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The present invention provides electroactive polymer transducers that produce out-of-plane deflections. The transducers form a set of surface features based on deflection of an electroactive polymer. The set of surface features may include elevated polymer surface features and/or depressed electrode surface features. Actuation of an active area may produce the polymer deflection that creates one or more surface features. A passive layer may operably connect to a polymer. The passive layer may comprise a thicker and softer material to amplify polymer thickness changes and increase surface feature visibility.

Holders for releasably holding annuloplasty rings prior to and during the implantation of the rings employ any of a variety of features relating to such things as holder shape, handle attachment structures, securement of a ring to the holder, and release of the ring from the holder.

A liquid crystal display according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention is provided in which an additional storage capacitor is formed to a subpixel electrode connected to the dividing switching element, thereby increasing the total storage capacitance. Due to the additional storage capacitor, the kickback voltage difference between two subpixels that may be generated by the additional dividing switching element is eliminated such that the display quality deterioration has been improved by preventing the kickback voltage difference between the two subpixels.

A lightweight knitted surgical mesh which includes a first axis, a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, a third axis offset approximately 30° to 60° from the first axis, and a fourth axis perpendicular to the third axis. Further the mesh has a first weave running parallel to the first axis, a second weave running parallel to the second axis, a third weave running parallel to the third axis, and a fourth weave running parallel to the fourth axis. In an embodiment, the third axis is offset 45° from the first axis to form an isotropic mesh.

The invention provides a vehicle detecting and early-warning method based on machine vision and a cascade classifier, which comprises the steps of carrying out cascade classifier training on positive and negative samples by using edited automobile pictures of known automobile models on the market; building a mathematical model of the recognition frame width and the real distance through a lot of measured data; acquiring images in real time; carrying out image preprocessing, and framing a region-of-interest; carrying out target recognition on the region-of-interest; performing data analysis on a recognition result so as to screen and track a target; carrying out recognition frame moving average filtering processing on the tracked target; and calculating the real distance of the recognition target, calculating the moving speed of a vehicle through the frame difference time and the real distance difference so as to acquire the time when collision possibly occurs and display early-warning information. The method provided by the invention effectively improves the recognition efficiency for a moving target in the real environment and enhances the capacity for detecting and tracking the moving target in a complex environment through the processes of cascade classifier training performed by using the positive and negative samples, real-time image acquisition, image preprocessing, target recognition, target tracking and screening, target early-warning and the like.

A graphic display device illuminates interchangeable graphic panels and is mountable to a translucent mounting surface. The graphic display device includes a housing assembly, a light source assembly, a light guide assembly, and device-to-surface mounts. The housing assembly includes a housing back, a housing front, and peripheral housing edging. Together, the housing back and housing edging define a panel-receiving volume. The light source assembly includes a power source, a light source, and circuitry. A light guide of the light guide assembly is positionable within the panel-receiving volume for guiding light from the light source in an anterior direction. The device-to-surface mounts fasten the graphic display device to a translucent mounting surface, and are cooperably associated with the peripheral housing edging for supporting the housing assembly such that the light from the light source is guided in an anterior direction through the translucent mounting surface.

In the system, the input module is used for collecting the inputted digital image; the collected digital images is inputted into the image dissection module; the image dissection module dissects image into a light illumination image L and a reflection image R, both are respectively inputted into the light illumination processing module and the reflection processing module; the light illumination processing module makes non-linear correction for the light illumination image L and output an corrected light illumination image L'; the reflection module makes the partial noise reduction process for the reflection image R corresponding to the dark area of the inputted image and outputs a noise-reduced reflection image R'; the image combining and outputting module combines L' and R' and then displays the combined image on the output device.

A method, apparatus, and system are provided for accentuating a pointer. An idle time period associated with a pointer relating to a display is monitored. A determination is made whether a termination of the idle time period associated with the pointer has occurred based upon the monitoring. A representation of the pointer is modified in response to the termination of the idle time period associated with the pointer.

