3131 results about "Collector device" patented technology

An approach is provided for supporting network security. A dataflow destined for an end user network is received. The dataflow is sampled according to a predetermined sampling rate. Flow information is generated from the sampled dataflow. The flow information is forwarded to a collector device for remote behavioral analysis to determine a behavioral profile indicative of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack (e.g., distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack) of the end user network.

A system and method for monitoring packetized traffic flow in a network and enabling approximation of the rate information of a network flow. The method for monitoring network traffic flow includes receiving, at a network packet flow collector device, packetized traffic flow signals to be monitored; sampling said received packetized traffic flow signals in time to form an approximation of the packet flow rate in time; generating packet flow activity data comprising data representing the sampled traffic flow signals sampled in time; communicating the packet flow activity data to a network packet flow analyzer device and processing the flow activity data to form signals representing an approximate version of the network traffic flow in the network, the analyzer processing the traffic flow signals for reconstructing the rate of the netflow as a function of time. The flow analyzer then generates a compressed version of the network traffic flow signals in the network, the compressed network traffic flow signals comprising relevant approximation of the packet flow rate in time.

Method and system to collect measurements from multiple metering devices. The collector devices store and forward measurement information through a network connection to a remote processing center to generate an output based on the measurement information.

A mobile network device creates and continuously modifies an anonymous user profile from collected network data and subsequently shares the profile with content providers. The mobile network device includes multiple collector devices that monitor data from routers on the mobile data network for application-level activity and a corresponding IP address or mobile phone number. The collectors then analyze the content involved with the activity and correlate it to an IP-address-phone-number pair to create a user profile. Each collector then modifies the user profile with the user's location information at the time the activity was requested. Each collector subsequently transforms the user profile into an anonymous user profile vector and shares it with the profile manager. By repeating this process over time, the collectors create and modify an anonymous user profile vector that can be shared with content providers for targeted advertising.

A sunlight collecting system and a solar energy utilization system which collects sunlight with the sunlight collecting system are provided, a sunlight collecting system including a solar heat collector which includes a heat collecting element which is formed by a helically wound heat exchange medium circulation pipe inside which the heat exchange medium flows, in such a way to have an incurved light receiving surface which narrows and converges towards the sunlight inlet and a sunlight collecting reflector which includes a reflector group which includes a plurality of reflector segments each of which includes a reflecting surface which makes sunlight converge on a heat collector, a sunlight collecting system in which a plurality of heliostats Bm are arranged in places which are irradiated by the sunlight between a plurality of heliostats An, in which each of the heliostats An and the heliostats Bm reflect light in a direction to a light collecting point of a heliostat group in which the heliostat is included.

Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention provides low-cost inflatable heliostatic solar power collectors, which can be stand-alone units suitable for flexible utilization in small, medium, or utility scale applications. The inflatable heliostatic power collectors use a reflective surface or membrane “sandwiched” between two inflated chambers, and attached solar power receivers which may be of photovoltaic and / or solar thermal types. Modest concentration ratios enable benefits in both reduced cost and increased conversion efficiency, relative to simple prior-art flat plate solar collectors.

Method and apparatus for real-time collection of information about application level activity and other user information on a mobile data network. A collector device communicates with a router in a mobile data network so that the collector can obtain substantially all of the data coming from the router in real-time and correlate the data to specific users. The collector device comprises a user identity subsystem, filter, and data transfer subsystem. The user identity subsystem inspects the data for source IP addresses and correlates them to corresponding mobile phone numbers. The filter then inspects the collected data and retains only application-level data. Lastly, the data transfer subsystem transfers the filtered data to a data reporting and analysis system.

The present invention generally relates to heat pumps that utilize at least one thermal source operating with the same working fluids. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a hybrid solar heat pump comprised of at least one microchannel heat exchanger with integral solar absorber, at least one compression (i.e., mass flow regulator) device as the heat pump for concurrent compression to a higher pressure and mass flow regulator of the working fluid, and at least one working fluid accumulator with the entire system operating with the same working fluid. The present invention also generally relates to heat pump systems that utilize an inventory management system to provide both efficient and safe operation under a wide range of operating conditions.

A system and method for cleaning a collector surface of a solar collector. The system includes a first liquid-dispensing unit configured to deliver a first spray of liquid to the collector surface. The system also includes a brush element having a longitudinal side oriented along a first direction and disposed adjacent to the first liquid-dispensing unit. A first squeegee element is oriented along the first direction and adjacent to the brush element. The first squeegee element, the brush element, and the first liquid-dispensing unit define a first cleaning area. A second squeegee element is oriented along the first direction and separated from the first squeegee element by a gap to define a second cleaning area. The system also includes a second liquid-dispensing unit configured to deliver a second spray of liquid to the second cleaning area located between the first and second squeegees.

