144 results about "Close coupling" patented technology

This invention is directed to a system and method for the close coupling of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with multiplayer network games. Game state dependent voice communications are used as another method of player interaction in the game environment. The system uses SIP enhanced game servers and conference servers with audio mixing capabilities, and the game server controls the creation, maintenance and changing of the voice conferences. Participation in a voice conference is determined by the game state features associated with each player including distance and direction to determine how the voices are mixed in a voice conference.

The invention is a retinal prosthesis with an inductive coil mounted to the side of the eye by means of a strap around the eye. This allows for close coupling to an external coil and movement of the entire implanted portion with movement of the eye ball.

A vertical winding structure for planar integrated magnetics used in switched-mode power converters maintains close coupling between the different windings but reduces the eddy current losses, lowers the DC winding resistance and reduces the number of layers of the PCB. Vertical and horizontal windings can be used together without sacrificing these performance advantages and further minimizing the capacitive coupling between the outer-leg windings and the center-leg winding. This winding structure can be used in a wide range of magnetic structures including isolated and non-isolated CDRs, interleaved CDRs, and buck and boost converters.

A thrombectomy catheter deployment system which greatly simplifies setup procedures and operation of a thrombectomy catheter includes a stand alone drive unit and a disposable pump / catheter assembly which is manually placed into a carriage assembly in the drive unit. The pump / catheter assembly has a plurality of preconnected components including tubular structure and a thrombectomy catheter connected thereto and is transported into or out of the interior of the drive unit for automatic high pressure pump piston head engagement or disengagement with a reciprocating linear actuator and for automatic engagement or disengagement of an effluent waste tube with a roller pump. A barcode reader senses specific operational data pertaining to an individual pump and provides an interface for operation of the reciprocating linear actuator. A bubble trap incorporated for effective debubbling of saline solution is closely coupled to an insert molded pump having an improved valve arrangement. A spiked bag with large tubing is incorporated for bubble-free transfer of saline.

A method and apparatus for sorting particles moving through a closed channel system of capillary size comprises a bubble valve for selectively generating a pressure pulse to separate a particle having a predetermined characteristic from a stream of particles. The particle sorting system may further include a buffer for absorbing the pressure pulse. The particle sorting system may include a plurality of closely coupled sorting modules which are combined to further increase the sorting rate. The particle sorting system may comprise a multi-stage sorting device for serially sorting streams of particles, in order to decrease the error rate.

An electron detector includes a plurality of assemblies, the plurality of assemblies including a first assembly having a first SiPM and a first scintillator made of a first scintillator material directly connected to an active light sensing surface of the first SiPM, and a second assembly having a second SiPM and a second scintillator made of a second scintillator material directly connected to an active light sensing surface of the second SiPM, wherein the first scintillator material and the second scintillator material are different than one another. Alternatively, an electron detector includes an assembly including an SiPM and a scintillator member having a front surface and a back surface, the scintillator member being a film of a scintillator material directly deposited on to an active light sensing surface of the SiPM.

A high level of security for access to recorded information is provided by provision of a trusted / protected communication linkage such as a tamper-resistant or tamper evident enclosure, a physical close coupling between information source and encryption processor and / or obfuscated code or end-to-end network encryption and encryption, possibly symmetrical, of the information to be recorded by a preferably random session key or segment key. The session key or segment key may then be encrypted, preferably asymmetrically, by a secure key which may be shared or access thereto shared in accordance with any desired security policy. Use of a public key or public key / private key infrastructure also provides for authentication of the recorded information.

The use of anti-friction ball bearings in a unique arrangement does not require the use of lubricating oil from the internal combustion engine lubricating system and permits close coupling of the bearings and a compact turbocharger. A turbocharger bearing housing forms a coolant jacket with an inner bearing engaging portion that has two bearing engagement surfaces engaged with the outer races of two anti-friction bearings whose inner races carry rotating shaft, turbine and compressor of the turbocharger. The anti-friction bearings are, preferably, angular contact ball bearings, and the two bearing engagement surfaces of the bearing housing are closely spaced, providing a turbocharger shaft of minimal length and substantially reducing the thermal expansion of the shaft. The coolant jacket protects the anti-friction bearings from exposure to the extreme heat of the exhaust gas driven turbine, notwithstanding their increased proximity due to the shortened turbocharger shaft. In addition, an external motor-generator may be carried by the compact turbocharger, and its motor may be connected to the turbocharger rotor assembly by a permanent, solid connector and stay connected throughout the entire operating range of the turbocharger. In such assembly, the electronic motor-generator control is mounted on the motor housing and energizes the motor from battery power during the engine acceleration period up to approximately the torque peak speed; thereafter, the control changes to a generator mode when excess energy is available in the engine exhaust gas.

