522 results about "Load measurement" patented technology

A smart grid gateway which includes a onboard computer programmed to provide load measurement and control of at least one local resource or asset. At least one metrology module is configured to provide metering of the at least one local resource or asset. At least one LAN module is configured to communicate with the at least one local resource or asset. At least one WAN module is configured to communicate with a network operations center.

Techniques and apparatuses for wind turbine component fatigue load measurement and assessment are disclosed. In one embodiment the component is a tower, fore-aft and side-to-side signals from a two-axis accelerometer attached to a bedplate of a wind turbine are used to measure tower fatigue loads. A yaw axis azimuth position signal can also be used for tower fatigue load measurement and assessment.

Provided is a high performance storage system, in which a cache memory is effectively used and access loads are balanced. In a computer system including a computer and a storage system coupled with the computer, the storage system includes one or more channel adapters which communicate with the computer, and a plurality of logical units which store data. The computer includes one or more host bus adapters which communicate with the storage system, and a path management module which manages a path along which the computer accesses the logical unit. The path management module includes a load measurement module which measures an access load on each logical unit, and an active path setting module which sets one or more active paths, along which an access from the computer passes, for each of the logical unit based on the measured access load.

The invention relates to a method and an electronic device for implementing the method for measuring mental load. The electronic device generates at least two different cognitively loading tasks for the person participating in the measurement, the first task determining a reference level and at least one other task determining the loading capacity level. The electronic device determines the pulse parameters of the person participating in the measurement during the cognitively loading tasks. The electronic device also compares the pulse parameters during the different tasks with each other. Finally, the electronic device generates a value descriptive of the mental load of the person participating in the measurement on the basis of the comparison of the pulse parameters.

A force measurement assembly includes a first component supported by a first load measuring device and having a first measurement surface; a second component supported by a second load measuring device, spaced apart from the first component by a gap, and having a second measurement surface; and a third load measuring device operatively coupled to both the first component and the second component; wherein the first load measurement device is configured to output at least one first quantity that is representative of the load being applied to the first measurement surface, the second load measurement device is configured to output at least one second quantity that is representative of the load being applied to the second measurement surface, and the third load measuring device is configured to output at least one third quantity that is representative of a load being transferred between the first component and the second component.

Apparatus and methods for use in measurement of applied load at a chainring assemblage of a pedal powered device are provided. The apparatus includes a link adapted for interposition between a chainring attachment site located on a conventional chainring mount, or spider, and a corresponding chainring attachment locale at a conventional chainring. The link has a geometry and / or material composition selected to accommodate measurement of load exhibited between the attachment site and the corresponding chainring attachment locale. Means for measuring the load exhibited thereby is associated with the link.

A controller system includes a device configured to cross an occlusion or stenosis and a control unit. The occlusion-crossing device has an axial lumen and a drive shaft extending through the axial lumen. The control unit is coupled to the device. The control unit has a processor which produces a variable sound and a variable visual display in response to a load measurement on the drive shaft. The load may be measured by a change in current in a motor which drives the shaft. This change in current is then converted to a frequency for variable sound and to a visual display indicative of the load. The load status on the motor may be divided into discrete load levels and correspondingly indicated by discrete levels in the feedback sound frequency and the visual display. This system may be used to monitor and facilitate crossing vascular total occlusions during percutaneous interventions.

The invention relates to a medium and low voltage distribution network energy efficiency evaluation method based on accurate load measurement data. A complete set of whole-process comprehensive energy efficiency evaluation method for a static and dynamic distribution network is constructed in a distribution network energy efficiency evaluation system. Through the method, various attribute elements of the distribution network can be scientifically, integrally and comprehensively reflected. The system is clear in theory. Compared with the traditional energy-saving and loss-reduction modification measures only based on a quarter line loss method and a sweeping approach, the system has more scientificalness and pertinency and provides a brand new thinking and method for energy efficiency evaluation and energy-saving modification for the distribution network. The invention has a valuable reference to specific distribution network energy efficiency evaluation in various regions, makes pointed references to the distribution network planning and modification construction and also helps distribution network operating personnel master the operating condition of distribution network energy efficiency. Scientific and reasonable distribution network construction and modification projects can be instructed and arranged in actual evaluation and planning works, reliable and economic operation of the distribution network is ensured, and huge economic benefits are created.

