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Dynamic power controller apparatus, systems and methods are provided which utilize system and user data to control power to components. The present invention employs dynamically controlled idle timeout values which are based, in part, on the historical use of the component. It can also employ user settings, event occurrences and available resources of a system to dynamically control the power to one of the system's components or a remote component. In an instance of the present invention related to hard disk power control, it is employed in an operating system's kernel where disk idleness is monitored. When the hard disk's idle time meets a dynamically computed power control idle timeout, the disk driver is commanded to power down the device.

A circuit device for providing energy to at least one electrical component, such as a light emitting diode (LED). The circuit device comprises a positive contact, an inductor, a diode and a negative contact in series. A first component contact for electrical connection to a cathode end of an electrical component, a second component contact for electrical connection to an anode end of an electrical component, a switch and a control device are also included. The first component contact is electrically connected to a junction between the positive contact and one end of the inductor; and the second component contact is electrically connected to a cathode end of the diode. There are also provided a circuit device further including an LED, an assembly including a circuit device and a bulb base, a flashlight including an assembly, and a method of directly replacing a flashlight bulb.

Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for manufacturing faster charging, higher capacity energy storage devices that are smaller, lighter, and can be more cost effectively manufactured at a higher production rate. In one embodiment, a graded cathode structure is provided. The graded cathode structure comprises a conductive substrate, a first porous layer comprising a first cathodically active material having a first porosity formed on the conductive substrate, and a second porous layer comprising a second cathodically active material having a second porosity formed on the first porous layer. In certain embodiments, the first porosity is greater than the second porosity. In certain embodiments, the first porosity is less than the second porosity.

A structure for use in an energy storage device, the structure comprising a backbone system extending generally perpendicularly from a reference plane, and a population of microstructured anodically active material layers supported by the lateral surfaces of the backbones, each of the microstructured anodically active material layers having a void volume fraction of at least 0.1 and a thickness of at least 1 micrometer.

An electric power retention distribution cell supplies stored electrical power as the primary electric supply to an end user at predetermined times. The cell has a rechargeable battery assembly, a bi-directional inverter and a switch control, and is connected to an electric utility grid, to one or more end users and to alternate power generation sources, such as wind or solar. The battery assembly is charged from the alternate power generation source and from grid power, and the cell is switched at selected times to provide the primary electric supply from stored electric power in the cell to the end user. A circuit of the battery assembly gives an extended electric power storage time by controlling storage parameters. Networks using the electric cell are also described for a utility hub network formed using two or more cells, and for a regional utility hub network formed using multiple utility hubs.

A simple, wide ranging multi-axial foot with energy return and / or storage. An upper member and a spaced apart lower member are joined through a post connected to the lower member and a ball joint connected to the upper member. One buffer is located anterior to the ball joint-post, one buffer is located posterior to the ball joint-post. A heel member and heel buffer provide additional energy storage and return.

The invention relates to a hybrid energy storage system comprising various energy storage carriers. The system is mainly based on an ordered energy control strategy, the energy storage carriers are selectively discharged in a current-limiting or power-limiting mode through a pulse width modulation (PWM) closed-loop control principle and a monitoring system selective control principle, the advantages of the energy storage carriers are combined and complemented, the disadvantages of the energy storage carriers are overcome, and the aim of ordered energy utilization of different energy storage carriers is fulfilled according to a discharge priority sequence, namely a third energy storage subsystem, a second energy storage subsystem and a first energy storage subsystem. By the hybrid energy storage system, the phenomenon that the power of a power grid fluctuates because a wind and light power generation system or a high-power load and the like are connected to the power grid is avoided, smoothing compensation is realized, the quality of electric energy is improved, and the stable operation of the power grid is ensured.

A buck-boost switching converter includes a soft-switching circuit coupled across the boost switch, controlled to establish a short-circuit across the boost switch prior to turn-on of the boost switch. The converter also includes a second soft-switching circuit including a third switch and a saturable inductor coupled across the buck switch. The third switch is rendered conductive sufficiently before the buck switch so that a half-cycle of resonance can occur between the saturable inductor and the buck switch.

The present invention relates to one kind of composite porous graphite base phase change energy-storing material and its preparation process. The composite phase change energy-storing material has porous graphite as base material and is prepared through soaking organic phase change material. The porous graphite is prepared with natural flake graphite and through intercalation, swelling and compression. The organic phase change material is crystallized fatty acid, alkane, ester or their mixture. Compared with available composite phase change energy-storing material, the composite porous graphite base phase change energy-storing material has the advantages of high heat conducting efficiency, great energy storing amount, etc. The present invention can promote the application of phase change energy-storing material in various application fields.

