776 results about "Temperature correction" patented technology

The present invention relates to an analytical device (X1) including a mounting portion (10) for mounting an analytical tool (2) capable of outputting information for computation, a computation unit for conducting computation for analyzing a sample based on the information for computation, and a temperature detection unit (12) for outputting the temperature information. The temperature detection unit (12) is disposed in the mounting portion (10). The analytical device (X1) preferably further includes a temperature correction unit for correcting the computation results obtained in the computation unit, based on the temperature information. The temperature detection unit (12) includes, for example, a contact type temperature sensor (12A). In this case, the contact type temperature detection unit (12) may include a thermally conductive portion (12B) having a contact surface (12b) to be brought into contact with the temperature sensor (12A) and the analytical tool (2).

The present invention is a laser ranging device that incorporates an internal tilt sensor, an internal temperature sensor, and an internal pressure sensor. The tilt sensor is used to measure the target's vertical angle relative to the horizontal reference plane. Digital signal processing circuitry controls the firing of the laser pulse, calculation of time-of-flight range, measurement of the vertical angle of the tilt sensor, measurement of ambient temperature and storage of tilt sensor and temperature sensor calibration data. The digital signal processing circuitry then provides the user temperature corrected ballistic ranging information, including horizontal range. Additionally, an automatic gain control system minimizes the effects of target to target variance in reflectivity and its associated errors. It is also an object of this invention to electronically minimize errors in the measurement of a vertical angle caused by housing vibration and by temperature variance errors.

A method for determining deterioration of accumulator battery hooked up with loads in a system based on results of measuring internal resistances of an accumulator battery, the method comprising the steps of; predetermining as a specified temperature a temperature at which the deterioration of the accumulator battery is determined; calculating in advance temperature correction coefficients of the internal resistances from changes of the internal resistances depending on temperatures; predetermining resistance-voltage conversion factors to convert between the internal resistances at the specified temperature and terminal discharge voltages of the accumulator battery which are obtained at the specified temperature under a condition of flowing predetermined discharge currents from the accumulator battery; measuring the internal resistances of the accumulator battery and temperature of the accumulator battery at an internal resistance measurement; converting the measured internal resistance values into the internal resistance values at the specified temperature with use of the temperature correction coefficients of the internal resistances; converting the internal resistance values at the specified temperature into the terminal discharge voltage values of the accumulator battery at the specified temperature with use of the resistance-voltage conversion factors; and determining whether the accumulator battery is deteriorated or not by means of comparison of the terminal discharge voltage values of the accumulator battery at the specified temperature and a predetermined threshold value as a deterioration judgment standard.

A system and method for controlling the temperature of a process tool uses the vaporizable characteristic of a refrigerant that is provided in direct heat exchange relation with the process tool. Pressurized refrigerant is provided as both condensed liquid and in gaseous state. The condensed liquid is expanded to a vaporous mix, and the gaseous refrigerant is added to reach a target temperature determined by its pressure. Temperature corrections can thus be made very rapidly by gas pressure adjustments. The process tool and the operating parameters will usually require that the returning refrigerant be conditioned and processed for compatibility with the compressor and other units, so that cycling can be continuous regardless of thermal demands and changes.

A system and method for controlling the cooling fan within an electronic display based on the amount of ambient light present. An ambient light sensor is used to measure the amount of ambient light which is contacting the display. To anticipate a temperature rise and lower the thermal inertia of the display, the fan speed is increased when high ambient light levels are measured at the exterior of the display. The ambient light sensor data may be used to apply a temperature correction factor to a temperature sensor within the display. Alternatively, the ambient light sensor data may be used to apply a fan speed correction factor to a desired fan speed (calculated based on a temperature sensor within the display). Multiple systems or methods can be used simultaneously within the display to cool several components which may heat and cool at different rates relative to one another. The various systems can have similar or different logic depending on the amount of cooling needed and the manner in which the cooled-components produce / absorb heat.

A thermostat (10) for sensing the ambient temperature in an environment includes an enclosure (100) housing a temperature sensor (20) for sensing the temperature within the enclosure, a temperature display device (30), a liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight (40) operative in its on state to illuminate the temperature display. A controller (50) operatively associated with the thermostat monitors the current on / off state of the backlight and the length of time the backlight has been in its current state, estimates a temperature correction factor using a simplified Discrete Kalman Filter estimator, and applies the temperature correction factor to correct the sensed temperature for the heat generated by the backlight (40).

