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The present invention relates to a contact-less power supply magnetically coupled to a battery device having a receiving coil therein, for contact-less charging the battery device, the contact-less power supply having a sending coil array including a plurality of sending coils for inducing a charging power to the receiving coil; and a driving means for detecting a sending coil magnetically coupled to the receiving coil and selectively driving only the detected sending coil.

A system for managing energy consumption has a data storage module, a calculation module and an operation planning module. The data storage module stores an operational past record of a unit belonging to a facility to be managed by the system. The calculation module calculates wasteful energy consumption for the unit based on the operational past record stored in the data storage module. The operation planning module generates an operational plan for the unit belonging to the facility based on the wasteful energy consumption calculated by the calculation module.

A system for managing energy consumption has a data storage module, a calculation module and an operation planning module. The data storage module stores an operational past record of a unit belonging to a facility to be managed by the system. The calculation module calculates wasteful energy consumption for the unit based on the operational past record stored in the data storage module. The operation planning module generates an operational plan for the unit belonging to the facility based on the wasteful energy consumption calculated by the calculation module.

The present invention relates to a vapor heating type cooking apparatus cooking food materials using high pressure vapor as a heat source. A vapor heating type cooking apparatus includes: a vapor supply section generating the high pressure vapor; a vapor supply pipe and a vapor discharge pipe for introducing and discharging the high pressure vapor; a body section including a vapor introduction opening connected to the vapor supply pipe, an interior space having a dual structure so as to circulate the high pressure vapor in the caldron in which food materials are accommodated, a vapor discharge opening provided between the interior space and the vapor discharge pipe; a cooling water supply pipe and a hot water discharge pipe; a lid section including a cooling water introduction opening connected to the cooling water supply pipe, a storage space having a dual structure, in which the cooling water is temporarily stored, and a hot water discharge opening provided between the storage space and the hot water discharge pipe; and a control section for controlling introduction and discharge of the high pressure vapor, the cooling water, and the hot water.

A data center energy management (DCEM) server configures a power supply in the data center. The DCEM server sums input alternating current (AC) power of the power supply to a total AC power of the data center, wherein the total AC power of the data center is a sum of AC power of a plurality of power supplies. The DCEM server sums output direct current (DC) power of the power supply to a total DC power of the data center and reports a ratio of total AC power to total DC power as data center power conversion efficiency. The DCEM server sets a preset power supply efficiency threshold. The DCEM server determines that a real-time power efficiency level is below the power supply efficiency threshold. The DCEM server, responsive to a determination that real-time power efficiency level is below the power supply efficiency threshold, may remedy the power supply.

A system and device for providing power to and monitoring the energy usage of a device connected thereto includes a unit having one or more circuit boards having components for detecting the energy usage of the connected device and an interface for electrically connecting to the device. The unit communicates with a coordinator regarding the connected device or the state of the unit itself. Depending on the communication received from the unit, the coordinator relays the received data to a server and awaits instruction, or immediately commands the unit to take a certain action. If the server receives data from the coordinator, it sends such data to a remote server, saves it, generate reports based thereon, and / or alerts a user regarding same. The user can choose to send a command to the unit or device through the system, for example, to shut down, turn on, or to adjust the power being supplied to the device.

An actuator including actuator base, bobbin, and pole piece forming a pocket for a ferromagnetid armature located therein. The actuator including a radial magnet and a solenoid coil constructed and arranged to cause a linear displacement of the armature upon application of a coil drive current from a control circuit. The actuator may include a flexible membrane that partially encloses the armature to form an armature chamber filled with an incompressible fluid. In a valve design, a fluid flow is stopped by driving the membrane against a valve seat. Pressure from the controlled fluid in the conduit is transmitted through the membrane to the fluid within the armature chamber so that the armature does not need to counteract force applied to the membrane by the conduit fluid's pressure. A fluid flow is opened by driving the membrane away from the valve seat.

