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Hearing systems for both hearing impaired and normal hearing subjects comprise an input transducer and a separate output transducer. The input transducer will include a light source for generating a light signal in response to either ambient sound or an external electronic sound signal. The output transducer will comprise a light-responsive transducer component which is adapted to receive light from the input transducer. The output transducer component will vibrate in response to the light input and produce vibrations in a component of a subject's hearing transduction pathway, such as the tympanic membrane, a bone in the ossicular chain, or directly on the cochlea, in order to produce neural signals representative of the original sound.

A semiconductor device may comprise a plurality of memory cells. A memory cell may comprise a thyristor, at least a portion of which is formed in a pillar of semiconductor material. The pillar may comprise sidewalls defining a cylindrical circumference of a first diameter. In a particular embodiment, the pillars associated with the plurality of memory cells may define rows and columns of an array. In a further embodiment, a pillar may be spaced by a first distance of magnitude up to the first diameter relative to a neighboring pillar within its row. In an additional further embodiment, the pillar may be spaced by a second distance of a magnitude up to twice the first diameter, relative to a neighboring pillar within its column.

Hearing systems for both hearing impaired and normal hearing subjects comprise an input transducer and a separate output transducer. The input transducer will include a light source for generating a light signal in response to either ambient sound or an external electronic sound signal. The output transducer will comprise a light-responsive transducer component which is adapted to receive light from the input transducer. The output transducer component will vibrate in response to the light input and produce vibrations in a component of a subject's hearing transduction pathway, such as the tympanic membrane, a bone in the ossicular chain, or directly on the cochlea, in order to produce neural signals representative of the original sound.

An external jet nozzle mixer (20) includes identically formed lobes (48), equal in number those of the internal mixer (42). External mixer (20) works with internal mixer (42), further to mix the engine internal bypass flow with the internal jet engine core flow, to level the disparate exhaust flow velocities, to reduce the peak velocities from the jet engine core and increase the lower bypass velocities of the engine internal bypass flow, and thereby to reduce noise. The internal lobe contours act as lifting flutes, causing mixing of the primary hot and cold flows before exiting the nozzle. The external lobe contours act as venturi chutes, accelerating the cooler ambient air secondary flow. The lobes thus act collectively as an injector to force the cooler ambient secondary flow into the previously mixed primary flow as it exits the nozzle. Also obtained is an increased thrust efficiency and a consequently decreased fuel consumption and engine emissions.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for an electron beam directed energy device. The device consists of an electron gun with one or more electron beams. The device includes one or more accelerating plates with holes aligned for beam passage. The plates may be flat or preferably shaped to direct each electron beam to exit the electron gun at a predetermined orientation. In one preferred application, the device is located in outer space with individual beams that are directed to focus at a distant target to be used to impact and destroy missiles. The aimings of the separate beams are designed to overcome Coulomb repulsion. A method is also presented for directing the beams to a target considering the variable terrestrial magnetic field. In another preferred application, the electron beam is directed into the ground to produce a subsurface x-ray source to locate and / or destroy buried or otherwise hidden objects including explosive devices.

Positions of a plurality of objects in a space are detected. A position of reflected light of an object passing through an infrared screen is specified by analyzing an image obtained by selectively imaging the infrared rays. When the infrared screen is formed in front the display, reflected light is only caused just in front of the display. When the infrared rays are selectively imaged, a picture displayed with visible light is separated from reflected light in the infrared region, and only the reflected light can be imaged. A position of the reflected light on the display can be specified by a publicly known image analysis technique.

The present invention relates to a shredder having a thickness triggering device. During the shredding operation, the trembling of the article is minimized or eliminated by using the shredder. The shredder includes a sustaining mechanism and a driving assembly. Since the sustaining mechanism is sustained against the shredding article, the amplitude of the trembling article is largely reduced. As a consequence, the influence of the shredding article on the thickness triggering device is reduced so as to prevent interruption of the shredder.

