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A nano graphene-enhanced particulate for use as a lithium-ion battery anode active material, wherein the particulate is formed of a single sheet of graphene or a plurality of graphene sheets and a plurality of fine anode active material particles with a size smaller than 10 μm. The graphene sheets and the particles are mutually bonded or agglomerated into the particulate with at least a graphene sheet embracing the anode active material particles. The amount of graphene is at least 0.01% by weight and the amount of the anode active material is at least 0.1% by weight, all based on the total weight of the particulate. A lithium-ion battery having an anode containing these graphene-enhanced particulates exhibits a stable charge and discharge cycling response, a high specific capacity per unit mass, a high first-cycle efficiency, a high capacity per electrode volume, and a long cycle life.

A practical system and method for the remote distribution of financial services (e.g., home banking and bill-paying) involves distributing portable terminals to a user base. The terminals include a multi-line display, keys “pointing to” lines on the display, and additional keys. Contact is established between the terminals and a central computer operated by a service provider, preferably over a dial-up telephone line and a packet data network. Information exchange between the central computer and the terminal solicits information from the terminal user related to requested financial services (e.g., for billpaying, the user provides payee selection and amount and his bank account PIN number). The central computer then transmits a message over a conventional ATM network debiting the user's bank account in real time, and may pay the specified payees the specified amount electronically or in other ways as appropriate. Payments and transfers may be scheduled in advance or on a periodic basis. Because the central computer interacts with the user's bank as a standard POS or ATM network node, no significant software changes are required at the banks' computers. The terminal interface is extremely user-friendly and incorporates some features of standard ATM user interfaces so as to reduce new user anxiety.

A method for controlling communication between a hub and a plurality of distributed stations over a medium is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of a method for controlling communications access between a hub (8) and a plurality of distributed stations (M1-M7) over a medium, the method comprising the steps of (a) allocating a plurality of channels for data communications between the station (M1-M7) and the hub (8), the number of channels being at least equal to the number of stations, (M1-M7) and each station owning at cast one channel, each channel being varyingly in one of an empty-, a reserved, or an owner-state, and whereby (i) the empty-state provides a channel to which any station (M1-M7) can have access; (ii) the reserved-state provides a channel to which a station (M1-M7) having made a reservation with the hub (8), but not owning the channel, can have access; and (iii) the owner-state provides a channel to which only the owning station (M1-M7) has access; and (b) allocating the respective state and/or the number of channels over time an the basis of each station's data requirements.

The invention relates to a method and system of growing a network and distributing data using the network including one or more production nodes that send data and a plurality of consumer nodes that receive data from one or more production nodes or at least one other consumer node. The first software resides on each of the consumer nodes and the second software resides on each of the production nodes wherein a data request is not relayed and routed through several intermediate nodes in a path way but only is made to a logically adjacent node and where the logically adjacent nodes take no action to retrieve data from another node if the logically adjacent node is unable to fulfill the request itself. The invention can be implemented for mobile phones, streaming internet applications and cable television.

A method to use the data packet carrying ability of cable TV networks as described in DOCSIS to accurately and quickly transmit a voice call from a cable user to another user over a cable TV cable. The cable telephone, or cable modem, is given the ability to detect when voice activity from the subscriber is above and below a predetermined value. When the cable modem has voice activity, the cable modem knows that it will have a continuous stream of voice data packets which need to be sent very quickly and very accurately to the CMTS. Therefore, the cable modem requests a periodic stream of time slots from the CMTS. When the cable modem detects no voice activity or a silence period from the subscriber, the cable modem indicates that the periodic stream of time slots is no longer needed and the CMTS stops providing the periodic stream of time slots. When voice activity of the subscriber resumes, the cable modem again request the periodic stream of time slots, and transmits the voice data packets or cells in these time slots.

A system and method to control environmental parameters of pre-defined zones within an environment using an electronic controller are disclosed. The system includes a non-proprietary electronic controller which enables a weighting value to be assigned to each zone within the environment. The electronic controller also detects any zone service calls from sensor devices associated with each of the zones and determines a cumulative weighting value in response to the detected zone service calls. The electronic controller selects an equipment staging combination from at least two possible equipment staging combinations in response to thermal capacity, and an air handler stage is selected in response to at least the cumulative zone weighting value.

The present invention provides an anode electrode of a lithium-ion battery, comprising an anode active material-coated graphene sheet, wherein the graphene sheet has two opposed parallel surfaces and at least 50% area of one of the surfaces is coated with an anode active material and wherein the graphene material is in an amount of from 0.1% to 99.5% by weight and the anode active material is in an amount of at least 0.5% by weight (preferably at least 60%), all based on the total weight of the graphene material and the anode active material combined.

Provided is a battery stack for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein the coated stack comprises a porous separator, an electrode layer adjacent the porous separator, and a current collector layer coated on the electrode layer, wherein the current collector layer comprises sintered metal particles. Also provided are methods of manufacturing such coated stacks.

