122 results about "Very High Level" patented technology

A trusted computer system that offers Linux® compatibility and supports contemporary hardware speeds. It is designed to require no porting of common applications which run on Linux, to be easy to develop for, and to allow the use of a wide variety of modern development tools. The system is further designed to meet or exceed the Common Criteria EAL-5 or higher rating through incorporation of required security features, as well as a very high level of assurance for handling data at a wide range of sensitivity (e.g., classification) levels in a wide range of operational environments. This is achieved through the implementation of a well-layered operating system which has been designed from the ground up to enforce security, but which also supports Linux operating system functions and methods.

Improved extruders and methods for the extrusion cooking of comestible products such as human foods or animal feeds are provided wherein the products may be produced with very low specific mechanical energy (SME) inputs as compared with conventional processing. The methods preferably involve introduction of very high levels of steam into the extruder barrel (12) during processing, which concomitantly reduces necessary SME inputs required to achieve desired cook and expansion levels in the products. In accordance with the invention, fully-cooked pet foods can be fabricated with SME inputs of up to about 18 kWhr / T, whereas aquatic feeds can be fabricated with SME inputs of up to about 16 kWhr / T. In preferred forms, the extruder (10) includes specially configured, intermeshed extrusion screws (18, 20) and a plurality of obliquely oriented steam inlets (48, 50), and an upstream, dual-shaft preconditioner (90) is used having individual variable frequency drives (98, 100) which allow infinite variablility in the speed and rotational direction of the preconditioner shafts (94, 96).

A variable capacitor device using MEMS or micromachining techniques wherein thin-films of materials are deposited, patterned and etched to form movable micromechanical elements on the surface of a substrate composed of either semiconductor, glass, metal, or ceramic material. In one embodiment of the present invention to achieve higher frequency performance as well as other benefits, the substrate is comprised of Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics (LTCC). The variable capacitor is an electrostatically actuated micromechanical device and if fabricated on a LTCC multi-layered substrate material has continuous electrical connections through the layers. The same LTCC substrate material can also be used to enclose the device by selectively removing a portion of the upper substrate so as to form a cavity. The two substrates are then bonded together to enclose and protect the variable capacitor. An integrated circuit can be incorporation onto the multi-level substrate structure to enable a electronic closed-loop controlled variable capacitor module. The integrated circuit is flip-chip bonded at the bottom of the substrate structure with appropriate electrical connections between the integrated circuit and the MEMS variable capacitor device. A variation of the present invention utilizes a zipper actuation method wherein the tuning ratio of the variable capacitor is increased to very high levels. Yet another variation of the present invention utilizes a differential gap between the top and bottom electrodes such that the actuation electrodes do not physically contact one another. Yet another implementation of the present invention uses an extra set of electrodes or mechanical mechanism so as to lock the value of the capacitor indefinitely. Yet another implementation uses shaped actuation electrodes so as to linearize the relationship between the applied actuation voltage and the resultant capacitance of the device.

A lightweight carbon fiber air / gas supply vessel storing high pressure air / gas. The air / gas supply vessel output is controlled by an adjustable pressure reduction valve which varies output pressure from very high to low pressure levels. An alternative multi-valve system uses a first pressure reduction valve to reduce output pressure from the very high levels in the air / gas supply vessel to an intermediate pressure level, and a second pressure reduction valve that reduces the air / gas pressure from the intermediate level to a fine tunable low pressure level. In both embodiments, the output of the last pressure reduction valve used is connected to a high pressure cable which in turn uses a standard universal fitting which can be coupled to most pneumatically powered equipment. Additional high pressure reservoir vessels can be used to replenish the lightweight air / gas supply vessel when its supply of air / gas is depleted.

A compact high efficiency combined biological and physical unsaturated wastewater treatment filter configured for periodic backwashing is disclosed. The filter utilizes packed media and removes pollutants and pathogens from wastewater and other dirty water sources. The filter comprises a periodic backwashing means to less the chance that biofilm growth will clog the media pores. However, such backwashing still leaves sufficient biofilm attached to the media to maintain a very high level of treatment. In the preferred embodiment, the filter utilizes high frequency dosing to cause pore saturation at or near the surface during dosing and shortly thereafter in order to maximize distribution uniformity and to induce downward airflow into the media. The system provides a number of unexpected benefits; including allowing a very low distribution pressure and providing high oxygen transfer at low energy utilization into the filter media for aerobic biodegradation of pollutants.

