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An electronic device and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a touch-sensing module sensing a change in a touch, a processing module determining a display screen layer associated with a touch location, and a screen display module displaying a part of the display screen layer.

A wood-fuel pellet burner assembly, such as for barbecues, includes a gravity-feed pellet fuel hopper positioned in alignment with a pellet fuel intake and a perforated pellet fuel slide that extends to a combustion region. A DC ignitor has a heating element that extends into the combustion region, and a DC fan is positioned to direct a flow of air through the perforated pellet fuel slide and into the combustion region. A DC power source, such as a vehicle-grade 12-volt battery, is coupled to and powers the DC ignitor and the DC fan.

The invention is a stove system that is portable, has a double walled external structure for the passage of air used in combustion of the fuel, which air also maintains the external surface at a cool enough temperature that it can be touched, and which air flow prevents the waste of heat laterally to the ambient air from a hot outer surface. This increases cooking efficiency, because almost all heat that reaches the air flow between the two walls is drawn right into the combustion chamber in the form of preheated air by reason of the chimney effect. Thus almost no heat can escape the outside wall except by reaching the cooking pot bottom and pot sides after passing out the cover vents as exhaust. An internal heat concentrator ring improves the overall efficiency of the burner. The stove is preferably powered with coal, and uses about half as much coal as a conventional coal fired stove resulting from cooking efficiency. Provision is made for generation of electrical energy from the excess stove heat. Additionally, special thermally designed cook pots add to the stove system to decrease food cooking time while reducing the fuel required.

A dispensing closure for a container comprising a closure body adapted to be mounted on the container. The closure body has a dispensing orifice and a sealing cap. A pair of adjacently spaced living hinges connect the sealing cap to the closure body for movement between an open and a closed position. The closure body and sealing cap have sealing elements that provide a complete peripheral seal between the sealing cap and the closure body when in the closed position. The sealing cap has a camming lug located between the living hinges, and contacting the sealing elements on the closure body without impairing the integrity of the sealing elements, and further provides a snap-action to the movement of the sealing cap from the open to the closed position.

The apparatus integrated with ceramic bushing/s for manufacturing mineral/basalt fibers from natural basalt rocks is disclosed. The apparatus and the ceramic bushing/s are integrated into one unit capable provide all operations which are needed: melt basalt rock materials, homogenize basalt glass body suitable for forming fibers to be drawn/attenuated into continuous fibers and gathered into a strand of elemental fibers from 7 to 20 micrometers (μm) in diameter. Also the coarse fibers at the diameters from 20 μm to 100 micrometers (μm) having amorphous structural state which exhibit ductile/flexible properties. The ceramic bushing/s are designed to eliminate precious Pt, Rd metals using instead corrosion resistant ceramic materials to reduce basalt fiber products cost and to increase its commercial compatibility when compared to the other fibers currently been on the market in reinforced concrete/composite applications, including Three Dimension Fiber Reinforced Concrete-3D FRC.

The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer-readable program for providing management of a computing complex during a utility interruption. More specifically, the present invention provides an automated method, apparatus and computer-readable program to manage the selected power down of devices within an information technology computing complex when the loss of conventional utility service occurs. This invention selectively shuts down systems/devices within the computing complex based on the criticality of the systems/devices and the current state of environment parameters (e.g., battery reserve level, temperature, time, etc.) monitored within the computing complex.

A concealed object detection system using pre-engineered and pre-manufactured components to effectively control the deployment surroundings and provide a known environment in which the equipment can operate. The system provides inherent background/peripheral motion and optical clutter mitigation by virtue of its booth-like design. The system can additionally include x-ray baggage machines, iris scanners, biometrics, finger readers, palm readers, metal detectors, backscatter x-ray, nuclear quadrupole resonance, explosives-trace detectors (“sniffers”), and access control cards.