A wave power assembly comprising a hull and a linear electric generator. The rotor is connected to the hull and the stator is arranged to be anchored at a sea / lake bottom. The generator is provided with an electromagnetic damping means in order to keep the pulsations of the axial force exerted by the stator on the rotor at a relatively low level, which damping means comprises geometric arrangement adapted herefor of at least some one of the stator winding, the stator slots and the rotor magnets. The invention also relates to a wave power plant built up from wave power assemblies according to the invention. Furthermore, the invention relates to a use of the wave power assembly and a method for generation of electric energy.

A second stage external jet nozzle mixer (20) includes identically formed lobes which equal in number the lobes of the first stage internal mixer. The external mixer works with the internal mixer, and furthers the mixing of the jet engine internal bypass flow with the internal jet engine core flow. This mixing levels the disparate flow velocities attendant with the jet engine exhaust, reduces the peak velocities from the jet engine core and increases the lower bypass velocities of the jet engine internal bypass flow. The lobes include complex curvatures that greatly enhance mixing of the gases and ambient cooling air, and thereby reduce noise. At the lobe terminus, the lobe dimensional characteristics may be adjusted to thereby adjust the total terminus area to achieve a match to a jet engine to cause that jet engine to run at a determined RPM and noise level. Noise attenuation may also be adjusted by changing lobe dimensions. Prior existing second stage exhaust jet nozzle mixers may be retrofitted to allow alteration of their total terminus area by employing the disclosed device and method.

Substrates, methods for making the substrates and methods for using the substrates for mass spectrometry analysis are provided. Methods include coating a conductive substrate having a hydrophilic surface (suitable for mass spectrometric analysis) with an uncharged hydrophobic surface, masking a subset of regions on the hydrophobic surface with an insulator, and applying an oxidizing force to the unmasked regions of the hydrophobic surface to render the unmasked regions hydrophilic.

A second stage external jet nozzle mixer (20) includes identically formed lobes which equal in number the lobes of the first stage internal mixer. The external mixer works with the internal mixer, and furthers the mixing of the jet engine internal bypass flow with the internal jet engine core flow. This mixing levels the disparate flow velocities attendant with the jet engine exhaust, reduces the peak velocities from the jet engine core and increases the lower bypass velocities of the jet engine internal bypass flow. The lobes include complex curvatures that greatly enhance mixing of the gases and ambient cooling air, and thereby reduce noise. At the lobe terminus, the lobe dimensional characteristics may be adjusted to thereby adjust the total terminus area to achieve a match to a jet engine to cause that jet engine to run at a determined RPM and noise level. Noise attenuation may also be adjusted by changing lobe dimensions. Prior existing second stage exhaust jet nozzle mixers may be retrofitted to allow alteration of their total terminus area by employing the disclosed device and method.

A lighting system that includes luminaires (1,2,3,4,5) installed at individual locations (R1-5) in premises, is commissioned by placing auxiliary commissioning devices (6) in the premises at spaced apart locations and forming them into a wireless local network. The auxiliary commissioning devices each include a sensor (13) to detect light from the luminaires, establishing the locations of the auxiliary commissioning devices in relation to the premises, for example by using ranging on the basis of signal strengths of the devices (6) in the local network, and detecting light emitted from the luminaires individually with the sensors (13) of the auxiliary commissioning devices such as to associate the luminaires with individual ones of the commissioning devices.

A rotatable media storage device operates using multiple disk spin-speeds, e.g., a reduced spin-speed and a nominal spin-speed. A disk is spun up to a reduced spin-speed and an initial data transfer is began while the disk spins at the reduced spin-speed, if an amount of work that has been requested is below a threshold. The disk is spun up to a further spin-speed (e.g., a nominal spin-speed), which is greater than the reduced spin-speed, and the initial data transfer is began while the disk spins at the further spin-speed, if the amount of work that has been requested is above the threshold. Alternative embodiments using multiple disk spin-speeds are also provided.

A method for printing corrugated cardboard sheets is effected by transferring the corrugated cardboard sheets while jetting ink droplets from ink jet nozzles onto the corrugated cardboard sheets to form dots thereon. Said method comprises the steps of transferring the corrugated cardboard sheets one by one while at the same time sucking one flat surface of each of the corrugated cardboard sheets, and adjusting the relationship among the velocity at which the corrugated cardboard sheets are transferred, the suction force of the corrugated cardboard sheets, and the distance between the ink jet nozzle and the other corrugated surface of each of the corrugated cardboard sheets in accordance with the configuration of the said other corrugated surface and the desired DPI of dots to be formed on the said other corrugated surface. As a result, the ink droplets are jetted toward the said other corrugated surface to be printed thereon.

