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The present embodiments disclose a system (100) for reducing inlet air temperature of a device, comprising: a fogging system that provides air cooling, wherein the fogging system comprises at least one low pressure atomiser (110).

A system for monitoring and controlling electricity usage in a building includes a system control unit and an enhanced wiring device in wireless communication with the system control unit. The enhanced wiring device is hard-wired into the building electrical infrastructure, and is selected from the group consisting of an electrical outlet receptacle and an electrical power switch. The enhanced wiring device further includes a sensor for monitoring a stimulus parameter in a room of the building, a processor, at least one memory coupled to the processor, and program instructions stored on the at least one memory for execution by the processor to evaluate and communicate data from the sensor. The enhanced wiring device further includes an antenna for transmitting the sensor data to the system control unit, and a user interface connected to the system control unit adapted to configure and monitor data from the enhanced wiring device.

Data encoded in packets modulated onto a carrier wave is transmitted between a base station and a transponder. Each packet includes a header section that contains at least a reference symbol and that serves for adjusting one or more transmission parameters, and a further section such as a data section. The transponder transmits data back to the base station through modulation and backscattering of the carrier wave. During the transmission of the header section by the base station, the transponder transmits transponder operating information relating to the processing of data to be received and / or transmitted by the transponder, by corresponding modulation and backscattering of the carrier wave. In response to and dependent on the received transponder operating information, the base station adjusts at least one transmission parameter, whereby the highest data transmission rate within the capabilities of the particular transponder can be achieved.

A photographic lens optical system having low manufacturing costs and high performance. The system includes first through sixth lenses, which are sequentially arranged along a light proceeding path between an object and an image sensor where an image of the object is formed, wherein the first lens has positive refractive power and an incident surface convex towards the object, the second lens has positive refractive power and an incident surface convex towards the object, the third lens has negative refractive power and an emitting surface concave with respect to the image sensor, a fourth lens has positive refractive power and is a meniscus lens convex towards the image sensor, the fifth lens has negative refractive power and is a meniscus lens convex towards the image sensor, and the sixth lens has positive refractive power, wherein an incident surface and / or an emitting surface of the sixth lens is aspheric.

The device serves for the blow molding of containers that comprise a thermoplastic material, wherein the device has at least one blowing station with at least one blow mold. The blow mold is formed from at least two blow mold segments that are supported by supports, wherein the blow mold has a base extension. The base extension is arranged in such a way that it is capable of being positioned in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the blow mold, and is supported by a base plate. The base plate connects the base extension to a positioning device. The base plate is additionally connected to the base extension by a profiled coupling section, wherein this profiled coupling section is formed from a coupling element, which is connected to the base plate, along with a counter element that is connected to the base extension. The profiled coupling section is capable of being actuated via a manual lever. At least two hollow coupling plugs are arranged a certain distance from the profiled coupling section, wherein these coupling plugs are capable of being introduced into self-sealing coupling sockets.

To provide a constitution capable of reducing production cost in a semiconductor device for display of a type integrally formed with a drive circuit with a digital signal as an input signal and a pixel matrix unit, a signal dividing circuit is formed on a substrate where drive circuits and a pixel matrix unit are to be formed simultaneously with the drive circuits and the pixel matrix unit in view of fabrication steps by which fabrication steps of the signal dividing circuit per se and steps required for connecting the signal dividing circuit to wirings on the substrate can be dispensed with without adding further steps.

The invention brings forward a transaction transmission method, comprising the following steps: establishing wireless communication by a hand-held terminal and a cash-register system server via match searching; generating electronic bill of the transaction corresponding to the hand-held terminal after scanning of the transaction goods is determined to have accomplished by the cash-register system server, and carrying out packaging to the electronic bill to restrict an authority of the hand-held terminal to the electronic bill to be read-only; sending the electronic bill corresponding to the hand-held terminal to the hand-held terminal by the cash-register system server over the air; and carrying out decapsulation to the received electronic bill by the hand-held terminal. The invention further provides a transceiver apparatus for the transaction information and a transaction information processing system, comprising the cash-register system server and the hand-held terminal. The method, the processing system and the apparatus provided in the invention have the advantages of being convenient and fast, requiring no complicated operation, having a higher security and being convenient for reconciliation in a real time.

