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A sensor instrument system for detecting and identifying analytes in fluids of a region comprising a local sensor instrument and remote central station. The instrument is comprised of a core technology employing a single sensor having two electrodes operated by an electrical frequency sweeping to generate two sets of patterned electrical information from a single measurement, a data transmission module and a GPS receiver module. The central station connects to a network means connected to a plurality of local receiving sites equipped with including the respective transceivers, so that the local analyte electrical information and geographic position information transmitted by the instrument can be wirelessly and remotely received and processed by the central station. The core technology is further comprised of a reference sensor for eliminating background influence, a temperature programming to control adsorption and desorption of analytes, and usage of all kinds of adsorbent materials having chemical selectivity including the hydrogen selectivity to enhance detection and identification of analytes in fluids.

A system and method to reduce the instantaneous power consumption during heating of a fuel injector is described. The system is capable of heating the fuel injectors of an engine at different times.

[Object] To provide a scribing apparatus with which fine adjustment with a low load is possible, thin films on the solar cell substrate can be shaved off with precision, thin films can be prevented from peeling irregularly, and straight and precise scribe lines can be created.

[Means for Achieving Object] A scribing apparatus for thin film solar cells with which the blade of a trench creating tool 4 that is attached to the scribe head 1 is pressed against the surface of a solar cell substrate along a line along which the integrated thin film solar cell substrate W is to be scribed when the trench creating tool 4 is moved over the solar cell substrate W, so that a trench is created in the thin film formed on the surface of the solar cell substrate W, comprising: a tool holder 5 that is attached to the scribe head 1 in such a manner as to be movable upward and downward and holds the trench creating tool 4; an air cylinder 6 for pressuring the tool holder 5 against the surface of the solar cell substrate W; and a spring 7 for pressuring the tool holder 5 upward.

A method for the quantitative determination of an ion in a fluid which comprises subjecting the fluid to voltammetry using a sensing electrode which comprises an electrically conducting support having a surface which is coated with a support matrix, the support matrix containing an electroactive species capable of being oxidised or reduced to form a charged species, and an ionophore.

Methods and systems for controlling a dynamic response in a gas turbine fuel control system are provided. The control system includes a component model adapted to regulate a fuel supply pressure for a gas turbine, a pressure sensor adapted to sense a pressure of fuel supplied to the gas turbine, and a feedback module including integral plus state feedback, the feedback module adapted to provide a positive feedback reference signal to the component model such that a response time of the gas turbine fuel control system to changes in fuel pressure is facilitated being reduced.

A resistance-type gas sensor includes a gas detection section including an oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes cerium ions and zirconium ions. An amount of substance of zirconium ions relative to a sum of amounts of substance of cerium ions and zirconium ions contained in the oxide semiconductor layer is no less than about 45% and no more than about 60%, and the oxide semiconductor layer has a crystal phase containing about 80 vol % or more of cubic crystals.

An electrophoresis device is provided which includes: a display area including electrophoresis elements, each of which has a dispersion system, which includes first electrophoresis particles and second electrophoresis particles having different electrical polarities, between a first electrode and a second electrode disposed opposite to each other; and a voltage control unit allowing the first and second electrophoresis particles to migrate to the first and second electrodes, respectively, so as to form an image by applying a voltage to the electrophoresis elements. Here, the first electrode has a first partial electrode and a second partial electrode and the voltage control unit unevenly distributes the electrophoresis particles distributed close to the first electrode onto one of the first and second partial electrodes by applying different voltages to the first partial electrode and the second partial electrode prior to changing display.

Vehicle control system and method provided to change speed ratio smoothly when switching a power transmission route from a route including a geared transmission to a route including a continuously variable transmission. Vehicle control system applied to a vehicle comprising: continuously variable transmission for changing speed ratio continuously is disposed between input shaft and output shaft; geared transmission is disposed parallel to the continuously variable transmission, and is adapted to establish speed ratio that cannot be established by continuously variable transmission; and friction clutch is brought into engagement to switch torque transmission route from a route including the geared transmission to a route including the continuously variable transmission. Vehicle control system configured to start speed change operation of continuously variable transmission before the friction clutch is brought into engagement completely when switching torque transmission route from the route including the geared transmission to the route including the continuously variable transmission.

