver, non-volatile memory, microprocessor, and conversion circuitry; wherein said CDTC is comprised of a coil, inductive transceiver, and RF transceiver. |
B65H,G07D,G07F | 9,542,789 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A banknote accommodating device, comprising a box body, a box door, and a banknote inlet, a switching member and a pair of pressing roller components being provided at the banknote inlet, the switching member being configured to selectively rotate to open or close the banknote inlet under the control of a control signal, and the pair of pressing roller components being configured to convey banknote into the banknote accommodating device in a state that the banknote inlet is open, wherein, a movable guide plate is provided in the box body, and is arranged below the banknote inlet through a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is fixedly mounted to a side wall of the box body, a guide surface of the movable guide plate faces the banknote inlet, and an included angle formed between the guide surface of the movable guide plate and a vertical direction ranges from 0 degree to 20 degrees, an elastic element is provided on a back surface of the guide surface of the movable guide plate, and the elastic element is configured to provide a thrust to the movable guide plate to allow the movable guide plate to rotate counterclockwise; and the box door is provided with a guide rib which forms an included angle ranging from 0 degree to 30 degrees with respect to the vertical direction, and a stacking inclined surface is provided at the bottom of the box body and forms an included angle ranging from 0 degree to 45 degrees with respect to a horizontal direction, and a space for stacking banknotes vertically is formed between the guide surface of the movable guide plate, the guide rib of the box door and the stacking surface at the bottom of the box body; wherein a front end of a banknote rests on the stacking inclined surface at the bottom of the box body, and the entire sheet of the banknote is stacked well against a surface of the guide rib. |
G06F,G11B,H04N | 9,721,616 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A method for pre-delivering content to a user device, the method comprising: accessing information describing a first video content of interest, wherein a first media file relating to the first video content of interest is being played back to a user by a mobile application of a user device; identifying, based on the information associated with the first video content of interest, a second video content of interest that is associated with the first video content of interest and is available for playback by the mobile application, the second video content of interest being a different content from the first video content of interest; and causing at least partial pre-delivery, to a local cache of the user device, of a second media file relating to the second video content of interest while the first media file is being played back to the user by the mobile application, the second media file being a different media file than the first media file, wherein causing at least partial pre-delivery of the second media file relating to the second video content of interest includes: identifying a first second video content of interest having a first file size; identifying a second video content of interest having a second file size that is smaller than the first file size; and causing pre-delivery of the second video content of interest to the local cache of the user device before causing pre-delivery of the first second video content of interest to the local cache of the user device. |
F24H,H05K,Y10T | 9,655,263 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A sealed housing of an electric heating device to be installed in a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing lower part and a housing cover abutting on the housing lower part via an intermediate sealing element and being moveable toward and away from one another with compression and expansion of the sealing element, and an elongate positive locking element that is separate from the housing lower part and the housing cover, that is provided between opposed contact surfaces of the housing lower part and the housing cover, and that interconnects the housing lower part and the housing cover in a form fit manner, wherein the elongate positive locking element abuts on the opposed contact surfaces under a pretensioning force caused by compression of the sealing element such that abutment of the elongate positive locking element with the opposed contact surfaces maintains the compression of the sealing element. |
H01G,H01M,H02J,Y02E,Y02P | 9,558,894 | 2017-01-31 | 1. An ultracapacitor comprising: an energy storage cell and an electrolyte composition within a hermetically sealed housing, the cell electrically coupled to a positive contact and a negative contact, wherein the ultracapacitor is configured to operate at temperatures throughout an operational temperature range without significant changes in performance or durability, and wherein: |
G10L,H04R | 9,560,456 | 2017-01-31 | 1. A hearing aid comprising: two microphones; a receiver; a hardware processor; a non-transitory memory storing a control program, the control program being executed by the hardware processor so as to: the receiver converts the acoustic signal to a sound. |
