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The invention relates to hybrid fuel cell systems that protect a fuel cell with a second electrical energy source. The second electrical energy source powers a load to prevent the fuel cell from witnessing stoichiometric levels that may lead to reductions in fuel cell performance or health. The hybrid fuel cell system includes an electrical circuit that electrically initiates the electrical energy source to provide power to the load in response to detecting a potential stoichiometric disturbance for the fuel cell.

Methods of treating complement-mediated ocular disorders by administering agents that inhibit a subject's complement component in an amount sufficient to treat the ocular disorder wherein, in a selected embodiment, said agent is an anti-complement aptamer that, in a preferred embodiment, is an anti-C5 aptamer.

A system and a method for reverse link power control in a wireless communications network generates power adjust commands for mobiles being served by a network base station in a centralized manner by considering overall system performance when an increased interference condition is detected. In one implementation, a base station power control processor adopts a modified reverse inner loop power control (RILPC) and / or a reverse outer loop power control (ROLPC) algorithm when an increased interference condition is detected. According to the modified RILPC algorithm, a percentage of power-up adjust commands which would normally be generated when Eb / No measurements for served mobiles do not meet target Eb / No levels are converted to power down-adjust commands, thereby forcing some mobiles to reduce transmit power, at least temporarily, to constrain interference. When the increased interference condition persists, the percentage of power-up adjust commands which are converted to power-down commands may be changed. According to the modified ROLPC algorithm, the power control processor adjusts target Eb / No levels in a centralized manner based on an overall system state so that only a limited number of target Eb / No levels are allowed to increase when frame erasures occur. By preventing a percentage of target Eb / No level increases, at least temporarily, when frame erasures occur, a percentage of power up-adjust commands are avoided. Therefore, a similar effect to that achieved by the modified RILPC is achieved. In accordance with still a further implementation of the present invention, the modified RILPC algorithm may be used in combination with the modified ROLPC algorithm to provide greater resistance to increased interference conditions.

A laser radar system comprises an emission module, a detection module, a control module, a collimation module, a convergence module, a splitting module and a scanning module. The control module is coupled to the emission module, the detection module and the scanning module, and controls the emission module to generate and emit laser pulses, the scanning module to swing and the detection module toreflection signals of the laser pulses; the emission module, the collimation module, the splitting module and the scanning module are positioned in the same axis; the collimating module adjusts the laser pulses into parallel laser pulses; the splitting module is suitable for reflection signals of semi-transmitting laser pulses and semi-reflecting laser pulses; and the convergence module is suitable for convergence of reflection signals of the laser pulses. Via the system, it can be ensured that an emission optical path is coaxial with a reception optical path, and a 2D space is scanned in highprecision.

[Problem(s)] A stacked photovoltaic device can be provided which is practicable and low-cost and yet has a high reliability, and also has a high photoelectric conversion efficiency. [Means for Solving the Problem] A stacked photovoltaic device comprises at least three p-i-n junction constituent devices superposed in layers, each having a p-type layer, an i-type layer and an n-type layer which are formed of silicon type non-single-crystal semiconductors. An amorphous silicon is used as the i-type layer of a first p-i-n junction, a microcrystalline silicon is used as the i-type layer of a second p-i-n junction and a microcrystalline silicon is used as the i-type layer of a third p-i-n junction, the first to third layers being in the order from the light-incident side.

The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for securing safing insulation in the gap formed between a spandrel and a slab. Additionally, the present invention eliminates the need for stiffening tees and / or stiffening brackets. In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention utilizes a first portion of safing secured to spandrel insulation positioned in an exterior wall structure and a second portion of safing insulation positioned adjacent to the first portion of safing insulation and between the spandrel insulation and the slab. By fixedly securing the first portion of safing insulation to the spandrel insulation, any deformation of the spandrel insulation caused by the forces exerted by the compressed second portion of safing insulation on spandrel insulation results in the first portion of safing insulation moving with the spandrel insulation.

Disclosed are a method and system for address translation with memory windows. The method comprises the steps of designating a memory region having a set of virtual addresses, each virtual address having an associated real address; and providing one or more translation tables for translating the virtual addresses to the real addresses; A memory region protection table entry (MRPTE) defines access rights for the memory region, and includes one or more pointers to the one or more translation tables. A memory window is bound to the memory region to provide access to a subset of the virtual addresses. A memory window protection table entry (MWPTE) defines access rights for the memory window, and includes one or more pointers to the one or more translation tables to translate the subset of virtual addresses to real addresses.

The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for securing safing insulation in the gap formed between a spandrel and a slab. Additionally, the present invention eliminates the need for stiffening tees and / or stiffening brackets. In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention utilizes a first portion of safing secured to spandrel insulation positioned in an exterior wall structure and a second portion of safing insulation positioned adjacent to the first portion of safing insulation and between the spandrel insulation and the slab. By fixedly securing the first portion of safing insulation to the spandrel insulation, any deformation of the spandrel insulation caused by the forces exerted by the compressed second portion of safing insulation on spandrel insulation results in the first portion of safing insulation moving with the spandrel insulation.

