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An in vivo biosensor disposed upon a subject comprising an electrochemical cell having a plurality of electrodes and a computer-controlled voltage source incorporating a potentiostat that is generative of a poise potential regime, which computer-controlled voltage source is operationally coupled to a computing device that: computes an output current whose magnitude is proportional to an amount of an analyte in a bodily fluid of the subject; and, adjusts the output current for drift due to biofouling at points in time greater than or equal to an induction period; and, outputs the amount of the analyte by transducing the adjusted output current. Methods and algorithms for adjusting the output current for drift due to biofouling are provided.

Novel tools and techniques for generating survey data about a survey site. Aerial photography of at least part of the survey site can be analyzed using photogrammetric techniques. In some cases, an unmanned aerial system can be used to collect site imagery. The use of a UAS can reduce the fiscal and chronological cost of a survey, compared to the use of other types aerial imagery and / or conventional terrestrial surveying techniques used alone.

The present invention relates to an intelligent interactive apparatus, system and method that aligns with grooming tools such as hair clippers or trimmers. More particularly, the present invention relates to a hair clipper having an attached imaging apparatus assembly that is linked to a display output device allowing for more intelligent and consistent hair grooming views and overall control. The clipper imaging apparatus assembly of the present invention allows for an intelligent interactive system wherein the method used makes a user capable of a more accurate hair grooming experience. The present invention's system is linked by superimposed hair design overlays, and an interactive imaging apparatus for an improved viewing method. The imaging device enables a more accurate grooming experience using an imaging sensor that intelligently follows a grid mapping axis process using predictive analytics to reduce grooming errors and difficulty.

The invention relates to a vacuum insulation panel which can be used as an insulator for a refrigerator requiring heat insulation to be provided and also to a refrigerator incorporating such a vacuum insulation panel. The invention particularly relates to an arrangement for preventing convection spaces from being formed where an edge of the vacuum insulation panel is folded back. The vacuum insulation panel includes a core which has an inner film bag in which a flexible inorganic fiber laminate is accommodated, and an outer barrier bag which is made of gas-impermeable film such as metallic foil laminated film and which accommodates the core. The inner film bag includes a welded portion and a ventilation portion. The outer barrier bag has a depressurized interior and has been sealed by welding. An edge of the inner film bag is placed in an edge of the outer barrier bag.

Novel tools and techniques for generating survey data about a survey site. Aerial photography of at least part of the survey site can be analyzed using photogrammetric techniques. In some cases, an unmanned aerial system can be used to collect site imagery. The use of a UAS can reduce the fiscal and chronological cost of a survey, compared to the use of other types aerial imagery and / or conventional terrestrial surveying techniques used alone.

A digital camera comprises an interchangeable lens unit and a camera body. The interchangeable lens unit is provided to form an optical image of a subject. A flash memory is configured to hold a correction coefficient table used to electrically correct distortion produced by the optical system. The camera body has a CCD image sensor, a correction coefficient acquisition part, an operation part, and a correction processor. The correction coefficient acquisition part is configured to acquire the correction coefficient table held in the flash memory. The operation part is configured to produce correction data by performing an interpolation operation or an extrapolation operation on the information obtained from the correction coefficient table. The correction processor is configured to correct distortion in the image data on the basis of information produced by the operation part.

A system is provided for the high-speed and high-fidelity collection of network traffic. The system can collect traffic at gigabit-per-second (Gbps) speeds, scale to terabit-per-second (Tbps) speeds, and support additional functions such as real-time network intrusion detection. The present system uses a dedicated operating system for traffic collection to maximize efficiency, scalability, and performance. A scalable infrastructure and apparatus for the present system is provided by splitting the work performed on one host onto multiple hosts. The present system simultaneously addresses the issues of scalability, performance, cost, and adaptability with respect to network monitoring, collection, and other network tasks. In addition to high-speed and high-fidelity network collection, the present system provides a flexible infrastructure to perform virtually any function at high speeds such as real-time network intrusion detection and wide-area network emulation for research purposes.

The invention relates to a vacuum insulation panel which can be used as an insulator for a refrigerator requiring heat insulation to be provided and also to a refrigerator incorporating such a vacuum insulation panel. The invention particularly relates to an arrangement for preventing convection spaces from being formed where an edge of the vacuum insulation panel is folded back. The vacuum insulation panel includes a core which has an inner film bag in which a flexible inorganic fiber laminate is accommodated, and an outer barrier bag which is made of gas-impermeable film such as metallic foil laminated film and which accommodates the core. The inner film bag includes a welded portion and a ventilation portion. The outer barrier bag has a depressurized interior and has been sealed by welding. An edge of the inner film bag is placed in an edge of the outer barrier bag.

