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20100017329 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SELLING TRANSACTION INSTRUMENTS - The present invention generally relates to a system and method for distributing an open transaction instrument. The system includes the steps of: accessibly offering for sale, in a retail environment, the open transaction instrument; selling a selected open transaction instrument; and enabling the use of the open transaction instrument. The transaction instrument may be, for example, an open pre-paid card. Furthermore, accessibly offering the open pre-paid card for sale, in one exemplary embodiment, is performed by hanging the pre-paid card on a rack. The distribution of the open transaction instrument may also comprise the step of sending a message, in substantially real time, causing the pre-paid open transaction instrument to be funded but not activated. Also, in accordance with further exemplary embodiments of the present invention, an issuer system is suitably configured to leverage existing infrastructure for inventory and related processes. | 01-21-2010 |
20110040684 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SELLING TRANSACTION INSTRUMENTS - The present invention generally relates to a system and method for distributing an open transaction instrument. The system includes the steps of: accessibly offering for sale, in a retail environment, the open transaction instrument; selling a selected open transaction instrument; and enabling the use of the open transaction instrument. The transaction instrument may be, for example, an open pre-paid card. Furthermore, accessibly offering the open pre-paid card for sale, in one exemplary embodiment, is performed by hanging the pre-paid card on a rack. The distribution of the open transaction instrument may also comprise the step of sending a message, in substantially real time, causing the pre-paid open transaction instrument to be funded but not activated. Also, in accordance with further exemplary embodiments of the present invention, an issuer system is suitably configured to leverage existing infrastructure for inventory and related processes. | 02-17-2011 |
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20140290722 | SOLAR MODULE - A solar module includes solar cells with first and second principal surfaces, a wiring member electrically connected to the first or second electrode of each of the solar cells, and a sealing member sealing the solar cells. The solar cells each includes first and second electrodes on the second principal surface. The sealing member includes a first sealing portion containing a non-crosslinking resin and located on a first principal surface side of the solar cells, and a second sealing portion containing a crosslinking resin and located on a second principal surface side of the solar cells. | 10-02-2014 |
20140338745 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module includes a solar cell, a light-receiving side protection member, aback side protection member, and an encapsulant. The light-receiving side protection member is made of a glass plate or a ceramic plate. The back side protection member is made of a resin sheet. The encapsulant contains an antioxidant. The encapsulant includes: a back side encapsulant and a light-receiving side encapsulant. A content rate of the antioxidant in the back side encapsulant is higher than a content rate of the antioxidant in the light-receiving side encapsulant. | 11-20-2014 |
20140345691 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module includes a solar cell, a light-receiving surface member on a light-receiving side of the solar cell, a rear surface member on a rear side of the solar cell, and a sealing material between the light-receiving surface member and the rear surface member. The rear surface member has higher permeability of acetic acid than that of the light-receiving surface member. The sealing material seals the solar cell and includes a light-receiving side sealing material on the light-receiving side of the solar cell and a rear side sealing material on the rear side of the solar cell. The light-receiving side sealing material does not contain an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. The rear side sealing material contains the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. | 11-27-2014 |
20140345692 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module includes an encapsulant and a solar cell in the encapsulant. The encapsulant includes a light-receiving side encapsulant at a light-receiving surface side of the solar cell, and a colored rear side encapsulant at a rear surface side of the solar cell. The rear side encapsulant contains an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. An interface between the rear side encapsulant and the light-receiving side encapsulant is in contact with a side surface of the solar cell. In a part of an area where no solar cell is provided, the rear side encapsulant bulges to the light-receiving surface side. | 11-27-2014 |
