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Systems and methods using polarized filtering for glare removal to improve the process of scanning documents, particularly bound documents with glossy content, are disclosed. The system may generally include a lighting source for illuminating a document, a lighting source polarizer attached to the lighting source to polarize light therefrom, a camera for capturing images of the document, and a camera polarizer attached to the camera. The camera polarizer and the lighting source polarizer may be positioned relative to each other so as to facilitate blocking light reflections causing glare off of the document resulting from the lighting source and arriving at the camera. The system may include multiple lighting sources, some or all of which may have a lighting source polarizer attached thereto.

A system and method for selective masking of stents using an expandable masking balloon to prevent deposition of therapeutic or protective coatings on portions of the stent during a coating application process. An expandable balloon is located within the inner region of a stent, the balloon is inflated until its outer surface contacts and the inner surface of the stent lattice in the areas in which the stent coating is not to be applied, thereby masking the stent inner surface from deposition of stent coating material during a stent coating process, and the coating is applied to the remaining exposed surfaces of the stent, for example by spraying or dipping the stent. The balloon is then deflated and removed from the coated stent. The balloon may be coated with, or formed from, a material impregnated with polytetrafluoroethylene to discourage adherence of the coating material to the balloon's outer surface in order to minimize coating waste and bridging of stent lattice openings by coating films.

A system and method for assisting the driver of a vehicle in identifying obstacles for the vehicle as is described. Objects located outside the vehicle are detected with the aid of object detector. If objects are detected, information is given to the driver and / or to defined components of the vehicle. An evaluation unit ascertains whether a detected object is a road bump, and information is given to the driver and / or to components of the vehicle only if a detected object is a road bump.

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to manage traffic density in a transportation system, and by doing so, maintain, in one embodiment, traffic flows near optimum levels to maximize road capacity and minimize travel times. The method includes, in one embodiment, a mechanism for vehicles to request road access from a centalized control, a queuing system that allows road access to be granted to individual vehicles over an extended period of time in a fair and organized fashion, a measurement system that allows traffic flow and density throughout the system to be determined in real-time, and an enforcement and fraud prevention mechanism to ensure that the rules and permissions imposed by the system are followed.

An integrated MEMS inertial sensor device includes one or more three-axis MEMS inertial sensor devices, such as accelerometers, with dual or single proof mass configurations. These designs can be compact and can decouple the motion of each axis to minimize the measurement errors due to cross-axis sensitivity. Some embodiments include a frame to decouple the motion of two axes and to provide geometric symmetry. Some embodiments also include double-folded springs. In a specific embodiment, the three axes of an integrated MEMS accelerometer device are entirely decoupled. Thus, the actuation of each axis, through a force due to acceleration, has little or substantially no effect on the other axes.

A non-volatile memory system includes a NAND flash memory device including a first flash translation layer that performs a garbage collection operation, and a host device including a file system and a second flash translation layer that controls an operation of the NAND flash memory device by interacting with the file system. Here, the host device provides application data in an in-ordered form to the NAND flash memory device. Thus, the non-volatile memory system can perform a random write operation at high speed, and can minimize power consumption due to unnecessary data transfer.

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) resonator designs having support structures that minimize or substantially reduce anchor losses, thereby improving a quality factor (Q) of the MEMS resonators, are provided. In general, a MEMS resonator includes a resonator body connected to anchors via support structures. The anchors are connected to or are part of a substrate on which the MEMS resonator is formed. The support structures operate to support the resonator body in free space to enable vibration. The support structures are designed to minimize or substantially reduce energy loss through the anchors into the substrate.

A multi-bit flip-flop includes a plurality of multi-bit flip-flop blocks that share a clock signal. Each of the multi-bit flip-flop blocks includes a single inverter and a plurality of flip-flops. The single inverter generates an inverted clock signal by inverting the clock signal. Each of the flip-flops includes a master latch part and a slave latch part and operates the master latch part and the slave latch part based on the clock signal and the inverted clock signal. Here, the flip-flops are triggered at rising edges of the clock signal. Thus, the multi-bit flip-flop operating as a master-slave flip-flop may minimize (or, reduce) power consumption occurring in a clock path through which the clock signal is transmitted.

