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F04B | 9,605,671 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A reciprocating compressor that compresses a gas, comprising: a piston; a cylinder that includes a hole portion including a base end into which a front end of the piston is inserted such that the piston is reciprocatably movable in the hole portion in an axial direction of the hole portion, wherein the hole portion defines a compression chamber which is formed in an area of the hole portion facing a front end of the piston inserted in the hole portion, wherein a gas is introduced into the compression chamber; a crank mechanism that drives the piston so that the gas introduced into the compression chamber is compressed by the piston; a piston ring that is fitted to the outside of the piston and that slides on an inner surface of the cylinder forming the hole portion; an annular member that is disposed so as to surround the outside of the piston in the radial direction; and a rod packing that is provided in an inner surface portion of the annular member and slides on an outer peripheral surface of the piston, wherein the piston ring is formed of an elastic material and has an outer diameter larger than the diameter of the hole portion when the piston ring is separated from the hole portion, wherein a tapered portion is formed in the inner surface of the cylinder at the base end of the hole portion, wherein a maximum diameter of the tapered portion in a radial direction of the cylinder is larger than the outer diameter of the piston ring when the piston ring is separated from the hole portion, and wherein the tapered portion tapers to a width equal to the diameter of the hole portion, wherein the cylinder is separably and engageably mounted to the annular member in the axial direction, and wherein the annular member does not comprise a taper able to mate with the taper of the tapered portion. |
H01R | 9,543,718 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A plug connection comprising a first plug connector and a second plug connector, wherein the plug connectors each have at least two contact elements, wherein the contact elements of the first plug connector make contact with the contact elements of the second plug connector at contact points in a plug-connected state of the plug connection, wherein the contact elements of the two plug connectors form contact lugs which project into free space and can be elastically deflected, of which a first contact lug of each contact element is part of an inner conductor and a second contact lug of each contact element is part of an outer conductor enclosing the inner conductor in a coaxial arrangement, wherein the contact lugs of the second plug connector are each contacted by several spring-loaded contact lugs of the first plug connector in a pincer-like manner. |
G01S,G01V,H03K | 9,733,343 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A proximity sensor arrangement, comprising an optical barrier being placed between a light emitting device and a photo-detector, wherein the light emitting device, the photo-detector and the optical barrier are covered by a cover; the optical barrier is configured to block light emitted from the light emitting device to the photo-detector and reflected by the cover by means of specular reflection; the optical barrier is configured to pass the light emitted from the light emitting device to the photo-detector via the cover and scattered on or above a first surface of the cover facing away from the light emitting device and the photo-detector, and the optical barrier is configured narrow enough to frustrate specular reflection paths from the light emitting device to the photo-detector via the cover surfaces, while permitting rays to pass around the barrier by indirect or diffusely scattered paths via diffusive scattering on or above the first surface of the cover. |
B82Y,H01L | 9,601,379 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A method of forming a nanowire device comprising multiple nanowires, a channel region and a plurality of source/drain regions, the method comprising: forming a plurality of stacked substantially un-doped nanowire structures above a semiconductor substrate, said plurality of stacked substantially un-doped nanowire structures comprising a first plurality of nanowires made of a first semiconductor material and a second plurality of nanowires made of a second semiconductor material that is different than said first semiconductor material; forming a sacrificial structure around said plurality of stacked substantially un-doped nanowire structures at a location that corresponds to said channel region of said device; forming a layer of insulating material above and adjacent said plurality of stacked substantially un-doped nanowire structures and proximate said sacrificial structure; removing said sacrificial structure to define a cavity that exposes said plurality of stacked substantially un-doped nanowire structures within said cavity; performing a selective etching process through said cavity to remove said second plurality of nanowires from said channel region and said source/drain regions of said device while leaving said first plurality of nanowires in position; forming a metal conductive source/drain contact structure in each of said source drain regions, wherein each of said metal conductive source/drain contact structures is positioned all around said first plurality of nanowires positioned in said source/drain region; and forming a gate all around gate structure that is positioned all around each of said first plurality of nanowires positioned in said channel region of said device. |
A61K,A61P,C07K,Y10T | 9,572,866 | 2017-02-21 | 1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding SEQ ID NO: 6 or SEQ ID NO: 11 linked to a heterologous regulatory element. |
G06F,H04L | 9,582,386 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method for securing continued operation of a primary cloud-based computing environment (CBCE) residing in a first cloud environment, comprising: gathering information with respect to the primary CBCE, wherein gathering the information further comprises receiving access credentials of at least one of: the primary CBCE, and at least one component of the primary CBCE, wherein the gathered information is related to at least one of: the at least one component of the primary CBCE, at least a portion of data stored in the at least one component of the primary CBCE, and configuration data of the primary CBCE; storing the gathered information in a storage space, wherein the gathered information substantially provides a baseline to initiate the creation of a reconstructed CBCE upon a need to recreate the primary CBCE; updating the gathered information with new information gathered based on changes to the primary CBCE; receiving a periodic status notification from the primary CBCE; initiating a reconstruction of the primary CBCE in the second cloud environment responsive to the status notification requesting one of: a reconstruction request, and failure of the primary CBCE; installing at least one first monitoring agent in the primary CBCE to monitor the at least one component of the primary CBCE; installing at least one second monitoring agent in the primary CBCE to monitor the operation of the primary CBCE; and communicating with the at least one first monitoring agent and the at least one second monitoring agent to receive information gathered by the at least one first monitoring agent and the at least one second monitoring agent. |
B25J,H05K | 9,669,550 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A pick and place device with automatic pick-up-height adjustment comprising: a first pneumatic system including: a second pneumatic system including: a flow sensor, which is in fluid communication with the at least one vacuum nozzle via a tube. |
G06F,H04W | 9,648,497 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A login control method, comprising: determining, when a lock image is displayed on a screen, a posture of a mobile terminal; detecting unlock information; comparing the detected unlock information with registered unlock information; selecting, when the detected unlock information and the registered unlock information are identical to each other, an operation mode corresponding to the posture of the mobile terminal, from a plurality of operation modes, as a current operation mode; determining at least one executable application corresponding to the current operation mode; and displaying an image comprising at least one visual element corresponding to the at least one executable application, wherein displaying the image comprises presenting, when the current operation mode is a limitless operation mode, a first image representing the limitless operation mode and, when the current operation mode is a limited operation mode, a second image representing the limited operation mode, wherein the second image includes at least one visual element with the exception of at least one of visual elements included in the first image, and wherein the posture of the mobile terminal is determined based on each of rotation angles relative to x- y- and z-axes, respectively. |
B82Y,C01B,Y02E,Y10S | 9,580,316 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method for preparing metal complex hydride nanorods, comprising the steps of: (1) preparing one-dimensional coordination polymers by mixing metal complex hydrides with organic solvents and subsequent drying; (2) preparing coordination polymer nanorods by mechanical milling the one-dimensional coordination polymers that obtained from step (1), in which the one-dimensional coordination polymers is vaporized and then deposited onto a substrate; (3) obtaining the metal complex hydride nanorods by removing organic ligands from the coordination polymer nanorods that obtained from step (2). |
H04N | 9,743,105 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A method comprising: determining a set of spatial motion vector prediction candidates for a block of pixels, the spatial motion vector prediction candidates being provided with motion information; selecting a first spatial motion vector prediction candidate from the set of spatial motion vector prediction candidates as a potential spatial motion vector prediction candidate to be included in a merge list for a prediction unit of the block of pixels, where the merge list is constructed based on the motion information of the spatial motion vector prediction candidates and is utilized to identify motion vector prediction candidates of which one spatial motion vector prediction candidate from the merge list is signaled as the motion information for the prediction unit; determining a subset of spatial motion vector prediction candidates based on a location of the block associated with the first spatial motion vector prediction candidate; comparing motion information of the first spatial motion vector prediction candidate with motion information of spatial motion vector prediction candidates in the determined subset of spatial motion vector prediction candidates without making a comparison of each possible candidate pair from the set of spatial motion vector prediction candidates, wherein comparing comprises performing an equivalence check or comparing a difference in motion information to a threshold or other similarity metric; and causing information identifying the one spatial motion vector prediction candidate from the merge list to be transmitted to a decoder or to be stored. |
G06F | 9,639,327 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A circuit for multiplying a digital signal by a variable gain controlled in dependence on a digital gain control value, comprising: a multiplier input for receiving the digital signal; a multiplier output for outputting the digital signal multiplied by the gain; a plurality of multiplier stages each arranged to multiply the digital signal by a respective predetermined multiplication factor; and switching circuitry arranged so as to apply selected ones of said multiplier stages in a multiplication path between said input and said output, in dependence on the digital gain control value; wherein said multiplication factors are arranged such that binary steps in the digital gain control value result in logarithmic steps in said gain. |
H04N | 9,538,215 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device, comprising: determining a maximal frame size, maximal frame size violation threshold larger than the maximal frame size, maximal bitrate and maximal transmission time; receiving an encoded frame to be transmitted, the encoded frame having a size; responsive to the size not exceeding the maximal frame size: responsive to the size exceeding the maximal frame size but not exceeding the maximal frame size violation threshold: responsive to the size exceeding the maximal frame size violation threshold: |
