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Embodiments of systems and methods for efficient hand-off in a wireless network employ a neighbor report which may include, in addition to more convention information about neighboring access point, search thresholds, target beacon transmission time of neighboring access points, and execution thresholds. The present systems and methods also provide a mechanism of updating neighbor report and its elements. A faster and lower spectrum cost active search scheme based on sending a null packet may also be used by the systems and methods.

A card shooter apparatus 200 is set on a game table 20, and a card shooter unit 204 and card guide unit 204 are provided with a housing 202. The card guide unit 214 guides cards, which are pulled out one by one from the card shooter unit 204 by hand, onto the game table 20. The card guide unit 214 is provided with sensor unit 216 which reads the card pulled out. A control unit 208 determine win or lose of a card game based on reading result of the sensor unit 216, and display units 210 and 212 displays win or lose. Thus, an illegal act can be prevented while the progress of a game be supported.

An active noise control system for use in testing hearing using a pure tone audiometry testing procedure and employing multiple switching controllers with pre-filtering means and a switch to select any one controller to provide a predetermined one and having the ability to configure each switching controller so that the maximum threshold shift occurs for the frequency of the test tone and for modifying each test tone in accordance with a standard calibration frequency.

A method for validating positional data in vehicle surveillance applications wherein vehicles transmit positional data indicating their own position to surrounding vehicles using a data link over which a transmission is initiated at a given transmission point in time that is known by all users of the data link. A signal transmitted from a radio source over the data link is received at a receiving unit. The signal carries positional data indicating an alleged position of a vehicle. The distance between the receiving unit and the radio source is estimated based on the time of flight and the propagation velocity of the received signal. The time of flight is determined based on the time elapsed from the transmission point in time of the signal to the time of reception of at least a first part of the signal. A deviation value is determined. The deviation value indicates the difference between the distance to the position of a vehicle according to the received positional data and the estimated distance to the radio source.

In display devices using thin film transistors, a graphoepitaxy is used for a semiconductor layer crystallizing process. Thus, a display device in which crystallinity is improved, a variation in characteristics of thin film transistors is reduced, display nonuniformity is less, and a display quality is superior is provided. Steps are formed on a substrate in advance and an amorphous silicon film is formed thereon, and then laser crystallization is conducted in a direction perpendicular to the steps.

There is provided a circulation type hot water supply device in which a downstream end of a hot water delivering channel 6 connected to a heat exchanger 4 of a water heater 1 is connected to a water supply channel 5 upstream of the heat exchanger, and a circulating pump 25 that returns hot water fed from the heat exchanger to the hot water delivering channel to the heat exchanger through the water supply channel is provided in the hot water delivering channel. The device can reliably identify an abnormality when it occurs, such as adhesion of a deposit to an inner surface of a heat absorbing pipe 4b to reduce heat exchange efficiency. A diagnosis is started when a hot water delivering tap 7 is closed and a burner 3 is subjected to combustion. In the diagnosis, supply of water to the heat exchanger 4 is first stopped to shut down the burner 3. Then, the presence of an abnormality is determined when an amount of increase of a detection temperature from a hot water delivering temperature sensor 20 reaches a predetermined threshold value or more.

The invention relates to a coating method capable of improving a laser induced damage threshold of a high-reflectivity film and belongs to the field of film optics. The coating method mainly aims at two key factors of absorption and defects influencing a laser induced damage threshold of a high-reflectivity laser film, and after electron beam evaporation coating of each film layer is finished, utilizes high-energy ion beams to bombard the film layer. The coating method retains unique and beneficial performances of a laser film coated by electron beam thermal evaporation, improves intrinsic absorption and defect density of a film, greatly improves a laser induced damage threshold of a high-reflectivity film, and has the characteristics of strong pertinence, high coating quality, simpleness and good feasibility.

There is provided an electric power steering apparatus having an electric motor 12 for generating a steering assist torque to a steering mechanism and a motor control part 24 for controlling the electric motor 12 by a pulse-width modulating signal in accordance with a current command value corresponding to a steering torque. The motor control part 24 has a motor torque detection part 67 detecting a motor torque, a motor torque change rate detection part 68 calculating a motor torque change rate, and a duty ratio limiting part 64 fixing a duty ratio of the pulse-width modulating signal to a predetermined value for limiting a torque transmitted to a torque transmitting member disposed between a steering shaft of a steering mechanism and a steering road wheel when a calculated torque change rate is not less than a threshold value for judging a steering limit position.

