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An all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery containing a novel garnet-type oxide serving as a solid electrolyte. The garnet-type lithium ion-conducting oxide is one represented by the formula Li5+XLa3(ZrX, A2-X)O12, wherein A is at least one selected from the group consisting of Sc, Ti, V, Y, Nb, Hf, Ta, Al, Si, Ga, Ge, and Sn and X satisfies the inequality 1.4≦X<2, or is one obtained by substituting an element having an ionic radius different from that of Zr for Zr sites in an garnet-type lithium ion-conducting oxide represented by the formula Li7La3Zr2O12, wherein the normalized intensity of an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern with a diffraction peak, as normalized on the basis of the intensity of a diffraction peak, is 9.2 or more.

In an implantable medical device and a method for stimulating a heart of a patient, at least one left atrial pressure (LAP) signal over a cardiac cycle is obtained. The A-wave is identified using the LAP signal and a maximum positive rate of change of the A-wave of the LAP signal is determined. The maximum positive rate of change of the A-wave corresponds to the rate which the pressure in the atrium raises as the atria contraction forces more blood into the ventricle during the very last stage of diastole. Further, AV and / or VV delay is adjusted in response to the maximum positive rate of change of the A-wave, wherein a reduction of the maximum positive rate of change of the A-wave indicates an AV and / or VV delay providing an enhanced hemodynamic performance.

An apparatus for controlling an automotive vehicle including an engine with an intake valve and / or an exhaust valve having a variable operating characteristic, a transmission having a plurality of operating positions that are selectively established, and a manually operable vehicle accelerating member, the apparatus including a target-drive-force setting portion operable to determine a target vehicle drive force on the basis of an operating amount of the accelerating member and a presently selected one of the operating positions of the transmission, such that the determined target vehicle drive force permits a smooth change of an actual vehicle drive force with a change of the operating amount of the vehicle accelerating member, irrespective of a shifting action of the transmission, and a drive-power-source-torque control portion (104) operable to control a torque of the engine, by controlling at least one of a lift amount, an operating period of an opening and closing action and an operating timing of the intake valve (74) and / or the exhaust valve (75), so that the actual vehicle drive force coincides with the target vehicle drive force after the shifting action of the transmission.

A piezo-injector driving apparatus overcomes disadvantages occurring at the start and the end of charging or discharging of a piezoelectric element while maintaining high responsiveness. At the start and the end of charging a piezoelectric element, the absolute value of a change rate of electrical energy of the piezoelectric element is set lower than in a period between them. Therefore, the pattern of electrical energy of the piezoelectric element is in the shape of the letter S. This prevents an excess of energy supplied to the piezoelectric element at the start of charging and energy supplied to the piezoelectric element at the end of charging.

A method for quantum computing using a quantum system comprising a plurality of qubits is provided. The system can be in any one of at least two configurations at any given time including one characterized by an initialization Hamiltonian HO and one characterized by a problem Hamiltonian HP. The problem Hamiltonian HP has a final state. Each respective first qubit in the qubits is arranged with respect to a respective second qubit in the qubits such that they define a predetermined coupling strength. The predetermined coupling strengths between the qubits in the plurality of qubits collectively define a computational problem to be solved. In the method, the system is initialized to HO and is then adiabatically changed until the system is described by the final state of the problem Hamiltonian HP. Then the state of the system is read out by probing an observable of the σX Pauli matrix operator.

A method of operating a supercharger (10) for an automotive engine (20) is disclosed. A supercharger (10) has an input shaft (30) for coupling to a crank shaft (22) of the engine and also for coupling to the rotor of a first electrical machine (40) and the annulus of an epicyclic gear train (60). An output shaft (70) is connected to a compressor (80) and a sun gear of the epicyclic gear train (60). A carrier carrying planet gears of the epicyclic gear train (60) is connected to the rotor of a second electrical machine (50). The first electrical machine (40) is selectively operable to supply electrical energy to the second electrical machine (50). The second electrical machine (50) is selectively operable as a motor or a generator to accelerate or decelerate the compressor (80), thereby tending to increase or decrease the power output of the engine. The first electrical machine (40) is selectively operable as a motor or a generator to control the torque transmitted from the input shaft (30) back to the crank shaft (22) caused by operation of the second electrical machine (50).

