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A method and apparatus are provided for automatically preparing a client communication pertaining to a financial product for a client, wherein the client communication is for combined use with a corresponding host vehicle. The method comprises providing a format for the client communication wherein the communication format includes a variable portion; inputting into a computer-accessible storage medium variable information other than a client identification; inputting into the storage medium decision information; and using the decision information to select a subset of the variable information for inclusion in a variable portion of the client communication corresponding to the variable portion of the client communication format. The apparatus comprises an inputting device for inputting into a computer-accessible storage medium variable information comprising other than a client identification and decision information; a processor operatively coupled to the storage medium for using the decision information to automatically select a subset of the variable information for each of the clients; and an output preparing component in operative communication with the processor for preparing the client communications and for automatically inserting into the client communication the subset of variable information for the corresponding and respective client.

The present invention relates to an improved countermeasure for circadian and sleep disruption as caused by a traditional alarm clock. It incorporates a lighting system at the alarm clock that, prior to the preset waking time, will emit a light that gradually increases in intensity as it changes the ultraviolet spectrum of light it emits, so as to simulate the rising sun. This will ease the waking process for many people, especially those prone to simple disruptions of their circadian regulation. It may also be set to operate in a reverse mode so as to simulate the setting sun thus helping stimulate melatonin production and easing one into sleep.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the implementation of an Application Programming Interface (API) that enables platform independent plug-ins to work with browser applications. In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the API allows platform independent plug-ins to use XPCOM (Cross Platform Component Object Model), a technology that allows software components of different various programming languages to communicate. In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the API enables platform independent plug-ins to take advantage of existing BlackConnect and Scriptable Plug-In API technologies to integrate with the native plug-in API. Embodiments of the present invention ensures backward code compatibility by allowing the current platform independent plug-in API and browser API to remain unchanged. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention enables platform independent plug-ins to communicate and use components created in native programming languages such as C++. This promotes component reuse and eases the development effort.

A device and method for the infusion of medicinal fluid at a controlled flow rate to a wound site or the blood stream of a patient is disclosed. A pump delivers fluid under pressure from a fluid source through a continuous and substantially constant flow path and through a supplemental bolus dose flow path. A large volume bolus dose reservoir accumulates a large quantity of fluid from the bolus dose flow path and holds the fluid under pressure. A flow regulator controls the fill rate of the large volume bolus reservoir. The large volume supplemental bolus dose is released from the bolus reservoir upon patient activation of a valve. The release rate of the bolus dose is controlled by the decompression of an elastomeric sphere or spring chamber, by the pressure gradient at the valve and/or by optional flow control tubing. In one embodiment, a source of fluid under pressure is pumped at a continuous and substantially constant rate to a wound site or the blood stream of a patient and into a bolus syringe, which is capable of holding a large quantity of fluid under pressure. A plunger on the bolus syringe may be depressed to release a bolus dose of fluid into a chamber accumulator and then to the patient at a controlled release rate.

This invention relates to a method for consolidating and prioritizing web application vulnerabilities. Specifically, this invention relates to a method for consolidating the root causes for vulnerabilities in web applications, and then prioritizing the vulnerabilities to identify which should be remediated first.

The disclosed aerodynamic muscle motion simulation control platform comprises: three very same pieces of aerodynamic muscles connected to a central post and a fixed platform, a motion platform hinged to the muscles with uniform-distributed hinge points, and the central post to rigid connect with the fixed platform and hinge the motion platform through a central ball hinge with the hinge point on platform center to endow the motion platform two rotation DOF. Besides, the control system comprises an input conversion module, a controller, and an output drive amplification module. This invention is fit to different motion simulation.

A method, a device and a computer program product for determining an electromagnetic near-field of a field excitation source of an electrical system are provided, in particular for analysis and/or optimization of an antenna radiation, of a cross-talk problem, of a signal reflexion/transmission, of a stray field, of an irradiation problem or the like. The method includes defining electrical and magnetic properties of the material distribution of the system, defining at least one field excitation source, and determining the electromagnetic near-field components within at least one and in particular all partitions by solution of the Maxwell's equations of the near-field, where each near-field component of each partition can be represented by a linear position of M predetermined ansatz functions P_i orthogonal to one another with regard to a scalar product and weighted with field coefficients v_i, and the spatial and/or time derivative of the near-field component can be determined as a linear position of these ansatz functions P_i weighted with derivative coefficients w_i, and where each coefficient w_i can be determined from a quantity of previously determined field coefficients v_i and derivative coefficients w_i, so that the determination effort of the near-field of the system rises in substantially linear manner to the number N of partitions in the domain under consideration and to the number M of ansatz functions P_i used in the linear position.