A system and method for improving installation of a prosthesis, particularly an acetabular cup. The system and method may include implementation of a constant velocity relative motion between a prosthesis and an installation site. For example, an installation system may be fixed relative to the installation site, with the prosthesis fixed into an initial position. The prosthesis is moved at constant speed (i.e., with minimal if any acceleration or applied impulses) relative to the installation site. That is, one or both of the prosthesis or the installation site may be in motion. Resistive forces to installation of a prosthesis may thus be reduced by maintaining the prosthesis constantly in motion relative to the installation site. Securing a processing / implanting tool directly to the installation site may offer advantages.

A cooling system for use in a work machine is provided, in which an increase in the load imposed on a fan driving circuit and occurrence of abnormal noise can be prevented without fail by means of an inexpensive arrangement at the time of switching the rotating direction of a cooling fan. To this end, the cooling system comprises: (1) a variable displacement hydraulic pump driven by the engine; (2) a forwardly and reversely rotatable hydraulic motor operated by hydraulic oil supplied from the hydraulic pump; (3) a cooling fan driven by the hydraulic motor; (4) an electromagnetic selector valve for switching the rotating direction of the hydraulic motor between a forward direction and a reverse direction; (5) controlling means for controlling switching of the electromagnetic selector valve and controlling the hydraulic pump so as to minimize the discharge oil rate of the hydraulic pump during switching of the electromagnetic selector valve.

The present invention discloses an adjustable hydraulic press with both upper and lower double action, specially suitable for the cylindrical gear formed by stamping or expanding, closed forging and the metal cold forming or metal hot forming of punching, finishing, flanging and drawing of sheet materials. The press comprises four columns, an upper beam, a main slide block, a hold down slide block, a fixing worktable, a floating worktable and a lower beam. The hydraulic chamber of master cylinder fixed in the upper beam communicates to the hydraulic chamber of the auxiliary cylinder, the plunger of master cylinder is connected to the main slide block and drives it. The hydraulic chamber of gas-liquid power accumulator fixed in the main slide block communicates to the hydraulic chamber of hold down cylinder, the plunger of hold down cylinder is connected to the hold down slide block and drives it. The plunger of ejecting cylinder fixed in the lower beam is connected to the floating worktable and drives it. The hydraulic press of the invention simplifies the hydraulic system of the existing hydraulic, improves utilization rate of energy, production efficiency and working accuracy of workpiece.

The invention relates to a method (20) in a base station (2, 3) of a communication system (1) for making a handover decision, the communication system 1 comprising a user equipment (4, 5). The method (20) comprises the steps of: performing (21) a first type of mobility mechanism for the user equipment (4, 5), and upon the first type of mobility mechanism fulfilling a criterion: configuring (22) a second type of mobility mechanism for the user equipment 4, 5, and making (23) a handover decision for the user equipment (4, 5) based on the second type of mobility mechanism. The invention also relates to a base station, computer programs and computer program products.

An apparatus and method make use of a single shunt and two or more instrumentation amplifiers, switchably measuring voltages at the shunt. This permits current measurement. At times each instrumentation amplifier has its input shorted, which permits zeroing out many sources of offset in the signal path of that amplifier. Dynamic range is several orders of magnitude better than known current measurement approaches, permitting coulometry.

A system and method for providing power to and monitoring the energy usage includes at least one electrical control unit having an unmanned vehicle, at least one electrical control unit, a sensor enabled to monitor a given condition; a power source; a processor configured to be in communication with the at least one sensor and said power source, said processor further configured to manage communications with said management system; an unmanned vehicle releasibly coupled to said electrical control unit, said processor being adapted to release said unmanned vehicle to enable the unmanned vehicle to separate from said electrical control unit, wherein said sensor is enabled to monitor at least one of the following: voltage, current, real power, apparent power, reactive power, frequency, total harmonic distortion, arc fault, plug loads, power factor, GFI, AFI, light, temperature, humidity, methane, carbon monoxide, motion, thermal, occupancy, radio frequency, audio, video, infrared, and combinations thereof and wherein said unmanned vehicle can travel to various locations.

