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A surveillance system having two or more monitoring devices moving on a single track. The monitoring devices are suitably video cameras but may also include audio monitoring. Power for the monitoring devices, control signals and signals from the monitoring devices are all transmitted on the track. Power is suitably DC and other signals are suitably RF. The system incorporates collision avoidance means to prevent collision between adjacent moving cameras. The collision avoidance means includes hand-over software so that a person can seamlessly scan a region with camera control being passed to adjacent cameras to avoid collision.

An optical disk drive includes a light source, a light focusing element, a light-focusing-element moving mechanism, a detecting unit, a holding unit, and first and second control units. The light focusing element arranged so as to be opposed to a disk on which a signal is recordable is capable of focusing light emitted from the light source as near-field light on the disk. The detecting unit detects a state where the moving mechanism approaches the light focusing element to the disk such that the light is focused as near-field light on the disk and outputs a detection signal upon detection. The holding unit holds a voltage applied to the mechanism in response to the detection signal and is capable of releasing the held voltage. The first and second control units perform first and second control operations to control the distance between the light focusing element and the disk.

A suspension assembly of an actuator of a hard disk drive prevents collisions with a data storage disk of the drive. The suspension assembly includes a load beam, a bracket having a rear end at which the bracket is coupled to the load beam and a flexure, a slider that is attached to the bracket and carries the read/write head of the hard disk drive, and a limiting mechanism capable of selectively attaching and detaching a respective portion of the bracket to and from the load beam during operation. The load beam has a dimple projecting toward the bracket and which normally contacts a first surface of the bracket. The slider is attached to a second surface of the bracket opposite the first surface. The limiting mechanism attaches a portion of the bracket bearing the slider to the load beam when the read/write head is unloaded from the disk. Therefore, the wobbling of the slider is suppressed during the unloading operation. On the other hand, the portion of the bracket bearing the slider is detached from the load beam during a read/write operation to allow the slider to pitch and roll more freely about the dimple.

According to the invention, in a semiconductor device that needs a refresh operation for storing data, data of memory cells selected in response to a row address is read to main amplifiers through bit line pairs, sense amplifiers and data line pairs in a page-mode read operation. Thereafter, while outputting the data held in the main amplifiers to the outside, connecting transistors are turned off so as to disconnect the main amplifiers from the memory cells, and thus, the memory cells can be precharged. Also, in a page-mode write operation, while writing externally supplied input data in the main amplifiers, the memory cells can be precharged.

A pressure introducing chamber is provided with a baffle plate which is positioned with one surface thereof facing in a direction orthogonal to a direction of travel of a measured medium introduced through a pressure introducing hole into the pressure introducing chamber. A first distance between a pressure receiving surface of a sensor diaphragm and an inner surface of the pressure introducing chamber facing the pressure receiving surface and a second distance between the pressure receiving surface of the sensor diaphragm and the other surface of the baffle plate facing the pressure receiving surface are both smaller than a mean free path of the measured medium in the entire region of the pressure receiving surface of the sensor diaphragm.

The present disclosure relates to a radio-frequency identification system for a container, such as a cryogenic container, comprising: a large number of radio-frequency identification tags for cryogenic straws, preferably at least 100 radio-frequency identification tags, each radio-frequency identification tag attachable to or embeddable in a cryogenic straw; an interrogation unit adapted to be placed or integrated inside the cryogenic container; wherein the interrogation unit and radio-frequency identification tags are configured to operate with a frequency of at least 30 MHz. The disclosure further relates to a method of identifying a large number of radio-frequency identification tags in a cryogenic container, preferably at least 100 radio-frequency identification tags, the method comprising the steps of: configuring a radio-frequency identification interrogation unit to transmit radio-frequency interrogation signals in the container with a frequency of at least 30 MHz; configuring the radio-frequency identification interrogation unit to operate in a plurality of different signal propagation modes such that the cryogenic container is divided into a plurality of propagation zones, wherein each propagation zone is associated with a corresponding propagation mode, and wherein only the radio-frequency identification tags within a specific propagation zone are excited when the interrogation unit is in the corresponding propagation mode; and configuring the radio-frequency identification interrogation unit to receive radio-frequency response signals from the radio-frequency identification tags.

A needle holder (7) is provided, in particular, for industrial sewing machines, in which sewing machine needles having different needle gauges and preferably different cylindrical shanks or shafts are supported or held in such a manner that they can be adjusted in a transverse direction. This permits an adjustment of the relative position between the sewing needle (4) and the gripper (6), without requiring an adjustment of the gripper position and/or the needle guard position.

