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An adjustable alarm device for windows and doors is installed between the door or window frame and the door or window sash. The longitudinal axis of the alarm device is preferably horizontal. When engaged, movement of the door or window in an open direction will activate the alarm. The body of the alarm device is elongate, tubular and telescoping. The body comprises an outer tube that receives an inner tube. The body of the alarm device may be locked in an extended position by way of a cam mounted on the inner tube and positioned within the body so that when the inner and outer tubes of the body are twisted about their longitudinal axis, the cam body will engage the inner surface of the outer tube in a releasable frictional locking engagement. The alarm device is coupled to one end of the inner tube.

The electromagnetic actuator includes an electromagnetic coil configured to provide actuation force in accordance with a solenoid current to be supplied, to a clutch and configured to actuate the clutch to control relative rotation between first and second members. The electromagnetic actuator includes a detector configured to detect the clutch actuated to produce a detection signal. The electromagnetic actuator includes a controller configured to respond to the detection signal from the detector to control the solenoid current.

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture an image; a GPS (Global Positioning System) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power-supply control unit configured to control power supply to the GPS device; an apparatus control unit configured to monitor a state of photographing by a user to calculate a frequency of use of the imaging unit per unit time, and to cause the power-supply control unit to intermittently supply power to the GPS device when the calculated use frequency is lower than a predetermined threshold; and a data-recording control unit configured to generate photographed data attribute information in which positional information acquired in the GPS device is set as attribute information of an acquired image in the imaging unit, and to execute processing to store the photographed data attribute information in a storing unit.

A holster for a mobile electronic apparatus includes a base plate provided with at least one retaining element for accommodating the mobile electronic apparatus; a first foldable plate formed adjacent to the base plate for protecting the mobile electronic apparatus; an extended device mounted on the first foldable plate, the extended device including: a connector for connecting the extended device to the mobile electronic apparatus, and at least one auxiliary unit for providing at least one function to the mobile electronic apparatus via the connector; and a control device for enabling and disabling the auxiliary unit according to a folded status or an unfolded status of the first foldable plate relative to the base plate.

A fastener driving apparatus includes a power source, a control circuit, a motor, a first cylinder, a first piston, a linear motion converter, a second cylinder, a second piston, an anvil, a retention element retaining a component of the apparatus, and at least one sensor. During a compression stroke, the first piston compresses gas in a first cylinder to a predetermined pressure. Compressed gas is communicated to the second cylinder and the retention force of the retention element is overcome, to release the retained component of the apparatus, thereby causing the second piston to move linearly and enabling the anvil to drive the fastener into the workpiece. During a return stroke of the first piston, a vacuum created in the first cylinder is communicated to the second cylinder, causing the second piston and the anvil to retract to their initial positions.

The invention discloses a sleeping method, device and equipment of a station and a communication system. The method comprises the following steps: when in an awakening state, the STA (station) informs an AP (access point) of the facts that the STA enters an uplink data-free transmission stage, and sleeping time is requested to consult; the STA receives a response frame returned from the AP, wherein the sleeping time which is required by the STA and is determined by the AP is carried in the response frame; the sleeping time required by the STA satisfies the situation that no other STAs are simultaneously in the awakening state when the STA is awakened after the sleeping time; the STA sleeps according to the time carried in the response frame, and is awakened when the sleeping time ends; if the AP carries self-cache data, the awakened STA receives the data from the AP and requests the AP to consult the next sleeping time; and if the AP does not carry the self-cache data, the awakened STA requests to consult the next sleeping time from the AP. By the invention, the energy consumption of STA in the wireless network can be further lowered.

An electronic still camera includes a stand-by mode switch and is capable of setting a stand-by mode in which a power and/or driving pulse is supplied to a CCD so that the mode can immediately shift to an image pickup operation upon a release instruction by a release switch. In the camera, a plurality of sensors for detecting contact or approach of a hand to make an image pickup operation are provided dispersedly at different positions, respectively. If the stand-by mode is set by the stand-by mode switch and all the sensors detect contact or approach of the hand, each processing in an AE processing section, AF processing section, and AWB processing section is carried out as a preliminary operation for image pickup.