The invention is related to a permanent magnet rotor having a shaft, a hollow cylindrical permanent magnet and an elastic connecting medium between the shaft and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is arranged co-axially around the shaft. The task of the invention is to ensure that the permanent magnet is mounted securely, that it is not damaged during large temperature fluctuations, and that it is not deflected impermissibly from the axis of rotation in case of heavy radial load. A simple and cost-effective installation process is used in which a safe mechanical connection between the shaft and the permanent magnet is guaranteed through the entire life. According to the invention, this task is performed by virtue of the fact that an elastic connecting medium is arranged along the periphery of the shaft at several first areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is enlarged. These first areas are separated from the second areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is minimized but not zero.

A recentering device for a rotor shaft for recentering a rotor shaft relative to an axis X of a stator structure in the event of decoupling caused by excessive imbalance. The shaft, in normal operating conditions, lies on the axis X and is radially supported by a bearing support disposed in a bore of the axis X in the stator structure. The bearing support has an outside diameter smaller than the diameter of the bore, to enable the bearing support to orbit about the axis X in the event of decoupling. The bearing support is connected to the stator structure by radially fusible elements. The recentering device recenters the bearing support after decoupling.

Microelectronic packages include a first microelectronic substrate having a first face and a first AC-coupled interconnect element on the first face. A second microelectronic substrate includes a second face and a second AC-coupled interconnect element on the second face. A buried solder bump extends between the first and second faces, and is at least partially buried beneath the first and / or second faces, to maintain the first and second AC-coupled interconnect elements in closely spaced apart relation. The buried solder bump also may couple DC power between the first and second substrates. Other technologies also may be used to maintain the AC-coupled interconnect elements in closely spaced apart relation and to couple DC power between the substrates. The first and second AC-coupled interconnect elements may be first and second capacitor plates, first and second inductors and / or first and second combined inductive and capacitive elements.

A prechamber assembly includes a cylinder head including a coolant cavity, a prechamber body located within the cylinder head, the prechamber body including a nozzle, and an annular sleeve radially surrounding a portion of the prechamber body. The sleeve includes a plurality of coolant inlet holes. A portion of the prechamber body is radially spaced from the sleeve to form a coolant sleeve annulus extending along a length of the prechamber body above the coolant inlet holes. The coolant cavity and the coolant sleeve annulus are in fluid communication through the plurality of coolant inlet holes.

A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding portion binding a plurality of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking portion as a bundle by deforming the sheets without a staple. The sheet processing apparatus further includes a moving member moving the sheet bundle bound at a binding position by the binding portion from the binding position and a restricting member restricting the move of the sheet bundle such that a distance between the sheet bundle and the moving member is kept to be less than a predetermined distance in moving the sheet bundle by the moving member.

Templates used for a facial recognition process for authentication of a user to use a device may be updated by the device as features of the user change over time. Features of the user may gradually change over time due to changes such as facial hair changes, haircuts, gaining / losing weight, and / or aging. Updating the templates used for the facial recognition process may allow the user to continue being authenticated as features of the user change without the need for additional enrollments of the user.

The present invention relates to a shredder having a thickness triggering device. During the shredding operation, the trembling of the article is minimized or eliminated by using the shredder. The shredder includes a sustaining mechanism and a driving assembly. Since the sustaining mechanism is sustained against the shredding article, the amplitude of the trembling article is largely reduced. As a consequence, the influence of the shredding article on the thickness triggering device is reduced so as to prevent interruption of the shredder.

An electromagnetic moving system comprises a stator, a moving body and a controller. The stator comprises a circuit board with two layers of electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way and made as spirals with center and peripheral points. The spirals of one layer are shifted in respect to the spirals of the adjacent layer along the line connecting the center points thus the center points of the spirals of one layer in transparent view are located between two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. Each of the spirals of one layer in transparent view at least partially overlaps two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. The moving body is comprised of one permanent magnet such as to cause interaction with the stator when it is powered, thus creating a force tending to propel the moving body along the line connecting said center points.

