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A manipulator includes an operation command unit to be gripped by a hand, a composite input unit operable by a finger, a connector shaft extending from the operation command unit, and a working unit disposed on a distal end of the connector shaft. The working unit includes a yawing mechanism, a rolling mechanism, and an opening and closing mechanism. The composite input unit has a shuttle ring for actuating the rolling mechanism, and a pad for actuating the yawing mechanism. The shuttle ring is an angularly movable member having two knobs disposed in respective left and right positions. The pad is disposed inside of the shuttle ring.

Disclosed herein are methods, systems and devices to monitor vascular volume status during renal replacement therapy utilizing at least one oximetry / photoplethysmography sensor. The methods, systems and devices provide an alternative to conventional vascular volume monitoring methods during renal replacement therapy while enabling reliable, non-invasive, and automatic monitoring of vascular volume to avert patient hypotension. The methods, systems and devices may be employed in the context of both inpatient and outpatient dialysis facilities and may also be incorporated into conventional hemodialysis and hemofiltration techniques and equipment.

A method for transmitting a channel state by a terminal in a communication system, according to one embodiment, comprises the steps of: receiving discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration information from a base station; determining whether the terminal is set to transmit channel state information only in onDuration according to a DRX operation; determining whether an arbitrary subframe to be received is a subframe included in onDuration if the terminal is set to transmit the channel state information only in onDuration according to the configuration; and not transmitting the channel state information on the arbitrary subframe if the arbitrary subframe is not a subframe included in onDuration. According to the embodiment, the terminal can efficiently report channel state information.

A plating apparatus is used for filling a fine interconnect pattern formed in the substrate with metal to form interconnects. The plating apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding a substrate, a cathode portion including a sealing member for contacting a peripheral portion of a surface, to be plated, of the substrate held by said substrate holder to seal said peripheral portion water-tightly, and a cathode for contacting the substrate to supply current to the substrate, an anode vertically movably disposed so as to face the surface, to be plated, of the substrate, and a porous member disposed between said anode and the surface, to be plated, of the substrate, said porous member being made of a water-retentive material, wherein said porous member has at least a hydrophilic substrate-facing surface which faces the surface, to be plated, of the substrate.

A reproduction system includes speaker array composed of plural speakers having a diaphragm for reproducing an audio signal and reflection unit disposed in a chamber for reflecting a radiated sound from the speaker array. The plural speakers of the speaker array are positioned so that the vibration direction of each diaphragm may be directed towards the reflection unit, and the reflection path distance from each diaphragm to a listening point, which defines a position of the viewer / listener, via the reflection surface of the reflection unit may be equal.

A printed circuit board machining apparatus includes a spindle that holds a tool for machining a printed circuit board and a pressure unit for pressing the printed circuit board to a table in machining the printed circuit board. The pressure unit includes a pressure foot movable up an down along the spindle, a rotating member having a plurality of pressure pieces through which a through hole for passing the tool is formed and provided so as to select one among the plurality of pressure pieces, a motor for moving the rotating member, cylinders and electromagnetic valves for moving the pressure foot up and down and a control section for controlling the cylinders and electromagnetic valves. The control section rotates the motor so as to select the pressure piece and controls the cylinders and the electromagnetic valves to change force for pressing the printed circuit board.

A step-down switching regulator is disclosed that includes a first switching element, a smoothing circuit part including an inductor and a second switching element for synchronous rectification, a switching controller circuit part, and a reverse current detector circuit part that detects a reverse current flowing from the inductor to the second switching element and interrupts the reverse current by causing the switching controller circuit part to turn off the second switching element upon detection of the reverse current. Detecting a change in a set voltage, the reverse current detector circuit part stops, for a predetermined period of time, the operation of causing the switching controller circuit part to turn off the second switching element due to detection of the reverse current, and after the predetermined period of time is over, causes the switching controller circuit part to turn off the second switching element upon detection of the reverse current.

A battery cell charge / discharge and protection circuit and system employing enhancement-mode junction-gated transistors as gating switches and minimizing external components is disclosed. The use of an enhancement-mode switch device with a PN junction control gate enables the elimination of external or internal precision resistors through the compensation of the voltage drop across the switch with the forward drop across the PN junction for temperature invariance of switch channel current estimation. The use of variable current drive circuits combined with a capacitor connected to the gate of the switch device facilitates energy consumption optimization while providing a timing mechanism for determining the recovery duration after a fault condition. Elimination of precision resistors and the minimization of the capacitance value facilitate a low-cost, single-chip battery protection solution.