A projectile tracking system for acquiring and precisely tracking a projectile in flight in order to reveal the source from which the projectile was fired. The source is revealed by the back projection of a 3-dimensional track file. In preferred embodiments the system is installed on a vehicle, such as an un-manned blimp or other aircraft, road vehicle or ship, for locating and destroying small arms fire directed at the vehicle. A kill system may also be included on the vehicle to destroy the source of the projectile.

The invention relates to a method for reducing glucose consumption during cultivation of animal cells, which comprises cultivating animal cells in the presence of a bi- or tricarbonic acid or a salt thereof at a concentration of about 1 to 50 mmol/l.

A display apparatus and a method for adjusting brightness thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a panel unit which displays a video signal, a light emitting unit which provides the panel unit with a ray of light and causes the video signal to be visualized, a light emission control unit which controls the light emitting unit so that the ray of light is provided to each of local areas of the panel unit, and a panel control unit which compensates pixels of the video signal in each of local areas, to remove an artifact which is generated due to the ray of light provided to local areas of the panel unit. Because brightness of a screen is adjusted in each of local areas, contrast ratio is enhanced, and improved image quality is provided.

The invention mainly provides an unmanned plane capable of being automatically charged. The unmanned plane comprises a data transceiver module, a control module and a power supply, wherein the control module is used for controlling the unmanned plane to enter a standby mode and to automatically select a proper charging site to carry out landing and charging after analyzing a received control instruction into a standby instruction; and the control module is used for controlling the unmanned plane to convert into a task execution mode from the standby mode after analyzing the received control instruction into a wake-up instruction. In addition, the invention further provides an automatic charging system including the unmanned plane and an automatic charging method for the unmanned plane. By the unmanned plane, the charging system and the charging method, the standby interval of the unmanned plane can be fully utilized to carry out charging to supply energy; and a place for landing is provided for the standby state of the unmanned plane, so that the charging time of the unmanned plane is shortened; and energy consumption caused by a meaningless flight is avoided.

The invention provides an intelligent photovoltaic array washing car used for washing photovoltaic arrays of a large-scale ground photovoltaic power station. A washing head supporting and locating unit and a power unit are arranged on the head portion and the tail portion of a crawler base respectively, a water storage unit is arranged adjacent to the power unit, and a washing head unit is provided with range finder sensors used for measuring the distance between the washing head unit and solar cell panels; the washing head supporting and locating unit comprises a movable base capable of rotating and transversely moving and a working arm set provided with a main arm and an end arm, wherein the main arm and the end arm can pitch respectively; a water pump of a water supply unit is driven by a hydraulic motor; a computer is used as a control kernel of a main control module of an operation control unit; a pair of proportional directional valves of the hydraulic control unit controls two base crawler traveling motors, and other directional valves are electromagnetic directional valves controlled by the main control module. According to the intelligent photovoltaic array washing car, the position and the posture of the washing head unit relative to photovoltaic array panels and the position and the posture of a car body relative to the photovoltaic arrays can be automatically controlled, and the intelligent photovoltaic array washing car is intelligent, efficient, flexible in operation, high in adaptability, easy and convenient to operate, concise in structure and good in washing effect.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a star polycarboxylic acid high-performance water reducing agent. Polybasic alcohol and (methyl) acrylic acid used as main raw materials for esterification are esterified and polymerized to prepare the star polycarboxylic acid high-performance water reducing agent material: the (methyl) acrylic acid and polybasic alcohol used as reactants are esterified under the action of a catalyst to firstly prepare a star polymerizable active terminal, and free-radical polymerization reaction is carried out with unsaturated polyethenoxy ether, molecular weight regulator and unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer under the action of an initiator to prepare the star polycarboxylic acid high-performance water reducing agent. The invention is easy to control, and has the advantages of high polymerization degree, low cost and no pollution; the esterification reaction is carried out form an active core, and the free-radical polymerization is carried out to generate the chain arm, thereby implementing the polycarboxylic acid high-performance water reducing agent in a star molecular structure; and under the condition of common doping amount and low doping amount, the star polycarboxylic acid high-performance water reducing agent has better cement paste flowability and holding capacity than the traditional linear and comb polycarboxylic acid water reducing agents, and has favorable cement adaptability and concrete application performance.

