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Disclosed are an IP (Internet Protocol) video terminal with a function for controlling video transmission / reception bandwidth and image quality and a control method thereof. While a call is in progress, the IP video terminal exchanges information with an opposite party and controls a transmission rate and quality of video from the opposite party. Moreover, while the call is in progress, the IP video terminal recognizes a network state and automatically controls video transmission quality according to a change of the network state. The IP video terminal can acquire more natural video by lowering a bandwidth value or / and an image quality value when quality of video from the opposite party is bad during the call.

An X-ray treatment apparatus comprises a low energy X-ray generator for detecting a marker, a marker sensor detecting a position of the marker fixed in the patient to a couch, and both low energy X-ray generator and the marker sensor are installed in the couch, a high energy X-ray generator for treatment, a X-ray sensor for treatment detecting the high energy X-ray for treatment. An X-ray treatment method using the X-ray treatment apparatus comprises the steps of detecting a position of a marker by the marker sensor, irradiating to a lesion the high energy X-ray for treatment, detecting the penetrated high energy X-ray for treatment by the X-ray sensor for treatment, modifying the beam profile, the dosage or / and the radiation direction of the X-ray for treatment according to the latest data of the sensors, performing the next radiation for the lesion.

A system (100) and method for clinical evaluation of neurodegenerative disease present in a subject is described. The system (100) comprises an image acquisition module (122) operable to acquire image data representative of a brain of a subject, and an image analyser (124). The image analyser (124) is operable to determine a quantitative value from the image data that is indicative of the level of neurodegenerative disease present in the brain of the subject. Various embodiments of the invention provide a tool that aids in improved early diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases, such as, for example, Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The object of the present invention is to provide a pad base for endermism which hardly causes bad influence on organism even if a needle fractures in the skin and remains in the MicroPatch method. It is the pad base for endermism in which a minute needle 1 is installed upright on the skin side of a patch base 2 for skin. The minute needle 1 is formed from a biodegradable resin and is composed so as to be able to be injected an administering drug in a hollow center of an axle portion (a hollow portion 3). Even if the injection needle fractures and remains in the skin, the minute needle 1 is decomposed in vivo because it is made of a biodegradable resin; therefore, there is little bad influence is to organism.

Various methods and systems for operating an internal combustion engine are provided. In one embodiment, an example method for operating an internal combustion engine includes, under a first condition, charging a compressed air storage vessel via a compressor. The method further includes, under a second condition, directly injecting compressed air from the storage vessel to a cylinder of the engine to enhance fuel combustion.

A fuel control system for controlling the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to injectors of a fuel supply system during a cold start is provided. The fuel control system includes a LPG pressure regulator and a cold-start fuel control valve for throttling fuel to the injectors when the pressure of the LPG is below a nominal set point pressure of the pressure regulator. The cold-start fuel control valve may be in parallel or series with a fuel lock-off valve. The system is configured to supply limited discrete amounts of LPG to the injectors when the pressure of the LPG is below the nominal set point pressure to allow the LPG to vaporize prior to being injected, by the injector, into an engine. Operation of the cold-start fuel control valve during non-cold starts and normal operation are also provided.

An automatically-opening infant mat that is movable between an open position and a closed position includes a water-resistant flexible material sized to have an infant, at least from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks, placed on the material while the mat is in the open position, a cushion coupled to the material to be disposed under a portion of the infant's body while the mat is in the open position and the infant is placed on the material, and a resilient bias member coupled to the material and configured to bias the material to an open position and to be reversibly moved to a closed position.

An automatically-opening infant mat that is movable between an open position and a closed position includes a water-resistant flexible material sized to have an infant, at least from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks, placed on the material while the mat is in the open position, a cushion coupled to the material to be disposed under a portion of the infant's body while the mat is in the open position and the infant is placed on the material, and a resilient bias member coupled to the material and configured to bias the material to an open position and to be reversibly moved to a closed position.

The invention discloses a method for wireless terminal dynamically switching window in a wireless LAN environment. The wireless LAN comprises several access points and stations which establish wireless communication connections with the access points. The stations can switch the current access window by scanning. The method characterizes in that including following steps: giving the switching window an initial value through the stations; the stations judge if there is another access point of which the signal quality is greater than that of the current access window through scanning wireless channels; if so, further judge if the stations are in a frequently handoff status, if so, the handoff judging result is not allowed to switch window; if not, the handoff judging result is allowed to switch window. The present invention can adaptively adjust the stations' switch windows according to the stations' handoff status and frequently handoff status. On one hand, the invention avoids the occurring of frequently handoff by changing the handoff conditions of the stations, increasing the access efficiency of the stations which is in the handoff status and in a wireless LAN environment, while maintaining the sensitivity of the stations which is in the handoff status, ensuring the quality of the wireless links between the stations and the access points.

