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[PROBLEMS] To provide a liquid crystal display device that does not need any surface aligning treatment, realizes striking increase of a response speed of movie display and is free from any light leakage (produce dark field) at black display.[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] There is provided a liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of transparent substrates and, interposed therebetween, a polymer stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display device utilizing the polymer stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal exhibits a large birefringence change upon application of an electric field to cell substrate in an in-plane direction. The polymer stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal is composed of a low-molecular liquid crystal capable of developing a blue phase between cholesteric phase and isotropic phase and a polymer network created in the low-molecular liquid crystal. Further, by optimizing the type and amount of chiral dopant added to the liquid crystal, there can be provided a liquid crystal display device that is free from any light leakage (produce dark field) at black display.

Presents a liquid crystal display device that does not require a surface orientation treatment, dramatically improves the response rate of dynamic image displays and does not experience light leaks when the display is black, which means to yield a dark field of vision. The liquid crystal display device comprises polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals sandwiched between a pair of clear substrates. The liquid crystal display device obtained using polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals exhibits large double refraction changes when an electrical field is applied in an in-plane direction to the cell substrates. The polymer-stabilized blue phases liquid crystals comprises a low molecular weight liquid crystal that allows a blue phase to appear between cholesteric and isotropic phases and polymer network formed in the low molecular weight liquid crystals. Furthermore, a liquid crystal display device that does not leak light when the display is black (yields a dark field of vision) can be obtained by optimizing the type and amount of a chiral dopant added to the liquid crystals.

An implantable vessel filter device having a plurality of radially expandable legs with hooks, and a center-post configured to prevent entanglement of the radially expandable legs when they are compressed against the center-post. In one variation, the filter device comprises a first set of legs, forming a first filter basket in the expanded position, and a second set of legs, forming a second filter basket distal to the first filter in the expanded position. Hooks may be provided on the second set of legs to prevent migration of the filter along the vessel after the filter is deployed. Grooves may be provided along the shaft of the center-post to receive the hooks and prevent the hooks from interlocking when the legs of the filter are compressed along the center-post.

A method and apparatus for detecting leaks and mechanical faults by way of an ultrasonic device. An output from a variable gain amplifier is supplied to a pair of heterodyning circuits, i.e., a dual heterodyning circuit. At each respective heterodyning circuit, the output signal from the variable gain amplifier is multiplied by a local oscillator that is internal to each circuit. The dual heterodyning circuit is used to provide an enhanced input transducer signal for spectral analysis. This permits the capture of low level frequency components for extraction during spectral analysis. The dual heterodyning circuit of the present invention to provide the enhanced spectrum to thereby permit an easy determination of whether the resonance is mechanical or electrical becomes clear. In addition, fault frequencies are also more easily discernable. In other words, the enhanced signal output provides a lower signal to noise ratio such that the ease with which frequency components are analyzed is increased.

A consulting system helps a user on collecting information, building object model, and creating virtual environment, produces animated images, captures feedback from the user, analyzes user's response, and provides advices in various formats. First, the system provides interfaces for guiding the user to collect, manipulate, organize, search, and retrieve advices and their related examples. Next, the system provides interfaces for the user to build object models, which consist of the general object model for describing regular objects and human object model for describing human characteristics and behaviors. Further, the system provides interfaces for the user to build virtual environment from object models and creates animated images according to the events described in the related examples, properties associated with objects, and event templates. Further, the system captures user's feedback, which can be verbal requirement, facial expression, and keyboard input. Then the system analyzes user's response, compares to predetermined goals or expert's requirement, and provides user advices in various desired formats.

A system and method for broadcast response generally employing RDS, DARC, or similar technology is provided, including a method for responding to a broadcast comprising extracting an event identifier from a broadcast signal; detecting a response by a user to the broadcast signal; polling a communications device to determine a user identifier; and communicating the event identifier and the user identifier when the user response is detected.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing an alkyl ester of a fatty acid wherein a transesterification reaction is carried out between a fat or oil and an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst comprising a composite metal oxide having a perovskite structure; and a process for preparing an alkyl ester of a fatty acid wherein a transesterification reaction is carried out between a fat or oil and an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxides, hydroxides and carbonates of alkaline earth metals is used as the catalyst, with the alcohol made into a supercritical state or subcritical state. According to the present invention, the alkyl ester of a fatty acid which can be effectively utilized as a diesel fuel oil or the like can be prepared at high efficiency and on an industrial scale mainly from triglyceride contained in a fat or oil, especially a waste oil.

Devices, systems, and methods for treating a heart of a patient may make use of one or more implant structures which limit a size of a chamber of the heart, such as by deploying a tensile member to bring a wall of the heart toward (optionally into contact with) a septum of the heart.

A mechanical joint for a gas turbine engine includes:(a) an annular first component having an annular, radially-extending first flange; (b) an annular second component having an annular, radially-extending second flange abutting the first flange; (c) a plurality of generally radially-extending radial channels passing through at least one of the first and second flanges; (d) a plurality of generally axially-extending channels extending through the first flange and communicating with respective ones of the radial channels; and (e) a plurality of fasteners clamping the first and second flanges together.

