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An intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., an electrical power meter, having wireless communication capabilities, e.g., Bluetooth connectivity, for transmitting and receiving data without a hardwire connection is provided. A system and method for retrieving revenue metering data from at least one IED, e.g., a revenue meter, are also provided. The system includes at least one intelligent electronic device including a transceiver configured for receiving calculated energy consumption data from a processor and transmitting the calculated energy consumption data via a spread-spectrum frequency hopping technique; and a data collection device configured for receiving the calculated energy consumption data from the at least one intelligent electronic device in response to supplying a pairing passkey to the intelligent electronic device.

A system, wireless device (306) and method determine that a wireless device (306) is detecting a triggering event. The triggering event includes detecting a WLAN border cell (210), detecting a first signal from an egress portal (302), or detecting a degradation in signal quality. The wireless device (306) then detects at least one signal from an egress portal (302), determines that the wireless device (306) is moving from the coverage area of a first communications system to the coverage area of a second communications system according to the order of signals received from the egress portal (302), initiates a registration sequence with the second wireless communication system in response to determining that the wireless device (306) is moving from the coverage area of the first communications system to the coverage area of the second communications system, and conducts present and subsequent calls via the second wireless communication system.

An occlusion device and a production process for it are described. The occlusion device consists of a mesh or braiding of at least one wire or thread wherein the occlusion device has been given a suitable design using a reshaping and / or heat-treatment process, is self-expandable, and is configured for secure anchoring in an atrial appendage of the left or right atrium of a heart. The occlusion device comprises a proximal retention region on a proximal end of the occlusion device a distal retention region and a central region between the proximal retention region and said distal retention region and wherein the occlusion device has a closed distal end without a holder, and wherein the occlusion device is at least partly of essentially spherical form, and hollow.

An enhanced mechanism for intelligently selecting between the utilization of geo-fencing and map matching in a telematics system. This geo-fencing / map matching selection mechanism determines for a use case at least one of a use case type and a telematics device location. If it is determined that the use case is a first use case type (e.g., fleet management) or the telematics device location is within a first region (e.g., a region without significant change), a geo-region map is utilized for geo-fencing. Otherwise, a vectorial map is utilized for map matching. Hence, in regions and / or use cases where detailed maps are not required, the geo-fencing / map matching selection mechanism can automatically utilize a geo-region map and thereby save on cost, both with regard to the cost of map licensing fees and the communications expenses necessary to provide detailed map updates to one or more telematics devices.

A gas stream containing e.g. molecular hydrogen is used for the regeneration of a catalyst for NOx and SO2 removal from the flue gas of a gas turbine. In order to reduce the consumption of regeneration gas, the gas inlet is located between the SCOSOx catalyst (2) and the SCONOx catalyst (3). The regeneration gas leaves the catalyst chamber upstream of the SCOSOx catalyst and is recycled. For the regeneration of the SCONOx catalyst and to keep SO2 containing gas from entering the SCONOx catalyst, a second regeneration gas inlet is located downstream of the SCONOx catalyst. The regeneration gas entering the catalyst chamber through this port passes the SCONOx (3) and the SCOSOx catalyst (2). The direction of the flow in the SCONOx catalyst can also be reversed. In another example, regeneration gas outlets are located both upstream of the SCOSOx and downstream of the SCONOx catalyst. But, only the regeneration gas from the SCONOx catalyst is recycled.

A bandwidth allocation and management system for cellular communication networks. The system includes at least one master optical switch and processing station, a number of aggregation base stations that are in optical fiber communication with a master optical switching and processing station and a number of auxiliary cellular base stations surrounded by and supported by each aggregation base station. In preferred embodiments a plurality of sets of three neighboring base stations are each adapted to receive and process RF signals transmitted by cellular users within a broadcast and receive range and transmit the RF signals received, by each of the three neighborhood base stations, from each of the cellular users in analog form to the master optical switching and processing station. The master optical switching and processing station processes the three RF signals and combine, for each user within the broadcast and receive range, the three RF signals and to convert the combined RF signals to digital form for transmission to other users in the communication network.

