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A product and system for identifying and monitoring a characteristic including the part ID, presence, condition, usage and / or performance of ground-engaging products used on various kinds of earth working equipment.

A product and system for identifying and monitoring a characteristic including the part ID, presence, condition, usage and / or performance of ground-engaging products used on various kinds of earth working equipment.

The invention relates to an analytical system and to a method performed therewith for generating and metering optical signals and / or the variations thereof from metering ranges, which are arranged in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array on a substantially optically transparent sensor platform (2), at least comprisingan optical system comprising an illuminating system (1) for illuminating metering ranges on the sensor platform (2) and a detection system (3) comprising at least one detection unit (11) for detecting signals from the metering ranges on the sensor platform (11) the direction of the transmission or reflection of the illuminating light in a spectral range, which comprises the spectral range of the illuminating light, anda sensor platform (2), which can be inserted into the optical system, comprising metering ranges, which are arranged thereon in a one-dimensional or a two-dimensional array,characterized in that the illuminating system (1) comprises an arrangement (8.4) identified as “SLM” for the temporally rapidly variable spatial light modulation, by means of which in the operating state, illuminating patterns of a freely selectable and rapidly variable geometry, which can be determined by the settings of the SLM (8.4), can be generated on the sensor platform (2) from an illuminating light (4), which enters into this SLM (8.4) and which comprises a substantially homogenous intensity distribution in the cross section of the illuminating light at right angle to its direction of expansion.The invention also relates to the use of the analytical system according to the invention and to the methods according to the invention carried out therewith.

A medical tracking and appliance control system includes a medical tracking system having a camera array and an infrared light source, and at least one medical appliance controllable via infrared signals or operative to exchange data via infrared signals. The infrared light source of the medical tracking system is operable to provide wireless control and / or data exchange with the medical appliance.

The invention concerns a magnetic field measuring device equipped with a fluxgate magnetometer, the device comprising: a magnetic sensor or magnetic sensor (110,210) capable of delivering at least one output signal (S2), and equipped with at least one magnetic core, means of exciting said magnetic core, comprising generating means (120,220,420) capable of emitting an excitation signal (S1, S10) at the input of the circuit or magnetic sensor, in the form of a succession of pulses (125,126,225,226), means (130,230,330,430) of sampling the output signal (S1) of the magnetic circuit (110,210), further comprising means for: following the emission of at least one given pulse of said succession of pulses, triggering at least one acquisition of the output signal (S2) of the magnetic circuit by the sampling means during the duration of said given pulse. The invention further concerns a method employed by means of such a device.

A computer system is provided including a variety of switch components for controlling the selective activation and deactivation of the computer systems' memory storage devices, network system and interface peripheral devices. The switching components may include a switch box having one or more switches for controlling activation and deactivation of various computer components. The switch components may also include a bracket assembly having an input port, output port and an intermediate manual switch for controlling the communication between a network and a computer's processor. The bracket assembly and switch box may also be constructed to control the transmission or restriction of power or data signals to a memory storage device or may control the transmission of power or data signals to one or more interface peripheral ports.

A magnetic field measuring device, equipped with a fluxgate magnetometer, the device including a magnetic sensor equipped with at least one magnetic core and a plurality of windings, and configured to deliver at least one output signal, pulse generating means for emitting at least one excitation signal at the input of the magnetic sensor, in the form of a succession of excitation pulses, one excitation pulse of the excitation pulses having a duration at least 50 times less than a period of the at least one excitation signal, sampling means for sampling the output signal of the magnetic sensor, and means for, following the emission of at least one excitation pulse of the succession of excitation pulses and during the duration of the at least one excitation pulse, triggering at least one acquisition of the output signal of the magnetic sensor by the sampling means.

A control device can be used to control a base station, a switch, and a gateway leading to an external network. The device may communicate with a connection server connecting to a cloud computer system and with virtual functions of a control plane of the core network as instantiated in the computer system. The device may manage a database identifying for at least one terminal at least one of the virtual functions allocated to that terminal and a database associating at least one of the virtual functions with an identifier and a state of that function, and update the databases on the basis of information received from the connection server and / or from the virtual functions. The device may use one and / or the other of the databases in order to set up and / or maintain a user plane for a terminal between the base station, the switch, and the interconnection gateway.

A method for calibrating the scan amplitude of an electron beam lithography instrument by determining the position of a feature within the scan. The method is effective at the operating frequency of the scan and using a limited bandwidth video signal including the steps of determining the reference feature to be an edge over which the video signal rises abruptly from a background level to a white level. The method turns the beam on only over a short region of the scan and represents the degree of overlap between the beam on portion of the scan and the white part of the feature as the total video signal accumulated in that scan.