A fastener driving apparatus comprises a gas spring or spring, a drive mechanism, an anvil assembly, and an anvil. The drive mechanism permits transition from engagement with the gas spring, spring or anvil assembly to disengagement from the gas spring, spring or anvil assembly. The anvil and / or anvil assembly are operatively coupled to the gas spring or spring such that after the drive mechanism disengages them, the gas spring piston or the spring moves to imparts a force on the anvil to cause the anvil to move and drive a fastener. The mass of the anvil assembly is preferably greater than 50% of the total mass of the anvil assembly and gas spring moving mass. The gas spring is configured such that the pressure increase during the movement of the gas spring piston by the drive mechanism is less than 30% of the initial pressure in the gas spring.

An electrical vehicle including a vehicle body, a passenger compartment, a chassis supporting the passenger compartment, a plurality of wheels and at least one electrical motor for driving the wheels. A battery compartment of the vehicle is configured to removably mount therein a plurality of more than two rechargeable batteries which are movable into position in the battery compartment by a battery conveyor system which has a battery access opening through which batteries are installed or removed, one by one, to and from the battery compartment. In the battery compartment, a connection mechanism effects the needed mechanical and electrical connections. An overall control system controls the conveyor system and the connection mechanism to enable rapid replacement of the removable batteries, whereby an electrical vehicle can be instantly driven, even after its batteries have been discharged by a replacement of the discharged batteries and the installation of freshly charged batteries.

A logging system and method for operating a logging system are typically used in a wellbore. The logging system may include a logging instrument including a rechargeable energy storage and logging electronics, and a cable configured to trickle charge the rechargeable energy storage. The rechargeable energy storage may include an ultracapacitor. The rechargeable energy storage may be trickle charged through the cable from a remote power source.

The embodiment of the invention provides non-aqueous organic electrolyte, a lithium ion secondary battery containing the non-aqueous organic electrolyte, a preparation method of the lithium ion secondary battery and terminal communication equipment. The non-aqueous organic electrolyte comprises lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent which comprises gamma-butyrolactone and a saturated cyclic ester compound shown in a formula (I), an unsaturated cyclic ester compound shown in a formula (II) and a dinitrile compound shown in a formula (III). The non-aqueous organic electrolyte has excellent chemical stability and electrochemical stability and can be used for inhibiting the decomposition of an electrolyte solvent under the high voltage and aerogenesis expansion of the lithium ion secondary battery at high temperature in the storage process and meeting the using requirement of the high-voltage lithium ion secondary battery. A cathode active material of the lithium ion secondary battery is a mixture of a spinel structure material and a laminated solid solution material. After the non-aqueous organic electrolyte is arranged in the lithium ion secondary battery, the lithium ion secondary battery has excellent high temperature storage characteristic and safety when being used under the high voltage and the full-charged condition.

An electrochemical energy store, including at least one electrochemical cell as well as at least one latent heat storage unit, which includes at least one phase change material. The at least one electrochemical cell is a lithium ion accumulator. The exemplary embodiments and / or exemplary methods of the present invention also includes the use of the electrochemical energy store in an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle. Furthermore, the exemplary embodiments and / or exemplary methods of the present invention relates to a method for temperature regulation of an electrochemical energy store.

A power management circuitry for a radar level gauge including a first voltage converter, having a low-voltage end for receiving a drive voltage from a power interface and a high-voltage end for supplying an intermediate voltage higher than the required operating voltage, a temporary energy store arranged to be charged by the intermediate voltage, a second voltage converter, having a high-voltage end for receiving an input voltage from the energy store, and a low-voltage end for providing the operating voltage lower than the input voltage.By storing energy at a higher voltage, a different type of energy store (e.g. low capacity capacitor) may be used. As a consequence, the cost and start-up time of the energy store is significantly reduced.

An energy regeneration device of a drive-by-wire braking system comprises a gearbox, an oil tank, an electromagnetic clutch, a hydraulic oil pump / motor, an electromagnetic distributing valve, a first electromagnetic reversing valve, a high-pressure energy accumulator, a second electromagnetic reversing valve and a low-pressure energy accumulator. A hydraulic brake is additionally arranged on a brake disc of each wheel, and an increasing gear mechanism is additionally mounted on an output shaft of the gearbox. By the aid of a method for accumulating and releasing braking energy, accumulated energy of the high-pressure energy accumulator can be released when an automobile starts and accelerates, a starting performance and an acceleration performance of the automobile are improved, accumulated energy in the low-pressure energy accumulator can also be directly applied to the wheels during braking and used with a braking motor of the drive-by-wire braking system to realize braking of the automobile, and braking energy recycle efficiency is improved. When the drive-by-wire braking system fails and cannot work normally, the device can be used as an emergency braking system, and the accumulated energy in the energy accumulators is used for realizing parking braking of the automobile. The energy regeneration device is particularly suitable for pure electric automobiles.

