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A system to improve safety of workers who are in proximity to mobile machines includes a machine mountable radio-frequency identification reader that wirelessly monitors radio-frequency identification tags worn by workers moving relative to and in proximity to a mobile machine when the reader is mounted on the machine. The reader includes a processor and an antenna front-end which is switchable between an omni-directional antenna or at least one directional antenna. The omni-directional antenna is mountable so as to monitor a machine circumference completely around the mobile machine. Each directional antenna is mountable so as to monitor only either a front or a back of the mobile machine relative to the machines direction of motion.

One aspect of the present invention is a method for the wireless transmission of information from one or more antennas to one or more separate users. The method comprises processing information to produce transmission vectors that minimize simultaneous interference between separate user channels and adjusting the radiation patterns to minimize total system radiation power for users specified capacities. In another aspect, the present invention includes apparatus and methods for providing multiple users of a network with information in such a manner that only the user that the signals are intended for receives the information.

A system to improve safety of workers who are in proximity to mobile machines includes a machine mountable radio-frequency identification reader that wirelessly monitors radio-frequency identification tags worn by workers moving relative to and in proximity to a mobile machine when the reader is mounted on the machine. The reader includes a processor and an antenna front-end which is switchable between an omni-directional antenna or at least one directional antenna. The omni-directional antenna is mountable so as to monitor a machine circumference completely around the mobile machine. Each directional antenna is mountable so as to monitor only either a front or a back of the mobile machine relative to the machine's direction of motion.

Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to synchronizing upstream and downstream transmissions across routing nodes in a wireless mesh network. The present invention, in one implementation, reduces radio interference between routing nodes in a wireless mesh network. In one implementation, the present invention, also allows for the use of a single radio dedicated to wireless backbone transmissions thereby reducing the cost of routing nodes. In one implementation, at least some of the routing nodes in the wireless mesh network include a second radio and associated wireless communication functionality to provide wireless access to mobile stations.

A shielding arrangement for preventing AM radio interference when a wireless charger is used in a vehicle has a plurality of parallel conductors arranged at a distance from one another responsive to a frequency desired to be attenuated. An interconnection arrangement includes a solid conductive junction and connects the conductors to one another without forming loops, and to ground. The conductors are traces disposed on a PCB. Additional parallel conducts are disposed on the other side of the PCB at an orthogonal orientation with respect to the first conductors. The spacing between the conductors is determined in response to the frequency desired to be attenuated, as well as frequencies thereabove that are desired to be propagated therethrough, such as mobile telephone signals. The solid conductive junction that is disposed on the printed circuit board is electrically and thermally conductive, such as copper.

The invention relates to a method for predicting radio disturbance of an electric transmission line by using an improved BP (back propagation) neural network. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring and preprocessing data parameters; establishing a BP neural network predicting model of the data parameters; performing optimal training on the BP neural network by using a genetic algorithm and a simulated annealing algorithm; and predicting radio disturbance of the electric transmission line by using the network. The method is high in prediction precision, high in convergence and high in stability; the problem that the BP neural network is caught in a local minimum point is solved; and the method has a great guiding significance on prediction of radio disturbance of the electric transmission line and research on reduction of radio disturbance.

One aspect of the present invention is a method for the wireless transmission of information from one or more antennas to one or more separate users. The method comprises processing information to produce transmission vectors that minimize simultaneous interference between separate user channels and adjusting the radiation patterns to minimize total system radiation power for users specified capacities. In another aspect, the present invention includes apparatus and methods for providing multiple users of a network with information in such a manner that only the user that the signals are intended for receives the information.

A linearly polarized antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor which is overlapped on one surface of the dielectric substrate, an antenna element made of linearly polarized, which is formed on an opposite surface of the dielectric substrate, a plurality of metal posts in which one end side of each of the plurality of metal posts is connected to the ground conductor, the plurality of metal posts piercing through the dielectric substrate along a thickness direction thereof, another end side of each of the plurality of metal posts being extended to the opposite surface of the dielectric substrate, the plurality of metal posts being provided at predetermined intervals to form a cavity so as to surround the antenna element, and a conducting arm which short-circuits the other end of the plurality of metal posts along a line direction of the plurality of metal posts on the opposite surface side of the dielectric substrate, the conducting arm being provided while extended by a predetermined distance toward a direction of the antenna element, the conducting arm having a triangular portion.