In order to stably provide customers with beverages in a supercooled state without impact, the present invention provides a vending machine which sells beverages, the vending machine including: a main body which has a storage chamber that accommodates beverages and stores the beverages in a supercooled state; racks which are disposed in the storage chamber and on which the beverages are placed; a cooling unit which cools air in the storage chamber; a cool air supplying unit which circulates air cooled by the cooling unit into the storage chamber; a cool air controlling unit which controls a temperature of cool air supplied from the cool air supplying unit in a supercooled temperature range of the canned beverage; and a dispensing unit which withdraws the beverage placed on the rack while keeping the beverage supercooled, and moves the beverage to an outlet of the main body.

An atomic clock is used in conjunction with the GNSS receiver and the inertial sensors, creating a more capable inertial navigation system (INS). The system is composed of a GNSS receiver, an accurate clock, and a mechanism for measuring relative pose changes. The system being presented utilizes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to provide the relative pose changes, but other mechanisms can be used—like visual and ladar odometry. The GNSS receiver measures the pseudo-ranges to the GNSS satellites in the field of view. These measurements are “time tagged” with the accuracy of the atomic clock. The relative motion between the pseudo-ranges is measured using the IMU. Finally, the lock is achieved by filtering these measurements. The filtering mechanism can vary, from the traditional Kalman Filters to other mechanisms that attempt to minimize the mean square error.

Disclosed are a method and system for brain activity detection. The method is: performing multi-channel synchronous collections of brain electrical signals and cerebral cortex blood oxygen signals simultaneously, and ensuring synchronicity of the collected signals among channels, and collecting said brain electrical signals and said cerebral cortex blood oxygen signals of all locations at the same time. The system comprises: a functional near-infrared light source emission module (2) which employs the frequency division multiplexing technique, wherein the light source is modulated by carrier of different frequencies, said signal is accessed from the multi-functional joint collection helmet (1) through a transmission optical fiber to irradiate the scalp, and after being scattered and absorbed by the brain, the attenuated light signal is processed by the functional near-infrared detection module (3); the functional near-infrared detection module (3) is used for detecting weak optical signals of the scalp; the brain electricity detection module (4) is used for detecting weak electrical signals of the scalp; the central control unit (5) is used for synchronizing and fusing data flows, sending control commands to each functional module, and uploading data to the host computer (6). The method and system can control the interference to be the minimum and have good time scale consistency.

The invention discloses a protective coating for inhibiting a platinum bushing from being oxidized and volatilized and reducing the loss of noble metals, a preparation process and application. The protective coating mainly comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 20 to 50 percent of silicon oxide, 20 to 45 percent of aluminum oxide, 5 to 15 percent of sodium silicate and 10 to 25 percent of sodium tetraborate. The protective coating can prevent platinum and rhodium alloys from being oxidized and volatilized at high temperature effectively, and compared with the bushings which are not processed, the bushing which is processed by a coating process can reduce the loss amount by over 30 percent.

The invention relates to a method for producing zinc powder by treating a zinc-containing miscellaneous material through an electric furnace. The zinc powder is prepared by the zinc-containing miscellaneous material through a zinc-containing miscellaneous material quantitatively-batching process, a zinc-containing miscellaneous material mixture pelletizing process, a zinc-containing miscellaneousmaterial particle roasting process, a roasted flue gas dust collection process, an electric furnace smelting process, a zinc powder condensation process and a smelted flue gas dust collection process. In the method, the zinc powder is produced by the zinc-containing miscellaneous material generated by zinc pyrometallurgy or zinc hydrometallurgy, so that useful zinc powder can be extracted and recycled from the zinc-containing miscellaneous material. The zinc-containing miscellaneous material can be completely utilized; and the method has the advantages of removing fluorine and chlorine and completely recycling condensed waste gas, along with extremely low content of impurities such as iron and the like in raw materials and low yield of waste residues of a device, and is suitable to be applied to the production of the zinc powder prepared by recycling the zinc-containing miscellaneous material. The obtained zinc powder can be used for a replacement reduction process of hydrometallurgy.

