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Using a transformation based at least in part on a non-simple orthogonal or unitary matrix, data may be transmitted over a data bus in a manner that is resilient to one or more types of signal noise, that does not require a common reference at the transmission and acquisition points, and/or that has a pin-efficiency that is greater than 50% and may approach that of single-ended signaling. Such transformations may be implemented in hardware in an efficient manner. Hybrid transformers that apply such transformations to selected subsets of signals to be transmitted may be used to adapt to various signal set sizes and/or transmission environment properties including noise and physical space requirements of given transmission environments.

A prosthetic leg having an electronically controlled regenerative prosthetic knee. In certain embodiments of the present invention the knee may be passive, whereby it is used only to generate electrical energy. In other embodiments, the knee may be active, whereby it can be used to assist with or completely control gait, as well as to generate electrical energy. The knee makes use of an actuator motor/generator to control gait and/or to generate electrical energy. An electronic control system is provided to control overall operation of the prosthetic leg, to distribute generated electrical energy, and to transfer excess electrical energy to one or more storage devices for later use. A prosthetic leg of the present invention having an active prosthetic knee may be especially helpful in assisting an amputee with activities that impart a high torque load to the knee joint.

The present invention provides a novel SCD inhibitor. An SCD inhibitor containing a compound represented by the formula [I]

wherein ring A is an optionally substituted aromatic ring, ring B is an optionally substituted ring, ring C is an optionally substituted aromatic ring, R is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, and X is a spacer having 1 to 5 atoms in the main chain, or a salt thereof, or a prodrug thereof.

A multi-axis adjustable exercise machine which is pivotable about both a pitch axis and a roll axis with respect to a base for allowing an exerciser to perform a wide range of exercises on a pitched or rolled exercise machine. The multi-axis adjustable exercise machine generally includes an exercise machine which is adjustable with respect to a base. The exercise machine may be pivoted about a roll axis to adjust the roll angle of the exercise machine or may be pivoted about a pitch axis to adjust the pitch angle of the exercise machine. One or more actuators may be connected between the base and the exercise machine to effectuate the pivoting of the exercise machine about either or both axes with respect to the base.

An apparatus and method for performing SIMD multiply-accumulate operations includes SIMD data processing circuitry responsive to control signals to perform data processing operations in parallel on multiple data elements. Instruction decoder circuitry is coupled to the SIMD data processing circuitry and is responsive to program instructions to generate the required control signals. The instruction decoder circuitry is responsive to a single instruction (referred to herein as a repeating multiply-accumulate instruction) having as input operands a first vector of input data elements, a second vector of coefficient data elements, and a scalar value indicative of a plurality of iterations required, to generate control signals to control the SIMD processing circuitry. In response to those control signals, the SIMD data processing circuitry performs the plurality of iterations of a multiply-accumulate process, each iteration involving performance of N multiply-accumulate operations in parallel in order to produce N multiply-accumulate data elements. For each iteration, the SIMD data processing circuitry determines N input data elements from said first vector and a single coefficient data element from the second vector to be multiplied with each of the N input data elements. The N multiply-accumulate data elements produced in a final iteration of the multiply-accumulate process are then used to produce N multiply-accumulate results. This mechanism provides a particularly energy efficient mechanism for performing SIMD multiply-accumulate operations, as for example are required for FIR filter processes.

A data processing apparatus is provided wherein processing circuitry executes multiple program threads including at least one high priority thread and at least one lower priority thread. Instructions required by the threads are retrieved from a cache memory hierarchy comprising multiple cache levels. The cache memory hierarchy includes a bypass path for omitting a predetermined level of the cache memory hierarchy when performing a lookup procedure for a required instruction and for bypassing said predetermined level of the cache memory hierarchy when returning said required instruction to said processing circuitry. The bypass path is used by default when the requested instruction is for a lower priority thread.

