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A modular power distribution unit (PDU) for supplying electric power to attached equipment in environments such as data centers, computer rooms, and communication centers, where power requirements for attached equipment may vary. The power distribution unit includes a frame and one or more user-replaceable power modules, which fit into slots in the frame. Each power module provides one of more plug receptacles for attaching equipment to provide power thereto. The power modules are available in a variety of receptacle types, receptacle numbers, and power rating configurations to accommodate various equipment in a particular environment, as needed. The frame includes an internal connector panel for distributing power from a power source to the power modules when they are inserted in the frame. The power modules may be removed, installed, and interchanged in the frame without interrupting power to other power modules or to the power distribution unit.

A multiplexer of a transmission section generates a clock signal by multiplying a reference clock signal of a digital image signal by a predetermined number ‘K’. A parallel digital image signal is converted into a serial digital signal on the basis of the clock signal, and the serial digital signal is converted into an optical signal in an optical transmission section for transmitting. A demultiplexer extracts a reception clock signal from a serial digital reception signal which is converted into an electric signal in an optical reception section of a reception section, the serial digital reception signal is converted into a parallel signal and a signal corresponding to the parallel digital image signal on the basis of the reception clock signal, and a clock signal corresponding to the reference clock signal is recovered by multiplying the reception clock signal by ‘1 / K’.

A modular power distribution unit (PDU) for supplying electric power to attached equipment in environments such as data centers, computer rooms, and communication centers, where power requirements for attached equipment may vary. The power distribution unit includes a frame and one or more user-replaceable power modules, which fit into slots in the frame. Each power module provides one of more plug receptacles for attaching equipment to provide power thereto. The power modules are available in a variety of receptacle types, receptacle numbers, and power rating configurations to accommodate various equipment in a particular environment, as needed. The frame includes an internal connector panel for distributing power from a power source to the power modules when they are inserted in the frame. The power modules may be removed, installed, and interchanged in the frame without interrupting power to other power modules or to the power distribution unit. In an alternative embodiment, the power distribution unit includes a control unit for receiving remote control signals to provide power sequencing or individual control of the power modules. In still another alternative embodiment, electronic entertainment products such as VCRs and DVDs may be adapted use in countries having different electrical source voltages, frequencies and plug types. The product includes a slot for accepting a power module adapted for receiving and converting power from a country's domestic electric power system for use in powering the product. The power module includes a receptacle for the country of use.

In an anomaly monitoring device, in which an output signal from an encoder is input as an analog input signal via a wiring system, for detecting anomalies in the encoder or the wiring system, provided are a voltage level based device, a pulse number based device and a pulse width based device. The voltage level based device detects anomalies when the voltage level of the analog input signal exists within a prescribed range. The pulse number based device detects anomalies when the difference in the numbers of pulses of digital signals corresponding to the analog input signals is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value. The pulse width based device detects anomalies when the pulse width of the digital signals, measured from a combined signal of the digital signals or each of the digital signals, is different from the pulse width in a past control period.

A centrifugal compressor for a chiller system includes a casing, an inlet guide vane, an impeller disposed downstream of the inlet guide vane, a motor and a diffuser. The casing has inlet and outlet portions with the inlet guide vane disposed in the inlet portion. The impeller is attached to a shaft rotatable about a rotation axis, and the motor rotates the shaft in order to rotate the impeller. The centrifugal compressor further includes a casing treatment bypass having an entrance port and an exit port. The casing treatment bypass injects refrigerant from a gap between the impeller and the inlet portion of the casing toward an area between the impeller and the inlet guide vane. The exit port of the casing treatment bypass is positioned upstream in a direction of a refrigerant flow with respect to the entrance port of the casing treatment bypass.

When a timer charge time zone is set by a timer charge reservation means for allowing a user to designate a predetermined timer charge time zone and a target charge amount, and timer charge is carried out from a timer charge start time previously designated, it is judged whether or not the timer charge start time should be advanced, at a time earlier by a predetermined time period than the timer charge start time. Owing to the judgment, charge of a battery can be completed at a predetermined time without enhancing a required capacity of a heater.

