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The invention relates to a method and device for transmitting light over a fat fiber (1) between optical components (B1; B2) of an optical measuring device, which are provided at a launching end (C) and at an extraction end (R; K; O) of the fat fiber (1). Said measuring device comprises a guiding means for the curved rigid guidance of a first partial section (PQ; FGHI; IJ; FL; LM; MN) of the fat fiber (1). If the radius of curvature of the curved guidance falls below a first limit, the light beam profile of the fat fiber (1) is homogenized by a mode mixing. In order to diminish the effect on the transmitted light caused by a permitted change in position of the fat fiber (1), a stiffening means, which is rigidly connected to the guiding means, is provided for rigidly guiding a second partial section (QR; JK; NO) of the fat fiber (1). Said second partial section connects to the first partial section (PQ; FGH; IJ; FL; LM; MN) and extends essentially up to the optical component (B2) located at the extraction end (R; K; O), whereby the entire length of the first and second partial section is at least provided with a length that renders the extraction end (R; K; O) of the fat fiber (1) mechanically stable.

A system for measuring fatigue of a component of an aircraft subject to mechanical stresses includes: a plurality of stress sensors mounted on the component, each sensor being configured to detect a predetermined mechanical stress threshold and to deliver a data signal representative of exceeding of the threshold; and a mechanism for recording the data and the sensors configured to detect different stress thresholds so as to make it possible to calculate, on the basis of the data recorded by the system, an estimation of fatigue of the component due to the mechanical stresses. It is thus possible to optimize overhaul of the components.

A thermal diffusivity measuring system including a measuring mechanism for measuring a radiation coefficient or a value for thermal conductivity for a mixed gas measured when the heater element has produced heat at a plurality of temperatures; a thermal diffusivity calculating equation storing device storing a thermal diffusivity calculating equation using the radiation coefficients or the thermal conductivities for a plurality of heat producing temperatures as independent variables and uses the thermal diffusivity as the dependent variable; and a thermal diffusivity calculating portion calculating a value for the thermal diffusivity of the mixed gas being measured through substituting the values of the radiation coefficients or the thermal conductivities of the mixed gas being measured, for the plurality of heat producing temperatures, for the independent variables of the radiation coefficients or thermal conductivities, for the plurality of heat producing temperatures, in the thermal diffusivity calculating equation.

A dual cell Electrochemical Impedance System (EIS) testing apparatus and method for measuring coating integrity on various substrates. The counter reference electrode is in a first cell in electrical contact with the coating. The working electrode is in a second cell in electrical contact with the coating instead of the substrate material acting as the working electrode. Voltage is applied at the working electrode at varying frequencies and current is measured at the combined reference / counter electrode. From the known voltage and the measured current, the impedance of the coating is calculated. Coatings on non-metallic substrates can be measured with this apparatus. In one embodiment, the EIS cells are in the form of vacuum cups containing an electrolyte gel for testing non-horizontal coatings in the field. Also, known current can be applied to the working electrode and voltage measured at the counter reference electrode can be used to calculate coating impedance.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for measuring in-situ stress in rock using a thermal crack. The method involves forming a borehole, cooling a wall of the borehole, applying tensile thermal stress, forming a crack in the borehole wall, and measuring temperature and cracking point. Afterwards, the borehole wall is heated to close the formed crack, the borehole wall is cooled again to re-open the crack, and temperature is measured when the crack is re-opened. The in-situ stress of the rock is calculated using a first cracking temperature at which the crack is formed and a second cracking temperature at which the crack is re-opened. Further, the apparatus cools, heats and re-cools the borehole wall, thereby measuring the first cracking temperature, the second cracking temperature, and the cracking point.

A robot system includes a robot including a movable portion, a plurality of transmitters that is provided on the movable portion and transmits wireless signals, three or more receivers receiving the wireless signals transmitted from each of the transmitters, and a position calculating unit detecting locations of the transmitters based on the wireless signals that the plurality of the receivers receives. In the system, the position calculating unit detects a pose of the robot from information on the locations of the detected plurality of the transmitters.