20140373897 | SOLAR CELL MODULE AND SOLAR CELL MODULE MANUFACTURING METHOD - This solar cell module is provided with: a plurality of solar cells; and a tab, which electrically connects the solar cells, and which has recesses and projections on the surface thereof. The tab has height of the recesses and the projections smaller in the peripheral region of each of the solar cells, compared with that in other regions of each of the solar cells. | 12-25-2014 |
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20150214410 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module may include: solar cells; a colored layer serving as a first reflective layer disposed at the rear sides of the solar cells and including a coloring agent with a higher refractive index than the main material of the colored layer; an intermediate transparent layer disposed at the rear side of the colored layer and having a higher transmission factor than the colored layer; and a protective member at the rear side of the module, serving as a second reflective layer disposed at the rear side of the intermediate transparent layer, including a whitened portion having a higher refractive index than the main material of the protective member, and having a higher refractive index for the entire layer than the intermediate transparent layer. A sealing member at the rear side of the module includes the colored layer and the intermediate transparent layer. | 07-30-2015 |
20150372157 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - An embodiment of a solar cell module is provided, comprising solar cell strings arranged side by side in a widthwise direction, each of the solar cell strings including solar cells arranged side by side in a lengthwise direction, and a wiring member electrically connecting at least some of the solar cells to each other, an interconnection wiring member electrically connecting at least some of the solar cell strings to each other, and a reflective filler member provided on back surface sides of the solar cell strings. Each of the solar cells includes a busbar electrode extending in the lengthwise direction, and a distance between the solar cells in each of the solar cell strings is larger than a distance between the solar cell strings. | 12-24-2015 |
20160126387 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module includes solar cells, each including a first bus bar electrode provided on a first principal surface and a second bus bar electrode provided on a second principal surface; a wiring member connecting the first bus bar electrode of one of adjacent two solar cells and the second bus bar electrode of the other solar cell; and a resin adhesive layer connecting the wiring member and any one of the first bus bar electrode and the second bus bar electrode. A distance between an end portion of the resin adhesive layer on the adjacent side and an end portion, on the adjacent side, of the solar cell provided with the resin adhesive layer is longer than a distance between the end portion of the solar cell and an end portion of the adjacent solar cell. | 05-05-2016 |
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20140359267 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system with a plurality of processors having a hardware-assisted virtualization and a memory, the computer system including a first processor group of the processors having hardware-assisted virtualization set disabled, and a second processor group of the processors and having hardware-assisted virtualization set enabled, the method having: booting a first OS by assigning the first processor group to the first OS; booting a virtual machine monitor to boot a virtual machine by assigning the second processor group to the virtual machine monitor; performed by the virtual machine monitor, booting a second OS by assigning a certain area of the memory to the second OS; and performed by the virtual machine monitor, setting a data path through which the first OS and second OS communicate with each other, the data path being set in the memory. | 12-04-2014 |
20150026678 | CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER, AND COMPUTER - A first processor group of physical processors having hardware-assisted virtualization set disabled among the plurality of physical processors; a second processor group of physical processors having the hardware-assisted virtualization set enabled among the plurality of physical processors; a first OS to which the first processor group is allocated; and a virtualization part to which the second processor group is allocated, the virtualization part is configured to: allocate a predetermined area within the memory and a predetermined one of the plurality of physical processors within the second processor group to the second OS as the virtualized processor, and boot the second OS to be provided as the virtual machine; and set a shared area, which is readable/writable by both the first OS and the virtualization part, and set interrupt routing information comprising a correspondence relationship between a logical interrupt to the second OS and a physical interrupt thereto. | 01-22-2015 |
