973 results about "Testing position" patented technology

A method and apparatus for spectrophotometric in vivo monitoring of blood metabolites such as hemoglobin oxygen concentration at a plurality of different areas or regions on the same organ or test site on an ongoing basis, by applying a plurality of spectrophotometric sensors to a test subject at each of a corresponding plurality of testing sites and coupling each such sensor to a control and processing station, operating each of said sensors to spectrophotometrically irradiate a particular region within the test subject; detecting and receiving the light energy resulting from said spectrophotometric irradiation for each such region and conveying corresponding signals to said control and processing station, analyzing said conveyed signals to determine preselected blood metabolite data, and visually displaying the data so determined for each of a plurality of said areas or regions in a comparative manner.

A test strip platform for a testing apparatus of the type using test strips, wherein the platform has a shroud defining a strip track for positioning an inserted strip over an optical aperture for making analytical determinations. The platform has a hood permanently mounted to the shroud for overlying the optical window and protecting the testing apparatus optics. The strip track has stabilizing members for holding the strip in testing position. The hood provides camming members for guiding the leading edge of an inserted strip into cooperative engagement with the stabilizing members for ensuring proper insertion of the strip.

The invention discloses an automatic testing and sorting machine for an integrated circuit IC chip. The machine comprises a charging tray separating and inputting device, a material boat module device, a qualified product sorting and collecting module and an inferior-quality product sorting and collecting module, wherein the charging tray separating and inputting device can separate stacked material trays one by one; the material boat module device comprises a left material boat for holding chips to be tested and a right material boat for holding the tested chips, and the left material boat and the right material boat are controlled by a servo motor to swing left and right; the qualified product sorting and collecting module is used for holding the chips tested to be qualified in the right material boat; and the inferior-quality product sorting and collecting module is used for holding the chips tested to be unqualified. A tray full of chips to be tested and sorted is automatically input to the right position by the tray separating and inputting device, then, the chips are transferred to the boats by a charging gripper platform device one by one; and the chips to be tested in the left material boat are precisely absorbed and moved to a testing position to be tested by a testing gripper combined module device, then, are placed back to the right material boat to be further conveyed to a sorting position, and finally, are sorted and placed in a corresponding finished product tray or inferior-quality product tray by a discharging and sorting gripper platform device according to the test result, and conveyed out of the machine in order after fully filled in the tray.

Diagnostic products having multiple test strips within a unitary diagnostic test device, or test icon, are described herein. In the preferred embodiments of the diagnostic test device of this invention, a fluid sample distribution system is provided wherein a sample collection and distribution port is provided in the housing for receipt of a biologic fluid sample and the channeling of such sample onto a sample receiving web. The sample receiving web, which is located within the test device, is in fluid communication with an array of test strips, and is configured to deliver an aliquot of biologic fluid sample to the test site of each such test strip at essentially the same rate. In the preferred embodiments of this invention, the sample receiving web comprises at least one base segment and at least one branched segment. Each of the base and branched segments can be formed or cut from a common sheet of material or from separate sheet material and thereafter placed in contiguous relationship one another. The relative placement of the sample receiving web within the test device is coincident with a portion of each test strip and designed to effect the balanced distribution and delivery of an aliquot of the biologic fluid sample to the test site of each of the test strips within the test device.

A sensor dispensing instrument adapted to handle a sensor pack containing a plurality of sensors and to perform a test using one of the sensors. The sensor dispensing instrument includes an outer housing and a mechanical mechanism contained therein for rotating the sensor pack and ejecting one of the sensors from the sensor pack and through a sensor slot on the housing. The sensor dispensing instrument also includes a puller handle for operating the mechanical mechanism. The puller handle is adapted to be grasped between the thumb and finger of a user's hand, and is moveable between a testing position adjacent to the rear end of the outer housing and an extended position spaced outwardly from the rear end of the outer housing.

A system for evaluating a person's athletic ability has a server or a computer system, and several testing locations. The server or computer system includes a database, a central processing unit, and a memory. The database stores results of tests previously subjected to a set of athletes from different physical activities. Each testing location includes testing tools used for subjecting the person to the tests. The results of the tests of the person are temporarily stored in the memory. The central processing unit compares the individual's tests results stored in the memory with the results in the database, and identifies at least one specific physical activity more compatible with the person based on the comparison.

