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An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected up from the cleaning surface.

Methods, systems, apparatus and devices for the lens design of an HMPD with eye-tracking capabilities. The integration uses a low-level optical configuration in order to achieve a compact, comfortable, easy-to-use system. The optical system is further designed and optimized for sharing of the optical path between the HMD and the Eye-Tracker with minimal performance loss for both tasks.

A low cost, low profile, small size and high performance inductive device for use in, e.g., electronic circuits. In one exemplary embodiment, the device includes a ferrite core comprising multiple inductors and optimized for electrical and magnetic performance. Improvements in performance are obtained by, inter alia, control of the properties of the gap region(s) as well as placement of the windings relative to the gap. The magnetic path properties of the inductors at the ends of the device are also optionally controllable so as to provide precise matching of inductances. Optionally, the device is also self-leaded, thereby simplifying its installation and mating to a parent device (e.g., PCB). Methods for manufacturing and utilizing the device are also disclosed.

A system for adding funds to a handheld gaming machine. The system includes a portable digital wallet that wirelessly communicates with a handheld gaming machine (“handheld”). The digital wallet stores an amount of funds or funds associated with a remotely stored player account, and is used by the player to add credits to a handheld. The credit meter may be stored remotely, though the player perceives that the funds are actually being transferred via the digital wallet. Other funding techniques include a kiosk that accepts cash or credit/debit cards and dispenses tickets or other media that encodes information representing an amount of funds. The player uses this media to add credits to the handheld. The media may be player-dependent such that the player's identity is somehow linked to the media or it may be player-agnostic such that the player's identity is not linked to the funds associated with the media.

A woven sock body having a multitude of high friction dots defining friction buttons arrayed around the bottom thereof.

A hierarchical storage system is constructed from file servers and a policy engine server by building upon a file migration service. Offline attributes are added to file system inodes in a primary file server, file system parameters are added in the primary server, an offline read access method field is added to a connection database, and the primary file server is programmed to use these attributes and parameters for selecting a particular method (such as a partial read migration or a pass through read method) for read access to an offline file. In this fashion, the primary file server is provided with flexibility for selecting a particular one of a number of migration methods depending on various conditions, in order to improve the trade-off between the cost of storage and delay in file access.

The invention discloses a battery management system with balanced charge and discharge functions and a control method thereof, relating to a battery management system of a dynamic battery pack. The battery management system is structurally characterized in that a central processing unit (CPU) control unit is connected with a battery and relay set so as to detect the working condition of the battery and relay set; the CPU control unit and a balanced discharge module are successively connected with the battery and relay set so as to control the balanced discharge of the battery and the relay set; the CPU control unit, a balanced charge module and the battery and the relay set are successively connected so as to control the balanced charge of the battery and relay set; and a super-capacitor is connected with the balanced discharge module so as to store the discharge energy of the battery and relay set for supplying power for the battery management system. The battery management system can be widely applied to management of various battery packs such as a lead-acid battery, a lithium battery, a nickel-metal hydride battery and the like, supports the expansion of a lower computer, and can conveniently detect and monitor the conditions of multiple batteries.

Sulfonated aliphatic-aromatic polyester compositions having improved thermal properties, and articles such as films, coatings and laminates, produced from the sulfonated aliphatic-aromatic polyester compositions, are provided. Some of the films are biocompostable. Films made from the sulfonated aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters can be used to make shaped articles, such as sheets, thermoformed containers, and coatings for, for example, films and other substrates. The sulfonated aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters are produced from a mixture of aromatic dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, certain glycols, and components containing alkali metal or alkaline earth metal sulfonate groups, such as a metal 5-sulfoisophthalic acid derivative.

Provided are a thermoplastic resin composition which is excellent in oil resistance, heat resistance, weatherability, impact resistance, transparency, and moldability, and which can be produced economically, an elastomer composition with low hardness and high tensile strength which is excellent in oil resistance and compression set, and a molded object produced by molding the thermoplastic resin composition or elastomer composition. The composition is produced by compounding a thermoplastic resin or an elastomer with a block copolymer having at least one methacrylic ester polymer block and at least one acrylic ester polymer block. Also provided are a process for producing a methacrylic ester-acrylic ester-methacrylic ester block copolymer which requires hardly any purification, which is excellent in heat resistance and weatherability, and in which the molecular weight and the molecular-weight distribution are controlled, and a methacrylic ester-acrylic ester-methacrylic ester block copolymer produced by the process.