The present invention relates to fishing lures equipped with one or more light sources interacting and/or interfacing with one or more light transmission mediums. The light transmission medium acts to illuminate one or more areas proximate to the fishing lure to provide a natural luminance or iridescence. The light transmission medium can be made from a flexible translucent hot melt thermoplastic material extruded into a polymer lens and can be located on an outer surface of a body of the fishing lure or inside the body of the fishing lure. The light transmission medium can also be provided in the form of a soft flexible component made from Plastisol or other similar translucent materials. The light source can be embedded in or located proximate to the light transmission medium to amplify, intensify, and/or disperse light along the light transmission medium to provide a natural looking luminescence to the fishing lure.

The invention relates to a reference-free damage identification method for a composite material plate-shaped structure, belonging to the field of structure health monitoring. The method comprises the following steps of: uniformly distributing a sensor array formed by piezoelectric elements on the composite material plate-shaped structure; sequentially exciting each piezoelectric element through a low-frequency and wide-wave signal and collecting corresponding signals of the residual piezoelectric elements when each piezoelectric element is excited; then calculating a damage index on each exciting sensing path according to a signal difference on a similar exciting sensing path; and finally, imaging damages by utilizing a possibility imaging method. According to the reference-free damage identification method disclosed by the invention, online damage identification and imaging of the composite material plate-shaped structure can be conveniently realized, so as to guarantee the safety of the composite material structure in a use process; and the accuracy and the stability are high.

A cover for helmets, hardhats, caps and other gear worn on the head, (collectively called headgear) with electro-luminescent (EL) lighted wire/s array or a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED's) attached to the cover to provide enhanced visibility and safety for the wearer at night or in dark areas. The cover can be made of the EL wire/s itself, the LED connecting wires, fabric, expandable cloth, netting, mesh, latex, silicon, other expandable materials and hard or pliable plastic. The cover can be temporarily attached to headgear by means of an elastic or rubber band, drawstring, clips, wire or Velcro and/or permanently attached with adhesives. Batteries attached to the headgear cover power the EL light wire/s and/or LED's. The EL wire/s and/or LED's are attached to the headgear cover by cloth thread, clear thread, plastic thread, fishing line, glue, staples, clips, Velcro, zip ties, twist ties or other device.

The invention provides for a device for deterring birds from overhead cables such as power lines, which device includes a clamping means for clamping the device on the overhead cable, the clamping means including a first member having a hook portion for hooking over the power line and a second member biased towards the hook portion, wherein said biased member includes a biasing means, and at least one vane set rotatably attached to the clamping means wherein the first and second members are displaceable relative to each other between a first loaded position, wherein the biasing means is loaded, and a second clamped position, wherein the biasing means is at least partially unloaded thereby clamping the power line between the first member and the second member. The invention further provides for a method of deploying said clamping means onto an overhead cable.

Control of a light emission period of a light-emitting element results in higher visibility. A display device includes a signal line, a first scan line, a second scan line, and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The second transistor includes a back gate. The second scan line is electrically connected to the back gate. The second scan line has a function of controlling the threshold voltage of the second transistor and a function of controlling the light emission period of the light-emitting element.

The invention discloses a faucet installation structure and a faucet installation method. The faucet installation structure comprises a base for fixing a faucet on an installation face of the faucet and a clamping assembly for positioning the base on the faucet installation face, wherein the base is provided with an opening through which a water inlet pipe of the faucet passes and runs up and down; the clamping assembly comprises a connecting rod, an upper clamping part which is movably arranged on the connecting rod and an lower clamping part which can sequentially passes through the opening and an installation hole on the faucet installation face and enters into the lower side of the installation face; the lower clamping part is arranged on the connecting rod and is located below the upper clamping part; when the lower clamping part is placed on the lower side of the faucet installation face, the connecting rod is driven above the faucet installation face to move upward so as to clamp the lower clamping part, so that the lower clamping part leans against the lower side of the faucet installation face, and the upper clamping part positions the connecting rod and leans against the upper side of the base. The faucet installation structure disclosed by the invention fully realizes an operation mode of installation on the faucet installation face, and is big enough in installation space and good in visibility, so that the installation efficiency is greatly improved.

A method and system for creating secure virtual project rooms is provided. The system creates a security focused development infrastructure to augment existing planning tools, existing development environment, and provide analytics for adjusting the plans to carry out a secure distributed project development.

