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A linear vibration motor comprising a movable unit, a base assembly having a coil assembly, a housing and an elastic member, in which the movable unit has the maximum mass from a fixed housing volume. The elastic member has the outer periphery fixed to the ceiling of the housing and the inner periphery fixed to the top of the movable unit opposed to the outer periphery. The elastic member is deformable to the extent that the outer and inner peripheries are shift to a coplanar position from a parallel position where they are spaced for a predetermined distance from each other. The core assembly is distanced downward from the movable unit or a predetermined gap.

Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and encoders employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or imaged along a line.

A touch sensitive device comprising a panel capable of supporting bending waves, a user-accessible touch sensitive screen on or forming part of a face of the panel, the touch sensitive screen having a plurality of different sensing areas, a plurality of vibration exciters coupled to the panel to apply bending waves to the panel to provide tactile feedback at the plurality of sensing areas in response to the user touching a sensing area, and signal processing means arranged to apply signals to the vibration exciters so as to steer bending waves applied to the panel by the plurality of vibration exciters whereby the amplitude of the applied bending waves is maximized at the sensing area touched by the user and reduced or minimized at each other sensing area.

The invention includes a wireless communication circuit and a method of communicating with wireless signals that feature a tank circuit having an inductor connected in parallel with a capacitor circuit. The capacitor circuit includes a pair of capacitors coupled in series. Each of the capacitors is connected in common to ground and has a capacitive value associated. A feedback network is connected to selectively bias the tank circuit to produce a signal having an amplitude. The amplitude of the signal is a function of a ratio of the capacitive values associated with the capacitor circuit. The frequency of the signal is defined by the inductor and the capacitor circuit. The tank circuit is multifunctional in that it may be biased to function as a transmitter and a receiver.

A shortest mark 108 is recorded with a single recording pulse. A long mark 125 is recorded with a two-stage pulse including a first-part pulse and a second-part pulse. In the case where each of positions 115 and 118 of front edges of the recording pulses is determined based on a relationship between a length of a space immediately before a mark and that of the mark itself so as to properly position the front edges of reproduced waveforms of all the mark lengths and each of positions of rear edges of the recording pulses of all the mark lengths is fixed so as to satisfy a prescribed relative relationship with an edge of a recording clock, power 122 of a recording pulse 101 of the shortest mark is determined so as to realize a proper rear edge position 112 of the reproduced waveform of the shortest mark and power 124 of a second-part pulse 104 is determined for each mark length so as to realize a proper rear edge position 123 of the reproduced waveform of the long mark.

Polarization effects are managed to provide differential timing information for localizing disturbances affecting two or more counter-propagating light signals on one or more optical waveguides passing through a detection zone. Activity can be localized to a point for a security perimeter. Events causing optical disturbance can be mapped to points along a straight line, a perimeter or arbitrary pattern or an array. Events cause local changes in optical properties in the optical waveguide, in particular an optical fiber. Short term local changes are distinguishable from phase changes of light travel in the waveguide by managing the polarization state of input and output beams.

Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or along a line.

A linear vibration motor comprising a movable unit, a base assembly having a coil assembly, a housing and an elastic member, in which the movable unit has the maximum mass from a fixed housing volume. The elastic member has the outer periphery fixed to the ceiling of the housing and the inner periphery fixed to the top of the movable unit opposed to the outer periphery. The elastic member is deformable to the extent that the outer and inner peripheries are shift to a coplanar position from a parallel position where they are spaced for a predetermined distance from each other. The core assembly is distanced downward from the movable unit or a predetermined gap.

A method of operating a scanning probe microscope includes using a probe having a cantilever, and oscillating the probe at a torsional resonance frequency thereof. In addition, the method includes substantially increasing torsional drive efficiency with dual actuators disposed on the probe or the probe base. First and second actuators may be driven by corresponding first and second drive signals, the first and second drive signals being about 180° out of phase. The maximizing step includes altering at least one of the amplitudes of the first and second drive signals to maximize torsional oscillation. Torsional and flexural oscillation of the cantilever probe can be excited concurrently, sequentially or independently by adjusting the phase of the corresponding drive signals. A pair of cantilever components can be used to form a nanotweezer by rotating the respective arms having corresponding tip portions at the distal ends.

Polarization effects are managed to provide differential timing information for localizing disturbances affecting two or more counter-propagating light signals on one or more optical waveguides passing through a detection zone. Activity can be localized to a point for a security perimeter. Events causing optical disturbance can be mapped to points along a straight line, a perimeter or arbitrary pattern or an array. Events cause local changes in optical properties in the optical waveguide, in particular an optical fiber. Short term local changes are distinguishable from phase changes of light travel in the waveguide by managing the polarization state of input and output beams.

