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The present invention relates to a system for retrieving data from remote difficult to reach terrain, such as wilderness areas, etc. and in particular to a system comprised of one or more surface based data collectors in communication with one or more wireless transceivers adapted to transmit the collected data to an unmanned aerial vehicle adapted to fly within a predetermined distance from the data collector and receive data collected therefrom. The present invention further relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle adapted to fly a flight pattern relative to a moveable surface object or for controlling the position of a moveable surface object relative to the flight path of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Finally, the present invention relates to an improved unmanned aerial vehicle having airframe structural elements with electrical circuits adhered to the surfaces of the structural elements.

The invention is directed to a method of synchronising transmission between two nodes in a wireless network. The method comprises the steps of obtaining an expected interference profile for each node; and agreeing a synchronised transmission schedule between the nodes, where the expected interference profile of the or each node meets predetermined criteria.

A method and system for managing access information for users and other entities in a distributed computing system is disclosed. An aspect is directed to sharing schemas across multiple users. This can be accomplished by mapping multiple global users to the same local schema. Any users mapped to that local schema would, upon logging in, receive the set of privileges associated with the global user and the local schema. In this manner, separate schemas would not need to be defined for each global user.

A habitat friendly, pressure conversion, wind energy extraction system is disclosed for safely extracting usable energy from wind. The system includes one or more shrouds or concentrator wings that convert the dynamic pressure of wind into relatively lower static pressure and thereby induces a vacuum that draws wind into a turbine centralized within the shrouds or concentrator wings. As such, the turbine impellor blades may be significantly smaller than the large diameter rotor blades of current popular designs and may be enclosed within the shrouds or concentrator wings that present themselves as highly visible objects and as such are easily avoided by birds in flight. The novel system in particular includes a device and method of airflow regulation than minimizes or prevents the stalling, or the generation of a turbulent flow of wind over or between the shrouds or concentrator wings. This stalling has been shown to occur when airflow is quickly accelerated by force of vacuum and drawn out of the turbine shroud which then mixes with and disturbs the otherwise smooth flow of wind over or between the shrouds or concentrator wings. The system may also include an aerobrake that responds quickly to protect the impellor blades or associated mechanisms from overspeeding or exceeding other design limitations under gusting or violent wind conditions. The system may also include a method of guiding elements of the system to orient appropriately into prevailing winds, and a method to support elements of the system, without unduly impeding the free flow of wind. Other advantages and objects are as well disclosed that increase safety and efficiency, increase installation potential, reduce costs and expenses, and minimize negative environmental impact.

Delay measurement and delay calibration methods and apparatus are described for use within distributed wireless base stations employing a remote radio head topology. The methods and apparatus are usable in any system that requires accurate delay measurement and/or constant delay through an electronic device. The methods and apparatus for measuring delay embody a highly accurate distributed delay measurement architecture that handles multiple delay paths within distributed wireless base stations employing a remote radio head topology. The method and apparatus are amenable to implementation with current integrated circuit technology. The methods and apparatus for calibrating electronic delay within distributed base stations employing a remote radio head topology are useful for implementing distributed wireless base stations where transmit diversity is desired. Using the methods disclosed herein, delay within a distributed wireless base station can be measured and calibrated to achieve very deterministic delay characteristics at the system level.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a switch for a powered pallet conveyor is provided. The switch comprising (a) a turntable and (b) rail portions which are arranged upon the turntable and define at least a first travel pathway and a second travel pathway, whereby the first travel pathway is defined by straight rail portions and a second travel pathway is defined by curved rail portions, so that the central line of the first travel pathway and the departure lines of the second travel pathway respectively pass through the fulcrum of the turntable.

A device for carrying a heated liquid, and controlling the temperature of the heated liquid includes a liquid conveying element including a passage for carrying the heated liquid. First and second temperature sensing devices are operatively associated with the liquid conveying element to sense the temperature of the heated liquid. A controller is actively connected to the first temperature sensing device. The first temperature sensing device thereby senses the temperature of the heated liquid in the passage and conveys the temperature information or readings to the controller for use in the heater control. The second temperature sensing device is capable of being actively connected to the controller upon failure or malfunction of the first temperature sensing device.

A non-visible particle detection device includes an optical module capable of converting an ionizing radiation into visible light. The optical module includes has an attachment unit that is configured to removably attach the optical module to the image capturing module of a mobile device. The image capturing module generates a photon digital image based on the photons converted from the ionizing radiation. The mobile device can be implemented with a radiation dose determining module to execute a radiation dose equivalent calculation method. Based on the pixel brightness analysis of the photon digital image, the radiation equivalent dose can be determined. This method sums up the total brightness of all pixels in the images, determines whether the total brightness is smaller than the minimum effective brightness, and determines the radiation equivalent dose when the total brightness is equal to or larger than the minimum effective brightness.