A series of nominally identical workpieces is received from a manufacturing process and measured on a measuring apparatus. They are received at a non-ambient temperature because of heat introduced during the manufacturing process, but they are placed on the measuring apparatus in a repeatable manner, e.g. by a robot, such that their non-ambient temperatures when measured are repeatable. One of the workpieces is measured as a reference workpiece at the non-ambient temperature, and these measurements are compared to calibrated values obtained from an external source, in order to generate an error map or error function. The error map or error function is used to correct measurements of subsequent workpieces of the series which are measured at the repeatable non-ambient temperature.

A wireless base station comprises a response vector calculation unit (561), an RSSI measuring unit (562), an MSE calculation unit (563), an FD calculation unit (564) and the like, and those units obtain an index showing communication quality of at least one of two mobile stations that are intended to be space-division multiplexed. According to the index, a control unit (80) judges the suitability of the two mobile stations for space-division multiplexing and performs space-division multiple access communication when judging suitable. The effect achieved with this construction is that the wireless base station maintains quality of communication between the wireless base station and mobile stations at a certain satisfactory level when performing space-division multiple access communication.

The invention provides a method for correcting a table image. The table image comprises table units to be corrected. The method comprises the following steps: matching: matching table units to be corrected with standard table units defined in a preset table template to obtain the table units to be corrected, which are matched with the standard table units; and mapping: mapping the matched table units to be corrected, which are obtained in the matching step, to the corresponding standard table units which are matched with the table units to be corrected, so as to form the corrected table image. The invention also provides a device for correcting the table image. The method and device can be used for correcting image warping in the scanning process, and can also be used for correcting image rotation, zooming, translation and other phenomena in the scanning process, thereby facilitating further treatment on the table image, such as positioning and identification of data filled by the user.

A focused laser beam having an optical axis passes through a first lens mounted to a first galvanometer and a second lens mounted to a second galvanometer. The first galvanometer is adapted to tilt the first lens about a X axis and the second galvanometer is adapted to tilt the second lens about a Y axis. This displaces the focused laser beam in a controlled manner from the optical axis to enable laser machining of very precise geometric features over a large processing window. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second lenses are a pair of inverted positive meniscus lenses, of high index of refraction material.

Patterned thin film layers (12) are applied to a substrate (10) surface by masking selective areas of a substrate surface, e.g., with a printed pattern (11) of a material such as an oil, and vapor-depositing thin film material. The masking material is subsequently removed.

The present invention provides a master tire for inspecting the accuracy of a tire tester easily and securely. A master tire 100 according to the present invention is equipped with an upper-lower rim member 120, a cylindrical member 110 equivalent to the tread portion of a tire, and leaf spring 130 secured to the cylindrical member 110 and the rim member 120 with bolts 140 and bolts 142. A spindle 21 is secured to the rim member 120 so that the center axis thereof is not displaced. The rim member 120 is vertical to or slightly inclined with respect to the spindle 21. The cylindrical member 110 is made of a metallic material, such as iron or aluminum, or a hard plastic having stable characteristics.

In a solenoid valve, a desire valve stroke width may be set, and a flow rate may be returned to an original flow rate even when that the flow rate is changed. A solenoid valve includes a drive portion having a bobbin including a slidable hole formed there through, a fixed iron core disposed with in the bobbin and a movable iron core disposed to be slidable within the slidable hole, and a valve function portion having a valve body extending from the movable iron core and disposed in a leading end of a valve shaft passing through the fixed iron core and a valve seat with which the valve body is brought into close contact and from which the valve body is separated. In the solenoid valve, a predetermined gap width is formed between the valve body and the valve seat, when the solenoid valve is not energized, to open the valve, and the movable iron core is drawn to the fixed iron core when the solenoid valve is energized to close the valve. A valve stroke width may be adjusted by screwing a flow rate adjusting screw from an outer side in a rear end of the solenoid valve to bring the leading end into contact with a rear end surface of the movable iron core when the valve is opened, thereby adjusting a protrusion amount of the screw in the leading end of the slidable hole.