The invention provides an organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following special steps of: at first, carrying out harmless treatment on raw materials of an organic fertilizer, such as livestock excrement, crop straws, kitchen garbage, fallen leaves, turf and peat, humic acid and the like, so as to obtain the organic fertilizer; then adding a macromolecule moisture retention material and an inorganic fertilizer at a certain ratio and uniformly stirring; and finally obtaining the organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer by extruding granulation. The organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer disclosed by the invention has functions of drought resistance and moisture retention, nutrient slow release and soil fertilization, so that the effects of increasing production and income of the crops are achieved. Furthermore, the organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer can effectively solve the environment pollution caused by the livestock excrement, straw burning and domestic garbage.

The present invention provides a comprehensive method for automatically and unobtrusively analyzing the in-store behavior of people visiting a physical space using a multi-modal fusion based on multiple types of sensors. The types of sensors employed may include cameras for capturing a plurality of images and mobile signal sensors for capturing a plurality of Wi-Fi signals. The present invention integrates the plurality of input sensor measurements to reliably and persistently track the people's physical attributes and detect the people's interactions with retail elements. The physical and contextual attributes collected from the processed shopper tracks includes the motion dynamics changes triggered by an implicit and explicit interaction to a retail element, comprising the behavior information for the trip of the people. The present invention integrates point-of-sale transaction data with the shopper behavior by finding and associating the transaction data that corresponds to a shopper trajectory and fusing them to generate a complete an intermediate representation of a shopper trip data, called a TripVector. The shopper behavior analyses are carried out based on the extracted TripVector. The analyzed behavior information for the shopper trips yields exemplary behavior analysis comprising map generation as visualization of the behavior, quantitative shopper metric derivation in multiple scales (e.g., store-wide and category-level) including path-to-purchase shopper metrics (e.g., traffic distribution, shopping action distribution, buying action distribution, conversion funnel), category dynamics (e.g., dominant path, category correlation, category sequence). The present invention includes a set of derived methods for different sensor configurations.

Near infrared suppressive layers are described having an average reflectance between 9% and 70% in the wavelength range from about 400 nm to 700 nm, and an average reflectance of less than or equal to 70% in the wavelength range from about 720 nm to 1100 nm. Additionally, articles made from such near infrared layers are described, wherein the articles provide desirable reduced nIR reflection without substantially altering the visual shade of the overall article.

It is possible to provide a three-dimensional image display device which can improved a final resolution balance and can prevent display blocking. A three-dimensional image display device includes: a two-dimensional image display device where pixels constituting a pixel group displaying an elemental image are arranged in a matrix shape; and an optical plate which has exit pupils corresponding to the pixel group and controls light rays from the pixels of the pixel group, wherein the exit pupils in the optical plate are constituted so as to be continued in an approximately vertical direction, and an angle formed between a direction in which the exist pupils are continued and a column direction of a pixel arrangement in the two-dimensional image display device is given by arc tan (1/n) when n is a natural number which is different from multiples of 3.

A footwear sole assembly with at least one compressible protruding element extending downwardly beyond the bottom surface of the outsole, the at least one protruding element providing a natural instability to a wearer when the sole assembly initially contacts a supporting surface. The at least one protruding element is a three-dimensional structure formed of a substantially solid elastomeric material. In another embodiment, the at least one protruding element may also protrude upwardly beyond the sole assembly in such a manner that the wearer's foot can apply pressure to the top portion of said at least one protruding element.

This invention provides an imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface; a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, both being aspheric; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, both its two surfaces being aspheric; and a stop disposed between the first and second lenses.

The present invention provides for a method of controlling discontinuous reception cycles in a mobile radio communications device, and discontinuous transmission cycles in a mobile radio communication network device, and comprising the steps of monitoring the number of consecutive discontinuous reception and transmission periods within which no data is received, monitoring the number of consecutive discontinuous reception and transmission periods within which data is received, and varying the said discontinuous reception cycle responsive to the result of said monitoring.

The invention provides a fiber reinforced resin composition comprising a melt-kneaded product (A) prepared by melt-kneading a first resin (A1) and a second resin (A2) that has reactive functional group as well as a third resin (B) and a fibrous filler (C), wherein, with respect to the contents of the components, the first resin (A1), the second resin with a reactive functional group (A2), and the third resin (B) account for 0.1 to 75 wt %, 0.1 to 15 wt %, and 10 to 99.8 wt %, respectively, to form a resin composition while said fibrous filler (C) accounts for 0.1 to 300 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said resin composition, said first resin (A1) and said third resin (B) forming a matrix resin, said second resin (A2) being dispersed as particles in said matrix resin, and said particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 1,000 nm. The invention relates to a fiber reinforced resin composition having rigidity and impact resistance in a good balance, a molding material, and a production method thereof.

