388results about How to "Change time" patented technology

Barbed surgical sutures and a method of forming a barbed surgical suture from a degradable material are provided having degradation rates tailored to provide the suture with a desired mass loss profile.

A hydrogel polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer component including acrylic acid (salt) is post-neutralized so that each of polymer particles derived from a polymer produced by neutralizing the hydrogel polymer has an allowable neutralization ratio. The polymer as obtained by neutralizing the hydrogel polymer is reacted with a crosslinking agent reactive to a functional group of the polymer. The allowable neutralization ratio, for example, is a neutralization ratio which is not lower, by not less than 20 mole percent, or more than, at least 55 mole percent, than an average neutralization ratio of a mass of the polymer particles, and the post-neutralization is carried out so that a number of polymer particles having a non-allowable neutralization ratio outside the allowable neutralization range is not more than 10 in 200 polymer particles, thus obtaining a water-absorbent agent having high absorbency under no applied pressure and high pressure wherein the amount of water soluble component is lower compared with the conventional water-absorbent agent and a change in pH of a swollen gel is small.

An object of the present invention is to operate the working machine etc. with satisfactory responsiveness as intended by the operator while enhancing engine efficiency, pump efficiency, and the like, where a first engine target revolution ncom1 adapted to a current pump target discharge flow rate Qsum is set, and when determined that the current pump target discharge flow rate Qsum is greater than a predetermined flow rate (10 (L / min)), a revolution nM (e.g., 1400 rpm) greater than an engine low idle revolution nL is set as a second engine target revolution ncom2 determining that operation levers 41 to 44 switched from a non-operation state to an operation state. The engine revolution is controlled so that the second engine target revolution ncom2 is obtained if the second engine target revolution ncom2 is equal to or greater than the first engine target revolution ncom1.

A white LED light source device and an LED backlight using the white LED light source can produce, among other features, white light with sufficient luminous intensity, uniform color tone, and high luminous utilization efficiency. A light path for producing white light with favorable color mixture can be shortened. The white LED light source device can be configured to include a bluish green LED lamp which can emit bluish green light by the combination of a blue LED device and a green phosphor material and a purple LED lamp which can emit purple light by the combination of a blue LED device and a red phosphor material. The bluish green light from the bluish green LED lamp and the purple light from the purple LED lamp are subjected to additive color mixture to produce white light with a spectrum containing three primary color wavelength components.

A vehicular lamp that illuminates a plurality of light source units adequately. The vehicular lamp that is used for a vehicle includes a plurality of light source units that is connected in parallel, an output controlling switch operable to intermittently carry an electric current by repeating on and off, an output coil operable to output electric power according to the current flowing into the output controlling switch in synchronization with the timing when the output switch switches, a selection controlling unit operable to select at least one the light source unit in synchronization with the timing when the output controlling switch switches and cause the selected light source(s) to receive the power output from the output coil, and a malfunction detecting unit operable to detect malfunction of each of the plurality of light source units, in which the selection controlling unit selects at least one the light source unit among the light source units from which malfunction is not detected when the malfunction detecting unit detects malfunction of either of the light source units.

[ProblemsTo provide a game system in which each of the players in turn controls a common character (operation object) so as to enjoy a continuous electric game; and to provide a game system in which a previous player who has been replaced by another player still has willing to participate in the game. There is provided a game system to which a plurality of players can access via respective operation terminals. According to input data from the operation terminals, a calculation processing device executes a game program, judges that a plurality of players are participating in the game, establishes teams, each consisting of a plurality of players, assigns a common character to each team, decides a reference point when the operation of the character is to be performed by another player belonging to the same team according to the program, judges whether the character has reached the reference point according to the parameter of the character, and, if the judgment is yes, offers the operation right of the character to another player, and controls the game system to continue the operation of the character addording to the signal from the operation terminal of the another player.

An arrangement of a mass intake air flow measurement device suitable for integrating a humidity sensing device as well as a temperature sensing device and a pressure sensing device is provided. A second bypass passage 501 bypassing a bypass passage 205 is formed and a humidity sensing device 500 is mounted in the second bypass passage 501. A second bypass passage inlet 502 and a second bypass passage outlet 503 formed in a wall surface of the bypass passage 205 are opened parallel to the direction of flow of air flowing in the bypass passage 205.

A surgical system having feedback control for pneumatic actuators includes a pneumatic pressure source and a vitrectomy cutter having a cutting mechanism, a first pneumatic input port, and a second pneumatic input port. A pneumatic actuator is configured to direct pneumatic pressure to one of the first and second pneumatic input ports. A first pressure transducer is located and configured to detect actual pressure at the first pneumatic input port, and a second pressure transducer is located and configured to detect actual pressure at the second pneumatic input port. A controller communicates with the first and second pressure transducers and the pneumatic actuator. It is configured to change the pneumatic actuator actuation timing based on the data communicated from the first and second pressure transducers.