The invention relates to a method for compensating for a voltage unbalance in an electrical network, which is fed by using an apparatus based on controlling a flux linkage vector or a voltage vector. Concerning the apparatus based on controlling the flux linkage vector, the method comprises the steps of determining a flux linkage reference vector comprising a positive sequence component and a negative sequence component, and controlling the feeding apparatus of the network in such a manner that the flux linkage vector thereof follows the reference vector with predetermined precision. The negative sequence component of the flux linkage reference vector is arranged to compensate for the amplitude and phase unbalance of the voltage in the electrical network to be fed.

A lamp structure comprises a base, a light-guiding body, and a shade. The base defines an opening at a top thereof and multiple air holes at a periphery thereof, and provided with an electrical plug and a control switch. The interior of the base is provided with a control circuit board including a light module and a negative-ion generator, wherein the control circuit board is electrically connected with the electrical plug and the control switch. The light-guiding body is fitted into the base via the opening of the base, so that the light emitting from the light module can be directed out of the base. The shade is mounted on top of the base, wherein the shade is configured to be a hollow cylinder defining multiple light-through holes on a periphery thereof, whereby the light going out of the base can go through the light-through holes of the shade.

Provided is an automatic analysis apparatus which can obtain stable analysis results by stabilizing a constant-temperature bath and the temperature of a reaction liquid inside reaction containers. For this purpose, the automatic analysis apparatus (1) comprises: a storage tank (10) for storing a temperature controlling liquid (L1) dispensed into reaction containers (5) using dispensing apparatuses (6) and (7); and a dispensation control section for performing a control for dispensing the temperature controlling liquid (L1) using the dispensing apparatuses into an empty reaction container when there is such an empty reaction container, in which neither a specimen nor a reagent is dispensed, on a reaction table (4), where the temperature controlling liquid is cooled down substantially equal to the dispensed reagent by laying a pipe, which is provided between a cooler and a reagent table (2) for passing the coolant, through the temperature controlling liquid in the storage tank.

A direct, non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive method of enhancing neurophysiological and musculophysiological muscle performance, muscle rehabilitation and recovery in specific target muscle(s) in users. Use of the system may provide inhibition of spastic neurotransmission tremors. The device, system, and method utilizes direct vibration stimulation of the specific target through the use and application of a fabric / nylon sleeve or wrap shaped to conform to the extremity or joint, shoulder, neck or head on which the target resides. The device applies vibrations to the target muscle group(s) at up to 100 Hz, with the vibration generating motor mechanism contained within the fabric / nylon sleeve or wrap.

Embodiments of a friction drive system include a battery, a drive motor, a control unit, and a speed wheel. When the friction drive system is mounted on a wheeled vehicle, the speed wheel provides an accurate measurement of the vehicle speed by maintaining contact with a tire of the vehicle. An automatic traction control system, which may be part of the control unit, compares the speed of the speed wheel with the speed of the drive motor to determine whether slippage is occurring. If slippage is detected, then embodiments of an automatic traction control system automatically increase an amount of normal force between a contact surface on the drive motor and the tire, by advancing a position of the drive motor relative to a fixed mounting point. If no slippage is detected, then embodiments of an automatic traction control system automatically reduce the amount of normal force, by retracting a position of the drive r elative to a fixed mounting point. In embodiments of a friction drive system, the relative position of the drive motor may be controlled by powering a worm gear motor attached to a worm gear in response to commands from the control unit.

A charger for a plurality of rechargeable batteries includes a charger housing, a charging circuitry and a multi-sided charging arrangement. The charger housing defines a connecting side, and a plurality of charging sides. The charging circuitry is supported by the charger housing. The multi-sided charging arrangement includes a charger connector movably mounted to the connecting side of the housing. The multi-sided charging arrangement also electrically connects the charging circuitry to an external AC power source. The multi-sided charging arrangement further contains a plurality of charging slots indently formed on the charging sides of the charger housing respectively, wherein each of the charging slots is arranged to accommodate one of the rechargeable batteries so that each of the charging sides is arranged to be used for charging the rechargeable batteries by connecting the charger connector to the external AC power source.

A method for operating an implantable medical device to obtain substantially synchronized closure of the mitral and tricuspid valves based on sensed heart sounds includes sensing an acoustic energy; producing signals indicative of heart sounds of the heart of the patient over predetermined periods of a cardiac cycle during successive cardiac cycles; calculating a pulse width of such a signal; and iteratively controlling a delivery of the ventricular pacing pulses based on calculated pulse widths of successive heart sound signals to identify an RV interval or VV interval that causes a substantially synchronized closure of the mitral and tricuspid valve. A medical device for optimizing an RV interval or VV interval based on sensed heart sounds implements such a method and a computer readable medium encoded with instructions causes a computer to perform such a method.