G06K,H04W | 9,572,015 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A method for using a short-range wireless communication network to authenticate a mobile communication device on a cellular network, the method comprising: receiving subscriber identity information corresponding to subscriber data for the cellular network at the mobile communication device via the short-range wireless communication network, the subscriber identity information being received from a device issued by a provider of the cellular network; storing the subscriber identity information at a subscriber identity module embedded in the mobile communication device in response to receiving the subscriber identity information from the provider supplied device, the storing comprising overwriting any other subscriber identity information stored at the subscriber identity module; transmitting the subscriber identity information from the subscriber identity module to a server for authenticating a subscriber of the cellular network; receiving, from the server, an activation signal authorizing the mobile communications device on which the subscriber identity information is stored to access the cellular network in response to transmitting the subscriber identity information; and accessing the cellular network via the mobile communication device. |
H04N | 9,565,447 | 2017-02-07 | 1. An image decoding method comprising: decoding, from a bitstream including an image, information about a motion vector difference for a current block and information about a motion vector predictor for the current block; generating a motion vector predictor candidate group; modifying the motion vector predictor candidate group based on vectorial values of motion vector predictor candidates in the motion vector predictor candidate group; determining a motion vector predictor for the current block from among motion vector predictor candidates in the modified motion vector predictor candidate group based on the information about the motion vector predictor; and determining a motion vector for the current block based on the motion vector predictor and the information about the motion vector difference, wherein, the modified motion vector predictor candidate group includes a 1st motion vector predictor candidate and at least one of 2nd motion vector predictor candidates, the 1st motion vector predictor candidate is a motion vector of a collocated block to the current block, the collocated block is located in a reference picture, the 2nd motion vector predictor candidates are motion vectors of neighboring blocks of the current block, wherein the neighboring blocks include blocks located in upper left side, upper right side, and lower left side of the current block, wherein the modifying the motion vector predictor candidate group comprises modifying the motion vector predictor candidate group, when at least two of 2nd motion vector predictor candidates have the same value, by removing all of the at least two of 2nd motion vector predictor candidates except for one of the at least two of 2nd motion vector predictor candidates from the motion vector predictor candidate group, wherein the image is split into a plurality of maximum coding units according to information about size of the maximum coding units, the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split into one or more coding units of depths including at least one of a current depth and a lower depth, and wherein the current block is included in one of the one or more coding units of depths including at least one of the current depth and the lower depth. |
C02F,C25B | 9,650,721 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A sodium hypochlorite generator for decreasing by-product comprising: a water-splitting electrodialysis tank that generates hydrochloric acid and caustic soda using sodium chlorite aqueous solution and water, and supplies them as anode water and cathode water respectively; a diaphragm electrolyzer equipped with an anode chamber into which the sodium chloride aqueous solution is introduced, a cathode chamber into which the water is introduced, and a first cation exchange membrane partitioning the anode chamber and the cathode chamber; an anode water storage tank for storing the anode water and chlorine gas generated by an electrolytic reaction of the anode chamber; a cathode water storage tank for storing the caustic soda and discharging hydrogen gas generated by the electrolytic reaction of the cathode chamber; and a gas-liquid contact area where the caustic soda that is stored in the cathode water storage tank and the chlorine gas that is supplied from the anode water storage tank react in order to generate sodium hypochlorite, wherein the water-splitting electrodialysis tank comprises a first anion exchange membrane, a second cation exchange membrane, an amphoteric ion membrane, a second anion exchange membrane, and a third cation exchange membrane, disposed in order from a surface facing an anode between the anode and a cathode, the amphoteric ion membrane having an anion-exchange functional group at one end facing the second cation exchange membrane and a cation-exchange functional group at another end facing the second anion exchange membrane. |
G11C,H02M,H03K | 9,621,022 | 2017-04-11 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a voltage step up circuit configured to receive a primary supply voltage of a first voltage level and to output a secondary supply voltage of a second voltage level that is higher than the first voltage level; a voltage control unit configured to receive the secondary supply voltage and to output a control voltage having a voltage level in a range from a ground level to the second voltage level; and a complementary voltage generator configured to operate based on the primary supply voltage and to generate a pair of complementary signals in response to the control voltage, the control voltage having the voltage level in the range from the ground level to the second voltage level, and a voltage sum of the pair of complementary signals being equivalent to the first voltage level. |