A mobile communications system is described in which a mobile device is operable to communicate with base stations using a first radio technology and with other devices using a second radio technology. The mobile device maintains a control plane connection with a first base station and a user plane connection via a second base station. In case of an interference is detected due to concurrent use of the first and second radio technologies, the mobile device provides assistance information to the base stations, based on which the base stations alleviate the effects of the detected interference.

The invention relates to a mother-infant wireless observation system, which is a wearable wireless body sensor network, and comprises wearable body sensor network clothes, a mobile gateway for collecting and processing data and a human-machine interface which can be seen by a computer and a user. Four wireless human-body sensor nodes which measure the health conditions of a mother and a fetus in a real-time manner and record data in a real-time manner are arranged on the body sensor network clothes; and each wireless human-body sensor node comprises an antenna, a transceiver, a microprocessor, a built-in sensor and a battery pack. The mother-infant wireless observation system has the advantages of software and hardware design with low cost and low energy consumption, can be popularized widely and used for a long time, process and analyze the data transmitted back from the human-body sensor nodes and extract important information, and judge the pregnancy complications at the earliest possible time; and by adopting the anti-interference design, radio interference among the sensor nodes and between the sensors and environment are reduced, and the safety of important medical data can be ensured.

A circularly polarized antenna has a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor piled up on one surface side of the dielectric substrate, a circularly polarized antenna element formed on an opposite surface of the dielectric substrate, a plurality of metal posts whose respective one end sides are connected to the ground conductor and penetrate the dielectric substrate along a thickness direction thereof, and whose respective other sides extend up to the opposite surface of the dielectric substrate, the plurality of metal posts configuring a cavity by being provided at predetermined intervals so as to surround the antenna element, and a conducting rim which short-circuits the respective other end sides of the plurality of metal posts along an array direction thereof, and is provided so as to extend by a predetermined distance in a direction of the antenna element at the side of the opposite surface of the dielectric substrate.

The RFID system 10 has an interrogator 11, an interrogator antenna 12 connected to the interrogator 11 to transmit a signal, and a radio wave reflection sheet 21 that reflects a signal transmitted from the interrogator antenna 12 and includes a part of a parabolic curve or a curve similar thereto. , The wireless tag 13 that communicates with the interrogator 11 by receiving and responding to a signal from the interrogator antenna 12 at least through the radio wave reflecting sheet 21 . The signal passing through without being irradiated to the wireless tag 13 is reflected by the radio wave reflection sheet 21 toward the inside of the radio wave reflection sheet 21 . Therefore, signal dispersion can be prevented, and the signal from the interrogator antenna 12 can be effectively used.

A method of pairing devices includes causing a Bluetooth-enabled host device and a Bluetooth-enabled peripheral device to be located proximate to each other, the Bluetooth-enabled host device comprising at least a processor, a memory and an antenna, in the Bluetooth-enabled host device, detecting advertising packets broadcast by the Bluetooth-enabled peripheral device on one or more of a plurality of advertising channels, saving a numeric indicator of each of multiple detected advertising packets, determining an average numeric indicator from the saved numeric indicators of each of the separately detected advertising packets, if the average numeric indicator exceeds a proximity threshold, determining whether a set of conditions are met, and initiating a Bluetooth device pairing sequence between the Bluetooth-enabled host device and the Bluetooth-enabled peripheral device if the set of conditions are met.

An animal deterrent system to be placed on structures such as electrical apparatus to deter and protect birds, wildlife and other animals. Specifically, a perching deterrent having a saddle made to fit over any desired member of a structure and deterrent extensions may be used separately or in combination. The deterrent extensions may protrude in various configurations from the above-mentioned saddle to inhibit, deter, or insulate animals contacting structures. Also possible is an insulator cap with spiral conductor covers.