A high-level functionality generates a Data Model which is used to automatically generate Applications comprising Application Clients, Application Servers, Client-Server Protocols, Dashboards and other components. These Applications are derived for different mobile and non-mobile's Operating Systems. This functionality uses Services, Service Representation, Application Flow, Rules, and Presentation Attributes. The input for the automation is a very high-level, “service” level “language,” from which all parts are automatically generated. The output of the automation also includes a way to validate the correctness of the generated Applications. The generated Dashboard provide a Business Entity with functionality to continuously update the generated Data Model based on the Services and Business Entity data, and from the updated Data Model automatically generate updated versions of the Application. The functionality may be a graphical representation, a set of forms, a set of policies, or a set of values associated to a set of pre-defined parameters.

The present invention is directed to both physical and chemical means for maintaining continuous high levels of chlorine dioxide in aqueous solutions for extended periods, with minimum loss through degradation in the solution and dissipation through the walls of the containing vessel within which the solution is stored. The ClO2 may be maintained even in the absence of very high levels of chlorite, from which supplemental, offsetting levels of ClO2 may be generated. The present invention relates to the discovery that certain types of plastic and glass containers have the ability to maintain relatively constant levels of ClO2 in their contained solutions over extended periods, particularly in aqueous compositions comprising chlorite / ClO2 ratios sufficient for a stabilizing complex of the two, presumably Cl204-, to suppress the ClO2 loss. Of particular value is certain high-density polyethylene terephthalate (PETE) plastic bottling and plastic containers which have been initially exposed to a fluorinating environment. Specifically, in the latter regard, it has been discovered that certain plastic containers which ordinarily are incapable of maintaining aqueous ClO2 levels can be treated with fluorine gas to transform their surfaces so as to effectively suppress ClO2 diffusion therethrough.

This invention deals with the general topic of adaptive non-imaging tracking of the sun. A transmission-mode electro-optical system is presented for solar energy tracking and collection. The scale of the system may range from small portable systems to large-scale industrial power plants used for the production of environmentally benign energy. It maybe integrated directly into buildings and other platforms without the need for heliostats to hold photovoltaic cells or other energy conversion devices above the building or other host platform. It makes solar energy harvesting systems practical by allowing the separation of tracking, collection, concentration, aggregation, distribution, and energy conversion. This novel system is unique and distinct from other sun tracking and energy conversion systems because it allows adaptive solid-state electronics to be used in place of conventional mechanical tracking heliostats. Furthermore, it is highly precise and therefore allows very high levels of concentration to be achieved in an dynamic environment. It is also cost effective because it leverages integrated opto-electronics instead of mechanical devices to perform sun tracking.

A level verification system for a radar level gauge utilizes a remotely positionable target. The target is positioned inside of a tank that is subject to level measurement, and stowed at a first position and selectively positionable to a second position to reflect emitted electromagnetic radiation in an amount indicative of a predetermined material level. The verification system can verify a high level alarm will be triggered when the material reaches a high level corresponding to the level of the target, by remotely positioning the target in front of the emitter of the radar gauge. The target reflects electromagnetic energy to the detector at approximately the same intensity that the material reaching the high level would reflect so as to provide an accurate verification.

The invention discloses a high-performance direct current amplification device for acquiring biological electric signals, which comprises an input protection / filter circuit, an input buffer circuit, an instrument amplifying circuit, an RC low-pass filter circuit, an analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit and a CPU connected in sequence, wherein the input protection / filter circuit acquires the biological electric signals and inputs the biological electric signals into the input buffer circuit, and then the biological electric signals pass through the instrument amplifying circuit, the RC low-pass filter circuit and the analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit in turn; and the CPU controls the analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit to work. The high-performance direct current amplification device performs impedance conversion on the biological electric signals first, then amplifies the signals, inhibits common-mode signals, and filters high-frequency noise, and a single-end transfer differential amplifier performs secondary amplification on the biological electric signals, so the indexes such as the noise, the common-mode rejection ratio and the like of the signals after analog-digital conversion reach a very high level; besides, a base line is very stable, the signal input dynamic range is large and is difficult to saturate, and simultaneously required devices are fewer, and the reliability of the high-performance direct current amplification device is improved.