A formed material having a tubular body and a flange formed at an end of the body is manufactured by multistage drawing of a blank metal sheet. The multistage drawing includes preliminary drawing in which a preliminary body having a body preform is formed from the blank metal sheet, and at least one compression drawing which is performed after the preliminary drawing and in which the body is formed by drawing the body preform while applying a compressive force to the body preform. The at least one compression drawing is performed so as to be completed before the pad portion of pressurization means reaches bottom dead center, and a support force supporting the pad portion acts as the compressive force upon the body preform when the body preform is drawn.

A push-the-bit rotary guiding device includes a mandrel having a central passage; a sleeve which is rotatably sleeved outside the mandrel; a plurality of swing ribs which are circumferentially arranged in an outer wall of the sleeve with an interval; an actuation mechanism, for controlling each swing rib to swing respectively; a plurality of detectors, which are circumferentially arranged in the outer wall of the sleeve with an interval, for detecting a distance to a well wall in real-time; and a controller, for determining whether the actuation mechanism is required to actuate the swing ribs to swing according to the detected distance. An application method of the push-the-bit rotary guiding device is provided. According to the push-the-bit rotary guiding device, through a real-time detection of the detectors, a well section having an expanded or reduced diameter is detected in time and guiding of the rotary guiding device herein is avoided.

A power train for use in motor vehicles has a friction clutch including a housing which rotates with the output shaft of the engine and a clutch disc which transmits torque to the input shaft of a change-speed transmission in the engaged condition of the clutch. The clutch can be engaged and / or disengaged by one or more slave cylinders which is or are rotatably mounted on and is or are being held against axial movement relative to the clutch housing. At least one release bearing can be installed between the piston(s) of the slave cylinder(s) and the diaphragm spring of the friction clutch, and a second bearing is or can be installed between the slave cylinder housing(s) and the clutch housing.

The present invention provides a new image processing device that is robust against a change in capturing conditions. An image processing device 100 has an acquisition unit 110 for acquiring an image, a smoothing unit 120 for smoothing the acquired image with a prescribed smoothing level, a binarization unit 130 for binarizing the smoothed image, and a control unit 140 for making the smoothing unit 120 execute multiple sessions of smoothing differing in the smoothing level.

The present invention describes a Sports board 1, preferably a kiteboard or a wakeboard with adjustable flexural strength. The sports board 1 includes a tensioning apparatus 10 which is arranged between two foot straps 2 mounted on an upper surface 1a of the sports board 1. The tensioning device 10 consists at least of a central actuating device 11 and at least one tensioning element 12 which extends from the actuating device 11 to both of the foot straps 2, wherein the tensioning element (12) is connected either with the upper surface 1a of the sports board 1 near the foot straps 2, or with the foot straps 2. A tension on the at least one tensioning element 12 is varied by the actuating device 11.

An apparatus monitors a tumble mill and includes at least two vibration sensors mounted on a first main bearing and at least two vibration sensors mounted on a second main bearing of the mill. Sensors may be disposed radially with respect to the bearing. A vibration sensor is also connected to a thrust bearing of the mill oriented in a direction parallel to the rotational axis of the shell of the mill. A signal analyzer receives and analyzes signals from all vibration monitors on the bearings and displays an operating condition of the tumble mill. Additional vibration sensors may be mounted on the shell, and sensors may be provided to sense electrical power input and mechanical power output of the motors. In operation, the mill is loaded with a standard charge and operated at a standard rotational rate. The sensor data is analyzed and displayed when the mill is operating.

The present invention relates generally to a method for automatically adjusting the interval of time between defrost cycles in a heat pump system. The method includes tracking the duration of the previous defrost cycle or cycles, and dynamically adjusting the length of time before initiating the next defrost cycle.

An outgoing message judging device judges if an outgoing message transmitted by a sending process is cacheable or not; An outgoing message queue queues the outgoing message, when the judging result indicates to be noncacheable. A returning message judging device judges if a returning message transmitted by a receiving process is cacheable or not; A returning message queue queues the returning message, when the judging result indicates to be noncacheable. A message cache unit stores the returning message in association with the outgoing message corresponding to the outgoing message when the judgment result is cacheable, or caches the returning message corresponding to the outgoing message to transmit the returning message to the returning message queue when the judgment result is cacheable.

A fluid control system for delivery of a liquid includes a pneumatic drive that incorporates a linear actuator to effect known volume changes in a gas reservoir. The gas reservoir is in fluid communication with a gas-side reservoir that is separated from a fluid-side reservoir by a flexible membrane. Movement of the linear actuator effects positive or negative volume differences on the gas in the gas-side reservoir, resulting in a decrease or increase in pressure of the gas that is transmitted to the fluid-side reservoir to draw fluid, primarily liquid, in from a source or deliver liquid out to a sink. In another aspect, a mechanism is provided for the detection and elimination of air bubbles in the fluid path.