Fibrosis arises as part of a wound healing response that maintains organ integrity following catastrophic tissue damage, but can also contribute to a variety of human pathologies, including liver cirrhosis. The invention demonstrates that cellular senescence acts to limit the fibrogenic response to tissue damage, thereby establishing a role for the senescence program in pathophysiological settings beyond cancer. Accordingly, the methods of the invention relate to modulating cellular senescence in disease tissue that have elevated numbers of senescent cells, such as in fibrotic tissues.

The invention discloses an exoskeleton gait analysis system and method based on multi-sensor fusion. The exoskeleton gait analysis system based on multi-sensor fusion comprises outer bones, attitude and heading devices, intelligent shoes, encoders and microprocessors. The outer bones include hip joint parts, thigh mechanical bones, knee joint parts, shank mechanical bones and ankle joint parts. The microprocessors are used for analyzing and processing motion state data generated in the walking process of the outer bones. The exoskeleton gait analysis method based on multi-sensor fusion includes the steps that outer bone motion state data collected by the attitude and heading devices, the intelligent shoes and encoders are subjected to denoising and analysis processing and then transmitted to an upper computer, the upper computer adjusts walking gait and speed according to all outer bone data information, and stability and safety during walking of the outer bones are ensured. The system is simple and light, data collection is efficient, control responding is sensitive, and wearing comfort of the outer bones and safety guarantee ability of a wearer in the walking process are greatly improved.

A consulting system helps a user on collecting information, building object model, and creating virtual environment, produces animated images, captures feedback from the user, analyzes user's response, and provides advices in various formats. First, the system provides interfaces for guiding the user to collect, manipulate, organize, search, and retrieve advices and their related examples. Next, the system provides interfaces for the user to build object models, which consist of the general object model for describing regular objects and human object model for describing human characteristics and behaviors. Further, the system provides interfaces for the user to build virtual environment from object models and creates animated images according to the events described in the related examples, properties associated with objects, and event templates. Further, the system captures user's feedback, which can be verbal requirement, facial expression, and keyboard input. Then the system analyzes user's response, compares to predetermined goals or expert's requirement, and provides user advices in various desired formats.

The invention discloses a method and a system for controlling a manipulator. The manipulator control method comprises that: a programmable terminal receives tutorial program data and sends the tutorial program data to a motion controller, wherein the tutorial program data are used for indicating the motion of a manipulator to finish the operations of picking and placing an injection molding product; the motion controller analyzes the received tutorial program data, and outputs a motion control signal to a manipulator driving device according to the tutorial program data; and the manipulator driving device controls the motion of the manipulator according to the motion control signal to finish the operations of picking and placing the injection molding product. By adopting the method combining the programmable terminal and the motion controller to control the manipulator, the motion of the manipulator can be simply and effectively controlled, and the control response is sensitive.

A solar servo control tracking device is disclosed. The device includes: an integrated control device having a solar cell sensor unit detecting luminance at a solar azimuth, and an integrated control panel transmitting a control signal at a maximal solar azimuth, calculated by comparing a solar azimuth from the luminance at a solar azimuth; and solar tracking devices, respectively having a tracking device controller receiving the control signal via a wireless link, a high torque driving unit with an AC single phase inductor to generate driving torque by the control signal from the tracking device controller, solar module assemblies driven by the high torque driving unit to track the solar azimuth in accordance with the control signal, and an operating angle sensor unit installed to the high torque driving unit to detect operating angles of the solar module assemblies that track the sun by the control signal.

The invention is a method for preparing AlPO4 or SAPO molecular sieve, using ionic liquid as reaction medium, adding in amine as auxiliary template. And it can be used to synthesize molecular sieves of various structures, comprising the steps of: A) using halogen 1-alkyl-3- methylimidazole ionic liquid as reaction medium and amine as auxiliary template, blending at 70-100 deg.C for 1-30 min; B) adding in precursor compounds of P, Al and Si and hydrofluoric acid to prepare precursor mixture of molecular sieve, crystallizing at 150-300 deg.C for 0.5-3 h, where the molar ratio of Al2O3 to P2O5 to SiO2 to HF to amine to halogen 1-alkyl -3-methylimidazole ionic liquid = 1:(1.7-3.8):(0-1):(0.05-0.2):(0.5-3):(10-40); and C) cooling to room temperature, filtering, washing and drying, so as to obtain a solid-AlPO4 or SAPO molecular sieve.

A mechanical joint for a gas turbine engine includes:(a) an annular first component having an annular, radially-extending first flange; (b) an annular second component having an annular, radially-extending second flange abutting the first flange; (c) a plurality of generally radially-extending radial channels passing through at least one of the first and second flanges; (d) a plurality of generally axially-extending channels extending through the first flange and communicating with respective ones of the radial channels; and (e) a plurality of fasteners clamping the first and second flanges together.

