70results about How to "Travel efficiently" patented technology

A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons between booked information and actual current travel data.

A mobile robot having a movable main unit section, a self location measurement unit for measuring a self location of the main unit section, a map database for storing map information on a travel range of the main unit section to a travel destination, a virtual sensor information calculation unit for extracting information on obstacles to movement of the main unit section in an arbitrary detection region on the map information based on self location information measured by the self location measurement unit and the map information stored in the map database, and for calculating virtual sensor calculation information, and a route calculation unit for calculating a travel route for the main unit section to travel based on the virtual sensor calculation information calculated by the virtual sensor information calculation unit.

A fan assembly for creating an air current includes an air outlet mounted on a stand. The stand includes a base and a body tiltable relative to the base. The fan assembly has a centre of gravity located so that when the base is located on a substantially horizontal support surface, the projection of the centre of gravity on the support surface is within the footprint of the base when the body is in a fully tilted position.

A hybrid vehicle enabling reliable travel to the destination in second travel mode in which the vehicle travels with the engine off and enabling more effective use the second travel mode. In this vehicle, a electric power travel mode travelable distance calculation section calculates the travelable distance based on the average traveling consumed current value inputted from average traveling consumed current value calculation section and the battery capacity SOC inputted from a battery capacity calculation section, and outputs the result to a display section. A fuel travelable distance calculation section calculates the remaining travelable distance based on the remaining fuel inputted from a remaining fuel amount measuring section and the fuel consumption inputted from a fuel consumption calculation section, and outputs the result to the display section. The display section displays the remaining travelable distance for the total of the remaining fuel and the battery capacity SOC for traveling, based on the travelable distance inputted from the electric power travel mode travelable distance calculation section and the remaining travelable distance inputted from the fuel travelable distance calculation section.

A variable reluctance motor and methods for control. The motor may include N motor phases, where N equals three or more. Each motor phase may include a coil to generate a magnetic flux, a stator and a rotor. A flux-carrying element for the rotor and/or stator may be made entirely of SMC. The stators and rotors of the N motor phases may be arranged relative to each other so that when the stator and rotor teeth of a selected phase are aligned, the stator and rotor teeth in each of the other motor phases are offset from each other, e.g., by an integer multiple of 1/N of a pitch of the stator or rotor teeth. A fill factor of the coil relative to the space in which it is housed may be at least 60%, and up to 90% or more. The stator and rotor flux-carrying elements together may include at most three separable parts.

A vehicle control device is installed in a host vehicle and is configured to be capable of performing automatic driving or providing a driving support. The vehicle control device includes a left/right boundary line generating unit that calculates left and right boundary lines of a travel path on which the host vehicle travels. Further, the vehicle control device includes an ideal travel route generating unit that sets constraint points through which the host vehicle passes within a range of the left and right boundary lines, and furthermore, calculates an ideal travel route in which a curvature with the constraint points serving as a constraint condition, a travel distance, and a difference from a center line are minimized.

A light source device includes at least two light emitting parts which emit light; and a polarization separating part which transmits polarized light in a first vibrating direction of the lights from the light emitting part, and reflects polarized light in a second vibrating direction nearly orthogonal to the first vibrating direction, thereby to separate the lights from the light emitting part into the polarized light in the first vibrating direction and the polarized light in the second vibrating direction. Herein, the light emitting part includes a reflection part which reflects light that travels toward the light emitting part from the polarization separating part, in the direction of the polarization separating part. The polarization separating part synthesizes the polarized light in the first vibrating direction that has passed through the polarization separating part, and the polarized light in the second vibrating direction that has reflected on the polarization separating part, thereby to cause the synthesized light to travel in a predetermined direction.

In an elliptical step exercise apparatus distance traveled can be approximated by determining the portion of the ellipse traversed by a foot pedal where the user applies force to the pedal. This portion can be considered equivalent to the amount of foot travel on a treadmill and modified as a function of speed to simulate the gait of a user at various speeds so as to provide an approximation of the distance traveled by a user as if he were running on a treadmill. This process can be further modified for use with an elliptical exercise apparatus where the stride length can be changed such that the simulated distance will be increased with increased stride length.

