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A medical tracking system includes a tracking unit including an image recording and image signal processing system, and a programmable computer platform integrated with the tracking unit. The programmable computer platform includes a navigation unit configured to implement at least part of medical navigation.

A solid-state imaging device includes a first chip including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a light sensing unit generating a signal charge responsive to an amount of received light, and a plurality of MOS transistors reading the signal charge generated by the light sensing unit and outputting the read signal charge as a pixel signal, a second chip including a plurality of pixel drive circuits supplying desired drive pulses to pixels, the second chip being laminated beneath the first chip in a manner such that the pixel drive circuits are arranged beneath the pixels formed in the first chip to drive the pixels, and a connection unit for electrically connecting the pixels to the pixel drive circuits arranged beneath the pixels.

An operating room arrangement enables a central operating room control system having a central operating room controller, a central media router and a central touch panel to control a plurality of operating room devices including a remote touch panel controlled medical device having a medical device controller and a device touch panel. When the central operating room control system is placed in a touch panel controlled medical device operating mode, a device touch panel interface is provided through the media router for display as part of a video display image on the central touch panel, along with an additional indicia.

A multi-phase control system for a power supply provides a data bus between a controller and multiple phase drivers to obtain a synchronous control through a flexible and non-dependent control configuration. The controller provides data signals to the data bus that is connected to the various phase drivers, with the data signals dependent upon a switching frequency and ON / OFF command signals for a particular phase. Each of the phase drivers have decoding logic for receiving the data signals over the data bus, as well as independent selection or addressing logic for choosing the phase driver to react to the data signals on the data bus. A variety of control configurations may be realized according to this control technique including resetting all drivers, setting all phases to ON or all phases to OFF conditions, skipping phase activation and so forth. The flexible control permits output current sharing to be controlled among the various phases to provide a desired output current for the power supply. The control configuration permits fast and robust response to transient conditions while providing a simplified control in an N phase system over a data bus that can vary between 1 and M lines.

A stacked semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof are provided. The method includes mounting and connecting electrically a semiconductor chip to a first substrate, mounting on the first substrate a plurality of supporting members corresponding in position to a periphery of the semiconductor chip, mounting a second substrate having a first surface partially covered with a tape and a second surface opposite to the first surface on the supporting members via the second surface, connecting electrically the first and second substrates by bonding wires, forming on the first substrate an encapsulant for encapsulating the semiconductor chip, the supporting members, the second substrate, the bonding wires, and the tape with an exposed top surface, and removing the tape to expose the first surface of the second substrate and allow an electronic component to be mounted thereon. The present invention prevents reflow-induced contamination, spares a special mold, and eliminates flash.

Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods of employing the same for the performance of bioinformatics analysis. The apparatuses and methods of the disclosure are directed in part to large scale graphene FET sensors, arrays, and integrated circuits employing the same for analyte measurements. The present GFET sensors, arrays, and integrated circuits may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved GFET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense GFET sensor based arrays. Improved fabrication techniques employing graphene as a reaction layer provide for rapid data acquisition from small sensors to large and dense arrays of sensors. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and / or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and / or biological processes, including DNA hybridization and / or sequencing reactions. Accordingly, GFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and / or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis within a gated reaction chamber of the GFET based sensor.

An apparatus for and method of enhancing reliability within a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity cluster instruction processors which are managed by a cluster lock manager. Because the commodity processors have virtually no system viability features such as memory protection, failure recovery, etc., the cluster / lock processors assume the responsibility for providing these functions. The low cost of the commodity cluster instruction processors makes the system almost linearly scalable. The cluster / locking, caching, and mass storage accessing functions are fully integrated into a single hardware platform which performs the role of the cluster / lock master. Upon failure of this hardware platform, a second redundant hardware platform converts from slave to master role. The logic for the failure detection and role swapping is placed within software, which can run as an application under a commonly available operating system. Furthermore, the recovery is completely accomplished without assistance of the Host computer(s) or ultimate user(s) coupled via the Host computer(s). Following repair of the failed server, it is restarted in an orderly fashion to resume a slave role. For the server to be completely restored, coherent memory must be copied from master to slave. Because cluster lock processing must be paused throughout the system to transfer the copy, it is important to minimize the transfer time to minimize the impact on system throughput.