A traveling lane detector according to the present invention includes: an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle to take a road surface image; and an image processor performing image processing on the image to detect lane marks on the road surface. The image processor judges whether the vehicle is crossing the lane marks, and, when the vehicle is not crossing any of the lane marks, defines first and second windows, in the image, for detecting the lane marks located respectively on left and right parts of a road surface in front of or behind the vehicle, performs image processing on the image in each of the windows to detect the lane marks, and, when the vehicle is crossing any of the lane marks, defines a third window including the currently-crossed lane mark in the image, performs image processing on the image in the third window to detect the lane mark.

A vibration correcting optical device includes: a vibration detection unit that detects a vibration of the vibration correcting optical device and outputs a vibration detection signal corresponding to the vibration; a vibration state judgment unit that judges a state of the vibration of the vibration correcting optical device to be one of at least three states, based upon the vibration detection signal; an image vibration correcting optical system that corrects an image vibration caused by the vibration of the vibration correcting optical device; a drive unit that drives the image vibration correcting optical system based upon a drive signal; a drive signal arithmetic operation unit that calculates the drive signal based upon the vibration detection signal and outputs the drive signal to the drive unit; and a drive signal calculation control unit that controls a method for calculating the drive signal adopted at the drive signal arithmetic operation unit in conformance to the state of the vibration ascertained through a judgment executed by the vibration state judgment unit.

The invention relates to a higher vocational college innovation teaching course outline development system which is formed by a course outline development system main operation server, a campus wireless network coverage device, a mobile phone, a basic course information module, a teacher information module, a course description module, a course teaching object module, a core competence weight module, an ability indicator weight module, a credit distribution weight module, a course content outline module, a teaching method module, a learning evaluation module, an evaluation manner module, a progress chart module, course analysis and evaluation, learning effect analysis, core ability analysis, and other content modules; the system can show the course outline content of the course, supports directional push of the course outline to students, supports mobile phone APP terminal and web terminal, realizes modernization of the teaching content, starts from the receptivity of the students, does not purchase innovation and quantity blindly and unilaterally, and has the characteristics of flexibility, interactivity, stability, consideration for the present ability of the students, and accuracy.

A pivoting device especially useful in aircraft passenger cabins that can pivot a monitor between stowed and open positions, the pivoting device including a forward / reverse rotatable driving motor. An electromagnetic brake holds the monitor in stowed and opened positions A power unit powers the motor and the electromagnetic brake. A controller controls the pivoting movement of the monitor. The power unit includes a rectifier circuit that transforms AC to a DC, a step-up circuit that steps up the transformed voltage, a voltage regulator that adjusts the transformed voltage to a prescribed DC voltage, and a retraction power retention circuit including a capacitor. When no source voltage is detected while the monitor is in its opened state, the capacitor supplies the power to a voltage regulator of the power circuit, deactivates the electromagnetic brake and reverse rotates the motor to drive the monitor to its stowed position.

A gas diffusion electrode and a method for manufacturing the same, the gas diffusion electrode being used for a fuel cell and configured by forming a microporous layer containing conductive microparticles and water-repellent resin on at least one surface of a conductive porous base material, wherein the gas diffusibility in the thickness direction thereof is 30% or more, the conductive porous base material has a sliding angle of 70° or less and a porosity of 80% or more, and the microporous layer has a thickness of 10-50 μm inclusive, and a porosity of 60-95% inclusive.

The top ends of polysilicon gate electrodes with different gate lengths are formed so as to be equally high and lower than the top end of the side wall. A metal film is formed so as to cover the polysilicon gate electrodes, followed by silicidation by thermal treatment. Since the top ends of the polysilicon gate electrodes are formed lower than the top end of the side wall, a silicon side reaction is not accelerated even in the case of a fine gate length, and proceeds in a one-dimensional manner. As a result, full-silicide gate electrodes having a uniform metal composition ratio can be stably formed even using the polysilicon gates with different gate lengths.