A low power radio device, operable in a first radio system, comprising: a detector for detecting the polarization of an antenna of a further radio device, operating in a further radio system, different to the first radio system; and a transmitter for controlling the polarization of a transmitted radio signal in dependence on the detected polarization. The polarization of the transmitted signal may be controlled to be substantially orthogonal to the polarization of the antenna of the further radio device.

A method of operating a scanning probe microscope includes using a probe having a cantilever, and oscillating the probe at a torsional resonance frequency thereof. In addition, the method includes substantially increasing torsional drive efficiency with dual actuators disposed on the probe or the probe base. First and second actuators may be driven by corresponding first and second drive signals, the first and second drive signals being about 180° out of phase. The maximizing step includes altering at least one of the amplitudes of the first and second drive signals to maximize torsional oscillation. Torsional and flexural oscillation of the cantilever probe can be excited concurrently, sequentially or independently by adjusting the phase of the corresponding drive signals. A pair of cantilever components can be used to form a nanotweezer by rotating the respective arms having corresponding tip portions at the distal ends.

A superconducting current pump arranged to cause a DC electrical current to flow through a superconducting circuit accommodated within a cryogenic enclosure of a cryostat comprises a rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure and a stator within the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and stator separated by a gap through which passes a thermally insulating wall of the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and the stator comprising at least in part a ferromagnetic material to concentrate magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit across the gap between the rotor and the stator and through the wall, so that movement of the rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure relative to the stator within the cryogenic enclosure induces a DC transport current to flow around the superconducting circuit within the cryogenic enclosure. There is no coupling between a drive motor external to the cryogenic enclosure and an internal rotor which may introduce a path for heat leakage into the cryostat, in turn increasing the heat load and thus increasing the cooling power required to maintain the cold components within the cryogenic enclosure at the low operating temperature required.

A system and method for activating vehicle sensors which are based on inductive loops. A transformer is used to couple the vehicle frame to activation circuitry. Within the activation circuitry, a voltage controlled oscillator which drives the transformer is scanned throughout the required frequency range while a balanced mixer, low-pass filter, and detector are arranged to show the presence of a signal from an inductive loop by the amplitude of the resultant signal at a difference frequency. The voltage controlled oscillator is then made to dwell at or near the frequency of the sensor loop by adjusting so as to keep the amplitude of that low-frequency difference as high as possible.

A voltage setting circuit includes a voltage setting region setting a voltage level corresponding to a maximum value in amplitude of a signal output from an OTA circuit, a voltage setting region setting a voltage level corresponding to a minimum value in amplitude of the signal, and an intermediate voltage setting region setting a voltage intermediate between the voltages set by the above two regions. This intermediate voltage is input to a common mode feedback circuit and in accordance with the intermediate voltage the common mode feedback circuit generates a common mode voltage fed back to the OTA circuit.

The application relates to a signal processing method in a dental radiology apparatus comprising an intraoral sensor that delivers at least one analog image output signal in response to an exposure of said sensor to x-rays, characterized in that it includes the following steps: conversion of said at least one analog image output signal into one digital image output signal, processing of the digital image output signal to obtain a report indicating the x-ray exposure level that has been used to deliver said analog output signal, the report indicating the exposure level corresponding to an exposure level classified as under-exposure, correct exposure or over-exposure, supply of the report indicating the exposure level used.

A crystal thin film is adopted as a specimen for measurement. A change in the contrast of crystal lattice fringes is measured under a condition that a diffracted wave and other wave are caused to interfere with each other. Thus, an information transfer limit of a transmission electron microscope can be measured quantitatively. Since the measurement is performed with a condition for interference restricted, the information transfer limit of the transmission electron microscope can be quantitatively assessed.

An optical sensing system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a free-space optical signal toward a target, and a receiver configured to receive a reflected free-space optical target signal from the target. The receiver includes a phase sensitive amplifier (PSA), a homodyne detector coupled downstream from the PSA, and a controller configured to adjust a phase of the PSA based upon the homodyne detector.

An expansion valve capable of reducing noise due to acoustic resonance by allowing for adjustment of resonance characteristics of piping connected to a restricting portion and filled with a substantially liquid refrigerant, and an air conditioner using the same are provided. The expansion valve has a valve body 1, a restricting portion 18 formed inside the valve body 1, two piping connection portions 11, 12 communicating with the upstream side and the downstream side of the restricting portion 18, and at least one opening 30 that opens a refrigerant flow passage to outside of the valve body 1, the refrigerant flow passage extending from the piping connection portion 12 to which a piping 19 filled with a substantially liquid refrigerant is connected to the restricting portion 18. The valve body 1 is formed in such a manner that a resonance adjuster 31 having a resonance space and adjusting resonance characteristics of the piping 19 filled with a substantially liquid refrigerant can be attached to the outside so as to communicate with the opening 30.