The invention relates to a voltage converter, whose topology can be switched over between a boost converter and a SEPIC. According to the invention, the boost converter has ripple current compensation. As a result, the inductors used can be utilized in optimum fashion. A thyristor which is protected against breakdown triggering by means of a negative gate voltage is used as the changeover switch.

The present invention relates to a Method for scheduling and / or muting radio resources in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system comprising a plurality of network nodes and a plurality of user nodes; the method comprising the steps of: measuring, by at least one user node, received signal strength of radio signals transmitted from one or more network nodes so as to obtain received signal quality and / or interference associated with said one or more network nodes; arranging, by said user node, the received signal quality and / or interference associated with said one or more network nodes in an order or a ranking with respect to at least one radio signal criterion; signalling, by said user node, said order or ranking to at least one network node; and scheduling and / or muting radio resources based on said signalled order or ranking.

An RFID reading device is provided. An object and an IC tag attached to the object are disposed in interior space enclosed by a vehicle body made of a material that inhibits transmission of radio waves. An RFID reading device includes an information reading unit and a rotation driving unit. The information reading unit has an antenna unit and receives object-related information through the antenna unit, thereby reading the object-related information. Since the antenna unit is rotated about a predetermined rotation axial line by the rotation driving unit, regardless of the orientation of the posture of the IC tag disposed in the interior space of the vehicle body, the object-related information from the IC tag can be reliably read by reducing the effects of reflection, absorption, and so on of radio waves as much as possible.

A microwave modular circuit-based radio antenna array receiver system of VHF (very high frequency) band from 55 MHz to 65 MHz is composed of two primary band-pass filters, two primary amplifiers, two secondary band-pass filters, a phase shift signal synthesizer module, a secondary amplifier and a tertiary amplifier connected in order; the band-pass filters, the amplifiers and the phase shift signal synthesizer module are all microwave modular circuits. The system is simple in design, convenient to adjust, small in size and low in cost.

Ballast comprising input terminals receiving a DC voltage coming from a supply source on the vehicle, a chopping supply circuit functioning at a predetermined chopping frequency in order to supply as an output a voltage supplying the discharge lamp, and a filtering device disposed at the input and intended to reduce radio interference produced by the chopping supply circuit. The chopping supply circuit comprises at least one first filtering capacitor connected between the input terminals and a filtering choke connected in series between one of the input terminals and the chopping supply circuit. In accordance with the invention, the ballast comprises a filtering device which also comprises at least one second filtering capacitor in series with an additional choke. This second capacitor forms with the additional choke a resonance circuit situated between the input terminals and tuned to the chopping frequency.

A voltage converter, whose topology can be switched over between a boost converter and a SEPIC. The boost converter has ripple current compensation. As a result, the inductors used can be utilized in optimum fashion. A thyristor which is protected against breakdown triggering by a negative gate voltage is used as the changeover switch.

The invention relates to a method for reducing the insulation overhead ground wire induction voltage of an alternating current transmission line. The method comprises the following steps that the insulation overhead ground wire induction voltage limit value U<0> and the circuit current I are determined; when an insulation overhead ground wire grounding point is selected to be at one end part, the insulation overhead ground wire transposition pitch 1<0> is calculated to be (8-15)*U<0> / I<km>, and a nearby tension rod tower is selected every ten points from the end part of an insulation overhead ground wire as transposition nodes for carrying out ground wire transposition or conducting wire transposition; and when the insulation overhead ground wire grounding point is positioned between two ends of the insulation overhead ground wire, the insulation overhead ground wire transposition pitch 2*1<0> is calculated to be (16-30)*U<0> / I(km), the nearby tension rod tower is selected every 2*1<0> from one end part of the insulation overhead ground wire as transposition nodes for carrying out ground wire transposition or conducting wire transposition, and in addition, the insulation overhead ground wire grounding point is arranged nearby the half transposition pitch of one transposition node. The method has the advantage that the induction voltage can be reduced to be within the set induction voltage limit value U<0>.

Provided are a node device of a beacon-enabled Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) managing a channel resource and a method thereof. The node device may generate a pseudo random binary sequence (PRBS) and generate a hopping sequence based on a number of available channels using the PRBS, thereby generating a hopping sequence having a characteristic of pseudo randomness and selecting a channel to be hopped, using the hopping sequence.

