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A system improves precision and reliability of intra-cardiac catheter position tracking and monitoring. An interventional system for internal anatomical examination includes a catheterization device for internal anatomical insertion. The catheterization device includes, at least one magnetic field sensor for generating an electrical signal in response to rotational movement of the at least one sensor about an axis through the catheterization device within a magnetic field applied externally to patient anatomy and a signal interface for buffering the electrical signal for further processing. A signal processor processes the buffered electrical signal to derive a signal indicative of angle of rotation of the catheterization device relative to a reference. The angle of rotation is about an axis through the catheterization device. A reproduction device presents a user with data indicating the angle of rotation of the catheterization device.

A system for heart performance characterization and abnormality detection includes an acquisition device for acquiring an electrophysiological signal representing heart beat cycles of a patient heart. A detector detects one or more parameters of the electrophysiological signal of parameter type comprising at least one of, (a) amplitude, (b) time duration, (c) peak frequency and (d) frequency bandwidth, of multiple different portions of a single heart beat cycle of the heart beat cycles selected in response to first predetermined data. The multiple different portions of the single heart beat cycle being selected from, a P wave portion, a QRS complex portion, an ST segment portion and a T wave portion in response to second predetermined data. A signal analyzer calculates a ratio of detected parameters of a single parameter type of the multiple different portions of the single heart beat cycle. An output processor generates data representing an alert message in response to a calculated ratio exceeding a predetermined threshold.

Described herein is a wireless device, provided with: a transceiver module, which transmits data packets that have a transmission-power level selectable from among a number of power levels and include information of the transmission-power level, and receives data packets from surrounding devices; and a control unit, which is connected to the transceiver module and controls the transmission and reception of the data packets by the transceiver module. The control unit carries out processing operations on the data packets received from the surrounding devices in a detection time interval in order to determine proximity relations between the wireless device and said surrounding devices.

Precision and reliability of a current limited mode output power control of an RF amplifier is enhanced by sensing the base current of the current controlled output power transistor. The base current is compared to a control current that is normalized by scaling it as a function of the current gain of a bipolar junction transistor of similar characteristics as the output power transistor. Fabrication process spread of current gain figures of bipolar junction transistors is effectively compensated. Moreover, by using a band-gap temperature compensation control current that is eventually β-scaled before comparing it with the sensed base current of the output power transistor, the output power may be effectively controlled and maintained constant over temperature as well as process spread variations.

This invention relates to a device and process for determining an airport runway state (12), as well as for using such data. The process includes: acquisition (A1) of measurement data pertaining to at least one physical size of an aircraft (10), during the take off or landing roll phase of the aircraft on said runway; obtaining (A2), using the data acquired, a plurality of estimated adhesion values “μ” of the runway, corresponding to a respective plurality of taxiing moments of the aircraft; obtaining (A3), using the data acquired, a slip ratio value “s” of at least one of the aircraft's wheels for each said taxiing moment, so as to obtain (A4) a plurality of coupled data points [s,μ]; and determination of a runway state by comparing (A5.2) the coupled data points [s,μ] profile with at least one predetermined profile.

Precision and reliability of a current limited mode output power control of an RF amplifier is enhanced by sensing the base current of the current controlled output power transistor. The base current is compared to a control current that is normalized by scaling it as a function of the current gain of a bipolar junction transistor of similar characteristics as the output power transistor. Fabrication process spread of current gain figures of bipolar junction transistors is effectively compensated. Moreover, by using a band-gap temperature compensation control current that is eventually β-scaled before comparing it with the sensed base current of the output power transistor, the output power may be effectively controlled and maintained constant over temperature as well as process spread variations.

A system uses non-invasive laser, ultrasound or electro-magnetic monitoring, to derive CO / SV, CO / SV deviation, and related cardiac function parameters. The non-invasive system determines cardiac stroke volume and includes an input processor for receiving determined values provided using a measurement processor. The determined values comprise, a blood vessel internal diameter and rate of flow of blood through the blood vessel in a heart cycle. A computation processor calculates a vessel stroke volume comprising volume of blood transferred through the blood vessel in a heart cycle using the measured blood vessel internal diameter and the rate of flow of blood. The computation processor determines cardiac stroke volume by determining a factor for use in adjusting the vessel stroke volume to provide a cardiac stroke volume and adjusting the vessel stroke volume using the determined factor to provide the cardiac stroke volume. An output processor provides data representing the determined cardiac stroke volume to a destination.