Methods and devices for sculpting bones, particularly in preparation for implanting prosthetic devices to replace articulating bone joint surfaces. Improved bone removal devices including burr mills driven by gears and loop drives are provided. Reciprocating cutters and belt cutters are also provided. Some devices have either integral or removable expandable portions to vary the force and bone resection depth. Devices can have irrigation ports and plenums to remove bone fragments. Some cutters are dual cutters, adapted to remove bone in two or more regions, such as the knee joint, simultaneously.

A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple cartridge and an anvil member. The staple cartridge includes a plurality of surgical fasteners disposed in rows of retention slots. The staple cartridge may have an annular or linear configuration of retention slots. The tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge may be tapered or stepped. The anvil member has a tissue contacting surface that includes a number of pockets arranged for substantially aligning with the retention slots. In addition, the tissue contacting surface of the anvil member may complement the tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge.

A pneumatic tire including five land portions Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 in a tread surface 1 by providing four main grooves G1, G2, G3, and G4 in a ground contact region R of the tread surface 1, wherein positions and groove widths of the main grooves G1, G2, G3, and G4 are specified together with only the land portion Q1 positioned outermost on a vehicle outer side when mounted on a vehicle being formed into a block row, and the other land portions Q2, Q3, Q4, and Q5 being formed into ribs, and a groove area proportion of the tread surface 1 is larger on a vehicle inner side than the vehicle outer side with a tire equator CL and center lines of the land portions Q2, Q3, Q4 as boundaries.

The invention provides a high-strength hot-dip zinc plated steel sheet which exhibits high TS-El balance, excellent stretch frangeability, excellent workability due to low YR, and excellent impact characteristics, and a process for manufacturing the same. A high-strength hot-dip zinc plated steel sheet excellent in workability and impact characteristics, having a composition which contains by mass C: 0.05 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.5 to 3.5%, P: 0.003 to 0.100%, S: 0.02% or below, Al: 0.010 to 1.5%, and N: 0.007% or below and further contains at least one element selected from among Ti, Nb and V in a total amount of 0.01 to 0.2% with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities and a microstructure which comprises, in terms of area fraction, 20 to 87% of ferrite, 3 to 10% (in total) of martensite and retained austenite, and 10 to 60% of tempered martensite and in which the average grain diameter of the second phase consisting of the martensite, retained austenite, and tempered martensite is 3[mu]m or below.

A system is provided that includes a plurality of clients and a server capable of assigning the plurality of clients to at least one group for the transfer of content to the server and/or from the server. The server is capable of assigning at least one of the clients based upon a size of the content, a transfer speed, and a probability of transferring the content without experiencing an interruption in the transfer. In this regard, the server can also be capable of collecting statistical data relating to the transfer speed and probability to thereby determine the transfer speed and probability. After assigning the clients to the group(s), at least one of the clients can be capable of downloading content from, or uploading content to, the server based upon the group(s).

A smart payment device is issued to a user; the device is capable of both offline and online transactions and has a total available balance split. The split is between an available offline balance and an available online balance. It is determined whether the user has entered a primarily offline environment or will imminently enter a primarily offline environment. If this is so, the total available balance split is redistributed to favor offline transactions.

The invention discloses a degraded natural organic bundle slow release fertilizer, which comprises the following steps: comprising easy soluble nitrogen particle fertilizer; coating natural organic bundle slow release with the main element as lignin; coating vegetable fat film layer out of nature organic film layer as sealer; bruising the nature organic matter with the main element below 60 order as coating material; adopting normal disc pelleting method; sticking the coating material to the surface of easy soluble nitrogen fertilizer particle; drying; spraying vegetable fat as sealer; getting the product. This fertilizer is very cheap, which can be used to cotton, corn, wheat, flower and lawn.

The present disclosure is directed to a body-worn sensor-based system for evaluating the biomechanics and the motor adaptation characteristics of postural control during a sport activity such as a golf swing. Various embodiments use sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers to measure the three-dimensional motion of ankle and hip joints. In several embodiments, additional sensors attached to other body segments are used to improve the accuracy of the data or detect particular instants during the swing (e.g., top of back swing, instant of the maximum speed of arm, and instant of ball impact). In a golf embodiment, the system combines the measured data in conjunction with a biomechanical model of the human body to: (1) estimate the two-dimensional sway of the golfer's center of mass; (2) quantify and evaluate the golfer's balance via his/her postural compensatory strategy; and (3) provide visual feedback to the golfer for improving dynamic postural control.

