1616 results about "Production unit" patented technology

Systems and methods to balance currents among a plurality of photovoltaic units connected in series. In aspect, a management unit is coupled between a photovoltaic energy production unit and a string of energy production units. The management unit has an energy storage element (e.g., a capacitor) connected to the photovoltaic energy production unit. The management unit further has a switch to selectively couple to the energy storage element and the photovoltaic energy production unit to the string. The management unit allows the current in the string to be larger than the current in the photovoltaic energy production unit.

Systems and methods to balance currents among a plurality of photovoltaic units connected in series. In aspect, a management unit is coupled between a photovoltaic energy production unit and a string of energy production units. The management unit has an energy storage element (e.g., a capacitor) connected to the photovoltaic energy production unit. The management unit further has a switch to selectively couple to the energy storage element and the photovoltaic energy production unit to the string. The management unit allows the current in the string to be larger than the current in the photovoltaic energy production unit.

Apparatuses and methods include a photovoltaic energy production unit to generate electricity. A local management unit is coupled between the photovoltaic energy production unit and a connection of energy production units forming a string bus. The local management unit includes a controller and switching circuitry. The controller provide a control for the switching circuitry to deliver electrical energy to the string bus. A communication transmission modulator is associated with the local management unit. The communication transmission modulator modulates the control with data to be transmitted from the local management unit over the string bus.

A system, including method and apparatus, for forming an array of emulsions. The system may include a plate providing an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion and each including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation. Each set of wells, in turn, may include (1) at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase, (2) a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and (3) an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion of droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase.

Apparatuses and methods include a photovoltaic energy production unit to generate electricity. A local management unit is coupled between the photovoltaic energy production unit and a connection of energy production units forming a string bus. The local management unit includes a controller and switching circuitry. The controller provide a control for the switching circuitry to deliver electrical energy to the string bus. A communication transmission modulator is associated with the local management unit. The communication transmission modulator modulates the control with data to be transmitted from the local management unit over the string bus.

When it is determined that a malfunction has occurred in a rotational angle sensor, an electronic control unit changes the control manner from the normal assist control to the sensorless assist control. In the sensorless assist control, an assist stop command unit receives the information concerning the motor rotational angular speed ωm from an angular speed conversion unit. Then, the motor rotational angular speed ωm is compared with the threshold value ωm1. If the motor rotational angular speed ωm is equal to or higher than the threshold value ωm1, an assist enabling signal is transmitted to a PWM voltage production unit to continue the power assist. On the other hand, if the motor rotational angular speed ωm is lower than the threshold value ωm1, a stop command signal is transmitted to the PWM voltage production unit to stop the power assist.

Measured size data of a foot of a user is inputted into foot size data inputting unit 31, and provided to shoe last configuration data production unit 32. Also, in conversion table 33, is stored conversion data produced on the basis of the relationship between a foot size and a size of a shoe last for producing a shoe which fits in the foot determined by an experiment. Shoe last configuration data production unit 32, by referring to conversion table 33, produces ideal size data of a shoe last on the basis of inputted size data of a foot.

In a first aspect, systems and methods for producing biodiesel fuel include a modular production unit incorporated onto a single platform or into a housing for ease of relocatability. The modular production unit preferably includes a mixing unit, a reactor unit, a separation unit, a distillation unit, and a filtering unit, all incorporated onto or into a self-contained platform or housing that is able to be easily relocated. In a second aspect, the modular production unit is combined with additional fixed and / or relocatable components to provide a biodiesel processing plant. In a third aspect, a raw materials processing system and method includes a roller barrel adapted for recovery, transportation, and introduction of recycled oil feedstock into a biodiesel manufacturing process. The raw materials processing system preferably includes a hot box for filtering and heating the raw recycled oil feedstock.

Disclosed is an appearance inspection machine comprising an image acquisition unit, a defect information production unit, and an automatic defect classification unit. The defect information production unit detects a defect by comparing two image data and produces defect information. The automatic defect classification unit autonomously classifies a defect according to image data of a defective part concerned. The defect information production unit consists of a comparison buffer memory, an image comparison unit, an analysis buffer memory, and a sampling and control unit. Image data is temporarily stored in the comparison buffer memory. The image comparison unit detects a defect by comparing image data of one die with image data of other two dice. Image data is temporarily stored in the analysis buffer memory. The sampling and control unit selects an analysis-needed part according to defect information and transfers necessary image data to the automatic defect classification unit. As soon as defect information is produced, the sampling and control unit selects an analysis-needed part and transfers necessary image data. Thus, defect detection and classification are partly carried out concurrently.