A system for maintaining pressure in the liquid fuel tank of a high-speed flight vehicle, such as a hypersonic flight, scramjet powered air and space vehicle, manages tank ullage using a pressure regulator coupled to the fuel tank that supplies pressurized gaseous media into the fuel tank ullage based on the internal pressure of the tank. The regulator has an on-board controller that processes tank pressure input to deliver a pulse-width modulated input signal to the coil of the on-board solenoid metering assembly. Energizing the coil drives the metering valve open against spring force. The metering assembly is contained in a removable cartridge that has a floating valve guide that is held stationary by bias of the spring against the metering valve. The metering valve has a separate valve seat that mates with the metering orifice of a flow nozzle. The valve seat can have higher compressibility than a clapper part of the valve to effect a better seal, with its compression being controlled by contact of the clapper with a rigid stop surface of the flow nozzle.

The present invention relates to a polishing apparatus for restoring an optical disk. The objects of the present invention are as follows: to obtain an equal pressure appropriately required for polishing; to correct the accuracy of parallelism between the rotation planes of an optical disk and a polishing sheet; to remove roundness formed on the outer edge of an optical disk and unevenness in polishing; and to prevent clogging of the surface of a polishing sheet by the active elimination of abrasive filings and an occurrence of scratches on the surface of an optical disk due to the clogging. For the purpose of achieving the above objects, in an apparatus for polishing an optical disk composed of a disk rotator A and a polishing mechanism B, the polishing mechanism B has an elastic mechanism D for elastically holding a polishing pad C, a polishing sheet of the polishing pad C has such an elasticity that the deformation amount Δx is 0.005 mm to 0.3 mm when the polishing sheet contacts the surface of the optical disk with a pressure required for polishing, the elastic mechanism D is constructed to have elasticity in the direction perpendicular to the rotation plane of the optical disk and rigidity in the direction parallel to the rotation plane of the optical disk, and the ratio of the disk angular speed ωa of the disk rotator A to the polishing sheet angular speed ωb of the polishing mechanism B is regulated to satisfy the range of 0.2<ωa / ωb<1.5.

A columnar object state detection device according to an embodiment is a device for detecting a state of a columnar object including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire central axis data that is an array of coordinate values of center points of the columnar object in a horizontal direction at a plurality of predetermined heights of the columnar object; an approximation equation calculating unit configured to calculate a correction approximation equation for correcting the coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit through curve fitting for the array of coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit; and correction unit configured to correct the coordinate values of the acquired central axis data using the correction approximation equation calculated by the approximation equation calculating unit.

The invention is directed to a device for direct detection of the spatial position of a probe element in a multi-coordinate measuring apparatus, with a reference system comprised of at least one first standard and one second standard that are associated with coordinate axes of the measuring apparatus. The first standard is a planar standard with a line grating array. The second standard is non-contacting relative to the first standard and movable in two dimensions by means of a cross slide. Provision is made for a first position measuring system for determining the spatial position of the second standard with respect to the first standard, and for a second position measuring system for determining the spatial position of a carriage carrying a three-dimensional probe assembly, with respect to the second standard. The device forms in an associated multi-coordinate measuring apparatus a continuous measuring chain from the first standard to the tip of the probe element. This supplies directly a measurement result considering any guide inaccuracies, without the need to perform any path corrections.

A milking arrangement includes a milking robot (10) having a first link (L1), a second link (L2), a third link (L3), an end effector (E), sensor (16) and a control unit (15). The first link is rotatable to a first angle within a first angle range (α1) via a first joint (11). The second link is rotatable to a second angle within a second angle range (α2) via a second joint (12). The third link (L3) is rotatable to a third angle within a third angle range (α3) via third joint (13). The links (L1, L2, L3) are rotatable so that the end effector is movable within a three-dimensional workspace (W). Each position of the end effector within the workspace corresponds to a single combination of the first, second and third angles.

The invention relates to a dangerous condition early warning and forecasting method for pipe jacking downward penetrating process of an existing box culvert. The method comprises the steps that 1, multiple characteristic parameter data of the existing box culvert and the surrounding soil bodies of the existing box culvert are collected through a monitoring device; 2, format processing is conductedon the collected data; 3, the soil strength in a disturbance zone is obtained through inversion by using a dichotomous displacement ratio method; 4, multiple characteristic parameters, the weight ofthe soil strength of the disturbance zone affecting culvert safety coefficients and gray relational grade are obtained through a hierarchical analysis gray relational grade method; 5, a long and shortterm memory circulation neural network model is established to predict the destruction occurring time of the existing box culvert; 6, a Kalman filtering method is adopted to predict the destruction occurring time of the existing box culvert; 7, prediction results of step 5 and step 6 are combined to conduct early warning and forecasting on dangerous conditions before the critical destruction occurring prediction time. Compared with the prior art, the method can more reasonably perform quantification early warning and forecasting on the dangerous condition for pipe jacking downward penetratingof the existing box culvert in a manner which is more closer to actual conditions.

