81 results about "Edge element" patented technology

In order to provide a single common cost-efficient architecture for real time communication services for audio, video, and data over internet protocol, a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) system and architecture is provided by placing border elements (BEs) at the interface boundaries between the access network the user devices use and the VoIP infrastructure. The BEs use SIP protocol as the access call control protocol over any access networking technologies, for example, IP, Ethernet, ATM, and FR, and provides all services transparently to the end users that use SIP-enabled devices. To enable a scalable system, the SIP BEs are decomposed into separate communicating entities that make the SIP BE scalable and provide new capabilities not previously available by a self-contained SIP BE. Further, multiple levels of decomposition of a SIP BE can be provided by the present invention supporting a flexible and scalable SIP BE design that further improves system efficiencies and cost advantages as compared to use of single integrated border or edge elements. Further, a scalable SIP BE, made up of a plurality of physical entities for optimization of a large scale design, acts as a single integrated functional entity to logically execute a set of functions at the border of a VoIP infrastructure.

A method analyzes an image to be scanned and analyzes at least part of the image pixel-by-pixel. Elements in the image are characterized according to a perceived characteristic and each image element having a given characteristic that is adjacent a similar or identical image element is identified. In one form, there are preferably at least three different characteristics, such as black, background and edge, by which the image elements can be characterized. In another form, image elements that are close enough to each other in physical location and close enough to each other in image characteristic are grouped together or included in a blob. Sub-blobs can be found to be part of a more predominant blob. In a further form, image elements are identified that represent an edge in the image, along with identifying those edge elements that are adjacent at least one other edge element.

A network arrangement for aggregation of groups of tunable sources in a photonic network is disclosed. The network arrangement includes transmit edge elements having a plurality of tunable optical transmitters, an optical switch and a cyclic optical multiplexer, and receive edge elements having optical demultiplexers, optical switches and a plurality of optical receivers. A variety of arrangements are disclosed including protected and unprotected network architectures. The network arrangement disclosed is particularly useful for overcoming the problem of scaling a photonic network.

A piezoelectric actuated suspension with passive damping is disclosed for precision positioning of hard disk drive while reducing undesired shock vibrations. Along the longitudinal axis of an etched suspension, two piezoelectric actuators dispose near the base plate to provide a push-pull motion. The actuators have two main portions. The first portion is piezoelectric elements to provide active positioning. The second portion is viscoelastic damping layers underneath the piezoelectric elements for passive damping. The complementary parts such as stiff edge elements and optional soft boundary covers are used to enhance the actuating abilities of the actuators and prevent any contaminants of the viscoelastic layers from going into the clean sealed chamber of the hard disk drive, respectively. The present invention further relates to a dual-stage servo system in a hard disk drive for fine positioning of the read / write head and better shock resistance via the piezoelectric actuated suspension with passive damping.

A distance measuring device capable of being used in microscopes or other optical systems. Embodiments of the invention employ one or more scanning mirrors to scan a reference beam over a target to be inspected. The reference beam is returned and detected by a photodetector. The reference beam may be created by using a knife-edge element which allows the outgoing reference beam and incoming reference beam to follow the same path so that the apparent motion of the spot on the target surface is not detected by the photodetector. The photodetector generates an electronic signal corresponding to the displacement of the target away from the ideal focal point. The electrical signal may be used to drive a servomechanism to displace either the target or the microscope objective lens to bring the target in focus.

This invention relates to a network of parallel elementary processors, tolerant to the faults of these processors including said elementary processors, spare elementary processors, elements interconnecting these processors and a control unit, and alternately a series of interconnecting element lines and processor lines, each processor being surrounded by four interconnecting elements, the processor lines being elementary processor lines, the last processor line being a line of spare processors, the edge elements of the network being interconnecting elements, wherein the control unit, connected to processors and interconnecting elements, sends instructions to the processors, controls the interconnecting elements, and checks the integrity of these processors.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a knowledge graph construction method and device, equipment and a medium. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a text corpus of at least one information object; extracting phrases from the text corpus; from the extracted phrases, identifying content phrases of an attention theme, an object entity, an object side surface and an action event, and identifying an association relationship between the phrases; and updating the content phrases to point elements of the knowledge graph, and updating the association relationship to edge elements of the knowledge graph. According to the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, the information object text corpus is extracted, the knowledge graph of the information object is constructed, a plurality of point elements and corresponding side elements such as attention topics, action events and object side surfaces are added, information extension of existing object entities in the knowledgegraph is realized, and new object entities are continuously mined from the information object to continuously expand and supplement the composition of the knowledge graph.