An MRI phase RF coil array includes a plurality of separate RF coil elements where each coil element has a pre-amplifier circuit with a conditioning circuit in advance of the transistor including an inductor and capacitors connected across the input of preamplifier. Each of the coil elements has a preamplifier decoupling parallel resonant circuit for generating a tuned high impedance across the ends of the coil so as to inhibit coupling in the coil from signals in adjacent and non-adjacent coils of the array. The decoupling circuit comprises a fixed first capacitor across the ends, a second variable capacitor in one of the leads, a further capacitor in the conditioning circuit, all of which define a capacitance which co-operates with the inductance defined by the inductor of the conditioning circuit of preamplifier to form the parallel resonant circuit to generate the high impedance.

A copy-protected optical disc, including a preformed identification number (ID) in the ATIP signal and the subcode which is impressed upon the optical disc and a number of other optical discs during optical disc manufacture, a unique identification number for the optical disc which was written on the optical disc after it is manufactured; and an encrypted program written onto the optical disc wherein the encryption of such program is based upon the preformed ID and the unique ID and includes two or more selectable security levels.

A sliding rail assembly (20) for a sliding panel (22), movable along a track (24) between open and closed positions, includes a runner (26) and a glide (28) for sliding engagement along the runner (26). The runner (26) is adapted to extend from the track (24). The glide (28) has an interior surface (64) disposed about the runner (26) and an exterior surface (62) adapted to extend from the sliding panel (22). A layer of polymeric material (48) is secured by an adhesive (90) to either one of the interior surface (64) of the glide (28), the runner (26), or both for facilitating sliding movement of the glide (28) along the runner (26).

An interactive display system wherein a projector receives signals from a graphics source in a manner that reduces latency in images projected onto a display surface. The signals include a pixel clock signal, pixel attribute signals, and synchronization signals. The pixel clock signal is used to clock sample and hold registers at the projector to preserve the pixel attribute signals received from the graphics source. The preserved pixel attribute signals, along with position signals corresponding to the synchronization signals, are presented directly to the projector. Parameters of the projector are known, and all gain, gamma correction, and scaling are performed before the signals are provided by the graphics source. Thus, it is unnecessary to digitize, store, adjust, or otherwise process pixel attribute signals at the projector, which simplifies processing of the graphics signals and reduces latency in generating the image in response to an input on the display surface.

An apparatus for and method of enhancing throughput within a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity cluster instruction processors which are arranged in redundant fashion to improve reliability. Because the commodity processors have virtually no system viability features such as memory protection, failure recovery, etc., the cluster / lock processors assume the responsibility for providing these functions. The low cost of the commodity cluster instruction processors makes the system almost linearly scalable. The cluster / locking, caching, and mass storage accessing functions are fully integrated into a single hardware platform which performs the role of the cluster / lock master. Upon failure of this hardware platform, a second redundant hardware platform converts from slave to master role. The logic for the failure detection and role swapping is placed within software, which can run as an application under a commonly available operating system. During periods between failures, both master and slave, along with their redundant interfaces, are employed to enhance throughput.

Apparatus and accompanying methods for use therein for implementing a method and system for emulating a supporting mobile for testing a packet-data communication device. Thus, the present invention is directed to, in a general aspect, a system, and accompanying methods for use therein, for packet data communications. In a preferred embodiment the invention relates to testing of packet data applications including wireless communications such as push to talk over cellular (PoC) wireless telecommunications applications. The test system of the present invention comprises an emulated communication device for transmitting and receiving packet data and a controller for controlling the emulated communications device. The controller operatively connected to the emulated communication device and the controller enables the emulated communications device to emulate the communications device by performing functions that the communication device performs.

A sliding rail assembly (20) for a sliding panel (22), movable along a track (24) between open and closed positions, includes a runner (26) and a glide (28) for sliding engagement along the runner (26). The runner (26) is adapted to extend from the track (24). The glide (28) has an interior surface (64) disposed about the runner (26) and an exterior surface (62) adapted to extend from the sliding panel (22). A layer of polymeric material (48) is secured by an adhesive (90) to either one of the interior surface (64) of the glide (28), the runner (26), or both for facilitating sliding movement of the glide (28) along the runner (26).