Whether the comparison value of temporarily stored data which is read out from a flash memory by a host system exceeds a threshold value related to a bit error or not is checked, and if the comparison value exceeds the threshold value, the temporarily stored data which is read out is rewritten into the flash memory. If the temporarily stored data has an error, the error is corrected by an error correction part and then the data is rewritten. The threshold value includes, e.g., the number of readouts, the number of bit errors and the number of accumulated occurrences of bit errors. The present invention is suitable for prevention of bit errors due to read disturb and can recover the bit data which changes with time, and therefore makes it possible to improve the reliability of the flash memory by preventing occurrence of bit errors.

An opportunity charging system for a battery-powered, mobile mining machine employs inductive power transfer for transferring battery charging current produced by a rapid charging station to the battery of the machine. An alignment module of the charging station automatically aligns primary coils of the charging station with pick-up coils carried by the machine in response to detection of the presence of the machine at the charging station. The charging station is located along roadways of the mine normally traveled by production equipment.

It is an object to provide a light-emitting element having long lifetime. A light-emitting element is provided, in which a light-emitting layer, a first layer, and a second layer are provided between a first electrode and a second electrode; the first layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the first electrode; the second layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the second electrode; the first layer is a layer for controlling the hole transport; the second layer is a layer for controlling the electron transport; and light emission is obtained from the light-emitting layer by applying voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode such that the potential of the first electrode is higher than that of the second electrode.

A method and a device for monitoring the intake manifold pressure of an internal combustion engine in which a measured signal for the intake manifold pressure is compared with a reference signal for the intake manifold pressure. For a deviation of the measured signal for the intake manifold pressure from the reference signal for the intake manifold pressure, a tolerance range is predefined for error-free operation of the intake and / or exhaust valves of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine. A check is made whether the measured signal for the intake manifold pressure deviates from the reference signal for the intake manifold pressure by more than a predefined tolerance range. In this case an erroneous operation of the intake and / or exhaust valves is detected; otherwise an error-free operation of the intake and / or exhaust valves is detected.

A piecewise continuous-time dynamic control method and apparatus for optimizing remediation of groundwater is disclosed. The piece-wise continuous control process is used to generate efficient designs for rededication systems based on differentiable groundwater models. The remediation strategies generated are characterized by piece-wise continuous functions of time which dictate the operation of remediation devices. The piece-wise continuous functions may change discontinuity at the end of each management period, or optionally, a finite number of times during each management period. The duration and number of management periods covering a groundwater cleanup may be selected by the user of the invention to maximize the contamination removal efficiency and reflect the mechanical limitations of the specific rededication devices chosen. The continuous-time property of piece-wise continuous control requires simpler (usually sparse) derivatives of a groundwater model than the derivatives required by static and discrete-time control of groundwater remediation.

A direct touch type metal diaphragm valve, wherein durability of the valve, that is to say, the ensured number of continuous open / close operations of the valve, is substantially increased under conditions that an appropriate flow rate coefficient Cv is maintained, and changes of the afore-mentioned Cv value over time are mitigated by means of restricting the deformation of the valve seat over time. The afore-mentioned metal diaphragm is formed in a round, reverse-dish shape by laminating a plural number of thin stainless steel plates and a thin Nickel.Cobalt alloy plate, and its center part is bulged upward, and the maximum valve stroke of the valve is regulated to be 55% to 70% of the distance of the maximum bulge height Δh of the afore-mentioned metal diaphragm.

The light-emitting element of the present invention includes a light-emitting layer and a layer for controlling movement of carriers between a pair of electrodes. The layer for controlling movement of carriers includes a first organic compound having a carrier transporting property and a second organic compound for reducing the carrier transporting property of the first organic compound, and the second organic compound is dispersed in the first organic compound. The layer for controlling movement of carriers is provided in such a manner, whereby change in carrier balance with time can be suppressed. Therefore, a light-emitting element having a long lifetime can be obtained.

The present invention provides a light-emitting element including an electron-transporting layer and a hole-transporting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a first layer and a second layer between the electron-transporting layer and the hole-transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first organic compound and an organic compound having a hole-transporting property, the second layer includes a second organic compound and an organic compound having an electron-transporting property, the first layer is formed in contact with the first electrode side of the second layer, the first organic compound and the second organic compound are the same compound, and a voltage is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode, so that both of the first organic compound and the second organic compound emit light.

Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting / receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsimile-format image data attached, communication concerning functional information is performed in addition to the communication of the e-mail data. The functional information can be exchanged by an optimum method matching the form of connection to the Internet. This allows maximum utilization of the capability of each apparatus function in facsimile image communication using e-mail.

A system for processing an image of the mouth, includes an image capture device; a mouthpiece attachment, configured to attach to the image capture device and mount the image capture device in a fixed position relative to a user's mouth; a display; and a processing unit; wherein the processing unit is configured to: receive mouth image data from the image capture device; identify an area of analysis within the image data corresponding to the teeth and gums; extract a set of image property features from the area of analysis of the image data; pass the image property features through a condition classifier, the condition classifier configured to compare the values of the extracted image property features against pre-set parameters to identify sub-areas of the area of analysis which are indicative of oral health conditions; and send result data corresponding to the identified sub-areas to the display.