A porous polymeric ink-jet receiver prepared by generating an emulsion comprising a first phase having a first carrier fluid and a second phase having a second carrier fluid, said first and second carrier fluids being immiscible; coating the emulsion onto a support; carrying out a first treatment to at least one component of the first phase to form and / or maintain a skeletal structure of the treated at least one component of the first phase; and carrying out a second treatment to the second phase to substantially remove the carrier fluid thereby generating a large capacity porous structure defined by the skeletal structure is capable of rapid uptake of large quantities of ink, especially when using a high internal phase water-in-oil emulsion.

The invention relates to a method and a system for using photofission to probe an article containing potentially radiation-emitting elements. The article is bombarded by a beam of electrons of sufficient energy, and they are converted into photons by bremsstrahlung directly within the article to be probed, which article is likely to contain photofissile material. No target is added to the package to perform this conversion. Preferably, the article to be probed is a package of radioactive waste, in which the container is made of thick absorbent concrete.

A transformer section transforms a primary voltage and outputs secondary voltage. A control section inputs a first signal indicating a state of electricity supply of a primary power source through an in-vehicle network. The transformer section outputs a second signal indicating a state of electricity supply of the transformer section. When the input of the first signal is disrupted, the control section limits the driving electricity supplied to the steering motor based on at least one of a value of the secondary voltage and the electricity supply state of the transformer section indicated by the second signal. Accordingly, driving electricity is stably supplied with the steering motor with a simple configuration even if the input of the first signal is disrupted due to a failure in the in-vehicle network.

A flip chip package may include a substrate, a semiconductor chip, main bump structures and auxiliary bump structures. The substrate has a circuit pattern. The semiconductor chip is arranged over the substrate. The semiconductor chip includes a body having semiconductor structures, main pads electrically connected to the semiconductor structures to mainly control the semiconductor structures, and auxiliary pads electrically connected to the semiconductor structures to provide auxiliary control of the semiconductor structures. The main bump structures are interposed between the semiconductor chip and the substrate to electrically connect the circuit pattern with the main pads. The auxiliary bump structures can be interposed between the semiconductor chip and the substrate to electrically connect the circuit pattern with the auxiliary pads.

An optical transmitter comprises an amplitude modulation unit performing amplitude modulation of only a one-side amplitude of a main signal with a low-frequency signal having a predetermined frequency. An optical modulator receives an input signal generated after the one-side amplitude modulation, and modulates an incoming light in response to the received signal in accordance with a predetermined modulation-characteristic curve to output an optical output signal. An operating point control unit applies a predetermined bias voltage to the optical modulator to control a level of the input signal substantially applied to the modulation-characteristic curve so that the one-side amplitude of the main signal is applied to a minimum portion of the modulation-characteristic curve of the optical modulator.

A transformer section transforms a primary voltage and outputs secondary voltage. A control section inputs a first signal indicating a state of electricity supply of a primary power source through an in-vehicle network. The transformer section outputs a second signal indicating a state of electricity supply of the transformer section. When the input of the first signal is disrupted, the control section limits the driving electricity supplied to the steering motor based on at least one of a value of the secondary voltage and the electricity supply state of the transformer section indicated by the second signal. Accordingly, driving electricity is stably supplied with the steering motor with a simple configuration even if the input of the first signal is disrupted due to a failure in the in-vehicle network.

An optical transmitter comprises an amplitude modulation unit performing amplitude modulation of only a one-side amplitude of a main signal with a low-frequency signal having a predetermined frequency. An optical modulator receives an input signal generated after the one-side amplitude modulation, and modulates an incoming light in response to the received signal in accordance with a predetermined modulation-characteristic curve to output an optical output signal. An operating point control unit applies a predetermined bias voltage to the optical modulator to control a level of the input signal substantially applied to the modulation-characteristic curve so that the one-side amplitude of the main signal is applied to a minimum portion of the modulation-characteristic curve of the optical modulator.

A signal-processing method adapted to perform predetermined signal processing based on a unit signal transmitted from a semiconductor device that includes at least two unit components arranged in a predetermined order, where each of the unit components includes a detection unit configured to detect change information responsive to a change in an incident physical quantity and a unit-signal-generation unit configured to generate the unit signal based on the change information, and that detects the distribution of the physical quantity is provided. The signal-processing method includes the steps of externally transmitting operation information that can specify an operation state of the semiconductor device from the semiconductor device and performing the predetermined signal processing based on the unit signal by referring to the operation information in a signal-processing unit provided outside the semiconductor device.