Structures based upon periodic cellular materials that provide a potential for defeating combinations of both air blast loading and ballistic attack either sequentially or simultaneously, or combination of both. The cellular structures may also be configured to meet the stiffness and strength support requirements of particular vehicle or other applications, systems or structures. The armor is therefore potentially able to support normal service loads and defeat blast and ballistic threats when necessary. The structure provides for using efficient load support capabilities of the material (without a high armor protection level) in low threat conditions, as well as the ability to modify the system to increase its level protection to a desired or required level. This would reduce the weight of the protection system in normal (low threat) conditions which reduces vehicle wear and tear, as well as cost savings in fabrication of applicable structures or systems.

A crash attenuator for protecting a truck or stationary structure from damage resulting from impact of an object such as a vehicle including a frame mountable to a truck or stationary structure, a bumper having an impact-receiving face adapted to receive an impact from an object in a crash, a movable displacement structure coupled to the frame and interposed between the frame and the bumper and having a first position in which the bumper is relatively distant from the frame and a second position in which the bumper is relatively proximate to the frame, and an energy dissipation system coupled to the displacement structure for dissipating the impact energy of the object into the bumper which causes said displacement structure to be moved from the first position toward the second position.

An optimal thermal seawater desalination process is disclosed, which combines two or more substantially different water pretreatment processes in a unique manner and in a special configuration, hereto unknown to prior desalination arts, to produce a high yield of high quality fresh water, including potable water. In this process a two stage NF membrane pretreatment unit (NF₂) with an energy recovery turbo charger (TC) device in between the stages or equipped with an energy recovery pressure exchanger (PX) is synergistically combined with at least one thermal desalination unit to form a dual hybrid of NF₂-Thermal (FIG. 4 ), or alternatively the two stage NF₂ unit is synergistically combined with a two stage SWRO unit (SWRO₂) with an energy recovery TC in between the stages or combined with one stage SWRO (SWRO₁) equipped with an energy recovery TC or PX system and the reject from the SWRO₂ or SWRO₁ unit is made make-up to a thermal unit to form a tri-hybrid of NF₂-SWRO_{2 reject}-Thermal (FIG. 5 ). In both the cases of di- or trihybrids the thermal unit is equivalent to a multistage flash distillation (MSFD) or multieffect distillation (MED) or vapor compression distillation (VCD) or thermal reheat (RH) evaporator. Typically a process of this invention using the two stage NF₂ initial pretreatment step will perform a semi-desalination step by reducing feed TDS by about 35 to 50%, but most important, especially to the thermal seawater desalination process, it removes the water recovery limiting, scale forming hardness ions of Ca⁺⁺ and Mg⁺⁺ by better than 80% and their covalent anions of sulfate to better than 95% and bicarbonate to about 65%. The removal of scale forming hardness ions, especially SO₄⁼, and bicarbonates allowed for the operation of thermal unit in the above hybrids at top brine temperature (TBT) much greater than its present TBT limit by the singular conventional process of 120° C. for MSFD and operation of MED or VCD or RH unit at TBT much higher than their present TBT limit of 65-70° C., with many advantages gained by this process over prior art sweater desalination processes. The process of this invention exceeds all prior thermal seawater desalination arts in efficiency, including water yield, product water recovery ratio and unit water cost as well as in energy consumption per unit product which is equivalent or less than other efficient prior art seawater thermal desalination processes. By this process, an NF product recovery ratio of 75 and 80% or better is achieved from the high salinity Gulf sea (TDS≈45,000 ppm) and about an equal product recovery ratio is also obtained from the SWRO or thermal unit when it is operated on NF product for a total water recovery ratio in excess of 52% for seawater

This invention relates to a method and controller (1) for optimising energy consumption in a building. More specifically, the present invention describes a method and controller (1) for use in a building having a building management system (BMS) (3). Typically, the BMS (3) has sensors distributed throughout the building to determine the environmental conditions in the building and the BMS controls a heating/cooling system of the building.