A method is provided for an escrow cryptosystem that is overhead-free, does not require a cryptographic tamper-proof hardware implementation (i.e., can be done in software), is publicly verifiable, and cannot be used subliminally to enable a shadow public key system. A shadow public key system is an unescrowed public key system that is publicly displayed in a covert fashion. The keys generated by the method are auto-recoverable and auto-certifiable (abbrev. ARC). The ARC Cryptosystem is based on a key generation mechanism that outputs a public / private key pair, and a certificate of proof that the key was generated according to the algorithm. Each generated public / private key pair can be verified efficiently to be escrowed properly by anyone. The verification procedure does not use the private key. Hence, the general public has an efficient way of making sure that any given individual's private key is escrowed properly, and the trusted authorities will be able to access the private key if needed. Since the verification can be performed by anyone, there is no need for a special trusted entity, known in the art as a "trusted third party". Furthermore, the system is designed so that its internals can be made publicly scrutinizable (e.g., it can be distributed in source code form). This differs from many schemes which require that the escrowing device be tamper-proof hardware. The system has a novel feature that the system parameters can be generated very efficiently and at the same time provide a very high level of security. Another novel feature is a method for making the certificates of recoverability publishable. The system is applicable for law-enforcement, file systems, e-mail systems, certified e-mail systems, and any scenario in which public key cryptography can be employed and where private keys or information encrypted under public keys need to be recoverable.

This invention relates to a high-performance DC amplifying device for bioelectrical signal collection, including the sequentially linked input protective / filter circuit, input buffer circuit, instrumentation amplification circuit, RC low-pass filter circuit, analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit and CPU, as described as below: the input protective / filter circuit collects the bioelectrical signal and sends such signal to the input buffer circuit and then allows it pass through the instrumentation amplification circuit, RC low-pass filter circuit and analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit in order. For such device, CPU controls the operation of analog-digital conversion and peripheral circuit. This invention converts the impedance of bioelectrical signal firstly and then applies the common-mode signal rejection to the amplified signal, with the high-frequency noise filtered; such signal is treated for the secondary amplification by the single-ended-to-differential operational amplifier—the noise and common-mode rejection ratio and other indicators of such signal after analog-digital conversion reach a very high level and the baseline is very stable; the dynamic range of signal input is large and it is not saturated easily. With fewer parts needed, the reliability of such device is enhanced.

Improved extruders and methods for the extrusion cooking of comestible products such as human foods or animal feeds are provided wherein the products may be produced with very low specific mechanical energy (SME) inputs as compared with conventional processing. The methods preferably involve introduction of very high levels of steam into the extruder barrel (12) during processing, which concomitantly reduces necessary SME inputs required to achieve desired cook and expansion levels in the products. In accordance with the invention, fully-cooked pet foods can be fabricated with SME inputs of up to about 18 kWhr / T, whereas aquatic feeds can be fabricated with SME inputs of up to about 16 kWhr / T. In preferred forms, the extruder (10) includes specially configured, intermeshed extrusion screws (18, 20) and a plurality of obliquely oriented steam inlets (48, 50), and an upstream, dual-shaft preconditioner (90) is used having individual variable frequency drives (98, 100) which allow infinite variablility in the speed and rotational direction of the preconditioner shafts (94, 96).

Disclosed are noribogaine compositions comprising a very high level of the 2(R), 4(S), 5(S), 6(S) and 18(R) enantiomer and not more than 0.5 wt % of ibogaine relative to the total amount of noribogaine.

