74 results about "Posterior ramus" patented technology

The invention relates to alternators for a motor vehicle, of which a stator comprises a cylindrical body, several phases each formed by a plurality of electrically conducting elements, the cylindrical body comprising radial slots for accommodating at least four phase-conductor elements forming at least four layers of conductor elements, each conductor element including two branches placed in slots each in a predetermined layer and a head forming a U-shape seen in the peripheral direction, the half of the conductor elements which are engaged by their first branches in a slot being engaged by their second respective branches in the same other slot. According to the invention, at least first and second conductor elements of such half are such that the radii of curvature of the U-shapes of the two conductor elements are substantially identical.

A cross flow filtration apparatus for nanofiltration or reverse osmosis has pressure vessels with a plurality of filter cartridges in each vessel. A feed port is provided at an intermediate position on the side of the vessel, and two permeate flows or branches exit opposite ends of the vessel, and the first branch has a characteristically high “upstream” flux and quality, while the second is of lesser flux and / or quality. The system provides a high degree of moduarity, enhancing flux or yield at a reduced driving pressure or overall pressure drop. Centered or off-center port, and a stop or valve in the permeate stream may apportion flows between the two outlets. Staged systems may employ a first stage bypass to achieve a target quality with increased yield. A flow divider or adaptor permits the cartridges to fit and seal in the vessel and an installation tool or sleeve may facilitate installation or replacement of cartridges having a directional perimeter seal. A tool permits modules to be bi-directional installed in the pressure vessel. Other embodiments involve adapting a conventional vessel designed for end-to-end feed flow utilizing a restrictor, obstruction or valve inside the filter cartridge to bifurcate or otherwise split or apportion the permeate. RO elements may be modified to movably position an obstruction or valve along a string of the elements and vary the take-off to two or more permeate outlets, or to provide pressure relief valves that present different pressure conditions for different elements of a string. A pressure vessel may have an intermediate inlet, with symmetric or asymmetric branching of permeate flow to opposed ends of the vessel, enhancing permeate flux, permeate quality and / or energy efficiency.

A transmitter (3) for generating a DQPSK-modulated optical signal, comprising: a splitter (7) for dividing an optical carrier signal into a first and second branch (8a, 8b), a first and second Mach-Zehnder interferometer (9, 10) in the first and second branch (8a, 8b), respectively, a phase shifter (11) in one of the branches (8b) generating a nominal phase shift of π / 2, and a combiner (7′) for combining the optical output signals of the two branches (8a, 8b). The transmitter (3) has a feedback circuit (12) generating at least a first and second bias signal (15.1 to 15.3) for adjusting a bias of at least the first and second Mach-Zehnder interferometers (9, 10), the feedback circuit (12) comprising: a detector for generating at least a first and second feedback signal from a sample signal extracted from the optical signal after the combiner (7′), and for each bias signal: a local oscillator generating an auxiliary signal modulating the bias signal (15.1 to 15.3) at a pre-defined frequency (f1, f2, f3), a lock-in detector determining a phase difference between the feedback signal and the auxiliary signal, and a bias circuit for generating the bias signal (15.1 to 15.3) from an output signal of the lock-in detector, wherein the pre-defined frequencies of the auxiliary signals (f1, f2, f3) are different from one another (f1≠f2≠f3) and preferably no integer multiples of each other.

Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network.

A stent-graft is provided that includes a bifurcated stent adapted for placement at the bifurcation of a bifurcated body lumen. The stent-graft further includes a graft that lines or covers at least part of the bifurcated stent. The graft defines a fluid passageway from the unbifurcated portion into one of the bifurcated stent branches. A closure prevents fluid from flowing through the second of the branches and into the other branch of the body lumen.

The invention relates to parallel robot industry, comprising dynamic and static platforms and three branches connected to them. I features in the dynamic platform through three branches and connected to the static platform, with one branch having a movement sub, the second branch having three movement subs, the first and the second branches forming into horizontal guide pole structure or plane hinge structure, with the third branch having space for six freedom branch chains. It enjoys high rigidity, simple structure, two rotary complete decoupling, easy for control, low in movement quality, good in dynamic features.