A method and power transmitter for efficiently controlling power transmission to one or more power receivers in a wireless multi-power transmission system are provided. The method includes performing, when a predetermined measurement cycle arrives, a load measurement; comparing a current load measurement value with a previous load measurement value; determining whether the current load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as a first predetermined threshold; gradually increasing, when the load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as the first threshold, a transmission power value until a request for a subscription to a wireless multi-power transmission network from a power reception target within a predetermined time limit; and stopping, when the request for the subscription is not received before the time limit is exceeded, power transmission to the power reception target.

A system and method support load balancing for print jobs on a peer-to-peer network. The system incorporates a job forwarding query manager and a printer controller selector in a printer controller. The query manager detects a condition for forwarding a print job and generates queries to alternative printer controllers for available logical printers. The responses contain logical printer characteristics and load measurements for logical printers that are capable of processing and printing the forwarded print job. The printer controller selector determines which logical printer has the characteristics necessary to print the print job and the least load. The attributes of the print job are merged with the logical printer attributes of the logical printer at the querying controller to ensure correcting printing of the forwarded print job by the logical printer to which the print job is forwarded. If no logical printer has the characteristics required for printing a print job, the printer controller selector determines whether the missing characteristic can be downloaded to the alternative printer controller to which the logical printer is coupled. If the characteristic can be downloaded, the printer controller selector sends the characteristic to the alternative printer controller for installation on the logical printer and forwards the print job to the alternative printer controller upon confirmation that the characteristic has been successfully installed.

The invention relates to a device and a method for a multi-axis fretting fatigue test of a steel wire. The device comprises a base frame, a pull-torsion fatigue system, a swing loading system and a condition monitoring system, wherein the base frame comprises a base, support stand columns, bearing beams and support fixture blocks, the support stand columns are symmetrically arranged on the base; the bearing beams are respectively arranged on the tops of the support stand columns; the support fixture blocks are respectively arranged in the middle parts of the support stand columns; the pull-torsion fatigue system comprises a support system, a torsion driving system and a pull-pull fatigue system; the swing loading system comprises a swing driving system and a loading system; the condition monitoring system comprises a fretting measurement system, an axial fatigue load measurement system, a torsion measurement system and a swing measurement system. The torsion angle of the fatigue steel wire can be obtained through a crank-link mechanism by adjusting the eccentric position of an eccentric block; the multi-axis fretting fatigue test of the steel wire can be realized in the composite motion modes such as pull-pull fatigue, torsion and variable crossing angle swing and the like; the device and the method are used for disclosing the multi-axis fretting fatigue fracture mechanism of the steel wire, and carrying out quantitative evaluation on multi-axis fretting fatigue damage evolution and multi-axis fretting fatigue life of the steel wire.

The present invention is directed to a method for providing data element placement in a storage system via a Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) mechanism, such that improved system efficiency is promoted. For example, the DST mechanism may implement an algorithm for providing data element placement. The data elements (ex.—virtual volume hot-spots) may be placed into storage pools, such that usage of higher performing storage pools is maximized. Hot-spots may be detected by dynamically measuring load on LBA ranges. Performance of the storage pools may be measured on an ongoing basis. Further, the hot-spots may be ranked according to load, while storage pools may be ranked according to measured performance. If a hot-spot's load decreases, the hot-spot may be moved to a lower performing storage pool. If a hot-spot's load increases, the hot-spot may be moved to a higher performing storage pool.

The method includes steps: power on running system, setting up counting threshold value, capacity threshold values of userí»s receiving buffer and sending buffer, capacity threshold values of receiving buffer and sending buffer of common channel; system builds user service on common channel, control side asks base station to carry out load measurement of sub zone; user side, UE carries out measuring capacity of userí»s receiving or sending buffer; if capacity of userí»s receiving or sending buffer is larger than its threshold value, then reporting to control side and starts up the counter plus 1; if accumulated value larger than threshold value of counter, as well as load of sub zone is not over loading, and system can provide suitable resource of sub zone, then carrying out type conversion from common channel to dedicated channel; well considering detailed circumstances of switching channel in CDMA system, the method saves system resource effectively, and raises capacity of system.