The invention discloses a convolutional neural network-based photovoltaic glass defect classification method and a convolutional neural network-based photovoltaic glass defect classification device. The method comprises the following steps of carrying out multi-angle and variable-illumination image acquisition on a plurality of defect samples to obtain a plurality of images; preprocessing the images to fuse the multi-channel information and generate a multi-channel-fused defect sample image; adopting a convolution neural network model which meets a preset condition, extracting a network according to defect category design features and constructing a feature extraction convolutional neural network; obtaining the number of layers of all-connected neural networks and the number of neurons ofeach layer, and constructing a feature classification network; under the condition that the cross entropy loss function is minimized, completing the training of the convolutional neural network; according to an input sample image, outputting a prediction result of a defect category through the trained convolutional neural network. Based on the method, the situation that training sets are insufficient can be effectively solved while the generalization ability and the prediction precision of the model are guaranteed. Meanwhile, the high classification precision can be achieved for a small amountof glass defect samples.

The invention provides an aluminum electrolysis inert anode of which the material is a high-entropy alloy. The high-entropy alloy contains 5-10 alloy elements of which the mole ratio can be identical or different; and the atomic percent of each main element is 5-35%. The high-entropy alloy inert anode has the characteristics of favorable high-temperature oxidation resistance, high aluminum electrolysis salt corrosion resistance, high electric conductivity and the like. The high-entropy alloy prepared by the smelting method has the advantages of simple technique and low cost, and is easy for connection. When being used for aluminum electrolysis, the high-entropy alloy can avoid the consumption of the carbon anode and the emission of the CO2 gas, and has the advantages of energy saving and emission reduction.

The invention belongs to the technical field of environmental engineering wastewater treatment, and particularly relates to multi-component oxidized micro-electrolysis filler and a preparation method thereof. The multi-component oxidized micro-electrolysis filler is mainly prepared from the following components in percentage by mass: 50-60% of iron, 20-30% of activated carbon, 12-15% of adhesive and 3-5% of catalyst through mixing, wherein iron is iron scrap or iron powder with particle size not more than 80 mesh; and activated carbon is in a powder and has particle size not more than 100 mesh. The preparation method of the multi-component oxidized micro-electrolysis filler comprises uniformly mixing iron, activated carbon, the adhesive and the catalyst according to the ratio, adding water, stirring and aging, then carrying out extrusion molding to obtain molded filler, demolding to obtain a filler blank, after naturally drying, drying, sintering in the absence of air, and cooling thefiller blank to obtain the multi-component oxidized electrolysis filler. According to the invention, the hardening, dead pool, stoppage and other practical problems existing in the use of the traditional micro-electrolysis fillers are solved.

A on-vehicle database system includes: a memory for recording an on-vehicle database connected to an on-vehicle LAN network and to an ECU for registering data inputted from respective ECU as attribute value data all at once; and data output means for registering data in the on-vehicle database when the data is inputted via I/O means and outputting the data to the ECU at the timing when the data is required by the ECU, by using the attribute value data in the on-vehicle database.

The present invention is to drive a hydraulic pump and a generator motor by an engine, electrically charge a battery by a generator operation of the generator motor, and assist the engine through driving the generator motor by electric power of the battery. On the premise of the configuration above, when a deviation between a target rotation speed of the engine and an actual rotation speed of the engine is equal to or more than a preset value, and when a residual amount of fuel is equal to or less than a preset value, it is considered to be engine failure or an operation state which is directly connected to the engine failure and an engine assisting action is automatically stopped.

Information handling system power management in standby and hibernate states is adapted to reduce transition times for end user requests to resume to an operational state. During fast resume time periods, transitions to the hibernate state are limited so that recovery to an operational states has the reduced resume time associated with the standby state. The fast resume time periods are set by user preference or automatically set by monitoring end user interactions with the information handling system to predict fast resume times appropriate for the end user. In one embodiment, a power manager automatically transitions the information handling system from the hibernate state to a standby state a predetermined time period before a fast resume period begins.