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An exhaust system (1) for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust line (2), which has at least one exhaust pipe (3) having a pipe wall (4) with an inner side (5) defining an exhaust gas path (6) guiding an exhaust gas flow (7) and an electric heating device (18) for heating at least one length section of the exhaust pipe (3). An efficient design is obtained if a heating coil (21) is wound several times around the exhaust pipe (3) on an outer side (22) of the pipe wall (4) in the respective length section and has an electric conductor (23) made of a resistance heating material. An electric insulator (24) is arranged between the conductor (23) and the outer side (22) of the pipe wall (4). A heat-insulating cover (25) envelops the exhaust pipe (3) at least in the area of the respective heating coil (21).

The present invention relates to an energy router for an energy internet, which comprises a three-phase three-level bi-directional rectifying unit, a six-phase interleaved DC/DC bi-directional conversion unit, a self-excitation soft start push-pull full-bridge DC/DC bi-directional conversion unit, a three-phase resonant soft switching bi-directional inversion unit, a single-phase full-bridge bi-directional inversion unit, a high-voltage DC bus and a low-voltage DC bus. The three-phase three-level bi-directional rectifying unit, the six-phase interleaved DC/DC bi-directional conversion unit, the self-excitation soft start push-pull full-bridge DC/DC bi-directional conversion unit, the three-phase resonant soft switching bi-directional inversion unit and the single-phase full-bridge bi-directional inversion unit each have three energy flow operating modes: a forward conduction, a reverse conduction and a non-conduction. According to the energy flow operating mode of each unit, different operating modes of the energy router for the energy internet are formed.

The present invention relates to operation of a wind turbine using a power storage unit, such as a rechargeable battery, to power a group of power consuming units during grid loss. The wind turbine comprises a number of power consuming units being grouped into at least a first group and a second group, a first electrical converter for connecting the generator to the electrical grid, and a second electrical converter for connecting the electrical generator to the power storage unit. Upon detecting an occurrence of the grid loss, the generator is operated to ensure sufficient power of the power storage unit to operate the first group of power consuming units.

An integrated blade cooler for electronic components comprises a blower with a radial impeller and a casing, an electric drive with a magnetic rotor and a stator, and a heatsink with heat-exchanging means and a base providing thermal contact with said electronic component and said heat-exchanging means. The casing of the impeller has an inlet and an outlet; said impeller comprises blades, a backplate disk and an axis of rotation; and the heat-exchanging means of the heatsink clothed in a cover plate with an outflow opening that being coincided with said inlet so that cooling gas flows through said heat-exchanging means, said blower inlet, said radial impeller and said blower outlet in a series way. The stator of the electric drive is made as a part of said casing of the blower so that said outflow opening serves as said inlet, and the radial impeller comprises magnetic means serving as a magnetic rotor of said electric drive. The stator is made as printed circuit board. At least part of said cover plate is made as a part of said casing so that said outflow opening serves as said inlet of the blower. The stator is located perpendicularly to the axis of rotation, and said magnetic means magnetized in the direction parallel to said axis of rotation. The heatsink has a recess on the side of an outflow opening, and the blower is located in said recess.

A device is described for controlling a hydraulic accumulator of a hydraulic system, for example a vehicle transmission, having a valve device which may connect and disconnect an accumulator-side port of the device to and from a system-side port, the valve device including at least one first check valve which is situated hydraulically between the accumulator-side port and the system-side port, and which is blocking in the direction of the system-side port, the valve device also including an electrically actuated control valve which is situated between a control port of the first check valve and the accumulator-side port in such a way that the control valve may hydraulically unblock the first check valve, using the pressure prevailing at the accumulator-side port.

A device configured to actuate a driven member by driving a driving motor includes a brake which does not consume electric power and which can be easily mounted in the device. A speed reducer is mounted in the device, and includes a reduction mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the driving motor toward the driven member after reducing its speed, and a locking type reverse input shutoff mechanism, as the brake, which is configured to mechanically lock up when reverse input torque is applied from the driven member while the driving motor is not being driven, thereby retaining the position of the driven member. The reduction mechanism and the reverse input shutoff mechanism are combined to constitute a single unit.