A method for forming a highly activated ultra shallow ion implanted semiconductive elements for use in sub-tenth micron MOSFET technology is described. A key feature of the method is the ability to activate the implanted impurity to a highly active state without permitting the dopant to diffuse further to deepen the junction. A selected single crystalline silicon active region is first amorphized by implanting a heavy ion such as silicon or germanium. A semiconductive impurity for example boron is then implanted and activated by pulsed laser annealing whereby the pulse fluence, frequency, and duration are chosen to maintain the amorphized region just below it's melting temperature. It is found that just below the melting temperature there is sufficient local ion mobility to secure the dopant into active positions within the silicon matrix to achieve a high degree of activation with essentially no change in concentration profile. The selection of the proper laser annealing parameters is optimized by observation of the reduction of sheet resistance and concentration profile as measured on a test site. Application of the method is applied to forming a MOS FET and a CMOS device. The additional processing steps required by the invention are applied simultaneously to both n-channel and p-channel devices of the CMOS device pair.

Wireless telephones retrieve feature restrictions from a wires telephone network, the feature restrictions having associated predetermined conditions. A wireless telephone applies the feature restrictions if the predetermined conditions are met to disable functions at the wireless telephone as defined by the feature restrictions. For example, a wireless telephone disables camera operations if the position of the wireless phone is in an academic testing location during an academic testing period.

A wafer-level testing arrangement for opto-electronic devices formed in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer structure utilizes a single opto-electronic testing element to perform both optical and electrical testing. Beam steering optics may be formed on the testing element and used to facilitate the coupling between optical probe signals and optical coupling elements (e.g., prism couplers, gratings) formed on the top surface of the SOI structure. The optical test signals are thereafter directed into optical waveguides formed in the top layer of the SOI structure. The opto-electronic testing element also comprises a plurality of electrical test pins that are positioned to contact a plurality of bondpad test sites on the opto-electronic device and perform electrical testing operations. The optical test signal results may be converted into electrical representations within the SOI structure and thus returned to the testing element as electrical signals.

A hand held instrument for evaluation of cutaneous sensory perception includes a body member, a rotatable head, and a testing element such as a monofilament projecting from the head member wherein the head member and the body are rotatably engaged for positioning the head member with its projecting testing element at a substantially right angle from the body and for alternatively positioning the head member with its projecting testing element in a non-testing position with the testing element extending in a protected position within an elongate channel of the body. The instrument further includes a guard member or sleeve in cooperative engagement with the body and head member to cover the elongate channel in a first non-testing position and to uncover the elongate channel in a second testing position. The guard member may be rotated, pivoted, flipped, or otherwise manipulated from the non-testing position to the testing position.

An apparatus for measuring a blood component using the trans-reflectance of light irradiated to a transflective member disposed behind a test site. The apparatus includes an optical source unit irradiating light to the test site of a test subject; a transflective unit transflecting light transmitted through the test site; a detection unit detecting the transflected light; and an analysis unit analyzing the transflected light detected in the detection unit. A related method includes irradiating the light to the test site; transflecting light through the test site, detecting the transflected light, and analyzing the detected light. Blood component measurement can be easily performed without collecting blood by analyzing the transflected light with a high optical power containing much information about a blood component.

Apparatus for assessing field distortion includes a probe and a processor. The probe includes a mechanical fixture for placement at a location to be tested, and one or more field generators, which are attached to the mechanical fixture and are arranged to generate respective magnetic fields. The probe further includes one or more field sensors, which are attached to the mechanical fixture at known positions with respect to the one or more field sensors and are arranged to sense the magnetic fields generated by the one or more field generators and to output signals responsively to the sensed magnetic fields. The processor is arranged to process the signals so as to assess a distortion of the magnetic fields sensed by the field sensors at the tested location.

A method of calibrating a force sensor that includes an input surface and an array of sensing elements. The input has a number of test locations and is deformable under applied force. The force sensor is mounted in a predetermined test orientation. For each test location of the plurality of test locations on the input surface of the force sensor a predetermined test force to the test location. An element calibration value is measured for each sensing element of the array of sensing elements of the force sensor. An (x, y) deformation map of the input surface of the force sensor corresponding to the application of the predetermined test force to the test location is determined based on the measured element calibration values.