Provided are high voltage metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (HVMOSFET) having a Si / SiGe heterojunction structure and method of manufacturing the same. In this method, a substrate on which a Si layer, a relaxed SiGe epitaxial layer, a SiGe epitaxial layer, and a Si epitaxial layer are stacked or a substrate on which a Si layer having a well region, a SiGe epitaxial layer, and a Si epitaxial layer are stacked is formed. For the device having the heterojunction structure, the number of conduction carriers through a potential well and the mobility of the carriers increase to reduce an on resistance, thus increasing saturation current. Also, an intensity of vertical electric field decreases so that a breakdown voltage can be maintained at a very high level. Further, a reduction in vertical electric field due to the heterojunction structure leads to a gain in transconductance (Gm), with the results that a hot electron effect is inhibited and the reliability of the device is enhanced.

A portable interface device (1) of haptic human-computer type which can be fixed to a hand (2) of an operator (3), capable of engaging with the operator (3) transmitting on the operator's hand fingertips tactile sensations following the shape of a virtual surface (4), in particular obtained from a real surface (5). The tactile sensations are transmitted to a fingertip by the device (1) through a movable and orientable surface contacting the fingertip while remaining tangential to the virtual surface (4). The device (1), by touching the user's fingertip only at the points of contact with the virtual surface (4), does not provide to the user (3) any tactile sensations on the or on each fingertip when it moves in a free space, obtaining a very high level of transparency of the device. The workspace of the interface device (1) is very high, and can be also infinite, using suitable position tracking systems.

Novel food, dietary supplement and nutraceutical products containing phenol / protein complexes derived from vegetable sources have high antioxidant activity and very high levels of protein. The products provide novel means for administering high levels of plant antioxidants to human and mammals in the form of a protein concentrate. Due to their high antioxidant capacity these novel products are useful as aids in the prevention and treatment of many diseases.

The invention discloses a wind speed section prediction method and system based on an artificial neural network, and the method and system are used for the short-time wind speed prediction of a wind field. The method comprises the steps: decomposing an initial complex time sequence into a plurality of time sequences in a simple structure through VMD (variational mode decomposition); carrying out the feature selection through GSO (Gram-Schmidt orthogonal); taking a processed wind speed sequence as the input of the ANN (artificial neural network), wherein the output of the ANN is the upper and lower bounds of wind speed at a future moment; finally training the weight and bias of the ANN through an MOGSA (Multi objective gravitational search algorithm), taking two contradictory indexes (coverage rate and section width) as an optimization target, and obtaining an optimal scheme set. The wind speed section predicted through the method has a higher coverage rate for the actual wind speed section, and is small in section width. The above combined model enables the prediction accuracy to be improved to a very high level.

Nonlinear target detection for the detection of extremely weak signals when buried in very high levels of noise is performed with improvement of the quality of the signals received in the data by the amplification of the signal to noise (S / N) ratio. The S / N ratio increases dramatically after the originally measured signal is passed through a nonlinear stochastic resonance filter.

The invention discloses a thermoplastic low-smoke halogen-free high-flame-retardant material for an automobile wire and a preparation method of the material. The thermoplastic low-smoke halogen-free high-flame-retardant material comprises the following components in parts by weight: 80-90 parts of a polyolefin substrate, 10-20 parts of a compatilizer, 0.5-1.5 parts of an antioxidant, 150-170 parts of a flame retardant, 1-3 parts of a lubricant, 1-3 parts of a silane coupling agent and 0-6 parts of halogen-free master batch, wherein the total part by weight of the polyolefin substrate and the compatilizer is 100 parts. According to the material disclosed by the invention, good oil-resistant and wear-resistant effects can be achieved without irradiation and thus the cost is decreased and meanwhile, the flame-retardant grade can reach a very high level and the material is particularly excellent in mineral oil resistance, gasoline resistance and thermal-conducting oil resistance. The thermoplastic low-smoke halogen-free high-flame-retardant material is wear resistant, high temperature resistant, oil resistant, high flame retardant and is harmless and can be well applied in the automobile wire; meanwhile, the preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple in steps and is easy to operate.

A miniaturized pre-filled, single-use, disposable, small volume medication nebulizer unit for medicinal use that delivers a mist of properly sized aerosol particles of medicament to the patient with a very high level of efficiency. The nebulizer can be effectively used in conjunction with conventional tee and mouthpiece patient interface devices as well as with more sophisticated interface devices such as dosimetric / reservoir systems, or mechanical ventilator systems.