For a firearm sighting device with an electrical illumination device that can be turned on and off by means of a switch, the switch is embodied and arranged in or on the sighting device such that, for the conventional attachment of the sighting device on the firearm, the switch is activated mechanically to turn on the illumination device by the activation of an actuator provided in or on the firearm for setting the firearm into the armed state. By disabling the firearm, the switch is activated mechanically to turn off the illumination device. Preferably, the activation of the switch is performed using a non-contact method, for which, in particular, the configuration of the switch as a reed contact is suitable. The switch can also be part of a retrofit kit, by means of which a sighting device for a firearm can be equipped at a later time with the previously mentioned function. Here, the switch of the retrofit kit replaces a standard switch operated by hand separately from the firearm.

An opening in a building wall is closed by a building closure such as a window or door. A mounting part of the closure arrangement is received in a space between two countersupport surfaces formed by a U-channel or opposite L-members that protrude perpendicularly from the sill or jamb surface of the wall bounding the opening. Mounting brackets secure the U-channel or L-members to the wall. On one or both sides, a respective damping element is interposed between the mounting part and the respective adjacent countersupport surface. The damping element may be a plastically deformable metal strip. When an explosion force acts on the closure arrangement, the damping element is first plastically deformed to absorb energy, before the remaining force is transmitted into the building wall. The two damping elements on opposite sides damp forces from the positive and negative pressure waves of the explosion.

It is described an X-ray tube (100, 200) for moving a focal spot within a wide range. The X-ray tube (100, 200) comprises a first electron source (105), which is adapted to generate a first electron beam projecting along a first beam path (107a, 107b), a second electron source (110), which is adapted to generate a second electron beam projecting along a second beam path (112a, 112b) and an anode (120), which is arranged within the first beam path (107a, 107b) and within the second beam path (112a, 112b) such that on a surface (121) of the anode (120) the first electron beam (307a) generates a first focal spot (308) and the second electron beam (412a) generates a second focal spot (413). The X-ray tube (100, 200) further comprises a common deflection unit (130, 330, 430), which is adapted to deflect the first (307a) and the second electron beam (412a), such that the positions of the first (308) and the second focal spot (413) is shifted. The electron sources (105, 110) may be arranged within a linear array allowing for a simple mechanical support of the X-ray sources.

The invention relates to a device and a method for monitoring the connection of an electrical supply unit comprising voltage detection (32) detecting phase voltage (14), current detection (32) detecting phase voltages (38), a transformation unit (66) transforming the phase voltages (38) after conducting field-oriented regulation in at least one cross current (62), wherein a monitoring device (34) is provided to monitor at least one supply connection (28, 36) by means of which an electrical supply unit (32) is supplied, said monitoring unit evaluating the variation of the cross current (62) in order to monitor the connection.

A device and a method for processing an optical lens are proposed, whereby lens-production data and / or geometric data of the lens are determined from desired optical data of the lens when a corresponding activation code is acquired. Preferably, the lens or a block piece and / or an assigned shipping container is / are provided with the activation code and / or other information relative to the lenses that are to be processed.

The present invention is directed to a card game in which at least five cards are dealt to at least one player position in which the player may have made a wager. The player must make at least one wager corresponding to one or more of the player positions. To initiate a round of play, a number of cards are dealt face down to each of the player positions and one card is dealt to a dealer position. All the cards are turned face up and each player position card is individually compared to the dealer's card. A winning status occurs for each wagered player position in which the player's upturned card has a higher ranking than the dealer's assigned card. The player is awarded a bonus payout according to a predetermined payout table if the player's cards form at least one of a plurality of predetermined combinations and the player has made a corresponding wager prior to any cards being dealt. In another embodiment, five additional cards are dealt to corresponding dealer positions for determining, as part of a bonus bet, if the player's five cards provide a higher-ranking poker hand than the five-card poker hand formed by the five additional cards dealt to the corresponding dealer positions.

A filter (1) for diesel fuel comprising a tank (11), a filtering cartridge (2) which subdivides the inner volume of the tank (11) into two distinct chambers (50, 60), to which an input conduit (14) of the fuel to be filtered and an output conduit (15) of the filtered fuel are respectively connected, a heater (3), fed by means of electric current and adapted to melt the possible solid paraffins present in the fuel before they reach the filtering separator (21) of the cartridge (2), where said heater (3) has a porous surface (33, 34, 35) adapted to be crossed by the liquid component of the diesel fuel coming from the input conduit (14) and to hold the solid phase component, which forms at temperatures below the paraffination temperature, said porous surface (33, 34, 35) being adapted to be heated in order to liquefy said held solid component, so that it may cross said porous surface (33, 34, 35) in liquid form and reach the chamber (50) of the fuel to be filtered.