A packaging system for a high current, low voltage power supply. The power supply uses bare die power FETs which are directly mounted to a thermally conductive substrate by a solder attachment made to the drain electrode metallization on the back side of the FETs. The source electrode and gate electrode of each FET are coupled to the circuitry on an overhanging printed circuit board, using CSP solder balls affixed to the front side of the FET die. The heat generated by the FETs is effectively dissipated by the close coupling of the FETs to the thermally conductive underlying substrate. High interconnect densities are achieved through the use of a multilayer printed circuit board. This high interconnect density, with the addition of a magnetic core element, allows the power supply packaging system to incorporate transformer windings for an isolation transformer or an inductor.

Electric arc spraying a metal onto a substrate produces an anchor layer on the substrate that serves as a surprisingly superior intermediate layer for a catalytic material deposited thereon. Spalling of catalytic material is resisted even when subjected to the harsh conditions imposed by small engines or in a close-coupled position for a larger engine.

A sensor, method and system, for measuring certain characteristics of a fluid. The sensor utilizes a piezoelectric device having at least two tightly coupled resonators providing a two pole electric transfer function responsive to an electrical signal coupled to the input resonator. The piezoelectric sensor has a textured entrapment layer, constructed to entrap a known volume of fluid and impart motion to the entrapped fluid as well as to surrounding non-trapped fluid. The common mode frequency shift of the two resonant frequencies is related to mass loading due to the entrapped fluid, while the energy absorbed by the fluid, or a phase shift of one of the resonant frequencies, is related to the viscosity / density product of the fluid. Extracting the viscosity is a matter of mathematical manipulation. By controlling the energy level of the input electrical signal, the viscosity measurement may be conducted at a predetermined shear rate.

A high resolution NMR probe having two or more resonators, an inner resonator which is closely coupled to a sample and is used to stimulate and receive a response from one nuclear species, and an outer resonator to induce transitions in another nuclear species, wherein the resonators may be provided with cooling capability and may be made of superconducting material, and wherein the inner resonator may be a saddle coil or a birdcage coil with capability of being tuned, and wherein the outer resonator may be one or more spiral wound saddle coil.

A novel support pole design that is both stable and easily removable in an outdoor environment. The support pole is universally adaptable for use with flags, umbrellas, or other objects requiring support to an elevated position relative to the ground. A key feature of the present invention is the means that anchors the present invention to the ground. This means includes a small locking pin that maintains a large flat base in close coupling with the ground.

This invention discloses a method for testing inbreak, which obtains the information of software behavior characters of a program, a structure access model and acts it on the program to prevent abnormal behavior so as to protect the entire network server system to avoid network inbreak including the following basic processes: collecting and processing a behavior security box to monitor the software behavior timely and a protection system suitable for the above mentioned method is also disclosed to realize the close coupling control to the behavior of the applied program.

A local breast coil is designed to be tightly coupled to the natural shape of the pendant breast to provide high SNR for diagnostic MR imaging applications, while still providing access for interventional procedures through openings in the coil. In accordance with one configuration, the coil has a symmetrical design, such that the coil can be rotated about the breast to position an opening in the coil proximate to a desired portion of the breast without incurring registration or other alignment or artifact errors due to inhomogeneous B1 excitation. Furthermore, the coil is designed to facilitate medial and lateral imaging of the breast. The coil is combined with a patient support system that facilitates rotation of the coil and interchangeability of the coil to match the configuration of the coil to the position of the breast being imaged.

A computer system architecture and memory controller for close-coupling within a hybrid computing system using an adaptive processor interface port (“APIP”) added to, or in conjunction with, the memory and I / O controller chip of the core logic. Memory accesses to and from this port, as well as the main microprocessor bus, are then arbitrated by the memory control circuitry forming a portion of the controller chip. In this fashion, both the microprocessors and the adaptive processors of the hybrid computing system exhibit equal memory bandwidth and latency. In addition, because it is a separate electrical port from the microprocessor bus, the APIP is not required to comply with, and participate in, all FSB protocol. This results in reduced protocol overhead which results higher yielded payload on the interface.