A load indicating member is provided with a permanent identifying mark which can be read and used to determine ultrasonic measurement parameters specific to the load indicating member to provide more precise and more reliable load measurements by compensating for differences resulting from manufacturing variations in individual load indicating members. The parameters specific to the load indicating member can be stored in coding applied to the load indicating member or in a database that can be accessed remotely, for example, using the Internet.

Apparatus and methods for use in measurement of applied load at a chainring assemblage of a pedal powered device are provided. The apparatus includes a link adapted for interposition between a chainring attachment site located on a conventional chainring mount, or spider, and a corresponding chainring attachment locale at a conventional chainring. The link has a geometry and / or material composition selected to accommodate measurement of load exhibited between the attachment site and the corresponding chainring attachment locale. Means for measuring the load exhibited thereby is associated with the link.

A guidewire controller system includes a guidewire device and a control unit. The guidewire device has an axial lumen and a drive shaft extending through the axial lumen. The control unit is coupled to the guidewire device. The control unit has a processor which produces a variable sound in response to a load measurement on the drive shaft. The load may be measured by a change in current in a motor which drives the shaft. This change in current is then converted to a frequency for variable sound.

Systems and methods for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging system are provided. In one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging system includes a radio frequency coil with a plurality of conductive coil elements, control circuitry that determines, based at least in part on a measurement of scattering parameters, a plurality of forward voltages that will cause power deposition into an object within a predetermined specific absorption rate, and an amplifier configured to apply the determined plurality of forward voltages respectively to the plurality of coil elements. The control circuitry may determine the plurality of forward voltages based at least in part on an unloaded measurement of scattering parameters and a loaded measurement of scattering parameters.

A load indicating member is provided with an identifying element which can be accessed and used to determine ultrasonic measurement parameters specific to the load indicating member to provide more precise and more reliable load measurements by compensating for differences resulting from manufacturing variations in individual load indicating members. The parameters specific to the load indicating member can be stored in coding applied to the load indicating member or in a database that can be accessed remotely, for example, using the Internet.

The driving skill evaluating apparatus is an apparatus that evaluates the driving skill of a driver who drives a vehicle. The evaluating apparatus includes: driver load measurement means for measuring the degree of physical load on the driver in a driving operation activity of the vehicle; driving operation quantity measurement means for measuring the quantity of driving operation performed by the driver for the vehicle in the driving operation activity; and evaluation means for evaluating the driving skill of the driver by using the degree of the physical load on the driver and the quantity of driving operation. And the driving load efficiency informing apparatus iincludes: the driver load measurement means: the driving operation quantity measurement means; load efficiency judgment value calculating means for calculating a load efficiency judgment value indicating a efficiency of efficiency of the physical load on the driver in the driving operation activity of the vehicle to the quantity of driving operation performed by the driver for the vehicle in the driving operation activity of the vehicle, by using the degree of the physical load on the driver and the quantity of driving operation; and informing means for informing the driver of the efficiency of the physical load on the driver to the driving operation activity of the vehicle in accordance with the load efficiency judgment value.

A method and apparatus for the estimation of traffic matrices in a network are disclosed. Mechanisms are disclosed for measuring traffic volume from a plurality of ingress points to a plurality of egress points in a large scanl network, such as an IP backbone network. The traffic matrix is advantageously inferred from widely available link load measurements such as SNMP data.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a load measuring method, an evolution base station and a load measuring system, which relate to the field of communication and solve the problem of complex signaling interaction process in the load balancing process. The load measuring method comprises the following steps: receiving a measurement request message which is sent by an adjacent area evolution base station and comprises more than two sets of load measurement parameters; performing measurement configuration according to the more than two sets of the load measurement parameters so as to determine the load measurement state; and sending a response message to the adjacent area evolution base station, wherein the response message carries the load measurement state. The technical proposal provided by the embodiment of the invention is applicable to cell load balancing of LTE systems and LTE advanced systems.