A wheel assembly includes a wheel hub mounted to a wheel mount. The hub and mount include intermeshing profiles in the form of teeth for transmitting torque from the mount to the hub about a longitudinal axis. The teeth on each of the hub and mount project in an axial direction and are circumferentially spaced apart. The teeth are wedge-shaped, as viewed in longitudinal section, to radially center the hub about the longitudinal axis.

An opening in a building wall is closed by a building closure such as a window or door. A mounting part of the closure arrangement is received in a space between two countersupport surfaces formed by a U-channel or opposite L-members that protrude perpendicularly from the sill or jamb surface of the wall bounding the opening. Mounting brackets secure the U-channel or L-members to the wall. On one or both sides, a respective damping element is interposed between the mounting part and the respective adjacent countersupport surface. The damping element may be a plastically deformable metal strip. When an explosion force acts on the closure arrangement, the damping element is first plastically deformed to absorb energy, before the remaining force is transmitted into the building wall. The two damping elements on opposite sides damp forces from the positive and negative pressure waves of the explosion.

The invention discloses an Internet of Things safety monitoring method and system based on double engines, and the method comprises the steps: deploying a detection processing engine in an Internet ofThings sensing layer in advance, and deploying a collection analysis engine in a network layer of the Internet of Things; discovering and identifying terminal equipment of the Internet of Things through a detection processing engine, obtaining equipment information of the terminal equipment, and reporting equipment attributes and equipment state information to an acquisition analysis engine; andacquiring, by the acquisition and analysis engine, flow data of a network core switch, constructing a network behavior analysis model of the terminal equipment according to the flow data and equipmentinformation of the terminal equipment, monitoring abnormal network behaviors by using the network behavior analysis model, and performing alarm and / or blocking operation. Through linkage of the two types of engines, terminal equipment discovery and identification and risk disposal are realized, centralized management and control and behavior analysis are performed on the dispersedly isolated Internet of Things terminals, the comprehensiveness and accuracy of behavior analysis and monitoring are improved, and the disposal efficiency is ensured.

A system for configuring earth probes (1) for receiving thermal energy from the earth and / or for discharging thermal energy into the earth, including a conductor system having a feed and a return line, which are connected to each other at the lower end of the earth probe (1), the system including probe modules (11, 12), which each form a section (15, 16) of the feed and / or return line of the earth probe (1) and which can be connected to each other at least by a positive and / or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection, and a base piece (13), which forms a section of the conductor system of the earth probe (1). The section connects the feed line to the return line, and can be connected to the probe modules (11, 12) via at least one positive and / or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection.

A projection lens (10) for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has a first optical element, for example a birefringent lens (L2), that has polarization dependent properties causing intensity fluctuations in an image plane of the projection lens. These fluctuation may be produced by a second optical element (24), for example a polarization selective beam splitting layer (28), that is arranged downstream of the first optical element. A gray filter (32; 132; 232) disposed in the beam path reduces the intensity fluctuations.

A motion-based decoy stand includes a base and a support axis extending from the base to a distal end. In one embodiment, the distal end can form a point. A mounting assembly includes an attachment interface and a hollow shaft connected to the attachment interface, the hollow shaft sliding about the support axis. The mounting assembly can be attached to a decoy where decoy legs would otherwise be present, and can allow the decoy to move with respect to the base. Mounting means and flexible restraints can be configured between the mounting assembly and the base to ensure the decoy moves within an expected range.

The present invention is directed to a card game in which at least one card, and preferably six cards, are dealt to at least one player position, and preferably seven player positions. To initiate a round of play, a number of cards are dealt face down to each of the player positions. The player selects a card from amongst the dealt cards which is then assigned as the dealer's card. The player makes a wager to elect to play one or more of the remaining player positions. All the cards are turned face up and each player position card is individually compared to the dealer's assigned card. A winning status occurs for wagered position in which the player's upturned card has a higher ranking than the dealer's assigned card.