The invention relates to a control system of electric liquid ratio pump control asymmetry cylinder. Wherein, the oil gate A1 of electric liquid ratio pump (1) with closed-loop flux control system is connected to the single valve (4) oil gate A2, the single valve (7) oil gate A3, the overflow valve (8) oil gate A4, the overflow valve (9) oil gate A5, the flux division overflow valve (19) oil gate A6 and the asymmetry oil cylinder (18) rod chamber; the oil gate B1 of electric liquid ratio pump (1) is connected to the single valve (11) oil gate B2, the single valve (10) oil gate B3, the overflow valve (8) oil gate B4, the overflow valve (9) oil gate B4, and the liquid control single valve (17) oil gate B5; and the oil gate B6 of liquid control single valve (17) is connected to the non-rod chamber of asymmetry oil cylinder (18) and the maintenance-safety circuit. The oil feeding circuit, main pump zero flux unload circuit and pressure-limited circuit are arranged between the non-rod chamber and the rod chamber oil pip.

The invention discloses a power battery pack equalization circuit based on boost conversion and soft switching, and a realization method of the equalization circuit. The equalization circuit mainly comprises a microcontroller, a switching module, a BOOST conversion module and an LC (inductance-capacitance) resonance circuit, wherein the microcontroller gates battery monomers with maximum voltage and minimum voltage in any position of a battery pack on an equalization bus according to battery monomer numbers corresponding to maximum monomer voltage and minimum monomer voltage; and the microcontroller sends a pair of state-complementary PWM (pulse-width modulation) signals to control the LC resonance circuit, so that the LC resonance circuit alternately operates in charging and discharging states. The equalization circuit and the realization method effectively solve the problem that zero voltage difference of the battery monomers cannot be realized easily due to conduction voltage drop of electric and electronic devices; equalization current is increased; the equalization time is shortened; zero current switching equalization is realized; energy waste is reduced; the inconsistency among the battery monomers is improved effectively; and the equalization efficiency is improved.

An image stabilized digital image capture device, comprising an image sensor for capturing a digital image; an optical system for imaging a scene onto the image sensor; an image stabilization system; an exposure control system; a memory system; and a processor. The processor is used to perform the steps of determining exposure settings using the exposure control system; selectively engaging the image stabilization system responsive to whether the determined exposure settings satisfy a predefined condition; capturing a digital image of a scene using the image sensor and the selectively engaged image stabilization system; and storing the captured digital image in the memory system.

The present disclosure discloses a smart battery, an electric energy allocation bus system, a battery charging and discharging method and an electric energy allocation method. The smart battery internally comprises a battery body portion and a control unit. The smart battery can collect various data of the battery, can be communicated with other smart batteries in a battery pack of a same group and a battery pack control system, and can realize electric quantity transfer among smart batteries of the same group through the electric quantity allocation bus, and realize electric quantity transfer among some batteries of a battery pack accessed to the electric energy allocation bus. Besides, controllable processes of charging and discharging, that is, active balanced charging and discharging, can be realized.

The invention discloses a switch matrix and LC resonant transformation based cells to cells equalization circuit and a method. The circuit comprises a microcontroller, a matrix switch module, an equalization bus, an LC resonant transformation module and a filtering capacitor. Zero current switch equalization from any adjacent cells to any adjacent cells or any cell in a pack can be achieved, and the equalization efficiency is greatly improved; the magnitude of the equalization current is adjusted by controlling the difference of the optimal discharging and optimal charging cells, and the inconsistency between the cells is improved; the problem of low equalization efficiency of charging and discharging during equalization of traditional pack to cell equalization circuits is solved, and the problem of the limitation of improvement of the equalization current of the Cell to Cell equalization circuits is solved.

