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A collision detection and path prediction system (10) adapted for use with a traveling host vehicle (12) having an operator, includes a locator device (20) configured to determine the current position coordinates, and pluralities of trail and immediate dynamic path coordinates of the vehicle (12) and a communicatively coupled traveling remote vehicle (16). The system further includes a preferred controller (36) configured to predict a collision between the two vehicles (12,16) from the coordinates, and determine a plurality of projected path coordinates for the host vehicle (12) relative to the remote vehicle (16) trail coordinates.

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for controlling traffic at an autonomous intersection. A monitoring unit monitoring vehicles located within a predetermined service radius of an intersection. A collision zone information management unit classifies the service radius into a plurality of zones based on the results from the monitoring unit, and manages information about collision zones. A collision prediction unit predicts the possibility of collision of a target vehicle in the zone in which the target vehicle is located, based on vehicle information transmitted from the target vehicle, and calculates an estimated time of collision. A priority determination unit predetermines a priority of the target vehicle based on the estimated time of collision and calculates an expected entering time corresponding to the priority. A communication unit transmits control information about the target vehicle to the corresponding vehicles to control respective vehicles.

A technique for providing a liquid crystal display device which has an excellent production yield but little orientation fault.A liquid crystal display device in which an orientation regulating member 108 including a trunk portion 108a and a branch portion 108b is formed between a seal member 112 and a liquid crystal 114 so that not only a mechanical strength is enhanced but also the liquid crystal molecules can be homogeneously arrayed to establish a satisfactory black level when no voltage is applied, thereby to improve the contrast.

Magnetically shielded miniature Hall thrusters are disclosed that use a unique magnetic field topology that prevents the magnetic field lines from intersecting the discharge channel walls in the acceleration region of the thruster. Instead, the lines of force originating from both the inner and outer pole pieces curve around the downstream edges of the discharge channel and follow the channel walls towards the anode. This unique field topology results in low electron temperature at the discharge channel walls while eliminating strong electric field components that would otherwise lead to high erosion rates and power deposition from ion acceleration into the channel walls.

There is provided a transformer in which lead wires of a coil are disposed to be separated from each other so as to prevent a short-circuit between the lead wires. The transformer includes a winding unit having a plurality of partitions formed on an outer circumferential surface of a tubular body part; a base provided at one end of the winding unit and including at least one external connection terminal protruding outwardly; a coil wound on a bobbin and having a lead wire connected to the external connection terminal; and a core electromagnetically coupled with the coil to thereby form a magnetic path, wherein the bobbin includes at least one lead wire supporting portion protruding outwardly from the partitions, supporting the lead wire and guiding the lead wire to the external connection terminal.

The invention provides process equipment for composting and rapid aerobic fermentation of sludge and an automatic control scheme for a composting and rapid aerobic fermentation process, belonging to the technical field of composting and aerobic fermentation of sludge. The process equipment and automatic control scheme provide optimal initial process conditions for microbial propagation in composting and aerobic fermentation of sludge, enable composting and aerobic fermentation of sludge to rapidly enter a high-temperature fermentation period, accelerate the processes of fermentation and decomposition, shorten a fermentation period, reduce cost and exert beneficial effect on reduction, harmless treatment and stabilization of sludge. The process equipment comprises a solar photovoltaic power generation system, fermentation tanks with in-ground insulation and heating functions, a gas collecting cover having aeration and heating functions, used for collecting water vapor and stink produced in the process of fermentation and capable of moving up and down, a biological deodorizing system, an air supply and heating system for a workshop in winter, a travelling crane-like manipulator-operated material distribution machine, a composting heap turner, a data acquisition trolley, displace trolleys, a boiler system and an automatic control system for batching of raw and accessory materials and for process flow.