The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion of pigment(s) and / or filler(s) containing, as an additive, a saccharide composition containing at least 30% of hydrogentated monosaccharide(s) and / or disaccharide(s). The saccharide composition contains at least 75% of such saccharides, in particular sorbitol, mannitol and / or maltitol. The optimum introduction rate is somewhere between 1 and 3%, in dry weight in relation to the dry weight of pigment(s) and filler(s) of the dispersion. The dispersion according to the invention presents a Brookfield viscosity (20° C., 20 rpm) of between 100 and 4000 mPa.s and a viscosity instability index lower than 35%. The dispersion according to the invention can present a very high level of solid matter, for example from 72 to 80% and be used advantageously in numerous industries such as those connected with paper, paint and varnishes, inks, adhesives, detergents, textile materials and leathers, etc. The dispersion can contain various pigments or fillers such as clays (kaolins, smectites), calcium carbonates, talc, titanium dioxide, calcium or barium sulphates or sulfoaluminates.

Barley with reduced SSII activity has a starch structure with reduced amylopectin content and a consequent high relative amylose content. Additionally the grain can have a relatively high β glucan content. The structure of the starch may also be altered in a number of ways which can be characterised by having a low gelatinsation temperature but with reduced swelling. The viscosity of gelatinised starch of the starch is also reduced. There is a chain length distribution of the amylopectin content and a low crystallinity of the starch. The starch is also characterised by having high levels of lipid associated starch exhibiting very high levels of V form starch crystallinity. The dietary fibre content of the starch is high. This has desirable dietary and food processing characteristics.

A method and apparatus enhancing the security of an encrypted cryptographic key by storing its key re-transforming information in a decryption store that is separate from a cryptographic key store, which stores the encrypted cryptographic key, from which accessing circuitry is able to access the encrypted cryptographic key. The cryptographic key store may be a disk drive of a computer, the decryption store may be a network access card installed in that computer or a mobile terminal coupled to that computer, and the accessing circuitry may be the computer's controller. Decryption of the encrypted cryptographic key is carried out in the decryption store, as is the subsequent encryption or decryption using the decrypted cryptographic key. The accessing circuitry communicates with the decryption store exclusively via a predetermined interface, where the interface does not allow the accessing circuitry access to the cryptographic key and to at least a portion of the key re-transforming information from the decryption store. Thus, the encrypted cryptographic key can be stored relatively insecurely; while the security of the cryptographic key is maintained at a very high level because there is no native capability for the computer to randomly read information from the network access card or the mobile terminal.

The invention provides a voiceprint recognition method based on RNN. According to the voiceprint recognition method based on RNN, after MFCC features of denoised voice data and first-order and second-order differences are obtained, the advanced features of a speaker in the MFCC features are extracted by using a recurrent neural network, the extracted features are classified by using a softmax classifier, and finally, the speaker is recognized by using a naive bayes method. Different from mute elimination of a traditional method, the method provided by the invention has the advantages that a mute section in the voice data is reserved, the features related to the context can be extracted on the basis of the recurrent neural network, the advanced features of the voice, such as the speaking mode and the rhythm of the speaker can be extracted aiming at the voice data, so that the feature information is complete, and the speaker can be well represented. Compared with an existing voiceprint recognition method based on Gauss, the method provided by the invention has the advantages that the requirements for voice data are relatively low, the accuracy is higher, the accuracy is still kept ata very high level even when big data is aimed, and the running speed is not reduced.

A method of developing a software program for resource constrained mobile computing devices comprises the step of using a library of three mandatory types of code which enable a system to be modelled, the three types of code being: (a) a first re-useable object which defines the transmission of raw binary data between a writer end and a reader end; (b) a second re-useable object which defines ordered name / value pairs and (c) an abstract API definition that defines how to write, create, call or use a task which handles the first and / or second objects. This very high level abstraction has been found, surprisingly, to apply to virtually all systems which have been analysed by the applicant. Hence, the present invention allows a small (deliberately restricted), core library of “primitives” to be built once and re-used very many times as building blocks by different applications. Re-use of code defining high level abstractions considerably reduces overall code size (a major technical advantage for mobile computing devices) and speeds up developing new programs (major technical advantage in the rapidly moving world of program development for mobile computing devices).