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A multi-path router includes an interface module (IM) having a time-sensitive logical processing path and a non-time-sensitive logical processing path and a special needs logical processing path and a filter for receiving a packet header and determining the needs of the packet header and for selecting one of the time-sensitive logical processing path, the non-time sensitive logical processing path and the special needs logical processing path in response to the needs of the packet header. The multi-path router further includes a router special needs agent (RSNA), adapted to receive a packet header having special needs services. The multi-path router can be used in a network which includes first and second networks coupled to the multi-path router and wherein the RSNA receives information from the special needs logical processing path and provides information to the IM on a return path.

A secure appliance for use within a multi-tenant cloud computing environment which comprises: a) a policy enforcement point (PEP); b) a hardened Operating System (OS) capable of deploying applications; and c) at least one application capable of hosting services and application program interfaces (APIs).

A method for inputting and outputting data for a communication device in a vehicle includes receiving an abstract input or output method AMx for inputting data into and outputting data out of a communication application arrangement APP from a communication application arrangement APP of the communication device, selecting at least one physical I / O unit PHEx depending on at least one type of a requested abstract I / O method AMx, an addressed HMI endpoint user HEx, a vehicle state VSx, a driving state DSx and / or en environmental condition ECx, and outputting data of the abstract I / O method AMx through the selected physical I / O unit PHEx and / or receiving input data of the physical I / O unit PHE, and converting the input data into an abstract input method AMix for inputting the abstract input method AMix into the communication application means APP. A human machine interface unit and a communication device including the human machine interface unit for performing the I / O method are also disclosed.

Arrays of spin-valve elements that can be selectively activated to trap, hold, manipulate and release magnetically tagged biological and chemical particles, including molecules and polymers. The spin-valve elements that can be selectively activated and deactivated by applying a momentary applied magnetic field thereto. The spin valve element array can be used for selectively sorting and transporting magnetic particles one particle at a time within the array. As the magnetically tagged particles are held by the spin-valve elements, application of an auxiliary magnetic field can be used to apply tension or torsion to the held particles or to move, e.g. rotate, the trapped particles. The arrays of spin-valve elements can be used in a variety of applications including drug screening, nucleic acid sequencing, structural control and analysis of RNA / DNA and protiens, medical diagnosis, and magnetic particle susceptibility and size homogenization for other medical applications.

The present invention provides exchangeable, reagent pre-loaded carriers (10), preferably in the form of plastic sheets, which can be temporarily applied to an electrode array (16) on a digital microfluidic (DMF) device (14). The carrier (10) facilitates virtually un-limited re-use of the DMF devices (14) avoiding cross-contamination on the electrode array (16) itself, as well as enabling rapid exchange of pre-loaded reagents (12) while bridging the world-to-chip interface of DMF devices (14). The present invention allows for the transformation of DMF into a versatile platform for lab-on-a-chip applications.

A heat exchange assembly for generating steam from a second medium to be used to drive a steam turbine for generating electricity or for other process, includes a tube having a longitudinal axis and an inner wall and an outer wall. The outer wall includes a plurality of spaced fins oriented generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The inner wall defines a preheat zone and a dual phase zone. The preheat zone defines a helical rib configured to provide swirling motion and increase heat transfer surface area to liquid entering the tube increasing heat transfer from the tube to the liquid. The dual phase zone is spaced from the preheat zone and defines a helical rib configured to provide swirling motion to steam and liquid passing through the dual phase zone increasing heat transfer from the tube to the steam and liquid while preventing vapor stagnation and film boiling.

This invention relates to a process for inhibiting scaling in a subterranean oil or gas producing formation, comprising adding to the formation a composition comprising a metal chelant, a scale inhibitor and divalent metal cations, wherein the stability constant of the metal chelant—metal cation chelate at ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the stability constant of the chelate formed from the metal cations and the scale inhibitor, and wherein the solubility of the chelate formed from the metal cations and the scale inhibitor decreases with increasing temperature.