B65D,F01N,Y02A,Y02T,Y10T | 9,546,034 | 2017-01-17 | 1. A liquid extraction module ( 1 ) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, wherein the extraction module comprises a base body ( 2 ) which can be arranged in and/or on the tank and which carries a liquid extraction device ( 6 ) in the form of a pump, with an extraction orifice ( 5 ) which extends through the base body on the side of the base body facing the tank interior, and at least one electric heating element ( 20 ), characterized in that at least one heat-conducting element ( 18 ) is provided which has at least one first portion ( 24 ) allocated to the heating element ( 20 ) and a second portion ( 25 ) allocated to the extraction orifice ( 5 ) in order to transport the heat from the heating element ( 20 ) to the extraction orifice ( 5 ), and wherein a filter element ( 15 ) configured to filter the liquid is arranged between the heating element ( 20 ) and the extraction orifice ( 5 ). |
G06N,H03K | 9,647,662 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A superconducting system comprising: a coplanar superconducting circuit comprising: |
G01S,H01Q,H04B | 9,547,069 | 2017-01-17 | 1. A transmitter, comprising: a plurality of independent transmission chains configured to receive an RF input signal, wherein respective independent transmission chains comprise a vector modulator configured to independently introduce an amplitude adjustment or a phase adjustment to the RF input signal; and a control unit configured to independently activate and deactivate the plurality of independent transmission chains, such that a subset of the plurality of transmission chains is activated to concurrently operate to generate a transmitted signal; wherein the plurality of independent transmission chains comprise: a first transmission chain comprising a first vector modulator configured to introduce a first amplitude adjustment or a first phase adjustment into the RF input signal; and a second transmission chain comprising a second vector modulator configured to introduce a second amplitude adjustment, different than the first amplitude adjustment, or a second phase adjustment, different than the first phase adjustment, into the RF input signal. |
G06F,H04L | 9,607,144 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A system comprising: a processor; a data bus coupled to the processor; and a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer-usable medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code used for identifying risk within an information technology (IT) environment and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for: collecting data regarding user activities from a plurality of user activity data sources, the collecting data being provided to a user activity profiler from a security intelligence system via predefined user activity profile application program interfaces; storing the data regarding the user activities within a user activity data repository; analyzing characteristics of a user accessing a system within an IT environment, the IT environment comprising a plurality of systems, the characteristics of the user being related to the user activities and information relating to activity behavioral groups based upon the user activities; associating a risk profile with the user based upon the characteristics of the user; determining when the user accesses a system within the IT environment; maintaining a user risk profile record of all systems of the plurality of systems within the IT environment accessed by the user, the user risk profile record continuing to be associated with the user after access by the user ceases; and, identifying a risk level for the plurality of systems within the IT environment based upon the user risk profile record; and wherein specific suspicious user activity is identified based on external threat feeds and analysis; and, information regarding the specific suspicious user activity is presented to an organization and to individual users with regard to risk assessments, observed suspicious activities and general education of what is affecting risk with respect to the organization and individual users. |
H03K | 9,590,619 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A gate drive circuit with an active gate voltage stabilizer, comprising: means for creating a bipolar voltage to a gate of an IGB power transistor; and means for compensating for Miller currents of the IGB power transistor, the means for compensating being formed by a switching element connected in series with a capacitor between the gate and a supply voltage input; wherein a switching voltage of the switching element is controlled by two resistances; and wherein one of the two resistances is connected between a source and gate of the switching element, and is an NTC-resistor. |
H01G,Y02E | 9,595,401 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method of fabricating a graphene nano-mesh, the method comprising: forming a graphene layer on a catalyst layer; forming an oxide layer on at least one defect site of the graphene layer; forming a graphene nano-mesh including a plurality of openings by etching the oxide layer; and transferring, after removing the catalyst layer, the graphene nano-mesh onto a substrate. |
G06F,H04M | 9,733,667 | 2017-08-15 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a display disposed on one surface of a casing; a display controller that controls the display so as to display operational object images disposed on a plurality of imaged layers; a first inputter that is disposed on the display and that detects a touch position on the display; a second inputter that is disposed on an opposite surface to the one surface of the casing, and that detects a touch position on the display; a specifier that specifies, among the operational object images displayed at the touch position detected by the first inputter, the operational object image disposed on the uppermost imaged layer, and that specifies, among the operational object images displayed at the touch position detected by the second inputter, the operational object image disposed on the lowermost imaged layer, the uppermost imaged layer being an imaged layer closest to the first inputter, the lowermost imaged layer being an imaged layer closest to the second inputter; and an executer that executes an action associated with the operational object image specified by the specifier, wherein when either one of the first inputter and the second inputter is detecting the touch position, if the other inputter detects the touch position, the specifier determines, based on the touch position detected by the first inputter or the second inputter, whether the operational object image is present in the uppermost imaged layer or in the lowermost imaged layer, the executer executes, as the action associated with the operational object, an action different from the action executed by the specifier when the operational object image is detected to be present at the touch position of the first inputter or the second inputter. |
H04B,H04W | 9,647,755 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A method of pairing a first electronic device and a second electronic device, the method comprising: detecting the first electronic device at a secure pairing position with respect to the second electronic device; activating a light emitting device of the second electronic device and transmitting a pattern of light defining a bit stream of data corresponding to a secret code known by the first electronic device and the second electronic device, including emitting light at the light emitting device in one of a temporal pattern or in varying degrees of intensity to define the bit stream of data corresponding to the secret code; receiving the bit stream of data at a light receiving device of the of the first electronic device, the light receiving device being directly aligned with the light emitting device; and pairing the first electronic device and the second electronic device upon confirmation by the first electronic device that the bit stream of data transmitted by the light emitting device of the second electronic device corresponds to the secret code known by the first electronic device. |
F02M,F04B | 9,593,653 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A system, comprising: an accumulator having an accumulator piston positioned within a bore of a direct injection fuel pump in a coaxial manner opposite a pump piston with a compression chamber defined between the accumulator piston and the pump piston, and a solenoid activated check valve directly coupled to a volume of the accumulator with the accumulator piston separating the compression chamber from the volume of the accumulator. |
A61K,A61P,C07D | 9,643,970 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A compound having the structure (I): and a tautomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, wherein: |
B24C,B64C,B64D,F16M,G03B,G05B,G06F,Y02P | 9,720,399 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A computer-readable medium not constituting transitory propagating signals per se, whose contents are adapted to cause a computing system to perform a method for selecting cutting test observations, the method comprising: receiving a request identifying a material; accessing a cutting test repository containing information about each of a plurality of performed cutting tests, the repository containing, for each of the plurality of cutting tests, (1) information identifying a material used in each of the plurality of cutting tests, and (2) information specifying a measurement produced by the cutting test; based on the material identified by the request and the information contained by the cutting test repository identifying the material used in each of the plurality of cutting tests, selecting a proper subset of the plurality of cutting teats in response to the request, wherein the identification of a material by both the request and by the information in the repository is at least in part by specifying a material machinability index value, and wherein the selecting process selects cutting tests whose material machinability index values are within a certain range of the machinability index value of the material identified by the request; and causing cutting of a part based at least in part on the information identifying a material and the information specifying a measurement of the selected subset of the plurality of cutting tests. |
A61J,A61K,A61P,B29C,B30B | 9,610,224 | 2017-04-04 | 1. A process for making a tablet comprising compacting the particles of a powder blend in a die platen to form a tablet shape, wherein said powder blend comprises a pharmaceutically active agent and a water-containing material having a dehydration temperature, and applying radiofrequency energy to said tablet shape within a die platen for a sufficient period of time to heat the water-containing material within said tablet shape above said dehydration temperature to form said tablet, wherein said process comprises the steps of: (i) introducing said powder blend into a forming cavity within said die platen; (ii) compacting said particles of said powder blend by introducing at least one forming tool into said die platen with sufficient force such that a tablet shape is formed; (iii) applying said radiofrequency energy to said tablet shape within said forming cavity to bind said particles in said tablet shape to form said tablet; and (iv) removing said tablet from said forming cavity. |
G03F,G06F,H01L | 9,672,316 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A method of manufacturing integrated circuits having one or more layers with a respective layout design at least partially formed using a direct write lithography step, said method comprising the steps of: measuring one or more performance characteristics of an at least partially formed integrated circuit; changing said layout design of at least one of said one or more layers to be formed using said direct write lithography step in dependence upon said one or more performance characteristics to generate a changed layout design; and forming said at least one of said one or more layers using said step of direct write lithography in accordance with said changed layout design, wherein said one or more performance characteristics include a speed of operation of at least a portion of said integrated circuit and said changed layout design provides a changed nominal speed of operation of said at least a portion of said integrated circuit. |
B22D,C22C,H01F | 9,613,737 | 2017-04-04 | 1. An R-T-B sintered magnet comprising a composition containing a rare earth element, a transition element and boron, the R-T-B sintered magnet including essentially no dysprosium as a rare earth element, the R-T-B sintered magnet having crystal grains with a composition containing a rare earth element, a transition element and boron, and grain boundary regions formed between the crystal grains, wherein the crystal grains include an R wherein triple point regions which are the grain boundary regions surrounded by 3 or more of the crystal grains include a phase with a higher R content ratio than the R the average value of the area of the triple point regions in a cross-section being no greater than 2 μm wherein R represents a rare earth element other than dysprosium, T represents a transition element and B represents boron. |