The financial planning tool is software defining a data structure which generates a financial-estate plan using liquidity analysis of a comprehensive list of client assets (categories I-IV, personal, reserve capital, unprotected retirement, and protected retirement assets). The system obtains asset net equity before and after tax and calculates life annual income based on a financial formula with modifiable variables. Current estate tax values and liquidity at-death values for estate conditions (client and spousal death, spousal survival and client survival). Post-death annual income is calculated. Comparing unprotected and protected life annual income for asset categories I-III vs. IV with goals, identified surpluses and deficiencies result in transfer or liquidation-repurchase of assets between categories. Conventional life insurance is either purchased or cancelled or a daily rated, minimum at risk death premium life insurance product is purchased.

The invention discloses a green biological active feed, which relates to the technical field of feeds. The green biological active feed is prepared from the following materials in part by weight: 40 to 80 parts of straw, 5 to 30 parts of corn four, 5 to 25 parts of cake dregs, 5 to 25 parts of wheat bran, 0.1 to 0.2 part of complex bacteria and 0.1 to 0.2 part of complex enzyme. During preparation, the straw is crushed and then is uniformly mixed with the corn flour, the cake dregs and the wheat bran; the complex bacteria and the complex enzyme are mixed into the mixture; water is added into the mixture to ensure that the water content reaches 45 to 50 percent, and the mixture is filled in a big tank, sealed and stored for later use; or the mixture is baked or dried by natural wind for storage and later use. The green biological active feed has the following advantages of: (1) improving the balance of intestinal flora, and improving the feed utilization rate; (2) promoting the growth of meat livestock and poultry, and shortening the breeding cycle; (3) strengthening the body conditions of laying hens, ducks and geese, and having a significant strengthening action on prolonging theegg-laying peak period; (4) strengthening the body condition of female domestic animals, and improving the yielding rate; (5) strengthening the body conditions of the livestock and poultry, enhancingthe disease prevention and disease resisting capacities, and reducing the sickness rate; and (6) purifying the culture environment, and improving the meat quality due to no public nuisances and no residues.

Turbochargers operate at extremely high speed, so balance of the rotating core is of the utmost importance to turbocharger life. A special balancing washer is added to the clamping region between the compressor nut and the nose of the compressor wheel to aid in keeping the wheel, nut, and stub-shaft on the turbocharger axis and to thereby prevent introduction of core unbalance.

The invention relates to a high-precision and constant temperature and humidity cabinet, which is used for storing special articles. The temperature and humidity in the cabinet can be controlled within designated scope automatically and constantly. In the invention, a cooling/heating semiconductor high-temperature stacking is used as a temperature control and dehumidification executive component, an ultrasonic wave humidifier is used as a humidification executive component, and an electric temperature/humidity sensor, a series of fans, keys, a display, a controller and the like are mounted, thereby realizing constant temperature and humidity. When temperature inside the cabinet is higher than preset target temperature, the temperature control semiconductor high-temperature stacking generates forward current to reduce the temperature inside the cabinet; when temperature inside the cabinet is lower than the preset target temperature, the temperature control semiconductor high-temperature stacking generates reverse current to raise the temperature inside the cabinet to the preset target temperature; when humidity inside the cabinet is higher than preset target humidity, the dehumidification semiconductor high-temperature stacking generates forward current to reduce the temperature of a condensation block in the cabinet to be below the dew point, so as to enable moisture in the cabinet to condensate and flow into a water tank to realize dehumidification effect; and when humidity inside the cabinet is lower than preset target humidity, an ultrasonic wave humidifier sprays water mist to raise the humidity in the cabinet to the preset target humidity.

The invention relates to a pig feed, in particular to a nursery pig concentrated feed, comprising the following raw materials by weight proportion: 30-50 of sucking pig composite vitamin, 30-50 of low copper mineral element, 60-100 of peeled soybean meal, 100-180 of fermented soybean meal, 100-150 of extruded soybean, 110-180 of steam fish meal, 50-100 of dried porcine soluble, 60-120 of acid whey powder, 80-90 of glucose powder, 5-10 of glutamine, 80-100 of chyle fat powder, 40-49 of calcium carbonate, 12-14 of basic zinc chloride, 4-6 of salt, 55-60 of calcium biphosphate, 6-10 of sodium butyrate, 12-15 of lysine, 6-8 of threonine, 4-6 of TP-100 enzyme, 4-5 of cysteine, 5-7 of se-enriched yeast and 6-10 of copper chloride hydroxide. The nursery pig concentrated feed has the advantages of milk nutrition composition simulation, good palatability, high digestibility, large feed intake because the baby pigs like to eat and improvement of survival rate as well as immunity of the nursery pigs.