An audio control console includes a housing. The housing includes: an operating board provided with a plurality of rows of a plurality of channel strips each including a plurality of operating members each for controlling a value of a parameter of an audio signal processing in a signal processing channel; a support board comprising a flat blank region allowing an object to be placed thereon; and a stepped surface connecting the operating board and the support board to each other. The stepped surface connects the operating board and the support board to each other such that a height position of the support board is above a height position of the operating board. The blank region is inclined downward toward the stepped surface.

When completion of timer charge before elapse of a designated time is designated by a timer charge reservation means for allowing a user to designate a predetermined charge time zone and a target amount of electric power to be charged to the battery, a timer charge start time is determined. Upon carrying out the timer charge, when it is predicted that the timer charge and battery heating are simultaneously carried out, a required amount of extension of a charge time period is determined so as to complete charge of the battery by the designated time, and starts charge of the battery at a time advanced relative to the timer charge start time by the required amount of extension of a charge time period. With this control, charge of the battery can be completed at a predetermined time without unnecessary enhancement in a required capacity of a battery heater.

Concerning increasingly downsized electronic devices equipped with cameras, an object of the present invention is to achieve easy adaptability of parts. A camera module includes an image sensor and a flash memory, and a main module includes an image processing unit and an SDRAM, and the two modules are connected through a flexible cable. The flash memory stores an image processing program for controlling the image processing unit. The image processing program is a program adapted for the camera module. The flash memory also stores adjustment data that is peculiar to the camera module. When the camera function is turned on, the program is downloaded to the main module and image processing is performed.

In an image forming apparatus, during a rotation of an intermediate transfer belt performed after a contact-state-changing rotation in which the number of photoconductors contacting the intermediate transfer belt has changed, a control unit of a belt driving device controls the driving speed of a belt driving motor based on a period of the intermediate transfer belt determined in the rotation immediately before the contact-state-changing rotation instead of a period determined in the contact-state-changing rotation.

An energy transfer apparatus is developed for reducing a conductivity electromagnetic interference and manufacturing method. The energy transfer apparatus comprises a core, an input winding, an output winding, a supply voltage and a supply winding. The supply winding includes a shielding winding and an auxiliary winding. The input winding receives an input voltage for outputting the output voltage through the core and the output winding. The shielding winding and the auxiliary winding generate the supply voltage through the core. By setting of wire size and winding turns of the shielding winding, the conductivity electromagnetic interference is reduced for stabilizing an electric potential between an input-grounding terminal and an output-grounding terminal of the energy transfer apparatus.

A cell controller capable of ensuring high safety even when a short occurs among voltage detecting lines without causing increased costs is provided. The cell controller 10 includes a unit cell voltage detecting section 7 to detect a voltage of each unit cell 1 constituting a battery group through each voltage detecting line and a SOC adjusting circuit for adjusting a SOC of each unit cell 1 having resistors 2 for SOC adjustment, switching elements 6, and a bypass control section 8 to exercise on / off control on the switching elements 6. Each resistor 2 is connected in series to each voltage detecting line and the unit cell voltage detecting section 7 to detect a voltage of each unit cell 1 through each of the resistors 2. The bypass control section 8 lets the switching elements 6 corresponding to the unit cells 1 to be SOC-adjusted enter an ON state at a time of adjusting a SOC, and control is exercised so that each resistor 2 for SOC adjustment is connected in series to each voltage detecting line led from each positive and negative electrode of each unit cell 1 to be adjusted and each of the serially connected resistors 2 is connected in parallel to each unit cell 1 to be adjusted.

A system and method for managing access rights of media files communicated over a network. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention allows a user to obtain rights to access media files of selected content, which may include a song, album, movie, etc. Once the user obtains rights to access media files of the selected content, information that identifies the user and information that describes the selected content is communicated to a plurality of content providers. By receiving information that identifies the user and information that describes the selected content, each content provider can verify independently that the user is authorized to access one or more files that contain the selected content. The user may then directly contact any one of many service providers to access media files that contain the selected content.

A fuel cell stack (7) with output lines (8, 9) has a bank of supercapacitors (10) or batteries (10a) connected across the output lines, either directly or through a DC / DC converter (22). The fuel cell stack receives fuel either from a reformer (13) or a source (13a) of hydrogen. Power is supplied through a power conditioning system (15) to a load (16), all under the control of a controller (19). The supercapacitors or batteries receive additional charge from excess power when there is a sudden decrease in the load, and provide charge to the output power lines (8, 9) when there is a sudden increase in load demand. In one embodiment, the voltage of the supercapacitors or batteries always follow the voltage of the fuel cell stack, thereby providing or receiving commensurate charge. With the DC / DC converter, the supercapacitors or batteries may be operated at voltages which are a multiple or a fraction of fuel cell stack voltage, and may have voltages boosted or bucked to aid in response to transients.