A fluid regulator (1) for use as a shower water saving device, wherein an initial volume of water of a water stream at an undesired cold temperature is collected in a chamber and is reintroduced into the water stream when the stream has reached the desired temperature. Reintroduction of the initial volume of cold water is at a controlled rate such that the temperature change upon reintroduction is not significant. The fluid regulator (1) comprises a body (2), a flow passage (3) having an inlet (20) and outlet (21) for the water stream, a water collection chamber (4) in fluid communication with the flow passage (3), and a flow diverter (5) associated with the flow passage (3) and moveable between a closed position in which the water stream is directed to the collection chamber (4), and an open position in which the water stream may flow to the outlet (21) and the water in the collection chamber (4) may be drained from the collection chamber (4) to the outlet (21) by way of the flow passage (3).

A system for generating glass-coating microwires that can particularly apply a uniform cooling to a glass tube filled with molten metal inserted into a tank including a cooling liquid. The uniform cooling allows the formation of a glass-coated microwire with a non-distorted and uniform glass coating.

The invention relates to an immobilizing device for a toothed wheel suitable for the field of horology where it can be part of a direct- or indirect-impulse escapement, in particular in a wristwatch. This immobilizing device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) comprises: —a base (7); —an immobilizer (9) comprising two arms (10, 11) each provided with a pallet (14, 15) intended to come into contact with a tooth of the toothed wheel (40); —a first and a second elastic element (12, 13) each having an end connected to the immobilizer (9) and another end connected to the base (7); —a third elastic element (16) connected to the immobilizer (9), and it has the particular feature that it is in one piece or in one piece apart from at least one of the pallets (14, 15). The invention also relates to a timepiece and to a method for assembling such a timepiece.

Manifolds suitable for use in hemodialysis, hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration, and peritoneal dialysis are provided. One or more of the manifolds can include a manifold body and an external tube. The manifold body can include at least one conduit including a first conduit and at least one port including a first port in fluid communication with the first conduit. The external tube can be in fluid communication with the first port and can include a main segment, a first branch segment, and a second branch segment containing at least one bacterial filter. The first branch segment and / or second branch segment can include at least one flow restrictor. Dialysis machines, systems, and kits including one or more such manifold are also provided, as are methods of performing hemodiafiltration using such manifolds.

A system and method includes receiving yard data at a yard planner system from a plurality of workstations and a plurality of sensors within a vehicle yard, wherein the yard data includes information regarding movement of vehicles and resources in relation to the vehicle yard. The system and method may also include using the yard planner system to form an initial yard plan based on the yard data, monitoring the yard data over time with the yard planner system, and updating the initial yard plan to form an updated yard plan based on changing yard data over time.

An integrated MEMS inertial sensor device includes one or more three-axis MEMS inertial sensor devices, such as accelerometers, with dual or single proof mass configurations. These designs can be compact and can decouple the motion of each axis to minimize the measurement errors due to cross-axis sensitivity. Some embodiments include a frame to decouple the motion of two axes and to provide geometric symmetry. Some embodiments also include double-folded springs. In a specific embodiment, the three axes of an integrated MEMS accelerometer device are entirely decoupled. Thus, the actuation of each axis, through a force due to acceleration, has little or substantially no effect on the other axes.

A method for membrane filtration of effluent water containing suspended matter reduces membrane clogging and improves filtration capacity of the membrane. The method includes adding a dose of a preselected coagulation reactant to the effluent before the effluent passes over the membrane. The added dose is a fraction of the coagulating reactant dose (X) that would render the zeta potential of the effluent equal to zero. The range of the added dose is X / 30-X / 80. The suspended matter in the effluent is subjected to the added dose of coagulation reactant for destabilizing the suspended matter.