The invention discloses a buckling control support with the end provided with a staggered pyramid type energy consumption unit. The buckling control support is characterized by being composed of an end restraint section, energy consumption sections and a supporting flat section. The two ends of the buckling control support are connected with beams, column components or nodes through bolts to form a whole, so as to achieve the objective of improving lateral stiffness resistance of the components. The buckling control support with the end provided with the staggered pyramid type energy consumption unit maintains elasticity under the effect of a small earthquake; when the effect of a medium earthquake or a large earthquake occurs, the buckling control support enters a yielding phase, and the effect of a damper can be achieved due to the good hysteresis energy consumption performance of the buckling control support. Compared with a conventional buckling restraint support, according to the buckling control support, the processes of adding a sleeve outside a core energy consumption component in the conventional manufacturing process and performing grouting and the like are avoided in manufacturing process, and the buckling control support is convenient to manufacture. The support can be prefabricated in a factory, the component quality is guaranteed, the site construction operation workload is reduced, and the buckling control support saves energy and is environmentally friendly.

In a method and device for detecting the intake of food in a subject at least one parameter related to the blood flow and/or perfusion of a blood vessel and/or an organ in the digestive system of a patient is monitored by a sensor attached to, or in, a blood vessel or organ of the digestive system. The value of each monitored parameter is analyzed and may be used to control the activity of a gastric stimulator.

A medium access control (MAC) technique of a multihop sensor network. In the multihop sensor network, the MAC technique may contribute to significantly reducing transmission delay, and allow real-time services to be provided to all nodes by extending a guaranteed time slot (GTS) restricted to one hop in a personal area network (PAN) coordinator (PNC) to all nodes. Furthermore, the MAC technique may allow the number of available GTSs to be significantly increased, by using all 16 frequency band channels instead of using only a single frequency band and setting a multi-superframe.

The invention relates to high-strength ultra-high-toughness concrete and a preparation method thereof. The concrete is prepared from, by weight, 400-800 parts of cement, 100-250 parts of silica fume, 200-500 parts of slag powder, 200-500 parts of fly ash, 200-500 parts of quartz powder, 800-1,000 parts of quartz sand, 20-40 parts of a water reducing agent, 180-250 parts of water and 15-25 parts of polyethylene fibers. When the concrete is prepared, the cement, the silica fume, the slag powder, the fly ash, the quartz powder and the quartz sand are added into a stirrer by weight, and the dry powder is stirred for 2-3 min and fully mixed to be uniform; after stirring is finished, the mixed dry powder is transferred into a mold, vibrating is conducted for 1-2 min for molding, curing and demolding are conducted, and then the high-strength ultra-high-toughness concrete is prepared. Compared with the prior art, the concrete has the advantages that the compressive strength reaches 120-150 MPa, the breaking strength reaches 30-50 MPa, the tensile strength reaches 15-22 MPa, and the tensile elongation reaches 4%-8% and has the very good application prospect.

The invention discloses a thermoplastic light compound plate and the manufacturing method, characterized in that it comprises acupuncture fiber carpet dipped in double faced foam of thermoplastic glue liquid and thermoplastic glue liquid layer coated on the surface, the density of compound plate is 0.35-0.90g/cm3, the weight of fiber scattered in bunchiness is 15-45% of acupuncture fiber carpet. The merit of invention is very remarkable. Special super long fiber and bunchiness fiber with certain proportion are maintained in the material so that the mechanical performance of material can be improved. In addition, the material is provided with foam structure, very good effect of heat and sound insulation. The invention is also provided with environmental protection and recovery.

A heating system (3) for an inhaler device (1), such as an e-cigarette or a personal vaporizer, for generating an aerosol and/or a vapor (V) from a substance to be heated, especially a liquid or gel, the heating system (3) including: a first heating zone (5) configured to receive the substance to be heated from a supply reservoir (4), wherein at least one first heating element (14) is provided to pre-heat the substance in the first heating zone (5); and a second heating zone (16) configured to receive the preheated substance from the first heating zone (5), wherein at least one second heating element (19) is provided to heat the substance in the second heating zone (16).