A loop delay control circuit is provided between a comparator and a power switch stage. When the amplitude of an input signal is especially high, the loop delay control circuit secures an oscillation threshold value by setting a delay amount at a low value. On the other hand, when the amplitude of the input signal is not so high, the loop delay control circuit reduces an average switching rate by increasing the delay amount, but does not reduce the oscillation threshold value. This makes it possible to provide a delta-sigma modulator allowing realization of both (i) a high oscillation threshold value, i.e., high output power, and (ii) high power efficiency.

The semiconductor integrated circuit device employs on the same silicon substrate a plurality of kinds of MOS transistors with different magnitudes of tunnel current flowing either between the source and gate or between the drain and gate thereof. These MOS transistors include tunnel-current increased MOS transistors at least one of which is for use in constituting a main circuit of the device. The plurality of kinds of MOS transistors also include tunnel-current reduced or depleted MOS transistors at least one of which is for use with a control circuit. This control circuit is inserted between the main circuit and at least one of the two power supply units.

A process for floating fine particles containing metal values of an iron-bearing sulphide mineral ore including the steps of conditioning the aqueous pulp of ore at a pH of between about 7 and about 10 with a reducing agent which is preferably oxy-sulphur compound which dissociates to form oxy-sulphur ions having the general formula:where n is greater than 1; y is greater than 2; and z is the valance of the ion.A suitable collector is then added to the conditioned aqueous pulp to further condition the pulp and the pulp potential of the pulp raised to a sufficient level for the collector to adsorb onto the sulphide mineral ore. Gas is then bubbled through the aqueous pulp to subject the pulp to froth flotation. The froth from the flotation process is recovered to produce a concentrate of fine sulphide mineral and other metal values.By conditioning the aqueous pulp at a pulp potential which dissolves the iron hydroxide film from the surface of the metal sulphide inclusions in the ore and subjecting the ore to froth flotation at a suitable pulp potential before the iron hydroxide can reform, the recovery of metal values in the fine ores can be greatly enhanced.

A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor region having a first semiconductor face and a second semiconductor face connected to the first semiconductor face and having an inclination with respect to the first semiconductor face; a gate insulating film formed on the first and on the second semiconductor faces; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film including a part on a boundary between the first semiconductor face and the second semiconductor face; a source impurity region formed in the semiconductor region so as to overlap the gate electrode within the first semiconductor face with the gate insulating film interposed between the source impurity region and the gate electrode; and a drain impurity region formed in the semiconductor region directly under the second semiconductor face at least.

A motor drives a window glass of a door of a vehicle in an opening direction and a closing direction. A rotation sensing device outputs a pulse signal in response to rotation of the motor. A controller senses pinching of an object by the window glass based on the rotational speed signal. Specifically, the controller computes a rate of change in the rotational speed, i.e., a rotational speed difference based on the rotational speed signal. The controller senses start of the pinching based on the rotational speed difference. When an amount of change in the rotational speed since the time of sensing the start of the pinching exceeds a pinching determining threshold value, the controller confirm the pinching of the object.

In a robot joint structure, a first main link (42) and a second main link (44) are connected through two movable links including a first movable link (70) and a second movable link (72), and the two movable links are arranged to cross. With this, it becomes possible to increase the overall driven angle of the joint (36) relative to the input, expand the range of motion of the joint in the bending direction, and also raise the critical value of the driven speed (rotational speed).

Disclosed is a method for operating a gas turbine (11) comprising a compressor (14), which is equipped with variable inlet guide vanes (13) and receives at its inlet an inlet air flow, which has passed a temperature-affecting air inlet system (12a), a combustor (15, 15′) and a turbine (16, 16′). In a closed loop control scheme, a control variable indicative of the turbine outlet temperature (TAT2) is generated, and the air inlet system (12a) and / or the variable inlet guide vanes (13) are controlled in accordance with said control variable such that the turbine outlet temperature (TAT2) is kept at or above a desired setting value (TAT2min).