An energy transfer apparatus is developed for reducing a conductivity electromagnetic interference and manufacturing method. The energy transfer apparatus comprises a core, an input winding, an output winding, a supply voltage and a supply winding. The supply winding includes a shielding winding and an auxiliary winding. The input winding receives an input voltage for outputting the output voltage through the core and the output winding. The shielding winding and the auxiliary winding generate the supply voltage through the core. By setting of wire size and winding turns of the shielding winding, the conductivity electromagnetic interference is reduced for stabilizing an electric potential between an input-grounding terminal and an output-grounding terminal of the energy transfer apparatus.

A FinFET includes a semiconductor layer having a fin structure that protrudes out of the semiconductor layer. The fin structure includes a first segment and a second segment disposed over the first segment. A dielectric layer is disposed over the semiconductor layer. The first segment of the fin structure is surrounded by the dielectric layer. A metal layer is disposed over the dielectric layer. The second segment of the fin structure is surrounded by the metal layer. The dielectric layer has a greater nitrogen content than the metal layer. The first segment of the fin structure also has a first side surface that is rougher than a second side surface of the second segment of the fin structure.

The invention discloses a production process for refining large blast furnace cokes by using high-ratio low-heat-state coals. The production process comprises the following operation steps: (a) the oxygen enrichment rate of a blast furnace is 5%; and the gas quantity of a bosh is adjusted; (b) the area of a wind port is reduced; the wind speed is guaranteed about 265 m / s; and the air blowing kinetic energy is about 11000 kg.m / s; (c) the proper theoretic combustion temperature of the wind port is 2180-2230 DEG C; the wind temperature is kept in 1130-1170 DEG C; and the moisture is increased to 20-30 g / t; (d) the coal ratio is increased to 150 kg / t; the coke ratio is kept invariable; the fuel ratio is increased to 565 kg / t; the proper gas quantity is kept; and the furnace top temperature is not lower than 120 DEG C; and (e) the distribution system and the ore batch weight are adjusted; the distribution mode is PWC12345 43321 PWO12345 33321; the ore batch is 62 t-64 t; and according to the top temperature, the ore coke batch weight is adjusted according to the same ratio to guarantee two coal gas flows of the center and the edge of the blast furnace. Meanwhile, a corresponding smelting operation system is formulated according to the method.

The same label value is assigned to all links configuring a connection in a network where an LSP (Label switched Path) is identified based on a label. Even when any one of nodes included in the connection is shortcut due to a change of route of the connection, a neighboring node to this shortcut node in the transmitting direction can receive, from a neighboring node to the shortcut node in the receiving direction, a packet having the same label value as a label value received from the LSR.

A circuit breaker according to the present invention includes a terminal switching unit mounted in an enclosure thereof, and the terminal switching unit accommodates, in a base as an outer casing thereof, a fixed contactor and a movable contactor contactable with and separated from each other, a sliding unit rotatably supporting the movable contactor, and a detection mechanism to detect a fault current. Radiators are provided at side portions of at least one of a contact portion where the movable contactor comes in contact with the fixed contactor, the sliding unit and the detection mechanism, each radiator radiating heat to the outside of the base. This may prevent an increase in temperature of the circuit breaker within a limited space without an increase in costs.

The invention discloses a method for detecting network flood attack behaviors. The method comprises the following steps of 1, counting a difference value between SYN + ACK and ACK messages received ina certain time period by adopting a counting type Bloom Filter-based message counting method; 2, judging whether an abnormal behavior occurs or not by adopting a non-parameter-based CUSUM algorithm;3, adjusting the sampling window by adopting a self-adaptive adjustment method; 4, determining an attacked target according to address division. The problems that in the prior art, due to the basic characteristics that the scale of a communication network is continuously increased and the data size is overlarge, the running time of a traditional detection method is multiplied, the cost expenditureof the method is increased, and the real-time efficiency of the method is reduced are solved; an existing abnormal behavior recognition method is large in recognition effect false detection rate andfalse recognition rate.