A linked volumetric representation for graphical objects is presented together with techniques for physically-plausible modeling of object cutting, joining and tearing. In one embodiment, each element is may be explicitly linked to its six nearest neighbors by storing pointers to those neighbors in the element's data structure. The link between two elements can be cut when a graphical representation of cutting tool passes between the elements by setting the appropriate neighbor pointers in the two elements to point to NULL instead of to each other. If material limits in the link between two elements are exceeded during simulation of object deformation, the link can be torn apart by setting the appropriate neighbor pointers in the two elements to NULL. When a joining tool is applied to two volumetric objects in close proximity, edge elements in the two objects that have complimentary neighbors set to NULL can be joined by setting these missing neighbors to point to each other.

A foldable filter frame is provided. The filter frame includes a filter media panel and a rectangular support frame surrounding the filter media panel. The support frame included four edge elements. Each edge element has a double-walled construction and is foldable into a position in which a first leg of the respective edge element is generally perpendicular to a second leg of the edge element. An end of at least one of the edge elements that defines a corner of the support frame supports a foldable tab that is receivable in a complementary slot in an end of the other edge element defining the respective corner of the support frame with the tab being arranged in an inner space between the double-walls of the edge element.

Disclosed herein is a golf ball having on its surface a number of dimples and a number of edges separating dimples from each other, wherein the edges are formed from a plurality of edge elements joined together such that some of the joining parts of the edge elements assume a smoothly curved shape as viewed from above. The golf ball has improved aerodynamic performance due to dimples and achieves a long flying distance.

An electromagnetic vibrator includes an upper basin frame, an induction coil, and a lower basin frame, wherein the upper basin frame includes a supporting frame, a vibration sheet, and a suspension edge element. The vibration sheet and the suspension edge are integrally formed together via mold injecting, so as to achieve variety of style and colors of the speaker. The manufacturing method of the electromagnetic vibrator improves the traditional producing process of a speaker by minimizing the gluing procedure thereof. The machinery equipments replace the traditional manual process. The special coupling structure and unique process of the electromagnetic vibrator also reduce the amount of using glue, so that the manufacturing cost is minimized, the un-stability of manually operation process is minimized, the quality and production rate is enhanced, and the process is relatively more environmental friendly.

A method for controlling admissions of data packets across a packet network comprising the steps of establishing a communication route along a plurality of interconnected secondary nodes, determining an amount of available network and determining whether to admit the data packets to the communication route based on the determined amount of available network bandwidth. Also disclosed is a system for implementing the method comprising a first provider edge element, a second provider edge element, a plurality of interconnected secondary nodes disposed between the edge elements. Each of the secondary nodes comprises at least one first detection device for determining an amount of available network bandwidth and at least one admission device in communication with the respective first detection device for determining whether to admit the data packets to the communication route based on the determined amount of available network bandwidth.

A phased array antenna includes a substrate having a first surface, and a second surface adjacent thereto and defining an edge therebetween. A plurality of dipole antenna elements are on the first surface, and at least a portion of at least one dipole antenna element is on the second surface. Each dipole antenna element includes a medial feed portion and a pair of legs extending outwardly therefrom. Adjacent legs of adjacent dipole antenna elements on the first and second surfaces include respective spaced apart end portions having predetermined shapes and relative positioning for providing increased capacitive coupling between the adjacent dipole antenna elements.

The invention provides an ultra-wideband low-profile antenna array structure, comprising an antenna array layer, a dielectric support layer, an absorbing material layer and a metal ground layer whichare sequentially connected from top to bottom to form a stacked structure, wherein the antenna array element comprises two parts of the same structure, each part is a gradual structure from the feeding end to the element arm; for a single array composed of multiple array elements, the outer edge shape is a hexagonal structure, and the upper and lower adjacent array elements are in a triangular array; the edge elements of each row of the single array are half-imaginary elements connected to the ground; for each row of array elements, the gap width between adjacent array elements is less than orequal to three percent of the wavelength of the high-frequency end. Compared with the prior art, the invention is capable of covering higher octave bandwidth, and has better impedance matching performance and radiation pattern. At the same time, the array antenna has smaller aperture than the conventional antenna, and the profile height is lower than that of the conventional antenna. So that, ultra-wideband miniaturized low profile requirements for antenna array are satisfied.