A method and system for patient generation and evolution for a computer-based testing system and/or expert system. One or more belief networks, which describe parallel health state networks are accessed by a user or a computer. A knowledge base, at least in part, is scripted from the one or more belief networks by the computer. A model patient at least in part, is instantiated by the computer from the scripted knowledge base. Optionally, the model patient is evolved by the computer in accordance with the parallel health state networks and responsive to a received course of action.

The invention provides an intelligent vehicle-mounted communication informatization system based on a 3-generation (3G) technology and a cloud system. The intelligent vehicle-mounted communication informatization system comprises a master control module, a wireless communication module, a positioning module, a sensor module and other functional modules, wherein the master control module comprises an advanced Risc machine (ARM)-based micro controller which is used for coordinatively controlling other modules of the system, and an intelligent embedded operating system; the wireless communication module is a wireless access module for accessing the system to the Internet based on various 3G technologies and is electrically connected with the master control module; the positioning module is a module for supplying a positioning function to the system based on positioning systems, such as a global positioning system (GPS), a beidou positioning system and the like, and is electrically connected with the master control module; the sensor module is a module for supplying a theftproof function based on an ultrasonic sensing technology and is electrically connected with the master control module; and other functional modules are modules for realizing main functions of the system. The invention also provides a communication method applied to the system. The system has the characteristics that: the GPS navigation speed is higher, the cloud system can be widely applied, and the whole vehicle-mounted system is higher in intelligentization level.

A compact optical system is provided for delivering laser radiation with high optical efficiency and uniformity. The optical system includes, in order of the propagation of light, a refractive beam expander to adjust beam size and energy density, a beam flattening module to increase throughput and beam uniformity, an anamorphic corrector to equalize ray distribution in both axes, an attenuator assembly to adjust beam intensity, galvanometer mirrors to scan the beam across a substrate surface, and a focusing lens containing a plurality of refractive elements to deliver the beam at the substrate plane. The laser optical system shapes the laser source beam to increase its effective width for greater productivity in manufacturing, and reduces peak intensity to minimize substrate damage. The laser optical system design is optimized for maximum transmission and optical efficiency for low cost operation with a small laser.

A multifuel internal combustion Stirling engine is described, wherein a compressor piston and a displacer piston reciprocate, within a common cylinder, to enclose a variable air volume, and a variable burned gas volume. Motion of these two pistons, creates a power producing cycle, of compression, combustion, expansion, and scavenge, wherein the burned gases do not contact those cylinder portions over which the compressor piston moves. In this way low engine wear can be obtained when using fuels such as coal, which produces abrasive particulates in the burned gases. A multifuel internal combustion engine of this invention can be readily adapted to operate on a wide variety of fuels, such as, natural gas, diesel fuel, residual petroleum fuel, and coal. Widespread use of these engines would introduce economic competition between these now separately competing fuels. This is a clear route to national energy independence, since coal reserves greatly exceed petroleum reserves, nationally and internationally.

The invention is a mechanical suspension system for cab-over tractors, specifically those used in terminal transport having two front cushion dual suspension components on the front pivot area of the cab to tractor frame connection and a single rear cushion dual suspension component on the rear of the tractor frame at the cab-over latch area, the three point dual suspension system providing a more stable suspension package than the four point and other single suspension systems.

A device for detecting state-of-health (SOH) of batteries has a detection module, a computation control module and an output module. The computation control module is electrically connected to the detection module and the output module. The detection module detects voltage values of a battery at multiple test points. The computation control module converts the voltage values at the test points into a ratio and maps the ratio to a SOH value in a SOH curve of the battery indicative of a state of health of the battery and the SOH value is outputted through the output module. The present invention can easily detect the SOH of a battery within a short period of time to solve the existing problems of being time-consuming and complicated in determining the SOH of batteries and causing incorrect determination of battery capacity and additional maintenance cost.

The invention discloses an intersection signal optical control method in an environment of Internet of vehicles. A signal timing plan is optimized by combining vehicle state information acquired at a signal intersection in real time, so that the delay time that a vehicle passes through the intersection is shortened. The method disclosed by the invention realizes an actual application of the technology of Internet of vehicles at the signal intersection, thereby favorably improving the traffic efficiency at the signal intersection.

A method for generating digital rights The invention is used for solving the problem that in the prior art, the plaintext information of a work is uploaded to a block chain for preservation so as to realize copyright storage of the work, thereby causing high construction cost of a digital copyright storage system on the one hand, and unfriendly uploading of the plaintext information on the other hand to paid works on the other hand. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining relevant information of the work, wherein, the work-related information includes author information and work information; performing hashing operation on the work-related information to obtain a hash value of the work-related information; acquiring a unique identification code generated for the work; the hashvalue of the work-related information and the unique identification code are uploaded to the digital rights server, so that the digital rights server stores the hash value in the copyright block chaindatabase as the digital rights of the work. The present application also discloses a digital copyright generating apparatus.