Improvements in a thermostat for HVAC control and an irrigation controller for sprinkler control are constructed each with a Base Unit and a removable User Interface Unit. The dual-function Base Unit is configurable for use as either a thermostat or an irrigation controller. The Base Unit has a connector for connection to a separate User Interface (UI) Unit. The separate UI Unit has a display, controls, and I / O Connector for connection to a Base Unit or an external computer. The UI Unit adaptively operates as a thermostat interface or irrigation interface, as is appropriate for the configuration of a connected Base Unit. The UI Unit can be connected via its I / O Connector to a PC, tablet PC, or smart phone for configuration of operational control settings using application software. The configuration settings are transferred from a UI Unit to a Base Unit upon connection via the I / O Connector.

A method for reducing the formation of deposits on the inner walls of a tubular heat exchanger through which a petroleum-based liquid is flowing comprises applying one of fluid pressure pulsations to the liquid flowing through the tubes of the exchanger and vibration to the heat exchanger to effect a reduction of the viscous boundary layer adjacent the inner walls of the tubular heat exchange surfaces. Reduction of the viscous boundary layer at the tube walls not only reduces the incidence of fouling with its consequential beneficial effect on equipment life but it also has the desirable effect of promoting heat transfer from the tube wall to the liquid in the tubes. Fouling and corrosion are further reduced by the use of a coating on the inner wall surfaces of the exchanger tubes.

A system, method, and computer program product are provided that implement integrated on-line solution for related users (business or otherwise) of a NAF neighborhood the ability to interact with each other and automate and keep track of such interactions. In one embodiment, users / members of a NAF EC can enter requests / offers (wanted / looking for, sell / buy and other type of requests). Other users of that NAF EC can view and respond to any of such postings. In one embodiment, members of neighboring NAF ECs of an EC ecosystem, with mutual agreement between EC operators, will be able to view postings of other ECs. Neighborhood businesses can advertise to system users and / or subscribe and receive member postings for wanted, help, goods, and services. Local businesses can also distribute eCoupons to members of a NAF EC or to members across multiple NAF ECs to save cost and target and reward customers more effectively; and users will be able to search and print such eCoupons or send them on-line to businesses to claim those eCoupons. In one embodiment, residents of a property centric NAF EC or mini EC within another NAF EC can send maintenance requests to owners / manager of a property; and property owners can post property related maintenance or other projects / requests to one or more ECs of an EC ecosystem to get offers / bids for that work / project.

A method for managing buildings comprises providing a computer database 10 operative to store information relating to at least one building 30, said information comprising building characteristics; Each said building having associated therewith a facility; Each said facility having associated therewith an account; Providing an operational link between a user and said computer database 20, receiving a user request to interact with said computer database 100, providing means for a user to establish a selected account 101, 102, providing means for a user to establish a selected facility 103, providing means for a user to establish a selected building 104, and presenting a user with information relating to said selected building 105.

Disclosed are a device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, including: an algal culture tank for culturing microalgae capable of treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater; and a separation membrane for separating thus treated water from the microalgae, and a method for the same.According to the disclosed device and method, microalgae are cultured at high concentrations using wastewater, instead of an artificial culture medium, as a culture medium. As a result, nitrogen and phosphorus can be effectively treated from the wastewater, and the microalgae, which are useful as a biomass, may be cultured and recovered stably.

Disclosed are exemplary implementations of an instrument having an RFID tag formed in or on the material of its handle. One or more antenna segments of the RFID tag may be formed from conductive material printed on or otherwise applied to a surface of the material or they may be formed from a conductive foil or other preformed material applied to the surface of the elastic material of the instrument handle. The antenna segments may be configured to represent at least a portion of a graphic, such as a company logo, for viewing by a user or handler of the instrument. At least a portion of the RFID tag and surrounding of the instrument handle may be covered by a protective material to prevent damage to the RFID tag as a result of repeated handling or subjection of the instrument to autoclaving, sterilization or caustic materials.

The present invention relates to a method for estimating a distance between nodes by using a round trip time (RTT) of a packet based on a CSMA / CA protocol in wireless sensor networks and a system thereof. The present invention provides a method for estimating a distance between nodes in wireless sensor networks that includes (a) measuring a transmission time of a transmission signal transmitted to the other node and a reception time of a reception signal received from the other node in response the transmission signal, and receiving a reception time of the transmission signal through the reception signal from the other node and a transmission time of the reception signal through a signal received after the reception signal from the other node; and (b) estimating a distance to the other node by using the transmission / reception time of all signals acquired in step (a). According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately estimate the distance between two nodes and as a result, it is possible to accurately identify positions of nodes that are deployed in a sensor field.