The invention discloses a defrosting method for an air conditioner, which comprises the following steps: firstly, using the average temperature which is a difference value of the acquired temperature of a coil pipe of an indoor unit, the indoor temperature change correction quantity and the temperature correction quantity of the coil pipe of the indoor unit caused by the wind speed change as the reference temperature of the coil pipe of the indoor unit; and secondly, according to the reference temperature, the temperature of the coil pipe of the indoor unit and the running time of a compressor, determining whether to enter a defrosting running mode of the air conditioner. The defrosting method can remarkably improve the low temperature heating of the air conditioner and the comfort in the heating running process, and improve the overall performance of the air conditioner.

An image forming device whereby stable fixing performance is obtained and whose fixing properties are excellent and that does not produce curling of the paper after fixing, due to performing control for correcting fixing temperature by environmental sensing not only during standby but also over time. A plurality of temperature detecting units are provided in the fixing device and a plurality of detecting units that detect temperature and humidity are provided within the image forming device. Temperature correction is performed whereby the target control temperature of the fixing device is changed to a prescribed value in accordance with the temperature or humidity detected by the plurality of detecting units.

An apparatus for controlling steam generating unit of washing machine is disclosed to reduce power consumption of the washing machine by correcting a temperature value detected by a temperature sensor installed in the washing machine to be the same as an actual temperature value of the laundry. The apparatus for controlling steam generating unit of washing machine includes a correcting unit for correcting a temperature value detected by a temperature sensor installed in the washing machine based on a pre-set temperature correction coefficient according to the weight of the laundry inside the washing machine; and a controller for controlling power applied to a steam generating unit in the washing machine.

A stage main body of a wafer stage having electrostatic chuck function is sectioned into plural chucking areas with partition members. Each chucking area includes electrodes capable of changing an applied voltage, a helium supply pipe and a fluorescent thermometer. The distribution of the temperature of a wafer is grasped at real time by measuring the temperature of the wafer corresponding to the plural chucking areas. A local temperature correction for the wafer is carried out by adjusting the electrostatic chucking force in the chucking area corresponding to a necessary temperature corrective area. By achieving the temperature control within the wafer surface in this way, the equality in wafer processing, which is affected by the wafer temperature, is secured thereby eliminating the inequality in processing accuracy of the wafer processing within a wafer surface.

A system and method for providing temperature compensation in a oscillator component (such as a crystal oscillator component) that includes a closely-located temperature sensing device. The crystal oscillator component in example systems and methods is exposed to a temperature profile during a calibration procedure. Temperature and frequency data are collected and applied to coefficient generating function according to a temperature compensation model to generate a set of coefficients that are used in the temperature compensation model in an application device. The generated coefficients are stored in a coefficient memory accessible to an application device during operation.

A piezoelectric device is provided with a sound source IC, an amplifier for amplifying a sound source from the sound source IC, a piezoelectric speaker for generating sound based on a drive signal from amplifier, an MPU for performing a predetermined control process on the drive signal, a memory for storing temperature dependency information about the piezoelectric constant (d14) and Young's modulus E of the piezoelectric speaker, and a temperature sensor for detecting an ambient temperature. MPU has correcting unit, compares a detected result of the temperature sensor with the temperature dependency information, and performs temperature correction on the drive signal serving as an acoustic signal based on a compared result. The piezoelectric speaker outputs the acoustic signal temperature-corrected by correcting unit. Thus, it becomes possible to realize various piezoelectric devices, such as a piezoelectric speaker system, capable of preventing various input information from fluctuating even when there is a change in usage environmental temperature.

A thermal processing apparatus and method with predictive temperature correction. Distances are measured from a backside of the wafer relative to a reference plane. Heat is transferred to the backside of the substrate in relation to the measured distances. This allows a baking unit to uniformly heat the substrate to compensate for irregularities or warpage.

A cavity (17) in which an analysis sample is held and measurement is performed, and an electrode system (14) for measuring the concentration of the sample in the cavity (17) are provided on a biosensor (1). A secondary cell (21) and an environment temperature sensor (9) are provided inside the measuring device (2). The environment temperature during charging is measured in real time by specifying the environment temperature during charging from the time required to charge the secondary cell (21) and the environment temperature during charging. The measured analysis sample concentration is corrected for temperature with high accuracy from the environment temperature information obtained during charging, in a temperature correction step 09, and thus an analysis result with extremely high accuracy is obtained.

An ECU executes a program including: steps of detecting an SOC and a temperature TB of a traction battery; when an EV switch is on, a step of calculating a temperature correction coefficient α from TB; when EV switch not on, a step of calculating a temperature correction coefficient α from TB; steps of calculating an EV traveling allowed power value WOUT based on the SOC and the temperature correction coefficients; and a step of transmitting EV traveling allowed power value WOUT to a meter ECU in order to indicate EV traveling allowed power value WOUT on a power meter.

