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An adding unit 14 of a broadcasting apparatus 11 attaches entry information to a content to be broadcast. The entry information specifies a content that is identical to the content to be broadcast out of a plurality of contents available for distribution by a distributing apparatus 12. A sending unit 15 of the broadcasting apparatus 11 broadcasts the content with the entry information attached thereto. An entry information recording unit 106 of a recording apparatus 30 records the entry information that is attached to the received content to a hard disk 104, and a requesting unit 107 requests the distributing apparatus 12 to distribute the content specified by the recoded entry information. A content distributing unit 21 of the distributing apparatus 12 receives the distribution request, and distributes the requested content to the recording apparatus 30. The recording apparatus 30 plays back the distributed content.

A method and apparatus are provide for managing varying traffic loads in a packetized communication network. At a predefined location, the instantaneous demand for bandwidth required for delivering traffic via a plurality of active channels is compared with the available bandwidth. When the available bandwidth at that pre-defined location is less than the bandwidth required to convey the signals carried along all these active channels, a rate adjusting mechanism is applied to at least one of the active channels, while repeating this check periodically. The rate adjusting mechanism is applied on packetized signals arriving along at least one group of active channels so as to ensure that: a substantially equalized signal quality is maintained for signals delivered via all of the active channels belonging to certain one or more groups of active channels, and the instantaneous overall bandwidth required to convey all the signals arriving at the pre-defined location, is not more than the available instantaneous bandwidth.

Provided is a radio communication device which can make ACK reception quality and NACK reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e-j(p / 2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a ZAC sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, even with a reduced circuit size, capable of securing image quality equal to that having a larger circuit size. The apparatus includes: a drive signal generating unit for supplying drive signals to selected ultrasonic transducers; a reception signal processing unit for processing reception signals outputted from ultrasonic transducers in a selected aperture; a control unit for controlling the drive signal generating unit such that ultrasonic beams are transmitted at plural times, and sequentially storing the reception signals obtained by ultrasonic transducers in plural different apertures receiving ultrasonic echoes generated by the ultrasonic beams transmitted at the plural times, in a memory; a reception beam former for performing reception focusing processing on the reception signals corresponding to the plural different apertures to generate sound ray signals; and an image signal generating unit for generating an image signal based on the sound ray signals.

A system, methods, an area register and a service center for transmitting point-to-multipoint services to a geographical destination area that can be indicated by using a logical name. Logical names must be mapped to distribution addresses. The system therefor comprises memory means (AR) for mapping each predetermined logical name (71) to one or more network element addresses (72,73) of the system. In addition, the system comprises one or more service centers which are arranged to inquire, in response to a received service request, the memory means (AR) for the addresses (72, 73) of the network elements corresponding to the logical name (71) of the destination area and to transmit the point-to-multipoint service to the geographical destination area via the network elements. The service is transmitted to cells in conventional manner via network nodes, while a service request is transmitted to other service centers.

The present invention discloses a method and corresponding system of processing waste fabrics to rejuvenated fibrous materials that will maintain their original quality in downstream production without a loss of downstream manufacturing efficiencies. The method comprises the steps of (a) obtaining fabric data for each bale of incoming waste fabrics and storing the fabric data in a database; (b) obtaining target data relating to target product requirements; (c) processing the fabric data stored in the database and the target data according to predetermined algorithms to generate a rejuvenation processing recipe which specifies bales information relating to bales of incoming waste fabrics selected for further rejuvenation processing, and rejuvenation processes information relating to a series of processes and corresponding process parameters for each of the series of processes for processing the selected bales of incoming waste fabrics to obtain rejuvenated fibrous materials specific to the target product requirements; (d) selecting, according to the bales information of the rejuvenation processing recipe, corresponding bales of incoming waste fabrics for further rejuvenation processing; and (e) subjecting the selected bales of incoming waste fabrics to processes specified by the rejuvenation processes information of the rejuvenation processing recipe to obtain rejuvenated fibrous materials specific to the target product requirements.