Provides is a method including receiving information on a surrounding situation detected by the mobile robot; detecting birds from the received surrounding situation information; allocating a birds control mission to the mobile robot by extracting a birds control pattern corresponding to the surrounding situation; and verifying a result in accordance with performing the allocated birds control mission from the mobile robot. By controlling the birds so as to, in advance, prevent a loss of lives and economical loss which may be caused when the birds collide with airplanes at the airport, it is possible to improve productivity and efficiency of a birds repelling job in an airport and provide construction of a new type of aviation maintenance business model by activating an air traffic control industry through providing a safer airplane operating model while saving operating personnel costs for preventing collision of birds.

A light sensitive semiconductor package and a fabrication method thereof are provided in which a chip is mounted on a chip carrier and encompassed by a dam, and an infrared filter is attached to the dam to hermetically isolate the chip from the atmosphere. An encapsulant is formed on the chip carrier and surrounds the dam, and a lens is supported by the encapsulant to be positioned above the infrared filter. This allows light to penetrate through the infrared filter and lens to reach the chip. Before forming the encapsulant and mounting the lens, the semi-fabricated package with the chip being hermetically isolated by the infrared filter and dam is subject to a leak test, allowing a semi-fabricated package successfully passing the test to be formed with the encapsulant and lens, so as to reduce fabrication costs and improve yield of fabricated package products.

A holder comprises a base body, at least two terminals, a connector and at least two wires. The base body defines a receiving hole for receiving the light emitting module. The terminals are provided to the base body and each have a pressing contact portion and a wire insertion structure, the pressing contact portions extend into the receiving hole and respectively press against the contact pads of the light emitting module. The connector is provided to the base body so as to externally connect a mating connector. The wires respectively correspond to the terminals to allow one end of each wire to be detachably connected to the wire insertion structure of the corresponding terminal and the other end of the each wire to be connected to the connector so that the terminals and the connector are electrically connected.

An Ethernet switch for use in an Ethernet network comprises a set of ingress ports for receiving data frames and a set of egress ports. A memory is associated with each ingress port and stores forwarding information indicating one or more of the egress ports to which data frames received by that ingress port should be forwarded. A control or management interface receives information about a network connection established, or to be established, through the switch. A switch controller causes forwarding information to be stored in a memory associated with a first ingress port which the network connection will use, on the basis of the received information about a network connection. Forwarding information is not stored in a memory associated with a second of the set of ingress ports which the network connection will not use. Preferably, the switch controller causes forwarding information to be stored only in a memory associated with the first ingress port which the network connection will use and not to be stored in a memory associated with any of the other ingress ports.

The present invention relates to a multilayer polymeric film structure and a food package made therefrom. Specifically, the present invention relates to a seven-layer non-EVOH structure having six layers of alternating nylon and adhesive, and a seventh layer of a heat sealable polymer. Either the sixth layer comprising the adhesive or the seventh layer comprising the heat sealable polymer may further comprise a polymer, preferably polybutylene, polypropylene and / or high density polyethylene, that may allow the film structure to be easily peelable when heat sealed. Moreover, the present invention relates to food packages made by the film structures having a easy-open peelable seal component contained therein.

A method and apparatus for thin film fluid processing of biological samples without rinsing between treatments is provided. An apparatus having a treatment zone for treating a biological sample with a liquid reagent, comprising first and second substrates having facing surfaces defining a space therebetween in which the biological sample may be treated with the liquid reagent, wherein the first substrate comprises a relatively fluid impermeable element while the second substrate comprises a relatively flexible gas permeable element.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing green software applications and / or certifying software applications with a green applications efficiency (“GAE”) rating. Implementing green software applications might include performing performance tests of a software application, measuring power consumption of one or more hardware components, in response to execution of the software application during the one or more performance tests, generating a power consumption profile for the software application based on the measure power consumption, and tuning the software application such that power consumption of the one or more hardware components matches a power load caused by execution of the software application, based at least in part on the power consumption profile for the software application. Certifying software applications might include calculating an efficiency rating based on measured or calculated hardware power consumption, calculating the GAE rating for the software application, and certifying the software application with the GAE rating.