An interpenetration apparatus for the measurement of a magnitude of a blasting vibration comprises a housing including a fixture and a mover divided into two, symmetrically, in a longitudinal direction, in which the fixture includes a space for receiving a cable and the mover includes at least two grooves perforated to receive sensors, respectively; a head portion for fixing the front end of coupled fixture and mover to prevent the escape of the mover from the fixture; a handle including a fixing rod threadedly coupled to the rear portion of the fixture; a connecting rod connected to the fixing rod and extended in a predetermined length therefrom to insert the interpenetration apparatus into a working hole perforated adjacent to an approach to a tunnel; and a traction tool connected to the rear end of the mover to operate the mover, thereby enabling the housing to be at the nearest position from the blasting place, and sensitively detecting the wave motion of the blasting vibration as well as three dimensional blasting vibration transferred in all directions to the underground by the sensors to establish the accuracy measurement of the magnitudes of the blasting vibrations.

A contaminant detection apparatus comprising a powered portable detection device for detecting the presence of at least one pathogen in a sample; a test applicator kit comprising a sample applicator and a cartridge configured to receive and retain the sample applicator; the sample applicator including a swab having a first and second swab heads for swabbing a surface to obtain a sample, the cartridge and sample applicator being configured such that when the sample applicator is retained in the cartridge, the first swab head is retained in said preserving chamber to preserve a confirmatory version of said sample, and the second swab head is positioned in the solvent chamber to dissolve the second swab head to a substantially liquid mixture including said sample, and permit the mixture to flow via flow paths to the wells.

Disclosed herein is a wireless location determination system and method.A wireless location determination system of the present invention includes one or more location determination nodes (reception units) for calculating standard deviations of time intervals between pulses sequentially received from a location determination target, and estimating reliability values from the standard deviations. A location determination server receives messages, including the reliability values, from the location determination nodes, and obtains a location of the location determination target (transmission unit). Accordingly, the present invention can not only improve the resolution of location determination by correcting the distances between the location determination target and the respective location determination nodes, but also can easily observe the location determination performance of a relevant node by monitoring reliability values of the location determination nodes, and can regard the reliability values as measures for the observation of performance and the maintenance of location determination nodes.

The invention relates to an automatic parking trajectory planning method based on deep enhanced learning. The method comprises the steps that a two-dimensional virtual parking environment is established according to information obtained by a visual system; parking movement of a vehicle is simulated to obtain the steering angles of a steering wheel; a series of corresponding steering wheel steeringangles in the automatic parking process are obtained by establishing an automatic parking model based on deep enhanced learning and adopting a deep enhanced learning method, and an automatic parkingtrajectory is generated; whether or not collision of a vehicle takes place in the virtual parking environment is judged, if yes, the two-dimensional virtual parking environment is initialized, the next parking training is started, otherwise the next step is started; the automatic parking trajectory is planned, and the length and time consumption of the trajectory are comprehensively considered toscreen out the optimal automatic parking trajectory. The method has the advantages that the method can be applied to different parking environments, the planned trajectory is more reasonable and optimized, a controlling strategy is combined, the vehicle can follow the trajectory to rapidly enter a parking space automatically without being operated by a driver, and the accuracy and the reliabilityare improved.

A multi-link wireless channel sounder is provided. The multi-link wireless channel sounder includes a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna unit, a transmitter (TX) signal processing unit configured to transmit via the MIMO antennas one or more TX wireless channel signals to be transmitted via a wireless channel, a receiver (RX) signal processing unit configured to receive and process one or more RX wireless channel signals that are received from multiple links via the MIMO antenna unit, and a control unit configured to receive an operation mode selection signal that indicates a TX mode or an RX mode from a user and to control the TX signal processing unit or the RX signal processing unit to operate selectively in accordance with the operation mode selection signal.

Optical analyzer (10,50,60) comprises an optically integrating cavity (20), the optically integrating cavity (20) formed by at least one optical light diffusing wall (31) and adapted to contain a sample of a solid agricultural product, the sample consisting of one or more sample elements (41,48), a light source (13,33), emitting light into the optically integrating cavity (20), whereas the at least one optical light diffusing wall (31) is utilized to convert emitted light to diffused light, whereas the sample at least partially or completely converts the diffused light to spectrally filtered light, and a spectral sensor (26). The sample is confined in the optically integrating cavity (20) while the spectral sensor (26) is being exposed to the spectrally filtered light. Patent application has independent claims also for optical analyzing method and sample preparation device.

A mini lead screw pump monitors the rotation of a lead screw by using a magnetoresistive sensor and an MCU, and uses feedback to control the rotation direction and speed of the lead screw through a motor controller so as to control the speed of infusion to a patient. Furthermore, this mini lead screw pump can control the infusion speed of insulin according to the patient's blood sugar concentration monitored by CGM. This mini lead screw pump has several advantages, comprising high sensitivity, high reliability, low power consumption, low cost, and ease of use.