A cigar cutting apparatus has a housing defining a hole for receiving a cigar head, the hole having a hole diameter and defining a hole axis central thereto. First and second cutting blades lie within and are pivotable relative to the housing about first and second pivot axes, respectively. The first and second pivot axes are disposed on a line separated from the hole axis by at least the hole diameter and separately disposed by at least the hole diameter. Each cutting blade has a cutting edge pivotable with the associated cutting blade and directed toward the cutting edge of the other cutting blade. The cutting blades cooperate with the hole to define a passageway for receiving a cigar head when the cutting blades are pivoted away from each other, and the cutting edges cooperate to slice through the cigar head as the cutting blades are pivoted towards each other. The cutting blades come together to block the passageway. A spring biases the cutting edges apart, and a latch is engageable with for retaining together the first and second cutting blades to block the passageway, and operable to release the blades to allow the spring to cause the first and second cutting edges apart to expose the passageway.

An injection molded product is provided on its surface with a fine grain-like pattern resembling a grain pattern of a natural wooden material. The fine grain-like pattern of the injection molded product 1 (a product part 2) is formed from a molten resin 15 comprising a first material 24 and a second material 25 having a different color, mixed in a substantially separate manner, by feeding the molten resin into a cavity 18 for molding the injection molded product in a form of plural divided streams 26 each having a generally constant width so as to allow the second material to solidify as a trace of each divided streams 26.

An image reading apparatus for reading an image of a document in a selected one of a first mode and a second mode includes: a light source adapted to illuminate a surface of the document; a CCD sensor adapted to receive light reflected from the document surface; and a light intensity controller adapted to control the light source to emit light at a different intensity between the first and second modes.

A fruit harvester (100) includes a conventional engine (108) with gear and throttle assemblies (106) for use in the field to harvest fruit. The harvester (100) includes an air divider assembly with ducting (118), catcher pans and baffles (120). A pivoting picking mechanism (124) is provided, along with a conveyor assembly (126). A separator (138) is provided, with air ducting (146). As fruit passes through the harvester (100), fingers (172, 174) cause the fruit to be removed from the fruit plants and deposited within the harvester (100).

A display device. The display device includes a front light unit, a color filter, an optical polarizer film, a transmissive and reflective polarizer film, and a transmissive panel. The front light unit comprises a light guide plate and a light source, disposed on an end of the light guide plate. The color filter is disposed on the light guide plate. The optical polarizer film is sandwiched between the front light unit and the color filter. The transmissive panel is sandwiched between the color filter and the transmissive and reflective polarizer film. An electronic device utilizing the display device is also disclosed.

The invention discloses a remote monitoring system and method for opposed bridge deflection, comprising a liquid storage tank, a communication tube, a double-base point calibration module, a deflection measuring submodule, a data bus, a data synchronization collector, an industrial control computer, and a remote communication module. The liquid storage tank and the double-base point calibration module are mounted on a vertical section of the communication tube, and a horizontal section of the communication tube is communicated with each deflection measuring submodule. The deflection measuringsubmodule comprises a stop valve, a first liquid storage tube, a second liquid storage tube, a first pressure sensor, and a second pressure sensor. The first liquid storage tube and the second liquidstorage tube are respectively mounted at two ends of the stop valve, and are arranged horizontally and symmetrically. The second liquid storage tube is connected to the horizontal section of the communication tube through an interface of the communication tube. The first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor are respectively arranged at outer ends of the first liquid storage tube and thesecond liquid storage tube. According to the remote monitoring system and method for opposed bridge deflection, the influence of liquid vibration in the communication tube on the measurement data is avoided by measuring the pressure value of the pressure sensor corresponding to the two opposed liquid storage tubes, and accurate measurements of dynamic deflection are achieved.

The invention discloses a flexible lightweight shape-stabilized phase change energy storage piece and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of materials, in particular to aphase change energy storage piece. The flexible lightweight shape-stabilized phase change energy storage piece comprises the following components in parts by weight: 1 to 10 parts of array shape-stabilized bodies, 10 to 90 parts of heat conducting phase change energy storage materials, 2 to 50 parts of heat conducting gap filling materials, and 3 to 30 parts of fixing glue. The flexible lightweight shape-stabilized phase change energy storage piece has the advantages that a flexible micro sealing bag is manufactured into an array shape-stabilized body, and an array unit structure is formed toplay a role of stabilizing the shape of the heat conducting phase change energy storage materials and shorten the melt flowing distance during solid-liquid conversion of the phase change energy storage materials, so that the influence on the shape of the phase change energy storage piece by gravity is reduced on the premise that the flexibility of the phase change energy storage piece is kept, andmeanwhile, a casing material adopts resin or aluminum foils, so that the overall mass of the change energy storage piece is lighter.