A metal surface can be corrosion protected by coating a corrosion protection composition on the metal surface, thereby obtaining a coating; and curing said coating at a temperature of from 20 to 120° C., to obtain a cured coating; wherein said corrosion protection composition comprises a condensated and hydrolyzed oligomer and / or polymer of at least one functionalized silane.

A method for packaging a semiconductor chip, generally comprising the following steps of: (a) forming a plurality of openings on the top surface of the conducting substrate, wherein the upper portions of the openings are formed larger than the lower portions of the openings; (b) forming insulating sections in the conducting substrate by filling an insulating material in the openings; (c) forming a plurality of leads insulated by the insulating sections by planarizing the bottom surface of the conducting substrate to expose and form planarized bottom surfaces of the insulating sections; (d) mounting a semiconductor chip on the bottom surface of the conducting substrate; (e) providing a plurality of conducting wires to electrically connect the semiconductor chip to the leads; and (f) encapsulating the semiconductor chip and the conducting wires. The package according to the present invention is characterized by upper portions of the leads that are purposedly formed larger than lower portions of the leads which prevents the leads from being easily detachable and the package from being destructed by water, the reliability of the package is thus increased.

The invention relates to a device for removing or inserting a fuse, in particular an automotive safety fuse from or into a fuse base in a fuse strip. The device comprises a first and a second elongate arm which each have a distal end and a proximal end whereby an engaging section that may be brought into engagement with the fuse is provided in the distal end area of the first and / or second arm and a first connecting section connecting the first and second arm to each other is provided proximally to the engaging section. The device is characterised in that a second connecting section to connect the arms at a distance is provided proximally to the first connecting section and that the first and second connecting sections and the first and second arms have articulated connections arranged in such a way that reducing the distance between the two arms in the area between the two connecting sections causes the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to increase and that reducing the distance between the two arms in the area proximal to the second connecting section cause the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to decrease.

Some embodiments provide a method and system for identifying error markers for patterns within a design layout that do not meet the manufacturing constraints. Some embodiments extend a region from the error marked region to extract a pattern for decomposition analysis. Some embodiments compare the extracted pattern to known patterns stored in a library, which also stores at least one previously computed decomposition solution for each known pattern. For an extracted pattern existing within the library, some embodiments retrieve the previously computed decomposition solution from the library. For an extracted pattern that does not exist within the library, some embodiments use one or more simulations to determine a decomposition solution for the extracted pattern. The resulting decomposition solution replaces the extracted pattern within the design layout producing a variant of the original layout that contains the decomposed solution for the pattern.

A wireless illuminative speaker system, comprising a wireless transmitter comprising a transmitter body, a wireless transmit module, a main board printed board circuit assembly (PCBA), and a support, and at least one wireless illuminative receiving speaker comprising a speaker body, an illuminating part, a speaker part, and a wireless receiving module. The wireless transmitter operates to obtain audio data from an external electronic device and to transmit the audio data in the form of wireless audio digital signals, the wireless transmit module is disposed in the transmitter body, the main board PCBA operates to control the wireless transmit module, the support operates to mount an audio playing device thereon, the wireless illuminative receiving speaker operates to receive the wireless audio digital signals from the wireless transmitter and to plays the received wireless audio digital signals after digital-to-analog conversion, and the illuminating part is disposed in the speaker body.

An automotive microphone assembly. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the assembly comprises a first microphone, a second microphone, a connection means, and a housing. The connection means provides for electrical connection to the first and second microphones, and for connection to a first automotive subsystem and a second automotive subsystem, respectively. The first subsystem and second subsystem may comprise a telephony subsystem, speech recognition subsystem, speech recording subsystem, intercom subsystem, noise control subsystem, noise compensation subsystem, or noise monitoring subsystem. By use of the assembly of the present invention, a single microphone assembly may be used in support of multiple automotive subsystems, thereby saving space in the automobile and realizing costs savings in having a single assembly. In addition, the assembly is comprised of reasonably priced components, is easy to assemble, and permits for repair or replacement of the assembly or components thereof.

An adaptive frame rate modulation system and method thereof are described. A frame processing unit is employed to receive a first frame and a second frame for dividing the second frame into a plurality of second block frames. A frame change detection unit compares the first block frames with the second block frames correspondingly for detecting the change status between the first and second frames. A timing generator classifies the second block frames of the second frame to construct a plurality of frame rates based on the compared results of the first and second block frames. The timing generator further modulates the frame rates of the second frames.