The present invention is process of preparing water soluble epoxy resin curing agent. The preparation process includes the following steps: 1. ring-opening reaction of polyethylene glycol and bisphenol A type epoxy resin under the action of catalyst to produce modified epoxy resin with epoxy groups in two ends; 2. dropping the modified epoxy resin into polyethylene polyamine to produce end amino-epoxy addition compound; 3. dropping compound 501 into the addition compound to produce end capping product; and 4. dropping organic acid into the end capping product to form salt and adding certain amount of water to produce the water soluble epoxy resin curing agent. The synthesized curing agent has high water solubility, capacity of well controlling reaction with polybasic amine and high flexibility.

A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine to improve air / fuel ratio control using a feed-forward observer-based control strategy include estimating current and future airflow actuator positions, determining corresponding mass airflow values, and determining a future in-cylinder air charge based on a difference between the current and future mass airflow values. In one embodiment, the difference between current and future mass airflow estimates is used as a feed-forward term and combined with a sensed or measured value generated by a mass airflow sensor prior to being processed using a manifold filling model to predict the future cylinder air charge. In another embodiment, the current and future mass airflow estimates are processed using the manifold filling model with the results used to generate a future delta cylinder air charge that is subsequently used as a feed-forward term and combined with a measured air charge corresponding to a measured mass airflow processed by the manifold filling model.

The invention provides a process for preparing phosphate concentrate and by-products calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide from mid and low-grade phosphate rocks, and belongs to the technical field of inorganic chemical industry. The process comprises the following steps: burning mid and low-grade phosphate rocks at 900-1100 DEG C; and then carrying out a series of treatment including digesting, leaching and participating to obtain phosphate concentrate, calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide. By virtue of the process, the phosphorus element is reserved in the prepared phosphate concentrate to the maximal extent; meanwhile, the by-products calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide are generated; calcium elements, magnesium elements and phosphorus elements in the mid and low-grade phosphate rocks are fully utilized; and meanwhile, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate are recycled in the treatment process, so that the target of saving raw materials is reached.

The invention discloses a method for synthesizing inorganic perovskite nanowires. According to the method, a CsPbBr3 nanowire which has a length of several millimeters, a diameter of only about 10 nmand an ultrahigh draw ratio is prepared at a low temperature by utilizing a solvothermal method and an anion exchange method, and nanowires CsPbI3 and CsPbCl3 are obtained by virtue of a simple anionexchange process. The method has a great effect of promoting industrial large-scale preparation of inorganic perovskite nanowires and is expected to further realize application in various aspects suchas photoelectric detection, laser and solar cells and the like. The method disclosed by the invention is simple, controllable, high in yield, uniform in morphology, low in reaction temperature and suitable for large-scale production.

A device for metering fluid flow is disclosed. The device includes a variable sized orifice defined by a fluid flow conduit and an element movable relative to the fluid flow conduit to vary a size of the orifice, a pressure sensor configured to determine a pressure differential across the orifice and generate a pressure signal, a positioning device configured to determine a position of the element relative to the conduit and generate a position signal, and a processor configured to determine the fluid flow rate using the pressure signal and the position signal. The system can directly control the adjustable valve or orifice. Alternatively, the system can move back and forth between a direct mode and a PID mode. When in a PID mode, the system employs a standard PID algorithm with a variable gain term. The system switches to direct mode when it is advantageous for the controller to directly change the valve position based upon the setpoint, and the input and output pressures.

Systems, apparatus and methods are discussed for controlling resonance in in-the-ear headphones. Resonance effects resulting from wave reflection and superposition can occur in the cavity formed by the port tube of an earbud and the wearer's ear canal. In this invention, acoustically resistive structures are provided to create sound diffusion in the cavity. In one embodiment, a spring coil with several adjustable parameters is inserted into the port tube. In another embodiment, a pattern of grooves is carved into the inner surface of the port tube. Porous filters can also be used in conjunction with both of the embodiments described above. The result of providing the resistive structures in an earbud is a flattened cavity frequency response and improved sound quality.

The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait. One of ordinary skill in the art, having this data, can obtain cloned DNA fragments, synthetic DNA fragments or polypeptides constituting desired sequences by recombinant methodology known in the art or described herein.

A robot includes a base, a first arm that rotates around a first rotation axis, a second arm that rotates around a second rotation axis extending in a direction different than the first rotation axis, a third arm that rotates around a third rotation axis extending in a direction parallel to the second rotation axis, a first inertia sensor at the first arm, a second (a) inertia sensor at the third arm, a first angle sensor at a first drive source, a third angle sensor at a third drive source, and the drive sources rotate the respective arms. Angular velocities from the first inertia sensor and the first angle sensor are fed back to a first drive source control unit. Angular velocities from the second (a) inertia sensor and the third angle sensor are fed back to a second drive source control unit.