Flooring that utilizes sophisticated, self-stabilizing, woven face fabric using relatively heavy "carpet weight" nylon, polyester, PTT or other yarns on modern Jacquard computer controlled looms to produce flat-weave fabrics that are bonded to engineered backing structures. Urethane modified bitumen may be used as a backing layer, and an optional latex precoat may be used on the fabric layer, together with an optional antimicrobial in the precoat.

The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for presenting glucose level data. Glucose data for a patient may be received. A current glucose level and a rate of change of the current glucose level may be determined based on the received glucose data. A first interface may be displayed on a screen of a device. The first interface may include a unitary icon. The unitary icon may display the current glucose level and a visualization of the rate of change. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.

A bolt-axial-force measuring method and instrument capable of easily and precisely measuring an axial force of a bolt are provided. The bolt is screw-joined and coupled to a piston of a bolt tensioner, and a hydraulic pressure is supplied to its pressure chamber so that the bolt is elongated by applying a tensile force equal to or more than a necessary bolt-fastening force. A nut separating from a fastened member due to the elongation of the bolt is seated again on the fastened member, and the hydraulic pressure in the pressure chamber is discharged to release the tensile force of the bolt. A pressure change of the pressure chamber from which the hydraulic pressure is discharged is detected by a pressure sensor, a point where a change rate of the pressure change detected by a measuring apparatus is suddenly reduced is detected as an inflection point, and a pressure value of the pressure chamber at the inflection point is multiplied by a pressure receiving area of the pressure chamber, whereby the axial force of the bolt is calculated.

An arrangement for interrupting current comprises a first and a second terminal. First, second, and third parallel circuit branches are arranged between the terminals to electrically connect two power networks. The first parallel circuit branch comprises a mechanical main circuit breaker, the second parallel circuit branch comprises an energy absorbing device, and the third parallel circuit branch comprises a resonant circuit and a voltage control means arranged in series. The voltage control means is controllable to inject energy into the resonant circuit to force a rapid increase of alternating current, wherein the alternating current flows in a loop containing the first and the third parallel circuit branches as the mechanical main circuit breaker is controlled to open to interrupt main current. Zero cross-over of the current through the mechanical main circuit breaker is thereby realized as the alternating current amplitude exceeds the main current amplitude.

A system for reducing clunk in a driveline of a vehicle having an engine comprises a torque-based module that generates a torque request, a filter that receives the torque request from the torque-based module and that selectively modifies the torque request to reduce a rate of change of the torque request, and an engine control module that receives the modified torque request and actuates the engine to produce the modified torque request. The filter slows torque changes to a fixed rate within a range defined by an upper limit greater than zero torque and a lower limit less than zero torque. The filter applies a low-pass filter to the torque request when the torque request is greater than a cut-off value, and coefficients of the low-pass filter are selected from a table based upon the currently selected gear in the vehicle and an output of an aggressive driving evaluator.

An electric shears includes a trigger operable to be pulled, a motor which rotates in accordance with a pulling operation of the trigger, a screw shaft which rotates interlockingly with the motor, a nut which is screwed onto the screw shaft and is slidable with respect to the screw shaft in accordance with a rotation of the screw shaft, a fixed blade, a movable blade which is coupled to the nut and is movable with respect to the fixed blade, a detector which detects a pulled position of the trigger, and a controller which controls a rotation of the motor based on the pulled position of the trigger detected by the detector.

The invention discloses a three-Level SVPWM method with neutral-point balancing and common-mode voltage suppression capabilities. The problem of unbalanced neutral point potential occurs when a three-phase T-type three-level inverter applied to a permanent magnet synchronous motor vector transformation control system adopts a single power supply scheme, which usually leads to performance reduction of the inverter. The three-Level SVPWM method aims to maintain neutral point balance of the three-level inverter under more complex working conditions without changing hardware structure and increasing size and cost of the inverter significantly through improving the traditional SVPWM method; the three-Level SVPWM method further improves the common-mode voltage suppression capability, reduces impact to motor insulation, prolongs the service life of the motor, reduces maintenance cost, and improves the operation stability of the motor control system; and the improved SVPWM method is suitable for digitization, and the calculation workload during the neutral point balance regulation process is small, thereby facilitating real-time control of a microcomputer system.

