55results about "Thermometer" patented technology

A semiconductor device is capable of generating a correct over-temperature detection signal for an output transistor even if a reverse current from a load to the output transistor occurs. A temperature sensing diode is formed on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the power transistor, and generates a forward voltage whose magnitude reflects the temperature of the output transistor. The over-temperature detection circuit detects an over-temperature state of the power transistor by comparing a magnitude of the forward voltage with a reference voltage, and asserts an over-temperature detection signal. The reverse current detection circuit detects the occurrence of a reverse current in the power transistor and asserts a reverse current detection signal during the occurrence. The semiconductor device performs processing such as masking an over-temperature detection signal using a reverse current detection signal.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a frost point hygrometer apparatus utilizing dry ice and ethanol, or liquid nitrogen, as cryogenic coolant. FPH apparatus in accordance with embodiments of the present invention includes a copper cold finger with a sink immersed in a liquid cryogen to provide cooling power throughout the profile, a polished mirror disk residing at the opposite end of the cold finger with ambient air passing over it, a nichrome heater wrapped around the narrow shaft of the continuous cold finger and mirror piece to provide heat to the mirror, an optical source and detector, including an infrared light-emitting diode and a photodiode, to monitor the mirror's reflectivity as condensate accumulates in the form of dew or frost, a biconvex lens to focus the light reflected from the mirror into the photodiode, and a calibrated thermistor embedded in the mirror to measure the frost point temperature.

An in-home relay device according to various embodiments disclosed in the present document may comprise: a housing; an antenna provided in the housing; an antenna alignment unit for changing the position of the antenna so as to change the radiation direction of the antenna; a processor operatively connected to the antenna and the antenna alignment unit; and a communication unit electrically connected to the processor and wirelessly connecting to external electronic devices, wherein the processor can control the antenna alignment unit on the basis of the quality of signals transmitted or received through the antenna so that a line of sight (LOS) between the antenna and a repeater is secured. Various other embodiments are possible.

A method of troubleshooting a water pumping system including a controller, a water pump, a heater and a temperature sensor is provided. The method includes the controller controlling heating up of the heater, the temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the heater, the controller controlling the water pump to pump water through the heater with a default water pumping power, the controller determining whether the temperature of the heater after the water pump has started operating for a pre-determined period is less than or equal to a pre-determined overheating temperature, and the controller controlling the water pump with the controller to pump water through the heater with an alternative water pumping power that is greater than the default water pumping power when the temperature of the heater after the water pump has started operating for the pre-determined period is greater than the pre-determined overheating temperature.

Circuitry for monitoring a characteristic of a battery cell integrated into a wearable device, the circuitry configured to: upon installation of the battery cell into the wearable device: obtaining a first signal from the battery cell; and upon activation of the wearable device after installation of the battery cell: obtain a second signal from the battery cell; and determine a characteristic of the battery cell based on the first signal and the second signal.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for determining a protection strategy for an energy storage system and a device related thereto. The method compares first target posture sensing data, first target tilt sensing data, and first target seismic sensing data respectively obtained in advance when the energy storage system is in an operation state with a preset posture sensing threshold, a preset tilt sensing threshold, and a preset seismic sensing threshold, respectively, to determine a first target protection strategy configured to protect the energy storage system based on a plurality of comparison results.

The application provides an over-temperature early warning method and device of an excitation system, relates to the technical field of over-temperature alarm of a generator excitation system, and obtains real-time parameters corresponding to excitation equipment and a protection switch cabinet through sensors arranged on the excitation equipment and the protection switch cabinet in the excitation system, wherein the real-time parameters include real-time temperatures of the excitation equipment and the protection switch cabinet; infrared imaging data of the protection switch cabinet is obtained, and a target infrared temperature corresponding to the protection switch cabinet is obtained according to the infrared imaging data; the predicted temperatures of the protection switch cabinet at subsequent multiple time points are obtained based on the real-time parameters; and over-temperature alarm instructions are sent in response to at least one of the real-time temperatures, the target infrared temperature and the predicted temperatures being greater than corresponding temperature thresholds. In the application, the three-level alarm systems are redundant to each other, temperature real-time safety guarantee and over-temperature early warning functions are provided for the excitation system, excitation over-temperature faults are solved in the bud, and the safety and reliability of the excitation system are improved.

