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20080307960 | Air Pollutant Removal Using Magnetic Sorbent Particles - Absorbent magnetic particles are used to remove air pollutants. The adsorbent magnetic particles can adsorb various air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and mercury, and may be regenerated for reuse. | 12-18-2008 |
20090175753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON NUGGETS - Method and system for producing metallic nuggets includes providing reducible mixture of reducing material (such as carbonaceous material) and reducible iron bearing material (such as iron oxide) that may be arranged in discrete portions, such as mounds or briquettes, on at least a portion of a hearth material layer (such as carbonaceous material). A coarse overlayer of carbonaceous material may be provided over at least some of the discrete portions. Heating the reducible mixture to 1425° C. or 1400° C. or 1375° C. results in formation of an intermediate product of one or more metallic iron nuggets, which may have a sulfur content of less than 0.03%, and slag, which may have less than 5% mass MgO, which may have a ratio of percent by weight sulfur in the slag over percent by weight sulfur in the metallic nuggets of at least about 12 or at least about 15. | 07-09-2009 |
20100031776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING METALLIC IRON - A hearth furnace | 02-11-2010 |
20100107818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON NODULES - A method for producing metallic iron nodules by assembling a shielding entry system to introduce coarse carbonaceous material greater than 6 mesh in to the furnace atmosphere at location(s) where the temperature of the furnace atmosphere adjacent at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material is between about 2200 and 2650° F. (1200 and 1450° C., the shielding entry system adapted to inhibit emission of infrared radiation from the furnace atmosphere and seal the furnace atmosphere from exterior atmosphere while introducing coarse carbonaceous material greater than 6 mesh into the furnace to be distributed over the at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material, and heating the covered at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material in a fusion atmosphere to assist in fusion and inhibit reoxidation of the reduced material during fusion to assist in fusion and inhibit reoxidation of the reduced material in forming metallic iron nodules. | 05-06-2010 |
20100164150 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON NUGGETS - Method and system for producing metallic nuggets includes providing reducible mixture (e.g., reducible micro-agglomerates; reducing material and reducible iron bearing material; reducible mixture including additives such as a fluxing agent; compacts, etc.) on at least a portion of a hearth material layer. In one embodiment, a plurality of channel openings extend at least partially through a layer of the reducible mixture to define a plurality of nugget forming reducible material regions. Such channel openings may be at least partially filled with nugget separation fill material (e.g., carbonaceous material). Thermally treating the layer of reducible mixture results in formation of one or more metallic iron nuggets. In other embodiments, various compositions of the reducible mixture and the formation of the reducible mixture provide one or more beneficial characteristics. | 07-01-2010 |
20110100162 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON NUGGETS - A method and system for producing metallic iron nuggets may include providing multiple layers of agglomerates, such as briquettes, balls and extrusions, of a reducible mixture of reducing material (such as carbonaceous material) and of a reducible iron bearing material (such as iron oxide) on a hearth material layer (such as carbonaceous material) and providing a coarse overlayer of carbonaceous material over at least some of the agglomerates. Heating the agglomerates of reducible mixture to 1425° C. or 1400° C. or 1375° C. results in formation of an intermediate product of one or more metallic iron nuggets, which may have a sulfur content of less than 0.03%, and slag, which may have less than 5% mass MgO, which may have a ratio of percent by weight sulfur in the slag over percent by weight sulfur in the metallic nuggets of at least about 12 or at least about 15. | 05-05-2011 |
20120160060 | USE OF BIMODAL CARBON DISTRIBUTION IN COMPACTS FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON NODULES - A method for use in production of metallic iron nodules comprising providing a reducible mixture into a hearth furnace for the production of metallic iron nodules, where the reducible mixture comprises a quantity of reducible iron bearing material, a quantity of first carbonaceous reducing material of a size less than about 28 mesh of an amount between about 65 percent and about 95 percent of a stoichiometric amount necessary for complete iron reduction of the reducible iron bearing material, and a quantity of second carbonaceous reducing material with an average particle size greater than average particle size of the first carbonaceous reducing material and a size between about 3 mesh and about 48 mesh of an amount between about 20 percent and about 60 percent of a stoichiometric amount of necessary for complete iron reduction of the reducible iron bearing material. | 06-28-2012 |
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20120191777 | CONTACT RELEVANCE BASED ON CONTEXT - A method of determining a communications contact relevance for a user includes: analyzing stored contact information of a plurality of contacts with which the user can at least one of receive information from or transmit information to; analyzing context information relevant to likelihoods of imminent communication by the user with the contacts, the context information including information different from ones of the contacts with which the user most recently communicated, the context information further including present user context information and at least one of present context or historical context associated with each of the contacts, respectively; and determining the likelihoods of imminent communication between the user and the contacts based on the context information. | 07-26-2012 |