B60L,G01C,G06Q,H02J,Y02T,Y04S | 9,694,700 | 2017-07-04 | 1. A charging management system comprising: a vehicle information collection section configured to collect vehicle information including a battery remaining level, a current location, and a destination for each of a plurality of electric vehicles; a facility information collection section configured to collect facility information including locations of charging facilities for the electric vehicles on a road; a calculation section configured to: (a) calculate, for each of the electric vehicles, a time of arrival at each of the charging facilities related to a path to the destination and an estimated value for the battery remaining level in a case of arrival at the charging facility, based on the information collected by the vehicle information collection section and the information acquired by the facility information collection section, and (b) calculate, based on the calculated battery remaining level, candidates for a charging facility utilization of which is to be recommended which are included in the charging facilities related to the path to the destination of each of the electric vehicles and an estimated duration from a time when an electric vehicle having arrived at each of the charging facilities starts charging and until the charging is complete; a determination section configured to determine the charging facility the utilization of which is to be recommended to be one of the charging facilities related to the path to the destination which has a shortest maximum wait time from a time when the plurality of electric vehicles arrive at the charging facility until the charging is complete, based on a determination result from the calculation section; and a notification system configured to report information indicative of the charging facility determined by the determination section to the electric vehicle not having arrived at the charging facility. |
B01D,C07C,C08G | 9,533,931 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A process of producing 1,4-butanediol, comprising the steps of (a) adding an alkaline substance other than an ammonia or an amine to an aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution originated from a fermentation broth; (b) distilling the resulting mixture of step (a); and (c) recovering a 1,4-butanediol-containing solution from vapor flow, wherein, before adding said alkaline substance, said aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution originated from a fermentation broth is subjected to a step of filtering said aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution through a nanofiltration membrane and recovering the aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution from the permeate flow of the membrane; and/or a step of subjecting said aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution to an ion exchange treatment. |
H04B,H04L | 9,553,644 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A reception method comprising: receiving a reception OFDM signal based on a plurality of precoded signals z demodulating the reception OFDM signal in accordance with a transmission scheme of the plurality of precoded signals z performing error-correction decoding on the demodulated signal; and acquiring audio data from the error-correction decoded signal, and externally outputting the audio data, wherein the plurality of precoded signals z the first condition is that x is an integer from 0 to N−1, y is an integer from 0 to N−1, and with respect to all x and all y satisfying x≠y, F[x]≠F[y] holds, the second condition is that x is an integer from 0 to N−1, y is an integer from 0 to N−1, and with respect to all x and all y satisfying x≠y, no real or complex number k holding F[x]=k×F[y] exists, the third condition is that the plurality of precoded signals z where, α is a positive real number, θ λ indicates a phase rotation amount [radian], δ indicates a phase rotation amount [radian], and j is an imaginary unit. |
G06F,G09G,H01L,Y02D | 9,734,780 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A driving method of a liquid crystal display device comprising a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines, the driving method comprising a step of: inverting a polarity of an image signal, which is input to the plurality of pixels from the plurality of signal lines, every one frame period, wherein, in each frame period, the polarity of the image signal is different between any two pixels which are adjacent to each other with one of the plurality of signal lines positioned therebetween, wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises a liquid crystal element comprising a pixel electrode and a transistor comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the transistor comprises a semiconductor having a wider band gap than a silicon semiconductor, wherein a value of an off-state current per 1 μm of a channel width of the transistor is less than or equal to 100 zA/μm under a condition at which a voltage between a source and a drain of the transistor is in a range of from 1V to 10V, wherein the transistor further comprises an insulating film over the semiconductor, wherein the insulating film comprises a metal oxide of a Group 13 element, and wherein a proportion of oxygen of the metal oxide is higher than a stoichiometric value. |
H01M,Y02E | 9,728,811 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the nonaqueous electrolyte comprising: a fluorine-containing lithium salt; an organic solvent; and an organosilicon compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R |
A61K,C12N,C12Y | 9,687,515 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A method for treating cancer, tumors and diseases which result from unwanted cell proliferation comprising administering to a host organism or cell which is in need an oncolytic Orthopox poxvirus comprising a defective I4L and/or a defective F4L gene, and a defective J2R gene, or a composition comprising said poxvirus, with the proviso that said poxvirus is not NYVAC, and administering to said host organism or cell a topoisomerase I inhibitor which is irinotecan. |