An apparatus for and method of enhancing reliability within a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity cluster instruction processors which are managed by a cluster lock manager. Because the commodity processors have virtually no system viability features such as memory protection, failure recovery, etc., the cluster / lock processors assume the responsibility for providing these functions. The low cost of the commodity cluster instruction processors makes the system almost linearly scalable. The cluster / locking, caching, and mass storage accessing functions are fully integrated into a single hardware platform which performs the role of the master. Upon failure of this hardware platform, a second redundant hardware platform converts from slave to master role. The logic for the failure detection and role swapping is placed within software, which can run as an application under a commonly available operating system. Furthermore, the recovery is completely accomplished without assistance of the Host computer(s) or ultimate user(s) coupled via the Host computer(s).

An accessory is mounted on the rear end of an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) to pull logs and the like out of areas that are not accessible to trucks or other such vehicles. The accessory is a winch that is mounted on the ATV via the hitch attachment of the ATV. A brace extends from the rear end of the ATV to support the winch. A pulley system is attached to the winch whereby a log or the like is attached to the ATV. A counterweight is also mounted on the ATV.

A supercharged internal combustion engine having a plurality of exhaust-driven superchargers staggered as a function of output of the engine, each connected or disconnected with a common exhaust manifold via an exhaust-driven turbine and an exhaust gas valve. Valve mechanisms are provided for changeover of transition air of an auxiliary compressor, having an output side connected to a common combustion air manifold, and of compressor air of a respective supercharger compressor added in staggered operation. Changeover is effected as a function of supercharger speed and combustion air pressure. Each valve mechanism has an ambient air valve, disposed between supercharger compressor outlet and combustion air manifold, and a supply air valve disposed between the compressor outlet and ambient air valve and leading to auxiliary compressor air inlet. A processor having a stored requirements profile activates / deactivates the exhaust gas valves, valve mechanisms and an auxiliary compressor motor.

The invention discloses a nutation loose-teeth driving device, which comprises the input and the output shafts: the offset shaft sect is connected with the nutatoin disk throuth the bearing; the end face of the disk toward the input shaft is engaged with the fixing disk through the sphere loose-teeth of the first steel ball group along the circumferential direction; the fixing disk is fixed on the base; the other end of face of the dial toward the output shaft is engaged with the turning disk through the sphere loose-teeth of the second steel ball group along the circumferential direction; the bearing is between the turning disk and the base. The invention makes use of the roller assistant steel ball as the medium to engage with the loose-teeth between the fixing disks and the planetary turning disks. The invention is suitable for the precise driving devices.

A multi-phase control system for a power supply provides a data bus between a controller and multiple phase drivers to obtain a synchronous control through a flexible and non-dependent control configuration. The controller provides data signals to the data bus that is connected to the various phase drivers, with the data signals dependent upon a switching frequency and ON / OFF command signals for a particular phase. Each of the phase drivers have decoding logic for receiving the data signals over the data bus, as well as independent selection or addressing logic for choosing the phase driver to react to the data signals on the data bus. A variety of control configurations may be realized according to this control technique including resetting all drivers, setting all phases to ON or all phases to OFF conditions, skipping phase activation and so forth. The flexible control permits output current sharing to be controlled among the various phases to provide a desired output current for the power supply. The control configuration permits fast and robust response to transient conditions while providing a simplified control in an N phase system over a data bus that can vary between 1 and M lines.

An apparatus for and method of providing failure recovery from redundancy, notwithstanding that the failed subsystem and its replacement have differing capacities. This is especially useful when implementing a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity instruction processors which are managed by a highly scalable, cluster lock manager. Reliability is built into the managing communication processor by dividing the system into master and slave subsystems. The master has primary responsibility for system management and coordination, whereas the slave has primary responsibility to backup the master and be prepared to assume management responsibility. Upon the need to transfer responsibility from the master to the slave, whether it be manual (e.g., maintenance) or automatic (e.g., failure), the only concern is that the slave has sufficient capacity to accept the current level of processing, even though it does not have the same level of capacity as the master.