A self-supported riser system (100) for an Anticipated Production System (ASP) Test or a Long Duration Production (LDP) Test in a subsea petroleum production system, utilizing an ANM coupled to a wellhead and Floating Production Unit (FPU) is disclosed. The system includes a wellhead at the seabed, connected to an ANM (20) provided with a preventor (BOP of workover) (30). The preventor (30) is connected to a production riser (50) through a connection tool (40). The riser (50), mounted internally within a buoy assembly (60), is maintained under traction with the aid of a buoy assembly. The upper end of the riser (50) is provided with a Subsea Intervention Terminal (700), the Terminal being interlinked to the FPU by a flexible jumper (90) to carry the oil produced to the FPU. Two methods for installing the self-supported riser system (100) are also disclosed.

A medium storing a program for display control. When the program is executed by a computer realized in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal operates as follows. An area-information storing unit stores information on a first display area of an external display device and a second display area of a built-in display. A screen-data production unit acquires content to be displayed, and produces screen data corresponding to the first display area. An entire-image display unit divides the screen data into partial areas each corresponding to the second display area, adds to the entire screen data area-display data indicating the extent of each partial area and a corresponding identifier, and displays the screen data on the external display device. On receipt of an identifier, a partial-image display unit extracts a portion of the screen data for a partial area corresponding to the identifier, and displays the portion on the built-in display.

The present invention comprises methods and systems for treating biomass wastes to result in usable byproducts. Biomass is treated to remove debris, transferred to microbial digester units, such as anaerobic and aerobic digesters, and the resultant solids and liquids are provided to an algae production unit. Algae are harvested and beneficial byproducts are retained. Gases, heat and energy produced by energy conversion units are used in units of the system or provided to external sources. Water is cleaned and when separated from the algae and other solids in the algae harvesting unit may be provided to external sources, or may be used in other units of the system. The methods and systems disclosed herein provide for an efficient and substantially complete use of the components of the input biomass.

The present invention relates to the collection of food and energy production units with attendant processing units into an integrated system capable of substantially boosting the efficiency and economics of food and energy production while greatly reducing the impact on the environment. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the system and process further includes sufficient land area for crop production and uptake of nutrients and water.

The present invention encompasses a control system and method for systems of producing and consuming units. The method of the invention includes the steps of setting each producing unit to have an output responsive to an analog signal representative of a market price, and connecting each producing unit to a marketwire, with the changes in the analog signal on the marketwire representing changes in the market price resulting from inputs from the consuming units and the output response of each producing unit.

The invention provides a production unit for mass producing electro-spinning nano fibre non-weaving cloth which includes: a meltdown pool 1, a metal roller 2, a receiving lace curtaining 3, a high voltage static generator 4, an initiative guide roll 51 and a passivity guide roll 52, a roller synchronous motor 62, a roller reductor 71, a roller belt pulley 72, a lace curtaining reductor 81, a lace curtaining belt pulley 82, an earth metal plate 9. Four sides and bottom of the meltdown pool 1 is composed of a ceramic outside wall 13, a middle heating layer 12 and a ceramic inner wall 11, the sandwich design structure has better insulation effect and solves heating problem of polymer melt. Compared with prior electro-spinning mass production, the unit can satisfy melt electro-spinning need, and also can be used for solution electro-spinning for realizing multi-use of one machine.

A transportable fodder production unit is disclosed that includes an insulated container having a front end and a rear end, a plurality of trays each having drain apertures through a bottom side thereof, a racking system for supporting each of the trays with a plurality of shelves extending from the front end of the container to the rear end of the container, an irrigation system attachable to a water source and having a water tank in fluid communication with a plurality of spray heads through a pump and a plurality of pipes, a lighting system that maintains a predetermined illumination within the container, a thermal control system that maintains the temperature inside the container within a predetermined temperature range, and a central control system for activating the other systems and maintaining electrical load balancing on a power source.