A system can have an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) detection and ranging (DAR) device, such as a LIDAR device. A shock mount can couple the EMR DAR device to a vehicle. The shock mount can isolate the EMR DAR device from impulse shocks experienced by the vehicle. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) can be coupled to the EMR DAR device or a first portion of the shock mount. The IMU can measure movement of the EMR DAR device. Alternatively or additionally, the EMR DAR can detect locations of a reference feature of the vehicle at different times and can use the detected locations to determine movement of the EMR DAR relative to the vehicle. Data of the EMR DAR device indicative of detected features can be adjusted based at least in part on the movement measured by the IMU.

Embodiments of this application provide a method for adjusting interface balance and an electronic device, to resolve a conventional-technology problem that when the electronic device is cooled down, freezing or even disconnection may occur on an interface of the electronic device. The method includes: In response to an operation of enabling a first data service by a user, the electronic device detects a current network. If the current network is a first network, the electronic device obtains a first service latency of running the first data service in the first network by the electronic device, and continuously monitors a first temperature of the electronic device. When the first temperature is greater than a first preset temperature, the electronic device triggers handover from the first network to a second network, and obtains a second service latency of running the first data service in the second network by the electronic device, where network performance of the first network is higher than network performance of the second network. The electronic device determines a network handover policy based on the first service latency and the second service latency.

Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a communication interface; a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor, wherein, if collectively or individually executed by the at least one processor, the instructions cause the electronic apparatus to identify at least one of a plurality of data received from a dryer, including information about a drying operation time of the dryer, information about an outlet temperature of a compressor included in the dryer, information about a weight of laundry to be dried or information about an internal temperature of a drum, and obtain information about an error state of the dryer based on the identified information.

A battery profile generating apparatus includes: a charging / discharging unit configured to charge and discharge a battery; a measurement unit configured to measure battery information that includes at least one of the voltage, current, and temperature of the battery during the charging / discharging process; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: determine a target temperature and a target C-rate corresponding to charging / discharging conditions based on a preset reference profile that represents the correspondence between a threshold temperature and a threshold C-rate; control the charging / discharging unit to charge or discharge the battery at the target C-rate when the battery temperature corresponds to the target temperature; and generate a battery profile corresponding to the battery based on the battery information.

An automatic test equipment (ATE) system having active thermal management. The ATE system includes a probe card having a first side and a second side, a substrate mounted to the second side of the probe card, a device mounted to the substrate, probe needles mounted the substrate, and an active thermal management system, including: a thermal management component passing through the probe card and thermally coupled to the device, and an active cooling system thermally coupled to the thermal management component at the first side of the probe card.

A medical device is configured to monitor, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device, and to determine when a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient. Responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device is automatically switched from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient to a second mode, the second mode using different parameters than the first mode to control the medical device.

Provided is an injection-molded product quality analysis and monitoring system for injection-molded product quality management, the system having magnetic sensors attachably provided on a movable-side part and a fixed-side part so as to count the number of times molds have opened for injection molding, and managing the quality of products during molding-manufacturing by fixedly providing a temperature sensor at the mold so as to measure the temperature of the mold in real time, and thus measure whether the temperature is maintained within a set range, and fixedly providing an acceleration sensor or a vibration sensor at the mold so as to measure and analyze the amplitude of vibration signals, generated because of the pressure of resin injected into the mold, and the generation intervals of the vibration signals.

A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation detector configured to convert incident radiation into an electric signal regarding a radiation image, at least one power reception unit configured to receive power from outside, and a housing containing the radiation detector and the power reception unit, the housing includes a thick portion and a thin portion integrated together in an internal space, and a panel portion of the radiation detector and the power reception unit are placed in the thin portion.

A tracking system (200, 302) for an adaptive eyeglass (202) comprises a left eye-tracker (204a, 304a), a right eye-tracker (204b, 304b), left auxiliary sensor(s) (206a, 306a-c), right auxiliary sensor(s) (206b, 306d-f), a processor (208, 308), a left communication bus (210a, 310a) communicably coupling the processor to the left auxiliary sensor(s), and a right communication bus (210b, 310b) communicably coupling the processor to the right auxiliary sensor(s). Communication between the left auxiliary sensor(s) and the left communication bus is temporarily disabled, whilst sampling left eye-tracking data using the left eye-tracker. Communication between the right auxiliary sensor(s) and the right communication bus is temporarily disabled, whilst sampling right eye-tracking data using the right eye-tracker.