An attractive and compact device and an effective method to store and disinfect a manual shaving razor are disclosed. The method reduces corrosion of the razor's metal blades. A compact container has separate but suitably connected chambers allowing for economy of use of as disinfectant liquid combining alcohol, detergent or soap and skin conditioner. By protecting the razor in one enclosed chamber, oxidative damage and rusting of blades is avoided. A knife edge element is placed at the bottom of another chamber to pierce the foil seal of a suitably inserted bottle within the other chamber. An optional third, drainage chamber below the other two chambers allows for appropriate drainage and removal both of excess fluid used, as well as hair and debris from the blades. The design of the device is compact and attractive, as is the method an extremely effective way of protecting and disinfecting the razor.

A system and method of modulating tape tension during operation of a tape drive data storage system in which a fixed position tape guide utilizes one or more drag elements to exert a control force on a tape medium that affects downstream tape tension. Drag elements that may be used include, but are not necessarily limited to, air ports that delivery positive or negative air pressure to the tape medium, skiving edge elements that are positionable into and out of engagement with the tape medium, and brakes or motors that engage the tape guide (if it is rotatably mounted) to control its rotational torque. A tension control circuit is used to vary the operation of the one or more drag elements. Signal inputs to the control circuit are provided by a tape tension sensor adjacent to or incorporated in the tape guide.

A system and method of modulating tape tension during operation of a tape drive data storage system in which a fixed position tape guide utilizes one or more drag elements to exert a control force on a tape medium that affects downstream tape tension. Drag elements that may be used include, but are not necessarily limited to, air ports that delivery positive or negative air pressure to the tape medium, skiving edge elements that are positionable into and out of engagement with the tape medium, and brakes or motors that engage the tape guide (if it is rotatably mounted) to control its rotational torque. A tension control circuit is used to vary the operation of the one or more drag elements. Signal inputs to the control circuit are provided by a tape tension sensor adjacent to or incorporated in the tape guide.

The invention discloses an electromagnetic field simulation analysis method which comprises the following steps: step 1, establishing a three-dimensional model for an object to be analyzed, and performing mesh generation to the three-dimensional model by adopting a edge element; step 2, adopting the lagrangian multiplier method to apply constraint conditions to the three-dimensional model; step 3, calculating the element matrix of the edge element and the constraint matrix of the lagrangian multiplier method, and integrating the element matrix; and step 4, solving the integrated overall matrix equation with constraint conditions, obtaining analysis results of an electromagnetic field and displaying the analysis results through a display. According to the electromagnetic field simulation analysis method provided by the invention, a new constraint equation is introduced into the analysis field, a scalar multiplier space meeting the inf-sub condition is introduced, and the lagrangian multiplier method is adopted to realize constraints and ensure the uniqueness of the solution. The adaptability, reliability, and the accuracy of the solution of the electromagnetic field simulation analysis method are simultaneously ensured. The electromagnetic field simulation analysis method is applicable to a node vector potential unit and an edge vector potential unit, and is applicable to multi-field trans-boundary coupling problems.

The present invention generally relates to medical devices, and more particularly to an improved intravascular device. In one embodiment, an intravascular device includes a catheter having proximal and distal portions, and a phased array of imaging elements, having edge elements each having angles of emission, located in the distal portion of the catheter, wherein the phased array is concaved having a radius of curvature such that when the phased array is steered in a maximal azimuthal direction, the angles of emission of the edge elements are substantially similar.

The invention relates to a process damping modeling method suitable for a thin-walled part milling process, which considers vibration effects of two orthogonal directions at the same time. The processdamping modeling method suitable for the thin-walled part milling process comprises the following steps: firstly, calculating a dynamic cutting force matrix and a process damping matrix correspondingto each edge element considering the vibration effects of the two directions at the same time; then combining the dynamic cutting force matrix and the process damping matrix of each edge element to calculate the dynamic cutting force matrix and the process damping matrix applied on the whole tool-workpiece system; and then using the obtained dynamic cutting force matrix and process damping matrixto establish a milling dynamic control equation of the tool-workpiece system, so that a stability lobe diagram considering the damping effect of the milling process of the thin-walled part can be drawn by performing stabilized solving on the equation.