A system and method is provided for qualifying search listings for placement in at least one search result list and ordering the search listings according to an algorithm. Specifically, a searching device is adapted to received items of information, such as search listings (e.g., www.yahoo.com, etc.), search terms (e.g., “cars,”“beauty supplies,” etc.) and monetary amounts (e.g., $1.00, etc.), from a plurality of promoting devices, receive a search inquiry (i.e., a search term) from a reception device, and provide (in response thereto) at least one search result list including search listings (i) associated with the search inquiry and (ii) qualified for placement in the search result list. In other words, if the search term linked to the search listing is the same as (or substantially similar to) the search inquiry, then the first prong is met. Furthermore, if a predetermined number of monetary amounts (i.e., as linked to a predetermined number of search listings associated with the search inquiry) are not higher than the monetary amount linked to the search listing, then the second prong is met and the search listing is qualified for placement. Thus, only a predetermined number of search listings (e.g., three, five, etc.) that are both (i) associated with the search inquiry and (ii) linked to the highest monetary amounts are qualified for placement in the search result list. Once the search listings are qualified for placement in the search result list, the searching device is adapted to arrange the qualified search listings according to an algorithm (e.g., randomly, according to relevance, according to monetary amounts, etc.).

The invention relates to a twin-translation-rotation partial decoupling parallel mechanism, relating to a three-degree-freedom parallel mechanism in the field of industrial robots. A movable platform is arranged above a fixed platform; a tail-end actuator is arranged above the movable platform; the fixed platform is connected with the movable platform through three alien branches; a first branch is provided with a rotary pair, and a movable pair of the first branch connected with the fixed platform is a rotary pair; a movable pair in the first branch connected with the movable platform is a universal joint or a ball pair; a movable pair in the second branch connected with the fixed platform is a rotary pair; a movable pair in the second branch connected with the movable platform is a universal joint or a ball pair; a third branch is formed by a branch chain with six degrees of freedom and is provided with a movable pair; a movable pair of the third branch connected with the fixed platform is a universal joint; a movable pair of the third branch connected with the movable platform is a ball pair; and the movable pair, the ball pair and the universal joint in the third branch are connected into UPS branch chain. The invention is suitable for machine tools, robots, and the like.

An input-output complete decoupling three-freedom-degree moving parallel robot mechanism comprises a fixed platform, a movable platform and three branches for connecting the fixed platform and the movable platform. The first branch and the third branch are composed of three moving pairs and two connecting rods. The third branch is composed of five rotating pairs and four connecting rods. The input-output complete decoupling three-freedom-degree moving parallel robot mechanism is simple in structure, easy to control, high in flexibility, low in cumulative error, fast in response, large in operation space and high in bearing capacity, is widely applicable to parallel machine tools, walking machines, parallel pressing machines, error compensators, high-precision electronic element encapsulation, food, packing and medical industries, and realizes complete decoupling of three motions of the movable platform.

Provided is a small-sized electrophotographic apparatus having a double face printing function, which can print at a high speed even during double face printing. There are provided a recording medium conveying path 5 composed of a vertical conveying path 5a for upward conveying a sheet fed from a sheet cassette 2, outside of a developing means 60, a curved conveying path 5b and horizontal conveying path 5c for conveying the recording medium to a transfer means 50, a fusing means 51 located in the horizontal conveying path 5c, downstream of the transfer means 50, for fusing a toner image on the recording medium 2, a sheet discharge tray 53, a bypass conveying path for guiding a sheet to be subjected to double face printing, having one surface for which printing has been completed, a first branch means 58 for guiding the sheet to be subjected to double face printing from a conveying path for the sheet discharge tray 53 into the bypass conveying path 56, a reversing conveying path 54 for reversing the sheet conveyed in the bypass conveying path 54 during double face printing, a second branch means 59 for guiding the sheet which has been reversed in the reversing conveying path 54, into the horizontal conveying path 5c, and a return conveying path 57 for returning the sheet which has passed through the second branch means 59, into the return conveying path 57 for conveying the sheet to the horizontal conveying path.

A stent-graft is provided that includes a bifurcated stent adapted for placement at the bifurcation of a bifurcated body lumen. The stent-graft further includes a graft that lines or covers at least part of the bifurcated stent. The graft defines a fluid passageway from the unbifurcated portion into one of the bifurcated stent branches. A closure prevents fluid from flowing through the second of the branches and into the other branch of the body lumen.