Provided herein is an oscillating water column type wave energy converting apparatus that is suspended underwater by a mooring device and system thereof, the apparatus and system comprising an damping plate connected to the mooring device; a post with a hollow of which both ends are open, the post extending vertically upwards from the mooring device; a turbine disposed inside the hollow of the post; and a housing of which its lower end is open and which is disposed at an upper portion of the post, wherein the turbine is rotated by air that flows according to changes in water level inside the hollow of the post.

Method for ultrasound excitation of structures of any geometry, comprising the steps of producing a connection between a generator, an ultrasound converter, and at least one mechanical system to be excited, passing through a frequency range for determining an operating point, wherein at each approached frequency the power consumption of the system to be excited determines a current, and / or a voltage emitted by the generator, which is measured using a sensor such that a measurement value of the sensor renders the power output to the system to be excited, and performing an ultrasound excitation at the determined operating point, or around an environment around the operating point, wherein the operating point, once determined, or the environment around the operating point, once selected, is not modified anymore, and device for the ultrasound excitation of structures of any geometry by means of this method using a generator, an ultrasound converter, and at least one mechanical structure, wherein the generator has control means for the voltage, current, and frequency, by means of which these magnitudes can be varied across a certain range, and at least one sensor for determining a voltage reflecting the power supplied to the total system, and / or a current reflecting the power supplied to the total system at a given frequency, and a memory for storing target values for the power supplied to the total system input by a user on one hand, and of parameter values for voltage, current, and frequency on the other hand, in which the desired target values are achieved, or are achieved as closely as possible.

The invention is a method and apparatus for ultrasound excitation of structures of any geometry. The invention comprises production of a connection between a generator, an ultrasound converter, and at least one mechanical system to be excited, passing through a frequency range for determining an operating point, wherein at each approached frequency the power consumption of the system to be excited determines a current, and / or a voltage emitted by the generator, which is measured using a sensor such that a measurement value of the sensor renders the power output to the system to be excited, and performing an ultrasound excitation at the determined operating point or its immediate surroundings. The device further comprises a memory for storing target values for the power supplied to the total system input, and of parameter values for voltage, current, and frequency, in which the desired target values or ranges are achieved.

An electric machine, as well as a method for operating such a machine, particularly for motorically moving movable parts in a motor vehicle, having a stator and a rotor, slots being developed on the rotor, in which individual conductor loops of electric coils are situated, which are contacted to commutator segments of a commutator and to an evaluating unit, which ascertains rotational speed data from the ripple of a motor current signal. The number of individual conductor loops of the coils is selected in such a way that the sequence of the number of the conductor loops in the order of their commutation approximately represents a sine function.

A drill string and a threaded coupling region for a drill string in which a threaded male and female end are optimised to maximise energy transmission efficiency for percussion drilling. The present coupling includes a male spigot to be received within a female sleeve such that an axial length of the overlap of the spigot within the sleeve is less than an outside diameter of the sleeve.

This invention concerns a wireless data communication method, wherein a transmitter device having a first wide band antenna transmits ultra-wide band coded data signals to a receiver device having a second wide band antenna for receiving the direct and / or multiple path coded data signals. The transmitted data is defined by one or several sequences of N pulses where N is an integer number greater than 1. The arrangement of the N pulses of each sequence represents a data coding relative to the transmitter device. The N pulses of a sequence of direct and / or multiple path coded data signals received by the receiver device are processed each in one among N corresponding reception time windows. Each of the N reception time windows is positioned in time based on a known theoretic arrangement of the N pulses of signals transmitted by the transmitter device. An adding operation of the N windows is then performed in the receiver device so that the amplitude level of the constantly added pulses is higher than the amplitude level of the noise sensed by the receiver device.

A surgical handpiece includes a housing for receiving an insert, and an ultrasound piezoelectric transducer having a piezoelectric motor placed between a counterweight and an amplifier portion. The piezoelectric transducer is suitable for transmitting ultrasound waves from a distal end of the amplifier portion. The distal end is present in the housing, and rotary drive means is present in the housing. The rotary drive means are movable independently of the ultrasound piezoelectric transducer, and the transducer is static relative to the handpiece.