The invention discloses an ultra-low emission intelligent environmental protection island system for a coal-fired power plant. The system includes a data collection unit, a data transmission unit, a data storage unit, a data processing unit and a visual monitoring system, wherein the data collection unit includes a unit operation state detector and a CEMS detector, the data transmission unit includes multiple wireless modules for transmission of acquisition data, the wireless modules are in communication connection with the unit operation state detector and the CEMS detector, the data storageunit is disposed in a memory of a computer terminal, the data acquisition module is in communication connection with the computer terminal, historical data in the data storage unit is modeled by the processing unit and is then transmitted to the visual monitoring system, and the data is visually displayed by the visual monitoring system. The system is advantaged in that low-cost and high-yield operation of an ultra-low emission intelligent environmental protection island is realized without increasing hardware facilities, real-time monitoring is realized, and stable and reliable operation of the system are guaranteed.

Aspect of the inventions may include a universal handpiece that can be coupled to pre-existing legacy RF signal generator systems to provide certain precision controlled radiofrequency therapies and treatments for skin. Further, another embodiment of the present invention may include an interchangeable electrode (tip section) with an array of distally insulated microneedles, conductive pads or smooth surface configurations which couple to the handpiece for allowing for heating of dermis without damage to the superficial epidermis. This allows the handpiece to be used for various different treatment types by changing the tip or electrode section to meet the requirements of a desired therapy, rather than requiring another dedicated handpiece.

An apparatus and method for obtaining a data file representing a three-dimensional image of the surface of a subject are disclosed. The apparatus incorporates a plurality of scanners, each comprising illuminating means and digital camera means, disposed about the subject, and computer means to correlate the images and store the data file. An apparatus and method for producing a three-dimensional model from that data file are also disclosed. The use of rapid prototyping and manufacturing technology for manufacturing a model is disclosed. The present invention is particularly applicable to human subjects.

This invention relates to an optical device and system for producing a holographic optical element or digital hologram. Various techniques of producing digital holograms have been proposed. However, they tend to suffer from long exposure times, as well as problems associated with control of two or more independent beams of coherent light used to produce a hologram. Problems become even more acute as pixel size decreases. The present invention provides an optical device including: a beam deflector, adapted to deflect a collimated beam of coherent light to produce an incident beam; a beam splitter for producing first and second beams, said beams being displaced so that the angle of deflection of the first beam is the same but opposite to the angle of deflection of the second beam; and a combiner combines the first and second beams so as to produce an interference pattern at an output plane.

A focused laser beam having an optical axis passes through a first lens mounted to a first galvanometer and a second lens mounted to a second galvanometer. The first galvanometer is adapted to tilt the first lens about a X axis and the second galvanometer is adapted to tilt the second lens about a Y axis. This displaces the focused laser beam in a controlled manner from the optical axis to enable laser machining of very precise geometric features over a large processing window. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second lenses are a pair of inverted positive meniscus lenses, of high index of refraction material.

The Variable-Force Payload Ejecting System, residing within an air vehicle, utilizes multiple pressure generators, one or more of which may be activated, to produce variable levels of force. A controlling computer within the air vehicle determines when and how much pressure needs to be generated to eject a given item, such as a submunition, from the vehicle. In its determination, the computer factors in the vehicle's forward velocity and height over the intended target at the time of ejection and the characteristics of the particular submunition to be ejected. An activating mechanism activates one or more pressure generators to produce the determined amount of pressure. The pressure thusly generated acts on an inflatable tube that inflates and expels the selected submunition. The result is a more precise delivery of the submunitions onto the intended targets.

A method for actuating a continuously variable clutch such that the torque to be transmitted by the clutch is continuously adjusted either electromechanically via an electromotive drive, hydraulically via a pressure actuator, or electromagnetically via an electromagnetic actuator. The torque transmitted by the clutch is adjusted by utilizing a position-dependent clutch torque specification.