The present invention provides an exchangeable, reagent pre-loaded sheets which can be temporarily applied to an electrode array on a digital microfluidic device (DMF). The substrate facilitates virtually un-limited re-use of the DMF devices avoiding cross-contamination on the electrode array itself, as well as enabling rapid exchange of pre-loaded reagents while bridging the world-to-chip interface of DMF devices. The present invention allows for the transformation of DMF into a versatile platform for lab-on-a-chip applications.

This invention discloses cryo-heating phototreatment devices and methods for cooling and heating objects in a very rapid timescale, from femtosecond to subsecond. The cryo-heating phototreatment device is a multiplex energy source comprising of an electromagnetic source and at least one of the members of the group of radiation sources: sonic, magnetic, electric, electroluminescent, up-converted luminescence, pressure and thermal. The electromagnetic source in the cryo-heating phototreatment device induces cooling of objects by up-converting energy luminescence and heating by absorption or interaction of electromagnetic radiation with objects. The invention also proposes a method of an enhancement of the up-converted energy cooling and heating processes by surface plasmon resonance of conducting nanostructures. The proposed devices and methods of very rapid cooling and heating can be applied in biomedical technologies and health care. The invention also includes applications of the disclosed herein method to up-conversion energy cooling of electronic components and photon detector devices.

A modular outdoor large item vending system for large items such as propane tanks, liquid petroleum gas cylinders of various sizes and other items that must be stored in and dispensed from a hazardous location compliant system. The vending system can be placed on a store front, parking lot, campsite, or park, and comprises a master module assembly connected to a plurality of add-on module assemblies with each of the master module assembly and the add-on module assemblies having compartments to hold large items which are dispensed from the compartments when a payment is made through a credit card reader interface located on a master module control compartment door face. The large item vending system of the invention is powered by AC current which is turned to DC power by a power supply, or DC batteries charged by AC power and / or solar power, or by other power means.

A method for processing a packet having a header and a payload, the method including filtering the header to determine needs indicated by the packet header, selecting one of a time sensitive logical processing path, a non-time-sensitive logical processing path and a special needs logical processing path in response to the needs indicated by the packet header and processing the filtered packet header on the selected logical processing path.

System and method for developing an ASIC. A software program may be stored which includes program instructions which implement a function. The software program may be executed on a processing system at a desired system speed and may be validated based on the execution. A first hardware description of at least a portion of the processing system may be stored and may specify implementation of at least a portion of the processing system. A second hardware description may be generated that corresponds to a first portion of the first hardware description. The second hardware description may specify a dedicated hardware implementation of a first portion of the software program executing on the processing system. Generation of the second hardware description may be performed one or more times to fully specify the ASIC. An ASIC may be created which implements the function of the software program.

An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate image signals for displaying a plurality of screens on one display surface; an operation signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation signal from a user; and a control unit configured to scale a focused one of the plurality of screens, when the operation signal common to the plurality of screens to scale the screen is acquired from the user.

This invention relates to a process for inhibiting scaling in a subterranean oil or gas producing formation, comprising adding to the formation a composition comprising a metal chelant, a scale inhibitor and divalent metal cations, wherein the stability constant of the metal chelant-metal cation chelate at ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the stability constant of the chelate formed from the metal cations and the scale inhibitor, and wherein the solubility of the chelate formed from the metal cations and the scale inhibitor decreases with increasing temperature.

The invention provides a method for dynamically displaying pictures by using arrayed type telescopic rods. The telescopic rods are arranged in an arrayed manner; each telescopic rod sleeves a telescopic rack telescopically; and the telescopic rods are connected with a driving mechanism which is used for driving the telescopic rods to extend or retreat. The method comprises the following steps of (1) dividing a picture to be displayed into areas of which the sum is equal to the number of the telescopic rods; (2) converting the picture to be displayed into a gray-scale map, and calculating gray average of each area; (3) linearly converting the gray averages of the areas into telescopic controlled quantity for controlling actions of the telescopic rods; and (4) driving the telescopic rods to move by using the driving mechanism according to the telescopic controlled quantity, and dynamically displaying the picture after movement of the telescopic rods is finished. The invention also provides an electromagnetic three-dimensional telescopic displaying device which is low in cost, high in three-dimensional effect and high in man-machine interactivity.