A method for enhanced exercise training or performance utilizing intentional controlled tachypnea and somatic sensory alkalosis biofeedback training to maintain an essentially non-acidic state during exercise. A trainee is instructed to decrease measured transcutaneous CO₂ levels by increased ventilation and to correlate measured transcutaneous CO₂ levels with subjective somatic symptoms. Studies under exercise conditions measure the intensity of exercise correlating to an onset in blood lactate accumulation in the trainee and such level of intensity is in turn correlated with a predetermined heart rate. The trainee is then instructed to use heart rate as a guide to the need for increased ventilation to lower blood CO₂. In another embodiment, the method of the instant invention utilizes intentional controlled tachypnea to increase maximum breath holding time.

The invention discloses a method for adjusting and controlling all parameters of a water-turbine generator set, which comprises the following step: based on the most advanced guide vane and blade double-regulation water-turbine generator set (KAPLAN type) at present, carrying out optimal adjustment on three parameters of the water-turbine generator set, namely, guide vane opening, blade opening and water-turbine rotating speed through an intelligently-optimized intelligent algorithm model to realize highest efficiency or maximum output of the generator set and obtain an optimal operating point. According to the method, the optimal solution of a feasible solution domain formed by all the adjustable parameters of the water-turbine generator set can be obtained to realize the target of highest efficiency or maximum output on a whole operation domain of the water-turbine generator set; and compared with the efficiency of the most advanced double-regulation generator set at present, the efficiency is improved by 3-10 percent, therefore, the method is a new breakthrough for realizing efficient and economic operation of a hydropower station.

The invention discloses a method for participating area control error (ACE) control by uniformly modeling a wind power plant and a thermal power plant. During modeling of control area automatic gain control (AGC), the conventional thermal power plant and a wind power plant control object are involved; the wind power plant control object is similarly modeled according to the characteristics of the conventional thermal power plant; the wind power plant and the thermal power plant are classified into different control sets according to different power generation types; different sequencing strategies can be designed in the sets or among the sets, so that the wind power plant and the conventional plant can jointly participate in the ACE control. The wind power plant control object is controlled in different modes by considering a control area adjustment backup and an ACE adjustment direction, so that integrated coordinative control of the wind power plant and the thermal power plant is finally realized.

A mobile device (100) caried by a user has sensors providing acceleration and orientation information. These are processed to provide trajectory for the device. The processing includes improved methods using different modules (1, 2, 3,5, 6, 7) for classifying the motion (1) and detecting a user's steps (5), tracking the orientation (3) and acceleration (2) of the device (100), estimating the length of the user's steps (6) and estimating the heading (7) of the user. The trajectories are compared to a map and corrected by the constraints provided by the map. Parameters of the methods of producing the trajectories are optimised on the basis of maximising probability of the trajectory found by the map matching given the indicated trajectory.

The lens presents horizontal prismatic refractive power that varies progressively along the main progression meridian (MM′) with the addition of horizontal prismatic power being greater than 2 prismatic diopters in absolute value, this addition of horizontal prismatic power being defined by the difference between the horizontal prismatic refractive power at the reference point (L) of the far vision zone and the horizontal prismatic refractive power at the projection point (P′) of the reference point (P) of the near vision zone (VP) on the vertical line passing through the reference point (L) of the far vision zone.

The present invention belongs to the technique field of wind power generation, and relates to a yawing device of an aerogenerator, which consists of a controller, a yawing arrester, a yawing pilot relay, a yawing contactor, a yawing electric motor, a yawing retarder, a yawing outer rotor, a yawing counter, a cable sensor, a dogvane, and an anemoscope. The electric motor is connected with the yawing retarder which is joggled with a big yawing rotor. The controller controls the yawing arrester according to the input signal of the dogvane or the anemoscope, and the operation of the yawing electric motor by the yawing pilot relay and the yawing contactor. The yawing electric motor drives the big yawing rotor by the yawing retarder. The electric motor is a magnetoelectric machine with the structure of Halbach magnet. The present invention can improve the starting performance of the yawing device and cause the yawing device to drive the main flight crew compartment to rotate easier under the work situation of frequent starts and stops; at the same time, the over loading capability of the yawing electric motor is improved and the malfunction rate of the yawing device is decreased to maintain the workload, and the operation life of the yawing electric motor is prolonged.

