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A device, system and method for detecting and measuring concentrations of elements in fluids comprises: flowing a fluid through a central flow interelectrode gap of an ionic preconcentration cell separating an upper high specific surface area electrode from a lower high specific surface area electrode of the ionic preconcentration cell by a predetermined interelectrode gap width; and applying a voltage differential between the upper high surface area electrode and the lower high surface area electrode while the fluid is flowing through the central flow interelectrode gap. As such, this cell that utilizes its inherent capacitance for double layer formation to extract ultra-trace levels of ionic contaminants from fluids in order to enhance detection by x-ray fluorescence analysis.

An image pickup apparatus comprising an array of unit cells, vertical signal lines, and a control circuit. The unit cells are arranged in rows and columns. Each unit cell has a light-receiving device for receiving light and generating an electric charge corresponding to the light, a charge-accumulating section for accumulating the electric charge generated by the light-receiving device, a transfer device for transferring the electric charge from the light-receiving device to the charge-accumulating section, and a charge-limiting device for limiting the electric charge accumulated in the charge-accumulating section. The vertical signal lines extend along the columns of unit cells, respectively, each for receiving a electric data item corresponding to the electric charge accumulated in the charge-accumulating section of any unit cell of the associated column. The control circuit controls each of the unit cells, causing the charge-limiting device to limit the charge generated by the light-receiving device during a first period and transferred to the charge-accumulating section through the transfer device. The charge generated by the light-receiving device during a second period following the first period and transferred to the charge-accumulating section through the transfer device is added to the electric charge accumulated in the charge-accumulating section.

A first lens group includes a plano-concave and negative first lens, a catoptric element having a flat object side surface and a flat image side surface, and a first cemented lens, for example. Here, the first cemented lens includes a negative second lens and a positive third lens in order from an object side. A second lens group includes an aperture stop and a positive second cemented lens, for example. The second cemented lens includes a positive fourth lens, a negative fifth lens, and a positive sixth lens in order from the object side. A zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression 1.59<n21<2.20, assuming that a value n21 indicates refractive index of the fourth lens on a side closest to an object in the second lens group.

A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of capacitor lines, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a capacitor line driving circuit, a first capacitive signal output circuit, and a data line driving circuit. Each of the pixels includes a pixel switching element, a pixel capacitor, and a storage capacitor. The capacitor line driving circuit supplies a first capacitive signal to the capacitor line when the one scanning line is selected, and changes a voltage value of the first capacitive signal when a scanning line, located a predetermined number of scanning lines away from the one scanning line, is selected. The first capacitive signal output circuit adjusts and outputs a voltage of the first capacitive signal when the one scanning line is selected. The data line driving circuit supplies the pixels with data signals of voltages corresponding to gray scale levels.

An A/D converter circuit includes a comparison circuit that performs a process to compare an added signal of a sampled signal of an input signal and a code signal with a D/A output signal, or a process to compare the sampled signal with an added signal of the D/A output signal and the code signal, a control circuit that outputs output data obtained based on successive approximation result data and the code data as A/D conversion data of the input signal, a first D/A converter circuit that D/A converts the data for successive approximation, a second D/A converter circuit that D/A converts code data that changes over time, and a correction section that performs a correction process, to correct the successive approximation result data so as not to overflow due to code shifting using the code data.

A driver laser for EUV light source apparatus which driver laser simultaneously achieves short-pulsing and multi-line oscillation. The driver laser includes: a short-pulse multi-line oscillated CO₂ laser oscillator having a device that shortens width of pulses included in a laser beam to be output and a device that suppresses amplitude of an oscillation spectrum exhibiting an energy peak value; and at least one amplifier that inputs the laser beam output from the short-pulse multi-line oscillated CO₂ laser oscillator and amplifies the input laser beam to output the amplified laser beam.

A robot is provided with a multi-joint robot arm, an external force detection unit that is installed in the arm, and detects an external force, a joint movable-state calculation unit that calculates a movable state of a joint of the arm, an external force conversion unit which, based on the movable state calculated by the joint movable-state calculation unit, converts the external force detected by the external force detection unit to a converted external force, and a control unit that controls the arm based on the converted external force so as to regulate the operation of the arm.