The invention provides a multi-section arm telescopic device and a crane with the same. The multi-section arm telescopic device comprises a single cylinder bolt part and a rope row part; the single cylinder bolt part comprises m section arms, a telescopic oil cylinder driving a pth section arm to stretch, and an arm pulling mechanism and a cylinder bolt mechanism which are used for positioning the p-th section arm, wherein m and p are natural numbers and p is more than 1 and less than or equal to m; the rope row part comprises a (m+1)th section arm to an nth section arm; an arm stretching rope row for the qth section arm comprises an arm stretching rotating wheel for the qth section arm and an arm stretching guy cable for the qth section arm, a first end of the arm stretching guy cable isfixed at the bottom of a (q-2)th section arm and a second end of the arm stretching guy cable is fixed at the bottom of the qth section arm; an arm contracting rope row for the qth section arm comprises an arm contracting rotating wheel for the qth section arm; and the first end of an arm stretching guy cable for the qth section arm is fixed on the top of the (q-2)th section arm, the second end of the arm stretching guy cable is fixed at the bottom of the qth section arm and passes by an arm contracting rotating wheel for a (q-1)th section arm. The multi-section arm telescopic device has hightelescopic speed and high work efficiency.

A three-dimensional telescopic display device capable of dynamically displaying pictures comprises a frame, outer telescopic rods, inner telescopic rods, an outer telescopic rod retainer and an inner telescopic rod limit rack, wherein the inner telescopic rod limit frame is arranged below the frame, inner telescopic holes distributed in an array mode are formed in the inner telescopic rod limit rack, the inner telescopic rods are arranged in the inner telescopic holes rotatably in a sleeving mode, and the upper ends of the inner telescopic rods are in threaded connection with the lower ends of the cavities of the outer telescopic rods. The upper ends of the outer telescopic rods can slide vertically to penetrate through outer telescopic holes of the outer telescopic rod retainer, and the cross sections of the outer telescopic holes and the outer telescopic rods are not circles. The lower ends of the inner telescopic rods are in linkage with the output shaft of a motor connected with a controller of a computer. The three-dimensional telescopic display device capable of dynamically displaying pictures is low in cost and good in three-dimensional effect and human-computer interaction.

The present disclosure provides computerized, automated real estate valuation systems and methods that take into account subjective factors of the property like curb appeal and property condition. In preferred embodiments, the valuation system uses image recognition of images (photos and / or videos) associated with the property to automatically identify which comparable properties to include and to exclude in determining the value of the property.

A method, digital circuit, and computer program product control a supply voltage of a processing circuit based on a processing clock of the processing circuit. A first clock frequency and at least one second clock frequency are generated, wherein the first clock frequency is used as the processing clock and the second clock frequency is adjusted based on a clock control information issued by the processing circuit. A voltage conversion ratio for converting the supply voltage to a scaled supply voltage applied to the processing circuit is directly controlled in response to the result of a monitored performance under said second clock frequency. Thereby, a new fast automatic voltage scaling approach can be provided which allows to meet critical timing requirements of portable systems and to reduce power consumption significantly.

Arrays of spin-valve elements that can be selectively activated to trap, hold, manipulate and release magnetically tagged biological and chemical particles, including molecules and polymers. The spin-valve elements that can be selectively activated and deactivated by applying a momentary applied magnetic field thereto. The spin valve element array can be used for selectively sorting and transporting magnetic particles one particle at a time within the array. As the magnetically tagged particles are held by the spin-valve elements, application of an auxiliary magnetic field can be used to apply tension or torsion to the held particles or to move, e.g. rotate, the trapped particles. The arrays of spin-valve elements can be used in a variety of applications including drug screening, nucleic acid sequencing, structural control and analysis of RNA / DNA and protiens, medical diagnosis, and magnetic particle susceptibility and size homogenization for other medical applications.

A permanent magnet machine includes two stationary stators and a rotating rotor. Electromagnetic fields occurring in one stator are displaced by an angle of thirty electrical degrees with respect to electromagnetic fields occurring in the other stator due to currents fed to the stators.

An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate image signals for displaying a plurality of screens on one display surface; an operation signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation signal from a user; and a control unit configured to scale a focused one of the plurality of screens, when the operation signal common to the plurality of screens to scale the screen is acquired from the user.