Provided are a mask for an application of paste and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device by using the same. The method includes preparing a light emitting structure including first and second conductive semiconductor layers and an active layer disposed therebetween, which has at least one electrode formed on a surface of the light emitting structure; disposing a mask having an open part exposing a portion of the surface of the light emitting structure therethrough and a recess part corresponding the electrode in a region thereof on a surface of the light emitting structure; and applying wavelength conversion material-containing paste to the surface of the light emitting structure through the open part.

A method for improving the precision and reliability of the heating control for an anesthetic machine circuit, comprises: a 1-wire temperature sensor is positioned in the anesthetic machine circuit and electrically connected to a control unit. The control unit reads the ID and verification code of the temperature sensor according to 1-wire protocol and determines the validity of the temperature sensor. The control unit reads the temperature value of the temperature sensor and compares it with the target control temperature. The control unit then turns on the control switch when requiring heating such that power supply powers the heater and the circuit temperature rises, or on the contrary turns off the control switch and the circuit temperature drops according to a control algorithm. The average power of the heater is controlled by PWM method such that the circuit is operated at a predetermined control temperature. With the usage of the 1-wire temperature sensor, the problem of analog signal transmission error is solved, the use of the sensor is facilitated, a long-distance temperature detection and control is obtained. At the same time the digital signal form and interface protocol of the sensor have relative higher anti-disturbance performance and failure recognition function. Accordingly, the requirement on the interface connection quality is reduced, and the reliability is improved.

The invention discloses a vehicle queue longitudinal redundancy control system based on information fusion technology, which comprises a queue longitudinal redundancy controller, a V2X communication module for transmitting the acquired motion information of surrounding vehicles and a host vehicle to the queue longitudinal redundancy controller, an environment sensing module for acquiring vehicle surrounding environment information by using an onboard sensor and transmitting the information to the queue longitudinal redundancy controller, and a motion execution module for receiving the vehicleenvironment information and the driving parameter information sent by the queue longitudinal redundancy controller. The vehicle queue longitudinal redundancy control system based on information fusiontechnology combines the V2X communication system and the onboard sensor environment awareness system for multi-source information fusion, and uses the queue longitudinal redundancy controller to realize switching of different control strategies to ensure stable and safe driving of a vehicle queue.

A multi-link wireless channel sounder is provided. The multi-link wireless channel sounder includes a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna unit, a transmitter (TX) signal processing unit configured to transmit via the MIMO antennas one or more TX wireless channel signals to be transmitted via a wireless channel, a receiver (RX) signal processing unit configured to receive and process one or more RX wireless channel signals that are received from multiple links via the MIMO antenna unit, and a control unit configured to receive an operation mode selection signal that indicates a TX mode or an RX mode from a user and to control the TX signal processing unit or the RX signal processing unit to operate selectively in accordance with the operation mode selection signal.

The present disclosure provides a method and a device of inspecting a sealant coating on a substrate. An image of a sample substrate is captured. The sample substrate is selected from a plurality of substrates. A non-coating area is identified from the image of the sample substrate. Abnormal points are identified in the non-coating area. Positions of the abnormal points are recorded. An image of a sealant-coated substrate having a sealant coating on one of the plurality of substrates is captured. Defect positions of the sealant coating are identified from the image of the sealant-coated substrate. Defects located in a non-coating area of the sealant-coated substrate at positions corresponding to the positions of the abnormal points identified based on the sample substrate are considered as normal.

The rotary detector according to this invention comprises a rotary detector unit C1, C1′ which detects rotary motion of a rotor; and a rotary calculator unit C2, C2′, C2″ comprising a rotation angle detector, which detects the rotation angle of the rotor, and an angle speed detector 47 which detects the angle speed of the rotor, based on the output of the rotary detector unit. The rotary calculator unit comprises a trigonometrical calculator C3, C3′, C3″ which calculates a sine value or a cosine value of the rotation angle detected by the rotary detector; a gain adjuster 57, 57′, 57″ which multiplies the sine value or the cosine value, calculated by the trigonometrical calculator, by a predetermined gain; a multiplier 59, 59′ which multiplies the output of the gain adjuster by the output of the angle speed detector; and a subtracter 61, 61′ which subtracts the output of the multiplier from the output of the angle speed detector.