G06F | 9,659,125 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A computer implemented method of generating a layout of a cell defining a circuit component, the layout providing a layout pattern for a target process technology, the method comprising: populating a first database of process technology independent layout representations by: obtaining the process technology independent layout representation associated with the circuit component from the first database, the process technology independent layout representation being defined within the grid array providing a plurality of grid locations; providing a mapping database having a priority ordered list of mapping entries, each mapping entry storing a process technology independent layout section and an associated layout pattern section for the target process technology; for selected grid locations within the grid array, performing a lookup operation in the mapping database to determine a matching mapping entry, the matching mapping entry being a highest priority mapping entry within the priority ordered list whose process technology independent layout section matches a portion of the process technology independent layout representation at that selected grid location; and generating the layout of the cell by incorporating, at each of the selected grid locations, the layout pattern section for the target process technology stored in the matching mapping entry. |
A61B,F04C,G01B | 9,746,318 | 2017-08-29 | 1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: a light source device comprising a light source having a wavelength of a plurality of bands including visible light band and near-infrared band, the light source device being used to measure a shape of a subject as an object of a surgical operation; an imaging circuit configured to convert measurement light source light images of the plurality of bands from the light source device into a plurality of electrical measurement imaging signals, the measurement light source light images being reflected from a surface and an inside of the subject; a laser controller for controlling an irradiation pattern of the visible light band and an irradiation pattern of the near-infrared band; a synchronizing circuit for counting an imaging timing synchronized with the imaging circuit; a calculation circuit configured to measure a shape of the surface and a shape of the inside in the subject based on the plurality of electrical measurement imaging signals obtained through the conversion in the imaging circuit; and a composition processing circuit configured to composition-process the shape of the surface and the shape of the inside measured by the calculation circuit to create one of two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional image data about the subject. |
B60W,B62D | 9,592,829 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method for providing a curvature of a desired target line for a lane guidance of a vehicle, comprising: receiving, by an optical sensor, at least one of a first piece of traffic lane information, which represents an optically detected first traffic lane boundary one of next to or in front of a left-hand vehicle side, and a second piece of traffic lane information, which represents an optically detected second traffic lane boundary one of next to or in front of a right-hand vehicle side; and ascertaining, by an analyzing unit, a curvature of the desired target line for lane guidance of the vehicle from at least one of the first piece of traffic lane information weighted using a first weighting factor, and the second piece of traffic lane information weighted using a second weighting factor; wherein, in the step of ascertaining: |
B62D,F16H,Y10T | 9,587,723 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A device for pressing a first transmission element onto a second transmission element engaging in the first transmission element for a rack-and-pinion steering system of a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing, a pressure piece, and at least one spring element, wherein the pressure piece is loaded in the direction of the first transmission element by the at least one spring element and is displaceably guided in the housing, wherein the spring element comprises at least one dilatant elastomer that has a modulus of elasticity composed of a loss modulus and a storage modulus that have characteristic curves intersecting at a point of intersection, wherein the spring element is configured so that at a first steering change frequency a part of the characteristic curve of the loss modulus oriented on a left side of the point of intersection is in effect, and at a second steering change frequency greater than the first steering change frequency a part of the characteristic curve of the storage modulus oriented on a right side of the point of intersection is in effect, wherein the at least one spring element is disposed in a cavity in the pressure piece, wherein an adjustment unit is disposed in the cavity, and wherein an adjusting screw presses against the adjustment unit. |
G06F,G06N | 9,542,654 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions readable and executable by a computer to perform a method for generating predictions by operations including: determining optimized prediction matrices {X where {Y k } k=1 V are incomplete observation matrices for the V views, P k X 0 denotes the sub-matrix of X 0 corresponding to prediction matrix X k , E k is a cumulative loss summed over the observations of the observation matrix Y k , ∥•∥ * denotes the trace norm, and {λ k } k=0 V are regularization parameters; and generating a prediction for view k of an object based on the optimized prediction matrix X |
H02M,Y02B | 9,584,030 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A controller for eliminating acoustic noise of a power converter, the controller comprising: a feedback pin for receiving a feedback voltage from a secondary side of the power converter, wherein the feedback voltage corresponds to an output voltage of the secondary side of the power converter; a current detection pin for generating a detection voltage according to a current flowing through a primary side of the power converter and a resistor; a burst mode signal generation module coupled to the feedback pin for generating a burst mode signal according to a first reference voltage and the feedback voltage, or according to a second reference voltage and the feedback voltage, wherein the burst mode signal generation module comprises: a gate signal generation unit coupled to the burst mode signal generation module for generating a gate control signal corresponding to a burst mode of the power converter to a power switch of the primary side of the power converter according to the burst mode signal, wherein the power switch is turned on according to the gate control signal; and a turning-on time generation unit coupled to the burst mode signal generation module, the current detection pin, and the gate signal generation unit for determining a turning-on time of the power converter in the burst mode of the power converter according to the first reference voltage and the detection voltage, or according to the second reference voltage and the detection voltage. |
H02J,H02M,H04N | 9,749,489 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A power control device receiving supply of power from a power source, performing voltage conversion, and supplying loads with power, the power control device comprising: a power accumulator configured to accumulate a part of power from the power source; a first voltage converter configured to receive power from the power source and the power accumulator, perform voltage conversion to a first target voltage, and supply power with the first target voltage to a first load; a second voltage converter configured to receive power from the first voltage converter, perform voltage conversion to a second target voltage, and supply power with the second target voltage to a second load; a power source monitor configured to monitor power from the power source; and a power controller configured to lower the first target voltage to a level that the second voltage converter is capable of converting to the second target voltage when the power source monitor detects that the supply of power from the power source has stopped. |
A61K,A61P,C07D,C07K,C12N,C12Y | 9,724,393 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A method of treating a mammalian subject having cancer or tumor cells comprising: (a) administering to said subject trametinib or GDC0973; and (b) administering to said subject interleukin-15 (IL-15) or interleukin-7 (IL-7) or an IL-15 agonist, wherein the agonist is selected from wherein the combination of (a) and (b) reduce the proliferation of said cancer or tumor cells in vivo. |
A47L | 9,609,989 | 2017-04-04 | 1. A cleaner, comprising: a casing having a suction hole through which dust is sucked, the casing including a receiver that defines a receiving space; a suction device to suck air containing the dust through the suction hole; a dust collector disposed accessible in the receiving space, wherein the dust collector collects the dust sucked into the casing by the suction device; a drawing member movably disposed in a linear direction with respect to the receiver to draw the dust collector to an outside of the casing so that at least a portion of the dust collector is drawn to the outside of the casing; a support fixed to the receiver to support the drawing member so that the drawing member is movable in the linear direction with respect to the receiver; an elastic member to apply an elastic force to the drawing member in a second direction in which the dust collector is drawn to the outside of the casing; a lock that selectively allows a linear movement of the drawing member with respect to the receiving space, wherein the dust collector is received in the receiving space in a first direction and is mounted to the receiver in the first direction, and wherein when the dust collector is pressed in the first direction in a state in which the dust collector is received in the receiving space, the drawing member automatically pushes and draws the dust collector from the receiving space by lifting the dust collector in the second direction, which is a reverse direction of the first direction, by the elastic force applied by the elastic member; and a guide that guides the linear movement of the drawing member with respect to the receiver, wherein both ends of the guide pass through the drawing member and are supported by the receiver and the support, respectively. |
F28D,F28F | 9,557,121 | 2017-01-31 | 1. A heat exchanger comprising: a plurality of flat tubes in which a refrigerant flows; a heat dissipation-fin in which the plurality of flat tubes are inserted and through which the refrigerant and a fluid are heat-exchanged with each other; a first header including a refrigerant inflow part through which a refrigerant is introduced into the heat exchanger and a refrigerant discharge part through which the refrigerant heat-exchanged within heat exchanger is discharged; a second header spaced apart from the first header; and a guide device disposed within the second header to route the refrigerant into a plurality of passages corresponding to the plurality of refrigerant, wherein the first header and the second header are extending vertically by a predetermined length, wherein the plurality of flat tubes are coupled to the first header and the second header to extend horizontally, wherein an end of one side of each of plurality of flat tubes is coupled to the first header, and an end of the other side of each of the plurality of flat tubes is coupled to the second header, wherein the refrigerant inflow part is disposed in a lower portion of the first header, and the refrigerant discharge part is disposed in an upper portion of the first header, wherein the guide device is disposed on a refrigerant channel closer to the refrigerant discharge part than to the refrigerant inflow part, the guide device being disposed at a position corresponding to the refrigerant discharge part, wherein the guide device comprises: |
H04L,H04W | 9,642,130 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A method of controlling the transmission of sounding signals by a mobile station operating in a wireless communication network comprising: sending, by using Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, configuration parameters for a sounding signal to be transmitted by the mobile station; and subsequently sending a command or other initiating signal to the mobile station separately from said configuration parameters, to cause the mobile station to transmit the sounding signal according to said configuration parameters, wherein subsequently sending a command or other initiating signal comprises explicitly commanding the mobile station to initiate sounding signal transmission by sending a sounding signal initiation command via downlink signaling. |