The invention discloses a cross-critical carbon dioxide energy storage system and method based on utilization of LNG cold energy utilization. The system comprises a carbon dioxide circulation loop; the carbon dioxide circulating loop comprises a liquid carbon dioxide gas storage tank, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a compression unit, a supercritical carbon dioxide storage tank and an expansion unit; the outlet of the liquid carbon dioxide storage tank is connected with the inlet of the supercritical carbon dioxide storage tank through the evaporation side of the first heat exchanger and the compression unit; the outlet of the supercritical carbon dioxide storage tank is connected with the inlet of the liquid carbon dioxide air storage tank sequentially through the expansion unit, the condensation side of the first heat exchanger and the condensation side of the second heat exchanger; the evaporation side inlet of the second heat exchanger is connected with an LNG storage tank, and the outlet of the second heat exchanger is connected with the user end to form an LNG utilization loop; and the liquefied carbon dioxide flowing out from the condensing side of the first heat exchanger is further condensed through LNG as a cold source; the compression unit is connected with a motor driven by an off-peak electric motor for energy storage; and the expansion unit is connected with a user through a power generator to carry out energy release.

The present invention provides materials and methods relating to mildly polar fluid extracts of plant materials, such as Artemisia plant species, useful in methods for treating diabetes and methods for modulating the activity of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and in methods for modulating phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) activity in a diabetes-specific manner. The extracts are generally non-toxic and non-mutagenic and may be administered to diabetics with beneficial effect on blood glucose levels. The extracts may also be administered to non-diabetics without deleterious effect. The plants are easily grown with a minimum of time, labor, and cost. Extracts are inexpensively and quickly prepared without the need for fractionation to remove potentially deleterious compounds, and the extracts may be administered to mammals such as humans through various routes, in a variety of forms, and at convenient concentrations.

An electrical vehicle including a vehicle body, a passenger compartment, a chassis supporting the passenger compartment, a plurality of wheels and at least one electrical motor for driving the wheels. A battery compartment of the vehicle is configured to removably mount therein a plurality of more than two rechargeable batteries which are movable into position in the battery compartment by a battery conveyor system which has a battery access opening through which batteries are installed or removed, one by one, to and from the battery compartment. In the battery compartment, a connection mechanism effects the needed mechanical and electrical connections. An overall control system controls the conveyor system and the connection mechanism to enable rapid replacement of the removable batteries, whereby an electrical vehicle can be instantly driven, even after its batteries have been discharged by a replacement of the discharged batteries and the installation of freshly charged batteries.

A radar level gauge system comprising power management circuitry for regulating operating power to be used by a microwave unit and a processing circuitry of the radar level gauge system. The power management circuitry comprises a DC-DC converter having an input terminal connected to the interface, an output terminal connected to the microwave unit and the processing circuitry, and a reference terminal connected to an electrical reference point, wherein a first voltage level at the input terminal and a second voltage level at the output terminal relates to a reference voltage level at the electrical reference point. The power management circuitry further comprises an energy storage capacitor connected between the input and output terminals of the DC-DC converter. According to this design, the capacitance of the power management circuitry gets reduced due to that the capacitance is originating from a series capacitance.

A fastener driving apparatus comprises a gas spring or spring, a drive mechanism, an anvil assembly, and an anvil. The drive mechanism permits transition from engagement with the gas spring, spring or anvil assembly to disengagement from the gas spring, spring or anvil assembly. The anvil and / or anvil assembly are operatively coupled to the gas spring or spring such that after the drive mechanism disengages them, the gas spring piston or the spring moves to imparts a force on the anvil to cause the anvil to move and drive a fastener. The mass of the anvil assembly is preferably greater than 50% of the total mass of the anvil assembly and gas spring moving mass. The gas spring is configured such that the pressure increase during the movement of the gas spring piston by the drive mechanism is less than 30% of the initial pressure in the gas spring.

A structure for use in an energy storage device, the structure comprising a backbone system extending generally perpendicularly from a reference plane, and a population of microstructured anodically active material layers supported by the lateral surfaces of the backbones, each of the microstructured anodically active material layers having a void volume fraction of at least 0.1 and a thickness of at least 1 micrometer.