The present invention relates to a detection area setting method for detecting passing vehicles, and a traffic signal control method using the same and, more particularly, to a detection area setting method for detecting passing vehicles, and a traffic signal control method using the same, the detection area setting method being capable of enabling smooth traffic operation at a crossroad, for example preventing a spillback phenomenon, minimizing green time (green light display time) during which there are no passing vehicles, and extending the green time, if needed, by setting one or a plurality of detection areas at a crossroad so as to detect the traffic volume in respective moving directions of vehicles at a signalized intersection, determining the traffic state in the moving directions of the vehicles according to vehicle information in respective detection areas, and automatically controlling the crossroad signals accordingly.

A micro-spray cooling system beneficial for use in testers of electrically stimulated integrated circuit chips is disclosed. The system includes micro-spray heads disposed about a probe head, which provide a coolant flow onto the IC. A flow inducing injector is provided that directs a fluid jet onto zones where stagnation of the coolant flow is present. This reduces or eliminates any stagnation points and enhance temperature uniformity over the area of the IC.

An active area pattern is formed atop a deep trench pattern with a single exposure using an alternative phase-shift mask. To prevent adjacent spaces of opposite phase from intersecting one another at the ends of substantially opaque features of the active area pattern, one or more connectors are used to connect the ends of the substantially opaque patterns. Trench regions of the deep trench pattern are arranged such that the conduction path of the connectors are interrupted and prevent the lines from shorting to one another. Alternatively, a bit line pattern or a word line pattern having a lines and spaces array and a support region are printed with a single exposure using an alternating phase-shift mask. At one end of the array region, lines having a respective phase shift extend into the support region, and lines of the opposite phase shift are terminated. At the opposite end of the array, the lines that have the opposite phase shift extend into the support region, and the lines of having the respective phase shift are terminated.

A method and system of determining fiber diameter distribution of a fibrous media is disclosed. The method includes providing at least one digital image representative of the fibrous media, pre-processing the images, binarizing the images, generating virtual lines on the image, solving for fiber fringe points on each of generated line, solving for fiber center points as a mean of the fringe points, generating and growing measurement circles about the fiber center points, repositioning circles and center points to avoid fiber intersections, resizing the repositioned measurement circles to intersect the opposing fringes, and calculating fiber diameters and fiber spacing.

Methods and apparatus for screening the unknown contents of containers using Raman spectroscopy are disclosed, especially for security screening applications such as in airports. A probe light beam is directed through the wall of a container to a sample region within the container contents. Light scattered out of the beam within the sample region is collected along a path which passes through a separate part of the container wall, for Raman spectral analysis.

Methods and apparatus for screening the unknown contents of containers using Raman spectroscopy are disclosed, especially for security screening applications such as in airports. A probe light beam is directed through the wall of a container to a sample region within the container contents. Light scattered out of the beam within the sample region is collected along a path which passes through a separate part of the container wall, for Raman spectral analysis.

A method for operating a central server, which enables a central management of control cards containing traffic rules. The invention further includes methods for handling control cards in vehicles, in particular in cooperation with such a central server.

A tire and wheel rim assembly includes a tire supporting rim having an outward facing mounting surface and at least one tire body mounted to the rim and positioning an internal tire cavity over the rim mounting surface. A tire pressure monitoring module assembly mounts to the rim mounting surface and includes a housing having an internal pressure chamber; a pressure sensing device and / or a temperature measuring sensor within the housing pressure chamber; and an elongate connecting member extending through the housing and the rim mounting surface. A crossover pipe connects the housing pressure chamber with a remote portion of the rim. The inflation pressure in the tire cavity is transferred through the axial passageway of the crossover pipe to the pressure chamber within the module housing.

A touch screen panel in which an occurrence of a scratch at intersections of coupling patterns respectively coupling first sensing cells and second sensing cells to each other in a first direction and in a second direction is prevented. The touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate, sensing patterns formed on a surface of the transparent substrate. The sensing patterns include first sensing cells disposed along a first direction, second sensing cells disposed between the first sensing cells along a second direction intersecting the first direction, first coupling patterns coupling the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, second coupling patterns coupling the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, and an insulating layer disposed between the first coupling patterns and the second coupling patterns at intersections of the first coupling patterns and the second coupling patterns. The insulating layer includes a concave part formed below the second coupling patterns in an area where the first coupling patterns and the second coupling patterns intersect and a protruding part positioned around the concave part so as to have a height higher than the concave part.