A novel game and board or surface is played in combination with two sets of playing pieces consisting of three dice each, one set being visibly distinguishable from the second set and wherein in one embodiment all bets are placed on the board or surface before the first set of dice is throw to speed up the method of play and payoffs for each bet are set by the house. Optionally, the house may set and take additional bets between a throw of the first set of dice and a throw of the second set of dice. In another embodiment of the invention, players use the two sets of dice in sequence wherein winning bets are related to poker hands such as open numbers from 3-35; 3 of a kind; 4 of a kind; 5 of a kind, straight; any 3 pair; 6 of a kind, and six sixes (but specifically excluding two of a kind to provide decisive winning odds for the house) and where the payoffs for each bet are 2 for 1, 3 for 1, 4 for 1, 5 for 1, 8 for 1, 8 for 1, 12 for 1, and 20 for 1, respectively, for example. In yet another embodiment of the invention, odds for all bets are again set by the house and a defined whole or percentage of the remaining losing bets form a progressive pot for 6 of a kind and / or six sixes comprises part of the betting.

In a method for preparing a composition including a compound mixture and a carrier agent, the compound mixture is obtained by pulverizing the wood material and / or by extracting the wood material so that the compound mixture contains at least two different compounds, selected from a first specified group, at least one compound selected from a second specified group, the compound mixture is mixed with the carrier agent, the amount of the compound mixture is kept in a range of 0.1-5 wt % from the total weight of the composition, providing that the range is also such that the total cytotoxicity of compound mixture dissolved in ethanol, measured for a HaCat cell culture after 24 h incubation period, is lower than the cytotoxicity of 0.02-0.1 wt % butylated hydroxy toluene (BHT) dissolved in ethanol for a HaCat cell culture after 24 h incubation period.

A method for facilitating the processing of markup language documents, e.g., XML documents, uses a code generator that creates programs configured to read dynamic XML documents at run time, avoiding many of the complexities arising from the use of conventional “XML Parse” statements. In one embodiment, this process involves (1) creating a template document using the markup language, wherein the template document includes a set of tags associated with the markup language documents; (2) parsing the template document to determine a data structure corresponding to the tags in the template document; and (3) generating an application program in the programming language (e.g., COBOL), wherein the application program includes a definition of the data structure, and is configured to read, during run-time, the markup language document and generate a corresponding set of data elements corresponding to the data structure.

A cloud technology surveillance(CTS) is provided. The CTS features low expense, high security, no configuration and separated owners. The CTS includes a surveillance server and a large number of IP cameras. Cameras send the images(videos or pictures) to cloud storage. The surveillance server locates in the internet, receives the images from cameras and responses viewers' operation. A surveillance system has at least twenty IP cameras including a first location first camera, a first location second camera, a first location second IP camera, a second location IP first camera, a second location IP second camera, and a second location IP third camera. A surveillance server is located in the Internet cloud and stores the images from at least twenty IP cameras and provides Internet access for remote viewers.

The subject matter of the invention is a method for detecting an isolated network for an inverter (2) carrying a converter voltage that is adapted for connection in parallel with a grid (5) having a mains frequency and electric loads and that is decoupled from the grid (5) by a choke (3), a test signal being superimposed upon the converter voltage at a test frequency the frequency of which is smaller than the mains frequency, the amplitude of the test signal being much smaller than the nominal voltage amplitude of the mains voltage on the one side but still just large enough on the other side for changes in reactive power to be detectable as a result of the test signal, a reactive power share being determined, which oscillates with the test frequency, this share not being allowed to fall below an imposed minimum for an isolated operation to be reliably excluded.

A pest trapping device including a cap, a spewing member, a fan, a rotatable shaft, a transformer, a tray, a blue light emitting element, an electric circuit board, and a net. The spewing member has symmetrical holes to which support rods are secured for supporting the transformer controlling the rotatable shaft to rotate and further rotate the fan connected with the shaft. The tray is placed on the support rods for holding a pest-attracting chemical. The electric circuit board is positioned on a fixing frame fixed in the cap and connected with the light emitting element and the transformer that is turned on and off by a switch on the cap. When the device is powered, pests can be attracted by a smell giving out by the volatile chemical in the tray and the yellow color of the device, and during nighttime also by the blue light emitting element and sucked in by the fan and then held in the net.

An Electrochemical biosensor readout meter which can do selectively quantitative analysis of sample of living body such as blood sugar, cholesterol and other elements in blood is disclosed. It is an object of this invention to provide electrochemical biosensor readout meter which has no distortion in peak current and can be manufactured in a low cost. In a preferred embodiment of present invention, a voltage converting means (OP2) is set to convert peak current which occurs at 3rd voltage applying time (t3) into voltage with no distortion and an amplifier (OP3) is set to make digital voltage signal at measuring time (t4) lower than reference voltage of A / D converter.