A method for maintaining, in a controlled manner, a top canopy / coal-face distance expedient for rock mechanics, in longwall mining operations in underground coal mining, using a face conveyor, at least one extraction machine, and a hydraulic shield support frame. Inclination sensors are disposed on at least three of the four main components of the shield support frame, including floor skid, gob shield, support connection rods and gob-side area of the top canopy. An inclination of the top canopy and floor skid are ascertained via the sensors. From the ascertained inclination data, in a computer, the effects on a top canopy / coal face distance are determined when changes in an angle of inclination of the top canopy occur. An automatic adjustment of decisive cycle parameters of the shield support frame are carried out, wherein the work cycle comprises retraction, advancement and setting processes.

One or more aspects of the present invention relate to a linear shaped charge comprising an explosive element, a liner, a face for application to a target object and a space between the liner and the face, the liner being arranged for projection through the space, towards the face, when the explosive element is detonated, and the explosive element and the liner having a V-shaped cross section, the liner lying in a groove of the V-shaped cross section of the explosive element, the liner having a length L of a side furthest from the face and the liner having a thickness T taken perpendicular to said length L, wherein an angle α of an apex of the liner nearest the face is 101.5 to 106.5 degrees, and a stand-off distance SD between the face and a point of the liner nearest the face is 0.99 S to 1.21 S, S being a distance, parallel the stand-off distance SD, between the point of the liner nearest the face and the apex of the liner nearest the face.

One or more aspects of the present invention relate to a linear shaped charge comprising an explosive element, a liner, a face for application to a target object and a space between the liner and the face, the liner being arranged for projection through the space, towards the face, when the explosive element is detonated, and the explosive element and the liner having a V-shaped cross section, the liner lying in a groove of the V-shaped cross section of the explosive element, the liner having a length L of a side furthest from the face and the liner having a thickness T taken perpendicular to said length L, wherein an angle α of an apex of the liner nearest the face is 101.5 to 106.5 degrees, and a stand-off distance SD between the face and a point of the liner nearest the face is 0.99 S to 1.21 S, S being a distance, parallel the stand-off distance SD, between the point of the liner nearest the face and the apex of the liner nearest the face.

A permanent magnet rotor having a shaft, a hollow cylindrical permanent magnet and an elastic connecting medium between the shaft and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is arranged co-axially around the shaft to ensure that the permanent magnet is mounted securely, that it is not damaged during large temperature fluctuations, and that it is not deflected impermissibly from the axis of rotation in case of heavy radial load. A simple installation process uses a mechanical connection between the shaft and the permanent magnet. This task is performed by virtue of the fact that an elastic connecting medium is arranged along the periphery of the shaft at several first areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is enlarged. These first areas are separated from the second areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is minimized but not zero.

An electromagnetic moving system comprises a stator, a moving body and a controller. The stator comprises a circuit board with two layers of electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way and made as spirals with center and peripheral points. The spirals of one layer are shifted in respect to the spirals of the adjacent layer along the line connecting the center points thus the center points of the spirals of one layer in transparent view are located between two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. Each of the spirals of one layer in transparent view at least partially overlaps two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. The moving body is comprised of one permanent magnet such as to cause interaction with the stator when it is powered, thus creating a force tending to propel the moving body along the line connecting said center points.

Methods and apparatus provide for front-end processing of a first differential output current, whereby a first differential output current is received and a second differential output current having reduced spurious content is produced. Current steering is used to divide, and reassemble, the first differential output current so as to provide an output signal with reduced spurious content. Current steering is implemented by a return-to-zero circuit that is coupled to the terminals of a first differential current output stage. During a first phase, the return-to-zero circuit provides a differential output current equal to the first differential current output. During a second phase, the return-to-zero circuit provides a differential output current equal to zero. The current steering return-to-zero circuit is implemented with MOSFETs or any other suitable electrical circuit element that provides the ability to controllably pass or refrain from passing current.