A capacitive sensing method includes detecting present measured values of plural reference points selected from plural sensing points, generating a present difference value according to the present measured values of the reference points and one or more reference measured values, obtaining a selected adjustment factor according to a relation setting and the present difference value, detecting present measured values of the sensing points, generating plural position signals of the sensing points according to the present difference values of the sensing points, adjusting the position signals according to the selected adjustment factor, and controlling the output of the adjusted position signals according to a reference signal. The sensing points are defined by electrodes intersected with one another and configured to form an array. The reference points are located at the periphery of the array. The relation setting is the relationship between signal difference values and adjustment factors.

The invention provides a shell structure with a flexible film, wherein the shell structure comprises a shell body, a flexible film and a plurality of artificial microstructures, wherein the flexible film is attached to the surface of the shell body and comprises a film body contacted with the surface of the shell body; and the plurality of artificial microstructures are made of conductive material and arrayed on the surface of the film body, contacted with the surface of the shell body. The invention also provides a preparation method of the shell structure. The shell structure not only has the functions of protecting, decorating and marking devices via the artificial microstructure flexible film on the surface, but also can modulate electromagnetic waves passing through the flexible film, and is capable of achieving an effect of selectively transmitting the waves or absorbing the waves, and changing the response of the device employing the shell body on the electromagnetic waves.

Provided is an ultra wide band absorber based on cascade structure metamaterials. The invention relates to the ultra wide band absorber, and aims at solving the problems that for an existing ultra wide band absorber, the absorption rate is low, the incident angle is small, the absorption wavelength range is narrow, and the ultra wide band absorber can not absorb across multiple wavebands. The ultra wide band absorber based on the cascade structure metamaterials adopts two ways, namely, interaction between device physical sizes and electromagnetic waves and interaction between dielectric materials and the electromagnetic waves, to act in a combined mode, so that coupled superposition is conducted on units with different sizes, the coupled superposition is conducted among different dielectric constants in the same unit, ultra wide bank absorption of the metamaterials on the electromagnetic waves is achieved, the absorption rate is over 92%, the absorption wavelength ranges from 284 nm to 1524 nm, partial ultraviolet waves, all visible light and partial near infrared waves are included, and under the incident condition of 40-degree angle of inclination, the absorption rate can still reach over 90%. The ultra wide band absorber based on the cascade structure metamaterials can be applied to the fields of solar cell absorption, thermal emitters and photoelectric equipment.

A power transmission unit for a vehicle is provided. In the power transmission unit, a continuously variable transmission to alter a speed ratio continuously is disposed between an input shaft to which a torque of a prime mover is inputted and an output shaft rotated by the torque transmitted from the input shaft. A first gear train that transmits the torque to propel the vehicle in the forward direction is arranged parallel to a second gear train that transmits the torque to propelling the vehicle backwardly. The power transmission unit is comprised of: a first clutch device that selectively allows a torque transmitting route from the input shaft to the output shaft via the first gear train to transmit the torque therethrough; a dog clutch that switches the torque transmitting route from the input shaft to the output shaft between a continuously variable speed change route in which the torque is transmitted through the continuously variable transmission and a reverse route in which the torque is transmitted through the second gear train; and a second clutch device that connects and disconnects both of the continuously variable speed change route and the reverse route to/from at least any one of the input shaft and the output shaft.

A system and method for controlling electromechanical valves operating in an engine is presented. According to the method, valve operation can be improved by heating the valves, at least during some conditions.