The invention relates to a double-delta double-circuit transmission line with phase sequence in the same tower window, which belongs to the technical field of high, ultra-high and extra-high voltage overhead line electric power transmission. The A-phase wire, the B-phase wire and the C-phase wire of a first circuit transmission line are arranged at the upper side of a supporting frame in a delta shape, and the A-phase wire, the B-phase wire and the C-phase wire of a second circuit transmission line are arranged at the lower side of the supporting frame in a delta shape. All the phase wires are relatively fixed with the supporting frame through a wire supporting rod. The transverse two-phase wires on the second layer are positioned in the same phase position, and the first layer wires and the third layer wires at both sides of the supporting frame are respectively positioned in the same phase position. The transmission line has higher natural power and narrower power transmission corridor; compared with the double-circuit transmission line with same phase sequence in the same tower window, the transmission line has lower lightning protecting wire induced voltage and lower double-circuit simultaneous tripping rate during the lightning striking process; and compared with the double-circuit transmission line with negative phase sequence in the same tower window, the transmission line has smaller potential supplied current and recovery voltage, and lower radio interference, audible noise and corona loss.

The present invention concerns in particular an extruded profiled element consisting of a cross-linkable rubber composition, a process for obtaining this profiled element, and a tire tread based on the said extruded and cross-linked profiled element. An extruded profiled element according to the invention is delimited in width by two lateral faces which connect radially inner and outer faces to one another for the tread, conducting means being provided in the profiled element to connect the inner face electrically to the outer face between the lateral faces and all along the length of the profiled element, the remainder of the profiled element being based on an electrically insulating material. This profiled element is such that, viewed in a cross-section of the profiled element, the conducting means have a layered structure comprising electrically conducting layers which are essentially concentric and which have a curvature towards at least one of the inner and outer faces, with at least one of the layers emerging at the surface of the outer face. The application of the invention relates in particular to the quality of radio wave reception by a radio fitted on board a vehicle equipped with tires.

A shielding arrangement for preventing AM radio interference when a wireless charger is used in a vehicle has a plurality of parallel conductors arranged at a distance from one another responsive to a frequency desired to be attenuated. An interconnection arrangement includes a solid conductive junction and connects the conductors to one another without forming loops, and to ground. The conductors are traces disposed on a PCB. Additional parallel conducts are disposed on the other side of the PCB at an orthogonal orientation with respect to the first conductors. The spacing between the conductors is determined in response to the frequency desired to be attenuated, as well as frequencies thereabove that are desired to be propagated therethrough, such as mobile telephone signals. The solid conductive junction that is disposed on the printed circuit board is electrically and thermally conductive, such as copper.

A microwave transceiver comprising a data buffer, an ACM module, a PA, and an antenna. The ACM module is configured to receive buffered data from the data buffer and to modulate the buffered data at amodulation format having a spectral efficiency, the PA configured to receive modulated buffered data from the ACM module, and to transmit amplified modulated buffered data, via the antenna, to a remote microwave transceiver at an output power. The modulation format is selected from a plurality of modulation formats based on a feedback signal from the remote microwave transceiver. The microwave transceiver further comprises a control module configured to monitor a buffer state of the data buffer, and to control the output power of the PA based on the buffer state.

The invention provides an optimal selection method of a reference station. The optimal selection method of the reference station comprises the steps of S1, segmenting a target area based on the border of a coverage area of each reference station in the target area so as to obtain multiple coverage fragments, wherein the target area is the total coverage area of all the reference stations; S2, building a relation table between each reference station and the multiple coverage fragments based on the coverage relationship between each reference station and the multiple coverage fragments; and S3, judging whether the reference stations can be replaced respectively based on the relation table, and getting rid of the replaceable reference stations of the reference stations. The optimal selection method of the reference station can reduce the number of the reference stations distributed in the target area; and resources are saved. Meanwhile, due to the reduction of the number of the reference stations distributed in the target area, radio interference among the reference stations can be reduced, and normal operation of an automatic driving navigation system in the target area can be guaranteed.