An A/D converter comprises a ramp voltage generation circuit, a voltage comparison circuit comprising an arithmetic unit comparing an analog voltage to be converted with a reference voltage showing the voltage change of a ramp voltage, and changing an output when the reference voltage equals the analog voltage, a counter counting and outputting a digital value corresponding to the reference voltage, a latch circuit latching and outputting the digital value when the output of the voltage comparison circuit changes, an averaging process circuit to obtain an average noise voltage, a target noise voltage setting circuit setting a target noise voltage, and a control circuit adjusting at least one of a counting start timing of the counter with respect to a control reference timing, or the criterion level of the reference voltage at the counting start timing, based on a difference between the average noise voltage and the target noise voltage.

The invention provides a method for the RFI (radio frequency interference) suppression and error correction of a low-frequency SAR (synthetic aperture radar). The technical scheme comprises five steps of: step 1, receiver frequency characteristic error correction based on an echo; step 2, distance spectrum equalization suppression and SAR imaging based on a corrected time-frequency domain echo; step 3, registration based on a time domain image; step 4, RFI detection and suppression based on a time-frequency domain; and step 5, residual error correction. The method provided by the invention can solve the RFI detection and suppression of a double-channel low-frequency SAR interferogram, as well as various error correction problems, increase the performance of an along-track interferometry method, and lay a good foundation for the follow-up associated processing.

The issue to be resolved by the present invention is to provide isolation transformers with high noise attenuation rates as well as high reliability, in the high-frequency region above a few MHz, by sufficiently suppressing the amplitudes of noise attenuation characteristic curves, which are irregular, saw-tooth shaped waves with crests and troughs of various sizes, of multi-layer, multi-winding transformers.

An isolation transformer comprised by a multi-layer, multi-winding primary coil 1, a multi-layer, multi-winding secondary coil 2, and a core that forms a magnetic path between the aforementioned primary coil and the aforementioned secondary coil, functions as an isolation transformer to resolve the aforementioned issue by changing the coil layers of one or both of the coils formed by winding an insulated, covered, copper-wire 5 to a multi-layer, multi-winding coil, into which a number of short-circuit rings 4 made of conducting films are inserted and layered.

The planer configuration of the aforementioned conducting short-circuit rings 4 is made approximately identical to that of the neighboring coil-layers, and their thickness is made approximately identical to or less than the skin depth of the induced current generated by the skin effect in the high-frequency region, in which resonances should be suppressed.

Embedded check-valve assembly (100, 600) for integration in a micro-fluidic system. The assembly can include a check-valve chamber (104, 604), an inlet port (106, 606) and an outlet port (108, 608) formed from at least one layer of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) film to form a substrate (102, 602). A plug (114, 614) is disposed within the check-valve chamber.

A display apparatus includes: a light emitting unit which emits light; a light scanning unit which includes a light reflector and scans the light in first and second directions; an amplitude changing unit which changes an amplitude of the swing of the light reflector; and a light emitting control unit which adjusts an amount of light of the light emitting unit, wherein the amplitude changing unit allows a first state where the light is scanned in a first region of the display surface and a second state where the light is scanned on the first region and a second region of the display surface is switched, and wherein the light emitting control unit allows an amount of light per unit area of the first region in the first state and an amount of light per unit area of the first region in the second state to be equalized.

A fuel gas heating control equipment in accordance with the present invention is provided with a gain-determining portion 21 and a time-constant-determining portion 22 which determine values of a gain and a time constant to be used for PI calculations being performed by a PI calculation portion 14. The gain-determining portion 21 specifies a small time constant for the PI calculation portion 14 during load fluctuations when the generator output increases, and specifies a large time constant for the PI calculation portion 14 when the generator output reaches the maximum output. In consequence, during load fluctuations, responsiveness is good and a rapid change in temperature can be followed, so that a fuel gas temperature will not fluctuate in response to a slight change in temperature at the maximum output, thereby achieving a stable fuel gas temperature.

The present invention relates to a multi-beam transmission apparatus and system, and to a method for operating a multi-beam transmission system, wherein a first transmission resource information and a second transmission resource information are determined for respective first and second transmission beam, and wherein a first transmission parameter information and a second transmission parameter information are determined for the respective first and second transmission beams. The first and second transmission resource information and the first and second transmission parameter information are jointly encoded into a joint signal; and the joint signal is transmitted via the first and second transmission beams from a first station to a second station.

A vehicle body structure having a firewall is disclosed. The firewall has a board body made from an aluminum alloy. Steel left and right housing curved parts which may be readily press molded, and which constitute rear parts of left and right wheel housings, are attached to the left and right sides of the board body.