A method and apparatus for reducing the observed rate of change of the channel characteristics in a system with multiple antennas at a mobile terminal. The slowing down of the observed channel fluctuations is effectuated on the downlink by either calculating or receiving signals that have a similar Doppler shift, referred to herein as Doppler-compensatable signals, and processing one or more of the Doppler-compensatable signals to compensate for Doppler shift. The slowing down of the observed channel fluctuations is effectuated on the uplink by pre-compensating symbol streams with the Doppler shift associated with the direction in which they are transmitted, so that the observed Doppler shift of these signals when they are received is reduced or even eliminated.

An electric shears includes a trigger operable to be pulled, a motor which rotates in accordance with a pulling operation of the trigger, a screw shaft which rotates interlockingly with the motor, a nut which is screwed onto the screw shaft and is slidable with respect to the screw shaft in accordance with a rotation of the screw shaft, a fixed blade, a movable blade which is coupled to the nut and is movable with respect to the fixed blade, a detector which detects a pulled position of the trigger, and a controller which controls a rotation of the motor based on the pulled position of the trigger detected by the detector.

A device for controlling vehicle power generation that controls duty cycle of an excitation winding in a vehicle power generator and controls an output voltage from the vehicle power generator to a predetermined value includes a power generation controlling circuit that, when the output voltage from the vehicle power generator is less than the predetermined value, gradually increases the value of a gradual excitation duty and gradually increases the excitation current, the gradual excitation duty being a limit value for increasing and decreasing an excitation drive duty intermittently controlling the electrification of the excitation winding, and in an opposite situation, gradually decreases a value of the excitation drive duty and gradually decreases the excitation current. The power generation controlling circuit changes the rate at which the value of the gradual excitation duty is decreased.

An acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration is mounted on a driven body. When a previous block is a positioning command, the system waits till the detected value of acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit becomes equal to or less than a set value αs after the distribution of the movement command of the positioning command is ended. If the detected value of acceleration becomes equal to or less than the set value αs, the distribution of the movement command of the next block is started. Because the cutting feed, etc., is started after the detected value of acceleration has become equal to or less than the set value αs and the vibrations stopped, machining can be conducted with high accuracy.

A spool braking device brakes the rotation of a spool rotatably supported by a reel body. The spool, which is a conductor that is rotated in conjunction with the spool. The magnet includes an N-pole and an S-pole on a surface that faces the rotating surface of the spool. The retaining member, the support ring, and the engagement member form a magnetic flux change rate variable mechanism. The magnetic flux change rate variable mechanism varies the change rate of the flux in the rotational circumferential direction that is affected by the magnet, at a prescribed rotating surface of the spool having a prescribed unit width in the rotational axis direction, with the rotation of the spool.

Disclosed herein are a ferrite powder having a core-shell structure, the core being made of iron (Fe) or iron-based compounds comprising iron (Fe) and the shell being made of metal oxides, a ferrite material comprising the ferrite powder and the glass, and multilayered chip components including the ferrite layer using the ferrite material, inner electrodes, and outer electrodes. According to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to provide the ferrite material capable of improving the change in the inductance L value in response to applied current by suppressing magnetization at high current. The multilayered chip components including the ferrite material according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention can also be used in a band of MHz.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a wind turbine to participate in power grid frequency modulation based on virtual inertia and a pitch angle. The method comprises the following steps:when a frequency deviation exists between the rated power of a system power grid and the current frequency, calculating a proportionality factor of a tracking curve of the sub-optimal rotating speed-active power of the wind turbine under the control of the virtual inertia; calculating a reference power of an inverter at a rotor side under the control of the virtual inertia; calculating an introduced electromagnetic power at the rotor side inverter according to the frequency change rate, and accumulating the introduced electromagnetic power and the reference power to obtain a total electromagnetic power of the rotor side inverter; calculating the rotating speed deviation of the wind turbine, and adopting the rotating speed deviation of the wind turbine to calculate the electromagnetic powervariation of the rotor side inverter; obtaining an active power of a pitch angle mechanism according to the total electromagnetic power and the electromagnetic power variation, and calculating the pitch angle of the pitch angle mechanism by adopting the active power of the pitch angle mechanism; and controlling the wind turbine to increase captured wind energy and inject the active power into thepower grid according to the pitch angle.