20130014040 | APPLICATION RELEVANCE DETERMINATION BASED ON SOCIAL CONTEXT - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for using context-aware recommendation techniques to facilitate content discovery on a mobile device platform. In particular, the context-aware recommendation techniques evaluate both a current device context and a social context to generate application relevance scores for each of a number of applications downloaded to a mobile device. Application representations on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile device are rearranged, resized, and/or otherwise affected according to their respective application relevance scores. In certain configurations, one or more applications are pinned, thereby altering (e.g., reducing or eliminating) how changes in their respective application relevance scores affect display of their respective application representations on the GUI of the mobile device. | 01-10-2013 |
20130219285 | MIRRORED INTERFACE NAVIGATION OF MULTIPLE USER INTERFACES - Mirrored interface navigation is disclosed between two or more mobile devices with similar capabilities. When a connection is established between the mobile devices, interface navigation actions detected on a first of the connected devices are transmitted to the other devices. The other devices receive and execute those interface navigation actions to perform parallel interface navigation with the first mobile device. For example, two smart phones are connected for shared interface navigation, interface navigation actions performed on the first smart phone are translated to the second smart phone to perform mirrored parallel interface navigation. The mirrored parallel interface navigation may occur regardless of device type or specific application, such that interface navigation actions on an Apple, Inc., IPHONE® may result in parallel interface navigation on a Google ANDROID®-based phone to similar application types. | 08-22-2013 |
20130246946 | SHARING USER INFORMATION THROUGH SECONDARY DISPLAYS - Information sharing is disclosed between a rich user device and one or more secondary display devices. A user selects types of information at the rich user device to be shared with the secondary display devices. On selection, the rich user device sends the selected information sets to the secondary display devices for display. When updates of the information are detected at the rich user device, those updates are sent along to the secondary display devices to display the new, updated information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130288603 | ORIENTATIONAL COLLABORATION OF DATA BETWEEN MULTIPLE DEVICES - The disclosure provides for collaborating user data maintained in separate mobile devices by tangibly manipulating the distance and orientation between the mobile devices. The placement of one device with respect to one or more other devices triggers an action when the proximity and orientation between the devices is detected. The data on each proximal device is temporarily shared among the devices, allowing the users of the devices to see the aggregated data. | 10-31-2013 |
20140198944 | USE OF EMG FOR SUBTLE GESTURE RECOGNITION ON SURFACES - An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for detecting a gesture of a body part relative to a surface are provided. The apparatus determines if the body part is in proximity of the surface. If the body part is in proximity of the surface, the apparatus determines if electrical activity sensed from the body part is indicative of contact between the body part and the surface. If the body part is in contact with the surface, the apparatus determines if motion activity sensed from the body part is indicative of the gesture. | 07-17-2014 |
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20110119875 | Clip-Mounting Seat and Vehicle Interior Component - A clip-mounting seat for mounting a clip to a vehicle interior component is disclosed. The clip includes a pillar-shaped axial portion. The clip-mounting seat includes a clip seating section, the clip seating section having an engaging hole for engagingly receiving the axial portion of the clip, and a pair of guide edge portions extending to the engaging hole from a side of the clip seating section to thereby form a tapered silt for allowing the axial portion of the clip to be slid along the pair of guide edge portions and allowing the axial portion of the clip to be guided into the engaging hole. | 05-26-2011 |
20110291439 | Vehicle Door Lining - There is disclosed a door lining for a vehicle. The vehicle door lining includes a lining body having a step portion, a decorative component to be combined with the lining body, the decorative component including a periphery having a tip surface and an outer surface extending from the tip surface, and at least one stepped cut-out portion provided at the periphery, the decorative component being combined with the lining body with the tip surface being abutted against an inner surface of the lining body and with the outer surface being surface-contacted with the step portion of the lining body, the stepped cut-out portion extending from the tip surface to the outer surface, and at least one noise-preventing member for preventing noise from being generated by rubbing between the lining body and the decorative component which occurs due to vibration of a vehicle body during driving of the vehicle. | 12-01-2011 |
20140137374 | CLIP-MOUNTING SEAT AND VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT - A clip-mounting seat for mounting a clip to a vehicle interior component is disclosed. The clip includes a pillar-shaped axial portion. The clip-mounting seat includes a clip seating section having an engaging hole that receives the axial portion, and a pair of guide edge portions extending to the engaging hole from a side of the clip seating section forming a tapered slit having an inner end smaller in size than an outer diameter of the axial portion, the engaging hole having a circular shape having a size larger than the outer diameter of the axial portion, and the engaging hole continuing from inner ends of the guide edge portions. A guide edge portion is provided with a protruding piece projecting into the engaging hole from an inner end of the at least one of the guide edge portions, the protruding piece including a tip end surface. | 05-22-2014 |