The invention discloses a remote sensing detection and spatial hot area identification system and method for a contaminated site. The system comprises a spatial data acquisition and preprocessing module, a contaminated site remote sensing detection module and a contaminated site hot area detection module. The system serves the work of contaminated site monitoring, hot area detection and the like.The system comprises a novel contaminated site remote sensing image detection method framework, and an identification method for a centralized distribution area of the contaminated site is realized. The system has the characteristic of high practicability, and has urgent application requirements in the related fields of current contaminated site situation monitoring, contaminated site planning, ecological environment restoration and the like.

The invention discloses a system and a method for precisely identifying a target and calculating an effect in an ecological sponge type urban construction suitable area. The system comprises a spatialdata acquisition module, a suitable area spatial identification module, an index control and measure design module and a construction effect calculation module. The method is used for sponge city construction from city construction planning to engineering design whole process. Accurate identification of construction and reconstruction target suitable areas and suitable grade targets in urban heatisland control and urban landscaping processes can be realized, and the effects of flood disasters and high-temperature extreme climate events under different urban construction and reconstruction scenarios can be measured and calculated. The system comprises a novel sponge city and heat island control dual-target city planning and design framework, achieves refined remote sensing classificationand artificial intelligence detection algorithm aiming at precise identification of the ecological sponge city space suitability, and can effectively simulate the effects of city construction and reconstruction on rain flood and extreme high temperature events.

The invention provides an enterprise information management system configuration platform based on JavaWeb. The platform comprises a service designer which is used for the definition, execution and monitoring of the external business logic; an interface designer used for reading a data source or an external data report designer and generating a report through an Excel template, a data display control and the data source; a chart designer used for performing chart design in combination with the data source in a visual form; a process designer used for supporting the complex business process definition; an interface designer used for butting with an external system in an interface manner through the data source; and an import designer used for designing the Excel template according to the business requirements and executing the data source to import the Excel data into the system. The enterprise information management system configuration platform based on JavaWeb is low in developmentcost, customizable in function selection and high in development efficiency.

A vehicle direction indicator system is designed to alert surrounding drivers of the intentions of the vehicle operator to continue in a forward direction. The indicator system has a plurality of indicator light end points and each end point is powered by the vehicle's electrical system and includes a housing, a light source holder and a lens attached to the front portion of the housing. The end points may be positioned in various locations such as the grill, spoiler, side markers and the like and may simultaneously emit a color when the vehicle driver actuates the indicator system within the vehicle. The system is preferably mounted onto the front portion of the vehicle and is capable of signaling to other drivers at a four way intersection an intention to continue in a straight direction.

The invention provides a method for controlling headlamp of automobile, which comprises the following steps: (1) sensing the external illuminance of the vehicle; (2) sensing starting state of vehicle braking system; (3) if the vehicle braking system is detected to be started, illuminating by a first lamp according to the predetermined brightness based on the brightness sensed in the first step; (4) sensing the vehicle braking state; (5) sensing the distance between the vehicle and the rear vehicle; (6) judging the stopping state of the vehicle, and the brightness of the first lamp is adjusted to the first brightness for illumination after a preset time, if the distance is in the range of the predetermined distance.

The invention discloses an underlying surface nested remote sensing refined drawing method for sponge city construction. 'low influence degree development 'is introduced; The invention discloses an advanced idea of a sponge city, a grade nested classification method and the like. The invention provides a novel remote sensing refined drawing technology which is suitable for sponge city constructionand is supported by an urban surface multi-source data integrated grade scale nested classification system. Sponge city construction planning, design and engineering implementation application objectives are developed, and the key technology and the multi-level proportional scale drawing and visualization method for extracting the surface water permeability, the relative slope information, the population density level and the urban function division multi-attribute information of the'pattern spot entity 'are integrated. The system can realize an intelligent calculation and statistical mappingmethod for sponge city construction target identification. The method has the advantages of being low in cost, high in classification precision and high in applicability, and the target application requirements for sponge city construction, landscape garden planning, ecological environment protection and the like are better met.