An integrated circuit includes a first switched capacitor element and a second switched capacitor element, which are coupled to form a bridge circuit, the first switched capacitor element being located in a first branch of the bridge circuit and the second switched capacitor element being located in a second branch of the bridge circuit. A detector circuit is coupled to the first branch and to the second branch of the bridge circuit. Switching signals of the first switched capacitor element and of the second switched capacitor element are generated on the basis of an input clock signal of the integrated circuit.

The invention provides a weather strip seal for an automotive vehicle which is provided for sealing between a first structure and a second structure made of a vehicle framework having a flange protruding from an adjacent framework surface, and to a method for manufacturing such a strip seal. The weather strip seal includes a clamping means for clamping on the flange comprising an outer clamping portion having a first branch and a second branch and an inner clamping portion incorporating separate gripping clips mounted along the length of and against said outer clamping portion by an outer part of each clip, and in contact with the flange by inner gripping means of each clip, a first sealing portion sealingly presses against said first structure and which extends from said first branch, and a second sealing portion presses against said adjacent framework surface and extending on said second branch.

The method includes following steps: through PAL encode and decode chip and PCM speech coding chip, 4-ways video signals and 4-ways sound signals are inputted into FPGA chip for processing, and then implements 4-ways combination output of video and sound signal. The steps of signal processing are: the output format of video, input and output mode of clock and synchronous are set for 4-ways video and sound signals through mode setup module; then three branches are parallel processed; first branch is used in setting the register of video chip; second branch is used in combining 4-ways sound; third branch is used in combining 4-ways video.

An optical system and associated method are provided. Included is a first branch capable of allowing light to pass therethrough in a forward direction and a reverse direction. The first branch includes a first medium with a first refractive index (n1), and a first end and a second end. Also included is a second branch capable of allowing light to pass therethrough in the forward direction. The second branch includes a second medium with a second refractive index (n2, with n2<n1), and a first end and a second end. The second end of the second branch is further coupled to the first branch to form an angle (θ2). In use, θ1≦sin−1(n2 / n1) in order to prevent the light passing through the first branch in the reverse direction from passing into the second branch, where θ1 is the incident angle of the light passing in the reverse direction from the first branch to the second branch.

The invention relates to a method and a device for processing an electromagnetic signal comprising first and second carriers at first and second carrier frequencies. The method comprises splitting the signal into first and second branches, a first shifting of the frequency of the signal in each of the branches by respective first frequency shifts, and filtering the signal in the first and the second branch in respective first filters. In addition, there is a second shifting of the frequency in each of the branches by respective second frequency shifts, and a first frequency distance between the first frequency shifts, such that after the first shift, the first carrier in the first branch has essentially the same center frequency as the second carrier in the second branch. The first filters have the same filter characteristics, so that the signal in each branch after the first filter comprises only one of said first or second carrier wave, but at the same center frequency.

Provided is a small-sized electrophotographic apparatus having a double face printing function, which can print at a high speed even during double face printing. There are provided a recording medium conveying path 5 composed of a vertical conveying path 5a for upward conveying a sheet fed from a sheet cassette 2, outside of a developing means 60, a curved conveying path 5b and horizontal conveying path 5c for conveying the recording medium to a transfer means 50, a fusing means 51 located in the horizontal conveying path 5c, downstream of the transfer means 50, for fusing a toner image on the recording medium 2, a sheet discharge tray 53, a bypass conveying path for guiding a sheet to be subjected to double face printing, having one surface for which printing has been completed, a first branch means 58 for guiding the sheet to be subjected to double face printing from a conveying path for the sheet discharge tray 53 into the bypass conveying path 56, a reversing conveying path 54 for reversing the sheet conveyed in the bypass conveying path 54 during double face printing, a second branch means 59 for guiding the sheet which has been reversed in the reversing conveying path 54, into the horizontal conveying path 5c, and a return conveying path 57 for returning the sheet which has passed through the second branch means 59, into the return conveying path 57 for conveying the sheet to the horizontal conveying path.

Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network.