A61M,A61P,B05B | 9,636,470 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A device for dosing and dry nebulization of nebulizable material, comprising: a nebulization channel connected to a source of compressed carrier gas; a valve configured to send a carrier gas pressure pulse into the nebulization channel; a reservoir above and open only towards the nebulization channel, the reservoir configured for receiving the nebulizable material and connected to the nebulization channel such that the reservoir is gas-tight with respect to an external environment; a conical dosing chamber separate from and connecting to the reservoir; and a capillary tube connecting the valve to the nebulization channel, the capillary tube having an outlet in the nebulization channel in an area under the connection between the reservoir and the nebulization channel, wherein an inner diameter of the capillary tube is smaller than an inner diameter of the nebulization channel, such that upon release of the carrier gas pressure pulse the capillary tube and the nebulization channel form a jet pump flowing the carrier gas past the connection between the reservoir and the nebulization channel and generate an underpressure in the reservoir, and wherein when the valve is closed, a pressure compensation takes place by carrier gas flowing back to the reservoir. |
H04L,H04N | 9,584,441 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method for transmitting multimedia data by an entity, the method comprising: receiving bottom-up network abstraction layer (B-NAL) information from an underlying layer to an application layer; determining a multimedia data quality to optimize a delivery of the multimedia data based on the received B-NAL information; generating a packet including the multimedia data based on the determined media data quality; and transmitting the generated multimedia data, wherein the B-NAL information comprises network channel condition information. |
A61B,A61L,B65D | 9,700,362 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A method of using an orthopedic fixation system, comprising: opening a sterile packaged implant kit to access a drill guide and an insertion device loaded with an implant, wherein: opening a sterile packaged instrument kit to access a drill bit; drilling holes in bone using the drill guide and the drill bit; inserting the legs of the implant into the bone using the insertion device; releasing the implant from the insertion device; and pushing a portion of the implant located between the legs flush to the bone, wherein the legs of the implant move from their insertion position towards their implanted position, thereby compressing the bone. |
H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W | 9,654,241 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A system, comprising: an N-plexer configured to a modem coupled to the N-plexer and configured to |
H04N | 9,648,350 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A progressive Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) decoder comprising: a processing unit configured to receive a plurality of progressive scans and configured to generate a plurality of modified progressive scans (MPSs); a baseline JPEG decoder coupled to the processing unit, the baseline JPEG decoder comprising: |
B60N,B60R | 9,533,651 | 2017-01-03 | 1. An occupant protection device comprising: an airbag that is configured to cover a head of an occupant, and that is configured as an integral bag body including (i) a front deployment section that is housed in a headrest of a vehicle seat, that is inflated and deployed on receipt of a supply of gas, and that is deployed at a seat forward direction with respect to the head of the occupant, and (ii) a pair of left and right lateral deployment sections that are connected to the front deployment section and that are inflated and deployed at seat sides with respect to the head of the occupant; a lifting mechanism that raises and lowers the vehicle seat; and a controller that uses the lifting mechanism to lower the vehicle seat to an airbag deployable height in cases in which a vehicle collision has been determined to be unavoidable based on a signal from a collision prediction sensor and a height of the vehicle seat is higher than the airbag deployable height, and that inflates and deploys the airbag after lowering the vehicle seat. |
B31D,B31F,B65H | 9,643,374 | 2017-05-09 | 1. Device for processing sheets of paper, cardboard or plastic, comprising: a device body with at least one recess; a removable modular tool unit having a longitudinal axis; a tool drive unit that is connected to the device body and that comprises a tool drive motor; a tool bearing that is connected to the device body and that includes at least one bearing drive unit with a bearing drive motor that is connected to a lifting device, which supports a bearing block; the bearing block, which has a longitudinal axis that extends from a first end to a second end of the hearing block, is designed for receiving and holding the removable modular tool unit that is shiftable laterally through the recess in and out of the device body, with the longitudinal axis of the removable modular tool unit aligned in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bearing block, which recess adjoins the first end of the bearing block; a control unit controlling the bearing drive motor of the bearing drive unit and the tool drive motor of the tool drive unit independently from one another such that the removable modular tool unit is movable by the bearing drive unit towards the tool drive unit so that it is coupleable to and holdable in a distance from the tool drive unit in which the tool drive unit can interact with the removable modular unit; the removable modular tool unit comprises at least one elastic element as well as a first tool holder and a second tool holder that are connected with one another and movable towards one another and that are held separated from one another by the at least one elastic element, which is arranged between the first tool holder and the second tool holder; the first tool holder holding a first tool part and the second tool holder holding a second tool part; the first tool part and second tool part serving for processing the sheets; the modular tool unit is releasably held by the tool bearing and is movable by the bearing drive unit towards the tool drive unit under the control of the control unit into a position, wherein the first tool holder is fixedly held by the bearing drive unit, and wherein the second tool holder is coupled with the tool drive unit and can be moved by the tool drive unit forth and back towards the first tool holder which is fixedly held. |
