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A light emitting assembly and a system utilizing a plurality of light emitting assemblies having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged and disposed within a sub-assembly. The assembly also includes a controller in communication with the elements, the controller being capable of receiving wireless signals and/or transmitting wireless signals, the controller also being capable of driving the elements to emit light in response to the wireless signals. The assembly further includes a power source arranged and disposed to provide electrical power to the light emitting elements. A method for providing a light emitting element display is also disclosed.

A ground fault detector for use in resistance grounded electrical systems. In one embodiment, the system includes a digital processor to monitor an electrical parameter of the resistance to determine and indicate whether a ground fault has occurred. Data regarding the ground fault occurrence can then be digitally stored transmitted, or processed, such as by an external computer. In another embodiment, the ground fault detector includes a filter to remove the harmonic components of the monitored electrical parameter, to avoid false alarms. In addition, in another embodiment, the ground fault detector can also determine whether a high harmonic condition is present in the monitored electrical system. The phase of the electrical system can be grounded by pressing a test switch, thereby causing a ground fault and allowing the harmonic components of the signal in the electrical system to be monitored.

A speaker system utilizes dipole speaker drivers in conjunction with monopole speaker drivers in a listening area to disperse a surround sound effect to a listener. The dipole speaker drivers are physically mounted on top of the front left and right speakers and are angled in a way that the surround information is delivered to the listener via wall/room reflections. By reflecting the sound off the walls, the system provides a delayed diffuse audio signal from the dipole speakers, enhancing the surround effect.

The present invention relates generally to electrical power distribution, for example, in aircraft. More particularly, according to a first aspect, the present invention relates to a power supply system for power distribution to one or more loads in a safety-critical power supply network. The power supply system comprises at least one power source, a power bus and a distributed control system. The distributed control system comprises a central controller operably coupled to at least one bus module through a data bus. Bus modules include bus controllers that are operable to connect respective power sources to the power bus.

Miniature resistive gas detectors incorporate thin films that can selectively identify specific gases when heated to certain characteristic temperatures. A solid state gas sensor module is disclosed that includes a gas sensor, a heater, and a temperature sensor, stacked over an insulating recess. The insulating recess is partially filled with a support material that provides structural integrity. The solid state gas sensor module can be integrated on top of an ASIC on a common substrate. With sufficient thermal insulation, such a gas detector can be provided as a low-power component of mobile electronic devices such as smart phones. A method of operating a multi-sensor array allows detection of relative concentrations of different gas species by either using dedicated sensors, or by thermally tuning the sensors to monitor different gas species.

The present invention provides a multichannel active sensing and switching device featuring a multiple sensing and switching module configured to respond to operational conditions of different load types and provide load type sensor signals containing information about the operational conditions of the different load types, and also configured to respond to controller signals for controlling the operation of the different load types in two or more different protection configurations; and a controller module configured to respond to the load type sensor signals and provide the controller signals in order to control the operation of the different load types in the two or more different protection configurations. The controller module may be programmable and configured to provide a default circuit breaker configuration and a device specific configuration using active intelligence (AI).

The present invention provides a stator arrangement for an electric three-phase generator, comprising a plurality of stator teeth, comprising a contacting device which is arranged on an end portion of the stator teeth, comprising a continuously wound winding wire which is wound in each case about individual stator teeth in order to form stator tooth windings and portions of which are arranged on the contacting device between the individual stator teeth, comprising a connecting element, which is arranged on the contacting device and designed to electrically connect portions of the winding wire arranged on the contacting device in order to form a star point. The present invention further provides an electric three-phase generator and a method for producing a stator arrangement.

The invention discloses a flexible tactile sensor array and a preparation method thereof. The flexible tactile sensor array comprises a flexible substrate and a tactile sensing array. The tactile sensing array comprises N * M tactile sensing units and an interconnection line network; the tactile sensing unit is a grid-shaped metal foil wrapped and packaged by a conformal polymer, and an in-situ hard micro-column array is integrated on each grid-shaped metal foil; the interconnection line network comprises N row lines and M column lines which are vertically crossed, the row lines and the columnlines are insulated from each other by crossed insulating pads, and the row lines and the column lines are wrapped and packaged by the conformal polymers; and the flexible substrate and the tactile sensing array are bonded into a whole. According to the invention, the in-situ hard micro-column extrusion grid-shaped metal foil structure is constructed according to the mechanism that the resistanceof the metal foil is changed under pressure, and a novel tactile sensor array is constructed by combining the in-situ hard micro-column extrusion grid-shaped metal foil structure as a tactile sensingunit with the interconnection line network; and the novel tactile sensor array has the advantages of high stability, high sensitivity, low hysteresis, high integration level and the like.

In an imaging device including imaging elements, a driver configuration which does not require much layout space and ensures a reduced number of wirings is provided. The imaging device includes imaging elements 1 arranged in a matrix or in lines and a single driver circuit 6 disposed along the vertical direction of the matrix or along the direction in which the lines extend to control the driving of the imaging elements 1. Then, the driver circuit 6 serves the double function of a reset driver adapted to reset the imaging elements and a read driver adapted to read out the signals from the imaging elements.

A same instruction different operation (SIDO) processor is disclosed in which the instruction control word is supplied using data bus as one operand and the data to be operated is supplied through another operand. Also disclosed is a method for the provision of operation-code along with data/operands using a short instruction word. With all the execution units working in parallel on multiple data operands, a variety of operations can be performed in parallel. This allows short instruction format and flexibility to dynamically program the processor on the fly by changing data/operand words, and supports basic integer operations using very simple and efficient hardware execution units.

A system for sensing a physical property allocated to scanning positions (P1-P5, P11-P44, Pijk) comprises sensors (A1-A5, B) adapted to sense the physical property within sensing regions (AR1-AR5, BR1-BR2, C1-C3, D1-D3, E1-E3, F1-F4, G1-G3, H1-H4), wherein the sensing regions (AR1-AR5, BR1-BR2, C1-C3, D1-D3, E1-E3, F1-F4, G1-G3, H1-H4) are arranged such that each of them sweeps at least one scanning position (P1-P5, P11-P44, Pijk) and sensing regions (AR1-AR5, BR1-BR2, C1-C3, D1-D3, E1-E3, F1-F4, G1-G3, H1-H4) are superposed on one another at least at one scanning position (P1-P5, P11-P44, Pijk), so that each scanning position is swept by a unique pattern of sensing regions (AR1-AR5, BR1-BR2, C1-C3, D1-D3, E1-E3, F1-F4, G1-G3, H1-H4), wherein the following condition is fulfilled:

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    • i . . . number of sensing regions
    • n . . . number of scanning positions
    • x . . . number of spatial dimensions in which the arrangement of scanning positions extend.