A symmetrical matrix representation of dipole UWB antenna, mounted on a substrate and attachable to a wireless communication apparatus, comprises a first radiation arm, said first radiation arm comprising a first feed point, a first branch, a second branch, and a third branch, said first branch, said second branch, and said third branch are spaced in parallel, said first feed point and said second branch are aligned; and a second radiation arm, said second radiation arm comprising a second feed point, a fourth branch, a fifth branch, and a sixth branch, said fourth branch, said fifth branch, and said sixth branch are spaced in parallel, said first feed point and said second branch are aligned; wherein said first feed point and said second feed point are interconnected to a wireless communication apparatus.

The invention relates to alternators for a motor vehicle, of which a stator comprises a cylindrical body, several phases each formed by a plurality of electrically conducting elements, the cylindrical body comprising radial slots for accommodating at least four phase-conductor elements forming at least four layers of conductor elements, each conductor element including two branches placed in slots each in a predetermined layer and a head forming a U-shape seen in the peripheral direction, the half of the conductor elements which are engaged by their first branches in a slot being engaged by their second respective branches in the same other slot.According to the invention, at least first and second conductor elements of such half are such that the radii of curvature of the U-shapes of the two conductor elements are substantially identical.

A multi-level, multi-branch outphasing amplifier (20-1) includes a first branch group circuit (22-1) including a first branch circuit (11) receiving a first RF input signal (S1(t)) and first control information (S11<sub2>—< / sub2>Ctrl=VDD) and a second branch circuit (12) receiving the first input signal and second control information (S12<sub2>—< / sub2>Ctrl). Each of the first (11) and second (12) branch circuits includes a power amplifier. The second control information enables the second branch circuit to be switched on or off while the first branch circuit (12) remains on. A second branch group circuit (22-2) includes a third branch circuit (21) receiving a second RF input signal (S2(t)) and third control information (S21<sub2>—< / sub2>Ctrl=VDD) and a fourth branch circuit (22) receiving the second input signal (S2(t)) and fourth control information (S22<sub2>—< / sub2>Ctrl). Each of the third and fourth branch circuits includes a power amplifier. The fourth control information enables the fourth branch circuit to be switched on or off while the third branch circuit remains on. A combiner (24) combines output signals of the power amplifiers to produce an output signal (SOUT(t)).

The invention discloses a novel combined cooling, heating and power system utilizing internal combustion engine waste heat and a working method thereof. According to the technical scheme, the exhaustgas of an internal combustion engine releases energy through a waste heat boiler HRG to drive an organic Rankine cycle power generation system to circularly generate electricity; except that the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine releases the energy through the waste heat boiler HRG to drive the organic Rankine cycle power generation system to circularly generate electricity, the remaining energy is divided into two branches, namely, a first branch and a second branch; the first branch is used for driving an ammonia absorption type refrigeration sub-cycle system to carry out cycle refrigeration; and the second branch, the internal combustion engine cylinder sleeve water and the organic Rankine cycle power generation system provide heat for a heat supply system. The system has the advantages that the organic Rankine cycle, the ammonia water power cycle and the heat supply device are coupled and integrated so that the cycle acting amount, the refrigerating capacity and the heat supply quantity can be increased, and the efficiency of the combined system can be improved.

A DC current regulator circuit comprises a first circuit node (32) which is operable to receive an external input voltage. A transistor (M1) has an input, a first leg and a second leg. The first leg of the transistor is isolated from the first circuit node (32). An amplifier (10) has an output connected to the input of the transistor (M1), a first amplifier input for receiving a reference voltage (VREF) and a second amplifier input connected to the first circuit node (32). A low-pass filter (33) connects between the output of the amplifier and the first circuit node (32). A current mirror (36) connects in series with the second leg of the transistor (M1) and has a first branch (38) for providing a regulated output current and a second branch (37) which connects to the first circuit node (32). The current regulator has reduced sensitivity to conducted EMI received at the first circuit node (32).

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for increasing the harvested energy from a piezoelectric element exposed to environmental vibrations via a two-prong system. In a first prong, a cantilever beam is tapered and shaped so as to increase and provide an approximately uniform strain on and along the beam, thus resulting in increased voltage. In a second prong of the system and method, a voltage compensating circuit, when used with a voltage inversion circuit of the prior art, increases the harvested power by injecting current to the piezoelectric element after each voltage inversion so as to increase the voltage level.