A61N,H04R | 9,554,221 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A method, comprising the steps of: placing an entire behind-the-ear sound processor (BTE) unit that includes an external housing having an exterior, at least one user-manipulatable control element on the exterior of the external housing, a sound processor within the external housing that converts electrical signals from a microphone into a pulse sequence for a cochlear implant, and a removable power supply mounted to the external housing, into a BTE storage case that is not part of the BTE unit, that includes water-tight seals, and that is configured to receive the entire BTE unit; and connecting a headpiece that is configured to communicate with the cochlear implant to the BTE unit. |
A61K,A61P,C07K | 9,676,870 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method comprising, administering a therapeutically effective amount of an IgE signaling inhibitor to a subject in need of a treatment for atherosclerosis, wherein the IgE inhibitor binds to IgE and inhibits the binding of IgE to a receptor molecule. |
G01J,G01K | 9,671,290 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A temperature measurement method for measuring a temperature of an ultraviolet light transmittance member transmitting ultraviolet light, the method comprising: detecting ultraviolet light transmitted through the ultraviolet light transmittance member using a spectroscopic measurement unit, and obtaining an absorption edge wavelength of the ultraviolet light transmittance member; and deriving a temperature of the ultraviolet light transmittance member on the basis of the obtained absorption edge wavelength. |
B82Y,C01B,H01B,H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T | 9,548,494 | 2017-01-17 | 1. A method for producing a graphene layer using a colloidal graphene or multi-graphene layers using a multi-graphene dispersion, the colloidal graphene or the multi-graphene dispersion, respectively, obtained by a first method comprising the steps of: (i) stirring graphite oxide in an aqueous dispersion medium to form a dispersion; (ii) determining if the dispersion is optically clear in a light microscope at 1000 fold magnification after 1 to 5 hours of stirring, and, if not clear, removing any undissolved impurities in the dispersion, in order to form a colloidal graphene oxide dispersion, or a multi-graphene oxide dispersion, that is optically clear in a light microscope at 1000 fold magnification; and (iii) thermally reducing the graphene oxide, or multi-graphene oxide, in dispersion in the aqueous dispersion medium at a temperature between 120° C. and 170° C. under pressure in order to ensure that the dispersion medium is not evaporated to form a stable colloidal graphene dispersion or a stable multi-graphene dispersion, wherein the method for producing the graphene layer using the colloidal graphene or multi-graphene layers using a multi-graphene dispersion, comprises, either the steps of: (1) deposit the dispersion of step (ii) on a substrate or precipitate the dispersion of step (ii); and (2) then perform step (iii); or (3) deposit the dispersion of step (iii) on a substrate or precipitate the dispersion of step (iii). |
A61B,G06F,G10H,G11B | 9,536,560 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A media-playback device comprising: a media-output device that plays media content items; a cadence-acquiring device comprising an accelerometer and a cadence-determination engine configured to: a cadence-based media content selection engine configured to: |
B26B | 9,592,612 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A folding knife comprising: an implement having an upper edge, a lower edge, a tang and a distal end; a handle portion comprising a first scale and a second scale, said first scale and said second scale having a forward end, a rear end, an upper end and a lower end; said tang of said implement rotatably interconnected to said handle portion, said tang comprising a notch and a shelf portion with a radius of curvature extending between the notch and the shelf portion to enable rotation of the implement; a locking member provided between said first scale and said second scale, said locking member comprising a body portion, said body portion having at least one aperture for securing to at least one of said first and second scales preventing said body portion from rotation, said body portion further comprising an upper arm and a deflectable lower arm extending from said body portion linearly relative to one another, and separated by a predetermined distance, said upper arm and said lower deflectable arm extending less than half a length of said body portion, wherein said body portion, said upper arm and said deflectable lower arm comprise a monolithic locking member, and wherein the deflectable lower arm is in contact with said tang to provide a biasing force on said tang at all rotational positions of said implement; wherein said upper arm comprises a rigid portion of the locking member, and wherein said upper arm is fixed relative to the handle portion; said deflectable lower arm being biased toward said lower end of said handle portion and wherein said lower arm is deflectable toward said upper arm and said body portion remains secured against rotation when said implement is rotated with respect to said handle portion; said