A heater for changing a projection distance protrusion value by thermal expansion accompanying electric-power-distributed heating is embedded in a head having a reading element and a recording element. A clearance control information measurement unit measures and saves, at desired correction timing, clearance control information including a clearance required for controlling the clearance between the reading element and the recording medium, heater projection sensitivity protrusion sensitivity, projection distance protrusion value transition time, recording current projection distance protrusion value, and a temperature correction coefficient. The clearance control unit varies the electric power distributed to the heater and changes the projection distance protrusion value of the head, thereby controlling the clearance to a target clearance upon reproduction and recording.

A centrifuge temperature pre-calibration apparatus including a memory storage device having correction coefficients for temperature, a controller, an un-calibrated temperature sensor and a calibrated temperature display device connected to a computer which based on data from these connections calculates a slope of a line and calculates actual temperature based on this slope and an offset value. The slope is determined by the ratio of the difference between a second data point and a first data point of the calibrated temperature display device and the difference between the second data point and the first data point of the un-calibrated temperature sensor.

An embodiment of the invention provides a direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor life test method and device. The method includes: controlling a direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor to charge and / or discharge, and determining the variation relation between capacitance of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor and time of charging and / or discharging process; determining a life value of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor according to a minimum capacitance that full-load output requires and the variation relation; according to the life value and a life prediction formula of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor, calculating operating temperature of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor; according to the calculated operating temperature and measured ambient temperature of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor, acquiring a temperature correction coefficient; using the temperature correction coefficient to correct the life prediction formula, and testing the life value of the direct-current bus electrolytic capacitor by the corrected life prediction formula. By correcting the electrolytic capacitor life prediction formula, the life of the electrolytic capacitor can be accurately predicted.

A thermostat (10) for sensing the ambient temperature in an environment includes an enclosure (100) housing a temperature sensor (20) for sensing the temperature within the enclosure, a temperature display device (30), a liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight (40) operative in its on state to illuminate the temperature display. A controller (50) operatively associated with the thermostat monitors the current on / off state of the backlight and the length of time the backlight has been in its current state, estimates a temperature correction factor using a simplified Discrete Kalman Filter estimator, and applies the temperature correction factor to correct the sensed temperature for the heat generated by the backlight (40).

A sensor for force is formed from an elastomeric cylinder having a region with apertures. The apertures have passageways formed between them, and an optical fiber is introduced into these passageways, where the optical fiber has a grating for measurement of tension positioned in the passageways between apertures. Optionally, a temperature measurement sensor is placed in or around the elastomer for temperature correction, and if required, a copper film may be deposited in the elastomer for reduced sensitivity to spot temperature variations in the elastomer near the sensors.

A vehicle battery's open circuit voltage estimating method and a system therefor for relatively correctly estimating an open circuit voltage of a battery on a vehicle within a relatively short period after completion of the charge or the discharge also without a temperature correction is provided. A disconnected voltage measuring means 23a-1 measures a disconnected voltage of the battery multiple times in a definite period of time after a predetermined period of time after completion of charge or discharge of the battery. An approximate expression determining means 23a-2 determines a power approximate expression having a negative power number by using a difference value of the measured disconnected voltage and an assumed open circuit voltage. And, an arithmetic operation controlling means 23a-3 makes the approximate expression determining means update the assumed open circuit voltage and determine the power approximate expression repeatedly until the power number of the determined power approximate expression becomes -0.5 or about -0.5, and the assumed open circuit voltage is estimated to be the open circuit voltage when the power number becomes -0.5 or about -0.5.

A temperature determining device is composed of a temperature detecting unit that detects a temperature of a determination object member based on an intensity of infrared rays from the object member, a unit for determining a temperature for correction that determines a temperature of an opposing member opposed to the object member or a temperature of a member whose temperature changes in correlation to a change in the temperature of the opposing member, and a calculating unit that corrects the detected temperature obtained by the temperature detecting unit using the temperature as the temperature for correction obtained by the unit for determining a temperature for correction. Thus, stable temperature determination can be performed accurately without being influenced by infrared rays from around a determination object member.

A refrigerator temperature control method comprises the following steps: (1) environment temperature T ext is obtained; (2) user setting temperature T set is obtained; (3) deviation T' between the environment temperature T ext and the setting temperature T set is figured out; (4) temperature inside in the refrigerator is revised according to the T'. In step (4), the temperature T in in the refrigerator is obtained; temperature correction parameter is set to T shift; if T in plus T shift is higher than the setting temperature T set, a refrigeration system is started to refrigerate a refrigerator body. An incasement temperature detecting device is arranged on the position of one third to one half range of the inner height of the refrigerator body so as to obtain temperature in the refrigerator body. The refrigerator comprises a refrigerating chamber, a cold select zone, and a refrigeration room. The method effectively solves the problem of inaccurate incasement temperature existed in the prior art; in particular, when the environment temperature is lower, improvement effect is obvious; on the basis of meeting accurate temperature controlling, the method can increase refrigeration efficiency of the refrigerator and reduces energy consumption.