The invention relates to an immobilizing device for a toothed wheel suitable for the field of horology where it can be part of a direct- or indirect-impulse escapement, in particular in a wristwatch. This immobilizing device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) comprises: —a base (7); —an immobilizer (9) comprising two arms (10, 11) each provided with a pallet (14, 15) intended to come into contact with a tooth of the toothed wheel (40); —a first and a second elastic element (12, 13) each having an end connected to the immobilizer (9) and another end connected to the base (7); —a third elastic element (16) connected to the immobilizer (9), and it has the particular feature that it is in one piece or in one piece apart from at least one of the pallets (14, 15). The invention also relates to a timepiece and to a method for assembling such a timepiece.

A refrigeration based air handling system design process for significant energy and cost savings in cleanroom and other applications requiring large air change rates is presented. The process utilizes a by pass around the air conditioning system, the ratio of bypass to air conditioning flow being such that minimal or no reheat of the air is required for applications having relative humidity (RH) control requirements and with RH control being achieved via cooling. If dehumidification is achieved by adsorptive processes, then the by pass ratio is varied so as to minimize cooling of the heated dry air. In other non relative humidity control applications the bypass is varied to minimize the air conditioning flow, thereby decreasing cost, but by using optimum cooling coil velocities in a manner such that system energy for airflow is minimized. The energy and cost savings achieved by this process vary between 65% to 15% depending on the Class of the cleanroom and / or on the number of air changes per hour required.

A multiplexer and a method for chip-synchronous code-division multiple access (CDMA) signals produces a constant envelope signal. The output signal of the multiplexer permits use of a saturating (Class C) high power amplifier (HPA) resulting in a net increase in effective transmitter power usage. This multiplexer applies to a variety of CDMA spread spectrum modulation formats and has many applications, such as the IS-95 forward link interface, and CDMA and CDMA / FDMA (frequency-division multiple access) applications, including general cellular base station forward traffic channels, cellular subscriber station multiple-channel reverse traffic channels (e.g. IS-95 subscriber Internet access) and satellite downlinks.

A vehicle control system is provided which is designed to stop or restart an engine automatically. The system is equipped with a vehicle speed determining circuit which determines the speed of the vehicle and has a dead zone around where a real speed of the vehicle is zero. The vehicle speed determining circuit has a characteristic in which when falling in the dead zone, the determined speed shows zero. When the determined speed is zero, and the real speed is expected to have dropped to zero, the system applies a first braking force to the wheel to keep the vehicle stopped. When the determined speed has become zero following the automatic stop of the engine, the system applies a second braking force smaller in magnitude than the first braking force to the wheel, thereby decelerating the vehicle slowly to avoid unexpected sudden deceleration.

An integrated circuit die comprises an internal signal pad arranged at a location away from a periphery of the die, a peripheral signal pad arranged proximate the periphery of the die, and a switch coupled between the internal signal pad and the peripheral signal pad. The switch is configurable in at least a first state in which the internal signal pad is not operatively connected to the peripheral signal pad, and a second state in which the internal signal pad is operatively connected to the peripheral signal pad, responsive to a control signal having one of respective first and second signal characteristics. The switch is configured in the first state during normal operation of the integrated circuit die, and is configured in the second state to permit test access to the internal signal pad via the peripheral signal pad.

A multi-bit flip-flop includes a plurality of multi-bit flip-flop blocks that share a clock signal. Each of the multi-bit flip-flop blocks includes a single inverter and a plurality of flip-flops. The single inverter generates an inverted clock signal by inverting the clock signal. Each of the flip-flops includes a master latch part and a slave latch part and operates the master latch part and the slave latch part based on the clock signal and the inverted clock signal. Here, the flip-flops are triggered at rising edges of the clock signal. Thus, the multi-bit flip-flop operating as a master-slave flip-flop may minimize (or, reduce) power consumption occurring in a clock path through which the clock signal is transmitted.