A travel controller which controls the travel of a subject vehicle based on a distance to and a relative speed with respect to a control object determined by a control object determiner. If stoppage of the subject vehicle by a decelerating operation of a driver is detected by a manual stoppage detector and a comparator determines that a distance to the object in or on a travel locus is equal to or larger than a determination threshold value, the comparator excludes the object from being considered as a control object.

The present invention provides for a current induced switching magnetoresistance device comprising a magnetic multilayer composed of a first ferromagnetic layer, a nonferromagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer, wherein the first ferromagnetic layer has an upper electrode, the second ferromagnetic layer pinned by an antiferromagnet, wherein the antiferromagnet contains a lower electrode at its lower part, and the second ferromagnetic layer is embedded with a nano oxide layer. It is preferable to have at least a part of the lower electrode in contact with the second ferromagnetic layer. The magnetoresistance device of the present invention provides a lower critical current (Ic) for the magnetization reversal and has an increased resistance.

The invention provides a method and a device for extracting an intracerebral brain tissue. The method comprises the following steps: (1) inputting an image, preprocessing the image for obtaining a smooth image and a skin mask, and performing binarization on the smooth image for obtaining a binary image; (2) according to a current corrosion radius, performing morphological erosion on the binary image for obtaining N current connected domains; (3) determining a human neck position through the skin mask, and determining a current final dividing result according to the N current connected domains and the human neck position; and (4) performing dividing leakage detection on the current final dividing result, if a leakage occurs in the current final dividing result, enlarging the current corrosion radius and returning to the step (2); and if no leakage occurs in the current final dividing result, determining the current final dividing result as the intracerebral brain tissue which requires extraction. The method and the device can be used for automatically and accurately extracting the intracerebral brain tissue and furthermore have advantages of low realizing complexity and high computing speed.

The invention provides a method of controlling a mobile terminal by detecting a sensor. The method comprises the steps of detecting an output signal of the sensor in the mobile terminal, judging the moving state of the mobile terminal, and adjusting the mobile terminal according to the moving state of the mobile terminal to do at least one operation: measuring cells, selecting a lingering public land mobile network or selecting a mode.

The invention discloses a method and device for detecting copy number variation based on amplicon next generation sequencing. The method comprises the following steps: S1, extracting DNAs (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) of a sample to be detected and a negative comparison sample respectively and amplifying a target region with relatively mutated target characters through a plurality of amplicons, wherein the negative comparison sample is a sample with target character related genes which are not mutated; S2, carrying out next generation sequencing to obtain a sequence of the target region; S3, comparing the sequence of the target region and a reference genome, and carrying out data information processing to obtain a coverage degree of each amplicon; and S4, establishing a normal distribution model of the negative comparison sample on the coverage degree of each amplicon respectively and taking the normal distribution model as background noises, carrying out bilateral checking on the coverage degree of each amplicon of the sample to be detected and the normal distribution model, and taking amplicons which do not belong to normal distribution as copy number variation and positively detecting. By adopting the technical scheme provided by the invention, the accuracy of copy number variation detection based on the amplicon next generation sequencing is improved.

The invention discloses a glycerol monolaurate microcapsule as well as a preparation method and an application of the glycerol monolaurate microcapsule. The preparation method comprises the following steps that: the glycerol monolaurate and emulsifying agents are dissolved into water being 60 to 70 DEG C to obtain solution A; wall materials are dissolved into the water being 60 to 70 DEG C to obtain solution B; the solution A and the solution B are mixed when the solution A and the solution B are still hot, stirring is carried out, and emulsion is obtained; and the emulsion is subjected to homogenizing and spray drying to obtain the glycerol monolaurate microcapsule, wherein the emulsifying agents are at least one kind of materials from sucrose ester, granulesten and fatty acid monoglyceride; and the wall materials are a mixture of maltodextrin and high-molecular compounds. The method provided by the invention is simple and practical, the controllability is strong, and the microencapsulation efficiency on core materials is higher; and the prepared glycerol monolaurate microcapsule has good flowability, dissolution dispersibility and mouth feeling, in addition, the anti-bacterium effect is not obviously reduced, and the glycerol monolaurate microcapsule can be applied to infant formula powder and realizes the effects of enhancing the immunity and resisting the infection.