A three-dimensional (3D) apparatus including a processing unit, a base and a printing head is provided. The processing unit is configured to read and process digital 3D model information. The base is coupled to and controlled by the processing unit. The base includes a plurality of heating regions. The processing unit is configured to selectively heat at least one of the heating regions according to the digital 3D model information. The printing head is disposed above the base. The printing head is coupled to and controlled by the processing unit to dispense a thermal melting material layer-by-layer on the heated heating region to form a 3D object related to the digital 3D model information.

A projecting device with energy recycling function comprises a power system, a light source, an optical engine, a lens and an energy recycling module. The light source which receives power from the power system is for generating a beam of light. The optical engine which receives power from the power system is for guiding the light generated by the light source. The lens is for receiving the light guided by the optical engine to generate a projecting image, and the light forms a light path from the light source to the lens via the optical engine. The energy recycling module is for recycling at least one of heat energy and light energy generated by at least one of the light source and the optical. engine.

A method of heating an aircraft fuselage comprises the step of supplying heat energy to air occupying an interior space enclosed by an aircraft fuselage shell structure so as to drive moisture from air in a region disposed immediately adjacent the structure to air in a region disposed from the structure within the enclosed space (20), thereby substantially preventing ice formation on the interior of the structure when the exterior of the structure is exposed to temperatures in the region of −35° C. to −85° C. The heat energy may be supplied by either a heater mat or a heat pipe assembly (16) in an aircraft fuselage.

The invention discloses an electric vehicle remote thermal management control method, device and system and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a vehicle reservation instruction which issent by a user side and comprises reservation information such as estimated departure time, an estimated destination position and an estimated driving mode; based on the reservation information and the obtained current parking point position, determining a predicted environment temperature and a predicted driving duration of the to-be-used vehicle in the travel; determining a current thermal management mode and a current battery target temperature based on the predicted driving mode, the predicted environment temperature and the predicted driving duration; determining current thermal management starting time and current thermal management starting duration based on the estimated departure time; and controlling a heat pump system of the to-be-used vehicle to perform heat management on theto-be-used vehicle through the power domain controller according to the determined heat management control information. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, unnecessary energy waste can be reduced while the use comfort of the vehicle is improved and the cruising ability of the vehicle is increased.

The invention relates to a device-to-device (D2D) multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) method on the basis of beam forming and fountain codes, in particular to a MBMS scheme on the basis of a D2D system, in which a fountain coding technology and a beam forming technology are introduced, and belongs to the technical field of communication. Every when a D2D transmitting terminal receives an ACK (Acknowledgement Character) signal fed back by one D2D receiving set, according to a principle in proportion to the number of users in a receiving set of which the power is not limited, the maximum transmittable power of the receiving set of which the power is not limited in the current D2D communication receiving sets is redistributed, so that the total transmitting power of the D2D transmitting terminal is always kept into the maximum transmitting power. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the unnecessary energy waste and the interference to users in an adjacent origin cell, which are caused by the omnibearing radiation of a transmitting antenna, can be reduced and the throughput of the D2D system is improved.

Disclosed is a transdermal electrotransport drug delivery system having a constant current that can accommodate large resistance change in a body surface. A semiconductor circuit component such as a Zener diode or a PMOS FET is used to impose a voltage drop from the output of a voltage booster circuit to maintain a constant current for electrotransport. Methods for its use are also disclosed.

A touch panel method and system detects one or more touch objects placed on a surface of a touch panel and assigns consistent ID, position, size and convex contour to each touch object. The method and system allows multiple simultaneous touch objects on the touch panel to be distinguished. The touch panel includes on its periphery at least one light transmitter and at least one light sensor, each positioned around at least a portion of a perimeter of the touch panel. A processor in communication with the at least one light sensor acquires light intensity data from the sensor(s), wherein any one or more touch objects placed within a touch detectable region of the panel interrupts at least a subset of light paths between transmitter and sensor. Based on the interrupted light paths, the processor generates a touch input vector (assigned ID and spatial properties) that represents the placement of each touch object on the touch panel.