A weft stretching and detecting device for a pneumatic weaving loom has a housing or mounting (6) with a weft guide channel section (8) in axial alignment with the weft insertion channel (2A) in the reed (2) of the loom and a weft stretching channel section (12) also in said housing or mounting (6). A single weft stop motion device (13) is constructed and positioned for detecting a weft insertion fault either in the guide channel section (8) or in the stretching channel section (12).

A multi-bit flip-flop includes a plurality of multi-bit flip-flop blocks that share a clock signal. Each of the multi-bit flip-flop blocks includes a single inverter and a plurality of flip-flops. The single inverter generates an inverted clock signal by inverting the clock signal. Each of the flip-flops includes a master latch part and a slave latch part and operates the master latch part and the slave latch part based on the clock signal and the inverted clock signal. Here, the flip-flops are triggered at rising edges of the clock signal. Thus, the multi-bit flip-flop operating as a master-slave flip-flop may minimize (or, reduce) power consumption occurring in a clock path through which the clock signal is transmitted.

An integrated circuit die comprises an internal signal pad arranged at a location away from a periphery of the die, a peripheral signal pad arranged proximate the periphery of the die, and a switch coupled between the internal signal pad and the peripheral signal pad. The switch is configurable in at least a first state in which the internal signal pad is not operatively connected to the peripheral signal pad, and a second state in which the internal signal pad is operatively connected to the peripheral signal pad, responsive to a control signal having one of respective first and second signal characteristics. The switch is configured in the first state during normal operation of the integrated circuit die, and is configured in the second state to permit test access to the internal signal pad via the peripheral signal pad.

A fluid regulator (1) for use as a shower water saving device, wherein an initial volume of water of a water stream at an undesired cold temperature is collected in a chamber and is reintroduced into the water stream when the stream has reached the desired temperature. Reintroduction of the initial volume of cold water is at a controlled rate such that the temperature change upon reintroduction is not significant. The fluid regulator (1) comprises a body (2), a flow passage (3) having an inlet (20) and outlet (21) for the water stream, a water collection chamber (4) in fluid communication with the flow passage (3), and a flow diverter (5) associated with the flow passage (3) and moveable between a closed position in which the water stream is directed to the collection chamber (4), and an open position in which the water stream may flow to the outlet (21) and the water in the collection chamber (4) may be drained from the collection chamber (4) to the outlet (21) by way of the flow passage (3).

A vehicle control system is provided which is designed to stop or restart an engine automatically. The system is equipped with a vehicle speed determining circuit which determines the speed of the vehicle and has a dead zone around where a real speed of the vehicle is zero. The vehicle speed determining circuit has a characteristic in which when falling in the dead zone, the determined speed shows zero. When the determined speed is zero, and the real speed is expected to have dropped to zero, the system applies a first braking force to the wheel to keep the vehicle stopped. When the determined speed has become zero following the automatic stop of the engine, the system applies a second braking force smaller in magnitude than the first braking force to the wheel, thereby decelerating the vehicle slowly to avoid unexpected sudden deceleration.

The non-volatile memory device comprises memory cells each comprising a selectable state transistor having a floating gate and a control gate. The state transistor is of the depletion-mode type and is advantageously configured so as to have a threshold voltage that is preferably negative when the memory cell is in a virgin state. When the memory cell is read, a read voltage of zero may then be applied to the control gate and also to the control gates of the state transistors of all the memory cells of the memory device.

The present disclosure relates to a tool and methods of using the tool to physically manipulate one or more filtration components, such as filter packs including stacked filtration discs. The tool may include two arms pivotally coupled to another, and may also have respective gripping portions configured to grasp an appropriate region of a filtration component. The arms may be movable toward and away from one another between grasping and non-grasping positions. When in the grasping position, the gripping portions may engage with a complementary coupling member of the filtration component(s). To separate one filtration component from another, the tool may be manipulated so as to decouple and lift the filtration component from a substrate.