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A remote control, operating an on-screen set-top box (STB) menu, has a force sensitive resistor (FSR) for coarse or free navigation and a keypad, placed around the FSR, for fine navigation. A user gets feedback by a highlighted item or an on-screen cursor when operating the FSR and by the highlighted item for close-by navigation. Pushing down on the FSR, which also doubles as an OK- or select-key, results in the selection of highlighted option.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a system that allows a realistic quality assessment of a mobile phone and / or mobile phone network. For this purpose, imaging optics are used to project the image from at least part of the phone display onto a camera. The image or video data from the camera is then processed in image processing circuitry for deriving at least one quality parameter for the received image or video.

An insert for forming an end connection in a uni-axial composite material, and an end connection comprising at least one insert, is disclosed. The insert comprises a sleeve which comprises a plurality of fibres having a multi-axial arrangement. At least a portion of the interior surface of the sleeve comprises a thread formation. A method of forming an end connection in a uni-axial composite material is also disclosed. The method comprises providing a sleeve comprising a plurality of fibres having a multi-axial arrangement and providing a thread formation on at least a portion of the interior surface of the sleeve. The sleeve is positioned and secured within the uni-axial composite material.

A method and a device for controlling a method for controlling the power in an asymmetric soft handover condition in a communication network, including at least two cellseach cell being served by a first type network device adapted to serve second type network devices in the respective cell. The method comprises:temporarily adjusting (step S3) a communication parameter of at least one second type network deviceto set up and / or maintain the communication of the second type network device with the first type network device of at least one of said cells.

An electric power steering system includes: a band-stop filter 15a having a transfer function G1(s) for suppressing resonance, and a phase compensator 15b having a transfer function G2(s). The above function G1(s) is represented by an expression G1(s)=(s2+2ζ11ω1+ω12) / (s2+2ζ12ω1+ω12), where s: a Laplace operator, ζ11: a damping coefficient, ζ12: a damping coefficient, and ω1: an angular frequency. On the other hand, the above function G2(s) is represented by an expression G2(s)=(s2+2ζ21ω2+ω22) / (s2+2ζ22ω2+ω22), where s: a Laplace operator, ζ21: a damping coefficient, ζ22: a damping coefficient, and ω1: an angular frequency. Furthermore, the above damping coefficients ζ21, ζ22 satisfy an expression ζ2124 ζ22≧1. Thus, a filter such as a phase compensator may attain a design freedom while preventing the increase of arithmetic load, whereby both the suppression of resonance and a good assist response in a normal steering speed region, for example, may be achieved.

Particles emitted by a radiation source, and moving from the radiation source towards a processing system for processing the radiation from the radiation source, are filtered out of radiation propagating through a predetermined cross section of the radiation as emitted by the radiation source by a filter system. The filter system includes a plurality of foils and a transporter for transporting the foils along a trajectory which extends within the beam so that the foils intercept the particles within the beam. The transporter is arranged to transport the foils by a substantially translatory movement of the foils along at least a part of the trajectory.

Particles emitted by a radiation source, and moving from the radiation source towards a processing system for processing the radiation from the radiation source, are filtered out of radiation propagating through a predetermined cross section of the radiation as emitted by the radiation source by a filter system. The filter system includes a plurality of foils and a transporter for transporting the foils along a trajectory which extends within the beam so that the foils intercept the particles within the beam. The transporter is arranged to transport the foils by a substantially translatory movement of the foils along at least a part of the trajectory.

A method for providing passive circuit functions in a multi-chip module and the multi-chip modules that result from incorporating these function is disclosed. Passive components such as resistors, capacitors and inductors are fabricated on or within a non-conductive spacer. The spacer is then placed between two active semiconductor dies and coupled electrically to either one or both of the dies. In this manner, area of the active dies that would normally have to be used for such passive components is freed for other uses and the spacer, which was already required in multi-chip modules, is endowed with extra functionality. In another embodiment, one or both surfaces of the spacer are coated with a conductive metal and the passive components are located within the spacer. In this embodiment, the spacer provides electromagnetic interference protection between the active dies.