A method and apparatus are provided for managing varying traffic loads in a packetized communication network. At a predefined location, the instantaneous demand for bandwidth required for delivering traffic via a plurality of active channels is compared with the available bandwidth. When the available bandwidth at that pre-defined location is less than the bandwidth required to convey the signals carried along all these active channels, a rate adjusting mechanism is applied to at least one of the active channels, while repeating this check periodically. The rate adjusting mechanism is applied on packetized signals arriving along at least one group of active channels so as to ensure that: a substantially equalized signal quality is maintained for signals delivered via all of the active channels belonging to certain one or more groups of active channels, and the instantaneous overall bandwidth required to convey all the signals arriving at the pre-defined location, is not more than the available instantaneous bandwidth.

A document data capturing device includes a sheet supply tray for carrying documents, a sheet discharge tray located below the sheet supply tray, and a document conveying mechanism including a conveying path along which documents are guided from the sheet supply tray to the sheet discharge tray. The document data capturing device includes a first data-capturing unit and a second data-capturing unit which scan respective sides of a document conveyed by the document conveying mechanism. The first data-capturing unit and the second data-capturing unit are each configured with a reduction-optics scanning mechanism. The conveying path along which a document to be scanned by the first and second scanning mechanisms is conveyed is formed to surround the second reduction-optics data-capturing unit. Thus, the device can be made compact.

Disclosed herein are a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method. The vehicle control apparatus includes a yaw-rate sensor to detect a yaw-rate of a vehicle, a steering-angle sensor to detect a steering angle of the vehicle, and a Micro Controller Unit (MCU) to calculate a yaw-rate based on the steering-angle, to calculate a target braking pressure of a wheel based on a difference between the actual yaw-rate detected via the yaw-rate sensor and the calculated yaw-rate, and to adjust a braking pressure of the wheel based on the calculated target braking pressure.

A pair of spectacle lenses includes: a first refractive portion; a second refractive portion whose refractive power is stronger than the first's; and a progressive power portion in which a refractive power changes progressively from the first to the second refractive portion, first refractive powers of a left and right of the lenses being different, progressive power portions lengths of the left and right of the lenses are different and changing rates of additions of the left and right of the lenses are different in accordance with a shift between left and right visual lines so that a difference between addition effects acting on the wearer's eyes is reduced when the left and right visual lines shift with respect to each other depending on the first refractive powers of the left and the right of the lenses being different where the wearer views an object through the lenses.

A pharmacological composition including a component having pressure reductive activity obtained from Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii fruit body which is safe and cheap, harvested constantly year-round by artificial cultivation, with equal quality, and useful for prevention and / or amelioration of symptom of hypertension caused by angiotensin I converting enzyme or the like. The invention also includes foods or beverages containing the pharmacological compositions, and methods of preventing or treating hypertension by administration of the composition.

A document data capturing device includes a sheet supply tray for carrying documents, a sheet discharge tray located below the sheet supply tray, and a document conveying mechanism including a conveying path along which documents are guided from the sheet supply tray to the sheet discharge tray. The document data capturing device includes a first data-capturing unit and a second data-capturing unit which scan respective sides of a document conveyed by the document conveying mechanism. The first data-capturing unit and the second data-capturing unit are each configured with a reduction-optics scanning mechanism. The conveying path along which a document to be scanned by the first and second scanning mechanisms is conveyed is formed to surround the second reduction-optics data-capturing unit. Thus, the device can be made compact.

A device for the three-sided cropping of products, includes a lifting configuration constructed for operating in a stroke movement determining a machine cycle of the device. At least knives for head cropping, foot cropping and front edge cropping of the products are to be mounted on the lifting configuration. A pressing device presses the products before cropping. A device terminates the pressing of the pressing device, in such a way that the pressing duration of the device can be varied.