H03B,H03K | 9,735,732 | 2017-08-15 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first oscillation ring comprising exactly N oscillators, where N is an even integer that is greater than 3, the N oscillators connected in series in a loop by N connection nodes, each oscillator of the N oscillators comprising a pair of cross-coupled inverting amplifiers; exactly N inductors physically arranged in a star configuration such that a first end of each inductor of the N inductors connects to a corresponding one of the N connection nodes of the first oscillation ring and a second end of each inductor connects to a common node within an interior region of the first oscillation ring. |
G06Q | 9,710,810 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A computer-implemented method of processing a plurality of prepaid payment cards, comprising: using a processor to access a networked computer database comprising identification information for one or more prepaid payment cards; and for each prepaid payment card, receiving card identification information at a networked card terminal or a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards compliant computing device (PCI DSS computing device), the card terminal or PCI DSS computing device having a merchant ID associated with a law enforcement agency, the merchant ID being registered with at least one payment card network, wherein the card terminal or PCI DSS computing device is configured to, for each prepaid payment card: |
H04W,Y02D | 9,635,568 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A radio access system, comprising: a plurality of radio apparatuses each configured to form a cell; and a radio control apparatus configured to control the plurality of radio apparatuses, the radio control apparatus including: a controller configured to execute processes including: monitoring the plurality of radio apparatuses; selecting, from within the plurality of radio apparatuses, a radio apparatus to be operated with a large zone cell mode to form a large zone cell being larger than the cell when a monitoring result satisfies a predetermined condition; and switching over the selected radio apparatus to the large zone cell mode, wherein the large zone cell is used instead of at least one cell that is not formed by one or more radio apparatuses other than the selected radio apparatus, and the one or more radio apparatuses other than the selected radio apparatus have a failure, wherein the one of the plurality of radio apparatuses which operates with the large zone cell mode is configured to form a large zone cell having an area including a cell of at least a part of the plurality of radio apparatuses; and wherein the radio control apparatus is configured to transmit a control signal to make remaining radio apparatuses other than the one of the plurality of radio apparatuses to be operated with the large zone cell mode switch over to a power save mode to stop forming of a cell covered by the large zone cell. |
A61B,G01N,G01T,G06T | 9,693,743 | 2017-07-04 | 1. A photon counting CT apparatus comprising: an X-ray source configured to generate X-rays; a hybrid detector including a plurality of integral type detectors and a plurality of photon counting type detectors, which detect X-rays generated from the X-ray source and are two dimensionally tiled on a detector array surface of the hybrid detector, the plurality of integral type detectors outputting integral signals concerning the detected X-rays, and the plurality of photon counting type detectors outputting a count signal for each of a plurality of energy bands concerning the detected X-rays; and a processing circuitry configured to estimate a count signal by a particular estimation target integral type detector of the plurality of integral type detectors based on an integral signal output from the particular estimation target integral type detector and a count signal output from the photon counting type detectors arranged around the particular estimation target integral type detector on the detector array surface; and reconstruct a photon counting type image based on the estimated count signal and the count signal. |
B60K,F16H,Y02T,Y10S | 9,651,120 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A drive system for a vehicle, comprising: a first gear set including a first sun gear, a first ring gear, a first plurality of planetary gears coupling the first sun gear to the first ring gear, and a first carrier rotationally supporting the first plurality of planetary gears; a second gear set including a second sun gear, a second ring gear, a second plurality of planetary gears coupling the second sun gear to the second ring gear, and a second carrier rotationally supporting the second plurality of planetary gears, wherein the first carrier is directly coupled to the second carrier; a first electrical machine directly coupled to the first sun gear of the first gear set; a second electrical machine directly coupled to the second sun gear of the second gear set; a connecting shaft directly coupling an engine to the first ring gear of the first gear set; a driveshaft configured to transport power from the first electrical machine, the second electrical machine, and the engine to a tractive element of the vehicle; and a clutch selectively rotationally coupling the first carrier and the second carrier to the driveshaft when engaged, wherein the drive system is selectively reconfigurable into a neutral startup mode whereby rotation of the first electrical machine rotates the connecting shaft to start the engine. |
H04N | 9,621,919 | 2017-04-11 | 1. A method of processing multi-layer video data, the method comprising: generating a file that comprises a track box that contains metadata for a track in the file, wherein: |
H04N | 9,544,616 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A video encoding method, comprising: obtaining camera movement amount data indicating an original direction and an original amount of movement of a camera; performing motion compensation on image data received from the camera, based on a motion compensation vector that indicates movement of part of an image between a preceding frame and a current frame; determining an image search range for the motion compensation based on the camera movement amount data; dividing a frame into a plurality of blocks; setting an adjusted motion vector for each block among the plurality of blocks; each adjusted motion vector including an adjusted direction and an adjusted amount of movement of the camera; and wherein each adjusted motion vector is set by adjusting a corresponding original motion vector for each block among the plurality of blocks, according to a focal length of a lens of the camera; each original motion vector including an original direction and an original amount of movement of the camera; wherein the adjusted direction of each adjusted motion vector is set by adjusting the original direction of the corresponding original motion vector, and the adjusted amount of each adjusted motion vector is set by adjusting the original amount of the corresponding original motion vector; and wherein the image search range for the motion compensation is determined based on the adjusted motion vectors. |
G06F,G06T,G09G,H04N,H04W | 9,582,242 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method comprising: detecting, by an apparatus, one or more neighboring devices in response to a request to divide a presentation of one or more media files on at least one device into a multi-device presentation of the one or more media files; determining, by the apparatus, a subgroup of the at least one device, the one or more neighboring devices, or a combination thereof, to display the multi-device presentation; activating, by the apparatus, one or more positioning sensors on devices in the subgroup, to provide sensor information; determining, by the apparatus, an order and orientation of the devices in the subgroup based, at least in part, on the sensor information; and determining, by the apparatus, an alignment of an adjustment of a layout of the multi-device presentation based, at least in part, on a difference in orientation of the devices in the subgroup, wherein the devices in the subgroup remain physically separated. |
E03F | 9,732,509 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A stormwater management system, the system comprising a plurality of cells arranged in a generally honeycomb configuration, each of the plurality of cells being generally hexagonal in cross-section and having an internal region, the plurality of cells being in fluid communication with one another to allow stormwater to flow from the internal region of one of the plurality of cells to the internal region of another of the plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cells is generally level with each of the other cells of the plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises a hexagonal body portion comprising six sides and a window in one of the sides, the window of each cell being adapted to permit passage of stormwater into and out of the internal region of such cell, the window of each of the plurality of cells being adjacent a window of another of the plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells constitute a network having an outer periphery, a combination of some of the sides of some of the plurality of cells constituting the outer periphery of the network, wherein the outer periphery of the network comprises a plurality of curved wall portions. |
B60R | 9,718,433 | 2017-08-01 | 1. An apparatus for operating a cold gas generator for a safety device for a vehicle, the cold gas generator having a container for storing gas and the container having an outlet opening for the gas closed by a closure element, the apparatus comprising: a first terminal for a first connecting line for providing a first operating voltage potential; a second terminal for a second connecting line for providing a second operating voltage potential; an electrical coil to actuate, in response to a coil current, a closure device to control a flow of gas through the outlet opening, the coil having a first coil contact and a second coil contact and being connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; a firing device to fire in response to a firing current to open the closure element, the firing device having a first firing contact and a second firing contact and being connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a diode having an anode contact and a cathode contact, the diode being connected between the first terminal and the second terminal. |
B60W,B60Y,F16H | 9,586,590 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A control device for a drivetrain of a vehicle, the drivetrain comprising: a drive engine; a coupling element; and a starting element that comprises: wherein the control device actuates the coupling element such that the coupling element brakes the secondary side when the control device receives an input signal indicating a switching off of the drive engine; and an automatic transmission coupled via a transmission input shaft to the secondary side and comprises the reference component, wherein the coupling element comprises a shifting element that forms a frictionally engaging connection to the reference component, and wherein the reference component, is one of a shaft of the automatic transmission and a part of a housing of the automatic transmission. |
A63F,A63H | 9,643,095 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A spinning top comprising: an outer rotor having an accommodation space, and the outer rotor being provided with a plurality of winder receiving holes through which a winder passes; an inner rotor installed in the outer rotor and the inner rotor is rotated around a rotation shaft in the outer rotor; an auxiliary top comprising an outer rotor accommodating groove to receive the outer rotor, and an auxiliary too rotation shaft extending outwards from a bottom portion of the outer rotor accommodating groove; and the winder is provided with a rack gear formed on one side of the winder, the winder being inserted through a winder receiving hole of the outer rotor and being meshed with the inner rotor to provide the inner rotor with a rotation force to rotate in the outer rotor, wherein the outer rotor is rotated by a centrifugal force of the inner rotor. |
G06F,H04L | 9,712,591 | 2017-07-18 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a streaming application residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the streaming application comprising a flow graph that includes a plurality of operators that process a plurality of data tuples; and a streams manager residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the streams manager executing the streaming application and determining a monetary cost of executing the streaming application, wherein the monetary cost of executing the streaming application comprises: when a monetary cost of executing at least a portion of the streaming application can be reduced by maintaining enough buffer to ensure the overage charges are unlikely to occur, the streams manager submits a request to a cloud manager to provision at least one virtual machine according to a monetary cost of the at least one virtual machine, wherein the request specifies a maximum monetary cost, and after the cloud manager provisions the at least one virtual machine, the streams manager modifies the flow graph to deploy the portion of the streaming application to the at least one virtual machine, wherein the portion of the streaming application deployed to the at least one virtual machine comprises the plurality of operators, wherein the streams manager determines when the monetary cost of the streaming application can be reduced by comparing a current monetary cost of at least one portion of the streaming application to at least one monetary cost threshold. |