A method for operation of a vibratory measurement instrument comprises flowing a fluid through at least one measurement tube; causing the measuring tube to oscillate mechanically using an oscillation production unit; detecting an oscillation behavior of the tube using at least one oscillation sensor; determining at least one of a mass flow, a viscosity, and a density in a narrowband frequency range based on the oscillation behavior; evaluating at least one of the mass flow, the viscosity, and the density using signal processing of an electronics unit; and evaluating the oscillation behavior at least at times in a broadband frequency range using the electronics unit.

A chip package including a chip extension for containing thermal interface material (TIM) and improves chip cooling, and a related method, are disclosed. In particular, the chip package includes a chip, a cooling structure coupled to the chip via a TIM, and a chip extension may be thermally coupled to an outer edge of the chip. A TIM placed between the chip and the cooling structure is contained during thermal cycling by the chip extension such that void formation at the edge of the chip, which can move between the chip and cooling structure, is suppressed. The chip extension also improves lateral heat dissipation by providing a greater thermal contact area between the cooling structure and the chip and, if needed, the substrate at a much lower cost than using larger die with lower production unit output from a wafer.

In a communication recording system using a headset with a radio communication function which transmits the first speech signal and receives the second speech signal by radio communications, the headset is provided with a time information acquisition unit for acquiring a time information indicating occurrence times of the first speech signal and the second speech signal, an information production unit for producing a recording information to be stored in which the time information is set in correspondence to the first speech signal and the second speech signal, and a memory unit for storing the recording information.

A method for controlling a DC-transmission link for transmitting electric power from a power production unit connected to an AC-DC converter at a first side of the DC-transmission link to a utility grid connected to a DC-AC converter at a second side of the DC-transmission link is provided. The method includes: obtaining a DC voltage signal indicative of a DC voltage at the DC transmission link; controlling the AC-DC converter such that an AC voltage at an AC side of the AC-DC converter is adjusted based on the DC voltage signal. Further, an apparatus for controlling a DC-transmission link is provided.

A data processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store electronic data including first data for identifying policy data that is information indicating an authority for handling the electronic data and is managed by a server apparatus. The data processing apparatus includes a print job data production unit configured to produce print job data based on electronic data to be printed, an acquisition unit configured to acquire the first data included in the electronic data, an adding unit configured to add the first data acquired by the acquisition unit to the print job data, and a sending unit configured to send the print job data having the first data added thereto to an image processing apparatus.

The invention relates to a micro-algae industrialization production device and a method of producing the micro-algae, which belong to the engineering field of the micro-algae culturing and the technical field of the environmental protection. An air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device is an annular shallow pond built by bricks and concrete, an isolation wall with both ends opened is built in the shallow pond, a liquid drainage pipe and a liquid replacement pipe are arranged in the air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device, an air inlet pipe is fixed on the isolation wall in the middle part of the air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device and is connected with a plurality of L-shaped branch pipes, a plurality of micro blowholes are arranged on side walls of the transversal pipes of the branch pipes, the whole air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device is covered by agricultural film and is provided with a skylight, to form an enclosed type photobiology reactor. The device combines the individual advantage of the open type photobiology reactor and the enclosed type photobiology reactor, by adopting the industrial waste gas and the eutrophication surface water or the industrial wastewater as the main raw material to perform micro-algae culturing in a large scale, especially to culture the micro-algae with high oil percentage, to provide the large or medium sized bio-diesel factory with raw oil, and simultaneously the emission reduction of carbon dioxide and the treatment of polluted water body are realized.

An issue of reducing a product manufacture unit cost exists in wireless IC chips which are required to be disposable because the wireless IC chips circulate in a massive scale and require a very high collection cost. It is possible to increase the communication distance of a wireless IC chip with an on-chip antenna simply contrived for reduction of the production unit cost by increasing the size of the antenna mounted on a wireless IC chip or by increasing the output power of a reader as in a conventional way. However, because of the circumstances of the applications used and the read accuracy of the reader, the antenna cannot be mounted on a very small chip in an in-chip antenna form. When an AC magnetic field is applied to an on-chip antenna from outside, eddy current is produced in principle because the semiconductor substrate is conductive. It has been fount that the thickness of the substrate can be used as a design parameter because of the eddy current. Based on this finding, according to the invention, the thickness of the substrate is decreased to reduce or eliminate the energy loss due to the eddy current to utilize the electromagnetic wave energy for the semiconductor circuit operation as originally designed. With the thickness reduction, it is possible to increase the communication distance by preventing ineffective absorption of energy and thereby increasing the current flowing through the on-chip antenna.