There is provided a floor cleaning apparatus assembly comprising a base portion for engaging a floor during cleaning, means for creating suction whereby air is drawn from the surrounding of the base portion through the base portion via an opening provided at a front end of the base portion, a cleaning sheet provided with a first area for collecting finer dirt particles and a second area for collecting larger dirt particles, means for securing the cleaning sheet to the base portion but exposing the first area of the cleaning sheet, and a channel provided within the floor cleaning apparatus through which suctioned air travels, the channel beginning with the opening at the front end of the base portion, followed by passing through the second area of the cleaning sheet whereby larger dirt particles carried in the air are trapped thereat, and ending at an exit.

A wafer scale package includes two or more substrates (wafers) that are stacked in an axial direction and a plurality of replicated optical elements. An optical device includes one or more optical elements. The wafer scale package and the device include one or more cavities that house the optical elements, while the end faces of the package or the device are planar and do not have replicated optical elements thereon. The number of double sided substrates is reduced, and design and manufacture of the optical device is improved.

A vibrating gyroscope comprising:a proof mass (1);a spring suspension system (5, 6, 7, 8; 9) for suspending the proof mass;an electrical drive mechanism for vibrating the proof mass along a drive axis (x);electrodes (2, 3) for building together with at least a part of the proof mass (1) a capacitance system for detecting moves of the proof mass along a sense axis (z) perpendicular to the drive axis.The gyroscope is arranged so that quadrature forces generate displacements of the proof mass without substantially displacing the neutral point (10) of the proof mass along the sense axis (z). This may be achieved by tilting the proof mass while keeping its neutral point at a constant position along the sense axis, or by applying a constant electrostatic force.

For switching or transmitting data packets, one can provide communication systems which consist of several modules—operating in parallel on segments of a packet—to increase speed and handling capacity. One module acts as master (21), the others are slave modules (22) controlled by control signals (25) derived by the master module. It is important that in each module the data segment and the respective control signal of each packet are correctly synchronized, because in large systems the data paths carrying packet segments and the control signal paths may have substantially different delays. The invention provides for measurement of the propagation delay differences and for introducing a controlled delay in each slave module, so that data segments and control signals can be correctly correlated by delaying either the one or the other. Synchronization packets are transmitted besides normal data packets, for obtaining time stamps which are used to determine the delay difference.

Space along the perimeter of a portable information handling system is made available for I / O connections with external devices by integrating I / O ports into a battery housing having some length extending along the perimeter. The I / O ports interface with the information handling system with wires running through the battery housing from the I / O ports to a location aligned with connectors of the information handling system, such as in a chassis bay sized to accept the battery housing. In one embodiment, the battery housing has a first portion for containing battery cells and a second portion that couples to the first portion, the second portion having selected I / O ports for selective configuration of the information handling system with desired I / O ports.

An electric motor comprising: a frame; and a stator assembly; the stator assembly including a bobbin assembly and at least one c-shaped stator core. The frame comprises at least one lug, the bobbin assembly includes at least one recess, and the stator assembly is fixed to the frame by fixing the lug inside the recess of the bobbin assembly.

Space along the perimeter of a portable information handling system is made available for I / O connections with external devices by integrating I / O ports into a battery housing having some length extending along the perimeter. The I / O ports interface with the information handling system with wires running through the battery housing from the I / O ports to a location aligned with connectors of the information handling system, such as in a chassis bay sized to accept the battery housing. In one embodiment, the battery housing has a first portion for containing battery cells and a second portion that couples to the first portion, the second portion having selected I / O ports for selective configuration of the information handling system with desired I / O ports.

The invention provides an integrated catalyst and membrane reactor for the production a predetermined gas such as hydrogen. The reactor comprises a gas flow channel, comprising a plurality of alternating catalyst sections and membrane sections, wherein each catalyst section comprises a catalyst bed and each membrane section comprises a plurality of membranes, and wherein the membranes are selectively permeable for the predetermined gaseous species.

