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Battery system is widely used in emergent power plant or communication network power plant and its effective management is important. When any one of batteries connected to each other in series is failed during operation of the battery system, since reliability of the system cannot be secured, a problem is arisen to stable operation of the communication network. In a method of separating inferior battery, the battery is operated in floating charge state without separation to generate square current containing charge current and easily generated to flow through the battery cell, voltage signal generated from terminal voltage of the battery by the measuring signal is processed such that only internal impedance voltage signal is separated from harmonics ripple voltage and noise voltage by a synchronized detection calculating algorithm to calculate the internal impedance or effective value thereof (resistance component). When the algorithm is applied after filtering only fundamental frequency and similar component by general filter, measuring precision can be improved and measuring time can be reduced.

The present disclosure relates to a number of inventions directed, generally, to the application of image processing techniques to traffic data acquisition using video images. The inventions reside in a traffic monitoring system, the basic function of which is for traffic data acquisition and incident detection. More specifically, the application of image processing techniques for the detection of vehicle, from sequence of video images, as well as the acquisition of traffic data and detection of traffic incident. In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of processing images received from a video based traffic monitoring system. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a Region Of Interest (ROI) for detection of a moving vehicle and a further aspect is directed to a method of detecting day or night status in a traffic monitoring system. It's The application of various algorithms to a video based traffic monitoring system is also considered inventive. Other inventive aspects of the present traffic monitoring system are outlined in the claims.

A physiological signal measuring sensor that minimizes the measurement error due to a soldering tolerance during the manufacturing process, and a manufacturing method for the same is disclosed. The physiological signal measuring sensor includes a printed circuit board, a light receiving chip mounted to the upper surface of the printed circuit board, light emitting chips mounted to the upper surface of the printed circuit board adjacent to the light receiving chip and resin sealing portions sealing the light receiving chip and the light emitting chips mounted to the upper surface of the printed circuit board wherein a first resin is selected to have opaque optical characteristics and a second resin is selected to have transparent characteristics.

A device for controlling a satellite tracking antenna. An azimuth drive is configured to impart an azimuthal rotational motion to the antenna about an azimuth axis. An elevation axis drive is configured to impart a rotational motion to the antenna about an elevation axis orthogonal to the azimuth axis. A tilt axis drive is configured to impart a rotational motion to the antenna about a tilt axis. The tilt axis is connected to the elevation axis in such a way that the rotational freedom of motion of the antenna about the tilt axis is dependent on the elevation angle such that: at an elevation angle of 0° the rotational freedom of motion of the antenna about the tilt axis corresponds to the azimuthal rotational motion; at an increasing elevation angle the rotational freedom of motion about the antenna successively transcends into a roll rotation; and at an elevation angle of 90° the rotational freedom of motion of the antenna about the tilt axis corresponds to a roll rotation about a roll axis orthogonal to the azimuth axis and to the elevation axis. A control controls the operation of the azimuth axis drive, the elevation axis drive, and the tilt axis drive. The control includes a true north seeking gyro for tracking position, orientation, direction and speed of movement of the device. The control further includes an additional gyro comprising an elevation gyro axis arranged to sense the elevation movement and a tilt gyro axis arranged to sense the tilt movement, so as to minimize the angular velocity of the antenna pointing vector. A method for controlling a satellite tracking antenna, and a vessel including the device.

The concentration of citrate complexing agent in an electroless cobalt or nickel plating bath is determined by titrating a sample of the electroless plating bath containing a small concentration of free fluoride ion with a standard lanthanum nitrate solution. During the titration, La<3+> ion first reacts preferentially with the citrate complexing agent and then with fluoride ion, which reduces the free fluoride ion concentration. The endpoint for the titration is indicated by a substantial decrease in the free fluoride ion concentration, which is detected via a fluoride ion specific electrode (ISE). The method can be used for analysis of other complexing agents.

A drilling system for drilling a wellbore has one or more valves or chokes to control the upstream pressure of drilling fluid flow in a controlled pressure drilling operation. A measurement is obtained of the drilling fluid flow from the wellbore. Based on the obtained measurement, the drilling fluid flow is selectively distributed with a distributor through one or more of a plurality of flowmeters, such as Coriolis meters. A reading of the drilling fluid flow is obtained from the selected flowmeter(s). Upstream pressure in the drilling fluid flow is controlled with the one or more valve based at least in part on the reading from the one or more selected flowmeters. The reading can be a flow rate, a pressure, or the like compared to capacities of the flowmeters. Additional valves downstream of the flowmeters can be controlled based on cavitation that the valves are estimated to produce.