Defining reference lens common to left and right; calculating object side angle view of light rays passing through sample points on reference lens; calculating light rays whose object side angles of view for prescribed lens are equal to calculated object side angles of view, obtaining light ray passing positions on the prescribed lens through light rays having the same object side angles of view as the light rays corresponding to sample points on the reference lens pass; calculating ratio between distance from intersection between visual line in front view and reference lens to sample point on reference lens and distance from intersection between visual line in front view and prescribed lens to light ray passing position on prescribed lens; and correcting a curvature distribution of prescribed lens by correcting curvature at each of light ray passing positions on prescribed lens corresponding to object side angles of view.

Defining a reference lens common to a left and a right; defining a reference object surface; calculating chief ray passing positions on the reference lens and a prescribed lens through which a chief ray from each point on each of the plurality of object surfaces passes; calculating a ratio between a distance from an intersection between a visual line in a front view and the reference lens to the chief ray passing position on the reference lens and a distance from an intersection between a visual line in a front view and the prescribed lens to the chief ray passing position on the prescribed lens; and correcting a curvature distribution of the prescribed lens by correcting curvature at the chief ray passing position on the prescribed lens corresponding to each point on each of the plurality of object surfaces.

A thermostat valve is provided. The thermostat valve comprises a cylindrical valve, a cylindrical opening and closing member, a temperature sensing and operating unit, and a spring. One end of the valve is closed. An opened inlet port is formed in the opposite end of the valve. The first and second outlets of the valve housing are formed on the circumference at interval in a longitudinal direction. The cylindrical opening and closing member advances and retreats within the valve in order to selectively open and close the first and second outlets. The temperature sensing and operating unit has a body part and a piston shaft, the piston shaft is disposed at the main body portion and with the end portion protruding toward the external side of the main body portion being supported by the closed end portion of the valve. The spring is supported in a spring support member in order to press the opening and closing member. One end of the spring support member is supported in the opening and closing member, and the other end is installed in the inlet port of the valve housing.

An image reading apparatus for reading an image of a document in a selected one of a first mode and a second mode includes: a light source adapted to illuminate a surface of the document; a CCD sensor adapted to receive light reflected from the document surface; and a light intensity controller adapted to control the light source to emit light at a different intensity between the first and second modes.

The invention provides a molding apparatus for a glass fiber reinforced plastic product. The molding apparatus comprises a product female mould, a stirrer and a fan, wherein the product female mould is installed on a female mould support, one end of the product female mould is connected with a driving motor, a demolding air passage is arranged in the product female mould and is connected with the fan through a demolding air faucet, the stirrer is located above the product female mould, the lower end of the stirrer is connected with a sprue of the product female mould through a material guiding pipe, a joint of the material guiding pipe and the stirrer is provided with a solenoid valve, a flowmeter is arranged on the solenoid valve, and the driving motor, the stirrer, the fan and the solenoid valve are all connected with a programmable controller. The molding apparatus for the glass fiber reinforced plastic product has the advantages of a simple structure, automatic operation, capacity of producing glass fiber reinforced plastic product products with same quality and improved production efficiency.

The invention relates to a fully-surrounded block pressing machine. The fully-surrounded block pressing machine comprises a feeding inlet, a material storage bin, a block pressing bin and a conveying plate. The feeding inlet is formed in the upper end of the material storage bin. A material blocking plate is installed at an output opening of the material storage bin. The block pressing bin is cylindrical. A driving screw rod is installed on the axis of the block pressing bin, driven by a driving motor and sleeved with a pressing block. The pressing block can slide up and down close to the inner wall of the block pressing bin. A discharging outlet is formed in the lower end of the block pressing bin. The size of the conveying plate is matched with that of the discharging outlet. The conveying plate is pulled and controlled by a mechanical arm. A weight measuring instrument is further installed below the conveying plate and coupled to a control motor. According to the fully-surrounded block pressing machine, the structure is simple, and fully-surrounded squeezing shaping can be achieved by applying force from a single direction, so that iron scrap blocks high in density and convenient to convey and store are convenient to manufacture, and the pressing efficiency is effectively improved.