The invention discloses a frequency control method, a frequency control device, a multi-split air conditioner and a storage medium. The frequency control method comprises the following steps that whenthe multi-split air conditioner is in the heating operation, a capability requirement identification value corresponding to each indoor unit in all indoor units in the running state, set temperatureand indoor environment temperature are acquired at interval preset time so as to determine the initial operating frequency of a compressor in each preset time; in each preset time, outdoor environmenttemperature is acquired; a target frequency correction coefficient within each preset time is determined according to the outdoor environment temperature; and the initial operation frequency within each preset time is corrected according to the target frequency correction coefficient so as to determine the target operating frequency of the compressor. According to the frequency control method, the frequency control device, the multi-split air conditioner and the storage medium, the problems that the accuracy of the tube temperature correction frequency of the middle of the indoor unit is lowand the needed time is too long are solved, and the effect of improving the heating capacity of the multi-split air conditioner is achieved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cable nondestructive test and life evaluation and specifically relates to frequency domain test and analysis system and method for cable overall ageing life evaluation. A data acquisition module collects voltage and current response of a cable under actions of AC signals in different frequencies, and calculates cable complex capacitance spectrum and dielectric spectrum; according to temperature signals measured by a temperature probe, the dielectric spectrum calculated based on the test data is subjected to temperature correction treatment by calling temperature compensation factor of the cable in such material stored in the system to obtain a corrected frequency domain curve under a reference temperature; and an SH factor calculation and life evaluation system calculates an SH factor value for reflecting a current state of the cable according to the corrected dielectric spectrum curve, and extrapolates residual life of the cable under the current service condition and a current EAB (elongation at break ) value according to curve information recorded in the system. The system can realize in-service inspection and life evaluation of the on-site in-service cable.

The invention discloses a sensor temperature correction method. The sensor temperature correction method comprises the steps that after an air conditioner stops operating or when the air conditioner is just powered up, temperature numerical values detected by temperature sensors of the air conditioner are obtained; the temperature sensors which detect the temperature values with first difference values being smaller than a preset threshold value serve as the normal temperature sensors, and a base temperature value is calculated according to the temperature values detected by the normal temperature sensors; and when second difference values between the temperature values detected by the abnormal temperature sensors and the base temperature value are larger than or equal to the first preset temperature value, the abnormal temperature sensors are corrected according to the second difference values. The invention further discloses a sensor temperature correction device and a computer-readable storage medium. Temperature correction of the temperature sensors in the air conditioner is achieved, the temperature measuring values of the temperature sensors keep normal, and thus the air conditioner error caused by the mistaken temperature measuring values is avoided.

A thermal plate of a heating unit is divided into a plurality of thermal plate regions, and a temperature can be set for each of the thermal plate regions. A temperature correction value for adjusting a temperature within the thermal plate can be set for each of the thermal plate regions of the thermal plate. The line widths within the substrate which has been subjected to a photolithography process are measured, and an in-plane tendency of the measured line widths is decomposed into a plurality of in-plane tendency components using a Zernike polynomial. From the calculated plurality of in-plane tendency components, in-plane tendency components improvable by changing the temperature correction values are extracted and added together to calculate an improvable in-plane tendency of the measured line widths within the substrate. The change of setting of the temperature correction value for each of the thermal plate regions of the thermal plate is performed only when the magnitude of the improvable in-plane tendency exceeds a threshold value set in advance.

A vehicle battery's open circuit voltage estimating method and a system therefor for relatively correctly estimating an open circuit voltage of a battery on a vehicle within a relatively short period after completion of the charge or the discharge also without a temperature correction is provided. A disconnected voltage measuring means 23a-1 measures a disconnected voltage of the battery multiple times in a definite period of time after a predetermined period of time after completion of charge or discharge of the battery. An approximate expression determining means 23a-2 determines a power approximate expression having a negative power number by using a difference value of the measured disconnected voltage and an assumed open circuit voltage. And, an arithmetic operation controlling means 23a-3 makes the approximate expression determining means update the assumed open circuit voltage and determine the power approximate expression repeatedly until the power number of the determined power approximate expression becomes -0.5 or about -0.5, and the assumed open circuit voltage is estimated to be the open circuit voltage when the power number becomes -0.5 or about -0.5.