A high level of security for access to recorded information is provided by provision of a trusted / protected communication linkage such as a tamper-resistant or tamper evident enclosure, a physical close coupling between information source and encryption processor and / or obfuscated code or end-to-end network encryption and encryption, possibly symmetrical, of the information to be recorded by a preferably random session key or segment key. The session key or segment key may then be encrypted, preferably asymmetrically, by a secure key which may be shared or access thereto shared in accordance with any desired security policy. Use of a public key or public key / private key infrastructure also provides for authentication of the recorded information.

A sensor, method and system, for measuring certain characteristics of a fluid. The sensor utilizes a piezoelectric device having at least two tightly coupled resonators providing a two pole electric transfer function responsive to an electrical signal coupled to the input resonator. The piezoelectric sensor has a textured entrapment layer, constructed to entrap a known volume of fluid and impart motion to the entrapped fluid as well as to surrounding non-trapped fluid. The common mode frequency shift of the two resonant frequencies is related to mass loading due to the entrapped fluid, while the energy absorbed by the fluid, or a phase shift of one of the resonant frequencies, is related to the viscosity / density product of the fluid. Extracting the viscosity is a matter of mathematical manipulation. By controlling the energy level of the input electrical signal, the viscosity measurement may be conducted at a predetermined shear rate.

The invention discloses a method of state transition of steam control transmission protocol, which comprises the following steps: after a home terminal SCTP is coupled into SHUTDOWN-PENDING status and when the home terminal SCTP judges that data which is not sent exists in a sending buffer and the receiving window of an opposite terminal SCTP is larger than or equal to the length of the current first datum which is not sent, the home terminal SCTP sends the first datum which is not sent to the opposite terminal SCTP and starts a latency response timer Ta; when the latency response timer Ta is beyond a regular time and if the home terminal SCTP does not receive a response from the opposite terminal, SCTP coupling is closed. The method of the invention ensures that the coupling can be put into use quickly when the home terminal SCTP receives the request to close coupling from SHUTDOWN, the user of an upper level, and if data needs sending to the opposite terminal SCTP and data can not be sent successfully for a long time caused by small receiving buffer of the opposite terminal SCTP or other reasons.

The invention relates to a non-contact multiple input voltage source type resonant converter, belonging to the electric energy transformation field. The resonant converter comprises a primary side circuit, a multiple winding non-contact transformer (4) and a secondary side circuit; wherein the primary side circuit is composed of n energy input branches, each branch is formed by sequentially connecting an input source (1), a voltage source type contravariant bridge (2) and a primary resonant network (3) on one primary side winding of the multiple winding non-contact transformer (4) in series; nprimary side windings of the multiple winding non-contact transformer (4) are tightly coupled, the primary side and the secondary side are relatively movable; the secondary side circuit is formed bysequentially connecting a secondary side resonant network (5) and a rectifying and filtering circuit (6) in series; and in the n energy input branches, the primary side resonant networks of at least n-1 branches includes a series inductance. Inherent current source characteristic of the voltage source type resonant converter and tightly coupled primary side multiple winding realize multiple inputsource time-sharing / simultaneous multiple mode power supply; and non-contact power supply ensures safety and convenience.

There is described a duct detector and components for duct detectors. In one form the duct detector includes: a port unit and detector unit. The port unit is mountable to a duct in use so as to position one or more ports in the duct. The detector unit includes a detection region. The port unit and detector unit are reconfigurable between a close coupled configuration and a separated configuration in which the units are mountable with a variable separation between them and coupled by one or more elongate conduits to provide fluid communication between the units.

An optical broadband emitter and the method of making such a broadband emitter are described. Intermixing of closely coupled multiple quantum wells, especially carrier tunneled coupled quantum wells, is described using nano-imprinting of a gel like dielectric layer such as a sol-gel derived SiO2 layer into multiple stepped or graded sections to form intermixing cap regions of different thickness. A thermal annealing process is performed to condense the SiO2 intermixing cap and induce intermixing. A superluminescent diode is described having multiple electrodes deposited over multiple sections of different bandgaps in which each individual electrode can be either forward or reverse biased to different degrees such that each diode section can individually function as a sub-band spontaneous emitter, an amplifier / attenuator, a photon-absorber, a transparent waveguide, or a photodetector / optical power monitor.