A reflector (e.g., mirror) for use in a solar collector or the like is provided. In certain example embodiments of this invention, a reflector is made performing at least the following steps: (a) forming a reflective coating on a flat glass substrate, (b) cold-bending the glass substrate with the reflective coating thereon; and (c) applying a plate or frame member (e.g., another glass sheet / substrate, or alternatively a thermoplastic member) to the cold-bent glass substrate, the plate or frame member for maintaining the coated glass substrate in a desired bent orientation. In certain example embodiments, the glass substrate supporting the reflective coating may be maintained in desired bent form by using another glass substrate and a glue layer provided between the another glass substrate and the glass substrate supporting the coating. The bent reflector (e.g., mirror) may be used in a solar collector, or in any other suitable application.

An ambient electromagnetic energy collector has a magnetic core of high permeability ferromagnetic material wrapped in an inductor coil for coupling primarily to a magnetic field component of a propagating transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave. For coupling to electromagnetic waves of a wide range of frequencies and magnitudes, the collector is coupled to a multi-phase transformer connected to a multi-phase diode voltage multiplier to provide a current source output to an associated energy storage device. An output controller supplies output power as needed to the associated energy-using device. Preferred types of ferromagnetic materials include nickel-iron alloys with a small percentage of silicon, molybdenum, or copper. It may be combined with other types of ambient energy collectors, such as acoustic / vibration, thermoelectric, and photovoltaic collectors, in a multi-source device provided with a collector interface for converting the different outputs for storage in a common energy storage device. The multi-source ambient energy collector device can be used to supply power to embedded devices, remotely deployed wireless sensors or RFID tags, and other types of monitoring devices distributed over large areas or in industrial environments.

An integrated platform to house an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) system that utilizes: (i) a cold water circuit consisting of a way of receiving and distributing the cold water from the cold water pipe (CWP) to vertical conduits housing the condensers into collectors that discharge via large pumps into open discharge channels connected to the discharge water pipe (DWP); (ii) a surface water circuit consisting of a way of collecting and distributing the surface water to vertical conduits housing the evaporators to surface water collectors that discharge via large pumps into the same discharge channels connected to the DWP; (iii) means of adjusting the buoyancy of the integrated platform by adding water as ballast into floatation chambers in the hull surrounding the discharge channels or in a plurality of either vertical or horizontal flotation chambers to provide protection to the CWP and DWP and stability to the integrated platform. By adjusting the buoyancy of the platform such that the collectors are about level with the sea level, pumping requirements are minimized.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a solar selective heat absorbing paint by using a spinel type pigment as a light absorbent, which belongs to the field of solar heat utilization. The method comprises the steps of uniformly dispersing a nanoscale spinel type pigment as well as resin, a solvent and auxiliaries by using a ball milling method; and then adding a curing agent to obtain the solar selective heat absorbing paint. It is shown in the experiment that the paint is uniformly coated on a metal substrate by using a spraying method; and the solar selective heat absorbing paint obtained after being cured at room temperature shows higher solar energy absorption rate (0.93-0.95) and lower emissivity (0.18-0.30); and the photothermal conversion efficiency of a solar heat collector can be effectively improved; moreover, the coating has the advantages of good mechanical property, stronger weather resistance and service life of more than 45 years.

A device for collecting waste, a receptacle in which a plastics bin liner bag is placed, a driver for driving a covering for constituting a plastics bag, the covering being contained in a compartment situated in the top portion of the receptacle. The driver serving to deliver the bag from the storage compartment to the bottom of the receptacle; sealing and cutting are used for acting on the covering leaving the compartment and subsequently for closing and separating the bag from the remainder of the covering once the bag has been filled with waste. The waste collector device of the invention may include a compactor for compacting the bag containing waste, and a device or mechanism for opening and closing a central orifice through which waste is introduced via the top portion of the collector device.

A cooling system for an electronic display may include a heat collector plate with internal gas and liquid phase lines. The cooling plate may be thermally isolated together with electronic components of the display within an enclosure of the display, while external lines carry liquid and gas phase refrigerant outside the enclosure to and from the heat collector plate. The external lines may be similar in size to each other and may be connected to the heat collector outside the heat collector plate by a manifold. The heat collector plate contacts a base plate of the electronic display in a thermally conductive relation to transfer heat from electronic components within the display to the gas phase refrigerant. Fans may be included for additional convective heat transfer. A single compressor may be fluidly connected to multiple heat collector plates in respective electronic displays.

A solar collector arrangement includes a number of assemblies (1), which are immersed or partially immersed in a pond of water (2). Each assembly (1) includes a parabolic reflector (3) and an absorber (6). Barriers (10) are located on or near the surface of the water (2) and operate to reduce waves which may otherwise disturb the direct passage of sunlight in windy conditions. The complete immersion of the assembly (1) in the liquid serves to simultaneously protect and cool the apparatus, while allowing ease of sun10 tracking movements by buoyancy induced rotation. Partially immersed versions have higher efficiency and protect against severe weather by inverting into the water.