A hybrid photovoltaic cell comprising a composite substrate of a nanotube or nanorod array of metal oxide infiltrated with a monomer precursor and subsequently polymerized in situ via UV irradiation. In an embodiment, the photovoltaic cell comprises an electron accepting TiO₂ nanotube array infiltrated with a photo-sensitive electron donating conjugated polymer. The conjugated polymer may be formed in situ through UV irradiation polymerizing a monomer precursor such as 2,5-diiodothiophene (DIT).

A vessel (10) designed to operate efficiently as both a catamaran and air cushion vessel can travel at low speed (e.g. Froude number (Fn)=0-0.3) in a catamaran or displacement mode and at high speed (e.g. Froude numbers (Fn)=0.3 or more) in an air cushion or dynamically supported mode. The vessel (10) includes molded catamaran hulls (11, 12) with parabolic waterlines, a flexible, air cushion seal system (16, 17), surface piercing propellers (20) and a propulsion system (e.g. combined diesel and gas turbine). There are preferably auxiliary gas turbines for generating lift air pressure. Forward mounted independently stabilizing foils (30), can optionally facilitate ride stabilization and load compensation at high and low speeds. The foils also generate transverse roll forces to improve high speed maneuvering.

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling a camera mounted at a robot cleaner in order to sense obstacles and perform position compensation. The apparatus for controlling a camera of a robot cleaner includes a first axis driver for driving a camera mounted at the robot cleaner in a first axis direction; a second axis driver 320 for driving the camera in a second axis direction other than the first axis direction; an image processor 330 for receiving and processing an image photographed by the camera; and a control section 340 for controlling the first axis driver and the second axis driver, and controlling a traveling of the robot cleaner based on the image photographed by the camera.

The disclosed subject matter relates to a portable and autonomous device and corresponding method for the measurement, recording and calculation of dynamic parameters of the pedestrian locomotion of its bearer. The method hereby disclosed allows determining the distance effectively travelled, the velocity of displacement and the pressures exerted on the contact surface of the lower limb with the ground, during the pedestrian locomotion, according to its different phases. Through sensors strategically placed, accelerations, angular velocities and pressures are measured and recorded on the control unit. The device disclosed includes a processing unit that implements the method disclosed and a communication unit to transfer to an external unit the calculated parameters. The disclosed invention can be used in applications that involve monitoring parameters of the locomotion activity or daily ambulation of its bearer, in the areas of health and sports or in any physical and occupational activities.

A hybrid electric vehicle is capable of maximizing energy efficiency during platooning, and a platooning control method is carried out on the hybrid electric vehicle. The method includes acquiring acceleration information and deceleration information of each of a plurality of vehicles traveling in a platoon form for platooning so as to realize a pulse-and-gliding traveling mode, determining a traveling order of the vehicles during the platooning based on the acceleration information, and determining a time at which to start a glide phase of a following vehicle in the determined traveling order based on a time at which a glide phase of a preceding vehicle starts using the acceleration information and the deceleration information.

Disclosed is a route creation method capable of creating a travel route which reduces the travel quantity of a robot and achieves the efficient travel of the robot. The route creation method and route creation device creates a plurality of candidate routes by using an intermediate point generated between the initial position and the final position set in advance, and thereafter evaluates the travel quantity of a traveling part of a robot with respect to each candidate route to select a candidate route, which achieves the most efficient travel, as a travel route.

A system for inspecting the surface of a curved object is provided. This system includes an object having a curved surface; at least one substantially flat interdigital transducer, wherein the interdigital transducer is operative to generate surface energy waves; and at least one coupling device disposed between the curved surface and the substantially flat interdigital transducer, wherein the coupling device is operative to conform to the curved surface, support the interdigital transducer, and provide a medium through which the surface energy waves can effectively travel from the interdigital transducer to the curved surface and across the curved surface in a predetermined direction.

A saddle-type electric vehicle includes a body frame having a head pipe supporting a steering shaft and a main frame portion extending rearward from the head pipe, a battery case provided on the main frame portion behind the head pipe, a battery stored in the battery case and supplying electric power to an electric motor generating traveling power, and a traveling wind path including an inner space of the battery case, wherein a traveling wind inflow port allowing traveling wind to flow in the battery case from front is formed on an upper side of a front portion of the battery case, and a traveling wind outflow port allowing the traveling wind flowing in the battery case to flow out rearward is formed on an upper side of a rear portion of the battery case.