The invention discloses a main control board circuit early warning system based on big data. The main control board circuit early warning system comprises an acquisition module, a receiving unit, a database, an analysis module, a display screen, a data arrangement module, a server and a transmitting unit, wherein the acquisition module is used for acquiring circuit information and environment information in real time, and transmitting the invention to the receiving unit; and the receiving unit is used for receiving and arranging the circuit information and the environment information to obtaincurrent data, voltage data, line temperature data, running time data and connecting line thickness data. According to the main control board circuit early warning system, data analysis is carried outon related data acquired by the data acquisition module through the analysis module, so as to calculate a calculation formula of the related data of a circuit connecting line, the data arrangement module performs predicted value calculation on the temperature change of the circuit according to the calculation formula of the related data, so that the accuracy of data calculation is improved, the persuasion of the data is enhanced, manpower resources consumed by artificial watching are saved, and the working efficiency is improved.

An emergency notification flashing system comprising a warning triangle, a flashlight, and a caution vest to alert oncoming motorists to a disabled vehicle, an accident, or similar hazard is herein disclosed. The warning triangle and the flashlight are placed on the roadside next to the disabled vehicle or accident. The warning triangle and the flashlight comprise a plurality of illumination means which visually alert oncoming vehicle and pedestrians of the upcoming hazard. A user is to wear the caution vest which includes reflective means to alert oncoming vehicles and pedestrians. The warning triangle, flashlight, and caution vest are stored within a case when not in use.

The invention relates to a power-forced parachute opening device of a rocket, which comprises a rocket (1) and a traction belt (3), wherein the rocket (1) is arranged outside a parachute pack (2) and connected with a parachute (4) in the parachute pack (2) by the traction belt (3). Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that the rocket can be used for rapidly pulling the parachute in the preset direction after the rocket is started, thereby greatly shortening the straightening time of the parachute, improving the parachute opening speed, greatly reducing height loss; and the parachute can be rapidly completely opened and work, a plurality of problems of abnormal parachute opening (such as parachute inside out, and the like) can be solved, and the aim of lifesaving is achieved finally, therefore, the reliability of parachute use is improved.

The invention discloses an oil-gas well shaft corrosion simulation evaluation system. The oil-gas well shaft corrosion simulation evaluation system comprises an oil casing pipe evaluation module, a corrosion coupon module, a scaling evaluation module, an electrochemical corrosion probe module and a double-layer circulation pipeline, wherein the oil casing pipe evaluation module, the corrosion coupon module, the scaling evaluation module and the electrochemical corrosion probe module are all connected with the double-layer circulation pipeline; the oil casing pipe evaluation module is used forfluid scouring simulation of an oil casing pipe and an inner coating of the oil casing pipe; the corrosion coupon module is used for dynamic scouring corrosion simulation of fluid; the scaling evaluation module is used for scaling simulation of the oil casing pipe; and the electrochemical corrosion probe module is used for electrochemical corrosion simulation of the oil casing pipe. The oil-gas well shaft corrosion simulation evaluation system can simulate the corrosion scaling factors such as the fluid flow speed, pressure and temperature in the shaft environment, can be used for conducting oil casing pipe corrosion rate testing, corrosion behavior and corrosion mechanism research, anti-corrosion measure effect evaluation, corrosion inhibitor optimization, scale inhibitor optimization, non-compatible fluid scaling condition research and the like, and provides an effective evaluation means for anti-corrosion and anti-scaling work of an oil-gas well.

The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for teaching demonstration of underground engineering geological disasters. The apparatus includes a steel plate box of which the top is provided with an opening. A simulation box body is arranged in the steel plate box. A vibration control device is arranged between the steel plate box and the simulation box body. The simulation box body is filled with a base rock simulating pack. A long-bar-shaped groove is arranged in the side wall of the simulation box body. A glass plate is arranged on the side wall of the simulation box body. A settlement groove, a funnel-like groove, a mud water trough and a mud water transportation channel are arranged above the long-bar-shaped groove. A steel wire net is arranged between the bottom of the settlement groove and the long-bar-shaped groove. Gypsum bulks are arranged in the long-bar-shaped groove. During demonstration of geological disaster in underground engineering, specific damage status, suchas deformation displacement slump, surface subsidence, surface collapse, water and mud inrush in a Karst zone and the like, can be obviously observed. The apparatus can show the process of formation and movement of the underground engineering geological disasters.