A method is provided for producing a smart card comprising a chip module with at least one contacting area, the chip module arrangeable in a mounting location of a substrate, wherein one contacting loop is formed from a wire connector fed by a wire guiding unit for at least one of the contacting areas, respectively by attaching a first section of the wire conductor to a surface of the substrate outside the mounting location, wherein a second section of the wire conductor proximate to the first section is guided to form the contacting loop along with and protruding from the surface, wherein a subsequent third section of the wire conductor is attached to the surface outside the mounting location, wherein the chip module is inserted into the mounting location and wherein the second section is bent over and electrically contacted to the contacting area.

A tire and wheel rim assembly includes a tire supporting rim having an outward facing mounting surface and at least one tire body mounted to the rim and positioning an internal tire cavity over the rim mounting surface. A tire pressure monitoring module assembly mounts to the rim mounting surface and includes a housing having an internal pressure chamber; a pressure sensing device and / or a temperature measuring sensor within the housing pressure chamber; and an elongate connecting member extending through the housing and the rim mounting surface. A crossover pipe connects the housing pressure chamber with a remote portion of the rim. The inflation pressure in the tire cavity is transferred through the axial passageway of the crossover pipe to the pressure chamber within the module housing.

A tetrahedralization and triangulation method used with the proximity based rounding method to satisfy topological consistency of tetrahedralization with the bounded precision of a digital computer is described. Tetrahedralization is applied to a VLSI design, and more specifically for solving Maxwell's equation to extract parasitic capacitances and 3-D optical proximity correction applications. The exactness of solving Maxwell's equation and finite element analysis depends on the correctness of the topological properties of the tetrahedralization. Among the important aspects of the correctness of the topological properties is the absence of spurious intersection of two or more tetrahedra. In a typical digital computer, numbers are represented using finite sized words. Round-off errors occur when a long number is represented using the finite word size. As a result, tetrahedralization loses its topological consistency. The proximity based rounding method finds potential locations of spurious intersections and pre-corrects these locations to avoid the generation of any topological inconsistencies.

A method for handling a control card, wherein the control card is received by another vehicle. This provides an increased degree of safety in situations to be regulated, as it is possible to compare control cards of different vehicles and coordinate them if necessary.

A method of animating feather elements includes: specifying initial positions for a skin surface and for feather elements; specifying positions for the skin surface at an animated time; determining a feather-ordering sequence for placing the feather elements on the skin surface; determining positions for skirt elements that provide spatial extensions for the skin surface at the animated time; determining positions for feather-proxy elements that provide spatial extensions for the feather elements at the animated time; and determining positions for the feather elements at the animated time by extracting the feather elements from the feather-proxy elements. The feather-proxy elements are determined from the skirt elements according to the feather-ordering sequence, and the feather-proxy elements satisfy a separation criterion for avoiding intersections between the feather-proxy elements.

The invention discloses a parametric modeling and design optimization method for a construction shortcut under a geographic coordinate system. The method comprises the following steps: establishing aconversion relationship from the geographic coordinate system to a projection coordinate system and a conversion relationship from the projection coordinate system to the geographic coordinate system;2) carrying out parametric modeling of the construction shortcut, wherein slope types are judged, slope contour lines are obtained, a construction shortcut model is generated, geographic coordinate system data are converted into a projection coordinate system for mathematical calculation in real time during parametric modeling of a construction shortcut, and after parametric modeling calculation,a calculation result is converted into a geographic coordinate system for display in real time; and 3) outputting a modeling design result, and optimizing the design result. The construction shortcutmodel generated by the method can be directly edited and modified in a three-dimensional scene, so that the construction shortcut slope is effectively prevented from being intersected with other models, and design result optimization is realized; according to the method, the construction shortcut model and the shortcut local terrain modification data are generated at the same time, and terrain data can be modified.