The transparent conductive laminate of the present invention is a transparent conductive laminate, comprising: a transparent film substrate; a transparent conductive thin film provided on one side of the transparent film substrate with a dielectric thin film interposed therebetween; and a transparent substrate bonded to another side of the transparent film substrate with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween, wherein the transparent substrate comprises at least two transparent base films laminated with the transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween, and the dielectric thin film comprises a first transparent dielectric thin film consisting of a SiOx (x is from 1.5 to less than 2) film having a relative refractive index of 1.6 to 1.9, and a second transparent dielectric thin film consisting of a SiO2 film. This feature can improve the surface contact pressure durability.

An arrangement for interrupting current comprising a first and a second terminal adapted to electrically connect two sections of a power system is provided. A voltage control means is controllable in use to inject energy into said loop to force a rapid increase of an alternating current flowing through said main branch while being controlled to open to interrupt a main current, and whereby zero cross-over of the current through the mechanical main circuit breaker is realized as the amplitude of the alternating current exceeds the amplitude of the main current. An energy absorbing device is adapted to limit the voltage across said capacitor and said mechanical breaker when the mechanical breaker is open, and across an inductive element if the voltage across the mechanical breaker breaks down, at or immediately after an opening process, thereby limiting the rate-of-rise and the peak of the current through said loop.

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a non-volatile memory cell and a write circuit that is adapted to write data to the memory cell by supplying a write voltage and a write control voltage to the memory cell to change the write state of the memory cell, changing the supply of the write control voltage to reduce the rate of changing the write state, further changing the supply of the write control voltage to control the reduced rate of changing the write state and terminating the write operation to the memory cell while the rate of changing the write state is reduced.

A polymer actuator, power supply and method of using the activation are described.

A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus includes a first controlled circuit halving at least one MOS transistor and a substrate bias control unit for generating a substrate bias voltage of the MOS transistor, wherein when the substrate bias control unit is set in a first mode, a comparatively large current is allowed to flow between the source and drain of the MOS transistor, while when the substrate bias control unit is set in a second mode, the comparatively large current allowed to flow between the source and drain of the MOS transistor is controlled to a current of smaller value. The value of the substrate bias applied to the first controlled circuit is larger in the second mode than in the first mode for the substrate bias of the PMOS transistor, and smaller in the second mode than in the first mode for the substrate bias of the NMOS transistor. The power supply voltage applied to the first controlled circuit is controlled to a smaller value in the second mode than in the first mode.

A power factor correction circuit includes a filter capacitor interposed between AC input terminals, a first inductor interposed between the first end of the filter capacitor and an input of a first rectifying bridge circuit, and a second inductor interposed between the second end of the filter capacitor and another input of the first rectifying bridge circuit. The power factor correction circuit further includes a second rectifying bridge circuit including inputs connected to AC input terminals, and outputs connected to a smoothing capacitor. A control circuit controls switching devices in the first rectifying bridge circuit. The power factor correction circuit can facilitate preventing an overcurrent from flowing through diodes and parasitic diodes in the switching devices, using a simple configuration.

A nonreducing dielectric ceramic contains a tungsten-bronze-type crystal phase including at least Ba, RE and Ti as elements, and a pyrochlore-type crystal phase including at least RE and Ti as elements, where RE is at least one rare-earth element. The relationship 0.10<=b / (a+b)<=0.90 is satisfied, where a is the maximum peak intensity assigned to the tungsten-bronze-type crystal phase and b is the maximum peak intensity assigned to the pyrochlore-type crystal phase determined by X-ray diffractometry. A ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component body composed of the nonreducing dielectric ceramic and a conductor in contact with the nonreducing dielectric ceramic.

The invention provides a whitening and freckle-removing complex. The active ingredients of the complex comprise phenylethyl resorcinol, ginger root extract, white truffle extract, bisabolol and smallactive peptides. By virtue of combined actions in multiple aspects of inhibiting tyrosinase, resisting oxidation, diminishing inflammations, resisting glycosylation and the like, the complex can achieve effects of blocking forming and deepening of skin color spots and further effectively removing freckles and whitening the skin.