The device comprises a device (2) for creating an essentially linear target (4) in an evacuated space where laser beams (1) are focused, the target being suitable for interacting with the focused laser beams (1) to emit a plasma emitting radiation in the extreme ultraviolet. A receiver device (3) receives the target (4) after it has interacted with the focused laser beams (1), and a collector device (110) collects the EUV radiation emitted by the target (4). The focusing elements (11) for focusing the laser beams on the target (4) are arranged in such a manner that the laser beams (1) are focused on the target (4) laterally, being situated in a common half-space relative to the target (4) and being inclined at a determined angle lying in the range about 60° to about 90° relative to a mean collection axis (6) perpendicular to the target (4). The collector device (110) is disposed symmetrically about the mean collection axis (6) in the half-space containing the laser beams (1) focused on the target (4) and inside a conical space (8) centered on the mean collection axis (6) with a vertex situated at the target (4) and a half-angle at the vertex that is less than the angle of inclination of the focused laser beams (1) relative to the mean collection axis (6). The device is suitable for use as a source for EUV radiation in lithography for fabricating integrated circuits.

One or more heat pipes are connected between a component on a circuit card and the frame of a circuit card assembly for transfer of heat to the frame of the circuit card assembly. Circuit cards are typically held in place in channels in a chassis by an expansion type retention device. The circuit cards also include a heat frame for collecting the heat produced by the card components and channeling the heat from the card through the heat frame to the chassis. The retention device presses the heat frame in to thermal contact with one side of the channel. Heat collector can be attached to the heat generating components of a circuit card between the heat pipe and the component to provide improved thermal transfer. A number of heat collectors with pairs of heat pipes extending in opposite directions from the collector to the frame can be used to allow the heat pipes to effectively dissipate heat form the circuit card assembly regardless of the orientation of the circuit card assembly.

The invention relates to a plane mirror being capable of projecting sunlight directionally which is the usually-called Tingri mirror and belongs to the solar energy application technical field. In the device, positioning plus elevation tracking or auto-rotating plus elevation tracking is adopted; the device comprises a plane mirror, a frame with a dimension small enough to be formed at one time, an adjusting device, a positioning and guiding pipe arranged a center tower and the Tingri mirror, a positioning sensor and a control system which carries out control and error judgment according to signals produced by reflection light reaching a mirror surface of a four-quadrant photosensitive element through the positioning and guiding pipe. If the invention is adopted, as long as sunlight, no matter where the sun move, the reflection light of the Tingri mirror can always project into a collector. Due to the adoption of the positioning and guiding pipe, the positioning sensor and DCS (distributed control system), a mirror with a small area can be used, reducing the difficulty in production, installation and commissioning and thus reducing the cost significantly.

An inflatable solar energy collector. The device uses two elongated and pressure-stabilized air chambers with a trough-shaped reflecting surface in between. The curvature of the reflecting surface is adjusted by adjusting the differential pressure between the two air chambers. The device can be configured to provide a focal point outside the air chambers or inside the air chambers. For the version using the external focal point an external energy receiver is appropriately positioned. For the version using the internal focal point, the receiver is mounted inside one of the air chambers.

An artificial and natural lighting system placed in the roof of a building that is substantially self-contained and powered. A photovoltaic cell provides electricity stored in a battery to power light emitting diodes. A highly reflective interior coating applied to the light shaft maximizes lighting intensity. A sensor detects illumination intensity and temperature within the light shaft to control the balance of natural and artificial light provided to maintain predetermined illumination intensity. The light shaft is insulated to reduce heat transfer and a thermal collector removes heat from the building. In one embodiment, a Fresnel lens is utilized to focus natural light onto the photovoltaic cell. In another embodiment, conventional fluorescent lighting powered by external line voltage is combined with light emitting diodes powered primarily by a rechargeable battery. The present invention, being substantially self-contained, is easily retrofitted to existing buildings with a minimum of connections and provides substantial energy efficiencies in illuminating the building.

Non-tracking solar collector device (1) comprising at least an absorber element (2), at least a couple of reflector elements (3) disposed on opposite sides of the absorber element (2) for conveying the solar radiation onto the absorber element itself and said reflector elements (3) comprising at least one fixed portion (8a,8b) and at least one rotating portion (9); the rotating portions (9) being movable between at least a first extreme position (10), in which the rotating portions are moved away from each other and the entire surface of said reflector elements (3) is substantially continuous, and a second extreme position (11), in which the rotating portions are moved close to each other in order to substantially obscure said absorber element (2).