Signal omissions are prevented from occurring in the magnetic data transferred to a slave medium by magnetic transfer employing a magnetic transfer master medium. A master medium formed of a material and having a thickness wherein the bow stiffness=Ebd3 / 12 thereof is in the range greater than or equal to 0.3 N.m2 and less than or equal to 370 N.m2, for a sample piece thereof having a width defined of 1 m and an arbitrary length, and utilizing the Young's modulus E obtained by use of a vibration reed method on sample having a length of 50 mm, an arbitrary width b, and a thickness d.

A method for data transmission in a communication system is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: after the radio access network and the core network finish the initialization, the core network initiates a public bearer establishment or the radio access network requests to establish the public bearer, and the radio access network and the core network establish the public bearer there between; and the radio access network and the core network transmit uplink data and / or downlink data of multiple machine type communication (MTC) equipment by using the public bearer. A system for data transmission in a communication system is also disclosed in the present invention.

An input capacitor and a plurality of reference capacitors sample an input voltage and reference voltages in a first period. A switch circuit connects the input capacitor and one of the reference capacitors between an output and an input of an amplifier in a second period. This mechanism causes a feedback gain to be “1” in the second period. Therefore, it is possible to reduce power consumption and noise.

A medical tracking and appliance control system includes a medical tracking system having a camera array and an infrared light source, and at least one medical appliance controllable via infrared signals or operative to exchange data via infrared signals. The infrared light source of the medical tracking system is operable to provide wireless control and / or data exchange with the medical appliance.

In a mobile communication device, a method for compensating for a frequency adjustment in an oscillator shared between a communication circuit and a positioning signal receiver is provided. In one embodiment, the method begins to receive and store a positioning signal at a first time point. When, at a second time point, the operating frequency of the shared oscillator is adjusted, the frequency adjustment is recorded. After the positioning signal is completely received and stored, the processing of the positioning signal takes into consideration the frequency adjustment. In that embodiment, the processing hypothesizes a frequency shift in the received positioning signal. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for determining the operating frequency of an oscillator detects a beginning time point of a reference signal received by the mobile communication device and enables a counter to count in step with a clock signal derived from the oscillator. When an ending time point of the reference signal is received by the mobile communication device, the count is stopped, and the frequency of the oscillator is determined based on the count in the counter and an expected time that elapsed between the beginning time point and the ending time point.

A method for controlling integration for a CDMA signal and a receiver implementing the same. In accordance with the present invention, non-coherent and even coherent integration periods for a received signal are dynamically and adaptively controlled depending upon the condition of the received signal. The integration period can be very short when signal strength is strong and no blocking exists; while it can be extended to be longer when the signal strength is weak or there is a blocking. Therefore, it is possible to keep locking even under bad circumstances. In addition, the fix time can be shortened when the signal strength is very strong.

A data transmitting device and a flat plate display using the same are disclosed. The data transmitting device includes a current generator comprising a plurality of constant current sources connected in parallel and a plurality of switches connected to output terminals of the constant current sources, respectively, the current generator configured to switch the switches independently according to a preset digital current control signal and adding up the currents supplied from the constant current sources via the tuned-on switches to output; a current amplifier configured to amplify and output the output current of the current generator; and a line driver configured to generate and output a low voltage differential signal according to input data by using a constant current such as the amplified current of the current amplifier.

A computer system including a switch box and bracket assembly including one or more manual switches are provided for controlling the selective activation and deactivation of the computer systems' memory storage devices and network system. Preferably, the computer system includes a wire harnesses including a network cable for connecting a network to the bracket assembly's input port, a relay cable for connecting the bracket assembly's output port to the computer's network port and a manual switch. Instead of network communications being transmitted directly from the network to the network port, the signals are rerouted through the bracket assembly's input port, manual switch and output port, and then routed to the computer's network port. Access to the network is then controlled by simple manual manipulation of a button, toggle or knob to create an open or closed circuit.

Signal omissions are prevented from occurring in the magnetic data transferred to a slave medium by magnetic transfer employing a magnetic transfer master medium. A master medium formed of a material and having a thickness wherein the bow stiffness=Ebd3 / 12 thereof is in the range greater than or equal to 0.03 N.m2 and less than or equal to 27 N.m2, for a sample piece thereof having a width defined of 1 m and an arbitrary length, and utilizing the Young's modulus E obtained by use of a vibration reed method on sample having a length of 50 mm, an arbitrary width b, and a thickness d.

A method for controlling integration for a CDMA signal and a receiver implementing the same. In accordance with the present invention, non-coherent and even coherent integration periods for a received signal are dynamically and adaptively controlled depending upon the condition of the received signal. The integration period can be very short when signal strength is strong and no blocking exists; while it can be extended to be longer when the signal strength is weak or there is a blocking. Therefore, it is possible to keep locking even under bad circumstances. In addition, the fix time can be shortened when the signal strength is very strong.