A MEMS relay having integrated state monitoring and a method for operating a MEMS relay.

Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for configuration of optical sensor devices in vehicles based on thermal data. To manage the temperature of an optical sensor device, temperature data describing the current temperature of the optical sensor is used to determine whether the current temperature meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature. If the current temperature meets or exceeds the threshold temperature, the optical sensor device may be configured into a modified operating mode to reduce the current temperature of the optical sensor device. For example, the operating mode of the optical sensor device may be modified to terminate one or more processes, reduce a frame rate at which image / video data is captured, and the like.

User equipment (UE) may be configured to determine a predictive shutdown point associated with a battery of the UE. The predictive shutdown point may indicate a predicted percent of the total amount of charge of the battery at which the UE may initiate a sleep mode and / or a shutdown operation. The UE may determine the predictive shutdown point based on an ambient temperature associated with a predicted location of the UE. The UE may receive a predicted location of the UE, determine the ambient temperature is lower than a threshold temperature, and determine the predicted shutdown point based on the ambient temperature. Furthermore, the UE may be configured to display the predictive shutdown point relative to a current state of charge associated with the battery of the UE to notify a user of potential initiation of a sleep mode and / or a shutdown operation associated with the UE.

The present disclosure relates to an overheating diagnosis method, an overheating diagnosis apparatus, and a battery system providing the same. The overheating diagnosis apparatus includes: a measuring unit configured to measure a temperature of an object; a storage unit configured to store a temperature value measured by the measuring unit; and a control unit configured to extract, at each diagnosis point at which overheating of the object is diagnosed, a plurality of previous diagnosis points corresponding to a predetermined number of samples based on a diagnosis point, calculate a moving average value which is an average of a plurality of temperature values corresponding to each of the plurality of previous diagnosis points, and calculate an standard deviation average value which is an average of a plurality of standard deviations corresponding to each of the plurality of previous diagnosis points, wherein when an error value calculated by multiplying the standard deviation average value by a predetermined multiple is greater than or equal to a predetermined error reference value, the control unit is further configured to: calculate an overheating reference value by adding the error value to the moving average value, and diagnose an occurrence of an overheating event for the object by comparing the temperature value measured at each diagnosis point with the overheating reference value calculated at each diagnosis point.

User equipment (UE) may be configured to determine a predictive shutdown point associated with a battery of the UE. The predictive shutdown point may indicate a predicted percent of the total amount of charge of the battery at which the UE may initiate a sleep mode and / or a shutdown operation. The UE may determine the predictive shutdown point based on an ambient temperature associated with a predicted location of the UE. The UE may receive a predicted location of the UE, determine the ambient temperature is lower than a threshold temperature, and determine the predicted shutdown point based on the ambient temperature. Furthermore, the UE may be configured to display the predictive shutdown point relative to a current state of charge associated with the battery of the UE to notify a user of potential initiation of a sleep mode and / or a shutdown operation associated with the UE.

A medical device is configured to use one or more sensors to monitor environmental conditions in the physical environment near the medical device; determine when a value representing the environmental conditions exceeds a safe operating threshold for the medical device in terms of patient care. In response to the value exceeding the threshold, the operating mode of the medical device is automatically switched from a first mode currently programmed for patient care to a second mode, which uses different parameters to control the medical device than the first mode.

Multi-technology gas detection device with automatic calibration, drift compensation, cross validation, adaptive sensing, and cross sensitivity mitigation. A detector integrates at least two different sensing technologies aimed at the same target gas or gases. A control unit compares outputs to (i) automatically adjust baseline or calibration parameters of a traditional component using a calibration stable component, (ii) compensate slow baseline and / or sensitivity changes in real time or periodically using one or more other components, (iii) validate detections via agreement criteria across technologies, (iv) select / switch / weight components based on environmental conditions, and (v) reduce false positives by differential analysis of components with different cross sensitivities. Embodiments cover methane and carbon monoxide detection; independent operation with failover; environment sensors; and packaging on one or more PCBs within one or more enclosures. The device is parameterizable for use in systems subject to a designated safety standard while remaining vendor and recognition status agnostic.