The invention discloses a coupling method for processing moving boundary problems in an electromagnetic field based on an edge element method. The method includes: establishing a three-dimensional model, generating meshes of a moving region and a stationary region of the model, and forming a slip plane at a boundary of the two regions; establishing a basic equation for solving the electromagnetic field, adopting a Lagrangian multiplier method to apply standard conditions, calculating an edge element matrix of each region and integrating the edge element matrixes; when the meshes in the moving region move along the slip plane, adopting the Lagrangian multiplier method to couple degree of freedom of magnetic vector potential on the slip plane, generating a Lagrangian multiplier constraint matrix, and integrating the constraint matrix; on the slip plane, standardizing an introduced Lagrangian scalar multiplier, and coupling by adopting an MPC (multi-point constraint) method; applying boundary conditions to a finite element population equation obtained through the above steps and solving to obtain an electromagnetic field analysis result of a to-be-analyzed object. A finite element matrix obtained by the method is good in behavior, and computed results are accurate and reliable.

A texture evaluation apparatus includes a projector, an imager, and an evaluator. The projector is configured to project a two-dimensional pattern having an edge element onto an object. The imager is configured to capture an image of a surface of the object. The evaluator is configured to calculate an amount of shape change of a virtual image of the two-dimensional pattern in the image, and evaluate texture of the object based on the amount of shape change and sensory evaluation information obtained in advance.

The invention discloses a complex planar element automatic edge connection method based on a picture grid indentation technology. For the deviation of an operator in the operation process, an edge element to be spliced cannot be identified by a traditional edge splicing method. According to the method, automatic identification, automatic correction and edge splicing of the to-be-spliced edge elements are realized on the basis that intersection lines are extracted from the to-be-spliced edge element layers according to a spatial intersection relation after the planar image sheet grid data is subjected to inward shrinkage processing and converted into a line shape. According to the method, on the basis of making a vertical line at the center of an intersection line, spatial intersection relation selection is carried out on the intersection line and a to-be-spliced edge element layer to directly extract all to-be-spliced edge elements. Therefore, under the condition that deviation existsbetween the vector elements in the topographic map and the topographic map sheet grids, the elements needing edge connection can be obtained through the vertical lines of the intersection lines to besubjected to merging processing. Therefore, the deviation can be automatically corrected, and the edge connecting efficiency is higher and more accurate.

The invention relates to a system and a method for, in a conveying direction T during conveyance, continuously distributing a flow or products, for instance eggs, comprising: - a distributing assembly with at least two feed channels extending in a conveying direction T for each forming a single row of products, wherein at least edge elements compose the edges of these channels over a well-defined distribution length and wherein these edge elements are provided above and adjacent a conveying surface at the downstream end of a feed conveyor, and - a control for monitoring and controlling the distribution of the products over the channels, wherein, based on monitoring signals and control signals, from the downstream end of the channels, only two products are transferred simultaneously to the conveyor, wherein the control, based on the monitoring signals and control signals, increases or reduces the speed of the conveyor according to a continuous adjustment.

A packing element (1) for use in mass and / or heat transfer processes through which at least one liquid may flow, wherein the packing element (1): has an outer surface (2) comprising three or more outer arched rib elements (21) and two outer connecting edge elements (22), optionally has an inner surface (3) comprising optional inner arched rib elements (31), wherein the element 1 is substantially spherical or substantially ellipsoidal, and wherein the outer connecting edge elements (22) and the outer arched rib elements (21) and optional inner arched rib elements (31) are embodied such that the total projected area (4) of the packing element (1) when viewed in any direction (7), preferably a radial direction (5) or optional axial direction (6), is partially open due to the presence of an open projected area (41), wherein it is open to an extent that ranges from about 15 to about 50, preferably about 17 to about 40, more preferably about 18 to about 35, most preferably about 20 to about 30% of the total projected area (4). The invention further relates to a method for producing said element (1). The present invention further relates also to a column or reactor comprising a bed of said elements (1), a method to prepare said bed, and the use of the element (1) or column or reactor in a mass transfer and / or heat transfer process and / or in a chemical reaction.

An element grouping method for Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis is implemented in a computer to group elements forming an analyzing mode. The method automatically obtains nodes of specific elements having a common parameter from the elements forming the analyzing model which is an analyzing target, and automatically groups nodes having a referring number which is a predetermined value or less. The specific elements belonging to the grouped nodes are automatically grouped as edge elements. A check is made to determine whether or not all specific elements in an edge portion of the analyzing model are grouped as the edge elements. Specific elements, other than the specific elements in the edge portion which are grouped as the edge elements, are automatically grouped as the in-plane elements.