A trunnion door hinge having a first hinge part, a second hinge part and a cam mechanism. The cam mechanism has a first cam part, which is nonpivotable relative to the first hinge part, a second cam part, which is nonpivotable relative to the second hinge part, and a first spring element which presses the first cam part and the second cam part towards one another. The cam mechanism further has a third cam part in-between the first cam part and the second cam part. The third cam part at one end interlocks with the first cam part, and at the other end with the second cam part. During the hinging, the third cam part is helically pivotable relative to the first and the second cam part in a first and a second pivot range, respectively.

An electric toothbrush includes a rechargeable energy store which is arranged in an inner space in the body of the toothbrush. The inner space is sealed by a primary sealing element against splash water and other detrimental influences. At least one contact element for an external power supply unit produces an electrically conductive connection to the energy store. The contact element is located either within the inner space, the primary sealing element being removable for charging purposes, or outside the inner space, in which case it is optionally protected by an additional secondary sealing element. The invention also relates to a process for producing such a toothbrush.

The present invention relates to a pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10) comprising a substrate (12), and a membrane (14) disposed above a total membrane area ((Atotal), wherein a cavity (20) is formed between the membrane (14) and the substrate (12), the membrane (14) comprising a hole (15) and an edge portion (14a) surrounding the hole (15), the edge portion (14a) of the membrane (14) being collapsed to the substrate (12). The cell further comprises a plug (30) arranged in the hole (15) of the membrane (14), the plug (30) being located only in a subarea (Asub) of the total membrane area (Atotal). The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10).

The invention relates to an optical field dynamic modulation and spatial multiplexing method based on a reconfigurable hybrid metasurface, and belongs to the technical field of micro-nano optics and light beam shaping application. The hybrid reconfigurable metasurface for realizing optical field dynamic modulation and spatial multiplexing is composed of a composite circular ring array with different geometric sizes and different symmetry axis arrangements. By changing the geometric size of the composite circular ring and the direction of the symmetry axis, the mixed reconfigurable metasurfacecan adjust and control the amplitude and the phase of emergent light beams at will. And optical field complex amplitude distribution in different modes is obtained through two-dimensional full-wave vector calculation. And according to the obtained optical field complex amplitude distribution in different modes, the geometric dimension and the azimuth angle of the composite circular ring are determined through coding, so that the corresponding hybrid reconfigurable metasurface structure array is generated. Dynamic regulation and control and spatial multiplexing of incident light beams by the same hybrid reconfigurable metasurface are achieved by adjusting the state of the phase-change material.

A wiring harness grommet (46) composed of first and second grommet halves (54, 56) cooperatively forming a walled through-passage (48) for a wire bundle of a wiring harness. Respective walled cavity halves (58, 60) are telescopically fit together for capturing the wire bundle between respective mutually confronting throats in the cavity halves. An annular void circumferentially surrounds the bundle and is filled with a filler (S) after the two halves have been fit together onto the bundle.

A replaceable ink reservoir for a printing system using pigmented ink. The ink reservoir includes a containment vessel, a body of reservoir material disposed in the vessel, a fluid interconnect opening formed in the vessel, and a screen disposed in the containment vessel and across the interconnect opening. The screen has a pore size small enough to prevent air passage at operational pressures and large enough to allow colorant particles dispersed in the ink carrier fluid to pass therethrough.

The invention discloses a nonlinear metasurface based four-wave mixing holographic multiplexing method, and belongs to the micro nano holographic field. The method comprises that a metasurface is composed of an array with nanometer rectangular hole structures in different geometric sizes; the geometric sizes of the nanometer rectangular hole structures are changed, so that the nonlinear metasurface can randomly regulates the amplitude and phase of an output nonlinear frequency signal; complex amplitude distribution of the nonlinear light field output in different sizes can be obtained by fullwave vector calculation; an amplitude type hologram is calculated based on an optimized GS algorithm, and a bit coding method is used to code the hologram of the rectangular hole structure; rectangular hole structure distribution is determined by coding, and the corresponding nonlinear metasurface structure array is generated; and two beams of femtosecond pulses in different frequency are input torealize nonlinear holographic space and frequency multiplexing of the same nonlinear metasurface structure array. The method can be applied to the fields including signal processing, optical storage,high-dimensional holographic anti-counterfeiting and optical encryption.