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing online advertisements, in which a fade-in type advertisement window that becomes gradually clear over a preset time is provided to a specific region of the content area of the web page. The apparatus for providing the online advertisement according to the present invention includes a web page control module (310) configured to receive information about a displayed web page from a user terminal (100); an advertisement window setup unit (320) configured to set the type of an advertisement window, and to set the size of the advertisement window and an advertisement exposure location at which the advertisement window is to be displayed on the user terminal (100); an advertisement exposure speed setup unit (330) configured to set a time over which the advertisement window fades in; a database (350) configured to store advertising data to be sent to the user terminal (100); and a control unit configured to control the individual elements and to transmit the advertisement window to the user terminal.According to the method for providing advertisements using a fade-in advertisement window in accordance with the present invention, the advertisement window is provided such that the advertisement window is gradually clearly exposed to the user while the user is viewing the web page, thereby heightening the interest of the user in the advertisement.

A method of measuring aberration of a projection optical system. The method includes the steps of imaging a test pattern through the projection optical system, and measuring a potential deviation amount of the image of the test pattern and measuring aberration of the project optical system on the basis of the positional deviation amount. The measuring step includes a process of determining a coefficient of a particular Zernike term and a process of changing a position or a shape of a region on a pupil plane of the projection optical system before light from the test pattern passes therethrough, in accordance with the particular Zernike term.

A temperature measuring device is configured of a substrate formed of a silicon wafer, a thermocouple formed by using the film forming method, the photolithographic method, and the etching method, and a clamp pad (an electrode pad) which is arranged in an edge portion of the substrate, and which is connected to the thermocouple. In a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, the temperature measuring device is fixed on a wafer mounting portion with a clamper pin (a fastening device) being in contact with the clamp pad. An output of the thermocouple is taken out to the outside through the clamper pin.

The present invention relates to a sensor comprising a material which generates an electrical signal in response to elongation. More particularly, the present invention is directed to an apparatus for measuring a length or volume change, which comprises a sensor comprising a piezoelectric material which generates an electrical signal in response to elongation.

A non-sampling-based Q-factor measuring apparatus and method use a power conversion module to transform the power variation of inputted optical signals in time domain into the variation in other domains, such as optical wavelength, optical polarization and different output ports of optical elements. Taking optical wavelength as an example, different levels of power variation respond different outputs of wavelength variation through the use of a power-to-wavelength conversion module. An optical filter then separates the inputted optical signals with different wavelengths. The power average of a wavelength for its corresponding optical signals is further calculated by a photo detector. Thereby, the information of the power variation for the inputted optical signals at levels 1 and 0 can be obtained, and the Q-factor for the inputted optical signals is easily measured.

In order to measure a sound characteristic in a sound space, measurement sound is outputted to the sound space. Measurement sound data of a predetermined time period, which is prepared in advance, is divided into plural block periods, and plural block sound data are generated. A reproduction process of reproducing the plural block sound data in the order forming the measurement sound data is executed plural times by shifting the block sound data reproduced first by one for each time. Thereby, the measurement sound is outputted. When the above reproduction process is executed plural times, detected sound data corresponding to the block sound data reproduced at the identical reproduction order for each time are operated, and a sound characteristic is determined. Thereby, it becomes possible to measure the sound characteristic in the period shorter than the measurement sound data of the predetermined time period.

There is described a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding for a functional α-galactosidase A protein wherein the nucleotide sequence has at least 85% identity to the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1. Also described is a vector, host cell or transgenic animal comprising the nucleic acid molecule; and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the nucleic acid molecule or the vector. Further, the use of the nucleic acid molecule in a method of treating Fabry disease is described.

A heart state monitor method is proposed. The pressure signal of a life body is measured and then performed by Fourier transform analysis. Next, the frequency domain data of the pressure signal are converted into a power spectral density (PSD). A heart beat noise index of the life body is then obtained according to the PSD. Finally, the heart state of the life body is diagnosed according to the heart beat noise index. The heart beat noise index may be quickly discriminated to let the life body and medical staffs grasp the current heart state of the life body at any time.