A47G,H04R | 9,565,956 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A serving board for supporting an edible product, comprising; a first board defining a lower surface, an upper surface and a first edge; a second board defining a lower surface, an upper surface and a second edge; a spacing layer extending between said lower surface of said first board and said upper surface of said second board; said spacing layer distancing said first board from said second board for defining a chamber; an integrated circuit positioning in said chamber; an electrical power source positioning in said chamber and electrically coupled to said integrated circuit; an output device electrically coupled to said integrated circuit for producing a sensatory output; said first board, said second board and said spacing layer constructed from a paper pulp based material; and said output device includes an illuminating device and said sensatory output includes a viewable light. |
H04L,H04M,H04W | 9,614,791 | 2017-04-04 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server device, a user request to add a messaging contact to a list of messaging contacts associated with a user, the user request being received from a client device; receiving, at the server device, user input that includes data representative of the messaging contact, the user input being received from the client device; generating, using at least one processor and using the data representative of the messaging contact, a set of executable instructions, that when executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to add the messaging contact in a messaging contact list stored on the mobile device; and sending, from the server device to the mobile device via a network, the set of executable instructions that cause the mobile device to add the messaging contact in the messaging contact list stored on the mobile device upon executing the sent set of executable instructions. |
G01L | 9,568,389 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A blast event recording device comprising: at least one first sensor for measuring a parameter indicative of a blast event; at least one comparator in communication with said at least one first sensor that determines whether said parameter indicative of a blast event measured by said at least one first sensor exceeds a first predetermined threshold; at least one second sensor that measures a blast event parameter, wherein said at least one second sensor has a higher power consumption than said at least one first sensor; a power control providing power to said at least one second sensor only when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded, whereby said at least one second sensor is only consuming power when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded; and, a controller that receives and records said blast event parameter measured by said at least one second sensor; wherein said comparator determines whether said parameter indicative of a blast event further exceeds a second predetermined threshold, and said power control provides power to said controller only when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded. |
H04M | 9,723,144 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A method for pacing outbound calls placed by a predictive dialer in a contact center, comprising the steps of: applying an ensemble by the predictive dialer to each dialing record found in a plurality of dialing records to provide a probability of an outbound call placed to the dialing record resulting in a live connect, wherein the ensemble comprises a global predictive model representing comprehensive dialing trends across at least one of multiple industries, multiple purposes, multiple locations, and multiple predictive dialers and a local predictive model representing a specific dialing history associated with the contact center; calculating by the predictive dialer a call pacing hit ratio based on the probability for each dialing record in the plurality of dialing records, the call pacing hit ratio representing a percentage of outbound calls expected to result in a live connect; determining a number of outbound calls to place by the predictive dialer based on the call pacing hit ratio and at least one of a number of agents associated with the contact center that are currently available to handle calls and a number of agents associated with the contact center that are expected to become available to handle calls within a time period; selecting a set of dialing records from the plurality of dialing records by the predictive dialer based on the number of outbound calls to place; and placing virtually simultaneous outbound calls by the predictive dialer for each of the dialing records found in the set of dialing records. |
G06F,G06Q | 9,652,766 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A system comprising: a processor; and a memory device communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory device storing instructions which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: |
C23C,H01J,Y10T | 9,534,294 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A method for cleaning a processing chamber of a flexible substrate processing apparatus without breaking a vacuum in the processing chamber, the method comprising: attaching a sacrificial foil at a start or at an end of a flexible substrate, wherein an end section of the sacrificial foil is attached to a front section of the flexible substrate or wherein a front section of the sacrificial foil is attached to an end section of the flexible substrate, wherein the sacrificial foil is abutting and not overlapping with the flexible substrate, and wherein the sacrificial foil is made of a material that is different than a material of the flexible substrate; guiding the sacrificial foil into the processing chamber; initiating a first pump process in the processing chamber; plasma cleaning the processing chamber at a vacuum from 10 initiating a second pump process in the processing chamber; and guiding the sacrificial foil out of the processing chamber. |
G06F,G06Q,H04L | 9,722,982 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A computer-implemented method for accessing an artifact without authenticating a party requesting access to the artifact facilitating business interaction, comprising: identifying a non-registered entity associated with an interaction within a commerce network, wherein the commerce network comprises: enabling for the non-registered entity, access to the artifact associated with the interaction without requiring authentication of the non-registered entity, by: enabling access to additional artifacts within the commerce network without authenticating the non-registered entity. |
H01F | 9,691,539 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A coil component comprising: a component body having a rectangular parallelepiped shape having first and second main faces opposite each other, and first and second side faces opposite each other and first and second end faces opposite each other, each pair of which couples the first and second main faces, respectively, the side faces each having a rectangular shape having long sides and short sides, the component body having a multilayer structure in which a plurality of insulating layers are laminated in a direction orthogonal to the side faces; a coil conductor disposed inside the component body, the coil conductor including a plurality of circulating conductive layers each extending so as to form a part of an annular track along an interface between the insulating layers and a plurality of via hole conductors each penetrating the insulating layer in a thickness direction, the coil conductor extending helically by alternately connecting the circulating conductive layers and the via hole conductors; and first and second external terminal electrodes formed in an outer surface of the component body, the first and second external terminal electrodes being electrically connected to one and the other ends of the coil conductor, respectively, wherein the coil component is mounted such that the second main face faces a mounting surface of a circuit board, in such a posture that a central axis of the coil conductor extends in parallel with the mounting surface, the circulating conductive layer includes a long side portion extending in a direction of the long sides of the side faces and a short side portion extending in a direction of the short sides of the side faces, and a line width of the short side portion of the circulating conductive layer is wider than that of the long side portion of the circulating conductive layer. |
G06F,H04L | 9,749,378 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A system for early media buffering using prediction of user behavior, comprising: a computer, including a processor; a user interface, which displays a plurality of media options from which particular media options can be selected; a click determination logic which is configured so that a first click or other event associated with a particular media option at the user interface is passed singly to a media application, without trapping for a possible double-click event associated with the particular media option; wherein the media application includes a data buffering logic and a media content buffer; wherein the media application interprets the first click or other event associated with the particular media option as a likely selection by a user of the particular media option, and uses information associated with the likely selection of the particular media option to begin buffering a corresponding media content, including that wherein the media application determines that, |
B25F,H02K | 9,590,475 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A power tool comprising: a motor including a rotational shaft extending in a front-rear direction; a fan attached to the rotational shaft; a circuit board including a plurality of switching elements; and a housing including a body portion, a handle portion, and a battery retaining portion; the body portion accommodating the motor and the fan; the handle portion extending from the body portion and including an airflow passage in which the circuit board is arranged; the battery retaining portion including an air intake, wherein a wall portion is located between the fan and the circuit board in a radial direction of the fan, is configured to prevent air from flowing from the fan to the circuit board, and includes an opening for airflow from the handle portion into the body portion, and wherein rotation of the fan generates a flow of air that flows through the air intake to the airflow passage, through the airflow passage to the opening, through the opening to the body portion, and inside the body portion. |
A46B,A46D | 9,723,912 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A toothbrush apparatus comprising: a generally arcuate toothbrush head, said generally arcuate toothbrush head substantially conforms to a dental arch, said generally arcuate toothbrush head comprising one or more base sections on an upper surface of said generally arcuate toothbrush head; one or more bristle carriers detachably attached to said one or more base sections on said upper surface of said generally arcuate toothbrush head; and a plurality of bristles of predetermined heights attached to each of said one or more bristle carriers, each of said bristles having a first end and an opposing second end, wherein said first end of said each of said bristles is attached to said one or more bristle carriers, wherein said second end of said each of said bristles of said predetermined heights defining a first curved trim profile along a longitudinal axis of said toothbrush apparatus, and a second curved trim profile substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said toothbrush apparatus, wherein said bristles in said first curved trim profile positioned proximal to a terminal end of said generally arcuate toothbrush head extend to reach a rear section of rear teeth along said dental arch, and wherein said bristles in said first curved trim profile positioned proximal to an opposing end opposite to said terminal end of said generally arcuate toothbrush head are of heights lower than heights of said bristles positioned proximal to said terminal end of said generally arcuate toothbrush head to reach a frontal section of said rear teeth. |
H04L,H04W,Y02D | 9,736,672 | 2017-08-15 | 1. User equipment (UE) comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions; and one or more processors, to execute the program instructions to: |