A semiconductor laser is formed on a semiconductor substrate with an array of laterally spaced laser device elements each including a second order distributed feedback grating bounded by distributed Bragg reflector gratings. The device elements in which the distributed feedback grating and the distributed Bragg reflector gratings are formed have a lower effective index than the index of the interelement regions and are spaced so as to form an antiguided array.

The dispensing closure for a container for dispensing a liquid contained therein, includes a closure body adapted to be mounted on the container. The closure body has an upper wall and a skirt depending downwardly therefrom and a dispensing orifice positioned thereon. A tubular flow modulating structure depends downwardly from the upper wall of the closure body. The tubular flow modulating structure has an inner surface configured and arranged to control the flow of liquid through the dispensing orifice and includes at least one dependent capillary slot. Optionally, the dispensing closure further includes a syneresis capture structure depending downwardly from the upper wall to prevent syneresis fluid from flowing through the dispensing orifice during the dispensing of the liquid contained within the container.

An apparatus for powering and TRIAC dimming of a gas discharge lamp includes an electronic ballast for powering a gas discharge lamp from a TRIAC based dimmer connected to an AC line, an EMI filter for protecting the AC line from EMI generated by the ballast and the lamp, a DC bus without a smoothing electrolytic capacitor, a resonant DC-to-AC inverter connected to the DC bus for powering the gas discharge lamp with a high frequency current, wherein an auxiliary DC-to-DC power supply input is connected to the DC bus and a first resonant tank having in series a first resonant inductor and a first resonant capacitor, wherein the gas discharge lamp is connected in parallel to the resonant capacitor.

A robotic orchard spraying system having autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV), each autonomously delivering an amount of a premixed solution over a non-overlapping path verified by a forward-looking sensor, video, or both. Also, a mobile control center, configured to wirelessly inform the autonomous delivery vehicle of the path within the areas and to confirm that the autonomous delivery vehicle is following the path within the area. Additionally, a mapper vehicle generates the path within the area, the mapper vehicle being configured to communicate information about the path and the area to the command center. The mapper vehicle senses the path with a forward-looking LiDAR sensor, and senses the area with a GPS sensor. Moreover, a nurse truck has a reservoir of premixed solution for replenishing a tank of the ADV. ADVs and the control center communicate over a radio network, which may be a mesh network, a cellular network, or both.

An operational assistance server device, method and computer readable article of manufacture for providing operational assistance to a user operating an application is provided. The operational assistance server device includes: an operation table; an operation table storage unit for storing the operation table; an user's operation history; an operation sequence generation unit for generating the operation sequence; an operation record storage unit; operation subsequences; an appearing-operation-sequence extraction unit for extracting appearing operation sequences from the operation subsequences; and an appearing-operation-sequence storage unit for storing the appearing operation sequences extracted by the appearing-operation-sequence extraction unit; where the appearing operation sequence appears at a frequency higher than a predetermined value. The method and computer readable article of manufacture storing the method includes the steps of: generating the operation sequence; storing the generated operation sequences; extracting the appearing operation sequences; and storing the extracted appearing operation sequences.

Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing operating system (O/S) redundancy in a computing system are provided. One system includes a host computing device, a plurality of memory devices, and a sub-loader coupled between the host computing device and the plurality of memory devices. Each memory device stores a respective O/S and the sub-loader is configured such that the plurality of memory devices appear transparent to the host computing device. One method includes designating, a first logical unit device as a primary logical unit device and subsequently determining that the first logical unit device is unresponsive. The designation is removed from the first logical unit device and a second logical unit device is designated as a new primary logical unit device. One computer program product includes instructions for performing the above method.

Provided is a button input device using electronic paper (E-paper). The button input device includes: a button including a transparent window and at least one base portion downwardly protruding from an outer edge of the window; the E-paper including a display region disposed under the window, and at least one hole disposed outside the display region and allowing the base portion of the button to be inserted thereinto; an elastic member disposed under the E-paper and elastically deformed by the base portion of the button when the button is pressed; and a switch circuit board including a switch disposed under the elastic member at a position corresponding to a lower end of the base portion of the button and generating a signal when the button is pressed.