An antenna (10) includes: a first radiant element (3) and a second radiant element (4), which are connected to an antenna feeding point (2); a first branch part (5a), one end of which is connected to the first radiant element (3) at a position not corresponding to an end portion of the first radiant element (3); a second branch part (5b), one end of which is connected to the second radiant element (4) at a position not corresponding to an end portion of the second radiant element (4); and a connection element (7), which connects part of the first radiant element (3) and part of the second radiant element (4). A different end of the first branch part (5a) and a different end of the second branch part (5b) face each other and form a capacitor part. The capacitor part is positioned outside the area surrounded by the connection element (7), the first radiant element (3), and the second radiant element (4). Part of the first radiant element (3), part of the second radiant element (4), the first branch part (5a), the second branch part (5b), and the capacitor part form a split ring resonator (8).

The invention discloses a two-degree-of-freedom decoupling parallel mechanism with mixed movement. The two-degree-of-freedom decoupling parallel mechanism mainly comprises a movable platform, a fixed platform and two branches, wherein the branches connect the platforms in such a manner that one end of a first branch is connected with the fixed platform through a movable pair; the movable pair is connected with a rotating pair through a connecting rod; the rotating pair is connected with another rotating pair through a connecting rod; the rotating pair is connected with the movable platform; one end of a second branch is connected with the fixed platform through the movable pair, and the other end of the second branch is connected with the movable platform through the rotating pair; the movable pair is connected with the rotating pair through a connecting rod; and the other end of the branch is connected with the movable platform through the rotating pair. The two-degree-of-freedom decoupling parallel mechanism has the advantages of large working space, simple structure, low cost, easiness in controlling, and the like.

A polarization splitter includes a substrate, an asymmetric Y-shaped waveguide, and a pair of strip-shaped electrodes. The substrate is made of a birefringence crystal and includes a surface. The Y-shaped waveguide is formed into the surface and includes an input section for transmitting both transverse electric wave and transverse magnetic wave, a first branch for only transmitting the transverse electric wave, and a second branch for only transmitting the transverse magnetic wave. The first branch and the second branch branch off the input section. The electrodes are positioned on the surface, arranged at two opposite sides of the input section and substantially parallel with a central axis of the input section.

The ventilating device, adapted to be fixed on a rotor of a rotary electrical machine, comprises a first fan (62a) having a radial plate portion (64a), at least one second fan (62b) having a radial plate portion (64b), and means for fastening the two fans (62a, 62b), each fan (62a, 62b) having, at the outer periphery of its radial plate portion, first branches (78a) and second branches (78b) which extend radially outwards, at least some of the branches having a blade (68a, 68b), while at least one first branch (78a) and at least one second branch (78b) includes a first (78a) and a second (78b) mutual overlapping portion to define an overlap zone (Z), the said fastening means (80, 82) being at least partly arranged at the level of the overlap zone.

A data processing system includes a processor configured to execute processor instructions of a first thread and processor instructions of a second thread, a first branch target buffer (BTB) corresponding to the first thread, a second BTB corresponding to the second thread, storage circuitry configured to store a borrow enable indicator corresponding to the first thread which indicates whether borrowing is enabled for the first thread, and control circuitry configured to allocate an entry for a branch instruction executed within the first thread in the first branch target buffer but not the second branch target buffer if borrowing is not enabled by the borrow enable indicator and in the first branch target buffer or the second branch target buffer if borrowing is enabled by the borrow enable indicator and the second thread is not enabled.

The invention discloses a three-degree-of-freedom motion decoupled parallel robot mechanism, which comprises a fixed platform, a moving platform and three branches connecting the two platforms. The first branch consists of a cylinder pair, three rotating pairs and connecting rods thereof. The second branch consists of two rotating pairs, two moving pairs and connecting rods thereof. The third branch consists of a cylinder pair, two rotating pairs and connecting rods thereof. The mechanism is easy to manufacture and mount, low in cost, large in working space and high in transmission property, and can be widely used for numerical control machine tools, measurers, pick-up and placement, machining operation and the like, three motions of the moving platform are completely decoupled, the control is easy, and trajectories are easy to plan.