A system and method to control environmental parameters of pre-defined zones within an environment using an electronic controller are disclosed. The system includes an electronic controller which enables a weighting value to be assigned to each zone within the environment. The electronic controller also detects any zone service calls from sensor devices associated with each of the zones and determines a cumulative weighting value in response to the detected zone service calls. The electronic controller selects a staging combination from at least two possible staging combinations in response to at least the cumulative zone weighting value.

A metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) in a non-volatile memory cell has a source, a drain and a channel region between the source and the drain, all formed in a substrate of opposite conductivity type to the conductivity type of the source and drain. The MOSFET is programmed by connecting the drain electrode to the supply source of the main voltage, V_cc, provided to said non-volatile memory cell and supplying selected voltages to the source and substrate so as to invert a portion of the channel region extending from the source toward the drain. The inverted portion of the channel region ends at a pinch-off point before reaching the drain. By controlling the reverse bias across the PN junction between the source and the substrate, the pinch-off point of the inversion region is pulled back toward the source thereby to increase the programming efficiency of the MOSFET.

Methods and structures for highly efficient Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) programming for Non-Volatile Memories (NVM) apply the main positive supply voltage V_cc to, the drain electrode of the NVM cell from the chip main voltage supply in contrast to the conventional method using a higher voltage than V_cc. The source electrode and substrate are reverse biased with a differential voltage relative to the drain, while a voltage pulse is applied to the control gate of the NVM cell to turn on the NVM cell for programming. To optimize the programming condition, the source voltage and the substrate voltage are then adjusted to achieve the maximum threshold voltage shifts under the same applied gate voltage pulse condition (i.e. using a gate pulse with the same voltage amplitude and duration regardless of the source voltage and the substrate voltage). The substrate voltage to the drain voltage can not exceed the avalanche multiplication junction breakdown for a small programming current during the bias voltage adjustment.

Provided is a battery comprising a first compartment, a second compartment and a barrier separating the first and second compartments, wherein the barrier comprises a proton transporting moiety.

A method for connecting a storage device to an information generating device includes transferring an identifying message from the storage device to a control server via a computer network. The identifying message includes a unique identifier uniquely identifying the storage device, matching a registered information generating system to the unique identifier, and identifying at least one information generating device included in the matched information generating system. A configuration message is transferred from the control server to the storage device, and the configuration message includes an address to the identified at least one information generating device and instructions of interaction. The instructions of interaction are arranged to define how the transfer of generated information is to be performed.

Methods and systems are provided for satellite communication wherein a plurality of geographically-separated apertures are controlled by a central controller that analyzes link availability of each aperture and then user connectivity is prioritized above a minimum user data rate, whereupon the gateway-established data rate of lower priority users is reduced to allocate more capacity to highest priority users, which are routed through available links in order to better optimize a gateway architecture, to reduce gateway costs and to improve effective performance in the presence of atmospheric interference events.

A method of sorting mined material for subsequent processing to recover valuable material, such as valuable metals, from the mined material is disclosed. The method includes a combination of selective breakage of mined material, for example, by using microwaves and/or high pressure grinding rolls, subsequent size separation, and then particle sorting of a coarse fraction of the separated material based on differential heating and thermal imaging.

A condenser in a refrigerant system is provided with a plurality of refrigerant circuits, with at least one of the plurality of circuits being equipped with a shut off device. A reheat coil is also incorporated into the refrigerant system to provide enhanced dehumidification functionality. By selectively shutting off at least one of the active refrigerant circuits in the condenser, the amount of heat rejected by the condenser as well as by the reheat coil can be controlled shifting the heat load between the condenser and reheat coil. In this manner, and in combination with operation of the reheat cycle, incremental dehumidification and cooling/heating can be provided and humidity and temperature can be precisely controlled.

A method to optimize the communication on a channel between an access point and at least one client device, said channel being characterized by a center frequency and a bandwidth, comprises: establishing a connection on a first channel according to a first center frequency and a first bandwidth; exchanging data through this first channel between the access point and the client device; monitoring a first interference level on the first channel; the access point, while the data are exchanged, executes: informing the client device to switch to a second channel having a different center frequency and/or a different bandwidth; determining a second interference level on the second channel; comparing the first interference level with the second interference level; deciding to switch back or keep the second channel based on the comparison.

A drive system for an aircraft has a first energy store for supplying electrical energy, a second energy store for supplying electrical energy, and an electric drive for supplying drive power for the aircraft. An energy distribution unit of the drive system is designed to transmit the supplied electrical energy of the first energy store and the supplied electrical energy of the second energy store to the electric drive. The energy distribution unit is also designed to charge the second energy store using a first portion of the energy supplied by the first energy store and at the same time to transmit a second portion of the energy supplied by the first energy store to the electric drive, in order to supply the drive power for the aircraft. An aircraft having a drive system and a method for supplying drive power for an aircraft are disclosed.