A transmit / receive switching circuitry (40; 48) for a magnetic resonance radio frequency antenna (M) for use in an magnetic resonance imaging system (10), the transmit / receive switching circuitry comprising: -a radio frequency input transmission line (TX) provided for transmitting radio frequency power to the magnetic resonance radio frequency antenna (M) and a radio frequency output transmission line (RX) provided for transferring away magnetic resonance signals received by the magnetic resonance radio frequency antenna (M) at a magnetic resonance frequency from the magnetic resonance radio frequency antenna (M);—a parallel resonant circuit (42) with a resonance frequency that is substantially equal to the magnetic resonance frequency, and that is connected in parallel to the magnetic resonance radio frequency antenna (M) with regard to the radio frequency input transmission line (TX),—a series resonant circuit (44) with a resonance frequency that is substantially equal to the magnetic resonance frequency,and that is connected in series between the radio frequency input transmission line (TX) and the radio frequency output transmission line (RX); for providing improved radio frequency isolation between the radio frequency input transmission line (TX) and the radio frequency output transmission line (RX); a method for generating consecutive RF transmit periods and RF receive periods of the magnetic resonance imaging system (10) using such a transmit / receive switching circuitry (40; 48); a switching control unit (32) having at least one such transmit / receive switching circuitry (40; 48), for use in the magnetic resonance imaging system (10); a software module (26) for controlling an execution of such a method.

A vibrating gyroscope includes a proof mass (1); a spring suspension system (5, 6, 7, 8; 9) for suspending the proof mass; an electrical drive mechanism for vibrating the proof mass along a drive axis (x); and electrodes (2, 3) for building together with at least a part of the proof mass (1) a capacitance system for detecting moves of the proof mass along a sense axis (z) perpendicular to the drive axis. The gyroscope is arranged so that quadrature forces generate displacements of the proof mass without substantially displacing the neutral point (10) of the proof mass along the sense axis (z). This may be achieved by tilting the proof mass while keeping its neutral point at a constant position along the sense axis, or by applying a constant electrostatic force.

An electric power steering system includes: a band-stop filter 15a having a transfer function G1(s) for suppressing resonance, and a phase compensator 15b having a transfer function G2(s). The above function G1(s) is represented by an expression G1(s)=(s2+2ζ11ω1+ω12) / (s2+2ζ12ω1+ω12), where s is a Laplace operator, ζ11 is a damping coefficient, ζ12 is a damping coefficient, and ω1 is an angular frequency. On the other hand, the above function G2(s) is represented by an expression G2(s)=(s2+2ζ21ω2+ω22) / (s2+2ζ22ω2+ω22),where s is a Laplace operator, ζ21 is a damping coefficient, ζ22 is a damping coefficient, and ω1 is an angular frequency. Furthermore, the above damping coefficients ζ21, ζ22 satisfy an expression ζ2124 ζ22≧1.Thus, a filter such as a phase compensator may attain a design freedom while preventing the increase of arithmetic load, whereby both the suppression of resonance and a good assist response in a normal steering speed region, for example, may be achieved.

For switching or transmitting data packets, one can provide communication systems which consist of several modules —operating in parallel on segments of a packet —to increase speed and handling capacity. One module acts as master, others are slave modules controlled by control signals derived by the master module. It is important to correctly synchronize in each module the data segment and the respective control signal of each packet, because in large systems the data paths carrying packet segments and the control signal paths may have substantially different delays. The invention provides for measurement of the propagation delay differences and for introducing a controlled delay in each slave module, so that data segments and control signals can be correctly correlated by delaying either the one or the other. Synchronization packets are transmitted besides normal data packets, for obtaining time stamps which are used to determine the delay difference.

This invention relates to an ambience lighting system for a display device for emitting an ambience light onto a wall behind the display device. Light sources are placed at the rear side of the display device along with a reflector, where the internal arrangement of the light sources and the reflector is such that when the display device is placed in proximity to the wall the light emitted by the at least one light source becomes reflected by the reflector towards the wall such that the reflected light at least partly peripherally surrounds the viewing area of the display device.