B23K,B29C,B41M,C21D | 9,636,776 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A method for thermally treating a workpiece, comprising energizing a first fiber laser which emits a first laser beam, thereby marking a predetermined area of a face side of the workpiece by the first laser beam; and energizing a second fiber laser generating a second laser beam heating an area of a backside of the workpiece across the predetermined area on the backside; wherein the first and second fiber lasers operate to treat the workpiece, which is made from material selected from metal or plastic and has a thickness of up to about two millimeters, so as to create a permanent mark on the workpiece without removing the material while minimizing a deformation of the workpiece. |
G03F | 9,709,904 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A lithography apparatus comprising: a plurality of reticle edge masking assemblies (REMAs), wherein each REMA of the plurality of REMAs is positioned to receive one of a plurality of light beams, and each REMA of the plurality of REMAs comprises a movable slit for passing the received light beam therethrough; a controller for controlling a speed of the movable slit based on a size of the movable slit, an intensity of the one or more collimated light beams, or a material of an object to be patterned; a single mask having a single pattern, wherein the mask is configured to receive light from every REMA of the plurality of REMAs; a projection lens configured to receive light transmitted through the single mask. |
H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W | 9,553,660 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A receiver comprising: radio signal reception circuitry configured to receive radio signals including a plurality of non-orthogonal signals which are not orthogonal to each other; interference cancelation circuitry configured to extract a non-orthogonal signal addressed to the receiver from the plurality of non-orthogonal signals received by a communication interface by demodulating and cancelling a radio signal addressed to another receiver; and reference signal reception circuitry configured to receive a reference signal to be used by the interference cancellation circuitry to demodulate and cancel the radio signal addressed to the another receiver; and demodulation circuitry configured to demodulate the non-orthogonal signal extracted by the interference cancellation circuitry and addressed to the receiver, on the basis of the reference signal, wherein the reference signal is multiplexed in a same radio resource block as a radio resource block allocated to the non-orthogonal signals, and the reference signal is multiplexed in the radio resource block in a case where at least one of the plurality of non-orthogonal signals is scheduled in the radio resource block. |
A61M | 9,662,440 | 2017-05-30 | 1. A therapeutic fluid infusion system for delivering a therapeutic fluid to a body of a patient, the system comprising: a skin-adherable unit comprising: a dispensing unit removably attachable to a second side of the skin-adherable unit that is opposite to the first side, the dispensing unit being sized to fully cover over the well portion and the self-sealable septum and comprising: wherein the dispensing unit is provided with an end for engagement with a corresponding end of the cradle via a protrusion along a rear end of the dispensing unit, the corresponding end of the cradle having a corresponding recess, the engagement enabling pivotal movement of the dispensing unit with respect to the cradle such that the pivotal movement results in connection of the dispensing unit to the cradle when a front end of the dispensing unit is pivoted toward the cradle and a notch along the front end of the dispensing unit snappingly engages a latch in the cradle, and the dispensing unit is detachably securable to the cradle upon the connection, wherein the latch is elastically deformable and is configured to detach from the notch in an outward direction upon application of an outward pulling-force that pulls the latch outward of the periphery of the first side of the cradle; and a removable cover for covering the skin-adherable unit; |
H04N | 9,723,241 | 2017-08-01 | 1. An image sensor circuit with a power noise filtering function, comprising: an image sensing unit, for sensing an image to generate an image sensed signal; a power noise sensing unit, for sensing a power noise to generate a power noise signal; a differential amplifier circuit, which is coupled to the image sensing unit and the power noise sensing unit, for receiving the image sensed signal and the power noise signal, and generating a differential filtered signal by a differential amplification operation between the image sensed signal and the power noise signal; and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit, which is coupled to the differential amplifier circuit, for receiving the differential filtered signal, to generate a digital image signal, wherein the ADC circuit includes: wherein the differential amplifier circuit includes: wherein the ADC circuit includes a hysteresis comparator, which includes two hysteresis input terminals coupled to the two differential output terminals respectively, wherein the hysteresis comparator generates the for-count signal according to the voltage difference ΔV, a ramp voltage, and a reference voltage. |
C09K,E21B | 9,677,371 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method, comprising: initially plugging a fluid loss opening of a well with a plurality of discrete stop loss elements, the stop loss elements comprising a polymer, the polymer, while initially plugging the fluid loss opening, resisting deformation at an initial stiffness in response to an initial strain rate of the polymer to produce a specified initial pressure signal, the polymer comprising a viscoelastic polyurethane, a viscoelastic phenolic resin or a viscoelastic epoxy resin, wherein the polymer has: continuing to plug the fluid loss opening with the plurality of discrete stop loss elements, the polymer, while continuing to plug the fluid loss opening, deforming at a subsequent, lower stiffness in response to a subsequent, lower strain rate to produce a subsequent, different specified pressure signal. |
H01R | 9,742,101 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A crimp terminal comprising: a terminal metal fitting including a terminal connecting portion to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, an electric wire connecting portion to be electrically connected to an end of an electric wire placed on an inner wall face side by crimping processing, and a coupling portion coupling the terminal connecting portion and the electric wire connecting portion, the electric wire connecting portion being sectioned into a bottom portion on which the end of the electric wire is placed during the crimping processing, an inner first barrel piece that is caused to extend from one end of the bottom portion to be wound around the end of the electric wire, and an outer second barrel piece that is caused to extend from another end of the bottom portion longer than the first barrel piece does and to be wound around the end of the electric wire and the first barrel piece, and the electric wire connecting portion being sectioned into a core wire crimp portion to be crimped onto a distal-end core wire of the electric wire, a sheath crimp portion to be crimped on a sheath of the electric wire, and a coupling crimp portion coupling the core wire crimp portion and the sheath crimp portion and to be crimped onto the end of the electric wire; and a water stop member that forms a first water stop area that is affixed to the inner wall face of the electric wire connecting portion before performing the crimping processing and suppresses entry of water from a gap between an outer wall face of the first barrel piece and the inner wall face of the second barrel piece to a gap between the electric wire connecting portion and the core wire after completion of the crimping processing, a second water stop area that suppresses entry of water from the terminal connecting portion side of a distal end position of the core wire to the gap between the electric wire connecting portion and the core wire, and a third water stop area that suppresses entry of water from a gap between the inner wall face of the sheath crimp portion and the sheath to the gap between the electric wire connecting portion and the core wire, wherein the inner wall face of a distal end in an extension direction of the first barrel piece of the sheath crimp portion includes a tapered face that reduces a plate thickness of the first barrel piece from the bottom portion side toward an end face side of the distal end, and a part of the third water stop area is connected among the end face side of the distal end of the first barrel piece, the inner wall face side, and the outer wall face side. |
B29C,B29L,C08G,C08J,C08L,Y02P | 9,580,598 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A process for producing a fiber-reinforced polyurethane composite article by vacuum infusion molding, comprising: (a) degassing components comprising an isocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component, wherein: (b) combining the de-gassed components (1) and (2) to obtain a polyurethane-forming reaction mixture having a viscosity at 25° C. of less than 600 mPa·s for at least 30 minutes, a gel time at ambient temperature of greater than 60 minutes and a water content of less than 0.06% by weight, based on total system weight, wherein components (1) and (2) are combined in amounts such that the NCO Index is from 99 to 110 to form a polyurethane having sufficient green strength to be de-molded at ambient temperature in no greater than 6 hours; (c) placing a fibrous reinforcing material in a vacuum chamber arranged to form a wind turbine blade; (d) drawing down the pressure within the vacuum chamber to thereby push the reaction mixture into the vacuum chamber and into the fibrous reinforcing material; and (e) curing the reaction mixture to form a composite of the fibrous reinforcing material infused with the cured reaction mixture that is in the form of a wind turbine blade. |
A61K,A61P,C07K,C12N,G01N | 9,585,948 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A method for inducing an antigen-presenting cell (APC) with CTL inducibility, wherein the method comprises a step selected from the group consisting of: (a) collecting APCs from a subject, and (b) contacting an APC with a peptide in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo wherein the peptide is selected from the group consisting of: an isolated peptide of less than 15 amino acids comprising an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 5, and an isolated peptide of less than 15 amino acids comprising an amino acid sequence in which one or two amino acid(s) are substituted, deleted, inserted or added to an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 to yield a modified peptide that retains the ability to bind to an HLA antigen and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) inducibility. |
B60L,B62D,H02J,Y02T,Y04S | 9,539,908 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A contactless power supply device comprising a power supply portion located in a parking space and a power receiving portion installed on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle so as to supply electric power to the vehicle without contact through magnetic connection between the power supply portion and the power receiving portion, the floor panel including, in a middle portion thereof in a vehicle width direction, a tunnel portion protruding toward an interior room and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, the power receiving portion including a junction box on an upper surface thereof, the power receiving portion being placed at a front portion on the lower surface of the floor panel and elongated across a lower open portion of the tunnel portion, the junction box being arranged inside the tunnel portion. |
F01C,F04C | 9,605,675 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A scroll compressor, comprising: a fixed scroll having a fixed wrap; and an orbiting scroll having an orbiting wrap engaged with the fixed wrap, the orbiting scroll orbiting with respect to the fixed scroll to form compression chambers therebetween, wherein each of the fixed wrap and the orbiting wrap is formed with an arcuate section from a suction end to a first point along a rotational angle in a direction toward a discharge end, and a logarithmic spiral section from a second point to the discharge end along the rotational angle, wherein the second point is closer to the discharge end than the first point, and wherein a maximum wrap thickness of the logarithmic spiral section is 1.5 to 1.8 times a maximum wrap thickness of the arcuate section. |