notch adapted to engage the locking member and secure the implement in an open position; said shelf portion adapted to engage the locking member and secure the implement in a closed position; wherein a point is provided at an intersection of the shelf portion and the radius of curvature and wherein the implement is biased toward a closed position when the locking member is provided at a position at or between the shelf portion and the point; and wherein said deflectable lower arm is deflectable in a first direction and bound by said first and second scales in a second direction, said second direction being perpendicular to said first direction; wherein distal ends of said upper arm and said lower arm are positioned proximate to each other and abut a back end portion of the tang provided vertically relative to said notch forming a generally L shape with said notch when the folding knife is provided in the open position; wherein said upper arm comprises a fixed stop position and limits rotation of the implement at least when the implement is provided in the open position; and wherein an entirety of the locking member is disposed between the first scale and the second scale and no portion of said locking member extends outside a perimeter of said first and second scales in said implement open position, closed position, and all rotational positions between said open and closed positions. |
G01J,H04N | 9,578,183 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A color measurement device, comprising: a spectrometer that disperses light from a measurement target, wherein the measurement target includes a color patch and a reference color region, the reference color region includes a first position and a second position, the color patch is positioned between the first position and the second position, and the first position, the color patch, and the second position are disposed along a predetermined direction; a movement mechanism that moves the spectrometer relative to the measurement target; and a control device that controls operations of the spectrometer and the movement mechanism, wherein: the spectrometer is operable by the control device to carry out spectral measurement for each of the first position and the second position, and acquires measured values, the control device determines a reference value corresponding to a color measurement position that is a position in which the color patch is disposed based on the measured values at the first position and the second position, and the control device determines a color measurement result of the color patch based on the measured values that are acquired when the spectrometer carries out the spectral measurement at the color measurement position and the reference value. |
H04L | 9,596,169 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a centralized controller, a discover message originating from a network node, wherein the discover message includes an intermediate node list that specifies a plurality of network nodes the discover message traversed from the network node to an edge node; determining, by the centralized controller and based on the plurality of nodes specified by the discover message, a path from the edge node to the network node; allocating, by the centralized controller, each of a plurality of Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels to a respective outgoing interface of each of the plurality of network nodes; and outputting, by the centralized controller, one or more control messages for configuring the network node, wherein the control messages are encapsulated within a label stack comprising the allocated plurality of labels. |
C04B,C09K,G01T | 9,598,638 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A gamma photon detector for detecting individual 511 keV gamma photons in a PET imaging system, the gamm photon detector comprising: an optical detector; and a garnet scintillator material with a substantially ceramic or polycrystalline structure and a decay time of less than 300 ns having the composition represented by (Gd |
H02M,Y02B | 9,595,883 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method for controlling a Vienna rectifier having three controllable switches, the method comprising: based on a characteristic vector, selecting a block from a plurality of blocks in a space vector switching diagram for the Vienna rectifier, depending on the selected block and a position of the selected block in the space vector switching diagram, rotating the vector by an offset angle in accordance with the position of the selected block in the space vector switching diagram, using the resulting angle of the rotated vector as a normalized phase angle and designating the selected block in which the rotated vector falls as a first block, based on the normalized phase angle, selecting an upper half or a lower half of the first block, based on an absolute value of the normalized phase angle and of the vector, selecting in the first block one of three area sections of the first block, based on the selected area section, determining three subvectors which, when added together, correspond to the rotated vector, based on the determined subvectors, determining a respective switching time for each of the three determined subvectors, and triggering the three controllable switches at the respective switching times. |
G06F | 9,740,574 | 2017-08-22 | 1. An apparatus for backing up data from a primary storage to a secondary storage, the apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a module identifies data to be backed up from primary storage, including: a module allocates a job for transferring the data from the primary storage to the secondary storage, a module divides the job into multiple data streams, a module stores, for each unit of data transferred from the primary storage to the secondary storage, information identifying a primary storage location for the unit of data and a destination storage location at which the unit of data is backed up; and a module transfers the data to be backed up from the primary storage to the secondary storage, |