The invention relates to a display control system including a display installed inside the vehicle. The driving force of wheels (84L, 84R, 86L, 86R) are calculated as needed, and magnitude and a direction of the vehicle acceleration (90, 90′) which change according to the driving force are displayed at the same time on a mimic vehicle diagram (70-86) displayed on the in-vehicle display. Thus, the driver can grasp the relationship between the driving force of each wheel (84L, 84R, 86L, 86R), and the magnitude and the direction of the vehicle acceleration (90, 90′). Accordingly, the driver can drive the vehicle in view of the relationship between the driving force of the wheels (84L, 84R, 86L, 86R), and the magnitude and direction of the vehicle acceleration (90, 90′).

A method for selectively and quantitatively collecting and measuring chromium (VI) in aquatic environment comprises the steps of: carrying out pretreatment with a dialysis membrane with molecular cut off of 2000-14000, pretreating a binder, placing a collecting device in the aquatic environment with the dialysis membrane downward, fixing the collecting device, standing for 1-120d, taking out the collecting device once or multiple times, taking out 30-80vol% of the binder, diluting to a certain volume with hydrochloric acid, measuring the accumulation volume of chromium (VI) in the binder, and calculating average concentration of chromium (VI) in water. The method has the advantages that the collecting device is simple, low in cost, convenient for collecting and pollution-free to the environment, so that the concentration of chromium (VI) can be more accurately measured; the concentration of free chromium (VI) in the binder solution is approximate to zero; and the change of an aquatic environment system within a period of time can be more comprehensively reflected.

An image display system includes a light sensor operable to change a detection sensitivity. The light sensor outputs a signal according to an intensity of external light exerting an influence on a screen of a display apparatus and to the detection sensitivity. An illuminance acquisition part of a display control apparatus acquires illuminance by the external light based on the signal output from the light sensor. Moreover, a display adjuster adjusts a displaying state of the display apparatus in accordance with the illuminance by the external light acquired by the illuminance acquisition part. A sensitivity changer periodically alternates between a “low sensitivity” of the detection sensitivity and a “high sensitivity” of the detection sensitivity of the light sensor. Thus, even when changing significantly, the illuminance by the external light can be accurately and speedily acquired.

The thermal storage material microcapsules of the present invention are thermal storage material microcapsules encapsulating a thermal storage material, and the thermal storage material comprising at least one selected from compounds of the following formulae (I) to (III),

R¹-X-R²  (I)

• • wherein each of R¹ and R² is independently a hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms and X is a divalent binding group containing a heteroatom,

R³(-Y-R⁴)n  (II)

• • wherein R³ is a hydrocarbon group having a valence of n, each of R⁴s is independently a hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms and each Y is a divalent binding group containing a heteroatom,

A(-Z-R⁵)m  (III)

• • wherein A is an atom, atomic group or binding group having a valence of m, each of R⁵s is independently a hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms and each Z is a divalent binding group containing a heteroatom or a direct bond, the thermal storage material having an acid value of 8 or less.

The invention relates to a device for increasing the turning rate of an operational amplifier, an auxiliary output device and an auxiliary control device are added after the output stage of the operational amplifier, the current of the output stage is mirrored by the auxiliary control device and is compared with the reference current, thereby generating an auxiliary push-pull control signal to control the auxiliary output device; when the voltage level of an output signal is not equal to the voltage level of an input signal essentially, the auxiliary control device is controlled to start the auxiliary output device to provide an auxiliary output current to an output end, when the voltage level of the output signal is equal to the voltage level of the input signal essentially, the auxiliary output device is closed.

The present disclosure discloses a supply assembly of an imaging device, a chip thereof, and a method for updating a slave address of the supply assembly. The method comprises: receiving, by the supply assembly, an address change instruction from the imaging device, the address change instruction including the slave address of the supply assembly; and gathering, by the supply assembly, upon first monitoring an addressing instruction after detection of the address change instruction, a second slave address contained in the addressing instruction first monitored, updating the slave address of the supply assembly into the second slave address, and sending acknowledging data to the imaging device. The supply assembly and its chip according to the present disclosure can rapidly respond to the instructions from the imaging device so as to perform the address change, and manufacturing costs thereof are also reduced.