H04N | 9,681,168 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a plurality of component channels of a content platform, wherein a component channel of the plurality of component channels comprises a plurality of media items; generating, by a processing device, a user interest score for each of the plurality of component channels; defining a composite channel comprising a subset of the plurality of component channels in view of the user interest score for each component channel in the subset of the plurality of component channels, wherein the user interest score for each component channel in the subset of the plurality of component channels exceeds a predetermined threshold; determining a recommendation event for the composite channel; and upon detecting the recommendation event, providing a recommendation to a user to subscribe to the composite channel. |
G01F | 9,551,603 | 2017-01-24 | 1. An ultrasonic flow meter device comprising: a fluid passage forming section including a measurement fluid passage, and an opening facing a bottom surface of the measurement fluid passage; a pair of ultrasonic transducers which transmit and receive an ultrasonic wave via the opening; a partition plate which partitions the measurement fluid passage; and an identification section provided on an end surface of the partition plate and used to identify an obverse surface and a reverse surface of the partition plate. |
F16F,Y10T | 9,657,801 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A shock absorber protector comprising: an arcuate member having opposing arcuate member interior and exterior faces bounded by an upper edge, a lower edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge; wherein said arcuate member interior face defines an arc between said first and second side edges; and wherein said arc is configured to partially surround a piston rod; a mounting flange outwardly extending from said arcuate member interior face proximate said lower edge; and an aperture element disposed in said mounting flange, said aperture element bounding an aperture element opening which communicates between opposing mounting flange interior and exterior faces of said mounting flange. |
B22F,C22C,H01F | 9,719,159 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A mixed magnetic powders for making a magnetic core, comprising: a first magnetic powder; a second magnetic powder, wherein each of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder is made of amorphous alloy, wherein the ratio of the D50 of the first magnetic powder to the D50 of the second magnetic powder is in the range of 5 to 12, wherein the first magnetic powder weighs 50 to 90 percent of the total weight of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder; and the second magnetic powder weighs 10 to 50 percent of the total weight of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder, wherein the nano-indentation hardness of each of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder is not less than 7 Gpa. |
H01L | 9,685,632 | 2017-06-20 | 1. An encapsulating layer comprising an encapsulating barrier layer and an organic coating layer directly formed on the encapsulating barrier layer, wherein the organic coating layer is an unsaturated acrylate organic coating layer having a thickness of 2.5 μm-10 μm and is doped with hard particles; the hard particles including one or more of graphene oxide, transparent graphite, glass fiber, and diamond particles. |
E21B | 9,540,888 | 2017-01-10 | 1. A wear bushing and retrievable running tool for a subsea well assembly including a wellhead housing and a casing hanger within the wellhead housing and supporting a casing string, comprising: the wear bushing for landing on the casing hanger to minimize damage to the wellhead housing, the casing hanger and the casing string during rotation of a drill string; a bushing/wellhead housing connector supported on the wear bushing for axially connecting the wear bushing and the wellhead housing; the retrievable running tool actuated to connect the wear bushing and the wellhead housing with the connector, such that at least a portion of the connector is received with a corresponding recess in an interior wall of the wellhead housing; wherein the wear bushing includes an inner sleeve connected to a body of the wear bushing by a plurality of shear pins, the shear pins providing a releasable, second connection between the wellhead housing and the wear bushing that allows release of the wear bushing from the wellhead housing in the event the bushing/wellhead housing connector cannot release, the wear busing minimizing damage to the well housing, the casing hanger, and the casing string when the drill string rotates within the wear bushing; and wherein the retrievable running tool includes a piston movable in response to fluid pressure in the running tool to actuate the bushing/wellhead housing connector. |
C07K | 9,708,399 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A method for producing a low acidic species human anti-TNFα antibody composition comprising a human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, wherein the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, comprises a light chain variable region (LCVR) having a CDR1 domain, a CDR2 domain, and a CDR3 domain of adalimumab; and a heavy chain variable region (HCVR) having a CDR1 domain, a CDR2 domain, and a CDR3 domain of adalimumab, the method comprising: (a) contacting a first composition comprising the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, with a chromatography media, wherein the first composition comprises more than 10% total acidic species of the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof; wherein the acidic species of the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, comprise species selected from the group consisting of charge variants, structure variants, fragmentation variants, and any combinations thereof, wherein the acidic species of the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, do not include process-related impurities selected from the group consisting of host cell proteins, host cell DNA, and media components, and wherein the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, binds to the chromatography media; (b) displacing the human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, bound to the chromatography media with a displacing buffer; and (c) collecting a second composition comprising the displaced human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, wherein the second composition comprises less than 10% total acidic species of human anti-TNFα antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, thereby producing a low acidic species human anti-TNFα antibody composition. |
H02B | 9,627,863 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A barricade comprising: a door, a left panel, a right panel, a left locking wing, a right locking wing, a top member, and a bottom member; wherein the barricade is adapted for use in barricading access to an electrical panel; wherein the barricade can be locked; wherein the barricade is attached directly to the electrical panel; wherein the barricade is temporarily attached directly to the electrical panel through the use of at least one clamp; wherein the door comprises a door frame, a door cover, a lock plate, a lock latch, and one or more cabinet hinges; wherein the left panel further comprises a left panel frame and a left panel cover; wherein the right panel further comprises a right panel frame and a right panel cover; wherein the left panel and the right panel are attached to each other using the top member and the bottom member; wherein the left locking wing is a flat metal bar that has a first milled slot; wherein the right locking wing is a flat metal bar that has a second milled slot; wherein a span between the top member and the bottom member is such that the door will fit between the top member and the bottom member; wherein the barricade further comprises a first slotted flat bar, a second slotted flat bar, a first carriage bolt, a second carriage bolt, a third carriage bolt, a fourth carriage bolt, a first threaded knob, a second threaded knob, a third threaded knob, a fourth threaded knob, a first clamp, and a second clamp. |
A61K,C07D | 9,663,534 | 2017-05-30 | 1. A compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein X is —CH R is H, —CN, or —C R R R HET(3) is a 3-6 membered heterocyclic ring having 1-3 heteroatom groups which are each independently N, NH, O, S, S(O), or S(O) D D D R Each R A HET(1) is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring having 1-4 heteroatom groups which are each independently —N—, —NH—, —S—, —O—, —S(O)—, or —S(O) Z is A A HET(2) is a 5-6 membered heterocyclic ring having 1-3 heteroatom groups which are each independently N, NH, O, or S, optionally having one group —C(═O)—, and optionally having 1-3 double bonds; A a is 0 or an integer from 1-6. |
H04N | 9,681,063 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method of generating an image by using an image capturing device, the method comprising: generating an imperfect image by focusing an object and capturing the object while the object is focused, the imperfect image excluding data corresponding to one or more pixel sensors; generating a defocused image by moving at least one of a lens and an image sensor included in the image capturing device, the defocused image including the data corresponding to the one or more pixel sensors, the data corresponding to the one or more pixel sensors being generated by using neighboring pixel sensors around the one or more pixel sensors; extracting the data corresponding to the one or more pixel sensors based on data included in the generated imperfect image and data included in the generated defocused image; and generating a final image by reflecting the extracted data to at least one of the generated imperfect image or the generated defocused image, wherein generating the final image includes compensating the data corresponding to the one or more pixel sensors by adding a value of the extracted data and a value of data corresponding to each pixel of each position of the one or more pixel sensors among pixels forming the generated imperfect image or the generated defocused image. |
G06F | 9,563,657 | 2017-02-07 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a selection of a first sub-branch of a parent branch of a graphical selection tree, wherein: responsive to the selection of the first sub-branch of the parent branch of the graphical selection tree, automatically selecting, by the computing device and without receiving user input to select the second sub-branch of the parent branch of the graphical selection tree, the second sub-branch of the parent branch of the graphical selection tree; and generating, by the computing device, a query to request, from a data storage system, data for each selected data metric that matches the specific instance of the generic data attribute corresponding to one of a plurality of selected sub-branches, wherein the plurality of selected sub-branches includes the automatically selected second sub-branch. |
H04B | 9,667,352 | 2017-05-30 | 1. A mobile device comprising: at least one sonic-signal receiver; at least one wireless-signal receiver; at least one processor; at least one memory configured to store instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising: receiving, via the at least one sonic-signal receiver, a sonic signal from a beacon device, wherein the sonic signal received at the mobile device has a first sonic-signal strength; comparing the first sonic-signal strength with a second sonic-signal strength so as to form a first result; receiving, via the at least one wireless-signal receiver, a wireless signal from the beacon device, wherein the wireless signal received at the mobile device has a first wireless-signal strength; comparing the first wireless-signal strength with a second wireless-signal strength so as to form a second result; and determining, based on the first result and the second result, whether the beacon device is installed in compliance with installation guidelines associated with the beacon device; wherein determining whether the beacon device is installed in compliance with the installation guidelines associated with the beacon device comprises: determining that an enclosure positioned between the beacon device and the mobile device does not comply with the installation guidelines; presenting a notification that the enclosure does not comply with the installation guidelines; and disabling the beacon device. |
G01N | 9,726,625 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a first set of materials and associated material data, each material data representing properties of an associated material of the first set of materials; directing an electron beam to a plurality of locations on a sample and recording an energy dispersive x-ray spectrum associated for each location of the plurality of locations; processing each location of the plurality of locations by: processing locations of the first group of locations by: |