Methods and apparati for measuring entrained gas content. One of the disclosed apparatus embodiments includes a chamber and piping for process fluid, the piping including two different sectors each comprising a density and temperature gauge having a pressure gauge located upstream and a second pressure gauge located downstream, the two sectors being operatively joined together by a pressure-changing device. The pressure measurement feature may be incorporated into the combination density and temperature gauge, eliminating the need for separate pressure gauges. Data generated by this invention reduces measurement error caused by the dissolving or exsolving of gases with changes in pressure of a fluid, while providing instantaneous measurement, through apparatuses that measure system conditions at each of two pressure states within a very short period of time. For instance, in the context of continuously coating a substrate, the method of this invention comprises: a.) setting a quantitative target for weight-% of one or more solids, e.g. kaolin clay, calcium carbonate, titanium dioxide, or alumina trihydrate, to be coated onto a substrate such as a paper web; b.) continuously applying the solids to the substrate via a carrier fluid; c.) measuring the apparent density of the slurry; d.) determining the true density of the slurry; e.) calculating the weight-% of solids in the slurry as disclosed above; f.) comparing the calculated weight-% solids to the target weight-% solids; and, g.) if the calculated weight-% is greater or less than the target weight-%, lowering or raising the amount of solids applied in step b.). Many other method and apparatus embodiments are also disclosed.

A customer is presented with a product ordering interface for a size dependent product such as a window covering. The customer is presented with ordering options. Once the customer has selected the desired product, the user is presented with a measurement confirmation interface. The customer is directed to enter at least one first measurement and one second measurement. The measurement(s) are entered into the customer ordering interface. From these measurements the system calculates a theoretical dimension for a product feature. The customer also measures the actual dimension of the product feature. The ordering system compares the calculated dimension to the customer measured dimension. If the calculated dimension matches the customer measured dimension, the measurement is confirmed.

A power transmission line dip measurement method is disclosed. The dip measurement method includes installing a measurement instrument at a place where power line support points of steel towers can be seen from the ground, collimating the measurement instrument at the power line support point of one of the steel towers, transmitting a collimated value to a PDA in a wired or wireless manner, collimating the measurement instrument at the power line support point of the other steel tower, transmitting a collimated value to the PDA, calculating the collimated values to display a horizontal angle position of a dip base line, and adjusting an angle of the measurement instrument based on the horizontal angle displayed on a screen of the PDA by a worker, collimating the measurement instrument at a power line dip point as a dip base point, and displaying a dip value on the screen of the PDA.

The level of an output signal output from a device under test is easily adjusted in order to restrain an adverse effect on a result of measuring characteristics of the device under test. A measuring device includes a characteristic measuring unit for measuring characteristics of a device under test based on the output signal output from the device under test, an attenuator for receiving the output signal and adjusting the level of the output signal before supplying it to the characteristic measuring unit, and a level setting unit for setting the degree of the level adjustment of the output signal by the attenuator so as to minimize a measurement error which is caused by the characteristic measurement unit, and changes according to the level of the output signal supplied to the characteristic measuring unit.

The invention relates to a device for measuring time-resolved volumetric throughflow processes, especially injection process in internal combustion engines, having a translational volume difference sensor having a piston disposed in a measuring compartment and a detection device detecting the excursion of the piston, the detection device being linked with an evaluation unit. According to the invention, a pressure sensor is mounted in the measuring compartment in addition to the detection device which detects the excursion of the piston. The signal of the detection device corresponding to the excursion of the piston can be better evaluated as the compressivity of the fluid in the measuring compartment can be taken into consideration for the calculation of the amount to be injected. The inventive device allows for a highly time-resolved representation of throughflow processes so that both overall amount and exact course of the throughflow can be represented and evaluated.

Methods, computer program segment and apparatus for analyzing high voltage circuit breakers are provided. The method includes determining a circuit breaker contact closing time, determining a circuit breaker contact opening time, and determining a circuit breaker pre-insertion resistor resistance value using at least three voltage samples and three current samples to facilitate reducing an induced current measurement error. The computer program segment is embodied on a computer readable media and is programmed to determine a circuit breaker contact closing time, determine a circuit breaker contact opening time, and determine a circuit breaker pre-insertion resistor resistance value using at least three voltage samples and three current samples that facilitate minimizing an induced current measurement error. The apparatus includes a testing circuit, an overvoltage protection circuit, and a processor programmed to determine a circuit breaker contact timing measurement and a circuit breaker contact resistance measurement.

A biosensor measuring an analyte contained in a sample is disclosed, including: a lower insulating substrate having formed thereon a working electrode and a reference electrode connected to lead terminals through leads, and an enzyme reactant layer formed on the electrodes to react with the analyte contained in the sample; a spacer which is interposed between the lower substrate and an upper substrate, is attached to the lower and upper substrates, and has a sample guide area to guide the sample to reach to the electrodes through the enzyme reactant layer; and an upper insulating substrate which faces the lower substrate through the spacer, where a dummy electrode is formed on the lower substrate, the dummy electrode being separated from the working electrode and the reference electrode, fixing the enzyme reactant layer, and being not connected to the leads.