An optical displacement measurement device for introducing light from a light source to an object through an optical system having an objective lens and for detecting light reflected from the object by a detection section to thereby measure a displacement of the object relative to the objective lens. In the optical displacement measurement device, the objective lens is a conical lens for advancing the light toward the object and for receiving light reflected from the object to direct to the detection section, and the displacement of the object relative to the objective lens is measured in consideration of the property that a shape of an detected image detected by the detection section varies depending on the displacement of the object relative to the objective lens.

A biomedical measuring device, such as a test strip, has a simple structure, by which analyte can be measured easily using a small amount of specimen. In embodiments, the test strip generally includes a plastic first film layer having structure defining an aperture for retaining the reacting components, a porous membrane coupled to an inner-facing surface of the first film layer and configured to reduce background signal, an absorbent pad coupled to the porous membrane and first film layer to sandwich the porous membrane therebetween, the absorbent pad being configured for rapid absorption, and a plastic second film layer coupled to the absorbent pad, the second film layer being configured to provide a barrier to prevent liquid from leaking out of the test strip during use. The test strip can be easily used with an optical sensing device coupled to or containing an analyzer device (or reader device) for quickly detecting and measuring the analyte concentration. In a particular embodiment, the analyte comprises glycated hemoglobin or HbA1c, and the optical reader device is configured to determine HbA1c concentration.

Disclosed are an apparatus for measuring an FA wireless communication propagation environment and a method thereof which enables an FA measurer to easily measure the whole FA wireless communication propagation environment established between a base transceiver subsystem (BTS) and a mobile terminal at a certain place. If the FA change command is received from the PC while the terminal performs a wireless communication with the BTS through the FA determined by hashing the pre-input MIN number, the mobile terminal intercepts the FA determination by the hashing, and changes the FA according to the command from the PC. Then, if a system change command is input, the terminal changes the system, and reconnects by wireless to the BTS, so that the PC enables the FA measurer easily measure the whole FA-related wireless communication propagation environment allocated to a certain area.

There are provided an endoscopic diagnosis apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium that enable easy measurement of the size of a lesion portion or the like based on an endoscopic image captured through a normal operation without a special operation. A region detecting unit detects, from an endoscopic image, a region of an artificial object or the like that is in contact with a subject. An imaging size calculating unit calculates, in number of pixels, an imaging size in the endoscopic image of the region of the artificial object or the like that is in contact with the subject. A pixel size calculating unit calculates an actual size corresponding to one pixel. A scale generating unit generates scales indicating an actual size of the subject in the endoscopic image. A control unit performs control to combine the endoscopic image and the scales and to display.

A device for measuring action force of a wheel includes a vehicle axle upon which the wheel is mounted, the vehicle axle having a stress neutral line, and a stress detecting sensor having at least one strain gauge. The stress detecting sensor is disposed within the vehicle axle so as to detect at least one of a horizontal shear stress and a vertical sheer stress with the at least one strain gauge being one of aligned with or proximate the stress neutral line thereby permitting substantial removal of axle torque influence from an output of the stress detecting sensor. A signal processing circuit processes the output of the stress detecting sensor.

An apparatus and a method for measuring the internal ohmic resistance of a fuel cell system, in which the resistance can be easily measured through a current interruption method even while the fuel cell system is operated. An interrupter and an external energy consumption device are connected in parallel to each other between a fuel cell and a main energy consumption device such that current to the external energy consumption device is applied and interrupted by switching the interrupter on / off even while the fuel cell system is maintained in operation as is, thereby making it possible to easily measure the internal ohmic resistance of the fuel cell.

In a measurement support device according to an aspect, since information indicating a movement trajectory of a spot when an imaging distance is changed is displayed, it is easy to move the spot to be in the vicinity of a measurement target by changing the imaging distance by operating a head and an imaging unit forward or backward, and the measurement can be swiftly and easily performed. In addition, since an indicator figure (circular marker) having a size set according to the position of the spot is displayed, distance measurement is not necessary, the configuration is simple, and the processing load is low. Further, since the indicator figure and the information indicating the trajectory are displayed in the vicinity of the spot, the difference between the spot position and the position of the indicator figure is small and thus the indicator figure is accurate as an indicator, and since the indicator figure is not displayed in a wide range, the processing load is low.