The invention discloses a UWB (ultra wide band) array antenna, and mainly solves a problem that the bandwidth of a conventional array antenna is limited by the bandwidth of an antenna unit. The antenna comprises a dipole antenna array plate (1), a resistor-type frequency selection surface plate (2), a grounding plate (3) and a feed Balun (4). The antenna array plate consists of a plurality of dipole radiation periodic units, and each dipole radiation periodic unit comprises a dipole arm (111), a metal via hole (112) and a dielectric plate (113), wherein the dipole arms (111) are arranged on the upper and lower surfaces of the antenna array plate in a cross manner. The resistor-type frequency selection surface unit consists of a resistor paster and a dielectric plate, wherein the resistor paster consists of a square ring paster, a circular ring, and a rhombus paster. Through the close coupling between units, the reflection coefficient of the antenna at the band from 0.63GHz to 4.6GHz is less than or equal to -6dB, and the array bandwidth can be increased to 7.3 frequency multiplications. The antenna is used for FOPEN radars and through-the-wall imaging radars.

The present invention relates to a camera module including a substrate; a housing which is coupled to the substrate and includes a support unit extended to an inside of a lower part and a shaft insertion groove at one side of the support unit; a guide shaft vertically coupled inside the housing by inserting a lower end portion into the shaft insertion groove; a conductive pattern extended from a lower end portion of the housing to a bottom surface of the support unit; an image sensor closely coupled to the bottom surface of the support unit by being electrically connected to the conductive pattern; a lens barrel fixed to an upper part of the housing by coupling a lens inside; and a movable lens barrel vertically moved along the guide shaft by mounting lens inside.

The invention relates to an effective SCR catalyst applied to purification of nitrogen oxide in tail gas of a diesel engine, and belongs to the technical field of motor vehicle exhaust emission purification by a catalysis method. According to the catalyst, two or more of titanium, tungsten, silicon and zirconium oxide are used as a base coating, and one or more of vanadium oxide, manganese oxide and copper oxide are used as an active ingredient. The catalyst is coated on a cordierite honeycomb ceramic or iron-chrome-aluminum honeycomb metal carrier to be applied to post treatment of nitrogen oxide of tail gas of the diesel engine in a mode of a honeycomb catalyst. The catalyst has the advantages that the loss rate of the specific surface area of the coating under a high temperature reaction condition can be reduced by utilizing the close coupling structure among the oxides in the base coating, the heat stability and durability of the catalyst can be improved, and the service life of the catalyst can be prolonged; the low-temperature reaction cavity of the catalyst can be remarkably improved by adding manganese, copper and other active ingredients, so that nitrogen oxide can be effectively eliminated at a low exhaust temperature of the diesel engine.

The invention relates to a method for coordinating and controlling a generator set of a circulating fluidized bed. On the basis of the direct energy balance method, a two-stage PID operation link is canceled, a boiler and a steam turbine are regarded as a whole, a loop of a pressure pulling back and power deviation operation module is added, and the speed of actions of a control valve of the steam turbine is limited; a power feedforward module and a pressure feedforward module are added, and the variable quantity of a load point is moved forward, so as to compensate for the lagging deficiency of the boiler of the circulating fluidized bed; a Y1 polygonal function, a Y2 polygonal function, a Y3 polygonal function and a Y4 polygonal function are added, so that complex dynamic characteristics can be embodied in the polygonal functions; and a close coupling system is decomposed and then integrated, so that the response ability of the generator set is quicker and steadier. After the method is applied to the generator set of the circulating fluidized bed, the variable quantity of the deviation can be brought forward, and more importantly, the adjusting time of the boiler as a big lagging link is reduced.

A closely-coupled exhaust aftertreatment system for an engine having twin turbochargers includes a first exhaust conduit comprising a first valve operable between first and second positions, the first promoting flow within the first conduit to an oxidation catalyst (OC), the second promoting flow within a second conduit; a third conduit is fluidly coupled to the OC outlet and includes a second valve operable between first and second positions, the first promoting flow within the third exhaust conduit to a particulate filter (PF), the second promoting flow through a fourth conduit to an inlet in the second conduit. A first turbocharger is coupled to the second exhaust conduit downstream of the inlet; an SCR catalyst is downstream of the first turbocharger to receive the flow therefrom and upstream of the PF to provide the flow thereto. A second turbocharger is coupled to the third exhaust conduit downstream of the second valve.