A method for providing an information item regarding a pedestrian in an environment of a vehicle. In this connection, a surround sensor signal generated by a surround sensor of the vehicle is inputted. A pedestrian information item representing the pedestrian is generated, using the surround sensor signal. Finally, the pedestrian information item is transmitted to a communications interface to at least one further vehicle, to provide the pedestrian information item to the further vehicle.

A spring damper disposed inside a coil spring includes: a main body having an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of a spring wire of the coil spring; and an outward convex part having a distal end located on an outer side of a cylindrical virtual plane in the radial direction, the cylindrical virtual plane passing through a center of the spring wire. When the coil spring is compressed by pressing an accelerator pedal by a driver, the outward convex part located between the adjacent spring wires prevents collision between the spring wires.

A sample distribution system 1 has a regulator 4 for receiving a pipetting unit 2 that has at least one exchangeable pipette tip 3, wherein the regulator 4 is configured to change the position of the pipetting unit 2 in relation to a base plate 5, and to detect the presence or absence of pipette tips 3 with a sensor unit 12.

According to the invention, the sensor unit 12 is a photoelectric sensor, in particular a reflection photoelectric sensor, with a detection range. The sensor unit 12 and the pipetting unit 2 can also move in relation to one another, in order to determine the presence of a pipette tip 3, if the pipette tip is in the detection range of the sensor unit 12.

The present invention provides a wirewound inductor of a switching power supply and a switching power supply with the wirewound inductor. The wirewound inductor comprises a magnetic core and a winding wound on the magnetic core. A buffering cushion is disposed between the magnetic core and the winding. The wirewound inductor provided by the present invention is provided with the buffering cushion between the magnetic core and the winding to absorb the dimension changes of the magnetic core caused by the magnetostriction phenomenon, and thus the relative positions of the components are maintained, the collision between the magnetic core and the winding can be prevented, and then the noise is reduced.

An I²C interface is provided which has a data line and a clock line, the clock line having a first input buffer, and the data line having a second input buffer and an output buffer, the data line being provided for the transmission of a data input signal and a data output signal, the clock line being provided for the transmission of a clock signal, the clock line having a first delay element, and the data line having a second delay element and a third delay element. A method for operating an I²C slave interface is also provided.

The magnitude (Ga) of an impact applied to a lens holder is constantly monitored based on an output of an impact sensor. When it is determined that Ga exceeds Gth, focus servo is released, and the lens holder is provided with a force to make it move away from a disk. Upon recheck of Ga, when it is determined that Ga is now equal to or less than Gth, the force having been provided to the lens holder is cancelled, and the focus servo is resumed.

An antireflection structure comprising a transparent substrate having a plurality of holes with U-shaped or V-shaped cross-sectional shapes perpendicular to a flat surface portion and a metal oxide film disposed on the surface portion of the transparent substrate and in the space portions formed in an upward direction from the bottom portions of holes in the transparent substrate, wherein the average diameter of the openings of the holes is 50 nm to 300 nm, the average distance between the center points of openings of the adjacent holes is 100 nm to 400 nm, and the depth of each hole from the surface portion of the substrate is 80 nm to 250 nm; and the thickness of the metal oxide film disposed in each of the space portions increases as the depth of each of the holes becomes larger, thereby reducing the difference in depth between the holes from the uppermost surface portion of the metal oxide film disposed on the surface portion to the surface portions of the metal oxide films in the space portions.

A driving assistance apparatus is configured to identify a target as a crossing target when a vehicle and the target are expected to collide with each other in an intersecting region, configured to decelerate the vehicle at a first deceleration from a first timing before an expected collision timing that the vehicle and the crossing target are expected to collide with each other, and configured to decelerate the vehicle at a second deceleration from a second timing when the crossing target is still present at a second timing immediately before a third timing defined such that the vehicle is not stoppable at a position immediately before entering the intersecting region in a case where the vehicle starts to decelerate from the third timing at a second deceleration having an absolute value larger than an absolute value of the first deceleration.

In a conventional method for preventing a collision between a lens and an optical disc which uses a control system similar to the servo control of the optical disc, it is feared that, when there is no need to apply the servo, the collision prevention method may not perform its function satisfactorily. In an optical disc device that operates with a part of its functions suspended for reduced power consumption, the conventional method is not enough to avoid the collision between the lens and the optical disc. By arranging the lens/disc collision prevention mechanism independently operable, it is possible to prevent the collision between the lens and the disc even during the operation with limited functions.

A method for transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises the step of: receiving sounding reference signal (SRS)-related configuration information; receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first PUSCH; transmitting the first PUSCH on the basis of the DCI; and transmitting a second PUSCH.