The invention discloses an implantable facet arthroplasty device suitable for treating adjacent level disease. The device is designed for implantation between a first vertebra and a second vertebra. Components of the device include: a crossbar; a first component having a first attachment mechanism adapted to attach to a first location of a spinal fusion device attached to a first vertebra and a second attachment mechanism adapted to attach to the crossbar; and a second component having a second attachment mechanism adapted to attach to a second location of a spinal fusion device attached to the first vertebra and a second attachment mechanism adapted to attach to the crossbar. The first component articulates relative to the second component and the first vertebra articulates relative to the device itself.

A method of and an apparatus for coating a substrate with a polymer solution to produce a film of uniform thickness, includes mounting the substrate inside an enclosed housing and passing a control gas, which may be a solvent vapor-bearing gas into the housing through an inlet. The polymer solution is deposited onto the surface of the substrate in the housing and the substrate is then spun. The control gas and any solvent vapor and particulate contaminants suspended in the control gas are exhausted from the housing through an outlet and the solvent vapor concentration is controlled by controlling the temperature of the housing and the solvent from which the solvent vapor-bearing gas is produced. Instead the concentration can be controlled by mixing gases having different solvent concentrations. The humidity of the gas may also be controlled.

The present invention is directed towards a portable electronic equipment (10) comprising a speaker (16) and a receiver (18), wherein the receiver (18) is damped while the speaker (16) is active to provide good sound reproduction.

The invention provides methods and materials relating generally to plant derived flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) capable of catalysing oxidation of a thio- to a sulphinyl-group during glucosinolate biosynthesis. It further relates to plant derived MYB factors capable of transcriptional regulation of biosynthetic genes. These have utility in the modification of glucosinolate biosynthesis.

The invention relates to laser pulse emitting and receiving methods, a medium and a laser radar system. The laser radar system comprises an emission module and a detection module; the emission modulegenerates and emits one or multiple laser pulse(s) of the preset wavelength, and comprises a generation sub-module, a wavelength division multiplexing sub-module and an output sub-module; the detection module receives and processes a reflection signal of the laser pulse of the preset wavelength to obtain distance information of a barrier, and comprises a filtering sub-module and a detection sub-module coupled to the filtering sub-module. Different preset wavelengths are set in different laser radar systems, each laser radar system only emits laser pulses of the corresponding preset wavelengthand receives the reflection signal of the laser pulse of the corresponding wavelength, the cost can be lower, and interference among different laser radar systems is avoided effectively.

The invention relates to a laser radar visibility meter and a transceiving coaxial optical system of the laser radar visibility meter. A lens and a reflector are sequentially arranged on a subsequent light path of an outgoing beam of a laser, the center of the reflector is provided with a small hole, the outgoing beam of the laser is focused by the lens, passes through the small hole in the center of the reflector, then is coupled in a transceiving optical fiber and is guided into a telescope system for emission, an atmosphere return signal enters the transceiving optical fiber again through the telescope system, the beam is coupled by a lens group and a light filter into the transceiving optical fiber after being reflected by the reflector, the transceiving optical fiber is connected with a detector, so that the signal acquisition is fulfilled. The transceiving coaxial optical system provided by the invention can effectively avoid the problem that a non-coaxial laser radar visibility meter is level with a transceiving light path, and is not affected by any geometrical overlap factors; in addition, the transceiving coaxial structure enables the volume of the laser radar visibility meter to be small, the weight to be light and the structure to be more compact.

There is provided a bias power supply for setting a collector bias current of a mixer transistor and a collector bias current of an oscillation transistor. When a control voltage is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value, an output voltage of the bias power supply is set to be increased so that at least one of the collector bias current of the mixer transistor and the collector bias current of the oscillation transistor can be increased.

A noise suppressor suppresses noise contained in speech converted by an A / D converter into a digital signal. A sidetone level controller controls a level of a speech signal with the noise suppressed by the noise suppressor, for output as a sidetone. A D / A converter then converts a speech receiving signal with the sidetone added from a digital signal to an analog signal. Therefore, it becomes possible to prevent a level of the sidetone from being changed according to a level of the noise existing in the background of a talker, and to control the sidetone to allow the talker to talk at an appropriate volume.

An internal voltage detection circuit and an internal voltage generation device using the same are disclosed. The internal voltage detection circuit includes a first detect signal generator for generating a first detect signal to detect a level of an internal voltage corresponding to an operating temperature of a memory cell, a second detect signal generator for generating a second detect signal to detect a specific level of the internal voltage corresponding to a preset temperature, and a detect signal clamp unit for comparing a level of the first detect signal and a level of the second detect signal with each other and clamping the first detect signal according to a result of the comparison.