An integrated inductor comprises a first winding (C1) and a second winding (C2); a first internal magnetic core in the first winding (C1) and a second internal magnetic core in the second winding (C2); and at least one external magnetic core (M) outside the first winding (C1) and the second winding (C2), used for being connected to end portions of the first and second internal magnetic cores to form a magnetic path, the external magnetic core (M) being formed by multiple sub-magnetic cores joint with each other; the magnetic conductivity of at least one sub-magnetic core of the multiple sub-magnetic cores is greater than the magnetic conductivity of other sub-magnetic cores, and the at least one sub-magnetic core at least covers a part of end faces of the first internal magnetic core and the second internal magnetic core. The integrated inductor can alleviate the phenomenon of flux leakage, and can reduce costs of the magnetic cores.

The invention discloses a welding method of a railway passenger vehicle weather-proof steel sleeper beam complex cross structure. The welding method of the railway passenger vehicle weather-proof steel sleeper beam complex cross structure includes the step of welding the weather-proof steel sleeper beam complex cross structure by adopting a dual-step lift, fall and return method which includes: step 1, performing lift welding on the position of a right weld toe of a weld joint I, marking the lift welding length as L, falling to the position half of the length L in fall welding, and then completing the first step by performing return welding to an intersection of the first-step lift welding right weld toe and the position of an upper weld toe of a weld joint II; and step 2, performing liftwelding on the position of a left weld toe of the weld joint I, then performing return welding to the position of a lower weld toe of the weld joint II after falling by one half in the second-step fall welding, completing the second-step lift, fall and return welding, and finally performing continuous weld so as to complete the whole operation. The welding method of the railway passenger vehicle weather-proof steel sleeper beam complex cross structure improves fusion performance of an intersection joint, not only can realize the purpose of improving post-welding one-time flaw detection passingrate to 70%, but also obtains the weld joints easy to polish after the welding, enables flaw detection rate to reach 100% after polishing, avoids a reworking procedure, reduces production cost, and improves production efficiency, and above all, the quality of the joint is effectively guaranteed.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a serial connection structure of a storage element in which compactification is enabled by suppressing the length of a cylindrical battery and in which connection resistance can be suppressed.SOLUTION: In the serial connection structure 30 of the storage element, a positive electrode body and a negative electrode body are formed by installing a polarized electrode 48 composed of active carbon, a conductive material and a binding agent at least on one face of current collector foil, the upper storage element 33, the center storage element 35, and the lower storage element 37 are formed by winding the positive electrode body and the negative electrode body in a state of being separated by a separator, and a plurality of the storage elements 33, 35, 37 are connected in series. The serial connection structure 30 of the storage elements is constituted so that first and second enlarged current collector foils 46, 58 with at least twice the width of the polarized electrode 48 are prepared, the first and the second current collector foils 46, 58 are continuously succeeded by neighboring the storage elements, and so that the storage elements are serially connected.

A method for handling a control card, wherein a control card is created in a vehicle and passed on to an external unit such as, for example, another vehicle or a central server. In this way, a comparison of control cards is possible.

A method is provided for producing a smart card comprising a chip module with at least one contacting area, the chip module arrangeable in a mounting location of a substrate, wherein one contacting loop is formed from a wire connector fed by a wire guiding unit for at least one of the contacting areas, respectively by attaching a first section of the wire conductor to a surface of the substrate outside the mounting location, wherein a second section of the wire conductor proximate to the first section is guided to form the contacting loop along with and protruding from the surface, wherein a subsequent third section of the wire conductor is attached to the surface outside the mounting location, wherein the chip module is inserted into the mounting location and wherein the second section is bent over and electrically contacted to the contacting area.

There are provided a thin transformer capable of being used in a slim display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a light emitting diode (LED) display device, and a flat panel display device including the same. The transformer includes: a bobbin part including a plurality of bobbins, each including a pipe shaped body part having a though-hole formed in an inner part thereof and a flange part protruding outwardly from both ends of the body part; coils respectively wound around the bobbins; and a core electromagnetically coupled to the coils to thereby form a magnetic path, wherein at least one of the bobbins includes a coil skip part which is a route through which lead wires of the coil skipped through the flange part is disposed on an outer surface of the flange part.