A portable medical waste disposal assembly that offers convenience and safety during use, disposal and maintenance of the disposal assembly. The portable and sanitizable medical waste disposal assembly includes a waste receptacle mounted within a unitary frame providing increased strength and stability to the disposal assembly so as to facilitate transport and sanitization. A positive closure system mounts to the unitary frame and operably interconnects to a slidable lid on the waste receptacle such that the waste receptacle is maintained in a closed disposition unless specifically opened by a user. The positive closure system can be adapted so as to adjustably retain the waste receptacle within the unitary frame while allowing for quick release of the waste receptacle at a time of disposal of the receptacle's contents.

An engine driven heat pump includes an outdoor fan and an engine cooling water pump, each of which is driven by the generation power of a generator, and after a lapse of a first predetermined time from a predetermined actuation time of an engine, the output power from the generator is output-controlled, and the power output control is started so as to obtain the generation power, and when it is determined that the generation voltage after the start of the power output control is equal to or higher than a predetermined voltage, the engine cooling water pump is driven, and after a lapse of a second predetermined time from a predetermined drive time of the engine cooling water pump, the outdoor fan is driven, and after a lapse of a third predetermined time from a predetermined drive time of the outdoor fan, the output control of the inverter is started.

A current-sharing backlight driving circuit for light-emitting diodes and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The current-sharing backlight driving circuit includes a class-E converter and a plurality of power processing units. The class-E converter receives a DC input voltage and produces an AC output voltage. The AC output voltage outputted from the class-E converter is converted into a DC driven voltage thorough the power processing units, thus driving the light-emitting diodes and providing a current-sharing backlight operation.

An air separation plant for obtaining product containing argon by low temperature separation of compressed, cooled feed air. The air separation plant comprises a high-pressure column, a multi-part low-pressure column having a base segment and a head segment and a multi-part crude argon column having a base segment and a head segment. An oxygen-enriched flow is obtained from part of the feed air in the high pressure column, an argon-enriched flow is obtained from part of the oxygen-enriched flow in the low-pressure column, and an argon-rich flow is obtained from part of the argon-enriched flow in the crude argon column. Liquid flow is transferred from a lower region of the head segment of the low-pressure column and from a lower region of the base segment of the crude argon column into an upper region of the base segment of the low-pressure column.

The present invention is a roller clutch assembly for a roller blind which operates smoothly and quietly. The roller clutch assembly includes an elongated roller tube having first and second opposite ends and a clutch coaxially mounted to the first end of the tube. The clutch has a peripheral section rotatably mounted to a fixed hub, the peripheral section being mounted to the tube such that the tube is free to rotate. The assembly also includes an elongated rod mounted within the roller tube, the rod having opposite first and second ends, the first end of the rod being mounted to the hub of the clutch. A mount is rotatably attached to the second end of the rod for mounting the rod within the tube such that the tube and rod are substantially coaxially aligned. A coil spring is coaxially mounted onto the elongated rod, the coil spring having opposite first and second ends, the first end of the spring being fixed to the rod adjacent the first end of the rod, the second end of the spring being fixed to the mounting adaptor such that the spring can be wound and unwound on the rod by rotating the tube. The spring is stretched onto the rod sufficiently such that the spring does not kink when wound.

A miniature broadband monopole antenna design configured with integrated band-selecting filtering is disclosed. The antenna is electrically folded, and includes top and bottom monopole sections, with a meanderline to provide an inductive load between the two sections. The overall antenna structure can be embedded in a relatively small, RF transparent, composite structure (e.g., such as the fin of a guided munition), and has minimal impact on aerodynamics (low drag). The top, bottom, and meanderline elements of the antenna operate together to collectively provide multi-band operation (e.g., 30 MHz to 3 GHz).