An information recording apparatus include: a processing unit for processing recording information to be recorded and for generating processed information; a storage unit for temporarily storing the processed information; a recording unit for recording the processed information onto an information storage medium; a position storing unit for storing, at a time of interrupting recording of the processed information, an interruption storage position which is a storage position in the storage unit of the processed information corresponding to a timing at which interruption is instructed; an interrupting unit for interrupting recording of the processed information after storing the interruption storing position; and a restart unit for restarting the recording of the processed information based on the stored interruption storage position.

A bearing monitoring apparatus including at least one interface for receiving strain signals detected by at least one strain sensor mounted on a bearing and at least one data processing unit configured to monitor the bearing by detecting bearing defects based on the strain signals is provided. The data processing unit is configured to subject the strain signal to a high pass filtering. A limit frequency of the high pass filter is set higher than a typical ball pass frequency of the bearing to be monitored, to calculate a quantity representative of the amplitude of the envelope signal of the high-pass filtered strain signal, to compare the peak hold of the envelope signal with an envelope threshold value, to classify the bearing using the result of the envelope comparison and to issue at least one warning signal if the bearing is classified as defective.

The invention provides an obstacle information acquisition method and a laser radar system. The laser radar system comprises a transmitting module which is used to generate and transmit a laser pulse,a detecting module which is used to receive and process the reflected signal of the laser pulse transmitted by the transmitting module and the reflected signal of a visible light beam to simultaneously acquire the distance information and color information of the same point of an obstacle. The laser radar system comprises a filtering sub-module and a detecting sub-module. According to the radar system, since the detecting module can receive and process the reflected signals of the laser pulse and the visible light beam at the same time, complicated fusion operation can be eliminated. The distance information and color information of the same point of the obstacle can be reliably acquired at a low cost at the same time.

An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable image heating member for heating an image on a recording material, a magnetic flux generator for generating magnetic flux for heating the image heating member, an adjustor for adjusting the magnetic flux distribution so that the magnetic flux acting on an end portion region of the image heating member with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image heating member is decreased, a changing portion for changing a sheet passing position of the recording material with respect to the rotational axis direction within a set range, and a switching portion for switching, when the adjustor is actuated and sheets of the recording material are continuously passed, the set range from a range in which the sheet passing position does not overlap with the end portion region to a range in which the sheet passing position overlaps the end portion region.

An electronic device material comprising at least an electronic device substrate and a silicon oxynitride film disposed on the substrate is provided. The silicon oxynitride film is characterized by containing nitrogen atoms in a large amount in the vicinity of the oxynitride film surface when the nitrogen content distribution in the thickness direction of the silicon oxynitride film is examined by SIMS (secondary ion mass spectrometry) analysis. By virtue of this constitution, an electronic device material comprising an oxynitride film having an excellent effect of preventing penetration of boron and having excellent gate leak properties can be obtained.

An apparatus for, and a method of, separating oil, water, gas and solid particles (usually sand) from a hydrocarbon-containing fluid produced from an oil and / or gas production facility. In particular, this invention relates to an apparatus and method for the separation of oil, water, gas and solid particles from a well or group of wells using an integrated apparatus which significantly reduces the space required on the production platform or rig and recycles produced gas to improve process efficiency while reducing cost.

The invention relates to a welding process of a boss of a hydrogenation reactor. A port in one end of a cylindrical shell section is processed flatly after coiling, circle checking and flaw detection of the cylindrical shell section are qualified; and then a surfacing position of the boss is marked, and thus the trouble that a cylinder body is firstly leveled and then overturned for surfacing the boss when the boss is surfaced is avoided, the leveling procedure during processing of the boss is avoided, therefore the production time is saved, the levelness of the boss is ensured, and the purpose of ensuring the welding quality of the boss is achieved.

There is provided a bias power supply for setting a collector bias current of a mixer transistor and a collector bias current of an oscillation transistor. When a control voltage is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value, an output voltage of the bias power supply is set to be increased so that at least one of the collector bias current of the mixer transistor and the collector bias current of the oscillation transistor can be increased.

A method of and an apparatus for coating a substrate with a polymer solution to produce a film of uniform thickness, includes mounting the substrate inside an enclosed housing and passing a control gas, which may be a solvent vapor-bearing gas into the housing through an inlet. The polymer solution is deposited onto the surface of the substrate in the housing and the substrate is then spun. The control gas and any solvent vapor and particulate contaminants suspended in the control gas are exhausted from the housing through an outlet and the solvent vapor concentration is controlled by controlling the temperature of the housing and the solvent from which the solvent vapor-bearing gas is produced. Instead the concentration can be controlled by mixing gases having different solvent concentrations. The humidity of the gas may also be controlled.

An apparatus for providing Phased-Locked Loop (PLL) synthesis comprises a phase detector, at least one switchable filter, an oscillator controlled by a control voltage (uPLL) and a divider. The controlled oscillator has two inputs, wherein the control voltage (uPLL) is coupled to a first input, and a selection voltage (uSET) for rough frequency adjustment is coupled to a second input. Both voltages establish the frequency of the oscillator.