An apparatus and method encode audio data, and an apparatus and method decode encoded audio data. An audio data encoding apparatus includes: a scalable encoding unit dividing audio data into a plurality of layers, representing the audio data in predetermined numbers of bits in each of the plurality of layers, and encoding a lower layer prior to encoding an upper layer and an upper bit of each layer prior to encoding a lower bit of each layer; an SBR encoding unit generating spectral band replication (SBR) data that has information with respect to audio data in a frequency band of frequencies equal to or greater than a predetermined frequency among the audio data to be encoded, and encoding the SBR data; and a bitstream production unit generating a bitstream using the encoded SBR data and the encoded audio data corresponding to a predetermined bitrate.

A method and apparatus for converting natural gas from a remote source into hydrocarbon liquid stable at room temperature, comprising a skid or trailer-mounted portable gas-to-liquids reactor. The reactor includes a preprocessor which desulfurizes and dehydrates the natural gas, a first-stage reactor which transforms the preprocessed natural gas into synthesis gas, and a liquid productions unit using a Fisher-Tropsch or similar polymerization process. The hydrocarbon liquid may be stored in a portable tank for later transportation or further processed on site in a portable hydrocarbon cracking unit to yield fuel or lubricating oils.

A Body Spatial Dimension Mapper (BSDM) comprising a body mapping booth (10), an array of laser range detectors mounted on the top (17) and bottom (18) of the booth, a moveable circular sensor ring (11), a sensor controller and processing unit (13), and a media production unit (14). The BSDM provides a highly automated and accurate method for determining 3-D surface measurements of a human body, a digital representation of the body shape, contour, length, width, and volume measurements, and a digital format of these measurements for storage, transmission, and computer processing. It is applicable to the garment, online clothing retail, and medical industries.

A work machine peripheral monitoring device comprises: an obstacle detection unit (400) for detecting an obstacle around the work machine using an image captured by a camera (13); a position calculation unit (500) for calculating the position of the detected obstacle; a hazard range calculation unit (700) for calculating a hazard range on the basis of the attitude and operation of the work machine; a determination unit (800) for determining whether or not the obstacle is present in the calculated hazard range; a hazard level setting unit (2000) for setting a contact hazard level with respect to the obstacle within the hazard range; an image production unit (600) for converting the camera image into a bird's-eye image centered on the work machine, and by adopting a bird's-eye view of the bird's-eye image from above the obstacle for which the contact hazard level has been set the highest by the hazard level setting unit, producing an image comprehensively including the work machine and the hazard range in the bird's-eye image; and a display device (1300) for displaying the produced image. Since this enables the position of the most hazardous obstacle with respect to the work machine to be grasped instantly by the operator, work efficiency by the work machine is improved.

A Body Spatial Dimension Mapper (BSDM) comprising a body mapping booth (10), an array of laser range detectors mounted on the top (17) and bottom (18) of the booth, a moveable circular sensor ring (11), a sensor controller and processing unit (13), and a media production unit (14). The BSDM provides a highly automated and accurate method for determining 3-D surface measurements of a human body, a digital representation of the body shape, contour, length, width, and volume measurements, and a digital format of these measurements for storage, transmission, and computer processing. It is applicable to the garment, online clothing retail, and medical industries.

An image production apparatus includes at least one image production unit having a latent image forming device for forming a latent image on an image carrying member and a developing device for attaching toner to the latent image formed by the latent image forming device. A toner image formed by the image production unit is transferred to a transfer medium to produce an image. The image production apparatus further includes a periodicity giving device for giving periodicity to movement in a main scanning direction of the image carrying member. An amplitude of the period given by the periodicity giving device is larger than a variation amount in the main scanning direction for determining reversal of the movement in the main scanning direction of the image carrying member.