A decentralized method and system for vehicle emissions testing uses the OBD unit of the vehicle to be tested and includes a remote data storage location in communication with a plurality of decentralized inspection stations or test locations. Each inspection location is designed to allow for “self-service” inspection through a kiosk that includes all of the hardware and software necessary to carry out the testing process and to communicate test data and information to the remote storage location.

Devices for the non-invasive collection of a liquid sample in small quantities, such as urine for testing hydration in infants and incontinent adults, directly at the source of that sample, isolation of the collected sample from a testing site, the transportation of that sample to a site for testing contained within the device itself, and the selective application of some or all of the specimen to a testing apparatus contained within the device itself, with a minimum of specimen handling required. Other aspects include a method and device for facilitating the reading of the result of the specimen test by a skilled or unskilled user, including means for determining that no adequate sample has been delivered to the testing site.

A method and system for testing a plurality of RFID devices disposed on a common carrier. In one embodiment, the RFID devices are evenly spaced along the length of the carrier, and the system comprises a short-range tester, a long-range tester and a computer, the short-range tester being coupled to the computer and having a short-range testing position, the long-range tester being coupled to the computer and having a long-range testing position, the long-range testing position being spaced downstream from the short-range testing position by a known number of device positions. In use, an RFID device of interest is first positioned at the short-range testing position, and the short-range tester reads a unique identifier for that RFID device and communicates the identifier to the computer. The carrier is then advanced so that subsequent RFID devices are read by the short-range tester. When the RFID device of interest has advanced to the long-range testing position, the long-range tester conducts a performance test and communicates any detected results to the computer. Because the distance between the two testing positions is known, the computer knows when the RFID device of interest is at the long-range testing position and uses the identifier to distinguish the results for that device from the results of any other devices.

A method and apparatus for keeping a probe accurately positioned relative to a device to be tested. The apparatus having a probe and movable probe station element for positioning the probe at a predetermined test position on the device to be tested. The probe station element being driven by a drive to position the probe at the test position, and having a controller connected thereto for substantially keeping the probe at the test position and inhibiting the probe shifting therefrom. In one form the controller is capable of determining the variance between the current probe position and the desired or predetermined test position, and actuating the drive after the variance has reached a predetermined value.

The invention discloses an automatic testing device of a circuit board. The automatic testing device comprises a testing platform, a feeding device installed on the testing platform and a detecting device, wherein the testing platform is provided with a reclaiming position, a testing position and a discharging position; the detecting device is arranged at the testing position and used for detecting the circuit board at the testing position, the feeding device comprises a driving device fixedly connected with the testing platform, a first grabbing part and a second grabbing part both which are moveably connected to the driving device, the first grabbing part is used for moving the circuit board from the reclaiming position to the testing position under driving of the driving device, and the second grabbing part is used for moving the circuit board from the testing position to the discharging position under driving of the driving device. According to the automatic testing device, the testing efficiency of the circuit board can be improved, and ensured in steadiness.

This invention provides an integrated circuit (IC) optical detector. The IC optical detector comprises a substrate and an IC. The substrate comprises a plurality of test sites defined thereon. The test sites comprise a surface suitably treated for coating of at least one test sample. The at least one test sample is capable of being changed by a reaction. The IC comprises at least one optical sensor array for simultaneously receiving and sensing optical signals from the test sites during operations Presence of at least one changed test sample at a test site changes the quantity of light directed through the test site. The change in quantity of light is detectable by the sensor array. The optical sensor array further converts the sensed optical signals to electrical signals. The IC automatically processes and outputs the electrical signals during operation. This invention further provides a method for detecting a specific sample within at least one test sample. The method comprises securing said test sample on a plurality of test sites defined on a substrate; processing said test sample to allow said test sample to be optically differentiated; directing a light at said test sample; simultaneously receiving and sensing optical signals from said test sample using at least one optical sensor array of an IC; converting said sensed optical signals to electrical signals by said optical sensor array; and automatically processing and outputting said electrical signals by said IC to detect said specific sample within said test sample.