A flight unit control system having at least one instrumented fastening bolt connecting an aircraft carrier structure and a load path, the instrumented bolt having at least one measurement area for detecting that the load path is under load and including a fastener for locking the instrumented bolt in a position relative to the aircraft carrier structure and load path and wherein the measurement area has two cavities and at least one strain gauge and wherein the fastener includes a plate which is positioned at a threaded end of the instrumented bolt which bears against one of the aircraft carrier structure and the load path and which extends perpendicularly to an axis of the bolt and a nut which is placed at the threaded end of the instrumented bolt to immobilize the instrumented bolt relative to the aircraft structure or the load path.

This invention relates to a device and process for determining an airport runway state (12), as well as for using such data. The process includes: acquisition (A1) of measurement data pertaining to at least one physical size of an aircraft (10), during the take off or landing roll phase of the aircraft on said runway; obtaining (A2), using the data acquired, a plurality of estimated adhesion values “μ” of the runway, corresponding to a respective plurality of taxiing moments of the aircraft; obtaining (A3), using the data acquired, a slip ratio value “s” of at least one of the aircraft's wheels for each said taxiing moment, so as to obtain (A4) a plurality of coupled data points [s,μ]; and determination of a runway state by comparing (A5.2) the coupled data points [s,μ] profile with at least one predetermined profile.

A mini lead screw pump monitors the rotation of a lead screw by using a magnetoresistive sensor and an MCU, and uses feedback to control the rotation direction and speed of the lead screw through a motor controller so as to control the speed of infusion to a patient. Furthermore, this mini lead screw pump can control the infusion speed of insulin according to the patient's blood sugar concentration monitored by CGM. This mini lead screw pump has several advantages, comprising high sensitivity, high reliability, low power consumption, low cost, and ease of use.

The invention discloses a power station boiler air preheater heat spot detecting method based on rotor temperature field analog computation. The method is implemented according to the following steps: parameters of the air preheater needing to be monitored are determined and a temperature reference value is set; various parameters are collected in real time and the obtained parameters are input into a computation module; a boundary temperature value is initialized, and boundary conditions are determined; the temperature of the section, the interior of the sub-bin and a fluid and a heating surface on the exit boundary is obtained by using a difference equation; if temperature error obtained before and after an interactive process is in accordance with the set temperature reference value requirement, the computation is over, otherwise, the boundary temperature value is renewed to carry out interaction again. When fault happens to an infrared heat spot sensor or an executing mechanism of an existing heat spot detecting system, the system sends out a switching command, by using the temperature field parameters obtained by the analog computation of the method of the invention as the reference value for control, the reliability of the air preheater heat spot detector is improved and the safe and stable operation of the detecting system is guaranteed.

A contaminant detection apparatus comprising a powered portable detection device for detecting the presence of at least one pathogen in a sample; a test applicator kit comprising a sample applicator and a cartridge configured to receive and retain the sample applicator; the sample applicator including a swab having a first and second swab heads for swabbing a surface to obtain a sample, the cartridge and sample applicator being configured such that when the sample applicator is retained in the cartridge, the first swab head is retained in said preserving chamber to preserve a confirmatory version of said sample, and the second swab head is positioned in the solvent chamber to dissolve the second swab head to a substantially liquid mixture including said sample, and permit the mixture to flow via flow paths to the wells.

A method for eliminating abnormal blood flow velocities in an ultrasonic imaging system is provided in present invention. The method comprises: receiving signals of blood flow; pre-processing the received signals to generate velocity signs in real time; obtaining a plurality of the velocity signs in a predefined spatial and temporal order, and performing weighted smoothing on the plurality of the velocity signs; determining the direction of blood flow at the pixel to be confirmed according to result of the weighted smoothing. A module for performing above method and a color flow imaging system with such a module are also provided in present invention. The method and apparatus provided by present invention can judge the practical direction of blood flow intelligently by performing spatial-temporal smoothing only on the signs of blood flow velocities, so that the estimation error caused by the system noise,clutter residue, speckle effect and etc. can be corrected.

The invention provides a risk analysis management method and a risk analysis management system for a smart distribution network, and aims to solve the problem that analysis on risks of safety production of power grids is incomplete in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps that: a power grid data management center retrieves power grid data in a plurality of systems containing the power grid data through an information interaction bus; the power grid data management center performs power grid risk analysis by using the power grid data, and power grid risk analysis result data is obtained; and the power grid data management center receives service requests containing the power grid risk analysis result data through the information interaction bus, and performs service response on the service requests through the information interaction bus. By the technical scheme, the accuracy and the reliability of power grid risk analysis can be improved, and information interaction and sharing of a plurality of platforms are realized.