A portable phone has a CPU and a magnetic sensor unit including an X-axis magnetic sensor, a Y-axis magnetic sensor, and a temperature sensor. CPU measures at first and second temperatures the influence of a magnetic field of permanent magnets upon an output Sx of the X-axis magnetic sensor and an output Sy of the Y-axis magnetic sensor, and stores the influence data together with the first and second temperature data. CPU estimates at the present temperature the influence upon the output Sx of the X-axis magnetic sensor and the output Sy of the Y-axis magnetic sensor, from the present temperature detected with the temperature sensor and the stored influence data. CPU corrects the outputs Sx and Sy in accordance with the estimated influence and determines the direction of the portable phone from the corrected outputs Sx and Sy.

Disclosed is a resistance-measurement apparatus, including: multiple measurement chambers for holding powdery materials; multiple first electrodes that press the respective powder materials in the measurement chambers; at least one second electrode that faces the first electrodes and that presses the powdery materials; and a measuring device that measures a resistance between the first electrodes and the at least one second electrode. Further disclosed is a resistance-measurement method, including: (i) placing at least one powdery material between a number N of first electrodes and at least one second electrode, and pressing the at least one powdery material therebetween; (ii) measuring an impedance between the number N of the first electrodes and the at least one second electrode; and (iii) measuring an impedance between a number M of the first electrodes and the at least one second electrode, wherein the number N is different from the number M.

A prepping tool according to the claimed invention comprises an arm assembly having a first end and a second end, a handle base rotationally coupled to the first end of the arm assembly and a cutting device operably coupled to the second end of the arm assembly. The prepping tool is configured to cut an object in variable circumferences in a substantially circular fashion.

Described herein are improvements relating to IGF-1 analysis, adjustment and disease management of non-neurological and / or neurological conditions. More specifically, methods relating to the clinical application of cyclic glycine-proline (cGP) biomarker for prediction of risk and recovery of non-neurological and / or neurological conditions with IGF-1 dysfunction and the use of a cGP containing organic or plant based material such as concentrated extract of blackcurrant anthocyanins (BCA) for the treatment of same. The methods more accurately measure IGF-1 function in vivo indirectly using cGP and cGP / IGF-1 ratio along with a means to adjust cGP and cGP / IGF-1 ratio (and hence active IGF-1 concentration), and specific treatment methods for individuals with a lower or reduction of cGP level relative to a standard set of baseline data.

This invention relates to apparatus and method for measurement and monitoring of physical properties of materials, such as liquids, and more particularly to acoustic instruments, methods, and systems that automatically measure air content in real-time within liquids, including concrete, mortar, or other hydratable cementitious mix suspensions using resonant electroacoustic transducers that have their radiating surfaces in contact with the liquid.

A measurement substrate 100 in which a silicon oxide film 102, a polysilicon layer 103 and a titanium silicide layer 104 are formed over a silicon substrate 101 in this order is prepared. The measurement substrate 100 is irradiated with X-rays so that the proportions of three types of silicides with different compositions in the titanium silicide layer 104 are measured based on the intensity of hard X-rays emitted from oxygen in the silicon oxide film 102 and the intensity of hard X-rays emitted from titanium in the titanium silicide layer 104.

A treating agent is fed to an application apparatus (40) used for applying coating color or surface size directly or indirectly to a paper or board web. Part of the treating agent fed to the application apparatus (40) is returned via a bypass line (24) to the treating agent feed system and part of it is passed into an application chamber in the application apparatus (40), from which application chamber substantially all treating agent fed into it is applied to a moving web or to a transfer surface. The flow of a treating agent (Q) to the application apparatus (40) is measured, and the feeding of the treating agent is controlled on the basis of the measured flow (Q) and of a predetermined set value (Q0), which set value has been selected according to the desired amount of treating agent to be applied to the moving web or transfer surface.