A method and a system to control a reeling profile of a material web reel (30), when, in the forming of a material web reel (30), a web is reeled around a reeling core and when in an adjustment of CD-directional profiles of the web reel, profiling devices (8) have been applied. For adjusting quality profiles and reeling profiles of the web, profiling devices are managed with the help of profile measurings of the roller nip and/or of the profile measurings of the reel (30), which are obtained from the reel-up (2). A measuring device (40) for a measuring of a CD-directional hardness profile of the fiber web reel includes a measuring head (43), which is connected with a loading means (41, 42), which loads the measuring head against the fiber web reel. The motion course of the measuring head is linear.

Automated measurement and oil well production control may be achieved by using a vertical separator, the discharge flow of which is continuously adjusted by setting the opening of a control valve, determined by the liquid level inside the separator. The automation of the control method allows real-time measurements of several process variables as well as reduced measurement times and also works as a safety layer for a production process. The control method is independent of well production and is therefore suited to controlling marginal wells.

To control information obtained from inside of a living body with higher precision as compared to that in the conventional technology by controlling a ratio of intensities of light, directed to a trial body, in a plurality of wavelength ranges different in peak wavelength from each other, a measurement error included in information obtained from the living body can be controlled by changing a ratio of intensity of the light in the first wavelength range against that of the light in the second wavelength range. When intensity of irradiated light is limited from the viewpoint of safety to the trial subject, by keeping a ratio of the light irradiated to the trial body in the first wavelength range against that of the light in the second wavelength range under a prespecified value and also by changing the ratio of irradiated light intensities under the prespecified value, a measurement error included in information obtained from the living body can be controlled.

A gas sensor element is provided which is designed to measure the concentration of hydrogen-containing gas accurately. The sensor element includes an oxygen pump cell working to keep the concentration of oxygen contained in measurement gasses entering a measurement gas chamber at a low concentration level and a hydrogen-containing gas measurement cell. The hydrogen-containing gas measurement cell is made up of a proton-conductive solid electrolyte body and a first and a second gas measurement electrode affixed to the proton-conductive solid electrolyte body. The first gas measurement electrode is exposed to the measurement gas chamber and serves to produce a signal between the first and second gas measurement electrodes as a function of the concentration of the hydrogen-containing gas.

A particulate matter detection device including a main body which has one end provided with a through hole; a pair of electrodes embedded in a wall through which the through hole is formed, and covered with a dielectric material; wires extending from the electrodes to the other end of the main body; and a ground electrode provided at a position sandwiched between the wires. The device can electrically adsorb, on the wall surface of the through hole, a charged particle in a fluid flowing into the through hole, or a particle charged by electric discharge caused in the through hole by applying a voltage across the pair of electrodes. The device can measure the changes of the electric properties of the wall through which the through hole is formed, thereby detecting particles adsorbed on the wall surface of the through hole.

System and method for enabling direct determination of rigid body motion using data collected from a plurality of independent accelerometers are disclosed. A mechanical object that can be theoretically emulated as a rigid body is instrumented with a plurality of accelerometers at different locations. Direct determination of rigid body motion at a location of interest includes following operations at each solution time step: transform local acceleration to global, integrate accelerations to obtain velocities, calculate direction cosine matrix using the angular velocity matrix, form a first set of redundant equations, obtain the angular velocity by solving the first set of equations using either least squares fitting or a selective Gaussian elimination scheme, form a second set of redundant equations and obtain the translational velocity by solving the second set of equations using either the averaged value or a pre-defined rule such as minimizing the contribution from the rotational term.

A semiconductor device includes a first die, a second die coupled to the first die through a Through-Silicon-Via (TSV), and a test circuit suitable for measuring a resistance of the TSV by controlling an amount of current flowing through the TSV.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for receiving an antenna measuring signal, and a system of measuring an antenna. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for receiving an antenna measuring signal that can remove a measurement error caused by motion of an antenna cable, and a system for measuring an antenna. According to the apparatus and method for receiving an antenna measuring signal and the system and method for measuring an antenna according to the present invention, it is possible to remove a coupling effect of an RF cable of a receiving antenna side while measuring antenna characteristics, thereby minimizing a measurement error of the antenna.

An assembly for an angular position measuring device includes a shaft having a measuring standard for measuring a rotational movement about an axis. The shaft has a shoulder as an integral component, on which a roller bearing is mounted in axial abutment. Arranged between the shoulder of the shaft and the roller bearing is a groove which is oriented with a radial directional component and is connected to a hollow space for receiving lubricant, the hollow space being bounded in the radial direction by a ring of the roller bearing and by the shaft.