The invention discloses a ternary composite preparation method for a nanometer sizing phase-change material; a phase-change material is paraffins or fatty acid; expandable graphite is used as a supporter and a heat conductive reinforcing agent of the phase-change material at the same time; and clay is used as a supporter and an organic modified material of the phase-change material at the same time. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly puffing the graphite and carrying out organic treatment on the montmorillonite; then preparing an organic montmorillonite / graphite binary nanometer composite material as follows: uniformly mixing the organic montmorillonite and the expandable graphite, adding a solvent and carrying out ultrasonic treatment so as to obtain a binary nanometer composite material suspending liquid; finally preparing an organic montmorillonite / graphite / phase-change material ternary nanometer compound phase-change material as follows: adding the phase-change material into the prepared binary nanometer composite material suspending liquid, carrying out ultrasonic dispersing treatment for 1 to 2 hours, heating and condensing the refluxed solvent, and carrying out vacuum drying so as to obtain the ternary nanometer compound phase-change material. The obtained material has the advantages of high heat conductivity, stable phase change and good compatibility with building materials and no corrosion.

Devices and systems for power electronic circuits are provided. Embodiments of the present invention enable high density inductive energy storage by using electromechanical coupling between an electrically conducting inductive element and a mechanical resonator to passively store energy via both electromagnetic and mechanical mechanisms. A microelectromechanical inductor (MEMI) is provided utilizing a magnet and a conductor. In a specific embodiment, the MEMI includes a permanent magnet on a compliant layer centrally disposed within a spiral coil. In a further embodiment, a second coil is provided near the magnet to provide a resonating transducer.

The invention discloses a hydrothermal synthesis method for sodium niobate powder, which comprises the following steps: putting niobium pentaoxide and sodium hydroxide in a molar ratio of 0.05-10 into an autoclave, and adding deionized water into the autoclave according to a filling rate between 50 and 90 percent to adjust the concentration of the sodium hydroxide to between 0.1 and 15 mol / L; sealing the autoclave, putting the autoclave into a pit furnace or an oven, raising the temperature to between 120 and 240 DEG C in a temperature rise rate of 1 to 5 DEG C per minute, preserving heat for 4 to 72 hours, and then cooling along with the furnace; and taking out and opening the autoclave, pouring an obtained product into a beaker, repeatedly filtering and washing with deionized water until the washed solution is neutral, putting obtained powder into an oven, and baking at a temperature of between 40 and 100 DEG C for 6 to 24 hours. The method is simple, saves energy, reduces emission, has low cost, and is suitable for mass production; and the prepared sodium niobate powder has high purity, good fluidity, narrow particle size distribution, low degree of particle agglomeration, and perfect crystal growth.

The invention relates to an electromotor energy storage braking system and a control method, and belongs to an energy storage braking system and a control method used for storing and recycling energy generated in the process of electromotor braking. The electromotor energy storage braking system and the control method mainly solve the technical problems that an existing energy storage device is small in stored energy, large in interference to a power grid, inconvenient to use and the like. The electromotor energy storage braking system comprises a main electromotor, a rectifier, a main inverter, a direct current bus, a filter capacitor, a control computer, a first pulse width signal generator and a first driving module, and further comprises a motor rotary speed controller, an electromotor or a generator, a hydraulic pump or a motor, a two-position three-way control valve, a hydraulic energy accumulator, a safety valve, a pressure sensor, a rotary speed sensor, a hydraulic oil tank, a voltage sensor, a second pulse width signal generator and a second driving module. The electromotor energy storage braking system and the control method have the advantages of achieving active control to the process of electromotor braking, saving energy, reducing consumption, achieving energy saving and emission reduction and the like.

Disclosed is an energy storage device based on metal oxide nanocrystals resealed through lithiation, and a supercapacitor using the same. The energy storage device is fabricated by dispersing transition metal nanoparticles over a carbon-based support with a large specific surface area, and then, dispersing and resealing the nanoparticles over the support using lithium ions with strong reductive ability, so that the resealed metal particles are substantially particles dispersed and resealed over the support as particles having a size of less than 1 nanometer on the scale of atomic units. The supercapacitor is fabricated using the energy storage device. The energy storage device higher capacitance than before resealing of metal oxide. Since the resealed metal particles are those having a size of less than 1 nanometer on the scale of atomic units, interference between particles disappears to exhibit excellent cycle life characteristics of 100% maintained performance in even more than 100,000 cycles.

A spring assembly for an administering device includes a driving spring configured as a spiral spring and a spring shaft. An inner end of the spring is rotationally fixedly attached to the spring shaft. A spring sleeve extends around the circumferential region of the spring, wherein the outer end of the spring is connected to the spring sleeve in a rotationally fixed manner and a disk-type spring-sleeve cover is attached to the spring sleeve or the spring shaft. The flange and the spring-sleeve cover extend radially away from an axis of the spring shaft and the flange is arranged near a distal end of the spring shaft. A radial stop is arranged on the flange periphery, and a blocking element is arranged on the spring sleeve to be complementary to the radial stop for releasably rotationally securing to each other when the blocking element and the radial stop engage.