One embodiment relates to a device for controlling an IP core network including at least one router to an external data packet network and at least one switch connected to the router and to at least one base station of an access network. It may comprise a communication module configured to communicate with a mobility management entity of the core network and to receive information therefrom representative of a mobility state and / or an IP connectivity state of a terminal. It may comprise a module configured to update topology information representing connections between the router(s), the switch(es), the base station(s), and registered terminals, and to update at least some of the topology information as a function of the state information. It may comprise a control module configured to control the router(s) and / or the switch(es) with processing rules applied to data streams for the terminals, which are defined from the updated information.

The disclosure describes imaging and therapy techniques comprising nanodroplets. More particularly, aspects of the disclosure relate to the use of nanodroplets to modify nanobubbles or microbubbles to provide improved imaging and / or therapeutic techniques and compositions.

A method is provided for pre-distorting an optical signal, intended to be transmitted over an optical transmission line and including a plurality of frequency division multiplexed optical sub-carriers. The optical signal is obtained from an optical conversion of an electrical signal including a plurality of frequency division multiplexed sub-carriers. This method includes obtaining a plurality of corrective factors, corresponding to the electrical sub-carriers, as a function of a plurality of values, determined for the optical sub-carriers, of a first parameter dependent on the power of the sub-carriers, and application of the corrective factors to the amplitudes of the corresponding electrical sub-carriers, so as to equalize, at the output of the optical transmission line, the values of the first parameter for the sub-carriers of the optical signal.

The invention relates to an analytical system and method for generating and metering optical signals. The invention includes an optical system having an illuminating system and a sensor platform. The illuminating system includes an arrangement identified as “SLM” for the temporally rapidly variable spatial light modulation, by which in an operating state, illuminating patterns of a freely selectable and rapidly variable geometry, which can be determined by the settings of the SLM, can be generated on the sensor platform from an illuminating light, which enters into this SLM and which includes a substantially homogenous intensity distribution in the in the cross section of the illuminating light at right angles to its direction of expansion.

The invention relates to a method and a transmitter for limiting a signal at chip level. The transmitter limiting the signal at chip level comprises means (704) for determining a limiting signal from a transmissible signal filtered using a pulse shaping filter, the transmitter comprises means (704, 710, 712) for determining an error signal using the transmissible signal and the limiting signal, the transmitter comprises means (720) for generating a limited transmissible signal by reducing the error signal filtered using the filter matched to a chip pulse waveform from the transmissible signal and the transmitter comprises means (722, 724) for filtering the limited transmissible signal using the pulse shaping filter.

A coded track circuit of a signaling control equipment to be located at a wayside location of a railway track is provided. The coded track circuit comprises a first track circuit card coupled to rails of the railway track to detect an absence of a train on the railway track, inform signallers and control relevant signals via track codes. The coded track circuit further comprises a second track circuit card coupled to rails of the railway track, the second track circuit card is inactive but ready to provide a warm-standby or a hot-standby such that the second track circuit card to take over control from the first track circuit card should the first track circuit card fails.

The current invention pertains to a molecular conjugate comprising an antagonist of a cell surface receptor specific to a target cell and an immune effector, such as a T cell modulator, conjugated to the antagonist. The target cell can be a cell responsible for development of a disease in a subject, for example, a cancer cell. In certain embodiments, the immune effector is an immune effector protein or an immune effector fragment thereof. The current invention also pertains to a method of treating a disease in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of the molecular conjugates of the current invention to the subject. The methods of the current invention can be used to treat cancer, such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, or melanoma.

Disclosed are intra-culture perfusion methods applied to standard cell culture disposables using three-dimensional cell culture scaffold and synthetic vasculature compositions in high-throughput screening and high-content screening applications, and assay development.

An antenna apparatus, a communication apparatus, and a steering adjustment method thereof are provided. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna structure. The antenna structure includes an antenna unit. The antenna unit includes i feeding ports, where i is a positive integer larger than 2. A vector of each of the feeding ports is controlled independently. In the steering adjustment method, a designated direction is determined, where the designated direction corresponds to beam directionality of the antenna structure. In addition, the vectors of the feeding ports of the antenna unit are configured according to the designated direction. Accordingly, the antenna size can be reduced, and beam steering in multiple directions would be achieved.

The injector unit according to the disclosure comprises a seat plate with a through opening extending through the seat plate, an armature element which can be placed onto the seat plate, in order to close the through opening, a spring element pushing the armature element in the direction of the seat plate, in order to close the through opening, an electromagnet designed to load the armature element with a force, in order to lift the armature element from the seat plate, and a stop for limiting a stroke of the armature element in a state in which it is lifted from the seat plate. The injector unit is characterized by a control unit designed to reduce an actuating signal of the electromagnet for lifting the armature element from the seat plate before the armature element contacts the stop for the first time after being lifted from the seat plate.