The invention discloses a system for regulating and optimizing smoke by power generation and recycle of residual heat of a sintering ring cold machine, which mainly comprises a ring cooling machine, a ring cooling machine wind box, a ring cooling machine wind chamber, a switching baffle door, a dual-pressure boiler without resisual heat and a steam filling and condensing type dual-pressure steam turbine, wherein the ring cooling machine wind chamber is divided into a high-temperature wind chamber and a low-temperature wind chamber which are respectively connected with the dual-pressure boilerwithout resisual heat through inlet flues, the steam outlet of the dual-pressure boiler without resisual heat is connected with the steam filling and condensing type dual-pressure steam turbine, and the outlet of a sediment chamber of the dual-pressure boiler without resisual heat is connected with a circulation fan through the flues and a wind complementing door. The invention has the highest efficiency in recovering residual heat, can use the resisual heat of sintering mineral materials at most, keeps stability, high efficiency and contineous operation for power generation by using the residual heat, and has important meaning for steal and iron plants.

The invention discloses a three-cylinder type large-capacity magneto-rheological damper for vibration control of a large civil engineering structure, which comprises a magneto-rheological damping cylinder (9), a puddle damping cylinder (5), an auxiliary cylinder (19), a magneto-rheological main piston (23), a puddle piston (6), a piston rod (17), a sealing baffle (20), a damping channel (16), a cylinder cover (3) and a spherical hinge joint (13), wherein magneto-rheological liquid (11) is filled in the magneto-rheological damping cylinder, and an annular excitation coil (8) capable of generating a magnetic field is arranged in the magneto-rheological damping cylinder; and the puddle damping cylinder is arranged adjacent to the magneto-rheological damping cylinder, and elastic puddle (7) is filled in the inner cavity of the puddle damping cylinder, thus the damper can generate large damping under the condition of large displacement, and the safety of the damper can be improved. By arranging a displacement splitting mechanism (18), the magneto-rheological damper has high rigidity and large damping in a low-frequency region and has low rigidity and small damping in a high-frequency region. Compared with the traditional magneto-rheological damper with the same size, the maximum capacity of the damper of the invention is improved by more than one time, and the vibration control of the large civil engineering structure is more effective.

A body 1 placed thereon with a table 35 put thereon with an object to be measured W, and a portal frame 41 supporting both ends of rail 43 to the body through pillars 42A and 42B, the rail being placed above the table 35 and extending along a moving direction of a pair of probes 91A and 91B, are provided. A pair of sliders 51A and 51B are movably supported by the rail 43. The pair of the probes are extended downward from the sliders 51A and 51B to be abutted to the object W put on the table 35. The flexural deformation of the probes 91A and 91B is decreased due to the shorter length of the probes 91A and 91B, so that the high accurate measurement is achieved and a relative measurement is omitted.

A mechanism adapted for rapid attachment/detachment of a lighting device to a rail system of a host weapon system. The mechanism includes a body, a fixed rail clamp, and a floating rail clamp that is adjustably attached to the body in an opposing manner to the fixed rail clamp to provide a clamping effect therebetween. The floating rail clamp has a recess in a surface opposite the fixed rail clamp. A holding screw passes through a bore in the fixed rail clamp, and a clamp screw passes through a slot in the floating rail clamp and is threaded into one end of the holding screw. An oppositely-disposed end of the clamp screw protrudes within the recess of the floating rail clamp, and a cam arm has a first end pivotably coupled to the second end of the clamp screw and an oppositely-disposed distal end that protrudes from the recess.

A foldable roof assembly having a soft panel top assembly for a vehicle in sealing engagement with a hard top portion of a roof. The soft panel top assembly has a fixed portion attached to the vehicle and a lightweight pivotal portion that folds back to provide the occupant a quick and easy open air effect. Two door rails of the soft panel top assembly are connected to the vehicle. Two side bows are attached to a first bow member, which is secured to a windshield frame when in a closed position, and are connected at a pivot point created with a bracket attached to the door rails to allow the pivotal portion to pivot to an open position. The soft panel top assembly includes a rear header that is a wireframe and engages with seals in the hard top roof portion to provide a weatherproof seal.