A branch portion 2c is provided with a branch track 6 for guiding a carrier 8 having been guided in a straight line direction so as to change the traveling direction thereof, and a linear track 5 for guiding the carrier in the straight line direction. A switching unit switches between the branch track 6 and the linear track 5 so as to guide the carrier 8 by one of the branch track 6 and the linear track 5 in accordance with the traveling direction of the carrier 8.

The invention relates a device for measuring the relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in a radioactive package (16), having:a source of photons (10) for irradiating the package,at least one delayed neutron detector (18) able to deliver counting signals for neutrons emitted by the package,means (22, 30) of acquiring counting signals, able to establish a decrease over time in the neutrons emitted, characteristic of the radioactive package,calculation means (32) for comparing the decay characteristic of the radioactive package with the respective characteristic decays of uranium and plutonium and for establishing relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in the package.

Conventional schedulers propagate entries by either polling until an entry is ready, or alternatively, by attaching a so-called “readiness time” to entries. A scheduler which recognizes the readiness time avoids consuming a parent schedule with polling, or with burdening entries with a future readiness time. The system of the present invention employs a deferral queue for deferring entries in response to pop requests from a parent schedule. The child schedule defers entries via the deferral queue when it is not ready to push an entry to the parent schedule, and sets the readiness time corresponding to the entry. Upon the expiration of the readiness time, the child schedule redetermines whether to push the deferred entry corresponding to the deferral queue or optionally to push an interim entry having since arrived. Accordingly, a child schedule receiving a pop requests retains the ability to push an entry at an earlier or later readiness time, and further retains the ability to reconsider which entry to push.

A direct touch type metal diaphragm valve, wherein durability of the valve, that is to say, the ensured number of continuous open / close operations of the valve, is substantially increased under conditions that an appropriate flow rate coefficient Cv is maintained, and changes of the afore-mentioned Cv value over time are mitigated by means of restricting the deformation of the valve seat over time. The afore-mentioned metal diaphragm is formed in a round, reverse-dish shape by laminating a plural number of thin stainless steel plates and a thin Nickel.Cobalt alloy plate, and its center part is bulged upward, and the maximum valve stroke of the valve is regulated to be 55% to 70% of the distance of the maximum bulge height Δh of the afore-mentioned metal diaphragm.

This invention provides a drive method and an drive apparatus for a display panel that continuously maintain good image quality when the display panel is used for a long period of time. Based on the image data that are output from the A / D converter, an APL (Average Picture Level) calculation unit calculates the average brightness level for one field, and then a total light emission calculation unit uses the APL calculates the total number of times light is emitted. Based on the total light emissions or the total usage time, the control unit controls the voltage of drive pulses for the X-sustain driver and Y-sustain driver, or the timing at which they are applied, in order to compensate for changes over time of the PDP.

The invention includes a method and apparatus for improving a channel change response time. A method includes propagating a plurality of media streams toward at least one user terminal using a respective plurality of multicast groups and propagating a meta channel toward the at least one user terminal for conveying information adapted for use in selecting one of the media streams in a manner tending to improve the channel change response time. The media streams include an original media stream conveying media content and at least one auxiliary media stream, generated from the original media stream, where each of the at least one auxiliary media stream conveys the media content of the original media stream, where each of the at least one auxiliary media stream is offset in time with respect to the original media stream. The information conveyed by the meta channel is associated with the media streams. A user device may receive the meta channel information and select one of the media streams using the meta channel information in response to a channel change request from the user terminal, or a network device may select one of the media streams for a user terminal in response to a channel change request from the user terminal.

This invention relates to a processing system, a method of processing and products produced by said process. Such system and method can reduce change over time and / or off quality product.

A continuous variable valve actuating-timing system controlled by electrohydraulic control and set on internal combustion engine is prepared as using entrance one-way valve to control oil intake of hydraulic cylinder and using one-way solenoid valve to control oil exhaust of hydraulic cylinder, using rise-up section of valve actuating cam to control open and rise-up of air door and controlling close and drop-down of air door by depending upon exhausting time of liquid in hydraulic cylinder.

A method used for establishing an optimized path between two endpoints in a transmission network including subnetworks is provided. In the method, two endpoints and route selection elements are specified, a first route search is performed to search for route candidates each of which connects subnetworks by using data on network resources according to the route selection elements, and the route candidates is stored in a dynamic routing table. Then, at least a route candidate is selected as a selected route candidate according to the route selection elements, and a second route search is performed to search for a route connecting network elements in each subnetwork on the selected route candidate.

This invention discloses a hospital information system including HIS, PACS and LIS, in which, all the systems are connected by exchanges to realize information transmission and exchange.