A method of fabricating poly crystalline silicon type thin film transistor is disclosed. In the method, before the step of re-crystallization of amorphous silicon to form polycrystalline silicon active pattern, a step for injecting predetermined amount of oxygen atom into the surface part of the amorphous silicon layer. By this addition of step, the surface part of the silicon layer is to be oxidized and the crystal defect in the interface between the gate insulating layer and poly crystalline silicon layer can be cured and the mobility of charge carrier can be improved in the channel of the thin film transistor.

The invention provides a square-wave pulse laser device, which comprises a nonlinear amplification environment NALM and a pulse laser main oscillation cavity, wherein the nonlinear amplification environment NALM is used for performing intra-cavity pulse shaping on laser pulse; and the pulse laser main oscillation cavity is used for circularly oscillating a square-wave laser pulse sequence in the nonlinear amplification environment NALM and the pulse laser main oscillation cavity and generating and outputting square-wave laser pulse. The invention also provides a square-wave pulse laser generating method, which comprises the following steps of: inputting continuous laser to excite a working substance to generate primary laser pulse; and performing intra-cavity pulse shaping on the primary laser pulse through the nonlinear amplification environment NALM, and circularly oscillating the primary laser pulse in the nonlinear amplification environment NALM and the pulse laser main oscillation cavity to generate the square-wave laser pulse. According to the pulse laser device and the method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the pulse laser device can directly output the square-wave laser pulse and has the characteristics of self start and simple adjustment.

The invention relates to a method for the dynamic measurement of noise level, in the method, the threshold value (12) is adapted to a signal output of a sensor by means of an echo procedure, and particularly the distance measurement is carried out by means of an ultrasonic procedure, wherein, a transmission signal (2) of the radiated object is sent back to the sensor in form of an echo signal (5), wherein, the time distance between sending of the transmission signal and the reception of the echo signal is measured, wherein, between the time of the decay of the transmission signal and the time of the arrival of the first echo signal (5), a time interval (6) is measured, and a threshold value (13) in the time interval (6) is gradually changed, wherein, the input noise signal is monitored according to compare of current threshold value (13), wherein, the current threshold value (13) becomes lowered, so long the input noise signal is below the current threshold value, and wherein, the current threshold value (13) becomes increased, so long the input noise signal is above the current threshold value (13), wherein, the current threshold value (13) becomes registered within the time interval (6) and wherein from the registered threshold values (13) a threshold value line (12) is determined.

A control system for a hybrid vehicle that can reduce a power loss resulting from shifting an operating mode from motor mode to hybrid mode is provided. A transmission that is adapted to distribute torque applied to an input element to a reaction element and an output element, and to change a ratio between a first torque delivered to the reaction element and a second torque delivered to the output element. A controller is configured to start an engine in a high mode in which a torque ratio of the output element to the input element is small if the vehicle speed is higher than a threshold value, and to start the engine in a low mode in which the torque ratio is greater if the vehicle speed is lower than the threshold value.

A semiconductor device includes: memory blocks each having groups of memory cells that are connected to word lines; select gates for selecting the groups of memory cells; and an apply circuit that applies, at the time of reading data, a back bias to the select gates of unselected memory blocks.

The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a crystal grapefruit, which aims at solving the problem that the grapefruit peel has strong bitterness and is inedible. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps: using microwaves to debitterize under the alkaline condition, processing with sugary ingredients of sucrose and fructose dextrose syrup, embedding with beta-cyclodextrin molecules to further debitterize, and finally adding gelata to prepare into a spongy transparent food which contains the grapefruit peel and is soft in texture. The invention has the following advantages: instead of the method of completely removing the bitter substances in the grapefruit, the reasonable recipe design and process conditions are adopted, especially the microwave debitterizing, the processing with sugary ingredients and the beta-cyclodextrin embedding processes, decreases the bitter substances of the grapefruit peel, effectively raises the threshold value of the bitterness, and enables the product to have favorable flavor and texture and better preserve the nutritious substances and the biological active substances of the grapefruit. The gellan gum added to the gelata can enhance the elasticity of the product and improve the transparency of the product; and what's important, the gelata is very stable under the acidic condition.