The disclosure claims a method and system for detecting optical fibre connection. The method comprises: a single board judges whether the received connection information of downstream single board, connection information of upstream single board and connection information of the single board is the reported current optical fibre connection relationship information; if no, reporting the received connection information to network management system; the network management system generates the optical fibre matching connection relationship information of all single boards currently installed according to the actual installation condition of the single board, and determines whether the reported current optical fibre connection relationship information is the correct optical fibre connection relationship according to the optical fibre matching connection relationship information; if yes, displaying the current optical fibre connection relationship information; otherwise, prompting that currently it is the wrong optical fibre connection relationship, and displaying the optimal optical fibre connection relationship information.

A medical instrument, in particular a resectoscope, comprises a distal first work element which is used for treating body tissue and which can be connected via an elongate work element holder to a handle at a proximal end for moving the work element, the handle having a carriage which is movable in the longitudinal direction of the work element holder and which has a first seat for releasable attachment of the work element holder to the carriage, and further comprises a receiver for an endoscope whose endoscope shaft, in the assembled state, extends substantially parallel to the first work element holder. The carriage has at least a second seat which is spaced apart from the first seat and provided for the first work element holder, or at least a second work element holder which at the distal end supports at least a second work element.

A motorcycle having an external appearance rich in change without increased cost. A front-side side cover has first edge parts adjoining a body frame. Portions of the first edge parts are in approximately the same position in a vehicle width direction as outermost faces of an outer surface of the body frame adjoined to outermost faces of outer surfaces of the portions. The remaining portion of the first edge parts is inside the outermost face of the outer surface of the body frame adjoined to the outermost face of an outer surface of the remaining portion.

The present invention provides a thin film solar cell panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film solar cell panel comprises a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate. The substrate is an ultra-thin glass substrate with a thickness of 0.1-1 mm. The ultra-thin glass substrate has a bending capacity, and a minimum bending radius thereof reaches below 10 cm. The first electrode is continuously disposed on the substrate during its formation. Light transmittance of the thin film solar cell panel of the present invention is enhanced, and the thin film solar cell panel can be conveniently used to manufacture a bending solar cell component.

A fuel cell stack (7) with output lines (8, 9) has a bank of supercapacitors (10) or batteries (10a) connected across the output lines, either directly or through a DC / DC converter (22). The fuel cell stack receives fuel either from a reformer (13) or a source (13a) of hydrogen. Power is supplied through a power conditioning system (15) to a load (16), all under the control of a controller (19). The supercapacitors or batteries receive additional charge from excess power when there is a sudden decrease in the load, and provide charge to the output power lines (8, 9) when there is a sudden increase in load demand. In one embodiment, the voltage of the supercapacitors or batteries always follow the voltage of the fuel cell stack, thereby providing or receiving commensurate charge. With the DC / DC converter, the supercapacitors or batteries may be operated at voltages which are a multiple or a fraction of fuel cell stack voltage, and may have voltages boosted or bucked to aid in response to transients.

In the manufacture of a display device, an object of the invention is to make it possible to easily and precisely measure the amount of beveling of the display panel without an increase in manufacturing costs. In the process of manufacturing a display device, a shorting interconnection (10) is provided near edges of the display panel in order to short-circuit signal interconnections and scanning interconnections (interconnections 3). In a final stage, the shorting interconnection (10) is removed together with a beveled area (A2) by the beveling of the edges of the display panel. The interconnections (3) have marks (11) that are formed near the edges of the substrate and used as reference for the amount of beveling. Each mark (11) is located in a position shifted from the mark (11) of an adjacent interconnection (3) along the length of the interconnections (3).

The invention is an optical lens assembly for capturing images and an image capture device therewith. The optical lens assembly for capturing images includes, along an optical axis, a total reflection prism, a first lens group having negative focal power, wherein the first lens group comprises a lens having negative focal power, a second lens group having positive focal power, wherein the second lens group comprises at least one lens having an aspherical optical surface, a third lens group having positive focal power, wherein the third lens group comprises at least one lens having positive focal power and at least one lens having negative focal power, and a fourth lens group having positive focal power, wherein the fourth lens group comprises at least one lens having an aspherical optical surface. Thereby, the aberration can be improved and a thin lens module for capturing images can be achieved.