A node in a Segment Routing network includes a plurality of ports and a switching fabric between the plurality of ports, wherein, for an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN)-Virtual Private Local Area Network Service (VPLS), a port is configured to transmit a packet with a plurality of Segment Identifiers (SID) including a destination SID that identifies a destination node of the packet, a service SID that identifies an EVPN Instance (EVI), and a source SID that identifies one of the node and an Ethernet Segment (ES) that includes the node. The port can be further configured to receive a second packet with a second plurality of SIDs, and learn a Media Access Control (MAC) address based on a second service SID and a second source SID, of the second packet.

Systems and methods to deploy cloud infrastructure. In one approach, a method includes creating a blueprint using a user interface displayed at a user device, automatically generating code based on the blueprint (e.g., generating the code using a server), and deploying the cloud infrastructure using the code (e.g., deploying to the AWS cloud).

A node in a Segment Routing network includes a plurality of ports and a switching fabric between the plurality of ports, wherein, for an Ethernet Tree (E-tree) service, a port is configured to transmit a packet with a plurality of Segment Identifiers (SID) including a first SID, a second SID, and a third SID, wherein the first SID identifies one of multicast, ingress replication for broadcast, and a destination node including any of a node SID and an anycast SID, wherein the second SID identifies a service including the E-tree service, and wherein the third SID identifies a source of the packet. A second port of the node is connected to a customer edge, and wherein the third SID is based on whether the customer edge is a leaf node or a root node in the E-tree service.

The invention discloses a telescopic locking mechanism driven by a leading screw. The telescopic locking mechanism comprises a guide rail and a screw mechanism, wherein one end of the screw mechanismis mounted with a fixing seat. The screw mechanism and the fixing base are connected by a fixing sleeve, and the fixing sleeve is equipped with a power device for driving the movement of the screw mechanism. The other end of the screw mechanism is mounted in the guide rail, and the screw mechanism realizes a telescopic movement with respect to the guide rail. One end, in the guide rail, of the screw mechanism is equipped with a locking device. The invention discloses a cone bar capturing locking mechanism driven by the screw principle, the telescopic and expansion capture action is completed by a driving motor, thereby streamlining the control system and making full use of the space. In addition, the whole mechanism is in rigid transmission and precise in transmission.

There is provided an electric telescopic stick of which length can be easily adjusted quickly if needed by using only one hand by providing a multiple thread screw and providing a switch on an anterior portion of a grip portion including an electric motor which rotates the multiple thread screw in the forward and reverse directions. Further, in the electric telescopic stick, since a clutch is formed between the electric motor and the multiple thread screw, overload is not applied to the motor because the clutch idles when the movable stick portion is completely elongated. Further, a user can recognize the idling state from hitting sounds generated when steel balls are hit against holes when the clutch idles.

The invention relates to a near light and far light control circuit of an automotive headlamp. At present, the cost for realizing near light and far light control of the automotive headlamp is higher. The control circuit comprises a singlechip EM78P153, a three-terminal voltage stabilizing circuit and a full-bridge power driving circuit, wherein, one end of a near light limit contact switch S1, one end of a far light limit contact switch S2 and two contacts of a near light and far light change-over switch S3 are respectively connected with the singlechip; the three-terminal voltage stabilizing circuit comprises a three-terminal voltage stabilizer and two filter capacitors; the full-bridge power driving circuit comprises two PNP-type triodes, two NPN-type triodes, eight resistors and a filter capacitor. A DC motor in the invention is electrified to work at the moment of conversion of the near light and the far light of the automotive headlamp to realize rapidly extend and retract so as to achieve the purpose that the far light and the near light respectively illuminate, thus realizing that the far light and the near light can share one light source and one electronic ballast, and saving the cost of the automotive headlamp. The control circuit of the invention has low power consumption and high reliability.

A secure appliance for use within a multi-tenant cloud computing environment which comprises: a) a policy enforcement point (PEP); b) a hardened Operating System (OS) capable of deploying applications; and c) at least one application capable of hosting services and application program interfaces (APIs).