The invention discloses a visual scanning and distance measuring method for coal quantity passing belt conveyer, which belongs to the technical field of online automatic detection of coal mine equipment. The method features the following steps: obtaining the outline drawing of a reference object through a line light source and a CCD camera; transmitting the data acquired by the camera to a position machine; determining the cross-sectional area of the materials passing the detection surface after image analysis; and conducting scanning and distance measuring to the coal quantity passing the belt obtained by time integral within a testing time. The method provided by the invention distinguishes itself from other measuring methods in China's coal industry by low cost and a simple structure. The adoption of line light source to project a contour of a testing position on a passing belt means that even under complex working conditions with dim light and enormous dust, the method can work free from interference to achieve high measuring accuracy and determine the flow of coals passing the belt more accurately.

An ink jet printer comprising an ink jet print head having at least one row of a plurality of ink ejecting ports for ejecting ink droplets along a plurality of ink droplet paths, the ink jet print head residing at a first elevation; a collimated light source and a detector each residing at a second elevation that is lower than the first elevation, the detector positioned opposite the collimated light source, the ink jet print head being movable to a test position where the at least one row of a plurality of ink ejecting ports can fire non-printing droplets, the collimated light source directing light at the detector along a light path that intersects the plurality of ink droplet paths when the print head resides in the test position; and an aperture located in between the collimated light source and detector and proximate to the detector to limit a field of view of the detector and increase an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the detector.

A decentralized method and system for vehicle emissions testing uses the OBD unit of the vehicle to be tested and includes a remote data storage location in communication with a plurality of decentralized inspection stations or test locations. Each inspection location is designed to allow for “self-service” inspection through a kiosk that includes all of the hardware and software necessary to carry out the testing process and to communicate test data and information to the remote storage location.

A method and system for probing with electrical test signals on an integrated circuit specimen using a high resolution microscope positioned for observing a surface of the specimen exposing electrically conductive terminals thereon. A housing is provided with a carrier therein for supporting the specimen in relation to the microscope and a probe assembly is positionable on the surface of the specimen for conveying and acquiring electrical test signals to and from the specimen. A drive system is provided for shifting at least one of the probe and the carrier to a predetermined test position. In one form the system has a heat shield for protecting one of the probe assembly and the carrier from heat energy generated upon operation of the drive system, and in another form, the system has an environmental control for maintaining a desired temperature within the housing so that accurate measurements may be taken from the specimen.

A switching device having a frame, in which an actuator adapted to rotate a main shaft of the switching device and rotatable around an axis of rotation, the actuator having a 0 position, an I position and a first dead point between the 0 position and the I position, the I position being located by a given angle (α6) in a first direction relative to the 0 position. The actuator also has a testing position, the testing position being located by a predetermined angle (β6) in a second direction relative to the 0 position, the second direction being opposite relative to the first direction.

A test apparatus for a waveguide that senses levels in a container. The test apparatus includes a bridge with a test position where the bridge bridges the waveguide to simulate a simulated level. The bridge also has a storage position. The test apparatus also has an actuator coupled to the bridge that moves the bridge between the test and storage positions.

The invention discloses an automatic calibration method and apparatus applied to three-dimensional ultra-sophisticated bench. The method is to set an automatic calibration model containing error message of grid glass sheets and calibrated bench through the medium of chromed grid glass sheets, and processes measured data of grid pip in different testing position to eliminate effects of position error of grid glass sheet grid pip. The invention also discloses an automatic calibration apparatus, comprising chromed grid glass sheets with grid pulser matrix, a positioning devise with optical components and XY plane position sensor, an image-gathering card and a computer storing related program.

A test apparatus for a waveguide that senses levels in a container. The test apparatus includes a bridge with a test position where the bridge bridges the waveguide to simulate a simulated level. The bridge also has a storage position. The test apparatus also has an actuator coupled to the bridge that moves the bridge between the test and storage positions.

A plurality of semiconductor devices is placed in pockets of a tray with terminal surfaces facing upward. Positions of bump terminals of the semiconductor devices are adjusted relative to the tray. The tray is successively moved such that the bump terminals of the semiconductor devices are successively placed at a testing position. The semiconductor devices are successively tested at the testing position by, for example, contacting test electrodes to the bump terminals.