The invention discloses a PCC (Large Diameter Pipe Pile by using Cast-in-place Concrete) energy pile. The PCC energy pile comprises a PCC pile, a heat conducting liquid, a cover plate, a bottom plate, a heat conducting pipe, a heat collecting device and an inspection channel, wherein the bottom of the PCC pile is fully closed; a cover plate with holes is arranged at the top of the PCC pile; prepared holes are formed in one side at the upper part of the PCC pile; the heat conducting liquid is filled up in a cavity in the PCC pile; the heat conducting pipe penetrates through the holes in the cover plate and extends into the heat conducting liquid in the cavity in the PCC pile; the heat conducting pipe extending into the cavity in the PCC pile can adopt opened and closed modes; the inspection channel is formed in the side wall of the PCC pile; and the heat conducting pipe is led out of the cavity in the PCC pile through the holes in the cover plate or the inspection channel and connected with the heat collecting device to form a circulating channel of the heat conducting liquid. The invention further discloses a manufacturing method for the pile. The manufacturing method comprises the technical steps as follows: pouring the PCC pile; excavating pile core soil; making a bottom plate; mounting the heat conducting pipe and the cover plate; filling the heat conducting liquid; and starting a ground heat pump for forming a loop. The PCC energy pile is convenient to overhaul and maintain, wide in application range and low in construction cost, does not influence the bearing capacity, and is an economic, efficient, energy-saving and emission-reducing pile.

The multiple heat source multifunctional solar energy heat pump consists of one solar heat collecting system and one multifunctional heat pump system. The solar heat collecting system includes full glass tube solar heat collector, large heat accumulating water tank, solenoid valve and high temperature circulating pump; and the multifunctional heat pump system includes variable frequency compressor, outdoor water cooling source heat exchanger, outdoor air cooling source heat exchanger, indoor air cooling source heat exchanger, indoor coil pipe water heating tank, condensing coil pipe, electronic expansion valve, liquid storage and two electromagnetic triple valves. The solar heat collecting system and the multifunctional heat pump system are connected through the variable frequency high temperature circulating pump and solenoid valve. The present invention can utilize both solar energy and air source as the heat source of the heat pump, and has several functions and raised COP value of heat pump system.

The invention relates to a heat pipe type solar energy ORC (organic Rankine cyle) low-temperature thermal power generating system which comprises an ORC power generating system, a heat storage system and a heat pipe collector system. The power generating system comprises working medium evaporation sleeves, a turbine, a power generator, a heat regenerator, a condenser and the like. The heat pipe collector system is composed of more than three heat pipe collector modules; each module includes a heat pipe, a vacuum pipe and a CPC (composite parabolic) reflector; the condensing section of the heat pipe is embedded in the working medium evaporation sleeves, and the evaporating section of the heat pipe is arranged at the bottom part in the CPC reflector; and the more than three working medium evaporation sleeves are connected in series. In the invention, the heat pipe, the CPC reflector and an ORC are combined to form the heat pipe type solar energy low-temperature thermal power generating system based on the ORC. Compared with the traditional solar energy low-temperature thermal power generating system, the invention not only has high heat efficiency and strong pressure bearing capacity, but also innovatively utilizes the phase inversion heat exchanging principle of the heat pipe to reduce a heat conduction oil loop and realizes the high-efficiency heat exchanging between an organic working medium and the heat collector.

Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention provides low-cost inflatable heliostatic solar power collectors, which can be stand-alone units suitable for flexible utilization in small, medium, or utility scale applications. The inflatable heliostatic power collectors use a reflective surface or membrane “sandwiched” between two inflated chambers, and attached solar power receivers which may be of photovoltaic and / or solar thermal types. Modest concentration ratios enable benefits in both reduced cost and increased conversion efficiency, relative to simple prior-art flat plate solar collectors.

A system and method which identifies locations associated with radio-frequency (RF) signal sources in an area, includes receiving multiple measurement sets from a plurality of collector devices. The collector devices obtain contemporaneous information on characteristics of the signal sources and absolute and / or relative location information of the collectors. These measurement sets are processed to discover positioning data for the RF signal sources that may be used to determine locations of devices in the area that are configured to receive or monitor the RF signals.

Residual fuels, as well as lighter distillate fuels, are combusted with greater efficiency by utilizing low concentrations of specific bimetallic or trimetallic fuel-borne catalysts. The catalysts reduce fouling of heat transfer surfaces by unburned carbon while limiting the amount of secondary additive ash which may itself cause overloading of particulate collector devices or emissions of toxic ultra fine particles when used in forms and quantities typically employed. By utilizing a fuel containing a fuel-soluble catalyst comprised of platinum and at least one additional metal comprising cerium and / or iron, production of pollutants of the type generated by incomplete combustion is reduced. Ultra low levels of nontoxic metal combustion catalysts are able to be employed for improved heat recovery and lower emissions of regulated pollutants.