G02B,H01L | 9,601,532 | 2017-03-21 | 1. An optical filter comprising: a Fabry-Perot resonator comprising a laminated structure including one sheet of first metal layer, one sheet of second metal layer, and a dielectric layer; and one sheet of plate-shaped wire grid polarizer, wherein the second metal layer is parallel to the first metal layer; the dielectric layer is interposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer; the one sheet of plate-shaped wire grid polarizer is embedded in the dielectric layer; the one sheet of plate-shaped wire grid polarizer comprises three or more metal wire layers; the metal wire layers are parallel to one another; and the one sheet of plate-shaped wire grid polarizer is parallel to the first metal layer. |
B65F | 9,533,827 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A container lifter for rear loading rubbish collection vehicle, comprising: at least one main arm pivotably mounted about a first pivot axis so as to take a bottom position and a top position relative to a low-high direction; a reinforcement member pivotably mounted to the at least one main arm about a second pivot axis; a seat mounted to the reinforcement member, and which is to receive a container so as to raise same; and at least one auxiliary arm pivotably mounted about a third pivot axis, and also pivotably on the reinforcement member about a fourth pivot axis; wherein: |
G06F,G11C,H01L | 9,721,050 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A design structure tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit, the design structure comprising: One or more Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM) cell groups, wherein each of the one or more SRAM cell groups includes two or more SRAM cells that are connected to an input of a local read amplifier by at least one common local bit-line, and wherein outputs of the local read amplifiers are connected to a shared global bit-line, the shared global bit-line being connected to a pre-charge circuit that is adapted for pre-charging the shared global bit-line with a programmable pre-charge voltage before reading data, the pre-charge circuit including a limiter circuit comprising: wherein the pre-charge regulator circuit comprises: a 1st p-FET connected with its source to a power supply voltage and its drain to a first terminal of a pre-charge switch which is connected with its second terminal to the shared global bit-line; and a 1st n-FET which is connected with its source to the first terminal of the pre-charge switch, wherein a drain of the 1st n-FET is connected to a gate of the 1st p-FET as well as to a first terminal of a first programmable resistor which is connected with its second terminal to the power supply voltage, wherein a gate of the 1st n-FET is connected to a reference voltage (Vref) signal. |
B60W,B62D,G01B,H04N | 9,723,274 | 2017-08-01 | 1. An imaging system comprising: a rear vehicle camera for imaging a target on a trailer; and a controller configured to set a reference point on the target and analyze image data with respect to the reference point to determine whether an adjustment to the image capture setting of the camera is needed; wherein the controller further determines whether to make the adjustment based on a status input indicating whether a rear vehicle light is activated; and wherein if the status input indicates that the rear vehicle light is activated, the controller subtracts a predetermined color cast specific to the rear vehicle light from an image captured by the camera. |
A45C,B65D,G06F,Y10T | 9,642,428 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A case for a portable electronic device comprising: a frame structure comprising a frame border having an exterior edge and interior edge, the exterior and interior edges being separated by a frame border width, wherein the frame structure comprises a first material, and the interior edge surrounds a perimeter of a compartment for the portable electronic device; a first side panel, coupled to a first side of the frame border, wherein the first side panel comprises a second material, different from the first material; a second side panel, coupled to a second side of the frame border, wherein the second panel comprises the second material, the first material is more shock absorbing than the second material, and the first material comprises ethylene vinyl acetate and the second material comprises neoprene, whereby sides of the portable electronic device are cushioned against side impacts by the first material having a thickness of the frame border width. |
G06K,G06T,H04N | 9,704,253 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A method for determining a depth map from a stereo image pair, wherein a disparity for a pixel is determined from a discrete quantity of predefined disparity values, the predefined disparity values are distributed over an entire predefined disparity value range in a distribution that has at least two different values of distances between respective adjacent disparity values among the predefined disparity values, and the distances between the respective adjacent disparity values are smaller in a far range and larger in a close range. |
H04B,H04J | 9,749,081 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A wavelength/bandwidth tunable optical filter connected to an optical cable, the optical filter comprising: an optical circulator configured to receive a Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing (WDM) optical signal from the optical cable, the optical signal including one or more wavelengths; and a first wavelength-tunable optical filter configured to a second wavelength-tunable optical filter configured to |