A method for storing solar energy and generating electric power comprising the steps of utilizing a solar powered water treatment device (2) to convert non-potable water (3) into distillate (4) and concentrate (5), storing the distillate and the concentrate in a distillate storage tank (104) and a concentrate storage tank (105) respectively and feeding the distillate from the distillate storage tank and the concentrate from the concentrate storage tank to a salient gradient power device (106) to generate electric power.

The invention provides an improved remotely controlled, solar-powered traffic beacon. Remote control is provided by a communications system that utilizes a cellular telephone modem and public cellular telephone networks to receive a schedule of activation/deactivation times or alternatively to receive immediate on/off commands. Furthermore, the communications system allows for the transmission of operational feedback data from the solar-powered traffic beacon to the user. The invention allows for remote control of solar-powered traffic beacons.

The remotely controlled, solar-powered traffic beacon comprises at least one traffic beacon including a lamp to warn traffic, solar panels to recharge batteries, batteries to store and supply power, communications circuitry containing a cellular telephone modem and software to receive the remote instructions and operational circuitry and software to manage the operation of all components.

A chip card (1) comprises a chip card controller (3), access to at least one power source (7, 8, 10), a display (6), and a display driver (5) operatively coupled to the chip card controller (3), to the display (6), and to the at least one power source (7, 8, 10). The display driver (5) is configured to drive the display (6) and the display driver (5) comprises, as an integral part, a power management functionality (11) configured to manage power that comes from the at least one power source (7, 8, 10) for at least the display driver (5).

A heat pump circuit including a compressor that compresses a working fluid from a gas in a low pressure, low temperature first state to a high pressure, a high temperature second state. A first subflow of the working fluid is condensed into a gaseous/liquid mixture and assumes a third state by the working fluid delivering heat to a first medium. The first subflow of the working fluid is expanded and returns to a gas in the first state by absorbing heat from a second medium, whereupon the working fluid completes the cycle again. A second subflow of the compressed working fluid is expanded from the second state and the energy contents in the second subflow converted into electrical energy, whereafter the expanded working fluid is returned to the compressor after passage of the evaporator, or after expansion in the energy converter from the second to the first state.

An apparatus for adjusting the biological clock of a traveler is constructed to has a body, which can be made in the form of an article of clothing for wear by a user or a footstool for resting the user's legs, and a light source installed in the body and used to emit light of a wavelength within about 400 nm-700 nm to irradiate a part of the body of the traveler having many blood vessels relatively close to the surface, a location at which light interacts with photoactive substances in the blood.

A blind rivet setting device and method of setting a blind rivet. The device includes a housing; a pulling mechanism, arranged in the housing, that includes a chuck housing movable in a pulling direction and clamping jaws movable along a clamping distance in the chuck housing; an electric drive, structured and arranged to act on the chuck housing, that includes a control device; an electric battery structured and arranged as an energy source for the electric drive; and a spring structured and arranged in the chuck housing to apply a force to clamping jaws. For each clamping jaw, the chuck housing includes a guide path with a path base obliquely oriented to the pulling direction, and a back of each clamping jaw is supported against its respective path base over the clamping distance.

A device for operating a display device located on a road includes: a determination device for determining when a vehicle is entering a visual range of the display device; and a control for controlling the display device as a function of a result of the determination.

A valve plate (54) is slidably moved on a frame (52) by an actuator (62) between open and closed positions to control the supply of air sucked into the inlet (44) of a blower system (40) that supplies pressurized air through an outlet (46) to a plenum (12) for distribution to said nozzle (16, 18). By disposing the valve plate (54) at the inlet, the blower motor (49) may run continuously without a load as the impeller is not pumping air when there is no demand to blow the water from a vehicle.