The invention relates to an automatic guided vehicle based on magnetic-nail map navigation. The automatic guided vehicle is composed of a vehicle-mounted sensor, an actuator, and a controller. The vehicle-mounted sensor consists of a magnetic ruler, an inertial navigation module, a speedometer, and an RFID reader. The actuator includes a steering system, a braking system and a power system. The guided vehicle is driven on a lane with a magnetic nail; the coordinate of the magnetic nail on the road is known and is stored into the controller; the controller uses the magnetic ruler to measure relative positions of the magnetic nail and the vehicle body on the lane, thereby realizing high-precision positioning of the vehicle. With the inertial navigation module and the speedometer, data fusion is carried out by combining the magnetic nail coordinate information; the controller can calculate an absolute position of the vehicle precisely and continuously; and the actuator is used for realizing high-precision positioning and autonomous driving. According to the invention, the automatic guided vehicle is suitable for various automatic workshops and logistics warehouses. With the vehicle, the manpower can be reduced effectively; and the workshop operation efficiency is improved. The automatic guided vehicle has advantages of high positioning accuracy, excellent control performance, low cost, high reliability, and low maintenance cost.

Disclosed herein are compositions comprising at least one ionic liquid and at least one fluoroolefin. Such compositions may be useful as absorbent/working fluid pairs in absorption cycle systems for providing cooling or heat.

The invention discloses a solar thermal power generation system by thermoelectric conversion, comprising a sunlight-concentrating and receiving module, a solar tracking module, a photothermal-conversion module for absorbing sunlight then transforming sunlight into thermal energy and a combination of semiconductor thermoelectric module, the combination-type cooling module is under the semiconductor thermoelectric module. In the invention, TE module can directly convert solar thermal and waste heat to electricity without heat transfer medium, heat storage tank, turbine, and mechanical moving part, thus realizing small scale, compact system with high efficiency; Due to the adopting of low concentrating lens with tracking system and compound waste heat supplying module, thus reducing floor area and effectively improving temperature difference and power generating efficiency of the overall system. In comparison with that of traditional solar thermal power generation system, the new system kept the advantages, including: low investment and low maintenance cost. In comparison with that of solar cell power generation system, the system has the advantages: large power in small area and possible in stable output; furthermore a heating source apart from solar energy is introduced to guarantee the stable current supply.

The invention relates to an alternate partial root-zone irrigation controller and an alternate partial root-zone irrigation system. The controller comprises signal acquisition modules, a signal conversion and data processing module and a parameter setup module, wherein the signal acquisition modules are disposed in irrigation gutters on two sides of crops and used for acquiring information of soil moisture, the signal conversion and data processing module is used for controlling gutter spaced alternate irrigation of the crops according to the information received by the signal acquisition modules, and the parameter setup module is used for setting parameters of the signal conversion and data processing module. The alternate partial root-zone irrigation controller is simple in structure, capable of automatically alternately irrigating the crops under full intelligent control by man-machine communication, signals from the sensors and drive of a single chip microcomputer. The alternate partial root-zone irrigation controller simple in structure is laborsaving, timesaving, cost-saving, convenient in operation and easy for large-scale popularization. In addition, traditional electromagnetic control valves are substituted by alternate irrigation valves, so that the alternate partial root-zone irrigation system is simple, cost-reducing and reliable in operation.

A monitoring system for monitoring the state of a monitoring object apparatus so as to detect a foretoken of failure. A host computer (100) of a manufacturer/dealer of a clinical check apparatus (200) receives state data of respective parts from parts sensors (203a, 203b, . . . ) of the clinical check apparatus (200) of a user and the received state data is compared to a prediction condition stored in a condition storage block (104) in a state monitoring block (105), thereby detecting a foretoken of failure. The prediction condition includes a condition created in accordance with service life of each of the parts and a condition created upon occurrence of a failure in accordance with transition of the state data prior to the occurrence of the failure.

A superposition principle of waveform based on conceptions of waveform continuity and flexible regulation of voltage proposes three concepts, respectively being flexible AC transformation, flexible power transmission and transformation and flexible voltage regulation; proposes three new technologies, respectively being a transient impedance technology, a flexible stepless voltage regulation technology and a flexible stepped voltage regulation technology; proposes three new products, being an AC voltage regulating electronic switch, a transient impedance transformer and a high-speed voltage regulating transformer; proposes six high-voltage power grid connection methods, being a power grid connection method type of a transient impedance transformer, a power grid connection method of a transient impedance step up auto transformer and the like; and proposes a new reactive compensation connection method for a reactive compensation device.

The invention pertains to a wheel drive system for an aircraft that features at least one electric motor and at least one fuel cell as energy source for the electric motor, wherein the electric motor is coupleable to at least one wheel of at least one landing gear of the aircraft. The inventive wheel drive system reduces the fuel consumption and lowers the emission of CO₂ and pollutants—primarily carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons. Persons, vehicles and other aircraft furthermore are not endangered by a jet blast while the aircraft is taxiing because the main engines do not have to be started until the take-off and landing strip is reached. The operation of the inventive wheel drive system furthermore leads to a reduced noise pollution.