A61H,B62J | 9,730,853 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A method for treating mobility handicap in a patient affected by a neurodegenerative disease, comprising: treating the mobility handicap in the patient by performing mechanical stimulation steps for controlled and localized mechanical stimulation of one foot of the patient at a plurality of selected areas of the foot, the mechanical stimulation steps consisting of stimulation of a tip of the big toe and stimulation of a lower big toe metatarsal joint, respectively, said method being implemented according to predetermined parameters comprising a predetermined mechanical stimulation intensity, and at least one of a predetermined sequence for stimulating said selected areas of the foot and a predetermined duration of each of the mechanical stimulation steps, the step of treating comprising adjusting a tiltable front support of a base accommodating the one foot of the patient, the tiltable front support supporting the toes of the one foot of the patient, being tiltable with respect to a surface of the base, and having an actuator fixed thereto for performing the stimulation of the tip of the big toe, and a neurological test step, performed prior to the mechanical stimulation steps, of detecting the predetermined mechanical stimulation intensity to be used at the plurality of selected areas of the foot in the mechanical stimulation steps by determining an operating pressure at the plurality of selected areas of the foot corresponding to an occurrence of a patient's reflex to withdraw a leg or the foot of the patient. |
H05K | 9,578,746 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A circuit board comprising: a substrate defining a plurality of ground attaching holes and a plurality of first through-holes, the substrate comprising a first surface and a side edge; wherein a plurality of parallel and spaced first conductive paths is formed on the first surface around each ground attaching hole, and a first arcuate conductive portion is formed at each end of each first conductive path, an angle between each first conductive path and the side edge is 45° or 135°, and the first through-holes extend through the first arcuate conductive portions and electrically couple with the first conductive paths. |
A61K,A61P,A61Q,C07C | 9,738,581 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A method for suppressing fibrotic mediator(s) in stellate cells present in an internal organ of a subject in the need by using a composition comprising a compound with a formula of wherein R R R R R or an enantiomer thereof; |
G06F | 9,535,982 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A product comprising: a non-transitory machine readable memory; an ontology model stored in the memory and defining a hierarchy of document structure instance classes comprising a root class, a child class, and class definition relationships between the document structure instance classes; and |
B81B,H02N,H03B,H03H,H03L,Y10T | 9,602,026 | 2017-03-21 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device comprising: |
A61B | 9,549,756 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A medical insertion aid for surgical instruments and/or optical systems, the medical insertion aid comprising: a shank forming an insertion duct, the insertion duct comprising an inner wall, wherein at least one groove extending in a longitudinal duct direction or being longitudinally oriented is formed at the Inner wall of the insertion duct, the shank including in its axial central and/or distal end portion at least one radially outwardly extending fluid flow inhibiting edge that extends in a closed ring shape around the shank and is of one-piece with the shank, wherein the at least one radially outwardly extending fluid flow inhibiting edge forms at least one axially opening circular channel, the channel comprising an opening that is directed distally and/or proximally, and wherein the channel inhibits the flow of fluid by sucking fluid into the channel by capillary action. |
G06F | 9,558,120 | 2017-01-31 | 1. A method comprising: in response to storage of a first set of tags to a cache of cache tags, associating a first entry of a replacement table with the first set of tags, including setting a first activity variable of the first entry to an initial value of a pre-determined plurality of values, wherein a tag storage stores tags which are each associated with a respective data location of a cache memory, and wherein the cache of cache tags stores a subset of multiple tags stored at the tag storage, wherein the multiple tags includes the first set of tags; and if a first memory access request comprises a tag corresponding to one of the first set of tags, then changing the first activity variable to a first value of the pre-determined plurality of values to indicate an increase of a level of activity of the first set, otherwise changing the first activity variable to a second value of the pre-determined plurality of values to indicate a decrease of the level of activity of the first set; and in response to a failure to identify any tag of the cache of cache tags which matches a tag of a second memory access request, selecting a set of tags to evict from the cache of cache tags, including searching the replacement table for an activity variable which is equal to the initial value. |
G01D,G01R | 9,671,472 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A system, comprising: helically polarized magnets rotationally positioned with respect to neighboring magnets to form a circumferentially and helically arranged pattern of north and south poles along a linear axis, wherein magnetic flux varies at different positions along a linear path in a direction aligned with the linear axis; and a multi-axis magnetometer configured with at least two sensing coils to detect the position of the helically polarized magnets by sensing the magnetic flux variations at the different positions along the linear path. |
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