G08B,H04W | 9,736,630 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor-based portable device having at least a communication unit and a position determining unit and a life circle database, in which one or more life circle records are defined, wherein each life circle record is associated with a position/location and comprises contact information and/or instructions to be applied for contacting at least one responder and/or for performing one or more predefined operations in case of a distress situation of a bearer of the processor-based portable device, wherein a life circle record to be used at a distress situation is selected on the basis of a current position of the processor-based portable device, wherein the system is configured to match life circle records of different bearers with the bearer of the processor-based portable device on the basis of the positions/locations associated therewith, and wherein the system is further configured to extract information and/or instructions from at least partially matching life circle records to be provided supplementary to a life circle record of the bearer of the processor-based portable device. |
A63B,A63F,G06Q | 9,616,328 | 2017-04-11 | 1. A virtual golf simulation apparatus for providing a user-customized practice environment, comprising: a simulation means for realizing a virtual environment regarding each of a plurality of practice modes preset so that a user can perform golf practice for each kind of golf shot and simulating a trajectory of a ball according to the golf shot taken by the user in the realized virtual environment; a set environment control means for controlling the virtual environment so that the user can practice the golf shot according to a set condition in a practice mode set according to practice curriculum setting information for the user set based on an analysis result of a record regarding a result of golf practice performed by the user; and a shot analysis means for determining whether the golf shot taken by the user is good or bad according to the practice curriculum setting information. |
H01H | 9,633,803 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A keyboard backlight module, comprising a backlight device, a light source and a plurality of high-refractive index scatter points, wherein: said backlight device comprises a reflective layer, a light guide layer and a light shielding layer arranged in a stack through lamination, said light guide layer being set between said reflective layer and said light shielding layer, said light shielding layer carrying a set of key switches on a top surface thereof; said light source comprises a circuit board carrying a circuit layout and bonded to a top surface of said reflective layer of said backlight device, and a plurality of light-emitting devices mounted in said circuit board and disposed between said reflective layer and said light shielding layer; said high-refractive index scatter points are mounted in at least one of opposing top and bottom surfaces of said light guide layer and prepared from a mixture containing a light-transmissive ink and high-refractive index particles at a predetermined ratio. |
A44C,H04Q,H04W | 9,729,944 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A wearable electronic device, comprising: a bracelet portion; and at least one first charm device configured to be affixed to the bracelet portion, the at least one first charm device including logic configured to: receive a first interaction input; send a first message including a first information indicative of the first interaction input and a first identifier identifying the at least one first charm device from among a first plurality of charm devices of the wearable electronic device to a second wearable electronic device, the first identifier being further associated with at least one second charm device of the second wearable electronic device from among a second plurality of charm devices of the second wearable electronic device, wherein the at least one second charm device of the second wearable electronic device is configured to provide a first sensory output indicative of the first interaction input; receive a second message including a second information indicative of a second interaction input provided to the at least one second charm device of the second wearable electronic device; and provide a second sensory output indicative of the second interaction input, wherein the at least one first charm device includes a position sensor configured to detect a position of the at least one first charm device along the bracelet portion, and wherein the detected position of the at least one first charm device along the bracelet portion determines a characteristic of the second sensory output. |
A01D,A47L,Y02P,Y10T | 9,585,308 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A dust mitigating device, comprising: a rake having a head and a first axis; a collection head coupled to the rake, the collection head comprising a plurality of suction ports and having a second axis, wherein the plurality of suction ports are arranged in a plurality of rows substantially parallel to the second axis; an exit passage in fluid communication with the collection head and configured to couple to a negative pressure source, wherein the collection head is configured to align with the head of a rake such that the second axis is substantially parallel with the first axis and proximate the first axis. |
B32B,B65G,B65H,G02F,H01L,Y10T | 9,581,839 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method of manufacturing a display device, the method comprising: placing a carrier, in which a display panel is formed, into a film attachment portion such that the carrier is pulled onto a carrier adsorption surface of a first stage; attaching a first protection film onto a first surface of the display panel in the film attachment portion, wherein the first surface is located opposite to a second surface of the display panel that faces the carrier; first transferring the first stage to a carrier separation portion; separating the display panel from the carrier; second transferring the display panel to a second stage such that the attached protection film is pulled onto a second film adsorption surface of the second stage; third transferring the second stage, on which the attached protection film is pulled from the carrier separation portion, to a transfer portion; separating the display panel from the second stage; placing the display panel on the transfer portion such that the second surface faces the transfer portion; removing the carrier from the first stage after separating the display panel from the carrier; fourth transferring the display panel to the film attachment portion such that the first protection film is pulled onto a first film adsorption surface of the first stage so that the display panel is supported via the first stage; and attaching a second protection film onto the second surface of the display panel in the film attachment portion. |
G10L,H04R | 9,711,164 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A noise cancellation method for an electronic device, comprising: receiving a first audio signal containing a speech signal of a user and a noise signal received by a microphone; applying a Fast Fourier Transform operation on the first audio signal to generate a first spectrum, wherein the first spectrum contains a noise spectrum corresponding to a predetermined frequency range for a noise signal, and a voice spectrum corresponding to a predetermined frequency range for a speech signal; determining whether the user is outdoors or indoors according to an energy of the noise spectrum; comparing the energy of noise spectrum with a first predetermined value, when the user is determined to be outdoors; applying a first noise suppression to the first spectrum to remove outdoor noise when the energy of noise spectrum is larger than the first predetermined value; providing the user with an interface for the user to determine whether to forcedly apply the first noise suppression when the energy of noise spectrum is smaller than the first predetermined value; determining whether an echo noise exists in the first audio signal according to the first spectrum; estimating echo noise according to the first spectrum and comparing an energy of the echo noise with a second predetermined value, when the user is determined to be indoors; applying a second noise suppression to the first spectrum to remove the echo noise when the energy of the echo noise is larger than the second predetermined value; providing the user with an interface for the user to determine whether to forcedly apply the second noise suppression when the energy of the echo noise is smaller than the second predetermined value; and applying an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform operation on the first spectrum to generate a second audio signal. |
F24F | 9,689,579 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A dehumidifier positionable on a floor, the dehumidifier comprising: a main body to form an external appearance of the dehumidifier, and including an air entrance and an air exit; a heat exchanger in which refrigerant to exchange heat with air coming through the air entrance circulates; and a water tank configured to store condensed water formed when the air coming through the air entrance exchanges heat with the refrigerant, wherein the water tank comprises: |
G02B | 9,594,240 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A lighting apparatus, comprising: a light source that emits light; an optical device that receives light from the light source and outputs light that is more uniformly intense over a predetermined ray angle distribution than light input thereto, the optical device being in a light path of the light source; a multi-reflection device that receives light from the optical device, reflects light multiple times, and emits multiple-reflected light, the multi-reflection device having a light incident surface that receives light from the optical device and a light emission surface that emits multiple-reflected light, the multi-reflection device being in a light path of the light source; a light diffusion device that receives light emitted from the light emission surface of the multi-reflection device and diffuses light, the light diffusion device being in a light path of the light source; and a light focusing optical system that receives light from the light diffusion device and focuses light onto an object to be illuminated, wherein the optical device, the multi-reflection device, and the light diffusion device are axially aligned with an objective lens of the light focusing optical system. |
G06F | 9,600,622 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A system for computer-aided design (CAD) of an integrated circuit (IC) having a plurality of regions operable in a low-power mode and a high-speed mode, the system comprising: a computer that is configured to: |
C07F | 9,738,672 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A compound of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R R at least one of R |
G06F,H04L,H04W | 9,705,868 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program executable by one or more processors of a first computing device, the program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving, by the first computing device, from a second computing device a login request to log into an account associated with a service hosted on the first computing device; sending from the first computing device to a third computing device an authentication request to authenticate a user associated with the account; receiving, by the first computing device, from the third computing device authentication information for logging into the account associated with the service, wherein the authentication information is based on a first information the third computing device receives from a personal smart card and a second information the third computing device receives from a mobile computing device, the first and second information configured for authenticating the user associated with the account; and logging into the account associated with the service based on the authentication information in order to allow the user to access the account from the second computing device. |
B05B,B05D,C23C | 9,617,631 | 2017-04-11 | 1. Method for regeneration of internal conduit surfaces by thermal projection of metals, comprising the steps of: inserting a device carrying a thermal projection system through a manhole in a conduit installation, said device including a vehicle having a rolling assembly to permit rolling of the vehicle, such that the step of inserting includes the steps of: inserting at least one of electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic conduits as well as at least one conduit for supplying metal to be thermally projected, through the manhole, such that the conduits are connected with the vehicle; positioning an extendible regeneration device including said thermal projection system connected with the vehicle by a remote-control pulling system in a particular position to be regenerated; extending a support of said thermal projection system in said lengthwise direction; thermally projecting metal from the regeneration device; advancing said vehicle and connected regeneration device to a new regeneration position. |
G11C | 9,703,494 | 2017-07-11 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a storage device comprising a NAND flash memory, the storage device to: |
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