Disclosed is a parallel robot set to assemble diminutive machine. The robot comprises two same three-dimensional parallel frames which are in series. The parallel frame has three active links that comprise two Huke gemels and a micro displacement amplifier. The computer control system drives the displacement output of the piezoelectricity equipment. The undersides of the three active links are connected with the middle plate, and another side is connected with the work plate in a parallel frame group.In another group, the undersides of the three active links are connected with the underpan, and another side is connected with the middle plate. The middle plate is hung under the underpan. The two fingers of the robot are set on the work plate and the middle plate, which can work just like the human fingers.

The invention discloses an urban rail maglev train traction converter output device. The device comprises an inverter, an input switch cabinet and an output converting device, wherein the input switch cabinet is in circuit connection with an input end of the inverter; the output converting device is in circuit connection with an output end of the inverter; the output end of the output converting device is in circuit connection with a plurality of external motors; the inverter comprises a plurality of inverter modules; and the output converting device comprises an output transformer which is in circuit connection with the output end of the inverter and an output switch device which is in circuit connection with the output end of the output transformer. The urban rail maglev train traction converter output device is provided with a plurality of same inverter modules and reduces the capacity demand of the traction inverter, thereby reducing the weight and the volume of the inverter and being beneficial to the arrangement of equipment; the voltage resistant grade and the output current demand of an inverter power device are reduced, and the cost of a traction system is reduced; the voltage formed by combining two inverters is high, and the speed-up capability of a train high-speed section can be improved; and the redundancy and the reliability of the system are improved.

A trim retainer assembly having a clip portion with a base and a molded housing having a keyhole and an opening. The keyhole in the doghouse is smooth for improved molding and elimination of tuning since there are no detents in the bore to tune or maintain. The base is provided with a pair of arms that are flexible and each arm having a self detent feature that passes through the opening in the housing to provide clip retention and, at the same time, float for tolerance variations is provided. The pair of arms also include nominal centering detents. The keyhole bore, opening, and clip portion provides clip detent, consistent retention effort, float, centering and anti-rotation.

The invention discloses an effective magneto-rheological damper of a full damping channel, wherein a cylinder is connected with an upper and a lower end covers, a piston rod is inserted in the steel cylinder through a sealing ring which is arranged on the end cover, a non-corrosive steel damping magnetic slab is mounted on two ends of a piston slab, a plurality of the piston slabs are provided and alternately sleeved on the piston rod with a magnetic core sleeve barrel, the outer lateral of the magnetic core sleeve barrel is winded with an excitation coil, the excitation coil is externally sleeved with a pair of guiding wires, and a damping magnetic sleeve ring is arranged between a pair of guiding wires. The invention which adopts the damper greatly improves the proportion of the effective length under the condition that the whole length of the damping channel is determined, basically realizes that the full damping channel is effective, and the damper increases the largest output to more than one time under the condition that the external geometric size is defined. The magneto-rheological damper which adopts the structure form can realize lager damper output with more ingenious shape, and greatly increase the employing efficiency of a semi-active control system.

The invention discloses a fused salt heat storage and heat release peak load regulating system for a thermal power generating unit. According to the fused salt heat storage and heat release peak loadregulating system, a fused salt heat storage system, an I-stage fused salt low-temperature heat release system and a II-stage fused salt high-temperature heat release system are additionally arrangedon the basis of the original thermal power generating unit, and therefore peak load regulating of a power grid is realized through heat storage and heat release of fused salt; when the dispatching load of the power grid is decreased, part of high-temperature reheat steam is extracted from an outlet of a boiler reheater and exchanges heat with the fused salt in the fused salt heat storage system, and therefore consumption and utilization of the reheat steam in the electricity utilization off-peak season are completed; when the dispatching load of the power grid is increased, a part of high-pressure feedwater flowing to a high-pressure heater is divided into the I-stage fused salt low-temperature heat release system to exchange heat with the fused salt; and meanwhile, the steam discharge amount of a high-pressure cylinder is increased, part of increased exhaust steam of the high-pressure cylinder is fed into the II-stage fused salt high-temperature heat release system to exchange heat with the high-temperature fused salt, the heated steam enters an intermediate-pressure cylinder to apply work, the amount of the steam entering the intermediate-pressure cylinder and the output of a steam turbine can be increased, and the electric power of the thermal power generating unit can be rapidly increased.

The invention relates generally to harvesters and, more particularly, to a combine for harvesting row crops, which has been modified, to collect and measure grain from two separate small strip test plots.