An electronic device and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of at least a part of the electronic device, a display, a communication circuit supporting first cellular communication and / or second cellular communication, an application processor, and a communication processor, wherein the application processor is configured to identify whether a deactivated state of the display is maintained for a designated time or longer while being connected via the first cellular communication, in response to the deactivated state maintained for the designated time or longer, identify whether each of the temperature measured by the temperature sensor and a throughput of data transmission via the first cellular communication satisfies a designated condition, and in response to the temperature and the throughput each satisfying the designated condition, control the communication processor to perform one or more operations for performing releasing of the first cellular communication.

A snowmobile including a first warmer configured to generate heat in response to electrical current driven therethrough, and a second warmer configured to generate heat in response to electrical current driven therethrough. A control module is configured to accept a first temperature input from an operator of the snowmobile indicating a desired first temperature of the first warmer, and direct sufficient electrical current to the first warmer to generate heat equal to the first temperature input. The control module is further configured to accept a second temperature input from the operator of the snowmobile indicating a desired second temperature of the second warmer, and direct sufficient electrical current to the second warmer to generate heat equal to the second temperature input.

An incineration toilet includes a pouch bowl for holding a waste pouch, and an incineration chamber with an incineration chamber hatch arranged below the pouch bowl for receiving the waste pouch for incineration. The incineration chamber hatch is openable by an electric motor. The pouch bowl includes an openable bowl flap synchronized with the openable incineration chamber hatch such that when the electric motor opens the incineration chamber hatch, the bowl flap opens simultaneously such that the waste pouch can fall into the incineration chamber. The incineration toilet further includes a lid for covering a top opening of the pouch bowl. The lid is operable between an open position in which the top opening of the pouch bowl is open and can receive waste, and a closed position in which the top opening is closed and cannot receive waste. The incineration toilet further includes a security system including a security control system, and one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are arranged for reading the position of the lid and for measuring the temperature in the incineration chamber. The security control system controls the electric motor such that the incineration chamber hatch is prevented from being opened when the temperature in the incineration chamber is above a threshold value and the lid is in the open position.

The invention relates to a MEMS relay with integrated condition monitoring and to a method for operating a MEMS relay. The invention further relates to a method for monitoring the wear of a MEMS relay, to a method for monitoring the electrical load of a MEMS relay and to a method for monitoring the thermal load of a MEMS relay.

The application discloses a shallow seawater temperature space-time prediction method, which is realized through the following steps: 1, collecting shallow seawater temperature environment data; 2, establishing a seawater surface temperature time sequence model; 3, establishing a shallow seawater temperature vertical structure model; 4, establishing a shallow seawater temperature vertical structure time-varying model; and 5, establishing a shallow seawater temperature space-time prediction model. Through the above steps, the time dynamic of the shallow seawater temperature is mapped to the parameters of the time-varying function for time scale prediction, and the effect of the shallow seawater temperature space-time prediction is further realized through the Kriging interpolation method. The practical problem that the existing method cannot accurately describe the time dynamic and regional difference of the shallow ocean temperature is solved, and the function of the space-time description of the large-range synchronous ocean temperature data is realized.

A semiconductor device capable of generating a correct over-temperature detection signal for an output transistor even when a revers current from the load to the output transistor occurs. A temperature sensing diode is formed on a semiconductor substrate adjacent to the power transistor, generating a forward voltage with a magnitude reflecting a temperature of the output transistor. An over-temperature detection circuit detects over-temperature of the power transistor by comparing a magnitude of the forward voltage with a reference voltage and asserts an over-temperature detection signal. A reverse current detection circuit detects an occurrence of the reverse current in the power transistor and asserts a reverse current detection signal during occurrence period. The semiconductor device uses the reverse current detection signal to perform processes such as masking the over-temperature detection signal.

A measuring arrangement for gas monitoring for an energy storage of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one battery cell. The measuring arrangement has a gas sensor unit which includes at least one first sensor. The gas sensor unit is designed to detect a gas leak from the at least one battery cell. In particular, the measuring arrangement is designed in such a way that at least in a first operating state of the gas sensor unit, at least the first sensor can be woken up from an inactive idle state for carrying out at least one measurement and can be put back into the inactive idle state after the at least one measurement has been carried out.