The invention discloses microgrid coordination control system and method based on state transition. The microgrid coordination control system comprises a load measurement and control module, a power distribution network measurement and control module, a distributed power supply measurement and control module and an energy storage device measurement and control module which are respectively in bidirectional connection with a central controller through signal transmit-receive modules; all loads, power distribution networks, distributed power supplies and energy storage devices are connected with a microgrid bus through fling-cut switches (the distributed power supplies and the energy storage devices are provided with corresponding interfaces); all the measurement and control modules are in bidirectional connection with the corresponding fling-cut switches; one output of the distributed power supply measurement and control module is connected with a corresponding power electronic / rotary interface; the outputs of the energy storage device measurement and control module are connected with the power electronic interfaces of the energy storage devices; and the central controller sends operating instructions to all the measurement and control modules according to all acquired information, so as to achieve coordination control of all controlled elements. The system provided by the invention can meet the power quality requirement, has high reliability in power supply for sensitive loads, and achieves continuous supply to significant loads.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for responding to changes in measurement of a system load in a spread spectrum communication system. Using a load control algorithm, for example, the spread spectrum communication system may handle sudden changes or variations, such as spikes or steps in system load measurements for an uplink and / or a downlink between a mobile unit and an access network. The load control algorithm determines whether a sudden variation of a measured system load is generated by a source not under a power control or is caused by a variation of a spread spectrum communication system load. A load control measure may be selectively applied to adjust one or more parameters associated with the system load. That is, an increase of a first new measurement value may be limited to a given maximum increment for one sampling time period of a plurality of sampling time periods in response to a spike in the system load or a desired response to a sudden increase of the system load may be delayed by a given maximum number of measurement samples. By allowing a limited increase, the response of the spread spectrum communication system to sudden changes of a system load may be controlled such that some blocking may occur but dropping of calls may be avoided. In this manner, the load control algorithm may avoid unnecessary dropping of calls.

A method for receiving a measurement report includes: transmitting, by an apparatus including a coexistence manager (CM), a measurement request message for acquiring a measurement report from at least one device that uses a channel in a TV band to a coexistence enabler (CE); and receiving, by the apparatus, a measurement response message including the result of the measurement results from the CE. The measurement request message includes a first element indicating which of a primary detection, a detection of a device that uses the TV band, and a channel load measurement is requested. The measurement request message includes at least one of a start frequency, an end frequency, a channel list, and a measurement time related to the measurement, and the measurement report includes at least one selected from among the result of primary detection, the result of the detection of the device that uses the TV band.

One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a load measurement unit configured to measure traffic status in each of the cells; a selection probability computation unit configured to compute a selection probability used to select a preselected cell based on the traffic status, the preselected cell being accessed by a mobile station in transition from an idle state to an active state; a transmission unit configured to transmit the selection probability; and a control plane control unit configured to connect to the preselected cell being accessed by the mobile station.

A motor control device includes: a first motor that provides a driving force for rotating a roll on which a roll paper is wound to supply the roll paper from the roll; a second motor that provides a driving force for driving a transport driving roller which is provided on a downstream side than the roll along a supply direction of the roll paper and used for transporting the roll paper; a load measuring unit that measures a relationship between a load on the first motor and a driving speed of the first motor when the second motor is not driven and the first motor is driven; and a motor control unit that simultaneously drives the first and second motors at a certain timing, provides to the first motor an interpolation output based on the measurement result of the load measurement unit and a driving speed of the second motor during the control, and transports the roll paper to the downstream side by driving the second motor.

The invention discloses an individual variable pitch control method for a wind generating set applicable to no-load measurement, and belongs to the technical field of wind generating variable pitch control. The method comprises the following steps: (1) correcting and measuring wind speed by using a method of combining theoretical correction and error identification; (2) calculating a blade load prediction value under the influence of wind shear and tower shadow effects; (3) allocating and calculating individual variable pitch control pitch angles. According to the method, load control can be performed through individual variable pitch without arrangement of a blade load sensor, so that the service life of the wind generating set is prolonged, and the failure rate is reduced; during load calculation, the wind speed correction, the wind shear effect and the tower shadow effect are taken into consideration, so that the load calculation is more accurate; according to the variable pitch speed and frequency of a variable pitch execution mechanism, a pitch angle allocation method is provided, so that the rapidity and real-time performance of control are ensured; each blade pitch angle is obtained by summing pitch angle control quantity and load optimal compensation quantity which are output by a unified variable pitch controller through load prediction, so that the power control is ensured, and meanwhile, the load control is realized.