An apparatus for and method of enhancing reliability and performance within a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity instruction processors which are managed by a highly scalable, off the shelf platform. Because the commodity processors have virtually no system viability features such as memory protection, failure recovery, etc., the cluster / lock processors assume the responsibility for providing these functions. The low cost of the commodity instruction processors makes the system almost linearly scalable. The cluster / locking, caching, and mass storage accessing functions are fully integrated into a single hardware platform which performs the role of the cluster / lock master. The validity operation throughput of the clustered systems manager is increased by aging out validity entries for each of the process owners via a background operation. This minimizes the number of exclusive locks that must be utilized while performing a validity operation.

The invention relates to a combined metal filling box with slurry blocking pieces and a manufacturing method of the combined metal filling box, and belongs to the field of general building structures. The filling box (1) comprises an upper assembly (2), a lower assembly (3) and supports (4); dense meshes (7) are formed in strip-shaped metal sheets (5) in a die-cutting forming manner; metal pieces die-cut out of the meshes (6) form the slurry blocking pieces (7) tilted outwards; two meander lines (9) are formed on each metal sheet; the two ends of the metal sheets are bent by 90 degrees in the same direction along the meander lines, respectively, to form the upper and lower assemblies of a U-shaped structure each with three planes; at least three supports are embedded in the upper and lower assemblies and locked to each other; two U-shaped abutting edges between the upper and lower assemblies are connected to form the filling box. The filling box is convenient to produce, transport and mount, and good in mechanical properties; besides, a hollow floor system formed by use of the filling box is good in reliability, earthquake resistance and cracking resistance.

A speed-up mode control system is operative to generate a speed-up mode signal based on a gain control signal from associated digital circuitry. The speed-up mode signal controls electronics associated with one or more amplifiers to facilitate settling time of an output signal of the amplifier(s) that occurs when the gain of the amplifier changes. The gain control signal also can be delayed to provide a delayed version of the gain control signal for controlling gain of the amplifier(s).

A method of transporting Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol Packets in a wireless mesh network wherein VoIP packets from independent call flows are aggregated prior to transmission over multiple hops of the wireless network. Significant performance improvements are realized including the number of simultaneous VoIP calls supported and overall Quality-of-Service (QoS) for the individual calls.

A modified dumbbell incorporating a means for securing various weighted attachments thereby allowing a user to use one dumbbell for multiple degrees of weight. The modified dumbbell herein generally having an attachable insert assembly and a one-piece dumbbell having a female connector and an incorporated spring-loaded pin. The insert assembly having a male connector is joined with the female connector of the dumbbell yielding the male connector to be engageable with the spring-loaded pin for fixed attachment. The insert assembly may come in various sizes and in either singular or plural form. Further, the one-piece dumbbell and its mating insert assembly may have a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical configuration.

Provided is a wind powered system for reducing energy consumption of a power source, such as an internal combustion engine or an electric motor. In one embodiment, the wind powered system comprises a wind turbine operatively connected to an internal combustion engine, for example via a direct mechanical connection, a hydrostatic drive system or a pneumatic drive system in order to reduce the amount of fuel required by the engine to operate an electricity generating means. A controller may be optionally provided to modulate the load on the wind turbine in order to maximize the extraction of available power according to local wind conditions. In another embodiment, the wind turbine is connected to an air compressor for providing a supply of air in order to offset energy consumption of a conventional compressed air system.

A shroud for mounting a fan is provided. The shroud may include a plate, a hub, a first leg, and a second leg. The plate may include an aperture edge of an aperture in a surface of the plate. The hub includes a bore defining an axis of rotation of a fan. The first leg and the second leg are mounted to and extend between the hub and the aperture edge. The first leg includes a first leg portion having a first curve shape in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The second leg may include a second leg portion having a second curve shape in the plane. The first curve shape may be an arc of a circle. A fan housing may include the shroud, an actuator to effect rotation of the fan, and a mounting bracket, which mounts the actuator to the shroud.