20150120979 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER AND COMPUTER - A computer, having: a first OS to which a first processor core group is allocated; and a virtualization module to which a second processor core group is allocated, wherein a virtualization module registers interrupt handler processing for resetting the second processor core group, wherein a first OS has: a monitoring module for monitoring the virtualization module; and an interrupt control module for obtaining identifiers of the second processor core group at a time of booting of the virtualization module, and, when the monitoring module determines to reboot the virtualization module, issuing resetting interrupt to the processor cores of the second processor core group that are associated with the kept identifiers, wherein the second processor core group receives the resetting interrupt and executes the interrupt handler processing to reset its own processor cores, wherein the interrupt control module issues startup interrupt to the second processor core group. | 04-30-2015 |
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20150135711 | CIRCULATORY OSMOTIC PRESSURE ELECTRICITY GENERATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a circulatory osmotic pressure electricity generation system configured to generate electricity by using a working medium, which includes an osmotic pressure generator, a turbine, a tank, a separating tower, a heat source and the working medium. The working medium has a critical temperature which separates a first temperature zone and a second temperature zone from each other and has a phase transition to a first phase or a second phase which occurs at the critical temperature. The osmotic pressure generator is placed under a temperature of the working medium within the first temperature zone, and comprises (i) a container, (ii) an osmosis membrane, (iii) a first inlet, (iv) a second inlet, and (v) an outlet. | 05-21-2015 |
20150239750 | IODINE ADSORBENT, WATER TREATMENT TANK AND IODINE ADSORBING SYSTEM - An iodine adsorbent of an embodiment includes a support, an organic group bonded to the support, silver, and chloride ions, bromide ions, or both of chloride ions and bromide ions. The organic group has, at the terminal, a functional group represented by S | 08-27-2015 |
20150239754 | Treatment System and Treatment Method - A treatment system of the embodiment includes an osmotic pressure treatment unit having: a first tank which holds a treatment target solution, a second tank which holds a draw solution containing an osmotic pressure inducer and a solvent, and a semipermeable membrane which is interposed between the first tank and the second tank. The osmotic pressure inducer is prepared by chemically modifying a support with a polymer having an upper critical solution temperature or a lower critical solution temperature. | 08-27-2015 |
20150249378 | CIRCULATORY OSMOTIC PRESSURE ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, PHASE CONTROL METHOD FOR WORKING MEDIUM, AND WORKING MEDIUM FOR CIRCULATORY OSMOTIC PRESSURE ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION - An embodiment provides a working medium to be used in a circular osmotic pressure electric power generation system. The working medium comprises water and an inducing-liquid. The working medium, under conditions of a temperature of 5° C. to 35° C. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere, is in (1) a state of a liquid-liquid mutually dissolved two-component mixed solution when a concentration of the water or the inducing-liquid in the total amount of the water and the inducing-liquid is 10% by weight or lower, and (2) a state of being separated into the water phase and the inducing-liquid phase when the concentration of the water or the inducing-liquid in the total amount of the water and the inducing-liquid is higher than 10% by weight. | 09-03-2015 |
20150258507 | Osmosis Membrane Unit, Osmotic Pressure Power Generator, Osmosis Membrane Treatment Unit, Method of Manufacturing Osmosis Membrane Unit - According to one embodiment, an osmosis membrane unit has an osmotic pressure inductor and an osmosis membrane. The osmotic pressure inductor is one in which a salt-structure compound has been made to react with a reticulate member composed of metal. The osmosis membrane is disposed to contact at least one surface of the osmotic pressure inductor. | 09-17-2015 |
20150266752 | IODINE ADSORBENT, WATER TREATING TANK AND IODINE ADSORBING SYSTEM - An iodine adsorbent includes a carrier that is a compound containing silicon, an organic group bonded to the carrier, and silver. The organic group has, at the terminal, a functional group represented by S | 09-24-2015 |
20160023923 | IODINE ADSORBENT, WATER TREATMENT TANK AND IODINE ADSORBING SYSTEM - An iodine adsorbent of an embodiment has a support, a first organic group bonded to the support and has a functional group containing nitrogen at least at a terminal, and silver bonded to the nitrogen-containing functional group. | 01-28-2016 |
20160060145 | CHELATING AGENT, AND SCALE INHIBITOR, DETERGENT AND WATER TREATMENT METHOD - A chelating agent of the embodiment is an amide compound in which a hydrogen atom of an —NH— site or an —NH | 03-03-2016 |