The invention discloses a starting power generation system for an electric automobile, which comprises a double salient pole starting power generator, a starting power generation controller and controller working power; the starting power generation controller comprises a bidirectional power conversion circuit, an exciting current detection unit, an output current detection unit, an output voltage detection unit, a position rotation speed detection unit, an armature current detection unit, an exciting main circuit and a digital signal processor, wherein the exciting main circuit includes an exciting relay, a rectification filter unit and a chopper circuit which are connected in series in turn; and the digital signal processor is connected with the exciting current detection unit, the output current detection unit, the output voltage detection unit, the armature current detection unit, the position rotation speed detection unit, and the control ends of the bidirectional power conversion circuit, the exciting relay and the rectification filter unit by signals respectively. The invention also discloses an electric automobile and a control method thereof. Compared with the prior art, the starting power generation system is simple in structure, low in cost and flexible to control.

The invention relates to a multidirectional multi-frequency tuned mass damper which is a vibration control device for a building structure. The multidirectional multi-frequency tuned mass damper comprises a mass block, a spring, viscous dampers, an outer frame steel plate of the device, fasteners of the outer frame steel plate, and the like, wherein the outer frame steel plate of the device is designed in a ring form; sixteen springs are divided into eight groups; the springs in each group are arranged up and down; the eight groups of springs are arranged in the shape of a Chinese character 'mi'; each viscous damper and each group of springs are in a same upright plane and are located between two springs; the viscous dampers are arranged in the shape of a Chinese character 'mi'; the rigidity of the springs is confirmed according to horizontal and vertical natural frequencies of vibration of the building; the springs are designed to be different in rigidity; and eight fasteners of the outer frame steel plate are used for fixing the outer frame steel plate of the device and are respectively located at vertexes of a regular octagon. The multidirectional multi-frequency tuned mass damper can be used for controlling multidirectional multi-frequency earthquake response, can be mounted on a structure such as a high-rise and towering building and a nuclear power station for reducing the earthquake response of the building structure, and has a protection function and can bring higher economic benefit and social benefit.

A cold-storage appliance comprises an open-topped insulating container defining an external surface, an insulating lid adapted to close the open top of the container, a cooling means adapted to cool the interior but not the exterior of the container, and a structure supporting the container, the lid and the cooling means. In accordance with the invention, the container is mounted to the structure for movement relative to the structure and the lid to open the container and afford access to its interior or to close the container, and at least a majority of the external surface of the container is exposed to ambient air when the container is closed by the lid.

A method for operating PON (passive optical network) user terminal and a PON user terminal equipment, when there is only few data service request in the PON, the PON user terminal operates in power saving manner which maintains low speed connection, the method comprises: a judgment condition that the PON user terminal changes to power saving state is set; the PON user terminal determines whether its own state meet the judgment condition changing to power saving state, if so, it transmits a request to change to power saving state to the OLT (optical line terminal); after the PON user terminal receives the respond that the OLT has accepted the request, it controls parts of the modules therein to change to power saving state, and intermittently switch over between power saving state and normal state. The invention allows saving power under the condition that keeps the low speed service uninterrupted, in the meanwhile alleviates the pressure of ONU terminal thermal design.

A heater core for exchanging heat between a coolant and ventilation air to be blown into a vehicle interior is disposed in a high-pressure side heat-medium circulation circuit that allows for circulation of the coolant heated by a heat pump cycle. A radiator for exchanging heat between at least a part of the coolant flowing out of the heater core and a low-pressure refrigerant in the heat pump cycle is disposed in a low-pressure side heat-medium circulation circuit coupled to the high-pressure side heat-medium circulation circuit. Thus, excessive heat included in the coolant flowing out of the heater core and which is not used to heat the ventilation air can suppress frost formation on an exterior heat exchanger and can also defrost the exterior heat exchanger.

A method to optimize the energy consumption of a station (STA)—as for example a laptop, palmtop or a mobile phone—in a network, preferably a WLAN according to the IEEE 802.11 standard where a station (STA) sending Power Save (PS) polls to an Access Point (AP) is characterized—regarding an efficient energy management of the station with a possibly low energy consumption—in that the Access Point (AP) confirms the receipt of a Power Save (PS) poll by sending an acknowledgement frame including information which indicates to the station (STA) whether a frame is stored for it at the Access Point (AP).